Weren't phone numbers created as 7 digit numbers because that's the average segment a person can remember? I remember in psychology talking about the way the memory centers work, and I was thinking it was 7 that was the typical chunk size of a person's memory? For the most part, we don't have to remember area codes, and for those of us who have to use 10 digit dialing, the first 3 digits are nearly uniform for our day to day calling (and thus memorization). How will an 11 character reference work out?
Ok, granted, the DVD one is a bit of a strech, I agree.
As for them being infrequent, thats why I think something on Showtime or HBO would work better. They're used to doing rare special events that are like, 2 hour specials. Even a once a year of the "top gaming matches," with a variety of games, since arguably even 2 hours of quake would get boring since a majority would be newbies goin at it.
I think though that the interest could be Bubba Sixpack, because it has a mix of violence as well as adrenaline. I mean, look how many "High speed TV chases" shows there are. They have no plot, but they have adrenaline and carnage. Of course, if they enter mainstream entertainment, they'll probably be bastardized and have some sort of wacky punishment for the losers of the match, like eating live beetles or something that'll attract more viewers. But it's a thought.
Am I the only one who would like to see some of the gaming tourney's televised? I know one of the biggest lures for attending the actual events happens to be the socializing and all around geek fest sorta stuff, but in this day and age where MTV is the "Shiny Things Network" and "Fear Factor" scores high amounts of viewers, wouldn't something like televising the games be something that could succeed? I can see the downside being that it brings attention to the "violence" in the games without being able to fully convey the sense of kinsmenship those games bring, but I'm sure airing it on something like Showtime or HBO with appropriate "TV ratings" would do well. Have something like celebrity commentaries by Carmack or Thresh (He was the original Q1 God, correct?), possibly have military advisors looking for the strategy within the killing (because lets face it, if you don't have a strategy and just go around to frag, you're not going to make it to the upper echelons of the match)
Or even potentially a DVD version. Like take advantage of the multiple angle views and use various 'cameras' posisitioned in the demo files and what not. Maybe a DVD can contain the final 3 matches, or the highlights of the top 10.
Sklyarov was guilty of offering a public presentation about software designed to prevent the piracy of e-books, meanwhile, publishing corporations have been lining up behind the record and movie companies to try to control intellectual property online -- at any cost.
According to reports by TechTV, who was present at Defcon 9, Sklyarov was not only speaking but actually selling the Elcomsoft product. While I agree that what is at issue is the DMCA, and it's ability to silence anyone (or at least give companies the motive to try), lets get the facts straight here. If I design a bomb in Russia, where, for the sake of example we'll pretend it's perfectly legal, and I somehow get it past customs in the US, I can't very well sell it. While the plans might simply be "information" and somehow applicable to present under some journalistic and/or scientific auspice, I don't think you can argue that it's ok for me to sell the premade bomb as well.
Note, this isn't how I view the whole Sklyarov situation, but one of the important things to remember when debating is put yourself in the other person's shoes and try to see things how they see it, no matter how corrupt and greedy that vision may be.
During my days of AOL, which was about 3 days before I realized how incredibly lame it was, was that you could use a keyword (Keyword: TOS) to report a "TOS Violation" When reporting IMs, you simply pasted in the chat and they would "investigate" it. Whether this meant they analyzed the logs to see if what they said is true, or simply accepted your word on the paste job, I do not know. But the belief always given was that they weren't watching until someone asked them too.
to mention BizTalk. We all know Microsoft's SOAP implementation won't be the most compatible of them all. Heck, I develop with it, I know this myself. But he seems to overlook the fact that when Microsoft realizes a bug, a problem, a milieu if you will, they don't fix it. No, they release another program to do it for them. Honestly, this has it's own strength and weakness, weaknesses such as you now have to pay to "license" another peice of software (as with MS, it seems you can never own what you pay for), that it's not fully integrated into whatever other product suite, and that it can mean yet another peice of software to learn. However, the strength of having a dedicated development team on it, developing and extending the features and making sure that any single program doesn't get to feature rich (hint: this is where you make a crack about Word's feature bloat) balance those negatives out.
Which brings me to the topic at hand. BizTalk. Microsoft's goal with BizTalk is to serve as a translator to allow interop with XML documents. Now, you and I both know that a well written XSL can handle many of the features BizTalk does, and if you read into enough, that's really all BizTalk does is collect XML files, translate them with an XSL, and put the resultant XML files somewhere else. Now, tell me, how is this any different from SOAP/XML-RPC, in which the calls are transmitted and received through XML? Yes, Microsoft want it's spoonfed developers (sadly including me) to use their no doubt individual implentation which just happens to be different from everyone else. But they aren't going to isolate their developers, instead offering BizTalk to handle the translation from x,y, and z sources to MS Standard (ooh, shame on those rogue sources following a strict, compatible implentation rather than doing it the MS way!)
On the same vein, but for Linux, how long will it be until someone writes a set of libraries that handle translation between XML-RPC and whatever method a develop choses to implement SOAP to/from the MS standard on their end? It isn't that hard to see how the requests are formed, sent, and received (it's just XML data over HTTP), so surely someone will release a library or a set of XSL files. Yes, I know, this is more work, but this is not the end of the SOAP standard for open source developers, I don't believe, although from reading the article the author would seem likely to disagree with me.
Scientists are attempting to begin conversation with patent lawyers through a series of "duh" "dur" "hyuck" and "golly"'s. While they admit that there is no hope for intelligent reponses, their goal is to debunk the myth that patent lawyers are completely unintelligent. Good luck with that one, O Brave Scientists.
The paper medium has survived the "killer apps" of Radio and Television, whose to say it won't survive now? I know I myself enjoying laying in my room reading Asimov, Tolkein, and Faulkner, and the mere tactile feedback of reading a book that is yellowed with age from being from the 70s and before is enough as a reminder that whatever great authors today - Stephenson, Clancy, Crichton - they are merely standing upon the shoulders of the greats who went before them.
Incidentally, check out this study by Xerox/EuroPARC comparing computerized methods of studying versus their paper equivalent. If I recall correctly, they found paper based studying led to higher grades then their computerized equivalents. However, the computer was much more popular for items such as research. Paper and e-Paper both have their roles within society, just as technology and agriculture remain two vitally different but vitally important aspects of human culture.
Most sites publish a privacy policy about how they protect your "personally identifiable" information (yet we all know they sell the aggrigates to advertisers).
As for companies telling you what they do to protect from eletronic theft, isn't that the same as publishing what they don't do? I agree that security through obscurity is not the best way at all times, but does it have particular uses in these days of h/crackers releasing patches which DDoS the company? (I couldn't find the URL, but Network Associates underwent a light DDoS attack after a black hatter released a patch for BIND to fix the recently discovered bugs which had zombie code installed. What's incredible is it made it past BugTraq and NAI as "safe" and got posted)
Sites will be hacked. That is the nature of the Internet. What I would like to see is a site that will reimburse you if you are the victim of their own lax security. What if Egghead.com became responsible for the $50 or so that every person is responsible for with false/stolen credit card charges. Would this put a great monetary risk at the company? Yes. And isn't money what gets things done with the "Big Business"
IANA Business Major, but would this work? Just my thoughts on the matter.
Real bothersome that it required me to take additional time outside of my day to click the stupid links to disable eBay's advertising crap, in order to make sure "thats what I really intended" I'd love to see legislation make it fully illegal to spam without explicit opt in (and no cheeky stuff either, like hidden form tags or by saying "Clicking any link in our site opts you in for our spam" - but an explicit mark the box kinda opt in)
Ethics are typically those things we can justify morally so that we feel it is right. Therefore, the implication is that ethics is a subjective measure, at times measured by an individual and at other times measured by a collective society. A society which believes that, for example, every child is a living human from first fertilization, would find it unethical to clone humans for scientific purposes, as it would be "experimenting on humans." However, a society which perhaps puts the value on life after they pass some rite of initiation (mind you, only an example), might see no ethical problem with cloning humans, as they are seen as "sub-human" or inferior.
The term "Right" suggests some form of unchanging absolute which society cannot define because it is defined outside of society. The idea of what this "Right" is typically comes from religions (such as Christianity, Muslim/Islam, and others) and suggests that no matter whether society says it is right or wrong, it still measures up to this idea of absolute "Right". As a Christian myself, I believe there are four absolutes - An absolute Right, an absolute Wrong, an absolute God, and that everything in the world is relative. So it was merely my religious beliefs reflected within my writing.
According to Library of Congress Country Studiesthe average monthly earnings of [Brazilians is] US$211, and of this, in 1990, 60% of the nation was making less than that.
So while it is encouraging to finally see a country try to get it's nation online (although, IIRC, wasn't there a country with a traveling "Internet boat" and "Internet vans" prior to this?), you really have to realize that w/o the 24-mo paying plan, this is still nothing more than excess legislation.
Will Juno users realize what they are agreeing to?
My experience with Juno users is that they have been of two types. The first type is people who were dislocated from their previous ISP, typically AOL or Compuserve by their parents, and installed Juno to be able to get back online without their parents knowledge. The second type is of people who have no clue what this "Internet" thing is they keep hearing about, and they sure as gosh darn heck don't wanna have to pay, so they use a free server, and really don't even use it.
Of course, I'm omitting the third type, which are skr1pt k1dd13s who want to think they are secure from tracking by using these free servers, but I don't really count them as people, but more as illiterate brutes;-)
In the first case, the kids don't care how they get online as long as they can get back to their chat/message boards/surfing/porn, and in the second case, they are too baffled by legalese to ever realize whats going on. As for the skr1pt k1dd13s, heck, let Microsoft get them for hacking their servers and stealing their source code, its no skin off my back to see those brats busted.
I think the bigger question instead of "Do Juno users realize what they are agreeing to" is "Is this ethical? And more importantly, is this right?"
I suppose now we'll be expected to OC our processors into oblivion before trashing them to make sure no "really really really small animals" (ala Particle man? o_O) get caught in the gates, just like they have us do with 6 pack plastic containers.
Of course, I'll avoid the obvious sexual implications;-)
You drive a hard bargain, but I guess this cloning business is just natural evolution. Fine, I'll sell my little sister for $10,000. Come on, that's cheaper than a good set of lungs now a days, a real steal!;-)
Disclaimer: I'd never sell my little sister for her organs. But I'm sure we could arrange a time-share/rental agreement.;-)
This is starting to get to become like the MIR issue. Are they in the devel business, or are they out? In, or out? Please, please please, Oh All Powerful Editors, make up your mind.
As for a good Dreamcast game, an upcoming one (according to IGN) is based on the hugely popular Blue Submarine 6 series, which is also one of my favorite. If you haven't seen the anime, go rent/buy/download it somewhere.
Or do I remember reading that FASA (named after a fictional aeronautics company - mucho kudos to the person who can name it) was bought out by Microsoft. It may have been just the development end, but after they almost made themselves broke after overproducing the pod simulators and then having the lead developing firm go under, I was pretty sure it was the whole company.
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What does your sig mean?
my rough attempt at translation has:
Quattuor res in hoc mundo sanctae sunt: libri, liberi, libertas et liberalitas
There exist four things that are ordained to the universe: books, freedom, (??? children?) and kindness?
Weren't phone numbers created as 7 digit numbers because that's the average segment a person can remember? I remember in psychology talking about the way the memory centers work, and I was thinking it was 7 that was the typical chunk size of a person's memory? For the most part, we don't have to remember area codes, and for those of us who have to use 10 digit dialing, the first 3 digits are nearly uniform for our day to day calling (and thus memorization). How will an 11 character reference work out?
Ok, granted, the DVD one is a bit of a strech, I agree. As for them being infrequent, thats why I think something on Showtime or HBO would work better. They're used to doing rare special events that are like, 2 hour specials. Even a once a year of the "top gaming matches," with a variety of games, since arguably even 2 hours of quake would get boring since a majority would be newbies goin at it. I think though that the interest could be Bubba Sixpack, because it has a mix of violence as well as adrenaline. I mean, look how many "High speed TV chases" shows there are. They have no plot, but they have adrenaline and carnage. Of course, if they enter mainstream entertainment, they'll probably be bastardized and have some sort of wacky punishment for the losers of the match, like eating live beetles or something that'll attract more viewers. But it's a thought.
Am I the only one who would like to see some of the gaming tourney's televised? I know one of the biggest lures for attending the actual events happens to be the socializing and all around geek fest sorta stuff, but in this day and age where MTV is the "Shiny Things Network" and "Fear Factor" scores high amounts of viewers, wouldn't something like televising the games be something that could succeed? I can see the downside being that it brings attention to the "violence" in the games without being able to fully convey the sense of kinsmenship those games bring, but I'm sure airing it on something like Showtime or HBO with appropriate "TV ratings" would do well. Have something like celebrity commentaries by Carmack or Thresh (He was the original Q1 God, correct?), possibly have military advisors looking for the strategy within the killing (because lets face it, if you don't have a strategy and just go around to frag, you're not going to make it to the upper echelons of the match)
Or even potentially a DVD version. Like take advantage of the multiple angle views and use various 'cameras' posisitioned in the demo files and what not. Maybe a DVD can contain the final 3 matches, or the highlights of the top 10.
Does anyone else think this would be nice?
Sklyarov was guilty of offering a public presentation about software designed to prevent the piracy of e-books, meanwhile, publishing corporations have been lining up behind the record and movie companies to try to control intellectual property online -- at any cost.
According to reports by TechTV, who was present at Defcon 9, Sklyarov was not only speaking but actually selling the Elcomsoft product. While I agree that what is at issue is the DMCA, and it's ability to silence anyone (or at least give companies the motive to try), lets get the facts straight here. If I design a bomb in Russia, where, for the sake of example we'll pretend it's perfectly legal, and I somehow get it past customs in the US, I can't very well sell it. While the plans might simply be "information" and somehow applicable to present under some journalistic and/or scientific auspice, I don't think you can argue that it's ok for me to sell the premade bomb as well.
Note, this isn't how I view the whole Sklyarov situation, but one of the important things to remember when debating is put yourself in the other person's shoes and try to see things how they see it, no matter how corrupt and greedy that vision may be.
Except Bones is dead, Jim.
Billboard data exists.... for a fee of about a dollar per search and 65 cents per report. Yup. No RIAA moguls here....
During my days of AOL, which was about 3 days before I realized how incredibly lame it was, was that you could use a keyword (Keyword: TOS) to report a "TOS Violation" When reporting IMs, you simply pasted in the chat and they would "investigate" it. Whether this meant they analyzed the logs to see if what they said is true, or simply accepted your word on the paste job, I do not know. But the belief always given was that they weren't watching until someone asked them too.
TekGear - M1 Personal Viewer - TekGear
:-) Mono though, but not bad.
$500. That cheap enough for ya
to mention BizTalk. We all know Microsoft's SOAP implementation won't be the most compatible of them all. Heck, I develop with it, I know this myself. But he seems to overlook the fact that when Microsoft realizes a bug, a problem, a milieu if you will, they don't fix it. No, they release another program to do it for them. Honestly, this has it's own strength and weakness, weaknesses such as you now have to pay to "license" another peice of software (as with MS, it seems you can never own what you pay for), that it's not fully integrated into whatever other product suite, and that it can mean yet another peice of software to learn. However, the strength of having a dedicated development team on it, developing and extending the features and making sure that any single program doesn't get to feature rich (hint: this is where you make a crack about Word's feature bloat) balance those negatives out.
Which brings me to the topic at hand. BizTalk. Microsoft's goal with BizTalk is to serve as a translator to allow interop with XML documents. Now, you and I both know that a well written XSL can handle many of the features BizTalk does, and if you read into enough, that's really all BizTalk does is collect XML files, translate them with an XSL, and put the resultant XML files somewhere else. Now, tell me, how is this any different from SOAP/XML-RPC, in which the calls are transmitted and received through XML? Yes, Microsoft want it's spoonfed developers (sadly including me) to use their no doubt individual implentation which just happens to be different from everyone else. But they aren't going to isolate their developers, instead offering BizTalk to handle the translation from x,y, and z sources to MS Standard (ooh, shame on those rogue sources following a strict, compatible implentation rather than doing it the MS way!)
On the same vein, but for Linux, how long will it be until someone writes a set of libraries that handle translation between XML-RPC and whatever method a develop choses to implement SOAP to/from the MS standard on their end? It isn't that hard to see how the requests are formed, sent, and received (it's just XML data over HTTP), so surely someone will release a library or a set of XSL files. Yes, I know, this is more work, but this is not the end of the SOAP standard for open source developers, I don't believe, although from reading the article the author would seem likely to disagree with me.
Scientists are attempting to begin conversation with patent lawyers through a series of "duh" "dur" "hyuck" and "golly"'s. While they admit that there is no hope for intelligent reponses, their goal is to debunk the myth that patent lawyers are completely unintelligent. Good luck with that one, O Brave Scientists.
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The paper medium has survived the "killer apps" of Radio and Television, whose to say it won't survive now? I know I myself enjoying laying in my room reading Asimov, Tolkein, and Faulkner, and the mere tactile feedback of reading a book that is yellowed with age from being from the 70s and before is enough as a reminder that whatever great authors today - Stephenson, Clancy, Crichton - they are merely standing upon the shoulders of the greats who went before them.
Incidentally, check out this study by Xerox/EuroPARC comparing computerized methods of studying versus their paper equivalent. If I recall correctly, they found paper based studying led to higher grades then their computerized equivalents. However, the computer was much more popular for items such as research. Paper and e-Paper both have their roles within society, just as technology and agriculture remain two vitally different but vitally important aspects of human culture.
Most sites publish a privacy policy about how they protect your "personally identifiable" information (yet we all know they sell the aggrigates to advertisers).
As for companies telling you what they do to protect from eletronic theft, isn't that the same as publishing what they don't do? I agree that security through obscurity is not the best way at all times, but does it have particular uses in these days of h/crackers releasing patches which DDoS the company? (I couldn't find the URL, but Network Associates underwent a light DDoS attack after a black hatter released a patch for BIND to fix the recently discovered bugs which had zombie code installed. What's incredible is it made it past BugTraq and NAI as "safe" and got posted)
Sites will be hacked. That is the nature of the Internet. What I would like to see is a site that will reimburse you if you are the victim of their own lax security. What if Egghead.com became responsible for the $50 or so that every person is responsible for with false/stolen credit card charges. Would this put a great monetary risk at the company? Yes. And isn't money what gets things done with the "Big Business"
IANA Business Major, but would this work? Just my thoughts on the matter.
6809, not 68k
Well, its not like I can strike back and mail e-spammers a brick... last I checked a DDoS was not a legal way of incurring costs to the spammer.
is when sites like eBay change your spam settings without your approval.
Real bothersome that it required me to take additional time outside of my day to click the stupid links to disable eBay's advertising crap, in order to make sure "thats what I really intended" I'd love to see legislation make it fully illegal to spam without explicit opt in (and no cheeky stuff either, like hidden form tags or by saying "Clicking any link in our site opts you in for our spam" - but an explicit mark the box kinda opt in)
Oh well, thats my $.02
I plead insanity by all night caffeine binging/programming.
Ethics are typically those things we can justify morally so that we feel it is right. Therefore, the implication is that ethics is a subjective measure, at times measured by an individual and at other times measured by a collective society. A society which believes that, for example, every child is a living human from first fertilization, would find it unethical to clone humans for scientific purposes, as it would be "experimenting on humans." However, a society which perhaps puts the value on life after they pass some rite of initiation (mind you, only an example), might see no ethical problem with cloning humans, as they are seen as "sub-human" or inferior.
The term "Right" suggests some form of unchanging absolute which society cannot define because it is defined outside of society. The idea of what this "Right" is typically comes from religions (such as Christianity, Muslim/Islam, and others) and suggests that no matter whether society says it is right or wrong, it still measures up to this idea of absolute "Right". As a Christian myself, I believe there are four absolutes - An absolute Right, an absolute Wrong, an absolute God, and that everything in the world is relative. So it was merely my religious beliefs reflected within my writing.
According to Library of Congress Country Studies the average monthly earnings of [Brazilians is] US$211, and of this, in 1990, 60% of the nation was making less than that.
So while it is encouraging to finally see a country try to get it's nation online (although, IIRC, wasn't there a country with a traveling "Internet boat" and "Internet vans" prior to this?), you really have to realize that w/o the 24-mo paying plan, this is still nothing more than excess legislation.
Will Juno users realize what they are agreeing to?
;-)
My experience with Juno users is that they have been of two types. The first type is people who were dislocated from their previous ISP, typically AOL or Compuserve by their parents, and installed Juno to be able to get back online without their parents knowledge. The second type is of people who have no clue what this "Internet" thing is they keep hearing about, and they sure as gosh darn heck don't wanna have to pay, so they use a free server, and really don't even use it.
Of course, I'm omitting the third type, which are skr1pt k1dd13s who want to think they are secure from tracking by using these free servers, but I don't really count them as people, but more as illiterate brutes
In the first case, the kids don't care how they get online as long as they can get back to their chat/message boards/surfing/porn, and in the second case, they are too baffled by legalese to ever realize whats going on. As for the skr1pt k1dd13s, heck, let Microsoft get them for hacking their servers and stealing their source code, its no skin off my back to see those brats busted.
I think the bigger question instead of "Do Juno users realize what they are agreeing to" is "Is this ethical? And more importantly, is this right?"
I suppose now we'll be expected to OC our processors into oblivion before trashing them to make sure no "really really really small animals" (ala Particle man? o_O) get caught in the gates, just like they have us do with 6 pack plastic containers.
;-)
Of course, I'll avoid the obvious sexual implications
You drive a hard bargain, but I guess this cloning business is just natural evolution. Fine, I'll sell my little sister for $10,000. Come on, that's cheaper than a good set of lungs now a days, a real steal! ;-)
;-)
Disclaimer: I'd never sell my little sister for her organs. But I'm sure we could arrange a time-share/rental agreement.
In an effort to sell off 2 million Dreamcasts before jumping out of the hardware business
Slashdot | Sega Announces Dreamcast Sucessor
This is starting to get to become like the MIR issue. Are they in the devel business, or are they out? In, or out? Please, please please, Oh All Powerful Editors, make up your mind.
As for a good Dreamcast game, an upcoming one (according to IGN) is based on the hugely popular Blue Submarine 6 series, which is also one of my favorite. If you haven't seen the anime, go rent/buy/download it somewhere.
Or do I remember reading that FASA (named after a fictional aeronautics company - mucho kudos to the person who can name it) was bought out by Microsoft. It may have been just the development end, but after they almost made themselves broke after overproducing the pod simulators and then having the lead developing firm go under, I was pretty sure it was the whole company.
In either event, it is a sad day for us all.