The common term for the color of the platinum case is grey (or gray), but with age and UV exposure they did turn beige. Very few such units haven't turned beige.
Then, with the iMac, they had Jeff Goldblum reterm all the platinum/grey boxes "beige" regardless of who made them.
They aren't afraid of what their kids are playing but rather what the other kids are playing and what those games will make those kids to do their kids, so they want to enforce their parenting rules on all the other parents' children by way of government. That it means they won't have to do their parenting themselves anymore is just a bonus.
What about the power to fine business that sell R rated movies to kids?
Or unrated director's cut versions of R-rated movies? And movies regularly carry extra content that is unrated! Who knows what might be found in there! Perhaps a naked boobie on a PG movie, or a penis on an R movie!
Or do they expect V-chips and parental locks on DVD players to deal with that? But don't all the modern consoles already support their own parental controls?
I think "black hat" would not be quite the term to describe this sort of activity. The term "white hat" is usually used for hired hacks
Further, why "penetration test team" or "pen test team"? The latter sounds like they work in an animation studio. If Microsoft is hiring them and still calls them "black hat hackers", why not go all the way and make it clear to everyone what they think of them by calling them a more widely known and inflammatory term, such as "rape gang"?
I've thought about converting some animated shows into HD for fun, but not upscaling. Instead, I'd take advantage of the bigger canvas of HD and stitch frames together so you could see the backgrounds in their full glory rather than the quick pans across them and otherwise expand the field of view (e.g. a shot from Gargoyles of Xanatos' Eerie Building that panned from pointing down at the base up to being level with Castle Wyvern atop it, but instead of being a pan being stitched together as a reveal). Or make it like an animated comic book where each camera change was a new cell on the page.
Unfortunately I need a more powerful computer to play back HD. A 550 MHz G4 on a Blue & White G3 motherboard doesn't cut it.
I don't see why people couldn't make similiar games with DVD systems today. You just branch to various chapters on a disc and hit a button at precisely the right time.
Already done. Dragon's Lair, Dragon's Lair 2: Time Warp, Dragon's Lair 3, and Space Ace, all available on interactive DVDs, though only one of them is available as new from amazon.com. There are others as well.
In a fission-fusion-fission bomb with the last "fission" stage omitted and a Cobalt-59 jacket substituted, the neutron flux will turn most of it into Cobalt-60 and the blast will scatter it across the land.
Glory be to the Bomb and to the Holy Fallout. As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall be world without end.
Amen.
My dear everlasting Bomb come down among us, to make Heaven under Earth like the hour of darkness. Oh Instrument of God, grant us Thy Truth, the Truth to define in us. Feel that Truth and through that flicker.
Let everyone go to his private shelter. Empty the streets. There to find the city of the dead. Let the Blessing of the Bomb Almighty and the Fellowship of the Holy Fallout descend on us all, this day and forever more.
Essentially you want to have your colors go as deep as you need to to make differences imperceptible, which this (supposedly) does. After that going even deeper would be a waste.
Of course, reasonable limits aren't. Just because human perception says you don't need to put out gradations twice as precise as human vision to conceal them doesn't mean we won't use other devices to help us perceive more, much like you can use a CCD camera to turn infrared light visible, or that it needs to support more to conceal the compression artifacts from us.
And as someone else mentioned, watermarking becomes easier. Which is to say, to borrow from Douglas Adams (Mostly Harmless/Quintessential Phase), they can use the color gradations you can't perceive as data channels.
It remains my opinion that multi-columnar rendering of web pages should never exceed the height of the browser window, no single column hsould exceed the width of the browser window, and can cause horizontal scrolling exclusively, so that no reverse scrolling would ever be necessary for a single read.
At least for languages that are read left-to-right, top-to-bottom. Other languages (right-to-left, top-to-bottom; top-to-bottom, right-to-left; etc.) will have different constraints. I don't like to think about mixing them.
The plan was to make a cut that would let us just fold open the skin over the implant and remove it either by excision, scraping it off, or irrigating it out depending on the consistency
Why they didn't think of pulling it out with another magnet I wouldn't know. After all, that's the big fear with having them near an operating MRI, right?
Anyway, even if I could power small electronic devices by repeatedly shoving my magnet-embedded finger in and out of a copper coil (electromagnetic induction), I'd still prefer having naquadah in my blood.
And how, exactly, do you think a computer is turned into a zombie, except by installing a nasty payload?
That really depends on what you consider a "nasty payload". For some it may be limited to something that destroys files. For others, it may only need to call the user "Miss Jackson".
What if the covert payload turned the system into a zombie for doing protein folding, analyzing radio signals for SETI, or decrypting terrorist communications?
Or maybe it installed to seek and destroy Malware of Internet Corruption and is sticking around only to preserve the stability of the host system against invasions by other malware so that that malware doesn't have to be defended against at the payload's source.
Until the special interests pass the One Internet Act to make the creation of any other competing network illegal. And it will pass under the three veils of public good, protecting children, and fighting terrorism and other crimes and misdemeanors, when it's really about protecting the profits of the status quo.
It's that it has boiled down to anything you say or do in public can and will be used against you. There's no such thing as a reasonable expectation of obscurity if one participates in any public venue anymore. Sure, people are putting out information themselves, but that doesn't mean the government shouldn't exercise some propriety and not pry into matters that shouldn't concern it.
People can't live free if everything they do in public is scrutinized and recorded by their government (or every employer) for future action.
Indeed. I at least want to know if it was a forwards or backwards run through the game (running right or left). I found going left was a lot easier because as long as you kept moving you'd never get hit by the rolling logs.
I am certain that I got detention for playing Pitfall in the school library.
Maybe it was for playing LARP Pitfall! in the library. I can see someone getting detention for that, swinging from bookcase to bookcase. And see why one would suppress the memory.
Thumper Thompson is, of course, going to trumpet this as a resounding victory for the righteous
If he does, I'd hope they'd finish and release it anyway just to spite him, and make it clear it is because of him they released it (perhaps with a dedication splash screen at the start).
But unless you regularly play your games on others' computers, do you remember your Steam ID and password? Are you prepared for when your system dies and takes that information to its grave?
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Property owners that shoot trespassers will end up going to jail for attempted murder in virtually any US jurisdiction
Yes, virtually. One exception being when the property is owned by the government, esp. federal. Think military bases, esp. military research.
Another is Texas: "You are sittin' in my son's room, in front of my son's computer, in my house, and you're in Texas, boy. I'd be well within my rights to shoot you where you sit. "
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The common term for the color of the platinum case is grey (or gray), but with age and UV exposure they did turn beige. Very few such units haven't turned beige.
Then, with the iMac, they had Jeff Goldblum reterm all the platinum/grey boxes "beige" regardless of who made them.
So that's why when I read it my mind provided the voice of Stephen Colbert.
They aren't afraid of what their kids are playing but rather what the other kids are playing and what those games will make those kids to do their kids, so they want to enforce their parenting rules on all the other parents' children by way of government. That it means they won't have to do their parenting themselves anymore is just a bonus.
What about the power to fine business that sell R rated movies to kids?
Or unrated director's cut versions of R-rated movies? And movies regularly carry extra content that is unrated! Who knows what might be found in there! Perhaps a naked boobie on a PG movie, or a penis on an R movie!
Or do they expect V-chips and parental locks on DVD players to deal with that? But don't all the modern consoles already support their own parental controls?
I think the ESRB should have the power to pull M-rated games from the shelf of a retailer who sells them to kids.
Meet the new VGAA, same as the old MPAA?
I've thought about converting some animated shows into HD for fun, but not upscaling. Instead, I'd take advantage of the bigger canvas of HD and stitch frames together so you could see the backgrounds in their full glory rather than the quick pans across them and otherwise expand the field of view (e.g. a shot from Gargoyles of Xanatos' Eerie Building that panned from pointing down at the base up to being level with Castle Wyvern atop it, but instead of being a pan being stitched together as a reveal). Or make it like an animated comic book where each camera change was a new cell on the page.
Unfortunately I need a more powerful computer to play back HD. A 550 MHz G4 on a Blue & White G3 motherboard doesn't cut it.
I don't see why people couldn't make similiar games with DVD systems today. You just branch to various chapters on a disc and hit a button at precisely the right time.
Already done. Dragon's Lair, Dragon's Lair 2: Time Warp, Dragon's Lair 3, and Space Ace, all available on interactive DVDs, though only one of them is available as new from amazon.com. There are others as well.
And as someone else mentioned, watermarking becomes easier. Which is to say, to borrow from Douglas Adams (Mostly Harmless/Quintessential Phase), they can use the color gradations you can't perceive as data channels.
Does it support sand storms and DEEP HURTING?
It remains my opinion that multi-columnar rendering of web pages should never exceed the height of the browser window, no single column hsould exceed the width of the browser window, and can cause horizontal scrolling exclusively, so that no reverse scrolling would ever be necessary for a single read.
At least for languages that are read left-to-right, top-to-bottom. Other languages (right-to-left, top-to-bottom; top-to-bottom, right-to-left; etc.) will have different constraints. I don't like to think about mixing them.
Anyway, even if I could power small electronic devices by repeatedly shoving my magnet-embedded finger in and out of a copper coil (electromagnetic induction), I'd still prefer having naquadah in my blood.
From the combination of the two stories, it sounds to me that if you fly without ID, you'd best fly without ego as well.
What if the covert payload turned the system into a zombie for doing protein folding, analyzing radio signals for SETI, or decrypting terrorist communications?
Or maybe it installed to seek and destroy Malware of Internet Corruption and is sticking around only to preserve the stability of the host system against invasions by other malware so that that malware doesn't have to be defended against at the payload's source.
Until the special interests pass the One Internet Act to make the creation of any other competing network illegal. And it will pass under the three veils of public good, protecting children, and fighting terrorism and other crimes and misdemeanors, when it's really about protecting the profits of the status quo.
It's that it has boiled down to anything you say or do in public can and will be used against you. There's no such thing as a reasonable expectation of obscurity if one participates in any public venue anymore. Sure, people are putting out information themselves, but that doesn't mean the government shouldn't exercise some propriety and not pry into matters that shouldn't concern it.
People can't live free if everything they do in public is scrutinized and recorded by their government (or every employer) for future action.
Indeed. I at least want to know if it was a forwards or backwards run through the game (running right or left). I found going left was a lot easier because as long as you kept moving you'd never get hit by the rolling logs.
But unless you regularly play your games on others' computers, do you remember your Steam ID and password? Are you prepared for when your system dies and takes that information to its grave?
OT:Except they don't talk about using Curious George(TM), they talk about Curious George, then refer to them as "two characters".
So while the image of Curious George(TM) may be copyrighted, the images of Curious and George may well be public domain.
Well, the all black keyboard would be great for some geek cred, especially 'round the office.. but I'm just not going to pay that kind of cash for it.
I'm waiting for the Optimus Keyboard. It has a free Das Keyboard emulation mode of displaying nothing on all the keycaps.
And for those who actually miss their old hunt-and-peck learning curve, consider programming it to randomly reorder the keys with every keystroke.
Property owners that shoot trespassers will end up going to jail for attempted murder in virtually any US jurisdiction
Yes, virtually. One exception being when the property is owned by the government, esp. federal. Think military bases, esp. military research.
Another is Texas: "You are sittin' in my son's room, in front of my son's computer, in my house, and you're in Texas, boy. I'd be well within my rights to shoot you where you sit. "