I can't believe I'm actually interested 'cause it is so close... not really too much about the polotics, and while you might judge my character as such, it was rather rare for me to listen to Howard Stern on the radio this morning talking about it. It was the usual dribble, but entertaining none-the-less.
Anyone have any good links as to the benefit of the electoral system????
When suddenly cnn.com halts from the 7PM EST final exit pool figures rush of hits, well then... I guess everyone would find a good book and start flushing...
Perhaps the phone lines will be flooded with both internet traffic, and emergency calls for repetive stress to their pointer fingers.
Maybe my cable modem light will start blinking;)
Quite possibly a rush of news-station office types trying to get some quick little tidbit off the net will have reprocussions through their local LAN, and the scheduling computers will crash, 'causing the whole TV network to go down...
Perhaps nothing will happen. *Yawn* but apocolyptic stories are always good slashdot traffic generators.
my next DVD player is my PC. With the ATI All In Wonder Radeon I'll have an integrated entertainment package. I don't play games very often, but about the only reason I'd get a PS2 (err... were they thinking this acronym through?!?) is for Gran Tourismo 2000
for a gnome? I mean... nader ain't that bad, bush will probably get it, and it doesn't really matter in the long run... BUT A GNOME?!?! Who would vote for one? They're just building decorations for pete's sake!!! er... well... I guess you have point there in comparison to the candidates... oh wait... we're talking about software aren't we?
That was a sad day when after a few minutes realizing everything was predominately banner-fied. This is unfortunately the down side to distributed underground files. It's a seller's market so to speak.
Slashdot knows that if you can't get the content of their site, you won't visit it, so they give you an option strategicly placed at the top, and its a good system. Those that are interested click, and vice versa.
The New York Times wants you to register, as well as have ads, 'cause they're the NYT and think their content is that much more valuable that they can get your valuable demographics. I think that's fair.
P2P file sharing (no matter what its form) is going to be by nature cut throat if it can be. FTP sites and hotline allowed for displaying of goods contingent on you performing something. Napster has no such mechanism, sans that the other person just might not be letting you download from him or they are firewalled. IRC has a little more polotics: sometimes things can be first come first serve, or more accessible through who-you-know, or just a cut throat as anywhere.
So, this I'm sure describes every facet of underground -- drugs, prostitution, and yes illegal intellectual property.
I think it'd be interesting to see how close the mindset of warez leecher and a prostitute are.
I've *always* thought that software could make up for bad hardware (err... well I guess that's the point to bad sectors marked on disks, fault-tollerance, and network routing)... but this is getting back to basics in a great way. Now what about something to make me burn less coasters?;)
I heard on NPR that weed is like America's #1 cash crop, and that most federal judges are throwing out a lot of drug cases 'cause our laws just flood the prisons, and do nothing for the big problem. This was like a week long series on All Things Considered. Look for the archive at npr.org. It was a very cool series.
Funny how today we also have a story about Eric Corely who has been fairly vocal that is stupidity.
It is stupidity.
It's like not talking about bad things in hopes that they will go away. It's rediculous. How many *bad things* are good for learning? You learn more from a car crash than you do from driver's education... Our own government subjected people to radiation for years 'cause they didn't know any better. Now we know... just like running a red light or playing with atomic weapons, information about computers no matter what the content is vital to our learning. Especially now.
The more public we are about vulernabilities, the quicker they will get fixed. The more awareness we have, the more our colleges will start teaching applicable skills. The more vocal we are, the more we will benefit from technology, and the less likely will technology destroy us.
You know I was pissed off when I saw all the gas stations moving towards these boxes that look the same. I mean, air is *free* right? I dunno... I had to use one the other day, and it wasn't that bad, 'cause the thing was *nice* and had a retractable hose, and a gauge built into the tip. I didn't have to go in and ask the attendant for gauge, and I didn't have to mess with a cumbersomely long hose. Anyway... not that big of a life changing thing really, but I thought it was worth the 50 cents.
I still think that who you know gets you a lot farther in big music than anything else. I think that wide-spread distribution of music will just solidify this state, as truely large acts will seriously have to know the right people.
There are billions of ways to make money at music, but everyone seems to discuss "national acts", or atleast discuss how independent musicians react to Napster with the notion of them striving to be national performers. I know for a fact that lots of unknown Las Vegas lounge acts make more money than a lot of popular national / world acts.
For instance, I write music, it's generally bland and mostly I just have fun, but I don't know anyone, and no-one knows me. I don't care, it's fun. Those people, however, striving to make wide-spread music distribution get them somewhere, are fooling themselves.
Sure, Dave Matthews Band gained popularity through tape-trading among colleges, but now we live in a world where idiots like my brother have a Napster T-Shirt. It's *solidifying* the concept of "it's who you know..."
Finally, someone puts into words the distinction between interpretation and processing. Nothing is better at filtering internet content than a Human Being, and I hope it stays that way.
I want to, when I have kids, hold their hand as they cross the street. I want to point out right and wrong. I want to ease them into things as they grow.
I also expect the school they will attend will do the same, and I expect them to not rely on technology to censor technoloy.
I know its a bit much, but you just simply cannot safeguard the net against anything. Its noones fault except that we need more people to look after things. More education for them to know how to work with technology, and more money -- especially in education.
I would like to discuss the Election Year economics thing we got going on here.
I know that there are a literally uncountable amount of factors in our economy, but this year (the year I for some reason got into mutal funds) has seen quite a decrease in value of our stocks.
My dad seems to think that we are just going through October rollercoaster that happens every year AND election year jitters. Is the election really a factor?
I would like to think so. -- I mean, I just can't fathom what the media is harping on -- tech stocks dwindling. Are they over-valued, well, yes of course, but the big names are still driving our world. I think that everyone as a whole just doesn't know what a Republican majority might do. I highly doubt it could be much.
I think that this will in general bring more power to game developers... why not just create an entire OS? True an OS is a touchy thing... I mean the point of DirectX and OpenGL was to bring capabilities independany of hardware, but that's a layer above the hardware drivers.
The benefit of course, as this points out, is that you only load what you need, and the rest is pure gaming power. Perhaps MS could even follow suit with some sort of boot-cd interface to use your configuration, but only put into memory what needs to be there (er... well I guess I doubt MS would ever get that mindset, but hey...)
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Anyone have any good links as to the benefit of the electoral system????
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Perhaps the phone lines will be flooded with both internet traffic, and emergency calls for repetive stress to their pointer fingers.
Maybe my cable modem light will start blinking ;)
Quite possibly a rush of news-station office types trying to get some quick little tidbit off the net will have reprocussions through their local LAN, and the scheduling computers will crash, 'causing the whole TV network to go down...
Perhaps nothing will happen. *Yawn* but apocolyptic stories are always good slashdot traffic generators.
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I think, however, it depends on the person and the situation / subject.
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Slashdot knows that if you can't get the content of their site, you won't visit it, so they give you an option strategicly placed at the top, and its a good system. Those that are interested click, and vice versa.
The New York Times wants you to register, as well as have ads, 'cause they're the NYT and think their content is that much more valuable that they can get your valuable demographics. I think that's fair.
P2P file sharing (no matter what its form) is going to be by nature cut throat if it can be. FTP sites and hotline allowed for displaying of goods contingent on you performing something. Napster has no such mechanism, sans that the other person just might not be letting you download from him or they are firewalled. IRC has a little more polotics: sometimes things can be first come first serve, or more accessible through who-you-know, or just a cut throat as anywhere.
So, this I'm sure describes every facet of underground -- drugs, prostitution, and yes illegal intellectual property.
I think it'd be interesting to see how close the mindset of warez leecher and a prostitute are.
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Funny how today we also have a story about Eric Corely who has been fairly vocal that is stupidity.
It is stupidity.
It's like not talking about bad things in hopes that they will go away. It's rediculous. How many *bad things* are good for learning? You learn more from a car crash than you do from driver's education... Our own government subjected people to radiation for years 'cause they didn't know any better. Now we know... just like running a red light or playing with atomic weapons, information about computers no matter what the content is vital to our learning. Especially now.
The more public we are about vulernabilities, the quicker they will get fixed. The more awareness we have, the more our colleges will start teaching applicable skills. The more vocal we are, the more we will benefit from technology, and the less likely will technology destroy us.
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There are billions of ways to make money at music, but everyone seems to discuss "national acts", or atleast discuss how independent musicians react to Napster with the notion of them striving to be national performers. I know for a fact that lots of unknown Las Vegas lounge acts make more money than a lot of popular national / world acts.
For instance, I write music, it's generally bland and mostly I just have fun, but I don't know anyone, and no-one knows me. I don't care, it's fun. Those people, however, striving to make wide-spread music distribution get them somewhere, are fooling themselves.
Sure, Dave Matthews Band gained popularity through tape-trading among colleges, but now we live in a world where idiots like my brother have a Napster T-Shirt. It's *solidifying* the concept of "it's who you know..."
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I want to, when I have kids, hold their hand as they cross the street. I want to point out right and wrong. I want to ease them into things as they grow.
I also expect the school they will attend will do the same, and I expect them to not rely on technology to censor technoloy.
I know its a bit much, but you just simply cannot safeguard the net against anything. Its noones fault except that we need more people to look after things. More education for them to know how to work with technology, and more money -- especially in education.
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I know that there are a literally uncountable amount of factors in our economy, but this year (the year I for some reason got into mutal funds) has seen quite a decrease in value of our stocks.
My dad seems to think that we are just going through October rollercoaster that happens every year AND election year jitters. Is the election really a factor?
I would like to think so. -- I mean, I just can't fathom what the media is harping on -- tech stocks dwindling. Are they over-valued, well, yes of course, but the big names are still driving our world. I think that everyone as a whole just doesn't know what a Republican majority might do. I highly doubt it could be much.
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The benefit of course, as this points out, is that you only load what you need, and the rest is pure gaming power. Perhaps MS could even follow suit with some sort of boot-cd interface to use your configuration, but only put into memory what needs to be there (er... well I guess I doubt MS would ever get that mindset, but hey...)
What a great concept tho.
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