Okay, so it's a valid question, but Slashdot is read by how many people and most of the home page write-up deals with how quickly his/her company services their clients, complete with link?
This smells like "Astroturfing" to me - a hell of a win for their PR agency.
Yes indeed, this is off topic, although probably not a troll or a flamebait. My guess would be that you wanted to insert a little artistry into an otherwise dry conversation - a impressionist view in a community of realists. If that's the case, even though I have mod points I simply can't mark you down for your ambition.
That said, your post does leave me wishing that there was a "-1, Unskilled." Listen carefully to me -- you should stop writing. What you perceive as buoyant prose is really just thesaurus-driven typing with arbitrary eccentricities posing as a personal style. I read what you posted and I think of you as someone who read Joyce and Pynchon, and was so utterly disconnected, so thoroughly ignorant of their works' goals and scope that the only coherent thought you could have when you quit at page 80 was "Hey, I think I could do that."
Please understand, I'm not saying that you are worthless as a person, only that you are worthless as a writer. So please make a big move, explore new horizons and new experiences, new arenas where you could make a great contribution to the world. Just do us all a favor and never write about them.
I want each of you who responded to the parent post to focus on me as best you can. Looking right at me? Okay, here we go:
That was a joke.
But I'm glad you all spoke up in defense of Slackware and Moms everywhere, because you have illustrated a very important point that might be useful to the Slashdot community as a whole, which is:
IF YOU'RE HIGH, DON'T GO TO PUBLIC PLACES AND TRY TO MAKE A POINT.
Weed is meant for simpler things. But if you really want to post high, make it something we can all enjoy, like:
"Don't you get it? What we call 'humans' are just quantum clouds floating in open space!" -- or -- "No seriously - if we all just grew one fucking tree and sent the fruit to somebody, there would be no hunger! None!"
Better yet, just kick back with your Kazaa rip of 'Freddie Got Fingered' and your beef jerky and have a cool night at home.
I paid a stripper in Florida to do something similar once, but it turned out that even without all the exterior parts a lap dance still took two songs.
Well my theory (oh no, wait, this is actually my direct experience) is that Quicktime for Windows has always been a giant dump. To even imply that it's optimized, or a reasonably cross-platform streaming solution is a joke
I love people trying to find alternatives to Microsquat, but I hate people trying to foist lazy crap down our throats in the name of Freedom. That baby should either be fixed, or thrown out with its bathwater.
Sorry moderators, I hate it when my actual opinion sounds like a troll or flamebait, but them's the facts as I see them.
no offense buddy, but that wasn't was you asked. lets go to the video tape:
What PDA's/Smartphones, etc. support complex languages in addition to more 'standard' languages?
Would it be easy to add support to a Linux PDA (Zaurus) or Pocket PC for this?
that doesn't indicate you've done any research at all. You didn't post "I have done my research and I'm looking for peoples experiences on the following solutions. .."
Point is: You'd have been a lot better off posting what you just did, before you start running around shouting flamebait.
1. If they let you pipe their video feed into IP and onto your home network, it increases the likelyhood that you will then hack it, capture it, post it on Kazaa, or otherwise liberate their content to the real world. They control their cable boxes and the like it that way.
2. You talk about accessing it outside your home over high speed cable from your hotel room. That might be fine for your hotel room connection, but now your local cable company suddenly needs high-speed IP connections out of that server in addition to just the link to their proprietary coax. Not sure you'd want to pay for a whole new fat pipe just to access your own PVR on the road.
Besides, your hotel room would probably have this service from a local system anyway.
Ha! Yes, what indeed! If only my cable company had a small box at my house on top of my TV. One that could, say, decode a video stream and put it on my tv set.
Even better, it could listen to a remote control, and send those commands back to them for processing.
That would be so cool, and it just might help this system work...
This article (and the term 'privacy spill') seems to rightly point out that the propagation of information well beyond it's intended use lies somewhere between an incovenience and a hazard. There's some justified screaming when e-mails slip beyond their intended recipients, especially when they're subjected to scrutiny by the no-life pedantic dinks that comprise some of the Internet population.
But there's also justified screaming when we read stories about Microsoft researching how to extend DRM all the way through the Windows asset model, from Word docs to e-mail.
I hope that at the very least this blurs the black-and-white approach many people have allowed themselves to take on this. DRM can be more than useful than making somebody pay for the new power ballad from the latest band you're exploiting. It can suck when it keeps me from transferring tunes more than three times to my mini-disc. It can be okay when it keeps people from stealing music from some musical artists that are just squeking by to begin with. But it can be very useful in making sure that (for example) some correspondence don't accidentally leave a designated group of recipients. If we're talking, for instance, about distributing documents to doctors, or investors, that might contain sensitive information, then there are some benefits.
So I think this is at least a step towards realizing that we might be able to have it both ways, that there are real benefits for real people to an encryption system suited to offering content to an audience that is larger than might be easy with pgp, but smaller than cc:world
1. A more detailed perception of the delicacy of human interactions 2. Are more reflective and self-critical 3. Have a greater understanding of the long-term consequences of their actions.
Therefore with a single statement made to a member of the opposite sex -- let's say "Your eyes look like they have iron sulfide inclusions," they are immediately able to tell that:
1. The person had no idea what you were talking about. 2. The person now thinks your a freak. 3. The person is now going to tell everyone else what a complete freak you are, and you'll never have a date as long as you live.
Fortunately, despite their intellegence, smart kids are often wrong on all three counts.
It was given away free with a Mountain Dew knock-off called Kick around 1995. The only commercial Doom level ever, it has Mel Torme as a bad guy shouting "take it baby" as he attacks you, and it ends with this huge Alpine Spew can with double machine guns.
The level design was actually done by Tim Willits (lead level designer for Doom III) before he even worked for id.
Surreal, and yes, I have a copy. Anybody wants one can email me at dave@dma.net.
A team of British scientists has announced that through a series of soon-to-be-patented technologies, the entire concept of sitting, licenses, sitting licenses, patenting, and British Scientists will soon be obsolete.
There are three key technologies that comprise the system:
1. Through a proprietary compression technology, everyday consumers will be able to shorten the phrase "Software As A Service" to simply "RIPOFF"
2. 10^18 British scientists will soon be able to fit on a chair, provided the chair has no conventional moving parts, and the scientists are the size of credit cards.
3. Although, regretably, they have yet to compress the chair down to the size of a credit card, they have been successful in making it taste like chicken, bringing "an incredibly powerful new metaphor to the computer software industry."
Any hardware, OS, or application that manages to sustain a 10% market share where Microsoft holds the other 90% will eventually be awarded Holy Underdog status, no matter how absurd its problems.
"Let's see, rebuild my site to take all the form elements off layers so Netscape users don't hard crash, or go home on time and play with my kids. ..hmmm. .."
MAN SURVIVES 0N 'WATER AND SUN FOR YEAR'
(Original here.)
Excerpts:
A retired mechanical engineer in India claims to have lived off boiled water and the sun for the last 364 days.
Hira Ratan Manek is trying to prove that the human body can turn into a photovoltaic cell and convert the rays of the sun into energy.
(Snip. ..)
In The Times of India Mr Manek explained that, to become a "solar cooker", you start by looking straight into the rising morning sun for only a few seconds. Slowly you increase the time to minutes reaching up to 30 to 35 minutes.
(snip. ..)
Neuro-physician Sudhir Shah, who has been monitoring Mr Manek's health with a team of doctors, said: "We believe that this is a chronic case of adaptation syndrome where the body reduces its demand for energy after 16 to 30 days of fasting. This is done by downing the regulation of receptors."
Mr Shah does not rule out the possibility that the temporal lobe in the human brain, which is believed to control parapsychic activity like the sixth sense, may have been activated due to this process.
::: Moral: You just can't trust virtual hotties for hard news anymore.
I was surprised to read the responses and not see any discussion of these increasingly "super" computers' ability to crack strong encryption.
Believe me, I'm not an Area-51-head, but in the few short years after strong ecryption has been widely available to concerned citizens and terrorists alike there seems to be many more huge supercomputers getting built, each with a greater altruistic purpose attached. "It will allow us to test nuclear weapons without building them! It will cure cancer!"
It's wholly reasonable to assume that there are military initiatives to ensure that we can't be snuck up on by PGP-wielding bad guys. As someone not wanting to be blown up, I hope there are, anyway. It's also wholly reasonable to assume that the military couldn't amass the kind of hardware necessary to do this without lighting up some analyst's bat-computer.
But does anyone feel that the initiative could survive being entirely in the light of day? What would the/. response be to an announcement that says "Military announces super-computer initiative break strong encryption in real time, promises to leave private citizens alone!"
Of course I'm not saying that every computer faster than a Pentium 4 is part of an arms program, there are serious economic incentives to making progress in cancer treatment. I just think that we would expect to see the military arming itself with the weapons du jour, and my guess is that a few are probably sitting in plain view.
Slashdot Mirror
Okay, so it's a valid question, but Slashdot is read by how many people and most of the home page write-up deals with how quickly his/her company services their clients, complete with link?
This smells like "Astroturfing" to me - a hell of a win for their PR agency.
The worst kind of idiot is the one who's too busy telling you how stupid you are to see how moronic they look.
That doesn't work all that well, no real flow to it. You might want to rephrase/tighten it up a bit before you use it again.
Just a suggestion.
Just wanted to let you know that there is at least one person on
Unfortunately that person is also modpointless.
"The airplane(s) we launch this month will be called 'The Spirit of Butts Farm' - Check back later to learn why."
Sounds to me like a blatant ploy for sponsorship dollars from RIM. . .
Yes indeed, this is off topic, although probably not a troll or a flamebait. My guess would be that you wanted to insert a little artistry into an otherwise dry conversation - a impressionist view in a community of realists. If that's the case, even though I have mod points I simply can't mark you down for your ambition.
That said, your post does leave me wishing that there was a "-1, Unskilled." Listen carefully to me -- you should stop writing. What you perceive as buoyant prose is really just thesaurus-driven typing with arbitrary eccentricities posing as a personal style. I read what you posted and I think of you as someone who read Joyce and Pynchon, and was so utterly disconnected, so thoroughly ignorant of their works' goals and scope that the only coherent thought you could have when you quit at page 80 was "Hey, I think I could do that."
Please understand, I'm not saying that you are worthless as a person, only that you are worthless as a writer. So please make a big move, explore new horizons and new experiences, new arenas where you could make a great contribution to the world. Just do us all a favor and never write about them.
>> "Maybe there is life beyond ubiquitous connectivity?"
Okay, this is an interesting thread, but let's not start talkin crazy here. . .
That maybe there is just a class of people who keep their information sphere small, and that this study shows the net isn't immune.
I'm all for this name, only because their ad slogan could be:
"Yozizza? Foshizza. . ."
Okay, settle down there Hemos, it was only a joke. .
I want each of you who responded to the parent post to focus on me as best you can. Looking right at me? Okay, here we go:
That was a joke. But I'm glad you all spoke up in defense of Slackware and Moms everywhere, because you have illustrated a very important point that might be useful to the Slashdot community as a whole, which is:
IF YOU'RE HIGH, DON'T GO TO PUBLIC PLACES AND TRY TO MAKE A POINT.
Weed is meant for simpler things. But if you really want to post high, make it something we can all enjoy, like:
"Don't you get it? What we call 'humans' are just quantum clouds floating in open space!"
-- or --
"No seriously - if we all just grew one fucking tree and sent the fruit to somebody, there would be no hunger! None!"
Better yet, just kick back with your Kazaa rip of 'Freddie Got Fingered' and your beef jerky and have a cool night at home.
This is the coolest thing I've ever seen.
I paid a stripper in Florida to do something similar once, but it turned out that even without all the exterior parts a lap dance still took two songs.
Well my theory (oh no, wait, this is actually my direct experience) is that Quicktime for Windows has always been a giant dump. To even imply that it's optimized, or a reasonably cross-platform streaming solution is a joke
I love people trying to find alternatives to Microsquat, but I hate people trying to foist lazy crap down our throats in the name of Freedom. That baby should either be fixed, or thrown out with its bathwater.
Sorry moderators, I hate it when my actual opinion sounds like a troll or flamebait, but them's the facts as I see them.
no offense buddy, but that wasn't was you asked. lets go to the video tape:
."
What PDA's/Smartphones, etc. support complex languages in addition to more 'standard' languages?
Would it be easy to add support to a Linux PDA (Zaurus) or Pocket PC for this?
that doesn't indicate you've done any research at all. You didn't post "I have done my research and I'm looking for peoples experiences on the following solutions. .
Point is: You'd have been a lot better off posting what you just did, before you start running around shouting flamebait.
"chinese language support palm pilot" yields a power point presentation that compares both chinese and japanese plug ins.
"japanese language PDA" the first entry is a press release on a whole japanese language system for symbian os.
Google = not hard.
Two reasons as I see it:
1. If they let you pipe their video feed into IP and onto your home network, it increases the likelyhood that you will then hack it, capture it, post it on Kazaa, or otherwise liberate their content to the real world. They control their cable boxes and the like it that way.
2. You talk about accessing it outside your home over high speed cable from your hotel room. That might be fine for your hotel room connection, but now your local cable company suddenly needs high-speed IP connections out of that server in addition to just the link to their proprietary coax. Not sure you'd want to pay for a whole new fat pipe just to access your own PVR on the road.
Besides, your hotel room would probably have this service from a local system anyway.
Ha! Yes, what indeed! If only my cable company had a small box at my house on top of my TV. One that could, say, decode a video stream and put it on my tv set.
Even better, it could listen to a remote control, and send those commands back to them for processing.
That would be so cool, and it just might help this system work...
You can't even imagine.
--------
This article (and the term 'privacy spill') seems to rightly point out that the propagation of information well beyond it's intended use lies somewhere between an incovenience and a hazard. There's some justified screaming when e-mails slip beyond their intended recipients, especially when they're subjected to scrutiny by the no-life pedantic dinks that comprise some of the Internet population.
But there's also justified screaming when we read stories about Microsoft researching how to extend DRM all the way through the Windows asset model, from Word docs to e-mail.
I hope that at the very least this blurs the black-and-white approach many people have allowed themselves to take on this. DRM can be more than useful than making somebody pay for the new power ballad from the latest band you're exploiting. It can suck when it keeps me from transferring tunes more than three times to my mini-disc. It can be okay when it keeps people from stealing music from some musical artists that are just squeking by to begin with. But it can be very useful in making sure that (for example) some correspondence don't accidentally leave a designated group of recipients. If we're talking, for instance, about distributing documents to doctors, or investors, that might contain sensitive information, then there are some benefits.
So I think this is at least a step towards realizing that we might be able to have it both ways, that there are real benefits for real people to an encryption system suited to offering content to an audience that is larger than might be easy with pgp, but smaller than cc:world
. . .that smart kids have:
1. A more detailed perception of the delicacy of human interactions
2. Are more reflective and self-critical
3. Have a greater understanding of the long-term consequences of their actions.
Therefore with a single statement made to a member of the opposite sex -- let's say "Your eyes look like they have iron sulfide inclusions," they are immediately able to tell that:
1. The person had no idea what you were talking about.
2. The person now thinks your a freak.
3. The person is now going to tell everyone else what a complete freak you are, and you'll never have a date as long as you live.
Fortunately, despite their intellegence, smart kids are often wrong on all three counts.
It was given away free with a Mountain Dew knock-off called Kick around 1995. The only commercial Doom level ever, it has Mel Torme as a bad guy shouting "take it baby" as he attacks you, and it ends with this huge Alpine Spew can with double machine guns.
The level design was actually done by Tim Willits (lead level designer for Doom III) before he even worked for id.
Surreal, and yes, I have a copy. Anybody wants one can email me at dave@dma.net.
I just created a 80 megawatt trailer park, so this thing's screwed.
Slurry-on-Waffles, UK
I'm fine, why do you ask?
"Let's see, rebuild my site to take all the form elements off layers so Netscape users don't hard crash, or go home on time and play with my kids. . .hmmm. . ."
A lead article from their "Science" section:
MAN SURVIVES 0N 'WATER AND SUN FOR YEAR'
(Original here.)
Excerpts:
A retired mechanical engineer in India claims to have lived off boiled water and the sun for the last 364 days.
Hira Ratan Manek is trying to prove that the human body can turn into a photovoltaic cell and convert the rays of the sun into energy.
(Snip. . .)
In The Times of India Mr Manek explained that, to become a "solar cooker", you start by looking straight into the rising morning sun for only a few seconds. Slowly you increase the time to minutes reaching up to 30 to 35 minutes.
(snip. . .)
Neuro-physician Sudhir Shah, who has been monitoring Mr Manek's health with a team of doctors, said: "We believe that this is a chronic case of adaptation syndrome where the body reduces its demand for energy after 16 to 30 days of fasting. This is done by downing the regulation of receptors."
Mr Shah does not rule out the possibility that the temporal lobe in the human brain, which is believed to control parapsychic activity like the sixth sense, may have been activated due to this process.
I was surprised to read the responses and not see any discussion of these increasingly "super" computers' ability to crack strong encryption.
Believe me, I'm not an Area-51-head, but in the few short years after strong ecryption has been widely available to concerned citizens and terrorists alike there seems to be many more huge supercomputers getting built, each with a greater altruistic purpose attached. "It will allow us to test nuclear weapons without building them! It will cure cancer!"
It's wholly reasonable to assume that there are military initiatives to ensure that we can't be snuck up on by PGP-wielding bad guys. As someone not wanting to be blown up, I hope there are, anyway. It's also wholly reasonable to assume that the military couldn't amass the kind of hardware necessary to do this without lighting up some analyst's bat-computer.
But does anyone feel that the initiative could survive being entirely in the light of day? What would the /. response be to an announcement that says "Military announces super-computer initiative break strong encryption in real time, promises to leave private citizens alone!"
Of course I'm not saying that every computer faster than a Pentium 4 is part of an arms program, there are serious economic incentives to making progress in cancer treatment. I just think that we would expect to see the military arming itself with the weapons du jour, and my guess is that a few are probably sitting in plain view.