I know the producers of Star Drek--they did get a cease and desist, which they didn't have the resources to fight, but no one made them give over the proceeds from the show.
He's at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, which is not where the Mac Business Unit, that produces all of Microsoft's Mac apps, is located. They are all down in in greater Bay area.
This is an advertisement. ACR is allowed to prattle on endlessly about all the things they've done w/o any analysis or even details...this is Slashdot, and for an article to work it needs to have the details. This is just cheerleadering at its worst--I won't waste time and ask, "why was this posted" but instead simply cut to the chase--this article isn't worth anyone's time.
nice story. What you neglect to mention is that in the case of the U of F, they are actually looking INSIDE the computers on their network to identify apps and files.
So while network shaping sounds good, privacy invasion does not.
So I assume you wouldn't mind if an ISP which had a 100% monopoly on the local market regularly climbed into its customers computers and looked through their files, shutting down their connections if they found anything amiss?
The initial poster's comments are rather childish--while this is a good article to discuss, did we really need to hear Sequoia's inane opinions glommed on to the topic?
It *was* given a chance--many of them--and it failed to turn up. Dream if you like, and the rest of us will keep working toward power solutions that actually function.
Frankly, that's ridiculous--they'd take control of the process and make America even more powerful. Last I checked the coal lobby is not all that and a bag of chips\.
There is nothing to "merge" between Firebird and Camino--both are built off the same code base, but one has a Cocoa-native wrapper (Camino) and the other uses XUL (Firebird).
Camino rocks--try one of the nightlies since 0.7 if you want to see a big improvement.
There's also been an immense amount of improvements to Camino since 0.7--if you download one of the nightlies you'll see big speed improvements and stability. The nightlies are building on Moz 1.4, as opposed to 1.0 for the 0.7 release. Makes a big difference.
This is hardly surprising--when a big film explodes in H'wood, everyone runs for cover and the blame gets thrown around. One of the advantages of using a game franchise is that when things meltdown you can point at that, rather than the truth that everyone, even the studios, knows: that the first movie blew apes, and the public wasn't buying the dog food a second time.
So don't be shocked--it's just Cover Your Ass time.
TORG was an absolutely horrific mess that solicited opinions because they had no internal direction. But it was nice that they didn't bundle it in...even if the atrocious first trilogy of "novels" did a lot of that for people.
Leaving games in the hands of the people means laying off metaplot...and most game companies smoke metaplot like crack.
I did, in fact...and a variety of options in no way disguises the fact that this is thinly-veiled fiction. It's no different than what they've been doing for years, and hardly surprising.
"I'll have to admit that it takes guts to have your RPGs' 'big story' include the end of their world, but they're doing it"
It would take guts for them to have created an RPG that leaves the stories in the hands of the people playing the game...I hate their mania for "novelizing" their worlds and dictating what happens to everyone and everything.
Crap like this is exactly why mainstream RPGs have failed to deliver--what are groups supposed to do, sit around and READ these damn things out loud?
If you want to write fiction, write it. If you want to create an environment for RPGs, create it and then let the players and GMs sit in the driver seat.
You presume the point of SETI is to communicate with aliens. It is not. It is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. So they only need to answer your first two conditions, and those are some of your weakest ones. In fact, you seem to advocate them getting more money, as then they will be able to cover more of the sky and have a better chance with increased funding for their projects.
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I know the producers of Star Drek--they did get a cease and desist, which they didn't have the resources to fight, but no one made them give over the proceeds from the show.
He's at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, which is not where the Mac Business Unit, that produces all of Microsoft's Mac apps, is located. They are all down in in greater Bay area.
This is an advertisement. ACR is allowed to prattle on endlessly about all the things they've done w/o any analysis or even details...this is Slashdot, and for an article to work it needs to have the details. This is just cheerleadering at its worst--I won't waste time and ask, "why was this posted" but instead simply cut to the chase--this article isn't worth anyone's time.
Except for the part where they are looking inside people's computers. You may wish to actually read the articles.
nice story. What you neglect to mention is that in the case of the U of F, they are actually looking INSIDE the computers on their network to identify apps and files.
So while network shaping sounds good, privacy invasion does not.
Actually, they are looking inside the computers themselves, identifying files, viruses and apps.
So I assume you wouldn't mind if an ISP which had a 100% monopoly on the local market regularly climbed into its customers computers and looked through their files, shutting down their connections if they found anything amiss?
That's what I thought.
The initial poster's comments are rather childish--while this is a good article to discuss, did we really need to hear Sequoia's inane opinions glommed on to the topic?
It *was* given a chance--many of them--and it failed to turn up. Dream if you like, and the rest of us will keep working toward power solutions that actually function.
Frankly, that's ridiculous--they'd take control of the process and make America even more powerful. Last I checked the coal lobby is not all that and a bag of chips\.
Sigh.
There is nothing to "merge" between Firebird and Camino--both are built off the same code base, but one has a Cocoa-native wrapper (Camino) and the other uses XUL (Firebird).
Camino rocks--try one of the nightlies since 0.7 if you want to see a big improvement.
There's also been an immense amount of improvements to Camino since 0.7--if you download one of the nightlies you'll see big speed improvements and stability. The nightlies are building on Moz 1.4, as opposed to 1.0 for the 0.7 release. Makes a big difference.
You may also wish to get that sense of humor looked at.
Well, that's the response I expected from somebody but I commend you on working it all through.
Nevertheless, creepy.
No offense, but you are indeed an uberdork. revel in your time, but expect to be branded as such.
From the article:
"The Tengwar, also called Feanorian letters after their inventor, were used in Aman and Middle-earth for writing many different languages."
I wish there would be at least a token acknowledgement that all of this is fiction...not because people don't know, but because it is kind of creepy.
"I guess it just goes to prove that with the right management and funding, publically owned services can outperform the private sector."
If by "management" you mean, "pass legislation to force people to pay for state-run programming" then yes, this is a much better solution.
"The BBC is equivalent in quality to HBO"
Well THAT is certainly debatable. But they are the same kind of services--you pay to play, except one is freely chosen and the other is legislated.
This is hardly surprising--when a big film explodes in H'wood, everyone runs for cover and the blame gets thrown around. One of the advantages of using a game franchise is that when things meltdown you can point at that, rather than the truth that everyone, even the studios, knows: that the first movie blew apes, and the public wasn't buying the dog food a second time.
So don't be shocked--it's just Cover Your Ass time.
TORG was an absolutely horrific mess that solicited opinions because they had no internal direction. But it was nice that they didn't bundle it in...even if the atrocious first trilogy of "novels" did a lot of that for people.
Leaving games in the hands of the people means laying off metaplot...and most game companies smoke metaplot like crack.
I did, in fact...and a variety of options in no way disguises the fact that this is thinly-veiled fiction. It's no different than what they've been doing for years, and hardly surprising.
"I'll have to admit that it takes guts to have your RPGs' 'big story' include the end of their world, but they're doing it"
It would take guts for them to have created an RPG that leaves the stories in the hands of the people playing the game...I hate their mania for "novelizing" their worlds and dictating what happens to everyone and everything.
Crap like this is exactly why mainstream RPGs have failed to deliver--what are groups supposed to do, sit around and READ these damn things out loud?
If you want to write fiction, write it. If you want to create an environment for RPGs, create it and then let the players and GMs sit in the driver seat.
"Except that it'd be pointless, even if they did get a signal. It'd be a signal hundreds or thousands of years old."
That's right--a signal from an ALIEN INTELLIGENCE is only useful if it is up to date.
Also, SETI isn't under any sort of compulsion to prove to the people who use its client whether the data is "fresh" or not. That's silly.
You presume the point of SETI is to communicate with aliens. It is not. It is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. So they only need to answer your first two conditions, and those are some of your weakest ones. In fact, you seem to advocate them getting more money, as then they will be able to cover more of the sky and have a better chance with increased funding for their projects.
They marking you "troll" because of the idiocy of your opinions, and the asinine way you construct your arguments.