Yes, I feel sorry for all those who got extorted by the RIAA. They are the few (soon not so few), the proud, the ones who will help change the system! The more lawsuits that come from those baffoons the more people will get pissed off and finally start giving a shit about how they are treated.
Obviously, strong arm business tactics are alive and well. They never really left you know. Every great change in technology brought about decades worth of suffering of the people while the boneheaded ones finally benefitted in the end! Fair? Nope, not in the slightest. Who said life was fair?
Dowload the show http://www.sciencefriday.com/ or the podcast on date 8-19 with George Whitesides. He is the administrative lead of the project and he talks about other interesting things besides Algae toting around loads.
This is the perfect argument. Value is a man made precept. If a bunch of people decide that something has value and are willing to pay for it, it makes perfect sense when people put value on virtual items that the idea of value can and *should* be abstracted away from the physical object.
Right now, the only mark against it is there are many more people that believe these virtual items have no value.
Even the publishers and designers of said games are struggling with the concepts of value. As evidenced by the HUGE ebay trade going on for virtual items.
The crime here is disrupting the peace and deliberately gaming the system to have an unfair advantage. Whoever said life was fair? Same thing applies virtually.
Man I hate that too. How about the hit you always get with eOpinions? It's got so bad that I will deliberately remove their domain from my search results.
The court case is still being resolved. It will likely drag on for at least another 2 years. At which time, the ownership of Unix will be decided. I personally think Novell still owns it.
Can't there be some kind of injunction against SCO for making these premature claims?
As an aside, I recently purchased a System Administation book about Unix and in the forward, the author was claiming that SCO owned Unix. I returned the book that very day and picked up the Linux variant of said book.
I don't think that is what the parent was referring to. He specifically was talking about versions of web apps that break because of differing requirements of helper applications in the browser. That isn't the browser's fault, but the fault of the design of the web app(s). Enter standards and a REALLY BIG reason to use them.
It is possible to write standards compliant code in IE. It's just a PITA. Using Firefox and/or Opera it becomes much easier.
When looking at these kind of incompatability problems, it helps to take a step back and figure out the core reason why the problems exist. Attack and fix those. Not some superficial sympton.
Even when I went to the website and looked at the FAQ there was no basic information about the program. A good FAQ question is "What is Inkscape?". The maintainers can add that to the FAQ and documentation.
That's my contribution to this open source effort.
People don't like to steal?!? I don't know where you got your information, but it is dead wrong. In today's world, people generally don't steal because of the reprocussions of the action. Children have to be taught that stealing is wrong. Grownups don't like getting in trouble when they steal.
This Internet thing has allowed anonymous "stealing" so people can just copy at will whatever they want without fear of consequences. The RIAA & MPAA has done a great job reminding the general public that the Internet is not anonymous and some online actions do have reprocussions.
Disregarding the misnomer of "stealing" on the Internet, I think your statement would be more accurate if stated:
People don't like getting in trouble for stealing.
Molten metals doped with minerals cooled into glass become transparent. Possible? Heck I have no idea. This whole article was fascinating to me. When I read that part about more than silica could be cooled into glass my mind immediately thought of ST:IV.
I don't know what people expect for these things. I thoroughly enjoyed it. The production values were amazing. The beginning was cool as they pulled back to do the reveal. The narration was very well voiced, done by Peter Cullan.
If you are expecting award winning performances or originality, then I suggest you look elsewhere than Star Wars fan films. The exposition lasted quite a while, but I expect that is to setup the rest of the series. For this episode, I enjoyed the mixture of the Predator creature. The banter amongst the troops was funny, and they even pulled off the being humorous when the remaining Milenium Falcon left the bay. I loved the ending. It was very light and poked fun at themselves.
I am sure the rest of the series will be just as enjoyable. And who knows, as these people make these things it will open doors of opportunity and inspire others to do the same. On those grounds alone, the film is worth the effort.
Printer 'accidents' are nothing compared to what they were of yesteryear. You haven't lived till you have seen the hilarity of newbie printer operators trying to cope with a printout that is causing the mainframe band printer to beep constantly, shoot out paper with form feeds, suck some of it back in with reverse form feeds, print out patterned streams of characters so the print head sounded like it was stripping gears (they were trained to listen for that sound), and finally print out GOTCHA!! in huge ASCII block letters. All in the span of about 30 seconds. Nearly gave 'em a heart attack every time.
Underlying the article is how much money is to be made from console versus PC games. Console games are easier to build for because of consistant hardware and it is easier to implement effective copy protection. Effective in this case is subjective. Meaning it is more effective that PC copy protection. This won't always be the case. In some cases it is just as easy to break copy protection for consoles.
But the article is good for bantering around at the BG table.
I can't help but think that in 20 years or so that we'll be able to use the latest design inkjet printers, pop special 'inks' in them, load in IC plans into Photoshop IC, hit print and 2 hours later have usable expansion cards for our computers (sans power connectors). Need more memory or replace bad sticks? Just download the plans for your particular machine and away you go. Wonder how much that is going to cost for the IC plans? Or better yet, what about those evil _hacker_ people who design and release IC plans onto the Internet for free?!? Are they nuts? (sarcasm)
It's coming. Oh boy, then manufacturer's are going to be fighting for their way of survival just like the **AA of today. Fun fun fun!
I don't get your angst. Google is actively engaging a very popular geek website, encouraging participation, answering questions in an informal manner, and trying an experiment that could for all intents and purposes, start a ground swell of support for the lone genius coders (and others) out there; and you have the gall to bitch and complain about things such as how Chris responds (or not in this case) to a followup question?
I don't know what issues you got, but go seek professional help of some kind.
This is so typical of online gaming review sites these days. I blame MTV for the whole smash. People these days have so little attention span that extreme hyperbole is used just to ensure that people will read for more than 5 seconds.
I only found one item in there that was valid. The rest was over the top free porn! attention grabbers.
Oh look, but I can do hyperbole too. The designers of that game took time to make sure that the emotes for the female characters are very evocative. And - as an added bonus, body parts jiggle when subjected to sudden movements.
Playing with pixel dolls has reached new heights! Who the heck needs AI with jiggling?
All of these problems stem from the fact that the Internet was created with trusted hosts in mind.
Now with a minuscule fraction of the users being maliscous and the power of computers to take ANY bad thing(tm) and magnify it to hyperbolic extremes, the Internet now must be seen as a hostile network. Any web designer or systems integrator who sees otherwise is a fool for thinking so. It is possible to cut off nodes that are acting abnormally to restore some sense of trusted communications again. But in doing so the freedoms that we currently enjoy are at the whim of a select few who program the hueristics. Hence, as a system of checks and balances, we try and enter that needed human element in the verification process in an attempt to keep those freedoms.
It would be great if people would say their website works with any compliant browser. But much of the world doesn't care. In my opinion that's because standards doesn't carry connotations with anybody besides web/standards geeks.
Now the cute little firefox plushtoy (have you seen it?) - that's what people will remember. As long as you keep the FF designers on the straight and narrow wwith regards to implementing web standards, then everybody gets what they want.
Course, some will argue that Firefox isn't very complaint, or that it could be more complaint, or whatever predilection that their brain dreams up.
Bidirectional satellite connections have been available for consumer use for a little over 3 years now (that I am aware of).
I use DirecWay. The Fair Access Policy sucks, you only get a measured amount of bandwidth to use per time slot. Mine is 500 meg per 4 hours. The speed of the transmission is nice. Download speeds can get upto 2000bps and upload varies based on how much money you parley. Mine is 120bps (pitifull I know).
The latency is born from the signal having to leave your satellite dish, upto the geosychronise orbiting satellite, back down to the Network of Operations, out to the Internet, back from the Internet to the NOC, back up to the Geo sat, and finally back down to your satellite dish. All told, the best time for round trip transmission is 0.7 seconds.
All network traffic handshaking is hampered by this high amount of latency. If whatever protocol requires pretty rapid back & forth to be responsive, then it's pretty much guarenteed it will suck with satellite internet service.
"Exactly why is tabbed browing better than just firing up another IE? Isn't doing Alt-tab to change windows just as easy as whatever it is you do to change firefox tabs?"
If you get a lot of news off the Internet or do blog reading, or research, or shopping, or just general browsing (hmmm I guess that's everything) then tabbed browsing is perfect for you.
For my uses it works even better if I have tabbed browsing configured to open the link in a new background tab. I am reading the original article when all of a sudden, I happen upon a link that could be interesting. Instead of copying the URL of the link, opening up IE, pasting the link and pressing enter to load it (granted IE and automation can be configured to do this easier); I can just just right click on the link and select open in new tab (or middle click if you have the mouse for it) and keep on reading the original content while the new thing of interest loads in a new tab behind the current tab. It's much faster for me and less of a break in the flow of how I read. When I am ready, I switch to the new tab and read, do whatever with that. There are extensions that enhance tab switching so that it mimics what ALT-TAB does with app switching like switching for the most to least recently used tabs with CTRL-TAB. Just like windows dialog tab switching, or sometimes even MDI windows switching. http://timothyhumphrey.name/firefox/ or get any of the other variations at the official FF site.
Seriously, for news hounds like me, tabbed browsing is the bees knees.
It's to bad this isn't fark.com so someone could have stuck an [obvious] tab in front of that headline...
Why is this modded insightful?
Is dry, droll sexual innuendo humor considered to be insightful? Now if there was a mod for thoughtful, or wistful; that would be closer IMO to an accurate mod.
Good ol' Slashdot. You've become merely a shadow of your former self. Now with moderation like this, the transformation is nearly complete.
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Yes, I feel sorry for all those who got extorted by the RIAA. They are the few (soon not so few), the proud, the ones who will help change the system! The more lawsuits that come from those baffoons the more people will get pissed off and finally start giving a shit about how they are treated.
Obviously, strong arm business tactics are alive and well. They never really left you know. Every great change in technology brought about decades worth of suffering of the people while the boneheaded ones finally benefitted in the end! Fair? Nope, not in the slightest. Who said life was fair?
Puts a tear in me eye it does. *sniff*
-FlynnMP3
Dowload the show http://www.sciencefriday.com/ or the podcast on date 8-19 with George Whitesides. He is the administrative lead of the project and he talks about other interesting things besides Algae toting around loads.
-FlynnMP3
Good God! Somebody finally gets it!
This is the perfect argument. Value is a man made precept. If a bunch of people decide that something has value and are willing to pay for it, it makes perfect sense when people put value on virtual items that the idea of value can and *should* be abstracted away from the physical object.
Right now, the only mark against it is there are many more people that believe these virtual items have no value.
Even the publishers and designers of said games are struggling with the concepts of value. As evidenced by the HUGE ebay trade going on for virtual items.
The crime here is disrupting the peace and deliberately gaming the system to have an unfair advantage. Whoever said life was fair? Same thing applies virtually.
-FlynnMP3
Man I hate that too. How about the hit you always get with eOpinions? It's got so bad that I will deliberately remove their domain from my search results.
"But since SCO owns the UNIX operating system..."
The court case is still being resolved. It will likely drag on for at least another 2 years. At which time, the ownership of Unix will be decided. I personally think Novell still owns it.
Can't there be some kind of injunction against SCO for making these premature claims?
As an aside, I recently purchased a System Administation book about Unix and in the forward, the author was claiming that SCO owned Unix. I returned the book that very day and picked up the Linux variant of said book.
-Flynn
I don't think that is what the parent was referring to. He specifically was talking about versions of web apps that break because of differing requirements of helper applications in the browser. That isn't the browser's fault, but the fault of the design of the web app(s). Enter standards and a REALLY BIG reason to use them.
It is possible to write standards compliant code in IE. It's just a PITA. Using Firefox and/or Opera it becomes much easier.
When looking at these kind of incompatability problems, it helps to take a step back and figure out the core reason why the problems exist. Attack and fix those. Not some superficial sympton.
Even when I went to the website and looked at the FAQ there was no basic information about the program. A good FAQ question is "What is Inkscape?". The maintainers can add that to the FAQ and documentation.
That's my contribution to this open source effort.
Name one.
Homestar Runner
Is it pleasant to use? Meh. Depends on your web eccentricity. The site itself is pretty easy and fun.
Flash has it's place, and some flash designers know the good uses, but others just need to beat on the head with a web standards stick.
-FlynnMP3
People don't like to steal?!? I don't know where you got your information, but it is dead wrong. In today's world, people generally don't steal because of the reprocussions of the action. Children have to be taught that stealing is wrong. Grownups don't like getting in trouble when they steal.
This Internet thing has allowed anonymous "stealing" so people can just copy at will whatever they want without fear of consequences. The RIAA & MPAA has done a great job reminding the general public that the Internet is not anonymous and some online actions do have reprocussions.
Disregarding the misnomer of "stealing" on the Internet, I think your statement would be more accurate if stated:
People don't like getting in trouble for stealing.
Molten metals doped with minerals cooled into glass become transparent. Possible? Heck I have no idea. This whole article was fascinating to me. When I read that part about more than silica could be cooled into glass my mind immediately thought of ST:IV.
It's a great time to be alive.
I don't know what people expect for these things. I thoroughly enjoyed it. The production values were amazing. The beginning was cool as they pulled back to do the reveal. The narration was very well voiced, done by Peter Cullan.
If you are expecting award winning performances or originality, then I suggest you look elsewhere than Star Wars fan films. The exposition lasted quite a while, but I expect that is to setup the rest of the series. For this episode, I enjoyed the mixture of the Predator creature. The banter amongst the troops was funny, and they even pulled off the being humorous when the remaining Milenium Falcon left the bay. I loved the ending. It was very light and poked fun at themselves.
I am sure the rest of the series will be just as enjoyable. And who knows, as these people make these things it will open doors of opportunity and inspire others to do the same. On those grounds alone, the film is worth the effort.
That topic strikes me as something DNA would say.
Printer 'accidents' are nothing compared to what they were of yesteryear. You haven't lived till you have seen the hilarity of newbie printer operators trying to cope with a printout that is causing the mainframe band printer to beep constantly, shoot out paper with form feeds, suck some of it back in with reverse form feeds, print out patterned streams of characters so the print head sounded like it was stripping gears (they were trained to listen for that sound), and finally print out GOTCHA!! in huge ASCII block letters. All in the span of about 30 seconds. Nearly gave 'em a heart attack every time.
Oh those were the days. Bwahahahahah.
Underlying the article is how much money is to be made from console versus PC games. Console games are easier to build for because of consistant hardware and it is easier to implement effective copy protection. Effective in this case is subjective. Meaning it is more effective that PC copy protection. This won't always be the case. In some cases it is just as easy to break copy protection for consoles.
But the article is good for bantering around at the BG table.
I can't help but think that in 20 years or so that we'll be able to use the latest design inkjet printers, pop special 'inks' in them, load in IC plans into Photoshop IC, hit print and 2 hours later have usable expansion cards for our computers (sans power connectors). Need more memory or replace bad sticks? Just download the plans for your particular machine and away you go. Wonder how much that is going to cost for the IC plans? Or better yet, what about those evil _hacker_ people who design and release IC plans onto the Internet for free?!? Are they nuts? (sarcasm)
It's coming. Oh boy, then manufacturer's are going to be fighting for their way of survival just like the **AA of today. Fun fun fun!
I don't get your angst. Google is actively engaging a very popular geek website, encouraging participation, answering questions in an informal manner, and trying an experiment that could for all intents and purposes, start a ground swell of support for the lone genius coders (and others) out there; and you have the gall to bitch and complain about things such as how Chris responds (or not in this case) to a followup question?
I don't know what issues you got, but go seek professional help of some kind.
There isn't a whole lot of light in your intestines, either, unless someones been pumping a bit of sunshine.
:)
Gives a whole new meaning to blowing sunshine up your ass. I use "your" metaphorically there
This is so typical of online gaming review sites these days. I blame MTV for the whole smash. People these days have so little attention span that extreme hyperbole is used just to ensure that people will read for more than 5 seconds.
I only found one item in there that was valid. The rest was over the top free porn! attention grabbers.
Oh look, but I can do hyperbole too. The designers of that game took time to make sure that the emotes for the female characters are very evocative. And - as an added bonus, body parts jiggle when subjected to sudden movements.
Playing with pixel dolls has reached new heights! Who the heck needs AI with jiggling?
All of these problems stem from the fact that the Internet was created with trusted hosts in mind.
Now with a minuscule fraction of the users being maliscous and the power of computers to take ANY bad thing(tm) and magnify it to hyperbolic extremes, the Internet now must be seen as a hostile network. Any web designer or systems integrator who sees otherwise is a fool for thinking so. It is possible to cut off nodes that are acting abnormally to restore some sense of trusted communications again. But in doing so the freedoms that we currently enjoy are at the whim of a select few who program the hueristics. Hence, as a system of checks and balances, we try and enter that needed human element in the verification process in an attempt to keep those freedoms.
It would be great if people would say their website works with any compliant browser. But much of the world doesn't care. In my opinion that's because standards doesn't carry connotations with anybody besides web/standards geeks.
Now the cute little firefox plushtoy (have you seen it?) - that's what people will remember. As long as you keep the FF designers on the straight and narrow wwith regards to implementing web standards, then everybody gets what they want.
Course, some will argue that Firefox isn't very complaint, or that it could be more complaint, or whatever predilection that their brain dreams up.
Ooops. Yes. kbps. It's not THAT bad.
Bidirectional satellite connections have been available for consumer use for a little over 3 years now (that I am aware of).
I use DirecWay. The Fair Access Policy sucks, you only get a measured amount of bandwidth to use per time slot. Mine is 500 meg per 4 hours. The speed of the transmission is nice. Download speeds can get upto 2000bps and upload varies based on how much money you parley. Mine is 120bps (pitifull I know).
The latency is born from the signal having to leave your satellite dish, upto the geosychronise orbiting satellite, back down to the Network of Operations, out to the Internet, back from the Internet to the NOC, back up to the Geo sat, and finally back down to your satellite dish. All told, the best time for round trip transmission is 0.7 seconds.
All network traffic handshaking is hampered by this high amount of latency. If whatever protocol requires pretty rapid back & forth to be responsive, then it's pretty much guarenteed it will suck with satellite internet service.
-FlynnMP3
The article itself had the best sarcastic comment in it at the end.
To learn more about how the brain works, visit www.howstuffworks.com.
-FlynnMP3
PS. I got this little tip from some reader on this site.
"Exactly why is tabbed browing better than just firing up another IE? Isn't doing Alt-tab to change windows just as easy as whatever it is you do to change firefox tabs?"
If you get a lot of news off the Internet or do blog reading, or research, or shopping, or just general browsing (hmmm I guess that's everything) then tabbed browsing is perfect for you.
For my uses it works even better if I have tabbed browsing configured to open the link in a new background tab. I am reading the original article when all of a sudden, I happen upon a link that could be interesting. Instead of copying the URL of the link, opening up IE, pasting the link and pressing enter to load it (granted IE and automation can be configured to do this easier); I can just just right click on the link and select open in new tab (or middle click if you have the mouse for it) and keep on reading the original content while the new thing of interest loads in a new tab behind the current tab. It's much faster for me and less of a break in the flow of how I read. When I am ready, I switch to the new tab and read, do whatever with that. There are extensions that enhance tab switching so that it mimics what ALT-TAB does with app switching like switching for the most to least recently used tabs with CTRL-TAB. Just like windows dialog tab switching, or sometimes even MDI windows switching. http://timothyhumphrey.name/firefox/ or get any of the other variations at the official FF site.
Seriously, for news hounds like me, tabbed browsing is the bees knees.
Why is this modded insightful?
Is dry, droll sexual innuendo humor considered to be insightful? Now if there was a mod for thoughtful, or wistful; that would be closer IMO to an accurate mod.
Good ol' Slashdot. You've become merely a shadow of your former self. Now with moderation like this, the transformation is nearly complete.
*sigh*