Anyone else notice a weird pattern with Doom 1, 2, 3... Quake 1, 2, 3... and Halo 1, 2, 3? The third one is the one that has the features the other 2 really should have, and yet all three basically peter out when the next new crazy fps comes out. How long will Halo 3 hang on until the next fps title eclipses it (but with way crappier features, like from Quake 3 -> Halo 1)? Just a thought.
Should read: "12-year old takes credit for his father's entrepreneurship and garners headlines for his father's company, father rewards extra publicity with new ferrari which kid will subsequently wreck during driver's ed"
Maybe it's cheaper to not bother with security education initiatives, because the people who are going to commit security fraud won't change their minds knowing that it's wrong -- they already know it's wrong. The people who unwittingly violate security probably wouldn't be able to regularly practice the secure workaround, thus exposing the same security holes as always, just less frequently exposing them.
Why not just sell me a sandwich and 3 single download credits for $6? At least then I get something I can use, instead of a piece of plastic containing an exact, permanent copy of data that curiously, I'm permanently not allowed to copy.
The only thing stopping droves from converting to linux from those live CD's is an easy network setup wizard that figures out your NDISwrapper settings and gets you connected. If that worked as easy "click, wait, prompt for passwords, connected" I'd be switched right now.
Apparently, they must not have seen anything good, because there are no pics in the article... I don't know why they'd run an article about some awesome new telescope -- without the most important feature of any telescope -- a picture of what it can see.
Now all they have to do is find the other 99 billion rebates that never got sent out... I know I only ever got about 1 rebate that I sent in, and it was some Microsoft legal one that if they didn't send it to me, I think got to sue them.
Is there a dual-mode db, that lets you create a row-based or column-based "table"? I imagine cross-mode queries would kill performance, but at least you could have a system front-loaded with row tables, where data comes in, and then archive this data over time into the column-based tables, so that reads were fast.
That is the most awesome thing ever. But the important questions remain: how about x-ray mode? I guess you could simulate it with some clever color-correction and "find edges" algorithms. I suppose we can look forward to 3 years' worth of music videos filmed with this thing, if not ASCII John Wayne Movie night on Adult Swim or something similar.
#0. If to "make available" is infringement, then isn't the original selling to me of a DVD infringement too? That's "making available" a copy that people can pirate, right? If you don't want people to make copies of digital media, why are you selling me a physical copy of the digital media with which I can make copies? Can't you just charge more for movie tickets, stop selling DVD's, and only sell tickets for download to DVR, etc? If you sell me a DVD, what do I own precisely? If you still own the content on the DVD, why are you selling me a copy of it? Aren't you in a sense "pirating" it by selling it to me?
I can't imagine if one of these went off in say, northern El Cajon California. There would probably be a huge brush fire at least, all it takes is one spark to hit that bone-dry foliage. Does anyone know if these batteries are installed all over or just in TX?
TV is literally doing now what Andy Kaufman joked about... they slowly turn the volume down during the program, then as soon as the commercials come on, they boost it to as loud as it will go. I've noticed myself turning up and then way down on a regular basis, even with DVR I can't always cut off the commercials perfectly.
Or, you could have a killer video update from the beach, the whole wall of your apartment could look like you were standing at the edge of the water. DO want!
If you have a great game, it really doesn't matter what the rating is. Anyone would go and buy the game, even if you had to order it online, or pick it up at the local tiny computer store rather than wal-mart. This is how games like Doom got going; I remember seeing Doom, wolfenstein 3d, etc. for sale in random places when no regular stores were carrying games like that. It may not be as quick a return, but if the game is that good, then it will overcome the censors and be successful anyways (see mortal kombat series also.)
Yes, erasing memories is cool, but it's getting back long term memory that really means something. I wonder if this mechanism shuts down with Alzheimer's?
Don't forget the stomach of steel too... can you imagine what it feels like to be permanently suspended in the "barfy" state that most upside-down roller coasters do for just an instant?
It takes an existing image and finds a very similar image in a huge catalog, then adds in a similarly-shaped piece to the existing image where applicable. So it's more like a puzzle solver than an image completion engine. If you don't have a huge, huge catalog of images, it won't really work for any given image as well as their samples.
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Anyone else notice a weird pattern with Doom 1, 2, 3... Quake 1, 2, 3... and Halo 1, 2, 3? The third one is the one that has the features the other 2 really should have, and yet all three basically peter out when the next new crazy fps comes out. How long will Halo 3 hang on until the next fps title eclipses it (but with way crappier features, like from Quake 3 -> Halo 1)? Just a thought.
Should read: "12-year old takes credit for his father's entrepreneurship and garners headlines for his father's company, father rewards extra publicity with new ferrari which kid will subsequently wreck during driver's ed"
Maybe it's cheaper to not bother with security education initiatives, because the people who are going to commit security fraud won't change their minds knowing that it's wrong -- they already know it's wrong. The people who unwittingly violate security probably wouldn't be able to regularly practice the secure workaround, thus exposing the same security holes as always, just less frequently exposing them.
Why not just sell me a sandwich and 3 single download credits for $6? At least then I get something I can use, instead of a piece of plastic containing an exact, permanent copy of data that curiously, I'm permanently not allowed to copy.
The only thing stopping droves from converting to linux from those live CD's is an easy network setup wizard that figures out your NDISwrapper settings and gets you connected. If that worked as easy "click, wait, prompt for passwords, connected" I'd be switched right now.
Apparently, they must not have seen anything good, because there are no pics in the article... I don't know why they'd run an article about some awesome new telescope -- without the most important feature of any telescope -- a picture of what it can see.
Now all they have to do is find the other 99 billion rebates that never got sent out... I know I only ever got about 1 rebate that I sent in, and it was some Microsoft legal one that if they didn't send it to me, I think got to sue them.
Is there a dual-mode db, that lets you create a row-based or column-based "table"? I imagine cross-mode queries would kill performance, but at least you could have a system front-loaded with row tables, where data comes in, and then archive this data over time into the column-based tables, so that reads were fast.
That is the most awesome thing ever. But the important questions remain: how about x-ray mode? I guess you could simulate it with some clever color-correction and "find edges" algorithms. I suppose we can look forward to 3 years' worth of music videos filmed with this thing, if not ASCII John Wayne Movie night on Adult Swim or something similar.
Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes:
Peter: That's what...
Brian: If you say "that's what she said" one more time, I am gonna pop you.
#0. If to "make available" is infringement, then isn't the original selling to me of a DVD infringement too? That's "making available" a copy that people can pirate, right? If you don't want people to make copies of digital media, why are you selling me a physical copy of the digital media with which I can make copies? Can't you just charge more for movie tickets, stop selling DVD's, and only sell tickets for download to DVR, etc? If you sell me a DVD, what do I own precisely? If you still own the content on the DVD, why are you selling me a copy of it? Aren't you in a sense "pirating" it by selling it to me?
I can't imagine if one of these went off in say, northern El Cajon California. There would probably be a huge brush fire at least, all it takes is one spark to hit that bone-dry foliage. Does anyone know if these batteries are installed all over or just in TX?
TV is literally doing now what Andy Kaufman joked about... they slowly turn the volume down during the program, then as soon as the commercials come on, they boost it to as loud as it will go. I've noticed myself turning up and then way down on a regular basis, even with DVR I can't always cut off the commercials perfectly.
And all the microsoft-crashes-your-car jokes start in 3...2...1...
I'll throw in one: Does the blue screen block my view of the road for when the dice program crashes?
Or, you could have a killer video update from the beach, the whole wall of your apartment could look like you were standing at the edge of the water. DO want!
Those are supposed to be speed holes... I've heard they make it go even faster!
it clearly says "Black Edition" on the box... maybe they mean it's optimized for videos like the Hunchblack of Blotre Blame.
If you have a great game, it really doesn't matter what the rating is. Anyone would go and buy the game, even if you had to order it online, or pick it up at the local tiny computer store rather than wal-mart. This is how games like Doom got going; I remember seeing Doom, wolfenstein 3d, etc. for sale in random places when no regular stores were carrying games like that. It may not be as quick a return, but if the game is that good, then it will overcome the censors and be successful anyways (see mortal kombat series also.)
Yes, erasing memories is cool, but it's getting back long term memory that really means something. I wonder if this mechanism shuts down with Alzheimer's?
And lo, the greatest joke post title ever finally gets to be used!
Don't forget the stomach of steel too... can you imagine what it feels like to be permanently suspended in the "barfy" state that most upside-down roller coasters do for just an instant?
Let me be the last to say...
In Soviet Russia, crashed alien ship steals YOU!
There, now all ISR jokes are officially dead.
So if hackers figure out how to patch in some new "valid" keys with this mechanism, does that mean that no one will need to hack out a key anymore?
This is where you read a summary like that one, and you want to gedanken yourself in the head with a hammer afterwards for trying to understand it.
It takes an existing image and finds a very similar image in a huge catalog, then adds in a similarly-shaped piece to the existing image where applicable. So it's more like a puzzle solver than an image completion engine. If you don't have a huge, huge catalog of images, it won't really work for any given image as well as their samples.