Search eBay for Patriot Act Game. I was expecting to find people packaging and selling his game, but it turns out it's a completely different game....also based on Monopoly, also poking fun at the Patriot act, civil liberties, and the terrorist threat.
I like the free one better, though, it seems more thought out.
The question is, how often would you forget to record something? $5 worth? (Figure $5 is 1/5 of the way to buying most any show season on DVD when it's on sale).
Especially since TiVo (and other DVRs) have automatic recording of a show. You say "I want to record 24" and TiVo gives you the option of getting a "Season Pass". MythTV has "Record at any time on this channel" or similar option.
That being said, I did get a call a few months back from a roommate when I was out of town. She had just found out that the company she worked for was going to be featured on the evening news and wanted to record it on my mythbox so she could make DVDs for her coworkers. Sure, I ended up just walking he through setting the record up in MythWeb, but if I had internet access, I could have done it myself.
Will there be different rules for how an "Official" and "Unofficial" AIM client connect? Will it be like TOC vs OSCAR where only the official client can read away messages without triggering an auto-reply? Will all the features be included in this development kit, or just the basic messaging features?
What is AOLs position regarding advertisements? The AIM buddylist has always had advertisements, and now 3rd party developers can create better clients that don't have these advertisements. (Not that they haven't already, but now it is official) How is AOL planning on retaining users once the users discover that they can have the same network, the same quality, the same features and reliability without the advertisements?
I'm not against this at all, don't get me wrong. I've been using Gaim ever since I switched to Linux (I would have used the official AIM linux client, but it's absolutely terrible). I went through daily updates 5 years ago when AOL kept blocking unofficial clients by changing the strictness of the protocol rules, and the gaim developers would turn around and update their software to comply with it. I'd love to see this interoperability work well, I just wonder how this is a good move for AOL, as they will no longer have any way to make money with the network.
Yeah, I know it's early, but AS IF AOL will just allow developers to make their own AIM clients without some kind of fine print somewhere. 5 years ago or so it was battle of the titans on Trillian vs Gaim vs AIM trying to keep open source aim clients off their network, and now they are open arms? I am wary....
It says that when you send an email from gmail, the code is removed. When you send it from Yahoo, the code executes right in the gmail inbox preview. The fact that javascript from the email executes in the gmail inbox is the security hole - anybody can email javascript to you and it will execute without your permission.
But anyway, the hole must be fixed, I can't reproduce the problem, either.
> That's like saying because a car with a certain license plate hit someone, the owner was the driver.
I hope that's sarcasm. That's exactly the kind of proof we're looking for. Unless whoever this is "lends out their car" to random skeezy internet strangers, he is linked to the crime. You don't think you'd be thrown in the clink for being the owner of a car that killed somebody? Sure you MIGHT be able to prove it was stolen, but until then, you are a fairly well suspected murderer, and all that "innocent-until-proven-guilty" crap goes right out the window until they see the proof.
I assumed that was the point of SSL - to be able to say "this company is trustworthy, because another company knows of them". That implies that there is a person there who has applied for the certificate and been issued it. Anonymous certificates TOTALLY DEFEAT THE PURPOSE.
not true, unless it just came out in this revision. It does have automatic transcode to RTJPEG and MPEG4, but not directly into xvid/divx wrappers. The nuvexport can do this expertly, but not automatically. It's a feature that has been lacking for some time now (combining the formats of nuvexport with the automation of mythtranscode)
What about ffmpeg? I assume that will also be affected, as they provide MPEG-4 compression/decompression. What happens when you try to collect licensing fees from an open source project?
The study grouped people into two groups "Independant" and "Social Influence". The problem is, they have no control group, as BOTH groups are real people, and thus have social influence already.
The way the study worked (from my understanding of the article) is that one group could pick songs by title and artist and the other could search by title, artist, and popularity. The results were that the same songs were popular in both groups! Wow, Amazing! All you did was prove that the outside influence on the study was the same! People don't need a list of "most recently downloaded songs" to know what they heard on the radio. I imagine that a lot of the people in the study (when given the opportunity to legally download as much as they wanted) went to another site to find what music is popular and looked all of them up. Or asked their friends "what should I download?" thus reproducing the same effect.
What would have made an interesting test is to have NO artist or title information at all (Artist 123 - Song 6) and run the same test. The problem would still exist (when people recognize a song, they would rate it higher or download it more often), but you would have to listen randomly and rate songs based on actual quality, not on popularity. It would be like a radio station but random instead of being force-fed the popular songs 5 times per hour.
The numbers don't surprise me too much. The typical response from people I interact with seems to be "My computer is running slow, acting strangely, crashing. Maybe I'll look into fixing it at some point". People just don't have the urgency anymore as virii/spyware aren't targetting their own machine anymore.
It's not like the good old days when a virus just trashed your machine, so you had to act immediately. Now it just lies in waiting and uses your machine to launch attacks on others and collects personal information silently. People just don't care enough to fix spyware until it directly prevents them from using their precious web browser, email, and instant messenger.
Yeah, they do that. When something was wrong with the car at the time of manufacture, when they find out about it they send you a little card in the mail to get you to come in to get "Warranty Work" done, they charge a fortune!
Oh wait, what's that you say? Warranty repairs are free of charge? Huh, well I'll be damned, you're right! Defective products ARE fixed/replaced free of charge. And it's REQUIRED by state Lemon Laws!
They could increase it even more by having a mercury switch in there that knows if you tilt the keybord and press a button, or make the amount of time you hold a button down have an effect.
But in case you couldn't tell, I was being sacrastic. There's no intuitive way to require users to press combinations of keys, we have enough problems explaining to n00b users when to use Shift, Alt, Control, Windows, Menu, etc. And if you are thinking "but this keyboard is for the advanced users" I say nay, advanced users don't need a fancy display on their keyboard, they know which buttons to hit without looking at it.
does it? each button is 20mm x 20mm (about 0.75") and 96x96 pixels. What purpose does a 3/4" x 3/4" thumbnail of album art have? You wouldn't even be able to read the album title off a picture that small.
How far away will you be able to read that from, maybe 5 feet max? Doesn't make a very good remote status display if you have to be right next to it (and it's not even wireless). The use they seem to be pushing is having it sit right next to a PC where the keyboard is. Right next to a *full size monitor* and *full size keyboard* that have plenty of display space and keys.
I think this product has eye-candy and amusement factor only. Anybody who is serious about a remote display knows to just get another monitor (or a touch-screen monitor), or even a whole additional computer. Anybody who wants a very small configurable remote will just get a wireless PDA (for less $$), and have the screen on it be configurable with buttons (and the resolution is MUCH higher on a PDA), not to mention the range and price being better, plus the fact that it can be used for many other things.
3 keys, real useful. If anything, I want MORE keys, not less. How could I even pick what to make those three keys? And what am I going to push that I won't then need a normal keyboard or mouse for anyway. Lets think about this for a second:
1). Program Launcher: I can map the keys to programs I often load, like winamp, firefox, instant messenger, email, oh crap, I've already gone over my quota of THREE. Not even the elderly in Korea limit themselves to only three programs!
2). Multimedia Keys / Remote: I can use this to remote control my media player! I'll map things like volume up, volume down, mute, play/pause, next track, previous track. Oh wait, that's right, > 3 functions.
3). Game Controller: Forget it, the friggin atari 2600 had a directional joystick and a single button and it was more useful than this!
There's only so much they can do....if they are commisioned to write a documentary on paint drying, there's no amount of writing skill that will make that a program worth watching.
If they actually made a show about the typical life of the scientist/engineer, it would go something like this:
Monday: Wrote some code, ate lunch, went to the gym Tuesday: Wrote some code, went to a meeting, ate lunch, went home Wednesday: Wrote some cod...
Or in the chem/bio field:
Monday: Filled a test tube, did some tests Tuesday: Looked at some stuff under a microscope, wrote a report Wednesday: Massive Virus Outbreak and this lab is the only one that can stop it!! haha, just kidding, I filled some test tubes.
I think what it comes down to is that people who are likely to want to go into science are not likely to want to watch Soap Operas... So effectively, they are marketing to a nonexistant audience!
She's not THE main character, but she's one of them and still sets the same example of women in science jobs: Diane Foss
There was another woman who I can't find that was a research assistant for the Math Department that was on a lot of the episodes, too. She made a good female role model as well.
Financially it makes sense, but a compamy like that really can't afford to abandom their customers! Especially when they are non-standard and decide to make their own format of memory card, for example. What is going to happen to brand loyalty if they keep discontinuing all the things we buy? I bought a Clie about 6 months before they discontinued the line. Forget software updates and the like, they barely admit that the product exists! I should have returned it and bought a handspring. Err, Palm. Err PalmOne. Err, whichever they are now.
But when you think about it, I'm not clicking on a "Decline in proper anchor texting", that's not really even a tangible thing. I'm clicking on a geekery times article.
Slashdot is very unique in how it links to other sites, which isn't necessarily good or bad, just....different. Most other sites are more formal in their linking, by using either the actual name of the source or article in the link text, or including a list of sources at the bottom of the article, rather than having links in the middle of sentences.
What happens if you have three articles on the same topic? It makes sense to list all the sources, but I think it's a little silly to do what has been done, which is:
"Several news organizations are reporting a _decline_ in _proper anchor_ _texting_"
Where each of those underlined sections is a link to a different article. The first article is not about "decline" any more than the last one is about "texting". Really the only difference between the articles is the source, so in my opinion:
"Several articles have been posted about the decline in proper anchor texting on _Geekery Times_, _OMFGImAGeek.com_, and _GeeksRUs_"
I assume ecode is like "pre" and also allows you to embed html code that won't be interpreted (I wasn't familiar with that html tag before testing it just now).
While it lists which HTML tags are allowed, nowhere does it say or even imply that any of the HTML tags are allowed in "Plain Old Text" mode (in fact, the name "Plain Old Text", if anything, implies that html will be displayed raw, like it used to be). I would think that it would be more intuitive to have these modes:
Plain Old Text: no HTML tags
Smart HTML (default): Simple HTML with linebreaks converted to a BR tag
HTML: Straight HTML, with whatever tags are allowed, no automatic conversions
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He's not the only one to do this:
Search eBay for Patriot Act Game. I was expecting to find people packaging and selling his game, but it turns out it's a completely different game....also based on Monopoly, also poking fun at the Patriot act, civil liberties, and the terrorist threat.
I like the free one better, though, it seems more thought out.
The question is, how often would you forget to record something? $5 worth? (Figure $5 is 1/5 of the way to buying most any show season on DVD when it's on sale).
Especially since TiVo (and other DVRs) have automatic recording of a show. You say "I want to record 24" and TiVo gives you the option of getting a "Season Pass". MythTV has "Record at any time on this channel" or similar option.
That being said, I did get a call a few months back from a roommate when I was out of town. She had just found out that the company she worked for was going to be featured on the evening news and wanted to record it on my mythbox so she could make DVDs for her coworkers. Sure, I ended up just walking he through setting the record up in MythWeb, but if I had internet access, I could have done it myself.
Will there be different rules for how an "Official" and "Unofficial" AIM client connect? Will it be like TOC vs OSCAR where only the official client can read away messages without triggering an auto-reply? Will all the features be included in this development kit, or just the basic messaging features?
What is AOLs position regarding advertisements? The AIM buddylist has always had advertisements, and now 3rd party developers can create better clients that don't have these advertisements. (Not that they haven't already, but now it is official) How is AOL planning on retaining users once the users discover that they can have the same network, the same quality, the same features and reliability without the advertisements?
I'm not against this at all, don't get me wrong. I've been using Gaim ever since I switched to Linux (I would have used the official AIM linux client, but it's absolutely terrible). I went through daily updates 5 years ago when AOL kept blocking unofficial clients by changing the strictness of the protocol rules, and the gaim developers would turn around and update their software to comply with it. I'd love to see this interoperability work well, I just wonder how this is a good move for AOL, as they will no longer have any way to make money with the network.
Yeah, I know it's early, but AS IF AOL will just allow developers to make their own AIM clients without some kind of fine print somewhere. 5 years ago or so it was battle of the titans on Trillian vs Gaim vs AIM trying to keep open source aim clients off their network, and now they are open arms? I am wary....
Read the article.
It says that when you send an email from gmail, the code is removed. When you send it from Yahoo, the code executes right in the gmail inbox preview. The fact that javascript from the email executes in the gmail inbox is the security hole - anybody can email javascript to you and it will execute without your permission.
But anyway, the hole must be fixed, I can't reproduce the problem, either.
Article is on Spam Daily News, sources listed are: TheSpamDiaries.blogspot.com; Sun Sentinel; ROKSO.
Sounds like total bull to me, Why wasn't this picked up by any real news sources? And since when does the secret service care about spam?
> That's like saying because a car with a certain license plate hit someone, the owner was the driver.
I hope that's sarcasm. That's exactly the kind of proof we're looking for. Unless whoever this is "lends out their car" to random skeezy internet strangers, he is linked to the crime. You don't think you'd be thrown in the clink for being the owner of a car that killed somebody? Sure you MIGHT be able to prove it was stolen, but until then, you are a fairly well suspected murderer, and all that "innocent-until-proven-guilty" crap goes right out the window until they see the proof.
I assumed that was the point of SSL - to be able to say "this company is trustworthy, because another company knows of them". That implies that there is a person there who has applied for the certificate and been issued it. Anonymous certificates TOTALLY DEFEAT THE PURPOSE.
not true, unless it just came out in this revision. It does have automatic transcode to RTJPEG and MPEG4, but not directly into xvid/divx wrappers. The nuvexport can do this expertly, but not automatically. It's a feature that has been lacking for some time now (combining the formats of nuvexport with the automation of mythtranscode)
What about ffmpeg? I assume that will also be affected, as they provide MPEG-4 compression/decompression. What happens when you try to collect licensing fees from an open source project?
The study grouped people into two groups "Independant" and "Social Influence". The problem is, they have no control group, as BOTH groups are real people, and thus have social influence already.
The way the study worked (from my understanding of the article) is that one group could pick songs by title and artist and the other could search by title, artist, and popularity. The results were that the same songs were popular in both groups! Wow, Amazing! All you did was prove that the outside influence on the study was the same! People don't need a list of "most recently downloaded songs" to know what they heard on the radio. I imagine that a lot of the people in the study (when given the opportunity to legally download as much as they wanted) went to another site to find what music is popular and looked all of them up. Or asked their friends "what should I download?" thus reproducing the same effect.
What would have made an interesting test is to have NO artist or title information at all (Artist 123 - Song 6) and run the same test. The problem would still exist (when people recognize a song, they would rate it higher or download it more often), but you would have to listen randomly and rate songs based on actual quality, not on popularity. It would be like a radio station but random instead of being force-fed the popular songs 5 times per hour.
The numbers don't surprise me too much. The typical response from people I interact with seems to be "My computer is running slow, acting strangely, crashing. Maybe I'll look into fixing it at some point". People just don't have the urgency anymore as virii/spyware aren't targetting their own machine anymore.
It's not like the good old days when a virus just trashed your machine, so you had to act immediately. Now it just lies in waiting and uses your machine to launch attacks on others and collects personal information silently. People just don't care enough to fix spyware until it directly prevents them from using their precious web browser, email, and instant messenger.
Yeah, they do that. When something was wrong with the car at the time of manufacture, when they find out about it they send you a little card in the mail to get you to come in to get "Warranty Work" done, they charge a fortune!
Oh wait, what's that you say? Warranty repairs are free of charge? Huh, well I'll be damned, you're right! Defective products ARE fixed/replaced free of charge. And it's REQUIRED by state Lemon Laws!
Can we have a Lemon Law for software?
They could increase it even more by having a mercury switch in there that knows if you tilt the keybord and press a button, or make the amount of time you hold a button down have an effect.
But in case you couldn't tell, I was being sacrastic. There's no intuitive way to require users to press combinations of keys, we have enough problems explaining to n00b users when to use Shift, Alt, Control, Windows, Menu, etc. And if you are thinking "but this keyboard is for the advanced users" I say nay, advanced users don't need a fancy display on their keyboard, they know which buttons to hit without looking at it.
does it? each button is 20mm x 20mm (about 0.75") and 96x96 pixels. What purpose does a 3/4" x 3/4" thumbnail of album art have? You wouldn't even be able to read the album title off a picture that small.
How far away will you be able to read that from, maybe 5 feet max? Doesn't make a very good remote status display if you have to be right next to it (and it's not even wireless). The use they seem to be pushing is having it sit right next to a PC where the keyboard is. Right next to a *full size monitor* and *full size keyboard* that have plenty of display space and keys.
I think this product has eye-candy and amusement factor only. Anybody who is serious about a remote display knows to just get another monitor (or a touch-screen monitor), or even a whole additional computer. Anybody who wants a very small configurable remote will just get a wireless PDA (for less $$), and have the screen on it be configurable with buttons (and the resolution is MUCH higher on a PDA), not to mention the range and price being better, plus the fact that it can be used for many other things.
3 keys, real useful. If anything, I want MORE keys, not less. How could I even pick what to make those three keys? And what am I going to push that I won't then need a normal keyboard or mouse for anyway. Lets think about this for a second:
1). Program Launcher: I can map the keys to programs I often load, like winamp, firefox, instant messenger, email, oh crap, I've already gone over my quota of THREE. Not even the elderly in Korea limit themselves to only three programs!
2). Multimedia Keys / Remote: I can use this to remote control my media player! I'll map things like volume up, volume down, mute, play/pause, next track, previous track. Oh wait, that's right, > 3 functions.
3). Game Controller: Forget it, the friggin atari 2600 had a directional joystick and a single button and it was more useful than this!
There's only so much they can do....if they are commisioned to write a documentary on paint drying, there's no amount of writing skill that will make that a program worth watching.
If they actually made a show about the typical life of the scientist/engineer, it would go something like this:
Monday: Wrote some code, ate lunch, went to the gym
Tuesday: Wrote some code, went to a meeting, ate lunch, went home
Wednesday: Wrote some cod...
Or in the chem/bio field:
Monday: Filled a test tube, did some tests
Tuesday: Looked at some stuff under a microscope, wrote a report
Wednesday: Massive Virus Outbreak and this lab is the only one that can stop it!! haha, just kidding, I filled some test tubes.
I think what it comes down to is that people who are likely to want to go into science are not likely to want to watch Soap Operas... So effectively, they are marketing to a nonexistant audience!
She's not THE main character, but she's one of them and still sets the same example of women in science jobs: Diane Foss
There was another woman who I can't find that was a research assistant for the Math Department that was on a lot of the episodes, too. She made a good female role model as well.
They have a ton of them. They are called the "Hour Long Drama", and they are all over TV, but in prime-time instead of mid-morning.
E.R., CSI, Numb3rs, I'm sure there are more. They have women, they have science. What more do you want?
Financially it makes sense, but a compamy like that really can't afford to abandom their customers! Especially when they are non-standard and decide to make their own format of memory card, for example. What is going to happen to brand loyalty if they keep discontinuing all the things we buy? I bought a Clie about 6 months before they discontinued the line. Forget software updates and the like, they barely admit that the product exists! I should have returned it and bought a handspring. Err, Palm. Err PalmOne. Err, whichever they are now.
When did computer games first become mainstream and popular, the early 90s? And it was popular with the teen age group.
~15 years later it's 2006 and we're surprised that those teens grew up and had kids and didn't stop gaming. Gasp!
That's like acting surprised that more parents snowboard now than they did 20 years ago. Amazing, it's because there WAS no snowboarding 20 years ago.
So they killed off their PDA line, the Clie...
Now they are killing off their research technologies...
I can see the headlines now:
"Sony to stop selling Televisions, Cameras, and Personal Computers! Moving to toothpick business!"
yup, just what I was looking for. Somebody beat you to it though and already replied to tell me that. Thanks!
But when you think about it, I'm not clicking on a "Decline in proper anchor texting", that's not really even a tangible thing. I'm clicking on a geekery times article.
Slashdot is very unique in how it links to other sites, which isn't necessarily good or bad, just....different. Most other sites are more formal in their linking, by using either the actual name of the source or article in the link text, or including a list of sources at the bottom of the article, rather than having links in the middle of sentences.
What happens if you have three articles on the same topic? It makes sense to list all the sources, but I think it's a little silly to do what has been done, which is:
"Several news organizations are reporting a _decline_ in _proper anchor_ _texting_"
Where each of those underlined sections is a link to a different article. The first article is not about "decline" any more than the last one is about "texting". Really the only difference between the articles is the source, so in my opinion:
"Several articles have been posted about the decline in proper anchor texting on _Geekery Times_, _OMFGImAGeek.com_, and _GeeksRUs_"
Options are:
Below that it says:
Allowed HTML:URLsI assume ecode is like "pre" and also allows you to embed html code that won't be interpreted (I wasn't familiar with that html tag before testing it just now).
While it lists which HTML tags are allowed, nowhere does it say or even imply that any of the HTML tags are allowed in "Plain Old Text" mode (in fact, the name "Plain Old Text", if anything, implies that html will be displayed raw, like it used to be). I would think that it would be more intuitive to have these modes: