Isn't the Library of Congress' digital collection, especially with respect to music, going to totally screw iTunes and any other online DRM stuff, in order to bring us our library materials?
"Posers" is the word you're looking for, though why anyone would want to be a poser nerd is beyond me. Generally nerds try to be posers of something else, so it ends up being like mockingbird syndrome, where the people (group 1) faking the people (group 2) are faking what yet a third group is, and so group 1 ends up actually being in group 3.
There's another reason why social engineering works at a company like the IRS. They probably have a very CMM level 0 process for managing their I.T. infrastructure, and people just have to give out their passwords all the time just to get something they need to be fixed inside of a month. Turn that stuff around, and a lot less people will be giving out passwords.
That's shocking! I figured everyone at NASA took turns hopping on board and rocketing off to Saturn and back on weekends./sarcasm Is it REALLY part of the story that only a blessed few get to ride in the shuttle?
I typically repeat myself on a typically daily basis, typically. Maybe/. editors should typically read summaries to see if they typically contain grammatical issues, which they typically do.
IBM has historically been a good barometer for change. Generally, if a company as big as IBM is going for it, a lot of other people will go for it. They adopted MS-DOS for the PC, and look what happened with that!
Generally, something "arm twisting" like this is commonly considered "racketeering", meaning "if you don't do what we/I want, 'something bad' is going to happen".
It's unclear whether this is because of a real screw-up, or it's a cover-up for some seriously bad leaked information, and they want to say that it "never existed" like how UFO's "never existed"...
I just saw a mushroom cloud on the horizon from my high-rise, now I know it was this server totally nuking from a/. on that 38 meg file! America! F YEAH!
Anyone got a 38 meg Al-Qaeda link they can throw up, so we can nuke that, too?
Octopi have one major advantage over 8-armed robots: they are alive, and have brains, something like muscles and neurons to go between. If we could make a robot that had a brain, muscles and neurons, I doubt we would care much about giving it 8 arms and watching it move them around without tying them in a knot. The octopus just has to think to itself, "don't tie my arms in a knot", like each of us does every day, and voila, no arm knots.
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I'd like to see a MMORPG ported for this, like a web-enabled version of ultima 1 that shows where everyone's looking, and we can all interact. How awesome would that be? Totally.
As a professional artist and MFA candidate, I can say that there are a few things I'd look for in an OSS suite: 1. It can open photoshop, illustrator, and quark Xpress formats. You wouldn't be surprised how many people use those formats...
2. I agree with standard cut+paste, and I would go further to say standardized "layers", and at least the buttons looking similar, i.e. a little paintbrush is the standard paintbrush-type feature, not some random crap in one place and some other random crap in another place.
3. Cross-application automation throughout the suite. A lot of regular graphics tasks are repeated a ton of times, and if I could: scan in a document, auto-level it, crop whitespace, and generate a thumbnail, that would majorly cut down on the time it takes me to get a new artwork online. 4. Way easier to customize elements. I'd love to make my own brushes & effects a bit easier and consistently, but I know that's tough.
How long is the longest/. summary or book review? This one seems up there -- really, ridiculously long. I am glad AppleScript is cool and the book is cool, but next time, save us some reading time and just reprint the whole book.
What about win 2003 server, win xp home/pro, windows 2000 advanced server, clustered server, etc.? I guess all of those are really the same thing, so we should just all buy the cheapest one and never look elsewhere within M$'s world for something with a different codebase of any kind.
The real point here is not that C is bad or C++ is bad, but that since Microsoft is using the same device to compile C/C++/Java/VB in.Net, then the.Net engine itself could have flaws no matter what "language" you're using, JUST BECAUSE it has to support C/C++.
my computer generated art is good because I use my artistic ability as an MFA candidate to 1) create the design, 2) refine the output and 2) ultimately decide if the final product "looks right". Even if all of that was automatic, the audience would ultimately decide if the final product "looked right", and so humans are still deciding if the work is "art" or not. It doesn't really matter how it's created. That's why some fractal pictures are boring... because the audience thinks they are, based on the pattern, colors, whatever. Not all computer-generated art is equal, in the same way that not everyone likes the same things.:)
It used to be that patents were granted because of the originality of an idea, and making sure that the inventor gets some return on their amazing ingenuity. A patent like "virtual shopping cart" issued, for example, in the year 2000, would've been completely pointless as there were countless prior art examples. I think patents are bad because of that one type of patent, not that patents are intrinsically a bad idea.
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Isn't the Library of Congress' digital collection, especially with respect to music, going to totally screw iTunes and any other online DRM stuff, in order to bring us our library materials?
Let me be the first to say, I could care less who they pick, because it's still gonna be awesome.
But if I had to pick, I'd pick Keira Knightley, assuming they could build a "special" costume... heh heh.
"Posers" is the word you're looking for, though why anyone would want to be a poser nerd is beyond me. Generally nerds try to be posers of something else, so it ends up being like mockingbird syndrome, where the people (group 1) faking the people (group 2) are faking what yet a third group is, and so group 1 ends up actually being in group 3.
There's another reason why social engineering works at a company like the IRS. They probably have a very CMM level 0 process for managing their I.T. infrastructure, and people just have to give out their passwords all the time just to get something they need to be fixed inside of a month. Turn that stuff around, and a lot less people will be giving out passwords.
the kicka-you-a$$a! That's what they should call the dual-dual G5.
That's shocking! I figured everyone at NASA took turns hopping on board and rocketing off to Saturn and back on weekends. /sarcasm
Is it REALLY part of the story that only a blessed few get to ride in the shuttle?
Nuclear disaster fine: $60,000
Phishing fine: $250,000
It's cheaper to poison people with radiation and then take their credit card #'s then it is to trick them into giving you their credit card #'s.
sysadmin 1: ...ok, we're all set. You got the tapes? ...what tapes? ... ... ....OH SH*T!
admin 2:
sysadmin 1:
admin 2:
admin 1 + 2:
For the RIAA, their law team could easily cost 150k for a single trial, so it really could be 20 bucks plus court costs, unfortunately!
I typically repeat myself on a typically daily basis, typically. Maybe /. editors should typically read summaries to see if they typically contain grammatical issues, which they typically do.
typically.
IBM has historically been a good barometer for change. Generally, if a company as big as IBM is going for it, a lot of other people will go for it. They adopted MS-DOS for the PC, and look what happened with that!
How do you get to be the richest software company in the world by having the lowest TCO?
HMMM!
Generally, something "arm twisting" like this is commonly considered "racketeering", meaning "if you don't do what we/I want, 'something bad' is going to happen".
It's unclear whether this is because of a real screw-up, or it's a cover-up for some seriously bad leaked information, and they want to say that it "never existed" like how UFO's "never existed"...
Maybe /. should start having parent + child articles, so that DUPE's show up all under the "previous story".
I just saw a mushroom cloud on the horizon from my high-rise, now I know it was this server totally nuking from a /. on that 38 meg file! America! F YEAH!
Anyone got a 38 meg Al-Qaeda link they can throw up, so we can nuke that, too?
Octopi have one major advantage over 8-armed robots: they are alive, and have brains, something like muscles and neurons to go between. If we could make a robot that had a brain, muscles and neurons, I doubt we would care much about giving it 8 arms and watching it move them around without tying them in a knot. The octopus just has to think to itself, "don't tie my arms in a knot", like each of us does every day, and voila, no arm knots.
I'd like to see a MMORPG ported for this, like a web-enabled version of ultima 1 that shows where everyone's looking, and we can all interact. How awesome would that be? Totally.
As a professional artist and MFA candidate, I can say that there are a few things I'd look for in an OSS suite:
1. It can open photoshop, illustrator, and quark Xpress formats. You wouldn't be surprised how many people use those formats...
2. I agree with standard cut+paste, and I would go further to say standardized "layers", and at least the buttons looking similar, i.e. a little paintbrush is the standard paintbrush-type feature, not some random crap in one place and some other random crap in another place.
3. Cross-application automation throughout the suite. A lot of regular graphics tasks are repeated a ton of times, and if I could: scan in a document, auto-level it, crop whitespace, and generate a thumbnail, that would majorly cut down on the time it takes me to get a new artwork online.
4. Way easier to customize elements. I'd love to make my own brushes & effects a bit easier and consistently, but I know that's tough.
How long is the longest /. summary or book review? This one seems up there -- really, ridiculously long. I am glad AppleScript is cool and the book is cool, but next time, save us some reading time and just reprint the whole book.
What about win 2003 server, win xp home/pro, windows 2000 advanced server, clustered server, etc.? I guess all of those are really the same thing, so we should just all buy the cheapest one and never look elsewhere within M$'s world for something with a different codebase of any kind.
The real point here is not that C is bad or C++ is bad, but that since Microsoft is using the same device to compile C/C++/Java/VB in .Net, then the .Net engine itself could have flaws no matter what "language" you're using, JUST BECAUSE it has to support C/C++.
As my list in the above post demonstrates (1,2,2?), art doesn't require counting ability. Thanks.
my computer generated art is good because I use my artistic ability as an MFA candidate to 1) create the design, 2) refine the output and 2) ultimately decide if the final product "looks right". Even if all of that was automatic, the audience would ultimately decide if the final product "looked right", and so humans are still deciding if the work is "art" or not. It doesn't really matter how it's created. That's why some fractal pictures are boring... because the audience thinks they are, based on the pattern, colors, whatever. Not all computer-generated art is equal, in the same way that not everyone likes the same things. :)
It used to be that patents were granted because of the originality of an idea, and making sure that the inventor gets some return on their amazing ingenuity. A patent like "virtual shopping cart" issued, for example, in the year 2000, would've been completely pointless as there were countless prior art examples. I think patents are bad because of that one type of patent, not that patents are intrinsically a bad idea.