He acted lawfully the same way that the mob boss doesn't actually "kill" someone, they just happen to know the guys that shot the victim. In the words of John Gotti, "It's good to have guns around... but you don't want to carry a gun. You might get arrested."
Microsoft has decided to rename this new, kernel-distant graphics interface "X". Fringe groups note that this name is already taken, but Microsoft is in talks to buy said fringe groups.
It's no secret: money talks. If you drum up 50 grand, you can get all sorts of directed traffic on your website. Add a few more zeros and you can probably get top search engine ranking on whatever you want.
It may take time for a finite number of monkeys to generate the works of Shakespeare, but an infinite number of monkeys can do it on the first key press. They will also have generated every other work in existence. After all, it's an infinite number of monkeys, so if they all push just one random key on an infinite number of typewriters, you now have a text of length infinity... in its contents are the entire works of mankind.
Whenever an accessibility issue comes up, I have to remind everyone how it feels to operate a computer in accessibility mode. Turn on all the accessibility stuff you know about, then turn the monitor off and see how you do. We have blind people in our office that use computers with the monitor off -- until you've seen that in person, you can't understand how accessible computers/technology must be.
So within a few weeks, someone will have a machine that when you put the protected disc in, it copies it on the first run and removes said flags. Sony will in effect build an even stronger incentive to hack and hack well. If you can pull it off, you'll be the hero beating evil Sony's "run once, run nowhere else" strategy, plus you'll be a great coder who wrote software that has to work right the first try.
From the site: "To demonstrate these powerful capabilities, two Morfik programmers used Morfik JST to build a desktop version of Google's Gmail in just 2 months! The application they created is a pixel-by-pixel match of Gmail's interface and functionality, yet it also works offline just like standard email clients such as Microsoft Outlook..."
2 Months?! That doesn't sound like any rapid app development to me. I can go make a copy of gmail in about 3 hours just by downloading the HTML/javascript. Also, it "works" just like Outlook? I'm not sure that's a feature!
Until you've seen someone run a pc all day with the monitor off, you don't fully understand the concerns of blind/visually impaired people using computers. I've seen it, and it changed the way I look at human-computer interaction forever. You can't even imagine how different the experience is when you don't have visual cues like windows, close boxes, command prompts, etc.
We should be celebrating the people of IBM research along with the organization. Several very genius individuals were the driving force behind the listed patents. Of course, IBM was great to house them and help them succeed, but let's bless the baby too, not just the carriage.
I am sad that/. would just post a plug for a website like this. Why not plug games.com or something? Just because it uses social bookmarking doesn't mean they should get a free "ad"....... I wonder, was it really free, or did MOG pay for it?
My dad does earth-mars trajectories all the time, he was on the Viking team, etc.
As for the earth-mars 2 body system, you're forgetting a pretty important other one, THE SUN. Come back and ask again when you at least are ready to ask about earth-mars-sun and maybe I'll pass along one of dad's programs for how to get there.
putting up a link to a "stolen" song is very similar to selling/giving a stolen stereo to someone... you're still involved in the theft if you transmit, sell, buy, or receive stolen goods.
Of course, that's assuming acceptance of the musical copyright in the first place, which for some reason people don't want to do. I think if the song's good, and the band wants to sell it, you shouldn't steal it from them. If the song's crap, though, you should get your money back if you paid for it w/o knowing what it sounded like (i.e. good song on bad album). At least that would be an incentive for the RIAA to stop sponsoring crap bands with awesome producers for one-hit albums.
As a fine art graduate student, I know something about art. That cover looks like what any 17-year old kid with access to softcore pr0n images and photoshop could produce in about 15 minutes.
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An example: "The cover art is well worth seeing on a real book, though -- it has an evocative mystery all of its own."
Care to describe that "evocative mystery" for us? I'm surprised that a review would mention something like that instead of just describing it. IMHO, this "review" reads more like a sales pitch, dancing around everything but saying nothing.
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As an MFA student (graduate level fine arts), I am qualified to make the following statements.
Art is not mutually exclusive like that, you can't just arbitrarily say whether something "is art" or not. In layman's terms, an artist can create a computer program, but that doesn't mean all computer programs are art. More importantly, just because all programs aren't art, doesn't mean that you can say a particular program is "not art". Calling something "art" means that an artistic concept was involved in the creation, nothing more. I can create a computer program that qualifies as "art", and that perhaps produces fine art in a traditional form, but the Fine Art canon has not incorporated programming into itself yet. Thus, it is impossible to say whether a program would itself be considered "fine art" by the conventional standard. Note: This also goes for any art newer than 50 years, including most of post-modern conceptual and performance artworks.
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Great, now all we have to do is fight it out of the other zillion little Bible-belt towns that still have dancing outlawed...
The exact opposite is probably true, he has nothing going on and they made up this story to explain away any CGI enhancement you notice in that area.
He acted lawfully the same way that the mob boss doesn't actually "kill" someone, they just happen to know the guys that shot the victim. In the words of John Gotti, "It's good to have guns around ... but you don't want to carry a gun. You might get arrested."
Microsoft has decided to rename this new, kernel-distant graphics interface "X". Fringe groups note that this name is already taken, but Microsoft is in talks to buy said fringe groups.
It's no secret: money talks. If you drum up 50 grand, you can get all sorts of directed traffic on your website. Add a few more zeros and you can probably get top search engine ranking on whatever you want.
If you run at 88 miles an hour while wearing it, do you go back in time? Or does it require doing something else at 88 miles an hour... ha ha
It may take time for a finite number of monkeys to generate the works of Shakespeare, but an infinite number of monkeys can do it on the first key press. They will also have generated every other work in existence. After all, it's an infinite number of monkeys, so if they all push just one random key on an infinite number of typewriters, you now have a text of length infinity... in its contents are the entire works of mankind.
1. aeiou.eu
2. p.eu
3. howar.eu
4. ach.eu
5. InSovietRussiaWeGoogl.eu
6. AndNowImSpent.eu
And now, the flood of missle-crash-with-windows-os jokes, even though they're talking about the simulation and not the onboard missile control system.
Whenever an accessibility issue comes up, I have to remind everyone how it feels to operate a computer in accessibility mode. Turn on all the accessibility stuff you know about, then turn the monitor off and see how you do. We have blind people in our office that use computers with the monitor off -- until you've seen that in person, you can't understand how accessible computers /technology must be.
So within a few weeks, someone will have a machine that when you put the protected disc in, it copies it on the first run and removes said flags. Sony will in effect build an even stronger incentive to hack and hack well. If you can pull it off, you'll be the hero beating evil Sony's "run once, run nowhere else" strategy, plus you'll be a great coder who wrote software that has to work right the first try.
From the site:
"To demonstrate these powerful capabilities, two Morfik programmers used Morfik JST to build a desktop version of Google's Gmail in just 2 months! The application they created is a pixel-by-pixel match of Gmail's interface and functionality, yet it also works offline just like standard email clients such as Microsoft Outlook..."
2 Months?! That doesn't sound like any rapid app development to me. I can go make a copy of gmail in about 3 hours just by downloading the HTML/javascript. Also, it "works" just like Outlook? I'm not sure that's a feature!
"The first area, Access, ..."
If the first area is Access (i.e. my access of your data), then you DEFINITELY need better security! Should probably be "Assess".
Until you've seen someone run a pc all day with the monitor off, you don't fully understand the concerns of blind/visually impaired people using computers. I've seen it, and it changed the way I look at human-computer interaction forever. You can't even imagine how different the experience is when you don't have visual cues like windows, close boxes, command prompts, etc.
We should be celebrating the people of IBM research along with the organization. Several very genius individuals were the driving force behind the listed patents. Of course, IBM was great to house them and help them succeed, but let's bless the baby too, not just the carriage.
That's easy, you listen to symphonic / warrior metal. Problem solved! \m/
If they get in-car/in-rocket cams on pay-per-view, I'm in!
... of plugging random websites, here's my automated art portfolio website.
/. would just post a plug for a website like this. Why not plug games.com or something? Just because it uses social bookmarking doesn't mean they should get a free "ad"... .... I wonder, was it really free, or did MOG pay for it?
I am sad that
That's why I get a receipt, it's like a session token saying that I am owed packet 123 (drink) for having sent request ABC (cash + order).
---Throwing the golden wrench of reason into the complex machinery of life since 1979.---
My dad does earth-mars trajectories all the time, he was on the Viking team, etc.
As for the earth-mars 2 body system, you're forgetting a pretty important other one, THE SUN. Come back and ask again when you at least are ready to ask about earth-mars-sun and maybe I'll pass along one of dad's programs for how to get there.
Thanks, here's another bomb: talking enthusiastically preferred to writing letters for conversation among peers located within 10 feet of each other.
putting up a link to a "stolen" song is very similar to selling/giving a stolen stereo to someone... you're still involved in the theft if you transmit, sell, buy, or receive stolen goods.
Of course, that's assuming acceptance of the musical copyright in the first place, which for some reason people don't want to do. I think if the song's good, and the band wants to sell it, you shouldn't steal it from them. If the song's crap, though, you should get your money back if you paid for it w/o knowing what it sounded like (i.e. good song on bad album). At least that would be an incentive for the RIAA to stop sponsoring crap bands with awesome producers for one-hit albums.
As a fine art graduate student, I know something about art. That cover looks like what any 17-year old kid with access to softcore pr0n images and photoshop could produce in about 15 minutes.
An example: "The cover art is well worth seeing on a real book, though -- it has an evocative mystery all of its own."
Care to describe that "evocative mystery" for us? I'm surprised that a review would mention something like that instead of just describing it. IMHO, this "review" reads more like a sales pitch, dancing around everything but saying nothing.
As an MFA student (graduate level fine arts), I am qualified to make the following statements.
Art is not mutually exclusive like that, you can't just arbitrarily say whether something "is art" or not. In layman's terms, an artist can create a computer program, but that doesn't mean all computer programs are art. More importantly, just because all programs aren't art, doesn't mean that you can say a particular program is "not art". Calling something "art" means that an artistic concept was involved in the creation, nothing more. I can create a computer program that qualifies as "art", and that perhaps produces fine art in a traditional form, but the Fine Art canon has not incorporated programming into itself yet. Thus, it is impossible to say whether a program would itself be considered "fine art" by the conventional standard. Note: This also goes for any art newer than 50 years, including most of post-modern conceptual and performance artworks.