Actually, I remember when I was first introduced to VNC. It was when I was 16 and started as an IT guy on a medium sized LAN at a theme park. We had VNC installed on all computers to save time when something broke. And there were stations setup to print id cards for season passes. Well, when they were not printing passes, they were supposed to be doing data entry, but all too often ended up play solitare.
I didn't really care either way, but I would hop on from time to time to make sure they were doing their job. Everytime I caught them playing solitare, I would call down there, and tell them to stop. Well, I remember more then a few times you would catch someone playing who was bad at the game, and missed some obvious moves, so I decided to start playing with them. Funny part was, they would think the computer was broken, so they would call me! So, I would ask what they were doing, until they finally confessed, at which I would laugh at them and told them I knew... They were always happier with me catching them cause if their boss did, they would have been fired.
That is a little out of hand, but that is the very top of the line. I was using a 300 dollar remote at my girlfriends, and it definetly adds to the experience.
I had seen the remote before and thought it was rediculous to spend that much on a universal remote, but when you already have 2500 bucks in equipment you might as well splurge.
But, it has a touch screen interface, auto programming through ir, back lighting, etc. etc. All in all, if I was gonna invest in a good home theater I would say not to skip over buying a quality remote
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Thats great and all, but gmail is not setup to be able to send large files like that. I have a 15 meg file bounce back to the sender because gmail has a limit on the attachement size.
Yea, I would prefer to look at this more as guerilla warfare tactics, where Linux gets funded by its enemy. Linux grows stronger as Windows grows weaker.
Everyone is worried about them extracting things and publishing their own animations on the web. What about people hacking the software to add in their own symbols and messages? Now that is a way cooler hack!
What you guys are failing to take into consideration is what is the difference in heat given off between a resistor and neuorons? Even if neorons are slower and larger, the fact that they can be packed together without need for cooling makes them much more powerful/useful..
Well, I find mine useful anyways, I am sure some people have mized results
But I think the point is that it was leaked. That nobody can keep an eye on their code if it is used this widely. If the code had been under public scrutiny since day one, more flaws would be found, but the overall code would be stronger, not weaker. This is why everyone can complain about tons of holes in linux, but miss the fact that just as many (if not more) exist in windows, and its just a matter of time before they get found out. With Linux, you have to take the additude, the sooner, the better.
I am not sure I would use this that often. I mean, the great thing about live linux cds is they are packed with utilities that can help with diagnostics. This is just a stripped down version of windows. Can anyone think of alot of uses for this that would beat out knoppix? Cause I can't.
But I wonder what happens when it misses some of the mines (E.g. Mines too deep, too new, plant did not grow close enough too it). That kind of defeats the purpose of doing this if they have to double back over the entire field to make sure they have not missed any. I think the idea is awesome, but not fool proof. And the fact that these seeds have to survive, and beat out other plants in the area. I think it is totally fascinating, and a creative idea, but seems to have a very small range of effective uses.
Just a question for something you touched on. I am at a good engineering school, where the comp sci program is not as impressive as the comp enginnering. Which would you recomend majoring in between the two?
Don't equate your short attention span with a movie actually being bad. I thought purley on the basis of the way it was shot and edited was worth the money at the theaters.. Not to mention the hulk hands were the coolest damn toy I ever played with..
The problem is that most service providors limit what you can use the service for without breaching their terms of service. In my neck of the woods, we are not supposed to be running any servers or they can take us off. And when you use that amount of band, without a server, you probably are doing something illegal. IE mass downloading of music/video files. Or your computer is infected with a virus that sets yourself up as a spammer, irc server, or game server.
Yes, there are legitimate uses of using that band, but the vast majority of people are simply doing something that breaches their terms of service, or they are unaware of some kind of computer virus.
It seems to me that the companys are just fishing for guilty persons to stop what they are doing, and do not mean to use any force since the letters are sent without consequences listed. But in this day and age of RIAA suining 12 year olds, the majority of people will be spooked into stopping.
My advice is, ignore the letter. In the unlikely event that they actually do cut your service, raise hell, you may even get a couple months free!
I started out with this camera when I was first learning. I picked it up at a resale shop for $125 that came with a 50 mm lens. I used it for several years, and eventually decided I wanted a auto-focus camera. I ended up buying a Nikon N-80. It was much more expensive, and came with a cheaper lens. Even though it is nice to not have to focus, especially with taking pictures of little kids and animals. But, I still feel more at home holding my old Cannon AE.
First off, personal attacks are obnoxious, if you doubt I am a biology major, fine. It makes you look ignorant, and not me to accuse me otherwise. Now that we recognize that you need to readdress how you respond to people, I will continue.
There is NO difference between a random mutation and that of one engineered. You seem to believe that because a mutation appears in nature that it is benevolant, this is simply not true. Cancer is caused by a random mutation that occurs often. Your examples are rediculous, and in no way link to what we are talking about.
The only relevant question that you raised is that of the poor reliability of crops. Your stance is short sighted. Crops have fallen under pandemics naturally for years, IE potato famin and the current fungus that infects bannana trees. Both engineered and natural crops can fall victim to this. Imagine if we have the technology to engineer new plants that can resist these infections. If we did not have this technology, then we would have to entrust our food supply to the chance that a mutation would occur that counteracts this parasite. Furthermore, current crops have been selectively bred to such an extent that they are not very geneticly diverese between specimens already!
Uhhh, no. When people do selective breeding, what they are doing is giving favoritism to a mutation. Mutation is random. They are taking the naturual process of survival of the fittest out of the equation. Thus, the process is no longer naturual.
And this is the arguement that bothers me. You are ignoring what the benfits are and complaining that it is breeding with naturually growing crops. If that gene gets released in the wild, yes, it is possible for it to have a detrimental side effect, but there is no proof of this. You are grasping in the dark on this one.
Finally, When you pass legislation like this, what you are doing is turning a blind eye to it in hope it will disapear. Do you think the rest of the world will ignore it too just in an effort to be like us? No. What will happen is that all the favorable research will be being conducted in other countries. And 20 years down the road, we will be paying them royalties and trying to catch up. And when everyone is asking why we are behind, I do hope you will raise your hand and say it was all based on your hunch.
BTW, I do understand just a little bit about genetics since I am a biology major at TAMU.
Sounds to me like something they can pop into the next upgrade of iPod. Only issue to look into is power consumption with streaming it constantly. In all honesty I understand that the portability is supposed to be useful, but there are usually not alot of places that I frequent that people have equipment good enough to stream this stuff.
Maybe in a few years when enough people are carying handhelds with wi-fi tunA will be a useful program. And by that time, I trust the iPod will have wi-fi.
But the point is that until the future, this is not a useful feature, and iTunes is. iTunes is having the same functionality that works on technology that everyone has.
Thats why iTunes is in the headlines and I bet that nobody will hear about tunA for a long time.
I am a little bit bothered about the general responce to genetically modifying anything. I mean, people just need to get off the possible negative side effects and realise the potential we are holding in our hands.
I mean, lets talk about better living through chemistry breaking to a whole new level.
I think the idea is you don't understand. Telephone companies can already use triangulation to detect where you are, so if my girlfriends stalker worked for the phone company, he already would know where she was.
To make my point, what if your girlfriend was abducted by a stalker, wouldn't it be nice to be able to know where she is, and inform the police?
But I said that this service could be useful, not fool-proof. I do not think that a universal find function would be good. But I do believe there should be a find function that authenticates to the phone. Meaning that I can set by default my girlfriend can find where I am, and no one else.
Just to drive the point into the ground, do you drive a car? Wouldn't it be horrible if your girlfriend got into a car accident and was consumed alive in flames, unable to be helped? Yea, but people still drive cars. I think the arguements being made against it are very rare cases, as are these. Yes, they are horrible, but it should not stop the world from revolving.
What if the phones had some sort of trust between them. That way I could program my phone to allow tracking by my girlfriends and parents phone, and not allow it by any other.
Lets just go a step further and make all non-trusted requests to track someone prompt for approval.
I seem to remember another article about a year ago that was about the tech guys working for some drug lords in south america. It seems when they raided one compound they got several crey computers. The details were sketchy, but they did mention that it was a huge cross referencing system used to like up phone conversations with prior knowledge to snort out rats. They said that the technology was used to kill at least 3 informants.
Just mentioning cause there is alot more money to be made in drugs rather than the mob.
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I didn't really care either way, but I would hop on from time to time to make sure they were doing their job. Everytime I caught them playing solitare, I would call down there, and tell them to stop. Well, I remember more then a few times you would catch someone playing who was bad at the game, and missed some obvious moves, so I decided to start playing with them. Funny part was, they would think the computer was broken, so they would call me! So, I would ask what they were doing, until they finally confessed, at which I would laugh at them and told them I knew... They were always happier with me catching them cause if their boss did, they would have been fired.
none the less, it was always fun.
I had seen the remote before and thought it was rediculous to spend that much on a universal remote, but when you already have 2500 bucks in equipment you might as well splurge.
But, it has a touch screen interface, auto programming through ir, back lighting, etc. etc. All in all, if I was gonna invest in a good home theater I would say not to skip over buying a quality remote
Thats great and all, but gmail is not setup to be able to send large files like that. I have a 15 meg file bounce back to the sender because gmail has a limit on the attachement size.
Yea, I would prefer to look at this more as guerilla warfare tactics, where Linux gets funded by its enemy. Linux grows stronger as Windows grows weaker.
Everyone is worried about them extracting things and publishing their own animations on the web. What about people hacking the software to add in their own symbols and messages?
Now that is a way cooler hack!
face-blindness has a direct correlation to breast size...
whoop!
Well, I find mine useful anyways, I am sure some people have mized results
But I think the point is that it was leaked. That nobody can keep an eye on their code if it is used this widely. If the code had been under public scrutiny since day one, more flaws would be found, but the overall code would be stronger, not weaker. This is why everyone can complain about tons of holes in linux, but miss the fact that just as many (if not more) exist in windows, and its just a matter of time before they get found out. With Linux, you have to take the additude, the sooner, the better.
I am not sure I would use this that often. I mean, the great thing about live linux cds is they are packed with utilities that can help with diagnostics. This is just a stripped down version of windows. Can anyone think of alot of uses for this that would beat out knoppix? Cause I can't.
But I wonder what happens when it misses some of the mines (E.g. Mines too deep, too new, plant did not grow close enough too it). That kind of defeats the purpose of doing this if they have to double back over the entire field to make sure they have not missed any. I think the idea is awesome, but not fool proof. And the fact that these seeds have to survive, and beat out other plants in the area. I think it is totally fascinating, and a creative idea, but seems to have a very small range of effective uses.
Just a question for something you touched on. I am at a good engineering school, where the comp sci program is not as impressive as the comp enginnering. Which would you recomend majoring in between the two?
Yea, you are right... But then again, nobody plays a confused guy better than him!
Don't equate your short attention span with a movie actually being bad. I thought purley on the basis of the way it was shot and edited was worth the money at the theaters.. Not to mention the hulk hands were the coolest damn toy I ever played with..
Yes, there are legitimate uses of using that band, but the vast majority of people are simply doing something that breaches their terms of service, or they are unaware of some kind of computer virus.
It seems to me that the companys are just fishing for guilty persons to stop what they are doing, and do not mean to use any force since the letters are sent without consequences listed. But in this day and age of RIAA suining 12 year olds, the majority of people will be spooked into stopping.
My advice is, ignore the letter. In the unlikely event that they actually do cut your service, raise hell, you may even get a couple months free!
We should be able to mod the article redundant.
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There is NO difference between a random mutation and that of one engineered. You seem to believe that because a mutation appears in nature that it is benevolant, this is simply not true. Cancer is caused by a random mutation that occurs often. Your examples are rediculous, and in no way link to what we are talking about.
The only relevant question that you raised is that of the poor reliability of crops. Your stance is short sighted. Crops have fallen under pandemics naturally for years, IE potato famin and the current fungus that infects bannana trees. Both engineered and natural crops can fall victim to this. Imagine if we have the technology to engineer new plants that can resist these infections. If we did not have this technology, then we would have to entrust our food supply to the chance that a mutation would occur that counteracts this parasite. Furthermore, current crops have been selectively bred to such an extent that they are not very geneticly diverese between specimens already!
And this is the arguement that bothers me. You are ignoring what the benfits are and complaining that it is breeding with naturually growing crops. If that gene gets released in the wild, yes, it is possible for it to have a detrimental side effect, but there is no proof of this. You are grasping in the dark on this one.
Finally, When you pass legislation like this, what you are doing is turning a blind eye to it in hope it will disapear. Do you think the rest of the world will ignore it too just in an effort to be like us? No. What will happen is that all the favorable research will be being conducted in other countries. And 20 years down the road, we will be paying them royalties and trying to catch up. And when everyone is asking why we are behind, I do hope you will raise your hand and say it was all based on your hunch.
BTW, I do understand just a little bit about genetics since I am a biology major at TAMU.
Sounds to me like something they can pop into the next upgrade of iPod. Only issue to look into is power consumption with streaming it constantly. In all honesty I understand that the portability is supposed to be useful, but there are usually not alot of places that I frequent that people have equipment good enough to stream this stuff.
Maybe in a few years when enough people are carying handhelds with wi-fi tunA will be a useful program. And by that time, I trust the iPod will have wi-fi.
But the point is that until the future, this is not a useful feature, and iTunes is. iTunes is having the same functionality that works on technology that everyone has.
Thats why iTunes is in the headlines and I bet that nobody will hear about tunA for a long time.
I am a little bit bothered about the general responce to genetically modifying anything. I mean, people just need to get off the possible negative side effects and realise the potential we are holding in our hands.
I mean, lets talk about better living through chemistry breaking to a whole new level.
To make my point, what if your girlfriend was abducted by a stalker, wouldn't it be nice to be able to know where she is, and inform the police?
But I said that this service could be useful, not fool-proof. I do not think that a universal find function would be good. But I do believe there should be a find function that authenticates to the phone. Meaning that I can set by default my girlfriend can find where I am, and no one else.
Just to drive the point into the ground, do you drive a car? Wouldn't it be horrible if your girlfriend got into a car accident and was consumed alive in flames, unable to be helped? Yea, but people still drive cars. I think the arguements being made against it are very rare cases, as are these. Yes, they are horrible, but it should not stop the world from revolving.
This arguement was used for encryption too. Yes, it can be used by some bad people, but that doesn't mean that it shouldn't be used at all.
Lets just go a step further and make all non-trusted requests to track someone prompt for approval.
Problem Solved.
Just mentioning cause there is alot more money to be made in drugs rather than the mob.