I've come up with a concept that I will be patenting soon, and I think it's going to revolutionize web advertising. I call it the "pop-under-over" ad. It pops under, THEN moves up to the top!
I'm also looking at further designs based on this system such as "pop-under-over-under", but I'm not sure that these will actually work since the concept and implementation of such a system is so complex.
from smcv: >No, they're opposites. >dictionary.com says: >ridden Pronunciation Key (rdn) >... >adj. >Dominated, harassed, or obsessed by. Often used in combination: disease-ridden; grief-ridden. Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
from Z4rd0Z: >Isn't your own statement a little "repetively redundant" as well, or are you just trying to be ironic?
Isn't that just a little repetitively redundant? (Taken in the original context of course...)
In fact it's basically possible to get instant loads - it only depends on how creative you get.
Just like the bandwidth vs latency issue in network connections, all we need to do is add more data paths.
Can't spin the disc at 100x? Well, spin it at 50X and use 2 lasers (I know the first 50x drives did something like this, they were just REALLY buggy at the time). Can't spin at 200X? Use 4 lasers. Can't fit any more lasers in? Take a picture!
I'm really amazed that we don't have these already actually - we'll need em sooner or later, unless we change to all solid state electronics...
>I like that it's dishwasher safe. Drunk people >can't be trusted to hand wash glass. Bartenders don't (usually) get drunk.
Considering that this really doesn't have use in the home. I mean, what good would knowing I need a new beer be if I have to go get another anyway? I guess if had a butler it would work out, but I can't really afford one since I've been spending all my money on beer lately.
I know they have consumer devices for vehicle interiors now that let you cancel out the car noise, and change it to whatever you like, I'd like to find out if it's reasonable to set a cancellation system up inside a case. I bet it's still a little too expensive for widespread use though.
As a side note, they'll sell little boxes, sorta like cable boxes, that will convert the new HDTV signals to old analog signals you can use on legacy TV's.
I think the HDTV upgrade is awesome, but only if you watch a lot of DVDs and make sure every component in your system uses the full ability of HDTV.
All programs are numbers that represent something.
Hacking is gaining knowledge of a system through an abnormal process
So to take a step away from pure tech appilcations, couldn't a mathematician or physicist can be considered a hacker and therefor a terrorist under the proposed statutes?
By manipulating known values, they both come away from their studies with an increased knowledge of the world through mathematical manipulation. Such manipulation would have to be considered abnormal simply becaus it's probably never been done or observed before in the history of Man.
"I made this - mankind will benefit from this thing I have created."
Perhaps the human experience is all boolean calculation. All we percieve, and all our associated thoughts can be convincingly simulated with computers.
I'm not saying that's all there is to us, but it could be all we're ever able to comprehend.
Taken with a grain of salt, eventually somebody will accurately simulate the creative process. The electronic mind invents a new button that never falls off (Surely you see the case where a program invents a new program, but let's keep it simple).
Who owns the patent to the miracle button?
The button, in it's conceptual form, is only the result of a mathematical function.
This is what I've picked up from news of similar incidents.
<disclaimer>Anyone who takes this as legal advice deserves whatever comes of it.</disclaimer>
What happens if someone steals your car and causes a fatal accident with it?
The person that stole your car is responsible for any actions he takes. Since the car is considered a weapon when used to kill another person, the situation is the same as if a person took a cop's gun and killed the cop - it's obviously not the cop.
I guess the important thing would be that your insurance goes up...
What happens if a child finds the gun you left in your dresser and shoots himself?
Negligence - all the parent's fault. They get the full weight of the law and (hopefully) their own guilt to weigh them down for a long time to come.
What happens if someone breaks into your house, trips over something and breaks a leg?
If said thing was placed with the intent to trip a person, it is the homeowner's fault that the theif was hurt. However, if aforementioned thing which he tripped over was obviously not placed with malicious intent, it is the theif's problem.
So we need some really clever people to come up with apparently un-intentional booby-trap ideas for the home. If we don't get those, then I'd like to see some of the new-age non-lethal weapons employed in home and vehicle security systems. Imagine a burglar stuck in foam until the cops arrive, or netted and hanging from the ceiling...
Thrustmaster always has good booth babes demoing their toys though, so it's conceivable that everyone that went by didn't notice the device, only the lady doing the demo...
Rather than tell you everything you may or may not already know, I'll just give you a link to the main LLNLNIF(National Ignition Facility) website. Believe me, working at a DOE lab is pretty cool, especially since you get to see most of the neat gadgets first hand (Like the 10m diameter target chamber, and the tiny target cylinder).
So, for the latest in inertial confinement fusion: www.llnl.gov/nif/
If what you want to learn about isn't there, you're not allowed to know:).
I've got to agree with some of what you say, but I would like to point out that the NSA does not deal in domestic affars unless they are tied with external entities. Basically, they never spy on you unless you're dealing with Osama Bin-Laden, or the ilk.
The books which teach us all (students, hobbyists, workers), give good samples of what our life today is like. In both terminology and content, the books will be around for a long while in one form or another.
Back in the day, some third-party developers made a Sega Genesis game. They did it without official support from Sega. At sometime (early I presume) in the process, they found out that games would not load up if some of the first four bytes were not SEGA.
Sega, who naturally had planned to attack any unsupported developers by including this "feature" in their system, filed a lawsuit against the developers on a trademark infringement.
The defence was very clever (quite similar to the previous discussion on exchanging our favorite long integers). The key to initializing the system was to feed the Genesis ASCII characters 83 69 71 65. This sequence booted up the system and from there everything worked normally.
The defence won the case and were able to proceed at long last. I do wonder if this line of defence would work for including aim.exe (or some broken-up representation therof) in the current political climate, or if the systems been damaged beyond easy repair recently.
Someone I know has taken over the Bloodpit play by mail game. This has been going on for a really long time now, dating to before people had email and it really was play by mail. I suggest if you're into this kind of thing, or want to give it a try, try out bloodpit.
I'm a Junior now at Northern Arizona University, where they offer a CSE degree. Recently they added a CE degree also, but I think I still prefer the CSE.
This CSE degree is doubly accredited by abet and the other accredidation board (can't remember the name). I am learning both hardware and software concepts and aspects through this degree program.
The only thing I wish was different is that our school offered a wider variety of upper level CS courses for us to choose from. If you ask me, a person who just loves to learn new things, CSE is the way to go. It gives you a great background to both fields, and you can always pursue further education in any field that you wish to refine.
Don't wait to declare unless you want to spend more than 4 years! They have it all planned out...
If things really end up going this way (Micro$oft running everything), I wonder how long it will be until our important documents are finally secured under an M$ trademark. I can already imagine other countries having to pay liscencing fees to use the concepts of the constitution.
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"Is the world going to the crapper, or is it just me?"
[on way to a colonic]
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I'm a student at Northern Arizona University, and the distance learning program here is highly regarded (at least locally). We have systems all through Arizona, and some through California as I understand it.
Try looking around at www.nau.edu. If you can get ahold of somebody, I'm sure they'll be willing to talk with you.
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I've come up with a concept that I will be patenting soon, and I think it's going to revolutionize web advertising. I call it the "pop-under-over" ad. It pops under, THEN moves up to the top!
I'm also looking at further designs based on this system such as "pop-under-over-under", but I'm not sure that these will actually work since the concept and implementation of such a system is so complex.
Finally! I get to look at 2x time porn on my laptop! It's about time! I've been waiting for this glorious day for SO long!
--Pornaholic
from smcv:
>No, they're opposites.
>dictionary.com says:
>ridden Pronunciation Key (rdn)
>...
>adj.
>Dominated, harassed, or obsessed by. Often used in combination: disease-ridden; grief-ridden.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
from Z4rd0Z:
>Isn't your own statement a little "repetively redundant" as well, or are you just trying to be ironic?
Isn't that just a little repetitively redundant?
(Taken in the original context of course...)
"spyware-ridden"...
"sans spyware"
Isn't that just a little repetitively redundant?
In fact it's basically possible to get instant loads - it only depends on how creative you get.
Just like the bandwidth vs latency issue in network connections, all we need to do is add more data paths.
Can't spin the disc at 100x? Well, spin it at 50X and use 2 lasers (I know the first 50x drives did something like this, they were just REALLY buggy at the time). Can't spin at 200X? Use 4 lasers. Can't fit any more lasers in? Take a picture!
I'm really amazed that we don't have these already actually - we'll need em sooner or later, unless we change to all solid state electronics...
>I like that it's dishwasher safe. Drunk people
>can't be trusted to hand wash glass.
Bartenders don't (usually) get drunk.
Considering that this really doesn't have use in the home. I mean, what good would knowing I need a new beer be if I have to go get another anyway? I guess if had a butler it would work out, but I can't really afford one since I've been spending all my money on beer lately.
You know, you're just looking in the wrong places. There's PLENTY of free pr0n out there, you've just gotta look for it
We have over six billion people on the planet now - quickly approaching seven. 498 million isn't 10% of that. More like 8.3%.
Still cool though.
--And the Geek shall inherit the earth
I know they have consumer devices for vehicle interiors now that let you cancel out the car noise, and change it to whatever you like, I'd like to find out if it's reasonable to set a cancellation system up inside a case. I bet it's still a little too expensive for widespread use though.
If Gates just tries to make headlines that will make slashdotters stop attacking them for being so moronic.
Boycot sigs!(DOH!, forgot about the boycott)
As a side note, they'll sell little boxes, sorta like cable boxes, that will convert the new HDTV signals to old analog signals you can use on legacy TV's.
I think the HDTV upgrade is awesome, but only if you watch a lot of DVDs and make sure every component in your system uses the full ability of HDTV.
that the pdf version had a password on it that wasn't released. Then I'd have to use some OTHER software (dammit, let him out already) to read it.
Saw it at E3 and decided to wait until I could get my hands on one before buying a Game Cube. It really does look bitchin.
All programs are numbers that represent something.
Hacking is gaining knowledge of a system through an abnormal process
So to take a step away from pure tech appilcations, couldn't a mathematician or physicist can be considered a hacker and therefor a terrorist under the proposed statutes?
By manipulating known values, they both come away from their studies with an increased knowledge of the world through mathematical manipulation. Such manipulation would have to be considered abnormal simply becaus it's probably never been done or observed before in the history of Man.
"I made this - mankind will benefit from this thing I have created."
Perhaps the human experience is all boolean calculation. All we percieve, and all our associated thoughts can be convincingly simulated with computers.
I'm not saying that's all there is to us, but it could be all we're ever able to comprehend. Taken with a grain of salt, eventually somebody will accurately simulate the creative process. The electronic mind invents a new button that never falls off (Surely you see the case where a program invents a new program, but let's keep it simple).
Who owns the patent to the miracle button?
The button, in it's conceptual form, is only the result of a mathematical function.
<disclaimer>Anyone who takes this as legal advice deserves whatever comes of it.</disclaimer>
- What happens if someone steals your car and causes a fatal accident with it?
The person that stole your car is responsible for any actions he takes. Since the car is considered a weapon when used to kill another person, the situation is the same as if a person took a cop's gun and killed the cop - it's obviously not the cop.I guess the important thing would be that your insurance goes up...
- What happens if a child finds the gun you left in your dresser and shoots himself?
Negligence - all the parent's fault. They get the full weight of the law and (hopefully) their own guilt to weigh them down for a long time to come.- What happens if someone breaks into your house, trips over something and breaks a leg?
If said thing was placed with the intent to trip a person, it is the homeowner's fault that the theif was hurt. However, if aforementioned thing which he tripped over was obviously not placed with malicious intent, it is the theif's problem.So we need some really clever people to come up with apparently un-intentional booby-trap ideas for the home. If we don't get those, then I'd like to see some of the new-age non-lethal weapons employed in home and vehicle security systems. Imagine a burglar stuck in foam until the cops arrive, or netted and hanging from the ceiling...
Boycott sigs! - oh damn...
Didn't anyone else see this at E3 this year?
Thrustmaster always has good booth babes demoing their toys though, so it's conceivable that everyone that went by didn't notice the device, only the lady doing the demo...
Boycott sigs!
Rather than tell you everything you may or may not already know, I'll just give you a link to the main LLNL NIF(National Ignition Facility) website. Believe me, working at a DOE lab is pretty cool, especially since you get to see most of the neat gadgets first hand (Like the 10m diameter target chamber, and the tiny target cylinder).
So, for the latest in inertial confinement fusion: www.llnl.gov/nif/
If what you want to learn about isn't there, you're not allowed to know
Boycott
ahh dammit, I blew it
I've got to agree with some of what you say, but I would like to point out that the NSA does not deal in domestic affars unless they are tied with external entities. Basically, they never spy on you unless you're dealing with Osama Bin-Laden, or the ilk.
The books which teach us all (students, hobbyists, workers), give good samples of what our life today is like. In both terminology and content, the books will be around for a long while in one form or another.
Back in the day, some third-party developers made a Sega Genesis game. They did it without official support from Sega. At sometime (early I presume) in the process, they found out that games would not load up if some of the first four bytes were not SEGA.
Sega, who naturally had planned to attack any unsupported developers by including this "feature" in their system, filed a lawsuit against the developers on a trademark infringement.
The defence was very clever (quite similar to the previous discussion on exchanging our favorite long integers). The key to initializing the system was to feed the Genesis ASCII characters 83 69 71 65. This sequence booted up the system and from there everything worked normally.
The defence won the case and were able to proceed at long last. I do wonder if this line of defence would work for including aim.exe (or some broken-up representation therof) in the current political climate, or if the systems been damaged beyond easy repair recently.
Someone I know has taken over the Bloodpit play by mail game. This has been going on for a really long time now, dating to before people had email and it really was play by mail. I suggest if you're into this kind of thing, or want to give it a try, try out bloodpit.
I'm a Junior now at Northern Arizona University, where they offer a CSE degree. Recently they added a CE degree also, but I think I still prefer the CSE.
This CSE degree is doubly accredited by abet and the other accredidation board (can't remember the name). I am learning both hardware and software concepts and aspects through this degree program.
The only thing I wish was different is that our school offered a wider variety of upper level CS courses for us to choose from. If you ask me, a person who just loves to learn new things, CSE is the way to go. It gives you a great background to both fields, and you can always pursue further education in any field that you wish to refine.
Don't wait to declare unless you want to spend more than 4 years! They have it all planned out...
If things really end up going this way (Micro$oft running everything), I wonder how long it will be until our important documents are finally secured under an M$ trademark.
I can already imagine other countries having to pay liscencing fees to use the concepts of the constitution.
--
"Is the world going to the crapper, or is it just me?"
[on way to a colonic]
--
I'm a student at Northern Arizona University, and the distance learning program here is highly regarded (at least locally). We have systems all through Arizona, and some through California as I understand it.
Try looking around at www.nau.edu. If you can get ahold of somebody, I'm sure they'll be willing to talk with you.