Nah, it's a lift from Masamune Shiro's Ghost in the Shell, they even acknowledge that at the and of the article. The cloak they use in the 4th and 6th movies on the site looks just like the one used by the ghost-hacked guy in the Ghost in the Shell movie.
When's the last time you actually looked at an advertisement? My mind doesn't even notice them anymore, be they in magazines or online, much like the pink mountain in HHGTtG.
Didn't the NYT just do a article about the wild west, irc which turned out to be utter sensationalist crap. Why should we believe this, or even read a word of it? Not to mention that none of us can actually read EITHER article without a little/lot of effort respectively (finding google link/learning nihongo).
You are right, they do have and should have the right to determine the standards of their own meetings, especially the privacy. Digital cameras are now ubiquitous, allowing for anyone in the public to spy on anyone else, essentially making any of your actions much less private. Somewhat scary that it doesn't even need to be an oppressive government to install cameras everywhere, the public is doing it of their own choice. Of course "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" and maybe we should accept it as an unstoppable change in the flow of progress.
In Australia, the major political parties frequently hold party meetings that are closed to the public, and to cameras. Thanks to new mobile phones that now have video recording capabilities, a brawl
at a national branch meeting of the Liberal Party was caught on camera for all the world to see. I'm sure a lot of people had to think twice about the image of the Liberals as a "mature and rational" party after that, I know I sure did.
Good, now maybe they can scan the structural integrity of the ISS to find out exactly what part of it is falling apart and detaching into space or perhaps what the loud metallic noise is.
Sure, it'd have to be within an inch of their reader, but couldn't someone make a higher power transmitter to ping the rfid chip in the card from a longer range? Or will the return signal dissapate quickly over longer distances?
I'd think that if a strong signal was used to ping the card initially, a strong signal would be returned, but maybe they have taken measures to stop that? Can anyone answer this?
Having read TFA, it seems Microsoft is also using "Lonestar" for their tablet edition of XP, which adds on top of the already Western-sounding "Longhorn".
Then a bunch of other codenames are listed, seeming to be a mishmash of various other cultural/mythical references, for example "Avalon", "Janus", "Athens" and "Cobra".
To me this sounds remarkably like Tarantino's Kill Bill vol2 which was a somewhat epilleptic combination of many elements, with an underlying western theme. All of these other codenames mentioned will be based on the underlying "Longhorn" Western themed Kernel.
We may hope for it, but I doubt if we'll get to see anyone kill Bill.
Couldn't have been gentoo, or the 7 hours would been taken up compiling the kernel for one machine and using all the rest of the machines to help with distcc.
I looked through all of the images of the demonstration, and found one to have a particularly good shot of one of the banners, which happened to be a pretty good pun.
Slashdot Mirror
"You hear that, Mr Anderson? That is the sound of inevitability. Of your website being Slashdotted, Mr Anderson."
Nah, it's a lift from Masamune Shiro's Ghost in the Shell, they even acknowledge that at the and of the article. The cloak they use in the 4th and 6th movies on the site looks just like the one used by the ghost-hacked guy in the Ghost in the Shell movie.
Hmmm so a sleeping invention from Japan... I'm thinkin' robotic arms holding rags covered in chloroform.
When's the last time you actually looked at an advertisement? My mind doesn't even notice them anymore, be they in magazines or online, much like the pink mountain in HHGTtG.
Linux is a bastard child!? I shall disown him from my house immediately!
/me clicks photo link
Neo! It's you!
The LEDs I first thought were gratuitous and unnecessary but after WTFV I know they are IR LEDs that are required for the function of the cam.
Couldn't they at least put them behind some kind of casing so they couldn't be seen? I guess this is only a prototype...
The future is finally here!
Didn't the NYT just do a article about the wild west, irc which turned out to be utter sensationalist crap. Why should we believe this, or even read a word of it? Not to mention that none of us can actually read EITHER article without a little/lot of effort respectively (finding google link/learning nihongo).
Thanks, I was beginning to go crazy not having a google link...
I have, and I guess I should have elucidated that my last line was a cynical joke in the post.
You are right, they do have and should have the right to determine the standards of their own meetings, especially the privacy. Digital cameras are now ubiquitous, allowing for anyone in the public to spy on anyone else, essentially making any of your actions much less private. Somewhat scary that it doesn't even need to be an oppressive government to install cameras everywhere, the public is doing it of their own choice. Of course "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" and maybe we should accept it as an unstoppable change in the flow of progress.
In Australia, the major political parties frequently hold party meetings that are closed to the public, and to cameras. Thanks to new mobile phones that now have video recording capabilities, a brawl at a national branch meeting of the Liberal Party was caught on camera for all the world to see. I'm sure a lot of people had to think twice about the image of the Liberals as a "mature and rational" party after that, I know I sure did.
Yeah I read it, I know they aren't *real* tricorders, hence the joke.
Good, now maybe they can scan the structural integrity of the ISS to find out exactly what part of it is falling apart and detaching into space or perhaps what the loud metallic noise is.
Sure, it'd have to be within an inch of their reader, but couldn't someone make a higher power transmitter to ping the rfid chip in the card from a longer range? Or will the return signal dissapate quickly over longer distances?
I'd think that if a strong signal was used to ping the card initially, a strong signal would be returned, but maybe they have taken measures to stop that? Can anyone answer this?
I can't find Estonia on my Cold War era globe.
In Soviet Russia, free wireless internet is accessible by you!
Having read TFA, it seems Microsoft is also using "Lonestar" for their tablet edition of XP, which adds on top of the already Western-sounding "Longhorn".
Then a bunch of other codenames are listed, seeming to be a mishmash of various other cultural/mythical references, for example "Avalon", "Janus", "Athens" and "Cobra".
To me this sounds remarkably like Tarantino's Kill Bill vol2 which was a somewhat epilleptic combination of many elements, with an underlying western theme. All of these other codenames mentioned will be based on the underlying "Longhorn" Western themed Kernel.
We may hope for it, but I doubt if we'll get to see anyone kill Bill.
Couldn't have been gentoo, or the 7 hours would been taken up compiling the kernel for one machine and using all the rest of the machines to help with distcc.
I looked through all of the images of the demonstration, and found one to have a particularly good shot of one of the banners, which happened to be a pretty good pun.
Warez the future!
In Capitalist America, the green tea drinks you!
Robo is the "World's Largest Transformer". Robo converts to a street legal Semi-Trailer for travel on the nations highways.
I don't know about you, but I'd be freakin' scared seeing this driving down the road next to me.
I can feel my knee jerking already!
I don't own an iPod, you iClods!
iFor one welcome my trendy new overlords!
iSlashpod
/pod or i/.
iNews for iNerds. iStuff that matters.
Or how about i. or
Maybe that'll be the next poll. And lemme guess, there wont be a CowboyNeal option either.
Doesn't get me, I use mozilla.