How are the data streams -- or metadata sent to/from the player -- impacted by GPL 3.0? I know the GPL 3.0 has provisions regarding web services and sending / receiving data. Is this an issue?
According to the article, Miro's content guide is one of it's strengths -- making it more than just a player.
Miro's content guide is far better than the equivalent video podcast directory in iTunes. Not only does Miro list over 1,500 channels but it's also better organized, with content filtered by popularity, editor picks, genre, tags, and language. There's even a section dedicated to HD video.
Still, I have a hard time imagining how a good content buide is better than having google seaarch behind it when looking for content (as youtube does).
Put job ads in front of disgruntled employees and ask them to create accounts to apply -- then watch as they merrily type in their favorite usernames/passwords into your cracker system.
Easy as pie...
According to the article, they used social engineering by "seducing employees with fake job-listings". This is interesting because it targets those employees that are most disgruntled. Offer them a chance at another job and they'll give you a username/password that probably is the same one they're using to access the corporate account system.
I agree, we should somehow pool our collective knowledge and accumulate it somewhere. There's an idea for/. to pull it back up on par with digg.
Dude - I was making a joke play of the Weird Al line in All About The Pentiums -- about the newbie that had 'white-out all over your screen'.
Besides, to be fair it doesn't say that paper would be made out of this liquid, just that it would provde the color/images. More likely is that this liquid would be the coating on the paper.
There needs to be some method for civilians to control them -- or at least to override their commands if they are used for innappropriate purposes.
Given what the advances in this type of technology could be in 20-50 years, we need policies that can make sure they aren't used against Americans.
The new site looks like it will host info on books and only provide downloads for some. It looks like a good place to find info (like the ISBN) of an old book you only remember parts of.
Hmm... Your snarkie comment seems to have sprung forth fully formed from your @#$(*&#&. Probably not unlike your breath.
If you take my analogy to imply that I'm proposing that software 'evolves' through procreation like humans, you're obviously the slow -witted kind. Oh, but I forget you're an ID proponent. This makes sense to me know.
Hey - don't apologize. Life is off-topic.
But more to the point, I'm saying that Intelligent Design proponents would have us think something like Linux must've been arrived at market fully formed, rather than having evolved from its extremely humble beginnings as a home project for a grad student.
And I'm not knocking Linus -- in fact the opposite. Linus has never claimed to have designed or written all of Linux. He wrote a lot of code, but coordinated the work of others to a greater degree.
Linus did not design Linux as we know it today by himself any more than Man appeared fully formed. Both had humble beginnings and evolved over time.
Dude -
The basis of 'Intelligent Design' is that humans were essentially fully formed at their creation -- kind of liks saying Linux emerged as a product out of the gate at kernel level 2.6.
The basic idea behind so called 'Intelligent Design' (ID) is that humans couldn't have evolved from lower species because they are too complicated. ID holds that humans must have been designed by an intelligent designer.
Linux began very humbly as a project that Linus kicked off so he could run unix at home becuase he couldn't afford a sun box like the one's they had at his university.
I'm saying that Linux didn't arrive 'fully-formed' -- it evolved.
I think I've been reading too many political blogs, this seemed like a pretty obvious play on words to me...
Did Ubuntu Christian Edition come fully formed as a distro? Or did it evolve?
These stories of a Finnish student designing Linux must be garbage. We all know that Linux is too complex to have evolved over time to its current state. It could only have been created by an Intelligent 'designer'
This seems like the ultimate in upgradable technology -- just unplug an old one and plug in a new one.
Put this in a car as the on-board computer, then you could pull it out and plug it into another machine to perform diagnostics or upgrade software.
This seems extremely useful to me.
Guilds are a fascinating part of this genre of game. They provide a foundation for friendship and teamwork that provides a big part of the fun for many of those involved. I was on WoW and played in (and founded) guilds. At their best, the provide a set of shared values that helps the members find relationships they may otherwise not have.
One of the big issues that no one talks about is how guilds provide places for people to hook up for on-line flirting, relationships and keyboard sex. I remember two people in a guild I was in accidently typed a message into the guild chat instead of between themselves and it became obvious what they were doing. Another time on 'vent' -- a voice chat -- one guild member started going on and on about how he was buying and selling pot.
Can you imagine suddenly having to provide coverage/counseling for people who spend all their time on line? It would cost a fortune.
Besides, the last thing te government wants is to have all the people now addicted to gaming to suddenly wake up and start aying attention to what their doing? Imagine if they all started reading daily kos or something?
In the book Brave New World, Aldus Huxley described the population as being quieted by a drug called SOMA - WOW and SL are not really that different.
But this is my point -- failing wisely means planning for a do-over, or at least planning for significant course correction.
One of the great examples to me is the sitcom Seinfeld. The first seasons were lackluster, but they stuck with the show and let the characters develop. As a result they had one of the most successful shows in TV history. If they had required a hit series striaght out of the gate then they would've missed out big.
I believe 'failing wisely' means expecting your first efforts to not be perfect and having plan B, C, etc in the wings.
..."Plan to through your first efforts away... because you will"
But really, there's wisdom there. You never really know what will be successful until you've gotten something out and developed. If only business people understood that, they could likely leverage it to do exactly what this article recommends -- "fail wisely".
I found playing WoW that my Mac Book Pro had far superior graphics and game response than any of the PC's I used. The graphics hardware is superior on an average machine.
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Not sure why this is scored as '5, funny' and not '5, insightful'
Swamp gas...
How are the data streams -- or metadata sent to/from the player -- impacted by GPL 3.0? I know the GPL 3.0 has provisions regarding web services and sending / receiving data. Is this an issue?
Still, I have a hard time imagining how a good content buide is better than having google seaarch behind it when looking for content (as youtube does).
Put job ads in front of disgruntled employees and ask them to create accounts to apply -- then watch as they merrily type in their favorite usernames/passwords into your cracker system. Easy as pie...
I agree, we should somehow pool our collective knowledge and accumulate it somewhere. There's an idea for
I can't imagine making something like this without attachments that extend it's use beyond that of the human hand.
The goal shouldn't be to replace a hand, it should be to provide something much cooler.
Dude - I was making a joke play of the Weird Al line in All About The Pentiums -- about the newbie that had 'white-out all over your screen'. Besides, to be fair it doesn't say that paper would be made out of this liquid, just that it would provde the color/images. More likely is that this liquid would be the coating on the paper.
Dude -- You should clean the white out off your computer monitor - then you might be able to actually READ THE ARTICLE...
Would the particles clump together and ruin the display? You'd think outside magnetic interference would be a significant issue.
Gievn it requires a magnetic field, I wonder if it would require more or less energy than a normal display?
I wonder if Arnold Schwarzenegger will trade in his Humvee for one of these...
There needs to be some method for civilians to control them -- or at least to override their commands if they are used for innappropriate purposes. Given what the advances in this type of technology could be in 20-50 years, we need policies that can make sure they aren't used against Americans.
The new site looks like it will host info on books and only provide downloads for some. It looks like a good place to find info (like the ISBN) of an old book you only remember parts of.
If you take my analogy to imply that I'm proposing that software 'evolves' through procreation like humans, you're obviously the slow -witted kind. Oh, but I forget you're an ID proponent. This makes sense to me know.
Hey - don't apologize. Life is off-topic. But more to the point, I'm saying that Intelligent Design proponents would have us think something like Linux must've been arrived at market fully formed, rather than having evolved from its extremely humble beginnings as a home project for a grad student. And I'm not knocking Linus -- in fact the opposite. Linus has never claimed to have designed or written all of Linux. He wrote a lot of code, but coordinated the work of others to a greater degree. Linus did not design Linux as we know it today by himself any more than Man appeared fully formed. Both had humble beginnings and evolved over time.
Dude - The basis of 'Intelligent Design' is that humans were essentially fully formed at their creation -- kind of liks saying Linux emerged as a product out of the gate at kernel level 2.6. The basic idea behind so called 'Intelligent Design' (ID) is that humans couldn't have evolved from lower species because they are too complicated. ID holds that humans must have been designed by an intelligent designer. Linux began very humbly as a project that Linus kicked off so he could run unix at home becuase he couldn't afford a sun box like the one's they had at his university. I'm saying that Linux didn't arrive 'fully-formed' -- it evolved. I think I've been reading too many political blogs, this seemed like a pretty obvious play on words to me...
These stories of a Finnish student designing Linux must be garbage. We all know that Linux is too complex to have evolved over time to its current state. It could only have been created by an Intelligent 'designer'
If Linux distro's were women... http://geeks-have-feelings-too.net/if-linux-distri butions-were-women/
This seems like the ultimate in upgradable technology -- just unplug an old one and plug in a new one. Put this in a car as the on-board computer, then you could pull it out and plug it into another machine to perform diagnostics or upgrade software. This seems extremely useful to me.
Guilds are a fascinating part of this genre of game. They provide a foundation for friendship and teamwork that provides a big part of the fun for many of those involved. I was on WoW and played in (and founded) guilds. At their best, the provide a set of shared values that helps the members find relationships they may otherwise not have.
One of the big issues that no one talks about is how guilds provide places for people to hook up for on-line flirting, relationships and keyboard sex. I remember two people in a guild I was in accidently typed a message into the guild chat instead of between themselves and it became obvious what they were doing. Another time on 'vent' -- a voice chat -- one guild member started going on and on about how he was buying and selling pot.
Can you imagine suddenly having to provide coverage/counseling for people who spend all their time on line? It would cost a fortune. Besides, the last thing te government wants is to have all the people now addicted to gaming to suddenly wake up and start aying attention to what their doing? Imagine if they all started reading daily kos or something? In the book Brave New World, Aldus Huxley described the population as being quieted by a drug called SOMA - WOW and SL are not really that different.
But this is my point -- failing wisely means planning for a do-over, or at least planning for significant course correction. One of the great examples to me is the sitcom Seinfeld. The first seasons were lackluster, but they stuck with the show and let the characters develop. As a result they had one of the most successful shows in TV history. If they had required a hit series striaght out of the gate then they would've missed out big. I believe 'failing wisely' means expecting your first efforts to not be perfect and having plan B, C, etc in the wings.
..."Plan to through your first efforts away... because you will"
But really, there's wisdom there. You never really know what will be successful until you've gotten something out and developed. If only business people understood that, they could likely leverage it to do exactly what this article recommends -- "fail wisely".
I found playing WoW that my Mac Book Pro had far superior graphics and game response than any of the PC's I used. The graphics hardware is superior on an average machine.