I don't know about anyone else, but you've certainly succeeded in worrying me greatly. I am personally boycotting the purchase of any item manufactured with a built in copy protection scheme or standard supported. This is fucked. The implications of this are simply mind blowing. Someone, make it stop!
I can't believe that after EVERYTHING that has been tried so far, and failed, in regard to anti-music-piracy, they still haven't realised the simple truth:
If you can actually listen to the music, then you can simply re-record it and mp3 encode it. What are they going to do? Ban file transfers over the net?
Record companies are fucked. They should just face the music (hah) and sell their stock, or drastically alter the way they do business to suit the way the world IS, not the way it WAS.
Soon there will be no excuse for having bad breath and/or body odour. How long until someone builds a consumer device for checking if you stink? Perfect if you're about to go out on a date with that new (girl/boy)friend of yours.
If they can make them cheap enough then I'm sure everyone will have them after a couple of years.
IMO the whole 'folders' full of 'documents' doesn't quite do it for me. This analogy simply doesn't work in relation to a UNIX file system.
Someone needs to think of a really clever way of visualising the directory structure so that it makes sense both logically and metaphorically, hence more intuitive.
Icons and windows must die, we need a genius to create a new analogy!
"This is an exercise in engineering. They're not going to release it commercially at this point,"
You've got to wonder what else IBM have cooking behind the scenes. It's highly likely that they are developing some brilliant new technology and keeping it quiet, until it's 5 - 10 years in development and then 'bam!', they'll take out the whole IT industry with a massive technology monopoly.
Now that I think of it, there are more than a few companies with a lot of excess cash to throw around. The mind reels, eh.
Please note that this does not mean that you can't access the command line interface. There is still a link on the start menu for an MS-Dos prompt. (and command.com still exists).
Basically this is a move by Microsoft to make people become less reliant on the CLI side of windows by removing the functionality (which could just as easily stay and make no difference) in order to condition people for future releases of windows which won't contain the MS-Dos support.
Twice so far (in two months) have I _needed_ to boot into dos only to be thwarted by this "feature". Luckily I had a boot disk handy.
I think before we start getting all twisted about file distribution standards, perhaps we should look to the directory structure.
There is an alarming lack of education about what parts of the linux file system are for. I'm sure regulars at #linux can attest to the massive volumes of new users asking questions such as "what's/proc?" or "should I install (app) into/usr,/usr/local, or/usr/local/mysql ?".
It would also appear that many application authors don't know where their apps should live. For example, mysql by default (in the INSTALL) wants to go to/usr/local/mysql, but other applications want to sit in the/usr/local/[bin/etc/lib] heirachy.
We need to get someone to provide a definitive explanation of what each part of the file system is for, and how they should be used, so that we'll be able to say "RTFM", and have a sounder understanding of our own operating system.
Not wanting to detract from the sadness of his death, I am actually personally saddened by this news, but I have to question the relevance of these slashdot obituaries.
I thought that the purpose of Slashdot was to have a forum for public opinion. What can actually be said about this article besides "oh its so sad" and distasteful humour?
Perhaps there should be another slashbox called "Obituaries" or something.
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I think that it's a good thing that they aren't focusing on multiplayer. I believe that with Q3 they tried too hard to get perfect multiplayer, but it was nowhere near as much fun as Quake 1 or Doom.
Perhaps if they're not concentrating on the multiplayer angle they might accidentally create the next killer mp game as they've done twice before:)
BTW, I'm still play Q1 (QW) and (IMO) it is by far the best physics engine (fun-wise) created.
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You're a retard.
10^100 = a googol.
10^googol = 10^(10^100) = googolplex.
I thought this was obvious from his post.
10-30 ? What kind of net user are you?
I use google some 300 times a month, at least.
And what the hell is wrong with sex?
I actually _like_ sex.
Bloody slashdot eunichs.
What are you smoking?
The night sky is beautiful, who want's to see a frigging Nike logo up there? Not I.
I don't know about anyone else, but you've certainly succeeded in worrying me greatly. I am personally boycotting the purchase of any item manufactured with a built in copy protection scheme or standard supported. This is fucked. The implications of this are simply mind blowing. Someone, make it stop!
Reason being?
I can't believe that after EVERYTHING that has been tried so far, and failed, in regard to anti-music-piracy, they still haven't realised the simple truth:
If you can actually listen to the music, then you can simply re-record it and mp3 encode it. What are they going to do? Ban file transfers over the net?
Record companies are fucked. They should just face the music (hah) and sell their stock, or drastically alter the way they do business to suit the way the world IS, not the way it WAS.
nf
If you think it's even remotely difficult to use a CLI, then perhaps you shouldn't own a computer.
If they can make them cheap enough then I'm sure everyone will have them after a couple of years.
IMO the whole 'folders' full of 'documents' doesn't quite do it for me. This analogy simply doesn't work in relation to a UNIX file system.
Someone needs to think of a really clever way of visualising the directory structure so that it makes sense both logically and metaphorically, hence more intuitive.
Icons and windows must die, we need a genius to create a new analogy!
Enjoy!
Retard.
He changed it afterwards.
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"Jon" Carmack ?
At LEAST spell his name right. "John Carmack"
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You've got to wonder what else IBM have cooking behind the scenes. It's highly likely that they are developing some brilliant new technology and keeping it quiet, until it's 5 - 10 years in development and then 'bam!', they'll take out the whole IT industry with a massive technology monopoly.
Now that I think of it, there are more than a few companies with a lot of excess cash to throw around. The mind reels, eh.
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hahahahahah
someone mod this up.
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There's a lesson to be learnt here.
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Basically this is a move by Microsoft to make people become less reliant on the CLI side of windows by removing the functionality (which could just as easily stay and make no difference) in order to condition people for future releases of windows which won't contain the MS-Dos support.
Twice so far (in two months) have I _needed_ to boot into dos only to be thwarted by this "feature". Luckily I had a boot disk handy.
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Microsoft doesn't want it.
Stuck in GUI hell.
(GUI pronounced gooey)
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There is an alarming lack of education about what parts of the linux file system are for. I'm sure regulars at #linux can attest to the massive volumes of new users asking questions such as "what's /proc?" or "should I install (app) into /usr, /usr/local, or /usr/local/mysql ?".
It would also appear that many application authors don't know where their apps should live. For example, mysql by default (in the INSTALL) wants to go to /usr/local/mysql, but other applications want to sit in the /usr/local/[bin/etc/lib] heirachy.
We need to get someone to provide a definitive explanation of what each part of the file system is for, and how they should be used, so that we'll be able to say "RTFM", and have a sounder understanding of our own operating system.
nf
I thought that the purpose of Slashdot was to have a forum for public opinion. What can actually be said about this article besides "oh its so sad" and distasteful humour?
Perhaps there should be another slashbox called "Obituaries" or something.
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Check these out:
Hubble Space Telescope Images of Titan's Surface
Other Titan Info/Statistics
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http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.u k/~werdna/XFree86-3D-status.html
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Perhaps if they're not concentrating on the multiplayer angle they might accidentally create the next killer mp game as they've done twice before :)
BTW, I'm still play Q1 (QW) and (IMO) it is by far the best physics engine (fun-wise) created.
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...and we still can't see into the Octarine!
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It's actually 1 second per turn.