Games designed SPECIFICALLY for PS2 are supposed to work better on a computer that's not running a dedicated gaming platform? On a laptop, no less?
Honestly. What have you been smoking and where can I get some?
I'd rather pay a couple hundred dollars on a PS2 and Linux kit than drop 3k on a state-of-the-art laptop that is NOT going to have any new software specifically for its own design two years down the road.
It's not like anybody's going to buy a PS2 simply for the Linux patch, but it DEFINATELY makes it a far more attractive option than its Microsoft counterpart by one-upping the X-box's sole credit towards its design: Being a PC and a gaming console rolled into one.
...Where Robert's being all "oldskool" sci-fi geek to this 11-year-old kid, telling him all about Logan's run (to which the kid replies: "I like Men In Black.") So he takes him off to edu-ma-cate him...
"Man, that guy will talk to anybody."
"Yes, but it's rare that he'll find his intellectual equal."
That problem could be fixed. It's just a matter of time and ingenuity. There's no such thing as can't be done...
I suppose this is once again contributing to my dream of the geeks raging Beyist Poetic terrorism on the planet and subverting all the stupid (IMO entirely) laws we can eventually work our way around...
F2F by Philip Finch. Some hacker posts on a BBS about how we now lack any type of privacy or safety from those who are smart enough to invade peoples' lives...
Well, he attempts to then crack every computer of the people who respond to his post and proceeds to hunt each and every one down. Well, one of them, a hacker/phreaker from the 70s, had designed this device that essentially does just what you proposed here... he tracks down where this bad-guy killer person and checks out the guy's monitor from the broadcasted AM signals. Essentially giving him a unidirectional trojan.
Excellent read. I highly recommend it for anybody who likes Cyber-thrillers. And anybody who likes action-driven novels (Also check out Paradise Junction by the same author).
Hopefully, with any luck, a plethora of pirate radio programs will spawn out of this and we'll eventually do to radio waves exactly what Napster did to music.... Pump Up The Volume style...
Honestly, I'd really love to see stuff like that. Total anarchy raged on the airwaves... It'd definately kick the crap out of CRTC (FCC down there I suppose) and we could once again be given the option of Free Press...
I personally will spearhead a Happy Harry Hardon campaign... Who's with me?
Of course M$ can't do that... that would require them to abolish their anti-logic improbability drive that they use to bend the US Court System's Better Judgement.
I just find it interesting that they don't do something like that and yet still require me to have a "user" with individual preferences for the Win98 I have on my IBM I-Can't-Believe-It-Doesn't-Thinkpad...
Twain said it best: "No wonder truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction needs to make sense" (Or something like that... I got it out of Men's Health and I'm too lazy to go look it up...)
When is Paramount going to finally visit a graveyard and realize that Roddenbury is dead?
Honestly, I think it's gotten to the point of bedragglement. They're taking a concept and attempting to build a universe out of it. The problem is that universes are relatively boring. It's new and driving concepts that keep the novelty of sci-fi interesting.
Everybody's complaining that Enterprise is boring, and I have to concur. For the same reason that I highly disliked U2's latest album. It's a "homecoming." And in production value, homecoming means "none of our new stuff is working, let's go back to what seemed to work the first time around." Which means: no innovation, no ingenuity, and eventual boredom.
Star Trek got cancelled. They got lucky with TNG that they rekindled some of the fire. But TNG got cancelled as well. Voyager never took off at all, and DS9 suffered the Babylon 5 syndrome of the ever-dreaded cult following (which Undergrads seems to be hitting and suffering from... http://www.undergrads.tv/ ) But fer chrissakes, you can only pull off so many stunts (Jeri Ryan? Return of the Borg queen?) to regain a momentary quick-fix resurgence in the general population in order to keep a series of TV shows running.
I guess the point I'm probably failing at getting across is: Star Trek is over. The man behind the entire concept is dead and simply bedraggling all of his half-finished concepts is merely tainting his image and hurting what used to be a very reputable and enjoyable tv/movie franchise.
Anything that happens in respect to Roddenbury's projects (Trying desperately to keep this on-topic...) I think is pointless and predictable politics in Paramount trying desperately to milk money out of a already harshly depleted resource.
I guess the point I'm trying to push across is that "Paul" (I am referring to someone specific of a different name when I say this, btw) is as qualified, experienced and trained as any programmer I know, if not moreso. I would entrust his programming skills/knowledge/experience as much as any "certified" person.
I think I more object to the idea that unschooled -> untrained... because with the computer profession it is quite possible and plausible to achieve the same level of education through various means other than conventional schooling. While yes, it would be a good idea to have some type of standardized measurement of a programmer's knowledge and capabilities, I don't think that schooling should be it.
The reason stuff like this would work on stuff like official documents but not on stuff like music is because if one country imposed legislation on it, there would always be another country without it. And since filesharing expands beyond patrial (is that a word?) borders, all the music that supposedly gets encrypted would just be worked around by another country. It works on official documents because... well, there's no real public demand for online official documents because they don't exist yet. And since the media and the demand for the media isn't already in place, it's not uncontrollable.
Also, people are going to spend hour upon hour of playing with music files trying to crack the encryption because, well, people are more than happy to redistribute the music they own, as opposed to say their driver's license, which I don't think they really want to hand out to some guy on the street.
Red Hat: Kids learn Linux, which is openly applicable and if they pay attention, they could very easily learn how to work on _any_ linuxbox regardless of whether or not it is a RedHat box or not. Also, this might push some High Schools to teach the concept of Open Source in schools, which is IMHO invariably a Good Thing.
M$: Kids learn a OS that they're going to know regardless because it's what's on their parents' computers/it's currently the standard/it's what they've been subjected to because of societal brainwashing courtesy the corporate world (I myself am a victim of the latter), so they don't really learn anything new. On top of which, Windows is only distributed by a single company, as opposed to Linux, which means ONLY M$ benefits from this.
This isn't a matter of ethics of the companies, really, it's more of an evaluation of the reprocussions of the two acts. M$ means more brainwashing. Red Hat means less.
1) Paul has never gone to university.
2) Paul and conventional schooling don't like each other very much.
3) Paul is a very highly paid programmer with a very highly prestigious Game Developer company with a job that 90% of the coders in this city would _kill_ for.
4) Paul is probably one of the more knowledgeable and brilliant coders in this city.
Now, why should Paul be forced to endure a discipline simply so that he can get certification so that people know that he is a good coder. People know anyways. Why should there be a standardized system?
One of the nice things about the coder/hacker/programmer/computer geek profession is that schooling isn't _everything_. It is quite possible that someone with an able enough mind can self-teach themselves anything they'd learn in a university. They don't really need a lab or a gigantic library that is only accessible to University students. I think I've touched the "assignment lab" up at SFU about twice in the three-year tenure of my attendance in Comp-Sci courses. Everything can be done with your own resources and your own research. This profession has never really been one that follows convention because, well, it's not a conventional profession. Innovation and progression from normal societal standards is what keeps computer programming and all the related fields dynamic. It's the reason why the.com industry reached market saturation so incredibly quickly.
Anyways. That's my rant. Feel free to dissect it and flame away... Any disagreements are highly welcome.
But why not the geeks? In honesty, I've found that geeks (the grown up ones) on the most part tend to be the most well-rounded and politically savvy people I've met. And by politically savvy I _don't_ mean politically enabled, because government IMO has as of late become a corporate smokescreen to deviate attention away from the fact that our lives are governed by the decisions businesses make and not ourselves. I guess that's why the term "politics" has become synonymous with "all the bull-crap that surrounds an issue without actually resolving it".
(Insert comment here about how I'm a bleeding-heart left-wing pinko, right?)
I still stand by the idea that copywrite protection laws are the first casualty in the war between geeks and corporations that will eventually end in the anarchistic Geek-governed utopia, which is simply a slight variation on Socrates'/Plato's Utopia.
All I know is that I'm keeping my DNRC card handy.
(Please save all flames saying I'm a moron for believing this. I know I'm being delusional, but heck... a man has to dream...)
Seriously... can you sing? Cuz if you can, I would LOVE to see you in the upcoming TV remake of the Rocky Horror Picture Show that Richard O'Brien's been commissioned to do.
It became a Travolta movie based on a blatant Marx Brothers reference.
I figured that out whilst wandering around our local McMall and saw a poster that said "Password: Swordfish" for the movie, suddenly I realized... "Hey! That's a Horsefeathers reference."
I love being a geek.
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Games designed SPECIFICALLY for PS2 are supposed to work better on a computer that's not running a dedicated gaming platform? On a laptop, no less?
Honestly. What have you been smoking and where can I get some?
I'd rather pay a couple hundred dollars on a PS2 and Linux kit than drop 3k on a state-of-the-art laptop that is NOT going to have any new software specifically for its own design two years down the road.
It's not like anybody's going to buy a PS2 simply for the Linux patch, but it DEFINATELY makes it a far more attractive option than its Microsoft counterpart by one-upping the X-box's sole credit towards its design: Being a PC and a gaming console rolled into one.
And I'm just gonna leave Gamecube _alone_.
...Where Robert's being all "oldskool" sci-fi geek to this 11-year-old kid, telling him all about Logan's run (to which the kid replies: "I like Men In Black.") So he takes him off to edu-ma-cate him...
"Man, that guy will talk to anybody."
"Yes, but it's rare that he'll find his intellectual equal."
She-zor. Who knew?
Then all you need to hook up to a LAN is a non-flatscreen monitor. =)
Out of curiosity, anybody here have any insight as to the origin of the nasty rumor that the Cartoon would have nothing to do with "Spoon"?
That problem could be fixed. It's just a matter of time and ingenuity. There's no such thing as can't be done...
I suppose this is once again contributing to my dream of the geeks raging Beyist Poetic terrorism on the planet and subverting all the stupid (IMO entirely) laws we can eventually work our way around...
F2F by Philip Finch. Some hacker posts on a BBS about how we now lack any type of privacy or safety from those who are smart enough to invade peoples' lives...
Well, he attempts to then crack every computer of the people who respond to his post and proceeds to hunt each and every one down. Well, one of them, a hacker/phreaker from the 70s, had designed this device that essentially does just what you proposed here... he tracks down where this bad-guy killer person and checks out the guy's monitor from the broadcasted AM signals. Essentially giving him a unidirectional trojan.
Excellent read. I highly recommend it for anybody who likes Cyber-thrillers. And anybody who likes action-driven novels (Also check out Paradise Junction by the same author).
Someone set up us the dead horse!
Hopefully, with any luck, a plethora of pirate radio programs will spawn out of this and we'll eventually do to radio waves exactly what Napster did to music.... Pump Up The Volume style...
Honestly, I'd really love to see stuff like that. Total anarchy raged on the airwaves... It'd definately kick the crap out of CRTC (FCC down there I suppose) and we could once again be given the option of Free Press...
I personally will spearhead a Happy Harry Hardon campaign... Who's with me?
I put my TI-82 up to the stereo and heard Destiny's Child!
(Okay. Bad joke. Couldn't resist... Mod me down as deemed necessary...)
Forget I wrote that.... nevermind.
Of course M$ can't do that... that would require them to abolish their anti-logic improbability drive that they use to bend the US Court System's Better Judgement.
I just find it interesting that they don't do something like that and yet still require me to have a "user" with individual preferences for the Win98 I have on my IBM I-Can't-Believe-It-Doesn't-Thinkpad...
Twain said it best: "No wonder truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction needs to make sense" (Or something like that... I got it out of Men's Health and I'm too lazy to go look it up...)
When is Paramount going to finally visit a graveyard and realize that Roddenbury is dead?
Honestly, I think it's gotten to the point of bedragglement. They're taking a concept and attempting to build a universe out of it. The problem is that universes are relatively boring. It's new and driving concepts that keep the novelty of sci-fi interesting.
Everybody's complaining that Enterprise is boring, and I have to concur. For the same reason that I highly disliked U2's latest album. It's a "homecoming." And in production value, homecoming means "none of our new stuff is working, let's go back to what seemed to work the first time around." Which means: no innovation, no ingenuity, and eventual boredom.
Star Trek got cancelled. They got lucky with TNG that they rekindled some of the fire. But TNG got cancelled as well. Voyager never took off at all, and DS9 suffered the Babylon 5 syndrome of the ever-dreaded cult following (which Undergrads seems to be hitting and suffering from... http://www.undergrads.tv/ ) But fer chrissakes, you can only pull off so many stunts (Jeri Ryan? Return of the Borg queen?) to regain a momentary quick-fix resurgence in the general population in order to keep a series of TV shows running.
I guess the point I'm probably failing at getting across is: Star Trek is over. The man behind the entire concept is dead and simply bedraggling all of his half-finished concepts is merely tainting his image and hurting what used to be a very reputable and enjoyable tv/movie franchise.
Anything that happens in respect to Roddenbury's projects (Trying desperately to keep this on-topic...) I think is pointless and predictable politics in Paramount trying desperately to milk money out of a already harshly depleted resource.
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I guess the point I'm trying to push across is that "Paul" (I am referring to someone specific of a different name when I say this, btw) is as qualified, experienced and trained as any programmer I know, if not moreso. I would entrust his programming skills/knowledge/experience as much as any "certified" person.
I think I more object to the idea that unschooled -> untrained... because with the computer profession it is quite possible and plausible to achieve the same level of education through various means other than conventional schooling. While yes, it would be a good idea to have some type of standardized measurement of a programmer's knowledge and capabilities, I don't think that schooling should be it.
Highly...
The reason stuff like this would work on stuff like official documents but not on stuff like music is because if one country imposed legislation on it, there would always be another country without it. And since filesharing expands beyond patrial (is that a word?) borders, all the music that supposedly gets encrypted would just be worked around by another country. It works on official documents because... well, there's no real public demand for online official documents because they don't exist yet. And since the media and the demand for the media isn't already in place, it's not uncontrollable.
Also, people are going to spend hour upon hour of playing with music files trying to crack the encryption because, well, people are more than happy to redistribute the music they own, as opposed to say their driver's license, which I don't think they really want to hand out to some guy on the street.
At least, that's how I see it.
What does Red Hat's offer mean versus M$'s?
Red Hat: Kids learn Linux, which is openly applicable and if they pay attention, they could very easily learn how to work on _any_ linuxbox regardless of whether or not it is a RedHat box or not. Also, this might push some High Schools to teach the concept of Open Source in schools, which is IMHO invariably a Good Thing.
M$: Kids learn a OS that they're going to know regardless because it's what's on their parents' computers/it's currently the standard/it's what they've been subjected to because of societal brainwashing courtesy the corporate world (I myself am a victim of the latter), so they don't really learn anything new. On top of which, Windows is only distributed by a single company, as opposed to Linux, which means ONLY M$ benefits from this.
This isn't a matter of ethics of the companies, really, it's more of an evaluation of the reprocussions of the two acts. M$ means more brainwashing. Red Hat means less.
At least, that's my opinion.
Take my friend, we'll call him Paul.
.com industry reached market saturation so incredibly quickly.
1) Paul has never gone to university.
2) Paul and conventional schooling don't like each other very much.
3) Paul is a very highly paid programmer with a very highly prestigious Game Developer company with a job that 90% of the coders in this city would _kill_ for.
4) Paul is probably one of the more knowledgeable and brilliant coders in this city.
Now, why should Paul be forced to endure a discipline simply so that he can get certification so that people know that he is a good coder. People know anyways. Why should there be a standardized system?
One of the nice things about the coder/hacker/programmer/computer geek profession is that schooling isn't _everything_. It is quite possible that someone with an able enough mind can self-teach themselves anything they'd learn in a university. They don't really need a lab or a gigantic library that is only accessible to University students. I think I've touched the "assignment lab" up at SFU about twice in the three-year tenure of my attendance in Comp-Sci courses. Everything can be done with your own resources and your own research. This profession has never really been one that follows convention because, well, it's not a conventional profession. Innovation and progression from normal societal standards is what keeps computer programming and all the related fields dynamic. It's the reason why the
Anyways. That's my rant. Feel free to dissect it and flame away... Any disagreements are highly welcome.
I guess anarchy would be the wrong word...
But why not the geeks? In honesty, I've found that geeks (the grown up ones) on the most part tend to be the most well-rounded and politically savvy people I've met. And by politically savvy I _don't_ mean politically enabled, because government IMO has as of late become a corporate smokescreen to deviate attention away from the fact that our lives are governed by the decisions businesses make and not ourselves. I guess that's why the term "politics" has become synonymous with "all the bull-crap that surrounds an issue without actually resolving it".
(Insert comment here about how I'm a bleeding-heart left-wing pinko, right?)
I still stand by the idea that copywrite protection laws are the first casualty in the war between geeks and corporations that will eventually end in the anarchistic Geek-governed utopia, which is simply a slight variation on Socrates'/Plato's Utopia.
All I know is that I'm keeping my DNRC card handy.
(Please save all flames saying I'm a moron for believing this. I know I'm being delusional, but heck... a man has to dream...)
...that intelligence would be a threat to Microsoft. Oh well.
Seriously... can you sing? Cuz if you can, I would LOVE to see you in the upcoming TV remake of the Rocky Horror Picture Show that Richard O'Brien's been commissioned to do.
Why is it that this whole review is almost identical to a review I saw a few years ago when Xena started doing Musical Episodes.
Hein. Who knows.
As if this is the first time Microsoft has every blatantly ripped off an idea off of Appl... er... everybody else...
It became a Travolta movie based on a blatant Marx Brothers reference. I figured that out whilst wandering around our local McMall and saw a poster that said "Password: Swordfish" for the movie, suddenly I realized... "Hey! That's a Horsefeathers reference." I love being a geek.