Spoilers? Hard to accidentally come across spoilers, honestly. Someone else in the world owns the book one day before you do? Cry me a river, for heaven's sake. That's just insanity.
So I have a wireless router on my house. It's unsecured. You're claiming that somehow, this gives someone the right to connect to it. Fine. But why does it give them the right to connect to my Internet service? Simply because the router routes information by default? Rubbish.
Let's think about what actually happened though... via DHCP, someone asked for connection info. Your router not only gave them an IP address on your network, but also provided DNS, name resolution for Internet servers... why would it say "here's an address for you to use, and here's how to get out on the Internet" if that Internet access wasn't part of the deal?
If I bought an EZ Bake Oven without knowing the implications, I have no one but myself to be pissed off at when I'm suprised with the resulting cupcakes.:-)
We should see who obtains the domain for DVDDecrypter.com, right? Perfect time for a Slashdot "dupe" (update really) to actually provide a target for the wrath of the people. Boycotts, informative letters, news articles if any mainstream press are sympathetic... Although the perpetrators of this extortion should really be introduced to the guillotine, whatever can be thrown at them would be nice.
but pretty soon it'd become a major eyesore, and there'd be a lot of loathing towards them for putting it there. Looking at it would get old really quick.
Of course... which is why you do it "for" your primary competitor.:-)
It's not perfect... you can't add RSS feeds; it doesn't work well on small screens, but in terms of features and customization, it's still way ahead of everything else I've seen. It's my TV guide, my movie listings, my financial snapshot, and it keeps me aware of when my favorite shows are next coming on, at a glance... very cool feature.
Oh, and like Google's portal, no banner ads, pop ups, blinking garbage, etc...
The 2001/2002 Ford Escapes have to have the EEPROM flashed as part of a transmission recall. The days of software fixes for cars have been with us for a while.
Not as quick, but requiring less expensive equipment: I recently performed standard repairs to the automatic transmission governor "computer" in my 1981 DeLorean with a soldering iron and $10 worth of newer components.
Instead of lines of code, it was under-rated capacitors. If the company had lasted, this would have been a recalled / updated part too.
democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner
That's a disgusting and backwards metaphor.
Look at racially motivated, democratically induced laws from not too long ago in the US. Look at the current fervour with which a large percentage of USians, at least in the south want laws to oppress people of minority sexual orientations.
The metaphor is an excellent and beautiful one, because it takes an idea that is held up as perfect and cherished and points out a simple, obvious flaw in it. The metaphor doesn't extend to endorsing some other flawed system of government. Anyone who blindly endorses "democracy" because "democracy is good" and "we're a democracy and we're good" needs a wake-up call. A brutal and simple metaphor is a helpful tool for that job.
Democracy has some good aspects. A lot of people believe it is a better system than any others that have been implemented. It is the pinnacle of folly to think it's perfect though. Even the founding fathers over two centuries ago didn't think democracy was perfect and implemented the "constitutional democratic republic" concept as discussed earlier. They also built in modification methods so it could continually improve... not stagnate in its perfection. All that aside, we're certainly going down the wrong path with these recent modifications.:-(
Support doesn't always have to come directly from a company.
Word. As the owner of a Zaurus SL-5500 that still serves as a wonderful portable computer and has much greater capabilities than it did out of the box, I'd say that there is much more support for something open like this than one that a company "officially" supports. (OpenZaurus 3.5.2 annihilates the Sharp ROMS)
I had one of the first WinCE devices by Compaq and although they did have a rom chip upgrade to get it to WinCE v2, that device had a much shorter usable lifespan than my Zaurus has had so far.
I also own a DeLorean, and the community atmosphere surrounding that "no longer officially supported by a company" product is great as well; and I'm guessing better in some ways than other '80s cars whose parent companies still exist.
I guess the primary factors are necessity and openness... If there is No Official Support, it pushes people to contribute their own. If the architecture is open (almost for the Zaurus, completely for the DeLorean), hobbiests can do as well or better than a company whose primary concern is the bottom line instead of keeping something living way past its projected lifespan.
What might accelerate the learning time is if multiple copies of the intelligence can share experiences and learn directly from each other's mistakes/successes.
This is why I think Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is some of the best SciFi on TV right now: the story of the Totchkomas(sp?) really explores this particular angle. They're childlike machine intelligences with surprising bits of depth brought on by that type of sharing / synchronization.
...so it'll be over and there will be no more articles about it on Slashdot.
You're forgetting about the Slashdot articles for:
When the DVD release date is announced
When the DVD comes out
When people catalog the differences between the DVD version and the theatrical release
When the boxed set of Episodes 1-3 release date is announced
When the boxed set of Episodes 1-3 is released
When the differences between the theatrical release, the first, and the second versions of the Episode 3 DVD are catalogged
When the boxed set of Episodes 1 - 6 is announced
...
When the boxed set of Sony PSP versions of Episodes 1-6 and the 2 Ewok movies comes out and everyone speculates on what scenes are cut
...
When the theatrical re-release of Episode III finally airs and all the fans are pissed because they digitally replaced the lightsabers with walkie talkies
Wow. I would expect a bill called the "Online Freedom of Speech Act" to be something that establishes mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines for the crime of blogging, etc... What's going on??
I do. Although we forget sometimes, Slashdot is a diverse audience, and we don't all have the same interests. I happen to really enjoy "nerdcore" rap, and I've bought all of his albums. I'm also a huge fan of most of the Adult Swim line-up, and he's participated in several of those shows. The humor there is very much non-mainstream; some of it is quite intellectual. Even the absurdist Aqua Teen Hunger Force sneaks in some very erudite humor every once in a while. And while I was already a fan of his, I'm sure this interview introduced a few more people to some work they enjoy but wouldn't have found otherwise.
To whoever started this interview, good job. There will always be a large chunk of the audience who's not interested and some will always complain... BFD.
The Pimsleur series is good stuff, and they have a lot of different languages available. The approach is purely audio, so it's quite suitable for a commute / exercise / anything where you need your eyes for the primary, physical task at hand.
I'm still convinced I learned everything I needed to know about firing a pistol from Time Crisis.
I don't know if Time Crisis was like most arcade pistol shooters, but I would absolutely hate to be on a firing range with someone who "learned" how to shoot on an arcade machine: considering the usual method of reload!:-)
I have shutter glasses that are great with flight sims, racing games, and some FPSs, but AFAIK it's a Windows-only thing, as it relies on nVidia's supplemental drivers for it... Does anyone know if they'd work with this for a *real* 3D experience?
(Shutter glasses are the 3D tech IMAX uses, vs. the polarization method from Captain EO, T2 3D, etc...)
This is an age-old problem too. Think about television: I actually *enjoy* commercials sometimes when they're funny and well done. I actually pay attention to the "bumps" during Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network. Meanwhile, I change the channel *every time* those annoying-as-all-hell ads for purchasable cell-phone garbage come on. If my TV had a way to monitor for it and switch away and back during those commercials, I'd set and forget just like I do with web-based annoying ads.
Unfortunately, I have a suspicion that advertisers are getting their techniques 100% right on target. The people who aren't annoyed, but amused by the things that drive me crazy are also the people who would ever buy the advertised products and services. The fact that they annoy me means nothing to them... I don't buy cellphone content, I install it via PC, etc... I think they know exactly what they're doing. Not all Firefox users are intentionally blocking geeks... the word is spreading among everyone and it's gaining market share. I don't worry about it much though... we'll always be ahead in this arms race.:-)
Slashdot Mirror
Remember the old Road Runner / Wile E Coyote bit where they repaint the lines to aim the road right into a wall?
... in Russia.
"Fuck those mother fuckers."
Spoilers? Hard to accidentally come across spoilers, honestly. Someone else in the world owns the book one day before you do? Cry me a river, for heaven's sake. That's just insanity.
The Lone Gunmen are dead.
So I have a wireless router on my house. It's unsecured. You're claiming that somehow, this gives someone the right to connect to it. Fine. But why does it give them the right to connect to my Internet service? Simply because the router routes information by default? Rubbish.
:-)
Let's think about what actually happened though... via DHCP, someone asked for connection info. Your router not only gave them an IP address on your network, but also provided DNS, name resolution for Internet servers... why would it say "here's an address for you to use, and here's how to get out on the Internet" if that Internet access wasn't part of the deal?
If I bought an EZ Bake Oven without knowing the implications, I have no one but myself to be pissed off at when I'm suprised with the resulting cupcakes.
Peter Jackson will spend the money:
On personal goods and or services, maybe real estate, etc.. something to enrich his life... maybe even charity.
Studio will spend the money:
Purchasing your rights from filthy filthy congress creaturesesss
I spent some cash on seeing the movies... I know where I want it to go.
We should see who obtains the domain for DVDDecrypter.com, right? Perfect time for a Slashdot "dupe" (update really) to actually provide a target for the wrath of the people. Boycotts, informative letters, news articles if any mainstream press are sympathetic... Although the perpetrators of this extortion should really be introduced to the guillotine, whatever can be thrown at them would be nice.
but pretty soon it'd become a major eyesore, and there'd be a lot of loathing towards them for putting it there. Looking at it would get old really quick.
:-)
Of course... which is why you do it "for" your primary competitor.
I've been using another portal website for quite some time now, that I like better than Yahoo! et al:
MyWay.com
It's not perfect... you can't add RSS feeds; it doesn't work well on small screens, but in terms of features and customization, it's still way ahead of everything else I've seen. It's my TV guide, my movie listings, my financial snapshot, and it keeps me aware of when my favorite shows are next coming on, at a glance... very cool feature.
Oh, and like Google's portal, no banner ads, pop ups, blinking garbage, etc...
The 2001/2002 Ford Escapes have to have the EEPROM flashed as part of a transmission recall. The days of software fixes for cars have been with us for a while.
Not as quick, but requiring less expensive equipment: I recently performed standard repairs to the automatic transmission governor "computer" in my 1981 DeLorean with a soldering iron and $10 worth of newer components.
Instead of lines of code, it was under-rated capacitors. If the company had lasted, this would have been a recalled / updated part too.
The only reason I don't use Google maps is they didn't have direction finding last I checked.
Make your query involve two addresses separated by the word "to".
Look at racially motivated, democratically induced laws from not too long ago in the US. Look at the current fervour with which a large percentage of USians, at least in the south want laws to oppress people of minority sexual orientations.
The metaphor is an excellent and beautiful one, because it takes an idea that is held up as perfect and cherished and points out a simple, obvious flaw in it. The metaphor doesn't extend to endorsing some other flawed system of government. Anyone who blindly endorses "democracy" because "democracy is good" and "we're a democracy and we're good" needs a wake-up call. A brutal and simple metaphor is a helpful tool for that job.
Democracy has some good aspects. A lot of people believe it is a better system than any others that have been implemented. It is the pinnacle of folly to think it's perfect though. Even the founding fathers over two centuries ago didn't think democracy was perfect and implemented the "constitutional democratic republic" concept as discussed earlier. They also built in modification methods so it could continually improve... not stagnate in its perfection. All that aside, we're certainly going down the wrong path with these recent modifications.
Support doesn't always have to come directly from a company.
Word. As the owner of a Zaurus SL-5500 that still serves as a wonderful portable computer and has much greater capabilities than it did out of the box, I'd say that there is much more support for something open like this than one that a company "officially" supports. (OpenZaurus 3.5.2 annihilates the Sharp ROMS)
I had one of the first WinCE devices by Compaq and although they did have a rom chip upgrade to get it to WinCE v2, that device had a much shorter usable lifespan than my Zaurus has had so far.
I also own a DeLorean, and the community atmosphere surrounding that "no longer officially supported by a company" product is great as well; and I'm guessing better in some ways than other '80s cars whose parent companies still exist.
I guess the primary factors are necessity and openness... If there is No Official Support, it pushes people to contribute their own. If the architecture is open (almost for the Zaurus, completely for the DeLorean), hobbiests can do as well or better than a company whose primary concern is the bottom line instead of keeping something living way past its projected lifespan.
What might accelerate the learning time is if multiple copies of the intelligence can share experiences and learn directly from each other's mistakes/successes.
This is why I think Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is some of the best SciFi on TV right now: the story of the Totchkomas(sp?) really explores this particular angle. They're childlike machine intelligences with surprising bits of depth brought on by that type of sharing / synchronization.
Today's speculative fiction... maybe tomorrow's reality.
Lucas was a film-school hack who's never made a really imaginative movie
;-)
Exactly my thoughts after seeing his biography, "George Lucas in Love." It really explained how he got all his ideas in film school.
You're forgetting about the Slashdot articles for:
Wow. I would expect a bill called the "Online Freedom of Speech Act" to be something that establishes mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines for the crime of blogging, etc... What's going on??
When the shove it into my cold, dead hands.
I do. Although we forget sometimes, Slashdot is a diverse audience, and we don't all have the same interests. I happen to really enjoy "nerdcore" rap, and I've bought all of his albums. I'm also a huge fan of most of the Adult Swim line-up, and he's participated in several of those shows. The humor there is very much non-mainstream; some of it is quite intellectual. Even the absurdist Aqua Teen Hunger Force sneaks in some very erudite humor every once in a while. And while I was already a fan of his, I'm sure this interview introduced a few more people to some work they enjoy but wouldn't have found otherwise.
To whoever started this interview, good job. There will always be a large chunk of the audience who's not interested and some will always complain... BFD.
The Pimsleur series is good stuff, and they have a lot of different languages available. The approach is purely audio, so it's quite suitable for a commute / exercise / anything where you need your eyes for the primary, physical task at hand.
First rule of being abused by the Patriot Act:
You don't talk about being abused by the Patriot Act.
If you like the frontiers of biology, consider becoming a gene hacker... Cutting edge stuff, very exciting if you're into it.
I'm still convinced I learned everything I needed to know about firing a pistol from Time Crisis.
:-)
I don't know if Time Crisis was like most arcade pistol shooters, but I would absolutely hate to be on a firing range with someone who "learned" how to shoot on an arcade machine: considering the usual method of reload!
I have shutter glasses that are great with flight sims, racing games, and some FPSs, but AFAIK it's a Windows-only thing, as it relies on nVidia's supplemental drivers for it... Does anyone know if they'd work with this for a *real* 3D experience?
(Shutter glasses are the 3D tech IMAX uses, vs. the polarization method from Captain EO, T2 3D, etc...)
This is an age-old problem too. Think about television: I actually *enjoy* commercials sometimes when they're funny and well done. I actually pay attention to the "bumps" during Adult Swim on the Cartoon Network. Meanwhile, I change the channel *every time* those annoying-as-all-hell ads for purchasable cell-phone garbage come on. If my TV had a way to monitor for it and switch away and back during those commercials, I'd set and forget just like I do with web-based annoying ads.
:-)
Unfortunately, I have a suspicion that advertisers are getting their techniques 100% right on target. The people who aren't annoyed, but amused by the things that drive me crazy are also the people who would ever buy the advertised products and services. The fact that they annoy me means nothing to them... I don't buy cellphone content, I install it via PC, etc... I think they know exactly what they're doing. Not all Firefox users are intentionally blocking geeks... the word is spreading among everyone and it's gaining market share. I don't worry about it much though... we'll always be ahead in this arms race.