There is no way that Linux, or any other OS is going to ever be anymore then a few percentage points ahead of windows. Or any other OS designed to have games played on it. It simply is not going to happen. If the hardware is the same, the only thing that can slow a game down is gross incompetence on the part of the driver writer/game coder. NOT the OS I don't see that happening on the windows side. What OS your running isn't going to effect game performance one bit, as long as it has some basic optimizations.
Windows is still somewhat based on DOS, which never was too big on multitasking. Games completely take over your system,
This is so completely wrong, how the hell did it get modded up? Windows isn't based on dos any more then Linux is because of Dosemu and lodlin.com. The only reason the system boots in dos mode (in win9x) is for compatibility sake. In fact, this no longer happens in WinME.
And as far as taking over your system, it simply doesn't happen. The game can take over your screen with directX, and use a Realtime priority thread if it wants to hog the CPU, but it probably doesn't. This is no different then what happens in Linux. Win32 programs don't use DOS at all, that's why they run on NT and 2000, witch don't use DOS code at all.
Is it so hard for people to know what they're talking about before doing so?
Wow, an epiffiany! Thanks to your post, I realize I'm one of the thousands of loosers (millions, actualy) out there who wastes time playing video games! Movies, books, video games, music, everything is just such a waste of time And remember, idle hands are the devils hands. And things that are fun should never be done. What was I thinking. All this time I've wasted playing quake3 I could have been staring at a wall or something! or working feverishly on a lame, content free, website!
I'll politely disagree. No corporation has the power to grant or deny a radio or TV license.
Well, it dosn't matter much, beacuse corporations are the only ones with radio or TV licenses. They can certanly stop you from having a say, even if you could afford advertizing time.
And your defnition of monopoly is wrong, even if we assume adam-smith economic conservatism, we can still have a government granted monopoly. And most cable companies are the only way to get highspeed internet access, they are monopolies granted by the local governments.
I kept thinking back to a short story I read once as a child about a man in the future who was arrested for "walking" at night. No other reason. I could feel the same insanity in F 451.
Supposedly, bradburry himself was questioned by the cops for walking out at night with a frend, before he wrote the book. He also wrote a short story version of f451 before the book, maybe you remembered the story beacuse it was the same one:P.
US dosn't want to ban anything, not the gvt anyway
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The US government doesn't want to ban Drug related information. Some people in congress do, but that is why we have a system of checks and balances. As far as I know, that bill was crushed.
As far as gambling, that isn't information. It's an action. And they don't need to go to the router level to stop it ether. Basically all they have to do is tell visa corp. and MasterCard to simply not pay the gambling places when people loose there money there.
But, on the other hand, there is a far more serious threat when it comes to online free speech. Copyrights. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see the network castrated in the manner you described. Not to stop porn or Nazi related items, but to kill the trade of items 'owned' by the MPAA or RIAA. And they won't need the government to do it ether. AOL-Time Warner owns the pipes leading to half of all the citizens of the United States. What's to stop them from blocking the gnutella/napster ports of all there clients? What's to stop them from filtering their cable networks (that they have local monopolies in) for copyright infringement?
To be honest, I don't even see why there bothering with trying to get the government to pass laws anyway. Other then the fact that they're stupid.
But only because you choose to read what they tell you to read!
Read his post again. What you wrote is the first thing that came to mind, that I might write as well. But, it isn't what he's saying. All that he's saying, I think is that you need some kind of 'censorship'. If I can stop something from reaching 99% of the people in the world, who might be interested, then I have censored, somewhat. Nothing is absolute, and nothing can be censored completely.
I think the moderation system works, for me at least, because it keeps people from posting garbage. Look at the percentage of posts that actually are -1 in most stories. It really isn't that many. For me, the moderation system works wonderfully, but that's because I read at -1. It isn't that the garbage gets moderated down, its that people don't even bother posting it.
I don't see post that have been unfairly moderated very often, but, when they are it really is a form of censorship, because its removing the voice of the person who is trying to speak. But, I think what the other posters point was, is that it is necessary. Slashdot could not function without it.
All you did was compare one of the characters to Jon Katz. Saying, "I can't rate this book" What's that? "I can't say what's wrong with that" what's that? I'm sure there are things that are wrong with the book. And I never pictured the 'future' in 451 to be anything like the Jetsons, the only technology they have that we don't are really, really big LCD panels.
And secondly, The kind of censorship in Fahrenheit 451isn't really anything like the problems we are facing today. Today, it isn't the government, but corporations with far more power filtering. Dragging the book out only to say that it agrees with your viewpoints isn't a review, and isn't even really that important.
I heard that directly from microsoft. Wince uses a giant registry, instaid of a normal filesystem. How much do you know about the WinCE filesystem? idiot.
Linus: Of course you should be able to sue over copyrights. The one good lawsuit in the whole Napster case is the one by Metallica: a suit by the actual authors. While it's probably motivated mostly by money, I can still at least hope that there is a strong feeling of morals there, too
Hemos: he's merely saying that copyrights aren't necessarily a bad thing, and that piracy is a bad thing.
Sure, that's merely saying that. He obviously agrees with metallica, but we can't bash him beacuse he's Linus, and Linus can't be wrong can he? Of course not, thanks for clearning that up Hemos.
What need to happens is the record industry needs to realize that their revenue is ending. Its a new era and if they don't think fast they are going to be out of luck.
. Now what happens if I start sharing stolen copies of MSFT Win2K, MSFT Windows ME (before it is released), Quake 3, Star Office, Transmeta's patented code morphing software source code etc.
Man, how long have you been using the internet? all that stuff is already available, ('cept for the transmeta stuff), and you probably can't get rid of it without destroying the entire 'net.
So, obviously, he doesn't care what happens to his copyrighted work.
Certainly, it would be wrong to steal a book, but if Borders were printing extra copies, and giving them away, there would be nothing wrong with you taking a copy.
When you download a song from napster, you aren't stealing it from someone else.
Of course they understand what's going on. Well, specifically, they don't understand. They don't understand networking technologies, that's for sure. But that doesn't mean they couldn't extend the DMCA to ban things like napster. I mean, there is a line, somewhere, between something that breaks a law and something that doesn't. What's the difference between something like back orifice 2000 and Back Offices Remote Server management? Not much, but anti-virus companies ban one and not the other.
And lets not forget that VCRs probably violate the DMCA somewhere. But you can't legalize VCRs, and the movie industry doesn't even want them banned, they make way to much money off of them.
So, congress could ban something like napster, they were shooting themselves in the foot anyway when they decided to go mp3 only. Really, they should have been allowing any kind of file through, at least then they could claim to have some kind of legitimacy. Don't get me wrong; I believe that Napster is legal under the current DMCA, since they are a service provider. And, I believe that what they are doing is ethically ok, but only because I that file sharing is ok as well.
One would expect that companies like Microsoft and Sun would probably want to weigh in on something like this, after all NFS and windows networking allow sharing of files. Certainly, here at ISU 90% of the file trading happens on the SMB network, but I don't think they will. Because they don't care. They know the government isn't going to crack down on them, and if these new laws forced a paradigm shift from everyone being able to communicate, to only a few who can afford huge ass servers, and expensive windows NT licenses, I'm sure they'd be happy, Just look at the history of radio. It used to be a place where everyone had a voice, but now it is in the exclusive control of major media. I wouldn't be to surprised if that's what happens to the net. Usenet and IRC will become like HAM radio. The rest will be the online cyberspace information super web. And it will be lock-down controlled by major companies.
The ideas being discussed in the house seem aberrant to the idea we have of the Internet. But what you have to realize is the idea we have of the net isn't the same as the one held by the teaming AOL masses. What you have to remember, is that none of these companies ever really even wanted an Internet, it just kind of showed up. They wanted something they could control, and they didn't get it. Does anyone remember the 'information superhighway'? It was supposed to let you see movies on demand, when you paid for them, It was going to be smart TVs and phones and giant servers. And it never happened, because people just sort of noticed the Internet, and how cool it was.
But, I think that if these companies get their way, it won't be the internet any more. It'll be the information superhighway again, and it will be lame. And that is exactly what they do understand.
Slashdot, apparently, has something called a 'lameness filter', basically an algorithmic system to filter out posts that are 'lame'. If a post triggers the filter, it gets blocked. I once ran into it when I tried to illustrate the size of a large number in relation to another number by writing it out. It got 'lameness filtered'. I don't know how long its been in existence, but it seems kind of redundant when you have the 70-second post attempt thing as well.
Getting 'Bitch slapped' is when your karma drops an extreme amount, like 50 or 60 points, or something. Someone posted on one of the threads that it happened to him. He believed it was because he modded down signal 11, or something like that. The person thought it Rob Malda did it himself.
1) Jupiter's 4th moon. That's what were talking about here.
2) US postal code for the state of Iowa.
3) In computer science, an acronym for Input/Output. (Often written I/O or I2O for 'intelligent' I/O). It refers to any kind data that is transferred (as opposed to stored in memory... most of the time)
4) Iodine Monoxide. A poisonous gas. Used in the first world war by the nazis. Neil Stephenson, a famous author and veteran of that war suffered some lifelong ill effects from it.
5) A rather large, shelled, Marsupial who's habitat is a small island in the Indian Ocean. Pirates used to use them for food, since once they were turned on their backs they couldn't get back up. They would have rooms full of them, all turned on there backs, waiting to be eaten in the ships back in the. There aren't very many Ios left today.
6) Io Portallieni, A famous Renaissance Italian Author from 1750s. A lot of our common legends/stories are based on his ideas. Hansle and Grettle(sp?), Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella, Star Wars. All were his ideas originally.
IIRC, Volcanos spew Chlorene, whereas chloroflorcarbons, CFCs, can only be man made. The two have diffrent effects on the ozone layer. I personaly don't know if I buy into the whole CFCs cause Ozone holes thing, though. but who knows...
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There is no way that Linux, or any other OS is going to ever be anymore then a few percentage points ahead of windows. Or any other OS designed to have games played on it. It simply is not going to happen. If the hardware is the same, the only thing that can slow a game down is gross incompetence on the part of the driver writer/game coder. NOT the OS I don't see that happening on the windows side. What OS your running isn't going to effect game performance one bit, as long as it has some basic optimizations.
Windows is still somewhat based on DOS, which never was too big on multitasking. Games completely take over your system,
This is so completely wrong, how the hell did it get modded up? Windows isn't based on dos any more then Linux is because of Dosemu and lodlin.com. The only reason the system boots in dos mode (in win9x) is for compatibility sake. In fact, this no longer happens in WinME.
And as far as taking over your system, it simply doesn't happen. The game can take over your screen with directX, and use a Realtime priority thread if it wants to hog the CPU, but it probably doesn't. This is no different then what happens in Linux. Win32 programs don't use DOS at all, that's why they run on NT and 2000, witch don't use DOS code at all.
Is it so hard for people to know what they're talking about before doing so?
Wow, an epiffiany! Thanks to your post, I realize I'm one of the thousands of loosers (millions, actualy) out there who wastes time playing video games! Movies, books, video games, music, everything is just such a waste of time And remember, idle hands are the devils hands. And things that are fun should never be done. What was I thinking. All this time I've wasted playing quake3 I could have been staring at a wall or something! or working feverishly on a lame, content free, website!
Thanks for showing me the way albamuth!
I'll politely disagree. No corporation has the power to grant or deny a radio or TV license.
Well, it dosn't matter much, beacuse corporations are the only ones with radio or TV licenses. They can certanly stop you from having a say, even if you could afford advertizing time.
And your defnition of monopoly is wrong, even if we assume adam-smith economic conservatism, we can still have a government granted monopoly. And most cable companies are the only way to get highspeed internet access, they are monopolies granted by the local governments.
I kept thinking back to a short story I read once as a child about a man in the future who was arrested for "walking" at night. No other reason. I could feel the same insanity in F 451.
:P.
Supposedly, bradburry himself was questioned by the cops for walking out at night with a frend, before he wrote the book. He also wrote a short story version of f451 before the book, maybe you remembered the story beacuse it was the same one
The US government doesn't want to ban Drug related information. Some people in congress do, but that is why we have a system of checks and balances. As far as I know, that bill was crushed.
As far as gambling, that isn't information. It's an action. And they don't need to go to the router level to stop it ether. Basically all they have to do is tell visa corp. and MasterCard to simply not pay the gambling places when people loose there money there.
But, on the other hand, there is a far more serious threat when it comes to online free speech. Copyrights. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see the network castrated in the manner you described. Not to stop porn or Nazi related items, but to kill the trade of items 'owned' by the MPAA or RIAA. And they won't need the government to do it ether. AOL-Time Warner owns the pipes leading to half of all the citizens of the United States. What's to stop them from blocking the gnutella/napster ports of all there clients? What's to stop them from filtering their cable networks (that they have local monopolies in) for copyright infringement?
To be honest, I don't even see why there bothering with trying to get the government to pass laws anyway. Other then the fact that they're stupid.
But only because you choose to read what they tell you to read!
Read his post again. What you wrote is the first thing that came to mind, that I might write as well. But, it isn't what he's saying. All that he's saying, I think is that you need some kind of 'censorship'. If I can stop something from reaching 99% of the people in the world, who might be interested, then I have censored, somewhat. Nothing is absolute, and nothing can be censored completely.
I think the moderation system works, for me at least, because it keeps people from posting garbage. Look at the percentage of posts that actually are -1 in most stories. It really isn't that many. For me, the moderation system works wonderfully, but that's because I read at -1. It isn't that the garbage gets moderated down, its that people don't even bother posting it.
I don't see post that have been unfairly moderated very often, but, when they are it really is a form of censorship, because its removing the voice of the person who is trying to speak. But, I think what the other posters point was, is that it is necessary. Slashdot could not function without it.
All you did was compare one of the characters to Jon Katz. Saying, "I can't rate this book" What's that? "I can't say what's wrong with that" what's that? I'm sure there are things that are wrong with the book. And I never pictured the 'future' in 451 to be anything like the Jetsons, the only technology they have that we don't are really, really big LCD panels.
And secondly, The kind of censorship in Fahrenheit 451isn't really anything like the problems we are facing today. Today, it isn't the government, but corporations with far more power filtering. Dragging the book out only to say that it agrees with your viewpoints isn't a review, and isn't even really that important.
I heard that directly from microsoft. Wince uses a giant registry, instaid of a normal filesystem. How much do you know about the WinCE filesystem? idiot.
Linus: Of course you should be able to sue over copyrights. The one good lawsuit in the whole Napster case is the one by Metallica: a suit by the actual authors. While it's probably motivated mostly by money, I can still at least hope that there is a strong feeling of morals there, too
Hemos: he's merely saying that copyrights aren't necessarily a bad thing, and that piracy is a bad thing.
Sure, that's merely saying that. He obviously agrees with metallica, but we can't bash him beacuse he's Linus, and Linus can't be wrong can he? Of course not, thanks for clearning that up Hemos.
We now can choose between Al Gore, champion of the DMCA, or Gorege W, who I'm sure isn't exactly against it.
I don't really see how this helps us out....
What need to happens is the record industry needs to realize that their revenue is ending. Its a new era and if they don't think fast they are going to be out of luck.
Not if they can sucseed in stoping change.
If Congress tries to do this, the law WILL be struck down in court,
If the judge isn't clueless
and that's a big if...
Frankly, Rob, you don't understand what they're saying. How about cranking down the shrillness 5 notches and apply logical reasoning?
I take it you havn't been reading slashdot for very long?
. Now what happens if I start sharing stolen copies of MSFT Win2K, MSFT Windows ME (before it is released), Quake 3, Star Office, Transmeta's patented code morphing software source code etc.
Man, how long have you been using the internet? all that stuff is already available, ('cept for the transmeta stuff), and you probably can't get rid of it without destroying the entire 'net.
regardless of the fact that the current law is incapable of dealing with today's technology sensibly, it is the law.
If a law is unjust, then you have no obligation to follow it, only to accept the consequences for not.
The law on this matter is obsolete, and has no baring on reality. It shouldn't be followed just because 'its the law'
So, obviously, he doesn't care what happens to his copyrighted work.
Certainly, it would be wrong to steal a book, but if Borders were printing extra copies, and giving them away, there would be nothing wrong with you taking a copy.
When you download a song from napster, you aren't stealing it from someone else.
Of course they understand what's going on. Well, specifically, they don't understand. They don't understand networking technologies, that's for sure. But that doesn't mean they couldn't extend the DMCA to ban things like napster. I mean, there is a line, somewhere, between something that breaks a law and something that doesn't. What's the difference between something like back orifice 2000 and Back Offices Remote Server management? Not much, but anti-virus companies ban one and not the other.
And lets not forget that VCRs probably violate the DMCA somewhere. But you can't legalize VCRs, and the movie industry doesn't even want them banned, they make way to much money off of them.
So, congress could ban something like napster, they were shooting themselves in the foot anyway when they decided to go mp3 only. Really, they should have been allowing any kind of file through, at least then they could claim to have some kind of legitimacy. Don't get me wrong; I believe that Napster is legal under the current DMCA, since they are a service provider. And, I believe that what they are doing is ethically ok, but only because I that file sharing is ok as well.
One would expect that companies like Microsoft and Sun would probably want to weigh in on something like this, after all NFS and windows networking allow sharing of files. Certainly, here at ISU 90% of the file trading happens on the SMB network, but I don't think they will. Because they don't care. They know the government isn't going to crack down on them, and if these new laws forced a paradigm shift from everyone being able to communicate, to only a few who can afford huge ass servers, and expensive windows NT licenses, I'm sure they'd be happy, Just look at the history of radio. It used to be a place where everyone had a voice, but now it is in the exclusive control of major media. I wouldn't be to surprised if that's what happens to the net. Usenet and IRC will become like HAM radio. The rest will be the online cyberspace information super web. And it will be lock-down controlled by major companies.
The ideas being discussed in the house seem aberrant to the idea we have of the Internet. But what you have to realize is the idea we have of the net isn't the same as the one held by the teaming AOL masses. What you have to remember, is that none of these companies ever really even wanted an Internet, it just kind of showed up. They wanted something they could control, and they didn't get it. Does anyone remember the 'information superhighway'? It was supposed to let you see movies on demand, when you paid for them, It was going to be smart TVs and phones and giant servers. And it never happened, because people just sort of noticed the Internet, and how cool it was.
But, I think that if these companies get their way, it won't be the internet any more. It'll be the information superhighway again, and it will be lame. And that is exactly what they do understand.
Pathetic devices, those. They cost $800, way to much, really. And they were ugly to. My highschool got some.
I wouldn't be surprised if a registry is hidden somethwere under there, adding even more bulk and hp requirements.
Actualy, from what I've read wince has nothing but a registry.
Slashdot, apparently, has something called a 'lameness filter', basically an algorithmic system to filter out posts that are 'lame'. If a post triggers the filter, it gets blocked. I once ran into it when I tried to illustrate the size of a large number in relation to another number by writing it out. It got 'lameness filtered'. I don't know how long its been in existence, but it seems kind of redundant when you have the 70-second post attempt thing as well.
Getting 'Bitch slapped' is when your karma drops an extreme amount, like 50 or 60 points, or something. Someone posted on one of the threads that it happened to him. He believed it was because he modded down signal 11, or something like that. The person thought it Rob Malda did it himself.
This is good news.
We need more companys to start sending money to the EFF. The more money they have, the better off we all are.
IO actually has many definitions:
1) Jupiter's 4th moon. That's what were talking about here.
2) US postal code for the state of Iowa.
3) In computer science, an acronym for Input/Output. (Often written I/O or I2O for 'intelligent' I/O). It refers to any kind data that is transferred (as opposed to stored in memory... most of the time)
4) Iodine Monoxide. A poisonous gas. Used in the first world war by the nazis. Neil Stephenson, a famous author and veteran of that war suffered some lifelong ill effects from it.
5) A rather large, shelled, Marsupial who's habitat is a small island in the Indian Ocean. Pirates used to use them for food, since once they were turned on their backs they couldn't get back up. They would have rooms full of them, all turned on there backs, waiting to be eaten in the ships back in the. There aren't very many Ios left today.
6) Io Portallieni, A famous Renaissance Italian Author from 1750s. A lot of our common legends/stories are based on his ideas. Hansle and Grettle(sp?), Romeo and Juliet, Cinderella, Star Wars. All were his ideas originally.
welp, that's all I can think of...
IIRC, Volcanos spew Chlorene, whereas chloroflorcarbons, CFCs, can only be man made. The two have diffrent effects on the ozone layer. I personaly don't know if I buy into the whole CFCs cause Ozone holes thing, though. but who knows...
I didn't forget the post anon button. I didn't think the post would be to offensive, and minorly funny to some people. So, I put my name on it.