By agreeing to work on this project I hereby forfeit any sort of "life" and agree to live a hermit-like existance, emerging only to go to work or buy more food....
I've said this before: Sony has no idea what the hell they're doing in regards to their long-term strategies. Sony has long held this notion of "all in one" devices.
4.5 years ago I bought a Sony VAIO on the cheap. The damn this came with a TV tuner, video capture, home-movie editing , phone answering machine software, etc. They actually thought their ghetto-ass P200 could replace 4 or 5 different appliances. Considering that the VAIO was slow and crash-prone and that the included software was univerally poor, I was not impressed. Call them visionary for trying, I call them dumb.
Sony's vision of a tightly intergrated digital future doesn't include anyone else's technology. All their devices are in one retarded family, linked by their incomprehensible love for Memory Sticks. Even sadder is the fact that Sony introduced the memory sticks (which still haven't caught on) at the same goddamn time Iomega et al were flodding the market with Zip, Jaz, Clik, Super Disk, and others. But I digress.
Sony's claim that the PS2 will become a whole "home entertainment center" is ludicrous. Yes the thing has pretty graphics and plays DVDs, but it doesn't mean its the greatest thing since DiVX;-). Its support for DVDs and CDs is inferior to dedicated electronic products. But they're targeting the low end with this crap , you say. Have you looked at the price of VAIOs now? 4 years ago? Sony's attempts to provide an all-in-one deal have historically provided sub-standard equipment at premium prices. Therefore I look upon these claims with skeptism. Messages to Sony: Get A Clue.
Travolta: Yeah, it breaks down like this: it's legal to buy it, it's legal to own it, & if you're the proprietor of a hash bar, it's legal to sell it. It's legal to carry it, which doesn't really matter 'cause--get a load of this--if the cops stop you, it's illegal for them to search you. Searching you is a right that the cops in Amsterdam don't have.
Jackson:
That did it, man--I'm fuckin' goin', that's all there is to it.
No flame here. No throwing the blame on society. No repetetious praising of how talented the kid was, how much potential he had. Just a virtual moment of silence for a poor kid.
I couldn't figure out where goatse.cx was based. (Who's ever heard of the.cx suffix?) So I emailed Al Gore to see if he knew. This was back in the days when he was still VP. I expected a quick response, I mean, the man DID invent the internet, but what I got blew me away.
Within 15 minutes I recieved a reply message with my answer: Christmas Islands. I'm telling you, this guy is GOOD. You'd think the founder of the Internet would be working on implementing IPv6 or something lofty like that, but good ol' Al never loses his touch with the common people. It's really a shame that he didn't win the election. A President with a command of his essentials like that would be a credit to the nation. I know you're all thinking one of his staffers wrote it, but you're wrong. If anyone else has had any other positive experiences with Al Gore or goatse.cx, please reply below.
I remember several years when researches at Rice University in Texas discovered the form of carbon, C60. At the time it was hailed as the one the greatest weight:strength acheivements ever. In fact the team leader went on to comment that it was possibly the strongest material that could exist.
People also tend to forget that crystalline carbon would also satisfy the requiresments for a "space elevator". Crystalline carbon, better known as diamond, has sufficient strength to hand all the way down from GeoSync Orbit. I would think that it might be easier to develop a way to mass synthesize diamond (not jewelary grade, trolls) and use it to build this thing, rather than grow 46,000K long tubes.
5K is just not enough for a quality, or even useful website. Having a competition demostrates nothing. It's not like the demo scene featured on/. before, where programmers pack as much eye candy into as little space as possible.
The reason is that HTML is so clumsy and inefficient that a 5K site must be devoid of all formatting, structure, images, and content to slide under the cap. Look at the HTML only entries. They are crap, amateur-looking sites. The reason is that even a professional web-monger like myself simply cannot pack anything good into 5K.
It's not a matter of finding the right optimizations, because there are none. There are right ways, and clumsy ways, but no elegant or clever ways. If the promoters of this contest want to see some real creativity perhaps they should raise the cap in the HTML only category to 30 or 40 K.
This would allow designers to demonstrate their creativity and cleverness, while producing more than 4 mono-color icons which lead to slightly different versions of the first page (This is the Earthsite entry, the highest scoring in the HTML only category). Take a look at the poorness of the entries, make your own decision, then flame me.
I received this virus in the mail from a friend. The email said:
Dudez!! Check out this l337 \/iru5, it r0x0rz. k thx.
This email didn't seem unusual because my friend calls himself a "h4x0r", and apparently they type like that. I wish I could be a "h4x0r" but my friend just sez I'm a "AOLamer".
Anyway, I opened up the "CertainDeath.txt.vbs" file and my screen went nuts!! There were all these flashing pictures and bad music and all of a sudden some large letters flashed on the screen:
All your beef are belong to us
Re:this is clearly a hoax...
on
Silicon LED
·
· Score: 2
Unless they've been giving Noble Prizes in Funkology to Prince or Sir Mix-a-Lot...:)
They have.
I myself was recently awarded Harvard's prestigous "Noble Prize in the Musical Arts" for my hit song "Baby Got Back." In my acceptance speech, I spoke on how honored I was to contribute to the degredation of America's culture.
Wow... He used THREE acronyms in that short little comment. The total number of words represented by those abbreviations is 13. The total number of words (excluding the acronyms)is 50. 26% of his post is represented by abbreviations.
Now what would H if E fourth W was abbreviated in my P? T Jargon!!! L at me, 1 4m L!!
Before folks start screaming that 3v17 h@x0rZ killed NPLI
I feel an obligation to the/. community to point out that "3v17 h@x0rZ" translates into "evit hackers", which makes no sense.
What I think you meant to say was "3\/1L h4x0r5" or maybe "31337 h4x0r5", which mean "Evil Hackers" and "Elite Hackers" respectively. However there is the remote possibility that you meant to say, "1 4m l337 h4x0r, 1 0\/\/n j00," but we can't be sure. Please clarify your comment.
I used to think that checking/. every 15 minutes meant that I didn't have a life.
Then I saw this page.
It's comforting to know that there are people who waste their free time in even lamer ways than I do. Now I can post comments on/. and debate the finer points of distros guiltlessly, free of the fear that I'm wasting my life.
Actually I don't use open source. I use Winword, Excel, IE, etc. Now before you get your panties in a knot, it's time that the open source community stop defining itself by what it is not. Most of you read the hoax letter from "Bill Gates." The letter expressed well how defining yourself by who you are not is the wrong way to go.
In addition, since when is Slashdot no longer "News for Nerds, Stuff that matters"? Slashdot is about posting news articles and letting the users make the inflamatory comments (such as this one) about them. The users provide the commentary, not the front-page posters.
The fact that the timothy was willing to overlook the objective details of the story in order to get in a jab at M$, bodes ill for/. It is well within Microsoft's rights to demand an audit. It is Virginia Beach's responsibility to keep track of their software. "We have no sense of where we're going to come out" Tough cookies for them. I'm glad that the city has learned its lesson and is now actually tracking what they buy.
Oh what a sad abuse of monopoly power when Microsoft can actually check to make sure their software is being paid for by groups!
Abandonware sites are perfect examples of times when current legislation no longer seems quite relevant.
The purpose of a copyright, trademark, or patent is to protect the intellectual property of the author or authors, preventing other people from makking money off their creations.
In the case of abandonware and sites devoted to it, there seems little to protect. After all, the software is no longer generating any revenue because it's not sold or produced any longer. Therefore, there is really no reason for software to be still covered by copyright law after about 5 years, when the current technology had advanced far beyond that in the old software.
It would a make a little more sense if old software entered the public domain at the "Internet Speed" the media tells us we live at. Perhaps software could be posted online 5 years after its release (for non-commercial use only) unless the publishing company filed otherwise.
I don't believe this- a machine with more processing power than my trusty Apple Macintosh 630-CD (66MHz!) being billed as a "pocket caclulator".
*Sigh*
Time to follow-up on my long-standing plans and convert my Mac's lousy 14 inch screen into a fish tank...
Slashdot Mirror
Signed,
John Q. Hacker III
4.5 years ago I bought a Sony VAIO on the cheap. The damn this came with a TV tuner, video capture, home-movie editing , phone answering machine software, etc. They actually thought their ghetto-ass P200 could replace 4 or 5 different appliances. Considering that the VAIO was slow and crash-prone and that the included software was univerally poor, I was not impressed. Call them visionary for trying, I call them dumb.
Sony's vision of a tightly intergrated digital future doesn't include anyone else's technology. All their devices are in one retarded family, linked by their incomprehensible love for Memory Sticks. Even sadder is the fact that Sony introduced the memory sticks (which still haven't caught on) at the same goddamn time Iomega et al were flodding the market with Zip, Jaz, Clik, Super Disk, and others. But I digress.
Sony's claim that the PS2 will become a whole "home entertainment center" is ludicrous. Yes the thing has pretty graphics and plays DVDs, but it doesn't mean its the greatest thing since DiVX ;-). Its support for DVDs and CDs is inferior to dedicated electronic products. But they're targeting the low end with this crap , you say. Have you looked at the price of VAIOs now? 4 years ago? Sony's attempts to provide an all-in-one deal have historically provided sub-standard equipment at premium prices. Therefore I look upon these claims with skeptism. Messages to Sony: Get A Clue.
As we all know, The force of ignorance is capable of overriding the laws of physics.
Travolta: Yeah, it breaks down like this: it's legal to buy it, it's legal to own it, & if you're the proprietor of a hash bar, it's legal to sell it. It's legal to carry it, which doesn't really matter 'cause--get a load of this--if the cops stop you, it's illegal for them to search you. Searching you is a right that the cops in Amsterdam don't have.
Jackson: That did it, man--I'm fuckin' goin', that's all there is to it.
No flame here. No throwing the blame on society. No repetetious praising of how talented the kid was, how much potential he had. Just a virtual moment of silence for a poor kid.
May this never happen again.
Within 15 minutes I recieved a reply message with my answer: Christmas Islands. I'm telling you, this guy is GOOD. You'd think the founder of the Internet would be working on implementing IPv6 or something lofty like that, but good ol' Al never loses his touch with the common people. It's really a shame that he didn't win the election. A President with a command of his essentials like that would be a credit to the nation. I know you're all thinking one of his staffers wrote it, but you're wrong. If anyone else has had any other positive experiences with Al Gore or goatse.cx, please reply below.
People also tend to forget that crystalline carbon would also satisfy the requiresments for a "space elevator". Crystalline carbon, better known as diamond, has sufficient strength to hand all the way down from GeoSync Orbit. I would think that it might be easier to develop a way to mass synthesize diamond (not jewelary grade, trolls) and use it to build this thing, rather than grow 46,000K long tubes.
I ignore it.
The reason is that HTML is so clumsy and inefficient that a 5K site must be devoid of all formatting, structure, images, and content to slide under the cap. Look at the HTML only entries. They are crap, amateur-looking sites. The reason is that even a professional web-monger like myself simply cannot pack anything good into 5K.
It's not a matter of finding the right optimizations, because there are none. There are right ways, and clumsy ways, but no elegant or clever ways. If the promoters of this contest want to see some real creativity perhaps they should raise the cap in the HTML only category to 30 or 40 K.
This would allow designers to demonstrate their creativity and cleverness, while producing more than 4 mono-color icons which lead to slightly different versions of the first page (This is the Earthsite entry, the highest scoring in the HTML only category). Take a look at the poorness of the entries, make your own decision, then flame me.
With a capital "B"
Is this sort of like stir-frying?
Dudez!! Check out this l337 \/iru5, it r0x0rz. k thx.
This email didn't seem unusual because my friend calls himself a "h4x0r", and apparently they type like that. I wish I could be a "h4x0r" but my friend just sez I'm a "AOLamer". Anyway, I opened up the "CertainDeath.txt.vbs" file and my screen went nuts!!
There were all these flashing pictures and bad music and all of a sudden some large letters flashed on the screen:
All your beef are belong to us
They have.
I myself was recently awarded Harvard's prestigous "Noble Prize in the Musical Arts" for my hit song "Baby Got Back." In my acceptance speech, I spoke on how honored I was to contribute to the degredation of America's culture.
And in Virginia I frequently hear another alternate.
"Yup, that's sir-prisun'"
Along with proper grammar on Slashdot, too.
I'd have to stop spanking my monkey in the garden. Like they said, 19 inch objects are clearly discernable. ;)
Now what would H if E fourth W was abbreviated in my P? T Jargon!!! L at me, 1 4m L!!
I feel an obligation to the /. community to point out that "3v17 h@x0rZ" translates into "evit hackers", which makes no sense.
What I think you meant to say was "3\/1L h4x0r5" or maybe "31337 h4x0r5", which mean "Evil Hackers" and "Elite Hackers" respectively. However there is the remote possibility that you meant to say, "1 4m l337 h4x0r, 1 0\/\/n j00," but we can't be sure. Please clarify your comment.
Then I saw this page.
It's comforting to know that there are people who waste their free time in even lamer ways than I do. Now I can post comments on /. and debate the finer points of distros guiltlessly, free of the fear that I'm wasting my life.
In addition, since when is Slashdot no longer "News for Nerds, Stuff that matters"? Slashdot is about posting news articles and letting the users make the inflamatory comments (such as this one) about them. The users provide the commentary, not the front-page posters.
The fact that the timothy was willing to overlook the objective details of the story in order to get in a jab at M$, bodes ill for /. It is well within Microsoft's rights to demand an audit. It is Virginia Beach's responsibility to keep track of their software. "We have no sense of where we're going to come out" Tough cookies for them. I'm glad that the city has learned its lesson and is now actually tracking what they buy.
Oh what a sad abuse of monopoly power when Microsoft can actually check to make sure their software is being paid for by groups!
Followed inevitably by
1 4m l337 h4x0r, 1 0\/\/n j00!
The purpose of a copyright, trademark, or patent is to protect the intellectual property of the author or authors, preventing other people from makking money off their creations.
In the case of abandonware and sites devoted to it, there seems little to protect. After all, the software is no longer generating any revenue because it's not sold or produced any longer. Therefore, there is really no reason for software to be still covered by copyright law after about 5 years, when the current technology had advanced far beyond that in the old software.
It would a make a little more sense if old software entered the public domain at the "Internet Speed" the media tells us we live at. Perhaps software could be posted online 5 years after its release (for non-commercial use only) unless the publishing company filed otherwise.
Just my $.02
Hey Baby, wanna sample my aura?
I don't believe this- a machine with more processing power than my trusty Apple Macintosh 630-CD (66MHz!) being billed as a "pocket caclulator". *Sigh* Time to follow-up on my long-standing plans and convert my Mac's lousy 14 inch screen into a fish tank...