Oh yes, I see the day when I no longer need the words 'rape, enlargement, mortgage, lolita, diploma and toner' in my filter list for 'Permanantly delete'.
Do those topics come up a lot in your non-spam emails?
DRM isnt an evil term. You've read too much slashdot.
Incorrect.
Digital Rights Management was defined as a way to people to maintain their "Rights" (as in copyrights) digitally.
Maybe Sony is expanding the term to include general security so down the road people think "Oh, DRM! Great, now I can use online banking! Its just like SSL!", and will ignore the fact it means you'll only be able to play that mp3 for 48 hours until it self-destructs.
by that I mean, mainstream news that isn't "sugarcoated".
The only time i've seen examples of alternate media sources, they're the extreme left wing type; "The Illegal President Bush signed an order to kill iraqii babies today."
6 teams of 8 programmers each. Give the teams names like "The Lightning Crew" and "Project: Dynamite".
Then, let them compete with each other in a bitter struggle to earn the affection of LGP by developing the best game.
The contest can be punctuated by weekly challenges. Say, two teams have to play a UT2003 team deathmatch against each other... WITH THE MONITORS UPSIDE DOWN. The winners get use of a rendering farm for a day. The losers lose their internet connection for 48 hours.
Or, the teams need to rot13 encode the first page of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by hand, while a naked man squirts lemon juice in their eyes. The winner receives their choice of an O'Reilly book. The loser probably goes blind for a day.
Or, a chosen member of each team has to write a functioning HTTP server (text only!), while being forced to watch the goatse.cx website - Clockwork Orange style. The winner receives a 2.0ghz P4 system from Gateway.com. The loser has his liver pecked out by ravens.
Slowly but surely, a product emerges and is judged. Now _thats_ something that will propel the linux gaming movement forward. Hop to it.
I've used the term Rock Band companies before based on the high school rock band.
A bunch of kids get together and decide on a 'bitchin name for their band.
Then they scribble it on their bass drum.
Then, they actually start thinking about the music.
Looks like they're doing the same thing here. The first thing they have scheduled is to think of the name for the company, (and make sure you can grab the domain name!!!) then it looks like part 2 of the agenda is to invent a new genre of computer game. Well, wouldn't I like to be a fly on the wall in THAT meeting!
I'm taking applications for people to make a product for me. I'm much more flexible, in that it _doesn't have to be a game_. It could be anything. How about a new type of car? Or some sort of exciting new food product?
Anyway, i'll be happy to introduce the team to each other. Then you guys can get to work inventing something fantastic. I won't pay you or anything, you just get together somehow and do it. W00t
When you're done, give me a call. I'll look at it, and if I think its a product that can make money, i'll market it, sell it, and keep 30% of the profits from it. Think about it though, if you invent something worth 10 million dollars, you make SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS. Thats a lot of money.
If your product is crappy, I'm not going to try to sell it or anything. I have a life, you know.
Sound exciting? Well, it sure sounds exciting to me. In fact, i'm not going to limit it to a group of 8, i'm willing to let the entire./ readership start developing products for me!
Godspeed and Good luck!
Re:Some important differences
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Whereas in Japan, a well developed hero will often masturbate, cry, and proclaim him/herself the Messiah.
You're a judge, a DA, or a cop. One day, you become aware that there's a kiddy porn site up.
Should your priority be:
A) Immediately contact the ISP and make sure people can't see that site anymore!
B) Immediately get a warrant, contact the ISP and find out who the hell put the pictures up, so you can put them in jail. This will, of course, cause the pictures to be taken off the internet.
I mean, this is like saying "If someone murders someone in your house, you are now legally obligated to put up a curtain so nobody can see the blood. What? You think that sounds stupid? Aren't you against murder???"
It's fun to see Amazon try and talk about how difficult it would be to implement taxes for all states, when it's already doing it for Target and Toys 'R Us."
Amazon has my full support to use all the doubletalk they want if it saves me from paying taxes.
You get cupids bow and 2 arrows early on in the game. You can shoot a pegasus? to make him fall in love with you. At any time, you could shoot the other arrow and it would fly across the screen, etc.
THE LAST PART IN THE GAME, the evil queen or whatever, required the 2nd arrow. Literally, the last two words you typed were "Shoot queen." If you shot the arrow 5 hours ago... tough luck, you were dead.
Just like during the internet boom, you had slick marketers climbing out of their gutters telling boards of education that their miraculous software will help students improve test scores, learn faster, be more interested in learning, make them better citizens, and let them melt objects with the power of their minds.
Of course, many of the teachers (just like many of the engineers in the corporate world,) said "What? I don't think thats going to work." but the school boards wanted their schools to be considered hi-tech, and it was an easy way to get more money for education.
Now that this stuff has actually been tested in the field, we're seeing it all backfire.
And all jokes aside, while technology teachers tend to know what they're doing, many other teachers were given a manual and direct orders to "teach using these computers!". Obviously, thats going to have a negative effect.
Wow. What Katz-ian insight and wisdom.
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If the guy had brought up columbine, i'd swear it was written by Katz.
Society's essential pyramidal shape remained intact till a full suite of elements and tools were finally in place for a true revolution -- one so fundamental, coming with such heady, empowering suddenness, that participants gave it a name filled with hubristic portent.
I mean, c'mon.
Tolkien wasn't trying to parallel anything. The Lord of the Rings wasn't an allegory for anything. Tolkien said this countless times, but wordy intellectuals still try to find meaning where there is none.
Yes, one result has been a lessened sense of confidence, a sadly stylish fatalism in an era of unprecedented goodness and competence.
They ban sales of Mein Kampf? So they're burning books in France and Germany?
These are the people who we're worried about offending with a conflict with Iraq?
This isn't some quirky "Can I block an intersection/burn a flag/show porn in public" free speech issue, this is "This book contains material we don't like, and it reminds us of something we'd rather forget. Ban it."
We can discuss the erosion of civil rights in the United States after 9/11, while the readers from overseas loudly criticize the president, but I suppose if this was Europe, we'd be banning terrorist literature and shutting down Islamic web sites.
My Mom is 108 years old. Windows XP one day manifested itself in a swirling cloud of darkness and evil and killed her cat. I installed Debian for her and it cured her arthritis and let her get involved in some kernel hacking. She's never had a problem with her computer, even when she loses power. Bless you Linux!
Though it will cost you 10% to 15% performance penalty
This refers to hard disk access time penalties, not an overall 10-15% reduction in the performance of your computer. You wouldn't notice the difference.
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Do those topics come up a lot in your non-spam emails?
Incorrect.
Digital Rights Management was defined as a way to people to maintain their "Rights" (as in copyrights) digitally.
Maybe Sony is expanding the term to include general security so down the road people think "Oh, DRM! Great, now I can use online banking! Its just like SSL!", and will ignore the fact it means you'll only be able to play that mp3 for 48 hours until it self-destructs.
Where should I go to find news?
by that I mean, mainstream news that isn't "sugarcoated".
The only time i've seen examples of alternate media sources, they're the extreme left wing type; "The Illegal President Bush signed an order to kill iraqii babies today."
I'm a switcher, and stories like this are just fodder for my PC friends to make fun of me.
Myth II????
voltron:/home/gannoc/incoming/temp# chmod +x 3dmark2003.exep # ./3dmark2003.exe ./3dmark2003.exe: cannot execute binary file
voltron:/home/gannoc/incoming/tem
bash:
6 teams of 8 programmers each. Give the teams names like "The Lightning Crew" and "Project: Dynamite".
Then, let them compete with each other in a bitter struggle to earn the affection of LGP by developing the best game.
The contest can be punctuated by weekly challenges. Say, two teams have to play a UT2003 team deathmatch against each other... WITH THE MONITORS UPSIDE DOWN. The winners get use of a rendering farm for a day. The losers lose their internet connection for 48 hours.
Or, the teams need to rot13 encode the first page of Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by hand, while a naked man squirts lemon juice in their eyes. The winner receives their choice of an O'Reilly book. The loser probably goes blind for a day.
Or, a chosen member of each team has to write a functioning HTTP server (text only!), while being forced to watch the goatse.cx website - Clockwork Orange style. The winner receives a 2.0ghz P4 system from Gateway.com. The loser has his liver pecked out by ravens.
Slowly but surely, a product emerges and is judged. Now _thats_ something that will propel the linux gaming movement forward. Hop to it.
I've used the term Rock Band companies before based on the high school rock band.
A bunch of kids get together and decide on a 'bitchin name for their band.
Then they scribble it on their bass drum.
Then, they actually start thinking about the music.
Looks like they're doing the same thing here. The first thing they have scheduled is to think of the name for the company, (and make sure you can grab the domain name!!!) then it looks like part 2 of the agenda is to invent a new genre of computer game. Well, wouldn't I like to be a fly on the wall in THAT meeting!
ANNOUNCEMENT:
./ readership start developing products for me!
I'm taking applications for people to make a product for me. I'm much more flexible, in that it _doesn't have to be a game_. It could be anything. How about a new type of car? Or some sort of exciting new food product?
Anyway, i'll be happy to introduce the team to each other. Then you guys can get to work inventing something fantastic. I won't pay you or anything, you just get together somehow and do it. W00t
When you're done, give me a call. I'll look at it, and if I think its a product that can make money, i'll market it, sell it, and keep 30% of the profits from it. Think about it though, if you invent something worth 10 million dollars, you make SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS. Thats a lot of money.
If your product is crappy, I'm not going to try to sell it or anything. I have a life, you know.
Sound exciting? Well, it sure sounds exciting to me. In fact, i'm not going to limit it to a group of 8, i'm willing to let the entire
Godspeed and Good luck!
So in Japan, I would be a hero??? Cool.
You're a judge, a DA, or a cop. One day, you become aware that there's a kiddy porn site up.
Should your priority be:
A) Immediately contact the ISP and make sure people can't see that site anymore!
B) Immediately get a warrant, contact the ISP and find out who the hell put the pictures up, so you can put them in jail. This will, of course, cause the pictures to be taken off the internet.
I mean, this is like saying "If someone murders someone in your house, you are now legally obligated to put up a curtain so nobody can see the blood. What? You think that sounds stupid? Aren't you against murder???"
You almost gave me a fucking heart attack.
I read the title, and had this surreal tunnel-vision of a world without internet porn.
Lets just say its not a world I want to live in.
Amazon has my full support to use all the doubletalk they want if it saves me from paying taxes.
I don't care about the state government.
I've been saying for years that we need more hispanic lesbians building robots on TV. Count me IN!
You get cupids bow and 2 arrows early on in the game. You can shoot a pegasus? to make him fall in love with you. At any time, you could shoot the other arrow and it would fly across the screen, etc.
THE LAST PART IN THE GAME, the evil queen or whatever, required the 2nd arrow. Literally, the last two words you typed were "Shoot queen." If you shot the arrow 5 hours ago... tough luck, you were dead.
Weeee, fun.
That means that he's claiming about $20 worth of losses for EACH blank videotape.
So I guess they're assuming that every single blank videotape sold is used to pirate movies. Nice.
Wait, just kidding. I just totally made up those numbers. Shit, I should be a lobbyist and live with honor.
Thank god. Trying to think of programming and boobs at the same time is making my head hurt.
Of course, many of the teachers (just like many of the engineers in the corporate world,) said "What? I don't think thats going to work." but the school boards wanted their schools to be considered hi-tech, and it was an easy way to get more money for education.
Now that this stuff has actually been tested in the field, we're seeing it all backfire.
And all jokes aside, while technology teachers tend to know what they're doing, many other teachers were given a manual and direct orders to "teach using these computers!". Obviously, thats going to have a negative effect.
Society's essential pyramidal shape remained intact till a full suite of elements and tools were finally in place for a true revolution -- one so fundamental, coming with such heady, empowering suddenness, that participants gave it a name filled with hubristic portent.
I mean, c'mon.
Tolkien wasn't trying to parallel anything. The Lord of the Rings wasn't an allegory for anything. Tolkien said this countless times, but wordy intellectuals still try to find meaning where there is none.
Yes, one result has been a lessened sense of confidence, a sadly stylish fatalism in an era of unprecedented goodness and competence.
Damn, I miss Katz.
I'll make you a deal. You can have our Apple Macintosh Laptops at our price, if we can have prescription drugs at your price. Deal?
These are the people who we're worried about offending with a conflict with Iraq?
This isn't some quirky "Can I block an intersection/burn a flag/show porn in public" free speech issue, this is "This book contains material we don't like, and it reminds us of something we'd rather forget. Ban it."
We can discuss the erosion of civil rights in the United States after 9/11, while the readers from overseas loudly criticize the president, but I suppose if this was Europe, we'd be banning terrorist literature and shutting down Islamic web sites.
My Mom is 108 years old. Windows XP one day manifested itself in a swirling cloud of darkness and evil and killed her cat. I installed Debian for her and it cured her arthritis and let her get involved in some kernel hacking. She's never had a problem with her computer, even when she loses power. Bless you Linux!
It was 500,000 people downloading patches for Planes of Power.
Though it will cost you 10% to 15% performance penalty
This refers to hard disk access time penalties, not an overall 10-15% reduction in the performance of your computer. You wouldn't notice the difference.
WTF?
Seriously, mine went from $10 to $13. I was actually pretty pissed about that w/ the better hardware offerings from sonicblue.
"Tivo is doomed for failure! And remember, when it dies, you won't be able to use it anymore."
"Hmmm, then, " says thoughtful consumer, "I had better put off that Tivo purchase then."
"NEW FROM MICROSOFT: The X-Home Media Workstation, with PVR and X-Box compatibility!"
"Wow! Microsoft, eh? Why, sign me up!"