If you are as pissed off about this as Ted and I are, please write to Michael Powell (FCC chair) and your Congressional leaders and tell him how you feel.
I was running a TNT until I bought this game. It looked fine on the TNT, but on my new GeForce3 it is gorgeous - like the first time you saw a 3D rendered game over software rendering.
Isn't that the whole idea behind this darn "open" and "free" movement?! HAHA just kidding... there was sarcasme there. But seriously, do I have to still pay?
I am an ex-dot commer who just started working at TRW on a contract for the CDC. I will be one of only a small handfull of people working on the data collaboration project that will allow the CDC to track disease outbreaks in realtime.
This is not work for underqualified people - it is some of the most interesting work being done with technology right now.
It frees the programmer from having to worry about creating their own 'style' or learn how to do tricky CONCAT's, database queries, etc. If I'm not worrying about bits and trivial programming tasks that have been solved many times over (usually better than I could solve them), then I can more easily approach complex problems. I'm not thinking less, I'm thinking differently.
The time I save by never having to think about x.concat(y) is spent learning even more design patterns and OO API's. In short, I become a better, more versed programmer because I do not have to stare at other ppl's code.
I was running web services from my ATT broadband connection until they blocked port 80. I wasn't running a 'web site' per se, as it was used only to display some of my example work to employers. The server was only running when I knew they would need to look at my stuff (I have a lot of active scripting where I need control of the box). It was even a dynamic IP, so you know it wasn't too useful. I wasn't violating their EULA, but they decided it was necessary to start blocking ports. Very disappointing.
Now I play a cat and mouse game with them as I direct apache to different ports which are eventually blocked. Everything incoming from ports above 1000 seems to be blocked. Has anyone else noticed this with ATT?
Where in the service agreement do they say that they can do this? I am not just paying for incoming HTTP traffic when I buy a broadband internet connection! arg.
I have had my two locations (3 machines at each) doing something like this for a very long time. Every PC backs up to a partner PC at the other location. They all run on different hardware, but none of the disks are more than 20% used. This way, every night each PC does incremental backups to its partner and then over the weekend they do a full backup. The backups are password protected (probably weak) but it keeps people out of each others data.
I assume you've thought about protecting your backups, right? I mean, ALL of your data is passing through the air every week and then stored on your neighbor's machines. Let me know where you live... maybe I'll pass through with a high-gain and see what juicy bits you and your neighbors store. Of course, your neighbors probably already have the good stuff;-]
As far as charging goes, you should shoot high. I'm sure someone would pay big bucks for your brilliance.
All of this is because ATT is in a hugely powerful position and took advantage of it. 300mil for Excite is a joke when you consider what their contracts are worth - or even when you look at their burn rate 6mil/week. This company is worth a helluva lot more. ATT is just a cash-rich robber-baron who has come in to reap the spoils of Excite's bad fortunes.
It is because of providers like ATT that Excite is in this position to begin with. Of your $45/mo bill, Excite only sees $16 - and they are the ones providing the damn service.
Maybe by shutting down, Excite will put ATT where they belong.
I am comfortable with Linux and open source as the future of software, but what I advocate is some way to organize distributions under a more defined goal.
>You can hire your own programmers and fix any
>mistakes.
MS's success has been in its unity of vision where almost every nuance of their software performs to their common goal. Now with.NET the goal is simple extraction of funds from your wallet - but look at how successful they are at it. There isn't any perfect OS, just OS's that are perfect for a job. Linux' job right now is unclear. Is it trying to replace Windows? Does it want to be a powerful server OS?
Yes, you can customize it to however you want to run it, but what about putting together distributions that are oriented along those lines. We have a lot to learn from MS projects like XP. I hate the model behind it, but on honest consideration the design is brilliant. What makes it so is the design behind the code.
eXPerientially based computing - making the OS and machine wrap around you.
Something that simple would revolutionize open source development, but the very problem is that everyone kludges these OS's together to do what only they want to do.
If we were worried about our civil liberties being snatched by the RIAA pre Sep11, now we have real cause for concern. Like the article says,
"If our liberties are to be protected, it is up to us to protect them."
But what happens when the media is a toy that does not discuss these issues and that is the people's only source for information? Many of my friends have no idea about what is going on with DMCA and the major news organizations refuse to give any coverage from the people's POV. It will be a grim future where we have an uninformed populace who does not even know which issues to oppose.
"Every man is a God in disguise; a divinity playing the fool."
-R.W. Emerson
Slashdot Mirror
...from the Yerkes site.
If you are as pissed off about this as Ted and I are, please write to Michael Powell (FCC chair) and your Congressional leaders and tell him how you feel.
Michael.Powell@fcc.gov
Write your representative
thats beautiful, really it is
your reason: Max Payne.
I was running a TNT until I bought this game. It looked fine on the TNT, but on my new GeForce3 it is gorgeous - like the first time you saw a 3D rendered game over software rendering.
The only thing that scares me about this is that ICANN now has a budget this big. money==power
...yes, but 'kewl' is so 18 months ago. Maybe its just getting to denmark. Congrats on the FP.
***A bean has whipped you into Java***
you are obviously inept and know nothing. I like my posts like my SIG, Brief.
...and you move about as fast as my grandpa
Isn't that the whole idea behind this darn "open" and "free" movement?! HAHA just kidding... there was sarcasme there. But seriously, do I have to still pay?
VooDoo on your SIG
may I respond as fast as Google with a first post?
I don't know about ya'll, but he's got me convinced. Bow to the powers of coercive reviews ...and give me Solaris!
I am an ex-dot commer who just started working at TRW on a contract for the CDC. I will be one of only a small handfull of people working on the data collaboration project that will allow the CDC to track disease outbreaks in realtime.
This is not work for underqualified people - it is some of the most interesting work being done with technology right now.
I think you're missing the point of OO.
It frees the programmer from having to worry about creating their own 'style' or learn how to do tricky CONCAT's, database queries, etc. If I'm not worrying about bits and trivial programming tasks that have been solved many times over (usually better than I could solve them), then I can more easily approach complex problems. I'm not thinking less, I'm thinking differently.
The time I save by never having to think about x.concat(y) is spent learning even more design patterns and OO API's. In short, I become a better, more versed programmer because I do not have to stare at other ppl's code.
I was running web services from my ATT broadband connection until they blocked port 80. I wasn't running a 'web site' per se, as it was used only to display some of my example work to employers. The server was only running when I knew they would need to look at my stuff (I have a lot of active scripting where I need control of the box). It was even a dynamic IP, so you know it wasn't too useful. I wasn't violating their EULA, but they decided it was necessary to start blocking ports. Very disappointing.
Now I play a cat and mouse game with them as I direct apache to different ports which are eventually blocked. Everything incoming from ports above 1000 seems to be blocked. Has anyone else noticed this with ATT?
Where in the service agreement do they say that they can do this? I am not just paying for incoming HTTP traffic when I buy a broadband internet connection! arg.
Huge... only in that someone representing us is actually representing us!
I have had my two locations (3 machines at each) doing something like this for a very long time. Every PC backs up to a partner PC at the other location. They all run on different hardware, but none of the disks are more than 20% used. This way, every night each PC does incremental backups to its partner and then over the weekend they do a full backup. The backups are password protected (probably weak) but it keeps people out of each others data.
;-]
I assume you've thought about protecting your backups, right? I mean, ALL of your data is passing through the air every week and then stored on your neighbor's machines. Let me know where you live... maybe I'll pass through with a high-gain and see what juicy bits you and your neighbors store. Of course, your neighbors probably already have the good stuff
As far as charging goes, you should shoot high. I'm sure someone would pay big bucks for your brilliance.
All of this is because ATT is in a hugely powerful position and took advantage of it. 300mil for Excite is a joke when you consider what their contracts are worth - or even when you look at their burn rate 6mil/week. This company is worth a helluva lot more. ATT is just a cash-rich robber-baron who has come in to reap the spoils of Excite's bad fortunes.
It is because of providers like ATT that Excite is in this position to begin with. Of your $45/mo bill, Excite only sees $16 - and they are the ones providing the damn service.
Maybe by shutting down, Excite will put ATT where they belong.
The first shots have been fired in the war for consumer subscription dollars.
To the winner: unchecked monopoly and exploitation of subscribers...
...at least until the Justice Department catches up (ha ha ha)
I am comfortable with Linux and open source as the future of software, but what I advocate is some way to organize distributions under a more defined goal.
.NET the goal is simple extraction of funds from your wallet - but look at how successful they are at it. There isn't any perfect OS, just OS's that are perfect for a job. Linux' job right now is unclear. Is it trying to replace Windows? Does it want to be a powerful server OS?
>You can hire your own programmers and fix any
>mistakes.
MS's success has been in its unity of vision where almost every nuance of their software performs to their common goal. Now with
Yes, you can customize it to however you want to run it, but what about putting together distributions that are oriented along those lines. We have a lot to learn from MS projects like XP. I hate the model behind it, but on honest consideration the design is brilliant. What makes it so is the design behind the code.
eXPerientially based computing - making the OS and machine wrap around you.
Something that simple would revolutionize open source development, but the very problem is that everyone kludges these OS's together to do what only they want to do.
"If our liberties are to be protected, it is up to us to protect them."
But what happens when the media is a toy that does not discuss these issues and that is the people's only source for information? Many of my friends have no idea about what is going on with DMCA and the major news organizations refuse to give any coverage from the people's POV. It will be a grim future where we have an uninformed populace who does not even know which issues to oppose.
"Every man is a God in disguise; a divinity playing the fool."
-R.W. Emerson
ppl. don't realize it is the *direction* and not the talent that sometimes will put an OS at the forefront. What MS has and Linux doesn't is a vision.