um I love the idea of digital books and digital paper. and I'm all for freeing the information. rights management would prolly be a hassle, sure. but, think realistically here, who pays the content provider? the writer that spent a year or in some cases twenty years researching and writing a book only to have some hacker/cracker take his book and copy it to usenet (a place where you can get quite a few books). why would a writer want to engage in that kind of business and never recieve any compensation? I mean. thats just rude. I mean i bust my ass to provide this content that i hope you all love and I'm glad you all like it enough to download the cracked version but I gotta feed my kids ya know. now the majority of you are good law abiding citizens and say you would never do such a thing but there are just as many people out there that could give a shit about my rights or my deisre to feed my kids. so instead of writing the lord of the rings why don't i just stick to teaching or something.
I think we should all give mad props to Tivvo for responding so quickly to the vitriol we dealt them yesterday. I don't think Linus has a turn around time thats this fast.
i don't care if they are just bowing to the grumblings of slashdot at least they heard us, and quick too.
I live in canada for about a month. I know thats not long to know canada extensively but while i was there (thompson, northern manitoba) I think i saw one music store. with a rather limited selection. alot of canada is remote. I'd rather download the songs over a high speed connection than have to wait to go to winnipeg which was an 8 hour drive away from where i had been living and the only large city in manitoba. thompson had a population of 15,000 and that was the third largest city.
actually I don't believe your story of the qwerty origin is correct. I think it was actually remington or smith-corona that implemented it for one reason only. you can spell "typewriter" all on one line. It was used for demonstrations of how fast you could type. they'd have one of their demo-girls (booth babes you might say) sit down with the typwewriter and have them pound out the name of the device. The idea is that they look l;ike they're going so fast and the customer just has to have one.
doesx jon like any movie? ever? I have this fuunny feeling that if movies were never invented that jon would repeatedly pan books instead of movies. when did he last like a movie that had special effects. and now he's comparing theis digital flick to episode 1? come on. episode one really sucked. i think we've all determined that. but we still like it cause it was kinda cool so will the mummy be. i just want to enjoy a nice movie with some creepy ghouls a fight scene and something that makes the girlfriend jump in my arms. who cares if the movie makes any damn sense.
control: pioneer 10 come in
pioneer: control, this is pioneer 10
control: young man where have you been?
pioneer: um... I was just out with some friends honest
control: young man if it weren't for your being 7 billion miles away I'd ground you.
I can recommend at least one good book to you that i have read and one i haven't had time to read.
book 1: The Courage To Stand Alone
Wei Jingsheng
book 2: Soul Mountain
Gao Xingjian
book 1 are the collected letters of Wei that he wrote while in prison for twenty years. he made a poster about democracy and put it on a wall. Thats all he did. He only recently was released after years of pressure from groups like amnesty international.
book 2 is a nobel winner for literature though the book is based on the authors real life. it should give you a good feel for the real chinese. I'm still reading it. beautiful stuff. you can pick them both up at Barnes and Noble.
everybody likes to play the games but isn't a major part of the lan party thing to get together with people and interact and have fun showing off your case modifications? And like someone else said I like my environment to be the same. not only does my mouse affect my playing but so does my monitor, my keyboard (what if all the keyboards have the backspace key set differently then you do) I'd even miss the hum of my fans.
I don't know anything about diamond creation but diamonds are crystals and they make crystals in space now (experimentally) so i think possibly we could just manufacture the diamonds in space then the whole weight issue becomes moot right?
I picked up black and white the other day and love it. I've only been waiting for like two years since i saw the preview in PC gamer. sure there are some issues. but the prob with land 5 has been taken care of just check a BW fan site. and otehr issuses are being solved all the time. molyneux has said that even more things will be taken care of in coming weeks. as i recall waiting for the latest version of Doom, quake, unreal, etc... is fine. all of these games were great and were all buggy. then they released a patch and we updated and played on. i think we'll just have to accept buggy games when they come out. its just an economic reality. (btw rolling the rubber ball through town is just fun)
i suppose this could be used in conjunction with anti-forgery devices such as money-counterfeiting (sp?) and document verification as well. "it says its form the desk of the president" well, scan it for the digital signature" presto. i suppose with complex bits you could make it difficult to copy a digital signature embedded in paper. especially if its a rotating code of some kind. i see all sorts of applications for this beyond adding simple data. i don't see it working with art though as the art (original)would be damaged by the addition of the code.
ok, a lot of folks have mentioned that the thing is too small to use with even a modicum of comfort but alot of our new devices are getting smaller and smaller and they will continue to do so. I was thinking an easy way to input info into these small devices is to free yourself from the device. bear with me. I don't remember who makes it but there is a wireless mouse that i believe uses a gyro to determine location that you just hold in your hand and move your hand around to change directions. what about a pen that linked wirelessly to the small device of your choice (palm, watch, nokia) that used a gyro to determine orientation. I can see you sitting at a desk with pen in one hand and watch on opposite wrist and writing on the desk while affecting the watch. see what I'm saying? I'm not too bright so somebody else build it.
you know a lot of folks made a big stink about the clinton group stealing the "w"s and other things but big deal. it was a: harmless and b: the same crap that all outgoing administrations do to incoming administrations. I'd be ashamed of our nation if we didn't allow some goofy hijinks into our nations house. i'd rather have a reputation of americans being goofy funloving folks than as sticks in the mud like the brits (not saying brits are sticks in the mud its just the reputation)
I'm all for micropayment. remember it didn't work too well for the slate.com as i recall but I'm more than willing to pay for Penny-Arcade. (got my "Got wang" shirt today in fact) I think this is one more of those things that will work for some but not for others. I'd like to see it succeed.(sp?) As for whether i would pay for/. I don't know yet. depends. I've come to rely on slashdot alot. not for the insightfulness of the editors but the responses of the commenters. Some of the things I've learned from reading comments on slashdot have simply amazed me. I think I would pay for slashdot possibly on a subscription basis or a few cents per article basis. but actually I like the ads on Slashdot. some of them are actually things I'm interested in.
ok lets lose the whole "if you can't get it where you are then fuckin move" thing. um some of us can't move. and for some of us there is no place to move to. where i live (hampton roads VA) Verizon has a small suare mile area in one city wired for DSL. there is no one else to wire this area but verizon. @home is only available from cox. they plan to offer it to my area,maybe end of Q1. I'm really beginning to consider satellite. but that option isn't much better for gaming at least. just knock off the crap about how i should be doing more to get my bandwidth. this isn't like upgrading a browser. can't just click a button and voila. ps. i just wrote verizon again proclaiming my desire for DSL I'm doing what can be done. there is no competition for verizon so they can take their time. I'm rambling now so I'll stop (applause and the crowd goes wild)
personally I'm glad that the sci-fi channel is doing things like this (dune again, galactica again) the one thign that sucks most about sci-fi shows is that they never get to run their course. (except star trek that lasts too long and babylon 5 that almost didn't make it. maybe now we can findly see the stuff that we never got to see casue the show ended.
I'm sorry but there really is no reason to not upgrade to the latest browser. I mean come on. "boohoohoo i have dial-up so i can't download a 14 meg file boohoo" oh come on, whiner. I freelance pc support and consultation and am constantly encountering people with ancient machines demanding i get quake 3 or some such system gobbler to run on their ancient machine. People that don't upgrade are whiny babies that expect they should do nothing to be able to experience the latest and greatest. "what do you mean I can't see you whiz-bang site unless i upgrade Its not my fault your page is too complex or nifty you should make it so my computer can view your page" boohoo. It's like demanding that a VCR be able to play a DVD. the investment of a little time to download a new browser is not too much to ask. I mean come on it may not always be free as in speech but is as in beer and thats what matters to the rest of the world. plus if you can't download it you can pick up magazine at any grocery store with a cd attatched that has the latest version of your browser or ISP (aol, etc)
I only hope that the hackers at DirecTV are having as much fun defeating the (supposedly mostly)canuck hackers efforts as the canucks are at defeating the DirecTV hackers.
I like to imagine some DirecTV technicians and engineers in a dark corner of DirecTV headquarters watching and waiting thinking "damn they got that one qucik. what should we do now." and someone suggesting death rays to peals of laughter.
the story is an interesting one and I'm fascinated by it, but, on a side note i think this anecdote is an exqample of why we need to start thinking about an open group that could take up the mantle of responsibility for kernel development. I'm not saying this should reponsibility should be taken FROM Linus but for Linus. I can imagine that eventually he will grow weary of it. I'm not making predictions but even i got tired of my childhood toys. (no I'm not calling Linux a Linus' toy, my analogy is just poor but i think you get the point) I'm thinking along the lines of some kind of board or committee with Linus at the head that would oversee kernel dev. the idea has two benefits.
1. Linus doesn't have to exhaust himself doing two jobs or feel obligated to the community as I'm certain he feels now. He would be free to loosen the reins a bit and relax.
2.I think companies would be more ready to move to Linux (isn't that our goal, world domination:)) if they knew there would be someone to go to even if Linus is unavailable.
I know that anyone could look at the kernel and make the appropriate adjustments but, Linus was bale to do it in under 48 hours. how long would the USPS have to wait if Linus was unavailable and they were forced to hunt down a competent coder to do the work that he could do in a short time. with a board available they would have multiple options and a list of names that they could be certain could fulfill their needs.
just imagine if linus had been unavailable. what if during the time he had taken a vaction to a deserted island with no net connection for a month in an effort to unwind. you may thin kthe USPS is slow but look at the volume they deal in. a week or a month of not being able to properly use my software and I start thinking "this is not the reliable easy to fix software i had heard it was. lets switch to solaris or *bsd."
do you understand what i mean? Linus if you're reading do you or are you so full of yourself that you don't care and think that there's nothing that could happen you couldn't fix in no time flat. if he's in a car crash and ends up in traction for a year kernel dev stops. If I'm a fortune 500 company that depends on kernel updates and new advances being implemented quickly i worry that there is no one to go to.
i think I've more than made my point. let the flamage begin.
until they turn it off I won't worry. I also read a story the other day on CNET about this same topic in which it was said that customers will be asked before proc cycles are used. this is in a test phase as of now. when it leaves testing I'll nmove my folks over to netzero or bluelight. We'll see. but, point taken.
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um I love the idea of digital books and digital paper. and I'm all for freeing the information. rights management would prolly be a hassle, sure. but, think realistically here, who pays the content provider? the writer that spent a year or in some cases twenty years researching and writing a book only to have some hacker/cracker take his book and copy it to usenet (a place where you can get quite a few books). why would a writer want to engage in that kind of business and never recieve any compensation? I mean. thats just rude. I mean i bust my ass to provide this content that i hope you all love and I'm glad you all like it enough to download the cracked version but I gotta feed my kids ya know. now the majority of you are good law abiding citizens and say you would never do such a thing but there are just as many people out there that could give a shit about my rights or my deisre to feed my kids. so instead of writing the lord of the rings why don't i just stick to teaching or something.
I think we should all give mad props to Tivvo for responding so quickly to the vitriol we dealt them yesterday. I don't think Linus has a turn around time thats this fast.
i don't care if they are just bowing to the grumblings of slashdot at least they heard us, and quick too.
I live in canada for about a month. I know thats not long to know canada extensively but while i was there (thompson, northern manitoba) I think i saw one music store. with a rather limited selection. alot of canada is remote. I'd rather download the songs over a high speed connection than have to wait to go to winnipeg which was an 8 hour drive away from where i had been living and the only large city in manitoba. thompson had a population of 15,000 and that was the third largest city.
actually I don't believe your story of the qwerty origin is correct. I think it was actually remington or smith-corona that implemented it for one reason only. you can spell "typewriter" all on one line. It was used for demonstrations of how fast you could type. they'd have one of their demo-girls (booth babes you might say) sit down with the typwewriter and have them pound out the name of the device. The idea is that they look l;ike they're going so fast and the customer just has to have one.
does anyone have a white towel. I want off this rock. The funny is dead.
doesx jon like any movie? ever? I have this fuunny feeling that if movies were never invented that jon would repeatedly pan books instead of movies. when did he last like a movie that had special effects. and now he's comparing theis digital flick to episode 1? come on. episode one really sucked. i think we've all determined that. but we still like it cause it was kinda cool so will the mummy be. i just want to enjoy a nice movie with some creepy ghouls a fight scene and something that makes the girlfriend jump in my arms. who cares if the movie makes any damn sense.
control: pioneer 10 come in
pioneer: control, this is pioneer 10
control: young man where have you been?
pioneer: um... I was just out with some friends honest
control: young man if it weren't for your being 7 billion miles away I'd ground you.
I can recommend at least one good book to you that i have read and one i haven't had time to read.
book 1: The Courage To Stand Alone
Wei Jingsheng
book 2: Soul Mountain
Gao Xingjian
book 1 are the collected letters of Wei that he wrote while in prison for twenty years. he made a poster about democracy and put it on a wall. Thats all he did. He only recently was released after years of pressure from groups like amnesty international.
book 2 is a nobel winner for literature though the book is based on the authors real life. it should give you a good feel for the real chinese. I'm still reading it. beautiful stuff. you can pick them both up at Barnes and Noble.
everybody likes to play the games but isn't a major part of the lan party thing to get together with people and interact and have fun showing off your case modifications? And like someone else said I like my environment to be the same. not only does my mouse affect my playing but so does my monitor, my keyboard (what if all the keyboards have the backspace key set differently then you do) I'd even miss the hum of my fans.
I don't know anything about diamond creation but diamonds are crystals and they make crystals in space now (experimentally) so i think possibly we could just manufacture the diamonds in space then the whole weight issue becomes moot right?
I picked up black and white the other day and love it. I've only been waiting for like two years since i saw the preview in PC gamer. sure there are some issues. but the prob with land 5 has been taken care of just check a BW fan site. and otehr issuses are being solved all the time. molyneux has said that even more things will be taken care of in coming weeks. as i recall waiting for the latest version of Doom, quake, unreal, etc... is fine. all of these games were great and were all buggy. then they released a patch and we updated and played on. i think we'll just have to accept buggy games when they come out. its just an economic reality. (btw rolling the rubber ball through town is just fun)
i suppose this could be used in conjunction with anti-forgery devices such as money-counterfeiting (sp?) and document verification as well. "it says its form the desk of the president" well, scan it for the digital signature" presto. i suppose with complex bits you could make it difficult to copy a digital signature embedded in paper. especially if its a rotating code of some kind. i see all sorts of applications for this beyond adding simple data. i don't see it working with art though as the art (original)would be damaged by the addition of the code.
ok, a lot of folks have mentioned that the thing is too small to use with even a modicum of comfort but alot of our new devices are getting smaller and smaller and they will continue to do so. I was thinking an easy way to input info into these small devices is to free yourself from the device. bear with me. I don't remember who makes it but there is a wireless mouse that i believe uses a gyro to determine location that you just hold in your hand and move your hand around to change directions. what about a pen that linked wirelessly to the small device of your choice (palm, watch, nokia) that used a gyro to determine orientation. I can see you sitting at a desk with pen in one hand and watch on opposite wrist and writing on the desk while affecting the watch. see what I'm saying? I'm not too bright so somebody else build it.
you know a lot of folks made a big stink about the clinton group stealing the "w"s and other things but big deal. it was a: harmless and b: the same crap that all outgoing administrations do to incoming administrations. I'd be ashamed of our nation if we didn't allow some goofy hijinks into our nations house. i'd rather have a reputation of americans being goofy funloving folks than as sticks in the mud like the brits (not saying brits are sticks in the mud its just the reputation)
I'm all for micropayment. remember it didn't work too well for the slate.com as i recall but I'm more than willing to pay for Penny-Arcade. (got my "Got wang" shirt today in fact) I think this is one more of those things that will work for some but not for others. I'd like to see it succeed.(sp?) As for whether i would pay for /. I don't know yet. depends. I've come to rely on slashdot alot. not for the insightfulness of the editors but the responses of the commenters. Some of the things I've learned from reading comments on slashdot have simply amazed me. I think I would pay for slashdot possibly on a subscription basis or a few cents per article basis. but actually I like the ads on Slashdot. some of them are actually things I'm interested in.
worse, portsmouth
ok lets lose the whole "if you can't get it where you are then fuckin move" thing. um some of us can't move. and for some of us there is no place to move to. where i live (hampton roads VA) Verizon has a small suare mile area in one city wired for DSL. there is no one else to wire this area but verizon. @home is only available from cox. they plan to offer it to my area ,maybe end of Q1. I'm really beginning to consider satellite. but that option isn't much better for gaming at least. just knock off the crap about how i should be doing more to get my bandwidth. this isn't like upgrading a browser. can't just click a button and voila. ps. i just wrote verizon again proclaiming my desire for DSL I'm doing what can be done. there is no competition for verizon so they can take their time. I'm rambling now so I'll stop (applause and the crowd goes wild)
personally I'm glad that the sci-fi channel is doing things like this (dune again, galactica again) the one thign that sucks most about sci-fi shows is that they never get to run their course. (except star trek that lasts too long and babylon 5 that almost didn't make it. maybe now we can findly see the stuff that we never got to see casue the show ended.
uh..hmm... What about penny-arcade. The news posts alone are worth the visit.
I'm sorry but there really is no reason to not upgrade to the latest browser. I mean come on. "boohoohoo i have dial-up so i can't download a 14 meg file boohoo" oh come on, whiner. I freelance pc support and consultation and am constantly encountering people with ancient machines demanding i get quake 3 or some such system gobbler to run on their ancient machine. People that don't upgrade are whiny babies that expect they should do nothing to be able to experience the latest and greatest. "what do you mean I can't see you whiz-bang site unless i upgrade Its not my fault your page is too complex or nifty you should make it so my computer can view your page" boohoo. It's like demanding that a VCR be able to play a DVD. the investment of a little time to download a new browser is not too much to ask. I mean come on it may not always be free as in speech but is as in beer and thats what matters to the rest of the world. plus if you can't download it you can pick up magazine at any grocery store with a cd attatched that has the latest version of your browser or ISP (aol, etc)
welcome to The Island of Dr. Moreau.
I only hope that the hackers at DirecTV are having as much fun defeating the (supposedly mostly)canuck hackers efforts as the canucks are at defeating the DirecTV hackers.
I like to imagine some DirecTV technicians and engineers in a dark corner of DirecTV headquarters watching and waiting thinking "damn they got that one qucik. what should we do now." and someone suggesting death rays to peals of laughter.
counterpoint taken. :)
the story is an interesting one and I'm fascinated by it, but, on a side note i think this anecdote is an exqample of why we need to start thinking about an open group that could take up the mantle of responsibility for kernel development. I'm not saying this should reponsibility should be taken FROM Linus but for Linus. I can imagine that eventually he will grow weary of it. I'm not making predictions but even i got tired of my childhood toys. (no I'm not calling Linux a Linus' toy, my analogy is just poor but i think you get the point) I'm thinking along the lines of some kind of board or committee with Linus at the head that would oversee kernel dev. the idea has two benefits.
:)) if they knew there would be someone to go to even if Linus is unavailable.
1. Linus doesn't have to exhaust himself doing two jobs or feel obligated to the community as I'm certain he feels now. He would be free to loosen the reins a bit and relax.
2.I think companies would be more ready to move to Linux (isn't that our goal, world domination
I know that anyone could look at the kernel and make the appropriate adjustments but, Linus was bale to do it in under 48 hours. how long would the USPS have to wait if Linus was unavailable and they were forced to hunt down a competent coder to do the work that he could do in a short time. with a board available they would have multiple options and a list of names that they could be certain could fulfill their needs.
just imagine if linus had been unavailable. what if during the time he had taken a vaction to a deserted island with no net connection for a month in an effort to unwind. you may thin kthe USPS is slow but look at the volume they deal in. a week or a month of not being able to properly use my software and I start thinking "this is not the reliable easy to fix software i had heard it was. lets switch to solaris or *bsd."
do you understand what i mean? Linus if you're reading do you or are you so full of yourself that you don't care and think that there's nothing that could happen you couldn't fix in no time flat. if he's in a car crash and ends up in traction for a year kernel dev stops. If I'm a fortune 500 company that depends on kernel updates and new advances being implemented quickly i worry that there is no one to go to.
i think I've more than made my point. let the flamage begin.
until they turn it off I won't worry. I also read a story the other day on CNET about this same topic in which it was said that customers will be asked before proc cycles are used. this is in a test phase as of now. when it leaves testing I'll nmove my folks over to netzero or bluelight. We'll see. but, point taken.