*cough* I'm 24. *cough* I fondly remember tradewares (Prime Evil baby, and with 1024 shield points per planet...), the pit, LOTR, BRE, SRE, and their ilk. I also remember the great local multi-line chat bbs's.
I paid $200.00 in hard earned newspaper route money for my shiny 14.4 internal modem. I could page bomb 2400 baud modem users off chat boards in under 10 seconds. (please note, I never did, I just ran my little script against a friend to test it)...
The community was so much tighter knit (due to the small number of folks savvy enough to master those dark incantations known as 'modem init strings') and friendly than the internet.
Sure do miss those days, but not as much as I'd miss my cable modem.:)
I can't wait until we can wholesale replace hollywood with a desktop box. No more listening to Tim Robbins flap his jaw about politics. No more waiting to replace the prima dona actress that just walked off the set because the production crew never ordered her Folgers high colonic. It's a directors dream (just like in S1m0ne, the Paccino movie no one saw).
There are drawbacks however. Getting a half dog for a CG character would definately throw up some flags. We'd have to update the Bible. No gay sex, and no sex with your computer... Especially gay computer sex, that's just right out. Whole new chapters would have to be added about how God turned George Lucas into a pillar of salt and smote ILM.
Well, the reality of the situation is that demand exists, and the quickest and cheapest way to satisfy the demand is with Wine.
I refuse to choose games based on which OS I use. I choose games on their own merits and, if I can help it, I won't limit my field of choices. So what if wine is forever. There's a real possibility that in time, I'll be able to run games better with Linux/Wine than on MS. Talk about opening the door for wide spread linux adoption.
That's fine that you choose not to support wine. Just be aware that I won't be sympathetic to complaints about the dearth of native linux games, the proliferation of Win32 apps and the slower than optimal adoption of linux by the masses.
It is another premise on which to build theories and further our understanding of the nature of the universe. This was made clear in the first paragraph.
What was the best audio codec before mp3? It wasn't ogg. What was the best graphics compression format before jpeg?
My point is that oft times patent encumbered tech is the only tech available for that application. If the choices that are available today, were available 5 years ago, I have no doubt that most developers would've made the 'right' choice.
I agree that using patented technology has its drawbacks, but if there's nothing else around, it's what you will use.
Why is this so bad? If I develop a video compression system that's so good it changes how we think about portable media, and I patent it, why shouldn't people use it if they feel that its value outweighs or equals its price? For that matter, what keeps joe hacker from reimplimenting a similar system?
Obviously, the barratry that goes hand in hand with placing restrictions on how your IP is used is anethema and repellent to most OS programmers.
And again, while DRM perhaps has its place, publishers threaten to implement it in a way that eliminates fair use.
If I have a product that I only want to distribute over a pair of drm headphones, and there's a market to buy it, it'll sell. You ARE free to ignore DRM. Content is a product, not a necessity.
NSYNC could release their next album on a copy proof (hypotetically of course) CD. It would still sell. The value to the consumer isn't that they can copy it or back it up, it's that they can listen to the music that they want to hear.
Until someone comes up with a viable way of compensating creators for thier content without restricing how that content is used in any way shape or form, restricted content is going to be reality
"What about books? They aren't 'restricted content' except in that the law prevents unlicensed copying. They are only restricted in this very limited sense. "
What about books? Ever try to play a book in a DVD player? They are incredibly hard to copy, and certainly on the scale that a CD can be reproduced. Books are basically DRM encumbered in this sense.
Freedom is most certainly about releasing content how you want.
Also, what's to say that you can't create a DRM'd backup of something? Just make it impossible to unlock without first locking out the original copy. There are smart people out there working really hard on stuff like this all day. They'll figure it out.
More choices is always better.
Also, technology can't be harmful. Technology just is. Nuclear Fission isn't bad. Broken policy and poor judgement can make bad things happen with any technology.
Does this only work with NT+ kernels? Doesn't do DVD audio either. Of course if that's what Creative is adding $100 to the pricetag for, they can keep it.:)
actually, you can make apt upgrade your entire distro by downloading the redhat release rpm for the distro you want to upgrade to, then running up2date.
It's a very bad idea to do this on a machine that you plan on using for anything besides a paperweight. Not that it WON'T work, but there is the chance, and it's not a supported 'migration path.'
I need to have more proof that EJB is bad than a post by some guy on slashdot. I'm not calling you a troll. I'm asking this question because the answer could affect how I decide to tackle my next project.
Can you provide a link describing the drawbacks of EJB and how to solve problems in the EJB domain with stateless session beans instead of entity beans?
Um, I'd say his point is that Kazaa only works on Windows. If a person does not use Windows, then they can't use Kazaa, and therefore it's not a choice for some people. How difficult is this to understand?
The folks and NASA and the folks in other space programs across the world may be the only ones who care about the future of humanity.
I'm sure the folks at the mayo clinic and in other medical programs across the world would disagree. It seems to me that there is a LONG list of priorities that need to be addressed before we start imposing our Manifest Destiny on the rest of the universe.
Start researching new ways to travel in space, and make a colony in Alpha Century a priority.
No one knows if habitable planets even exist around Alpha Centauri. Maybe we should wait for some confirmation before we evacuate the planet. The sun will be around for a few billion more years. And really, there isn't much anyone can do about a meteor. In my book, that's God's way of saying "Your number's up pal."
Oh dear.:) Gandhi wasn't actually sposed to be in that list. I stole that list from my a thread on my website (it's a list of the top five people you'd like to punch in the face if you saw them on the street. Gandhi doesn't actually belong in THAT list either...)
Is accuse someone of pirating music, and the "machinery is set in motion."?
Well, I have a short list of people who I believe have been pirating music:
Hillary Rosen George W. Bush William Jefferson Clinton Gandhi Carrot Top Ann Coulter Jesse Jackson The Dell Dude mathew lesko (The question mark guy selling the book on how to get free government money) Rick Fox (from the Lakers...)
I've never known of another person who has seen, let alone played that game. Can you buy those anywhere? I looked on ebay a while ago, but came up empty.
What do you mean that's no excuse. That's no way to write a piece of software. I agree with the parent poster. It's absurd the hoops you have to jump through to just to make MSSQL a 'secure' pile of crap.
Can't wait till postgres supports replication out of the box.
One of the dangers I can see in a law that is not applied equally (not all known violators of the law are actively pursued), is that it can be used to really screw someone you don't like. For example, say I'm a prominent member of the Green Party whom the presiding regime is looking for a way to silence. Coincidentally, I also downloaded a copy of the new N'Sync album (hey, bad taste isn't illegal. yet...). Bam. They've got me. And while they have my box, I'm sure they'll probably make sure that all my nudie pics are legal also (though apparently, even images of women who simply look to young can get you into trouble).
So, I don't like it. Not because it's a bad law, or unfair, or whatever. Because it has the potential to be easily taken advantage of. I like that the laws against murder are enforced vigorously. I would like it if this law were too. The absolute chaos that would ensue would be worth me giving up every mp3 I've ever downloaded. I'd love to see all of the school teachers that work next door be led off in hand cuffs. Better too would be the cops that download music! I mean come on! It's a THREE YEAR SENTENCE... It MUST be serious... I would insist that this law be enforced on everyone, even cops, clergy, the elderly and my own dear Mother.
They'll only use this law to hurt people they don't like. ("They" can be anyone that you don't like...;) ) 3 years in jail... Yeah that's about right... In Rhiyad...
Postgres is great. I love it and advocate its use at work, for all of the projects that don't require replication. Lack of replication is definately holding it back. There are some third party solutions, but the only real way to get replication under postgres is to pay 10 grand and get the PostgreSQL Enterprise Replication Server. Still cheaper than Oracle I guess.
Did you hear that Kevin Bacon has been linked to al Qaeda?
Great sig. Just out of curiosity I consulted The Oracle of Bacon. Unfortunately it shows that Osama Bin Laden has a Bacon rating of infinity. This is actually not very uncommon. About 12 percent of people shown on film cannot be linked to Kevin Bacon through film work (it's actually much harder to find someone with a bacon rating of 4 or more). Osama is one of these. Oddly enough, he has an entry in imdb.com He was in 2 films, "Afganistan: Land in Crisis (2002)" and "Osama Bin Laden: Behind the Madness (2002)" During the filming of one of these he apparently lost some toes.
"I wish you luck, PC Gamer, but I fear your days are numbered. The consoles are custom-designed to eat your lunch."
Well, I'll say this. As long as lots and lots of people have pc's, games will be developed for the pc. If a super whammy dine chip comes out for a new playstation, I'll have a chip twice as fast inside a year in my desktop. Game makers aren't going to stop making games for the pc because it's harder.
And what about RPG's. They sell fairly well. Baldur's Gate didn't do badly if I recall. Neither did the Sims. In fact, I think the Sims franchise is one of the most profitable in history. There will always be money to be made by developing for the pc.
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Java bytecode also doesn't look terribly appealing in a text editor.
I wonder if we could decompile our VM and reverse engineer DNA back into it's original source code.
I'm guessing it's something like LISP
*cough* I'm 24. *cough* I fondly remember tradewares (Prime Evil baby, and with 1024 shield points per planet...), the pit, LOTR, BRE, SRE, and their ilk. I also remember the great local multi-line chat bbs's.
:)
I paid $200.00 in hard earned newspaper route money for my shiny 14.4 internal modem. I could page bomb 2400 baud modem users off chat boards in under 10 seconds. (please note, I never did, I just ran my little script against a friend to test it)...
The community was so much tighter knit (due to the small number of folks savvy enough to master those dark incantations known as 'modem init strings') and friendly than the internet.
Sure do miss those days, but not as much as I'd miss my cable modem.
S'N'L covered the narcotics alternative olympics in one of their skits.
:)
Farley loses both arms lifting an absurd amount of weight. Hilarious and yet scary all at once.
I've gotta say, I'd have no qualms about taking a retro-viral-gene-altering smart pill. I mean, how is this different than drinking coffee?
Which in my mind is just another reason that someone should take this idea, and implement an open source version.
:)
How hard could it be?
I can't wait until we can wholesale replace hollywood with a desktop box. No more listening to Tim Robbins flap his jaw about politics. No more waiting to replace the prima dona actress that just walked off the set because the production crew never ordered her Folgers high colonic. It's a directors dream (just like in S1m0ne, the Paccino movie no one saw).
There are drawbacks however. Getting a half dog for a CG character would definately throw up some flags. We'd have to update the Bible. No gay sex, and no sex with your computer... Especially gay computer sex, that's just right out. Whole new chapters would have to be added about how God turned George Lucas into a pillar of salt and smote ILM.
Maybe this isn't such a good idea.
Well, the reality of the situation is that demand exists, and the quickest and cheapest way to satisfy the demand is with Wine.
I refuse to choose games based on which OS I use. I choose games on their own merits and, if I can help it, I won't limit my field of choices. So what if wine is forever. There's a real possibility that in time, I'll be able to run games better with Linux/Wine than on MS. Talk about opening the door for wide spread linux adoption.
That's fine that you choose not to support wine. Just be aware that I won't be sympathetic to complaints about the dearth of native linux games, the proliferation of Win32 apps and the slower than optimal adoption of linux by the masses.
What, like violating someone's fair use rights? Sounds good to me.
It is another premise on which to build theories and further our understanding of the nature of the universe. This was made clear in the first paragraph.
What was the best audio codec before mp3? It wasn't ogg. What was the best graphics compression format before jpeg?
My point is that oft times patent encumbered tech is the only tech available for that application. If the choices that are available today, were available 5 years ago, I have no doubt that most developers would've made the 'right' choice.
I agree that using patented technology has its drawbacks, but if there's nothing else around, it's what you will use.
Why is this so bad? If I develop a video compression system that's so good it changes how we think about portable media, and I patent it, why shouldn't people use it if they feel that its value outweighs or equals its price? For that matter, what keeps joe hacker from reimplimenting a similar system?
Obviously, the barratry that goes hand in hand with placing restrictions on how your IP is used is anethema and repellent to most OS programmers.
And again, while DRM perhaps has its place, publishers threaten to implement it in a way that eliminates fair use.
If I have a product that I only want to distribute over a pair of drm headphones, and there's a market to buy it, it'll sell. You ARE free to ignore DRM. Content is a product, not a necessity.
NSYNC could release their next album on a copy proof (hypotetically of course) CD. It would still sell. The value to the consumer isn't that they can copy it or back it up, it's that they can listen to the music that they want to hear.
Until someone comes up with a viable way of compensating creators for thier content without restricing how that content is used in any way shape or form, restricted content is going to be reality
"What about books? They aren't 'restricted content' except in that the law prevents unlicensed copying. They are only restricted in this very limited sense. "
What about books? Ever try to play a book in a DVD player? They are incredibly hard to copy, and certainly on the scale that a CD can be reproduced. Books are basically DRM encumbered in this sense.
Freedom is most certainly about releasing content how you want.
Also, what's to say that you can't create a DRM'd backup of something? Just make it impossible to unlock without first locking out the original copy. There are smart people out there working really hard on stuff like this all day. They'll figure it out.
More choices is always better.
Also, technology can't be harmful. Technology just is. Nuclear Fission isn't bad. Broken policy and poor judgement can make bad things happen with any technology.
Does this only work with NT+ kernels? Doesn't do DVD audio either. Of course if that's what Creative is adding $100 to the pricetag for, they can keep it. :)
actually, you can make apt upgrade your entire distro by downloading the redhat release rpm for the distro you want to upgrade to, then running up2date.
:)
It's a very bad idea to do this on a machine that you plan on using for anything besides a paperweight. Not that it WON'T work, but there is the chance, and it's not a supported 'migration path.'
Nice little trick though.
I need to have more proof that EJB is bad than a post by some guy on slashdot. I'm not calling you a troll. I'm asking this question because the answer could affect how I decide to tackle my next project.
Can you provide a link describing the drawbacks of EJB and how to solve problems in the EJB domain with stateless session beans instead of entity beans?
thanks
Um, I'd say his point is that Kazaa only works on Windows. If a person does not use Windows, then they can't use Kazaa, and therefore it's not a choice for some people. How difficult is this to understand?
Kazaa Lite runs under wine.
The folks and NASA and the folks in other space programs across the world may be the only ones who care about the future of humanity.
I'm sure the folks at the mayo clinic and in other medical programs across the world would disagree. It seems to me that there is a LONG list of priorities that need to be addressed before we start imposing our Manifest Destiny on the rest of the universe.
Start researching new ways to travel in space, and make a colony in Alpha Century a priority.
No one knows if habitable planets even exist around Alpha Centauri. Maybe we should wait for some confirmation before we evacuate the planet. The sun will be around for a few billion more years. And really, there isn't much anyone can do about a meteor. In my book, that's God's way of saying "Your number's up pal."
ok ahole :), you can't drop an umlaut and not show the rest of us how...
Oh dear. :) Gandhi wasn't actually sposed to be in that list. I stole that list from my a thread on my website (it's a list of the top five people you'd like to punch in the face if you saw them on the street. Gandhi doesn't actually belong in THAT list either...)
Is accuse someone of pirating music, and the "machinery is set in motion."?
Well, I have a short list of people who I believe have been pirating music:
Hillary Rosen
George W. Bush
William Jefferson Clinton
Gandhi
Carrot Top
Ann Coulter
Jesse Jackson
The Dell Dude
mathew lesko (The question mark guy selling the book on how to get free government money)
Rick Fox (from the Lakers...)
Best title for any paper, book or article on the subject: How to wreck a nice beach.
I've never known of another person who has seen, let alone played that game. Can you buy those anywhere? I looked on ebay a while ago, but came up empty.
I want my parsec!
What do you mean that's no excuse. That's no way to write a piece of software. I agree with the parent poster. It's absurd the hoops you have to jump through to just to make MSSQL a 'secure' pile of crap.
Can't wait till postgres supports replication out of the box.
One of the dangers I can see in a law that is not applied equally (not all known violators of the law are actively pursued), is that it can be used to really screw someone you don't like. For example, say I'm a prominent member of the Green Party whom the presiding regime is looking for a way to silence. Coincidentally, I also downloaded a copy of the new N'Sync album (hey, bad taste isn't illegal. yet...). Bam. They've got me. And while they have my box, I'm sure they'll probably make sure that all my nudie pics are legal also (though apparently, even images of women who simply look to young can get you into trouble).
;) ) 3 years in jail... Yeah that's about right... In Rhiyad...
So, I don't like it. Not because it's a bad law, or unfair, or whatever. Because it has the potential to be easily taken advantage of. I like that the laws against murder are enforced vigorously. I would like it if this law were too. The absolute chaos that would ensue would be worth me giving up every mp3 I've ever downloaded. I'd love to see all of the school teachers that work next door be led off in hand cuffs. Better too would be the cops that download music! I mean come on! It's a THREE YEAR SENTENCE... It MUST be serious... I would insist that this law be enforced on everyone, even cops, clergy, the elderly and my own dear Mother.
They'll only use this law to hurt people they don't like. ("They" can be anyone that you don't like...
Postgres is great. I love it and advocate its use at work, for all of the projects that don't require replication. Lack of replication is definately holding it back. There are some third party solutions, but the only real way to get replication under postgres is to pay 10 grand and get the PostgreSQL Enterprise Replication Server. Still cheaper than Oracle I guess.
Did you hear that Kevin Bacon has been linked to al Qaeda?
Great sig. Just out of curiosity I consulted The Oracle of Bacon. Unfortunately it shows that Osama Bin Laden has a Bacon rating of infinity. This is actually not very uncommon. About 12 percent of people shown on film cannot be linked to Kevin Bacon through film work (it's actually much harder to find someone with a bacon rating of 4 or more). Osama is one of these. Oddly enough, he has an entry in imdb.com He was in 2 films, "Afganistan: Land in Crisis (2002)" and "Osama Bin Laden: Behind the Madness (2002)" During the filming of one of these he apparently lost some toes.
the internet is weird.
"I wish you luck, PC Gamer, but I fear your days are numbered. The consoles are custom-designed to eat your lunch."
Well, I'll say this. As long as lots and lots of people have pc's, games will be developed for the pc. If a super whammy dine chip comes out for a new playstation, I'll have a chip twice as fast inside a year in my desktop. Game makers aren't going to stop making games for the pc because it's harder.
And what about RPG's. They sell fairly well. Baldur's Gate didn't do badly if I recall. Neither did the Sims. In fact, I think the Sims franchise is one of the most profitable in history. There will always be money to be made by developing for the pc.