Let's review the past few years. Space shuttle launches, gets damaged by debris on lift off. Of course, it wasn't proven, just highly speculated that the debris came from some foam that fell off during launch. Several people burned alive upon reentry because of the damage.
Most recent shuttle launch, part of the voyage's purpose is diverted to make a repair, presumably because of more debris damage.
Most recently, a private firm is allowed to launch a bunch of shit into orbit to make more debris danger and to commemorate a few people with enough money to waste on this kind of stuff, rather than give the wealth away to charitable organizations who are fighting disease or trying to make the world a better place. Great idea.
I was also kind of annoyed by that, because I had thought he would jump on that language. I think that he has probably tired of making the distinction for people. And really you can't force a new word onto the populous, because you think it isn't descriptive or correct. Word's evolve through the cultural experience that you just don't have control over, even when they are simply not descriptive. Do you think Hormel Foods is going around giving interview about how they want to change that everyone uses the word SPAM, from it's use to describe unsolicited emails. Sorry hormel, monty python and culture is stronger than your corporate brand.
Also, from the CNN Mitnick photo, and comparing it to the Mitnick I saw in the interview on The Broken, Mitnick is obviously taking steps to become more studly corporate. He's lost weight, got some stylish glasses, trimmed the mullet. With this new persona, he maintains cool corporate Mitnick so he can't get all nuts with his interviewer by saying things like "They're Crackers Cindy for God's sake!!, the bad hackers are called crackers! Forget your interivew, I'm leaving you dumb bitch!"
I'm an author as well and I'm guessing you meant to write "intellectual property rights advocate" ? I am not necessarily of that stance because it's somewhat of an illusion that our original works are all that original, that they somehow belong to us especially after we make them public. Logic would tell you that if you send something out in the world and hold on to it at the same time. Ever raise any kids? Information has a way of getting into people's hands despite the commercial channels attempts at maintaining pseudo-control.
Why fight it? work with it. Innovate. It's not that hard. If it's slipping away, let it. There are always better ways. Why do corporations seem, by their behavior to believe that the masses will succumb or subscribe to their vision of how a system should run, and more importantly, how culture is manifested. These organizations, as we know them are a sinking ship.
As with probably all of the suits, it's not the downloading of the music. They can't prove or disprove that you have purchased the "rights" to the music by buying a CD beforehand. Their issue and it is stated in the transcript is that she was sharing the files. She was illegally distributing the music according to them. That's the offense. They said she had uploaded 1167 files and they were charging her for four of them.
I hate these suits, I just wanted to clarify it some. It's interesting that a shared folder is considered distribution. You aren't selling it, and in fact, you may not even realize it's open to anyone searching. It's one's choice if they download and it comes from you. Also don't forget that the data stream isn't completely from you a lot of times. it's mixed.
This raises the question if a convention used in a motion picture can be patented. For example many anime use the convention of the rushing blurred background while the character makes a strike with a katana.
That is a visual convention used in animation. Patentable? though the system that creates the convention in a video game is made up of code that (for some reason) is patentable. However, if I were to create a feature film using several conventions of say, drunkeness in the film. Could I patent that visual convention? Not really. And certainly if this was possible in the movie industry long ago, innovation ceases.
I think insanity in Max Payne is good prior art. What does it matter anyway. Eventually the people will be pushed far enough that the patent office will cease to exist.
Ok, not to make fun of any site, because mine is certainly more stupid than most, but a blog posting from a blogging newspaper that blogs about the buzz in the blogosphere is not really going to generate any emotion with me on the topic of the decline of geek blogs. Maybe the geeks got sick of their own rants and giving free advertising. Or, all of the once-cool, hip, blogsters have moved on to more interesting things... like Wiki's. Yes, geeks have produced enough hot air causing their own ascension out of the blogosphere and into the wikisphere.
You know, you expect when somebody is closing their doors, ending, shutting down, they might approach it with a bit of honesty, humility and above all, coming to human terms with the whole thing. Who writes this stuff? This guy's quote in the slashdot article reads like the worst market speak I've ever heard. It's almost like a joke the way it's explained. English please! I think the Rio company might be run by aliens.
What is so cool about SVG is talked about in this keynote. SVG, is vector graphics AND text, AND placed raster images, AND animation described in an open, easy to read format.
One advantage is that you can design a webpage the same way you design a printed piece. Where you have just as much control over it. MS explorer requires an adobe plugin to display it, similarly to how it displays flash. Firefox is going to display SVG natively in the 1.1 browser (actually already does with the deerpark alphas.
The code is easily visible like HTML. The desktops that use SVG for the gui, I don't know much about, but it's fantastic. Nice icons, or buttons or any visual element that is smaller in file size, breaks out of the square we are used to, and the elements can be enlarged or reduced and still be rendered beautifully.
check out inkscape if you want to experiment with svg, or the open clipart library to see some cool examples. of SVG.
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Bookstores are ALWAYS affiliated with the University, I've worked at two of them. Don't think you can just plop a brick and mortar building in the middle of a college campus and not be affiliated.
They are given near exclusive rights to sell the schools merchandise and work with the instructors on books. Rarely do you see more than one competitor off campus selling the used books. The non affiliation means they can waste good money on stupid souvineer crap like cheesy light up pens, and they also carry a lot of the medical and art supplies for those students.
Affiliation is always there with a campus book store sitting in the student union.
Wouldn't it be more useful to create robots that perform automation on things that humans don't actually like doing. Why are they even creating this when there are tons of jobs, like trimming the overgrowth in my backyard for example, that I would love a robot / computer to do for me, so i could spend time practicing the guitar on my own.
Hi Mr. News guy, I'm from Cyber Security Alliance, and we recently polled like a whole bunch of people who said that government should purchase our product..er I mean.. that government should help secure the internet. How about you publish our poll results in your press feed so it gets the attention it deserves. You want the poll results? How about just an ambiguous summary from me? Who am I? I'm their lobbyist..er I'm their Public Relations executive.
This isn't a CNN story, they are just re-reporting it. The Associated Press in Washington reported it. Who knows where it came from. The most annoying thing is that since it comes from "AP" there is no author attached to comment to, contact or flame. As far as anyone knows, a government lobbyist group could be cracking into the AP feeds, sending God knows what over to CNN, which then becomes news.
Then, later on, some politician will use it to his / her advantage like for example, an invasion of Iraq.
These non-issues, are trumped up all the time, and it's scary and sad. AP contributors have little responsibility I think despite how quickly their reported news gets circulated around the f--ing world. Like 10 minutes the entire world gets the report that maybe totally bogus.
You know how Iraq was invaded? Bush and crew went around lobbying for it until their phone "polls" were high enough that they thought they would get away with it. Too bad the people polled didn't even know the difference between Saddam and that other guy.
Great point.
you should check out the Documentary "Outfoxed"
their technique of saying "some people say that it's an important issue"
but in reality they are just making that shit up. "Some people" is just shit coming out of their mouth.
to keep track of your todo stuff and your notes you can use keynote. Not the Mac app, but the keynote from http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html
windows.
I like yahoo calendar for appointments if you are always connected and checking email frequently.
A free paint program? Get ArtRage. It's for windows and now Mac as of this month. It's sweet and the interface is how all paint progrmas should be in my opinion.
Why doesn't someone create a graphics program that supports layers and the file format is simply a zip file with PNG files of the separate layers? Geez is it that hard? XML could document positioning outside the viewport, transformations and layer stack Z values.
Why why????
I don't care if it lacks CMYK support, just make it more simple and open!
A lot of people dis Quark becuase of that Mac issue. As if every corporation hasn't had an executive who spouted off something out of anger. I'm not defending him so much that I'm pointing out that he was under enough pressure that I think anyone would be frustrated. Even though OSX was a great thing for Apple, it created nightmares for thousands.
Quark in a lot of areas is better as a previous poster went into detail on. Adobe's commercial and educational prices have creeped up in the last couple years. Quarks has gone down. The InDesign XML hype isn't really that great. And Quark is definitely less bloated then Adobe stuff, even if the type doesn't look as good on screen.
Also, it's possible to create a carbon fiber or plastic knife that totally bypasses security and will still cut skin and stab. Pencils / Pens are on the plane, you could unravel seat threads and strangle someone.
The most important change is the cockpit doors. Safe pilots mean they can maneuver to throw off balance and change pressure for temporary opportunities to capture the assailants. They do teach defensive maneuvers for that job.
What kind of fear are you trying to spread with your gory descriptions? Thinking of the most horrible things in order to prepare yourself for the worst is one thing, spreading this FUD is another. The doors already are reinforced. And before an eight year old dies in vain, the rest of the passengers are going to castrate whomever did it. 9/11 is on everyone's mind, so adrenaline pumps a lot quicker now.
Nobody's opening the door but the pilots, not even the flight attendant. And the US marshall who flies as a undercover passenger will put a bullet in the assailant's head head. Unlike security personel, Marshalls are professionally trained and equipped.
So in reality there are very simple prevention measures in place. We only need away to tighten up how firearms and explosives can be discovered.
You can think of it as detachment, but in reality it's sense of duty.. I want that quality in pilots and in the control tower.
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Let's review the past few years. Space shuttle launches, gets damaged by debris on lift off. Of course, it wasn't proven, just highly speculated that the debris came from some foam that fell off during launch. Several people burned alive upon reentry because of the damage.
Most recent shuttle launch, part of the voyage's purpose is diverted to make a repair, presumably because of more debris damage.
Most recently, a private firm is allowed to launch a bunch of shit into orbit to make more debris danger and to commemorate a few people with enough money to waste on this kind of stuff, rather than give the wealth away to charitable organizations who are fighting disease or trying to make the world a better place. Great idea.
I was also kind of annoyed by that, because I had thought he would jump on that language. I think that he has probably tired of making the distinction for people. And really you can't force a new word onto the populous, because you think it isn't descriptive or correct. Word's evolve through the cultural experience that you just don't have control over, even when they are simply not descriptive. Do you think Hormel Foods is going around giving interview about how they want to change that everyone uses the word SPAM, from it's use to describe unsolicited emails. Sorry hormel, monty python and culture is stronger than your corporate brand.
Also, from the CNN Mitnick photo, and comparing it to the Mitnick I saw in the interview on The Broken, Mitnick is obviously taking steps to become more studly corporate. He's lost weight, got some stylish glasses, trimmed the mullet. With this new persona, he maintains cool corporate Mitnick so he can't get all nuts with his interviewer by saying things like "They're Crackers Cindy for God's sake!!, the bad hackers are called crackers! Forget your interivew, I'm leaving you dumb bitch!"
This one is mine, it's out hopefully this month. I don't know who the anonymous coward was that just posted the other reply, but this is me. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0789 733676/qid=1125670837/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl 14/104-7161456-5780747?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
thanks for the reply, I wish I had more time to make mine but I have to get back to work.
I'm an author as well and I'm guessing you meant to write "intellectual property rights advocate" ? I am not necessarily of that stance because it's somewhat of an illusion that our original works are all that original, that they somehow belong to us especially after we make them public. Logic would tell you that if you send something out in the world and hold on to it at the same time. Ever raise any kids? Information has a way of getting into people's hands despite the commercial channels attempts at maintaining pseudo-control.
Why fight it? work with it. Innovate. It's not that hard. If it's slipping away, let it. There are always better ways. Why do corporations seem, by their behavior to believe that the masses will succumb or subscribe to their vision of how a system should run, and more importantly, how culture is manifested. These organizations, as we know them are a sinking ship.
As with probably all of the suits, it's not the downloading of the music. They can't prove or disprove that you have purchased the "rights" to the music by buying a CD beforehand. Their issue and it is stated in the transcript is that she was sharing the files. She was illegally distributing the music according to them. That's the offense. They said she had uploaded 1167 files and they were charging her for four of them.
I hate these suits, I just wanted to clarify it some. It's interesting that a shared folder is considered distribution. You aren't selling it, and in fact, you may not even realize it's open to anyone searching. It's one's choice if they download and it comes from you. Also don't forget that the data stream isn't completely from you a lot of times. it's mixed.
This raises the question if a convention used in a motion picture can be patented. For example many anime use the convention of the rushing blurred background while the character makes a strike with a katana.
That is a visual convention used in animation. Patentable? though the system that creates the convention in a video game is made up of code that (for some reason) is patentable. However, if I were to create a feature film using several conventions of say, drunkeness in the film. Could I patent that visual convention? Not really. And certainly if this was possible in the movie industry long ago, innovation ceases.
I think insanity in Max Payne is good prior art. What does it matter anyway. Eventually the people will be pushed far enough that the patent office will cease to exist.
Ok, not to make fun of any site, because mine is certainly more stupid than most, but a blog posting from a blogging newspaper that blogs about the buzz in the blogosphere is not really going to generate any emotion with me on the topic of the decline of geek blogs. Maybe the geeks got sick of their own rants and giving free advertising. Or, all of the once-cool, hip, blogsters have moved on to more interesting things... like Wiki's. Yes, geeks have produced enough hot air causing their own ascension out of the blogosphere and into the wikisphere.
You know, you expect when somebody is closing their doors, ending, shutting down, they might approach it with a bit of honesty, humility and above all, coming to human terms with the whole thing. Who writes this stuff? This guy's quote in the slashdot article reads like the worst market speak I've ever heard. It's almost like a joke the way it's explained. English please! I think the Rio company might be run by aliens.
What is so cool about SVG is talked about in this keynote. SVG, is vector graphics AND text, AND placed raster images, AND animation described in an open, easy to read format.
One advantage is that you can design a webpage the same way you design a printed piece. Where you have just as much control over it. MS explorer requires an adobe plugin to display it, similarly to how it displays flash. Firefox is going to display SVG natively in the 1.1 browser (actually already does with the deerpark alphas.
The code is easily visible like HTML. The desktops that use SVG for the gui, I don't know much about, but it's fantastic. Nice icons, or buttons or any visual element that is smaller in file size, breaks out of the square we are used to, and the elements can be enlarged or reduced and still be rendered beautifully.
check out inkscape if you want to experiment with svg, or the open clipart library to see some cool examples. of SVG.
http://inkscape.org/
http://openclipart.org/
Here's what mozilla is doing with SVG:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/
Bookstores are ALWAYS affiliated with the University, I've worked at two of them. Don't think you can just plop a brick and mortar building in the middle of a college campus and not be affiliated.
They are given near exclusive rights to sell the schools merchandise and work with the instructors on books. Rarely do you see more than one competitor off campus selling the used books. The non affiliation means they can waste good money on stupid souvineer crap like cheesy light up pens, and they also carry a lot of the medical and art supplies for those students.
Affiliation is always there with a campus book store sitting in the student union.
No Joke and like American's can talk. Fat bastards.
Wouldn't it be more useful to create robots that perform automation on things that humans don't actually like doing. Why are they even creating this when there are tons of jobs, like trimming the overgrowth in my backyard for example, that I would love a robot / computer to do for me, so i could spend time practicing the guitar on my own.
And In other news, still no cure for cancer.
Hi Mr. News guy, I'm from Cyber Security Alliance, and we recently polled like a whole bunch of people who said that government should purchase our product..er I mean.. that government should help secure the internet. How about you publish our poll results in your press feed so it gets the attention it deserves. You want the poll results? How about just an ambiguous summary from me? Who am I? I'm their lobbyist..er I'm their Public Relations executive.
This isn't a CNN story, they are just re-reporting it. The Associated Press in Washington reported it. Who knows where it came from. The most annoying thing is that since it comes from "AP" there is no author attached to comment to, contact or flame. As far as anyone knows, a government lobbyist group could be cracking into the AP feeds, sending God knows what over to CNN, which then becomes news.
Then, later on, some politician will use it to his / her advantage like for example, an invasion of Iraq.
These non-issues, are trumped up all the time, and it's scary and sad. AP contributors have little responsibility I think despite how quickly their reported news gets circulated around the f--ing world. Like 10 minutes the entire world gets the report that maybe totally bogus.
You know how Iraq was invaded? Bush and crew went around lobbying for it until their phone "polls" were high enough that they thought they would get away with it. Too bad the people polled didn't even know the difference between Saddam and that other guy.
Great point. you should check out the Documentary "Outfoxed" their technique of saying "some people say that it's an important issue" but in reality they are just making that shit up. "Some people" is just shit coming out of their mouth.
Less Obvious? They probably could be MORE obvious, but then they would be called Fox.
The subsurf button is all you need to press and your polygons will be rounded off and have a mesh beneath your mesh. subsurf is great.
Try this for windows.
http://www.karenware.com/powertools/pttimecop.asp
desktop reminder clock notifier
to keep track of your todo stuff and your notes you can use keynote. Not the Mac app, but the keynote from http://www.tranglos.com/free/keynote.html windows. I like yahoo calendar for appointments if you are always connected and checking email frequently.
A free paint program? Get ArtRage. It's for windows and now Mac as of this month. It's sweet and the interface is how all paint progrmas should be in my opinion.
http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html
Why doesn't someone create a graphics program that supports layers and the file format is simply a zip file with PNG files of the separate layers? Geez is it that hard? XML could document positioning outside the viewport, transformations and layer stack Z values. Why why???? I don't care if it lacks CMYK support, just make it more simple and open!
It's Macradobeia
Adobe bought em, so their name should get priority in the new name.
yes I was just jogging yesterday and thinking about this exact topic. wow I'm a loser.
A lot of people dis Quark becuase of that Mac issue. As if every corporation hasn't had an executive who spouted off something out of anger. I'm not defending him so much that I'm pointing out that he was under enough pressure that I think anyone would be frustrated. Even though OSX was a great thing for Apple, it created nightmares for thousands.
Quark in a lot of areas is better as a previous poster went into detail on. Adobe's commercial and educational prices have creeped up in the last couple years. Quarks has gone down. The InDesign XML hype isn't really that great. And Quark is definitely less bloated then Adobe stuff, even if the type doesn't look as good on screen.
excellent points.
Also, it's possible to create a carbon fiber or plastic knife that totally bypasses security and will still cut skin and stab. Pencils / Pens are on the plane, you could unravel seat threads and strangle someone.
The most important change is the cockpit doors. Safe pilots mean they can maneuver to throw off balance and change pressure for temporary opportunities to capture the assailants. They do teach defensive maneuvers for that job.
What kind of fear are you trying to spread with your gory descriptions? Thinking of the most horrible things in order to prepare yourself for the worst is one thing, spreading this FUD is another. The doors already are reinforced. And before an eight year old dies in vain, the rest of the passengers are going to castrate whomever did it. 9/11 is on everyone's mind, so adrenaline pumps a lot quicker now.
Nobody's opening the door but the pilots, not even the flight attendant. And the US marshall who flies as a undercover passenger will put a bullet in the assailant's head head. Unlike security personel, Marshalls are professionally trained and equipped.
So in reality there are very simple prevention measures in place. We only need away to tighten up how firearms and explosives can be discovered.
You can think of it as detachment, but in reality it's sense of duty.. I want that quality in pilots and in the control tower.