That would be cool for the linux crowd, but I really don't think that is what lindows is shooting for. All of us linux users think that if it contains the word "linux", it's for us with everything configurable out the ass, and lots of little widgets.
What I am more inclined to believe is that Lindows is the first real linux distro for the stanard windows user that really doesn't want to customize anything more than their desktop background and colors. This is for people who want to use Word, Outlook Express, and AOL. While it may not be something we want, it's definitely a good idea should it work since it has the potential to migrate most of the windows power users away from Microsoft to linux. Once they are weened off of their applications and install open source ones, hopefully they will then pick a real distro.
Ummmm..... What's up with all the button lables in the IE window of screen shot 1 missing the last letter of the word? That's kinda strange. I could understand if the font was too large and the run-over characters were being clipped. But why would a 4-letter word and an 8-letter word be missing the same number?
The simplest form of raytracing can be done at about 15fps on a modern computer in software. That doesn't imply that that will look good at all. It must be a far more complex (ie expensive) version of ratracing to look good.
Though with some recent advances in techniques combined with the fact that raytracing is a very intuitive method to distribute over multiple processors, I see problems other than cost in creating a Beowulf cluster only for the purpose of making Quake III look extra pretty.
Sorry to hear your teachers were so useless. Through high school (and now college), I was blessed with reasonable, approachable, and frighteningly intelligent professors. Last year, one of my professors was the 2nd most respected authority in the program Mathematica on to its create, Wolfram. My other professor is the editor of (I believe) Cryptography Magazine. I fully support your believe that one should do more than merely attend class (I am interested and graphics, and learning how to write a raytracer in my free time), but at least at a school like Carnegie Mellon, I cannot stress how much a resource all of the people are to me.
Very true. Good comment. Moderate this up.
Also, I would like to add that it is a common misconception that coding is all there is to computer science. I am a 2nd year CS major at Carnegie Mellon. I have learned very little syntax. My courses spend most of they're time teaching theory, we implement parts of it, but I still have many long written (non-code) assignments. I have been here 3 semesters and used 4 different languages (C++, Java, Mathematica, Standard ML). More will come. The idea is not to learn the code, but to understand the ideas so you can solve the problem (and probably hand it off to one of those kids to implement it). I have to prove all of my solutions on completeness and that they will work on all inputs.
Anyone can be a code monkey, but having the mental tool set to really tackle abstract problems takes years of practice (CMU will just be a start). The view they are taking is similar to "I know how to write in the English language, so I am qualified to challenge Shakespear." The subtle points such as sitting there and being forced to review code again and again to squeeze out extraneous processor cycles, to drop you run time is lost. Things like that take the need to evaluate the algorithm, which I know I would not have learned if not for college.
Also. These kids are not making much. One said like $35K. The one in Silicon Valley was making like $50K. Last time I checked the poverty line for San Fran was $52K for a 4 person family. Obviously he isn't that bad off, being on his own, but not so great.
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You can stack them. The clear plastic cover has a hole in the back to let the exhaust from the lower lower box escape.
This is all old news. LampreySoft came out with a much better version of user-sensing software long ago. Forget MS, these guys really have it all figured out.
IANAL, but the privacy statement seems to state that your info will not be sold to a third party. The trick is that if the entire company is sold the a third party, that third party is now a first party. They have access to the list (and possibly without being held by the privacy policy). That's what the c|net article was getting at if my memory serves me. It's legal under the letter of the law, and I'm glad to see the FTC deciding to uphold the spirit also.
Yeh. Since the agreement currently that NSI operates(I think) is that Nike doesn't even own the domain name, it just happens to point to their servers.
I agree that MP3Board.com is taking it a little far. This issue with linking has parallels to the law in the Constitution about only one trial per crime. While yes, it we didn't have this rule, we would imprision more criminals. But, would the gain of the few less criminals on the streets outweigh the possibility of a tyrannical government? I have no itention of making this a philosophical political war, please don't take this as more than an analogy (a poor one at that). I merely mean to point out, that while ruling against MP3Board.com would decrease the amount of piracy on the Internet (if only by a little), how much more severe would such a ruling be on the rest of the Internet?
You aren't downloading anything. In Gnutella, it lists files, to trick you into connecting. Because, to download, you create a direct connection and the snag your IP. The "booby-trapping" is a very poor description of the actual method.
There is nothing to lose. The Academy is not singling out the Internet for distribution to exclude. It was created to celebrate the Silver Screen. They view it as the best and one true way to view motion pictures (as much as other technology has done, I must say I agree). Seeing a movie at full resolution in theater sound is just more impressive). I don't think they are changing at all. Merely vocalising the focus that the Awards have always had in response to a new medium.
If we let this happen, then why do we let people register.com,.org, and.net separately. If an entity has claim to one, we allow them all three. If we are going to use this logic, why not lump them and charge 3 times as much. Save all the legal trouble.
As far as I understand, parodies are protected under copyright law. I have a book at home, but being at work, that is not too useful. But, as a far as I can remember, it's ok to parody something as long as your parodoy is clearly a an imitaion that acknowledges the fact that it is immitating. ie. You can take a copyrighted material and make fun of it, provided it is apparent you can make fun of it. This one should be overturned in a second. I have no idea how the judge justified his descision.
Yeah. Splitting up MS could be the best thing to happen to the company. Both would still maintain the respective monopolies (OS on one, Office and IE in the other). The would be leaner, more directed (how many companies have benefited from spinning off sectors).
If you read the brief, they said the reason was the disclaimer was not sufficiently neutral. While the implicit definition of "separation of church and state" can be argued. "Freedom of religion" can quite easily be applied to the disclaimer stating the possibility to explore other biblical alternatives. The problem is not that religion is involved, but that the apparent official view of the institution favors one form over another.
The advantage of PDF is only partly due to the fact that it can be read for free. The other half is that it is contained. Few other document formats have the fonts imbeded in them. Not that useful for a text list, but when a company wants to distribute it's product brochure or manuals online, it's nice to have a typeset layout with a linked table of contents. == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == -mT Looking at something requires only your eyes, but seeing involves your mind.
Well, the problem with completely direct is that most of the people representing themselves (at least in this society) don't understand (or feel a need to understand) the issues of an election. So, we still need officials for now to help sort through all the ignorance (no guarantee they're any better, but you can get lucky sometimes). The other option is a Republic where you have to prove yourself worthy to represent yourself (probably through intelligence and awareness of political issues).
Yeah. I've often thought of the state of computers now like the auto industry of the 50's. It was the "American Dream" to own a computer now, like it was for cars. People want it so badly that they are willing to settle for crap. Once they become more integrated into everyday life (not like an obsession device, but the way you use your fridge or car), then quality will start to improve. I'll give it 40 years, maybe they'll straighten it out.
What would be more interesting is something that does analysis for gradients. I'm not sure how absolute this is, but in all the photography I've encountered (both studied and my own work), gradient of tonality accross skin is pretty unique. I don't mean absolute values that could be fooled by skin color, but the values of the colors relative to each other (due to reflectance values of skin and the limb effect of light falloff). Though this would not be able to take into account porn with dramatic, artistic lighting. Then again, it's not that I really need or want effective blocking software, but it would be interesting because something along those lines would be capable of determining.
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You need an A/D converter either way. The piece of glass with all the pixels in it still takes an analog signal.
That would be cool for the linux crowd, but I really don't think that is what lindows is shooting for. All of us linux users think that if it contains the word "linux", it's for us with everything configurable out the ass, and lots of little widgets.
What I am more inclined to believe is that Lindows is the first real linux distro for the stanard windows user that really doesn't want to customize anything more than their desktop background and colors. This is for people who want to use Word, Outlook Express, and AOL. While it may not be something we want, it's definitely a good idea should it work since it has the potential to migrate most of the windows power users away from Microsoft to linux. Once they are weened off of their applications and install open source ones, hopefully they will then pick a real distro.
Ummmm..... What's up with all the button lables in the IE window of screen shot 1 missing the last letter of the word? That's kinda strange. I could understand if the font was too large and the run-over characters were being clipped. But why would a 4-letter word and an 8-letter word be missing the same number?
The simplest form of raytracing can be done at about 15fps on a modern computer in software. That doesn't imply that that will look good at all. It must be a far more complex (ie expensive) version of ratracing to look good.
Though with some recent advances in techniques combined with the fact that raytracing is a very intuitive method to distribute over multiple processors, I see problems other than cost in creating a Beowulf cluster only for the purpose of making Quake III look extra pretty.
Sorry to hear your teachers were so useless. Through high school (and now college), I was blessed with reasonable, approachable, and frighteningly intelligent professors. Last year, one of my professors was the 2nd most respected authority in the program Mathematica on to its create, Wolfram. My other professor is the editor of (I believe) Cryptography Magazine. I fully support your believe that one should do more than merely attend class (I am interested and graphics, and learning how to write a raytracer in my free time), but at least at a school like Carnegie Mellon, I cannot stress how much a resource all of the people are to me.
Very true. Good comment. Moderate this up. Also, I would like to add that it is a common misconception that coding is all there is to computer science. I am a 2nd year CS major at Carnegie Mellon. I have learned very little syntax. My courses spend most of they're time teaching theory, we implement parts of it, but I still have many long written (non-code) assignments. I have been here 3 semesters and used 4 different languages (C++, Java, Mathematica, Standard ML). More will come. The idea is not to learn the code, but to understand the ideas so you can solve the problem (and probably hand it off to one of those kids to implement it). I have to prove all of my solutions on completeness and that they will work on all inputs. Anyone can be a code monkey, but having the mental tool set to really tackle abstract problems takes years of practice (CMU will just be a start). The view they are taking is similar to "I know how to write in the English language, so I am qualified to challenge Shakespear." The subtle points such as sitting there and being forced to review code again and again to squeeze out extraneous processor cycles, to drop you run time is lost. Things like that take the need to evaluate the algorithm, which I know I would not have learned if not for college. Also. These kids are not making much. One said like $35K. The one in Silicon Valley was making like $50K. Last time I checked the poverty line for San Fran was $52K for a 4 person family. Obviously he isn't that bad off, being on his own, but not so great.
You can stack them. The clear plastic cover has a hole in the back to let the exhaust from the lower lower box escape.
There was an article sort of along those lines on Wired a day or so ago. Linked here.
This is all old news. LampreySoft came out with a much better version of user-sensing software long ago. Forget MS, these guys really have it all figured out.
IANAL, but the privacy statement seems to state that your info will not be sold to a third party. The trick is that if the entire company is sold the a third party, that third party is now a first party. They have access to the list (and possibly without being held by the privacy policy). That's what the c|net article was getting at if my memory serves me. It's legal under the letter of the law, and I'm glad to see the FTC deciding to uphold the spirit also.
Yeh. Since the agreement currently that NSI operates(I think) is that Nike doesn't even own the domain name, it just happens to point to their servers.
I haven't seen the RIAA after these guys yet. Oh wait, maybe they have the resources to fight back. Hmmmm, might not want to go there.
I agree that MP3Board.com is taking it a little far. This issue with linking has parallels to the law in the Constitution about only one trial per crime. While yes, it we didn't have this rule, we would imprision more criminals. But, would the gain of the few less criminals on the streets outweigh the possibility of a tyrannical government? I have no itention of making this a philosophical political war, please don't take this as more than an analogy (a poor one at that). I merely mean to point out, that while ruling against MP3Board.com would decrease the amount of piracy on the Internet (if only by a little), how much more severe would such a ruling be on the rest of the Internet?
You aren't downloading anything. In Gnutella, it lists files, to trick you into connecting. Because, to download, you create a direct connection and the snag your IP. The "booby-trapping" is a very poor description of the actual method.
Ah, what they heck. I think I'll flame the MPAA some more just on general principle.
There is nothing to lose. The Academy is not singling out the Internet for distribution to exclude. It was created to celebrate the Silver Screen. They view it as the best and one true way to view motion pictures (as much as other technology has done, I must say I agree). Seeing a movie at full resolution in theater sound is just more impressive). I don't think they are changing at all. Merely vocalising the focus that the Awards have always had in response to a new medium.
If we let this happen, then why do we let people register .com, .org, and .net separately. If an entity has claim to one, we allow them all three. If we are going to use this logic, why not lump them and charge 3 times as much. Save all the legal trouble.
As far as I understand, parodies are protected under copyright law. I have a book at home, but being at work, that is not too useful. But, as a far as I can remember, it's ok to parody something as long as your parodoy is clearly a an imitaion that acknowledges the fact that it is immitating. ie. You can take a copyrighted material and make fun of it, provided it is apparent you can make fun of it. This one should be overturned in a second. I have no idea how the judge justified his descision.
Yeah. Splitting up MS could be the best thing to happen to the company. Both would still maintain the respective monopolies (OS on one, Office and IE in the other). The would be leaner, more directed (how many companies have benefited from spinning off sectors).
If you read the brief, they said the reason was the disclaimer was not sufficiently neutral. While the implicit definition of "separation of church and state" can be argued. "Freedom of religion" can quite easily be applied to the disclaimer stating the possibility to explore other biblical alternatives. The problem is not that religion is involved, but that the apparent official view of the institution favors one form over another.
Shit. Maybe I should learn how to make a .sig. retard here.
The advantage of PDF is only partly due to the fact that it can be read for free. The other half is that it is contained. Few other document formats have the fonts imbeded in them. Not that useful for a text list, but when a company wants to distribute it's product brochure or manuals online, it's nice to have a typeset layout with a linked table of contents. == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == -mT Looking at something requires only your eyes, but seeing involves your mind.
Well, the problem with completely direct is that most of the people representing themselves (at least in this society) don't understand (or feel a need to understand) the issues of an election. So, we still need officials for now to help sort through all the ignorance (no guarantee they're any better, but you can get lucky sometimes). The other option is a Republic where you have to prove yourself worthy to represent yourself (probably through intelligence and awareness of political issues).
Yeah. I've often thought of the state of computers now like the auto industry of the 50's. It was the "American Dream" to own a computer now, like it was for cars. People want it so badly that they are willing to settle for crap. Once they become more integrated into everyday life (not like an obsession device, but the way you use your fridge or car), then quality will start to improve. I'll give it 40 years, maybe they'll straighten it out.
What would be more interesting is something that does analysis for gradients. I'm not sure how absolute this is, but in all the photography I've encountered (both studied and my own work), gradient of tonality accross skin is pretty unique. I don't mean absolute values that could be fooled by skin color, but the values of the colors relative to each other (due to reflectance values of skin and the limb effect of light falloff). Though this would not be able to take into account porn with dramatic, artistic lighting. Then again, it's not that I really need or want effective blocking software, but it would be interesting because something along those lines would be capable of determining.