The rest of slashdot is different in that they got the joke!
A friend of mine was studying neuralscience and was telling me that the brian's laugh reflex is often a result of its reaction to dealing with multiple competing views of things. Similar to the first time you probably saw one of those escher cubes, you sort of chuckle a little bit.
Your reaction seems to be altogher different. Instead of "oh, ha! That's funny!", you sort of say "wow, that's wierd. How come other people don't think that's wierd". But you see, they do. That was the point of the statement.
Perhaps in the future, when you see something strange like this, you should describe it to other folks. If they laugh, then it was a joke. After a while, you will start to get the hang of it and then you can laugh too.
''We can build a better product than Linux,'' he [Allchin] said.
That's my favorite line from the article. Not we have built, not we will build, but can build. Like maybe, someday in the future, once this Windows thing blows over.
I say good for him. I'm glad he finally recognizes that.
As a software dev at an internet company one of the things that I have knowingly given up is the time to have a family, or really much of an outside life.
Right now I am young and am getting paid very very well for what I do.
I should be more desirable to an employer than you because I do put in the hours and I get the job done. You act like you have some sort of right to get the same level of respect from your employer as me, even though you get to go home and play with your kids, or whatever your family responsibilities include. From where I sit, that is just bs.
It's just a fact that there is a lot of competition in high tech and if you can't hang then get out.
I know of several companies where I could go work right now and my hours would instantly be cut in half. I wound up accidentally working at a company like this when my last company got bought by one of them. I left there for more of a challenge, but these places do exist. The work is not as exciting or high profile, but what do you expect? They only work office hours there.
I too bought a box from alienware, just recently as a matter of fact. The box would constantly hang. 100% failure rate on eq within 4 minutes. After trying all sorts of driver updates the problem finally resolved itself when I removed the WindowsMe that shipped with it and installed windows98.
I also had this goofy problem where the redhat6.2 install had the "turn of pentium GUID" option selected in the default kernel, so it would halt on boot. I just built a kernel on my other box and dd on to boot disk to fix that. I also cannot get the SBlive linux drivers to make make sound come out the headphones jack, but works fine through the speakers. This post probably belongs on a newsgroup somewhere....
I don't know this for a fact, but hypothetically, it could be like that 'give away a pc and make them pay for the isp' type of deal. If it only costs them $1 per person per month, but they charge people $10 per month, then this is removing a revenue stream for Veriant.
Perhaps I worded my original statement incorrectly.
What I meant to say was veriant requires you to pay a monthly fee to player Everquest. This is enforced by allowing/disallowing access to their servers.
In the case of EverQuest, I really don't see what the problem is. People still buy your game, and they still use your game. They just aren't connecting to your server. Boo hoo. They aren't even copying anything they shouldn't. I mean, what should you care what they do in their own time, and who are you to tell your customers how they should use your product?
You have to pay a monthly fee to play everquest. If you are connecting to a non veriant server you could probably bypass that little formality. This is why they would care.
This totally hightlights the importance of competition. In my area I can get @home, and use the isp that comes with it, or I get get DSL and use any of the myriad local and national isps that can give me access.
I chose to go with a small local isp and have always gotten great service. With no hassle.
And this is totally what you would expect. The little local isp is just providing a service, not trying to leverage his customers into spending more money. There is far too much competition for that.
Besides, ping times are much better on a star (dsl) than a loop (cable), which is most important for working from home of ssh and realtime gaming.
On side note, you can just keep on using whatever you are using for vpn software, as there is no way for @home to find out. All packets from behind your nat box look like they came from the nat box, so there is nothing that @home could use to figure out if you are doing this or not.
Well, since that is exactly what the site linked to in the article suggests, I don't think you could really use the phrase "more clever". How about something more accurate, like "the same as".
If he had not resorted to vandalism you would not have sympathy for him because you would never have heard of him. Sometime you have to do what you have to to get things stirred up.
For those of you who are like me and are sick and tired of sites like nytimes requiring us to "sign up" with a login name and passwd and email address and real address and...
I have created an account on nytimes for everyone to use. Username: slashdottt, passwd: slashdot
Most of the posts happen to agree with your point of view, but the point is that this is an interesting issue. I'm glad I saw it posted. Me and my friends can talk about this over coffee or whatever.
You people who insist on labeling everyone who posts on slashdot as 'you people' to this sort of thing are be a little re-reactionary (because the intial post was reactionary, get it?), and hypocritical. Don't you think?
There is an alternate authentication method for pop3 named apop (see rfc1725).
This involves a salt from the server (usually timestamp) which client concatenates with passwd and then runs through md5. Server does the same operation and then compares. md5 (see rfc1321) is a oneway hash function believed to by cryptographically secure (the fastest way to break it is brute force) so this is very good at on the wire password protection.
Enforcing this at the server also has the nice effect that people can't use outlook (without a middle shim layer converting from pop3 to apop)
If Metallica play a concert publicly, their live performance does not become public domain.
Yes, but if a band records a concert and decides to sell the recording of it, they do get to keep the crowd noise on the recording. This does enhance the performance and is an actual part of the content, but they do not have to get permission from the fans in the crowd.
This is just the other side to your imperfect analogy.
If this is the game that I think it is, then I'd like to tell you a little story about Dragon Warrior. When I was about 16 I worked for Nintendo here in Seattle (Bellevue actually). I had a job as a "game counselor". This means that people would call me up and ask me how to get from point A to point B in game X. Dragon Warrior was one of the games we had to play in training. During training you would work 9 hours a day. You would come in and play the training games (one of which was Dragon Warrior) for 4 hours, take lunch, then go back and play the games till the rest of the day.
There was a guy named Chris who was the brother of the roommate of one of the guitar players in my band, and there was a guy named Saul who thought my name was Chris. Saul would always call me Chris. The first time he said it I didn't correct him, and from then on he would always call me Chris and I always felt like if I corrected him, then he would wonder why the hell I never corrected him before, so I never corrected him. One day both he and another person were trying to get my attention. He said "hey Chris", and the other person said "Hey Paul", and they both looked at each other and then looked at me and said "I thought your name was Chris/Paul". So, anyway, that was wierd.
Then, there was this girl whose name name I don't remember who also worked there. I used to give her a ride home at night (with my '73 green Charger, Yeah!). One day at the end of the night she took one last call. It was some guy who had like 90000 questions about some game that nobody every player, and she had to sit there on the phone with this guy and attempt to help him with all of this crap. I remeber that several of the leads started listening in on her call to see what the hell was taking so long, and they were all laughing and having a great time. By the time she got off the call, and I was supposed to drive her home, she was crying and all upset, and I felt very bad for her.
Anyway, there was no point to all of this except Dragon Warrior brought up all these old associations.
Since everyone in the film was portrayed as a wack-o, I believe that your facts are correct but your conclusions are not. You should see the film before you make judgements like this.
Since religion is can pretty much be defined as a group of people who get together and decide to zealously believe some stuff, despite evidence to the contrary, then I suppose you are correct. It's not religions fault, is the fault of the people who believe in that religion.
Religion sucks, there is no god, use your brain to discover and observe things about the world around you.
I am listening to the show right now and someone was saying they wish they could get palmV wireless inet access (me too). There is this thing called omnisky. I haven't tried it, but it's there.
Well, just to balance things out a bit, I have been using datek for 2 yrs now. I have never had any problems and they totally have the best realtime tools.
I also have a dljdirect account and it is alright. You can get in on some ipo shares through them, but you get limited realtime quotes unless you have more than $1M.
I use Datek for all of my realtime activity tracking.
quote.yahoo.com is by far the best for news and overall portfolio tracking.
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~$ grep dize/usr/dict/words | grep sub subsidize subsidized subsidizes
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Oooh. ROI. Hey, you must have an MBA?
The rest of slashdot is different in that they got the joke!
A friend of mine was studying neuralscience and was telling me that the brian's laugh reflex is often a result of its reaction to dealing with multiple competing views of things. Similar to the first time you probably saw one of those escher cubes, you sort of chuckle a little bit.
Your reaction seems to be altogher different. Instead of "oh, ha! That's funny!", you sort of say "wow, that's wierd. How come other people don't think that's wierd". But you see, they do. That was the point of the statement.
Perhaps in the future, when you see something strange like this, you should describe it to other folks. If they laugh, then it was a joke. After a while, you will start to get the hang of it and then you can laugh too.
No need to thank me. Just wanted to help.
''We can build a better product than Linux,'' he [Allchin] said.
That's my favorite line from the article. Not we have built, not we will build, but can build. Like maybe, someday in the future, once this Windows thing blows over.
I say good for him. I'm glad he finally recognizes that.
I guess this was anti-fud fud?
As a software dev at an internet company one of the things that I have knowingly given up is the time to have a family, or really much of an outside life.
Right now I am young and am getting paid very very well for what I do.
I should be more desirable to an employer than you because I do put in the hours and I get the job done. You act like you have some sort of right to get the same level of respect from your employer as me, even though you get to go home and play with your kids, or whatever your family responsibilities include. From where I sit, that is just bs.
It's just a fact that there is a lot of competition in high tech and if you can't hang then get out.
I know of several companies where I could go work right now and my hours would instantly be cut in half. I wound up accidentally working at a company like this when my last company got bought by one of them. I left there for more of a challenge, but these places do exist. The work is not as exciting or high profile, but what do you expect? They only work office hours there.
I too bought a box from alienware, just recently as a matter of fact. The box would constantly hang. 100% failure rate on eq within 4 minutes. After trying all sorts of driver updates the problem finally resolved itself when I removed the WindowsMe that shipped with it and installed windows98.
I also had this goofy problem where the redhat6.2 install had the "turn of pentium GUID" option selected in the default kernel, so it would halt on boot. I just built a kernel on my other box and dd on to boot disk to fix that. I also cannot get the SBlive linux drivers to make make sound come out the headphones jack, but works fine through the speakers. This post probably belongs on a newsgroup somewhere....
I don't know this for a fact, but hypothetically, it could be like that 'give away a pc and make them pay for the isp' type of deal. If it only costs them $1 per person per month, but they charge people $10 per month, then this is removing a revenue stream for Veriant.
Perhaps I worded my original statement incorrectly.
What I meant to say was veriant requires you to pay a monthly fee to player Everquest. This is enforced by allowing/disallowing access to their servers.
How is this theft of services?
Because you have to pay a monthly fee to play everquest when you connect to one of their servers.
In the case of EverQuest, I really don't see what the problem is. People still buy your game, and they still use your game. They just aren't connecting to your server. Boo hoo. They aren't even copying anything they shouldn't. I mean, what should you care what they do in their own time, and who are you to tell your customers how they should use your product?
You have to pay a monthly fee to play everquest. If you are connecting to a non veriant server you could probably bypass that little formality. This is why they would care.
This totally hightlights the importance of competition. In my area I can get @home, and use the isp that comes with it, or I get get DSL and use any of the myriad local and national isps that can give me access.
I chose to go with a small local isp and have always gotten great service. With no hassle.
And this is totally what you would expect. The little local isp is just providing a service, not trying to leverage his customers into spending more money. There is far too much competition for that.
Besides, ping times are much better on a star (dsl) than a loop (cable), which is most important for working from home of ssh and realtime gaming.
On side note, you can just keep on using whatever you are using for vpn software, as there is no way for @home to find out. All packets from behind your nat box look like they came from the nat box, so there is nothing that @home could use to figure out if you are doing this or not.
Well, since that is exactly what the site linked
to in the article suggests, I don't think you
could really use the phrase "more clever". How
about something more accurate, like "the same as".
If he had not resorted to vandalism you would not
have sympathy for him because you would never have
heard of him. Sometime you have to do what you
have to to get things stirred up.
For those of you who are like me and are sick and
tired of sites like nytimes requiring us to "sign up"
with a login name and passwd and email address and real address and...
I have created an account on nytimes for everyone
to use. Username: slashdottt, passwd: slashdot
Hopefully someone will find this usefull.
Actually, there has been a few times with netscape
when it's crashed and I've said to myself:
"goddamnit. Where's that fucking feedback agent!?!"
No, not Outlook, but still VBScript.
The amount of cpu cycles spent on running vbscript
breaks down as 98% virus / 1% virus writing / 1% non virus affiliated.
Seriously, I don't think I've ever seen vbscript
in a word doc or email that wasn't a virus. I
guess that's innovation for you.
Most of the posts happen to agree with your
point of view, but the point is that this is
an interesting issue. I'm glad I saw it posted.
Me and my friends can talk about this over coffee
or whatever.
You people who insist on labeling everyone who
posts on slashdot as 'you people' to this sort
of thing are be a little re-reactionary (because
the intial post was reactionary, get it?), and
hypocritical. Don't you think?
There is an alternate authentication method for
pop3 named apop (see rfc1725).
This involves a salt from the server (usually
timestamp) which client concatenates with passwd
and then runs through md5. Server does the same
operation and then compares. md5 (see rfc1321) is a oneway hash function believed to by cryptographically secure (the fastest way to break it is brute force) so this is very good at on the wire password protection.
Enforcing this at the server also has the nice
effect that people can't use outlook (without
a middle shim layer converting from pop3 to apop)
If Metallica play a concert publicly, their live performance does not become public domain.
Yes, but if a band records a concert and decides
to sell the recording of it, they do get
to keep the crowd noise on the recording. This
does enhance the performance and is an actual
part of the content, but they do not have to get
permission from the fans in the crowd.
This is just the other side to your imperfect
analogy.
Dragon Warrior!
If this is the game that I think it is, then I'd like to tell you a little story about Dragon Warrior. When I was about 16 I worked for Nintendo here in Seattle (Bellevue actually). I had a job as a "game counselor". This means that people would call me up and ask me how to get from point A to point B in game X. Dragon Warrior was one of the games we had to play in training. During training you would work 9 hours a day. You would come in and play the training games (one of which was Dragon Warrior) for 4 hours, take lunch, then go back and play the games till the rest of the day.
There was a guy named Chris who was the brother of the roommate of one of the guitar players in my band, and there was a guy named Saul who thought my name was Chris. Saul would always call me Chris. The first time he said it I didn't correct him, and from then on he would always call me Chris and I always felt like if I corrected him, then he would wonder why the hell I never corrected him before, so I never corrected him. One day both he and another person were trying to get my attention. He said "hey Chris", and the other person said "Hey Paul", and they both looked at each other and then looked at me and said "I thought your name was Chris/Paul". So, anyway, that was wierd.
Then, there was this girl whose name name I don't remember who also worked there. I used to give her a ride home at night (with my '73 green Charger, Yeah!). One day at the end of the night she took one last call. It was some guy who had like 90000 questions about some game that nobody every player, and she had to sit there on the phone with this guy and attempt to help him with all of this crap. I remeber that several of the leads started listening in on her call to see what the hell was taking so long, and they were all laughing and having a great time. By the time she got off the call, and I was supposed to drive her home, she was crying and all upset, and I felt very bad for her.
Anyway, there was no point to all of this except Dragon Warrior brought up all these old associations.
I wonder where those people are now.
Since everyone in the film was portrayed as a wack-o, I believe that your facts are correct
but your conclusions are not. You should see the film before you make judgements like this.
Since religion is can pretty much be defined as
a group of people who get together and decide
to zealously believe some stuff, despite evidence
to the contrary, then I suppose you are correct.
It's not religions fault, is the fault of the
people who believe in that religion.
Religion sucks, there is no god, use your brain
to discover and observe things about the world
around you.
Natalie Portman hot grits thank you.
Just to satisfy my own non-windows using
curiosity, what the hell is comet cursor?
I am listening to the show right now and someone
was saying they wish they could get palmV wireless
inet access (me too). There is this thing called
omnisky.
I haven't tried it, but it's there.
Well, just to balance things out a bit, I have
been using datek for 2 yrs now. I have never had
any problems and they totally have the best
realtime tools.
I also have a dljdirect account and it is alright.
You can get in on some ipo shares through them,
but you get limited realtime quotes unless you
have more than $1M.
I use Datek for all of my realtime activity tracking.
quote.yahoo.com is by far the best for news and
overall portfolio tracking.
~$ grep dize /usr/dict/words | grep sub
subsidize
subsidized
subsidizes