I've been playing free rougelikes for fifteen years and am not board yet. Why would I want to shell out $40 for a game that I'll be tired of in six months? Other than the FPS phase we all went through when Doom and Quake came out, I've not paid much attention to PC games since Myst killed the adventure game genre.
A guy I know who works in a Campus IT department has said that if bills like this pass they will have no choice but to contract dorm connectivity out to Comcast (and make students pay for it). Efforts to launch stuff like campus wide wifi would be dead in the water. It sounds like it would be the death of.edu, pretty much.
A lot of congressmen, particularly those from districts that are not tightly contested, are total policy wonks. In districts where independents are not the the key swing votes, it's lot easier for a candidate to get elected on the basis of policy alone. Independents are more likely than partison voters to put personality ahead of policy.
Unfortunately, too many sites use it for navigation and crap like that. The wire image viewers for most major newspapers use it. Embedded media in various blogs, etc.
I've been using Iceweasl because the flash problems in Konquer were driving me nuts. You don't realize how much flash is on the web until it stops working.
Nothing terrorists can do is a bigger threat to our freedom and way of life than nincompoops who think all communication should be government monitored.
Until the grid is not coal powered, we should really keep cars off of it. Traditional hybred technology is capable of getting 100mpg. I've seen arguments going both ways on this, but it's quite possible that PHEV drawing power from coal fired power plants would be responsible for putting more carbon into the atmosphere than traditional HEVs.
Getting rid of coal really has to priority #1. If it means we have to burn kittens for fuel, so be it.
The problem with renewable energy is not technological. It's logistical. Covering the Arizona desert in solar panels is an obvious solution. It just happens to be a feat of engineering that makes the great wall of china look like a tinkertoy suspension bridge. We know what to do. We don't know how to do it in a way that wouldn't end up increasing your electric bill by a factor of ten.
A solar thermal plant capable of producing the same amount of energy as coal fired or nuclear plant would be larger than anything every built by man. Sure it's what's we're going to do sooner or later, it's just going to be more like later.
We really need to get over the idea that nations that don't want to eat melted ice cream in the dark should not have nuclear power. Why? Because if we don't they are going to do crazy shit like this.
With the timeframe we've got to ward off the feedback loop that will come with the melting of the permafrost, there is really no time left to invest in new technologies. Fifteen years ago I was an Earth Firster protesting proposed new nuclear plants. Now I'm all for building two of them in my backyard starting yesterday.
We've got two options. Mass transition to nuclear power ASAP or our great great grandkids living under domes. We can still work towards a post-nuclear future were everything is renewable, but nuclear is going to a necessary stopgap measure.
Except by the time you do it, the cost is more than nuclear so the whole thing becomes nothing more than a way to keep the remaining coal barons from going the way of wagon wheel makers.
"Clean coal" is still an oxymoron. Just because they can keep some gasses out doesn't mean that it's not putting a bunch of other nasty shit into the air.
Those of us who once thought that coal was greener than nuclear were dead wrong btw. If we were to replace all the coal fired power plants with nuclear plants and put some serious cash into replanting the rainforests, people could keep driving fossil fuel powered Hummers indefinitely.
Under Howard Dean's DNC, the Democrats have supported a Federalist position on gun control. That makes a lot of sense. Let areas where there is a real scourge of gun violence ban guns (big northeastern cities, socal) an let people keep them in places where gun ownership is a big cultural issue (the south, and mountain states).
Debian is sticking with 3.5 until after Lenny is released, meaning it's not likely to hit even sid for a year, assuming the release is the usual few months late. I think those who are expecting it to take a couple years to actually be usable are in the right ballpark.
When debian and slackware say there are no regressions between the two, I'll take a look at it. Right now there is nothing to KDE4 other than eye candy, and the first thing I do on a new KDE install is turn all that kind of crap off. As of this moment, you can't turn it off in KDE4. As of this moment, it's about as configurable as gnome since someone decided that desktop bling was a better use of their time than actual functionality. Frankly, that does not fill me with much faith in the current KDE team.
Aqualung is the best audiophile player I know of. Mesk tries to be more of a foobar clone. I rid myself of windows before foobar really hit the scene so i'm not 100% sure what the most important features are considered to be.
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that never happened.
http://lessig.org/blog/2008/02/there_but_for_the_grace_of_god.html
The fact that they are associates is definitely reassuring.
I think you're right on.
I've been playing free rougelikes for fifteen years and am not board yet. Why would I want to shell out $40 for a game that I'll be tired of in six months? Other than the FPS phase we all went through when Doom and Quake came out, I've not paid much attention to PC games since Myst killed the adventure game genre.
I know you meant it as a joke, but check this out.
Self-hosting online image gallery software written in . . . Ada
http://adaimgsvr.sourceforge.net/imgsvr.html
A guy I know who works in a Campus IT department has said that if bills like this pass they will have no choice but to contract dorm connectivity out to Comcast (and make students pay for it). Efforts to launch stuff like campus wide wifi would be dead in the water. It sounds like it would be the death of .edu, pretty much.
You mean put debian on them?
The storm has barely even started.
What's Lessig's accedemic background again?
Ever watch CSPAN?
A lot of congressmen, particularly those from districts that are not tightly contested, are total policy wonks. In districts where independents are not the the key swing votes, it's lot easier for a candidate to get elected on the basis of policy alone. Independents are more likely than partison voters to put personality ahead of policy.
So it's closer to being ready for release than KDE4?
Unfortunately, too many sites use it for navigation and crap like that. The wire image viewers for most major newspapers use it. Embedded media in various blogs, etc.
I've been using Iceweasl because the flash problems in Konquer were driving me nuts. You don't realize how much flash is on the web until it stops working.
It failed because they overspent on their imperialist boondoggle in Afghanistan, just like we're doing in Iraq.
All the mainstream candidates from both parties are different flavors of the same thing
http://www.politicalcompass.org/usprimaries2008
Also note that both Gravel and Kucinich are more libertarian in policy than Paul.
Nothing terrorists can do is a bigger threat to our freedom and way of life than nincompoops who think all communication should be government monitored.
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Until the grid is not coal powered, we should really keep cars off of it. Traditional hybred technology is capable of getting 100mpg. I've seen arguments going both ways on this, but it's quite possible that PHEV drawing power from coal fired power plants would be responsible for putting more carbon into the atmosphere than traditional HEVs.
Getting rid of coal really has to priority #1. If it means we have to burn kittens for fuel, so be it.
The problem with renewable energy is not technological. It's logistical. Covering the Arizona desert in solar panels is an obvious solution. It just happens to be a feat of engineering that makes the great wall of china look like a tinkertoy suspension bridge. We know what to do. We don't know how to do it in a way that wouldn't end up increasing your electric bill by a factor of ten.
A solar thermal plant capable of producing the same amount of energy as coal fired or nuclear plant would be larger than anything every built by man. Sure it's what's we're going to do sooner or later, it's just going to be more like later.
We really need to get over the idea that nations that don't want to eat melted ice cream in the dark should not have nuclear power. Why? Because if we don't they are going to do crazy shit like this.
With the timeframe we've got to ward off the feedback loop that will come with the melting of the permafrost, there is really no time left to invest in new technologies. Fifteen years ago I was an Earth Firster protesting proposed new nuclear plants. Now I'm all for building two of them in my backyard starting yesterday.
We've got two options. Mass transition to nuclear power ASAP or our great great grandkids living under domes. We can still work towards a post-nuclear future were everything is renewable, but nuclear is going to a necessary stopgap measure.
Except by the time you do it, the cost is more than nuclear so the whole thing becomes nothing more than a way to keep the remaining coal barons from going the way of wagon wheel makers.
"Clean coal" is still an oxymoron. Just because they can keep some gasses out doesn't mean that it's not putting a bunch of other nasty shit into the air.
Those of us who once thought that coal was greener than nuclear were dead wrong btw. If we were to replace all the coal fired power plants with nuclear plants and put some serious cash into replanting the rainforests, people could keep driving fossil fuel powered Hummers indefinitely.
butbutbutbut $10 for a loaf of bread will be cheap once you factor in all the tax we won't have to pay!
Not that the poorest of the poor are paying taxes now. They still eat bread though.
see the link in my sig
They taught together at The University of Chicago law school. They are very much cut from the same cloth.
Under Howard Dean's DNC, the Democrats have supported a Federalist position on gun control. That makes a lot of sense. Let areas where there is a real scourge of gun violence ban guns (big northeastern cities, socal) an let people keep them in places where gun ownership is a big cultural issue (the south, and mountain states).
Or if you put all your resources into the wrong war.
Debian is sticking with 3.5 until after Lenny is released, meaning it's not likely to hit even sid for a year, assuming the release is the usual few months late. I think those who are expecting it to take a couple years to actually be usable are in the right ballpark.
When debian and slackware say there are no regressions between the two, I'll take a look at it. Right now there is nothing to KDE4 other than eye candy, and the first thing I do on a new KDE install is turn all that kind of crap off. As of this moment, you can't turn it off in KDE4. As of this moment, it's about as configurable as gnome since someone decided that desktop bling was a better use of their time than actual functionality. Frankly, that does not fill me with much faith in the current KDE team.
Aqualung is the best audiophile player I know of. Mesk tries to be more of a foobar clone. I rid myself of windows before foobar really hit the scene so i'm not 100% sure what the most important features are considered to be.
http://mesk.nicfit.net/
http://aqualung.sourceforge.net/