slashdot lets you use only a few tags. Otherwise, all kinds of shit could fuck it up.
Slashdot could be rewritten XHTML1.0 strict compliant, still function in all reasonably recent browsers, but truthfully, no one cares. No one does deep semantic analysis based on HTML, and everyone's browser renders it fine. Hence, slashdot is fine. Now, the ugly ass green theme, and the new, even uglier games section, well that needs fixing.
But the product is the brand. The classic example being nike. Anyone ever talk about the factory workers being the product? Hell no. They talk about shoe designs and don't give a fuck if this years shoe was made in Taiwan and not Indonesia. The product in this case is the franchise + game design. In fact, the fact that activision simply paid this software company to develop a game for the band they paid for is another example of this. Its all moving to a giant virtual company where things like the workforce become a lot more 'fluid'. Sure the human side of it sucks just like it shops for sweatshop workers, that doesn't mean it isn't happening.
hate to carry this farther, but the army plans on giving OICWs to only a fraction of soldier, 1 for every 8 men i think. I can't remember, its probably in the linked FAQ.
How long before competing gangs start up? And how long after that till one gang reigns supreme and a legitimate sim govt appears? That would truly amaze me.
From http://www.hecklerkoch-usa.com/pages/military/m29_ faq.html#Anchor-An-363
An M16 costs under $1000. We have heard M29 (OICW) may cost $10,000. Why is this? M29 (OICW) is a single system consisting of a fire control and combinatorial weapon. The functions contained within the system include the "add-ons" now used on the M16 or M4 such as optics, thermal weapon system, and aim light. With these functional add-ons, the existing M16/M4/203 system cost exceeds $35,000 each.
i forget the article, but cost estimates place a fully loaded OICW as lower cost than a fully loaded M16 with similar capabilities. Plus, as far as soldiering goes, that $35,000 is only a small part of what the army spends to support that soldier.
I took CS 3, my school's (required) intro to computers course. Learn the fundamentals of computing, *snore. Anyway, I figured that i'd rather take it over the summer and online, rather than listen to 2.5 hour long lectures on desktop publishing and what a server is. The upshot was that for the strictly factual material we covered it was fine, especially for people who allready knew the subject, we could simply do the work at our leisure. I got an A in the class and spent only about an hour and half a week completing work. Unfotuanately, the interesting side, discussions on computing ethics, was completely horrible because of the lack of a true discussion element. The web BBS we used just didn't feel as conducive to discussion. The fact that the teacher rarely (maybe twice) chimed in just fucked it up even more. Just a note, it also makes teachers lazy when other students will often answer posted questions faster than the teacher. Although I can't see that as a bad thing as long as they are at least read by the teacher.
when i say it removes the competition I mean that it removes the competition that drives innovation. In this case the market found itself comfortably without patents. When patents are introduced, the auction system will lose stability, the lines will be redrawn needlessly, creating economic turmoil within the industry (probably to someone's benefit).
What truly is non-obvious? The fact that this can be patented is truly ridiculous. I can't see how this is a case of patents protecting the economic goals of this country. In this case the patent produces the exact opposite of its original goal, it removes competition in the sector. Yet another reason to search for alternatives to our current IP system.
Someone allready pointed out that it won't make much power. What also should be noted is that the main purpose of the dam, controlling water for souther farmland, is highly criticized. Whether or not it will actually be economically justified (lets not forget that it dislocated quite a few people (over a hundred thousand I believe).
As many historical sites dating hundreds, even thousands of years old are washed underneath, and even more tragically, the beautiful vista of the three gorges is irrevocably marred by the claws of "progress".
Oh, there's another problem - lack of a good program to save PNGs. AFAIK, Gimp is the best PNG generator around all the Windows photo editing software I used to use (Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro) generated terribly large PNGs, I used to save them as GIFs.
What's that mean? My site uses both photoshop and imagemagick to generate PNGs and they come out the same as gimp. An algorithm is an algorithm. I think that maybe gimp might default to PNG8 while photoshop defaults to PNG24. Either way its customizable. Photoshop has full PNG compatibility.
With subscription service the record companies don't care whether or not you download x songs a month or not. The only care that you keep on paying. This leads to a situation where there is no incentive to produce wildly popular music where people will truly demand it. With records a major star will cause people to go out and buy a CD. With a subscription popularity won't increase revenue from sales. Since the subscription revenue isn't ubiquitous yet the effects won't be felt. But if it were we'd probably see the smaller labels rise even higher. Either way I don't care because I listen to music almost exclusively from indy labels like www.warprecords.com www.mille-plateaux.net www.tigerbeat6.com www.thrilljockey.com etc.....
The content is there. You have to hit refresh and firebird fixes itself. Sometimes firebird omits chunks of content randomly. Does it on my XHTML valid blog to.
Just go on kazaa or IRC and warez a copy of Maya. Everyone benefits. Maya benefits because you're more likely to have a paid copy of Maya once you get a real world job, and you benefit because you get to use 3d software which is used by real world companies (I doubt blender is used by any effects studios)
I'm a male (straight) computer aficionado and I like to buy expensive clothing (counterculture but expensive none the less) I like people who dress nicely and work out. I'm still a geek in that i'm a gadget head and love OSS and computers, but these stereotypes are simply odd. I have friends and know people who don't fit this mold too. This whole geek stereotype may exist, but it is hard for me to believe taht the majority are like this.
I've often googled for technical questions and found them on forums. Google does indicate dynamic pages, it isn't braindead. Whether or not this is a good thing is up for debate i guess.
e. If they grant thousands of patents a year and we only see 20 stupid patent articles
According to this http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/u s_stat.pdf the US Govt granted 166,000 patents in 2001. It's quite amazing how many they have to go through.
well i didn't mean to be offensive at all, in fact I tried to avoid it. I just was pointing to the no-nonsense straight to the point gadget type description you gave. Additionally, my comment doesn't make complete sense, as I'm sure you two are truly in love, but comedy is helped by lies. That's why political comics make fun of everyone regardless of afiliation or the validity of their theories. But this is going too far. At any rate, my reply was rated +4 funny because the slashdot stereotype is a geeky gadget head with no link to emotion whatsoever. My joke reflected that, and was not meant to reflect reality. One can simply look at the large number of married slashdotters to see that this stereotype is false , but that doesn't play well into the hands of comedy. In short, good luck with your marriage, best wishes, and sorry for pidgeonholing you in order to make a joke.
I agree that realism is a useful tool some of the time. However, as an avid counter-strike player, realism isn't a strong point. If anything it plays exactly like a team deatch match with mission objectives as a second thought. In fact, the most mission like levels (cs_backalley, as_oilrig) are considered to be the most boring (myself included). Real world physics have there place, but they are at such an infantile state that their true potential is yet beyond sight.
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slashdot lets you use only a few tags. Otherwise, all kinds of shit could fuck it up.
Slashdot could be rewritten XHTML1.0 strict compliant, still function in all reasonably recent browsers, but truthfully, no one cares. No one does deep semantic analysis based on HTML, and everyone's browser renders it fine. Hence, slashdot is fine. Now, the ugly ass green theme, and the new, even uglier games section, well that needs fixing.
so many typos / spelling / grammar/ errors. Feh, its still readable.
btw, i meant ever hear anyone talk about the factory workers being the company, not being the product.
But the product is the brand. The classic example being nike. Anyone ever talk about the factory workers being the product? Hell no. They talk about shoe designs and don't give a fuck if this years shoe was made in Taiwan and not Indonesia. The product in this case is the franchise + game design. In fact, the fact that activision simply paid this software company to develop a game for the band they paid for is another example of this. Its all moving to a giant virtual company where things like the workforce become a lot more 'fluid'. Sure the human side of it sucks just like it shops for sweatshop workers, that doesn't mean it isn't happening.
hate to carry this farther, but
the army plans on giving OICWs to only a fraction of soldier, 1 for every 8 men i think. I can't remember, its probably in the linked FAQ.
How long before competing gangs start up? And how long after that till one gang reigns supreme and a legitimate sim govt appears? That would truly amaze me.
From http://www.hecklerkoch-usa.com/pages/military/m29_ faq.html#Anchor-An-363
An M16 costs under $1000. We have heard M29 (OICW) may cost $10,000. Why is this?
M29 (OICW) is a single system consisting of a fire control and combinatorial weapon. The functions contained within the system include the "add-ons" now used on the M16 or M4 such as optics, thermal weapon system, and aim light. With these functional add-ons, the existing M16/M4/203 system cost exceeds $35,000 each.
i forget the article, but cost estimates place a fully loaded OICW as lower cost than a fully loaded M16 with similar capabilities. Plus, as far as soldiering goes, that $35,000 is only a small part of what the army spends to support that soldier.
I took CS 3, my school's (required) intro to computers course. Learn the fundamentals of computing, *snore. Anyway, I figured that i'd rather take it over the summer and online, rather than listen to 2.5 hour long lectures on desktop publishing and what a server is. The upshot was that for the strictly factual material we covered it was fine, especially for people who allready knew the subject, we could simply do the work at our leisure. I got an A in the class and spent only about an hour and half a week completing work. Unfotuanately, the interesting side, discussions on computing ethics, was completely horrible because of the lack of a true discussion element. The web BBS we used just didn't feel as conducive to discussion. The fact that the teacher rarely (maybe twice) chimed in just fucked it up even more. Just a note, it also makes teachers lazy when other students will often answer posted questions faster than the teacher. Although I can't see that as a bad thing as long as they are at least read by the teacher.
when i say it removes the competition I mean that it removes the competition that drives innovation. In this case the market found itself comfortably without patents. When patents are introduced, the auction system will lose stability, the lines will be redrawn needlessly, creating economic turmoil within the industry (probably to someone's benefit).
What truly is non-obvious? The fact that this can be patented is truly ridiculous. I can't see how this is a case of patents protecting the economic goals of this country. In this case the patent produces the exact opposite of its original goal, it removes competition in the sector. Yet another reason to search for alternatives to our current IP system.
Someone allready pointed out that it won't make much power. What also should be noted is that the main purpose of the dam, controlling water for souther farmland, is highly criticized. Whether or not it will actually be economically justified (lets not forget that it dislocated quite a few people (over a hundred thousand I believe).
As many historical sites dating hundreds, even thousands of years old are washed underneath, and even more tragically, the beautiful vista of the three gorges is irrevocably marred by the claws of "progress".
Oh, there's another problem - lack of a good program to save PNGs. AFAIK, Gimp is the best PNG generator around all the Windows photo editing software I used to use (Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro) generated terribly large PNGs, I used to save them as GIFs.
What's that mean? My site uses both photoshop and imagemagick to generate PNGs and they come out the same as gimp. An algorithm is an algorithm. I think that maybe gimp might default to PNG8 while photoshop defaults to PNG24. Either way its customizable. Photoshop has full PNG compatibility.
With subscription service the record companies don't care whether or not you download x songs a month or not. The only care that you keep on paying. This leads to a situation where there is no incentive to produce wildly popular music where people will truly demand it. With records a major star will cause people to go out and buy a CD. With a subscription popularity won't increase revenue from sales. Since the subscription revenue isn't ubiquitous yet the effects won't be felt. But if it were we'd probably see the smaller labels rise even higher. Either way I don't care because I listen to music almost exclusively from indy labels like www.warprecords.com www.mille-plateaux.net www.tigerbeat6.com www.thrilljockey.com etc.....
Blender may be crap, but at 2 megs it is hardly bloated.
The content is there. You have to hit refresh and firebird fixes itself. Sometimes firebird omits chunks of content randomly. Does it on my XHTML valid blog to.
If you use unstable KDE 3.1.1 is there by default. If you use stable, kde.org has a debian server up for 3.1.1 that you can use.
Just go on kazaa or IRC and warez a copy of Maya. Everyone benefits. Maya benefits because you're more likely to have a paid copy of Maya once you get a real world job, and you benefit because you get to use 3d software which is used by real world companies (I doubt blender is used by any effects studios)
I'm a male (straight) computer aficionado and I like to buy expensive clothing (counterculture but expensive none the less) I like people who dress nicely and work out. I'm still a geek in that i'm a gadget head and love OSS and computers, but these stereotypes are simply odd. I have friends and know people who don't fit this mold too. This whole geek stereotype may exist, but it is hard for me to believe taht the majority are like this.
I've often googled for technical questions and found them on forums. Google does indicate dynamic pages, it isn't braindead. Whether or not this is a good thing is up for debate i guess.
I allready have a mysql db for free from my host, and it's faster to code for. I get few enough hits that performance is hardly an issue.
e. If they grant thousands of patents a year and we only see 20 stupid patent articles
u s_stat.pdf the US Govt granted 166,000 patents in 2001. It's quite amazing how many they have to go through.
According to this http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/ac/ido/oeip/taf/
well i didn't mean to be offensive at all, in fact I tried to avoid it. I just was pointing to the no-nonsense straight to the point gadget type description you gave. Additionally, my comment doesn't make complete sense, as I'm sure you two are truly in love, but comedy is helped by lies. That's why political comics make fun of everyone regardless of afiliation or the validity of their theories. But this is going too far. At any rate, my reply was rated +4 funny because the slashdot stereotype is a geeky gadget head with no link to emotion whatsoever. My joke reflected that, and was not meant to reflect reality. One can simply look at the large number of married slashdotters to see that this stereotype is false , but that doesn't play well into the hands of comedy. In short, good luck with your marriage, best wishes, and sorry for pidgeonholing you in order to make a joke.
My wedding ring is half zirconium, half yellow gold (like the top and bottom halves of a sandwich).
Only on slashdot would you see someone describe the ultimate material symbol of his lifelong unending love, as a sandwich.
What a website!
I agree that realism is a useful tool some of the time. However, as an avid counter-strike player, realism isn't a strong point. If anything it plays exactly like a team deatch match with mission objectives as a second thought. In fact, the most mission like levels (cs_backalley, as_oilrig) are considered to be the most boring (myself included). Real world physics have there place, but they are at such an infantile state that their true potential is yet beyond sight.