What is it about these "paranoiacs" scares you so much you wish to see them forced into home-style prisons?
Mm? I'm not scared of them. I have absolutely no problem with them - it's they who seem to have a problem with adjusting to a way of life that is at odds with their ideal imagined lifestyle, in which "privacy" seems to mean that nobody ever sees them.
People who desire piracy so desperately that they can't bear being caught on camera in a public place should stay home and live a DotComGuy kind of life. See? There's an option for paranoiacs too.
Oh, and, um, let's face it, whenever you show you face in public, even if there aren't cameras, there are PEOPLE, each with two eyes (in most cases). Gee, I guess, the only option there is invisibility. Good luck.
There is no reason to have cameras on streets or driveways. There is nothing to steal on the street. Hey, criminal put that burnt out cigarette back on the ground it's not yours
Well, there's cars to steal. And there's people to assault/mug/rape. There's the opportunity for vandalism. I guess you'd feel relaxed about your freedom knowing that whoever stole/vandalized your car parked on the street got off scott free because nobody saw him?
Yeah, I know there was a smiley there, but then again some dweeb moderated it as "Insightful".
If you're a wanted criminal and they catch you as a result of seeing your mug on CCTV, good. If you're committing a crime and you get videotaped doing it, and locked up as a result, good. Fact is, when you break a law you're giving up your liberty under the system that enforces those laws.
Before you say anything about silly laws - they can't use the CCTV system to bust you for having a stash of MP3's or warez'd games unless they point the camera in your room, which they don't. Obviously the crimes that this deters (And gets people caught for) are clear-cut crimes such as assault, vandalism, theft, etc.
And if, by chance, this system DOES get you busted for a bad law, one (for example) pushed through by moneyhungry corps, then it's a whole other discussion about why those laws shouldn't exist in the 1st place.
Seems to me that after that short yet passionate rant you should perhaps change your.sig to something hateful towards RIAA or the world wide recording industry, period.
Prepare to witness the most significant event since the dawn of life on Earth: The move from evolution by selection to evolution by design. It's going to happen within 20 years whether you like it or not.
Yeah, except the movie makes this significant event into a lame ass tearjerker hunk-of-cheesiness/piece-of-shit that Bicentennial Man was. I don't normally mind kids to the point of wanting to disembowel them, but any fucking Hollywood movie kid makes me want to do horrible things to him/her. They're (almost) always given sickeningly cutesy roles, sickeningly cutesy haircuts, sickeningly good huggy-huggy relationships with all the adults around'em, I can't stand to watch. And Joel Haley Osment or whatever the AI kid's name is did a barely tolerable (if whiney) job with Sixth Sense, but the "I wish I could be a real boy" (or something like that) from the trailer (I couldn't bear to watch it twice) line makes me want to beat his head into a red mush with a cinder block. And it also makes me want to avoid the movie like the plague, which is what I'd have done with Bicentennial Man too, if I'd known it would be such a Williams-ish butchering of a rather good story.
For those of you who never felt like disgracing your computer with a.mov player (quicktime), get the windows movie
Thank god... QT managed to spontaneously reboot my machine (w2k) twice while trying to watch the stupid clip. No probs with WMP, *AND* i can watch it in glorious fullscreen.
Why oh why can't quicktime die?
Though, it looks like he did lie on his resume. It says fluent in C++. Go find someone who has Office and type 'C++' in his question box.
The only answer he returns is "Change the program that starts when you click on a file."
You mean if you click on "Change the program..." he'll actually tell you how to use C++ to modify the application? Wild!
Are people really so stupid that they don't know the left-mouse-button-brings-up-context-menu / middle-mouse-button-doubleclicks routine? How much more unified do they want? Why can't Linux get with the standard...
Annoying, yes, but pretty easy to get past - simply select more than you need and then backtrack and bit - and it'll just unselect whatever you need and not the whole word. PITA, oh well...
Film has always been a technical medium. As the whiz-kids have discovered new tricks, the importance of the script, actors, and even the director has diminished. If feel "moved" in your dodecaplex today, it's probably due to THX.
As far as what goes a movie that'll move people, even today, it's a combination of both the technical trickery and the script/actors/director.
Citizen Kane, for example, used some pretty funky camera work to set the mood in certain scenes, yet those same scenes would've not had any impact if the dialogue wasn't damn near perfect.
Saving Private Ryan: the opening invasion scene is extremely powerful - it does move you. But for all it's technical brilliance, I found it to be less moving than the simple scene of the old man falling to pieces in the cemetary.
The Matrix, unfortunately, relied on the FX-heavy scenes to move the audience (IMO). The only scenes that really made an impression on me (and gave me a craving for steak:)) that didn't involve FX was when Cypher was talking to the agent about getting reinserted, and when the agent made his "I hate humanity" speech to the drugged up Morpheus.
I suppose that's why, in the end, I liked the movie, a lot, but walked away from it feeling kind of empty - and the main reason I've watched it again later is the same as why I watched Independence Day a bunch of times: funky special effects.
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Also, the human battery idea is a tad lame. Doesn't it waste tremendous amounts of energy growing a human?
Agreed - you would wind up with a net loss in energy if you tried that sort of system. Now, if the explanation had been that they use humans as processors (since the brain is still the most advanced computer in existence, even in the age of AI), I think it would've been a lot easier to swallow for a lot of people who actually took a second or two to think about it.
I used the screwdriver solution.:) As an added bonus, I don't have to worry about that magnet right next to my hard drive. Yeah, I know it won't hurt anything, but...
I *did* have the speaker disconnected on my old machines. But now that I have a motherboard that starts freakin' out if the CPU fan dies or anything overheats, I'm too paranoid to disconnect it:(
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annoyed by the condescending attitude towards the scientists and "eggheads
Actually, while I thought they did go a bit overboard with praising blow boy, I got the feeling like they were referring to those nerds and eggheads with a deserved awe and respect - which those people deserve, I'm sure, otherwise they wouldn't be working there.
People, even non-technical people, love customizing their systems. In doing so, they make the machine "theirs." They spend hours messing with the backgrounds, the icons, and the sounds.
Indeed. This machine's mine...
background: black (any other crap's a distraction)
icons: standard (I prefer to have folders clearly marked as such versus, say, the trash bin being a stegosaurus and my documents folder being a brontosaurus, or some such shit)
sounds(!): NONE! one of the 1st things I do on a Win box is turn off all sounds (though I haven't found out how to turn off the PC speaker beep when the trashcan empties)
These things are wildly customized especially by the non-technical people because they don't care that it's a distraction - form over function for them. Technical people, outside of a background pic, will usually make more functional customizations to their environment, the reason being they want to get more work done, faster, and not make their machine "pretty." Besides, that's what comp cases are for:)
What makes you think that would work? There are already plenty of non-sucky browsers out there. But MSIE is the one that come preloaded on 'Doze systems. You can't even move the icon off the desktop into the recycle bin or a "MS Stuff" folder.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: This is a load of crap. It was true back in the days of IE3/4 and Win95, but since IE5 came along, it's just a matter of right clicking on the icon and selecting "Delete". Or dragging it to the trash bin. Or unselecting "Show IE icon on desktop" in Internet Settings. Ya dig?
That just means its time to start developing AI (neural net) networks. This way the internet technically will be able to route itself more efficiently based on a few guidelines.
We're thrilled to see your enthusiasm, and we look forward to the results of your research and work in this field to help this endeavor get off the ground. Godspeed, sir.
Second of all, a greater concern might be "Is the Internet growing too disorganized?" There are ten jillion pages out there, and the vast majority of them aren't even linked to from other documents. They don't show up on search engines, they just sit there
As one of the replies to your post pointed out, a lot of these jillion pages (the vast majority of homepages, anyway) are crap. Personal crap. Yes, they're sitting on a web that's supposed to be interconnected, but for these personal pages there's no need - they exist simply so their owners can tell a friend or relative, "hey, go check it out, it's got my dog's picture on it."
This majority of personal pages should be ignored by search engines simply because there is nothing to search for in them - typing "Cindy" into google when looking for your cousin's homepage wouldn't be much use no matter how many times google's been to her site.
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Mm? I'm not scared of them. I have absolutely no problem with them - it's they who seem to have a problem with adjusting to a way of life that is at odds with their ideal imagined lifestyle, in which "privacy" seems to mean that nobody ever sees them.
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People who desire piracy so desperately that they can't bear being caught on camera in a public place should stay home and live a DotComGuy kind of life. See? There's an option for paranoiacs too.
Oh, and, um, let's face it, whenever you show you face in public, even if there aren't cameras, there are PEOPLE, each with two eyes (in most cases). Gee, I guess, the only option there is invisibility. Good luck.
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Well, there's cars to steal. And there's people to assault/mug/rape. There's the opportunity for vandalism. I guess you'd feel relaxed about your freedom knowing that whoever stole/vandalized your car parked on the street got off scott free because nobody saw him?
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Yeah, I know there was a smiley there, but then again some dweeb moderated it as "Insightful".
If you're a wanted criminal and they catch you as a result of seeing your mug on CCTV, good. If you're committing a crime and you get videotaped doing it, and locked up as a result, good. Fact is, when you break a law you're giving up your liberty under the system that enforces those laws.
Before you say anything about silly laws - they can't use the CCTV system to bust you for having a stash of MP3's or warez'd games unless they point the camera in your room, which they don't. Obviously the crimes that this deters (And gets people caught for) are clear-cut crimes such as assault, vandalism, theft, etc.
And if, by chance, this system DOES get you busted for a bad law, one (for example) pushed through by moneyhungry corps, then it's a whole other discussion about why those laws shouldn't exist in the 1st place.
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Seems to me that after that short yet passionate rant you should perhaps change your .sig to something hateful towards RIAA or the world wide recording industry, period.
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Yeah, except the movie makes this significant event into a lame ass tearjerker hunk-of-cheesiness/piece-of-shit that Bicentennial Man was. I don't normally mind kids to the point of wanting to disembowel them, but any fucking Hollywood movie kid makes me want to do horrible things to him/her. They're (almost) always given sickeningly cutesy roles, sickeningly cutesy haircuts, sickeningly good huggy-huggy relationships with all the adults around'em, I can't stand to watch. And Joel Haley Osment or whatever the AI kid's name is did a barely tolerable (if whiney) job with Sixth Sense, but the "I wish I could be a real boy" (or something like that) from the trailer (I couldn't bear to watch it twice) line makes me want to beat his head into a red mush with a cinder block. And it also makes me want to avoid the movie like the plague, which is what I'd have done with Bicentennial Man too, if I'd known it would be such a Williams-ish butchering of a rather good story.
I'm a bit frustrated, don't mind me.
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Thank god... QT managed to spontaneously reboot my machine (w2k) twice while trying to watch the stupid clip. No probs with WMP, *AND* i can watch it in glorious fullscreen. Why oh why can't quicktime die?
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You mean if you click on "Change the program..." he'll actually tell you how to use C++ to modify the application? Wild!
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I keep it on only to correct "teh".. so I guess I could do without it
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As far as what goes a movie that'll move people, even today, it's a combination of both the technical trickery and the script/actors/director.
Citizen Kane, for example, used some pretty funky camera work to set the mood in certain scenes, yet those same scenes would've not had any impact if the dialogue wasn't damn near perfect.
Saving Private Ryan: the opening invasion scene is extremely powerful - it does move you. But for all it's technical brilliance, I found it to be less moving than the simple scene of the old man falling to pieces in the cemetary.
The Matrix, unfortunately, relied on the FX-heavy scenes to move the audience (IMO). The only scenes that really made an impression on me (and gave me a craving for steak :)) that didn't involve FX was when Cypher was talking to the agent about getting reinserted, and when the agent made his "I hate humanity" speech to the drugged up Morpheus.
I suppose that's why, in the end, I liked the movie, a lot, but walked away from it feeling kind of empty - and the main reason I've watched it again later is the same as why I watched Independence Day a bunch of times: funky special effects.
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Agreed - you would wind up with a net loss in energy if you tried that sort of system. Now, if the explanation had been that they use humans as processors (since the brain is still the most advanced computer in existence, even in the age of AI), I think it would've been a lot easier to swallow for a lot of people who actually took a second or two to think about it.
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I *did* have the speaker disconnected on my old machines. But now that I have a motherboard that starts freakin' out if the CPU fan dies or anything overheats, I'm too paranoid to disconnect it :(
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Actually, while I thought they did go a bit overboard with praising blow boy, I got the feeling like they were referring to those nerds and eggheads with a deserved awe and respect - which those people deserve, I'm sure, otherwise they wouldn't be working there.
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Nitpick... that would be the Canadian Standards Association (CSA).
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Indeed. This machine's mine...
background: black (any other crap's a distraction)
icons: standard (I prefer to have folders clearly marked as such versus, say, the trash bin being a stegosaurus and my documents folder being a brontosaurus, or some such shit)
sounds(!): NONE! one of the 1st things I do on a Win box is turn off all sounds (though I haven't found out how to turn off the PC speaker beep when the trashcan empties)
These things are wildly customized especially by the non-technical people because they don't care that it's a distraction - form over function for them. Technical people, outside of a background pic, will usually make more functional customizations to their environment, the reason being they want to get more work done, faster, and not make their machine "pretty." Besides, that's what comp cases are for :)
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: This is a load of crap. It was true back in the days of IE3/4 and Win95, but since IE5 came along, it's just a matter of right clicking on the icon and selecting "Delete". Or dragging it to the trash bin. Or unselecting "Show IE icon on desktop" in Internet Settings. Ya dig?
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Yeah, and nothing more dangerous than a wounded mosquito...
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We're thrilled to see your enthusiasm, and we look forward to the results of your research and work in this field to help this endeavor get off the ground. Godspeed, sir.
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As one of the replies to your post pointed out, a lot of these jillion pages (the vast majority of homepages, anyway) are crap. Personal crap. Yes, they're sitting on a web that's supposed to be interconnected, but for these personal pages there's no need - they exist simply so their owners can tell a friend or relative, "hey, go check it out, it's got my dog's picture on it."
This majority of personal pages should be ignored by search engines simply because there is nothing to search for in them - typing "Cindy" into google when looking for your cousin's homepage wouldn't be much use no matter how many times google's been to her site.
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