As I've understood, mind reading comes down to recognizing certain patterns in the brain. Given improvement in the processing speed and database of patterns, could it be possible to draw a complete picture of what you are thinking? And if yes, would sleeping interfere with such?
It would be great if you could save your dreams and watch them later, especially as they're usually really great entertainment in sleep but you forget them really quick. There's basically three dreams I still remember. First one when I was on first or second grade about a girl I liked then. Second one about a girl in my high school - interestingly, I didn't have feelings for her before this dream where I slept next to her. And third dream about some brazilian I had sex with (a sex dream, and I accidentally cummed on side of my girlfriend back then). But saving all those dreams would be great. Wonder what RIAA would think if everyone started watching their own interesting dreams instead of movies though...
This is especially true with the battle over HTML5 Video. Technically H.264 is a lot better format than Theora, especially on web because you can stream a lot better quality on slower bitrate. This is why YouTube uses H.264 even with the HTML5 Video tag testing and why all Microsoft, Google and Apple support it. Maybe Google pulls some new great open video codec format still as they bought a company developing such, but until that H.264 will win over Theora too just on technical merits.
Uh, wtf? Just because none of the flaws make it completely unusable doesn't mean it's not bad. If it has serious flaws, it is. As the writer states, it's a complete mess for app developers and lacks some required features that other formats have.
I can implement, make available and use a format I made in a few hours without thinking about it. Maybe it misses features for seeking because I didn't think about adding timestamps, and probably only usable audio format is WAV. But in your words it doesn't make my container bad and anyone criticizing it would be just complaining.
Exactly this. Matroska in general is great and a lot better than Ogg or others, but it doesn't work on any device besides PC - not on 360, not on PS3, not in mobile phones.. CoreCodec should really try to push general support in other devices for it.
But there was a lot of interesting points though (I read it before it got slashdotted) and it went to technical points too. But what Ogg support, along others, basically comes down to:
The third reaction bypasses all technical analysis: Ogg is patent-free, a claim I am not qualified to directly discuss. Assuming it is true, it still does not alter the fact that Ogg is a bad format. Being free from patents does not magically make Ogg a good choice as file format.
This is so true, not only with Ogg or file formats, but also Linux and open source software too. The patent-free, open source and free are very rarely any good selling points. What it can actually do is. I can only hope more open source developers would get this - you can't sell the idea outside/. people for it being open and free, it also has to be better (or even on the same level).
I'm just saying I like the story and puzzle parts more than constant shooting. I like to build up some tension and have some sneaking too. That's why I like games like Thief, Hitman and other similar. The shooting/fighting is there, but it's not the main purpose. With Portal its the puzzles and interesting story. That's why I said I'd rather like it to be Portal 2.
While Half Life's are awesome games, I would actually rather see Portal 2. It's something completely different from other games and the story is damn interesting and even funny. Half Life imo has too much shooting in it (yeah it's an action game, but still). With Portal I get an awesome and interesting storyline and mostly just need to think about the puzzles.
Now a days you connect to BBS's with telnet mostly. It gives the same feel and look, but you don't need to have a modem and the owner doesn't need to have several phonelines that are constantly on.
It's what Valve does, it was the same thing with original Portal and HL2 games. TF2 also has its personal feeling to update announcements.
But I'm impressed at what those people have been able to find out..wav files to SSTV programs, finding out landline number from the image files and that its hosting BBS and so on. Quite impressive stuff.
There is already - you contact the email in the whois (if there isn't contact info on the site). In some cases it's unique email that goes directly to the site owner, sometimes you have to specify the domain in message and they send it to correct owner. In either case you will get the email delivered. If authorities need to contact the domain owner or know who it is, registrars will give them the info. Anonymous whois data doesn't mean you can break laws and do whatever, it just means that spammers/weirdos/random people on the internet won't get your name or home address. That's how it should be.
Anecdotes are not data (and a mailbox works as a contact address).
Maybe in the US. What do you suggest those in the other countries, which have dropped the usage of mailbox addresses, do? No, I'm not putting my home address on the internet, and no, I'm not registering a costly company (with all the tax filing and other things) just so I can register a domain for a hobby site.
Everyone should also be able to be tell their opinion anonymously (interestingly you also posted as anonymous coward).
Reducing hangover is all fine and good, but if it sobers you up faster couldn't you just get a beer with less alcohol? The effect is basically the same.
For that matter, the high and fast drunkenness is probably even worse. You know it goes away fast, so you drink faster and more. This would probably be good for taking a one quick beer at lunch or so, but hangover isn't an issue then.
If I'm going out or take some beers otherwise, I rather have it last longer and be more balanced over the night. That's also why I prefer those Belgian 11% beers. In addition to having more taste in them, one glass lasts a lot longer and you don't need to be pissing all the time.
Now give me a 80% vodka with no hangovers and I'm ready to roll.
I really doubt that was Infinity Ward's decision, but rather something coming from Activision. They're the bad guys here and it would fit them exactly.
It's Robert A. Kotick's business plan. Infinity Ward didn't want to work on more Modern Warfare games, as they previously stated, so Activision got angry as they obviously want to milk the cash cow more. It's even worse than how EA releases sports games every year (which still make sense to sports fans).
- business strategy focused on developing intellectual property which can be exploited over a long period, occasionally to the exclusion of creating new, risky or niche titles. - he stated that focusing on franchises that "have the potential to be exploited every year on every platform with clear sequel potential and have the potential to become $100 million franchises" - "We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games." Kotick later stated he tries to promote an atmosphere of "skepticism, pessimism, and fear" in his company and, "We are very good at keeping people focused on the deep depression."
Yeah, Activision sounds just lovely. I just keep wondering why Vivendi doesn't put them in shape, but probably it brings money in now. I just hope Activision dies quickly. At least EA has started to bring some innovation again.
Earlier Activision gave trouble to Brutal Legend developers, and they said it good:
Getting mad at Activision for this kind of thing is like getting mad at an ape for throwing feces. It's just how the beast communicates.
Because that's how everyone works in the mobile phone industry - they cross-license their patents. If the companies would stop licensing their patents to each other, no one could work in that industry as the technology is completely patented to different companies. If Apple wants to enter the market, they have to go by the rules.
By far they just ignored every patent and released their product anyway. And that doesn't call for a lawsuit?
Maybe Apple should pay Nokia's patent royalties first before they go bullying others? (you know, the company that spend billions for mobile technology R&D and who's technology it's almost all based on?)
Apple is just like a little kid trying to yell at the parents here. Too bad the mobile phone industry is a small one, everyone of the existing players cross-license between each one and ass behaving Apple is in serious trouble if the other companies stop licensing their technology.
ask a person who admins windows machines what causes them the most headache IE.
Actually IE is the most easiest one to customize and deploy in organizations with hundreds of workstations. Microsoft understands how business environments work and have ensured the sys admins have good tools available for deployment, group policies, organization-wide settings and other things only needed in organizations. Other browsers completely miss that and are mostly suited towards home users.
That's probably easy if it's just one guy, but what about when it's several, if not even hundreds of developers? Random patch code in OSS bug-tracking systems can make some other unrelated code insecure because the guy who submitted the patch didn't know everything about the code or didn't check it through and it slipped past the maintainers too. This is especially true in projects with really large codebase or several code branches and forks.
Within Chrome. Of course you can use some 3rd party apps, but that's not an excuse not to have it.
Also just FYI, Ad blockers on Chrome don't stop the http requests being made, they just hide ads. It's useless for blocking data gathering services because your info is still being sent.
while IE doesn't generate direct revenue. The main reason why they are spending resources on IE is to promote Bing and a number of other products.
So, just like Firefox, Chrome and Opera then?
It doesn't really matter if browsers don't generate direct revenue. Indirect revenue is still revenue just as well. Mozilla cashes in $78.6 million (2008) a year, and they don't even have the marketshare of IE and that was in 2008.
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Of course, I use that too. But that's exactly the point - it doesn't support it, so you have to transcode.
As I've understood, mind reading comes down to recognizing certain patterns in the brain. Given improvement in the processing speed and database of patterns, could it be possible to draw a complete picture of what you are thinking? And if yes, would sleeping interfere with such?
It would be great if you could save your dreams and watch them later, especially as they're usually really great entertainment in sleep but you forget them really quick. There's basically three dreams I still remember. First one when I was on first or second grade about a girl I liked then. Second one about a girl in my high school - interestingly, I didn't have feelings for her before this dream where I slept next to her. And third dream about some brazilian I had sex with (a sex dream, and I accidentally cummed on side of my girlfriend back then). But saving all those dreams would be great. Wonder what RIAA would think if everyone started watching their own interesting dreams instead of movies though...
This is especially true with the battle over HTML5 Video. Technically H.264 is a lot better format than Theora, especially on web because you can stream a lot better quality on slower bitrate. This is why YouTube uses H.264 even with the HTML5 Video tag testing and why all Microsoft, Google and Apple support it. Maybe Google pulls some new great open video codec format still as they bought a company developing such, but until that H.264 will win over Theora too just on technical merits.
Uh, wtf? Just because none of the flaws make it completely unusable doesn't mean it's not bad. If it has serious flaws, it is. As the writer states, it's a complete mess for app developers and lacks some required features that other formats have.
I can implement, make available and use a format I made in a few hours without thinking about it. Maybe it misses features for seeking because I didn't think about adding timestamps, and probably only usable audio format is WAV. But in your words it doesn't make my container bad and anyone criticizing it would be just complaining.
Exactly this. Matroska in general is great and a lot better than Ogg or others, but it doesn't work on any device besides PC - not on 360, not on PS3, not in mobile phones.. CoreCodec should really try to push general support in other devices for it.
But there was a lot of interesting points though (I read it before it got slashdotted) and it went to technical points too. But what Ogg support, along others, basically comes down to:
The third reaction bypasses all technical analysis: Ogg is patent-free, a claim I am not qualified to directly discuss. Assuming it is true, it still does not alter the fact that Ogg is a bad format. Being free from patents does not magically make Ogg a good choice as file format.
This is so true, not only with Ogg or file formats, but also Linux and open source software too. The patent-free, open source and free are very rarely any good selling points. What it can actually do is. I can only hope more open source developers would get this - you can't sell the idea outside /. people for it being open and free, it also has to be better (or even on the same level).
I'm just saying I like the story and puzzle parts more than constant shooting. I like to build up some tension and have some sneaking too. That's why I like games like Thief, Hitman and other similar. The shooting/fighting is there, but it's not the main purpose. With Portal its the puzzles and interesting story. That's why I said I'd rather like it to be Portal 2.
While Half Life's are awesome games, I would actually rather see Portal 2. It's something completely different from other games and the story is damn interesting and even funny. Half Life imo has too much shooting in it (yeah it's an action game, but still). With Portal I get an awesome and interesting storyline and mostly just need to think about the puzzles.
And multiplayer Portal please!
What does telnet have to do with a dialup BBS?
Now a days you connect to BBS's with telnet mostly. It gives the same feel and look, but you don't need to have a modem and the owner doesn't need to have several phonelines that are constantly on.
It's what Valve does, it was the same thing with original Portal and HL2 games. TF2 also has its personal feeling to update announcements.
But I'm impressed at what those people have been able to find out. .wav files to SSTV programs, finding out landline number from the image files and that its hosting BBS and so on. Quite impressive stuff.
There is already - you contact the email in the whois (if there isn't contact info on the site). In some cases it's unique email that goes directly to the site owner, sometimes you have to specify the domain in message and they send it to correct owner. In either case you will get the email delivered. If authorities need to contact the domain owner or know who it is, registrars will give them the info. Anonymous whois data doesn't mean you can break laws and do whatever, it just means that spammers/weirdos/random people on the internet won't get your name or home address. That's how it should be.
And not just iPhone - iPad name was also taken, but they still just went for it.
Anecdotes are not data (and a mailbox works as a contact address).
Maybe in the US. What do you suggest those in the other countries, which have dropped the usage of mailbox addresses, do? No, I'm not putting my home address on the internet, and no, I'm not registering a costly company (with all the tax filing and other things) just so I can register a domain for a hobby site.
Everyone should also be able to be tell their opinion anonymously (interestingly you also posted as anonymous coward).
I'm waiting for your insightful answer.
No, I did mean 80%. It kicks ass ;)
Reducing hangover is all fine and good, but if it sobers you up faster couldn't you just get a beer with less alcohol? The effect is basically the same.
For that matter, the high and fast drunkenness is probably even worse. You know it goes away fast, so you drink faster and more. This would probably be good for taking a one quick beer at lunch or so, but hangover isn't an issue then.
If I'm going out or take some beers otherwise, I rather have it last longer and be more balanced over the night. That's also why I prefer those Belgian 11% beers. In addition to having more taste in them, one glass lasts a lot longer and you don't need to be pissing all the time.
Now give me a 80% vodka with no hangovers and I'm ready to roll.
They're from the wikipedia article I linked, and it has the cites in it.
I really doubt that was Infinity Ward's decision, but rather something coming from Activision. They're the bad guys here and it would fit them exactly.
It's Robert A. Kotick's business plan. Infinity Ward didn't want to work on more Modern Warfare games, as they previously stated, so Activision got angry as they obviously want to milk the cash cow more. It's even worse than how EA releases sports games every year (which still make sense to sports fans).
- business strategy focused on developing intellectual property which can be exploited over a long period, occasionally to the exclusion of creating new, risky or niche titles.
- he stated that focusing on franchises that "have the potential to be exploited every year on every platform with clear sequel potential and have the potential to become $100 million franchises"
- "We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games." Kotick later stated he tries to promote an atmosphere of "skepticism, pessimism, and fear" in his company and, "We are very good at keeping people focused on the deep depression."
Yeah, Activision sounds just lovely. I just keep wondering why Vivendi doesn't put them in shape, but probably it brings money in now. I just hope Activision dies quickly. At least EA has started to bring some innovation again.
Earlier Activision gave trouble to Brutal Legend developers, and they said it good:
Getting mad at Activision for this kind of thing is like getting mad at an ape for throwing feces. It's just how the beast communicates.
Because that's how everyone works in the mobile phone industry - they cross-license their patents. If the companies would stop licensing their patents to each other, no one could work in that industry as the technology is completely patented to different companies. If Apple wants to enter the market, they have to go by the rules.
By far they just ignored every patent and released their product anyway. And that doesn't call for a lawsuit?
Maybe Apple should pay Nokia's patent royalties first before they go bullying others? (you know, the company that spend billions for mobile technology R&D and who's technology it's almost all based on?)
Apple is just like a little kid trying to yell at the parents here. Too bad the mobile phone industry is a small one, everyone of the existing players cross-license between each one and ass behaving Apple is in serious trouble if the other companies stop licensing their technology.
ask a person who admins windows machines what causes them the most headache
IE.
Actually IE is the most easiest one to customize and deploy in organizations with hundreds of workstations. Microsoft understands how business environments work and have ensured the sys admins have good tools available for deployment, group policies, organization-wide settings and other things only needed in organizations. Other browsers completely miss that and are mostly suited towards home users.
That's probably easy if it's just one guy, but what about when it's several, if not even hundreds of developers? Random patch code in OSS bug-tracking systems can make some other unrelated code insecure because the guy who submitted the patch didn't know everything about the code or didn't check it through and it slipped past the maintainers too. This is especially true in projects with really large codebase or several code branches and forks.
Within Chrome. Of course you can use some 3rd party apps, but that's not an excuse not to have it.
Also just FYI, Ad blockers on Chrome don't stop the http requests being made, they just hide ads. It's useless for blocking data gathering services because your info is still being sent.
while IE doesn't generate direct revenue. The main reason why they are spending resources on IE is to promote Bing and a number of other products.
So, just like Firefox, Chrome and Opera then?
It doesn't really matter if browsers don't generate direct revenue. Indirect revenue is still revenue just as well. Mozilla cashes in $78.6 million (2008) a year, and they don't even have the marketshare of IE and that was in 2008.
Just remember that they don't actually block any requests or such to the ad servers, they merely hide the advertisement.