'I can give (game players) the same performance you get out of those game boxes'
HAH! Not if it's anything like my SA DVR/Digital Cable Box! That thing is packed with features and it's well priced from the cable company (Time-Warner), but MAN, sometimes the menus react and move so slow it's like the batteries are nearly dead!
It should have come with a screen saver of paint drying -- you know, for the excitement.
There's a difference between "Tee-hee, then this one guy came in today and he bought...." and "Please send Mr. Williams an email informing him that the.... he purchased today will no longer be on sale next week, so he should come in as soon as possible to stock up."
I expect that the biggest discernable change RFID is going to cause is the deliberate modification of personal behavior to prevent this kind of information from being PRESENT so that it cannot be collected.
Does anyone know what metric was used to determine these rankings? Was it "country where the first SMTP transfer originated"? Was it "office address of the dude typing in the text of the spam"?
I hate it when dudes publish 'findings' and don't explain how they got them. So much for the scientific method and reproducibility -- they could have made the whole thing up!
[**NOTE** I am not saying they did make the numbers up, but as a matter of journalistic and scientific integrity, when you publish the results and don't publish the method used to determine those results, your cannot be evaluated as anything other than opinion. We're after facts, here, people, not truth./RANT]
That's close, but I don't think that's exactly the same thing. That would belike showing an onscreen or printed directory listing of the source files in the build directory, but not the contents of those files.
What if you made a film of somebody reading the book from first-person POV? You know -- copy the text onto film and show it slow enough that you could read the whole book? Would that require some sort of special permission? What if it was just one or two pages?
When I checked out the NMAP link, I eventually clicky=clicky-clicky'ed overt to the insecure.org homepage and saw (about halfway down) that part of the source for NMAP was featured in the movie Battle Royale.
So, this got me thinking: Since NMAP source is GPL, does it's inclusion in Battle Royale make the movie a derivative work and therefore also subject to the GPL?
Just thought I'd ask, because I don't think that - other than the DeCSS - case, anyone's ever mentioned this possiblility.
HOLY BUCKETS! I think that is the most disgusting thing I've ever read.... EVER! I can't even quote it it's so disturbing, so browsers will have to click the parent link for theyselves.
Nahhh, Larry Ellison is part of the "Psycho Goofballs of the Internet" special edition gold collectors set -- you can only get him by sending in proof of purchase certificates from your Oracle EULAs. Sorry, kids!
Number one, Cringely kicks a whole lotta ass. 'Nuff said.
b) In reading his sketch of the likely-soon-to-be-patented PSCP technique, I was reminded of The Story Of Mel [pbm.com]. Anyone think this qualifies as prior art?
III. What exactly does.NET bring to the table that is worth all this? I mean, look at it! This is a really complicated and convoluted technique for solving a problem that we don't have yet, right?! Could someone please explain what's so wrong with what we're doing now that makes these changes look like a good idea? Seriously! I'm confused! Open source doesn't have these problems, does it?
Number one, Cringely kicks a whole lotta ass and that's why he's on my short list of dudes in the biz to whom I actually listen.
b) In reading his sketch of the likely-soon-to-be-patented PSCP technique, I was reminded of The Story Of Mel. Anyone think this qualifies as prior art?
III. What exactly does.NET bring to the table that is worth all this? I mean, look at it! This is a really complicated and convoluted technique for solving a problem that we don't have yet, right?! Could someone please explain what's so wrong with what we're doing now that makes these changes look like a good idea? Seriously! I'm confused! Open source doesn't have these problems, does it?
Reagan proposed SDI to protect the USA from an all-out Soviet bombardment.
SDI in the '80s was a ruse designed to trick the Soviets into spending more money on defense and defense research than they could afford.
The plan was an unmitigated success because regardless of whether we could actually make SDI work, *THEY* believed we could make it work.
I'm not exactly sure why the idea is still alive, unless the DoD actually thinks we can really make it work now. If they want to fend off potential terrorist missle attacks then a scenario of a dozen or so missles is far more likely than the *thousands* we were expecting in a USSR first strike in the eighties.
The interesting thing is that some people think the same sort of ruse may be afoot with Bush and his moon and mars idea.
Sorry, but I don't trust reviewers that get a kick out of a car sound starting up a laptop, just like I don't trust the technical opinion of someone who discovers that they don't have to hear "You've got mail" when they get a new message.
I don't have any problem with thinking a VROOM startup sound is cool, what makes him look like an idiot is that he's touting that particular 'feature' like it's unique to the Ferrarri laptops and no other NON-Ferrarri computers can do it. It's as though he's never heard of Control Panel/Sound before.
No, I fully well realize (as I hope you do) that this 'article' was likely a paid ad from Acer, which is the real reason why he needs to be posted in humor or not at all.
This is offtopic, but I'm asking a lot of the same questions about RFID. How much less is Wal-Mart going to price a chipped bottle of shampoo than what they're charging me now? Because if it's, like, ten cents I think I can splurge.
I don't expect any good answers, but Stugots is DEAD-ON when he sez that we should at least be asking the right frickin' questions.
...about the game industry to see this. Almost any company that releases new products at the rate of one every year is going to have more revenue than one that releases a new product once every two years. (Or, in the special case of 3DRealms, once period.) The only way a delay makes sense is if adds value to increase the price, increase the potential customer pool or extends the span of time the product will sell in stores. (This might explain why so many are trying to develop online subscription games like MMORPGs, despite the apparent fact that it's difficult to develop good ones.)
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You already know this, but I'd just like to point out to the newer readers that the best way to explain the value of free software to people is to remind them that before the Visicalc(*) folks had the guts to form a company that only produced software without any accompanying hardware, software was largely produced in the domain of shared (scientific?) research, and they should continue to look at it that way, as opposed to some sort of ridiculous anti-capitalistic anarchist movement.
(*) NOTE: I *think* Visicalc was the first to do this. If not, please correct me.
This might be the same thing you're saying, but I would guess that it's because in a color camera, you have three different color sensors per pixel that are arranged in a bundle like the pixels on your TV set. This causes a certain amount of chromatic distortion because each color really only sees one-third of the whole picture. However, if you use a monochrome camera and filters, each pixel gets completely recorded in each color and you can later stack the color planes on top of each other and blend them which gives you better color and resolution with a LOT less distortion.
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'I can give (game players) the same performance you get out of those game boxes'
HAH! Not if it's anything like my SA DVR/Digital Cable Box! That thing is packed with features and it's well priced from the cable company (Time-Warner), but MAN, sometimes the menus react and move so slow it's like the batteries are nearly dead!
It should have come with a screen saver of paint drying -- you know, for the excitement.
6. Someone left the windows in MIR open again
Uhhh, that's not a window. (FYI)
I pronouce this idea DOOMED-TO-FAIL(tm)!
Why?
No smell-o-vision. Dogs need that.
There's a difference between "Tee-hee, then this one guy came in today and he bought
I expect that the biggest discernable change RFID is going to cause is the deliberate modification of personal behavior to prevent this kind of information from being PRESENT so that it cannot be collected.
Maybe this would be one way to do it?
WTF?!?!?!!!! MICROSOFT has a patent on STYLE SHEETS?! I guess the PTO never got around to reading this.
Does anyone know what metric was used to determine these rankings? Was it "country where the first SMTP transfer originated"? Was it "office address of the dude typing in the text of the spam"?
I hate it when dudes publish 'findings' and don't explain how they got them. So much for the scientific method and reproducibility -- they could have made the whole thing up!
[**NOTE** I am not saying they did make the numbers up, but as a matter of journalistic and scientific integrity, when you publish the results and don't publish the method used to determine those results, your cannot be evaluated as anything other than opinion. We're after facts, here, people, not truth.
That's close, but I don't think that's exactly the same thing. That would belike showing an onscreen or printed directory listing of the source files in the build directory, but not the contents of those files.
What if you made a film of somebody reading the book from first-person POV? You know -- copy the text onto film and show it slow enough that you could read the whole book? Would that require some sort of special permission? What if it was just one or two pages?
When I checked out the NMAP link, I eventually clicky=clicky-clicky'ed overt to the insecure.org homepage and saw (about halfway down) that part of the source for NMAP was featured in the movie Battle Royale.
So, this got me thinking: Since NMAP source is GPL, does it's inclusion in Battle Royale make the movie a derivative work and therefore also subject to the GPL?
Just thought I'd ask, because I don't think that - other than the DeCSS - case, anyone's ever mentioned this possiblility.
HOLY BUCKETS! I think that is the most disgusting thing I've ever read.... EVER! I can't even quote it it's so disturbing, so browsers will have to click the parent link for theyselves.
(*shudder*)
Nahhh, Larry Ellison is part of the "Psycho Goofballs of the Internet" special edition gold collectors set -- you can only get him by sending in proof of purchase certificates from your Oracle EULAs. Sorry, kids!
Number one, Cringely kicks a whole lotta ass. 'Nuff said.
b) In reading his sketch of the likely-soon-to-be-patented PSCP technique, I was reminded of The Story Of Mel [pbm.com]. Anyone think this qualifies as prior art?
III. What exactly does
Number one, Cringely kicks a whole lotta ass and that's why he's on my short list of dudes in the biz to whom I actually listen.
b) In reading his sketch of the likely-soon-to-be-patented PSCP technique, I was reminded of The Story Of Mel. Anyone think this qualifies as prior art?
III. What exactly does
Reagan proposed SDI to protect the USA from an all-out Soviet bombardment.
SDI in the '80s was a ruse designed to trick the Soviets into spending more money on defense and defense research than they could afford.
The plan was an unmitigated success because regardless of whether we could actually make SDI work, *THEY* believed we could make it work.
I'm not exactly sure why the idea is still alive, unless the DoD actually thinks we can really make it work now. If they want to fend off potential terrorist missle attacks then a scenario of a dozen or so missles is far more likely than the *thousands* we were expecting in a USSR first strike in the eighties.
The interesting thing is that some people think the same sort of ruse may be afoot with Bush and his moon and mars idea.
Sorry, but I don't trust reviewers that get a kick out of a car sound starting up a laptop, just like I don't trust the technical opinion of someone who discovers that they don't have to hear "You've got mail" when they get a new message.
I don't have any problem with thinking a VROOM startup sound is cool, what makes him look like an idiot is that he's touting that particular 'feature' like it's unique to the Ferrarri laptops and no other NON-Ferrarri computers can do it. It's as though he's never heard of Control Panel/Sound before.
No, I fully well realize (as I hope you do) that this 'article' was likely a paid ad from Acer, which is the real reason why he needs to be posted in humor or not at all.
I guess, but to MY ear, it sounds like Foster Brooks doing his "Drunk guy with the slurred speech" comedy bit again.
Fifty bucks?!?!
That's a week of groceries for cryin' out loud! I'll wait until next year when it hits the $10 bargain rack at Wal-Mart.
I seem to remember going through that with beer, too. At some point, everything just started looking expensive.
Sincerely,
An old fogey
P.S. Just you wait you young buX0rz, pretty soon THE RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, NIRVANA and PEARL JAM will be on the oldies stations. HAAAAA-HA-HA-HA!
This is offtopic, but I'm asking a lot of the same questions about RFID. How much less is Wal-Mart going to price a chipped bottle of shampoo than what they're charging me now? Because if it's, like, ten cents I think I can splurge.
I don't expect any good answers, but Stugots is DEAD-ON when he sez that we should at least be asking the right frickin' questions.
...about the game industry to see this. Almost any company that releases new products at the rate of one every year is going to have more revenue than one that releases a new product once every two years. (Or, in the special case of 3DRealms, once period.) The only way a delay makes sense is if adds value to increase the price, increase the potential customer pool or extends the span of time the product will sell in stores. (This might explain why so many are trying to develop online subscription games like MMORPGs, despite the apparent fact that it's difficult to develop good ones.)
You already know this, but I'd just like to point out to the newer readers that the best way to explain the value of free software to people is to remind them that before the Visicalc(*) folks had the guts to form a company that only produced software without any accompanying hardware, software was largely produced in the domain of shared (scientific?) research, and they should continue to look at it that way, as opposed to some sort of ridiculous anti-capitalistic anarchist movement.
(*) NOTE: I *think* Visicalc was the first to do this. If not, please correct me.
Anyone willing to post links to mirrors in case their servers can't handle the slashdotting?
(geez I'm lame.)
It's posts like this that make me wish I could get up earlier:
How about downloading Linux distro ISOs? That oughta get 'em foaming.
....ya know, it's too bad you aren't demo-ing the link to us.
Yup, and I'm not trolling, either. Empirically, he *IS* a dork.
Lieutennant, release the FIRST POSTERS!
This might be the same thing you're saying, but I would guess that it's because in a color camera, you have three different color sensors per pixel that are arranged in a bundle like the pixels on your TV set. This causes a certain amount of chromatic distortion because each color really only sees one-third of the whole picture. However, if you use a monochrome camera and filters, each pixel gets completely recorded in each color and you can later stack the color planes on top of each other and blend them which gives you better color and resolution with a LOT less distortion.