Also in the long line of adjective-noun combinations for their operating systems, Microsoft will follow up on Longhorn and Blackcomb with Sweatyphone, Steelfridge, and Purpletoilet.
The United States is notorious for ignoring the actions of global organizations, even ones they fought to create. If they were to receive a third grade report card they'd receive low marks in the "plays well with others" category.
Agreed. While there are some cases where voice-activated technology has its uses (I very much doubt people would be thrilled with typing into their onboard navigation systems while driving) a web browser or other common features on your computer simply don't need speech recognition.
For Joe User, I doubt we'll ever see widespread use of speech recognition technology. Who wants to go hoarse telling a computer what to do when it only takes a flick of the wrist as it is? And man, an office could get noisy if everyone was dictating documents and telling their machines to "download Natalie Portman pictures."
This might turn out to be a great show. But really, there's already a glut of legal shows on television (The Practice, Judging Amy, JAG, etc.), and using a gimmick like setting it in the future won't attract me to it.
Is there any chance it will offer a decent treatment of the issues Open Source advocates worry about today? If he's so positive, could he possibly know anything about software patents to say nothing of SCO?
Don't expect it to even come close to issues important to us nerds.
There's just something lacking in a show that focuses on such riveting legal issues as "should a player with a super-accurate bionic eye be allowed to play professional baseball?" Really, this is an actual plot line that will be in "Century City."
They had to...settle their differences. They rely on each other too much.
It's not an equal relationship. Dish depends on Viacom far more than the reverse - Viacom's content is already spread out across the cable companies and other satellite providers.
And since their content is so popular - the CBS network alone carries the greatest number of television viewers - end consumers wishing to see their shows have a multitude of alternatives to Dish if they want to receive content from Viacom.
You don't censor out all the Trolls and goatse links
I know what reading at -1 does, but how does filtering out trolls and goatse links in any way relate to the First Amendment? The act of censoring material on one's own website has nothing to do with the First Amendment at all.
Let's take a look at the First Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Neither Slashdot nor the users of the filter are acting as representatives of Congress so they're not in violation of the amendment in any way.
I'm not trying to be a dick here, but I've seen that same phrase in a few other Slashdotters' sigs and I just scratch my head.
While owning a Blue Angel would be awesome, it's unlikely a civilian would actually get any flight time in such a vehicle. To fly it, you'd need a Letter of Authorization because there's no FAA type certification for this aircraft - and unless you're an ex-military pilot, you've basically got no chance of getting an LOA.
Even if you were to get an LOA, to fly it you'd have to get permission from the FAA to put it in the air every time you take off. So add your own private island to the total cost if you actually want to fly it without hassle.
So unless you're ex-military, you'd have yourself a $9 million lawn ornament.
How does the radar get your attention when it detects something?...A noise?...A visual cue on the dash?
RTFA:
When a car or truck comes close enough to be a potential problem, the system alerts the driver by lighting a warning icon on the outside rearview mirror for that side of the vehicle.
I'm not even a CS student (I'm Engineering Physics), and I still had to learn some microcontroller assembly language.
It's amazing how often Computer Science bleeds over into other disciplines. It seems to rear its head quite often in Mathematics (and some would argue that Computer Science is nothing more than an extension of Mathematics) and other science-based majors.
At my university, the poor engineering students had to learn Fortran. Now there's a language that's not too different from assembly.
Although unheard of today, this concept isn't really all that new -- there used to not be much choice in years past.
While starting Computer Science students off with assembly (without first introducing them to a high-level language) may be a relatively new concept these days, the idea of teaching low-level languages to Computer Science students is not a revolutionary technique whatsoever. Every decent Computer Science curriculum includes several semesters of courses in which assembly language is required, to demonstrate their knowledge of basic computer processes.
That reminds me of a great fortune:
"The C Programming Language -- A language which combines the flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language."
It's entirely possible that the authors of this virus targeted SCO, simply to make it appear that Linux zealots were responsible...to throw off the law enforcement officials who might look for the culprit in the Linux community.
While I despise these worms, you've got to admit that some of these more recent ones are pretty ingenious:
Blaster - The only way to fix it is to grab stuff from Microsoft? Have it DDOS Windows Update. MyDoom - Hate SCO, Love Linux? Target Microsoft systems and leave Linux machines alone. Have it DDOS SCO.
It's awesome that the Supreme Court has finally examined and ruled this part of the Patriot Act unconstitutional. However, this particular section of PATRIOT is only the tip of the iceberg that denies constitutional rights to individuals.
What Slashdot readers and other techies should be particularly concerned with is that, under the Patriot Act, the definition of terrorism now encompasses many computer crimes which have nothing to do with terrorism. Deface a web site? You're a terrorist. It also allows wiretaps and other intrusions without the hard-nosed rules that usually come with warrants, as long as it's placed under the crime of terrorism -- which now includes even minor computer crimes. The EFF has posted its detailed analysis of the Patriot Act, and how it affects people concerned with electronic freedoms here.
While this is a minor victory, hopefully this is the first of many parts ruled unconstitutional.
They even had ads that played with your peripheral vision, making it look like you were about to be hit by a car, or they'd have to 3d-esque phantom bull-rush you, attempting to get you to flinch.
Back to the Future Part II had that 3D shark that "ate" the protagonist, then disappeared. It turned out to be an advertisement for Jaws 19. ("Shark still looks fake," says Marty)
I certainly hope that advertising doesn't get so high-tech and annoying that you can't walk through the business district of town without being eaten by a holographic sea creature.
Flashy, animated image ads on websites are just about as annoying about as much as pop-ups. Fortunately the Mozilla family of web browsers allows the user to block images from specific servers, which seems to work well in targeting ad-serving servers (doubleclick.com being one of the worst) yet leaving the ornamental graphics intact.
Thanks to this, I've pretty much squashed the "Get 1,000 Smileys Free" advertisements.
Now if there were only a way to block certain Flash advertisements and still be able to watch Strong Bad answering his e-mail.
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Hey, cool. So it appears that Dubhlinn, Garibaldi, and Dusty's would be appropriate candidates for future version names as well. :)
Also in the long line of adjective-noun combinations for their operating systems, Microsoft will follow up on Longhorn and Blackcomb with Sweatyphone, Steelfridge, and Purpletoilet.
Har har! Someone actually picked up on the subject. :)
From Real: We think our new RealPlayer 10 is, beyond a doubt, our friendliest and best player yet.
Nice to know that I can listen to Click and Clack on my computer without being constantly bombarded with pop-ups from a piece of annoyware.
Oh wait, I've been doing that for weeks thanks to Real Alternative. All the joy of streaming audio without Real's player.
...it will be indisputable evidence of living, farting Martian beings!
Actually, a couple of sources indicate that humans emit little or no methane when they pass gas.
The United States is notorious for ignoring the actions of global organizations, even ones they fought to create. If they were to receive a third grade report card they'd receive low marks in the "plays well with others" category.
Let's see, there's the invasion of Iraq (against the wishes of the U.N.) and withdrawl from the Kyoto Protocol to name a couple.
What could I possibly have to say to my browser?
Agreed. While there are some cases where voice-activated technology has its uses (I very much doubt people would be thrilled with typing into their onboard navigation systems while driving) a web browser or other common features on your computer simply don't need speech recognition.
For Joe User, I doubt we'll ever see widespread use of speech recognition technology. Who wants to go hoarse telling a computer what to do when it only takes a flick of the wrist as it is? And man, an office could get noisy if everyone was dictating documents and telling their machines to "download Natalie Portman pictures."
This might turn out to be a great show. But really, there's already a glut of legal shows on television (The Practice, Judging Amy, JAG, etc.), and using a gimmick like setting it in the future won't attract me to it.
Is there any chance it will offer a decent treatment of the issues Open Source advocates worry about today? If he's so positive, could he possibly know anything about software patents to say nothing of SCO?
Don't expect it to even come close to issues important to us nerds.
There's just something lacking in a show that focuses on such riveting legal issues as "should a player with a super-accurate bionic eye be allowed to play professional baseball?" Really, this is an actual plot line that will be in "Century City."
They had to...settle their differences. They rely on each other too much.
It's not an equal relationship. Dish depends on Viacom far more than the reverse - Viacom's content is already spread out across the cable companies and other satellite providers.
And since their content is so popular - the CBS network alone carries the greatest number of television viewers - end consumers wishing to see their shows have a multitude of alternatives to Dish if they want to receive content from Viacom.
D'oh, Stephen* :)
Steven Hawking has been using this technology for years!
Now that Google has removed SCO as the #1 hit for the phrase, might I suggest Infinium Labs for the title of litigious bastards?
I know what reading at -1 does, but how does filtering out trolls and goatse links in any way relate to the First Amendment? The act of censoring material on one's own website has nothing to do with the First Amendment at all.
Let's take a look at the First Amendment:
Neither Slashdot nor the users of the filter are acting as representatives of Congress so they're not in violation of the amendment in any way.
I'm not trying to be a dick here, but I've seen that same phrase in a few other Slashdotters' sigs and I just scratch my head.
How does reading at -1 support the First Amendment?
While owning a Blue Angel would be awesome, it's unlikely a civilian would actually get any flight time in such a vehicle. To fly it, you'd need a Letter of Authorization because there's no FAA type certification for this aircraft - and unless you're an ex-military pilot, you've basically got no chance of getting an LOA.
Even if you were to get an LOA, to fly it you'd have to get permission from the FAA to put it in the air every time you take off. So add your own private island to the total cost if you actually want to fly it without hassle.
So unless you're ex-military, you'd have yourself a $9 million lawn ornament.
RTFA:
I'm not even a CS student (I'm Engineering Physics), and I still had to learn some microcontroller assembly language.
It's amazing how often Computer Science bleeds over into other disciplines. It seems to rear its head quite often in Mathematics (and some would argue that Computer Science is nothing more than an extension of Mathematics) and other science-based majors.
At my university, the poor engineering students had to learn Fortran. Now there's a language that's not too different from assembly.
Although unheard of today, this concept isn't really all that new -- there used to not be much choice in years past.
While starting Computer Science students off with assembly (without first introducing them to a high-level language) may be a relatively new concept these days, the idea of teaching low-level languages to Computer Science students is not a revolutionary technique whatsoever. Every decent Computer Science curriculum includes several semesters of courses in which assembly language is required, to demonstrate their knowledge of basic computer processes.
That reminds me of a great fortune:
"The C Programming Language -- A language which combines the
flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language."
It's entirely possible that the authors of this virus targeted SCO, simply to make it appear that Linux zealots were responsible...to throw off the law enforcement officials who might look for the culprit in the Linux community.
While I despise these worms, you've got to admit that some of these more recent ones are pretty ingenious:
Blaster - The only way to fix it is to grab stuff from Microsoft? Have it DDOS Windows Update.
MyDoom - Hate SCO, Love Linux? Target Microsoft systems and leave Linux machines alone. Have it DDOS SCO.
Narf. :)
It's awesome that the Supreme Court has finally examined and ruled this part of the Patriot Act unconstitutional. However, this particular section of PATRIOT is only the tip of the iceberg that denies constitutional rights to individuals.
What Slashdot readers and other techies should be particularly concerned with is that, under the Patriot Act, the definition of terrorism now encompasses many computer crimes which have nothing to do with terrorism. Deface a web site? You're a terrorist. It also allows wiretaps and other intrusions without the hard-nosed rules that usually come with warrants, as long as it's placed under the crime of terrorism -- which now includes even minor computer crimes. The EFF has posted its detailed analysis of the Patriot Act, and how it affects people concerned with electronic freedoms here.
While this is a minor victory, hopefully this is the first of many parts ruled unconstitutional.
http://www.andreas.com/faq-cell911.html
They even had ads that played with your peripheral vision, making it look like you were about to be hit by a car, or they'd have to 3d-esque phantom bull-rush you, attempting to get you to flinch.
Back to the Future Part II had that 3D shark that "ate" the protagonist, then disappeared. It turned out to be an advertisement for Jaws 19. ("Shark still looks fake," says Marty)
I certainly hope that advertising doesn't get so high-tech and annoying that you can't walk through the business district of town without being eaten by a holographic sea creature.
Flashy, animated image ads on websites are just about as annoying about as much as pop-ups. Fortunately the Mozilla family of web browsers allows the user to block images from specific servers, which seems to work well in targeting ad-serving servers (doubleclick.com being one of the worst) yet leaving the ornamental graphics intact.
Thanks to this, I've pretty much squashed the "Get 1,000 Smileys Free" advertisements.
Now if there were only a way to block certain Flash advertisements and still be able to watch Strong Bad answering his e-mail.
Given that the original was a radio show, which contained one or two words....
With radio, the audience isn't shown what's going on, thus there has to be a certain degree of narration to give them some idea of what's going on.
With a movie, the audience sees the action for themselves so narration wouldn't have to be used.