Tron was such a classic. I always thought the movie
That could well be this new remake's problem. Most cult films' sequels never fare very well compared to the originals, and many end up antagonizing fans of the originals, even when they're well made.
Let's hope the Tron remake lives up to its promises...
Sounds like if you have this kind of problem, your neighbours probably experience it as well when you're AP is up.
Also, it sounds like you've started to have that problem about now (beginning of January), which would tend to indicate that most of your neighbours' APs are brand-new Christmas gifts.
So, my advice is: borrow a few more APs from friends, possibly get aftermarket antennas with better gain, set them all on different channels (preferably those used by your neighbours) and wait a few days till they all return their APs to the store because they can't seem to connect to their APs either.
Scientists have been researching artificial muscles for decades now. The need for linear actuators with fast response times, almost friction-free force-less movements and power varying as a function of their lengths, is great.
The best they could come up with for powerful movements is this pneumatic device, which is a braided sleeve with a rubber balloon inside: when the balloone expands, it pulls the fibers in the braided sleeve apart, and therefore the overall length of the device shrinks and the device fattens. When the pressure is let off, the device becomes long and thin.
Now, 150,000 dead, and we still have assholes trying to make a buck off it. What does it take for these people to learn morals?
Most people don't have any morals. That's why they are forced to obey laws, which are just society-imposed rules of behaviour for people who otherwise would stop at nothing to get what they want.
Speaking of that dreaded broadcast flag, wouldn't it be a rather simple matter of making a little embedded box that sits there, watches the data stream and resets said flag on the fly? I remember using of of these boxes to do exactly that, to defeat digital copy with MDs (iirc).
Could Apple have "organized" the leak? There are strong hints that Microsoft and other companies organize deniable leaks now and then, when a product is near beta, so that people get excited, and also to get free feedbacks and testing. This could make sense.
I guess Apple quietly pulling the plug on the lawsuit against the students after the noise has died down on this affair would hint in that direction...
Steve is a damn good speaker/presenter. he doesn't behave like a monkey to get people motivated. he doesn't "umm" and "ah" his way through it. He's cool and polished.
So you like public corporate performance art do you?
And to be honest what's better than seeing a demo or the product itself than waiting for it to be "filterd" by the media.
Demos are made up. They never show the defects (hence the name "showstoppers" for those defects). I could demo Duke Nukem Forever for you if you want: a bunch of screens, a fake video, and if I'm a great presenter like Steve Jobs allegedly is, you'll want to buy it.
If I read it from the media, I have a better chance of seeing the bull exposed for what it is.
I want demos not snide comments by a 95% Windows dominated media (qv iPod-killer stories).
I'll remember to read it off a Mac dominated media then:-)
If you were hoping to watch Stevie present the rumoured sub-$500 Mac, the Motorola phone, the Flash iPod, and/or the office suite, you now have no choice but to buy your plane tickets to San Francisco ASAP."
Translation:
If you were hoping to see the Apple CEO perform his Apple product-pushing dance at an Apple-devoted conference on the net, now you're SOL.
Obviously only of interest to Steve Jobs and Apple devotees. Personally, I'd rather wait for the media to pick up Jobs' marketting spin, filter it, rince it and present it for what it is - hardware and software with more or less value.
It also stopped a (time-limited) graphics editor that I wrote from working - it was due to stop at 31/12/1999 but the time-bomb code didn't handle further dates properly anyway! Dear Mr. PommieKiwiFruit,
Thank you for applying for the job of Software Engineer at GoodSoftware.com. Unfortunately, your application wasn't successful but we'll make sure to contact you if we have an opening that matches your programming skills in the future.
Sincerly,
Joe Headhunter, VP of HR, GoodSoftware.com
Dang DOS API calls...
Yeah right, blame it on the API. The fact that currentdate_seconds - lastdate_seconds returns a negative value should have kept your program working forever actually:-)
And of course, your example uses a PCI 802.11b card with a proprietary Windows driver, that some brave guy managed to make work flawlessly under Linux with much hacking.
I was working for a company that jumped on the Y2K bandwagon in 98/99. The official company line was "there's no risk to our OS, we've tested it, but we'll keep selling the testing-and-patching tool right up to Dec 31, 1999, 23:59:59 and get all the money we can from worried customers. The "fix" sold for $60 and was nothing more than a small program to set the clock at 23:59:58, wait 5 seconds, and determine that there was no danger, and if it was run on another, competing OS that was vulnerable, install a dumb TSR to correct the problem.
1- Re the Hindenburg incident: there is now fair evidence that the whole thing happened not because the hydrogen is flamable (it was in airtight balloons, and any hydrogen leaking out was highly vented), but because of the envelope fabric, that had cellulose acetate butyrate coating, which is highly flamable and prone to cause static electricity. If the blimp had been filled with helium, a ravaging fire would have engulfed its skin anyway, but with less violence. The hydrogen gas here was a facilitant more than a cause of the disaster.
2- Hydrogen is only a vector. It is not an energy source, it's only a way to carry energy created elsewhere. There is no "hydrogen economy", just the existing energy economy with an additional vector that can be compared to batteries.
I can get NEW releases at Walmart or Target for $14.99, and other month(s) old releases for $9.99. I see that as more than fair, and see no reason to pirate a movie.
You're right, and you're wrong: Yes, movies (and even music these days) are cheap enough that it's not necessarily that financially interesting to get free rips. But the real added value of downloading them is that you can search and obtain what you want fast, easily, in the comfort of your home, without having to go to Walmart, physically peruse the shelf, and then wait in line to pay the stuff and come back home. Not to mention, the internet is open 24/7.
The music industry seems to have gotten that part. They offer music online too now. Once they understand the format has to be unencumbered, maybe their online sales will really take off...
I doubt that the industry is foolish enough to force consumers to upgrade their televisions to support some form of signal encryption,
So what if they do? someone's bound to video-tape the TV screen. The copy will be shitty, but that's never prevented people from downloading shitty copies to get movies before everybody else, and/or for free. Just look at the number of bad rips of Fahrenheit 9/11 that went out when the movie was released...
The only thing they can hope to achieve is to make it harder to copy originals.
What I mean is, the problem isn't preventing people from copying a Blockbuster DVD, it's more a problem of preventing one guy, dedicated enough, from making a unencrypted copy and posting it on P2P. Once that's done, the cat's out of the bag and the copy-protection scheme will just annoy legit users. All the others will download the free copy.
So, what will happen is, when Joe Pirate wants to make a copy, instead of just sticking the disk in the drive and wait, he'll make himself some setup to capture the video from the DVD player and he'll re-encode the video. Added cost: a capture card and a cable. Period. And once the captured video is on the net, the game's over. And I'm ready to wager there's an awful lot of people out there who hate the *AAs enough to take the (small) trouble of doing exactly that, just to shaft them.
no synonym control ( "mac" and "macintosh" on Del.icio.us)
Aren't words what people make them to be? I mean, if many people, from the bottom up, decide that "Mac" should be primarily a synonymous of "Macintosh" (which it is, de facto), then secondarily an acronym for an ethernet card address, then for TV addicts a short for Duncan McLeod, so what? Who's to define what words mean if it's not the people who use them?
I mean look at the French: they have something called the "French academy" that makes up a bunch of words willy-nilly every year, after much discussion, to be added to the "official" french language, but without consulting the potential users (the French). Well guess what: most of these words aren't known, let alone used, with precious few exceptions.
So I say great: if grassroot efforts end up redefining the language, and help consolidate new words into the core language, and help create new words and expressions, I say fine. That's what defines a living language that people like and use.
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In our industry, one doesn't make hostile moves because our value lies with people
Considering how EA treat their employee, I can't believe they have the gall to say this...
Some guy is a student with opinions about spyware. He gets interviewed. Article is a bit wordy. Not worth reading.
So, is the article not worth reading because it's wordy, or because the guy is a student?
Or do you deny bright student the right to express their (more enlightened than yours) opinion about issues they study until they get a degree?
I found the article interesting enough...
So, want to download a dirty movie? Presto, unzip your fly, take a picture of your wang next to a VHS tape and hit the "submit query" button!
Somehow I prefer the old fashion (one-handed) keyboard way...
Tron was such a classic. I always thought the movie
That could well be this new remake's problem. Most cult films' sequels never fare very well compared to the originals, and many end up antagonizing fans of the originals, even when they're well made.
Let's hope the Tron remake lives up to its promises...
Sounds like if you have this kind of problem, your neighbours probably experience it as well when you're AP is up.
Also, it sounds like you've started to have that problem about now (beginning of January), which would tend to indicate that most of your neighbours' APs are brand-new Christmas gifts.
So, my advice is: borrow a few more APs from friends, possibly get aftermarket antennas with better gain, set them all on different channels (preferably those used by your neighbours) and wait a few days till they all return their APs to the store because they can't seem to connect to their APs either.
Voilà! Problem solved.
Scientists have been researching artificial muscles for decades now. The need for linear actuators with fast response times, almost friction-free force-less movements and power varying as a function of their lengths, is great.
The best they could come up with for powerful movements is this pneumatic device, which is a braided sleeve with a rubber balloon inside: when the balloone expands, it pulls the fibers in the braided sleeve apart, and therefore the overall length of the device shrinks and the device fattens. When the pressure is let off, the device becomes long and thin.
Now, 150,000 dead, and we still have assholes trying to make a buck off it. What does it take for these people to learn morals?
Most people don't have any morals. That's why they are forced to obey laws, which are just society-imposed rules of behaviour for people who otherwise would stop at nothing to get what they want.
Speaking of that dreaded broadcast flag, wouldn't it be a rather simple matter of making a little embedded box that sits there, watches the data stream and resets said flag on the fly? I remember using of of these boxes to do exactly that, to defeat digital copy with MDs (iirc).
Could someone in the know enlighten me here?
Could Apple have "organized" the leak? There are strong hints that Microsoft and other companies organize deniable leaks now and then, when a product is near beta, so that people get excited, and also to get free feedbacks and testing. This could make sense.
I guess Apple quietly pulling the plug on the lawsuit against the students after the noise has died down on this affair would hint in that direction...
Steve is a damn good speaker/presenter. he doesn't behave like a monkey to get people motivated. he doesn't "umm" and "ah" his way through it. He's cool and polished.
:-)
So you like public corporate performance art do you?
And to be honest what's better than seeing a demo or the product itself than waiting for it to be "filterd" by the media.
Demos are made up. They never show the defects (hence the name "showstoppers" for those defects). I could demo Duke Nukem Forever for you if you want: a bunch of screens, a fake video, and if I'm a great presenter like Steve Jobs allegedly is, you'll want to buy it.
If I read it from the media, I have a better chance of seeing the bull exposed for what it is.
I want demos not snide comments by a 95% Windows dominated media (qv iPod-killer stories).
I'll remember to read it off a Mac dominated media then
If you were hoping to watch Stevie present the rumoured sub-$500 Mac, the Motorola phone, the Flash iPod, and/or the office suite, you now have no choice but to buy your plane tickets to San Francisco ASAP."
Translation:
If you were hoping to see the Apple CEO perform his Apple product-pushing dance at an Apple-devoted conference on the net, now you're SOL.
Obviously only of interest to Steve Jobs and Apple devotees. Personally, I'd rather wait for the media to pick up Jobs' marketting spin, filter it, rince it and present it for what it is - hardware and software with more or less value.
It also stopped a (time-limited) graphics editor that I wrote from working - it was due to stop at 31/12/1999 but the time-bomb code didn't handle further dates properly anyway!
:-)
Dear Mr. PommieKiwiFruit,
Thank you for applying for the job of Software Engineer at GoodSoftware.com. Unfortunately, your application wasn't successful but we'll make sure to contact you if we have an opening that matches your programming skills in the future.
Sincerly,
Joe Headhunter,
VP of HR, GoodSoftware.com
Dang DOS API calls...
Yeah right, blame it on the API. The fact that currentdate_seconds - lastdate_seconds returns a negative value should have kept your program working forever actually
And of course, your example uses a PCI 802.11b card with a proprietary Windows driver, that some brave guy managed to make work flawlessly under Linux with much hacking.
Yay propaganda...
A scam.
I was working for a company that jumped on the Y2K bandwagon in 98/99. The official company line was "there's no risk to our OS, we've tested it, but we'll keep selling the testing-and-patching tool right up to Dec 31, 1999, 23:59:59 and get all the money we can from worried customers. The "fix" sold for $60 and was nothing more than a small program to set the clock at 23:59:58, wait 5 seconds, and determine that there was no danger, and if it was run on another, competing OS that was vulnerable, install a dumb TSR to correct the problem.
You'd think that slashdot users, being nerds, would use Firefox...
Dude, you're so last millenium...
Being a countercurrent techno freak implies using unfashionable tools. With all the positive press OSS gets, nerd-chic these days is to use IE.
This one no doubt.
1- Re the Hindenburg incident: there is now fair evidence that the whole thing happened not because the hydrogen is flamable (it was in airtight balloons, and any hydrogen leaking out was highly vented), but because of the envelope fabric, that had cellulose acetate butyrate coating, which is highly flamable and prone to cause static electricity. If the blimp had been filled with helium, a ravaging fire would have engulfed its skin anyway, but with less violence. The hydrogen gas here was a facilitant more than a cause of the disaster.
2- Hydrogen is only a vector. It is not an energy source, it's only a way to carry energy created elsewhere. There is no "hydrogen economy", just the existing energy economy with an additional vector that can be compared to batteries.
Well, obviously...
The moral? To this day I hate cats.
Now if only your parents could had gotten you a laser pointer with the cat, you wouldn't have missed the robot...
I think I'll invent a 4th law of robotics:
4 - A robot constructed using instructions found on Slashdot shall be equipped with a huge red emergency power shutoff button on its back.
I can get NEW releases at Walmart or Target for $14.99, and other month(s) old releases for $9.99. I see that as more than fair, and see no reason to pirate a movie.
You're right, and you're wrong: Yes, movies (and even music these days) are cheap enough that it's not necessarily that financially interesting to get free rips. But the real added value of downloading them is that you can search and obtain what you want fast, easily, in the comfort of your home, without having to go to Walmart, physically peruse the shelf, and then wait in line to pay the stuff and come back home. Not to mention, the internet is open 24/7.
The music industry seems to have gotten that part. They offer music online too now. Once they understand the format has to be unencumbered, maybe their online sales will really take off...
I doubt that the industry is foolish enough to force consumers to upgrade their televisions to support some form of signal encryption,
So what if they do? someone's bound to video-tape the TV screen. The copy will be shitty, but that's never prevented people from downloading shitty copies to get movies before everybody else, and/or for free. Just look at the number of bad rips of Fahrenheit 9/11 that went out when the movie was released...
The only thing they can hope to achieve is to make it harder to copy originals.
What I mean is, the problem isn't preventing people from copying a Blockbuster DVD, it's more a problem of preventing one guy, dedicated enough, from making a unencrypted copy and posting it on P2P. Once that's done, the cat's out of the bag and the copy-protection scheme will just annoy legit users. All the others will download the free copy.
So, what will happen is, when Joe Pirate wants to make a copy, instead of just sticking the disk in the drive and wait, he'll make himself some setup to capture the video from the DVD player and he'll re-encode the video. Added cost: a capture card and a cable. Period. And once the captured video is on the net, the game's over. And I'm ready to wager there's an awful lot of people out there who hate the *AAs enough to take the (small) trouble of doing exactly that, just to shaft them.
I couldn't agree more!
no synonym control ( "mac" and "macintosh" on Del.icio.us)
Aren't words what people make them to be? I mean, if many people, from the bottom up, decide that "Mac" should be primarily a synonymous of "Macintosh" (which it is, de facto), then secondarily an acronym for an ethernet card address, then for TV addicts a short for Duncan McLeod, so what? Who's to define what words mean if it's not the people who use them?
I mean look at the French: they have something called the "French academy" that makes up a bunch of words willy-nilly every year, after much discussion, to be added to the "official" french language, but without consulting the potential users (the French). Well guess what: most of these words aren't known, let alone used, with precious few exceptions.
So I say great: if grassroot efforts end up redefining the language, and help consolidate new words into the core language, and help create new words and expressions, I say fine. That's what defines a living language that people like and use.