"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
Although in this case if they don't know what they're doing, they're not stupid, just ignorant. And there's nothing wrong with that, so long as there are people there to step in and counter their ignorance.
However the only thing worse than ignorance is a misguided individual that thinks they know what they're talking about. And somehow these individuals end up in management.
you know it much easier to state a point when all you have representing you is text, rather than a face to face confrontation. This is the reason Bush has avoided such turmoil and likewise why Tony Blair is in such hot water now. At least Blair has the balls to face his antagonist face to face. Here in the states, no one can touch the 'imperial' President.
I saw the Matrix I'm no dummy, it's time we take it to these robotic freaks right now, before they go and start guttin us like hogs! Them robots only want won thing and that's world domination. Dammit wares my shotgun!?!
No but seriously, I don't see that kind of AI being developed that works so much like the human brain that it could react and adapt to the various human emotions in the same way as a human, and react in a way that would support a business, as least not in the next 50 years. And even if they did, by then I think open source will have dethroned Microsoft, and with Microsoft's remaining money, they will work to do everything within their power to prevent that from happening. In doing so they will regain power and introduce a new way of living, another New World Order, which will be countered by open source with a better alternative.
For those of you new to Slashdot and fellow veteran Slashdotters, this is a PSA. As we all know there are many running jokes around here, i.e. the CowboyNeal option, 1. stupid action 2. ??? 3. Profit, beowulf clusters of everything, insensitive clod, and of course the most recently added SCO jokes, as well as many others I'm forgetting. By far, one of the most annoying of the running gags is IN SOVIET RUSSIA! Being that this story is about Russia, be warned that a veritable slew of IN SOVIET RUSSIA jokes follow this post. Any and everyone has come out of the woodworks with bat in hand for the communal beating of a dead horse. So for those with bats, swing away, today is your day. For the rest of us, strap in and enjoy the bumpy ride of redundancy.
Despite the countless hours of work put into this amazing project, the team still failed the class. After finishing and finalizing their project work, the team had a party, showing off their work to friends and experimenting with their new creation. One thing led to another, and soon everyone was in a state of tripped-outness from the combinations of sound to be made. By 8 a.m. everyone was passed out or sleeping soundly, missing their project deadline. The evil Professor Prude, failing to see the contribution to academia made by this project, refused to accept their late work. Out of disgust, they all quit MIT, and decided to show their work instead to techies, slashdotters, and anyone else that wanted to see a new 'trippy' way to make music.
P.S. They will probably still end up making millions.
needless to say it's very cool, just need to integrate it into a table with the projector pointing up onto say a translucent surface rather than down onto a surface
Better yet, make it work in a 3d space, where full body motion translates into music. There are a few actions that would translate into some interesting 'music' i'm sure.
So the application would have to accept gamecube packets, make a new packet with a larger TTL, send to another gc-app to strip away the outer packet and forward the original packet to the gamecube. Is this (or something similar) what the project would be doing?
I find this amusing and interesting. It's yet another example of the wild-wild-west type environment that the Information Age is in now. People come up with ways to beat the system, and corporate comes back with litigation (ie RIAA comes to mind). And every once in awhile litigation works, but other times it doesn't work, and thus people will continue to find cracks in the system. There are many analogies that can be drawn from this (and i know this isn't really new news, since the Xbox has been cracked for awhile now), but I'm wondering when these big companies will get tired of waging war through litigation and just start playing hardball with the rest of the Internet. At some point Microsoft has got to get tired of all the stuff they go through and deploy some hackers themselves, to protect their interests. And this idea isn't really too far-fetched. Just today, the US government put a bounty on Saddam's head. That is an outright act of desperation to get him. The gov'ment uses spies just like other countries to gain counterintelligence. And they do it in a sneaky way, making sure the press just reports the official business, but never questioning where intelligence or 'fortunate victories' come from. Eventually these corporations will need to take a hint and start some black/grey hat work of their own to support their interests. Most likely it is already going on. But if it is, I can't tell. They keep getting caught with their pants down so much to the extent that we're barely even suprised anymore. It's almost expected at this point.
Although there are few foul-mouthed brats, it is also easy to forget you are playing against another person, especially when just starting out. One thing that frustrated me about starting out is that playing and losing continuously feels a lot like playing a video game that can't be set to Easy, only permanently set to Very Difficult. Then after buying more cards, the game continues to be boring. There is the tutorial software the helps learn the basics of the game, and if you have time, patience, and a shovel, you can dig through the Magic website for starter tutorials. But the game is basically very unwelcoming to newbies. Every once in awhile there are friendly opponents that make the game more enjoyable, whether it's a loss or a win. I got stuck on the game actually from watching Yu-gi-oh cartoons and learning that Yugioh derived from Magic. So it takes some kind of desire to stick with it. But once you get the hang of it and learn the little intricacies of the game, and you actually win a few times, the game becomes fun.
Among the quests in the game, one sidequest would be to find a truly rad 3l337 computer with a 3D cityscape-type representation of the OS like in Hackers. After countless hours of scouring the net and getting flamed on IRC, the player would realize the horror; the 3l337 system does not exist.
"Ok team, we're going to use all capabilities of directx 8 to make this the best fps ever."
...months later....
"Guys, directx 9 was just released, back to the drawing board. This is gonna be the best shooter ever, we're going to push the limits of gaming to new levels. DNF will change the world"
...and still later...
"They just released directx 10! Everybody start over, we're going to make sure this the best damn game ever.
I mean seriously, they're using an extremely modified Unreal engine, and now that the beautiful Unreal 2 engine is out, they're probably trying to change the game to use that instead.
Worm is to worm, as Windows is to dirt (worms move through dirt easily, replicate in dirt), as Linux is to fish (worms die after entering a fish, or getting eaten).
Just a little analogy play, not to be taken seriously. In actuality Linux is a penguin and not a fish.
We can also hypothesize that they discovered slushies millions of years before us, and that they would've given us a run for our money at the Winter Olympics.
When will they realize they are not going to ever win, and just find another way to make money. It's like that beast whose head gets cut off (Napster) and then more grow in its place (Kazaa, Morpheus, etc.), then when trying to kill those three didn't work, they go after the cells that make up that beast. They are never going to win.
I'm guessing that the people that really want this law are parents who don't want their kids playing violent video games. So why don't parents just not let their own kid play the violent game? Why are they trying to put laws in place for something parents should be doing themselves. I'm assuming parents are the main proponents, but it could also be nosy people that see kids playing violent games and want to prevent it. To these people, why don't you have your own kid and discipline him/her like you want? It's like anything people don't like, they try to get rid of it through legislation.
'[SOAPBOX] And another thing, I hate when kids do crazy stuff and start killing people, and people blame everything, video games, music, etc.... when the problem is most likely rooted at the home. [/SOAPBOX]'
In BF 1942 there is a hotkey option to say "Enemy submarine spotted!" And it never fails that someone is playing with that callout in the middle of the desert. I always wondered why even have that option when there are no submarines in the game.
as a person that knows how to use a computer, i find this appalling. as a person that knows a little about this kind of stuff, i find this information unsuprising and a little reaffirming. I mean really, looking for cyber-law enforcement is like lookin for the drunken sheriff. It's just not really there all the time. Law enforcement is needed when Jon. E. ComputerUser has been compromised, but it's seldom there. When Jean Pierre Corporate needs help, it's 'calling all cars, there's a hacker on the loose!' The best advice is to at least be informed of what can happen and try to take countermeasures (on your behalf, not necessarily strike back...unless u can =^D ). The Internet is really the 'Wild Wild West.' Better strap up and protect.
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Well hmm...
and which media has easier access to porn?
Although in this case if they don't know what they're doing, they're not stupid, just ignorant. And there's nothing wrong with that, so long as there are people there to step in and counter their ignorance.
However the only thing worse than ignorance is a misguided individual that thinks they know what they're talking about. And somehow these individuals end up in management.
you know it much easier to state a point when all you have representing you is text, rather than a face to face confrontation. This is the reason Bush has avoided such turmoil and likewise why Tony Blair is in such hot water now. At least Blair has the balls to face his antagonist face to face. Here in the states, no one can touch the 'imperial' President.
No but seriously, I don't see that kind of AI being developed that works so much like the human brain that it could react and adapt to the various human emotions in the same way as a human, and react in a way that would support a business, as least not in the next 50 years. And even if they did, by then I think open source will have dethroned Microsoft, and with Microsoft's remaining money, they will work to do everything within their power to prevent that from happening. In doing so they will regain power and introduce a new way of living, another New World Order, which will be countered by open source with a better alternative.
Thus is the cycle and thus is
the MATRIX
For those of you new to Slashdot and fellow veteran Slashdotters, this is a PSA. As we all know there are many running jokes around here, i.e. the CowboyNeal option, 1. stupid action 2. ??? 3. Profit, beowulf clusters of everything, insensitive clod, and of course the most recently added SCO jokes, as well as many others I'm forgetting. By far, one of the most annoying of the running gags is IN SOVIET RUSSIA! Being that this story is about Russia, be warned that a veritable slew of IN SOVIET RUSSIA jokes follow this post. Any and everyone has come out of the woodworks with bat in hand for the communal beating of a dead horse. So for those with bats, swing away, today is your day. For the rest of us, strap in and enjoy the bumpy ride of redundancy.
P.S. They will probably still end up making millions.
Better yet, make it work in a 3d space, where full body motion translates into music. There are a few actions that would translate into some interesting 'music' i'm sure.
So the application would have to accept gamecube packets, make a new packet with a larger TTL, send to another gc-app to strip away the outer packet and forward the original packet to the gamecube. Is this (or something similar) what the project would be doing?
*Wakes up*
Damn u euphoric dream!
Drinks and video games can be interesting though. Winning is so much more fun, and the pain of losing is numbed away.
I find this amusing and interesting. It's yet another example of the wild-wild-west type environment that the Information Age is in now. People come up with ways to beat the system, and corporate comes back with litigation (ie RIAA comes to mind). And every once in awhile litigation works, but other times it doesn't work, and thus people will continue to find cracks in the system. There are many analogies that can be drawn from this (and i know this isn't really new news, since the Xbox has been cracked for awhile now), but I'm wondering when these big companies will get tired of waging war through litigation and just start playing hardball with the rest of the Internet. At some point Microsoft has got to get tired of all the stuff they go through and deploy some hackers themselves, to protect their interests. And this idea isn't really too far-fetched. Just today, the US government put a bounty on Saddam's head. That is an outright act of desperation to get him. The gov'ment uses spies just like other countries to gain counterintelligence. And they do it in a sneaky way, making sure the press just reports the official business, but never questioning where intelligence or 'fortunate victories' come from. Eventually these corporations will need to take a hint and start some black/grey hat work of their own to support their interests. Most likely it is already going on. But if it is, I can't tell. They keep getting caught with their pants down so much to the extent that we're barely even suprised anymore. It's almost expected at this point.
I wonder if people with photographic memories will be arrested for staring at something too long without buying it.
Although there are few foul-mouthed brats, it is also easy to forget you are playing against another person, especially when just starting out. One thing that frustrated me about starting out is that playing and losing continuously feels a lot like playing a video game that can't be set to Easy, only permanently set to Very Difficult. Then after buying more cards, the game continues to be boring. There is the tutorial software the helps learn the basics of the game, and if you have time, patience, and a shovel, you can dig through the Magic website for starter tutorials. But the game is basically very unwelcoming to newbies. Every once in awhile there are friendly opponents that make the game more enjoyable, whether it's a loss or a win. I got stuck on the game actually from watching Yu-gi-oh cartoons and learning that Yugioh derived from Magic. So it takes some kind of desire to stick with it. But once you get the hang of it and learn the little intricacies of the game, and you actually win a few times, the game becomes fun.
Oh the horror!!!
...months later....
"Guys, directx 9 was just released, back to the drawing board. This is gonna be the best shooter ever, we're going to push the limits of gaming to new levels. DNF will change the world"
...and still later...
"They just released directx 10! Everybody start over, we're going to make sure this the best damn game ever.
I mean seriously, they're using an extremely modified Unreal engine, and now that the beautiful Unreal 2 engine is out, they're probably trying to change the game to use that instead.
Sometimes those extra frames have porn. You're not getting the full experience of the game unless you're using the most expensive hardware available.
Just a little analogy play, not to be taken seriously. In actuality Linux is a penguin and not a fish.
We can also hypothesize that they discovered slushies millions of years before us, and that they would've given us a run for our money at the Winter Olympics.
not-inexpensive = not-in-unaffordable, and for now not-unimpractical to even consider using just to record TV shows.
When will they realize they are not going to ever win, and just find another way to make money. It's like that beast whose head gets cut off (Napster) and then more grow in its place (Kazaa, Morpheus, etc.), then when trying to kill those three didn't work, they go after the cells that make up that beast. They are never going to win.
'[SOAPBOX]
And another thing, I hate when kids do crazy stuff and start killing people, and people blame everything, video games, music, etc.... when the problem is most likely rooted at the home.
[/SOAPBOX]'
In BF 1942 there is a hotkey option to say "Enemy submarine spotted!" And it never fails that someone is playing with that callout in the middle of the desert. I always wondered why even have that option when there are no submarines in the game.
They got hacked and don't want to admit it. Instead they play dumb when their users are getting spammed.
as a person that knows how to use a computer, i find this appalling. as a person that knows a little about this kind of stuff, i find this information unsuprising and a little reaffirming. I mean really, looking for cyber-law enforcement is like lookin for the drunken sheriff. It's just not really there all the time. Law enforcement is needed when Jon. E. ComputerUser has been compromised, but it's seldom there. When Jean Pierre Corporate needs help, it's 'calling all cars, there's a hacker on the loose!' The best advice is to at least be informed of what can happen and try to take countermeasures (on your behalf, not necessarily strike back...unless u can =^D ). The Internet is really the 'Wild Wild West.' Better strap up and protect.
TILT!!! TILT!!!!
*Puts down unit and gently picks up unit*
TILT!!! TILT!!!
GEEZ! I'm not bumping or tilting you dumbass! What's wrong with you??!!??
*result of yelling* TILT!!! TILT!!!
Wow, seeing that old atari case sure takes me back to before I was born. Actually my first was the Atari 7800.