that is a different arguement. The reason all the women in games are unaturally attractive is the same reason all cosmo models float away in a stiff breeze. the gaming industry isn't unique in it's portrayal of women. besides the men in these games are always perfectly proportioned. how many of the gamers can say that their chest is much bigger than their stomach? There are no fat, blind heros just like there are no fat deaf heroines. games are a fantasy escape and people want to fantasize about perfect bodies.
I also take exception to the idea that 1/3 of gamers are women. In my gaming experience (roughly 15 years) i have met maybe a dozen women gamers. contrast that to hundreds of men and i would put percentages more around 5-10 percent. As such games are designed for men. or rather for young men. beautiful women are what young men enjoy looking at.
what a great idea. i liken this to the energy reclaiming brakes on some of the new electric cars. of course you should do it.
of course, it is probably economic concerns (ie cost) that will keep this off for some time.
the article is saying that in a few YEARS we are going to need more memory and faster processors for our routers. the problem with this is where? I don't see any slowdown in the hardware advances we are making.
if we want to/can find more efficient ways to do it, all the better. I am just saying that this might be a problem if we were running out of space tomorrow but in a few years I am confident the basic hardware will be much better than it is now.
that is ridiculous... I can go as far as him being a suspect, b/c his "fingerprints" were all over the box hours after it had been hacked. however, the firewall logs that they supposedly got his IP from should have vinidicated him had anybody looked closely. talk about an elite hacker, they are saying he hacked the box hours before he even connected to it.
either the story doesn't tell the truth or the fbi is flexing it's muscles w/o looking into the actual situation, if it is the latter then he has been screwed as they will undoubtedly pin something on him so they don't look like idiots.
as far as sticking his nose where he doesn't belong.... that is the point of the network, many security advance, coding advances, hell, linux, came from the same combo of curiosity and intelligence that he was displaying.
cheap: x10/smarthome stuff.
mid range: TIVO!!!!
expensive: the most fantastic monitor the world has ever scene. http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/home/pdphd_1.htm
of course you could go w/ the whole machine at:
http://www.geek.com/htbc/glanin.htm
A geek house obviously needs a fat pipe in and lots of networking. that is just the beginning. true geek houses need automation. the folks on the x10 newsgroups have lots of great ideas. the hands down best geek implementation I have seen is here. I dunno how robust it is and I am afraid it will be/.ed easily. basically it is control over all the lights, music, appliances, blinds, phone, etc. through a web interface. it even has fun gps stuff build in (the winters van is heading north 2 miles south of safeway) also, in what apparently is a new update you can see the location of the cars on a mapquest style map. if desired you can also click for an arial picture of the area. wow!
mmmm toys.....
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The point being, though, that the zapper really fundamentally changed the way we received information. I remember reading some time ago that the remote control was leading to the death of the hour long drama because at a seconds boredom the viewer switches away. these days there are very, very few programs that hold my attention through the entire program. especially when they go to commercial.
ok, that was a tangent. basically my point is that as the RC came into prevelance, people started taking more control over what they were viewing. when I used to watch the network news I would flip between three of them looking for interesting stories. Then I moved to two or three news channels. now the commercials all annoy me so it is online, where the ads (banners) don't interupt the information flow.
I do still catch the bbc world news when I can though. really quite a good program
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So what if it is a meritocracy. I have no problems w/ this. maybe I have been reading to much ayn rand but what else should we base our social worth on? looks? money? how many cigarettes you can fit in your mouth? A meritocracy drives people to do what they are good at. which happens to correspond to what you like (generally, YMMV) this is a good thing. this rewards people who find what they are good at and work hard in it.
I don't see the problem here. Ok, so companies will be able to opt out of price guides and such. fine, f*&# 'em. as the article points out they will be the higher priced ones anyway. I will continue to use pricewatch.com and similar services. Since the opted-out companies don't show up I won't buy anything from them. I will buy from the ones that allow their site to be indexed.
the same goes for search engines. if these people opt of of the search engines they won't get my hits b/c I will never find them. again, their problem, not mine.
to use the analogy presented earlier of somebody sending a person to check prices... if my buyer isn't allowed to look in a certain store for that book he will just move on and find a store that doesn't mind. and guess what... my money will go to the other store.
that keeps people buying cds. This argument has been used many, many times in the last months
Consumers aren't buying music -- they're buying CDs, with cover art and liner notes and a little poster inside and a few hidden tracks and a few spoken tracks and perhaps a limited edition signed thingie wedged in between the cover art and the CD itself.
I don't buy that at all. ever since cd changers came out I have all but forgotten about the media itself. The only reason people buy cds is because they can play them in their car... or take them to a friends.... because their home stereo isn't hooked up to their computer... or their computer is too old to play music and do work at the same time.... there are a number of reasons but the pretty pictures aren't one of them. I can get pretty postcards outside the bathroom of nearly any bar I go to. i have picked them up maybe 4 times in the 2 or so years since they showed up.
cds are only lasting because there are few decent mp3 players out there. I have already convert entirely away from cds and I see it as a matter of time before the rest of the world does too. remember when everybody said cds wouldn't catch on b/c you couldn't record???
>If they can actually print and address dots in that high a density, why couldn't they only use one dot in four, swapping them out as they wear out?
This doesn't work. the LEPs degrade when exposed to light. use isn't the problem. From the article: Until now, a major problem with semiconducting polymers has been that they oxidise and become discoloured when exposed to light.
how about w/ tapes. remember that horrible media. the audio tape? thank god we have evolved. the tape though, is where most of us learned copyright violation. why buy the tape for 10 bucks if I can buy a blank for 2 bucks and copy my buddy's? That was when the problem started. EVERYBODY does it/did it. I would be suprised to find one house in america w/o some sort of copy right infringement, whether it is a tape of the basketball game or a copy of that old jackson 5 album of uncle fred's.
moving on to the artists. why do people defend copyright violations as "sticking it to the man". the "man" being that big evil recording co. (although w/ all their bs lately it makes it really easy to think of them as evil). I think part of it is our wish to see rock stars as in it for the love/desire rather than the money. "Sold out" is thrown at artists like a dagger all the time. we wish to see artists as these perfect tortured beings who do it b/c they must or b/c they love it not b/c they want to make a million bucks. once we take the artist out of the picture w/ this rationalization we are left w/ a bunch of scrubs making profit off "our hero" the artist. it isn't wrong to steal from them. Hell, it is wrong to pay them!
The way I see it, it is time for the recording industry to come up w/ a new paradigm. napster may be beaten but it has shown the common user what most of us here on slashdot have known for some time. we can get nearly unlimited media on our computers. even w/o napster the mp3 revolution was gaining steam. there is no way to get the toothpaste back in the tube. the only thing i see members of teh RIAA can do is license out their DB. Make it a monthly fee. ie. for 10 bucks a month I get access to the sony database of music on demand. I haven't bought a cd in a year and I doubt I am going back. I would however be willing to pay for a valuable service.
There are two main points here. Appeals will take years and a breakup won't (immediately) kill MS.
Pretty much regardless of the decision handed down MS will be appealing. Bill has the lawyers to prolong this case damn near indefinitely. Not that any of the abuses that they are being dragged through court for are current issues. This is one of the problems w/ this case. Tech moves quickly, law doesn't. By the time MS finishes a legal filibuster they will have positioned themselves as to not be affected by the outcome of a loss. I wouldn't be surprised to see this case drag on for 5-10 more years.
Even so, assume they do break them up in the forseeable future. The party still can't start. Just because they aren't the same company doesn't mean they will roll over and dissappear off from the computing map. they can/will still do business w/ each other. maybe in a few generations of post-breakup management the rifts will become more apparent but, in the short term, it will remain business as usual. The company structure is largely broken up into divisions as it is. the split will likely happen down those division lines. the framework for business w/ each other is already there and whom do you think they will be most comfortable working w/?
Somewhat related, the opening of the MS source. I don't see how this would happen at all but it would be fantastic. MS, for all its things that annoy me, has alot of good things bundled into their code. I would love to see what happens when the open source community cleans up the code. Although, I was hoping for the same when netscape went open source nothing good happened there.
I mostly agree w/ you. however: " as a server operating system, NT does not offer anything better. "
while for anything serious I agree linux is the way to go. If you want to slap up a site that isn't going to push the hardware and you are going to do something that microsoft has explicitly thought about you doing... then NT goes in really quickly and easily.
of course when you need to customize or push a machine, NT falls a bit short.
the only other argument I can think of is one I don't agree w/ but I will throw it out as food for thought. Many big companies are not comfortable w/ freely distributed software. the reason being, in short, there is nobody to sue if something goes wrong. (There were cringes all around when I mentioned that sendmail was free at this current project.)
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Companies!!! pleaase do not listen to this man!!! Show me more swimsuit-clad girls crawling all over most anything.
thank you
ej
that is a different arguement. The reason all the women in games are unaturally attractive is the same reason all cosmo models float away in a stiff breeze. the gaming industry isn't unique in it's portrayal of women. besides the men in these games are always perfectly proportioned. how many of the gamers can say that their chest is much bigger than their stomach? There are no fat, blind heros just like there are no fat deaf heroines. games are a fantasy escape and people want to fantasize about perfect bodies.
I also take exception to the idea that 1/3 of gamers are women. In my gaming experience (roughly 15 years) i have met maybe a dozen women gamers. contrast that to hundreds of men and i would put percentages more around 5-10 percent. As such games are designed for men. or rather for young men. beautiful women are what young men enjoy looking at.
what a great idea. i liken this to the energy reclaiming brakes on some of the new electric cars. of course you should do it.
of course, it is probably economic concerns (ie cost) that will keep this off for some time.
does anybody know how much this tech costs?
ej
what is a shared cost number?
wow!!!
what a brilliantly argued point!!!
how do you convert the buffering to recording? mine doesn't do this?????
the article is saying that in a few YEARS we are going to need more memory and faster processors for our routers. the problem with this is where? I don't see any slowdown in the hardware advances we are making. /can find more efficient ways to do it, all the better. I am just saying that this might be a problem if we were running out of space tomorrow but in a few years I am confident the basic hardware will be much better than it is now.
if we want to
that is ridiculous... I can go as far as him being a suspect, b/c his "fingerprints" were all over the box hours after it had been hacked. however, the firewall logs that they supposedly got his IP from should have vinidicated him had anybody looked closely. talk about an elite hacker, they are saying he hacked the box hours before he even connected to it.
either the story doesn't tell the truth or the fbi is flexing it's muscles w/o looking into the actual situation, if it is the latter then he has been screwed as they will undoubtedly pin something on him so they don't look like idiots.
as far as sticking his nose where he doesn't belong.... that is the point of the network, many security advance, coding advances, hell, linux, came from the same combo of curiosity and intelligence that he was displaying.
ej
cheap: x10/smarthome stuff.m
mid range: TIVO!!!!
expensive: the most fantastic monitor the world has ever scene. http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/home/pdphd_1.ht
of course you could go w/ the whole machine at:
http://www.geek.com/htbc/glanin.htm
gotta love toys
mmmm toys.....
The point being, though, that the zapper really fundamentally changed the way we received information. I remember reading some time ago that the remote control was leading to the death of the hour long drama because at a seconds boredom the viewer switches away. these days there are very, very few programs that hold my attention through the entire program. especially when they go to commercial.
ok, that was a tangent. basically my point is that as the RC came into prevelance, people started taking more control over what they were viewing. when I used to watch the network news I would flip between three of them looking for interesting stories. Then I moved to two or three news channels. now the commercials all annoy me so it is online, where the ads (banners) don't interupt the information flow.
I do still catch the bbc world news when I can though. really quite a good program
So what if it is a meritocracy. I have no problems w/ this. maybe I have been reading to much ayn rand but what else should we base our social worth on? looks? money? how many cigarettes you can fit in your mouth?
A meritocracy drives people to do what they are good at. which happens to correspond to what you like (generally, YMMV) this is a good thing. this rewards people who find what they are good at and work hard in it.
the utopia is a meritocracy.
I don't see the problem here. Ok, so companies will be able to opt out of price guides and such. fine, f*&# 'em. as the article points out they will be the higher priced ones anyway. I will continue to use pricewatch.com and similar services. Since the opted-out companies don't show up I won't buy anything from them. I will buy from the ones that allow their site to be indexed.
the same goes for search engines. if these people opt of of the search engines they won't get my hits b/c I will never find them. again, their problem, not mine.
to use the analogy presented earlier of somebody sending a person to check prices... if my buyer isn't allowed to look in a certain store for that book he will just move on and find a store that doesn't mind. and guess what... my money will go to the other store.
I don't see a problem here.
Consumers aren't buying music -- they're buying CDs, with cover art and liner notes and a little poster inside and a few hidden tracks and a few spoken tracks and perhaps a limited edition signed thingie wedged in between the cover art and the CD itself.
I don't buy that at all. ever since cd changers came out I have all but forgotten about the media itself. The only reason people buy cds is because they can play them in their car... or take them to a friends.... because their home stereo isn't hooked up to their computer... or their computer is too old to play music and do work at the same time.... there are a number of reasons but the pretty pictures aren't one of them. I can get pretty postcards outside the bathroom of nearly any bar I go to. i have picked them up maybe 4 times in the 2 or so years since they showed up.
cds are only lasting because there are few decent mp3 players out there. I have already convert entirely away from cds and I see it as a matter of time before the rest of the world does too. remember when everybody said cds wouldn't catch on b/c you couldn't record???
>If they can actually print and address dots in that high a density, why couldn't they only use one dot in four, swapping them out as they wear out?
This doesn't work. the LEPs degrade when exposed to light. use isn't the problem.
From the article:
Until now, a major problem with semiconducting polymers has been that they oxidise and become discoloured when exposed to light.
when MS does cool sh*t like this, it makes it hard to hate them.
-confused
ahhh what a controversy.....
where to start?
how about w/ tapes. remember that horrible media. the audio tape? thank god we have evolved. the tape though, is where most of us learned copyright violation. why buy the tape for 10 bucks if I can buy a blank for 2 bucks and copy my buddy's? That was when the problem started. EVERYBODY does it/did it. I would be suprised to find one house in america w/o some sort of copy right infringement, whether it is a tape of the basketball game or a copy of that old jackson 5 album of uncle fred's.
moving on to the artists. why do people defend copyright violations as "sticking it to the man". the "man" being that big evil recording co. (although w/ all their bs lately it makes it really easy to think of them as evil). I think part of it is our wish to see rock stars as in it for the love/desire rather than the money. "Sold out" is thrown at artists like a dagger all the time. we wish to see artists as these perfect tortured beings who do it b/c they must or b/c they love it not b/c they want to make a million bucks. once we take the artist out of the picture w/ this rationalization we are left w/ a bunch of scrubs making profit off "our hero" the artist. it isn't wrong to steal from them. Hell, it is wrong to pay them!
The way I see it, it is time for the recording industry to come up w/ a new paradigm. napster may be beaten but it has shown the common user what most of us here on slashdot have known for some time. we can get nearly unlimited media on our computers. even w/o napster the mp3 revolution was gaining steam. there is no way to get the toothpaste back in the tube. the only thing i see members of teh RIAA can do is license out their DB. Make it a monthly fee. ie. for 10 bucks a month I get access to the sony database of music on demand. I haven't bought a cd in a year and I doubt I am going back. I would however be willing to pay for a valuable service.
Don't start the party yet. MS is long from dead.
There are two main points here. Appeals will take years and a breakup won't (immediately) kill MS.
Pretty much regardless of the decision handed down MS will be appealing. Bill has the lawyers to prolong this case damn near indefinitely. Not that any of the abuses that they are being dragged through court for are current issues. This is one of the problems w/ this case. Tech moves quickly, law doesn't. By the time MS finishes a legal filibuster they will have positioned themselves as to not be affected by the outcome of a loss. I wouldn't be surprised to see this case drag on for 5-10 more years.
Even so, assume they do break them up in the forseeable future. The party still can't start. Just because they aren't the same company doesn't mean they will roll over and dissappear off from the computing map. they can/will still do business w/ each other. maybe in a few generations of post-breakup management the rifts will become more apparent but, in the short term, it will remain business as usual. The company structure is largely broken up into divisions as it is. the split will likely happen down those division lines. the framework for business w/ each other is already there and whom do you think they will be most comfortable working w/?
Somewhat related, the opening of the MS source. I don't see how this would happen at all but it would be fantastic. MS, for all its things that annoy me, has alot of good things bundled into their code. I would love to see what happens when the open source community cleans up the code. Although, I was hoping for the same when netscape went open source nothing good happened there.
I mostly agree w/ you. however:
" as a server operating system, NT does not offer anything better. "
while for anything serious I agree linux is the way to go. If you want to slap up a site that isn't going to push the hardware and you are going to do something that microsoft has explicitly thought about you doing... then NT goes in really quickly and easily.
of course when you need to customize or push a machine, NT falls a bit short.
the only other argument I can think of is one I don't agree w/ but I will throw it out as food for thought. Many big companies are not comfortable w/ freely distributed software. the reason being, in short, there is nobody to sue if something goes wrong. (There were cringes all around when I mentioned that sendmail was free at this current project.)