At least I don't have to compile Windows, thanks to a proper object-oriented driver model. Of course, BeOS with its completely modular component-based systems is even more preferable. But unfortunately it lacks the marketing hype of Microsoft and the ease of use of Linux. ---
Yeah, default install of Red Hat. Real fucking secure there, genius. I bet you put up that on a university IP block it'll be owned 6 ways in 24 hours. ---
The problem is the napster investors have already invested so much into building napster into a brand-name. Now the problem they face is a fleeting product. They have this invaluable marketting tool, the name "napster", but they are caught trying to redefine what "napster" means in such a way as to be profitable. I agree that they are bungling this whole process, but you see the dilemna they are in. It is not a total loss, because they have built brand-name recognition. But they have no product. ---
I agree that this type of system could be abused by the RIAA to prevent independent artists from putting their music on napster. In fact, let me be the first to say, "those bitch-ass motherfuckers." But really, when you get down to it, only about 0.1% of all music is really any good anyways. Through a formal submission process whereby RIAA officials would be forced to listen to all submissions, they would have no choice but to hear the good independent music, and likely discover it that way. Used correctly, this could transform napster from a worthless file-sharing e-commerce ripoff to the principle vehicle whereby independent artists are signed, promoted, and distributed. In addition, if the selection committee prevents bad music from appearing on napster, it will greatly increase the rate at which napster users find good, independent music. ---
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I agree. I doubt there is anything in it that
cvs --help [command] won't tell you. ---
Visual SourceSafe is much more reliable and easier to use than CVS. Plus, you do not have the problem of "CVS Gnomes." CVS Gnomes are little creatures that live inside CVS repositories and mysteriously undo changes to your code, or break previously working code.
I personally have seen CVS Gnomes in my office, but upon attempting to communicate with them, they flee in fear. I do leave little pieces of cheese for them by where the ethernet goes into the wall, though, and I notice that every night they do not fail to eat it.
Has anyone had success communicating with CVS Gnomes? If so, how did you do it? They seem to be afraid of me:( ---
I frankly prefer an amber LCD display. Amber is scientifically proven to be the easiest color on the eyes. When I'm simply writing code, reading e-mail, or browsing the web I do not see the need for the expense of a color display. Frankly, the only thing color displays are good for at all are video games. ---
I regularly participate in amateur rocket competitions. For telemetry I find it quite simple to attach a Nokia 5100 (with detached Honey Orange faceplate) and wire it to a microprocessor that will send varying volumes in different audible frequency bands to indicate different values, scaled into audible ranges. For example, altitude, airspeed, latitude and longitude (as calculated by GPS and communicated to the uP). I simply record on DAT tape the audio on another cell phone. When I return home I play the audio into my computer as a WAV file, and then run spectrum analysis on it and scale and filter frequency analysis into raw telemetry data that I can then plot. (This is easily done with Matlab). ---
I notice many people here saying that a principle use of cloning would be to duplicate organs for transplantation purposes.
But why would you want to replace something so flawed and imperfect with something equally problematic? The fields of mechanical and materials engineering are very rapidly advancing. If instead of pumping millions of dollars into this ridiculous, trivial genetic "engineering", imagine what could be done by putting the money into researching powerful, reliable mechanical replacements for imperfect biological organs.
Imagine a steel heart. It would not have to worry about being rejected by the body. "Oh no, I am being attacked by T-Cells!!" the strong, reliable, mechanized heart would say as it steadily and rapidly pumped an abundant supply of oxygen-rich blood to the entire body for the next 400 years. ---
Actually, I've been trying to download it for the past 3 days. It's been "slashdotted" ever since it went up three days ago. I've only managed to get chapters 1-9. I can't imagine that slashdot reporting this will help the situation any. ---
One thing about LAN "parties" that should be noted is the rampant piracy that occurs at them. If two people have a copy of a game that they want to play, what do you think happens? Yes, everyone is given a copy of the game. And this behavior propagates throughout multiple lan parties. In this way one legitimate copy of a game can turn into 10,000. This is why Tribes is the number one most pirated game in the world.
In addition, the atmosphere of LAN parties is not conducive to proper behavior. Drinking and smoking are not uncommon at LAN parties. In addition, the lack of female gamers leads encourages homosexuality. This sort of behavior may have been tolerable in the Greek armies of long ago, but is simply unacceptable in modern moral society.
As such, I forbid my children to attend LAN parties because I do not their school to become the next Columbine. ---
If you work in a bleeding-edge industry like web-development, you should know that any future employment may be jeopardized by the advanced knowledge you have of your current employer's technology. Obviously, it is legally questionable to begin employment at a competitor while you still have much of the knowledge garnered from your current employer. This is why companies are hesitant to hire employees who used to work at Intel or Microsoft -- they are afraid of lawsuits against them because you become a Trade Secret liability. ---
Lord British is owned by EA as a trademark. In other words, Lord British != Richard Garriot. Richard Garriot ceased being Lord British when he quit last year.
As Lord British embodies the Ultima franchise, there is, metaphorically, nothing wrong with the title of the article. ---
Let's face it, the Indrema console would never survive in today's marketplace. Look at the Dreamcast. Sega is an established, respected video-game company with a long history and a lot of marketing power, yet look how long the Dreamcast lasted in the marketplace.
Much of a console's marketing power is dependenant on the games that are expected to be available for it. What Indrema game can't you wait to play? I certainly haven't heard of any that have piqued my interest.. in fact I haven't heard of any, period.
Don't get me wrong, I think the Indrema is a noble effort and I respect everyone involved in the project and the company. That is why perhaps it might actually be best if this company were to die now before the people involved wasted more of their money and lives on a product and an idea that will never last more than a month in the highly competitive marketplace. Let's face it, the Indrema is basically X-Box minus Microsoft's marketing machine. And the X-Box is basically a PC. ---
This means that the Internet is entering a new, profitable phase. It has long since been recognized that banner ads do not generate revenue, not for the site hosting the ads nor the company paying to place them. They are a waste of everyone's time, money, and bandwidth.
If premium, quality sites such as Salon and Stileproject began charging subscription rates instead of relying on ineffective, sleazy banner-ad technology, both quality and quantity of content would improve. At the same time, there would be increased competition for the consumers dollar, because they are not going to view all sites, they will pick only one site and pay for it. No longer will shitty HTML programming or empty content be acceptable. In addition, this kind of thing may mean the end of "pages" of articles, where the text is spread out over several pages for the sole purpose of increasing banner ads without increasing relative density.
I for one will be happy to pay $30 to Salon for continued quality content of insightful, well-researched articles minus banner ads and to Slashdot for troll-less message forums. ---
The purpose of patents and patent law in general is to prompt innovation through guarantee of exclusive rights to profit from said innovation.
If organizations like this are created whose purpose is to actively discourage corporations from making money from innovations, than what is the point of patents? Why even have them at all? ---
Without moderation, it would not be possible to have a sensible exchange of ideas on the internet. As the number of people online grows and the number of places on the internet to exchange ideas shrinks, conversation will become more and more convoluted until there is nothing left but noise.
What can we do? The best thing to do IMHO is to apply a sort of "darwinistic" moderation system. Comments and ideas that are inherently inferior are filtered from view. For example, on slashdot, if one idea is bad, it can be moderated so low that most people cannot see it. Then, any replies (i.e., descendants) of that message are also rendered invisible.
This sort of system makes it easier to concentrate on the more important (or better), and thus, more highly moderated comments. Slashdot has created a system that is IMHO ahead of its time. I think we will see and more and more of this kind of darwinistic content control over the internet as the signal to noise ratio rises, and I think that it will lead to a better exchange of ideas, and in the end, everyone will benefit. Censorship will not be necessary because the system will inherently censor unwanted material. Thus inappropriate material will not be visible to thus who should not be viewing it. Since moderation is established by community standards, this actually fits the legal definition of obscenity, so any negatively moderated ideas are automatically, legally, obscene. This frees the admins of such a medium from legal obligation to monitor content.
Thus, it is clear that such a sytem is both necessary and beneficial, rather than restrictive. Given the current environment of net culture, with its pervasise goatsecx links and rampant flamage and trollage, such a system will unquestionably do more good than harm.
To me, this is a blessing in disguise. Sure, some may oppose this as "big government" excercising more control over our lives, but, come on, it's just video games!
As a single parent, I definitely see how such a rating system would help me out. I would no longer have to monitor every video game my children played -- I could just check the rating! This saves my valuable time and prevents my children from seeing things they shouldn't have to see, or participating in violence or sex-driven games that could twist their values. I know I don't want my children to grow up to become killers or rapists!!
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Too bad you still can't save 3DS files.
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At least I don't have to compile Windows, thanks to a proper object-oriented driver model. Of course, BeOS with its completely modular component-based systems is even more preferable. But unfortunately it lacks the marketing hype of Microsoft and the ease of use of Linux.
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Yeah, default install of Red Hat. Real fucking secure there, genius. I bet you put up that on a university IP block it'll be owned 6 ways in 24 hours.
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The problem is the napster investors have already invested so much into building napster into a brand-name. Now the problem they face is a fleeting product. They have this invaluable marketting tool, the name "napster", but they are caught trying to redefine what "napster" means in such a way as to be profitable. I agree that they are bungling this whole process, but you see the dilemna they are in. It is not a total loss, because they have built brand-name recognition. But they have no product.
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I agree that this type of system could be abused by the RIAA to prevent independent artists from putting their music on napster. In fact, let me be the first to say, "those bitch-ass motherfuckers." But really, when you get down to it, only about 0.1% of all music is really any good anyways. Through a formal submission process whereby RIAA officials would be forced to listen to all submissions, they would have no choice but to hear the good independent music, and likely discover it that way. Used correctly, this could transform napster from a worthless file-sharing e-commerce ripoff to the principle vehicle whereby independent artists are signed, promoted, and distributed. In addition, if the selection committee prevents bad music from appearing on napster, it will greatly increase the rate at which napster users find good, independent music.
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I agree. I doubt there is anything in it that cvs --help [command] won't tell you.
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I personally have seen CVS Gnomes in my office, but upon attempting to communicate with them, they flee in fear. I do leave little pieces of cheese for them by where the ethernet goes into the wall, though, and I notice that every night they do not fail to eat it.
Has anyone had success communicating with CVS Gnomes? If so, how did you do it? They seem to be afraid of me :(
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I frankly prefer an amber LCD display. Amber is scientifically proven to be the easiest color on the eyes. When I'm simply writing code, reading e-mail, or browsing the web I do not see the need for the expense of a color display. Frankly, the only thing color displays are good for at all are video games.
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I regularly participate in amateur rocket competitions. For telemetry I find it quite simple to attach a Nokia 5100 (with detached Honey Orange faceplate) and wire it to a microprocessor that will send varying volumes in different audible frequency bands to indicate different values, scaled into audible ranges. For example, altitude, airspeed, latitude and longitude (as calculated by GPS and communicated to the uP). I simply record on DAT tape the audio on another cell phone. When I return home I play the audio into my computer as a WAV file, and then run spectrum analysis on it and scale and filter frequency analysis into raw telemetry data that I can then plot. (This is easily done with Matlab).
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So what's to keep someone from generating a fake Auth Code?
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Sounds familiar.
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But why would you want to replace something so flawed and imperfect with something equally problematic? The fields of mechanical and materials engineering are very rapidly advancing. If instead of pumping millions of dollars into this ridiculous, trivial genetic "engineering", imagine what could be done by putting the money into researching powerful, reliable mechanical replacements for imperfect biological organs.
Imagine a steel heart. It would not have to worry about being rejected by the body. "Oh no, I am being attacked by T-Cells!!" the strong, reliable, mechanized heart would say as it steadily and rapidly pumped an abundant supply of oxygen-rich blood to the entire body for the next 400 years.
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Actually, I've been trying to download it for the past 3 days. It's been "slashdotted" ever since it went up three days ago. I've only managed to get chapters 1-9. I can't imagine that slashdot reporting this will help the situation any.
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In addition, the atmosphere of LAN parties is not conducive to proper behavior. Drinking and smoking are not uncommon at LAN parties. In addition, the lack of female gamers leads encourages homosexuality. This sort of behavior may have been tolerable in the Greek armies of long ago, but is simply unacceptable in modern moral society.
As such, I forbid my children to attend LAN parties because I do not their school to become the next Columbine.
---
If you work in a bleeding-edge industry like web-development, you should know that any future employment may be jeopardized by the advanced knowledge you have of your current employer's technology. Obviously, it is legally questionable to begin employment at a competitor while you still have much of the knowledge garnered from your current employer. This is why companies are hesitant to hire employees who used to work at Intel or Microsoft -- they are afraid of lawsuits against them because you become a Trade Secret liability.
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As Lord British embodies the Ultima franchise, there is, metaphorically, nothing wrong with the title of the article.
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Much of a console's marketing power is dependenant on the games that are expected to be available for it. What Indrema game can't you wait to play? I certainly haven't heard of any that have piqued my interest.. in fact I haven't heard of any, period.
Don't get me wrong, I think the Indrema is a noble effort and I respect everyone involved in the project and the company. That is why perhaps it might actually be best if this company were to die now before the people involved wasted more of their money and lives on a product and an idea that will never last more than a month in the highly competitive marketplace. Let's face it, the Indrema is basically X-Box minus Microsoft's marketing machine. And the X-Box is basically a PC.
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If premium, quality sites such as Salon and Stileproject began charging subscription rates instead of relying on ineffective, sleazy banner-ad technology, both quality and quantity of content would improve. At the same time, there would be increased competition for the consumers dollar, because they are not going to view all sites, they will pick only one site and pay for it. No longer will shitty HTML programming or empty content be acceptable. In addition, this kind of thing may mean the end of "pages" of articles, where the text is spread out over several pages for the sole purpose of increasing banner ads without increasing relative density.
I for one will be happy to pay $30 to Salon for continued quality content of insightful, well-researched articles minus banner ads and to Slashdot for troll-less message forums.
---
If organizations like this are created whose purpose is to actively discourage corporations from making money from innovations, than what is the point of patents? Why even have them at all?
---
What can we do? The best thing to do IMHO is to apply a sort of "darwinistic" moderation system. Comments and ideas that are inherently inferior are filtered from view. For example, on slashdot, if one idea is bad, it can be moderated so low that most people cannot see it. Then, any replies (i.e., descendants) of that message are also rendered invisible.
This sort of system makes it easier to concentrate on the more important (or better), and thus, more highly moderated comments. Slashdot has created a system that is IMHO ahead of its time. I think we will see and more and more of this kind of darwinistic content control over the internet as the signal to noise ratio rises, and I think that it will lead to a better exchange of ideas, and in the end, everyone will benefit. Censorship will not be necessary because the system will inherently censor unwanted material. Thus inappropriate material will not be visible to thus who should not be viewing it. Since moderation is established by community standards, this actually fits the legal definition of obscenity, so any negatively moderated ideas are automatically, legally, obscene. This frees the admins of such a medium from legal obligation to monitor content.
Thus, it is clear that such a sytem is both necessary and beneficial, rather than restrictive. Given the current environment of net culture, with its pervasise goatsecx links and rampant flamage and trollage, such a system will unquestionably do more good than harm.
As a single parent, I definitely see how such a rating system would help me out. I would no longer have to monitor every video game my children played -- I could just check the rating! This saves my valuable time and prevents my children from seeing things they shouldn't have to see, or participating in violence or sex-driven games that could twist their values. I know I don't want my children to grow up to become killers or rapists!!