I think there's an interesting idea here. Maybe the money that's going to isps should be used to subsidize popular content, under the theory that content will drive new business to the isp's. For instance, napster drove broadband demand like no other app ever has. If ISP's find that a particular site or network is driving demand for their service, it makes sense for them to invest in it.
I don't know, it's got problems, but in some cases it might make sense. I know most users here wouldn't get rid of their isp if certain pages went offline, but I'm sure there's some somewhere.
I took the liberty of benchmarking 25 spoken languages by comparing their methods for expressing the phrase "Wuzzzzzzaaaaaah" from the budweiser commercial. Some of these may not be optimized as I am a bit of a newbie at some of these languages. Here is an excerpt:
American English: "Wuzzzzzzzzzzzzzahhh!"
British English: "What is up?"
Japanese: "Konichiwaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"
Spanish: "Holaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"
Welsh: "Wyffffffwyfffffffffffff!"
The binary language of water vaporators:
"0100000000000000000000000000000000"
Australian English: "I'm not saying any such thing. Give me a Fosters'."
Irish English: "I'm not saying any such thing. Give me another pint of Guiness."
Javanese: " I'm not saying any such thing. Give me another pint of Guiness. No, I'm not the Irish guy in Javanese traditional dress, I'm from Java!"
Well, your post seems intent on getting people mad rather than constructive discussion. You can tell because you stereotype the 'gnutella sorts' as ruthless unprincipled pirates who don't have any justification for their opinions about copyright. This is unfair and tarnishes your otherwise well-made point.
Still, although I don't believe intellectual property is a good thing, I have a hard time getting upset about this decision. Why? It protects the little guy, the individual authour. Giving copyrights to individual authors in general works against what most of us who oppose intellectual property thinks is the most dangerous aspect of ip: namely, the ownership of ideas by corporations. Of course it would be better if there was no ownership (although I don't have time to engage the French case with you now), but any move that restores copyright to authors rather than corporations is a chip from the wall, not a new set of bricks.
If I had any mod points right now I'd give them to wrinkledshirt. This is such an excellent point- red hat is a bridge for lots of people to get into linux, and they've done a good job not pissing anyone off too badly so far. Plus they are profitable.
So long as they don't abuse their brand by doing evil things, I say go red hat, build a brand so powerful that even the emperor himself will be forced to deal with us...
er,
if you'd just lead them to true freedom, they'd follow you, and so would I,
er,
bring balance to the force,
er...
I can't believe I'm not posting this anonymously
-one os to run them all, and in the darkness bind them...
These retinal scanners are totally unsafe. They encourage people to rip out your eyes, stick them on pencils, and use them to gain entry to secure systems. A false sense of security if there ever was one.
Frequency: Uncommon
No. Appearing: 1-12
Armor Class: 4
Move: 12"
Hit Dice: 6+6
% in lair: 40%
Treasure Type: D
No. of Attacks: 3
Damage/Attack: 5-8/5-8/2-12
Special Attacks: See Below
Special Defenses: Regeneration
Magic Resistance: Standard
Intelligence: Low
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Size: L (9' + tall)
Psionic Ability: Nil
Attack/Defense Modes: Nil
Trolls are horrid carnivores found in nearly every clime. They are feared by most creatures, as a troll knows no fear and attacks unceasingly. Their sense of smell is very acute, their infravision is superior, (90'), and their strength is very great.
A troll attacks with its clawed forelimbs and its great teeth. A troll is able to fight 3 different opponents at once. 3 melee rounds after being damaged, a troll will begin to regenerate. Regeneration repairs damage at 3 hit points per round; this regenerationincludes the rebonding of severed members. The loathsome members of a troll have the ability to fight even if severed from the body; a hand can claw or strangle, the head bite, etc. Total dismemberment will not slay a troll, for its parts will slither and scuttle together, rejoin, and the troll will arise whole and ready to continue combat. To kill a troll, the monster must be burned or immersed in acid, any separate pieces being treated in the same fashion or they create a whole again in 3-18 melee rounds.
Description: Troll hide is a nauseating moss green, mottled greed and gray, or putrid gray. The writhing hair-like growth upon a troll's head is greenish black or iron gray. The eyes of a troll are dull black.
Loki has created a really nice
installer package which is available under the LGPL, perhaps others should look into using it?
I'm not sure to what extent it can solve the various dll problems, but for newbies who are used to the windows style of installations and have been talked into using linux because they saw Koffice and Konqueror and decided it was similar enough that they could get by, programs like this are *very* nice.
I think you're on to something with the Distributed MMORPG, with this caveat:
Integrate the other problems into the game and allow characters to choose to sell their processor cycles for some sort of game credit. For instance, whenever your character is inactive, she prays to the goddess of SETI (which is the game representation of using cpu cycles for the SETI@HOME project), and she slowly accumulates extra gold or hit points or something.
A convergence like this would generate a lot of good press and interest in your game, not to mention generating interest in distributed computing projects. Might be just the thing to push one of those many GPL MMORPG projects to completion.
Man I have an idea like every two seconds, I wish they were all this good:P
I'm very surprised that this document was not referenced in the article. It makes a very similar point, but in a powerful and compact narrative format.
I knew someone named Phuc once, which he insisted was pronounced "folk", but after 18 years of dealing with the problems related to being named Phuc, he decided to "americanize" his name and begin going by Trent.
I find this doubly amusing becasue the most anticipated web launch of voyeruistic porn in the history of the internet was not the fake virgins who were going to deflower each other on camera, but Ken Starr's detailed report on Bill Clinton's sex life. It was published on the internet the moment it was available after a party line vote, republicans in favor of publishing it, democrats against. It may be just ascii, but it's potent- I certainly learned a thing or two about Altoids and cigars!
I'll be at least over the hypocrisy issue once the folks who voted to publish the Starr report on the internet turn themselves in to the authorities. Then I'll start fighting to get them out on the grounds that they unconstitutionally imprisoned themselves:)
Bryguy
Ya, but what about a *Beowulf Cluster* of those ba
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PS2 As PC
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Especially if Saddam Hussein is using them to play that new WTO game.
I don't have time to quibble over everything, but this point in particular bothers me:
Great, we are getting better productivity than ever. This point is suspiciously similar to the ones made by various unions in XIX century directed against industrial revolution (which included destruction of machines etc.. all in the name of workers)
The leftist opinion on this that you so cavalierly describe as ludditism is much more interesting. If productivity goes up, the benefits of that productivity should be equally shared. i.e., why not reduce the length of the work week (as they have in France) rather than laying off half the workers when productivity rises? The answer is that those who own the means of production benefit disproportionately from gains in productivity because they control them. Rising productivity itself isn't the problem, although it's not a good for its own sake no matter what your economics textbook tells you - the question is, who benefits when productivity rises? How can we guarantee that the benefits of rising productivity are distributed fairly?
Finally, if governmental legitimacy arises only from the consent of the governed, and corporations do the bulk of the "governing" these days, should't these organizations be under public control for the same reasons?
I'll keep posting this until someone more important than me points it out in print somewhere:) The GPL is not a virus, it is more like a vaccine. It prevents the worst abuses of the intellectual property regime, like people being jailed for copying, modifying or misusing microsoft windows or other products. This disease metaphor is obviously a very well thought out public relations strategy on the part of microsoft, but if the free software corner can fight back with a more convincing rhetoric (vaccine not virus), it will backfire miserably on Redmond.
Perhaps this is the foothold linux gaming needs. The i386 platform is in a windows stranglehold, but if we can make it very easy to transfer games written for linux to the playstation platform and make images available for people to burn to a cd that will boot linux on the playstation/playstation2 and run the game, this adds a serious level of added value to any linux platform game programming project. Perhaps game companies could even target a linux ps/ps2 system by distributing two discs, the runix disk (all gpl) and the game disk (proprietary, if they feel they must)?
I'd love to have a port of tuxracer for the ps/ps2.
Intriguing,
Bryguy
Slashdot Mirror
I think there's an interesting idea here. Maybe the money that's going to isps should be used to subsidize popular content, under the theory that content will drive new business to the isp's. For instance, napster drove broadband demand like no other app ever has. If ISP's find that a particular site or network is driving demand for their service, it makes sense for them to invest in it.
I don't know, it's got problems, but in some cases it might make sense. I know most users here wouldn't get rid of their isp if certain pages went offline, but I'm sure there's some somewhere.
Bryguy
This was my prompt on the Sun machines we logged into for years at Pitt:
Yes, Master?>
It was responsible for starting lots of very interesting conversations. I'd almost forgotten!
Bryguy
Took me a second to digest it. Ah, for the days when ascii art was king. Adobe ASCIIshop anyone?
I took the liberty of benchmarking 25 spoken languages by comparing their methods for expressing the phrase "Wuzzzzzzaaaaaah" from the budweiser commercial. Some of these may not be optimized as I am a bit of a newbie at some of these languages. Here is an excerpt:
American English: "Wuzzzzzzzzzzzzzahhh!"
British English: "What is up?"
Japanese: "Konichiwaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"
Spanish: "Holaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"
Welsh: "Wyffffffwyfffffffffffff!"
The binary language of water vaporators:
"0100000000000000000000000000000000"
Australian English: "I'm not saying any such thing. Give me a Fosters'."
Irish English: "I'm not saying any such thing. Give me another pint of Guiness."
Javanese: " I'm not saying any such thing. Give me another pint of Guiness. No, I'm not the Irish guy in Javanese traditional dress, I'm from Java!"
Microsoft
can you imagine a beowulf cluster of refrigerators?
:)
for someone to launch a DOS attack on my air conditioner or refrigerator. Perhaps this will encourage conservation, hmmm...
It sounds like what you need is a printer. Preferably one with a very fine resolution.
:)
Well, your post seems intent on getting people mad rather than constructive discussion. You can tell because you stereotype the 'gnutella sorts' as ruthless unprincipled pirates who don't have any justification for their opinions about copyright. This is unfair and tarnishes your otherwise well-made point.
Still, although I don't believe intellectual property is a good thing, I have a hard time getting upset about this decision. Why? It protects the little guy, the individual authour. Giving copyrights to individual authors in general works against what most of us who oppose intellectual property thinks is the most dangerous aspect of ip: namely, the ownership of ideas by corporations. Of course it would be better if there was no ownership (although I don't have time to engage the French case with you now), but any move that restores copyright to authors rather than corporations is a chip from the wall, not a new set of bricks.
Bryguy
If I had any mod points right now I'd give them to wrinkledshirt. This is such an excellent point- red hat is a bridge for lots of people to get into linux, and they've done a good job not pissing anyone off too badly so far. Plus they are profitable.
So long as they don't abuse their brand by doing evil things, I say go red hat, build a brand so powerful that even the emperor himself will be forced to deal with us...
er,
if you'd just lead them to true freedom, they'd follow you, and so would I,
er,
bring balance to the force,
er...
I can't believe I'm not posting this anonymously
-one os to run them all, and in the darkness bind them...
These retinal scanners are totally unsafe. They encourage people to rip out your eyes, stick them on pencils, and use them to gain entry to secure systems. A false sense of security if there ever was one.
Bryguy
No. Appearing: 1-12
Armor Class: 4
Move: 12"
Hit Dice: 6+6
% in lair: 40%
Treasure Type: D
No. of Attacks: 3
Damage/Attack: 5-8/5-8/2-12
Special Attacks: See Below
Special Defenses: Regeneration
Magic Resistance: Standard
Intelligence: Low
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Size: L (9' + tall)
Psionic Ability: Nil
Attack/Defense Modes: Nil
Trolls are horrid carnivores found in nearly every clime. They are feared by most creatures, as a troll knows no fear and attacks unceasingly. Their sense of smell is very acute, their infravision is superior, (90'), and their strength is very great.
A troll attacks with its clawed forelimbs and its great teeth. A troll is able to fight 3 different opponents at once. 3 melee rounds after being damaged, a troll will begin to regenerate. Regeneration repairs damage at 3 hit points per round; this regenerationincludes the rebonding of severed members. The loathsome members of a troll have the ability to fight even if severed from the body; a hand can claw or strangle, the head bite, etc. Total dismemberment will not slay a troll, for its parts will slither and scuttle together, rejoin, and the troll will arise whole and ready to continue combat. To kill a troll, the monster must be burned or immersed in acid, any separate pieces being treated in the same fashion or they create a whole again in 3-18 melee rounds.
Description: Troll hide is a nauseating moss green, mottled greed and gray, or putrid gray. The writhing hair-like growth upon a troll's head is greenish black or iron gray. The eyes of a troll are dull black.
I already get blank stares from some of the younger folk when I try to explain leaded gas to them.
Bryguy
I'm not sure to what extent it can solve the various dll problems, but for newbies who are used to the windows style of installations and have been talked into using linux because they saw Koffice and Konqueror and decided it was similar enough that they could get by, programs like this are *very* nice.
I imagine it will be roughly the same number who currently browse this sort of magazine, which is in my experience not very many at all.
Bryguy
I think you're on to something with the Distributed MMORPG, with this caveat:
:P
Integrate the other problems into the game and allow characters to choose to sell their processor cycles for some sort of game credit. For instance, whenever your character is inactive, she prays to the goddess of SETI (which is the game representation of using cpu cycles for the SETI@HOME project), and she slowly accumulates extra gold or hit points or something.
A convergence like this would generate a lot of good press and interest in your game, not to mention generating interest in distributed computing projects. Might be just the thing to push one of those many GPL MMORPG projects to completion.
Man I have an idea like every two seconds, I wish they were all this good
Bryguy
I'm very surprised that this document was not referenced in the article. It makes a very similar point, but in a powerful and compact narrative format.
I knew someone named Phuc once, which he insisted was pronounced "folk", but after 18 years of dealing with the problems related to being named Phuc, he decided to "americanize" his name and begin going by Trent.
I find this doubly amusing becasue the most anticipated web launch of voyeruistic porn in the history of the internet was not the fake virgins who were going to deflower each other on camera, but Ken Starr's detailed report on Bill Clinton's sex life. It was published on the internet the moment it was available after a party line vote, republicans in favor of publishing it, democrats against. It may be just ascii, but it's potent- I certainly learned a thing or two about Altoids and cigars!
:)
I'll be at least over the hypocrisy issue once the folks who voted to publish the Starr report on the internet turn themselves in to the authorities. Then I'll start fighting to get them out on the grounds that they unconstitutionally imprisoned themselves
Bryguy
Especially if Saddam Hussein is using them to play that new WTO game.
:)
Bryguy
Great, we are getting better productivity than ever. This point is suspiciously similar to the ones made by various unions in XIX century directed against industrial revolution (which included destruction of machines etc .. all in the name of workers)
The leftist opinion on this that you so cavalierly describe as ludditism is much more interesting. If productivity goes up, the benefits of that productivity should be equally shared. i.e., why not reduce the length of the work week (as they have in France) rather than laying off half the workers when productivity rises? The answer is that those who own the means of production benefit disproportionately from gains in productivity because they control them. Rising productivity itself isn't the problem, although it's not a good for its own sake no matter what your economics textbook tells you - the question is, who benefits when productivity rises? How can we guarantee that the benefits of rising productivity are distributed fairly?
Finally, if governmental legitimacy arises only from the consent of the governed, and corporations do the bulk of the "governing" these days, should't these organizations be under public control for the same reasons?
Bryguy
Ballmer: Ever hear of Stallman? de Icaza? TORVALDS?
Dread Pirate Roberts: yes.
Ballmer: Morons.
Bryguy
"I've been slowly building up an immunity to proprietary software for the past 5 years"
I'll keep posting this until someone more important than me points it out in print somewhere :) The GPL is not a virus, it is more like a vaccine. It prevents the worst abuses of the intellectual property regime, like people being jailed for copying, modifying or misusing microsoft windows or other products. This disease metaphor is obviously a very well thought out public relations strategy on the part of microsoft, but if the free software corner can fight back with a more convincing rhetoric (vaccine not virus), it will backfire miserably on Redmond.
Bryguy
Perhaps this is the foothold linux gaming needs. The i386 platform is in a windows stranglehold, but if we can make it very easy to transfer games written for linux to the playstation platform and make images available for people to burn to a cd that will boot linux on the playstation/playstation2 and run the game, this adds a serious level of added value to any linux platform game programming project. Perhaps game companies could even target a linux ps/ps2 system by distributing two discs, the runix disk (all gpl) and the game disk (proprietary, if they feel they must)? I'd love to have a port of tuxracer for the ps/ps2. Intriguing, Bryguy