There's a movie clip of people demonstrating in East Germany, this must have been sometime around 1989. They were shouting: "Wir wollen raus! Wir wollen raus!" - We want to get out! Watching this sequence touched me deeply, because this was a moment where the people not longer were afraid of their government.
A world where people are afraid leads to, or is the cause of, a suppressive government.
Umm, democracy just means "rule by the people". The term democracy does not define exactly how a country is ruled, it could be directly or indirectly through representatives. So I would rather classify the US as a democratic republic, and for example Sweden (where we have a king instead of a president) a constitutional democratic monarchy.
So I live in Sweden. And I absolutely don't get why people would want to move here. Salaries are quite low. An entry salary is about 28k in the IT sector - BEFORE taxes (that's 30% off). 51% of BNP goes to the government in taxes. We have quite an ok unemployment insurance, that lasts for 240 days. Then you're basically off to welfare. A visit to the dentist is not free, a checkup would cost you 40-50. I could go on:)
Did I mention the weather? Or our culture? What about the girls then? My response is usually "you watch too much TV".
Sweden is not a paradise, despite what people said in the 60's when Sweden was within the top-10 richest contries in the world.
I think it depends on how used you are watching movies with subtitles. In Sweden obviously all foreign movies are subtitled in Swedish. Nowadays I don't read the subtitles anymore (well, provided the movie is in English or another language I know).
4) Try to change search engine to Altavista - 2 minutes - exception thrown just typing a letter in the search menu.
Altavista? I think we've found the last remaining Altavista user now:) Anyway, changing default search engine to Google worked flawless, took about 10 secs to configure it. So I guess, YMMV...
Is there any way to disable that M$ key or move map it to another key instead? Having it go to the "Scroll Lock" key would be nice. Out of the way, can be used if needed.
One reason behind the huge success of the MMO(RP)G genre is that you can have an adventurous life for just about $13/month. It's far cheaper to buy Test Drive Unlimited than to get a Ferrari. Or travel to Tanaris (a desert area in WoW) rather than going to the Saharas.
But will these games take over the world? I doubt it. A game is limited to its game designers, sooner or later most (but not all, of course) will get bored with the game's content. The real world on the other hand, is far huger and offers way more opportunities. So a scenario where most of the world's population would get stuck online à la Matrix is not something I think will happen.
However, my guess is that the poorer you are (provided you can afford an internet connection) the greater the risk is that you get hooked with MMORPGs. The reason is that poorer people often have less freedom of choice in their own life. I can't just move to Tahiti tomorrow, but that would be no problem for your average Hollywood star. But it would be no problem to battle monsters in Tahiti online if there ever was such a game:)
In step with Web 2.0 philosophy, Flock provides a rich user-centric experience, making it easier to bring information to the user and vice versa.
I find this kind of writing everywhere on the net. But why, why, why on Slashdot? Spare me from non-meaning phrases like "user-centric experience". And would that mean that the regular Firefox provides a machine-centric experience?
That's what WoWs (LOLLERSKATES!) me about Blizzard. Diablo 2 came out in 2000. The latest patch came out in January 2006. That's just AMAZING to me: 5.5 years later they are still actively patching the game. I honestly can't think of another game that has had someone issuing patches for 6 years.
Well, 3D Realms/Apogee released a patch for a 14 year old game (version 1.0 released in 1991, patched to 1.0a in 2005). It's just a small bugfix, but it must be some kind of record.
Basically the article states that with too clever setups of SSH, you're likely just to fool yourself. I agree in one way, since it's true that SSH allows very complex configurations. On the other way, who trusts _any_ daemon that you can talk to from any host on the internet? I certainly don't. The article doesn't really mention the one thing I worry about SSH, a security hole in the server software itself. That's why I use iptables for a first defence.
Interesting read though, made me aware of some security issues I never thought about (probably since I just use SSH for direct host-to-host communication). But really, a more hard to understand article is hard to write. Took me a couple of reads to even grasp how the attacks work.
I would mod you insightful if I had mod points. However:
Marijuana is legal in quite a few countries. It can happen.
I'm not American and I don't have that much insight about "the war on drugs", if it's good or bad. But some people (like me) are generally pro-filesharing and anti-drugs. To mix these two domains opens up the whole guilt-by-association-door. "See, fileshares think that marijuana should be legalised." But still, I agree with the spirit of your last sentence, anything can happen.
I didn't know he would release his game engine under an open source license. Open source or not, I still don't think that this article is very technical. It starts pretty ok, describing problems with huge textures. I guess that made me a bit disappointed later on, where nothing really was added besides how awsome MegaTextures is. And for the record: I have nothing against trade secrets.
Carmack says: And one of my early suggestions to them was that they consider looking at an approach where you just use one monumentally large texture, and that turned out to be 32,000 by 32,000. And I - rather then doing it by the conventional way that you would approach something like this (i.e. - chopping up the geometry into different pieces and mapping different textures on to there and incrementally swapping them for low res versus high res versions), just let them treat one uniform geometry mesh and have this effectively unbounded texture side on there, and use a more complicated fragment program to go ahead and pick out exactly what should be on there, just as if the graphics hardware and the system really did support such a huge texture.
What does it mean? Unless I missed something, the closest approach to describe how MegaTexturing works is "a more complicated fragment program to go ahead and pick out exactly what should be on there". So? Carmack talks about how awsome the technique is but he won't tell us how it works in reality. Of course, he has no obligation to tell the world his trade secrets, but the article itself seems mostly just to be there to hype this technology.
On the Linux note, her parents view Linux with a kind of mild amusement. They find it somewhat humorous that people would spend so much time and effort to write free software, and think I'm kind of crazy for choosing a career with Linux.
I don't think that has to do with their culture, really. Remember, some people say that Linux is a communist project? And that Linux is very un-American? Bias: I'm from Europe myself.
Speaking as a psychology geek, this is textbook. You hear about this case the first semester in class. But it's nice to see this on/. aswell, available to the general geek public.
To quote my grandmother, don't believe everything you read in newspapers. And to that I would like to add: don't believe everything you hear from politicians. Of course, I agree that we can't continue our dependency on oil and it's nice when people have visions. But will it happen by 2020? Sadly, I don't think so. (Bias: I'm a Swede.)
Can we get over mysql already? Even sqlite is a better, and faster, database now. It's ACID, which mysql is not: http://www.sqlite.org/lockingv3.html
And Postgresql is far more robust and performs just as well.
What does mysql offer any more that the other OSS databases don't? Is it just that it's the M in LAMP? I'm so tired of hearing about Mysql, and all the Mysql drama, when it's just a shitty database that has a lot of mindshare.
Fair enough. But no one forces you to use MySQL (other than maybe your clients/employer). Also, MySQL is good enough (tm). You know, the principle that made Microsoft successful. Not necessarily the best software, but good enough to be used to host your average random hacker web project. Over the years more and more start to use MySQL for larger systems, because of the experience they have with the database, and they know that it worked pretty well for them in the past. Sure, they may all be wrong, stumbling around in the darkness - that's why we need the Postgresql fanboys to advocate their viewpoint. But to bash MySQL without backing it up with references and facts is just pointless.
I totally agree. There's been support for mouse wheels for a long time in many X-windows apps. But how would someone using "the evil platform" ever take OSS(*) seriously when reading this kind of news?
(*) Oh, since this is GNU Emacs: s/OSS/Free Software/
AFAIK, VLC is not (yet) illegal. It was some time ago when I installed the Google video plugin, but I think their EULA mentioned VLC. Link + another link.
Secondly, if Google becomes a monopoly in its field (which it definitely is striving for), would you support them bundling a particular media player, making it harder for others to compete?
I don't follow how bundling some open source software makes it harder for others to compete.
Well, you can always include VLC, like Google does (IIRC). Of course, that's not the best solution because it only deals with the lack of a media player, and who wants 12 different copies of VLC installed by all these different applications? I think the long term solution would be better software packaging with proper dependency management. Oh, by the way, from what I've heard almost everyone has broadband in South Korea:)
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There's a movie clip of people demonstrating in East Germany, this must have been sometime around 1989. They were shouting: "Wir wollen raus! Wir wollen raus!" - We want to get out!
Watching this sequence touched me deeply, because this was a moment where the people not longer were afraid of their government.
A world where people are afraid leads to, or is the cause of, a suppressive government.
Umm, democracy just means "rule by the people". The term democracy does not define exactly how a country is ruled, it could be directly or indirectly through representatives. So I would rather classify the US as a democratic republic, and for example Sweden (where we have a king instead of a president) a constitutional democratic monarchy.
Oh well, seems my euro-signs got stripped away. But all figures are in Euros.
So I live in Sweden. And I absolutely don't get why people would want to move here. Salaries are quite low. An entry salary is about 28k in the IT sector - BEFORE taxes (that's 30% off). 51% of BNP goes to the government in taxes. We have quite an ok unemployment insurance, that lasts for 240 days. Then you're basically off to welfare. A visit to the dentist is not free, a checkup would cost you 40-50. I could go on :)
Did I mention the weather? Or our culture?
What about the girls then? My response is usually "you watch too much TV".
Sweden is not a paradise, despite what people said in the 60's when Sweden was within the top-10 richest contries in the world.
I think it depends on how used you are watching movies with subtitles. In Sweden obviously all foreign movies are subtitled in Swedish. Nowadays I don't read the subtitles anymore (well, provided the movie is in English or another language I know).
Altavista? I think we've found the last remaining Altavista user now
Anyway, changing default search engine to Google worked flawless, took about 10 secs to configure it. So I guess, YMMV...
Is there any way to disable that M$ key or move map it to another key instead? Having it go to the "Scroll Lock" key would be nice. Out of the way, can be used if needed.
I googled, and found this registry hack to disable the Windows key. Enjoy!
One reason behind the huge success of the MMO(RP)G genre is that you can have an adventurous life for just about $13/month. It's far cheaper to buy Test Drive Unlimited than to get a Ferrari. Or travel to Tanaris (a desert area in WoW) rather than going to the Saharas.
:)
But will these games take over the world? I doubt it. A game is limited to its game designers, sooner or later most (but not all, of course) will get bored with the game's content. The real world on the other hand, is far huger and offers way more opportunities. So a scenario where most of the world's population would get stuck online à la Matrix is not something I think will happen.
However, my guess is that the poorer you are (provided you can afford an internet connection) the greater the risk is that you get hooked with MMORPGs. The reason is that poorer people often have less freedom of choice in their own life. I can't just move to Tahiti tomorrow, but that would be no problem for your average Hollywood star. But it would be no problem to battle monsters in Tahiti online if there ever was such a game
No, no, you got it all wrong. Your body is built using the Object Oriented paradigm, by the use of encapsulation/information hiding.
I find this kind of writing everywhere on the net. But why, why, why on Slashdot? Spare me from non-meaning phrases like "user-centric experience". And would that mean that the regular Firefox provides a machine-centric experience?
Well, 3D Realms/Apogee released a patch for a 14 year old game (version 1.0 released in 1991, patched to 1.0a in 2005). It's just a small bugfix, but it must be some kind of record.
Basically the article states that with too clever setups of SSH, you're likely just to fool yourself. I agree in one way, since it's true that SSH allows very complex configurations. On the other way, who trusts _any_ daemon that you can talk to from any host on the internet? I certainly don't. The article doesn't really mention the one thing I worry about SSH, a security hole in the server software itself. That's why I use iptables for a first defence.
Interesting read though, made me aware of some security issues I never thought about (probably since I just use SSH for direct host-to-host communication). But really, a more hard to understand article is hard to write. Took me a couple of reads to even grasp how the attacks work.
I would mod you insightful if I had mod points. However:
Marijuana is legal in quite a few countries. It can happen.
I'm not American and I don't have that much insight about "the war on drugs", if it's good or bad. But some people (like me) are generally pro-filesharing and anti-drugs. To mix these two domains opens up the whole guilt-by-association-door. "See, fileshares think that marijuana should be legalised." But still, I agree with the spirit of your last sentence, anything can happen.
I didn't know he would release his game engine under an open source license. Open source or not, I still don't think that this article is very technical. It starts pretty ok, describing problems with huge textures. I guess that made me a bit disappointed later on, where nothing really was added besides how awsome MegaTextures is. And for the record: I have nothing against trade secrets.
Carmack says:
And one of my early suggestions to them was that they consider looking at an approach where you just use one monumentally large texture, and that turned out to be 32,000 by 32,000. And I - rather then doing it by the conventional way that you would approach something like this (i.e. - chopping up the geometry into different pieces and mapping different textures on to there and incrementally swapping them for low res versus high res versions), just let them treat one uniform geometry mesh and have this effectively unbounded texture side on there, and use a more complicated fragment program to go ahead and pick out exactly what should be on there, just as if the graphics hardware and the system really did support such a huge texture.
What does it mean? Unless I missed something, the closest approach to describe how MegaTexturing works is "a more complicated fragment program to go ahead and pick out exactly what should be on there". So? Carmack talks about how awsome the technique is but he won't tell us how it works in reality. Of course, he has no obligation to tell the world his trade secrets, but the article itself seems mostly just to be there to hype this technology.
On the Linux note, her parents view Linux with a kind of mild amusement. They find it somewhat humorous that people would spend so much time and effort to write free software, and think I'm kind of crazy for choosing a career with Linux.
I don't think that has to do with their culture, really. Remember, some people say that Linux is a communist project? And that Linux is very un-American? Bias: I'm from Europe myself.
Winnie-the-Pooh was not public domain, Disney bought the rights from the author in 1961.
Speaking as a psychology geek, this is textbook. You hear about this case the first semester in class. But it's nice to see this on /. aswell, available to the general geek public.
To quote my grandmother, don't believe everything you read in newspapers. And to that I would like to add: don't believe everything you hear from politicians. Of course, I agree that we can't continue our dependency on oil and it's nice when people have visions. But will it happen by 2020? Sadly, I don't think so. (Bias: I'm a Swede.)
Does this outrule the rumor that Opera has a deal with Microsoft then? (No, I didn't RTFA.)
Sweden: MSN, MSN, MSN, ICQ, Skype (you can use it for IM too)
Nobody here knows what AIM is, and I haven't seen anyone using Yahoo either.
Can we get over mysql already? Even sqlite is a better, and faster, database now. It's ACID, which mysql is not: http://www.sqlite.org/lockingv3.html
And Postgresql is far more robust and performs just as well.
What does mysql offer any more that the other OSS databases don't? Is it just that it's the M in LAMP? I'm so tired of hearing about Mysql, and all the Mysql drama, when it's just a shitty database that has a lot of mindshare.
Fair enough. But no one forces you to use MySQL (other than maybe your clients/employer). Also, MySQL is good enough (tm). You know, the principle that made Microsoft successful. Not necessarily the best software, but good enough to be used to host your average random hacker web project. Over the years more and more start to use MySQL for larger systems, because of the experience they have with the database, and they know that it worked pretty well for them in the past.
Sure, they may all be wrong, stumbling around in the darkness - that's why we need the Postgresql fanboys to advocate their viewpoint. But to bash MySQL without backing it up with references and facts is just pointless.
Wow! - mouse wheel support.
I totally agree. There's been support for mouse wheels for a long time in many X-windows apps. But how would someone using "the evil platform" ever take OSS(*) seriously when reading this kind of news?
(*) Oh, since this is GNU Emacs: s/OSS/Free Software/
I'm curious, what Google software bundles VLC?
AFAIK, VLC is not (yet) illegal. It was some time ago when I installed the Google video plugin, but I think their EULA mentioned VLC. Link + another link.
Secondly, if Google becomes a monopoly in its field (which it definitely is striving for), would you support them bundling a particular media player, making it harder for others to compete?
I don't follow how bundling some open source software makes it harder for others to compete.
Well, you can always include VLC, like Google does (IIRC). Of course, that's not the best solution because it only deals with the lack of a media player, and who wants 12 different copies of VLC installed by all these different applications? I think the long term solution would be better software packaging with proper dependency management. Oh, by the way, from what I've heard almost everyone has broadband in South Korea :)