Of course the gadgets are fiction. REAL spying is BORING. Yawn!!
If you're going to have an issue with the Bond movies, how about having an issue with the ever increasing commercialization of the series. With this latest one, it looks like you won't go 5 minutes between seeing features product placements... I know this is something that has been going on for a few years with Bond now, but it is almost getting to be like that "Wayne's World" skit on product placement at this point.
Rhino, while a very nice package, doesn't run on MacOS X. Of course, a lot of the stuff people are suggesting in other posts doesn't run under MacOS (any version, including X) either.
Obviously people don't even read the articles anymore, let alone the links in the articles..
At any rate, I'd say the original poster should go with Maya. The UI is great, it is well supported under different operating systems and the renderer has been much improved if you get a recent version...Also, if the renderer isn't up to snuff for what you want, there are various free alternative renderers that are actually very good (POVray, the free Renderman clones (such as BMRT), etc) which Maya can export to using third party exporters.
Surely Mozilla and Opera will follow these standards, as they always have, but will IE do the same?
That depends quite a lot on your definition of ALWAYS as it applies to Mozilla...Considering Mozilla was originally based off the Netscape source code (though I realize now it is been virtually completely rewritten). People seem to forget that Netscape were the kings of non-standard HTML as an attempt to "lock-in" customers. Hell, IE still to this day includes Mozilla in its user agent header to work around all the sites that would deny access to anything other than Netscape, back in the 2.0 era.
Well, there are tons of rhythm music games out there, and Samba de Amigo, while great, was far from the first.
As far as direct knock-offs go, this game is mostly Namco's "answer" to Konami's Drum Mania
In any case, I'm not sure why this was topic-worthy. There are tons of PS2 games available in Japan that you can't get in the US (yet if not ever). Even some, like Space Channel 5 Part 2, that US consumers would recognize.
It sucks to see people losing their jobs, but this is hardly surprising. I mean, what has Corel ever actually created that anyone has found worthwhile?
Well, there's CorelDRAW.... And that's about it. All of their other flagship products like WordPerfect, Quattro, Bryce, and so on were aquired from other companies and Corel has never really done much to improve upon what they purchased in any significant way.
I know I won't be shedding a tear for Corel if/when they go out of business. Just because they competed directly against Microsoft doesn't change the fact that the vast majority of their software offerings are blown away by competing products.
4 years for the 109 bit version (and that's with a massive, dedicated attack).... I'm willing to believe (barring some unknown theoretical advance, which is always something you have to worry about with all real-world usable cryptography) that the 163 bit keys are good enough for my data considering the exponential difficulty in attacking the longer keys.
It boggles my mind that SexyKellyOsbourne posts still get moderated up. They have some of the most blatant karma-whoring I've ever seen.
In any case, I must admit I generally agree with this one post, except the bit about dogs being killed for sport by sadists who run the pound. What a bunch of horseshit that is.
2) I believe they had an incident a few years ago when they still allowed students to write to hard drives. Without going into any details, lets just say that the admin strongly believes that students should not be ablet o change the hard drive in any way.
That is such a horrible policy and a great way to ensure the kids learn nothing about computers in their time at high school. As a programmer, nothing pisses me off more than a facist admin who doesn't understand that the computer I use exists for the purposes of me getting work done, not for the purpose of always being in a known state so he can blissfully spend his days playing Quake3 online. Luckily the really good admins do understand this. And I'm not knocking admins in general here, a good one is worth his weight in gold.
She had to deal with: ...
2) Computer ADMIN not allowing her to install ANY programming software (borland freeware, DJGPP, etc) to disk
3) NOT allowing students to write (even temporary files) to the hard drive...
What the fuck? What are the computers there for if not for the students to actually use them?
1) This has nothing (directly) to do with wireless messaging. It only has anything to do with wireless if someone makes a Jabber client for a wireless device.
2) Just because the IETF has a working group working to standardize/improve a protocol doesn't mean anyone will use it. I'll eat my hat if AIM/ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, etc, start using this protocol instead of their proprietary ones.
Seems like the type of thing law enforcement agencies would be against. As soon as you put out an APB for a black 4 door sedan, poof its a green 4 door sedan.
Of course, you can't usually stop progress just to make someone's jobs easier, but I can imagine this will be a long time off for consumer use due to these and other debates, even if the technology is perfected soon. And even when/if it comes to pass, I'd imagine you'll have to compromise to legally use this system (by having a car that reports your GPS location on a lojack-like system, or such).
Feel stupid by rushing and saying the wrong thing? I guess Hilary is smarter than you, at least she didn't walk through the door, whereas you DID hit the Submit button.
Someone should patent a method for posting article repeats to a web-based link aggregation site.
Just imagine all the royalties you could collect!
Of course, Slashdot has a ton of prior art to show in this category (even just in the past two weeks!) but that sort of thing never seems to stop the patent office from granting patents, so its worth a try!!!
Jefferson believed that if there was no protection to intellectual property, people would not be encouraged to share knowledge with others. He believed writers would not write, inventors would not invent, artists would not create art. So in the US Constitution, it says:
I agree with the gist of your post, but Jefferson didn't believe any of those things (writers would not write, etc). He was, in fact, against patent & copyright as general ideas. His writings on these issues in the Constitution represent the ideas of others involved in the process whom Jefferson grudgingly compromised with.
Brian LaMacchia, a
former student, returned to his Alma Mater and gave a talk on some of the
technical aspects of Microsoft's Palladium project.
Brian LaMacchia, eh? He's the older brother of David LaMacchia, the MIT student who got busted for running a giant pirate ftp site some years ago. Not that this has anything to do with anything, but its kinda funny that he's working on 'trusted computing' when his brother came 'this close' to being a warez-felon.
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If you're going to have an issue with the Bond movies, how about having an issue with the ever increasing commercialization of the series. With this latest one, it looks like you won't go 5 minutes between seeing features product placements... I know this is something that has been going on for a few years with Bond now, but it is almost getting to be like that "Wayne's World" skit on product placement at this point.
1: Write underware-Gnomes post, linking the joke to current topic. 2: ? 3: Karma!
You can tell by the numbers!!
My money is on you having no fucking clue what you're talking about.
Obviously people don't even read the articles anymore, let alone the links in the articles..
At any rate, I'd say the original poster should go with Maya. The UI is great, it is well supported under different operating systems and the renderer has been much improved if you get a recent version...Also, if the renderer isn't up to snuff for what you want, there are various free alternative renderers that are actually very good (POVray, the free Renderman clones (such as BMRT), etc) which Maya can export to using third party exporters.
That depends quite a lot on your definition of ALWAYS as it applies to Mozilla...Considering Mozilla was originally based off the Netscape source code (though I realize now it is been virtually completely rewritten). People seem to forget that Netscape were the kings of non-standard HTML as an attempt to "lock-in" customers. Hell, IE still to this day includes Mozilla in its user agent header to work around all the sites that would deny access to anything other than Netscape, back in the 2.0 era.
Yeah, how about Drum Mania? The Konami game that this is most directly like (and which has already seen about 7 releases in Japan).
As far as direct knock-offs go, this game is mostly Namco's "answer" to Konami's Drum Mania
In any case, I'm not sure why this was topic-worthy. There are tons of PS2 games available in Japan that you can't get in the US (yet if not ever). Even some, like Space Channel 5 Part 2, that US consumers would recognize.
Why'd you have to go and sully up a perfectly good karma whoring with your FACTS and LOGIC?
Jackass...
Well, there's CorelDRAW.... And that's about it. All of their other flagship products like WordPerfect, Quattro, Bryce, and so on were aquired from other companies and Corel has never really done much to improve upon what they purchased in any significant way.
I know I won't be shedding a tear for Corel if/when they go out of business. Just because they competed directly against Microsoft doesn't change the fact that the vast majority of their software offerings are blown away by competing products.
4 years for the 109 bit version (and that's with a massive, dedicated attack).... I'm willing to believe (barring some unknown theoretical advance, which is always something you have to worry about with all real-world usable cryptography) that the 163 bit keys are good enough for my data considering the exponential difficulty in attacking the longer keys.
You goddamn fat ass hippies better mod the parent post way up!
Another topic, another SexyKellyOsbourne trolly bit of karma whoring. Good job moderators!
In any case, I must admit I generally agree with this one post, except the bit about dogs being killed for sport by sadists who run the pound. What a bunch of horseshit that is.
That is such a horrible policy and a great way to ensure the kids learn nothing about computers in their time at high school. As a programmer, nothing pisses me off more than a facist admin who doesn't understand that the computer I use exists for the purposes of me getting work done, not for the purpose of always being in a known state so he can blissfully spend his days playing Quake3 online. Luckily the really good admins do understand this. And I'm not knocking admins in general here, a good one is worth his weight in gold.
2) Computer ADMIN not allowing her to install ANY programming software (borland freeware, DJGPP, etc) to disk
3) NOT allowing students to write (even temporary files) to the hard drive...
What the fuck? What are the computers there for if not for the students to actually use them?
Because, fair or not, Slashdot would very likely be sued if they included the partner links in the editor-sanctioned posts.
The links go to articles? Fascinating!
Commies!
2) Just because the IETF has a working group working to standardize/improve a protocol doesn't mean anyone will use it. I'll eat my hat if AIM/ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, etc, start using this protocol instead of their proprietary ones.
How'd the parent manage a +4 score?
Of course, you can't usually stop progress just to make someone's jobs easier, but I can imagine this will be a long time off for consumer use due to these and other debates, even if the technology is perfected soon. And even when/if it comes to pass, I'd imagine you'll have to compromise to legally use this system (by having a car that reports your GPS location on a lojack-like system, or such).
Assclown!
Just imagine all the royalties you could collect!
Of course, Slashdot has a ton of prior art to show in this category (even just in the past two weeks!) but that sort of thing never seems to stop the patent office from granting patents, so its worth a try!!!
I agree with the gist of your post, but Jefferson didn't believe any of those things (writers would not write, etc). He was, in fact, against patent & copyright as general ideas. His writings on these issues in the Constitution represent the ideas of others involved in the process whom Jefferson grudgingly compromised with.
Brian LaMacchia, eh? He's the older brother of David LaMacchia, the MIT student who got busted for running a giant pirate ftp site some years ago. Not that this has anything to do with anything, but its kinda funny that he's working on 'trusted computing' when his brother came 'this close' to being a warez-felon.