I'm going to get modded down for playing devil's advocate, but don't forget that he's working in text, while Bush and Kerry are working with speech and often on live TV. The tolerances and ability to double-check one's remarks are much higher here. I remember many times Slashdot conducted interviews by transcribing telephone conversations, and the subject was attacked for his poor composition skills.
Star Wars arguably, LOTR no. Watch the DVD extras- there was little CGI of complete environments, those were mostly done either on location in New Zealand or with miniatures ("bigatures", as weta prefers to call them). The CGI was mostly used for Gollum, animals, and the Massive crowd/battle generator.
Sky Captain really does represent a great leap forward- going from 2 sets to 1 is a minor change in logistics. Going from 1 to zero is a much bigger difference.
The idea is that the quantum technique guarantees that the information in the message can be read exactly once. If that read is performed by the party you are trying to communicate securely with, all is well. If the read is performed by an eavesdropper, then the trusted party will be unable to properly read the communication, and this will be an indication that the transmission was interfered with.
It's definitely possible for the ear to hear a difference that is not actually present in the sound. It's called the placebo effect and it's what double-blind testing eliminates.
This might have an interesting effect on PayPal's financial classification (I recall arguments back when it became popular over whether or not it counted as a bank, mostly in terms of what regulations it had to obey). Are there any laws regarding this sort of discriminatory service fees by banks? Would doing this disqualify PayPal from any commercial status it was hoping to attain or maintain?
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An Introduction to IPv6
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Be thankful people don't have unlimited IPs in their house. Most people that want to have multiple computers connected to the Internet use a NAT router and at least protect themselves SOMEWHAT from the outside threats. Can you imagine what would happen if all the Comcast retards were straight to the Net with their own IP on each computer?
Not all that much different from today, for 2 reasons:
0wned PCs getting abused tend to max out the connections they are attached to. Once that happens, it doesn't matter if the traffic is coming from 1 PC or a hundred- only 1 upstreams' worth of bad packets are getting onto the net.
I would wager that the vast majority of people who tend to get 0wned have only 1 computer. Any house with 2, 3, or more probably has at least one person in it who knows about security.
ISPs make some good money (hell mine gets $5/mo more out of me for an additional IP) selling off static/dynamic IP space. You think Comcast is going to move for a switch when they make $10/mo per extra IP?
If anything, they would take this chance to wage a renewed campaign of "you don't really need that router, please buy multiple IPv6 addresses".
If they can block USB keys, it should be trivial to have an option to make removable media drives unbootable. You can already do this on a Mac with open firmware.
They could probably still get you on vague computer hacking laws, or something completely unrelated like creating a public nuisance.
Also, wouldn't that program make the wireless network useless, defeating the purpose and proving the university's point that wireless should be more tightly controlled?
You think 100 times the capacity for 3-4 times the cost is "not much advantage"? Let me know next time you need to transfer a 40MB file; it should be fun to watch.
It doesn't matter how good your sound card is if the game is outputting a simple stereo single with a music loop and some canned effects. If the developer doesn't go the extra mile to create decent sound content and a good audio playback engine in the game, then it will never sound as good as it looks- but it is possible to do both at once with the right approach.
There's an interesting rant from one of Halo's programmers here about the state and future directions of game audio.
Executive summary: Bits and bytes are like centimeters and meters. They're different scales of the same thing, and whether you use one or the other is dictated partly by which is appropriate to the magnitude of the value being expressed and partly by tradition.
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I hope you'd use it on "funny".
I'm going to get modded down for playing devil's advocate, but don't forget that he's working in text, while Bush and Kerry are working with speech and often on live TV. The tolerances and ability to double-check one's remarks are much higher here. I remember many times Slashdot conducted interviews by transcribing telephone conversations, and the subject was attacked for his poor composition skills.
The photos originally came from Something Awful. 'nuff said.
The "they deserved it" response is from elitist morons. If I break into a building with a 50-year-old padlock on it, does that make it legal?
Star Wars arguably, LOTR no. Watch the DVD extras- there was little CGI of complete environments, those were mostly done either on location in New Zealand or with miniatures ("bigatures", as weta prefers to call them). The CGI was mostly used for Gollum, animals, and the Massive crowd/battle generator.
Sky Captain really does represent a great leap forward- going from 2 sets to 1 is a minor change in logistics. Going from 1 to zero is a much bigger difference.
Every movie is a forgery, and they're popular because of it, not because the audience successfully ignores it. If you want reality, see a play.
They already did a commercial like that with Jeff Goldblum for the original CRT iMac.
If the finance room was named after a bank, was the room named after fast food for liberal arts?
The idea is that the quantum technique guarantees that the information in the message can be read exactly once. If that read is performed by the party you are trying to communicate securely with, all is well. If the read is performed by an eavesdropper, then the trusted party will be unable to properly read the communication, and this will be an indication that the transmission was interfered with.
It's definitely possible for the ear to hear a difference that is not actually present in the sound. It's called the placebo effect and it's what double-blind testing eliminates.
Increased efficiency can easily lead to increased accuracy as it allows more expensive techniques to be used for the same cost.
They're so far away the Matrix is accumulating significant floating point error.
This might have an interesting effect on PayPal's financial classification (I recall arguments back when it became popular over whether or not it counted as a bank, mostly in terms of what regulations it had to obey). Are there any laws regarding this sort of discriminatory service fees by banks? Would doing this disqualify PayPal from any commercial status it was hoping to attain or maintain?
Not all that much different from today, for 2 reasons:
ISPs make some good money (hell mine gets $5/mo more out of me for an additional IP) selling off static/dynamic IP space. You think Comcast is going to move for a switch when they make $10/mo per extra IP?
If anything, they would take this chance to wage a renewed campaign of "you don't really need that router, please buy multiple IPv6 addresses".
If they can block USB keys, it should be trivial to have an option to make removable media drives unbootable. You can already do this on a Mac with open firmware.
They could probably still get you on vague computer hacking laws, or something completely unrelated like creating a public nuisance.
Also, wouldn't that program make the wireless network useless, defeating the purpose and proving the university's point that wireless should be more tightly controlled?
I think the part about "uses sewage or excrement to attract flies" kinda rules out home use.
On the plus side, this will also dissuade enemies from trying to explode them...
Would you have any objection to an animal being killed by another animal in order to stay alive?
Humans are just very intelligent animals, and the fly-eating robot is just a (very abstracted) result of our drive to stay alive.
Actually, this would be much more difficult with Go, as the best Go-playing AIs are not really better than the average player.
I stand corrected, thanks.
The electoral college is not described at all in the Constitution; it was a later addition.
Direct elections would cost the sparsely populated states what little influence they have in the electoral college system already.
Just so we can move on to the serious questions, please put all "Buffering..." jokes below this post.
You think 100 times the capacity for 3-4 times the cost is "not much advantage"? Let me know next time you need to transfer a 40MB file; it should be fun to watch.
It doesn't matter how good your sound card is if the game is outputting a simple stereo single with a music loop and some canned effects. If the developer doesn't go the extra mile to create decent sound content and a good audio playback engine in the game, then it will never sound as good as it looks- but it is possible to do both at once with the right approach.
There's an interesting rant from one of Halo's programmers here about the state and future directions of game audio.
Executive summary: Bits and bytes are like centimeters and meters. They're different scales of the same thing, and whether you use one or the other is dictated partly by which is appropriate to the magnitude of the value being expressed and partly by tradition.