I'm not sure why this is news either. I recommended my company to put one in their wood shop last fall because we occasionally have high school kids in there as interns. Anyway, for $2800, it can be purchased direct. I'd rather replace 100 blades a year than have one table saw accident, but that's my risk manager opinion.
I thought it was proven that consumers won't purchase particular media in advance back when it was tried with audio CDs. I am beginning to think that a cursory attempt at digital distribution is all they want, making it appear that they are defending their rights while supplementing income with civil lawsuit extortion. Nothing new, but it gets clearer every day to me.
I am curious, how long did it take for the spam bots to send 10 messages to this address? Couldn't have been long. This is one of the better methods of fighting address mining, but it takes discipline (too much for me, I admit) and it doesn't help against dictionary mailers.
I know it's basic, but I'd like to add that if you have control of the HTML of the page that you are posting you email to, you can use a simple tool to confuse the mining bots. It doesn't work on forums like slashdot, but a good scrambler that I've had success with is Enkoder.
I've wondered why more sites don't use Craigslist's method of temporary forwarding from an anonymous, random address that can be easily filtered if need be. Bandwidth?
I've been getting several 419-type spam emails over the last few weeks, up from zero in the past. I thought back, and the only thing that has changed is that my email address appeared in plaintext on the front page of slashdot. Not saying that it's the problem, but it is interesting in the timing.
>>Which brings us back to the original problem that Kevin was talking about.
It's not just that the best games are showing up on torrentspy, that will always happen. What is more troubling is the entitlement that many gamers seem to have for new software, especially among the geek community. It comes from, I think, an association of development hours with quality. It is all too easy to raise your standards high enough to not pay for anything.
You might say that the quality level of commercial software just isn't beating out what has come prior and what is available in freeware. Would you pay 50 bucks for Snood? What about a flash based 3d game? Somehow we see sprites and traditional graphics and think, "free software". That is a problem. Some of the blame should fall on the developers too - with high quality open source FPS and MMORPG engines out there, it's not good enough to just be in the market anymore.
Software is no different that music or movies, in that our expectations for games are much different than they were even five years ago. There is real demand for a social network aspect, open source hex data for add-ons, free bug fixes, a nice box, and perhaps access to a strategy guide printed and online. We want something for our money, because if it's just a simple puzzle/strategy/text game, well, that should be free for download anyway, right?
Until this is addressed, the game industry will continue its struggles.
Its good to see someone that actually matters standing up
Has anyone considered the possibility that this might be a stunt, or more likely, a service that one or two (rogue?) part time employees have set up in one particular store? I'd wait to hear the official word before making statements like this.
Every Windows program I've tried so far works fine on that.
Did you really mean every Windows program? With full support, periodic upgrades, plug-ins, and guaranteed compatibility with those using native Windows in my company? It's good to dream about the silver bullet for linux, but we aren't there *yet*.
Just to get it out there, I'm looking for AutoCAD to run under WINE and still have the ability to use the scripts I've spent years writing. That would get me somewhere. It also seems, from/. and other community sites, that there is THAT ONE piece of software for everyone. Whether it's for your taxes, proprietary insurance forms, or that 3d raytracer that gets the best look out of the box, my take is that there is just too much legacy software, or closed source that doesn't run in WINE (without significant tweaking), to get us all on linux. For my workstation for now, it has to be Windows, unfortunately.
UPS has sued to allow them to put boxes there, but so far the Post Office hasn't allowed them.
I have seen many cases where UPS, FEDEX, DHL, etc. have drop boxes immediately adjacent to a post office on the easement or right of way (ex: sidewalk). If you obtain town/city approval, there isn't a thing that can be done.
How deep does the banner advertising market go? I can't imagine that there is that much advertising-per-desktop to go around, with adwords already out there thriving. In simple supply/demand terms, instead of subscribers bolting, you will see cost per click plummet.
This will be the next major milestone in graphics, to have a real time, properly generated, raytraced game (or other use) engine. I know there is a market in my field- architectural rendering- for such a package. We have a need for what you call non-photorealistic rendering, but significant demand from our clients for glossy, pretty images with Ferraris and tourists in the foreground as well.
IIRC, most 3d modelling software, like Maya, can only represent NURBS curves in real time through tesselation like you mentioned, usually accessed through some appropriation of openGL. The rendering engine, software which uses the central processor only, is always much slower, averaging 10-120 minutes per image. It can be reduced as more processors are added in parallel, but the day when I can rotate a fully lit, textured, full depth scene in a raytracer on my workstation will be a good one.
I would rather be fighting against a few vocal NIMBYers than trying to drop what is essentially a skyscraper foundation into 1000 feet of water sitting over 200 feet of muck. Oh, and then I need to repeat it a few hundred times. This is why the sound was chosen, I believe, because of its stable bedrock and relatively shallow water far enough offshore to keep it away from view. Apparently it's not enough for a select, wealthy few.
Tidal energy is intriguing, though. I thought it was only useful in shallow water, where a plenum effect could be achieved. Is there new tech in this area?
The new build of Ubuntu, for one, did not give me any input into the GRUB MBR format process. It just did it, putting XP as an option way down the list, and automatically going to linux after 10 short seconds.
This is one of the reasons I can't really recommend Dapper (at least the way it comes pressed) for a non-geek to 'try out'. It's easier to convince someone to give a new look to their machine a shot when it's "hit space bar if you would like to try it, and if not, don't do anything to get to your normal OS" than vice-versa.
There (could be argued) is a creative element to a 1-meter resolution 3d model of NYC. It's the effort of parsing reality and deciding what to keep in there and not. My model may include pigeons, roof antennas, and data on different types of window glass. Yours has that new building going up on 5th ave, MTA bus stops, and three homeless guys under the central park bridges. It's not just data, it's an interpretation. I can't see how the definition of 'database' can include geometry on a large scale, more like 'art' to me.
In other words, you are saying that you can't record any old sound, your daughter saying "hi daddy", a guitar riff you wrote, or a car horn, and use it as a ringtone on this unnamed phone? Is this actually the case? Or am I understanding you incorrectly? What is the model? That's not a feature, it's a hinderance.
This is all interesting to me, for two reasons. I fear the trend of lockdown, where every microscopic piece of content has to be traced to the source, and you are correct in saying that restrictions are showing up in the most unusual places (the Harley-Davidson's exhaust sound pitch is trademarked and perhaps even copyrighted, I'm not sure).
At the same time, previously DRM was able to 'hide' in relative obscurity, partly because it was hidden in wrappers like CSS and iTMS, forerunners in the technology that became widespread in the pre-blog era. In the next few years, widespread knowledge of DRM can only hurt it, for all the reasons we know - it only hurts your customers, no resale, hardware lock-in, etc. DRM is even showing up in major news outlets *today*. It's about time.
Guess I never got one from them, but a pharmacy is the one place I could see some benefit for the customer, with cross-checking identity and whatnot. Also, if you buy something you don't want them to know about, don't use the card and pay cash.
Completely off topic, too, Wegmans is one heck of a supermarket. It has that Trader Joes feel on a large scale. Also tremendous subs that they will make for ya. Too bad they haven't gotten to my state yet.
Also if you happen to have a shopper card for one grocery store it almost always works at a competing grocery store.
That is most likely because your "competing" stores are different arms of the same conglomerate. Supervalu and Ahold are two of the largest, encompasing albertson's, stop n shop, giant, and several others. On top of this, the loyalty card databases may be maintained by an outside firm, who may combine the data across different chains into a superdatabase of every person who buys Watermelon, Vaseline, Jiffy-Pop, and Cool Whip on the same card.
One thing that seems strange to me, though, is that I've never seen one that uses a magnetic strip. A quick look through the pile tells me it's much more common to see a more resilient bar code that is also printed on keychains and a letter that comes with the package. So, I can't try a mag strip out at the bank/office.
It is interesting how some companies work very hard to force an image of different identities on their different divisons. For example, Gillette recently tried to distance themselves from a teen body spray that they were producing. It's good for the bottom line to create (perceived) competition, as we all know.
You would have a hard time if you lived near a Redbox. They generally have 50-60 titles in this slick little vending machine. I find myself taking like 3-4 movies that I may want to see, and then only completely watch what turns out to be good stuff. For a buck each per day (the cutoff is 7pm-next day, so if you wait until 12:01am, you get two nights) you can afford to spread it out, or in your case, to rip 3-4 movies a night for a dollar each.
There is one of these at the supermarket down the road, and while the technology is fairly modern, using the UPS-style 3d barcodes, the geek in me wonders why they must use prepressed discs, and not burn-on-demand. Is it a speed, security, or reliability issue?
Of course, this doesn't help us in New York, Mass, Connecticut, California, and other states who have chosen prohibition of new diesel sales until fuel regs catch up. For newer, 2007+ models, the government WILL be telling you which diesel of the two you can use, punishable by heavy fines, of course. Good luck finding the right nozzle!
And only you can create a net presence for yourself, right?
The persistence of digital information is generally unpredictable. Sure, we all have forums, lists, etc. that we post positive, generally useful stuff on. What happens, though, when a few years pass, and oh gosh, you aren't so supportive of the College Republicans anymore, your ex posts naughty pictures on flickr with tags like "$your name$" and "$your phone number$", and those emails from your pastor you thought were gone when you swapped to a new hard drive appear on someone's public ftp site?
There is no recourse to delete, flag, or censor some content out there. And even if you did, there's the Way Back Machine for your employer's convenience. So I keep wondering, is this a privacy issue or an archiving one?
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I'm not sure why this is news either. I recommended my company to put one in their wood shop last fall because we occasionally have high school kids in there as interns. Anyway, for $2800, it can be purchased direct. I'd rather replace 100 blades a year than have one table saw accident, but that's my risk manager opinion.
I thought it was proven that consumers won't purchase particular media in advance back when it was tried with audio CDs. I am beginning to think that a cursory attempt at digital distribution is all they want, making it appear that they are defending their rights while supplementing income with civil lawsuit extortion. Nothing new, but it gets clearer every day to me.
I know it's basic, but I'd like to add that if you have control of the HTML of the page that you are posting you email to, you can use a simple tool to confuse the mining bots. It doesn't work on forums like slashdot, but a good scrambler that I've had success with is Enkoder.
I've wondered why more sites don't use Craigslist's method of temporary forwarding from an anonymous, random address that can be easily filtered if need be. Bandwidth?
I've been getting several 419-type spam emails over the last few weeks, up from zero in the past. I thought back, and the only thing that has changed is that my email address appeared in plaintext on the front page of slashdot. Not saying that it's the problem, but it is interesting in the timing.
It's not just that the best games are showing up on torrentspy, that will always happen. What is more troubling is the entitlement that many gamers seem to have for new software, especially among the geek community. It comes from, I think, an association of development hours with quality. It is all too easy to raise your standards high enough to not pay for anything.
You might say that the quality level of commercial software just isn't beating out what has come prior and what is available in freeware. Would you pay 50 bucks for Snood? What about a flash based 3d game? Somehow we see sprites and traditional graphics and think, "free software". That is a problem. Some of the blame should fall on the developers too - with high quality open source FPS and MMORPG engines out there, it's not good enough to just be in the market anymore.
Software is no different that music or movies, in that our expectations for games are much different than they were even five years ago. There is real demand for a social network aspect, open source hex data for add-ons, free bug fixes, a nice box, and perhaps access to a strategy guide printed and online. We want something for our money, because if it's just a simple puzzle/strategy/text game, well, that should be free for download anyway, right?
Until this is addressed, the game industry will continue its struggles.
Just to get it out there, I'm looking for AutoCAD to run under WINE and still have the ability to use the scripts I've spent years writing. That would get me somewhere. It also seems, from
How deep does the banner advertising market go? I can't imagine that there is that much advertising-per-desktop to go around, with adwords already out there thriving. In simple supply/demand terms, instead of subscribers bolting, you will see cost per click plummet.
IIRC, most 3d modelling software, like Maya, can only represent NURBS curves in real time through tesselation like you mentioned, usually accessed through some appropriation of openGL. The rendering engine, software which uses the central processor only, is always much slower, averaging 10-120 minutes per image. It can be reduced as more processors are added in parallel, but the day when I can rotate a fully lit, textured, full depth scene in a raytracer on my workstation will be a good one.
Tidal energy is intriguing, though. I thought it was only useful in shallow water, where a plenum effect could be achieved. Is there new tech in this area?
Hey, do you know any of those short-sighted folks who live on Cape Cod? I keep waiting for them to show up on /.
This is one of the reasons I can't really recommend Dapper (at least the way it comes pressed) for a non-geek to 'try out'. It's easier to convince someone to give a new look to their machine a shot when it's "hit space bar if you would like to try it, and if not, don't do anything to get to your normal OS" than vice-versa.
There (could be argued) is a creative element to a 1-meter resolution 3d model of NYC. It's the effort of parsing reality and deciding what to keep in there and not. My model may include pigeons, roof antennas, and data on different types of window glass. Yours has that new building going up on 5th ave, MTA bus stops, and three homeless guys under the central park bridges. It's not just data, it's an interpretation. I can't see how the definition of 'database' can include geometry on a large scale, more like 'art' to me.
This is all interesting to me, for two reasons. I fear the trend of lockdown, where every microscopic piece of content has to be traced to the source, and you are correct in saying that restrictions are showing up in the most unusual places (the Harley-Davidson's exhaust sound pitch is trademarked and perhaps even copyrighted, I'm not sure).
At the same time, previously DRM was able to 'hide' in relative obscurity, partly because it was hidden in wrappers like CSS and iTMS, forerunners in the technology that became widespread in the pre-blog era. In the next few years, widespread knowledge of DRM can only hurt it, for all the reasons we know - it only hurts your customers, no resale, hardware lock-in, etc. DRM is even showing up in major news outlets *today*. It's about time.
Completely off topic, too, Wegmans is one heck of a supermarket. It has that Trader Joes feel on a large scale. Also tremendous subs that they will make for ya. Too bad they haven't gotten to my state yet.
It is interesting how some companies work very hard to force an image of different identities on their different divisons. For example, Gillette recently tried to distance themselves from a teen body spray that they were producing. It's good for the bottom line to create (perceived) competition, as we all know.
Shouldn't even be responding, but oh well... He was referring to the blank media. Geez.
There is one of these at the supermarket down the road, and while the technology is fairly modern, using the UPS-style 3d barcodes, the geek in me wonders why they must use prepressed discs, and not burn-on-demand. Is it a speed, security, or reliability issue?
Of course, this doesn't help us in New York, Mass, Connecticut, California, and other states who have chosen prohibition of new diesel sales until fuel regs catch up. For newer, 2007+ models, the government WILL be telling you which diesel of the two you can use, punishable by heavy fines, of course. Good luck finding the right nozzle!
Get out of the farmland-reducing, culture-obliterating, white diaspora known as your subdevelopment much?
It should be opt-in, not the other way.
The persistence of digital information is generally unpredictable. Sure, we all have forums, lists, etc. that we post positive, generally useful stuff on. What happens, though, when a few years pass, and oh gosh, you aren't so supportive of the College Republicans anymore, your ex posts naughty pictures on flickr with tags like "$your name$" and "$your phone number$", and those emails from your pastor you thought were gone when you swapped to a new hard drive appear on someone's public ftp site?
There is no recourse to delete, flag, or censor some content out there. And even if you did, there's the Way Back Machine for your employer's convenience. So I keep wondering, is this a privacy issue or an archiving one?