We are still attempting to discover who would want to eliminate the community of millions of consumers who are using the Morpheus software product to connect with other users around the world.
Since it appears that the attack on your computers came from the closed proprietary FastTrack-Kazaa software, we have opted not to continue with this p2p kernel.
Which is just as well. I do note this article in newsbytes, and wonder if someone got an inside edge to fasttrack someplace.
The game i recall had an overhead feel like pacman, but it was tanks, etc with a more open maze with some areas with long lines of sight.
In a way that was better because everyone could see where everyone was from the start. No hiding possible at all. Merely a matter of taste, but it provided a lot of fun.
Part of what makes the mind so efficient is the filtering process. So at some point, you would have a filter so that to do not get overwhelmed with data.
I Imagine that the interface would have to be something familiar that most geeks can deal with.
I suggest a gaming interface like Doom. There was that admin tool for killing off zombie processes. Something similar could be used to symbolically represent the people you meet. Bill Gates As Satan, for Example.
Of course, you would have different patches depending on your tastes and opinions.
I remember an old tank shot them up that was a cocktail table kind of game. It was great for bars because you could put your beers down on the table top while you tried to chase your opponent around in a maze that you viewed from over head.
All very low rez, but very cool. The head to head face to face competition with your opponent was particularly addictive. someone should do a higher rez version of this.
If I get to many spams on my phone, then they have made my phone useless.
On the other hand, billing them for the service of evaluating their spam at the top of my lungs sounds like a nice idea.
It probablty will fit under telemarkeing laws, and may fit into the trend developing for people to be opted out of such a service as a default choice as a matter of law.
[ianal, etc]
I can even see going into the store, insisting to find out who is providing them this "service", and then suing the spamming service provider along with the spammer.
Or a retake on the old satire with the mob based spam prevention service.
A free OS, that tries to duplicate
Something you can already buy
From our friend, Bill Gates
A pretty cloud background
Start menu, task bar
The Microsoft Sound
Just so long as it does try to duplicate those ever so helpful crashes and blue screens.
Of course, you could always run a shell script and have a blue screen display with the appropriate message at semirandom intervals, just in case people want the complete eXPerience.
This seems like a good initiative, enviroment wise. I believe the country where I reside has a similar recycle tax, but for cars.
Well, it beats dumping all the trash in China!
Unless, of course, this is to merely defray the cost of shipping them to China.
I was disappointed by it. I wanted more technical meat, but what it looks like is that the tech level would tranlate nicely to a "Slash for Dummies" level. I need at least one level deeper information, with at least a description of the perl modules and at least a once over light weight commentary of the code.
Granted that it is changing fairly quickly, but really, this is what I really need. - not something with occasional digs at pet peeves in the examples.
I consider this a beginners book, and not really at the level of a professional reference that I need. Anyone who has set up BBS's etc in the past needs more than what this book offers. It makes an OK first section with a second and third much more detailed section desperately needed. I really do not need the first volume, except for some convenient info in the appendices.
"picked apart and strewn along rivers and fields." -- What are they trying to do....grow more computers?
I keep having this picture of archeologists in thousands of years in the future going through all of this stuff, and trying to piece together an old PC. no tech manuals, etc.
Alot of their success would depend on the level of their own technology, of course.
Of course, to pay for a radio/tv station, website, etc. the operations should either be self sustaining, producing its own income, etc., or else you have the resources from someplace else to cover costs, even if the costs are just time and money.
Since the guy is a pop star, the cost are probably coming out of his own pocket.
most companies love it if they can get their customers on a treadmill, constantly paying in new money. And honestly the cost of tech support for the older games may actually be a money losing proposition.
But They still hate the idea of not making money. and count potential loses are real losses.
Right now I think that that rights to software to revert to something more relaxed a few years after they stop providing tech support. They people who know how to use the older stuff will always be a small percentage anyhow.
One thing to note is that NFS uses the same usernames on each side of the connection. My files are owned by mwlucas on the server, so they are owned by mwlucas on the client. This can be a problem on a large network where users have root on their own machines. To create a central repository of authorized users, consider Kerberos or NIS. On a small network, or on a network with limited administrators, this usually isn't a problem.
Personally, I think that there people that it would be worth sending into space.
Although there is the question of who should we send to stay, and who gets to come back. Sending certain overly rich folks such as Bill Gates or Michael Jackson to space to stay only invites comparison to certain old Justin Powers tv episodes (from the series that never existed, yet)
Any nominations for people to send to space and leave there? People to send to space and return for the benefit of mankind?
Teh bikinie bike computer seems to underutilise the palm capabilities, and seem oriented to a more lowend user. the bike brain seems to be for a more serious pro biker, with some added capabilities that would make sense in that context.
Note that "BikeBrain is compatible with Pilot 1000/5000, PalmPilot Professional/ Personal, Palm III/x/e, Palm V/x. We do not support the Palm VII yet. " so you do not need the latest and greatest yet. Heck, you can get a Palm iiie in the palm store right now for under $80 bucks, plus shipping. That is not bad.
Patel said proving copyright misuse was difficult, but added the recording industry's licensing terms appeared suspect. "MusicNet did not suddenly appear full blown from the head of a fictitious entity. The evidence suggests that plaintiffs formed a joint venture to distribute digital music and simultaneously refused to enter into individual licenses with competitors, effectively requiring competitors to use MusicNet as their source for digital licensing."
Possible criminal acts of the music industry are relevant as they are important to the continuation of the culture.
I noted a comment above that this is unimportant, because napster is dead, etc. Sort of like saying that murder is unimportant because the victim is dead and you can't bring the victim back.
Wrong. Unless you _like_ a world run by crooks, or are something of a crook or a criminal yourself.
As a number of people have noted, There is no compelling, need to upgrade to HDTV.
The higher resolution is not comparable to the switch from black and white to color.
Even so, the FCC has not chosen (I believe) standards that are backward compatible, as was color to black and white. Let's face it. Color TV probably would have taken a lot longer to get into the markert if it had had been backward incompatible.
The end result for most consumers is that they resent being put on the treadmill of upgrading their techonology just because something is supposed to be better. Heck, how many companies were/are still using Cobol when Y2K rolled around. Or look at the hassle MS gets because it wants people to upgrade their computers every three years, even pulling software off the shelves in favor of the last version, trying to force people into shorter and shorter upgrade cycles.
And not every tv station is going to be able to spend money to upgrade to digital right away. The outcry when people are _forced_ to buy new tvs, and these are all high priced items, will kill tv in america. Most folks will say, "I can't afford a thousand dollar tv". They may go down to walmart for something for a couple hundred bucks. But a couple of gs for a bood tube? To hell with it. I know TV is not that important to me. I'll live without, and probably will be better of for it. Just imagine not being able to see allof those political campaign ads because of incompatibility of technologies.
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Off had I would suspect chaos agents of the music industry, who have been doing things the wrong way for a long time.
But this is just idle, unfounded speculation
Right.
Since it appears that the attack on your computers came from the closed proprietary FastTrack-Kazaa software, we have opted not to continue with this p2p kernel.
Which is just as well. I do note this article in newsbytes, and wonder if someone got an inside edge to fasttrack someplace.
cloak and dagger operations indeed.
There is a fairly complete list of links to stories about the whole mess.
Can't find the right link, but it sticks in my buffer.
In a way that was better because everyone could see where everyone was from the start. No hiding possible at all. Merely a matter of taste, but it provided a lot of fun.
I Imagine that the interface would have to be something familiar that most geeks can deal with.
I suggest a gaming interface like Doom. There was that admin tool for killing off zombie processes. Something similar could be used to symbolically represent the people you meet. Bill Gates As Satan, for Example.
Of course, you would have different patches depending on your tastes and opinions.
Like MS doesn't need this dragged out anymore. They toi get slapped down at some point.
The 9th admendment say that all rights not specifically assigned to the federal government are reserved to the states and to the people thereof.
All very low rez, but very cool. The head to head face to face competition with your opponent was particularly addictive. someone should do a higher rez version of this.
On the other hand, billing them for the service of evaluating their spam at the top of my lungs sounds like a nice idea.
It probablty will fit under telemarkeing laws, and may fit into the trend developing for people to be opted out of such a service as a default choice as a matter of law.
[ianal, etc]
I can even see going into the store, insisting to find out who is providing them this "service", and then suing the spamming service provider along with the spammer.
Or a retake on the old satire with the mob based spam prevention service.
Just so long as it does try to duplicate those ever so helpful crashes and blue screens.
Of course, you could always run a shell script and have a blue screen display with the appropriate message at semirandom intervals, just in case people want the complete eXPerience.
Unless, of course, this is to merely defray the cost of shipping them to China.
I wonder how useful they would be in a honey pot setup, if you had the bandwidth to spare.
I was disappointed by it. I wanted more technical meat, but what it looks like is that the tech level would tranlate nicely to a "Slash for Dummies" level. I need at least one level deeper information, with at least a description of the perl modules and at least a once over light weight commentary of the code.
Granted that it is changing fairly quickly, but really, this is what I really need. - not something with occasional digs at pet peeves in the examples.
I consider this a beginners book, and not really at the level of a professional reference that I need. Anyone who has set up BBS's etc in the past needs more than what this book offers. It makes an OK first section with a second and third much more detailed section desperately needed. I really do not need the first volume, except for some convenient info in the appendices.
I keep having this picture of archeologists in thousands of years in the future going through all of this stuff, and trying to piece together an old PC. no tech manuals, etc.
Alot of their success would depend on the level of their own technology, of course.
Since the guy is a pop star, the cost are probably coming out of his own pocket.
with the same technique, searching for '"OpenBSD bug"' (note the quotes) returns only 93 results.
but this is only using the same yard stick.
beat yourself which ever way you want.
Note that this was google groups, by the way, not generic google search.
on the generic google search, with quotes, the total results are 352 for "openBSD bug"
For comparion:
windows bug = 605,000 results
microsoft windows bug = 244,000 results
windows nt bug = 127,000 results
windows 98 bug = 87,400 results
just in case you wondered.
most companies love it if they can get their customers on a treadmill, constantly paying in new money. And honestly the cost of tech support for the older games may actually be a money losing proposition.
But They still hate the idea of not making money. and count potential loses are real losses.
Right now I think that that rights to software to revert to something more relaxed a few years after they stop providing tech support. They people who know how to use the older stuff will always be a small percentage anyhow.
Well, we can always pratice and start small. good link
Pre-planning is useful, as always
Of course, they don't mention the weapons potential
or laser headlights for *really* bright high beams on the car.
Although there is the question of who should we send to stay, and who gets to come back. Sending certain overly rich folks such as Bill Gates or Michael Jackson to space to stay only invites comparison to certain old Justin Powers tv episodes (from the series that never existed, yet)
Any nominations for people to send to space and leave there? People to send to space and return for the benefit of mankind?
Note that "BikeBrain is compatible with Pilot 1000/5000, PalmPilot Professional/ Personal, Palm III/x/e, Palm V/x. We do not support the Palm VII yet. " so you do not need the latest and greatest yet. Heck, you can get a Palm iiie in the palm store right now for under $80 bucks, plus shipping. That is not bad.
Possible criminal acts of the music industry are relevant as they are important to the continuation of the culture.
I noted a comment above that this is unimportant, because napster is dead, etc. Sort of like saying that murder is unimportant because the victim is dead and you can't bring the victim back.
Wrong. Unless you _like_ a world run by crooks, or are something of a crook or a criminal yourself.
The higher resolution is not comparable to the switch from black and white to color.
Even so, the FCC has not chosen (I believe) standards that are backward compatible, as was color to black and white. Let's face it. Color TV probably would have taken a lot longer to get into the markert if it had had been backward incompatible.
The end result for most consumers is that they resent being put on the treadmill of upgrading their techonology just because something is supposed to be better. Heck, how many companies were/are still using Cobol when Y2K rolled around. Or look at the hassle MS gets because it wants people to upgrade their computers every three years, even pulling software off the shelves in favor of the last version, trying to force people into shorter and shorter upgrade cycles.
And not every tv station is going to be able to spend money to upgrade to digital right away. The outcry when people are _forced_ to buy new tvs, and these are all high priced items, will kill tv in america. Most folks will say, "I can't afford a thousand dollar tv". They may go down to walmart for something for a couple hundred bucks. But a couple of gs for a bood tube? To hell with it. I know TV is not that important to me. I'll live without, and probably will be better of for it. Just imagine not being able to see allof those political campaign ads because of incompatibility of technologies.
paradise.
right
Good set of links too.