Clearly I'm too tired. I definitely looked at that title and thought it was an 'Ask Slashdot'. Of course, with the latest string of Ask Slashdot articles, that wouldn't be that surprising:)
I think it has less to do with people that really want to be vegetarians and more to do with getting normal, average people (like me, who love meat:) ) to eat lower on the food chain. If the vegetable-based products taste more like meat, you're more likely to get meat-eaters to replace some of their diet with vegetables. Obviously, people who don't like meat, or are against meat for ethical reasons can eat vegetables for eating vegetables sake. The meat-flavoured-vegetables are for the meat-eaters.
My mother always said, "be careful, son, it's an algorithm-eat-algorithm world out there... Each node will always try to take whatever it can get... you must be sure to always maintain a fair share for yourself of the grid computing resources."
Yup, good old mom. How right she was. Nowadays, we've got travesties like the Selfish Gene kicking around the gay gene (the second one down.)
Come on man, you could do better than that (from September 15th 2001). At least put some creativity into pretending that people aren't allowed to talk about anything else just because a tragedy happened.
Seriously... I had this same idea a while ago... this would be the coolest thing ever. It probably wouldn't be that hard to write a plugin for an open-source video player to at least do this with DivX's or something...
Imagine, you download a file, and a.edit with it, that skips scenes you don't want. It would be a little harder to add this to standalone DVD players (most can't have their PROMs flashed). Computer-based DVD players shouldn't be a problem though. This could be huge. If only I could program:)
Well, I would argue that it's not a case of people forgetting the differences between the types of malicious code, but in not knowing in the first place. From what I can tell, stuff like this only helps to increase peoples knowledge (albeit at a cost...) so the average knowledge about the Internet is going up.
Well, okay, if you want to nitpick, the average knowledge is going down because new users are always coming on, but of the people already on, the knowledge of malicious code is going up. I've seen a lot of people get a lot more knowledgable about how malicious code works after I managed to "miraculously" save their computer from about 10 pieces of spyware. I'm usually not a dickhead about fixing computer stuff, but when it comes to spyware, I always make it seem more serious than it is so that they're very careful about it in the future. It tends to work... my extended family is quite knowledgable about how corporate tactics really are on the Internet now...
Ha! They claim that "Opt Out" is a valid method for email marketing beause they can easily ignore the opt-out requests. In fact, if you 'opt out' they know you're a live person and just send you more email marketing.
Phones are slightly different, because a) they can't phone you from the island of Vanatau that easily (perhaps - voIP could change this) and b) there are laws (in the U.S. anyway) forcing them to respect the do-not-call (aka opt-out) list. So really, they only like 'Opt Out' when they can ignore it. This isn't really surprising though, considering the lack of morals we've repeatedly seen from direct marketers.
I got this off a potato gun site a little while ago. If I had the time to build a pneumatic gun... well, let's just say Burlington would no longer be the safest place in the world:).
Flame Thrower from Hell!
Do NOT try this!
I tried some experiments shooting gasoline from a large pneumatic gun. First, I fired about a cup at a campfire from several feet away, making a big fireball when it hit the flames. The next logical step was to duct tape some newspaper to the end of the barrel and shoot gasoline through the burning newspaper. I tried it first with my small.75" gun and only a cup of gas. It sprayed a burning cloud of fire almost 10 feet. The compressed air agitates the gasoline and breaks it up into a fine aerosol, allowing it to burn incredibly fast - almost like fuel-air explosives.
Gasoline tends to gum up the plastic inside the gun, so be careful not to dissolve your gun. Finally, on the 4th of July 1997, I was feeling lucky. I broke out my giant 8-foot tall 2" cannon and filled it about a gallon of gasoline and diesel mixed together. An equivalent volume of water in this gun usually sprays over 40 feet, making a big cloud of mist and vapour.
With gasoline and some burning paper on the muzzle, I was able to shoot a HUGE white-hot cloud of pure hell on earth that stretched out 40 feet long and about 20 feet wide at the widest point. It was such an overwhelming experience that I couldn't even remember the sound it made very clearly. It wasn't really an explosion, but more of a "ffwhuup" noise, sucking the air in from all directions to consume in the inferno. I got a sunburn in seconds from it. Some people with their backs turned 200 feet away could feel the heat. As the fireball consumed itself it cooled and rose upwards, changing from blinding white to orange, then to a smoky red.
As it rose, it formed the classic mushroom shape we associate with nuclear explosions. The hot black smoke from the diesel fuel continued spinning slowly upwards above treetop level, making everything behind it ripple in the heat. I thought it was such an incredible experience to wield the power of god in a PVC pipe, that after a few more beers (Spud Works does not promote drinking) I did it again! This time I directed the combustive holocaust at the big sassafras tree in my backyard. I shit you not; every single leaf on that tree was burnt to a crisp! A year later, only half the leaves have grown back.
Get one of the food patches discussed on here a while ago, and hack it to include some of these.
Instant success. Really. Really you won't die.
Oh yeah IAMAD (doctor) or anything. Really, my knowledge of the human body is limited to the parts that give me pain. So try at your own risk:)
I'd prefer that the books be transcribed now and maybe later we can add some foreign-language books once we figure out a standard that can satisfy the world. Besides, English (European languages, anyway) are the real languages of the Internet.
I'm sorry, but I mean, seriously. If you really expect someone to be able to profit for the rest of their life off the one work, then maybe they should die penniless. (Okay, I realize that's kind of an inflamatory statement, but you know what I mean.) If someone's profession is "author", shouldn't they be, you know, writing some more books?
This is the one time of year that I'm happy I _don't_ have cable / satellite! I pull in my TV signals from the airwaves, baby, and I get Buffalo stations quite clearly. So while all my friends are watching the expensive American commercials replaced by ads talking about how great the CBC's news coverage is (okay, guys, it's the ONLY freaking news on Canadian TV, we get it), I get to see the hilarious commercials.
"The number of UHNWIs rose 2.6% to just over 57,000 people at the end of last year." (Ultra-HNWIs have financial assets of more than U.S. $30 million.) "
The LeadTek TV2000 XP (ugh, I hate the acronym XP -- used way too much...) can do Picture in Picture. Now with custom software (ie. not the included software) such as Freevo or something, somebody could possibly hack the code to record both streams (the main stream and the PiP stream) since to have PiP, by definition there must be two tuners on the card.
Of course, this doesn't help with the fact that you'd still need eight of these things (and you'd saturate the PCI bus, as someone else mentioned), but it would (possibly?) cut the number of cards needed from 16 to 8.
Guys, let's not get out of proportion here on the anti-big-business-pro-YRO stance. Look at what 2600 actually did. They linked www.fuckgeneralmotors.com to www.ford.com. That's like scrawling (in easily erasable chalk, mind you), anti-GM graffiti on a sign outside a GM dealership and signing it 'Ford'. Ford claims that it 'diluted their trademark' and besmirched their name. Of course it did!
I'm against big car companies as much as anyone (their latest crime: trying to lure the budding fuel-cell industry in Vancouver to Detroit) but in this case, 2600 was clearly in the wrong. I mean, they seem to think it's laughable that people would think it was Ford that did it. I don't know about you, but that's the first thing I'd think, that 'Ford put up this site... how immature of them...'
I don't know about that... lots of debate is a good thing. People say that they wish the government made more 'snappy' decisions all the time, because we only ever hear about the times when a 'good' decision is delayed. When a bad decision is shrugged off by the due parliamentary process, we simply say, 'oh, democracy in action.'
If totally open-source were good for the U.S. gov't (and you have to look at the whole picture, not just the fact that it would be good for Linux:), then I'm sure the bill would have come up at some point.
Remember that the U.S. gov't is very different from the ZA gov't in terms of money to buy proprietary software, and control they have over the owners of said proprietary software. (Though with the amount of respect Microsoft is giving their conviction, this might not be true!!)
Well, I don't necessarily agree with this logic, but consider the fact that 30 years ago you couldn't record the show, edit out the commercials, and watch it again and again with the greatest of ease, now could you? I mean, you could, but it took two VCRs (did they exist then?) and a lot of time.
Now receiving a TV signal is as good as having a commercial-free perfect recording of it.
And that's why it's different. (This isn't a troll or anything, it's the truth. Whether or not you agree that it should be treated differently is your own business, but the technology has changed.)
Sounds like you need... you want... EROS!. No, I'm not trying to make snide jokes about Slashdotters sexuality.
Seriously, it's a system built on 'permissions' which means each piece of code is allowed only what it needs to run... it's apparently a totally different type of architechture that is effectively unhackable.
I don't really think that's all that 'amazing'. If you were to buy a new car that looked exactly the same, except that the engine was replaced with an incredibly better one, would you notice? Of course you would. Would you notice if you only ever drove the car at 50 km/h for 20 minutes a day? Probably not. You can see where I'm getting with this analogy.
Actually, I don't think any consumer HDTVs support 1080p. I think only one digital projector does... the JVC DLA-QX1G can do 2048x1536 at 60Hz, but it's MSRP is either $60K or $130K, I can't remember:)
What you're thinking of is 1080p/24 which is the new digital movie standard pioneered (not invented, just championed) by George Lucas. It keeps the old film rate of 24 fps to maintain the "shroud of the movies" or something (i.e., they LIKE the low frame rate for some reason).
The problem with automatic identification of any specific type of person within a large group (Say, the entire U.S. population - or , hey, the entire world! Why not? ) is the obscenely low false positive rate you must have. I mean to identify 100 terrorists in 270 million people, sure, a 50% false negative rate is fine (catching 50 terrorists is better than catching none, right?), but to not get those real terrorists swamped by innocent people who happen to match a profile, then the false positive rate must be lower than about 0.000037%... that's almost impossible to achieve. And that is why automated terrorist (or anything) identification is still a long way off.
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Clearly I'm too tired. I definitely looked at that title and thought it was an 'Ask Slashdot'. Of course, with the latest string of Ask Slashdot articles, that wouldn't be that surprising :)
I think it has less to do with people that really want to be vegetarians and more to do with getting normal, average people (like me, who love meat :) ) to eat lower on the food chain. If the vegetable-based products taste more like meat, you're more likely to get meat-eaters to replace some of their diet with vegetables. Obviously, people who don't like meat, or are against meat for ethical reasons can eat vegetables for eating vegetables sake. The meat-flavoured-vegetables are for the meat-eaters.
Yup, good old mom. How right she was. Nowadays, we've got travesties like the Selfish Gene kicking around the gay gene (the second one down.)
Come on man, you could do better than that (from September 15th 2001). At least put some creativity into pretending that people aren't allowed to talk about anything else just because a tragedy happened.
Imagine, you download a file, and a .edit with it, that skips scenes you don't want. It would be a little harder to add this to standalone DVD players (most can't have their PROMs flashed). Computer-based DVD players shouldn't be a problem though. This could be huge. If only I could program :)
The Apex DVD players let you flash the PROM to skip that kind of thing... I just did a quick google and most of the info is available...
Well, okay, if you want to nitpick, the average knowledge is going down because new users are always coming on, but of the people already on, the knowledge of malicious code is going up. I've seen a lot of people get a lot more knowledgable about how malicious code works after I managed to "miraculously" save their computer from about 10 pieces of spyware. I'm usually not a dickhead about fixing computer stuff, but when it comes to spyware, I always make it seem more serious than it is so that they're very careful about it in the future. It tends to work... my extended family is quite knowledgable about how corporate tactics really are on the Internet now...
Phones are slightly different, because a) they can't phone you from the island of Vanatau that easily (perhaps - voIP could change this) and b) there are laws (in the U.S. anyway) forcing them to respect the do-not-call (aka opt-out) list. So really, they only like 'Opt Out' when they can ignore it. This isn't really surprising though, considering the lack of morals we've repeatedly seen from direct marketers.
Flame Thrower from Hell!
Do NOT try this!
I tried some experiments shooting gasoline from a large pneumatic gun. First, I fired about a cup at a campfire from several feet away, making a big fireball when it hit the flames. The next logical step was to duct tape some newspaper to the end of the barrel and shoot gasoline through the burning newspaper. I tried it first with my small .75" gun and only a cup of gas. It sprayed a burning cloud of fire almost 10 feet. The compressed air agitates the gasoline and breaks it up into a fine aerosol, allowing it to burn incredibly fast - almost like fuel-air explosives.
Gasoline tends to gum up the plastic inside the gun, so be careful not to dissolve your gun. Finally, on the 4th of July 1997, I was feeling lucky. I broke out my giant 8-foot tall 2" cannon and filled it about a gallon of gasoline and diesel mixed together. An equivalent volume of water in this gun usually sprays over 40 feet, making a big cloud of mist and vapour.
With gasoline and some burning paper on the muzzle, I was able to shoot a HUGE white-hot cloud of pure hell on earth that stretched out 40 feet long and about 20 feet wide at the widest point. It was such an overwhelming experience that I couldn't even remember the sound it made very clearly. It wasn't really an explosion, but more of a "ffwhuup" noise, sucking the air in from all directions to consume in the inferno. I got a sunburn in seconds from it. Some people with their backs turned 200 feet away could feel the heat. As the fireball consumed itself it cooled and rose upwards, changing from blinding white to orange, then to a smoky red.
As it rose, it formed the classic mushroom shape we associate with nuclear explosions. The hot black smoke from the diesel fuel continued spinning slowly upwards above treetop level, making everything behind it ripple in the heat. I thought it was such an incredible experience to wield the power of god in a PVC pipe, that after a few more beers (Spud Works does not promote drinking) I did it again! This time I directed the combustive holocaust at the big sassafras tree in my backyard. I shit you not; every single leaf on that tree was burnt to a crisp! A year later, only half the leaves have grown back.
Mmmm! Smokable nicotine sticks! All the cancer, none of the flavour!
Get one of the food patches discussed on here a while ago, and hack it to include some of these.
Instant success. Really. Really you won't die. Oh yeah IAMAD (doctor) or anything. Really, my knowledge of the human body is limited to the parts that give me pain. So try at your own risk :)
I'd prefer that the books be transcribed now and maybe later we can add some foreign-language books once we figure out a standard that can satisfy the world. Besides, English (European languages, anyway) are the real languages of the Internet.
I'm sorry, but I mean, seriously. If you really expect someone to be able to profit for the rest of their life off the one work, then maybe they should die penniless. (Okay, I realize that's kind of an inflamatory statement, but you know what I mean.) If someone's profession is "author", shouldn't they be, you know, writing some more books?
Okay enough bragging.
(See here for the details.)
Of those 57,000 people, I'm sure one of them can afford a flying car :) I know I would if I had that kinda cash...
Of course, this doesn't help with the fact that you'd still need eight of these things (and you'd saturate the PCI bus, as someone else mentioned), but it would (possibly?) cut the number of cards needed from 16 to 8.
I'm against big car companies as much as anyone (their latest crime: trying to lure the budding fuel-cell industry in Vancouver to Detroit) but in this case, 2600 was clearly in the wrong. I mean, they seem to think it's laughable that people would think it was Ford that did it. I don't know about you, but that's the first thing I'd think, that 'Ford put up this site... how immature of them...'
If totally open-source were good for the U.S. gov't (and you have to look at the whole picture, not just the fact that it would be good for Linux :), then I'm sure the bill would have come up at some point.
Remember that the U.S. gov't is very different from the ZA gov't in terms of money to buy proprietary software, and control they have over the owners of said proprietary software. (Though with the amount of respect Microsoft is giving their conviction, this might not be true!!)
Well, I don't necessarily agree with this logic, but consider the fact that 30 years ago you couldn't record the show, edit out the commercials, and watch it again and again with the greatest of ease, now could you? I mean, you could, but it took two VCRs (did they exist then?) and a lot of time. Now receiving a TV signal is as good as having a commercial-free perfect recording of it. And that's why it's different. (This isn't a troll or anything, it's the truth. Whether or not you agree that it should be treated differently is your own business, but the technology has changed.)
Sounds like you need... you want... EROS!. No, I'm not trying to make snide jokes about Slashdotters sexuality. Seriously, it's a system built on 'permissions' which means each piece of code is allowed only what it needs to run... it's apparently a totally different type of architechture that is effectively unhackable.
I don't really think that's all that 'amazing'. If you were to buy a new car that looked exactly the same, except that the engine was replaced with an incredibly better one, would you notice? Of course you would. Would you notice if you only ever drove the car at 50 km/h for 20 minutes a day? Probably not. You can see where I'm getting with this analogy.
Actually, I don't think any consumer HDTVs support 1080p. I think only one digital projector does... the JVC DLA-QX1G can do 2048x1536 at 60Hz, but it's MSRP is either $60K or $130K, I can't remember :)
What you're thinking of is 1080p/24 which is the new digital movie standard pioneered (not invented, just championed) by George Lucas. It keeps the old film rate of 24 fps to maintain the "shroud of the movies" or something (i.e., they LIKE the low frame rate for some reason).
LOTR:
A bunch of very short people try to return some very bad jewelery.
(apologies to the originator of this... somewhere)
-cruz
The problem with automatic identification of any specific type of person within a large group (Say, the entire U.S. population - or , hey, the entire world! Why not? ) is the obscenely low false positive rate you must have. I mean to identify 100 terrorists in 270 million people, sure, a 50% false negative rate is fine (catching 50 terrorists is better than catching none, right?), but to not get those real terrorists swamped by innocent people who happen to match a profile, then the false positive rate must be lower than about 0.000037% ... that's almost impossible to achieve. And that is why automated terrorist (or anything) identification is still a long way off.
As an aside, that is a _really_ cool story. Definitely read it.
-Cruz