The chess player had indeed been controlled by a concealed operator using a clever system of folding partitions to remain hidden while the automaton's interior was open to view.
They mention it right at the end a while after they seem to drop the topic of the turk. As for the player I assume back then as with many sports nowadays only the best make lot's of money. I'm that he could of found a very good chess player who was happy for a significant cut of the money. Remember that he was beaten several times and while someone like Benjamin Franklin would no doubt be a very good chess player I doubt he had the experience to play at a highly competitive level. The thing I find strange is that it took them several years after it was destroyed to figure out that it was a hoax. One would think that in a museum they would have a chance to inspect it more closely than Maelzel would normally allow and find the person hidden.
The problem with liability is that the your financial risk now becomes proportional to your success. While the model sounds good one bad security error could potentially put the software provider out of buisness from the lawsuits which would also leave hanging the people still using the software. The only time a company should be held liable is when the bug or security problem was intentionally left in (they would of had to take out a feature to fix it) and even then it's not a clear-cut issue. The only other time is when an incident happens at a time when the company has the fix but did not distribute it for some reason (i.e. marketing wanted to make the installed a different colour).
I wonder if Sun would consider Open Sourcing Solaris. They give it away for free as it is and only charge for support. If they put it under a GPL type license they are now alleiviated of much of the development costs and still keep a large share of the support market. In fact that will likely increase the user base which would also increase their support revenues not to mention the huge brownie points they'll get from the development community. I don't know if it would be as profitable as the license fee the secret six proposed but it's definatly better than just letting it die.
In 1968 the Canadian communications guru Marshall McLuhan stated, "World War Three will be a guerilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation."
So if the war is being waged on the Internet by civilians would that make the/. effect an attack? Maybe we should call it a/. blitz or/. offensive. On that note we've been hitting a lot more good guys than bad guys, sheesh! Us geeks can't even get a techie war right!!
My use of the world ruthless wasn't based on bias. I decided to use that word for to reasons. First Microsofts buisness practices have often been described as ruthless (one of the reasons they have that bad reputation). The second reason which was the one I was thinking of was the fact that MS, not Sony, is on the offensive. Ruthless is an adverb much better used to describe an attack than a defense. I was deliberatly trying to be more or less objective when I posted. Don't worry I didn't take it personally, I think most of the MS bashing is out of fear. It's MS's duty to make as much money as they can however they can. However because they are so powerful right now their present stance and future direction are a detrement rather than a boon to the industry. I don't blame MS personally, they're metely doing what they have to, but I will still fight them to maintain my rights as I have to and as in any conflct it may start to get personal.
It will be interesting to see what Sony does in response. It's seems clear that they will drop prices in response but the question is how much. The way I see it Sony basically has 2 options. First they can drop their price a bit. Keep their profit margins and try and wait it out hoping the X-box doesn't get too big. Or they can respond with their one big price cut and try and hurt MS bad enough to force them out of the market for good. If Sony is able to force MS out of the consol market that is a huge boon for them because that destroys their major competition, right now Sony is very established in that market and I dno't see them giving any ground without a big fight. MS on the other hand has a lot of cash in the bank (I heard someone say it could run for another 10 years without another dime of revenue?!?) and they have a lot of other interests involved with the sucess of X-box (MS in the living room), it will be interesting to see how far MS decides to stick it out. I think the question is how far will this price war go, I can't see MS dropping the price much more but they are ruthless. If Sony doesn't do something big I think X-box is here to stay, MS ain't cashing in their chips at this point and there will be some very heavy competion in the consol market. It will be very interesting to see what kind of response Sony makes to this price cut. We could end up with anything from a Sony-MS split in consols to a corporate game of chicken.
it would be a handy thing in the living room if it ran a real OS.
Do mean a full version of windows XP with IE, word and all the other wonderful packaged things as opposed to the smaller M$ OS that it comes with? I can't think of anyother operating systems for computers. Can anyone else on/. think of a non-M$ operation system?
Sure it can holds 60,000 hours of DVD. That's why when the time comes we'll come up will a more precise format. I don't believe we will had enoguht space until it can store a lifetime's worth of information in a format indistinguistable from reality to human senses. Until that point we will always be able to make it a little more lifelike, a little longer, there will always be somrething else to eat up the space, clockcycles and bandwidth. My 1 GB filled up just as fast as my 256 MB and I'm sure that my 60 GB will fill up as well. We still have a long way to go before we have "enough" space.
The poster even suggested hate speech would also be relegated to this category (although the furthest it went in the article was harmful to children). How would you define hate sites? Hitler site, well that seems like a good bet. But what about godhatesfags.com? Clearly not nice to homosexuals although some parishioners might disagree. What about even Operation Clambake? They definatly don't like scientology. Heck what about a well known Anti-MS, Anit-RIAA site? Where do you draw the line for inappropriate sites? Blocking software is one thing, there you are agreeing to their definition of inappropriate content, only affecting yourself and not directly affecting the site, however a legislative solution is affecting the site itself for everyone.
Same here at the University of Alberta, the profs all encourage us to work together and ask other students for help. In my logic course we even have to explicitly state wether or not we recieved help on the assignment and from who. It doesn't really matter how well you do on your assignments, in the end it comes down to the exams and lab exams. At that point the point isn't whether you recieved help it's how well you can do the stuff. If other people helped you learn it that's great, you and them will do great on the tests because you know your stuff. However if you got stuck on some trivial aspect of the basics and never asked for help or you copied all your assignments and never figured it out for yourself you better be ready to take it again.
In the Reuters story about Dr. Murphy I can't believe that this guys testimony could be taken seriously. First of all I see nothing in his credentials which would qualify him to talk about the computer industry and this thesis is quickly backed up by his testimony. What does he know about
"The potential costs of requiring the removal of (computer code) are far greater in terms of the costs it will impose on design and testing and the reliability problems it is likely to impose on users. "
No one has still actually seen the code. And you're going to love this one,
there is no proof that Microsoft's tactics actually harmed Netscape Navigator and Java.
Has he ever actually used a computer?!? This guy is obviously just reaching conclusions based on false data M$ gave to him. I cannot imagine that any judge with an I.Q. higher than your average house plant would give this guys testimony and credence.
I'll have you know that I've just patented a method of transport that involves two legs moving in parallel in opposite directions with the objective of propelling oneself forward.
And by the way, your lucky you didn't violate my other patent... I won't say what it was but let's just say that if you had stated "first post", "f1rst p0st" or anyother derivative thereof I would have sued you into oblivion;-)
when you try to call someone will it kill your ping on your game of Tribes. Or if you're downloading a bunch of stuff, will your girlfriend get mad because your phone won't ring when she tries to call?
Sounds like a feature to me! A DND function that autmatically kicks in when you're busy.
This is an example of an extreme case of geek. He would rather download a file or play online games rather than talk to his girlfriend!!!
The article is unfortunatly clouded by a strong religous disposition. I feel this is very evident in this quote "The androgynous Cydonia face has a stylized leonine headdress, and computer enhanced photos of the face show that the darkened side seems to be that of a lion, according to Richard Hoagland. This points again to the message of Christ's first advent, Virgo, and second coming to establish the Millennial Kingdom, Leo." Would of been nice for them to put these computer enhanced photos in a place where I can find them. Unless of course these photos consists of the gif animation going in the top right hand corner of the page which transforms the face into what I assume is to be a cherub? I don't know exactly what kind of effects erosion would have but I don't believe it would include severely displacing facial features! Still it's is interesting that the "city", "pyramid", and "face" seem to form an equilateral triangle. Unfortunatly me thinks the "pryamid" is not qite as conclusivly a pyramid as they they to think and I couldn't find a close up pic of the "city". Overall I think it's just a very biased article trying to put give a religous justification to the Mars pics.
Note that Xenu.net includes the infamous OT III text. This tells how the galactic overlord Xenu tricked billions of people into coming to Teegeeack(Earth) for income tax inspections and blew them up. From the text
After he had captured all these souls he had them packed into boxes and taken to a few huge cinemas. There all the souls had to spend days watching special 3D motion pictures that told them what life should be like and many confusing things. In this film they were shown false pictures and told they were God, The Devil and Christ. In the story this process is called "implanting".
When the films ended and the souls left the cinema these souls started to stick together because since they had all seen the same film they thought they were the same people. They clustered in groups of a few thousand. Now because there were only a few living bodies left they stayed as clusters and inhabited these bodies.
Part of scientology is to free yourself of these souls. Now does releasing this text not possibly allow a person to rid themselves of these souls by alerting them to their presence? These "special 3d motion pictures" are undoubtedly a technological security measure. The only logical solution from this is that the page is a digital circumvention device specifically disallowed by the DMCA. I believe it is a clear cut issue and that the scientologists are fully within their rights to disallow google to allow people to link to this illegal page. However also keep in mind that scientology didn't enact this security measure, Xenu did, therefore scientology is also in violation of this law. Now if only Xenu can break free of his volcano, come to Earth, and sue the scientologists...
At first I thought the headline was "The Sexist Metal"! When I started reading about aerospace and defence I started wondering if some militant feminist groups had started going after titanium!
Shoot them down?
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Why go through so much trouble? Just get the other nations to run their satellites on Windows CE and use IIS. Those satellites will go down faster than a shashdotted err... umm... really really small server? Hey... Why even go through that much trouble, just post a link to the satellites on/.!
Great idea, one problem though. Mr. Feynman doesn't exist!
He doesn't? He's one of the worlds leading physicists, I'm reading one of his books right now! Now research will be slowed to a crawl because he will be eternaly tormented by telemarketers!! Damn you! Damn you all to hell!!
Slashdot Mirror
Oops!! forgot what day it is!!! Er.. Umm... I mean I'm just reminding you! Okay! okay! I'm gone now!
In the wired article it says,
The chess player had indeed been controlled by a concealed operator using a clever system of folding partitions to remain hidden while the automaton's interior was open to view.
They mention it right at the end a while after they seem to drop the topic of the turk. As for the player I assume back then as with many sports nowadays only the best make lot's of money. I'm that he could of found a very good chess player who was happy for a significant cut of the money. Remember that he was beaten several times and while someone like Benjamin Franklin would no doubt be a very good chess player I doubt he had the experience to play at a highly competitive level. The thing I find strange is that it took them several years after it was destroyed to figure out that it was a hoax. One would think that in a museum they would have a chance to inspect it more closely than Maelzel would normally allow and find the person hidden.
The problem with liability is that the your financial risk now becomes proportional to your success. While the model sounds good one bad security error could potentially put the software provider out of buisness from the lawsuits which would also leave hanging the people still using the software. The only time a company should be held liable is when the bug or security problem was intentionally left in (they would of had to take out a feature to fix it) and even then it's not a clear-cut issue. The only other time is when an incident happens at a time when the company has the fix but did not distribute it for some reason (i.e. marketing wanted to make the installed a different colour).
I wonder if Sun would consider Open Sourcing Solaris. They give it away for free as it is and only charge for support. If they put it under a GPL type license they are now alleiviated of much of the development costs and still keep a large share of the support market. In fact that will likely increase the user base which would also increase their support revenues not to mention the huge brownie points they'll get from the development community. I don't know if it would be as profitable as the license fee the secret six proposed but it's definatly better than just letting it die.
In 1968 the Canadian communications guru Marshall McLuhan stated, "World War Three will be a guerilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation."
/. effect an attack? Maybe we should call it a /. blitz or /. offensive. On that note we've been hitting a lot more good guys than bad guys, sheesh! Us geeks can't even get a techie war right!!
So if the war is being waged on the Internet by civilians would that make the
My use of the world ruthless wasn't based on bias. I decided to use that word for to reasons. First Microsofts buisness practices have often been described as ruthless (one of the reasons they have that bad reputation). The second reason which was the one I was thinking of was the fact that MS, not Sony, is on the offensive. Ruthless is an adverb much better used to describe an attack than a defense. I was deliberatly trying to be more or less objective when I posted. Don't worry I didn't take it personally, I think most of the MS bashing is out of fear. It's MS's duty to make as much money as they can however they can. However because they are so powerful right now their present stance and future direction are a detrement rather than a boon to the industry. I don't blame MS personally, they're metely doing what they have to, but I will still fight them to maintain my rights as I have to and as in any conflct it may start to get personal.
It will be interesting to see what Sony does in response. It's seems clear that they will drop prices in response but the question is how much. The way I see it Sony basically has 2 options. First they can drop their price a bit. Keep their profit margins and try and wait it out hoping the X-box doesn't get too big. Or they can respond with their one big price cut and try and hurt MS bad enough to force them out of the market for good. If Sony is able to force MS out of the consol market that is a huge boon for them because that destroys their major competition, right now Sony is very established in that market and I dno't see them giving any ground without a big fight. MS on the other hand has a lot of cash in the bank (I heard someone say it could run for another 10 years without another dime of revenue?!?) and they have a lot of other interests involved with the sucess of X-box (MS in the living room), it will be interesting to see how far MS decides to stick it out. I think the question is how far will this price war go, I can't see MS dropping the price much more but they are ruthless. If Sony doesn't do something big I think X-box is here to stay, MS ain't cashing in their chips at this point and there will be some very heavy competion in the consol market. It will be very interesting to see what kind of response Sony makes to this price cut. We could end up with anything from a Sony-MS split in consols to a corporate game of chicken.
it would be a handy thing in the living room if it ran a real OS.
/. think of a non-M$ operation system?
Do mean a full version of windows XP with IE, word and all the other wonderful packaged things as opposed to the smaller M$ OS that it comes with? I can't think of anyother operating systems for computers. Can anyone else on
Has anyone else noticed this quote showing up a lot? I havn't
And this is only the edge of the iceberg!
Remember way back some two years ago when Sun CEO Scott McNealy said "You have no privacy, get over it." To think, how far we've all come since then.
Sure it can holds 60,000 hours of DVD. That's why when the time comes we'll come up will a more precise format. I don't believe we will had enoguht space until it can store a lifetime's worth of information in a format indistinguistable from reality to human senses. Until that point we will always be able to make it a little more lifelike, a little longer, there will always be somrething else to eat up the space, clockcycles and bandwidth. My 1 GB filled up just as fast as my 256 MB and I'm sure that my 60 GB will fill up as well. We still have a long way to go before we have "enough" space.
I wonder if part b might just be there to distract the public long enough to get through part a.
The poster even suggested hate speech would also be relegated to this category (although the furthest it went in the article was harmful to children). How would you define hate sites? Hitler site, well that seems like a good bet. But what about godhatesfags.com? Clearly not nice to homosexuals although some parishioners might disagree. What about even Operation Clambake? They definatly don't like scientology. Heck what about a well known Anti-MS, Anit-RIAA site? Where do you draw the line for inappropriate sites? Blocking software is one thing, there you are agreeing to their definition of inappropriate content, only affecting yourself and not directly affecting the site, however a legislative solution is affecting the site itself for everyone.
Same here at the University of Alberta, the profs all encourage us to work together and ask other students for help. In my logic course we even have to explicitly state wether or not we recieved help on the assignment and from who. It doesn't really matter how well you do on your assignments, in the end it comes down to the exams and lab exams. At that point the point isn't whether you recieved help it's how well you can do the stuff. If other people helped you learn it that's great, you and them will do great on the tests because you know your stuff. However if you got stuck on some trivial aspect of the basics and never asked for help or you copied all your assignments and never figured it out for yourself you better be ready to take it again.
In the Reuters story about Dr. Murphy I can't believe that this guys testimony could be taken seriously. First of all I see nothing in his credentials which would qualify him to talk about the computer industry and this thesis is quickly backed up by his testimony. What does he know about
"The potential costs of requiring the removal of (computer code) are far greater in terms of the costs it will impose on design and testing and the reliability problems it is likely to impose on users. "
No one has still actually seen the code. And you're going to love this one,
there is no proof that Microsoft's tactics actually harmed Netscape Navigator and Java.
Has he ever actually used a computer?!? This guy is obviously just reaching conclusions based on false data M$ gave to him. I cannot imagine that any judge with an I.Q. higher than your average house plant would give this guys testimony and credence.
I'll have you know that I've just patented a method of transport that involves two legs moving in parallel in opposite directions with the objective of propelling oneself forward.
And by the way, your lucky you didn't violate my other patent...
I won't say what it was but let's just say that if you had stated "first post", "f1rst p0st" or anyother derivative thereof I would have sued you into oblivion;-)
when you try to call someone will it kill your ping on your game of Tribes. Or if you're downloading a bunch of stuff, will your girlfriend get mad because your phone won't ring when she tries to call?
Sounds like a feature to me! A DND function that autmatically kicks in when you're busy.
This is an example of an extreme case of geek. He would rather download a file or play online games rather than talk to his girlfriend!!!
The article is unfortunatly clouded by a strong religous disposition. I feel this is very evident in this quote "The androgynous Cydonia face has a stylized leonine headdress, and computer enhanced photos of the face show that the darkened side seems to be that of a lion, according to Richard Hoagland. This points again to the message of Christ's first advent, Virgo, and second coming to establish the Millennial Kingdom, Leo." Would of been nice for them to put these computer enhanced photos in a place where I can find them. Unless of course these photos consists of the gif animation going in the top right hand corner of the page which transforms the face into what I assume is to be a cherub? I don't know exactly what kind of effects erosion would have but I don't believe it would include severely displacing facial features! Still it's is interesting that the "city", "pyramid", and "face" seem to form an equilateral triangle. Unfortunatly me thinks the "pryamid" is not qite as conclusivly a pyramid as they they to think and I couldn't find a close up pic of the "city". Overall I think it's just a very biased article trying to put give a religous justification to the Mars pics.
Sadly, this (the fly wed server) is no longer online
And if it was online that fly would have probably exploded within about 3 seconds of the story being posted!
Ahhh!
*blind ignorance sets in and an air of superiority is asserted*
Of course you must of meant Dope Wars!
Can anyone say multimedia?!?
Note that Xenu.net includes the infamous OT III text. This tells how the galactic overlord Xenu tricked billions of people into coming to Teegeeack(Earth) for income tax inspections and blew them up. From the text
...
After he had captured all these souls he had them packed into boxes and taken to a few huge cinemas. There all the souls had to spend days watching special 3D motion pictures that told them what life should be like and many confusing things. In this film they were shown false pictures and told they were God, The Devil and Christ. In the story this process is called "implanting".
When the films ended and the souls left the cinema these souls started to stick together because since they had all seen the same film they thought they were the same people. They clustered in groups of a few thousand. Now because there were only a few living bodies left they stayed as clusters and inhabited these bodies.
Part of scientology is to free yourself of these souls. Now does releasing this text not possibly allow a person to rid themselves of these souls by alerting them to their presence? These "special 3d motion pictures" are undoubtedly a technological security measure. The only logical solution from this is that the page is a digital circumvention device specifically disallowed by the DMCA. I believe it is a clear cut issue and that the scientologists are fully within their rights to disallow google to allow people to link to this illegal page. However also keep in mind that scientology didn't enact this security measure, Xenu did, therefore scientology is also in violation of this law. Now if only Xenu can break free of his volcano, come to Earth, and sue the scientologists
At first I thought the headline was "The Sexist Metal"! When I started reading about aerospace and defence I started wondering if some militant feminist groups had started going after titanium!
Why go through so much trouble? Just get the other nations to run their satellites on Windows CE and use IIS. Those satellites will go down faster than a shashdotted err... umm... really really small server? Hey... Why even go through that much trouble, just post a link to the satellites on /.!
Great idea, one problem though.
Mr. Feynman doesn't exist!
He doesn't? He's one of the worlds leading physicists, I'm reading one of his books right now! Now research will be slowed to a crawl because he will be eternaly tormented by telemarketers!!
Damn you! Damn you all to hell!!