(I have no idea whether CopyBot is involved in this particular case, but it's relevent to the idea that no unauthorised copying could ever happen.) CopyBot could copy the shapes of in-world objects and the textures applied to them, based on the 3D rendering info received on the clientside. Scripts embedded in the objects run server-side, and are not copyable with CopyBot. So, if you use CopyBot on one of laughing-boy's sex animation beds, all you'd get was a bed that looked the same but doesn't actualy work.
An applicable analogy would this discussion page. You can't see or change the server-side scripts running Slashdot.org, but you could conceivably save the HTML and images, and use them to post a static, cosmetic duplicate that doesn't actually work as the original did.
but its creators imagine it could be used in devices such as pacemakers, where the beating of the heart would produce ample movement to power the magnetic mechanism. Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the heart-powered pacemaker! From the same geniuses that brought you solar-powered flashlights, pedal-powered crutches, and a voice-controlled version of Stephen Hawking's talk box.
An analog duplicate would, presumably, be something that copied the look and feel of his product based on someone looking at how it behaved on screen and programming something similar themselves, instead of actually coping his code. Then it wouldn't be a duplicate, it'd be a similar item.
Saying "digital duplicates" is just a needlessly redundant, repetitive designation that unnecessarily says the same thing over and over without a good reason.
The articles that were being sold were digital duplicates. "Digital duplicates" indeed... what, you were expecting analog duplicates in a digital environment? This quote alone is enough to lose you a ton of sincerity points, and brings your entire understainding of the world in which you're doing business into question.. but it's just the sort of meaningless phrase you can wave around in front of an average technophobic judge to influence the verdict.
However this comes out, though, you win several billion Silly Points for the inevitable demonstrations of stilted, awkward 3D puppet-sex to a federal judge.
Isn't this one of the responsibilities artists have to the society that supports them? The only "responsibility" that enters into it is the responsibility of these particular artists to make something that sells books for the company they work for.
In general though, as an artist I can tell you with extreme confidence that I'm not responsible for a damn thing apart from getting whatever's in my head out onto the paper/disc/website/sculpture/performance/whatever. There is no set of artist rules that demand my work be socially responsible. I can do that if I wish, but I can just as easily sculpt a cute baby kitten with adorable kitten eyes, do a standup act about airline food and breaking up with my girlfriend, or build the ultimate ASCII-art version of Goatse.
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly... timey-wimey... stuff.
Actually, you have a point. The Kwik-E-Mart was a freaking parody of 7-11, takingthe piss out of all the cliche' complaints about it. The place is dirty, the food is made of dubious ingredients, the proprietor is a stereotype East Indian, it's a lousy place to work if you don't want to get shot, etc. Having the real thing embrace the name and image of the parody completely takes the wind out of the parody's sails. It's as if the real President Bush voiced the Bush parody in that "Little Bush" cartoon.
As novel as this whole handwriting angle is, doesn't this just amount to a multiple-choice test? There's always the off-chance of some random stranger getting in by sheer luck.
Additionally, that's not taking into account the massive amounts of ways someone could get samples of your handwriting. Besides the obvious garbage-picking, things like tax returns, property deeds, or other legal forms can often be public information, and there's a good chance you've written numbers on one at some point.
Thanks! Don't know how I missed that.. might have something to do with my complete inablility to pay any attention whatsoever to the world around me or anything in it.
over at Linux.com (which is owned, along with Slashdot, by Sourceforge). Does Slashdot (or Linux.com or Sourceforge for that matter) no longer welcome their OSTG overlords?
This is nothing new at all in the world of entertainment. People have been searching for interesting ways to connect the audience with the program beyond its time slot at least since the days of Little Orphan Annie's decoder ring.
A spokesman for the conference was unable to offer more information. "At their request, they are no longer presenting. That is all the info I have," said the spokesman, Nico Sell, in an e-mail.
Police and the phone company use the ANI system (Automatic Number Identification). This is the system that tracks your billing. You do not have any say in what this system records as far as Name, Number, etc. Unless, of course, you spoof that as well.
You would think so, but it turns out the Indian customers' tech support line will be answered by some underpaid guy in New York who speaks broken Hindi with a Brooklyn accent.
As a geek who may at some point become falsely accused, how much trust would you really put in a piece of flashy tech like that? Unless the device was completely open-source and peer reviewable, and every last scientific principle behind the neural activity what the machine reads were completely understood (they aren't by a long shot,) I wouldn't want that thing anywhere near me in a life-or-death court case deciding my future.
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I hit upon the idea of a chocolate bar dispenser, but replacing chocolate with cash.
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An applicable analogy would this discussion page. You can't see or change the server-side scripts running Slashdot.org, but you could conceivably save the HTML and images, and use them to post a static, cosmetic duplicate that doesn't actually work as the original did.
Saying "digital duplicates" is just a needlessly redundant, repetitive designation that unnecessarily says the same thing over and over without a good reason.
However this comes out, though, you win several billion Silly Points for the inevitable demonstrations of stilted, awkward 3D puppet-sex to a federal judge.
In general though, as an artist I can tell you with extreme confidence that I'm not responsible for a damn thing apart from getting whatever's in my head out onto the paper/disc/website/sculpture/performance/whatever
...but my Real American Hero is actually Mr. Giant Foam Finger Maker.
People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually, from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly... timey-wimey... stuff.
Actually, you have a point. The Kwik-E-Mart was a freaking parody of 7-11, takingthe piss out of all the cliche' complaints about it. The place is dirty, the food is made of dubious ingredients, the proprietor is a stereotype East Indian, it's a lousy place to work if you don't want to get shot, etc. Having the real thing embrace the name and image of the parody completely takes the wind out of the parody's sails. It's as if the real President Bush voiced the Bush parody in that "Little Bush" cartoon.
I haven't paid much attention to "The Simpsons" in years, but this makes me wonder if they haven't finally strapped on the leather jacket and waterskis.
As novel as this whole handwriting angle is, doesn't this just amount to a multiple-choice test? There's always the off-chance of some random stranger getting in by sheer luck.
Additionally, that's not taking into account the massive amounts of ways someone could get samples of your handwriting. Besides the obvious garbage-picking, things like tax returns, property deeds, or other legal forms can often be public information, and there's a good chance you've written numbers on one at some point.
Thanks! Don't know how I missed that.. might have something to do with my complete inablility to pay any attention whatsoever to the world around me or anything in it.
This is nothing new at all in the world of entertainment. People have been searching for interesting ways to connect the audience with the program beyond its time slot at least since the days of Little Orphan Annie's decoder ring.
You would think so, but it turns out the Indian customers' tech support line will be answered by some underpaid guy in New York who speaks broken Hindi with a Brooklyn accent.
So in another 3500 years, archeologists will dig up Flava Flav and assume he was a wise and great leader? *shudder*
And at Google the Hot Grits are FREE!!!
As a geek who may at some point become falsely accused, how much trust would you really put in a piece of flashy tech like that? Unless the device was completely open-source and peer reviewable, and every last scientific principle behind the neural activity what the machine reads were completely understood (they aren't by a long shot,) I wouldn't want that thing anywhere near me in a life-or-death court case deciding my future.
A Møøse once blogged my sister.
I heard that playing this videogame about political redistricting will affect any savegames of "Wall Street Kid" you may have going.
I guess that makes two of us, three if you count my sister. We grew up with an Atari VCS that had the ET cartridge in heavy rotation.