These kind of tests stay in your record and if gov any time in the future sees you as a threat, you can be sure they're going to use that knowledge against you.
"This man hacked into our systems and he's well able to cause serious damage over computer networks. Just look at this: he cracked Florida's new ballot system!"
Don't help officals or suits, it gets you screwed big time. If you can code or hack or crack, keep it under the lid in the public and don't brag about it. It doesn't do any good to you.
Theft is something that after committed succesfully, leaves the original owner of the subject without it. Copying is not theft. It may be fraud (as in using false money or selling fake paintings) but unless you're giving them onward for others to use as they would use the original, it's not even fraud.
Copy as you will but don't pass it if you want to stay lawful, k?
No. Yes. You're right but uploading a db of past games is no special feat. IBM didn't make a great chess program, they made at most a mediocre one with a big database of past games. Anyway, point is: IBM isn't playing fair. They sacked the project after they got what the wanted. The right thing to do would be to keep that project open and let other great chessplayers (humans and other chess programs) to try their skills against it too.
I got the feeling that Kasparov and his reputation was cheaply used to aid IBM's marketing . IBM is cheap but makes expensive products. Go figure.
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i understand that under pressure people get cranky and possible social problems are not our (the readers) business. still this thing left rather uneasy feeling inside because/. is the one usually laughing, bitching and flaming others of coverups.
i think there's not much else to be done to this than take a lesson: think before you submit, especially you editors! i don't want to read about accusations of incompetence in a popular public forum. it's odd to read this "Important Stuff:" section under this posting form, knowing that even editors of/. don't follow these rules.
Maybe Congress should just order that genes are not patentable.
There's nothing that I'd hate more than having BGA (Business Gene Alliance) knocking on my door threatening me with litigation because I'm growing enchanced peas (by IGM, Intl Gene Manipulation) in my backyard, without Open Shrubbery License, OSL.
Jerome Lemelson and his lawyer Gerry Hosier, according to that story, robbed 1.5billion from various industries in US and other countries. Compared to these two unimaginably greedy individuals, Rambus is an insect.
Basically, Lemelson used this loophole: (from the article) Until that 1995 law changed the rules, a newly issued patent had a 17-year life span--during which time nobody was supposed to be able to use the idea without paying for it. But a patent application could be delayed through something called a "continuation." During that process, applicants were permitted to amend, modify, or add claims to their inventions. As long as the inventor could persuade an examiner that the new claims were consistent with the original specifications, he could even go so far as to incorporate somebody else's technology into his own patent application.
These lines picture well how obvious Lemelson's strategy was. Sad thing here is, it started working when Sony licensed "Lemelson's" technology for 2 million because it was peanuts for Sony. You can guess, what man can do with that kind of money and determination to litigate anyone..
(from the article) For example, here is Lemelson in 1967, intensely monitoring other people's inventions--and then trying to capture them in his own pending patent applications. "I am enclosing a reprint of an article in the February 1967 issue of Control Engineering Magazine which briefly describes the Speed-Park Garage," Lemelson writes, referring to an automated car-parking garage that Ford had just opened. He then suggests modifying one of his pending patent applications so that it would cover a key element of the technology: "It may be quite profitable to us in the future to attempt to get claims on the fork-reject switch...." Another letter describes how a competitor has redesigned a part so that it wouldn't infringe on Lemelson's patent. "Couldn't we file a reissue application," Lemelson asks, "to add a claim or two to cover this aspect?"
And this man tought of himself as "modern day Edison". pfft.
Not. I wish they'd stay quiet. Altough that article wasn't excactly hype, just marketing talk, I wasn't impressed.
Quake 1 was BIG thing because it dumped ugly sprites and moved boldly to real 3D characters. Without 3D cards. Ok, compare to this, this.. Wolfie-ID-wannabe wich no doubt tries to steal it's credit from NVidias NFiniteFX (or something) processor. I saw them talking about terrain-engine, well I've seen plenty of these 89 degrees steep walls before and that just isn't enough terrain. I believe those screenshots used Q3 engine ("E3 Demo")and that's why the lack of a terrain.
I'm sorry to sound negative but this is not "light years beyond what half-life" did. Not even if we're only talking about graphic effects. Look theseflamer pics. Where's the flaming drops wich these always spew around? Per pixel lighting? Bumb mapping? It looks like there's only one point of light in that flame. Gforce2 ads boasted 8 HW lightsources with real shadows and stuff. Well, where are the shadows? There should be widening and gradually blurring shadow on ground behind that guy.
RTCW is light years short from being light years beyond HL. Maybe few meters beyond, no more.:)
How isn't eMail "instant messaging"? What's wrong with GeMail? How goddamn hard it is to just change the name? Or how about Sudden Messenger? Or Quick Messenger? Or Adavanced Internet Messenger, AIM? haha!
Anyway, acronymes are stupid and should not be allowed to be trademarkable. I Hate Acronymes, IHA.
I think your critics (rightfully) believe computer to be too powerful a tool for an artist. They are defending their existing knowledge base, it's in danger to become history or (fall?) into handcrafts-knowledge category. Computer gives tools to make art, but that art has to be then orders of magnitude harder to accomplish other ways. Take todays architecture for example and you see what I mean. They expect to see samekind of improvement in arts too before computer gets that status of approved art medium. Compare space exploration before and after computers, compare physics research before and after, compare information exchange before and after and you get idea how massive leap in quality, quantity, details and thinking you have to make before they approve computer art. Is it unfair? You decide.
I don't understand art and can only say what it isn't. It isn't something wich can be described with examples. Sure one can tell that a painting is art but that won't tell anything about how to do art. Art is something one can never master, it's always new because it has to. New to the subject not new to the world necessarily. Art is personal, one can only have opinions about art, not facts.
It's weird world to an artist. There's critics, professors, collagues all bashing new ideas, that's nothing new. But in art world, it's like they all somehow hope you to overcome their criticism anyway, make something totally new and surprise them.
Uhm, I'm sorry but I can't help thinking that those people putting down your medium either didn't saw your works or did saw them but were not impressed. Even if they say computer graphics aren't art, they don't mean it. Believe me. They just haven't seen anything impressive yet. You have to make something possible only with computers and it has to be impressive, appealing also to people not familiar with computers and their capabilities. And I believe it has to be presented on something other than monitor screen.
We have NCs already, they're called 'game consoles'. PS2, DC, GameCube, XBox... These are networkable boxes. Maybe not as customizable as PCs but adequate to do all kinds of things. I just wish VGA connector for monitors on these. TV isn't good enough for anything other than playing.
If IEE 1394(Firewire) technology catches on, that's fast enough for most upgrades that home users could need.
I'm dreaming of stackable boxes with integrated connectors to make huge MP machines from consoles and upgrades easily. What if PS1 would've had connectors on top and bottom of it? "Stack 2 PSOnes and you got twice the power! Stack as many as you can but beware: tests have shown that undermost PS1 can take the weight of appr. 33 units on top of it.."
I'm supporting that! Even if companies dislike negative critics, people must have a forum to tell all their bad experiences with so. co.
Hiding flaws of products or services does no good and in the long run it's everybody's loss. Company goes and expands when middle management covers negative reclamations, and when there's too much to cover and hide, it's too late and whole division/company falls.
Of course such a forum could not prevent false accusations but I still believe that real problems would show clearly. It would be excellent place for cmopanies to check if customers aren't satisfied and why. They'd save money for not wasting time listening or reading angry nonproductive reclamations but to just tell customers: "go to we.sux and tell why you're dissatisfied. we'll listen."
why are you supporting a company wich does so many things clearly and knowingly wrong? market practises, monopolies, hampering of development and downright robbing of customers by forcing them to upgrade just to stay compatible with rest of the world?
more than that, you then come and advertise it's products here, telling you have worked for microsoft (for free?) for 5 years. what is this? trolling? plea for pity or fairness towards ms? display of empathy? why?
i don't think ms needs any of it, and besides, i think most of us want to get rid of the whole SOB and it's products. yes, i know some other company probably would take it's place and get eventually just as bad, but i still want ms to disappear. now.
And if they noticed their MP3's taking up less room (perhaps after a download on the scale of Napster) they would be much happier.
I still see most of the mp3 files around are encoded using 128bps and CBR (Constant Bit Rate). If people could learn to encode with avg. bit rate of 112 or 96 with VBR (Variable Bit Rate) enabled, I'd bet they'd get smaller files and better quality most of the time. BTW, Lame Enc does VBR and it's free!
Maybe somebody makes an OS ( wich is not POS;) and integrates everything in it including decent AI wich could hack up applications based on users' wishes. How do you make an OS wich allows to do anything with just one command?
"Oh no, only 5 minutes of this episode left and we're still in the middle of a battle... Computer, do something and make sure it has a happy ending!" -Jean Luc Picard
That'd be funny to see for a change and not some 'kedian pulse' mumbo-jumbo saving the day again.
That makes a good test to show who have learned wich way is left and wich way is right. Show people an unturned right-handed swastika and persons who get offended by it, haven't learned the basics yet and also probably notify about that loudly.;)
Umm take into acount the possibility that they maybe don't care wich way it is or what color it is or any of the details and then you're in a world of shit.
Right on! Let me at it too if that salesman isn't dead yet. The way some people think that B&O for example produces better sound because it costs more and looks good makes me puke. Audiophiles get lost in the details, they don't know enough facts to make good decisions and are overall more gullible than most.
Likewise, be it food, golf, cars, etc. where there are rich people, there's also greedy bastards selling stupid overly priced products with useless show-off options.
As other poster pointed out, only blind listening tests are usefull, otherwise you're just fooling yourself more or less.
There's certain point where room acoustics begin to play the most important role and that point comes pretty fast. I'd say $1000 well tought out bucks in stereo system and after that you either move into a reflectionless room with walls ( AND ceiling AND floor ) covered by 1,5 meters of dampening materials or spend rest of your time planning and acousting your existing listening room.
If you can, I recommend visiting in a so called silent room, where no sound reflections of any kind are possible. It's like standing in a forest, eyes closed, no birds singing, no winds cushing, no water splashing, no nothing. And when you clap your hands you can't hear the walls. That's the kind of listening room to have beacuse then you could make surround sound perfect, bringing the walls of the recording place to you.. you could actually hear the place where the music was recorded.
Quality isn't measured by money. We have excellent HI-FI magazine here in Finland wich published these do-it-yourself-loudspeaker articles few years ago. These are very popular louspeakers among people who know what's needed to make music Sound Good(TM) without wasting much money.
In fact, those loudspeakers were so good that the editors of whis HIFI mag were using them as a reference against other louspeakers in reviews. Since this mag is Finland's leading audio-video magazine, sales of brand name speakers went down and to save their asses, owners of audio hardware shops threatened to boycot HIFI mag if they would not draw their self-made speakers off the reviews.
Ok, now we still have these instructions to make a "HIFI 12/2" speakers for example but since these never get into reviews and comparisons anymore, people are forgetting them. For $300/pair they're cheap and sound awesome. Not to mention the joy of making something by yourself that beats 3 times more expensive sets found in stores.
the kid will find some other way of accessing it just because it's forbidden and not because it's porn. I just can't believe a kid would spend his/hers time flipping through porn mags if allowed.
just imagine how interesting any thing suddenly appears to a kid if mom/dad says: "you will not see or hear such things and I will not tell you why." So no need to draw any lines here. Porn by itself isn't interesting to a kid.
Violence isn't interesting either, but we don't need violence to breed or achieve our goals in life; it's whole new ballgame and much harder to explain why armies must exist and why police is needed. And why it's not healthy to see and get accustomed to violence. But parents MUST explain to their kids why they won't let them see violent acts.
so she get's to see buttbangin' for 2 hours. how interesting would that be to someone who doesn't have sexual needs?
Only harm could be done by freaking out parents when they get to know about it. It's not the material wich damages but scolding by parents and other adults without clear reason.
It'd just make the one explaining look goofy if nothing was asked. You see, to a kid it's just a picture among others, nothing special there.
If he/she asks anyway, I'd tell something like "that picture belongs to the 'sex' department we've discussed before. When kids grow to adults at age of about 16 to 20, they get that need of pleasure wich will be satisfied very various ways. This picture describes just one way."
Hey just look how mp3 players are packaged: there is a program bundled wich "Turns your CDs into digital portable music with just touch of a button! Wow! Just plug your ZippyzipperPortableMegaP(l)ayer into this and you'rrready to go! Yipee!"
Who cares if it's mp3, ogg or wma if it makes life easy?
So, now we got megacorps who are only interested about pleasing their shareholders. And when shareholders are intelligent AIs supporting all the causes wich make most profit? Making decisions and transactions in seconds, calculating markets reactions using chaos theories and improving them, fastest computers playing ball over slower ones.. Who's going to win?
Surely not us consumers and workers. Even now traditional 8 hour workdays are routinely exceeded, using coffeine, pills and stimulating experiences and working conditions to keep workers healthy. Good health is defined by new standards every year so that most productive units would look most healthy. "Healthy people smile a lot, their days are filled with varying tasks and refreshing experiences." and so on..
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"This man hacked into our systems and he's well able to cause serious damage over computer networks. Just look at this: he cracked Florida's new ballot system!"
Don't help officals or suits, it gets you screwed big time. If you can code or hack or crack, keep it under the lid in the public and don't brag about it. It doesn't do any good to you.
Theft is something that after committed succesfully, leaves the original owner of the subject without it. Copying is not theft. It may be fraud (as in using false money or selling fake paintings) but unless you're giving them onward for others to use as they would use the original, it's not even fraud.
Copy as you will but don't pass it if you want to stay lawful, k?
I got the feeling that Kasparov and his reputation was cheaply used to aid IBM's marketing . IBM is cheap but makes expensive products. Go figure.
i understand that under pressure people get cranky and possible social problems are not our (the readers) business. still this thing left rather uneasy feeling inside because /. is the one usually laughing, bitching and flaming others of coverups.
i think there's not much else to be done to this than take a lesson: think before you submit, especially you editors! i don't want to read about accusations of incompetence in a popular public forum. it's odd to read this "Important Stuff:" section under this posting form, knowing that even editors of /. don't follow these rules.
There's nothing that I'd hate more than having BGA (Business Gene Alliance) knocking on my door threatening me with litigation because I'm growing enchanced peas (by IGM, Intl Gene Manipulation) in my backyard, without Open Shrubbery License, OSL.
Basically, Lemelson used this loophole: (from the article) Until that 1995 law changed the rules, a newly issued patent had a 17-year life span--during which time nobody was supposed to be able to use the idea without paying for it. But a patent application could be delayed through something called a "continuation." During that process, applicants were permitted to amend, modify, or add claims to their inventions. As long as the inventor could persuade an examiner that the new claims were consistent with the original specifications, he could even go so far as to incorporate somebody else's technology into his own patent application.
These lines picture well how obvious Lemelson's strategy was. Sad thing here is, it started working when Sony licensed "Lemelson's" technology for 2 million because it was peanuts for Sony. You can guess, what man can do with that kind of money and determination to litigate anyone..
(from the article) For example, here is Lemelson in 1967, intensely monitoring other people's inventions--and then trying to capture them in his own pending patent applications. "I am enclosing a reprint of an article in the February 1967 issue of Control Engineering Magazine which briefly describes the Speed-Park Garage," Lemelson writes, referring to an automated car-parking garage that Ford had just opened. He then suggests modifying one of his pending patent applications so that it would cover a key element of the technology: "It may be quite profitable to us in the future to attempt to get claims on the fork-reject switch...." Another letter describes how a competitor has redesigned a part so that it wouldn't infringe on Lemelson's patent. "Couldn't we file a reissue application," Lemelson asks, "to add a claim or two to cover this aspect?"
And this man tought of himself as "modern day Edison". pfft.
Quake 1 was BIG thing because it dumped ugly sprites and moved boldly to real 3D characters. Without 3D cards. Ok, compare to this, this.. Wolfie-ID-wannabe wich no doubt tries to steal it's credit from NVidias NFiniteFX (or something) processor. I saw them talking about terrain-engine, well I've seen plenty of these 89 degrees steep walls before and that just isn't enough terrain. I believe those screenshots used Q3 engine ("E3 Demo")and that's why the lack of a terrain.
I'm sorry to sound negative but this is not "light years beyond what half-life" did. Not even if we're only talking about graphic effects. Look these flamer pics. Where's the flaming drops wich these always spew around? Per pixel lighting? Bumb mapping? It looks like there's only one point of light in that flame. Gforce2 ads boasted 8 HW lightsources with real shadows and stuff. Well, where are the shadows? There should be widening and gradually blurring shadow on ground behind that guy.
RTCW is light years short from being light years beyond HL. Maybe few meters beyond, no more. :)
Anyway, acronymes are stupid and should not be allowed to be trademarkable. I Hate Acronymes, IHA.
I don't understand art and can only say what it isn't. It isn't something wich can be described with examples. Sure one can tell that a painting is art but that won't tell anything about how to do art. Art is something one can never master, it's always new because it has to. New to the subject not new to the world necessarily. Art is personal, one can only have opinions about art, not facts.
It's weird world to an artist. There's critics, professors, collagues all bashing new ideas, that's nothing new. But in art world, it's like they all somehow hope you to overcome their criticism anyway, make something totally new and surprise them.
Uhm, I'm sorry but I can't help thinking that those people putting down your medium either didn't saw your works or did saw them but were not impressed. Even if they say computer graphics aren't art, they don't mean it. Believe me. They just haven't seen anything impressive yet. You have to make something possible only with computers and it has to be impressive, appealing also to people not familiar with computers and their capabilities. And I believe it has to be presented on something other than monitor screen.
If IEE 1394(Firewire) technology catches on, that's fast enough for most upgrades that home users could need.
I'm dreaming of stackable boxes with integrated connectors to make huge MP machines from consoles and upgrades easily. What if PS1 would've had connectors on top and bottom of it? "Stack 2 PSOnes and you got twice the power! Stack as many as you can but beware: tests have shown that undermost PS1 can take the weight of appr. 33 units on top of it.."
Hiding flaws of products or services does no good and in the long run it's everybody's loss. Company goes and expands when middle management covers negative reclamations, and when there's too much to cover and hide, it's too late and whole division/company falls.
Of course such a forum could not prevent false accusations but I still believe that real problems would show clearly. It would be excellent place for cmopanies to check if customers aren't satisfied and why. They'd save money for not wasting time listening or reading angry nonproductive reclamations but to just tell customers: "go to we.sux and tell why you're dissatisfied. we'll listen."
more than that, you then come and advertise it's products here, telling you have worked for microsoft (for free?) for 5 years. what is this? trolling? plea for pity or fairness towards ms? display of empathy? why?
i don't think ms needs any of it, and besides, i think most of us want to get rid of the whole SOB and it's products. yes, i know some other company probably would take it's place and get eventually just as bad, but i still want ms to disappear. now.
don't shoot me, i'm just a keyboard player.
I still see most of the mp3 files around are encoded using 128bps and CBR (Constant Bit Rate). If people could learn to encode with avg. bit rate of 112 or 96 with VBR (Variable Bit Rate) enabled, I'd bet they'd get smaller files and better quality most of the time. BTW, Lame Enc does VBR and it's free!
"Oh no, only 5 minutes of this episode left and we're still in the middle of a battle... Computer, do something and make sure it has a happy ending!" -Jean Luc Picard
That'd be funny to see for a change and not some 'kedian pulse' mumbo-jumbo saving the day again.
Umm take into acount the possibility that they maybe don't care wich way it is or what color it is or any of the details and then you're in a world of shit.
Likewise, be it food, golf, cars, etc. where there are rich people, there's also greedy bastards selling stupid overly priced products with useless show-off options.
There's certain point where room acoustics begin to play the most important role and that point comes pretty fast. I'd say $1000 well tought out bucks in stereo system and after that you either move into a reflectionless room with walls ( AND ceiling AND floor ) covered by 1,5 meters of dampening materials or spend rest of your time planning and acousting your existing listening room.
If you can, I recommend visiting in a so called silent room, where no sound reflections of any kind are possible. It's like standing in a forest, eyes closed, no birds singing, no winds cushing, no water splashing, no nothing. And when you clap your hands you can't hear the walls. That's the kind of listening room to have beacuse then you could make surround sound perfect, bringing the walls of the recording place to you.. you could actually hear the place where the music was recorded.
In fact, those loudspeakers were so good that the editors of whis HIFI mag were using them as a reference against other louspeakers in reviews. Since this mag is Finland's leading audio-video magazine, sales of brand name speakers went down and to save their asses, owners of audio hardware shops threatened to boycot HIFI mag if they would not draw their self-made speakers off the reviews.
Ok, now we still have these instructions to make a "HIFI 12/2" speakers for example but since these never get into reviews and comparisons anymore, people are forgetting them. For $300/pair they're cheap and sound awesome. Not to mention the joy of making something by yourself that beats 3 times more expensive sets found in stores.
just imagine how interesting any thing suddenly appears to a kid if mom/dad says: "you will not see or hear such things and I will not tell you why." So no need to draw any lines here. Porn by itself isn't interesting to a kid.
Violence isn't interesting either, but we don't need violence to breed or achieve our goals in life; it's whole new ballgame and much harder to explain why armies must exist and why police is needed. And why it's not healthy to see and get accustomed to violence. But parents MUST explain to their kids why they won't let them see violent acts.
Only harm could be done by freaking out parents when they get to know about it. It's not the material wich damages but scolding by parents and other adults without clear reason.
If he/she asks anyway, I'd tell something like "that picture belongs to the 'sex' department we've discussed before. When kids grow to adults at age of about 16 to 20, they get that need of pleasure wich will be satisfied very various ways. This picture describes just one way."
Who cares if it's mp3, ogg or wma if it makes life easy?
Surely not us consumers and workers. Even now traditional 8 hour workdays are routinely exceeded, using coffeine, pills and stimulating experiences and working conditions to keep workers healthy. Good health is defined by new standards every year so that most productive units would look most healthy. "Healthy people smile a lot, their days are filled with varying tasks and refreshing experiences." and so on..