They should put them in cereal. Then you could say "I eat webservers for breakfast!".
Added bonus - once you'd digested it you could still say you had one up your butt. +++++
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Lo-Tech Cinema
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The ironic thing is that the entertainment industry thinks entertainment is a thing you 'produce' through 'calculated production decisions'.
The entertainment industry knows that it can get guaranteed financial returns if it sticks to its 'calculated production decisions'. Even waterworld made money in the end. For every BWP or Clerks there must be a dozen fairly good indie flicks that won't make it off the ground, leaving their makers with a hefty bill to pay.
The rules are different for each category. An indie film should be made for the satisfaction of making something you want to see, or more likely to advance the careers and skills of those involved. A hollywood film is made to produce a return on an investment.
the gif transparency is messed up. when you select the area of a gif to make transparent the graphics app sometimes swaps in an contrasting colour to show the transparent areas.
saddest thing is that the graphic didn't need any transparency - it will only ever be shown against a white background. if it ain't broke.....
SDMI is a compressed format (lossy like a jpg). If you resample the output from an SDMI track and then MP3 it you'll have compressed it twice and the quality will suffer. +++++
they may have some quite nice 3d models and procedural skin rendering etc, but some of the character animations here are lousy -- what is with that crappy hipwag thing?
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Re:99 cents an album and they'd take over the worl
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tell that to epitaph (or any other company).
they'll crap themselves that the market will fall out from under their cds, and then they'll be left with a bunch of plastic on their shelves.
the only way e-music companies can get big labels to allow mp3 distribution is to present them with a model that is very similar to the current cd market. The labels probably don't want to shift millions of mp3s for a small price, they just want to make sure they aren't left out in the cold if the whole thing takes off.
virtua fighter 2 and 3 have some sort of "expert mode" where the computer learns moves from players.
it seemed to learn moves from a player, try them, and rate how successful the move was. It only kept using stuff that worked well -- but seemed to mix stuff up so you couldn't easily second guess it. The AI still had a couple of bugs, but providing you were well mannered enough not to repeatedly exploit them you could get a tough and interesting game against the computer (with the added fun of seeing what moves it had picked up from you or your friends).
fighting against vf2 computer is much more fun than fighting the old street fighter 2 ai, which was very repetitive and was heavily stacked in the computers favour.
even though vf2 is quite old now, i still rate it. soulblade and a couple of others seem to have ripped it off with just small improvements in graphics etc. You can pick a second hand saturn up for about £30 these days. The PC version of vf2 is actually pretty recent and might have added/improved AI. Vf3 is excellent if you're willing to learn it, but seems to be too tricky for most people to learn.
til you can use drunken kung fu in quake, i'll still keep going back to virtua fighter. shun di forever:) +++++
if it is encoded with a one time pad, it'd probably be easier to break into the safe in CIA headquarters that contains the results than to crack the crypto. +++++
Asking for no computer intervention is missing the point -- unless you know and understand the encryption algorithm you can't brute force attack it.
If any slashdotters are attempting this, they'd better look at the text file here which shows how far people have got already.
They suspect the message is broken into a number of chunks, which appear to have been encrypted several different ways. They think that the last chunk of the message is encrypted with some kind of one time pad system, meaning the key is the same length as that section of text.
If you want to guess the key then be my guest, but it really would be smarter to try an intelligent attack involving all tools available to you -- computers and wits included. +++++
skip that traffic....circle for half an hour over the nearest "vertiport" and then walk/drive the remaining couple of miles to your destination?
they're gonna need a vertiport on every street corner before these can think about replacing cars, and if everyone lands in the same place how are they going to handle parking?
"sorry, this vertiport is full. you have been diverted to jfk international. press your red panic button now if you are low on fuel......"
It isn't the change in behaviour caused by the gun that is the problem. A gun is a very useful tool for killing people.
A murder spree with a gun can result in upwards of 15 people killed - without the gun that same individual would probably only be able to kill a couple of people.
Allowing that psychopath to have a gun is as irresponsible as giving a baby a power drill.
In the UK the kids normally don't have guns. Most shootings here involve either illegally owned firearms (owned by "serious" criminals) or adults who own guns and then flip out.
Having fewer guns in the country does mean fewer deaths when this kind of spree happens.
A kid with a knife cannot kill 15 or 20 people before he is overpowered.
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They should put them in cereal. Then you could say "I eat webservers for breakfast!".
Added bonus - once you'd digested it you could still say you had one up your butt.
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The entertainment industry knows that it can get guaranteed financial returns if it sticks to its 'calculated production decisions'. Even waterworld made money in the end. For every BWP or Clerks there must be a dozen fairly good indie flicks that won't make it off the ground, leaving their makers with a hefty bill to pay.
The rules are different for each category. An indie film should be made for the satisfaction of making something you want to see, or more likely to advance the careers and skills of those involved. A hollywood film is made to produce a return on an investment.
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the gif transparency is messed up. when you select the area of a gif to make transparent the graphics app sometimes swaps in an contrasting colour to show the transparent areas.
saddest thing is that the graphic didn't need any transparency - it will only ever be shown against a white background. if it ain't broke.....
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SDMI is a compressed format (lossy like a jpg). If you resample the output from an SDMI track and then MP3 it you'll have compressed it twice and the quality will suffer.
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why a turing test? doesn't that determine whether text is written by a computer or a human?
surely most spam is written by humans and sent by computer......
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they may have some quite nice 3d models and procedural skin rendering etc, but some of the character animations here are lousy -- what is with that crappy hipwag thing?
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tell that to epitaph (or any other company).
they'll crap themselves that the market will fall out from under their cds, and then they'll be left with a bunch of plastic on their shelves.
the only way e-music companies can get big labels to allow mp3 distribution is to present them with a model that is very similar to the current cd market. The labels probably don't want to shift millions of mp3s for a small price, they just want to make sure they aren't left out in the cold if the whole thing takes off.
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yeah, it did bounce right off his wrist......
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virtua fighter 2 and 3 have some sort of "expert mode" where the computer learns moves from players.
:)
it seemed to learn moves from a player, try them, and rate how successful the move was. It only kept using stuff that worked well -- but seemed to mix stuff up so you couldn't easily second guess it. The AI still had a couple of bugs, but providing you were well mannered enough not to repeatedly exploit them you could get a tough and interesting game against the computer (with the added fun of seeing what moves it had picked up from you or your friends).
fighting against vf2 computer is much more fun than fighting the old street fighter 2 ai, which was very repetitive and was heavily stacked in the
computers favour.
even though vf2 is quite old now, i still rate it. soulblade and a couple of others seem to have ripped it off with just small improvements in graphics etc. You can pick a second hand saturn up for about £30 these days. The PC version of vf2 is actually pretty recent and might have added/improved AI. Vf3 is excellent if you're willing to learn it, but seems to be too tricky for most people to learn.
til you can use drunken kung fu in quake, i'll still keep going back to virtua fighter. shun di forever
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FIRST COMMENT in slot #14.
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your message was obsolete before you even submitted it
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I think breaking into a safe in CIA headquarters would be a pretty exciting journey.....
Especially if you got out without anyone knowing you were there.....
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all but the last 97 letters.
we know.
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I'm guessing its the coca cola secret recipe....
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if it is encoded with a one time pad, it'd probably be easier to break into the safe in CIA headquarters that contains the results than to crack the crypto.
+++++
Asking for no computer intervention is missing the point -- unless you know and understand the encryption algorithm you can't brute force attack it.
If any slashdotters are attempting this, they'd better look at the text file here which shows how far people have got already.
They suspect the message is broken into a number of chunks, which appear to have been encrypted several different ways. They think that the last chunk of the message is encrypted with some kind of one time pad system, meaning the key is the same length as that section of text.
If you want to guess the key then be my guest, but it really would be smarter to try an intelligent attack involving all tools available to you -- computers and wits included.
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played by robbie coltrane (fat scottish funnyman) in the uk series of the same name.
skip that traffic....circle for half an hour over the nearest "vertiport" and then walk/drive the remaining couple of miles to your destination?
they're gonna need a vertiport on every street corner before these can think about replacing cars, and if everyone lands in the same place how are they going to handle parking?
"sorry, this vertiport is full. you have been diverted to jfk international. press your red panic button now if you are low on fuel......"
It isn't the change in behaviour caused by the gun that is the problem. A gun is a very useful tool for killing people.
A murder spree with a gun can result in upwards of 15 people killed - without the gun that same individual would probably only be able to kill a couple of people.
Allowing that psychopath to have a gun is as irresponsible as giving a baby a power drill.
In the UK the kids normally don't have guns. Most shootings here involve either illegally owned firearms (owned by "serious" criminals) or adults who own guns and then flip out.
Having fewer guns in the country does mean fewer deaths when this kind of spree happens.
A kid with a knife cannot kill 15 or 20 people before he is overpowered.
For your example, the plans for an atomic bomb are the easy part, getting or producing the parts are the problems.
Getting or producing the parts without giving all the people involved radiation poisoning is another problem.