...and when we change all our DNA to be coded a certain way, we'll find some strange illness that affects what would have been 0.02% of the opulation now threatens to wipe out mankind.
It's going to be tough. You gotta think back to your childhood. Back then all we had was cable TV and the "Playboy Channel." Granted it was only softcore porn, but it was the unspoken goal of all 13 years old boys to sneak a peek at the verboten channel, even if it was scrambled. (You had to hope for scenes with a heavy white background in order for it to come out straight.)
Even if you lock everything down in your house, you know damn well, there's gonna be some other kid on the block whose parents are less watchful. If you impose all these restrictions, I predict your child will begin asking to spend an inordinate amount of time over a friends house to "study." Forget the laws. This is the Internet. No one is going to be able to regulate all the offensive material coming from all over the world all the time. Once kids find something that gets through the filter, the URL will spread like wildfire.
Why is it important to enact a bill to say that the state should consider anything? I could work as an employee of some state controlled IT department and say, "I didn't choose the open source product because the sky is blue, but I did consider it." and be in compliance with this law (assuming it gets passed). It's a nice political statement, but nothing more.
No only do you stop getting ads that even the most brain dead ad-blocker could have gotten rid of for free, you also get to be Taco's personal dupe checker! I can't wait to send my money in!
Yeah, everyone knows that terrorist LOVE change. That's why the Iraq's have such progressive laws that protect the freedoms of everyone, especially those that speak out against their own government. If GWB would stop harping on getting rid of a madman's weapons of destructions and just built a giant string into heaven, the terrorists (and French) will love us as the peace-loving country we truly are!
No, that's a bad analogy. A business can donate money to both parties in order to "hedge their bets" on which party will gain power. A reviewer pulishes ratings of the products in relatio to each other. Someone is going to get "hurt" fromt he review. If your analogy were accurate, businesses would publically release articles on why one candidate is better than another. Hardly the same thing.
I don't think it's really fair to hold a simple slashdot story submission
up to the standards of professional journalistic integrity.
I think it's extremely fair, especially since the submission came from an
editor, not an anonymous source.
It is fair, however, to question the bias of hardware reviewers who recieve
free pre-releases to play with and depend on those pre-releases to provide the
reviews which earn them a living.
There's no evidence that these reviews were biased in any way. There is
only supposition of guilt, which is preposterous, because these same reviewers
have the same relationship with ATI's competition.
There's lots of trade-offs between NTSC and PAL. As far as cell phones, the Euros were the first to come up with a digtal standard (GSM), the problem is that now they're stuck with it.
A technology that lasts about the same time as a battery and will label you a terrorist when you board an airplane. Can't wait until these are out either.
It was cutting edge back in the day. Animatronic robots are old hat 50 years later. Everything now-a-days simply MUST involve a video screen to be entertaining. What's lost is that ability to overcome design obstacles using simple ideas.
Did you know that Space Mountain really isn't very fast? The designers used the lighting and wind effects to trick your brain into thinking you're going fast. All rollercoaster designers do in modern times is to just make them bigger and twistier thanks to computer aided design software. Feh.
If you want to see what a real genius is, do a Google search on Mike Jittlov. Keep in mind all of his effects were BEFORE computer generated effects were possible.
In the world of the 'Bitchun' Society,' what's scarce is esteem, called Whuffie. For content, we should already be living in the world of the Bitchun Society--any digital file can be copied endlessly without degradation.
Only it can't, because we have accepted the notion of intellectual property and adopted laws that punish people for the wholesale copying of stuff. Doctorow's Net move is an opening to the Bitchun' world, and it poses plenty of questions. Why will anyone buy the book if they can get it online for free?
Considering that Whuffie is essentially used as cash in his universe, we'd have
to set up an automatic micropayment system the deducts from our bank account
whenever we like something. f course, this will never work because if we
disliked something, the transaction would go the other way. Furthermore,
he never discusses why no one ever tried to hack their Whuffie
higher.
I happen to have read his book online. The plot is as one-dimensional as they come. However, the cool aspects of the book are use of technology, the society that grew from it, and the excruciating detail about the Magic Kingdom, particularly, the Haunted Mansion.
That said, it's not exactly best-seller material. It's going to be a difficult task to evaluate exactly how much more or less in sales the book will make by offering it online for free. If anyting, it's made the author much more recognizable in the sci-fi community.
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Or they'll become like the "E" channel or TNN and scroll ads while you watch.
Yes, if you bought the 850 interface. Other modem manufacturers used one of the joystick ports as a serial port.
...and when we change all our DNA to be coded a certain way, we'll find some strange illness that affects what would have been 0.02% of the opulation now threatens to wipe out mankind.
It's going to be tough. You gotta think back to your childhood. Back then all we had was cable TV and the "Playboy Channel." Granted it was only softcore porn, but it was the unspoken goal of all 13 years old boys to sneak a peek at the verboten channel, even if it was scrambled. (You had to hope for scenes with a heavy white background in order for it to come out straight.)
Even if you lock everything down in your house, you know damn well, there's gonna be some other kid on the block whose parents are less watchful. If you impose all these restrictions, I predict your child will begin asking to spend an inordinate amount of time over a friends house to "study." Forget the laws. This is the Internet. No one is going to be able to regulate all the offensive material coming from all over the world all the time. Once kids find something that gets through the filter, the URL will spread like wildfire.
Why is it important to enact a bill to say that the state should consider anything? I could work as an employee of some state controlled IT department and say, "I didn't choose the open source product because the sky is blue, but I did consider it." and be in compliance with this law (assuming it gets passed). It's a nice political statement, but nothing more.
No only do you stop getting ads that even the most brain dead ad-blocker could have gotten rid of for free, you also get to be Taco's personal dupe checker! I can't wait to send my money in!
Yeah, everyone knows that terrorist LOVE change. That's why the Iraq's have such progressive laws that protect the freedoms of everyone, especially those that speak out against their own government. If GWB would stop harping on getting rid of a madman's weapons of destructions and just built a giant string into heaven, the terrorists (and French) will love us as the peace-loving country we truly are!
No, that's a bad analogy. A business can donate money to both parties in order to "hedge their bets" on which party will gain power. A reviewer pulishes ratings of the products in relatio to each other. Someone is going to get "hurt" fromt he review. If your analogy were accurate, businesses would publically release articles on why one candidate is better than another. Hardly the same thing.
I don't think it's really fair to hold a simple slashdot story submission up to the standards of professional journalistic integrity.
I think it's extremely fair, especially since the submission came from an editor, not an anonymous source.
It is fair, however, to question the bias of hardware reviewers who recieve free pre-releases to play with and depend on those pre-releases to provide the reviews which earn them a living.
There's no evidence that these reviews were biased in any way. There is only supposition of guilt, which is preposterous, because these same reviewers have the same relationship with ATI's competition.
I'm an NVidia fan, too. However, we can do without your digs to the reviewers. So much for unbiased journalism.
Good question...
There's lots of trade-offs between NTSC and PAL. As far as cell phones, the Euros were the first to come up with a digtal standard (GSM), the problem is that now they're stuck with it.
A technology that lasts about the same time as a battery and will label you a terrorist when you board an airplane. Can't wait until these are out either.
Is that when Taco ties you up and forces you to watch bad anime dubs in his basement?
Will we be seeing those lame "truth" ads lambasting IBM and their nicotine laced monitors? Oh wait...
I liked using a door to inflict damage on monster worms.
CLIFF HANGER!
Only, your friend/foe modifiers don't actually affect your /. karma. BTW, Karma is objective?! Yeah...you might say that if you have mod points.
It was cutting edge back in the day. Animatronic robots are old hat 50 years later. Everything now-a-days simply MUST involve a video screen to be entertaining. What's lost is that ability to overcome design obstacles using simple ideas.
Did you know that Space Mountain really isn't very fast? The designers used the lighting and wind effects to trick your brain into thinking you're going fast. All rollercoaster designers do in modern times is to just make them bigger and twistier thanks to computer aided design software. Feh.
If you want to see what a real genius is, do a Google search on Mike Jittlov. Keep in mind all of his effects were BEFORE computer generated effects were possible.
In the world of the 'Bitchun' Society,' what's scarce is esteem, called Whuffie. For content, we should already be living in the world of the Bitchun Society--any digital file can be copied endlessly without degradation. Only it can't, because we have accepted the notion of intellectual property and adopted laws that punish people for the wholesale copying of stuff. Doctorow's Net move is an opening to the Bitchun' world, and it poses plenty of questions. Why will anyone buy the book if they can get it online for free?
Considering that Whuffie is essentially used as cash in his universe, we'd have to set up an automatic micropayment system the deducts from our bank account whenever we like something. f course, this will never work because if we disliked something, the transaction would go the other way. Furthermore, he never discusses why no one ever tried to hack their Whuffie higher.
Now that I think about it, "Whuffie" more accurately describes what's called "Karma" here on Slashdot. Perhaps a change is in order?
I happen to have read his book online. The plot is as one-dimensional as they come. However, the cool aspects of the book are use of technology, the society that grew from it, and the excruciating detail about the Magic Kingdom, particularly, the Haunted Mansion.
That said, it's not exactly best-seller material. It's going to be a difficult task to evaluate exactly how much more or less in sales the book will make by offering it online for free. If anyting, it's made the author much more recognizable in the sci-fi community.
It's true. Back in the old days, people wanted to overthrow the government any time a new tax was introduced. Now we just lay down and take it.
Oh well, if the NanoSIMS probe says it's from nine interplanetary dust particles, there's no reason to question it.
Now my four-year old will be getting membership in the RIAA to protect their musical compositions on this thing.