I'll risk a guess that the exploit may wake up some percentage of admins or site managers, reminding them that they have let their site sit for months/years with just an "It works!" type page.
They update/upgrade to try and patch against the exploit and maybe spend a short while putting in some more personalized placeholder pages (Coming soon: Our Calendar!), before they back burner it again.
I'll start up a computer company to capitalize on the hig demand for such systems. We'll put all the horsepower into killer graphics and put them in cool looking boxes.
I think I'll call the company SGI. With a plan like this, we'll be around FOREVER.
Much easier is to put a lot of nukes on the Moon, and beam microwave energy back to Earth. If the occasional reator blows up, it is no big deal on the Moon.
Are you KIDDING!?!
Didn't they have TV where you grew up? Or are you one of those whipper-snappers who is too young to remember?
You are on the right track, but not exactly for the correct reason.
Motion sickness typically results from too great a psychoperceptual difference between the messages the brain gets from the eyes and what comes in from the inner ears. We are biologically tuned for the sorts of skills that are also useful in FPS games (spacial acuity, tracking moving objects, tuning in visual abberations in an open field). The problem is that the FPSs don't simulate *enough* of the sensory inputs. The biggest problem is that there is no actual feeling of movement detected by the inner ear. (Ride simulators that pitch and sway have their own problems. They usually don't match the physical movement to the visual clues well enough.)
So what's to do?
Some over-the-counter motion sickness med, like Dramamine may help. Consuming some ginger helps a bit, but only for about 30-60 minutes. Those things really just calm the stomach, so you'd still need Tylenol/Advil for the headache (skip the aspirin, it'll make the stomache worse). But these things only treat the symptoms.
Most people who get motion sickness have better-than-average visual acuity. Their ocular muscles have a great response reflex to movements and their brains are used to a high accuracy in tracking. Give them a book to read in a car, and they get nausea from the subtle jumping and bumping of the text that wont stay still. And their eye muscles will get fatigued from all that correcting and recorrecting. People with more relaxed eye muscles have brains that are used to a "lower resolution" input, and apply a greater degree of persistence of vision to everything already.
So what does this mean in practice for treating the cause? "Don't do that" has been mentioned already. Reducing the resolution to LEGO quality gives the ocular muscles and visual acquity/tracking reflexes a lot less to spaz out about. Another solution is, believe it or not, alcohol (or other depressants). Of course, your trigger reflexes will also be blunted, so your game may not necessarily improve. (-:
Until an inner-ear stimulation system with an accurate enough response time is developed, that's probably it.
Get him a case each of: tupperware, golf pencils, zip-lock baggies, pocket-sized notebooks, and if you really love him - disposable cameras. Load him up with cool little trinkets from bars/computer shows/something else close to his interests. Optionally, a spindle of 3-inch blank CDs if he has a burner and creates anything electronic that is remotely interesting.
To make a real gift basket out of it, add sunscreen, insect repellant, calamine lotion, and bottled water.
If he really takes to it, next year get him an 8-pack of travel bugs.
I've already seen about a half dozen posts talking about The Weather Channel's fleet of O2s and how they are going to be headed for the sunset now that SGI is ending production. I guess that must have come from stats at their website or something. (I use Weather Underground, myself.)
That's all well and good. No complaints from me about redundant posts or anything.
What I'd like to know is if anyone has an inside lead on exactly when TWC is going to fire-sale these babies, and how to get dibs!
This is not bait-and-switch. This is drug dealer tactics. This is hook-em-and-reel-em-in. This is first-one's-free. This is passing-out-free-packs-of-cigarettes-at-college-ba rs.
Bait-and-switch is "I'm sorry, but that printed offer for cheap basic cable service was a typo, we don't offer it anymore. We still offer the extended service, though. I'm sure you'll like that even more!"
You'd be surprised at how large a portion of that 80% is AOL. If they switch, you'll see a BIG drop in that lead. "Browser of choice" is a bit misleading when you account for them, too. They chose AOL, and so only chose IE indirectly.
I'll second that. If the volume of useful data (ie, I don't already have comparable files) is greater than about 80 megs, the CD is still worthwhile to me. At 56k, a full-sized ISO can take over a day to download! Sure, I can drop in on a friend's workplace, local college lab, inet cafe, lax library, etc., but when I don't even know what I'm getting til I've got it, that becomes an annoyance.
Speaking as someone who lives where cable/DSL is not very cost-effective (or dependable) even where it is available, the time to download is just too precious. I'll happily pay the extra buck for the book with the CD. Even if I never use it. Especially if I never use it. Who wants to spend the time downloading at 56k, only to decide it wasn't worth it.
And put me down as a second on including a searchable PDF of the book.
The
Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel, a body appointed by the U.S. Copyright Office, ruled on Feb. 20 that under the DMCA, [...]
Now really, how disingenuous! Are they aribtrating copyrights? NO. The terms of the copyrights are already set in law. What they are arbitrating is the royalties to be paid on copyrighted material.
But I guess they wouldn't want to just come right out and call it what we all know it actually is.
Depending on the drive, you may be able to replace the controller board yourself.
I like to dig into old dead drives. Collect screws and parts, make clock faces out of the drive platters, and particularly collect the NIBmagnets.
On some drives, the ribbon that connects the controller board to the electronics inside of the drive housing is attached to the controller board with a press-fit-type connector.
You may be able to buy a new drive of the same make and model and just swap controller boards.
Or just dump your executables through de-assembler and claim that those are the source code
Then spend a bunch of man-hours creating enough fake evidence (work logs, code snapshots, programmers who know ASM on the payroll [and who are willing to perjor themselves], etc.) so that you might have a reasonable chance of proving in court that the.ASM is the code you are actually maintaining.
This must be some pretty kooky compression scheme that it can only work with one brand of browser.
That'd be the scheme that is kooky, not the compression. It probably uses an IE-only API to hand off the decompressed material (that is, something that Netscape doesn't support).
Pretty bass-ackward compared to putting the compression a few layers down, where ANY internet enabled app (say, an email or FTP client) could access it.
[...]
although napster is currently pretty much dead in the water, [...] but it would seem that napster would have some recourse if monopolistic/anit-competative practices could be proved, [...]
I'm worried that those two things may be mutually exclusive. I don't think this case will provide anything more that the proof to support potential future recourse against anti-competitive practices. I don't think this case can give the labels the smackdown over their actions. I see it as either dead-in-the-water Napster achieves their proof of anti-competitive practices, but can't pursue if because of bankruptcy, or they get a fat cash settlement and a sweet (and undisclosed) licensing deal on the label's content in exchange for kiboshing the anti-competitive approach just before any real juicy details come to light.
I thought that it was bigger than that, that if they had used the copyrights to [create|maintain] a monopoly(?), that they could lose those copyrights.
That would be kind of silly, seeing as how copyright is a monopoly (as granted by the government). The "bigger" part would be whether or not they abused that monopoly.
The issues here seems to hinge on two questions:
1) Do the labels really hold the copyrights for the works, as they claim?
If the works were NOT for hire, then the monopoly priviledges remain with the authors, and the labels' case suddenly has no ground.
2) Have the labels engaged in anti-competitive practices by refusing to fairly license the works?
This is an important issue and may help decide the outcome of the case. Unfortunately, I'm not clear as to whether this case can do anything about the labels' anti-competitive behavior. (Kinda like if a woman proves her husband is a child molester during a divorce suit, that only gets her the divorce and custody of the kids. Getting him arrested for pedophilia becomes a different legal matter.) I'm a little worried that if the details of the case head too far in this anti-competitive direction, that the labels will offer Napster a fat (and confidential) settlement to avoid setting any precedents or creating useful fodder for future cases.
"Microsoft's campaign contributions significantly surpassed those of Enron," said Roeder in his report."
If anything, this is probably yet another anti-trust violation!
Microsoft is using the war chest it amassed from its monopoly of the desktop OS and applications markets to quickly leverage its way to the top of the political influence market.
Apple trees are cloned because they "go to seed." Meaning the children are nothing like the parents.
Quick illumination for why this is the case:
The fruits of an apple tree (really, any plant) are generated by the female portion of the plant, which comes from only the tree that it is growing on. The seeds inside the fruit are generated out of both the male AND female parts, being the pollen blown in on the wind, and the ovum in the flower. Apples have an incredible amount of genetically variable characteristics, and a broad variety of "breeds" of apples can all interpollinate. Through meticulous hand-pollination (ot these days, genetic manipulation, too), an apple breeder will develop a trees that have desirable characteristics, say sweet tasting and shiny fruit, or disease resistant wood. They'll clone them, then graft the good fruiting branches to the hearty roots and start selling them to orchards.
As an interesting comparison, pollen from hot pepper plants can spice up regular bell peppers without waiting a generation. That's because the capsaicin (what makes them hot) is produced in the *seeds*, not the flash of the fruit.
A great explanation of apples genetics can be found in Shrinking the Cat.
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I'll risk a guess that the exploit may wake up some percentage of admins or site managers, reminding them that they have let their site sit for months/years with just an "It works!" type page.
They update/upgrade to try and patch against the exploit and maybe spend a short while putting in some more personalized placeholder pages (Coming soon: Our Calendar!), before they back burner it again.
Just a guess, anyways.
-Sporktoast
I'll start up a computer company to capitalize on the hig demand for such systems. We'll put all the horsepower into killer graphics and put them in cool looking boxes.
I think I'll call the company SGI. With a plan like this, we'll be around FOREVER.
Are you KIDDING!?!
Didn't they have TV where you grew up? Or are you one of those whipper-snappers who is too young to remember?
You are on the right track, but not exactly for the correct reason.
Motion sickness typically results from too great a psychoperceptual difference between the messages the brain gets from the eyes and what comes in from the inner ears. We are biologically tuned for the sorts of skills that are also useful in FPS games (spacial acuity, tracking moving objects, tuning in visual abberations in an open field). The problem is that the FPSs don't simulate *enough* of the sensory inputs. The biggest problem is that there is no actual feeling of movement detected by the inner ear. (Ride simulators that pitch and sway have their own problems. They usually don't match the physical movement to the visual clues well enough.)
So what's to do?
Some over-the-counter motion sickness med, like Dramamine may help. Consuming some ginger helps a bit, but only for about 30-60 minutes. Those things really just calm the stomach, so you'd still need Tylenol/Advil for the headache (skip the aspirin, it'll make the stomache worse). But these things only treat the symptoms.
Most people who get motion sickness have better-than-average visual acuity. Their ocular muscles have a great response reflex to movements and their brains are used to a high accuracy in tracking. Give them a book to read in a car, and they get nausea from the subtle jumping and bumping of the text that wont stay still. And their eye muscles will get fatigued from all that correcting and recorrecting. People with more relaxed eye muscles have brains that are used to a "lower resolution" input, and apply a greater degree of persistence of vision to everything already.
So what does this mean in practice for treating the cause? "Don't do that" has been mentioned already. Reducing the resolution to LEGO quality gives the ocular muscles and visual acquity/tracking reflexes a lot less to spaz out about. Another solution is, believe it or not, alcohol (or other depressants). Of course, your trigger reflexes will also be blunted, so your game may not necessarily improve. (-:
Until an inner-ear stimulation system with an accurate enough response time is developed, that's probably it.
Get him a case each of: tupperware, golf pencils, zip-lock baggies, pocket-sized notebooks, and if you really love him - disposable cameras. Load him up with cool little trinkets from bars/computer shows/something else close to his interests. Optionally, a spindle of 3-inch blank CDs if he has a burner and creates anything electronic that is remotely interesting.
Send him here, here, here, or here.
To make a real gift basket out of it, add sunscreen, insect repellant, calamine lotion, and bottled water.
If he really takes to it, next year get him an 8-pack of travel bugs.
I've already seen about a half dozen posts talking about The Weather Channel's fleet of O2s and how they are going to be headed for the sunset now that SGI is ending production. I guess that must have come from stats at their website or something. (I use Weather Underground, myself.)
That's all well and good. No complaints from me about redundant posts or anything.
What I'd like to know is if anyone has an inside lead on exactly when TWC is going to fire-sale these babies, and how to get dibs!
This is not bait-and-switch. This is drug dealer tactics. This is hook-em-and-reel-em-in. This is first-one's-free. This is passing-out-free-packs-of-cigarettes-at-college-b
Bait-and-switch is "I'm sorry, but that printed offer for cheap basic cable service was a typo, we don't offer it anymore. We still offer the extended service, though. I'm sure you'll like that even more!"
You'd be surprised at how large a portion of that 80% is AOL. If they switch, you'll see a BIG drop in that lead. "Browser of choice" is a bit misleading when you account for them, too. They chose AOL, and so only chose IE indirectly.
Oh man, I'd forgotten about that!
And hey! I resemble that remark! Not everyone around here is a young whipper-snapper.
Is that what it is!?!
I thought it might have finally been an answer to that eternal question.
I'll second that. If the volume of useful data (ie, I don't already have comparable files) is greater than about 80 megs, the CD is still worthwhile to me. At 56k, a full-sized ISO can take over a day to download! Sure, I can drop in on a friend's workplace, local college lab, inet cafe, lax library, etc., but when I don't even know what I'm getting til I've got it, that becomes an annoyance.
Speaking as someone who lives where cable/DSL is not very cost-effective (or dependable) even where it is available, the time to download is just too precious. I'll happily pay the extra buck for the book with the CD. Even if I never use it. Especially if I never use it. Who wants to spend the time downloading at 56k, only to decide it wasn't worth it.
And put me down as a second on including a searchable PDF of the book.
If I remember him correctly from the countless interviews, that'd be the Vulcan detox gel rub.
Now really, how disingenuous! Are they aribtrating copyrights? NO. The terms of the copyrights are already set in law. What they are arbitrating is the royalties to be paid on copyrighted material.
But I guess they wouldn't want to just come right out and call it what we all know it actually is.
CRAP.
Depending on the drive, you may be able to replace the controller board yourself.
I like to dig into old dead drives. Collect screws and parts, make clock faces out of the drive platters, and particularly collect the NIB magnets.
On some drives, the ribbon that connects the controller board to the electronics inside of the drive housing is attached to the controller board with a press-fit-type connector.
You may be able to buy a new drive of the same make and model and just swap controller boards.
More like just around 8%, meaning there's over 5.5 billion people left.
And growing.
We'd better hurry up and find those 4 additional Earths, so there can be enough natural resources for everyone to be able to get online!
Then spend a bunch of man-hours creating enough fake evidence (work logs, code snapshots, programmers who know ASM on the payroll [and who are willing to perjor themselves], etc.) so that you might have a reasonable chance of proving in court that the
"Claim" is one thing, prove is another.
Unless, of course, someone else reports your company first. Then you go down along with the rest of of the folks responsible for the project.
Game Theory.
It's a matter of which snitch rolls over first.
That'd be the scheme that is kooky, not the compression. It probably uses an IE-only API to hand off the decompressed material (that is, something that Netscape doesn't support).
Pretty bass-ackward compared to putting the compression a few layers down, where ANY internet enabled app (say, an email or FTP client) could access it.
Well, if scrubbing doesn't help, maybe you should switch to Tide!
I'm worried that those two things may be mutually exclusive. I don't think this case will provide anything more that the proof to support potential future recourse against anti-competitive practices. I don't think this case can give the labels the smackdown over their actions. I see it as either dead-in-the-water Napster achieves their proof of anti-competitive practices, but can't pursue if because of bankruptcy, or they get a fat cash settlement and a sweet (and undisclosed) licensing deal on the label's content in exchange for kiboshing the anti-competitive approach just before any real juicy details come to light.
That would be kind of silly, seeing as how copyright is a monopoly (as granted by the government). The "bigger" part would be whether or not they abused that monopoly.
The issues here seems to hinge on two questions:
1) Do the labels really hold the copyrights for the works, as they claim?
If the works were NOT for hire, then the monopoly priviledges remain with the authors, and the labels' case suddenly has no ground.
2) Have the labels engaged in anti-competitive practices by refusing to fairly license the works?
This is an important issue and may help decide the outcome of the case. Unfortunately, I'm not clear as to whether this case can do anything about the labels' anti-competitive behavior. (Kinda like if a woman proves her husband is a child molester during a divorce suit, that only gets her the divorce and custody of the kids. Getting him arrested for pedophilia becomes a different legal matter.) I'm a little worried that if the details of the case head too far in this anti-competitive direction, that the labels will offer Napster a fat (and confidential) settlement to avoid setting any precedents or creating useful fodder for future cases.
If anything, this is probably yet another anti-trust violation!
Microsoft is using the war chest it amassed from its monopoly of the desktop OS and applications markets to quickly leverage its way to the top of the political influence market.
Quick illumination for why this is the case:
The fruits of an apple tree (really, any plant) are generated by the female portion of the plant, which comes from only the tree that it is growing on. The seeds inside the fruit are generated out of both the male AND female parts, being the pollen blown in on the wind, and the ovum in the flower. Apples have an incredible amount of genetically variable characteristics, and a broad variety of "breeds" of apples can all interpollinate. Through meticulous hand-pollination (ot these days, genetic manipulation, too), an apple breeder will develop a trees that have desirable characteristics, say sweet tasting and shiny fruit, or disease resistant wood. They'll clone them, then graft the good fruiting branches to the hearty roots and start selling them to orchards.
As an interesting comparison, pollen from hot pepper plants can spice up regular bell peppers without waiting a generation. That's because the capsaicin (what makes them hot) is produced in the *seeds*, not the flash of the fruit.
A great explanation of apples genetics can be found in Shrinking the Cat.
I believe the title of the page says "The LEGO Date Tape Loader".
Wasn't there a segment about that in the 1957 classic Amazon Women on the Moon? You know, the one with Andrew Dice Clay.