I'm waiting for the inevitable 2.0 release. Instead of merely blanking the screen duing offensive content, the V-Chip XP (Does 'V2' still have too many Nazi connotations?) will intelligently extrapolate and render kid-safe content out of whatever's actually happening in the broadcast. Until the 2.1 release, the V-Chip will naturally do this in a very kludgy and amateurish fashion, leading to many many quality viewing opportunities for those who like to get high on psychedelics and watch 'Debbie does Dallas' or the SRC (CBC French edition) art film night --- translated 90 degrees into constructive social commentary on the value of Safe Streets and Happy Families.
We want a revolution! RMS says: Fuck the system!
Death to advertising! Death to the market economy!
May Alan Greenspan raise interest rates 100 points
and plow salt into the NASDAQ! Free slashdot
from the robber-barons at Andover.net! Install HURD into CmdrTaco's testicles! Resistance is futile! We need more exclamation marks!
The following is a patent on a process for collecting and disseminating technical and other news announcements in a self-moderating 'web log' environment.
The process features customized 'home pages', comprised of a screen of (filterable) newsfeed and 'slash boxes', containing indices of other news/log-type sites.....
Um, although I agree with you that something should be done to reign in the smog-belching lump of corpuscular excess that is the US, I would also point out that Canada's environmental policies are actually N% worse that America's. However, we have fewer people and more environment with which to hide the consequences of industry, and so our naughtiness continues unabated. Plus, everyone thinks we're nice and well-behaved, for some strange reason.
Hey, yeah! But, er....
A good 50% is really *bad* food: Deep fried X, where X is a member of the set of all possible edibles.
Perhaps we should look at cleaning up two American hydrocarbon emission problems: The one where the h.'s are vented into the atmosphere, and the one where the h.'s end up around people's midriffs.;)
I hate to break the news to y'all, but consumer demand for HDTV is probably going to be/increased/ by copy protection. The forced rarity of digital video recordings will only make them all the more precious.Remember how the masses reacted to the introduction of the compact disc?
"Yeah, I know, it's shitty that I can't record like I could with cassettes, but OTOH the sound is _amazing_ and I just spent X hundred dollars on my new incredibly elite sound system and music collection using the very latest in technology that is an obvious symbol of my supreme power as a well-moneyed consumer, blah blah blah...."
People/like/ the idea of restrictions, so long as said restrictions entail some sort of superior status and/or higher quality. Makes 'em feel all special. The only people who'll avoid copy-protected hardware will be those who have ethical issues with copy protection, and the poor, who have financial issues with it. (Incidentally, it is the very exclusion of the latter category which will make copy-protected TV so very popular).
Hell, with society's current configuration you could probably sell *amputation* to the middle classes, provided limblessness was both expensive and a status symbol. Hell, Joe Q. Sixpack would give his right hand to be a classy amputee!
Isn't the Iron Ring(tm) a Canadian thing? Do any of y'all 'mericuns know what our friend is talking about? (BigBlockMopar is obviously Canadian - ref to Ottawa ice storm below).
ARA, for those of you who have no idea what the fsck our friend is talking about:
Engineers in Canada (at least) get a small iron ring when they graduate. This ring is (ostensibly) made with metal from that bridge (in New York state, I think? Is there some national chauvinist subtext here?) that went bonkers and collapsed dramatically (whilst being filmed, no less). The father of a friend of mine -- an old NASA hand -- has an amusing story about convincing a cadre of American engineers that their Canadian co-workers were all gay because of that special little ring they wear -- as if the ring was a species of homosexuality-semiotic, like wearing rainbow colours or something...
KDE2 still crashes every few hours and they're writing docu? A 50-item list of outstanding 'critical' and 'grave' bugs on their bug tracker? Puh-leeze.
Listen, folks, this is the third or fourth recent
high-profile Open Source 'major production release' to dump more core than Exxon. (Others, of course, include 'Whoops! I did it again' RH7, XFree86 4.0.x (which *still* crashes when I run Netscape), Netscape 6.0, etc.) How can we possibly bash Microsoft if our junk crashes faster? I'd rather see more working groups take their cue from Linus: If you're behind schedule, simply delay the release. Better yet, make more frequent, incremental changes. DON'T rush your bells and whistles to market until you're sure that the bells tinkle and the whistles, erm, whistle.
I don't share your respect for (or estimation of) 'collegiate-level' education.
Undergrads are IMO frequently quite dim. And don't even get me started on the pap that some technical/career training colleges churn out.
IMHO, most the material in most undergrad courses can be successfully assimilated in a week or less, given proper motivation. But no. Our semesters are filled with busywork and time-wasting lectures.
The University Idea continues its hundred-year decay....
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I'm waiting for the inevitable 2.0 release. Instead of merely blanking the screen duing offensive content, the V-Chip XP (Does 'V2' still have too many Nazi connotations?) will intelligently extrapolate and render kid-safe content out of whatever's actually happening in the broadcast. Until the 2.1 release, the V-Chip will naturally do this in a very kludgy and amateurish fashion, leading to many many quality viewing opportunities for those who like to get high on psychedelics and watch 'Debbie does Dallas' or the SRC (CBC French edition) art film night --- translated 90 degrees into constructive social commentary on the value of Safe Streets and Happy Families.
We want a revolution! RMS says: Fuck the system!
Death to advertising! Death to the market economy!
May Alan Greenspan raise interest rates 100 points
and plow salt into the NASDAQ! Free slashdot
from the robber-barons at Andover.net! Install HURD into CmdrTaco's testicles! Resistance is futile! We need more exclamation marks!
Ten dollar pearls? Where can I purchase this
exquisite finery? I shall be the, erm, queen
of the Internet!
The following is a patent on a process for collecting and disseminating technical and other news announcements in a self-moderating 'web log' environment.
The process features customized 'home pages', comprised of a screen of (filterable) newsfeed and 'slash boxes', containing indices of other news/log-type sites.....
Um, although I agree with you that something should be done to reign in the smog-belching lump of corpuscular excess that is the US, I would also point out that Canada's environmental policies are actually N% worse that America's. However, we have fewer people and more environment with which to hide the consequences of industry, and so our naughtiness continues unabated. Plus, everyone thinks we're nice and well-behaved, for some strange reason.
Canada? Pollute? Naaaah!
Hey, yeah! But, er....
;)
A good 50% is really *bad* food: Deep fried X, where X is a member of the set of all possible edibles.
Perhaps we should look at cleaning up two American hydrocarbon emission problems: The one where the h.'s are vented into the atmosphere, and the one where the h.'s end up around people's midriffs.
I hate to break the news to y'all, but consumer demand for HDTV is probably going to be /increased/ by copy protection. The forced rarity of digital video recordings will only make them all the more precious.Remember how the masses reacted to the introduction of the compact disc?
/like/ the idea of restrictions, so long as said restrictions entail some sort of superior status and/or higher quality. Makes 'em feel all special. The only people who'll avoid copy-protected hardware will be those who have ethical issues with copy protection, and the poor, who have financial issues with it. (Incidentally, it is the very exclusion of the latter category which will make copy-protected TV so very popular).
"Yeah, I know, it's shitty that I can't record like I could with cassettes, but OTOH the sound is _amazing_ and I just spent X hundred dollars on my new incredibly elite sound system and music collection using the very latest in technology that is an obvious symbol of my supreme power as a well-moneyed consumer, blah blah blah...."
People
Hell, with society's current configuration you could probably sell *amputation* to the middle classes, provided limblessness was both expensive and a status symbol. Hell, Joe Q. Sixpack would give his right hand to be a classy amputee!
Isn't the Iron Ring(tm) a Canadian thing? Do any of y'all 'mericuns know what our friend is talking about? (BigBlockMopar is obviously Canadian - ref to Ottawa ice storm below).
ARA, for those of you who have no idea what the fsck our friend is talking about:
Engineers in Canada (at least) get a small iron ring when they graduate. This ring is (ostensibly) made with metal from that bridge (in New York state, I think? Is there some national chauvinist subtext here?) that went bonkers and collapsed dramatically (whilst being filmed, no less). The father of a friend of mine -- an old NASA hand -- has an amusing story about convincing a cadre of American engineers that their Canadian co-workers were all gay because of that special little ring they wear -- as if the ring was a species of homosexuality-semiotic, like wearing rainbow colours or something...
Yes, well. It's not an easy line to draw with geeks, is it? www.unixsex.com
KDE2 still crashes every few hours and they're writing docu? A 50-item list of outstanding 'critical' and 'grave' bugs on their bug tracker? Puh-leeze. Listen, folks, this is the third or fourth recent high-profile Open Source 'major production release' to dump more core than Exxon. (Others, of course, include 'Whoops! I did it again' RH7, XFree86 4.0.x (which *still* crashes when I run Netscape), Netscape 6.0, etc.) How can we possibly bash Microsoft if our junk crashes faster? I'd rather see more working groups take their cue from Linus: If you're behind schedule, simply delay the release. Better yet, make more frequent, incremental changes. DON'T rush your bells and whistles to market until you're sure that the bells tinkle and the whistles, erm, whistle.
I don't share your respect for (or estimation of)
'collegiate-level' education.
Undergrads are IMO frequently quite dim. And don't even get me started on the pap that some technical/career training colleges churn out.
IMHO, most the material in most undergrad courses can be successfully assimilated in a week or less, given proper motivation. But no. Our semesters are filled with busywork and time-wasting lectures.
The University Idea continues its hundred-year decay....
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