'brown people', is that the current PC term or your own preference ?
In england when I grew up, 'brown' would be not ok, 'coloured' would have been ok though. 'coloured' does sound a bit past tense though, like something happend. pretty daft.
Here in Australia, the indiginous people are often called Black Fellas, i don't know if it causes offence though.
"Astrium also proposed an alternative landing strategy based on technology developed for the US space agency's Viking missions, which landed on Mars in the 1970s."
There's plenty of clueless Linux users out there, clueless Mac users, just plenty of clueless users....and why not, plenty of shit drivers, lazy workers, corrupt politicians, distorting media, etc.
This is not the future of telepresence. Plow the cash into better avatar modeling I say. If your not going to be there (wherever there is), why project images of yourself at all, just send an agent.
Gibson, Stevenson and Egan were on the right track regarding avatars.
It looks like Red Hat is already aware of the issue." According to Red Hat's page, "These emails tell users to download and run an update from a users home directory. This fake update appears to contain malicious code."
Either it is malicious or not. Don't they know ?
If it does; explain what it does and how to mitigate the damage. If it does not; let people know so emotional energy can be use elsewhere.
What the definition of 'malicious code' anyway ? Presumably any code you don't want running is malicious. Creating a temp file would be a malicious use of disk space, etc.
Why does tech always get hijacked by the military ?
This mobility platform would be totally useful for firefighting, aid distribution, disaster relief, surveying...i'm sure there are other non violent use.
How about connecting a number of them in series to form a n-wheel drive cross country train, which can split into smaller parts and recombine as nessesary ?
Winamp should not be described as Kept Simple. MS Media player 4 was simple.
The simple view of winamp, 'it plays media files' is no more valid than describing IE as 'it renders web pages'. Look at the winamp pluggin page, look at the preferences, options, the system tray, skins, etc. v3 was so awful, no one remembers it.
Antivirus companies are perplexed by a spate of recent viruses that contain messages in which the writers threaten to attack them.
I'm perplexed that they're perplexed.
How unimaginative of AV companies not to forsee this.
Really, being perplexed makes them look stupid, sack the PR people.
More likely the AV employee thought it would be cool.
When, oh when, will they start a using a more regulated nomenclature and taxonomy.
Even one similar to hurricaine names, (next name on predetermined list), would be better.
Perhaps just numbering them would take some of the fame and notoriety out of coding viruses.
This is laughable, these fools probably thought this up as they were goose stepping their children to church for special brain washing.
How is taking parenting responsibilty away from parents, going to help ?
Family First will work to achieve Government commitment to establish a Mandatory Filtering Scheme at the ISP Server Level in this country.
Server level ? wtf!
How this going to work if the server is not in Australia ?
Is Australia known for it's quality XXX sites or something ?
Whilst set up costs will be large at $45 million...
If they can cost this , they must have figured out a way to do it, I'm intrigued.
Admittedly this is no more stupid then any other political party making totally bogus claims about how much things will cost.
Especially project which won't work.
I'm glad lunatics like this have websites, at least we can see how fucking insane they are.
This lot should go and work for bush in the United Rouge States, or even here, for Howard.
Let's not forget the previous Minister for Communication, Mr Richard Alston, his view was broadband was mostly used to view porn and therefore the government should not help the rollout of that tech.
Does anyone know if this is just map/skin/audio/story update, has there been any significant development of the engine itself ?
Any multiplayer yet ?
The GTA series has been installed on my pc in one form or another since the top down sprite original, but both GTA3 and GTAVC both lacked the multiplayer feature.
Single player is the hor dourves to the multiplayer main course, imo.
Slashdot Mirror
"It also seems that for virtually every technology that comes out, DaVinci managed to invent it a long time ago."
For every technology that comes out, nature invented someting similar first. Allowing for interpretation that it.
"Where do you think Microsoft got the "inspiration" for Active Directory, among other things?"
x500 the same as Novell did.
I joke, NDS rocked, and possibly still does.
My memories of NDS Manager tell me MS Active Directory Users and Computer sucks.
'brown people', is that the current PC term or your own preference ?
In england when I grew up, 'brown' would be not ok, 'coloured' would have been ok though.
'coloured' does sound a bit past tense though, like something happend. pretty daft.
Here in Australia, the indiginous people are often called Black Fellas, i don't know if it causes offence though.
"Astrium also proposed an alternative landing strategy based on technology developed for the US space agency's Viking missions, which landed on Mars in the 1970s."
Why didn't they do this the first time ?
ffs, "viruses' not "virii".
b. Pl. viruses. An infectious organism that is usu. submicroscopic, can multiply only inside certain living host cells.
There's plenty of clueless Linux users out there, clueless Mac users, just plenty of clueless users.
Humans are inherently sub-optimal.
Tell me more about the tin opener.(can opener) Mine is shit. I want a classic retro one which will last.
The shuttle was a crap design and chosen for the wrong reasons. It never achived it's original goals, cheap reusable space travel.
pfft. sounds sophisticated. not.
Anyone else think 48 cameras seem like overkill ?
This is not the future of telepresence.
Plow the cash into better avatar modeling I say.
If your not going to be there (wherever there is), why project images of yourself at all, just send an agent.
Gibson, Stevenson and Egan were on the right track regarding avatars.
You probably won't see such misery with any properly configured system; Linux or Windows.
Nor middle australia.
Not always; often perhaps, but not always. Windows and Macs here. Happy researchers too. It depends on the science, imo.
Why is it, people jump up and down, wave and point, and strut around proudly when macs are used ?
They're just computers, niche ones at that.
As for crapping on about 32bit fpu and, oooh, 3.5gb ram, seriously, does anyone care ?
Either it is malicious or not.
Don't they know ?
If it does; explain what it does and how to mitigate the damage.
If it does not; let people know so emotional energy can be use elsewhere.
What the definition of 'malicious code' anyway ?
Presumably any code you don't want running is malicious.
Creating a temp file would be a malicious use of disk space, etc.
Why does tech always get hijacked by the military ?
This mobility platform would be totally useful for firefighting, aid distribution, disaster relief, surveying...i'm sure there are other non violent use.
How about connecting a number of them in series to form a n-wheel drive cross country train, which can split into smaller parts and recombine as nessesary ?
Winamp should not be described as Kept Simple.
MS Media player 4 was simple.
The simple view of winamp, 'it plays media files' is no more valid than describing IE as 'it renders web pages'.
Look at the winamp pluggin page, look at the preferences, options, the system tray, skins, etc.
v3 was so awful, no one remembers it.
How unimaginative of AV companies not to forsee this.
Really, being perplexed makes them look stupid, sack the PR people.
More likely the AV employee thought it would be cool. When, oh when, will they start a using a more regulated nomenclature and taxonomy. Even one similar to hurricaine names, (next name on predetermined list), would be better. Perhaps just numbering them would take some of the fame and notoriety out of coding viruses.
"unintended" pffft. keep up at the back.
Some cultures have even evolved a taste for dog meat. How clever we humans are.
Idle ? What that then ?
Does anyone know if this is just map/skin/audio/story update, has there been any significant development of the engine itself ? Any multiplayer yet ? The GTA series has been installed on my pc in one form or another since the top down sprite original, but both GTA3 and GTAVC both lacked the multiplayer feature. Single player is the hor dourves to the multiplayer main course, imo.