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I hardly think St. Kitts/Nevis is the only place only served by one pipe. Face it, outside of the US, Japan, and Europe, the infrastructure is lacking in many parts of the world.
I think it's a valid point. Like the article said, it's not about cutting access entirely; they can shut you down by shutting down the high-speed pipes. Satellite's a possibility, very expensive to get up and running.
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Your probably just trolling, but here goes anyway:
The internet has been around for more than two decades...
It's been around for 2 decades, but has only recently been recognized as something more than the worlds largest geek toy, largely ignored by the rest of the world. Big business on the Internet is still in its infancy, but you'd better believe that if it continues to grow like it has, laws and regulations will follow.
The internet stretches across national boundaries
Read the article, they actually address this argument. It doesn't matter if I setup a Napster server in Timbuktu if the RIAA can cut off my one-and-only access point to the outside world.
Now that we have web servers in space
Show me a timeframe for getting a robust, stable, viable Net Sanctuary Space Station, and I'll show you an Internet that has long since been beaten down by Evil Big Business (tm).
Yes, but TV stations and magazines have (at least in theory) steady streams of revenue coming in from advertisers. Web sites for the most part do not nowadays.
The original artisans did not leave complete instructions for making their steel, and the few written formulas are less than helpful. Some advise quenching the red-hot blade in the urine of a red-haired boy or of a goat fed nothing but ferns. Another text suggests driving the sword into the belly of a muscular slave.
Ironically, scientists also believe this is how the first versions of Windows were created.
They have said that Hotmail should not be trusted to store valuable mail: They're right. It's a free email service that you have no direct control over. If it's important, save a copy locally.
I've also told them that the correct solution is to bounce new incoming emails....They don't get it. They don't understand.: Keep in mind your probably corresponding with people who's sum technical knowledge comes from the troubleshooting-script book they have on their desk.
I can't help but wonder, though, whether it's the cradles themselves zapping MOBO's, or whether it's customer misuse: customers pulling out serial connecters while the units still on, unplugging and plugging in the power connector with the serial adapter still connected, stuff like that.
Keep in mind, people will tell a tech person anything to get their computer fixed under warranty. I've been there, on both sides. I've had people look me in the eye with a straight face and tell me their modem line was NOT hooked up during the lightning storm, as I point out the nasty black burn mark near the input jack. I've had them swear that there's no way they would ever go mucking around in/Windows (as I pull DLL after DLL out of the Recycle Bin), that it must be a hardware problem. I'm sure they'd have no problem fibbing a little on when and where they plugged in/unplugged their cradle connector.
Go play SpaceWar or Pong, and then go play a game like Age of Empires or Civilization. Chances are you'll have a LOT more fun playing the latter.
You could make a case for Space Invaders or Asteroids needing to make the list, I'll agree. Some of those first games are revolutioniary, but not necessarily some of the greatest games, IMHO.
All right, consarnit, I've had just about enough. I've been listening to you geeks fight with each other about this Intranet for a while now, and I'm just about fed up. Some of my boys have been telling me to just let you guys fight it out, but I really don't see any progress. It's inferurating! I didn't stand for this kind of crap at my former job, and I'm sure not gonna stand for it now.
So here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna split the Intranet right down the middle. That's right, the whole dang Intranet, from Wahoo to The Amazon's, right straight down the middle. And don't you be like some of my guys around here, telling me that it's "impractical" or "impossible", or that "I have no clue how the Intranet works", cause I don't really want to hear it. I've had enough, and it's time to take action.
So like I said, straight down the middle. One half goes to that Billy Gates guy up there in Seattle, the other goes to you Linucks guys. Now, I understand that there's not one guy in charge of Linucks, so I'd suggest you form a committee to handle it. If you need some help with that, well, drop me a line, and come on up for some help: if there's one thing I know about, it's committee's.
So anyway, one half to Billy, one half to Linucks. Both parties will be able to run the Intranet however they want, and we'll let the American People decide. The American People deserve the best, most great Intranet they deserve, and it's high time we let The American People decide the future of the Intranet. It's simple economics people, like you learned in college, the Law of Diminishing Returns! Adam Schiff himself would be proud!
Perhaps you should stop worrying so much about the moderation done to comments and just read them instead. Moderators sometimes smoke crack: it's life, big deal.
Hopefully this will put a smile on the face of anyone who's ever been busted...
In the college I went to, there was a class called "Fundamentals in Programming", which used C at the time; required for all CS majors. The class was a ridiculously low level though, something in the 200's. Well, all us CS majors figured what the heck, it's an easy A, and it's not like we had a choice anyway.
Turns out the class was easy to accomodate the school's M-Tech students, which was a huge department on campus. Seems they all wanted to be able to put, "fluent in X programming language" on their resume's, to help them land cushy C&C jobs.
Predictably, the class is full of programming "challenges" like "Write a program to calculate Mr. Smith's income tax based on input" and the like. Halfway through the semester, the prof starts handing out homework at the end of the hour, because us CS guys are handing in the assigned homework before class is over. The final project of the year, though, was a non-trivial program, a very simple inventory system, which required you to actually do a little work with file reads and writes. The class was fairly small, so everyone had to get up in front of the class and demonstrate their working program on the overhead (cross-learning with Speech class I guess).
So we all do our little demos over the last 2 weeks, and I become somewhat suprised when the M-Tech guys all start demonstrating working programs. After about the 5th M-Tech one worked flawlessly, the prof evidently got suspicious too, and deviated from the given look-up data (We had been given a list of 5 seperate things the program had to accomplish, with specific data). Of course, the program blows up: turns out one of the M-Tech guys had found it easier to draw up some mock-screens rather than to actually do the file reads/writes, and shared with his buddies.
The best part was when the prof asked, "You guys do realize you were supposed to hand in source with this project, right? Did you think I wouldn't notice this obviously flawed code?" One of the M-Tech's then says (I swear with a straight face), "Hey, it works, I don't see why it matters how we did it!" One discussion on the difference between the classroom and the real-world later, they were all taking the class again next semester.
JK. It does seem odd that Europe is traditionally an afterthought as far as console gaming is concerned. Probably has more to do with a lack of big name developers (when compared to the US and Japan anyway) than anything else.
Nah, the best one was the parking lot one, where Fred and Thundarr try and beat Speed Racer and Judy Jetson(?) to a parking space. But then it has Speed Racer, plus the music in it, which gives it an inherent advantage.
Aside: Anyone know if you can pick up those CN ads off the internet anywhere?
There was also a rumor earlier today (can't find the page, pulled it from SciFi.com AvantGo) that Annabeth Gishs' character might be gay. Hmmm...I seem to remember another Lucy Lawless show that did well playing up the "are they or aren't they" question for several years. If Doggett starts wearing silver-wear on his head, I'm out.
Perhaps your confusing Slashdot with another site? This is News for Nerds here. Yeah, I know, Kyoto will affect everyone, and I'm so shallow and politically naive for thinking it doesn't necessarily need to be discussed here, whatever. The fact is, I can check out anynumber of sites to get my Kyoto news. I come to Slashdot to read interviews about 20 year old games.
Incidently, Slashdot wasn't doing the interviewing here, rather they just linked to another site which conducted the interview.
Not like it's that hard to download Netscape either, but that didn't stop millions from using IE just because it was there. The point here is that if it's not pre-installed, most of the unwashed computing masses won't use it.
-- In a landmark deal that could provide crucial momentum to the nation's foundering digital TV transition,
Foundering? HA! How about Withholding? As in, "In a landmark deal that will provide Sony, etc with the incentive to stop withholding the digital TV transition from America until they can damn well lock it down and control it...".
Another priceless one: Hollywood's top lobbyist, Motion Picture Assn. of America president Jack Valenti, has said digital TV produces such a perfect picture that even amateurs could successfully pirate the content.
Who exactly are we going to pirate it to? Does Jolly Jack think the nation as a whole has collectively agreed to have 1 person subscribe to digital cable, then throw it up on the Internet for the other 249 Million of us?
Comparisons to 1984 get thrown around like so much confetti these days, but I think in this instance it's a very good point. Well done.
We're not talking about luxury items (i.e., music) anymore. Sure, publishers will try to spin this as "only pertaining to new, commercially available works" or "only to digital copies", but in truth it's a very dangerous path to follow.
Slashdot Mirror
It's Deja Vu all over again!
I hardly think St. Kitts/Nevis is the only place only served by one pipe. Face it, outside of the US, Japan, and Europe, the infrastructure is lacking in many parts of the world.
I think it's a valid point. Like the article said, it's not about cutting access entirely; they can shut you down by shutting down the high-speed pipes. Satellite's a possibility, very expensive to get up and running.
Your probably just trolling, but here goes anyway:
The internet has been around for more than two decades...
It's been around for 2 decades, but has only recently been recognized as something more than the worlds largest geek toy, largely ignored by the rest of the world. Big business on the Internet is still in its infancy, but you'd better believe that if it continues to grow like it has, laws and regulations will follow.
The internet stretches across national boundaries
Read the article, they actually address this argument. It doesn't matter if I setup a Napster server in Timbuktu if the RIAA can cut off my one-and-only access point to the outside world.
Now that we have web servers in space
Show me a timeframe for getting a robust, stable, viable Net Sanctuary Space Station, and I'll show you an Internet that has long since been beaten down by Evil Big Business (tm).
Yes, but TV stations and magazines have (at least in theory) steady streams of revenue coming in from advertisers. Web sites for the most part do not nowadays.
The original artisans did not leave complete instructions for making their steel, and the few written formulas are less than helpful. Some advise quenching the red-hot blade in the urine of a red-haired boy or of a goat fed nothing but ferns. Another text suggests driving the sword into the belly of a muscular slave.
Ironically, scientists also believe this is how the first versions of Windows were created.
Seriously dude, what the hell else are they gonna post at 12:45 am Saturday?
Two things:
They have said that Hotmail should not be trusted to store valuable mail: They're right. It's a free email service that you have no direct control over. If it's important, save a copy locally.
I've also told them that the correct solution is to bounce new incoming emails....They don't get it. They don't understand.: Keep in mind your probably corresponding with people who's sum technical knowledge comes from the troubleshooting-script book they have on their desk.
I can't help but wonder, though, whether it's the cradles themselves zapping MOBO's, or whether it's customer misuse: customers pulling out serial connecters while the units still on, unplugging and plugging in the power connector with the serial adapter still connected, stuff like that.
/Windows (as I pull DLL after DLL out of the Recycle Bin), that it must be a hardware problem. I'm sure they'd have no problem fibbing a little on when and where they plugged in/unplugged their cradle connector.
Keep in mind, people will tell a tech person anything to get their computer fixed under warranty. I've been there, on both sides. I've had people look me in the eye with a straight face and tell me their modem line was NOT hooked up during the lightning storm, as I point out the nasty black burn mark near the input jack. I've had them swear that there's no way they would ever go mucking around in
Go play SpaceWar or Pong, and then go play a game like Age of Empires or Civilization. Chances are you'll have a LOT more fun playing the latter.
You could make a case for Space Invaders or Asteroids needing to make the list, I'll agree. Some of those first games are revolutioniary, but not necessarily some of the greatest games, IMHO.
DVD's on Amazon are selling for $15-25, CD's for $12-18, PS2 games for $30-50. Trust me, Amazon's not selling everything at a loss.
All right, consarnit, I've had just about enough. I've been listening to you geeks fight with each other about this Intranet for a while now, and I'm just about fed up. Some of my boys have been telling me to just let you guys fight it out, but I really don't see any progress. It's inferurating! I didn't stand for this kind of crap at my former job, and I'm sure not gonna stand for it now.
So here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna split the Intranet right down the middle. That's right, the whole dang Intranet, from Wahoo to The Amazon's, right straight down the middle. And don't you be like some of my guys around here, telling me that it's "impractical" or "impossible", or that "I have no clue how the Intranet works", cause I don't really want to hear it. I've had enough, and it's time to take action.
So like I said, straight down the middle. One half goes to that Billy Gates guy up there in Seattle, the other goes to you Linucks guys. Now, I understand that there's not one guy in charge of Linucks, so I'd suggest you form a committee to handle it. If you need some help with that, well, drop me a line, and come on up for some help: if there's one thing I know about, it's committee's.
So anyway, one half to Billy, one half to Linucks. Both parties will be able to run the Intranet however they want, and we'll let the American People decide. The American People deserve the best, most great Intranet they deserve, and it's high time we let The American People decide the future of the Intranet. It's simple economics people, like you learned in college, the Law of Diminishing Returns! Adam Schiff himself would be proud!
Signed, George W. Bush
Perhaps you should stop worrying so much about the moderation done to comments and just read them instead. Moderators sometimes smoke crack: it's life, big deal.
Hopefully this will put a smile on the face of anyone who's ever been busted...
In the college I went to, there was a class called "Fundamentals in Programming", which used C at the time; required for all CS majors. The class was a ridiculously low level though, something in the 200's. Well, all us CS majors figured what the heck, it's an easy A, and it's not like we had a choice anyway.
Turns out the class was easy to accomodate the school's M-Tech students, which was a huge department on campus. Seems they all wanted to be able to put, "fluent in X programming language" on their resume's, to help them land cushy C&C jobs.
Predictably, the class is full of programming "challenges" like "Write a program to calculate Mr. Smith's income tax based on input" and the like. Halfway through the semester, the prof starts handing out homework at the end of the hour, because us CS guys are handing in the assigned homework before class is over. The final project of the year, though, was a non-trivial program, a very simple inventory system, which required you to actually do a little work with file reads and writes. The class was fairly small, so everyone had to get up in front of the class and demonstrate their working program on the overhead (cross-learning with Speech class I guess).
So we all do our little demos over the last 2 weeks, and I become somewhat suprised when the M-Tech guys all start demonstrating working programs. After about the 5th M-Tech one worked flawlessly, the prof evidently got suspicious too, and deviated from the given look-up data (We had been given a list of 5 seperate things the program had to accomplish, with specific data). Of course, the program blows up: turns out one of the M-Tech guys had found it easier to draw up some mock-screens rather than to actually do the file reads/writes, and shared with his buddies.
The best part was when the prof asked, "You guys do realize you were supposed to hand in source with this project, right? Did you think I wouldn't notice this obviously flawed code?" One of the M-Tech's then says (I swear with a straight face), "Hey, it works, I don't see why it matters how we did it!" One discussion on the difference between the classroom and the real-world later, they were all taking the class again next semester.
Europe? Wasn't that some terrible 80's rock band?
JK. It does seem odd that Europe is traditionally an afterthought as far as console gaming is concerned. Probably has more to do with a lack of big name developers (when compared to the US and Japan anyway) than anything else.
No, now they use a monkey that pulls random words out of a hat.
Nah, the best one was the parking lot one, where Fred and Thundarr try and beat Speed Racer and Judy Jetson(?) to a parking space. But then it has Speed Racer, plus the music in it, which gives it an inherent advantage.
Aside: Anyone know if you can pick up those CN ads off the internet anywhere?
The executive said he had never heard of PVRs, and moreover, he wasn't interested in learning more.
Radio Executive circa 1950: "I don't know anything about this 'television', and quite frankly, I'm not really interested in learning more."
Newspaper Executive circa 1920: "I don't know anything about this 'radio', and quite frankly, I'm not really interested in learning more."
Telegraph Executive circa 1870: "I don't know anything about this 'telephone', and quite frankly I'm not really interested in learning more."
Town Crier Executive circa 1450: "I don't know anything about this 'printing press', and quite frankly I'm not really interested in learning more."
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
There was also a rumor earlier today (can't find the page, pulled it from SciFi.com AvantGo) that Annabeth Gishs' character might be gay. Hmmm...I seem to remember another Lucy Lawless show that did well playing up the "are they or aren't they" question for several years. If Doggett starts wearing silver-wear on his head, I'm out.
1984? Is that a book or something?
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength
Monopolies offer Choice
*Blatently stolen from a Tom Tomorrow cartoon that I can't seem to find right now.*
Perhaps your confusing Slashdot with another site? This is News for Nerds here. Yeah, I know, Kyoto will affect everyone, and I'm so shallow and politically naive for thinking it doesn't necessarily need to be discussed here, whatever. The fact is, I can check out any number of sites to get my Kyoto news. I come to Slashdot to read interviews about 20 year old games.
Incidently, Slashdot wasn't doing the interviewing here, rather they just linked to another site which conducted the interview.
Not like it's that hard to download Netscape either, but that didn't stop millions from using IE just because it was there. The point here is that if it's not pre-installed, most of the unwashed computing masses won't use it.
-- In a landmark deal that could provide crucial momentum to the nation's foundering digital TV transition,
Foundering? HA! How about Withholding? As in, "In a landmark deal that will provide Sony, etc with the incentive to stop withholding the digital TV transition from America until they can damn well lock it down and control it...".
Another priceless one: Hollywood's top lobbyist, Motion Picture Assn. of America president Jack Valenti, has said digital TV produces such a perfect picture that even amateurs could successfully pirate the content.
Who exactly are we going to pirate it to? Does Jolly Jack think the nation as a whole has collectively agreed to have 1 person subscribe to digital cable, then throw it up on the Internet for the other 249 Million of us?
Speaking of which, I haven't got my $50 from AOL and Microsoft for ever email of their's I forwarded. Anyone know what the holdup is?
Comparisons to 1984 get thrown around like so much confetti these days, but I think in this instance it's a very good point. Well done.
We're not talking about luxury items (i.e., music) anymore. Sure, publishers will try to spin this as "only pertaining to new, commercially available works" or "only to digital copies", but in truth it's a very dangerous path to follow.