Ok, that's it. I'm patenting the Incline(tm), the Pulley(tm), the Lever(tm) and the Wheel(tm). Since every complex machine in use today has one or more of them incorporated, I guess I'm due, say, three quarters of the world's GNP.
Glad no one thought of that before me...
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Barbossa: There be a lot of long words in there, miss. We're naught but humble pirates. What is it that you want?
Elizabeth: I want you to leave and never come back.
Barbossa: I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request. Means "no"!
Well, if that's what you're interested in: try this link.
Knowledge in itself is neutral. But it can be used for good or evil purposes. You might want to try, just as an exercise, to imagine five positive and five negative uses of encrypted filesystems or altered MD5 sums.
Over the coming months this may be the Internet's equivalent of shock and awe, the stunning discovery by music fans across America that copyright lawyers can pierce the presumed anonymity of file-sharing, even for computer users hiding behind nicknames such as "hottdude0587" or "bluemonkey13."
Does this mean there will be heavy civilian casualties, lots of property damage an eventually guerilla warfare with nothing much gained?
"This is an iceberg that needs to be hacked at a good bit," Mr. Neumann said, "so this is a step forward."
Isn't that a rather poor choice of words when talking about program code? And is hacking an iceberg permissible under the DMCA?
Are the RIAA limited to legal methods for gathering evidence of filesharing? If so, why not encrypt the packets sent by the programs with something very simple (heck, rot13 might do) and claim that everything transmitted is your own IP?
To prove that you are illegally sharing files, they'd have to defeat the encryption and thereby violate the DMCA. Wouldn't that make all incriminating data inadmissible in court? IANAL, could someone clarify?
I'd rather not choose that one - "kloppen" is German vernacular for "to hit/strike someone", so Herr Knopper might take offense. On the other hand, it does beat the closed source competition...
I concur. I replayed this game again and again and again and _again_. I really (still) like the feel of it - the multiple ways to finish a level, sneaking undetected, going in with guns a-blazing, picking the enemies off one by one... You can choose what weapons to customize, what skills to learn, what bionic improvements to implant; that's incredible freedom. I truly hope they don't ruin it by making the sequel another I.G.I. (the worst game I ever played).
You could check here; they seem to have at least one laser cutter, plus several other 3d-fabricating machines. You can even submit your own CAD-files for jewelry, toys etc.
...even to the extent of completely physically separating the cockpit from the passenger area, with not even a speaker system connecting them (so that terrorists couldn't threaten the pilots by shooting passsengers). It was dismissed because of the dangers of medical or other emergencies that would require the pilots to change course and land asap.
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Quick question:
What happened to the other new TLDs (.aero,.biz,.coop,.museum,.pro,.grumpy and.sneezy)? I don't consciously remember ever seeing one of them - just like I never saw a.name URI. Why introduce all this crap at all if no one uses them? (Oh, and don't bother checking out www.canna.biz. It's already taken...)
I think he's been mentioned before, but he deserves his own top-level entry.
He's not a new author per se, but his books have only recently been re-released; so if you didn't pick them up the first time around, get them now!
Another option is to look up the books of an author you like at Amazon and use the "people who bought this book also bought..." or, as some of my friends and I like to call it, the Insta-Money-Drain(tm) service.
I remember reading this in a.sig once:
The two biggest mistakes of our time are
- to assume that "new" equals good" and
- to assume that "newer" means "better".
Are the people expected to listen to a sound clip from a familiar face and trust it just because they are on TV?
I think that's exactly the point. It's supposed to show how easily the opinion of a non-critical consumer of pictures can be swayed; in the original television reports it went in one direction, in the GNN coverage in the other.
The fact that you noticed that indicates that you, indeed,are not one of those who "accept things blindly" - but IMHO it's these people at which the clip aims: they're supposed to change their opinion radically and only later (realize that they've been had / rationalize that / form their own opinion)...
To quote from A. O. Prickard (tr.), "The `Mundus Jovialis' of Simon Marius," The Observatory 39(1916):
Jupiter is much blamed by the poets on account of his irregular loves. Three maidens are especially mentioned as having been clandestinely courted by Jupiter with success. Io, daughter of the River, Inachus, Callisto of Lycaon, Europa of Agenor. Then there was Ganymede, the handsome son of King Tros, whom Jupiter, having taken the form of an eagle, transported to heaven on his back, as poets fabulously tell . . . . I think, therefore, that I shall not have done amiss if the First is called by me Io, the Second Europa, the Third, on account of its majesty of light, Ganymede, the Fourth Callisto . . . .
This fancy, and the particular names given, were suggested to me by Kepler, Imperial Astronomer, when we met at Ratisbon fair in October 1613. So if, as a jest, and in memory of our friendship then begun, I hail him as joint father of these four stars, again I shall not be doing wrong.
He's got a lot to learn. It would have been much more effective cover if he'd typed it like this:
D0N7 S3LL 0UT T0 TH0S3 M1LL10N41R D00DZ!
Doesn't he get enough Spam to know how to get attention?
Not to be nitpicking...
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To quote:
Whoever came up with that joke definitely doesn't know geeks, or he'd know that they most certainly do appreciate the opposite sex and that that programmer
would have been all over the frog in a second.
I personally would still prefer a human girl, but tastes may vary...
That's why people buy cars for their internal values, not some glitzy design! And why interior designers just love this beautiful shade of beige that you see so often outside of computer rooms!
Kidding aside, I happen to think that design is, while not the most important consideration, at least worth a thought for a tool I'm going to work with every day for a couple of hours... And the fact that I can show off my individualism and 1337 electronics skillz with adding the odd LCD or LED-fader doesn't hurt:)
To return to the topic, IMHO a computer I like to work with is a better computer than one that hurts my eyes when I look at it.
Berman represents California's San Fernando Valley, adjacent to Los Angeles and Hollywood's cluster of entertainment firms, and is viewed as likely to keep his job in next month's elections.
I'm just a stupid European, but can't you guys just vote him off or something? If not, why not?
Just curious...
...he pointed out that publicly posting bug fixes often prompted attacks. "The hacker waits till a fix is posted, then writes an attack and sends it out," he said. Such attacks are based on information in the fix.
Or, in other words, "we can't even get our fixes right".
It's called the "interlingua" approach...
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I'm majoring in computer linguistics, and currently we're examining different computer translation models; the one you're suggesting is called the interlingua approach. The idea is, basically, that you need an "in-betweener" language that can carry all the meaning and connotations of both source and target language. Then you only need translations rules for both sets and then let it run. The main drawback is that you always have some loss in both translation steps, which sometimes adds up to quite a difference in meaning. The main advantage is that you can modularize - once you have a working English-to-Interlingua module, you can use Interlingua-to-French, Interlingua-to-German, what have you.
For further information, google for interlingua "machine translation"...
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When did "i don't see it that way" become "Absolutely Wrong"?
When "You're either with us or with the terrorists" became your new foundation for diplomacy?
I'm waiting to see if this comment gets modded "Insightful" or "Funny"...
Ok, that's it. I'm patenting the Incline(tm), the Pulley(tm), the Lever(tm) and the Wheel(tm). Since every complex machine in use today has one or more of them incorporated, I guess I'm due, say, three quarters of the world's GNP.
Glad no one thought of that before me...
Barbossa: There be a lot of long words in there, miss. We're naught but humble pirates. What is it that you want?
Elizabeth: I want you to leave and never come back.
Barbossa: I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request. Means "no"!
Well, if that's what you're interested in: try this link.
Knowledge in itself is neutral. But it can be used for good or evil purposes. You might want to try, just as an exercise, to imagine five positive and five negative uses of encrypted filesystems or altered MD5 sums.
Over the coming months this may be the Internet's equivalent of shock and awe, the stunning discovery by music fans across America that copyright lawyers can pierce the presumed anonymity of file-sharing, even for computer users hiding behind nicknames such as "hottdude0587" or "bluemonkey13."
Does this mean there will be heavy civilian casualties, lots of property damage an eventually guerilla warfare with nothing much gained?
"This is an iceberg that needs to be hacked at a good bit," Mr. Neumann said, "so this is a step forward."
Isn't that a rather poor choice of words when talking about program code? And is hacking an iceberg permissible under the DMCA?
Are the RIAA limited to legal methods for gathering evidence of filesharing? If so, why not encrypt the packets sent by the programs with something very simple (heck, rot13 might do) and claim that everything transmitted is your own IP? To prove that you are illegally sharing files, they'd have to defeat the encryption and thereby violate the DMCA. Wouldn't that make all incriminating data inadmissible in court? IANAL, could someone clarify?
I'd rather not choose that one - "kloppen" is German vernacular for "to hit/strike someone", so Herr Knopper might take offense. On the other hand, it does beat the closed source competition...
I concur. I replayed this game again and again and again and _again_. I really (still) like the feel of it - the multiple ways to finish a level, sneaking undetected, going in with guns a-blazing, picking the enemies off one by one... You can choose what weapons to customize, what skills to learn, what bionic improvements to implant; that's incredible freedom. I truly hope they don't ruin it by making the sequel another I.G.I. (the worst game I ever played).
You could check here; they seem to have at least one laser cutter, plus several other 3d-fabricating machines. You can even submit your own CAD-files for jewelry, toys etc.
...even to the extent of completely physically separating the cockpit from the passenger area, with not even a speaker system connecting them (so that terrorists couldn't threaten the pilots by shooting passsengers). It was dismissed because of the dangers of medical or other emergencies that would require the pilots to change course and land asap.
Quick question: .biz, .coop, .museum, .pro, .grumpy and .sneezy)? I don't consciously remember ever seeing one of them - just like I never saw a .name URI. Why introduce all this crap at all if no one uses them?
What happened to the other new TLDs (.aero,
(Oh, and don't bother checking out www.canna.biz. It's already taken...)
...in such pesky little cases as United Nation votes on the legitimization of certain wars against certain oil-producing countries.
"Germany has been a problem, and France has been a problem," said Rumsfeld, a former NATO ambassador. And what a shitstorm it caused over here - did you get any feedback on that in the US at all?
I think he's been mentioned before, but he deserves his own top-level entry.
He's not a new author per se, but his books have only recently been re-released; so if you didn't pick them up the first time around, get them now!
Another option is to look up the books of an author you like at Amazon and use the "people who bought this book also bought..." or, as some of my friends and I like to call it, the Insta-Money-Drain(tm) service.
I remember reading this in a .sig once:
The two biggest mistakes of our time are
- to assume that "new" equals good" and
- to assume that "newer" means "better".
Think about it!
The fact that you noticed that indicates that you, indeed,are not one of those who "accept things blindly" - but IMHO it's these people at which the clip aims: they're supposed to change their opinion radically and only later (realize that they've been had / rationalize that / form their own opinion)...
He's got a lot to learn. It would have been much more effective cover if he'd typed it like this:
D0N7 S3LL 0UT T0 TH0S3 M1LL10N41R D00DZ!
Doesn't he get enough Spam to know how to get attention?
That's why people buy cars for their internal values, not some glitzy design! And why interior designers just love this beautiful shade of beige that you see so often outside of computer rooms! :)
Kidding aside, I happen to think that design is, while not the most important consideration, at least worth a thought for a tool I'm going to work with every day for a couple of hours... And the fact that I can show off my individualism and 1337 electronics skillz with adding the odd LCD or LED-fader doesn't hurt
To return to the topic, IMHO a computer I like to work with is a better computer than one that hurts my eyes when I look at it.
I'm majoring in computer linguistics, and currently we're examining different computer translation models; the one you're suggesting is called the interlingua approach.
The idea is, basically, that you need an "in-betweener" language that can carry all the meaning and connotations of both source and target language. Then you only need translations rules for both sets and then let it run.
The main drawback is that you always have some loss in both translation steps, which sometimes adds up to quite a difference in meaning. The main advantage is that you can modularize - once you have a working English-to-Interlingua module, you can use Interlingua-to-French, Interlingua-to-German, what have you. For further information, google for interlingua "machine translation"...