you say "I doubt very many of the PHBs in the world are going to pay much attention to the alternatives when there's a "Certified" option out there. "
i answer, yeah but PHBS now say "Linux? whats that? oh thats hippie evil anti-profit stuff". even if they say "we will only use software thats certified by some big corp" it's still better that admining a NT box, ne?
remember that game? the atreides had sonic tanks, with what looked like a satellite dish on top.
they werent the best weapons (no armor) but nice attack
i think red alert 2 might bring those back on the side of the allies
and while i'm offtopic, i'm not sure how useful it would really be to start a resonant frequency in a tank... given earplugs for driver/gunner just how much damage could it do?
to quote: (page 7) "But computer code is not purely expressive any more than the assassination of a political figure is purely a political statement."
lovely metaphor. so now people who copy games are Pirates (arrr), people who buy domains are Cybersquatters, and coders are Assassins...
*sigh*. it's not that i disagree with his statement (too much), it's just that his choice of words is gonna be jumped on by every newspaper hack in the country and the net result is more bad public opinions...
make them write a gnutella client. it's an open protocol, so in pass one just write a simple socket, in pass two write a gui, and in pass 3 multi-thread it.
remember that shirt which allows application of strong encryption in perl? or the guy who tattoed it on his arm?
i think it was one of those near-jibberish perl programs...
anyways tho, the point is since that still is technically a munition, you cant leave the country while wearing the shirt, or at all in the case of the tatoo.
5 grand is a ricockulous amount to pay for that. shows how anything with a few buzzwords goes up in price by a factor of 10^(n) where n is the number of buzzwords.
sigh.
you dont believe me on how easy this is? go on google, and type in your email. or your nickname (as you post most commonly). see how many links it comes up with. i found a bunch of stuff i posted on slashdot, and some newspaper clippings which mentioned me (for stuff i did in my yonder high school days) which i didnt even knew existed.
the paper trail is there, ripe for taking, and these people are paying $5000 for someone to run grep on dejanews logs. lol:)
anyone wanna start a competeing startup which will *cough* only take $4000?:)
i think it's great. i can't even begin to count how many times my classes were interrupted by someones wonderful 8 bit rendition fo the fugue toccatta in dmol, played in rich one-tonal harmonies:P
right. i'd love to see you try to optimize a GUIed app for X to increase loading time. cmon. we can shave off a billionth of a second by unrolling a loop, but that doesnt matter. on the other hand we can quadruple the speed by using a better algorythm. so let's stick to that, and leave the loop unrolling to the compiler
Lain is nothing short of amazing. This and Evangelion are examples of just what can be done in the animation medium, which would cost millions in real action
i think a great factor to their success is the freedom given to the creator of the anime. there is no community of suits sitting around trying to figure out the best way to tie in a breakfest cereal, instead it's just one manga artist, doing whatever he wants to do.
of course it's hard to blame the american studios for not doing this, since they tend to invest some ridiculous amount of money into everything they do, so they cant afford to follow one man's vision. of course, without risk you dont get classics like that.
on a tangent, if anybody knows of litestep or enlightenemnet, or whatever themes which mimic the animations of Navi OS from Lain, i would kill for them. i cranked out some litestep stuff for it (yes yes, winblowz sucks) but i definitely was not satisfied with it.
double tangent: the last two episodes of Evangelion are in my opinion some of the greatest moments of any work ever. not exactly a very common opinion, but i think that sort of an ending was much more artistic then a huge kill em all finish.
i think a lot of people get too cought up in the 'government is bad' 'government is bad' thing...
in reality, it's not the government, but rather it's power that is the real danger. furthermore, anythign with too much power can be a danger, whether it be a corporation, or an individual. in this case, we have the government offering to limit the power of corporations. now, IANASGV (i am not slashdot grizzled veteran) but this certainly seems like something to check the rampaging power of the 'shrink-wrap' type license agreements ("by entering this site you agree to give us your firstborn upon it's 2nd birthday") and kicking the various corps around a bit.
now, i dont want to be the one who spouts paranoia, but... SEE! I TOLD YOU SO!
you install the paperclip and he can SEE WHAT YOU DO! he is thinking! those eyes? they can see right out of the screen and at you! this information goes straight to microsoft, but not through the internet. that would be too simple. it goes through the satellite uplink to the paperclip mothership in low earth orbit.
the mothership then sends orders back down to earth and scripts are executed on your computer. be afraid. be very afraid.
it doesnt work that way. people give you a name, and you grow into it. thats how it operates
it's not like Black Sabbath got up in the morning and said "hey, we'll call this Metal". no. the others chose it, and they took the word and made mean something new. of course the counterargument is that spears does get up every day saying "hey, i think i'll make shit today" but thats another story.
see also punk (which means male boytoy and young elephant), funk, pirate, and web squatter.
*shrug*. just move on and bend the definition. after all, when you say punk, we dont think elephant anymore.
sounds promising. why not make a quickie buncha scripts to search through their database and deep link to stuff it finds. or is that not protected because of some strange loophole i missed?
Slashdot Mirror
you say "I doubt very many of the PHBs in the world are going to pay much attention to the alternatives when there's a "Certified" option out there. "
i answer, yeah but PHBS now say "Linux? whats that? oh thats hippie evil anti-profit stuff". even if they say "we will only use software thats certified by some big corp" it's still better that admining a NT box, ne?
dont give them any ideas ;)
remember that game? the atreides had sonic tanks, with what looked like a satellite dish on top.
they werent the best weapons (no armor) but nice attack
i think red alert 2 might bring those back on the side of the allies
and while i'm offtopic, i'm not sure how useful it would really be to start a resonant frequency in a tank... given earplugs for driver/gunner just how much damage could it do?
to quote: (page 7) "But computer code is not purely expressive any more than the assassination of a political figure is purely a political statement."
lovely metaphor. so now people who copy games are Pirates (arrr), people who buy domains are Cybersquatters, and coders are Assassins...
*sigh*. it's not that i disagree with his statement (too much), it's just that his choice of words is gonna be jumped on by every newspaper hack in the country and the net result is more bad public opinions...
great! i'll email my boss to tell them we dont need that fancy shmansy netscape webserver anymore! it's bundled with communicator
and you people mocked netscape. shows you all.
and i guess with mozilla, they'll be able to completely take over my computer, seeing how it will be an entire platform for doing everything...
make them write a gnutella client. it's an open protocol, so in pass one just write a simple socket, in pass two write a gui, and in pass 3 multi-thread it.
remember that shirt which allows application of strong encryption in perl? or the guy who tattoed it on his arm?
i think it was one of those near-jibberish perl programs...
anyways tho, the point is since that still is technically a munition, you cant leave the country while wearing the shirt, or at all in the case of the tatoo.
hm. what century is this again?
5 grand is a ricockulous amount to pay for that. shows how anything with a few buzzwords goes up in price by a factor of 10^(n) where n is the number of buzzwords.
:)
:)
sigh.
you dont believe me on how easy this is? go on google, and type in your email. or your nickname (as you post most commonly). see how many links it comes up with. i found a bunch of stuff i posted on slashdot, and some newspaper clippings which mentioned me (for stuff i did in my yonder high school days) which i didnt even knew existed.
the paper trail is there, ripe for taking, and these people are paying $5000 for someone to run grep on dejanews logs. lol
anyone wanna start a competeing startup which will *cough* only take $4000?
invasion of privacy, yada yada.
:P
i think it's great. i can't even begin to count how many times my classes were interrupted by someones wonderful 8 bit rendition fo the fugue toccatta in dmol, played in rich one-tonal harmonies
about musicians maintaining their own pages with mp3s and content
san diego's Superficial
um... thats very nice and all, but can we get some pictures of those girls giving out the flyers? :)
i mean, honestly, isnt that why we all go to these conferences
right. i'd love to see you try to optimize a GUIed app for X to increase loading time. cmon. we can shave off a billionth of a second by unrolling a loop, but that doesnt matter. on the other hand we can quadruple the speed by using a better algorythm. so let's stick to that, and leave the loop unrolling to the compiler
Lain is nothing short of amazing. This and Evangelion are examples of just what can be done in the animation medium, which would cost millions in real action
i think a great factor to their success is the freedom given to the creator of the anime. there is no community of suits sitting around trying to figure out the best way to tie in a breakfest cereal, instead it's just one manga artist, doing whatever he wants to do.
of course it's hard to blame the american studios for not doing this, since they tend to invest some ridiculous amount of money into everything they do, so they cant afford to follow one man's vision. of course, without risk you dont get classics like that.
on a tangent, if anybody knows of litestep or enlightenemnet, or whatever themes which mimic the animations of Navi OS from Lain, i would kill for them. i cranked out some litestep stuff for it (yes yes, winblowz sucks) but i definitely was not satisfied with it.
double tangent: the last two episodes of Evangelion are in my opinion some of the greatest moments of any work ever. not exactly a very common opinion, but i think that sort of an ending was much more artistic then a huge kill em all finish.
i think a lot of people get too cought up in the 'government is bad' 'government is bad' thing...
in reality, it's not the government, but rather it's power that is the real danger. furthermore, anythign with too much power can be a danger, whether it be a corporation, or an individual. in this case, we have the government offering to limit the power of corporations. now, IANASGV (i am not slashdot grizzled veteran) but this certainly seems like something to check the rampaging power of the 'shrink-wrap' type license agreements ("by entering this site you agree to give us your firstborn upon it's 2nd birthday") and kicking the various corps around a bit.
we should cheer up a bit.
now, i dont want to be the one who spouts paranoia, but... SEE! I TOLD YOU SO!
you install the paperclip and he can SEE WHAT YOU DO! he is thinking! those eyes? they can see right out of the screen and at you! this information goes straight to microsoft, but not through the internet. that would be too simple. it goes through the satellite uplink to the paperclip mothership in low earth orbit.
the mothership then sends orders back down to earth and scripts are executed on your computer. be afraid. be very afraid.
it doesnt work that way. people give you a name, and you grow into it. thats how it operates
it's not like Black Sabbath got up in the morning and said "hey, we'll call this Metal". no. the others chose it, and they took the word and made mean something new. of course the counterargument is that spears does get up every day saying "hey, i think i'll make shit today" but thats another story.
see also punk (which means male boytoy and young elephant), funk, pirate, and web squatter.
*shrug*. just move on and bend the definition. after all, when you say punk, we dont think elephant anymore.
simple (lower is better)
- does it get the job done
- does it get the job done every time
- does it get the job done every time, and quickly
- does it get the job done every time, quickly, and doesnt look like something larry wall would write
so yeah, thats one way. they might have more stringent rules then me, but hey
well, any computing device could be used for 'Bad Things'tm. any desktop, laptop, handheld, whatever
. .
i mean, hell, i can use my calculator watch to calculate the correct angle at which to shoot my 'Real-Shitty-Ballistic-(nonpropelled)-Missile'tm.
i dont know. seems whack to me. another government of people who fear and fail to understand technology.
could they have used the unix passwd without there being a copyright violation?
:)
as in, while still remaining closed source and propriatery?
legally anyways
i would like to report that i just purchased the rights to all .me domains from the small nation of melekistan.
my company of DotMe will sell these domains at competitve pricess.
All inquires please send to 'webmaster@screw.me'
sounds promising. why not make a quickie buncha scripts to search through their database and deep link to stuff it finds. or is that not protected because of some strange loophole i missed?