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Dude, I think what you're describing would have to be a government project. The internet is just kinda wild and untamed (part of its charm, there's actually danger here when most real-world danger is made up on TV or with falsified evidence), but once it's been tamed, as most non-technical governments seem to want to do, then you'll be required to have what you're talking about.
I think internet should be more like space. If you're going to step out into no atmosphere don't blame the maintainers when you get hit by debris and your suit depressurizes. If you don't meet the safety standards to get on (and I'm also referring to anything that gets you 0wn3d in less than 20 minutes) don't get pissed at the internet, get pissed at your suit maker.
How petty and anarcho-libertarian of me though. A guy can dream...
the real questions that will be answered are how can the industry create a demand for computer games beyond the traditional demographic of males between the age of 14-24,
Ok, so that's the "How?" of it. Where's the "Why?" Did we skip that step?
and what role can women play in this seemingly-epic task.
Oh, I get why now. It's the money. You mean it might be difficult to suck as much money out of women as they've been getting from men?
As a male I'm insulted to think women could possibly waste as much money on gaming as the industry has already managed to suck off from men. As a half-assed feminist I'm also insulted that they're using sexual equality to veil an obvious attempt to lure women into blowing loads on video games. They're just trying tap women in order to produce more releases.
Yes, their search tools are so popular that they are getting embedded into operating systems and browsers, but another company could come along any day now with something better and displace them just as quickly as they displaced Yahoo.
I don't think companies work like that anymore. I don't think anyone's been that lazy since what happened to Yahoo happened. If someone has something that beats one of Google's search tools (and that's a *lot* of stuff, don't forget) why wouldn't they just go work for Google? Everyone knows Google turns employees that do exceptional work into instant millionaires. That hard to beat.
And what did Yahoo actually have besides the search engine and directory? Notice that Google has an extremely modular design.
For that matter, an OS company (Microsoft or Apple) or a browser team (Mozilla, Opera) might just decide that they are better off putting out their very own superior search tools as a way to set their product apart from the competiion,
All of those except Microsoft have been keeping to their respective markets. Microsoft has weird ego problems and Google offends their libido. The one thing Microsoft *has* mastered is following in the footsteps of others and never quite doing it right, except maybe with Office, but I see Google releasing a web-based office suite one day which people will flock to since it'll be one click away from their homepage and it won't matter how fast their computers are to run it. If anyone's edging into anyone's market it's Google into Microsoft's.
and the right innovation for filtering out sites who cheat their way up the Google rankings could easilly result in stealing a lot of market share away.
Once again, why wouldn't Google hire these people? Why wouldn't these people apply for a job at Google?
It's hard to lock "customers" in to a free product.
Heh. The trick is to not ever let on that they're locked in.
How come I'm not seeing any of those mentioned? My god people, these are the groups that already handle everything that goes on on the internet within the bounds of the TLDs and IPs, who could be better qualified?
The Dutch. True, they were at least concerned by the Rwandan genocide when the U.N. refused to help.
I'm guessing that your suggestion has something to do with the legalization of prostitution, marijuana, and gay marriage there. I'm not sure why politics should be considered in a technical organization.
I thought he was going after homeopathy. My ex-girlfriend was running a high fever but she refused to take off the shelf fever medication instead opting for the homeopathic fever medication her mother had provided. It scared me that night because I had an inkling of an idea what she was taking (her fever was 103F and her heart rate was well over 100bpm), but it freaked the hell out of me when I looked up exaclty what homeopathic meant.
Her mother, by the way, is a Swedish ex-nurse who now runs a reflexology practice out of her home. The whole lot is batty as hell. The girlfriend only tried to stab me on three different occasions while I was kicking her out. She told me earlier on that everyone in her family had mental problems (father's a bipolar math professor, she's bipolar too) but you're likely to get a chair thrown at you if you try to argue the veracity of homeopathy or reflexology (yes, this happened a few times too).
I've since learned to associate vehement spirituality with mental instability. Keeps me from getting clubbed or excorsized cause those things fucking hurt.
But who actually thinks the vulnerabilities that virus exploited would have been patched if he hadn't written Sasser? Microsoft even had a patch available and look what happened. Sasser caught most of the IT security industry with their pants down.
That's the cheapest looking guitar playing machine I've ever seen.
If a car assembly line can get one-armed machines that can put 40 different rivets in 40 different locations at 40 different angles in less than 40 seconds, why can't you get a miniature version that can hold a single pick and hit six different strings with varying speed and angle?
They're using six picks and 23 rubber fingers! That's absolutely shoddy. Wake me when they're using one pick and four rubber fingers. It's not like the technology isn't there.
Damn. Google's always one step ahead in innovation aren't they.
Now a cool idea would be internet over powerlines. We have VoIP over internet already, and we're working on TV over internet. How nice would it be to reduce the overhead of paying three companies for their services to paying only one?
Let's just watch and see what great laws the entrenched ones push through once they recognize BPL as a viable alternative to their industries. Who will win: cable and telephone or the silicon valley and utilities? It *always* comes down to media vs technology. Disgusting.
I suppose if you're going that way with it you should mention MIT's OpenCourseware at ocw.mit.edu. They got me through linear algebra (when I was too cool to go to class).
If any country rich with natural resources such as oil has starving populations it's entirely an internal problem.
The only people the U.S. ever helped starve were countries that actually got foreign aid. That money usually stays in the hands of members of the government and helps solidify their dominance. If there was a way to lend money directly to members of the population there'd be a chance, but my how mad would a government get if a foreign government started directly helping their people...
The war on terrorism likely prevented this happening there. I agree that it's sad anyone else has gotten this involved in what was essentially a U.S. fight.
Though if I recall correctly, the U.S. wasn't the only country to be populated completely by godless people.
For the sake of gloat and whatnot, does anyone have links to sources complaining about this decision which we may read and then bat around like fed kittens with a ball of yarn?
I want to see what kind of stories hit stateside presses first, assuming this news makes it past that Aruba-Dutch-where's-whitey thing.
I obviously don't get out much, does anyone else in the world except the United States get spam? Does spam even come in non-English flavors?
Everyone talks about where spam comes from, does that mean we all kinda agree on where it's going? Maybe a little splashes up on some European shores, but China?
Who sends spam to China? What are they advertising? Do they really get spam?
Don't people ever reach other conclusions first? They *always* throw that in there when someone gets in trouble and the internet is involved. All this coverage makes child porn sound like the greatest vice since prostitution.
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Was considering Slashcode as well.
I have heard stories of the fabled Slashcode. Few mortals survive.
Dude, I think what you're describing would have to be a government project. The internet is just kinda wild and untamed (part of its charm, there's actually danger here when most real-world danger is made up on TV or with falsified evidence), but once it's been tamed, as most non-technical governments seem to want to do, then you'll be required to have what you're talking about.
I think internet should be more like space. If you're going to step out into no atmosphere don't blame the maintainers when you get hit by debris and your suit depressurizes. If you don't meet the safety standards to get on (and I'm also referring to anything that gets you 0wn3d in less than 20 minutes) don't get pissed at the internet, get pissed at your suit maker.
How petty and anarcho-libertarian of me though. A guy can dream...
the real questions that will be answered are how can the industry create a demand for computer games beyond the traditional demographic of males between the age of 14-24,
Ok, so that's the "How?" of it. Where's the "Why?" Did we skip that step?
and what role can women play in this seemingly-epic task.
Oh, I get why now. It's the money. You mean it might be difficult to suck as much money out of women as they've been getting from men?
As a male I'm insulted to think women could possibly waste as much money on gaming as the industry has already managed to suck off from men. As a half-assed feminist I'm also insulted that they're using sexual equality to veil an obvious attempt to lure women into blowing loads on video games. They're just trying tap women in order to produce more releases.
How is DNS and IP assignment any more public policy than the TCP specification or port number assignments?
Yes, their search tools are so popular that they are getting embedded into operating systems and browsers, but another company could come along any day now with something better and displace them just as quickly as they displaced Yahoo.
I don't think companies work like that anymore. I don't think anyone's been that lazy since what happened to Yahoo happened. If someone has something that beats one of Google's search tools (and that's a *lot* of stuff, don't forget) why wouldn't they just go work for Google? Everyone knows Google turns employees that do exceptional work into instant millionaires. That hard to beat.
And what did Yahoo actually have besides the search engine and directory? Notice that Google has an extremely modular design.
For that matter, an OS company (Microsoft or Apple) or a browser team (Mozilla, Opera) might just decide that they are better off putting out their very own superior search tools as a way to set their product apart from the competiion,
All of those except Microsoft have been keeping to their respective markets. Microsoft has weird ego problems and Google offends their libido. The one thing Microsoft *has* mastered is following in the footsteps of others and never quite doing it right, except maybe with Office, but I see Google releasing a web-based office suite one day which people will flock to since it'll be one click away from their homepage and it won't matter how fast their computers are to run it. If anyone's edging into anyone's market it's Google into Microsoft's.
and the right innovation for filtering out sites who cheat their way up the Google rankings could easilly result in stealing a lot of market share away.
Once again, why wouldn't Google hire these people? Why wouldn't these people apply for a job at Google?
It's hard to lock "customers" in to a free product.
Heh. The trick is to not ever let on that they're locked in.
How come I'm not seeing any of those mentioned? My god people, these are the groups that already handle everything that goes on on the internet within the bounds of the TLDs and IPs, who could be better qualified?
The Dutch. True, they were at least concerned by the Rwandan genocide when the U.N. refused to help.
I'm guessing that your suggestion has something to do with the legalization of prostitution, marijuana, and gay marriage there. I'm not sure why politics should be considered in a technical organization.
I think the IEEE or the IETF should get it.
It's those damn Ouija boards. They screw me every time.
I kid.
Dated one of those too. :)
They didn't mention Sweden. Thank god they didn't mention Sweden.
I thought he was going after homeopathy. My ex-girlfriend was running a high fever but she refused to take off the shelf fever medication instead opting for the homeopathic fever medication her mother had provided. It scared me that night because I had an inkling of an idea what she was taking (her fever was 103F and her heart rate was well over 100bpm), but it freaked the hell out of me when I looked up exaclty what homeopathic meant.
Her mother, by the way, is a Swedish ex-nurse who now runs a reflexology practice out of her home. The whole lot is batty as hell. The girlfriend only tried to stab me on three different occasions while I was kicking her out. She told me earlier on that everyone in her family had mental problems (father's a bipolar math professor, she's bipolar too) but you're likely to get a chair thrown at you if you try to argue the veracity of homeopathy or reflexology (yes, this happened a few times too).
I've since learned to associate vehement spirituality with mental instability. Keeps me from getting clubbed or excorsized cause those things fucking hurt.
No longer would we be babies crying in the woods then. That's good.
First of all, those screenshots are in PNG format. Does that mean we should expect full PNG support in Longhorn?
And second (the most disturbing part) this thing isn't even out yet... so why the hell is it running anti-virus software?
For three years now I've refused to use anything that *requires* anti-virus software. I can't abide shoddy workmanship.
I always though Linux stomped Windows for eyecandy. Then I installed Litestep. What a beautiful shell.
Still, good news, in that you can go Red or Blue and still be Linux true!
Whoever said that should be smacked. That's hardcore cheesy.
Mmm, this'll be nice for benchmarking my printer.
But who actually thinks the vulnerabilities that virus exploited would have been patched if he hadn't written Sasser? Microsoft even had a patch available and look what happened. Sasser caught most of the IT security industry with their pants down.
That's the cheapest looking guitar playing machine I've ever seen.
If a car assembly line can get one-armed machines that can put 40 different rivets in 40 different locations at 40 different angles in less than 40 seconds, why can't you get a miniature version that can hold a single pick and hit six different strings with varying speed and angle?
They're using six picks and 23 rubber fingers! That's absolutely shoddy. Wake me when they're using one pick and four rubber fingers. It's not like the technology isn't there.
Replacing guitar players my ass!
internet over broadband
Damn. Google's always one step ahead in innovation aren't they.
Now a cool idea would be internet over powerlines. We have VoIP over internet already, and we're working on TV over internet. How nice would it be to reduce the overhead of paying three companies for their services to paying only one?
Let's just watch and see what great laws the entrenched ones push through once they recognize BPL as a viable alternative to their industries. Who will win: cable and telephone or the silicon valley and utilities? It *always* comes down to media vs technology. Disgusting.
I suppose if you're going that way with it you should mention MIT's OpenCourseware at ocw.mit.edu. They got me through linear algebra (when I was too cool to go to class).
If any country rich with natural resources such as oil has starving populations it's entirely an internal problem.
The only people the U.S. ever helped starve were countries that actually got foreign aid. That money usually stays in the hands of members of the government and helps solidify their dominance. If there was a way to lend money directly to members of the population there'd be a chance, but my how mad would a government get if a foreign government started directly helping their people...
Perhaps they couldn't do this in the U.S.
The war on terrorism likely prevented this happening there. I agree that it's sad anyone else has gotten this involved in what was essentially a U.S. fight.
Though if I recall correctly, the U.S. wasn't the only country to be populated completely by godless people.
For the sake of gloat and whatnot, does anyone have links to sources complaining about this decision which we may read and then bat around like fed kittens with a ball of yarn?
I want to see what kind of stories hit stateside presses first, assuming this news makes it past that Aruba-Dutch-where's-whitey thing.
China is fighting spam? Do they even get spam?
I obviously don't get out much, does anyone else in the world except the United States get spam? Does spam even come in non-English flavors?
Everyone talks about where spam comes from, does that mean we all kinda agree on where it's going? Maybe a little splashes up on some European shores, but China?
Who sends spam to China? What are they advertising? Do they really get spam?
Don't people ever reach other conclusions first? They *always* throw that in there when someone gets in trouble and the internet is involved. All this coverage makes child porn sound like the greatest vice since prostitution.