And let's not forget that if you were caught (either before or after) your life would end. Not only bla bla bla bla bla bla bla
That's a very small price to pay for giving grief to 6+ billion people, wouldn't you say?
It's also the ultimate suicide bomb if you think about it: the odds of the human race surviving are almost nil if we can't get our eggs out of the basket in the next few decades before increasingly powerful tech makes it into irrational common hands.
Nobody's said this yet (in a +4), but the easiest and most visible way for the unsung devs to get some credit would be rethink how the 'Help > About' dialog was layed out, and when it's displayed.
So, put your goofiest team headshots in there, bio, paypal links, blinken lights,... whatever. That's the easiest way to get more credit where credit is due, if that's what you're after. As opposed to "Written by Joe Schmoe in 1999. Humble pie documentation by John Smith.".
Also, on app startup, it's wouldn't be such a bad idea to display an about-random-developer splash page for a couple seconds. If people REALLY don't care, they can just disable the splash as you can in most apps.
Obviously, this works best in client apps moreso than background daemons and such.
I love SciFi because it's a technological/societal projection of what MIGHT happen in the future within the confines of our laws of physics. All of it ultimately leading up to our nearing Singularity.
In order for me to suspend my disbelief of the "wizards, ogres, and elves, oh my!" in Fantasy, I have to tell myself that this too is possible... albeit within a very good matrix-like VR simulation where we can write our own laws of physics.
I not only don't waste my money on crap games, I don't waste my time on them either.
Good thing you qualified that statement with "crap", otherwise I'd have to assume that you meant ALL games are a waste of time, which is fucking narrow-minded, elitist viewpoint.
"Wasting" time doing something that makes YOU happy -like playing "crappy" games- is NOT wasted time. Every waking moment of your life doesn't have to be spent alternating between being a productive citizen and 'good wholesome traditional family entertainment' or whatever.
Tangible: By chance, you happen to have discovered (and bought the additional mineral rights to) a high concentration of STILL PHYSICALLY SCARCE energy in the form of HydroCarbons under your government-protected 3D wedge of the Earth. Putting aside the fairness of dogeatdog "finders, keepers!" hoarding, you have the right to own it ALL in a capitalist society.
Intangible: The molecular structure of "your" hydrocarbons. You can't claim to own C3H8 for example. You can't even claim to own "special secret blend" like C12H24UUP42.
I know this, you know this, and even they know this -- but the fact is that those with the most money & power, or aspirations for such, want to treat information as an artificially scarce 'thing' because there's more profit to be had in controlling an infinite "supply" of VERY OLD WORK.
Assume for a moment that everyone on earth had EVERY need and want in their lives taken care of (by nanotech, AI, robots, spacehab, virtual realestate, whatever)... do you think there would be that many fewer greedy assholes with a closed-mindset in the population? Not really. It's an evolutionary psyche thing to want to have MORE than the next chump, of any tangible/intangible, in order have MORE power (and get more chicks).
Even the most basic privacy policy has to inform morons that the server's access_log is logging their "IP address, time of access, page accessed, referer page, and browser type". And if session cookies are used for authentication, you have to explain that they're only temporary.
Coal releases more radioactivity that nuclear power anyway.
Yeah, but the damage is spread thin, so nobody cares, whereas nuke-u-lar waste is concentrated. A nuclear accident might kill a couple hundred people over a few years (say, 10,000 years total shaved off life expectancy), but nobody notices or cares if coal pollution slightly reduces the life expectancy of millions of people by 10 million years. Which is the greater evil?
It's kind of like the AIDS epidemic, or spam. Which is worse: mailbombing a few people with a million spams, or flooding millions with 'only' 100 spams? The former would get a sensational headline, while the latter is your ordinary "ah! shucks I hate spam" background noise.
I guess I should clear something up: the quote in my post isn't actually Linus', it's just a wordplay on Ballmer's quote from the/. submission.... This would have made more sense if my post was moderated Funny instead of Interesting.:)
"'In the Windows proprietary world, almost everybody stands behind intentionally vague, overly-broad, software patent claims,' warned Linux Torvalds, saying that there's much profit to be made by legally enforcing the artificial scarcity of very basic ideas.
Your packets can't travel faster than the speed of light, so you'll always have some inherent latency even after the switching is finally all optical.
The minimum possible latency when chatting or gaming with someone on the opposite side of the planet will always be greater than 133ms (40000km circumference / 300000 km/s speed of light *1000ms/s).
Vote for the politics, not the politician (to a certain extent).
I don't care if you get blowjobs in the oval office and lie about it (clinton), or if you're a rich french-looking frankenstein-faced war hero (kerry) with a prettyboy sidekick, or if you were a drunk with DUIs (bush), or if you're a "gay american" who cheats on his wife (mcgreevy). What does that have to do with their politics? Nothing... except in Bush's case, both the politics and the politician suck-- he's a bible-thumping speech-impaired idiot who lied about way more than a victimless blowjob, and that's way more dangerous than your average "character flaw").
Rather than have the client dl multiple jpegs and sequence them with javascript
You don't have to use javascript to sequence jpegs for an animation effect. You can instead stream a recorded or live "jpeg video" by using the 'multipart/x-mixed-replace; boundary=xxxfoobarxxx' mime-type with a frame delay between the boundary. The downside is that you need to keep a persistant connection open to the webserver for the duration of the vid.
This isn't commonly done anymore, but it is how the first postage-stamp-sized live streaming (pr0n) video was done before the real codecs and players got critical mass. (I should know, I wrote such an "advanced streaming server" back in the 90's.)
The MS Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 - as usual it took a few version to get right; older versions had their 'tail' wire wear out and short after a bit of use.
Supposedly MS spent millions on 'ergonomic research'.
"I'm a stupid twit and made a bad choice when I was a teenager and now I'm going to spend the rest of my life trying to milk it for every dime I possibly can"
Seems to be working. The Amazon Sales rank for her Katie.com book has more than doubled since the whole sleazy domain-intimidation story broke. Thankfully it's dropping back off again.
they have the tremendous advantage of economy of scale, that by the very laws of nature, I will never have.
Never say never - in 10 to 20 years the average Joe will almost certainly have the ability to molecularly manufacture almost any object he wants for only the (free stored solar) energy costs of rearranging the component molecules. Enforcing IP/patent law in such a future makes little sense (unless you've got the Excessively-Greedy gene).
"The principles of physics, as far as I can see, do not speak against the possibility of maneuvering things atom by atom." -
Feynman
Anything that can be done to lessen the number of unpleasant surprises down the road is welcome.
Not everyone would want a Nanny robot to protect them from Shit-Happening. A bot to take care of mundane labor and run errands, sure, but not a Mommybot that makes sure you never get so much as a scatch on your head. What's the fun in that? A life with almost no risk? Yawn.
After the latest hurricane I asked a few people to choose between putting up with the periodic fury of nature, or putting up with the same, safe weather, 365 days of the year. Most opted for the more exciting option.
'about one in four Internet users have downloaded a movie.'
Maybe the MPAA is trying RIAA-style FUD-math?
They didn't really mean that 1 in 4 people had downloaded a 700MB divx/xvid movie, but that since more users have broadband now, these "super-users" can rightly be counted as 24X normal users.:)
Makes sense -- I mean why bother going to a towny festival if it's going to be co-opted by the same faceless corporate franchizes that already infest every nook and cranny in your daily life?
I'm just glad NYC's street fairs haven't been corporatized (much).
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That's a very small price to pay for giving grief to 6+ billion people, wouldn't you say?
It's also the ultimate suicide bomb if you think about it: the odds of the human race surviving are almost nil if we can't get our eggs out of the basket in the next few decades before increasingly powerful tech makes it into irrational common hands.
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So, put your goofiest team headshots in there, bio, paypal links, blinken lights, ... whatever. That's the easiest way to get more credit where credit is due, if that's what you're after. As opposed to "Written by Joe Schmoe in 1999. Humble pie documentation by John Smith.".
Also, on app startup, it's wouldn't be such a bad idea to display an about-random-developer splash page for a couple seconds. If people REALLY don't care, they can just disable the splash as you can in most apps.
Obviously, this works best in client apps moreso than background daemons and such.
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Beyond Arthur C. Clarks famous quote? Not much.
I love SciFi because it's a technological/societal projection of what MIGHT happen in the future within the confines of our laws of physics. All of it ultimately leading up to our nearing Singularity.
In order for me to suspend my disbelief of the "wizards, ogres, and elves, oh my!" in Fantasy, I have to tell myself that this too is possible ... albeit within a very good matrix-like VR simulation where we can write our own laws of physics.
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Good thing you qualified that statement with "crap", otherwise I'd have to assume that you meant ALL games are a waste of time, which is fucking narrow-minded, elitist viewpoint.
"Wasting" time doing something that makes YOU happy -like playing "crappy" games- is NOT wasted time. Every waking moment of your life doesn't have to be spent alternating between being a productive citizen and 'good wholesome traditional family entertainment' or whatever.
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Tangible: By chance, you happen to have discovered (and bought the additional mineral rights to) a high concentration of STILL PHYSICALLY SCARCE energy in the form of HydroCarbons under your government-protected 3D wedge of the Earth. Putting aside the fairness of dogeatdog "finders, keepers!" hoarding, you have the right to own it ALL in a capitalist society.
Intangible: The molecular structure of "your" hydrocarbons. You can't claim to own C3H8 for example. You can't even claim to own "special secret blend" like C12H24UUP42.
Get it?
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I know this, you know this, and even they know this -- but the fact is that those with the most money & power, or aspirations for such, want to treat information as an artificially scarce 'thing' because there's more profit to be had in controlling an infinite "supply" of VERY OLD WORK.
Assume for a moment that everyone on earth had EVERY need and want in their lives taken care of (by nanotech, AI, robots, spacehab, virtual realestate, whatever) ... do you think there would be that many fewer greedy assholes with a closed-mindset in the population? Not really. It's an evolutionary psyche thing to want to have MORE than the next chump, of any tangible/intangible, in order have MORE power (and get more chicks).
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martin-studio.com just made his own interface to NYC.gov's video feeds.
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Yeah, but the damage is spread thin, so nobody cares, whereas nuke-u-lar waste is concentrated. A nuclear accident might kill a couple hundred people over a few years (say, 10,000 years total shaved off life expectancy), but nobody notices or cares if coal pollution slightly reduces the life expectancy of millions of people by 10 million years. Which is the greater evil?
It's kind of like the AIDS epidemic, or spam. Which is worse: mailbombing a few people with a million spams, or flooding millions with 'only' 100 spams? The former would get a sensational headline, while the latter is your ordinary "ah! shucks I hate spam" background noise.
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Sorry for the confusion.
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20000km pong.
roundtrip latency: 133ms.
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The minimum possible latency when chatting or gaming with someone on the opposite side of the planet will always be greater than 133ms (40000km circumference / 300000 km/s speed of light *1000ms/s).
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I don't care if you get blowjobs in the oval office and lie about it (clinton), or if you're a rich french-looking frankenstein-faced war hero (kerry) with a prettyboy sidekick, or if you were a drunk with DUIs (bush), or if you're a "gay american" who cheats on his wife (mcgreevy). What does that have to do with their politics? Nothing... except in Bush's case, both the politics and the politician suck-- he's a bible-thumping speech-impaired idiot who lied about way more than a victimless blowjob, and that's way more dangerous than your average "character flaw").
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You don't have to use javascript to sequence jpegs for an animation effect. You can instead stream a recorded or live "jpeg video" by using the 'multipart/x-mixed-replace; boundary=xxxfoobarxxx' mime-type with a frame delay between the boundary. The downside is that you need to keep a persistant connection open to the webserver for the duration of the vid.
This isn't commonly done anymore, but it is how the first postage-stamp-sized live streaming (pr0n) video was done before the real codecs and players got critical mass. (I should know, I wrote such an "advanced streaming server" back in the 90's.)
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- The MS Natural Keyboard Pro with the built-in USB hub.
- The MS Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 - as usual it took a few version to get right; older versions had their 'tail' wire wear out and short after a bit of use.
Supposedly MS spent millions on 'ergonomic research'.--
Seems to be working. The Amazon Sales rank for her Katie.com book has more than doubled since the whole sleazy domain-intimidation story broke. Thankfully it's dropping back off again.
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screw you hippie! get off my mainframe!^D
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Never say never - in 10 to 20 years the average Joe will almost certainly have the ability to molecularly manufacture almost any object he wants for only the (free stored solar) energy costs of rearranging the component molecules. Enforcing IP/patent law in such a future makes little sense (unless you've got the Excessively-Greedy gene).
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Not everyone would want a Nanny robot to protect them from Shit-Happening. A bot to take care of mundane labor and run errands, sure, but not a Mommybot that makes sure you never get so much as a scatch on your head. What's the fun in that? A life with almost no risk? Yawn.
After the latest hurricane I asked a few people to choose between putting up with the periodic fury of nature, or putting up with the same, safe weather, 365 days of the year. Most opted for the more exciting option.
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Maybe the MPAA is trying RIAA-style FUD-math?
They didn't really mean that 1 in 4 people had downloaded a 700MB divx/xvid movie, but that since more users have broadband now, these "super-users" can rightly be counted as 24X normal users. :)
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I'm just glad NYC's street fairs haven't been corporatized (much).
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