A volcanic eruption kicks up several million times the heat and pollution of a rocket launch, and plenty of those have happened in Earth's history with no major side effects...
...is that Arthur C. Clarke predicted this (editing out cigarettes in old movies) for a somewhat dystopian future c. 2012 in The Ghost from the Grand Banks (IIRC).
I first saw the show on Cartoon Network a year or so back, when it was first on CTN. My first impression was: my god... more CGI. In addition to the CGI, it is _bad_ CGI. Examples of good CGI are : The up and coming Final Fantasy movie (get the trailer at http://www.rpgamer.com ) and some of the scenes from Gladiator
Isn't it a little unfair to compared today's cutting-edged CGI to the first CGI TV show ever? For the day (1996 IIRC), it looked damn good. And it defintely got better as it went along.
Aside from the poor CGI, the show is just generally lacking. I have fialed to find a plot in any of the several episodes I have watched. All I see in that show are wandering characters, full of the sensationalism that often crowds the mass media when it comes to technology.
Have you seen the 3rd season or the first and/or second? The third season is so far beyond the other two you'd find it hard to believe they are the same show. It has better animation, a continuing plot, real action, all the good stuff.
I would hazard a guess that the majority of Mac users have never compiled a program.
I would put this figure more around 90%. People buy Macs to do things, not to crack them open and play around with them. Why do you think the Mac dominates the graphics/publishing industry and is hated by "true" geeks elsewhere?
The Mac and *nix customer bases have totally different priorities. Linux people are willing to explore something to learn it, and are willing to put effort into making the program do what they want, not caring about how much time this will take. Mac users want the program to do exactly what they want from the get-go (which is why a non-configurable interface is a good thing: Apple forcing all programs to look and act the same way means that "generic Mac skills" can be applied to virtually every program out there), they see time tuning the program as time taken away from more imporant tasks they could be using the program to do.
I see a lot of comments around here to the effect of "if you can't do something, take the time to learn it, it's good for you." This philosophy will never make it with the vast majority of users.
So on an Open Media site, the news flows from altruistic visitors, much as comments and stories flow here? Where does the news come from in the first place? 99% of the news here contains a link to another site, more often than not a "Closed Media" site like NYT.
Katz seems to believe that news is there for the taking, as ubiquitous as web pages. He's ignoring the actual process of obtaining news from the real world, which is where it happens; this is as different from finding web pages and submitting them as talking about cars is from actually building one. There's a reason "journalism" is a profession, not a hobby.
Carbon dating is only accurate down to about 400 years. I'm not completely sure why, it has somethingto do with the ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 not having chagned enough.
A system like the Anonymizer: A noncompliant organization or country sets up servers that will download anything, strip out its rating or give it an inocuous one, and send it back to the viewer.
ever hear of buffer overflows? find one, smash the stack and take over. make a few toolbox calls and erease all the files on the server.
It's not that simple to erase a disk on a Mac. You have to have pretty good knowledge of the machine's configuration (including I think the HD name and a few other things that would be hard to get remotely) and it's not like the Toolbox has a single "format c:" command. Also, remember that nobody won the Crack-a-Mac contest.
Oooh... we have a proprietary machine, that, wait, has to run a proprietary operating system. To top if off, every 6 to 9 months you have to upgrade your OS for 90 dollars.
Don't like it, put Linux on it. Yes, you can do that.
Hell, imagine the scream here and elsewhere if every 9 months to 1 year you had to pay microsoft for MINOR updates. (which is all the Mac OS ever gets... gee a better internet search engine and prettier graphics)
Mac OS 8.5 added to Mac OS 8 prettier graphics, a better internet search engine, better virtual memory (improving on the already improved vmem of OS 8), improved networking, improved all sorts of other stuff, and just like all the other updates it was faster and more stable. OS 9 will add Carbon compatibility to prepare for OS X consumer, multiuser capability, TCP file sharing, and more. Windows 98 added to 95 a bundled web browser, little sliding menus, and fixes for dozens of security holes for the same price. Which was worth it?
There is nothing wrong with requiring labels on products. Such regulations already exist in nearly every other industry. Such labels would put the decision back int he hands of parents where it belongs: If your kid wants to buy something, check the label (or better yet see/play it yourself) and then make the call.
The danger of course is the second half: Government enforcement of such labels. This is just plain evil. If someone thinks his child is old enough to watch A Clockwork Orange then its their right to be able to show it to their children.
I wonder how many problems we could solve by reducing the required voting age to 0?
Yes, it is somewhat hypocritical of Katz to on the one hand condemn software piracy as theft but to support piracy of TV programming as "doing the right thing". WB was certainly in the wrong for pulling the finale, but it doesn't make it any more right for people to steal their content. There must be a dozen better ways to influence a TV network.
The keynote is available in streaming Quicktime from Apple's site, although it's probably overwhelmed right now. They have a G4 and a P3/600 side by side, and the G4 is at least twice as fast as the P3 in every single test: Photoshop, movie encoding, SETI@home, encryption, 3D rendering.
And remember: It's not the case this time, it's the processor!
Nerds (at least the nerds I know) don't mock non-nerds. We're not snobs. What they're mocking here are folks who are so astonishingly and preventably ignorant that it's just plain funny. I don't view people who refer to speakers as "the computer's brain" or who place orders for "60 nanoseconds of RAM" as idiots, all I see is a remark that is funny from a more knowledgable perspective. I'm sure mechanics pass around similar lists of boneheaded remarks nerds make about their cars, for example.
In the beginning, people tried everything under the sun, and a huge number of new sites sprang up overnight, spreading across the new terrain. Now we've been here long enough to see what will work and what won't, and the "newness" has worn off and people are actually looking at the quality of what they're seeing. People have realized that buzzwords like "consistency", "dynamic content", and so on are actually important. They realize that some sites are better than others and give them more of what they want and do it better than others. So they visit the good sites, and drop the bad ones. Good sites tend to have a wide audience, a lot of user loyalty (aka brand recognition) and good strategies for attracting new eyeballs. Bad sites lack all of those qualities. Presto, the audience coalesces around the few good sites and the bad sites are abandoned.
The applicability of approximate algorithms for solving the TSP to the parallel question of code-breaking is, of course, doubtful. In the case of the TSP, one has a metric by which "approximate" solutions can be judged - and there are algorithms which can guarantee a result within, say, 10% of the best possible answer. In code-breaking, however, a wrong key produces gibberish, and there are no "approximately right" keys which decrypt SOME of the information only.
Unless I seriously misunderstand the operations of quantum computers, couldn't you just port a normal crack program and try every possible key simultaneously?
Kids are the people most affected by these regulations. Kids are the people who directly experiences the effects (if any) of the movies in question. The testimony of the kids themselves is the most important and most overlooked part of this debate, and the point of the thousand E-mails is that the kids unanimously disagree with the moral guardians.
...did the reviewer pull his copy of Myth 1? "Didn't live up to its full potential"? "Bleak and empty battlefields"? "Just another game on the shelf"? Myth is one of the best games I've ever played, and I don't even like the RTS genre. There was hardly a moment when I wasn't fending off enemies, and when they temporarily pulled back it just made me fear their return. Myth won several Strategy Game of the Year awards and pretty much revolutionized the genre (and did away with resource management, thank god!)
I don't see this as having the enormous beneficial impact some people expect. Mostly it's the issue of ads and revenue streams. If the commercial blocker works, there goes the network's money. They'll either find some way to insert ads into the actual content (probably overdosing on product placement, like the Truman Show) or just switch revenue streams completely and *all* shows become pay-per-view. I fail to see the advantage over today's system: Free TV with occasional application of mute button.
I second that! I've seen monsters in Marathon dodge my shots, run away when hurt, or circle around to get me from the rear. And the graphics are some of the best I've seen, very spooky and atmospheric. Only in Marathon do I actually become frightened while playing. As for the story, Marathon still has more story than the rest of the game industry put together. The tru7th is still out there!
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A volcanic eruption kicks up several million times the heat and pollution of a rocket launch, and plenty of those have happened in Earth's history with no major side effects...
Maybe not, but it's a damn good show. The worst you can call it is offtopic.
...is that Arthur C. Clarke predicted this (editing out cigarettes in old movies) for a somewhat dystopian future c. 2012 in The Ghost from the Grand Banks (IIRC).
The future is now...
::cue cheesy sci-fi music::
Isn't it a little unfair to compared today's cutting-edged CGI to the first CGI TV show ever? For the day (1996 IIRC), it looked damn good. And it defintely got better as it went along.
Have you seen the 3rd season or the first and/or second? The third season is so far beyond the other two you'd find it hard to believe they are the same show. It has better animation, a continuing plot, real action, all the good stuff.
Macster can only download, it can't let others DL from it.
[Disclaimer: I am a Mac user and programmer]
I would hazard a guess that the majority of Mac users have never compiled a program.
I would put this figure more around 90%. People buy Macs to do things, not to crack them open and play around with them. Why do you think the Mac dominates the graphics/publishing industry and is hated by "true" geeks elsewhere?
The Mac and *nix customer bases have totally different priorities. Linux people are willing to explore something to learn it, and are willing to put effort into making the program do what they want, not caring about how much time this will take. Mac users want the program to do exactly what they want from the get-go (which is why a non-configurable interface is a good thing: Apple forcing all programs to look and act the same way means that "generic Mac skills" can be applied to virtually every program out there), they see time tuning the program as time taken away from more imporant tasks they could be using the program to do.
I see a lot of comments around here to the effect of "if you can't do something, take the time to learn it, it's good for you." This philosophy will never make it with the vast majority of users.
So on an Open Media site, the news flows from altruistic visitors, much as comments and stories flow here? Where does the news come from in the first place? 99% of the news here contains a link to another site, more often than not a "Closed Media" site like NYT.
Katz seems to believe that news is there for the taking, as ubiquitous as web pages. He's ignoring the actual process of obtaining news from the real world, which is where it happens; this is as different from finding web pages and submitting them as talking about cars is from actually building one. There's a reason "journalism" is a profession, not a hobby.
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Planetwide disaster, there goes everybody... Oh wait, the Mars colony survived, humans aren't extinct yet. Good thing we went to Mars after all ;)
Carbon dating is only accurate down to about 400 years. I'm not completely sure why, it has somethingto do with the ratio of carbon-14 to carbon-12 not having chagned enough.
A system like the Anonymizer: A noncompliant organization or country sets up servers that will download anything, strip out its rating or give it an inocuous one, and send it back to the viewer.
ever hear of buffer overflows? find one, smash the stack and take over. make a few toolbox calls and erease all the files on the server.
It's not that simple to erase a disk on a Mac. You have to have pretty good knowledge of the machine's configuration (including I think the HD name and a few other things that would be hard to get remotely) and it's not like the Toolbox has a single "format c:" command. Also, remember that nobody won the Crack-a-Mac contest.
Oooh... we have a proprietary machine, that, wait, has to run a proprietary operating system. To top if off, every 6 to 9 months you have to upgrade your OS for 90 dollars.
Don't like it, put Linux on it. Yes, you can do that.
Hell, imagine the scream here and elsewhere if every 9 months to 1 year you had to pay microsoft for MINOR updates. (which is all the Mac OS ever gets... gee a better internet search engine and prettier graphics)
Mac OS 8.5 added to Mac OS 8 prettier graphics, a better internet search engine, better virtual memory (improving on the already improved vmem of OS 8), improved networking, improved all sorts of other stuff, and just like all the other updates it was faster and more stable. OS 9 will add Carbon compatibility to prepare for OS X consumer, multiuser capability, TCP file sharing, and more. Windows 98 added to 95 a bundled web browser, little sliding menus, and fixes for dozens of security holes for the same price. Which was worth it?
There is nothing wrong with requiring labels on products. Such regulations already exist in nearly every other industry. Such labels would put the decision back int he hands of parents where it belongs: If your kid wants to buy something, check the label (or better yet see/play it yourself) and then make the call.
The danger of course is the second half: Government enforcement of such labels. This is just plain evil. If someone thinks his child is old enough to watch A Clockwork Orange then its their right to be able to show it to their children.
I wonder how many problems we could solve by reducing the required voting age to 0?
Yes, it is somewhat hypocritical of Katz to on the one hand condemn software piracy as theft but to support piracy of TV programming as "doing the right thing". WB was certainly in the wrong for pulling the finale, but it doesn't make it any more right for people to steal their content. There must be a dozen better ways to influence a TV network.
People have been saying this, virtually word for word, for the past 10 years.
The keynote is available in streaming Quicktime from Apple's site, although it's probably overwhelmed right now. They have a G4 and a P3/600 side by side, and the G4 is at least twice as fast as the P3 in every single test: Photoshop, movie encoding, SETI@home, encryption, 3D rendering.
And remember: It's not the case this time, it's the processor!
Nerds (at least the nerds I know) don't mock non-nerds. We're not snobs. What they're mocking here are folks who are so astonishingly and preventably ignorant that it's just plain funny. I don't view people who refer to speakers as "the computer's brain" or who place orders for "60 nanoseconds of RAM" as idiots, all I see is a remark that is funny from a more knowledgable perspective. I'm sure mechanics pass around similar lists of boneheaded remarks nerds make about their cars, for example.
In the beginning, people tried everything under the sun, and a huge number of new sites sprang up overnight, spreading across the new terrain. Now we've been here long enough to see what will work and what won't, and the "newness" has worn off and people are actually looking at the quality of what they're seeing. People have realized that buzzwords like "consistency", "dynamic content", and so on are actually important. They realize that some sites are better than others and give them more of what they want and do it better than others. So they visit the good sites, and drop the bad ones. Good sites tend to have a wide audience, a lot of user loyalty (aka brand recognition) and good strategies for attracting new eyeballs. Bad sites lack all of those qualities. Presto, the audience coalesces around the few good sites and the bad sites are abandoned.
A few weeks ago, Katz lambasted the media by saying that BWP is a new breed of movie.
Today, Katz lambasts the media for saying that BWP is a new breed of movie.
Any questions?
The applicability of approximate algorithms for solving the TSP to the parallel question of code-breaking is, of course, doubtful. In the case of the TSP, one has a metric by which "approximate" solutions can be judged - and there are algorithms which can guarantee a result within, say, 10% of the best possible answer. In code-breaking, however, a wrong key produces gibberish, and there are no "approximately right" keys which decrypt SOME of the information only.
Unless I seriously misunderstand the operations of quantum computers, couldn't you just port a normal crack program and try every possible key simultaneously?
Kids are the people most affected by these regulations. Kids are the people who directly experiences the effects (if any) of the movies in question. The testimony of the kids themselves is the most important and most overlooked part of this debate, and the point of the thousand E-mails is that the kids unanimously disagree with the moral guardians.
...did the reviewer pull his copy of Myth 1? "Didn't live up to its full potential"? "Bleak and empty battlefields"? "Just another game on the shelf"? Myth is one of the best games I've ever played, and I don't even like the RTS genre. There was hardly a moment when I wasn't fending off enemies, and when they temporarily pulled back it just made me fear their return. Myth won several Strategy Game of the Year awards and pretty much revolutionized the genre (and did away with resource management, thank god!)
Linux can handle these, and QT on Mac/Win as well (QT4 comes with support, QT3 needs an seperate extension)
I don't see this as having the enormous beneficial impact some people expect. Mostly it's the issue of ads and revenue streams. If the commercial blocker works, there goes the network's money. They'll either find some way to insert ads into the actual content (probably overdosing on product placement, like the Truman Show) or just switch revenue streams completely and *all* shows become pay-per-view. I fail to see the advantage over today's system: Free TV with occasional application of mute button.
I second that! I've seen monsters in Marathon dodge my shots, run away when hurt, or circle around to get me from the rear. And the graphics are some of the best I've seen, very spooky and atmospheric. Only in Marathon do I actually become frightened while playing. As for the story, Marathon still has more story than the rest of the game industry put together. The tru7th is still out there!