Aren't there button icons as well for a lot of the tools? I wouldn't think those would change across languages, making it that much easier to use a foreign language version even for those who don't speak the language.
You already have goverment employees who are supposed to be representing your interests: they're called your elected representatives. You pay their salaries, and your votes put them in office.
I see the Congresses lack of representing my interests as ignorance rather than uncaring. All our these representatives are constantly being bombarded by these lobbyists from big business who tell them "we need this and that." Failing to see the conflict with their constituents interests, the representative supports the side of big business. I may not be giving the representatives enough credit for their own intelligence and motives, but it doesn't seem likely to me that every Do-Gooder I vote into office is somehow corrupted by those whose interests are at odds with mine. I do, however, acknowledge the possibility, and under such circumstances I agree with you, they should be voted out of office.
And who's going to decide which side of which issues those goverment lobbyists will work on?
There are some highly controversial issues such as abortion which two groups of citizens are at odds over. Such issues would be no concern of the organization I'm talking about. In cases such as the DMCA, however, I have yet to see a citizen who has advocated it. The organization would only make itself present to defend citizens against legislation that is highly parasitic to their rights and beneficial to big business. Sort of a balancing factor against big business lobbyists.
Or you could do what you're supposed to do in order to influence your representatives: get out there and participate in the political process. Donate time and/or money to organizations that are already lobbying for the policies you favor (or if there aren't any, go out and found one).
Part of the reason we have representatives is so we don't have to deal with the political process. As you pointed out the best way to influence it is with time or money, and being a college student my supplies of those resources are stretch thin as is. One thing I can and often do is sign petitions.
Car companies have lots of lobbyists; lobbyists protect their clients against bad and destructive legislation well. Now if only WE could get some lobbyists...
I'd be more than willing to pay a tax that goes straight into some sort of government program that pays for lobbyists to represent my interests against those of big business. Legislators would have to listen, big business may control the campaign funds, but the final say is with the people. Does such an organization or a similar one exist already? If not I may have to start writing letters to my Congresspersons.
But if there's a different "To:" line on each message, and each message is actually going to the one person who is named in the "To:" line, then that's exactly the same as the usual use of the "To:" line, isn't it?
Yes, but thats not my point. The poster mentioned the fact that there was only one person in the "To:" line and no "CC:" line and concluded that the message was only sent to one person, which is incorrect.
Granted I haven't been paying much attention to.NET, but it seems to me it's dangerous because the second someone is able to crack that server cluster they can know everything about everyone, everywhere. (I think applies to the branch they refer to as Passport)..NET, IIRC, is a software-stored-server-side-so-we-can-charge-you-m onthly thing. Thats a nice big fat DDoS target. "We're sorry, you can't use MS Office today because the internet is broken. Try again in a week." Any business that's using.NET when that happens is going to be hurting badly, on the bright side MS will probably lose its cash stockpile in lawsuits. If any of this is wrong somebody call me on it.
I don't think you have to worry about that, there are people who there who still don't own or have any clue how to use a computer so snail mail will still be an option.
The original message posted on this site has one name in the "To:" line, and no mention of a "CC:" line
If I remember my SMTP correctly, what the "To:" line says (if it even exists) can be entirely different from who the message is actually delivered to. The "To:" is considered part of the data of the message and is specified separately from the actual recipients. Hence how BCC works. Of course it'd look pretty odd if someone received this message who wasn't in the "To:" line so I'm guessing he just used some sort of spambot to generate individual "To:" lines on a ton of messages (or SMTP may facilitate this, I can't remember).
They knew Microsoft stuffed the ballot box right? That would suggest they keep web logs. All they have to do is hack out a little script to dig through the logs and subtract a vote from MS's count for every vote from microsoft.com. Presto, ballot stuff reversed. (A bit crude but you get the idea...)
But you know, Whistler's Mother actually just cut and pasted it from USA Today's page. No thought, no additional quote marks, no attribution to the actual writer, Stephanie Armour...
While I agree he should have added some sort of indication that what he submitted was a quote, his own comments? Maybe he hadn't settled on a reaction. The authors name? He used three sentences which were only written to pique the readers interest, the same purpose they were used for on the front page. Anti-plagiarism is fine, but I think going so far as requiring the author to be cited on the front page when only a few words of their work was used, and especially when theres a link to the full story, is a little ridiculous.
quick dump to the submission form to get their name on the Slashdot front page
Who are you to judge his motivations? Have you ever tried submitting to Slashdot? The chances your story will get posted are pretty slim, I seriously doubt he could've predicted they'd post this story. I think you're making a mountain out of a mole-hill. (I see a Groucho quote coming)
perhaps we should leave a legacy to the rest of the Universe by planting the sum knowledge of mankind somewhere safe below the surface
Any beings advanced enough to find, retrieve, and interpret it probably wouldn't gain much except perhaps insight into an ancient culture. We might give them a good laugh I suppose. Kinda like scratching "mankind was here" in the bathroom of the galaxy in very small letters. I think a better solution would be to create a whole bunch of spacecraft that fly around the Universe distributing this sum of knowledge.
I think you'd have trouble concealing the on/off switch, channel changer, etc. and making it look natural and if it didn't those things you can say goodbye to sleep and sanity. Those cable and electric plugs, or batteries and antenna going into your head are bound to give you away eventually. Watching CNN isn't much good without hearing it aswell. IMO this sort of thing is a long way off. Hopefully by that time the human will have been taken out of the drivers seat of a car. It is a cool concept though, I'll be first in line when/if the chance arrises to become a cyborg, even if only very small ways.
It seems the loss in trade is greater than any piracy could be.
If you think thats bad read on a little further. The estimated revenue from the tax every year is $75 million, the amount they estimate that this is costing in Intellectual Property losses to piracy. $75,000,000 lost because a little number isn't printed on a CD? Yeah, right. These numbers are useless, you can scratch them out with a pocket knife; I just tried it.
Anyone else have favorite untold game design stories?
I suppose some might find this interesting, and it does demonstrate some of what John is saying. First a bit of background: Day of Defeat is a Half-Life mod, I was part of the original team with Lil Squirel and Das Juden. Today, the mod has been released and is mildly popular. Lil Squirel and Das Juden came up with the concept somewhere around October 99. Lil knew I was a programmer, so asked me to join, I gave him some ideas, but refrained from joining until December because I was busy with school. I left the team in late April 2000.
DoD's initial design was killer. It had character classes, realistic damage, radar (yes, DoD had radar before CS), vehicles (jeeps, tanks), flame-thowers, grenades that you could dive on or throw back at your enemies, deployable tripod mounted machine-guns, and maps reminiscent of Saving Private Ryan, just to list a few; and this was just for version 1. We had all these incredibly cool concepts for effects and so forth but the team was so disorganised that nobody knew who was doing what; as John put it, there was no "someone in a position of authority forcing everything together". I was told to code the Thompson, I did and a short time later found out that it's code had already been written. I eventually got fed up with the whole thing and left the team. Apparently some time afterward the team underwent an overhaul and, to my surprize, eventually released Day of Defeat, I believe, over a year after its conception and with a different design altogether.
There seem to be quite a few people like this in the game industry. While working on a Half-Life mod a couple years ago I emailed the several people over at Valve Software a number of times, they always responded, sometimes within an hour and where applicable even sending me the code they used to achieve an effect I was looking to recreate (which was probably proprietary). John Carmack has also been known to post to slashdot from time to time especially on game and 3d rendering related issues. I have to wonder if there aren't quite a few people prowling slashdot who we've all heard of.
random semi-related thought: If you did all the rendering server side in a multiplayer game you could make it a lot harder for cheaters.
Hmmm...1024*768*24*60 = 1132462080 bits = 1080 MbPS + overhead. Hmmm... distant future, to say nothing about the raw rendering power that'd be required on the server side.
I can't comment on that tourney players but I know from experience you can get precision with high sensitivity (I use 15 sensitivity in Half-Life, and I know people that use 25). Use the mouse to put the crosshair very close to the target, and use strafe and movement keys to put the target under the crosshair, fire as necessary. It keeps you moving eradically and gives you easier aiming at the same time.
quit isn't (or wasn't, I don't know if it is now) instant, it has some drive access. A boss walking in the door requires a split second death of the app.
I remember back in the Quake1 days you could bind to "error" and the game would instantly perform an illegal operation and shut down. I haven't tested in the more recent Quakes, someone want to give it a try?
I don't think you can kill the paramedics, you can knock them down but not out. I've run over them 5 times and they just keep getting up after a few seconds. I guess I need to try shooting them. You can get health back by stealing the ambulence too, if you're not at full from the prostitutes, who can raise you up to 125% (pun intended).
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Can GPS resolve elevation/altitude as well as longitude/latitude?
Aren't there button icons as well for a lot of the tools? I wouldn't think those would change across languages, making it that much easier to use a foreign language version even for those who don't speak the language.
I wonder how fast you could go if you combined these legs with these feet
I see the Congresses lack of representing my interests as ignorance rather than uncaring. All our these representatives are constantly being bombarded by these lobbyists from big business who tell them "we need this and that." Failing to see the conflict with their constituents interests, the representative supports the side of big business. I may not be giving the representatives enough credit for their own intelligence and motives, but it doesn't seem likely to me that every Do-Gooder I vote into office is somehow corrupted by those whose interests are at odds with mine. I do, however, acknowledge the possibility, and under such circumstances I agree with you, they should be voted out of office.
And who's going to decide which side of which issues those goverment lobbyists will work on?
There are some highly controversial issues such as abortion which two groups of citizens are at odds over. Such issues would be no concern of the organization I'm talking about. In cases such as the DMCA, however, I have yet to see a citizen who has advocated it. The organization would only make itself present to defend citizens against legislation that is highly parasitic to their rights and beneficial to big business. Sort of a balancing factor against big business lobbyists.
Or you could do what you're supposed to do in order to influence your representatives: get out there and participate in the political process. Donate time and/or money to organizations that are already lobbying for the policies you favor (or if there aren't any, go out and found one).
Part of the reason we have representatives is so we don't have to deal with the political process. As you pointed out the best way to influence it is with time or money, and being a college student my supplies of those resources are stretch thin as is. One thing I can and often do is sign petitions.
I'd be more than willing to pay a tax that goes straight into some sort of government program that pays for lobbyists to represent my interests against those of big business. Legislators would have to listen, big business may control the campaign funds, but the final say is with the people. Does such an organization or a similar one exist already? If not I may have to start writing letters to my Congresspersons.
I think the results of such a discussion would be very similar to those of this story.
Yes, but thats not my point. The poster mentioned the fact that there was only one person in the "To:" line and no "CC:" line and concluded that the message was only sent to one person, which is incorrect.
there are people who there who should be there are people out there who
Granted I haven't been paying much attention to .NET, but it seems to me it's dangerous because the second someone is able to crack that server cluster they can know everything about everyone, everywhere. (I think applies to the branch they refer to as Passport). .NET, IIRC, is a software-stored-server-side-so-we-can-charge-you-m onthly thing. Thats a nice big fat DDoS target. "We're sorry, you can't use MS Office today because the internet is broken. Try again in a week." Any business that's using .NET when that happens is going to be hurting badly, on the bright side MS will probably lose its cash stockpile in lawsuits. If any of this is wrong somebody call me on it.
I don't think you have to worry about that, there are people who there who still don't own or have any clue how to use a computer so snail mail will still be an option.
If I remember my SMTP correctly, what the "To:" line says (if it even exists) can be entirely different from who the message is actually delivered to. The "To:" is considered part of the data of the message and is specified separately from the actual recipients. Hence how BCC works. Of course it'd look pretty odd if someone received this message who wasn't in the "To:" line so I'm guessing he just used some sort of spambot to generate individual "To:" lines on a ton of messages (or SMTP may facilitate this, I can't remember).
They knew Microsoft stuffed the ballot box right? That would suggest they keep web logs. All they have to do is hack out a little script to dig through the logs and subtract a vote from MS's count for every vote from microsoft.com. Presto, ballot stuff reversed. (A bit crude but you get the idea...)
While I agree he should have added some sort of indication that what he submitted was a quote, his own comments? Maybe he hadn't settled on a reaction. The authors name? He used three sentences which were only written to pique the readers interest, the same purpose they were used for on the front page. Anti-plagiarism is fine, but I think going so far as requiring the author to be cited on the front page when only a few words of their work was used, and especially when theres a link to the full story, is a little ridiculous.
quick dump to the submission form to get their name on the Slashdot front page
Who are you to judge his motivations? Have you ever tried submitting to Slashdot? The chances your story will get posted are pretty slim, I seriously doubt he could've predicted they'd post this story. I think you're making a mountain out of a mole-hill. (I see a Groucho quote coming)
Any beings advanced enough to find, retrieve, and interpret it probably wouldn't gain much except perhaps insight into an ancient culture. We might give them a good laugh I suppose. Kinda like scratching "mankind was here" in the bathroom of the galaxy in very small letters. I think a better solution would be to create a whole bunch of spacecraft that fly around the Universe distributing this sum of knowledge.
I think you'd have trouble concealing the on/off switch, channel changer, etc. and making it look natural and if it didn't those things you can say goodbye to sleep and sanity. Those cable and electric plugs, or batteries and antenna going into your head are bound to give you away eventually. Watching CNN isn't much good without hearing it aswell. IMO this sort of thing is a long way off. Hopefully by that time the human will have been taken out of the drivers seat of a car. It is a cool concept though, I'll be first in line when/if the chance arrises to become a cyborg, even if only very small ways.
It seems the loss in trade is greater than any piracy could be.
If you think thats bad read on a little further. The estimated revenue from the tax every year is $75 million, the amount they estimate that this is costing in Intellectual Property losses to piracy. $75,000,000 lost because a little number isn't printed on a CD? Yeah, right. These numbers are useless, you can scratch them out with a pocket knife; I just tried it.
I suppose some might find this interesting, and it does demonstrate some of what John is saying. First a bit of background: Day of Defeat is a Half-Life mod, I was part of the original team with Lil Squirel and Das Juden. Today, the mod has been released and is mildly popular. Lil Squirel and Das Juden came up with the concept somewhere around October 99. Lil knew I was a programmer, so asked me to join, I gave him some ideas, but refrained from joining until December because I was busy with school. I left the team in late April 2000.
DoD's initial design was killer. It had character classes, realistic damage, radar (yes, DoD had radar before CS), vehicles (jeeps, tanks), flame-thowers, grenades that you could dive on or throw back at your enemies, deployable tripod mounted machine-guns, and maps reminiscent of Saving Private Ryan, just to list a few; and this was just for version 1. We had all these incredibly cool concepts for effects and so forth but the team was so disorganised that nobody knew who was doing what; as John put it, there was no "someone in a position of authority forcing everything together". I was told to code the Thompson, I did and a short time later found out that it's code had already been written. I eventually got fed up with the whole thing and left the team. Apparently some time afterward the team underwent an overhaul and, to my surprize, eventually released Day of Defeat, I believe, over a year after its conception and with a different design altogether.
There seem to be quite a few people like this in the game industry. While working on a Half-Life mod a couple years ago I emailed the several people over at Valve Software a number of times, they always responded, sometimes within an hour and where applicable even sending me the code they used to achieve an effect I was looking to recreate (which was probably proprietary). John Carmack has also been known to post to slashdot from time to time especially on game and 3d rendering related issues. I have to wonder if there aren't quite a few people prowling slashdot who we've all heard of.
Hmmm...1024*768*24*60 = 1132462080 bits = 1080 MbPS + overhead. Hmmm... distant future, to say nothing about the raw rendering power that'd be required on the server side.
I can't comment on that tourney players but I know from experience you can get precision with high sensitivity (I use 15 sensitivity in Half-Life, and I know people that use 25). Use the mouse to put the crosshair very close to the target, and use strafe and movement keys to put the target under the crosshair, fire as necessary. It keeps you moving eradically and gives you easier aiming at the same time.
quit isn't (or wasn't, I don't know if it is now) instant, it has some drive access. A boss walking in the door requires a split second death of the app.
I remember back in the Quake1 days you could bind to "error" and the game would instantly perform an illegal operation and shut down. I haven't tested in the more recent Quakes, someone want to give it a try?
How much you wanna bet he HAD perfect attendance. I am that student.
top of the page:
No Drivers are required.
bottom of the page:
* Windows 98 Drivers will be available for download
Anyone want to explain that one to me? My best guess is that Win98 doesn't support USB drives.
I don't think you can kill the paramedics, you can knock them down but not out. I've run over them 5 times and they just keep getting up after a few seconds. I guess I need to try shooting them. You can get health back by stealing the ambulence too, if you're not at full from the prostitutes, who can raise you up to 125% (pun intended).