A computer vision system developed in the University of Texas in Austin, US, can already tell the difference between friendly behaviour, such as shaking hands, and aggressive actions like punching or pushing.
Just because someone pushes or punches someone else, doesn't mean it isn't friendly. Would be flicking off a friend be considered an aggressive act?
Let's leave this sort of shit to human judgment instead of relying on cameras all the time. We really don't need to be going down this road.
Please. 90%+ of allofmp3's users' motivation for using the service was the price. DRM is unknown to most people and the rest are too dense to care. People look at $9.99/album or $1.89 and pick the obvious choice.
That's the magic of HD. SD sports on a big screen (like my 50") are blocky and stretched. Sports in HD on a 50" screen, though, make me wonder how I ever watched sports in SD. The aspect ratio alone, which allows you to see more of the field at once, is worth the price of admission.
Yet I go to a store, a bar, or someone's home that has an HD screen and I watch something *other* than HD it looks like complete and utter shit compared to my 19 year old 27" Sony.
Blocky, smeared, etc. It's an unpleasant experience to say the least. So, I have a DirecTivo and I would *never* pay $1000 to buy the HD Tivo. I am going to end up having a high-def TV that looks like shit whenever I watch anything on Tivo (which is 99% of the time) or I am going to be looking at non-HD channels that look like shit the rest of the time.
I never understood why they chose "litigious bastards" instead of something much more common to search for, say "assholes", "douchebags", or "whiners".
Google Bombing unpopular search terms is of no importance. Making certain that when you search for "DFL" or "GOP" and it redirects to the Wikipedia definition for something negative is what they should be doing.
I'm pretty sure the reason so many of them hate Free Software is because they like being in a position where companies give them comp versions of software to play with. In the free software world, that's the only kind of software there is.
I would guess then they would be singing the virtues of FOSS/OSS then eh? They are getting to eat their cake and so is everyone else. Genius!
However, I have to admit that it would just be FAR to tempting to do a google bomb style prank with this.
You would probably have to have a site that is being spidered by news.google.com (which is very possible if you have a relevant news blog) or you would have to have a pre-existing site with a good article history.
Personally, I don't think it would be worth the time and effort to get it all up there just to have a robot read off something stupid about the President. Hell, we don't need an avatar to do it -- he does it himself almost daily.
The canadian border person *laughed*, said "those americans are crazy", and let them on their way without any further hassle.
And yet, when I crossed into Canada on a geocaching trip to Winnipeg, we received a *huge* hassle going into Canada and *none* on the return trip into the US.
On the way in we were detained for full criminal background checks, questioning by lazy border guards who insisted on standing around (in full view of us) doing nothing for 45 minutes before deciding we needed to be questioned, and a full car search.
All of that would have been fine if they hadn't given the three *criminals* in front of us a free pass into Canada after they (we were easily able to overhear the border guard chastising them) lied about their criminal histories (DUI, prostitution and committing lewd acts, as well as theft). Not only did they let them in they didn't even search their car.
We were very concerned on our return trip about how awful the US border guards would be. Well, after two questions each and about two minutes of our time we were back in the United States on Sunday.
I guess everyone has a different experience. Mine? I certainly won't be returning to Canada anytime soon.
Most of the people who were using IE had their computers crapped up in weeks. Not so with FF.
Yup and it took word of mouth from someone "in the know" in order for it to happen. It doesn't automagically update like IE and doesn't ship with most people's computers being labeled "The Internet".
Firefox works better and all and I've finally switched on most of my machines (as I said I would when Slashdot didn't have that annoying leftnav overlapping bug anymore -- to which they responded by fixing it for FF and having it happen for IE instead) but not many "regular" users will.
They just don't care. Just like they didn't care when Windows crashed all the time, they don't much care about Spyware. Reinstalls are a fact of life for "regular" Windows users. They really believe that it's just part of using a computer.
It's fairly easy to play DRM'd iTunes Music Store music on any MP3 player. All you do is burn an audio CD from the DRM'd files and then rip that CD into MP3s.
It's fairly easy to further degrade shitty quality 128k AAC files from iTunes. All you do is burn an audio CD from shitty quality compressed DRM'd AAC files and then rip that CD into another shitty, lossy, and compressed audio codec of your choice (in this case MP3).
Opera might be better, and IE might be improved, but as long as Firefox has Adblock and the filtersetG updater, Firefox is the browser for me, my family, and anyone else that wants do do away with annoying (read all) advertising.
You mean as long as you know that you're posting to Slashdot and that you'll get modded up for saying Firefox is teh pwn0r, you'll talk about it.
Tabbed browsing is the *least* important feature of a browser IMHO. I rarely use it (actually never) because I would rather have it be in another window that I can ALT+TAB to rather than CTRL+TAB (which is always in a different spot on each keyboard I use daily).
McAfee and Symantec exist because of problems that exist in the Windows code. They are concerned b/c Microsoft is releasing its own "security" software, which I agree with to a point, but they are also pissed off because MSFT is locking them out of the kernel (as they have been since x64's XP).
So b/c MSFT is actually doing some stuff to try and protect themselves from outside code (in addition to outside vendors) we're supposed to feel sorry for these people? Either revamp your products and find different stuff to fix or move along.
That or stop whining about MSFT locking you out of the kernel and concentrate on them selling software that "fixes" problems in their own buggy OS.
Most people don't want a "laptop". Instead, they want something that they can take to Panera and do their work w/o being in the office. My wife and father both have one of these huge laptops. They are uncomfortable to carry (they use backpacks), they suck power (she gets about an hour of battery life), and they are loud.
I rely on my Sidekick for most of my work (e-mail, calendar, and notetaking) and I use a Thinkpad for anything more serious. While I am always looking for something even smaller everyone else seems to look for something larger.
A competition where the prize is $0! What a brilliant idea! Much cheaper to run than a regular competition! I'm amazed someone didn't think of that before.
At least, for once, development of military ideas won't cost taxpayers a dime!:roll:
Then real hard part begins. You have to make sure the movie itself provides enough material to entertain fans of the game, stick to the over all idea of the original story, and then include enough quality to stand on a movie on it's own to draw in nonfans to make money. This is the hard part because while games don't typically require the same capital investment as movies (big name stars, directors, creative crew require much larger sums of money than your top notch game programmers).
I would love to have someone explain to me why a First Person oriented movie (Blair Witch Project) with a gun sticking out in front would cost nearly $200 million to create? Fuck, just have a bunch of pros play the fucking game for a $100,000 paycheck and output it to the movie screen.
I'm sure it would be more interesting that way and I don't even give a shit about FPS or Halo.
In order to effectively determine the rate of experts vs. everyone else, you could simply scan through all previous Slashdot posts (while removing those prefaced by IANAL) and easily determine those that are experts.
Make sure you are browsing at -1, *those* people are the real experts;)
Check out dimeadozen's list and search by genre. I'm sure you'll notice several bands you are into.
I'm currently on Led Zeppelin, Smashing Pumpkins, and String Cheese Incident kicks but they change monthly. Just checking out the first page of the listing on dimeadozen we have Soul Asylum, Bob Dylan, U2, Rolling Stones, and Camper Van Beethoven.
They're one step away from admitting filesharers buy more music.
I rarely buy any music and I'm a huge filesharer but I also don't pirate any music. I listen to music that is free to distribute. There are plenty of bands out there to listen to that are free and open about their live stuff.
Live music not only showcases how the music *really* is (not overprocessed and mass marketed) but depending on the recording (mixed AUD/SBD and full blown AUD) gives you a sense of crowd response.
You get shock? I get flat out annoyance and many times refused service.
Not a problem for me as money spends good anywhere and I'm thrilled to take my business somewhere that I don't have to have my ID scanned, area code, zip code, phone number, etc given out.
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A computer vision system developed in the University of Texas in Austin, US, can already tell the difference between friendly behaviour, such as shaking hands, and aggressive actions like punching or pushing.
Just because someone pushes or punches someone else, doesn't mean it isn't friendly. Would be flicking off a friend be considered an aggressive act?
Let's leave this sort of shit to human judgment instead of relying on cameras all the time. We really don't need to be going down this road.
Please. 90%+ of allofmp3's users' motivation for using the service was the price. DRM is unknown to most people and the rest are too dense to care. People look at $9.99/album or $1.89 and pick the obvious choice.
Why doesn't the Bar just subscribe to RSS feeds of the blogs?
That's the magic of HD. SD sports on a big screen (like my 50") are blocky and stretched. Sports in HD on a 50" screen, though, make me wonder how I ever watched sports in SD. The aspect ratio alone, which allows you to see more of the field at once, is worth the price of admission.
Yet I go to a store, a bar, or someone's home that has an HD screen and I watch something *other* than HD it looks like complete and utter shit compared to my 19 year old 27" Sony.
Blocky, smeared, etc. It's an unpleasant experience to say the least. So, I have a DirecTivo and I would *never* pay $1000 to buy the HD Tivo. I am going to end up having a high-def TV that looks like shit whenever I watch anything on Tivo (which is 99% of the time) or I am going to be looking at non-HD channels that look like shit the rest of the time.
I'll stick w/my 27" Sony.
I never understood why they chose "litigious bastards" instead of something much more common to search for, say "assholes", "douchebags", or "whiners".
Google Bombing unpopular search terms is of no importance. Making certain that when you search for "DFL" or "GOP" and it redirects to the Wikipedia definition for something negative is what they should be doing.
I'm pretty sure the reason so many of them hate Free Software is because they like being in a position where companies give them comp versions of software to play with. In the free software world, that's the only kind of software there is.
I would guess then they would be singing the virtues of FOSS/OSS then eh? They are getting to eat their cake and so is everyone else. Genius!
There hasn't been any serious game-related journalism since Next-Generation went tits up.
And yet, just because they whined, they are getting coverage on other media outlets which is exactly what they wanted.
They win.
However, I have to admit that it would just be FAR to tempting to do a google bomb style prank with this.
You would probably have to have a site that is being spidered by news.google.com (which is very possible if you have a relevant news blog) or you would have to have a pre-existing site with a good article history.
Personally, I don't think it would be worth the time and effort to get it all up there just to have a robot read off something stupid about the President. Hell, we don't need an avatar to do it -- he does it himself almost daily.
The canadian border person *laughed*, said "those americans are crazy", and let them on their way without any further hassle.
And yet, when I crossed into Canada on a geocaching trip to Winnipeg, we received a *huge* hassle going into Canada and *none* on the return trip into the US.
On the way in we were detained for full criminal background checks, questioning by lazy border guards who insisted on standing around (in full view of us) doing nothing for 45 minutes before deciding we needed to be questioned, and a full car search.
All of that would have been fine if they hadn't given the three *criminals* in front of us a free pass into Canada after they (we were easily able to overhear the border guard chastising them) lied about their criminal histories (DUI, prostitution and committing lewd acts, as well as theft). Not only did they let them in they didn't even search their car.
We were very concerned on our return trip about how awful the US border guards would be. Well, after two questions each and about two minutes of our time we were back in the United States on Sunday.
I guess everyone has a different experience. Mine? I certainly won't be returning to Canada anytime soon.
Most of the people who were using IE had their computers crapped up in weeks. Not so with FF.
Yup and it took word of mouth from someone "in the know" in order for it to happen. It doesn't automagically update like IE and doesn't ship with most people's computers being labeled "The Internet".
Firefox works better and all and I've finally switched on most of my machines (as I said I would when Slashdot didn't have that annoying leftnav overlapping bug anymore -- to which they responded by fixing it for FF and having it happen for IE instead) but not many "regular" users will.
They just don't care. Just like they didn't care when Windows crashed all the time, they don't much care about Spyware. Reinstalls are a fact of life for "regular" Windows users. They really believe that it's just part of using a computer.
It's fairly easy to play DRM'd iTunes Music Store music on any MP3 player. All you do is burn an audio CD from the DRM'd files and then rip that CD into MP3s.
It's fairly easy to further degrade shitty quality 128k AAC files from iTunes. All you do is burn an audio CD from shitty quality compressed DRM'd AAC files and then rip that CD into another shitty, lossy, and compressed audio codec of your choice (in this case MP3).
Great idea.
Thankfully he's not from the United States so it doesn't apply to him or anyone outside of US borders.
Give the people what they really want!
Software that's free, not shareware?
Opera might be better, and IE might be improved, but as long as Firefox has Adblock and the filtersetG updater, Firefox is the browser for me, my family, and anyone else that wants do do away with annoying (read all) advertising.
You mean as long as you know that you're posting to Slashdot and that you'll get modded up for saying Firefox is teh pwn0r, you'll talk about it.
Tabbed browsing is the *least* important feature of a browser IMHO. I rarely use it (actually never) because I would rather have it be in another window that I can ALT+TAB to rather than CTRL+TAB (which is always in a different spot on each keyboard I use daily).
McAfee and Symantec exist because of problems that exist in the Windows code. They are concerned b/c Microsoft is releasing its own "security" software, which I agree with to a point, but they are also pissed off because MSFT is locking them out of the kernel (as they have been since x64's XP).
So b/c MSFT is actually doing some stuff to try and protect themselves from outside code (in addition to outside vendors) we're supposed to feel sorry for these people? Either revamp your products and find different stuff to fix or move along.
That or stop whining about MSFT locking you out of the kernel and concentrate on them selling software that "fixes" problems in their own buggy OS.
I really think that the judge realized that more was at stake than just SPAM.
Judges already ruled that SPAM has no stake in this at all. Now if you're talking spam...
All I can say is that it is an outstanding machine and works perfectly if you want to watch movies while lying in your bed.
:)
So is my TV/DVD combo and they weigh about the same!
Most people don't want a "laptop". Instead, they want something that they can take to Panera and do their work w/o being in the office. My wife and father both have one of these huge laptops. They are uncomfortable to carry (they use backpacks), they suck power (she gets about an hour of battery life), and they are loud.
I rely on my Sidekick for most of my work (e-mail, calendar, and notetaking) and I use a Thinkpad for anything more serious. While I am always looking for something even smaller everyone else seems to look for something larger.
MORE POWER ARRR ARR ARR.
A competition where the prize is $0! What a brilliant idea! Much cheaper to run than a regular competition! I'm amazed someone didn't think of that before.
:roll:
At least, for once, development of military ideas won't cost taxpayers a dime!
Has HP got anything that can beat that?
No. What they do have is cheap and I'm not talking price.
Then real hard part begins. You have to make sure the movie itself provides enough material to entertain fans of the game, stick to the over all idea of the original story, and then include enough quality to stand on a movie on it's own to draw in nonfans to make money. This is the hard part because while games don't typically require the same capital investment as movies (big name stars, directors, creative crew require much larger sums of money than your top notch game programmers).
I would love to have someone explain to me why a First Person oriented movie (Blair Witch Project) with a gun sticking out in front would cost nearly $200 million to create? Fuck, just have a bunch of pros play the fucking game for a $100,000 paycheck and output it to the movie screen.
I'm sure it would be more interesting that way and I don't even give a shit about FPS or Halo.
In order to effectively determine the rate of experts vs. everyone else, you could simply scan through all previous Slashdot posts (while removing those prefaced by IANAL) and easily determine those that are experts.
;)
Make sure you are browsing at -1, *those* people are the real experts
Check out dimeadozen's list and search by genre. I'm sure you'll notice several bands you are into.
I'm currently on Led Zeppelin, Smashing Pumpkins, and String Cheese Incident kicks but they change monthly. Just checking out the first page of the listing on dimeadozen we have Soul Asylum, Bob Dylan, U2, Rolling Stones, and Camper Van Beethoven.
That could keep you busy for a while.
They're one step away from admitting filesharers buy more music.
I rarely buy any music and I'm a huge filesharer but I also don't pirate any music. I listen to music that is free to distribute. There are plenty of bands out there to listen to that are free and open about their live stuff.
Live music not only showcases how the music *really* is (not overprocessed and mass marketed) but depending on the recording (mixed AUD/SBD and full blown AUD) gives you a sense of crowd response.
Support those bands and not the fucking trash that the RIAA panders. Fuck illegal P2P and check out http://www.dimeadozen.org/ or http://archive.org./
You get shock? I get flat out annoyance and many times refused service.
Not a problem for me as money spends good anywhere and I'm thrilled to take my business somewhere that I don't have to have my ID scanned, area code, zip code, phone number, etc given out.