2 years ago, when it was.4, the source was not available and the FAQ read quite differently. I'm sure today was the first time you every bothered to visit the homepage. What kind of little penis man cries over a UID? lol
Here is a screenshot of the engine at work: wip9.jpg
can you release a binary or any compiled source, even if "alpha" or worse, under the GPL without the source? That's what he claims to have done (you cannot obtain the source for the current development, nor could you in the past)
I don't particularly like the Simpsons. I fail to see why some map of a fictional location (especially and old and tired cartoon) is frontpage news. I must really be in the minority.
Who cares about.nET when you can run Esterel on Lego Mindstorms? Seriously, let's see someone do some cool things with a language tailored for lego projects before porting language (Standards) for no reason. I term this project a BWOTE. Big waste of time and effort.
There are ectually a few of these already made to varying degrees. They each failed miserably within their own decade. Might want to google for them or even visit gamefaqs.com
Why wouldnt you just open the box and disconnect the interfaces you didn't want used? Hell why not REMOVE them?
"But we use USB keyboards waa waa waa"
"and I can hook up a harddrive to the parallel port the printer uses, so cry me a new one"
You don't depend on software made by microsoft to protect your data. The software "disabling" of specific hardware devices hooked up to USB seems like mental masturbation. It's what MS is good at I guess.
The concept of pre-qualifying counts as using my brain. Wikipedia is not reliable NOR trustworthy. Amazon isn't 100% reliable but I trust it as an authoratative source. We're not talking in absolutes, we're talking in the real world where there are mistakes and at a certain point, you have set practical limits. Wikipedia has always been a poorly designed extremist experiment and I wouldn't trust much more than a select Wikipedia biography that has a quoted source from another publication.
10 years ago, saying harddrives of the future would be a better delivery device than 1.44 disks was just as true. He's thinking down the road and saying "we'll probably be using ORANGES instead of APPLES in 10 years". WOW WHAT A FUCKING INSIGHTFUL TECH-SAVVY GENIOUS. Now maybe he's saying the RAM is a more convenient medium to distribute media than ROM because of the potential for interactivity or something along those lines, but I somehow doubt he's even trying to make that subtle point. Look for hardware embedded ROM in the future, not PC harddrives.
I learned that neither the world nor myself was that simple, around that same time. Probably explains the key differences in our views.
The key point of the AC was that crackable software may be a capitalistic strategy. This is certainly possible and I have seen nothing to indicate otherwise. Humans go for the cheap the world over (as you implied here 10092606). I don't think we're the only one's who have noticed.
That's how capitalism works, and as an American citizen, every other economic system appears to me to be an attempt to regulate people's natural tendency to engage in it. In American it's ok to take what you can, unless you're posting to/. evidently (a common criticism).
The story of detecting a signal is timely, but altogether unimportant. The alluded debate between methodology, in attempting to establish contact is really the thinking portion of the article. Perhaps a flamebait mod would have been more appropriate, if the debate was undecided and still open. Signal is best (most efficient for cost, time, reliability, etc) for a number of reasons covered in the various threads. The article mentions a physical message as a possible alternative, which would be a possible 'silly waste of taxpayer money' and was the true thrust of the Original Thread Post, to criticize the concept.
If an internet oddities book doesnt cover the basics like Little Stalker Boy, it's full of garbage I've seen 100 times and not worth purchasing, much less thumbing through. For the article author, some guy who claims he lives on the web, he sure seems "wowed" by some pretty tired crap.
When dealing with the vastness of space, how can you advocate physical over transmission. The article does nothing to describe why sending an object with mass 1/1000000 the size of a planet that we would notice is somehow preferable to trying to boost a signal.
The number one reason my grandparents dont use new software that I recommend, is that they are afraid it will break what they have and leave them with 2 broken installations (my words) and nothing left. Smooth install is #1 to gaining acceptance. Windows Update had to be related to high profile issues before it was accepted, arguably, for it's lack of useability and unreliability in patching correctly (often leaving things broken in the late 90's).
Of course terrorists care who they kill. Dont be naiive. Why aren't there more bombings in South Dakota? You think they can't drive there rather than fly? I think the answer is that there's no signifigant political point to be made doing it. C'mon na, think it through.
In then end, when no contributor says anything, it's good business. I deal with contributors and contribute to dead and/or forgotton projects all the time, this is all just a bunch of OMG SOMEONE BROKE THE GPL (which he did). I appreciate the outrage, I don't see the benefit. If they didn't speak up before, we can be assured they don't care still.
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Almost all the links and information contained in the BEAM link from the parent, are broken. I would like to build a Dizzy with a GPS :D
2 years ago, when it was .4, the source was not available and the FAQ read quite differently. I'm sure today was the first time you every bothered to visit the homepage. What kind of little penis man cries over a UID? lol
Here is a screenshot of the engine at work:
wip9.jpg
can you release a binary or any compiled source, even if "alpha" or worse, under the GPL without the source? That's what he claims to have done (you cannot obtain the source for the current development, nor could you in the past)
I would wager any criticism of the Simpsons on /. get's you troll modded regardless of post content. Feel free to test on your own.
I don't particularly like the Simpsons. I fail to see why some map of a fictional location (especially and old and tired cartoon) is frontpage news. I must really be in the minority.
Who cares about .nET when you can run Esterel on Lego Mindstorms? Seriously, let's see someone do some cool things with a language tailored for lego projects before porting language (Standards) for no reason. I term this project a BWOTE. Big waste of time and effort.
There are ectually a few of these already made to varying degrees. They each failed miserably within their own decade. Might want to google for them or even visit gamefaqs.com
It was developed using 1.1 - 1.2 didnt come out until a few months after Vampire was released. 1.3 came out a year or more later.
Why wouldnt you just open the box and disconnect the interfaces you didn't want used? Hell why not REMOVE them?
"But we use USB keyboards waa waa waa"
"and I can hook up a harddrive to the parallel port the printer uses, so cry me a new one"
You don't depend on software made by microsoft to protect your data. The software "disabling" of specific hardware devices hooked up to USB seems like mental masturbation. It's what MS is good at I guess.
I would think the editors would have at least posted a warning in the pre-blurb.
The concept of pre-qualifying counts as using my brain. Wikipedia is not reliable NOR trustworthy. Amazon isn't 100% reliable but I trust it as an authoratative source. We're not talking in absolutes, we're talking in the real world where there are mistakes and at a certain point, you have set practical limits. Wikipedia has always been a poorly designed extremist experiment and I wouldn't trust much more than a select Wikipedia biography that has a quoted source from another publication.
10 years ago, saying harddrives of the future would be a better delivery device than 1.44 disks was just as true. He's thinking down the road and saying "we'll probably be using ORANGES instead of APPLES in 10 years". WOW WHAT A FUCKING INSIGHTFUL TECH-SAVVY GENIOUS. Now maybe he's saying the RAM is a more convenient medium to distribute media than ROM because of the potential for interactivity or something along those lines, but I somehow doubt he's even trying to make that subtle point. Look for hardware embedded ROM in the future, not PC harddrives.
I learned that neither the world nor myself was that simple, around that same time. Probably explains the key differences in our views.
The key point of the AC was that crackable software may be a capitalistic strategy. This is certainly possible and I have seen nothing to indicate otherwise. Humans go for the cheap the world over (as you implied here 10092606). I don't think we're the only one's who have noticed.
That's how capitalism works, and as an American citizen, every other economic system appears to me to be an attempt to regulate people's natural tendency to engage in it. In American it's ok to take what you can, unless you're posting to /. evidently (a common criticism).
Tongue-in-cheek. I think it's appropriate to recognize the site's authors, especially in cases where *I* overlook them. Period.
Apparently my thread tracker was off and I replied inappropriately.
In comparison to the article, I think SethJohnson (the parent) "really, really gets it".
The story of detecting a signal is timely, but altogether unimportant. The alluded debate between methodology, in attempting to establish contact is really the thinking portion of the article. Perhaps a flamebait mod would have been more appropriate, if the debate was undecided and still open. Signal is best (most efficient for cost, time, reliability, etc) for a number of reasons covered in the various threads. The article mentions a physical message as a possible alternative, which would be a possible 'silly waste of taxpayer money' and was the true thrust of the Original Thread Post, to criticize the concept.
Whoops dissed timothy (parent), there goes my karma. Regardless, I stand by my assessments.
If an internet oddities book doesnt cover the basics like Little Stalker Boy, it's full of garbage I've seen 100 times and not worth purchasing, much less thumbing through. For the article author, some guy who claims he lives on the web, he sure seems "wowed" by some pretty tired crap.
When I can observe an advanced civilization, where evolution has altogether artificially been stopped, I'll let you know if I agree.
When dealing with the vastness of space, how can you advocate physical over transmission. The article does nothing to describe why sending an object with mass 1/1000000 the size of a planet that we would notice is somehow preferable to trying to boost a signal.
The number one reason my grandparents dont use new software that I recommend, is that they are afraid it will break what they have and leave them with 2 broken installations (my words) and nothing left. Smooth install is #1 to gaining acceptance. Windows Update had to be related to high profile issues before it was accepted, arguably, for it's lack of useability and unreliability in patching correctly (often leaving things broken in the late 90's).
Of course terrorists care who they kill. Dont be naiive. Why aren't there more bombings in South Dakota? You think they can't drive there rather than fly? I think the answer is that there's no signifigant political point to be made doing it. C'mon na, think it through.
In then end, when no contributor says anything, it's good business. I deal with contributors and contribute to dead and/or forgotton projects all the time, this is all just a bunch of OMG SOMEONE BROKE THE GPL (which he did). I appreciate the outrage, I don't see the benefit. If they didn't speak up before, we can be assured they don't care still.