1st option: LOL:-) point well taken. I was so anxious to get it out that I forgot that I was typing into a textfield. I tend to agree - long winded badly formatted comments make my brain hurt.
... looks like the movie studios are falling into the same trap like the dotcomers in the late 90s: drop more money into it and it'll be bigger/better/shinier/etc... I've run software development projects before and the lessons I've learned is that there is a certain 'sweet spot' - no matter WHAT you do - may it be developing a J2EE app, a PS2 game, an Indie movie, or a TV show (I've been on both sides of the spectrum): if you throw too much money at it people tend to become too complacent and whatever you build will be bloated and will have no soul. Maybe too many opinions and/or opportunities when there's too much money available. I really think that human beings are at their best when they're under pressure AND when they're inspired at the same time. It's a strange phenomenon and I could probably write a long posting about that but I'm sure most of you know what I mean. Come on - what was that killer P2P app you were working on in your dorm?;-) The stuff you're doing now might be corporate crap compared with that - I'm personally guilty of the very same.
Anyway, these studios probably COULD help make great games and bring in capabilities that would enhance the experience, but they should only throw in as much money as is necessary. I know many of you will start bitching about how Hollywood is all evil and that they only produce crap - well, there were always periods where good movies came out and periods (like today) when only crap was released. Most of the time it were outsiders that forced Hollywood to release good stuff - experiments that paid off. If you leave it up to those money grabbing suits you get the usual canned recepy crap that we've had to endure this summer. Hey, maybe the game industry is going to wind up buying the entertainment industry - it happened with AOL/TW;-)
... I'm all over nanotech - have myself been attending Foresight Institute meetings regularly for the last decade. BUT, since the early nineties I've seen dozens of research papers promising new types of transistors and thus far the problem seems to be mass manufacturing of any of these approaches. What works in the lab is one thing - making a commercial product is another. So, don't get your hopes up to 'upgrade' to a nanochip any time soon;-)
Nevertheless, we're heading in the right direction - this type of research caters to the VC community which is already investing heavily into privately funded nanotech related companies. Heaven knows - here in the U.S. we desperately need this type of research, may it be academically or privately driven. China, Japan, Korea, India, etc.. are catching up quickly and we already lost the race in the biotech and genetic engineering department.
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Well, looks like I was TOTALLY offroading - LOL > the previous posting showed up after I submitted mine.
Now, considering their REAL approach, I'm actually surprised people didn't try this one before. On the other hand, I would be equally surprised if that would stem the tide of spam for very long.
If I understand this correctly these guys are exposing the identities of spammers including how many people they exposed to their unwanted messages? That's an interesting approach, but might get thrown down in U.S. courts due to privacy regulations. Hey, don't kill the messenger;-) I just know how the legal system works over here and I'm sure these guys will not roll over and head for the hills. My bet is that they'll pay some high class lawyers to keep their identity from being released. HOWEVER, with that said - IF the identities would be posted icognito, then there's nobody to sue, right?;-)
Sorry if I'm offroading here - maybe I misunderstood the post (it's leaving out a bit of detail, you know...)
I agree that the article doesn't properly state it but please understand that it was written by a non-techie. I do however appreciate your interest and attention to the details - and being a little bit pedantic just shows that you've actually given this some thought. Finally, I hope that you'll actually go and see some of those 3D movies in the works right now. I agree with one of the above posters - 3D movies should be like color movies - not made for the 3D effect - they should be easily enjoyable and not made to simply leverage the stereoscopic experience.
Actually, although film features 24 frames per second, the shutter opens/closes 48 times per second - otherwise film would be very flickery;-)
So, the quoted 96 frames are indeed correct - 48 times the right eye and 48 times the left.
Well, kind of - there's a picture of a guy in a red shirt from a company called Neovision Labs. He's holding up some contraption and the caption says that he build this thing himself DIY style (a geek in the making?;-)
I'm not suprised you missed it though... sorry I should have pointed to that when I posted the article.
Teutonic Leech
... competition working at its best:-) How long has Yahoo been dragging its feet about this? Low and behold - a week after Google Yahoo releases its own. Did they think Firefox wasn't important before that? Who knows - but it's clear that Yahoo is losing the race, especially when it comes to being an innovative company that continuously wins the hearts and minds of geeks like us:-)
... as today marks th 36th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing. In any way, he'll be missed - great character and he'll be quoted by overworked engineers for centuries to come.
Yeah, that was actually my reasoning. Although they offered to open up access to all java related sites I still refused to stay there. At the end of the day - if you treat people like children they will act like children. Finally, I also wanted to draw a line in sand - we techies have been taking a lot of sh...t in the last few years and sometimes it's good to tell them to f...ck off when they try to cross the line. Hey, don't mess with my slashdot access, alright?;-)
I was working on a development contract when our CEO decided to cut Internet access for all consultants (someone was caught bidding on eBay - not me;-) Anyway, I was so distraught, I quit the next day...
Excellent point - in sales there is a term for this called 'anchoring' (also used in NLP - Neuro Linguistic Programming) - you first anchor someone at some high price (like the crossed-out prices you see during sale events) and then work yourself down from there (as seen in most informercials). Works everytime - people seem to have a hard time to mentally beat this type of mind-fuck.
What makes this different is that such an offense should be treated like 'white collar crime' - just like that CEO/CFO who embezzles funds or defrauds the companies or public's funds on a multi-million $$ scale. Most of these 'good-ole-boys' have the means to hire top-gun attorneys and get away with defrauding tens and sometimes hundreds of millions, and - if caught - spend 1 to 2 in what could be best described as a fenced high-security golf club. The fact that I'm not holding anyone at gunpoint while people download movies from my home PC clearly puts this in the 'white collar crime' category. Okay, of course I'm trying to be facetious here, but I think you get my point.
The Summers Program ounds like a wonderful opportunity to me. Anyone with an ingenious nature should will give their right arm to get into this one. This is what young fledgling entrepreneurs need - an environment where they can explore their ideas, make mistakes, learn from others, and maybe produce a protoype of their invention/ideas. Damn, I wished I was back in college again - so many opportunities - so little time...
He choose to design satelittes rather than the astronaut position. (Better money, and he later went to the private sector. Obviously he is not a geek...:)
He decides to go and design satellites, but he's NOT a geek?? ROTFL - sorry, but my definition of not being a geek is to go and strap your ass onto an equivalent of a million tons of TNT - John Crichton style;-)
LOL - I know exactly how you feel. I love technology, but I'm so sick of the IT industry. Most people in our racket are miserable, but have adjusted to their miserable reality up to the point where they accept it as the status quo. I'm out of IT - I do work for a few companies here and there on a contract basis and make as much money as possible to finance my own company (nothing related to software or IT). In the last 5 years I have been miserable every morning when I had to get up and go to work. Add to that a 2 hour commute here in Los Angeles. A friend of mine made a very profitable business out of organizing parties here in the Hollywood Hills - the guy rakes in $10k minimum every month and he doesn't have to go anywhere or report to anyone. He's also getting a lot of poon on the side;-) What I'm trying to say is that most slashdot readers have already subscribed to the 'geek' lifestyle - work for some companyk, hunker down, and collect a paycheck. Personally, although I think I'm technically very savy, feel that 8 hours in front of a monitor is a waste of your life. It's probably all my own fault - I got sucked into all that by the dotcom money. But at least I learned a very valuable lesson before it was too late.
... adoption of the metric system over here in the U.S. - LOL. For the unitiated: the metric system was supposed to become the 'standard' in the U.S., but as usual, everyone's been dragging their feet. I think it's a good idea theoretically, but in the rest of the world it would require to replace all scales in circulation. Actually, come to think of it, since the metric system is rarely used over here in the U.S., it might actually make sense to make that change (whichever standard will be adopted) and start pushing it on the American continent. Since there's not much of a pre-existing 'metric' infrastructure, it should be easy to introduce a modded kilogram.
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2nd option: hey - get bent!
You pick which one you like better ;-)
... looks like the movie studios are falling into the same trap like the dotcomers in the late 90s: drop more money into it and it'll be bigger/better/shinier/etc... I've run software development projects before and the lessons I've learned is that there is a certain 'sweet spot' - no matter WHAT you do - may it be developing a J2EE app, a PS2 game, an Indie movie, or a TV show (I've been on both sides of the spectrum): if you throw too much money at it people tend to become too complacent and whatever you build will be bloated and will have no soul. Maybe too many opinions and/or opportunities when there's too much money available. I really think that human beings are at their best when they're under pressure AND when they're inspired at the same time. It's a strange phenomenon and I could probably write a long posting about that but I'm sure most of you know what I mean. Come on - what was that killer P2P app you were working on in your dorm? ;-) The stuff you're doing now might be corporate crap compared with that - I'm personally guilty of the very same.
Anyway, these studios probably COULD help make great games and bring in capabilities that would enhance the experience, but they should only throw in as much money as is necessary. I know many of you will start bitching about how Hollywood is all evil and that they only produce crap - well, there were always periods where good movies came out and periods (like today) when only crap was released. Most of the time it were outsiders that forced Hollywood to release good stuff - experiments that paid off. If you leave it up to those money grabbing suits you get the usual canned recepy crap that we've had to endure this summer. Hey, maybe the game industry is going to wind up buying the entertainment industry - it happened with AOL/TW ;-)
... I'm all over nanotech - have myself been attending Foresight Institute meetings regularly for the last decade. BUT, since the early nineties I've seen dozens of research papers promising new types of transistors and thus far the problem seems to be mass manufacturing of any of these approaches. What works in the lab is one thing - making a commercial product is another. So, don't get your hopes up to 'upgrade' to a nanochip any time soon ;-)
Nevertheless, we're heading in the right direction - this type of research caters to the VC community which is already investing heavily into privately funded nanotech related companies. Heaven knows - here in the U.S. we desperately need this type of research, may it be academically or privately driven. China, Japan, Korea, India, etc.. are catching up quickly and we already lost the race in the biotech and genetic engineering department.
Well, looks like I was TOTALLY offroading - LOL > the previous posting showed up after I submitted mine. Now, considering their REAL approach, I'm actually surprised people didn't try this one before. On the other hand, I would be equally surprised if that would stem the tide of spam for very long.
If I understand this correctly these guys are exposing the identities of spammers including how many people they exposed to their unwanted messages? That's an interesting approach, but might get thrown down in U.S. courts due to privacy regulations. Hey, don't kill the messenger ;-) I just know how the legal system works over here and I'm sure these guys will not roll over and head for the hills. My bet is that they'll pay some high class lawyers to keep their identity from being released. HOWEVER, with that said - IF the identities would be posted icognito, then there's nobody to sue, right? ;-)
Sorry if I'm offroading here - maybe I misunderstood the post (it's leaving out a bit of detail, you know...)
I agree that the article doesn't properly state it but please understand that it was written by a non-techie. I do however appreciate your interest and attention to the details - and being a little bit pedantic just shows that you've actually given this some thought. Finally, I hope that you'll actually go and see some of those 3D movies in the works right now. I agree with one of the above posters - 3D movies should be like color movies - not made for the 3D effect - they should be easily enjoyable and not made to simply leverage the stereoscopic experience.
Actually, although film features 24 frames per second, the shutter opens/closes 48 times per second - otherwise film would be very flickery ;-)
So, the quoted 96 frames are indeed correct - 48 times the right eye and 48 times the left.
Well, kind of - there's a picture of a guy in a red shirt from a company called Neovision Labs. He's holding up some contraption and the caption says that he build this thing himself DIY style (a geek in the making? ;-)
I'm not suprised you missed it though... sorry I should have pointed to that when I posted the article.
Teutonic Leech
... competition working at its best :-) How long has Yahoo been dragging its feet about this? Low and behold - a week after Google Yahoo releases its own. Did they think Firefox wasn't important before that? Who knows - but it's clear that Yahoo is losing the race, especially when it comes to being an innovative company that continuously wins the hearts and minds of geeks like us :-)
... as today marks th 36th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing. In any way, he'll be missed - great character and he'll be quoted by overworked engineers for centuries to come.
... screwed
... wallpaper full of these things?
Yeah, that was actually my reasoning. Although they offered to open up access to all java related sites I still refused to stay there. At the end of the day - if you treat people like children they will act like children. Finally, I also wanted to draw a line in sand - we techies have been taking a lot of sh...t in the last few years and sometimes it's good to tell them to f...ck off when they try to cross the line. Hey, don't mess with my slashdot access, alright? ;-)
I was working on a development contract when our CEO decided to cut Internet access for all consultants (someone was caught bidding on eBay - not me ;-) Anyway, I was so distraught, I quit the next day...
'Five cents per PC'? - just follow the money, pal - just follow the money ;-)
Excellent point - in sales there is a term for this called 'anchoring' (also used in NLP - Neuro Linguistic Programming) - you first anchor someone at some high price (like the crossed-out prices you see during sale events) and then work yourself down from there (as seen in most informercials). Works everytime - people seem to have a hard time to mentally beat this type of mind-fuck.
What makes this different is that such an offense should be treated like 'white collar crime' - just like that CEO/CFO who embezzles funds or defrauds the companies or public's funds on a multi-million $$ scale. Most of these 'good-ole-boys' have the means to hire top-gun attorneys and get away with defrauding tens and sometimes hundreds of millions, and - if caught - spend 1 to 2 in what could be best described as a fenced high-security golf club. The fact that I'm not holding anyone at gunpoint while people download movies from my home PC clearly puts this in the 'white collar crime' category. Okay, of course I'm trying to be facetious here, but I think you get my point.
Give us some credit - will ya? It's April 1st after all! Please try again...
The Summers Program ounds like a wonderful opportunity to me. Anyone with an ingenious nature should will give their right arm to get into this one. This is what young fledgling entrepreneurs need - an environment where they can explore their ideas, make mistakes, learn from others, and maybe produce a protoype of their invention/ideas. Damn, I wished I was back in college again - so many opportunities - so little time...
Wensleydale!!! :-)
Not bad - she can arm wrestle me anytime :-)
He choose to design satelittes rather than the astronaut position. (Better money, and he later went to the private sector. Obviously he is not a geek... :) ;-)
He decides to go and design satellites, but he's NOT a geek?? ROTFL - sorry, but my definition of not being a geek is to go and strap your ass onto an equivalent of a million tons of TNT - John Crichton style
Just looked at savetoby.com - man, that's so fucking funny! ROTFL
LOL - I know exactly how you feel. I love technology, but I'm so sick of the IT industry. Most people in our racket are miserable, but have adjusted to their miserable reality up to the point where they accept it as the status quo. I'm out of IT - I do work for a few companies here and there on a contract basis and make as much money as possible to finance my own company (nothing related to software or IT). In the last 5 years I have been miserable every morning when I had to get up and go to work. Add to that a 2 hour commute here in Los Angeles. A friend of mine made a very profitable business out of organizing parties here in the Hollywood Hills - the guy rakes in $10k minimum every month and he doesn't have to go anywhere or report to anyone. He's also getting a lot of poon on the side ;-) What I'm trying to say is that most slashdot readers have already subscribed to the 'geek' lifestyle - work for some companyk, hunker down, and collect a paycheck. Personally, although I think I'm technically very savy, feel that 8 hours in front of a monitor is a waste of your life. It's probably all my own fault - I got sucked into all that by the dotcom money. But at least I learned a very valuable lesson before it was too late.
... adoption of the metric system over here in the U.S. - LOL. For the unitiated: the metric system was supposed to become the 'standard' in the U.S., but as usual, everyone's been dragging their feet. I think it's a good idea theoretically, but in the rest of the world it would require to replace all scales in circulation. Actually, come to think of it, since the metric system is rarely used over here in the U.S., it might actually make sense to make that change (whichever standard will be adopted) and start pushing it on the American continent. Since there's not much of a pre-existing 'metric' infrastructure, it should be easy to introduce a modded kilogram.