I always thought it would be cool if someone would create a funny-page service. You pay X cents per month or whatever, and they make you a customized web page that simple displays all of the comics you specify for thay day. Then I wouldn't have to load tons of megs worth of pages just to get my ozy and millie and penny arcade fix.
There was a windows program called Pointix that allowed you to navigate the web with what they called "glicks". A counter-clockwise circular motion would mean "back" for instance. I forget what it was called, but I was using it in, well, late 1998. It had lots of different gestures that were all programmable.
The web site and domain, pointix.com, are junk now, but this was a really cool program. Along with GetRight it's one of the two programs I ever registered.
I think the ICQ logs from efront are a very important historical record. Even if most of it is inane, it provides an uncommonly frank and unclouded view of a crashing internet company. Some of the most valuable historical records _are_ the inane letters sent from person A to person B. How about the Diary of Anne Frank? A thirteen-year-old's AIM chats are one of the most important works of the century!
A/C status on my cell phone? How about "shit it's hot in here, the damn AC is busted again!" I can't see any functionality that a web-enabled airconditioner adds, and everyone else has detailed the many many problems with such an idea. What a waste of time, effort, money, and valuable IPs.
I'd just like to say that this has been the most stupid, pointless, unfunny april fool's day in the history of mankind, or perhaps just slashdot. If you're going to do a joke, at least either invest an oddly large amount of time in the project (bonsai kitten) or make it very funny. There is a reason sites like nytimes and cnn.com don't do these stupid things, and that is because they are reputable news sites whose job it is to inform their readership. Slashdot, while not terribly reputable ("post first, fact-check later!"), still claims to be a news site. I think a certain level of maturity is called for at some point.
And if you're going to make jokes, make them funny, at least!
what does the macintosh client return when it receives this set of bytes? Obviously it doesn't have the windows aim.exe. Perhaps there is a set of possible return values that is valid that the server will accept? They would have to make this system work with every single existing aim client that supports oscar, right? so does this help libfaim?
this question shouldn't be here. Never has microsoft ever "put a kinder face towards" any competitor. They buy, or they destroy. It's quite clear they see Linux as their number one threat, and as it can't be bought it will be destroyed (they hope). There are never rumors about microsoft coming out with products for linux other than little paranoid/. comments. Lastly, using a good processor that happens to be from a company that employs the originator of linux is no reason at all to assume that Microsoft is embracing linux. We only get ten questions, and I don't think this deserves to be one.
Oh no! they want to charge for a service! run away!
the new york times quite clearly says you get the Plus version of realplayer FREE with your freaknig 10$/YEAR payment. this isn't much to ask for a great service.
I'd prefer the Ball and Chain awards for the consumer product with the most strings / ropes / chains attached. Thus appliances with GPS, windows XP, and dvd would all be eligible.
I think the winner would be windows XP hands down, but the restrictions on things like copy "protected" hard drives are pretty ball and chainy too.
Some people see the vchip idea as a guarantee that more graphic and nasty games will come out. This is because, they think, that the producers can rely on the vchip to keep impressionable youths away.
That's why all of those sophisticated nc17 movies are coming out, right? What people forget is that when you have an "nc17"-like level, merchants can say "I won't advertise games higher than x" or "I won't sell games higher than y." So it doesn't result in _more_ adult-themed entertainment, it results in adult entertainment that teases and uses euphemisms. It's the "everything but" solution that r-rated movies provide.
you forget that most people turn their computers off at night. It saves power and is simply practical if you're not running any servers. While the bootup time isn't horrible on linux, it's certainly noticeable. I would gladly welcome a setup that booted quickly and shut down quickly.
Has anyone else had trouble with seeking with the new vorbis xmms plugin? I've only tried the rpm so far, but when I drag the position cursor xmms locks up. This doesn't happen with mp3s, so it must be a problem with the vorbis plugin. Has anyone else found this?
they are providing a service whose purpose is to facilitate the exchange of copyrighted works for no charge. That in itself is enough to go after them. it's not "just a list" any more than an anti-abortion registry of doctor's names, address, and family members is "just a list." Ok that comparison is inflamitory, but you see what I mean. It is not just the list, it is what the list represents and the purpose for which it is created that is important. Can anyone seriously claim that the intent of the creation of the lists on napster servers _aren't_ to facilitate trading of popular music?
I shake my head whenever I see things like this. Companies seem to have the idea that they need to maintain control over products after they have been sold to a customer. Do we need a consumer's bill o' rights? It's obvious that we are basically helpless as consumers to enact any change. All the WTO protests in the world aren't going to change the fact that people _need_ a refridgerator.
I think part of this new concept of control stems from the basic idea of selling software: when you buy software (when you _do_ buy it) you are buying the right to use the software. This is slowly being extended. Now we don't buy the music, we buy the right to listen to it. Soon, will we buy the right to open a fridge?
The concept of ownership is slowly being erroded. We need to do _something_ to ensure that in this next century we have the right to use the products we buy how we choose, even if it doesn't fit into the scope of its intended usage.
They missed the entire point. Though the stated point of the dogme '95 rules were to get the junk out of movies, the rules themselves are generic, sweeping. "handheld only." period. not "There shall be no knights, elves, dwarves or dragons. Nor shall there be any wizards, wenches, bards, bartenders, golems, giants, clerics, necromancers, thieves, gods, angels, demons, sorceresses, undead bodies or body parts (mummified or decaying), Nazis, Russians, spies, mercenaries, space marines, stormtroopers, star pilots, humanoid robots, evil geniuses, mad scientists, or carnivorous aliens. And no freakin' vampires." Why not say "the game may not take place in a fantasy universe" or something like that.
This is of course avoiding the problem with every one of these rules. The dogma rules were trying to regain some mythical past when men were men, and movies were pure. (which is bullshit, but that's another rant). The rules for "dogma 2001" can be summed up thusly:
1. expensive hardware break my piggy bank.
2. hardware isn't getting cheaper
3. my mom won't buy me new hardware.
4. cliches are cheap and stupid
5. cliches suck.
6. superfluous stuff is superfluous
7. violence is bad, congress says so. it's also cliche in games.
8. cliches are still stupid
9. I think games should be like real life.
10.random pet peeve / cliche
A true set of "pure" rules would be much simpler:
1. The game should not require the user to buy new hardware to play it. an X year-old machine should be adequet.
2. Cliches and genres are to be avoided. They are cheap and overwrought. Innovative uses and twists on cliches that confound the player's expectation are permissable.
3. There should be no superfluous content. The game should contain no more than is necessary to play.
that's it. I don't believe violence is to be avoided, mostly because it's damn exciting and makes for a fun game. It is, however, overused and thus falls in to the cliche category.
Keep in mind I think the original dogma rules were totally off the mark. Cinema is an artificial construction no matter how wobbly the camera is. Games definately need a shot in the arm, and hopefully they'll get it.
ps, Continuum is still the best Dogma Ywwg game ever made... it has been posted to freenet if you want to check it out.
freenet:KSK@/software/abandonware/dos/games/Cont in uum.zip
I would guess that as soon as they start cracking down on names, you'll start to see newsgroup like names:
B,R,U,C,E,S,P,R,I,N,G,S,T,E,E,N
and of course l33t sp33k. The question is how you search for this stuff. As always, people will find a way. One method could be doing some sort of pgp system where you encode your filenames... you could easily build this functionality into a client transparently. Then all you need is a public key and you can properly search for files. Something like that.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.sit.wisc.edu/~ogwilliams/FreeSearch/
* no reliance on one dude's computer for any silly dns entries.
* familiar interface for anyone who has used other p2p apps. (ie I copied napster)
* uses java, so it works on any machine with a java VM.
* Freenet is totally invisible, no need to know how it works _at_all_!
I always thought it would be cool if someone would create a funny-page service. You pay X cents per month or whatever, and they make you a customized web page that simple displays all of the comics you specify for thay day. Then I wouldn't have to load tons of megs worth of pages just to get my ozy and millie and penny arcade fix.
This is, of course, why people should download data with an anonymous system, so they can't be tracked. So go use freenet
There was a windows program called Pointix that allowed you to navigate the web with what they called "glicks". A counter-clockwise circular motion would mean "back" for instance. I forget what it was called, but I was using it in, well, late 1998. It had lots of different gestures that were all programmable.
The web site and domain, pointix.com, are junk now, but this was a really cool program. Along with GetRight it's one of the two programs I ever registered.
man, do they have templates for trolls these days?
ethics major, sociology major... same guy you say?
no usb in nt 4? funny, my usb mouse works fine...
I think the ICQ logs from efront are a very important historical record. Even if most of it is inane, it provides an uncommonly frank and unclouded view of a crashing internet company. Some of the most valuable historical records _are_ the inane letters sent from person A to person B. How about the Diary of Anne Frank? A thirteen-year-old's AIM chats are one of the most important works of the century!
A/C status on my cell phone? How about "shit it's hot in here, the damn AC is busted again!" I can't see any functionality that a web-enabled airconditioner adds, and everyone else has detailed the many many problems with such an idea. What a waste of time, effort, money, and valuable IPs.
I'd just like to say that this has been the most stupid, pointless, unfunny april fool's day in the history of mankind, or perhaps just slashdot. If you're going to do a joke, at least either invest an oddly large amount of time in the project (bonsai kitten) or make it very funny. There is a reason sites like nytimes and cnn.com don't do these stupid things, and that is because they are reputable news sites whose job it is to inform their readership. Slashdot, while not terribly reputable ("post first, fact-check later!"), still claims to be a news site. I think a certain level of maturity is called for at some point.
And if you're going to make jokes, make them funny, at least!
what does the macintosh client return when it receives this set of bytes? Obviously it doesn't have the windows aim.exe. Perhaps there is a set of possible return values that is valid that the server will accept? They would have to make this system work with every single existing aim client that supports oscar, right? so does this help libfaim?
for information on what Wine is (for a microsoft person who is probably not familiar with it!), go to www.winehq.com.
this question shouldn't be here. Never has microsoft ever "put a kinder face towards" any competitor. They buy, or they destroy. It's quite clear they see Linux as their number one threat, and as it can't be bought it will be destroyed (they hope). There are never rumors about microsoft coming out with products for linux other than little paranoid /. comments. Lastly, using a good processor that happens to be from a company that employs the originator of linux is no reason at all to assume that Microsoft is embracing linux. We only get ten questions, and I don't think this deserves to be one.
Oh no! they want to charge for a service! run away!
the new york times quite clearly says you get the Plus version of realplayer FREE with your freaknig 10$/YEAR payment. this isn't much to ask for a great service.
I'd prefer the Ball and Chain awards for the consumer product with the most strings / ropes / chains attached. Thus appliances with GPS, windows XP, and dvd would all be eligible.
I think the winner would be windows XP hands down, but the restrictions on things like copy "protected" hard drives are pretty ball and chainy too.
Some people see the vchip idea as a guarantee that more graphic and nasty games will come out. This is because, they think, that the producers can rely on the vchip to keep impressionable youths away.
That's why all of those sophisticated nc17 movies are coming out, right? What people forget is that when you have an "nc17"-like level, merchants can say "I won't advertise games higher than x" or "I won't sell games higher than y." So it doesn't result in _more_ adult-themed entertainment, it results in adult entertainment that teases and uses euphemisms. It's the "everything but" solution that r-rated movies provide.
you forget that most people turn their computers off at night. It saves power and is simply practical if you're not running any servers. While the bootup time isn't horrible on linux, it's certainly noticeable. I would gladly welcome a setup that booted quickly and shut down quickly.
Has anyone else had trouble with seeking with the new vorbis xmms plugin? I've only tried the rpm so far, but when I drag the position cursor xmms locks up. This doesn't happen with mp3s, so it must be a problem with the vorbis plugin. Has anyone else found this?
they are providing a service whose purpose is to facilitate the exchange of copyrighted works for no charge. That in itself is enough to go after them. it's not "just a list" any more than an anti-abortion registry of doctor's names, address, and family members is "just a list." Ok that comparison is inflamitory, but you see what I mean. It is not just the list, it is what the list represents and the purpose for which it is created that is important. Can anyone seriously claim that the intent of the creation of the lists on napster servers _aren't_ to facilitate trading of popular music?
this doesn't seem to play in avifile (the linux avi player). has anyone gotten it to work? is there a non-asf version?
I shake my head whenever I see things like this. Companies seem to have the idea that they need to maintain control over products after they have been sold to a customer. Do we need a consumer's bill o' rights? It's obvious that we are basically helpless as consumers to enact any change. All the WTO protests in the world aren't going to change the fact that people _need_ a refridgerator.
I think part of this new concept of control stems from the basic idea of selling software: when you buy software (when you _do_ buy it) you are buying the right to use the software. This is slowly being extended. Now we don't buy the music, we buy the right to listen to it. Soon, will we buy the right to open a fridge?
The concept of ownership is slowly being erroded. We need to do _something_ to ensure that in this next century we have the right to use the products we buy how we choose, even if it doesn't fit into the scope of its intended usage.
They missed the entire point. Though the stated point of the dogme '95 rules were to get the junk out of movies, the rules themselves are generic, sweeping. "handheld only." period. not "There shall be no knights, elves, dwarves or dragons. Nor shall there be any wizards, wenches, bards, bartenders, golems, giants, clerics, necromancers, thieves, gods, angels, demons, sorceresses, undead bodies or body parts (mummified or decaying), Nazis, Russians, spies, mercenaries, space marines, stormtroopers, star pilots, humanoid robots, evil geniuses, mad scientists, or carnivorous aliens. And no freakin' vampires." Why not say "the game may not take place in a fantasy universe" or something like that.
t in uum.zip
This is of course avoiding the problem with every one of these rules. The dogma rules were trying to regain some mythical past when men were men, and movies were pure. (which is bullshit, but that's another rant). The rules for "dogma 2001" can be summed up thusly:
1. expensive hardware break my piggy bank.
2. hardware isn't getting cheaper
3. my mom won't buy me new hardware.
4. cliches are cheap and stupid
5. cliches suck.
6. superfluous stuff is superfluous
7. violence is bad, congress says so. it's also cliche in games.
8. cliches are still stupid
9. I think games should be like real life.
10.random pet peeve / cliche
A true set of "pure" rules would be much simpler:
1. The game should not require the user to buy new hardware to play it. an X year-old machine should be adequet.
2. Cliches and genres are to be avoided. They are cheap and overwrought. Innovative uses and twists on cliches that confound the player's expectation are permissable.
3. There should be no superfluous content. The game should contain no more than is necessary to play.
that's it. I don't believe violence is to be avoided, mostly because it's damn exciting and makes for a fun game. It is, however, overused and thus falls in to the cliche category.
Keep in mind I think the original dogma rules were totally off the mark. Cinema is an artificial construction no matter how wobbly the camera is. Games definately need a shot in the arm, and hopefully they'll get it.
ps, Continuum is still the best Dogma Ywwg game ever made... it has been posted to freenet if you want to check it out.
freenet:KSK@/software/abandonware/dos/games/Con
That's not evidence they are the same person, it's evidence that he's lifting ideas. Badly. my god, so badly.
in windows you have to delete some mozreg.dat files or something like that in the WINDOWS\ directory. This solves most crash problems.
I would guess that as soon as they start cracking down on names, you'll start to see newsgroup like names:
B,R,U,C,E,S,P,R,I,N,G,S,T,E,E,N
and of course l33t sp33k. The question is how you search for this stuff. As always, people will find a way. One method could be doing some sort of pgp system where you encode your filenames... you could easily build this functionality into a client transparently. Then all you need is a public key and you can properly search for files. Something like that.