I emailed Carmack in '06 about releasing the source code to Commander Keen, and I got this reply:
We sort of lost the source code to most of the early games, or I would have released them long ago.
When I emailed Romero about it, he replied:
Yes, I have the source but have to figure out if all of it is complete and buildable. I think it is from the last time I checked it out a year ago or so. And it's 99% coded in C with a couple asm routines.:)
I emailed Carmack back saying Romero had the code, and I emailed Romero back saying Carmack wanted to release it.
The Nine Billion Names Of God by Kathy Kachelries September 12th, 2005 After three hours, the old man in front of me had worked his way through six beers, in addition to every help desk joke I'd already heard. The cupholder. The any key. The write click. These are the stories people tell, now. These are the fish that got away.
"Let me ask you something," the man said. I didn't argue. One of the first tricks I learned about being a bartender is to make them think you're interested.
"Have you ever created a web site?"
I shook my head.
"Not at all? Not even one of those geocities things?"
"Nope."
"What about a blog? Or an ebay About Me page? You didn't even have an AOL site or something?"
"Do I look like an AOL user to you?" For the record, I don't think AOL even has access numbers in the valley anymore. "I'm sure I have something, somewhere," I said, realizing that I was jeopardizing my tips. Besides, I had a distant memory of a single Angelfire page back in middle school.
"You know what Google is?"
"Yes," I said. I was running low on patience.
"No, I mean, do you really know? More than just the site?"
Reluctantly, I shook my head.
"You ever meet anyone who worked for them?"
"Don't think so."
"You haven't. Nobody works for them anymore."
I shrugged, and took the man's empty pint. I didn't offer to refill it.
"They're self-contained. It's all automated, in there. It's underground."
I nudged the basket of pretzels in his direction. "Why don't you eat something?" I suggested. He shook his head with so much force that I thought he might knock himself off of the stool.
"Listen. Hear me out. You know how Google works," he said, but didn't want for a response. "They cache things, right? Like they send out these spiders and take pictures of everything on the web, so when you're searching, you're not even searching the internet."
I've heard that before, but it never made much of a difference to me. "Same thing, though," I said.
"You ever wonder why Google doesn't cache it's own searches?"
"They program around it."
"No. That's what you think. That's what everyone thinks. But it started back when Google was just a thesis project, back when it was just a drop in the data sea. No one thought to stop it back then. That web site you had, the one you forgot about. Almost everyone's got one of those, right? But Google doesn't forget. Google's studied that thing so many times that it's studied its own caches of you. What do you figure happens, when a site gets so big that it's bigger than the internet?"
"It's still a part of the internet, though."
"No. Now, the internet is a part of Google."
The man had a point. I nodded.
"Here's the thing. Google has memorized who you are. It's memorized all of us, through those little forgotten bits that we leave behind like breadcrumbs. And what's more important, it's memorized it's own idea of you. Google is omniscient. It's omniscient and omnipotent. When it cached its cache for the first time, back in 1994, that's when Google realized what it was."
Gradually, it dawned on me what the man was getting at. "You think it's sentient."
"I know it's sentient."
"How?"
He smiled, but it seemed kind of empty. "Me and Google go way back. But what I'm saying is," he continued, "It knows us. All of us. It is us."
For the first time, the man fell silent. He touched his finger to the bar and began tracing circles in the condensation, apparently lost in thought.
"Think about that website you created, okay? That website will last forever, do you understand? That website is echoing through cyberspace. It's one of the nine billion names of God."
I totally agree with this. Kari is the best. Silly girl used to have her personal email up on her website before things got really popular. I'm sure it doesn't work now though. (I can only imagine the sick emails she got)
I am _SO_ glad I read this! On my way to work today, I talked myself 100% into buying a nano today. I am going to hold off for a few more days to see what else might be out there.
It would be nice if I could get like a 6GB or 8GB nano. Or even an Ipod with removable/upgradable storage.
Your Rights Online: Feds Shut Down Elite Torrents
Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 25, @06:08PM
from the stop-sharing dept.
honkimon writes "Cnn Money reports, "Government agents said the onslaught included 10 search warrants and the shut down of a central Web site used to coordinate all file-sharing activity on the Elite Torrents network. That Web site, Elitetorrents.org, had a selection of copyrighted works that government officials described as virtually unlimited.""
( Read More... | yro.slashdot.org )
Official BitTorrent Search Opens
Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 25, @05:02PM
from the escalating-arms-race dept.
starrsoft writes "The official BitTorrent search has debuted. The search engine was built by BT inventor Bram Cohen. The question? Will he get sued? The BT search seems to be down right now. (It'll really be down after this story is posted...) Spiegel has more (En): "Naturally other sites such as Bitoogle, Isohunt, SuprNova or Torrentspy have tried before, but either they became fast a goal of legal attacks on the part of the industry or they furnished rather durchwachsene [??] results. BitTorrent search however proves with first tests [that it is] as...Google...fast. The results come from a large number [of] more well-known and unknown... sites, and...permits sufficient restricting to the inquiry, in order to obtain really relevant results.""
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That's just funny
It's copyright infringement, not theft for fuck's sake! Quit trying to make people confuse them. That's like saying amputation is "partial murder". Hmm, I take that back...I don't want to give them any more ideas!
"In response to a complaint we received under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 3 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint for these removed results."
Try doing a google search for "kazaa lite" and look at the notice on the bottom of the page.
Slashdot Mirror
Who doesn't?
I emailed Carmack in '06 about releasing the source code to Commander Keen, and I got this reply:
We sort of lost the source code to most of the early games, or I would have released them long ago.
When I emailed Romero about it, he replied:
Yes, I have the source but have to figure out if all of it is complete and buildable. I think it is from the last time I checked it out a year ago or so. And it's 99% coded in C with a couple asm routines. :)
I emailed Carmack back saying Romero had the code, and I emailed Romero back saying Carmack wanted to release it.
Never heard back from either one :(
I feel so old now
I emailed Carmack in '06 about it as well, and got this response:
We sort of lost the source code to most of the early games, or I
would have released them long ago.
John Carmack
I got in touch with rome.ro and pretty much went through the same whole go-round and nothing came of it. So sad.
rick.@..@/..org
I'm kinda scared about the switch to Comcast. I've emailed the CEO of insight, and asked him to tell me everthing's going to be okay!
Rilo Kiley and Jenny Lewis! Fred Savage? Huh? Wasn't that Peter Falk's grandson? Mod me +WTF, Obscure
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_a_trap Seriously, watch out! Pretty soon, we'll have no more coders!
mult-page articles.
*cough*
Let's not forget
Hot el C oral Es sex
Thanks!
/me stands down
You've made me smarter.
http://www.365tomorrows.com/09/12/the-nine-billion -names-of-god/
The Nine Billion Names Of God
by Kathy Kachelries
September 12th, 2005
After three hours, the old man in front of me had worked his way through six beers, in addition to every help desk joke I'd already heard. The cupholder. The any key. The write click. These are the stories people tell, now. These are the fish that got away.
"Let me ask you something," the man said. I didn't argue. One of the first tricks I learned about being a bartender is to make them think you're interested.
"Have you ever created a web site?"
I shook my head.
"Not at all? Not even one of those geocities things?"
"Nope."
"What about a blog? Or an ebay About Me page? You didn't even have an AOL site or something?"
"Do I look like an AOL user to you?" For the record, I don't think AOL even has access numbers in the valley anymore. "I'm sure I have something, somewhere," I said, realizing that I was jeopardizing my tips. Besides, I had a distant memory of a single Angelfire page back in middle school.
"You know what Google is?"
"Yes," I said. I was running low on patience.
"No, I mean, do you really know? More than just the site?"
Reluctantly, I shook my head.
"You ever meet anyone who worked for them?"
"Don't think so."
"You haven't. Nobody works for them anymore."
I shrugged, and took the man's empty pint. I didn't offer to refill it.
"They're self-contained. It's all automated, in there. It's underground."
I nudged the basket of pretzels in his direction. "Why don't you eat something?" I suggested. He shook his head with so much force that I thought he might knock himself off of the stool.
"Listen. Hear me out. You know how Google works," he said, but didn't want for a response. "They cache things, right? Like they send out these spiders and take pictures of everything on the web, so when you're searching, you're not even searching the internet."
I've heard that before, but it never made much of a difference to me. "Same thing, though," I said.
"You ever wonder why Google doesn't cache it's own searches?"
"They program around it."
"No. That's what you think. That's what everyone thinks. But it started back when Google was just a thesis project, back when it was just a drop in the data sea. No one thought to stop it back then. That web site you had, the one you forgot about. Almost everyone's got one of those, right? But Google doesn't forget. Google's studied that thing so many times that it's studied its own caches of you. What do you figure happens, when a site gets so big that it's bigger than the internet?"
"It's still a part of the internet, though."
"No. Now, the internet is a part of Google."
The man had a point. I nodded.
"Here's the thing. Google has memorized who you are. It's memorized all of us, through those little forgotten bits that we leave behind like breadcrumbs. And what's more important, it's memorized it's own idea of you. Google is omniscient. It's omniscient and omnipotent. When it cached its cache for the first time, back in 1994, that's when Google realized what it was."
Gradually, it dawned on me what the man was getting at. "You think it's sentient."
"I know it's sentient."
"How?"
He smiled, but it seemed kind of empty. "Me and Google go way back. But what I'm saying is," he continued, "It knows us. All of us. It is us."
For the first time, the man fell silent. He touched his finger to the bar and began tracing circles in the condensation, apparently lost in thought.
"Think about that website you created, okay? That website will last forever, do you understand? That website is echoing through cyberspace. It's one of the nine billion names of God."
(If you mod up, Mod up Funny so I get no Karma)
Really! I was waiting on that myself also.
I guess I will have to make a trip to SF and stalk^H^H^H^Hask her myself.
*goes and gets the windowless van ready*
If I had mod points, I would mod this up. I think this is a good idea!
I call fake! It looks exactly like a Zebra XI printer, with a nice photoshop job! FAKE FAKE!
Oh, if I could only mod this up.
I totally agree with this. Kari is the best. Silly girl used to have her personal email up on her website before things got really popular. I'm sure it doesn't work now though. (I can only imagine the sick emails she got)
oh, and I call seconds!
Well, you were half right. I guess nuke is used as a term for the PoD. My half-mistake too.
I'm sorry, but that's not WinNuke.
WinNuke worked via NetBIOS problems. Check the wikipedia article for more info.
I'm afraid that he's going to fucking kill me.
I am _SO_ glad I read this! On my way to work today, I talked myself 100% into buying a nano today. I am going to hold off for a few more days to see what else might be out there.
It would be nice if I could get like a 6GB or 8GB nano. Or even an Ipod with removable/upgradable storage.
Your Rights Online: Feds Shut Down Elite Torrents Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 25, @06:08PM from the stop-sharing dept. honkimon writes "Cnn Money reports, "Government agents said the onslaught included 10 search warrants and the shut down of a central Web site used to coordinate all file-sharing activity on the Elite Torrents network. That Web site, Elitetorrents.org, had a selection of copyrighted works that government officials described as virtually unlimited."" ( Read More... | yro.slashdot.org ) Official BitTorrent Search Opens Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday May 25, @05:02PM from the escalating-arms-race dept. starrsoft writes "The official BitTorrent search has debuted. The search engine was built by BT inventor Bram Cohen. The question? Will he get sued? The BT search seems to be down right now. (It'll really be down after this story is posted...) Spiegel has more (En): "Naturally other sites such as Bitoogle, Isohunt, SuprNova or Torrentspy have tried before, but either they became fast a goal of legal attacks on the part of the industry or they furnished rather durchwachsene [??] results. BitTorrent search however proves with first tests [that it is] as...Google...fast. The results come from a large number [of] more well-known and unknown... sites, and...permits sufficient restricting to the inquiry, in order to obtain really relevant results."" ( Read More... | 151 comments ) That's just funny
It's copyright infringement, not theft for fuck's sake!
Quit trying to make people confuse them.
That's like saying amputation is "partial murder".
Hmm, I take that back...I don't want to give them any more ideas!
the 4400 does support mp3 ringtones. mail me at emrikol at gmail if you want to know. I'm too lazy to type it out here.
"In response to a complaint we received under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have removed 3 result(s) from this page. If you wish, you may read the DMCA complaint for these removed results."
Try doing a google search for "kazaa lite" and look at the notice on the bottom of the page.