I know this will never ever in a million years happen but.....
How about an elected council? Elected by every Internet user, with data supplied from census reports so as to prevent people from voting more than once?
The elected council could be part of the UN and represent the Internet as a "virtual country" to the rest of the world.
With this whole "New Deal" and Wal-mart potentially sitting on the UN, I think having Internet representation would be a good idea:-)
With the death of Napster, we saw the influx of several better mechanisms for getting music. Gnutella provided more anonymity, Morpheus and friends provided more filetypes, and Audiogalaxy provided more convenience.
It's time for the current, shoddy, slow networks based around central servers to die, however. Too many duplicate, badly named files, too many incompletes, and that evil necessity of downloading from a particular person instead of just downloading a particular file.
I hope that with the eventual death of these amateurish networks we will see the rise of something more robust that makes my porn downloading less of a chore.
As other posters have pointed out this is a duplicate article. But hey, turn this repeat to your advantage! Go read the previous posting and repost all the +5 posts as your own, then watch the karma roll in!:)
(Yeah, its a little off-topic. I'm sure the mod's will see the funny in it.)
I'm sorry, but I refuse to believe that Microsoft is capable of producing a DRM system that cannot be cracked. I mean, come on! the Windows XP "Activation" system was cracked before XP was even on store shelves. I'm sure that any DRM functionality would be removeable from Windows Media Player and cousins quite easily.
I wouldn't put too much faith in Microsoft to make an uncrackable implementation of _anything_.... let alone something people care enough about to crack like DRM.
Sorry, waste of money, obviously bought by somebody with a wallet larger than their brain. You are not in a position to talk about the internals of a computer, because if you were, you would have a custombuilt beigebox like the rest of us.
XP is a whole lot faster than Win2K and I have it (tweaked out) running on a P2 400mhz beside me. That's not even true, not even a joke, and not even funny. Mod the parent down to (-1, Uninformed)....
Wouldn't it have been smarter to create a proper Linux-2.4.18.tar.gz (and bz2), and update the kernel.org and mirror sites, and THEN post to Slashdot and other such places?
I sure hope you were joking. The Communists are just as responsible for this - after all, isn't it China's quasi-communist government that's paying Cisco to do this?
It's enough to make you turn Libertarian, sure. But becoming a Red is no better than being a die-hard capitalist.
Here, mesmerize yourself looking at some four dimensional shapes, courtesy of the elite Ken Perlin.
(Note: This page is much more fun while under the influence of hallucinogenics.)
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Why are you letting Norton Anti Virus run all the time on your machine? If you care at all about performance, ditch the virus killing crap and just get a clue when opening email messages...
Actually, this is the process a lot of rippers used to use, and I'm sure you can find several that still support it. Audiograbber probably does, and you can use LAME with that.
So what if it takes an hour? There's no law saying you can't be doing anything else on your machine while it happens.
I want it while I sit on the bus commuting to university. I want it when I'm relaxing at my friend's house. I want it when I'm sitting in my bathroom dumping core.
And no company is going to give this to us.
I want it unmetered. I don't mind paying a flat rate but I'm not going to sit in the dark ages of per minute cell phone charges. That would be useless.
And no company is going to do that, either.
So we all have to be like Cringely....
I already have a WAP in my house, albeit a low power one. Come summertime I might buy an antenna for it so I can get a decent connection when outside in my large property.
Imagine if everybody did this. Imagine if half the houses on your street had a WAP with the SSID set to something like "freewire" or something, seamlessly providing wireless access wherever you go via people's boradband links.
NAN - neighbourhood area network.
Now if only I didn't live in outer suburbia where my neighbours have never heard of the Internet and houses are too far apart to make this worthwhile...
Asimov, however, pictured the robotic future as brough about by US Robots.
(USRobotics, now owned by 3Com, does not seem to have lived up to the name).
If, however, the robotic future is instead brought to us by the good folks at the American DoD and through military financing, we can bet that the Three Laws will not be absolute. Who would want to give up on the ultimate combat machine, there?
In fact, robots may even say they have the laws but not.
When dealing with artificial intelligence the key to remember is that if the AI is perfect, it will be very similar yet different in motivations from a human mind.
We may have nothing to fear, or one may go nuts and try to attack. Or, we may never develop artificial intelligence at all...
Yes, but they're close enough to the main tree that whenever there's an update to the main tree, it can be (relatively easily) merged into the Redhat / Suse kernels.
Eventually, though, we may see a distribution branch off much further....
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I know this will never ever in a million years happen but.....
:-)
How about an elected council? Elected by every Internet user, with data supplied from census reports so as to prevent people from voting more than once?
The elected council could be part of the UN and represent the Internet as a "virtual country" to the rest of the world.
With this whole "New Deal" and Wal-mart potentially sitting on the UN, I think having Internet representation would be a good idea
"And if pigs can fly, and I can ride one, and they fly me to hell, and it just froze over, and we all have ice cream..."
I really need to stop reading Slashdot while on codeiene.....
With the death of Napster, we saw the influx of several better mechanisms for getting music. Gnutella provided more anonymity, Morpheus and friends provided more filetypes, and Audiogalaxy provided more convenience.
It's time for the current, shoddy, slow networks based around central servers to die, however. Too many duplicate, badly named files, too many incompletes, and that evil necessity of downloading from a particular person instead of just downloading a particular file.
I hope that with the eventual death of these amateurish networks we will see the rise of something more robust that makes my porn downloading less of a chore.
As other posters have pointed out this is a duplicate article. But hey, turn this repeat to your advantage! Go read the previous posting and repost all the +5 posts as your own, then watch the karma roll in! :)
(Yeah, its a little off-topic. I'm sure the mod's will see the funny in it.)
I'm sorry, but I refuse to believe that Microsoft is capable of producing a DRM system that cannot be cracked. I mean, come on! the Windows XP "Activation" system was cracked before XP was even on store shelves. I'm sure that any DRM functionality would be removeable from Windows Media Player and cousins quite easily.
I wouldn't put too much faith in Microsoft to make an uncrackable implementation of _anything_.... let alone something people care enough about to crack like DRM.
You bought an IBM computer.
Sorry, waste of money, obviously bought by somebody with a wallet larger than their brain. You are not in a position to talk about the internals of a computer, because if you were, you would have a custombuilt beigebox like the rest of us.
XP is a whole lot faster than Win2K and I have it (tweaked out) running on a P2 400mhz beside me. That's not even true, not even a joke, and not even funny. Mod the parent down to (-1, Uninformed)....
Wouldn't it have been smarter to create a proper Linux-2.4.18.tar.gz (and bz2), and update the kernel.org and mirror sites, and THEN post to Slashdot and other such places?
This is just going to confuse people!
All of your statements are true, so what are you saying?
Be and OS/2 are both dead. Netscape is dwindling to the point that I don't see anybody using it in five years.
Nope, don't give a shit about the trial. We can't win.... Miguel is right with his Mono project - if you can't beat them, join them.
"It's enough to make ya turn communist, I swear."
I sure hope you were joking. The Communists are just as responsible for this - after all, isn't it China's quasi-communist government that's paying Cisco to do this?
It's enough to make you turn Libertarian, sure. But becoming a Red is no better than being a die-hard capitalist.
"how only with Windows XP has Windows had a major interface revision - and even now it is still heavily rooted in the framework of prior revisions"
Somebody doesn't remember Program Manager.
I think a layer of highly-reflective sequins on top of a conventional set of battle armor would be best.
After all, this weapon IS going to be used against soldiers, the majority of whom have gotten used to having their asses raped by fellow soldiers.
If they're going to be fabulous, let them dress the part!
Here, mesmerize yourself looking at some four dimensional shapes, courtesy of the elite Ken Perlin.
(Note: This page is much more fun while under the influence of hallucinogenics.)
Why are you letting Norton Anti Virus run all the time on your machine? If you care at all about performance, ditch the virus killing crap and just get a clue when opening email messages...
Actually, this is the process a lot of rippers used to use, and I'm sure you can find several that still support it. Audiograbber probably does, and you can use LAME with that.
So what if it takes an hour? There's no law saying you can't be doing anything else on your machine while it happens.
I suppose being a bandwidth provider is a good market to be in right now.... :-)
By that you mean I would have some kind of limit, say 300 megabytes per month download?
I could deal with that, but it's still kind of lame. Why is bandwidth so expensive anyway?
People want wireless access ANYWHERE.
I want it while I sit on the bus commuting to university. I want it when I'm relaxing at my friend's house. I want it when I'm sitting in my bathroom dumping core.
And no company is going to give this to us.
I want it unmetered. I don't mind paying a flat rate but I'm not going to sit in the dark ages of per minute cell phone charges. That would be useless.
And no company is going to do that, either.
So we all have to be like Cringely....
I already have a WAP in my house, albeit a low power one. Come summertime I might buy an antenna for it so I can get a decent connection when outside in my large property.
Imagine if everybody did this. Imagine if half the houses on your street had a WAP with the SSID set to something like "freewire" or something, seamlessly providing wireless access wherever you go via people's boradband links.
NAN - neighbourhood area network.
Now if only I didn't live in outer suburbia where my neighbours have never heard of the Internet and houses are too far apart to make this worthwhile...
You don't know even half of the story, and you're only so quick to lambaste the guy because of Daikatana's failure.
John Romero left because of differences of opinion while developing Quake.
How about you shut the fuck up instead of posting, and show me the games you've developed. Then we'll talk.
No, I know there's a sizfold increase from 250,000 to 1.5 million...
I mean that in three years, we'll be doing that 1.5 million no sweat, and in three more I'm sure games will look like Final Fantasy.
It just takes time....
Look at the numbers again.
When moving from 10,000 to 250,000 polygons, you are increasing the computational requirements 25 times.
6 times this level? Three years maximum for hardware to catch up.
Never mind what I read the first time I saw this headline!
"In the event of a dildo, the company always refers to it as "a dildo", never "your dildo"". - fight club
Anyways, I have been playing my beautiful Xbox for two months now and my wrists don't hurt.
Asimov, however, pictured the robotic future as brough about by US Robots.
(USRobotics, now owned by 3Com, does not seem to have lived up to the name).
If, however, the robotic future is instead brought to us by the good folks at the American DoD and through military financing, we can bet that the Three Laws will not be absolute. Who would want to give up on the ultimate combat machine, there?
In fact, robots may even say they have the laws but not.
When dealing with artificial intelligence the key to remember is that if the AI is perfect, it will be very similar yet different in motivations from a human mind.
We may have nothing to fear, or one may go nuts and try to attack. Or, we may never develop artificial intelligence at all...
Yes, but they're close enough to the main tree that whenever there's an update to the main tree, it can be (relatively easily) merged into the Redhat / Suse kernels.
Eventually, though, we may see a distribution branch off much further....
Way to realize that the post was a joke, Captain Obvious.