I mean, Mars is a lot closer to the vacuum cleaner planets. Jupiter is like a Hoover, Saturn like a Dyson and Neptune is one of those water vacuums you see on late night TV. That's why Uranus is lying on its side, its falling asleep watching Neptune.
What about matching for such domains. Right now, when someone says something.com or writes it, you know that it has to do with the internet and that its something you can go to. But what happens when businesses have "their way" and just put "Go to Ford" in an advertisement. What does that mean? Go to Ford. You mean a live dealership?
Most forms of communication/contact, you can tell what it is because it has form to it. I can look at a phone number and tell that its a phone number. I can look at an address and tell its an address and so on.
Please don't do this ICANN, I think its a mistake.
Obviously not including Identity if he plans to take his wallet and Passport with him. So it's just the stuff. Better be worth the $300K.
Oh right. Sorry. Then why is this newsworthy? People have done stuff like this before. I guess I figured that if it was on Slashdot in 2008 then he must be doing something that hasn't been done before. I mean, this is Slashdot, it always covers stuff that is new and fresh.
Well, honestly I'm sure he's told people the reason why his life left him, but why would he have to feel obligations to tell the internet too? Maybe if you bump up that auction price you can buy that piece of information too?
If you are going to buy his life, then you want to make sure that he doesn't come back and try to stalk it or whatever. Him letting go of it is an important part of that.
This is more of a metaphysical question though. If he is truly giving up his life, then what will he as a person be after that? If you sell your identity, shouldn't your story and everything go along with it? If he was really selling that, then that would make it newsworthy. Otherwise, its just a material auction and what's the use of covering it on Slashdot? I mean this is 2008, not 1999.
Is his identity for sale? Otherwise all he is selling is a bunch of stuff. Not "His Life". It would be more interesting if you could actually buy his identity and completely assume his life. Of course, you couldn't do that completely. His friends probably aren't going to buy into it. And also, what of the government?
If he can't tell everyone the reason why his wife left him, then he is obviously not ready to give his life away. He is still holding on to the idea of privacy, when in fact he is giving that away. Could you imagine selling all the pictures, memorabilia, etc. that you have.
Sigh. Because raytracing can't catch up with real time texture mapping.
I don't know what this fad is with trying to do real time raytracing recently. As I've said before, so what. It will always look like ray traced graphics from 10-15 years ago, not like that of today. But people don't listen and a lot of time is wasted.
I guess its only interesting now because its possible where as it wasn't quite as possible before.
I've always wondered about why people don't seem to get that fake IDs can be used for more than just getting into bars. And in that, far more serious things. I had my own experience with having to provide an ID in a case where it was not needed or useful to them. I bought an account with Hostgator once and they had a policy of not allowing you to use a shell account without providing a faxed copy of your driver's license. I argued with the system administrator there that it was a useless policy as it doesn't prove anything as IDs can be faked. And especially with the low quality of a fax, how could they tell. I could easily put in fake details using any simple image editor. He actually responded saying something like "If I can prevent one security breach, then the policy is worth it.". He didn't seem to get that it won't stop anything. Hackers see policies as obstacles to get over, not impassable walls. What's sad is that Hostgator isn't the only company with this very same policy. They probably don't realize how many malicious hackers they already have one their systems.
All that IDs provide is another hoop for everyone to jump through, including hackers and terrorists. They are useless as a security measure to anyone who doesn't have the authority to validate them.
85 replies to my post (this one is 86). That's a record for any of my first posts on any topic. The second highest was 77 I think. So that says something about how opinionated people are about Politics and how strongly they feel. I think it also says that people have a wide variety of opinions and they can't all be what turns out to be correct. Maybe not even mine.
When I read Imagine Cup, I did a double take. Back in the 90s, Impulse, the company that made the popular 3D software Imagine, had a program called "Imagine CUP", which stood for Imagine Constant Upgrade Program. It allowed users to pay for the upgrade to Imagine up front and they could receive all the minor versions inbetween the major versions.
So is this digital zoom stuff like the software that they "download off the internet in CSI: Miami" *Snicker*
However, the counterpoint is that attitudes such as yours result in stagnation. There can be no change if those who would support change abandon their causes. Back in 1999, I fought against the local university over students being unfairly charged for their meals. And I won. At first it was a little win, then slowly over the next few years the university changed their policies. It takes time to change.
In fact, the dean who I went up against told me something that I haven't forgotten "Its a big ship and if you want to turn it you have to slow it down first." So with a ship the size of a country, unless you want to pick up guns and force change, change takes time.
People don't seem to learn from history, which may be obvious. But I'm talking about you. All the intelligent people who think they know what they are doing and think that change is on the way .
I think it would be great if Obama was elected president. It would send a great message to the rest of the world that Americans are a diverse, caring and accepting people. And it would probably greatly inspire a lot of people who have felt oppressed over the past 8 years. But honestly, I don't think he stands a chance. Democratic voters are voting with their hearts and not their heads. From having watched many presidential elections from more of a neutral stance, I can say that to really win, you need to win the votes from both parties, not just your own. Sure, you can win by a narrow margin, but that is hardly marks the beginning of change. Change begins with the populace changing their attitudes. Leaving race out of the issue, how many republicans do you think would vote for someone named Barack Hussein Obama. A name that rings with the sounds of two recent so called enemies.
So Obama supporters have voted with their hearts and aren't realizing how idealistic they are being. Is it really worth the risk of having republican bullshit for the next 4 years? I don't think so. Obama supporters, you have risked too much. So don't come crying to everyone when he loses. I hope he doesn't though.
The time that Windows 95 came out was probably the transition from him being somewhat known outside of the computer industry, to being really well known (It was the time during which he bacame richest person). So he probably felt that he had a lot more baggage to carry after that and perhaps it wasn't as fun.
they don't highlight the actors the way they do, say, on a movie DVD box. Last time I checked, my copy of Shrek 2 had a picture of a two green ogres a donkey and a cat on it, not Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz and Antonio Banderas
Right, the only games where you really connect with the actor playing a character is when the game is based on a movie. And then its annoying when its not played by the same actor.
Yes, the technology is important, but it's the human performances within them that people really connect to, and I hope actors will get more respect for the work they do within those technologies.'
I respect the work that these people do, but come on. I think this guy might be stretching it a bit. People don't buy video games for an actor in the same way they go see a movie for an actor in it. It is a completely different medium. Besides, voice actors in video games right now are pioneers. They will have to fight for a while before they get the recognition and money that they expect. Just like Hollywood actors did.
Its pretty normal in any industry for the supervisor/manager/CEO to take credit for the work of those under them. Just keep chuggin along, eventually you'll get noticed and promoted. You shouldn't do the work for the credit, you should do it for the sake of the company and the greater good. That's when you really get noticed.
There are some companies out there that have the generosity to credit their programmers (heck, this is why Activision was formed) in their software, but not nearly the majority of them and especially if its not an in house application.
I think that the same reason why touchscreen technology never caught on until recently is the same reason why motion controllers like the Wiimote never caught on until the Wii, because the previous of both concepts where crap and didn't offer anything over a mouse, keyboard and joystick. Actually, what it really comes down to is that if a form of control doesn't give anything over the defacto form, then its pointless. How many stupid microphones and control devices have been released in the past 30 years that were no better than just pressing the button on a joystick. If it doesn't really understand that I'm saying "Fire!" instead of just blowing into it, then its pointless. It also has a lot to do with the interface being standard to the system. When its an addon, it just doesn't get as much attention.
This is for the same reason that command pipes/stdin/stdout will always be more useful in unix-like OSes than they will in Windows. Because they essentially come with the system and 90% of the programs are setup to use them. Same as why REXX was so much more successful on the Amiga than it will be on any other OS. If the Wiimote had been an option item, then the software wouldn't have been there and the Wii would have probably been a flop.
So is firefox 3 going to crash as much on Linux as Firefox 2 has been? Its been almost as bad as Netscape 4+ were. Actually I take that back, it is worse than it was as far as stability goes. Why are we going backwards? When I use Firefox in Windows, it much more stable.
I will agree with this, but add one more note. You are selling them INFORMATION that you compile from YOUR data... you are not selling the data itself. I have had this conversations with clients many times. Hey that's a good way to put it. Thanks.
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I mean, Mars is a lot closer to the vacuum cleaner planets. Jupiter is like a Hoover, Saturn like a Dyson and Neptune is one of those water vacuums you see on late night TV. That's why Uranus is lying on its side, its falling asleep watching Neptune.
What about matching for such domains. Right now, when someone says something.com or writes it, you know that it has to do with the internet and that its something you can go to. But what happens when businesses have "their way" and just put "Go to Ford" in an advertisement. What does that mean? Go to Ford. You mean a live dealership?
Most forms of communication/contact, you can tell what it is because it has form to it. I can look at a phone number and tell that its a phone number. I can look at an address and tell its an address and so on.
Please don't do this ICANN, I think its a mistake.
Obviously not including Identity if he plans to take his wallet and Passport with him. So it's just the stuff. Better be worth the $300K.
Oh right. Sorry. Then why is this newsworthy? People have done stuff like this before. I guess I figured that if it was on Slashdot in 2008 then he must be doing something that hasn't been done before. I mean, this is Slashdot, it always covers stuff that is new and fresh.If you are going to buy his life, then you want to make sure that he doesn't come back and try to stalk it or whatever. Him letting go of it is an important part of that.
This is more of a metaphysical question though. If he is truly giving up his life, then what will he as a person be after that? If you sell your identity, shouldn't your story and everything go along with it? If he was really selling that, then that would make it newsworthy. Otherwise, its just a material auction and what's the use of covering it on Slashdot? I mean this is 2008, not 1999.
Is his identity for sale? Otherwise all he is selling is a bunch of stuff. Not "His Life". It would be more interesting if you could actually buy his identity and completely assume his life. Of course, you couldn't do that completely. His friends probably aren't going to buy into it. And also, what of the government?
If he can't tell everyone the reason why his wife left him, then he is obviously not ready to give his life away. He is still holding on to the idea of privacy, when in fact he is giving that away. Could you imagine selling all the pictures, memorabilia, etc. that you have.
Tits is now depreciated.
Only your mom's are.Um, I think you mean. May his body decay into the earth as nicely as fucking possible.
Anyone who mentions "up there", "god", or "soul" in this article should be modded down.
This is actually pretty exciting news. Hopefully they are right about it.
Sigh. Because raytracing can't catch up with real time texture mapping.
I don't know what this fad is with trying to do real time raytracing recently. As I've said before, so what. It will always look like ray traced graphics from 10-15 years ago, not like that of today. But people don't listen and a lot of time is wasted.
I guess its only interesting now because its possible where as it wasn't quite as possible before.
I've always wondered about why people don't seem to get that fake IDs can be used for more than just getting into bars. And in that, far more serious things. I had my own experience with having to provide an ID in a case where it was not needed or useful to them. I bought an account with Hostgator once and they had a policy of not allowing you to use a shell account without providing a faxed copy of your driver's license. I argued with the system administrator there that it was a useless policy as it doesn't prove anything as IDs can be faked. And especially with the low quality of a fax, how could they tell. I could easily put in fake details using any simple image editor. He actually responded saying something like "If I can prevent one security breach, then the policy is worth it.". He didn't seem to get that it won't stop anything. Hackers see policies as obstacles to get over, not impassable walls. What's sad is that Hostgator isn't the only company with this very same policy. They probably don't realize how many malicious hackers they already have one their systems.
All that IDs provide is another hoop for everyone to jump through, including hackers and terrorists. They are useless as a security measure to anyone who doesn't have the authority to validate them.
85 replies to my post (this one is 86). That's a record for any of my first posts on any topic. The second highest was 77 I think. So that says something about how opinionated people are about Politics and how strongly they feel. I think it also says that people have a wide variety of opinions and they can't all be what turns out to be correct. Maybe not even mine.
So would this be the first time in history that humanity would be using materials from off the earth to construct something?
When I read Imagine Cup, I did a double take. Back in the 90s, Impulse, the company that made the popular 3D software Imagine, had a program called "Imagine CUP", which stood for Imagine Constant Upgrade Program. It allowed users to pay for the upgrade to Imagine up front and they could receive all the minor versions inbetween the major versions.
So is this digital zoom stuff like the software that they "download off the internet in CSI: Miami" *Snicker*
Intel's own 40th anniversary is coming up on July 18th. I guess the microcomputer industry is officially over the hill.
Nice self-reference double entendre Taco!
However, the counterpoint is that attitudes such as yours result in stagnation. There can be no change if those who would support change abandon their causes. Back in 1999, I fought against the local university over students being unfairly charged for their meals. And I won. At first it was a little win, then slowly over the next few years the university changed their policies. It takes time to change.
In fact, the dean who I went up against told me something that I haven't forgotten "Its a big ship and if you want to turn it you have to slow it down first." So with a ship the size of a country, unless you want to pick up guns and force change, change takes time.
People don't seem to learn from history, which may be obvious. But I'm talking about you. All the intelligent people who think they know what they are doing and think that change is on the way .
I think it would be great if Obama was elected president. It would send a great message to the rest of the world that Americans are a diverse, caring and accepting people. And it would probably greatly inspire a lot of people who have felt oppressed over the past 8 years. But honestly, I don't think he stands a chance. Democratic voters are voting with their hearts and not their heads. From having watched many presidential elections from more of a neutral stance, I can say that to really win, you need to win the votes from both parties, not just your own. Sure, you can win by a narrow margin, but that is hardly marks the beginning of change. Change begins with the populace changing their attitudes. Leaving race out of the issue, how many republicans do you think would vote for someone named Barack Hussein Obama. A name that rings with the sounds of two recent so called enemies.
So Obama supporters have voted with their hearts and aren't realizing how idealistic they are being. Is it really worth the risk of having republican bullshit for the next 4 years? I don't think so. Obama supporters, you have risked too much. So don't come crying to everyone when he loses. I hope he doesn't
though.
The time that Windows 95 came out was probably the transition from him being somewhat known outside of the computer industry, to being really well known (It was the time during which he bacame richest person). So he probably felt that he had a lot more baggage to carry after that and perhaps it wasn't as fun.
Right, the only games where you really connect with the actor playing a character is when the game is based on a movie. And then its annoying when its not played by the same actor.
Yes, the technology is important, but it's the human performances within them that people really connect to, and I hope actors will get more respect for the work they do within those technologies.'
I respect the work that these people do, but come on. I think this guy might be stretching it a bit. People don't buy video games for an actor in the same way they go see a movie for an actor in it. It is a completely different medium. Besides, voice actors in video games right now are pioneers. They will have to fight for a while before they get the recognition and money that they expect. Just like Hollywood actors did.
Its pretty normal in any industry for the supervisor/manager/CEO to take credit for the work of those under them. Just keep chuggin along, eventually you'll get noticed and promoted. You shouldn't do the work for the credit, you should do it for the sake of the company and the greater good. That's when you really get noticed.
There are some companies out there that have the generosity to credit their programmers (heck, this is why Activision was formed) in their software, but not nearly the majority of them and especially if its not an in house application.
I think that the same reason why touchscreen technology never caught on until recently is the same reason why motion controllers like the Wiimote never caught on until the Wii, because the previous of both concepts where crap and didn't offer anything over a mouse, keyboard and joystick. Actually, what it really comes down to is that if a form of control doesn't give anything over the defacto form, then its pointless. How many stupid microphones and control devices have been released in the past 30 years that were no better than just pressing the button on a joystick. If it doesn't really understand that I'm saying "Fire!" instead of just blowing into it, then its pointless. It also has a lot to do with the interface being standard to the system. When its an addon, it just doesn't get as much attention.
This is for the same reason that command pipes/stdin/stdout will always be more useful in unix-like OSes than they will in Windows. Because they essentially come with the system and 90% of the programs are setup to use them. Same as why REXX was so much more successful on the Amiga than it will be on any other OS. If the Wiimote had been an option item, then the software wouldn't have been there and the Wii would have probably been a flop.
So is firefox 3 going to crash as much on Linux as Firefox 2 has been? Its been almost as bad as Netscape 4+ were. Actually I take that back, it is worse than it was as far as stability goes. Why are we going backwards? When I use Firefox in Windows, it much more stable.