Here's another answer: if I was network TV brass, I would snatch this company (iCravetv) up. Have them broadcast my programming only. Sounds like a good way to get more advertising money to me.
But of course, everyone's reaction these days is to bring out the legal guns. *sigh*
Now, IANACL (I am not a Canadian Lawyer), but I can see how this could be a copyright violation. And I doubt that they could stand up against some heavy hitting networks with lots of cash to feed the legal machine.
And, in my opinion, it is still probably too early for this kind of service anyway. A simple rebroadcasting doesn't take advantage of the new medium. How about making it searchable (gee, I remember this great quote, but not who said it or what it was in), and on demand (I want to watch show X now!).
I don't know much about Canadian network TV, but if it is anything like network TV here, I don't think I would miss iCravetv a whole lot. Yeah, sure, there are a few jems in there every now and then, but most of it is garbage. I would much rather get transmition of a select group of Cable channels (and only the ones I want, no Food stations, Religious stations, (non)music stations, and all of that other cruft).
Here is a easier solution: get basic cable (gotta have it with the cable modem service anyway) and a tv card for your computer.;) There, that was easy wasn't it? You can even set up cron jobs to record your favorite shows. No messy lawyers to deal with.
[Bringing it back to Quake, which was Sig11's original intention anyway]
The campers were dug in like Alabama ticks, And the HPB's were up to their usual tricks. The other gamers in 'doze-land , and I in my GNU, I can't get any Quake3, what am I to do?
These days, most mainstream (read: crap) artists don't fill up normal cds.
Why exactly do you want to have a lot of wasted space on a DVD disk?
Maybe I'm totaly off base here, but what is audio on DVD going to do for you that CD audio doesn't? I (speaking personaly) don't need any higher quality than CD--I'd get more improvement from changing speakers.
Can someone fill me in on why DVD audio is a good thing?
Personaly, the only two distro's I consider are Debian and Redhat, but it really doesn't matter what you use, aside from the installation process.
You can set up any linux box to boot up to a simplistic (read: limited) X interface and feel like you're using windoze. But at the same time, you can take any user friendly distro and rip off the cruft, making it into a barebones system.
Personaly, between Debian and Redhat, I'm more of a Redhat man, because of how far Debian has gotten behind. Now, don't get me wrong, I have *high* respect for the Debian crew. They spend heaps of time making sure their distro has been tested and working flawlessly. Yeah, there may be a few less than perfect initscripts in RH, or this and that, but it isn't anything that 5 minutes wont fix, and it doesn't involve needing an internet connection. And it is also true that graphical installers happen to suck ass, but I'm not going to choose my distro based on something I only have to do once with it.
Because most of my installs have been on new machines, and I don't want to install Debian and then have to bring the whole system up to speed, as I think their stable distro is still glibc 2.0 (correct me if I am wrong on this). (Hehe, maybe I could find someone to make me some unstable distro cd's and find a non-critical box). I might be able to get away with a ftp/nfs install, but my internet connection (cable modem through Cox@Home) is terribly flaky.
When Debian goes stable on their latest distro, and I have another machine that needs a fresh install, it will be with Debian. If not, it will probably be a Redhat box. Doesn't really matter that much to me.
But the overall point is, no matter what distro you use, it is up to you if you want it to be windoze like, or if you want to tear it down and change it. Nothing is hidden from you when you run an open system.:)
I think this is an great example of how Linux can be good for business. IBM can benefit by allowing customers to run Domino on mainframes, and the community benefits from the kernel source that IBM would release. Not only that, but IBM bolsters their image with the open source community.
As your PHB would say, "This is a win-win situation."
Now, I've not tried it, but... Someone wrote a clone of Warcraft II for Linux. You need to own the original game for the graphics/sounds/maps/etc, but the engine is free.
I've skimmed through the FAQ and release notes, but I can't find much info on Full Circle that is compiled into Mozilla. The release pages says "Full Circle Enabled builds allow transmission of crash data back to Netscape, improved crash analysis, and posting of crash related information to the netscape.public.mozilla.crash-data news group".
That is pretty cool, but is it safe? Also, does that mean when I find a bug, I don't need to report it? It is reported automatically?
There may be people out there that see Linux as nothing but ani-Windows. They want to see Linux beat windows into the ground. These people really fail to see the strengths of Linux itself.
It is fun. Yup, that's right. I enjoy running it.
I don't preach Linux to people because it is the fastest horse in town, but because I enjoy it, and I think likeminded people will too. And almost without fail, they agree. Out of all of the people who I've helped transition, I've only lost one of them back to Windows land. You do have to hold their hand in the beginning, esp if they aren't good with *nix in general, but after a short amount of time, they become comfortable and enjoy running it.
or something similar. Just have the script grab the page in question, leet'ize it, and print it back out. Not too hard. A while back I wrote something like that to remove relocate urls from places like excite.
11) You live in North Korea. Three days ago the soldiers came to your tiny patch of farmland and took the few scraps of food they hadn't taken the week before. You have just boiled the last of your shoes and fed the softened leather to your 3-year-old child. She coughs, a sickly sound that cannot last much longer. Overhead you hear the drone of massive engines. You look into the sky, and thousands of tiny packages float down. You pick one up. It is made of plastic; you cannot feed it to your daughter. But the device talks to you, is solar powered, and teaches you how to use it to link to the Web. You have all the knowledge of the world at your fingertips; you can talk to thousands of others who share your desperate fate. The time has come to solve your problem in the most fundamental sense, and save the life of your daughter.
Well, in light of some of the recent stories on Slashdot, here is my answer: Using the ibm patent database as an aid, think of a common sense technology (ie one click shopping, yahoo's dynamic page generation) that hasn't been patented and grab it. Make millions.:P
Anyway, anyone else find it funny how this "final exam" is about the future of computing but most of the questions (1-4,8-10) were about, well, mostly money and the commercialization (sp?) of the internet? Is that all the internet is good for these days? *sigh* Granted there were some privacy questions in there, but 8/11 about money?
"Mike Riley, senior producer of Yahoo's finance section, said postings now can be banned, even if they are true, 'if the message causes confusion'"
Even if they are true. Ouch.
Now, I'm not worried about what Yahoo does on their servers. They have a right to do what they wish with their machines. But I am worried about how much censorship society thinks is appropriate. Now we've gotten to the point where we can ban truth. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Year 2003: This is a public service anouncement. All confusing things are hereby banned. That is all. Thank you.
"[The mouse] works just fine. I know, because I have done it, quite a lot."
Could you give some more info on that? I use my mouse to play q3test a lot, but it doesn't have any depth to it. I just point it in a particular direction and I can hit whatever happens to be closest to me in the line of sight. How could I select a 'window' that sits behind another 'window" in my line of sight.
"Think of your eyes. Close one eye. You can still function perfectly well in a 3D world, right? So, no, a 2D monitor is not limiting in a 3d environment."
Function perfectly well? Um, no not really. Try doing that and judging how far away that football that is flying toward you is. And how fast it is coming. But that is not really that big of a problem. The problem with the monitor is the narrow field of view. Trying to view a 3d world through a monitor is like having your vision limited to a small square about a foot in front of your face.
I do agree, however, that these problems will be solved over time. And I certainly look forward to my gloves and goggles.:)
Need better input and output devices.
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None of this is going to be too useful until we get some good input and output devices to use with it. Think about it, how well does a mouse that moves around in 2d work in a 3d environment? Same with your monitor, it is very limiting in a 3d environment.
What we need are gloves and goggles. Then this will become somewhat usefull. Think of all the desk space you could have. All you have to do is turn your head to a blank area. Don't like where an application is? Grab it with the glove and move it. With even more input devices, the implications for pr0n are unthinkable.;)
Hmm. I've been checking the local EB and Babbage's for any linux games but they always look at me with a blank stare.
I ordered CivCTP from loki directly, but I really wanted to buy MythII from a normal store.:/
I can't wait until q3 comes out, tho. It is going to rock being able to stroll up to the guy at Babbage's and say, "I want a copy of quake 3 for linux" and not have him say "is that like macintosh?"
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Here's another answer: if I was network TV brass, I would snatch this company (iCravetv) up. Have them broadcast my programming only. Sounds like a good way to get more advertising money to me.
But of course, everyone's reaction these days is to bring out the legal guns. *sigh*
Just a thought anyway.
Now, IANACL (I am not a Canadian Lawyer), but I can see how this could be a copyright violation. And I doubt that they could stand up against some heavy hitting networks with lots of cash to feed the legal machine.
;) There, that was easy wasn't it? You can even set up cron jobs to record your favorite shows. No messy lawyers to deal with.
And, in my opinion, it is still probably too early for this kind of service anyway. A simple rebroadcasting doesn't take advantage of the new medium. How about making it searchable (gee, I remember this great quote, but not who said it or what it was in), and on demand (I want to watch show X now!).
I don't know much about Canadian network TV, but if it is anything like network TV here, I don't think I would miss iCravetv a whole lot. Yeah, sure, there are a few jems in there every now and then, but most of it is garbage. I would much rather get transmition of a select group of Cable channels (and only the ones I want, no Food stations, Religious stations, (non)music stations, and all of that other cruft).
Here is a easier solution: get basic cable (gotta have it with the cable modem service anyway) and a tv card for your computer.
Pardon. I meant they have done a good job in the past. Sorry about that.
For those of us who can appreciate humor.
[Bringing it back to Quake, which was Sig11's original intention anyway]
The campers were dug in like Alabama ticks,
And the HPB's were up to their usual tricks.
The other gamers in 'doze-land , and I in my GNU,
I can't get any Quake3, what am I to do?
https://www.lokigames.com/
Here's to hoping Loki makes some serious cash on this. They've done a damn fine job.
Question about the Suse bundle tho: can you order q3 without Suse? (I can't seem to find any info on loki's site...)
"The connection between the Psycho company and the software giant is sparkling wine assigning of the large churches a thorn in the eye."
:) Can you feel the hate?
Gotta love that translation. The Psycho (note the capital "P") company.
Now, I'm don't love the church of Scientology, but can someone explain this to me? And what is up with the references to "sparkling wine"?
These days, most mainstream (read: crap) artists don't fill up normal cds.
Why exactly do you want to have a lot of wasted space on a DVD disk?
Maybe I'm totaly off base here, but what is audio on DVD going to do for you that CD audio doesn't? I (speaking personaly) don't need any higher quality than CD--I'd get more improvement from changing speakers.
Can someone fill me in on why DVD audio is a good thing?
I like that alot. Sounds like that McDonalds commercial. :)
Just make your customers click somewhere twice. ;)
Then you have 2-click shopping. But, then again, I'm applying for a patent on n-click shopping, where n > 1. So I would have to sue.
Personaly, the only two distro's I consider are Debian and Redhat, but it really doesn't matter what you use, aside from the installation process.
:)
You can set up any linux box to boot up to a simplistic (read: limited) X interface and feel like you're using windoze. But at the same time, you can take any user friendly distro and rip off the cruft, making it into a barebones system.
Personaly, between Debian and Redhat, I'm more of a Redhat man, because of how far Debian has gotten behind. Now, don't get me wrong, I have *high* respect for the Debian crew. They spend heaps of time making sure their distro has been tested and working flawlessly. Yeah, there may be a few less than perfect initscripts in RH, or this and that, but it isn't anything that 5 minutes wont fix, and it doesn't involve needing an internet connection. And it is also true that graphical installers happen to suck ass, but I'm not going to choose my distro based on something I only have to do once with it.
Because most of my installs have been on new machines, and I don't want to install Debian and then have to bring the whole system up to speed, as I think their stable distro is still glibc 2.0 (correct me if I am wrong on this). (Hehe, maybe I could find someone to make me some unstable distro cd's and find a non-critical box). I might be able to get away with a ftp/nfs install, but my internet connection (cable modem through Cox@Home) is terribly flaky.
When Debian goes stable on their latest distro, and I have another machine that needs a fresh install, it will be with Debian. If not, it will probably be a Redhat box. Doesn't really matter that much to me.
But the overall point is, no matter what distro you use, it is up to you if you want it to be windoze like, or if you want to tear it down and change it. Nothing is hidden from you when you run an open system.
I think this is an great example of how Linux can be good for business. IBM can benefit by allowing customers to run Domino on mainframes, and the community benefits from the kernel source that IBM would release. Not only that, but IBM bolsters their image with the open source community.
As your PHB would say, "This is a win-win situation."
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm glad they have decided to do this--but my question is this: are serious gamers also great coders?
;)
Because from my experience, gaming doesn't mix well with coding. One of the two won't get done.
Could be that I'm totaly off base, however. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
I wish someone would port Warcraft II to Linux.
Now, I've not tried it, but... Someone wrote a clone of Warcraft II for Linux. You need to own the original game for the graphics/sounds/maps/etc, but the engine is free.
More info at the following url:
http://happypenguin.org/show?CLONE
They plan to support more games in the future, such as Starcraft.
Hope that helps.
I've skimmed through the FAQ and release notes, but I can't find much info on Full Circle that is compiled into Mozilla. The release pages says "Full Circle Enabled builds allow transmission of crash data back to Netscape, improved crash analysis, and posting of crash related information to the netscape.public.mozilla.crash-data news group".
That is pretty cool, but is it safe? Also, does that mean when I find a bug, I don't need to report it? It is reported automatically?
Anyone have any more info, or pointers to info?
There may be people out there that see Linux as nothing but ani-Windows. They want to see Linux beat windows into the ground. These people really fail to see the strengths of Linux itself.
It is fun. Yup, that's right. I enjoy running it.
I don't preach Linux to people because it is the fastest horse in town, but because I enjoy it, and I think likeminded people will too. And almost without fail, they agree. Out of all of the people who I've helped transition, I've only lost one of them back to Windows land. You do have to hold their hand in the beginning, esp if they aren't good with *nix in general, but after a short amount of time, they become comfortable and enjoy running it.
Because it is just fun.
Just make it a cgi script that takes an url as a parameter, as in:
h ttp://slashdot.org
http://yourbox.com/cgi-bin/make-leet.pl?target=
or something similar. Just have the script grab the page in question, leet'ize it, and print it back out. Not too hard. A while back I wrote something like that to remove relocate urls from places like excite.
11) You live in North Korea. Three days ago the soldiers came to your tiny patch of farmland and took the few scraps of food they hadn't taken the week before. You have just boiled the last of your shoes and fed the softened leather to your 3-year-old child. She coughs, a sickly sound that cannot last much longer. Overhead you hear the drone of massive engines. You look into the sky, and thousands of tiny packages float down. You pick one up. It is made of plastic; you cannot feed it to your daughter. But the device talks to you, is solar powered, and teaches you how to use it to link to the Web. You have all the knowledge of the world at your fingertips; you can talk to thousands of others who share your desperate fate. The time has come to solve your problem in the most fundamental sense, and save the life of your daughter.
Well, in light of some of the recent stories on Slashdot, here is my answer: :P
Using the ibm patent database as an aid, think of a common sense technology (ie one click shopping, yahoo's dynamic page generation) that hasn't been patented and grab it. Make millions.
Anyway, anyone else find it funny how this "final exam" is about the future of computing but most of the questions (1-4,8-10) were about, well, mostly money and the commercialization (sp?) of the internet? Is that all the internet is good for these days? *sigh* Granted there were some privacy questions in there, but 8/11 about money?
Difference is, you can grab the newest, most bleeding edge devel debian any time you like.
Knowing when to push back the date is a good thing. Especially when it isn't about trying to get people hooked on vaporware to kill your enemies.
http://www.psionic.com/abacus/portsentry/
It's a good scan detector.
From that link you can find hostsentry (a "login anomaly detection and response tool").
If they did limit the keys to 40 bits because of export restrictions, maybe this will convince businesses to help fight those restrictions.
They stand to lose a lot of money not being able to secure dvd's. And when there is money behind something, you can bet they will act.
"Mike Riley, senior producer of Yahoo's finance section, said postings now can be banned, even if they are true, 'if the message causes confusion'"
Even if they are true. Ouch.
Now, I'm not worried about what Yahoo does on their servers. They have a right to do what they wish with their machines. But I am worried about how much censorship society thinks is appropriate. Now we've gotten to the point where we can ban truth. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Year 2003: This is a public service anouncement. All confusing things are hereby banned. That is all. Thank you.
"[The mouse] works just fine. I know, because I have done it, quite a lot."
:)
Could you give some more info on that? I use my mouse to play q3test a lot, but it doesn't have any depth to it. I just point it in a particular direction and I can hit whatever happens to be closest to me in the line of sight. How could I select a 'window' that sits behind another 'window" in my line of sight.
"Think of your eyes. Close one eye. You can still function perfectly well in a 3D world, right? So, no, a 2D monitor is not limiting in a 3d environment."
Function perfectly well? Um, no not really. Try doing that and judging how far away that football that is flying toward you is. And how fast it is coming. But that is not really that big of a problem. The problem with the monitor is the narrow field of view. Trying to view a 3d world through a monitor is like having your vision limited to a small square about a foot in front of your face.
I do agree, however, that these problems will be solved over time. And I certainly look forward to my gloves and goggles.
None of this is going to be too useful until we get some good input and output devices to use with it. Think about it, how well does a mouse that moves around in 2d work in a 3d environment? Same with your monitor, it is very limiting in a 3d environment.
;)
What we need are gloves and goggles. Then this will become somewhat usefull. Think of all the desk space you could have. All you have to do is turn your head to a blank area. Don't like where an application is? Grab it with the glove and move it. With even more input devices, the implications for pr0n are unthinkable.
Hmm. I've been checking the local EB and Babbage's for any linux games but they always look at me with a blank stare.
:/
I ordered CivCTP from loki directly, but I really wanted to buy MythII from a normal store.
I can't wait until q3 comes out, tho. It is going to rock being able to stroll up to the guy at Babbage's and say, "I want a copy of quake 3 for linux" and not have him say "is that like macintosh?"
Down with the man and his closed source vending machines! I hereby start the gVend project, which aims to be a fully Open Source replacement for Coca Cola vending machines. It will...
Um, oh wait, never mind.