The biggest irony is this -- I could scribble a 3 paragraph outline that would save Lucas. It would explain every awful inconsistency/paradox in his universe.
To me, something about Brin's vehemence moves him from "critique for criticism's sake" into "personal beef with Lucas"-land. Or more likely he envies Lucas' success compared to what he considers more legitimate and well-written sci-fi (his own work?).
I wonder if you could get the computer to absolutely demolish your opponents with rushes if you simply have it watch you build a few buildings, set up a super-fast rush attack, repeat, and then just turned it on and watched it go. If you did it fast enough, and the AI's sample size of your behavior small enough, you in theory just watch it pump out Zergling-equivalents after just 3, 4 minutes of "teaching it." Let the AI 0wNz0r your opponent... unless he's doing the same thing. I can sort of see this becoming something of a fad, who can "train" their AI's to be more vicious/effective.
Publication is more than just printing edited and reviewed summaries of research; which publication accepts and publishes your draft plays a big part in the respectability and visibility of your research, and thus the respectability and visibility of your career. While publishing on the web probably will have a great effect on letting anybody who wants to publish low-cost do so, by the very "everyone can do it" nature of it, many researchers, I imagine, will only publish their very best work in currently respected paper journals. Some may not publish on the web at all.
Information Wave will also deploy peer-to-peer clients on the Gnutella network from its security research and development network (honeynet) which will offer files with popular song titles derived from the Billboard Top 100 maintained by VNU eMedia. No copyright violations will take place, these files will merely have arbitrary sizes similar to the length of a 3 to 4 minute MP3 audio file encoded at 128kbps. Clients which connect to our peer-to-peer clients, and then afterwards attempt to illegally access the network will be immediately blacklisted from Information Wave's network. The data collected will be actively maintained and distributed from our network operations site.
How about this part of the article? Honeynetting your ISP with fake mp3s to confound RIAA meddling is way more proactively defiant, IMO, than simply blocking traffic from riaa.org.
The window of usefulness for a device like this, IMO, is bounded by two things:
-the lower boundary being the age where a child can reliably keep this thing on all day without messing with it, taking it off, or letting somebody "borrow" it
-the upper boundary being the age where the child is savvy enough to put a bit of distance between him/herself and the device.
If your child is young and loose enough to warrant a $400 tracking device, perhaps your parenting techniques need to be reconsidered. If your child is older and warrants a tracking device, he/she will soon figure out a way to defeat it, whether by losing it, throwing it away, etc. Older children who do not want to be tracked will find a way not to be tracked. The window of age where this device will be an effective tracking solution is pretty narrow, as I see it.
Not the analogy I would've used
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The airlines like to use majestic bird names like Eagle and Falcon that convey a powerful animal soaring gracefully through the air. Since one of our fundamental missions is to make private jet travel affordable for all travelers, we needed something that most people could relate to.
So, instead of a large bird majestically soaring through the air, the chose a name of a... dumpy, flightless bird that spends most of its time in the water. Hmm...
To the non-linux savvy, the choice of imagery to represent the company is perhaps less than ideal. I mean, how's about starting with a bird that actually flies through the air?
The name goes back to Deep Thought, one of the earlier projects which sought to beat human grandmasters.
Once IBM got on the bandwagon, they named their machine Deep Blue (Big Blue, get it?) as a homage/spoof of the earlier effort.
And now the newer programs are Deep x where x is whatever name you this is partcularly witty. It's sort of a spoof of a spoof at this point, and largely beyond immediate appreciation by the average person. Sorta like how Japanese ships have "maru" in their names.
For more info on the history and nomenclature, look here.
Great idea, actually, might even actually do something to improve professional relationships. I just hope Hallmark doesn't latch onto this like they have Mother and Father's Days... imagine commercials for cheesy cards and flower arrangements and chocolate baskets for SysAdmin Day, managers frantically calling 1-800-FLOWERS to avoid the manufactured faux pas of forgetting the date until the last minute...
It's also about every device that captures JPEG (digicams) and renders JPEG (web browsers) that is big enough for Forgent to demand money from. Personal decisions to move to PNG are fine and dandy and probably will win you some personal satisfaction, but in the greater scheme of things, JPEG is more entrenched in computing than a simple "OK, let's just whip up a script to batch everything over to PNG."
There's an easy way to let you watch the August release without giving yourself more reason for self-hatred: Rent the DVD when it comes out, several times if need be, then buy the November release. Acknowledge your weakness, sate your desires, save yourself from blowing 20 unnecessary bucks.
I just hope the gov't doesn't bend over backwards to bail out WC because of a "no other choice" scenario, thereby letting them more or less Get Away With It.
From the Viridian FAQ: The contests are opportunities for graphic or conceptual creativity. Logos, posters, teapots, lamps, that sort of thing. We do this to amuse ourselves, and to give some coherent form to our ideas. Images and symbols are every bit as important to the Viridian Movement as our constant outflow of rants.
Not to flame them or anything, but you'd think a site that cares as much about design as they claim would have, well, a better design themselves.
"They are every fly-by-night artist that ever wanted to place a tiny little ad in the newspaper and get away with it," Frederick said. "I have yet to see one legitimate product advertised in an e-mail that I didn't ask for."
Never thought about it before until now, but I don't recall ever having ever seen one either...
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That would require the Xbox having a video-in port of some kind, which IIRC, it does not have.
Funny thing is, this sorta looks like just another notch in TNN's "let's rebroadcast shows which were really popular in the early/mid 90's" belt, viz. ST: TNG, Miami Vice, etc.
There is a reputed Blade Runner Curse, referring to a number of brands given prominent display in Blade Runner which fell victim to hard financial times during the 80's, with the exception of Coca-Cola. Brands such as Atari and Pan Am, which were featured quite prominently in ads on the sides of buildings lost a tremendous amount business, to the point of collapse (although I was shocked last week to see the Atari brand on my NWN box). It wouldn't surprise me, then, to see a number of companies shown in Minority Report to collapse before 2054, even currently viable corporate behemoths. I would like to think that their inclusion in a speculative illustration of dystopian coporate intrusion would be the "real reason" they collapsed, and that PKD somehow had a part in it, laughing at the irony of it all.
I saw the trailer last night waiting for "Minority Report" to start. To call this a trailer is a bit of an overstatement, it's just a slow pull-out shot starting from some oddly mixing waves(?) on the surface of a star/planet going all the way out until a rotating spacecraft (reminiscent of the space station in 2001) comes into frame. Then it informs you that George Clooney stars. That's it. Not very informative at all.
This may seem like a dumb question in retrospect, but the CGI was not the best I had ever seen, which leads me to this query: is this an animated film of some sort? I haven't seen any information on any of the usual sites I read about this movie.
My question to NATO is: Why are any of the feeds not secure to begin with? Shouldn't all they have implemented all secure transmissions from the get-go?
I really don't care if they listen in on all my phone calls. For that matter, I don't care if the entire world listens in on all my phone calls.
I can't remember when I last used a phone, but it certainly wasn't any time recently.
Then your blithe attitude is justified in this case, but for the rest of us who use our phones quite often in both our personal and professional lives we don't have the luxury of writing off the concern as a non-issue. Given Verisign's current issues with business ethics over something as non-national-security-related as domain renewal, it is cause for at least a little concern that their restraint would be equally faulty with this venture.
That means we shouldn't leave our under aged offspring to roam around freely in places where they could be exposed.
At my local library, the computer terminals are placed immediately next to the entrance and reference desk, a giant clump of computers arranged in rows, the first of which faces the entrance. Who has failed to be responsible if I bring a child to the library he sees pornography while simply walking into the library?
I think the last 3 or so games, in addition to Carmack's personal policies as evidenced in his.plans and emails, have illustrated that Id's slant towards technology rather than storyline is here to stay. No big deal, so long the games based on Id engines are of sufficient quality (see JK2, Half-Life, etc.). This isn't necessarily a bad thing: id keeps pushing the tools and tech part, others will take their tech and make great games out of them. I have little doubt that the Doom III technology will result in an awesome single player game with fantastic storyline, NPC interaction and scripted events; I'm not sure that Doom III itself will be that game.
Of all the 8 and 9 year olds who will be able to see the series as a whole at nearly the same time, without having to accrue 20 years of cynicism, rose-colored retrospection and inflated expectations between viewing the older and newer trilogies. My feelings regarding the movies have been tempered and altered so severely by time that to expect "as good or better than ESB" (a common refrain in fandom) is simply ridiculous, due to the one thing Lucas cannot possibly do: make me an 9-year old again.
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The biggest irony is this -- I could scribble a 3 paragraph outline that would save Lucas. It would explain every awful inconsistency/paradox in his universe.
To me, something about Brin's vehemence moves him from "critique for criticism's sake" into "personal beef with Lucas"-land. Or more likely he envies Lucas' success compared to what he considers more legitimate and well-written sci-fi (his own work?).
I wonder if you could get the computer to absolutely demolish your opponents with rushes if you simply have it watch you build a few buildings, set up a super-fast rush attack, repeat, and then just turned it on and watched it go. If you did it fast enough, and the AI's sample size of your behavior small enough, you in theory just watch it pump out Zergling-equivalents after just 3, 4 minutes of "teaching it." Let the AI 0wNz0r your opponent... unless he's doing the same thing. I can sort of see this becoming something of a fad, who can "train" their AI's to be more vicious/effective.
Publication is more than just printing edited and reviewed summaries of research; which publication accepts and publishes your draft plays a big part in the respectability and visibility of your research, and thus the respectability and visibility of your career. While publishing on the web probably will have a great effect on letting anybody who wants to publish low-cost do so, by the very "everyone can do it" nature of it, many researchers, I imagine, will only publish their very best work in currently respected paper journals. Some may not publish on the web at all.
Add this to your list of College Experiences to Remember:
"Dude, your floor smells horrible."
"Yeah, I know. Nobody can do their laundry."
"Why not?"
"Some bastard hacked the laundry server. Again."
"Damn, that's m4d l33t, d00d."
Information Wave will also deploy peer-to-peer clients on the Gnutella network from its security research and development network (honeynet) which will offer files with popular song titles derived from the Billboard Top 100 maintained by VNU eMedia. No copyright violations will take place, these files will merely have arbitrary sizes similar to the length of a 3 to 4 minute MP3 audio file encoded at 128kbps. Clients which connect to our peer-to-peer clients, and then afterwards attempt to illegally access the network will be immediately blacklisted from Information Wave's network. The data collected will be actively maintained and distributed from our network operations site.
How about this part of the article? Honeynetting your ISP with fake mp3s to confound RIAA meddling is way more proactively defiant, IMO, than simply blocking traffic from riaa.org.
The window of usefulness for a device like this, IMO, is bounded by two things:
-the lower boundary being the age where a child can reliably keep this thing on all day without messing with it, taking it off, or letting somebody "borrow" it
-the upper boundary being the age where the child is savvy enough to put a bit of distance between him/herself and the device.
If your child is young and loose enough to warrant a $400 tracking device, perhaps your parenting techniques need to be reconsidered. If your child is older and warrants a tracking device, he/she will soon figure out a way to defeat it, whether by losing it, throwing it away, etc. Older children who do not want to be tracked will find a way not to be tracked. The window of age where this device will be an effective tracking solution is pretty narrow, as I see it.
The airlines like to use majestic bird names like Eagle and Falcon that convey a powerful animal soaring gracefully through the air. Since one of our fundamental missions is to make private jet travel affordable for all travelers, we needed something that most people could relate to.
So, instead of a large bird majestically soaring through the air, the chose a name of a... dumpy, flightless bird that spends most of its time in the water. Hmm...
To the non-linux savvy, the choice of imagery to represent the company is perhaps less than ideal. I mean, how's about starting with a bird that actually flies through the air?
The name goes back to Deep Thought, one of the earlier projects which sought to beat human grandmasters.
Once IBM got on the bandwagon, they named their machine Deep Blue (Big Blue, get it?) as a homage/spoof of the earlier effort.
And now the newer programs are Deep x where x is whatever name you this is partcularly witty. It's sort of a spoof of a spoof at this point, and largely beyond immediate appreciation by the average person. Sorta like how Japanese ships have "maru" in their names.
For more info on the history and nomenclature, look here.
Great idea, actually, might even actually do something to improve professional relationships. I just hope Hallmark doesn't latch onto this like they have Mother and Father's Days... imagine commercials for cheesy cards and flower arrangements and chocolate baskets for SysAdmin Day, managers frantically calling 1-800-FLOWERS to avoid the manufactured faux pas of forgetting the date until the last minute...
It's also about every device that captures JPEG (digicams) and renders JPEG (web browsers) that is big enough for Forgent to demand money from. Personal decisions to move to PNG are fine and dandy and probably will win you some personal satisfaction, but in the greater scheme of things, JPEG is more entrenched in computing than a simple "OK, let's just whip up a script to batch everything over to PNG."
There's an easy way to let you watch the August release without giving yourself more reason for self-hatred: Rent the DVD when it comes out, several times if need be, then buy the November release. Acknowledge your weakness, sate your desires, save yourself from blowing 20 unnecessary bucks.
I just hope the gov't doesn't bend over backwards to bail out WC because of a "no other choice" scenario, thereby letting them more or less Get Away With It.
From the Viridian FAQ: The contests are opportunities for graphic or conceptual creativity. Logos, posters, teapots, lamps, that sort of thing. We do this to amuse ourselves, and to give some coherent form to our ideas. Images and symbols are every bit as important to the Viridian Movement as our constant outflow of rants.
Not to flame them or anything, but you'd think a site that cares as much about design as they claim would have, well, a better design themselves.
From the article:
"They are every fly-by-night artist that ever wanted to place a tiny little ad in the newspaper and get away with it," Frederick said. "I have yet to see one legitimate product advertised in an e-mail that I didn't ask for."
Never thought about it before until now, but I don't recall ever having ever seen one either...
That would require the Xbox having a video-in port of some kind, which IIRC, it does not have.
Viacom also owns TNN, which describes itself as "part of the MTV Networks family".
Funny thing is, this sorta looks like just another notch in TNN's "let's rebroadcast shows which were really popular in the early/mid 90's" belt, viz. ST: TNG, Miami Vice, etc.
There is a reputed Blade Runner Curse, referring to a number of brands given prominent display in Blade Runner which fell victim to hard financial times during the 80's, with the exception of Coca-Cola. Brands such as Atari and Pan Am, which were featured quite prominently in ads on the sides of buildings lost a tremendous amount business, to the point of collapse (although I was shocked last week to see the Atari brand on my NWN box). It wouldn't surprise me, then, to see a number of companies shown in Minority Report to collapse before 2054, even currently viable corporate behemoths. I would like to think that their inclusion in a speculative illustration of dystopian coporate intrusion would be the "real reason" they collapsed, and that PKD somehow had a part in it, laughing at the irony of it all.
...have the mods create a uname/pw combination included in each relevant linked story and let the general /. population use those?
I saw the trailer last night waiting for "Minority Report" to start. To call this a trailer is a bit of an overstatement, it's just a slow pull-out shot starting from some oddly mixing waves(?) on the surface of a star/planet going all the way out until a rotating spacecraft (reminiscent of the space station in 2001) comes into frame. Then it informs you that George Clooney stars. That's it. Not very informative at all.
This may seem like a dumb question in retrospect, but the CGI was not the best I had ever seen, which leads me to this query: is this an animated film of some sort? I haven't seen any information on any of the usual sites I read about this movie.
My question to NATO is: Why are any of the feeds not secure to begin with? Shouldn't all they have implemented all secure transmissions from the get-go?
I really don't care if they listen in on all my phone calls. For that matter, I don't care if the entire world listens in on all my phone calls.
I can't remember when I last used a phone, but it certainly wasn't any time recently.
Then your blithe attitude is justified in this case, but for the rest of us who use our phones quite often in both our personal and professional lives we don't have the luxury of writing off the concern as a non-issue. Given Verisign's current issues with business ethics over something as non-national-security-related as domain renewal, it is cause for at least a little concern that their restraint would be equally faulty with this venture.
That means we shouldn't leave our under aged offspring to roam around freely in places where they could be exposed.
At my local library, the computer terminals are placed immediately next to the entrance and reference desk, a giant clump of computers arranged in rows, the first of which faces the entrance. Who has failed to be responsible if I bring a child to the library he sees pornography while simply walking into the library?
I think the last 3 or so games, in addition to Carmack's personal policies as evidenced in his .plans and emails, have illustrated that Id's slant towards technology rather than storyline is here to stay. No big deal, so long the games based on Id engines are of sufficient quality (see JK2, Half-Life, etc.). This isn't necessarily a bad thing: id keeps pushing the tools and tech part, others will take their tech and make great games out of them. I have little doubt that the Doom III technology will result in an awesome single player game with fantastic storyline, NPC interaction and scripted events; I'm not sure that Doom III itself will be that game.
Of all the 8 and 9 year olds who will be able to see the series as a whole at nearly the same time, without having to accrue 20 years of cynicism, rose-colored retrospection and inflated expectations between viewing the older and newer trilogies. My feelings regarding the movies have been tempered and altered so severely by time that to expect "as good or better than ESB" (a common refrain in fandom) is simply ridiculous, due to the one thing Lucas cannot possibly do: make me an 9-year old again.
I guess those who complain about all new music sounding the same will have a field day with this...