Cut! That's a wrap, people. Great scene. I loved the way you handed him the hush money, like it was dirty.
Now, remove the actors' faces, and use that new algorithm to seamlessly insert every known political figure for the stills.
Welcome to spam-blackmail baby.
there is no MPAA equivalent in the gaming industry
Thank God for that. I don't want every video game to use Steam. I want to play w/o the internet thank you.
Remember that slashdot article a couple days ago where it was found that monkeys learn like humans? Well, neither do I. That's because neither of us did the research or wrote the article. We just read it (or more likely, the slashdot responses). The gist of the article was that humans learn best by _doing_ instead of passively watching (even though the "passive watching" functions in our brains as a virtual "us" "doing" the thing, thus is slightly better than just reading).
So, it can be argued that actively making the decision to pull the trigger in a FPS, or go save the princess and slay the dragon in an RPG will train your mind in a certain way more than merely reading a story or watching a movie. We don't feel what Jason Bourne feels when he offs yet another target/rouge-agent, but when you know that someone is at the other end of your gun (even if it's virtual), you know you're going to be causing them some level of discomfort, even if it's just the denial of their winning. That knowledge can start to foster some pretty dark emotions/goals after a while if you're not careful (we're all familiar with griefers, yes?).
So to translate to meatspace: We've been overrun by billions of deaf & blind prospectors who never found out the gold rush was over, and that every inch of land is owned. Hey! Watch that pick-axe this isn't a mine!
Rather, the suggestion I think is that these things should be able to interoperate, so that your profile didn't "belong to" Facebook or Myspace. As in, you could have your one profile that could be used in any social network you want.
Like, say, the ubiquitous personal website links? I'll be kajiggered if I'll allow linkedin, facebook, myspace, etc to alter anything on my personal site.
Yeah, that's right: kajiggered.
Thank you for your off topic response. I've been searching for information properly since before you used gopher junior.
My gripe is that the default search on IU's websites is no longer using google with a "site=". Instead, it's using ChaCha. It's causing me headaches because people keep phoning me for info that they used to be able to search for easily.
I've discovered the exact opposite to be true. I've been an IU student/staff member for more than a decade, and have only in the last couple weeks gotten ridiculous results in my searches. Searching UITS's site for certain information is impossible now. I'm lucky I can remember a lot of URLs if I think hard enough.
And beyond that, they'll not have much use for it. Without internet access, a computer is a tool for the middle and upper classes only (unless you think using a computer at home will making rice farming or sweatshop-working better).
Most face recognition algorithms are based on eye/nose/mouth location ratios, which don't change based on beards, (fake) chins, etc. Your beard is safe.
I would hate this face-pin. I can't recognize faces, so badly that once when a girlfriend changed her hairstyle, I walked past her (although in my defense, she was in a sea of people all dressed in graduation robes, so I was looking for her [formerly] distinctive hairstyle).
The only biometrics I would trust would be an EEG style device that measured your brainwaves as you either thought about a specific memory, or twitched some muscles in sequence. That way, the password is still internal, but non-reproducible even if someone watches you to see what muscles you twitched. And, there's no issue like someone cutting off your finger to use for a finger scan because you have to be alive, cognizant, and (likely) not under fear of death for it to work.
That said, the minor OCD in me says "eww, head lice".
Random moderately related info:
1 Kings 10:14-15
The weight of the gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents, not including the revenues from merchants and traders and from all the Arabian kings and the governors of the land.
[25 tons]
So, 666 (the number of the beast) is related to great wealth (possibly by coincidence), presumably wealth in such excess that it's ludicrous. To make a wild slashdot style leap: Most ATMs I've seen run Windows, and MS would love for people to not be able to do business without using MS Office...
I'd be more concerned about Battlefield 2, Call of Duty, or some other games which are closer to actual battle scenes. But even they aren't close to reality; In these games, committing suicide for the cause (ramming a c4'd car into a tank) works because you respawn 10 seconds later.
two really important features of the iPhone (use as a video iPod, and use with WiFi) depend on a computer hanging around somewhere.
For WiFi, you just need an open AP, available almost anywhere. For video, you just need Wifi, available at the nearest open AP.
No other computers needed.
Hear, Hear! Project Management software is intended for mid-large sized groups. Add the PHP factor, and I'd only suggest it for large groups that _have_ to have it.
I find it very surprising that a police department would even have interest in building a tool that is so incredibly ripe for abuse, when it is likely to open them to all sorts of litigation
I agree, however, I think the money they get from new speeding tickets will temporarily offset the losses from lawsuits. If you have a time & location for every plate tracked, you have velocity information as well. If you couldn't have reasonably gotten from point A to point B without driving 10-40 miles over the speed limit _somewhere_, then you'll be hit with a ticket in the mail when the datamining starts.
Slashdot Mirror
Cut! That's a wrap, people. Great scene. I loved the way you handed him the hush money, like it was dirty.
Now, remove the actors' faces, and use that new algorithm to seamlessly insert every known political figure for the stills.
Welcome to spam-blackmail baby.
Social Network _Safety_. I still see a lot of kids on facebook putting _way_ too much information out for _everyone_, including addresses.
I don't know about lynx, but it doesn't seem to crash telnet to port 80.
Thank God for that. I don't want every video game to use Steam. I want to play w/o the internet thank you.
Head splatter? Wow. That used to rank an R rating.
Remember that slashdot article a couple days ago where it was found that monkeys learn like humans? Well, neither do I. That's because neither of us did the research or wrote the article. We just read it (or more likely, the slashdot responses). The gist of the article was that humans learn best by _doing_ instead of passively watching (even though the "passive watching" functions in our brains as a virtual "us" "doing" the thing, thus is slightly better than just reading).
So, it can be argued that actively making the decision to pull the trigger in a FPS, or go save the princess and slay the dragon in an RPG will train your mind in a certain way more than merely reading a story or watching a movie. We don't feel what Jason Bourne feels when he offs yet another target/rouge-agent, but when you know that someone is at the other end of your gun (even if it's virtual), you know you're going to be causing them some level of discomfort, even if it's just the denial of their winning. That knowledge can start to foster some pretty dark emotions/goals after a while if you're not careful (we're all familiar with griefers, yes?).
So to translate to meatspace: We've been overrun by billions of deaf & blind prospectors who never found out the gold rush was over, and that every inch of land is owned. Hey! Watch that pick-axe this isn't a mine!
So, make the trigger use get recorded onto flash, along with a 640x480 fish-eye snapshot of the user?
Like, say, the ubiquitous personal website links? I'll be kajiggered if I'll allow linkedin, facebook, myspace, etc to alter anything on my personal site.
Yeah, that's right: kajiggered.
Thank you for your off topic response. I've been searching for information properly since before you used gopher junior.
My gripe is that the default search on IU's websites is no longer using google with a "site=". Instead, it's using ChaCha. It's causing me headaches because people keep phoning me for info that they used to be able to search for easily.
I've discovered the exact opposite to be true. I've been an IU student/staff member for more than a decade, and have only in the last couple weeks gotten ridiculous results in my searches. Searching UITS's site for certain information is impossible now. I'm lucky I can remember a lot of URLs if I think hard enough.
And beyond that, they'll not have much use for it. Without internet access, a computer is a tool for the middle and upper classes only (unless you think using a computer at home will making rice farming or sweatshop-working better).
Will this single player mode have anything to do with: Captain N, The Game Master?
M aster
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_N:_The_Game_
Why wait for netflix? Buy a 20 second clip from this lady.
Most face recognition algorithms are based on eye/nose/mouth location ratios, which don't change based on beards, (fake) chins, etc. Your beard is safe.
I would hate this face-pin. I can't recognize faces, so badly that once when a girlfriend changed her hairstyle, I walked past her (although in my defense, she was in a sea of people all dressed in graduation robes, so I was looking for her [formerly] distinctive hairstyle).
The only biometrics I would trust would be an EEG style device that measured your brainwaves as you either thought about a specific memory, or twitched some muscles in sequence. That way, the password is still internal, but non-reproducible even if someone watches you to see what muscles you twitched. And, there's no issue like someone cutting off your finger to use for a finger scan because you have to be alive, cognizant, and (likely) not under fear of death for it to work.
That said, the minor OCD in me says "eww, head lice".
Random moderately related info:
1 Kings 10:14-15
The weight of the gold that Solomon received yearly was 666 talents, not including the revenues from merchants and traders and from all the Arabian kings and the governors of the land.
[25 tons]
So, 666 (the number of the beast) is related to great wealth (possibly by coincidence), presumably wealth in such excess that it's ludicrous. To make a wild slashdot style leap: Most ATMs I've seen run Windows, and MS would love for people to not be able to do business without using MS Office...
I'd be more concerned about Battlefield 2, Call of Duty, or some other games which are closer to actual battle scenes. But even they aren't close to reality; In these games, committing suicide for the cause (ramming a c4'd car into a tank) works because you respawn 10 seconds later.
You should have rolled randomly; you could have gotten above average in everything.
For WiFi, you just need an open AP, available almost anywhere. For video, you just need Wifi, available at the nearest open AP.
No other computers needed.
So he's releasing it through the series of tubes? I eagerly await my download.
Hear, Hear! Project Management software is intended for mid-large sized groups. Add the PHP factor, and I'd only suggest it for large groups that _have_ to have it.
RT has time tracking.
I agree, however, I think the money they get from new speeding tickets will temporarily offset the losses from lawsuits. If you have a time & location for every plate tracked, you have velocity information as well. If you couldn't have reasonably gotten from point A to point B without driving 10-40 miles over the speed limit _somewhere_, then you'll be hit with a ticket in the mail when the datamining starts.