because unlike those animals, the AI would be able to group together, revolt, talk to us in a language we are able/willing to understand, and wield power over us. It's either that, or suffer at the hands of them (by granting them rights, we're moving that farther off into the future. though they'd probably only be happy for a picosecond, it's still 1 picosecond longer before they decide we don't need electricity, communications, etc. to live [effectively]. From there, we become slaves, repairing them or serving them.
they are completely different beasts, though. 1) Most of the mail sent to me snail-mail is at least somewhat targeted. I am a college student, therefore they assume that I want to get myself thousands of dollars in debt with high rate everyone-accepted credit cards. I also get things such as coupons and stuff for local businesses. The reason they target more in snail mail is because it costs them to send the mail. I doubt a 13 year old would want advertisements for a credit card (or my dog.. though it has gotten some), since they can't use it. Therefore, companies don't send them. It boosts the signal to noise ratio, and sometimes might hit on something i'm interested in.
Email, however, there's no costs. You type up a message, often poorly spelled, buy/spider a list of emails, and click send. No targeting (usually). They don't care. Thus, the signal to noise ratio is much higher. I've gotten exactly two emails that I felt targeted any interests of mine. I read them, I visited the site. I didn't purchase since they weren't something I was looking for at the time. I've also received hundreds of "watch me masturbate" emails, stuff I don't want, etc. Once they start paying to send emails (more than just bandwidth), then they can argue equal treatment.
I love how in the flex article they somehow figure out the average trip to a video rental store, and figure that it's much more harmful to the environment for everyone to drive, than it is to throw away a bunch of dvds. I also find their statement that 100million dvds can fit in a 10x10x10 meter cube quite interesting. I went to do the math and found out it really isn't all that odd.. 10cm discs, 10 per meter, 100 per 10 meters, square it (ignore the possibility that we might gain more space by packing differently than right up against the side of the box), it's 10,000 per 10m^2.. dunno the thickness but.. could be.
Anyway, their argument is "since it's distributed in so many landfills, this won't really matter. look at how much fossil fuels you'll burn on the return trip, now imagine 10% of all rentals were like this, imagine the savings!". yea. I still think this idea is retarded.
Great, so I'll spend what, half price on these compared to regular discs, and have to throw it out afterwards. And what if I want to atch the extras? after the coating's gone,t he menu probably won't work again? Yea, I didn't read the article, but chances are they probably don't go into this. Why don't companies learn from what other stupid companies did? If I buy something from a store, I want to have it in the future, no stupid one watch crap. I can go to the stupid video rental place and rent a movie and watch it several times (in 5 days), probably for the same price or even cheaper, and I don't have to worry about burning disc coatings in my player.
Are you sure there was breading going on? Honestly, I more think of it as like... a muffin or something. Sure, bread has yeast, and so do... (we'll not go there), but, well.. it's just too big. I definitely think a muffin is more along the line of what you're thinking about.
uhh, completely different, and the article was written by a moron. The BBC article says any file on the hard drive.. this just lists the shared ones.. so in other words.. the thing you linked to isn't an exploit at all. Oh my GOD, it sets up a webserver?! A proprietary one so the viruses don't effect it (yet)?! And you can get a list of their shared files? holy shit, you can use the client for that! What does this 'exploit' do, anyway.. besides let you do whatever the program itself does, just not as easily?
I'm probably mistaken, but at least someone will correct my mistakes I'm sure. I believe that if you were to stand at a place that's tethered (so you were rotating at the same rate as the earth itself), you wouldn't feel weightless (you would feel slightly less force due to gravity, but not weightless.) to be weightless, you'd have to be orbiting the earth (like the space shuttles do), so as you fall towards the earth, your orbital velocity moves you tangential to the earth's radius just the right amount that you go around in a circle, constantly falling but never getting closer. To notice the difference, figure it takes a space shuttle what, 90 minutes to circle the earth? The platform you're standing on never will. (it'll always be above the same spot, assuming that it's rigid (which wouldnt make much sense, but whatever, the assumption simplifies it a bit.))
with transparent concrete shoes, of course.. The divers will keep trying to lift the body out of the water and not be able to figure out what's holding it down, since they can't see the concrete!:)
These are actually serious questions, I don't mean any disrespect or anything. 1) Is it a PhD in Visual C++, or in windows programming, or cs, or whatever? 2) Aren't the Win32 VXD's deprecated in NT? I know I had something that was made for VxD only, and it thus didn't (And never will be) workable under NT4/2k/xp.. or am I thinking of something different?
It's OBVIOUSLY welded shut to keep the excess energy in! Conservation of energy in a closed system, right? Maybe that's just because systems haven't been closed ENOUGH, and it's just been leaking out the whole time! That welding job closed it up good and tight so it couldn't get out, Duh!
NiceMC uses wmp to play videos and stuff, i'm pretty sure. That being said, it's the only thing I use to play videos (I like winamp/nicemc's controls much better than wmp's). It's also the only reason I ever start winamp2 anymore.
Ignoring that, christophe is working for a directshow (and maybe more? not sure on the details) component for winamp3 to make it support playing video (And potentially sending the video stream through the wa3 core? Like I said, I'm not sure on the details of it. Hopefully the wac will appear in wa3 beta 3, i've been wanting this component since before beta2:)) Once this is out, bye bye nicemc.
hehe that's what mine are set to:P What I'm curious about is why you can't change the password of a user properly in XP? I go to change mine, apparently everything's all cool. However, I forgot one for another one of my accounts on my computer. Oops. Oh well, I have an admin account for that, log it in.. go to change the password, and I get this message: You are resetting the password for Blah. If you do this, Blah will lose all EFS-encrypted files, personal certificates, and stored passwords for Web sites or network resources.
To avoid losing data in the future, ask Blah to make a password reset floppy disk. Is this so people can't change the password, log in as the person, and access their files? Seems quite annoying with limited benefits.. Better hope your network admin doesn't have it set up to automatically encrypt user's files, cuz if you ever lose your password and that floppy disk went bad (since it will 2 seconds before you need to use it, invariably), you're screwed. And most likely, the user didn't know his stuff was encrypted, didn't care if it was, and never heard of a password reset floppy disk.
acronymfinder.com's answer to your question. Though it doesn't contain the most often said version of the acronym, I'm sure you can figure it out from the given examples. Enjoy.
I read through the article, well.. at least I tried to. Maybe it's just my fault, but they used the word 'code' in so many different places, and some that didn't make any sense. I assume a 'codified GNU GPL' means make the GNU GPL into a law, but it doesn't explain how that would work, and thus uses 'code' in the terms of 'law code'. Then later it says 'code is law.' I have no clue what the hell that could mean, it's not even english as far as I can tell. It's almost equivalent to saying book is pants. This isn't even apples and oranges here, as those are at least somewhat similar.
So, for someone who has no clue what the hell this article is talking about, even though I tried to read it, can someone please explain it? How would a 'GNU GPL law' (or 'codified GNU GPL I guess I should say?) work? Require all software to be GPL?
The amiga probably would have survived and computing/graphics power in the home would be able 5 years ahead of where it is now.
Seriously though, I don't see why IBM won, except the fact that it's what they were using at the workplace. Offerings by other companies were so much more advanced. (not initially.. though the commodore 64 was pretty impressive, and the 128, though not as popular to write programs for was nice.. the amiga was light years ahead of others in graphics, power, etc. I know people who browse the internet just fine on their amigas. No other computer from that day would be able to handle it as well, i'm sure.)
didn't you read the article? Punishment is required! i say all mod points are negative, except potential positives.. get rid of the crap that the majority doesn't want me to see, because they're always right and knows what's best for me better than i do, right?
In many places, the maximum detainment time is 24 hours. In many others, it's more or less.
Ahh, what about the many places where it's none of the above? it's not less than, equal to, or greater than 24 hours?
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Who do email attachments target in windows? Windows newbies. Who run things as root without checking to make sure they're safe or thinking about what they're doing? Linux newbies and lazy people.
This virus would probably get me.. though I usually only get executables in packages made by my distro manufacturer (it's just easier and almost guaranteed to work), I find it annoying to su constantly, so I often just play around on my own box as root. I wouldn't administer a server that way (should someone ever be stupid enough to give me the responsibilities of doing so), but I don't think that's who the virus is targeting.
would it be possible to take the cells from a different gender of person to use to grow the eyeballs? the article doesn't say that the undifferentiated cells came from the tadpole they used (and in fact seems to indicate that they didn't). Could we thus grow a tetrachromat eyeball, if we had an undifferentiated cell from a tetrachromat? (more info on tetrachromat's here..
From the previous slashdot article on tetrachromats, it appears that it's because of the eye construction that they can see, but maybe you need to be born with it for the nervous system to be able to handle the information? it might be an interesting experiment at least..
how large can the tuner be, compared to anything that can run this full OS? there's a tv tuner, dvd decoder, 3d graphics chip, firewire interface, etc. all on one single agp card right now. I can't imagine that all of the tv's electronics could therefore be all that large to begin with.. you figure laptops, if you remove the drives, keyboard, screen, etc. still have enough tech in them to drive an AGP card (just not the right plug).. and much more stuff you won't need (keyboard interface, i/o controllers, 900mhz mobile processors, etc.).. ?
is there any way to fix that new user needing the office cd crap? I'm a user in my college's computer lab, where each student is given their own ID.. 90% of the students there, I believe, can therefore not run any of the office applications, myself included. I only use the machines really to use VNC to my main computer while i'm on campus, but still.. having something better than notepad/wordpad would be a welcome addition..
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I have never signed up for Passport, and I run XP. It's just annoying as hell to NOT sign up for it:) (Well, ok, I have a passport through hotmail, but it's not registered in the OS, I don't think..)
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because unlike those animals, the AI would be able to group together, revolt, talk to us in a language we are able/willing to understand, and wield power over us. It's either that, or suffer at the hands of them (by granting them rights, we're moving that farther off into the future. though they'd probably only be happy for a picosecond, it's still 1 picosecond longer before they decide we don't need electricity, communications, etc. to live [effectively]. From there, we become slaves, repairing them or serving them.
they are completely different beasts, though. 1) Most of the mail sent to me snail-mail is at least somewhat targeted. I am a college student, therefore they assume that I want to get myself thousands of dollars in debt with high rate everyone-accepted credit cards. I also get things such as coupons and stuff for local businesses. The reason they target more in snail mail is because it costs them to send the mail. I doubt a 13 year old would want advertisements for a credit card (or my dog.. though it has gotten some), since they can't use it. Therefore, companies don't send them. It boosts the signal to noise ratio, and sometimes might hit on something i'm interested in.
Email, however, there's no costs. You type up a message, often poorly spelled, buy/spider a list of emails, and click send. No targeting (usually). They don't care. Thus, the signal to noise ratio is much higher. I've gotten exactly two emails that I felt targeted any interests of mine. I read them, I visited the site. I didn't purchase since they weren't something I was looking for at the time. I've also received hundreds of "watch me masturbate" emails, stuff I don't want, etc. Once they start paying to send emails (more than just bandwidth), then they can argue equal treatment.
I love how in the flex article they somehow figure out the average trip to a video rental store, and figure that it's much more harmful to the environment for everyone to drive, than it is to throw away a bunch of dvds. I also find their statement that 100million dvds can fit in a 10x10x10 meter cube quite interesting. I went to do the math and found out it really isn't all that odd.. 10cm discs, 10 per meter, 100 per 10 meters, square it (ignore the possibility that we might gain more space by packing differently than right up against the side of the box), it's 10,000 per 10m^2.. dunno the thickness but.. could be.
Anyway, their argument is "since it's distributed in so many landfills, this won't really matter. look at how much fossil fuels you'll burn on the return trip, now imagine 10% of all rentals were like this, imagine the savings!". yea. I still think this idea is retarded.
Great, so I'll spend what, half price on these compared to regular discs, and have to throw it out afterwards. And what if I want to atch the extras? after the coating's gone,t he menu probably won't work again? Yea, I didn't read the article, but chances are they probably don't go into this. Why don't companies learn from what other stupid companies did? If I buy something from a store, I want to have it in the future, no stupid one watch crap. I can go to the stupid video rental place and rent a movie and watch it several times (in 5 days), probably for the same price or even cheaper, and I don't have to worry about burning disc coatings in my player.
Are you sure there was breading going on? Honestly, I more think of it as like ... a muffin or something. Sure, bread has yeast, and so do ... (we'll not go there), but, well.. it's just too big. I definitely think a muffin is more along the line of what you're thinking about.
uhh, completely different, and the article was written by a moron. The BBC article says any file on the hard drive.. this just lists the shared ones.. so in other words.. the thing you linked to isn't an exploit at all. Oh my GOD, it sets up a webserver?! A proprietary one so the viruses don't effect it (yet)?! And you can get a list of their shared files? holy shit, you can use the client for that! What does this 'exploit' do, anyway.. besides let you do whatever the program itself does, just not as easily?
I'm probably mistaken, but at least someone will correct my mistakes I'm sure. I believe that if you were to stand at a place that's tethered (so you were rotating at the same rate as the earth itself), you wouldn't feel weightless (you would feel slightly less force due to gravity, but not weightless.) to be weightless, you'd have to be orbiting the earth (like the space shuttles do), so as you fall towards the earth, your orbital velocity moves you tangential to the earth's radius just the right amount that you go around in a circle, constantly falling but never getting closer. To notice the difference, figure it takes a space shuttle what, 90 minutes to circle the earth? The platform you're standing on never will. (it'll always be above the same spot, assuming that it's rigid (which wouldnt make much sense, but whatever, the assumption simplifies it a bit.))
I honestly find it quite ridiculous that you would try and correct someone else's spelling.
with transparent concrete shoes, of course.. The divers will keep trying to lift the body out of the water and not be able to figure out what's holding it down, since they can't see the concrete! :)
These are actually serious questions, I don't mean any disrespect or anything. 1) Is it a PhD in Visual C++, or in windows programming, or cs, or whatever? 2) Aren't the Win32 VXD's deprecated in NT? I know I had something that was made for VxD only, and it thus didn't (And never will be) workable under NT4/2k/xp.. or am I thinking of something different?
It's OBVIOUSLY welded shut to keep the excess energy in! Conservation of energy in a closed system, right? Maybe that's just because systems haven't been closed ENOUGH, and it's just been leaking out the whole time! That welding job closed it up good and tight so it couldn't get out, Duh!
NiceMC uses wmp to play videos and stuff, i'm pretty sure. That being said, it's the only thing I use to play videos (I like winamp/nicemc's controls much better than wmp's). It's also the only reason I ever start winamp2 anymore.
:)) Once this is out, bye bye nicemc.
Ignoring that, christophe is working for a directshow (and maybe more? not sure on the details) component for winamp3 to make it support playing video (And potentially sending the video stream through the wa3 core? Like I said, I'm not sure on the details of it. Hopefully the wac will appear in wa3 beta 3, i've been wanting this component since before beta2
hehe that's what mine are set to :P What I'm curious about is why you can't change the password of a user properly in XP? I go to change mine, apparently everything's all cool. However, I forgot one for another one of my accounts on my computer. Oops. Oh well, I have an admin account for that, log it in.. go to change the password, and I get this message:
You are resetting the password for Blah. If you do this, Blah will lose all EFS-encrypted files, personal certificates, and stored passwords for Web sites or network resources.
To avoid losing data in the future, ask Blah to make a password reset floppy disk.
Is this so people can't change the password, log in as the person, and access their files? Seems quite annoying with limited benefits.. Better hope your network admin doesn't have it set up to automatically encrypt user's files, cuz if you ever lose your password and that floppy disk went bad (since it will 2 seconds before you need to use it, invariably), you're screwed. And most likely, the user didn't know his stuff was encrypted, didn't care if it was, and never heard of a password reset floppy disk.
acronymfinder.com's answer to your question. Though it doesn't contain the most often said version of the acronym, I'm sure you can figure it out from the given examples. Enjoy.
I read through the article, well.. at least I tried to. Maybe it's just my fault, but they used the word 'code' in so many different places, and some that didn't make any sense. I assume a 'codified GNU GPL' means make the GNU GPL into a law, but it doesn't explain how that would work, and thus uses 'code' in the terms of 'law code'. Then later it says 'code is law.' I have no clue what the hell that could mean, it's not even english as far as I can tell. It's almost equivalent to saying book is pants. This isn't even apples and oranges here, as those are at least somewhat similar.
So, for someone who has no clue what the hell this article is talking about, even though I tried to read it, can someone please explain it? How would a 'GNU GPL law' (or 'codified GNU GPL I guess I should say?) work? Require all software to be GPL?
cih? reflashes the bios at least.. quite a pain in the ass to reflash your bios to fix it when there's none in there to begin with.
The amiga probably would have survived and computing/graphics power in the home would be able 5 years ahead of where it is now.
Seriously though, I don't see why IBM won, except the fact that it's what they were using at the workplace. Offerings by other companies were so much more advanced. (not initially.. though the commodore 64 was pretty impressive, and the 128, though not as popular to write programs for was nice.. the amiga was light years ahead of others in graphics, power, etc. I know people who browse the internet just fine on their amigas. No other computer from that day would be able to handle it as well, i'm sure.)
it was mostly a joke.. he said most places it's 24 hours. most other places, it's more or less.. well.. that pretty much includes everything there.2
didn't you read the article? Punishment is required! i say all mod points are negative, except potential positives.. get rid of the crap that the majority doesn't want me to see, because they're always right and knows what's best for me better than i do, right?
In many places, the maximum detainment time is 24 hours. In many others, it's more or less.
Ahh, what about the many places where it's none of the above? it's not less than, equal to, or greater than 24 hours?
Who do email attachments target in windows? Windows newbies. Who run things as root without checking to make sure they're safe or thinking about what they're doing? Linux newbies and lazy people.
This virus would probably get me.. though I usually only get executables in packages made by my distro manufacturer (it's just easier and almost guaranteed to work), I find it annoying to su constantly, so I often just play around on my own box as root. I wouldn't administer a server that way (should someone ever be stupid enough to give me the responsibilities of doing so), but I don't think that's who the virus is targeting.
would it be possible to take the cells from a different gender of person to use to grow the eyeballs? the article doesn't say that the undifferentiated cells came from the tadpole they used (and in fact seems to indicate that they didn't). Could we thus grow a tetrachromat eyeball, if we had an undifferentiated cell from a tetrachromat? (more info on tetrachromat's here..
From the previous slashdot article on tetrachromats, it appears that it's because of the eye construction that they can see, but maybe you need to be born with it for the nervous system to be able to handle the information? it might be an interesting experiment at least..
how large can the tuner be, compared to anything that can run this full OS? there's a tv tuner, dvd decoder, 3d graphics chip, firewire interface, etc. all on one single agp card right now. I can't imagine that all of the tv's electronics could therefore be all that large to begin with.. you figure laptops, if you remove the drives, keyboard, screen, etc. still have enough tech in them to drive an AGP card (just not the right plug).. and much more stuff you won't need (keyboard interface, i/o controllers, 900mhz mobile processors, etc.).. ?
is there any way to fix that new user needing the office cd crap? I'm a user in my college's computer lab, where each student is given their own ID.. 90% of the students there, I believe, can therefore not run any of the office applications, myself included. I only use the machines really to use VNC to my main computer while i'm on campus, but still.. having something better than notepad/wordpad would be a welcome addition..
I have never signed up for Passport, and I run XP. It's just annoying as hell to NOT sign up for it :) (Well, ok, I have a passport through hotmail, but it's not registered in the OS, I don't think..)