I found the glossary in TFA to speak more about the ability of humans to see patterns where none exist. While there is no doubt that film makers like to sneak "cool shit" into their films, I think the author reads too much into Matrix. (That or he wants to justify watching the film)
I'll be convinced if in the next film the Oracle gives Neo a Torilla with the face of Jesus toasted on it.
Oh yeah, and part of good art is the ability to leave open ended symbolism that deeply connects with people. You don't need to understand why something works, only be able to spot and use such elements effectively.
If you are sufficiently large, negotiate one of those sweet deals that will get your company tax breaks in exchange for establishing new facilities in the state.
I have a magazine at home somewhere that has an advert for an external 10 Mb hard drive for $2,500 AUD with the enthusiastic headline "All the storage you will ever need!"
M$ has previously moved heaven and earth to do things when they were felt to be important. Look at their bloody minded efforts to turn around Internet.
If M$ really commits to being secure, they will get much better at it. It just may take a while.
Besides, all this lousy crud will merely serve to reinforce how good and essential Palladium is.
(though I do wonder how Palladium will be able to tell a worm running in a poorly written app from a legit process)
They probably won't target everywhere, but areas of suspected subversive activity and suspected enemies of the state. Imagine directing that array and being able to use it to scrutinise someone you don't like.
I am in the process of migrating data from Exabyte onto DLT-IV and DVD-R.
I don't care if DVD-R is no-longer popular in 5 years, I'll still have spare DVD drives and there'll be blue laser DVDs or whatever.
It's a largely hands-off process (pop a tape in the drive every time it pops open) and keep feeding it DLT tapes. And each time I go through this cycle, my last archive always fits onto a small number of the next generation media. And the descendants are *exactly* the same as the stuff I put on QIC many years ago.
The trick is not to end up with a removalist carton of tpes that haven't been exercised for 5 years and a grotty, worn out drive (but that's an issue for analogue tape too)
But yeah, this is totally useless if the DRM of Windows 2020 won't let you view un-signed videos or they dropped support for QuickTime in 2010.
Excluding W4r3z, pr0n and MP3, most users create very little data. Lots of documents and emails, but not many Mb.
Every time my GF connects her laptop to the home LAN, her home is rsync'ed to the fileserver, which is (sometimes!) backed up. This way she can recover documents herself from a read only network directory if she makes a mistake.
You can make this even more bullet proof by keeping a week's worth of homes on the server (so there's a week's grace) and by mirroring the data off-site to a properly backed up system (very do-able with DSL). Or set up a p2p system where crypt'ed copies are kept on your friend's system.
Actually, it would be nice to see such tools packaged up so that anyone can set up this sort of environment.
Someone once said that fridges full of rotting vegetables prove that 3D user interfaces won't work. Or at least that they won't work if we blindly apply metaphors to them without thinking too deeply.
When I RTFA and saw this comment on dependancies, I cringed:
On my distro this will never happen, because our install files will include everything. Hard disks are large and cheap these days.
Woo yay. You may as well compile every app statically and users can just get used to every *&*&%^$ app doing things differently. One point of sharing components is that they can then also share behaviours.
And think about trying to fix stuff like the zlib overflow when the &*^*&^*&^ library might (or might not) be duplicated in any app installed on your system (potentially compiled using any number of secure or insecure versions of zlib for that matter).
I found the whole article could have done with a lot of review before it was published.
So how about offering discounts if you buy the whole album? That or they start discounting slow moving songs. I can see a number of ways that this business might go.
If I'm going to pay $15 for 15 tracks, I want glossy cover art and a pressed (aka UV resistant) CD.
OTOH, $1 to buy the only song I want from an album is better than paying $15-18.
They don't give a shit if they kill everyone else as long as they get a few dollars more. They are a bankrupt business and this last throw of the dice may give their investors one more payout. And who knows, maybe this action does have malicious intent; who benefits the most from this selfish action?
Yes, being first means you are first. But while they may not squish you on *that* point, they can probably find something else of theirs that you *might* be infringing on. Say you develop a new service and they nail you for using a protocol that that is similar to one they own. They can last longer in cour than you can.
Unless he is congenitally stupid, he's not going to take on IBM (or any other patent ruch company for that matter) because their portfolio will be bigger than his portfolio. In fact, all this snatch and grab for small change might even be a useful way for large companies to keep markets open until they have the inclination to own them.
Whoever ends up with the largest patent portfolios is going to win, anyone else is going to need to pay these winners to use the patented infrastructure.
So I would not be waiting for large companies to push for patent reforms. They don't need them.
Another thing I am tired of hearing people complain about is the cost of CD's. Sure, they can be considered expensive. I agree that the cost of replication is way lower than what they sell CD's for. But replication is probably the cheapest step of the CD-making process. Next on the list is the actual studio time spent recording the CD. But the real money-burner is promotion and distribution.
Which cost nothing under a p2p model (as far as the record labels are concerned). Why should they be owed a living when everyone else gets to wither on the vine when technology makes their job obsolete? P2P is more efficient and cheaper than the large, costly, management intensive middle tier it is replacing.
I really liked the game "Warhead", as well as a Newtonian model, you got a pile of different auto-pilots. They didn't let you cheat so much as do things like stop your ship from spinning crazily out of control after some combat. Also programs like "match course/speed" and "get the hell outta here".
Also, the Elite manual had a good chapter where David Braben explained why and how he used a Newtonian model.
On these principles, we should encourage parroting of this 97 trillion dollar (120,000 year) figure as being The Truth until the public believes it and starts yelling for their scalp.
Nor is it impractical. As the article points out, it is intended for very old clocks that can have very delicate mechanisms. By automating tasks like daylight savings, they can make sure changes are made gently over a longer period and that there's less opportunity for ham-fists to break things.
TFA also states that because we're talking about historic clocks, they can't go drilling holes into them and bolting stuff on. Hence the Rube Goldberg nature of these non-invasive mods.
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I found the glossary in TFA to speak more about the ability of humans to see patterns where none exist. While there is no doubt that film makers like to sneak "cool shit" into their films, I think the author reads too much into Matrix. (That or he wants to justify watching the film)
I'll be convinced if in the next film the Oracle gives Neo a Torilla with the face of Jesus toasted on it.
Oh yeah, and part of good art is the ability to leave open ended symbolism that deeply connects with people. You don't need to understand why something works, only be able to spot and use such elements effectively.
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If you are sufficiently large, negotiate one of those sweet deals that will get your company tax breaks in exchange for establishing new facilities in the state.
Your're not large? Well too bad...
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Just a bit. :o)
A few years back, someone mistook my home email for a Nina Hagen mailing list.
thanks for noticing.
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M$ has previously moved heaven and earth to do things when they were felt to be important. Look at their bloody minded efforts to turn around Internet.
If M$ really commits to being secure, they will get much better at it. It just may take a while.
Besides, all this lousy crud will merely serve to reinforce how good and essential Palladium is.
(though I do wonder how Palladium will be able to tell a worm running in a poorly written app from a legit process)
Xix.
They probably won't target everywhere, but areas of suspected subversive activity and suspected enemies of the state. Imagine directing that array and being able to use it to scrutinise someone you don't like.
Xix.
I am in the process of migrating data from Exabyte onto DLT-IV and DVD-R.
I don't care if DVD-R is no-longer popular in 5 years, I'll still have spare DVD drives and there'll be blue laser DVDs or whatever.
It's a largely hands-off process (pop a tape in the drive every time it pops open) and keep feeding it DLT tapes. And each time I go through this cycle, my last archive always fits onto a small number of the next generation media. And the descendants are *exactly* the same as the stuff I put on QIC many years ago.
The trick is not to end up with a removalist carton of tpes that haven't been exercised for 5 years and a grotty, worn out drive (but that's an issue for analogue tape too)
But yeah, this is totally useless if the DRM of Windows 2020 won't let you view un-signed videos or they dropped support for QuickTime in 2010.
Xix.
Excluding W4r3z, pr0n and MP3, most users create very little data. Lots of documents and emails, but not many Mb.
Every time my GF connects her laptop to the home LAN, her home is rsync'ed to the fileserver, which is (sometimes!) backed up. This way she can recover documents herself from a read only network directory if she makes a mistake.
You can make this even more bullet proof by keeping a week's worth of homes on the server (so there's a week's grace) and by mirroring the data off-site to a properly backed up system (very do-able with DSL). Or set up a p2p system where crypt'ed copies are kept on your friend's system.
Actually, it would be nice to see such tools packaged up so that anyone can set up this sort of environment.
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"Wow! I have mustard?"
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Woo yay. You may as well compile every app statically and users can just get used to every *&*&%^$ app doing things differently. One point of sharing components is that they can then also share behaviours.
And think about trying to fix stuff like the zlib overflow when the &*^*&^*&^ library might (or might not) be duplicated in any app installed on your system (potentially compiled using any number of secure or insecure versions of zlib for that matter).
I found the whole article could have done with a lot of review before it was published.
Xix.
So how about offering discounts if you buy the whole album? That or they start discounting slow moving songs. I can see a number of ways that this business might go.
If I'm going to pay $15 for 15 tracks, I want glossy cover art and a pressed (aka UV resistant) CD.
OTOH, $1 to buy the only song I want from an album is better than paying $15-18.
Xix.
They don't give a shit if they kill everyone else as long as they get a few dollars more. They are a bankrupt business and this last throw of the dice may give their investors one more payout. And who knows, maybe this action does have malicious intent; who benefits the most from this selfish action?
Yes, being first means you are first. But while they may not squish you on *that* point, they can probably find something else of theirs that you *might* be infringing on. Say you develop a new service and they nail you for using a protocol that that is similar to one they own. They can last longer in cour than you can.
Xix.
Unless he is congenitally stupid, he's not going to take on IBM (or any other patent ruch company for that matter) because their portfolio will be bigger than his portfolio. In fact, all this snatch and grab for small change might even be a useful way for large companies to keep markets open until they have the inclination to own them.
Whoever ends up with the largest patent portfolios is going to win, anyone else is going to need to pay these winners to use the patented infrastructure.
So I would not be waiting for large companies to push for patent reforms. They don't need them.
Xix.
Xix.
I really liked the game "Warhead", as well as a Newtonian model, you got a pile of different auto-pilots. They didn't let you cheat so much as do things like stop your ship from spinning crazily out of control after some combat. Also programs like "match course/speed" and "get the hell outta here".
Also, the Elite manual had a good chapter where David Braben explained why and how he used a Newtonian model.
Xix.
Fake statistics are just as convincing as real ones
On these principles, we should encourage parroting of this 97 trillion dollar (120,000 year) figure as being The Truth until the public believes it and starts yelling for their scalp.
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While Slashdot users put in a soda fountain, Kuro5hin users make mead by hand.
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Talk about deja-vu...
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Nor is it impractical. As the article points out, it is intended for very old clocks that can have very delicate mechanisms. By automating tasks like daylight savings, they can make sure changes are made gently over a longer period and that there's less opportunity for ham-fists to break things.
TFA also states that because we're talking about historic clocks, they can't go drilling holes into them and bolting stuff on. Hence the Rube Goldberg nature of these non-invasive mods.
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Alas, isn't Patriot-II proposing that using crypto in commiting a federal crime gets you an automatic 5 year jail term?
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(5) Will need to refrain from slanting search rsults to MS promotion or editorial.