They also reported a loud, growling noise inside the space station. (emphasis mine)
They think it was a broken gyro... You see, principal filming can't begin until the babes arrive... then the creature will kill everyone, in ones and twos:
Begin Scene: Korzun and Crawford in space-hot-tub (n/m the whole gravity thing) giggling. A slight scraping sound is heard...
Crawford: Did you hear that?!
Korzun: Aw, it's nothingks...
There is a "loud, growling noise."
Camera zooms on Crawford as she screams in terror.
I could be wrong, but I believe Bowie was the first mainstream artist to distribute his music video on CD-ROM, through CD-ROM Today, which was my favorite computer mag in the early 90s.
He's always been noted as progressive and in-touch with technology. A real good guy from the/. crowd's general persective.:-)
I had a great art class in my senior year of high school, back in '96. The instructor was very flexible, and I was the "computer person" on campus, who helped the library admin when issues would come up.
I arranged a week-long excursion for our art class to spend each day in the computer lab, to "immerse ourselves in a Three-Dimensional simulation of Medieval Architecture, interactively generated in Real-Time," a.k.a. Heretic. We played deathmatches through class and lunch all week, in the dark computer lab with Danzig's Black Aria playing for ambience. If schools did more stuff like this, it would only be beneficial!
... or if you don't want to read the article... (wink wink; yes I'm karma whoring), here's the honorable mentions:
Zhenlei Cai, for his project, Discovery and Grouping of Semantic
Concepts from Web Pages with Applications. This effort processed a corpus
of documents and found words and phrases that tend to co-occur within the
same document, producing a list of pairs of terms that seem to be closely
related (such as "federal law" and "supreme court", or "Bay Area" and "San
Francisco").
Laird Breyer, for his project, Markovian Page Ranking Distributions:
Some Theory and Simulations. This project examined various properties of
the Markovian process behind Google's PageRank algorithm, and suggested
some modifications to take into account the "age" of each link to reduce
Pagerank's tendency to bias against newly-created pages.
Thomas Phelps and Robert Wilensky, for their project, Robust
Hyperlinks. Traditional hyperlinks are very brittle, in that they are useless
if the page later moves to a different URL. This project improves upon traditional
hyperlinks by creating a signature of the target page, selecting a set of
very rare words that uniquely identify the page, and relying on a search
engine query for those rare words to find the page in the future. For example,
the Google programming contest can be found using
this link.
Aaron Peapell, for his project, Genetic Search Algorithm. This project
used a genetic search algorithm to bias a Pagerank-like algorithm in a query-specific
manner, by giving higher weight to links from pages containing all of the
query terms.
Dan Blandford and Guy Blelloch, for their project, Index
Compression Through Document Reordering. This project aims to reduce the
space requirements of an inverted index by clustering together documents
that are similar before assigning numerical identifiers to the documents
(leading to locality in the document identifier sequences within the inverted
posting lists for the words in the index, thereby making the sequences more
compressible with various types of encoding techniques).
Account sizes started at 10 MB. Hotmail recently reduced them to 2 MB.
Bullshit. I signed up for Hotmail wayyyy back in the day ('96), before they were bought by M$, and they offered 2MB then too.
I've noticed the same exact problems you list as your other points though, and agree that Hotmail has really gone down the toilet.
The good news: check out MyRealBox. This is Novell's site to get a testbed of users for their latest, greatest enterprise e-mail systems. No ads, just web access, pop/smtp access, even IMAP access, all free. The cost? They're unreliable for a day or so every 6 months while they upgrade their servers.
... Is it the gulf war with all its victims the internets fault? are the terrorist attacks and the bombing of afghanistan the internets fault? Were the israeli attacks on palestine the internets fault? How about terrorism?...
and the Crusades! and the Inquisition! oh, wait...
Earlier this week, I asked my boss for a couple hours leave for Spiderman, to make up the time on other days. Not a problem; and I'll be headed out early for the movie today. I just couldn't imagine working in any other type of environment.... gahhhh!
I grew up in Long Beach, CA, and the picture at CNN is what we used to call a "Potato Bug"... that's not the correct latin, but this is not a NEW, Improved, ribbed for her revulsion sort of critter.
Seriously though, we're realizing one observed animal is multiple species pretty frequently lately... whales of course, elephants a few months ago... I was hoping this was something from the dark realm of Monsanto.:-D
... just in case you haven't, here's what I do sometimes to track down copies of text on the web:
Find a unique line in the text/code/whatever, and search for it as a string in several search engines. If it's anywhere on the web, this tends to be a success.
I've used it with source code a time or two, but it's most frequently useful when I hear a song on the radio... I just memorize a line or two, because the DJ invariably fails to name it after it plays.:-)
I've had a computer in my car for a little over a year, functioning primarily as an MP3 / MIDI player. It uses WinAMP and a Joystick plugin (along with a few other things). I was thinking it would be rather easy to adapt the design for shower use by sealing the gamepad with liquid latex or, for a really hacked look, a zip-lock bag and some caulking, and just run the gamepad cable out of the shower and into a cabinet with the PC and a wireless NIC...
I wrote an email to their International Contact stating that I can't use this product because of Macrovision; I suggest others do the same (although copying verbatim is probably not appropriate in this case) The text of the e-mail follows:
Hello,
I am the chief engineer of an embedded system builder in the US, and I was excited to read the announcement for the Mini-ITX motherboard. I've been pricing and scoping out features of various biscuit PC, PC104, etc... formfactor motherboards, and it appeared that the Mini-ITX motherboard had the right features.
However, upon reading the specifications on the VIA website at http://www.via.com.tw/en/VInternet/mini_itx.js p I was very disappointed by mention of "Integrated Macro Vision 7.01" on the TV Out. Macrovision is not a product feature; Macrovision is an obstruction. To my understanding, all Macrovision does is prevent customers from video-taping output from the device. With the myriad of possible system applications for a motherboard, what warrants inclusion of such a problem? This product will not meet our needs unless this feature can be removed, disabled, or omitted from production entirely.
Please advise, --(my full name)
The International Contact specified on their website is:
One of the original intentions for using Java, was to embed it in mobile devices... but it was adopted as a web toy before much else.
I remember, in Fall '97, at the South-Eastern US ACM Programming competition (which IBM sponsored), their speaker / representative went on about how wonderful Java was, and that it would be in our wristwatches. Some laughed... some said, "Yeah, right," but others, like myself were thinking, "Well hurry up already!"
Pirating a movie in the theaters cannot hold a candle to going and seeing the movie. Frankly, if somebody is going to download the pirated movie, then the chances are they aren't going to pay to see it. It is too big of a hassle.
True Story: I had no intention of seeing Kate & Leopold. Then one evening, when my girlfriend didn't want to go out, she asked me to pull it down from Morpheus. After we watched the first few minutes at DivXed camcorder quality, and enjoyed the content, we hunted down the showtimes, and went to see it anyway.
Coworkers of mine who also are into downloading films have related the same type of experience (going to see the movie because they had downloaded it first)
...so if I own and operate a pizza joint, and a lot of my clients are people who do criminal things sometimes, and they peacably assemble and exercise their vocal chords while dining in my fine restaurant, I've done something wrong or illegal???
I know the analogy isn't a perfect map, but does this not expose some of the folly involved in the MPAA, RIAA, Gubmint, Fritz the senator's opinions?
It was funny: about 2 months ago, I was reading some of their documentation on their site, seeing what all I could customize, and I noticed these boxes with ads that were supposed to be on the right... I had never seen one, probably because I always use the strangest search terms possible to get good results. I re-ran my most recent search, and... nothing. So, taking a clue from the spam I get in my disposable accounts, I searched for "Viagra."
MIT's 'borgs have been using prototype retinal scanning displays from various companies that have offered them for at least half a decade.
Back around '97 I was really interested in wearables, but the availability of this type of display was always a problem, and all the suppliers that the MIT crew had listed no longer sold the devices (and they were only selling them as dev-kits anyway)
Read up on MIT's "Lizzy." The most popular display back then was a single LED (red) scanning display, with 320x240 resolution, but it was the same exact technology.
Slashdot Mirror
Dude, let's just be blunt:
:-(
As can be expected, the RIAA is in favor of the proposed legislation.
Should read,
As can be expected, the RIAA purchased the proposed legislation.
Am I just spouting conspiracy / anti-government / cynical crap? No.
I was actually guessing / making a joke... then I looked it up.
If you want to get rid of that paperweight...
(in the voice of Pip) I'll pay 10 dollars for one!
This is hopeful news for us in The States: EFF has set up an Action Center that operates the same way, allowing us to Fax our congress-critters
Here's the functioning link.
4 258.sh tml?tid=23
Here's the actual URL:
http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/06/18/134
They think it was a broken gyro... You see, principal filming can't begin until the babes arrive... then the creature will kill everyone, in ones and twos:
I could be wrong, but I believe Bowie was the first mainstream artist to distribute his music video on CD-ROM, through CD-ROM Today, which was my favorite computer mag in the early 90s.
/. crowd's general persective. :-)
He's always been noted as progressive and in-touch with technology. A real good guy from the
I had a great art class in my senior year of high school, back in '96. The instructor was very flexible, and I was the "computer person" on campus, who helped the library admin when issues would come up.
I arranged a week-long excursion for our art class to spend each day in the computer lab, to "immerse ourselves in a Three-Dimensional simulation of Medieval Architecture, interactively generated in Real-Time," a.k.a. Heretic. We played deathmatches through class and lunch all week, in the dark computer lab with Danzig's Black Aria playing for ambience. If schools did more stuff like this, it would only be beneficial!
Zhenlei Cai, for his project, Discovery and Grouping of Semantic Concepts from Web Pages with Applications. This effort processed a corpus of documents and found words and phrases that tend to co-occur within the same document, producing a list of pairs of terms that seem to be closely related (such as "federal law" and "supreme court", or "Bay Area" and "San Francisco").
Laird Breyer, for his project, Markovian Page Ranking Distributions: Some Theory and Simulations. This project examined various properties of the Markovian process behind Google's PageRank algorithm, and suggested some modifications to take into account the "age" of each link to reduce Pagerank's tendency to bias against newly-created pages.
Thomas Phelps and Robert Wilensky, for their project, Robust Hyperlinks. Traditional hyperlinks are very brittle, in that they are useless if the page later moves to a different URL. This project improves upon traditional hyperlinks by creating a signature of the target page, selecting a set of very rare words that uniquely identify the page, and relying on a search engine query for those rare words to find the page in the future. For example, the Google programming contest can be found using this link.
Aaron Peapell, for his project, Genetic Search Algorithm. This project used a genetic search algorithm to bias a Pagerank-like algorithm in a query-specific manner, by giving higher weight to links from pages containing all of the query terms.
Dan Blandford and Guy Blelloch, for their project, Index Compression Through Document Reordering. This project aims to reduce the space requirements of an inverted index by clustering together documents that are similar before assigning numerical identifiers to the documents (leading to locality in the document identifier sequences within the inverted posting lists for the words in the index, thereby making the sequences more compressible with various types of encoding techniques).
Amen
Dazed and confused Slashdot readers everywhere were found siding with Microsoft today...
Account sizes started at 10 MB. Hotmail recently reduced them to 2 MB.
Bullshit. I signed up for Hotmail wayyyy back in the day ('96), before they were bought by M$, and they offered 2MB then too.
I've noticed the same exact problems you list as your other points though, and agree that Hotmail has really gone down the toilet.
The good news: check out MyRealBox. This is Novell's site to get a testbed of users for their latest, greatest enterprise e-mail systems. No ads, just web access, pop/smtp access, even IMAP access, all free. The cost? They're unreliable for a day or so every 6 months while they upgrade their servers.
... Is it the gulf war with all its victims the internets fault? are the terrorist attacks and the bombing of afghanistan the internets fault? Were the israeli attacks on palestine the internets fault? How about terrorism?
and the Crusades! and the Inquisition! oh, wait...
I would think "Closer to Spice" falls into the Parody category... :-)
Earlier this week, I asked my boss for a couple hours leave for Spiderman, to make up the time on other days. Not a problem; and I'll be headed out early for the movie today. I just couldn't imagine working in any other type of environment.... gahhhh!
... I just finally got around to overclocking my Libretto (P75 to P100) on Friday!
I grew up in Long Beach, CA, and the picture at CNN is what we used to call a "Potato Bug"... that's not the correct latin, but this is not a NEW, Improved, ribbed for her revulsion sort of critter.
:-D
Seriously though, we're realizing one observed animal is multiple species pretty frequently lately... whales of course, elephants a few months ago... I was hoping this was something from the dark realm of Monsanto.
... just in case you haven't, here's what I do sometimes to track down copies of text on the web:
:-)
Find a unique line in the text/code/whatever, and search for it as a string in several search engines. If it's anywhere on the web, this tends to be a success.
I've used it with source code a time or two, but it's most frequently useful when I hear a song on the radio... I just memorize a line or two, because the DJ invariably fails to name it after it plays.
I was talking about this Friday!
I've had a computer in my car for a little over a year, functioning primarily as an MP3 / MIDI player. It uses WinAMP and a Joystick plugin (along with a few other things). I was thinking it would be rather easy to adapt the design for shower use by sealing the gamepad with liquid latex or, for a really hacked look, a zip-lock bag and some caulking, and just run the gamepad cable out of the shower and into a cabinet with the PC and a wireless NIC...
I wrote an email to their International Contact stating that I can't use this product because of Macrovision; I suggest others do the same (although copying verbatim is probably not appropriate in this case) The text of the e-mail follows:
s p I was very disappointed by
Hello,
I am the chief engineer of an embedded system builder in the US, and I was
excited to read the announcement for the Mini-ITX motherboard. I've been
pricing and scoping out features of various biscuit PC, PC104, etc...
formfactor motherboards, and it appeared that the Mini-ITX motherboard had
the right features.
However, upon reading the specifications on the VIA website at
http://www.via.com.tw/en/VInternet/mini_itx.j
mention of "Integrated Macro Vision 7.01" on the TV Out. Macrovision is not
a product feature; Macrovision is an obstruction. To my understanding, all
Macrovision does is prevent customers from video-taping output from the
device. With the myriad of possible system applications for a motherboard,
what warrants inclusion of such a problem? This product will not meet our
needs unless this feature can be removed, disabled, or omitted from
production entirely.
Please advise,
--(my full name)
The International Contact specified on their website is:
Richard_Brown ATSIGN via.com.tw
One of the original intentions for using Java, was to embed it in mobile devices... but it was adopted as a web toy before much else.
I remember, in Fall '97, at the South-Eastern US ACM Programming competition (which IBM sponsored), their speaker / representative went on about how wonderful Java was, and that it would be in our wristwatches. Some laughed... some said, "Yeah, right," but others, like myself were thinking, "Well hurry up already!"
Pirating a movie in the theaters cannot hold a candle to going and seeing the movie. Frankly, if somebody is going to download the pirated movie, then the chances are they aren't going to pay to see it. It is too big of a hassle.
True Story: I had no intention of seeing Kate & Leopold. Then one evening, when my girlfriend didn't want to go out, she asked me to pull it down from Morpheus. After we watched the first few minutes at DivXed camcorder quality, and enjoyed the content, we hunted down the showtimes, and went to see it anyway.
Coworkers of mine who also are into downloading films have related the same type of experience (going to see the movie because they had downloaded it first)
...so if I own and operate a pizza joint, and a lot of my clients are people who do criminal things sometimes, and they peacably assemble and exercise their vocal chords while dining in my fine restaurant, I've done something wrong or illegal???
I know the analogy isn't a perfect map, but does this not expose some of the folly involved in the MPAA, RIAA, Gubmint, Fritz the senator's opinions?
It was funny: about 2 months ago, I was reading some of their documentation on their site, seeing what all I could customize, and I noticed these boxes with ads that were supposed to be on the right... I had never seen one, probably because I always use the strangest search terms possible to get good results. I re-ran my most recent search, and ... nothing. So, taking a clue from the spam I get in my disposable accounts, I searched for "Viagra."
Colorful ad boxes all down the page...
Anyone know the expected retail price?
...well, when it comes to this arena anyway.
MIT's 'borgs have been using prototype retinal scanning displays from various companies that have offered them for at least half a decade.
Back around '97 I was really interested in wearables, but the availability of this type of display was always a problem, and all the suppliers that the MIT crew had listed no longer sold the devices (and they were only selling them as dev-kits anyway)
Read up on MIT's "Lizzy." The most popular display back then was a single LED (red) scanning display, with 320x240 resolution, but it was the same exact technology.