MS doesn't seem to have the best QA department when it comes to names. I remember for that the longest time, what is now called "Automatic Updates" used to be called the critical update notification tool. I'll leave it to the reader to figure out the acronym.
I can't wait for the day when people have these and popup ads start popping up on the screen in 3D. If you thought those X-Cam ads were annoying now, just wait until they jump out at you.
The Bud Light site has had a similar feature to this for a while. They call it "making faces" and you can look at it here: http://veepers.budlight.com/
You can upload your own picture and make it say anything you want, it will animate your face for you and looks pretty passable if you use a good picture.
The company that makes this technology is Pulse Entertainment and they are located at http://www.pulse3d.com/ in case you wanted to check them out too.
"Anything you put up on the internet is there forever."
I don't understand why a company would put sensitive financial reports on their web server and then complain when someone finds them there with an easily guessable name no less.
While Reuters should have had a bit more discression seeing as how they are supposed to be an international news organization, I can't say that I feel sorry for this company if they did something that dumb.
It looks like someone was watching Ask Slashdot for this kind of thing. After an exhaustive search after reading this article and finding nothing that fit all of my needs, I hope this project takes the place of exchange.
It is honestly the only thing left stopping my organization from being completely open source. I have a feeling it is the same for many other small businesses.
I recently worked on a project (I am not the author) that modeled 4-D environments on the screen. We made a spaceship that had 4-D elements in it where doors would show or hide based on whether or not the correct hyperplane was in view.
There is a demo of the software that runs on windows and the navigation is very easy to figure out.
I think it would be interesting to see a competition between human and computer teams in which this distributed project is pitted against a group of the world's most talented chess players working together in something like that distributed brain-cycles story that was on Slashdot a few weeks ago (sorry, I can't find the article).
There are probably some people out there who would say this is not really fair because people need time to adjust to a playing style and everyone is different, but I say if the computer can have a thousand different computers crunching numbers for it, then why not a thousand different brains working together?
Hell, I just came up with another idea...why not program the Cyc project to use a small database that deals only with chess? Certainly there are rules that can be conveyed to it and then have the Cyc AI compete against some chess programs to see how it does.
My sister works in a real estate office and she says that every once in a while, nutjobs will come in asking to look at a property with all sorts of weird requirements.
Some of these include not having particular numbers in the address (bad luck I guess) and not having the bedroom door opening in the same direction as the front door or else your energy flows out of the house while you are sleeping?
It always makes me laugh when I hear these stories from her.
This seems to rely heavily on the user to be able to spread itself around. At first glance when I read the story, it seemed that maybe the virus was just running rampant on the network, but on reading the actual article, I find that someone actually has to run the virus.
Do people not understand that they are downloading files from essentially untrusted sources and should be checking these files anyways? Especially programs.
The social engineering aspect of this virus is what really leads to its spreading, not any inherent flaw in the design of the network. As usual, humans are the weakest link here.
I have one of these beauties...great piece of engineering, I'm sure it could probably do my taxes. Entering in information is not as easy as it seems, but it works well enough for the few times you have to use the dial to actually program something in. Another great feature of the microwave is that it can sense the humidity in the air within the microwave and stop cooking when it is to the point that you specify.
Why is GC too slow in Lisp when there are years of experience behind it?
It is not that the garbage collection is too slow in Lisp, he gave the reason that the amount of data that it had to go through was very large. The point of the system was to be as speedy as possible and garbage collection would slow that down no matter how much or how little data you gave it to process. If you look at real-time processing projects, none of them (to my knowledge) employ a garbage collector because that would take up valuable resources.
They made a wise decision to keep the garbage collection to a minimum so that the actual searching process would be all that was running on the boxes.
Many of these are cheaper per megabyte than the MicroDrive and will give you much more storage for around the same price. They are supposed to work with any desktop Windows OS (98/ME/2K/XP) and Compaq says they will work with the iPAQ as well.
I bought the Toshiba 5GB and hooked it up to my iPAQ so I could play DivX movies with the Pocket DivX Player from ProjectMayo. I also store a whole bunch of MP3s on it and can transfer the card between my computer and iPAQ for easy file transfers.
These little hard drives are great for anyone who wants portable storage that is large capacity and is pretty easy to use.
Does anybody actually use those silly little file managers? IMHO, they just get in the way - why not just use the command line?
Not everyone likes to use the command line for every little thing. I know it's powerful, you know it's powerful, but the newbie who is using linux for the first time needs that "silly little file manager" to get things done. That's why Linux is so great, you can use what you want and ditch what you don't.
Slashdot Mirror
Living in good 'ol so cal, I have never heard of a tsunami warning, so that was fun to see flash across my screen while I was watching TV.
This reminds me of one of my favorite sites:
http://www.pirated-sites.com
I can see it now, another excuse for the LAN party:
"Aww, I get lag because I only have cubic zirconia!"
I don't have too much of a problem with the photoshopped images, but I have a problem with the doctor in one of the photos.
He looks like he is taking a tuturial on how to do some open heart surgery. I feel sorry for the anonymous person he is operating on.
MS doesn't seem to have the best QA department when it comes to names. I remember for that the longest time, what is now called "Automatic Updates" used to be called the critical update notification tool. I'll leave it to the reader to figure out the acronym.
I can't wait for the day when people have these and popup ads start popping up on the screen in 3D. If you thought those X-Cam ads were annoying now, just wait until they jump out at you.
The Bud Light site has had a similar feature to this for a while. They call it "making faces" and you can look at it here: http://veepers.budlight.com/
You can upload your own picture and make it say anything you want, it will animate your face for you and looks pretty passable if you use a good picture.
The company that makes this technology is Pulse Entertainment and they are located at http://www.pulse3d.com/ in case you wanted to check them out too.
How many times have we heard this:
"Anything you put up on the internet is there forever."
I don't understand why a company would put sensitive financial reports on their web server and then complain when someone finds them there with an easily guessable name no less.
While Reuters should have had a bit more discression seeing as how they are supposed to be an international news organization, I can't say that I feel sorry for this company if they did something that dumb.
It is honestly the only thing left stopping my organization from being completely open source. I have a feeling it is the same for many other small businesses.
What a way to go out...slashdotted into oblivion :)
The google cache of the site.
I recently worked on a project (I am not the author) that modeled 4-D environments on the screen. We made a spaceship that had 4-D elements in it where doors would show or hide based on whether or not the correct hyperplane was in view.
There is a demo of the software that runs on windows and the navigation is very easy to figure out.
I think it would be interesting to see a competition between human and computer teams in which this distributed project is pitted against a group of the world's most talented chess players working together in something like that distributed brain-cycles story that was on Slashdot a few weeks ago (sorry, I can't find the article).
There are probably some people out there who would say this is not really fair because people need time to adjust to a playing style and everyone is different, but I say if the computer can have a thousand different computers crunching numbers for it, then why not a thousand different brains working together?
Hell, I just came up with another idea...why not program the Cyc project to use a small database that deals only with chess? Certainly there are rules that can be conveyed to it and then have the Cyc AI compete against some chess programs to see how it does.
My sister works in a real estate office and she says that every once in a while, nutjobs will come in asking to look at a property with all sorts of weird requirements.
Some of these include not having particular numbers in the address (bad luck I guess) and not having the bedroom door opening in the same direction as the front door or else your energy flows out of the house while you are sleeping?
It always makes me laugh when I hear these stories from her.
This seems to rely heavily on the user to be able to spread itself around. At first glance when I read the story, it seemed that maybe the virus was just running rampant on the network, but on reading the actual article, I find that someone actually has to run the virus.
Do people not understand that they are downloading files from essentially untrusted sources and should be checking these files anyways? Especially programs.
The social engineering aspect of this virus is what really leads to its spreading, not any inherent flaw in the design of the network. As usual, humans are the weakest link here.
Will the physics police arrest me?
I looked at the topic of this article and saw the usually witty one liner below that says:
from the learning-more-about-hjava dept.
And I thought to myself, what is this new fangled hjava that I have heard nothing about and what is there to learn?
Then in my excitement, I realized it was just a typo...
Hasn't MS had this around for a while now?
They even called it MS-DOS...oh wait, that was Disk Operating System...nevermind.
XBox, Australian for: (your choice)
1. Footrest
2. Space Heater
3. Beer
But I thought they were on the FastTrack...nevermind.
I have one of these beauties...great piece of engineering, I'm sure it could probably do my taxes. Entering in information is not as easy as it seems, but it works well enough for the few times you have to use the dial to actually program something in. Another great feature of the microwave is that it can sense the humidity in the air within the microwave and stop cooking when it is to the point that you specify.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those babies...
It is not that the garbage collection is too slow in Lisp, he gave the reason that the amount of data that it had to go through was very large. The point of the system was to be as speedy as possible and garbage collection would slow that down no matter how much or how little data you gave it to process. If you look at real-time processing projects, none of them (to my knowledge) employ a garbage collector because that would take up valuable resources.
They made a wise decision to keep the garbage collection to a minimum so that the actual searching process would be all that was running on the boxes.
They list several that are compatible with the iPAQ on their website.
Of course there is the MicroDrive Which comes in the 340MB or 1GB flavors.
The Kingston DataPak Which holds 260MBor 2GB/5GB storage capacity.
and the Toshiba MK2001MPL a 2GB PCMCIA HDD or the 5GB version
Many of these are cheaper per megabyte than the MicroDrive and will give you much more storage for around the same price. They are supposed to work with any desktop Windows OS (98/ME/2K/XP) and Compaq says they will work with the iPAQ as well.
I bought the Toshiba 5GB and hooked it up to my iPAQ so I could play DivX movies with the Pocket DivX Player from ProjectMayo. I also store a whole bunch of MP3s on it and can transfer the card between my computer and iPAQ for easy file transfers.
These little hard drives are great for anyone who wants portable storage that is large capacity and is pretty easy to use.
Not everyone likes to use the command line for every little thing. I know it's powerful, you know it's powerful, but the newbie who is using linux for the first time needs that "silly little file manager" to get things done. That's why Linux is so great, you can use what you want and ditch what you don't.