Can you imagine what would happen if you put an idiot driver in a robot controlled car, and the AI encountered a conundrum, i.e. a blocked one way or something that required the driver take control? That idiot is going to be in a situation where his idiocy will endanger everyone around him and probably not have been paying attention while the AI was driving so will be all that more "lost"
In "The Recruit" when Al Pacino is chasing Colin Farrell towards the end of the film, Al shoots Colin's laptop. When he shoots the screen the actually had the screen show bullet hole graphics instead of actually putting holes in a laptop. It was only a fraction of a second of screen time, but it made me yell at the screen. Bad special effects, bad computers, just bad.
Giving other people music which they've not bought is wrong, though I and many people do it sometimes.
This notion is completely false. It is within fair use to copy music and give it to friends and family members. Mix tapes and CDs have never been considered illegal or immoral.
And what exactly do you mean by 'giving'? Your statment could be interpreted to mean that simply letting others listen to your media is 'wrong'.
I have been intereseted in the idea of social networks since the "6-degrees" days. I got a friendster account when it was new, before it sucked. When their network preformance was consistantly bad I switched to MySpace. Everyone of my friends is some one I've met in person, and the majority are people I interact with socially IRL regularly. MySpace will let you do anything pretty much on your profile. I hate it when people make god-awful pages, but that's the price you have to pay for openness and configurability. I've never been to the facebook site, because I've never been a college student. I guess it appeals to college students I'm not one so it doesn't appeal to me. Strange how that works. I have several friends who are in college and we use MySpace to communicate sometimes. I think the majority of people don't use myspace a tool for communicating with their friends as much as they use it as a substitute for pr0n.
This is no where near as broad as you are amking it out to be. This is not proposed to mandate what the public should do, but what the government CAN'T do, and that is use a proprietay format that requires everyone else to use the same proprietary format to inter-operate with the government. Since it is the government, we are foced to deal with them, by using a proprietary format they then give a monopoly to that format. If the use an open format then anyone is allowed to make the tools necessary to utilize the format. It doesn't require open source.
ODF != OSS
What could be a negative unintended consequence of requireing an open format for government documents?
I'd also be interested in a video iPod with a laser based projector that had wireless head phones with extended bluetooth range. Get a group of people with the headphones and you could have your movie theater almost anywhere!!!
Now a portable device that incorporates this technology would be something I'd be interested in as well.
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I know I won't be using Movielink any time soon. I don't want an apology, I want them to get their head out of their ass.
It was those damn tamaguchies or how ever you spell it. Those stupid little electonic "pets"... They functioned as training devices to teach people to be slaves to their electronics. SLAVES I TELL YOU!!!
You got it wrong. Dell sells CONSUMER desktop computers. GNU/Linux is not a CONSUMER desktop OS. This just shows that Dell doesn't want to sell to the typical GNU/Linux user.
Dell repersents his customers... the ones he already has. If the Linux community want to sell Linux to Dell and his customers, then they have give Dell (and by extension, his customers) what he wants.
Asking a vendor of one product to sell you a different product just because you want it probably isn't going to work very well.
The GNU/Linux desktop PC is obviously a different market than the one Dell is in. How big is that market? Apparently, not big enough for Dell to bother with yet. But appearances may be decieving, and maybe some other vendor will beat Dell to the punch.
I think it is beyond your capacity to understand that animals cannot be "innocent", and neither can they be "guilty". Animals are not people they are resources, and when they are collected they are property. I don't like what some people do with their animals, but morally my only recourse is to treat them the same way I treat racists. Which is expose them, boycott them and encourage others to do the same.
But seriously. Shut those hippies up whining about abuse of animals. Would I watch an animal slaughterd for my food? Hell, I'd slaughter it my self (and I have). Sure there are some depraved people out there that do sick things to animals, but it is not the meat industry that causes it, and getting rid of the meat industry will not stop it. They are sick bastards who will do it anyway. In the end animals are property. Beware of anyone who trys to convince you otherwise because they do not value human life above animals.
A table is a place to put things, that is it's purpose. What good is having a viewing surface that is obscured because it is covered with the things you usually have on a coffee table? Now having large, horizontal, touch sensitive viewing surface would be great, but covering up that surface with your lunch, magazines, bills, remote controls, socks, coffee cups, and other stuff defeats the purpose.
I first got DSL in 1998. I was one of those people constantly calling the phone company (Pac Bell) bugging them. Some one made the mistake of actually giving me a direct number to some one in the department that was bringing it out. Later I switched to cable.
At the beginning of 2005 I moved to the Czech Republic for 7 months. There are plenty of internet Cafe's and places with free wireless in if you know where to look, but it is no where near as easy to get online for free as it is here in California. I eventually got a cell phone with bluetooth and GPRS internet. That is just slightly faster than dialup, and it was excruciating. If I needed to download a file over 40 M os so it was easier to go accross town to the internet cafe and pay to use their network. This wasn't Prague, it was Olomouc (a college town close to Brno).
You know those filters that you can put over a laser pointer to project a shape? I think those are some sort of hologram. Now if you could make this a dynamically generated hologram then you could project a dynamic image through it. I'm just guessing, but I doubt there are mirrors involved at all.
and that you're preventing the people who made the work from getting paid that day
This is wrong. Piracy does not prevent any one from getting paid. I'm not saying that it is ethical, but to say that piracy prevents people from getting paid is incorrect.
Using unlicensed software/music does not prevent the producer from getting paid unless some one else got paid in their stead. There was no exchange between the producer and the user. The user did not take anything from the producer nor prevent the producer from receiving compensation, that is why copyright infringement is not theft.
Copyright infringement is equivalent to sitting on a hill behind a drive-in theater instead of paying admission to go in. It does not reduce the amount of tickets the theater can sell or hinder the selling of tickets.
If producers want people to license their products the producer should provide an incentive to acquire a license instead of relying solely on the government's artificial incentive of the threat of force.
I agree that this article is a great read. I strongly disagree that a social recommendation service is better though. I'm wierd though. I don't care what everyone else liked. The fact that some one else like it doesn't matter to me. A social filter counts on the "someone else" to evaluate and compare and choose. It has nothing to do with the actual item being chosen.
I am a Pandora subscriber. I actually emailed Pandora's suggestion department asking for a way to specify what musical attributes I wanted to be emphasized in my "radio stations." They told me that it used to be that way, but many users misunderstood the purpose of selecting different attributes. From the email I reiceved in response to my request,
"In our initial test versions, it was possible to select specific musical traits to focus on (such as electric guitar, female vocals, minor key tonality). However, we were finding that the test users were getting confused by this functionality, believing it was used for statistics for record companies."
I hope they bring back that functionality. I'd much rather have a recommendation system based directly the similarity of cataloged attributes than the fact that a bunch of poeple who liked "A" also liked "B".
"Additionally other companies are also working on devices using the same E Ink technology. And some are working on flexible electronic paper displays that can be rolled up."
Sony has already proven themselves to be evil. Why not wait for one of these other companies to come out with a product? In this case the devil we know is pretty evil (vs. the devil we don't know). I'm still boycotting sony, which is tough for me because I really want a PSP, but I can't stomach giving them any money.
In the course of the interview the issue of watermarking was discussed. This allows an audit trail leading back to the source of every copy that is made of media. Interestingly, Dean said that he wasn't keen to adopt any system that would give them an incentive to track down people and seek to take legal action against them.
This tells me that they don't want to persue the people in the industry who are actually leaking the content. They don't want to litigate against thier own. They'll sue a little girl, but not some lacky that works in the industry. You'd think that they'd be interested in at least tracking the propagation path. Hell I'd be interested in that.
On a different note, I'm a movie junky. When a new movie that I really want to see I want to see it on a big screen with an awesome sound system, with my redvines, popcorn, and cherry coke. My roommate actually got a pre release of Ep.1 and I refused to watch it on his 21" computer monitor at VCD quality. It would ruin the experience.
What I don't like it the whole "event" marketers try to create (one of my bigest pet peeves about Apple as well). When it is ready to release, f*cking release it!!! The artificial scarcity only makes me annoyed, sometimes pissed off enough to hold out buying it, sometimes violate copywrite as a means of flipping them the bird. Don't treat your customers like imbeciles (even if they are).
Slashdot Mirror
Except that before it does get through the energy can be reflected back at the laser or any other target.
Can you imagine what would happen if you put an idiot driver in a robot controlled car, and the AI encountered a conundrum, i.e. a blocked one way or something that required the driver take control? That idiot is going to be in a situation where his idiocy will endanger everyone around him and probably not have been paying attention while the AI was driving so will be all that more "lost"
In "The Recruit" when Al Pacino is chasing Colin Farrell towards the end of the film, Al shoots Colin's laptop. When he shoots the screen the actually had the screen show bullet hole graphics instead of actually putting holes in a laptop. It was only a fraction of a second of screen time, but it made me yell at the screen. Bad special effects, bad computers, just bad.
Giving other people music which they've not bought is wrong, though I and many people do it sometimes.
This notion is completely false. It is within fair use to copy music and give it to friends and family members. Mix tapes and CDs have never been considered illegal or immoral.
And what exactly do you mean by 'giving'? Your statment could be interpreted to mean that simply letting others listen to your media is 'wrong'.
I have been intereseted in the idea of social networks since the "6-degrees" days. I got a friendster account when it was new, before it sucked. When their network preformance was consistantly bad I switched to MySpace. Everyone of my friends is some one I've met in person, and the majority are people I interact with socially IRL regularly. MySpace will let you do anything pretty much on your profile. I hate it when people make god-awful pages, but that's the price you have to pay for openness and configurability. I've never been to the facebook site, because I've never been a college student. I guess it appeals to college students I'm not one so it doesn't appeal to me. Strange how that works. I have several friends who are in college and we use MySpace to communicate sometimes. I think the majority of people don't use myspace a tool for communicating with their friends as much as they use it as a substitute for pr0n.
This is no where near as broad as you are amking it out to be. This is not proposed to mandate what the public should do, but what the government CAN'T do, and that is use a proprietay format that requires everyone else to use the same proprietary format to inter-operate with the government. Since it is the government, we are foced to deal with them, by using a proprietary format they then give a monopoly to that format. If the use an open format then anyone is allowed to make the tools necessary to utilize the format. It doesn't require open source.
ODF != OSS
What could be a negative unintended consequence of requireing an open format for government documents?
I'd also be interested in a video iPod with a laser based projector that had wireless head phones with extended bluetooth range. Get a group of people with the headphones and you could have your movie theater almost anywhere!!!
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Now a portable device that incorporates this technology would be something I'd be interested in as well.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/input/8193/
Laser based projector
http://www.audioholics.com/news/editorials/laserp
The point is:
1) Finding out what data has been comprimised.
2) Determining how it was comprimised.
Craigslist with pictures and sound...
I wish I could get all my friends to switch to orkut.
Actually I think it should be:
Robbery >= Theft.
When the only tool in your box is a blackberry, every problem looks like an intelligent fastener!
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I know I won't be using Movielink any time soon. I don't want an apology, I want them to get their head out of their ass.
It was those damn tamaguchies or how ever you spell it. Those stupid little electonic "pets"... They functioned as training devices to teach people to be slaves to their electronics. SLAVES I TELL YOU!!!
You got it wrong. Dell sells CONSUMER desktop computers. GNU/Linux is not a CONSUMER desktop OS. This just shows that Dell doesn't want to sell to the typical GNU/Linux user.
Dell repersents his customers... the ones he already has. If the Linux community want to sell Linux to Dell and his customers, then they have give Dell (and by extension, his customers) what he wants.
Asking a vendor of one product to sell you a different product just because you want it probably isn't going to work very well.
The GNU/Linux desktop PC is obviously a different market than the one Dell is in. How big is that market? Apparently, not big enough for Dell to bother with yet. But appearances may be decieving, and maybe some other vendor will beat Dell to the punch.
I think it is beyond your capacity to understand that animals cannot be "innocent", and neither can they be "guilty". Animals are not people they are resources, and when they are collected they are property. I don't like what some people do with their animals, but morally my only recourse is to treat them the same way I treat racists. Which is expose them, boycott them and encourage others to do the same.
... need tinfoil hats.
But seriously. Shut those hippies up whining about abuse of animals. Would I watch an animal slaughterd for my food? Hell, I'd slaughter it my self (and I have). Sure there are some depraved people out there that do sick things to animals, but it is not the meat industry that causes it, and getting rid of the meat industry will not stop it. They are sick bastards who will do it anyway. In the end animals are property. Beware of anyone who trys to convince you otherwise because they do not value human life above animals.
A table is a place to put things, that is it's purpose. What good is having a viewing surface that is obscured because it is covered with the things you usually have on a coffee table? Now having large, horizontal, touch sensitive viewing surface would be great, but covering up that surface with your lunch, magazines, bills, remote controls, socks, coffee cups, and other stuff defeats the purpose.
I first got DSL in 1998. I was one of those people constantly calling the phone company (Pac Bell) bugging them. Some one made the mistake of actually giving me a direct number to some one in the department that was bringing it out. Later I switched to cable.
At the beginning of 2005 I moved to the Czech Republic for 7 months. There are plenty of internet Cafe's and places with free wireless in if you know where to look, but it is no where near as easy to get online for free as it is here in California. I eventually got a cell phone with bluetooth and GPRS internet. That is just slightly faster than dialup, and it was excruciating. If I needed to download a file over 40 M os so it was easier to go accross town to the internet cafe and pay to use their network. This wasn't Prague, it was Olomouc (a college town close to Brno).
You know those filters that you can put over a laser pointer to project a shape? I think those are some sort of hologram. Now if you could make this a dynamically generated hologram then you could project a dynamic image through it. I'm just guessing, but I doubt there are mirrors involved at all.
and that you're preventing the people who made the work from getting paid that day
This is wrong. Piracy does not prevent any one from getting paid. I'm not saying that it is ethical, but to say that piracy prevents people from getting paid is incorrect.
Using unlicensed software/music does not prevent the producer from getting paid unless some one else got paid in their stead. There was no exchange between the producer and the user. The user did not take anything from the producer nor prevent the producer from receiving compensation, that is why copyright infringement is not theft.
Copyright infringement is equivalent to sitting on a hill behind a drive-in theater instead of paying admission to go in. It does not reduce the amount of tickets the theater can sell or hinder the selling of tickets.
If producers want people to license their products the producer should provide an incentive to acquire a license instead of relying solely on the government's artificial incentive of the threat of force.
I agree that this article is a great read. I strongly disagree that a social recommendation service is better though. I'm wierd though. I don't care what everyone else liked. The fact that some one else like it doesn't matter to me. A social filter counts on the "someone else" to evaluate and compare and choose. It has nothing to do with the actual item being chosen.
I am a Pandora subscriber. I actually emailed Pandora's suggestion department asking for a way to specify what musical attributes I wanted to be emphasized in my "radio stations." They told me that it used to be that way, but many users misunderstood the purpose of selecting different attributes. From the email I reiceved in response to my request,
"In our initial test versions, it was possible to select specific musical
traits to focus on (such as electric guitar, female vocals, minor key
tonality). However, we were finding that the test users were getting
confused by this functionality, believing it was used for statistics for
record companies."
I hope they bring back that functionality. I'd much rather have a recommendation system based directly the similarity of cataloged attributes than the fact that a bunch of poeple who liked "A" also liked "B".
A keyboard seems like a really good application for E-Ink (electronic paper). It is low power, it doesn't require a high refresh rate.
if we all spoke Lojban.
"Additionally other companies are also working on devices using the same E Ink technology. And some are working on flexible electronic paper displays that can be rolled up."
Sony has already proven themselves to be evil. Why not wait for one of these other companies to come out with a product? In this case the devil we know is pretty evil (vs. the devil we don't know). I'm still boycotting sony, which is tough for me because I really want a PSP, but I can't stomach giving them any money.
This tells me that they don't want to persue the people in the industry who are actually leaking the content. They don't want to litigate against thier own. They'll sue a little girl, but not some lacky that works in the industry. You'd think that they'd be interested in at least tracking the propagation path. Hell I'd be interested in that.
On a different note, I'm a movie junky. When a new movie that I really want to see I want to see it on a big screen with an awesome sound system, with my redvines, popcorn, and cherry coke. My roommate actually got a pre release of Ep.1 and I refused to watch it on his 21" computer monitor at VCD quality. It would ruin the experience.
What I don't like it the whole "event" marketers try to create (one of my bigest pet peeves about Apple as well). When it is ready to release, f*cking release it!!! The artificial scarcity only makes me annoyed, sometimes pissed off enough to hold out buying it, sometimes violate copywrite as a means of flipping them the bird. Don't treat your customers like imbeciles (even if they are).