Oh please, books are different because its hard to enjoy a book on a computer screen. Most people either want to read them in a nice portable form they can take anywhere with them. Yes you could lug around a laptop or a handheld but it is just not the same as the feel of crisp paper between your fingers. Reading a paper book has an interaction to it you just can't reproduce on a computer. The feel of paper, the smell of it, having to turn the pages. With books you have an interaction with the object that you don't get with movies and music. Those you can play on a computer and enjoy them just as much as on other hardware (tv, stereo, etc). But you can't put a book on a computer screen and get the same experience as reading it in paper form.
That is why books will still sell well online. That is why most people won't bother with e-books.
Hmm, that is intersting. I wonder if the.wav's could be copied back to tape and would work or if data would get lost or corrupted in the transfer.
I think you are right about emulators. None for the Mac on Emulation.net, searching elsewhere on the web turned up no emulators for the PC either.
As it is, I wonder if the.wav's could be used as ROM's or if the integrity would be bad. Given that it used a tape drive, I would think that getting the data into a PC in usable form would be rather hard... Might be why no ones bothered to do an emulator for it.
Ah, another interact owner. My brother has one and has a library of dozens of games and other programs. However they have been sitting in my parents basement for an age. Last time I saw the machine run was in 1991 and some of the tapes didn't want to load any more. Not sure if it was the tape drive (which seemed to be getting worse) or if the tapes were simply magnetically deteoriating.
However, my brother recently asked to collect the machine and the tapes, even if it didn't work, for sentimental value, so I won't have access to them anymore. Otherwise I might have been able to dig it up and hook it to an old TV and try to copy a few tapes for you. Other than that, I think you will have to go with emulation, if there is an interact emulator that is...
Pictured at the top of this page. It was an 8 bit computer with a 2MHZ processor and 8k or RAM (upgraded to 16). The tape drive still works but you have to adjust the head with a screwdriver to get the damn thing to read anymore.
It was a fun little machine with games like Goofy Golf and Mazes and Monsters. I kind of miss the musical quality of the games data as they loaded up through the tape deck, the sound of the raw data stream pouring through the speakers. Hell, you could even tell if a game was loading correctly by the pattern of the sound or if the tape deck needed an adjustement, or a good whack on the side.
Check out: Digital Gunfire. They are an electronic/industrial webcaster who can't be shut down by the RIAA because they only play non RIAA stuff. Before you scoff at that, this is good stuff and many times a LOT better than you will ever see come out of the RIAA. So if you are into that genre, give it a try, if you aren't, give it a try anyway and listen for a few hours. It grows on you!
I can attest to that... I loved my Apple Extended Keyboard II (ADB) that game with my Beige G3. I didn't have to push the keys down to the "wall" to make it work. It also had better tilt. The new Apple "black" USB keyboard sucks. I hate it, I keep missing letters while typing if I don't push down to the "wall" and when I do press down, its starting to give me achy wrists at times. Definately looking for a better keyboard for my new Mac...
If he has a Mac, then he can't run Windows at all!
However he can (and likely is) running some form of Linux on his Mac and I think that is what he is talking about. Using his Mac only for Linux and then using OS X for games. OS X actually has a pretty descent games library now. I think there have been more new big name games released for the Mac in the last 2 years than there have been in the history of the Mac prior to 2000.
You know, I've tried the local library and have found very few books on the subject and most of them full of speculation.
Had such effects been observed, you know some nut would have had to have tried to reproduced it in his basement and had people witness his house vanishing or something. I mean, if people will build breeder reactors in their backyard and fusion reactors in their basement, then surely someone somewhere has tried to reproduce the Philadelphia experiment as its portrayed in movies and popular legend.
Yes, but why would we blow up one of our OWN major Pacific ports back in the middle of WWII? After the war, maybe, but during the war, when we needed all the ships and men and supplies we could get? Please. Unless it was an accident, that explosion was very likely conventional. You'd be amazed at how much power conventional explosives can have, especially in proximity to other explosives which can be thrown and explode wherever they land.
Ammo dump explosions are no laughing matter. There was one in some African country not too long ago (this year?) which killed dozens of people, and that was a small land based military dump (badly placed in a densly populated area). Most of the deaths were from explosives thrown from the main explosion, landing on homes and people in the streets and the ensuing firestorm afterwards. So the damage from that explosion could certainly have been conventional.
Well, the average age for starting to remember things may be three, but that doesn't mean that its the same for all people. Some people may develop things a little faster than others. Just as some kids learn to walk and talk early on, etc.
I had the misfortune to be born missing the uvula (the little thing that hangs down at the back of the throat). Apparently, its function is to prevent food from going into your breathing passages when you swallow. Since I didn't have one and they couldn't operate to give me one (used tissue from my inner cheek to make one) until I was two year old, I spent a lot of time choking and going blue as a child.
My first memory (as best as I can tell) was of my parents frantically trying to use this weird blue water syringe to clear my throat out when I was near death from choking. I remember it vividly enough to describe what they were wearing and the room, etc as well. I know the article says that oxygen is a requirement, but in my case I was dying from lack of it (my parents have told me I was going blue when they came in to check on me) yet I remember it very vividly and in full color and detail. I suppose in my case it was such a tramatic experience that I never really forgot it. Sometimes I'll remember it when I'm not even thinking about it, it will just kind of pop in there. A lot of old childhood memories seem to come back like that.
You are dead on here at the end. It isn't a problem of kill all corporations. Corporations are a good thing in some ways. So this isn't so much a problem with the system (though it could use some tweaking) but a *SOCIAL* problem. What we need is social change and to try to root out some of the greed in corporations. We need to find a way for corporations to exist but that the little guys get taken care of.
What we have lost is a sense of honor and selflessness in corporate culture. It has become about money and nothing more, and that is why we have this situation we have today. A corporation founded only on making money is likely to be a bad one. A corporation which is started to work toward a dream or a goal (other than simply making money) is likely to be a good company that people like. Take Jobs and Wozniak for example, they had a dream of a computer in every home. But eventually a company ends up in the hands of the greedy, or those who start it end up that way. What we need is to build into our social norms a way to recognize this and replace such individuals with those who again are aiming as much at a goal or dream as they are at simply squeezing every last dime out of consumers. More progress will be made that way at less human cost.
No kidding, I had a hypercard stack which let you message people over an Appletalk network (using xcmd's for networking). It was pretty slick really! My friends and I would use it to talk during class without the teacher knowing about it.
I guess it worked a bit more like a chat room, but it was still a form of instant messaging and I think it could be considerer prior art.
Now if I could only find which 3.5" floppy the source is located on...
I think what we really need is for the Patent Office to publish the patent BEFORE approval to allow anybody with prior art to come forward, say within 7 days of it being posted. There are certainly enough vigilant geeks to keep an eye on what would be posted, have a story here so we could dig up any existing prior art on stuff like this and shoot it down before the patent was even granted.
Simple fix. Get an anwering machine. If its important, they will leave a message. If they don't and its important, tell them well, you should have left a message!
That simple. I just let it ring anymore and if I hear a voice, then its probably not a telemarketer. If its one of those computers which tried to leave messages, I'll hang up on it.
I agree! Aside from those ghastly orange lights (yes they are sodium vapor), there are more people with really bright porch lights they leave on all night as well as more cars and ever brighter headlights.
I live out at the edge of civilization in soutwestern Ohio and while I get pretty dark skies, every time I try to use my telescope in the back yard, my idiot neighbors almost always end up turning on one of their fucking porch floodlights. I would like to shoot both the lights and THEM with a shotgun when they do that. Since then I've located an abandoned parking lot around what used to be a small theater where I can put the building between myself and a few of the old "blue" lights around a warehouse about half a mile away.
What I think is in a way just as bad is car headlights. Notice a lot of the new luxury cars and SUV's which have those fucking purple/blue headlights? God I hate those things! Now if there is a candidate for a good shotgunning, it is those things.
While I normally block ads using Proxomitron, sometimes i disable it just to see which M$ ads/. is showing when I see people talking about how hypocritical it is of/. to run them in the first place. The ads are frigging huge and on the larger end of the ads I've seen.
On another interesting note, I wonder what/. thinks of people like me using Proxomitron to view their pages ad free without a subscription. Does/. consider that stealing?
While I understand that he isn't being tried for breaking a US law on the surface, that is still what this is all about. The prosecutor was pressured by US interests (companies, maybe even the US Govt) to find something to nail him on in retaliation for what he did. That is why Norwegians should be (and likely are) upset.
I guess they don't even trust themselves not to post duplicate articles anymore...
To the topic at hand, from what I've read, the case against him is weak and hopefully he will prevail and deliver a much needed blow to the MPAA and DVDCCA.
If he is convicted, I hope the Norwegian people cry out the way we did when Dimitry was jailed. In this case it would be a Norwegian jailed for breaking a US law in his own country, I expect the outcry would be phenominal. If so, hopefully whoever their president/primeminister/etc is has pardon powers and uses them before things get out of hand.
It will be interesting to see... in any case, I'm going to light a candle for Jon this holiday season and hope that he comes out on top, not because its right for fair use, but because its unjust to take a man's freedom for something like this.
I wanted to write in support of your efforts to silence the little people and crush their rights and lives under your corporate bootheel. You are doing a fine job in helping to create more misery on Earth and I so enjoy seeing that.
To give you further incentive to continue your good work, I wanted to let you know that when the time is right, I have a special reward for you here in my own land of fun. I can assure you it is far more interesting than that Disneyland park you use to coerce the children into making their parents give away money that could have been used to educate them better. I have some very special attractions lined up for you and some of my best personal servants lined up to service you upon your arrival.
So keep fighting the good fight and don't let those miserable little louts get the upper hand. Remember that you are earning a most delightful place at my feet when your time comes.
Actually... They both point fingers at each other. Look at http://censorware.org/ or http://stalkedbyseth.com for Michael's side of it.
Personally, I think it this battle is an utterly childish act on both parts and its disgusting to see a perfectly good URL (censorware.org) used for this rediculous Michael vs Seth soap opera.
At this point, no one cares who is at fault, but many slashdotters would be very happy if one or both sides would just fucking grow up and quit furthering this war of egos and blame throwing.
Peronsally, I'd like to see censorware.org turned back into what it was supposed to be. Michael owns it, so he should be able to do what, even without Seth on the project. If he can't then he should turn it over to more capable hands, such as the EFF or Amnesty International or someone who actually wants to create a nice site which educates about censorware instead of pushing a personal grudge against someone else.
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Oh please, books are different because its hard to enjoy a book on a computer screen. Most people either want to read them in a nice portable form they can take anywhere with them. Yes you could lug around a laptop or a handheld but it is just not the same as the feel of crisp paper between your fingers. Reading a paper book has an interaction to it you just can't reproduce on a computer. The feel of paper, the smell of it, having to turn the pages. With books you have an interaction with the object that you don't get with movies and music. Those you can play on a computer and enjoy them just as much as on other hardware (tv, stereo, etc). But you can't put a book on a computer screen and get the same experience as reading it in paper form.
That is why books will still sell well online. That is why most people won't bother with e-books.
Hmm, that is intersting. I wonder if the .wav's could be copied back to tape and would work or if data would get lost or corrupted in the transfer.
.wav's could be used as ROM's or if the integrity would be bad. Given that it used a tape drive, I would think that getting the data into a PC in usable form would be rather hard... Might be why no ones bothered to do an emulator for it.
I think you are right about emulators. None for the Mac on Emulation.net, searching elsewhere on the web turned up no emulators for the PC either.
As it is, I wonder if the
Ah, another interact owner. My brother has one and has a library of dozens of games and other programs. However they have been sitting in my parents basement for an age. Last time I saw the machine run was in 1991 and some of the tapes didn't want to load any more. Not sure if it was the tape drive (which seemed to be getting worse) or if the tapes were simply magnetically deteoriating.
However, my brother recently asked to collect the machine and the tapes, even if it didn't work, for sentimental value, so I won't have access to them anymore. Otherwise I might have been able to dig it up and hook it to an old TV and try to copy a few tapes for you. Other than that, I think you will have to go with emulation, if there is an interact emulator that is...
Pictured at the top of this page. It was an 8 bit computer with a 2MHZ processor and 8k or RAM (upgraded to 16). The tape drive still works but you have to adjust the head with a screwdriver to get the damn thing to read anymore.
It was a fun little machine with games like Goofy Golf and Mazes and Monsters. I kind of miss the musical quality of the games data as they loaded up through the tape deck, the sound of the raw data stream pouring through the speakers. Hell, you could even tell if a game was loading correctly by the pattern of the sound or if the tape deck needed an adjustement, or a good whack on the side.
Check out: Digital Gunfire. They are an electronic/industrial webcaster who can't be shut down by the RIAA because they only play non RIAA stuff. Before you scoff at that, this is good stuff and many times a LOT better than you will ever see come out of the RIAA. So if you are into that genre, give it a try, if you aren't, give it a try anyway and listen for a few hours. It grows on you!
I can attest to that... I loved my Apple Extended Keyboard II (ADB) that game with my Beige G3. I didn't have to push the keys down to the "wall" to make it work. It also had better tilt. The new Apple "black" USB keyboard sucks. I hate it, I keep missing letters while typing if I don't push down to the "wall" and when I do press down, its starting to give me achy wrists at times. Definately looking for a better keyboard for my new Mac...
If he has a Mac, then he can't run Windows at all!
However he can (and likely is) running some form of Linux on his Mac and I think that is what he is talking about. Using his Mac only for Linux and then using OS X for games. OS X actually has a pretty descent games library now. I think there have been more new big name games released for the Mac in the last 2 years than there have been in the history of the Mac prior to 2000.
Do you have reliable resources to back up that?
You know, I've tried the local library and have found very few books on the subject and most of them full of speculation.
Had such effects been observed, you know some nut would have had to have tried to reproduced it in his basement and had people witness his house vanishing or something. I mean, if people will build breeder reactors in their backyard and fusion reactors in their basement, then surely someone somewhere has tried to reproduce the Philadelphia experiment as its portrayed in movies and popular legend.
Yes, but why would we blow up one of our OWN major Pacific ports back in the middle of WWII? After the war, maybe, but during the war, when we needed all the ships and men and supplies we could get? Please. Unless it was an accident, that explosion was very likely conventional. You'd be amazed at how much power conventional explosives can have, especially in proximity to other explosives which can be thrown and explode wherever they land.
Ammo dump explosions are no laughing matter. There was one in some African country not too long ago (this year?) which killed dozens of people, and that was a small land based military dump (badly placed in a densly populated area). Most of the deaths were from explosives thrown from the main explosion, landing on homes and people in the streets and the ensuing firestorm afterwards. So the damage from that explosion could certainly have been conventional.
Well, the average age for starting to remember things may be three, but that doesn't mean that its the same for all people. Some people may develop things a little faster than others. Just as some kids learn to walk and talk early on, etc.
Seriously!
I had the misfortune to be born missing the uvula (the little thing that hangs down at the back of the throat). Apparently, its function is to prevent food from going into your breathing passages when you swallow. Since I didn't have one and they couldn't operate to give me one (used tissue from my inner cheek to make one) until I was two year old, I spent a lot of time choking and going blue as a child.
My first memory (as best as I can tell) was of my parents frantically trying to use this weird blue water syringe to clear my throat out when I was near death from choking. I remember it vividly enough to describe what they were wearing and the room, etc as well. I know the article says that oxygen is a requirement, but in my case I was dying from lack of it (my parents have told me I was going blue when they came in to check on me) yet I remember it very vividly and in full color and detail. I suppose in my case it was such a tramatic experience that I never really forgot it. Sometimes I'll remember it when I'm not even thinking about it, it will just kind of pop in there. A lot of old childhood memories seem to come back like that.
All that means is the democrats won't try to stop it either.
You are dead on here at the end. It isn't a problem of kill all corporations. Corporations are a good thing in some ways. So this isn't so much a problem with the system (though it could use some tweaking) but a *SOCIAL* problem. What we need is social change and to try to root out some of the greed in corporations. We need to find a way for corporations to exist but that the little guys get taken care of.
What we have lost is a sense of honor and selflessness in corporate culture. It has become about money and nothing more, and that is why we have this situation we have today. A corporation founded only on making money is likely to be a bad one. A corporation which is started to work toward a dream or a goal (other than simply making money) is likely to be a good company that people like. Take Jobs and Wozniak for example, they had a dream of a computer in every home. But eventually a company ends up in the hands of the greedy, or those who start it end up that way. What we need is to build into our social norms a way to recognize this and replace such individuals with those who again are aiming as much at a goal or dream as they are at simply squeezing every last dime out of consumers. More progress will be made that way at less human cost.
No kidding, I had a hypercard stack which let you message people over an Appletalk network (using xcmd's for networking). It was pretty slick really! My friends and I would use it to talk during class without the teacher knowing about it.
I guess it worked a bit more like a chat room, but it was still a form of instant messaging and I think it could be considerer prior art.
Now if I could only find which 3.5" floppy the source is located on...
I think what we really need is for the Patent Office to publish the patent BEFORE approval to allow anybody with prior art to come forward, say within 7 days of it being posted. There are certainly enough vigilant geeks to keep an eye on what would be posted, have a story here so we could dig up any existing prior art on stuff like this and shoot it down before the patent was even granted.
Simple fix. Get an anwering machine. If its important, they will leave a message. If they don't and its important, tell them well, you should have left a message!
That simple. I just let it ring anymore and if I hear a voice, then its probably not a telemarketer. If its one of those computers which tried to leave messages, I'll hang up on it.
Given /.'s crappy sense of humor (Last Apr 1st anyone?) this may well be a joke.
Only I wonder who will be getting the said "offer". After all, organized crime is increasingly involved with internet porn, especially pay sites.
So Acacia may just get a lil visit from da boys if they keep this up and sent a bill to the wrong people.
In this case, we can only hope that is what happens.
I agree! Aside from those ghastly orange lights (yes they are sodium vapor), there are more people with really bright porch lights they leave on all night as well as more cars and ever brighter headlights.
I live out at the edge of civilization in soutwestern Ohio and while I get pretty dark skies, every time I try to use my telescope in the back yard, my idiot neighbors almost always end up turning on one of their fucking porch floodlights. I would like to shoot both the lights and THEM with a shotgun when they do that. Since then I've located an abandoned parking lot around what used to be a small theater where I can put the building between myself and a few of the old "blue" lights around a warehouse about half a mile away.
What I think is in a way just as bad is car headlights. Notice a lot of the new luxury cars and SUV's which have those fucking purple/blue headlights? God I hate those things! Now if there is a candidate for a good shotgunning, it is those things.
While I normally block ads using Proxomitron, sometimes i disable it just to see which M$ ads /. is showing when I see people talking about how hypocritical it is of /. to run them in the first place. The ads are frigging huge and on the larger end of the ads I've seen.
/. thinks of people like me using Proxomitron to view their pages ad free without a subscription. Does /. consider that stealing?
On another interesting note, I wonder what
Seriously, wheres the html with thumbnails? Wheres the flash animation? Wheres the cheezy midi music?
But in all seriousness, congradulations CmdrTaco! I'll check out the pictures when the site is no longer slashdotted.
While I understand that he isn't being tried for breaking a US law on the surface, that is still what this is all about. The prosecutor was pressured by US interests (companies, maybe even the US Govt) to find something to nail him on in retaliation for what he did. That is why Norwegians should be (and likely are) upset.
I guess they don't even trust themselves not to post duplicate articles anymore...
To the topic at hand, from what I've read, the case against him is weak and hopefully he will prevail and deliver a much needed blow to the MPAA and DVDCCA.
If he is convicted, I hope the Norwegian people cry out the way we did when Dimitry was jailed. In this case it would be a Norwegian jailed for breaking a US law in his own country, I expect the outcry would be phenominal. If so, hopefully whoever their president/primeminister/etc is has pardon powers and uses them before things get out of hand.
It will be interesting to see... in any case, I'm going to light a candle for Jon this holiday season and hope that he comes out on top, not because its right for fair use, but because its unjust to take a man's freedom for something like this.
Dear Mr. Lelyveld,
I wanted to write in support of your efforts to silence the little people and crush their rights and lives under your corporate bootheel. You are doing a fine job in helping to create more misery on Earth and I so enjoy seeing that.
To give you further incentive to continue your good work, I wanted to let you know that when the time is right, I have a special reward for you here in my own land of fun. I can assure you it is far more interesting than that Disneyland park you use to coerce the children into making their parents give away money that could have been used to educate them better. I have some very special attractions lined up for you and some of my best personal servants lined up to service you upon your arrival.
So keep fighting the good fight and don't let those miserable little louts get the upper hand. Remember that you are earning a most delightful place at my feet when your time comes.
Sincerely,
The Devil
Actually... They both point fingers at each other. Look at http://censorware.org/ or http://stalkedbyseth.com for Michael's side of it.
Personally, I think it this battle is an utterly childish act on both parts and its disgusting to see a perfectly good URL (censorware.org) used for this rediculous Michael vs Seth soap opera.
At this point, no one cares who is at fault, but many slashdotters would be very happy if one or both sides would just fucking grow up and quit furthering this war of egos and blame throwing.
Peronsally, I'd like to see censorware.org turned back into what it was supposed to be. Michael owns it, so he should be able to do what, even without Seth on the project. If he can't then he should turn it over to more capable hands, such as the EFF or Amnesty International or someone who actually wants to create a nice site which educates about censorware instead of pushing a personal grudge against someone else.
Lets not forget that it will get you there a lot faster and a lot safer as well. If they had one of these here in the States, I'd use it for certain!