Apparently, the latest Service Packs for the popular Microsoft Windows 2000 and XP operating systems contains new licence language that allows Microsoft to install new updates on your machine at will and without notifying you.
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The article quotes a systems manager at a teaching hospital:
"Our procedures sometimes involve surgery to place over 100 recording
electrodes in the patient, sometimes on the surface of the brain. These
PC-based systems use Microsoft Windows..."
Having a Windows application controlling the voltage to 100 pins surgically embedded in your brain is scary enough, but what happens if it updates to the latest Service Pack and that causes the systems to fail? While the pins are in your brain...
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The hashing happens when the login form is submited.
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I suspect it is more along the lines of: Director Burgess (Sydow) knows about the Precrime dept going federal and he may lose control of it, esp when Detective Ed Witwer starts to sniff around and find any problems with the dept.
Obviously Burgess knows how Anderton's son died/went missing and how much he misses him, so he sets it up such to provoke him to kill Crowe. Simple!
That Agatha realised Burgess killed her mum is sort of a side issue. She probably grabbed Anderton (the first time) just coz she already had very fragmented previsions of him killing. Or even just something to add spice to the movie.
I think the concept was very Dick'esque, but the actual implementation wasn't. Poor Schpielberg... not quite an SF guy is he?
As We May Think by Vannevar Bush details a "memex" or "memory extension. It talks about having an extension to the desktop and your mind, complete with indexes and even a "back" button. Tell me this doesn't remind you of the WWW.
Even though he didn't coin the word "hyperlink", the idea was born then.
Besides, what does "hyperlink" have ANYTHING to do with data going over the PSTN? You don't necessarily have to use a modem & the phone network to access the WWW.
I didn't bother reading the article fully, but it seems that they talk mainly about dial-up access to one central computer. I didn't see anything about linking computers together. I'm beginning to think some journo or BT marketroid made the link (no pun inteded) to "hyperlink".
I wonder if they have enough fuel to put it into a "slingshot" orbit to send them to Mars. Use them as Mars orbiters for future missions. That would be an instant hit with Nasa!:) heck Nasa should just buy 'em!
The recent boom in pirate VCDs seem to point to the fact that people don't care as much if the quality is poor, they just want to watch the film. I've seen pirate VCDs with a row of dark blobs at the bottom of the screen (the audience's heads at the cinema), "live" laughter/clapping/cheering, mono sound, fuzzy/blur images, start/ending chopped off. Yet, people watch movies like Toy Story 2 on VCD, where the hard work of renderer farms goes down the gurgler. I think I understand where this guy is coming from.
Also, original VCDs aren't expensive, nor are the players. I picked up an el cheapo no-name one for USD$60 that was VCD v3.0 compliant!:)
Besides, on the low budget HK movies survive on, who can pay for expensive effects? So there's no diff watching it at low bandwidth!
I don't know if there's going to be an English version, but watch out for Tokyo Raiders. There's heaps of spectacular fight scenes. Stylised fighting, but good!:)
sick is right. I had a look at the ingredients list. broccoli is #1!
Interstingly enough, when I told a colleague about the Dilberito, he pointed this out from Scott Adams' "The Dilbert Future": "Prediction 60 - In the future, you will not need a supercomputer and a team of scientists to get good nutrition."
and in the details he describes a "burrito-like meal that is engineered as scientifically as a can of motor oil", not a REAL burrito!!!
"If someone doesn't build this burrito thing (or maybe it's a souplike thing), then I'll build it myself".
I did the same... but I didn't get blocked! Surprise! I know I've tried once or twice with some of the more dubious links from Wired News and got blocked. Maybe the filters really only block when they see naughty words...
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Here's his new CV.
Quite impressive. Apart from Xerox PARC, he's worked at ILM, Opera & Alias (Maya, Wavefront etc).
And the follow ups.
How about a tilt/motion-sensor, like one of those 3D Virtual World setups?
I mean, who doesn't move their gamepads when they get excited?!
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/21/technology/21
Registered users can still view it if you strip it down to:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/21/technology
The stuff after 21NINT.html could be a token with an expiry. It works as at 2002-09-24 01:45 GMT.
But if you compare different stories, the stuff differs, so maybe it is more a hash of the URL/story/time?Interestingly, the partner=GOOGLE bit can be omitted and it is still fine.
No referer from Google necessary either!
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I suspect it is more along the lines of:
Director Burgess (Sydow) knows about the Precrime dept going federal and he may lose control of it, esp when Detective Ed Witwer starts to sniff around and find any problems with the dept.
Obviously Burgess knows how Anderton's son died/went missing and how much he misses him, so he sets it up such to provoke him to kill Crowe. Simple!
That Agatha realised Burgess killed her mum is sort of a side issue. She probably grabbed Anderton (the first time) just coz she already had very fragmented previsions of him killing. Or even just something to add spice to the movie.
I think the concept was very Dick'esque, but the actual implementation wasn't. Poor Schpielberg... not quite an SF guy is he?
Netcraft says that www.olympics.com was running Domino-Go webserver, as you might expect.
As We May Think by Vannevar Bush details a "memex" or "memory extension. It talks about having an extension to the desktop and your mind, complete with indexes and even a "back" button. Tell me this doesn't remind you of the WWW.
Even though he didn't coin the word "hyperlink", the idea was born then.
Besides, what does "hyperlink" have ANYTHING to do with data going over the PSTN? You don't necessarily have to use a modem & the phone network to access the WWW.
I didn't bother reading the article fully, but it seems that they talk mainly about dial-up access to one central computer. I didn't see anything about linking computers together. I'm beginning to think some journo or BT marketroid made the link (no pun inteded) to "hyperlink".
Remeber how M$ wanted to use wince for set-top boxes?
they'd probably need to branch it and call it TVPC or some crap like that...
I wonder if they have enough fuel to put it into :)
a "slingshot" orbit to send them to Mars.
Use them as Mars orbiters for future missions.
That would be an instant hit with Nasa!
heck Nasa should just buy 'em!
The recent boom in pirate VCDs seem to point to the fact that people don't care as much if the quality is poor, they just want to watch the film. I've seen pirate VCDs with a row of dark blobs at the bottom of the screen (the audience's heads at the cinema), "live" laughter/clapping/cheering, mono sound, fuzzy/blur images, start/ending chopped off. Yet, people watch movies like Toy Story 2 on VCD, where the hard work of renderer farms goes down the gurgler. I think I understand where this guy is coming from.
:)
:)
Also, original VCDs aren't expensive, nor are the players. I picked up an el cheapo no-name one for USD$60 that was VCD v3.0 compliant!
Besides, on the low budget HK movies survive on, who can pay for expensive effects? So there's no diff watching it at low bandwidth!
I don't know if there's going to be an English version, but watch out for Tokyo Raiders. There's heaps of spectacular fight scenes. Stylised fighting, but good!
sick is right. I had a look at the ingredients list. broccoli is #1!
Interstingly enough, when I told a colleague about the Dilberito, he pointed this out from Scott Adams' "The Dilbert Future":
"Prediction 60 - In the future, you will not need a supercomputer and a team of scientists to get good nutrition."
and in the details he describes a "burrito-like meal that is engineered as scientifically as a can of motor oil", not a REAL burrito!!!
"If someone doesn't build this burrito thing (or maybe it's a souplike thing), then I'll build it myself".
He must have had an inkling back in 1998...
I did the same... but I didn't get blocked!
Surprise! I know I've tried once or twice with some of the more dubious links from Wired News and got blocked.
Maybe the filters really only block when they see naughty words...