Um...I didn't like Return to Castle Wolfenstein. At least, I didn't like the mutli-player demos that were out there. Sorry, but I've played that game already. Counter-strike, TFC, and so on have already done a much better job of that sort of thing - wrapping up the same gameplay in an old skin just doesn't do it for me.
The single-player aspect of the game still interests me (after I work through the rest of the stack...*sigh* no job, and still not enough time to finish all the games I've got...) but I'm not seeing anything to get super psyched about.
...if you're not very, very careful. (Of course, by "you", I don't mean you, but whichever bunch of old white men happen to be in power this year.) In the simplest case, globalism can be defined thusly:
Free movement of goods and services across borders maximizes economic efficiency, and therefore human well-being.
With a few basic ground rules, such as respect for private property and equal access to markets, liberal capitalism is essentially self-regulating.
Above all, markets should be transparent and porous, and prices should be set by private supply and demand.
All of this supposedly maximizes material well-being, of rich countries and of poor ones. This is, naturally, an extremely naive view. First is the issue of a global political democracy itself. (I am a US citizen, not a citizen of NAFTA.) Simple globalism removes from the compass of democratic deliberation key questions of self-governance.
Naive globalism creates a bias against the mixed economy. If you believe that laissez-faire is really optimal, this is a constructive bias. But the entire history of capitalism is littered with counter-examples. Market economies have unfortunate tendencies to financial panics that spill over into purchasing-power collapses and serious (and avoidable) depressions. Unregulated capitalism yields monopolies, gouges consumers, fails to invest adequately in public goods, and produces socially intolerable distributions of income and wealth.
Simple globalism undermines the project of the mixed economy in many ways. It punishes nations that elect policies of high wages and generous social benefits. It pulls capital into corners of the globe where there is less regulation, which in turn makes it harder for the advanced nations to police their capital markets and social standards.
the real issuesseem to be these: What are the proper terms of engagement between a national, democratic polity and a global economy? As international institutions necessarily replace national ones, to whom are these institutions democratically accountable, and what substantive policies should they pursue?
Answer those questions, and you will have a successful career in international politics ahead of you.
What if it were not intended to replace clay, but use a combination of clay and the gloves to bypass the scanning step? The sculptor could put on the gloves, start working with some standard lump of clay, initialize the glove tracking program, and manipulate the 3D model with the gloves as their actual hands manipulate the real clay model. When the real-world sculpture is finished, the 3D model would be done, as well.
Then all that's left is to hook up the fabricator, hit "copy", and start cranking out toys...
Yes, Rebol, Python, and Perl are much simpler to program than.NET or Java. Yes, they run a few important things somewhat faster. But.NET and Java are natively compiled, fast,...
I don't know about.NET, but Java is compiled into bytecode, which is run on a natively compiled byetcode interpreter. Just like Perl, Python, Ruby, etc. are. This has been a major piece of Java FUD for the longest time - it pretends to be a compiled language, because it doesn't want to be seen as "just another scripting language". As for the libraries and penetration available for Java, do you not think that if Sun had developed and spend untold millions marketing Perl or Python that they would not be in the same position? As a language, Java lacks in many areas - it's just the most popular kid on the block because it's dad happens to be rich.
Which is better, mp3 or ogg? While we're at it, which editor do you prefer, vi or emacs? Do you like Perl or Python better? Also, please briefly describe the best way to use braces and indent your code. Thank you.
LISP and Prolog. Neither of these has, as far as I'm aware, very significant commercial application,
Actually, if I recall correctly, the backend for the Yahoo Stores site was (and still is) written entirely in LISP. This may have been mentioned on/. before, but you'll have to look it up yourself.
As for learning:
- Some flavor of asm
- Modula-2
- LISP
- Smalltalk
- C
Then, once you've got your foundations down, use Perl or Ruby to get real work done...
Although I applaud the use of the thousand-odd linux boxes that Square used for scene rendering, I still maintain that it would be super cool for someone to create a distributed rendering client. How many millions of geeks would jump at the chance to use their screensaver and some extra cycles to help create the next Final Fantasy or Star Wars sequel? I know I would. Sure, there would be issues regarding the distribution of images and such before release, but those seem like tech problems that could be sorted out fairly easily. Still waiting for someone at an animation house to pick up on this idea, though...
I've had a couple different ones - Galactic Overlord, Alpha Primate, and so on - but the one that most people that I've worked for recenly know me for (and the one that I've used at the last three or so jobs) is "Gun-Toting Psycho". (Inspired in part by a Red Meat comic strip.)
Well, time goes by, and things happen, and eventually my title and I got a mention in a front-page New York Times story about this very subject. (Can't find a URL right now, but it was about six or seven months ago.) Anyway, the higher-up types at The Company didn't take too kindly to me talking to the press without official sanction, and people were not happy all around.
I wound up leaving that job shortly thereafter, but I've still got my Gun-Toting Psycho name plate, and a whole stack of business cards...
UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED, ESPECIALLY to COMPUTER BULLETIN BOARDS.
Seriously, he's mildly amusing, but as whack jobs go, Chiu is strictly third-rate. I'm sure he wouldn't get any play if he wasn't basically offering free stuff to people who put banners on their site. Until something more interesting comes along, I'll stick with the classics, like McElwaine and Ludwig Plutonium.
...that you're probably screwed. It's not fair, but from what I can tell, you're boned. Were you using the school's computers to host the site? Were you using the school's network? You're out of luck. For sure, make a stink, get your story heard, get the word about the Mormon fascists out there, but don't expect any resolution in your favor on this one.
Brilliant troll, as usual. However, let me respond as if you believed what you say.
Wonder comes not from being lost, as you seem to imply, but in discovering where you are, where you are going, and what you are looking for. Certainly, there is a certain romance in losing yourself in the wilds (of America, of the mind, or what have you), but the true excitement comes from finding your way - or the way of another. And this is where the beauty of geocaching lies; someone else has hidden a treasure Out There Somewhere, and it is up to you to put on their shoes, put yourself in their head, and walk the path that they walked themselves. Sure, there's a difference between taking a stroll through the woods and following a map, but each of these things is a special treat - there's no reason to pick one to the exclusion of all the rest. Enjoy it all! Just because you're using a GPS, or a compass, or what have you, doesn't make it any less fun...
I want to be able to pay the artists money for their songs.
Yeah, sure, great. But I've already paid once. I regularly rip batches of CDs to mp3, then burn a bunch of albums back onto a CD in mp3 format. Why? So I can take one CD with me to listen to on my CD/mp3 player instead of ten. Or so that I can listen to a hundred different songs off of a hundred different CDs that I already bought and paid for. Simple. This is not theoretical - I'm actually doing this, and if I had to pay extra to space-shift music that I've already paid for once, I'd be super pissed, and more likely to pirate/steal music and not use their crappy fascist hardware.
Bottom line is, the majority people are using this technology well withing the legal limits of fair use, and shouldn't have to pay more tribute to the record labels. If you want to do something extra to support the artists, fine - but let it be voluntary, not a mandatory corporate tax.
Wow. That was possibly the most informative, insightful, and interesting thing that I've seen posted to Slashdot, ever. Can this interview, or the important parts of it, be made available in a more prominent place on the site? This "Legal FAQ for Open Source" is an invaluable document to be able to point to, and would be a great resource to answer many potential redundant "Ask Slashdot" articles...
""Peering" in the jargon of the Internet means to connect directly to another Internet provider for the purpose of exchange traffic between two providers without having to resort to the Internet backbone. "
De-peering, then, is disconnecting from such a relationship. Whether this is indeed the case or not here is another issue, which I'll leave to those more well informed than I...
This is nothing new. When I was going to college in Buffalo, NY, ten years ago or so, we had the usual gang of misfits and slackers who would stay up all night in the computer labs playing MONSTER (a text MUD-type game) or GALTRADER (a variation of the space-trading game Elite, also curses-based) on the VAX cluster. Physical violence, in the form of fistfights and sucker punches, erupted more than once as the result of player-on-player violence in the game. "Clans" or gangs were formed, protection, yadda yadda yadda. Only thing that's different now is the graphics are better - the people are still pretty much the same.
"Fnord" and "Illuminati" are both trademarks of Steve Jackson Games (http://www.sjgames.com/general/faq.html) and may not be used without permission. Please report to the Intellectual Property Re-Education Center for debriefing.
Also, if you actually bothered to read the story that you linked to, you'd see that while IBM did sell Hollerith cards to Germany during The War, they were hardly Nazi sympathizers. The same technology can be used for good or evil. Dumbass.
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Um...I didn't like Return to Castle Wolfenstein. At least, I didn't like the mutli-player demos that were out there. Sorry, but I've played that game already. Counter-strike, TFC, and so on have already done a much better job of that sort of thing - wrapping up the same gameplay in an old skin just doesn't do it for me.
The single-player aspect of the game still interests me (after I work through the rest of the stack...*sigh* no job, and still not enough time to finish all the games I've got...) but I'm not seeing anything to get super psyched about.
"The film is seen as a potential "tentpole" picture for the summer of 2003"
If it's anything like Robotrix, I'm sure it will be...
All of this supposedly maximizes material well-being, of rich countries and of poor ones. This is, naturally, an extremely naive view. First is the issue of a global political democracy itself. (I am a US citizen, not a citizen of NAFTA.) Simple globalism removes from the compass of democratic deliberation key questions of self-governance.
Naive globalism creates a bias against the mixed economy. If you believe that laissez-faire is really optimal, this is a constructive bias. But the entire history of capitalism is littered with counter-examples. Market economies have unfortunate tendencies to financial panics that spill over into purchasing-power collapses and serious (and avoidable) depressions. Unregulated capitalism yields monopolies, gouges consumers, fails to invest adequately in public goods, and produces socially intolerable distributions of income and wealth.
Simple globalism undermines the project of the mixed economy in many ways. It punishes nations that elect policies of high wages and generous social benefits. It pulls capital into corners of the globe where there is less regulation, which in turn makes it harder for the advanced nations to police their capital markets and social standards.
the real issuesseem to be these: What are the proper terms of engagement between a national, democratic polity and a global economy? As international institutions necessarily replace national ones, to whom are these institutions democratically accountable, and what substantive policies should they pursue?
Answer those questions, and you will have a successful career in international politics ahead of you.
The events of the last 2 months have taken this country to the brink of hysteria and back.
Good post, but I'm not entirely sure about that "and back" part...
What if it were not intended to replace clay, but use a combination of clay and the gloves to bypass the scanning step? The sculptor could put on the gloves, start working with some standard lump of clay, initialize the glove tracking program, and manipulate the 3D model with the gloves as their actual hands manipulate the real clay model. When the real-world sculpture is finished, the 3D model would be done, as well.
Then all that's left is to hook up the fabricator, hit "copy", and start cranking out toys...
Yes, Rebol, Python, and Perl are much simpler to program than .NET or Java. Yes, they run a few important things somewhat faster. But .NET and Java are natively compiled, fast,...
.NET, but Java is compiled into bytecode, which is run on a natively compiled byetcode interpreter. Just like Perl, Python, Ruby, etc. are. This has been a major piece of Java FUD for the longest time - it pretends to be a compiled language, because it doesn't want to be seen as "just another scripting language". As for the libraries and penetration available for Java, do you not think that if Sun had developed and spend untold millions marketing Perl or Python that they would not be in the same position? As a language, Java lacks in many areas - it's just the most popular kid on the block because it's dad happens to be rich.
I don't know about
Which is better, mp3 or ogg? While we're at it, which editor do you prefer, vi or emacs? Do you like Perl or Python better? Also, please briefly describe the best way to use braces and indent your code. Thank you.
I think that you may enjoy reading the scratchware manifesto, which urges a return to the gameplay we loved in the older games...
LISP and Prolog. Neither of these has, as far as I'm aware, very significant commercial application,
/. before, but you'll have to look it up yourself.
Actually, if I recall correctly, the backend for the Yahoo Stores site was (and still is) written entirely in LISP. This may have been mentioned on
As for learning:
- Some flavor of asm
- Modula-2
- LISP
- Smalltalk
- C
Then, once you've got your foundations down, use Perl or Ruby to get real work done...
You must have missed Ook, a language designed for orangutangs.
Although I applaud the use of the thousand-odd linux boxes that Square used for scene rendering, I still maintain that it would be super cool for someone to create a distributed rendering client. How many millions of geeks would jump at the chance to use their screensaver and some extra cycles to help create the next Final Fantasy or Star Wars sequel? I know I would. Sure, there would be issues regarding the distribution of images and such before release, but those seem like tech problems that could be sorted out fairly easily. Still waiting for someone at an animation house to pick up on this idea, though...
Perhaps the Russian government should invite some Adobe executives to their country for an "extended discussion" on the matter...
Also known is certain circles as "the Showgirls Principle".
I've had a couple different ones - Galactic Overlord, Alpha Primate, and so on - but the one that most people that I've worked for recenly know me for (and the one that I've used at the last three or so jobs) is "Gun-Toting Psycho". (Inspired in part by a Red Meat comic strip.)
Well, time goes by, and things happen, and eventually my title and I got a mention in a front-page New York Times story about this very subject. (Can't find a URL right now, but it was about six or seven months ago.) Anyway, the higher-up types at The Company didn't take too kindly to me talking to the press without official sanction, and people were not happy all around.
I wound up leaving that job shortly thereafter, but I've still got my Gun-Toting Psycho name plate, and a whole stack of business cards...
In the words of the kind Mr. Dobbs, "I don't practice what I preach, 'cause I'm not the kind of person I'm preaching to!"
UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED, ESPECIALLY to COMPUTER BULLETIN BOARDS.
Seriously, he's mildly amusing, but as whack jobs go, Chiu is strictly third-rate. I'm sure he wouldn't get any play if he wasn't basically offering free stuff to people who put banners on their site. Until something more interesting comes along, I'll stick with the classics, like McElwaine and Ludwig Plutonium.
...that you're probably screwed. It's not fair, but from what I can tell, you're boned. Were you using the school's computers to host the site? Were you using the school's network? You're out of luck. For sure, make a stink, get your story heard, get the word about the Mormon fascists out there, but don't expect any resolution in your favor on this one.
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The hard transfer limit for this user has been reached
Heh - I'm guessing that Jess (the submittor) is working with geocaching.com to slashdot the poor guy into submission?
Brilliant troll, as usual. However, let me respond as if you believed what you say.
Wonder comes not from being lost, as you seem to imply, but in discovering where you are, where you are going, and what you are looking for. Certainly, there is a certain romance in losing yourself in the wilds (of America, of the mind, or what have you), but the true excitement comes from finding your way - or the way of another. And this is where the beauty of geocaching lies; someone else has hidden a treasure Out There Somewhere, and it is up to you to put on their shoes, put yourself in their head, and walk the path that they walked themselves. Sure, there's a difference between taking a stroll through the woods and following a map, but each of these things is a special treat - there's no reason to pick one to the exclusion of all the rest. Enjoy it all! Just because you're using a GPS, or a compass, or what have you, doesn't make it any less fun...
I want to be able to pay the artists money for their songs.
Yeah, sure, great. But I've already paid once. I regularly rip batches of CDs to mp3, then burn a bunch of albums back onto a CD in mp3 format. Why? So I can take one CD with me to listen to on my CD/mp3 player instead of ten. Or so that I can listen to a hundred different songs off of a hundred different CDs that I already bought and paid for. Simple. This is not theoretical - I'm actually doing this, and if I had to pay extra to space-shift music that I've already paid for once, I'd be super pissed, and more likely to pirate/steal music and not use their crappy fascist hardware.
Bottom line is, the majority people are using this technology well withing the legal limits of fair use, and shouldn't have to pay more tribute to the record labels. If you want to do something extra to support the artists, fine - but let it be voluntary, not a mandatory corporate tax.
Wow. That was possibly the most informative, insightful, and interesting thing that I've seen posted to Slashdot, ever. Can this interview, or the important parts of it, be made available in a more prominent place on the site? This "Legal FAQ for Open Source" is an invaluable document to be able to point to, and would be a great resource to answer many potential redundant "Ask Slashdot" articles...
From http://www.uvi.edu/InfoTech/peering.html:
""Peering" in the jargon of the Internet means to connect directly to another Internet provider for the purpose of exchange traffic between two providers without having to resort to the Internet backbone. "
De-peering, then, is disconnecting from such a relationship. Whether this is indeed the case or not here is another issue, which I'll leave to those more well informed than I...
This is nothing new. When I was going to college in Buffalo, NY, ten years ago or so, we had the usual gang of misfits and slackers who would stay up all night in the computer labs playing MONSTER (a text MUD-type game) or GALTRADER (a variation of the space-trading game Elite, also curses-based) on the VAX cluster. Physical violence, in the form of fistfights and sucker punches, erupted more than once as the result of player-on-player violence in the game. "Clans" or gangs were formed, protection, yadda yadda yadda. Only thing that's different now is the graphics are better - the people are still pretty much the same.
"Fnord" and "Illuminati" are both trademarks of Steve Jackson Games (http://www.sjgames.com/general/faq.html) and may not be used without permission. Please report to the Intellectual Property Re-Education Center for debriefing.
UDDI's single biggest proponent is IBM. This is incontrovertible.
IBM collaborated with Nazi Germany. Ipso facto, UDDI is tainted by Nazi attrocities.
IBM is also a huge corporate advocate of slashdot's favorite operating system. Does this make all Linux users Nazis as well?
Also, if you actually bothered to read the story that you linked to, you'd see that while IBM did sell Hollerith cards to Germany during The War, they were hardly Nazi sympathizers. The same technology can be used for good or evil. Dumbass.
ps. Yeah, I know, IHBT, IHL. Whoop.