I wouldn't describe them like that, but the concept is the same.
I fondly remeber playing SMAUG based muds, and had a blast, as MUDs are far more interactable, and far more flexible and versitile with game play. Even though big MMOs like WoW, have far better content(as far as gameplay is concerned), the type of interactions are far more limited. I think the problem is that level design devs.
Again with SMAUG, the sys admins took the role of immortals and gods, and the administrating of the game became part of the game. I like the concept actually.
I love the best you can lump all discussion of everything that goes on in the USA that is not %100 propaganda as "Anti-US flim flam", as if there is a giant conspiracy against the USA that is responsible for all critism.
it sounds like science fiction because it was mentioned in science fiction, specificly Count Zero(second book in the neuromancer trillogy) by WIlliam Gibson
----SPOILER ALERT-----
in the opening of the book, "the dutchman", is put in suspended animation for 3 months, and his mind is implanted in a virtual reality while they fix his body.
> It sounds like the school was violating Facebook's Terms of Service, too.
Thats a felony under federal law now. Aaron Swartz was facing 15 years for something similar.
Oh, and the reason why we don't have a free democratic nation, and the reason why you don't see adults dissent, is because it is beaten out of us as children. We don't have a school system which produces free thinking citizens as adults.
We can pretend this is an isolated incident and not the trend of a large society.
This also demonstates the need to post either anonymously or pseudonymlsy. Its to prevent authority figures from fucking you
if google, twitter, or another company refused the NSA, or an American court order, especially one of those secret letters would you feel the same way?
ubuntu didn't adopt wayland because they said it lacked too much functionality, so instead of contributing back, like most other companies do, they decided to do what they normally, do, make an incompatible, inhouse version only they use, and then blame everyone else for not marching around them.
I liked ubuntu early on, because when it was X11 and Gnome 2, they made using linux easy, with using the exact same technologies everyone else running a linux desktop was using. They were using the most mainstream widely supported technologies.
And thats all I want out of a newbie distro. To take wideley supported, most default software, package it together, with support, make the best sane configs. Find the best GUI config tools, and make a coherent OS family like windows and mac do, for everyone who is non-technical, so they can enjoy what we do, and I have something to recommend to non-techies.
It would also make my life easier, being I'm the one who generally fixes the computer.
We live in a culture where status, identity, and self-worth is closely tied not only to how much money you have, but to how much money you make bankers.
So basicly, programmers are basicly living by the same values as the rest of mainstream society. The same values exhibited by both politicians and celebrities, and just about all people looked up to as role models.
People don't spend $50k on college to be the next Richard Stallman, a man who's altruism is a relic of the past. They spend it to be the next Bill Gates, or Steve Jobs, people who made billions exploiting the masses.
Name one cancer researcher off the top of your head. I can't. But we sure know who bill gates and steve jobs are. The rest of society holds them in far higher regard, and they have far more leyway in personal options. And if they ever get questioned on their contributions to society, they can tote how much money they poured into charity, and how much money they spend on curing diseases.
We all know Bill and Melinda Gates spent billions on fighting malaria in africa, by donating vaccines. No one ever lionizes the name of any of the people who did any of the research, manufacture, or phyiscal distribution of said vaccines.
Now, you went to a prestigious university, which aren't cheap by the way. Which person do you want to be in life? The scientist, or the millionare?
If 800 per cable becomes the new standard, companies are going to start dumping their existing fiber connectors, and they will get cheap, and there will be less demand. The companies that make them, will most likely keep making the same or similx GBICs, because they already did the R&D, and they are cheaper to produce because the cost of design is already paid for.
So existing connections will get cheaper. The net effect is the total cost per/ MB/s is going to go down accross the board.
And when the ISPs have more backbone bandwith, more that is available downstream.
Our top artist, Jay-Z is a man who made a career spanning over a decade rapping about being a criminal(gangsta rapper), and glorying a life soaked in drugs, loose women, and crime.
On the other hand, we have movies like zero dark thirty which glorify torture.
We glorify politicians who lie, cheat, and steal, and we encourage eachother to lie cheat and steal for them.
When a kid is bullied in school they are generally blamed for being weak, socially unfit, or making themselves a target.
Most celebrities, the people who we all mimick, do drugs, drive under the influence, sleep around, and act without a care for the rest of us. If we admit we don't like them, something is wrong with us. We re-adjust our social values around them.
We glorify the press and the news, and when they get caught lying to us, often to assassinate someones character for either social or political reasons, strut around as if their position makes them nobility, and violate each and every rule they tell us they abide by with enough regularity its safe to say they don't exist, we extoll them as the saviors of democracy.
But yes, its hackers. Hackers are making society a terrible place. If computer break ins where any other field besides computers, it would be socially accetable. If you get take advantage of financially, or make a silly mistake, well its proof the capitalists are smarter than you. If the bank takes advantage of your lack of time to fight them, its because they deserve to prey on the weak. If you break into the bank computers because the same smarty pants bankers are to daft to learn your field, your a terrorist.
Somehow hackers are glorified? Another shitty op-ed from the NY Times, a fine publication with a long history of clueless op-ed writers, and hideously snobbish double standards.
I've said this before, and I'll say it again, the NYT is a fine publication, but the opinion editorials are run by a bunch of smarmy yuppie shitheads without any real vantage point in society.
Lets stop talking about Assange, and lets start talking about what he exposed. Its not like the man is running for office in the US of A, and even if he did, with his personality, he'd fit right in.
We accept worse behavior from politicians and celebrities.
what compaq/phoenix did back then would likely infringe patents today.
The fact of the matter is that microsoft, IBM, and the PC clones got their start in a world with vastly less IP restrictions, and the conotation that intellegence could be property was not born yet.
Heck, if Bill Gates grew up today, doing half of the things he did, he'd never have the chances he did, and would most likely be in jail. He got caught hacking his local computer's time share about a decade before it became this high crime to humanity. A decade later he would have been Kevin Mitnick.
So getting back on topic, what would have been OK as a technical work around back in 1979 is now a gross jail landing violation.
Its the reason google needs to pay microsoft so much money for every android handset, despite everything being developed in house, with no exposure to any similar, at the time non-existant microsoft product.
Even congress, up until very recently they had no idea either, and they started making up all crazy ideas of what it meant and confused it with other issues.
Net Neutrality, is the concept that all intermediate networks exist just to relay data, and don't discriminate based on content, and they simply move data, and don't set policy.
On a technical level, it prohibits all routing beyond layer 3 of the OSI model, as well as priorititizing one destination or another.
The concept is the network is entirely seperate, and merely a platform, for the content. Its also the network should not interfere with the content. It was an unwritten rule of the internet, almost since day one. In its early years, it also shielded ISPs from liability?
Someone accessed kiddie porn, made terrorist threats, or did some other illegal stuff, that passed through ISP XYZ's router, no one ever did as much as accuse them of hosting the content.(now I guess comcast is to big to jail so they don't care)
This has sometimes confused with other issues such as the cost of broadband, its availability among demographic groups(the digital divide).
but the very nature of open source attracted a developer to come in and complete GNU, making GNU/Linux, which is both Free, and working.
since we have a free working OS, improving it along other lines is a bigger priority than completely finnishing a pure GNU OS. Stallman has his priorities right here. For once he's being pragmatic.
yep. It the perpetrator is female, they have a far higher chance of not even being suspected, and far less chance of being convicted if brought to trial, and if they get convicted, far lower sentence.
For a white female it seems, the average sentence for murder 1, is around 5-10 years.
or about a certain South American president who's plane got searched.
Or the raid that got Osama
the USA has let it be known that their jurisdiction is world wide when they want it to be. The united states routinely commits what would be "acts of war"
if you use linux, you understand that nouveau isn't about "competing" with the binary driver. It has many advanatages that come with open source such as unlimited redistribution rights, and it plays nice with other drivers, between the two making it the only option for LiveCDs and with that install CDs.
Noveau is almostly always installed by default with Xorg. It also works on a larger variety of hardware.
Nouvea is essential for getting a GUI on linux to "just work", even if the proprietary blob is better.
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I'd say this again, keep these liberal arts oppertunist shitheads away from all things in the nerd world.
All this do is stir up all shits to revel in the conflict, and create problems for themselves to solve.
I think I am slowly comming about to this type of "consultant" getting what they reffer to as a "boot party".
I wouldn't describe them like that, but the concept is the same.
I fondly remeber playing SMAUG based muds, and had a blast, as MUDs are far more interactable, and far more flexible and versitile with game play. Even though big MMOs like WoW, have far better content(as far as gameplay is concerned), the type of interactions are far more limited. I think the problem is that level design devs.
Again with SMAUG, the sys admins took the role of immortals and gods, and the administrating of the game became part of the game. I like the concept actually.
I love the best you can lump all discussion of everything that goes on in the USA that is not %100 propaganda as "Anti-US flim flam", as if there is a giant conspiracy against the USA that is responsible for all critism.
it sounds like science fiction because it was mentioned in science fiction, specificly Count Zero(second book in the neuromancer trillogy) by WIlliam Gibson
----SPOILER ALERT-----
in the opening of the book, "the dutchman", is put in suspended animation for 3 months, and his mind is implanted in a virtual reality while they fix his body.
threee nines, fucking ametures.
five nines is the fucking standard.
> It sounds like the school was violating Facebook's Terms of Service, too.
Thats a felony under federal law now. Aaron Swartz was facing 15 years for something similar.
Oh, and the reason why we don't have a free democratic nation, and the reason why you don't see adults dissent, is because it is beaten out of us as children. We don't have a school system which produces free thinking citizens as adults.
We can pretend this is an isolated incident and not the trend of a large society.
This also demonstates the need to post either anonymously or pseudonymlsy. Its to prevent authority figures from fucking you
as much as I agree.
if google, twitter, or another company refused the NSA, or an American court order, especially one of those secret letters would you feel the same way?
Until we stop living in a mass surviellence state, this all rings hollow.
Unlike Russia, we don't need to ban critics. We can just stalk and harrass them, until then ruin their lifes.
ubuntu didn't adopt wayland because they said it lacked too much functionality, so instead of contributing back, like most other companies do, they decided to do what they normally, do, make an incompatible, inhouse version only they use, and then blame everyone else for not marching around them.
I liked ubuntu early on, because when it was X11 and Gnome 2, they made using linux easy, with using the exact same technologies everyone else running a linux desktop was using. They were using the most mainstream widely supported technologies.
And thats all I want out of a newbie distro. To take wideley supported, most default software, package it together, with support, make the best sane configs. Find the best GUI config tools, and make a coherent OS family like windows and mac do, for everyone who is non-technical, so they can enjoy what we do, and I have something to recommend to non-techies.
It would also make my life easier, being I'm the one who generally fixes the computer.
We live in a culture where status, identity, and self-worth is closely tied not only to how much money you have, but to how much money you make bankers.
So basicly, programmers are basicly living by the same values as the rest of mainstream society. The same values exhibited by both politicians and celebrities, and just about all people looked up to as role models.
People don't spend $50k on college to be the next Richard Stallman, a man who's altruism is a relic of the past. They spend it to be the next Bill Gates, or Steve Jobs, people who made billions exploiting the masses.
Name one cancer researcher off the top of your head. I can't. But we sure know who bill gates and steve jobs are. The rest of society holds them in far higher regard, and they have far more leyway in personal options. And if they ever get questioned on their contributions to society, they can tote how much money they poured into charity, and how much money they spend on curing diseases.
We all know Bill and Melinda Gates spent billions on fighting malaria in africa, by donating vaccines. No one ever lionizes the name of any of the people who did any of the research, manufacture, or phyiscal distribution of said vaccines.
Now, you went to a prestigious university, which aren't cheap by the way. Which person do you want to be in life? The scientist, or the millionare?
no, but it will have a ripple effect.
If 800 per cable becomes the new standard, companies are going to start dumping their existing fiber connectors, and they will get cheap, and there will be less demand. The companies that make them, will most likely keep making the same or similx GBICs, because they already did the R&D, and they are cheaper to produce because the cost of design is already paid for.
So existing connections will get cheaper. The net effect is the total cost per/ MB/s is going to go down accross the board.
And when the ISPs have more backbone bandwith, more that is available downstream.
We glorify much worse in society.
Our top artist, Jay-Z is a man who made a career spanning over a decade rapping about being a criminal(gangsta rapper), and glorying a life soaked in drugs, loose women, and crime.
On the other hand, we have movies like zero dark thirty which glorify torture.
We glorify politicians who lie, cheat, and steal, and we encourage eachother to lie cheat and steal for them.
When a kid is bullied in school they are generally blamed for being weak, socially unfit, or making themselves a target.
Most celebrities, the people who we all mimick, do drugs, drive under the influence, sleep around, and act without a care for the rest of us. If we admit we don't like them, something is wrong with us. We re-adjust our social values around them.
We glorify the press and the news, and when they get caught lying to us, often to assassinate someones character for either social or political reasons, strut around as if their position makes them nobility, and violate each and every rule they tell us they abide by with enough regularity its safe to say they don't exist, we extoll them as the saviors of democracy.
But yes, its hackers. Hackers are making society a terrible place. If computer break ins where any other field besides computers, it would be socially accetable. If you get take advantage of financially, or make a silly mistake, well its proof the capitalists are smarter than you. If the bank takes advantage of your lack of time to fight them, its because they deserve to prey on the weak. If you break into the bank computers because the same smarty pants bankers are to daft to learn your field, your a terrorist.
Somehow hackers are glorified? Another shitty op-ed from the NY Times, a fine publication with a long history of clueless op-ed writers, and hideously snobbish double standards.
I've said this before, and I'll say it again, the NYT is a fine publication, but the opinion editorials are run by a bunch of smarmy yuppie shitheads without any real vantage point in society.
I know right.
Lets stop talking about Assange, and lets start talking about what he exposed. Its not like the man is running for office in the US of A, and even if he did, with his personality, he'd fit right in.
We accept worse behavior from politicians and celebrities.
Ironicly, I think Comcast is at the point, when they think they are too big to jail, so they don't care.
small and medium ISPs are likely the ones to be hit.
what compaq/phoenix did back then would likely infringe patents today.
The fact of the matter is that microsoft, IBM, and the PC clones got their start in a world with vastly less IP restrictions, and the conotation that intellegence could be property was not born yet.
Heck, if Bill Gates grew up today, doing half of the things he did, he'd never have the chances he did, and would most likely be in jail. He got caught hacking his local computer's time share about a decade before it became this high crime to humanity. A decade later he would have been Kevin Mitnick.
So getting back on topic, what would have been OK as a technical work around back in 1979 is now a gross jail landing violation.
Its the reason google needs to pay microsoft so much money for every android handset, despite everything being developed in house, with no exposure to any similar, at the time non-existant microsoft product.
Even congress, up until very recently they had no idea either, and they started making up all crazy ideas of what it meant and confused it with other issues.
Net Neutrality, is the concept that all intermediate networks exist just to relay data, and don't discriminate based on content, and they simply move data, and don't set policy.
On a technical level, it prohibits all routing beyond layer 3 of the OSI model, as well as priorititizing one destination or another.
The concept is the network is entirely seperate, and merely a platform, for the content. Its also the network should not interfere with the content. It was an unwritten rule of the internet, almost since day one. In its early years, it also shielded ISPs from liability?
Someone accessed kiddie porn, made terrorist threats, or did some other illegal stuff, that passed through ISP XYZ's router, no one ever did as much as accuse them of hosting the content.(now I guess comcast is to big to jail so they don't care)
This has sometimes confused with other issues such as the cost of broadband, its availability among demographic groups(the digital divide).
that comment has absolutely nothing to do with my comment?
sense you make not!
the first stars don't have elements heavier elements generally thought to be created in supernovae, and large stars?
Who knew?
except this is so fucking basic astronomy knowledge they teach it to first year university students, with no knowledge of either astronomy or physics
Good grief charlie brown.
but the very nature of open source attracted a developer to come in and complete GNU, making GNU/Linux, which is both Free, and working.
since we have a free working OS, improving it along other lines is a bigger priority than completely finnishing a pure GNU OS. Stallman has his priorities right here. For once he's being pragmatic.
The media is doing what the media does best, focusing on photogenic rich celebrities like Jobs and Zuckerberg.
Of course they also made a lot of money for investors as well.
But how much did they really give back to the computer community?
The answer is both made us all a lot less secure.
Its ugly, and it doesn't work as well.
I have a point to further make, and mabey one day I'll discus it further.
but from now until they stop beta, I am participating in the slashcott
yep. It the perpetrator is female, they have a far higher chance of not even being suspected, and far less chance of being convicted if brought to trial, and if they get convicted, far lower sentence.
For a white female it seems, the average sentence for murder 1, is around 5-10 years.
you should ask kim dotcom about that one.
or about a certain South American president who's plane got searched.
Or the raid that got Osama
the USA has let it be known that their jurisdiction is world wide when they want it to be. The united states routinely commits what would be "acts of war"
very important.
if you use linux, you understand that nouveau isn't about "competing" with the binary driver. It has many advanatages that come with open source such as unlimited redistribution rights, and it plays nice with other drivers, between the two making it the only option for LiveCDs and with that install CDs.
Noveau is almostly always installed by default with Xorg. It also works on a larger variety of hardware.
Nouvea is essential for getting a GUI on linux to "just work", even if the proprietary blob is better.