I really wish they wouldn't refer to Direct Rendering Manager as DRM. I know it's clear that it isn't that DRM but those letters are forever tainted, it's distracting.
Pimping people? Posting a link to buy a book at the end of a review is "pimping" now is it?
I don't care if some guy is posting 5-star reviews on Amazon, nor have I denied that Packt use astroturfing. They might, they might not, I don't much care in either case really. My issue is that every review of a Packt book comes with the same old bullshit whining even when, as in this case, the review is largely negative. The fact that they would do something as amateurish and transparent as having someone astroturf by solely reviewing Packt books with 5 stars only serves to lessen the likelihood that the negative book review above would have come from them.
But hey, keep flailing around about how Packt can't clearly be using shills to try to push books.
Yes, I shall keep flailing around with my wild notions of "logic" and "reason". Have you ever thought about dropping the 'Lunix' part of your username, it seems rather redundant.
So Packt are paying CmdrTaco to put up a bad review with a link to the book in the hope that people don't read/heed the review but just buy the book anyway? Riiiight...
No real use to the community, especially not in the sense that Carmack releasing the Q3 and other engines was.
What community is that? I expect the game-playing community will be quite happy with what comes from this. As will many in many of the game-making communities. The open source community may not get too much from this, but whoever said it was for them?
As for the stupid, rabid, open-source-or-die community which you represent perfectly, you can go die in your hole or irrelevance. Nobody cares about you.
But seriously, releasing things under non-Free licences seems to be very 90ies and while it's nice that they are making an effort, it's mis-guided, imo.
Equally seriously, what world are you living on? That sentence doesn't even slightly describe reality. If you hadn't mentioned APL and BSD in your previous post I'd assume your were Richard Stallman.
If there was some precious metals or something, I'm sure there would be lots of companies trying to get them and turn it into money. But there isn't. On the other hand, Mars surely could have such.
Yes it probably does. I'd very much like to know how anyone intends to make a profit of taking a mining operation to Mars and then shipping the stuff back to Earth. That's once they've found it of course. No point going sending machinery and people until you know just where you're sending them. And finding it is probably the one thing that we could actually do with robots using today's technology. But nobody's doing that AFAIK - it's all talk about manned missions for the bragging rights (with maybe a little science on the side).
In an interview, Joseph Connelly, VegNews’s publisher, apologized for using nonvegan images and said the practice would be discontinued. An earlier statement by the magazine acknowledged using stock images of meat and dairy but said it was necessary for budgetary reasons and would continue.
They can't afford to cook and photograph vegan meals?
I'm so sick of all these various companies, and government space programmes telling us what they can do in 10 or 20 years. Apparently everyone and his dog will be on Mars by then, meanwhile nobody has actually walked even on the Moon in nearly 40 years. Don't get me wrong, I'd like very much for someone to do all these things they predict, but I wish they'd just shut up and do them instead of talking about all the great things they're going to do.
Didn't stop them putting leaflets in the post box every few weeks trying to get us to sign up though...
I think that's the standard amount for "we can't actually provide this service in your area". VM cable actually is available here and I've received two A4 packages from them each week since I moved in (nearly 1 year ago). They make the 90s' AOL and Compuserve mail barrages look tame by comparison.
I wonder when these consolidations will stop being a good idea?
Good idea for who? For you, me and every other buyer they never were a good idea. For high level execs and investors of the buyee who get golden handshakes and massive buyouts, and for the would-be-monopolists of the buyer then they'll never stop being a good idea.
One thing they've mentioned on many occasions is that 404 errors bug the shit out of them. In the Xanadu system, all links were two-way, and you couldn't end up with a broken reference like that.
How would it be possible to not have 404's unless every document took control (ie. a copy) of every document to which it linked (and subsequently would have to link to everything linked in those linked pages, ad infinitum).
That seems to be the obvious flaw in everything this guy has talked about for 50 years. XanaduSpace is really no different from a web browser with regular links, all that it does is load all linked pages simultaneously and display the linked documents in the background of some 3D view. Real browsers don't do this because they have to deal with the reality that the linked pages are hosted remotely and therefore have latency and bandwidth issues which need to be balanced with the likelihood of a user wanting to actually follow that link.
XanaduSpace's entire concept seems to be predicated on the assumption that all linked content is immediately available and immutable. This obviously cannot work on non-trivial amounts of data. Either it would mean having the entire Internet on your local computer or, slightly more realistically (but altogether more scary), having some kind of central Internet server/database/authority that maintained control of all published documents. Short of an international fascist uprising I don't see that happening.
Ever think *some* Slashdotters don't spend all day refreshing and trying to get 'first post' ?
Yes, but in that case I'd hope that they might actually read some comments to see if what they're going to post has already been said*. Seeing as this guy repeated the contents of the first and second responses to the article I chose to give the benefit of the doubt and assume GGP was merely very very thorough rather than inept.
First comment about Charlie Sheen posted by AC @09:14PM (First Post!!!1) Second comment about Charlie Sheen posted by Tablizer @09:15PM Your Charlie Sheen comment posted @10:05PM
Ever think you're putting a little too much care and attention into your posts?
Why don't the side effects ever make your dick grow? The side effects always seem to suck.
Because if someone develops anything that does that as a side-effect, that will quickly become the effect. New penis enlarger (side effects may include: hairiness, full bladder control, anxious mousiness)
That's what I've been wondering. With constant GPS signal all over the place, what do we need land-based atomic clock synchronisation for?
You put all of your eggs in one basket, and sooner or later that basket is going to be wiped out by a tsunami/quake.
If a tsunami or quake takes out GPS satellites in orbit 20km above the surface of the Earth I think accurate time-keeping will be the least of anyone's worries.
Slashdot Mirror
Which is why I mostly eat spiders out of tissues :(
Ah yes, the good old Cuban Missile Crisis of 1947. I remember it well.
I really wish they wouldn't refer to Direct Rendering Manager as DRM. I know it's clear that it isn't that DRM but those letters are forever tainted, it's distracting.
Makes sense "America" Online didn't take off in NotAmerica ;-)
Not for lack of trying though. We in NotAmerica still had to put up with those fucking AOL CDs arriving in the post every other day.
If you were native to the internet you were too busy riding around on lightcycles to worry about chat.
Company bringing out product says competition bad. News at 11.
Negative quote about "Microsoft and others" summarised on Slashdot as negative quote about Microsoft. News at 11.
Is anyone else as bored of this shit as me?
You can't help but think that this is the way all programmng will be done in the future.
Yes, occasionally, when I'm at my most cynical.
Pimping people? Posting a link to buy a book at the end of a review is "pimping" now is it?
I don't care if some guy is posting 5-star reviews on Amazon, nor have I denied that Packt use astroturfing. They might, they might not, I don't much care in either case really. My issue is that every review of a Packt book comes with the same old bullshit whining even when, as in this case, the review is largely negative. The fact that they would do something as amateurish and transparent as having someone astroturf by solely reviewing Packt books with 5 stars only serves to lessen the likelihood that the negative book review above would have come from them.
But hey, keep flailing around about how Packt can't clearly be using shills to try to push books.
Yes, I shall keep flailing around with my wild notions of "logic" and "reason". Have you ever thought about dropping the 'Lunix' part of your username, it seems rather redundant.
So Packt are paying CmdrTaco to put up a bad review with a link to the book in the hope that people don't read/heed the review but just buy the book anyway? Riiiight...
Packt must be paying decently to CmdrTaco to keep allowing these shill reviews to go up.
Did you actually read the review?
at least now I know why I feel so numb after working all day on my armadillo farm.
That's not leprosy, that's the creeping sense of despair one feels when they realise they've ended up working on an armadillo farm.
No real use to the community, especially not in the sense that Carmack releasing the Q3 and other engines was.
What community is that? I expect the game-playing community will be quite happy with what comes from this. As will many in many of the game-making communities. The open source community may not get too much from this, but whoever said it was for them?
As for the stupid, rabid, open-source-or-die community which you represent perfectly, you can go die in your hole or irrelevance. Nobody cares about you.
But seriously, releasing things under non-Free licences seems to be very 90ies and while it's nice that they are making an effort, it's mis-guided, imo.
Equally seriously, what world are you living on? That sentence doesn't even slightly describe reality. If you hadn't mentioned APL and BSD in your previous post I'd assume your were Richard Stallman.
So not GPL nor APL nor BSD. Not interested.
The gaming world at large is devastated by this news.
If there was some precious metals or something, I'm sure there would be lots of companies trying to get them and turn it into money. But there isn't. On the other hand, Mars surely could have such.
Yes it probably does. I'd very much like to know how anyone intends to make a profit of taking a mining operation to Mars and then shipping the stuff back to Earth. That's once they've found it of course. No point going sending machinery and people until you know just where you're sending them. And finding it is probably the one thing that we could actually do with robots using today's technology. But nobody's doing that AFAIK - it's all talk about manned missions for the bragging rights (with maybe a little science on the side).
In an interview, Joseph Connelly, VegNews’s publisher, apologized for using nonvegan images and said the practice would be discontinued. An earlier statement by the magazine acknowledged using stock images of meat and dairy but said it was necessary for budgetary reasons and would continue.
They can't afford to cook and photograph vegan meals?
I'm so sick of all these various companies, and government space programmes telling us what they can do in 10 or 20 years. Apparently everyone and his dog will be on Mars by then, meanwhile nobody has actually walked even on the Moon in nearly 40 years. Don't get me wrong, I'd like very much for someone to do all these things they predict, but I wish they'd just shut up and do them instead of talking about all the great things they're going to do.
Didn't stop them putting leaflets in the post box every few weeks trying to get us to sign up though...
I think that's the standard amount for "we can't actually provide this service in your area". VM cable actually is available here and I've received two A4 packages from them each week since I moved in (nearly 1 year ago). They make the 90s' AOL and Compuserve mail barrages look tame by comparison.
I wonder when these consolidations will stop being a good idea?
Good idea for who? For you, me and every other buyer they never were a good idea. For high level execs and investors of the buyee who get golden handshakes and massive buyouts, and for the would-be-monopolists of the buyer then they'll never stop being a good idea.
One thing they've mentioned on many occasions is that 404 errors bug the shit out of them. In the Xanadu system, all links were two-way, and you couldn't end up with a broken reference like that.
How would it be possible to not have 404's unless every document took control (ie. a copy) of every document to which it linked (and subsequently would have to link to everything linked in those linked pages, ad infinitum).
That seems to be the obvious flaw in everything this guy has talked about for 50 years. XanaduSpace is really no different from a web browser with regular links, all that it does is load all linked pages simultaneously and display the linked documents in the background of some 3D view. Real browsers don't do this because they have to deal with the reality that the linked pages are hosted remotely and therefore have latency and bandwidth issues which need to be balanced with the likelihood of a user wanting to actually follow that link.
XanaduSpace's entire concept seems to be predicated on the assumption that all linked content is immediately available and immutable. This obviously cannot work on non-trivial amounts of data. Either it would mean having the entire Internet on your local computer or, slightly more realistically (but altogether more scary), having some kind of central Internet server/database/authority that maintained control of all published documents. Short of an international fascist uprising I don't see that happening.
Ever think *some* Slashdotters don't spend all day refreshing and trying to get 'first post' ?
Yes, but in that case I'd hope that they might actually read some comments to see if what they're going to post has already been said*. Seeing as this guy repeated the contents of the first and second responses to the article I chose to give the benefit of the doubt and assume GGP was merely very very thorough rather than inept.
*: Yes, yes, I must be new here.
First comment about Charlie Sheen posted by AC @09:14PM (First Post!!!1)
Second comment about Charlie Sheen posted by Tablizer @09:15PM
Your Charlie Sheen comment posted @10:05PM
Ever think you're putting a little too much care and attention into your posts?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octillion
Was that really so hard?
Why don't the side effects ever make your dick grow? The side effects always seem to suck.
Because if someone develops anything that does that as a side-effect, that will quickly become the effect. New penis enlarger (side effects may include: hairiness, full bladder control, anxious mousiness)
That's what I've been wondering. With constant GPS signal all over the place, what do we need land-based atomic clock synchronisation for?
You put all of your eggs in one basket, and sooner or later that basket is going to be wiped out by a tsunami/quake.
If a tsunami or quake takes out GPS satellites in orbit 20km above the surface of the Earth I think accurate time-keeping will be the least of anyone's worries.