I agree with this post. Government institutions dedicated to technology are just great during war (or cold war) times but during peace-time, it just seems plain to think that they would become dysfunctional as any bloated government institution.
Yes, NASA will always be our heroes for their brave exploits during the 60's and 70's but I agree -- it is time to open the heavens for private agencies to explore.
Plus, it is imperative that we have mega corporations colonize Mars so that we can live out our fantasies of a real life Red Faction deathmatch!
Has anyone heard of any Linux projects regarding GPL IP telephony? The big boys are doing it and it rocks for big offices but what about for us geeks at home?
Death to RJ-11!!!!! RJ-45 till I die!!!
There was like a whole techie article w/ diagrams posted many months ago detailing how the PS2 architecture is superior for gaming than the PC architecture. Sure you can throw $4,000 worth of hardware at a game and match or beat the PS2 but the PS2 only costs $295....
You're wrong. The PS2 architecture is far superior for handling the specific needs of gaming applications compared to desktop machines. You have to throw a lot more ($$$$) hardware at the problem with a PC than with a PS2.
Plus the PS2 looks so kewl and plays DVD's and hooks up to my TV with S-Video so it looks even better!
"I wouldn't underestimate Nokia's ability to innovate and expand to new markets."
Famous last words.
It doesn't take a marketing genius (which I am) to smell the bullshit with this one.
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By integrating this with LIDAR and RADAR telemetry and FOF systems, Aegis, a simple but custom Quake III mod, and a fleet of unmanned remote controlled HMRKVs (High Mobility Robotic Kill Vehicles, "Homorobokills" in military lingo), the future of war is being defined by the Pentagon and CIA as a huge Quake deathmatch.
Unknowing teenagers and gaming enthusiasts will download these very entertaining "combat simulation" mods for Quake, install them and go to town fraggin. Unknown to them, however, is that the enemies they are fighting against are actual real life enemies on a foreign battlefield and that their quick reflexes and Quake deathmatch mastery are serving the Forces of Democracy. Each motion is transmitted via satellie to a HMRKV dedicated to this user.
In addition, multiple gamers may command a single HMRKV. Certain server side algorithms are employed to identify the most effective killer and those commands are the ones sent to the HMRKV.
Id software is nothing more than a front for the CIA these days. Sad but true.
That's it. This is how Linux will succed. Think of it as Valet Parking for the average user. We install Linux and show them how to get online, then if they want something, they call their Linux Service Provider, and the LSP will install the software for them. This could use some more discussion.
And I assume this LSP is just going to do all this for FREE, right?? So, you've basically just went well and above what Microsoft is trying to do by suggesting a sustained revenue stream from users if they want to use their computer.
Okay wiseguy, how long does it take your mother to figure out how to install a piece of software on Linux? How about uninstall? How about change the screen resolution and bit depth?.. She is not allowed to call you, her darling linux geek son, for help during this test, mind you.
If your mother can even successfully complete these tasks on Linux, with any distribution, window manager, or anything, then she is well and above the average skill of any given sample of 'mothers' out there.
It never ceases to amaze me how you linux freaks delude yourselfs into thinking that everyone else sees the world EXACTLY the same way you do and has EXACTLY the same attitudes about EVERYTHING.
Linux is succeeding in small business IT and that is great and wonderful. It has not caught on with corporate executives because corporate executives would rather spent their money on big dog vendors like Sun, HP, etc. There are also departmental standards in which certain hardware and software platforms are pretty much set and standardized.
As far as the consumer market goes.... geesh as if Windoze isn't hard enough for mom to figure out how to use -- let's get her to learn Linux!!! Hint: A computer's usability is not determined merely by the amount of colors and purty widgets present in the window manager.
...ISP's are the most competitive business there is, and these days its even worse. You are going to have to go up against the biggies -- all the small mom-and-pop ISP's have pretty much threw in the towel.
El wifo had the displeasure of working with Garriot on a TV production... she hates him with an avarice ever since.
I knew many in Austin who slobbered to work at Origin. They paid their programmers shit wages and it was so easy to recruit their senior folks to work with non-gaming companies that offered competitive salaries (once the glam of working for the gaming industry wore off these folks, they were easy pickins)
This reminds me of a couple of years back Richard Garriot was trying to get in the pants of my best friend's girlfriend and proceeded to convince my best friend that if he developed a game as a resume that he would somehow hire him at Origin (told to him via his girlfriend whom he met at a bar etc etc).. Anyway, my friend spent months of his life whittling away at this little 2D shooter that was nice and cute and all but Garriot never even looked at it or gave my friend the time of day. I warned him about this during the whole process.
Bottom line: The gaming industry is just like the entertainment industry. It's about who you know, who you fuck, and who you fuck over, and don't expect it to be an easy entry or lucrative unless you're just brilliant or have sucked the right cock.
Geeeeeeeeeze the paranoia and conspiracy theories just ABOUND these days.
Oh no! It's new! It's evil! It must be feared! The world might end! EEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!
I can send instructions on how to manufacture nerve gas and detailed orders on how to kill the entire population of New York in a 2k file.
I can store credit card numbers of the entire population of the United States in a 8 gigabyte file. Compress it down and burn it to a DVD and send it out fed-ex.. or just put it on a website.
Calm down, take your lithium, and please people PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD enough with the conspiracy theories!!!!!!
I check my regular mail (which is at the front of my apartment building) about once every two weeks
Geesh I wish I could be so lucky.. if I neglect my mailbox for even two days, it's usually crammed with crap and all the relevant envelopes are wrinkled and ugly.. I live in an apartment too.. Wish I had one of those big healthy mailboxes like normal people have but no I have to live with a teeny tiny mailbox. And not only do I get junkmail for me, but for every other tenant that has ever lived there, back to 1965. grrrrrrrr... poor trees.
Of course the judge threw the case out. It was a frivilous lawsuit any way you look at it.
These patent infringement things that everyone here collectively moans about are an entirely different story, unfortunately... the law is much 'stickier' in these cases.
Remember the Magna-Plane speakers? They were 1" thick and quite high price. Had very good sound reproduction and are still highly sought after by audiophiles. These are totally different technology, though, and certainly couldn't be "rolled up".
I tend to think your prediction of singing greeting cards is an accurate theory of how these might be applied.
Reading that article gives me the creeps. I'd just as soon keep my biological tissues cooked and edible and my machines cold and inorganic. Using rat brains to run Seti? ewww
This has been the story of Apple's life. One half of the company is filled with brilliant and creative engineers. The other filled with incompetent morons and attorneys who seek to thwart the possible success of the former half's works time and time again.
Just think guys, we're a bulletpoint on somebody's resume!
Him and JonKatz are hoping to get their own cable show, undoubtedly.
CmdrTaco, however, I believe wants to be a reclusive ubergeek for life and is passionate about what he does.
Hemos.. Hemos mystifies me. Not quite sure where he is at, but its probably in his parent's basement and involves conspicuous amounts of marijuana and Quake 3.
Quicktime beats the crap out of Windows Media and Real codec's many times plus some. Go check out http://www.apple.com/trailers/ and if you've got decent bandwidth, check out the high bandwidth videos. I've never seen WMP or Real equivs to that quality, even at high exposure places like atomfilms.com. Even the low-res clips look great.
Moral: It's an aesthetics thing. Totally different universe from Unix geekdom.;-)
Also, thank you Mr. Franklin for taking time to come back to this mortal coil to help me out. You, sir, are one of my personal heroes and one of the most brilliant men ever to live.
Reading Slashdot can be quite a downer often enough. Lots of reasons to want to emigrate from the States to somewhere else. However, there's really nowhere else to go. All the 'decent' countries are allied and in this together, it seems. The only ones not taking part are places like China and Afghanistan(sp?) and the like.
It's become increasingly clear, also, that 'voting' is pretty much an exercise in futility since its pretty clear who REALLY runs the country -- corporate greed.
With all the pure BULLSHIT that has infected our lives, I really wish there were a "reboot" button on society. This is what the Founding Fathers were able to do. They drafted a brilliant foundation for a successful country, but they didn't put any stop measure in to keep it from becoming infinitely beauracratic and corrupt.
Corporations "re-engineer" themselves all the time. Wipe the slate clean, terminate all policies (laws), everything.. Then assemble a team of top notch leaders and visionaries and recreate everything from scratch.
If the private sector can do it, why not the public?
(sigh) if only there were another "new world" that we could colonize and invent a new government for. No, I will not move to Mars. That planet looks horribly and unbearably BORING.
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Yes, NASA will always be our heroes for their brave exploits during the 60's and 70's but I agree -- it is time to open the heavens for private agencies to explore.
Plus, it is imperative that we have mega corporations colonize Mars so that we can live out our fantasies of a real life Red Faction deathmatch!
HTH okbye
Has anyone heard of any Linux projects regarding GPL IP telephony? The big boys are doing it and it rocks for big offices but what about for us geeks at home? Death to RJ-11!!!!! RJ-45 till I die!!!
There was like a whole techie article w/ diagrams posted many months ago detailing how the PS2 architecture is superior for gaming than the PC architecture. Sure you can throw $4,000 worth of hardware at a game and match or beat the PS2 but the PS2 only costs $295....
You're wrong. The PS2 architecture is far superior for handling the specific needs of gaming applications compared to desktop machines. You have to throw a lot more ($$$$) hardware at the problem with a PC than with a PS2. Plus the PS2 looks so kewl and plays DVD's and hooks up to my TV with S-Video so it looks even better!
Famous last words. It doesn't take a marketing genius (which I am) to smell the bullshit with this one.
By integrating this with LIDAR and RADAR telemetry and FOF systems, Aegis, a simple but custom Quake III mod, and a fleet of unmanned remote controlled HMRKVs (High Mobility Robotic Kill Vehicles, "Homorobokills" in military lingo), the future of war is being defined by the Pentagon and CIA as a huge Quake deathmatch.
Unknowing teenagers and gaming enthusiasts will download these very entertaining "combat simulation" mods for Quake, install them and go to town fraggin. Unknown to them, however, is that the enemies they are fighting against are actual real life enemies on a foreign battlefield and that their quick reflexes and Quake deathmatch mastery are serving the Forces of Democracy. Each motion is transmitted via satellie to a HMRKV dedicated to this user.
In addition, multiple gamers may command a single HMRKV. Certain server side algorithms are employed to identify the most effective killer and those commands are the ones sent to the HMRKV.
Id software is nothing more than a front for the CIA these days. Sad but true.
And I assume this LSP is just going to do all this for FREE, right?? So, you've basically just went well and above what Microsoft is trying to do by suggesting a sustained revenue stream from users if they want to use their computer.
More Linux hypocrisy. pfft.
If your mother can even successfully complete these tasks on Linux, with any distribution, window manager, or anything, then she is well and above the average skill of any given sample of 'mothers' out there.
But I lost karma so I guess it was a bad thing and I'm truly very sorry. :'( can you ever forgive me, my comrades?
Linux is succeeding in small business IT and that is great and wonderful. It has not caught on with corporate executives because corporate executives would rather spent their money on big dog vendors like Sun, HP, etc. There are also departmental standards in which certain hardware and software platforms are pretty much set and standardized.
As far as the consumer market goes.... geesh as if Windoze isn't hard enough for mom to figure out how to use -- let's get her to learn Linux!!! Hint: A computer's usability is not determined merely by the amount of colors and purty widgets present in the window manager.
Enjoy your bankruptcy.
I knew many in Austin who slobbered to work at Origin. They paid their programmers shit wages and it was so easy to recruit their senior folks to work with non-gaming companies that offered competitive salaries (once the glam of working for the gaming industry wore off these folks, they were easy pickins)
Bottom line: The gaming industry is just like the entertainment industry. It's about who you know, who you fuck, and who you fuck over, and don't expect it to be an easy entry or lucrative unless you're just brilliant or have sucked the right cock.
Oh no! It's new! It's evil! It must be feared! The world might end! EEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!
I can send instructions on how to manufacture nerve gas and detailed orders on how to kill the entire population of New York in a 2k file.
I can store credit card numbers of the entire population of the United States in a 8 gigabyte file. Compress it down and burn it to a DVD and send it out fed-ex.. or just put it on a website.
Calm down, take your lithium, and please people PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD enough with the conspiracy theories!!!!!!
Geesh I wish I could be so lucky.. if I neglect my mailbox for even two days, it's usually crammed with crap and all the relevant envelopes are wrinkled and ugly.. I live in an apartment too.. Wish I had one of those big healthy mailboxes like normal people have but no I have to live with a teeny tiny mailbox. And not only do I get junkmail for me, but for every other tenant that has ever lived there, back to 1965. grrrrrrrr... poor trees.
You're a geek superstar... it comes with a price. stop bitching. ;-)
These patent infringement things that everyone here collectively moans about are an entirely different story, unfortunately... the law is much 'stickier' in these cases.
I tend to think your prediction of singing greeting cards is an accurate theory of how these might be applied.
Reading that article gives me the creeps. I'd just as soon keep my biological tissues cooked and edible and my machines cold and inorganic. Using rat brains to run Seti? ewww
This has been the story of Apple's life. One half of the company is filled with brilliant and creative engineers. The other filled with incompetent morons and attorneys who seek to thwart the possible success of the former half's works time and time again.
It's sad, it's depressing, it's nothing new. :-(
Just think guys, we're a bulletpoint on somebody's resume!
Him and JonKatz are hoping to get their own cable show, undoubtedly.
CmdrTaco, however, I believe wants to be a reclusive ubergeek for life and is passionate about what he does.
Hemos.. Hemos mystifies me. Not quite sure where he is at, but its probably in his parent's basement and involves conspicuous amounts of marijuana and Quake 3.
tihs gy is jist a produk of or fien eduakashon sestim plees dont be so meen
Moral: It's an aesthetics thing. Totally different universe from Unix geekdom. ;-)
Thank you, that was quite informative.
Also, thank you Mr. Franklin for taking time to come back to this mortal coil to help me out. You, sir, are one of my personal heroes and one of the most brilliant men ever to live.
Reading Slashdot can be quite a downer often enough. Lots of reasons to want to emigrate from the States to somewhere else. However, there's really nowhere else to go. All the 'decent' countries are allied and in this together, it seems. The only ones not taking part are places like China and Afghanistan(sp?) and the like.
It's become increasingly clear, also, that 'voting' is pretty much an exercise in futility since its pretty clear who REALLY runs the country -- corporate greed.
Corporations "re-engineer" themselves all the time. Wipe the slate clean, terminate all policies (laws), everything.. Then assemble a team of top notch leaders and visionaries and recreate everything from scratch.
If the private sector can do it, why not the public?
(sigh) if only there were another "new world" that we could colonize and invent a new government for. No, I will not move to Mars. That planet looks horribly and unbearably BORING.