Voice over: Lightspeed fits today's active lifestyle. Whether you're on the job [Fry is shown at a company meeting wearing just Lightspeeds.], or having fun [Fry is shown with a woman in her underwear.] Lightspeed briefs. Style and comfort for the discriminating crotch.
[The dream ends. Fry wakes up.]
Fry: Oh what a weird dream! I'll never get back to sleep!
[He falls asleep.]
[Scene: Planet Express: Lounge. The crew are sat around a table.]
Fry: So you're telling me they broadcast commercials into people's dreams?
Leela: Of course.
Fry: But, how is that possible?
Farnsworth: It's very simple. The ad gets into your brain just like this liquid gets into this egg. [He holds up an egg and injects it with liquid. The egg explodes.] Although in reality it's not liquid, but gamma radiation.
Fry: That's awful. It's like brainwashing.
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No sirree!
Yay! Karma whoring time *goes to look for +5 mods from t'other day*
"Uh... well, I don't know where Michael Jackson got his face from, but the nose is obviously from another planet."
"I think this face transplanting has been going on for quite some time. Why, as a student I would go out to a bar and go home with a beautiful stunner. But, next day her face had been 'transplanted' leaving the stunner with the face of a munter.;-) "
Yeah you can still do that today with METASPY which shows random queries to the search engine METACRAWLER which of course, uses different search engine to drive its results.
There are two types of "spying". The first is filtered, and the second is naked!
... and yet they insist that they require an e-mail adress from you. The form doesn't even submit correctly if you leave your mail adress out.
And how exactly do you expect them to REPLY to you if you don't put an address in there? I have this very problem on one of my larger sites, people whine about having to enter an email address, and yet when I ask them how it is I can contact them to reply to their query, they often cannot give me a sensible and or straight reply.
I've often thought that the email protocols need updating to only accept email from reputable addresses (reputable being no faked headers). I won't go into the fine print, I'll leave that for the patent;)
When I first saw the headline I assumed it was going to a great step towards truly using the power of the internet and online sales.
However, this is nothing more than glorified movie rental with the user paying well over the odds.
I've been using something called DVDSONTAP for a while now, pay £9.99 a month and rent as many dvds as I like and send them back when I like. $4.99 AND the "pleasure" of downloading AND having to install their DRM crap? No thanks. I'll stick to regular DVD and of course, leeching from usenet;)
To the Liberal Arts, He Adds Computer Science By STEVE LOHR
PRINCETON, N.J. -- TALL and slender with a flowing beard, dressed in a gray sweater and jeans, Brian Kernighan works his audience with a fast patter and a ready smile. The challenge he has set for himself is to demystify computing for a classroom full of liberal arts undergraduates at Princeton.
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It so happens that Mr. Kernighan, 60, is a renowned computer scientist, a member of the Bell Labs team of the late 1960's and 70's that developed and nurtured the Unix operating system and the C programming language, innovations with a far-reaching impact on computing. He is also a best-selling author of technical books on programming that have sold millions of copies and been translated into more than 20 languages.
None of that really matters in this course, "Computers in Our World." The students are headed toward degrees in politics, history, English, art history, psychology and economics. Unlike many college students in the dot-com boom years of the late 90's, they have no plans to make a killing, or even a living, in the technology business.
Yet at a time when the corporate world and Wall Street are in the funk of a technology hangover, the students in Mr. Kernighan's class have a perspective that seems a levelheaded antidote to the prevailing gloom, based on conversations with a few of them. They have no illusions that computing is a silver bullet for the economy or a sure-fire path to riches. But they grew up surrounded by personal computers and cellphones. E-mail, instant messaging, Web searches, online shopping and swapping MP3 music files are second nature to them. They understand that computing is the modern tool used for everything from Hollywood special effects to unraveling the secrets of the human genome.
They don't believe that digital technology is inundating modern life at the alarming speed of "a Bengali typhoon," as Wired magazine once put it, but view it more as a rising tide whose impact is spreading steadily. Computing, they figure, is a good thing to know more about and to understand in a deeper way - while satisfying that pesky requirement that all Princeton students must take a course in "quantitative reasoning."
Mr. Kernighan, it seems, has made some encouraging progress with the fall semester class. The students do projects like making their own Web pages and writing a few simple programs. And they speak of a new appreciation for computers and moments of epiphany along the way.
"I've always used computers, but I had no prior knowledge of what goes on inside them," said Lori Piranian, a freshman. "Taking the course has given me a new respect for computing. It's amazing what goes into a computer and the history of how we got to where we are now."
Mr. Kernighan's course is a kind of intellectual smorgasbord, combining public policy - like technology's impact on privacy, copyright and antitrust matters - with large helpings of practical knowledge of how things work, from operating systems to disk drives. Still, some students said that the single class session that made the strongest impression was Mr. Kernighan's lecture on binary numbers, also known as binary digits or bits. In his talk, Mr. Kernighan explained that everything a PC does - handling text, music or video - is all just a matter of processing 1's and 0's to the machine. The difference between today's multimedia notebooks and the room-size calculators of computing's early days, he notes, is mainly faster bit-processing engines and increasingly clever software.
"What you come to understand," said Joseph Falencki, a junior, "is how simple, yet how complicated, a computer really is. That was the 'aha' moment for me."
After a late-October class, Mr. Kernighan explained that his goal in the course was to impart an intelligent skepticism about computer technology, an informed sense of its possibilities and limitations. "And you can't do that in the abstract," he said, which is why programming and projects are essential elements in his course. Smiling, he mentioned the often-quoted line from the science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." A wonderful phrase, Mr. Kernighan said, "but there is no magic."
Mr. Kernighan acquired his taste for teaching while on a year's leave from Bell Labs in 1996 at Harvard, where he taught an introductory computer science course. "I got an enormous kick from it," he said. "To me, it felt the way it must be for an actor onstage - the rush when it clicks, and the letdown when it doesn't."
So four years later, when Princeton asked him to join the faculty, Mr. Kernighan agreed and said he wanted to teach computing to liberal arts students as well as his Advanced Programming Techniques course in the computer science department. His former colleagues were not surprised that he turned to teaching, including teaching nontechnical students.
"It's pretty clear that Brian has a continuing interest and commitment to education - writing well-read books was how this was first expressed," said Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C language. Indeed, the best-read of his books is "The C Programming Language," written with Mr. Ritchie and first published in 1978. To professional programmers, the book is known simply as "K & R." Most of the text, the programming examples and problems came from Mr. Kernighan, whom Mr. Ritchie calls "a fluent and charming writer on technical subjects."
Mr. Kernighan genuinely enjoys translating his technical field and explaining its significance for humanities students. But in his understated way, he also thinks it is something that must be done and perhaps contributes to the greater good. "For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton," Mr. Kernighan said. "What I'm trying to do is give them some of the tools of the trade that will make it possible for them to think intelligently about this technology for themselves."
Such sentiments place Mr. Kernighan within the camp of computer scientists who believe that computing deserves a place in general education.
It is a point of view with a rich history, dating at least as far back as the 60's at Dartmouth. As the impact of computers spread through society, two professors, John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, decided that Dartmouth students should have hands-on experience with computers. With the university's full-fledged support, they designed a computer time-sharing system and a simple programming language, Basic (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), which proved to be an enduring contribution to computing. Stripped-down versions of Basic became the programming choice of the microcomputer industry in the mid-70's. One variant, Microsoft Basic, was the founding product of the world's biggest software maker.
Some computer scientists have pushed ever since to make computing a central part of a liberal arts education. In 1999, a report by the National Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, titled "Being Fluent with Information Technology" called for a broader definition of computer education that would emphasize not just practical skills but also concepts, principles and ideas. That is, precisely the sort of course Mr. Kernighan is teaching at Princeton.
In an October class focusing on computer operating systems, he began with a newspaper article on the challenge Microsoft faces from Linux, a descendant of the Unix operating system that is distributed free and written and debugged by a volunteer community of programmers. (Incidentally, Mr. Kernighan gave Unix its name back at Bell Labs in 1970.) The governments of China, Germany and other nations are using and promoting Linux as an alternative to Microsoft's Windows operating system. "It's that important to them, to become less dependent on Microsoft," Mr. Kernighan said. "To do that, they will use Linux instead of a program written by one of the premier technology companies in the world."
Twenty years ago, Mr. Kernighan observed, "Only nerds cared about operating systems." Now, he added, the subject is a public-policy issue, even front-page news occasionally.
He traffics in metaphor and analogy. The operating system is a juggler, keeping several different programs running at once - like balls in the air. He compares file folders, which show links to files on the hard disk, to a library card catalog, which "is not the books but the structural information that tells where things are,'' like the file folders in a computer system.
There is no mention in class of Mr. Kernighan's distinguished background. But most of the students have run a Google search or two on Mr. Kernighan and seem somewhat impressed. "He wrote that book on the C language back at Bell Labs a long time ago, before I was born," said Ms. Piranian, who is all of 18.
What's nice about that is that the new 1.7 P4's will easily overclock to 2.6Ghz+, so you are getting almost a Gig free for just knowing which switches to push.
In other news, the latest poll taken by Microsoft Vote(tm) indicates Bill Gates has a 100% lead in the race for president of Earth. It appears many more people are voting now than ever before! When asked for a comment, a Microsoft spokesman simply said "We are just making it easier for people to make a choice"
Has anyone heard a DVD-Audio disc? Is the sound really that much better?
Wow this sounds so real! It actually sounds like the cops have arrived at my door to arrest me for my "Illegal" CD-Audio collection that was outlawed back in 2005...
Sorry to be OT but I had to laugh. I thought you said "MicroSatan" at first:)
More to the point, and back on topic, I'd wager many 13 year olds could outcode/outadmin/outplay a few of our so called "IT Professionals" so I wouldnt dismiss these youngsters too quickly.
I seem to recall myself at 13 being quite the computer literate, enthusiastic, imaginative, creative obsessive coder.
When I first heard of this happening, my first thought was that they arent cracking down because of *what* they are doing, more of because of the methods.
Is the mod chip in fact, a bootleg hacked microsoft bios? Therefore, the claim would not be against anybody modding anything, but in fact a case against a company for distributing microsofts copyrighted code (the bios).
I could be wrong of course - but I bet thats the angle of the lawyers above all others.
Slashdot Mirror
Voice over: Lightspeed fits today's active lifestyle. Whether you're on the job [Fry is shown at a company meeting wearing just Lightspeeds.], or having fun [Fry is shown with a woman in her underwear.] Lightspeed briefs. Style and comfort for the discriminating crotch.
[The dream ends. Fry wakes up.]
Fry: Oh what a weird dream! I'll never get back to sleep!
[He falls asleep.]
[Scene: Planet Express: Lounge. The crew are sat around a table.]
Fry: So you're telling me they broadcast commercials into people's dreams?
Leela: Of course.
Fry: But, how is that possible?
Farnsworth: It's very simple. The ad gets into your brain just like this liquid gets into this egg. [He holds up an egg and injects it with liquid. The egg explodes.] Although in reality it's not liquid, but gamma radiation.
Fry: That's awful. It's like brainwashing.
Leela: Didn't you have ads in the 20th century?
Fry: Well sure, but not in our dreams. Only on TV and radio. And in magazines. And movies. And at ball games and on buses and milk cartons and t-shirts and written on the sky. But not in dreams. No sirree!
I think even further difficulty comes in finding the iso's of the discs :)
Is it just me that found reading the 1992 - 2002 predictions and results more interesting than the "Bold technology predictions for 2012"?
Yay! Karma whoring time
;-) "
:)
*goes to look for +5 mods from t'other day*
"Uh... well, I don't know where Michael Jackson got his face from, but the nose is obviously from another planet."
"I think this face transplanting has been going on for quite some time. Why, as a student I would go out to a bar and go home with a beautiful stunner. But, next day her face had been 'transplanted' leaving the stunner with the face of a munter.
Yes, it's a slow day
Yeah you can still do that today with METASPY which shows random queries to the search engine METACRAWLER which of course, uses different search engine to drive its results.
There are two types of "spying". The first is filtered, and the second is naked!
... and yet they insist that they require an e-mail adress from you. The form doesn't even submit correctly if you leave your mail adress out.
;)
And how exactly do you expect them to REPLY to you if you don't put an address in there? I have this very problem on one of my larger sites, people whine about having to enter an email address, and yet when I ask them how it is I can contact them to reply to their query, they often cannot give me a sensible and or straight reply.
I've often thought that the email protocols need updating to only accept email from reputable addresses (reputable being no faked headers). I won't go into the fine print, I'll leave that for the patent
Hmmm.
;)
When I first saw the headline I assumed it was going to a great step towards truly using the power of the internet and online sales.
However, this is nothing more than glorified movie rental with the user paying well over the odds.
I've been using something called DVDSONTAP for a while now, pay £9.99 a month and rent as many dvds as I like and send them back when I like. $4.99 AND the "pleasure" of downloading AND having to install their DRM crap? No thanks. I'll stick to regular DVD and of course, leeching from usenet
To the Liberal Arts, He Adds Computer Science
By STEVE LOHR
PRINCETON, N.J. -- TALL and slender with a flowing beard, dressed in a gray sweater and jeans, Brian Kernighan works his audience with a fast patter and a ready smile. The challenge he has set for himself is to demystify computing for a classroom full of liberal arts undergraduates at Princeton.
Advertisement
It so happens that Mr. Kernighan, 60, is a renowned computer scientist, a member of the Bell Labs team of the late 1960's and 70's that developed and nurtured the Unix operating system and the C programming language, innovations with a far-reaching impact on computing. He is also a best-selling author of technical books on programming that have sold millions of copies and been translated into more than 20 languages.
None of that really matters in this course, "Computers in Our World." The students are headed toward degrees in politics, history, English, art history, psychology and economics. Unlike many college students in the dot-com boom years of the late 90's, they have no plans to make a killing, or even a living, in the technology business.
Yet at a time when the corporate world and Wall Street are in the funk of a technology hangover, the students in Mr. Kernighan's class have a perspective that seems a levelheaded antidote to the prevailing gloom, based on conversations with a few of them. They have no illusions that computing is a silver bullet for the economy or a sure-fire path to riches. But they grew up surrounded by personal computers and cellphones. E-mail, instant messaging, Web searches, online shopping and swapping MP3 music files are second nature to them. They understand that computing is the modern tool used for everything from Hollywood special effects to unraveling the secrets of the human genome.
They don't believe that digital technology is inundating modern life at the alarming speed of "a Bengali typhoon," as Wired magazine once put it, but view it more as a rising tide whose impact is spreading steadily. Computing, they figure, is a good thing to know more about and to understand in a deeper way - while satisfying that pesky requirement that all Princeton students must take a course in "quantitative reasoning."
Mr. Kernighan, it seems, has made some encouraging progress with the fall semester class. The students do projects like making their own Web pages and writing a few simple programs. And they speak of a new appreciation for computers and moments of epiphany along the way.
"I've always used computers, but I had no prior knowledge of what goes on inside them," said Lori Piranian, a freshman. "Taking the course has given me a new respect for computing. It's amazing what goes into a computer and the history of how we got to where we are now."
Mr. Kernighan's course is a kind of intellectual smorgasbord, combining public policy - like technology's impact on privacy, copyright and antitrust matters - with large helpings of practical knowledge of how things work, from operating systems to disk drives. Still, some students said that the single class session that made the strongest impression was Mr. Kernighan's lecture on binary numbers, also known as binary digits or bits. In his talk, Mr. Kernighan explained that everything a PC does - handling text, music or video - is all just a matter of processing 1's and 0's to the machine. The difference between today's multimedia notebooks and the room-size calculators of computing's early days, he notes, is mainly faster bit-processing engines and increasingly clever software.
"What you come to understand," said Joseph Falencki, a junior, "is how simple, yet how complicated, a computer really is. That was the 'aha' moment for me."
After a late-October class, Mr. Kernighan explained that his goal in the course was to impart an intelligent skepticism about computer technology, an informed sense of its possibilities and limitations. "And you can't do that in the abstract," he said, which is why programming and projects are essential elements in his course. Smiling, he mentioned the often-quoted line from the science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." A wonderful phrase, Mr. Kernighan said, "but there is no magic."
Mr. Kernighan acquired his taste for teaching while on a year's leave from Bell Labs in 1996 at Harvard, where he taught an introductory computer science course. "I got an enormous kick from it," he said. "To me, it felt the way it must be for an actor onstage - the rush when it clicks, and the letdown when it doesn't."
So four years later, when Princeton asked him to join the faculty, Mr. Kernighan agreed and said he wanted to teach computing to liberal arts students as well as his Advanced Programming Techniques course in the computer science department. His former colleagues were not surprised that he turned to teaching, including teaching nontechnical students.
"It's pretty clear that Brian has a continuing interest and commitment to education - writing well-read books was how this was first expressed," said Dennis Ritchie, creator of the C language. Indeed, the best-read of his books is "The C Programming Language," written with Mr. Ritchie and first published in 1978. To professional programmers, the book is known simply as "K & R." Most of the text, the programming examples and problems came from Mr. Kernighan, whom Mr. Ritchie calls "a fluent and charming writer on technical subjects."
Mr. Kernighan genuinely enjoys translating his technical field and explaining its significance for humanities students. But in his understated way, he also thinks it is something that must be done and perhaps contributes to the greater good. "For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton," Mr. Kernighan said. "What I'm trying to do is give them some of the tools of the trade that will make it possible for them to think intelligently about this technology for themselves."
Such sentiments place Mr. Kernighan within the camp of computer scientists who believe that computing deserves a place in general education.
It is a point of view with a rich history, dating at least as far back as the 60's at Dartmouth. As the impact of computers spread through society, two professors, John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz, decided that Dartmouth students should have hands-on experience with computers. With the university's full-fledged support, they designed a computer time-sharing system and a simple programming language, Basic (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), which proved to be an enduring contribution to computing. Stripped-down versions of Basic became the programming choice of the microcomputer industry in the mid-70's. One variant, Microsoft Basic, was the founding product of the world's biggest software maker.
Some computer scientists have pushed ever since to make computing a central part of a liberal arts education. In 1999, a report by the National Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences, titled "Being Fluent with Information Technology" called for a broader definition of computer education that would emphasize not just practical skills but also concepts, principles and ideas. That is, precisely the sort of course Mr. Kernighan is teaching at Princeton.
In an October class focusing on computer operating systems, he began with a newspaper article on the challenge Microsoft faces from Linux, a descendant of the Unix operating system that is distributed free and written and debugged by a volunteer community of programmers. (Incidentally, Mr. Kernighan gave Unix its name back at Bell Labs in 1970.) The governments of China, Germany and other nations are using and promoting Linux as an alternative to Microsoft's Windows operating system. "It's that important to them, to become less dependent on Microsoft," Mr. Kernighan said. "To do that, they will use Linux instead of a program written by one of the premier technology companies in the world."
Twenty years ago, Mr. Kernighan observed, "Only nerds cared about operating systems." Now, he added, the subject is a public-policy issue, even front-page news occasionally.
He traffics in metaphor and analogy. The operating system is a juggler, keeping several different programs running at once - like balls in the air. He compares file folders, which show links to files on the hard disk, to a library card catalog, which "is not the books but the structural information that tells where things are,'' like the file folders in a computer system.
There is no mention in class of Mr. Kernighan's distinguished background. But most of the students have run a Google search or two on Mr. Kernighan and seem somewhat impressed. "He wrote that book on the C language back at Bell Labs a long time ago, before I was born," said Ms. Piranian, who is all of 18.
What's nice about that is that the new 1.7 P4's will easily overclock to 2.6Ghz+, so you are getting almost a Gig free for just knowing which switches to push.
yeah, jogging while watching a DVD...
:)
I'd pay an entrance fee just to see you do that.
Funny, I thought of it differently. Buring a CD whilst jogging. Maybe record the soothing sound of somebody out of breath running around the park.
Actually, take it another step further, have a DVD-R and RECORD yourself jogging and then watch it afterwards!
*Bad actor mode*
:)
"Yes, I can see the case mods.. now. casserole pc, coke bottle pc, fish tank pc"
Also known as how to whore karma from yesterdays Funny mods
In other news, the latest poll taken by Microsoft Vote(tm) indicates Bill Gates has a 100% lead in the race for president of Earth. It appears many more people are voting now than ever before! When asked for a comment, a Microsoft spokesman simply said "We are just making it easier for people to make a choice"
Besides that, you would have to be a little slow of mind to be inside a fallout shelter WITH a nuclear weapon
That's all part of the Windows (tm) eXPerience.
A large nuclear device is about to explode, would you like some help?
No, you got it wrong!
It's October 20, Game 9: PROFIT!!!
Has anyone heard a DVD-Audio disc? Is the sound really that much better?
Wow this sounds so real! It actually sounds like the cops have arrived at my door to arrest me for my "Illegal" CD-Audio collection that was outlawed back in 2005...
Sorry to be OT but I had to laugh. I thought you said "MicroSatan" at first :)
More to the point, and back on topic, I'd wager many 13 year olds could outcode/outadmin/outplay a few of our so called "IT Professionals" so I wouldnt dismiss these youngsters too quickly.
I seem to recall myself at 13 being quite the computer literate, enthusiastic, imaginative, creative obsessive coder.
Hmm.. I beg to differ.
1. Send Spam
2. Profit
3. Attend Court
4. Hear "you naughty boy" lecture.
5. Pay small % of item no.2 in charges
6. Rinse
7. Repeat
I'm no microsoft fan - BUT
When I first heard of this happening, my first thought was that they arent cracking down because of *what* they are doing, more of because of the methods.
Is the mod chip in fact, a bootleg hacked microsoft bios? Therefore, the claim would not be against anybody modding anything, but in fact a case against a company for distributing microsofts copyrighted code (the bios).
I could be wrong of course - but I bet thats the angle of the lawyers above all others.
Master Yoda says I've been "mouse gestering" my way out of trouble for years.
These are not the files I am looking for
they could always follow this tried and tested plan of action:
:)
1. Make Lindows OS
2. ??????
3. PROFIT!
of course, insert 1.1: bend truth and 1.2: whore free advertising from clueless journalists
Seems as though they have almost completed steps 1 and 3 already
Is XBOX running on windows 2000 :)
The first step in AOL's master plan to reap revenge on microsoft for the windows XP experience?
Looks like obi-wan left his lightsaber on again. :)
Ah crap, monday morning "read what you think you see" kicks in.
:)
score -1 idiot
As for paypal and ebay.. Amazon auctions!
Then what about all of the ad banners that are affiliate based and have been around for ages and ages? Pay per click affiliates?