The most intersting thing to me about these screenshots is that they have Cleartype running. I was noticing how all the text seemed to look really funny like it had colored borders. Magnifying a section of the screenshot (with photoshop) shows the same thing that I saw when I was looking at the Cleartype samples posted on/. a while ago
Hopefully microsoft doesn't enable this for CRTs or it will cause a lot of eyestrain!
It'll be interesting if they try to recreate stephenson's ideas for the metaverse. No one so far has put a (in my opinion) good virtual world into a film. Maybe with Stephenson's guidance, they could.
Anyone know of some exceptionally good metaverse type worlds in film?
Apple has asked rumors sites to stop posting certain "leaked" information that turned out to not be a product. Before the iMac was released, rumors abounded of an apple internet appliance/network computer with no monitor.
Even though it turned out that apple was working on the iMac instead, Apple Legal still asked rumors sites to remove material about the "network appliance" that didn't exist.
Apple's not stupid, they understand they have to treat all rumors equally or people will catch on.
As far as I know, most gnutella clients will download scripts and code from other machines. In fact, if I wanted to get a certain script to lots of other machines. I'd just write a client that returned a positive result for every request. I'd send out the same script with the names "britney.vbs" "lolita.vbs" "preteen.vbs" and "xxx.vbs" to anyone's search.
No Slashdot reader will download these but the average Napster user would.
Sure, this same thing could be done with a rogue Napster client, but you'd have to have a fixed set of "songs" that would generate a match. With gnutella, any search is fair game.
If you actually remember what happened in the Offspring situation, napster sent a cease and decist letter, essentially staking its claim on the Napster trademark, and followed it up with an offer to work with the Offspring to sell legitimate shirts and donate the profits to charity. Napsters trademark was duly protected and the t-shirts remained available.
If you can think of a better way they would have resolved that situation, please respond
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Hopefully microsoft doesn't enable this for CRTs or it will cause a lot of eyestrain!
Anyone know of some exceptionally good metaverse type worlds in film?
Even though it turned out that apple was working on the iMac instead, Apple Legal still asked rumors sites to remove material about the "network appliance" that didn't exist.
Apple's not stupid, they understand they have to treat all rumors equally or people will catch on.
No Slashdot reader will download these but the average Napster user would.
Sure, this same thing could be done with a rogue Napster client, but you'd have to have a fixed set of "songs" that would generate a match. With gnutella, any search is fair game.
If you can think of a better way they would have resolved that situation, please respond