Unlike in Real Life meatspace, (an instance of) virtual property doesn't have to be scarce, but it's almost always modeled into games that way. It's easy for people to relate to I guess, and allows for status and old-fashioned empire building.
I'd like to see abundance modeled into more game worlds. I mean there's no good reason (other than familiarity) for virtual realestate to be kept artificially scarce in a game where "space" isn't real -- your 10,000 acre slice of paradise could exist anywhere with multiple doorways between other and a shifting "shared map". Only requires a slight adjustment in thinking to eliminate the old construct.
At least in SecondLife you can dupe your objects as much as you want (within reason) and even assign to them a GPL-ish license. The realestate situation is a bit more artificially limited though.
Microsoft's Singularity is also the antithesis of accelerating intelligence towards the technological Singularity.
Also - just great - now my Google News Email Alerts for the "singularity" keyword will be poisoned with MS' chaff. Maybe next week they'll come out with a "Nanotech" brand mouse too.
Nope. Met the (gay) dude though. I went along as the tech on salestrips from the eastcoast to peddle our videostuff on the westcoast, where most of the adultbiz is.
Not for "fantasyman" at cybererotica.com either.:) suffice it to say that we folded before the dotcom bubble had even inflated very much.
In the mid 90s I worked as a sysadmin/programmer at one of the first web pr0n companies. These were the early pioneering days, so we had to develop our own creditcard processing back-end (had banks of modems dialing out; and a daemon named "getmoney" that did the batch job), as well as our own "hot" live streaming video.
The "state of the art" in streaming video that we had in 1995-96 was basically a tiny postagestamp-sized jpeg multipart/x-mixed-replace slideshow -- which the dominant netscape browser supported perfectly, but IE no longer does -- pushed out by our "exclusive" sun sparc video server boxes.
This was hot tech and this guy Steve Cohen approached us about getting our stuff setup in Mexico for sex.com. I'm not exactly sure about all the details, but we ended up with some sort of deal where we would provide a dozen video servers + installation & support in exchange for rights to the video feeds he was going to operate with the talent in Mexico. We also paid a bundle to setup a microwave link across the US/Mexico border.
So then he turns slimy: Mr. Cohen failed to provide the promised feeds (guess he wanted to be exclusive). And he never payed for our expensive equipment either. My boss flew down there to talk things out and apparently back then Mr. Cohen was cozy with the federalis and had him thrown in jail for a few days before he could fly back out. I then get a call from El Slimeball wherein he tries to BRIBE me into a) not remotely disabling the servers since I was the admin, and b) coming to work for him in sunny Mexico (enticing me with pathetic stories of how the blowjobs flow freely from his slutty girls.)
I guess he didn't know that his techs had already locked me out, or maybe he thought I had some backdoors, but I couldn't stop him remotely; all I remember finding was some useless hostbased rlogin accounts. I also wasn't about move to mexico, and I was (*gasp*) loyal, so I declined the hefty bribe (by not giving my account info for the wire transfer).
Anyway - that's my little anecdote of the famous Steve Cohen asshole. Hope there'll be a live jailcam video feed.:)
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If you're willing to use vmware on linux I doubt the kernel module will slow you down much...
It has for many.
If for some mysterious reason you can't get VMWare working, the "little known fix" is to install the vmware-any-any patch. This works with SuSE, Fedora, and other distros.
Even the new lower $1,300 price for a 23" LCD is too damn much.
I'd recommend returning it ASAP and getting the Dell 24" (2405FPW), which beats the Apple Cinemas in many reviews. It can be had for under $800 after the recurring rebates. A $500 premium is hardly worth it just for Apple's stylish aluminum bezel.
Last year the best car made it only 7 miles. This year all cars but one have made it at least 22 miles (so far), with three frontrunners past the 100mile mark (so far) and expected to finish.
Now that's some amazing progress.
This is great news for the soldiers soon to be removed the line of fire; "ominous" news for the millions of truckers and taxi drivers (in the US alone) who'll be quickly replaced over the next decade.
If you are talking about "strong AI", where machines can actually think for themselves and are sentient beings, I don't think you're going to find any reputable scientist claiming that is only 10 years away.
Right, most careful thinkers have had a more realistic estimate for smarter-than-human AI of between 2030 and 2050. Kurzweil, Moravec, Yudkowsky, et al haven't been your average AI pump'n'dumpers.
Extrapolating from our continuous, evolutionary exponential progress, we won't even have the raw artificial-neuron power to match the human meat-brain until ~2030, let alone the "software" (to be partly modeled after mapping our own brains in ever finer detail).
They don't make property, like a chair or a computer, they create music, which is not physical and hence can't be owned.
If nobody had to worry about money, or if all artists could get paid AS MUCH upfront for their intangible creation service vs per instance, then they wouldn't need to lean on the artificial scarcity of an (unbalanced) copyright.
People understand that information isn't REAL property, but the current outofwhack social contract is to grant a person not-so-temporary artificial property copyrights so that they've got an incentive to create more. Capitalism works well with scarcity; not so well with abundance.
"Gaming the system" will always be a problem for games that continue to "feature" artificial in-game scarcity and a way to translate that fake value into dollars in the real-world of actual scarcity.
Greed will stop being a problem when it's overtaken by abundance in either the gameworld, or in reallife (with robotics, nanotech self-sufficiency, etc).
I noticed rimuhosting has switched to Xen VPSs. Last I looked they were still using Usermode Linux and the competition was better priced.
I'll probably be switching to rimuhosting asap even though they offer slightly less diskspace and fewer OS options. Unixshell.com - my current xen host - has been very unreliable, and just this week I've gotten no reply about a triple-overbilling error.
I, for one, welcome our brave new censors. A poll of that kind would have surely invited ILLEGAL SPEECH, as well as ILLEGAL *ACTS* OF LINKING to terrorist software tools.
(In all seriousness, I bet the poll being comment locked was an accident, and it will soon be unlocked. I mean slashdot can't possibly be THAT overly-lawyered to mute a poll for free speech they're not responsible for; AFAIK, they've only nuked a couple scientology posts thusfar, and that wasn't pre-emptive.)
Since the U.S. doesn't actually manufacture anything tangible anymore, "intellectual property" then becomes all the more important for maintaining control in a capitalistic economy still based on scarcity. Copyright infringement, then, is "economic terrorism" and a threat to national security.
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I'd like to see abundance modeled into more game worlds. I mean there's no good reason (other than familiarity) for virtual realestate to be kept artificially scarce in a game where "space" isn't real -- your 10,000 acre slice of paradise could exist anywhere with multiple doorways between other and a shifting "shared map". Only requires a slight adjustment in thinking to eliminate the old construct.
At least in SecondLife you can dupe your objects as much as you want (within reason) and even assign to them a GPL-ish license. The realestate situation is a bit more artificially limited though.
Also - just great - now my Google News Email Alerts for the "singularity" keyword will be poisoned with MS' chaff. Maybe next week they'll come out with a "Nanotech" brand mouse too.
Yeah, mostly. It's saturated. Besides... who could top this?
Not for "fantasyman" at cybererotica.com either. :) suffice it to say that we folded before the dotcom bubble had even inflated very much.
The "state of the art" in streaming video that we had in 1995-96 was basically a tiny postagestamp-sized jpeg multipart/x-mixed-replace slideshow -- which the dominant netscape browser supported perfectly, but IE no longer does -- pushed out by our "exclusive" sun sparc video server boxes.
This was hot tech and this guy Steve Cohen approached us about getting our stuff setup in Mexico for sex.com. I'm not exactly sure about all the details, but we ended up with some sort of deal where we would provide a dozen video servers + installation & support in exchange for rights to the video feeds he was going to operate with the talent in Mexico. We also paid a bundle to setup a microwave link across the US/Mexico border.
So then he turns slimy: Mr. Cohen failed to provide the promised feeds (guess he wanted to be exclusive). And he never payed for our expensive equipment either. My boss flew down there to talk things out and apparently back then Mr. Cohen was cozy with the federalis and had him thrown in jail for a few days before he could fly back out. I then get a call from El Slimeball wherein he tries to BRIBE me into a) not remotely disabling the servers since I was the admin, and b) coming to work for him in sunny Mexico (enticing me with pathetic stories of how the blowjobs flow freely from his slutty girls.)
I guess he didn't know that his techs had already locked me out, or maybe he thought I had some backdoors, but I couldn't stop him remotely; all I remember finding was some useless hostbased rlogin accounts. I also wasn't about move to mexico, and I was (*gasp*) loyal, so I declined the hefty bribe (by not giving my account info for the wire transfer).
Anyway - that's my little anecdote of the famous Steve Cohen asshole. Hope there'll be a live jailcam video feed. :)
Couldn't be any cheesier than this old mariobrothers flash cartoon?
And it won't be long before we're building chips in three dimensions vs just two.
It has for many.
If for some mysterious reason you can't get VMWare working, the "little known fix" is to install the vmware-any-any patch. This works with SuSE, Fedora, and other distros.
I bet he J-Walks too. BFD.
I'd recommend returning it ASAP and getting the Dell 24" (2405FPW), which beats the Apple Cinemas in many reviews. It can be had for under $800 after the recurring rebates. A $500 premium is hardly worth it just for Apple's stylish aluminum bezel.
Now that's some amazing progress.
This is great news for the soldiers soon to be removed the line of fire; "ominous" news for the millions of truckers and taxi drivers (in the US alone) who'll be quickly replaced over the next decade.
What... A Planet of the Apes prequel gets no love?
There's a very similar util to that for Linux called FileLight. I have no idea which was first (and don't care).
Right, most careful thinkers have had a more realistic estimate for smarter-than-human AI of between 2030 and 2050. Kurzweil, Moravec, Yudkowsky, et al haven't been your average AI pump'n'dumpers.
Extrapolating from our continuous, evolutionary exponential progress, we won't even have the raw artificial-neuron power to match the human meat-brain until ~2030, let alone the "software" (to be partly modeled after mapping our own brains in ever finer detail).
I take care of MY cashcow!
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If nobody had to worry about money, or if all artists could get paid AS MUCH upfront for their intangible creation service vs per instance, then they wouldn't need to lean on the artificial scarcity of an (unbalanced) copyright.
People understand that information isn't REAL property, but the current outofwhack social contract is to grant a person not-so-temporary artificial property copyrights so that they've got an incentive to create more. Capitalism works well with scarcity; not so well with abundance.
Greed will stop being a problem when it's overtaken by abundance in either the gameworld, or in reallife (with robotics, nanotech self-sufficiency, etc).
*ahhhhhhh!!! die buzzword die! ah ah ahhhh!!!* /sam kinison
I'll probably be switching to rimuhosting asap even though they offer slightly less diskspace and fewer OS options. Unixshell.com - my current xen host - has been very unreliable, and just this week I've gotten no reply about a triple-overbilling error.
(In all seriousness, I bet the poll being comment locked was an accident, and it will soon be unlocked. I mean slashdot can't possibly be THAT overly-lawyered to mute a poll for free speech they're not responsible for; AFAIK, they've only nuked a couple scientology posts thusfar, and that wasn't pre-emptive.)
Since the U.S. doesn't actually manufacture anything tangible anymore, "intellectual property" then becomes all the more important for maintaining control in a capitalistic economy still based on scarcity. Copyright infringement, then, is "economic terrorism" and a threat to national security.
Found a great side-by-side image comparison of the Dell 2405 vs Apple Cinema showing nothing but black. Dell wins.
The LCD I've been lusting after for months -- and that stylish Apple Cinema ripoff victims have been bashing -- is the Dell 24" LCD.
A long time ago, along with more serious work. I simply haven't lost my enthusiasm for the inevitable accelerating changes ahead.