I know I'm supposed to click through and read the articles, yada yada, but I feel that there should be a sentence in there, maybe in place of one of the "it's the next revolution" ones, telling us roughly what "social software" is supposed to mean. Forgive me for not being up on my buzzwords, but this is a new one to me. I'm reminded of the book review that kept talking about "The Singularity" assuming we knew that meant the time when machines become more intelligent than humans, and I just assumed it was talking about a black hole. Well, "social software" sounds to me like what you'd call aim and irc.
does nothing in the article seem at all radical? Most of it's already been done. At least one each by Debian and Gentoo, and several by Mac OS X (with the lion's share of his suggestions covered, but hey they're the ones who HAVE the capital). And honestly, replacing the basic directory names with other basic directory names isn't exactly a brave new paradigm of computing. When they said switching the UNIX directory tree, I thought they meant something really new, like replacing the hierarchical model with a web-shaped model, or something. And providing a large online repository of software known to work just seems like common sense to me, as does reducing redundant apps and concentrating on a primary GUI environment. None of this has not been suggested many, many times before. This guy's distro, despite efforts to the contrary, sounds like just another clone clogging the market.
Oh someone mentioned that they want it "NASA certified" so it's not debris they are looking for, well why the fuck don't they ask for Discovery, Atlantis or Endeavour then?
Because getting parts from a shuttle that stille exists would be easier than getting parts from a shuttle that doesn't?
Computer Science is a science. It needs to be called a science to differentiate it from the art of computing. Or just computing without thinking about it. Do i need to point out that saying "they're just mathematicians" doesn't hurt the case for the term computer science because *gasp* mathematics is a science? I've studied physics and computer science for several years, and they're basically the same. The way theorems are presented, tests are carried out, proofs are written, it's the same business. Lots of purely theoretical constructs for the purpose of making examples. That which is referred to as computer science has nothing in common with painting. It's a science./Programming/, on the other hand, which is not what is referred to as computer science, is an art, when carried out by great programmers. But nobody I've ever met uses the term computer science to mean, or even include, the art of hacking or even the act of programming.
All told, I found the article fairly ignorant. I liked the point it made, that hacking is an art, like painting, and I definitely agree, but the lesser point that computer science is a misnomer was full of hot air and poorly supported.
Witness the WWE. When it bought WCW, it changed its structure to be the Monday show vs the Thursday show. But its quality and ratings have faltered since it lost its real competition.
I know this is a cheap shot, but when did the WWE (or WWF before) ever have any quality to begin with?
Dance Dance Revolution was the last great major revolution in arcade gaming. It did what arcades used to do, but haven't done for some time - Provided a gaming experience you cannot get at home. Note the past tense, since I know home pads are now available, but I do believe DDR revitalized a lot of arcades. The atmosphere around a DDR machine is something you simply can't get at home. If I'm not mistaken, DDR had the first new control scheme (used in more than a couple of games) since the light gun.
I've figured out what's needed to save the ailing arcade industry now that the novelty of DDR is waning. Bars. Every major city neeeds at leas one bar with around 2 dozen arcade games in it. Half the people I know would be going to that bar every night, to the exclusion of all others.
We all know it's truly the Gremlins running on the Gremlin wheels that make apple products go (or sprites if u have the sprite model) This article is a falsification designed to bring about doubt among the ranks of the faithful! Do not stumble down the path of blasphemy!
I still want to know where the "In Soviet Russia, the you!" model comes from. I'm going to assume it's a reference just like the South Park ones, rather than a/. innovation like imagining Beowulf clusters and Natalie Portman hot grits. Speaking of which, a while back someone at work said to me, about a colleague of ours, "I was going to build a Beowulf cluster of Jonas but I couldn't imagine it."
Well, iirc 3 Big Macs is roughly to 2 kilos of TNT in terms of energy released...and hmmm...well I'm fudging a bit, but that means an 800 MegaWatt power plant generates 300 Big Macs of energy per second...ummmm...how fast can a person process intravenous calories??? On a different note, why can't they use dogs or snails or something, that won't rebel. That seems a lot less expensive, power wise.
Since we all know anything Microsoft says will "stifle innovation" is really a good idea, of course all self-respecting geeks are going to stand opposite microsoft and disney on this issue. It's just part of MS & co.'s insidious scheme to close the internet via reverse psychology!
The price of computers has dropped almost as dramatically as the price of printers, yet I expect to get at least 5 years out of a computer (before it becomes physically unusable, not before it becomes obsolete or has to have a single part replaced) and I haven't ever been disappointed. Printers, on the other hand...I haven't seen a new printer last more than a year without becoming irreparable since the '80s... I think there's something more sinister going on here...
From the article: "...but in today's terms it was more powerful as a paperweight than a computer."
Given the sheer weight of the beasts, I'd say that was true of every computer I've ever seen. I mean, hell my P2 is about 300 times as powerful as any other paperweight I've ever used...
Why should Kevin prove it?...This is also the basis of the U.S. Constitution where you're considered innocent until proven guilty.
I believe the point Deltan was getting at was not that we don't believe Kevin because he hasn't proven it, but rather that if he can prove it he should sue the asshole who libeled him. You're right, we are innocent until proven guilty, but that applies just as much to libel as it does to hacking.
How can they prove they lost so much money with peer to peer when they don't even charge us for the show to begin with?
They don't have to prove it. It's still illegal. You don't need to show damages to get someone on copyright infringement, you just need to show that they copied your copyrighted material.
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I know I'm supposed to click through and read the articles, yada yada, but I feel that there should be a sentence in there, maybe in place of one of the "it's the next revolution" ones, telling us roughly what "social software" is supposed to mean. Forgive me for not being up on my buzzwords, but this is a new one to me. I'm reminded of the book review that kept talking about "The Singularity" assuming we knew that meant the time when machines become more intelligent than humans, and I just assumed it was talking about a black hole. Well, "social software" sounds to me like what you'd call aim and irc.
does nothing in the article seem at all radical? Most of it's already been done. At least one each by Debian and Gentoo, and several by Mac OS X (with the lion's share of his suggestions covered, but hey they're the ones who HAVE the capital). And honestly, replacing the basic directory names with other basic directory names isn't exactly a brave new paradigm of computing. When they said switching the UNIX directory tree, I thought they meant something really new, like replacing the hierarchical model with a web-shaped model, or something. And providing a large online repository of software known to work just seems like common sense to me, as does reducing redundant apps and concentrating on a primary GUI environment. None of this has not been suggested many, many times before. This guy's distro, despite efforts to the contrary, sounds like just another clone clogging the market.
211 is hex for 529!
Any minute now I'm going to succumb to the urge to figure out what that says.
Oh someone mentioned that they want it "NASA certified" so it's not debris they are looking for, well why the fuck don't they ask for Discovery, Atlantis or Endeavour then?
Because getting parts from a shuttle that stille exists would be easier than getting parts from a shuttle that doesn't?
Just find whatever state has a Shelbeyville, and it'll have a springfield too!
Any additional states having Shelbeyvilles must be destroyed immediately.
> how about a LUG member who has had sex?
Only if you don't count the married ones.
Oh, like that doesn't apply to half the stuff anyway?
Computer Science is a science. It needs to be called a science to differentiate it from the art of computing. Or just computing without thinking about it. Do i need to point out that saying "they're just mathematicians" doesn't hurt the case for the term computer science because *gasp* mathematics is a science? /Programming/, on the other hand, which is not what is referred to as computer science, is an art, when carried out by great programmers. But nobody I've ever met uses the term computer science to mean, or even include, the art of hacking or even the act of programming.
I've studied physics and computer science for several years, and they're basically the same. The way theorems are presented, tests are carried out, proofs are written, it's the same business. Lots of purely theoretical constructs for the purpose of making examples. That which is referred to as computer science has nothing in common with painting. It's a science.
All told, I found the article fairly ignorant. I liked the point it made, that hacking is an art, like painting, and I definitely agree, but the lesser point that computer science is a misnomer was full of hot air and poorly supported.
Witness the WWE. When it bought WCW, it changed its structure to be the Monday show vs the Thursday show. But its quality and ratings have faltered since it lost its real competition.
I know this is a cheap shot, but when did the WWE (or WWF before) ever have any quality to begin with?
Dance Dance Revolution was the last great major revolution in arcade gaming. It did what arcades used to do, but haven't done for some time - Provided a gaming experience you cannot get at home. Note the past tense, since I know home pads are now available, but I do believe DDR revitalized a lot of arcades. The atmosphere around a DDR machine is something you simply can't get at home. If I'm not mistaken, DDR had the first new control scheme (used in more than a couple of games) since the light gun.
I've figured out what's needed to save the ailing arcade industry now that the novelty of DDR is waning. Bars. Every major city neeeds at leas one bar with around 2 dozen arcade games in it. Half the people I know would be going to that bar every night, to the exclusion of all others.
...In Soviet Russia, Airport Extreme Base Station takes apart YOU!!!
We all know it's truly the Gremlins running on the Gremlin wheels that make apple products go (or sprites if u have the sprite model)
This article is a falsification designed to bring about doubt among the ranks of the faithful! Do not stumble down the path of blasphemy!
Also, when combined with a Slinky and a box of Grape Nuts [homestarrunner.com] can make a StrongBad Robot.
As soon as I saw a mention of speak & spell, I knew i had to post that link, but, alas...You beat me to it!!!!!!! Argh!!! Oh, woe is me!!
I still want to know where the "In Soviet Russia, the you!" model comes from. I'm going to assume it's a reference just like the South Park ones, rather than a /. innovation like imagining Beowulf clusters and Natalie Portman hot grits. Speaking of which, a while back someone at work said to me, about a colleague of ours, "I was going to build a Beowulf cluster of Jonas but I couldn't imagine it."
Somebody's been watching too much South Park. (And that would be me, for instantly recognizing the Underpants Gnome Business Plan).
You make it sound as though a business plan in the form
"1)do something
2)do something else
3)????
4)profit!"
isn't posted under every single article.
Well, iirc 3 Big Macs is roughly to 2 kilos of TNT in terms of energy released...and hmmm...well I'm fudging a bit, but that means an 800 MegaWatt power plant generates 300 Big Macs of energy per second...ummmm...how fast can a person process intravenous calories??? On a different note, why can't they use dogs or snails or something, that won't rebel. That seems a lot less expensive, power wise.
Since we all know anything Microsoft says will "stifle innovation" is really a good idea, of course all self-respecting geeks are going to stand opposite microsoft and disney on this issue. It's just part of MS & co.'s insidious scheme to close the internet via reverse psychology!
...who sold a playstation 2 box for $600.
The price of computers has dropped almost as dramatically as the price of printers, yet I expect to get at least 5 years out of a computer (before it becomes physically unusable, not before it becomes obsolete or has to have a single part replaced) and I haven't ever been disappointed. Printers, on the other hand...I haven't seen a new printer last more than a year without becoming irreparable since the '80s... I think there's something more sinister going on here...
From the article: "...but in today's terms it was more powerful as a paperweight than a computer."
Given the sheer weight of the beasts, I'd say that was true of every computer I've ever seen. I mean, hell my P2 is about 300 times as powerful as any other paperweight I've ever used...
Oh wait, that one laptop I saw once...
everybody knows eating apple pies and driving chevrolets makes you infallible.
No, no, no. You have to be driving a Ford!
Everybody knows Ford is superior to Chevy, right?
Why should Kevin prove it? ...This is also the basis of the U.S. Constitution where you're considered innocent until proven guilty.
I believe the point Deltan was getting at was not that we don't believe Kevin because he hasn't proven it, but rather that if he can prove it he should sue the asshole who libeled him. You're right, we are innocent until proven guilty, but that applies just as much to libel as it does to hacking.
boxers or briefs?
Since I already voted anonymously from my ip, when I ran it it did not register a vote for perl!
How can they prove they lost so much money with peer to peer when they don't even charge us for the show to begin with?
They don't have to prove it. It's still illegal. You don't need to show damages to get someone on copyright infringement, you just need to show that they copied your copyrighted material.