As a member (heh) I can say that all you need to generate Orkut invites is a first and last name, and the e-mail address of another individual. Orkut of course doesn't really check first or last name, so all you really need is the e-mail address. There doesn't seem to be a limit on the number of invites one can generate, either, although I myself have only generated 17 invites.
If you're interested in an invite yourself, mail me. Subject "orkut", and give me some sort of first and last name. The invite will be to whatever address you mail me from.
In all seriousness, if you want in... e-mail me with subject "orkut" and body your name. I wonder how many people will take me seriously? For what it's worth, this is me.
Aww, this is offtopic how? It's very interesting to note how some services start off as invite only; livejournal is an example which has recently migrated to a more open system where anyone can sign up for a journal. I wonder how long it will be before Orkut switches?
When I read the above post, the first thing into my head was high school chemistry class and trying to get silver to precipitate... Much to my dismay, the article writer has chosen the easy way out with some color changing liquid which tells you when it's reacting with silver.
I was looking forward to poking fun at his titration technique... I mean, it was hellish trying to get as much precipitate as "expected" in those godamn experiments.
Well, from what I hear even the porn industry is getting fairly edgy about file sharing. Thing is, unlike the RIAA, the porn industry realizes that it's not likely to be a good business move to throw a whole bunch of publicity out about how people are easily able to download free pornography. Thus they're alright with the situation as it stands, as long as some money keeps coming their way.
Makes me wonder about the logic coding for the light changers, too. If no engineer thought to wire in conflict resolution (2 IR signals coming from 2 different directions) what d'you think the system would do? Crash? =D Or, even worse, 4 way green?
The problem with sharing.torrent files with other p2p apps is that you can still shut down the torrents themselves by shutting down their trackers. Sadly enough, I wasn't able to finish one of my torrents before bytemonsoon went down. Now opening that torrent does no one any good anymore. It refers to a bytemonsoon tracker, and without that tracker I can't reach any peers.
Someone could seed the same file elsewhere, but before that, that particular torrent is effectively dead.
I think we understand that doing drugs and copying files are inherently different. The point is that our laws have become incredibly draconian. Even if it is "wrong" to take illegal drugs, it doesn't make sense to make first time offenders go to jail for a minimum of five years. And in the same way, it doesn't make sense to punish P2P file sharers with felony charges.
Becoming a felon in this country imposes some sever disadvantages, and I think we give away "felon" status a bit too easily. Imagine if this legislation went through; I'd say easily 50% of the teenagers in this country would become felons, and thus unable to vote. Guess who's gonna win the election?;)
I dunno. I've bought a few of those "10 in 1" packs. The problem with those packs is that they're often not true to the original game; they sometimes have remakes that are ever so slightly different, which can be kinda irritating.
As for purchasing a simplistic sort of game for a new console... Hell, I'd do it. I bought Ikaruga for the GameCube 'cause it was a scrolling space shooter (which is a sadly dying genre that I love). It certainly doesn't really showcase the GameCube's qualities, but it does take advantage of the leeway offered by a newer system without forcing itself into a different genre. As I see it, top down or scroller games are really fun, and it's a shame that everything has to be third person or first person 3d. I hope I'm not alone here =P
Absolutely. I find "classic" games some of the best out there, for a variety of reasons.
They often have really addictive gameplay, as after even a few moment playing you can easily grasp the games premise and controls, and be happily playing along. That doesn't mean that they don't have strategy; I'm still getting better at puzzle games like Tetris to this day even.
Some old classics: Frogger, Breakout, Space Invaders, Tetris, Pac Man...
It's too bad that new games are often forced to have good graphics. From what I understand, console manufacturers are reluctant to carry 2-dimensional sort of games as they see each game as a way of presenting the console; thus, when they sell a 2-d game they think that every person who sees that game will think that 2-d graphics are all that console is capable of. It's really sad; we're probably missing out on some really quality games that way.
Think about it... What if the RIAA did set up their own P2P network? You're thinking I'm crazy, but go with me here for a moment... If everyone who has money and is conscientious about supporting the music they like, it could work out well. For instance, the RIAA could use the data they'd acquire through tracking downloads or which files are shared, and provide a nice frontend for directing users to actually purchasing the music that they're sharing. The RIAA could thus focus on providing what people want to listen to, instead of trying to market what they see as "what people want".
(Admittedly, some musical gems do work their way through the machine, but I trust distributed opinion much more than an organization like the RIAA)
Of course, I don't know if anything like this has already been done already. Does anyone else know?
So, I've never been to a LAN party on quite this scale... But my friends and I are always taking advantage of long weekends to get together and game in a dank little basement. It's so satisfying to be able to yell "you stupid bitch you shot me!" across the room and get a laugh in response. As time goes on we get better and better at throwing everything together. We've learned many valuable things down there.
Like: a ping-pong table can only take so much weight.
Always duct tape vital cables down. Someone tripping over the power cable for the file server/router can be quite a bitch.
one of the quirkier things we've learned: suburban households and power grids are not meant to deal with a room full of a dozen or more PCs humming away. We've blown the house circuit breaker AND the power for the entire block.
Oh, and it is possible to stay up for longer than 72 hours at a stretch. *grin*
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The article presented some great research findings about the workings of synesthesia, and how they went about finding these facts. What I'm still curious about is how someone with synesthesia goes about their daily life. According to one of my U's profs, synesthesia can actually make life really difficult. For instance, imagine each time you see a dog you get a stinging sensation behind the eyes. It would make it difficult to be a veterinarian. The article also made a reference to a few hallucinogenic drugs; if synesthesia is anything like them, it's gotta be difficult to function.
I've done my reading on the DMCA, but this "Super-DMCA" I haven't. Being the lazy college student that I am, could anyone provide a nice set of notes on the pertinent parts of this proposal? I can draw my own conclusions, but if you want to include yours too I'm sure you will.
Just telling me that the Super-DMCA threatens my "personal privacy, anonymity, and security" won't quite get me to bite, thanks.
actually, on a slightly offtopic note: Gunnm: Last Order is also available in a comic book series getting released (monthly?); so if you can't find the scans and translations, look into picking up the translations at your local comic book store.
Well, as a college student on a line with a bandwidth quota (per week capped, not too bad) I can say that I'm not too enthusiastic about donating my bandwidth. The application itself probably wouldn't be too traffic intensive, but given my bandwidth usage habits, I know I run quite close to the caps (which could cause me to get kicked off the network) quite often.
Just my.02
I think the fundamental distinction here is between personal information and just plain... general information. (my vocabulary fails me.)
So, while it's fair game to request that... say, a government organization yield documentation of its activities, it's a totally different ballpark to ask any given person walking down the street the details of his or her sex life.
What's interesting to me is what you just quoted in combination with one of the last few paragraphs of the linked article:
" Google is quietly betting on techniques from the world of artificial intelligence. The company is trying to improve its search quality beyond its original ranking formula by developing software that can infer what a questioner wants by mining a database of millions of queries."
Seems to me like Google might be on the verge of creating an impressive sort of AI; wouldn't it be cool if they could create something that actually takes care of its own "body"? Maybe it's just me, but that has always seemed to be an important step in developing a good AI, self-maintenance.
Heh, in a few years we'll be seeing the Google logo on our newest friends =P
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...is because of the excellent connection I get from my college dorm room. Reading this article reminds me of why I haven't opted to get an appartment in the city surrounding my University; I'd have to go through the hassle of getting myself a cable modem or other sort of broadband connection, or send myself back to the "Dark Ages";) by putting up with a phone line connection.
I see myself considering a house's connection as a definite bonus in the future. Admittedly, it isn't that hard to wire a home, but if the house is in one of those areas that still can't get a cable modem connection, it'll definitely affect my choices.
This seems like it could circumvent some of the issues currently preventing wiretapping of optical fiber... That's not really a good thing, now is it? =D
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As a member (heh) I can say that all you need to generate Orkut invites is a first and last name, and the e-mail address of another individual. Orkut of course doesn't really check first or last name, so all you really need is the e-mail address. There doesn't seem to be a limit on the number of invites one can generate, either, although I myself have only generated 17 invites.
If you're interested in an invite yourself, mail me. Subject "orkut", and give me some sort of first and last name. The invite will be to whatever address you mail me from.
In all seriousness, if you want in... e-mail me with subject "orkut" and body your name. I wonder how many people will take me seriously? For what it's worth, this is me.
Aww, this is offtopic how? It's very interesting to note how some services start off as invite only; livejournal is an example which has recently migrated to a more open system where anyone can sign up for a journal. I wonder how long it will be before Orkut switches?
When I read the above post, the first thing into my head was high school chemistry class and trying to get silver to precipitate... Much to my dismay, the article writer has chosen the easy way out with some color changing liquid which tells you when it's reacting with silver.
I was looking forward to poking fun at his titration technique... I mean, it was hellish trying to get as much precipitate as "expected" in those godamn experiments.
Well, from what I hear even the porn industry is getting fairly edgy about file sharing. Thing is, unlike the RIAA, the porn industry realizes that it's not likely to be a good business move to throw a whole bunch of publicity out about how people are easily able to download free pornography. Thus they're alright with the situation as it stands, as long as some money keeps coming their way.
Makes me wonder about the logic coding for the light changers, too. If no engineer thought to wire in conflict resolution (2 IR signals coming from 2 different directions) what d'you think the system would do? Crash? =D Or, even worse, 4 way green?
which program? Just curious.
Is it just me, or does anyone else find the fact that a comment about censorship gets modded to 0,flamebait? (Laughs quietly in the corner)
The problem with sharing .torrent files with other p2p apps is that you can still shut down the torrents themselves by shutting down their trackers. Sadly enough, I wasn't able to finish one of my torrents before bytemonsoon went down. Now opening that torrent does no one any good anymore. It refers to a bytemonsoon tracker, and without that tracker I can't reach any peers.
Someone could seed the same file elsewhere, but before that, that particular torrent is effectively dead.
I think we understand that doing drugs and copying files are inherently different. The point is that our laws have become incredibly draconian. Even if it is "wrong" to take illegal drugs, it doesn't make sense to make first time offenders go to jail for a minimum of five years. And in the same way, it doesn't make sense to punish P2P file sharers with felony charges.
;)
Becoming a felon in this country imposes some sever disadvantages, and I think we give away "felon" status a bit too easily. Imagine if this legislation went through; I'd say easily 50% of the teenagers in this country would become felons, and thus unable to vote. Guess who's gonna win the election?
I dunno. I've bought a few of those "10 in 1" packs. The problem with those packs is that they're often not true to the original game; they sometimes have remakes that are ever so slightly different, which can be kinda irritating.
As for purchasing a simplistic sort of game for a new console... Hell, I'd do it. I bought Ikaruga for the GameCube 'cause it was a scrolling space shooter (which is a sadly dying genre that I love). It certainly doesn't really showcase the GameCube's qualities, but it does take advantage of the leeway offered by a newer system without forcing itself into a different genre. As I see it, top down or scroller games are really fun, and it's a shame that everything has to be third person or first person 3d. I hope I'm not alone here =P
Absolutely. I find "classic" games some of the best out there, for a variety of reasons.
They often have really addictive gameplay, as after even a few moment playing you can easily grasp the games premise and controls, and be happily playing along. That doesn't mean that they don't have strategy; I'm still getting better at puzzle games like Tetris to this day even.
Some old classics: Frogger, Breakout, Space Invaders, Tetris, Pac Man...
It's too bad that new games are often forced to have good graphics. From what I understand, console manufacturers are reluctant to carry 2-dimensional sort of games as they see each game as a way of presenting the console; thus, when they sell a 2-d game they think that every person who sees that game will think that 2-d graphics are all that console is capable of. It's really sad; we're probably missing out on some really quality games that way.
Think about it... What if the RIAA did set up their own P2P network? You're thinking I'm crazy, but go with me here for a moment... If everyone who has money and is conscientious about supporting the music they like, it could work out well. For instance, the RIAA could use the data they'd acquire through tracking downloads or which files are shared, and provide a nice frontend for directing users to actually purchasing the music that they're sharing. The RIAA could thus focus on providing what people want to listen to, instead of trying to market what they see as "what people want".
(Admittedly, some musical gems do work their way through the machine, but I trust distributed opinion much more than an organization like the RIAA)
Of course, I don't know if anything like this has already been done already. Does anyone else know?
So, I've never been to a LAN party on quite this scale... But my friends and I are always taking advantage of long weekends to get together and game in a dank little basement. It's so satisfying to be able to yell "you stupid bitch you shot me!" across the room and get a laugh in response. As time goes on we get better and better at throwing everything together. We've learned many valuable things down there.
Like: a ping-pong table can only take so much weight.
Always duct tape vital cables down. Someone tripping over the power cable for the file server/router can be quite a bitch.
one of the quirkier things we've learned: suburban households and power grids are not meant to deal with a room full of a dozen or more PCs humming away. We've blown the house circuit breaker AND the power for the entire block.
Oh, and it is possible to stay up for longer than 72 hours at a stretch. *grin*
Hmm. Looks like a glitch in the Matrix, to me.
The article presented some great research findings about the workings of synesthesia, and how they went about finding these facts. What I'm still curious about is how someone with synesthesia goes about their daily life. According to one of my U's profs, synesthesia can actually make life really difficult. For instance, imagine each time you see a dog you get a stinging sensation behind the eyes. It would make it difficult to be a veterinarian. The article also made a reference to a few hallucinogenic drugs; if synesthesia is anything like them, it's gotta be difficult to function.
so anyone know?
I've done my reading on the DMCA, but this "Super-DMCA" I haven't. Being the lazy college student that I am, could anyone provide a nice set of notes on the pertinent parts of this proposal? I can draw my own conclusions, but if you want to include yours too I'm sure you will.
Just telling me that the Super-DMCA threatens my "personal privacy, anonymity, and security" won't quite get me to bite, thanks.
actually, on a slightly offtopic note: Gunnm: Last Order is also available in a comic book series getting released (monthly?); so if you can't find the scans and translations, look into picking up the translations at your local comic book store.
Well, as a college student on a line with a bandwidth quota (per week capped, not too bad) I can say that I'm not too enthusiastic about donating my bandwidth. The application itself probably wouldn't be too traffic intensive, but given my bandwidth usage habits, I know I run quite close to the caps (which could cause me to get kicked off the network) quite often. Just my .02
I think the fundamental distinction here is between personal information and just plain... general information. (my vocabulary fails me.)
So, while it's fair game to request that... say, a government organization yield documentation of its activities, it's a totally different ballpark to ask any given person walking down the street the details of his or her sex life.
What's interesting to me is what you just quoted in combination with one of the last few paragraphs of the linked article:
" Google is quietly betting on techniques from the world of artificial intelligence. The company is trying to improve its search quality beyond its original ranking formula by developing software that can infer what a questioner wants by mining a database of millions of queries."
Seems to me like Google might be on the verge of creating an impressive sort of AI; wouldn't it be cool if they could create something that actually takes care of its own "body"? Maybe it's just me, but that has always seemed to be an important step in developing a good AI, self-maintenance.
Heh, in a few years we'll be seeing the Google logo on our newest friends =P
...is because of the excellent connection I get from my college dorm room. Reading this article reminds me of why I haven't opted to get an appartment in the city surrounding my University; I'd have to go through the hassle of getting myself a cable modem or other sort of broadband connection, or send myself back to the "Dark Ages" ;) by putting up with a phone line connection.
I see myself considering a house's connection as a definite bonus in the future. Admittedly, it isn't that hard to wire a home, but if the house is in one of those areas that still can't get a cable modem connection, it'll definitely affect my choices.
This seems like it could circumvent some of the issues currently preventing wiretapping of optical fiber... That's not really a good thing, now is it? =D