If what you say is true, would moving into a house directly beneath power wires be to my advantage? The houses are cheap, and the electromagnetism is free of charge! (pardeon the pun)
Good question! While it's impossible to deny D2's popularity, I find it to be quite 'lowest common denominator' (sorry Taco). I agree with the psychological appeal somebody mentioned earlier. You are constantly rewarded with small improvements to your character (levels, equipment) but ultimately it is point and click, nothing more. There is no creativity or abstract thinking required. It's the video game equivalent of watching T.V.
I suspect it's the American influence causing you to mock that which you don't understand. Do we need to impose our "superior" culture and values on all the nations of the world?
If they did win, you'll have to hand it to Sony for paving the way to figuring out a way make a lot of money off Linux...
Seriously though, we all knew the GPL would have to stand up to a major court case at some point. This may or may not be it, but it'll be pretty exciting to say the least when the day finally comes.
I would assume the encryption scheme is a separately developed in-house module and not part of their kernel hacking. Hence no GPL violation. I could be totally wrong since I know nothing of the specifics Tivo's guts, but that's my guess.
Agreed. I have yet to encounter a fast programmer who could write non-spaghetti code no matter how detailed the specs are. The original poster described himself as a hacker, which I interpret as someone who writes fast and messy; code that is absolutely unintelligible to a maintainer (or even him/herself after a few weeks or months). That said, most management types prefer guys like this as opposed to slow and elegant.
I can't even imagine the number of people that will die if opposition to their government becomes widespread at some point in time.
More frightening still what will happen if we have a government at that time that takes it upon themselves to "butt in"? Does the U.S. have enough at stake in this situation to get involved? I can't help wondering whether if it would be like Bosnia (commandeer the whole operation) or rather like Rwanda (watch thousands die, go about daily business). Interesting times, these are....
This is great! Just yesterday as many Slashdotters were lamenting the fact that without a trumped-up court case this irrational legal bullying won't get any mainstream attention, along come the good folks at 2600 and the EFF to answer the call. With NY Times coverage no less! Spread the word to all who will listen.
The funniest (scariest) thing about this is that I can honestly see a consultant in "Attention Allocation" successfully pitching his services to a company's clueless managers. Too bad most of the dummy dot-coms are toast.
Hilarious! As someone who used to work in close proximity to MBA sales & marketing guys, I always crack up over MBA bashing. I believe it was IBM in the early '80s that paid by the line (no evidence, just heard it from a university prof).
My favourite (most-hated?) middle manager quote I've heard: "The code is already written, you just have to find the source of these bugs. It should only take a couple hours." Naturally, this was in a 20,000+ line application (written by a dyslexic C programmer who used GOTOs).
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Aw, c'mon Mr. Moderator sir, this was not a troll. Off-topic, yes. Over the heads of many readers, maybe. Not quite funny enough to get a +1 mod, maybe. But save your troll mods for the M$ apologists;)
Home schooled children can be exposed to and reap the benefits of A LOT of available non-school interaction whether it be in the form of church groups, sports, ballet, children's computer group and many others. From what I've seen, this supplement should be considered essential to a home schooling education.
Disclaimer: This opinion is only based on a sample size of 2 (one sheltered, one social), but the results are astounding
Uh oh slashdot - now she's going to sue you next for spamming her web server with millions of slashheads;-) Incredibly, the text-only site is REALLY crawling for me and seems to be on the brink of joining the list of slashdotted sites. Why does this always happen to the stuff I'm really interested in.
Sorry if this is damaging to your healthy cynicism towards humanity, but something similar is going on right before your very eyes. It's called the Open Source movement. It certainly benefits mankind, there's no greed involved by definition, and it's one of the things that gets me out of bed in the morning.
This will put you in quite the legal quandry. How can you notify all those webmasters (legally defending your copyright) and avoid infringing on anti-spam regulations....?
I'd like to thank the Slashdot reading public for not biting this troll. You really let me down with your responses to the "copyright apologist" above, but restored my faith when I saw only one poster take this one (semi-) seriously.
In eternal vigilance against eliminating trolls, we can stand united!
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Alex,
If what you say is true, would moving into a house directly beneath power wires be to my advantage? The houses are cheap, and the electromagnetism is free of charge! (pardeon the pun)
- Rising cases of obesity
- Increased gun-related crime
- Lower education standards
- Greater apathy among citizens
- Ever-growing divide between upper and lower classes
If you're going to plug Americanization, you'd better damn well take the bad with the good.Good question! While it's impossible to deny D2's popularity, I find it to be quite 'lowest common denominator' (sorry Taco). I agree with the psychological appeal somebody mentioned earlier. You are constantly rewarded with small improvements to your character (levels, equipment) but ultimately it is point and click, nothing more. There is no creativity or abstract thinking required. It's the video game equivalent of watching T.V.
I suspect it's the American influence causing you to mock that which you don't understand. Do we need to impose our "superior" culture and values on all the nations of the world?
it has ZERO value!
Surely not intentional, but funny enough to send me searching for a kleenex to wipe the coffee off my screen
Well, you certainly got MY vote for most misplaced Slashdot handle of the year!
Adapt or die.
Given the nature of the organizations you just mentioned, you should probably amend that to "Adapt, die, or sue".
This post marks the beginning of what may come to be known as the greatest rush for 'Funny' mods seen in Slashdot's storied history.
If they did win, you'll have to hand it to Sony for paving the way to figuring out a way make a lot of money off Linux...
Seriously though, we all knew the GPL would have to stand up to a major court case at some point. This may or may not be it, but it'll be pretty exciting to say the least when the day finally comes.
I would assume the encryption scheme is a separately developed in-house module and not part of their kernel hacking. Hence no GPL violation. I could be totally wrong since I know nothing of the specifics Tivo's guts, but that's my guess.
Great, like my mother doesn't get to hear "a/s/l???" enough already!
...this one is flavorless, dull, cliched, and precious.
:)
Usually I don't point out contextual spelling errors, but this one almost made me spit Coke all over my screen
Agreed. I have yet to encounter a fast programmer who could write non-spaghetti code no matter how detailed the specs are. The original poster described himself as a hacker, which I interpret as someone who writes fast and messy; code that is absolutely unintelligible to a maintainer (or even him/herself after a few weeks or months). That said, most management types prefer guys like this as opposed to slow and elegant.
The difference is that in America you can poke fun at the president for being a fearmongering clown and not worry about being jailed and/or murdered.
I can't even imagine the number of people that will die if opposition to their government becomes widespread at some point in time.
More frightening still what will happen if we have a government at that time that takes it upon themselves to "butt in"? Does the U.S. have enough at stake in this situation to get involved? I can't help wondering whether if it would be like Bosnia (commandeer the whole operation) or rather like Rwanda (watch thousands die, go about daily business). Interesting times, these are....
This is great! Just yesterday as many Slashdotters were lamenting the fact that without a trumped-up court case this irrational legal bullying won't get any mainstream attention, along come the good folks at 2600 and the EFF to answer the call. With NY Times coverage no less! Spread the word to all who will listen.
The funniest (scariest) thing about this is that I can honestly see a consultant in "Attention Allocation" successfully pitching his services to a company's clueless managers. Too bad most of the dummy dot-coms are toast.
Hilarious! As someone who used to work in close proximity to MBA sales & marketing guys, I always crack up over MBA bashing. I believe it was IBM in the early '80s that paid by the line (no evidence, just heard it from a university prof).
My favourite (most-hated?) middle manager quote I've heard: "The code is already written, you just have to find the source of these bugs. It should only take a couple hours." Naturally, this was in a 20,000+ line application (written by a dyslexic C programmer who used GOTOs).
Aw, c'mon Mr. Moderator sir, this was not a troll. Off-topic, yes. Over the heads of many readers, maybe. Not quite funny enough to get a +1 mod, maybe. But save your troll mods for the M$ apologists ;)
Home schooled children can be exposed to and reap the benefits of A LOT of available non-school interaction whether it be in the form of church groups, sports, ballet, children's computer group and many others. From what I've seen, this supplement should be considered essential to a home schooling education.
Disclaimer: This opinion is only based on a sample size of 2 (one sheltered, one social), but the results are astounding
Not on a city street, but if you plan on driving in the desert in the middle of summer, it doesnt sound like such a bad idea.
Uh oh slashdot - now she's going to sue you next for spamming her web server with millions of slashheads ;-) Incredibly, the text-only site is REALLY crawling for me and seems to be on the brink of joining the list of slashdotted sites. Why does this always happen to the stuff I'm really interested in.
Sorry if this is damaging to your healthy cynicism towards humanity, but something similar is going on right before your very eyes. It's called the Open Source movement. It certainly benefits mankind, there's no greed involved by definition, and it's one of the things that gets me out of bed in the morning.
This will put you in quite the legal quandry. How can you notify all those webmasters (legally defending your copyright) and avoid infringing on anti-spam regulations....?
I'd like to thank the Slashdot reading public for not biting this troll. You really let me down with your responses to the "copyright apologist" above, but restored my faith when I saw only one poster take this one (semi-) seriously.
In eternal vigilance against eliminating trolls, we can stand united!