by the fact that your tax dollars (if you live in the US) are going to create a game which simulates basic training? it's one thing if a private company wants to do it, but don't do it with my money! the basic training exercises were specifically designed to desensitize soldiers' human instinct not to kill people after studies post-WWII found that many soldiers never fired their weapons. it's one thing if a private company wants to do it, but i don't want to pay to train kids to kill. how long before we have another columbine-type scenario where the kids have learned team combat tactics from playing these kinds of games and are far more successful?
Wow. It is really sad if THIS is what gets your panties all up in a bunch in regards to what your tax money is being spent on.
A law must be challenged in court to get it thrown out. Journalists working for large media corporations have the backing necessary to get this law overturned. The average citizen does not.
Hmm, which is more likely - a large media corporation fights for its employees, or they see a novel way to abuse a law, and start crafting ways to use it to their advantage.
There is no such thing as X Windows, except in the mind of the ignorant. It is called 'The X Window System' or 'X'.
'X Windows' is what illiterate journalists call it, and the people whose main experience with X is reading their inaccurate prose.
Mr Stallman, is that you?
Then color me ignorant, I have called it XWindows many times. I have been using it on Linux since sometime in '99, unless you count the Sun terminals, then it would be since, oh, '93.
Now if you were to have politely said "technically it is really called X or The X Window System" and left it at that, then you may have some credibility. But instead you come off like some pompous ass, trying to impress the Slashdot masses with your carefully crafted insults. I couldn't help picturing the Comic Book Guy when reading your comments. Get over yourself, and your wishful 'superior intellect'. I can't wait until your kind is essentially extinct, relegated to some far-off IRC channel where you can impress each other with your 'witty banter' and insults of the 'lesser life forms'.
Set someone's desktop picture and home page to be the goatse.cx guy. Truly evil, but it helped me train people to log off their machines when they weren't at their desks.
We used to have TONS of fun on the Sun Xterminals we each used to have on our desks. If you left yours unlocked, you were in for bad stuff. Examples:
rsh into another server, and set up a cron job to email that person at a certain time every day. They would get an email from themself every day at the same time. We spoofed it so that they wouldn't know which server it was coming from, since they would check their own for a cron job.
set a cron job to set their background to bright green or pink at set times during the day. Once we got internet access (this was in '94) we could set it to all kinds of fun things.
slip "xhost + 2>/dev/null" in their.cshrc file
- ton of possibilities after that (see above)
set up a cron job to change the permissions on their home directory every night - then do fun things like change their email sig file.
We had tons of fun back then, but it was all good clean fun, nothing malicious like deleting all their files or anything. Although we could have. >:-)
Before someone posts his phone number, I'd just like to remind everyone: You do NOT fuck with judges. Harrassing a judge, ESPECIALLY about a legal judgement he made, will get you into some SERIOUS shit. A good portion of our legal system is designed to protect itself and its human components, especially court justices.
It isn't harassing, it is notifying him of some great opportunities that he might not know about. If he doesn't take my call, I will starve, as I am a single mother who is just doing this job to get by. Or some crap like that. Anyway, this judge could opt-out. In fact, he would be required to, since it is my right to call him. If I call him 5000 times, that is harassment, but if 5000 people each call him once, what is that?
It seems that the struggle to avoid Europe becoming like America isn't really working. There are a lot of things happening over here in Europe which we call "American circumstances". Things such like frivolous lawsuits, higher gun-related murders/accidents, apathy and now software patents.
I believe poeple don't want to live in an "American Europe".
I don't disagree that those are traits of the good ol' USA, but if you are blaming YOUR adoption of our bad traits on us, then you can go F yourself. Who is worse, those who originated the American trait, or those who adopt them? If you can see how bad they are, and STILL adopt them into your culture, then IMO you are bigger twits than we are.
Horoscopes are based on simple concepts that are almost univeral. That if I ask you if you are having conflict with your mate, you will probably say yes. It may be because of a divorce, or it might be a disagreement over what movie to see this weekend.
Knowlingly install a system from the manufacturer's CD and running it on the Internet? The horror! The horror!
This was modded as funny, but what do you think that people get on their system when they buy it from Dell? Do you think the first (or second, or third, or nth) thing that they do when they get it is patch it? They don't even have to install anything to have an out-of-the-box vulnerable system.
With all of the recent patching because of worms/viruses, I have been wondering why Dell (and all OEMs) aren't required to sell reasonably up-to-date patched systems. I've never bought one, so I don't really know, but don't they sell just plain, no SP, no patch versions of the OS on their systems? Hey, it would be a nightmare for them to install the OS and all required SPs and patches, but couldn't Microsoft provide them with a rolled up installer or image? Maybe they couldn't be up-to-the-minute on the patches, but they could be a lot closer than they are now. They are knowingly selling vulnerable systems.
Erasing won't just be a slight nuisance, it will be a thermodynamic problem. Simply setting a mole of bits to zero might heat up your hard drive enough to melt it.
The point is you wouldn't even need to erase anything. There would be so much storage capacity that you wouldn't need to reuse the bits.
I vote for embedding artist PayPal addresses in mp3s. Then we can send the money directly to the artist.
I'd imagine the RIAA wouldn't think too kindly of this idea - but it is kinda fun to think about:)
I am sure PayPal would love the idea.
Someone should create a paypal-like payment system that is only for recording artists. The backend could split the payment into the agreed-upon percentages for band members, song writers, etc. Gee, if only the RIAA didn't control the music industry, something like this could happen...
All the RIAA does is collect dues and royalties from the labels. The RIAA has nothing to do with the music anyway, they handle the legal and business side of music - the parts that are quickly becoming antiquated.
Bill Gates (to himself): "Hmm... Everyone hates me, and everyone is aligned against me, creating their own web services standards and ensuring that I won't completely capture the market. Let's see... This implies that they might take a significant part of the market, and if I'm not interoperable, I'll be essentially locked out. Ah, well, screw it."
*Bill checks his bank account, chuckles, and realizes it all doesn't matter*
Seriously, creating something that is interoperable with anyone else is the *last* thing Microsoft will do. They didn't get to where they are by being interoperable, and they aren't hurting enough to resort to that. If Microsoft is good at one thing, it is saying one thing and doing another.
from the link: "Infinium Labs is an industry-leading global entertainment and interactive game company."
How on earth can you be an industry leader when you haven't shown anything yet?
The same way every movie studio talks about their latest "blockbuster" movie, even though it hasn't been released yet. Or the music industry hyping someone's "latest hit single" that will be released next week.
If you haven't noticed it yet, just pay closer attention. It is really sad.
Who cares if I have to dust off the Windows machine and fire it up to play Half-Life2? At least I can finally use that machine for something. What I am pissed about is that I have to shell out the cash for a new video card. My 32MB AIW-Pro card probably won't cut it for HL2. The upside is that I can replace the 16MB card in my Linux machine with the AIW-Pro, and get to play with video capturing on Linux.
I am going to give Valve the benefit of the doubt. I'll bet that once they get the game out the door, they'll work on the Linux client. It wouldn't make sense for them to hold up the ship date for 1% of their potential market. So if you want the Linux client, you'll probably just have to wait. It isn't so bad, what do you really gain by getting the game the day it comes out? Hell, I played the multiplayer version of HL years ago, but didn't actually play and finish the standalone game until this year. No, I am not kidding.
30 years ago did you ever think a personal computer owner could say ".5 TB is not enough"?
30 years ago there weren't any personal computers.:-)
As long as it's physical, it's limited. And as long as it's limited some of us will reach those limits.
Hence, my use of the term "near-infinite", and by that I mean "infinite for most uses". If storage goes to the organic molecular level, you would be talking about near-infinite storage, depending on the size of the media. But if we get to the point where we don't have to worry about conserving space, and our storage capacity is near limitless, the way we manage data would change dramatically.
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Wow. It is really sad if THIS is what gets your panties all up in a bunch in regards to what your tax money is being spent on.
Hmm, which is more likely - a large media corporation fights for its employees, or they see a novel way to abuse a law, and start crafting ways to use it to their advantage.
Mr Stallman, is that you?
Then color me ignorant, I have called it XWindows many times. I have been using it on Linux since sometime in '99, unless you count the Sun terminals, then it would be since, oh, '93.
Now if you were to have politely said "technically it is really called X or The X Window System" and left it at that, then you may have some credibility. But instead you come off like some pompous ass, trying to impress the Slashdot masses with your carefully crafted insults. I couldn't help picturing the Comic Book Guy when reading your comments. Get over yourself, and your wishful 'superior intellect'. I can't wait until your kind is essentially extinct, relegated to some far-off IRC channel where you can impress each other with your 'witty banter' and insults of the 'lesser life forms'.
OK, so now I am really confused - you are saying Bush is Good?
Another one:
/tmp/slowls, which contains the following:
/bin/ls $*
/bin/ls $*
Create
echo -n "Preparing "
sleep 1
echo -n "to "
sleep 1
echo -n "list "
sleep 1
echo -n "directory."
sleep 1;
Then do: alias ls=/tmp/slowls
Or have it output
echo "bash: ls: command not found"
sleep 1
echo "Oh, wait. There it is. Sorry about that."
sleep 1;
We used to have TONS of fun on the Sun Xterminals we each used to have on our desks. If you left yours unlocked, you were in for bad stuff. Examples:
rsh into another server, and set up a cron job to email that person at a certain time every day. They would get an email from themself every day at the same time. We spoofed it so that they wouldn't know which server it was coming from, since they would check their own for a cron job.
set a cron job to set their background to bright green or pink at set times during the day. Once we got internet access (this was in '94) we could set it to all kinds of fun things.
slip "xhost + 2> /dev/null" in their .cshrc file
- ton of possibilities after that (see above)
set up a cron job to change the permissions on their home directory every night - then do fun things like change their email sig file.
We had tons of fun back then, but it was all good clean fun, nothing malicious like deleting all their files or anything. Although we could have. >:-)
Maybe in length, but look at the total size:
(17x17)-(12x12) = 145 = 12.04cm^2
So they shaved off 12 cm squared, which is about a 50% reduction in size. Impressive.
Uhh, how do you think that they caught the RIAA? Yay spyware! What?! I mean, spyware bad.... head spinning... p a i n...
It isn't harassing, it is notifying him of some great opportunities that he might not know about. If he doesn't take my call, I will starve, as I am a single mother who is just doing this job to get by. Or some crap like that. Anyway, this judge could opt-out. In fact, he would be required to, since it is my right to call him. If I call him 5000 times, that is harassment, but if 5000 people each call him once, what is that?
I don't disagree that those are traits of the good ol' USA, but if you are blaming YOUR adoption of our bad traits on us, then you can go F yourself. Who is worse, those who originated the American trait, or those who adopt them? If you can see how bad they are, and STILL adopt them into your culture, then IMO you are bigger twits than we are.
You should probably change the location to something other than "my parent's basement".
I think I'll change my sig to:
"Anyone who quotes Rusty Russell in their sig is an idiot."
Or it could be a hangnail...
This pretty much sums up the state of affairs at Sun.
Ptooo. These grapes are sour!
Or you catch mummy and daddy.
This was modded as funny, but what do you think that people get on their system when they buy it from Dell? Do you think the first (or second, or third, or nth) thing that they do when they get it is patch it? They don't even have to install anything to have an out-of-the-box vulnerable system.
With all of the recent patching because of worms/viruses, I have been wondering why Dell (and all OEMs) aren't required to sell reasonably up-to-date patched systems. I've never bought one, so I don't really know, but don't they sell just plain, no SP, no patch versions of the OS on their systems? Hey, it would be a nightmare for them to install the OS and all required SPs and patches, but couldn't Microsoft provide them with a rolled up installer or image? Maybe they couldn't be up-to-the-minute on the patches, but they could be a lot closer than they are now. They are knowingly selling vulnerable systems.
The point is you wouldn't even need to erase anything. There would be so much storage capacity that you wouldn't need to reuse the bits.
I am sure PayPal would love the idea.
Someone should create a paypal-like payment system that is only for recording artists. The backend could split the payment into the agreed-upon percentages for band members, song writers, etc. Gee, if only the RIAA didn't control the music industry, something like this could happen...
Contracts with the artists/record labels?
All the RIAA does is collect dues and royalties from the labels. The RIAA has nothing to do with the music anyway, they handle the legal and business side of music - the parts that are quickly becoming antiquated.
*Bill checks his bank account, chuckles, and realizes it all doesn't matter*
Seriously, creating something that is interoperable with anyone else is the *last* thing Microsoft will do. They didn't get to where they are by being interoperable, and they aren't hurting enough to resort to that. If Microsoft is good at one thing, it is saying one thing and doing another.
In light of this, it wouldn't be a pump and dump, but a pump and pump and pump...
The same way every movie studio talks about their latest "blockbuster" movie, even though it hasn't been released yet. Or the music industry hyping someone's "latest hit single" that will be released next week.
If you haven't noticed it yet, just pay closer attention. It is really sad.
I am going to give Valve the benefit of the doubt. I'll bet that once they get the game out the door, they'll work on the Linux client. It wouldn't make sense for them to hold up the ship date for 1% of their potential market. So if you want the Linux client, you'll probably just have to wait. It isn't so bad, what do you really gain by getting the game the day it comes out? Hell, I played the multiplayer version of HL years ago, but didn't actually play and finish the standalone game until this year. No, I am not kidding.
Admin-on-the-street says "I need a job, you insensitive clod"
30 years ago there weren't any personal computers.
As long as it's physical, it's limited. And as long as it's limited some of us will reach those limits.
Hence, my use of the term "near-infinite", and by that I mean "infinite for most uses". If storage goes to the organic molecular level, you would be talking about near-infinite storage, depending on the size of the media. But if we get to the point where we don't have to worry about conserving space, and our storage capacity is near limitless, the way we manage data would change dramatically.