Ok this may seem a little extreme but how much spam do you actually get? I get my email all the time and I run at 2400 baud and it never is that anoying. The one thing that can be considered defamatory and restraining communication is where an ISP impliments this type of thing over a customers mail system without their specific concent. Suppose I have many legitimate users on said blocked machine? Well that means that I cannot recieve any mail from them at all. The blackhole list should be implimented as a user option for each mailserver account and not for the entire ISP. I assume an enterprising lawyer could make a statement that restricting an individual user's account from receiving certain sites or receiving data from certain servers is pure and simple descrimination. On the stupid usenet thing. Usenet is a really crappy protocol which really needs more redundancy built in. I personally have never bothered with it in some time unless it's through mailandnews.com's servers (do they adopt the standards of the death sentence?). At any rate you could say that perhaps if an individuals service is in fact hampered by (to take a real life idiom say a group of hippies protesting in your neighboorhood and your bills are late because of said action or you never get your package, etc) What there should be is a massive government funded backbone wherein the actions of private individuals have no bearing on the actions of the whole. Suppose a group of say extremists wants to block you getting mail from anyone at @bigfatassspammer.com or from any NNTP server @nntpserverspammer.org or whatever it really should prevent violation of basic communication rights and as such because it involves interstate commerce and other activities the FTC and the FCC could easily get involved. In short even the most prolific spam is a personal dispute not an institutional problem. It is your problem and your problem alone to deal with. I should not have to take a stand just because a group of people who don't check their email once every 6 monts complain about getting email. Email is not just for personal communication and more of an informational delivery system which actually sees more traffic I would wager from mailinglists and other forms of batch oriented traffic.
I don't see the problem with resolution. I have 20/20 and see everything fine and I don't have a problem with the actual picture unless it's from interference but when the signal is good it dosn't matter.
I want a computer that is cheap and that works well is that too much to ask and maybe works well with current software long into the future. I really don't care if my computer is pretty or not.
The whinny rich kid who wants more glitzy crap? The company that is in a pissing match with another company for loosers to buy their flimsy wares? The lazy programmer who just ran out of ideas and just wants to give a game with 2% better graphics that only maybe Rembrant could really destinguish against. Take the PS2 they are going to charge up the ass for some system that will cost 3x the current selling price of the current playstation to play games that still don't look photorealistic and will probably cost more just so they could cram more crap (like a DVD player into it why the hell do you need to run a DVD player on a video game machine?) These are the problems I see. Why should people be so god damn serious about their free leasure time? Why should it cost thousands to deck yourself out. I thought mass production and modern manufacturing were supposed to drive costs down not increase them.
Ok I still don't understand how that can help you with anything but a narrow spectrum of games which include: 1. Things with a MUD style interface (albiet with graphics) where it could let you do things similar to what a Diku codebase could do and allow for groupings of characters in various situations. 2. Confrontational situations (FPS deathmatch, battles, challenges, chat) where some lonely stupid 10 year old will make you look stupid. Really I don't like having to pay for access to a mud (I get that for free now with a mud I play on and a free ISP, and I really don't want to deal with little billy and him making an ass of me).
Really it seems that most games are not at all original in the least. And they justify the use and application of more hardware to cover up the fact that they don't have any new ideas. Did you know that Wolfenstein had acceptable 3d like graphics and ran on a 286? Hell I can run the original doom on an old 486/33 with no problems. Then people claim that these graphics have increased soooo much and it's totally obvious? Really what ever happened to having graphics good enough that when you look at your hand in the game it looks like your hand in real life (assuming they are modled after the same thing?) Hardware upgrades that increase graphics that humans can see by a 2% increase and give the game some mp3 player and they thing that really counts for an actual advance?
I have played Quake II for N64 and found it to be quite a good experience at that. I really think that a mouse is hard to use in any of those FPS games on the PC. I mean how do you shift your attention from moving (I assume via a keyboard to rotational movement via a mouse)? It's just clumsy and hard to deal with. Primarily the refusal of major game companies to actually standardize on some form of easily upgradeable hardware or else it just dosn't really make any difference. However I guess the best I can hope for is to just buy the game and wait about 5 years to play it on a machine I might then have. That is the unacceptable thing.
Killing people ala deathmatch style play isn't exactly the end all be all thing to do. Also not everyone has or can afford broadband. Why don't PCs just stabalize on hardware specs so that people can just buy a computer and guarantee that they can play a game at any future time down the road
Really you would think that find the cure ourselves would take a shorter time than contacting the alien and getting the cure from him. Of course assuming that the alien didn't have a similar genetic structure it might prove totally worthless.
People have been theorizing for years that alien life would either be extremely primitive or far more advanced than us. Maybe they should look for more than just radio waves. Probably the only radio signals will be ours reflected in some manner. So in say 70 or so years SETI will pick up Amom and Andy reruns: oh the joy.
In general it's better to do something practical than something superficial How about factoring mersenne primes instead. Better for everyone and not as one sided as crypto cracking
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Ok this may seem a little extreme but how much spam do you actually get? I get my email all the time and I run at 2400 baud and it never is that anoying. The one thing that can be considered defamatory and restraining communication is where an ISP impliments this type of thing over a customers mail system without their specific concent. Suppose I have many legitimate users on said blocked machine? Well that means that I cannot recieve any mail from them at all. The blackhole list should be implimented as a user option for each mailserver account and not for the entire ISP. I assume an enterprising lawyer could make a statement that restricting an individual user's account from receiving certain sites or receiving data from certain servers is pure and simple descrimination. On the stupid usenet thing. Usenet is a really crappy protocol which really needs more redundancy built in. I personally have never bothered with it in some time unless it's through mailandnews.com's servers (do they adopt the standards of the death sentence?). At any rate you could say that perhaps if an individuals service is in fact hampered by (to take a real life idiom say a group of hippies protesting in your neighboorhood and your bills are late because of said action or you never get your package, etc) What there should be is a massive government funded backbone wherein the actions of private individuals have no bearing on the actions of the whole. Suppose a group of say extremists wants to block you getting mail from anyone at @bigfatassspammer.com or from any NNTP server @nntpserverspammer.org or whatever it really should prevent violation of basic communication rights and as such because it involves interstate commerce and other activities the FTC and the FCC could easily get involved. In short even the most prolific spam is a personal dispute not an institutional problem. It is your problem and your problem alone to deal with. I should not have to take a stand just because a group of people who don't check their email once every 6 monts complain about getting email. Email is not just for personal communication and more of an informational delivery system which actually sees more traffic I would wager from mailinglists and other forms of batch oriented traffic.
What's the info?
My first game machine was a NES system and my first computer an intel 80386
I don't see the problem with resolution. I have 20/20 and see everything fine and I don't have a problem with the actual picture unless it's from interference but when the signal is good it dosn't matter.
I want a computer that is cheap and that works well is that too much to ask and maybe works well with current software long into the future. I really don't care if my computer is pretty or not.
The whinny rich kid who wants more glitzy crap? The company that is in a pissing match with another company for loosers to buy their flimsy wares? The lazy programmer who just ran out of ideas and just wants to give a game with 2% better graphics that only maybe Rembrant could really destinguish against. Take the PS2 they are going to charge up the ass for some system that will cost 3x the current selling price of the current playstation to play games that still don't look photorealistic and will probably cost more just so they could cram more crap (like a DVD player into it why the hell do you need to run a DVD player on a video game machine?) These are the problems I see. Why should people be so god damn serious about their free leasure time? Why should it cost thousands to deck yourself out. I thought mass production and modern manufacturing were supposed to drive costs down not increase them.
Ok I still don't understand how that can help you with anything but a narrow spectrum of games which include: 1. Things with a MUD style interface (albiet with graphics) where it could let you do things similar to what a Diku codebase could do and allow for groupings of characters in various situations. 2. Confrontational situations (FPS deathmatch, battles, challenges, chat) where some lonely stupid 10 year old will make you look stupid. Really I don't like having to pay for access to a mud (I get that for free now with a mud I play on and a free ISP, and I really don't want to deal with little billy and him making an ass of me).
Really it seems that most games are not at all original in the least. And they justify the use and application of more hardware to cover up the fact that they don't have any new ideas. Did you know that Wolfenstein had acceptable 3d like graphics and ran on a 286? Hell I can run the original doom on an old 486/33 with no problems. Then people claim that these graphics have increased soooo much and it's totally obvious? Really what ever happened to having graphics good enough that when you look at your hand in the game it looks like your hand in real life (assuming they are modled after the same thing?) Hardware upgrades that increase graphics that humans can see by a 2% increase and give the game some mp3 player and they thing that really counts for an actual advance?
I have played Quake II for N64 and found it to be quite a good experience at that. I really think that a mouse is hard to use in any of those FPS games on the PC. I mean how do you shift your attention from moving (I assume via a keyboard to rotational movement via a mouse)? It's just clumsy and hard to deal with. Primarily the refusal of major game companies to actually standardize on some form of easily upgradeable hardware or else it just dosn't really make any difference. However I guess the best I can hope for is to just buy the game and wait about 5 years to play it on a machine I might then have. That is the unacceptable thing.
Killing people ala deathmatch style play isn't exactly the end all be all thing to do. Also not everyone has or can afford broadband. Why don't PCs just stabalize on hardware specs so that people can just buy a computer and guarantee that they can play a game at any future time down the road
People are already thinking
Really the poster makes a good point. Spam isn't going to go away at all. As long as people have email addresses they will have spam
Then if someone steals your computer while it's active then it will do something nasty possibly involving thermite.
It still dosn't really prove it is a laudable goal now does it?
Really that dosn't really prove anything. Thermal imaging satellites work quite well and would dispell those myths easily.
Really you would think that find the cure ourselves would take a shorter time than contacting the alien and getting the cure from him. Of course assuming that the alien didn't have a similar genetic structure it might prove totally worthless.
Or perhaps make it so that you can just compact the computation and do it on the computer you have. It makes a great deal of sense
People have been theorizing for years that alien life would either be extremely primitive or far more advanced than us. Maybe they should look for more than just radio waves. Probably the only radio signals will be ours reflected in some manner. So in say 70 or so years SETI will pick up Amom and Andy reruns: oh the joy.
Looking for ET may be nice but I would rather cure cancer in my lifetime
People will adapt and survive those who cannot survive will die natural selection.
In general it's better to do something practical than something superficial How about factoring mersenne primes instead. Better for everyone and not as one sided as crypto cracking
Is quake more important than helping the world or getting money?
Unless you have a really large SMP machine
Then you can keep the $0.01 per month you make from crunching numbers on your own machine
Sounds nice but most of these things are windows only deals.