Parody has a very specific legal definition. IANAL but basically if you make some kind of derivative work that doesn't actively parody the object it's being derived from then it's just ripping off it's fame and style and you're not protected as a parody.
MacGruber is a parody... Micky Mouse pooping on GWB's head is not a parody.
Atheist or not, SOMETHING had to have always existed. Otherwise it's turtles all the way down.
I saw a Mormon laughing at a Christian for believing that God always existed. He said that their belief of a God pyramid going back forever made more sense.
Scientifically, philosophically and theologically "the beginning" is just something we can't figure out. Perhaps our brains are too small.
I've previously seen a demo done with conductive dots on the bottom of game pieces, though it was limited to only a few pieces since the iPad only detects 10 or 11 touches at a time.
It then occurred to me that there may be a hack someone figured out to detect a much higher number of touches by iterating over sets of 10. When you assume all touches are static you may be able to define a specific area of the screen to test for touches. It wouldn't work for dragging multiple objects but with it's slower refresh rate it could in theory track the positions of all objects and then compare for changes.
Further you could divide the game space up into different areas of touch sensitivity. You could have a few areas dedicated to controls which are checked more frequently and a main game area that's checked less often. There may be a slight lag but if you're checking more than 4 times a second it should feel pretty instantaneous.
It also depends on how the iOS reports touches. If there's a "new touch" event you could avoid constantly looping to check different areas of the screen.
But it doesn't seem to be too good to be true, especially with known proofs of concept already out for months.
As a recent article showed, traditional algorithms may be less optimal on modern systems with multiple layers of cache and various speed memory systems. New or old it's always important to benchmark and find the right tool for your particular needs.
As a deaf guy this story kind of scares the heck out of me. Now if *I'D* been sitting on my motorcycle and some normally dressed dude runs up and points a gun at me while screaming who knows what...
That sort of argument depends on ignorance of the past and the people involved. It's like the Twilight Zone where the time traveler kills baby Hitler and replaces it with another baby, that one grew up to be Hitler.
Fine, but what if you did DNA tests first and clearly established who the person was? What if you traveled from 2050 to 2020 where everything is recorded and everyone is tracked, you could be certain who you are going after and at least verify before you kill em.
On the other hand, with your idea you could go back to kill hitler, check to make sure you have the right guy, then when you get back the pictures are all different and they go "Who is Hitler?? Why didn't you kill Goodwin??"
It solves loops with bunny men and guys named Donnie Darko.
But seriously the idea of the universe getting stuck in a loop to me is pretty silly. I would imagine more of a whirlpool popping up in some small area of the ocean, locally the water is redirected and stuck in a loop but the whole ocean doesn't even notice it. Eventually it's resolved by outside interference or by it's own internal conditions changing. To quote Primer "The universe doesn't break, we break".
Everyone goes with the multiverse theory now anyways because of Quantum Mechanics, so in that way there's no paradox since you've simply shifted to a different universe and your original one just keeps humming along.
Grandfather paradox: Go back in time, shoot your grandfather... now your father wasn't born, you weren't born. Which means your grandfather doesn't get shot, so you get to be born, etc... the universe flip-flops your time travel forever, the record is skipping for eternity.
I personally like Primer and it's time machine concept. You could go back to yesterday and kill yourself, that version of you would die but you would not disappear. Also if you kept the yesterday you from going in the time machine you now have 2 of yourself that you're stuck with. No paradoxes, it runs more a computer program or a flowchart.
Grandfather paradox requires a sort of feedback loop in time where the universe seemingly gets stuck in a cycle until things resolve themselves.
It's hard to point to openness as the reason with Apple's walled garden as a ready counterpoint, but what did go wrong?
One part may be what I recently noticed with my wife and her iPad. You see she immediately wanted one instead of a laptop, and she's immensely more satisfied with it than her previous (more powerful) laptop. Here's one reason why iOS is successful.
She can install apps on her own. Previously I'd tried to train her on this... you find the download link on the website (not always easy). You go to the downloads folder (she forgets where it is). You locate the file you just downloaded (forgot what it's name was, or the name doesn't match the app). Double-click it to get the disk image open (the what?) then either drag and drop the app on the Applications folder OR run the Installer if it's set up that way (huh?)
Now she just goes to the store with one tap. Hits the little search button, types draw or whatever... checks out the apps, and clicks Install. It's done.
I believe the mobile app stores such as Apple's and the Android store (there is one on the phone right?) significantly lower the barrier of entry to trying out new apps on the device. For us downloading and installing are simple as can be, but to a non-techie it's just a fog of gibberish and confusing steps. Most people don't install ANY new apps on their computers, it takes a "power user" to download and install Google Earth. You hear people like that say "I hate computers" but really it's the basic file system management and app installation process they can't grok.
So yes, openness and the "walled garden" is a significant part of Apple and Google's success. It's not so much a "cool factor" as it is a eureka! moment to people when they too can try new things on their device. The model of downloading an app on the computer, plugging in a phone and then using some sort of installer process is a bit overwhelming for the majority of people. Simplifying the phones has empowered the common user.
For the +whatever@gmail.com thing, you can use a lil social engineering. Use a simple code like the days date bob+06162010@gmail.com or whatever and point out "This is VERY IMPORTANT, it's part of my SPAM filter, if you don't put that in the email I won't see it".
Then they'll be careful to put in the whole email and filter themselves for you. Otherwise the geeks will recognize it and ignore, but the non-geeks won't know what it is and will type it anyways. So anyone who WOULD ignore it can be "educated" to keep it in the address.
If they ignore it and bug you, just add an actual filter that checks for your email without the + from that person and sends it straight to the trash. Hey everything you said to them was the truth and it's part of your SPAM filtering, you also won't read it if they don't use that.:-)
So, if you want to stop the march to DRM and the loss of basic rights in the face of corporate rights to profit, you're going to have to convince fellow Americans that profit isn't the only thing that matters. Good luck with that.
Or convince them that DRM hurts profits... that's a much easier idea to "sell".
Which gets you freedom. heh. Freedom is profitable.
1) Sharing a computer, so it's easier to check her inbox and go "Hey your sister emailed you" 2) Like I said.:-)
Maybe we're odd but no secrets and nothing to worry about. I don't look at pron so... no worries about her finding my stash.
Only problem is around anniversaries it's harder to hide surprises.
Safari is her browser, logged into her gmail, Chrome is mine. Yeah, one username too. It was too much of a hassle when one of us would have a contact the other needed, or the photo libraries getting confused. Just same photos, same music but with playlists, same contacts, but different emails.
What took a LONG time was to train her to just hide an app instead of scooting all the windows around to get to her browser. THAT was annoying.
Also sad is the tendency of people to argue about a strawman issue instead of the real issue that's bothering them. No measure of facts can convince someone when their belief hinges on some other unspoken agenda. Since we do it without noticing, often a resolution to an argument is practically impossible.
Because you're not the first Aikido guy to talk about how much safer it is than other arts. You continually ignore that people have different reactions to being tossed at the floor, some will flail their arms wildly and hurt themselves. It's like watching newbies at a skate park falling off their boards for the first time, broken bones don't have to happen IF people are trained how to fall properly.
And most aren't. You can't sit there and say you have total mastery of another persons physical reaction when you surprise them like that and they think they're gonna land on their face. Some will lock their arms some will dislocate their shoulders, and what will your reaction be? "But I didn't hit him". Yeah good luck when they end up in a wheelchair.
That's true but anyone could sit in the parking lot and record everything going over that wire for months. Or hide a little sniffer box under a bush somewhere and record all year long. It was probably around 2000 that this happened so I'm gonna guess they weren't using RC4 or anything like that. Eventually you could brute force it with so many samples.
Shoot in those days I opened up my laptop at work, it automatically joined the open wireless there and my boss screamed that I'd "Hacked" into the network. People seriously did not understand how far their wireless was reaching back then, and the thought was "We'd see anyone sitting around with a laptop acting suspicious". Now with smartphones people aren't quite so retarded.
I remember years ago I drove around a little with my laptop on the passenger seat recording the SSIDs I'd passed. Always fun to see how people name things. One that stood out was a Pik N Save or something... they strangely had a Wifi setup but the name was.
PIKSAVPOS
Yeah, their Point of Sales network was unencrypted and accessible throughout the huge parking lot and onto the main road.
Nice.
Perhaps the hotels used the same contractor. Very cheap and fast setup, works great.
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Parody has a very specific legal definition. IANAL but basically if you make some kind of derivative work that doesn't actively parody the object it's being derived from then it's just ripping off it's fame and style and you're not protected as a parody.
MacGruber is a parody... Micky Mouse pooping on GWB's head is not a parody.
Atheist or not, SOMETHING had to have always existed. Otherwise it's turtles all the way down.
I saw a Mormon laughing at a Christian for believing that God always existed. He said that their belief of a God pyramid going back forever made more sense.
Scientifically, philosophically and theologically "the beginning" is just something we can't figure out. Perhaps our brains are too small.
I've previously seen a demo done with conductive dots on the bottom of game pieces, though it was limited to only a few pieces since the iPad only detects 10 or 11 touches at a time.
It then occurred to me that there may be a hack someone figured out to detect a much higher number of touches by iterating over sets of 10. When you assume all touches are static you may be able to define a specific area of the screen to test for touches. It wouldn't work for dragging multiple objects but with it's slower refresh rate it could in theory track the positions of all objects and then compare for changes.
Further you could divide the game space up into different areas of touch sensitivity. You could have a few areas dedicated to controls which are checked more frequently and a main game area that's checked less often. There may be a slight lag but if you're checking more than 4 times a second it should feel pretty instantaneous.
It also depends on how the iOS reports touches. If there's a "new touch" event you could avoid constantly looping to check different areas of the screen.
But it doesn't seem to be too good to be true, especially with known proofs of concept already out for months.
In agreement with your post...
As a recent article showed, traditional algorithms may be less optimal on modern systems with multiple layers of cache and various speed memory systems. New or old it's always important to benchmark and find the right tool for your particular needs.
You are quite wrong about deaf being allowed to drive, in many countries it's legal and quite common.
Studies have repeatedly shown that deaf drivers are as safe as the average driver is, no increase in accidents are incidents on the road.
As a deaf guy this story kind of scares the heck out of me. Now if *I'D* been sitting on my motorcycle and some normally dressed dude runs up and points a gun at me while screaming who knows what...
well I guess I'd just end up dead.
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Shake it three times and you're playing with it.
What??
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That sort of argument depends on ignorance of the past and the people involved. It's like the Twilight Zone where the time traveler kills baby Hitler and replaces it with another baby, that one grew up to be Hitler.
Fine, but what if you did DNA tests first and clearly established who the person was? What if you traveled from 2050 to 2020 where everything is recorded and everyone is tracked, you could be certain who you are going after and at least verify before you kill em.
On the other hand, with your idea you could go back to kill hitler, check to make sure you have the right guy, then when you get back the pictures are all different and they go "Who is Hitler?? Why didn't you kill Goodwin??"
It solves loops with bunny men and guys named Donnie Darko.
But seriously the idea of the universe getting stuck in a loop to me is pretty silly. I would imagine more of a whirlpool popping up in some small area of the ocean, locally the water is redirected and stuck in a loop but the whole ocean doesn't even notice it. Eventually it's resolved by outside interference or by it's own internal conditions changing. To quote Primer "The universe doesn't break, we break".
Everyone goes with the multiverse theory now anyways because of Quantum Mechanics, so in that way there's no paradox since you've simply shifted to a different universe and your original one just keeps humming along.
Yeah you did say lost "right after the grandfather paradox", I read it as "up to" ...
Oh well, at least I got to chat about Primer and got a mod point. ;)
(Note to self: SLOWDOWN COWBOY!)
Grandfather paradox: Go back in time, shoot your grandfather... now your father wasn't born, you weren't born. Which means your grandfather doesn't get shot, so you get to be born, etc... the universe flip-flops your time travel forever, the record is skipping for eternity.
I personally like Primer and it's time machine concept. You could go back to yesterday and kill yourself, that version of you would die but you would not disappear. Also if you kept the yesterday you from going in the time machine you now have 2 of yourself that you're stuck with. No paradoxes, it runs more a computer program or a flowchart.
Grandfather paradox requires a sort of feedback loop in time where the universe seemingly gets stuck in a cycle until things resolve themselves.
One part may be what I recently noticed with my wife and her iPad. You see she immediately wanted one instead of a laptop, and she's immensely more satisfied with it than her previous (more powerful) laptop. Here's one reason why iOS is successful.
She can install apps on her own. Previously I'd tried to train her on this... you find the download link on the website (not always easy). You go to the downloads folder (she forgets where it is). You locate the file you just downloaded (forgot what it's name was, or the name doesn't match the app). Double-click it to get the disk image open (the what?) then either drag and drop the app on the Applications folder OR run the Installer if it's set up that way (huh?)
Now she just goes to the store with one tap. Hits the little search button, types draw or whatever... checks out the apps, and clicks Install. It's done.
I believe the mobile app stores such as Apple's and the Android store (there is one on the phone right?) significantly lower the barrier of entry to trying out new apps on the device. For us downloading and installing are simple as can be, but to a non-techie it's just a fog of gibberish and confusing steps. Most people don't install ANY new apps on their computers, it takes a "power user" to download and install Google Earth. You hear people like that say "I hate computers" but really it's the basic file system management and app installation process they can't grok.
So yes, openness and the "walled garden" is a significant part of Apple and Google's success. It's not so much a "cool factor" as it is a eureka! moment to people when they too can try new things on their device. The model of downloading an app on the computer, plugging in a phone and then using some sort of installer process is a bit overwhelming for the majority of people. Simplifying the phones has empowered the common user.
For the +whatever@gmail.com thing, you can use a lil social engineering. Use a simple code like the days date bob+06162010@gmail.com or whatever and point out "This is VERY IMPORTANT, it's part of my SPAM filter, if you don't put that in the email I won't see it".
Then they'll be careful to put in the whole email and filter themselves for you. Otherwise the geeks will recognize it and ignore, but the non-geeks won't know what it is and will type it anyways. So anyone who WOULD ignore it can be "educated" to keep it in the address.
If they ignore it and bug you, just add an actual filter that checks for your email without the + from that person and sends it straight to the trash. Hey everything you said to them was the truth and it's part of your SPAM filtering, you also won't read it if they don't use that. :-)
Or convince them that DRM hurts profits... that's a much easier idea to "sell".
Which gets you freedom. heh. Freedom is profitable.
1) Sharing a computer, so it's easier to check her inbox and go "Hey your sister emailed you" :-)
2) Like I said.
Maybe we're odd but no secrets and nothing to worry about. I don't look at pron so... no worries about her finding my stash.
Only problem is around anniversaries it's harder to hide surprises.
Safari is her browser, logged into her gmail, Chrome is mine. Yeah, one username too. It was too much of a hassle when one of us would have a contact the other needed, or the photo libraries getting confused. Just same photos, same music but with playlists, same contacts, but different emails.
What took a LONG time was to train her to just hide an app instead of scooting all the windows around to get to her browser. THAT was annoying.
Some of us here are... *gasp!* married!
I know... I know... it's gotta be a trick or something. Impossible!!
Also sad is the tendency of people to argue about a strawman issue instead of the real issue that's bothering them. No measure of facts can convince someone when their belief hinges on some other unspoken agenda. Since we do it without noticing, often a resolution to an argument is practically impossible.
Because you're not the first Aikido guy to talk about how much safer it is than other arts. You continually ignore that people have different reactions to being tossed at the floor, some will flail their arms wildly and hurt themselves. It's like watching newbies at a skate park falling off their boards for the first time, broken bones don't have to happen IF people are trained how to fall properly.
And most aren't. You can't sit there and say you have total mastery of another persons physical reaction when you surprise them like that and they think they're gonna land on their face. Some will lock their arms some will dislocate their shoulders, and what will your reaction be? "But I didn't hit him". Yeah good luck when they end up in a wheelchair.
Certainly, if you want to avoid "blame" Aikido looks attractive but it's not the moral high ground it's advocates claim.
I'm not into martial arts of any kind, but I gotta disagree with the meme that Aikido is somehow non-violent or nicer than other arts.
Okay so some idiot comes at you and you flip him over your head... now if he's not trained on how to land he's likely to break his neck or arm.
Now on the other hand, if you throw a controlled punch or kick you can hit him just where you want and as hard or soft as you want... "just enough".
I'm sorry but the Aikido thing is like saying "I didn't hit you, the FLOOR did".
Yeah but how do you find the worthy people with those skills who didn't have the chances to go to such a university?
I don't have any services on, and that was 10 years ago.
Most guys can walk into a room with 100 people in it and identify all the hot women in half a second.
That's true but anyone could sit in the parking lot and record everything going over that wire for months. Or hide a little sniffer box under a bush somewhere and record all year long. It was probably around 2000 that this happened so I'm gonna guess they weren't using RC4 or anything like that. Eventually you could brute force it with so many samples.
Shoot in those days I opened up my laptop at work, it automatically joined the open wireless there and my boss screamed that I'd "Hacked" into the network. People seriously did not understand how far their wireless was reaching back then, and the thought was "We'd see anyone sitting around with a laptop acting suspicious". Now with smartphones people aren't quite so retarded.
I remember years ago I drove around a little with my laptop on the passenger seat recording the SSIDs I'd passed. Always fun to see how people name things. One that stood out was a Pik N Save or something... they strangely had a Wifi setup but the name was.
PIKSAVPOS
Yeah, their Point of Sales network was unencrypted and accessible throughout the huge parking lot and onto the main road.
Nice.
Perhaps the hotels used the same contractor. Very cheap and fast setup, works great.