Interesting, offtopic story: In New York City, advertisments with built-in IR download units have started to appear. You pull out your PDA, point it at the side of the booth, and get a tiny program that has something to do with the ad or NYC (well, ideally, it didn't work for me the one time I tried it). Imagine, in your example, looking for a sushi restaurant, going up to an ad for the Zagat survey, downloading a listing of all restaurants in a 10-block radius, and doing a search for "sushi". This might actually work...
It would not be able to take over the net. Even a perfect virus is vulernable to various things it has no control over:
Dual-booting. Shell scripts may be cross-Unix but they sure aren't cross-OS. Boot your box back into Windows or Mac OS Nonstandard installs. The vast majority of vulnerabilities rely on the system matching the virus's expectations in some way. Change your system configuration in such a way as to break the virus's infection engine (for Code Red, you could move or rename cmd.exe).
Read-only media. Reformat and install from a CD. It can't survive that and it can't stop you from doing it.
One more thing: All viruses have undisclosed actions. A virus's actions are only discovered when someone at a security firm reverse-engineers it. It's not like virus writers issue press releases...
Was the image exactly the same as the movie, including:
Motion blur? Motion blur is generally done on 3D cards by rendering the scene several times over per "frame"; if they could pull this off I'd be very impressed but right now it just makes me wonder more.
Volumetric effects. These are hard to do with just polygons, even with programmable shaders. And as others have said, the Quadro is nothing compared the Renderman's software-based shading system used for the movie.
Animation identical to the movie. I assume some nontrivial processing of the motion was used to model the hair, cloth, whatever in the movie. That would be a processing load, if nothing else.
Full resolution textures. I believe the movie used something around 500MB of data per image (this figure may be from Toy Story 2, I don't remember exactly, but is so FF is probably higher). Moving that much data over the AGP bus would take a large chunk of that.4 of a second by itself.
That is why we also have a House of Representatives. The founders couldn't decide whether to have proportionate or equal representation, so they put in both.
I would bet money that's the only time that has ever happened (aside from collisions during takeoff and landing, when the plane's location is very constrained) in 100 years of aerospace technology and hundreds of millions of flights.
(Of course, evidence of more midair collisions is welcome...)
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There have always been people like this, who would run sites and magazines and public-access TV shows like Seanbaby if they could. The real point that Katz should have been trying to make is that the Internet has removed the cost of distribution (mostly) and allowed Seanbaby to become popular around the world.
AOL/TW and Microsoft will not be able to replace counterculture. They may make it slightly more difficult to find, but they can't force me to look at their crap.
Before anyone posts some rant along the lines of ["They should have been smarter"|"They should have known better"|"Why are people so stupid as to fall for this all the time"], they should read this essay on Milgram's studies of authority. It's frightening.
I had interpreted the grandparent post as saying that IE would do client-side filtering based on the contents of the URL (not too far a stretch from what MS has been confirmed to have done to DR-DOS in Windows 3.1 betas).
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There's also the subtle difference that flaws in Microsoft products don't kill people.
Yes, science believed that the Earth was the center of the universe. HOWEVER, when new evidence was discovered that proved that the Earth was not the center of the universe, science was happy to say "I've been wrong all along, the Earth is not actually the center of the universe. Thanks for the tip, Copernicus.", thus leading to modern astronomy and many horrible things done by the church to scientists. Science is the only force powering the advancement of knowledge in the world, and to cut it off because it "may not work" or may result in negative consequences is pure Luddism. As so many people here say regarding other issues, the toolmaker is not at fault for misuse of his products.
Being pro-choice, I wouldn't object if a woman chose to do this herself, but I wouldn't encourage the creation of a market for it.
However, this is a worst-case scenario and somewaht beside the point. If I understand stem cells correctly, they will act like various strains of cancerous cells already used in research. There will be one collection of constantly reproducing stem cells at the supplier. No more original stem cells or fetal tissue will be needed, as long as the main line can be kept undifferentiated and reproducing indefinitely. Laboratories will simply buy cultures off this main supply.
but as it seems they run them through md5 to keep you from stealing them
Can someone explain how a web server can stop me from saving a picture locally? Every browser I have ever used had a client-side "save downloaded data" function.
That just means that online comics are equivalent to newspaper comics, even if some of them are trying to be like book comics. The Internet mindset has no place for a site that's only updated once a month, even if that update is very large.
There is no such thing as a "target discovery". Pure research is speculative, you execute the hypothesize-experiment-revise loop until something interesting happens (Applied research is a whole other ball of wax).
Look at your example from this direction: You are not allowed to just give up and declare your research a waste of time in the scientific method, you are supposed to go back over it and see what can be improved (hence the experiment-revise part of the cycle). The only reason a team might conclude they are on the wrong track is that someone else proves they are on the right track or disproves a central theory of the wrong track. This inter-team communication requires widespread, highly efficient communication, in which case the Internet would be a great help rather than a hindrance. Plus, it enables useful things like direct publishing of data and global peer review.
Look in your browser preferences. Uncheck Java, Javascript, Flash. Set up some site filters or install an ad-blocking proxy. Set up some email rules (guaranteed method: reject all except a specific allow list). This will take you about half an hour. If you set it up properly I bet you couldn't find an ad online if you went looking for one.
Exactly... Under universal competition, it would be acceptable for 1-800-Flowers to retaliate by DoSing FTD.com, and for FTD to respond to that by mailing letter bombs to 1-800-Flowers HQ. The code of honor being used here is probably something along the lines of "You don't try to steal customers while they are actually in the middle of executing a transaction with a competitor."
The OS X version of Giants is using Cocoa's MP-aware multithreading on Tim Wood's dual-processor Mac. Good point about the GF3, but I don't find it hard to believe that Giants is also processor-bound. Elsewhere in the article he describes the Athlon running at 20fps.
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Interesting, offtopic story: In New York City, advertisments with built-in IR download units have started to appear. You pull out your PDA, point it at the side of the booth, and get a tiny program that has something to do with the ad or NYC (well, ideally, it didn't work for me the one time I tried it). Imagine, in your example, looking for a sushi restaurant, going up to an ad for the Zagat survey, downloading a listing of all restaurants in a 10-block radius, and doing a search for "sushi". This might actually work...
And what will Disney do with all three of them?
...the universe is being run on old Pentiums?
[studio audience laughs]
- Dual-booting. Shell scripts may be cross-Unix but they sure aren't cross-OS. Boot your box back into Windows or Mac OS Nonstandard installs. The vast majority of vulnerabilities rely on the system matching the virus's expectations in some way. Change your system configuration in such a way as to break the virus's infection engine (for Code Red, you could move or rename cmd.exe).
- Read-only media. Reformat and install from a CD. It can't survive that and it can't stop you from doing it.
One more thing: All viruses have undisclosed actions. A virus's actions are only discovered when someone at a security firm reverse-engineers it. It's not like virus writers issue press releases...And don't forget that the GPL is evil, and any program you write with it is like a virus. Hey, wait a minute.. :P
I bet that's still a hell of a lot less than running a TV station or publishing a magazine.
That is why we also have a House of Representatives. The founders couldn't decide whether to have proportionate or equal representation, so they put in both.
I would bet money that's the only time that has ever happened (aside from collisions during takeoff and landing, when the plane's location is very constrained) in 100 years of aerospace technology and hundreds of millions of flights.
(Of course, evidence of more midair collisions is welcome...)
There have always been people like this, who would run sites and magazines and public-access TV shows like Seanbaby if they could. The real point that Katz should have been trying to make is that the Internet has removed the cost of distribution (mostly) and allowed Seanbaby to become popular around the world.
AOL/TW and Microsoft will not be able to replace counterculture. They may make it slightly more difficult to find, but they can't force me to look at their crap.
Before anyone posts some rant along the lines of ["They should have been smarter"|"They should have known better"|"Why are people so stupid as to fall for this all the time"], they should read this essay on Milgram's studies of authority. It's frightening.
Molybdenum.
I had interpreted the grandparent post as saying that IE would do client-side filtering based on the contents of the URL (not too far a stretch from what MS has been confirmed to have done to DR-DOS in Windows 3.1 betas).
There's also the subtle difference that flaws in Microsoft products don't kill people.
Rename your perl files to foo.asp and fiddle with the MIME types.
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Yes, science believed that the Earth was the center of the universe. HOWEVER, when new evidence was discovered that proved that the Earth was not the center of the universe, science was happy to say "I've been wrong all along, the Earth is not actually the center of the universe. Thanks for the tip, Copernicus.", thus leading to modern astronomy and many horrible things done by the church to scientists. Science is the only force powering the advancement of knowledge in the world, and to cut it off because it "may not work" or may result in negative consequences is pure Luddism. As so many people here say regarding other issues, the toolmaker is not at fault for misuse of his products.
Being pro-choice, I wouldn't object if a woman chose to do this herself, but I wouldn't encourage the creation of a market for it.
However, this is a worst-case scenario and somewaht beside the point. If I understand stem cells correctly, they will act like various strains of cancerous cells already used in research. There will be one collection of constantly reproducing stem cells at the supplier. No more original stem cells or fetal tissue will be needed, as long as the main line can be kept undifferentiated and reproducing indefinitely. Laboratories will simply buy cultures off this main supply.
That just means that online comics are equivalent to newspaper comics, even if some of them are trying to be like book comics. The Internet mindset has no place for a site that's only updated once a month, even if that update is very large.
There is no such thing as a "target discovery". Pure research is speculative, you execute the hypothesize-experiment-revise loop until something interesting happens (Applied research is a whole other ball of wax).
Look at your example from this direction: You are not allowed to just give up and declare your research a waste of time in the scientific method, you are supposed to go back over it and see what can be improved (hence the experiment-revise part of the cycle). The only reason a team might conclude they are on the wrong track is that someone else proves they are on the right track or disproves a central theory of the wrong track. This inter-team communication requires widespread, highly efficient communication, in which case the Internet would be a great help rather than a hindrance. Plus, it enables useful things like direct publishing of data and global peer review.
You might also want to check that contract for the "no servers" clause that 500 other posters have already pointed out.
Although this is probably an urban legend, I have been told of someone to whom SirCam emailed Windows XP RC1. So yes it is theoretically possbile ;)
Look in your browser preferences. Uncheck Java, Javascript, Flash. Set up some site filters or install an ad-blocking proxy. Set up some email rules (guaranteed method: reject all except a specific allow list). This will take you about half an hour. If you set it up properly I bet you couldn't find an ad online if you went looking for one.
Exactly... Under universal competition, it would be acceptable for 1-800-Flowers to retaliate by DoSing FTD.com, and for FTD to respond to that by mailing letter bombs to 1-800-Flowers HQ. The code of honor being used here is probably something along the lines of "You don't try to steal customers while they are actually in the middle of executing a transaction with a competitor."
The OS X version of Giants is using Cocoa's MP-aware multithreading on Tim Wood's dual-processor Mac. Good point about the GF3, but I don't find it hard to believe that Giants is also processor-bound. Elsewhere in the article he describes the Athlon running at 20fps.