I mean, those William Gibson books predate Shadowrun, don't they?
Yeah, and Metropolis predates them all. Shadowrun just put it together really well. Like White Wolf's Vampire, they took something floating around the culture in various forms and sort of brought it together. Steve Jackson Games had a few, too. Remember Autoduel? It gave background to the old Car Wars world, and that was pretty dystopian.
Shadowrun was fun, but nothing beats Mage for a pure dystopian mind twist.
It is if you take into account linux's growing market share and the fact that you can develop it for linux and solaris simultaneously. MS Office served off an Ultra60 would be a pairing no company could resist.
Here's the review. Standard review for culture so bad it presents nothing interesting to talk about: the reviewer tells a story about himself instead. Cruel, but not rising to OldManMurray's subterranean level by any means.
and here's the response. Standard response from an "artist" who uses his wit (well, half of it) to cover up genuinely hurt feelings. Sort of sad.
Death penalty? There's a difference between letting people die and killing them. The crack addled theives should have no problem getting their drug, since high availability will keep it cheap, instead of the current "first-one's-free" method of distribution. Almost MS-like, really.
Then they can OD and die without any help from us. Only if they want to, see? That's why they call it natural selection.
WTF is with helmet and seatbelt laws, anyway? How can you expect people to take the decisions they have to make seriously if those decisions have no real consequence? "Look, kids, that man didn't wear a helmet on his motorcycle and now he's smeared all over the street. Make sure you wear yours, okay?"
And drug law: why? What if they made heroin legal tomorrow? The overdose rate would go up 10x for like a year, then drop back down as all the idiots killed themselves off.
It's time self-concerning actions went back to being rights.
This kind of ad hom is not appropriate in a serious discussion. You clearly are "questioning my motives"...
You're right. That was sophistry and I'm sorry. Years of dealing with people who think complex answers have simple solutions has left me cynical, for which I'm not sorry.
I don't really care about the specific legalisms surrounding this particular issue, because I don't consider them too important.
The primary benefit of ideologies based on philosophy is usually gleaned from those aspects of the ideology which are based on the roots of said philosophy. Marx, Smith, and any thinker of cultural impact througout history has shown keen insight into the workings of his existing society, but each thinker's conclusions about future action, and the ideologies those conclusions breed, consistently fail to have measurable value in their application. This is especially true in cases where an ideology becomes increasingly simplified over time as its adherent push ever more tightly for a pure implememtation of their beliefs into the political realm. So goes the purist argument for free markets.
I don't disagree necessarily with your argument about monopolies. After all, look at the pitching in Major League Baseball this year;) What I disagree with is the application of that argument to this particular situation: by bringing up the specifics of the law, I was pointing out that the situation is more complex than the knee-jerk "deregulation in the name of capital" line we're fed in high school economics.
The law is: AT&T gives up it's monopoly in one area, and then it can break another monopoly in the area of local cable. These two monopolies continue to exist because AT&T has consistently played games with the legislation (in the courts, you see). They open up their end, they can break into the local cable markets, and the regulation can go away because there'll be no need for it.
Of course, that's probably too simple too, isn't it?
That's what I meant. Isn't the way Transmeta's translator optimizes code for itself supposed to be a little better than the old way? Wasn't Digital's fx!32 translator card the precursor to this? Wouldn't something that rewrites crappy NT code into native Alpha code require "systems research"? Is the BeOS really systems research? Or is it just more Windowy bullshit?
Maybe the Crusoe's on-the-fly translator for i386 code might be systems research? Or Digital Alpha's fx!32 card? They're different, sort of. I'm having a hard time coming up with an example of what systems research even is, never mind who's doing it now.
It's the fact that local alternatives are prohibited by law that makes AT&T such a threat. Regulating AT&T's holdings will only allow someone else to monopolize some of those outlets, which is hardly an improvement
I don't know if you work for AT&T or what, but there's something missing from this: The cable regulation placed on AT&T is conditional. It's tied to them allowing local phone companies access to their lines to compete in the long distance markets. Until these local companies reach a certain level of saturation in a given market, AT&T is blocked from competing in the local service of ANYTHING. AT&T has fought competition in that area tooth and nail, but they want de-regulation in the area they wish to expand into.
I'm not questioning your motivations, here, I'm just saying: If you watch the yapping jackals on Crossfire or some show blather about this, the pro-AT&T spin-doctor-PR-flak always skirts around the same issue, which thanks to existing regulation can't be seperated from the rest of the argument.
The truth is, if AT&T were playing along with the legislation IT PAID FOR in the first place, they would have no regulatory problems getting into the local markets as the law stands.
NYNEX (Northeast) merged with Bell Atlantic (Mid-Atlantic States), then tried to merge with BellSouth.
What needs to happen is for the local telcos (and cable) to be deregulated and a uniform system developed whereby several firms can lay fiber to any given price.
The municipalities would continue doing things the same way without some sort of prodding from the Feds. These big companies buy and sell congressmen every day, you think they don't have local reps in their pocket?
What needs to happen is a seperation of hardware and service: Electric companies sell you electricity, but they don't make the appliances you put the electricity through. There should be companies that take care of the actual wiring in the ground, but these companies should not be able to offer any services to consumers, all they can do is rent bandwidth to cable, phone, etc, who can offer services to the end user. The real problem with this AT&T merger is that they're going to own all the network hardware their competitors need to run on as well as competing in the service market.
Back when the telecom act was passed, deregulating all this stuff, all the financial analysts talked about how each major market was going to look the same: two major players and a few smaller ones. Since there's a cap of 30% in this particular market, you can see how two companies (AT&T and Time Warner) could easily share 60% and leave the other 40% to smaller companies.
The same thing's happening in radio, remember when CBS bought Infinity? they had to divest themselves of a few stations in each market, so now they have like 30-40% in each major market, such as the one here in Boston.
This has happened/will continue to happen in every unregulated industry and market. While it conforms to the anti-monopoly rules the government has set down, it leaves both the markets and consumers vulnerable to price fixing by the two leaders. Look at Coke/Pepsi. Watch the prices for 12-packs all summer as these two companies take turns, week to week, putting their product on sale.
I expect something like this to happen between AT&T and Time Warner/AOL. They'll bring cable modems to everyone, then find a price at which they can both make a little money, just low enough that no one else will be able to gain any ground on them.
Think about it: Internet 2, the move towards optical switching for the net's backbone, multiple levels of DSL service: all these are going to be have v. have-not services. Even now, the web pages can afford it get acceleration through services like Akamai, while the rest of the internet groans under the weight of thousands of new users every day.
The rising tide of network speed will not lift all boats, and while that's unfortunate, you can't be surprised. As averse as we all are to consider it, this is the kind of situation where you look at a tax-flush federal government to make sure everyone can keep up.
America is doomed if you start incarcerating people for hurting other people's feelings.
In the Larry Flynt case the Court established that free speech includes the right to insult and hurt people's feelings, so we've dodged "doom" yet again. It's what he said about the teachers, which could harm them professionally, that might be libel, but ONLY if he knew that the things he said weren't true. If he really thought his teacher was a drunk, it isn't libel, which makes trying libel cases pretty tricky.
This page suggests that printing to the IBM 4019 is possible under linux. Just search for 4019.
Non-postscript, he "Used printtool to set it as an HP LaserJet." Postscript, you need a $95 card. He posted some settings and stuff, too. Are you using it as a network printer or right off the parallel? Are you using an IBM PC (the parallel port addressing can be different) or running SuSE 6.3 (lpd-old is faulty, go to their page for the upgrade)?
Right. It's more Doonesbury than anything else. Sort of a serial. I've seen a ton of the other ones (can't remember the./ thread where someone posted a huge list), but I looked at all of them, and I can't say they were any better (Absurd Notions was okay, Help Desk is occasionally funny.)
It doesn't surprise me that he's got a book deal, I wondered why his stuff doesn't get published in certain papers (Boston Globe would be good, but the editorial staff there HATES comics and says so every chance it gets). It's basic and mainstream and the humor and plotting fits the Dilbert audience well.
Speaking of which, double_h's post was plain unfair, both to the artists(and writers) he named and Illiad. To even compare UF's setup-punchline system with Spiegelman's work is absurd: when you rate an artist's work you have to take their goals into account. Illiad isn't trying to communicate the horror of the Holocaust any more than Spiegelman was trying to poke fun at some bloated megacorp. One is "Art" art, the other is Sunday Comics at best. The guy you replied to was right, in the context of his own post, that comics like UF aren't really "Art".
What we need is to standardize the labels we apply to these forms, ontology-like, in order to better delineate what we're talking about. Cartoons, Comics, Comix, Manga, Graphic Novels, we need a more systematized way of classifying this huge pool of culture. I wish the Museum of Sequential Art was still open, maybe we could get them to help.
-jpowers
You Know You've Been Watching Too Much Ranma 1/2 When...
This goes a little beyond that, even. The human characters have the same backgrounds. The scientist's wife that commited suicide, some of the shots in thsoe scenes are the same. the only thing they changed was the end. I didn't think it was possible to make standing on Jupiter and talking to a giant floating head look good, but Event Horizon managed it.
-jpowers
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They just host it. Interplay has the FASA licenses. Check out the old Shadowrun game for sega. Shooting zombies is fun.
-jpowers
I mean, those William Gibson books predate Shadowrun, don't they?
Yeah, and Metropolis predates them all. Shadowrun just put it together really well. Like White Wolf's Vampire, they took something floating around the culture in various forms and sort of brought it together. Steve Jackson Games had a few, too. Remember Autoduel? It gave background to the old Car Wars world, and that was pretty dystopian.
Shadowrun was fun, but nothing beats Mage for a pure dystopian mind twist.
-jpowers
I'll take a data jack, please. And titanium bone lacing. New eyes with IR and a Smartlink. Boosted Reflexes, definitely. All alpha.
-jpowers
It is if you take into account linux's growing market share and the fact that you can develop it for linux and solaris simultaneously. MS Office served off an Ultra60 would be a pairing no company could resist.
-jpowers
They bought the wheel design from logitech (who makes all MS mice anyway.
And SuSE 6.3+ supports the wheel.
-jpowers
That's why it's in quotes. Alters the context.
Example: 1. He's a good speller.
meaning: that man can spell well.
2. He's a "good speller."
meaning: that man is barely literate.
tricky, eh?
-jpowers
Here's the review. Standard review for culture so bad it presents nothing interesting to talk about: the reviewer tells a story about himself instead. Cruel, but not rising to OldManMurray's subterranean level by any means.
and here's the response. Standard response from an "artist" who uses his wit (well, half of it) to cover up genuinely hurt feelings. Sort of sad.
-jpowers
Death penalty? There's a difference between letting people die and killing them. The crack addled theives should have no problem getting their drug, since high availability will keep it cheap, instead of the current "first-one's-free" method of distribution. Almost MS-like, really.
Then they can OD and die without any help from us. Only if they want to, see? That's why they call it natural selection.
-jpowers
WTF is with helmet and seatbelt laws, anyway? How can you expect people to take the decisions they have to make seriously if those decisions have no real consequence? "Look, kids, that man didn't wear a helmet on his motorcycle and now he's smeared all over the street. Make sure you wear yours, okay?"
And drug law: why? What if they made heroin legal tomorrow? The overdose rate would go up 10x for like a year, then drop back down as all the idiots killed themselves off.
It's time self-concerning actions went back to being rights.
-jpowers
My mom always bitched about how hot their coffee was. I guess they keep (kept?) it that way so it tastes fresh a little longer.
-jpowers
What's this page now, Old Man Murray or something? While you're over there, look at the SWAT 3 Strategy Guide, it's funny.
A good, "non-biased" review of Daikatana can be found at Dailyradar.
-jpowers
This kind of ad hom is not appropriate in a serious discussion. You clearly are "questioning my motives"...
;) What I disagree with is the application of that argument to this particular situation: by bringing up the specifics of the law, I was pointing out that the situation is more complex than the knee-jerk "deregulation in the name of capital" line we're fed in high school economics.
You're right. That was sophistry and I'm sorry. Years of dealing with people who think complex answers have simple solutions has left me cynical, for which I'm not sorry.
I don't really care about the specific legalisms surrounding this particular issue, because I don't consider them too important.
The primary benefit of ideologies based on philosophy is usually gleaned from those aspects of the ideology which are based on the roots of said philosophy. Marx, Smith, and any thinker of cultural impact througout history has shown keen insight into the workings of his existing society, but each thinker's conclusions about future action, and the ideologies those conclusions breed, consistently fail to have measurable value in their application. This is especially true in cases where an ideology becomes increasingly simplified over time as its adherent push ever more tightly for a pure implememtation of their beliefs into the political realm. So goes the purist argument for free markets.
I don't disagree necessarily with your argument about monopolies. After all, look at the pitching in Major League Baseball this year
The law is: AT&T gives up it's monopoly in one area, and then it can break another monopoly in the area of local cable. These two monopolies continue to exist because AT&T has consistently played games with the legislation (in the courts, you see). They open up their end, they can break into the local cable markets, and the regulation can go away because there'll be no need for it.
Of course, that's probably too simple too, isn't it?
-jpowers
That's what I meant. Isn't the way Transmeta's translator optimizes code for itself supposed to be a little better than the old way? Wasn't Digital's fx!32 translator card the precursor to this? Wouldn't something that rewrites crappy NT code into native Alpha code require "systems research"? Is the BeOS really systems research? Or is it just more Windowy bullshit?
-jpowers
Maybe the Crusoe's on-the-fly translator for i386 code might be systems research? Or Digital Alpha's fx!32 card? They're different, sort of. I'm having a hard time coming up with an example of what systems research even is, never mind who's doing it now.
-jpowers
It's the fact that local alternatives are prohibited by law that makes AT&T such a threat. Regulating AT&T's holdings will only allow someone else to monopolize some of those outlets, which is hardly an improvement
I don't know if you work for AT&T or what, but there's something missing from this: The cable regulation placed on AT&T is conditional. It's tied to them allowing local phone companies access to their lines to compete in the long distance markets. Until these local companies reach a certain level of saturation in a given market, AT&T is blocked from competing in the local service of ANYTHING. AT&T has fought competition in that area tooth and nail, but they want de-regulation in the area they wish to expand into.
I'm not questioning your motivations, here, I'm just saying: If you watch the yapping jackals on Crossfire or some show blather about this, the pro-AT&T spin-doctor-PR-flak always skirts around the same issue, which thanks to existing regulation can't be seperated from the rest of the argument.
The truth is, if AT&T were playing along with the legislation IT PAID FOR in the first place, they would have no regulatory problems getting into the local markets as the law stands.
-jpowers
The regional Bells are still separate.
NYNEX (Northeast) merged with Bell Atlantic (Mid-Atlantic States), then tried to merge with BellSouth.
What needs to happen is for the local telcos (and cable) to be deregulated and a uniform system developed whereby several firms can lay fiber to any given price.
The municipalities would continue doing things the same way without some sort of prodding from the Feds. These big companies buy and sell congressmen every day, you think they don't have local reps in their pocket?
What needs to happen is a seperation of hardware and service: Electric companies sell you electricity, but they don't make the appliances you put the electricity through. There should be companies that take care of the actual wiring in the ground, but these companies should not be able to offer any services to consumers, all they can do is rent bandwidth to cable, phone, etc, who can offer services to the end user. The real problem with this AT&T merger is that they're going to own all the network hardware their competitors need to run on as well as competing in the service market.
One or the other should be the rule.
-jpowers
Back when the telecom act was passed, deregulating all this stuff, all the financial analysts talked about how each major market was going to look the same: two major players and a few smaller ones. Since there's a cap of 30% in this particular market, you can see how two companies (AT&T and Time Warner) could easily share 60% and leave the other 40% to smaller companies.
The same thing's happening in radio, remember when CBS bought Infinity? they had to divest themselves of a few stations in each market, so now they have like 30-40% in each major market, such as the one here in Boston.
This has happened/will continue to happen in every unregulated industry and market. While it conforms to the anti-monopoly rules the government has set down, it leaves both the markets and consumers vulnerable to price fixing by the two leaders. Look at Coke/Pepsi. Watch the prices for 12-packs all summer as these two companies take turns, week to week, putting their product on sale.
I expect something like this to happen between AT&T and Time Warner/AOL. They'll bring cable modems to everyone, then find a price at which they can both make a little money, just low enough that no one else will be able to gain any ground on them.
-jpowers
Think about it: Internet 2, the move towards optical switching for the net's backbone, multiple levels of DSL service: all these are going to be have v. have-not services. Even now, the web pages can afford it get acceleration through services like Akamai, while the rest of the internet groans under the weight of thousands of new users every day.
The rising tide of network speed will not lift all boats, and while that's unfortunate, you can't be surprised. As averse as we all are to consider it, this is the kind of situation where you look at a tax-flush federal government to make sure everyone can keep up.
-jpowers
America is doomed if you start incarcerating people for hurting other people's feelings.
In the Larry Flynt case the Court established that free speech includes the right to insult and hurt people's feelings, so we've dodged "doom" yet again. It's what he said about the teachers, which could harm them professionally, that might be libel, but ONLY if he knew that the things he said weren't true. If he really thought his teacher was a drunk, it isn't libel, which makes trying libel cases pretty tricky.
-jpowers
If you don't like it, go cry somewhere else, where we don't have to hear you.
Classy. Nice to see the First Amendment still gets the respect it deserves.
-jpowers
This page suggests that printing to the IBM 4019 is possible under linux. Just search for 4019.
Non-postscript, he "Used printtool to set it as an HP LaserJet." Postscript, you need a $95 card. He posted some settings and stuff, too. Are you using it as a network printer or right off the parallel? Are you using an IBM PC (the parallel port addressing can be different) or running SuSE 6.3 (lpd-old is faulty, go to their page for the upgrade)?
-jpowers
The last thing the Linux community needs is more people who want everything done for them.
Damn, take it easy. This guy's just looking for help.
-jpowers
It doesn't surprise me that he's got a book deal, I wondered why his stuff doesn't get published in certain papers (Boston Globe would be good, but the editorial staff there HATES comics and says so every chance it gets). It's basic and mainstream and the humor and plotting fits the Dilbert audience well.
Speaking of which, double_h's post was plain unfair, both to the artists(and writers) he named and Illiad. To even compare UF's setup-punchline system with Spiegelman's work is absurd: when you rate an artist's work you have to take their goals into account. Illiad isn't trying to communicate the horror of the Holocaust any more than Spiegelman was trying to poke fun at some bloated megacorp. One is "Art" art, the other is Sunday Comics at best. The guy you replied to was right, in the context of his own post, that comics like UF aren't really "Art".
What we need is to standardize the labels we apply to these forms, ontology-like, in order to better delineate what we're talking about. Cartoons, Comics, Comix, Manga, Graphic Novels, we need a more systematized way of classifying this huge pool of culture. I wish the Museum of Sequential Art was still open, maybe we could get them to help.
-jpowers
This goes a little beyond that, even. The human characters have the same backgrounds. The scientist's wife that commited suicide, some of the shots in thsoe scenes are the same. the only thing they changed was the end. I didn't think it was possible to make standing on Jupiter and talking to a giant floating head look good, but Event Horizon managed it.
-jpowers
It must be submitted in hardcopy (no fax, no e-mail) to Judge Kaplan
RTFA
-jpowers