Second Life has a piss-poor reputation for helping content creators retain control over their creations. Skins (texture over avatar models), clothes, etc. are routinely ripped off because, amongst other reasons, they're cached as individual TGA files on the client computer, and 3rd party SL clients are allowed. These 3rd party clients (e.g. CopyBot) can and have been coded to save any texture desired to a place where the user can then upload to SL and use as their own (complex models are made from what are called sculpted primitives, or "sculpties", which are stored and uploaded as UV map images in TGA format)
Also, Linden Lab (the creators of SL) offer little to no recourse for stolen property, and have very arbitrary and frequently ass-backwards policies. For example, you can make a claim (true or not) that a user is underage and have them banned for 1 or more days almost instantly; to challenge the claim you have to contact Linden Lab (I think by phone, or snail mail) by which time you have been unbanned.
However, when dealing with content theft, you have to file a DMCA request and - this is the best part - FAX OR MAIL IT to Linden Lab, and they may or may not put it on the back burner. You can wait days or weeks while they get to your complaint.
An analogy is a country in which there is almost constant theft and assault, you are allowed almost no tools to protect yourself or your property, and a small number of magistrates wield arbitrary control over property, life and death (i.e. temp and permanent banning) with no real laws.
That SL isn't failing as fast as it should be is probably due only to a fairly large user base's average noobishness and inertia./rant
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It's pretty easy to figure out what they probably did: a port of XNU sitting under the most/all the higher level frameworks, and little of the BSD layer except the APIs. And like Joswiak said, thy can cut out a LOT of stuff without crippling the OS or APIs. A sizable chunk of/System and/System/Library can be cut out because it contains support for things not needed on a phone/ipod/internet device, then of course pretty much all of/Applications and that leaves you with a slim, but real, OS X.
This is the 21st century - whether or not this guy wants to believe it, technology is now an integral part of education. These guys either don't know, don't care, or fear how technology will empower their next generation.
In addition to some of the other points made, the US is a very large country with a lot of rural areas in between the metropolitan parts. In rural areas you get a large number of people who don't often travel outside their area, an even less outside the country. In so doing, there are fewer vectors by which foreign ideas can spread in these rural areas, and you end up with a homoginization of beliefs and attitudes. And as it happens in the US, a more fundamentalist/puritanical version of Christianity was spread over a great part of the nation by settlers in the 18th and 19th centuries, and has been given little opportunity to evolve in areas with stagnant "idea pools". You can get the same thing to some effect in ethnic/cultural ghettos*, where large numbers of an ethnic group live and can more easily avoid interacting with other ethnic and cultural groups.
This is why you tend to see more "progressive" people near cities and more "conservative" people in the countryside - people in cities have little choice but to be exposed to dissonant ideas, which forces most people to reevaluate their preconceptions.
The GOP has for some time now oriented its politics around "values" issues which line up with what a majority of people (often in rural areas) have grown up believing, and it has taken a major issue like the Iraqi war/occupation to make people vote otherwise. Values issues have little to do with actual problems, like economics, and more to do with percieved problems which are more just manifestiations of a rpidly shrinking world. Indeed, sometimes these perceived "values problems" are just conflicting ideas becoming easier to access thanks to radio, tv and the Internet.
* (using the original meaning of the word, not necessarily synonymous with 'slums')
I would say "Super Mario Bros. 3" is art in that a huge amount of attention was paid into making the sprites and backgrounds as nice as they could given the color pallet and technology, and level design which makes the entire game flow from start to finish. Something doesn't need to seem edgy or emotional to be real art - I might even say something developed with the intent to be described as 'art' is less 'real' as art than something that became more revered than was its intent (cave paintings, mario 3), the former case being more 'dishonest' about its intent (emotionally manipulative perhaps?)
So, Product X, where X is a car, xbox360, etc., costs the same in both locations. In Job A, you have to work longer to be able to buy X, despite things like rent. Also, despite rent, you net 60K a year from Job B vs 40K a year from Job A.
Also, the weather is always nicer in the bay area, but that doesn't mean we want you moving here and further increasing the population;-)
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the caste system still deeply ingrained in modern Indian society. That may be (at least at subconscious levels) partially to blame.
IDSJ, but I'm pretty sure that was a GameCube tech demo. The word 'GAMECUBE' on the disc's surface was a give away. I remember seeing this video in fact.
I've never felt very comfortable with string theory. Not that it threatens some deep-held belief (I have few of those), but that it seems mostly like conjecture, trying to shoehorn increasingly complex theories to fit some phenomena that is probably explainable in a simpler manner which we just yet haven't found. Of course, physics often doesn't adhere to common sense.
Everyone knows predators use personal cloaking technology, vision-guided energy blasts, multi-wavelength heads-up displays. Much more effective than MySpace.
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Second Life has a piss-poor reputation for helping content creators retain control over their creations. Skins (texture over avatar models), clothes, etc. are routinely ripped off because, amongst other reasons, they're cached as individual TGA files on the client computer, and 3rd party SL clients are allowed. These 3rd party clients (e.g. CopyBot) can and have been coded to save any texture desired to a place where the user can then upload to SL and use as their own (complex models are made from what are called sculpted primitives, or "sculpties", which are stored and uploaded as UV map images in TGA format)
Also, Linden Lab (the creators of SL) offer little to no recourse for stolen property, and have very arbitrary and frequently ass-backwards policies. For example, you can make a claim (true or not) that a user is underage and have them banned for 1 or more days almost instantly; to challenge the claim you have to contact Linden Lab (I think by phone, or snail mail) by which time you have been unbanned.
However, when dealing with content theft, you have to file a DMCA request and - this is the best part - FAX OR MAIL IT to Linden Lab, and they may or may not put it on the back burner. You can wait days or weeks while they get to your complaint.
An analogy is a country in which there is almost constant theft and assault, you are allowed almost no tools to protect yourself or your property, and a small number of magistrates wield arbitrary control over property, life and death (i.e. temp and permanent banning) with no real laws.
That SL isn't failing as fast as it should be is probably due only to a fairly large user base's average noobishness and inertia. /rant
It's pretty easy to figure out what they probably did: a port of XNU sitting under the most/all the higher level frameworks, and little of the BSD layer except the APIs. And like Joswiak said, thy can cut out a LOT of stuff without crippling the OS or APIs. A sizable chunk of /System and /System/Library can be cut out because it contains support for things not needed on a phone/ipod/internet device, then of course pretty much all of /Applications and that leaves you with a slim, but real, OS X.
This is the 21st century - whether or not this guy wants to believe it, technology is now an integral part of education. These guys either don't know, don't care, or fear how technology will empower their next generation.
In addition to some of the other points made, the US is a very large country with a lot of rural areas in between the metropolitan parts. In rural areas you get a large number of people who don't often travel outside their area, an even less outside the country. In so doing, there are fewer vectors by which foreign ideas can spread in these rural areas, and you end up with a homoginization of beliefs and attitudes. And as it happens in the US, a more fundamentalist/puritanical version of Christianity was spread over a great part of the nation by settlers in the 18th and 19th centuries, and has been given little opportunity to evolve in areas with stagnant "idea pools". You can get the same thing to some effect in ethnic/cultural ghettos*, where large numbers of an ethnic group live and can more easily avoid interacting with other ethnic and cultural groups.
This is why you tend to see more "progressive" people near cities and more "conservative" people in the countryside - people in cities have little choice but to be exposed to dissonant ideas, which forces most people to reevaluate their preconceptions.
The GOP has for some time now oriented its politics around "values" issues which line up with what a majority of people (often in rural areas) have grown up believing, and it has taken a major issue like the Iraqi war/occupation to make people vote otherwise. Values issues have little to do with actual problems, like economics, and more to do with percieved problems which are more just manifestiations of a rpidly shrinking world. Indeed, sometimes these perceived "values problems" are just conflicting ideas becoming easier to access thanks to radio, tv and the Internet.
* (using the original meaning of the word, not necessarily synonymous with 'slums')
Obviously we are just educated stupid.
I think your sarcasm meter needs re-calibrating...
Massive computer system? Check.
Independent network? Check-ish.
Solar powered? Check.
Super-human AI. ????
ALL HAIL OMNI-SUPER-GOOGLE-MIND-BRAIN!
No, its just lots of people being dumb.
With Heisenberg compensators?
I think its all the garbage that gets installed after it boots for the very first time.
I would say "Super Mario Bros. 3" is art in that a huge amount of attention was paid into making the sprites and backgrounds as nice as they could given the color pallet and technology, and level design which makes the entire game flow from start to finish. Something doesn't need to seem edgy or emotional to be real art - I might even say something developed with the intent to be described as 'art' is less 'real' as art than something that became more revered than was its intent (cave paintings, mario 3), the former case being more 'dishonest' about its intent (emotionally manipulative perhaps?)
Given:
;-)
Job A: $50,000/year, $10,000 annual rent.
Job B: $100,000/year, $40,000 annual rent.
So, Product X, where X is a car, xbox360, etc., costs the same in both locations. In Job A, you have to work longer to be able to buy X, despite things like rent.
Also, despite rent, you net 60K a year from Job B vs 40K a year from Job A.
Also, the weather is always nicer in the bay area, but that doesn't mean we want you moving here and further increasing the population
yeah! http://www.bird-man.com/ has lots of other videos of the bird-man suit
Yeah, in my pants! Giggity!
I'm surprised no one has mentioned the caste system still deeply ingrained in modern Indian society. That may be (at least at subconscious levels) partially to blame.
sounds like some weird Southern food
"Y'wan inny mower backslash, Jim Bob Billy Ray Bob?"
"Shore. Thanks, ma. Thar inny trackback left, teww?"
Still just coincidence.
Mentok has spoken!
IDSJ, but I'm pretty sure that was a GameCube tech demo. The word 'GAMECUBE' on the disc's surface was a give away. I remember seeing this video in fact.
Though never shown, I figured Superman would just flap his feet very rapidly to generate thrust, like any of us swimming, but far more powerful.
That's how I do it, anyway. Up, up and away!
You have to network the AI's computing nodes somehow.
Here's to super-intelligence!
Nerdiest. Crime. Ever.
finger-print scanners as payment. Check.
fuel from anything in 9 years. Check.
Now all we need hoverboards and Pepsi Perfect.
I've never felt very comfortable with string theory. Not that it threatens some deep-held belief (I have few of those), but that it seems mostly like conjecture, trying to shoehorn increasingly complex theories to fit some phenomena that is probably explainable in a simpler manner which we just yet haven't found. Of course, physics often doesn't adhere to common sense.
Everyone knows predators use personal cloaking technology, vision-guided energy blasts, multi-wavelength heads-up displays. Much more effective than MySpace.
"Yeah! Get those damn thought-criminals!"