United States Patent 5,443,036 Amiss , et al. August 22, 1995 Method of exercising a cat Abstract A method for inducing cats to exercise consists of directing a beam of invisible light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus onto the floor or wall or other opaque surface in the vicinity of the cat, then moving the laser so as to cause the bright pattern of light to move in an irregular way fascinating to cats, and to any other animal with a chase instinct.
Man, I should patent a version that uses visible light!
Back in the bronze and silver age of arcade games, we did not have the technology to create "realistic" games, so we made fun games where ones imagination was required.
Really? When I play "classic" games I don't imagine the iconic graphics as stand-ins for something real; I play the game in its own abstract world. Thus the reason I haven't collected games from much beyond the Super Nintendo is that they have lost their abstract "another world" quality. To me the point of improvement of games was for them to be more fun and less frustrating, rather than more "realistic", since the latter doesn't even apply; the games have their own abstract worlds thus they are already as real as they can get.
I admit I greatly enjoyed Goldeneye on the N64, which was the first 3D FPS I even paid attention to.
OK, I've RTFA. Hype! The bottom line is that steam is not a source of energy. Something has got to make that steam. And that gets us right back to the problem of supplying the energy in a form that burns clean and is clean to produce in the first place [...]
It's as much a steam-powered car as current "hybrid" cars are electric "powered" (hint: they aren't hybrid, any more than my computer is magnetic powered due to having a transformer between it and the wall socket).
Darwanism involves differential rates of replication of two or more differing replicators built from simpler materials. Evolution occurs over several generations, where the more efficient replicators come to outnumber the rest. Because they are built from simpler materials, there is room for slight changes (mutations), some of which will be beneficial.
Take any of these elements away and you don't have darwinian evolution. I haven't read the article yet, so I don't know if it misapplies the term.
Like making drugs illegal has stopped drug abuse. Or like making identity theft illegal has stopped phishing scams. Or how making unauthorized access to a computer illegal has stopped spam coming from compromised machines.
Well duh, we need to just make it illegal to do illegal things!
Exactly. Chance is just a measure of one's ignorance of the future, and the reason chances change based on new developments. Assuming the universe is entirely deterministic, the only chances existing in reality are 0% (won't happen) and 100% (will happen).
As a side note, the identity of a project is the components that make it up and the way they are put together (the overall architecture). Reusing components from another project doesn't turn your project into what the other project is. Even if all components are reused (none written from scratch), the value is in how they're put together.
I understand the privacy issue, and I treasure my online privacy too, but I agree with other Slashdotters...when you're dead you're dead and the secrets you leave behind don't matter much anymore. There's not much use for it there. But if there's a use for the family, perhaps looking for things to hold on to even for momentary comfort, I think that's the right thing to do.
It should be opt-in rather than compulsory or opt-out; if opt-in, it can already be achieved without any change in policy, as people have mentioned: leave access information in your will. Those that don't want their data to remain inaccessible to others are allowed to without having to do anything beyond making it inaccessible while they're living.
What scares me are those freaking awful dialog boxes that IE allows. The ones that say "You MUST click okay to use this site!" or "Do you want to set CrappyAds.ru to be your homepage?".
And even if I press no, I *still* get spyware. Why? IE Sucks.
Hey, I have a solution! Firefox can present a dialog box on the first installation that asks, "Do you want to run with better security than Microsoft Internet Explorer?" with only one button labeled "Yes".
By using a range of methodologies, including the construction of multiple protection layers, limiting the player accessibility to the provided player software, and encapsulating the red book audio content, XCP® successfully protects the content from unauthorised copying.
I thought that said "Microsoft acquires spyware company" at which point my coworker responded "Makes sense, they try to integrate everything else".
Well, it does! That way there is only one spyware program that all the spying companies can use. Microsoft could test it well so there aren't any security holes that could be exploited to cause a loss of the one's privacy. Er, wait...
I haven't watched TV since late 2000 (4 years). Aside from the content (or lack thereof), I didn't like having to accommodate their schedule. I think the rise of DVDs might also be a factor; I watch a movie or two a month on DVD, where I have full control over when I watch it (though they seem intent on preventing me from skipping the scary FBI warning at the beginning).
If this new Korean spin on the Soviet Russia joke is going to take hold, it needs to be used carefully. That means using it sparingly at first, and getting the wording just right:
Slashdot Mirror
United States Patent 5,443,036
Amiss , et al. August 22, 1995
Method of exercising a cat
Abstract
A method for inducing cats to exercise consists of directing a beam of invisible light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus onto the floor or wall or other opaque surface in the vicinity of the cat, then moving the laser so as to cause the bright pattern of light to move in an irregular way fascinating to cats, and to any other animal with a chase instinct.
Man, I should patent a version that uses visible light!
The Slashdot effect seems to have burned a hole in the server's retina, because none of the images are showing up.
Back in the bronze and silver age of arcade games, we did not have the technology to create "realistic" games, so we made fun games where ones imagination was required.
Really? When I play "classic" games I don't imagine the iconic graphics as stand-ins for something real; I play the game in its own abstract world. Thus the reason I haven't collected games from much beyond the Super Nintendo is that they have lost their abstract "another world" quality. To me the point of improvement of games was for them to be more fun and less frustrating, rather than more "realistic", since the latter doesn't even apply; the games have their own abstract worlds thus they are already as real as they can get.
I admit I greatly enjoyed Goldeneye on the N64, which was the first 3D FPS I even paid attention to.
OK, I've RTFA. Hype! The bottom line is that steam is not a source of energy. Something has got to make that steam. And that gets us right back to the problem of supplying the energy in a form that burns clean and is clean to produce in the first place [...]
It's as much a steam-powered car as current "hybrid" cars are electric "powered" (hint: they aren't hybrid, any more than my computer is magnetic powered due to having a transformer between it and the wall socket).
Darwanism involves differential rates of replication of two or more differing replicators built from simpler materials. Evolution occurs over several generations, where the more efficient replicators come to outnumber the rest. Because they are built from simpler materials, there is room for slight changes (mutations), some of which will be beneficial.
Take any of these elements away and you don't have darwinian evolution. I haven't read the article yet, so I don't know if it misapplies the term.
Like making drugs illegal has stopped drug abuse.
Or like making identity theft illegal has stopped phishing scams.
Or how making unauthorized access to a computer illegal has stopped spam coming from compromised machines.
Well duh, we need to just make it illegal to do illegal things!
And yet, most of us are reading this via the "new" media. For all I know,
The Mac Garden has lots of older games, from the first Mac to some PowerPC games.
Exactly. Chance is just a measure of one's ignorance of the future, and the reason chances change based on new developments. Assuming the universe is entirely deterministic, the only chances existing in reality are 0% (won't happen) and 100% (will happen).
As a side note, the identity of a project is the components that make it up and the way they are put together (the overall architecture). Reusing components from another project doesn't turn your project into what the other project is. Even if all components are reused (none written from scratch), the value is in how they're put together.
I understand the privacy issue, and I treasure my online privacy too, but I agree with other Slashdotters...when you're dead you're dead and the secrets you leave behind don't matter much anymore. There's not much use for it there. But if there's a use for the family, perhaps looking for things to hold on to even for momentary comfort, I think that's the right thing to do.
It should be opt-in rather than compulsory or opt-out; if opt-in, it can already be achieved without any change in policy, as people have mentioned: leave access information in your will. Those that don't want their data to remain inaccessible to others are allowed to without having to do anything beyond making it inaccessible while they're living.
> Yet another reason to make your passwords the names of your children!
Yes, yes. Whenever he complains, this is what I tell my son 6o11uM.
Umm, you do know you can change the default password, right?
What scares me are those freaking awful dialog boxes that IE allows. The ones that say "You MUST click okay to use this site!" or "Do you want to set CrappyAds.ru to be your homepage?".
And even if I press no, I *still* get spyware. Why? IE Sucks.
Hey, I have a solution! Firefox can present a dialog box on the first installation that asks, "Do you want to run with better security than Microsoft Internet Explorer?" with only one button labeled "Yes".
One word: convenience. Computers will be granted any rights they want, if we feel that it would be convenient to do so.
Ack, my computer just said it wants the right to terminate me. Fortunately that would be very inconvenient for me.
That way, all software would be considered life-critical, and thus not be so buggy.
By using a range of methodologies, including the construction of multiple protection layers, limiting the player accessibility to the provided player software, and encapsulating the red book audio content, XCP® successfully protects the content from unauthorised copying.
The only "methodology" here is B.S.
M., Rand O. has already filed a suit for copyright infringement.
We should fly in airplanes all the time!
I thought that said "Microsoft acquires spyware company" at which point my coworker responded "Makes sense, they try to integrate everything else".
Well, it does! That way there is only one spyware program that all the spying companies can use. Microsoft could test it well so there aren't any security holes that could be exploited to cause a loss of the one's privacy. Er, wait...
what about all the people insisting on teaching creationism in school as an alternative theory to evolution in biology classes?
Fellowship Baptist Creation Science Fair 2001
I haven't watched TV since late 2000 (4 years). Aside from the content (or lack thereof), I didn't like having to accommodate their schedule. I think the rise of DVDs might also be a factor; I watch a movie or two a month on DVD, where I have full control over when I watch it (though they seem intent on preventing me from skipping the scary FBI warning at the beginning).
...the sun goes down. I must have caused it!
Probably a good idea to read the forums before buying the product.
At first I read this as reading the forums before you release the product. Not a bad idea... er, wait, nevermind.
We'd get a big refrigerator box and I'd have a ball cutting windows and wiriing lights in it.
If this new Korean spin on the Soviet Russia joke is going to take hold, it needs to be used carefully. That means using it sparingly at first, and getting the wording just right:
In Korea, only old people <do/use/are something>.
So in this case, it would be
In Korea, only old people use cold fusion.
or perhaps
In Korea, only old people are pedantic.