I agree with Andrew Plotkin. There were quite a few strong entries in this years IF Comp. If you want some more info on the games before deciding which to play, take a look at rec.games.int-fiction, where there is a lot of review activity going on right now.
You can also read many of the reviews at interactfiction.about.com.
He didn't criticize the movie industry directly, but he did say that "you really don't have to look very far to find the extremists on either side of the issue."
Yep. For Kaplan, seeing a DeCSS extremist is as easy as looking in the mirror.:-)
Selling their Linux division is only one option being considered by Corel. They are also thinking about making some Linux aquisitions. According to the CEO: "To be successful in the Linux market, you
need a wider product offering. There's got to be
some kind of acquisition,"
Why is this? The above statement doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Corel is already generating 10% of revenues from Linux, according to the article, so why do they need to change?
Are you insane? Your low UID and posting history lead me to believe you're not a troll. I recoiling in horror. Surely no one can actually think like that?
He wasn't going about his business, he was sticking his nose where it didn't belong.
Oh my god! He pinged a server and did some DNS lookups! What was he thinking? I know I'd never ping a server or look up DNS information. And if I were so bold, I'd realize the FBI has every right to seize my computer paraphernalia.
They determined that he was just incredibly stupid, not a criminal and returned his things.
Alright, the FBI decides to seize some kids computer equipment based on logs that show no criminal behavior on his part, and he's the 'stupid' one? If their were any kind of justice in this country, the agents who decided to seize dilinger's equipment would be serving ten year prison sentences right now. What we need is accountability on the part of federal agents
He owes them an apology for wasting their time.
I will not even respond to that idiotic statement.
I know others will say it, but I feel the need to reiterate this comment anyway.
What happens when hackers compromise these 'secure' servers? I pray that the designers aren't making too much control available through the internet; but reading the story, it appears that they plan to eventually make full control of satellites available through the internet.
If that won't make a great target for hackers, I don't know what will. I do hope that reason will prevail and we stick to controlling satellites through truly secure microwave uplinks; but what happens if we don't?
Does the picture of a satellite careening towards Washington, DC, please you? (Okay, bad example:) I don't want to live in a world where hackers will have the potential for that kind of power.
Why not just stick with what works? Why does everything have to be internet enabled?
Valid points, but they don't change the fact that (as I write this) Bush is the likely winner.
Absentee voters do differ in demographics from non-absentee voters, in such a way that they are almost always likely to favor Republicans. Bush is still leading in the Florida vote count with most of the votes in, and the estimated number of absentee ballots there has been upped to ~1000000. So the way I see, Bush will almost certainly take Florida.
If the margins in the popular votes of the (currently) too-close-to call states hold, Bush will have a solid victory.
Even though the electoral vote count is tied right now, there will likely be a decent size margin by the end. That is, one electoral college member isn't likely to change the outcome.
I don't claim that the Nazis had any special capacity for evil. But their actions and programs were more evil than anything we're likely to see among high level US politicians today.
I said we shouldn't trivialize the atrocities of the Nazis by calling a modern day politician who has not endorsed mass slaughter of innocents a Nazi.
Interesting idea, but I question its effectiveness.
After all, who is going to be looking at logs? ATT webmasters, who presumably have little to with ATT spamming, and even less to say about it.
For this to have an effect, ATT webmasters would have to notice high traffic to/STOPSPAMMING, discern the cause (which, I agree, will be fairly obvious), notify their superiors, who would then have to make a decision as to whether this traffic should cause them to change their policies. And then they'd probably need authorization from even higher up in the chain of command before making a change.
Perhaps a more direct way to end ATT spam would be mass, filter-evading protest email to ATT email addresses. Additionally, mass boycotting of ATT should have a fairly quick effect.
When you make that kind of statement, you trivialize the evil of the Nazis. The Nazis committed great atrocities, and these atrocities should be remembered so they never have to be repeated.
By calling Bush, a man who is clearly not a Nazi, nor even in the same ballpark as the Nazis when it comes to evil, a Nazi, you disrespect the memory of all those who died at the hands of Nazi butchers.
Perhaps you would profit by perusing the Nizkor Project.
The reason Gore is ahead right now is California, an we knew California would go to Gore anyway.
Right now, Florida is the important state. 25 electoral votes up for grabs, with Bush ahead 51% to 46% in the popular vote and 500K+ absentee ballots to count.
I believe that most of the states that haven't been called yet will go to Bush, but the deciding factor will be Florida.
Bush has been ahead in the Florida popular vote count all night. The networks originally projected a Gore victory in Florida based on questionable models and polls.
As I write this, all the networks are pretty much calling Florida a toss-up.
No FUCKING SHIT. Maybe if you'd read to the end of the article you would have seen the part where the author said it was SATIRE, meant to BRIGHTEN YOUR DAY.
Maybe you should be PROGRAMMING, instead of KARMA WHORING on slashdot.
By the way, are you the 'real' Bruce Perens? Your sig doesn't make that claim any more, so I can't be sure.
The LNBL Network Simulator, ns, is a simulation tool developed by the Network Research Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Ns is an extensible, easily configured and programmed event-driven simulation engine, with support for several flavors of TCP (include SACK, Tahoe and Reno) and router scheduling algorithms. This work derives from S. Keshav's REAL simulator.
I'm sorry, but you're wrong here. It may be a nitpick, but the middle layer is hydrosulfate, NOT hydrosulfide. Additionally, a substantial portion of the middle layer of clouds is comprised of various and sundry nitrogen and carbon compounds.
To a slashdot editor making US90000+ in a plush job that consists entirely of tacking some pithy remarks onto the end user submissions, the release of a $500 soon-to-be-obsolete game console may be the most exciting happening since slashdot sold out to andover. But personally, I couldn't care less.
That the release of the PSX2 is considered of great importance by the Slashdot crew is yet further evidence that the Rob & Friends are out-of-touch with their readership and the (non-adolescent) world.
Go ahead and play with your aibos, vaios, and PSX2s. Feed money to the corporate juggernaut that wants to strip you of your rights. Indoctrinate your readers to do the same. Do this if you will, but don't expect me to play along.
For a site that is supposedly concerned with protecting the 'rights' of its readers, this disregard for important issues is troubling. That you will screech about the outrages done us by the RIAA and MPAA, both Sony-sponsored instruments of corporate oppression, and then turn around and support those organizations monetarily and commercially, is troubling.
I urge all Slashdot readers concerned with preserving their rights against the corporate machine to boycott the PSX2 and all future Sony products until Sony disavows the RIAA and MPAA and any other anti-consumer rights lobbying efforts.
Besides, you won't be missing much. Just consumer electronics you don't really need anyway. And, in five years, you'll be able to pick up a PSX2 at a thrift shop for 20 bucks.
As far as we know, this is the first serious, large-scale painting produced on a Palm.
I'm going to have to quibble with your estimation of the 'painting' as 'serious'.
I mean, really. I don't consider an array of scribblings to be 'serious'. These modern-art types can have their little galleries and cocktail parties and magazines and take themselves seriously. But I won't take them seriously.
What we have here is an 'emperor has no clothes' type situation. People are afraid that if they don't agree that this kind of crap is good art, they will appear stupid. Well, I don't give a fuck. That is not art, not serious art at any rate.
You seem to be missing the entire point. I want professional software engineers who have sworn oaths just like doctors. If I'm being treated by professional doctors, why should I want the software to be created by non-professionals? That creates a weak link in my treatment.
The type of OSS people I'm talking about have not sworn any oaths to do no harm and uphold professional ethics. They have ideals, but they are questionable, and of no value when it comes to ensuring my life.
Would you rather be treated by holistic 'doctor' who has spent the last 15 years on a commune in Oregon, or by a doctor who went to John's Hopkins and has received the best training. Additionally, the holistic doctor has sworn no oaths, and his only ideals are that people should share everything and magically get along; whereas, the medical doctor has sworn to uphold professional ethics and the Hippocritic Oath.
What is aboundingly clear to me, is that software used in critical applications like medicine, should be written by professionals.
I like Linux, I run it at home. I like the OSS movement as a whole. But you can't just assume that since Linux is popularly believed to be more stable than Windows (and probably is), that OSS is ideal for medical applications.
I believe software for these critical applications should be written by professional, licensed software engineers, people who have sworn to obey a code of ethics. I don't want to put my life in the hands of a bunch of long-hair idealists. If you think about this, I believe you'll come to agree with me.
Sure, you be all rah-rah about OSS, but when lives are in the balance, it's another thing. Do you really want to score points for OSS at the risk of someone dying? As the saying goes, it's all fun and games till someone gets hurt.
From my experience with OCing, I'd say you definitely want a burn in. "Burned in" systems are always more stable in my experience.
I've been away from the OC world for the last year or so, but I don't see that much would have changed in that time. I don't see anything in chip design making burn ins obsolete or useless. And even if you didn't really need a burn in, what harm could it do?
The possible benefits certainly outstrip any possible downsides.
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You can also read many of the reviews at interactfiction.about.com.
Yep. For Kaplan, seeing a DeCSS extremist is as easy as looking in the mirror. :-)
"To be successful in the Linux market, you need a wider product offering. There's got to be some kind of acquisition,"
Why is this? The above statement doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Corel is already generating 10% of revenues from Linux, according to the article, so why do they need to change?
He wasn't going about his business, he was sticking his nose where it didn't belong.
Oh my god! He pinged a server and did some DNS lookups! What was he thinking? I know I'd never ping a server or look up DNS information. And if I were so bold, I'd realize the FBI has every right to seize my computer paraphernalia.
They determined that he was just incredibly stupid, not a criminal and returned his things.
Alright, the FBI decides to seize some kids computer equipment based on logs that show no criminal behavior on his part, and he's the 'stupid' one? If their were any kind of justice in this country, the agents who decided to seize dilinger's equipment would be serving ten year prison sentences right now. What we need is accountability on the part of federal agents
He owes them an apology for wasting their time.
I will not even respond to that idiotic statement.
What happens when hackers compromise these 'secure' servers? I pray that the designers aren't making too much control available through the internet; but reading the story, it appears that they plan to eventually make full control of satellites available through the internet.
If that won't make a great target for hackers, I don't know what will. I do hope that reason will prevail and we stick to controlling satellites through truly secure microwave uplinks; but what happens if we don't?
Does the picture of a satellite careening towards Washington, DC, please you? (Okay, bad example :) I don't want to live in a world where hackers will have the potential for that kind of power.
Why not just stick with what works? Why does everything have to be internet enabled?
"The Y chromosome has a great future. But it is a very new technology."
Maybe he should rephrase that. ;)
Absentee voters do differ in demographics from non-absentee voters, in such a way that they are almost always likely to favor Republicans. Bush is still leading in the Florida vote count with most of the votes in, and the estimated number of absentee ballots there has been upped to ~1000000. So the way I see, Bush will almost certainly take Florida.
If the margins in the popular votes of the (currently) too-close-to call states hold, Bush will have a solid victory.
Even though the electoral vote count is tied right now, there will likely be a decent size margin by the end. That is, one electoral college member isn't likely to change the outcome.
I said we shouldn't trivialize the atrocities of the Nazis by calling a modern day politician who has not endorsed mass slaughter of innocents a Nazi.
After all, who is going to be looking at logs? ATT webmasters, who presumably have little to with ATT spamming, and even less to say about it.
For this to have an effect, ATT webmasters would have to notice high traffic to /STOPSPAMMING, discern the cause (which, I agree, will be fairly obvious), notify their superiors, who would then have to make a decision as to whether this traffic should cause them to change their policies. And then they'd probably need authorization from even higher up in the chain of command before making a change.
Perhaps a more direct way to end ATT spam would be mass, filter-evading protest email to ATT email addresses. Additionally, mass boycotting of ATT should have a fairly quick effect.
And if it did, that would mean the initial poster lost when he posted.
When you make that kind of statement, you trivialize the evil of the Nazis. The Nazis committed great atrocities, and these atrocities should be remembered so they never have to be repeated.
By calling Bush, a man who is clearly not a Nazi, nor even in the same ballpark as the Nazis when it comes to evil, a Nazi, you disrespect the memory of all those who died at the hands of Nazi butchers.
Perhaps you would profit by perusing the Nizkor Project.
Right now, Florida is the important state. 25 electoral votes up for grabs, with Bush ahead 51% to 46% in the popular vote and 500K+ absentee ballots to count.
I believe that most of the states that haven't been called yet will go to Bush, but the deciding factor will be Florida.
As I write this, all the networks are pretty much calling Florida a toss-up.
So what if Gore wins Florida? All that means is that he isn't totally out of it. He will still need a hell of a lot of luck to win.
I don't think there is really any doubt about which way this election will go. Bush is going to win, and the margin will not be narrow.
Nothing personal. Just going for a reaction.
No FUCKING SHIT. Maybe if you'd read to the end of the article you would have seen the part where the author said it was SATIRE, meant to BRIGHTEN YOUR DAY.
Maybe you should be PROGRAMMING, instead of KARMA WHORING on slashdot.
By the way, are you the 'real' Bruce Perens? Your sig doesn't make that claim any more, so I can't be sure.
There is also an ns version 2 available.
I don't know if this is exactly what you're looking for, but it might help.
on the hydrogen sulfide point.
I'm sorry, but you're wrong here. It may be a nitpick, but the middle layer is hydrosulfate, NOT hydrosulfide. Additionally, a substantial portion of the middle layer of clouds is comprised of various and sundry nitrogen and carbon compounds.
To a slashdot editor making US90000+ in a plush job that consists entirely of tacking some pithy remarks onto the end user submissions, the release of a $500 soon-to-be-obsolete game console may be the most exciting happening since slashdot sold out to andover. But personally, I couldn't care less.
That the release of the PSX2 is considered of great importance by the Slashdot crew is yet further evidence that the Rob & Friends are out-of-touch with their readership and the (non-adolescent) world.
Go ahead and play with your aibos, vaios, and PSX2s. Feed money to the corporate juggernaut that wants to strip you of your rights. Indoctrinate your readers to do the same. Do this if you will, but don't expect me to play along.
For a site that is supposedly concerned with protecting the 'rights' of its readers, this disregard for important issues is troubling. That you will screech about the outrages done us by the RIAA and MPAA, both Sony-sponsored instruments of corporate oppression, and then turn around and support those organizations monetarily and commercially, is troubling.
I urge all Slashdot readers concerned with preserving their rights against the corporate machine to boycott the PSX2 and all future Sony products until Sony disavows the RIAA and MPAA and any other anti-consumer rights lobbying efforts.
Besides, you won't be missing much. Just consumer electronics you don't really need anyway. And, in five years, you'll be able to pick up a PSX2 at a thrift shop for 20 bucks.
Solutions like this may have a market, but it is an extremely limited one. If you have to ask whether to use it, you shouldn't.
I'm going to have to quibble with your estimation of the 'painting' as 'serious'.
I mean, really. I don't consider an array of scribblings to be 'serious'. These modern-art types can have their little galleries and cocktail parties and magazines and take themselves seriously. But I won't take them seriously.
What we have here is an 'emperor has no clothes' type situation. People are afraid that if they don't agree that this kind of crap is good art, they will appear stupid. Well, I don't give a fuck. That is not art, not serious art at any rate.
The type of OSS people I'm talking about have not sworn any oaths to do no harm and uphold professional ethics. They have ideals, but they are questionable, and of no value when it comes to ensuring my life.
Would you rather be treated by holistic 'doctor' who has spent the last 15 years on a commune in Oregon, or by a doctor who went to John's Hopkins and has received the best training. Additionally, the holistic doctor has sworn no oaths, and his only ideals are that people should share everything and magically get along; whereas, the medical doctor has sworn to uphold professional ethics and the Hippocritic Oath.
Think about it.
I like Linux, I run it at home. I like the OSS movement as a whole. But you can't just assume that since Linux is popularly believed to be more stable than Windows (and probably is), that OSS is ideal for medical applications.
I believe software for these critical applications should be written by professional, licensed software engineers, people who have sworn to obey a code of ethics. I don't want to put my life in the hands of a bunch of long-hair idealists. If you think about this, I believe you'll come to agree with me.
Sure, you be all rah-rah about OSS, but when lives are in the balance, it's another thing. Do you really want to score points for OSS at the risk of someone dying? As the saying goes, it's all fun and games till someone gets hurt.
I've been away from the OC world for the last year or so, but I don't see that much would have changed in that time. I don't see anything in chip design making burn ins obsolete or useless. And even if you didn't really need a burn in, what harm could it do?
The possible benefits certainly outstrip any possible downsides.