Sounds like a good deal, but I imagine the electricity needed to perform this little procedure would cost you money even if it turned quarters into gold coins.
This idea has me really excited. I still remember my most exciting video game memories from the arcade at Canada's Wonderland (amusement park a la Six Flags in the US). They had a Daytona USA rig with 8 player simultaneous side-by-side action. When a group of friends came to the park, we'd easily spend $10-15 racing each other (game cost $1 each, seems cheap by today's standards), taunting loudly the entire time. Warcraft 2 still gets the nod as my favourite all-time game, but that 8-player Daytona will always remain my favourite gaming experience. It certainly won't be as exciting racing against someone in another location, but the human factor which is so critical to the enjoyment of today's games will be there.
I would argue that naive non-programmers can appreciate a beautiful UI, or an installer that hides the gory details of the installation (associated Windows problems notwithstanding). And, like art, it is the artists who can tell the good art from the bad. We "artists" at Slashdot can also tell the good (Linux) from the bad (Windoze) for reasons not apparent to the naive user.
Moderators: please don't mod me up (or down) on the basis that last sentence. Yes it does look like karma-whoring, but the analogy was very relevant in this context.
I think conventional artists (that is painters, music composers, etc.) have a deep, ingrained understanding of math that even Mathematics PhD's don't. A great painter has a *CONCEPT* of 3-D space that doesn't need a set of formal proofs. I always found it strange that my math professors were universally terrible at drawing even a parabola. How can someone with such a deep understanding not be able to produce a simple visual presentation?
Similarly, one can study all the music theory in existence (VERY mathematical and logical) and still not be able to write a symphony that doesn't suck (again, I knew of some university music professors like this). The great composers have all that theory "built in" and can use it with tremendous results.
I've always been of the mind that art is math and vice-versa.
I'm sure you realize how incredibly crappy and juvenile games like Metroid and Zelda really were.
I would much rather play Final Fantasy VIII or Diablo II any day than games that were popular in the '80's.
I could be a bit quick on the draw, but my troll detector went off when I read this post (of course, now I'm going to proceed to feed the troll, so if that was the intent, mission accomplished).
Diablo II: Is this not Legend of Zelda dressed up in some blood & guts?
D2: point your mouse and click, some magic spells
Zelda: point Link and press A, some magic items
I haven't seen any true innovation in some time. Nearly all games can be traced back in some way shape or form to the late 80's/early 90's or earlier (there are some exceptions to the rule, thank you Thief, and bring on the Black and White!) In all fairness however, if I still found as many worthwhile games now as i did 8-10 years ago, I probably wouldn't have any free time or even a job! Maybe I should thank the industry for their futility:-)
This is mildly offtopic, but does anyone have any data on hard drive crashes per capita in the U.S.? I never really thought about different climates affecting the parts, but if some brands are less prone to fail in certain conditions (cold vs warm, dry vs. wet, etc.), it would definitely be info worth knowing. Obviously climate isn't going to affect servers in controlled rooms, this is for my own information to possibly prevent the aggravation of going through a HD crash again.
Seeing the recursive nature of this translation just gave me (and possibly some of you) something to obsess over tonight! Who can come up with the phrase that outputs
We will help you turn
your business into an E-BUSINESS and turn your business
into an E-BUSINESS and turn your
business into an E-BUSINESS and turn your
business into an E-BUSINESS and turn your
business into an E-BUSINESS (...)
Deepest level of recursion wins! Winner gets to be King geek for Feb. 13!:-)
Never have I seen a post somehow half flamebait and half insightful! No wonder the moderators can't figure out what to do about this one. I'd mod it up just because this takes way more skill than your garden-variety troll post.
I've been using OpenSSH 2.3.0 for what seems like a long time... Maybe I'm the only one who goes on an "update bender" every couple of months to make sure I have recent versions of the stuff I use (and crypto related software is what I check most often). Hell, Debian and Helix Gnome could be updated by an AOLer. Again I call into question the quality of a sys admin who can go even a few weeks without updating important software, or at least checking out recent info.
Note: The authors do not encourage Web content developers to use frames as they can cause many usability and accessibility problems.
Amen! Testify! Not that buzzword-spouting, frappuccino-swilling dot-com "web designers" will be reading the document, but this sentence, if nothing else, should be required reading for people producing web pages.
Sorry about the f---edcompany.com-style rant, frames aren't nearly as common as they were 2-3 years ago, but they still drive me bonkers.
LOL! "The hard-drive" that's priceless! Takes me way back to my support days! I had almost forgotten how much it sucked to have to deal with non-geeks for anything remotely technical.
Any company in 2001 that hasn't registered its corporate name, and all its major products' names before making them public, is stupid and deserves to pay large sums of money to savvy entrepreneurs.
I agree with the anti-corporate sentiment, and I believe in protecting peoples' rights online. Even cybersquatters! But I must present slashdot with a "bad taste" citation for calling cybersquatters (ie. scum that rank only slightly above spammers) savvy entrepreneurs.
Wouldn't a much more fair solution be to charge a greatly reduced rate to universities or private subscriptions, as opposed to corporate subscriptions? Probably won't happen but that's how it should be.
And I sure hope the contributors of the papers in the journal get a huge royalty from the publisher! (Good title of your post BTW)
Curiously, it's the DIYs that seem to be against the whole copy protection thing in the first place.
I don't find this too curious. DIY's have a lot to gain by getting their brilliant works into the hands of a lot of people. Once they are "discovered" they'll be able to make a nice living off their writing. This reminds me of one of Metallica's earliest albums which came out around the time blank tapes were really coming under fire from the record industry. Metallica urged music fans to freely copy their tape, because it would get into a lot of kis' hands that way. Unfortunately, we all know how the Metallica story turns out... lets hope that irony doesn't play itself out again.
I have it that a significant amount of book authors' income here in Finland comes from getting paid for loans at the library
You say the money paid when you borrow a book goes to the author, but I'm very curious as to what percentage of library fees goes to the author him/herself and what percentage goes to the publisher and government...
Also radio stations in the U.S. do pay royalties for the music that is played on the air. However there's a cutthroat industry among record labels as to who is going to get the free promotion via radio play. Essentially, stations are 'bribed' into playing music by big labels (ever wonder why you don't hear NOFX or Ani DiFranco on the radio?)
I love this site as much as anyone, and yes, I would pay money for it (a couple dollars a week as you suggest is pretty steep though), but I'm sure there's plenty of insightful comments from casual readers who would never pay to browse this site which would be lost under a "mandatory tipping" policy (that sounds like something the mob would come up with). On the other hand, optional tipping wouldn't get rid of flaming AC's at all. I'm pretty satisfied with the status quo here, AFAIC it's the best posting policy anywhere on the web.
Remember this one from the old Calvin & Hobbes strips? I've never known a less zero-sum game in my life! The only rule is that there are no rules. Doesn't have to be strictly for children either, I think I'll go play a game right now with my beanie babies residing on top of my monitor.
My mailbox works just fine, and it hasn't changed in over 20 years! It sits at shoulder height just to the right of my front door. Here's the advantages:
-No encryption techniques neccesary
-rarely have to waste time with forwarded jokes
-Best of all, the spam it collects is occasionally useful (I know all the pizza deals available in town).
.. and admittedly it will be skewed if anyone has played it before. However, you can surely weed these people out by simply watching each subject for even 30 seconds. Nobody new to the game will know to use attack-move, a "reaver drop" or a "muta rush". Also, few females that I know have even heard of this game (don't bias the study by putting too many females in, but > 50% should help provided you're not using gender as a control). I'm actually quite interested, and I'm sure all of Slashdot would appreciate a link to an html or pdf document of your finished work. Good luck
The size and detail on the image was QUITE impressive for an 8K file (I clicked on the HTML image). While this won't evolve into any sort of standard video-conferencing format, it might be a cool alternative to live webcams for people with slower dial-up access.
Sadly, the slow loading speed may mean the site's been slashdotted already:-P Anyone who can't get in, check back in a couple days. Very cool software (and I remember trying to draw cool ascii art myself from a keyboard way back in boring highscool computer classes)
I don't know if it's possible to provide an unbiased answer to this question, but try and put your personal opinions about open source aside for this one:
Can the open-source model evolve into a legitimate (and possibly the best) way to produce quality software AND turn a profit? As it is now, it depends heavily on talented programmers investing significant amounts of time for free. Is closed source the way it will always be for software companies to flourish financially?
I think we're starting to get off topic here... but if the 'ONLY incentive' you have is growing your karma, then AFAIC you're here for the wrong reasons. Intelligent debate on websites has fallen by the wayside now that everyone and their 'ghetto-speaking' cousin has internet access, but at least the drivel is hidden from me while I'm here. This is more valuable to me personally than just about any other feature available on the web. It may not be a perfect system, but its a hell of a lot better than anything else available.
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Sounds like a good deal, but I imagine the electricity needed to perform this little procedure would cost you money even if it turned quarters into gold coins.
I think this algorithm would qualify as "lossy compression"!
This idea has me really excited. I still remember my most exciting video game memories from the arcade at Canada's Wonderland (amusement park a la Six Flags in the US). They had a Daytona USA rig with 8 player simultaneous side-by-side action. When a group of friends came to the park, we'd easily spend $10-15 racing each other (game cost $1 each, seems cheap by today's standards), taunting loudly the entire time. Warcraft 2 still gets the nod as my favourite all-time game, but that 8-player Daytona will always remain my favourite gaming experience. It certainly won't be as exciting racing against someone in another location, but the human factor which is so critical to the enjoyment of today's games will be there.
I would argue that naive non-programmers can appreciate a beautiful UI, or an installer that hides the gory details of the installation (associated Windows problems notwithstanding). And, like art, it is the artists who can tell the good art from the bad. We "artists" at Slashdot can also tell the good (Linux) from the bad (Windoze) for reasons not apparent to the naive user.
Moderators: please don't mod me up (or down) on the basis that last sentence. Yes it does look like karma-whoring, but the analogy was very relevant in this context.
I think conventional artists (that is painters, music composers, etc.) have a deep, ingrained understanding of math that even Mathematics PhD's don't. A great painter has a *CONCEPT* of 3-D space that doesn't need a set of formal proofs. I always found it strange that my math professors were universally terrible at drawing even a parabola. How can someone with such a deep understanding not be able to produce a simple visual presentation?
Similarly, one can study all the music theory in existence (VERY mathematical and logical) and still not be able to write a symphony that doesn't suck (again, I knew of some university music professors like this). The great composers have all that theory "built in" and can use it with tremendous results.
I've always been of the mind that art is math and vice-versa.
I'm sure you realize how incredibly crappy and juvenile games like Metroid and Zelda really were.
:-)
I would much rather play Final Fantasy VIII or Diablo II any day than games that were popular in the '80's.
I could be a bit quick on the draw, but my troll detector went off when I read this post (of course, now I'm going to proceed to feed the troll, so if that was the intent, mission accomplished).
Diablo II: Is this not Legend of Zelda dressed up in some blood & guts?
D2: point your mouse and click, some magic spells
Zelda: point Link and press A, some magic items
I haven't seen any true innovation in some time. Nearly all games can be traced back in some way shape or form to the late 80's/early 90's or earlier (there are some exceptions to the rule, thank you Thief, and bring on the Black and White!) In all fairness however, if I still found as many worthwhile games now as i did 8-10 years ago, I probably wouldn't have any free time or even a job! Maybe I should thank the industry for their futility
This is mildly offtopic, but does anyone have any data on hard drive crashes per capita in the U.S.? I never really thought about different climates affecting the parts, but if some brands are less prone to fail in certain conditions (cold vs warm, dry vs. wet, etc.), it would definitely be info worth knowing. Obviously climate isn't going to affect servers in controlled rooms, this is for my own information to possibly prevent the aggravation of going through a HD crash again.
Sorry man, Murphy's law: Dropped HD's always land data-side down.
Funny, seems a lot of people have had problems with vapor of a different kind from buy.com (orders vaporizing, credit charges for vapor, ...)
Seeing the recursive nature of this translation just gave me (and possibly some of you) something to obsess over tonight! Who can come up with the phrase that outputs
:-)
We will help you turn
your business into an E-BUSINESS and turn your business
into an E-BUSINESS and turn your
business into an E-BUSINESS and turn your
business into an E-BUSINESS and turn your
business into an E-BUSINESS (...)
Deepest level of recursion wins! Winner gets to be King geek for Feb. 13!
Never have I seen a post somehow half flamebait and half insightful! No wonder the moderators can't figure out what to do about this one. I'd mod it up just because this takes way more skill than your garden-variety troll post.
I've been using OpenSSH 2.3.0 for what seems like a long time... Maybe I'm the only one who goes on an "update bender" every couple of months to make sure I have recent versions of the stuff I use (and crypto related software is what I check most often). Hell, Debian and Helix Gnome could be updated by an AOLer. Again I call into question the quality of a sys admin who can go even a few weeks without updating important software, or at least checking out recent info.
Note: The authors do not encourage Web content developers to use frames as they can cause many usability and accessibility problems.
Amen! Testify! Not that buzzword-spouting, frappuccino-swilling dot-com "web designers" will be reading the document, but this sentence, if nothing else, should be required reading for people producing web pages.
Sorry about the f---edcompany.com-style rant, frames aren't nearly as common as they were 2-3 years ago, but they still drive me bonkers.
LOL! "The hard-drive" that's priceless! Takes me way back to my support days! I had almost forgotten how much it sucked to have to deal with non-geeks for anything remotely technical.
Any company in 2001 that hasn't registered its corporate name, and all its major products' names before making them public, is stupid and deserves to pay large sums of money to savvy entrepreneurs.
I agree with the anti-corporate sentiment, and I believe in protecting peoples' rights online. Even cybersquatters! But I must present slashdot with a "bad taste" citation for calling cybersquatters (ie. scum that rank only slightly above spammers) savvy entrepreneurs.
Wouldn't a much more fair solution be to charge a greatly reduced rate to universities or private subscriptions, as opposed to corporate subscriptions? Probably won't happen but that's how it should be.
And I sure hope the contributors of the papers in the journal get a huge royalty from the publisher! (Good title of your post BTW)
Curiously, it's the DIYs that seem to be against the whole copy protection thing in the first place.
I don't find this too curious. DIY's have a lot to gain by getting their brilliant works into the hands of a lot of people. Once they are "discovered" they'll be able to make a nice living off their writing. This reminds me of one of Metallica's earliest albums which came out around the time blank tapes were really coming under fire from the record industry. Metallica urged music fans to freely copy their tape, because it would get into a lot of kis' hands that way. Unfortunately, we all know how the Metallica story turns out... lets hope that irony doesn't play itself out again.
I have it that a significant amount of book authors' income here in Finland comes from getting paid for loans at the library
You say the money paid when you borrow a book goes to the author, but I'm very curious as to what percentage of library fees goes to the author him/herself and what percentage goes to the publisher and government... Also radio stations in the U.S. do pay royalties for the music that is played on the air. However there's a cutthroat industry among record labels as to who is going to get the free promotion via radio play. Essentially, stations are 'bribed' into playing music by big labels (ever wonder why you don't hear NOFX or Ani DiFranco on the radio?)
I love this site as much as anyone, and yes, I would pay money for it (a couple dollars a week as you suggest is pretty steep though), but I'm sure there's plenty of insightful comments from casual readers who would never pay to browse this site which would be lost under a "mandatory tipping" policy (that sounds like something the mob would come up with). On the other hand, optional tipping wouldn't get rid of flaming AC's at all. I'm pretty satisfied with the status quo here, AFAIC it's the best posting policy anywhere on the web.
Remember this one from the old Calvin & Hobbes strips? I've never known a less zero-sum game in my life! The only rule is that there are no rules. Doesn't have to be strictly for children either, I think I'll go play a game right now with my beanie babies residing on top of my monitor.
My mailbox works just fine, and it hasn't changed in over 20 years! It sits at shoulder height just to the right of my front door. Here's the advantages:
-No encryption techniques neccesary
-rarely have to waste time with forwarded jokes
-Best of all, the spam it collects is occasionally useful (I know all the pizza deals available in town).
.. and admittedly it will be skewed if anyone has played it before. However, you can surely weed these people out by simply watching each subject for even 30 seconds. Nobody new to the game will know to use attack-move, a "reaver drop" or a "muta rush". Also, few females that I know have even heard of this game (don't bias the study by putting too many females in, but > 50% should help provided you're not using gender as a control). I'm actually quite interested, and I'm sure all of Slashdot would appreciate a link to an html or pdf document of your finished work. Good luck
The size and detail on the image was QUITE impressive for an 8K file (I clicked on the HTML image). While this won't evolve into any sort of standard video-conferencing format, it might be a cool alternative to live webcams for people with slower dial-up access.
:-P Anyone who can't get in, check back in a couple days. Very cool software (and I remember trying to draw cool ascii art myself from a keyboard way back in boring highscool computer classes)
Sadly, the slow loading speed may mean the site's been slashdotted already
Can the open-source model evolve into a legitimate (and possibly the best) way to produce quality software AND turn a profit? As it is now, it depends heavily on talented programmers investing significant amounts of time for free. Is closed source the way it will always be for software companies to flourish financially?
I think we're starting to get off topic here... but if the 'ONLY incentive' you have is growing your karma, then AFAIC you're here for the wrong reasons. Intelligent debate on websites has fallen by the wayside now that everyone and their 'ghetto-speaking' cousin has internet access, but at least the drivel is hidden from me while I'm here. This is more valuable to me personally than just about any other feature available on the web. It may not be a perfect system, but its a hell of a lot better than anything else available.