if an astroturfing blogger adds his strike-anywhere of a playlist to the towering inferno of publicity promoting britney du jour, there won't be any difference. plus, who would subscribe the playlist of someone pandering the same pop as the radio? other than he who harbors a crush on said panderer and gazes at her from across the crowded studyhall. and that yeg's already napstered britney's album.
there's not enough money to be made by selling 100 copies of eclectic-musician that a playlist might generate.
of course, I could be wrong and they may find incentive
for the last little while, I've been noticing that my compaq R3000 AMD64 WinXP SP2 laptop has been running with the fan at full tilt almost all of the time. I normally run plugged into power with music playing so I didn't think much about it, other than noting it being weird.
right now the fan is running at full tilt. and has been for hours. even when the system is 99% idle. the ambient temp is about 70F. the computer is cool to the touch everywhere.
I unplugged my ipod shuffle.
the fan went into halfspeed mode about 5 seconds later. it's about 2 minutes later and it still hasn't stepped down to lowspeed fan. but even this is an improvement.
I ask them to make me something. something creative, something they feel they do with a professional or near professional level of skill. that's what I'm providing.
I've gotten paintings, dinners, serenades, lessons and all sorts of things I value more than the $50 per hour I could have extracted. plus, you can ask family and friends to give you those sorts of things. most of them will enjoy making them.
they're right - if anybody could properly exploit this technology, it would be burningman people. much better than the high-tech iteration of the guy who stands on the street corner waving a big arrow pointing toward the pizza joint or the apartments for rent.
if they sell them as individual units that you can affix to fabric, I'd buy a bunch and make a shirt covered with them. with cameras in every haphazard direction.
two things I would not do is use it to display pacman. nor would I make my outfit a star trek tng get up.
my husband amassed a multi million dollar fortune rolling out pc based cellular telephone service in nigeria. but a regime change has left me stranded and my husband incarcerated. using this new "telephone service", I called "information" in your area to find YOU and beg for your help. I need to escape nigeria with my husband's fortune. if you help me, I will gladly share half my fortune and my daugher with you! all I need is your "telephone number" and I will be able to escape this country with our money and daughter.
actaully, that would have been a gauntlet 2 quote. in gauntlet, each joystick was locked to one character and each character was locked to its own color. red warrior, blue valkyrie, green elf, yellow wizard and purple horseshoes. so the booming voice in gauntlet said:
Elf needs food BADLY
whereas in gauntlet 2, each joystick could be any character you wanted to be. you could have 4 elves if you wanted to. hence the distinction:
my company sells computers that controll security systems. I specified abit motherboards because they were allegedly really stable. I have a BH6 at home that's been solid for 4? years of 24/7 use.
my company got seriously hosed when these computers started dying. I feel like someone should be responsible for my company's loss. whether that's abit or their supplier or whoever.
does anybody have any leads on where to go or what to do?
it just now occurred to me to write to Ed Foster of Infoworld and see if he can publicize the problem and convince somebody to step up.
If everyone who got hosed writes to him, he's more likely to take up our cause.
>> If you tilted it, it hung. I gave up after a dozen reboots.
>... would be followed by the now ubiquitous and much-cliche'd "well, it's Windoze, by M$. what did you expected?? HAHAHA, OMFG!!! LInux ROXORZ" comment.
> I was going to say something about him getting a mislabeled Etch-A-Sketch.
In Soviet Russia, Etch-A-Sketches tilt and hang you
did the paper mention the novel Virus by graham watkins?
very similar scenario about a super computer virus taking over the world. the book was written before there was a popular internet to take over. so the virus tried to take over the world.
it was a fun little read and is very evocative of this sort of thing.
I have a canon s40 which is a pretty decent digital camera.
my only really big complaint about it is depth of field. except in extreme scenarios, EVERYTHING is going to be in focus with that camera. depth of field is one of the most important tools of photography to emphasize what you want to emphasize in the picture.
because the CCD is so much smaller than 35mm film, the lens is shorter. to accomodate the shorter lens and smaller sensor, the aperature is smaller than 35mm equivilent.
the 3 big ingredients to controlling depth of field are aperature, lens length and distance.
with todays smaller than 35mm digital cameras, the aperature is significantly smaller than 35mm equivilent (greater DOF) the lens length is significantly shorter than 35mm equivilent (greater DOF) so all you have is distance...
if you focus on something 2 feet away, maybe something across the street will be somewhat out of focus.
with a 35mm camera (digital or film), you can focus on something 2 feet away and then you, the photographer, can choose whether you want the thing across the street to be almost perfectly in focus or so out of focus that you can't even distinguish whether it's a tree or if it's a building.
So it looks to me like the trojan must not only detect structure or semantics reliably, it must also limit detection to a very small block of code
if I had to think of one task that a compiler would be good at doing in a small block of code (by resuing function already part of the source code of the compiler), that would probably be it.
I mean, if you were trying to build this same kind of back door into a video game, you'd have to write a language and semantics analyzer to recognize all the semantics and language structure. but hey, for this compiler backdoor project, we've already got a handy engine for just that task.
I'd like elcomsoft to win and the dmca to be smitten as much as the next guy, but...
On what grounds does elcomsoft qualify for consitutional rights? I mean, it's not a US citizen or a US corporation.
Now, I guess it's weird to think about trying a foreign entity under US laws in the first place. And even weirder to try someone under US laws without US contitutional rights applying, but I thought the constitutional rights that are granted are granted to US citizens (and now corporations), not to the world at large.
If I recall correctly, the XBox project was not started from scratch in redmond.
Some company started "Project X" which was to make a DVD player chipset with the built in ability to play video games... at about the same price as any other DVD player chipset.
Their business model was to license the chipset to all the big dvd player consumer electronics folks. I don't even remember if they had any interest in the selling/licensing of games.
They signed up several huge clients for their DVD/game chipset (matsushita and a couple others of similar stature).
That company was founded by Nolan Bushnell (of atari etc fame).
Then they sold to microsoft who changed everything and made it into the XBox.
Yesterday morning, our CEO sent email to everyone saying that one of our largest clients had been hit with the virus and we should all be extra super careful about what attachments we open.
Not more than an hour later, he contracted the virus himself.
He was the only one in the company to be infected.
CEOs rock.
How could Daley steal the election if Nixon wouldn't have won even if he carried llinois?
The ;El ectoral College was almost 100 points apart despite the close popular vote.
Not only that, but do you think that the Republicans in southern illinois were sitting idly by while Daley "stole" the state for Kennedy? There was about as much fraud down there as in chicago with Daley.
I just hope that no major elections ever hang on Illinois' electoral votes like this one hangs on Florida's. Illinois is the most buyable state in the union.
Not everyone learns the same way and not everyone gets the same things out of school.
I didn't skip very many classes either. But I rarely took comprehensive notes. I got a lot more out of classes by paying more attention to the gist of the lecture than diverting my attention into writing down highlights.
I enjoyed the lectures more and I learned more. Perhaps I could have scored higher on tests by ferretting out lecture highlights and paying more dogmatic attention. But I chose to enjoy learning as well as try to assimilate the knowledge into my personality rather than just fair well academically.
Back in high school, when studying for a test, I found it very useful to read through a classmate's notes in addition to my own. Reading someone else's perspective on the lecture often gave me insight into what the teacher was saying that I wouldn't have gotten from my perspective alone.
So I don't think that the answer is in restricting the dissemination of lecture notes.
I think the best solution is to have the university itself sell and profit from the lecture notes. Maybe tuition could be lowered a little.
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the corporate "playlists" are the radio and mtv.
if an astroturfing blogger adds his strike-anywhere of a playlist to the towering inferno of publicity promoting britney du jour, there won't be any difference. plus, who would subscribe the playlist of someone pandering the same pop as the radio? other than he who harbors a crush on said panderer and gazes at her from across the crowded studyhall. and that yeg's already napstered britney's album.
there's not enough money to be made by selling 100 copies of eclectic-musician that a playlist might generate.
of course, I could be wrong and they may find incentive
for the last little while, I've been noticing that my compaq R3000 AMD64 WinXP SP2 laptop has been running with the fan at full tilt almost all of the time.
I normally run plugged into power with music playing so I didn't think much about it, other than noting it being weird.
right now the fan is running at full tilt. and has been for hours. even when the system is 99% idle. the ambient temp is about 70F. the computer is cool to the touch everywhere.
I unplugged my ipod shuffle.
the fan went into halfspeed mode about 5 seconds later.
it's about 2 minutes later and it still hasn't stepped down to lowspeed fan. but even this is an improvement.
I ask them to make me something.
something creative, something they feel they do with a professional or near professional level of skill. that's what I'm providing.
I've gotten paintings, dinners, serenades, lessons and all sorts of things I value more than the $50 per hour I could have extracted.
plus, you can ask family and friends to give you those sorts of things. most of them will enjoy making them.
they're right - if anybody could properly exploit this technology, it would be burning man people. much better than the high-tech iteration of the guy who stands on the street corner waving a big arrow pointing toward the pizza joint or the apartments for rent.
if they sell them as individual units that you can affix to fabric, I'd buy a bunch and make a shirt covered with them. with cameras in every haphazard direction.
two things I would not do is use it to display pacman. nor would I make my outfit a star trek tng get up.
special like the olympics?
my husband amassed a multi million dollar fortune rolling out pc based cellular telephone service in nigeria. but a regime change has left me stranded and my husband incarcerated.
using this new "telephone service", I called "information" in your area to find YOU and beg for your help.
I need to escape nigeria with my husband's fortune. if you help me, I will gladly share half my fortune and my daugher with you! all I need is your "telephone number" and I will be able to escape this country with our money and daughter.
I hear she's very good.
and damn that rosa parks for knowingly breaking the law.
actaully, that would have been a gauntlet 2 quote. in gauntlet, each joystick was locked to one character and each character was locked to its own color. red warrior, blue valkyrie, green elf, yellow wizard and purple horseshoes. so the booming voice in gauntlet said:
Elf needs food BADLY
whereas in gauntlet 2, each joystick could be any character you wanted to be. you could have 4 elves if you wanted to. hence the distinction:
Blue Elf needs food BADLY
don't you mean Operation Iraqi Liberation?
I posted a newsgroup question about a year ago. nobody had any answers.
my company sells computers that controll security systems. I specified abit motherboards because they were allegedly really stable. I have a BH6 at home that's been solid for 4? years of 24/7 use.
my company got seriously hosed when these computers started dying. I feel like someone should be responsible for my company's loss. whether that's abit or their supplier or whoever.
does anybody have any leads on where to go or what to do?
it just now occurred to me to write to Ed Foster of Infoworld and see if he can publicize the problem and convince somebody to step up.
If everyone who got hosed writes to him, he's more likely to take up our cause.
any other suggestions? thanks
>> If you tilted it, it hung. I gave up after a dozen reboots.
... would be followed by the now ubiquitous and much-cliche'd "well, it's Windoze, by M$. what did you expected?? HAHAHA, OMFG!!! LInux ROXORZ" comment.
>
> I was going to say something about him getting a mislabeled Etch-A-Sketch.
In Soviet Russia, Etch-A-Sketches tilt and hang you
nope. used to though. I stopped working there in about 1998ish
nice.
blue falcon networks has been doing this for quite a while.
their technology is already in such distribution systems as Virgin's internet radio broadcast
they do live re-multicast as well as on-demand.
they rock the casbah.
that's no boondoogle... it's a space station
did the paper mention the novel Virus by graham watkins?
very similar scenario about a super computer virus taking over the world. the book was written before there was a popular internet to take over. so the virus tried to take over the world.
it was a fun little read and is very evocative of this sort of thing.
It's no wonder the bandwidth and latency of shipping DVDs is higher than the internet.
It's simpler to make a lower bits per packet protocol (like rs232 or SSA) than a higher bits per packet (uwSCSI).
you just make up for lower frequency with bigger packets.
the internet is an 8 data bit protocol compared to the (4.7GB * 8) data bit protocol of mailing DVDs.
I have a canon s40 which is a pretty decent digital camera.
my only really big complaint about it is depth of field. except in extreme scenarios, EVERYTHING is going to be in focus with that camera. depth of field is one of the most important tools of photography to emphasize what you want to emphasize in the picture.
because the CCD is so much smaller than 35mm film, the lens is shorter. to accomodate the shorter lens and smaller sensor, the aperature is smaller than 35mm equivilent.
the 3 big ingredients to controlling depth of field are aperature, lens length and distance.
with todays smaller than 35mm digital cameras, the aperature is significantly smaller than 35mm equivilent (greater DOF)
the lens length is significantly shorter than 35mm equivilent (greater DOF)
so all you have is distance...
if you focus on something 2 feet away, maybe something across the street will be somewhat out of focus.
with a 35mm camera (digital or film), you can focus on something 2 feet away and then you, the photographer, can choose whether you want the thing across the street to be almost perfectly in focus or so out of focus that you can't even distinguish whether it's a tree or if it's a building.
this kicks a lot of ass.
So it looks to me like the trojan must not only detect structure or semantics reliably, it must also limit detection to a very small block of code
if I had to think of one task that a compiler would be good at doing in a small block of code (by resuing function already part of the source code of the compiler), that would probably be it.
I mean, if you were trying to build this same kind of back door into a video game, you'd have to write a language and semantics analyzer to recognize all the semantics and language structure. but hey, for this compiler backdoor project, we've already got a handy engine for just that task.
when nvidia entered the market, 3dfx appeared to have it pretty sewn up.
when mci entered the market, at&t REALLY had it all sewn up.
when pepsi entered the market, coke appeared to have it pretty sewn up...
if everyone assumes that the leader has it pretty sewn up, we'll end up with monopolies in all markets.
I'd like elcomsoft to win and the dmca to be smitten as much as the next guy, but...
On what grounds does elcomsoft qualify for consitutional rights? I mean, it's not a US citizen or a US corporation.
Now, I guess it's weird to think about trying a foreign entity under US laws in the first place. And even weirder to try someone under US laws without US contitutional rights applying, but I thought the constitutional rights that are granted are granted to US citizens (and now corporations), not to the world at large.
If I recall correctly, the XBox project was not started from scratch in redmond.
Some company started "Project X" which was to make a DVD player chipset with the built in ability to play video games... at about the same price as any other DVD player chipset.
Their business model was to license the chipset to all the big dvd player consumer electronics folks. I don't even remember if they had any interest in the selling/licensing of games.
They signed up several huge clients for their DVD/game chipset (matsushita and a couple others of similar stature).
That company was founded by Nolan Bushnell (of atari etc fame).
Then they sold to microsoft who changed everything and made it into the XBox.
I also work for a technology company.
Yesterday morning, our CEO sent email to everyone saying that one of our largest clients had been hit with the virus and we should all be extra super careful about what attachments we open.
Not more than an hour later, he contracted the virus himself.
He was the only one in the company to be infected.
CEOs rock.
Pat hijacked the reformed party nomination to get the millions of dollars of federal campaign matching dollars.
The reform party is ross perot and jesse ventura (and their friends and constituents).
The ;El ectoral College was almost 100 points apart despite the close popular vote.
Not only that, but do you think that the Republicans in southern illinois were sitting idly by while Daley "stole" the state for Kennedy? There was about as much fraud down there as in chicago with Daley.
I just hope that no major elections ever hang on Illinois' electoral votes like this one hangs on Florida's. Illinois is the most buyable state in the union.
I didn't skip very many classes either. But I rarely took comprehensive notes. I got a lot more out of classes by paying more attention to the gist of the lecture than diverting my attention into writing down highlights.
I enjoyed the lectures more and I learned more. Perhaps I could have scored higher on tests by ferretting out lecture highlights and paying more dogmatic attention. But I chose to enjoy learning as well as try to assimilate the knowledge into my personality rather than just fair well academically.
Back in high school, when studying for a test, I found it very useful to read through a classmate's notes in addition to my own. Reading someone else's perspective on the lecture often gave me insight into what the teacher was saying that I wouldn't have gotten from my perspective alone.
So I don't think that the answer is in restricting the dissemination of lecture notes.
I think the best solution is to have the university itself sell and profit from the lecture notes. Maybe tuition could be lowered a little.