I'd switched ISPs a buncha years ago and there were a few friends who didn't have my new email address.
I got together with friends for coffee and one of them, whom I hadn't seen for a few months, said he'd been trying to email me for a few weeks but the messages weren't getting through. I explained that I'd changed ISPs.
He said, "Yeah. A nice guy named Daemon" had emailed him letting him know that I couldn't be found at that ISP anymore.
There is an amazing amount of very good music being made today. If your tastes don't match up with what you're hearing on the radio you just have to look elsewhere. There are thousands of excellent music blogs discussing and giving samples of just about any genre of music.
I don't listen to the radio. Can't stand the stuff they play. I do listen to and discover tons of new music, though. Hell, I meet up with an old high school buddy on instant messager once per week. We each recommend one song to the other. I usually end up buying the whole album.
It might take a bit more work to locate whatever type of music you like than just turning on the FM radio...but if you're hoping to simply be spoon-fed music, you just have to hope you like whatever it is they are putting on the spoon.
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Yes, yes. But go read Snow Crash now. Its definately worth it. Personally, I loved Anathem, too.
(Note to young slashdotters - replace "having sex with your wife" to something suitably embarrassing that you wouldn't want plastered all over the Internet. Use your imagination.
Maybe looking at this like the wikipedia model isn't the best way. Google's project maybe shouldn't have an "official" article on Topic X. It should provide a list of related items (just like their search engine does now) that people have submitted to the site. No editorial decisions, no politics, just the data. Provide APIs for others to filter, aggregate, and present the results in whatever manner they see fit.
Articles or items could be rated somewhat like Slashdot is now. You could ignore particular submitters... hell, sign up for a service that does the black/white listing for you... or not see results under a certain rating, etc.
Essentially it'd be like their internet search except for material that has been specifically submitted to their site. As long as they have open access to their database of stuff, many many services could be designed for catagorizing, rating, and eventually presenting the results.
1) Debate the message, not the messenger. 2) Someone who advocates raping and murdering others because they don't like their pollitical opinions has no business calling someone else "insane" or "fascist". Hint: that would be you, Chuckles. Uhm. Pot kettle black?
You forget to mention all the posts from people commenting about how most/. posters haven't read tfa or go off on some wild tangent. Those people shouldn't be allowed to p
Maybe I'm not understanding what happened here. The Copyright Royalty Board set new rates for webcasters. They appear to be a branch of the library of congress with statutory authority to set royalty rates, etc http://www.loc.gov/crb/laws/. The webcasters appealed / petitioned to a judge and were denied. So, the rate increase is supposed to go in effect soon.
The webcasters reached a deal with the recording industry to get some temporary relief.
What?
If the Copyright Royalty Board set a new rate, how in the hell can the recording industry strike a deal with anyone to decrease what the webcasters have to pay? If the recording industry is actually able to make an agreement like this and the government or the Copyright Royalty Board just goes along with it can there be any question how far our congress and other politicians have been corrupted by the RIAA influence and lobbying? As part of the government, the CRB shouldn't be a mediator between copyright holders and any other party (or worse, just a puppet of the RIAA). They should be setting public policy that benefits the public. If the board truly believed the rates were fair (which, IMO, they are obviously not) then they have set the policy and any outside agreement should be meaningless.
The fact that the recording industry is willing to make any temporary deals simply means they know the rates are too high and fear repercussions or, as others have mentioned, are just giving a reprieve until Congress is out of session and the public outcry has run its course.
The fact that the CRB would allow outside agreements to nullify the rates they set simply means that the CRB is not attempting to benefit the public interest but is just a bought-and-sold arm of the recording industry.
I eventually had to go into iTunes and put a FullAlbum tag on albums that I don't want mixed into any shuffle or any other playlist (and, of course, made my smart playlists filter those out). Beatles, Dylan, Pink Floyd...stuff I really like but think are best appreciated in the context of the album.
No, no. You're thinking of Octocenturian. In Roman times, these were groups of 8 (centurian is roman for "eight") soldiers (soldiers in ancient times were known as Octos (diminutive of Octorite which literally translates as "smelly and dangerous")). Interestingly, Claudia Octavia ("smelly and socially unpleasant") was married to Emperor Nemo who was an accomplished violin player. He went missing under suspicious circumstances and Octavia spent the rest of her life attempting to find Nemo.
Having your developers actively play in a game where cheatng, lying, and spying are part of the game play is a first grade game developer mistake. Even in the old text based MUDs, this was known to be a Bad Idea.
I used to be a developer and admin on Nightmare LPMud. In the year or so before it finally died, it was a hugely bad atmosphere to play in. We had a new coder who dreamed up and implemented many cool features. She was, by far, the most active developer. She also had a couple of kids who played the game. Turned out they were pretty good and quickly got a reputation. She also played. Cue the inevitable accusations from players about her cheating, giving information and/or items to her kids, using admin information to help them out, etc.
I investigated. Didn't find anything...but it _is_ so easy for developers to cheat, who really knows. Anyway, I believed her.
Cue the endless complaints about the administration ignoring the situation, blah blah blah. And this for a free-to-play text based MUD. Add real money to the situation and you're gonna have the same type of complaints, except people are going to have real reasons to be angry: they are paying to play.
Its just a bad idea to let developers play the games they build if player versus player conflict, physical (playerkilling) or economic control, is part of the game. People are ALWAYS going to expect cheating. At least in the MUDs i've seen, cheating happens quite a bit. Its easy to do, its pretty easy to cover your tracks (hell, you designed and coded the system), and it really doesn't seem like you're hurting anyone. You can show off a bit to your friends, help them out a bit, etc. Its wrong, its a bad idea, and it leads to a lot of ugliness...but if the other players, the ones who aren't getting helped, are actually paying to play...then obviously you can make the argument that people ARE getting hurt.
Oh this post is WAY off topic, but I'm fed up with these American bigots and their "surrender" jokes. What will they do once they "surrender" in Iraq... oh sorry, no, they "WON"... We'll still mock the French. Why stop when you have a good thing going?
Most players like numbers. I tried moving from hit points and stat points and foo points on a Mud for years, players always hated it. Theres a good number of players who like min/maxing, like crunching the numbers, etc.
I think the beauty of multicore is going to be the ability to assign individual cores to specific virtual machines or virtual applications. If microsoft ever comes up with sane licensing for virtual machines we could get to the point where your choice of base OS isn't all that important. Run linux as host because its stable. Have some "must-have" microsoft apps you need to run for work or pleasure? Just launch a virtual machine running windows with your needed apps and assign one core to that virtual machine so you don't feel a performance hit. No need to teach your employees how to configure wine or use other, less stable, solutions. For the end user it can be as easy as clicking an icon on their desktop. Giving an employee a new laptop could be as simple as getting a laptop with linux installed and a virtual machine with their corporate desktop on it...vpn preconfigured and everything. Switching to a new brand or build of laptop wouldn't muck up ghost images, etc...the virtual machine is hardware agnostic.
Not a real solution for gamers yet...but vmware has been doing some interesting things with directX.
I haven't looked at vmware's virtual machine library lately (damn WoW addiction) but last time I looked they had a lot of prebuilt, preconfigured machines that you could download, run in Player and have no-install functionality.
Most of the stuff was for servers or enterprise solutions, but it isn't hard to image pre-configured virtual machines with any type of application pre-installed. The problem, right now, is microsoft's licensing is prohibitive.
I'm sure xen and other virtualization folks are working on similar things. I just don't have any experience with those.
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First it was guns. They took them away.
Next it was knives. They'll take those too.
Once the bananas are gone, all we'll have left is pointed sticks.
I'd switched ISPs a buncha years ago and there were a few friends who didn't have my new email address.
I got together with friends for coffee and one of them, whom I hadn't seen for a few months, said he'd been trying to email me for a few weeks but the messages weren't getting through. I explained that I'd changed ISPs.
He said, "Yeah. A nice guy named Daemon" had emailed him letting him know that I couldn't be found at that ISP anymore.
Gotta love Daemon.
Also, get the hell offa my lawn.
There is an amazing amount of very good music being made today. If your tastes don't match up with what you're hearing on the radio you just have to look elsewhere. There are thousands of excellent music blogs discussing and giving samples of just about any genre of music.
I don't listen to the radio. Can't stand the stuff they play. I do listen to and discover tons of new music, though. Hell, I meet up with an old high school buddy on instant messager once per week. We each recommend one song to the other. I usually end up buying the whole album.
It might take a bit more work to locate whatever type of music you like than just turning on the FM radio...but if you're hoping to simply be spoon-fed music, you just have to hope you like whatever it is they are putting on the spoon.
Yes, yes. But go read Snow Crash now. Its definately worth it. Personally, I loved Anathem, too.
(Note to young slashdotters - replace "having sex with your wife" to something suitably embarrassing that you wouldn't want plastered all over the Internet. Use your imagination.
Whats wrong with your wife?
Maybe looking at this like the wikipedia model isn't the best way. Google's project maybe shouldn't have an "official" article on Topic X. It should provide a list of related items (just like their search engine does now) that people have submitted to the site. No editorial decisions, no politics, just the data. Provide APIs for others to filter, aggregate, and present the results in whatever manner they see fit.
... hell, sign up for a service that does the black/white listing for you ... or not see results under a certain rating, etc.
Articles or items could be rated somewhat like Slashdot is now. You could ignore particular submitters
Essentially it'd be like their internet search except for material that has been specifically submitted to their site. As long as they have open access to their database of stuff, many many services could be designed for catagorizing, rating, and eventually presenting the results.
Maybe.
Now I have to worry that the filter has been in place for years...and I am on the wrong side. It would explain so much.
2) Someone who advocates raping and murdering others because they don't like their pollitical opinions has no business calling someone else "insane" or "fascist". Hint: that would be you, Chuckles. Uhm. Pot kettle black?
You forget to mention all the posts from people commenting about how most /. posters haven't read tfa or go off on some wild tangent. Those people shouldn't be allowed to p
Yeah, thats probably a decent way to go.
The RFC has been out there for a while. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149
I don't know if its been implemented yet.
Maybe I'm not understanding what happened here. The Copyright Royalty Board set new rates for webcasters. They appear to be a branch of the library of congress with statutory authority to set royalty rates, etc http://www.loc.gov/crb/laws/. The webcasters appealed / petitioned to a judge and were denied. So, the rate increase is supposed to go in effect soon.
The webcasters reached a deal with the recording industry to get some temporary relief.
What?
If the Copyright Royalty Board set a new rate, how in the hell can the recording industry strike a deal with anyone to decrease what the webcasters have to pay? If the recording industry is actually able to make an agreement like this and the government or the Copyright Royalty Board just goes along with it can there be any question how far our congress and other politicians have been corrupted by the RIAA influence and lobbying? As part of the government, the CRB shouldn't be a mediator between copyright holders and any other party (or worse, just a puppet of the RIAA). They should be setting public policy that benefits the public. If the board truly believed the rates were fair (which, IMO, they are obviously not) then they have set the policy and any outside agreement should be meaningless.
The fact that the recording industry is willing to make any temporary deals simply means they know the rates are too high and fear repercussions or, as others have mentioned, are just giving a reprieve until Congress is out of session and the public outcry has run its course.
The fact that the CRB would allow outside agreements to nullify the rates they set simply means that the CRB is not attempting to benefit the public interest but is just a bought-and-sold arm of the recording industry.
I eventually had to go into iTunes and put a FullAlbum tag on albums that I don't want mixed into any shuffle or any other playlist (and, of course, made my smart playlists filter those out). Beatles, Dylan, Pink Floyd...stuff I really like but think are best appreciated in the context of the album.
No. I just enjoy a good game of word disassociation.
I just enjoy a good game of word disassociation.
No, no. You're thinking of Octocenturian. In Roman times, these were groups of 8 (centurian is roman for "eight") soldiers (soldiers in ancient times were known as Octos (diminutive of Octorite which literally translates as "smelly and dangerous")). Interestingly, Claudia Octavia ("smelly and socially unpleasant") was married to Emperor Nemo who was an accomplished violin player. He went missing under suspicious circumstances and Octavia spent the rest of her life attempting to find Nemo.
Having your developers actively play in a game where cheatng, lying, and spying are part of the game play is a first grade game developer mistake. Even in the old text based MUDs, this was known to be a Bad Idea.
I used to be a developer and admin on Nightmare LPMud. In the year or so before it finally died, it was a hugely bad atmosphere to play in. We had a new coder who dreamed up and implemented many cool features. She was, by far, the most active developer. She also had a couple of kids who played the game. Turned out they were pretty good and quickly got a reputation. She also played. Cue the inevitable accusations from players about her cheating, giving information and/or items to her kids, using admin information to help them out, etc.
I investigated. Didn't find anything...but it _is_ so easy for developers to cheat, who really knows. Anyway, I believed her.
Cue the endless complaints about the administration ignoring the situation, blah blah blah. And this for a free-to-play text based MUD. Add real money to the situation and you're gonna have the same type of complaints, except people are going to have real reasons to be angry: they are paying to play.
Its just a bad idea to let developers play the games they build if player versus player conflict, physical (playerkilling) or economic control, is part of the game. People are ALWAYS going to expect cheating. At least in the MUDs i've seen, cheating happens quite a bit. Its easy to do, its pretty easy to cover your tracks (hell, you designed and coded the system), and it really doesn't seem like you're hurting anyone. You can show off a bit to your friends, help them out a bit, etc. Its wrong, its a bad idea, and it leads to a lot of ugliness...but if the other players, the ones who aren't getting helped, are actually paying to play...then obviously you can make the argument that people ARE getting hurt.
Just a hugely bad idea.
Most players like numbers. I tried moving from hit points and stat points and foo points on a Mud for years, players always hated it. Theres a good number of players who like min/maxing, like crunching the numbers, etc.
Really? I guess I'd start with, "I hope you get hit by a truck and die choking on your own blood...out back, in the bayou, tonight."
Thats not fair. The last season of "24" didn't make for a good season of "24". And they have writers. All I have is normal stupid encounters.
No kidding they are.
If we could only get the actual opium dens open again.
I would so rock at pvp if I could play in an opi...pass the cheetos.
I think the beauty of multicore is going to be the ability to assign individual cores to specific virtual machines or virtual applications. If microsoft ever comes up with sane licensing for virtual machines we could get to the point where your choice of base OS isn't all that important. Run linux as host because its stable. Have some "must-have" microsoft apps you need to run for work or pleasure? Just launch a virtual machine running windows with your needed apps and assign one core to that virtual machine so you don't feel a performance hit. No need to teach your employees how to configure wine or use other, less stable, solutions. For the end user it can be as easy as clicking an icon on their desktop. Giving an employee a new laptop could be as simple as getting a laptop with linux installed and a virtual machine with their corporate desktop on it...vpn preconfigured and everything. Switching to a new brand or build of laptop wouldn't muck up ghost images, etc...the virtual machine is hardware agnostic.
Not a real solution for gamers yet...but vmware has been doing some interesting things with directX.
I haven't looked at vmware's virtual machine library lately (damn WoW addiction) but last time I looked they had a lot of prebuilt, preconfigured machines that you could download, run in Player and have no-install functionality.
Most of the stuff was for servers or enterprise solutions, but it isn't hard to image pre-configured virtual machines with any type of application pre-installed. The problem, right now, is microsoft's licensing is prohibitive.
I'm sure xen and other virtualization folks are working on similar things. I just don't have any experience with those.