If it's to keep up with the hardware and software innovations at the speed they actually happen, then any standard needs reevaluation at a lot smaller intervals than five years. I would say three years, at most. "Real standards" last based on their context, which means the technology they govern. And most of those "standards" changed over and over again over their years of use. Unless you would like to go back to having to wait and hour for a film exposure to set, tell an operator who you're calling to make a connection (on a party-line, perhaps?), drive on packed oil-and-dirt roads, DC-based power only, whilst spaking olde Ainglish.
I miss the old days where a hacker was just someone who gained access to networks 'just because' and not to reveal the private information of strangers.
And there is a big difference between hacking because someone disagrees with you, and hacking as a response to government intruding on freedom of speech.
Lulz is just silly.
And once upon a time we called them crackers or script-kiddies to distinguish the difference between "I was up all night hacking code, but I got the damn thing working" and "OMGZORZ WE R INZ UR INTERNETZ STEALING UR MEGAHURTZ LOLOLOL!!11!!!1!!"
Thank goodness. The Daleks were getting so overused. They need to preserve their impact by making their appearances more rare.
Maybe we can also stop getting linear appearances too? They are time travelers after all. Why do they keep encountering each other in the same order? It wasn't always the case, and River proves that it's much more interesting when they don't meet in the same order.
Exactly. It seems like almost every issue ends up being the Daleks or the Cybermen, which is a damnable shame because the Weeping Angels and the weird media/TV soul-eater were just better antagonists with more interesting stories. I, for one, would be fine never seeing another Dalek or Cybermen episode.
The second episode was creepier; the main premise being that an image of one of the angels contained a new angel itself led naturally to the thought of the images on the TV. Then they filled it such that almost every time they show the video screen with the angel coming closer and closer, they match the frames with the television so that it fills the screen.
Such a species would annihilate us with one youtube video.
I re-told a story to a C.S. prof. years ago, about another university professor teaching an undergraduate philosophy class in a very large lecture theater. The professor was lamenting how there are many instances in the English language where two negative phrases create a positive statement, but no instances where two positive phrases create a negative statement. From the back of the lecture theater, he heard a cat call 'yeah, right!'. My C.S. prof. for a very brief moment started to re-affirm the statement made by the prof. in my story, then thought for a second about the retort... and stopped. Sarcasm aside, its true. Dammit!
Interesting. This logician-type wonders if there is any implications for abductive logics in that idea.
Thanks for the suggestion. My host (Bluehost) has been getting less than reliable lately and I have been looking to move. A clouded server sound awesome, though I would still be backing up my main installs...just in case the unlikely happens and the whole cloud gets pooched.
To pass this information on to as many people as possible.
Human rights and freedom of speech are not abstract concepts that apply
only to lawmakers.
All government bodies must be constrained by the rights of the people, including courts.
A court "ordering" the public to not publish a fact is contrary to the basic idea of freedom.
Everyone should fight this threat to freedom, tooth and nail.
Fine rhetoric, but it's often hard to find a practical way to accomplish such a thing. I suppose we could organize a tweet-off where we flooded twitter with variations on his name, so it was clear who we were talking about, but it wouldn't be caught in their trending filter.
I don't think I ever saw any software back in the day that USED the AWE card's full abilities. Some of the later D&D games like Eye of the Beholder, and maybe the later Might and Magic games, like post-World of Xeen, or Dark Seed, that horror game. But nothing that *really* did pushed it.
Gods, now I want to play World of Xeen. Those are some rocking RPGs that deserve a modern remake.
But I digress...
So when you get large groups together and mislead them they convince themselves and each other to act on bad ideas? Great...culture as a whole, is explained as one long, big, bad idea.
Fair enough...it just seems like a lot of work for no real payoff.
Then again, one of my best friends and I cobbled together not one, not two, but THREE C64s into a single working one, just so we could play MULE in its original form.
I agree with this completely. We should be able to pay for only the media we wish to use. I am cool with paying for a channel I am not watching 24/7, but not paying for channels I have no interest in watching, never had any interest in watching, and have been forced into paying for by a cable company.
The streaming services will be what ends up winning the day simply because they offer a great deal of what people want...media, on-demand, and in the format they want it. I don't want more DVDs, more CDS, more STUFF. Hell, I wish I could stream my games, but it's not really feasible yet.
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If it's to keep up with the hardware and software innovations at the speed they actually happen, then any standard needs reevaluation at a lot smaller intervals than five years. I would say three years, at most. "Real standards" last based on their context, which means the technology they govern. And most of those "standards" changed over and over again over their years of use. Unless you would like to go back to having to wait and hour for a film exposure to set, tell an operator who you're calling to make a connection (on a party-line, perhaps?), drive on packed oil-and-dirt roads, DC-based power only, whilst spaking olde Ainglish.
Right, because nations matter anymore. The whole world is everybody's business.
I miss the old days where a hacker was just someone who gained access to networks 'just because' and not to reveal the private information of strangers. And there is a big difference between hacking because someone disagrees with you, and hacking as a response to government intruding on freedom of speech. Lulz is just silly.
And once upon a time we called them crackers or script-kiddies to distinguish the difference between "I was up all night hacking code, but I got the damn thing working" and "OMGZORZ WE R INZ UR INTERNETZ STEALING UR MEGAHURTZ LOLOLOL!!11!!!1!!"
Thank goodness. The Daleks were getting so overused. They need to preserve their impact by making their appearances more rare.
Maybe we can also stop getting linear appearances too? They are time travelers after all. Why do they keep encountering each other in the same order? It wasn't always the case, and River proves that it's much more interesting when they don't meet in the same order.
Exactly. It seems like almost every issue ends up being the Daleks or the Cybermen, which is a damnable shame because the Weeping Angels and the weird media/TV soul-eater were just better antagonists with more interesting stories. I, for one, would be fine never seeing another Dalek or Cybermen episode.
The second episode was creepier; the main premise being that an image of one of the angels contained a new angel itself led naturally to the thought of the images on the TV. Then they filled it such that almost every time they show the video screen with the angel coming closer and closer, they match the frames with the television so that it fills the screen. Such a species would annihilate us with one youtube video.
I re-told a story to a C.S. prof. years ago, about another university professor teaching an undergraduate philosophy class in a very large lecture theater. The professor was lamenting how there are many instances in the English language where two negative phrases create a positive statement, but no instances where two positive phrases create a negative statement. From the back of the lecture theater, he heard a cat call 'yeah, right!'. My C.S. prof. for a very brief moment started to re-affirm the statement made by the prof. in my story, then thought for a second about the retort... and stopped. Sarcasm aside, its true. Dammit!
Interesting. This logician-type wonders if there is any implications for abductive logics in that idea.
ding! ding! ding! We have a winner!
Thanks for the suggestion. My host (Bluehost) has been getting less than reliable lately and I have been looking to move. A clouded server sound awesome, though I would still be backing up my main installs...just in case the unlikely happens and the whole cloud gets pooched.
To pass this information on to as many people as possible.
Human rights and freedom of speech are not abstract concepts that apply only to lawmakers.
All government bodies must be constrained by the rights of the people, including courts.
A court "ordering" the public to not publish a fact is contrary to the basic idea of freedom. Everyone should fight this threat to freedom, tooth and nail.
Fine rhetoric, but it's often hard to find a practical way to accomplish such a thing. I suppose we could organize a tweet-off where we flooded twitter with variations on his name, so it was clear who we were talking about, but it wouldn't be caught in their trending filter.
I don't think I ever saw any software back in the day that USED the AWE card's full abilities. Some of the later D&D games like Eye of the Beholder, and maybe the later Might and Magic games, like post-World of Xeen, or Dark Seed, that horror game. But nothing that *really* did pushed it. Gods, now I want to play World of Xeen. Those are some rocking RPGs that deserve a modern remake. But I digress...
True, and the connection between language and computation as a whole makes it an even older tale, going back to Turing and Russell at least.
So when you get large groups together and mislead them they convince themselves and each other to act on bad ideas? Great...culture as a whole, is explained as one long, big, bad idea.
Fair enough...it just seems like a lot of work for no real payoff. Then again, one of my best friends and I cobbled together not one, not two, but THREE C64s into a single working one, just so we could play MULE in its original form.
Yeah, but other than to prove you can....why? Just...why?
I agree with this completely. We should be able to pay for only the media we wish to use. I am cool with paying for a channel I am not watching 24/7, but not paying for channels I have no interest in watching, never had any interest in watching, and have been forced into paying for by a cable company. The streaming services will be what ends up winning the day simply because they offer a great deal of what people want...media, on-demand, and in the format they want it. I don't want more DVDs, more CDS, more STUFF. Hell, I wish I could stream my games, but it's not really feasible yet.