They talk about the problems suffered with sending electrical signals down wire surrounded by 'conductive mud' (known as 'mudwire' in the oil trade - it's often used to help those in the drill units under the earth to communicate with those above) but there is a simpler solution. Use something in the Ghz range, like 2.4Ghz wireless, for example.
The benefit of higher frequencies is that they travel in straight lines, and are less prone to interference from the outside. This is why 2.4Ghz wireless has become popular. 2.4Ghz was chosen for wireless networking because the frequency is the same as the resonance of trees and bricks, which means signals on that carrier wave can penetrate those objects leading to greater coverage.
The oil people would probably need to use a slightly lower frequency (for optimal use) to compensate for the lower density of the mudwire, but even 2.4Ghz would work. Simply make sure the antenna at the drill cage is secure, and then point a high powered (say 1MW) transmitter down towards the ground, and et voila.. you have wireless networking at 10Mbps.
I'm surprised a big networking company like Novell or nVidia hasn't jumped on to this and started to produce expensive proprietary gear for the rich oil companies to buy. Perhaps the time has now come.
Either way, wireless (radio) is the way to go when sending a signal through an electrically busy area. This is why wireless networking is popular in power stations, since fiber optics tend to suck up too much interference.
Alan Cox is illusively quoted as saying, "The community is great for getting the work done, but when it comes to making decisions about where Linux is going, that responsibility should entirely rest on the shoulders of Linus. It's his operating system, and we shouldn't be able to take that away."
I want to agree with that quote. The guys programming Linux and the kernel and so forth are all hard workers and decide to where it's going.
I can't see why the FSF is trying to become the new Linux authority. First they've tried to claim that much of Linux was written by GNU, this is not true, I put to you, they tried changing Linux to GNU/Linux. Notice that GNU is placed before the word Linux, this implies a strong bias towards the former entity.
Linux was named after Linus Torvalds and he is the monkey at the top of the pole, NOT the FSF. If anyone wants to ask where Linux should be headed, it should be him and not the FSF who are simply angling for bonus points in the petty argument.
Clever as he may be, his service does not provide a way that every detail about your DNA structure can be put onto CD. What will be on the CD is a large data file containing the pattern of how your DNA is built up, which chemicals are where, and so forth. However, what will be missing is the important data about how each chemical that forms your DNA is made up ITSELF.
So you'll get your CD alright, but the only people who could actually do anything productive with that data is the same company who made the CD for you! They have to keep the information about the chemical densities of DNA fragments on their own computers, since you need to have actual samples of the chemicals to do this, and you can't store chemicals on a CD.. only references to them!
It's like saying you can store a house on a CD. Sure, you can store the floor plan, and even the absolute position of every brick, but you can't store information about the chemical structure of the bricks or the glass. You take house plans and buy the parts from a building merchant.
Likewise, the genomes on the CD are just like architectural plans on building DNA, but you'd need to go to a 'DNA building merchant' like the scientist's fine company to actually find out what chemicals are referenced in the plans.
Unfortunately there's no way around this, and the guy offers a great service.. but just remember, while he's the only company out there, he pretty much has a stranglehold over the data you'll be taking away from him.
I'm not so sure that Brazil knows how to hold democratic elections. After all, they're all Spanish-accented, thick-mustachioed conga dancers right? Homer was held ransom for $50,000, Bart was swallowed whole by a boa, and Marge got some 'help' from the police. Certainly not the least corrupt place on the planet.
The Simpsons has certainly put me off from visiting what I previously thought might be a very nice country. If Brazil isn't suing Fox for defamation, they should.
It's all quite an easy debate really. Some people prefer higher level languages like Python, whereas some prefer lower level languages like C.
What's the difference? The amount of lines you need to write to get the same result.
It therefore goes that the more lines you need to write to get the same result, the more control you get over the program and the computer on which it is running. This means that programs in C can control the computer in better ways than programs written in Perl or Python.
A lot of programmers, like C programmers, think that C, much like Ada, a language to program, in on problems such as objective and the logical ones. An interesting example is the difference between Visual Basic and Visual C++.
In Visual C++, to open a window takes about 104 lines of code if you estimate the number without doing any research like myself. In Visual Basic, you can open a window just by creating a new project and hitting 'Run'. It's easy, and that's why it works.
This is primarily true in the first instance, since there is proof that indicates such, although there is no evidence of this to suggest quasi-otherwise.
I just mirrored a news story from the BBC that states Deep Fritz has been destroyed in a possible terrorist attack on the conference. For some reason the BBC removed the story minutes after it was published.
Why do your own weekly shopping when you could pay a servant to do it? Why wipe your ass when someone else could be paid to do it? Why bother driving a car when you could just get a chauffeur?
Our personal liberty is not something that should easily be put in the hands of others. Knowledge of law and economics should be absolutely essential for those graduating school and becoming adults, IMHO.
It appears that Mr Novak is representing himself. The guy might actually win something if he used the most manipulative high-powered McBeal, Cage and Fish style lawyers, but on his own he stands no chance. It's totally frivolous.
The defendants should also defend themselves. Having a lawyer is very important if there's a chance of serious jailtime or the death penalty, or if a ruling could destroy your reputation. In this case, however, the worst they'll get is a fine, and that's if Novak wins which is highly unlikely!
If I were one of the defendants in the case, I'd make sure I'd wised up on libel laws in the state of trial, and would ask for a set trial date. That way it only intrudes into one day of my work, and the whole thing would probably be done and dusted in a few hours.
Stupid law suits are easy to get rid of. And once you're done, you can countersue for harassment, and would probably win.
I think citizens should study law and have an idea of what their own rights are, how a court works, and how they can argue their own cases.
Lawyers are good, and you can't replace them yourself, but when it comes to simple cases, why not? I don't call the plumber out when a faucet is leaking. Why should I call out my lawyer for a stupid civil case with no consequences?
This is semi-ontopic, but I wanted to say that Sharp make what are probably the best TFTs out there right now, so when this screen hits the market, it'll probably be a stunner.
Sharp were also the first to produce 16" TFTs (one of which I own) which while double the price of the cheapest 15" displays, have a response rate of *half* what normal TFTs have, sRGB profiling, dual inputs (VGA/DVI), and a 1280x1024 resolution.. compared to the awful 1024 of most smaller TFTs. The 18" Sharp TFTs are pretty much the same, but larger, and oh so sweet. The 16" TFT is 104dpi. With ClearType, that leads to 300dpi (horizontal) goodness on text.
Another thing Sharp has pioneered is 'slim bezel'. Most Sharp TFTs have a bezel of about 1cm, compared to the horrid 3cm+ bezels of most TFTs.
Sharp are the kings of TFT (except, perhaps, IBM who produces those 300dpi dowickeys), and anything they produce has got to be hot.
Why do no stories display the year?
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My only main quibble with Slashdot is why aren't YEARS SHOWN ON STORIES!?
It's great seeing 'October 01'.. but what year is that? Why do Slashdot stories not display the year? It's a pain in the ass when you search for an old story, but all you get is the date and not the year.
MIT's enthusiasm for this project is refreshing, and certainly quite encouraging. But online education is not particularly new, and all that MIT are adding to the mix is a qualifications system, which could certainly be quite handy.
The role of education in modern society, however, is under question, since the ability to look up facts instantly (rather than knowing them) can make people appear to be a lot smarter than they really are.
I have no problem with this. I'd rather people had common sense and an ability to use information, rather than just being a know-all.
If you need to hire a programmer to write a proprietary TCP/IP driver for your new device, you can hire someone who a) is expensive and a TCP/IP driver expert, or b) someone who is cheaper, very smart, can turn their hands to anything, and uses the Internet to research how TCP/IP drivers work. Most companies these days would choose person B.
And the main point?
Education is overrated, since anyone with a decent IQ and a large reference library (say.. the Internet) can work out how to do things that you once needed a degree to do.
I'm unsure about US law, but in the United Kingdom, you have to have a good reason to accuse someone of something, and to have them tried in a court of law.
You cannot just phone up the police, say.. 'John Smith threatened to kill me', and expect John Smith to give you a big fat settlement. In fact, what will happen is that the police will verify your story, interrogate John Smith, and will release him due to lack of evidence. You will then be tried for wasting police time and for wrongly accusing John Smith.
Why are things different in the US? It seems if someone threatens you, you're going to lose money by paying for a lawyer! What nonsense.
For that matter, is it a criminal offence to wrongly accuse someone in the US? I get the feeling it's not, and that you only have to pay court fees if the other party is found not guilty.
In 1964, John F Kennedy stood upon the podium near to the Washington monument and made a promise that the United States would land the first man on the moon. He established NASA by royal charter and proclaimed 'Americans have held out against all odds to be as powerful as we are today. We will do it again. No matter what we have to do, we will land on the moon.' And so a nation was charged up, ready to reach the stars. NASA was the group to do it.
Unfortunately JFK wasn't joking. NASA was covered under similar laws to the federal police, in that they could enact 'emergency laws' giving them special legal powers in special situations. These included sabotage, or the ability to murder those who stood in the way of a moon landing.
NASA is now less powerful and receives less funding, but the laws are still in place. Even Bush is aware that NASA often sabotages its own missions, including the 1993 Mars Observer mission.
NASA knows what's going on on Mars, the documentary 'Mission To Mars' proves it. They don't want anyone getting there first.
Don't bother trying any more, amateurs.. NASA will keep your feet on the ground.
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Call me successfully trolled back since I feel a sudden urge to ask whether you're telling the truth. Unregistered users can't see sigs? I'm not sure that's the case.
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I thought my sig gave away my new identity as a troll. Clearly not, judging by the response to my last twenty posts.
Good idea, but no dice.
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Sharp has developed a 3D LCD display that works without glasses
I applaud Sharp's achievements in this exciting area of optical technology, but if the display only works without glasses, this eliminates a good percentage of computer users who, like myself, have to wear glasses.
How does that help you with Photoshop though? The Gimp is a piece of crap (really). Is there any decent alternative graphics software on Linux that isn't The Gimp that I could check out?
In a recent post to Slashdot, the God of GNU explained that Linux should be called GNU/Linux, because Linux is made up of many parts, and some of those are GNU components.
However, while the GNU wants everyone to call Linux by a new name to respect GNU's contributions, GNU themselves ignore the parts that make up their radio system.
tar and unzip are required to get the source to the software.
a digitizer is required to receive the signals, Eric Blossom keeps harping on about a kit from TAPR
Marconi invented radio waves.
Lots of components are also used in the interfaces and a CPU is used to run the software.
Of course it did, the Mars Pathfinder experiment was faked, in much the same way as the moon landing was.
If you watch the documentary 'Mission To Mars', this is proven as no Pathfinder is visible in the scenes shot on Mars. The Pathfinder did not find any evidence of the obelisk which created the dust storm in the documentary, leading to human's first contact with an alien race in the late 90's.
The moon landing as seen in 1969 was also faked, as proven by the compelling documentary '2001' which some of you may have seen. The US already had a base on the moon by 1969 and a large black monolith was found. An ELIZA-esque robot and a crew of astronauts was sent to investigate a radio beam being emitted from the monolith, on which an astronaut was sucked into a wormhole and suddenly appeared in a hotel in New York.
Really.. shall we start from the top?
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Why oh why do we have to go over this again?
figure of the hacker now that we have had, and discussed, both Matthew Broderick, in Hollywood's War Games, and Kevin Mitnick, in jail.
Matthew Broderick, in WarGames, and Kevin Mitnick, in 'low security but you still get pounded up the ass' prison, were not hackers.. they were crackers.
Hackers are friendly quiche eating Pascal programmers and Mac users, whereas crackers are naughty people who do a lot of hacking.
Crackers are also quite nice with some cheese on them.
That is actually a bloody good point. Small is cool. Big is cool. But normal.. well, that's just normal and boring.
Then again, I can't see anyone showing off about having a 2 inch penis, so perhaps you're not right after all. Or is there a short penis fetish in Japan or something?
Reading this info about Naqoyqatsi, it seems like it's like DJ Shadow. The filmmakers have taken 'samples' of other videos and remixed them into something new and cool.
The first two films were not like this, but I look forward to this one anyway.
Next year, January 11th or so. Find information (and book tickets) at the Barbican Centre. It's being performed in the Barbican Hall and Philip Glass will be there.
Tickets are £20 for the best seats, £10 for the.. 'worst'.
In 1989, Andy Warhol said 'Tiny is the new big.' I'm inclined to agree.
In today's society it's not what you've got, it's what you've not got and not having a 60" plasma TV with surround sound but having a 8" with two tinny speakers is what we're all aiming for.
I applaud you, Sir. Your device looks like a cross between a 1950's kitchen appliance, a miniaturized techno fridge, and a Mac Cube, and would be at home in any quiche eating Pascal programmer or Mac user's home.
Linus Torvalds is once quoted as saying, 'Iris scanners in airports are a really bad idea because people's privacy will be invaded and that is not good.'
I, for one, agree. I don't think iris scanners are a good idea in airports because the invasion of the right to privacy of people in the airport is not good.
One of the major problems with iris scanners is light refraction. The way iris scanners work is that they send out dense beams of infrared, and when they reflect back a pattern that can be recognized as an 'iris', this pattern is then stored and can be compared against a database of iris patterns.
Few quiche eating Pascal programmers and Mac users would realize just how inaccurate this is. Everyone's eye has a different surface, and if the IR ray enters from different angles, different distorted iris patterns can be reported. This is why scanning the material that controls the entry of light to the eye would be more accurate, since this is not affected by these scientific properties.
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They talk about the problems suffered with sending electrical signals down wire surrounded by 'conductive mud' (known as 'mudwire' in the oil trade - it's often used to help those in the drill units under the earth to communicate with those above) but there is a simpler solution. Use something in the Ghz range, like 2.4Ghz wireless, for example.
The benefit of higher frequencies is that they travel in straight lines, and are less prone to interference from the outside. This is why 2.4Ghz wireless has become popular. 2.4Ghz was chosen for wireless networking because the frequency is the same as the resonance of trees and bricks, which means signals on that carrier wave can penetrate those objects leading to greater coverage.
The oil people would probably need to use a slightly lower frequency (for optimal use) to compensate for the lower density of the mudwire, but even 2.4Ghz would work. Simply make sure the antenna at the drill cage is secure, and then point a high powered (say 1MW) transmitter down towards the ground, and et voila.. you have wireless networking at 10Mbps.
I'm surprised a big networking company like Novell or nVidia hasn't jumped on to this and started to produce expensive proprietary gear for the rich oil companies to buy. Perhaps the time has now come.
Either way, wireless (radio) is the way to go when sending a signal through an electrically busy area. This is why wireless networking is popular in power stations, since fiber optics tend to suck up too much interference.
Alan Cox is illusively quoted as saying, "The community is great for getting the work done, but when it comes to making decisions about where Linux is going, that responsibility should entirely rest on the shoulders of Linus. It's his operating system, and we shouldn't be able to take that away."
I want to agree with that quote. The guys programming Linux and the kernel and so forth are all hard workers and decide to where it's going.
I can't see why the FSF is trying to become the new Linux authority. First they've tried to claim that much of Linux was written by GNU, this is not true, I put to you, they tried changing Linux to GNU/Linux. Notice that GNU is placed before the word Linux, this implies a strong bias towards the former entity.
Linux was named after Linus Torvalds and he is the monkey at the top of the pole, NOT the FSF. If anyone wants to ask where Linux should be headed, it should be him and not the FSF who are simply angling for bonus points in the petty argument.
Clever as he may be, his service does not provide a way that every detail about your DNA structure can be put onto CD. What will be on the CD is a large data file containing the pattern of how your DNA is built up, which chemicals are where, and so forth. However, what will be missing is the important data about how each chemical that forms your DNA is made up ITSELF.
So you'll get your CD alright, but the only people who could actually do anything productive with that data is the same company who made the CD for you! They have to keep the information about the chemical densities of DNA fragments on their own computers, since you need to have actual samples of the chemicals to do this, and you can't store chemicals on a CD.. only references to them!
It's like saying you can store a house on a CD. Sure, you can store the floor plan, and even the absolute position of every brick, but you can't store information about the chemical structure of the bricks or the glass. You take house plans and buy the parts from a building merchant.
Likewise, the genomes on the CD are just like architectural plans on building DNA, but you'd need to go to a 'DNA building merchant' like the scientist's fine company to actually find out what chemicals are referenced in the plans.
Unfortunately there's no way around this, and the guy offers a great service.. but just remember, while he's the only company out there, he pretty much has a stranglehold over the data you'll be taking away from him.
I'm not so sure that Brazil knows how to hold democratic elections. After all, they're all Spanish-accented, thick-mustachioed conga dancers right? Homer was held ransom for $50,000, Bart was swallowed whole by a boa, and Marge got some 'help' from the police. Certainly not the least corrupt place on the planet.
The Simpsons has certainly put me off from visiting what I previously thought might be a very nice country. If Brazil isn't suing Fox for defamation, they should.
It's all quite an easy debate really. Some people prefer higher level languages like Python, whereas some prefer lower level languages like C.
What's the difference? The amount of lines you need to write to get the same result.
It therefore goes that the more lines you need to write to get the same result, the more control you get over the program and the computer on which it is running. This means that programs in C can control the computer in better ways than programs written in Perl or Python.
A lot of programmers, like C programmers, think that C, much like Ada, a language to program, in on problems such as objective and the logical ones. An interesting example is the difference between Visual Basic and Visual C++.
In Visual C++, to open a window takes about 104 lines of code if you estimate the number without doing any research like myself. In Visual Basic, you can open a window just by creating a new project and hitting 'Run'. It's easy, and that's why it works.
This is primarily true in the first instance, since there is proof that indicates such, although there is no evidence of this to suggest quasi-otherwise.
I just mirrored a news story from the BBC that states Deep Fritz has been destroyed in a possible terrorist attack on the conference. For some reason the BBC removed the story minutes after it was published.
Why do your own weekly shopping when you could pay a servant to do it? Why wipe your ass when someone else could be paid to do it? Why bother driving a car when you could just get a chauffeur?
Our personal liberty is not something that should easily be put in the hands of others. Knowledge of law and economics should be absolutely essential for those graduating school and becoming adults, IMHO.
It appears that Mr Novak is representing himself. The guy might actually win something if he used the most manipulative high-powered McBeal, Cage and Fish style lawyers, but on his own he stands no chance. It's totally frivolous.
The defendants should also defend themselves. Having a lawyer is very important if there's a chance of serious jailtime or the death penalty, or if a ruling could destroy your reputation. In this case, however, the worst they'll get is a fine, and that's if Novak wins which is highly unlikely!
If I were one of the defendants in the case, I'd make sure I'd wised up on libel laws in the state of trial, and would ask for a set trial date. That way it only intrudes into one day of my work, and the whole thing would probably be done and dusted in a few hours.
Stupid law suits are easy to get rid of. And once you're done, you can countersue for harassment, and would probably win.
I think citizens should study law and have an idea of what their own rights are, how a court works, and how they can argue their own cases.
Lawyers are good, and you can't replace them yourself, but when it comes to simple cases, why not? I don't call the plumber out when a faucet is leaking. Why should I call out my lawyer for a stupid civil case with no consequences?
This is semi-ontopic, but I wanted to say that Sharp make what are probably the best TFTs out there right now, so when this screen hits the market, it'll probably be a stunner.
Sharp were also the first to produce 16" TFTs (one of which I own) which while double the price of the cheapest 15" displays, have a response rate of *half* what normal TFTs have, sRGB profiling, dual inputs (VGA/DVI), and a 1280x1024 resolution.. compared to the awful 1024 of most smaller TFTs. The 18" Sharp TFTs are pretty much the same, but larger, and oh so sweet. The 16" TFT is 104dpi. With ClearType, that leads to 300dpi (horizontal) goodness on text.
Another thing Sharp has pioneered is 'slim bezel'. Most Sharp TFTs have a bezel of about 1cm, compared to the horrid 3cm+ bezels of most TFTs.
Sharp are the kings of TFT (except, perhaps, IBM who produces those 300dpi dowickeys), and anything they produce has got to be hot.
My only main quibble with Slashdot is why aren't YEARS SHOWN ON STORIES!?
It's great seeing 'October 01'.. but what year is that? Why do Slashdot stories not display the year? It's a pain in the ass when you search for an old story, but all you get is the date and not the year.
Am I the only one who noticed this yet?
MIT's enthusiasm for this project is refreshing, and certainly quite encouraging. But online education is not particularly new, and all that MIT are adding to the mix is a qualifications system, which could certainly be quite handy.
The role of education in modern society, however, is under question, since the ability to look up facts instantly (rather than knowing them) can make people appear to be a lot smarter than they really are.
I have no problem with this. I'd rather people had common sense and an ability to use information, rather than just being a know-all.
If you need to hire a programmer to write a proprietary TCP/IP driver for your new device, you can hire someone who a) is expensive and a TCP/IP driver expert, or b) someone who is cheaper, very smart, can turn their hands to anything, and uses the Internet to research how TCP/IP drivers work. Most companies these days would choose person B.
And the main point?
Education is overrated, since anyone with a decent IQ and a large reference library (say.. the Internet) can work out how to do things that you once needed a degree to do.
I'm unsure about US law, but in the United Kingdom, you have to have a good reason to accuse someone of something, and to have them tried in a court of law.
You cannot just phone up the police, say.. 'John Smith threatened to kill me', and expect John Smith to give you a big fat settlement. In fact, what will happen is that the police will verify your story, interrogate John Smith, and will release him due to lack of evidence. You will then be tried for wasting police time and for wrongly accusing John Smith.
Why are things different in the US? It seems if someone threatens you, you're going to lose money by paying for a lawyer! What nonsense.
For that matter, is it a criminal offence to wrongly accuse someone in the US? I get the feeling it's not, and that you only have to pay court fees if the other party is found not guilty.
In 1964, John F Kennedy stood upon the podium near to the Washington monument and made a promise that the United States would land the first man on the moon. He established NASA by royal charter and proclaimed 'Americans have held out against all odds to be as powerful as we are today. We will do it again. No matter what we have to do, we will land on the moon.' And so a nation was charged up, ready to reach the stars. NASA was the group to do it.
Unfortunately JFK wasn't joking. NASA was covered under similar laws to the federal police, in that they could enact 'emergency laws' giving them special legal powers in special situations. These included sabotage, or the ability to murder those who stood in the way of a moon landing.
NASA is now less powerful and receives less funding, but the laws are still in place. Even Bush is aware that NASA often sabotages its own missions, including the 1993 Mars Observer mission.
NASA knows what's going on on Mars, the documentary 'Mission To Mars' proves it. They don't want anyone getting there first.
Don't bother trying any more, amateurs.. NASA will keep your feet on the ground.
Call me successfully trolled back since I feel a sudden urge to ask whether you're telling the truth. Unregistered users can't see sigs? I'm not sure that's the case.
I thought my sig gave away my new identity as a troll. Clearly not, judging by the response to my last twenty posts.
Sharp has developed a 3D LCD display that works without glasses
I applaud Sharp's achievements in this exciting area of optical technology, but if the display only works without glasses, this eliminates a good percentage of computer users who, like myself, have to wear glasses.
How does that help you with Photoshop though? The Gimp is a piece of crap (really). Is there any decent alternative graphics software on Linux that isn't The Gimp that I could check out?
However, while the GNU wants everyone to call Linux by a new name to respect GNU's contributions, GNU themselves ignore the parts that make up their radio system.
- tar and unzip are required to get the source to the software.
- a digitizer is required to receive the signals, Eric Blossom keeps harping on about a kit from TAPR
- Marconi invented radio waves.
- Lots of components are also used in the interfaces and a CPU is used to run the software.
- Audio is used.
- Windows are used to display the app.
Therefore I recommend GNU Radio be renamed to:GNU/tar/windows/audio/TAPR/CPU/unzip/Marconi
Or GNU/TwatCum for short.
It's only fair.
seemed a rare combination of luck
Of course it did, the Mars Pathfinder experiment was faked, in much the same way as the moon landing was.
If you watch the documentary 'Mission To Mars', this is proven as no Pathfinder is visible in the scenes shot on Mars. The Pathfinder did not find any evidence of the obelisk which created the dust storm in the documentary, leading to human's first contact with an alien race in the late 90's.
The moon landing as seen in 1969 was also faked, as proven by the compelling documentary '2001' which some of you may have seen. The US already had a base on the moon by 1969 and a large black monolith was found. An ELIZA-esque robot and a crew of astronauts was sent to investigate a radio beam being emitted from the monolith, on which an astronaut was sucked into a wormhole and suddenly appeared in a hotel in New York.
Why oh why do we have to go over this again?
figure of the hacker now that we have had, and discussed, both Matthew Broderick, in Hollywood's War Games, and Kevin Mitnick, in jail.
Matthew Broderick, in WarGames, and Kevin Mitnick, in 'low security but you still get pounded up the ass' prison, were not hackers.. they were crackers.
Hackers are friendly quiche eating Pascal programmers and Mac users, whereas crackers are naughty people who do a lot of hacking.
Crackers are also quite nice with some cheese on them.
That is actually a bloody good point. Small is cool. Big is cool. But normal.. well, that's just normal and boring.
Then again, I can't see anyone showing off about having a 2 inch penis, so perhaps you're not right after all. Or is there a short penis fetish in Japan or something?
Reading this info about Naqoyqatsi, it seems like it's like DJ Shadow. The filmmakers have taken 'samples' of other videos and remixed them into something new and cool.
The first two films were not like this, but I look forward to this one anyway.
Next year, January 11th or so. Find information (and book tickets) at the Barbican Centre. It's being performed in the Barbican Hall and Philip Glass will be there.
Tickets are £20 for the best seats, £10 for the.. 'worst'.
In 1989, Andy Warhol said 'Tiny is the new big.' I'm inclined to agree.
In today's society it's not what you've got, it's what you've not got and not having a 60" plasma TV with surround sound but having a 8" with two tinny speakers is what we're all aiming for.
I applaud you, Sir. Your device looks like a cross between a 1950's kitchen appliance, a miniaturized techno fridge, and a Mac Cube, and would be at home in any quiche eating Pascal programmer or Mac user's home.
Linus Torvalds is once quoted as saying, 'Iris scanners in airports are a really bad idea because people's privacy will be invaded and that is not good.'
I, for one, agree. I don't think iris scanners are a good idea in airports because the invasion of the right to privacy of people in the airport is not good.
One of the major problems with iris scanners is light refraction. The way iris scanners work is that they send out dense beams of infrared, and when they reflect back a pattern that can be recognized as an 'iris', this pattern is then stored and can be compared against a database of iris patterns.
Few quiche eating Pascal programmers and Mac users would realize just how inaccurate this is. Everyone's eye has a different surface, and if the IR ray enters from different angles, different distorted iris patterns can be reported. This is why scanning the material that controls the entry of light to the eye would be more accurate, since this is not affected by these scientific properties.