bittorrent is a good solution to the distribution limitations of the Internet. Its the best way to distribute game patches.. I'm sure those proponents of the dieing star-network model, or the centralized hub, will battle the dominance of the peer/distributed content model.. The problem with the pay per play content business is it has fallen down and it can't get up.
So why should this suprise me.. Note my last machine was made from chinese parts, I bought it off of Ebay.. And its worked like a charm, not once did I have to send it in for warantee service.
They have the technology they should do and Indiana Jones movie that is computer generated.. Then they can reuse Harrison Ford's Mannerisms and movements, and he can still act, no matter how old he gets.. Then he will have no excuse but to star int he movies.
I swear I think they have sold the community. Hey you can do compositing with blender, you can also do animation work, you can probably get the motion capture in there, pipe it into yoru armature. Believe me, this is so unimpressive a press release, all I can see is Zemekis' marketing.. Didn't he do Ghostbusters? Well..
I'm still waiting for that film college to kick off somewhere in New Mexico here.. I mean, if they did I would probably attend, maybe teach some classes on computer graphics, animation, who knows what..
Actually movies have gotten to the point where I know I can't do a lot of what I see now.. But it didn't always used to be that way.. Like scenes from Fifth Element or Die Hard, apart from Bruce Willis, the excessive fire effects, is just layered explosion footage.. And the fifth element with all the cars flying around, Z buffer reuse..
Best way to leanr film, get a camera.. Get some software, get some friends, go shoot something, edit it.. See it.. Repeat.. Well..
There is two kinds of movies, those you slave for a long time to produce money for, just so that everyone can see how brilliant you are, and make lots of money.. And then there are the movies that you just have to get made because the thought of not having it out there is driving you up the wall. I'm from the later crowd, but more my thoughts are about scenes and lighting, not stories.. And the movie would have to serve some purpose.. Entertainment is pretty useless.. Well pick the lesser of two weevills.
I noticed their Internet TV is reduced to only public channels now, of which there is about two.
IS this AOL's effort to get people to switch to their commercial music service?
Well best of luck, I'm using Rhapsody.
As far as I know, they fired the team and replaced it with clowns, about a year or so ago.. This is the first response of the execs, remove the product designers, replace with goons that will morph the package into something that is controllable and easy to exploit.
Maybe to extract the useful functionality from the sources so it could be merged into AOL's service. After comcast cable's adoption of so many previous AOL clients, I would wonder if AOL will soon be dead.. Naw, how can a company made up of ten thousand tech support and about 100 managers, die..
Set it up so it does overuse the connection, but then turn around and send mutated URL's at the servers.. I don't know what a DDOS does, but its suitable, if you can prevent it to send DDOS's from several sites.
However I don't trust this screensaver.. After I downloaded the program, they popped up a screen about their other software titles.
Do you think they could be using this to collect marketing, like which software titles you are using, and plopp a ID cookie into your browsers so that they can track you.. I mean, what is the value add to this software, is it benefitting us or them? I can see that it would work, if they were to build up their Identity.. But considering they are no longer the brand they once were, who knows who that brand is now?
It could be spammers yet.. Note they don't offer software for the US.. Would this mean there is no regulations in place to protect users from misuse in these countries?
Fossile Fuels are used here to avoid nuclear energy.. Why not put a nuclear energy plant on the moon and beam the energy here. Same for creating hydrogen fuel.. You need energy to create hydrogen fuel, the most abundant fuel this planet has is uranium, why not use that to make hydrogen fuel?
But the reason I suspected for.net and centralized application use over a network, like subsribing to using MSWORD, I believe was a method of collecting information about people and then selling this information or using it to their advantage, call me paranoid.
Marketing (aka Data Mining) costs money, now what if Microsoft owned the only way to collect marketing information, the biggest pool of marketing data?
Now you know why they are trying to do this.net stuff.. The other reason is so they can find the source of competition and attack it before it has chance to develop.
Pixar had a contract with disney to make 6 movies.
This was the deal, this is why they were with disney. This is also why Katzenberg was trying to get dreamworks to turn out Antz, which was competition for Pixar's Bugs Life. I guess Dreamworks gave up with fighting them.. But I think Warner Brothers was stupid to realease a movie with Tom Hanks in it that is computer generated and sucks compared to Pixar movies. That being the polar express.. I knew it would suck because they used motion suits to speed it along and the motion sucked. I think WB is jealous of Pixar's success too.. I think all the studios do not want the competition.. Maybe some are inspired.. But I think the competition is due to jealousy. However Disney had rights to Toy Story because in the beginning, Pixar didn't have the technology or know how to make Toy Story go. And they had been working on Toy Story four years before it was released, and in that time they hired and fired people, working on a shoestring budget, with only 50 people to their organization asdie from the freelance hires. So it doesn't suprise me that Disney would try to milk the market while they still have it.. And they don't have to be good natured to satisfy Pixar anymore..
Why use them, why not make most of the schema clientside instead of serverside, via ODBC/JDBC.. OR something similar.. Maybe I don't live in the optimal universe, but relational databases are not optimal unless you know how the searches perform.. How about this, a runtime average of query times, on a per operation set basis.. I know Oracle probably won't like that.. Anything you know about the database you would have to get from database classes.. If ever that's compromised many DBA's will lose their jobs..
I don't use Kazaa anymore.. I don't use Napster like services.. However I might use napster.. I'm currently using Rhapsody, and love it.. What I miss most is the "Audiogalaxy" model of consumption.. I wouldn't mind paying for a streaming audio service.. But after purchasing 200+ cd's, I've lost interest in purchasing CD's, just takes up room.. I don't travel much, so it makes no sense to have the CD in my car, and even if I did I would just the music from my computer which can record sound from the sound card.. I don't like the fact that it costs about 77 cents to burn a song to CD.. We all know the distribution costs for CD's are bloated, and the musicians don't get paid much.. If I was sam walton I would demand from the music industry to narrow its margins, and to give more of its earnings to the musicians.. This is what's also pushing the industry.. I have no interest in current music, I get more enjoyment from listening to 70s and 80s tunes than listening to current hits.. Its for the same reason that David Crosby summed up on a PBS program "execs wouldn't know a good song if it flew up their nose and died". There was more actual good music in the 70s and 80s than now.. Its not because there was no file-sharing back then.. It was because the execs short-changed the musicians and rap hit the market mid-way in the 80s.. Since hip-hop is largely liquid, no staying power for a musician, over time I expect it will lose ground..
I'm not a supremist, but I like Michael Jackson previous to Thriller better than after.. I think most teens buy music to be different from their parents, I was listening to disco at age 8.. I listen to all the current stuff too, it just musically lacks.. And I think this is more due to the competition to non-music, sampling previous creative stuff, cover tunes, needs to fill space on a CD.. Nobody really cares about how much songs are stuffed on a CD, they really just want quality content.. That's why I stopped buying CD's.. I had no interest in paying for a CD to get only 3 good songs.. I've been on rhapsody for a month, and haven't been tempted enough to burn a CD, but I may tonight.. I'm pretty poor, more due to the dwindling US market, but I think thats happenign because of corporate greed.. The need to stay in business, forces companies over seas, trying to maintain product quality while compromising jobs and to retain profit margins, thus who doesn't feel the market problems? The rich, plain and simple.. But eventually it will..
We live in a day and age when its going to be increasingly harder for people to get rich or to stay rich.. The consumers have a lot of money collectively, but collectively are poor, so they are not going to let it go, unless they see real value.. And as a result, what goes around comes around, the value is expected of them in their everyday lives.. But I would rather be doing something I like for little money than doing something I hate for a lot.. Eventually I think the effect that modern consumerism will have on the industry is it will flush out the one-trick ponies of the business world, those who regugitated answers when taking exams, those who have little creativity, you haven't the sole ability to produce value..
Is this good or bad.. I really don't know.. I have a feeling that this over-consumerism will probably end, god only knows.. And a shortened lifespan may be the result..
From the what-is-sco pushing that's of any value anymore? I remember when SCO-unix was a waste of money, now its trying to make back money it would have never made anyhow.. Well I guess if you have to pay lawyers, that's what would drive such a scheme..
Linux zealots would have a hard time arguing ease of use in terms of getting stuff, downloading and installing it.. Linux is a no-brainer if you have no choice, and particularly if you are offering computing services, but if you want a good front-end something you can use for say web development or avaerage work, then its hard to beat Windows XP.. FYI, I bought mine from an ebayer who was selling copies as OEM, which just requires that he distribute a copy with a sound-wire that connects a soundblaster to the speaker in the PC case, this satisfies the requirements Windows has to sell software as an OEM. Microsoft really doesn't care as they would rather people use XP and not linux, it allows them to leverage developers into purchasing development kits from them.. Which is the downside to using teh Windows platform..
As for bugs, its got just as much as linux, I don't know which is worse, and onfocused development of an open source OS (where most people are unprofessional and uncolleged) or a paid for focused operating system developed by colleged professionals. However I accept both of them, and for server side stuff I would HATE to use Windows.. Its not really designed for multi-user support and Unix is.. You can do it with windows, but its really not designed to be a zero-kernel multi-user system, its too bloated with features to be useful as a multi-user OS..
Until PC's have as wide busses, it probably won't matter how well the chips do.. Cray's probably require less maintenance than a PC cluster.. Its like saying a bunch of fast motorcycles are better than a stock-car. Sure, but if you get in a wreck, I'd rather be in the stock car..
I thought the movie was developed by AI algorithms.. PS, there is a way to play midi files into flinger which is based on festival, I've thought about doing a barbershop quartet of computer voices.. I wonder if the next thing is an artificial musical..
Data mining influences design choices for commercial entrprises, but its good to have data mining for the government, even of theory own institutions, it helps keep everyone accountable for what they do, which reduces crime. It can be abused though, say the one managing the database intentionally leaves information out of the database to let certain kinds of crime go undetected. But the idea behind data mining is to detect problems before they can fester.
However I was involved in a project to standardize the processes of data collection and use for healthcare, with the end result an interface standard for connecting healthcare institutiones, the technology was contested by Microsoft's vendors because it was claimed to be competitive with packages such as outlook, access and excel. So LANL pulled the plug on the research. The result of the research can be found at www.openemed.org . The applications of this technology are tremendous, but I've been able to tens of useful purposes for the technology, like a paperless womb-to-tomb healthcare record useable for determining healthcare trends and epidemics. Its either this or adopt HL7 which is big, bulky, and inconsistent from year to year.
The only thing valuable is the name, the value in teh service is nothing.. I guess they are hoping to appeal to the late comers who know they need mp3s and were told all this time mp3s are cool.. To be cool you must have mp3s.. And napster was cool, now its not, but there are still people who are addicted to the fantasy of being cool on computers.
Cool is that which does something fantastic without nobody really knowing you know.. But its cool to share it.. But once its been completely exploited it becomes uncool.. But isn't it strange how the sales/marketing people latch onto it and say "Hey we can sell so much stuff with the name this brand has earned, imagine how many people would pay just to rub against our coolness!!"
I've already a better solution, but everyone knows MBA's and Sales/Marketing people don't have a clue.. I guess we should just let pass money back and forth cluelessly. At least it will keep them happy..
PS- the only reason I applied for a software patent was that at the time, we were told VC's would only invest in hard technologies, and one way to get a VC's attention is to patent an algorithm. Because VC's don't invest in software, not anymore.. They invest in technologies they can guarantee are proprietary and not easy to duplicate, and a patent guarantees this bit of leveraging.. However, I think if the US cracked down on MBA's that start companies with the sole intent to make money off of simple trading processes, aka the stock market, and forces only trading of hard commodities, then you will see and end to patenting of software.. But in the current state of the economy, I'm not sure it would work.
the patent lawyers are ill-equipped to discern between hardware and osfwtare patents.. Its stupid enough because patents are only supposed to be for hardware implemented technologies.. Its just because software can be implemented in hardware that software patents exist, even though software is nothing more than instructions.. I think it stupid that the US even has software patents.. I've applied for a sofwtare patent, but a requirement of it is you implement something with hardware that relies on the software.. If you can't do that, its not patentable.. You have to prove that the hardware relies on the software to control the hardware process.. So you can't patent an algorithm unless its tied to a particular piece of hardware.. And you have to prove that the process is unique..
I think some people just try to patent software to get their names in the newspapers..
Slashdot Mirror
bittorrent is a good solution to the distribution limitations of the Internet. Its the best way to distribute game patches.. I'm sure those proponents of the dieing star-network model, or the centralized hub, will battle the dominance of the peer/distributed content model.. The problem with the pay per play content business is it has fallen down and it can't get up.
this is the truth..
So why should this suprise me.. Note my
last machine was made from chinese parts, I
bought it off of Ebay.. And its worked like a charm,
not once did I have to send it in for warantee service.
They have the technology they should do
and Indiana Jones movie that is computer generated..
Then they can reuse Harrison Ford's Mannerisms
and movements, and he can still act, no
matter how old he gets.. Then he will have no excuse
but to star int he movies.
I swear I think they have sold the
community. Hey you can do compositing with
blender, you can also do animation work,
you can probably get the motion capture in
there, pipe it into yoru armature. Believe
me, this is so unimpressive a press release,
all I can see is Zemekis' marketing.. Didn't
he do Ghostbusters? Well..
I'm still waiting for that film college to kick off
somewhere in New Mexico here.. I mean, if they did I
would probably attend, maybe teach some classes on computer graphics, animation, who knows what..
Actually movies have gotten to the point where I
know I can't do a lot of what I see now.. But it didn't always used to be that way.. Like scenes from
Fifth Element or Die Hard, apart from Bruce Willis,
the excessive fire effects, is just layered explosion footage.. And the fifth element with all the cars flying around, Z buffer reuse..
Best way to leanr film, get a camera.. Get some
software, get some friends, go shoot something, edit it.. See it.. Repeat..
Well..
There is two kinds of movies, those you slave for a long time to produce money for, just so that everyone can see how brilliant you are, and make lots of money.. And then there are the movies that you just have to get made because the thought of not having it out there is driving you up the wall. I'm from the later crowd, but more my thoughts are about
scenes and lighting, not stories.. And the movie would have to serve some purpose.. Entertainment is pretty useless.. Well pick the lesser of two weevills.
I noticed their Internet TV is reduced to only public channels now, of which there is about two.
IS this AOL's effort to get people to switch to their commercial music service?
Well best of luck, I'm using Rhapsody.
As far as I know, they fired the team and replaced it with clowns, about a year or so ago.. This is the first response of the execs, remove the product designers, replace with goons that will morph the package into something that is controllable and easy to exploit.
Maybe to extract the useful functionality from the sources so it could be merged into AOL's service.
After comcast cable's adoption of so many previous AOL clients, I would wonder if AOL will soon be dead.. Naw, how can a company made up of ten thousand tech support and about 100 managers, die..
Set it up so it does overuse the connection,
but then turn around and send mutated URL's
at the servers.. I don't know what a DDOS
does, but its suitable, if you can prevent it
to send DDOS's from several sites.
However I don't trust this screensaver..
After I downloaded the program, they popped up
a screen about their other software titles.
Do you think they could be using this to collect marketing, like which software titles you are using,
and plopp a ID cookie into your browsers so that they can track you.. I mean, what is the value add
to this software, is it benefitting us or them?
I can see that it would work, if they were to build up their Identity.. But considering they are no longer the brand they once were, who knows who that brand is now?
It could be spammers yet.. Note they don't offer
software for the US.. Would this mean there is no regulations in place to protect users from misuse in these countries?
Fossile Fuels are used here to avoid nuclear
energy.. Why not put a nuclear energy plant on the moon and beam the energy here. Same for creating hydrogen fuel.. You need energy to create hydrogen
fuel, the most abundant fuel this planet has is uranium, why not use that to make hydrogen fuel?
But the reason I suspected for .net and centralized application use over a network, like subsribing to using MSWORD, I believe was a method of collecting information about people and then selling this information or using it to their advantage,
call me paranoid.
Marketing (aka Data Mining) costs money, now what if Microsoft owned the only way to collect marketing information, the biggest pool of marketing data?
.net stuff.. The other reason is so they can find the source of competition and attack it before it has chance to develop.
Now you know why they are trying to do this
Nice try Bill Gates but no go..
Pixar had a contract with disney to make 6 movies.
This was the deal, this is why they were with disney. This is also why Katzenberg was trying to get dreamworks to turn out Antz, which was competition for Pixar's Bugs Life. I guess Dreamworks gave up with fighting them.. But I think Warner Brothers was stupid to realease a movie with Tom Hanks in it that is computer generated and sucks compared to Pixar movies. That being the polar express.. I knew it would suck because they used motion suits to speed it along and the motion sucked. I think WB is jealous of Pixar's success too.. I think all the studios do not want the competition.. Maybe some are inspired.. But I think the competition is due to jealousy. However Disney had rights to Toy Story because in the beginning, Pixar didn't have the technology or know how to make Toy Story go. And they had been working on Toy Story four years before it was released, and in that time they hired and fired people, working on a shoestring budget, with only 50 people to their organization
asdie from the freelance hires. So it doesn't suprise me that Disney would try to milk the market while they still have it.. And they don't have to be good natured to satisfy Pixar anymore..
Why use them, why not make most of the schema
clientside instead of serverside, via ODBC/JDBC..
OR something similar.. Maybe I don't live in the optimal universe, but relational databases are not optimal unless you know how the searches perform..
How about this, a runtime average of query times,
on a per operation set basis.. I know Oracle probably won't like that.. Anything you know about the database you would have to get from database
classes.. If ever that's compromised many DBA's will lose their jobs..
France is stupid
I don't use Kazaa anymore.. I don't use Napster like services.. However I might use napster.. I'm currently using Rhapsody, and love it.. What I miss most is the "Audiogalaxy" model of consumption.. I wouldn't mind paying for a streaming audio service..
But after purchasing 200+ cd's, I've lost interest in purchasing CD's, just takes up room.. I don't travel much, so it makes no sense to have the CD in my car, and even if I did I would just the music from my computer which can record sound from the sound card.. I don't like the fact that it costs about 77 cents to burn a song to CD.. We all know the distribution costs for CD's are bloated, and the musicians don't get paid much.. If I was sam walton I would demand from the music industry to narrow its margins, and to give more of its earnings to the musicians.. This is what's also pushing the industry.. I have no interest in current music, I get more enjoyment from listening to 70s and 80s tunes than listening to current hits.. Its for the same reason that David Crosby summed up on a PBS program "execs wouldn't know a good song if it flew up their nose and died". There was more actual good music in the 70s and 80s than now.. Its not because there was no file-sharing back then.. It was because the execs short-changed the musicians and rap hit the market mid-way in the 80s.. Since hip-hop is largely liquid, no staying power for a musician, over time I expect it will lose ground..
I'm not a supremist, but I like Michael Jackson previous to Thriller better than after.. I think most teens buy music to be different from their parents, I was listening to disco at age 8.. I listen to all the current stuff too, it just musically lacks.. And I think this is more due to the competition to non-music, sampling previous creative stuff, cover tunes, needs to fill space on a CD.. Nobody really cares about how much songs are stuffed on a CD, they really just want quality content.. That's why I stopped buying CD's.. I had no interest in paying for a CD to get only 3 good songs.. I've been on rhapsody for a month, and haven't been tempted enough to burn a CD, but I may tonight.. I'm pretty poor, more due to the dwindling US market, but I think thats happenign because of corporate greed.. The need to stay in business, forces companies over seas, trying to maintain product quality while compromising jobs and to retain profit margins, thus who doesn't feel the market problems? The rich, plain and simple.. But eventually it will..
We live in a day and age when its going to be increasingly harder for people to get rich or to stay rich.. The consumers have a lot of money collectively, but collectively are poor, so they are not going to let it go, unless they see real value.. And as a result, what goes around comes around, the value is expected of them in their everyday lives.. But I would rather be doing something I like for little money than doing something I hate for a lot.. Eventually I think the effect that modern consumerism will have on the industry is it will flush out the one-trick ponies of the business world, those who regugitated answers when taking exams, those who have little creativity, you haven't the sole ability to produce value..
Is this good or bad.. I really don't know.. I have a feeling that this over-consumerism will probably end, god only knows.. And a shortened lifespan may be the result..
From the what-is-sco pushing that's of any value anymore? I remember when SCO-unix was a waste of money, now its trying to make back money it would have never made anyhow.. Well I guess if you have to pay lawyers, that's what would drive such a scheme..
Linux zealots would have a hard time arguing ease of use in terms of getting stuff, downloading and installing it.. Linux is a no-brainer if you have no choice, and particularly if you are offering computing services, but if you want a good front-end something you can use for say web development or avaerage work, then its hard to beat Windows XP.. FYI, I bought mine from an ebayer who was selling copies as OEM, which just requires that he distribute a copy with a sound-wire that connects a soundblaster to the speaker in the PC case, this satisfies the requirements Windows has to sell software as an OEM. Microsoft really doesn't care as they would rather people use XP and not linux, it allows them to leverage developers into purchasing development kits from them.. Which is the downside to using teh Windows platform..
As for bugs, its got just as much as linux, I don't know which is worse, and onfocused development of an open source OS (where most people are unprofessional and uncolleged) or a paid for focused operating system developed by colleged professionals. However I accept both of them, and for server side stuff I would HATE to use Windows.. Its not really designed for multi-user support and Unix is.. You can do it with windows, but its really not designed to be a zero-kernel multi-user system, its too bloated with features to be useful as a multi-user OS..
Until PC's have as wide busses, it probably
won't matter how well the chips do.. Cray's probably require less maintenance than a PC cluster.. Its like saying a bunch of fast motorcycles are better than a stock-car. Sure, but if you get in a wreck, I'd rather be in the stock car..
Its VNC I tell ya..
Hmm Makes me wonder if Slashdot is being bought up
by Microsoft or someone.. Wonder if they are buying int PR Marketing.. aka Selling Out..
Wonder if they were pressured by the open source projects like Mono..
I thought the movie was developed by AI algorithms..
PS, there is a way to play midi files into flinger which is based on festival, I've thought about doing a barbershop quartet of computer voices.. I wonder if the next thing is an artificial musical..
Data mining influences design choices for commercial entrprises, but its good to have data mining for the government, even of theory own institutions, it helps keep everyone accountable for what they do, which reduces crime. It can be abused though, say the one managing the database intentionally leaves information out of the database to let certain kinds of crime go undetected. But the idea behind data mining is to detect problems before they can fester.
However I was involved in a project to standardize the processes of data collection and use for healthcare, with the end result an interface standard for connecting healthcare institutiones, the technology was contested by Microsoft's vendors because it was claimed to be competitive with packages such as outlook, access and excel. So LANL pulled the plug on the research. The result of the research can be found at www.openemed.org . The applications of this technology are tremendous, but I've been able to tens of useful purposes for the technology, like a paperless womb-to-tomb healthcare record useable for determining healthcare trends and epidemics. Its either this or adopt HL7 which is big, bulky, and inconsistent from year to year.
Was that THX-1178 or THX-1138? I forget which.. But I recall havign the DVD, seeing it, and then seeing the original movie he released in grad school.
The only thing valuable is the name, the
value in teh service is nothing.. I guess they are hoping to appeal to the late comers who know they need mp3s and were told all this time mp3s are cool.. To be cool you must have mp3s.. And napster was cool, now its not, but there are still people who are addicted to the fantasy of being cool on computers.
Cool is that which does something fantastic without nobody really knowing you know.. But its cool to share it.. But once its been completely exploited it becomes uncool.. But isn't it strange how the sales/marketing people latch onto it and say "Hey we can sell so much stuff with the name this brand has earned, imagine how many people would pay just to rub against our coolness!!"
Too bad these people don't hire guys like me..
I've already a better solution, but everyone knows MBA's and Sales/Marketing people don't have a clue.. I guess we should just let pass money back and forth cluelessly. At least it will keep them happy..
PS- the only reason I applied for a software patent was that at the time, we were told VC's would only invest in hard technologies, and one way to get a VC's attention is to patent an algorithm. Because VC's don't invest in software, not anymore.. They invest in technologies they can guarantee are proprietary and not easy to duplicate, and a patent guarantees this bit of leveraging.. However, I think if the US cracked down on MBA's that start companies with the sole intent to make money off of simple trading processes, aka the stock market, and forces only trading of hard commodities, then you will see and end to patenting of software.. But in the current state of the economy, I'm not sure it would work.
the patent lawyers are ill-equipped to discern
between hardware and osfwtare patents.. Its stupid enough because patents are only supposed to be for hardware implemented technologies.. Its just because software can be implemented in hardware that software patents exist, even though software is nothing more than instructions.. I think it stupid that the US even has software patents.. I've applied for a sofwtare patent, but a requirement of it is you implement something with hardware that relies on the software.. If you can't do that, its not patentable.. You have to prove that the hardware relies on the software to control the hardware process.. So you can't patent an algorithm unless its tied to a particular piece of hardware.. And you have to prove that the process is unique..
I think some people just try to patent software to get their names in the newspapers..