Over the years I've often thought it would be nice to create design or debugging tools that depicted programs as 3D pictures of machines, with widgets stuck on them performing logic functions and data flowing in and out through pipes and valves. But I've never done anything about it. A city is like a big machine, and streams of people flowing through the streets seem like a perfect way to represent web traffic.
Maybe the next step will be a website designer similar to the x-Tycoon games, that lets you plunk down buildings (pages) and throttle traffic with road sizes, stoplights or some other visual metaphor. I call this thing Cool!
I don't very many people besides Kuehne see these rings either. But to be fair, to non-experts most satellite photos that have yielded actual results look like ordinary terrain to most people. To the untrained eye, ancient human bone fragments are just bits of rock.
Notice that, like all other Atlantis claims, this one satisfies some parts of Plato's information and not others. My favorite tantalizing Atlantis clues are the specific alloy of gold and copper called "orichalcum" mentioned by Plato, found only in the Andes mountains, and that the words "atl" and "antis" mean "water" and "copper" in one of the ancient languages of South America.
I agree 100%. The increasing proliferation of ownership of every facet of life by some corporate entity is a new form of feudalism. Corporations will own the rights to the physical and mental processes required to do all the things that we enjoy or need. Essentially we will have to pay for the privilege of existing in their world from one moment to the next.
I was going to suggest that the next Microsoft keyboard should have a single-key Ctrl-Alt-Del in place of caps lock, but you beat me to the punch. Great minds think alike.
You don't get to listen to it, but you can possess a copy. The RIAA values ownership of the music much more than anything about the music itself. I see nonplayable recordings a perfect fit for their "mine, mine, mine" mentality.
SuperHyperMaxiUltraHigh Definition Video! A 2-hour movie takes 950 Tb of storage, and transmission requires 256 2-Gbit channels. With no system in the world capable of handling it, this standard will finally put an end to video piracy!
Back in the 80s, an old mainframe guy I worked with of them told me that no company using IBM computers (at least I think it was IBM) to do their payroll had ever missed a payroll. He claimed that they went to great lengths to maintain that perfect record, and told me a couple stories of recovering data from burned and water-soaked punch cards.
It was a far cry from today's 10,000-word legal license agreements that give software vendors permission to do whatever they want on your system with no liability whatsoever.
Nice to see someone RTFA and quoted where it said "100% of bootlegs are audience bootlegs".
Not sure if the above comment is sarcasm or what. The article doesn't say 100% of bootlegs are audience bootlegs, but I don't know what that has to do with anything. The point of the parent post is that MOST bootlegs are NOT audience bootlegs. A university study of about 200 movies measured that 80% (if I recall correctly) of them were pirated by insiders.
Like the RIAA, the motion picture industry seems to be trying to blame all its problems on somebody else. And they seem to have the cooperation of the news media -- notice that this article does not mention that audience bootlegs represent only 20% of the problem, a fact hardly EVER mentioned in the news. Is this propaganda by omission, or just another sign of news writers not reading the news?
Jeez, if they bother to include Springfield I would think they would have a map of Conan's world. As many Conan readers know, a couple fans constructed a map of the Hyborian world around 1930, based on reading the stories in detail, and sent it to author Robert Howard. Howard, who had drawn up his own map and history of Conan's world prior to writing the stories, commented that the fan map was very close to his own, differing only in minor details. The fan map is printed at the front of some of the books. I have never seen Howards original map and have always wondered if it still exists. There are several good modern Hyborian maps on the web, such as this one.
I[NAL] think the patent invalidates itself by explaining the existence of prior art:
The invention could virtually eliminate unauthorized recordings of live concerts or performances--often referred to as "bootleg recordings." Although such recordings were relatively rare a decade ago, advances in technology have turned bootlegging into big business.
So, the patent says, people have been doing this for many years, and to such an extent that it's already a big business. But we're patenting it anyway, because we can. If you read the patent in detail you will see that what they are claiming to have invented is the concept of recording and editing a live performance and spooling it onto a bunch of CDR writers all in one step. No new technology, no new anything, just the act of doing it. So anyone who records a concert and sells the CDs from now on will be infringing on the patent. Another piece of ridiculous garbage rubber-stamped by our brainy patent examiners.
I agree with the above. Providing the opportunity for profit stands a far better chance of success than creating a massive government project. Algae farms and the support industries around them could ignite a land boom similar to what the railroads did in the 1800s. And we're not talking about turning prime farmland into suburbs and shopping malls, we're talking about turning empty desert land into a place where people would want to live and work on a large scale.
No, officer, I wasn't actually going 90 miles an hour. It just seems like it because the spot in the road where I was a minute ago is a mile and a half away now.
I think this is the beginning of the end for the motion picture industry. Virtual visualizations are going to get cheaper and easier. Eventually anybody with an idea will be able to make a movie so good that there will be no technical advantage to being a studio. The only thing studios will have going for them is the ability to hire really good actors and musicians. Production costs will be so small and theater tickets so cheap that the industry won't be able to support itself. Moviemaking will become more of an art form and hobby than a business. That's what my crystal ball says anyway.
A couple years ago my Quest DSL line suddenly stopped working. Qwest said they were replacing some cable in my area and my line probably got disrupted. During the next 2 weeks I made 35 calls to Qwest support. I reprogrammed my Cisco DSL router twice, had my local computer shop do it (twice), replaced my network card, did registry restores and even reinstalled Windows, not to mention repeating the same diagnostic procedures over and over with almost every clueless Quest tech. Finally, technician #35 said, "Oh, wait, you're still in bridging mode, you're supposed to be in PPP mode. [clickety-click] Try it now." And presto, it was fixed.
Presumably this technician was looking at the same screen as the other 34 who hadn't noticed that the mode setting was wrong. If only I could have billed them for my time. My partial reward came 2 days later when I informed Qwest that I was switching to a local ISP, and explained to the customer service rep EXACTLY why they were going to waive the account transfer fee. They did. I've been happy with my local ISP ever since. (QuidNunc.net in West Seattle).
Many years ago, like in the 1970s, I read a story about archaeologists investigating why a planet's civilization died out. Their conclusion was that the inhabitants went bankrupt. Somehow their economy collapsed and they all starved, even though they had ample resources. I wish I could remember the title or author, but it was a long time ago.
In the real world of today I think there are dangerous signs of strangulation. Examples: the flood of trivial patents and the ensuing litigation, copyrights that never expire, and the spreading web of technology restrictions being imposed to enforce them. Sometimes I wonder how soon progress will come to a halt because innovation has been made too risky.
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"The democrats are trying to pave a road to the white house with the bodies of dead American soldiers."
Darn those Democrats.
Yeah, I wonder what percent of the Russians and Chinese who generate 70% of spam are using the Windows zombie machines that distribute 80% of spam?
Over the years I've often thought it would be nice to create design or debugging tools that depicted programs as 3D pictures of machines, with widgets stuck on them performing logic functions and data flowing in and out through pipes and valves. But I've never done anything about it. A city is like a big machine, and streams of people flowing through the streets seem like a perfect way to represent web traffic.
Maybe the next step will be a website designer similar to the x-Tycoon games, that lets you plunk down buildings (pages) and throttle traffic with road sizes, stoplights or some other visual metaphor. I call this thing Cool!
All the 100 hard drives and laptops purchased as part of Pointsec's research will be destroyed.
Jeez, we're not talking about lab rats here. How about wiping them and donating them to a non-profit?
I don't very many people besides Kuehne see these rings either. But to be fair, to non-experts most satellite photos that have yielded actual results look like ordinary terrain to most people. To the untrained eye, ancient human bone fragments are just bits of rock.
Notice that, like all other Atlantis claims, this one satisfies some parts of Plato's information and not others. My favorite tantalizing Atlantis clues are the specific alloy of gold and copper called "orichalcum" mentioned by Plato, found only in the Andes mountains, and that the words "atl" and "antis" mean "water" and "copper" in one of the ancient languages of South America.
Maybe they need the extra pixels to add the steganographic copyright information.
I agree 100%. The increasing proliferation of ownership of every facet of life by some corporate entity is a new form of feudalism. Corporations will own the rights to the physical and mental processes required to do all the things that we enjoy or need. Essentially we will have to pay for the privilege of existing in their world from one moment to the next.
I was going to suggest that the next Microsoft keyboard should have a single-key Ctrl-Alt-Del in place of caps lock, but you beat me to the punch. Great minds think alike.
Music recordings that cannot be played back!
You don't get to listen to it, but you can possess a copy. The RIAA values ownership of the music much more than anything about the music itself. I see nonplayable recordings a perfect fit for their "mine, mine, mine" mentality.
SuperHyperMaxiUltraHigh Definition Video! A 2-hour movie takes 950 Tb of storage, and transmission requires 256 2-Gbit channels. With no system in the world capable of handling it, this standard will finally put an end to video piracy!
I using keybaord 20years and not have no prolbem.
Back in the 80s, an old mainframe guy I worked with of them told me that no company using IBM computers (at least I think it was IBM) to do their payroll had ever missed a payroll. He claimed that they went to great lengths to maintain that perfect record, and told me a couple stories of recovering data from burned and water-soaked punch cards.
It was a far cry from today's 10,000-word legal license agreements that give software vendors permission to do whatever they want on your system with no liability whatsoever.
And recently, Internet Explorer stopped opening for me.
Me too.
Solution 1: Spybot
Solution 2 (when I got sick of repeating solution 1): Mozilla.
Incidentally, that article page sure looks wacked in Mozilla 1.6.
A robot may harm no meat sack, or through inaction allow a meat sack to come to harm.
Let me get this straight. You read Slashdot, and you also IRON your clothes?
I am not worthy.
Nice to see someone RTFA and quoted where it said "100% of bootlegs are audience bootlegs".
Not sure if the above comment is sarcasm or what. The article doesn't say 100% of bootlegs are audience bootlegs, but I don't know what that has to do with anything. The point of the parent post is that MOST bootlegs are NOT audience bootlegs. A university study of about 200 movies measured that 80% (if I recall correctly) of them were pirated by insiders.
Like the RIAA, the motion picture industry seems to be trying to blame all its problems on somebody else. And they seem to have the cooperation of the news media -- notice that this article does not mention that audience bootlegs represent only 20% of the problem, a fact hardly EVER mentioned in the news. Is this propaganda by omission, or just another sign of news writers not reading the news?
While the French may say "Mais, oui!" to perfuming the air around the computer, the rest of the world says, "Take les shower!"
Jeez, if they bother to include Springfield I would think they would have a map of Conan's world. As many Conan readers know, a couple fans constructed a map of the Hyborian world around 1930, based on reading the stories in detail, and sent it to author Robert Howard. Howard, who had drawn up his own map and history of Conan's world prior to writing the stories, commented that the fan map was very close to his own, differing only in minor details. The fan map is printed at the front of some of the books. I have never seen Howards original map and have always wondered if it still exists. There are several good modern Hyborian maps on the web, such as this one.
I[NAL] think the patent invalidates itself by explaining the existence of prior art:
The invention could virtually eliminate unauthorized recordings of live concerts or performances--often referred to as "bootleg recordings." Although such recordings were relatively rare a decade ago, advances in technology have turned bootlegging into big business.
So, the patent says, people have been doing this for many years, and to such an extent that it's already a big business. But we're patenting it anyway, because we can. If you read the patent in detail you will see that what they are claiming to have invented is the concept of recording and editing a live performance and spooling it onto a bunch of CDR writers all in one step. No new technology, no new anything, just the act of doing it. So anyone who records a concert and sells the CDs from now on will be infringing on the patent. Another piece of ridiculous garbage rubber-stamped by our brainy patent examiners.
Your tax dollars at work.
I agree with the above. Providing the opportunity for profit stands a far better chance of success than creating a massive government project. Algae farms and the support industries around them could ignite a land boom similar to what the railroads did in the 1800s. And we're not talking about turning prime farmland into suburbs and shopping malls, we're talking about turning empty desert land into a place where people would want to live and work on a large scale.
No, officer, I wasn't actually going 90 miles an hour. It just seems like it because the spot in the road where I was a minute ago is a mile and a half away now.
I think this is the beginning of the end for the motion picture industry. Virtual visualizations are going to get cheaper and easier. Eventually anybody with an idea will be able to make a movie so good that there will be no technical advantage to being a studio. The only thing studios will have going for them is the ability to hire really good actors and musicians. Production costs will be so small and theater tickets so cheap that the industry won't be able to support itself. Moviemaking will become more of an art form and hobby than a business. That's what my crystal ball says anyway.
A couple years ago my Quest DSL line suddenly stopped working. Qwest said they were replacing some cable in my area and my line probably got disrupted. During the next 2 weeks I made 35 calls to Qwest support. I reprogrammed my Cisco DSL router twice, had my local computer shop do it (twice), replaced my network card, did registry restores and even reinstalled Windows, not to mention repeating the same diagnostic procedures over and over with almost every clueless Quest tech. Finally, technician #35 said, "Oh, wait, you're still in bridging mode, you're supposed to be in PPP mode. [clickety-click] Try it now." And presto, it was fixed.
Presumably this technician was looking at the same screen as the other 34 who hadn't noticed that the mode setting was wrong. If only I could have billed them for my time. My partial reward came 2 days later when I informed Qwest that I was switching to a local ISP, and explained to the customer service rep EXACTLY why they were going to waive the account transfer fee. They did.
I've been happy with my local ISP ever since. (QuidNunc.net in West Seattle).
Many years ago, like in the 1970s, I read a story about archaeologists investigating why a planet's civilization died out. Their conclusion was that the inhabitants went bankrupt. Somehow their economy collapsed and they all starved, even though they had ample resources. I wish I could remember the title or author, but it was a long time ago.
In the real world of today I think there are dangerous signs of strangulation. Examples: the flood of trivial patents and the ensuing litigation, copyrights that never expire, and the spreading web of technology restrictions being imposed to enforce them. Sometimes I wonder how soon progress will come to a halt because innovation has been made too risky.
I'm with you on most of this, but... license plates???