i know this is slashdot where talking out of your ass gets you modded as insightful but this is just too stupid to pass by.
you've clearly never been to the event and have no appreciation of its history. i grew up in reno i went for the first time in 1996. at that time there were only 8,000 people (at least according to wikipedia) last year there were 49,500. there's absolutely no way you can scale that without changing the rules. i remember talking to people that we upset that there was no more drive by shooting range. there was a rave camp a mile from central camp and everyone drove their cars around. and that year three people in a tent got run over by a car, so the next year only art cars were allowed and a speed limit imposed.
they don't make rules just to make rules. the rules are either: a) responses to clear problems to keeping the ever increasing number of people from killing each other b) imposed by the counties (washoe and pershing) or blm in order to obtain the permits.
I've got a Heathkit H19 dumb terminal on my desk that's hooked up to my MacMini via serial-to-USB converter.
I don't do a lot of "work" with it but I wrote a Ruby script for it to talk to iTunes via AppleScript and grab the album art then pass that through ImageMagick to bump the contrast then convert it to ASCII text using jp2a.
"Over here, we (at least we did) believe in personal resposibility, the individual, and taking care of your own."
I had to laugh at that. For the last sixty years the idea seems to have been take credit for the successes and blame the failures on bad luck then ask for a bailout.
I think you'd have a hard time finding an example of "good" colonizers but you seemed to have picked up the wrong end of 3.5 stripe's comment. You're looking at their profit while he's looking at the effects on the people in the countries where those profits were generated.
Too true. I got an OLPC through the Give 1 Get 1 program thinking I'd replace my ThinkPad... didn't work out for me. It's a very cool device but it's way too beta to get any work done on it. And on top of that the keyboard was too small and the UI way too slow. It'd definitely designed for kids.
yeah, you'll have a hard time. kodak pushed a film format 620, it's exactly the same as the commerically available 120 film but it uses an incompatible reel.
That reminds me of an entry from the Jargon File
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On the ITS system there was a program that allowed you to see what was being printed on someone else's terminal. It spied on the other guy's output by examining the insides of the monitor system. The output spy program was called OS. Throughout the rest of the computer science world (and at IBM too) OS means `operating system', but among old-time ITS hackers it almost always meant `output spy'.
OS could work because ITS purposely had very little in the way of `protection' that prevented one user from trespassing on another's areas. Fair is fair, however. There was another program that would automatically notify you if anyone started to spy on your output. It worked in exactly the same way, by looking at the insides of the operating system to see if anyone else was looking at the insides that had to do with your output. This `counterspy' program was called JEDGAR (a six-letterism pronounced as two syllables:/jed'gr/), in honor of the former head of the FBI.
But there's more. JEDGAR would ask the user for `license to kill'. If the user said yes, then JEDGAR would actually gun the job of the luser who was spying. Unfortunately, people found that this made life too violent, especially when tourists learned about it. One of the systems hackers solved the problem by replacing JEDGAR with another program that only pretended to do its job. It took a long time to do this, because every copy of JEDGAR had to be patched. To this day no one knows how many people never figured out that JEDGAR had been defanged.
Interestingly, there is still a security module named JEDGAR alive as of late 1994 -- in the Unisys MCP for large systems. It is unknown to us whether the name is tribute or independent invention.
uuhm yeah, suffer that's it. how about considering the results of your actions? as an american we use more energy than india and china combined (feel free to compare the numbers). grow the fuck up, you don't want to be comfortable. compare you're life to any other era in in history and tell me that you're suffering. even if you used half the energy you use, you're still wastefull by any other standard.
so cache the most recent 1000 requests. aol's servers will have the same processing overhead to find the md5 checksums so there will probably be a small number of checksums durring a day.
according to this post there's a linux version. couldn't you just script it to download that version durring installation? extract it from the rpm then do checksums as needed?
the simplest thing would be to have it be the the first post to add partners to any nytimes link. it might take a while but one karama point at a time would add up.
I agree with most of your points but hate all absolute statements.
Obviously you've never seen Dogme 1 - Festen (in English The Celebration). Its one of the best movies I've ever seen, the focus is on making a great movie simply. I think these rules could be the inspiration for games of the same caliber. Go rent it and show it and impress your SO with your taste in foreign films.
Well then we should all go down with torches in hand and destroy the public library. By your logic we should never be able look at a book with out purchasing it, and here the library is letting hundreds of people look at one book and only pay for it once. imagine that.
Okay call them tooboxes, but some languages are still the wrong toolbox. Trying to use a carpenters toolbox to do automotive repair is do-able if you want to prove that McGyver could but it's not the fastest way.
You use a SQLish language for set processing and it's going to be easier for a majority of the
tasks but you sure wouldn't want to write a GUI in though would you? So I'll rephrase... Right toolbox for the job.
I had to read it twice, and then i was still trying to figure out what you ment. Lord of the Flies? Some SF refrence? Tribe... tribe... Oh fuck that survivor show that I never watched but couldn't avoid.
The point I guess being that for some people it's happening now.
Bruce Sterling wrote about something similar in one of the Schismatrix stories. The systems monitoring on a space ship was all done by sound, with the same idea being that you get used to the routine and don't notice it. When something goes wrong it becomes apparent very soon.
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funny i was going to say that about the right... then they start mentioning the second amendment in a menacing way... does wonders for an open dialog.
The land is managed by the BLM.
i know this is slashdot where talking out of your ass gets you modded as insightful but this is just too stupid to pass by.
you've clearly never been to the event and have no appreciation of its history. i grew up in reno i went for the first time in 1996. at that time there were only 8,000 people (at least according to wikipedia) last year there were 49,500. there's absolutely no way you can scale that without changing the rules. i remember talking to people that we upset that there was no more drive by shooting range. there was a rave camp a mile from central camp and everyone drove their cars around. and that year three people in a tent got run over by a car, so the next year only art cars were allowed and a speed limit imposed.
they don't make rules just to make rules. the rules are either: a) responses to clear problems to keeping the ever increasing number of people from killing each other b) imposed by the counties (washoe and pershing) or blm in order to obtain the permits.
I've got a Heathkit H19 dumb terminal on my desk that's hooked up to my MacMini via serial-to-USB converter.
I don't do a lot of "work" with it but I wrote a Ruby script for it to talk to iTunes via AppleScript and grab the album art then pass that through ImageMagick to bump the contrast then convert it to ASCII text using jp2a.
You can see some pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/drewish/tags/h19/
Or checkout the Ruby script: http://github.com/drewish/textFlow/tree/master
"Over here, we (at least we did) believe in personal resposibility, the individual, and taking care of your own."
I had to laugh at that. For the last sixty years the idea seems to have been take credit for the successes and blame the failures on bad luck then ask for a bailout.
I think you'd have a hard time finding an example of "good" colonizers but you seemed to have picked up the wrong end of 3.5 stripe's comment. You're looking at their profit while he's looking at the effects on the people in the countries where those profits were generated.
Admiral Adama never would have let that happen on his ship.
I think you're referring to the fix for Code Red 2 written by Sam Phillips. This article makes passing mention of it: http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1515
Google for http://www.dasbistro.com/default.ida and you'll see it referenced a few places.
Too true. I got an OLPC through the Give 1 Get 1 program thinking I'd replace my ThinkPad... didn't work out for me. It's a very cool device but it's way too beta to get any work done on it. And on top of that the keyboard was too small and the UI way too slow. It'd definitely designed for kids.
There is a certain irony in nitpicking the use of "tubes" and then proceeding to call your Senator a Congressman...
yeah, you'll have a hard time. kodak pushed a film format 620, it's exactly the same as the commerically available 120 film but it uses an incompatible reel.
OS and JEDGAR
/jed'gr/), in honor of the former head of the FBI.
This story says a lot about the ITS ethos.
On the ITS system there was a program that allowed you to see what was being printed on someone else's terminal. It spied on the other guy's output by examining the insides of the monitor system. The output spy program was called OS. Throughout the rest of the computer science world (and at IBM too) OS means `operating system', but among old-time ITS hackers it almost always meant `output spy'.
OS could work because ITS purposely had very little in the way of `protection' that prevented one user from trespassing on another's areas. Fair is fair, however. There was another program that would automatically notify you if anyone started to spy on your output. It worked in exactly the same way, by looking at the insides of the operating system to see if anyone else was looking at the insides that had to do with your output. This `counterspy' program was called JEDGAR (a six-letterism pronounced as two syllables:
But there's more. JEDGAR would ask the user for `license to kill'. If the user said yes, then JEDGAR would actually gun the job of the luser who was spying. Unfortunately, people found that this made life too violent, especially when tourists learned about it. One of the systems hackers solved the problem by replacing JEDGAR with another program that only pretended to do its job. It took a long time to do this, because every copy of JEDGAR had to be patched. To this day no one knows how many people never figured out that JEDGAR had been defanged.
Interestingly, there is still a security module named JEDGAR alive as of late 1994 -- in the Unisys MCP for large systems. It is unknown to us whether the name is tribute or independent invention.
uuhm yeah, suffer that's it. how about considering the results of your actions? as an american we use more energy than india and china combined (feel free to compare the numbers). grow the fuck up, you don't want to be comfortable. compare you're life to any other era in in history and tell me that you're suffering. even if you used half the energy you use, you're still wastefull by any other standard.
This compatibilty array has got to be the best idea I've read all night.
so cache the most recent 1000 requests. aol's servers will have the same processing overhead to find the md5 checksums so there will probably be a small number of checksums durring a day.
according to this post there's a linux version. couldn't you just script it to download that version durring installation? extract it from the rpm then do checksums as needed?
the simplest thing would be to have it be the the first post to add partners to any nytimes link. it might take a while but one karama point at a time would add up.
my favorite was the "portable hydrocarbon sensors". i don't know how they made them sensitive to explosives but not jet fuel.
forgot to mention i love that sig ("Information wants to be anthropomorphized.")
I agree with most of your points but hate all absolute statements. Obviously you've never seen Dogme 1 - Festen (in English The Celebration). Its one of the best movies I've ever seen, the focus is on making a great movie simply. I think these rules could be the inspiration for games of the same caliber. Go rent it and show it and impress your SO with your taste in foreign films.
Well then we should all go down with torches in hand and destroy the public library. By your logic we should never be able look at a book with out purchasing it, and here the library is letting hundreds of people look at one book and only pay for it once. imagine that.
Salon posted who they voted for and they're pretty left wing. I can't find the link but the article was posted about a week after the election.
You use a SQLish language for set processing and it's going to be easier for a majority of the tasks but you sure wouldn't want to write a GUI in though would you? So I'll rephrase... Right toolbox for the job.
I had to read it twice, and then i was still trying to figure out what you ment. Lord of the Flies? Some SF refrence? Tribe... tribe... Oh fuck that survivor show that I never watched but couldn't avoid. The point I guess being that for some people it's happening now.
Bruce Sterling wrote about something similar in one of the Schismatrix stories. The systems monitoring on a space ship was all done by sound, with the same idea being that you get used to the routine and don't notice it. When something goes wrong it becomes apparent very soon.