Damn it! Why did you have to choose the exact time when i can't be there?!?!?! I have a final to take at that exact time, you insensitive clods!
sigh...
To somebody who will be able to attend, please ask for an option to get a reply message which includes mod's comments as to why they chose to reject a story that the user has submitted. Otherwise, everybody has to guess why their piece was rejected.
I completely agree. Stealing in the physical world is easy to understand - the owner loses the artefact that was stolen from them. When copying data, the owner does not lose the original data, but loses *potential* income (it is not in advance known whether the person who made a copy would have purchased the data from the author at all)....and of course that's the issue... It will become much more of an issue if (or when) we will have the ability to create exact copies of physical objects. If you've ever seen Star Trek, do you ever wonder why they have abandoned money? I say it's because they have that same ability - they can easily generate copies of nearly any [non-living] matter. If the RIAA succeeds in banning digital copying now, will somebody try and achieve the same goal to prevent people in some 3rd world country from getting free bread?? (which reminds me, i've been meaning to copyright what is now Vanilla Coke - a drink that is easily created by mixing equal portions of Coke "classic" and cream soda... as/. says, "it's funny. laugh.")
As for his comment that the recording industry's income decreased in the last few years: it happens, dork! Look at the Silicon Valley! Do you think it's easy to find a job nowadays?? And here I thought it wasn't easy to get money without a job or resorting to stealing...
"Someone needs to tell the executives at Intel that an employee representing the company showed up at the Texas committee hearing for the opposition."
This may be too strong a statement... Just because someone from Intel showed up, doesn't mean that Intel is opposed to that. Maybe Intel told that employee to visit that meeting and bring them the scoop to improve their rebuttal..? Then again, maybe they're considering joining in... In either case, it makes no sense to make such guesses just yet.
Well, it seems that AOL has finally realized that it's losing too many of its "customers" to other AIM network clients like Trillian, Miranda, GAIM, et.al., which already have encryption capabilities and are ACTUALLY FREE - no ads, and often even open source. As for those of you who don't care about encrypting your IMs... just leave the option turned off XD I guess you just don't care that your dorm-mates can effortlessly read every word you say to. If that wasn't enough for me, I have friends who, for the lack of a better description, "know too much". Thus, I never know which way a conversation can turn... better have it encrypted or else:P
well, if you think about it, there are 40 * 25 ms in a 1 s, so you should should be able to get 40 Hz assuming that the 25 ms includes both of the "powerup" and "powerdown" times (sorry, don't know the correct terms of when the pixel becomes lit and becomes dark). 22 ms of this monitor translates to roughly ~45.5 Hz, so the 75 Hz must have come from some other source... i would think it is "comparable to 75Hz on a CRT", hence my original message
I agree with the "more fingers" remark - since the frequency of the monitor is higher than that of an old 13"-er, you'll see many more "shadows" of your hand as you wave it in front of the screen. As for the PPT presentations... why waste money on this monitor if you can buy a decent projector for half (if not third) of the price?
very nice specs, but 75 Hz probably won't cut it for many computer users that may want a monitor as big as this (gamers, graphics designers, and IRC junkies XD). My eyes start hurting with any frequency below 85Hz, and I've met some people who can barely tolerate 100Hz.
a) don't forget that the world simulated in the matrix is at the end of the 20th-beginning of 21st century (possibly present day)
b) the machines must've come up with a much better communication method than the IP:)
what about agent Smith gettin into the "real" world??
Re:nmap used for hax0ry in Matrix: Reloaded!!
on
Review: Matrix: Reloaded
·
· Score: 2, Interesting
YESSSS!!!
I was one of about dozen voices that yelled/laffed out as she was doing just that!
unfortunately it was too fast for me to see the whole printout:(
guess i'll just have to practice more XD
CGI. sex. CGI. more CGI. sex with CGI. CGI. sex in CGI... you get the pattern. Unfortunately, both of the above sell well... hence the showing was sold out. I have to admit that the fight scenes were really cool on bay area's biggest screen, though:)
*PARTIAL SPOILER WARNING*
If you ask me, the only reasonable explanation for the (somewhat predictable) ending is that the matrix is indeed a simulation WITHIN another simulation, and those that reject the simulated simulation live happily in the REAL simulation.
Homer: Those [songs] suck. They're worse than nothing! I can write WAY better songs! Lawyer: go ahead, but don't use A flat or G natural - those notes are owned by Disney
You're all too excited about this, which means you're not apathetic... which means you have no idea what you're talking about.
I think I'll go join the Apathy Party. Or not. Whatever.
Oh suuuuure... Let's take a step back and remember the 286 Protected Mode fiasco. At least 386 doesn't suffer from that problem... it's still supported by many *nix operating systems
i used to own a ZX-Spectrum -compatible computer... that thing was totally unbreakable. The keyboard (which also housed the computer itself) took books dropped from 30cm easily. I don't remember if i dropped the case itself at one point... But its monitor was built like they're not built any more (about 10" and monochrome). It had some sort of intermittent problem (can't remember what exactly).. anyway, I stored it somewhere up high... A few weeks later, I wanted to try and see if it was working and... dropped it from about 2 meters to the hardwood floor! Guess what, the monitor survived almost without a scratch (which is more than i can say for the hardwood floor -_-') AND its intermittent problem disappeared for a few years! See if your 21-incher can take that and fix itself X-D
Doesn't anyone remember that episode of X-Files? They engineered a special nicotine-free tobacco, which resulted in test subjects literally becoming hives for some tobacco-loving bugs. Let's see if this attempt is any better than that one:D
Slashdot Mirror
actually, you can get one right here. These have been out for a while now... They're only 1.4 GHz, though :(
Damn it! Why did you have to choose the exact time when i can't be there?!?!?! I have a final to take at that exact time, you insensitive clods!
sigh...
To somebody who will be able to attend, please ask for an option to get a reply message which includes mod's comments as to why they chose to reject a story that the user has submitted. Otherwise, everybody has to guess why their piece was rejected.
this benchmark improvement thing rings a bell.
XD
if only they started *producing* those chips 30% faster...
well, one can only hope...
I completely agree. ...and of course that's the issue... /. says, "it's funny. laugh.")
:P
Stealing in the physical world is easy to understand - the owner loses the artefact that was stolen from them. When copying data, the owner does not lose the original data, but loses *potential* income (it is not in advance known whether the person who made a copy would have purchased the data from the author at all).
It will become much more of an issue if (or when) we will have the ability to create exact copies of physical objects. If you've ever seen Star Trek, do you ever wonder why they have abandoned money? I say it's because they have that same ability - they can easily generate copies of nearly any [non-living] matter. If the RIAA succeeds in banning digital copying now, will somebody try and achieve the same goal to prevent people in some 3rd world country from getting free bread?? (which reminds me, i've been meaning to copyright what is now Vanilla Coke - a drink that is easily created by mixing equal portions of Coke "classic" and cream soda... as
As for his comment that the recording industry's income decreased in the last few years: it happens, dork! Look at the Silicon Valley! Do you think it's easy to find a job nowadays?? And here I thought it wasn't easy to get money without a job or resorting to stealing...
P.S. sorry about a rant
"Someone needs to tell the executives at Intel that an employee representing the company showed up at the Texas committee hearing for the opposition."
This may be too strong a statement... Just because someone from Intel showed up, doesn't mean that Intel is opposed to that. Maybe Intel told that employee to visit that meeting and bring them the scoop to improve their rebuttal..? Then again, maybe they're considering joining in...
In either case, it makes no sense to make such guesses just yet.
Well, it seems that AOL has finally realized that it's losing too many of its "customers" to other AIM network clients like Trillian, Miranda, GAIM, et.al., which already have encryption capabilities and are ACTUALLY FREE - no ads, and often even open source. . :P
As for those of you who don't care about encrypting your IMs... just leave the option turned off XD
I guess you just don't care that your dorm-mates can effortlessly read every word you say to
If that wasn't enough for me, I have friends who, for the lack of a better description, "know too much". Thus, I never know which way a conversation can turn... better have it encrypted or else
well, if you think about it, there are 40 * 25 ms in a 1 s, so you should should be able to get 40 Hz assuming that the 25 ms includes both of the "powerup" and "powerdown" times (sorry, don't know the correct terms of when the pixel becomes lit and becomes dark). 22 ms of this monitor translates to roughly ~45.5 Hz, so the 75 Hz must have come from some other source... i would think it is "comparable to 75Hz on a CRT", hence my original message
I agree with the "more fingers" remark - since the frequency of the monitor is higher than that of an old 13"-er, you'll see many more "shadows" of your hand as you wave it in front of the screen. As for the PPT presentations... why waste money on this monitor if you can buy a decent projector for half (if not third) of the price?
very nice specs, but 75 Hz probably won't cut it for many computer users that may want a monitor as big as this (gamers, graphics designers, and IRC junkies XD). My eyes start hurting with any frequency below 85Hz, and I've met some people who can barely tolerate 100Hz.
a) don't forget that the world simulated in the matrix is at the end of the 20th-beginning of 21st century (possibly present day) b) the machines must've come up with a much better communication method than the IP :)
what about agent Smith gettin into the "real" world??
YESSSS!!! I was one of about dozen voices that yelled/laffed out as she was doing just that! unfortunately it was too fast for me to see the whole printout :(
guess i'll just have to practice more XD
CGI. sex. CGI. more CGI. sex with CGI. CGI. sex in CGI... you get the pattern. :)
Unfortunately, both of the above sell well... hence the showing was sold out.
I have to admit that the fight scenes were really cool on bay area's biggest screen, though
*PARTIAL SPOILER WARNING*
If you ask me, the only reasonable explanation for the (somewhat predictable) ending is that the matrix is indeed a simulation WITHIN another simulation, and those that reject the simulated simulation live happily in the REAL simulation.
Homer: Those [songs] suck. They're worse than nothing! I can write WAY better songs!
Lawyer: go ahead, but don't use A flat or G natural - those notes are owned by Disney
You're all too excited about this, which means you're not apathetic... which means you have no idea what you're talking about. I think I'll go join the Apathy Party. Or not. Whatever.
Oh suuuuure...
Let's take a step back and remember the 286 Protected Mode fiasco.
At least 386 doesn't suffer from that problem... it's still supported by many *nix operating systems
i used to own a ZX-Spectrum -compatible computer... that thing was totally unbreakable. The keyboard (which also housed the computer itself) took books dropped from 30cm easily.
I don't remember if i dropped the case itself at one point...
But its monitor was built like they're not built any more (about 10" and monochrome). It had some sort of intermittent problem (can't remember what exactly).. anyway, I stored it somewhere up high... A few weeks later, I wanted to try and see if it was working and... dropped it from about 2 meters to the hardwood floor!
Guess what, the monitor survived almost without a scratch (which is more than i can say for the hardwood floor -_-') AND its intermittent problem disappeared for a few years!
See if your 21-incher can take that and fix itself X-D
Doesn't anyone remember that episode of X-Files? They engineered a special nicotine-free tobacco, which resulted in test subjects literally becoming hives for some tobacco-loving bugs. :D
Let's see if this attempt is any better than that one
maybe the negotioations with AOL broke down and AOL decided to put DAL to sleep... just a thought :)