How do I change my id number? Do I get new retinas? What about thumbprints? I like my thumbs the way they are. I don't want to have re-burn new prints every time someone hacks the Windows XP++ bio-server...
It's funny to me that someone can take the time to write out a long, descriptive article about their problem, and then half of the responses question whether or not this is REALLY their problem. Without knowing the business environment, rules, politics, and the like, we can't begin to make assumptions about the nature of this gentleman's business. So don't automatically assume he's an idiot, and tell him he doesn't need to upgrade... Just answer the damn question.;)
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When they are a minor Net celebrity, at least around these parts. Let's see a regular Joe, not known for inciting anything, would fare in a net marketing campaign. Jon's status at Slashdot is ebough to negate any good data that could come out of his "study".
That, and the fact that Jon can publish an "article" about his "study" and plug the very book he is "studying" the "effects" of...
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Speak to the fine folks at the Tara theater. They have been very open to my suggestions about incoming films, and ahve even screened a few...
I want to see a web site with a rendered map of the city. Then, I want to see a red pulsing dot that is the stolen car. Then blue dots representing the police, chasing said car. Maybe, as the police get closer, it could speed up the music that plays too. Perhaps a selection from the "Looney Tunes" library would be apropos... This could revolutionize the media coverage of high speed chases! Imagine the revenue possibilities in L.A. alone!
(Oh, wait... Did I just offend the/. community by mentioning "revenue"?;) )
Some rental cars companies already have pilot programs that do exactly this. They calculate your trip time from point A to point B, average that figure and determine whether or not you were speeding. They will then assess a company-dictated fine (no law-enforcement connection here yet) on your bill when you bring it back.
I think the issue at hand here is one of a language's maturity. Java was discarded early on because of performance problems and a clunky GUI toolkit. Now that Java lives primarily on the Web and on the server side, it has exploded. Java and C++ control the server market of today. Is that to say that they will in five years? Probably. It is a simple fact that large ISVs and corporations cannot change dev. platforms every six months. It's simply not cost effective.
Secondly, to echo what other developers have said already, developers don't like to jump from development platform to platform. Sure, Java took a while to get used to, but once you're there, you're done. Learn another API, pick up a book. Why bother with a language that hasn't been put through its paces? Why bother with a platform by a company known more for its mistakes (security, IP, networking) than its successes? As a Java developer, I'm not really worried...
Then again, COBOL programmers can still find work too.
Brilliant Digital Entertainment quietly installs its own software with every copy of the Kazaa file-swapping software. The Brilliant Digital software, which is being progressively distributed over the next few weeks, can later be remotely "turned on" to become part of a new network.
Executives from Brilliant Digital and Kazaa's parent company say people can uninstall the Brilliant Digital or Altnet software from their computers without interfering with the Kazaa program itself. This is true, but it's not an easy process.
These three steps will remove most traces of the Brilliant Digital software from most machines. CNET News.com did it using a computer running Windows 2000 (news - web sites), but the same process should work for other Windows operating systems. Please be aware, however, that these instructions represent just one uninstall method and may not be suitable for all machines and software configurations.
CNET Networks assumes no liability in publishing these instructions, which people may choose to follow at their own risk. As always, it's a good idea to make a backup of any critical files before proceeding.
1. In the Windows Control Panel, select an option called "Add/Remove Programs." One of the options will be "b3d Projector." Highlight this and click the "Change/Remove" button.
You may get a message that the uninstall has been successful. Search your computer for a "BDE" folder, which most likely will be found in the "WinNT" or "Windows" directory. In this folder will be a file called "bdeclean.exe". Run this to finish the first part of the process. Delete the BDE folder.
Caution: An unrelated piece of software called Borland Database Engine also creates a BDE directory. If you think you may have this software installed, or if there is any confusion whatsoever, do not delete this directory.
2. In the "Temp" directory (this will normally be found inside the "Windows" or "WinNT" directory) is a folder called "Brilliant." This contains many files. Delete the entire folder.
3. After performing steps 1 and 2, you will need to locate and remove some additional Brilliant Digital files that have been placed in critical system-level computer directories. CAUTION: Deleting the wrong files could interfere with the normal functioning of your computer. These files will most likely be in the "Windows\System" or "WinNT\System32" folder:
Let me get this out first hand. The lawsuit is out there. Been tried, been shot down, she won't win.
Now that that's out there, think about this. All of you Slashdotters who have kids. Think about one of them offing himself/herself. Would you be so quick to assume that it was their own defect that drove them to it? Would you declare them unfit for this world, and move on to have another one? Would it be that easy for you to let go of them? I myself would move heaven and earth looking for a reason that it happened. Any reason.
Then, to make things worse, they won't cooperate by allowing her access to her son's EverQuest stuff. It is so hard to conceive that this is what brought on the lawsuit in the first place? And to those of you who will cry "Personal Privacy!"... Her son committed suicide.
"She's angry...", "...warning labels..." - These could easily be taken out of context or chalked up to journalistic license. I'm not saying where The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel falls in the spectrum denoted by the Midnight Star and the New York Times, but is it inconceivable that liberties were taken?
Bottom line: Yes, the lawsuit has little merit. But will it help her find out why her son died? Probably. That's reason enough for me.
Spider Man may well have better effects. However, it's not out yet... The Academy does not judge Visual Effects and makeup solely on how good it looks. Nor do they care how many pixels the custom software was able to push. They judge on the overall look and its relevance to the story. If Miramax decides to do another chapter of Behind The Mind's Eye, it may look wonderful, but the Academy won't look twice, because it is not relevant to an underlying story. That's why LOTR took the awards for VE and makeup. (Although, I could see Moulin Rouge winning for makeup, too..)
Just in case anyone cares, this is also the favorite haunt of Ain't It Cool's entire crew, including the esteemed Harry Knowles. So most reviews that Harry does, usually was seen here...
I imagine this as a step toward instant translation of written foreign languages. Provided that the OCR capabilities were up to snuff, the night before you leave for Japan, you download the Japanese OCR pack into your Nomad. Then every neon sign that overloads the synapses comes to you in perfect clarity and in English.
Now if we can just figure out how to get them to appear below each sign with quotes around them...
Maybe it's out of line, but it sounds like he was baiting airport security with this. In an age where suicide bombers are racking up the death toll on both sides of the Israel/Palestine "war" (they won't call it that, but anywhere people kill each other qualifies, in my book), it would seem that someone implanting a bomb in their body is not only plausible, but if they're willing to die, it's downright good planning. How many people are willing to take a chance getting on a plane, knowing that the guy sitting next to them is potentially a (forgive the pun) ticking time bomb?
Steve Mann is an interesting fellow, to be sure. He even comes across as rational at times, but honestly, don't give me the honest looking face and the "aw shucks" shrug. He knew it would cause some heartache, and wanted the newsprint for it. I applaud the folks at the airport. For doing their job...
Okay, so Jack wants to stop people from copying movies and watching them at home. Never mind the similarities of this argument to the VCR years ago. Never mind this argument to cassette tapes further back. Jack may have point, but he's also missing one. I consider myself a film junkie. I see probably three or four movies a week on average. And I can't stand to watch a movie on my computer. I cannot stand it. I think that the MPAA is overestimating how often this will happen, especially with only 5-10% of households using broadband. The presentation of copyrighted material is as important as the material itself (IMO). As much as I love FOTR, I refuse to watch a crappy VCD encoded copy of taken from a theater in Bangladesh.
Will quality improve over time? Probably... Will the MPAA keep trying to copy-protect its material? Sure. This is a never ending cycle that we've seen before. The video game industry didn't scream to the government about piracy, they fought it themselves... (Okay, so they went screaming to the government too, sue me) What the MPAA fails to realize is that the technology community will always break what they come up with. Why? We are the ones who write your encryption, Jack! C'mon... There is a bigger fear that I wrestle with on this issue, however...
If Hollywood feels they are losing money on their movies, they will lower the budgets on existing projects. Imagine, a world where Leo DiCaprio can only be in half a movie because the budget won't support him as lead. Wait... Okay, bad example. The point is, aren't movies bad enough right now? Just a thought...
Just a note on point 4. There are plenty of Firewire -> Component, Composite, BNC, YUV video modes available in the filmmaking community. Now to be fair, an HD signal is probably too large and too fast for a $600 converter box to handle, but it would seem that the technology is there to accomplish something like this. Not that I'm disagreeing with the points you've made, because I don't. One more thing, there are also converters from other video to Firewire, meaning that the early adopters could still be okay, converting their format to Firewire for broadcast.
A Beowulf cluster of those insect robots controlled by Gene Simmons going out and menacing the population until Tom Selleck has to be called out to... Oh wait...
At some universities, they hold a universal license to certain products. Purdue University, for example, holds a universal license to Oracle and certain M$ products. This means that as long as the software is being used for universtiy purposes, it can be installed anywhere. (At least, this is my interpretation) If this is the case, then the licensing issue becomes moot, and the university could install it damn near anywhere they pleased...
Stop. Just stop all of this. Asshole bullies are not all like poor Nelson Muntz, who is from a broken home. Growing up, I held a tenuous grasp on pseudo-popularity. This meant I didn't get me ass kicked daily, but I couldn't stop others from suffering this fate. The bullies? They had wonderful parents who cared very deeply for their kids. They were not economically disadvantaged. These kids were BORED. That's all. Bored kids with a prediliction for two things. Sex and violence. Since sex was a ways off (age wise), they turned to violence. I remember terrible things being done to kids who never deserved it, and those things being forgotten within the span of minutes after the act took place.
Here's the point. Kids are responsible. They are smarter than any politician has ever given them credit for. Smart enough, in fact, to know they have a fallback plan, should they ever get in trouble. Blame is huge in our country right now. If someone else has a hand in our actions, they cease to become our actions. I'm not saying that the Columbine bullies deserved to die. Violence is horrible in any form. But let us not paint them as complete and innocent victims in the tragedy.
(It should be added, however, that the bullies in Lafayette, IN to tend do knock up their girl friends and destroy their lives before their first semester of college is over.)
-Wringing of hands and devilish laughter ensue...
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How do I change my id number? Do I get new retinas? What about thumbprints? I like my thumbs the way they are. I don't want to have re-burn new prints every time someone hacks the Windows XP++ bio-server...
It's funny to me that someone can take the time to write out a long, descriptive article about their problem, and then half of the responses question whether or not this is REALLY their problem. Without knowing the business environment, rules, politics, and the like, we can't begin to make assumptions about the nature of this gentleman's business. So don't automatically assume he's an idiot, and tell him he doesn't need to upgrade... Just answer the damn question. ;)
When they are a minor Net celebrity, at least around these parts. Let's see a regular Joe, not known for inciting anything, would fare in a net marketing campaign. Jon's status at Slashdot is ebough to negate any good data that could come out of his "study".
That, and the fact that Jon can publish an "article" about his "study" and plug the very book he is "studying" the "effects" of...
Speak to the fine folks at the Tara theater. They have been very open to my suggestions about incoming films, and ahve even screened a few...
I want to see a web site with a rendered map of the city. Then, I want to see a red pulsing dot that is the stolen car. Then blue dots representing the police, chasing said car. Maybe, as the police get closer, it could speed up the music that plays too. Perhaps a selection from the "Looney Tunes" library would be apropos... This could revolutionize the media coverage of high speed chases! Imagine the revenue possibilities in L.A. alone!
/. community by mentioning "revenue"? ;) )
(Oh, wait... Did I just offend the
Some rental cars companies already have pilot programs that do exactly this. They calculate your trip time from point A to point B, average that figure and determine whether or not you were speeding. They will then assess a company-dictated fine (no law-enforcement connection here yet) on your bill when you bring it back.
I think the issue at hand here is one of a language's maturity. Java was discarded early on because of performance problems and a clunky GUI toolkit. Now that Java lives primarily on the Web and on the server side, it has exploded. Java and C++ control the server market of today. Is that to say that they will in five years? Probably. It is a simple fact that large ISVs and corporations cannot change dev. platforms every six months. It's simply not cost effective.
Secondly, to echo what other developers have said already, developers don't like to jump from development platform to platform. Sure, Java took a while to get used to, but once you're there, you're done. Learn another API, pick up a book. Why bother with a language that hasn't been put through its paces? Why bother with a platform by a company known more for its mistakes (security, IP, networking) than its successes? As a Java developer, I'm not really worried...
Then again, COBOL programmers can still find work too.
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Brilliant Digital Entertainment quietly installs its own software with every copy of the Kazaa file-swapping software. The Brilliant Digital software, which is being progressively distributed over the next few weeks, can later be remotely "turned on" to become part of a new network.
Executives from Brilliant Digital and Kazaa's parent company say people can uninstall the Brilliant Digital or Altnet software from their computers without interfering with the Kazaa program itself. This is true, but it's not an easy process.
These three steps will remove most traces of the Brilliant Digital software from most machines. CNET News.com did it using a computer running Windows 2000 (news - web sites), but the same process should work for other Windows operating systems. Please be aware, however, that these instructions represent just one uninstall method and may not be suitable for all machines and software configurations.
CNET Networks assumes no liability in publishing these instructions, which people may choose to follow at their own risk. As always, it's a good idea to make a backup of any critical files before proceeding.
1. In the Windows Control Panel, select an option called "Add/Remove Programs." One of the options will be "b3d Projector." Highlight this and click the "Change/Remove" button.
You may get a message that the uninstall has been successful. Search your computer for a "BDE" folder, which most likely will be found in the "WinNT" or "Windows" directory. In this folder will be a file called "bdeclean.exe". Run this to finish the first part of the process. Delete the BDE folder.
Caution: An unrelated piece of software called Borland Database Engine also creates a BDE directory. If you think you may have this software installed, or if there is any confusion whatsoever, do not delete this directory.
2. In the "Temp" directory (this will normally be found inside the "Windows" or "WinNT" directory) is a folder called "Brilliant." This contains many files. Delete the entire folder.
3. After performing steps 1 and 2, you will need to locate and remove some additional Brilliant Digital files that have been placed in critical system-level computer directories. CAUTION: Deleting the wrong files could interfere with the normal functioning of your computer. These files will most likely be in the "Windows\System" or "WinNT\System32" folder:
bdedownloader.dll
bdedata2.dll
bdefdi.dll
bdeinsta2.dll
bdeinstall.exe
bdesecureinstall.cab
bdesecureinstall.exe
bdeverify.exe
bdeverify.dll
Delete these files.
Let me get this out first hand. The lawsuit is out there. Been tried, been shot down, she won't win.
Now that that's out there, think about this. All of you Slashdotters who have kids. Think about one of them offing himself/herself. Would you be so quick to assume that it was their own defect that drove them to it? Would you declare them unfit for this world, and move on to have another one? Would it be that easy for you to let go of them? I myself would move heaven and earth looking for a reason that it happened. Any reason.
Then, to make things worse, they won't cooperate by allowing her access to her son's EverQuest stuff. It is so hard to conceive that this is what brought on the lawsuit in the first place? And to those of you who will cry "Personal Privacy!"... Her son committed suicide.
"She's angry...", "...warning labels..." - These could easily be taken out of context or chalked up to journalistic license. I'm not saying where The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel falls in the spectrum denoted by the Midnight Star and the New York Times, but is it inconceivable that liberties were taken?
Bottom line: Yes, the lawsuit has little merit. But will it help her find out why her son died? Probably. That's reason enough for me.
C'mon Wil, we know you're out there... We know you're reading. Come on, say something funny. Come on... Please?
I'm waiting for a plug-in that lets me go house to house and frag my Sims at leisure. Then I'll feel like a God...
"Goodness, how did you people ever live long enough to invent tools?"
-Hobbes (the tiger, not the philosopher)
Spider Man may well have better effects. However, it's not out yet... The Academy does not judge Visual Effects and makeup solely on how good it looks. Nor do they care how many pixels the custom software was able to push. They judge on the overall look and its relevance to the story. If Miramax decides to do another chapter of Behind The Mind's Eye, it may look wonderful, but the Academy won't look twice, because it is not relevant to an underlying story. That's why LOTR took the awards for VE and makeup. (Although, I could see Moulin Rouge winning for makeup, too..)
Does this mean it will take Tekken 4 even longer to come out?
Just in case anyone cares, this is also the favorite haunt of Ain't It Cool's entire crew, including the esteemed Harry Knowles. So most reviews that Harry does, usually was seen here...
I imagine this as a step toward instant translation of written foreign languages. Provided that the OCR capabilities were up to snuff, the night before you leave for Japan, you download the Japanese OCR pack into your Nomad. Then every neon sign that overloads the synapses comes to you in perfect clarity and in English.
Now if we can just figure out how to get them to appear below each sign with quotes around them...
Why is it that my primary chip is slower than any of the present chips?
Maybe it's out of line, but it sounds like he was baiting airport security with this. In an age where suicide bombers are racking up the death toll on both sides of the Israel/Palestine "war" (they won't call it that, but anywhere people kill each other qualifies, in my book), it would seem that someone implanting a bomb in their body is not only plausible, but if they're willing to die, it's downright good planning. How many people are willing to take a chance getting on a plane, knowing that the guy sitting next to them is potentially a (forgive the pun) ticking time bomb?
Steve Mann is an interesting fellow, to be sure. He even comes across as rational at times, but honestly, don't give me the honest looking face and the "aw shucks" shrug. He knew it would cause some heartache, and wanted the newsprint for it. I applaud the folks at the airport. For doing their job...
Blue text on red, red text on blue. Either has a very nice way of inducing headaches in all. Some folks will even look for the sailboat!
Okay, so Jack wants to stop people from copying movies and watching them at home. Never mind the similarities of this argument to the VCR years ago. Never mind this argument to cassette tapes further back. Jack may have point, but he's also missing one. I consider myself a film junkie. I see probably three or four movies a week on average. And I can't stand to watch a movie on my computer. I cannot stand it. I think that the MPAA is overestimating how often this will happen, especially with only 5-10% of households using broadband. The presentation of copyrighted material is as important as the material itself (IMO). As much as I love FOTR, I refuse to watch a crappy VCD encoded copy of taken from a theater in Bangladesh.
Will quality improve over time? Probably... Will the MPAA keep trying to copy-protect its material? Sure. This is a never ending cycle that we've seen before. The video game industry didn't scream to the government about piracy, they fought it themselves... (Okay, so they went screaming to the government too, sue me) What the MPAA fails to realize is that the technology community will always break what they come up with. Why? We are the ones who write your encryption, Jack! C'mon... There is a bigger fear that I wrestle with on this issue, however...
If Hollywood feels they are losing money on their movies, they will lower the budgets on existing projects. Imagine, a world where Leo DiCaprio can only be in half a movie because the budget won't support him as lead. Wait... Okay, bad example. The point is, aren't movies bad enough right now? Just a thought...
Just a note on point 4. There are plenty of Firewire -> Component, Composite, BNC, YUV video modes available in the filmmaking community. Now to be fair, an HD signal is probably too large and too fast for a $600 converter box to handle, but it would seem that the technology is there to accomplish something like this. Not that I'm disagreeing with the points you've made, because I don't. One more thing, there are also converters from other video to Firewire, meaning that the early adopters could still be okay, converting their format to Firewire for broadcast.
A Beowulf cluster of those insect robots controlled by Gene Simmons going out and menacing the population until Tom Selleck has to be called out to... Oh wait...
(For those confused, see Runaway )
At some universities, they hold a universal license to certain products. Purdue University, for example, holds a universal license to Oracle and certain M$ products. This means that as long as the software is being used for universtiy purposes, it can be installed anywhere. (At least, this is my interpretation) If this is the case, then the licensing issue becomes moot, and the university could install it damn near anywhere they pleased...
Stop. Just stop all of this. Asshole bullies are not all like poor Nelson Muntz, who is from a broken home. Growing up, I held a tenuous grasp on pseudo-popularity. This meant I didn't get me ass kicked daily, but I couldn't stop others from suffering this fate. The bullies? They had wonderful parents who cared very deeply for their kids. They were not economically disadvantaged. These kids were BORED. That's all. Bored kids with a prediliction for two things. Sex and violence. Since sex was a ways off (age wise), they turned to violence. I remember terrible things being done to kids who never deserved it, and those things being forgotten within the span of minutes after the act took place.
Here's the point. Kids are responsible. They are smarter than any politician has ever given them credit for. Smart enough, in fact, to know they have a fallback plan, should they ever get in trouble. Blame is huge in our country right now. If someone else has a hand in our actions, they cease to become our actions. I'm not saying that the Columbine bullies deserved to die. Violence is horrible in any form. But let us not paint them as complete and innocent victims in the tragedy.
(It should be added, however, that the bullies in Lafayette, IN to tend do knock up their girl friends and destroy their lives before their first semester of college is over.) -Wringing of hands and devilish laughter ensue...