I miss all my scoobies so much its not funny. I became a Land Rover geek and found out that its a costlier hobby than the scoobies, so now I'm on the twelve step program to get rid of my car addiction. Yes, I own a 96 Toyota Corolla (used) until I can no longer wolf whistle at cars over women. I think my lady is more jealous of vehicles than boobies.
Hmm. I'll have to disagree on the ego thing. My gaming is, generally, private. My life doesn't revolve around new and beautiful, but what gives me value for my time spent.
Sure, I'm 31, 2x the age of the gamer market. Yet even at 16 I couldn't understand the hype over quantity over quality.
I love my Dreamcast. I still play it daily (used the HD output for years to my projectors). Never owned a PSx. I still have (younger) friends who knock on my door all the time to get their Dreamcast fix.
I also couldn't give up my Intellivision for a Nintendo for 2 years (Metroid finally did it). Graphics hype wasn't enough. My friends with Nintendo came to my house for all-night Intellivision gaming. Playability was tops. I still have my Intellivision for a few games. Love that controller.
I can't see picking up an X360 for gaming. I own 2 X-Box consoles, 90% for my Media Center Extenders, 10% for my broad's vampire games. Since back in the day, my gaming was PC gaming. Castlevania and Conan, Ultima, Utopia, etc.
Console gaming for me was never about video hype. I love repeated playability with longevity, and catchy music/sounds. Graphics have always been better on my PC, but I turn them to the lowest settings. We're getting really close to "Life" rather than "Life-like" and when we get there, I'll put graphics near the top once I can truly be reality immersed.
There aren't many gamers like me, I think. I'm not a market. I spend a TON on hardware, very little on software. I'd love to find a group/site I can communicate with, consisting of people with similar gaming issues.
HDTV is old news and an antiquated format. It was a government standard based on OTA standards.
Tomorrow's receivers will be much faster (a la XPMCE or MythTV). OTA is dead, we want IPTV. 7.2 surround is ready. 2.35:1 is required, at a resolution of 3392 x 1440, progressive.
We want fixed 6500K color standard, with no flesh-push or blue-push. We want an adaptable decoding processor, not something stuck in one mode.
HDTV isnt the future. A PC, Gnutella, and a HD2 projector is.
The police should not be able to hunt for evidence. A search warrant's sole purpose is to retrieve specific data (gun) from a specific location (bedroom).
We're living in a terrible police state. In my opinion, a crime should only be investigated by detectives when someone has been violated.
To me, talking about blowing up a train is no crime. Actually blowing it up is, but the victims must bring charges against the perpetrators. I'm sick of "The People versus" cases.
Terrorists who blow themselves up need no trial. Property owners have the sole responsibility to protect their property, not the cops.
All these laws are ridiculous. Even drunk driving is a non-crime.
My employees install Firefox for 90% of our customer base. hey delete all IE icons and references. Yet within weeks almost 90% of the customers are back to using IE. The reason? Familiarity.
I can't figure it out. I'm no OSS fanboi, but IE sucks. Why the addiction for so many?
As a writer and content creator, I'm a rarity -- I hate copyright.
Why do we need it? I learned in business never to write or say anything proprietary that you don't want others to know.
Copyright is basically using the force of government to enact a monopoly on thought. I'm not sure the process of thought should be regulated or licensed.
The web's easy access to millions of commercial (ie, for profit) copyright works "for free" proves why copyright is outdated: people still buy content they could download freely.
Why do people buy versus download?
1. They appreciate the author's work and want to compensate them. 2. They want to support the author's future work. 3. The time-requirements or download quality is wors than buying the author's version. 4. They're afraid of government force.
I doubt the last is a big reason.
I'm 31. I buy content as its time-cheaper than downloading. For the youth, the reverse is true. The major pirates can't vote, can't sign a contract and can't get credit. 6 years of "piracy" can set up their preferences for 50 years of purchasing.
I say use the web to set up your future customers. Dump copyright.
There is No such thing as a fair wage. This is free software, be happy that someone's getting paid at all.
Programmers should realize that software companies don't hire programmer A over B just based on salary. They also look at the return. If someone can give you 80% of the quality at 30% of the price, do it.
Over the years, I've been tracking the waiting attention span on my downloads and those who got from me. I've ran BBSes since 1200 baud modems were $500.
The 3 minute mark seems consistent over the years as the shortest period of time necessary to acquire something of value. Shorter times are nice but not needed.
To download a 2 hour HiDef movie in 3 minutes, we'd need a connection speed of 222mb/s (28MB/s). I can see little need for a format beyond this at any time in the future. In fact, in 1993 I figured a preferred video resolution would be 2560x1440, not much greater than 1920x1080.
We'll soon see posts about how corporations won't want to spend money running these fibers to the home, but this is pure bullshit. Cities prevent more cable runs, not economics.
Municipal Wi i is a huge waste due to ever increasing wired bandwidths and the costs and latencies of government changes would never keep up with free market changes.
Allow ISPs the freedom to run fiber. Deregulate TV and radio frequencies in exchange for more wireless frequencies. You'll see the most amazing growth of information distribution in history.
I recently found a huge phone company selling 5000 $50 prepaid SIM cards for $50,000 with NOTHING MORE than filling out a form that isn't verified. $50,000 gets you 5000 anonymous sim cards with nearly 500,000 minutes. $1500 cash gets you 100 used phones with 100 IMEI numbers.
So a gang has nothing to worry about, yet an innocent person can easily break hundreds of laws without realizing it.
I'm no tin foil conspiracy theorist, but I work 2 days a month near a federal courthouse and love to sit in on trials. Sit through just one and you'll never vote again.
As a business owner, even if you have no criminal intent, you have way more reason to hide your tracks.
There are so many conflicting or vague laws on the books. Now that years of your past can be discovered with a click, and jury nullification practically illegal, any future mistake might be wrangled into a harsher penalty through digging by our crazed public prosecutors.
I've seen many innocent and honest people go to jail over an accountant's error. I've seen bail withheld in a tariff case because the distributor bought locally-made products containing 'tainted' products, and the feds dug up evidence of past sales online that MIGHT have been illegal.
RICO, PATRIOT, Magic Lantern, EPIC and other legal tools are used hundreds of times more against non-criminals. If you're seeing slow business or are broke, dump F/OSS and help people express their fourth amendment rights. You'll never go hungry again.
In the last year or so, cell phone tracking of criminals has lost its value more and more.
As more cell phone evidence has been submitted in court, the more loopholes have opened up.
One of my importer/exporter customers already pulls his battery when hitting the road. Before dumping the battery back in, he picks a random sim card. I set every sim card to ring the same voice mail on "Missed Calls" so he can easily find out what he missed.
No black market businessman is stupid anymore. Hell, there are entire newsletters now offering advice on how to avoid mistakes that might get you in trouble.
I love seeing the fallout coming from those who love control, governments, corporations, unions, and churches.
I'm completely pro-freedom (as some know), beyond any libertarian even. I believe in the ultimate freedom of speech and expression. I guess so do many others without realizing it. I believe you should be able to libel, slander, copy verbatim with recognition, and yell fire in a crowded theater.
Blogs are a part of my desire to get rid of DNS. Type "McDonalds food" into GoogleWWWikiTorrent and you SHOULD get not only the Mc homepage, but the rants and reviews as well.
I, for one, welcome our overlord-destroying-rights being recovered.
. There already is a need for 'multiple routing paths', at least for any web site which wants to come close to 99.999% availability.
Yes, with today's antiquated DNS and point-to-point IP structure. But why stick to ancient rituals?
We want information, we want it now, we want it fast. The web as we know it is slipping, specifically because of DNS and PTP services.
Why should McDonalds get mcdonalds.com? Boring. Let McDonalds hive a site into a WWWtorent. Type "mcdonalds food" into GoogleWWWikiTorrent and get that site. You're a seed for others, closer to some than the old McD servers. Trusted seeds gain power. Untrusted don't.
You want "McDonalds", the Firefly season 3 episode, you can get it. Domain structure is dead, boring, monopolistic, over-regulated.
Yes, my 'solution' isn't well thought out. People can created poisoned seeds (and their IPv6 will be worthless or their permanent IPv8 will fail to seed. Whatever, the solution is probably uninvented yet, but within our grasp.
I fail to see the need for DNS or peering agreements. Give me complex 3D routing and massive search engine utilization. We'll soon forget that WWW, MP3, XVID, POP3, DSL, and VoIP were considered different. Data is data, held back because of old manipulation techniques.
I can see the karma whoring side of my post (hey it balances out the -1, Troll mods I get), yet I think it's (debateably) still correct.
Changing movies later to reflect a director's (or society's) change of opinion is to be expected. Authors have done it for thousands of years (see: The New Testament). Dictators, too. Even economists and scientists do it. History is only important if it relates to us, today.
As for movies, I hated some of the Star Wars changes but some of them made the movie more approachable for the current generation. What I liked as a 1 year old must be updated to work today.
DNS is fully at fault for the reliance we place on peering arrangements. By nuking single endpoint routing via DNS, we could introduce the need for multiple routing paths.
If you live on an island with on bridge and the bridge (peering) goes boom, you're screwed. DNS allows people to "go cheap" by building only one bridge.
Dump DNS after implementing IPv6. Let Google, AOL, and others provide the solutions to mapping a name to an IP.
Oh, only big corporations can afford SEO? Bullshit. Why can small companies receive phone calls and mail? Because of third party services. DNS is monopoly, dump it.
Right. If you're familiar with my rants, I've been proposing dumping DNS for years.
There is no perfect solution. I don't even like DNS. Why is it needed once IPv6 is global and operational? Oh, so people can "find you" easily?
I think not. It's already a mess. Just like you can't find where Mark Roberts lives instantly, so should there be keyword providers like Google or AOL.
I use neither Level3 nor Cogent. I use an ISP with a multitude of backbone connections. That's provided by competition which isn't hampered by expensive regulation or licensing.
As for Sprint and MCI, I've had 5 occasions where my LD provider lost connectivity. I've been using risky 1c/minute phone cards for years and the companies often go belly up, with their 800 #'s pointing to nowhere.
Don't harm my choices because you use a bad provider.
After hearing hundreds of posts clamoring for government regulation (ie, slow to respond expensive monopoly), the best solution came quickly.
Why did this agreement happen? It happened because the market required it. Customers were unhappy, producers lost money, no one profited on either side.
If we pushed for regulation, how many years and billions of dollars would replace what two corporations did in a week or two on the demands of their customers?
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I miss all my scoobies so much its not funny. I became a Land Rover geek and found out that its a costlier hobby than the scoobies, so now I'm on the twelve step program to get rid of my car addiction. Yes, I own a 96 Toyota Corolla (used) until I can no longer wolf whistle at cars over women. I think my lady is more jealous of vehicles than boobies.
Hmm. I'll have to disagree on the ego thing. My gaming is, generally, private. My life doesn't revolve around new and beautiful, but what gives me value for my time spent.
Sure, I'm 31, 2x the age of the gamer market. Yet even at 16 I couldn't understand the hype over quantity over quality.
I love my Dreamcast. I still play it daily (used the HD output for years to my projectors). Never owned a PSx. I still have (younger) friends who knock on my door all the time to get their Dreamcast fix.
I also couldn't give up my Intellivision for a Nintendo for 2 years (Metroid finally did it). Graphics hype wasn't enough. My friends with Nintendo came to my house for all-night Intellivision gaming. Playability was tops. I still have my Intellivision for a few games. Love that controller.
I can't see picking up an X360 for gaming. I own 2 X-Box consoles, 90% for my Media Center Extenders, 10% for my broad's vampire games. Since back in the day, my gaming was PC gaming. Castlevania and Conan, Ultima, Utopia, etc.
Console gaming for me was never about video hype. I love repeated playability with longevity, and catchy music/sounds. Graphics have always been better on my PC, but I turn them to the lowest settings. We're getting really close to "Life" rather than "Life-like" and when we get there, I'll put graphics near the top once I can truly be reality immersed.
There aren't many gamers like me, I think. I'm not a market. I spend a TON on hardware, very little on software. I'd love to find a group/site I can communicate with, consisting of people with similar gaming issues.
Chu Chu Rocket, anyone?
Umm, my first BBS in 85 was 300 bps. Today I have 10Mbs at home. 6Mbps sustained.
Tomorrow (2007) I expect 24Mbps (I could alpha test 18Mbps right now). 100Mbps is google close.
22.2 = 22 mains, 2 subs.
8 mains at ear level (3 across front, 3 in rear, 2 on each center side), 7 mains each above and below ear level (no rear center).
HDTV is old news and an antiquated format. It was a government standard based on OTA standards.
Tomorrow's receivers will be much faster (a la XPMCE or MythTV). OTA is dead, we want IPTV. 7.2 surround is ready. 2.35:1 is required, at a resolution of 3392 x 1440, progressive.
We want fixed 6500K color standard, with no flesh-push or blue-push. We want an adaptable decoding processor, not something stuck in one mode.
HDTV isnt the future. A PC, Gnutella, and a HD2 projector is.
The police should not be able to hunt for evidence. A search warrant's sole purpose is to retrieve specific data (gun) from a specific location (bedroom).
We're living in a terrible police state. In my opinion, a crime should only be investigated by detectives when someone has been violated.
To me, talking about blowing up a train is no crime. Actually blowing it up is, but the victims must bring charges against the perpetrators. I'm sick of "The People versus" cases.
Terrorists who blow themselves up need no trial. Property owners have the sole responsibility to protect their property, not the cops.
All these laws are ridiculous. Even drunk driving is a non-crime.
But we already can circumvent copyright and yet we spend billions on legit purchases.
How many artists are really protected by enforcing copyright? 50? 500?
My employees install Firefox for 90% of our customer base. hey delete all IE icons and references. Yet within weeks almost 90% of the customers are back to using IE. The reason? Familiarity.
I can't figure it out. I'm no OSS fanboi, but IE sucks. Why the addiction for so many?
As a writer and content creator, I'm a rarity -- I hate copyright.
Why do we need it? I learned in business never to write or say anything proprietary that you don't want others to know.
Copyright is basically using the force of government to enact a monopoly on thought. I'm not sure the process of thought should be regulated or licensed.
The web's easy access to millions of commercial (ie, for profit) copyright works "for free" proves why copyright is outdated: people still buy content they could download freely.
Why do people buy versus download?
1. They appreciate the author's work and want to compensate them.
2. They want to support the author's future work.
3. The time-requirements or download quality is wors than buying the author's version.
4. They're afraid of government force.
I doubt the last is a big reason.
I'm 31. I buy content as its time-cheaper than downloading. For the youth, the reverse is true. The major pirates can't vote, can't sign a contract and can't get credit. 6 years of "piracy" can set up their preferences for 50 years of purchasing.
I say use the web to set up your future customers. Dump copyright.
There is No such thing as a fair wage. This is free software, be happy that someone's getting paid at all.
Programmers should realize that software companies don't hire programmer A over B just based on salary. They also look at the return. If someone can give you 80% of the quality at 30% of the price, do it.
Do you buy at newegg over your local store? Why?
Over the years, I've been tracking the waiting attention span on my downloads and those who got from me. I've ran BBSes since 1200 baud modems were $500.
The 3 minute mark seems consistent over the years as the shortest period of time necessary to acquire something of value. Shorter times are nice but not needed.
To download a 2 hour HiDef movie in 3 minutes, we'd need a connection speed of 222mb/s (28MB/s). I can see little need for a format beyond this at any time in the future. In fact, in 1993 I figured a preferred video resolution would be 2560x1440, not much greater than 1920x1080.
We'll soon see posts about how corporations won't want to spend money running these fibers to the home, but this is pure bullshit. Cities prevent more cable runs, not economics.
Municipal Wi i is a huge waste due to ever increasing wired bandwidths and the costs and latencies of government changes would never keep up with free market changes.
Allow ISPs the freedom to run fiber. Deregulate TV and radio frequencies in exchange for more wireless frequencies. You'll see the most amazing growth of information distribution in history.
No batteries, SIM cards.
I recently found a huge phone company selling 5000 $50 prepaid SIM cards for $50,000 with NOTHING MORE than filling out a form that isn't verified. $50,000 gets you 5000 anonymous sim cards with nearly 500,000 minutes. $1500 cash gets you 100 used phones with 100 IMEI numbers.
So a gang has nothing to worry about, yet an innocent person can easily break hundreds of laws without realizing it.
I'm no tin foil conspiracy theorist, but I work 2 days a month near a federal courthouse and love to sit in on trials. Sit through just one and you'll never vote again.
As a business owner, even if you have no criminal intent, you have way more reason to hide your tracks.
There are so many conflicting or vague laws on the books. Now that years of your past can be discovered with a click, and jury nullification practically illegal, any future mistake might be wrangled into a harsher penalty through digging by our crazed public prosecutors.
I've seen many innocent and honest people go to jail over an accountant's error. I've seen bail withheld in a tariff case because the distributor bought locally-made products containing 'tainted' products, and the feds dug up evidence of past sales online that MIGHT have been illegal.
RICO, PATRIOT, Magic Lantern, EPIC and other legal tools are used hundreds of times more against non-criminals. If you're seeing slow business or are broke, dump F/OSS and help people express their fourth amendment rights. You'll never go hungry again.
In the last year or so, cell phone tracking of criminals has lost its value more and more.
As more cell phone evidence has been submitted in court, the more loopholes have opened up.
One of my importer/exporter customers already pulls his battery when hitting the road. Before dumping the battery back in, he picks a random sim card. I set every sim card to ring the same voice mail on "Missed Calls" so he can easily find out what he missed.
No black market businessman is stupid anymore. Hell, there are entire newsletters now offering advice on how to avoid mistakes that might get you in trouble.
Keep your noodley appendage away from me.
Err, no. TV and Congress is the democratization of communication, where 51% of those who vote tell 49% what they can say.
In other words, freedom of speech is the antithesis of democracy.
I love seeing the fallout coming from those who love control, governments, corporations, unions, and churches.
I'm completely pro-freedom (as some know), beyond any libertarian even. I believe in the ultimate freedom of speech and expression. I guess so do many others without realizing it. I believe you should be able to libel, slander, copy verbatim with recognition, and yell fire in a crowded theater.
Blogs are a part of my desire to get rid of DNS. Type "McDonalds food" into GoogleWWWikiTorrent and you SHOULD get not only the Mc homepage, but the rants and reviews as well.
I, for one, welcome our overlord-destroying-rights being recovered.
Yes, exactly!
Why did you end your post before you were done?
. There already is a need for 'multiple routing paths', at least for any web site which wants to come close to 99.999% availability.
Yes, with today's antiquated DNS and point-to-point IP structure. But why stick to ancient rituals?
We want information, we want it now, we want it fast. The web as we know it is slipping, specifically because of DNS and PTP services.
Why should McDonalds get mcdonalds.com? Boring. Let McDonalds hive a site into a WWWtorent. Type "mcdonalds food" into GoogleWWWikiTorrent and get that site. You're a seed for others, closer to some than the old McD servers. Trusted seeds gain power. Untrusted don't.
You want "McDonalds", the Firefly season 3 episode, you can get it. Domain structure is dead, boring, monopolistic, over-regulated.
Yes, my 'solution' isn't well thought out. People can created poisoned seeds (and their IPv6 will be worthless or their permanent IPv8 will fail to seed. Whatever, the solution is probably uninvented yet, but within our grasp.
I fail to see the need for DNS or peering agreements. Give me complex 3D routing and massive search engine utilization. We'll soon forget that WWW, MP3, XVID, POP3, DSL, and VoIP were considered different. Data is data, held back because of old manipulation techniques.
Haha, I'd mod you +1, Funny too.
I can see the karma whoring side of my post (hey it balances out the -1, Troll mods I get), yet I think it's (debateably) still correct.
Changing movies later to reflect a director's (or society's) change of opinion is to be expected. Authors have done it for thousands of years (see: The New Testament). Dictators, too. Even economists and scientists do it. History is only important if it relates to us, today.
As for movies, I hated some of the Star Wars changes but some of them made the movie more approachable for the current generation. What I liked as a 1 year old must be updated to work today.
First, posting as an AC lessens the likelihood of a reply.
The ad hominem doubles it.
Now, to prove who the "moron" is...
http://www.ultradns.com/news/articles/051011.cfm
DNS is fully at fault for the reliance we place on peering arrangements. By nuking single endpoint routing via DNS, we could introduce the need for multiple routing paths.
If you live on an island with on bridge and the bridge (peering) goes boom, you're screwed. DNS allows people to "go cheap" by building only one bridge.
Dump DNS after implementing IPv6. Let Google, AOL, and others provide the solutions to mapping a name to an IP.
Oh, only big corporations can afford SEO? Bullshit. Why can small companies receive phone calls and mail? Because of third party services. DNS is monopoly, dump it.
Great thought and one that really brings the point across.
The only place it falls short is that, historically, government intervention never heeds the consumers' needs, just the needs of the best briber.
Right. If you're familiar with my rants, I've been proposing dumping DNS for years.
There is no perfect solution. I don't even like DNS. Why is it needed once IPv6 is global and operational? Oh, so people can "find you" easily?
I think not. It's already a mess. Just like you can't find where Mark Roberts lives instantly, so should there be keyword providers like Google or AOL.
I use neither Level3 nor Cogent. I use an ISP with a multitude of backbone connections. That's provided by competition which isn't hampered by expensive regulation or licensing.
As for Sprint and MCI, I've had 5 occasions where my LD provider lost connectivity. I've been using risky 1c/minute phone cards for years and the companies often go belly up, with their 800 #'s pointing to nowhere.
Don't harm my choices because you use a bad provider.
After hearing hundreds of posts clamoring for government regulation (ie, slow to respond expensive monopoly), the best solution came quickly.
Why did this agreement happen? It happened because the market required it. Customers were unhappy, producers lost money, no one profited on either side.
If we pushed for regulation, how many years and billions of dollars would replace what two corporations did in a week or two on the demands of their customers?