Welcome to "why not to grab every new piece of software as soon as it's released". Other examples include Apple's iTunes 2 and MS Windows 98 (first edition). Also works for hardware, and heck, even cars (first year of a new model is usually riddled with problems).
Whenever things of this sort are done, the end result is usually to sully the reputation of the artist. Witness the many posthumous releases of Jimi Hendrix, many of which -- culled from jam sessions and demo tapes -- are awful. I think Hendrix has had between 3 and 5 releases while he was alive, and somewhere in the 10-15 range since his death. They find every scrap they can because they know hardcore Hendrix fans will buy it, but it is generally not that good. I only hope that this last book from Adams doesn't serve to make his previous work look bad.
I usually reboot my machine to clear the memory. While I there may be some benefits to keeping the memory state, like quick bootup, I boot in 20 seconds now ( 20 seconds from pressing the power button to the win98 hourglass disappearing) so that's not much of an issue for me. I would rather have the expected effect of a clean system startup on reboot than a 1 second boot time. Having the system remember bugs etc after a reboot would be awful, IMHO.
I only hang out in the channel of my (former) q3 clan, and a few others, on irc.enterthegame.com and the ops are all pretty decent. No real powertripping. People like that get booted out of the clan. Usually when I kick/ban someone it's a good friend and I do it as a joke. So maybe you're just hanging out in the wrong channels.
I was happy to see that Aimster's wrongdoings are being made known to all at none other than FuckedCompany. Nothing would make me happier than seeing ol' John Deep living in the streets of Cohoes, NY. Come on, won't you pay $4.95 for... absolutely nothing? I wonder how far he'll really go in his efforts to turn his daughter into a pr0n star? Maybe we'll see! Stay tuned, maybe Club Aimster will turn into an affiliation between Aimster and Club, the European porn mag!
Yeah, right after Transmeta had their big unveiling, I emailed them and asked if they could do the same thing with PPC. Somebody actually replied and said it would be easy to do, but they were focusing on Pentium first. I can see from their point of view, that's where the money is, but I thought they were missing a lot of opportunities by not emulating other architectures. I mean if you have one chip that you can swap from an Intel board to an Apple board by just telling it "ok, now emulate PPC," I mean, that's gotta be useful to somebody I would imagine? There are other differences between platforms but I think if your CPU can speak both PPC and x86 then that's a big step towards having "native" Windows and MacOS (e.g.) on the same computer.
Well I think even worse would be AOL and MS dominating ICANN (perish the thought). I mean, at least porn is a valuable service! I would rather the internet turn into a porn center than an AOL-ified kiddie town.
Well q3test came with 3 maps. I think asking for a single non-crap map isn't that much. I guess you're right, though; now my impression of the game is such crap because of that one lame map that I don't give a fuck when it's released. I think that's really best for all, don't you agree?
Before I waste 20 minutes looking for a mirror, can anybody tell me if they've included any new maps? That one they have really sucks after like the 10th time you play it so I haven't touched the game since the week it came out.
What you end up with is grossly large applications that sloth along on extremely powerful machines that have the capability to be so much more. This is yet another reason to use Linux.
Here, you sound like a complete fool. Some of the applications on windows are crummy so use a whole different operating system? Why not just use different applications? Are you saying that all Linux applications will run just swell on a Pentium 200 MMX? Doubtful.
Bush's re-election will hinge on the outcome of the current battles, both abroad and at home. I doubt that 95% of America will give a rat's ass about Microsoft's future at that point, especially if the past is any indication of the future.
Well, I'm just saying it's in the public's best interest that it be continued. Just like the subway system. Although the subway is considerably different in that it's the kind of service a private corporation probably couldn't do, since so much of it is subsidized by taxes. Anyway, my point was just that (good) search engines are necessary now, in direct proportion to the necessity of the web itself.
This was in response to someone who claimed the whole concept of a "search engine" would not last. I was stating my opinion that a search engine such as Google is such an important tool for public good that if ever its future was endangered, it should be bailed out by the government(s), as without it the WWW would be rendered more or less useless. The internet is indeed an invaluable resource for information and other things, but without at least one good search engine how will anyone find that information? Emailing links to each other?
If ever Google is on the verge of dying, the government(s) should bail them out. The service they provide is too valuable to let them slip away. The internet (well, the web) would be rather useless without Google (or another similarly excellent search facility).
CS/HL aren't as dependent on framerates as Q3A. Your framerate in Q3A can determine how well you play. In CS I don't think a framerate above 60 affects gameplay at all; in Q3 there are framerate values that are much better than others (I believe 125 fps is one such value, that's where I keep mine set).
I go to Slashdot, I see a story at the top about Apple's new supposed PDA, the "iWalk" and link to SpyMac.com. I hit back, then reload 3 or 4 times to make sure, and the story is gone! Ultima is the top story now. This is damn weird.
You better have a good explanation for why you think that slashdot folks are willing to tolerate them.
Well, I don't mind them at all, and I think they're a trivial price to pay for everything Slashdot offers. And before you make your witty retort along the lines of "SUCH AS WHAT ? SPELLING ERRORS AND OLD NEWS?" just ask yourself... if there's nothing of value here, why are you still here? Popup ads are truly an annoyance, but what is wrong with larger ads? Maybe Flash ads wouldn't be appropriate for a linux-oriented site (I don't know if there's a flash plugin for Linux or not) but I have no problem whatsoever with CNET-style ads.
Anyway, you asked why they thought "Slashdot folks" would tolerate the ads, and here's one reason.
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Should Slashdot be profitting off our article submissions, and our comments? That's why I read the site, not because of the editors.
Well then don't pay them and then the site will eventually go away and you'll be happy then, right? Can you possibly imagine the cost (in both time and effort) in running a site of this size? I am sure the ISP bill is in the 5 digit range every month. So you don't want to pay them because you only like the comments. Isn't that like cutting off your nose to spite your face?
If you don't like them then just send your check directly to Exodus. Really, your comment shows an immense lack of understanding for the Slashdot editors. While I will be among the first to concede that Slashdot has numerous problems, the manner in which you belittle the efforts of the staff sickens me. I can only hope at some point in the future someone calmly and rationally explains to you how something you've worked very hard on is absolutely worthless and tells you that you don't deserve any compensation for it, in fact, you should be paying them for subjecting you to it.
Let us know that we're being charged this because of need, and not because of the avarice of a few businessmen over at VA.
First of all, public corporations are legally obligated to do what is in the best interest of the corporation. So this is a ridiculous claim. Secondly, what do you want them to do? Take pictures of themselves starving? Measure their waistlines day by day so you can see just how much weight they're losing? Or for a less dramatic example, do you want the site to only be up 12 hours a day since they can only afford to pay 50% of their ISP bills?
Tell me honestly: was your post intended to be a troll, or are you just stupid?
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Note that I said stories, not posts. The stories on Slashdot are for the most part fact-based, and a common theme among the patent-related stories on Slashdot is that patents today are used more than ever as a weapon instead of a way to foster innovation. While there are still plenty of "good" patents, I'm sure, the number of those being used primarily as weapons is sharply on the rise.
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Its true, IBM set standards.. and a lot of them. But did you know that IBM still puts out more patents than any other corporation in the world (per year)?
They're still a company that innovates.
How many Slashdot stories do you need to read to prove that patents do not imply innovation? There was a comment attached to a story last week from a guy who interned at IBM and he said that they basically just have a meeting every few weeks to discuss what can be patented. Anything that's not already patented is fair game. That hardly sounds like innovation to me. Maybe the whole concept of using patents as a primary revenue stream is innovative: another post in the same article claimed that IBM rakes in about $1.7 billion per year in patent licensing fees.
While IBM may in fact be a great innovator, don't take their number of patents as evidence of anything.
Summer 2000 I worked for a company that was testing some software from IBM based on their ViaVoice voice recognition software that would allow you to feed in an mpeg (video or audio) stream and the program would output a transcript of it. Honestly it was pretty bad at the time, but that was a long time ago and I don't have any idea what kind of progress has been made since then. It also had some other features like taking snapshots of the video and indexing them to the text and all sorts of cool stuff.
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Welcome to "why not to grab every new piece of software as soon as it's released". Other examples include Apple's iTunes 2 and MS Windows 98 (first edition). Also works for hardware, and heck, even cars (first year of a new model is usually riddled with problems).
Whenever things of this sort are done, the end result is usually to sully the reputation of the artist. Witness the many posthumous releases of Jimi Hendrix, many of which -- culled from jam sessions and demo tapes -- are awful. I think Hendrix has had between 3 and 5 releases while he was alive, and somewhere in the 10-15 range since his death. They find every scrap they can because they know hardcore Hendrix fans will buy it, but it is generally not that good. I only hope that this last book from Adams doesn't serve to make his previous work look bad.
RAM that maintains memory after shutdown
I usually reboot my machine to clear the memory. While I there may be some benefits to keeping the memory state, like quick bootup, I boot in 20 seconds now ( 20 seconds from pressing the power button to the win98 hourglass disappearing) so that's not much of an issue for me. I would rather have the expected effect of a clean system startup on reboot than a 1 second boot time. Having the system remember bugs etc after a reboot would be awful, IMHO.
I only hang out in the channel of my (former) q3 clan, and a few others, on irc.enterthegame.com and the ops are all pretty decent. No real powertripping. People like that get booted out of the clan. Usually when I kick/ban someone it's a good friend and I do it as a joke. So maybe you're just hanging out in the wrong channels.
Read this: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5094 508,00.html
Pardon this rant...
I was happy to see that Aimster's wrongdoings are being made known to all at none other than FuckedCompany. Nothing would make me happier than seeing ol' John Deep living in the streets of Cohoes, NY. Come on, won't you pay $4.95 for... absolutely nothing? I wonder how far he'll really go in his efforts to turn his daughter into a pr0n star? Maybe we'll see! Stay tuned, maybe Club Aimster will turn into an affiliation between Aimster and Club, the European porn mag!
God damn, I hate those fuckers.
Yeah, right after Transmeta had their big unveiling, I emailed them and asked if they could do the same thing with PPC. Somebody actually replied and said it would be easy to do, but they were focusing on Pentium first. I can see from their point of view, that's where the money is, but I thought they were missing a lot of opportunities by not emulating other architectures. I mean if you have one chip that you can swap from an Intel board to an Apple board by just telling it "ok, now emulate PPC," I mean, that's gotta be useful to somebody I would imagine? There are other differences between platforms but I think if your CPU can speak both PPC and x86 then that's a big step towards having "native" Windows and MacOS (e.g.) on the same computer.
Never! What kind of a Slashdot reader would I be if I read the articles before posting on them?!
Well I think even worse would be AOL and MS dominating ICANN (perish the thought). I mean, at least porn is a valuable service! I would rather the internet turn into a porn center than an AOL-ified kiddie town.
...considering allowing domain owners to elect their board of directors.
I wonder, if you own 20 domains do you get 20 votes? That would be in keeping with ICANN's previous actions.
Well q3test came with 3 maps. I think asking for a single non-crap map isn't that much. I guess you're right, though; now my impression of the game is such crap because of that one lame map that I don't give a fuck when it's released. I think that's really best for all, don't you agree?
Before I waste 20 minutes looking for a mirror, can anybody tell me if they've included any new maps? That one they have really sucks after like the 10th time you play it so I haven't touched the game since the week it came out.
Really needs more maps.
What you end up with is grossly large applications that sloth along on extremely powerful machines that have the capability to be so much more. This is yet another reason to use Linux.
Here, you sound like a complete fool. Some of the applications on windows are crummy so use a whole different operating system? Why not just use different applications? Are you saying that all Linux applications will run just swell on a Pentium 200 MMX? Doubtful.
Let's also not delude ourselves.
WWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!
microsoft.
Bush's re-election will hinge on the outcome of the current battles, both abroad and at home. I doubt that 95% of America will give a rat's ass about Microsoft's future at that point, especially if the past is any indication of the future.
Well, I'm just saying it's in the public's best interest that it be continued. Just like the subway system. Although the subway is considerably different in that it's the kind of service a private corporation probably couldn't do, since so much of it is subsidized by taxes. Anyway, my point was just that (good) search engines are necessary now, in direct proportion to the necessity of the web itself.
What I originally wrote:
If ever Google is on the verge of dying...
This was in response to someone who claimed the whole concept of a "search engine" would not last. I was stating my opinion that a search engine such as Google is such an important tool for public good that if ever its future was endangered, it should be bailed out by the government(s), as without it the WWW would be rendered more or less useless. The internet is indeed an invaluable resource for information and other things, but without at least one good search engine how will anyone find that information? Emailing links to each other?
If ever Google is on the verge of dying, the government(s) should bail them out. The service they provide is too valuable to let them slip away. The internet (well, the web) would be rather useless without Google (or another similarly excellent search facility).
CS/HL aren't as dependent on framerates as Q3A. Your framerate in Q3A can determine how well you play. In CS I don't think a framerate above 60 affects gameplay at all; in Q3 there are framerate values that are much better than others (I believe 125 fps is one such value, that's where I keep mine set).
I go to Slashdot, I see a story at the top about Apple's new supposed PDA, the "iWalk" and link to SpyMac.com. I hit back, then reload 3 or 4 times to make sure, and the story is gone! Ultima is the top story now. This is damn weird.
You better have a good explanation for why you think that slashdot folks are willing to tolerate them.
Well, I don't mind them at all, and I think they're a trivial price to pay for everything Slashdot offers. And before you make your witty retort along the lines of "SUCH AS WHAT ? SPELLING ERRORS AND OLD NEWS?" just ask yourself... if there's nothing of value here, why are you still here? Popup ads are truly an annoyance, but what is wrong with larger ads? Maybe Flash ads wouldn't be appropriate for a linux-oriented site (I don't know if there's a flash plugin for Linux or not) but I have no problem whatsoever with CNET-style ads.
Anyway, you asked why they thought "Slashdot folks" would tolerate the ads, and here's one reason.
Should Slashdot be profitting off our article submissions, and our comments? That's why I read the site, not because of the editors.
Well then don't pay them and then the site will eventually go away and you'll be happy then, right? Can you possibly imagine the cost (in both time and effort) in running a site of this size? I am sure the ISP bill is in the 5 digit range every month. So you don't want to pay them because you only like the comments. Isn't that like cutting off your nose to spite your face?
If you don't like them then just send your check directly to Exodus. Really, your comment shows an immense lack of understanding for the Slashdot editors. While I will be among the first to concede that Slashdot has numerous problems, the manner in which you belittle the efforts of the staff sickens me. I can only hope at some point in the future someone calmly and rationally explains to you how something you've worked very hard on is absolutely worthless and tells you that you don't deserve any compensation for it, in fact, you should be paying them for subjecting you to it.
Let us know that we're being charged this because of need, and not because of the avarice of a few businessmen over at VA.
First of all, public corporations are legally obligated to do what is in the best interest of the corporation. So this is a ridiculous claim. Secondly, what do you want them to do? Take pictures of themselves starving? Measure their waistlines day by day so you can see just how much weight they're losing? Or for a less dramatic example, do you want the site to only be up 12 hours a day since they can only afford to pay 50% of their ISP bills?
Tell me honestly: was your post intended to be a troll, or are you just stupid?
Posts to /. ...
Note that I said stories, not posts. The stories on Slashdot are for the most part fact-based, and a common theme among the patent-related stories on Slashdot is that patents today are used more than ever as a weapon instead of a way to foster innovation. While there are still plenty of "good" patents, I'm sure, the number of those being used primarily as weapons is sharply on the rise.
Its true, IBM set standards.. and a lot of them. But did you know that IBM still puts out more patents than any other corporation in the world (per year)?
They're still a company that innovates.
How many Slashdot stories do you need to read to prove that patents do not imply innovation? There was a comment attached to a story last week from a guy who interned at IBM and he said that they basically just have a meeting every few weeks to discuss what can be patented. Anything that's not already patented is fair game. That hardly sounds like innovation to me. Maybe the whole concept of using patents as a primary revenue stream is innovative: another post in the same article claimed that IBM rakes in about $1.7 billion per year in patent licensing fees.
While IBM may in fact be a great innovator, don't take their number of patents as evidence of anything.
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/aw.nsf/techbios/CCD7 B0622FAB2F1788256A1B0057D13F looks like IBM is giving it away for free, NT 4.0/2000.
Summer 2000 I worked for a company that was testing some software from IBM based on their ViaVoice voice recognition software that would allow you to feed in an mpeg (video or audio) stream and the program would output a transcript of it. Honestly it was pretty bad at the time, but that was a long time ago and I don't have any idea what kind of progress has been made since then. It also had some other features like taking snapshots of the video and indexing them to the text and all sorts of cool stuff.
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Ahh, here it is: It's called CueVideo and it's aimed at Multimedia indexing: http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/cuevideo/
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Here's an almost unrelated article: http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/news/2000082
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigmm/MM98/electronic_pro