Except in the article he seems to imply that he didn't do it for personal gain:
He went out and learned more about the exact frequencies and tried them out on the telephone system. “I wanted to explore the network,” he said. It was all a form of “White Hat hacking” he says he did but never for purposes of stealing or avoiding paying bills.
But Jobs convinced him to start selling the boxes, and they made about $6,000.
That's not exactly "White Hat hacking" at that point...
You're only driving in the sense of some weird legal interpretation. If you're in a car, stopped at a red light, there is absoloutely no harm in checking a stanav system that happens to be on a phone as opposed to standalone.
If you think those are diffent in any sense other than a purely pedantic legal one then
you
are
wrong.
Actually, you're wrong. Most states provide that you do not drive while distracted. And sitting in an active traffic lane, with the vehicle running, with you sitting in control of the vehicle, even stopped at a red light, is driving.
Ask the Judge in traffic court to explain it to you. Be sure to loudly point out to him/her that it is just
"purely
pedantic
legal"
nonsense.
Be sure to tell us how it works out - you know - when you make parole.
Which would make the type specific costs for my petrol car over 19 years of service a total of... About $80, for air filters. No carburettor changes, never cleaned, no issues with the fuel tank and a nice 300,000 on the clock. Can a Tesla do that?
Hey, that's great! I just think it's a tad unfair to call battery "wear-and-tear" part of "fuel costs."
If you want to say that Teslas have a higher "wear-and-tear" cost than a petrol car, that's fine; but it's kind of a "no-true-Scotsman" argument to say that "wear-and-tear" on a Tesla is one thing; but "wear-and-tear" on a petrol car is something else. Did they count brake pad "wear-and-tear" on a petrol car as part of "fuel costs" (as opposed to regenerative braking?) Does your car use a 1-speed fixed gear transmission like the Tesla? Would there be a "wear-and-tear" difference there?
Then try protecting your kid from censorship and arbitrary value judgements.
...says the censor who won't let his kids watch Saw movies.
Oh, touché sir! Well done!
Methinks that "protecting your kid from censorship and arbitrary value judgements" is, by definition, arbitrary value judgement and censorship. Not saying that that is a bad thing, especially in the context of parenthood, but still recursive.
Part of the problem is that that the majority of adults can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality either. How many people are religious after all?
Even them smart Democrats couldn't tell Sarah Palin apart from Tina Fey.
...And there IS a difference!
One is a job creator, married with children, supporter of "Autism Speaks" organization, named one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People", on Forbes' Celebrity 100 list of "The 100 most powerful celebrities", charming, intelligent, an award winning author, on New York Post's "50 Most Powerful Women" (at #33), well informed on world events and politics, and a spokesperson for the "Light the Night Walk" which benefits the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
What evidence do we have that the Roman Empire existed?
Oh, I dunno: 73 miles of Hadrian's Wall, Roman towers, the Pantheon, Roman statues, Roman coins, the Vindolanda tablets, the Colosseum, the 31 mile long Pont du Gard Roman aqueduct, the entire city of Pompeii, the Amphitheatre at Nimes, (stop me any time here...) the Castel Sant'Angelo (originally the Mausoleum of Hadrian), the Rotunda of Galerius...
I remember being excited waiting for it to come out, then it turned out to not be a real 3d game. I was so disappointed. Doom and Duke Nukem 3D were the ones that changed gaming.
Agreed. Another thing that changed the face of gaming (not mentioned here that I've seen yet) was the inclusion of the actual game editor with the game, allowing for users to make their own levels and eventually, total conversions.
It was at least half a decade before real-time 3D graphics were able to match Myst's pre-rendered ones.
But in fairness to what you are calling "real-time 3D graphics," Myst did not allow you to move around, you were limited to fixed POVs, at certain 90 angles. You couldn't even spin in place.
While true if you factor in the cost of the wear on the battery per km driven then cost of an electric car's fuel is actually far higher than a petrol car.
Interesting point - but wouldn't that mean that petrol car dealers should be adding the costs of, "carburetor wear and tear; carburetor cleaning; air filter replacement; gas tank wear and tear; etc." to their fuel costs; all those costs that electric cars don't incur.
The article says he was studying lasers and optics. This makes him an unlikely choice for a nuclear anything program.
Congratulation!
You are the one-millionth poster on/. to post without reading the article! Great job! Keep up the good work! [Balloons drop] [Confetti mortars fire]
"Iran has been pursuing a kind of uranium enrichment called SILEX which uses carbon dioxide lasers, the same kind of lasers that Kokabee was using in his graduate studies."
It's kind of inane title, "...Eliminate Post-Production" because it's been "working" for centuries.
First: Filmmaker Georges Méliès started shooting VFX 'in-camera' back in 1896, and it worked out fine.
It didn't "eliminate post-production" back then, because post-production includes editing, enhancing the effects (like when he hand-colored frames) changing things in the darkroom, etc. and later music, ADR, mixing, etc.
Second: It just moves CG tasks like texture painting, model building, rigging, lighting from post-production (implying that these things are always done after principle photography. Of course, they are not; they are often done parallel to principle photography.) Now these things will be done in pre-production. But they will take the same amount of time and effort.
Third: If you think that 'finishing' a shot on set means that shot will be cut, as-is, straight into the film, well, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! That will just be the "temp shot." The placeholder. Not only will many, many "old-skool" CG changes still be made to it (replacing the BG matte paintings, textures, lighting, color correction) but now the directors will be able to changes camera angles, merge different actor's performances within a single shot, move actors bodies and body parts around, etc.
Fourth: I'll leave you with a final thought: George Lucas released a feature film back in 1971: "THX 1138" Production was in 1969. It was re-released with editorial changes (post-production) in 1977. It was re-released with new CGI FX, added crowds, CG sets, and editorial changes again in 2004. That's post-production happening 35 years after initial production.
I doubt these techniques will put an 'end' to post-production, they will just extend the power and control of the director throughout all phases of the film-making process.
"Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do."
"And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time."
"But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money."
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And pouring hot grits over his head.
Oooooo! Send me that one!
Who has a pic of a naked Woz in his inbox?
This is Slashdot.
We ALL do.
This is no surprise, he made blue boxes.
Except in the article he seems to imply that he didn't do it for personal gain:
He went out and learned more about the exact frequencies and tried them out on the telephone system. “I wanted to explore the network,” he said. It was all a form of “White Hat hacking” he says he did but never for purposes of stealing or avoiding paying bills.
But Jobs convinced him to start selling the boxes, and they made about $6,000.
That's not exactly "White Hat hacking" at that point...
In reality, all this talk is meaningless. Whether fully electric, hybrid or combustion, the only valid cost numbers people should look at is TCO.
Thank you, yes. You've made my point far more eloquently than I have.
Instead of saying, "Well, THIS is a fuel cost, but THAT is wear-and -tear" let's just line up the cars side-by-side and see which costs more overall.
I was just getting irritated by the petrol car folks "slicing the pie" in their own favour.
You read the summary???
"You READ something on /. ?"
FTFY
No.
You're.
Not.
You're only driving in the sense of some weird legal interpretation. If you're in a car, stopped at a red light, there is absoloutely no harm in checking a stanav system that happens to be on a phone as opposed to standalone.
If you think those are diffent in any sense other than a purely pedantic legal one then
you
are
wrong.
Actually, you're wrong.
Most states provide that you do not drive while distracted. And sitting in an active traffic lane, with the vehicle running, with you sitting in control of the vehicle, even stopped at a red light, is driving.
Ask the Judge in traffic court to explain it to you. Be sure to loudly point out to him/her that it is just
"purely
pedantic
legal"
nonsense.
Be sure to tell us how it works out - you know - when you make parole.
Which would make the type specific costs for my petrol car over 19 years of service a total of ... About $80, for air filters. No carburettor changes, never cleaned, no issues with the fuel tank and a nice 300,000 on the clock. Can a Tesla do that?
Hey, that's great!
I just think it's a tad unfair to call battery "wear-and-tear" part of "fuel costs."
If you want to say that Teslas have a higher "wear-and-tear" cost than a petrol car, that's fine; but it's kind of a "no-true-Scotsman" argument to say that "wear-and-tear" on a Tesla is one thing; but "wear-and-tear" on a petrol car is something else.
Did they count brake pad "wear-and-tear" on a petrol car as part of "fuel costs" (as opposed to regenerative braking?)
Does your car use a 1-speed fixed gear transmission like the Tesla?
Would there be a "wear-and-tear" difference there?
Then try protecting your kid from censorship and arbitrary value judgements.
...says the censor who won't let his kids watch Saw movies.
Oh, touché sir!
Well done!
Methinks that "protecting your kid from censorship and arbitrary value judgements" is, by definition, arbitrary value judgement and censorship. Not saying that that is a bad thing, especially in the context of parenthood, but still recursive.
What made you think that images of female nipples had to involve porn or sex?
Agree.
Come to think of it, probably the first thing a child sees is a gigantic nipple coming at them...
Part of the problem is that that the majority of adults can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality either. How many people are religious after all?
Even them smart Democrats couldn't tell Sarah Palin apart from Tina Fey.
...And there IS a difference!
One is a job creator, married with children, supporter of "Autism Speaks" organization, named one of People magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People", on Forbes' Celebrity 100 list of "The 100 most powerful celebrities", charming, intelligent, an award winning author, on New York Post's "50 Most Powerful Women" (at #33), well informed on world events and politics, and a spokesperson for the "Light the Night Walk" which benefits the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
The other one is Sarah Palin.
What evidence do we have that the Roman Empire existed?
Oh, I dunno: 73 miles of Hadrian's Wall, Roman towers, the Pantheon, Roman statues, Roman coins, the Vindolanda tablets, the Colosseum, the 31 mile long Pont du Gard Roman aqueduct, the entire city of Pompeii, the Amphitheatre at Nimes, (stop me any time here...) the Castel Sant'Angelo (originally the Mausoleum of Hadrian), the Rotunda of Galerius...
Part of the problem is that that the majority of adults can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality either.
Yeah, no shit...
Read this one, and tell me if it's the kids or the adults having trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/09/14/123236/student-arrested-for-using-phone-app-to-shoot-classmates
Wouldn't it be fairly easy today for the "maze" to be randomly generated for each player, so the puzzle's solution couldn't be shared online.
That's happening now with "Cloudberry Kingdom" where levels are generated on-the-fly.
More:
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/170049/how_to_make_insane_procedural_.php?print=1
I remember being excited waiting for it to come out, then it turned out to not be a real 3d game. I was so disappointed. Doom and Duke Nukem 3D were the ones that changed gaming.
Agreed.
Another thing that changed the face of gaming (not mentioned here that I've seen yet) was the inclusion of the actual game editor with the game, allowing for users to make their own levels and eventually, total conversions.
No explosions. No strippers. No guns.
Not that I don't like my GTA fix. But I also thoroughly enjoyed the Myst series as well. Just making an observation.
I think these would be the legacy of "Duke Nukem."
Jesus Christ... really? The "long hall"?
Sorry about that:
"because for teenage boys shooting things and blowing stuff up is a lot more fun than walking down that long hall in MYST."
It was at least half a decade before real-time 3D graphics were able to match Myst's pre-rendered ones.
But in fairness to what you are calling "real-time 3D graphics," Myst did not allow you to move around, you were limited to fixed POVs, at certain 90 angles. You couldn't even spin in place.
It's really too bad that Grand Theft Auto doesn't have a pure sandbox mode...
You're thinking of the best selling game franchise in history: "The Sims." Pure sandbox.
It would be nice if it had the graphics and physics of GTA, though...!
...dealerships exist only to fuck customers out of useless middleman money by skimming off the top and providing overpriced service.
I believe the term for this is, PIMP
While true if you factor in the cost of the wear on the battery per km driven then cost of an electric car's fuel is actually far higher than a petrol car.
Interesting point - but wouldn't that mean that petrol car dealers should be adding the costs of, "carburetor wear and tear; carburetor cleaning; air filter replacement; gas tank wear and tear; etc." to their fuel costs; all those costs that electric cars don't incur.
The article says he was studying lasers and optics. This makes him an unlikely choice for a nuclear anything program.
Congratulation!
You are the one-millionth poster on /. to post without reading the article! Great job! Keep up the good work!
[Balloons drop] [Confetti mortars fire]
"Iran has been pursuing a kind of uranium enrichment called SILEX which uses carbon dioxide lasers, the same kind of lasers that Kokabee was using in his graduate studies."
This will never work. ;)
It's kind of inane title, " ...Eliminate Post-Production " because it's been "working" for centuries.
First:
Filmmaker Georges Méliès started shooting VFX 'in-camera' back in 1896, and it worked out fine.
It didn't "eliminate post-production" back then, because post-production includes editing, enhancing the effects (like when he hand-colored frames) changing things in the darkroom, etc. and later music, ADR, mixing, etc.
Second:
It just moves CG tasks like texture painting, model building, rigging, lighting from post-production (implying that these things are always done after principle photography. Of course, they are not; they are often done parallel to principle photography.) Now these things will be done in pre-production. But they will take the same amount of time and effort.
Third:
If you think that 'finishing' a shot on set means that shot will be cut, as-is, straight into the film, well, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
That will just be the "temp shot." The placeholder. Not only will many, many "old-skool" CG changes still be made to it (replacing the BG matte paintings, textures, lighting, color correction) but now the directors will be able to changes camera angles, merge different actor's performances within a single shot, move actors bodies and body parts around, etc.
Fourth:
I'll leave you with a final thought:
George Lucas released a feature film back in 1971: "THX 1138"
Production was in 1969.
It was re-released with editorial changes (post-production) in 1977.
It was re-released with new CGI FX, added crowds, CG sets, and editorial changes again in 2004.
That's post-production happening 35 years after initial production.
I doubt these techniques will put an 'end' to post-production, they will just extend the power and control of the director throughout all phases of the film-making process.
Looker (1981) is getting closer and closer.
Cant wait for the first movie made and acted entirely by one person (or an AI).
You mean like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj2V_x1Qg20
"Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do."
"And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time."
"But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money."
--George Carlin
Any cost savings from flapping wings would be negated by having to handle and store massive quantities of vomit.
Nonsense, that vomit can be repackaged as airline food.
Damn sight better than what they serve now...