Yeah, it would be 'incredibly useful'.
You know what else would be 'incredibly useful'?
Flying cars.
Cold Fusion.
Honest Politicians.
Seriously, people have been trying to make good object identification from picture systems for as long as there have been pictures stored on computers. It has never worked very well.
Hell, if these technologies ever did become available and processor-cheap enough to use for youtube, there would be better things to do with them. Like cars that can tell the difference between a car ahead of it and a brick wall, and react accordingly.
Using that tech. for youtube would be like using anti-gravity devices to help basketball players.
The name makes perfect sense. If you give a broken computer to a geek, he fixes it quickly and gives it back. If you give a broken computer to ten geeks, they yell at each other for a couple hours and in the end your computer has three replacements for the one broken component (If you think your computer's fast now, imagine it if it had THREE power supplies!) and half the hard-drive space is filled with diagnostic programs and violent death-threats to other members of the 'squad'. Also, they may install six different distros of Linux.
Damn libertarians! Trying to create a society that values low taxes and personal responsibility. I accidentally crashed into a bus full of adorable orphans while drinking heavily and firing a home-made mortar out my window (Well, not really, but go with me on this). You know who's at fault? EVIL CARS! AND LIQUOR! We should raise taxes on them so the gov't has enough money to teach school kids not to play with guns. While i'm not personally a gun enthusiast (don't even own one, nor have I ever fired one), I'll let the government take my right to own a gun when we go to the japanese system: No military, and a police-force using bicycles and bobby-sticks.
Starting at 5 5: 1984, The year the apple macintosh computer was first released, thus cementing the place of PC-based video-games forever. 4: 1944. D-Day, the source of 9/10th of all game ideas ever produced. 3: 2020. Both the setting of every style of cliche 'near future cyber-tale', and the year Duke Nukem Forever will be released. 2: 1889. Namely, november 6th, 1889. Founding of a little playing card company was made in a little backwards country called japan that would later become Nintendo. The company, not the country... 1: 1992. The year E.V.O. The Search For Eden was released. Quite possibly the single greatest evolution-themed platformer for the SNES ever produced. 'nuff said.
Oh thanks alot. I've had enough to worry about with skin cancer and all sorts of STDs, not to mention parasites, and now I have to keep an eye out for something called "Cobblestoning" in my bowels? I don't know which is worse: Not knowing what "Fistulae" means, or finding out what "Fistulae" means. One sec...
Okay, I'm back from reading the wikipedia article. It turns out it's in fact the latter.
Ex-microsoft lackey who managed to get out before Win ME hit tries to start web-services company. "Give your information to me" Maritz exclaims "It'll be perfectly safe. All of our servers run Windows Vista, and your documents will be saved in Word!" The business plan balances on 3 essential features 1: Relying on cheap indian labor to write sloppy code, which is then labeled "Open Source" (Except stuff written by the CEOs, who A: benefit from the company's very nice "Software Royalty Program for all code that is not open source", and B: Prevent OS efforts from actually making use of the OS code to make a competetive business). This open-source code is then bug-fixed for free by the happy Open Source elves, all non-executives are fired/turned into janitors or server maintainers, and the service gets offered for free (Until it gains a market share, when it raises at 10 cents/month^2 until step 3) 2: ??? 3: PROFIT!
How is the parent a troll? He's pointing out security errors on SLASHDOT.
That's about as trollish as going to a civil rights rally with a shirt that says "I'm also opposed to bigotry"
It's obvious what's going on. All the MS techs are merely using Firefox, and the built-in Google alliance. They're not showing party disloyalty, they're just using firefox... wait a second.
You obviously haven't been on the internet long enough. Chubby nerdy tranvestites ARE the most popular thing on the internet. Hands down. Followed with Songs by Aqua at a distant second.
Yeah, they'll be selling like hotcakes on eBay... for the first couple of weeks. However, if they are produced in the quantity indicated, then supply will vastly outweigh demand, and eBay will adjust harshly. Now they're selling for 30-40$, and people begin to realize that shipping from africa to america is at least that much (unless my sense of numbers are way off), and the auctions that go through start not getting shipped (Oh no, that starving african child got a negative response on his eBay account!). Now, I see a great deal of eBay related fraud stemming from this, but not alot of sales. Furthermore, communication will far outweigh any measly sum they can get off eBay. Want to know how to plant a new crop or prevent a disease? I can imagine within a couple years of we'll be hearing alot of stories along the lines of "Dying african child uses AOL Instant Messenger to warn village of impending rebel/terrorist/diamond miner/slaver/alien/zombie attack, saves hundreds"
This 100$ computer will give the greatest gift of all to these children: Access to Nigerian Bank Fraud scams. And that's truly the gift that keeps on giving.
Was it yesterday that there was a post on slashdot about how the PS3 would be better than the X-box360 because "It would last longer because you wouldn't have to buy a bunch of expansions like a HD-DVD player"? Sorry, it was the day before yesterday. Sorry. http://games.slashdot.org/games/06/06/07/2041213.s html So now, after claiming "Your PS3 will last, like forever, like as long as you want", they counter with "unless you want it to be better... And, probably, games a couple years down the line will require improved capabilities, so instead of that thing we said yesterday, not that thing we said yesterday. LOL! ^_^ Fewled juu!"
Wow, I wasn't considering buying a PS3 before I read this article, but now I'm considering... super not buying a PS3.
Yeah, but we won't need games then. We'll all be jacking onto to our direct-neural-interface super-internet and chatting up cute elf girls while evading mega-corporations. Or it could be some stupid spinoff about mayan ruins and elves merging through walls with SMGs.
Okay, let me break it down for you. The CIA has this lovely little 'Numbers Station' that was developed during the cold war daze. However, times have changed, and they don't use it anymore. However, if they keep it going, foreign intelligence agencies will dutifully watch it, trying to decipher it's meaning, EVEN IF they too believe it's useless. The chief of the foreign CIA-equivalent is given a big packet of 'coded messages' that the U.S. transmitted over the short-wave every couple of weeks, and now has to decide between the 'real' coded messages they intercepted however and the 'fake' messages distributed over the short-wave. Misinformation overload.
Now, every couple of weeks we put in a real tidbit of information, and so if it's correctly translated and given to foreign CIA-equivalent chief, he probably won't act on it, given the terrible track-record of the 'Number Stations'. So, when the U.S. actually does invade Iran, or whatever other piece of information we seeded to them, the foreign CIA-equivalent gets in trouble with his superiors, and his subordinates start to distrust his leadership skills, and the whole organization starts to work slightly less well. Sowing the seeds of distrust.
If you want to be extra cruel, make the seeded codes extraordinarily vague/only make sense in hindsight.
Now, what are the advantages you get if you move the entire system over to VoIP? 1: It's cheaper, although this is the least of the government's concerns. 2: You get a nice record of everyone who listens in, so you know if the germans, for example, are trying to find out what we're up to. 3: It forces the foreign-NSA equivalent to block that number from it's country (except for the government), which allows us to mosey on in a couple weeks later with fliers that proclaim "Your 'democratically elected government' is preventing you from dialing certain phone numbers!", helping any destabilization of their government attempts.
I know it's a little conspiracy theorish, but It's the most logical thing.
Sorry to be off topic, but i'm more afraid of an eBaum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Bauman destroying than the internet than an E-Bomb.
But that's just me.
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Wow. I don't want to live in whatever crazy place you live. Example: The Police: "What happened here!" Victim: "He just shot me!" The Police: "Hey! That's Libel! You're under arrest! (To murderer) We're sorry, sir and/or m'am, but this person has just made libelous comments against you. He will be taken away. You are free to go."
So, wait. Spending too much time working on the X-Box is why windows is full of bugs? That makes perfect sense!
X-Box debut in 2001, Windows ME in 2000. Of course, they must have been working on the X-box at least in 1998, because 1998 had it's own share of bugs... No, wait, 1995 was a buggy mess too... Hmm... 3.1? No. 3.1 was pretty terrible also. So the X-Box must have started development in late 1985, when windows 1.0 came out... Possibly as far back as late 70s, when DOS came out...
So, the X-Box was in development before the NES came out! Wow, I call that a development cycle.
Seriously though, the reason Windows sucks isn't because Microsoft is 'splitting it's focus'. They have enough money to do a dozen more projects. The reason Windows sucks is because 1: It was poorly coded 20 years ago, and that same code kept getting incorporated into stuff it wasn't designed to handle, and 2: The average Microsoft programmer is undermotivated to actually fix code as the closed source system makes most errors go unnoticed for years.
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I don't think anyone actually took the lord's name in VAIN. saying "god-damnit" isn't using anyone's name. God is a job description: His true name is something unpronouncable in hebrew with a complete absence of vowels. If saying the word "God" was taken to be offensive, then religious anthropologists would all be condemned to the jack-chickish horrors of hell.
The thing designed to make it harder for companies to make money illicitly is preventing the corporations from making money? Sweet merciful crap, that's obviously a poorly designed bill.
Am I the only person who finds the parent (and it's Offtopic nature) hilarious?
"Is it any fun?"
"Shut up. We aren't talking about if it's fun. It's a game, and it made money. Talk about that"
Claim jumping is when Niner A finds a lode (vein of ore) and 'claims' it, but Miner B comes along and 'jumps' his claim ("I have a bigger gun, and there aren't any police in the old west, so it's my ore now").
Pretty generic 'cowboy-y' thing to do.
It's hockey.
And it's only available for streaming in the U.S.
And they're worried about load?
I think NBC needs to reavaluate the value of their content.
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The spam zombies aren't from outer, silly... THEY'RE INSIDE YOUR HOUSE! Run, while you still can!
Yeah, it would be 'incredibly useful'. You know what else would be 'incredibly useful'? Flying cars. Cold Fusion. Honest Politicians. Seriously, people have been trying to make good object identification from picture systems for as long as there have been pictures stored on computers. It has never worked very well. Hell, if these technologies ever did become available and processor-cheap enough to use for youtube, there would be better things to do with them. Like cars that can tell the difference between a car ahead of it and a brick wall, and react accordingly. Using that tech. for youtube would be like using anti-gravity devices to help basketball players.
The name makes perfect sense.
If you give a broken computer to a geek, he fixes it quickly and gives it back.
If you give a broken computer to ten geeks, they yell at each other for a couple hours and in the end your computer has three replacements for the one broken component (If you think your computer's fast now, imagine it if it had THREE power supplies!) and half the hard-drive space is filled with diagnostic programs and violent death-threats to other members of the 'squad'.
Also, they may install six different distros of Linux.
Damn libertarians! Trying to create a society that values low taxes and personal responsibility.
I accidentally crashed into a bus full of adorable orphans while drinking heavily and firing a home-made mortar out my window (Well, not really, but go with me on this). You know who's at fault? EVIL CARS! AND LIQUOR! We should raise taxes on them so the gov't has enough money to teach school kids not to play with guns.
While i'm not personally a gun enthusiast (don't even own one, nor have I ever fired one), I'll let the government take my right to own a gun when we go to the japanese system: No military, and a police-force using bicycles and bobby-sticks.
Starting at 5
5: 1984, The year the apple macintosh computer was first released, thus cementing the place of PC-based video-games forever.
4: 1944. D-Day, the source of 9/10th of all game ideas ever produced.
3: 2020. Both the setting of every style of cliche 'near future cyber-tale', and the year Duke Nukem Forever will be released.
2: 1889. Namely, november 6th, 1889. Founding of a little playing card company was made in a little backwards country called japan that would later become Nintendo. The company, not the country...
1: 1992. The year E.V.O. The Search For Eden was released. Quite possibly the single greatest evolution-themed platformer for the SNES ever produced. 'nuff said.
All I have to say is, I'd like to compute HER corona dynamics, if you catch my drift.
*wink wink wink wink wink innuendo rush*
Oh thanks alot. I've had enough to worry about with skin cancer and all sorts of STDs, not to mention parasites, and now I have to keep an eye out for something called "Cobblestoning" in my bowels?
I don't know which is worse: Not knowing what "Fistulae" means, or finding out what "Fistulae" means. One sec...
Okay, I'm back from reading the wikipedia article.
It turns out it's in fact the latter.
Ex-microsoft lackey who managed to get out before Win ME hit tries to start web-services company.
"Give your information to me" Maritz exclaims "It'll be perfectly safe. All of our servers run Windows Vista, and your documents will be saved in Word!"
The business plan balances on 3 essential features
1: Relying on cheap indian labor to write sloppy code, which is then labeled "Open Source" (Except stuff written by the CEOs, who A: benefit from the company's very nice "Software Royalty Program for all code that is not open source", and B: Prevent OS efforts from actually making use of the OS code to make a competetive business). This open-source code is then bug-fixed for free by the happy Open Source elves, all non-executives are fired/turned into janitors or server maintainers, and the service gets offered for free (Until it gains a market share, when it raises at 10 cents/month^2 until step 3)
2: ???
3: PROFIT!
How is the parent a troll? He's pointing out security errors on SLASHDOT. That's about as trollish as going to a civil rights rally with a shirt that says "I'm also opposed to bigotry"
It's obvious what's going on. All the MS techs are merely using Firefox, and the built-in Google alliance.
They're not showing party disloyalty, they're just using firefox... wait a second.
That's why I haven't paid my taxes in years.
Ironically, my CAPTCHA was "Protects".
You obviously haven't been on the internet long enough.
Chubby nerdy tranvestites ARE the most popular thing on the internet.
Hands down.
Followed with Songs by Aqua at a distant second.
Yeah, they'll be selling like hotcakes on eBay... for the first couple of weeks. However, if they are produced in the quantity indicated, then supply will vastly outweigh demand, and eBay will adjust harshly. Now they're selling for 30-40$, and people begin to realize that shipping from africa to america is at least that much (unless my sense of numbers are way off), and the auctions that go through start not getting shipped (Oh no, that starving african child got a negative response on his eBay account!). Now, I see a great deal of eBay related fraud stemming from this, but not alot of sales.
Furthermore, communication will far outweigh any measly sum they can get off eBay. Want to know how to plant a new crop or prevent a disease? I can imagine within a couple years of we'll be hearing alot of stories along the lines of "Dying african child uses AOL Instant Messenger to warn village of impending rebel/terrorist/diamond miner/slaver/alien/zombie attack, saves hundreds"
This 100$ computer will give the greatest gift of all to these children: Access to Nigerian Bank Fraud scams.
And that's truly the gift that keeps on giving.
Was it yesterday that there was a post on slashdot about how the PS3 would be better than the X-box360 because "It would last longer because you wouldn't have to buy a bunch of expansions like a HD-DVD player"?s html
Sorry, it was the day before yesterday. Sorry.
http://games.slashdot.org/games/06/06/07/2041213.
So now, after claiming "Your PS3 will last, like forever, like as long as you want", they counter with "unless you want it to be better... And, probably, games a couple years down the line will require improved capabilities, so instead of that thing we said yesterday, not that thing we said yesterday. LOL! ^_^ Fewled juu!"
Wow, I wasn't considering buying a PS3 before I read this article, but now I'm considering... super not buying a PS3.
Yeah, but we won't need games then.
We'll all be jacking onto to our direct-neural-interface super-internet and chatting up cute elf girls while evading mega-corporations.
Or it could be some stupid spinoff about mayan ruins and elves merging through walls with SMGs.
Okay, let me break it down for you.
The CIA has this lovely little 'Numbers Station' that was developed during the cold war daze. However, times have changed, and they don't use it anymore. However, if they keep it going, foreign intelligence agencies will dutifully watch it, trying to decipher it's meaning, EVEN IF they too believe it's useless. The chief of the foreign CIA-equivalent is given a big packet of 'coded messages' that the U.S. transmitted over the short-wave every couple of weeks, and now has to decide between the 'real' coded messages they intercepted however and the 'fake' messages distributed over the short-wave. Misinformation overload.
Now, every couple of weeks we put in a real tidbit of information, and so if it's correctly translated and given to foreign CIA-equivalent chief, he probably won't act on it, given the terrible track-record of the 'Number Stations'. So, when the U.S. actually does invade Iran, or whatever other piece of information we seeded to them, the foreign CIA-equivalent gets in trouble with his superiors, and his subordinates start to distrust his leadership skills, and the whole organization starts to work slightly less well. Sowing the seeds of distrust.
If you want to be extra cruel, make the seeded codes extraordinarily vague/only make sense in hindsight.
Now, what are the advantages you get if you move the entire system over to VoIP?
1: It's cheaper, although this is the least of the government's concerns.
2: You get a nice record of everyone who listens in, so you know if the germans, for example, are trying to find out what we're up to.
3: It forces the foreign-NSA equivalent to block that number from it's country (except for the government), which allows us to mosey on in a couple weeks later with fliers that proclaim "Your 'democratically elected government' is preventing you from dialing certain phone numbers!", helping any destabilization of their government attempts.
I know it's a little conspiracy theorish, but It's the most logical thing.
Sorry to be off topic, but i'm more afraid of an eBaum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Bauman destroying than the internet than an E-Bomb. But that's just me.
Wow. I don't want to live in whatever crazy place you live.
Example:
The Police: "What happened here!"
Victim: "He just shot me!"
The Police: "Hey! That's Libel! You're under arrest! (To murderer) We're sorry, sir and/or m'am, but this person has just made libelous comments against you. He will be taken away. You are free to go."
So, wait. Spending too much time working on the X-Box is why windows is full of bugs?
That makes perfect sense!
X-Box debut in 2001, Windows ME in 2000. Of course, they must have been working on the X-box at least in 1998, because 1998 had it's own share of bugs... No, wait, 1995 was a buggy mess too... Hmm... 3.1? No. 3.1 was pretty terrible also.
So the X-Box must have started development in late 1985, when windows 1.0 came out... Possibly as far back as late 70s, when DOS came out...
So, the X-Box was in development before the NES came out! Wow, I call that a development cycle.
Seriously though, the reason Windows sucks isn't because Microsoft is 'splitting it's focus'. They have enough money to do a dozen more projects. The reason Windows sucks is because 1: It was poorly coded 20 years ago, and that same code kept getting incorporated into stuff it wasn't designed to handle, and 2: The average Microsoft programmer is undermotivated to actually fix code as the closed source system makes most errors go unnoticed for years.
"Windows isn't messing up"? /. got hacked.
I think
I don't think anyone actually took the lord's name in VAIN. saying "god-damnit" isn't using anyone's name. God is a job description: His true name is something unpronouncable in hebrew with a complete absence of vowels.
If saying the word "God" was taken to be offensive, then religious anthropologists would all be condemned to the jack-chickish horrors of hell.
The thing designed to make it harder for companies to make money illicitly is preventing the corporations from making money?
Sweet merciful crap, that's obviously a poorly designed bill.
Am I the only person who finds the parent (and it's Offtopic nature) hilarious? "Is it any fun?" "Shut up. We aren't talking about if it's fun. It's a game, and it made money. Talk about that"
Claim jumping is when Niner A finds a lode (vein of ore) and 'claims' it, but Miner B comes along and 'jumps' his claim ("I have a bigger gun, and there aren't any police in the old west, so it's my ore now"). Pretty generic 'cowboy-y' thing to do.
It's hockey. And it's only available for streaming in the U.S. And they're worried about load? I think NBC needs to reavaluate the value of their content.