If there are any big studio executives who read/. regularly (and haven't hung themselves already from the groupthink), I bet they're thinking 'Damn, now I wish we had made Jurassic Park 4'.
Why wait? An active torrent tracker requires very little resources or bandwidth, and a well-coded page could even dynamically serve torrents with multiple redundant trackers, to distribute the load even more. The directory could be run in a wiki style, where initial seeders can describe the content they are adding to the network, and others can expand on that as Wikis go. All of this could easily be run on a couple small to mid range servers...no need for Google or Yahoo or some other potentially evil corporation to grab it. This is certainly community attainable. Why don't you pick up the ball?:)
I was hoping for an innovatively written cookbook for geeks (shell scripts to describe how to make a white sauce, that kinda thing). That would have made a fantastic gag gift.
Remember, its not illegal to have a monopoly, but it is illegal to abuse that position.
One of these days, some huge corporation will decide to seriously do exactly that (Microsoft suddenly pulling it's products out of Europe entirely, or Monsanto suddenly deciding not to sell herbicide to US farmers, for example), and that day, the balance of power will be shifted forever. If everyone woke up one day with a message on their PC that their Windows XP Home had been deactivated in response to an act by their government, that would also have tremendous political effect, particularly if an election were soon after.
We are way past the point where regulation can stop things, ultimately. We will get to the point where one of these huge companies will just say No, and the world will be changed forever.
Cute. Google's Help Center suggests that if GDS is conflicting with Panda AntiVirus, or NOD32, you should uninstall both and reinstall just GDS. I wonder if their responsible for the loss of virus protection you could suffer as a result of their well-meaning advice?
Search on Windows security exploits and display the results and oh... darn I hope this gets submitted because my browser crashed when all the results came back.
Let me guess, you ran the search in Internet Explorer?
However, Enterprise is horrible... Voyager was bad... but Enterprise is REALLY bad.
That's totally a matter of taste. You don't care for the show. Obviously the donors do. No one is putting a gun to your head and telling you to donate to help save a show you don't like. You have the right to spend your money how you choose, and so do they.
Abandon the scot bacula, the country western intro, the nearly all-white and all-western crap of a show theyve created, and return to what star trek was supposed to be.
Who decides what Star Trek is supposed to be? Gene Roddenberry created it back in the 60's, but he's been dead for over ten years now. It is no longer his, and the rotting hunk of flesh in the graveyard doesn't care about Trek in the least. The people who decide are the viewers and the fans. They vote with their remote controls and their dollars. I agree with the losing the theme, but it's only what, 60 seconds? Mute your TV, the visuals still look good. As for the all-white, all-western, I take it you didn't see Malcolm (white but not Western), Travis (not white at all, although I can understand why you might have missed him), Hoshi (also not white), and several speaking roles by Hispanic and Asian MACOs in season 3 (Daniel Dae Kim was one, in 'The Xindi'). There's also the Denobulan doctor and the Vulcan woman, who, while played by white actors, are not realy white chracters. Racial integration and acceptance doesn't mean every company should have a member of every type and colour and race of humanity involved, it means a world where colour is no longer a consideration. I think Enterprise and Star Trek have done a wonderful job in portraying this kind of future. No one in the show ever said a thing about Tuvok being a black Vulcan, and there's never been (to my knowledge) any distinction between racialness portaryed on Enterprise. They are all just humans (except the aliens, of course).
Anyways, your opinion on the quality of the show is immaterial. These people like it enough to pay big dollars to see it. They have the right to do that, just as you have the right not to.
ok, so they have $50k in hand and $3mil pledged already. It's not even march yet. i'd be taking that money to networks, and saying here, we'll buy all the ad time in this slot, at the same or better as what it currently is, if they air Enterprise in it. Who wants to pass on a sale the gives you market value or better for what you're selling, plus involves no real work on your part? The ad time could either be filled with more show, or re-sold by the fans collective to companies. The success of the campaign would generate enough media attention to well-publicize the shows new home, and everyone wins.
Proper motivation helps, too, like a visit from the boss 'encouraging' said end-user to pay better attention to you, particularly if said person likes their job. I don't have to teachs the boss (most of the time), cuz he hired me for the job and trust in my abilities to do it. A lot of times, if the problem is the users not being interested in learning, it can be simple to motivate them by reminding them it isn't an option whether or not to learn this, and that the onus is upon themserlves to make sure they keep up with the necessary skills needed to avoid problems whenever the next round of layoffs come.
I agree with you, to a point, but I'm still convinced the most effective security measure an IT admin can implement is education. I took half an hour, and sat down with each employee who had computer access in the office, and explained to them how viruses and bad things work, and the basics on how to avoid them. After doing that, I take 20 mins every couple weeks and write a little Tips bulletin I circulate internally, generally cntaining security tidbits, heads-up, and other goodies. Not everyone reads it, but enough people do (and tell their co-workers) that we've been able to dramatically reduce the number of times our systems have been compromised.
Contrary to popular opinion, Corporate admins aren't the only people who worry about security.
Thank goodness for that. My most recent corporate admin sent me a lovely email about how we didn't need a firewall on our network, as we had FireFox, and apparently, that has one built in.
The down side is that the daily cost of the little strips that go into the machine can cost up to four dollars a day.
Now that is truly sickening. I mean, we can all just stop printing and shaving, and we're going to live (somewhat shaggy, frantically reading electronic print, but alive nonetheless). Maybe I'm weird, but I don't think health care companies, that provide a necessary product for the continuation of someone's life, should be gaming their customers. But, being more regulated already than almost any other industry, health care can probably get away with it:(
My local drugstore has generic blades designed to fit Gillette Sensor and Mach 3 razors. They're only about 50 cents cheaper than the Gillette ones. I think people have been so thoroughly duped by this game, they think that inflated margin is right. The real winners here is Life Brand, selling 8 packs of 'Mach 3 Compatible' blades for $14.99, without having had to lose the initial price of the razor shaft.
I have a friend who has great difficulty moving, due to his post-polio. I set him up with an old DOS version of Risk and some speech recognition software along the lines of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. He loves playing it from his couch. He moves the mouse around verbally, and the game waits for him, so it doesn't mind if it takes a while. Plus, it's his favourite.
as I understand it, head mouse selections are made by hovering on the spot you want to select for a second. You configure it to read a pause of a certain length over an active spot to be a "click."
I've never used one, either, although I used to work with some disabled people who'd learned some pretty creative ways to get around a computer.
I wonder if the headmouse could be set up with different profiles, depending on what you were doing. I have something similar for my bideo card, where I can set certain icons to have different video properties than other icons give. Perhaps the mouse could somehow be set to a much lower response time when used in Counter-Strike, say. Assuming the person has the ability to click separately (biting?), I think you could probably hack out a pretty amazing setup, assuming you could somehow have it automatically switch back profiles when the game was over.
Hmm. Are all the CS freaks going to go out and hack headmice now?
I don't think they will ever sell shows for that cheap because DVD sales are becoming very popular for TV. Why would you pay 30 dollars for season 2 of family guy when you could download the whole season for 5 bucks?
If the studios really had some vision, they'd add online distribution to the regular broadcast cycle. I'd love to download Enterprise torrents on Paramount-hosted trackers with a couple high-bandwidth Paramount servers to start seeding it, with say, a few commercials in the show, international ad space sold directly by Paramount. If the quality of the torrent was say, VCD, or something approximating TV quality, there'd still be a market for the DVDs the following year, in order to get a higher quality picture and 5.1 sound. I don't own a TV, so the ad space UPN does sell doesn't get to me. They could command more money for fewer ads, as the distribution level is so much farther-reaching. And the infrastructure already exists to implement it!? I don't see why the television industry doesn't embrace torrent. Studios could bypass networks entirely, sell their pilots directly to advertisers, and distribute almost for free via torrent. Even the average leecher would go for a sanctioned torrent, if it was an hour earlier than the rippers releases, even if it had a few commercials.
I always thought it'd be neat to set up the sound system with motion detectors, so the sound can follow you (I know, that's been done already), and potentially, connecting several in the main media rooms to trangulate your position and optimize the position of the speakers with little pivot motors to give optimal surround sound for movies and other media. Shouldn't be all that hard to wire up the motion detectors together to figure out where you are in the room...
If this guy can describe the methods he uses to perform his math skills, I wonder if they could be used somehow in a curriculum for small children. If they can learn languages as easily as they do (they pick up that first language pretty fast, compared to any adult learning a second), a new way of perceiving numbers shouldn't be so hard to pick up. Perhaps this is the beginning of a new generation where everyone has access to those kind of skills that those of us taught and stuck in traditional methods and paradigms can't even comprehend.
My goodness, what is good enough for you? The fact that he can do this, despite the fact he can't tell right from left, is the story. He's not the latest new processor or kernel, he's a human being with a severe disability. For a lot of disabled people, standing upright is an amazing feat (and for many it's beyond them). As a person who suffers from a severe mental disability myself, I am darn impressed.
Not for his abilities, but for the beautiful, peaceful-sounding world he lives in. To most of us, numbers are either an obstacle or a challenge or work or whatever. To him they're his friends. That's so unique. I envy him.
Won't this just make that 97% obsolete, and open up the market for the 3% that still work? There's more people writing and contributing to code to break these things then they could ever pay to create them. It's no different than when RCE was brought about. People will find another way around and use it. 97% effective might as well be zero, when it comes to this kind of use.
If you want to be 'in the loop', a good way to do that is through community tax preparation volunteering. I don't know how other countries do it, but in Canada, i just said I was interested, they gave me a free intensive course on tax preparation, and I learned all the nifty loopholes. The only string was I spent a few Saturday afternoons doing tax returns for disadvantaged/low-income people (who generally have very easy returns, often taking under 10 minutes to fully complete and netfile). The advantage of this approach is, you get the free tax training, straight from the horses mouth, and you get to help in your community a bit. I only did it the one year, mostly for the training to use on my own taxes, but it was an invaluable experience.
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Now when can we get Windows XP Reduced Internet Explorer edition?
As soon as they released Windows XP Open-Source Edition (first Tuesday after never)
If there are any big studio executives who read /. regularly (and haven't hung themselves already from the groupthink), I bet they're thinking 'Damn, now I wish we had made Jurassic Park 4'.
Why wait? An active torrent tracker requires very little resources or bandwidth, and a well-coded page could even dynamically serve torrents with multiple redundant trackers, to distribute the load even more. The directory could be run in a wiki style, where initial seeders can describe the content they are adding to the network, and others can expand on that as Wikis go. All of this could easily be run on a couple small to mid range servers...no need for Google or Yahoo or some other potentially evil corporation to grab it. This is certainly community attainable. Why don't you pick up the ball? :)
I was hoping for an innovatively written cookbook for geeks (shell scripts to describe how to make a white sauce, that kinda thing). That would have made a fantastic gag gift.
Remember, its not illegal to have a monopoly, but it is illegal to abuse that position.
One of these days, some huge corporation will decide to seriously do exactly that (Microsoft suddenly pulling it's products out of Europe entirely, or Monsanto suddenly deciding not to sell herbicide to US farmers, for example), and that day, the balance of power will be shifted forever. If everyone woke up one day with a message on their PC that their Windows XP Home had been deactivated in response to an act by their government, that would also have tremendous political effect, particularly if an election were soon after.
We are way past the point where regulation can stop things, ultimately. We will get to the point where one of these huge companies will just say No, and the world will be changed forever.
Cute. Google's Help Center suggests that if GDS is conflicting with Panda AntiVirus, or NOD32, you should uninstall both and reinstall just GDS. I wonder if their responsible for the loss of virus protection you could suffer as a result of their well-meaning advice?
Search on Windows security exploits and display the results and oh ... darn I hope this gets submitted because my browser crashed when all the results came back.
Let me guess, you ran the search in Internet Explorer?
However, Enterprise is horrible... Voyager was bad... but Enterprise is REALLY bad.
That's totally a matter of taste. You don't care for the show. Obviously the donors do. No one is putting a gun to your head and telling you to donate to help save a show you don't like. You have the right to spend your money how you choose, and so do they.
Abandon the scot bacula, the country western intro, the nearly all-white and all-western crap of a show theyve created, and return to what star trek was supposed to be.
Who decides what Star Trek is supposed to be? Gene Roddenberry created it back in the 60's, but he's been dead for over ten years now. It is no longer his, and the rotting hunk of flesh in the graveyard doesn't care about Trek in the least. The people who decide are the viewers and the fans. They vote with their remote controls and their dollars. I agree with the losing the theme, but it's only what, 60 seconds? Mute your TV, the visuals still look good. As for the all-white, all-western, I take it you didn't see Malcolm (white but not Western), Travis (not white at all, although I can understand why you might have missed him), Hoshi (also not white), and several speaking roles by Hispanic and Asian MACOs in season 3 (Daniel Dae Kim was one, in 'The Xindi'). There's also the Denobulan doctor and the Vulcan woman, who, while played by white actors, are not realy white chracters. Racial integration and acceptance doesn't mean every company should have a member of every type and colour and race of humanity involved, it means a world where colour is no longer a consideration. I think Enterprise and Star Trek have done a wonderful job in portraying this kind of future. No one in the show ever said a thing about Tuvok being a black Vulcan, and there's never been (to my knowledge) any distinction between racialness portaryed on Enterprise. They are all just humans (except the aliens, of course).
Anyways, your opinion on the quality of the show is immaterial. These people like it enough to pay big dollars to see it. They have the right to do that, just as you have the right not to.
ok, so they have $50k in hand and $3mil pledged already. It's not even march yet. i'd be taking that money to networks, and saying here, we'll buy all the ad time in this slot, at the same or better as what it currently is, if they air Enterprise in it. Who wants to pass on a sale the gives you market value or better for what you're selling, plus involves no real work on your part? The ad time could either be filled with more show, or re-sold by the fans collective to companies. The success of the campaign would generate enough media attention to well-publicize the shows new home, and everyone wins.
It takes two to teach though.. one has to learn !
Proper motivation helps, too, like a visit from the boss 'encouraging' said end-user to pay better attention to you, particularly if said person likes their job. I don't have to teachs the boss (most of the time), cuz he hired me for the job and trust in my abilities to do it. A lot of times, if the problem is the users not being interested in learning, it can be simple to motivate them by reminding them it isn't an option whether or not to learn this, and that the onus is upon themserlves to make sure they keep up with the necessary skills needed to avoid problems whenever the next round of layoffs come.
I agree with you, to a point, but I'm still convinced the most effective security measure an IT admin can implement is education. I took half an hour, and sat down with each employee who had computer access in the office, and explained to them how viruses and bad things work, and the basics on how to avoid them. After doing that, I take 20 mins every couple weeks and write a little Tips bulletin I circulate internally, generally cntaining security tidbits, heads-up, and other goodies. Not everyone reads it, but enough people do (and tell their co-workers) that we've been able to dramatically reduce the number of times our systems have been compromised.
Contrary to popular opinion, Corporate admins aren't the only people who worry about security.
Thank goodness for that. My most recent corporate admin sent me a lovely email about how we didn't need a firewall on our network, as we had FireFox, and apparently, that has one built in.
The down side is that the daily cost of the little strips that go into the machine can cost up to four dollars a day.
:(
Now that is truly sickening. I mean, we can all just stop printing and shaving, and we're going to live (somewhat shaggy, frantically reading electronic print, but alive nonetheless). Maybe I'm weird, but I don't think health care companies, that provide a necessary product for the continuation of someone's life, should be gaming their customers. But, being more regulated already than almost any other industry, health care can probably get away with it
My local drugstore has generic blades designed to fit Gillette Sensor and Mach 3 razors. They're only about 50 cents cheaper than the Gillette ones. I think people have been so thoroughly duped by this game, they think that inflated margin is right. The real winners here is Life Brand, selling 8 packs of 'Mach 3 Compatible' blades for $14.99, without having had to lose the initial price of the razor shaft.
I have a friend who has great difficulty moving, due to his post-polio. I set him up with an old DOS version of Risk and some speech recognition software along the lines of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. He loves playing it from his couch. He moves the mouse around verbally, and the game waits for him, so it doesn't mind if it takes a while. Plus, it's his favourite.
as I understand it, head mouse selections are made by hovering on the spot you want to select for a second. You configure it to read a pause of a certain length over an active spot to be a "click."
I've never used one, either, although I used to work with some disabled people who'd learned some pretty creative ways to get around a computer.
I wonder if the headmouse could be set up with different profiles, depending on what you were doing. I have something similar for my bideo card, where I can set certain icons to have different video properties than other icons give. Perhaps the mouse could somehow be set to a much lower response time when used in Counter-Strike, say. Assuming the person has the ability to click separately (biting?), I think you could probably hack out a pretty amazing setup, assuming you could somehow have it automatically switch back profiles when the game was over.
Hmm. Are all the CS freaks going to go out and hack headmice now?
I don't think they will ever sell shows for that cheap because DVD sales are becoming very popular for TV. Why would you pay 30 dollars for season 2 of family guy when you could download the whole season for 5 bucks?
If the studios really had some vision, they'd add online distribution to the regular broadcast cycle. I'd love to download Enterprise torrents on Paramount-hosted trackers with a couple high-bandwidth Paramount servers to start seeding it, with say, a few commercials in the show, international ad space sold directly by Paramount. If the quality of the torrent was say, VCD, or something approximating TV quality, there'd still be a market for the DVDs the following year, in order to get a higher quality picture and 5.1 sound. I don't own a TV, so the ad space UPN does sell doesn't get to me. They could command more money for fewer ads, as the distribution level is so much farther-reaching. And the infrastructure already exists to implement it!? I don't see why the television industry doesn't embrace torrent. Studios could bypass networks entirely, sell their pilots directly to advertisers, and distribute almost for free via torrent. Even the average leecher would go for a sanctioned torrent, if it was an hour earlier than the rippers releases, even if it had a few commercials.
I always thought it'd be neat to set up the sound system with motion detectors, so the sound can follow you (I know, that's been done already), and potentially, connecting several in the main media rooms to trangulate your position and optimize the position of the speakers with little pivot motors to give optimal surround sound for movies and other media. Shouldn't be all that hard to wire up the motion detectors together to figure out where you are in the room...
If this guy can describe the methods he uses to perform his math skills, I wonder if they could be used somehow in a curriculum for small children. If they can learn languages as easily as they do (they pick up that first language pretty fast, compared to any adult learning a second), a new way of perceiving numbers shouldn't be so hard to pick up. Perhaps this is the beginning of a new generation where everyone has access to those kind of skills that those of us taught and stuck in traditional methods and paradigms can't even comprehend.
My goodness, what is good enough for you? The fact that he can do this, despite the fact he can't tell right from left, is the story. He's not the latest new processor or kernel, he's a human being with a severe disability. For a lot of disabled people, standing upright is an amazing feat (and for many it's beyond them). As a person who suffers from a severe mental disability myself, I am darn impressed.
Not for his abilities, but for the beautiful, peaceful-sounding world he lives in. To most of us, numbers are either an obstacle or a challenge or work or whatever. To him they're his friends. That's so unique. I envy him.
I'll take Oregon over Mumbai, India. At least they're staying domestic.
Won't this just make that 97% obsolete, and open up the market for the 3% that still work? There's more people writing and contributing to code to break these things then they could ever pay to create them. It's no different than when RCE was brought about. People will find another way around and use it. 97% effective might as well be zero, when it comes to this kind of use.
If you want to be 'in the loop', a good way to do that is through community tax preparation volunteering. I don't know how other countries do it, but in Canada, i just said I was interested, they gave me a free intensive course on tax preparation, and I learned all the nifty loopholes. The only string was I spent a few Saturday afternoons doing tax returns for disadvantaged/low-income people (who generally have very easy returns, often taking under 10 minutes to fully complete and netfile). The advantage of this approach is, you get the free tax training, straight from the horses mouth, and you get to help in your community a bit. I only did it the one year, mostly for the training to use on my own taxes, but it was an invaluable experience.
I have a second one. Contact me if you're interested in working out a deal. I can provide screenshots to show it's legit.