OK, Natalie Portman doesn't look hot in this one so I doubt I'll see it.:-p
Also, haven't we got further in 3D tech today? I mean, with ILM or LucasFilm or whoever's server farm that's backing this project up. Yoda look weird. Others supposedly-humans don't look human nearly as much like the now (in computer tech-age) old Final Fantasy movie. But maybe the intention was to make them resemble cartoon characters more than real actors to avoid the uncanny valley or something.
Anyway, I personally thought the Clone Wars TV series was supposed to be live action, and not CG, so watching that was a bit anticlimatic.
Google should just shut out the newspapers that don't want to be listed.
I don't think Google is violating any laws by posting stuff like one-sentence excerpts from sites and a link to them. They do the same on Google Web Search, and others do it to on their news search services. So I don't see a problem there. And if they remove sites that have a "personal" problem with it, they have no problem there either. Voila, dispute and headaches solved. I should become a manager.
At this point, there seem to be more followers of the Big Rip than a Big Crunch, since the days when scientists detected indication of dark energy and that the universe is not just expanding, but accelerating.
I'm not sure what happens on planets and the deep layers of Earth matter for the expansion of the universe, or to generalize, what geology have to do with cosmology, so I'm not sure what a better understanding of those things would help the understanding of this. It would be far less than the scale of how a golf ball affect the rotation of Earth. And as for this research, they're simply extrapolating from what's been seen to happen in the past. And when you think about it, there's not many end stations for the universe. It's either a big crunch, static universe, or a big rip. If there's enough black matter, perhaps we have yet to see the force of the big bang being overtaken by the gravity of all the mass though.
I think for most users, they could stick to around 2 GB, however, I believe adding another 10 MB to their 10 MB max attachement size would make a lot of users happy. Sharing digital photos is popular these days, and with the modern OMG 6 Megapixels! cameras and users not that technically minded, it's easy for them to slip out large photos, even when compressed to jpg. Of course, the proper "solution" is to teach the users, but still, it would help for sharing digital media in any shape greatly if they just added a little to that 10 MB limit. And also give them some added advantage there compared to the competition.
You're right, but I guess it's not as simple today as it once was. Some use e.g. the DMCA exactly for "moral reasons", or other reasons (like protecting your economy), not because there are legal problems.:-p
If people would only properly shield themselves with ridiculous laws, wow, then I'd even know what I'd dare to post online!
Did you people know that it's 100% legal for Swedes to watch copyrighted streaming video? (without holder's permission) I'm not sure about the USA, but over here, it's not put in the same class as downloading. That's illegal as usual.
So while the uploader may well be a criminal according to Swedish law, due to the design, that'll probably be very time consuming to prosecute those. Much like individual BitTorrent original seeders. You don't see those punished often. And all Swedish users of the site would use it legally. I'm not sure where the host would stand legally, but then again, I'm not sure TPB will be the hosting server either, or if it'll be distributed to a third party (read: country).
So, once again, they're seeking to enter a legal loophole much like The Pirate Bay currently operates within the boundaries of a Swedish "BBS law" where it's OK to host non-copyrighted content, which.torrent files of course are.
One more thing I need to add on... I'd personally think that doing something that actually matters to us beyond on an emotional level would be a nicer thing to do, such as helping fund e.g. Alzheimer research in his honor. While it wouldn't save Scotty, it could help others in his situation in the future, and that would be a real world difference that I'm sure Scotty would appreciate. Sorry if I'm being an insensitive clod, but I think this is rather just a big bunch of money that will end up serving news headlines as offbeat news.:-(
With 1TB hard drives hitting the market, is it really worth spending $180 for 1 (!) optical disk and a $18k for the drive?
No. But was the very early first generations of CD's and DVD's worth it? No. This sort of pricing is typical for immature technology if you haven't noticed.
Wow, I actually RTFA and nowhere in there does it say that Firefox is becoming as "bloated" as Internet Explorer. Nope, it says it's becoming as bloated as Seamonkey. Oh the horror.
Actually, the Seamonkey suite can be considered more bloated than IE, so I don't quite get your point.
I don't think hackers are always going to publically tell which software they found vulnerable, or if they went for the hardware, or exactly what. But it's quite clear they now understand where to look for the keys, so just changing them won't help anymore. And when you know the protection structure, I think this system is now pretty much as busted as the DVD protection became. GG
I think we all know that the kernel is probably safe; except for some of the drivers. I'll wager that Microsoft is eying FAT and NTFS.
They (MS) actually released a slightly more detailed, but still secret, categorized list of infringments, and from that one it seems a lot of the patents accounts for most likely rather stupid "UI patents". I can imagine things like "We patent that the close button in a window should be right aligned for a good grouping with the other window manipulation controls", and so on.:-p
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It almost makes it sound like this is part of an effort by some music lobby and not really because Japan cares that much.
OK, Natalie Portman doesn't look hot in this one so I doubt I'll see it. :-p
Also, haven't we got further in 3D tech today? I mean, with ILM or LucasFilm or whoever's server farm that's backing this project up. Yoda look weird. Others supposedly-humans don't look human nearly as much like the now (in computer tech-age) old Final Fantasy movie. But maybe the intention was to make them resemble cartoon characters more than real actors to avoid the uncanny valley or something.
Anyway, I personally thought the Clone Wars TV series was supposed to be live action, and not CG, so watching that was a bit anticlimatic.
Google should just shut out the newspapers that don't want to be listed.
I don't think Google is violating any laws by posting stuff like one-sentence excerpts from sites and a link to them. They do the same on Google Web Search, and others do it to on their news search services. So I don't see a problem there. And if they remove sites that have a "personal" problem with it, they have no problem there either. Voila, dispute and headaches solved. I should become a manager.
And your point is...?
;-)
If it's -- we're all gonna die anyway, well then that could be applied to any job.
At this point, there seem to be more followers of the Big Rip than a Big Crunch, since the days when scientists detected indication of dark energy and that the universe is not just expanding, but accelerating.
I'm not sure what happens on planets and the deep layers of Earth matter for the expansion of the universe, or to generalize, what geology have to do with cosmology, so I'm not sure what a better understanding of those things would help the understanding of this. It would be far less than the scale of how a golf ball affect the rotation of Earth. And as for this research, they're simply extrapolating from what's been seen to happen in the past. And when you think about it, there's not many end stations for the universe. It's either a big crunch, static universe, or a big rip. If there's enough black matter, perhaps we have yet to see the force of the big bang being overtaken by the gravity of all the mass though.
Well, maybe they can swear a lot to get free toilet paper in case they run out of shells.
Ugh... Typing in that Slashdot CAPTCHA every day just out of Slashdot admin paranoia... :-S
They may think they're doing a decent job, but this hard drive still needs defragmenting... :-p/ chromogram/images/screenshot4.jpg
http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/visual/projects
I think for most users, they could stick to around 2 GB, however, I believe adding another 10 MB to their 10 MB max attachement size would make a lot of users happy. Sharing digital photos is popular these days, and with the modern OMG 6 Megapixels! cameras and users not that technically minded, it's easy for them to slip out large photos, even when compressed to jpg. Of course, the proper "solution" is to teach the users, but still, it would help for sharing digital media in any shape greatly if they just added a little to that 10 MB limit. And also give them some added advantage there compared to the competition.
Hmm, I wonder if it's going to be something like this...?
http://johnny.ihackstuff.com/ghdb.php
I've worked in IT a while now & have never heard of a "data storm".
:-p
Maybe it's the precursor to a logic bomb!
Wow, can't you request article deletion from Wikipedia on the basis of "ridiculous term"?
Or better yet, mind erasing for the very same reason...
You're right, but I guess it's not as simple today as it once was. :-p
Some use e.g. the DMCA exactly for "moral reasons", or other reasons (like protecting your economy), not because there are legal problems.
If people would only properly shield themselves with ridiculous laws, wow, then I'd even know what I'd dare to post online!
At a glance, I first thought the dude was a kid, but it's of course really a dwarf. Not that that's much better. *shudder*
:-p
And no, don't look for political correctness in this post.
Did you people know that it's 100% legal for Swedes to watch copyrighted streaming video? (without holder's permission)
.torrent files of course are.
I'm not sure about the USA, but over here, it's not put in the same class as downloading. That's illegal as usual.
So while the uploader may well be a criminal according to Swedish law, due to the design, that'll probably be very time consuming to prosecute those. Much like individual BitTorrent original seeders. You don't see those punished often. And all Swedish users of the site would use it legally. I'm not sure where the host would stand legally, but then again, I'm not sure TPB will be the hosting server either, or if it'll be distributed to a third party (read: country).
So, once again, they're seeking to enter a legal loophole much like The Pirate Bay currently operates within the boundaries of a Swedish "BBS law" where it's OK to host non-copyrighted content, which
One more thing I need to add on... I'd personally think that doing something that actually matters to us beyond on an emotional level would be a nicer thing to do, such as helping fund e.g. Alzheimer research in his honor. While it wouldn't save Scotty, it could help others in his situation in the future, and that would be a real world difference that I'm sure Scotty would appreciate. Sorry if I'm being an insensitive clod, but I think this is rather just a big bunch of money that will end up serving news headlines as offbeat news. :-(
Yes, but perhaps not to Scotty. I think that's what he meant anyway. And what I meant. ;-)
That has to be among the most excited ashes in the world.
When these are priced reasonbly, we'll probably have something like 10 TB drives so 600 GB isn't that much. Like 30 GB on a 500 GB drive of today.
With 1TB hard drives hitting the market, is it really worth spending $180 for 1 (!) optical disk and a $18k for the drive?
No. But was the very early first generations of CD's and DVD's worth it? No.
This sort of pricing is typical for immature technology if you haven't noticed.
Wow, I actually RTFA and nowhere in there does it say that Firefox is becoming as "bloated" as Internet Explorer. Nope, it says it's becoming as bloated as Seamonkey. Oh the horror.
Actually, the Seamonkey suite can be considered more bloated than IE, so I don't quite get your point.
I don't think hackers are always going to publically tell which software they found vulnerable, or if they went for the hardware, or exactly what. But it's quite clear they now understand where to look for the keys, so just changing them won't help anymore. And when you know the protection structure, I think this system is now pretty much as busted as the DVD protection became. GG
Oh dear God I hope not. That would just be laughable.
You guessed it!
Just like the Lynx browser coming out in a new release isn't big news, Firefox doing the same is!
News has a lot to do with impact among people.
Live Search changing stuff only impacts a very small group of people in the geek community, for example.
They (MS) actually released a slightly more detailed, but still secret, categorized list of infringments, and from that one it seems a lot of the patents accounts for most likely rather stupid "UI patents". I can imagine things like "We patent that the close button in a window should be right aligned for a good grouping with the other window manipulation controls", and so on.