Well, according to my buddy Mark, with BAMBIOS you'll be able to book x86 whatever you want (os/2, solaris, xp, etc). I'd guess we'll see a release within a week or so.
Wow, that's the craziest theory I've heard in a long time.
So, you're suggesting that genesis (which should have happened around 4000 BC) started a wave of time and "negative time"? Ok, so from a quick online search, it seems like some british clergyman found the first recorded fossil around 1800 AD (that I could find). That puts us at around 5800 years of positive delta time since genesis, meaning that the Iguanadon (the fossil he found) was roaming the earth around 9800 BC. It must be those wacky misguided scientists who believe that the Iguanadon who roamed the earth in the cretaceous period (about 135 to 125 million years ago) that are way off on their timeline, huh?
Now, I don't mean to sound like a total condescending ass, but since we've been finding fossils for around 200 years, that means that all the animials we've been finding fossils of lived within 200 years of eachother (according to your theory). Now, maybe you didn't fully explain how negative time flows much faster than positive time, but isn't it possible that there's another expliantion?
I really feel that science and religion can co-exist as long as you don't literally interpret the bible. While I'm not religous myself, I'm not "anti-god" or anything. I don't see why you can't believe in god and evolution (like it seems that many do). Maybe the bible wasn't meant to be literally interpreted.
Am I not geek enough or man enough to need this ultra resolution? Is this something like gamers that need 8,000 FPM to shoot stuff?
I'm really curious what the need for ultra or slightly better than what is offered by Apple for portable computers.
Well, for me, it's for programming. I always run out of screen real estate. My laptop runs at 1400x1050 and I have an external monitor also running at the same res and I always wish I had more space. Since I'm doing LAMP stuff, I usually have code open on one desktop and a browser open on the other. But, I often need a terminal window or two and have to switch between a couple tabs on my browser. I wish I had dual 20"+ displays and could have at least 3 or 4 "full size" windows open.
I wish the resolution was higher, but I can live with 1440x900. Especially since the external display supports 2560x1600 and I can maybe get a couple big external displays. This is higher than many of the other laptops I've looked at.
Awwww... now that you gave out your secrets, Google is going to start putting in counter measures to stop sites using your techniques from showing up. Great, there goes all the sites with worthy content. Now all we'll be able to find are marketing sites and/. book reviews.
This is exactly right. I know one of the small California winery owners that helped bring this case to court. You've really pointed to the real reason states had these laws. Sure the states argue they're protecting kids, etc., but it really all comes back to money.
If IP were like property, maybe one could get squatters rights to IP they've been using for years but no one ever told them to get off of. For example, maybe you're using this image compression format that you think no one uses or cares about for years, but then all of a sudden, some company comes along and claims they have a patent on it. You'd be able to tell them to piss off.
Well, the Amiga 1000 I had seemed to do ok with color, windowing, and 4 channel audio at a reasonable resolution... all at the same time as that mac and with your slow 68000 cpu.
I remember when my dad was buying our first computer and he asked me which one I thought we should get. Hmmmm... b&w mac or color amiga... let me think, which one will have better games:)
I love my directv with tivo (and it has nothing to do with my roommate working for tivo). Previously, I subscribed to the Dish Network and it was ok. I'd take it over digital cable, but not over the directivo I currently have (I've never tried Dish's PVR). From my experience with comcast digital cable, the interface is slow... maddeningly slow. Going between the guide, descriptions, and shows takes forever. You can search the channel selections and prices to see what fits your viewing habits, but I'd recommend satellite tv over cable any day.
It doesn't really work that way, though. While you can figure out what the words are, you get the meaning from the context. Try reading the passage backwards... it's quite a bit harder than reading a passage of "proper" text. Better yet, type out a bunch of random words that are mixed up in that manner and see if someone else can read them as easily.
Actually, to build a personalized HRTF, they place little microphones in each ear and have you sit in the middle of a small room with a bunch of different speakers. You pivot around and look at different points on the walls and the mics record how your ears hear the known sounds being played from the speakers around the room. At least, that's how they built my HRTF for an experiment I participated in at NASA.
The simulated 3d sound was pretty cool. I could hear a repeating sound going around the outside of my head even though it was being played through headphones. One poster was right, though some people can't (for whatever reason) percieve the effect (I think it's probably like those magic eye stereogram pictures that not everyone can see).
You can use a generic HRTF (like the ones that come with video games), but it might not work as well. The NASA guy checked me out with a generic function before I was put in the experiment to make sure I could hear the effect.
While I don't think Serkis deserves to win an Oscar, I think it's fair to consider him for one. In talking with Jason Schleifer, he said that Serkis was instrumental in creating the character. He complained that Serkis' body type was so different from golum that it was initially difficult to adapt the model to the motion capture, so I asked him if it wouldn't have been easier to hire someone else who more closely matched golum (physically). He said that they Andy was so great that they wouldn't have wanted someone else, even if it made their jobs easier.
So, while I don't think Serkis solely created the character and Weta did a phenominal job, I wouldn't object to having just the actor nominated for a supporting role.
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Ok, not to be pickey, but you can't have steam and water at the same temperature (in the same environment - ie pressure). Since water phase changes into steam at 100C, it will be either a gas of > 100C or a liquid of < 100C. Admittedly, steam will mess you up, it's just not at the same temperature as water.
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Well, lets see here:
The "Freeway Killer," Vernon Butts, who committed suicide in his cell in 1987 while being held as a suspect in a string of murders was an avid D&D player.
D&D player (14 years old) commits suicide by hanging, 1979, name withheld by parents' request.
Ok, being d&d players doesn't mean that dungeons and dragons played a causal role in their acts (as others have noted). It just means they played d&d. I speed, but it doesn't mean that I speed because I played d&d when I was growing up.
D&D player (17 years old) Michael Dempsey, Lynnwood, WA. suicide by gunshot wound to the head, 5/19/81. Witnesses saw him trying to summon up D&D demons just minutes before his death.
What, did the witnesses hear him say, "Oh great demons of Dungeons and Dragons (tm), I summon thee"?
Player (16 years old) Daniel Erwin, Lafayette, CO., murder by brother's shotgun blast to head, 11/2/84 (right after Halloween). Death was apparently the result of a death pact as part of the game.
I don't know what makes this "apparent", so I can't really comment on this. I'm not claiming d&d doesn't affect anyone (see below).
D&D player (18 years old) Harold T. Collins, Marion, OH., suicide by hanging, 4/29/83. Collins was noted to be "possessed" by D&D as if he were living the game.
Again, I don't know who "noted" this, so I can't really comment.
D&D player (14 years old) Sean Sellers was convicted of killing his parents and a convenience store clerk in Greeley, Oklahoma (1/11/87). He is the youngest inmate of death row in the country as of this writing (22 now). His involvement in hard-core Satanism began with D&D, according to his own testimony. Praise the Lord, he is now a Born Again Christian!
I agree, it can happen. There are mentally ill kids all over.
D&D player (14 years old) Tom Sullivan, Jr. got into Satanism and ended up stabbing his mother to death, arranging a ritual circle (from D&D) in the middle of the living room floor and lit a fire in its midst. Fortunately, his dad and little brother were awakened by a smoke detector; but by then, Tom, Jr. had slashed his wrists and throat with his Boy Scout knife and died in the snow in a neighbor's yard.(1/19/88, Amarillo, TX.)
Hey, look, the Boy Scouts will cause you to kill your family!! I mean, look at this statement, "[He] got into satanism..." So bitch about the satanists causing people to kill their parents (not that I really buy that argument either but...). I mean, I never had "ritual circles" in any of the d&d games I played in. Maybe it should say, "arranging a ritual circle (from his warped satanic beliefs)."
D&D player (? years old) Steve Loyacano, Castle Rock, CO., suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning, 10/14/82. Police report satanic writings and a suicide note liked the death to D&D.
D&D player (21 years old) Timothy Grice, Lafayette, CO., suicide by shotgun blast, 1/17/83. Detective reports noted, "D&D became a reality. He thought he was not constrained to this life, but could leave [it] and return because of the game."
D&D player (12 years old) Steve Erwin (see above) suicide by gunshot, 11/2/84. Detective report: "No doubt D&D cost them their lives."
D&D player (no age given) Joseph Malin, Salt Lake City, UT., pled guilty to first degree murder 3/2/88 and was sentenced to life in prison. He killed a 13 years old girl while acting out the fantasy-role game. The girl had been raped, her throat cut, and she had been stabbed twice in the chest. Police said his "violent urges were fed by 'extreme involvement in the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons.'"
Ok, so we're supposed to believe that police making the last four reports could judge that they were caused by d&d. I mean, this is at a time when role-playing games were being blamed for all this stuff. They see "satanic writings" and say, "hmmm, this guy must be a d&d player." If this happend today, you'd see a headline like, "Police say violent video games caused boy to kill." It's all about finding the current scapegoat for explaining horrible acts by children. I'm not saying D&D wasn't related to some of these (I obviously don't have enough info to make claims like that), there will be mentally unstable kids that do these things whether or not we have d&d/video games/etc..
I mean, look at the dates on all these, all in the 80's. Why is that? Kids don't play d&d anymore (if anyone says that all the deaths aren't d&d related now, they're caused by AD&D 3rd. edition... *smack*)? Maybe Vampire The Masqurade doesn't cause kids to kill their parents... yeah, that's the ticket. Or, maybe it's because during D&D was a convenient scapegoat but the media just got tired of blaming it and now the sociological phenomenon is over.
Go troll somewhere else.
BTW, sorry about the spelling, not one of my strong points:).
>The problem here is that unless we adapt to the
>idea that we cannot continue along the "rape and
>pillage" model of colonization, all moving
>onto other planets is going to do is foul up
>another globe.
I agree that we have to watch out. Before you know it, we'll be the evil marauding aliens from movies that go from system to system stealing all the natural resources before moving on. Haven't you seen V? The lizard people fucked up their own planet and ran out of water and food. They came here and ate us and stole our water. Do you want the human race to turn into that?
I don't think the previous poster was saying that if this screw hit mir (or whatever) that it would explode like 500 tons of TNT, just that it would have the same amount of kinetic energy as the explosives would. That energy could be transfered in a number of ways (right?).
BTW, where do you find out cool stuff like the amount of KE in tnt:)?
I agree. I think vampire has the opportunity (with all the java scripting) to be very cool. I've done a couple NPC re-skins so far, but I haven't had time (damn work) to get into changing game mechanics and disciplines.
BTW, currently (6:50PM PST) the highest bid on a ebay collectors edition Diablo 2 is $99. Someone put one up for $250 but noone's buying. Personally, I think it's silly to spend an extra $50 on the "collector's edition". Sure, I bought the collector's Vampire: tM-R, but it was only like $8 more for the pre-order.
If you can't get it in the store, just wait, they'll make more:). I may pick it up off the cheap rack, but probably not, I didn't think Diablo 1 was all that great (and the beta didn't convince me otherwise about Diablo 2).
Ok, I don't want this to sound like an ad, but I work for a company that has a product that should fit your requirements. I work at a startup (called Netboost) that was recently acquired by intel and our primary product is a strong arm based dual port NIC with Linux, BSDi, Solaris, and NT driver support. Here's a url with some info. I'm not in marketing, so I don't even know how you'd go about getting one of these (though you could send me mail and I could try and point you to the right person if you were really interested). There is an API that lets you write code for the NIC to handle packets as well as a bunch of sample code (some stuff I write). Anyway, check it out if your interested.
Believe it or not, I realize that you weren't refering to skin color/gender/creed/etc.. You may have noticed the sarcastic tone in my previous post that I was using to get a point across. I was demonstrating that similar viewpoints have been used before to perpetuate an oppressive society. How is being classist that much worse than being racist. What makes you think that because someone has less money than you, that they're unintelligent and can't be tusted on the net. I agree that the popularization (Ok, that's may not be a real word but you know what I mean) of the internet has made fundamental changes in the type of information out there (and the quantity of spam in my mailbox), but that doesn't mean that trying to deny access to various classes of people will help put things back the way they were.
You "see zero reason people should be encouraged to join it"? You don't think other people's viewpoints (from a variety of cultures) are important? You don't think/. benefits from people in various countries of differing economic backgrounds? If you don't like "being forced at gunpoint to give them computers" then sell you Intel stock (or ford or whatever other companies do this). If you recall, this is really about companies who've decided to do something for their employees.
You don't believe in the right to information huh? I bet we could save a buncha money by closing down all our public libraries. Hey, maybe/. could start charging for reading articles and posting comments. That'd probably keep the trolls away. I mean, we all know that anyone who can't afford to post isn't really intelligent/doesn't have a vaild point anyway, right? This whole free public schools thing is pretty expensive too. I mean, I don't have kids, why should I pay for schools? I don't see a problem with having my tax money go to programs I don't directly use. Suppose my kid doesn't play an instrument or participate in school sports, does that make it unfair that $.23 of my taxes goes to that? It's a pretty slippery slope when people start complaining that they don't see any benefit from where their tax dollars go. (Sorry for getting a bit off topic, but it seems we're now on to discussing the hypothetical situation of the government giving everyone below the poverty line a free computer)
Ok, I'll admit you lost me somewhere between the Sparc and how we should all die. I don't see believing that information and the internet should be more accessable or that we should try not to be so classist is so bleeding heart, but whatever. As I recall, the editorial is about how the working class is getting increased access to information and opportunites that the rest of us (those in tech fields, etc) already have. I don't understand how you're being forced at gunpoint to provide them with this or how the selfish views that they're going to suck up all your bandwidth are justified. I don't know if you're just trolling or objecting to this editorial because you hate jon kats (although I doubt both), but I think that companies providing their employees with "no strings attached" computers for home is a good thing.
I agree Kool Moe, I'd happily see some of my tax money go to schools and libraries. I don't see anything wrong with my taxes being used to fund "socialist" programs like that. Another thing, despite the fact that this story has nothing to do with giving the wino down the stree a free computer (I don't think many intel employees are homeless), I don't see what wrong with giving him/her access to that. If it gives our bum (is that the term you used, I don't remember) new skills so he may be able to get a job, great! We pay a lot less in taxes here than in other countries (then again, I guess thats why our schools and health care may be suffering... but that's off topic), and although it may be inconvenient for me, I'm not starving to death or living in a box like some people in this country. I still fail to see how giving a computer to a family that may not be able to afford one is a bad thing. I think these companies are doing Something Good(tm). I admit that as an intel employee, I have a vested interest in this program, but I still stand by my beliefs.
Oh yeah, I agree, more digital devide! I think we should have computer literacy test before allowing people to be given free computers. Possibly an IQ test (since we all know that they measure schooling and _not_ intelligence, I'll keep all those dumb people off our net). Maybe we could look up some of those old voter tests that they gave affrican americans back before that whole damn civil rights movement. Yeah, we can't have any of those inferior races polluting our pure net can we? And, we definatly can't give computers to people who can't afford one. I mean, what would we do if to poor got access to the same information that we of the rich tecnical upper echelon had? Dem uppity runt's would think they were as good as us! They'd probably just pawn 'em for booze money I bet.
DO YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING? I won't try and assume or generalize about your political views, but do you understand that this kind of view calls for closed access so that only the rich elite are the privilaged few who can access the net? Do you believe that putting a computer in a kid's house who's parents may not be able to afford one is bad? I admit, with intel in this country it may not be the case, but at the fabs in other countries and with ford and other companies (danger generalization alert) people may not have access to the benefits you had when you grew up. Do you think that keeping them ignorant is really the way to improve their lives? I must assume that when you said, "There's nothing good in this", you meant "There's nothing good in this for ME". Correct me if I'm wrong, but the comment about bandwidth kinda makes it seem that way. I really hope this isn't a prevalent view point.
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In general, I totally disagree with the hyper-paranoid view that companies are just out to get you and that if they do anything socially responsible, it's to screw you in some way. Sure, they get good press out of it and will probably try and get some tax break, but I don't believe there's some master cabal of scheeming people whispering in Andy Grove's ear (I'll use intel as an example, since I'm an employee... and no, they don't pay me to root through/. stories and identify people who post negative comments through their PIII serial # so we can target space based lasers at their houses, I'm just a programmer... but I digress). So, there's some conspiracy to invade all their employee's privacy by giving us PCs and convincing some OEM who'll provide them to put some remote access software on it? Maybe they'll contact the ISP/ISPs who provide our service and set up some giant corps of people to examine every packet that comes over our "intel" connections! And, no one is going to find out about this... yeah. I suppose there's probalby some nefarious reason for them rolling out the PCs in under developed countires first, too. I mean they can already track us so they'd better get their hooks into everyone as soon as possible, right?
They're not going to remotely search our PCs, they're not going to be able to arbitrarily take the computers back (we will own them), they're not going to monitor 70,000 employees remotly, and they don't have any more right to search the PC they give me any more than they do the ones I already own. I'm sure they could get a court order to search it, but I'm sure they could also get a court order to search the PC I have (that's why I organize all my "sick outs" from cyber cafes and from my friend's laptop using ricochet while on the move). Besides, I'm guessing that installing linux will foil their carefully laid plans for monitoring my behavior (unless maybe they're installing a hardware based spy solution:).
I'll admit, part of the reason I'm anoyed at the paranoid viewpoint is that, these free computer policies are going to get me a new machine (I'll probably upgrade to a notebook) and maybe a cheap DSL connection. Just because a company is part of the "evil empire" (shhh don't let the marketing people know I said that), doesn't mean that when they do stuff, they have hidden motives. I mean, I guess that all those "intel involved" emails I get every week urging us to go volunteer at local schools could be really just so the secret society can plant serial #s in the kids heads, but I tend to doubt it. Sorry for the somewhat sarcastic post, but excessive paranoia irritates me. To bastardize occam's razor, if there's an easier explanation... it's probably true.
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Well, according to my buddy Mark, with BAMBIOS you'll be able to book x86 whatever you want (os/2, solaris, xp, etc). I'd guess we'll see a release within a week or so.
"Stop Badware"? That's the worst name since MacBook Pro.
Wow, that's the craziest theory I've heard in a long time.
So, you're suggesting that genesis (which should have happened around 4000 BC) started a wave of time and "negative time"? Ok, so from a quick online search, it seems like some british clergyman found the first recorded fossil around 1800 AD (that I could find). That puts us at around 5800 years of positive delta time since genesis, meaning that the Iguanadon (the fossil he found) was roaming the earth around 9800 BC. It must be those wacky misguided scientists who believe that the Iguanadon who roamed the earth in the cretaceous period (about 135 to 125 million years ago) that are way off on their timeline, huh?
Now, I don't mean to sound like a total condescending ass, but since we've been finding fossils for around 200 years, that means that all the animials we've been finding fossils of lived within 200 years of eachother (according to your theory). Now, maybe you didn't fully explain how negative time flows much faster than positive time, but isn't it possible that there's another expliantion?
I really feel that science and religion can co-exist as long as you don't literally interpret the bible. While I'm not religous myself, I'm not "anti-god" or anything. I don't see why you can't believe in god and evolution (like it seems that many do). Maybe the bible wasn't meant to be literally interpreted.
Am I not geek enough or man enough to need this ultra resolution? Is this something like gamers that need 8,000 FPM to shoot stuff?
I'm really curious what the need for ultra or slightly better than what is offered by Apple for portable computers.
Well, for me, it's for programming. I always run out of screen real estate. My laptop runs at 1400x1050 and I have an external monitor also running at the same res and I always wish I had more space. Since I'm doing LAMP stuff, I usually have code open on one desktop and a browser open on the other. But, I often need a terminal window or two and have to switch between a couple tabs on my browser. I wish I had dual 20"+ displays and could have at least 3 or 4 "full size" windows open.
I wish the resolution was higher, but I can live with 1440x900. Especially since the external display supports 2560x1600 and I can maybe get a couple big external displays. This is higher than many of the other laptops I've looked at.
Now, if it will just triple boot, I'll be set...
Awwww... now that you gave out your secrets, Google is going to start putting in counter measures to stop sites using your techniques from showing up. Great, there goes all the sites with worthy content. Now all we'll be able to find are marketing sites and /. book reviews.
Ummm... because my desktop is neither round nor curved?
This is exactly right. I know one of the small California winery owners that helped bring this case to court. You've really pointed to the real reason states had these laws. Sure the states argue they're protecting kids, etc., but it really all comes back to money.
It means that there should be a sliding scale for DUIs. The older you get, the lower the BAC required for a DUI to keep a mean driving level.
I mean, I always said I drove better drunk than most old people and now I have proof!
If IP were like property, maybe one could get squatters rights to IP they've been using for years but no one ever told them to get off of. For example, maybe you're using this image compression format that you think no one uses or cares about for years, but then all of a sudden, some company comes along and claims they have a patent on it. You'd be able to tell them to piss off.
Obscure? Bah. Brush up on your geek movies :)...
Pyros, that was the funniest comment I've read all week.
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Well, the Amiga 1000 I had seemed to do ok with color, windowing, and 4 channel audio at a reasonable resolution... all at the same time as that mac and with your slow 68000 cpu.
I remember when my dad was buying our first computer and he asked me which one I thought we should get. Hmmmm... b&w mac or color amiga... let me think, which one will have better games
I love my directv with tivo (and it has nothing to do with my roommate working for tivo). Previously, I subscribed to the Dish Network and it was ok. I'd take it over digital cable, but not over the directivo I currently have (I've never tried Dish's PVR). From my experience with comcast digital cable, the interface is slow... maddeningly slow. Going between the guide, descriptions, and shows takes forever. You can search the channel selections and prices to see what fits your viewing habits, but I'd recommend satellite tv over cable any day.
It doesn't really work that way, though. While you can figure out what the words are, you get the meaning from the context. Try reading the passage backwards... it's quite a bit harder than reading a passage of "proper" text. Better yet, type out a bunch of random words that are mixed up in that manner and see if someone else can read them as easily.
Actually, to build a personalized HRTF, they place little microphones in each ear and have you sit in the middle of a small room with a bunch of different speakers. You pivot around and look at different points on the walls and the mics record how your ears hear the known sounds being played from the speakers around the room. At least, that's how they built my HRTF for an experiment I participated in at NASA.
The simulated 3d sound was pretty cool. I could hear a repeating sound going around the outside of my head even though it was being played through headphones. One poster was right, though some people can't (for whatever reason) percieve the effect (I think it's probably like those magic eye stereogram pictures that not everyone can see).
You can use a generic HRTF (like the ones that come with video games), but it might not work as well. The NASA guy checked me out with a generic function before I was put in the experiment to make sure I could hear the effect.
While I don't think Serkis deserves to win an Oscar, I think it's fair to consider him for one. In talking with Jason Schleifer, he said that Serkis was instrumental in creating the character. He complained that Serkis' body type was so different from golum that it was initially difficult to adapt the model to the motion capture, so I asked him if it wouldn't have been easier to hire someone else who more closely matched golum (physically). He said that they Andy was so great that they wouldn't have wanted someone else, even if it made their jobs easier.
So, while I don't think Serkis solely created the character and Weta did a phenominal job, I wouldn't object to having just the actor nominated for a supporting role.
Ok, not to be pickey, but you can't have steam and water at the same temperature (in the same environment - ie pressure). Since water phase changes into steam at 100C, it will be either a gas of > 100C or a liquid of < 100C. Admittedly, steam will mess you up, it's just not at the same temperature as water.
Well, lets see here:
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The "Freeway Killer," Vernon Butts, who committed suicide in his cell in 1987 while being held as a suspect in a string of murders was an avid D&D player.
D&D player (14 years old) commits suicide by hanging, 1979, name withheld by parents' request.
Ok, being d&d players doesn't mean that dungeons and dragons played a causal role in their acts (as others have noted). It just means they played d&d. I speed, but it doesn't mean that I speed because I played d&d when I was growing up.
D&D player (17 years old) Michael Dempsey, Lynnwood, WA. suicide by gunshot wound to the head, 5/19/81. Witnesses saw him trying to summon up D&D demons just minutes before his death.
What, did the witnesses hear him say, "Oh great demons of Dungeons and Dragons (tm), I summon thee"?
Player (16 years old) Daniel Erwin, Lafayette, CO., murder by brother's shotgun blast to head, 11/2/84 (right after Halloween). Death was apparently the result of a death pact as part of the game.
I don't know what makes this "apparent", so I can't really comment on this. I'm not claiming d&d doesn't affect anyone (see below).
D&D player (18 years old) Harold T. Collins, Marion, OH., suicide by hanging, 4/29/83. Collins was noted to be "possessed" by D&D as if he were living the game.
Again, I don't know who "noted" this, so I can't really comment.
D&D player (14 years old) Sean Sellers was convicted of killing his parents and a convenience store clerk in Greeley, Oklahoma (1/11/87). He is the youngest inmate of death row in the country as of this writing (22 now). His involvement in hard-core Satanism began with D&D, according to his own testimony. Praise the Lord, he is now a Born Again Christian!
I agree, it can happen. There are mentally ill kids all over.
D&D player (14 years old) Tom Sullivan, Jr. got into Satanism and ended up stabbing his mother to death, arranging a ritual circle (from D&D) in the middle of the living room floor and lit a fire in its midst. Fortunately, his dad and little brother were awakened by a smoke detector; but by then, Tom, Jr. had slashed his wrists and throat with his Boy Scout knife and died in the snow in a neighbor's yard.(1/19/88, Amarillo, TX.)
Hey, look, the Boy Scouts will cause you to kill your family!! I mean, look at this statement, "[He] got into satanism..." So bitch about the satanists causing people to kill their parents (not that I really buy that argument either but...). I mean, I never had "ritual circles" in any of the d&d games I played in. Maybe it should say, "arranging a ritual circle (from his warped satanic beliefs)."
D&D player (? years old) Steve Loyacano, Castle Rock, CO., suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning, 10/14/82. Police report satanic writings and a suicide note liked the death to D&D.
D&D player (21 years old) Timothy Grice, Lafayette, CO., suicide by shotgun blast, 1/17/83. Detective reports noted, "D&D became a reality. He thought he was not constrained to this life, but could leave [it] and return because of the game."
D&D player (12 years old) Steve Erwin (see above) suicide by gunshot, 11/2/84. Detective report: "No doubt D&D cost them their lives."
D&D player (no age given) Joseph Malin, Salt Lake City, UT., pled guilty to first degree murder 3/2/88 and was sentenced to life in prison. He killed a 13 years old girl while acting out the fantasy-role game. The girl had been raped, her throat cut, and she had been stabbed twice in the chest. Police said his "violent urges were fed by 'extreme involvement in the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons.'"
Ok, so we're supposed to believe that police making the last four reports could judge that they were caused by d&d. I mean, this is at a time when role-playing games were being blamed for all this stuff. They see "satanic writings" and say, "hmmm, this guy must be a d&d player." If this happend today, you'd see a headline like, "Police say violent video games caused boy to kill." It's all about finding the current scapegoat for explaining horrible acts by children. I'm not saying D&D wasn't related to some of these (I obviously don't have enough info to make claims like that), there will be mentally unstable kids that do these things whether or not we have d&d/video games/etc..
I mean, look at the dates on all these, all in the 80's. Why is that? Kids don't play d&d anymore (if anyone says that all the deaths aren't d&d related now, they're caused by AD&D 3rd. edition... *smack*)? Maybe Vampire The Masqurade doesn't cause kids to kill their parents... yeah, that's the ticket. Or, maybe it's because during D&D was a convenient scapegoat but the media just got tired of blaming it and now the sociological phenomenon is over.
Go troll somewhere else.
BTW, sorry about the spelling, not one of my strong points
>The problem here is that unless we adapt to the
>idea that we cannot continue along the "rape and
>pillage" model of colonization, all moving
>onto other planets is going to do is foul up
>another globe.
I agree that we have to watch out. Before you know it, we'll be the evil marauding aliens from movies that go from system to system stealing all the natural resources before moving on. Haven't you seen V? The lizard people fucked up their own planet and ran out of water and food. They came here and ate us and stole our water. Do you want the human race to turn into that?
I don't think the previous poster was saying that if this screw hit mir (or whatever) that it would explode like 500 tons of TNT, just that it would have the same amount of kinetic energy as the explosives would. That energy could be transfered in a number of ways (right?).
:)?
BTW, where do you find out cool stuff like the amount of KE in tnt
I agree. I think vampire has the opportunity (with all the java scripting) to be very cool. I've done a couple NPC re-skins so far, but I haven't had time (damn work) to get into changing game mechanics and disciplines.
:). I may pick it up off the cheap rack, but probably not, I didn't think Diablo 1 was all that great (and the beta didn't convince me otherwise about Diablo 2).
BTW, currently (6:50PM PST) the highest bid on a ebay collectors edition Diablo 2 is $99. Someone put one up for $250 but noone's buying. Personally, I think it's silly to spend an extra $50 on the "collector's edition". Sure, I bought the collector's Vampire: tM-R, but it was only like $8 more for the pre-order.
If you can't get it in the store, just wait, they'll make more
Ok, I don't want this to sound like an ad, but I work for a company that has a product that should fit your requirements. I work at a startup (called Netboost) that was recently acquired by intel and our primary product is a strong arm based dual port NIC with Linux, BSDi, Solaris, and NT driver support. Here's a url with some info. I'm not in marketing, so I don't even know how you'd go about getting one of these (though you could send me mail and I could try and point you to the right person if you were really interested). There is an API that lets you write code for the NIC to handle packets as well as a bunch of sample code (some stuff I write). Anyway, check it out if your interested.
You "see zero reason people should be encouraged to join it"? You don't think other people's viewpoints (from a variety of cultures) are important? You don't think /. benefits from people in various countries of differing economic backgrounds? If you don't like "being forced at gunpoint to give them computers" then sell you Intel stock (or ford or whatever other companies do this). If you recall, this is really about companies who've decided to do something for their employees.
You don't believe in the right to information huh? I bet we could save a buncha money by closing down all our public libraries. Hey, maybe /. could start charging for reading articles and posting comments. That'd probably keep the trolls away. I mean, we all know that anyone who can't afford to post isn't really intelligent/doesn't have a vaild point anyway, right? This whole free public schools thing is pretty expensive too. I mean, I don't have kids, why should I pay for schools? I don't see a problem with having my tax money go to programs I don't directly use. Suppose my kid doesn't play an instrument or participate in school sports, does that make it unfair that $.23 of my taxes goes to that? It's a pretty slippery slope when people start complaining that they don't see any benefit from where their tax dollars go. (Sorry for getting a bit off topic, but it seems we're now on to discussing the hypothetical situation of the government giving everyone below the poverty line a free computer)
Ok, I'll admit you lost me somewhere between the Sparc and how we should all die. I don't see believing that information and the internet should be more accessable or that we should try not to be so classist is so bleeding heart, but whatever. As I recall, the editorial is about how the working class is getting increased access to information and opportunites that the rest of us (those in tech fields, etc) already have. I don't understand how you're being forced at gunpoint to provide them with this or how the selfish views that they're going to suck up all your bandwidth are justified. I don't know if you're just trolling or objecting to this editorial because you hate jon kats (although I doubt both), but I think that companies providing their employees with "no strings attached" computers for home is a good thing.
I agree Kool Moe, I'd happily see some of my tax money go to schools and libraries. I don't see anything wrong with my taxes being used to fund "socialist" programs like that. Another thing, despite the fact that this story has nothing to do with giving the wino down the stree a free computer (I don't think many intel employees are homeless), I don't see what wrong with giving him/her access to that. If it gives our bum (is that the term you used, I don't remember) new skills so he may be able to get a job, great! We pay a lot less in taxes here than in other countries (then again, I guess thats why our schools and health care may be suffering... but that's off topic), and although it may be inconvenient for me, I'm not starving to death or living in a box like some people in this country. I still fail to see how giving a computer to a family that may not be able to afford one is a bad thing. I think these companies are doing Something Good(tm). I admit that as an intel employee, I have a vested interest in this program, but I still stand by my beliefs.
Oh yeah, I agree, more digital devide! I think we should have computer literacy test before allowing people to be given free computers. Possibly an IQ test (since we all know that they measure schooling and _not_ intelligence, I'll keep all those dumb people off our net). Maybe we could look up some of those old voter tests that they gave affrican americans back before that whole damn civil rights movement. Yeah, we can't have any of those inferior races polluting our pure net can we? And, we definatly can't give computers to people who can't afford one. I mean, what would we do if to poor got access to the same information that we of the rich tecnical upper echelon had? Dem uppity runt's would think they were as good as us! They'd probably just pawn 'em for booze money I bet.
DO YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING? I won't try and assume or generalize about your political views, but do you understand that this kind of view calls for closed access so that only the rich elite are the privilaged few who can access the net? Do you believe that putting a computer in a kid's house who's parents may not be able to afford one is bad? I admit, with intel in this country it may not be the case, but at the fabs in other countries and with ford and other companies (danger generalization alert) people may not have access to the benefits you had when you grew up. Do you think that keeping them ignorant is really the way to improve their lives? I must assume that when you said, "There's nothing good in this", you meant "There's nothing good in this for ME". Correct me if I'm wrong, but the comment about bandwidth kinda makes it seem that way. I really hope this isn't a prevalent view point.
They're not going to remotely search our PCs, they're not going to be able to arbitrarily take the computers back (we will own them), they're not going to monitor 70,000 employees remotly, and they don't have any more right to search the PC they give me any more than they do the ones I already own. I'm sure they could get a court order to search it, but I'm sure they could also get a court order to search the PC I have (that's why I organize all my "sick outs" from cyber cafes and from my friend's laptop using ricochet while on the move). Besides, I'm guessing that installing linux will foil their carefully laid plans for monitoring my behavior (unless maybe they're installing a hardware based spy solution :).
I'll admit, part of the reason I'm anoyed at the paranoid viewpoint is that, these free computer policies are going to get me a new machine (I'll probably upgrade to a notebook) and maybe a cheap DSL connection. Just because a company is part of the "evil empire" (shhh don't let the marketing people know I said that), doesn't mean that when they do stuff, they have hidden motives. I mean, I guess that all those "intel involved" emails I get every week urging us to go volunteer at local schools could be really just so the secret society can plant serial #s in the kids heads, but I tend to doubt it. Sorry for the somewhat sarcastic post, but excessive paranoia irritates me. To bastardize occam's razor, if there's an easier explanation... it's probably true.