CrystalSpace is: crystal.linuxgames.com NetSpace is: ns.weblink.org
Re:Is the Metaverse nearing practicality?
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Quake 1 GPL'ed
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CrystalSpace is a cross-platform, open-source 3d engine under the leadership of Jorrit Tyberghein. The NetSpace project which is building on this engine is working towards the very goal described there.
Interested parties are welcome to join the mailing lists, for either the main engine, or NetSpace.
Speaking as a writer, and often onliner, I can say with certainty that text can express everything that needs to be expressed.
If I use phrases like: "i c yes, it is c00l." Then problems will crop up.
If I were to write: "Oh, I see! Your implementation of a perl-script to get your beer is cunning!" Then my meaning gets across.
The same rules apply in written conversations as do in writing of any kind. Because the physical cues aren't there to pick up on, one must be clear, accurate, and precise with diction.
I refuse to admit that 'hacker' is a lost cause. While we all love the mystique surrouning that term, it has reached the point where it has been bandied about by the media so much that it no longer has any clear meaning.
In fact, I recently visited a site that distributed cracks, and it explained to me that they were 'crackers', not those 'hackers' that broke into people's sites and broke things.
The ubequitous 'nerd' and 'geek' do not suffice to fully describe the hacker mentality. I find I often have to resort to referring to myself as an 'old school hacker', as opposed to 'those punks', but this too is no longer enough.
Perhaps we need a new term that sums up the whole of hackerdom, from the late nights spent coding, to the clever fixes of your OS that come so naturally to us, but seem like magic to the uneducated.
The term hack used to mean 'clever solution'. You hack that bug in your code, you had a great idea for a hack that would restructure modern society, but it was so simple you forgot to write it down, and now you can't remember it.
Now, hack means to intrude, to destroy. People who refer to themselves as hackers to anyone but other Digirati are either laughed at, or feared.
We are the ones who built the systems that everyone uses, we live in them, work in them, play in them.
And now, piece by piece, they are taking that away from us.
So we have to fight back - but not by becoming what they see us as, but by showing them just who we are, and what we do.
A new name would take us away from the media's evil eye for a while, but in the end, the undesirables will just follow us there, and begin referring to themselves as '3133+' and we'll be back to square one.
P.
Re:France joined the e-commerce bandwagon too
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Germany Frees Crypto
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I do belive it is neccisary at this moment to indicate that neither of those countries were the trend setters in this situation.
Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't *Canada* (of all places) pass such legislation late last year?
I always laugh when I think of Canada as a world trendsetter.
Slashdot Mirror
Now, being a guy, I'm no expert on how attractive other males are, but I'd have to say that these are some pretty styling geeks.
Ladies out there, tell us, is the long haired look of Mr. Mittnik sexy, or does the close cropped hemos look do it for you?
Do the suits *really* do as much for you as you say they do?
I'm asking for... uh... academic purposes, of course.
No personal interest in picking up the H0tt-Chicks(tm) at all.
Yeah.
Imitation is the highest form of flattery, is it not?
Smile Apple, we just gave you the official stamp of approval. You did something so cool, we all want a little bit of it for ourselves.
The further you go, the less you know.
CrystalSpace is: crystal.linuxgames.com
NetSpace is: ns.weblink.org
CrystalSpace is a cross-platform, open-source 3d engine under the leadership of Jorrit Tyberghein. The NetSpace project which is building on this engine is working towards the very goal described there.
Interested parties are welcome to join the mailing lists, for either the main engine, or NetSpace.
Speaking as a writer, and often onliner, I can say with certainty that text can express everything that needs to be expressed.
If I use phrases like:
"i c yes, it is c00l."
Then problems will crop up.
If I were to write:
"Oh, I see! Your implementation of a perl-script to get your beer is cunning!"
Then my meaning gets across.
The same rules apply in written conversations as do in writing of any kind. Because the physical cues aren't there to pick up on, one must be clear, accurate, and precise with diction.
Style is everything, d00dz.
I refuse to admit that 'hacker' is a lost cause. While we all love the mystique surrouning that term, it has reached the point where it has been bandied about by the media so much that it no longer has any clear meaning.
In fact, I recently visited a site that distributed cracks, and it explained to me that they were 'crackers', not those 'hackers' that broke into people's sites and broke things.
The ubequitous 'nerd' and 'geek' do not suffice to fully describe the hacker mentality. I find I often have to resort to referring to myself as an 'old school hacker', as opposed to 'those punks', but this too is no longer enough.
Perhaps we need a new term that sums up the whole of hackerdom, from the late nights spent coding, to the clever fixes of your OS that come so naturally to us, but seem like magic to the uneducated.
The term hack used to mean 'clever solution'. You hack that bug in your code, you had a great idea for a hack that would restructure modern society, but it was so simple you forgot to write it down, and now you can't remember it.
Now, hack means to intrude, to destroy. People who refer to themselves as hackers to anyone but other Digirati are either laughed at, or feared.
We are the ones who built the systems that everyone uses, we live in them, work in them, play in them.
And now, piece by piece, they are taking that away from us.
So we have to fight back - but not by becoming what they see us as, but by showing them just who we are, and what we do.
A new name would take us away from the media's evil eye for a while, but in the end, the undesirables will just follow us there, and begin referring to themselves as '3133+' and we'll be back to square one.
P.
I do belive it is neccisary at this moment to indicate that neither of those countries were the trend setters in this situation.
Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't *Canada* (of all places) pass such legislation late last year?
I always laugh when I think of Canada as a world trendsetter.
Petor.