I really enjoy playing civilization, however, when I played call to power I was a little disappointed. It seems like the almost made it too complicated for it to be fun. By this I mean that there is way too many small things to keep up with when the game got large. If you have only a handful of cities it wasn't bad but if really grew your empire it got to be a drag.
Is there anybody out there that feels the way that I do that has played civ iii? I am really interested in a review by a person like that.
I have a hard time believing any type of article like this when they will not put in the simple functionality of something like tcp/ip wrappers as a basic feature of their operating system. It is something simple, that provides a great deal of first line defense. No you have to get some half assed third party solution, like zone alarm.
Unix was born out of being on networks, and as a consequence they learned how to do stuff in a fairly secure fashion. This also goes to show what happens when people are too stupid to think for themselves and have the level of control over their systems that they need and want.
The microsoft arrogance of "We KNOW BEST, no go away kid your bothering me" is a major contributing factor to their serious operating system insecurities.
For example, I work in the IT industry and interact with a fair amount of people and have done an informal pole on how many people that actually run windows office programs that actually use macros, it is almost nil. So why in the hell do they ship that crap with that stuff wide open?
Those bastards need to shut the hell up and listen to what people are trying to tell them. Else, let them parish and provide us with hours entertainment developing ridicule.
I really think that is wonderful. It will show that there is a great deal of savings to be had in these types of solutions. The bad part of it is is that microsoft has catered to spoon feeding people for so long, i doubt that the majority of our people in the US will have the technical wherewithall to run linux on a day to day basis. It takes everyone a little time to get people aware of things like permissions, using the command line to copy or move files, etc... If they did try to switch they would probably whine enough to make it a nonviable solution.
This is off topic, but I do not know where else I should ask.
There are least 50 or so comments posted on this article and the next two but the main page is still showing that 0 comments have been posted. Is anybody else seeing the same thing?
For one thing, those that are lucky to qualify for DSL and have the service, never want to give it up, unless of course the next thing is faster.
I think that the industry had a rough go of it at first because they assummed that this was the latest and greatest thing and everybody will be doing it. This is partly true. The technology was not all that it should be. I was not able to qualify for DSL until Qwest reevaluated its conditions on what allows a line to qualify. A lot of people I know would like to have DSL, but can't.
My prediction for the future...
1) A few companies will be able to continue their service, Qwest (I hope) and a few others. 2) The technology will mature to reach the masses in an affordable manner. 3)In 5-10 years (probably closer to 10) high speed internet access will be as common in America as cable tv.
I would like to know that when cable companies started up if they did not have a similar history and set of problems. Does anybody know?
that microsoft will finally shut the hell up? Any reference to Frontpage conjures up images of many a disparaging remark, e.g. "I think I would rather sit around and lick the cat's ass than use Frontpage."
I hope that by IBM and Intel throwing some weight behind a Linux distro. it will help it gain some ground.
By this I hope that with IBM's encouragement more directed development and standardization will occur along with a few more applications making it more appealing to others.
One of the things that helps keep linux like linux is that it does take some work to get everything working right, however this does frighten people away. Perhaps Intel's endorsement will help this image and make it easier to get things to work correctly.
I think that the article is true to a point. I do believe that idle surfing has dropped to nil, mostly because the novelty of all the crap that is out there has finally worn off. People were in a bewildered awe of the amount of crap that was available then the realized that most of it is indeed crap, and only go for what they need.
The reason that I stopped idle surfing was when I discovered, by accident, the most mundane page ever made. Some body had taken the time to make a complete episode guide and plot synopsis of every episode of "THe Land of the Lost." You remember... "Marshall, Will and Holly..." After stumbling across that I realize that there are far better ways to invest one energy.
I know that there are a few sites that I religously visit almost everyday, Wall Street Journal, CNN,/., Userfriendly. If I need to get information about something that I need for work it is always a google search unless I know the source directly.
Here is the skinny. I told them I used FreeBSD (they did not know what that was so I told them Linux) and they are going to hold off transition for those folks until something else can be figured out.
I asked about upgrading to the officeworks package but they said that that too would be phased over to msn shit access in due time.
they were happy to provide me with a list of alternative isp's in my area.
The problem that I have with this is the following. If I were going to make a claim of this magnitude I would make sure that there is repeatability of the results before I opened my mouth about it.
This kind of crap really hurts the scientific cause. Most of all the research in the fundamental sciences (physics and math) is funded via the federal government. And when it comes times to renew contracts and get more funding people always remember the bad science, like cold-fusion.
I believe that this research is much needed and I detest the fact that this type of bogus science really hurts the rest of the legitimate scientific community by making funds that much harder to come by.
If it is discovered that they falsified those results to get and or continue funding then that group should be suspended from future federal funds.
I just wonder, do I really need a PDA that has this much horsepower?
I mean my god, if I have to have a gig of harddrive space to maintain my appointments I think that I have much larger problems...
Wait a minute. What was I thinking?! I just realized that I would be able to run another setiathome client on it. And we all know how important this is on establishing your niche on the geek food chain.
The news has recently reported that NASA is again in funding trouble. Since they already used "oh my god...there might be life on mars" ploy to get their last round of funding, they decided to go for a more believable ploy this time...
"This space station sucks ass and as it is supposed to be an international hallmark do you think that you could fork over a few more billion so that we can get the kinks out..."
dsl == why bother, analog modem == good idea
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I fell in love with FreeBSD when I had to learn it for my job. I was using linux at home and kept on mainly for convenience sake, because a respectable install came with most of the day to day stuff that make it a reasonable desktop. I relied heavily at work on the ports collection to make it a machine that I truly enjoyed to use for all things. Which was not a big inconvenience as I am blessed with a firehose for an internet connection at work. However at home, back when I had a plain old dial up, I was not willing to try and download that much via a standard dial up. When I was blessed with dsl the first thing that I did was get FreeBSD up and running.
Having said this however, if I still had a modem, I would buy their subscription service.
Yes, I am aware that the standard subscription service has some of this stuff available, but at the time did not consider it a viable option. This set does seem to be a little more promising if they fulfill all of their claims.
While there certainly are dangers that discussed in the article. There also exists good possibilities as well.
Consider all of the arguments and debates that have occured over what some people thing as unethical science, e.g. cloning and the recently resurfaced drama of stem cell research. There was a federal ban of funding into stem cell research during the Reagan/Bush years, it was lifted under Clinton (although he did impose a ban on federal funds being used for cloning), and the issue of federal funding for stem cell has reared its ugly head now the Bush jr. is in office.
These lines of research are the most promising ideas to come along in years and we now have the technology to make head way on them. If there is corporate sponsorship given to universities to conduct this research that is fine by me even though it may be proprietary. I feel that the future results of this work are too important not to be doing something about it because the politicians do not have enough spines or sense to get these projects funding via federal sources. As the article points out, the majority of the funding is from federal sources, and if those channels are blocked I am glad that the people that can actually do the research can get the money for corperate sponsorship.
I realize that there will be some bad things that come out of private companies sponsoring university funded research, and the article does a fine job of pointing those out, but I consider this to be a case of marginal cost. The potential progress far outways the damage that could be done.
On another note, I am dumbfounded how people can oppose the research of cloning and stem cells. How can a path of ignorance be better than the path of enlightenment.
As it points out, this software has a target audience of small to medium sized startups.
The mechanical engineering dept that I attended for a while was convinced that all me students must learn how to use the program pro engineer for drafting and finite element analysis. I did not consider this a good strategy for making them more marketable. Most of the students that graduated winding up working for medium sized companies that could not afford the hefty price tag of pro eng. Instead, they had to go with a program that could accomplish most what they wanted at a reasonable price.
With this in mind, I believe that this phenomenon is enough to refute anyone's claim that this open-source method of doings thing can not persist.
One of things that has irritated for a long time is the bias in publishing to only print successful articles on successful experiments or research.
While this may be a bit altruistic, but I wonder how much squandering of resources could be reduced, by letting people know that certain things do not work, rather than having them waste resources on developing a similar doomed experiment. I doubt that private industry will embrace this idea as it lessens their competitive edge, but it should be embraced by academia.
The interent provides a perfect means to allow researchers to make their work (successful or failed) available to others with little expense. It will also allow for a great number of people to examine the failed experiments to see why the failed. Maybe the original researcher overlooked something or perhaps it was a bad design to begin with.
I disagree, the reason that the humor of Monty Python has persisted is that it appeals to all levels of a persons sense of humor, e.g. intellectual and physical gags. Most of the crap that is being produced now is simply done for shock value and not because it is really all that funny.
I seriously doubt that the reason that Monty Python has survived the last few decades has little to do with the geek culture. But if that is the line of thinking that you need to rationalize your behaviour or deal with insecurity, then be my guest.
Why do Microsoft's operating systems do not attempt to cooperate with any other bootloaders, FreeBSD's, LILO, etc... when all of the other boot loaders go to great pains to make sure that all of the information for any operating system is left intact.
It is not impossible to recover from installing a Window's after other operating systems, but it is inconvenient.
This should be will within Microsoft's ability to do, so why hasn't it been done? And I will not accept any cheesy arguments like ours is better than theirs or the others won't work. They work well, and we all know it.
When I took calculus III a few years ago I asked the question "when is not okay to reverse the order of integration in iterated integrals?"
The instructor replied " this is not something that we can or should get into."
At the time I thought that it was a serious copout on the instructors part. A couple of years later and several analysis courses later, I learned when it is not okay to perform such an operation. I was taking a class in Lebesgue measure theory at the time, and the amount of machinery needed to understand why it would not work in certain cases was by no means trivial. I doubt that any idea to reduce what was happening to anybody without a few tools in measure theory would be hopeless.
It might be good to try and bring simple math to the masses but I doubt it will be worth anything for higher level mathematics.
I am by no means a brilliant mathematician. On my best day I might be described as competent. So I am not being a snob about this just realistic. In order to understand many of the concepts used you have to have worked out a few problems in gory detail. Also, I doubt that I would have understood as much as I do without the help of some very good instructors explaining to me what was going on.
China usually loses the top 1/3 of its scientists to the US, the second 1/3 go to Japan, and they are left with the bottom tier.
While it is my opinion the Ngyen Ho-Lee (sp?) may have done some questionable things, but he was setup up by the Chinese government to appear as though he did far worse things.
By doing this, China can use this as propaganda fuel to retain the more talented people by creating the illusion of a very Chinese unfriendly America. Having said this, I believe that this is the exact same shit that is going on with airplane collision.
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I really enjoy playing civilization, however, when I played call to power I was a little disappointed. It seems like the almost made it too complicated for it to be fun. By this I mean that there is way too many small things to keep up with when the game got large. If you have only a handful of cities it wasn't bad but if really grew your empire it got to be a drag.
Is there anybody out there that feels the way that I do that has played civ iii? I am really interested in a review by a person like that.
nay, tasty though they may be, the side effects of tooth decay and obesity far outweigh any legitimate use they may have...
I have a hard time believing any type of article like this when they will not put in the simple functionality of something like tcp/ip wrappers as a basic feature of their operating system. It is something simple, that provides a great deal of first line defense. No you have to get some half assed third party solution, like zone alarm.
Unix was born out of being on networks, and as a consequence they learned how to do stuff in a fairly secure fashion. This also goes to show what happens when people are too stupid to think for themselves and have the level of control over their systems that they need and want.
The microsoft arrogance of "We KNOW BEST, no go away kid your bothering me" is a major contributing factor to their serious operating system insecurities.
For example, I work in the IT industry and interact with a fair amount of people and have done an informal pole on how many people that actually run windows office programs that actually use macros, it is almost nil. So why in the hell do they ship that crap with that stuff wide open?
Those bastards need to shut the hell up and listen to what people are trying to tell them. Else, let them parish and provide us with hours entertainment developing ridicule.
I really think that is wonderful. It will show that there is a great deal of savings to be had in these types of solutions. The bad part of it is is that microsoft has catered to spoon feeding people for so long, i doubt that the majority of our people in the US will have the technical wherewithall to run linux on a day to day basis. It takes everyone a little time to get people aware of things like permissions, using the command line to copy or move files, etc... If they did try to switch they would probably whine enough to make it a nonviable solution.
This is off topic, but I do not know where else I should ask.
There are least 50 or so comments posted on this article and the next two but the main page is still showing that 0 comments have been posted. Is anybody else seeing the same thing?
For one thing, those that are lucky to qualify for DSL and have the service, never want to give it up, unless of course the next thing is faster.
I think that the industry had a rough go of it at first because they assummed that this was the latest and greatest thing and everybody will be doing it. This is partly true. The technology was not all that it should be. I was not able to qualify for DSL until Qwest reevaluated its conditions on what allows a line to qualify. A lot of people I know would like to have DSL, but can't.
My prediction for the future...
1) A few companies will be able to continue their service, Qwest (I hope) and a few others.
2) The technology will mature to reach the masses in an affordable manner.
3)In 5-10 years (probably closer to 10) high speed internet access will be as common in America as cable tv.
I would like to know that when cable companies started up if they did not have a similar history and set of problems. Does anybody know?
inflatable that amuses me
that microsoft will finally shut the hell up? Any reference to Frontpage conjures up images of many a disparaging remark, e.g. "I think I would rather sit around and lick the cat's ass than use Frontpage."
I hope that by IBM and Intel throwing some weight behind a Linux distro. it will help it gain some ground.
By this I hope that with IBM's encouragement more directed development and standardization will occur along with a few more applications making it more appealing to others.
One of the things that helps keep linux like linux is that it does take some work to get everything working right, however this does frighten people away. Perhaps Intel's endorsement will help this image and make it easier to get things to work correctly.
I think that the article is true to a point. I do believe that idle surfing has dropped to nil, mostly because the novelty of all the crap that is out there has finally worn off. People were in a bewildered awe of the amount of crap that was available then the realized that most of it is indeed crap, and only go for what they need.
/., Userfriendly. If I need to get information about something that I need for work it is always a google search unless I know the source directly.
The reason that I stopped idle surfing was when I discovered, by accident, the most mundane page ever made. Some body had taken the time to make a complete episode guide and plot synopsis of every episode of "THe Land of the Lost." You remember... "Marshall, Will and Holly..." After stumbling across that I realize that there are far better ways to invest one energy.
I know that there are a few sites that I religously visit almost everyday, Wall Street Journal, CNN,
C'est las vies.
Here is the skinny. I told them I used FreeBSD (they did not know what that was so I told them Linux) and they are going to hold off transition for those folks until something else can be figured out.
I asked about upgrading to the officeworks package but they said that that too would be phased over to msn shit access in due time.
they were happy to provide me with a list of alternative isp's in my area.
The problem that I have with this is the following. If I were going to make a claim of this magnitude I would make sure that there is repeatability of the results before I opened my mouth about it.
This kind of crap really hurts the scientific cause. Most of all the research in the fundamental sciences (physics and math) is funded via the federal government. And when it comes times to renew contracts and get more funding people always remember the bad science, like cold-fusion.
I believe that this research is much needed and I detest the fact that this type of bogus science really hurts the rest of the legitimate scientific community by making funds that much harder to come by.
If it is discovered that they falsified those results to get and or continue funding then that group should be suspended from future federal funds.
Too bad US citizen don't have first dibs. Get in on it when the gettin is good, and the bail out before it goes down like a bad habit, like Redhat.
that is the only time i can download my pr0n on cable in a reasonable amount of time
I just wonder, do I really need a PDA that has this much horsepower?
I mean my god, if I have to have a gig of harddrive space to maintain my appointments I think that I have much larger problems...
Wait a minute. What was I thinking?! I just realized that I would be able to run another setiathome client on it. And we all know how important this is on establishing your niche on the geek food chain.
The news has recently reported that NASA is again in funding trouble. Since they already used "oh my god...there might be life on mars" ploy to get their last round of funding, they decided to go for a more believable ploy this time...
"This space station sucks ass and as it is supposed to be an international hallmark do you think that you could fork over a few more billion so that we can get the kinks out..."
I fell in love with FreeBSD when I had to learn it for my job. I was using linux at home and kept on mainly for convenience sake, because a respectable install came with most of the day to day stuff that make it a reasonable desktop. I relied heavily at work on the ports collection to make it a machine that I truly enjoyed to use for all things. Which was not a big inconvenience as I am blessed with a firehose for an internet connection at work. However at home, back when I had a plain old dial up, I was not willing to try and download that much via a standard dial up. When I was blessed with dsl the first thing that I did was get FreeBSD up and running.
Having said this however, if I still had a modem, I would buy their subscription service.
Yes, I am aware that the standard subscription service has some of this stuff available, but at the time did not consider it a viable option. This set does seem to be a little more promising if they fulfill all of their claims.
While there certainly are dangers that discussed in the article. There also exists good possibilities as well.
Consider all of the arguments and debates that have occured over what some people thing as unethical science, e.g. cloning and the recently resurfaced drama of stem cell research. There was a federal ban of funding into stem cell research during the Reagan/Bush years, it was lifted under Clinton (although he did impose a ban on federal funds being used for cloning), and the issue of federal funding for stem cell has reared its ugly head now the Bush jr. is in office.
These lines of research are the most promising ideas to come along in years and we now have the technology to make head way on them. If there is corporate sponsorship given to universities to conduct this research that is fine by me even though it may be proprietary. I feel that the future results of this work are too important not to be doing something about it because the politicians do not have enough spines or sense to get these projects funding via federal sources. As the article points out, the majority of the funding is from federal sources, and if those channels are blocked I am glad that the people that can actually do the research can get the money for corperate sponsorship.
I realize that there will be some bad things that come out of private companies sponsoring university funded research, and the article does a fine job of pointing those out, but I consider this to be a case of marginal cost. The potential progress far outways the damage that could be done.
On another note, I am dumbfounded how people can oppose the research of cloning and stem cells. How can a path of ignorance be better than the path of enlightenment.
As it points out, this software has a target audience of small to medium sized startups.
The mechanical engineering dept that I attended for a while was convinced that all me students must learn how to use the program pro engineer for drafting and finite element analysis. I did not consider this a good strategy for making them more marketable. Most of the students that graduated winding up working for medium sized companies that could not afford the hefty price tag of pro eng. Instead, they had to go with a program that could accomplish most what they wanted at a reasonable price.
With this in mind, I believe that this phenomenon is enough to refute anyone's claim that this open-source method of doings thing can not persist.
One of things that has irritated for a long time is the bias in publishing to only print successful articles on successful experiments or research.
While this may be a bit altruistic, but I wonder how much squandering of resources could be reduced, by letting people know that certain things do not work, rather than having them waste resources on developing a similar doomed experiment. I doubt that private industry will embrace this idea as it lessens their competitive edge, but it should be embraced by academia.
The interent provides a perfect means to allow researchers to make their work (successful or failed) available to others with little expense. It will also allow for a great number of people to examine the failed experiments to see why the failed. Maybe the original researcher overlooked something or perhaps it was a bad design to begin with.
I disagree, the reason that the humor of Monty Python has persisted is that it appeals to all levels of a persons sense of humor, e.g. intellectual and physical gags. Most of the crap that is being produced now is simply done for shock value and not because it is really all that funny.
I seriously doubt that the reason that Monty Python has survived the last few decades has little to do with the geek culture. But if that is the line of thinking that you need to rationalize your behaviour or deal with insecurity, then be my guest.
Why do Microsoft's operating systems do not attempt to cooperate with any other bootloaders, FreeBSD's, LILO, etc... when all of the other boot loaders go to great pains to make sure that all of the information for any operating system is left intact.
It is not impossible to recover from installing a Window's after other operating systems, but it is inconvenient.
This should be will within Microsoft's ability to do, so why hasn't it been done? And I will not accept any cheesy arguments like ours is better than theirs or the others won't work. They work well, and we all know it.
the filthy critic does a nice job of hacking on those movie making bastards, he included a nice bit about manning in the current review.
It also reminds me of the hollywood studios paying web designers a lot of cash to make fan pages that look like they were done by amateurs.
They do really shitty things to their comsumers, and I like the rest of them still pay to see movies...We are such losers...
When I took calculus III a few years ago I asked the question "when is not okay to reverse the order of integration in iterated integrals?"
The instructor replied " this is not something that we can or should get into."
At the time I thought that it was a serious copout on the instructors part. A couple of years later and several analysis courses later, I learned when it is not okay to perform such an operation. I was taking a class in Lebesgue measure theory at the time, and the amount of machinery needed to understand why it would not work in certain cases was by no means trivial. I doubt that any idea to reduce what was happening to anybody without a few tools in measure theory would be hopeless.
It might be good to try and bring simple math to the masses but I doubt it will be worth anything for higher level mathematics.
I am by no means a brilliant mathematician. On my best day I might be described as competent. So I am not being a snob about this just realistic. In order to understand many of the concepts used you have to have worked out a few problems in gory detail. Also, I doubt that I would have understood as much as I do without the help of some very good instructors explaining to me what was going on.
China usually loses the top 1/3 of its scientists to the US, the second 1/3 go to Japan, and they are left with the bottom tier.
While it is my opinion the Ngyen Ho-Lee (sp?) may have done some questionable things, but he was setup up by the Chinese government to appear as though he did far worse things.
By doing this, China can use this as propaganda fuel to retain the more talented people by creating the illusion of a very Chinese unfriendly America. Having said this, I believe that this is the exact same shit that is going on with airplane collision.