I have something to hide. It's called my private life and it's nobody's business. Not yours, not some company's and most certainly not my government's.
Really, and what do you do in your private life? Watch illegally dl'd movies: someone else's business Smack your children a little too hard: somebody else's business
Do I need to go on?
I think it was Franklin who said, if the people fear the government, it's a tyranny, if the government fears its people, it's liberty. I think the US (and a good portion of the rest of the planet) would need a few leaders like the founding fathers of the US. If they could see what came to their dream, what they fought for, died for and had others die for, I think they'd get fed up enough to start over.
"I had the best laid plans since the start of America" - Robert Smith
I do agree that we need better leaders in the western world.
I'm not surprised that this functionality is able to be implemented. Essentially, Web browsers are operating systems that not just parse HTML and render that, but pass a lot of items off to subsystems to execute, such as Java, Flash, Google Gears, or other plugins.
Um, no. Browsers are nothing like operating systems. More like interdependent programs..
Make it use Google Earth somehow..
I can see it now. Johnny's walking down the street staring blankly at his iphone.. *wham!* "OMG.. WTF!! That signpost wasn't in the game a second ago!"
Mod parent up (even though he's not be serious)
This is the kind of thinking that will get these kinds of games developed quicker and cheaper. Methinks this kind of game is inevitable and will be big
Now isn't the time to start innovating from scratch with the global recession.
Now really is the time to start innovating. A lot of people are going to have a lot of spare time on their hands, and since the old way of doing business has failed so spectacularly, now might be the time to think about new ways of doing things
Energy doesn't get created, it just gets collected, harnessed, and transfered. So pretty much anything we do to "create" energy will actually mean taking energy out of the environment somehow. That means it's going to have some kind of environmental impact.
Nuclear. Produces energy from matter (sure deep down it may all be energy, but we don't know that for sure yet...)
Solar was THE bee's knees when it was Kalifornicators using government subsidies to put collectors on their roof to get bragging rights over their neighbors over how 'enviromentally aware' they were. Try to scale it up to industrial production and there isn't ANYWHERE you can put square miles of collectors where some insignificant critter doesn't live... and might not thrive anymore if you turn it's desert habitat into cool shade under the solar collectors.
Really? I've got a nice hot, sunny Outback where you can use. The lizards'll pretty quickly realise its still nice and hot on top of the solar array and the... well... there's not much else out there...
No. In the grand scheme of things, the Security Council could have voted to kick the USA out of the UN and demand a withdrawal from Iraq. You have nuclear armed Europe (France and the UK, and the Germans could always get them), Russia, and China.
No it couldn't. The US has a veto vote and could veto its own expulsion.
I was not aware the british were the UN.
At the time you could make the argument that they were, and I would be willing to say that the British in 1914 had way more power over the world than the USA did say at its peak in 1995. In 1914, The British Empire was the United Nation. Or, shall we say, United Kingdom. Let's see, the British in 1914 controlled or at least had huge influence in Africa, India, big chunks of Asia, Australia, Canada... so yes, dog, that would pretty much be it. You just need to look at a world map and see how much union jack red there was. British were pretty badass in those days.
they really were. Pity they weren't the UN.. which didnt exist.
Wow, that was started by the U.N. too?
Nope, you missed the point. Hitler invades Poland, and the world supercop, the UK, kinda broke from World War I, took the plunge one last time and declared war on Germany.
Please not that it took the UK changing a Prime Minister before they stood up to Germany. Chamberlain wanted to let Hitler have Poland
America circa 1960: "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
America circa 2009: "OMG terrorists!"
Honestly, will we ever get our national cojones back?
When you all stop suing each other and begin to realise people are actually responsible for some of their own actions (and consequences)
"OMG terrorists"
"Bomb em!"
"We can't they might sue us!"
I'm sure they won't have any problems finding investors -- so long as they cater to the investors who have interest in flying cars, another technology that hasn't actually gotten off the ground yet. What was it someone said about "a fool and his money"?
Or maybe get 3D Realms to organise funding... they never seem to need a forward plan..
..From a stability of government perspective, democracy is better because it imposes rules about how regime change within the country should take place, but, there's never been a democracy that's been historically stable...
Depends on your definition of stable. Austalia has the most stable government in the world (even lookin at you US!). Sure we've only been a Commonwealth for 100 years, but I honestly believe that - short of extra-national interference - our system of government will last. Having said that, If we become a Republic we'll be screwed...
This is the best I can do; but feel free to believe that socialism is good. Many do.
Socialism is neither good nor evil, people are good and evil and both socialism and capitalism have had leaders who have performed evil acts in what they think was the "greater good"
2. anyone who honestly thinks people in Iran could possibly, in the most wild far-fetched fantasies, set up an ad-hoc network and successfully use it to communicate to some useful end, within the next few days, is a complete god damned idiot.
Where people must do, they will. Where people have no useful contribution, they troll...
They are cheap, easy to roll out and use existing infrastructure. Roll one out to pro-democracy reformers, get a collection of people's actual votes, if possible on a signed petition (e-sig should be fine) then get that to the UN. While you may not trust us, the UN is watching this situation and good luck.
I have never played a ANY MMO that didn't have someone running around the home city just shouting out advertisements.
Fury. Sydney-developed MMO that lived a very short life due to chronic mismanagement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fury_(computer_game) I played it for most of those 10 months and don't remember hearing anyone running around yelling out adverts. Don't remember that many people running around...
From a state that is already 95% desert - also where most of our exports come from (the mines) we could use these.
Currently, water to the Goldfields is pumped 600km from the Hills - an engineering feat in 1902, but also highly energy-hungry. Water from the desert's air? BHP will be mighty pleased...
Slashdot Mirror
Books will be missed?
NO DEAL!
could just use this to block Ads!!
Sorry mate, we did this years ago. Under Australian anti-malware laws its illegal to place advertising ingame, based upon the user's location.
I have something to hide. It's called my private life and it's nobody's business. Not yours, not some company's and most certainly not my government's.
Really, and what do you do in your private life?
Watch illegally dl'd movies: someone else's business
Smack your children a little too hard: somebody else's business Do I need to go on?
I think it was Franklin who said, if the people fear the government, it's a tyranny, if the government fears its people, it's liberty. I think the US (and a good portion of the rest of the planet) would need a few leaders like the founding fathers of the US. If they could see what came to their dream, what they fought for, died for and had others die for, I think they'd get fed up enough to start over.
"I had the best laid plans since the start of America" - Robert Smith
I do agree that we need better leaders in the western world.
I'm not surprised that this functionality is able to be implemented. Essentially, Web browsers are operating systems that not just parse HTML and render that, but pass a lot of items off to subsystems to execute, such as Java, Flash, Google Gears, or other plugins.
Um, no. Browsers are nothing like operating systems. More like interdependent programs..
Wait, wait, that won't work. If we go around ousting governments for stupidity, we'll have anarchy here in the U.S. too.
Its ok, we'll forgive you since you democratically choose you idiots
Profits provide motivation to innovate.
how can this be called stolen code?
The originators still have it.
Moron
And oddly nobody on slashdot is yet pointing this out (unlike what would have happened if a USian were accused of stealing Photoshop, for example.
Is this because it's China doing it?
Flamebait, I'm guessing from a Chinaman.
If you spin around twice you will walk right into it.
You've obviously never spun around twice and tried to walk in a straight line
hahahahahahaha
Make it use Google Earth somehow.. I can see it now. Johnny's walking down the street staring blankly at his iphone.. *wham!* "OMG.. WTF!! That signpost wasn't in the game a second ago!"
Mod parent up (even though he's not be serious)
This is the kind of thinking that will get these kinds of games developed quicker and cheaper. Methinks this kind of game is inevitable and will be big
Now isn't the time to start innovating from scratch with the global recession.
Now really is the time to start innovating. A lot of people are going to have a lot of spare time on their hands, and since the old way of doing business has failed so spectacularly, now might be the time to think about new ways of doing things
Energy doesn't get created, it just gets collected, harnessed, and transfered. So pretty much anything we do to "create" energy will actually mean taking energy out of the environment somehow. That means it's going to have some kind of environmental impact.
Nuclear. Produces energy from matter (sure deep down it may all be energy, but we don't know that for sure yet...)
Solar was THE bee's knees when it was Kalifornicators using government subsidies to put collectors on their roof to get bragging rights over their neighbors over how 'enviromentally aware' they were. Try to scale it up to industrial production and there isn't ANYWHERE you can put square miles of collectors where some insignificant critter doesn't live... and might not thrive anymore if you turn it's desert habitat into cool shade under the solar collectors.
Really? I've got a nice hot, sunny Outback where you can use. The lizards'll pretty quickly realise its still nice and hot on top of the solar array and the... well... there's not much else out there...
No. In the grand scheme of things, the Security Council could have voted to kick the USA out of the UN and demand a withdrawal from Iraq. You have nuclear armed Europe (France and the UK, and the Germans could always get them), Russia, and China.
No it couldn't. The US has a veto vote and could veto its own expulsion.
I was not aware the british were the UN.
At the time you could make the argument that they were, and I would be willing to say that the British in 1914 had way more power over the world than the USA did say at its peak in 1995. In 1914, The British Empire was the United Nation. Or, shall we say, United Kingdom. Let's see, the British in 1914 controlled or at least had huge influence in Africa, India, big chunks of Asia, Australia, Canada... so yes, dog, that would pretty much be it. You just need to look at a world map and see how much union jack red there was. British were pretty badass in those days.
they really were. Pity they weren't the UN.. which didnt exist.
Wow, that was started by the U.N. too?
Nope, you missed the point. Hitler invades Poland, and the world supercop, the UK, kinda broke from World War I, took the plunge one last time and declared war on Germany.
Please not that it took the UK changing a Prime Minister before they stood up to Germany. Chamberlain wanted to let Hitler have Poland
America circa 1960: "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard." America circa 2009: "OMG terrorists!"
Honestly, will we ever get our national cojones back?
When you all stop suing each other and begin to realise people are actually responsible for some of their own actions (and consequences)
"OMG terrorists"
"Bomb em!"
"We can't they might sue us!"
I'm sure they won't have any problems finding investors -- so long as they cater to the investors who have interest in flying cars, another technology that hasn't actually gotten off the ground yet. What was it someone said about "a fool and his money"?
Or maybe get 3D Realms to organise funding... they never seem to need a forward plan..
I think the answer is yes. (It's really sad when Han Solo is a cooler ship designer than we are.)
Oh dear! and you call yourself a nerd...
..From a stability of government perspective, democracy is better because it imposes rules about how regime change within the country should take place, but, there's never been a democracy that's been historically stable...
Depends on your definition of stable. Austalia has the most stable government in the world (even lookin at you US!). Sure we've only been a Commonwealth for 100 years, but I honestly believe that - short of extra-national interference - our system of government will last. Having said that, If we become a Republic we'll be screwed...
This is the best I can do; but feel free to believe that socialism is good. Many do.
Socialism is neither good nor evil, people are good and evil and both socialism and capitalism have had leaders who have performed evil acts in what they think was the "greater good"
2. anyone who honestly thinks people in Iran could possibly, in the most wild far-fetched fantasies, set up an ad-hoc network and successfully use it to communicate to some useful end, within the next few days, is a complete god damned idiot.
Where people must do, they will. Where people have no useful contribution, they troll...
Darknets guys
http://msl1.mit.edu/ESD10/docs/darknet5.pdf
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/03/the-new-version-of-p2p.ars
http://msl1.mit.edu/ESD10/docs/darknet5.pdf
They are cheap, easy to roll out and use existing infrastructure. Roll one out to pro-democracy reformers, get a collection of people's actual votes, if possible on a signed petition (e-sig should be fine) then get that to the UN. While you may not trust us, the UN is watching this situation and good luck.
Love, Australia
I have never played a ANY MMO that didn't have someone running around the home city just shouting out advertisements.
Fury. Sydney-developed MMO that lived a very short life due to chronic mismanagement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fury_(computer_game)
I played it for most of those 10 months and don't remember hearing anyone running around yelling out adverts. Don't remember that many people running around...
I thought the Master was killed at the end of Fallout? Doesn't that mean he's destined to fail, like why you don't build an AI and name it Skynet?
SPOILER ALERT! SPOILER ALERT!
Or name it Jon Eaton and elect it president?
Listening in from WA
From a state that is already 95% desert - also where most of our exports come from (the mines) we could use these.
Currently, water to the Goldfields is pumped 600km from the Hills - an engineering feat in 1902, but also highly energy-hungry. Water from the desert's air? BHP will be mighty pleased...