It's not about what's practical, what's available today, what's cool (how many MP3 player stories do you want to read?), it's about the FUTURE and unfortunately it's not going to be rocket backpacks, cities under the sea and moonbases.
It's going to be about taxes, regulatory regimes, investment timetables and all the other boring crap we put up with today...
I'm happy to see someone like Wired still trying to convince us that the future is bright (the dolphin is seriously cool, by the way) but I for one am giving up hope of believing it.
I remember (back in the day - mid 80s) asking a teacher why we weren't allowed to use calcluators at all. He replied that this was to train our minds so we could do these things ourselves without aid.
Someone else asked "So WTF is with these log books?". He got detention.
Teachers... you've got to love them. Well, someone does.
Doh! The Shuffle... the Shu-FF-le. Stupid brain. hehehehe.
Peter Jackson had huge chunks of LoTR footage sent from NZ to London when he was working on the film score... they sent and received 1TB or more in two months IIRC.
Come on, where's the Dirk Gently movie/TV series? I know, I know, it was a lot like Dr Who (in fact, I can't read DG without picturing Tom Baker in the role) but frankly it was brill and should be done at once.
The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul (despite having a great title) wasn't so good but the first one (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency) was excellent.
But the university isn't a person (in the legal sense) and has no ability to "witness" anything, does it?
Sure, as an institution it has (presumably)AUPs that say the students shouldn't do anything illegal - anyone know what penalties the university states for such activities? - but that doesn't mean they have to hand anything over to the RIAA when they show up demanding names numbers and dates. Presumably they would simply cut the students' acounts off.
As far as I'm aware here in New Zealand the ISPs need to be handed an actual search warrant by the police before they'll open up their logs, regardless of whether it's kiddie porn, P2P or whatever. We have a different approach to privacy though than most countries (the NZ Privacy Act is very nicely worded) and it seems to work ok, but it means I don't know a great deal about the US model.
This whole "The RIAA lays criminal charges" thing is bogus too - the RIAA isn't a law enforcement arm, no matter whether they have RIAA written on their jackets or not. It always gets my goat.
Still, copyright is being viewed more as a criminal activity by those in charge these days... they're putting it on a par with breaking into a house to steal someone's CD collection. Rightly or wrongly, this is becoming a criminal issue not a civil one.
No, no... you may be right, but (and I'm not an American so I don't know how it works there) I thought a subpoena was simply a demand that someone turn up in court to answer questions. Does the subpoena have the recipient's name on it? If it does, why involve the university at all? If it does not, what part of it forces the university to provide that information? Again, I'm most definitely not a lawyer... just seeking clarification.
finally some sense. If the university breaches your privacy by handing over your details without a search warrant/appropriate court demand/whatever then you have a case to bring a suit against them. Same goes for ISPs, phone companies, cable companies or whatever.
Isn't there something about probably cause? Surely I can't ring up MIT and say "One of your students who goes by the name Stud Muffin has been posting copies of my material online, take it down now" and expect to be taken seriously without providing some evidence? IANAL I didn't RTFA
I loved playing Shogun... but my favourite is Medieval (Welsh archers... mmmmmmm).
Having said that, Shogun has the best feature of all the TW games: the little ninja cartoons. I was sorely unhappy when I discovered all you get from Med or Rome is a little picture and a brief comment saying your spy had been killed.
nothing like watching your super Geisha take on another super Geisha and walk out victorious needing only to touch her hairdo once for moral support. Excellent.
Perhaps I read it wrong - I figured a head-mounted mouse thingie was a hunt 'n' peck arrangement so was thinking about keys you could take your own time to depress. My bad.
You're going to need something that will work mostly with a keyboard, I take it...
and you're not going to want a first person shooter - too much need for quick reaction times.
A turn-based game would do the trick. Start off small and addictive with that evil NetHack (nethack.org) and in ten or twelve years time when you're done work on the Total War series - Medieval and Rome are both bonza games and not necessarily reliant on twitchy relfexes... but start off with Shogun (www.totalwar.com).
nobody writes their own speeches all the time any more. There are spin doctors and there are teams of spin doctors. Under Clinton the model was to use competing teams of writers, similar to the model used by TV show Friends I'm told, to come up with the best speech possible.
Having said that, I would have thought his own spin doctors would have written it, not White House staff, but really this idea that Iraq is somehow sovereign and no longer merely existing at the whim of the US is bollocks. The White House is the final authority in Iraq today and will be for many years to come.
What could you do with a 35-day month? That's at least four extra days off each month... every other weekend could be a long one. That's quite nice. Or you could work the extra days I suppose.
still, what do you expect from accountants? The only industry where the word "creative" is a bad thing.
which is lovely but misses the point... that I USE the iPod all the time while the phone is on standby... it's not that the battery is any better/worse just that I use one more than the other.
I always believed convergence would kick in around cellphones with MP3 players built in but having played with a mini iPod all week I've discovered that I can drain the juice out of that puppy faster than just about any other device I have. I play it on the bus, walking to the office, in the office, at lunch and on the way home again.. the cellphone battery wouldn't cope with that kind of demand so I'd end up carrying the power cord with me all the time.
So this would be right for the "sensors in the woods" story from yestereday, right? http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/ 05/11/19 2235&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=158&tid=9 9 " The low power consumption of the chip enables multi-year operation with only dry-cell batteries."
great stuff... sounds more like Neal Stephenson's future than ever before.. now for the Feed.
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It's not about what's practical, what's available today, what's cool (how many MP3 player stories do you want to read?), it's about the FUTURE and unfortunately it's not going to be rocket backpacks, cities under the sea and moonbases.
It's going to be about taxes, regulatory regimes, investment timetables and all the other boring crap we put up with today...
I'm happy to see someone like Wired still trying to convince us that the future is bright (the dolphin is seriously cool, by the way) but I for one am giving up hope of believing it.
I remember (back in the day - mid 80s) asking a teacher why we weren't allowed to use calcluators at all. He replied that this was to train our minds so we could do these things ourselves without aid.
Someone else asked "So WTF is with these log books?". He got detention.
Teachers... you've got to love them. Well, someone does.
If someone's hacking in from outside you want as good a password as possible... That's my fear, not someone sitting at my desk and logging on as me.
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Peter Gutmann said the same thing: you fear the hacker, not the guy stealing your PC.
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/nl/3F25D67E47
Doh! The Shuffle... the Shu-FF-le. Stupid brain. hehehehe.
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Peter Jackson had huge chunks of LoTR footage sent from NZ to London when he was working on the film score... they sent and received 1TB or more in two months IIRC.
link here: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/columns/tech
Ah, no... just the Shuttle. I was thinking of carrying and playing elsewhere rather than playing on the Pod itself.
besides, I'm just looking for an excuse to buy an iPod Photo.
Suddenly 1GB doesn't seem like enough any more.
erm, I think you've got your dates out of whack there... Dirk Gently came out in paperback in 1988 and Twin Peaks didn't appear on screen till 1990.
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Amazon.co.uk has Dirk here:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/03303016
and IMDB has Twin Peaks here:
http://www.imdb.com/find?q=twin%20peaks;tt=on;nm=
Putting aside the idea that one is a rip-off of the other. Can't quite see it myself but hey.
Come on, where's the Dirk Gently movie/TV series? I know, I know, it was a lot like Dr Who (in fact, I can't read DG without picturing Tom Baker in the role) but frankly it was brill and should be done at once.
The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul (despite having a great title) wasn't so good but the first one (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency) was excellent.
But the university isn't a person (in the legal sense) and has no ability to "witness" anything, does it?
Sure, as an institution it has (presumably)AUPs that say the students shouldn't do anything illegal - anyone know what penalties the university states for such activities? - but that doesn't mean they have to hand anything over to the RIAA when they show up demanding names numbers and dates. Presumably they would simply cut the students' acounts off.
As far as I'm aware here in New Zealand the ISPs need to be handed an actual search warrant by the police before they'll open up their logs, regardless of whether it's kiddie porn, P2P or whatever. We have a different approach to privacy though than most countries (the NZ Privacy Act is very nicely worded) and it seems to work ok, but it means I don't know a great deal about the US model.
This whole "The RIAA lays criminal charges" thing is bogus too - the RIAA isn't a law enforcement arm, no matter whether they have RIAA written on their jackets or not. It always gets my goat.
Still, copyright is being viewed more as a criminal activity by those in charge these days... they're putting it on a par with breaking into a house to steal someone's CD collection. Rightly or wrongly, this is becoming a criminal issue not a civil one.
No, no... you may be right, but (and I'm not an American so I don't know how it works there) I thought a subpoena was simply a demand that someone turn up in court to answer questions. Does the subpoena have the recipient's name on it? If it does, why involve the university at all? If it does not, what part of it forces the university to provide that information?
Again, I'm most definitely not a lawyer... just seeking clarification.
finally some sense. If the university breaches your privacy by handing over your details without a search warrant/appropriate court demand/whatever then you have a case to bring a suit against them. Same goes for ISPs, phone companies, cable companies or whatever.
Isn't there something about probably cause? Surely I can't ring up MIT and say "One of your students who goes by the name Stud Muffin has been posting copies of my material online, take it down now" and expect to be taken seriously without providing some evidence?
IANAL
I didn't RTFA
Forget your namby pamby laser-free sharks.
You want one of these!
http://www.innespace.com/
sweeeeeeet.
What like, plot and character development?
I find that hard to believe. More likely it's a warning that JarJar features heavily in the movie.
shudder
I loved playing Shogun... but my favourite is Medieval (Welsh archers... mmmmmmm).
Having said that, Shogun has the best feature of all the TW games: the little ninja cartoons. I was sorely unhappy when I discovered all you get from Med or Rome is a little picture and a brief comment saying your spy had been killed.
nothing like watching your super Geisha take on another super Geisha and walk out victorious needing only to touch her hairdo once for moral support. Excellent.
muuust have giant robots.
Perhaps I read it wrong - I figured a head-mounted mouse thingie was a hunt 'n' peck arrangement so was thinking about keys you could take your own time to depress. My bad.
mmmm, robots.
You're going to need something that will work mostly with a keyboard, I take it...
and you're not going to want a first person shooter - too much need for quick reaction times.
A turn-based game would do the trick. Start off small and addictive with that evil NetHack (nethack.org) and in ten or twelve years time when you're done work on the Total War series - Medieval and Rome are both bonza games and not necessarily reliant on twitchy relfexes... but start off with Shogun (www.totalwar.com).
Best of luck. Enjoy.
slightly warmer than my new Pentium 4 laptop.
Yowza!
why?
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. -Ghandi
nobody writes their own speeches all the time any more. There are spin doctors and there are teams of spin doctors. Under Clinton the model was to use competing teams of writers, similar to the model used by TV show Friends I'm told, to come up with the best speech possible.
Having said that, I would have thought his own spin doctors would have written it, not White House staff, but really this idea that Iraq is somehow sovereign and no longer merely existing at the whim of the US is bollocks. The White House is the final authority in Iraq today and will be for many years to come.
Flame away...
Great news! Now combine these babies with the oldie worldie fuel cells for laptops and you'll REALLY have fun at the airport check-in desk.
hehehehehe.
What could you do with a 35-day month? That's at least four extra days off each month... every other weekend could be a long one. That's quite nice. Or you could work the extra days I suppose.
still, what do you expect from accountants? The only industry where the word "creative" is a bad thing.
which is lovely but misses the point... that I USE the iPod all the time while the phone is on standby... it's not that the battery is any better/worse just that I use one more than the other.
I always believed convergence would kick in around cellphones with MP3 players built in but having played with a mini iPod all week I've discovered that I can drain the juice out of that puppy faster than just about any other device I have. I play it on the bus, walking to the office, in the office, at lunch and on the way home again.. the cellphone battery wouldn't cope with that kind of demand so I'd end up carrying the power cord with me all the time.
So this would be right for the "sensors in the woods" story from yestereday, right?/ 05/11/19 2235&mode=thread&tid=126&tid=158&tid=9 9
http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04
" The low power consumption of the chip enables multi-year operation with only dry-cell batteries."
great stuff... sounds more like Neal Stephenson's future than ever before.. now for the Feed.