Hate to sound like a troll, but is this news? He's the third guy. The first was newsworthy, the second really wasn't, and this even less. The only noteworthy thing is the guy went from rags to riches, and now into space. He'll train, get on a rocket, go to the space station, stay the hell out of the way, return, write a book, make money on said book. The End.
Don't get me wrong, tim. I want this as bad as everyone else, and I want to see some of these laws reviewed and revised for the new millenium. My post wasn't necessarily my opinion, but a reminder of how lawmakers will view it. I was just trying to bring it down to earth before people started claiming P2P victory.;-)
This doesn't hide the fact that it is still stealing. Plus, if you say A whopping one CD per 5,000 files downloaded, then how many files have been downloaded? (fives of) Billions? Then that's millions of CDs. So there is an effect, however small. If the study showed that listening to mp3s made people MORE LIKELY to buy a CD, then the study might help the napster community. If there is any lose, however insignificant, its just another nail in the coffin.
Sure, most sitcoms are just rehashing old (or sometimes current) ideas, and here are other issues people have been bringing up why television will fail, but I think the real reason we are seeing a declins it that computer games and apps (like IM) offer interaction. You can't get that with TV. Its as simple as that.
A pre alpha release really isn't newsworthy. Is this some one's pet project?
That's what it sounds like to me.
Someone has an idea, makes a sourceforge page for it, gets some developers, writes up his ideas full of marketspeak. What happens to it? About 95% of the time, it dies a long, slow death.
That's pre-alpha, folks! I'll be happy to look at it when it reaches 1.0, but until then, I'm playing the odds.
I wasn't aware Python was broken.
Perl wasn't broken when Python was made, right? Adding another language never harms anyone, really. If it proves to be powerful, people will use it. If it proves to be clean and easy to understand, people will use it as a learning tool. If it doesn't offer anything better than any other language, it will die. Its just the evolution of coding languages.
Hell, if everyone followed the philosophy of "well, [programing language] isn't broken, why make another." We'd all be programming in assembly... or worse, bytecode.
It wasn't meant as an insult, just a 'calming down.' I'd -love- solid evidence of life on another planet, but we've waited this long, lets make sure before pushing it in other peoples faces;-)
Umm... it depends. Salty sea = Water salt? Or an acidic sea? Water != life. Sea Water != life. Its a posibility, but I think your jumping the gun a bit.
I think you are on the right track, but my guess is that 6 out of 7 IT Professionals worked in IT during the dot-com boom, when you made a load of cash, hardly did any work, and played games all the time.
And now, we have to EARN the money we make, and that pisses us off. Especially programmers, who are, by definition, lazy workers (and I say this as a developer).;-)
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Well, call me unimaginative, but I like to watch a movie THEN pick up the book. That way, instead of being disappointed in the movie, I'm surprised and delighted with the book. Plus it helps me put faces to names when I read the book (hence, the unimaginative part of me).
If you look at the bright side, if someone enjoys the movie, they'll be more encouraged to read the book. I read Heinlein's Starship Troopers after I saw the movie and thought "Wow, they hacked the crap outta something that really doesn't translate well to the movie media at all." (And I also am reading the Bourne Identity cause I enjoyed the movie a ton. And the book is VERY different than the movie, and much better, might I add). So, if it is bearable to watch, more people are more likely to read the book to discover everything that the book includes, but the movie doesn't.
I won't knock nethack or any free based game ever. They are fun to play.
But it isn't getting your pimply teenagers buying into Linux. They want big shiny games with graphics and extra blood, not games with plots and purpose and entertaining and replayable (damn, I sound like an old man...)
And don't say "I never heard of it, so it sucked" because that's what happened. It was a fantastic game for the Mac, only, so not many people even found out about it (unless you had mac gamer friends)
Mac has tried breaking into the PC gamining scene for decades. They even had that "bigass game thats only available on that platform" called "Marathon."
It requires two things:
Quantity of games
Quality of games
You don't need to make a gaming distro, you need a gaming distro with HUNDREDS (if not more) games already available to it. And not just net-hack and tux-racer, but big name gaming companies spitting out Linux based games.
What do you need to do this? A big-ass company with a ton of cash.
It is a proven plan. Just ask Sony how it broke apart Sega and Nintendo to get into the gaming console. Money, quantity and quality of games.
Internet piracy, peer-to-peer, 'sharing mp3s'... is there any chance any of this can and will be legal? It just seems like so many geeks want it to be legal, but it requires a lawyer with a good understanding of technology to deliver the odds. So whats it gonna be? Slim to none?
I'm a Cincinnatian, meself. But last 17 year cicada I was living in a well wooded Pennsylvanian town. It was REALLY bad there, and I hope Cincy won't be nearly as bad.
From the X-Arcade site:
Want to download Mame Rom games directly?
Easiest = Using Kazaa, or P2P engine
Type MAME in a software search.
Download Any MAME Related Searches
Encouraging people to pirate roms. That can't be good for business (well, good for business until the government comes knocking).
Actually, a congressman from Colorado is trying to get a commitee together to determine the fate of the Hubble, so the decision is not solely on the director of NASA. This could mean life for the Hubble.
Darl McBride says he sometimes carries a gun because his enemies are out to kill him. He checks into hotels under assumed names. An armed body guard protected him at Harvard Law School when he gave a speech last month
Lets see... one guy pisses off a buncha nerds. He's afraid of firepower?
Uhh... Darl... the only thing you need to worry about is stuff like cracking your servers and DoS attacks. Both of which you have survived.
Really, if frivilous lawsuits caused people to fear for their lives, something is wrong witht his world.
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Hate to sound like a troll, but is this news? He's the third guy. The first was newsworthy, the second really wasn't, and this even less. The only noteworthy thing is the guy went from rags to riches, and now into space. He'll train, get on a rocket, go to the space station, stay the hell out of the way, return, write a book, make money on said book. The End.
Don't get me wrong, tim. I want this as bad as everyone else, and I want to see some of these laws reviewed and revised for the new millenium. My post wasn't necessarily my opinion, but a reminder of how lawmakers will view it. I was just trying to bring it down to earth before people started claiming P2P victory. ;-)
This doesn't hide the fact that it is still stealing. Plus, if you say A whopping one CD per 5,000 files downloaded, then how many files have been downloaded? (fives of) Billions? Then that's millions of CDs. So there is an effect, however small. If the study showed that listening to mp3s made people MORE LIKELY to buy a CD, then the study might help the napster community. If there is any lose, however insignificant, its just another nail in the coffin.
Sure, most sitcoms are just rehashing old (or sometimes current) ideas, and here are other issues people have been bringing up why television will fail, but I think the real reason we are seeing a declins it that computer games and apps (like IM) offer interaction. You can't get that with TV. Its as simple as that.
The question is what comparison shopping search did yahoo use to buy Kelkoo??
A pre alpha release really isn't newsworthy. Is this some one's pet project?
That's what it sounds like to me.
Someone has an idea, makes a sourceforge page for it, gets some developers, writes up his ideas full of marketspeak. What happens to it? About 95% of the time, it dies a long, slow death.
That's pre-alpha, folks! I'll be happy to look at it when it reaches 1.0, but until then, I'm playing the odds.
I wasn't aware Python was broken.
Perl wasn't broken when Python was made, right? Adding another language never harms anyone, really. If it proves to be powerful, people will use it. If it proves to be clean and easy to understand, people will use it as a learning tool. If it doesn't offer anything better than any other language, it will die. Its just the evolution of coding languages.
Hell, if everyone followed the philosophy of "well, [programing language] isn't broken, why make another." We'd all be programming in assembly... or worse, bytecode.
It wasn't meant as an insult, just a 'calming down.' I'd -love- solid evidence of life on another planet, but we've waited this long, lets make sure before pushing it in other peoples faces ;-)
Umm... it depends. Salty sea = Water salt? Or an acidic sea? Water != life. Sea Water != life. Its a posibility, but I think your jumping the gun a bit.
You want the man show meets computers? Try HaXXXor.com (Not safe for work).
*yawn* The same old discussion, with no implementation in site.
Sorta like making an improved moderation system on slashdot instead of ping-ponging votes around?
I think you are on the right track, but my guess is that 6 out of 7 IT Professionals worked in IT during the dot-com boom, when you made a load of cash, hardly did any work, and played games all the time. ;-)
And now, we have to EARN the money we make, and that pisses us off. Especially programmers, who are, by definition, lazy workers (and I say this as a developer).
Well, call me unimaginative, but I like to watch a movie THEN pick up the book. That way, instead of being disappointed in the movie, I'm surprised and delighted with the book. Plus it helps me put faces to names when I read the book (hence, the unimaginative part of me).
Careful what you wish for...
;-)
They could trade Tom for Leo diCaprio or worse
True, they will hack this story to pieces...
;-)
HOWEVER
If you look at the bright side, if someone enjoys the movie, they'll be more encouraged to read the book. I read Heinlein's Starship Troopers after I saw the movie and thought "Wow, they hacked the crap outta something that really doesn't translate well to the movie media at all." (And I also am reading the Bourne Identity cause I enjoyed the movie a ton. And the book is VERY different than the movie, and much better, might I add). So, if it is bearable to watch, more people are more likely to read the book to discover everything that the book includes, but the movie doesn't.
There's a bright side, after all
... or does this sound dirty to you too??
a new peer-to-peer backdoor client that is installed maliciously
What's next - Developers having to pick up 'code malpractice' insurance? Egads
;-)
That's good. It'll help in the fight of outsourcing. You get what you pay for... remember that
Wow... that -is- pretty. I'm totally checking this out tonight. Thanks for the link.
I won't knock nethack or any free based game ever. They are fun to play.
But it isn't getting your pimply teenagers buying into Linux. They want big shiny games with graphics and extra blood, not games with plots and purpose and entertaining and replayable (damn, I sound like an old man...)
Yeah, just like Marathon on the Mac.
And don't say "I never heard of it, so it sucked" because that's what happened. It was a fantastic game for the Mac, only, so not many people even found out about it (unless you had mac gamer friends)
Mac has tried breaking into the PC gamining scene for decades. They even had that "bigass game thats only available on that platform" called "Marathon."
It requires two things:
Quantity of games
Quality of games
You don't need to make a gaming distro, you need a gaming distro with HUNDREDS (if not more) games already available to it. And not just net-hack and tux-racer, but big name gaming companies spitting out Linux based games.
What do you need to do this? A big-ass company with a ton of cash.
It is a proven plan. Just ask Sony how it broke apart Sega and Nintendo to get into the gaming console. Money, quantity and quality of games.
Internet piracy, peer-to-peer, 'sharing mp3s'... is there any chance any of this can and will be legal? It just seems like so many geeks want it to be legal, but it requires a lawyer with a good understanding of technology to deliver the odds. So whats it gonna be? Slim to none?
I'm a Cincinnatian, meself. But last 17 year cicada I was living in a well wooded Pennsylvanian town. It was REALLY bad there, and I hope Cincy won't be nearly as bad.
From the X-Arcade site:
Want to download Mame Rom games directly?
Easiest = Using Kazaa, or P2P engine
Type MAME in a software search.
Download Any MAME Related Searches
Encouraging people to pirate roms. That can't be good for business (well, good for business until the government comes knocking).
Or am I out of the loop and its all alright now?
Actually, a congressman from Colorado is trying to get a commitee together to determine the fate of the Hubble, so the decision is not solely on the director of NASA. This could mean life for the Hubble.
I submitted the 'save the hubble' story a couple days ago and was turned down.
Darl McBride says he sometimes carries a gun because his enemies are out to kill him. He checks into hotels under assumed names. An armed body guard protected him at Harvard Law School when he gave a speech last month
Lets see... one guy pisses off a buncha nerds. He's afraid of firepower?
Uhh... Darl... the only thing you need to worry about is stuff like cracking your servers and DoS attacks. Both of which you have survived.
Really, if frivilous lawsuits caused people to fear for their lives, something is wrong witht his world.