You can't acutally see the Darth sculpture on the page linked to in the article anyway. It just shows a picture of Darth Vader from Star Wars and a diagram pointing to his location on the Cathedral face. Here is a picture of statue itself before it was put in place.
That is usually the difference between business and consumer internet connections.
Consumer bandwidth is oversold to decrease the price, and the ISP expects you to not max out your bandwidth all the time.
Business connections allow you to connect as many people as you want, run servers, max out your bandwidth 24/7, and you pay the price.
If you want business access, buy it cheapskate. Don't rant and rave about your ISP because you don't understand what kind of service you've contracted for. What you really asking for is for them to get rid of the consumer tier and force everyone to pay business tier prices. That would give us all less choices.
My complaint about anti-NAT measures is that though I have multiple computers connected, one is my laptop and one is my fileserver (for stuff that doesn't all fit on my laptop's HD). Only one person ever accesses the internet from my house. Multiple computers != Higher bandwidth usage. If the problem is bandwidth than they should check for excessive bandwidth usage, not NAT hosts.
The money should go towards enriching the public domain. The priveledge of extending copyright is at the public domain's expense, so that is the only thing that makes sense. I fear the money would just become part of the US military budget the way things are going.
Did you ever play "Black & White". It had gestures and once you got used to them they were pretty cool. You would use your mouse to draw the gesture on any surface, and if the game engine successfully recognized it a bright white light would illuminate the path of your mouse (as well as implementing the selected command of course); usually this announced that you (being God in the game) are about to perform a miracle. There was a definite learning curve to using them, but once you got it it was genuinely useful and allowed the game to have almost no interface cluttering the screen. Though it isn't any where near the top of my list of favorite games, the gampeplay was unmistakably innovative.
I guess I thought this software always came with my distribution. I've been making a certain gesture at the Linux desktop for some time with no effect.
That's undoubtedly Harlan Ellison's script you have and they aren't using it: which is just one of the clues that the production team doesn't have a clue. A script of that caliber is available, but they aren't using it.
Or you could have assumed I make a habit of making fun of other people's bad math, but I suppose that wouldn't have fit in with your simplistic, literal-minded, cynicism. Only you are smart enough to see how it has been manipulated to produce the desired sum, rather than simply being a coincidence! While you were at it why didn't you bitch about the letters being all upper case and the space between the first and last name missing?
I meant "mathematicians" or even "statisticians" in quotes. I too would question whether the people coming up with these numbers can even make change, or maybe the only numbers that matter to them are all the zeros on their paychecks.
I'm sure that statistic comes from the same mathematicians that produced the BSA's "number of new PCs minus number of new Windows licenses equals number of pirated copies of Windows." The BSA doesn't count those using alternatives to Windows, and I'm sure EMI isn't counting people who use CDs to backup non-music data or make mix CDs for personal use or for their friends (which is neither new or illegal). Besides piracy is not a function of the amount of blank tapes and CDRs in circulation. I am sure the largest amount of pirated music is stored on hard drives; of course this means next they'll be telling us piracy is equal to the amount of space for music on new hard drives.
It looks like the story has evolved significantly since then. Now they are talking about typing with your eyes. Now it's open-source. Some stories do get reposted, but I don't consider this one of them.
Haven't they posted stories about Linux, Perl, Mozilla, etc. before? No mentioning things more than once on Slashdot, editors: the nitpickers won't stand for it!
I say let em keep producing these copy protection schemes, and we'll keep rejecting em. Eventually, as they enter bankruptcy proceedings, with their last breath maybe they'll ask themselves, "Why did we want to end fair-use in the first place?" Spend as much on R&D as you want Sony; I'm never buying.
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· Score: 5, Insightful
haikus should contain wind blowing, leaves falling something about nature
spam unnatural cut cows however you want you will not find it
find the truth of it syllables not everything more to sky than stars
Aerial surveillance and photography and stuff would be a neat little hobby
Not with this. It only flies for five minutes. What you need for longer flight times is an RC Airship. They can fly for quite a bit longer as the gas does the lifting, and the battery just powers steering. The cost is in the thousands of US dollars however.
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You can't acutally see the Darth sculpture on the page linked to in the article anyway. It just shows a picture of Darth Vader from Star Wars and a diagram pointing to his location on the Cathedral face. Here is a picture of statue itself before it was put in place.
That is usually the difference between business and consumer internet connections.
Consumer bandwidth is oversold to decrease the price, and the ISP expects you to not max out your bandwidth all the time.
Business connections allow you to connect as many people as you want, run servers, max out your bandwidth 24/7, and you pay the price.
If you want business access, buy it cheapskate. Don't rant and rave about your ISP because you don't understand what kind of service you've contracted for. What you really asking for is for them to get rid of the consumer tier and force everyone to pay business tier prices. That would give us all less choices.
My complaint about anti-NAT measures is that though I have multiple computers connected, one is my laptop and one is my fileserver (for stuff that doesn't all fit on my laptop's HD). Only one person ever accesses the internet from my house. Multiple computers != Higher bandwidth usage. If the problem is bandwidth than they should check for excessive bandwidth usage, not NAT hosts.
What do you eveything you want to know about the Turing Test?
I think you meant:
http://www.talkingcock.com
Thank god no one has put up what one would expect at the URL you gave.
The money should go towards enriching the public domain. The priveledge of extending copyright is at the public domain's expense, so that is the only thing that makes sense. I fear the money would just become part of the US military budget the way things are going.
And before a nitpicker gets me, by 'big' I meant in terms of diameter, not volume or weight.
I mean, there's nothing out there with pluto
Unless you count it's satellite, Charon, which is almost half as big as it is.
Why not just click here, silly.
Did you ever play "Black & White". It had gestures and once you got used to them they were pretty cool. You would use your mouse to draw the gesture on any surface, and if the game engine successfully recognized it a bright white light would illuminate the path of your mouse (as well as implementing the selected command of course); usually this announced that you (being God in the game) are about to perform a miracle. There was a definite learning curve to using them, but once you got it it was genuinely useful and allowed the game to have almost no interface cluttering the screen. Though it isn't any where near the top of my list of favorite games, the gampeplay was unmistakably innovative.
I guess I thought this software always came with my distribution. I've been making a certain gesture at the Linux desktop for some time with no effect.
In the last 8 years, how did you access the internet without the authorities finding out?
The Santa Clara, California-based company is the leading maker of processors, which serve as the brains of computers.
And then there are the customers, who consume these processors like living dead zombies animated by radiation from outer space.
So how long before skateboarding is a crime?
That's undoubtedly Harlan Ellison's script you have and they aren't using it: which is just one of the clues that the production team doesn't have a clue. A script of that caliber is available, but they aren't using it.
I remember reading Ellison's screenplay and thinking: here's a movie that would have amazing special effects and is a great story.
So is Hollywood going to use it? Of course not!
Or you could have assumed I make a habit of making fun of other people's bad math, but I suppose that wouldn't have fit in with your simplistic, literal-minded, cynicism. Only you are smart enough to see how it has been manipulated to produce the desired sum, rather than simply being a coincidence! While you were at it why didn't you bitch about the letters being all upper case and the space between the first and last name missing?
I meant "mathematicians" or even "statisticians" in quotes. I too would question whether the people coming up with these numbers can even make change, or maybe the only numbers that matter to them are all the zeros on their paychecks.
Not to mention the number of CDRs that become coasters.
I'm sure that statistic comes from the same mathematicians that produced the BSA's "number of new PCs minus number of new Windows licenses equals number of pirated copies of Windows." The BSA doesn't count those using alternatives to Windows, and I'm sure EMI isn't counting people who use CDs to backup non-music data or make mix CDs for personal use or for their friends (which is neither new or illegal). Besides piracy is not a function of the amount of blank tapes and CDRs in circulation. I am sure the largest amount of pirated music is stored on hard drives; of course this means next they'll be telling us piracy is equal to the amount of space for music on new hard drives.
My bank isn't online yet you insensitive clod.
But Kip has discovered a truly remarkable proof which this article is too small to contain.
It looks like the story has evolved significantly since then. Now they are talking about typing with your eyes. Now it's open-source. Some stories do get reposted, but I don't consider this one of them.
Haven't they posted stories about Linux, Perl, Mozilla, etc. before? No mentioning things more than once on Slashdot, editors: the nitpickers won't stand for it!
I say let em keep producing these copy protection schemes, and we'll keep rejecting em. Eventually, as they enter bankruptcy proceedings, with their last breath maybe they'll ask themselves, "Why did we want to end fair-use in the first place?" Spend as much on R&D as you want Sony; I'm never buying.
haikus should contain
wind blowing, leaves falling
something about nature
spam unnatural
cut cows however you want
you will not find it
find the truth of it
syllables not everything
more to sky than stars
Aerial surveillance and photography and stuff would be a neat little hobby
Not with this. It only flies for five minutes. What you need for longer flight times is an RC Airship. They can fly for quite a bit longer as the gas does the lifting, and the battery just powers steering. The cost is in the thousands of US dollars however.