The Church of Scientology has some pretty impressive technology which they developed for preservation of L. Ron Hubbards materials - too bad they don't commercialize their techniques, because they're quite advanced.
All of the audio material is stamped on titanium records guaranteed to last 1,000's of years, for example, and they even developed a paper for their printed material which is fireproof, acidproof, bugproof, and supposed to last 10's of thousands of years. Some sort of blend of Irish linen or something - very high quality stuff.
Say what you will about CoS, but Author Services has been doing a pretty good job of preserving the stuff they want to preserve.
They could commercialize their techniques and make a fortune.
Don't think PopSci, or SciAm are above being paid to run a story that's relevant to crop circles in a timely fashion 'to coincide with the release of...' - because they are not above it. These magazines are *frequently* paid to take 'guest editorials' on topical subjects...
The movie industry dedicates entire *departments* to getting media and press to publish stories relating to current topical movies. You don't have to look far to see the effects of this - CNN are *always* running 'filler stories' that are somehow topical with the latest blockbusters...
Look at it this way. You read about crop circles in this months SciAm, then you see the "Signs" posters at the busstop, and you figure "hey, okay, I'll go see it - I'm interested in crop circles lately".
Its way more complicated than that. Just read the "whats new" page for a good summary:
http://razor.sourceforge.net/docs/whatsnew.html
I'm frankly quite happy to see Razor come to fruition.
I had exactly the same idea for how to do this (with distributed signature databases) in '93 when I started a well known ISP. The plan was to offer spam-killing as a second-tier service to offer our customers, but alas: at the time, it was considered by management (read: VC) more profitable to allow open spam relays to our subscribers than it was to try to get subscribers to pay for a service like this, so the implementation details went nowhere.
Excellent to see it come to light in the form of working code, OSS style.
The fascists always use the same arguments and the same methods: they won't tell you about their agenda of hatred outright, at least not right away.
Nor will a Democrat, nor will *anyone* who has enemies, because it would be detrimental to whatever cause you support.
Saying "The Fascists do " without also understanding that *others* (say, "democrats", just to have anti-thesis to "Fascist") will *ALSO* do if they have to, is simply not an acceptable way to deal with this problem.
If I were an anti-Democrat (okay, say I'm a Fascist) and I wanted to make it very difficult for my opponents to operate freely and openly, I'd start by doing things, or inciting others to do things, which would result in laws being enacted which *also* restrict my opponents abilities to do those things...
So, I don't want my opponent to be able to speak freely about me - fair enough, I use Free Speech against them.
See what I'm getting at here?
(Haven't had my coffee, I guess I'm not making much sense here yet...)
First, they instill outrage. They'll start off by demonstrating the "collapse" of a nation, economically and morally.
Fascists aren't the only ones that can do this, though they *should* be allowed to because to disallow them this right, is to disallow *everyone* the same right under a Democratic system.
The more a nation enacts laws to prevent "Fascism", the more it *becomes* the thing it is trying to prevent.
That old, and well-proven, Buddhist proverb comes to mind: "You become what you resist."
They'll appeal to unemployed and the under-employed. The second step is an appeal to history: they'll explain how great the nation was in the past, and how it's now falling apart. The third and final step is to lay the blame on a minority.
So? Democrats do this? Why does it make it any different if a Fascist can do it too?
Fascists will do all of this, but then so will Democrats.
You can't recognize a Fascist by the fact that they're doing any of the things you mentioned above, and to do so would be folly: you would be ignoring all of the *legitimate* originations of this nature by 'legitimate', non-Fascists...
Fuck, that's just excellent. Angry God Bowling. I think that just may have to be one of the best concepts for a video game I've seen in a long time... sorta B&W'ish.
What I think these folks should do is take all 12 games that were made, and combine them into one big mega-one - you can't get to the next map until you win the existing one.
Package 'em up, slap 'em in a box called "Angry God Bowling" and sell.
You strap it on the back of a Jumbo for a couple hundred thou, or at the very least chop it's wings off and rent the US Airforce' cargo fleet for a few hours...
Personally, if I had the money for a rusty Buran, and I was crazy enough to actually *BUY* it, I'd also be crazy enough, and rich enough, to strap a few rockets on it and get it delivered that way.
But yeah, I agree generally with the principle that COD into LEO might be nice way to pay for it, though.
I did some contract work for Velocity waaay back then and became good friends with one of the programmers that used to work there... though, over the years, I lost contact with him after he went off to work for Microsoft (on MS Golf, no less).
I was a huge fan of SpectreVR, though... and Velocity, in general. Any company where "Snow Crash" was required reading for all new programmers was, back then (pre-dotcom'ish era) a pretty good place to work.
Too bad their management screwed the pooch on some of their other projects - weren't they also doing some sort of defense work with their VR technology?
So, right next to my Palm/Visor/Clie, while typing this on my tiBook/iBook/Versa, trying hard not to take calls on my Nokia/Ericsson/Motorola, I'll still be trackable by all my creditors... you know the ones: VISA/Mastercard/etc.... who I've gone into debt for, just to keep my gadgets upgraded.
Whatever. Shit like this is far easier to deal with if you're stoned, so I guess its time for another cone...
I'm in the same boat with the PJB100, which was one of the first decent portable MP3 players with a hardrive, designed by Compaq R&D.
Can't get MP3's off it. Can't play Ogg Vorbis.
It's really stupid, I think, that media players are still being produced that are *closed* and proprietary, but that's the way it goes.
IF the PJB100 had a decent SDK for it, which allowed additional codecs to be uploaded, and allowed access to the drive through USB, it'd be soooo good.
But as it is, it's just a paperweight whose time for replacing with an iPod is almost come...
Free software that runs on their hardware is a blessing to their business.
So they do everything they can to help out, within the realms of their existing business model... until *someone* works out an economics model that functions under OSS ideologies capable of supporting an organization as *Big* as Apple, its staff, and shareholders.
But really, quit bitching about it. Apple make great hardware - and are *STILL* doing great things for computing for the masses, even to this day.
Not that there aren't other options, but while you've still got options, quit complaining about one of them!
This under-18 issue is really not worth the hooplah - its technologically tabloid. As others have stated, big deal - he'll still write OSS, he'll probably still love computing, and maybe he'll still end up contributing anyway.
And there's always emancipation!
Really, sometimes you/. people are just so knee-jerk, it kills me...
I've had a PBG4 since the first week they were available, and I have to tell you that entropy definitely takes its tolls on this laptop.
The screen hinges will fleck paint - and that paint will get between the keys and the screen, scratching it. Also, any grease and muck from your fingers *will* end up on the LCD, in highly concentrated form. And the "PowerBook G4" logo will smudge and smear eventually.
The rule of thumb is, keep your pbg4 clean.
Find a good cleaning solution that works for you (I just use tissues and warm water, and its effective) and clean your laptop regularly. You may as well fleck the paint off the hinges yourself - its all going to come off eventually anyway, no matter what you do, so if you do it proactively you won't get it on your screen.
I'm willing to bet that within 5 years, the costs for, say, a seat in Progress and a few days in orbit will come down to the 6-figure mark - making it affordable to me and a couple others, anyway.
And that's a start. I'm willing to put my money where my ass wants to sit, and fund as many hungry Russian space scientists as my hard-earned moolah can support.
There's no other way to do it. Space is hard, especially if you're an average citizen, so everything I do will be to get me there - even if it means making sacrifices and spending hard-earned cash to get there...
I'm not alone. There are a lot of people in similar financial positions who would spend the money were it feasible - and the point is, its rapidly becoming feasible.
I agree with you. Space *is* a growth industry for Russia, and they are very good at it, if not the best - depending on the criteria by which you judge success.
I have so much faith in Russia's space program, and European efforts in general, that I'm abandoning all hope of going to space by way of the USofA, (Inc.) - a nation crippled by its own nationalism - and moving to Europe to pursue, rather aggressively, my own attempts to do a few orbits by way of Star City.
This may sound strange, but really - a private citizen such as myself has a better chance in Europe, than in the US, for getting into orbit in their lifetime... thanks to Russia.
My titanium puts out a lot of heat - and I'm moving to Europe soon (Germany) - so I know it'll function quite nicely as a bed-warmer during those long nights.
Plus it plays DVD's, so in all it's pretty much like snuggling up in front of the fire and watching a movie... in a tight little package.
If they could one day *use* the heat that these sorts of devices put out, instead of trying hard to reduce it, things might become a little more efficient...
Really. Big deal. It'd take me a couple of days to have a functioning USB vendor ID "filter/remapper" device functioning with a PIC and a USB chip. Total cost in parts, about $20.
Open source it, open source the hardware, put it on the web for Taiwanese mfr's to make freely at their own will and bundle with any cheap XBox peripherals they choose.
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There are USB-based multi-io sound cards on their way that are far superior to the Digi001, and they will have Linux drivers.
DIGI001 is overpriced, and overrated. You fell for it.
The Church of Scientology has some pretty impressive technology which they developed for preservation of L. Ron Hubbards materials - too bad they don't commercialize their techniques, because they're quite advanced.
All of the audio material is stamped on titanium records guaranteed to last 1,000's of years, for example, and they even developed a paper for their printed material which is fireproof, acidproof, bugproof, and supposed to last 10's of thousands of years. Some sort of blend of Irish linen or something - very high quality stuff.
Say what you will about CoS, but Author Services has been doing a pretty good job of preserving the stuff they want to preserve.
They could commercialize their techniques and make a fortune.
This is pretty dope:
...
http://pan.rebelbase.com/screenshots/osx.png
Gotta say, OSX seems sexier and sexier, every day
Don't think PopSci, or SciAm are above being paid to run a story that's relevant to crop circles in a timely fashion 'to coincide with the release of...' - because they are not above it. These magazines are *frequently* paid to take 'guest editorials' on topical subjects ...
...
The movie industry dedicates entire *departments* to getting media and press to publish stories relating to current topical movies. You don't have to look far to see the effects of this - CNN are *always* running 'filler stories' that are somehow topical with the latest blockbusters
Look at it this way. You read about crop circles in this months SciAm, then you see the "Signs" posters at the busstop, and you figure "hey, okay, I'll go see it - I'm interested in crop circles lately".
That whole transaction was planned, months ago.
What you are missing is tranquility.
Find tranquility, and you will be playing the game.
It'd really suck if the /. crowd worked out how to make their own Virus...
(http://www.access-music.de/)
Its way more complicated than that. Just read the "whats new" page for a good summary:
http://razor.sourceforge.net/docs/whatsnew.html
I'm frankly quite happy to see Razor come to fruition.
I had exactly the same idea for how to do this (with distributed signature databases) in '93 when I started a well known ISP. The plan was to offer spam-killing as a second-tier service to offer our customers, but alas: at the time, it was considered by management (read: VC) more profitable to allow open spam relays to our subscribers than it was to try to get subscribers to pay for a service like this, so the implementation details went nowhere.
Excellent to see it come to light in the form of working code, OSS style.
Oh - and if you're looking for a one night stand, I'm not your guy.
He might not be, but I am.
The fascists always use the same arguments and the same methods: they won't tell you about their agenda of hatred outright, at least not right away.
Nor will a Democrat, nor will *anyone* who has enemies, because it would be detrimental to whatever cause you support.
Saying "The Fascists do " without also understanding that *others* (say, "democrats", just to have anti-thesis to "Fascist") will *ALSO* do if they have to, is simply not an acceptable way to deal with this problem.
If I were an anti-Democrat (okay, say I'm a Fascist) and I wanted to make it very difficult for my opponents to operate freely and openly, I'd start by doing things, or inciting others to do things, which would result in laws being enacted which *also* restrict my opponents abilities to do those things
So, I don't want my opponent to be able to speak freely about me - fair enough, I use Free Speech against them.
See what I'm getting at here?
(Haven't had my coffee, I guess I'm not making much sense here yet...)
First, they instill outrage. They'll start off by demonstrating the "collapse" of a nation, economically and morally.
Fascists aren't the only ones that can do this, though they *should* be allowed to because to disallow them this right, is to disallow *everyone* the same right under a Democratic system.
The more a nation enacts laws to prevent "Fascism", the more it *becomes* the thing it is trying to prevent.
That old, and well-proven, Buddhist proverb comes to mind: "You become what you resist."
They'll appeal to unemployed and the under-employed. The second step is an appeal to history: they'll explain how great the nation was in the past, and how it's now falling apart. The third and final step is to lay the blame on a minority.
So? Democrats do this? Why does it make it any different if a Fascist can do it too?
Fascists will do all of this, but then so will Democrats.
You can't recognize a Fascist by the fact that they're doing any of the things you mentioned above, and to do so would be folly: you would be ignoring all of the *legitimate* originations of this nature by 'legitimate', non-Fascists...
Fuck, that's just excellent. Angry God Bowling. I think that just may have to be one of the best concepts for a video game I've seen in a long time ... sorta B&W'ish.
What I think these folks should do is take all 12 games that were made, and combine them into one big mega-one - you can't get to the next map until you win the existing one.
Package 'em up, slap 'em in a box called "Angry God Bowling" and sell.
You strap it on the back of a Jumbo for a couple hundred thou, or at the very least chop it's wings off and rent the US Airforce' cargo fleet for a few hours ...
Personally, if I had the money for a rusty Buran, and I was crazy enough to actually *BUY* it, I'd also be crazy enough, and rich enough, to strap a few rockets on it and get it delivered that way.
But yeah, I agree generally with the principle that COD into LEO might be nice way to pay for it, though.
... which pill did you take?
Hey, pong rocks:
...
http://www.access-music.de/img/welcomejay.jpg
It's clear to me, on a daily basis, that pong is the new religion
;)
I did some contract work for Velocity waaay back then and became good friends with one of the programmers that used to work there ... though, over the years, I lost contact with him after he went off to work for Microsoft (on MS Golf, no less).
... and Velocity, in general. Any company where "Snow Crash" was required reading for all new programmers was, back then (pre-dotcom'ish era) a pretty good place to work.
I was a huge fan of SpectreVR, though
Too bad their management screwed the pooch on some of their other projects - weren't they also doing some sort of defense work with their VR technology?
So, right next to my Palm/Visor/Clie, while typing this on my tiBook/iBook/Versa, trying hard not to take calls on my Nokia/Ericsson/Motorola, I'll still be trackable by all my creditors ... you know the ones: VISA/Mastercard/etc. ... who I've gone into debt for, just to keep my gadgets upgraded.
...
Whatever. Shit like this is far easier to deal with if you're stoned, so I guess its time for another cone
I'm in the same boat with the PJB100, which was one of the first decent portable MP3 players with a hardrive, designed by Compaq R&D.
...
Can't get MP3's off it. Can't play Ogg Vorbis.
It's really stupid, I think, that media players are still being produced that are *closed* and proprietary, but that's the way it goes.
IF the PJB100 had a decent SDK for it, which allowed additional codecs to be uploaded, and allowed access to the drive through USB, it'd be soooo good.
But as it is, it's just a paperweight whose time for replacing with an iPod is almost come
Free software that runs on their hardware is a blessing to their business.
/. people are just so knee-jerk, it kills me ...
So they do everything they can to help out, within the realms of their existing business model... until *someone* works out an economics model that functions under OSS ideologies capable of supporting an organization as *Big* as Apple, its staff, and shareholders.
But really, quit bitching about it. Apple make great hardware - and are *STILL* doing great things for computing for the masses, even to this day.
Not that there aren't other options, but while you've still got options, quit complaining about one of them!
This under-18 issue is really not worth the hooplah - its technologically tabloid. As others have stated, big deal - he'll still write OSS, he'll probably still love computing, and maybe he'll still end up contributing anyway.
And there's always emancipation!
Really, sometimes you
I've had a PBG4 since the first week they were available, and I have to tell you that entropy definitely takes its tolls on this laptop.
The screen hinges will fleck paint - and that paint will get between the keys and the screen, scratching it. Also, any grease and muck from your fingers *will* end up on the LCD, in highly concentrated form. And the "PowerBook G4" logo will smudge and smear eventually.
The rule of thumb is, keep your pbg4 clean.
Find a good cleaning solution that works for you (I just use tissues and warm water, and its effective) and clean your laptop regularly. You may as well fleck the paint off the hinges yourself - its all going to come off eventually anyway, no matter what you do, so if you do it proactively you won't get it on your screen.
It just looks like a dining room table. What's wrong with it? What am I missing?
I'm willing to bet that within 5 years, the costs for, say, a seat in Progress and a few days in orbit will come down to the 6-figure mark - making it affordable to me and a couple others, anyway.
...
And that's a start. I'm willing to put my money where my ass wants to sit, and fund as many hungry Russian space scientists as my hard-earned moolah can support.
There's no other way to do it. Space is hard, especially if you're an average citizen, so everything I do will be to get me there - even if it means making sacrifices and spending hard-earned cash to get there
I'm not alone. There are a lot of people in similar financial positions who would spend the money were it feasible - and the point is, its rapidly becoming feasible.
I agree with you. Space *is* a growth industry for Russia, and they are very good at it, if not the best - depending on the criteria by which you judge success.
... thanks to Russia.
I have so much faith in Russia's space program, and European efforts in general, that I'm abandoning all hope of going to space by way of the USofA, (Inc.) - a nation crippled by its own nationalism - and moving to Europe to pursue, rather aggressively, my own attempts to do a few orbits by way of Star City.
This may sound strange, but really - a private citizen such as myself has a better chance in Europe, than in the US, for getting into orbit in their lifetime
My titanium puts out a lot of heat - and I'm moving to Europe soon (Germany) - so I know it'll function quite nicely as a bed-warmer during those long nights.
... in a tight little package.
...
Plus it plays DVD's, so in all it's pretty much like snuggling up in front of the fire and watching a movie
If they could one day *use* the heat that these sorts of devices put out, instead of trying hard to reduce it, things might become a little more efficient
Pr0n looks so much better when flesh tones are real flesh tones.
Then again, it also looks so much worse.
DVD: "1,000 ways to torture a Billionaire", widescreen format. No region encoding.
...
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But anyway, fair enough. What I'd like to know is how easy it is to insert my own random data into that playlist before it goes off to Microsoft?
Seems the only way to fight this will be with dis-info
Really. Big deal. It'd take me a couple of days to have a functioning USB vendor ID "filter/remapper" device functioning with a PIC and a USB chip. Total cost in parts, about $20.
Open source it, open source the hardware, put it on the web for Taiwanese mfr's to make freely at their own will and bundle with any cheap XBox peripherals they choose.
This sort of region locking is just stupid.