There's some good, even essential, baby in that bathwater - don't throw it out; regulate the holy fuck out of the entire industry.
> Implying Babies are Good.
> Implying you haven't had kids.
Makes sense, this is Slashdot. I mean, who would want to bring another innocent life into this cruel and unjust parent's basement?
What would Linus do? Do you think, if you were involved in an OS project and you were to teach folks about OSs, you would use some other OS you're not very involved with as a teaching implement?
When my little brother wanted to learn about programming I didn't teach him C or Java or Lisp, or JavaScript, or Perl... I taught him about the LanderScript language, named after our family name. It's one of my toy languages that I created on a whim to teach myself how to write compilers, when I was 11. Why? Because I wanted to teach him how to build programs with logic, and outgrow his 1st language instead of getting deeply mired in the complexites of a full featured language. If he wanted to learn of OS design I'd have taught him with a toy OS of my own creation too.
If the ReactOS course work were going to be beginner stuff I might suggest other simpler OSs first. If the course covers more advanced stuff then it's probably better that the instructor to know all the ins and outs more intimately, so ReactOS would be the optimal choice for him.
Are you saying that you'll play those legitimate animations written in ActionScript (a flavor of ECMAScript) in a Flash format outside of a web browser that already supports JavaScript (a flavor of ECMAScript) and Vector Graphics? Adobe hates Flash. They make money making tools that create flash content, and they would MUCH rather simply sell the same tools and generate HTML5 content with them instead. Same revenue, no cost to maintain the "player" becuase it's in the damn browser. You can even embed JavaScript in HTML documents......
Not him, but Flash has no legitimate use. IMHO, neither does JavaScript, but that's beside the point.
This is the slippery slope by which DHS can barge into any home in America. Any.
So could any terrorist. It's the duty of the citizens to protect themselves, thus we never needed a DHS in the first place.
No one is safe.
Not true. Freedom doesn't imply safety; However, by taking away freedoms the government is now fairly safe from its citizens. Life is dangerous, "safety" is a disease; Use caution instead. The DHS was founded under the guise of providing safety, see? Instead of panicking we should have just used personal caution, and not rely on others to provide non-existent preemptive safety.
If you read the US Declaration of Independence, down near the bottom in the list of abuses of the citizens it cites that the King of England "has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance." It's pretty much like what's happening now: We're being forced to pay for the many new offices of the DHS which only serve to harass us while eating away our sustenance in the form of taxes, and eating the funds of other beneficial programs.
I encourage everyone to read those list of abuses and compare them to events of today: "He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures." Hell, they go worse than this and simply try coming up with laws decided in Secret via treaty, remember ACTA? Kangaroo Courts, where the famous and police can get away with murder or massive fraud -- Corporations frequently try to file suits in such a way to make them more expensive to get to, just ask G.Hotz. I could go on, but it really is quite uncanny how many of the abuses listed by our forefathers are now mirrored in today's happenings. The founding fathers thought many of the practices today's people are subjected to were intolerable and that it was their duty to fight a revolution and not "suffer, while evils are sufferable", instead they chose to "right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed". If only they could see us now... The once brave now cower, because their Land of the Free isn't.
I guess some good has come of it all: If we every did want to turn it off and on again, we could simply re-use the same declaration, and just add some new signatures.
So, what you're saying is that we actually lost the cold war? When the Berlin Wall came down it was because the statist regimes were already in place everywhere... Makes sense.
My entire state, according the the ACLU map, is in this zone. Our state motto is: "Live Free or Die". I laugh, sadly, every time I hear somebody say that here with pride.
Oh, we don't have to wear seat belts though. I guess I just don't understand what "Live Free" means as obviously not being required to wear seat belts is more than an even trade for losing your 4th Amendment rights.... Riiiiiight.
Sounds like someone ought to be doing some dying...
Humans are animals. To disagree would mean you don't grasp basic concepts like Plant vs Animal Kingdoms. Do you FUCK? Well, then you're an animal, and a video of humans practice-mating is thus animal porn. Bestiality is interspecies porn... They could have said interspecies porn. Oh, but white folks have Neanderthal DNA, so what then we outlaw the interracial porn too, eh?
Will Animal Planet be banned?
Who gives a fuck? You think banning anything actually keeps people from seeing it? Censorship laws are disgusting and ineffectual. They're simply the tools of a police state. The more stuff like this is illegal the more chance they'll find some excuse to throw you in jail if they don't have a legitimate reason, other than wanting you in jail.
To the folks who don't care if "Child Porn" or "Violent Porn", or "Animal Porn" is criminalized: Any web site you visit the world over could have a 1x1 pixel iframe that points to barnyard or kiddie porn, and your browser will happily download that smut without you ever even knowing it. This shit isn't hypothetical, this is what script kiddies do for fun when they get a XSS or SQL Injection exploit to work -- You don't even have to be going to anywhere in particular to get illegal 1's and 0's on your hard drives now. Why would they do this? Simple: Point out how Fucking Stupid Censorship Laws are to regular folks. Joe Sixpack won't fight back until they feel the boot of oppression at their own throats. Cleaned this crap off a client's Wordpress install just last week, wiped it out of few phpBB install a month before that. They had CP, and Snuff sites in the URLs. I don't condone or participate in such malicious behavior, but I can sure as hell understand their motives.
Now, go clean your web cache, you donkey molesting, murder masturbating, pedophiles. Don't forget to forensically shred the empty space on your drives to make sure it's really gone -- Got SSD? Bah, you better have already been running with whole drive encryption then. Oh your not a "pervert"? Are you sure that's what your Internet cache will always say? You trust the security of everywhere you go online? Oh sure, it was an "accident", you had no idea how that sort of illegal content got on your system. Then why do the logs show you regularly visited those perverse sites, at times when we know you were the only one at home to do so... Pray the site owners will back you up -- If you can even determine which ones they were in order to contact the sysadmins.
Seriously dude, I'm sure your managers find you a pleasure to work with. Maybe someone like you could actually benefit from this course in order to readjust your perspective, or at least tweak your outputs a little.
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Code Monkey not say it out loud.
Code Monkey not crazy, just proud. -joco
Are you saying the Powerpuff Girls grew up and became hookers? I knew the economy was bad but that is just depressing...
I don't know about depressing... I always had a thing for Blossom; so now if she'll just take a bit of cash, my childhood fantasy can come true!
Are you serious? How the hell do you make it to Slashdot and not know about Rule 34?!
From the Rules of the Internet:
Rule 34: If it exists there is porn of it, no exceptions.
Rule 35: If no porn is found at the moment, it will be made.
Just add "rule 34" to any search term for the porn version. (search results w/ safe=off, links may be NSFW). Since this is your first time here's some complimentary Star Wars Rule 34., or if you're more the mile-high club type: Why not declare Rule 34 on Jets? (both SFW, non nudes)
If you need to invoke rule 35, just proclaim rule 34 has been violated to the right folks, then wait.
I always thought the bubbles were from his butt -- I mean, if I was bubble man that'd be the simplest way I could think of to weaponize them. Makes sense, no? SBDs do about 5 bars of health damage...
The electrified bubble should also act sort of like a Faraday cage, allowing current to flow around the outside of the bubble while what's inside has much less measurable charge (restructures the charge of the exterior material to equalize the field in the interior).
It's easy to take a closed product and go open source with it but there are some caveats, especially for games.
If it's a game, with single player, then fine, no real problem. If it's predominantly multiplayer that drives user-base / community then you don't want to release it as open source. Security via obscurity blah blah blah, but the fact it once you open up a multiplayer game it gets full of cheaters MUCH faster than the closed version. Unfortunately, it only takes a few bad apples to spoil the whole damn community. I've seen opened games go back closed, even when no money is involved, simply because of all the damn cheaters. For these types of games you want the current version to be closed source, pending a release, and the older released version to have significantly different enough modifications (esp. networking) so that the released version doesn't give too much insight to cheaters. You might have to go longer between releases, but at least it's getting opened. If it's a (dying) multiplayer game with no more user base, then it's fine to GPL it because it'll be mostly just friends playing with each other and they police themselves. Adding a user registration system helps with cheating somewhat, but email addresses are free. The trick is to create positive incentives for folks not to ditch their account, not negatively reinforce punishment. I.e., instead of wielding the ban hammer, give kudos/karma/in-game-cred and have there be perks, like voting for the next level takes your karma into effect; I digress...
The think people have to realize is that you need to work to make money. You can't just work once and then repeatedly sell the configuration of bits you just made. That closed model is dumb, it relies on artificial scarcity, it's economically untenable; What's scarce isn't the bits it's your ability to configure the bits that's scarce, that's what you sell, and that's how you make money with open source. Lots of people can't wrap their head around the fact that they need to be adding real (visual) benefit to get paid when they go open source because FLOSS users don't put up with moronic artificial scarcity models. Good will or no, donations don't cut it unless your project has a huge install-base. You have to keep working otherwise.
This means, let's say you create an awesome engine and level design tool set. Cool. Now, you can open source it, then do Kickstarters or other donations for adding a new game editor feature, or building an expansion pack of levels and kick ass assets that modders can use in their own maps (new textures, a new power or gun, mechanic, etc). Or, bring the game to a new platform. See? WORK for Money that you know you'll get. Don't work for free, that's dumb.
If a car mechanic fixed your car without asking, because they noticed it was broken, then that's great, but if they complain about people not paying them for the service then they're dumb. Don't work for free. Mechanics (and all other laborers) will give you a bid for their time -- An agreed upon price for manhours or to complete a job. Once a fair price is agreed upon, then the work is done, and you get paid ONCE for that work. You don't get recurring payments even if your work ends up benefiting lots of people -- say you fixed a bus, you don't get money for all the folks that thereafter ride in it.
I don't know why it's so damned hard for Closed Software devs to figure out how all other labor markets work. This isn't hard to understand. Much bigger software with more users can get away with more good will funding, but smaller shops have less users, so they need to not work for free then hope to get paid. They need to decide to do some work for an agreed upon price.
On the contrary: If you're just selling copies, and now you want to give them away for free and you're not improving anything, then I'm sorry, screw you, you don't get paid for not doing any damn work. Protip: That's why bands make most of their money via performing.
In other news, 50cc Motor Scooters are able to travel on they same roads as other vehicles. They may not go as fast as other behicles but can still get you fron point a to point b
This would be an accurate analogy if you said the 50cc Motor Scooter's only cost a tiny bit less than a full sized 8 cylinder automobile.
I built a starter / mid range machine (3.8 GHz quad core machine w/ 8GB of RAM and Radeon 7660 D) for my little brother to play Steam & indie games on, that can also play Battlefield 3 & Planetside (low/med settings) for less than $500 including shipping and handling, and an oversized PSU, heat sink, blue LED case fans (kids these days), and mobo to support X-fire / SLI (for future upgradeability). Their mini computer is $130 + $270 = $500, and can barely run steam games. Bleh, that's nasty.
For another $80 or so my bro can add a Radeon 6770 to the current build and run dual graphics w/ the 7660, and about double the graphics power. Also, it's now overclocked to 4.2 Ghz since the big cheap air cooled heat sink is working so damn good it barely gets over 100 F. This brand new rig dual boots Win7 & GNU/Linux Mint just fine, even has surround sound in Linux -- Checked for support of the chipsets on MOBO beforehand. Don't buy pre-built unless you're going mobile. This shit's so easy to assemble 12 year old enjoyed doing it himself, just taught him to RTFM first.
Protip: If you're not running your Windows in a VM from a know good snapshot each "boot", then you're doing it wrong.
Anti-virus / anti-malware can not trust an infected OS not to lie about itself.
Run your malware scans from a known good source: Linux live CD, or bootable flash drive, if you're not using a VM. Even then, scanners might not have signatures for new malware, and malware could be a mutation that installs other malware so the "removal" process can't be trusted to work all the time. Keep a separate partition for data. Restore to a known good snapshot of the OS each boot. To add new programs: Install new software in the known good snapshot and re-image it, then run from that new snapshot. Get a virus or program with bad features? Restore to a point before it touched the OS.
Writing for Portal is tough. Why you could even start out thinking a new portal wouldn't even have Chell, or even Portals! Ah, but you could be wrong, because that's exactly what the Portal 2 developers thought... They were wrong. Chell may not speak, but there is a reason it is she, and not some other, you play as in Portal 2; She's integral not because of her dialog (or lack thereof), but because of her identity. You may enjoy this Game Dev Conference talk from the writer's perspective on Portal 2: Creating a Sequel to a Game that Doesn't Need One
Also, Portal 2 gives us the history of Aperture's founder Cave Johnson, his secretary Caroline, the origins of the Portal Gun (even explaining why it only works on some surfaces), and their role in the creation of GLaDOS. It's a hybrid sequel that covers tons of prequel material, so there's many more characters than just the Rat-Man to mine for a movie. Portal actually has a proper origin and story-line now.
Of course all that's irrelevant, since Abrams will simply ignore fixtures of the series and screw the actual universe six-ways to Sunday to solve any plot hole he makes for himself, like he did with trans-warp teleportation, red matter, and time-line forking time travel in Star Trek, won't even think twice about doing it either.
I agree with MovieBob.
He's already got two of the biggest sci-fi franchises of all time. JJ Abrams missed the wonder and universal good will inherent in all other Star Trek movies, and turned it into a mediocre action flick. WTF were water pipes doing in the engineering room? It was stupid, existing only for a hardly humorous plot device. Transporting at Warp Speed, DESTROYING a tenet of the Star Trek Universe, simply because the movie wrote itself into a corner?! Spock and Uhura? It's Pon Farr 24/7 now? I mean damn, I'm surprised Spock didn't have a romantic interlude with his future self as some Abramsian loop hole in the mating rituals. RED MATTER?! What the hell is that crap? No explanation, it's a pointless mcguffin -- not even an ounce of pseudo-scientific techno-babble: In a ST movie that had multiple time travelers, not a word of tachyons.
No surprise that since Abrams demonstrated his ability to destroy planets he's got himself appointed master of the Death Stars as well. Must this be the era of samey sci-fi? Oh damn, the philistines will finally be right! "What movie are you watching?" "Who cares, it's science fiction, they're all basically the same."
You know what? Screw it. I'm done with franchise recycling. The movie could have been great if it had been in any other universe, why borrow existing playgrounds to stomp in? Is Hollywood really that hard up for ideas? I wasn't pleased when they mined comic books for plot and mindshare. I actually will watch movies with NEW characters. There's no reason to lobotomize and reprogram the old ones. May the gods not ever let Hollywood learn of series such as Steins;Gate, especially not JJ!
Washington can be blown away, we'll be fine; It's only a psychological thing, there's no reason to protect it any more so than New York, Los Angeles, or Houston. Hell, not that I'm advocating it, but it would probably be better for the hypothetical enemy to strike D.C. and utterly stir the hornet's nest rather than destroy a valuable military target or more populated area.
For all the money spent in case something happens we could instead arm ourselves to react once a threat is perceived. If the Internet has taught us anything it's that a decentralized network is what you want -- The answer is not to protect your single points of failure, but to eliminate them before the enemy has a chance. The good news is that the population and the military are already decentralized. So too should D.C., and Wall Street be. You can't protect against script kiddies (terrorists) without wasting lots of time in a constant state of fear, making life hard for citizens on the off chance that something might happen where you expect it to.
Seems more like a defense contract hand-out to me. if they were smart, they'd run Fast Food ads on the blimps, recoup some money via advertising and make us look as ridiculous as we are.
No CAT Scan, MRI or Cancer drugs would have been invented without patents to give the inventors time to make their years of investment back by a period of exclusivity. Regulation by the government (mostly for safety & efficacy) is just another business expense, like fuel, that all players pay. The price to enter the game.
I have spent over $1m with my partner over 5 years to develop a product and get it FDA cleared for sale with 3 patents. We simply would not have started this project without knowing we could patent what we do, because otherwise J&J and P&G would both copy our product starting the day we released it publicly.
That's simply not true. in the absence of patent and copyright protections, demands for new and innovative products and solutions will still be met.
Take the Automotive industry for example. They're not allowed to patent their designs, yet every year all car lines have new designs. By your logic would not all cars look the same? The fashion industry is also not allowed copyright or design patents for clothing, and it is the most diverse and innovative market with some of the lowest barriers to entry. Fabric, sewing-machine, and Ideas can actually get you rich, even though designs are frequently borrowed across the entire industry. Every day a new fashion designer enjoys their 15 fame filled minutes without any patents or copyright protections. Brand Trademarks are allowed to protect consumers from knock-offs, so they know who their money is going towards funding, and that's really all that is needed.
I'm a scientist. You don't seem to be a scientist, not to me. You've taken a Hypothetical stance that Patents are Required for Progress and Beneficial to Society and are standing buy it religiously even in the face of contrary evidence. I say to you, that if you truly ARE a Scientist then why are you so afraid of testing your hypothesis? I propose we settle this once (but not for all, for times change). We are now in the Age of Information. It is time to do the damn experiment and abolish patents to see if they are truly beneficial or not. You have ZERO evidence to support your claims that patents are required. I have historical and current day evidence that suggests otherwise. If you are not just a greedy profiteer, but a Scientist with the good of society in mind, then the ONLY logical conclusion must be that we eliminate patents. It's not like we can't re-instate whatever crap laws we want later. You disrespect your trade, sir, by only applying the Scientific Method where it seems beneficial to you. You are a rapists of nature.
My mailbox is gets 100% full within a week from all of the junk mail that comes in. It's pretty bad.
WTF? A Week? My mailbox is full EVERY DAY (that they deliver mail). Mostly just junk mail (when I live in a big city it seems I get more junk), but also a couple of magazines. Mother Earth News for her, and I still read Popular Science even though it's basically month old Slashdot article highlights. My brain's not that good, reminds me of things to follow up on. Yes, Digital Content, Smartphones & Tablets exist, but when they exist in the same vicinity as your own fecal mater you may switch back to inexpensive paper-based information conveyors.
"Honey, why is your cell in the toilet?" "Obviously, because it won't flush. It is dead to me now, its water has been added to my own."
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There's some good, even essential, baby in that bathwater - don't throw it out; regulate the holy fuck out of the entire industry.
> Implying Babies are Good.
> Implying you haven't had kids.
Makes sense, this is Slashdot. I mean, who would want to bring another innocent life into this cruel and unjust parent's basement?
Oh Yeah!? Well, "Emissions from drilling, including fracking" Your Mom!
What would Linus do? Do you think, if you were involved in an OS project and you were to teach folks about OSs, you would use some other OS you're not very involved with as a teaching implement?
When my little brother wanted to learn about programming I didn't teach him C or Java or Lisp, or JavaScript, or Perl... I taught him about the LanderScript language, named after our family name. It's one of my toy languages that I created on a whim to teach myself how to write compilers, when I was 11. Why? Because I wanted to teach him how to build programs with logic, and outgrow his 1st language instead of getting deeply mired in the complexites of a full featured language. If he wanted to learn of OS design I'd have taught him with a toy OS of my own creation too.
If the ReactOS course work were going to be beginner stuff I might suggest other simpler OSs first. If the course covers more advanced stuff then it's probably better that the instructor to know all the ins and outs more intimately, so ReactOS would be the optimal choice for him.
When folks don't use their own products it's because the product is shit. Do you think Microsoft compiles Windows with Visual Studio?
Are you saying that you'll play those legitimate animations written in ActionScript (a flavor of ECMAScript) in a Flash format outside of a web browser that already supports JavaScript (a flavor of ECMAScript) and Vector Graphics? Adobe hates Flash. They make money making tools that create flash content, and they would MUCH rather simply sell the same tools and generate HTML5 content with them instead. Same revenue, no cost to maintain the "player" becuase it's in the damn browser. You can even embed JavaScript in HTML documents......
Not him, but Flash has no legitimate use. IMHO, neither does JavaScript, but that's beside the point.
This is the slippery slope by which DHS can barge into any home in America. Any.
So could any terrorist. It's the duty of the citizens to protect themselves, thus we never needed a DHS in the first place.
No one is safe.
Not true. Freedom doesn't imply safety; However, by taking away freedoms the government is now fairly safe from its citizens. Life is dangerous, "safety" is a disease; Use caution instead. The DHS was founded under the guise of providing safety, see? Instead of panicking we should have just used personal caution, and not rely on others to provide non-existent preemptive safety.
If you read the US Declaration of Independence, down near the bottom in the list of abuses of the citizens it cites that the King of England "has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance." It's pretty much like what's happening now: We're being forced to pay for the many new offices of the DHS which only serve to harass us while eating away our sustenance in the form of taxes, and eating the funds of other beneficial programs.
I encourage everyone to read those list of abuses and compare them to events of today: "He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures." Hell, they go worse than this and simply try coming up with laws decided in Secret via treaty, remember ACTA? Kangaroo Courts, where the famous and police can get away with murder or massive fraud -- Corporations frequently try to file suits in such a way to make them more expensive to get to, just ask G.Hotz. I could go on, but it really is quite uncanny how many of the abuses listed by our forefathers are now mirrored in today's happenings. The founding fathers thought many of the practices today's people are subjected to were intolerable and that it was their duty to fight a revolution and not "suffer, while evils are sufferable", instead they chose to "right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed". If only they could see us now... The once brave now cower, because their Land of the Free isn't.
I guess some good has come of it all: If we every did want to turn it off and on again, we could simply re-use the same declaration, and just add some new signatures.
So, what you're saying is that we actually lost the cold war? When the Berlin Wall came down it was because the statist regimes were already in place everywhere... Makes sense.
My entire state, according the the ACLU map, is in this zone. Our state motto is: "Live Free or Die". I laugh, sadly, every time I hear somebody say that here with pride.
Oh, we don't have to wear seat belts though. I guess I just don't understand what "Live Free" means as obviously not being required to wear seat belts is more than an even trade for losing your 4th Amendment rights.... Riiiiiight.
Sounds like someone ought to be doing some dying...
Wellll, actually, it's doing that, but the BIOS software is emulating the legacy behavior you see.
Meh, just claim fair use on all the individual packets.
I'll just leave this here.
Pray I don't make you rate more.
Define animal porn.
Humans are animals. To disagree would mean you don't grasp basic concepts like Plant vs Animal Kingdoms. Do you FUCK? Well, then you're an animal, and a video of humans practice-mating is thus animal porn. Bestiality is interspecies porn... They could have said interspecies porn. Oh, but white folks have Neanderthal DNA, so what then we outlaw the interracial porn too, eh?
Will Animal Planet be banned?
Who gives a fuck? You think banning anything actually keeps people from seeing it? Censorship laws are disgusting and ineffectual. They're simply the tools of a police state. The more stuff like this is illegal the more chance they'll find some excuse to throw you in jail if they don't have a legitimate reason, other than wanting you in jail.
To the folks who don't care if "Child Porn" or "Violent Porn", or "Animal Porn" is criminalized: Any web site you visit the world over could have a 1x1 pixel iframe that points to barnyard or kiddie porn, and your browser will happily download that smut without you ever even knowing it. This shit isn't hypothetical, this is what script kiddies do for fun when they get a XSS or SQL Injection exploit to work -- You don't even have to be going to anywhere in particular to get illegal 1's and 0's on your hard drives now. Why would they do this? Simple: Point out how Fucking Stupid Censorship Laws are to regular folks. Joe Sixpack won't fight back until they feel the boot of oppression at their own throats. Cleaned this crap off a client's Wordpress install just last week, wiped it out of few phpBB install a month before that. They had CP, and Snuff sites in the URLs. I don't condone or participate in such malicious behavior, but I can sure as hell understand their motives.
Now, go clean your web cache, you donkey molesting, murder masturbating, pedophiles. Don't forget to forensically shred the empty space on your drives to make sure it's really gone -- Got SSD? Bah, you better have already been running with whole drive encryption then. Oh your not a "pervert"? Are you sure that's what your Internet cache will always say? You trust the security of everywhere you go online? Oh sure, it was an "accident", you had no idea how that sort of illegal content got on your system. Then why do the logs show you regularly visited those perverse sites, at times when we know you were the only one at home to do so... Pray the site owners will back you up -- If you can even determine which ones they were in order to contact the sysadmins.
Seriously dude, I'm sure your managers find you a pleasure to work with. Maybe someone like you could actually benefit from this course in order to readjust your perspective, or at least tweak your outputs a little.
Code Monkey not say it out loud.
Code Monkey not crazy, just proud.
-joco
Are you saying the Powerpuff Girls grew up and became hookers? I knew the economy was bad but that is just depressing...
I don't know about depressing... I always had a thing for Blossom; so now if she'll just take a bit of cash, my childhood fantasy can come true!
Are you serious? How the hell do you make it to Slashdot and not know about Rule 34?!
From the Rules of the Internet:
Rule 34: If it exists there is porn of it, no exceptions.
Rule 35: If no porn is found at the moment, it will be made.
Just add "rule 34" to any search term for the porn version. (search results w/ safe=off, links may be NSFW). Since this is your first time here's some complimentary Star Wars Rule 34., or if you're more the mile-high club type: Why not declare Rule 34 on Jets? (both SFW, non nudes)
If you need to invoke rule 35, just proclaim rule 34 has been violated to the right folks, then wait.
Welcome to the Internet.
I always thought the bubbles were from his butt -- I mean, if I was bubble man that'd be the simplest way I could think of to weaponize them. Makes sense, no? SBDs do about 5 bars of health damage...
The electrified bubble should also act sort of like a Faraday cage, allowing current to flow around the outside of the bubble while what's inside has much less measurable charge (restructures the charge of the exterior material to equalize the field in the interior).
It's easy to take a closed product and go open source with it but there are some caveats, especially for games.
If it's a game, with single player, then fine, no real problem. If it's predominantly multiplayer that drives user-base / community then you don't want to release it as open source. Security via obscurity blah blah blah, but the fact it once you open up a multiplayer game it gets full of cheaters MUCH faster than the closed version. Unfortunately, it only takes a few bad apples to spoil the whole damn community. I've seen opened games go back closed, even when no money is involved, simply because of all the damn cheaters. For these types of games you want the current version to be closed source, pending a release, and the older released version to have significantly different enough modifications (esp. networking) so that the released version doesn't give too much insight to cheaters. You might have to go longer between releases, but at least it's getting opened. If it's a (dying) multiplayer game with no more user base, then it's fine to GPL it because it'll be mostly just friends playing with each other and they police themselves. Adding a user registration system helps with cheating somewhat, but email addresses are free. The trick is to create positive incentives for folks not to ditch their account, not negatively reinforce punishment. I.e., instead of wielding the ban hammer, give kudos/karma/in-game-cred and have there be perks, like voting for the next level takes your karma into effect; I digress...
The think people have to realize is that you need to work to make money. You can't just work once and then repeatedly sell the configuration of bits you just made. That closed model is dumb, it relies on artificial scarcity, it's economically untenable; What's scarce isn't the bits it's your ability to configure the bits that's scarce, that's what you sell, and that's how you make money with open source. Lots of people can't wrap their head around the fact that they need to be adding real (visual) benefit to get paid when they go open source because FLOSS users don't put up with moronic artificial scarcity models. Good will or no, donations don't cut it unless your project has a huge install-base. You have to keep working otherwise.
This means, let's say you create an awesome engine and level design tool set. Cool. Now, you can open source it, then do Kickstarters or other donations for adding a new game editor feature, or building an expansion pack of levels and kick ass assets that modders can use in their own maps (new textures, a new power or gun, mechanic, etc). Or, bring the game to a new platform. See? WORK for Money that you know you'll get. Don't work for free, that's dumb.
If a car mechanic fixed your car without asking, because they noticed it was broken, then that's great, but if they complain about people not paying them for the service then they're dumb. Don't work for free. Mechanics (and all other laborers) will give you a bid for their time -- An agreed upon price for manhours or to complete a job. Once a fair price is agreed upon, then the work is done, and you get paid ONCE for that work. You don't get recurring payments even if your work ends up benefiting lots of people -- say you fixed a bus, you don't get money for all the folks that thereafter ride in it.
I don't know why it's so damned hard for Closed Software devs to figure out how all other labor markets work. This isn't hard to understand. Much bigger software with more users can get away with more good will funding, but smaller shops have less users, so they need to not work for free then hope to get paid. They need to decide to do some work for an agreed upon price.
On the contrary: If you're just selling copies, and now you want to give them away for free and you're not improving anything, then I'm sorry, screw you, you don't get paid for not doing any damn work. Protip: That's why bands make most of their money via performing.
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In other news, 50cc Motor Scooters are able to travel on they same roads as other vehicles. They may not go as fast as other behicles but can still get you fron point a to point b
This would be an accurate analogy if you said the 50cc Motor Scooter's only cost a tiny bit less than a full sized 8 cylinder automobile.
I built a starter / mid range machine (3.8 GHz quad core machine w/ 8GB of RAM and Radeon 7660 D) for my little brother to play Steam & indie games on, that can also play Battlefield 3 & Planetside (low/med settings) for less than $500 including shipping and handling, and an oversized PSU, heat sink, blue LED case fans (kids these days), and mobo to support X-fire / SLI (for future upgradeability). Their mini computer is $130 + $270 = $500, and can barely run steam games. Bleh, that's nasty.
For another $80 or so my bro can add a Radeon 6770 to the current build and run dual graphics w/ the 7660, and about double the graphics power. Also, it's now overclocked to 4.2 Ghz since the big cheap air cooled heat sink is working so damn good it barely gets over 100 F. This brand new rig dual boots Win7 & GNU/Linux Mint just fine, even has surround sound in Linux -- Checked for support of the chipsets on MOBO beforehand. Don't buy pre-built unless you're going mobile. This shit's so easy to assemble 12 year old enjoyed doing it himself, just taught him to RTFM first.
why not legalize a practice that is otherwise illegal to rid ourselves of those obsolete businesses?
The needs of the money outweigh the needs of the you.
Protip: If you're not running your Windows in a VM from a know good snapshot each "boot", then you're doing it wrong.
Anti-virus / anti-malware can not trust an infected OS not to lie about itself.
Run your malware scans from a known good source: Linux live CD, or bootable flash drive, if you're not using a VM. Even then, scanners might not have signatures for new malware, and malware could be a mutation that installs other malware so the "removal" process can't be trusted to work all the time. Keep a separate partition for data. Restore to a known good snapshot of the OS each boot. To add new programs: Install new software in the known good snapshot and re-image it, then run from that new snapshot. Get a virus or program with bad features? Restore to a point before it touched the OS.
Writing for Portal is tough. Why you could even start out thinking a new portal wouldn't even have Chell, or even Portals! Ah, but you could be wrong, because that's exactly what the Portal 2 developers thought... They were wrong. Chell may not speak, but there is a reason it is she, and not some other, you play as in Portal 2; She's integral not because of her dialog (or lack thereof), but because of her identity. You may enjoy this Game Dev Conference talk from the writer's perspective on Portal 2: Creating a Sequel to a Game that Doesn't Need One
You might also enjoy this touching music video featuring the rat man.
Also, Portal 2 gives us the history of Aperture's founder Cave Johnson, his secretary Caroline, the origins of the Portal Gun (even explaining why it only works on some surfaces), and their role in the creation of GLaDOS. It's a hybrid sequel that covers tons of prequel material, so there's many more characters than just the Rat-Man to mine for a movie. Portal actually has a proper origin and story-line now.
Of course all that's irrelevant, since Abrams will simply ignore fixtures of the series and screw the actual universe six-ways to Sunday to solve any plot hole he makes for himself, like he did with trans-warp teleportation, red matter, and time-line forking time travel in Star Trek, won't even think twice about doing it either.
I agree with MovieBob.
He's already got two of the biggest sci-fi franchises of all time. JJ Abrams missed the wonder and universal good will inherent in all other Star Trek movies, and turned it into a mediocre action flick. WTF were water pipes doing in the engineering room? It was stupid, existing only for a hardly humorous plot device. Transporting at Warp Speed, DESTROYING a tenet of the Star Trek Universe, simply because the movie wrote itself into a corner?! Spock and Uhura? It's Pon Farr 24/7 now? I mean damn, I'm surprised Spock didn't have a romantic interlude with his future self as some Abramsian loop hole in the mating rituals. RED MATTER?! What the hell is that crap? No explanation, it's a pointless mcguffin -- not even an ounce of pseudo-scientific techno-babble: In a ST movie that had multiple time travelers, not a word of tachyons.
No surprise that since Abrams demonstrated his ability to destroy planets he's got himself appointed master of the Death Stars as well. Must this be the era of samey sci-fi? Oh damn, the philistines will finally be right! "What movie are you watching?" "Who cares, it's science fiction, they're all basically the same."
You know what? Screw it. I'm done with franchise recycling. The movie could have been great if it had been in any other universe, why borrow existing playgrounds to stomp in? Is Hollywood really that hard up for ideas? I wasn't pleased when they mined comic books for plot and mindshare. I actually will watch movies with NEW characters. There's no reason to lobotomize and reprogram the old ones. May the gods not ever let Hollywood learn of series such as Steins;Gate, especially not JJ!
Washington can be blown away, we'll be fine; It's only a psychological thing, there's no reason to protect it any more so than New York, Los Angeles, or Houston. Hell, not that I'm advocating it, but it would probably be better for the hypothetical enemy to strike D.C. and utterly stir the hornet's nest rather than destroy a valuable military target or more populated area.
For all the money spent in case something happens we could instead arm ourselves to react once a threat is perceived. If the Internet has taught us anything it's that a decentralized network is what you want -- The answer is not to protect your single points of failure, but to eliminate them before the enemy has a chance. The good news is that the population and the military are already decentralized. So too should D.C., and Wall Street be. You can't protect against script kiddies (terrorists) without wasting lots of time in a constant state of fear, making life hard for citizens on the off chance that something might happen where you expect it to.
Seems more like a defense contract hand-out to me. if they were smart, they'd run Fast Food ads on the blimps, recoup some money via advertising and make us look as ridiculous as we are.
No CAT Scan, MRI or Cancer drugs would have been invented without patents to give the inventors time to make their years of investment back by a period of exclusivity. Regulation by the government (mostly for safety & efficacy) is just another business expense, like fuel, that all players pay. The price to enter the game.
I have spent over $1m with my partner over 5 years to develop a product and get it FDA cleared for sale with 3 patents. We simply would not have started this project without knowing we could patent what we do, because otherwise J&J and P&G would both copy our product starting the day we released it publicly.
That's simply not true. in the absence of patent and copyright protections, demands for new and innovative products and solutions will still be met.
Take the Automotive industry for example. They're not allowed to patent their designs, yet every year all car lines have new designs. By your logic would not all cars look the same? The fashion industry is also not allowed copyright or design patents for clothing, and it is the most diverse and innovative market with some of the lowest barriers to entry. Fabric, sewing-machine, and Ideas can actually get you rich, even though designs are frequently borrowed across the entire industry. Every day a new fashion designer enjoys their 15 fame filled minutes without any patents or copyright protections. Brand Trademarks are allowed to protect consumers from knock-offs, so they know who their money is going towards funding, and that's really all that is needed.
I'm a scientist. You don't seem to be a scientist, not to me. You've taken a Hypothetical stance that Patents are Required for Progress and Beneficial to Society and are standing buy it religiously even in the face of contrary evidence. I say to you, that if you truly ARE a Scientist then why are you so afraid of testing your hypothesis? I propose we settle this once (but not for all, for times change). We are now in the Age of Information. It is time to do the damn experiment and abolish patents to see if they are truly beneficial or not. You have ZERO evidence to support your claims that patents are required. I have historical and current day evidence that suggests otherwise. If you are not just a greedy profiteer, but a Scientist with the good of society in mind, then the ONLY logical conclusion must be that we eliminate patents. It's not like we can't re-instate whatever crap laws we want later. You disrespect your trade, sir, by only applying the Scientific Method where it seems beneficial to you. You are a rapists of nature.
My mailbox is gets 100% full within a week from all of the junk mail that comes in. It's pretty bad.
WTF? A Week? My mailbox is full EVERY DAY (that they deliver mail). Mostly just junk mail (when I live in a big city it seems I get more junk), but also a couple of magazines. Mother Earth News for her, and I still read Popular Science even though it's basically month old Slashdot article highlights. My brain's not that good, reminds me of things to follow up on. Yes, Digital Content, Smartphones & Tablets exist, but when they exist in the same vicinity as your own fecal mater you may switch back to inexpensive paper-based information conveyors.
"Honey, why is your cell in the toilet?"
"Obviously, because it won't flush. It is dead to me now, its water has been added to my own."