It is not impossible - You can transcen them by recognizing that there are no real laws. Transcendence means stepping out of a system. And if you recognize that the laws of nature are really the laws of man, and that nature has no laws, then you've transcended them.
My friend and I, who are both graduated from CS in 96 and have been working ever since, took two days to search our memories for a female programmer that we knew. I think we are in the company of construction workers and male strippers when it comes to ratios...
Perhaps doing something repugnant to your core in order to stay alive is not worth it. Life is already innevitably over in a short period of time. Why wrack the rest of your time alive with massive guilt because you were forced at gunpoint to massacre others?
The majority of the comments have been about the whats and hows of the subscription. I have no problem with a subscription model, but it seems to me that this new "feature" is more in the spirit of Microsoft's preferred customer preview program rather than the open source model of "release early, release often".
Subscription services should be an icing on the cake such as extra features or a separate server or something. But this service is giving preferential access to the meat of the site, being the content itself. Big mistake... Maybe this should change it's name to "backslash.COM"
You = Karma Whore. All you've done is regurgitate the highlights of every major news article on OLEDs. But thanks for updating those who haven't heard about the technology.
I'm sure Rockstar knows what they have on their hands. The story is nice with GTA3, but the engine is also just as important in it's success. Expect an extremely explorable GTA3 type universe, except set 150 years in the future with crazy weapons, floating cities, flying cars, moon bases, etc. Ohhh, I can't wait for such a game!!! Hey, do you all remember Mean Streets (one of the first VGA games, it was awesome!). That would be a great game to remake with the GTA engine...
I'm not sure where you are from, but in New York City, a large percentage (~30) of ads on the _public_ subway are for liquor and beer. How are government agencies conscientiously going to go after cigarette companies for advertising to youths, when they are selling publicly owned space used by children to liquor manufacturers?
The term "open mind" is seriously abused. It can be used properly when you have multiple alternatives and don't know much about any of them. But if you KNOW enough about an alternative and know that it is not what you want, then you can exclude it and still have an "open mind".
We KNOW that Microsoft is against Open Source, so what is there to keep an "open mind" about?
The mesh idea is a wonderful concept and something I hope for in the future, but has a number of problems yet to be solved:
* A way to guarantee high quality of service from one side of the globe to another, or even one US state to another.
Who is going to lay down the pipes across the ocean and across the desert? And even if some benevolent souls on the edges of civilization decide to donate long distance pipes, will they be large enough to handle all that multiplexed traffic?
* Manufacturers of Internet equipment and standards committees working together towards this goal.
Decentralization could potentially kill off markets, so what incentive do manufacturers have for designing protocols and building equipment for distributed routing?
* Technological barriers
How would this be implemented? I'm sure there has probably been research done on distributed routing and name lookup services, but will it work at a large scale? And would it be reliable?
* Adoption
With cable, DSL, and wireless, you give someone some money, and all of a sudden you have a connection. With a distributed system, you would need to coordinate with your neighbors, since you can't rely on a company to keep things running. A possible solution would be that companies could be highered to organize and setup a neighborhood network, and then be hands off after that, except for maintanence and upgrades.
Anyway, I hope that the work is done to make this feasible, and that people could be convinced to join a distributed network and get off the "feed".
"you are a human version of the comment 'tail -1'"
Sounds like an insult.
"these works... stand on their own. Obviously, you do not."
Sounds like an insult.
And back to my original comment:
"I wouldn't be surprised if Slashdot is getting a kickback from the group selling the DVDs to post this story."
I never claimed that you paid Slashdot. Only that I wouldn't be surprised if you did. As clarified by my next reply, it's commentary on the state of this site, not accusation towards yourself.
Anyway, don't reply to this. This is wasting both of our time.
You resorted to insulting me twice. I'm sorry that you feel that you need to go there to get your point across.
Anyway, it appears that you and I have different opinions on what is art, and also on what we find entertaining in demos. I think I am in the minority on Slashdot here, hence my "troll" status.
Of course, this is a community that loves to send pictures of gaping assholes to each other and pontificate on when technology will allow one to build himself a girlfriend, so I don't feel too bad about not fitting in.
Many films from the 1930's had great stories, so they transcended the medium. They are good stories whether in book, play, film, or other form. With demos, THE MEDIUM IS THE TRANSCENDENT. While some demos had artistic merit, the true artistry is found in the code. If you want real art, go to a museum and see some contemporary multimedia collage. If you want eye candy, check out some recent high-end professional rendering or modern demos on hardware graphics cards. If you want old-school scrape-the-metal-for-all-it's-worth demos, run them on your computer and examine the code to find out how they work.
This is not a troll, and my original message was never intended to be a troll. I admit the "kickback" comment was a little harsh. I'm just a bit jaded by how many stories are pointers to things you can buy.
The center pictured in the article looks the way it does BECAUSE of past descriptions of security centers in popular media. If reporters weren't going to be visiting Symantec's security center, they wouldn't have the big monitor array, the dim lighting, and the fancy rotating "cubes".
I'm not just talking out of my ass - I used to work for the Norton AntiVirus division, and the virus lab only ever had 2 or 3 people in it, but when the reporters came by, 15 of us would all shuffle in and happily type random characters on the keyboard.
They also had a policy of not allowing any media that went into the virus lab to leave, except by a couple of armed guards who had their guns drawn as they took the evil floppies out of the lab. This was all a show for reporters as well...
I agree with the first poster - the main reason that demos were compelling is because of the implicit knowledge of what amazing next-level shit is going on in your computer that shouldn't be capable of doing what it's doing.
If you are going to watch it on video just for the groovy colors, then you might as well get a high quality ray-traced video which will blow this thing away, or download some of the cool-ass winamp plugins that use your ATI or Nvidea chipset.
I wouldn't be surprised if Slashdot is getting a kickback from the group selling the DVDs to post this story.
Excuse me if I sound ignorant, but couldn't the memory be read out using some hardware probe while the XBox has the key in memory? And if the memory is encrypted, couldn't the hardware be modified in some fashion to allow debugging starting right from boot-up, so the hacker can read the key from memory using software techniques? Obviously someone out there understands the XBox architecture pretty well, or else there wouldn't be mod-chips...
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It is not impossible - You can transcen them by recognizing that there are no real laws. Transcendence means stepping out of a system. And if you recognize that the laws of nature are really the laws of man, and that nature has no laws, then you've transcended them.
LS
My friend and I, who are both graduated from CS in 96 and have been working ever since, took two days to search our memories for a female programmer that we knew. I think we are in the company of construction workers and male strippers when it comes to ratios...
LS
Perhaps doing something repugnant to your core in order to stay alive is not worth it. Life is already innevitably over in a short period of time. Why wrack the rest of your time alive with massive guilt because you were forced at gunpoint to massacre others?
People want 3D for a feature called "cool". :)
LS
The majority of the comments have been about the whats and hows of the subscription. I have no problem with a subscription model, but it seems to me that this new "feature" is more in the spirit of Microsoft's preferred customer preview program rather than the open source model of "release early, release often".
Subscription services should be an icing on the cake such as extra features or a separate server or something. But this service is giving preferential access to the meat of the site, being the content itself. Big mistake... Maybe this should change it's name to "backslash.COM"
LS
You = Karma Whore. All you've done is regurgitate the highlights of every major news article on OLEDs. But thanks for updating those who haven't heard about the technology.
I'm sure Rockstar knows what they have on their hands. The story is nice with GTA3, but the engine is also just as important in it's success. Expect an extremely explorable GTA3 type universe, except set 150 years in the future with crazy weapons, floating cities, flying cars, moon bases, etc. Ohhh, I can't wait for such a game!!! Hey, do you all remember Mean Streets (one of the first VGA games, it was awesome!). That would be a great game to remake with the GTA engine...
LS
I'm not sure where you are from, but in New York City, a large percentage (~30) of ads on the _public_ subway are for liquor and beer. How are government agencies conscientiously going to go after cigarette companies for advertising to youths, when they are selling publicly owned space used by children to liquor manufacturers?
Pure hypocrisy.
LS
The term "open mind" is seriously abused. It can be used properly when you have multiple alternatives and don't know much about any of them. But if you KNOW enough about an alternative and know that it is not what you want, then you can exclude it and still have an "open mind".
We KNOW that Microsoft is against Open Source, so what is there to keep an "open mind" about?
LS
It looks like skin is shiny in the terrahertz spectrum...
In the same sense as the woman, I'm sure you can be considered "perfect".
LS
Hey married person,
Democracy and Communism are two sides of the same illusory Realpolitik coin.
You are in space right now - just a section of space that happens to have a lot of atoms nearby.
The game is diplomacy (read: conquest).
LS
The mesh idea is a wonderful concept and something I hope for in the future, but has a number of problems yet to be solved:
* A way to guarantee high quality of service from one side of the globe to another, or even one US state to another.
Who is going to lay down the pipes across the ocean and across the desert? And even if some benevolent souls on the edges of civilization decide to donate long distance pipes, will they be large enough to handle all that multiplexed traffic?
* Manufacturers of Internet equipment and standards committees working together towards this goal.
Decentralization could potentially kill off markets, so what incentive do manufacturers have for designing protocols and building equipment for distributed routing?
* Technological barriers
How would this be implemented? I'm sure there has probably been research done on distributed routing and name lookup services, but will it work at a large scale? And would it be reliable?
* Adoption
With cable, DSL, and wireless, you give someone some money, and all of a sudden you have a connection. With a distributed system, you would need to coordinate with your neighbors, since you can't rely on a company to keep things running. A possible solution would be that companies could be highered to organize and setup a neighborhood network, and then be hands off after that, except for maintanence and upgrades.
Anyway, I hope that the work is done to make this feasible, and that people could be convinced to join a distributed network and get off the "feed".
LS
You are quite clever, son. Have you ever thought of procuring and internship with Dean Kamen?
Hmm, I don't know why I continue this. Let's see:
... stand on their own. Obviously, you do not."
"you are a human version of the comment 'tail -1'"
Sounds like an insult.
"these works
Sounds like an insult.
And back to my original comment:
"I wouldn't be surprised if Slashdot is getting a kickback from the group selling the DVDs to post this story."
I never claimed that you paid Slashdot. Only that I wouldn't be surprised if you did. As clarified by my next reply, it's commentary on the state of this site, not accusation towards yourself.
Anyway, don't reply to this. This is wasting both of our time.
LS
Ok,
You resorted to insulting me twice. I'm sorry that you feel that you need to go there to get your point across.
Anyway, it appears that you and I have different opinions on what is art, and also on what we find entertaining in demos. I think I am in the minority on Slashdot here, hence my "troll" status.
Of course, this is a community that loves to send pictures of gaping assholes to each other and pontificate on when technology will allow one to build himself a girlfriend, so I don't feel too bad about not fitting in.
Bye.
Exactly, that's my point:
Many films from the 1930's had great stories, so they transcended the medium. They are good stories whether in book, play, film, or other form. With demos, THE MEDIUM IS THE TRANSCENDENT. While some demos had artistic merit, the true artistry is found in the code. If you want real art, go to a museum and see some contemporary multimedia collage. If you want eye candy, check out some recent high-end professional rendering or modern demos on hardware graphics cards. If you want old-school scrape-the-metal-for-all-it's-worth demos, run them on your computer and examine the code to find out how they work.
This is not a troll, and my original message was never intended to be a troll. I admit the "kickback" comment was a little harsh. I'm just a bit jaded by how many stories are pointers to things you can buy.
LS
The center pictured in the article looks the way it does BECAUSE of past descriptions of security centers in popular media. If reporters weren't going to be visiting Symantec's security center, they wouldn't have the big monitor array, the dim lighting, and the fancy rotating "cubes".
I'm not just talking out of my ass - I used to work for the Norton AntiVirus division, and the virus lab only ever had 2 or 3 people in it, but when the reporters came by, 15 of us would all shuffle in and happily type random characters on the keyboard.
They also had a policy of not allowing any media that went into the virus lab to leave, except by a couple of armed guards who had their guns drawn as they took the evil floppies out of the lab. This was all a show for reporters as well...
LS
This isn't a satisfying answer.
I agree with the first poster - the main reason that demos were compelling is because of the implicit knowledge of what amazing next-level shit is going on in your computer that shouldn't be capable of doing what it's doing.
If you are going to watch it on video just for the groovy colors, then you might as well get a high quality ray-traced video which will blow this thing away, or download some of the cool-ass winamp plugins that use your ATI or Nvidea chipset.
I wouldn't be surprised if Slashdot is getting a kickback from the group selling the DVDs to post this story.
LS
Everyone,
The source for this thing is not available. Thus, this is nothing more than some jpegs of a circuit board to you.
As you can tell from the poll, the guy is interested in selling the device and NOT releasing the code if enough people are interested...
LS
Excuse me if I sound ignorant, but couldn't the memory be read out using some hardware probe while the XBox has the key in memory? And if the memory is encrypted, couldn't the hardware be modified in some fashion to allow debugging starting right from boot-up, so the hacker can read the key from memory using software techniques? Obviously someone out there understands the XBox architecture pretty well, or else there wouldn't be mod-chips...
LS
I rarely laugh uncontrollably at a post on Slashdot, and this is one of those posts. I don't know why, but the second paragraph has me busting up.
It could of been a joke, like Internet Exploiter or Nutscrape 6.
Hmm, probably not.
Your idea is noble, but do realize that this is like asking cow farmers to become vegetarians.
LS
God, I just had an epiphany - Speaking of geekiness, it is SO friggin geeky to rate someone's thoughts as "funny +5".
hahaha