I'm purchasing a new machine for tribes 2 as we speak. It makes my pathetic p3 / 550 cry like a little baby. Also, Black and White also runs like crap. Sure, it will run on less, but its not really all that fun...
internet explorer is good" so it is ok to be forced to use it. damn good thing you said you were not a trol...
I do think Internet Explorer is good. I personally feel that browsing the internet should be something that is built into the system, especially given the current rise in the availability of high speed internet access.
What point are you trying to make here? I'll agree that Linux is where its at for running a server.
Does this justify breaking MS up?
Regardless of the fact that desktop sales are going downhill, I can't believe that more servers are sold than desktop machines (could be wrong... don't have any figures in front of me).
This whole trial got started because MS integrated internet explorer into Windows. And internet explorer is good. (Don't even talk to me about netscape).
Please, let's free up Microsoft to compete, all of us geeks will be rewarded when the NasDA shoots up again, and we'll have lots of discretionary income to buy Linux boxes and work on our Linux hobby.
Well said. Linux is mostly that, a hobby. It won't rise above that until its accessible to the common user. The common computer user is a retard, and doesn't want to use the command line. For geeks like us, its the way go, allowing us power and flexibility. For everyone else, Windows is probably the right choice.
Crippling MS may sound like a good thing in our eyes, but think about what impact it would have on the average computing public, and then our economy before you cheer that MS is going down.
I can be careful, I can take every precaution, I can turn off JavaScript, and it doesn't matter. If my neighbor isn't diligent and I send him an e-mail, I'm still vulnerable
For the extra paranoid, the solution here is not to forward the mail, but rather just copy and paste the text of the message into another message. This way the JavaScript doesn't get sent along with it.
If you were feeling especially feisty, I bet you could write some manner of filter that automatically strips the tags out of an email, preventing the scripts to operate on your machine, and preventing them from operating on other systems if you forward the message.
Besides, why would anyone here be forwarding email from someone who would do this?
I see alot of Anti-DMCA and related things talk on Slashdot, but its not clear what the next step beyond talk is. What is being done to repeal the DMCA? Are there technology-savvy lawyers out fighting battles for us, and if not, are any reading this message?
Also, how enforceable has the DMCA been? There are lots of activities that could fall under its protection that have not yet been shut down. For example, those in the emulation world have just figured out how to break CPS2 encryption used in many modern Capcom arcade games. It seems that this would be illegal under the DMCA. How many times has it been put to use against reverse engineers / hackers?
In an ideal world, I agree with you. Content is all that we need, and we should all be browsing the web via Lynx and a monochrome display.
Unfortunatly, this is not the case. Its not just marketing types who want fancy displays and formatting tools, but the average web user. We like looking at pretty things, and tools like HTML4, XHTML and especially CSS help developers make things pretty.
This person who put up that Anti-Netscape sign, I agree with what he / she is saying, but not the method. Perhaps a warning would be appropriate, but to deny content due to the lack of an MS browser is pretty weak.
Netscape does suck. Its slow, displays things improperly, and crashes alot more than Internet Explorer. I have a strong suspicion that many/. users object to IE on some manner of Anti-MS principle, rather than analyzing it based on its technical merits.
However, dispite its shortcomings, nutscrape users should be allowed to surf the net with whatever they desire, and if the site displays it improperly, its just something they have to deal with.
I support ID in this decision. Very few people exclusively use Linux, and it isn't financially sound to attempt to cater to them. If Linux binaries are available, then the Windows version is the way to go, because it will run on both operating systems.
Granted it would be nice if ID was willing to get risky and do it regardless of the financial costs. However, it just doesn't make sense.
I agree with some points. Theft is theft. However, a good portion doesn't view downloading mp3s as wrong. Whether or not this is "morally" or "legally" wrong is irrelevant if the majority of society doesn't believe it to be so.
Sharing files on Napster is no different than lending someone one of your CDs for a day. You don't know what they are going to do with it, perhaps they just want to hear more of the band, perhaps they are going to copy it and sell it on the black market. The only difference is that Napster gets more press because it occurs on a larger scale.
I don't know what the solution to this is, but I think its unfair to say that Napster is completely wrong. Instead of trying to fight napster, the record labels should be looking for methods to compete with it, charging money if they desire, or finding ways to make purchasing records more popular. Peer to Peer is out of the bag. Even if they shut down Napster, there will be others. They should learn to adapt.
Yes, this is grand. No more spam from Yahoo! But what about legitamate Yahoo users? Filtering free email services just isn't going to work, because you will destroy legitamate messages. I'm sure that even Slashdotters use free email sometimes.
I seriously doubt that MS is raising hell if they aren't pretty damn sure something sneaky is going on.
But wouldn't it be cool if some anti-MS person dropped the tip? So MS goes busting in, knocking doors down and whatnot, to find all registered copies, making MS look like some sort of Nazi organization?
I think alot of people who post here are a little crazy about this open-source movement. Yeah, open source is great for some things, but the fact is that MS puts out more functional products, at the price of us having to pay for them. These fools down in Virginia forgot about the second bit, and now they have to pay.
Its a shame that MS chose to attack the city, rather than some corporation (wouldn't it be grand if they got medieval on the RIAA?) where the burden will hit the taxpayer.
This is an interesting idea, and if we used bookmarks like we are supposed to, then I imagine that it might. However, it won't. Here's why:
1. It requires active participation of internet users. The beauty of other search engines is that you can set a bot to go out crawling, and when its done, you have a bunch of links. This idea requires that I visit this site, and give them permission to access my Hard Disk. How many users are going to do this?
2. What percentage of websites out there are even in someones favorites? I can't imagine that every site is in someone elses favorites.
3. I use favorites to keep track of sites that I won't remember the URL for. Say I read somethiung, i want to come back to it later, but I don't know where it is. I use it like temporary storage. Its faster to type in a url, especially now with the various autocomplete functionality out there. Thus, if Hotlinks raided my bookmarks, they would find a link to Slashdot postings by John Carmack, a few articles on Image Processing and Edge Detection, and the full text of The Little Prince. Its very specific information, and not the kindof information that Hotlinks is looking for.
I think this idea is in trouble. Who doesn't use Google anyway?
This is pretty impressive from a scientific perspective. As for burning out the circuit, I'm not sure if that is possible. Unlike magnetic stuff, which can be re-polarized, if protections are taken, these circuits may not be able to be fried.
What I was really interested in, which was not mentioned in the article, was what kindof range are we looking at with something like this? If you had long range, how could you differentiate between the various circuit unless they all operated on different frequencies. If they were different frequencies, it would then be possible to locate a specific object in space via triangulation... that would be pretty nifty. A cheap tracking device.
However, given the fact that power must be transmitted to the device, my general feeling is that range is pretty small, since trasmitting power is nasty business.
As for invasion of privacy, I think there are some valid concerns here, but a serious discussion on that matter should probably wait until another day.
I don't buy it. Instead I think that Sega will develop software, and (hopefully) stay independent. This will allow the company to be more profitable, because:
a. They aren't spending money developing hardware. (Although I saw something on ign about them not really abandoning the hardware side)
b. Software Sells. It costs almost nothing to physically produce, so sales are by definition profit.
c. Hardware doesn't. Sega loses money on each dreamcast that is sold, with the hopes that licensing costs that developers must pay will recoup their losses. The dreamcast had the misfortune of going against the playstation, which while graphically inferior, had an established game library, and was not yet obsolete. Why buy a new game system, when plenty of great games are still being manufactured for the PS?
d. With the rise in home gaming system power, arcades are not as popular. Sega was a leader in this market, but now it just isn't paying off. Switching over to SW development, if done well, with emphasis on quality games, may hopefully pull the company out of the red.
I think that they aren't in such need to recruit Microsoft as a buyer. Granted, Salon did hit it head on when they predicted NVidia to provide X-Box hardware, but I think here they are just speculating.
Basically, the school can do whatever it wants. I personally disagree with what they have done in this case. I am opposed to the idea of a homecoming king and queen altogether. I support this kid, what he did was impressive. However, I think he's may find difficulty in the legal department. Granted, his case is less severe than the examples I've referenced, but there is a precendent that is not in his favor.
Whats the point? I can't imagine the benefits of knowing Pi to that level of accuracy outway the time required to do any real computational work with it. Can you imagine trying to even add two quadrilion bit numbers?
I seriously hope this guy does other things to earn his keep besides calculate PI.
Granted, I'm not math freak, but can anyone else out there think of reasons to know PI this deep?
And this would make a chess champion who was a decent person all the more important in portraying chess as an activity for more than just ultra-arrogant smart men.
Kasparov may be a great chess player, but he has room to grow in the personal skills department. Reading somethings written by him, and interviews with him after the Deep Blue incident made me lose respect for him as a man. Someone that intelligent and respected should prove himself respectable. Kasparov seemed arrogant, and made excuses for losing, rather than accepting the fact that the computer beat him. As for getting beaten, it happens to us all. Kasparov should have the grace to accept it.
I think its a shame when "stars" of this magnitude don't conduct themselves well "off the court." It is for this reason that I basketball star Michael Jordan. Arguabluy the best player of his game (like Kasparov) Jordan not only performed well on the court, but off it. I also respect The Offspring, not because their music is amazing (who here doesn't own Smash?), but because they, unlike other bands (cough, Metallica, cough), realized that they are popular because of their fans, and battled Sony in an attempt to release their last album online, for free, to thank their fans
What do you slashdotters think? I'm I out of line? Or should people who could be seen as role-models act like them?
Agreed. I have tried to work on independent work at home. There are just too many distractions. Counterstrike, pornography, and lack of social contact are all very good reasons to go to work.
I don't think that I could handle working at home all the time. However, a few days a month, maybe once or twice a week would be amazing. Imagine being able to stay up watching the sixers trounce (thats right... TROUNCE) the Knicks, then waking up at a nice leisurely 8:45 and logging in.
And for those of us lucky enough to have girlfriends / boyfriends / wives / husbands / whatnot, the extra quality time couldn't be bad. Imagine taking a break from some nice coding for a little romp in the bed.... sigh...
That would be grand. How many hours do you spend a week driving to work? I can almost see where I work from my apt, and i still waste probably 50 minutes a day travelling to and from. For those people who spend an hour or two each way? I can't imagine how someone would make it through the week. Of course Telecommuting is key. As for free dance lessons.... how many programmers out there know how to tango? We don't dance for a good reason.
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I'm purchasing a new machine for tribes 2 as we speak. It makes my pathetic p3 / 550 cry like a little baby. Also, Black and White also runs like crap. Sure, it will run on less, but its not really all that fun...
internet explorer is good" so it is ok to be forced to use it. damn good thing you said you were not a trol...
I do think Internet Explorer is good. I personally feel that browsing the internet should be something that is built into the system, especially given the current rise in the availability of high speed internet access.
Captain_Frisk
What point are you trying to make here? I'll agree that Linux is where its at for running a server.
Does this justify breaking MS up?
Regardless of the fact that desktop sales are going downhill, I can't believe that more servers are sold than desktop machines (could be wrong... don't have any figures in front of me).
This whole trial got started because MS integrated internet explorer into Windows. And internet explorer is good. (Don't even talk to me about netscape).
Captain_Frisk (not a troll)
Please, let's free up Microsoft to compete, all of us geeks will be rewarded when the NasDA shoots up again, and we'll have lots of discretionary income to buy Linux boxes and work on our Linux hobby.
Well said. Linux is mostly that, a hobby. It won't rise above that until its accessible to the common user. The common computer user is a retard, and doesn't want to use the command line. For geeks like us, its the way go, allowing us power and flexibility. For everyone else, Windows is probably the right choice.
Crippling MS may sound like a good thing in our eyes, but think about what impact it would have on the average computing public, and then our economy before you cheer that MS is going down.
Captain_Frisk
I was under the impression that the Eric Corley / 2600 / DeCSS case wasn't going very well for our heroes.
I can be careful, I can take every precaution, I can turn off JavaScript, and it doesn't matter. If my neighbor isn't diligent and I send him an e-mail, I'm still vulnerable
For the extra paranoid, the solution here is not to forward the mail, but rather just copy and paste the text of the message into another message. This way the JavaScript doesn't get sent along with it.
If you were feeling especially feisty, I bet you could write some manner of filter that automatically strips the tags out of an email, preventing the scripts to operate on your machine, and preventing them from operating on other systems if you forward the message.
Besides, why would anyone here be forwarding email from someone who would do this?
Captain_Frisk
I see alot of Anti-DMCA and related things talk on Slashdot, but its not clear what the next step beyond talk is. What is being done to repeal the DMCA? Are there technology-savvy lawyers out fighting battles for us, and if not, are any reading this message?
Also, how enforceable has the DMCA been? There are lots of activities that could fall under its protection that have not yet been shut down. For example, those in the emulation world have just figured out how to break CPS2 encryption used in many modern Capcom arcade games. It seems that this would be illegal under the DMCA. How many times has it been put to use against reverse engineers / hackers?
Captain_Frisk
I'm really not sure. The power supply on my windows box crapped out, and i had to use netscape for a while on my linux box.
I didn't like it one bit. I'm not sure what the solution is. I wish Netscape would get its act together.
Captain_Frisk
In an ideal world, I agree with you. Content is all that we need, and we should all be browsing the web via Lynx and a monochrome display.
/. users object to IE on some manner of Anti-MS principle, rather than analyzing it based on its technical merits.
Unfortunatly, this is not the case. Its not just marketing types who want fancy displays and formatting tools, but the average web user. We like looking at pretty things, and tools like HTML4, XHTML and especially CSS help developers make things pretty.
This person who put up that Anti-Netscape sign, I agree with what he / she is saying, but not the method. Perhaps a warning would be appropriate, but to deny content due to the lack of an MS browser is pretty weak.
Netscape does suck. Its slow, displays things improperly, and crashes alot more than Internet Explorer. I have a strong suspicion that many
However, dispite its shortcomings, nutscrape users should be allowed to surf the net with whatever they desire, and if the site displays it improperly, its just something they have to deal with.
Captain_Frisk
I support ID in this decision. Very few people exclusively use Linux, and it isn't financially sound to attempt to cater to them. If Linux binaries are available, then the Windows version is the way to go, because it will run on both operating systems. Granted it would be nice if ID was willing to get risky and do it regardless of the financial costs. However, it just doesn't make sense.
I agree with some points. Theft is theft. However, a good portion doesn't view downloading mp3s as wrong. Whether or not this is "morally" or "legally" wrong is irrelevant if the majority of society doesn't believe it to be so.
Sharing files on Napster is no different than lending someone one of your CDs for a day. You don't know what they are going to do with it, perhaps they just want to hear more of the band, perhaps they are going to copy it and sell it on the black market. The only difference is that Napster gets more press because it occurs on a larger scale.
I don't know what the solution to this is, but I think its unfair to say that Napster is completely wrong. Instead of trying to fight napster, the record labels should be looking for methods to compete with it, charging money if they desire, or finding ways to make purchasing records more popular. Peer to Peer is out of the bag. Even if they shut down Napster, there will be others. They should learn to adapt.
My 2 cents... Captain_Frisk
This story looks really funny where compared to the next Slashdot story: http://slashd ot.org/ article.pl?sid=00/11/10/188210&mode=thread
What makes AOL think this is going to work?
I sincerely hope that somewhere in Linus's code is something akin to:
if (IsAol(this)) delete this;
Its nice to see the big boys using linux, but to run AOL? What a waste.
Yes, this is grand. No more spam from Yahoo! But what about legitamate Yahoo users? Filtering free email services just isn't going to work, because you will destroy legitamate messages. I'm sure that even Slashdotters use free email sometimes.
Captain_Frisk
I seriously doubt that MS is raising hell if they aren't pretty damn sure something sneaky is going on.
But wouldn't it be cool if some anti-MS person dropped the tip? So MS goes busting in, knocking doors down and whatnot, to find all registered copies, making MS look like some sort of Nazi organization?
Captain_Frisk
I think alot of people who post here are a little crazy about this open-source movement. Yeah, open source is great for some things, but the fact is that MS puts out more functional products, at the price of us having to pay for them. These fools down in Virginia forgot about the second bit, and now they have to pay.
Its a shame that MS chose to attack the city, rather than some corporation (wouldn't it be grand if they got medieval on the RIAA?) where the burden will hit the taxpayer.
Moral of the story? Pay for your software.
Captain_Frisk
This is an interesting idea, and if we used bookmarks like we are supposed to, then I imagine that it might. However, it won't. Here's why:
1. It requires active participation of internet users. The beauty of other search engines is that you can set a bot to go out crawling, and when its done, you have a bunch of links. This idea requires that I visit this site, and give them permission to access my Hard Disk. How many users are going to do this?
2. What percentage of websites out there are even in someones favorites? I can't imagine that every site is in someone elses favorites.
3. I use favorites to keep track of sites that I won't remember the URL for. Say I read somethiung, i want to come back to it later, but I don't know where it is. I use it like temporary storage. Its faster to type in a url, especially now with the various autocomplete functionality out there. Thus, if Hotlinks raided my bookmarks, they would find a link to Slashdot postings by John Carmack, a few articles on Image Processing and Edge Detection, and the full text of The Little Prince. Its very specific information, and not the kindof information that Hotlinks is looking for.
I think this idea is in trouble. Who doesn't use Google anyway?
Captain_Frisk
This is pretty impressive from a scientific perspective. As for burning out the circuit, I'm not sure if that is possible. Unlike magnetic stuff, which can be re-polarized, if protections are taken, these circuits may not be able to be fried.
What I was really interested in, which was not mentioned in the article, was what kindof range are we looking at with something like this? If you had long range, how could you differentiate between the various circuit unless they all operated on different frequencies. If they were different frequencies, it would then be possible to locate a specific object in space via triangulation... that would be pretty nifty. A cheap tracking device.
However, given the fact that power must be transmitted to the device, my general feeling is that range is pretty small, since trasmitting power is nasty business.
As for invasion of privacy, I think there are some valid concerns here, but a serious discussion on that matter should probably wait until another day.
Captain_Frisk
I don't buy it. Instead I think that Sega will develop software, and (hopefully) stay independent. This will allow the company to be more profitable, because:
a. They aren't spending money developing hardware. (Although I saw something on ign about them not really abandoning the hardware side)
b. Software Sells. It costs almost nothing to physically produce, so sales are by definition profit.
c. Hardware doesn't. Sega loses money on each dreamcast that is sold, with the hopes that licensing costs that developers must pay will recoup their losses. The dreamcast had the misfortune of going against the playstation, which while graphically inferior, had an established game library, and was not yet obsolete. Why buy a new game system, when plenty of great games are still being manufactured for the PS?
d. With the rise in home gaming system power, arcades are not as popular. Sega was a leader in this market, but now it just isn't paying off. Switching over to SW development, if done well, with emphasis on quality games, may hopefully pull the company out of the red.
I think that they aren't in such need to recruit Microsoft as a buyer. Granted, Salon did hit it head on when they predicted NVidia to provide X-Box hardware, but I think here they are just speculating.
Thoughts, responses, flames? Bring it on!
Captain_Frisk
It absolutely is. However, First amendment rights don't apply in schools. Whether or not this is a good thing is debateable, but it has been held in court that in a school, freedom of speech can be revoked if there is justifiable educational benenefit. More information along these lines can be found at http://www.freedomforum.org/FreedomForum/resources /hs_and_coll/Youth_Guide_to_1A.htm l. If the link doesn't work, copy the text, for some reason Slashdot is adding an extra space in html... I don't know why.
Another interesting reading can be found at:
http://www.yal e.e du/ynhti/curriculum/units/1992/1/92.01.08.x.html
Basically, the school can do whatever it wants. I personally disagree with what they have done in this case. I am opposed to the idea of a homecoming king and queen altogether. I support this kid, what he did was impressive. However, I think he's may find difficulty in the legal department. Granted, his case is less severe than the examples I've referenced, but there is a precendent that is not in his favor.
Captain_Frisk
Whats the point? I can't imagine the benefits of knowing Pi to that level of accuracy outway the time required to do any real computational work with it. Can you imagine trying to even add two quadrilion bit numbers?
I seriously hope this guy does other things to earn his keep besides calculate PI.
Granted, I'm not math freak, but can anyone else out there think of reasons to know PI this deep?
Captain_Frisk
And this would make a chess champion who was a decent person all the more important in portraying chess as an activity for more than just ultra-arrogant smart men.
Kasparov may be a great chess player, but he has room to grow in the personal skills department. Reading somethings written by him, and interviews with him after the Deep Blue incident made me lose respect for him as a man. Someone that intelligent and respected should prove himself respectable. Kasparov seemed arrogant, and made excuses for losing, rather than accepting the fact that the computer beat him. As for getting beaten, it happens to us all. Kasparov should have the grace to accept it.
I think its a shame when "stars" of this magnitude don't conduct themselves well "off the court." It is for this reason that I basketball star Michael Jordan. Arguabluy the best player of his game (like Kasparov) Jordan not only performed well on the court, but off it. I also respect The Offspring, not because their music is amazing (who here doesn't own Smash?), but because they, unlike other bands (cough, Metallica, cough), realized that they are popular because of their fans, and battled Sony in an attempt to release their last album online, for free, to thank their fans
What do you slashdotters think? I'm I out of line? Or should people who could be seen as role-models act like them?
Captain_Frisk
That is indeed the coolest thing I have ever heard.
Is there some danger of a human being breaking the sound barrier? Isn't that dangerous?
Its still pretty cool though.
Captain_Frisk
Agreed. I have tried to work on independent work at home. There are just too many distractions. Counterstrike, pornography, and lack of social contact are all very good reasons to go to work.
... sigh ...
I don't think that I could handle working at home all the time. However, a few days a month, maybe once or twice a week would be amazing. Imagine being able to stay up watching the sixers trounce (thats right... TROUNCE) the Knicks, then waking up at a nice leisurely 8:45 and logging in.
And for those of us lucky enough to have girlfriends / boyfriends / wives / husbands / whatnot, the extra quality time couldn't be bad. Imagine taking a break from some nice coding for a little romp in the bed.
Captain_Frisk
That would be grand. How many hours do you spend a week driving to work? I can almost see where I work from my apt, and i still waste probably 50 minutes a day travelling to and from. For those people who spend an hour or two each way? I can't imagine how someone would make it through the week. Of course Telecommuting is key. As for free dance lessons.... how many programmers out there know how to tango? We don't dance for a good reason.
Capain_Frisk