I disagree with your argument.
Wearing a seatbelt prevents you from being flung about during an automobile crash. Refrigerating your food prevents bacterial growth. Studying helps you to recall knowledge. What all of these have in common is that they are preventing injury or failure against a non intelligent foe. Your test cannot adapt to your studying. Bacteria can not, likely, infect you if you choose to refrigerate your food. An obstacle hitting your car cannot correct for the fact that you are wearing a seatbelt and choose to do extra damage to you.
I would argue that until you have an idea of what or whom exactly people are targeting, it is a waste of money and time and energy to try and protect every possible target. I mean, while we are at it, lets add pat downs, screenings, and lie detectors, for every human interaction. It could be a terrorist I'm talking to! This is very much hyperbole, but I hope you can get the point.
You *cannot* protect yourself from an intelligent agent. So why inconvenience so many people?
And now? Work has started on a sequel to 2001's Monsters, Inc, another film that's proven to be a continual success for Pixar. There's no release date as of yet, but it's a fair assumption to expect it in 2012, which would make Pixar's next three big summer movies sequels.
So the article is assuming 3 years since the announcement of the project to completion and working that in with information already available for the other sequels and non-sequels alike. TFS however does seem to play a bit of the telephone game.
IANAA however it is my understanding that an object is categorized a meteor or asteroid based on its size and not its presence within our atmosphere. Lets check out what Wikipedia has to say on the matter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor
Larger than a meteoroid, the object is an asteroid; smaller than that, it is interplanetary dust.
And since this is an article dealing with NEOs...
The NEO definition includes larger objects, up to 50 m in diameter, to this category.
I have seen this floating around all day. Slashdot is the first respectable source I've seen that is willing to push this story along... a 4 AM. I don't have the game, but could anyone with it verify this? I'd think grabbing a few Kb of the binary around that offset in the article could be compared to the crack. Or is this a case of someone just editing a random string inside a binary and posting screens? Smear campaign? FP?
Likely it is so expensive because the creators want to recoup development costs. Paying a staff $80,000 a year to create a new device with no proven market is a gamble. ZCorp probably did their research prior to development and found that there were enough clients willing to pay ridiculous sums of money because they can afford to and would get a lot of use out of such a device. Once a few sales go through to pull the project out of the red, or at the least closer to the black, you will see the price go down.
For those who are discussing the average age of a gamer (in the USA) in relation to this article, check out the top 10 facts and other stats the ESA has produced for the year 2006. http://www.theesa.com/facts/top_10_facts.php
3. The average game player is 33 years old and has been playing games for 12 years.
That this is evil, yet the communicators they had on Next Generation which allowed the computer to track every single person were cool? Its actually simple to get around the evilness by just not taking your cellphone with you, just like on Star Trek when they wanted to go incognito.
I recently got setup to apply for a grant from NIDA and thought if patents were treated in a similar manner we might be better off. To get accepted your application goes to a board of individuals who are physicians. They are still working in their respective fields and understand what is innovative in the medical field and what is not. They determine if your grant goes through. Think, "what if patents were treated this way?" You enter your patent in a category and it is accepted/denied by those who are knowledgable in the field. They will be able to tell if you are patenting the obvious.
The news isn't really that it is broken, but that the masses are finally starting to realize this. I wonder what it will take to finally get it an overhaul.
I'm going to go off-topic from parent but what the heck this is SlashDot!
It is rather easy to get a PC without MS Windows where I live. I used to work for a company that would build PCs and ship them with a blank HDD if you preferred to not include Windows. I'd say 1 in every 10 customers used this option. This isn't some small mom and pop shop either, they have 25 locations in SE Wisconsin.
Midwest Fiber Networks is going to build a wifi system for the city at no cost to tax payers. Once the system is up they will rent it out to various service providers who can then charge whatever fees for access they wish. More information found here.
You will still see commercials, only they will be embedded into the content. Advertisers do that already with product placement but I can imagine it will be pushed to the extreme once they realize everyone has cut the 30 second ads. Think of The Truman Show where the wife will hold up a product and talk about how great it is.
I didn't read the article like a good/.'er, but I believe you are misreading it. Think of it like regular traffic. Movies being semitrucks and cars as music. Despite the semi weighing 5x as much as a car, both are only going to be seen once by a traffic counter (one of those rubber tubes you drive over.) So I would then assume that whoever gathered these statistics was looking at the percentage of files that are movies, and not the percentage of MB/GB being transferred. This definitely indicates a shift in P2P user habits which is going to be noticed by the MPAA.
It shouldn't mean more programmers at all. When he is talking about lights he is talking about implementing them with shaders, which an artist can conceptualize and create. Then its essentially drag and drop into the game and it just works. No more programmers required.
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I disagree with your argument. Wearing a seatbelt prevents you from being flung about during an automobile crash. Refrigerating your food prevents bacterial growth. Studying helps you to recall knowledge. What all of these have in common is that they are preventing injury or failure against a non intelligent foe. Your test cannot adapt to your studying. Bacteria can not, likely, infect you if you choose to refrigerate your food. An obstacle hitting your car cannot correct for the fact that you are wearing a seatbelt and choose to do extra damage to you.
I would argue that until you have an idea of what or whom exactly people are targeting, it is a waste of money and time and energy to try and protect every possible target. I mean, while we are at it, lets add pat downs, screenings, and lie detectors, for every human interaction. It could be a terrorist I'm talking to! This is very much hyperbole, but I hope you can get the point.
You *cannot* protect yourself from an intelligent agent. So why inconvenience so many people?
So the article is assuming 3 years since the announcement of the project to completion and working that in with information already available for the other sequels and non-sequels alike. TFS however does seem to play a bit of the telephone game.
My bad, I was reading 'meteor' as 'meteoroid'.
Larger than a meteoroid, the object is an asteroid; smaller than that, it is interplanetary dust.
And since this is an article dealing with NEOs...
The NEO definition includes larger objects, up to 50 m in diameter, to this category.
I have seen this floating around all day. Slashdot is the first respectable source I've seen that is willing to push this story along... a 4 AM. I don't have the game, but could anyone with it verify this? I'd think grabbing a few Kb of the binary around that offset in the article could be compared to the crack. Or is this a case of someone just editing a random string inside a binary and posting screens? Smear campaign? FP?
Likely it is so expensive because the creators want to recoup development costs. Paying a staff $80,000 a year to create a new device with no proven market is a gamble. ZCorp probably did their research prior to development and found that there were enough clients willing to pay ridiculous sums of money because they can afford to and would get a lot of use out of such a device. Once a few sales go through to pull the project out of the red, or at the least closer to the black, you will see the price go down.
That this is evil, yet the communicators they had on Next Generation which allowed the computer to track every single person were cool? Its actually simple to get around the evilness by just not taking your cellphone with you, just like on Star Trek when they wanted to go incognito.
I recently got setup to apply for a grant from NIDA and thought if patents were treated in a similar manner we might be better off. To get accepted your application goes to a board of individuals who are physicians. They are still working in their respective fields and understand what is innovative in the medical field and what is not. They determine if your grant goes through. Think, "what if patents were treated this way?" You enter your patent in a category and it is accepted/denied by those who are knowledgable in the field. They will be able to tell if you are patenting the obvious.
The news isn't really that it is broken, but that the masses are finally starting to realize this. I wonder what it will take to finally get it an overhaul.
Strangely enough, if you send more than one .exe file within a .zip it will mail just fine. I found this out when sending a C# project to a friend.
I'm going to go off-topic from parent but what the heck this is SlashDot! It is rather easy to get a PC without MS Windows where I live. I used to work for a company that would build PCs and ship them with a blank HDD if you preferred to not include Windows. I'd say 1 in every 10 customers used this option. This isn't some small mom and pop shop either, they have 25 locations in SE Wisconsin.
My bad, I did not realize that both systems are being created by a private organization, both resulting in no cost to tax payers.
Midwest Fiber Networks is going to build a wifi system for the city at no cost to tax payers. Once the system is up they will rent it out to various service providers who can then charge whatever fees for access they wish. More information found here.
You will still see commercials, only they will be embedded into the content. Advertisers do that already with product placement but I can imagine it will be pushed to the extreme once they realize everyone has cut the 30 second ads. Think of The Truman Show where the wife will hold up a product and talk about how great it is.
You could always use http://www.bugmenot.com/
I didn't read the article like a good /.'er, but I believe you are misreading it. Think of it like regular traffic. Movies being semitrucks and cars as music. Despite the semi weighing 5x as much as a car, both are only going to be seen once by a traffic counter (one of those rubber tubes you drive over.) So I would then assume that whoever gathered these statistics was looking at the percentage of files that are movies, and not the percentage of MB/GB being transferred. This definitely indicates a shift in P2P user habits which is going to be noticed by the MPAA.
It shouldn't mean more programmers at all. When he is talking about lights he is talking about implementing them with shaders, which an artist can conceptualize and create. Then its essentially drag and drop into the game and it just works. No more programmers required.
Use a firewall.