Same thing happened to me, I tried media player and quicktime (the ones I have here at work). It finally worked in virtualdub, loaded it and then clicked on play output.
I remember reading it was over 600 over 48 straight hours until finally one came out perfect... I remember reading they were yelling to set everything back again when suddenly they realized it had worked...:)
To be fair (yeah, I know, fair to Microsoft, must be new here..:)) it may be related to the testing of the patches.
They can know exactly what computers the government has (most likely bought in bulk to the same company, even if several offices buy them from different places will still be a relatively small target to test on), while they would need to use a LOT more variety to test before they're sure it's safe for most people's computers out there (insert "you mean they test them???" joke here..:))
I'm very sure that's not the only reason and quite a bit of politics are playing into this too, though..:)
Actually, from what I read on another article, a login and password (issued by hardvard) was needed to login before editing the URL. The hardvard guy was asked that, and he said that they first weren't sure to proceed like that because the logs couldn't tell them that whoever looked at the results was the actual person the letter would be sent to (I remember it saying that it could have been a spouse or a sister or something), but then decided to go for it because even if it was someone else, that would mean the applicant had failed to keep his/her login and password secret (which they were instructed to do).
I was trying to locate the article again, but can't find it... I think I read it earlier today going from news.com.
Depends on what you buy. I recently bought This one (page in spanish, I got the 512 Mb one). The same price than the 512 megs iPod shuffle (I was actually looking to buy that when I found this one), at least in Spain, the sound quality is good enough for my non audiophile ears and I got FM radio, voice recording, LCD display, 2 years guarantee and I can use it to move files around too (which, AFAIK the ipod can't, but not really sure).
iPods might have several advantages over this one, but so far has been perfect for my non frequent use (mostly for long bus trips I do once a week for a maya course I'm taking on another city) and for the price I got it for...:)
Checking that new voyages website makes me think of one thing.... cue lawsuit in 10.. 9... 8... 7..:)
Anyway, the real point of this post is that what you describe is already happening (and has been happening for a while) in sites like
iFILM,
Atomfilms and
Pocketmovies, just to name a few that I can think of right now. As a 3D animator wannabe I still check them from time to time to see new animated shorts.
To be fair, if I was in Microsoft's shoes, I would play the patent hoarding game as much as I could even if it was only to prevent another Eolas... then again, if I was in Microsoft's shoes I would go shopping first and do the patent hoarding later..:)
One question I do have, though... if Paramount says that no matter how much money is raised they just don't want to do another season... what happens to that money? (just curious here).
That could actually become an interesting idea.... install a miniature version of these on a car, replace seat with toilet, and on long trips you end up fueling the car yourself....:)
Not to mention Blade Trinity (saw it a couple of weeks ago on the bus).... "let's go hunt vampires!!!" "wait a minute, let me load my apple itunes playlist on my apple ipod" "ok"...:)
There is also another movie I remember that had something simmilar, but tagged to another convict. Basically, your explosive collar was on the same frequency than another collar, if both got too far away, both explode. Catch was, the only way to find who was your "collar mate" was to escape prison and see who explodes with you..:)
Well, I did see one funny pepsi commercial while I was in Spain... a kid goes to a machine that sells both Pepsi and Coca Cola... so he puts a coin in, press the coca cola button, gets the can, does it again, grabs both coca cola cans, puts them in the floor, then puts another coin in the machine and stand on the cans to reach the "pepsi" button...:)
Depends on the country's law, I guess... here in Venezuela you can't legally use a competitor's name anywhere in a commercial or in your product. It's kinda funny sometimes, you see Pepsi commercials (for example) where someone prefers a pepsi bottle next to another bottle with a red label but nothing written on it (Coca Cola)...:)
I wasn't available in Windows 2000 (I remember I had to install a third party program for that), but AFAIK it has been there in WinXP from the beggining.
There's also the thing of getting people to type it correctly without looking at the letters. I can type a long password without problems, but I don't watch the keys when typing... but my mother (and lots of other people I know) do the watch keyboard, type, watch screen, watch keyboard again, repeat, and I know that at least my mother has to try a couple of times sometimes writting regular passwords, I bet she would try a couple of times with a longer one and then go back to regular short passwords.
Actually, I did try a couple days ago (bought a new HD so installed windows XP again), and it was just a matter of going to control panel, add-remove programs, windows components and uncheck MSN Messenger.
Maybe that was added in SP2, though, since I remember having to execute a file (got the instructions from annoyances.org) in the command prompt to uninstall it last time I had installed XP (about a year ago, IIRC). The uninstaller was there, just that there was no shortcut to go to it.
Actually, that's common practice in most places I (or some of my family) has worked in. You enter to work for a month or two on a trial basis, if you're good, you're given a more permanent contract, if not, you're "let go".
The question is how are you sure you didn't give them permission (playing devil's advocate here).... just click once on a form with a checked checkbox that says "I allow whoever.com to give my email to business partners and for them to email me here" and you can ever say again for sure you didn't give them permission to mail you... the hard thing there is to define what does "giving permission" mean.
I have a foolproof device that blocks any camera from taking a picture of your face (patent pending).. it involves a piece lead cilinder large enough to cover your entire body and a hole in the bottom to slip the feet out of so you can walk... and there's a light edition too that involves a black cloth covering you but it won't work against X-ray cameras..:)
I have added subtitles to a few videos (I work on a video production place, and sometimes we get a video in english that a company wants subtitled in spanish for their people to see, or a video we made for them in spanish subtitled to english to distribute internationally to their clients), and subtitles/captions most of the times must be shorter than what was said (specially in fast dialogue) or most people will just not have enough time to read what was said. The general rule of using text in video is that it must be there on screen at least enough time to read it twice at a leisurely pace. Of course, this can't be used when doing subtitles or captions, but you can't really expect people to read as fast as it's spoken or more often than not they won't have finished reading by the time it switches to the next piece of text.
Not sure if you've seen it, but you should see some of the spanish subtitles I've read... sometimes even entire pieces of conversations are changed because the correct translation would take too long on the screen to read... and of course there are the odd translations that are completely off the mark (I remember a version of the wing commander movie I saw where the name of the main ship, the Tiger's Claw, even if it was written several times on the movie, kept being translated at the "Tiger's Clock")
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Actually, according to what it says in the article itself (added after it was posted in slashdot), trying to make IRC look more dodgy than it is was the exact purpose, as a way to show how someone from the outside might come to those conclusions by visiting IRC for the first time. Straight copy/paste from the article:
In response to those Slashdot readers who obviously didn't bother to read this article properly: This was a lighthearted, totally unscientific article and is not meant to be at all serious. You probably believe this is real, right? I am not claiming 99.9% of IRC is illegal, I am stating that, based on the keywords observed, 99.9% of the messages sent to the 60 largest IRC channels is in an illegal context (fact). I do not believe that applies to IRC as a whole, nor would it be sensible to claim so. I don't think I'd have written an O'Reilly book about IRC and written lots of open source software for IRC if I believed that was true. I know hundreds of people who use IRC in productive and legal ways, but I guess you skipped that bit and just went looking for the conclusions at the end of the article.
It seems reasonable to assume that a journalist researching IRC for the first time would be more inclined to visit one of the larger channels, and thus be more likely to conclude that it is all about illegal file sharing. This is one of the reasons why IRC gets an unfair bad press. That's what this article was trying to show, in a roundabout way.
There are no "lies" or "bullshit" in this article, just people who can't read and interpret things sensibly for themselves.
Probably for some but I think not for all... at least I know that not too long ago I was doing an image search using both and A9 was giving me some images that google didn't have and viceversa.
I remember windows 95 OEM having something like that here in Venezuela. It came with a second CD (I think it was a promotion because even windows 95 never came with it again here) that would teach you how to use windows. Basically you put the CD in, and it would autorun, create a mock up windows desktop and a voice would talk you trough the interface. You could click anywhere with impunity because anything you did there would be undone on exit. I ran a cybercafe back then and lots of people would rent computers just to sit trough it..:)
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Same thing happened to me, I tried media player and quicktime (the ones I have here at work). It finally worked in virtualdub, loaded it and then clicked on play output.
I remember reading it was over 600 over 48 straight hours until finally one came out perfect... I remember reading they were yelling to set everything back again when suddenly they realized it had worked... :)
They can know exactly what computers the government has (most likely bought in bulk to the same company, even if several offices buy them from different places will still be a relatively small target to test on), while they would need to use a LOT more variety to test before they're sure it's safe for most people's computers out there (insert "you mean they test them???" joke here.. :))
I'm very sure that's not the only reason and quite a bit of politics are playing into this too, though.. :)
I was trying to locate the article again, but can't find it... I think I read it earlier today going from news.com.
iPods might have several advantages over this one, but so far has been perfect for my non frequent use (mostly for long bus trips I do once a week for a maya course I'm taking on another city) and for the price I got it for... :)
Anyway, the real point of this post is that what you describe is already happening (and has been happening for a while) in sites like iFILM, Atomfilms and Pocketmovies, just to name a few that I can think of right now. As a 3D animator wannabe I still check them from time to time to see new animated shorts.
To be fair, if I was in Microsoft's shoes, I would play the patent hoarding game as much as I could even if it was only to prevent another Eolas... then again, if I was in Microsoft's shoes I would go shopping first and do the patent hoarding later.. :)
One question I do have, though... if Paramount says that no matter how much money is raised they just don't want to do another season... what happens to that money? (just curious here).
That was me, BTW, accidentally clicked on "Post Anonymously" when I was going to click on "Preview"... :o
That could actually become an interesting idea.... install a miniature version of these on a car, replace seat with toilet, and on long trips you end up fueling the car yourself.... :)
Not to mention Blade Trinity (saw it a couple of weeks ago on the bus).... "let's go hunt vampires!!!" "wait a minute, let me load my apple itunes playlist on my apple ipod" "ok"... :)
There is also another movie I remember that had something simmilar, but tagged to another convict. Basically, your explosive collar was on the same frequency than another collar, if both got too far away, both explode. Catch was, the only way to find who was your "collar mate" was to escape prison and see who explodes with you.. :)
Well, I did see one funny pepsi commercial while I was in Spain... a kid goes to a machine that sells both Pepsi and Coca Cola... so he puts a coin in, press the coca cola button, gets the can, does it again, grabs both coca cola cans, puts them in the floor, then puts another coin in the machine and stand on the cans to reach the "pepsi" button... :)
Depends on the country's law, I guess... here in Venezuela you can't legally use a competitor's name anywhere in a commercial or in your product. It's kinda funny sometimes, you see Pepsi commercials (for example) where someone prefers a pepsi bottle next to another bottle with a red label but nothing written on it (Coca Cola)... :)
BTW.. that should have been "it wasn't"... :)
I wasn't available in Windows 2000 (I remember I had to install a third party program for that), but AFAIK it has been there in WinXP from the beggining.
There's also the thing of getting people to type it correctly without looking at the letters. I can type a long password without problems, but I don't watch the keys when typing... but my mother (and lots of other people I know) do the watch keyboard, type, watch screen, watch keyboard again, repeat, and I know that at least my mother has to try a couple of times sometimes writting regular passwords, I bet she would try a couple of times with a longer one and then go back to regular short passwords.
Maybe that was added in SP2, though, since I remember having to execute a file (got the instructions from annoyances.org) in the command prompt to uninstall it last time I had installed XP (about a year ago, IIRC). The uninstaller was there, just that there was no shortcut to go to it.
Actually, that's common practice in most places I (or some of my family) has worked in. You enter to work for a month or two on a trial basis, if you're good, you're given a more permanent contract, if not, you're "let go".
The question is how are you sure you didn't give them permission (playing devil's advocate here).... just click once on a form with a checked checkbox that says "I allow whoever.com to give my email to business partners and for them to email me here" and you can ever say again for sure you didn't give them permission to mail you... the hard thing there is to define what does "giving permission" mean.
I have a foolproof device that blocks any camera from taking a picture of your face (patent pending).. it involves a piece lead cilinder large enough to cover your entire body and a hole in the bottom to slip the feet out of so you can walk... and there's a light edition too that involves a black cloth covering you but it won't work against X-ray cameras.. :)
Not sure if you've seen it, but you should see some of the spanish subtitles I've read... sometimes even entire pieces of conversations are changed because the correct translation would take too long on the screen to read... and of course there are the odd translations that are completely off the mark (I remember a version of the wing commander movie I saw where the name of the main ship, the Tiger's Claw, even if it was written several times on the movie, kept being translated at the "Tiger's Clock")
Probably for some but I think not for all... at least I know that not too long ago I was doing an image search using both and A9 was giving me some images that google didn't have and viceversa.
I remember windows 95 OEM having something like that here in Venezuela. It came with a second CD (I think it was a promotion because even windows 95 never came with it again here) that would teach you how to use windows. Basically you put the CD in, and it would autorun, create a mock up windows desktop and a voice would talk you trough the interface. You could click anywhere with impunity because anything you did there would be undone on exit. I ran a cybercafe back then and lots of people would rent computers just to sit trough it.. :)