There's the problem. Microsoft has someone to do that.
Not really an issue when you consider the fact that companies like SCO are losing money in these infringement cases.
FTA: "Some day," he continued, "for all countries that are entering the WTO [World Trade Organization], somebody will come and look for money owing to the rights for that intellectual property."
There is a photoshop plugin that works with images for resizing and it seems to be really good. Genuine Fractals 3.5 seems like it would be able to zoom any picture without loss of data. I'm not sure, however, if any text data would be legible, however.
The MPAA said it would also make available a computer program that sniffs out movie and music files on a user's computer as well as any installed file sharing programs.
I would like to see the source code for this program, please. (Guessing it behaves much like a common virus or spyware.) I hope SpyBot releases some patches against this kind of snoopery.
FTA: It is a robot and scientists say its invention is a breakthrough in mankind's struggle to control the animal kingdom.
I would like to see a little drosophila robot lead all of the confounded fruit flies out of my kitchen and into the wild! (although I'm not sure where they'll put the batteries for that one)
If I could control the little robot, I might be tempted to send them right down the drain into my neighbour's place!
I see this as an excellent way to control animals, keep them off of roads and away from harm, but if I have to buy a robot dog to control my real dog, I might just buy a robot dog and leave it at that!
FTFA: Sex And The Sidekick ???WTF??? How blatant is that????
Christmas buying guides are nothing but adverts anyway, and this article is nothing but a slash-ad. GRRRR. Did you see the boobs on that model holding the side kick? She could sell me SCO stock, if she was holding it like that, petting it gently! (*passes out*)
Dutch research institute TNO has unveiled what it believes is the largest digital photograph in the world.
And now this image is slashdotted! I thought it was bad when some guy posted his high rez, true colour, photo album on Slashdot... but this is crazy! And how long is it going to take me to download that picture anyway? I've got 10 gigs kicking around here that would love to have that puppy!
arh, it annoys me to know that speed of light is the limit..
Speed of light is not the limit. It's just the natural maxim. We can accelerate beyond it by examining it closely.
Just like a stream of water rushes down a cliff at a particular rate, we can apply pressure to the water and make it go faster.
We're not there yet, but faster than light travel is a thing of the not so distant future (relative to the length of time humanity has existed on Earth).
This guy just doesn't understand what Wikipedia means, IMHO. Here is an example:
FTA:
To see what Wikipedia is like I chose a single article, the biography of Alexander Hamilton. I chose that topic because I happen to know that there is a problem with his birth date, and how a reference work deals with that problem tells me something about its standards. The problem is this: While the day and month of Hamilton's birth are known, there is some uncertainty as to the year, whether it be 1755 or 1757. Hamilton himself used, and most contemporary biographers prefer, the latter year; a reference work ought at least to note the issue.
The Wikipedia article on Hamilton (as of November 4, 2004) uses the 1755 date without comment. Unfortunately, a couple of references within the body of the article that mention his age in certain years are clearly derived from a source that used the 1757 date, creating an internal inconsistency that the reader has no means to resolve.
The author says there are "no means to resolve" but I beg to differ. There is clearly a means to resolve these inconsistencies in that particular article! Edit it!! If he has found something wrong with the article, he should take a few minutes and correct it. Enough of that, and the article will go into dispute and moderators will resolve it. If this author is interested in Alexander Hamilton, he should watch that thread unfold using the Wikipedia tools to stay on top of it, making changes as he goes.
The nice part about a Wiki is that the changes are tracked, so the wiki on a whole is bigger than the page you are looking at. You can see how articles evolve, and where disputes may find fuel. Furthermore, this kind of thinking requires more depth than the printed page ever could.
When you are a dinosaur, you ought be extinct or you ought adapt, IMHO. Make way for the Humans! It's apparent to me that this author understands neither the concept nor the spirit of Wiki, and considering he is in the Encyclopedia business -- that is quite troubling, as it is mission critical for any field to understand new technologies as they unfold within that field.
There most definitely *will* be a lengthy delay between messages.
Don't you watch Star Trek? (Am I still posting at/. or what??? uhm... maybe I'm reading the Kuro5hin tab in firefox, then... nope... it's/. alright. Welcome, sir!)
You know, I said the same exact thing and was modded to -1 for doing so. This is interplanetary folks. The best way to get signals around earth now is through our own planetary/local signals or through wire/fiber. Going between planets, we'll be able to have one major feed or more, and the signals going through that system will feed to local systems using whatever works best at the time. The beauty of this is that there won't be the lengthy delays between messages, and continual improvements will make the range increase for larger file transfers or whatever.
It's an inspiring read on the history of a shareware developer and his adventures thus far.
Shareware developer? I know what a Spyware developer is, and I know of open source and closed source; but is there really such a thing as a shareware developer anymore? There's adware, begware and nagware (hardly any freeware left, but there is some)... but this shareware is not computing. I can't think of one product that is truly shareware; "A shareware program is accompanied by a request for payment, and often payment is required per the terms of the license past a set period of time (although some consider this requirement to cause the software to be not shareware but a demo)."
Well I guess Audion is going the way of actual freeware. Nice!
I tried something because John Battelle said MS was going to answer questions faster. Looks like they honestly want to try to do that, judging from this search.
Here is a neat feature of the engine. You can report inappropriate material to MS people who will, I am guessing, remove it from the index?
So at least we know this won't last as a porn search engine, but what is much worse is that it won't be an accurate imprint of what is actually out there. We need to have the ability to find anything with the option to filter out crap.
"Conveniences": this word as defined by marketing folks is the degree of consumer gougability. The more convenient a service or product, the more money can be charged for it, and the greater the potential for convenience, the greater the profit. That's potential, not actual convenience.
Feel free to be fed websites from MSN, but you are being led down the garden path (and it leads to Redmond).
Bill Gates: We will reinvent the wheel. Let's make it rounder.
Everyone Else: Google is works, without any extra crap, and that's why we like it.
Bill Gates: Use our new rounder search engine! It is powered by Yahoo, until 2005! Plus we have added lots of special crap! (mostly because so many people asked for it!)
Everyone Else: Don't you ever learn? We said we didn't want anything but a simple, accurate search engine. We have that already. Do something else.
Bill Gates: But the first 50-100 results now show the websites that have *paid* to be listed! How can you beat that? If they are going to fork over this extra cash to be listed, they must have really quality websites, right?!
Everyone Else: Yeah, that makes total sense to us.
Bill Gates: Plus Google doesn't have neato browser interstitials! They are lacking in the creative marketing department! Seriously!!
Everyone Else: What excites you, does not excite us.
Bill Gates: Our search is easier to get to because a link comes with every copy of XP! You know how hard it is to put a link on the desktop or in the Start Menu? We should be given the Nobel Peace Prize, or something.
Everyone Else: I think we want a search engine that filters out any website or company affiliated with Microsoft.
Does anyone know how many of EA's employees are contractors, BTW?
As of this law suit, I'd say it'll reach 100%. But EA should know better. I won't buy games that are made by companies who trample their employees rights. I prefer good games anyway...
Now that these guys are done with AOL maybe they can get on with their careers. For future reference: have an exit event next time guys so you don't get tied up with AOL or whoever buys it out from under you. Then we all profit because we get cool new toys and you get a pile of dough, AND no responsibility for 9-5 crap.
I want this! But I won't get it. We have a little one running around and I can see what would happen some early morning around 4am...
"Mommy, Daddy... I had a bad dream!"
"Exit the room or there will be... trouble!" (fires warning shots, 1/4 payload)
"AAAAARGGGGHHH!!!!! A MONSTER!!!!!" (flees, heavily pelted by nerf discs)
"You were warned! Have a good day and stay out of... trouble."
"ZZzzzzZZZzzZZZZZzzzZZZ" (mom & dad (in unison))
"Waaaaaaahhhhhh" (cries to sleep)
On second thought... that could make for some interesting Skinner experiments where we actually get to sleep for a whole night! Although the little one might not get to sleep at all, living in fear of the menacing turret monster. Hey maybe this could breed a new form of learned Tourette's Syndrome?? I mean what else is going to happen after being pelted by a nerf turret living in your parent's room for your whole childhood, until all you can do is swear randomly. (all the moderators with Tourette's are going to love this comment... can you imagine their reaction??? At least they won't be able to mod this down -- for a while)
The thing I mostly remember from the whole Trek phenomena, especially with Shatner, was when trekkies were told to get a life. It was fairly harsh as I remember, but those who were not Trekkies would always laugh whenever Shatner would say it. Trekkies on the other hand, simply took it in stride.
What can you say about this kind of negative response to fan adoration and does it prove something about the whole Trek phenomena, the actors and fans, or does it detract from the experience?
Slashdot Mirror
There's the problem. Microsoft has someone to do that.
Not really an issue when you consider the fact that companies like SCO are losing money in these infringement cases.
FTA: "Some day," he continued, "for all countries that are entering the WTO [World Trade Organization], somebody will come and look for money owing to the rights for that intellectual property."
Notice how he didn't say the SCO!
Why didn't you guys plan an exit event when AOL bought you? Why stick around in a new corporate culture anyway?
There is a photoshop plugin that works with images for resizing and it seems to be really good. Genuine Fractals 3.5 seems like it would be able to zoom any picture without loss of data. I'm not sure, however, if any text data would be legible, however.
The MPAA said it would also make available a computer program that sniffs out movie and music files on a user's computer as well as any installed file sharing programs.
I would like to see the source code for this program, please. (Guessing it behaves much like a common virus or spyware.) I hope SpyBot releases some patches against this kind of snoopery.
Put a piece of banana in the bottom of a mason jar, and poke small holes in the lid. They'll find their way in there.
:-)
I'm going to get that jar going right now!
Never thought of that... and yet CHEAPER than a robot!
FTA: It is a robot and scientists say its invention is a breakthrough in mankind's struggle to control the animal kingdom.
I would like to see a little drosophila robot lead all of the confounded fruit flies out of my kitchen and into the wild! (although I'm not sure where they'll put the batteries for that one)
If I could control the little robot, I might be tempted to send them right down the drain into my neighbour's place!
I see this as an excellent way to control animals, keep them off of roads and away from harm, but if I have to buy a robot dog to control my real dog, I might just buy a robot dog and leave it at that!
FTFA: Sex And The Sidekick ???WTF??? How blatant is that????
Christmas buying guides are nothing but adverts anyway, and this article is nothing but a slash-ad. GRRRR. Did you see the boobs on that model holding the side kick? She could sell me SCO stock, if she was holding it like that, petting it gently! (*passes out*)
Dutch research institute TNO has unveiled what it believes is the largest digital photograph in the world.
And now this image is slashdotted! I thought it was bad when some guy posted his high rez, true colour, photo album on Slashdot... but this is crazy! And how long is it going to take me to download that picture anyway? I've got 10 gigs kicking around here that would love to have that puppy!
arh, it annoys me to know that speed of light is the limit..
Speed of light is not the limit. It's just the natural maxim. We can accelerate beyond it by examining it closely.
Just like a stream of water rushes down a cliff at a particular rate, we can apply pressure to the water and make it go faster.
We're not there yet, but faster than light travel is a thing of the not so distant future (relative to the length of time humanity has existed on Earth).
FTA:
The author says there are "no means to resolve" but I beg to differ. There is clearly a means to resolve these inconsistencies in that particular article! Edit it!! If he has found something wrong with the article, he should take a few minutes and correct it. Enough of that, and the article will go into dispute and moderators will resolve it. If this author is interested in Alexander Hamilton, he should watch that thread unfold using the Wikipedia tools to stay on top of it, making changes as he goes.
The nice part about a Wiki is that the changes are tracked, so the wiki on a whole is bigger than the page you are looking at. You can see how articles evolve, and where disputes may find fuel. Furthermore, this kind of thinking requires more depth than the printed page ever could.
When you are a dinosaur, you ought be extinct or you ought adapt, IMHO. Make way for the Humans! It's apparent to me that this author understands neither the concept nor the spirit of Wiki, and considering he is in the Encyclopedia business -- that is quite troubling, as it is mission critical for any field to understand new technologies as they unfold within that field.
There most definitely *will* be a lengthy delay between messages.
/. or what??? uhm... maybe I'm reading the Kuro5hin tab in firefox, then... nope... it's /. alright. Welcome, sir!)
Don't you watch Star Trek? (Am I still posting at
You know, I said the same exact thing and was modded to -1 for doing so. This is interplanetary folks. The best way to get signals around earth now is through our own planetary/local signals or through wire/fiber. Going between planets, we'll be able to have one major feed or more, and the signals going through that system will feed to local systems using whatever works best at the time. The beauty of this is that there won't be the lengthy delays between messages, and continual improvements will make the range increase for larger file transfers or whatever.
Does this mean we will soon have telescopes outside of our homes soon to pick up high definition TV signals instead of our current 18 inch dishes?
No, it means the southwestern corner of the USA is going to become the Intarweb capitol of the universe!!!
Providing oxygen to illegal downloading? Okay the next time you get in a car and drive on a road, you are supporting drunk driving.
It's an inspiring read on the history of a shareware developer and his adventures thus far.
Shareware developer? I know what a Spyware developer is, and I know of open source and closed source; but is there really such a thing as a shareware developer anymore? There's adware, begware and nagware (hardly any freeware left, but there is some)... but this shareware is not computing. I can't think of one product that is truly shareware; "A shareware program is accompanied by a request for payment, and often payment is required per the terms of the license past a set period of time (although some consider this requirement to cause the software to be not shareware but a demo)."
Well I guess Audion is going the way of actual freeware. Nice!
I tried something because John Battelle said MS was going to answer questions faster. Looks like they honestly want to try to do that, judging from this search.
Here is a neat feature of the engine. You can report inappropriate material to MS people who will, I am guessing, remove it from the index?
So at least we know this won't last as a porn search engine, but what is much worse is that it won't be an accurate imprint of what is actually out there. We need to have the ability to find anything with the option to filter out crap.
"Conveniences": this word as defined by marketing folks is the degree of consumer gougability. The more convenient a service or product, the more money can be charged for it, and the greater the potential for convenience, the greater the profit. That's potential, not actual convenience.
Feel free to be fed websites from MSN, but you are being led down the garden path (and it leads to Redmond).
I have coded a test search using the beta. Check it out.
Bill Gates: We will reinvent the wheel. Let's make it rounder.
Everyone Else: Google is works, without any extra crap, and that's why we like it.
Bill Gates: Use our new rounder search engine! It is powered by Yahoo, until 2005! Plus we have added lots of special crap! (mostly because so many people asked for it!)
Everyone Else: Don't you ever learn? We said we didn't want anything but a simple, accurate search engine. We have that already. Do something else.
Bill Gates: But the first 50-100 results now show the websites that have *paid* to be listed! How can you beat that? If they are going to fork over this extra cash to be listed, they must have really quality websites, right?!
Everyone Else: Yeah, that makes total sense to us.
Bill Gates: Plus Google doesn't have neato browser interstitials! They are lacking in the creative marketing department! Seriously!!
Everyone Else: What excites you, does not excite us.
Bill Gates: Our search is easier to get to because a link comes with every copy of XP! You know how hard it is to put a link on the desktop or in the Start Menu? We should be given the Nobel Peace Prize, or something.
Everyone Else: I think we want a search engine that filters out any website or company affiliated with Microsoft.
Does anyone know how many of EA's employees are contractors, BTW?
As of this law suit, I'd say it'll reach 100%. But EA should know better. I won't buy games that are made by companies who trample their employees rights. I prefer good games anyway...
Now that these guys are done with AOL maybe they can get on with their careers. For future reference: have an exit event next time guys so you don't get tied up with AOL or whoever buys it out from under you. Then we all profit because we get cool new toys and you get a pile of dough, AND no responsibility for 9-5 crap.
I want this! But I won't get it. We have a little one running around and I can see what would happen some early morning around 4am...
"Mommy, Daddy... I had a bad dream!"
"Exit the room or there will be... trouble!" (fires warning shots, 1/4 payload)
"AAAAARGGGGHHH!!!!! A MONSTER!!!!!" (flees, heavily pelted by nerf discs)
"You were warned! Have a good day and stay out of... trouble."
"ZZzzzzZZZzzZZZZZzzzZZZ" (mom & dad (in unison))
"Waaaaaaahhhhhh" (cries to sleep)
On second thought... that could make for some interesting Skinner experiments where we actually get to sleep for a whole night! Although the little one might not get to sleep at all, living in fear of the menacing turret monster. Hey maybe this could breed a new form of learned Tourette's Syndrome?? I mean what else is going to happen after being pelted by a nerf turret living in your parent's room for your whole childhood, until all you can do is swear randomly. (all the moderators with Tourette's are going to love this comment... can you imagine their reaction??? At least they won't be able to mod this down -- for a while)
The thing I mostly remember from the whole Trek phenomena, especially with Shatner, was when trekkies were told to get a life. It was fairly harsh as I remember, but those who were not Trekkies would always laugh whenever Shatner would say it. Trekkies on the other hand, simply took it in stride.
What can you say about this kind of negative response to fan adoration and does it prove something about the whole Trek phenomena, the actors and fans, or does it detract from the experience?
AKA "Thats no moon"
ROFTLMAO!!!!!