I know there are plenty of Women who bemoan the fact that they "don't look like the models do". How are they going to feel when the models are computer generated
Pretty good, I'd guess. To be blunt (pun intended) I don't feel threatened by dildos. In fact, with CG models, maybe there will be less mental pressure to conform--the model isn't even real, it may not be possible to look like that, even. (And maybe, just maybe, it will cause a relevation that imperfections are what makes us human?)
What's the point of having a model that doesn't really exist?
You mean, like the mannequins they use to creat the clothes on? Or the paper sketches? These move, relatively realistically. I don't think they'll replace the final test on a real-life human model, but they'll certainly speed the basic testing out a lot.
Maybe, after the technology advances further, they could be used in an evolutionary system where a designer feeds in conditions (show thigh, don't ride up, show at least 50% of total skin area, but not more than 70%, etc. etc. and user that to design new and weird dresses in minutes...
Maybe this will begin a desktop designing industry much like word processors created a desktop publishing one.
"Another key feature of Windows 2000 will be its "embeddability." That means it'll be possible to embed it into other programs or hardware. Already, Xerox has signed on with Microsoft to create Windows 2000 copiers that will have the OS built in and will operate seamlessly with a Windows 2000-run network"
(I already posted this to the defcon list, but thought it'd be good here, too)
Oh, yeah, that's what I want, W2K appliances. Like, say, coffee machines.
7:30AM: [Try to take out used coffee grounds from yesterday] "Alert! User has requested to open basket which is currently in use. Continuing this action will cease all programs using this basket! Continue? {Y/N}" [grumble, wipe sleep from eyes, press No by mistake] [Remove grounds, take two] "(Windows repeats itself, this time you hit the right button)" [Add coffee grounds, reinsert basket] "Warning! Cannot autorun this coffee. Please remove from basket and try again {OK/Cancel}" [*whang!*] "Warning! There is no water in the carafe. Please insert MS Water v.H-20 build 4535 into Carafe {OK/Cancel}" [grumble. take carafe out] "Alert! User has requested to open drive which is currently in use. Continuing this action will cease all programs using this drive! Continue? {Y/N}" [hit Y.] "Another program has requested a drive that is unavailable. Coffee production is halted" [fill carafe, ignoring Windows, begin to fill reservoir] "Warning! Any malicious water you pour into the reservoir may be contaminated and could possibly kill you. Continue with this action? {Y/N}" [hit Y, HARD] [Replace carafe under basket, hit "Start"] "Sorry, but the carafe was previously removed, cannot fulfill request at this time"
[It's now 8:30AM, late for work, and now coffee. Leave anyway, grabbing some easily portable java on the way to work...]
[While at work, the home coffee machine power-cycles randomly and finds that both the basket and the carafe are actually inserted properly, and begins making coffee. It's cold by the time you get home... Try to remove it to place into a Linux microwave to warm it up] "Warning! Any coffee reheated by non-Microsoft compliant appliances may not be the same. Loading webpage for MicroSoft CoffeeHot! countertop appliance..."
Do your research. It was the group ADM, and it was a non-malicious hack (the defcon page was still intact, linked at the bottom). In fact, they poked quite a bit of fun at ao.
Actually Bruce Schneier of blowfish/twofish was a returning speaker this year, giving a great Q&A session on crypto. A whole heck of a lot of CEOs, well-paid sysadmins, security consultants, feds (OK, but they *do* do work, just often not work we like) showed up to watch the fireworks. Most of the quality discussions I gathered took place behind closed doors, but nonetheless, I work, and I attended Defcon. Logic fails! I hope that this was a joke or was taken vastly out of context, etc.
Actually, this year the feds wore large targets on their backs and hats with springie signs reading "FED"
Actually, they were all clean-shaven, and wore nice watches and loafer shoes, usually khaki pants. Of course, so did the CEOs in attendance, and ex-cops...
The article was not clearly written. The author refused to separate bloatware from overly-feature-laden ware. Two big differences. Bloatware is badly written code that sucks memory ad HD space due to bend-over-backwards-compatibility, overuse of legacy code, etc. Feature-laden (something I never connected with MS...) is having a lot of features.
I'm all for features, but since when was MS more feature-rich than previous options or current alternatives?? Frontpage-- lots of buttons, but if you're making a serious webpage, where is the power to customize it to do exactly what is needed? GUIs in generall are feature-poor or at best overly complicated and hard to get to the important features compared to command-line versions.
As for bloatware...ugh. It scares me. IT becomes harder to deal with and requiring bigger and better computers to do the same (...or less!!) work as before.
PS: As per the autocorrect, a quick backspace will undo the autocorrect without deleting your typing.
Heck, I asked a very closely related question (and got a lot of fluff and ass-talking, but a few gems of good info) with What is the bandwidth of a human nerve?
Two comments: first--even if they're losing money on the advertising, it that really that big of a deal? It's a hot Internet stock with the additional keyword of "MP3". I'll be getting a broker or e-trade account just to buy THIS STOCK.
Secondly, I don't even want free music distribution. I want reasonable prices on CDs. I'm all about happily giving artists $$. Hell, I live in Austin, half my friends are in bands or have been--I know how badly these folks need audience support. But 16-20 for a CD? Most of which doesn't go to the artist? That's BS. I'd gladly pay 5-10, even higher, if I knew the artist was getting the lion's share.
Ah, here's the scoop. Hushmail is part of Hush Communications, www.hushcom.com. Hush Communications is in Canada, their/marketing/ division, however, is in Austin.
"if you wish to contact us, please send email to info@hushcom.com. We may also be reached at our marketing headquarters in Austin, Texas, at (512)-472-4630, or via FAX at (512)-472-4631. To reach our other offices, email to the above address will be routed accordingly, or alternately you may FAX us at (264)-497-2177 (Anguilla, BWI office) or (604)-608-0999 (Vancouver, Canada office). "
IT may be officially in Canada, but the phone contacts are to Austin, Texas area codes, and sitting in the line for StarWars, these folks came by and distributed fliers advertising hushmail.
Here in Austin, the GateWay theater had an incredibly good line policy, and had some cops in just in case. I hear that even the people in the back of the line got tickets, if not for the midnight showing. I was in the third group from the front, and the major reaction to the opening of the ticket sales was cheering and positive enthusiasm.
of course, it was a media event as well. About half and half news crews and up-and-coming film students (and anthropologists!!) getting gritty documentary film From The Line...
Yah, but if your business doesn't have at least a tiny bit of web-presence via citysearch or austin360, you're pretty much non-existant in many eyes.
I've been taking Austin's ridiculous amount of wiredness for granted, but so damn few other towns have not one, not two, but three quality websites that tell you everything you want to know about where to eat, where to dance, where to drink, and where to loung around the next day!!
So be adult about all of this, don't download the MP3, don't advocate piracy, and respect the rights of Lucas, Williams and any other artist.
Have you been reading the comments, Anon Coward?? These people are seeking out CDs that they would have otherwise passed over because they heard some MP3s by the artist. Artists should be rejoicing at this wide exposure. I'm going to buy the Episode I CD. MP3s don't become valuable collector's items;)
Anyone else noticed that today's monsters are no longer the medusae and other human/animal mixes, but that now we perceive machine/human mixes as 'evil' and 'unnatural' (Borg, anyone?). The Matrix was a perfect example of this, from the 'bug' implant to the mirror washing down the throat.
btw-- kudos to the Descartes linkup above. I'm glad I'm not the only one with the bright neo(n) sign flashing "Liberal Arts Student!!"
Or 93.7 KLBJ if you're interested in the Austin music scene. Unfortunately, it does out at about 2 hours out of Austin...
But I agree, no matter how big and popular MP3s get, and how cheap CDs get, radio will stay, and for music-- for new music, indie artists, and such-- I like the randomness of radio broadcasts, and the community spirit the best ones make.
OK, so maybe when bandwidth is no longer a problem and RealAudio-esque stations are of equal or better quality, but still...
Or, we could take a random sampling of/. chatter and filter it through good 'ol Babble and compare it to the book. That might not be a bad idea, actually...
OK, let's lower this nice technical discussion down a few notches. I'm wondering how fast the porn industry will scramble to get a film crew up there. Who will be the first to have sex in outer space? It'll be frickin' front-page news!
Yes, but with Win3.1 (same modem, different machine) I had a lot better luck at connecting consistently, because the interface and scripting was better. On the average it takes me longer to dial in with Win98 than it did with 3.1, and requires more mousing and user input (rather than one click and it dials).
I'd rather spend 3 more minutes setting it up the first time than 1 minute extra PER DAY to connect!
Also, were the machines comparable? Win3.1 doesn't recognize memory over 64megs, which, especially if we're talking about IE, could be a factor.
I agree, however, that the modem difference is small, but probably one of a plurality of factors that dragged the Win3.1 performance down.
I understand that lawyers on behalf of the Harry Fox Agency have shut down the Lyrics server. I do not understand this very well, and let me explain why:
Foremost, it was free advertising for artists. 100,000 users totalling a million hits a day of people looking for the artist and album of the song they just heard on the radio, but didn't catch the info? That is, on a very ungenerous estimate, 50,000 customers a day who won't be able to find the correct album they want, and 100,000 customers _daily_ who will grumble under their breath at your agency for shutting the server down. I, personally, have bought three CDs in the last 5 months or so because I found the correct album thanks to the lyrics server.
Also, I am the founder and channel manager for the UnderNet IRC chat room, #Poetry. I regularly used lyrics.ch to check up on questionable poems to see if they had plagarised a song, and have actually found a few plagarists of your copyrighted songs thanks to this server.
Thirdly, it is not like anyone could use the lyrics effectively to infringe on your copyrights of the song in general. To be able to cover the song de cently, they would still have to have all the guitar tabs and whatnot, and, in truth, a version of the song recorded to listen to. So, even for people covering the song, they've already bought the CD, just are double-checking the lyrics.
Personally, I'm not going to buy a non-used CD that has any relation to Harry Fox until I see the lyrics server back up.
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Pretty good, I'd guess. To be blunt (pun intended) I don't feel threatened by dildos. In fact, with CG models, maybe there will be less mental pressure to conform--the model isn't even real, it may not be possible to look like that, even. (And maybe, just maybe, it will cause a relevation that imperfections are what makes us human?)
What's the point of having a model that doesn't really exist?
You mean, like the mannequins they use to creat the clothes on? Or the paper sketches? These move, relatively realistically. I don't think they'll replace the final test on a real-life human model, but they'll certainly speed the basic testing out a lot.
Maybe, after the technology advances further, they could be used in an evolutionary system where a designer feeds in conditions (show thigh, don't ride up, show at least 50% of total skin area, but not more than 70%, etc. etc. and user that to design new and weird dresses in minutes...
Maybe this will begin a desktop designing industry much like word processors created a desktop publishing one.
I think it's cool.
And no, actually, I don't own Tomb Raider II.
"Another key feature of Windows 2000 will be its "embeddability." That means it'll be possible to embed it into other programs or hardware. Already, Xerox has signed on with Microsoft to create Windows 2000 copiers that will have the OS built in and will operate seamlessly with a Windows 2000-run network"
(I already posted this to the defcon list, but thought it'd be good here, too)
Oh, yeah, that's what I want, W2K appliances. Like, say, coffee machines.
7:30AM:
[Try to take out used coffee grounds from yesterday]
"Alert! User has requested to open basket which is currently in use. Continuing this action will cease all programs using this basket! Continue? {Y/N}"
[grumble, wipe sleep from eyes, press No by mistake]
[Remove grounds, take two]
"(Windows repeats itself, this time you hit the right button)"
[Add coffee grounds, reinsert basket]
"Warning! Cannot autorun this coffee. Please remove from basket and try again {OK/Cancel}"
[*whang!*]
"Warning! There is no water in the carafe. Please insert MS Water v.H-20 build 4535 into Carafe {OK/Cancel}"
[grumble. take carafe out]
"Alert! User has requested to open drive which is currently in use. Continuing this action will cease all programs using this drive! Continue? {Y/N}"
[hit Y.]
"Another program has requested a drive that is unavailable. Coffee production is halted"
[fill carafe, ignoring Windows, begin to fill reservoir]
"Warning! Any malicious water you pour into the reservoir may be contaminated and could possibly kill you. Continue with this action? {Y/N}"
[hit Y, HARD]
[Replace carafe under basket, hit "Start"]
"Sorry, but the carafe was previously removed, cannot fulfill request at this time"
[It's now 8:30AM, late for work, and now coffee. Leave anyway, grabbing some easily portable java on the way to work...]
[While at work, the home coffee machine power-cycles randomly and finds that both the basket and the carafe are actually inserted properly, and begins making coffee. It's cold by the time you get home... Try to remove it to place into a Linux microwave to warm it up]
"Warning! Any coffee reheated by non-Microsoft compliant appliances may not be the same. Loading webpage for MicroSoft CoffeeHot! countertop appliance..."
Do your research. It was the group ADM, and it was a non-malicious hack (the defcon page was still intact, linked at the bottom). In fact, they poked quite a bit of fun at ao.
Actually Bruce Schneier of blowfish/twofish was a returning speaker this year, giving a great Q&A session on crypto. A whole heck of a lot of CEOs, well-paid sysadmins, security consultants, feds (OK, but they *do* do work, just often not work we like) showed up to watch the fireworks. Most of the quality discussions I gathered took place behind closed doors, but nonetheless, I work, and I attended Defcon. Logic fails! I hope that this was a joke or was taken vastly out of context, etc.
Actually, this year the feds wore large targets on their backs and hats with springie signs reading "FED"
Actually, they were all clean-shaven, and wore nice watches and loafer shoes, usually khaki pants. Of course, so did the CEOs in attendance, and ex-cops...
The article was not clearly written. The author refused to separate bloatware from overly-feature-laden ware. Two big differences. Bloatware is badly written code that sucks memory ad HD space due to bend-over-backwards-compatibility, overuse of legacy code, etc. Feature-laden (something I never connected with MS...) is having a lot of features.
I'm all for features, but since when was MS more feature-rich than previous options or current alternatives?? Frontpage-- lots of buttons, but if you're making a serious webpage, where is the power to customize it to do exactly what is needed? GUIs in generall are feature-poor or at best overly complicated and hard to get to the important features compared to command-line versions.
As for bloatware...ugh. It scares me. IT becomes harder to deal with and requiring bigger and better computers to do the same (...or less!!) work as before.
PS: As per the autocorrect, a quick backspace will undo the autocorrect without deleting your typing.
WinVN, a pretty low-power newsreader, has ROT13 and is freely available. No killfile, last I checked, tho.
Also, I believe tin has ROT13, but I've never been a fan of textmode newsreading, for whatever reason.
Heck, I asked a very closely related question (and got a lot of fluff and ass-talking, but a few gems of good info) with What is the bandwidth of a human nerve?
Two comments: first--even if they're losing money on the advertising, it that really that big of a deal? It's a hot Internet stock with the additional keyword of "MP3". I'll be getting a broker or e-trade account just to buy THIS STOCK.
Secondly, I don't even want free music distribution. I want reasonable prices on CDs. I'm all about happily giving artists $$. Hell, I live in Austin, half my friends are in bands or have been--I know how badly these folks need audience support. But 16-20 for a CD? Most of which doesn't go to the artist? That's BS. I'd gladly pay 5-10, even higher, if I knew the artist was getting the lion's share.
Ah, here's the scoop. Hushmail is part of Hush Communications, www.hushcom.com. Hush Communications is in Canada, their /marketing/ division, however, is in Austin.
"if you wish to contact us, please send email to info@hushcom.com. We may also be reached at our marketing headquarters in Austin, Texas, at (512)-472-4630, or via FAX at (512)-472-4631. To reach our other offices, email to the above address will be routed accordingly, or alternately you may FAX us at (264)-497-2177 (Anguilla, BWI office) or (604)-608-0999 (Vancouver, Canada office). "
IT may be officially in Canada, but the phone contacts are to Austin, Texas area codes, and sitting in the line for StarWars, these folks came by and distributed fliers advertising hushmail.
of course, it was a media event as well. About half and half news crews and up-and-coming film students (and anthropologists!!) getting gritty documentary film From The Line...
Yah, but if your business doesn't have at least a tiny bit of web-presence via citysearch or austin360, you're pretty much non-existant in many eyes.
I've been taking Austin's ridiculous amount of wiredness for granted, but so damn few other towns have not one, not two, but three quality websites that tell you everything you want to know about where to eat, where to dance, where to drink, and where to loung around the next day!!
Quite a few places in Austin offer this, The Metropolitan comes to mind immediately.
Austin's also relatively cheap to run your own line in, too.
Have you been reading the comments, Anon Coward?? These people are seeking out CDs that they would have otherwise passed over because they heard some MP3s by the artist. Artists should be rejoicing at this wide exposure. I'm going to buy the Episode I CD. MP3s don't become valuable collector's items ;)
btw-- kudos to the Descartes linkup above. I'm glad I'm not the only one with the bright neo(n) sign flashing "Liberal Arts Student!!"
But I agree, no matter how big and popular MP3s get, and how cheap CDs get, radio will stay, and for music-- for new music, indie artists, and such-- I like the randomness of radio broadcasts, and the community spirit the best ones make.
OK, so maybe when bandwidth is no longer a problem and RealAudio-esque stations are of equal or better quality, but still...
I've been unable to load up JenniCam at all-- OK, folks, have we /.ed JenniCam? This should go into the books, IMHO.
/.ed?
BTW-- what are the famous sites we've
Or, we could take a random sampling of /. chatter and filter it through good 'ol Babble and compare it to the book. That might not be a bad idea, actually...
OK, let's lower this nice technical discussion down a few notches. I'm wondering how fast the porn industry will scramble to get a film crew up there. Who will be the first to have sex in outer space? It'll be frickin' front-page news!
Yes, but with Win3.1 (same modem, different machine) I had a lot better luck at connecting consistently, because the interface and scripting was better. On the average it takes me longer to dial in with Win98 than it did with 3.1, and requires more mousing and user input (rather than one click and it dials).
I'd rather spend 3 more minutes setting it up the first time than 1 minute extra PER DAY to connect!
Also, were the machines comparable? Win3.1 doesn't recognize memory over 64megs, which, especially if we're talking about IE, could be a factor.
I agree, however, that the modem difference is small, but probably one of a plurality of factors that dragged the Win3.1 performance down.
I understand that lawyers on behalf of the Harry Fox Agency have shut down the Lyrics server. I do not understand this very well, and let me explain why:
Foremost, it was free advertising for artists. 100,000 users totalling a million hits a day of people looking for the artist and album of the song they just heard on the radio, but didn't catch the info? That is, on a very ungenerous estimate, 50,000 customers a day who won't be able to find the correct album they want, and 100,000 customers _daily_ who will grumble under their breath at your agency for shutting the server down.
I, personally, have bought three CDs in the last 5 months or so because I found the correct album thanks to the lyrics server.
Also, I am the founder and channel manager for the UnderNet IRC chat room, #Poetry. I regularly used lyrics.ch to check up on questionable poems to see if they had plagarised a song, and have actually found a few plagarists of your copyrighted songs thanks to this server.
Thirdly, it is not like anyone could use the lyrics effectively to infringe on your copyrights of the song in general. To be able to cover the song de cently, they would still have to have all the guitar tabs and whatnot, and, in truth, a version of the song recorded to listen to. So, even for people covering the song, they've already bought the CD, just are double-checking the lyrics.
Personally, I'm not going to buy a non-used CD that has any relation to Harry Fox until I see the lyrics server back up.
You've lost a customer.