Heh.. umm.. heh.. *pushes glasses up nose* I'm supposed to.. umm... the jihad is alive and well, heh.. but
*portly neckbeard appears*
what?
*whispering*
ok
*portly man exits*
ok anyway, we're taking it easy on Google this time and if you want to disagree with us you are required to accuse us of having rose-coloured glasses and being on a "honeymoon" with them.
If you accuse us of reading the article again, we're not.. umm.. there will be.. problems waiting for you, in fact I might not be surprised if you woke up and found a snarky reply attached to one of your comments. You do not mess with us.
Great link, because it exhibits exactly the part that I think should be disclaimed: between 0:40 and 0:50 the photo is loaded into a computer and the lady's neck is lengthened along with other blatant manipulations of the human form. All the makeup, lighting, that's fair game but stretching body parts in Photoshop should damn well have a disclaimer, "Disclaimer: This photograph has been digitally modified and does not represent the human form".
.. of OS X server? It doesn't require client access licenses like Windows server versions do, and many of the services seem tailored to providing the best administration possible for an OS X network. I don't have any personal experience, but that's the first place I'd look if I had to admin an entirely OS X network.
I'm a bit of a Motorola fan, I've used their cell phones for years, but their problem for a long time has been that they produce solid hardware and total crap software.
So now we'll have great Moto hardware with wonderful Google software -- perfect world, right? Except Motorola decides to go and add "MotoBlur" to the Android software, and who knows how much of a train wreck that will be.
Anyways, I'll very much be looking forward to reviews of these devices.
Your company owner sounds like a good person, offering to reimburse your purchase. It sounds like he surprised you and now you're trying to decide whether you want to retain ownership of the laptop or sign it over to the company.
For the company owner, it would be a no brainer because he owns the company that would own the equipment. For you, there are more questions about relinquishing ownership.
1) Will you have to return the laptop if you leave the company? 2) Will the company's IT staff have to maintain the laptop? 3) How much personal usage will you get away with before you ruffle feathers? 4) Why would you provide your own copy of MS Office for a company machine?
Since the company owner made the offer to you personally, I think you could discuss this informally with him and emphasize that when you purchased the equipment you were expecting to use it primarily for personal business.
As to the issue of your personal work being claimed by the company, that's sort of a nightmare scenario that I can't imagine happening in the real world unless you work for total assholes. If you're truly worried about your company sending lawyers after you, you shouldn't even consider signing over your equipment to the company.
If Nokia had entered what is gearing up to be a very aggressive market with a linux based netbook, I would have expect the BOD to fire the CEO right away!
Asus tried it already and it failed.
Asus created the netbook market with the eeePc, and you consider it a failure?
Before the eeePc, we had small form factor machines that were fragile, gimmicky, and expensive as hell. The Fujitsu Librettos come to mind, as do the OQO machines.
Asus recognized that people wanted a tiny computer that would allow them to communicate with their friends -- web pages, email, instant messaging. Screw spreadsheets, word processing, and powerpoint. And they made it cheap, cheap cheap. Then they scared the crap out of Microsoft by putting Linux on it.
Asus sold their machines by the boatload, Microsoft caved, and now we have cheap netbooks with enormously discounted copies of Windows on them.
The eeePc was anything but a failure, and Linux was a key part of its success.
Protest all you want, reason all you want, the simple truth is that that's how it is.
Your ideas about communities making up their own reality are preposterous and furt--oh, a 3 digit userid, are there any trolls I could handle for you, sir? A warm bath, perhaps?
What do Dell, Apple, HP, and Asus have in common? Their relationship to Intel. AMD is a non-competitor in the netbook space right now, and Intel has enough clout to throw their weight around and get what they want.
I'm glad that people like you are around. As the typical Slashdot IT/computer geek, it means a great deal to me to rub shoulders with intelligent people in specialized fields. *respeck knucks*
Joe Public will read this story and think "so what, some kid who helped destroy game company profits got his comeuppance," but the technically astute on this site will notice that this law, while currently applied to a trivial domain like game consoles, will be affecting the whole computer industry for years to come. The iPhone, like most game consoles, has a mechanism to prevent unsigned code from running. It is protected by the DMCA. The Kindle from Amazon is probably protected by the DMCA.
Your legal ability to do what you want, with the hardware you own, is slowly being eroded by new hardware with DRM baked in, and lawsuits like the one in the article. The issue is about personal freedom as much as it's about piracy.
Humans had discovered methods to speedily and automatically transmit mountainous volumes of data. It was a new frontier, a utopia where information was shared peacefully between the people who wanted to see it. And what was its downfall? Not the anarchists, or the communists, or the Islamic fundamentalists, but the so called leaders of the free world.
"We had to do it," they said, "there is such a thing as too much freedom."
I think Microsoft gets upset if any other company talks to the BIOS besides them. Here's a page from VMWare that compares their own product to Microsoft's Hyper-V. Hyper-V only debuted as a beta a year ago and they're already compromising company policy to release Linux kernel level code.
I'm looking at these announcements and they're saying the game is going to be released "for free". I do not see what this has to do with Quake 3 at all, or even how the two releases are similar. Quake 3 the game was never released "for free" unless you are counting Quake Live.
"So the 24-year-old coming out of Stanford will have a view of technology that the 29-year-old -- who was 24 just five years ago -- would never think of," say Andreessen. "We love that kind of thing."
So how old in Andreessen and how will he recognize the 24yo luminary from the 24yo that is full of shit?
Will the worry of special/camera effects breaking put tv/film producers off encouraging the leap to 3D?
Short answer: yes.
Long answer: As an anecdote, a visual effects artist is adding rain to a shot. With a normal film, this would be a simple matter of compositing. For a 3D film it would be very obvious if every raindrop was on a single plane, so the artist has to analyze the scene to compute depth of field of visible actors/props, and generate 3D rain that doesn't cause cognitive dissonance (a raindrop that appears to be behind an actor is visibly fake).
Visual effects artists are smart people, the major turn off for 3D work is that it is much more labour intensive, in addition to the uncompressed frames of a shot taking up twice the storage, right off the bat.
3D is a fad until proven otherwise. It's being pushed by major companies as the Next Big Thing, but it requires a revamp of the entire system from the camera that films an actor to the television used to view it at home. James Cameron's Avatar sounds promising, but who knows.
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Heh.. umm.. heh.. *pushes glasses up nose* I'm supposed to .. umm ... the jihad is alive and well, heh .. but
*portly neckbeard appears*
what?
*whispering*
ok
*portly man exits*
ok anyway, we're taking it easy on Google this time and if you want to disagree with us you are required to accuse us of having rose-coloured glasses and being on a "honeymoon" with them.
If you accuse us of reading the article again, we're not.. umm.. there will be.. problems waiting for you, in fact I might not be surprised if you woke up and found a snarky reply attached to one of your comments. You do not mess with us.
*wipes cheeto crumbs from shirt*
Yeah.
*exits*
Great link, because it exhibits exactly the part that I think should be disclaimed: between 0:40 and 0:50 the photo is loaded into a computer and the lady's neck is lengthened along with other blatant manipulations of the human form. All the makeup, lighting, that's fair game but stretching body parts in Photoshop should damn well have a disclaimer, "Disclaimer: This photograph has been digitally modified and does not represent the human form".
.. of OS X server? It doesn't require client access licenses like Windows server versions do, and many of the services seem tailored to providing the best administration possible for an OS X network. I don't have any personal experience, but that's the first place I'd look if I had to admin an entirely OS X network.
Yeah, Apple's version totally ruined the iPhone, what were they thinking.
This article does NOT mean you have an excuse to cease bathing.
This article also does not provide justification for the cessation of: tooth brushing, hair cutting, shaving, fingernail clipping, or deodorant usage.
Regards,
Society
I'm a bit of a Motorola fan, I've used their cell phones for years, but their problem for a long time has been that they produce solid hardware and total crap software.
So now we'll have great Moto hardware with wonderful Google software -- perfect world, right? Except Motorola decides to go and add "MotoBlur" to the Android software, and who knows how much of a train wreck that will be.
Anyways, I'll very much be looking forward to reviews of these devices.
Your company owner sounds like a good person, offering to reimburse your purchase. It sounds like he surprised you and now you're trying to decide whether you want to retain ownership of the laptop or sign it over to the company.
For the company owner, it would be a no brainer because he owns the company that would own the equipment. For you, there are more questions about relinquishing ownership.
1) Will you have to return the laptop if you leave the company?
2) Will the company's IT staff have to maintain the laptop?
3) How much personal usage will you get away with before you ruffle feathers?
4) Why would you provide your own copy of MS Office for a company machine?
Since the company owner made the offer to you personally, I think you could discuss this informally with him and emphasize that when you purchased the equipment you were expecting to use it primarily for personal business.
As to the issue of your personal work being claimed by the company, that's sort of a nightmare scenario that I can't imagine happening in the real world unless you work for total assholes. If you're truly worried about your company sending lawyers after you, you shouldn't even consider signing over your equipment to the company.
If Nokia had entered what is gearing up to be a very aggressive market with a linux based netbook, I would have expect the BOD to fire the CEO right away!
Asus tried it already and it failed.
Asus created the netbook market with the eeePc, and you consider it a failure?
Before the eeePc, we had small form factor machines that were fragile, gimmicky, and expensive as hell. The Fujitsu Librettos come to mind, as do the OQO machines.
Asus recognized that people wanted a tiny computer that would allow them to communicate with their friends -- web pages, email, instant messaging. Screw spreadsheets, word processing, and powerpoint. And they made it cheap, cheap cheap. Then they scared the crap out of Microsoft by putting Linux on it.
Asus sold their machines by the boatload, Microsoft caved, and now we have cheap netbooks with enormously discounted copies of Windows on them.
The eeePc was anything but a failure, and Linux was a key part of its success.
To combine the expandability of a game console with the reliability of a PC stuffed with chinese manufactured expansion cards!
Your ideas about communities making up their own reality are preposterous and furt--oh, a 3 digit userid, are there any trolls I could handle for you, sir? A warm bath, perhaps?
If you're a relatively mundane manufacturing company and you leak customer data -- who cares?
If you're a Visual Effects studio and you leak shots from a major new film, "sonny, you ain't gonna work in this town again".
What do Dell, Apple, HP, and Asus have in common? Their relationship to Intel. AMD is a non-competitor in the netbook space right now, and Intel has enough clout to throw their weight around and get what they want.
I'm glad that people like you are around. As the typical Slashdot IT/computer geek, it means a great deal to me to rub shoulders with intelligent people in specialized fields. *respeck knucks*
Yeah.. in addition to generations of fear-mongering and politicians without the cajones to appear "soft on crime".
Joe Public will read this story and think "so what, some kid who helped destroy game company profits got his comeuppance," but the technically astute on this site will notice that this law, while currently applied to a trivial domain like game consoles, will be affecting the whole computer industry for years to come. The iPhone, like most game consoles, has a mechanism to prevent unsigned code from running. It is protected by the DMCA. The Kindle from Amazon is probably protected by the DMCA.
Your legal ability to do what you want, with the hardware you own, is slowly being eroded by new hardware with DRM baked in, and lawsuits like the one in the article. The issue is about personal freedom as much as it's about piracy.
Humans had discovered methods to speedily and automatically transmit mountainous volumes of data. It was a new frontier, a utopia where information was shared peacefully between the people who wanted to see it. And what was its downfall? Not the anarchists, or the communists, or the Islamic fundamentalists, but the so called leaders of the free world.
"We had to do it," they said, "there is such a thing as too much freedom."
Yes, exactly.
I think Microsoft gets upset if any other company talks to the BIOS besides them. Here's a page from VMWare that compares their own product to Microsoft's Hyper-V. Hyper-V only debuted as a beta a year ago and they're already compromising company policy to release Linux kernel level code.
Wikipedia page for Hyper-V
To Mr. Fossett,
"The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next."
-- Ursula K. LeGuin
I'm looking at these announcements and they're saying the game is going to be released "for free". I do not see what this has to do with Quake 3 at all, or even how the two releases are similar. Quake 3 the game was never released "for free" unless you are counting Quake Live.
I think the submitter may have fucked up.
Quake 3's source code was released under the GPL, but the game assets remained commercial property of id Software.
They did the same thing with Quake 2, Quake 1, and Doom. Hopefully Doom 3's code will be released soon.
I don't know why the story submitter couldn't have said "source code released under GPL", like Slashdotters won't know what "source code" means?
So how old in Andreessen and how will he recognize the 24yo luminary from the 24yo that is full of shit?
Short answer: yes.
Long answer: As an anecdote, a visual effects artist is adding rain to a shot. With a normal film, this would be a simple matter of compositing. For a 3D film it would be very obvious if every raindrop was on a single plane, so the artist has to analyze the scene to compute depth of field of visible actors/props, and generate 3D rain that doesn't cause cognitive dissonance (a raindrop that appears to be behind an actor is visibly fake).
Visual effects artists are smart people, the major turn off for 3D work is that it is much more labour intensive, in addition to the uncompressed frames of a shot taking up twice the storage, right off the bat.
3D is a fad until proven otherwise. It's being pushed by major companies as the Next Big Thing, but it requires a revamp of the entire system from the camera that films an actor to the television used to view it at home. James Cameron's Avatar sounds promising, but who knows.
Stop having a boring tuna. Stop having a boring life.
-- Vince 'Slap Chop' Offer
From the article (yeah I know, Slashdot, not supposed to, etc)
IIRC the United States developed something called Atomic Bombs that would have counteracted any advantage Germany would have gained from stealth jets.