The thing I found interesting is they say in the article:
"More importantly, we have found that people forget she is an android while interacting with her. Consciously, it is easy to see that she is an android, but unconsciously, we react to the android as if she were a woman."
Sounds like they might have actually gotten past the Uncanny Valley, if people are knowing it's an android, yet accepting it. I would think this is because they are hitting the right cues that were being missed before!
I use Slackware and slapt-get and I run that periodically and get the latest versions. That's what the guys who run the distro do, mostly, check for updates, compile them, make sure they are upgrades not downgrades, then make them available.
So rather then Mozilla pushing their updates to the OSes, the people who maintain the OSes pull them.
IDDQD IDKFA IDDT IDSPISPOPD are the ones I remember. And as far as I am concerned, they are "classic". Any-one who played computers through the period of Doom and Doom 2 will know them.
I can confirm that Telstra here in Australia does that. Works out cheaper on a small plan then doing pre-paid. You can get a $10 a month plan, or you can pre-pay, minimum recharge $30, that doesn't last for more then 3 months, used or unusued. And you can get bonuses with the plans (free calls to certain numbers, that sort of thing).
$'s are AU Dollars, and we get ripped here, compared to other countries.
I'll second you on the free smilies. My wife, who is usually well trained enough to avoid the usual traps, just can't resist "100 free smilies for Yahoo Messenger".
Then wonders why they wont work in GAIM. So loads up real Yahoo just for the smilies, and has extra floating toolbars and what have you.
Funnily enough, it wasn't until a few weeks ago that she realised the buttons you can type in for a smiley actually look like the graphic, if you turn them sideways! She was so amazed...
I'd like to get in first with the obligatry bitch that "this isn't hacking! it's cracking!" post.
Actually, I would call this hacking. It's taking a system and going beyond it's original limitations, discovering what more it can do. Isn't that the driving force behind hacking?
Now, using it just to play pirate games is a different matter. That's taking a perfectly valid hack and using it as a crack, just to get around copy protections etc.
I think the reason why the "upgrades to the browser" won't be back-ported is because it's not the browser at all. It's the age-old problems with the OS at it's basic (design) level. But instead of saying "we are fixing flaws in XP", which sounds bad, since they have denied them since day 0, they are "fixing the browser", because every-one already knows it is flawed.
Club soda is carbonated, right? (So any softdrink would do).
Because of the carbon in the mix, the freezing temperature of club soda is lower then zero. So when you pour it, the less-then-zero temperature liquid hits water, dropping the water to less then zero, and freezing it. Additionally, as you pour, the carbon gas escapes, until the freezing point rises to match the current temperature, and bam, frozen liquid.
I'll have to try that when I get home, sounds really neat.
Something to consider is where the company creating this is based, as well as the people creating it. If they are not within the USA or one of the other countries that follow USA's lead, they may be very able to tell the RIAA/MPAA etc what they can do. Especially since, as some-one pointed out, they are approximately 3 steps away from any pirated content. In any country that isn't the USA (or one of its sycophants) this should be clear enough to a judge. As long as it gets to a judge, and isn't taken down by strong-arm tactics out of court.
One of the advances that would be a lot more likely once this is done is: Flying Cars.
The biggest complaint against flying automobiles is how every-one (and their dog) would be able to drive (fly) like a bat out of hell. Literally, in this case.
So, get autonomous driving working, get people used to it on the ground, then going airborne is just a next step.
That's a very interesting idea. I realise that a lot of people are very English orientated (I know I am!) and it would be very humbling to find out that our believed superiority was merely because we didn't look in the right places.
If this sends everything thats in memory when a program crashes, what happens when one of those hungry applications (3DS Max comes to mind) crashes, and your trying to upload a GB to Microsoft?
Maybe they only send the stack, not the heap, but even so, that could be rather large.
I was printing over CUPS within a very short amount of time, over ssh over the internet. This included setting up the driver for the printer on the remote machine (again, over ssh).
It really was, far as I could see, a case of knowing the IP and port of the destination printer (oh, and the model, which you need in Windows as well).
Assuming that HBO is some sort of cable channel or company, then a similar thing happened over here. Basically, the cable companies made a HUGE advertising campaign about how good cable (and the movie channels in particular) were because they didn't need ads, they made their money off subscription fees.
Fast forward to today. As many ads as free-to-air, although I think they still play movies in one piece... on the pay-extra movie channels.
In terms of ad-blocking, remember: They are generally paid per click, not per view, but sign-up for X views. If there was no chance you'd have clicked the ad, then they have lost nothing, and have not wasted a pre-paid impression. That said, I try and only adblock servers I don't like, and leave the ones I don't mind too much, rather then blocking them all indiscriminately. Especially if it's a good site that gives good content for free (such as many amateur web comics).
For reference: I'm Australia, referring to Optus/Austel/Foxtel, and I am not a customer (or consumer) of cable TV.
Actually, I know what you mean. And more importantly, the Mozilla Developers know what you mean. I'm surprised no-one else beat me to it, but it's a known bug, has been fixed in the Mozilla codebase, just after the point that Firefox 1.0.x branched.
The word is that it'll be fixed in Firefox 1.1, when they use updated Mozilla code (1.8).
The leak is pretty random. Some people never see it, some people are killed in hours by it. But just hold out for Ff 1.1, and it'll all be good (and there will no doubt be new bugs for people to complain about!)
Interestingly enough, my grand-father actually set up something like this. He was at the time living off the power grid, and running from solar charged truck batteries. Being the electronics guy he is, he went through most of his electronic devices and wired the 12V off the batteries directly into the devices, rather then stepping up to 240V (in Australia) only to be stepped down again. Of course, he is a trained professional, so he knew what he was doing. Not something I'd want to try myself.
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I use Slackware and slapt-get and I run that periodically and get the latest versions. That's what the guys who run the distro do, mostly, check for updates, compile them, make sure they are upgrades not downgrades, then make them available.
So rather then Mozilla pushing their updates to the OSes, the people who maintain the OSes pull them.
IDDQD IDKFA IDDT IDSPISPOPD are the ones I remember. And as far as I am concerned, they are "classic". Any-one who played computers through the period of Doom and Doom 2 will know them.
I can confirm that Telstra here in Australia does that. Works out cheaper on a small plan then doing pre-paid. You can get a $10 a month plan, or you can pre-pay, minimum recharge $30, that doesn't last for more then 3 months, used or unusued. And you can get bonuses with the plans (free calls to certain numbers, that sort of thing).
$'s are AU Dollars, and we get ripped here, compared to other countries.
5 years is way too short. Windows releases don't come out that fast!
Oh, you said essential infrastructure, we know -no-one- uses Windows machines where it matters...
I'll second you on the free smilies. My wife, who is usually well trained enough to avoid the usual traps, just can't resist "100 free smilies for Yahoo Messenger".
Then wonders why they wont work in GAIM. So loads up real Yahoo just for the smilies, and has extra floating toolbars and what have you.
Funnily enough, it wasn't until a few weeks ago that she realised the buttons you can type in for a smiley actually look like the graphic, if you turn them sideways! She was so amazed...
LOL
Excellent point.
Now, using it just to play pirate games is a different matter. That's taking a perfectly valid hack and using it as a crack, just to get around copy protections etc.
Oops. I really didn't mean to say that Nethack was a type of make-up!
I think the reason why the "upgrades to the browser" won't be back-ported is because it's not the browser at all. It's the age-old problems with the OS at it's basic (design) level. But instead of saying "we are fixing flaws in XP", which sounds bad, since they have denied them since day 0, they are "fixing the browser", because every-one already knows it is flawed.
Club soda is carbonated, right? (So any softdrink would do).
Because of the carbon in the mix, the freezing temperature of club soda is lower then zero. So when you pour it, the less-then-zero temperature liquid hits water, dropping the water to less then zero, and freezing it. Additionally, as you pour, the carbon gas escapes, until the freezing point rises to match the current temperature, and bam, frozen liquid.
I'll have to try that when I get home, sounds really neat.
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Something to consider is where the company creating this is based, as well as the people creating it. If they are not within the USA or one of the other countries that follow USA's lead, they may be very able to tell the RIAA/MPAA etc what they can do. Especially since, as some-one pointed out, they are approximately 3 steps away from any pirated content. In any country that isn't the USA (or one of its sycophants) this should be clear enough to a judge. As long as it gets to a judge, and isn't taken down by strong-arm tactics out of court.
One of the advances that would be a lot more likely once this is done is: Flying Cars.
The biggest complaint against flying automobiles is how every-one (and their dog) would be able to drive (fly) like a bat out of hell. Literally, in this case.
So, get autonomous driving working, get people used to it on the ground, then going airborne is just a next step.
As additional info, the .au site will cause the same thing. I suspect it's all localized sites.
Oh My... $DIETY really does have a sense of humour!
That's a very interesting idea. I realise that a lot of people are very English orientated (I know I am!) and it would be very humbling to find out that our believed superiority was merely because we didn't look in the right places.
If this sends everything thats in memory when a program crashes, what happens when one of those hungry applications (3DS Max comes to mind) crashes, and your trying to upload a GB to Microsoft?
Maybe they only send the stack, not the heap, but even so, that could be rather large.
I was printing over CUPS within a very short amount of time, over ssh over the internet. This included setting up the driver for the printer on the remote machine (again, over ssh).
It really was, far as I could see, a case of knowing the IP and port of the destination printer (oh, and the model, which you need in Windows as well).
Assuming that HBO is some sort of cable channel or company, then a similar thing happened over here. Basically, the cable companies made a HUGE advertising campaign about how good cable (and the movie channels in particular) were because they didn't need ads, they made their money off subscription fees.
Fast forward to today. As many ads as free-to-air, although I think they still play movies in one piece... on the pay-extra movie channels.
In terms of ad-blocking, remember: They are generally paid per click, not per view, but sign-up for X views. If there was no chance you'd have clicked the ad, then they have lost nothing, and have not wasted a pre-paid impression. That said, I try and only adblock servers I don't like, and leave the ones I don't mind too much, rather then blocking them all indiscriminately. Especially if it's a good site that gives good content for free (such as many amateur web comics).
For reference: I'm Australia, referring to Optus/Austel/Foxtel, and I am not a customer (or consumer) of cable TV.
Actually, I know what you mean. And more importantly, the Mozilla Developers know what you mean. I'm surprised no-one else beat me to it, but it's a known bug, has been fixed in the Mozilla codebase, just after the point that Firefox 1.0.x branched.
The word is that it'll be fixed in Firefox 1.1, when they use updated Mozilla code (1.8).
The leak is pretty random. Some people never see it, some people are killed in hours by it. But just hold out for Ff 1.1, and it'll all be good (and there will no doubt be new bugs for people to complain about!)
Interestingly enough, my grand-father actually set up something like this. He was at the time living off the power grid, and running from solar charged truck batteries. Being the electronics guy he is, he went through most of his electronic devices and wired the 12V off the batteries directly into the devices, rather then stepping up to 240V (in Australia) only to be stepped down again.
Of course, he is a trained professional, so he knew what he was doing. Not something I'd want to try myself.