This is a big step down a slippery slope. Soon after protecting the intrest of big corporations just how long before government gets into it? How soon before some government agency determines what can allowed to be said or seen?
We already have "Hate crimes" which is a thinly veiled attempt to criminalize anything that which the empowered (read judicial groups, or other radicals) don't like. Simply by claiming that someone who does not agree with you a spouter of hate-speech is the current method. Look at it everyday, they word their sentences in a specific method and thereby claim your racist/homophobe/etc views are obvious when you attempt to get them to clarify the issue.
Now I know the message title will provoke response as many here don't like Rush, but I hope these people understand that "limiting" what you can do in one arena is very easily broadened to include what you expect to be able to do in yours.
This is the first step towards removing the 1st amendment, let business/entertainment do it first so that people get used to limits, and voila, watch government "censors" step in and broaden it to other forms of broadcast as well.
Hey Jon Katz, guess what, here is something that can qualify as a VC.... and better yet they are doing it their way, and apparently won't have to bend to the wills of the so called pseudo-intelligia that they might have to listen to here.
I can just imagine the hell they would have to pay setting up something like this in NYC for the poor. It would be all fine and dandy they offered service but I guarantee you that some "victim protection group" would arise and claim abuse by the Church.
More power to them! Not only do they offer a method for the poor and others to access information, they are doing it in a country that isn't exactly freedom loving. Now, if they could get into a communist country wouldn't that be fun???
Apparently this "victim" oriented society continues to grow. Being a victim is now considered a great way to get more of someone elses money, hence every damn group jumps in.
Whats next? RIAA stepping in and telling people who resell records/cds that they have to pay a royalty to do so? How long before records/cds/tapes come with stickers stating that resale is illegal?
This situation exists mainly because of the left-wing through their years of government control have finally made it part of society. Its now "evil" to make money, because its always at someone else's expense.
Making new classes of "victims" is easy because no one has to attach a face to them. If faces were attached the impact would be lessened considerably. Its much easier to say that a group is a victim than to actually present people of the class. For if they presented these "victims" they themselves would be obligated to correct the problem.
Hence, this Author's guild is nothing more than an extension of a liberal system of victimhood. They present themselves as suffering from a slight that doesn't logically exist. It can however be portrayed in a method by which an aggressor is identified - namely a big money grubbing rights stealing corporation... those always make the best oppressors... why??? because they to are faceless.
Oh well, let them rot. I don't need a new victim class to suck up my money.
Dunno... but after reading this I have the distinct impression I didn't read anything. It seemed to be a loosely connected grouping of comments and factoids... it really conveyed nothing.
Instead of breaking these things up, why not just put it online when your done. Disjointed as these parts are it just makes it confusing..
So please, get to the point, and quit wasting our time in the mean time.
It doesn't add anything to the game, it does however make it look worse. At least from the perspective of the player models.
I can understand implementing motion bluring, BUT only for objects that are supposed to be moving very fast. Perhaps if it could be tied to objects by assignment it would be an excellent addition to the game. Items would be any super fast projectile (not beam weaponary), fragmentation projectiles from grenade type objects, and explosive debris from detonating vehicles or destruction of large objects.
Otherwise keep it, I don't need something else to spoil my aim....
Apparently the pseudo-intellectuals are confined in the belief that a VC is one ideal. This is the reason their attempts fail. They miss the simple fact that no two people would be alike in all beliefs.
I guess once they realize that real world communities are not formed of like minded people that their conception of VCs will adjust to fit this model. In turn they will then claim that their VCs work. (in essence, the standard practice of these PIs is to go full force with their tight view and then adapt it to fit what the community responds with and then claim thats what they intended in the first place)
They should also suspend the teacher involved for making such a stupid comment.
Regardless of the fact that he believed it to be sanctioned by the teacher the student should never take this it as permission to perform an illegal act.
Now, if the assignment was in writing and given out in class I would say that that would provide the student with the legal protection required under any interpetation of law.
So, basically, just because someone in authority tells you can do something doesn't mean you should.
Apparently all these incredible intellectuals, such as yourself of course, have finally come to the realization that they cannot have their VCs because of obstinate, adulescent, hate-speech, right-wing radicals won't stay away....
In other words, VCs aren't working as these people think they should because they don't have complete control over content.
Most of these "books/papers/yahoos" don't want a virtual community... they want virtual-conformity.
Basically - if you aren't going to kiss their ass, play nice to everyone they like, accept criticism at their will, you cannot be a contributing element in their world.
Virtual Communities must learn to exist with all types of people. For those who are truly grief-players (a term from a certain element found in online games) the system can take care of them from the standpoint that people can choose to ignore what these people say.
To claim VCs fail because of such people is to be ignorant of the fact that the creators/maintainers of VCs must put forth the effort to provide people a means to ignore those they do not wish to mingle with. Their job is not to exclude these people from the community, simply to provide people a means to exclude them from their "subsetted reality"
As it stands now, I guess the sniveling elite that you belong to will scream for new laws to protect VCs from hate-speech and such...
ooohhh... wait... Bush won... guess you have to wait 4 years...
Let Apple have their way, their "look" is about the only thing they have left. The only thing worth admiring is how they managed to sell over priced pieces of clear blue plastic.
The issue here is that Apple realizes that only the form is what gets their new OS attention. Having that face on other products, dilutes the impact theirs would have.
In other words, if you can get the same look on a better OS or machine what would the public want what they are offering?
Its their stuff, let them lock it up with the law. Apparently they never realized that their viciousness to the community is what nearly bankrupted them before.
At one time IBM considered going to M2 for the new RISC series of AS400s (which have been 64bit for over 4 years!). One key portion of the CISC As/400s was written in M2, I believe it dealt with the interface layer between programs and the OS.
The current AS/400 microcode is in C.
BTW.... what I would not do for a AS/400 similar system on a PC.... (the AS/400 upgraded from CISC to RISC without needing major (most programs needed ZERO) changes to programs... what other OS can claim that?
If the Fremen were shown WITHOUT their stillsuits it is NOT a good adaptation.
So we are just to excuse all their goofs because its a made for tv mini-series and not a big production film.
At least the film got the uniforms right, hell the mini-series managed to botch hair colors!
There was no point in reviewing that card...
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What reason was there to actually review that V6000? If you could buy one for your own system I could understand a review.
Instead it did prove one thing, 3dfx is in deep shit. It proves what most people suspected, the card was being sold to the public because even after nearly 6+ months of work they can't make it work.
Reviewing it, as VE did, is the purest example of "mine is bigger than yours"
It is the purpose of leftwing uberliberals to always try to one up someone else?
Gaming ain't JACK SHIT in the world. A third of the world wakes up wondering if its going to enough to eat, or if some local military is going to hack them to bits.
The effect of games on AMERICAN culture already blew by you Jon. I come across many 40+ year old online gamers, and usually their kids are there too.
No, your article comes across as the typical "SCARE and SEGREGATE" crap that typically comes from the ego-centric social elitist... talk about one helluva a delusion... how long did it take for you and your friends to learn how to blow smoke up your own respective asses?
?*** oooh... this will cost me karma BIG TIME... but hell if I am going to listen to crap like this...
I read the CNN interview, and that was enough to push me to the side of "wanting to see the mini-series"..... with the director claiming to adhere to the novel very closely...
Just a note to the director...
NEXT TIME TAKE FUCKING NOTES!
Come on, Paul was raised to be royalty, he was raised to respect himself and the people he was to rule. His father was a man of action, not some mumbler. Irulan and Paul meet???? Huh ? Must have been the comic book series I missed... and then to top it off, he botches his script by switching lines among SIMILAR characters, guess one fighter is just another to him. Yueh was a major factor in establishing the story, and he is practically brushed off in the equivalent of one page of script (probably double spaced at that)
Effects can be tolerated, the worms are pretty cool... but apparently thats supposed to sell the movie.
The movie, while it had some faults, did at least look right. Better yet the movie came closer to matching the appearences described in the book (like hair color). The movie looked very rich, and decadent, a near perfect portrayal of a bloated government more trapped in its trappings than in actually governing.
Seems to me that they would be better off taking the desktop in a new direction instead of falling MS's lead.
The one thing that made me nearly puke when first using Linux/Redhat/etc was the attempt to make it look like Win95. Sorry, but if your going to copy someone's interface either do it right or don't do it at all.
As for highly paid developers, MS is also employing large research groups whose job is to find out how users use their computers, what makes it a pain, and what they want. Too many KDE/Gnome types are so much more wrapped up in themselves they don't see that.
How can you honestly expect to have users want to use your system when the number one constant is "the users of windows aren't nearly as smart as us" or "most of the regular users don't understand x, y, and z". Sorry, you don't know better, if you did all these holier-than-thou attitudes would be focusing on how to make it work for the user instead of telling the user he is too stupid to know how he/she wants it.
Policing the downloads of Napster users is all fine and dandy. However it is not fine when the software used to do it is flawed.
Napster users have no right to distribute music to users without proper authorization to have a copy of the copyrighted music. Yet at the same time they have a right not to be subject a flawed investigative system.
The best analogy of this software is the gene-sniffer (remeber that one?) used to determine if you were in the room, and then having the police say you obviously did the crime because your gene-sequence was found in the city.
I myself will have to reread the last few of the original series to determine when noships truly first appreared... however in this prequel the technology is employed by the Harkonnens via a renegade Ixian...
I did not mind the no-ship (singular) being in this prequel, however its the B.G.s that I take issue with.
I would offer up Chris Bunch as a good co-author..
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his ability to pull of various types of combat related action would do well for a Battle of Corrin and such.
He would easily be able to give us the battle where the Atreides became heroes while the Harkonnens failed.
I think by chapterhouse his spirit was already ..
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on its way out..
Honestly the way history passed by so fast in the last two books of the original series it could have damn well been written by someone other thant Frank Herbert.
Chapterhouse did not feel like Dune... but it had his name didn't it?
I got the impression it broke after they sighted..
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I got the impression he was fully phased when they detected him.
Still the issue of their being able to detect him mentally and at such range is well beyond what you get from the real Dune novels.
I was a little annoyed even by the mind tricks played upon the Baron and his guards on the Sister's homeworld... too me they were way too strong... I don't remember anything from the original series hinting at the powers of mental projection that was exhibited by Sisters in HH.
The real fault of the books is that the authors seem to endow major "groups" with powers/abilities not seen later in the true Dune novels. With some of what these authors endow upon their "favorites" its hard to imagine portions of Dune's later history from ever occuring.
I don't think the Baron was cause of Aila's weight
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First I never got the impression she bloated.. I think the Baron helped her along that path, but only because he was out to ruin her and Paul and Leto II.
As for the books giving reason for his condition, that part I actually liked. If you look at it right anything he did to Aila was being done to a Bene Geserit, and hence if he "helped" her gain weight he was simply turning the curse back on her.
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This is a big step down a slippery slope. Soon after protecting the intrest of big corporations just how long before government gets into it? How soon before some government agency determines what can allowed to be said or seen?
We already have "Hate crimes" which is a thinly veiled attempt to criminalize anything that which the empowered (read judicial groups, or other radicals) don't like. Simply by claiming that someone who does not agree with you a spouter of hate-speech is the current method. Look at it everyday, they word their sentences in a specific method and thereby claim your racist/homophobe/etc views are obvious when you attempt to get them to clarify the issue.
Now I know the message title will provoke response as many here don't like Rush, but I hope these people understand that "limiting" what you can do in one arena is very easily broadened to include what you expect to be able to do in yours.
This is the first step towards removing the 1st amendment, let business/entertainment do it first so that people get used to limits, and voila, watch government "censors" step in and broaden it to other forms of broadcast as well.
I made a direct point. He and his kind love to find victims, assign blame, and then propose that they are the only solution.
Hey Jon Katz, guess what, here is something that can qualify as a VC.... and better yet they are doing it their way, and apparently won't have to bend to the wills of the so called pseudo-intelligia that they might have to listen to here.
I can just imagine the hell they would have to pay setting up something like this in NYC for the poor. It would be all fine and dandy they offered service but I guarantee you that some "victim protection group" would arise and claim abuse by the Church.
More power to them! Not only do they offer a method for the poor and others to access information, they are doing it in a country that isn't exactly freedom loving. Now, if they could get into a communist country wouldn't that be fun???
Apparently this "victim" oriented society continues to grow. Being a victim is now considered a great way to get more of someone elses money, hence every damn group jumps in.
Whats next? RIAA stepping in and telling people who resell records/cds that they have to pay a royalty to do so? How long before records/cds/tapes come with stickers stating that resale is illegal?
This situation exists mainly because of the left-wing through their years of government control have finally made it part of society. Its now "evil" to make money, because its always at someone else's expense.
Making new classes of "victims" is easy because no one has to attach a face to them. If faces were attached the impact would be lessened considerably. Its much easier to say that a group is a victim than to actually present people of the class. For if they presented these "victims" they themselves would be obligated to correct the problem.
Hence, this Author's guild is nothing more than an extension of a liberal system of victimhood. They present themselves as suffering from a slight that doesn't logically exist. It can however be portrayed in a method by which an aggressor is identified - namely a big money grubbing rights stealing corporation... those always make the best oppressors... why??? because they to are faceless.
Oh well, let them rot. I don't need a new victim class to suck up my money.
Dunno... but after reading this I have the distinct impression I didn't read anything. It seemed to be a loosely connected grouping of comments and factoids... it really conveyed nothing.
Instead of breaking these things up, why not just put it online when your done. Disjointed as these parts are it just makes it confusing..
So please, get to the point, and quit wasting our time in the mean time.
It doesn't add anything to the game, it does however make it look worse. At least from the perspective of the player models.
I can understand implementing motion bluring, BUT only for objects that are supposed to be moving very fast. Perhaps if it could be tied to objects by assignment it would be an excellent addition to the game. Items would be any super fast projectile (not beam weaponary), fragmentation projectiles from grenade type objects, and explosive debris from detonating vehicles or destruction of large objects.
Otherwise keep it, I don't need something else to spoil my aim....
Apparently the pseudo-intellectuals are confined in the belief that a VC is one ideal. This is the reason their attempts fail. They miss the simple fact that no two people would be alike in all beliefs.
I guess once they realize that real world communities are not formed of like minded people that their conception of VCs will adjust to fit this model. In turn they will then claim that their VCs work. (in essence, the standard practice of these PIs is to go full force with their tight view and then adapt it to fit what the community responds with and then claim thats what they intended in the first place)
They should also suspend the teacher involved for making such a stupid comment.
Regardless of the fact that he believed it to be sanctioned by the teacher the student should never take this it as permission to perform an illegal act.
Now, if the assignment was in writing and given out in class I would say that that would provide the student with the legal protection required under any interpetation of law.
So, basically, just because someone in authority tells you can do something doesn't mean you should.
/// mmmm I feel karma fleeing me for this one ///
Apparently all these incredible intellectuals, such as yourself of course, have finally come to the realization that they cannot have their VCs because of obstinate, adulescent, hate-speech, right-wing radicals won't stay away....
In other words, VCs aren't working as these people think they should because they don't have complete control over content.
Most of these "books/papers/yahoos" don't want a virtual community... they want virtual-conformity.
Basically - if you aren't going to kiss their ass, play nice to everyone they like, accept criticism at their will, you cannot be a contributing element in their world.
Virtual Communities must learn to exist with all types of people. For those who are truly grief-players (a term from a certain element found in online games) the system can take care of them from the standpoint that people can choose to ignore what these people say.
To claim VCs fail because of such people is to be ignorant of the fact that the creators/maintainers of VCs must put forth the effort to provide people a means to ignore those they do not wish to mingle with. Their job is not to exclude these people from the community, simply to provide people a means to exclude them from their "subsetted reality"
As it stands now, I guess the sniveling elite that you belong to will scream for new laws to protect VCs from hate-speech and such...
ooohhh... wait... Bush won... guess you have to wait 4 years...
Let Apple have their way, their "look" is about the only thing they have left. The only thing worth admiring is how they managed to sell over priced pieces of clear blue plastic.
The issue here is that Apple realizes that only the form is what gets their new OS attention. Having that face on other products, dilutes the impact theirs would have.
In other words, if you can get the same look on a better OS or machine what would the public want what they are offering?
Its their stuff, let them lock it up with the law. Apparently they never realized that their viciousness to the community is what nearly bankrupted them before.
At one time IBM considered going to M2 for the new RISC series of AS400s (which have been 64bit for over 4 years!). One key portion of the CISC As/400s was written in M2, I believe it dealt with the interface layer between programs and the OS. The current AS/400 microcode is in C. BTW.... what I would not do for a AS/400 similar system on a PC.... (the AS/400 upgraded from CISC to RISC without needing major (most programs needed ZERO) changes to programs... what other OS can claim that?
Don't blame deregulation. Deregulation can't work if there isn't enough power to distribute.
The issue in California is that they can't build powerplants to provide for the growing use of the state.
why? Because every damn one of them gets shot down by some green organization.
Sorry, if your state's growth stagnates because lack of resources they ain't going to have the cash to help the environment either.
Someone please explain how applying regulation is going to fix it? It won't, because you cannot regulate what DOESN'T EXIST.
hmm
If the Fremen were shown WITHOUT their stillsuits it is NOT a good adaptation.
So we are just to excuse all their goofs because its a made for tv mini-series and not a big production film.
At least the film got the uniforms right, hell the mini-series managed to botch hair colors!
What reason was there to actually review that V6000? If you could buy one for your own system I could understand a review.
Instead it did prove one thing, 3dfx is in deep shit. It proves what most people suspected, the card was being sold to the public because even after nearly 6+ months of work they can't make it work.
Reviewing it, as VE did, is the purest example of "mine is bigger than yours"
It is the purpose of leftwing uberliberals to always try to one up someone else?
Gaming ain't JACK SHIT in the world. A third of the world wakes up wondering if its going to enough to eat, or if some local military is going to hack them to bits.
The effect of games on AMERICAN culture already blew by you Jon. I come across many 40+ year old online gamers, and usually their kids are there too.
No, your article comes across as the typical "SCARE and SEGREGATE" crap that typically comes from the ego-centric social elitist... talk about one helluva a delusion... how long did it take for you and your friends to learn how to blow smoke up your own respective asses?
?*** oooh... this will cost me karma BIG TIME... but hell if I am going to listen to crap like this...
I read the CNN interview, and that was enough to push me to the side of "wanting to see the mini-series"..... with the director claiming to adhere to the novel very closely...
Just a note to the director...
NEXT TIME TAKE FUCKING NOTES!
Come on, Paul was raised to be royalty, he was raised to respect himself and the people he was to rule. His father was a man of action, not some mumbler. Irulan and Paul meet???? Huh ? Must have been the comic book series I missed... and then to top it off, he botches his script by switching lines among SIMILAR characters, guess one fighter is just another to him. Yueh was a major factor in establishing the story, and he is practically brushed off in the equivalent of one page of script (probably double spaced at that)
Effects can be tolerated, the worms are pretty cool... but apparently thats supposed to sell the movie.
The movie, while it had some faults, did at least look right. Better yet the movie came closer to matching the appearences described in the book (like hair color). The movie looked very rich, and decadent, a near perfect portrayal of a bloated government more trapped in its trappings than in actually governing.
No, this is quickly turning into not-DUNE.
Seems to me that they would be better off taking the desktop in a new direction instead of falling MS's lead. The one thing that made me nearly puke when first using Linux/Redhat/etc was the attempt to make it look like Win95. Sorry, but if your going to copy someone's interface either do it right or don't do it at all. As for highly paid developers, MS is also employing large research groups whose job is to find out how users use their computers, what makes it a pain, and what they want. Too many KDE/Gnome types are so much more wrapped up in themselves they don't see that. How can you honestly expect to have users want to use your system when the number one constant is "the users of windows aren't nearly as smart as us" or "most of the regular users don't understand x, y, and z". Sorry, you don't know better, if you did all these holier-than-thou attitudes would be focusing on how to make it work for the user instead of telling the user he is too stupid to know how he/she wants it.
Policing the downloads of Napster users is all fine and dandy. However it is not fine when the software used to do it is flawed.
Napster users have no right to distribute music to users without proper authorization to have a copy of the copyrighted music. Yet at the same time they have a right not to be subject a flawed investigative system.
The best analogy of this software is the gene-sniffer (remeber that one?) used to determine if you were in the room, and then having the police say you obviously did the crime because your gene-sequence was found in the city.
I myself will have to reread the last few of the original series to determine when noships truly first appreared... however in this prequel the technology is employed by the Harkonnens via a renegade Ixian...
I did not mind the no-ship (singular) being in this prequel, however its the B.G.s that I take issue with.
his ability to pull of various types of combat related action would do well for a Battle of Corrin and such. He would easily be able to give us the battle where the Atreides became heroes while the Harkonnens failed.
on its way out..
Honestly the way history passed by so fast in the last two books of the original series it could have damn well been written by someone other thant Frank Herbert.
Chapterhouse did not feel like Dune... but it had his name didn't it?
I got the impression he was fully phased when they detected him. Still the issue of their being able to detect him mentally and at such range is well beyond what you get from the real Dune novels. I was a little annoyed even by the mind tricks played upon the Baron and his guards on the Sister's homeworld... too me they were way too strong... I don't remember anything from the original series hinting at the powers of mental projection that was exhibited by Sisters in HH. The real fault of the books is that the authors seem to endow major "groups" with powers/abilities not seen later in the true Dune novels. With some of what these authors endow upon their "favorites" its hard to imagine portions of Dune's later history from ever occuring.
First I never got the impression she bloated.. I think the Baron helped her along that path, but only because he was out to ruin her and Paul and Leto II. As for the books giving reason for his condition, that part I actually liked. If you look at it right anything he did to Aila was being done to a Bene Geserit, and hence if he "helped" her gain weight he was simply turning the curse back on her.