I've always wondered this... why don't we use 2, 4, etc. bit bits? as I've learned more about processing, I've been able to reason it out, but it still doesn't make sense why we don't do it for storage. say, have a magnetic disk that writes/reads like 16 levels of magnetic strength per bit, so each bit is 16 times more compact than normal... true, this would require conversion to binary, so it'd be a little slower (probably less than a picosecond per bit, but things add up...), but it'd be denser... as we get down to smaller and smaller media, this would become more difficult... from my (extremely limited) knowledge of how these things work, it seems that it would be possible for these molecular processors to process a 2 bit bit, depending on a voltage level, would raise the electrons to different quantum level... anyone know? this sound reasonable? am i completely out of my gourd? (not a first by any means)
besides the obvious "your computer already IS made out of molecules, and so are you" types of remarks i could make... has a really small computer ever been a problem? i wouldn't mind wearing a GHz computer...
Wanna know something funny? in the decss case, the author wrote the program under the GPL, but since they didn't physically sign it over to the FSF, there's a big controversy. personally, i hope that the GPL gets revoked from the program for a few reasons: 1 -- i've clicked a bunch of "legally binding" agreements and broken them. if the GPL is revoked, they'll no longer be legally binding (that's my first argument in court) 2 -- it'll make more people physically sign their software over to the FSF 3 -- it'll piss more people... the more people that hate the man, the better...
god i hate windows... stupid school computers... while i was typing, the side of my palm ran into the extended key that makes the right-click menu come up... musta hit an 'r', cause the page reloaded halfway thru the message... *grumbles* anyways, i don't think that there really is any new hardware... the people at/. are just making it up... i don't feel a difference... neither do a lot of people... therefore, there was no upgrade, the staff at/. are trying to dupe us... which makes me wonder what the real hardware is... 50 beowulfed palms? it'd explain how slow the slashcode gets updated... (coding in graffiti can't be fun...) maybe i should do that at my site, if anyone ever complains about speed... tell them that i'm working on it, and a month later, take the site down for a day, and say that i've upgraded the hardware... they'll think its faster (maybe i'll take my d.net client down for a day... tho its pretty good at staying out of the way...), so they'll be happy, and my pocketbook'll be happy... well, no, that's not true... my pocketbook is NEVER happy... happier, i guess... i actually don't think that/. gets hit as much as people say... i don't think any of you exist, actually... well, maybe one or two... no trolls ever go to slashdot... there's just a script that writes troll posts... and another one that moderates the other script's postings down... how else would trolls get first posts? maybe i'm a script... i'm confused...
Mindless violence for kids to become obsessed with? At age 10, I was violent, I planned to kill people, and what games did I have? Frogger, and the like. at age 14 these plans became more realistic. i knew how to make bombs, even made a few, and had plenty of places where i could get guns for free/cheap (read: Local gangs). At that point, i was playing descent and terminal velocity. doom didn't interest me... it was too... 2d... the other 2 were true 3d, and a lot more fun. I didn't end up killing anybody all through middle school or high school... got in plenty of fights and mutilated a guy's face with a pair of scisors, but since i was a little scared white kid that wouldn't hurt anybody unless i was backed into a corner, i got off free... truth be told, i flat-out attacked the guy... Games don't effect us. Some are born... different. I've always had a morbid sense of humor, at parties, my friends and I fight... sometimes nicely, but we get hurt sometimes, too... I'm not an angry person anymore. I've gotten mad probably 3 times in the past 4 years... counseling? no. i hate shrinks... I've just changed myself. Forced myself into a different outlook on life. I still want to fight every asshole i walk past on the sidewalk, but i don't. I live off of adrenaline. Be it fighting, nearly getting into car accidents (not intentionally... i'm not STUPID...), stealing (don't do that nearly as much anymore...), rappeling, etc., nothing gives me a better feeling than adrenaline. maybe sex, but that's a completely different feeling... my point is, kids are not altered by the video games they play. we are born how we are, and in this rapidly expanding, overpopulated culture, we as a species feel a need to "clean it out" a little bit... so we raise killers. i am a killer. i have never killed, and i don't plan to kill. but i have the urge. i want to. any time i get angry, i'm not sure i'd stop at killing somebody. that's why i don't get angry anymore. i don't want to kill, so i control myself. nowadays, i play violent games, and so do many of my friends. oddly enough, the best player i know is an ultra-do-good-pacifist. he's everybody's friend, and everybody loves him. once, a guy decked him, and broke his glasses and his cheekbone. he found out who it was, and we were all ready to go fuck the guy up, but he wouldn't let us... he forgave the fucker; didn't even turn him into the cops... go figure. also, who's kids have palm pilots, anyway?
Sorry to spam, but this is really cool, and y'all should know about this (and I want one). go to http://cgi.ebay.co m/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=328635800 for information... its on ebay, yes, but you don't have to bid... i just put it on ebay to get a broad market... but ya gotta hurry... deal ends soon.
It's actually pretty easy to make a troll bot... just fetch random posts from hotgrits.org... that, and have a cron job to check every 2 minutes whether or not a new story's out, and have 20 or so first post templates to randomly choose from... TAG!
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Am I the only one that sees the development of robotic snakes as one step closer to creating the first wave of robotic politicians?
Robotic politicans? I'm all for 'em... We'd have those hacked within the hour, i mean, shit... they'd have to have corruption built in... Once they're hacked, m$, aol, et. al. are goin DOWN! Any reports of people putting linux on a snake-bot? i'd say we should put 'em into a beowulf cluster, but they're kinda designed to cluster...
If nothing else, the applicants to NASA would (pardon the pun) skyrocket... half the worldwide male (and part of the female) population would work toward that goal... hell, if NASA didn't hire them, they'd probably volunteer... sign me up, BTW...
cool... very cool... tho, that'd require getting a cell... the service is less than it sounds, but STILL... (actually, if i ever get a cell and a palm, i'll just set this up on my own server... very easy)
aiight... fuck the yopy, i'm buyin this bitch tomorrow... i've just heard too many cool things about the palm... gotta get me one... hmmm... now to decide WHICH i want (can afford)...
I tend to dissagree... I've been coding in php for a while now, and I mix my php and my html like... um, something that you mix up a lot... concrete? hmm... I'll have to work on that analogy... anyway... I'm actually in the process of teaching my graphic designer a little PHP so she can code a little bit when i throw stuff at her. A lot of the time, when i need something to look pretty, I tell her to make the html up, I rip it apart, and plug the neccessary bits into my code. Our site has a dynamic format (our subscribers customize the page, and their users see it as their site), so this is pretty important. She now knows enough to put color tags where she's supposed to... i.e. <?echo $bgcolor?> as to everything else you said, like free, well documented, etc... I couldn't agree more... also, its the easiest language I have ever learned... even easier than esparanto is supposed to be... Coming from already knowing C and Perl, it was even easier... seriously, you can dump about 30 percent of perl code straight into PHP, with little to no editing...
it was 3 in the morning, i was procrastinating to avoid a stupid program i have to write... (damn college work... who needs it anyway... at my job, i get my make my own projects...) of course, here i am, at work, procrastinating by posting to slashdot... interesting...
not really the size of a credit card... quite a lot thicker, and bigger on the sides... anybody notice that in the pic has it running wince? think i'll hold out for the yopy...
the L in LGPL means lesser. You can release entire programs under the LGPL. The distinction between the GPL and the LGPL? the GPL can't use non-OSS packages, or vice-verse. the LGPL can.
Back in my mudding days (ok, 2 years ago), a few friends of mine and i were gods, or had higher level characters, or both. A few people saw us playing, got interested, and joined us. Some we invited, some we didn't. One idiot decided it'd be cool to join, and watched a friend of mine sign on, thus figured out how to get in. We let him, after all, it was an open mud and all... btw, if you don't know what a mud is, go to circlemud.org. back to the story... well, he was a nuisance... he died a lot, so we rescued him/his stuff... then he started to cheat, and we repremanded him a few times. After about 2 months of putting up with his cheating (we were fucking LENIENT), he watches my password (not hard, it was "enter"). Mind you, i'm a god. i can go anywhere, kill anything, make anything... if he knew how to wield a god, he'da been able to do a LOT more than he did... anyway, he went around to all the hardest monsters, killed them, and put on the equipment. then i tried to log on, and couldn't, because he was already on. so i got on with a mortal, to see what was up. he sees me, and changes my god's password. lucky me, i know how to snoop passwords too. so i use his password, and change it back to an old favorite of mine that nobody knows... (22 characters and bitchy) i email the implementors (the people that own the server, thus the game, and make all decisions), and tell them what happened. they post on the god's bulletin board that the guy is a "god target". see him, hill him, sack his shit. So i do this. every time you die, you lose experience. i killed him until he had zero experience... he was 2 levels from the top... that's about 3 months of good, solid play. he begs and pleads, and begs, and pleads to get his stuff back... he acts like he worked really hard for it... of course i don't give it to him. two days later, he comes into one of my classes, and says "lets go out onto Alder" (alder street is where lotsa people hang out). i look down, and he's got a gun in his pocket pointing at me. This is not an overactive imagination seeing a finger as a gun... that was a gun. i grew up in the ghetto, i know a gun when i see one. being the cocky bastard i am, i call his bluff, turn around, and walk to my seat and sit down... fortunately, i gambled right.
you think people spending money on these games is taking it too far? nay, i hardly think so... if you are wondering, yes, this IS a true story... if this sounds like a story that'd hit the news, it wouldn't, because the only people that i told for 6 months were a friend of mine in the class (about an hour later), and my girlfriend (2 weeks later)... i'm a paranoid bastard, but i'm alive.
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I've always wondered this... why don't we use 2, 4, etc. bit bits? as I've learned more about processing, I've been able to reason it out, but it still doesn't make sense why we don't do it for storage. say, have a magnetic disk that writes/reads like 16 levels of magnetic strength per bit, so each bit is 16 times more compact than normal... true, this would require conversion to binary, so it'd be a little slower (probably less than a picosecond per bit, but things add up...), but it'd be denser... as we get down to smaller and smaller media, this would become more difficult...
from my (extremely limited) knowledge of how these things work, it seems that it would be possible for these molecular processors to process a 2 bit bit, depending on a voltage level, would raise the electrons to different quantum level... anyone know? this sound reasonable? am i completely out of my gourd? (not a first by any means)
besides the obvious "your computer already IS made out of molecules, and so are you" types of remarks i could make... has a really small computer ever been a problem? i wouldn't mind wearing a GHz computer...
Wanna know something funny? in the decss case, the author wrote the program under the GPL, but since they didn't physically sign it over to the FSF, there's a big controversy. personally, i hope that the GPL gets revoked from the program for a few reasons:
1 -- i've clicked a bunch of "legally binding" agreements and broken them. if the GPL is revoked, they'll no longer be legally binding (that's my first argument in court)
2 -- it'll make more people physically sign their software over to the FSF
3 -- it'll piss more people... the more people that hate the man, the better...
hey, smells like some good ol' censorship! just what i like to wake up to... if you don't like music, don't download it.
btw, your music taste sucks.
god i hate windows... stupid school computers... while i was typing, the side of my palm ran into the extended key that makes the right-click menu come up... musta hit an 'r', cause the page reloaded halfway thru the message... *grumbles* /. are just making it up... i don't feel a difference... neither do a lot of people... therefore, there was no upgrade, the staff at /. are trying to dupe us... /. gets hit as much as people say... i don't think any of you exist, actually... well, maybe one or two... no trolls ever go to slashdot... there's just a script that writes troll posts... and another one that moderates the other script's postings down... how else would trolls get first posts? maybe i'm a script... i'm confused...
anyways, i don't think that there really is any new hardware... the people at
which makes me wonder what the real hardware is... 50 beowulfed palms? it'd explain how slow the slashcode gets updated... (coding in graffiti can't be fun...)
maybe i should do that at my site, if anyone ever complains about speed... tell them that i'm working on it, and a month later, take the site down for a day, and say that i've upgraded the hardware... they'll think its faster (maybe i'll take my d.net client down for a day... tho its pretty good at staying out of the way...), so they'll be happy, and my pocketbook'll be happy... well, no, that's not true... my pocketbook is NEVER happy... happier, i guess... i actually don't think that
Mindless violence for kids to become obsessed with? At age 10, I was violent, I planned to kill people, and what games did I have? Frogger, and the like. at age 14 these plans became more realistic. i knew how to make bombs, even made a few, and had plenty of places where i could get guns for free/cheap (read: Local gangs). At that point, i was playing descent and terminal velocity. doom didn't interest me... it was too... 2d... the other 2 were true 3d, and a lot more fun. I didn't end up killing anybody all through middle school or high school... got in plenty of fights and mutilated a guy's face with a pair of scisors, but since i was a little scared white kid that wouldn't hurt anybody unless i was backed into a corner, i got off free... truth be told, i flat-out attacked the guy... Games don't effect us. Some are born... different. I've always had a morbid sense of humor, at parties, my friends and I fight... sometimes nicely, but we get hurt sometimes, too... I'm not an angry person anymore. I've gotten mad probably 3 times in the past 4 years... counseling? no. i hate shrinks... I've just changed myself. Forced myself into a different outlook on life. I still want to fight every asshole i walk past on the sidewalk, but i don't.
I live off of adrenaline. Be it fighting, nearly getting into car accidents (not intentionally... i'm not STUPID...), stealing (don't do that nearly as much anymore...), rappeling, etc., nothing gives me a better feeling than adrenaline. maybe sex, but that's a completely different feeling...
my point is, kids are not altered by the video games they play. we are born how we are, and in this rapidly expanding, overpopulated culture, we as a species feel a need to "clean it out" a little bit... so we raise killers. i am a killer. i have never killed, and i don't plan to kill. but i have the urge. i want to. any time i get angry, i'm not sure i'd stop at killing somebody. that's why i don't get angry anymore. i don't want to kill, so i control myself.
nowadays, i play violent games, and so do many of my friends. oddly enough, the best player i know is an ultra-do-good-pacifist. he's everybody's friend, and everybody loves him. once, a guy decked him, and broke his glasses and his cheekbone. he found out who it was, and we were all ready to go fuck the guy up, but he wouldn't let us... he forgave the fucker; didn't even turn him into the cops... go figure.
also, who's kids have palm pilots, anyway?
Sorry to spam, but this is really cool, and y'all should know about this (and I want one). go to http://cgi.ebay.co m/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=328635800 for information... its on ebay, yes, but you don't have to bid... i just put it on ebay to get a broad market...
but ya gotta hurry... deal ends soon.
It's actually pretty easy to make a troll bot... just fetch random posts from hotgrits.org... that, and have a cron job to check every 2 minutes whether or not a new story's out, and have 20 or so first post templates to randomly choose from...
TAG!
hey, they laugh at me, too...
Am I the only one that sees the development of robotic snakes as one step closer to creating the first wave of robotic politicians?
Robotic politicans? I'm all for 'em... We'd have those hacked within the hour, i mean, shit... they'd have to have corruption built in... Once they're hacked, m$, aol, et. al. are goin DOWN!
Any reports of people putting linux on a snake-bot? i'd say we should put 'em into a beowulf cluster, but they're kinda designed to cluster...
If nothing else, the applicants to NASA would (pardon the pun) skyrocket... half the worldwide male (and part of the female) population would work toward that goal... hell, if NASA didn't hire them, they'd probably volunteer...
sign me up, BTW...
cool... very cool... tho, that'd require getting a cell... the service is less than it sounds, but STILL... (actually, if i ever get a cell and a palm, i'll just set this up on my own server... very easy)
aiight... fuck the yopy, i'm buyin this bitch tomorrow... i've just heard too many cool things about the palm... gotta get me one... hmmm... now to decide WHICH i want (can afford)...
I tend to dissagree... I've been coding in php for a while now, and I mix my php and my html like... um, something that you mix up a lot... concrete? hmm... I'll have to work on that analogy... anyway... I'm actually in the process of teaching my graphic designer a little PHP so she can code a little bit when i throw stuff at her. A lot of the time, when i need something to look pretty, I tell her to make the html up, I rip it apart, and plug the neccessary bits into my code.
Our site has a dynamic format (our subscribers customize the page, and their users see it as their site), so this is pretty important. She now knows enough to put color tags where she's supposed to... i.e. <?echo $bgcolor?>
as to everything else you said, like free, well documented, etc... I couldn't agree more... also, its the easiest language I have ever learned... even easier than esparanto is supposed to be... Coming from already knowing C and Perl, it was even easier... seriously, you can dump about 30 percent of perl code straight into PHP, with little to no editing...
it was 3 in the morning, i was procrastinating to avoid a stupid program i have to write... (damn college work... who needs it anyway... at my job, i get my make my own projects...) of course, here i am, at work, procrastinating by posting to slashdot... interesting...
not really the size of a credit card... quite a lot thicker, and bigger on the sides... anybody notice that in the pic has it running wince?
think i'll hold out for the yopy...
don't want OOG's inheritance... fish heads are great and all, but...
the L in LGPL means lesser. You can release entire programs under the LGPL. The distinction between the GPL and the LGPL? the GPL can't use non-OSS packages, or vice-verse. the LGPL can.
Back in my mudding days (ok, 2 years ago), a few friends of mine and i were gods, or had higher level characters, or both. A few people saw us playing, got interested, and joined us. Some we invited, some we didn't. One idiot decided it'd be cool to join, and watched a friend of mine sign on, thus figured out how to get in. We let him, after all, it was an open mud and all...
btw, if you don't know what a mud is, go to circlemud.org.
back to the story... well, he was a nuisance... he died a lot, so we rescued him/his stuff... then he started to cheat, and we repremanded him a few times. After about 2 months of putting up with his cheating (we were fucking LENIENT), he watches my password (not hard, it was "enter"). Mind you, i'm a god. i can go anywhere, kill anything, make anything... if he knew how to wield a god, he'da been able to do a LOT more than he did... anyway, he went around to all the hardest monsters, killed them, and put on the equipment. then i tried to log on, and couldn't, because he was already on. so i got on with a mortal, to see what was up. he sees me, and changes my god's password. lucky me, i know how to snoop passwords too. so i use his password, and change it back to an old favorite of mine that nobody knows... (22 characters and bitchy)
i email the implementors (the people that own the server, thus the game, and make all decisions), and tell them what happened. they post on the god's bulletin board that the guy is a "god target". see him, hill him, sack his shit.
So i do this. every time you die, you lose experience. i killed him until he had zero experience... he was 2 levels from the top... that's about 3 months of good, solid play.
he begs and pleads, and begs, and pleads to get his stuff back... he acts like he worked really hard for it... of course i don't give it to him.
two days later, he comes into one of my classes, and says "lets go out onto Alder" (alder street is where lotsa people hang out). i look down, and he's got a gun in his pocket pointing at me. This is not an overactive imagination seeing a finger as a gun... that was a gun. i grew up in the ghetto, i know a gun when i see one. being the cocky bastard i am, i call his bluff, turn around, and walk to my seat and sit down... fortunately, i gambled right.
you think people spending money on these games is taking it too far? nay, i hardly think so... if you are wondering, yes, this IS a true story... if this sounds like a story that'd hit the news, it wouldn't, because the only people that i told for 6 months were a friend of mine in the class (about an hour later), and my girlfriend (2 weeks later)... i'm a paranoid bastard, but i'm alive.