What we are witnessing is the mass amateurization of media, because the net has revolutionized media in the other direction, reducing the cost of being a media outlet to the point where many *many* more people can participate..."
As long as it's still a single click to both Corporate Generica and Joe's Genuine Content, we're healthy. Good writing will be published, and that means it can be linked to, emailed, bookmarked and posted on community sites (like Slashdot). If barriers to entry are erected, then we're back in TV-land, and that sucks.
If bandwidth, CPU, disk space and the rest continue to improve, publishing content will get cheaper & easier. Open Source contributes here as well, providing always-improving free (as in beer) tools that wannabe publishers can seize and put to work. Big media must HATE this, having to pay extra for their Compaq servers, Microsoft software (and those XP upgrades), market-droids, PR goons, sales wankers and pretty but dim receptionists.
I pay less per month for my little weblog's hosting than my phone. It runs Linux (free) MqSQL (free) and uses PHP (free). I have no sales targets, no corporate loyalties and no fixed hours. I'll be here next year Big Media, how about you?
Since "unwanted weapon plutonium" practically doesn't exist (militant governments & terrorists will always want any you have spare), it's incredibly unlikely this memorial will ever be built.
Sounds like this whole memorial idea is trying to get the public to buy into nuclear waste disposal, in preparation for new US nuclear reactors.
Hate to be cynical, but I was born in nuclear-free New Zealand.
shut up man
> Pornography and games are astonishingly
> similar...They both appeal to the
> basal emotions, and encourage the user to
> imagine himself doing thing unnacceptable
> in real life.
Uh... no.:) Some games portray the unacceptable, some don't. Tony Hawk Skating may portray the *phyically impossible* for most of us, but not the unacceptable.
Different games also affect different people different ways. Maybe your ex really sucked at Quake III, and that's why he was angry when he was done. Maybe he would've been happier playing something else (Bust-A-Move maybe?).
I (and other Slashdotters, I'm sure) am in the middle of the netstorm of trying to download demos and promo movies released at E3. They are mirrored on many of the big game sites, but the traffic jam is pretty severe.
Make no mistake, there has been an arms race going between game developers and cheaters for years. Exploits are popularised, then patches released. Code & protocols are changed, moved, encrypted and obfuscated. Modern game clients and servers are quite advanced in this regard, and still the war goes on.
Cheating has given rise to programs like Punkbuster, an anti-cheat client that checks for known cheats and reports violations to the game server. Quite a few online servers REQUIRE Punkbuster to play. The latest PB client checks for the ASUS cheat drivers too - very cool.
Yes of course PB can be cracked as well, but like I said, it's an arms race. You keep on fighting.
Slashdot Mirror
NEW JERSEY: Why is there a watermelon there?
RENO NEVADA: I'll tell you later.
shut up man
As long as it's still a single click to both Corporate Generica and Joe's Genuine Content, we're healthy. Good writing will be published, and that means it can be linked to, emailed, bookmarked and posted on community sites (like Slashdot). If barriers to entry are erected, then we're back in TV-land, and that sucks.
If bandwidth, CPU, disk space and the rest continue to improve, publishing content will get cheaper & easier. Open Source contributes here as well, providing always-improving free (as in beer) tools that wannabe publishers can seize and put to work. Big media must HATE this, having to pay extra for their Compaq servers, Microsoft software (and those XP upgrades), market-droids, PR goons, sales wankers and pretty but dim receptionists.
I pay less per month for my little weblog's hosting than my phone. It runs Linux (free) MqSQL (free) and uses PHP (free). I have no sales targets, no corporate loyalties and no fixed hours. I'll be here next year Big Media, how about you?
C'mon script kiddies, THAT would be cool.
shut up man
Since "unwanted weapon plutonium" practically doesn't exist (militant governments & terrorists will always want any you have spare), it's incredibly unlikely this memorial will ever be built. Sounds like this whole memorial idea is trying to get the public to buy into nuclear waste disposal, in preparation for new US nuclear reactors. Hate to be cynical, but I was born in nuclear-free New Zealand. shut up man
One Site to tell them all,
One Site to remind them,
One Ring to bring them all
and in the darkness completely Slashdot them.
> similar
> basal emotions, and encourage the user to
> imagine himself doing thing unnacceptable
> in real life.
Uh... no.
Different games also affect different people different ways. Maybe your ex really sucked at Quake III, and that's why he was angry when he was done. Maybe he would've been happier playing something else (Bust-A-Move maybe?).
shut up man
P2P would be perfect for this.
Cheating has given rise to programs like Punkbuster, an anti-cheat client that checks for known cheats and reports violations to the game server. Quite a few online servers REQUIRE Punkbuster to play. The latest PB client checks for the ASUS cheat drivers too - very cool.
Yes of course PB can be cracked as well, but like I said, it's an arms race. You keep on fighting.
Crafty.
shut up man.