It's been a while, so I don't remember the particulars of this case exactly.
Adam was a kid who wrote hotline, a very sophisticated client/server filetransfer/chat app, which very quickly was picked up by the warez community. It was light years ahead of anything in the field (this was 3(?) years before Napster, to put things in perspective).
Due to the popularity, a group of businessmen decided to fund further development of the app...Adam joined them, signing over his code. He moved to canada and worked on the project. Eventually, though, he realized that the business people were screwing him over. After trying, naively, to get them to change their ways, they reminded him of the contracts he had signed regarding his code. Adam suddenly realized that he no longer 'owned' his code. To make a story short, he PGP encrypted everything on the computer he was using and flew back to.au.
The company was forced to reverse-engineer hl, resulting in version 1.6 (1.7?) or so, which included banner ads and a PC version. This was the death knell of the hotline community, which finally degenerated to the land of w4r3z kiddies it is today.
And now, at 22, Adam's ready to take on the business world again. Go Adam! Kick some ass!
Do all the angles of copyright law still apply if I *don't* have that little line of text saying "copyright 2001 by moi"? For example, if my diary is lost and somebody finds it, can they publish from it? today? 20 years from now? 20 years after I'm dead? 100?
Wow. That's really neat stuff.
So, anyways...your product would let you seamlessly create a 3d world from a video feed? (At least in theory...I'd assume you'd have to build a world for the camera to match up with...)
As a fake director, the possibilities for bringing together computer animation with live action would be certainly be much more interesting.
What programs will this work with?
Even more interesting, will it capture lighting data?
And finally, how cpu/ram/disk-intensive is this?
Kubrick's 2001 had just come out: he expected it to the end-all of space movies and special effects. Georgie released his little fantasy flick and it clobbered everything.
Kubrick of course, didn't like this...he toyed with the idea of A.I., which he figured could do as well. Eventually, though, he gave up on hating Lucas for the piece of mass-market trash he'd released (in his eyes at least) and left this idea in a bin for the next few decades.
At least this is the story from my class on George Lucas at USC. BTW, the man himself is gonna come in in a few weeks. Anybody have a few good questions?
I saw it a couple of weeks ago. (Gotta love being in LA) And, damn. It was pretty weak. I'll just repeat what everybody is saying: don't go see it.
The one high point was meeting Jerry O' Connell after the show. We were standing there making fun of it, and he rushes over with "what'd ya think, guys?" I just reached out and pumped his hand-my friend couldn't think up anything polite to say so he just stuttered a bit.
-brett (hopefully I can do better than this someday)
My mom was over there the other day on a volunteer medical mission to the villages up in the Himalayas. She said it was a complete shock to be wandering about a truely desolate section of a third-world country and then run across a computer, but she sent us all e-mails.
Can't outrun the technology age any more. Is this good or bad?
Back when Apple started using PPC's, they threw the entire 68k instruction set out the window. They provided an emulator for PPC, and then let the raw speed of the PPC platform gradually replace the older programs, which were quickly rewritten for the new processor. Now, (9?) years down the road, the PPC is slim and trim. It's a pity Intel/AMD/Whatever doesnt' have the balls to kill the x86 instruction set. (And don't get me started on Merced.)
Re:Trendy? How 'bout gratuitous WTO-bashing?
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Right on, baby! What scares me is the thought that we're going to be seen video clips of this for the next few years: "The brave protesters at Seattle risking their lives, blah, blah, blah..."
On a personal note, am I oversimplifing this whole thing? Certain people are against the 'evil' explotation of third-world countries for cheap labor. Instead, this labor should be done by the honest, god-fearing americans who formed unions to raise prices and eliminate competition in the marketplace? (the same people who are raising a stink?)
It sounds like unions have all of a sudden realized that there's 5 billion people in the world who will work for $5/day, while they've been bitching about benifits.
Somebody has been working on porting the rc5 client to the G4...supposdly they're getting 3.6Megakeys/sec. One of these days we'll see a new client, and then the x86 peeps will understand what real speed is. BTW, has anybody seen the page I'm talking about? A url would add to my credibility.
Hello, I'm Mark Twain's (Samuel Clemens) wife. My husband published "Huckleberry Finn" yesterday, and then was run over by a truck. Since he's dead and gone, you get to copy his book as much as you want now? How am I supposed to live?
(I think IP laws at least need to be revised a bit, but you're smoking crack if you think that nobody has a right to anything they've ever done. (same for their family))
Hehe. I'm sitting here, rendering in 3dstudiomax. Linux has a long way to go...you've got pretty computers, but no high-end software to run. (Don't push POVRAY at me, either.) As far as dissing SGI...when was the first time you could build your TNT/Xeon? How long was the onyx2 on the market before that? Howver...this rendering i'm working on, at a piddly 640*480, 100 frames...is taking 20 minutes to do on a dual 500mhz p3 box. I would love to have dedicated 3d hardware that could kick out pretty images. Anybody else feel my pain?
In spite of all of its wonderful design elements, it is not without a few annoying elements. First, whenever you create a new project, it is always named "Hello." It doesn't matter if you create a project named "foo." You still need to go under the project settings and change the Target Name manually. While this may be simply picking nits, it is a rather annoying oversight.
Actually, this is one of those nifty little features. Create an empty project, set it up with all the libs and whatnot you need to link too, and then save it as "OpenGL Program" or something. If you look through your directories, you should find some projects named "Std C Lib Console" or so...throw your new project in there. Then, when you go to create a new project, hit "OpenGL Program", and it'll use that project as a template for a new one! It'll save you time once you get it setup for the you use.
Not exactly. Essentially, a quantum computer of 8 bits can do an operation on all of the possible variations, i.e. 0->255. To expand this, a 56 bit quantum computer could go through all the variations of a 56 bit key in one pass.
The real question is what sorts of lengths you can generate. Currently, I think they have constructed 5 bit quantum computers (anybody care to enlighten me?), but have yet to apporoach the 512 bit length needed for serious factorization.
IIRC, the TWINKLE device they mentioned here is a *theorectical* device that generates numbers that have a good chance being prime factors of the RSA key in question. A real (a.k.a. normal) computer then checks these numbers in hopes of stumbling accross the solution.
I think the Times has confused a paper with something that exists. After all, why would you tell banks you can crack their encryption when you could create some accounts for yourself? : )
My mother, (of all people) said this the other day: "Somebody ought to go into a preschool and start hitting kids over the head with a baseball bat. What would we do then? Ban baseball? Ban training camps for teaching kids the skills to kill? Just keep baseball and its evil influences out of public schools?"
A person commited to violence will find a way to do it. This is a fact. They may find a gun, a knife, a bomb, or just use what they were born with: Two arms and two legs. Unfortunately, these events are a rallying call for gun/whatever activists to come out and scream about how something should be outlawed.
You are not armed. You are mugged by a fellow with a knife. (Or, for fun.. A pipe bomb. Call the fellow's bluff). You are being mugged by a fellow with a knife. Dare you flee with your thousands of dollars? Or fight him off? I think Iwould rather be stabbed once or twice than shot once or twice in an attempt to get away. Wouldn't you?
Exactly. But wait, this guy's a criminal! Does he give a #$(* about a law prohibiting him from carrying a gun? Sure, outlaw all guns...that'll get rid of them. After all, it has worked *really* well with drugs, right?
BTW, for all you wanting to talk about how much better life is in your country, there is no comparison between the U.S. and any other country in the world. Our entire culture is built upon the rights of the individual. In England, for example, the police can decide to beat the crap out of you. That never happens? Go read a book on the Irish freedom movement. (Yeah, it might happen here, but the truth comes out eventually...)
They're going to kill the space station! Quick, get some more funding for it. We must save this valuble portion of our national budget!!!!!
More taxes, you say? You'll need to use the budget surplus? Well, for a worthwhile project, I guess it's oaky. But only for space and the american dream.
(Meanwhile...) Alright, you can have that defense contract for your home town. I'll take this education grant. Where will we get the money? Ah, just cut the nasa program. The people will always approve more spending for it. We do it every year, and they always write these "We do these things not because they are hard, blah, blah, blah" speeches urging us to please take more of their monye. Yes, it's funny. Yes, we'll play golf on friday. See you.
I have always believed/heard (anyone have some scientific info on this?) that men and women interpret data differently. For example (assuming a guy audience), can you talk with someone while you're watching the TV? I can't. Most women can.
Whuzzup with that?
BTW, can you watch the telly while talking on the phone? (Not me!)
One of the main things that is being overlooked here is the instablility of most "3rd party" upgrades. With the advent of the g3, dozens of people bought upgrades for their older machines. They run fine, sure. However, as a game developer (of sorts), many of these machines had fundamental timing issues which introduced numerous headaches to people trying to write code. Applications would run too fast on one machine and be fine on another. As the chip devolopers didn't have these problems with every cpu, you couldn't just write special code for *every* processor availble (Which in itself is preposterous).
In other news, as and old Mosr junkie, Appleinsider should burn in hell for the cheap knockoff it is (I'm not saying, note, that MOSR is better...just that I prefer their sources of bs.)
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It's been a while, so I don't remember the particulars of this case exactly.
Adam was a kid who wrote hotline, a very sophisticated client/server filetransfer/chat app, which very quickly was picked up by the warez community. It was light years ahead of anything in the field (this was 3(?) years before Napster, to put things in perspective).
Due to the popularity, a group of businessmen decided to fund further development of the app...Adam joined them, signing over his code. He moved to canada and worked on the project. Eventually, though, he realized that the business people were screwing him over. After trying, naively, to get them to change their ways, they reminded him of the contracts he had signed regarding his code. Adam suddenly realized that he no longer 'owned' his code. To make a story short, he PGP encrypted everything on the computer he was using and flew back to .au.
The company was forced to reverse-engineer hl, resulting in version 1.6 (1.7?) or so, which included banner ads and a PC version. This was the death knell of the hotline community, which finally degenerated to the land of w4r3z kiddies it is today.
And now, at 22, Adam's ready to take on the business world again. Go Adam! Kick some ass!
Do all the angles of copyright law still apply if I *don't* have that little line of text saying "copyright 2001 by moi"? For example, if my diary is lost and somebody finds it, can they publish from it? today? 20 years from now? 20 years after I'm dead? 100?
...you know that Aerosmith isn't worth a quarter. ;)
Wow. That's really neat stuff. So, anyways...your product would let you seamlessly create a 3d world from a video feed? (At least in theory...I'd assume you'd have to build a world for the camera to match up with...) As a fake director, the possibilities for bringing together computer animation with live action would be certainly be much more interesting. What programs will this work with? Even more interesting, will it capture lighting data? And finally, how cpu/ram/disk-intensive is this?
What, special interest groups can just buy their votes directly now?
It looks like politicians are becoming a thing of the past.
-asparagui on #efnet
You're making it too easy on the guy. Weather?
Ask him to predict exactly how much rain a particular county will have that morning. Then he might begin to appreciate what these guys do.
to Georgie Lucas and his little epic "Star Wars."
Kubrick's 2001 had just come out: he expected it to the end-all of space movies and special effects. Georgie released his little fantasy flick and it clobbered everything.
Kubrick of course, didn't like this...he toyed with the idea of A.I., which he figured could do as well. Eventually, though, he gave up on hating Lucas for the piece of mass-market trash he'd released (in his eyes at least) and left this idea in a bin for the next few decades.
At least this is the story from my class on George Lucas at USC. BTW, the man himself is gonna come in in a few weeks. Anybody have a few good questions?
I saw it a couple of weeks ago. (Gotta love being in LA) And, damn. It was pretty weak. I'll just repeat what everybody is saying: don't go see it.
The one high point was meeting Jerry O' Connell after the show. We were standing there making fun of it, and he rushes over with "what'd ya think, guys?" I just reached out and pumped his hand-my friend couldn't think up anything polite to say so he just stuttered a bit.
-brett (hopefully I can do better than this someday)
My mom was over there the other day on a volunteer medical mission to the villages up in the Himalayas. She said it was a complete shock to be wandering about a truely desolate section of a third-world country and then run across a computer, but she sent us all e-mails.
Can't outrun the technology age any more. Is this good or bad?
Back when Apple started using PPC's, they threw the entire 68k instruction set out the window. They provided an emulator for PPC, and then let the raw speed of the PPC platform gradually replace the older programs, which were quickly rewritten for the new processor. Now, (9?) years down the road, the PPC is slim and trim. It's a pity Intel/AMD/Whatever doesnt' have the balls to kill the x86 instruction set. (And don't get me started on Merced.)
Right on, baby! What scares me is the thought that we're going to be seen video clips of this for the next few years: "The brave protesters at Seattle risking their lives, blah, blah, blah..."
On a personal note, am I oversimplifing this whole thing? Certain people are against the 'evil' explotation of third-world countries for cheap labor. Instead, this labor should be done by the honest, god-fearing americans who formed unions to raise prices and eliminate competition in the marketplace? (the same people who are raising a stink?)
It sounds like unions have all of a sudden realized that there's 5 billion people in the world who will work for $5/day, while they've been bitching about benifits.
Here's the URL for the Altivec/Rc5 project,
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http://home.earthlink.net/~alien57/macclient.ht
Somebody has been working on porting the rc5 client to the G4...supposdly they're getting 3.6Megakeys/sec. One of these days we'll see a new client, and then the x86 peeps will understand what real speed is. BTW, has anybody seen the page I'm talking about? A url would add to my credibility.
Hello, I'm Mark Twain's (Samuel Clemens) wife. My husband published "Huckleberry Finn" yesterday, and then was run over by a truck. Since he's dead and gone, you get to copy his book as much as you want now? How am I supposed to live?
(I think IP laws at least need to be revised a bit, but you're smoking crack if you think that nobody has a right to anything they've ever done. (same for their family))
Hehe. I'm sitting here, rendering in 3dstudiomax. Linux has a long way to go...you've got pretty computers, but no high-end software to run. (Don't push POVRAY at me, either.) As far as dissing SGI...when was the first time you could build your TNT/Xeon? How long was the onyx2 on the market before that? Howver...this rendering i'm working on, at a piddly 640*480, 100 frames...is taking 20 minutes to do on a dual 500mhz p3 box. I would love to have dedicated 3d hardware that could kick out pretty images. Anybody else feel my pain?
In spite of all of its wonderful design elements, it is not without a few annoying elements. First, whenever you create a new project, it is always named "Hello." It doesn't matter if you create a project named "foo." You still need to go under the project settings and change the Target Name manually. While this may be simply picking nits, it is a rather annoying oversight.
Actually, this is one of those nifty little features. Create an empty project, set it up with all the libs and whatnot you need to link too, and then save it as "OpenGL Program" or something. If you look through your directories, you should find some projects named "Std C Lib Console" or so...throw your new project in there. Then, when you go to create a new project, hit "OpenGL Program", and it'll use that project as a template for a new one! It'll save you time once you get it setup for the you use.
Not exactly. Essentially, a quantum computer of 8 bits can do an operation on all of the possible variations, i.e. 0->255. To expand this, a 56 bit quantum computer could go through all the variations of a 56 bit key in one pass.
The real question is what sorts of lengths you can generate. Currently, I think they have constructed 5 bit quantum computers (anybody care to enlighten me?), but have yet to apporoach the 512 bit length needed for serious factorization.
IIRC, the TWINKLE device they mentioned here is a *theorectical* device that generates numbers that have a good chance being prime factors of the RSA key in question. A real (a.k.a. normal) computer then checks these numbers in hopes of stumbling accross the solution.
I think the Times has confused a paper with something that exists. After all, why would you tell banks you can crack their encryption when you could create some accounts for yourself? : )
My mother, (of all people) said this the other day: "Somebody ought to go into a preschool and start hitting kids over the head with a baseball bat. What would we do then? Ban baseball? Ban training camps for teaching kids the skills to kill? Just keep baseball and its evil influences out of public schools?"
A person commited to violence will find a way to do it. This is a fact. They may find a gun, a knife, a bomb, or just use what they were born with: Two arms and two legs. Unfortunately, these events are a rallying call for gun/whatever activists to come out and scream about how something should be outlawed.
Sigh.
BTW, have you ever hunted turkey with a bow?
You are not armed. You are mugged by a fellow with a knife. (Or, for fun.. A pipe bomb. Call the fellow's bluff). You are being mugged by a fellow with a knife. Dare you flee with your thousands of dollars? Or fight him off? I think Iwould rather be stabbed once or twice than shot once or twice in an attempt to get away. Wouldn't you?
Exactly. But wait, this guy's a criminal! Does he give a #$(* about a law prohibiting him from carrying a gun? Sure, outlaw all guns...that'll get rid of them. After all, it has worked *really* well with drugs, right?
BTW, for all you wanting to talk about how much better life is in your country, there is no comparison between the U.S. and any other country in the world. Our entire culture is built upon the rights of the individual. In England, for example, the police can decide to beat the crap out of you. That never happens? Go read a book on the Irish freedom movement. (Yeah, it might happen here, but the truth comes out eventually...)
They're going to kill the space station! Quick, get some more funding for it. We must save this valuble portion of our national budget!!!!!
More taxes, you say? You'll need to use the budget surplus? Well, for a worthwhile project, I guess it's oaky. But only for space and the american dream.
(Meanwhile...)
Alright, you can have that defense contract for your home town. I'll take this education grant. Where will we get the money? Ah, just cut the nasa program. The people will always approve more spending for it. We do it every year, and they always write these "We do these things not because they are hard, blah, blah, blah" speeches urging us to please take more of their monye. Yes, it's funny. Yes, we'll play golf on friday. See you.
I have always believed/heard (anyone have some scientific info on this?) that men and women interpret data differently. For example (assuming a guy audience), can you talk with someone while you're watching the TV? I can't. Most women can.
Whuzzup with that?
BTW, can you watch the telly while talking on the phone? (Not me!)
One of the main things that is being overlooked here is the instablility of most "3rd party" upgrades. With the advent of the g3, dozens of people bought upgrades for their older machines. They run fine, sure. However, as a game developer (of sorts), many of these machines had fundamental timing issues which introduced numerous headaches to people trying to write code. Applications would run too fast on one machine and be fine on another. As the chip devolopers didn't have these problems with every cpu, you couldn't just write special code for *every* processor availble (Which in itself is preposterous).
In other news, as and old Mosr junkie, Appleinsider should burn in hell for the cheap knockoff it is (I'm not saying, note, that MOSR is better...just that I prefer their sources of bs.)