I don't think that this is just student movies, but rather all independant movies. More and more I've been seeing independant films- and they look good, and are actually good movies. A programmer friend of mine in Santa Barbera even had his hobby/independant film play in a theatre. I'm happy that finally you don't need a giant budget to produce a nice film.
This is seriously the most depressing news ever, for a kid in high school aspiring to go into the IT field. However, there remains a glimmer of hope: the department of defense and it's contract companies. They will never be outsourced, for national security reasons. So, if I'm good enough, at least I could get a job programming missile systems.
Of course, if I'm that good, then I wouldn't have to worry about not getting a job elsewhere, would I?
I have to say, I'm pretty disappointed in Google making a "local" version of their news feeder for China. It's not local news, it's censored news. That doesn't sound like the Google I know and love.
One of the links in the article points to the Open Source Developers Conference- that seems more interesting than the article, in my opinion. Yeah, it's an interesting interview, and yeah, Damian's a cool guy, but it's nothing out of the ordinary. But OSDC... that looks pretty cool.
What's the count of high-level government offices that have resigned in the past two months? It should be getting pretty high, I'd say. I said before that some voters might have hindsight about the rest of the government's attitude for working under Bush... now I wonder if Bush himself is wondering what the hell is going on?
To play Devil's advocate, though, all of the positions that have resigned have been high-stress positions, and many of them didn't plan to work a second term anyway. Who knows.
The future of journalism never was and never will be blogs. Blogs are often totally biased and opinionated, but unlike trained journalists, bloggers have no reason to stick to a strict code of ethics and objective "reporting". Sure, Blogs might be a great way to keep in touch, and even a great way to make a stand about something you believe in... but not the future of serious journalism. However, with RSS feeds and such, having an RSS "blog" of news stories may very well become more prevalent.
Not that I don't love blog-based news systems (<3 Slashdot).
You think because AV finds nothing, your box is clean? Not necessarily. If you're rooted, you're rooted, and you'll never know unless you boot from trusted media. Once your box is not your own, the OS will never tell you the truth again.
Using a router to check bandwidth usage or even a firewall or rrdtools-type system of graph would show if an external user is using your box.
This makes a lot of sense. Not only because as the first poster says does the person have to think, but they're not just thinking up information, they also must connect that information with a logical and sensical situation. So, if I were to lie to my teacher about my math homework, the truth would take little to no activity (didn't do it), a nonsensical lie would take a little thinking (the moon is green), but a logical lie requires an entire story to back it up (well, my dog was hungry cause he didn't have dinner so he decided to eat it, and...). Makes sense to me.
I don't quite understand what the debate is. Even if the mission fails and billions of dollars are "wasted", it will not all be in vain. Using robotics like this are exploring a new frontier of space exploration. The first few manned shuttle orbits weren't risky? Of course they are! The Columbia accident proves that they still are today. Money is valuable, but exploring new scientific frontiers is much more valuable.
I don't know about you, but when I want a LAN party with my friends but don't actually want to have to coordinate and set up a LAN party, I go to "cyberstores", where you pay maybe $3/hour for a pretty decent computer all hooked up and ready to play games.
Well, hell- if you can get an Alienware all LANned up (don't even get me started on the crazy screens) for only $5/hour, these little LAN businesses will surely die.
Not that I don't support these warehouses, where I will surely blow hundreds of dollars.
I don't think that it's motion sickness or other such stuff in the game. I think it's the graphics.
And no, I'm not kidding or being sarcastic at all. When I play the game, I often get nausious looking at the overly-realistic monsters (such as those nasty things on the ceiling). Last night it got so bad that I literally had to quit the game and lie down. Playing Half-Life 2 doesn't make me sick cause of motion sickness; I don't get motion sick- it's the graphics.
The idea is that they already know who you are, but when normally you could say "I didn't print that! I swear under oath!", they can now go into your house and say "you damn well did".
It was under 6 months ago that I bought a Game Boy Advance SP... why would they release the SP if their new system is coming out so soon? Oh well, I'm sure there will still be games coming out for the GBA.
Unchecked in the sense that the maintainer of the site doesn't know who is shooting the gun. Yeah, it's not gonna go crazy and on a rampage, but some kid could go crazy and shoot everything in site (lots and lots of animals), etc. Pretty cruel.
The first thing that I thought when I read this was that 8 year old kids are going to use their parents credit cards and kill hundreds of deer just like a video game. This has the potential to run unchecked, due to the anonymity of the internet... I don't like it.
I'm listening to WinAmp right now (v5). Had I known that it was dead, I would have been pretty sad. Going to WinAmp.com every now and then, I never noticed their "death"- kind of odd that the first thing I hear about it is Slashdot telling me not to worry.
Actually, I did RTFA, I was just thinking along the lines of what others said (bundling it on DVDs unknown to the user). Think before you flame, thanks...:\
I sure hope he's not dead, cause I'm in the same boat as you- a lone programmer, trying to make a name for himself working in the big, bad world of code. I think that the lone coder still does exist.. look at the commercial implications of a good idea (like BitTorrent) for example. As long as individuals continue to have great ideas, there will be great "lone coders".
"The MPAA said it would also make available a computer program that sniffs out movie and music files on a user's computer as well as any installed file sharing programs. The MPAA said the information detected by the free program would not be shared with it or any other body, but could be used to remove any 'infringing movies or music files' and remove file sharing programs."
Sounds like a trojan/sniffer, and last I checked it's sort of illegal to use one of those. I know that this is used to actually stop illegal activity, but isn't it illegal to do that without the users' permission?
- dshaw
PS: Do you guys think that these suits will be settled out of court, or will the MPAA have to actually fight them out?
Furthermore, heavy computer users were found to be 81% more likely to develop glaucoma.
One word: shit. I use my computer for 8-12 hours every day, with a 60hz CRT monitor. If that isn't "heavy usage", I'm not sure what is. I already have glasses... man, I hope I don't get glaucoma.
And as for the point of this post... are any of you slashdotters going to cut down on computer usage due to this announcement, or is this news just poking the bull with a steel rod?
Seems a little optimistic to me, but it is better than predictions the other way!
I actually believe that this prediction will be accurate. What with the new Novell Linux Desktop, and open source getting headlines as it is (Solaris 10, for example), I don't think that this goal is so out of reach. Not to mention, I seem to recall a lot of naysayers about Firefox gaining popularity over Internet Explorer... and look how that turned out!:)
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I don't think that this is just student movies, but rather all independant movies. More and more I've been seeing independant films- and they look good, and are actually good movies. A programmer friend of mine in Santa Barbera even had his hobby/independant film play in a theatre. I'm happy that finally you don't need a giant budget to produce a nice film.
- dshaw
This is seriously the most depressing news ever, for a kid in high school aspiring to go into the IT field. However, there remains a glimmer of hope: the department of defense and it's contract companies. They will never be outsourced, for national security reasons. So, if I'm good enough, at least I could get a job programming missile systems.
Of course, if I'm that good, then I wouldn't have to worry about not getting a job elsewhere, would I?
- dshaw
It doesn't, I don't believe; I've seen news.google links to Al-Jazeera multiple times.
- dshaw
I have to say, I'm pretty disappointed in Google making a "local" version of their news feeder for China. It's not local news, it's censored news. That doesn't sound like the Google I know and love.
- dshaw
One of the links in the article points to the Open Source Developers Conference- that seems more interesting than the article, in my opinion. Yeah, it's an interesting interview, and yeah, Damian's a cool guy, but it's nothing out of the ordinary. But OSDC... that looks pretty cool.
- dshaw
What's the count of high-level government offices that have resigned in the past two months? It should be getting pretty high, I'd say. I said before that some voters might have hindsight about the rest of the government's attitude for working under Bush... now I wonder if Bush himself is wondering what the hell is going on?
To play Devil's advocate, though, all of the positions that have resigned have been high-stress positions, and many of them didn't plan to work a second term anyway. Who knows.
- dshaw
The future of journalism never was and never will be blogs. Blogs are often totally biased and opinionated, but unlike trained journalists, bloggers have no reason to stick to a strict code of ethics and objective "reporting". Sure, Blogs might be a great way to keep in touch, and even a great way to make a stand about something you believe in... but not the future of serious journalism. However, with RSS feeds and such, having an RSS "blog" of news stories may very well become more prevalent.
Not that I don't love blog-based news systems (<3 Slashdot).
- dshaw
You think because AV finds nothing, your box is clean? Not necessarily. If you're rooted, you're rooted, and you'll never know unless you boot from trusted media. Once your box is not your own, the OS will never tell you the truth again.
Using a router to check bandwidth usage or even a firewall or rrdtools-type system of graph would show if an external user is using your box.
- dshaw
This makes a lot of sense. Not only because as the first poster says does the person have to think, but they're not just thinking up information, they also must connect that information with a logical and sensical situation. So, if I were to lie to my teacher about my math homework, the truth would take little to no activity (didn't do it), a nonsensical lie would take a little thinking (the moon is green), but a logical lie requires an entire story to back it up (well, my dog was hungry cause he didn't have dinner so he decided to eat it, and...). Makes sense to me.
- dshaw
Comparing WoW to the legendary DnD is like comparing ...
Nethack to Diablo?
- dshaw
I don't quite understand what the debate is. Even if the mission fails and billions of dollars are "wasted", it will not all be in vain. Using robotics like this are exploring a new frontier of space exploration. The first few manned shuttle orbits weren't risky? Of course they are! The Columbia accident proves that they still are today. Money is valuable, but exploring new scientific frontiers is much more valuable.
- dshaw
Has anyone tried this stunt in Halo (1)? Maybe it works there too... I'll have to pull out my XBox and give it a try.
- dshaw
I don't know about you, but when I want a LAN party with my friends but don't actually want to have to coordinate and set up a LAN party, I go to "cyberstores", where you pay maybe $3/hour for a pretty decent computer all hooked up and ready to play games.
Well, hell- if you can get an Alienware all LANned up (don't even get me started on the crazy screens) for only $5/hour, these little LAN businesses will surely die.
Not that I don't support these warehouses, where I will surely blow hundreds of dollars.
- dshaw
I don't think that it's motion sickness or other such stuff in the game. I think it's the graphics.
And no, I'm not kidding or being sarcastic at all. When I play the game, I often get nausious looking at the overly-realistic monsters (such as those nasty things on the ceiling). Last night it got so bad that I literally had to quit the game and lie down. Playing Half-Life 2 doesn't make me sick cause of motion sickness; I don't get motion sick- it's the graphics.
- dshaw
"Here, mom, boot from this cd"
"Silly, no, it's a cd from this stocking!"
- dshaw
The idea is that they already know who you are, but when normally you could say "I didn't print that! I swear under oath!", they can now go into your house and say "you damn well did".
- dshaw
It was under 6 months ago that I bought a Game Boy Advance SP... why would they release the SP if their new system is coming out so soon? Oh well, I'm sure there will still be games coming out for the GBA.
I hope.
- dshaw
Unchecked in the sense that the maintainer of the site doesn't know who is shooting the gun. Yeah, it's not gonna go crazy and on a rampage, but some kid could go crazy and shoot everything in site (lots and lots of animals), etc. Pretty cruel.
- dshaw
The first thing that I thought when I read this was that 8 year old kids are going to use their parents credit cards and kill hundreds of deer just like a video game. This has the potential to run unchecked, due to the anonymity of the internet... I don't like it.
-dshaw
I'm listening to WinAmp right now (v5). Had I known that it was dead, I would have been pretty sad. Going to WinAmp.com every now and then, I never noticed their "death"- kind of odd that the first thing I hear about it is Slashdot telling me not to worry.
- dshaw
Actually, I did RTFA, I was just thinking along the lines of what others said (bundling it on DVDs unknown to the user). Think before you flame, thanks... :\
- dshaw
I sure hope he's not dead, cause I'm in the same boat as you- a lone programmer, trying to make a name for himself working in the big, bad world of code. I think that the lone coder still does exist.. look at the commercial implications of a good idea (like BitTorrent) for example. As long as individuals continue to have great ideas, there will be great "lone coders".
- dshaw
"The MPAA said it would also make available a computer program that sniffs out movie and music files on a user's computer as well as any installed file sharing programs. The MPAA said the information detected by the free program would not be shared with it or any other body, but could be used to remove any 'infringing movies or music files' and remove file sharing programs."
Sounds like a trojan/sniffer, and last I checked it's sort of illegal to use one of those. I know that this is used to actually stop illegal activity, but isn't it illegal to do that without the users' permission?
- dshaw
PS: Do you guys think that these suits will be settled out of court, or will the MPAA have to actually fight them out?
Furthermore, heavy computer users were found to be 81% more likely to develop glaucoma.
One word: shit. I use my computer for 8-12 hours every day, with a 60hz CRT monitor. If that isn't "heavy usage", I'm not sure what is. I already have glasses... man, I hope I don't get glaucoma.
And as for the point of this post... are any of you slashdotters going to cut down on computer usage due to this announcement, or is this news just poking the bull with a steel rod?
- dshaw
Seems a little optimistic to me, but it is better than predictions the other way!
:)
I actually believe that this prediction will be accurate. What with the new Novell Linux Desktop, and open source getting headlines as it is (Solaris 10, for example), I don't think that this goal is so out of reach. Not to mention, I seem to recall a lot of naysayers about Firefox gaining popularity over Internet Explorer... and look how that turned out!
- dshaw