that's just under 256kbps which was my first ADSL home connection speed back in 1999.
at 12mbit down, 1mbit up today.. so if I was sending I'd be doing 4 times that.. not sure if this is as ghastly as it appears, unless they're paying alot for this meager connection.
"I got the impression from TFA that this was just based on drivers (and the extra heads)"
- which in the real world is saying, they intentionally designed the whole graphics card from bottom-up to support this and changed their whole approach to multi-monitor setup within windows to support it better.
From your comment, it seems you think "extra heads" is the same as drilling a new hole into an old card and "drivers" means you just type in a new "hello new-multi-monitor-world" line into the driver.
I'd stop commenting on stuff you don't know about if I were you...
And sadly, people who know nothing about science don't know what you just said, and thus will make the lazy jump in logic and think that you're claiming that the original act of ELF was a just action (citing Mr. Slippery on slashdot: "Biological systems are complex; if something as relatively simple as a computer can be effected (sic) by EM radiation, it's not completely batty to speculate that biological systems might be also.").
They don't get that you're arguing semantics on how you phrase the claim, which is a selfish act of little people to think themselves with superior intellect, while normal people will look at what you wrote and think you're debunking the original science and siding along with the ELF idiots.
So congratulations, you're an enemy of science through your petty character faults.
I don't think you understand what you're saying, any of you, if you think that happiness comes from being "dumb"
This article is saying that for some problems in our lives, depression acts as a mechanism to really go over the problem and try and solve it (in other cases it is a hormonal imbalance, and needs to be looked at medically).
People think "If you're dumb, you wont be depressed!" - which is wrong.. you'll still have issues whether you're smart or stupid, do stupid people have relationship problems? Do they worry about money when they get laid off? Do they worry about health if they're unhealthy? Of-bloody-course.
To ask for bliss from worry and depression would be to ask that you were so retarded that you would not in any way understand when a problem came your way which you needed to solve.. you would look at a round peg and a square hole and in no way understand that there's a problem there which needs to be solved.
In essence, you wouldn't be stupid, you would be a vegetable, and although a vegetable might never be depressed, a vegetable would also never be happy with solving the problems which arise.
"Remember that a significant share of their revenue comes from web advertising..."
- which is the reason why you shouldn't really want an advertising company to control how you look at the internet. Google was a search company, now it is an advertisement company, it gives you access to "free" services plus ads, similar to the "free" TV networks of olde (you know.. the guys who are a part of the **AA bad guys?)
by controlling the browser, they control how you watch the web, and they're not interested in removing ads.
I can predict that Google will be an excellent catalyst for the internet and internet services for many, many years, but people have to realize that they're doing this with the paradigm to increase ad-revenue and so ads, however annoying will never be blocked.
Ad-free-internet-which-generates-revenue isn't here yet for most HTML stuff. It's here for Itunes, and Amazon and poker sites, but information sadly never got away from the "should-be-free" stamp.
""Fair" has nothing to do with it. We're the apex predator, and all those prey animals will just have to suck it up. And if some alien civilization wanders in and displaces us as the apex predator in these parts, we'll just have to suck it up too."
So apex predator/prey relationship is ok between different species as well as different alien races. What about different groups of humans?
"B) Kids looking to start a portfolio or gain work experience."
- I'll take B.
I dislike how this "news" is packaged as a strategy, I'm guessing that some wanna-be up-and-comer marketing droid took a good look at what he noticed he and some of his unemployed-but-looking graduate friends were doing, and thought to spin it as a strategy rather than what it really is.. people who can't get more than temp-work and are stuck in coffee shops to a) get out of the house so they won't spend time sleeping or playing WoW, and b)prettying up the fact that they're stuck in a coffee shop with nothing to do but browse facebook.
I would rather have seen this die than actually become news on slashdot.. This is a clear case of marketing-speak, and I was kind of hoping that recent events in the last 9 years or so would help people to stop this kind of non-news.
"Keep in mind that people are all different." - When "people" say that "people are different" most of them mean that there's some pigeon-holes between different types of people and you can't go from one pigeon-hole to another. They make the difference sound impossible to overcome. - The truth regarding food and lifestyle choices is that people are different because they have made different choices than you, and you yourself can make those same choices to change your lifestyle, they're not closed to you because you have created a wall you think you can't climb over.
"Some people can maintain a light weight with no effort all." - and some people can maintain a light weight with a lot of effort - and some people can maintain a light weight with some effort - and some people can maintain a light weight with X effort (X being {0,-})
What is it that is the same between these imaginary people who all are able to maintain a light weight? They all made the effort. Why aren't you?
"Quite a few people have to put in a huge battle and really not get anywhere with it - or they make progress only to lose ground." - Let me guess, you put yourself into the big anonymous pile of "we give up". Am I right?
"I'd rather die happy at 70 than suffer until 80." - well, this pig flu shows you that you could die at 20, given you're fat enough.
What you need to do is to start thinking about food, you need to start thinking about what's good food, what's bad food, and how do you tell them apart. And guess what, good food isn't only good tasting food and bad food isn't only bad tasting food, when you realize that, you should be on your way, but changing your mind about food by thinking about food is a great first step.
- I don't blame you not thinking about this, I had to have a serious bout of Gastroesophageal reflux to start thinking about this, but the sooner you realize how lucky you are to have no problems, and the sooner you realize you should try and maintain this by doing a little every day or every other day, the better your life will be and the more chance that you'll feel fine until the day you die.
Well, it's a lawyer fighting for a new way to make money.
Have you seen the gross amounts of cash the sofware industry is generating? You don't think lawyers would like to get a patent system going on software so that they can get a piece of the action?
Stop looking at it as "oh no someone is trying to use a patent system on something non-patentable", rather look at it as "the profession which upholds paper as more important than people, innovation, or actual production of goods is trying to branch out into another field to benefit from it"
They won't stop because patenting software will become profitable for software-patent lawyers.
They can't see anything wrong with it, because they want to profit from it.
I don't think that kind of a negative/positive system would work..
With simple games like these, if you really want a rating system it should be relatively simple; Everyone starts with "beginner", after a successfully completed game you can only rate allies, and you can either leave his rating alone, or up it to "intermediary". Beginners should not be able to up your rating if you're already intermediary. At Intermediary level you can only up your allies to "experienced" (or leave their rating alone), if you're experienced, intermediary or beginners cannot up your rating, and so on and so forth. - Then at certain number of positive uprates from other players, you can choose yourself to uprate yourself to Inermediary, if you feel confident in your skills. - Of course deciding at how many votes your rating will change is the arbitrary mark which will have to satisfy the players rating and being rated. - then you can introduce a gradual expiry rate on people who don't play too often, i.e. play once a month, and you keep your current rating, don't show up for 3 months, your rating drops.
Anything which allows people to give others a negative rating would be abused by idiots and discourage newcomers to try the game and enjoy it.
Automatic systems based on win/loss are fine, but they're also prone to abuse.
Anyone can upload a video onto it, and anyone can see it.
Google is thinking "we'll make money off of this by means of Contextual ads" - which is okay, but not really working.
Professional content producers are thinking "We'll make money off of this by means of charging viewers" - which doesn't work because youtube doesn't charge for content.
People who want to advertise stuff are thinking "if only our ad would appear on that youtube video.. it's gotten 1 million viewers already!"
- I'm thinking Google should change youtube advertising into deal-based between the uploader of the content and the people interested in advertising next to a video.
- content producers themselves could even do this today.. upload a video with an ad already in it, they just would have to do all the legwork themselves about getting the sponsorship. Then when the deal is over, either upload it again with a new ad or without a ad.
But this would only really happen if Google is interested in being a middle-man between content producers and advertisers, and interested in doing it so that both are happy, and that the youtube viewer is happy, don't forget that snotty-nosed little brat who wants everything for free.
I'm thinking somekind of a relationsship between content producers and advertisers with Google enabling both to get what they want would be the only real way forward, if the goal is to increase what's available legally on youtube.
- That is if the goal is to get professional content onto youtube legally.. It'll always have the Long tail of interesting crap without ads in there, but adding professional content will definitely sweeten the deal for everyone.
- Who should be eligible for an ad package? Any video which some advertiser is interested in sponsoring.
My thoughts, worth $2k if someone is interested in buying:P
I totally agree.. it's like a white person would decide "I'm in America, there's freedom of speech here, I'm going to research into it"
- then decides his venue should be using the word "nigger" around black people, calling anyone and everyone a nigger. The same reaction, except he'd actually get killed.
You can't ignore how much rendering a game costs in hardware, it's why some people are willing to dish out 2000 USD for an enjoyable game experience.
What this is doing is shifting the cost to a server and letting people connect to it, so you get even more problems, lag issues, connectivity bottlenecks, fps bottlenecks and so on.
I'm also guessing that it will still cost a bucketload to run and maintain, and the initial cost will be huge, and people will either pay for it or not.
- I can see the benefit of this though to the consumer, and the downsides as it could mean the end of owning a game/software and solely going to a rental model.
If you aren't already making little flash games for fun, developing simple concepts and finishing little projects, then no it isn't for you.
No game designer started with creating something huge, and any budding game designer shouldn't even try and tackle things like software technology they don't grasp fully.
If you aren't doing the little things and enjoying those, then the real thing isn't for you.
They aren't interested in the game, they're interested in the title.
What do all the comic book movies / old cartoon movies have in common? Nostalgia factor. People go see a movie about a subject which they are already emotionally invested in.
Universal probably already have a crappy script for a crappy summermovie which happens in space, they're just giving it the extra oomph needed to get people emotionally involved.
I just find it amusing that Universal doesn't realize that the successful movies which do this, like batman begins, Iron man actually work because the writers, director, and producers are emotionally invested in making a goddamn great movie which does the old stuff credit. you can't do that with a game title like Asterroids. What's next? Tetris, the movie?
It's not a joke. It's a demand, and until we see the demand met, we're going to continue asking for it.
any animal indigenous to the sea would do these days which is a terrible letdown from our first demand of Sharks with frickin' Laserbeams on their heads, but Super-Tuna with frickin' Laserbeams would be acceptable.
I might be playing a devils advocate here, but you're kinda using the logic that a relationship and agreements within are a part of a whole, not recognizing that all parts of it can be bartered and it's still a valid relationship.
Your idea of a relationship is what's coloring your opinion on what to base your trust on and what is agreeable and what isn't agreeable in a relationship.
Whether sex is involved and how it's involved is up for barter. Whether money is involved is as well. Responsibility and more.
The only thing which cannot be bartered with is honesty, and changing the contract without all parties agreeing to it. Rest is up for grabs, but most of us like the default package when it comes to relationships and are used to that package.
You forgot to start this with: >If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience
and end it with: >But trust me on the sunscreen...
Otherwise.. a nice post;P
I'm in the same helpdesk hell situation.. it's been a real turnoff for advancing further into IT and I'm doing evening classes in something completely different (whether something comes out of it, no idea). It is a dull, but safe job.. you're not going to get fired if you can stick out the first couple of months, and it is quite regular so you do have time for other interests. It's a wonderful platform for taking the next step, but it's a horrible career choice as it's soul-suckingly dull, repetitive and the bureaucracy... I can't go on without increasing stress levels, so I wont.
Slap a +5 insightful on this one, because we have a winner.
Take a vested interest in your own problems. Doctors are problem diagnostics and solvers, much like IT crew, or any repairman; They're human, with human faults.
No one has as much interest to solve your problem as you do, and if you already do a bit of groundwork, you're able to do more than just nod your head at doctors who all apathetically shrug their shoulders.
Slashdot Mirror
"That said, I don't really trust a damn one of them..."
- that's why you should support email retention policies and check if they aren't using them in your district.
You should also be wary of any politician who doesn't use email as a form of communication and prides himself on it.
that's just under 256kbps which was my first ADSL home connection speed back in 1999.
at 12mbit down, 1mbit up today.. so if I was sending I'd be doing 4 times that.. not sure if this is as ghastly as it appears, unless they're paying alot for this meager connection.
"I got the impression from TFA that this was just based on drivers (and the extra heads)"
- which in the real world is saying, they intentionally designed the whole graphics card from bottom-up to support this and changed their whole approach to multi-monitor setup within windows to support it better.
From your comment, it seems you think "extra heads" is the same as drilling a new hole into an old card and "drivers" means you just type in a new "hello new-multi-monitor-world" line into the driver.
I'd stop commenting on stuff you don't know about if I were you...
Facebook turned me into a Newt! ... I got better ...
And sadly, people who know nothing about science don't know what you just said, and thus will make the lazy jump in logic and think that you're claiming that the original act of ELF was a just action (citing Mr. Slippery on slashdot: "Biological systems are complex; if something as relatively simple as a computer can be effected (sic) by EM radiation, it's not completely batty to speculate that biological systems might be also.").
They don't get that you're arguing semantics on how you phrase the claim, which is a selfish act of little people to think themselves with superior intellect, while normal people will look at what you wrote and think you're debunking the original science and siding along with the ELF idiots.
So congratulations, you're an enemy of science through your petty character faults.
I don't think you understand what you're saying, any of you, if you think that happiness comes from being "dumb"
This article is saying that for some problems in our lives, depression acts as a mechanism to really go over the problem and try and solve it (in other cases it is a hormonal imbalance, and needs to be looked at medically).
People think "If you're dumb, you wont be depressed!" - which is wrong.. you'll still have issues whether you're smart or stupid, do stupid people have relationship problems? Do they worry about money when they get laid off? Do they worry about health if they're unhealthy? Of-bloody-course.
To ask for bliss from worry and depression would be to ask that you were so retarded that you would not in any way understand when a problem came your way which you needed to solve.. you would look at a round peg and a square hole and in no way understand that there's a problem there which needs to be solved.
In essence, you wouldn't be stupid, you would be a vegetable, and although a vegetable might never be depressed, a vegetable would also never be happy with solving the problems which arise.
Centmail will fail because ultimately email will fail.
In the future, emails won't be around. Instead there will be the Wave.
http://wave.google.com/
Ride the Wave. Ride it hard.
K.
"Remember that a significant share of their revenue comes from web advertising..."
- which is the reason why you shouldn't really want an advertising company to control how you look at the internet. Google was a search company, now it is an advertisement company, it gives you access to "free" services plus ads, similar to the "free" TV networks of olde (you know.. the guys who are a part of the **AA bad guys?)
by controlling the browser, they control how you watch the web, and they're not interested in removing ads.
I can predict that Google will be an excellent catalyst for the internet and internet services for many, many years, but people have to realize that they're doing this with the paradigm to increase ad-revenue and so ads, however annoying will never be blocked.
Ad-free-internet-which-generates-revenue isn't here yet for most HTML stuff. It's here for Itunes, and Amazon and poker sites, but information sadly never got away from the "should-be-free" stamp.
""Fair" has nothing to do with it. We're the apex predator, and all those prey animals will just have to suck it up.
And if some alien civilization wanders in and displaces us as the apex predator in these parts, we'll just have to suck it up too."
So apex predator/prey relationship is ok between different species as well as different alien races. What about different groups of humans?
(close, but I didn't Godwin this thread.. yet ;P)
"B) Kids looking to start a portfolio or gain work experience."
- I'll take B.
I dislike how this "news" is packaged as a strategy, I'm guessing that some wanna-be up-and-comer marketing droid took a good look at what he noticed he and some of his unemployed-but-looking graduate friends were doing, and thought to spin it as a strategy rather than what it really is.. people who can't get more than temp-work and are stuck in coffee shops to a) get out of the house so they won't spend time sleeping or playing WoW, and b)prettying up the fact that they're stuck in a coffee shop with nothing to do but browse facebook.
I would rather have seen this die than actually become news on slashdot.. This is a clear case of marketing-speak, and I was kind of hoping that recent events in the last 9 years or so would help people to stop this kind of non-news.
"Keep in mind that people are all different."
- When "people" say that "people are different" most of them mean that there's some pigeon-holes between different types of people and you can't go from one pigeon-hole to another. They make the difference sound impossible to overcome.
- The truth regarding food and lifestyle choices is that people are different because they have made different choices than you, and you yourself can make those same choices to change your lifestyle, they're not closed to you because you have created a wall you think you can't climb over.
"Some people can maintain a light weight with no effort all."
- and some people can maintain a light weight with a lot of effort
- and some people can maintain a light weight with some effort
- and some people can maintain a light weight with X effort (X being {0,-})
What is it that is the same between these imaginary people who all are able to maintain a light weight? They all made the effort. Why aren't you?
"Quite a few people have to put in a huge battle and really not get anywhere with it - or they make progress only to lose ground."
- Let me guess, you put yourself into the big anonymous pile of "we give up". Am I right?
"I'd rather die happy at 70 than suffer until 80."
- well, this pig flu shows you that you could die at 20, given you're fat enough.
What you need to do is to start thinking about food, you need to start thinking about what's good food, what's bad food, and how do you tell them apart. And guess what, good food isn't only good tasting food and bad food isn't only bad tasting food, when you realize that, you should be on your way, but changing your mind about food by thinking about food is a great first step.
- I don't blame you not thinking about this, I had to have a serious bout of Gastroesophageal reflux to start thinking about this, but the sooner you realize how lucky you are to have no problems, and the sooner you realize you should try and maintain this by doing a little every day or every other day, the better your life will be and the more chance that you'll feel fine until the day you die.
Slashdot is about as effective as a light rain in shanghai has on whether I play wow today or not (current location: Iceland).
Of course, if you can find and link the website they have regarding this programme, slashdot could have an impact.
Well, it's a lawyer fighting for a new way to make money.
Have you seen the gross amounts of cash the sofware industry is generating? You don't think lawyers would like to get a patent system going on software so that they can get a piece of the action?
Stop looking at it as "oh no someone is trying to use a patent system on something non-patentable", rather look at it as "the profession which upholds paper as more important than people, innovation, or actual production of goods is trying to branch out into another field to benefit from it"
They won't stop because patenting software will become profitable for software-patent lawyers.
They can't see anything wrong with it, because they want to profit from it.
I don't think that kind of a negative/positive system would work..
With simple games like these, if you really want a rating system it should be relatively simple; Everyone starts with "beginner", after a successfully completed game you can only rate allies, and you can either leave his rating alone, or up it to "intermediary". Beginners should not be able to up your rating if you're already intermediary. At Intermediary level you can only up your allies to "experienced" (or leave their rating alone), if you're experienced, intermediary or beginners cannot up your rating, and so on and so forth.
- Then at certain number of positive uprates from other players, you can choose yourself to uprate yourself to Inermediary, if you feel confident in your skills.
- Of course deciding at how many votes your rating will change is the arbitrary mark which will have to satisfy the players rating and being rated.
- then you can introduce a gradual expiry rate on people who don't play too often, i.e. play once a month, and you keep your current rating, don't show up for 3 months, your rating drops.
Anything which allows people to give others a negative rating would be abused by idiots and discourage newcomers to try the game and enjoy it.
Automatic systems based on win/loss are fine, but they're also prone to abuse.
Youtube is interesting..
Anyone can upload a video onto it, and anyone can see it.
Google is thinking "we'll make money off of this by means of Contextual ads" - which is okay, but not really working.
Professional content producers are thinking "We'll make money off of this by means of charging viewers" - which doesn't work because youtube doesn't charge for content.
People who want to advertise stuff are thinking "if only our ad would appear on that youtube video.. it's gotten 1 million viewers already!"
- I'm thinking Google should change youtube advertising into deal-based between the uploader of the content and the people interested in advertising next to a video.
- content producers themselves could even do this today.. upload a video with an ad already in it, they just would have to do all the legwork themselves about getting the sponsorship. Then when the deal is over, either upload it again with a new ad or without a ad.
But this would only really happen if Google is interested in being a middle-man between content producers and advertisers, and interested in doing it so that both are happy, and that the youtube viewer is happy, don't forget that snotty-nosed little brat who wants everything for free.
I'm thinking somekind of a relationsship between content producers and advertisers with Google enabling both to get what they want would be the only real way forward, if the goal is to increase what's available legally on youtube.
- That is if the goal is to get professional content onto youtube legally.. It'll always have the Long tail of interesting crap without ads in there, but adding professional content will definitely sweeten the deal for everyone.
- Who should be eligible for an ad package? Any video which some advertiser is interested in sponsoring.
My thoughts, worth $2k if someone is interested in buying :P
I totally agree.. it's like a white person would decide "I'm in America, there's freedom of speech here, I'm going to research into it"
- then decides his venue should be using the word "nigger" around black people, calling anyone and everyone a nigger. The same reaction, except he'd actually get killed.
Don't count on it being any cheaper really..
You can't ignore how much rendering a game costs in hardware, it's why some people are willing to dish out 2000 USD for an enjoyable game experience.
What this is doing is shifting the cost to a server and letting people connect to it, so you get even more problems, lag issues, connectivity bottlenecks, fps bottlenecks and so on.
I'm also guessing that it will still cost a bucketload to run and maintain, and the initial cost will be huge, and people will either pay for it or not.
- I can see the benefit of this though to the consumer, and the downsides as it could mean the end of owning a game/software and solely going to a rental model.
If you aren't already making little flash games for fun, developing simple concepts and finishing little projects, then no it isn't for you.
No game designer started with creating something huge, and any budding game designer shouldn't even try and tackle things like software technology they don't grasp fully.
If you aren't doing the little things and enjoying those, then the real thing isn't for you.
They aren't interested in the game, they're interested in the title.
What do all the comic book movies / old cartoon movies have in common? Nostalgia factor. People go see a movie about a subject which they are already emotionally invested in.
Universal probably already have a crappy script for a crappy summermovie which happens in space, they're just giving it the extra oomph needed to get people emotionally involved.
I just find it amusing that Universal doesn't realize that the successful movies which do this, like batman begins, Iron man actually work because the writers, director, and producers are emotionally invested in making a goddamn great movie which does the old stuff credit. you can't do that with a game title like Asterroids. What's next? Tetris, the movie?
It's not a joke. It's a demand, and until we see the demand met, we're going to continue asking for it.
any animal indigenous to the sea would do these days which is a terrible letdown from our first demand of Sharks with frickin' Laserbeams on their heads, but Super-Tuna with frickin' Laserbeams would be acceptable.
I might be playing a devils advocate here, but you're kinda using the logic that a relationship and agreements within are a part of a whole, not recognizing that all parts of it can be bartered and it's still a valid relationship.
Your idea of a relationship is what's coloring your opinion on what to base your trust on and what is agreeable and what isn't agreeable in a relationship.
Whether sex is involved and how it's involved is up for barter. Whether money is involved is as well. Responsibility and more.
The only thing which cannot be bartered with is honesty, and changing the contract without all parties agreeing to it. Rest is up for grabs, but most of us like the default package when it comes to relationships and are used to that package.
You forgot to start this with:
>If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience
and end it with:
>But trust me on the sunscreen...
Otherwise.. a nice post ;P
I'm in the same helpdesk hell situation.. it's been a real turnoff for advancing further into IT and I'm doing evening classes in something completely different (whether something comes out of it, no idea). It is a dull, but safe job.. you're not going to get fired if you can stick out the first couple of months, and it is quite regular so you do have time for other interests. It's a wonderful platform for taking the next step, but it's a horrible career choice as it's soul-suckingly dull, repetitive and the bureaucracy... I can't go on without increasing stress levels, so I wont.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAlADlTzDZ4
I've seen grammar-nazis.. I've seen internet-nazis.. I've even seen nazi-nazis.. but criticism-nazis? that's a new one.
Slap a +5 insightful on this one, because we have a winner.
Take a vested interest in your own problems. Doctors are problem diagnostics and solvers, much like IT crew, or any repairman; They're human, with human faults.
No one has as much interest to solve your problem as you do, and if you already do a bit of groundwork, you're able to do more than just nod your head at doctors who all apathetically shrug their shoulders.