Art is something palpable designed to elicit an emotional response. It could be a sculpture, a picture, a song, a photograph, or of any other medium. If what the computer generates elicits such a response, then it is Art, with a capital A. Doesn't matter how much of what it generated was done randomly or at the direction of a person, so long as it can bring forth a specific response.
It's fairly easy to elicit a response of the form "that looks cool." I'd have to give those forms of art a barely passing grade. Eliciting more human emotions, such as love and fear, is more difficult. I predict we'll see computer generated art of increasing subtlety in the future.
Come to think of it, this happened before USB keyboards were prevalent, so there wasn't much choice. I don't recall whether it did more than just blow the keyboard interrupt line.
Make sure it's a cheap USB keyboard though, not one that hooks up to the standard connection. I've had shorted-out keyboards burn out inputs on the system board's PIC, requiring the motherboard be replaced.
BitTorrent does very well for legitimate content, and so long as they kick out clients who set up torrents for illegal content, there won't be any cause for lawsuits.
It's really annoying... I create the torrent, post this link, an Anonymous Coward posts the same link as a response to an earlier item, and my post gets modded down. Maybe I'm a karma whore, but is this fair?
This article seems to be taking a huge speculative leap. Google is investing in heavy bandwidth - therefore, it must be for VoIP? Either there's evidence the reporter isn't revealing, or someone has telephony on the brain.
The reason why the "extra long tail" is so amazingly long is because the authors are merging two different types of BitTorrent usage. BitTorrent was designed for legitimate content, and for content distributors to run their own trackers. For example, my tracker is used just to distribute my own projects. Distribution is off the main website, with only one torrent shown. This is an example of BT's legitimate use, and even thelargestlegitimate BitTorrent sites pale in comparison to the piracy sites. There, you'll see much higher numbers of torrents, and few servers that only distribute small numbers of torrents.
Their spectrum isn't completely monochromatic, at least not as monochromatic as lasers are. Semiconductor lasers are basically LEDs with mirrors (with a few exceptions). I don't know which they'll use but I'll bet on lasers.
That's one of the reasons I'm waiting for the new "black screen" projection systems Sony's working on. (Damned if I can remember the name of it... Anyone out there know it? There was even a/. article about it.) Aside from the gorgeous picture and great black level, I'm pretty sure they'll have to use monochromatic light sources -- read lasers -- in the projector. I'm sure they'll outlast the bulbs.
There were a few issues with my software that needed me to consider multi-user access under Windows, especially as I was adding new features; when these features finally came to fruition, I modified my software, sticking preferences, application and temporary data either under the user's "Application Data" folder in "Documents and Settings" in Windows, or in a dotted directory under *nix. I thought this was an elegant solution.
So what happened? People yelled at me. Why was I polluting their system, putting files all over the place? Why couldn't I have kept it the way it was?
I wonder the Treo 650 has software access to the mic and earpiece? If it does, you could use a WiFi card to connect it to a VoIP service, bypassing the normal wireless rate structure...
As far as I can tell, this story was about (or planted in support of) a P2P-distributed miniseries called "The Scene". Sponsored by Sony, this fake docudrama takes a member of one of these 0-day groups from someone who just wants to share, to someone getting paid to supply DVD pirates with video, and probably eventually to his being caught and prosecuted.
I'm not concerned about w4r3z. I'm concerned about things friends send me, or content showing up on regular, above-board (or seemingly so) web pages. I don't normally use IE and I don't want a WMA/WMV popping up an IE window. That's a huge security problem.
Slashdot Mirror
That's okay, I'll take it in a 5x7" ebook reader too.
"Oi Vey" is Jewish punk rock.
This article is a dupe; here is the original
Surprised no one caught this before.
Art is something palpable designed to elicit an emotional response. It could be a sculpture, a picture, a song, a photograph, or of any other medium. If what the computer generates elicits such a response, then it is Art, with a capital A. Doesn't matter how much of what it generated was done randomly or at the direction of a person, so long as it can bring forth a specific response.
It's fairly easy to elicit a response of the form "that looks cool." I'd have to give those forms of art a barely passing grade. Eliciting more human emotions, such as love and fear, is more difficult. I predict we'll see computer generated art of increasing subtlety in the future.
...or those soon to be:
http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20020616.html
Come to think of it, this happened before USB keyboards were prevalent, so there wasn't much choice. I don't recall whether it did more than just blow the keyboard interrupt line.
Make sure it's a cheap USB keyboard though, not one that hooks up to the standard connection. I've had shorted-out keyboards burn out inputs on the system board's PIC, requiring the motherboard be replaced.
BitTorrent does very well for legitimate content, and so long as they kick out clients who set up torrents for illegal content, there won't be any cause for lawsuits.
It's really annoying... I create the torrent, post this link, an Anonymous Coward posts the same link as a response to an earlier item, and my post gets modded down. Maybe I'm a karma whore, but is this fair?
Note to self: Leaving Apache's maximum process at the default of 150 when each access will hit the SQL database several times is a reeeeally bad idea.
This'll be fixed soon, I hope.
Tell me about it. I'm looking at the tracker and torrent stats and it passed DS3 bandwidth within 5 minutes of posting.
http://tracker.degreez.net/downloads/1984macintro. mov.torrent
This article seems to be taking a huge speculative leap. Google is investing in heavy bandwidth - therefore, it must be for VoIP? Either there's evidence the reporter isn't revealing, or someone has telephony on the brain.
Do you thi@%S^$@I%ere will be any pr%^VW#$%ms with wirel$%^)*VDTY$%^#$B%^&$%ternet?
The reason why the "extra long tail" is so amazingly long is because the authors are merging two different types of BitTorrent usage. BitTorrent was designed for legitimate content, and for content distributors to run their own trackers. For example, my tracker is used just to distribute my own projects. Distribution is off the main website, with only one torrent shown. This is an example of BT's legitimate use, and even the largest legitimate BitTorrent sites pale in comparison to the piracy sites. There, you'll see much higher numbers of torrents, and few servers that only distribute small numbers of torrents.
Their spectrum isn't completely monochromatic, at least not as monochromatic as lasers are. Semiconductor lasers are basically LEDs with mirrors (with a few exceptions). I don't know which they'll use but I'll bet on lasers.
That's one of the reasons I'm waiting for the new "black screen" projection systems Sony's working on. (Damned if I can remember the name of it... Anyone out there know it? There was even a /. article about it.) Aside from the gorgeous picture and great black level, I'm pretty sure they'll have to use monochromatic light sources -- read lasers -- in the projector. I'm sure they'll outlast the bulbs.
There were a few issues with my software that needed me to consider multi-user access under Windows, especially as I was adding new features; when these features finally came to fruition, I modified my software, sticking preferences, application and temporary data either under the user's "Application Data" folder in "Documents and Settings" in Windows, or in a dotted directory under *nix. I thought this was an elegant solution.
So what happened? People yelled at me. Why was I polluting their system, putting files all over the place? Why couldn't I have kept it the way it was?
You just can't win...
I wonder the Treo 650 has software access to the mic and earpiece? If it does, you could use a WiFi card to connect it to a VoIP service, bypassing the normal wireless rate structure...
My bad; I thought the Slashdot story was about this article.
As far as I can tell, this story was about (or planted in support of) a P2P-distributed miniseries called "The Scene". Sponsored by Sony, this fake docudrama takes a member of one of these 0-day groups from someone who just wants to share, to someone getting paid to supply DVD pirates with video, and probably eventually to his being caught and prosecuted.
I'm not concerned about w4r3z. I'm concerned about things friends send me, or content showing up on regular, above-board (or seemingly so) web pages. I don't normally use IE and I don't want a WMA/WMV popping up an IE window. That's a huge security problem.
(1) Thoroughly piss off your customer base and discredit yourselves.
(2) ???
(3) Profit!
Are there any simple tools out there for stripping these "features" from WMV files?
Whoops. I thought you meant the link there was fraudulent. My bad.
(Posting undoes my moderation.)