A Festival For Film?
Wasn't star wars filmed digitally. I know that cannes has rejected many pleas to include digitally shot movies.
On the plus side, perhaps this will open the way to future digitally shot entries.
(Shame amature photographers and movie makers can rarely afford the transfer from digital to film!)
If, after the USPTO has finished reviewing the patent and is considering passing it, put it on a website?
Let the world see it (as they are going to anyway once it gets passed) and let people who have more knowledge in the area of the patent comment on it.
Give the site an RSS feed and millions of IT experts around the world are better off at thinking of things like prior-art, blanked patents and so forth.
This is irrelevant. SPAM has been 'getting worse' for the last > 4 years.
Realistically, microsoft would have known about the spam epidemic more than 3 years ago. There was no financial benefit in solving what was then almost a non-issue.
By leaving it for a few years until it is almost unbearable, there is a market for microsoft to enter.
It just so happens things aren't going quite as they planned and they are getting knocked a couple of steps back (with the rejection of their sender ID proposal by some of the bigger players).
You seem to be forgetting this hasn't been released to the 'public'. Public including system/network administrators who (should!) be getting their regular updates from software update services (soon to become windows update services).
The fact is that this was an OEM release, basically for dell, hp, and the rest of them. Of course this update is going to be easy to streamline onto installs. Of course it is going to be straitforward to turn the update into an un-attending install.
There is no-doubt documentation on how to do all this, but lo and behold! this is not a public release.
People should reserve their judgement until the final product (for the intended audience!) comes out.
There is more than enough free.MSI creation utlities available. Some even come on the win2k reskit I believe.
Run the program, install the application, run the program, BAM, MSI file.
Heck, if you wanna be really helpful, create said MSI file, then create a website to host it for sys admins, that'll earn ya some girl scout cookies.
Any listening test worth its weight in... sound, will not tell the listener which audio codec compressed sound they are listening to, but rather, will give the listener, say, 5 different sounds (labeled for example 1,2,3,4 but with no relation to their codec) and ask them to report which one sounded the best.
If Microsoft (or a journal that is focused on MS technology) had released a statement that "two-thirds of the US government runs MS software!" then there would be a huge shitstorm.
It would, except that I have no doubt stating that two-thirds of the US government runs windows software. In fact, it is probably higher. If you think about it, the bulk of the number of machines used both directly and indirectly by the US government would be workstations (as opposed to servers). Given the heavy incentives (read monetary) microsoft gives the government (via 'discounts' on their software), it would be fair to say a very large percentage of it runs on windows, and is also likely to be running microsoft software.
As much as it would look nice. At least this guy has gotten the look without the loss of structural integrity.
What happens when you trip over it and cut yourself? Or when you're carrying it to a LAN party and it falls apart in your hands?
It will just incriminate us further, it is [i]obvious[/i] that we created the virus just so the BBC could host a story about it, blaming us, [i]just[/i] so we could/. them.
Normally I would say, sure head on over to Aus. I live here and the cost of living is tiny.
HOWEVER.
If you work in IT you are best to get out of the Australia, not into it.
Telstra, arguably Australia's largest IT/Communications firm has just out-sourced 100 million dollars worth of it's call center and programming operations to Mumbai in India.
The Aus IT market is shocking at the moment. If you are willing to put in the milage, China is probably the only IT sector in the world at the moment that is still in (in fact only begging to!) boom.
At least in a server environment, I don't see the requirement for many gigs of memory (on a single chip no less) without also having better technology to access it quickly.
Wow, let's see if I can get a good success rate with MY predictions for 2004.
- Apple products will stay overpriced. Mac activists will claim you get what you pay for.
- The linux community will continue to hate SCO.
- SCO's website will suffer at least 4 months worths of downtime from DDOS attacks due to the above prediction.
- Bill Gates will remain wealther than Steve Jobs.
- Whether from spam or elsewhere, I will be told I am not big enough.
- Linus Torvald will recive Bill Gates nobel peace prize for donating $0 dollars worth or software to millions of needy people/corperations.
Well, I'd say I am pretty close to 70 percent.
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s/1fps more/more than 1fps
A Festival For Film? Wasn't star wars filmed digitally. I know that cannes has rejected many pleas to include digitally shot movies. On the plus side, perhaps this will open the way to future digitally shot entries. (Shame amature photographers and movie makers can rarely afford the transfer from digital to film!)
What about a public peer-review of new patents.
If, after the USPTO has finished reviewing the patent and is considering passing it, put it on a website?
Let the world see it (as they are going to anyway once it gets passed) and let people who have more knowledge in the area of the patent comment on it.
Give the site an RSS feed and millions of IT experts around the world are better off at thinking of things like prior-art, blanked patents and so forth.
A good friend of mine recently completed work on a 6 thousand light computer controlled light display.
His website has all the details on how it was built. Along with pictures.Custom built all the electronics, and wrote a number of custom programs to control the lights.
Best thing is? Being able to sit on the street with a laptop and terminal service into his light controlling computer and control the lights :D
Great fun for the neighbourhood.Can be seen here. :).
4500 bulbs.
He certainly went to a lot of effort
This is irrelevant.
SPAM has been 'getting worse' for the last > 4 years.
Realistically, microsoft would have known about the spam epidemic more than 3 years ago. There was no financial benefit in solving what was then almost a non-issue.
By leaving it for a few years until it is almost unbearable, there is a market for microsoft to enter.
It just so happens things aren't going quite as they planned and they are getting knocked a couple of steps back (with the rejection of their sender ID proposal by some of the bigger players).
You seem to be forgetting this hasn't been released to the 'public'. Public including system/network administrators who (should!) be getting their regular updates from software update services (soon to become windows update services).
The fact is that this was an OEM release, basically for dell, hp, and the rest of them. Of course this update is going to be easy to streamline onto installs. Of course it is going to be straitforward to turn the update into an un-attending install.
There is no-doubt documentation on how to do all this, but lo and behold! this is not a public release.
People should reserve their judgement until the final product (for the intended audience!) comes out.
There is more than enough free .MSI creation utlities available. Some even come on the win2k reskit I believe.
Run the program, install the application, run the program, BAM, MSI file.
Heck, if you wanna be really helpful, create said MSI file, then create a website to host it for sys admins, that'll earn ya some girl scout cookies.
Any listening test worth its weight in... sound, will not tell the listener which audio codec compressed sound they are listening to,
but rather, will give the listener, say, 5 different sounds (labeled for example 1,2,3,4 but with no relation to their codec) and ask them to report which one sounded the best.
If Microsoft (or a journal that is focused on MS technology) had released a statement that "two-thirds of the US government runs MS software!" then there would be a huge shitstorm.
It would, except that I have no doubt stating that two-thirds of the US government runs windows software. In fact, it is probably higher. If you think about it, the bulk of the number of machines used both directly and indirectly by the US government would be workstations (as opposed to servers). Given the heavy incentives (read monetary) microsoft gives the government (via 'discounts' on their software), it would be fair to say a very large percentage of it runs on windows, and is also likely to be running microsoft software.
As much as it would look nice. At least this guy has gotten the look without the loss of structural integrity. What happens when you trip over it and cut yourself? Or when you're carrying it to a LAN party and it falls apart in your hands?
Actually, in today's world of lawsuits, posting slanderous material on the internet is termed libel, not slander.
...the mutated sea bass.
It will just incriminate us further, it is [i]obvious[/i] that we created the virus just so the BBC could host a story about it, blaming us, [i]just[/i] so we could /. them.
Normally I would say, sure head on over to Aus. I live here and the cost of living is tiny.
HOWEVER.
If you work in IT you are best to get out of the Australia, not into it.
Telstra, arguably Australia's largest IT/Communications firm has just out-sourced 100 million dollars worth of it's call center and programming operations to Mumbai in India.
The Aus IT market is shocking at the moment. If you are willing to put in the milage, China is probably the only IT sector in the world at the moment that is still in (in fact only begging to!) boom.
At least in a server environment, I don't see the requirement for many gigs of memory (on a single chip no less) without also having better technology to access it quickly.
I would do, but slashdot doesn't tell me the contact details of an Anonymous Coward.
Actually, according to /.'s last story (RE the DeCSS litigation) he is on holidays.
Nice to see what some people consider a holiday; cracking file restriction algorthims.
I'm not sure how DVD-Jon can remove that step.
iTunes runs on windows and Mac OS, so either way you are going to have to boot into either of those two to actually get the songs in the first place.
iTunes (or similar) for GNU/Linux is what I am really waiting for.
Wow, let's see if I can get a good success rate with MY predictions for 2004. - Apple products will stay overpriced. Mac activists will claim you get what you pay for. - The linux community will continue to hate SCO. - SCO's website will suffer at least 4 months worths of downtime from DDOS attacks due to the above prediction. - Bill Gates will remain wealther than Steve Jobs. - Whether from spam or elsewhere, I will be told I am not big enough. - Linus Torvald will recive Bill Gates nobel peace prize for donating $0 dollars worth or software to millions of needy people/corperations. Well, I'd say I am pretty close to 70 percent.
Ipod is actually extremely good value for money.
$100 for a 256meg Portable Mp3 Player = 40 cents per megabyte.
$500 for a 40gig Ipod = 1.25 cents per megabyte.
Provided your legal music collection is at least 1.25 gigabytes in size, you end up with the same value for money, and I know which one is cooler.