I've been to this place before. Lemme tell you its creepy as hell. Ever seen pleasantville or the truman show? The town looks just like that. I wouldn't want to live there because first I don't like neighbors. Second I'd hate having to live under stringent conditions on how the outside of my house would look. Third everything is as expensive as hell. You'd have to be making serious money to keep up any kind of a respectable lifestyle. Florida is nice to visit, but I'd hate to live there, especially at celebrations.
How wonderfully ironic that this story should be published on the net. The fact of the matter is that we are all addicts. Our brains operate off of chemical reactions. The more dopamine in the chemistry, the better we feel. Therefore our entire existence is built around getting dopamine. It's an easy concept for anyone who's programmed a reward based AI.
Do you really believe that there is any agency in the federal government capable of competently carrying out any kind of conspiracy. Every single bureau i've ever seen has been filled with morons that sit at their computer and play solitaire all day long.
As well, who are we to define life as only what we see from ourselves. Biologists define life as a cellular, self-replicating entity (more or less), but couldn't life be anything created with an iterative process? Cellular life uses an incredible iterative process, as molecules iterate over DNA and create proteins. But is that the only iterative process that can create life?
I can provide hosting to 2-3 of the software projects for $20 a month. I'd need a letter of approval from chris and all. That includes access our domain servers, perl, etc.
I'm sure since he has customers that he can snag some venture capital to keep the business afloat until he can force the deadbeat customers to pay up. (good way to do that: disallow all access to their site until they do)
Right now I'm using an All-In-Wonder Pro for my audio visual i/o and its an extremely well made card. It captures video beautifully from both cable and RCA connectors and can output ONLY VIDEO to a vcr. To get the sound to work what you gotta do is go to best buy or radio shack and get a cable with a female Hi-Fi plug on one end and a male/female RCA plug(s) on the other end (depending upon the inputs on the back of your vcr). Then you plug in the female Hi-Fi to the male Hi-Fi coming out of the card and then plug in the RCA cables to the vcr. Or if you can only get a connector with a male Hi-Fi connector (it'll happen) then you can plug the into your soundcard speaker out plug and plug the card output into the line in and work your computer like it was an audio mixer. Other than that it has excellent in/out capabilities for video.
(PS: you can only work with video that's 320x240. That is the standard for american broadcasts and for vhs videotape.)
Unfortunately this trial had nothing to do with any crime of Mitnick. He wasn't the center of this trial, he was merely some poor computer guy that did the wrong thing at the wrong time. Computer crimes are fast becoming a crime of unpopularity in this country. More and more people are using computers than ever before, and hardly any of them know how it works. Then they hear news reported by plastic talking heads that have no idea how it works. They hear bad things about what hackers can do. They see movies about hackers stealing identities and such. They're frightened. And instead of finding out how to protect themselves they are lashing out at the most convenient "evil computer guy." Fear, ignorance, anger, and frustration in a society add up to an organized witch hunt to find the hacker and make him/her pay for being smarter than them.
why does graphics software made by large companies always cost an arm and a leg? 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage, etc, all cost more than most hardware when equally excellent graphics packages such as blender are freely available with advanced features available at rates under $100 US.
I never had a computer in my life before I was 13 years old. My first computer was a 486 66mhz and all I knew how to do was to play indycar and accidentally delete the autoexec.bat file. I am sixteen now and I know at least six programming languages, graphic design, webpage authoring, the principles of modern operating systems (GUI & console), and a whole boatload of other computer related things.
Based upon my experience, I don't think that children should be exposed to computers at such an early age when they should be learning social skills, arithmetic, reading/writing skills, etc.
The fact of the matter is that computers are based upon advanced mathematical and physics concepts. Would you place a college algebra book in front of a 4yr old and expect him to be able to factor quadratic expressions in his head after reading it?
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I've been to this place before. Lemme tell you its creepy as hell. Ever seen pleasantville or the truman show? The town looks just like that. I wouldn't want to live there because first I don't like neighbors. Second I'd hate having to live under stringent conditions on how the outside of my house would look. Third everything is as expensive as hell. You'd have to be making serious money to keep up any kind of a respectable lifestyle. Florida is nice to visit, but I'd hate to live there, especially at celebrations.
How wonderfully ironic that this story should be published on the net. The fact of the matter is that we are all addicts. Our brains operate off of chemical reactions. The more dopamine in the chemistry, the better we feel. Therefore our entire existence is built around getting dopamine. It's an easy concept for anyone who's programmed a reward based AI.
Do you really believe that there is any agency in the federal government capable of competently carrying out any kind of conspiracy. Every single bureau i've ever seen has been filled with morons that sit at their computer and play solitaire all day long.
As well, who are we to define life as only what we see from ourselves. Biologists define life as a cellular, self-replicating entity (more or less), but couldn't life be anything created with an iterative process? Cellular life uses an incredible iterative process, as molecules iterate over DNA and create proteins. But is that the only iterative process that can create life?
I can provide hosting to 2-3 of the software projects for $20 a month. I'd need a letter of approval from chris and all. That includes access our domain servers, perl, etc.
I'm sure since he has customers that he can snag some venture capital to keep the business afloat until he can force the deadbeat customers to pay up. (good way to do that: disallow all access to their site until they do)
Right now I'm using an All-In-Wonder Pro for my audio visual i/o and its an extremely well made card. It captures video beautifully from both cable and RCA connectors and can output ONLY VIDEO to a vcr. To get the sound to work what you gotta do is go to best buy or radio shack and get a cable with a female Hi-Fi plug on one end and a male/female RCA plug(s) on the other end (depending upon the inputs on the back of your vcr). Then you plug in the female Hi-Fi to the male Hi-Fi coming out of the card and then plug in the RCA cables to the vcr. Or if you can only get a connector with a male Hi-Fi connector (it'll happen) then you can plug the into your soundcard speaker out plug and plug the card output into the line in and work your computer like it was an audio mixer. Other than that it has excellent in/out capabilities for video.
(PS: you can only work with video that's 320x240. That is the standard for american broadcasts and for vhs videotape.)
Unfortunately this trial had nothing to do with any crime of Mitnick. He wasn't the center of this trial, he was merely some poor computer guy that did the wrong thing at the wrong time. Computer crimes are fast becoming a crime of unpopularity in this country. More and more people are using computers than ever before, and hardly any of them know how it works. Then they hear news reported by plastic talking heads that have no idea how it works. They hear bad things about what hackers can do. They see movies about hackers stealing identities and such. They're frightened. And instead of finding out how to protect themselves they are lashing out at the most convenient "evil computer guy." Fear, ignorance, anger, and frustration in a society add up to an organized witch hunt to find the hacker and make him/her pay for being smarter than them.
yeah, when is dogma coming out anyway?
why does graphics software made by large companies always cost an arm and a leg? 3ds Max, Maya, Softimage, etc, all cost more than most hardware when equally excellent graphics packages such as blender are freely available with advanced features available at rates under $100 US.
javascript sounds like a great language with which to submit a gag program. Put it in a little webpage and everything.
I never had a computer in my life before I was 13 years old. My first computer was a 486 66mhz and all I knew how to do was to play indycar and accidentally delete the autoexec.bat file. I am sixteen now and I know at least six programming languages, graphic design, webpage authoring, the principles of modern operating systems (GUI & console), and a whole boatload of other computer related things.
Based upon my experience, I don't think that children should be exposed to computers at such an early age when they should be learning social skills, arithmetic, reading/writing skills, etc.
The fact of the matter is that computers are based upon advanced mathematical and physics concepts. Would you place a college algebra book in front of a 4yr old and expect him to be able to factor quadratic expressions in his head after reading it?