Easy solution. #1 a good caching proxy server. #2 pre-cache yourself a good supply of porn. Good use of wget can pre-cache many hours worth of porn enjoyment during the hours when your not using the connection for yourself things like pretending to kill people. With a good configuration your roomies surfing traffic will barely tickle the Net at all. You could even use a 56K connection and find things bearable for 2-3 users.:)
That should be plenty to share unless you go wild and subscribe 50 people. For a couple neighbors or something it should be fine. Chances are you won't all be using it at the same time and using up all the bandwidth. If you are then well damn get together and get one of you to download the porn and the others to download the porn from the first guy. Maybe set up a good shared caching proxy server.
I'll assume a business wouldn't be stupid enough (haha) to not already have heavy security in place between their internal network and the Internet. If this is split at a router sitting between the Internet and the internal network then, unless the security was set up by a total moron, the traffic you sell to others would also be untrusted.
If you're using WiFi you should consider all wireless traffic as untrusted anyway. I'd suggest blocking everything you don't absolutely need to let through. For that matter I treat my lan the same way because if one machine is owned you don't want the entire network being taken over. Especially important if you have less secure (*cough cough* Windows?) computers on the same network as say your company webfarm or worse yet payroll servers. Treat everything as hostile and you won't be woke up at 4am because of script kiddies getting your ass fired.;)
So sell a friend some lint from your sofa for a nickle. Now you're a business. Seriously there isn't much that sepperates Joe Average from Acme Lint Inc. Some paperwork might be useful if you're really woried about not legally qualifying but it's not a lot. If you are selling under your own name and not an assumed business name then there really isn't much more to worry about until you actually start selling a product and making money.. even then you don't need to do much. Fill out the right paperwork for taxes and things such as that.
These laws might harass a few people but will shortly just be another 'No elephants on Main St after 9am on Sunday' law. Yet another example of why I think non Constitutional laws should expire every five years unless renewed. Maybe in five years our country will be past this post-9/11 retard/fearful stage and back to our usual arrogant obnoxious short sighted behavior.:)
Really Mozilla is still available. If he has better ideas then he is still free to develop them himself or push others to do it. Browsing is a mature concept now. It doesn't need to constantly change.. that'd make it hard on users. If he has ideas though I'm sure people would listen.
Shrek sure seemed to have open mouth fangs aimed at Disney but it was still, and maybe because of that, a great movie. It was both a fantasy story and a parody of a Disney-style fantasy story and it worked well as both.
A Bug's Life sucked.. Antz was pretty funny. Emperor's New Grove and Road to El Dorado both sucked. Monster's Inc and Shrek were both pretty funny but Shrek was far far better. Treasure Planet was a lame rip of the game Skies of Arcadia and the book Treasure Island. I haven't seen Sinbad yet so I have no opinion. Haven't watched Finding Nemo but it looks lame.. haven't heard of Sharkslayer.
Pixar has made some pretty good movies. Toy Story (especially the second one) was very good. Disney hasn't made an animated movie I've liked in several years.. at least I can't think of one. Dreamworks IMO is pretty good. I really liked Antz and Shrek is one of my favorite movies ever made. Dreamworks overall seems to make pretty good movies I think. Don't all movies come in spurts of semi-original (for the time anyway) movies that start a fad of similar movies? We get a burst of teen angst, then sci fi, then comic, then horror, etc.. whatever is selling at the time period. Dreamworks might make mostly copycat films but they do a good job at it.
Sure go watch the movies.. buy the movies.. rip the movies.. give copies to everyone you can. I sugegst printing out a stack of copies of your favorite movie and print fairly legit looking disc labels.. then leave them in places where people are likely to pick up copies. Leave them there anonymously and you can't be busted.
Myself, I'd like to use Windows users and their computers for target practice but that really has nothing to do with them using Windows. I just think that way of most people in the world. I really don't care if those people use Windows, MacOS, Linux, or whatever.
I just forgive most Linux users.. they are one of the groups I usually feel like not killing. Not that some aren't worth killing.. but I take them on an individual basis before deciding.
There.. isn't that a big difference from being an OS fanatic!? Actually, I'm half serious. People that seem to make some effort to be intelligent I tend to like.. even if they use Windows.. where as I dislike most other people.
Actually those sound like a major improvement.. I might bother getting cable if they had channels like that. The only channels I really like are like Discovery, TLC, and stuff like that.. though I admit I also watch MTV/VH1 and The Cartoon Network.
Actually though I think geeks could make really good television. A lot of us are real movie/tv buffs and are actually pretty funny. I've actually thought about making a tv series of my life.. something like a combination Jerry Springer, Seinfield, and Freaks & Geeks. I think it'd be pretty popular.. especially with my fellow geeks.:)
Bic's are prohibited? What about steal wool and a 9 volt battery? Stick the wool in the drink you're served and touch the wool with the battery terminals and you'll get a nice little fire going.
I'm sure I could think of dozens, or hundreds, of ways to do mre damage with innocent items than with a Bic lighter. Doh.
Who is promising? There are 10's of thousands of OSS developers. Which ones did you talk to? Personally, I wouldn't write something like Exchange because I loathe Exchange. I wouldn't make fonts just because if I did them they'd be butt ugly. I write what I feel like. If you want something else then either do it yourself, pay me (or those like me), or use some commercial software (won't bother me in the least if you do).
Sure, if there is something you want then tell us about it. If it sounds interesting maybe somebody will deliver. If you're not paying for it then you have no right to complain. I mean I'd love to bitch that no bikini clad love goddesses have delivered a pizza to me this week.. but then I didn't order a pizza and I can't afford to pay the hourly rate of the love goddess. Life's a bitch that way.:)
I hate to tell ya this but vaporware isn't an OSS problem.. it is a problem for all software.. all technology.. and in some sense for all humankind. It's easier to promise than deliver.. especially when you're not the one that has to deliver. Seen those flying cars lately?
What difference does it make? I've had a perfectly readable system for years. Antialiasing isn't a holy grail or anything. It's even considered by many people to produce worse fonts. Not that they can't be damn nice.. but they aren't some magic that suddenly makes everything look nice.
Fonts might be harder than an enterprise messaging system.. because they are part coding and part art. A lot of OSS people can bang out tons of great code but aren't so good at the art part. Fonts also aren't especially fun in that geek sort of way.
Part of the reason I collect the Internet (millions of pictures, movies, documents, etc from random sources) is for my AI project. IMO pure text extraction isn't likely to form a very useful AI. Once you tie in sensory data (sight, sound, etc) then text extraction becomes much more powerful. You can get more intuitive connections that pure word relationships wouldn't make.
I think P2P networks are more likely to form an AI than Google is. As P2P networks improve in finding relationships between data on different nodes and passing that data around I think it could form something very interesting. Since little of the data shared by P2P networks is text (most is images, music, and movies) it has considerable source material to learn from. Also with the large number of nodes a good P2P network has at it's disposal far more computing power than Google does.
I've had AI projects before that learned from the Net and they did tend to be kind of perverted but they also quickly built an amazing array of knowledge. I've had programs that (without being programmed to do so) began translating text into other languages or that would feed back word definitions from text you fed them. The most interesting ones (to me) have their front end dropped into a virtual world (such as a mud) and will learn to identify users they like and will learn to identify how to respond to what the user says or does so as to please that user. So for a certain user the program might translate all text they entered, for another it might treat the input as a search query and return the most promising results from Google.
"You see things and say 'Why?'; but I dream things that never were and I say 'Why not?'" -- George Bernard Shaw
'Because we can' is the perfect reason. The only rule is that before each thing we set out to do we should ask 'Why not?' Is there a good reason not to do something. If not then we should do it even if we lack a good reason to do it.
Many things have proven to be useful after the fact. You often don't know what you'll find until after you've done it. In some cases it might be a good idea to dig tunnels with nukes, kill people with terminal illnesses, etc. It most certainy would be profitable for us to colonize space and the seas as well as to produce cheap food and medications. It's only the lack of an explorers personality that keeps holding us back.
I'd go if I could. I think it's way past time to start letting average people into space. Sure there are dangers but we're adults. It's our right to decide to accept the danger. Even if the chance of a safe trip were only 50/50 I'd seriously think about trying it. If they could make some rather cheap, if not entirely safe, transports and supply packs and start shipping them to the Moon, Mars, etc then we could get these things colonized. Sure a lot of people might die in the process but if they don't care who is to tell them it isn't their risk to take? For that matter I suggest doing with the Moon what was done with America, Australia, etc. Let's send our convicts (sentenced to death or otherwise willing to go) to use as workers building these colonies. If they live then they get their own stake in the colony and they are no longer considered convicts there.
We have the technology and the manpower.. why don't we have these colonies?
Also, I think many authors recognize that many of us, probably even most of us, wish they could be caught up in some grand adventure and be a hero. Most of us don't have the real need or guts to set off on such an adventure but if there were somebody to provide the quest and push us along we'd gladly play the part of the unlikely hero. Stories that feed our imagination of just that happening are no doubt always popular. It's that same reason why most of us probably have had a friend that could get us to do things we otherwise wouldn't do. The guy who gets you to climb mountains, quit your job to start a business in a third world country, or raid the girls dormatory for panties. No doubt some sort of left over needs for people such as us that mostly have very safe lives.
I doubt he set out to copy Tolkien when he wrote Sword of Shannara. More likely it was just a book he had read enough for it to shape things in his own mind.
Even so there is nothing especially new in even the plot of stories such as the Hobbit. I'd imagine half the stories ever made include a bumbling unlikely hero, a powerful villian, and some sort of strong but mysterious hero/guide. I've got a lot of books older than the Hobbit and that's a pretty common basis even in books that are very different. Certainly I can think of stories that aren't even fantasy or sci fi that have almost the exact same structure.
Does methane release in nature produce the same carbon dioxide? If so is there any harm in using it for a fuel source? I was working on building something from an older/. story so I'd be interested to know.
I don't really have a problem with stories that use the same basic plot as Harry Potter but I can see where she has a right to keep other books from having the same main character in the same basic plot. If the character is just borrowed as a minor character or is in a spoof/parody that won't be mistaken for the original then I don't see it as any harm to her trademark. I can also see where she'd be pissed at books being published under her name when she didn't write them.
Did you ever actually read the Shannara series? It has many simularities to Tolkien but is nothing like a one-for-one mapping. The races are very different, the wizards are different, the villians are different.. very little is actually the same. The Shannara books cover a much larger concept of science and magic. The newest series of Shannara books have flying airships. You could say that they are taken right out of Skies of Arcadia but I don't remember any in the Hobbit.
I love Tolkien but I also love the Shannara books. I see no reason for the snubbery that many Tolkien fans make against the Shannara series. Surely, there is room for everyone.
I've nver used one like that. Will have to see if I can dig one up to play with. Ahhhhhh I've been blinded by my mousepad again. Damn that would really suck for LAN parties.
If I want a manly computer I'll shape the case like a naked woman and make the nipples dispense beer. Plug the network cable in and it must moan and make improbable claims as to how good you are at networking. Such a computer must run Windows 95 so that every night when you try to use it it can complain of headaches (that are obviously your fault) and crash.
True, I get ball mice for something like $2 or $3 each and keyboard for about $5. I won't use the ball mice myself but the keyboards IMO are a pretty good deal. In offices and labs ball mice just seem to cripple to fast. I've had places where they had to be cleaned every other day. On 50 computers that's a substantial investment in time. At least it takes a lot of effort to cripple an optical mouse and they are usually easier to clean. My current optical mouse is a cheap one that was like $15 and it has all three buttons (middle doubles as scrollwheel) needed by Linux. Overall I'm happy with it since it was just some trash I grabbed from Walmart when the last one died (dropping any mouse is bad for it).
Long enough. I remember them from way back when I was a kid. Of course back then they were expensive.;) Of course back then all computer stuff was expensive.
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Easy solution. #1 a good caching proxy server. #2 pre-cache yourself a good supply of porn. Good use of wget can pre-cache many hours worth of porn enjoyment during the hours when your not using the connection for yourself things like pretending to kill people. With a good configuration your roomies surfing traffic will barely tickle the Net at all. You could even use a 56K connection and find things bearable for 2-3 users. :)
That should be plenty to share unless you go wild and subscribe 50 people. For a couple neighbors or something it should be fine. Chances are you won't all be using it at the same time and using up all the bandwidth. If you are then well damn get together and get one of you to download the porn and the others to download the porn from the first guy. Maybe set up a good shared caching proxy server.
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I'll assume a business wouldn't be stupid enough (haha) to not already have heavy security in place between their internal network and the Internet. If this is split at a router sitting between the Internet and the internal network then, unless the security was set up by a total moron, the traffic you sell to others would also be untrusted.
If you're using WiFi you should consider all wireless traffic as untrusted anyway. I'd suggest blocking everything you don't absolutely need to let through. For that matter I treat my lan the same way because if one machine is owned you don't want the entire network being taken over. Especially important if you have less secure (*cough cough* Windows?) computers on the same network as say your company webfarm or worse yet payroll servers. Treat everything as hostile and you won't be woke up at 4am because of script kiddies getting your ass fired.
So sell a friend some lint from your sofa for a nickle. Now you're a business. Seriously there isn't much that sepperates Joe Average from Acme Lint Inc. Some paperwork might be useful if you're really woried about not legally qualifying but it's not a lot. If you are selling under your own name and not an assumed business name then there really isn't much more to worry about until you actually start selling a product and making money.. even then you don't need to do much. Fill out the right paperwork for taxes and things such as that.
:)
These laws might harass a few people but will shortly just be another 'No elephants on Main St after 9am on Sunday' law. Yet another example of why I think non Constitutional laws should expire every five years unless renewed. Maybe in five years our country will be past this post-9/11 retard/fearful stage and back to our usual arrogant obnoxious short sighted behavior.
Really Mozilla is still available. If he has better ideas then he is still free to develop them himself or push others to do it. Browsing is a mature concept now. It doesn't need to constantly change.. that'd make it hard on users. If he has ideas though I'm sure people would listen.
Shrek sure seemed to have open mouth fangs aimed at Disney but it was still, and maybe because of that, a great movie. It was both a fantasy story and a parody of a Disney-style fantasy story and it worked well as both.
A Bug's Life sucked.. Antz was pretty funny.
Emperor's New Grove and Road to El Dorado both sucked.
Monster's Inc and Shrek were both pretty funny but Shrek was far far better.
Treasure Planet was a lame rip of the game Skies of Arcadia and the book Treasure Island. I haven't seen Sinbad yet so I have no opinion.
Haven't watched Finding Nemo but it looks lame.. haven't heard of Sharkslayer.
Pixar has made some pretty good movies. Toy Story (especially the second one) was very good. Disney hasn't made an animated movie I've liked in several years.. at least I can't think of one. Dreamworks IMO is pretty good. I really liked Antz and Shrek is one of my favorite movies ever made. Dreamworks overall seems to make pretty good movies I think. Don't all movies come in spurts of semi-original (for the time anyway) movies that start a fad of similar movies? We get a burst of teen angst, then sci fi, then comic, then horror, etc.. whatever is selling at the time period. Dreamworks might make mostly copycat films but they do a good job at it.
Sure go watch the movies.. buy the movies.. rip the movies.. give copies to everyone you can. I sugegst printing out a stack of copies of your favorite movie and print fairly legit looking disc labels.. then leave them in places where people are likely to pick up copies. Leave them there anonymously and you can't be busted.
Myself, I'd like to use Windows users and their computers for target practice but that really has nothing to do with them using Windows. I just think that way of most people in the world. I really don't care if those people use Windows, MacOS, Linux, or whatever.
I just forgive most Linux users.. they are one of the groups I usually feel like not killing. Not that some aren't worth killing.. but I take them on an individual basis before deciding.
There.. isn't that a big difference from being an OS fanatic!? Actually, I'm half serious. People that seem to make some effort to be intelligent I tend to like.. even if they use Windows.. where as I dislike most other people.
Actually those sound like a major improvement.. I might bother getting cable if they had channels like that. The only channels I really like are like Discovery, TLC, and stuff like that.. though I admit I also watch MTV/VH1 and The Cartoon Network.
:)
Actually though I think geeks could make really good television. A lot of us are real movie/tv buffs and are actually pretty funny. I've actually thought about making a tv series of my life.. something like a combination Jerry Springer, Seinfield, and Freaks & Geeks. I think it'd be pretty popular.. especially with my fellow geeks.
Bic's are prohibited? What about steal wool and a 9 volt battery? Stick the wool in the drink you're served and touch the wool with the battery terminals and you'll get a nice little fire going.
I'm sure I could think of dozens, or hundreds, of ways to do mre damage with innocent items than with a Bic lighter. Doh.
Who is promising? There are 10's of thousands of OSS developers. Which ones did you talk to? Personally, I wouldn't write something like Exchange because I loathe Exchange. I wouldn't make fonts just because if I did them they'd be butt ugly. I write what I feel like. If you want something else then either do it yourself, pay me (or those like me), or use some commercial software (won't bother me in the least if you do).
:)
Sure, if there is something you want then tell us about it. If it sounds interesting maybe somebody will deliver. If you're not paying for it then you have no right to complain. I mean I'd love to bitch that no bikini clad love goddesses have delivered a pizza to me this week.. but then I didn't order a pizza and I can't afford to pay the hourly rate of the love goddess. Life's a bitch that way.
I hate to tell ya this but vaporware isn't an OSS problem.. it is a problem for all software.. all technology.. and in some sense for all humankind. It's easier to promise than deliver.. especially when you're not the one that has to deliver. Seen those flying cars lately?
What difference does it make? I've had a perfectly readable system for years. Antialiasing isn't a holy grail or anything. It's even considered by many people to produce worse fonts. Not that they can't be damn nice.. but they aren't some magic that suddenly makes everything look nice.
Fonts might be harder than an enterprise messaging system.. because they are part coding and part art. A lot of OSS people can bang out tons of great code but aren't so good at the art part. Fonts also aren't especially fun in that geek sort of way.
Part of the reason I collect the Internet (millions of pictures, movies, documents, etc from random sources) is for my AI project. IMO pure text extraction isn't likely to form a very useful AI. Once you tie in sensory data (sight, sound, etc) then text extraction becomes much more powerful. You can get more intuitive connections that pure word relationships wouldn't make.
I think P2P networks are more likely to form an AI than Google is. As P2P networks improve in finding relationships between data on different nodes and passing that data around I think it could form something very interesting. Since little of the data shared by P2P networks is text (most is images, music, and movies) it has considerable source material to learn from. Also with the large number of nodes a good P2P network has at it's disposal far more computing power than Google does.
I've had AI projects before that learned from the Net and they did tend to be kind of perverted but they also quickly built an amazing array of knowledge. I've had programs that (without being programmed to do so) began translating text into other languages or that would feed back word definitions from text you fed them. The most interesting ones (to me) have their front end dropped into a virtual world (such as a mud) and will learn to identify users they like and will learn to identify how to respond to what the user says or does so as to please that user. So for a certain user the program might translate all text they entered, for another it might treat the input as a search query and return the most promising results from Google.
"You see things and say 'Why?';
but I dream things that never were and I say 'Why not?'" -- George Bernard Shaw
'Because we can' is the perfect reason. The only rule is that before each thing we set out to do we should ask 'Why not?' Is there a good reason not to do something. If not then we should do it even if we lack a good reason to do it.
Many things have proven to be useful after the fact. You often don't know what you'll find until after you've done it. In some cases it might be a good idea to dig tunnels with nukes, kill people with terminal illnesses, etc. It most certainy would be profitable for us to colonize space and the seas as well as to produce cheap food and medications. It's only the lack of an explorers personality that keeps holding us back.
I'd go if I could. I think it's way past time to start letting average people into space. Sure there are dangers but we're adults. It's our right to decide to accept the danger. Even if the chance of a safe trip were only 50/50 I'd seriously think about trying it. If they could make some rather cheap, if not entirely safe, transports and supply packs and start shipping them to the Moon, Mars, etc then we could get these things colonized. Sure a lot of people might die in the process but if they don't care who is to tell them it isn't their risk to take? For that matter I suggest doing with the Moon what was done with America, Australia, etc. Let's send our convicts (sentenced to death or otherwise willing to go) to use as workers building these colonies. If they live then they get their own stake in the colony and they are no longer considered convicts there.
We have the technology and the manpower.. why don't we have these colonies?
Also, I think many authors recognize that many of us, probably even most of us, wish they could be caught up in some grand adventure and be a hero. Most of us don't have the real need or guts to set off on such an adventure but if there were somebody to provide the quest and push us along we'd gladly play the part of the unlikely hero. Stories that feed our imagination of just that happening are no doubt always popular. It's that same reason why most of us probably have had a friend that could get us to do things we otherwise wouldn't do. The guy who gets you to climb mountains, quit your job to start a business in a third world country, or raid the girls dormatory for panties. No doubt some sort of left over needs for people such as us that mostly have very safe lives.
I doubt he set out to copy Tolkien when he wrote Sword of Shannara. More likely it was just a book he had read enough for it to shape things in his own mind.
Even so there is nothing especially new in even the plot of stories such as the Hobbit. I'd imagine half the stories ever made include a bumbling unlikely hero, a powerful villian, and some sort of strong but mysterious hero/guide. I've got a lot of books older than the Hobbit and that's a pretty common basis even in books that are very different. Certainly I can think of stories that aren't even fantasy or sci fi that have almost the exact same structure.
Does methane release in nature produce the same carbon dioxide? If so is there any harm in using it for a fuel source? I was working on building something from an older /. story so I'd be interested to know.
I don't really have a problem with stories that use the same basic plot as Harry Potter but I can see where she has a right to keep other books from having the same main character in the same basic plot. If the character is just borrowed as a minor character or is in a spoof/parody that won't be mistaken for the original then I don't see it as any harm to her trademark. I can also see where she'd be pissed at books being published under her name when she didn't write them.
Do I fell a new 3rd person shooter mod coming on?
Did you ever actually read the Shannara series? It has many simularities to Tolkien but is nothing like a one-for-one mapping. The races are very different, the wizards are different, the villians are different.. very little is actually the same. The Shannara books cover a much larger concept of science and magic. The newest series of Shannara books have flying airships. You could say that they are taken right out of Skies of Arcadia but I don't remember any in the Hobbit.
I love Tolkien but I also love the Shannara books. I see no reason for the snubbery that many Tolkien fans make against the Shannara series. Surely, there is room for everyone.
I've nver used one like that. Will have to see if I can dig one up to play with. Ahhhhhh I've been blinded by my mousepad again. Damn that would really suck for LAN parties.
If I want a manly computer I'll shape the case like a naked woman and make the nipples dispense beer. Plug the network cable in and it must moan and make improbable claims as to how good you are at networking. Such a computer must run Windows 95 so that every night when you try to use it it can complain of headaches (that are obviously your fault) and crash.
True, I get ball mice for something like $2 or $3 each and keyboard for about $5. I won't use the ball mice myself but the keyboards IMO are a pretty good deal. In offices and labs ball mice just seem to cripple to fast. I've had places where they had to be cleaned every other day. On 50 computers that's a substantial investment in time. At least it takes a lot of effort to cripple an optical mouse and they are usually easier to clean. My current optical mouse is a cheap one that was like $15 and it has all three buttons (middle doubles as scrollwheel) needed by Linux. Overall I'm happy with it since it was just some trash I grabbed from Walmart when the last one died (dropping any mouse is bad for it).
Long enough. I remember them from way back when I was a kid. Of course back then they were expensive. ;) Of course back then all computer stuff was expensive.