So, according to the theory, until they knocked down the wall, the server was neither up nor down but existed in a quantum state that was both and neither?
Forget multi-tasking, multi-processing or any variant. Multi-realitying is the new buzz tech.
First there was net controlled building light tetris. Now with the aid of the air con units we can add force feedback. Who says web scripts don't make for state of the art gaming?!
If you count living in Mexico with the $40,000,000 they can't touch in off shore bank accounts being punished.
It's good to see the legal owner got control of his site back but that was after he was forced to spend three years in court and hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs. Granted he'll now make tens of millions from the domain name but it's still got to be a bittersweet victory.
The now legal owner of sex.com was quoted as saying in the article: "We're working on a deal (for content on)... sex education, disease prevention, women oriented stuff, stuff that you normally don't see in the (adult) space."
You don't normally see women orientated stuff on sex sites? No wonder all those large-pink-area filters don't work - they shouldn've been scanning for goatporn all along.
Posted early enough for the karma rich first few minutes, mentioning goatporn for a clear demotion under grounds of karmawhoring.
Everyone seems to be jumping on the usual rants that [some insidious marketing ploy] is evil.
Just like with TV, if you don't want it, don't turn it on. If you want the product then you put up with the full agreement. That's not evil, it's simply one way of paying for the product you recieve. Unlike spam, you have a choice not to enter in to the agreement.
The big difference is that only large companies can put out TV signals where as the web has a lot of amateurs that provide perfectly good content. The millionaire site is going to have to either offer something better* than what can be found already (in which case the users will think it is worth the cost) or advertising darwinism will take its toll.
*note: Better's a subjective term, the site may be dire but there're things like ease of discovery (as they'll move over from the tv show), large prizemoney, consistency, nice safe corporate branding, etc.
Cool. An intel processor RIGHT next to a NVidia one, now I don't need to buy an out dated console with an additional stove attachment, I'll be able to fry eggs right on top of my X-Box!
Hollywood Superheroes have little of the nuance or complexity of the comic-book variety.
From what little I know of the subject, the original comic book superheros had little of the complexities they do now. They were originally similar muscle bound, shallow characters that appealled for a limited time. As their popularity decreased they were rewritten with darker more vulnerable sides to increase popularity.
The hollywood muscle hero seems to be undergoing a similar loss of popularity as it ages. Likewise it is being replaced by more vulnerable, more flawed characters who still achieve the same feats. The only difference is that single movie characters do not evolve over years as their lifetimes are as short as a movie or two - instead they evolve through new generations. Neo is not a new genre, he's simply an evolution of the same in much the same way that the original superman and today's superman are two totally different entities.
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So how do you overclock a wheelchair then?
Why am I scared someone on slashdot'll answer this?
Mine was a $7000 25mhz 486 with a mighty 200mb of hard drive and a VGA graphics card that was totally wasted on leisure suit larry 1. Of course I was all of 13 at the time and had to keep guessing the age validating questions.
I completely agree, the RIAA are putting an almighty spin on the truth. That said, the claim of greed at not accepting a 1 billion dollar offer falls down a little when you look at the numbers too...
On a total yearly profits of $14,323,000,000, the two hundred million a year (1 billion over five years) offer does seem a bit weak. If you were the RIAA, you would seriously consider an offer of only around 1/75th (well under 2%) of your profits [not total revenue] to allow a site to freely give away copies of everything you hold copyright on?
Can you see Microsoft allowing Napster to give away free copies of MS office, Win2000 etc to anyone who wants to download them in exchange for a little over 1% of their current profits?
More to the point, can you see Napster [freely] opening up their databases to the rest of the net in exchange for 1-2% of their total yearly profits?
"Apple is an independent billion-dollar corporation"...
...That just happens to have been significantly financially proped up by Microsoft in the past so Microsoft's lawyers can claim Microsoft doesn't have a monopoly.
So, do you think they'll bring out an iMac with light absorbing black paint in place of fruity coloured pannels for playing Doom3 on?
I was under the impression, especially with all the human rights stuff Europe's introducing these days, that you are still innocent until proven guilty.
To be essentially fined for committing a crime you haven't commited yet appears to go against that. Anyone who understands the law better have any thoughts on how long the concept'd stand up under that challenge?
As for the comments about the European stupidity of '...charging you without them having to do anything.' Can we say RAMBUS?
Doesn't copyright law have to be recognised by whoever has juristiction? As no one owns space, it doesn't fall under any one country's laws, so which country's court are the MPAA going to go to?
Pictures the MPAA lawyers:"Now, we bill $200/hour for normal preparatory work, $300/hour+expenses for client visits, $500/hour for court time, what do we charge for time in high orbit?"
The death penalty?
Does that mean they'll deduct from their frag total?
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Quake is a jello moudling game where players compete, over the internet, to mould better jello. It has absolutely nothing to do with killing people. No! Really! Honest!
Please don't arrest that nice CmdrTaco for posting the message about it. And don't seize the computers he plays with either or all of us slashdot readers may have to find something more productive to do with our time - like, er, killing people or something [you know what those net types are like].
"Now I can use my wireless connection to search GAWD to set up my wireless connection which will then allow me to search GAWD to set up my wireless connection which will then allow me to search GAWD to set up my wireless connection which will then allow me to search GAWD to set up my wireless connection which will then allow me to search GAWD to set up my wireless connection which will then allow me to search GAWD to set up my wireless connection which will then allow me to search GAWD to..."
The concept:
Someone brings out a tivo equivalent that's hooked up to your permanently on DSL and is sent a signal telling it when to start and stop recording to totally avoid advertising. You simply switch on fifteen minutes after the start of your program and you get it clean and ad free.
I've moved from London to San Diego a month ago and haven't even bothered hooking up cable as (from an English point of view) the Ad/Credit/Ad/Show/Ad/Show/Ad/Credit/Ad of American TV is unwatchable. Maybe it's tolerable for those who've grown up with it, but I for one would pay an extra hundred on my tivo or an extra $10 a month on the subscription to never have to watch an advert again.
Anyway, the question this leads to is: Does anyone have any thoughts on how this would effect the market? Would you cable contract specify that you could not use such units with it for fear of loss of advertising revenue? Would they just add product placement in to the main shows? Even if it were prhobited/made illegal, would that stop the boxes from being bought (think non-region specific DVD players)? Would subscriptions costs go up? Would program quality drop?
or technology will come to our rescue just as it did when the printing press helped society break free from the church's control.
It did. We called it the internet. Everyone had an equal voice. Then some idiot allowed some other idiot to patent voices.
When the printing press was invented, the world didn't have lawyers to quite the same degree. Maybe that's what we need technology to produce - a virus that selectively kills off people with a faulty ethic gene [lawyers]. Oh, only some lawyer's already organised patenting of genes, so they're protected from that too.
My thoughts go back to those atom scale guitars that were in the news a few months back. You want to impress geeks? Etch their names, as small as possible, on to the edge of the chips themselves. Granted, with production costs, silicon real estate is at a premium but the whole point's to make it as small as possible.
Imagine the geek kudos of being able to say, "I've got my name written on a chip and karma whored my way to a five on slashdot!"
And the rest of us could just lie, "It's teeny, tiny, but it is my name. Honest!"
I felt the same way at first... a lot of rich guys paying someone else to do all the fun geek stuff for them... but then I thought about it a little more. It's really a question of scale.
I am perfectly content messing around in PHP, occasionally tweaking an apache sever and very rarely going anywhere near the OS. Apparently the code I run sits on an E10K. I've never seen it and while it'd be cool, I'm not all that desperate to.
The point is, you decide what level you care about. Some people won't be happy unless they designed their own processors, their own network cards, then wrote their custom OS to run their custom system... only they've obsessed about the minutae so much they aren't really that bothered about the high level stuff.
Sure, the guys in the article care about high level stuff, but they still got their geek kicks from specing that out. They probably cared about what was behind it at a lower level but were simply content to ask the odd question and leave it in others' capable hands.
It would have been interesting to see some low-level fantatics and some mid-level fantatics, but just because these guys were high-level, doesn't make them much less valid. For all most of us reading slashdot are geeks and interested about the full picture, how many of us really obsess about every detail from the individual transistor arrangement of our PC's timer chip, through every last OS concept, to the HCI issues of the webpages we create on it to document the code we write?
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Forget multi-tasking, multi-processing or any variant. Multi-realitying is the new buzz tech.
First there was net controlled building light tetris. Now with the aid of the air con units we can add force feedback. Who says web scripts don't make for state of the art gaming?!
Money for nothing and your chips for free?
Link on the Curl download page: "System Requirements"
Not really two concepts that go together are they?
If you count living in Mexico with the $40,000,000 they can't touch in off shore bank accounts being punished.
It's good to see the legal owner got control of his site back but that was after he was forced to spend three years in court and hundreds of thousands of dollars in costs. Granted he'll now make tens of millions from the domain name but it's still got to be a bittersweet victory.
"We're working on a deal (for content on)
You don't normally see women orientated stuff on sex sites? No wonder all those large-pink-area filters don't work - they shouldn've been scanning for goatporn all along.
Posted early enough for the karma rich first few minutes, mentioning goatporn for a clear demotion under grounds of karmawhoring.
Just like with TV, if you don't want it, don't turn it on. If you want the product then you put up with the full agreement. That's not evil, it's simply one way of paying for the product you recieve. Unlike spam, you have a choice not to enter in to the agreement.
The big difference is that only large companies can put out TV signals where as the web has a lot of amateurs that provide perfectly good content. The millionaire site is going to have to either offer something better* than what can be found already (in which case the users will think it is worth the cost) or advertising darwinism will take its toll.
*note: Better's a subjective term, the site may be dire but there're things like ease of discovery (as they'll move over from the tv show), large prizemoney, consistency, nice safe corporate branding, etc.
Cool. An intel processor RIGHT next to a NVidia one, now I don't need to buy an out dated console with an additional stove attachment, I'll be able to fry eggs right on top of my X-Box!
From what little I know of the subject, the original comic book superheros had little of the complexities they do now. They were originally similar muscle bound, shallow characters that appealled for a limited time. As their popularity decreased they were rewritten with darker more vulnerable sides to increase popularity.
The hollywood muscle hero seems to be undergoing a similar loss of popularity as it ages. Likewise it is being replaced by more vulnerable, more flawed characters who still achieve the same feats. The only difference is that single movie characters do not evolve over years as their lifetimes are as short as a movie or two - instead they evolve through new generations. Neo is not a new genre, he's simply an evolution of the same in much the same way that the original superman and today's superman are two totally different entities.
Why am I scared someone on slashdot'll answer this?
Mine was a $7000 25mhz 486 with a mighty 200mb of hard drive and a VGA graphics card that was totally wasted on leisure suit larry 1. Of course I was all of 13 at the time and had to keep guessing the age validating questions.
On a total yearly profits of $14,323,000,000, the two hundred million a year (1 billion over five years) offer does seem a bit weak. If you were the RIAA, you would seriously consider an offer of only around 1/75th (well under 2%) of your profits [not total revenue] to allow a site to freely give away copies of everything you hold copyright on?
Can you see Microsoft allowing Napster to give away free copies of MS office, Win2000 etc to anyone who wants to download them in exchange for a little over 1% of their current profits?
More to the point, can you see Napster [freely] opening up their databases to the rest of the net in exchange for 1-2% of their total yearly profits?
Luxury, that is...
In my day we had censorship and Mach 7 scramjets raining on our heads.
So, do you think they'll bring out an iMac with light absorbing black paint in place of fruity coloured pannels for playing Doom3 on?
So, will this be compatable with the [urban legend] "warranty period over, de-activate" that is fitted to all VCRs as standard?
To be essentially fined for committing a crime you haven't commited yet appears to go against that. Anyone who understands the law better have any thoughts on how long the concept'd stand up under that challenge?
As for the comments about the European stupidity of '...charging you without them having to do anything.' Can we say RAMBUS?
Pictures the MPAA lawyers: "Now, we bill $200/hour for normal preparatory work, $300/hour+expenses for client visits, $500/hour for court time, what do we charge for time in high orbit?"
The death penalty?
Does that mean they'll deduct from their frag total?
Quake is a jello moudling game where players compete, over the internet, to mould better jello. It has absolutely nothing to do with killing people. No! Really! Honest!
Please don't arrest that nice CmdrTaco for posting the message about it. And don't seize the computers he plays with either or all of us slashdot readers may have to find something more productive to do with our time - like, er, killing people or something [you know what those net types are like].
"Now I can use my wireless connection to search GAWD to set up my wireless connection which will then allow me to search GAWD to set up my wireless connection which will then allow me to search GAWD to set up my wireless connection which will then allow me to search GAWD to set up my wireless connection which will then allow me to search GAWD to set up my wireless connection which will then allow me to search GAWD to set up my wireless connection which will then allow me to search GAWD to..."
The concept:
Someone brings out a tivo equivalent that's hooked up to your permanently on DSL and is sent a signal telling it when to start and stop recording to totally avoid advertising. You simply switch on fifteen minutes after the start of your program and you get it clean and ad free.
I've moved from London to San Diego a month ago and haven't even bothered hooking up cable as (from an English point of view) the Ad/Credit/Ad/Show/Ad/Show/Ad/Credit/Ad of American TV is unwatchable. Maybe it's tolerable for those who've grown up with it, but I for one would pay an extra hundred on my tivo or an extra $10 a month on the subscription to never have to watch an advert again.
Anyway, the question this leads to is: Does anyone have any thoughts on how this would effect the market? Would you cable contract specify that you could not use such units with it for fear of loss of advertising revenue? Would they just add product placement in to the main shows? Even if it were prhobited/made illegal, would that stop the boxes from being bought (think non-region specific DVD players)? Would subscriptions costs go up? Would program quality drop?
Sounds like someone just wants to travel along all the dotted lines in Risk. Now if they'd just make a good way to invade Australia!
"So, that's two cannons and a horse I'll move in to Mexico, I'll wipe fish tacos off the face of the earth, once and for all."
It did. We called it the internet. Everyone had an equal voice. Then some idiot allowed some other idiot to patent voices.
When the printing press was invented, the world didn't have lawyers to quite the same degree. Maybe that's what we need technology to produce - a virus that selectively kills off people with a faulty ethic gene [lawyers]. Oh, only some lawyer's already organised patenting of genes, so they're protected from that too.
Imagine the geek kudos of being able to say, "I've got my name written on a chip and karma whored my way to a five on slashdot!"
And the rest of us could just lie, "It's teeny, tiny, but it is my name. Honest!"
I am perfectly content messing around in PHP, occasionally tweaking an apache sever and very rarely going anywhere near the OS. Apparently the code I run sits on an E10K. I've never seen it and while it'd be cool, I'm not all that desperate to.
The point is, you decide what level you care about. Some people won't be happy unless they designed their own processors, their own network cards, then wrote their custom OS to run their custom system... only they've obsessed about the minutae so much they aren't really that bothered about the high level stuff.
Sure, the guys in the article care about high level stuff, but they still got their geek kicks from specing that out. They probably cared about what was behind it at a lower level but were simply content to ask the odd question and leave it in others' capable hands.
It would have been interesting to see some low-level fantatics and some mid-level fantatics, but just because these guys were high-level, doesn't make them much less valid. For all most of us reading slashdot are geeks and interested about the full picture, how many of us really obsess about every detail from the individual transistor arrangement of our PC's timer chip, through every last OS concept, to the HCI issues of the webpages we create on it to document the code we write?
On second thoughts, don't answer that.