Because the Chinese government aren't exactly great at the whole freedom of speech thing.
Because they've been imprisoning Falun Gong members for years now.
Because Falun Gong feel that they have no way of expressing their views to the population.
Saying that, this isn't exactly a clever thing to do. I can't imagine the Government are going to take it very well. Of course, unless the government are doing it themselves to discredit Falun Gong, but that's getting a bit Ollie Stone for me...
I am trying to say that if an article is posted, and that this could cause/. a legal problem (as a previous poster stated), not only should the post be modded down but ANY MODERATORS WHO MODDED IT UP SHOULD ALSO BE PENALIZED. This stops people from posting things that could cause/. a problem. I've been on here for a while and I've constantly seen articles posted as text. If it is wrong, not only the original poster but the moderators who constantly mod things up need to be shown the errors of their ways.
This is my point. Maybe I didn't make that clear in my original post (I should drink more coffee), but I thought I made it clear last post.
"Metamoderation is a second layer of moderation. It seeks to address the issue of unfair moderators by letting "metamoderators" (any logged-in Slashdotter) "rate the rating" of ten randomly selected comment posts. The metamoderator decides if the moderator's rating was fair, unfair, or neither." This is from the/. FAQ.
An example. I post an article. Some people mod it up. This moderation is incorrect, because doing this can be a legally thorny issue. Therefore some metamoderators should mod it back down. Does that make sense? Of course, other moderators could mod it back down again, but that does not change the fact that the original post was modded incorrectly to start with.
As for using my keyboard "thingy", at least I know how to use capital letters. And punctuation.
Another problem for standard antibiotics (and antibacterials) is biofilms. These are formed by bacteria as a protective film, that antibiotics and other compounds, such as bleach, cannot easily penetrate. Here's two articles:
What's even worse is that separate colonies of bacteria, each in their own biofilms, appear to be able to communicate to each other regarding threats. Across small distances of course, I'm not saying they've got mobile phones or anything...
Exactly. My post was moderated. I was suggesting that this (moderated) post should be further moderated (metamoderated) if there is a legal issue involved, as one poster claimed.
This is my point. I thought about it. I read it again. It still made sense.
And now the original post has been modded down to -1. Damn my precious karma!
Hey, I posted it so that people don't have to get annoyed with pop-ups and other crap from that site. Since it's a flat text article (no pics, no links to speak of) it works pretty well.
Don't like it? Don't read it. Move your eyes down the page. Move along now, nothing to see here...
Ok, shameless Karma whoring but hey. One comment though...an article about Dr Who and then one about Star Wars style holograms? How geeky is that? Surprised there's no mention of open source on either...Anyhoo, here's the article:
Are Holograms Finally for Real? By: David H. Freedman Issue: July 2002
This staple of sci-fi is starting to live up to its billing, and its potential in the workplace is anything but an illusion.
In the months leading up to the debut of the new Ford Thunderbird last fall, the car's four-person design crew was asked to show its most recent tweaks to company executives. So it did what any auto-design team does: It hauled its latest prototype out to the center of a conference room for a group "walkaround." There, managers cooed over the slick coupe's rakish lines from every imaginable angle.
But "prototype," in this case, might be the biggest understatement in automotive history. What the designers and executives were in fact viewing was a computer-generated hologram -- hovering slightly off the floor -- that not only rendered the T-bird in perfect 3-D but also provided different views as observers moved around it, as if it were really there.
Such startlingly lifelike projections are so compelling a technology -- as we saw when R2-D2 emitted his "Help me, Obi-Wan" hologram of Princess Leia 25 years ago in the original Star Wars -- that it's difficult to imagine a future in which they're not ubiquitous. It's the present that's the problem. Until now, holograms have been little more than second-rate gimmicks, thanks to the fact that holographically creating anything more than small, washed-out images has proved exceedingly expensive and time-consuming. But that's about to change. Zebra Imaging, a six-year-old startup in Austin that created the Thunderbird holograms (as well as another for the P2000, one of Ford's experimental hydrogen-powered vehicles), is but one of several companies refining new techniques for producing life-size holograms on the fly, using both real and computer-generated images.
In conventional holography, whose uses to date have been limited to things like novelty art and anticounterfeit decals on CD jewel cases, a laser beam is split in two, with one section shining directly at a large sheet of film and the other bouncing off the object in question before being rejoined with the first. On the film, the overlapping beams etch patterns that contain enough information to render the entire image as seen from different angles. When you look at the developed film, each of your eyes sees a slightly different view of the image, providing the flawless 3-D illusion, and walking or moving your head to the side offers a side view, exactly as it would if the object were real.
Zebra's new technique is similar but uses a digital image in place of the physical object. Its computers convert a standard graphics file into a pattern displayed on a large, translucent LCD screen. A laser then fires three different-colored beams through the screen. When the beams converge and hit a special film that can be quickly developed with ultraviolet light and heat, the image emerges in startlingly realistic 3-D detail.
Such breakthroughs portend a wide array of new business applications, at least if Zebra's ever-expanding client roster is any indication. Customers include Boeing (BA), Exxon (XOM), and Ford (F), not to mention the Bob Marley Museum in Kingston, Jamaica, which recently bought a life-size hologram of the legendary reggae king. Mark Holzbach, the company's co-founder and chief technical officer, ticks off a handful of projects already in the works: holograms for product design (à la the Thunderbird), oil and gas exploration (modeling rock layers and fissures a mile below ground), jetliner navigation (making mountains visible through clouds), and even advertising (festooning brochures, billboards, and store windows with eye-popping 3-D imagery).
Alton Parrish, an analyst at technology consulting firm Business Communications in Norwalk, Conn., predicts that design applications alone will create a $100 million market for the sort of holograms Zebra can now produce, and that the overall market for high-quality holography will eventually approach $1 billion. "If the manufacturing design industry can get access to high-quality, fast holographic imaging," he says, "it's likely to adopt the technology." That's not as big an understatement as calling Zebra's T-bird a prototype, perhaps, but it's an understatement nonetheless.
Sorry pal, but I live in Europe, and we see things about Elizabeth Smart every day. Never heard of Alexis Patterson. First time the story came up on the screens at work (we watch CNBC Europe), I said "Why's this girl on?" and the answer, from the white, rich Americans I work with, was "Hey, she's rich and good looking. Stupid, huh? Sad story though."
The same happens here. A good looking rich kid goes missing - tons of coverage. An average looking poor kid - some coverage, mostly local. Only in truly shocking cases will there be massive national coverage no matter what class the poor kid is. The Bulger case is the best example of this.
Luigi's Mansion? Pikmin? Super Monkey Ball? Sonic Adventure 2?
Now I'm sure they are all great games, but I got a bit tired of platform games years back. A couple of more mature titles don't swing it for me. Got a beef with that?
Well, this is planned for 2004-5, so by that time the X-Box will probably have been pushed fairly far. Console lifecycles are something like 3 years so this makes perfect business sense. There's nothing particularily revolutionary in the Freon's vapourware specs.
Not so keen on the Gamecube myself, it's a bit too kiddy for my tastes, but hey, each to their own. Gonna stick with my PS2 until the next gen comes along.
If Doom3 can capture the creeping skin horrorflick feel of Dooms 1 and 2 (btw, Doom still scares me playing it on the Gameboy Advance), then I'll be more than happy to shell out on a PC upgrade.
Hasn't every tech company ever done this? It's called progress. Sure, the PS2 can play most PSOne games, but why play Gran Turismo when GT3 is out? Why play Grand Theft Auto when there's GTA3?
Or are you hoping that you can play Doom3 on your 486?
You ever heard that Bill Hicks routine, where he talks about going to the video store to rent "All Anal Action 50" and a siren goes off, and all the staff shout "Congratulations for renting your millionth porn video! You worked your way through All Anal Action volumes one through fifty!". He then goes "Man, I looked at what I'd been renting over the past few years. It's scary. It's porn and video games. What am I, thirteen? Last weekend I rented Clam Lappers Vol 26 and Sonic The Hedgehog. It was Easter weekend. What a way to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus."
Isn't this a problem with X itself, rather than the GUI?
This is one of those things that will keep Linux from the average user's desktops until it gets resolved. People love being able to paste stuff willy-nilly in Windows. Hey, Windows might be full of holes but at least it's easy to use.
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Well, Iraq and Libya both tried this method but didn't get very far. There's a big difference between learning about fission at university and learning what you need to make a bomb. My old Nuclear Physics lecturer told me about two "Middle Eastern" guys in the 80's who kept asking him odd questions. He reported them to the authorities...and the two students disappeared.
All true, but Exchange is a very different beast to all the other mail packages. Hate to say it, but it's actually rather good and can be considered MS's killer app in the corporate world. Try using Outlook/Exchange then Lotus Notes and you'll see what I mean.
But to reiterate the earlier point, MS never has been and never needs to be an out-and-out innovator. It usually buys in the software it needs - what's the shame in that? When it does write new things itself it generally ballses it up the first time, until they get it right. Anyone who used the first version of Plug and Play in Win 95 and then used it in 98 will know what I mean here.
(Oh, and Apple "stole" the idea of using Windows and a mouse from Xerox, so they aren't quite as innovative as people think. The underlying OS is very different too.)
But not as good as the Chuckie Egg style game that was hi-res. THAT was astonishing. The problem is these days computers are too damn powerful, and they never get pushed to their limits with solid, clever and innovative coding.
Every programmer should be forced to learn assembly before getting onto C++, Java, VB etc. That would promote decent coding and get rid of 99% of the bad programmers out there.
How do you make planes safer, exactly? Most crashes are due to pilot error, despite many safeguards put in place. The only crashes that occur these days (at least in the western world) are due to previously unknown faults.
The answer could well be yes. Why haven't Apple made any attempt to release Windows software for the iPod? Because it's the iMac's killer app. Or rather, killer bit of hardware.
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Because the Chinese government aren't exactly great at the whole freedom of speech thing.
Because they've been imprisoning Falun Gong members for years now.
Because Falun Gong feel that they have no way of expressing their views to the population.
Saying that, this isn't exactly a clever thing to do. I can't imagine the Government are going to take it very well. Of course, unless the government are doing it themselves to discredit Falun Gong, but that's getting a bit Ollie Stone for me...
Oh for pete's sake. Read what I said.
/. a legal problem (as a previous poster stated), not only should the post be modded down but ANY MODERATORS WHO MODDED IT UP SHOULD ALSO BE PENALIZED. This stops people from posting things that could cause /. a problem. I've been on here for a while and I've constantly seen articles posted as text. If it is wrong, not only the original poster but the moderators who constantly mod things up need to be shown the errors of their ways.
I am trying to say that if an article is posted, and that this could cause
This is my point. Maybe I didn't make that clear in my original post (I should drink more coffee), but I thought I made it clear last post.
Sigh.
Oh I don't know:
/. FAQ.
"Metamoderation is a second layer of moderation. It seeks to address the issue of unfair moderators by letting "metamoderators" (any logged-in Slashdotter) "rate the rating" of ten randomly selected comment posts. The metamoderator decides if the moderator's rating was fair, unfair, or neither." This is from the
An example. I post an article. Some people mod it up. This moderation is incorrect, because doing this can be a legally thorny issue. Therefore some metamoderators should mod it back down. Does that make sense? Of course, other moderators could mod it back down again, but that does not change the fact that the original post was modded incorrectly to start with.
As for using my keyboard "thingy", at least I know how to use capital letters. And punctuation.
Another problem for standard antibiotics (and antibacterials) is biofilms. These are formed by bacteria as a protective film, that antibiotics and other compounds, such as bleach, cannot easily penetrate. Here's two articles:
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http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/Courses/biomi2
http://www.edstrom.com/Lab/WaterQualityBulletin
What's even worse is that separate colonies of bacteria, each in their own biofilms, appear to be able to communicate to each other regarding threats. Across small distances of course, I'm not saying they've got mobile phones or anything...
Exactly. My post was moderated. I was suggesting that this (moderated) post should be further moderated (metamoderated) if there is a legal issue involved, as one poster claimed.
This is my point. I thought about it. I read it again. It still made sense.
And now the original post has been modded down to -1. Damn my precious karma!
Fair point. Lawyers suck. But if this is the case (there is a legal issue in posting whole articles), why isn't a post metamoderated down to hell?
Hey, I posted it so that people don't have to get annoyed with pop-ups and other crap from that site. Since it's a flat text article (no pics, no links to speak of) it works pretty well.
Don't like it? Don't read it. Move your eyes down the page. Move along now, nothing to see here...
Ok, shameless Karma whoring but hey. One comment though...an article about Dr Who and then one about Star Wars style holograms? How geeky is that? Surprised there's no mention of open source on either...Anyhoo, here's the article:
Are Holograms Finally for Real?
By: David H. Freedman
Issue: July 2002
This staple of sci-fi is starting to live up to its billing, and its potential in the workplace is anything but an illusion.
In the months leading up to the debut of the new Ford Thunderbird last fall, the car's four-person design crew was asked to show its most recent tweaks to company executives. So it did what any auto-design team does: It hauled its latest prototype out to the center of a conference room for a group "walkaround." There, managers cooed over the slick coupe's rakish lines from every imaginable angle.
But "prototype," in this case, might be the biggest understatement in automotive history. What the designers and executives were in fact viewing was a computer-generated hologram -- hovering slightly off the floor -- that not only rendered the T-bird in perfect 3-D but also provided different views as observers moved around it, as if it were really there.
Such startlingly lifelike projections are so compelling a technology -- as we saw when R2-D2 emitted his "Help me, Obi-Wan" hologram of Princess Leia 25 years ago in the original Star Wars -- that it's difficult to imagine a future in which they're not ubiquitous. It's the present that's the problem. Until now, holograms have been little more than second-rate gimmicks, thanks to the fact that holographically creating anything more than small, washed-out images has proved exceedingly expensive and time-consuming. But that's about to change. Zebra Imaging, a six-year-old startup in Austin that created the Thunderbird holograms (as well as another for the P2000, one of Ford's experimental hydrogen-powered vehicles), is but one of several companies refining new techniques for producing life-size holograms on the fly, using both real and computer-generated images.
In conventional holography, whose uses to date have been limited to things like novelty art and anticounterfeit decals on CD jewel cases, a laser beam is split in two, with one section shining directly at a large sheet of film and the other bouncing off the object in question before being rejoined with the first. On the film, the overlapping beams etch patterns that contain enough information to render the entire image as seen from different angles. When you look at the developed film, each of your eyes sees a slightly different view of the image, providing the flawless 3-D illusion, and walking or moving your head to the side offers a side view, exactly as it would if the object were real.
Zebra's new technique is similar but uses a digital image in place of the physical object. Its computers convert a standard graphics file into a pattern displayed on a large, translucent LCD screen. A laser then fires three different-colored beams through the screen. When the beams converge and hit a special film that can be quickly developed with ultraviolet light and heat, the image emerges in startlingly realistic 3-D detail.
Such breakthroughs portend a wide array of new business applications, at least if Zebra's ever-expanding client roster is any indication. Customers include Boeing (BA), Exxon (XOM), and Ford (F), not to mention the Bob Marley Museum in Kingston, Jamaica, which recently bought a life-size hologram of the legendary reggae king. Mark Holzbach, the company's co-founder and chief technical officer, ticks off a handful of projects already in the works: holograms for product design (à la the Thunderbird), oil and gas exploration (modeling rock layers and fissures a mile below ground), jetliner navigation (making mountains visible through clouds), and even advertising (festooning brochures, billboards, and store windows with eye-popping 3-D imagery).
Alton Parrish, an analyst at technology consulting firm Business Communications in Norwalk, Conn., predicts that design applications alone will create a $100 million market for the sort of holograms Zebra can now produce, and that the overall market for high-quality holography will eventually approach $1 billion. "If the manufacturing design industry can get access to high-quality, fast holographic imaging," he says, "it's likely to adopt the technology." That's not as big an understatement as calling Zebra's T-bird a prototype, perhaps, but it's an understatement nonetheless.
Sorry pal, but I live in Europe, and we see things about Elizabeth Smart every day. Never heard of Alexis Patterson. First time the story came up on the screens at work (we watch CNBC Europe), I said "Why's this girl on?" and the answer, from the white, rich Americans I work with, was "Hey, she's rich and good looking. Stupid, huh? Sad story though."
The same happens here. A good looking rich kid goes missing - tons of coverage. An average looking poor kid - some coverage, mostly local. Only in truly shocking cases will there be massive national coverage no matter what class the poor kid is. The Bulger case is the best example of this.
Luigi's Mansion? Pikmin? Super Monkey Ball? Sonic Adventure 2?
Now I'm sure they are all great games, but I got a bit tired of platform games years back. A couple of more mature titles don't swing it for me. Got a beef with that?
Not at all, old chap. Been playing games for >20 years. Left puberty behind many years ago.
And now hangovers last two days.
I'm just not so keen on the Mario style games. Anything wrong with that, AC?
Well, this is planned for 2004-5, so by that time the X-Box will probably have been pushed fairly far. Console lifecycles are something like 3 years so this makes perfect business sense. There's nothing particularily revolutionary in the Freon's vapourware specs.
Not so keen on the Gamecube myself, it's a bit too kiddy for my tastes, but hey, each to their own. Gonna stick with my PS2 until the next gen comes along.
If Doom3 can capture the creeping skin horrorflick feel of Dooms 1 and 2 (btw, Doom still scares me playing it on the Gameboy Advance), then I'll be more than happy to shell out on a PC upgrade.
What?
Hasn't every tech company ever done this? It's called progress. Sure, the PS2 can play most PSOne games, but why play Gran Turismo when GT3 is out? Why play Grand Theft Auto when there's GTA3?
Or are you hoping that you can play Doom3 on your 486?
Nah, but I've still got a 10Mb drive hanging around somewhere. 10Mb! TEN!
Hard drive capacity is the only time when geeks will say "My one is smaller than yours".
You ever heard that Bill Hicks routine, where he talks about going to the video store to rent "All Anal Action 50" and a siren goes off, and all the staff shout "Congratulations for renting your millionth porn video! You worked your way through All Anal Action volumes one through fifty!". He then goes "Man, I looked at what I'd been renting over the past few years. It's scary. It's porn and video games. What am I, thirteen? Last weekend I rented Clam Lappers Vol 26 and Sonic The Hedgehog. It was Easter weekend. What a way to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus."
(from Arizona Bay)
The man was a genius.
...So there's gotta be some one-armed bandits down there.
Were the bums playing craps?
Man, I can't believe I said that...
Isn't this a problem with X itself, rather than the GUI?
This is one of those things that will keep Linux from the average user's desktops until it gets resolved. People love being able to paste stuff willy-nilly in Windows. Hey, Windows might be full of holes but at least it's easy to use.
Well, Iraq and Libya both tried this method but didn't get very far. There's a big difference between learning about fission at university and learning what you need to make a bomb. My old Nuclear Physics lecturer told me about two "Middle Eastern" guys in the 80's who kept asking him odd questions. He reported them to the authorities...and the two students disappeared.
There have been cyber attacks going on for years. How else can you explain AOL?
You're right. I had that srange feeling whilst writing it and it was too early to go traipsing around Google.
That, and I didn't even check my spelling. Really should drink coffee before posting...
All true, but Exchange is a very different beast to all the other mail packages. Hate to say it, but it's actually rather good and can be considered MS's killer app in the corporate world. Try using Outlook/Exchange then Lotus Notes and you'll see what I mean.
But to reiterate the earlier point, MS never has been and never needs to be an out-and-out innovator. It usually buys in the software it needs - what's the shame in that? When it does write new things itself it generally ballses it up the first time, until they get it right. Anyone who used the first version of Plug and Play in Win 95 and then used it in 98 will know what I mean here.
(Oh, and Apple "stole" the idea of using Windows and a mouse from Xerox, so they aren't quite as innovative as people think. The underlying OS is very different too.)
That was damn amazing.
But not as good as the Chuckie Egg style game that was hi-res. THAT was astonishing. The problem is these days computers are too damn powerful, and they never get pushed to their limits with solid, clever and innovative coding.
Every programmer should be forced to learn assembly before getting onto C++, Java, VB etc. That would promote decent coding and get rid of 99% of the bad programmers out there.
How do you make planes safer, exactly? Most crashes are due to pilot error, despite many safeguards put in place. The only crashes that occur these days (at least in the western world) are due to previously unknown faults.
Cars, now that's a different story.
Isn't Gary Gilmore a serial killer? (or rather was, he was executer - hence the Sham 69 song "Gary Gilmore's eyes").
The answer could well be yes. Why haven't Apple made any attempt to release Windows software for the iPod? Because it's the iMac's killer app. Or rather, killer bit of hardware.
It's called a USP. And it's worked so far.