So now it's a BAD thing that we have lots of information? Wasn't the "Information age" about giving people the power to get all the information possible? Wasn't last week's rant complaining about your "thought police" - MS, ABC, AOL-TW?
This is what we wanted. We got it. It's working correctly.
Small example - see the anti-globalisation movement. The stories started on sites like indymedia - got socitey-moderated up to larger sites like/. - and THEN carried on the 6pm news.
"How does a hand-grenade explosion a few feet away from you motivate you if you've just been marching 16 hours in tremendous heat?"
I don't believe that what he's looking for is "you're motivated into little tiny bits". My guess is that he wants to assume that the person lived and now has to act. Do you run away? Play dead? Go postal on where the enemy might be? Can you react, or be trained to react, in the best possible way regardless of fatigue/stress/injury.
BOOYA! Site down. Funny message on there though. Pasted below so you guys don't slashdot him a SECOND time
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Look into the air powered car.
http://www.cartoday.com/livenews/news/00/10/27.3 .a sp
Talk about cool - with a filter on the exaust this thing would have NEGITIVE air pollution. And it runs as good as an electric. The down side is there's no big company controlling AIR (Yet) so no one would make money off of fuel.
...because this stupid feature is disabled by default*. In Microsoft-land this means that 99.99% of users will never enable or even be aware of it - ala the "Don't spam everyone I know with e-mail virii" check box in Outlook.
* - This, of course, could change. That would be something to fight about.
You got modded down for failure to use the proper form...
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G.H.
What if we DIDN'T have a beowulf cluster of these...
That's real nice till you look one link deeper and see...
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So what they are saying is - "We'll play nice until we decide we don't want to anymore."
It would be funnier if, at the end, all of the guys DIED horrible deaths. And their families too! And their DOGS! OH GOD I *HATE* DOT-COM GUYS DOGS! BLEAARRGHH!!!
I mean, WTF? The absolute GLEE in the crash of dot-coms is kind of sickening. People are out of work. Real people - not just a few asshole biz school drop-outs* who could use Front Page.
I wonder if I beat the game will I understand the ending?
G.H.
Re:MS can release whenever they like... TROLL
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You are obviously one of those pathetic DC owners who (wrongly) hate Sony for killing Sega. The troll I responed to was WRONG. Just like you are WRONG.
The PS2 is an AWESOME invention. To have power like that in a little box for $300 is AMAZING! When I first got into video games with my home pong set I could never have hoped for graphics like this. To say it didn't live up to the hype is also WRONG. They said graphics would be outstanding. Have you seen MGS2? I own it. Have you seen the screens for GT3? That's not on "pre-alpha" hardware - thats on the PS2.
As for me being some silly Sony fan boy I am not. I am a gamer. If the games are good I will buy the system. As of yet I haven't heard about an EXCLUSIVE title I would want to play. So I play other systems. I have 3 OUTSTANDING games for my N64 - Zelda, Perfect Dark, and Harvest Moon 64. I also have 2 OUTSTANDING games for my PS2 - SSX and Tekken Tag. I only have 1 OUTSTANDING game for my DC - MvC2. I have DOZENS of OUTSTANDING games for my SNES. By your (odd) "logic" that makes my SNES the better system.
If the Xbox is good, it'll last with the PS2 and the Dolphin. If not M$ will have thrown away a great deal of money.
I personally think that a stripped down PC will not be as good as a dedicated game machine. But I will reserve judgement until I *SEE* the thing. The rest of you should do the same.
G.H.
My Boss is an Italian Plumber.
Re:MS can release whenever they like... TROLL
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No X Box for Xmas?
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Ok troll eat FACTS!
- PS2 sold 10 million units. They *still* sell out in minutes and you *still* can't find them on shelves. Disappointment my ass.
- MS MIGHT have 100 diffrent people that said "Sure, we'll make a game" What they DON'T have is EXCLUSIVE titles. They have like 8-10. That's not enough.
- This is where I *know* you are a Troll. Nintendo usually produces most games in-house. And they are *ALL* good. Zelda. Mario. 007. Conker. etc.
And finally, you silly troll, you talk about the difference in graphics quality. You say this NEVER HAVING SEEN A GAME ON THE XBOX. You can't know the difference because the xbox doesn't even have _alpha_ hardware yet. They have "dev kits" not actual hardware so what we see on those screen shots is at best a guesstimate of what it will look like. But you can go play GT3 or the MGS2 demo -=NOW=- and see the quality of the PS2.
I normally do pet the trolls but this one got modded up. WTF?
This isn't government, this is a PRIVATE company. Other than that you're right on track!!! Microsoft and the RIAA will use this new space weapon on anyone who turns an XBox into an MP3 web server!!!
That's why I'm patenting my new "SPACE-LASER-FACE-NOT-BURN-OFF STUFF" (TM). If you send me $20 I'll send you a WHOLE ROLL of tin foil so those nasty buggers don't melt your face or your MP3 collection. Hurry! Before it's TOO LATE!!
The problem with the appliance model of computing is that, beyond a small demographic, it won't work. The reason for that is that rarely to people want the same function out of a PC. You like games, I like programming, Joe likes manporn, etc... From an applicance, like the toaster, everyone wants and expects basically the same thing - warm bread.
off topic - Windows 2000 and the new Office XP beta are BEAUTIFUL works of software. MS management is evil (what management ISN'T?) but their engineers have made wonderful products. You want an appliance? Check the new advanced terminal services client for Win2k TS.
Uhh... like curing cancer? Even if this is a plot to sell you cycles to the highest bidder so what. You are STILL HELPING (in a 10% kinda way). That is 10% more cancer research than my curent screen saver is doing (how's that for ad copy?). I for one think this is a "Good Thing".
And for those that are pissed off that this is run by a for-profit company look research going on in Universities. Most, if not all, has some form of a corp in it so this is not a new thing, an evil thing, or even a noteworthy thing.
If ever there was intellectual property, it's your own name, address, and SSN
Easy solution. Trademark your name just like the rich and famous do. Then no one can use your name without permission. Seems easy, painless, and legal.
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You want a secure, programmable, remote start for your car with a voice UI and reporting features?
Have a child. They also mow lawns and do dishes.
Can't patent them though, my parents have prior art...
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G.H.
So now it's a BAD thing that we have lots of information? Wasn't the "Information age" about giving people the power to get all the information possible? Wasn't last week's rant complaining about your "thought police" - MS, ABC, AOL-TW?
/. - and THEN carried on the 6pm news.
This is what we wanted. We got it. It's working correctly.
Small example - see the anti-globalisation movement. The stories started on sites like indymedia - got socitey-moderated up to larger sites like
G.H.
"How does a hand-grenade explosion a few feet away from you motivate you if you've just been marching 16 hours in tremendous heat?"
I don't believe that what he's looking for is "you're motivated into little tiny bits". My guess is that he wants to assume that the person lived and now has to act. Do you run away? Play dead? Go postal on where the enemy might be? Can you react, or be trained to react, in the best possible way regardless of fatigue/stress/injury.
G.H.
BOOYA! Site down. Funny message on there though. Pasted below so you guys don't slashdot him a SECOND time
Sorry!
You and all your friends wanted to see this site -- All your friends got here first.
-Todd Klindt, MCSE (Minesweeper champion, solitare expert)
Needless to say, the server is smoking. The site should be up again shortly. If you would like to mirror the site, please email adam@portablemonopoly.com. Thanks!
--The Management
Look into the air powered car.3 .a sp
http://www.cartoday.com/livenews/news/00/10/27.
Talk about cool - with a filter on the exaust this thing would have NEGITIVE air pollution. And it runs as good as an electric. The down side is there's no big company controlling AIR (Yet) so no one would make money off of fuel.
G.H.
According to MS (find your own link :) the feature is "ON" now but will come "OFF" in the actual release. Could be true. Could be damn lies.
G.H.
...because this stupid feature is disabled by default*. In Microsoft-land this means that 99.99% of users will never enable or even be aware of it - ala the "Don't spam everyone I know with e-mail virii" check box in Outlook.
* - This, of course, could change. That would be something to fight about.
G.H.
Oh wait, that would imply that they had souls.
Oh, fuckin' grow up, Taco
You got modded down for failure to use the proper form...
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G.H.
What if we DIDN'T have a beowulf cluster of these...
That's real nice till you look one link deeper and see...
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So what they are saying is - "We'll play nice until we decide we don't want to anymore."
it's great that Jon Katz organizes his thoughts and the facts
"Jon Katz" and "facts" in the same sentence. Now I've seen everything...
G.H.
If you mod me down I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine...
It would be funnier if, at the end, all of the guys DIED horrible deaths. And their families too! And their DOGS! OH GOD I *HATE* DOT-COM GUYS DOGS! BLEAARRGHH!!!
:P
I mean, WTF? The absolute GLEE in the crash of dot-coms is kind of sickening. People are out of work. Real people - not just a few asshole biz school drop-outs* who could use Front Page.
G.H.
* - those jerks deserve it.
I wonder if I beat the game will I understand the ending?
G.H.
You are obviously one of those pathetic DC owners who (wrongly) hate Sony for killing Sega. The troll I responed to was WRONG. Just like you are WRONG.
The PS2 is an AWESOME invention. To have power like that in a little box for $300 is AMAZING! When I first got into video games with my home pong set I could never have hoped for graphics like this. To say it didn't live up to the hype is also WRONG. They said graphics would be outstanding. Have you seen MGS2? I own it. Have you seen the screens for GT3? That's not on "pre-alpha" hardware - thats on the PS2.
As for me being some silly Sony fan boy I am not. I am a gamer. If the games are good I will buy the system. As of yet I haven't heard about an EXCLUSIVE title I would want to play. So I play other systems. I have 3 OUTSTANDING games for my N64 - Zelda, Perfect Dark, and Harvest Moon 64. I also have 2 OUTSTANDING games for my PS2 - SSX and Tekken Tag. I only have 1 OUTSTANDING game for my DC - MvC2. I have DOZENS of OUTSTANDING games for my SNES. By your (odd) "logic" that makes my SNES the better system.
If the Xbox is good, it'll last with the PS2 and the Dolphin. If not M$ will have thrown away a great deal of money.
I personally think that a stripped down PC will not be as good as a dedicated game machine. But I will reserve judgement until I *SEE* the thing. The rest of you should do the same.
G.H.
My Boss is an Italian Plumber.
Ok troll eat FACTS!
- PS2 sold 10 million units. They *still* sell out in minutes and you *still* can't find them on shelves. Disappointment my ass.
- MS MIGHT have 100 diffrent people that said "Sure, we'll make a game" What they DON'T have is EXCLUSIVE titles. They have like 8-10. That's not enough.
- This is where I *know* you are a Troll. Nintendo usually produces most games in-house. And they are *ALL* good. Zelda. Mario. 007. Conker. etc.
And finally, you silly troll, you talk about the difference in graphics quality. You say this NEVER HAVING SEEN A GAME ON THE XBOX. You can't know the difference because the xbox doesn't even have _alpha_ hardware yet. They have "dev kits" not actual hardware so what we see on those screen shots is at best a guesstimate of what it will look like. But you can go play GT3 or the MGS2 demo -=NOW=- and see the quality of the PS2.
I normally do pet the trolls but this one got modded up. WTF?
G.H.
I own a PS2. Do you?
The biggest irony of that song is that is doesn't have anything ironic in it.
G.H.
Mod me down! I could STILL kick your butt at SF2!
This isn't government, this is a PRIVATE company. Other than that you're right on track!!! Microsoft and the RIAA will use this new space weapon on anyone who turns an XBox into an MP3 web server!!!
.sig
That's why I'm patenting my new "SPACE-LASER-FACE-NOT-BURN-OFF STUFF" (TM). If you send me $20 I'll send you a WHOLE ROLL of tin foil so those nasty buggers don't melt your face or your MP3 collection. Hurry! Before it's TOO LATE!!
G.H.
This is NOT a
The big questions are
1) Will they still use humans to classify the material?
2) Are they hiring?
G.H.
Fighting the War on the War on Drugs.
ALL YOUR BUILDING ARE BELONG TO MICROSOFT!
G.H.
Sorry. Couldn't be helped.
The problem with the appliance model of computing is that, beyond a small demographic, it won't work. The reason for that is that rarely to people want the same function out of a PC. You like games, I like programming, Joe likes manporn, etc... From an applicance, like the toaster, everyone wants and expects basically the same thing - warm bread.
off topic - Windows 2000 and the new Office XP beta are BEAUTIFUL works of software. MS management is evil (what management ISN'T?) but their engineers have made wonderful products. You want an appliance? Check the new advanced terminal services client for Win2k TS.
Uhh... like curing cancer? Even if this is a plot to sell you cycles to the highest bidder so what. You are STILL HELPING (in a 10% kinda way). That is 10% more cancer research than my curent screen saver is doing (how's that for ad copy?). I for one think this is a "Good Thing".
And for those that are pissed off that this is run by a for-profit company look research going on in Universities. Most, if not all, has some form of a corp in it so this is not a new thing, an evil thing, or even a noteworthy thing.
G.H.
I like OS because it's X-tream. I also want to run Windows XP! And Linu-X! I'll be so XXXXing leet....
G.H.
ALL YOUR BASE ARE OVER ALREADYEasy solution. Trademark your name just like the rich and famous do. Then no one can use your name without permission. Seems easy, painless, and legal.