Seems to me this would be a perfect way to implement Optical Character Recognition. No more of this "99% Accuracy" crap. You could even store the font size, color, etc... in these pixels. I wonder if we could somehow take this one step further and make seemingly inert pictures into large pieces of encrypted data. It'd require an enormous number of pixel bits. Theres some old axiom about hiding something in plain sight I wish I could remember.
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Even free has its costs in the end in the form of user training, support, applications etc. so the fact that the OS is "free" really has little bearing on the fully loaded costs of deploying and using a computing platform.
You think Windows doesn't require some training to use? When was the last time you tried to solve a Windows users problem only to be asked, "Whats a write-click?" Apparently you never have. Well I have, and let me tell you, Windows, Linux, and every complex system that is worth interacting with(not just computers) does require training to use. I see no advantage to Windows here, a user brought up using another OS will find it easier to use than Windows(Apple users anyone?). And about deploying a platform, all recent Linux installations I've done have been fully GUI implemented, and several even allow you to play games after you're done giving it the necessary info, instead of bombarding you useless garbage on how great the product you're installing is. Theres also little chance I'll have to reinstall Linux on those boxen too, Linux is not known to suddenly barf and force me to format and Joe Blow user can't kill the OS by deciding to "organize" all his files by placing them in directories such as "dlls" and "exes"; Linux, and almost all OS's other than Windows, will protect him from himself, and when he does this on Windows, does he not require support? A reinstall? a format perhaps? Does he or his company not pay some tech to do this?. Linux is also not known to lose a 50 page report with an infamous BSOD. Your argument that the costs of using [any non-MS OS] are the completely bogus, bullshit I would expect from a High Ranking Microsoft employee.
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CNN's article explains this. Summary(I think I get it): A certain supernova appeared brighter than it would have if the universe were expanding at a constant rate, because the universe is accelerating. This accleration is caused by this dark energy stuff.
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How does an optical telescope such as Hubble detect something that, "that has mass but does not emit nor block light". If its not affecting any light traveling through/around it, it doesn't seem logical that looking at light(no pun intended) would reveal it. Anyone how they're doing this?
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I believe the object of the article was to point out that the site was misleading, not to flame about the company making a profit, being closed source, etc...(This being an Open Source community, there may be a bit of "we give you our work for free and make it for the love of doing it, you should repay the favor." in there). They tell you "We're using your cycles to fight cancer*" then at the bottom in small print, "* 5% of the time". And also, consider that the average Joe thinks we are morally committed to fight cancer, so he's going to be highly disgusted when someone tries to sell it to him for 100,000 times as much as it cost them to mix up a dose, and $0 research costs.
Next time, try thinking before you spew, moron. You might try taking some of your own advice, IMO you jumped to conclusions here.
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The lawyers aren't always the Evil Inside, it may very well be the CEO or Chief Engineer. My dad is a lawyer, and about 5 or 6 years ago he was working a nice government job with good pay. The officials in the city he worked for wanted to create some policy that they weren't allowed to create by law(I don't remember or never heard the details), being their legal advisor, my dad told them such. Their reply? "Make it legal." His response? "I resign." He took a job with half as much pay because he refused to compromise his morals.
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Is it shallow? Maybe. But so what? If it gets you what you want, mission accomplished! It's a means to an end. I promise, you'll not feel shallow the first night you bed a really attractive girl.
Sure, if your only goal is to get laid, but you can't have a meaningful relationship based on lies. If only we could attract more women to this industry.:\
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
The Dialectizer has a much cooler Swedish Chef translator, as well as half a dozen others. For example, the following is translated from CNET's front page:
In hunur ooff Merch medness, ve-a peetted 16 tup cells egeeenst iech oozeer. Hurty flurty schnipp schnipp! Noo ve're-a doon tu fuoor cumpeteeturs. Um gesh dee bork, bork! Check oooot zee loocky soorfeefurs und fute-a fur zee tvu yuoo vunt tu veen. Bork bork bork!
The original text is:
In honor of March madness, we pitted 16 top cells against each other. Now we're down to four competitors. Check out the lucky survivors and vote for the two you want to win.
Classic!:)
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The real HAL might make all kinds of science fiction come true. People could hook into central hypercomputers to run their entire households -- from the coffee pot to the television set, the shower to the garage door -- like something out of "The Jetsons." They could tap into video games that look like a "holodeck" -- a la "Star Trek" -- a 360-degree environment, another place in real time, to play baseball in Yankee Stadium, for instance.
HAL alone can't cause this to happen. Where are all the holographic 3 projectors that allow you to stand within the scenery? How does a finite sized room become a "holodeck" of much larger(potentially infinite) size such as Yankee Stadium? Why would you need to connect to a central computer to control your house? Any PC could do that.
This article is just over dramatizing what is just a neat new computer technology. It may be a breakthrough in speed, but its not going to bring us to a real life Star Trek.
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When I first read about this power line internet connection technology, they were measuring it in exobits(1,000,000,000,000,000,000)(after peta, which is after tera, which is after giga, to put it in perspective), where the average home user could expect about 2.5 gigabits per second. The article I read. What ever happened to that?
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Have you forgotten that Intel had to recall their 1.13 GHz chips a few months back?/. story. I am presently using an 800 MHz Athlon on a Tyan motherboard and haven't had any problems with it. I don't recall the last time AMD had to recall any CPUs.
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Origin was going to be 3-D, correct? Yes. Here are some downloadable video files. Unfortunately, the original trailer for UO2 (later renamed Origin) isn't listed on that page. It was quite well done, corregraphed to music and such, and showed some footage of the movement capture techniques they used for the humanoids, various combat scenerios. I just uploaded this video on some of my webspace,.mov format, 22 megs, worth the download if you have the band. original trailer
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
I sent an extremely scathing email to every address I could track down in relation to the two sites that are spamming me. I got a response which I think is in relation to that flame. I'm relieved, skeptic, and terrified all at once.
A block of the response is below, the reason I'm replying to you is that there is an unsubscribe process different from both of those I have seen(I tried to include the rest and the lameness filter blocked it), perhaps maybe one that can get myself and your step mother out of the evil clutches of grouplotto, and the rest of the email is, well, terrifying. They include their prices and various features of their "service"(guess what you call it depends on which end you're on)
Under Bill s.1618 TITLE III passed by the 105th U.S. Congress this letter is not considered "spam" as long as we include: 1) contact information and, 2) the way to be removed from future mailings (see below).To Remove Yourself From This List: Please email see2meu4@yahoo.com with the email address that you would like removed and the word REMOVE in the subject heading.
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to remove someone from the spamming list when asked.
This would solve a lot of my problems. I've presently being spammed by two companies (EDirectNetwork.net and GroupLotto.com) who refuse to remove me from their spam list. If anyone knows a way I can threaten them with legal action under current laws, I'd love to hear it. I'm about ready to start shoving 70 Mbps down their throats.
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
... and there doesn't seem to be any beating each other up. What I'm seeing are seemingly unarmed remote control robots using tall hexagon(can't tell exactly, something around 8) shaped carts to move balls of various sizes and colors around for points. They're in an approximately 50x25 foot rectangular arena with a seesaw bridge in the center.
if one of the speakers is named, it will continue to place the name next to the correct speaker from that point on.
And it converts speech on TV, so what happens if The Terminator plays on Fox and 2 hour later Predator plays on TBS? Does Arnolds character in Predator get named "Terminator"? And suppose a comedian does a decent impression of Arnold, does The Terminator suddenly appear in the transcript of his comedy routine? One other thing bothers me about this. The software was developed by the CIA right? Why is the CIA interested in knowing what happens on TV and radio? Well duh, they aren't. I'd bet this is going to be used to tap phones and eliminate the cliche of the agents smoking in the dark room above the bad guy's apartment anxiously listening to his phone conversations. (Or do they already have something for that purpose?)
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This is pretty neat. Found the link at the bottom of the main story. This bipedal robot is actually walking, shifting its weight and such. Quite impressive, it's attached to 2 cables but its easy to see they're not holding it up or helping it in any way as both have quite a bit of slack. Neat stuff.
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11. Point all ICBMs at Pluto(lets get rid of nuclear war while we're at it), push The Red Button.
(No, they wouldn't run out of fuel, provided they get out of the atmosphere with suffient speed and correct direction, nothing will be slowing them down in the vacuum)
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Re:I played aorund with cracking PKI
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I was looking for an algorithm to factor large numbers into prime factors without using division.
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I played around with cracking PKI, I figured out a way to get the 3 least significant bits with 100% accuracy, the next 2 were about 75% accurate, and it slowly decreases to about 50% accuracy at about the 10th bit. code and corresponding output file(the log shows all bits > 16 w/ 100% accuracy cause i was using 16 bit numbers) if anyone on slash can carry this to greater accuracy I'd be quite interested. the algorithm is pretty simple, chop off all the leading bits on N where there are leading 0's in K, bitwise xor that result with K, and turn on the 1 bit cause we know its going to be odd. I experimented with 16 bit prime integers, it tends to produce about 11 100% accurate 16bit answers out of every 10,000. i found it interesting anyway...
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
I've always wondered how id came up with spispopd and dqd. Are they just random sequences? If so, why does kfa give Keys and Full Ammo? In Doom2 the clip cheat was replaced with "idclip". Anyone happen to know how dqd and spispopd were chosen? Carmack? I saw you commenting on/. the other day(or an impersonator), perhaps you can shed some light on this. And whats that Quake2 easter egg with the 15(well, long, not sure exactly how long) character acronym in the prison level stand for?
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
Real time turn based games? How is that possible? Theres no turn base in CS in the normal "you make a move, your opponent makes a move, you move again..." sense, its all seemingly simultanious movement by all parties. And from personal experience, I know that if you wait around and do any significant amount of planning you're dead before you can say "Get in position".
IMO it's not so much that turn-based games have declined, its just that the turns now take milliseconds. Obviously, a computer can't calculate the results of all players movements and actions at the same time, its simply done in so little time that you are basically taking 1000/(your ping in milliseconds) turns per second; couple that with some neat tricks in the programming department and you get the illusion that you are engaged in fluid motion.
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"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
Next time, try thinking before you spew, moron.
You might try taking some of your own advice, IMO you jumped to conclusions here.
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
Sure, if your only goal is to get laid, but you can't have a meaningful relationship based on lies. If only we could attract more women to this industry. :\
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
HAL alone can't cause this to happen. Where are all the holographic 3 projectors that allow you to stand within the scenery? How does a finite sized room become a "holodeck" of much larger(potentially infinite) size such as Yankee Stadium? Why would you need to connect to a central computer to control your house? Any PC could do that.
This article is just over dramatizing what is just a neat new computer technology. It may be a breakthrough in speed, but its not going to bring us to a real life Star Trek.
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
Yes. Here are some downloadable video files. Unfortunately, the original trailer for UO2 (later renamed Origin) isn't listed on that page. It was quite well done, corregraphed to music and such, and showed some footage of the movement capture techniques they used for the humanoids, various combat scenerios. I just uploaded this video on some of my webspace,
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
A block of the response is below, the reason I'm replying to you is that there is an unsubscribe process different from both of those I have seen(I tried to include the rest and the lameness filter blocked it), perhaps maybe one that can get myself and your step mother out of the evil clutches of grouplotto, and the rest of the email is, well, terrifying. They include their prices and various features of their "service"(guess what you call it depends on which end you're on)
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
This would solve a lot of my problems. I've presently being spammed by two companies (EDirectNetwork.net and GroupLotto.com) who refuse to remove me from their spam list. If anyone knows a way I can threaten them with legal action under current laws, I'd love to hear it. I'm about ready to start shoving 70 Mbps down their throats.
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
RealPlayer required.r /live.rm
http://realserver.jpl.nasa.gov:8080/ramgen/encode
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
And it converts speech on TV, so what happens if The Terminator plays on Fox and 2 hour later Predator plays on TBS? Does Arnolds character in Predator get named "Terminator"? And suppose a comedian does a decent impression of Arnold, does The Terminator suddenly appear in the transcript of his comedy routine?
One other thing bothers me about this. The software was developed by the CIA right? Why is the CIA interested in knowing what happens on TV and radio? Well duh, they aren't. I'd bet this is going to be used to tap phones and eliminate the cliche of the agents smoking in the dark room above the bad guy's apartment anxiously listening to his phone conversations. (Or do they already have something for that purpose?)
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
(No, they wouldn't run out of fuel, provided they get out of the atmosphere with suffient speed and correct direction, nothing will be slowing them down in the vacuum)
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
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code and corresponding output file (the log shows all bits > 16 w/ 100% accuracy cause i was using 16 bit numbers) if anyone on slash can carry this to greater accuracy I'd be quite interested. the algorithm is pretty simple, chop off all the leading bits on N where there are leading 0's in K, bitwise xor that result with K, and turn on the 1 bit cause we know its going to be odd. I experimented with 16 bit prime integers, it tends to produce about 11 100% accurate 16bit answers out of every 10,000. i found it interesting anyway...
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
IMO it's not so much that turn-based games have declined, its just that the turns now take milliseconds. Obviously, a computer can't calculate the results of all players movements and actions at the same time, its simply done in so little time that you are basically taking 1000/(your ping in milliseconds) turns per second; couple that with some neat tricks in the programming department and you get the illusion that you are engaged in fluid motion.
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"
"// this is the most hacked, evil, bastardized thing I've ever seen. kjb"