"...is this another case of humanity losing advanced space travel capability due to neglect, like Apollo?"
No, I think it's more a case of space agencies not wanting to toss their multi-million dollar probes into a nintey atmosphere, 850 F (450 C) cloud of sulphuric acid 850 F (450 C)where probe lifespans are measured in hours. The cost to knowledge-gain ratio is staggeringly out of proportion on those missions. At least on mars you stand a decent chance of getting a return on your investment.
It's more a case of space agencies saying "Yep, that's nasty stuff. Let's move on for now."
There's truth in this. I went to work for Airline X and did somthing similar. My employment- while not bad -was heavily fragmented, so I felt the need to stetch the truth in some areas. It was almost a potential costly mistake as they had hired an independent firm to do background checks which found found the inconsistancies rather easily, though it took them nearly 8 weeks to start asking questions. The only way I managed to get out of that mess was to continuely put off their inquiries. While it did finally come to head, enough time had passed with enough problems in the process for the employer to finally just let go.
In otherwords, I got lucky. Of course it didn't help that I was applying for a terrorist targeted industry (doh!), but if they can do it, so can your potential employer. Employ the parents tactics with due caution, if at all.
"You'd think open source software would be a natural for many UN member countries."
You'd also think it was obvious that torpedoing a UN information summit wasn't a big deal if open source is so natural to everybody. Sounds like a huge waste o' time and money to me. Do you really need to 'summit' something like this?
Unless, of course, the open source movement is actually weaker than you say it is. And no, that's not a flame.
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"I want to burn in the Sun (or at least the egomaniacal part of me.)"
But you can! For free!!...In about a few billion years with the rest of the earth.
If this game gets a large enough user base, it might well be a minor gaming revolution in the making, simply because versions will be shipped with a mic. Sure, the ability has been around for a while, but mostly on the PC fringe with the only system to seriously impliment it being, ironically, a console. If UT2k4 can generate a large enough mic using consumer base, we might very well see it turn into a mainstream phenomenom on the PC. Other companies will incorporate mass support simply because one game showed that it was a desired feature to have by gamers, which will in turn generate the "gotta have one since everyone else does too" feeling. It's probably the one thing everybody agrees that is the best feature on XBox Live and it's way way past time for a mic to be a gaming standard on the PC as well.
I seriously hope that UT2k4 is the one to do it since they're brve enought to take the leap.
Honestly, this sounds like a list of Doc and David wish the internet wasn't. I know they haven't been around the last few years to notice that the internet is a constantly evolving entity, or the fact that organizations are constantly adapting it to suit their needs. Fact is these guys need a serious reality check, because it's damn near everything they say it's not; in no small part because it's making people money doing it. How many stories have we had here on/. about spammers making huge amounts of money because it actually is getting people rich? I mean come on--
The web is not:
...like television, a way to hold eyeballs still while advertisers spray them with messages.
In your perfect world it isn't, but it is in this one. They musta missed that banner at the top of this page. Nope, no advertising there, no sir.
...the Net something that telcos and cable companies should filter, control and otherwise "improve."
...a bad thing for users to communicate between different kinds of instant messaging systems on the Net.
...Economics disagree with you AGAIN. Sure, it's not a bad thing for you as an end user, but then you're not the one who's absorbing the cost to develope and maintain that "free" instant messenger service are you? Nor are you the one that has to worry about where those eyeballs go when they aren't viewing the advertisements that keep that service free.
Etc, etc... They have a point here and there, but Doc Searls and David Weinberger are living in the that hippie fantasy world where the net (and information) is free, baby, free! Maybe it shouldn't be some of what they argue, but the sad fact is it's nearly everything other people are mistaking it for.
I mean we're talking about the same thing really, right? Lord only knows how many people get panned and flamed on this forum, any one of which could be considered libel. I know part of it is the disclaimers plastered across the site, so what happened with Teacher Review? Maybe Slashdot simply has more money to fend off these attacks?
Never said they didn't know how to make a dollar, just that their production to profit ratio is damn nice. They can afford piracy. The music industries, on the otherhand, are still trying to pump a defunct business model...
Ok, a few quick questions-- What's the average budget of making an 'adult' movie? What's the average salary of a pornstar? How much are these movies/VCDs/DVDs sold for? Less than your average record deal, less than your average pop idol and less than your average CD. I haven't done any hard research or dug that deep (ahem), but I'm guessing that even the super star of porn makes dirt compared to your average syndicated recording artist.
All in all, it's really simple-- The recording industry has a larger power base and more money t protect than triple-AAA porn company. of course, the same can't be said about Playboy or Penthouse, which will rabidly go after infringers. It's not surprising that the companies behaviors reflects the size of their empires...
Unless there is a way to mask the bandwidth blackhole your uncapped connection creates, the chances of unplesantries between you and your provider are very high. Unless you hack [i]somebody[/i] elses connection ad route crap through them to you (which strikes me as more trouble than it's worth), it would seem to be fairly easy to track and shut you down.
"First you have to hunt down the link for the free player, similiar to what winamp's doing now..."
Honestly now, if you couldn't find this link in under 30 seconds after visiting their page, you're either blind, braindead or just plain stupid. Maybe even all three. Finding winamp's free download is not even remotely close to slogging through Real website.
Yes, like the internet has been a little known under achiever as of late....
On a side note, I found my Sweetie on a date site. Of course, I also confirmed everything she said by google, an address search and other means to verify I wasn't being outright lied to. I mean it's only common sense. Lord knows you have enough guys in chat rooms masquerading as women, so why take the chance of meeting them in IRL? We won't even get into extortionary prostitutes and crap...
Whoa, slow down there Quick-draw. What do you think another flop is going to do to his consumer base? I don't care if he produces the movies himself or not, like the man said-- If this a repeat performace of one and two, quite a few people are going to assume the magic is gone and simply won't have faith in his future projects. Oh sure, he'll have the die-hard fans who'll die loyally at his feet, but like Star Trek, you can only screw with the franchise so much before your fans start taking a negative outlook on your movie before it's released (ie, half the threads in this topic).
Feel free to put down the idiot gun, because Corebreech is absolutely right... If he keeps screwing up, he's lost the franchise. Maybe not the rights, just his loyal following, which is nearly, if not more important than a license you can't do shit with because you've lost touch with reality.
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Really. The hype made over beagle before it got eaten says otherwise.
Ah yes... The MAIN mision...
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"While the Beagle 2 may have been gobbled up by Mars--Eater of Spacecraft, the main part of the ESA's recent Mars mission is doing well."
Um, excuse me, but wasn't the main part of the mission eaten by Mars? Let's not sugar-coat this now-- The biggest reason for going to Mars was to put something on Mars. That said, it's nice to know they're making use of the leftovers.
Since NASA is now considering Hubble disposible now, why not refuel it one more time, attach a small booster to it and sent it to a Lagrange point? It can't be that expensive to do, relatively speaking. After that, one could sell time on it to compensate for the expense and make a profit. If that isn't enough, you're also saving another piece of history.
"Let me get this straight. They are going to abandon a working spacecraft, that continues to revolutionize deep space imaging, on the whim of a politician spewing typical election year rhetoric?
And you heard this... Where again? Stop pulling opinions out of your ass and passing them off as facts, Top Gun.
Slashdot Mirror
"Is Microsoft Paying To Influence UN Standards?"
In case you haven't noticed, the UN is everybodies bitch lately.
"...is this another case of humanity losing advanced space travel capability due to neglect, like Apollo?"
No, I think it's more a case of space agencies not wanting to toss their multi-million dollar probes into a nintey atmosphere, 850 F (450 C) cloud of sulphuric acid 850 F (450 C)where probe lifespans are measured in hours. The cost to knowledge-gain ratio is staggeringly out of proportion on those missions. At least on mars you stand a decent chance of getting a return on your investment.
It's more a case of space agencies saying "Yep, that's nasty stuff. Let's move on for now."
Can I get "Wah-fucking-Wah" moderated as "Insightful" please?
There's truth in this. I went to work for Airline X and did somthing similar. My employment- while not bad -was heavily fragmented, so I felt the need to stetch the truth in some areas. It was almost a potential costly mistake as they had hired an independent firm to do background checks which found found the inconsistancies rather easily, though it took them nearly 8 weeks to start asking questions. The only way I managed to get out of that mess was to continuely put off their inquiries. While it did finally come to head, enough time had passed with enough problems in the process for the employer to finally just let go.
In otherwords, I got lucky. Of course it didn't help that I was applying for a terrorist targeted industry (doh!), but if they can do it, so can your potential employer. Employ the parents tactics with due caution, if at all.
"You'd think open source software would be a natural for many UN member countries."
You'd also think it was obvious that torpedoing a UN information summit wasn't a big deal if open source is so natural to everybody. Sounds like a huge waste o' time and money to me. Do you really need to 'summit' something like this?
Unless, of course, the open source movement is actually weaker than you say it is. And no, that's not a flame.
"I want to burn in the Sun (or at least the egomaniacal part of me.)"
...In about a few billion years with the rest of the earth.
But you can! For free!!
If this game gets a large enough user base, it might well be a minor gaming revolution in the making, simply because versions will be shipped with a mic. Sure, the ability has been around for a while, but mostly on the PC fringe with the only system to seriously impliment it being, ironically, a console. If UT2k4 can generate a large enough mic using consumer base, we might very well see it turn into a mainstream phenomenom on the PC. Other companies will incorporate mass support simply because one game showed that it was a desired feature to have by gamers, which will in turn generate the "gotta have one since everyone else does too" feeling. It's probably the one thing everybody agrees that is the best feature on XBox Live and it's way way past time for a mic to be a gaming standard on the PC as well.
I seriously hope that UT2k4 is the one to do it since they're brve enought to take the leap.
"Delays Hurt Video Game Business"
NEWS FLASH!!!
EXCESSIVE DELAYS HURT ANY INDUSTRY!!!
Please move along, nothing to news here.
The web is not:
In your perfect world it isn't, but it is in this one. They musta missed that banner at the top of this page. Nope, no advertising there, no sir.
...Until they get their asses sued off by the some malcontent weenie for not controlling the content. Let's file this one under "wishful thinking".
...Economics disagree with you AGAIN. Sure, it's not a bad thing for you as an end user, but then you're not the one who's absorbing the cost to develope and maintain that "free" instant messenger service are you? Nor are you the one that has to worry about where those eyeballs go when they aren't viewing the advertisements that keep that service free.
Etc, etc... They have a point here and there, but Doc Searls and David Weinberger are living in the that hippie fantasy world where the net (and information) is free, baby, free! Maybe it shouldn't be some of what they argue, but the sad fact is it's nearly everything other people are mistaking it for.
Gotta love those flower childern...
I mean we're talking about the same thing really, right? Lord only knows how many people get panned and flamed on this forum, any one of which could be considered libel. I know part of it is the disclaimers plastered across the site, so what happened with Teacher Review? Maybe Slashdot simply has more money to fend off these attacks?
"This has been discussed on Slashdot before."
Can we make it the last time???
Never said they didn't know how to make a dollar, just that their production to profit ratio is damn nice. They can afford piracy. The music industries, on the otherhand, are still trying to pump a defunct business model...
Ok, a few quick questions-- What's the average budget of making an 'adult' movie? What's the average salary of a pornstar? How much are these movies/VCDs/DVDs sold for? Less than your average record deal, less than your average pop idol and less than your average CD. I haven't done any hard research or dug that deep (ahem), but I'm guessing that even the super star of porn makes dirt compared to your average syndicated recording artist.
All in all, it's really simple-- The recording industry has a larger power base and more money t protect than triple-AAA porn company. of course, the same can't be said about Playboy or Penthouse, which will rabidly go after infringers. It's not surprising that the companies behaviors reflects the size of their empires...
Unless there is a way to mask the bandwidth blackhole your uncapped connection creates, the chances of unplesantries between you and your provider are very high. Unless you hack [i]somebody[/i] elses connection ad route crap through them to you (which strikes me as more trouble than it's worth), it would seem to be fairly easy to track and shut you down.
Nah, think I'll skip this one, thanks.
"Somehow, I don't think Microsoft will find this fight to be as easy."
What's Microsoft's net worth again? Oh, that's right.... ^_^
"First you have to hunt down the link for the free player, similiar to what winamp's doing now... "
Honestly now, if you couldn't find this link in under 30 seconds after visiting their page, you're either blind, braindead or just plain stupid. Maybe even all three. Finding winamp's free download is not even remotely close to slogging through Real website.
Yes, way to rate those topics, mods.
Yes, like the internet has been a little known under achiever as of late....
On a side note, I found my Sweetie on a date site. Of course, I also confirmed everything she said by google, an address search and other means to verify I wasn't being outright lied to. I mean it's only common sense. Lord knows you have enough guys in chat rooms masquerading as women, so why take the chance of meeting them in IRL? We won't even get into extortionary prostitutes and crap...
Sorry, couldn't resist.
"Obviously SCO has a lot of enemies out there right now, but it's always sad to watch someone stoop to this level."
Always sad, huh? Now would you be singing the same tune with, say, Microsoft??
Whoa, slow down there Quick-draw. What do you think another flop is going to do to his consumer base? I don't care if he produces the movies himself or not, like the man said-- If this a repeat performace of one and two, quite a few people are going to assume the magic is gone and simply won't have faith in his future projects. Oh sure, he'll have the die-hard fans who'll die loyally at his feet, but like Star Trek, you can only screw with the franchise so much before your fans start taking a negative outlook on your movie before it's released (ie, half the threads in this topic).
Feel free to put down the idiot gun, because Corebreech is absolutely right... If he keeps screwing up, he's lost the franchise. Maybe not the rights, just his loyal following, which is nearly, if not more important than a license you can't do shit with because you've lost touch with reality.
Really. The hype made over beagle before it got eaten says otherwise.
"While the Beagle 2 may have been gobbled up by Mars--Eater of Spacecraft, the main part of the ESA's recent Mars mission is doing well."
Um, excuse me, but wasn't the main part of the mission eaten by Mars? Let's not sugar-coat this now-- The biggest reason for going to Mars was to put something on Mars. That said, it's nice to know they're making use of the leftovers.
" Now only mathematicians stand a chance - go, go, go, you few good number theoretisists not employed by the NSA! "
We'll change that after they win.
Since NASA is now considering Hubble disposible now, why not refuel it one more time, attach a small booster to it and sent it to a Lagrange point? It can't be that expensive to do, relatively speaking. After that, one could sell time on it to compensate for the expense and make a profit. If that isn't enough, you're also saving another piece of history.
"Let me get this straight. They are going to abandon a working spacecraft, that continues to revolutionize deep space imaging, on the whim of a politician spewing typical election year rhetoric?
And you heard this... Where again? Stop pulling opinions out of your ass and passing them off as facts, Top Gun.