Mozilla runs for me for days at a time under heavy abuse but then I hand pick the builds I use. As it's still in development some days builds are much much more stable than other days builds. Netscape is just screwy. I honestly hate Netscape almost as much as IE. It tends to work better than IE when it is working but it crashes often and I have to wrap it to keep it's memory leaks from messing with the rest of my system.
My gawd.. as a web developer I hate IE 5. It's worse than IE 4 even in many ways. Even the newest versions w/ all fixes applied still are buggy as hell. I like to test in every browser I can find and IE is always the one that gives me the msot pain. It also crashes far more than anything except Netscape. Those two (the most popular) are the worst. If you only do minor web development you might not notice but I do full fledged programs and Intranet sites and IE5 is my worst nightmare everytime. It even acts quite a bit different between Windows and Mac versions.
I use consoles to play games myself but I can tell you I've been tempted to buy bigger PC's w/ my evil nemesis OS running just to play some groovy games. It is sometimes very tempting. If the game itself was free, cross-platform (Linux, Windows, etc), and awesome I'd probably drop the cash for a enw computer. I don't even consider myself a major gamer. I play a game maybe once a week.
Something like Everquest that was free to use would be a good way to lock people into an upgrade cycle to kepe playing their games.. and you could actually USE the extra power rather than go with BLOAT. Social games are highly addictive.
I run Mozilla on a P133 every day and it runs as well as anything else. People who think it's bloated obviously don't use it. At least Mozilla doesn't crash as often as Netscape. Thank gawd!:)
Is this surprising? I've been wondering why Dell or other slipping PC companies haven't done this. To keep the PC market hot they have to drive people to buy PC's faster.. most games I've seen work on less than 500Mhz machines so why buy a 1.5Ghz machine?
If I was Dell or a similar company I'd fund a free game that could be awesome.. and given away for free.. that was designed to be played on 1Ghz+ machines. That'd be a lot of power a game could take advantage of and would be the perfect reason why games could work as opensource. The key is to make the game fantastic so people will really want it badly.:)
Damn wish someone would pay to see me naked. Sure as hell beats working at Burger King for a living. I honestly wonder why more women don't sell pictures of themselves online. It's an easy way to make money so they have the freedom to do whatever they want with their lives. Besides in my experience women look at porn almost as much as men so the whole argument that it's men using women is bullshit. Like all business it's people using people. The customer gets the desired product or service and the business gets some $$$. Of course if the women are getting screwed by selling their pictures for far less than they are worth they should wise up and open their own site. If they are somehoe being forced into selling pictures when they don't want to they should go to the cops and report it. Ever been to Miami Beach? People walk around naked all the time just for the fun of it -- in public. Is that 'rape' too? I will agree capitalism sucks but unless you have some magic way to make the world change we're all in the same trap. It sucks but that's life.
Take 75% of the websites in the US and put it in a data haven (not to hard to manage actually.. cheap service with high security has a lot to offer average business and web sites) and it's unlikely the US would cut the connection to that haven. You just have to make the haven respectable enough that anyone who cut itself off would be doing more harm to themselves than the have.
Maybe with so many geeks suddenly finding the job market less friendly they'll be more likely to be stubborn and start their own companies and such rather than kiss ass to take a lower paying job. Surely some geeks out there must have some nerve. What else does playing Quake or Half Life for 36 hours a day train us for?:)
You could be a nut like me and work towards making a data haven. Get enough people to join your collective and you will have some clout. Even if you don't have enough people to influence the law you can all move into the same physical space so you are hard to just arrest. Get enough of the worlds data on networks inside your haven and they are unlikely to just cut your access off.
We're the techie wizards. Force some suits to try to keep up with the tech themselves and it won't take long before they start to listen to what we say.:)
Everything has value to someone at some time. I have the sick habit of collecting the Internet (custom spiders suck large parts of the web and usenet onto my harddisks) just for the heck of sorting through it to see what I find. In 100 years my hdd full of odds and ends could be a great find for some historial researcher. I'd disagree with the original poster though. Our culture will be better documented than any culture before us. We're an information culture and we leave our data all over the place. Someone that digs up a stack of cd's would have a huge collection of multimedia information and all they'd have to do is figure out how to read the discs (which is referenced in other documents both printed and digitally.. so there is a key). Sure it's important to keep copies of disks, email, music, etc.. despite lame IP claims.. for historical reasons but this is fairly easy to do. Copy the other sources into raw data files (iso images, cd rips, game roms, etc) and copy the files around as much as possible. Email and other personal files which are quickly deleted or may be encrypted may be the hardest data to save.. but the large amount of email that ends up cached or forgotten all over the place would still probably exist and by that time I expect the future culture to have the computing power to easily decrypt our files.
Would the court decision keep him from taking what he has learned in the process of writing the programs he had stolen from him and using that knowledge to write something better that does something similar? Prehaps somebody in the opensource camp should hire him on as a programmer and consultant. Gnutella and all the other P2P solutions I've seen need a lot of work to become viable - may as well hire someone with experience. RedHat and other big vendors should realize that P2P will be important to capturing the desktop market.
That's what I meant. Ahead == before. I always assumed Miss Matheson was YT. The stories aren't really sequels or anything but you can see how the technology and cultures continue along the same lines to show the progression.
I tried to get some locals interested in a cable access battle bot show by people who go to school here etc. Wanted it to have no rules as long as both competitiors stayed in the ring until one is dead. Nobody seemed to feel like making the effort. *shrugs* Dunno.. I thought it'd be a fun project.
Can't wait to see either a Playstation 2 or Linux port. I was almost tempted to install Windows on one of my machines just to play but decided no game could possibly be worth doing that. If it went opensource that'd be really awesome. This game looks very impressive and looks as if it'll have a high hack value.:)
Heavy Weather and Islands in the Net are pretty good Sterling works but honestly his all out best ever is Distraction. The first reading can be hard to grasp fully but it's in depth look at American culture and genetic/neural engineering is very advanced. The entire trust network of nomad tribes that live off waste products is fantastic (why we don't do it I'm not quite sure) and connecting it to the dignified workings of science is just the perfect touch.
Stephenson is much more optimistic in general and his books are heavily researched. They read like class lecture notes with wonderful stories woven in. Crytonomical is almost a textbook. It even has working programs in it! Snow Crash I think is situated a little ahead of The Diamond Age on the time line but you can easily see how one story leads to the other. Stephenson books can often be a lot to handle if you aren't very familiar with the topics being discussed. You literally get a dose of facts and theories that are used as the backdrop for the stories and you have to digest all that before the story can make sense. It's sort of like Star Wars.. every time you watch(read) it again you uncover new layers.
Gibson is very dark. His books have a sort of Blade Runner quality to them and seem very chaotic and afraid of technology. Given the fact that he admits not to be a 'geek' I think it unsurprising that he has something of a fear of technology which he works into his stories. For the masses Gibson probably makes more sense than Sterling or Stephenson as I think the average person probably fears technology on some level. Gibson books are good stories but they seem much more shallow and less educational.
I don't really consider them to be robots but I'm sure they'd quickly get AI built-in if the damn freakin network tv would let us. Because of stupid saftey rules and such AI is off limit. I really want to see that changed but for now those suits have all the robots braindead.
Some of it is that AI would raise the bar needed to enter but they COULD have sepperate competition classes..
Another thing about America is that Suits have way to much power. We should challenge those lawyers with the spinning wheel of death and a good flamethrower and see what happens. Something of the nature of celebrity death matches but pitting real lawyers against real robots?:)
Not at all. The Japanese do invent things but seldom are their inventions big and crazy in the American way. Besides since we are talking about sterotypes used by Gibson in his books it is appropiate to depict things in the same way. I'd not honestly suggest that nobody in Japan invents things or that nobody in America refines things. It's just a description of what each culture seems to do best. I've yet to see any culture as good at refining technology as Japan or one as good at thinking up big stupid shit as America. Of course America has raw numbers on it's side.. it's a freakin big place.. can't honestly expect a country the size of one of our states to out produce our entire country. I do think a lot of European countries and Japan are better about early adoption of technology. They don't usually invent it first but they are the first to actually put it to good use. In America good ideas are like everything else -- we throw it away and keep using up natural resources faster than is really wise. If it can't make someone money without upsetting the power balance then we don't use it.:P
I've watched it quite often and it is to my mind very 'cute'. The robots look much more amatuer in general and more like tv images of robots than down and dirty fighting machine like you see in the American versions. Not that all of them are that way, just a great many more. The show in general just has an amussing feel to it. If it helps any I think the American version is for pansies. They should keep the crowd back so they could let loose with some really awesome weapons.
I would not argue that their is any reason for Brits to have the 'big dumb my big brother can beat up your big brother' behavior of us Americans. Am just saying we do have that behavior both for better and worst. Hell Red Dwarf and Junk Yard Wars are two of my favorite shows. Both of which I believe are British.:)
Not to start a flame war but I like Neal Stephenson and even Bruce Sterling much better than Gibson. They have a much less negative view of the future and often are more post-cyberpunk in their writings. I think the Diamond Age mixed with Distraction and touches of Snow Crash and Idoru would overall be a pretty realistic description of our near future. Maybe I just tend to be optimisitc and thus like those books better.:)
I think the Japanese and American cultures are locked in a twisted symbiotic relationship. The Japanese are masters of perfecting technology and Americans are masters of thinking of insane new things that break the mode. Other cultures tend to be someplace in the middle.
An exmaple.. Look at out robots.. America has Battle Bots.. an over pumped wrestling federation type of robot fighting game with big bad to the point robots.. the British have Robot Wars (I think that is the name) which is a lot like Battle Bots but the robots tend to be more goofy and cute and look less like something designed to beat your neighbor up. Their show in general lacks the over the top behavior of the American counterpart. The Japanese take robots and slap them into cute little bodies and give them some basic AI abilities and make a forture off it all.:)
Did anyone besides me and the VR group I'm in actually like the Virtual Boy? My only bitch is that there were never good specs released about it. We wanted to hack a Java virtual machine and Net connection into it but I don't think any of us ever got it all working.:)
How will the current slump in tech help or hurt those of us who make a living administrating and programming on Linux? How will this affect the number of people who become RedHat Linux Certified?
Umm everyone that saw the above post and went to my business web site or sent email to my business email address -- don't please. (Well you can look at the site but there isn't any porn there.) Email me at my ude.iruossim.gulm@soimgom if you want an ssh account. Thanks.
I leave web and usenet crawlers running all the time and they pick up tons of that crap. I have some nifty scripts that verify it's all unique so I don't store any duplicates. If you have ssh and feel like digging through endless piles of images lemme know. I'd pop it up on a web site but I dunno what the law is on posting content you found free online to your own site. Google seems to do it though so maybe I'll try.:)
I can see RedHat buying BeOS but I doubt they have the extra capital to do it right now unless the price was really good. Since RedHat is highly involved with Gnome they could buy Be and opensource the code and throw it to their Gnome hackers to rip anything useful from to add to Gnome. I doubt they'd bother keeping up a sepperate development of BeOS but they could use it for parts. Some of the Be engineers might be a nice grab for the Gnome project also.
I can't see Sony adding Be to the Playstation and I don't know how well Be's API's would match the PS2/PS3 hardware. They'd have to invest a lot of more time and money into making it all work. An opensource company could avoid a lot of those costs.
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Mozilla runs for me for days at a time under heavy abuse but then I hand pick the builds I use. As it's still in development some days builds are much much more stable than other days builds. Netscape is just screwy. I honestly hate Netscape almost as much as IE. It tends to work better than IE when it is working but it crashes often and I have to wrap it to keep it's memory leaks from messing with the rest of my system.
My gawd.. as a web developer I hate IE 5. It's worse than IE 4 even in many ways. Even the newest versions w/ all fixes applied still are buggy as hell. I like to test in every browser I can find and IE is always the one that gives me the msot pain. It also crashes far more than anything except Netscape. Those two (the most popular) are the worst. If you only do minor web development you might not notice but I do full fledged programs and Intranet sites and IE5 is my worst nightmare everytime. It even acts quite a bit different between Windows and Mac versions.
I use consoles to play games myself but I can tell you I've been tempted to buy bigger PC's w/ my evil nemesis OS running just to play some groovy games. It is sometimes very tempting. If the game itself was free, cross-platform (Linux, Windows, etc), and awesome I'd probably drop the cash for a enw computer. I don't even consider myself a major gamer. I play a game maybe once a week.
Something like Everquest that was free to use would be a good way to lock people into an upgrade cycle to kepe playing their games.. and you could actually USE the extra power rather than go with BLOAT. Social games are highly addictive.
I run Mozilla on a P133 every day and it runs as well as anything else. People who think it's bloated obviously don't use it. At least Mozilla doesn't crash as often as Netscape. Thank gawd! :)
Is this surprising? I've been wondering why Dell or other slipping PC companies haven't done this. To keep the PC market hot they have to drive people to buy PC's faster.. most games I've seen work on less than 500Mhz machines so why buy a 1.5Ghz machine?
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If I was Dell or a similar company I'd fund a free game that could be awesome.. and given away for free.. that was designed to be played on 1Ghz+ machines. That'd be a lot of power a game could take advantage of and would be the perfect reason why games could work as opensource. The key is to make the game fantastic so people will really want it badly.
Damn wish someone would pay to see me naked. Sure as hell beats working at Burger King for a living. I honestly wonder why more women don't sell pictures of themselves online. It's an easy way to make money so they have the freedom to do whatever they want with their lives. Besides in my experience women look at porn almost as much as men so the whole argument that it's men using women is bullshit. Like all business it's people using people. The customer gets the desired product or service and the business gets some $$$. Of course if the women are getting screwed by selling their pictures for far less than they are worth they should wise up and open their own site. If they are somehoe being forced into selling pictures when they don't want to they should go to the cops and report it. Ever been to Miami Beach? People walk around naked all the time just for the fun of it -- in public. Is that 'rape' too? I will agree capitalism sucks but unless you have some magic way to make the world change we're all in the same trap. It sucks but that's life.
Take 75% of the websites in the US and put it in a data haven (not to hard to manage actually.. cheap service with high security has a lot to offer average business and web sites) and it's unlikely the US would cut the connection to that haven. You just have to make the haven respectable enough that anyone who cut itself off would be doing more harm to themselves than the have.
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Maybe with so many geeks suddenly finding the job market less friendly they'll be more likely to be stubborn and start their own companies and such rather than kiss ass to take a lower paying job. Surely some geeks out there must have some nerve. What else does playing Quake or Half Life for 36 hours a day train us for?
You could be a nut like me and work towards making a data haven. Get enough people to join your collective and you will have some clout. Even if you don't have enough people to influence the law you can all move into the same physical space so you are hard to just arrest. Get enough of the worlds data on networks inside your haven and they are unlikely to just cut your access off.
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We're the techie wizards. Force some suits to try to keep up with the tech themselves and it won't take long before they start to listen to what we say.
Hehe or maybe I've just read to many books.
Everything has value to someone at some time. I have the sick habit of collecting the Internet (custom spiders suck large parts of the web and usenet onto my harddisks) just for the heck of sorting through it to see what I find. In 100 years my hdd full of odds and ends could be a great find for some historial researcher. I'd disagree with the original poster though. Our culture will be better documented than any culture before us. We're an information culture and we leave our data all over the place. Someone that digs up a stack of cd's would have a huge collection of multimedia information and all they'd have to do is figure out how to read the discs (which is referenced in other documents both printed and digitally.. so there is a key). Sure it's important to keep copies of disks, email, music, etc.. despite lame IP claims.. for historical reasons but this is fairly easy to do. Copy the other sources into raw data files (iso images, cd rips, game roms, etc) and copy the files around as much as possible. Email and other personal files which are quickly deleted or may be encrypted may be the hardest data to save.. but the large amount of email that ends up cached or forgotten all over the place would still probably exist and by that time I expect the future culture to have the computing power to easily decrypt our files.
Would the court decision keep him from taking what he has learned in the process of writing the programs he had stolen from him and using that knowledge to write something better that does something similar? Prehaps somebody in the opensource camp should hire him on as a programmer and consultant. Gnutella and all the other P2P solutions I've seen need a lot of work to become viable - may as well hire someone with experience. RedHat and other big vendors should realize that P2P will be important to capturing the desktop market.
That's what I meant. Ahead == before. I always assumed Miss Matheson was YT. The stories aren't really sequels or anything but you can see how the technology and cultures continue along the same lines to show the progression.
I tried to get some locals interested in a cable access battle bot show by people who go to school here etc. Wanted it to have no rules as long as both competitiors stayed in the ring until one is dead. Nobody seemed to feel like making the effort. *shrugs* Dunno.. I thought it'd be a fun project.
Can't wait to see either a Playstation 2 or Linux port. I was almost tempted to install Windows on one of my machines just to play but decided no game could possibly be worth doing that. If it went opensource that'd be really awesome. This game looks very impressive and looks as if it'll have a high hack value. :)
Heavy Weather and Islands in the Net are pretty good Sterling works but honestly his all out best ever is Distraction. The first reading can be hard to grasp fully but it's in depth look at American culture and genetic/neural engineering is very advanced. The entire trust network of nomad tribes that live off waste products is fantastic (why we don't do it I'm not quite sure) and connecting it to the dignified workings of science is just the perfect touch.
Stephenson is much more optimistic in general and his books are heavily researched. They read like class lecture notes with wonderful stories woven in. Crytonomical is almost a textbook. It even has working programs in it! Snow Crash I think is situated a little ahead of The Diamond Age on the time line but you can easily see how one story leads to the other. Stephenson books can often be a lot to handle if you aren't very familiar with the topics being discussed. You literally get a dose of facts and theories that are used as the backdrop for the stories and you have to digest all that before the story can make sense. It's sort of like Star Wars.. every time you watch(read) it again you uncover new layers.
Gibson is very dark. His books have a sort of Blade Runner quality to them and seem very chaotic and afraid of technology. Given the fact that he admits not to be a 'geek' I think it unsurprising that he has something of a fear of technology which he works into his stories. For the masses Gibson probably makes more sense than Sterling or Stephenson as I think the average person probably fears technology on some level. Gibson books are good stories but they seem much more shallow and less educational.
I don't really consider them to be robots but I'm sure they'd quickly get AI built-in if the damn freakin network tv would let us. Because of stupid saftey rules and such AI is off limit. I really want to see that changed but for now those suits have all the robots braindead.
:)
Some of it is that AI would raise the bar needed to enter but they COULD have sepperate competition classes..
Another thing about America is that Suits have way to much power. We should challenge those lawyers with the spinning wheel of death and a good flamethrower and see what happens. Something of the nature of celebrity death matches but pitting real lawyers against real robots?
Not at all. The Japanese do invent things but seldom are their inventions big and crazy in the American way. Besides since we are talking about sterotypes used by Gibson in his books it is appropiate to depict things in the same way. I'd not honestly suggest that nobody in Japan invents things or that nobody in America refines things. It's just a description of what each culture seems to do best. I've yet to see any culture as good at refining technology as Japan or one as good at thinking up big stupid shit as America. Of course America has raw numbers on it's side.. it's a freakin big place.. can't honestly expect a country the size of one of our states to out produce our entire country. I do think a lot of European countries and Japan are better about early adoption of technology. They don't usually invent it first but they are the first to actually put it to good use. In America good ideas are like everything else -- we throw it away and keep using up natural resources faster than is really wise. If it can't make someone money without upsetting the power balance then we don't use it. :P
I've watched it quite often and it is to my mind very 'cute'. The robots look much more amatuer in general and more like tv images of robots than down and dirty fighting machine like you see in the American versions. Not that all of them are that way, just a great many more. The show in general just has an amussing feel to it. If it helps any I think the American version is for pansies. They should keep the crowd back so they could let loose with some really awesome weapons.
I would not argue that their is any reason for Brits to have the 'big dumb my big brother can beat up your big brother' behavior of us Americans. Am just saying we do have that behavior both for better and worst. Hell Red Dwarf and Junk Yard Wars are two of my favorite shows. Both of which I believe are British. :)
Not to start a flame war but I like Neal Stephenson and even Bruce Sterling much better than Gibson. They have a much less negative view of the future and often are more post-cyberpunk in their writings. I think the Diamond Age mixed with Distraction and touches of Snow Crash and Idoru would overall be a pretty realistic description of our near future. Maybe I just tend to be optimisitc and thus like those books better. :)
I think the Japanese and American cultures are locked in a twisted symbiotic relationship. The Japanese are masters of perfecting technology and Americans are masters of thinking of insane new things that break the mode. Other cultures tend to be someplace in the middle.
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An exmaple.. Look at out robots.. America has Battle Bots.. an over pumped wrestling federation type of robot fighting game with big bad to the point robots.. the British have Robot Wars (I think that is the name) which is a lot like Battle Bots but the robots tend to be more goofy and cute and look less like something designed to beat your neighbor up. Their show in general lacks the over the top behavior of the American counterpart. The Japanese take robots and slap them into cute little bodies and give them some basic AI abilities and make a forture off it all.
Did anyone besides me and the VR group I'm in actually like the Virtual Boy? My only bitch is that there were never good specs released about it. We wanted to hack a Java virtual machine and Net connection into it but I don't think any of us ever got it all working. :)
How will the current slump in tech help or hurt those of us who make a living administrating and programming on Linux? How will this affect the number of people who become RedHat Linux Certified?
Umm everyone that saw the above post and went to my business web site or sent email to my business email address -- don't please. (Well you can look at the site but there isn't any porn there.) Email me at my ude.iruossim.gulm@soimgom if you want an ssh account. Thanks.
I leave web and usenet crawlers running all the time and they pick up tons of that crap. I have some nifty scripts that verify it's all unique so I don't store any duplicates. If you have ssh and feel like digging through endless piles of images lemme know. I'd pop it up on a web site but I dunno what the law is on posting content you found free online to your own site. Google seems to do it though so maybe I'll try. :)
I can see RedHat buying BeOS but I doubt they have the extra capital to do it right now unless the price was really good. Since RedHat is highly involved with Gnome they could buy Be and opensource the code and throw it to their Gnome hackers to rip anything useful from to add to Gnome. I doubt they'd bother keeping up a sepperate development of BeOS but they could use it for parts. Some of the Be engineers might be a nice grab for the Gnome project also.
I can't see Sony adding Be to the Playstation and I don't know how well Be's API's would match the PS2/PS3 hardware. They'd have to invest a lot of more time and money into making it all work. An opensource company could avoid a lot of those costs.