Ya know, we've all seen this happen over and over again. Innovation, boom, decline. It should be routine.
But every time decline hits, it's something new. Funny really.
I'm kinda glad things are slowing down. That means the real minds can sit down and concentrate on the technologies that are going to change the world in this decade.
The internet is soooo 90's.
Although the law states otherwise, corporations and business organizations are not people in my eyes and therefore deserve no loyalty.
Think of it in terms of an inanimate object like a can opener. If the can opener doesn't work for you, ditch it. Why one would have an emotional attachment to a can opener is beyond me. An employer is no different. IT professionals are notoriously idyllic and loyal.
You owe them nothing and they owe you everything you put into them.
Let's see, he releases 3001, which stinks and lends his name to some funky vapour-ware.
It's easily explained,
I think somebody has a smack habbit to sustain.
I'm writting this as an expression of sadness. This just makes me unhappy. I'd like to be prophetic, forward or visionary but frankly I don't think the future is that uncertain. We will move this way until the interest of the powerful is fulfilled.
There won't be much resistance, just some unhappy comments. Nothing pro-active. Anyone pro-active will be dubbed extremist and austricised. People say nothing changes, that the elite always have the same amount of control, that we masses always strive to steal some. I don't think this is true anymore, the elite control so much and the masses are happy with the little (in relation to the whole) they have. Peity pleasures like shopping and television. Imacs and the gap. Lust and profanity. The meaningful things like creation and arts, science, love, intellectualism and discussion are dying into minority. The cultural elite is degrading civilization not with totaliterian control but tradeoffs.
Don't bother voting, there's no reason. Just give them the power.
Don't question media, just let it infect your mind.
Don't share music, buy it for $15.99.
Those of us who know the truth about the music industry (remember when it was an artform?) know what we want. We want justice, we want the death of the pop celebrity cult. To imply that music cannot survive without an "industry", especially in this day in age, in completely without warrant. Free the music
I blame all who'd consciously bring down such a regime over something as connected to the human soul as music.
These are the new power structures of the 21st century, not structures of royalty or democracy but those of opression and extortion. They live above the land of the law, as has been demostrated countless times, and reign down with an anti-human force.
I believe he was involved in some tricky business issues regarding insider trading or something. I don't mean to sling mud but I don't think his resignment is dude to crimes against linux.
It just shows that the internet requires some sort of police. Not a big brother type but that more of a beat cop or regular officer that responds to the community's needs.
In the realworld(tm) there are more domestic disputes, harassment, vandelism then murder and extortion. It seems the later is all traditional law seems to be interested in at present.
Now, not to diminish this event into a lower form of offence, we need some sort of governing body to investigate and take actions. I'm not suggesting to persecute all "hackers", technological curiosity is not a crime (yeah, so i mentioned that unmentionable movie.. that's the only point it really made that wasn't contrived and hollywood-ified). What needs to be stopped is internet assult. kuro5hin are victims and they are also normal internet citizens, most likely without vast financial resources for private legal and investigative recourse.
OpenGL is an API, 3dfx cards are hardware. Maybe you're thinking of glide? Glide is 3dfx's proprietary API, which at this point is missing a lot of features that GL, for the most part, has. People like GL because it's portable. 3D games, for instance, programmed in GL will work on any platform that supports it. For example, if you port your program that uses GL from mac to pc or even a game console, as long as that platform has support for rendering GL markup it will work. Glide is fast, but it requires 3DFX hardware. Glide is also, to the best of my knowledge, a closed standard. DirectX/Direct3d requires the windows platform. So OpenGL is the only standard that is both open and portable. Oh, and GL can look beautiful given you have it setup right.
MS decided that OpenGL wasn't good for business and axed the project. In addition, they haven't updated any of the universal gl architecture they started in NT4 in win2k.
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Ya know, we've all seen this happen over and over again. Innovation, boom, decline. It should be routine. But every time decline hits, it's something new. Funny really. I'm kinda glad things are slowing down. That means the real minds can sit down and concentrate on the technologies that are going to change the world in this decade. The internet is soooo 90's.
Home of the Fee(tm)
The machines will embody human qualities, they'll convince us that they're human. And we'll believe them.
Although the law states otherwise, corporations and business organizations are not people in my eyes and therefore deserve no loyalty. Think of it in terms of an inanimate object like a can opener. If the can opener doesn't work for you, ditch it. Why one would have an emotional attachment to a can opener is beyond me. An employer is no different. IT professionals are notoriously idyllic and loyal. You owe them nothing and they owe you everything you put into them.
Let's see, he releases 3001, which stinks and lends his name to some funky vapour-ware. It's easily explained, I think somebody has a smack habbit to sustain.
At the Playdium in Toronto (A Sega owned arcade) there are advertisements for the new Zelda games.. I thought that was rather odd.
Dashes only really count in regular expressions. Anything else is just a decoration.
Where did linux come from?
It came as a free alternative to *nix and mostdef NT. There's a mighty big difference between competition and alternative.
There's no need to try and enlighten the seething masses about linux, they have all the resources they need to come to you.
Again, we loose sight.
How about .gay? That way we can segregate ourselves into obilvion.
I think a plug for the site isn't really that much of an exchange that would benefit VA.. I mean, they really donated the hardware for good PR
Faith in humanity is just like being a node on a network, once everyone is online it functions for everyone.
Good idea but it sounds like too much logistical work in the long run to be self-sufficient being completely charity based.
Perhaps a hybrid banner/pay-to-play sort of arrangement? Any suggestions?
With a name like "Nanoprobes" it sounds more like something William Gibson would be up to. Hello marketing..
Handspring + 802.11. Bingo, the perfect "webpad". Sure it's monochromatic, but it's also dual-purpose.
I'm writting this as an expression of sadness. This just makes me unhappy. I'd like to be prophetic, forward or visionary but frankly I don't think the future is that uncertain. We will move this way until the interest of the powerful is fulfilled.
There won't be much resistance, just some unhappy comments. Nothing pro-active. Anyone pro-active will be dubbed extremist and austricised. People say nothing changes, that the elite always have the same amount of control, that we masses always strive to steal some. I don't think this is true anymore, the elite control so much and the masses are happy with the little (in relation to the whole) they have. Peity pleasures like shopping and television. Imacs and the gap. Lust and profanity. The meaningful things like creation and arts, science, love, intellectualism and discussion are dying into minority. The cultural elite is degrading civilization not with totaliterian control but tradeoffs.
Don't bother voting, there's no reason. Just give them the power.
Don't question media, just let it infect your mind.
Don't share music, buy it for $15.99.
Those of us who know the truth about the music industry (remember when it was an artform?) know what we want. We want justice, we want the death of the pop celebrity cult. To imply that music cannot survive without an "industry", especially in this day in age, in completely without warrant. Free the music
I blame all who'd consciously bring down such a regime over something as connected to the human soul as music.
These are the new power structures of the 21st century, not structures of royalty or democracy but those of opression and extortion. They live above the land of the law, as has been demostrated countless times, and reign down with an anti-human force.
Sad
In the future the ISS will be so huge it will BLOCK OUT THE SUN.
Who remembers the scene in Back to the Future II where Marty's jacket gets wet and dries itself?
We are one step closer..
I believe he was involved in some tricky business issues regarding insider trading or something. I don't mean to sling mud but I don't think his resignment is dude to crimes against linux.
It's cool /. still using the old sgi logo. The new one doesn't compare.
It just shows that the internet requires some sort of police. Not a big brother type but that more of a beat cop or regular officer that responds to the community's needs.
In the realworld(tm) there are more domestic disputes, harassment, vandelism then murder and extortion. It seems the later is all traditional law seems to be interested in at present.
Now, not to diminish this event into a lower form of offence, we need some sort of governing body to investigate and take actions. I'm not suggesting to persecute all "hackers", technological curiosity is not a crime (yeah, so i mentioned that unmentionable movie.. that's the only point it really made that wasn't contrived and hollywood-ified). What needs to be stopped is internet assult. kuro5hin are victims and they are also normal internet citizens, most likely without vast financial resources for private legal and investigative recourse.
Why should they be vicitms?
Of course MS jumped the gun. They always to when it comes to standards.
The xbox is still EVIL. Do we need more MS is the homes of the world? No. PSX2 is the lesser of two evils.
OpenGL is an API, 3dfx cards are hardware. Maybe you're thinking of glide? Glide is 3dfx's proprietary API, which at this point is missing a lot of features that GL, for the most part, has. People like GL because it's portable. 3D games, for instance, programmed in GL will work on any platform that supports it. For example, if you port your program that uses GL from mac to pc or even a game console, as long as that platform has support for rendering GL markup it will work. Glide is fast, but it requires 3DFX hardware. Glide is also, to the best of my knowledge, a closed standard. DirectX/Direct3d requires the windows platform. So OpenGL is the only standard that is both open and portable. Oh, and GL can look beautiful given you have it setup right.
MS decided that OpenGL wasn't good for business and axed the project. In addition, they haven't updated any of the universal gl architecture they started in NT4 in win2k.
Let's have more people programming opengl x servers instead..