Given the fact that most movies cost well over 50 million dollars i can understand they seek sponsoring in some way or the other. It is never a guarantee that a movie will be successfull no matter how much money you throw at it so if some revenue can be made through sponsoring in some way or another that is perfectly fine by me.
Besides, sometimes adverts in movies and product placement can add to the feeling and experience of a movie.
However, sometimes it can be too much. SciFi movies can do without presentday products and company names (think lexus in minority report and such). But stories which take place in the present day or very near future get some "lifelike" experience through brand recognition.
want to travel 25km in the hope of finding a local bank establishment. Try paying for a EUR 20k car that way.
OMFG, to travel 25km to get 20.000 euro's from you bank account.. it should not be possible...
There are ppl who have to travel for DAYS to get just 1 euro equivalent from their accounts.
Americans have to drive several miles to get to the nearest town for banking business as well.. but several need to be read as slightly more then 25km.. more in the range of 100 miles.
I mean, who the fuck are you to demand a bank to open up anything but some ATM's in your neighbourhood. Before the ATM's banks weren't that commonplace in the netherlands as well. Not every village, town or city had their own bank office. They were opening up because as competitive things. ABN and AMRO hadn't a had a presence in every village either. After their merger in the late eighties they became more present because every one of them became a abn-amro presence overnight instead of either Abn or amro. Same with the rabobank. Before they merged the Raffaisenkas and Boerenleenbank weren't present in every settlement either. After the mergers banks were franctically searching to reduce the amount of offices because of the huge overhead costs etc. The ATM's made it possible for them.
Anyway, traveling 25km is not so big a deal. However, for the elderly population it could be inconvenient but not something which can't be overcome easily.
If the data formats are standardized it should not matter what kind of hardware or media is used, the data just migrates from one technical platform to another.
I firmly believe that without this we will lose a significant part of our history. Current history is known because of durable "storage" like paper and fossiles, stone tablets or murals. The materials are all degrading but last longer then something digital.
If we keep on trusting on technology we use right now we would be very lucky if anyone in the near future would be capable of finding anything significant which would be representable of our time. All our information is being recorded in digital format. This includes important things like presidential speeches, signed documents etc.
This society is more and more dependent on electronic information. Alot of information isn't available in printing anymore let alone in a true durable format. If for some reason there will be some major catastrophy any survivors' offspring in the future will know nothing about this age and it's mistakes and would not learn a thing about it.
We had the opportunity to study history because of the durability of it's information. Our information, however, doesn't even last a lifetime.
Ehrm.. Tomothy didn't say anything.. he just posted the story as submitted by TolkiEinstein. Please.. i know ppl here on/. don't RTFA but now they also don't even bother to RTFS(ubmission) anymore....
First of all, it wasn't a bug at all, it was a problem in Windows' URI handler. Mozilla merely redirected unknown uri's to this handler as it was expected. The "bug" the op mentions was a discussion about whether this feature was safe or not.
When it turned out that it wasn't safe, the Mozilla team was very quick to solve it.
Very simple solution by the way, just turn the redirect off... now the user has to explicitly consent with this action instead of automagical launching of apps.
By the way, this feature was a MS one, not Mozilla's idea. Recent bugs in the MS product family are actually the same. Just an exploit of the URI handling of Windows.
Downloaded the thing and read a few pages... he starts almost imediately with a nono regarding websites. Screenshots of websites where to find information complete with arrows to parts of that image... nice.. What if Cisco revamps their website?
459 pages is the page count of this book... at least.. that's what MS Word 2k is telling me.
Gee.. i dunno, perhaps because the parkinspace they tested this out on was layed out with perpendicular spaces instead of parallel, and they wanted to show how it worked with parallel parking space?
In Europe it's pretty difficult to "Buy" politicians since it is very much in the open. Influence through indoctrinating people is however the most succesfull method for this kind of thing.
Rest assured that, since the CSU is considered very conservative, they also do not like the idea of unknown territory. This is probably the biggest reason why they are the only ones voting against it with reasons that are actually pretty easily to waylay.
Add to that the FUD that MS is spreading and you have one very scared politician.
Well, basicly it's not the police to be afraid of. Someone can get your hair of a brush, commit a felony and leave YOUR hair behind to sidetrack the police.. let's see you talk yourself out of that one......
Planting isn't done solely by the police. It can be anyone. Blood, fingerprints etc is much more difficult to plant. DNS samples are abundant and easily to come by. That idiot in the cinema yanking some hair out of your head? Could be a criminal in need of DNS material to plant, that nice whore offering you to give you a blowjob? Could be someone needing DNA for a sexcrime... etc. etc.
I know that you probably think this is farfetched, but in reality these things allready happen. Besides, the DNA tests are not watertight. There is always a possibility that you get a false positive. With the current law enforcement allready relying so much on DNA test this will result in alot of inocent people convicted of a crime they never committed.
For instance, the length of the cable can be much longer (kilometers instead of meters) and it's far more reliable when it comes to actual speeds. Copper does have the disadvantage of signal distortion which is far less a problem with fiber.
The possible uses for such cabling could be far more then just downloading. Webcasts of lectures come to mind and for the students it would be much more fun to be able to collaborate on projects using the network. I doubt that they just used fiber with internet usage in mind.
Several posts allready mentioned the fact that fiber is being used for over a decade now. Why go and dig to put ethernet in the ground when you allready have fiber laying there?
Me thinks it's the other way around.. She is trying to get attention at the expense of Google..
No matter if her family has any trademarks/rights/whatever on the word Googol.
If she would win we could see a whole new kind of lawsuits instead of those frivolous suits about by people suing macdonalds because their food makes you fat etc...
Best way to ensure that these technologies are safe enough for their purpose.
The alternative would be widespread adoption without any real security and a few nutcases having the possibility to break _and_ abuse the tech without anyone having the slightest idea of its insecurity.
mr Ckwop has it right. Remember that these security measures are taken because of 9/11. Do you really think this will thwarth any attempt at hijacking a plane or any other form of terrorism?
A terrorist is by definition more resourceful then your average crook/partisan. They have sophisticated tools and are knowledgable about any technology they want. Either they enroll in some college/unversity to study the subject or find someone with the right knowledge to join their cause.
Most *real* terrorists are very high skilled and intelligent people with enough resources to do just what you say is near to impossible. It is pretty easy to get any kind of legal document without any data filled in as is proven year after year after year. When cracking down on some sort of terrorist cell they still find those kind of documents. It is very easy for some terrorist organisation to get the monetary means to do this.
The fact still stays that it is impossible to identify a terrorist without infiltrating in their organisations and get all the information you need to create a database of suspects. Most terrorists are unknown to the authorities and can do whatever they want without having to rely on illegal means of entering a country. And if they have to rely on those means they will really make sure that their counterfeited documents are near impossible to detect as such.
Illegal immigrants are btw entirely different. Most try to enter a country by other means then a plane just because it is allready too difficult to enter a country that way. Most illegal immigrants enter the country by crossing a border by night, as a stowaway on a boat or by landing form a boat on some remote part of the coast. The few that try to enter by plane are usually caught anyway.
Authorities know that it is not possible to catch terrorists this way. They only want some means to keep track of EVERYONE instead of terrorists. The terorist angle is just used as a smoke screen to make the people meek and willing to accept any kind of privacy invading technology.
Nice options but what about the visual impaired? There are people who are not able to see any colors at all or just colorblind.. they would have a big problem. And no, being colorblind does not mean color a will be substituted by color b. Some colors are displayed the same and not everyone has the same range of colorblindness..
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Given the fact that most movies cost well over 50 million dollars i can understand they seek sponsoring in some way or the other. It is never a guarantee that a movie will be successfull no matter how much money you throw at it so if some revenue can be made through sponsoring in some way or another that is perfectly fine by me.
Besides, sometimes adverts in movies and product placement can add to the feeling and experience of a movie.
However, sometimes it can be too much. SciFi movies can do without presentday products and company names (think lexus in minority report and such). But stories which take place in the present day or very near future get some "lifelike" experience through brand recognition.
want to travel 25km in the hope of finding a local bank establishment. Try paying for a EUR 20k car that way.
OMFG, to travel 25km to get 20.000 euro's from you bank account.. it should not be possible...
There are ppl who have to travel for DAYS to get just 1 euro equivalent from their accounts.
Americans have to drive several miles to get to the nearest town for banking business as well.. but several need to be read as slightly more then 25km.. more in the range of 100 miles.
I mean, who the fuck are you to demand a bank to open up anything but some ATM's in your neighbourhood. Before the ATM's banks weren't that commonplace in the netherlands as well. Not every village, town or city had their own bank office. They were opening up because as competitive things. ABN and AMRO hadn't a had a presence in every village either. After their merger in the late eighties they became more present because every one of them became a abn-amro presence overnight instead of either Abn or amro. Same with the rabobank. Before they merged the Raffaisenkas and Boerenleenbank weren't present in every settlement either. After the mergers banks were franctically searching to reduce the amount of offices because of the huge overhead costs etc. The ATM's made it possible for them.
Anyway, traveling 25km is not so big a deal. However, for the elderly population it could be inconvenient but not something which can't be overcome easily.
If the data formats are standardized it should not matter what kind of hardware or media is used, the data just migrates from one technical platform to another.
I firmly believe that without this we will lose a significant part of our history. Current history is known because of durable "storage" like paper and fossiles, stone tablets or murals. The materials are all degrading but last longer then something digital.
If we keep on trusting on technology we use right now we would be very lucky if anyone in the near future would be capable of finding anything significant which would be representable of our time. All our information is being recorded in digital format. This includes important things like presidential speeches, signed documents etc.
This society is more and more dependent on electronic information. Alot of information isn't available in printing anymore let alone in a true durable format. If for some reason there will be some major catastrophy any survivors' offspring in the future will know nothing about this age and it's mistakes and would not learn a thing about it.
We had the opportunity to study history because of the durability of it's information. Our information, however, doesn't even last a lifetime.
Playing with their dicks while watching pictures of your momma.....
Ehrm.. Tomothy didn't say anything.. he just posted the story as submitted by TolkiEinstein. Please.. i know ppl here on /. don't RTFA but now they also don't even bother to RTFS(ubmission) anymore....
Why is this modded interesting?
First of all, it wasn't a bug at all, it was a problem in Windows' URI handler. Mozilla merely redirected unknown uri's to this handler as it was expected. The "bug" the op mentions was a discussion about whether this feature was safe or not.
When it turned out that it wasn't safe, the Mozilla team was very quick to solve it.
Very simple solution by the way, just turn the redirect off... now the user has to explicitly consent with this action instead of automagical launching of apps.
By the way, this feature was a MS one, not Mozilla's idea. Recent bugs in the MS product family are actually the same. Just an exploit of the URI handling of Windows.
Problem is, how do they develop a new shuttle without the information NASA has acumulated in the past but does not give freely/willingly to outsiders?
If a company would want to build a new shuttle they would have to first go through all the steps necessary to get the right knowledge.
Aside from this, who says the shuttle concept is what we really need?
Downloaded the thing and read a few pages... he starts almost imediately with a nono regarding websites. Screenshots of websites where to find information complete with arrows to parts of that image... nice.. What if Cisco revamps their website?
459 pages is the page count of this book... at least.. that's what MS Word 2k is telling me.
Gee.. i dunno, perhaps because the parkinspace they tested this out on was layed out with perpendicular spaces instead of parallel, and they wanted to show how it worked with parallel parking space?
I don't feel that an extra AU$3000 is worth it for the extra frame rate in games
Get out of here you heathen...........
In Europe it's pretty difficult to "Buy" politicians since it is very much in the open. Influence through indoctrinating people is however the most succesfull method for this kind of thing.
Rest assured that, since the CSU is considered very conservative, they also do not like the idea of unknown territory. This is probably the biggest reason why they are the only ones voting against it with reasons that are actually pretty easily to waylay.
Add to that the FUD that MS is spreading and you have one very scared politician.
Well, basicly it's not the police to be afraid of. Someone can get your hair of a brush, commit a felony and leave YOUR hair behind to sidetrack the police.. let's see you talk yourself out of that one......
Planting isn't done solely by the police. It can be anyone. Blood, fingerprints etc is much more difficult to plant. DNS samples are abundant and easily to come by. That idiot in the cinema yanking some hair out of your head? Could be a criminal in need of DNS material to plant, that nice whore offering you to give you a blowjob? Could be someone needing DNA for a sexcrime... etc. etc.
I know that you probably think this is farfetched, but in reality these things allready happen. Besides, the DNA tests are not watertight. There is always a possibility that you get a false positive. With the current law enforcement allready relying so much on DNA test this will result in alot of inocent people convicted of a crime they never committed.
Fiber beats copper on a couple of points.
For instance, the length of the cable can be much longer (kilometers instead of meters) and it's far more reliable when it comes to actual speeds. Copper does have the disadvantage of signal distortion which is far less a problem with fiber.
The possible uses for such cabling could be far more then just downloading. Webcasts of lectures come to mind and for the students it would be much more fun to be able to collaborate on projects using the network. I doubt that they just used fiber with internet usage in mind.
Several posts allready mentioned the fact that fiber is being used for over a decade now. Why go and dig to put ethernet in the ground when you allready have fiber laying there?
Yeah.. right:
1 Raid on the house in the picture looking for seconsun.
2 Finding Uncle
3 Interrogating Uncle using some torture (hey.. i didn't say it was officials raiding his house... o.. wait.. nvm...)
"Seconsun live half a mile up the road" will probably be very quickly coming out of his mouth...
Me thinks it's the other way around.. She is trying to get attention at the expense of Google..
No matter if her family has any trademarks/rights/whatever on the word Googol.
If she would win we could see a whole new kind of lawsuits instead of those frivolous suits about by people suing macdonalds because their food makes you fat etc...
Best way to ensure that these technologies are safe enough for their purpose.
The alternative would be widespread adoption without any real security and a few nutcases having the possibility to break _and_ abuse the tech without anyone having the slightest idea of its insecurity.
mr Ckwop has it right. Remember that these security measures are taken because of 9/11. Do you really think this will thwarth any attempt at hijacking a plane or any other form of terrorism?
A terrorist is by definition more resourceful then your average crook/partisan. They have sophisticated tools and are knowledgable about any technology they want. Either they enroll in some college/unversity to study the subject or find someone with the right knowledge to join their cause.
Most *real* terrorists are very high skilled and intelligent people with enough resources to do just what you say is near to impossible. It is pretty easy to get any kind of legal document without any data filled in as is proven year after year after year. When cracking down on some sort of terrorist cell they still find those kind of documents. It is very easy for some terrorist organisation to get the monetary means to do this.
The fact still stays that it is impossible to identify a terrorist without infiltrating in their organisations and get all the information you need to create a database of suspects. Most terrorists are unknown to the authorities and can do whatever they want without having to rely on illegal means of entering a country. And if they have to rely on those means they will really make sure that their counterfeited documents are near impossible to detect as such.
Illegal immigrants are btw entirely different. Most try to enter a country by other means then a plane just because it is allready too difficult to enter a country that way. Most illegal immigrants enter the country by crossing a border by night, as a stowaway on a boat or by landing form a boat on some remote part of the coast. The few that try to enter by plane are usually caught anyway.
Authorities know that it is not possible to catch terrorists this way. They only want some means to keep track of EVERYONE instead of terrorists. The terorist angle is just used as a smoke screen to make the people meek and willing to accept any kind of privacy invading technology.
Thanx for the tip.. where can i get my GMAIL Account?
I don't think the OP's comment was placed with europe in mind.... and we're still snickering about the tittygate thingy yes.. :)
The unfortunate thingh is that that is not a punishment which the EU can deal.
Nice options but what about the visual impaired? There are people who are not able to see any colors at all or just colorblind.. they would have a big problem. And no, being colorblind does not mean color a will be substituted by color b. Some colors are displayed the same and not everyone has the same range of colorblindness..
He mentioned webmail.. which would be difficult to read using pine or elm or mutt or outlook or kmail or any other mailclient...
And to think that when you read all those posts you think allmost no windows users take a look at this site...
The general computer-using public as an offspring of us? Ewww....
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So...
I take it that there are no other multimediaplayers in your distro other then XMMS?
I take it that whoever made Linux also made XMMS?
Obviously XMMS is truly embedded in the Linux kernel?
How many distro's you see for windows which do things differently?
How many distro's you see for linux which do things different?
How much profit do the creators of XMMS/Linux make from this combination?
How much profit do they make with their own proprietairy fileformat?