You mean the joke of a NIDA study saying that 4 caged spider monkeys would rather choose to get high than sit in the cage bored? Shit, if I were in a cage from which I could not escape, with nothing but food, water & a lever that made me trip, you're damn right I'd be pushing that lever....
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OK, so maybe drunks aren't the most favored of soceity's peoples (don't get me started on who's the favored of society), but they aren't thrown in jail for drinking either. If they go out and drink-n-drive, then yeah, they're jailed. But pot-smokers can't even enjoy a puff at home without risking arrest. Tell me there's nothing wrong with that.
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A complete rewrite? This, from the man who advocates laziness in programmers?:)
Yeah - he's lazy enough to have the public do most of the work as far as figuring out what to keep, get rid of, modify, etc. He's letting us do the harder work of figuring out what to change, while in his laziness, he and other developers will actually only do the implementation. Seems like a perfect lazy-man's plan to me:)
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You make it sound like everyone cannot go to the perl mailing lists now... they can.
Well, that's not what I meant, but yeah, it does sound like that's what I was saying. I just think it could work out great having perl users and developers worldwide involved in creating perl 6. I'm sure there'll be problems with things someone wants integrated, but most don't, but overall, I think this could work out really well for perl.
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"[the] community's rewrite of perl, and the community's rewrite of the community."
This should be interesting. I assume this means everyone will be able to go to the perl mailing lists & suggest things to change for perl 6? That'd be useful, and I'd assume many people will do this. If it actually goes down this way, I wonder how different perl will be in version 6. Will perl change to accomodate people who like python, or c, or will it just be perl with new p- & c-like features, or just a very different perl? Any way it comes out, I have a feeling it will be a better perl because of Wall's attempt to get the community to make perl better.
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Well, I agree that we need some world organization to settle domain disputes between countries. Still, I'm not sure that WIPO would be the best org to do this. The way I see the UN is basically as a tool of the main large nations in the UN (USA, Russia, UK, China? - there's a word for them, but it escapes me). Sure, the UN is supposed to be a league of nations supporting the common good of the world, but what is the UN in actuality? If Coca-Cola wants to own www.coke.pk (or whatever Pakistan's country code is), but someone in Pakistan owns that site and it's dedicated to cocaine, what would the WIPO do? Most likely give it to Coke, regardless of whether the Pakistani site is cybersquatting or not.
If someone's cybersquatting and a company wants the domain for legitimate reasons, and the WIPO rules in favor of the company, that's fine. However, I can't see the WIPO ruling in favor of someone in some petty (in UN terms) nation instead of some corporation in a powerful (UN terms) nation - regardless of who's got legitimate reasons to control the domain.
Besides, how could WIPO deal with all the stupid lawsuits coming out? There's been way too many recently - can one organization really take the time to study each case and rule correctly in at least a majority of cases??
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I never said they "sold out". I understand times are changing, and "different" does not equal "sucks". Just to add something else, I'm definitely not a metal-head. My point was this:
Once Metallica and Dre got too caught up in how much money they were making, they forgot how to produce art. Metallica's music change was part of them growing older, and tastes changing. That's fine. What is not fine is that they started caring more about money than about art. The beginning of this (as I am guessing) was when they put out Load, with a completely different style than anything that came before it. I must admit, I hated Load. Reload was no better. But I believe Metallica changed their style more for popularity's sake than due to their own change of musical taste. If I'm wrong, so be it, but that's my opinion until it gets struck down.
Regardless of what they've done in the past, this new attack on Napster users goes far beyond trying to save their copyrights on their music. Yeah, they should be able to copyright their own musical ideas and tunes (though in a better society, they wouldn't need to), and yeah, others making money off Metallica's and Dre's music is wrong. (Speaking of this, how exactly was Napster making money????) Though why punish the fans/Napster users? If Metallica/Dre were going to go after someone, they should have made it Napster, not fans. Metallica's move to ban 330,000 fans from Napster goes far beyond making sure Metallica gets their due payment. This is where Metallica and Dre both went really wrong. It seems the bands care more about getting those few extra K than their fans - and seeing how many K they have been paid already, more $ just isn't worth that much.
-- TheDude Smokedot Drug Info, Rights, Laws, and Discussion
Hahahahahahahahah! Now that would've shown MS a thing or two about licensing.... Although if/. would have done this, you know MS's next move would have been to make letter-wrap licenses for all of its publications. They don't need any help in thinking up more widget-wrap licenses.
-- TheDude Smokedot Drug Info, Rights, Laws, and Discussion
Both Metallica and Dre were anti-almost-everything bands that put out some damn fine music. Then they got popular. They were still good until they got too rich for their own good. They stopped creating art and started creating shit to sell for profit. Once they became profit-oriented instead of art-oriented, they started going downhill, and eventually ended up as what we see today: two formerly damn fine bands afraid of being forgotten and losing their huge piles of money.
-- TheDude Smokedot Drug Info, Rights, Laws, and Discussion
voice-recognition software to be that good by the time they release? Granted, I'm no expert on voice-recognition, and don't really know how far along it is, but I can't imagine that it will be ready for something like this. It's a great idea, and hopefully someday we'll be able to do most of our tasks at the computer by telling it what to do, but I don't think that this game will be all that great at listening to you and following your orders. Hell, we can't do that ourselves, yet we expect to make machines that do it well?
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You mean the joke of a NIDA study saying that 4 caged spider monkeys would rather choose to get high than sit in the cage bored? Shit, if I were in a cage from which I could not escape, with nothing but food, water & a lever that made me trip, you're damn right I'd be pushing that lever....
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TheDude
Smokedot
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OK, so maybe drunks aren't the most favored of soceity's peoples (don't get me started on who's the favored of society), but they aren't thrown in jail for drinking either. If they go out and drink-n-drive, then yeah, they're jailed. But pot-smokers can't even enjoy a puff at home without risking arrest. Tell me there's nothing wrong with that.
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TheDude
Smokedot
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A complete rewrite? This, from the man who advocates laziness in programmers? :)
:)
Yeah - he's lazy enough to have the public do most of the work as far as figuring out what to keep, get rid of, modify, etc. He's letting us do the harder work of figuring out what to change, while in his laziness, he and other developers will actually only do the implementation. Seems like a perfect lazy-man's plan to me
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TheDude
Smokedot
Drug Info, Rights, Laws, and Discussion
You make it sound like everyone cannot go to the perl mailing lists now ... they can.
Well, that's not what I meant, but yeah, it does sound like that's what I was saying. I just think it could work out great having perl users and developers worldwide involved in creating perl 6. I'm sure there'll be problems with things someone wants integrated, but most don't, but overall, I think this could work out really well for perl.
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TheDude
Smokedot
Drug Info, Rights, Laws, and Discussion
"[the] community's rewrite of perl, and the community's rewrite of the community."
This should be interesting. I assume this means everyone will be able to go to the perl mailing lists & suggest things to change for perl 6? That'd be useful, and I'd assume many people will do this. If it actually goes down this way, I wonder how different perl will be in version 6. Will perl change to accomodate people who like python, or c, or will it just be perl with new p- & c-like features, or just a very different perl? Any way it comes out, I have a feeling it will be a better perl because of Wall's attempt to get the community to make perl better.
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TheDude
Smokedot
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If you're looney enough to run a file of unknown origin with a .vbs extension, that would be referred to as Darwinism."
So, anyone out there wanna create the "killer virus" of the Evil Empire? Darwinism got a little forgotten recently - maybe we need a refresher course?
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TheDude
Smokedot
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UN Security Council
YEAH! That'd be the term...
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TheDude
Smokedot
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Well, I agree that we need some world organization to settle domain disputes between countries. Still, I'm not sure that WIPO would be the best org to do this. The way I see the UN is basically as a tool of the main large nations in the UN (USA, Russia, UK, China? - there's a word for them, but it escapes me). Sure, the UN is supposed to be a league of nations supporting the common good of the world, but what is the UN in actuality? If Coca-Cola wants to own www.coke.pk (or whatever Pakistan's country code is), but someone in Pakistan owns that site and it's dedicated to cocaine, what would the WIPO do? Most likely give it to Coke, regardless of whether the Pakistani site is cybersquatting or not.
If someone's cybersquatting and a company wants the domain for legitimate reasons, and the WIPO rules in favor of the company, that's fine. However, I can't see the WIPO ruling in favor of someone in some petty (in UN terms) nation instead of some corporation in a powerful (UN terms) nation - regardless of who's got legitimate reasons to control the domain.
Besides, how could WIPO deal with all the stupid lawsuits coming out? There's been way too many recently - can one organization really take the time to study each case and rule correctly in at least a majority of cases??
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TheDude
Smokedot
Drug Info, Rights, Laws, and Discussion
I never said they "sold out". I understand times are changing, and "different" does not equal "sucks". Just to add something else, I'm definitely not a metal-head. My point was this:
Once Metallica and Dre got too caught up in how much money they were making, they forgot how to produce art. Metallica's music change was part of them growing older, and tastes changing. That's fine. What is not fine is that they started caring more about money than about art. The beginning of this (as I am guessing) was when they put out Load, with a completely different style than anything that came before it. I must admit, I hated Load. Reload was no better. But I believe Metallica changed their style more for popularity's sake than due to their own change of musical taste. If I'm wrong, so be it, but that's my opinion until it gets struck down.
Regardless of what they've done in the past, this new attack on Napster users goes far beyond trying to save their copyrights on their music. Yeah, they should be able to copyright their own musical ideas and tunes (though in a better society, they wouldn't need to), and yeah, others making money off Metallica's and Dre's music is wrong. (Speaking of this, how exactly was Napster making money????) Though why punish the fans/Napster users? If Metallica/Dre were going to go after someone, they should have made it Napster, not fans. Metallica's move to ban 330,000 fans from Napster goes far beyond making sure Metallica gets their due payment. This is where Metallica and Dre both went really wrong. It seems the bands care more about getting those few extra K than their fans - and seeing how many K they have been paid already, more $ just isn't worth that much.
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TheDude
Smokedot
Drug Info, Rights, Laws, and Discussion
Hahahahahahahahah! Now that would've shown MS a thing or two about licensing.... Although if /. would have done this, you know MS's next move would have been to make letter-wrap licenses for all of its publications. They don't need any help in thinking up more widget-wrap licenses.
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TheDude
Smokedot
Drug Info, Rights, Laws, and Discussion
Both Metallica and Dre were anti-almost-everything bands that put out some damn fine music. Then they got popular. They were still good until they got too rich for their own good. They stopped creating art and started creating shit to sell for profit. Once they became profit-oriented instead of art-oriented, they started going downhill, and eventually ended up as what we see today: two formerly damn fine bands afraid of being forgotten and losing their huge piles of money.
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TheDude
Smokedot
Drug Info, Rights, Laws, and Discussion
voice-recognition software to be that good by the time they release? Granted, I'm no expert on voice-recognition, and don't really know how far along it is, but I can't imagine that it will be ready for something like this. It's a great idea, and hopefully someday we'll be able to do most of our tasks at the computer by telling it what to do, but I don't think that this game will be all that great at listening to you and following your orders. Hell, we can't do that ourselves, yet we expect to make machines that do it well?
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TheDude
Smokedot
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