I saw this in October at the Savannah Film Festival...(SCAD). It's one of the places it was first shown. A lot of people thought it was wildly inacurrate and did a bad job of portraying a lot of good people (Torvalds, etc.). You'll really have to see for yourself, but if you don't get sundance, don't think you're missing anything incredible.
Today Boston.com is trying out a new ad scheme called the "Chichacolockney"! This new, media rich ad dominates your screen, then wraps it's tentacles around the sides of your monitor and pulling itself out of cyberspace into reality! It then proceeds to run rampant about your home, screaming advertisements for a company, until you catch it and beat it to death.
According to the inventor of "Ginger," Dean Kamen, his device will be an alternative to products that "are dirty, expensive, sometimes dangerous and often frustrating, especially for people in the cities."
Well, other than dogs and automobiles, the only other thing I can think of is whores! Some kind of rabid electronic robo-whore, perhaps?
It's called a blatant attempt for hits. Anyone on earth can see how quickly this is going down...IRC servers split all the time! IT'S JUST OVERHYPED. Leave it at that...and if you really want some detailed information about it, mail me your questions.
uh, I'm a Latin student (5 years) and I have no idea what the hell he's talking about. Sounds to me like STERCOREM PRO CEREBRO HABET, or something similar...anybody wanna help me out here?
I think I'm going to patent 1's and 0's! That way, no one can ever write computer code again! At least not without paying me. A lot. Microsoft would owe me more money for one program than everything the DOJ can even concieve charging them! I think I would use the extra funds from the patent to buy a really, really nice car (--enter the Lamborghini Cala), then donate the rest to homeless folks like Bill Gates (after Janet Reno is done tearing him a new asshole)!
It seems to me that for all the hell people are catching about breaking into computers, they sure aren't doing a lot once they're in. I mean...if you're going to get blasted no matter what, why not screw some shit up?
YEAH! I DO KNOW THAT! But what I'm getting at here isn't whether or not it's legal, I'm pointing out the fact that these rectum rangers are arguing over a product that costs more than what it's (supposedly) replacing, AND sucks the shit from a dead cat. See?
That HP Jornada (which has a color display as well!) Has been able to do that for a really long time! It also has way better features, like that little IBM 300MB hard drive. The only thing that's so special about the Handspring is that it's way cheaper...I've never used one, are they really shoddy? Either way, it's not like it's some incredible new thing that no one has ever done before. What's the hype for? If I want an MP3 player that works standalone, I'll buy a REAL one, like the Lyra.
Either way (if it does or doesn't happen), whoever tries to make it a reality first is gonna take it in the ass when they go to court (and they will). No country is going to let some corporation within its bounds defy tax laws, at least not without a fight!
I have to agree -- I'm a web designer,(professional) and I find it very hard to pick up jobs unless I can code not only the HTML (and design the graphics), but know quite a bit of java, vbscript, and (as with my current job) know some Oracle programming for the server at work. Companies figure they can't kill two birds with one stone if they hire one person that has the skills of two -- it's just more efficient that way, but creates a real challenge for people who just fancy themselves as artists!
I'm not saying he didn't die!!! His philosophy influenced some of the greatest thinkers this country has produced, including the writers of our constitution, even after his death -- many schools (including my own) utilize his philosophy and way of thinking in papers students are to write and in class debates. (Sorry if I wasn't clear on that...)
I don't think so. Since Locke's philosophy of the social contract was adopted during the writing of the U.S. Constitution, and his philosophy states that people come together and give up some of their rights for the better of the group, if these governments we're talking about aren't doing it for the good of the group, then the people can (in theory) just leave(and form another government elsewhere)! I suppose that's what this book is talking about in regards to a "digital revolution"...of COURSE this is all just theory, today's nations would never willingly allow their land and resources to be ceded to a bunch of free-thinking indivduals who want to start their own country. I guess what I'm meaning to say (through all my rambling) is that if the government is a body of the people for the people (and it goes bad), the people should be able to disperse and regroup as another body with better intentions.
The whole idea behind this isn't to confuse the gigantic english-speaking crowd who uses the internet, it's to help the smaller group of non-english speaking people who have trouble navigating the internet or registering domains that are useful to them.
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With the (average) quality of education so low in america today, the quantity required will certainly rise.
I am wonderign what the usage rights will be on CDs you burn using songs from their service. One copy only?
I saw this in October at the Savannah Film Festival...(SCAD). It's one of the places it was first shown. A lot of people thought it was wildly inacurrate and did a bad job of portraying a lot of good people (Torvalds, etc.). You'll really have to see for yourself, but if you don't get sundance, don't think you're missing anything incredible.
Today Boston.com is trying out a new ad scheme called the "Chichacolockney"! This new, media rich ad dominates your screen, then wraps it's tentacles around the sides of your monitor and pulling itself out of cyberspace into reality! It then proceeds to run rampant about your home, screaming advertisements for a company, until you catch it and beat it to death.
I guess the flinstones figured out how to build stuff underwater.
"where students beam around a virus from Palm to Palm and then figure out how it propagated"
We have this game at our school. It's very similar, but called "STDs"...
It's called a blatant attempt for hits. Anyone on earth can see how quickly this is going down...IRC servers split all the time! IT'S JUST OVERHYPED. Leave it at that...and if you really want some detailed information about it, mail me your questions.
uh, I'm a Latin student (5 years) and I have no idea what the hell he's talking about. Sounds to me like STERCOREM PRO CEREBRO HABET, or something similar...anybody wanna help me out here?
I think I'm going to patent 1's and 0's! That way, no one can ever write computer code again! At least not without paying me. A lot. Microsoft would owe me more money for one program than everything the DOJ can even concieve charging them! I think I would use the extra funds from the patent to buy a really, really nice car (--enter the Lamborghini Cala), then donate the rest to homeless folks like Bill Gates (after Janet Reno is done tearing him a new asshole)!
Of course there is! /. is proof enough for me.
It seems to me that for all the hell people are catching about breaking into computers, they sure aren't doing a lot once they're in. I mean...if you're going to get blasted no matter what, why not screw some shit up?
YEAH! I DO KNOW THAT! But what I'm getting at here isn't whether or not it's legal, I'm pointing out the fact that these rectum rangers are arguing over a product that costs more than what it's (supposedly) replacing, AND sucks the shit from a dead cat. See?
That HP Jornada (which has a color display as well!) Has been able to do that for a really long time! It also has way better features, like that little IBM 300MB hard drive. The only thing that's so special about the Handspring is that it's way cheaper...I've never used one, are they really shoddy? Either way, it's not like it's some incredible new thing that no one has ever done before. What's the hype for? If I want an MP3 player that works standalone, I'll buy a REAL one, like the Lyra.
Either way (if it does or doesn't happen), whoever tries to make it a reality first is gonna take it in the ass when they go to court (and they will). No country is going to let some corporation within its bounds defy tax laws, at least not without a fight!
I have to agree -- I'm a web designer,(professional) and I find it very hard to pick up jobs unless I can code not only the HTML (and design the graphics), but know quite a bit of java, vbscript, and (as with my current job) know some Oracle programming for the server at work. Companies figure they can't kill two birds with one stone if they hire one person that has the skills of two -- it's just more efficient that way, but creates a real challenge for people who just fancy themselves as artists!
I'm not saying he didn't die!!! His philosophy influenced some of the greatest thinkers this country has produced, including the writers of our constitution, even after his death -- many schools (including my own) utilize his philosophy and way of thinking in papers students are to write and in class debates. (Sorry if I wasn't clear on that...)
I don't think so. Since Locke's philosophy of the social contract was adopted during the writing of the U.S. Constitution, and his philosophy states that people come together and give up some of their rights for the better of the group, if these governments we're talking about aren't doing it for the good of the group, then the people can (in theory) just leave(and form another government elsewhere)! I suppose that's what this book is talking about in regards to a "digital revolution"...of COURSE this is all just theory, today's nations would never willingly allow their land and resources to be ceded to a bunch of free-thinking indivduals who want to start their own country. I guess what I'm meaning to say (through all my rambling) is that if the government is a body of the people for the people (and it goes bad), the people should be able to disperse and regroup as another body with better intentions.
The whole idea behind this isn't to confuse the gigantic english-speaking crowd who uses the internet, it's to help the smaller group of non-english speaking people who have trouble navigating the internet or registering domains that are useful to them.