The American movie industry is starting to do this already. The American studio that made Titanic released a VideoCD version of it available dubbed and subbed in Chinese, on the streets at the same time as the pirate versions. I think that they were successful, although I haven't heard any news about it since.
I've made linux kernel panic. I just did it today. I think it was related to working with un-fsck-ed filesystems. But this was on a box which we were trying to get to boot as fast as possible... basically because the power might get pulled out from under it at any time... It's kind of a weird experiment actually.
Ahh... I see. That makes sense in a weird sort of way.
But... government actually making laws so as not to spend lots of money? That part doesn't make sense. And this was during the presidency of Ronald "Star Wars" Reagan.
And what about the government contractors that make the missiles and the anti-missile missiles? Don't their lobbiests see to it that the government spends as much money with them as possible? Since when is the government NOT run by the corporate lobbiests?
Anyway, I'm just a little cynical about the whole thing. I think that the whole cold war was actually just to keep people's minds, eyes, and ears off of something else.
Doesn't it seem kind of moronic to agree to a treaty which doesn't allow you to protect yourself?
It seems like saying something like, "Okay, I agree not to fire at warships invading our beaches." Or possibly, "I agree not to attack bombers that are going to drop bombs on our country."
Ack. They screwed it up. They added a bunch of cheezy synthesizer piano music to Kiki's Delivery Service. And it was at parts in the movie where it is supposed to be quiet. For example, the scene where Kiki is looking out over the ocean, in the Japanese version all you hear are the sounds of the wind and the waves. In the English dubbed version, they added a cheezy little synthesized piano tune. It was completely annoying and destroyed the poinancy and reflectiveness of the scene.
Also, Jiji, Kiki's cat, talked too much. There are scenes where in the Japanese version, Jiji isn't saying anything, but in the English version, he is. Also, all of Jiji's lines were changed from the Japanese version. All his jokes are different. In fact, Jiji really wasn't very funny in the Japanese version.
Oh man. This is bringing back some horrible memories. They completely trashed the opening theme. The Japanese opening theme is this song which really sounds like a 1950's pop song, only sung in Japanese. It's a beautiful song. The American people decided that they had to replace it with a cheezy Generation-X modern rock type song. The movie is supposed to be taking place in the 1950's, I think. Why do they have to make the opening theme completely out of place? Couldn't they have replaced it with an English-laguage 1950's pop-style song?
Don't forget the other BIG BIG BIG probable use for this type of system: military / intelligence.
People like the pentagon and the CIA and the NSA and the FBI need to have computer systems that people can access, but they can't allow their people to give away information to others. They CANNOT allow Bob to give away his access to secret data to some other user on the system.
Anyway, where do you think the research money for this came from? My guess is DARPA, the Defense Advanced ResearchProjects Agency.
if your life passes before your eyes when you die, does that include the part where your life passes before your eyes?
Yes. And then it goes through the replay, only twice as fast as the time before. And then when it gets to the replay, it does it again, only twice as fast again. And it goes into a faster and faster infinte loop. At that point, God himself hits Ctrl-C on his divine keyboard (which I am sure has the Ctrl key in the right place) and then the infinite series is summed and your perception of your life becomes an impulse (infinitely small time duration). At that point, your perception of your birth, life, and death are all at the same point. After that, what happens is undefined.
Hmm... Mike and Sarah... Yeah, maybe they have a good relationship. However, I still think that people who model their relationship on that of a couple of TV characters aren't living entirely in the real world.
It's sappy, but the best example I can think of for this sort of relationship is from "Mad About You", that series with Helen Hunt and Paul Riser. Love each other, support each other, but most important: be one another's best friend.
Yeah, the best example you can come up with is a set of fictional characters. That should tell you something about the validity of what you're saying.
In theory, theory and practice are the same thing. In practice, they're not.
But it doesn't cost the same thing. Coding using cross platform development stuff (libraries like OpenGL and a plethora of others) are only one part of the program. The game then has to be tested instead of on just one system (or set of systems) but on two completely different platforms. The SAME amount of testing has to be done for both platforms... you can't have 90% of the testing going into the Windows release and 10% going into the Mac release. It just wouldn't work. You'd have 10% pissed off customers (at least). And this is what the Valve people want to avoid.
Serial Experiments Lain is awesome. It is one of the most amazing stories about the internet and how the internet is changing society. In my eyes, it ranks up there with Neal Stephenson's _Snow Crash_ and William Gibson's _Neuromancer_, although those two are books and not visual media.
Lain is of course not a hollywood story, it is a Japanese animated TV series which ran on Japanese TV I think about two years ago. It is now available on video and DVD in America from Pioneer Animation (http://www.panime.com).
People who shoot themselves in the heads will provide the bodies.
We'll probably see a bunch of people encouraging shutting down suicide hotlines. Promoters of these services will petition handgun manufacturers to advertise to the suicidal. Maybe we'll even see companies that have "suicide services" (i.e., assisted suicides)... all to harvest the bodies for the UKP800,000 operations...
Yes, source for RSA and DES are available. They are both public standards. However, RSA at least is a patented algorithm. To use it in a commercial product, you have to pay money to the RSA corporation.
RSA is based on the idea that it is very very difficult to factor large numbers. The assumption has been that as you double the key size, the difficulty in factoring gets multiplied by something like 1,000,000 or so each time.
So if it takes 3.7 months to factor a 512 bit key pair, then it should take 3.7 million months to factor a 1024 bit key pair. However, methods to factor these numbers faster and faster seem to be popping up, so I'm not sure how much longer RSA is going to be a valid algorithm.
If doubling the key size eventually only doubles the difficulty in factoring, then RSA will be useless.
This is why, if you're writing Word macro viruses, you should use someone else's copy of Word. Preferably, someone who isn't remotely related to you (e.g., some ID code from a stranger off the net).
Hell, I use someone else's copy of Win98 just to play games. If I were writing viruses, I would be damn sure that nothing is tracable back to me.
1. The kids were fucking idiots. Maybe they were actually intelligent actors who were just playing the part of some stupid college kids. But, I doubt it.
2. The camera work was absolutly shitty. It made my head hurt just looking at it. Of course, I look at computer monitors all day, where things don't move around too much. But at least they could have rented one of those mini-SteadyCam things. It was just really amateurish.
3. There's something that I read in the hype of the film that is just bullshit: "It's shot almost entirely on digital film." No, it's not. It was shot with a camcorder. Maybe it's a "digital camcorder", but it's still a camcorder.
4. They spent $30K making the film (probably most of that in editing and the video to film transfer). Then, there was $10 MILLION spent on promoting the film before the first release.
It's a shitty movie that I could have done without seeing.
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You can run them in another room though, so no need for a lead vest.
And you can be an American oil baron, or software baron or any kind of baron to afford it, really.
But you know, that would be today, if the software were even available, which it's not.
A couple years from now, this kind of thing might be standard desktop software.
The American movie industry is starting to do this already. The American studio that made Titanic released a VideoCD version of it available dubbed and subbed in Chinese, on the streets at the same time as the pirate versions. I think that they were successful, although I haven't heard any news about it since.
I've made linux kernel panic. I just did it today. I think it was related to working with un-fsck-ed filesystems. But this was on a box which we were trying to get to boot as fast as possible... basically because the power might get pulled out from under it at any time... It's kind of a weird experiment actually.
But... government actually making laws so as not to spend lots of money? That part doesn't make sense. And this was during the presidency of Ronald "Star Wars" Reagan.
And what about the government contractors that make the missiles and the anti-missile missiles? Don't their lobbiests see to it that the government spends as much money with them as possible? Since when is the government NOT run by the corporate lobbiests?
Anyway, I'm just a little cynical about the whole thing. I think that the whole cold war was actually just to keep people's minds, eyes, and ears off of something else.
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It seems like saying something like, "Okay, I agree not to fire at warships invading our beaches." Or possibly, "I agree not to attack bombers that are going to drop bombs on our country."
It just seems silly to me.
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Personally, I'm glad that he's come forward to lead us against the precession of mediocrity put forth by The Enemy.
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Also, Jiji, Kiki's cat, talked too much. There are scenes where in the Japanese version, Jiji isn't saying anything, but in the English version, he is. Also, all of Jiji's lines were changed from the Japanese version. All his jokes are different. In fact, Jiji really wasn't very funny in the Japanese version.
Oh man. This is bringing back some horrible memories. They completely trashed the opening theme. The Japanese opening theme is this song which really sounds like a 1950's pop song, only sung in Japanese. It's a beautiful song. The American people decided that they had to replace it with a cheezy Generation-X modern rock type song. The movie is supposed to be taking place in the 1950's, I think. Why do they have to make the opening theme completely out of place? Couldn't they have replaced it with an English-laguage 1950's pop-style song?
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People like the pentagon and the CIA and the NSA and the FBI need to have computer systems that people can access, but they can't allow their people to give away information to others. They CANNOT allow Bob to give away his access to secret data to some other user on the system.
Anyway, where do you think the research money for this came from? My guess is DARPA, the Defense Advanced ResearchProjects Agency.
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That's a quote from Ghostbusters, the movie.
Hmm... Mike and Sarah... Yeah, maybe they have a good relationship. However, I still think that people who model their relationship on that of a couple of TV characters aren't living entirely in the real world.
Yeah, the best example you can come up with is a set of fictional characters. That should tell you something about the validity of what you're saying.
In theory, theory and practice are the same thing. In practice, they're not.
Except the ones who are homophobic.
Hopefully they're cancelling the MacOS port in favor of a Linux port.
But it doesn't cost the same thing. Coding using cross platform development stuff (libraries like OpenGL and a plethora of others) are only one part of the program. The game then has to be tested instead of on just one system (or set of systems) but on two completely different platforms. The SAME amount of testing has to be done for both platforms... you can't have 90% of the testing going into the Windows release and 10% going into the Mac release. It just wouldn't work. You'd have 10% pissed off customers (at least). And this is what the Valve people want to avoid.
It's a series...
Navi is volume 1
Knights is volume 2
Deus is volume 3
Reset is volume 4
Serial Experiments Lain is awesome. It is one of the most amazing stories about the internet and how the internet is changing society. In my eyes, it ranks up there with Neal Stephenson's _Snow Crash_ and William Gibson's _Neuromancer_, although those two are books and not visual media.
Lain is of course not a hollywood story, it is a Japanese animated TV series which ran on Japanese TV I think about two years ago. It is now available on video and DVD in America from Pioneer Animation (http://www.panime.com).
People who shoot themselves in the heads will provide the bodies.
We'll probably see a bunch of people encouraging shutting down suicide hotlines. Promoters of these services will petition handgun manufacturers to advertise to the suicidal. Maybe we'll even see companies that have "suicide services" (i.e., assisted suicides)... all to harvest the bodies for the UKP800,000 operations...
Yes, source for RSA and DES are available. They are both public standards. However, RSA at least is a patented algorithm. To use it in a commercial product, you have to pay money to the RSA corporation.
RSA is based on the idea that it is very very difficult to factor large numbers. The assumption has been that as you double the key size, the difficulty in factoring gets multiplied by something like 1,000,000 or so each time.
So if it takes 3.7 months to factor a 512 bit key pair, then it should take 3.7 million months to factor a 1024 bit key pair. However, methods to factor these numbers faster and faster seem to be popping up, so I'm not sure how much longer RSA is going to be a valid algorithm.
If doubling the key size eventually only doubles the difficulty in factoring, then RSA will be useless.
...or OpenBSD and MUTT.
This is why, if you're writing Word macro viruses, you should use someone else's copy of Word. Preferably, someone who isn't remotely related to you (e.g., some ID code from a stranger off the net).
Hell, I use someone else's copy of Win98 just to play games. If I were writing viruses, I would be damn sure that nothing is tracable back to me.
1. The kids were fucking idiots. Maybe they were actually intelligent actors who were just playing the part of some stupid college kids. But, I doubt it.
2. The camera work was absolutly shitty. It made my head hurt just looking at it. Of course, I look at computer monitors all day, where things don't move around too much. But at least they could have rented one of those mini-SteadyCam things. It was just really amateurish.
3. There's something that I read in the hype of the film that is just bullshit: "It's shot almost entirely on digital film." No, it's not. It was shot with a camcorder. Maybe it's a "digital camcorder", but it's still a camcorder.
4. They spent $30K making the film (probably most of that in editing and the video to film transfer). Then, there was $10 MILLION spent on promoting the film before the first release.
It's a shitty movie that I could have done without seeing.
I really hope they come in and make a truly visionary GUI that blows the whole KDE vs. Gnome vs. Enlightenment thing out of the water.
And I hope they make it free to code for.
What he meant was...
color versus colour,
draft versus draught,
flavor versus flavour,
lift versus elevator,
...and another thousand or so variations of words.