The reason you often see 40 copies of N*Sync crap is that its popular, not because of the commercialization. Granted, the commercialization drove those and thier ilk into the public mainstream, but Napster in no way currently sways a user to download one thing or another. No advirtisments (as yet), but JonKatz's hypothesis would change all that.
Wouldn't you be downright pissed to download a song from Napster to find out that it cut out like 5 seconds from the end (and cmon now, I'm sure its happened to most everybody before)?
Hell, sometimes I download 3 copies of the same song just because the quality differs so.
"I think we should just kill off religion and believe what we want, good bad, doesn't matter."
I hope you don't actually mean that. All theological discussions as to the exsistance of a higher power aside, religion serves an important purpose in society. Humankind has always needed some sense of something bigger (see Joseph Campbell's "Manmade Myth"). And being the short-lived fragile beings we are, its comforting to feel that our time spend toiling upon the earth might actually be worth something.
"If anything upsets me it is when people start expecting more rights than others because they are a minority. Why does every minority need its own special rights now?"
It's because humans fear that which is different. And persecute upon that bias. And that makes people defensive and ask for extra assistance. Not that I'm agreeing with minority assistance.
I just have to rant a small bit here about the Christian Right.
Jesus wasn't all about doing good things. Well, okay, he was, but he was more about compassion, love, and understanding of our fellow man. People who go out of thier way to limit other's freedom (be they church groups preaching "whats right" or those freaks who put ratings on videogames and music) aren't doing a very good job of following JC's original intent.
Katz's Hellmouth is a prime example. I have a good friend who used to recieve hate mail from churches because he was known in the community for running D&D adventures. Stuff like that.
Aw hell. Maybe I've got it all wrong, but if some Christians would just make a wholescale reassesment of what thier faith really means to them, maybe some of these issues like prayer in school wouldn't be issues.
Dirk
PS: read the liner notes in moby's 'everything is wrong' & 'i like to score albums. he says it better than i.
I'm afraid that's what it's like. Grew up in rural Wisconsin. Living now in Boston, when I head home for one reason or another and I see old classmates, I realize that I have like NOTHING in common with most of them. I'm disgusted by pickup truck driving, beer-from-a-can swilling small towners. I know it sounds a little elitist, but I think the 'net has contributed to my personal evolution. I think and converse about things that I never would have been touched on if I never had left. The small town mentality...stifles one. Without the 'net, I don't know that America would have been my "land of opportunity."
Dirk
go ahead and mod me down but...
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Is UNIX An OS?
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...I just have to say that D. Every is a nearsighted moron.
The only difference bewteen what I do from a *nix console and windows (or MacOS to fit the bill) is that I don't have purdy little pictures. That's all just an extention of the GUI. Control Panel? It's called a copy of vi and/etc for pete's sake.
I'll admit that command line ICQ isn't all that hot, and to gimp is to need a GUI, but I'm hard pressed to find something I CAN'T do from the command line.
The article author is right. Symantics. Some-antics. Whatever.
They can write them off as a major business expense/loss. It may cause a few ruffles in stock prices, but it'll do great things for them when it comes time to post thier earnings and pay appropriate taxes.
Cmon now. Animals (well, some) may be sentient, but when was the last time you saw a spark of intelligence in a cow's eye? I'm sorry. There ain't one. I worked on a farm throughout high school.
I'm a compassionate person. I don't condone animal cruelty. And I don't think that was the original poster's intent. It was instead that there is a natural hierarchy here. And following it makes some sense. We humans may be horribly evolved and all, but we got where we are because we've eaten like we have.
Bears eat meat. Cats toy with mice before EATING them. Dolphins live thier entire lives eating sentient fish...and dolphins are quite possibly smarter than WE are. Nobody's bitching about thier diets.
I was under the assumption that their chips would just need a software flash of some sort and they'd be reconfigured to run a different instruction set.
I'm not disputing you, tho. I imagine the x86 code is what they're centering on first. But you shouldn't need a whole different chip.
Then again, I've been known to blow smoke out my ass.
Likewise, the Soyo SY-6VBA 133 allows it, as well. Up to 155, actually. It also allows you to run your RAM slower than the rest of the system bus. As in, I've got a PIII 450 running at 600 on the 133fsb, but my ram is only at 100. So if I had a nasty-ass coppermine, I'd be able to punch it up to 155 and keep my ram at a gentle ~116.5Mhz The AGP and PCI are another story, tho. Dirk
Just an hour ago I was trying this very thing with my BP6. I got through the install, but when the kernel goes to boot for the first time she gets to recognizing the drive on the 66 controller and she reboots. I can, for an instant, glimpse the 'hde' like I would hope. I think its whatever it tries to do afterward that causes problems. RH 6.1...which is probably part of my problem.
But I needed a working box like asap, so I said sod it and went UDMA33.
Dirk
PS: I know Gentus exsists, but downloading from there has been damn near impossible lately.
Well, once and a while he gets me to stop for a moment. His Hellmouth weren't revolutionary, but they were worth the time it took to read them. And his recent "Up Up Down Down" series at least made me nostalgic.
"But I remained fixated on the idea that there is no Regulon in the Semiosphere, no natural barrier to the endless flow and reproduction of electronic information. We have no way to keep CNN, weatherman, flamers, spammers, Web site designers, e-do gooders and nit-picking coders, pundits, zealots, smart-asses and grumps in check. "
Yes, we do. The crap sinks to the bottom. It's like the way that google.com works: important things are most likely linked to from other sites. The more links, the more important. Or by the number of successful search queries.
One can post thier views, information, etc on the internet, but if its not noteworthy, it won't draw attention. Natural selection exsists on the net. And on/. moderation, kind of. Is it really information if nobody bothers to read it (a one-hand-clapping thing)? The root of the word is INFORM, and if I get no meaningful data from something, then I haven't been informed.
Like this Katz article. I'm sorry, but this time Katz hasn't pushed my thinking anywhere.
well, I'd hafta say it was/. this time, tho. When I loaded/. up, there were no comments on it; fresh story. So I hit the link, and started downloading. Got 45k/sec for the first 10%, and then things started to spiral. I think it's getting 3k/sec, now. That's if it hasn't timed out.
Given the number of Quake addicts in the slashdot crowd, I'd say that the 'ol effect is in force, here.
Dirk
Re:Cracking is a crime. Period.
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One for the Kids
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"...I don't agree with anti-drug laws, and I don't agree with some anti-cracking laws, but I have complete respect for the men and women who must enforce those laws, regardless of their wisdom."
Me, too, as long as it doesn't become a witch hunt. And propaganda, while neccesary, also spreads a lot of FUD.
I guess if one had to pick the kernel of truth out of this article its that centralized government (you can't pin any one office down) likes to maintain control & the status quo. And on the surface it makes perfect sense.
"But gee, Harold, what if this fella is a commie? We won't be able to read his strong crytpo emails!"
That kind of sentiment is the killer. It's innocent enough on the surface, but absolute power corrupts absolutely, I'm told.
In a recent artice from Computer Gaming World, you said that what you have made (in Q3) is basically a very efficient triangle pusher. And as great as Q3 is, one can still tell that the images are rendered; fake, if you will. Do you see current polygon based rendering as a possible limitation in modelling reality, or do we just need to keep pushing up the fill rates and polygon counts?
Slashdot Mirror
The reason you often see 40 copies of N*Sync crap is that its popular, not because of the commercialization. Granted, the commercialization drove those and thier ilk into the public mainstream, but Napster in no way currently sways a user to download one thing or another. No advirtisments (as yet), but JonKatz's hypothesis would change all that.
Dirk
Wouldn't you be downright pissed to download a song from Napster to find out that it cut out like 5 seconds from the end (and cmon now, I'm sure its happened to most everybody before)?
Hell, sometimes I download 3 copies of the same song just because the quality differs so.
In that respect, micropays would suck.
Dirk
"I think we should just kill off religion and believe what we want, good bad, doesn't matter."
I hope you don't actually mean that. All theological discussions as to the exsistance of a higher power aside, religion serves an important purpose in society. Humankind has always needed some sense of something bigger (see Joseph Campbell's "Manmade Myth"). And being the short-lived fragile beings we are, its comforting to feel that our time spend toiling upon the earth might actually be worth something.
"If anything upsets me it is when people start expecting more rights than others because they are a minority. Why does every minority need its own special rights now?"
It's because humans fear that which is different. And persecute upon that bias. And that makes people defensive and ask for extra assistance. Not that I'm agreeing with minority assistance.
Dirk
You got me there. That's what I meant. I oft have a hard time putting words to paper.
Dirk
I just have to rant a small bit here about the Christian Right.
Jesus wasn't all about doing good things. Well, okay, he was, but he was more about compassion, love, and understanding of our fellow man. People who go out of thier way to limit other's freedom (be they church groups preaching "whats right" or those freaks who put ratings on videogames and music) aren't doing a very good job of following JC's original intent.
Katz's Hellmouth is a prime example. I have a good friend who used to recieve hate mail from churches because he was known in the community for running D&D adventures. Stuff like that.
Aw hell. Maybe I've got it all wrong, but if some Christians would just make a wholescale reassesment of what thier faith really means to them, maybe some of these issues like prayer in school wouldn't be issues.
Dirk
PS: read the liner notes in moby's 'everything is wrong' & 'i like to score albums. he says it better than i.
Not by what the author has to say. Given his data, your brain will make its own motion blur when the frame rate exceeds 72fps.
I'm afraid that's what it's like. Grew up in rural Wisconsin. Living now in Boston, when I head home for one reason or another and I see old classmates, I realize that I have like NOTHING in common with most of them. I'm disgusted by pickup truck driving, beer-from-a-can swilling small towners. I know it sounds a little elitist, but I think the 'net has contributed to my personal evolution. I think and converse about things that I never would have been touched on if I never had left. The small town mentality...stifles one. Without the 'net, I don't know that America would have been my "land of opportunity."
Dirk
...I just have to say that D. Every is a nearsighted moron.
/etc for pete's sake.
The only difference bewteen what I do from a *nix console and windows (or MacOS to fit the bill) is that I don't have purdy little pictures. That's all just an extention of the GUI. Control Panel? It's called a copy of vi and
I'll admit that command line ICQ isn't all that hot, and to gimp is to need a GUI, but I'm hard pressed to find something I CAN'T do from the command line.
The article author is right. Symantics. Some-antics. Whatever.
Dirk
APC must not have discovered "killall -9 netscape-communicator" yet.
or by PID. whatever.
Dirk
PS: If I haven't posted in months, then am I a troll?
They can write them off as a major business expense/loss. It may cause a few ruffles in stock prices, but it'll do great things for them when it comes time to post thier earnings and pay appropriate taxes.
Dirk
Cmon now. Animals (well, some) may be sentient, but when was the last time you saw a spark of intelligence in a cow's eye? I'm sorry. There ain't one. I worked on a farm throughout high school.
I'm a compassionate person. I don't condone animal cruelty. And I don't think that was the original poster's intent. It was instead that there is a natural hierarchy here. And following it makes some sense. We humans may be horribly evolved and all, but we got where we are because we've eaten like we have.
Bears eat meat. Cats toy with mice before EATING them. Dolphins live thier entire lives eating sentient fish...and dolphins are quite possibly smarter than WE are. Nobody's bitching about thier diets.
Dirk
I was under the assumption that their chips would
just need a software flash of some sort and they'd
be reconfigured to run a different instruction set.
I'm not disputing you, tho. I imagine the x86 code is what they're centering on first. But you shouldn't need a whole different chip.
Then again, I've been known to blow smoke out my ass.
Dirk
Coupla reasons:
1. I'd say that they don't want to limit thier functionality. A tweaked firewall will let them keep useful schtuff turned on.
2.If the firewall uses its CPU to deflect the crap, then the web servers wont have to deal with it.
3. They have a BSD uberadmin who can make that BSD box walk the dog. If something else wierd goes on, it'll be in his back yard.
Dirk
Likewise, the Soyo SY-6VBA 133 allows it, as well. Up to 155, actually. It also allows you to run your RAM slower than the rest of the system bus. As in, I've got a PIII 450 running at 600 on the 133fsb, but my ram is only at 100. So if I had a nasty-ass coppermine, I'd be able to punch it up to 155 and keep my ram at a gentle ~116.5Mhz The AGP and PCI are another story, tho. Dirk
But I needed a working box like asap, so I said sod it and went UDMA33.
Dirk
PS: I know Gentus exsists, but downloading from there has been damn near impossible lately.
Well, once and a while he gets me to stop for a moment. His Hellmouth weren't revolutionary, but they were worth the time it took to read them. And his recent "Up Up Down Down" series at least made me nostalgic.
Dirk
"But I remained fixated on the idea that there is no Regulon in the Semiosphere, no natural barrier to the endless flow and reproduction of electronic information. We have no way to keep CNN, weatherman, flamers, spammers, Web site designers, e-do gooders and nit-picking coders, pundits, zealots, smart-asses and grumps in check. "
/. moderation, kind of. Is it really information if nobody bothers to read it (a one-hand-clapping thing)? The root of the word is INFORM, and if I get no meaningful data from something, then I haven't been informed.
Yes, we do. The crap sinks to the bottom. It's like the way that google.com works: important things are most likely linked to from other sites. The more links, the more important. Or by the number of successful search queries.
One can post thier views, information, etc on the internet, but if its not noteworthy, it won't draw attention. Natural selection exsists on the net. And on
Like this Katz article. I'm sorry, but this time Katz hasn't pushed my thinking anywhere.
Dirk
...I'm always hoping my pre-IPO meal ticket's not going to dry up.
Ba-dump-bump CHING!
yep. there was a lot of duct tape
and cardboard holding the first
a-bomb together. hackish, and
definitely meant to make a mess of things.
dirk
no no no...I was simply commenting that the sudden slowdown I saw in the first few moments of downloading was probably slasdot related.
FWIW...the mirror on ftp.cdrom.com was a little busy on the logging in, but was plenty fast on the download.
Dirk
well, I'd hafta say it was /. this time, tho. When I loaded /. up, there were no comments on it; fresh story. So I hit the link, and started downloading. Got 45k/sec for the first 10%, and then things started to spiral. I think it's getting 3k/sec, now. That's if it hasn't timed out.
Given the number of Quake addicts in the slashdot crowd, I'd say that the 'ol effect is in force, here.
Dirk
"...I don't agree with anti-drug laws, and I don't agree with some anti-cracking laws, but I have complete respect for the men and women who must enforce those laws, regardless of their wisdom."
Me, too, as long as it doesn't become a witch hunt. And propaganda, while neccesary, also spreads a lot of FUD.
I guess if one had to pick the kernel of truth out of this article its that centralized government (you can't pin any one office down) likes to maintain control & the status quo. And on the surface it makes perfect sense.
"But gee, Harold, what if this fella is a commie? We won't be able to read his strong crytpo emails!"
That kind of sentiment is the killer. It's innocent enough on the surface, but absolute power corrupts absolutely, I'm told.
Dirk
In a recent artice from Computer Gaming World, you said that what you have made (in Q3) is basically a very efficient triangle pusher. And as great as Q3 is, one can still tell that the images are rendered; fake, if you will. Do you see current polygon based rendering as a possible limitation in modelling reality, or do we just need to keep pushing up the fill rates and polygon counts?
Dirk
Or Microsoft.
Or Intel.
So the Merced (er Itanium) is going to be more of a pain in the ass to code for. They still will. Its the accepted market practice, right?