Re:Minority Report was not very good (spoilers)
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The blindfold had been removed from one eye for less than a minute. When you have eye surgery done, you should not undergo prolonged exposure to light or you will in fact go blind. But for such a short period of time to be exposed to such dim light would probably not cause him to go blind. But who knows its a fucking movie.
But then again, TV is 240x480 or something, so you wouldn't really gain anyway.
If 640x480 is in the range of "or something" then you'd be correct. And at a 16:9 aspect ratio that most of these DiVX movies use, thte resolution would be more around 704x480, and that's viewed on a SDTV.
Actually, the Gopher protocol is quite old. If my memory serves correctly, it originated in the late 80's and was actually a predessescor (fuck it) to HTTP, which is the current protocal in use.
Of course, anything bashing MS's inability to keep up with new technology would get modded up here... Good job idiot crack-whore mods. Its not even new technology.
no, I will not publish the encryption key or the boot block. That's Microsoft copyright material, and I respect their copyright.
Microsoft is not particularly happy about the paper, but they seemed to concede that well, reverse engineering is protected by law, so there's nothing they can do about it. Let's hope they don't change their opinion...they've been known to go back on their word before. "
"You are actually allowed by law to reverse engineer copyrighted code so long as it is necessary to discover the ideas or functional elements behind the code (still, I'm not allowed to post copyrighted code for free distribution). Hey, microsoft...what are the ideas and functional elements behind your BIOS ROM?... hmm...patent search turns up nil on the Xbox...guess we'll just have to reverse engineer it. (FTR, Nintendo has patented what looks to be the entirety of the N64 console, thus perchance making reverse engineering an N64 illegal--not yet court tested.)"
Georgia Tech students have put together a project called the "Aware House." They're basic given a two level house downtown to do all sorts of experiments to see how they can improve on living. One of their projects is an "android-style" face that could represent the face of the house showing and telling all sorts of useful things about what is going on. You can find the "Giving the house a face" page here, and the Aware House website here.
Looks like I'm the first one to notice this (surprisingly), but the article should read odometer, which is what measures distance. The speedometer measures speed, like the movie.
So much talent out there, and the best we can come up with is the amazing innovation of cloning a 30 yr old OS?
So much talent out there {Ferrari, Porsche, etc.), and the best they can come up with is the amazing innovation of cloning a 100000 year old wheel?
So much talent out there (Shakespear, Dickens, J.K. Rowling), and the best they can come up with is the amazing innovation of cloning a 1500 year old language?
Released on 1/07/2002 was a "Universal Activation Crack" by a major warez group. I would confirm that it works, however in fear of the FBI raiding my house (a la Hackers the movie) I will say that I haven't tried it.
Surely we can think to give the units to the homeless/hungry/needy-cause, but there is apparently a legal reason not to do so.
I used to work at Publix and asked them the exact same question. Stores can't give out food because if a homeless man gets sick, the stores could be sued. Of course, Im sure homeless people would sign a release in a second for some free fried chicken...
The concept of D-VHS seems like taking a step back in technology. Now that we have a great format like DVD (allowing for extras, multiple soundtracks, Dolby/DTS 5.1 sound, etc. etc) why would you want to go back to VHS? Sure, there is a potential for higher quality.
The concept of high definition DVD is around the corner. In theory, the players would cost around the same (as D-VHS or any DVD Progressive Scan) and the discs would cost around the same as DVDs now. Plus you get all the bonuses of the DVD format.
I don't think D-VHS will take off, especially now that people are just waking up to DVD.
I have to agree that it looks like an attempt to get into the PDA market. Honestly, I'm surprised it's taken MS this long to make a push for it.
Uhh, have you never heard of the Pocket PC? The Compaq IPAQ, the Cassiopia, the Jordana, or any of the other Pocket PC devices available on the market?
Do you have Digital Cable or regular? ATT is pushing digital cable hard and thus cutting back its regular channels.
Digital cable is a pretty good deal though. I get about 300 channels of programming (including all HBO's, cinemax, etc), Cable modem, and local phone line for about $110 a month. not a bad deal.
As an ATT Broadband subscriber for TV, Internet, and PHONE, I can say that I have been following this case very closely. To sum up the whole bidding wars: its basically AOL vs. MSFT.
AOL was heavily looking into buying the corp which made MSFT very scared. MSFT's entire coming business plans rely on broadband:.NET, My services, even the Xbox cant be fully used without broadband. Earlier, Bill Gates said he thought the BB market was moving to slowly. If AOL were to get the deal, MSFT's plans would be severly crippled.
MSFT started backing COX and COMCAST in the bidwars. I can say I am thankful that comcast won, even though its basically the least of the two evils (AOL vs. MSFT).
This deal is a lot more important than just ATT. It could play a huge role in both AOL and MSFT's core strategies.
Now I know Slashdot is getting ready for its annual MS beatdown stick, but read the article. It says MSFT is testing and ready to release a fix to the problem.
The bug hasn't been exploited. It hasnt caused huge problems. MSFT is coming out with a fix BEFORE hackers could find a way to exploit it. THEY took care of the problem fast enough to stop it from being a problem.
>>BTW, I've read that in Israel white-collar crimes are punished more harshly than normal crimes. For example, if you commit copyright infringment you stand to spend more time in jail than a rapist. Can somebody confirm/deny this? (But then again, it looks like this is the way things are going in the US too with "hackers" being declared terrorists and all...).
No, no, no. After living in Israel for about a year, I can tell you that copyright infringement (especially cable/sattelite/software piracy) run rampant. I'd say around 80% of all software was pirated, and most people I knew stole either sattelite or cable television. In a country that's at war, piracy isn't the current priority on the ethics hierarchy.
NVidia's purchase of #DFX was in my opinion, more a cheap purchase of a struggling competitor to wipe them off the face of the earth
Gigapixel/TDFX was already going out of business anyway. NVDA did not buy TDFX, they merely acquired their intellectual property, mainly numerous pages of research concerning anti-aliasing.
TDFX was dead anyway. nVidia did not buy them to "wipe them off the face of the earth," as that was already happening.
Why is the name registered in "bad faith?" While Id like to support you, you fail to give any details. Just because they registered that domain name does not mean it is in "bad faith." And, if you are such a small organization, what reason would someone have for registering the domain name? Its obviously not money.
Companies immediately say anyone who registered anything to do with their name registered it in "bad faith." I think you need to get everything uneder control before you go spouting off allegations.
Unfortunately the ratings will be decimated by Survivor tonight. Fortunately for Fox, there are a lot of hardcore fans and the creator of the show needs a thing or two about sci-fi comedy.
Here is the main cast list if you're interested...
David Burke is Arthur
Liz Vassey is Captain Liberty
Nestor Carbonell is Batmanuel
and of course the Tick is played by Warburton (as mentioned in the post).
Isn't there already some form of national identification? Passports, state IDs, drivers license... do we really need to have to carry another card at all times? It won't prevent anything, people will still be able to fake them one way or another.
Sounds like another waste of government money, another public nuissance, and another think to install the illusion of safety.
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The blindfold had been removed from one eye for less than a minute. When you have eye surgery done, you should not undergo prolonged exposure to light or you will in fact go blind. But for such a short period of time to be exposed to such dim light would probably not cause him to go blind. But who knows its a fucking movie.
But then again, TV is 240x480 or something, so you wouldn't really gain anyway.
If 640x480 is in the range of "or something" then you'd be correct. And at a 16:9 aspect ratio that most of these DiVX movies use, thte resolution would be more around 704x480, and that's viewed on a SDTV.
http://www.audiovideo101.com/dictionary/sdtv.asp
Actually, the Gopher protocol is quite old. If my memory serves correctly, it originated in the late 80's and was actually a predessescor (fuck it) to HTTP, which is the current protocal in use.
Of course, anything bashing MS's inability to keep up with new technology would get modded up here... Good job idiot crack-whore mods. Its not even new technology.
fuck i've been a reform jew for 24 years and i never heard that be used (of course, i never had a bar mitzvah either)...
OMG man, these days you can really get the jewish guys going at you if you're making an islam statement within the same context as their holy script.
ISLAM=Quran JUDAISM=Talmud
The Judaic holy script is the Torah, not the Talmud. Talmud is merely a hebrew word that means "student."
He frequents the Xbox hacker msesage boards. Heres what else he had to say about Microsoft in this post...
... hmm...patent search turns up nil on the Xbox...guess we'll just have to reverse engineer it. (FTR, Nintendo has patented what looks to be the entirety of the N64 console, thus perchance making reverse engineering an N64 illegal--not yet court tested.)"
"To answer some specific questions:
no, I will not publish the encryption key or the boot block. That's Microsoft copyright material, and I respect their copyright.
Microsoft is not particularly happy about the paper, but they seemed to concede that well, reverse engineering is protected by law, so there's nothing they can do about it. Let's hope they don't change their opinion...they've been known to go back on their word before. "
also, from his website...
"You are actually allowed by law to reverse engineer copyrighted code so long as it is necessary to discover the ideas or functional elements behind the code (still, I'm not allowed to post copyrighted code for free distribution). Hey, microsoft...what are the ideas and functional elements behind your BIOS ROM?
Here is the guys website (bunnie), with a ton of other hacking information not in the whitepaper.
He also has an alternative link to the paper.
Georgia Tech students have put together a project called the "Aware House." They're basic given a two level house downtown to do all sorts of experiments to see how they can improve on living. One of their projects is an "android-style" face that could represent the face of the house showing and telling all sorts of useful things about what is going on. You can find the "Giving the house a face" page here, and the Aware House website here.
Looks like I'm the first one to notice this (surprisingly), but the article should read odometer, which is what measures distance. The speedometer measures speed, like the movie.
Much (most) of the first versions of the Windows NT operating system was just OS/2 code repackaged.
OS/2 is far from being dead - its just called Windows XP.
So much talent out there, and the best we can come up with is the amazing innovation of cloning a 30 yr old OS?
So much talent out there {Ferrari, Porsche, etc.), and the best they can come up with is the amazing innovation of cloning a 100000 year old wheel?
So much talent out there (Shakespear, Dickens, J.K. Rowling), and the best they can come up with is the amazing innovation of cloning a 1500 year old language?
Some things are done right the first time, buddy.
Released on 1/07/2002 was a "Universal Activation Crack" by a major warez group. I would confirm that it works, however in fear of the FBI raiding my house (a la Hackers the movie) I will say that I haven't tried it.
Surely we can think to give the units to the homeless/hungry/needy-cause, but there is apparently a legal reason not to do so.
I used to work at Publix and asked them the exact same question. Stores can't give out food because if a homeless man gets sick, the stores could be sued. Of course, Im sure homeless people would sign a release in a second for some free fried chicken...
The concept of D-VHS seems like taking a step back in technology. Now that we have a great format like DVD (allowing for extras, multiple soundtracks, Dolby/DTS 5.1 sound, etc. etc) why would you want to go back to VHS? Sure, there is a potential for higher quality.
The concept of high definition DVD is around the corner. In theory, the players would cost around the same (as D-VHS or any DVD Progressive Scan) and the discs would cost around the same as DVDs now. Plus you get all the bonuses of the DVD format.
I don't think D-VHS will take off, especially now that people are just waking up to DVD.
No matter what, you can be sure that contrary to M$, these holes will be worked on 24/7 and fixed like yesterday. :)
As opposed to most of MS's exploits, which had patches out like 3 months before the exploit became widespread.
I have to agree that it looks like an attempt to get into the PDA market. Honestly, I'm surprised it's taken MS this long to make a push for it.
Uhh, have you never heard of the Pocket PC? The Compaq IPAQ, the Cassiopia, the Jordana, or any of the other Pocket PC devices available on the market?
Do you have Digital Cable or regular? ATT is pushing digital cable hard and thus cutting back its regular channels.
Digital cable is a pretty good deal though. I get about 300 channels of programming (including all HBO's, cinemax, etc), Cable modem, and local phone line for about $110 a month. not a bad deal.
As an ATT Broadband subscriber for TV, Internet, and PHONE, I can say that I have been following this case very closely. To sum up the whole bidding wars: its basically AOL vs. MSFT.
.NET, My services, even the Xbox cant be fully used without broadband. Earlier, Bill Gates said he thought the BB market was moving to slowly. If AOL were to get the deal, MSFT's plans would be severly crippled.
AOL was heavily looking into buying the corp which made MSFT very scared. MSFT's entire coming business plans rely on broadband:
MSFT started backing COX and COMCAST in the bidwars. I can say I am thankful that comcast won, even though its basically the least of the two evils (AOL vs. MSFT).
This deal is a lot more important than just ATT. It could play a huge role in both AOL and MSFT's core strategies.
Now I know Slashdot is getting ready for its annual MS beatdown stick, but read the article. It says MSFT is testing and ready to release a fix to the problem.
The bug hasn't been exploited. It hasnt caused huge problems. MSFT is coming out with a fix BEFORE hackers could find a way to exploit it. THEY took care of the problem fast enough to stop it from being a problem.
>>BTW, I've read that in Israel white-collar crimes are punished more harshly than normal crimes. For example, if you commit copyright infringment you stand to spend more time in jail than a rapist. Can somebody confirm/deny this? (But then again, it looks like this is the way things are going in the US too with "hackers" being declared terrorists and all...).
No, no, no. After living in Israel for about a year, I can tell you that copyright infringement (especially cable/sattelite/software piracy) run rampant. I'd say around 80% of all software was pirated, and most people I knew stole either sattelite or cable television. In a country that's at war, piracy isn't the current priority on the ethics hierarchy.
NVidia's purchase of #DFX was in my opinion, more a cheap purchase of a struggling competitor to wipe them off the face of the earth
Gigapixel/TDFX was already going out of business anyway. NVDA did not buy TDFX, they merely acquired their intellectual property, mainly numerous pages of research concerning anti-aliasing.
TDFX was dead anyway. nVidia did not buy them to "wipe them off the face of the earth," as that was already happening.
The correct link is located right here at linuxgram.
Also, IGN has measurements of the new device as compared to the old ones here.
Why is the name registered in "bad faith?" While Id like to support you, you fail to give any details. Just because they registered that domain name does not mean it is in "bad faith." And, if you are such a small organization, what reason would someone have for registering the domain name? Its obviously not money.
Companies immediately say anyone who registered anything to do with their name registered it in "bad faith." I think you need to get everything uneder control before you go spouting off allegations.
Unfortunately the ratings will be decimated by Survivor tonight. Fortunately for Fox, there are a lot of hardcore fans and the creator of the show needs a thing or two about sci-fi comedy.
Here is the main cast list if you're interested...
David Burke is Arthur
Liz Vassey is Captain Liberty
Nestor Carbonell is Batmanuel
and of course the Tick is played by Warburton (as mentioned in the post).
Isn't there already some form of national identification? Passports, state IDs, drivers license... do we really need to have to carry another card at all times? It won't prevent anything, people will still be able to fake them one way or another.
Sounds like another waste of government money, another public nuissance, and another think to install the illusion of safety.