Well, if my neighbor's house catches on fire, it would be kinda nice if the fire department knew that x amount of explosives were stored in the house, so they could evacuate surrounding homes, etc. At the very least it could save a firefighter's life.
Perhaps what is needed is an additional tier to the regulations, so a typical rocketeer could keep a "normal" amount of APCP on hand without quite as many requirements.
In the Windows environment I prefer CTRL + TAB and CTRL + SHIFT + TAB, because those correlate with basically all other Document / View paradigm apps (all MS Office apps, Visual Studio, Crimson Editor, PSP and Photoshop, Firefox, SmartFTP, Dreamweaver, any MFC-based Doc / View app - you name it).
Also, using your method simply steps across the tabs linearly (which may be desirable in some cases), whereas CTRL + TAB honors the history in which you've accessed the tabs. That makes it great to switch back and forth between two specific documents that are not "side by side" in the tab order.
I have a client whose website is utilizing FCKEditor for in-browser html editing. We haven't been too pleased with it for a number of reasons. I checked Google's site but couldn't find any information, so maybe someone here knows - can their word processor be embedded into 3rd party sites and used stand-alone? Similar to Google Maps? From the little testing I've done it seems to generate good clean html.
Once you're done submitting your preorder drop me an email. I've got some land in Florida I'm willing to sell at a low price, and I have some foreign relatives that have passed away and their estate needs a domestic bank account to wire money into.
Interesting the timing of this story, because I received my DirecTV bill yesterday, and see they tacked another $10 on out of the blue. The only time we watch TV is for specific shows (at the moment Battlestar Galactica, Lost and Survivor). We watched the previous 2 seasons of Lost (48 episodes) entirely from downloads off the internet, and we are now watching it "live" since we are caught up with the storyline. So on one hand, had we not been able to download and watch the older shows, we definitely would not be watching the new episodes live. So in that specific case "offline" viewing resulted in an increase in live viewing.
However, considering the cost increase at DirecTV, I'm now seriously considering completely pulling the plug on Satellite / Cable, and just downloading the shows we watch. They are usually available online within an hour or two of airtime. If the shows were available online for purchase, and if they were offered in a format that was conducive to what we want (ie no DRM), we would consider purchasing them. The total cost should still be less than our DirecTV.
Our kids watch more TV than we do, but I still download and burn shows for them to watch. For example, all the Invader Zim episodes, and just in the last few days they've really enjoyed the classic Bugs Bunny cartoons they've only just been introduced to.
So yeah, a change is coming, that's for sure. Right now this type of activity is limited to the more technical minded folks (for example, I download toons in DivX, and re-encode to MPEG1 VCD for the kids to view in the car - a pretty involved multi-step process to get the audio encoded in-synch). However, it won't be much longer until our parents will be doing this too. Recently I was surprised to visit my Aunt and Uncle (typical computer / www type users), to find them involved in an orgy of DVD burning. If they only knew of the availability of content on the net, and were instructed on how to get it to disc, they would certainly join in as well.
The moral is that the networks need to be as unlike the RIAA (and to some extent, the MPAA) as possible and get good (DRM-less), formal online access channels in place to their content ASAP before the general public switches to methods completely outside their control (aka no advertising or Nielsen tracking, etc).
Dan East
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To date, only 11 men in history have free-flown a rocketbelt (aka JetPack).
According to the Wikipedia article, at least one woman (Isabel Lozano) has flown one as well (happened almost a month ago).
As to why haven't more people flown the device, take a look at Isabel's pictures, and you'll see that had to make a custom cast of her body for the mounting hardware the device uses. Also, for some reason many people may not feel very comfortable with jets of gas at 740 C venting at supersonic velocities mere inches from their body.
Although it serves as a model example of flamebait, your post doesn't answer the question. The UK has averaged close to 3 murders a day for the last several years. 95% of those murders don't make headlines in the UK. So, Other than the obvious and regrettably tragedy of the situation, why is this case noteworthy?
Foley may have thought his IMs were disappearing into the ether as soon as they cleared his computer screen.
That's a pretty stupid assumption. Why would he think they disappeared? Um, if they disappeared then what would be the point of sending them? He was sending messages to a recipient completely outside his control. They guy obviously got thrills by pushing things to the limit, and flirting with being discovered. It was only a matter of time before one of the recipients simply forwarded the messages onto someone else. IM isn't exactly the most secure medium available, but that is completely a moot point in this case - it's not like the messages were even intercepted by a 3rd party.
The only reason there is "technological transparency" is because of a lack of technical understanding and competence by end users. People that really want to be "technologically opaque" can certainly do so.
Apparently these scientists have never watched TRON, or they'd quit why they're ahead. Or, perhaps they know the risks and have brushed up on their 80's era arcade gaming skills.
The PS3 is a litmus test for investors. Any negative publicity about it at all will hurt Sony stock at this point (and good news would cause it to increase dramatically). Similar to the A380 with Airbus.
The article is somewhat confusing. After reading it and Shiny's website, it seems that the purchase did not include rights to previously published video games, or to a game currently in development for Atari. However it would have to include "game assets", because that's basically all Shiny has - particularly the patented technology they developed for producing games. The article makes it sound like nothing F9E acquired was related to game production at all, and that can't be the case. So apparently, by "game assets" they mean "rights to existing games".
Contest begins October 2, 2006 and continues through at least October 2, 2011.
your submitted predictions that year must be less than or equal to the accuracy value established by the judges the preceding year.
Okay, so the contest doesn't have an ending date, and the judges can modify the winning criteria as they see fit. I hope whoever spends time on this enjoys having others profit financially from their free labor.
You lost to your own software because of a lack of patience. You obviously know the algorithms it uses, but you don't have the patience (or perhaps more problematic, a long enough lifespan) to work them out manually to beat the computer.
Okay, so now they can include gigs of FMV, just so the majority of players (especially kids) can hit a button and skip right over it. Yep, that definitely justifies the extra storage, and the associated costs and delays.
What I want to know is how the extra storage enhances gameplay?
If a politician can, by simply dispatching an envoy or making a phone call, prevent millions of dollars in additional deficit, you better believe they'll at least try. In fact, if they didn't try then they wouldn't be doing their job. Posting a story like this is nothing but anti-MS fodder.
Actually, that's a strategy that could possibly save Sony -- abandon DRM loudly and publicly, and tout themselves as the Kings of Unrestricted Media. A big campaign of "We trust you to not steal our stuff, but Microsoft and Apple think you're thieves."
Sony is too big, and has an vested interest in too many areas. Thus they cannot serve only the consumer in any of their divisions. As long as we see movies with the word "Sony" in the opening credits, we can be certain that Sony hardware will embrace DRM to the fullest extent possible.
If Sony could have their way, the only media and hardware channel between the movies they produce and the consumer would be Betamax®, oops, I mean Memory Stick®, oops, I mean UMD®, oops I mean Blue-ray®. And if someone is reading this 5 years from now, insert whatever DRM infected crap they're currently pushing at the end of that sentence.
Boy, that makes a lot of sense. If Sony makes "6 million PS3 units before April", and sells them all, then they recoup part of their expense. If they don't sell any, then they are somehow better off not recouping anything at all? More sensationalism.
What comptuers are very good at, though, is scanning through text to deduct human opinions from factual information.
Funny, because neither of the articles state that. In fact, they don't even say that software can do that at all yet: A new research program... aims to teach computers to scan through text and sort opinion from fact. Or, We're interested in seeing how we would extract information about opinions.
So yeah, it would be nice if they could sort opinions from facts. Why they're at it, why don't they just recognize lies from truth too, because wouldn't that be doing the exact same thing? Then we can just run statements made by people suspected of committing a crime through the software, which can then sort out all the facts from the opinions, and we'll no longer need judges, juries or attorneys.
Roland, next time save yourself some time and just make the whole freaking thing up from scratch.
It's rather stupid for them to link to an image out of their control - especially considering it is hosted by their "enemy". Now Quatrocantos can change the image to display a warning that the user's computer was infected. I think that is more of an insult to or vendetta against Quatrocantos than it is some sort of cloaking or other intelligent design.
I was just daydreaming about flying cars for a minute, and a few things quickly came to mind.
Take your typical LA car-chase and now imagine it in the air. So what are they going to do? Mount air to air missiles on all police flying cars?
Next, of course there's the terrorism side to consider. So imagine someone loads a flying vehicle full of explosives, hovers alongside a building in a strategic location, and detonates. So will we see all buildings at risk armed with ground to air missiles, until they are as ubiquitous as security cameras?
One thing is for sure. If the "flying car" ever comes to be, the regulation would be extreme. 100% fly-by-wire, so that the vehicle can be controlled / disabled by authorities, and automatic enforcement of no-fly zones. In fact, I wonder if any sort of manual control would be allowed at all, so it would be completely automated - simply enter a destination and the computer would handle the rest.
Even the technology would be a massive risk. You can pull any parts you want out of a car, and you'd be hard-pressed to make something really devastating out of them. Imagine yanking a propulsion system out of a flying car, stripping it down to the bare minimum support hardware, and using it to deliver some sort of undesirable payload.
I just don't know if any major government would allow such powerful technology in the hands of the populace, unless they could assert control over it at the most rudimentary hardware level.
It sort of reminds me of the book Battlefield Earth (don't laugh), where the one race had invented a propulsion system, the inner workings of which they managed to keep secret from other races for thousands of years via a technological facade that hid the simple secrets that made it possible (don't laugh harder). The tech this guy claims to have invented would be so simple to reproduce that it would be impossible to regulate, unless it was possible to somehow hide away the underlying physics even though the technology was in widespread use (the ridiculous notion of which completely ruined the premise of Battlefield Earth). It's impossible to fathom the implications that a technology like this would have globally. We're talking about the overthrow of governments, and warring and turmoil unprecedented in human history. I'm sorry to sound like such a pessimist, but humanity simply couldn't handle a technology like this. At least not right now.
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Well, if my neighbor's house catches on fire, it would be kinda nice if the fire department knew that x amount of explosives were stored in the house, so they could evacuate surrounding homes, etc. At the very least it could save a firefighter's life.
Perhaps what is needed is an additional tier to the regulations, so a typical rocketeer could keep a "normal" amount of APCP on hand without quite as many requirements.
Dan Erast
Behold the power of posting at Slashdot!
Dan East
In the Windows environment I prefer CTRL + TAB and CTRL + SHIFT + TAB, because those correlate with basically all other Document / View paradigm apps (all MS Office apps, Visual Studio, Crimson Editor, PSP and Photoshop, Firefox, SmartFTP, Dreamweaver, any MFC-based Doc / View app - you name it).
Also, using your method simply steps across the tabs linearly (which may be desirable in some cases), whereas CTRL + TAB honors the history in which you've accessed the tabs. That makes it great to switch back and forth between two specific documents that are not "side by side" in the tab order.
Dan East
I have a client whose website is utilizing FCKEditor for in-browser html editing. We haven't been too pleased with it for a number of reasons. I checked Google's site but couldn't find any information, so maybe someone here knows - can their word processor be embedded into 3rd party sites and used stand-alone? Similar to Google Maps? From the little testing I've done it seems to generate good clean html.
Dan East
Once you're done submitting your preorder drop me an email. I've got some land in Florida I'm willing to sell at a low price, and I have some foreign relatives that have passed away and their estate needs a domestic bank account to wire money into.
Thanks.
Dan East
Interesting the timing of this story, because I received my DirecTV bill yesterday, and see they tacked another $10 on out of the blue. The only time we watch TV is for specific shows (at the moment Battlestar Galactica, Lost and Survivor). We watched the previous 2 seasons of Lost (48 episodes) entirely from downloads off the internet, and we are now watching it "live" since we are caught up with the storyline. So on one hand, had we not been able to download and watch the older shows, we definitely would not be watching the new episodes live. So in that specific case "offline" viewing resulted in an increase in live viewing.
However, considering the cost increase at DirecTV, I'm now seriously considering completely pulling the plug on Satellite / Cable, and just downloading the shows we watch. They are usually available online within an hour or two of airtime. If the shows were available online for purchase, and if they were offered in a format that was conducive to what we want (ie no DRM), we would consider purchasing them. The total cost should still be less than our DirecTV.
Our kids watch more TV than we do, but I still download and burn shows for them to watch. For example, all the Invader Zim episodes, and just in the last few days they've really enjoyed the classic Bugs Bunny cartoons they've only just been introduced to.
So yeah, a change is coming, that's for sure. Right now this type of activity is limited to the more technical minded folks (for example, I download toons in DivX, and re-encode to MPEG1 VCD for the kids to view in the car - a pretty involved multi-step process to get the audio encoded in-synch). However, it won't be much longer until our parents will be doing this too. Recently I was surprised to visit my Aunt and Uncle (typical computer / www type users), to find them involved in an orgy of DVD burning. If they only knew of the availability of content on the net, and were instructed on how to get it to disc, they would certainly join in as well.
The moral is that the networks need to be as unlike the RIAA (and to some extent, the MPAA) as possible and get good (DRM-less), formal online access channels in place to their content ASAP before the general public switches to methods completely outside their control (aka no advertising or Nielsen tracking, etc).
Dan East
To date, only 11 men in history have free-flown a rocketbelt (aka JetPack).
According to the Wikipedia article, at least one woman (Isabel Lozano) has flown one as well (happened almost a month ago).
As to why haven't more people flown the device, take a look at Isabel's pictures, and you'll see that had to make a custom cast of her body for the mounting hardware the device uses. Also, for some reason many people may not feel very comfortable with jets of gas at 740 C venting at supersonic velocities mere inches from their body.
Dan East
Although it serves as a model example of flamebait, your post doesn't answer the question. The UK has averaged close to 3 murders a day for the last several years. 95% of those murders don't make headlines in the UK. So, Other than the obvious and regrettably tragedy of the situation, why is this case noteworthy?
Dan East
Foley may have thought his IMs were disappearing into the ether as soon as they cleared his computer screen.
That's a pretty stupid assumption. Why would he think they disappeared? Um, if they disappeared then what would be the point of sending them? He was sending messages to a recipient completely outside his control. They guy obviously got thrills by pushing things to the limit, and flirting with being discovered. It was only a matter of time before one of the recipients simply forwarded the messages onto someone else. IM isn't exactly the most secure medium available, but that is completely a moot point in this case - it's not like the messages were even intercepted by a 3rd party.
The only reason there is "technological transparency" is because of a lack of technical understanding and competence by end users. People that really want to be "technologically opaque" can certainly do so.
Dan East
Apparently these scientists have never watched TRON, or they'd quit why they're ahead. Or, perhaps they know the risks and have brushed up on their 80's era arcade gaming skills.
Dan East
You've produced the world's largest iPod.
Dan East
The PS3 is a litmus test for investors. Any negative publicity about it at all will hurt Sony stock at this point (and good news would cause it to increase dramatically). Similar to the A380 with Airbus.
Dan East
The article is somewhat confusing. After reading it and Shiny's website, it seems that the purchase did not include rights to previously published video games, or to a game currently in development for Atari. However it would have to include "game assets", because that's basically all Shiny has - particularly the patented technology they developed for producing games. The article makes it sound like nothing F9E acquired was related to game production at all, and that can't be the case. So apparently, by "game assets" they mean "rights to existing games".
Dan East
From the rules:
Contest begins October 2, 2006 and continues through at least October 2, 2011.
your submitted predictions that year must be less than or equal to the accuracy value established by the judges the preceding year.
Okay, so the contest doesn't have an ending date, and the judges can modify the winning criteria as they see fit. I hope whoever spends time on this enjoys having others profit financially from their free labor.
Dan East
$1,700 month to rent a garage? That much a month would cover the entire house (and utilities) in this part of the USA.
Dan East
You lost to your own software because of a lack of patience. You obviously know the algorithms it uses, but you don't have the patience (or perhaps more problematic, a long enough lifespan) to work them out manually to beat the computer.
Dan East
Okay, so now they can include gigs of FMV, just so the majority of players (especially kids) can hit a button and skip right over it. Yep, that definitely justifies the extra storage, and the associated costs and delays.
What I want to know is how the extra storage enhances gameplay?
Dan East
So are people supposed to wipe their butt with this thing or what? (Just trying to correlate toilet seats, bacteria and an antiseptic mouse.)
Dan East
If a politician can, by simply dispatching an envoy or making a phone call, prevent millions of dollars in additional deficit, you better believe they'll at least try. In fact, if they didn't try then they wouldn't be doing their job. Posting a story like this is nothing but anti-MS fodder.
Dan East
Actually, that's a strategy that could possibly save Sony -- abandon DRM loudly and publicly, and tout themselves as the Kings of Unrestricted Media. A big campaign of "We trust you to not steal our stuff, but Microsoft and Apple think you're thieves."
Sony is too big, and has an vested interest in too many areas. Thus they cannot serve only the consumer in any of their divisions. As long as we see movies with the word "Sony" in the opening credits, we can be certain that Sony hardware will embrace DRM to the fullest extent possible.
If Sony could have their way, the only media and hardware channel between the movies they produce and the consumer would be Betamax®, oops, I mean Memory Stick®, oops, I mean UMD®, oops I mean Blue-ray®. And if someone is reading this 5 years from now, insert whatever DRM infected crap they're currently pushing at the end of that sentence.
Dan East
Boy, that makes a lot of sense. If Sony makes "6 million PS3 units before April", and sells them all, then they recoup part of their expense. If they don't sell any, then they are somehow better off not recouping anything at all? More sensationalism.
Dan East
What comptuers are very good at, though, is scanning through text to deduct human opinions from factual information.
... aims to teach computers to scan through text and sort opinion from fact. Or, We're interested in seeing how we would extract information about opinions.
Funny, because neither of the articles state that. In fact, they don't even say that software can do that at all yet: A new research program
So yeah, it would be nice if they could sort opinions from facts. Why they're at it, why don't they just recognize lies from truth too, because wouldn't that be doing the exact same thing? Then we can just run statements made by people suspected of committing a crime through the software, which can then sort out all the facts from the opinions, and we'll no longer need judges, juries or attorneys.
Roland, next time save yourself some time and just make the whole freaking thing up from scratch.
Dan East
It's rather stupid for them to link to an image out of their control - especially considering it is hosted by their "enemy". Now Quatrocantos can change the image to display a warning that the user's computer was infected. I think that is more of an insult to or vendetta against Quatrocantos than it is some sort of cloaking or other intelligent design.
Dan East
I was just daydreaming about flying cars for a minute, and a few things quickly came to mind.
Take your typical LA car-chase and now imagine it in the air. So what are they going to do? Mount air to air missiles on all police flying cars?
Next, of course there's the terrorism side to consider. So imagine someone loads a flying vehicle full of explosives, hovers alongside a building in a strategic location, and detonates. So will we see all buildings at risk armed with ground to air missiles, until they are as ubiquitous as security cameras?
One thing is for sure. If the "flying car" ever comes to be, the regulation would be extreme. 100% fly-by-wire, so that the vehicle can be controlled / disabled by authorities, and automatic enforcement of no-fly zones. In fact, I wonder if any sort of manual control would be allowed at all, so it would be completely automated - simply enter a destination and the computer would handle the rest.
Even the technology would be a massive risk. You can pull any parts you want out of a car, and you'd be hard-pressed to make something really devastating out of them. Imagine yanking a propulsion system out of a flying car, stripping it down to the bare minimum support hardware, and using it to deliver some sort of undesirable payload.
I just don't know if any major government would allow such powerful technology in the hands of the populace, unless they could assert control over it at the most rudimentary hardware level.
It sort of reminds me of the book Battlefield Earth (don't laugh), where the one race had invented a propulsion system, the inner workings of which they managed to keep secret from other races for thousands of years via a technological facade that hid the simple secrets that made it possible (don't laugh harder). The tech this guy claims to have invented would be so simple to reproduce that it would be impossible to regulate, unless it was possible to somehow hide away the underlying physics even though the technology was in widespread use (the ridiculous notion of which completely ruined the premise of Battlefield Earth). It's impossible to fathom the implications that a technology like this would have globally. We're talking about the overthrow of governments, and warring and turmoil unprecedented in human history. I'm sorry to sound like such a pessimist, but humanity simply couldn't handle a technology like this. At least not right now.
Dan East
Tom Cruise is now officially old.
Dan East