This movie was like The Blair Witch Project but with a lot more additude (read: trying to be cool). I saw it on Friday night and while I'm not still dizzy like most of the posters so far, I remember having to close my eyes during the movie. In fact, I didn't even have to do that during the BWP! ------------
First of all, OF COURSE they won't say he's biased. They wouldn't want bad PR for their department. All US Gov agencies work that way. Ever see the White House declare anything bad about the prez? Nope.
"Bill Gates is very Napoleonic"
"I think Bill Gates is one of the worst [ever]"
"Bill and his company obviously have monopoly traits, no, no doubt about it"
It appears to be majorly Slashdotted, so here's the full info on the page:
- It communicates with the knitting machine when
(1) P-in Comp@ct or fpffffBfI 611s/341s
(2) In 32k/64k fpffffBfIfVfS[fY line fpffffBfI coupling cable
(3) The fhfbf`[ffVfS[fY and the portable telephone / the fhfbf`[f portable cable inside, sooner or later (selling separately) becomes necessary.
You cannot use with 0 portable telephones. There are times when it becomes connection with the 32k depending upon 0 use environment. 0 32k fpffffBfI in case of use it becomes connection with the 32k.
The M-stage visual is enjoyed, being smooth, it is beautiful the picture
You can see the colorful image information of the M-stage visual, smoothly with high-speed communication of the 64k.
Being clear, it can enjoy the beautiful picture, 2.0 type TFT low temperature polysilicon color liquid crystal monitor loading.
Also perusal of Internet is possible with simple browser loading.
* When you looked at the page which does not correspond to the browser function of the knitting machine, there are times when correct indication and operation are not done.
Image and the snap photograph in the can tongue they take
In the compact body, real photographing (35 ten thousand pixels) the progressive CCD digital camera built-in which it is possible.
It equips the rotary lens which by your can photograph. (270 revolution)
As for the picture which you take using the AV cable which belongs, also it is possible to see with the TV.
The compact flash memory card (selling separately) to correspond, the picture of the largest 192MB record possibility.
Animated picture: Playback of the image which with adoption of the MPEG4, photographed very smooth.
Still picture: With touch pen in picture input possibility of handwritten letter. It processes the picture to the can tongue with the frame and the stamp of 9 types.
* As for the active compact flash memory card please view the commodity bundled list with the eggy.
The picture which you take directly with the mail transmission
As for the still picture and the animated picture which you take with the eggy transmission possibility. As for the photograph and the animated picture which are sent even with the personal computer simplicity playback. *
Maximum of 3000 letters (full size) to the letter mail function which can be sent.
The mail address register where the mug shot attachment is pleasant.
* Animated picture playback with the personal computer the Windows Media Player ver7.0 is necessary.
Convenience various colorful function
The mail address which it has already enabled.
In mopera quick start functional correspondence, setting of mopera POP mail can tongue.
The touch pen and the can tongue by the cruciform key operation.
The digital media integration software " PixLab for eggy " attachment which can compile the picture which it photographed with the personal computer.
Commodity specification
External size 131 (W) the ~81 (H) the ~39 (D) mm (the projection section you exclude)
Mass Approximately 225g (the lithium ion charge pond it includes)
Input method Touch panel (software keyboard), cruciform operation key and operation button
Indicatory section TFT low temperature polysilicon color liquid crystal (557~234 dot, back light attaching)
Camera / lens section 35 ten thousand pixel progressive CCD loading
Application circuit NTT fhfRf cPhs circuit (64kbps/32kbps)
Transmission speed 64kbps (largest effective speed 58.4kbps) 32kbps (largest effective speed 29.2kbps)
On-board function M-stage visual service correspondence and simple browser function, fpffffBfI E mail * 1 * mopera POP mail * Internet mail function, address register function, animated picture * still picture photographing function, animated picture * still picture album function and animated picture * still picture compilation function
Record medium Substance memory (approximately 6MB) / compact flash * 2 (memory card, commercial item)
Card insertion section Compact flash card slot Type / Type (3.3v)
Coupling cable connector section PHS connected connector
Power source Private lithium ion charge pond (attachment), private AC adapter (attachment)
Operating time / quantity Continual indicatory time: Still picture approximately 70 minutes, animated picture approximately 70 amount
Serial radiography time: Animated picture approximately 65 amount
Serial radiography quantity * 3 : The still picture approximately 140
Continual communication time: Approximately 70 minutes (at the time of 32k / 64k fpffffBfI and private coupling cable use)
Approximately 60 minutes (P-in Comp@ct, at the time of fpffffBfI 611s / 341s use)
Charge time Approximately 2.5 hours (at the time of private lithium ion charge, at the time of private AC adapter use)
* 1 The type below being the knitting machine, does not correspond to the fpffffBfI E mail.
311s, 311n, 311t, 311m, 311p, 311y, 312s, 312d, 313s, 313p and 411p
* 2 Please refer to the operational verification end list which bundled is done in the substance.
* 3 Photographing condition: When you use the 16MB compact flash TM and 1 photographing, become " memory full " $dm 30 seconds memory all eliminating, when it continued.
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Hundreds of millions of people have been saved by technology. Look in any hospital: would it be there without computers? Probably. Would it be even 5% as efficient? Absolutely not.
Let's look at the computers which analyze patient data. They do it in three dimensions, point out warning signs, etc. All of this is stuff that humans cannot do! Computers can investigate images at much higher resolution and spit out every single warning for doctors to look into further.
Some people may say refrigeration was more important than computers. It was a prerequisite, but not as important. It saved the lived of about a million people (rough estimate) and before true electronic refrigeration, we've had iceboxen for the past 40,000 years. Refrigeration might've helped keep meat fresher, but computers save hundreds of lives every day and also are *fun* to play on. Refrigerators are not fun to play on, no matter how hard you try (don't, please:) ).
Any magazine who runs an article like this is obviously just going for the shock factor. "Hey, news is slow today! Let's run some fuzzy article on why technology sucks!" ------------
I am very close to the chipmaking operation of Intel and there are several things I've noticed about their process.
First of all, there is no central point of authority. The chip developers do not have a single way to add comments or say that a certain part is bad.
Secondly, the actual Fab plant where the chips are made in Albequerque, New Mexico is continually being constructed and it is __incredibly__ dusty around there. That is probably one of the contributing factors to the incredibly dirtiness of the plant.
Intel is a shoddy operation as far as I've seen it and I suggest to stay away until they have a bit better recent track record.
You're forgetting another problem that may occur to cause 99% of the Internet down. Hey, if I was a malicious criminal and I wanted to impact 300 million people relatively easily, I just cut some wires that carry data. Since most of the Internet traffic goes through the US (even if you're accessing a server in your own country (a country besides the US of course)), if you strategically cut maybe six or seven wires (I'm simplifying the cutting process, I'm sure the wires would need a chainsaw:P ) majority of Internet traffic would be cut off.
I don't mean to give terrorists any ideas... ------------
This is exactly why we need to do away with TLDs completely. We'd need an international non-governmental organisation to manage all of these TLDs. But the US would absolutely NOT give up their current monopoly on the Internet.
Also, when you have a TLD-based system and it is heavily policed, it a) creates more lawsuits, and b) companies can rename themselves "Microsoft Co-op" and they'd get a.coop (99% chance, even WITH heavy policing). Then they would send official-looking e-mail to everyone and we might have an ILoveYou+Melissa all over again.
What scares me even more is that if they don't agree with what you are doing, in a heavily policed and monitored TLD, can they take it away? I'm sure they will be able to, just as is happening on a much smaller scale right now with.com,.org, and.net. ------------
The top five anticipated add-ons to B&W are as follows...
5. Quake 1 Pack - As with every other game, now Quake I levels and weapons are available!
4. Satin - Actually a virus, this will go to the altar of all gods (where they hang out when the game is not being played) and kill everyone else's player. Expected to spread like wildfire or Melissa/ILoveYou. 3. Command & Conquer-like add-on - Now you can have two more buildings and six new textures on the main menu for only $40.00 more! 2. Atheist Mission Pak - Hey, the US schools wanted this game! Complete with no god, you can roam around the beautiful landscape if you have nothing to do. Drum roll please...1. The Nudity Patch - As featured in the Sims, the Quake series, and just about every other game with a character, you can see the god and their worshippers walk around completely naked! Includes an option to turn the blurring near innapropiate parts off!
If anyone doesn't think that these add-ons are going to come out, please e-mail me. I'll teach ya:) ------------
Considering how Val Kilmer (Gallaghan) was carrying a computer modem from 1975 in his palm. He was using it as a radio to talk to a ship in low orbit. Not only could his voice be perfectly transmitted to the woman in hot clothing (of course, it's a requirement for a space movie), but the woman in hot clothing could talk to him and he would hear her through some freak of nature (there were no speakers).
They didn't even dial up! But they pretended to be tech-savvy. At the beginnning, one asks the other "How many hits did you get on your Webpage?" and then the reply is "Oh, a couple million." First of all, HITS == How Idiots Track Sites.
It was a good movie, without that weird alien in the other Mars movie, but there were a LOT of technical flaws. ------------
Now that everything about each soldier will be transmitted, what would happen if an enemy broke the encrpytion (assuming they ARE using some), a la Enigma. ------------
I'd like some evidence to back their claim. First of all, 27 million AOL users will appear to be in Virginia. Secondly, I'm sure a lot of people use a ppp account on one of their colo/ISP's servers.
Correction: This looks very interesting -- as a recent Debian recipient (victim?) at the hands of an expert, I must say the install is pretty intimidating. This sounds like a smart area to focus on, but what would an ideal installer consist of, anyhow? Give examples, double space;)
I believe you meant to say: Debian is the #1 VA Linux distribution.
Just wanted to let everyone else know that a mistake occured. ------------
There isn't ANYTHING open source that Mac users need.
Maybe there's no open-source software that you need right now. But don't try to speak for all 10 million Mac users. The truth is, some people to prefer open-source software over closed-source software. In fact Apple chose to abandon it's ~15-year-old OS for an open-source one. ------------
What I am wondering, being a somewhat frequent Mac user, is will the advent of Mac-based compiler tools encourage 1) existing OSS authors to port to Mac OS X, and 2) encourage new software authors to take advantage of the easily-obtained compilers (I must say, Apple's current compiler is somewhat hard to get to. Registering on ADC is hell)?
I really hope that the number of open-source programs available for the Mac will increase. Of course they would still be usually distributed in binary form, but it would be really nice if similar to the Linux community, everyone offered source code. ------------
Slashdot Mirror
This movie was like The Blair Witch Project but with a lot more additude (read: trying to be cool). I saw it on Friday night and while I'm not still dizzy like most of the posters so far, I remember having to close my eyes during the movie. In fact, I didn't even have to do that during the BWP!
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First of all, OF COURSE they won't say he's biased. They wouldn't want bad PR for their department. All US Gov agencies work that way. Ever see the White House declare anything bad about the prez? Nope.
"Bill Gates is very Napoleonic"
"I think Bill Gates is one of the worst [ever]"
"Bill and his company obviously have monopoly traits, no, no doubt about it"
And THAT'S not biased? Yikes.
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Is it so hard to be in the computer industry and have a friend who works at Intel?
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It appears to be majorly Slashdotted, so here's the full info on the page:
- It communicates with the knitting machine when (1) P-in Comp@ct or fpffffBfI 611s/341s (2) In 32k/64k fpffffBfIfVfS[fY line fpffffBfI coupling cable (3) The fhfbf`[ffVfS[fY and the portable telephone / the fhfbf`[f portable cable inside, sooner or later (selling separately) becomes necessary. You cannot use with 0 portable telephones. There are times when it becomes connection with the 32k depending upon 0 use environment. 0 32k fpffffBfI in case of use it becomes connection with the 32k. The M-stage visual is enjoyed, being smooth, it is beautiful the picture You can see the colorful image information of the M-stage visual, smoothly with high-speed communication of the 64k. Being clear, it can enjoy the beautiful picture, 2.0 type TFT low temperature polysilicon color liquid crystal monitor loading. Also perusal of Internet is possible with simple browser loading. * When you looked at the page which does not correspond to the browser function of the knitting machine, there are times when correct indication and operation are not done. Image and the snap photograph in the can tongue they take In the compact body, real photographing (35 ten thousand pixels) the progressive CCD digital camera built-in which it is possible. It equips the rotary lens which by your can photograph. (270 revolution) As for the picture which you take using the AV cable which belongs, also it is possible to see with the TV. The compact flash memory card (selling separately) to correspond, the picture of the largest 192MB record possibility. Animated picture: Playback of the image which with adoption of the MPEG4, photographed very smooth. Still picture: With touch pen in picture input possibility of handwritten letter. It processes the picture to the can tongue with the frame and the stamp of 9 types. * As for the active compact flash memory card please view the commodity bundled list with the eggy. The picture which you take directly with the mail transmission As for the still picture and the animated picture which you take with the eggy transmission possibility. As for the photograph and the animated picture which are sent even with the personal computer simplicity playback. * Maximum of 3000 letters (full size) to the letter mail function which can be sent. The mail address register where the mug shot attachment is pleasant. * Animated picture playback with the personal computer the Windows Media Player ver7.0 is necessary. Convenience various colorful function The mail address which it has already enabled. In mopera quick start functional correspondence, setting of mopera POP mail can tongue. The touch pen and the can tongue by the cruciform key operation. The digital media integration software " PixLab for eggy " attachment which can compile the picture which it photographed with the personal computer. Commodity specification External size 131 (W) the ~81 (H) the ~39 (D) mm (the projection section you exclude) Mass Approximately 225g (the lithium ion charge pond it includes) Input method Touch panel (software keyboard), cruciform operation key and operation button Indicatory section TFT low temperature polysilicon color liquid crystal (557~234 dot, back light attaching) Camera / lens section 35 ten thousand pixel progressive CCD loading Application circuit NTT fhfRf cPhs circuit (64kbps/32kbps) Transmission speed 64kbps (largest effective speed 58.4kbps) 32kbps (largest effective speed 29.2kbps) On-board function M-stage visual service correspondence and simple browser function, fpffffBfI E mail * 1 * mopera POP mail * Internet mail function, address register function, animated picture * still picture photographing function, animated picture * still picture album function and animated picture * still picture compilation function Record medium Substance memory (approximately 6MB) / compact flash * 2 (memory card, commercial item) Card insertion section Compact flash card slot Type / Type (3.3v) Coupling cable connector section PHS connected connector Power source Private lithium ion charge pond (attachment), private AC adapter (attachment) Operating time / quantity Continual indicatory time: Still picture approximately 70 minutes, animated picture approximately 70 amount Serial radiography time: Animated picture approximately 65 amount Serial radiography quantity * 3 : The still picture approximately 140 Continual communication time: Approximately 70 minutes (at the time of 32k / 64k fpffffBfI and private coupling cable use) Approximately 60 minutes (P-in Comp@ct, at the time of fpffffBfI 611s / 341s use) Charge time Approximately 2.5 hours (at the time of private lithium ion charge, at the time of private AC adapter use) * 1 The type below being the knitting machine, does not correspond to the fpffffBfI E mail. 311s, 311n, 311t, 311m, 311p, 311y, 312s, 312d, 313s, 313p and 411p * 2 Please refer to the operational verification end list which bundled is done in the substance. * 3 Photographing condition: When you use the 16MB compact flash TM and 1 photographing, become " memory full " $dm 30 seconds memory all eliminating, when it continued.
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I've been a long time reader of DaemonNews online. It's going to be really great to see it in print.
I think we all should thank the editors for doing such a great job in giving the BSD community credibility.
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Here's the actual link to the NASA site. http://peaches.niac.usra.edu/studies/
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I beg to differ from the article submitter.
:) ).
Hundreds of millions of people have been saved by technology. Look in any hospital: would it be there without computers? Probably. Would it be even 5% as efficient? Absolutely not.
Let's look at the computers which analyze patient data. They do it in three dimensions, point out warning signs, etc. All of this is stuff that humans cannot do! Computers can investigate images at much higher resolution and spit out every single warning for doctors to look into further.
Some people may say refrigeration was more important than computers. It was a prerequisite, but not as important. It saved the lived of about a million people (rough estimate) and before true electronic refrigeration, we've had iceboxen for the past 40,000 years. Refrigeration might've helped keep meat fresher, but computers save hundreds of lives every day and also are *fun* to play on. Refrigerators are not fun to play on, no matter how hard you try (don't, please
Any magazine who runs an article like this is obviously just going for the shock factor. "Hey, news is slow today! Let's run some fuzzy article on why technology sucks!"
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I am very close to the chipmaking operation of Intel and there are several things I've noticed about their process.
First of all, there is no central point of authority. The chip developers do not have a single way to add comments or say that a certain part is bad.
Secondly, the actual Fab plant where the chips are made in Albequerque, New Mexico is continually being constructed and it is __incredibly__ dusty around there. That is probably one of the contributing factors to the incredibly dirtiness of the plant.
Intel is a shoddy operation as far as I've seen it and I suggest to stay away until they have a bit better recent track record.
HELO #kuro5hin
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Here are their latest (Dec 7) screenshots: http://www.eazel.com/screenshots/dec-07-2000
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Here's a much better version of the link: http://media.salon.com/mp3s/tolkien1.mp3
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There's a Kuro5hin story submission on this exact topic. I bet it will go to the front page soon. British Government considers interception plans more radical than Carnivore.
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You're forgetting another problem that may occur to cause 99% of the Internet down. Hey, if I was a malicious criminal and I wanted to impact 300 million people relatively easily, I just cut some wires that carry data. Since most of the Internet traffic goes through the US (even if you're accessing a server in your own country (a country besides the US of course)), if you strategically cut maybe six or seven wires (I'm simplifying the cutting process, I'm sure the wires would need a chainsaw :P ) majority of Internet traffic would be cut off.
I don't mean to give terrorists any ideas...
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This is exactly why we need to do away with TLDs completely. We'd need an international non-governmental organisation to manage all of these TLDs. But the US would absolutely NOT give up their current monopoly on the Internet.
.coop (99% chance, even WITH heavy policing). Then they would send official-looking e-mail to everyone and we might have an ILoveYou+Melissa all over again.
.com, .org, and .net.
Also, when you have a TLD-based system and it is heavily policed, it a) creates more lawsuits, and b) companies can rename themselves "Microsoft Co-op" and they'd get a
What scares me even more is that if they don't agree with what you are doing, in a heavily policed and monitored TLD, can they take it away? I'm sure they will be able to, just as is happening on a much smaller scale right now with
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Can we get a Beowulf cluster of these?
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The top five anticipated add-ons to B&W are as follows...
:)
5. Quake 1 Pack - As with every other game, now Quake I levels and weapons are available!
4. Satin - Actually a virus, this will go to the altar of all gods (where they hang out when the game is not being played) and kill everyone else's player. Expected to spread like wildfire or Melissa/ILoveYou.
3. Command & Conquer-like add-on - Now you can have two more buildings and six new textures on the main menu for only $40.00 more!
2. Atheist Mission Pak - Hey, the US schools wanted this game! Complete with no god, you can roam around the beautiful landscape if you have nothing to do.
Drum roll please... 1. The Nudity Patch - As featured in the Sims, the Quake series, and just about every other game with a character, you can see the god and their worshippers walk around completely naked! Includes an option to turn the blurring near innapropiate parts off!
If anyone doesn't think that these add-ons are going to come out, please e-mail me. I'll teach ya
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Considering how Val Kilmer (Gallaghan) was carrying a computer modem from 1975 in his palm. He was using it as a radio to talk to a ship in low orbit. Not only could his voice be perfectly transmitted to the woman in hot clothing (of course, it's a requirement for a space movie), but the woman in hot clothing could talk to him and he would hear her through some freak of nature (there were no speakers).
They didn't even dial up! But they pretended to be tech-savvy. At the beginnning, one asks the other "How many hits did you get on your Webpage?" and then the reply is "Oh, a couple million." First of all, HITS == How Idiots Track Sites.
It was a good movie, without that weird alien in the other Mars movie, but there were a LOT of technical flaws.
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This takes you right to the article: http://www.theobvious.com/archive.html?110700
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Now that everything about each soldier will be transmitted, what would happen if an enemy broke the encrpytion (assuming they ARE using some), a la Enigma.
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I'd like some evidence to back their claim. First of all, 27 million AOL users will appear to be in Virginia. Secondly, I'm sure a lot of people use a ppp account on one of their colo/ISP's servers.
Sooo, more evidence please!
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...is here: http://www.pcgamer.co.u k/n ews/news_page.asp?news_id=3005
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Here's a contest idea:
First person to get a first-post from Space gets 200 karma.
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Maybe in their quest to l33t-dom, they fixed the obvious bug in Slash. Here's the rogue code:
while(1) { if($c%2==1) { post_article("Cease and Desist Letter to %s","UPCDatabase.com || F---edcompany.com || Napster || FlyingButtMonkeys"); } else { post_article("%s Sues %s for %s","MPAA || RIAA || D:C, FlyingButtMonkeys || Microsoft || 2600, MP3s, DeCSS, CueCat Decoder"); } ++$c; }
I'm surprised no one has caught it yet; it's a pretty big mistake.
#disclaimer.h
I like the MPAA/RIAA/Napster/DeCSS/CueCat/FBM/MP3 stories. I just thought it's fun to get some karma, too.
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Correction:
This looks very interesting -- as a recent Debian recipient (victim?) at the hands of an expert, I must say the install is pretty intimidating. This sounds like a smart area to focus on, but what would an ideal installer consist of, anyhow? Give examples, double space;)
I believe you meant to say:
Debian is the #1 VA Linux distribution.
Just wanted to let everyone else know that a mistake occured.
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There isn't ANYTHING open source that Mac users need.
Maybe there's no open-source software that you need right now. But don't try to speak for all 10 million Mac users. The truth is, some people to prefer open-source software over closed-source software. In fact Apple chose to abandon it's ~15-year-old OS for an open-source one.
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What I am wondering, being a somewhat frequent Mac user, is will the advent of Mac-based compiler tools encourage 1) existing OSS authors to port to Mac OS X, and 2) encourage new software authors to take advantage of the easily-obtained compilers (I must say, Apple's current compiler is somewhat hard to get to. Registering on ADC is hell)?
I really hope that the number of open-source programs available for the Mac will increase. Of course they would still be usually distributed in binary form, but it would be really nice if similar to the Linux community, everyone offered source code.
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