What happened? I'll bet you this was all caused by an incident involving two Apple programmers, hot grits, and Natalie Portman.
As Linus Torvalds and the Goatse guy can attest, it's hard to write decent code while blowing your load.
This doesn't prove that machine can't beat man. All this shows is what grandmasters have believed for years, that the game of chess is a theoretical draw if both sides play optimally. It's just too complex to mathematically prove it, like what was done for connect four. That game has been solved, and it's a win for the player who moves first.
Like I said, in CC the author gets to choose. In the GPL, all derivative works are automatically GPL'd no matter what the author of the original wants.
It's not the music industry equivalent of the GPL, because it's not "viral" as the GPL is. e.g., in CC, derivative works aren't automatically forced into a CC license regardless of the wishes of the author.
I for one am very suprised that the porno industry didn't sieze this technology first!! I mean, just think of it, robotic sex slaves! Why are we still living in the dark ages with blow up dolls?
Seriously, google is already well past the apex of its usefulness as a search engine and all sorts of internet scum have figured out how to fool it into ranking content-less popup-filled spam pages high. It's already becoming hard to find anything actually good if any of the keywords have anything to do with anything commercial. Don't even get me started on how 9999 of the top 10000 "warez" pages turned up by google are just popup porno bait.
PHBs are the kind of people who, ever since middle school, were afraid of all those "really tough" math and science classes, so they went to harvard and took business/accounting/economics instead, which don't require more brainpower than tic-tac-toe.
I mean, I pity the fool who doesn't take 400-level quantum mechanics courses in college. How stupid can these PHBs be?
And of course Microsoft has an ulterior motive to make interoperability as difficult and unreliable as possible, so that no business will dare replace some of their windows boxen with linux or macs.
It's just like all those trivial new extensions they add to IE every version for the sole purpose of leading webmasters to make sites that won't render decently on any browser but IE, instead of using open standards.
Ha Ha so original
I still like the idea of toymenting those evil motherfuckers in whatever way you can. Putting a trojan on their computer to make it always display goatse or tubgirl on top of everything would definitely work nicely.
Other networks have already supplanted kazaa. Months to years ago.
Gnutella has been superior to kazaa for years now, and bit torrent is great for some of the more underground stuff like high quality movie releases. 95% of the shit on n00b networks like Kazaa and gnutella are TMD's piss-poor mpeg2 reencodes of other groups' releases.
Sure, there's also Direct Connect, but that has a high proportion of fake crap to fill the insane 40GB share requirements of a lot of servers.
If Kazaa started charging fees, 99.9% of its users would immediately abandon it for other programs (most of the hardcore users have already abandoned it because it sucks anyhow) Bit torrent and IRC are where it's at. With no central servers and no method of automated searching they'll never catch mainstream leechers.
has slashdot sunken so low that it will parrot the words of any random nut without any kind of verification? Apparently, by all the crackpot science etc that slashdot posts every day.
the previous record was definitely not 3,000 light years. There are very few galaxies that close, even. Backyard telescopes can see ones farther away than that.
It's basically the same thing as an old 1700's cannon. 10 pound shell with about a 700yd range?
I can do better. Get some 2 foot sewer pipe and shoot som friggin huge metal balls
No, they won't have to spend any money because there are plenty of keygens out there. They just look at the code of the key validation function, reverse engineer it, and voila you have a program that generates a random, valid, unique key. If it's done right it might cover a large portion of the keyspace so that there's no way for blizzard to stop it without banning large numbers of innocent paying customers.
However, they could be tricky and make all the actual keys they sell from some algorithm that only generates a 10^-6 size subset of the keys that the installation key validation algorithm will take, but then use a much more stringent validation algorithm for the online games (and that code can't be seen or accessed by the players or keygen producers)
But then you'd just need a slightly better keygen, based on the installer's validation code and several purchased keys, and not really guaranted to work. That is, unless you hack the servers to steal their validation code.
Great, now we're one step closer to cloning Dubya! Won't that be great? With two of him he can cram enough bad grammar into presidential addresses to make every English teacher in the country die of fear. Ah, sweet, sweet, revenge for that oh-so-stupid class.
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If you have a P4 2.4ghz, just overclock it to 3ghz. It will probably work. Don't waste so much money on a tiny upgrade.
Oh home on, nobody ever sneaks a cam into the premiere, that's ridiculous.
What happened? I'll bet you this was all caused by an incident involving two Apple programmers, hot grits, and Natalie Portman. As Linus Torvalds and the Goatse guy can attest, it's hard to write decent code while blowing your load.
I'll bet you the whole thing was caused by an incident involving a safety technician, hot grits in strange places, and Natalie Portman.
Shit guys, le missiles are coming! Fire our shit! But I have le BSOD. Well, resatart, then FIRE ZE MISSILES!
This doesn't prove that machine can't beat man. All this shows is what grandmasters have believed for years, that the game of chess is a theoretical draw if both sides play optimally. It's just too complex to mathematically prove it, like what was done for connect four. That game has been solved, and it's a win for the player who moves first.
Like I said, in CC the author gets to choose. In the GPL, all derivative works are automatically GPL'd no matter what the author of the original wants.
Not to mention the fact that linux users are generally nerdier, and therefore more likely to sit around playing MMORPGs instead of getting a life. :)
It's not the music industry equivalent of the GPL, because it's not "viral" as the GPL is. e.g., in CC, derivative works aren't automatically forced into a CC license regardless of the wishes of the author.
I for one am very suprised that the porno industry didn't sieze this technology first!! I mean, just think of it, robotic sex slaves! Why are we still living in the dark ages with blow up dolls?
Seriously, google is already well past the apex of its usefulness as a search engine and all sorts of internet scum have figured out how to fool it into ranking content-less popup-filled spam pages high. It's already becoming hard to find anything actually good if any of the keywords have anything to do with anything commercial. Don't even get me started on how 9999 of the top 10000 "warez" pages turned up by google are just popup porno bait.
PHBs are the kind of people who, ever since middle school, were afraid of all those "really tough" math and science classes, so they went to harvard and took business/accounting/economics instead, which don't require more brainpower than tic-tac-toe. I mean, I pity the fool who doesn't take 400-level quantum mechanics courses in college. How stupid can these PHBs be?
And of course Microsoft has an ulterior motive to make interoperability as difficult and unreliable as possible, so that no business will dare replace some of their windows boxen with linux or macs. It's just like all those trivial new extensions they add to IE every version for the sole purpose of leading webmasters to make sites that won't render decently on any browser but IE, instead of using open standards.
Ha Ha so original I still like the idea of toymenting those evil motherfuckers in whatever way you can. Putting a trojan on their computer to make it always display goatse or tubgirl on top of everything would definitely work nicely.
Send them 10,000 copies of Goatse.cx in their email! Better yet just hack their computers and make them display nothing but goatse all day long!
Don't click the link, it's goatse.cx
Other networks have already supplanted kazaa. Months to years ago. Gnutella has been superior to kazaa for years now, and bit torrent is great for some of the more underground stuff like high quality movie releases. 95% of the shit on n00b networks like Kazaa and gnutella are TMD's piss-poor mpeg2 reencodes of other groups' releases. Sure, there's also Direct Connect, but that has a high proportion of fake crap to fill the insane 40GB share requirements of a lot of servers.
If Kazaa started charging fees, 99.9% of its users would immediately abandon it for other programs (most of the hardcore users have already abandoned it because it sucks anyhow) Bit torrent and IRC are where it's at. With no central servers and no method of automated searching they'll never catch mainstream leechers.
But stores get refunded for copies they don't sell. This could easily lead to a black market.
has slashdot sunken so low that it will parrot the words of any random nut without any kind of verification? Apparently, by all the crackpot science etc that slashdot posts every day.
the previous record was definitely not 3,000 light years. There are very few galaxies that close, even. Backyard telescopes can see ones farther away than that.
It's basically the same thing as an old 1700's cannon. 10 pound shell with about a 700yd range? I can do better. Get some 2 foot sewer pipe and shoot som friggin huge metal balls
no, it would be a pain in the ass to keep track of keys actually sold as opposed to unsold by the stores, destroyed, and refunded.
No, they won't have to spend any money because there are plenty of keygens out there. They just look at the code of the key validation function, reverse engineer it, and voila you have a program that generates a random, valid, unique key. If it's done right it might cover a large portion of the keyspace so that there's no way for blizzard to stop it without banning large numbers of innocent paying customers. However, they could be tricky and make all the actual keys they sell from some algorithm that only generates a 10^-6 size subset of the keys that the installation key validation algorithm will take, but then use a much more stringent validation algorithm for the online games (and that code can't be seen or accessed by the players or keygen producers) But then you'd just need a slightly better keygen, based on the installer's validation code and several purchased keys, and not really guaranted to work. That is, unless you hack the servers to steal their validation code.
Great, now we're one step closer to cloning Dubya! Won't that be great? With two of him he can cram enough bad grammar into presidential addresses to make every English teacher in the country die of fear. Ah, sweet, sweet, revenge for that oh-so-stupid class.