Cool that he didn't bother giving you the time of day
Considering the cultish mentality of the average Phish-head, he was probably afraid of having to deal with a mewling, groveling stoner, asking him to autograph his bong or something;-)
(But if you're gonna be cultish, do it for a cool, talented band like Phish I guess)
Don't think of it as a "play funeral". Even when gaming online "in character", people can really get to know you, and feel loss when they learn of your real death. I find this ceremony extremely touching, it's almost better IMO to have friends you've never met in person mourn you in a manner you would appreciate, than to have your relatives and "meat-space" friends mourn you in a manner you might not (eg. a grotesque modern open-casket funeral). This guy got a warrior's remembrance, and from the sounds of it, one that he deserved. It might have "just been a game", but it was important to him.
Adam Smith also wrote that governments needed to protect the workers/customers against treacherous and dishonest businesses by making laws. I'm not a believer in the "religion" of capitalism by any means, I see that it contains some good ideas but there's no reason why you can't incorporate some "socialistic" ideas in there too. Such as, why make the atmosphere an "owned resource" at all? Why not just say "The democratic government has legislated that polluting greater than X amount is punishable by $Y fine, or Z years in jail for the CEO." No need to invent the fiction of a "missing market" when what you really need is the people's representatives using their power to protect the common resources which belong simultaneously to everybody, and nobody. I was saying it's unfortunate that said representatives have become corrupted by the very interests they're supposed to be protecting us from. This is why you get bullshit like "pollution credits" and the DMCA.
Isn't capitalism supposed to solve problems like this? Shouldn't companies who offer non-DRM hardware find favour with the consumer, and thus prosper over crippled-ware sellers? Oh wait, I forgot, the governments of the "Western" world are rapidly abdicating their role of legislating against the most abusive excesses of capitalism, in favour of legislation aiding and abetting them... Whoops.
What about resigning? What about getting fired for incompetence? What about faking some experiments to make the program look like a waste of money? What about pretending to become a hopeless alcoholic, or pretending to have a nervous breakdown? Rudolph Hess was able to defect, in May 1941. Was this a possibility for von Braun?
Not to necessarily defend von Braun, but I suspect that few of the people who employed him were stupid. Odious genocidal maniacs, but not so stupid as to fall for any of those hoary old tricks. Resigning = bullet. Incompetence = bullet. Alcoholic = sent away to dry out, then told to get back to work, under close supervision and threat of aforementioned bullet. Hello, these were Nazis, remember? Watch "Triumph of the Will" again if you've forgotten what they were like. I only say all this because I doubt the average Slashdotter would have the courage to risk getting that bullet under similar circumstances.
...no [BOOBIES] links on slashdot. We don't need 'em here, since most slashdotters get a wood on from reading about "*nix now ported to unexpected device n".
Many, but not all! I'm almost 30 now, and I finally have the income that allows me to buy new music regularly, and I've matured enough to become interested in older stuff that I wasn't much aware of before (eg. older punk & industrial, Nick Cave, the Velvet Underground, even some cheesy 80's pop just for fun). Not to mention, I've made so many diverse friends in school and work that I am exposed to a lot of weird stuff I wouldn't have thought to check out myself. As a result, I have a rapidly mushrooming music collection, encompassing death metal, industrial, classical, trip-hop, acid jazz, house, classic jazz, classical, folk, rock, etc. and I love it!
Now, if by "new music" you meant "Britney, Pink, Creed, Eminem, P. Diddy", then yeah, I'm not too into that:-) Crap is crap, new or old.
Then, he was weird. Now, he's probably considered a cutting edge avant-garde artist, hanging out at all the cool parties and dating a girl who looks like Laura Prepon. Or, he's still living in his parents' basement. At least he found a way to survive high school.
1. Good luck. You'd probably have better luck suing the Church of Scientology. Hilary R. would crush you and anyone helping you like bugs.
2. RIAA is not really a "monopoly". They're a trust ("a combination of firms or corporations formed by a legal agreement; especially : one that reduces or threatens to reduce competition" - Merriam Webster Collegiate dictionary). In fact they've been shown to be guilty of price-fixing.
The Honor Harrington books are poo. Now, if the Baen Free Library was available on CD-ROM, I'd pay for THAT. As long as they promised to leave David Weber off it:-)
Apparently your parents don't understand the value of that green stuff (or here in Canada, green, blue, red etc.) we get in exchange for going to work every day. I suggest offering to save them $60/mo. in exchange for a flat fee of $200. Then go in and change their homepage. They might just fall for it, and angrily call Earthlink et al. and cancel their service.
"2. Reliability. Just yesterday I successfully transferred data from 18-year old 5.25" 140k disks (Apple//c!) without a hitch. But 3.5" 1.44MB disks are notoriously error-prone."
That 18-year old disk was probably manufactured much less cheaply than your typical modern 3.5" disk. I still use floppies, but they're so cheap and unreliable I don't trust them past a few months or 2-3 read-write cycles, whichever is less.
With modern computer aiming technology, you could take out an enemy plane with one shot of this sucker (assuming it's powerful enough). You get on his tail, get him in the reticle, and boom. 1 second later he's got serious airframe damage. 4 seconds later he's a rapidly expanding ball of vapour and titanium shards.
If it's powerful and accurate enough, you could hit him before he's more than a blip on your radar screen. Just like a missile, except that all the chaff and flares in the world won't save him.
War sucks. If we put half as much $ and effort into figuring out how to cure diseases and end poverty, as we do into these fucking Dr. Strangelove, penis-waving weapons systems...
Yes, we all hate Dragonball Z. Yes, I've been meaning to rent Perfect Blue for a while now. I still enjoy poking fun at some of the more common conventions of (bad) anime, and the conventions of good ones too. Even Ghost in the Shell has fan service and talky philosophy breaks...
Pie-ing government and business leaders has been a popular form of semi-non-violent (though it's technically assault) protest for a while, it's recently been done to Bill Gates as well as Prime Minister Jean Chretien of Canada (among others). However, in the current climate it's likely to get you shot. After all that pie could be a terrorist weapon of some sort!
Unlike the moon rocks, the TV in your example belongs to somebody else to begin with. The moon rocks were just sitting there on the moon until the US Gov't. (admittedly not my favorite institution) spent $billions to bring them back for scientific analysis. Therefore, I'd say they're the "owners". And it's not like they don't release the data to the scientific community by publishing it. That's far more useful than giving away the rocks themselves.
Every space in the Periodic Table should have a corresponding element. However, these elements may not occur in nature (eg. Technetium) or may have infinitesimally short half-lives (eg. most atomic numbers > about 100).
The Tragically Hip, arguably one of the biggest bands to come out of Canada, and quite successful on the world's stage, came out of Kingston, Ontario. I suspect that NY has suburbs bigger than Kingston....
Hell, as a former Kingston resident, I suspect that NYC has pizzerias bigger than Kingston. Incidentally, Sarah Harmer is also from Kingston, or at least got started playing there. She's great, I can't believe Nelly Furtado got the Juno instead of her. You'll be hearing more about her in a few years...
Yeah, my whole lab was addicted to that version for ages. One tech with an MSc, two MSc students, wasting probably 100's of person-hours trying to get the high score. When one of us went to negative scores and started getting up to zero again, we just gave up and acknowledged that he was the king.
I think it's funny that you reported the bug to MS. It takes them forever to acknowledge and fix major security issues in the OS, and you thought that complaining about *Tetris* was going to help?;-)
Player pianos were made back in Victorian times, and a piano is a "stringed instrument", isn't it? This (very cool) "player ukelele" uses modern computer code, where the pianos used a punch card-like system more akin to older computers. A player piano still had to have a human operator to work foot pedals etc. to give the tune depth and "personality", but in principle this could have been automated too, once the sequence was worked out.
Need to go to ICANN's unix.org? Fine, click a pulldown tab in your Mozilla 2.0 browser and select ICANN, or better yet, type http://icann//unix.org/ . Otherwise, stick with http://freenic//unix.org/ or (if opennic ever decides to dump ICANN peering) http://opennic//unix.org/
A lot of (heavily tech impaired) users have trouble understanding that there are TLD's besides ".com", and you want them to have to specify yet another domain on top of that? Why not just force them to memorize the IP addresses of their favorite sites while you're at it... Having multiple "xxxx.org" sites would only be more confusing, not less. Besides, improvements in search engine technology (ie. Google) have made control of xxxx.net/org/com somewhat less important, which is not to say that you could run unix.org from a Geoshitties site or anything...
Yes, it's sad that the name of my (and ~30 million other Canadians') great country has been made synonymous with what is in essence bottled piss. Imagine if Coors Lite was called "American Beer", and "I Am American" was trumpeted as a commercial slogan in commercials for an inferior product!
Slashdot Mirror
Cool that he didn't bother giving you the time of day
;-)
Considering the cultish mentality of the average Phish-head, he was probably afraid of having to deal with a mewling, groveling stoner, asking him to autograph his bong or something
(But if you're gonna be cultish, do it for a cool, talented band like Phish I guess)
Don't think of it as a "play funeral". Even when gaming online "in character", people can really get to know you, and feel loss when they learn of your real death. I find this ceremony extremely touching, it's almost better IMO to have friends you've never met in person mourn you in a manner you would appreciate, than to have your relatives and "meat-space" friends mourn you in a manner you might not (eg. a grotesque modern open-casket funeral). This guy got a warrior's remembrance, and from the sounds of it, one that he deserved. It might have "just been a game", but it was important to him.
Adam Smith also wrote that governments needed to protect the workers/customers against treacherous and dishonest businesses by making laws. I'm not a believer in the "religion" of capitalism by any means, I see that it contains some good ideas but there's no reason why you can't incorporate some "socialistic" ideas in there too. Such as, why make the atmosphere an "owned resource" at all? Why not just say "The democratic government has legislated that polluting greater than X amount is punishable by $Y fine, or Z years in jail for the CEO." No need to invent the fiction of a "missing market" when what you really need is the people's representatives using their power to protect the common resources which belong simultaneously to everybody, and nobody. I was saying it's unfortunate that said representatives have become corrupted by the very interests they're supposed to be protecting us from. This is why you get bullshit like "pollution credits" and the DMCA.
Isn't capitalism supposed to solve problems like this? Shouldn't companies who offer non-DRM hardware find favour with the consumer, and thus prosper over crippled-ware sellers? Oh wait, I forgot, the governments of the "Western" world are rapidly abdicating their role of legislating against the most abusive excesses of capitalism, in favour of legislation aiding and abetting them... Whoops.
What about resigning? What about getting fired for incompetence? What about faking some experiments to make the program look like a waste of money? What about pretending to become a hopeless alcoholic, or pretending to have a nervous breakdown? Rudolph Hess was able to defect, in May 1941. Was this a possibility for von Braun?
Not to necessarily defend von Braun, but I suspect that few of the people who employed him were stupid. Odious genocidal maniacs, but not so stupid as to fall for any of those hoary old tricks. Resigning = bullet. Incompetence = bullet. Alcoholic = sent away to dry out, then told to get back to work, under close supervision and threat of aforementioned bullet. Hello, these were Nazis, remember? Watch "Triumph of the Will" again if you've forgotten what they were like. I only say all this because I doubt the average Slashdotter would have the courage to risk getting that bullet under similar circumstances.
...no [BOOBIES] links on slashdot. We don't need 'em here, since most slashdotters get a wood on from reading about "*nix now ported to unexpected device n".
Many, but not all! I'm almost 30 now, and I finally have the income that allows me to buy new music regularly, and I've matured enough to become interested in older stuff that I wasn't much aware of before (eg. older punk & industrial, Nick Cave, the Velvet Underground, even some cheesy 80's pop just for fun). Not to mention, I've made so many diverse friends in school and work that I am exposed to a lot of weird stuff I wouldn't have thought to check out myself. As a result, I have a rapidly mushrooming music collection, encompassing death metal, industrial, classical, trip-hop, acid jazz, house, classic jazz, classical, folk, rock, etc. and I love it!
:-) Crap is crap, new or old.
Now, if by "new music" you meant "Britney, Pink, Creed, Eminem, P. Diddy", then yeah, I'm not too into that
Then, he was weird. Now, he's probably considered a cutting edge avant-garde artist, hanging out at all the cool parties and dating a girl who looks like Laura Prepon. Or, he's still living in his parents' basement. At least he found a way to survive high school.
1. Good luck. You'd probably have better luck suing the Church of Scientology. Hilary R. would crush you and anyone helping you like bugs.
2. RIAA is not really a "monopoly". They're a trust ("a combination of firms or corporations formed by a legal agreement; especially : one that reduces or threatens to reduce competition" - Merriam Webster Collegiate dictionary). In fact they've been shown to be guilty of price-fixing.
Though I suppose it doesn't strictly apply in this case, as nobody is arguing the counter-case in support of the RIAA.
That's not the _cookie jar_ that Microsoft has its fist in...
Ouch!
The Honor Harrington books are poo. Now, if the Baen Free Library was available on CD-ROM, I'd pay for THAT. As long as they promised to leave David Weber off it :-)
Nice handle, Dix... :-D
Apparently your parents don't understand the value of that green stuff (or here in Canada, green, blue, red etc.) we get in exchange for going to work every day. I suggest offering to save them $60/mo. in exchange for a flat fee of $200. Then go in and change their homepage. They might just fall for it, and angrily call Earthlink et al. and cancel their service.
"2. Reliability. Just yesterday I successfully transferred data from 18-year old 5.25" 140k disks (Apple //c!) without a hitch. But 3.5" 1.44MB disks are notoriously error-prone."
That 18-year old disk was probably manufactured much less cheaply than your typical modern 3.5" disk. I still use floppies, but they're so cheap and unreliable I don't trust them past a few months or 2-3 read-write cycles, whichever is less.
With modern computer aiming technology, you could take out an enemy plane with one shot of this sucker (assuming it's powerful enough). You get on his tail, get him in the reticle, and boom. 1 second later he's got serious airframe damage. 4 seconds later he's a rapidly expanding ball of vapour and titanium shards.
If it's powerful and accurate enough, you could hit him before he's more than a blip on your radar screen. Just like a missile, except that all the chaff and flares in the world won't save him.
War sucks. If we put half as much $ and effort into figuring out how to cure diseases and end poverty, as we do into these fucking Dr. Strangelove, penis-waving weapons systems...
Yes, we all hate Dragonball Z. Yes, I've been meaning to rent Perfect Blue for a while now. I still enjoy poking fun at some of the more common conventions of (bad) anime, and the conventions of good ones too. Even Ghost in the Shell has fan service and talky philosophy breaks...
Pie-ing government and business leaders has been a popular form of semi-non-violent (though it's technically assault) protest for a while, it's recently been done to Bill Gates as well as Prime Minister Jean Chretien of Canada (among others). However, in the current climate it's likely to get you shot. After all that pie could be a terrorist weapon of some sort!
Unlike the moon rocks, the TV in your example belongs to somebody else to begin with. The moon rocks were just sitting there on the moon until the US Gov't. (admittedly not my favorite institution) spent $billions to bring them back for scientific analysis. Therefore, I'd say they're the "owners". And it's not like they don't release the data to the scientific community by publishing it. That's far more useful than giving away the rocks themselves.
Every space in the Periodic Table should have a corresponding element. However, these elements may not occur in nature (eg. Technetium) or may have infinitesimally short half-lives (eg. most atomic numbers > about 100).
The Tragically Hip, arguably one of the biggest bands to come out of Canada, and quite successful on the world's stage, came out of Kingston, Ontario. I suspect that NY has suburbs bigger than Kingston....
Hell, as a former Kingston resident, I suspect that NYC has pizzerias bigger than Kingston. Incidentally, Sarah Harmer is also from Kingston, or at least got started playing there. She's great, I can't believe Nelly Furtado got the Juno instead of her. You'll be hearing more about her in a few years...
Yeah, my whole lab was addicted to that version for ages. One tech with an MSc, two MSc students, wasting probably 100's of person-hours trying to get the high score. When one of us went to negative scores and started getting up to zero again, we just gave up and acknowledged that he was the king.
;-)
I think it's funny that you reported the bug to MS. It takes them forever to acknowledge and fix major security issues in the OS, and you thought that complaining about *Tetris* was going to help?
Player pianos were made back in Victorian times, and a piano is a "stringed instrument", isn't it? This (very cool) "player ukelele" uses modern computer code, where the pianos used a punch card-like system more akin to older computers. A player piano still had to have a human operator to work foot pedals etc. to give the tune depth and "personality", but in principle this could have been automated too, once the sequence was worked out.
I *do* wish they'd posted sound samples...
Need to go to ICANN's unix.org? Fine, click a pulldown tab in your Mozilla 2.0 browser and select ICANN, or better yet, type http://icann//unix.org/ . Otherwise, stick with http://freenic//unix.org/ or (if opennic ever decides to dump ICANN peering) http://opennic//unix.org/
A lot of (heavily tech impaired) users have trouble understanding that there are TLD's besides ".com", and you want them to have to specify yet another domain on top of that? Why not just force them to memorize the IP addresses of their favorite sites while you're at it... Having multiple "xxxx.org" sites would only be more confusing, not less. Besides, improvements in search engine technology (ie. Google) have made control of xxxx.net/org/com somewhat less important, which is not to say that you could run unix.org from a Geoshitties site or anything...
Yes, it's sad that the name of my (and ~30 million other Canadians') great country has been made synonymous with what is in essence bottled piss. Imagine if Coors Lite was called "American Beer", and "I Am American" was trumpeted as a commercial slogan in commercials for an inferior product!