That's pretty PC-centric though. Lets not forget the XBOX. Split Microsoft into OS, App and Video Game Companies.
Well then there is the MS Smart Phones... so split Microsoft into OS, App, Video Games, and Mobile Phones.
Hmmm, that leaves MSN out. Hotmail and Passport too. OK then we need to split Microsoft into OS, App, Video Gaming, Mobile Phone and Internet Services.
Of course they make hardware too... Tablet PC's, Microsoft Mouse and Keyboards. So - oh this is it!
Split Microsoft into... OS, Applications, Video Gaming, Mobile Phones, Internet Services and Hardware Companies.
And do it quick before they start making Media Centers!!!
Technology just isn't up to the point that they can track that stuff you've mentioned yet. Not as easy as they can P2P. Search for song, browse hosts, log IP for future lawsuit. Hell they could be running bots to do their hunting now. Once encryption gets implemented and the darknet is truly anonymous, they are going to be SOL. Catch em while you can.
The RIAA seem to forget the basic economics "LAW OF DEMAND". As price goes up demand goes down. Their lost sales figures are very imaginative, on par with SCO lawsuit demands.
They are not losing billions or trillions in sales because not everyone would buy the crap they produce at the prices they demand. But toss it in with my existing bandwidth costs and cost of my hard drive space and the song costs me about 3 cents plus download time. I don't even count my time because I work while it downloads. At that price why not download Madonna, NSync and the other crap. Sometimes you need a good laugh.
It creates a tree of information where everything is linked. It's a bit pricey, but SO awesome for organizing information. Use it like a File Manager, it can launch websites or files. It's got a patented interface I believe. I'm lucky enough to have an old version that doesn't expire. The new versions look nicer, but I'll stick with free over functional almost every time. What I have works for me. It lets your organize your files the way you think, regardless of where they are stored.
It turns itself into an always on-top icon when you mouse away from it. It "sticks" to the side of your windows and slides back out when you click on that icon again.
Check out their website. The interface at the top is like a small version of their application.
A little off-topic, but this reminds me of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. He mentions similar things in several of his other books of short stories including The Painted Man. It's not central to the stories, but I would recommend any of his books.
I'm assuming you want to be a programmer. Zealotry is fine and all for hobbies, but explaining to potential employers that you got bad grades in your core classes because the compiler had bugs isn't going to go over well.
When you get a job in the real world and are forced to use VC++ or other very buggy software, developing work arounds for your compilers bugs will be part of your job. There are similar bugs in most API's you may use and you'll have to learn to deal with it instead of just complaining it's not up to specs.
If you think a teacher is bad wait until you have a boss who determines your income instead of just a letter grade. Above all get the job done. I hope I don't sound too bad, I really am trying to help you.
I've seen these before. The interesting thing is that they are putting them on laptops.
It works by having 1 standard LCD monitors and one special LCD monitor, one on top of the other. The top one is designed so that the color white shows up as transparent. You need a video card capable of driving two monitors at once, and to take advantage of the effect, you will need software that knows how to display each image. The slight difference in distance between them can make for some interesting 3D displays because your can tell that it really is overlapping.
Mouse control is a little weird because you have to tell the computer your using top monitor or bottom monitor since they are more or less dual displays. Once software knows how to handle this hardware that could be fixed.
The projected use I saw was using Maya with your controls on the back monitor and your 3D rendered creation showing up on the "front" monitor, rendered in real time. That was a stand alone monitor, but I'm guessing it's the same technology.
There is a company that sells desktop LCD monitors for this right now. See http://www.deepvideo.com/
Because it's anonymous to the IRANIAN GOVERNMENT. Remember the US is still running the proxy, and no doubt logging everything and probably redirecting users from "sensitive" sites.
Thank MTV that we have captured the minds of the youth of the world. Teenagers now seem very similar in almost any country with the technology to catch our our contagious culture.
Personally I think software patents are evil, as I'm sure many here do. Computer Science means learning from the work of others and advancing the field. Someone save us from the USPTO.
BTW, Does anyone know if Eolas got their $521 Million?
All these guys ignoring what was said and drooling over the fact that an actual girl said something. Come on guys, that's the internet equivelent of staring at her chest during a conversation.
Perhaps slashdot should have users enter their sex so you can have a +5 Female modifier.:)
Forget MS Passpost, you must now send your complete Genome to login to Hotmail. Just stick your finger on the MS Gene-o-matic to login and check your email. Special Delivery packages will still require a neck scraping.
"Unfortunately, the same guys that do the development had to do the rebranding," said Prewitt. "We're all wearing different hats. We ended up ceasing development on it for about a week," he said."
They already had that part, but they had to rebrand it remember.
/** RealPC
*
* TODO:
* Write Program
*/
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
cout << "Hello World, from RealPC";
exit(0); }
Does your Cartel seem destined to fail in future markets. It's time you learned how to succeed. The Very Successful Drug Cartels will be having a convention this fall. Don't let your Cartel go the way of the Railroad Express!
Choose any of these great topics... ... Extortion ... Bribery ... Price Fixing ... Secret Pricing ... Lobbying ... Obtaining cheap 3rd World Labor ... Becoming a government monopoly
and for the truly abitious ... Murder, Mayhem and Intimidation ... Finding the trouble makers ... Going Multi-National ... End Competition for Good!
Sign up now for priority seating. Check our some of our current well known registered participants.
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Video - MPAA
Diamonds - DeBeers
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Don't start a Cartel without checking out this conference. Only one Cartel per Industry please.
Spent all day reading slashdot again. I posted a comment and it never even got any points. Fark had an awesome story about a guy doing something dumb. I finally have my very own blog so I can share my thoughts with the world.
August 26, 2003 Spent all day reading slashdot again. That Microsoft Sux.
August 27, 2003 Spent all day reading slashdot again. I hate SCO, they suck.
August 28, 2003 Spent all day reading slashdot again. Just upgraded to Windows XP. It sucks.
What this study really shows is that vegetarians have had their brain power reduced to the level of fuzzy bunnies due to poor diet. Taking creatine gives them boosts that bring them up to normal operating levels of omniverous humans. Jurrasic Park taught us that carnivors are smarter then omnivorous humans, although some can't see you if you don't move. Correlate that with Silence of the Lambs, where a human cannibal was super genius. However the people in Soylent Green took forever to figure out the obvious so processing method must remove some vital nutrient from the meat.
Therefore if we compare the missing components of soylent green with raw humans, we should be able to come up with a supplement for super brainy people. Combine these new findings to with the law of "People used to be cavemen, and that's why guys are strong and girls should clean the house", we would suuggest that smarter creatures eat dumber ones, even within their own species. This research would be used to support a new government initiative to eliminate welfare and use the poor as feed for our schools.
And some people think red meat is bad for you.
Dispite what you may think after reading this post, I am not a vegetarian.
This is a conspiracy orchestrated by VI lovers, to wipe out EMACS from the face of earth!
EMACS probably has it's own built in function to wipe itself from the face of the earth. Don't worry though, there is probably another command to dump the source for itself directly from the binary.
I remember the Klez virus kept infecting our system. I put antivirus on all the machines and wiped and cleaned them several times. Still my boss had his computer go down several times and started to suggest I was incompetent.
Turns out he got a fake email on his AOL account with the virus attached from a potential client who he has been trying to sell to for a long time. He loaded the virus from his laptop and ignored and disabled the antivirus warnings desperately trying to see what this guy was sending him. For those that don't know, Klez emails itself to any email addresses it can find.
Problem finally solved. I was not mention this matter to anyone else. Yeah Right.:)
Don't put all your different passwords on your monitor with sticky notes. The Tin Foil hats are OK for stopping mind readers, but I don't think they would stop identity thieves. Try wrapping your credit cards in tin foil since that's what your really trying to protect.
Get a gun so you once you track down your identity thief and confirm the cops won't do anything. Once you prove that, you can shoot him and when they check his identity they will mark you as being dead and you won't have to worry about your identity being stolen again. Check the laws about suicide in your area, since at least one of you is likely to survive.
From the end of the article: A one-hour documentary about the new findings, Iceman: Hunt for a Killer, airs at 9 p.m. Aug. 24 on the Discovery Channel. Can you tell me if you sense the last season of Farscape coming on?
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Right, split them up into OS and APP companies...
...
That's pretty PC-centric though. Lets not forget the XBOX. Split Microsoft into OS, App and Video Game Companies.
Well then there is the MS Smart Phones... so split Microsoft into OS, App, Video Games, and Mobile Phones.
Hmmm, that leaves MSN out. Hotmail and Passport too. OK then we need to split Microsoft into OS, App, Video Gaming, Mobile Phone and Internet Services.
Of course they make hardware too... Tablet PC's, Microsoft Mouse and Keyboards. So - oh this is it!
Split Microsoft into
OS, Applications, Video Gaming, Mobile Phones, Internet Services and Hardware Companies.
And do it quick before they start making Media Centers!!!
The most distributed attack ever. Every person in China tried pinging the Taiwan sites at the same time.
#insmod fakedrm -bios=AMI
Technology just isn't up to the point that they can track that stuff you've mentioned yet. Not as easy as they can P2P. Search for song, browse hosts, log IP for future lawsuit. Hell they could be running bots to do their hunting now. Once encryption gets implemented and the darknet is truly anonymous, they are going to be SOL. Catch em while you can.
The RIAA seem to forget the basic economics "LAW OF DEMAND". As price goes up demand goes down. Their lost sales figures are very imaginative, on par with SCO lawsuit demands.
They are not losing billions or trillions in sales because not everyone would buy the crap they produce at the prices they demand. But toss it in with my existing bandwidth costs and cost of my hard drive space and the song costs me about 3 cents plus download time. I don't even count my time because I work while it downloads. At that price why not download Madonna, NSync and the other crap. Sometimes you need a good laugh.
http://www.thebrain.com
It creates a tree of information where everything is linked. It's a bit pricey, but SO awesome for organizing information. Use it like a File Manager, it can launch websites or files. It's got a patented interface I believe. I'm lucky enough to have an old version that doesn't expire. The new versions look nicer, but I'll stick with free over functional almost every time. What I have works for me. It lets your organize your files the way you think, regardless of where they are stored.
It turns itself into an always on-top icon when you mouse away from it. It "sticks" to the side of your windows and slides back out when you click on that icon again.
Check out their website. The interface at the top is like a small version of their application.
A little off-topic, but this reminds me of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. He mentions similar things in several of his other books of short stories including The Painted Man. It's not central to the stories, but I would recommend any of his books.
Offtoppic, but I have been on both sides of this.
I'm assuming you want to be a programmer. Zealotry is fine and all for hobbies, but explaining to potential employers that you got bad grades in your core classes because the compiler had bugs isn't going to go over well.
When you get a job in the real world and are forced to use VC++ or other very buggy software, developing work arounds for your compilers bugs will be part of your job. There are similar bugs in most API's you may use and you'll have to learn to deal with it instead of just complaining it's not up to specs.
If you think a teacher is bad wait until you have a boss who determines your income instead of just a letter grade. Above all get the job done. I hope I don't sound too bad, I really am trying to help you.
I've seen these before. The interesting thing is that they are putting them on laptops.
It works by having 1 standard LCD monitors and one special LCD monitor, one on top of the other. The top one is designed so that the color white shows up as transparent. You need a video card capable of driving two monitors at once, and to take advantage of the effect, you will need software that knows how to display each image. The slight difference in distance between them can make for some interesting 3D displays because your can tell that it really is overlapping.
Mouse control is a little weird because you have to tell the computer your using top monitor or bottom monitor since they are more or less dual displays. Once software knows how to handle this hardware that could be fixed.
The projected use I saw was using Maya with your controls on the back monitor and your 3D rendered creation showing up on the "front" monitor, rendered in real time. That was a stand alone monitor, but I'm guessing it's the same technology.
There is a company that sells desktop LCD monitors for this right now. See http://www.deepvideo.com/
Because it's anonymous to the IRANIAN GOVERNMENT. Remember the US is still running the proxy, and no doubt logging everything and probably redirecting users from "sensitive" sites.
Thank MTV that we have captured the minds of the youth of the world. Teenagers now seem very similar in almost any country with the technology to catch our our contagious culture.
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It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
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Yes it's radio controlled. 27mhz for the head movement and 49mhz for the walking. How could someone hack that? ;)
Here is a link to the patent
Personally I think software patents are evil, as I'm sure many here do. Computer Science means learning from the work of others and advancing the field. Someone save us from the USPTO.
BTW, Does anyone know if Eolas got their $521 Million?
All these guys ignoring what was said and drooling over the fact that an actual girl said something. Come on guys, that's the internet equivelent of staring at her chest during a conversation.
:)
Perhaps slashdot should have users enter their sex so you can have a +5 Female modifier.
Forget MS Passpost, you must now send your complete Genome to login to Hotmail. Just stick your finger on the MS Gene-o-matic to login and check your email. Special Delivery packages will still require a neck scraping.
They already had that part, but they had to rebrand it remember.
And it only took them a week
Does your Cartel seem destined to fail in future markets. It's time you learned how to succeed. The Very Successful Drug Cartels will be having a convention this fall. Don't let your Cartel go the way of the Railroad Express!
... Extortion
... Bribery
... Price Fixing
... Secret Pricing
... Lobbying
... Obtaining cheap 3rd World Labor
... Becoming a government monopoly
... Murder, Mayhem and Intimidation
... Finding the trouble makers
... Going Multi-National
... End Competition for Good!
Choose any of these great topics...
and for the truly abitious
Sign up now for priority seating. Check our some of our current well known registered participants.
Music - RIAA
Video - MPAA
Diamonds - DeBeers
Oil - OPEC
Don't start a Cartel without checking out this conference. Only one Cartel per Industry please.
Spent all day reading slashdot again. I posted a comment and it never even got any points. Fark had an awesome story about a guy doing something dumb. I finally have my very own blog so I can share my thoughts with the world.
August 26, 2003
Spent all day reading slashdot again. That Microsoft Sux.
August 27, 2003
Spent all day reading slashdot again. I hate SCO, they suck.
August 28, 2003
Spent all day reading slashdot again. Just upgraded to Windows XP. It sucks.
Will old Tom Bombadil be in the extended versions?
Check his website man. I think he means it.
What this study really shows is that vegetarians have had their brain power reduced to the level of fuzzy bunnies due to poor diet. Taking creatine gives them boosts that bring them up to normal operating levels of omniverous humans. Jurrasic Park taught us that carnivors are smarter then omnivorous humans, although some can't see you if you don't move. Correlate that with Silence of the Lambs, where a human cannibal was super genius. However the people in Soylent Green took forever to figure out the obvious so processing method must remove some vital nutrient from the meat.
Therefore if we compare the missing components of soylent green with raw humans, we should be able to come up with a supplement for super brainy people. Combine these new findings to with the law of "People used to be cavemen, and that's why guys are strong and girls should clean the house", we would suuggest that smarter creatures eat dumber ones, even within their own species. This research would be used to support a new government initiative to eliminate welfare and use the poor as feed for our schools.
And some people think red meat is bad for you.
Dispite what you may think after reading this post, I am not a vegetarian.
This is a conspiracy orchestrated by VI lovers, to wipe out EMACS from the face of earth!
EMACS probably has it's own built in function to wipe itself from the face of the earth. Don't worry though, there is probably another command to dump the source for itself directly from the binary.
Preaching to the choir.
:)
I remember the Klez virus kept infecting our system. I put antivirus on all the machines and wiped and cleaned them several times. Still my boss had his computer go down several times and started to suggest I was incompetent.
Turns out he got a fake email on his AOL account with the virus attached from a potential client who he has been trying to sell to for a long time. He loaded the virus from his laptop and ignored and disabled the antivirus warnings desperately trying to see what this guy was sending him. For those that don't know, Klez emails itself to any email addresses it can find.
Problem finally solved. I was not mention this matter to anyone else. Yeah Right.
Don't put all your different passwords on your monitor with sticky notes. The Tin Foil hats are OK for stopping mind readers, but I don't think they would stop identity thieves. Try wrapping your credit cards in tin foil since that's what your really trying to protect.
Get a gun so you once you track down your identity thief and confirm the cops won't do anything. Once you prove that, you can shoot him and when they check his identity they will mark you as being dead and you won't have to worry about your identity being stolen again. Check the laws about suicide in your area, since at least one of you is likely to survive.
Relax already.
"I sense an action movie in the making..."
From the end of the article: A one-hour documentary about the new findings, Iceman: Hunt for a Killer, airs at 9 p.m. Aug. 24 on the Discovery Channel. Can you tell me if you sense the last season of Farscape coming on?