The Mir was ridiculously successful..Sure, it had some trouble in its last couple of years, but the station outlived its original mission plan for many years.
Bashing Mir renders the rest of your post irrelevant by marking you a fool whose knowledge of Mir comes from Jay Leno jokes.
There's always alternatives to running Windows. Just don't run Windows and Microsoft has no say in what you can and can't do.
Now, if Microsoft were pushing for LAWS stating that all Operating Systems must include some verification technique like, say, I don't know, Passport? Then I'd be upset..I'm not saying Microsoft won't do something like that in the future..They very well could, but until it happens and is taken seriously by lawmakers, etc, then I have no problems...If you don't like Microsoft, don't use Windows, it really boils down to that.
I was about to post the same, when I saw this message.
Your Rights Online? WTF?
As Quarters said, nobody is forcing you to use Passport..If you disagree with the idea of Passport, don't use the Zone. Last time I read it the US Constitution (and I'm sure the founding documents of all other countries) didn't grant anyone the right to play Asheron's Call without signing up for a Passport account.
The only way this would be a rights issue, and then corporate more than individual, is if Microsoft were NOT allowed to make such decisions about properties that it fully owns.
Heh why don't you just come out and say 'Gee, I just started getting into this *NIX thing last week, when my friend said it was cool?'. Anyone that has been around for a long time realizes that UNIX has been a source of major security flaws for decades. Consider that the much-ballyhooed "Internet Worm", which took out pretty much the ENTIRE INTERNET in its time relied primarily on some really stupid bugs in UNIX-based programs such as sendmail. Before 1992 or so, a determined script kiddie could root virtually any Internet accessible UNIX box within hours using only widely known buffer overflow and/or library path problems.
I don't mean this as an anti-UNIX rant. My point is simply that complex software is bound to have bugs until companies start development policies which highlight 'security first' in the way that "Extreme Programming" highlights 'test first'. The economics of doing this, though, are such that no company that wants to make money is very likely to bother in the near future. Thus we'll have this never-ending cycle of finding and fixing bugs. And this goes for all commercial platforms, UNIX and Windows alike.
Anyone that gets on a high-horse about such things, either pro-Microsoft or pro-UNIX, just shows he/she doesn't have all the facts, or is the equivalent of a religious fanatic who only sees what he/she wants to see.
PS. I realize there are projects to address the issue I spoke about, namely OpenBSD. And that's great. I disagree on many of the merits people claim that OSS has (most of these merits are theoretical only and never pan out in practice), but OpenBSD, by mixing security minded developers and the removal of profit as the primariy motive for working, has been doing quite a lot to make *BSD based UNIX systems more secure.
That address almost assuredly -doesn't- work these days, but since that's Randal L. Schwartz of Perl fame and Intel-prosecution infamy, I'm guessing you can track him down pretty easily....
That's too bad. Know his current email address? I'd like to email him the answer to the trivia question ("A New Hope"). Hopefully I'll win a prize or something.
Should we have a backup of this archive somewhere, before people start "removing" their own posts, etc?
Wait, can I remove my posts from Deja? What's the link?!? There's a ton of really stupid things I said on usenet in the early 90s that I'd like to get out of there!!
When the original "20 year" announcement post was made on Slashdot, I went to deja, searched on my name & former email addresses and took a walk of shame into my past. It wasn't pretty!
Google is a real website, not the homesite of some hacker with too much free time and access to some cool electronic parts.
While Slashdot has a formidable user base, I'm sure the Slashdot Effect barely registers compared to the mountains of traffic google gets every minute of every day. It is, after all, the #1 Search Engine.
Google has very intelligent people working for it and they have done an excellent job of keeping the site light and responsive!
Ok, the title of this story is flamebait, so mod me down if you wish, but please consider the contents first!
First off, Slashdot has tons of problems, not the least of which is the fact that the editors seem to post basically the same story multiple times quite often. Honestly, how busy are these editors that they post this stuff without noticing it is the same story they posted the day before, just mirrored through a third party?
I leave coming up with the other problems as an exercise to the reader..But the important part is this...Despite the fact that Slashdot clearly sucks, I feel myself compelled to come here anyway. almost as an obsessive compulsive disorder...Any armchair shrinks care to diagnose why that is? Do I hate myself?
The funny thing about the DDR memory is that when you run it its about faster and better and that is what the thing of it is. I always said that when it comes to DDR memory that I would buy a chunk of chocolate and eat it before the DDR memory would address a bit. And you know what? I was right !!
Re:As an Aussie I just gotta say...
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It isn't the person in the street asking for more censorship, but those in power making the most of their time to impose conservative values on the rest of us!
As an American I have to say you might be surprised at how many people on the street here ARE asking for more censorship. Many people here in the USA, particularly parents who don't want to take responsibility for what their kids do, do ASK for more and more censorship.
The politicians certainly don't help matters, but unfortunately they actually do represent what seems to be an unfortunate majority of the American public.
This may come off sounding like a flame, but I don't intend it to -- I fully support the notion of Open Source software and have released various bits of OSS myself.
Having said that, for OSS to foster the giant leap forward that you suggest would require a large shift in the way people look at and create OSS. The simple truth is that 99.99% of all OSS is just reinvention of closed source software to scratch an itch or for political reasons. This is not the type of environment in which such a leap springs forth.
While Open Source has many benefits, it would take an awful lot for me to agree with your premise that its more well suited than closed source for the type of efficency gain you're looking for. Such leaps are often made by one or very few people, with everyone else following later. Given that, such a leap is just as likely to occur with plain-old closed source as with OSS.
COBOL and FORTRAN were both wildly successful computer languages. They may seem a bit dated now, but considering their age and the fact that they were designed to work well on computers that are ridiculously less powerful than the system you have now (even if you're using a 286!) and factoring in that they were some of the first high level computer languages, with little research or history to draw upon, they were rather amazing accomplishments.
There's a ton of issues with online gaming that will relegate it to niche status at best for the foreseeable future.
One of the biggest issues is that the game of choice changes too often due to progressing technology -- compare this to baseball (or even newer sports) where the rules and gameplay remain relatively the same..In the gaming world, the game of choice changes about once every year, or two years at the most. This causes a few problems, one is that it is very confusing to spectators who don't play these games themselves and two is that it limits the options for having 'star players' ala basketball, etc.. Today's top CS players aren't likely to be the top players of tomorrow's game-of-choice. Very few 'pro level' game players dominate in more than one game, as the short history of this activity has shown.
Secondly, gaming just doesn't have much potential as a mainstream spectator sport. Sure, people that play these games all the time might appreciate the skill involved in winning the top gaming tournaments, but to people who don't play these games, they have no basis for understanding this skill. In traditional sports they can still be impressed by the human factors involved -- eg. "wow that guy jumps real high", or "wow that guy runs real fast". When it comes to gaming, there's no context for them to make any relationship like that unless they game quite a lot themselves, thus the spectator potential is very limited.
This is not a troll. Earthlink was started by Sky Dayton with significant funding from Kevin O'Donell. Both of them are high-up in the Scientology religion.
Back when Earthlink was smaller and located in Glendale (they later moved to Pasedena), the company was made up of about 90% Scientologists, including Brian Wenger who acted as CTO and used to be the maintainer of the pro-Scientology version of the alt.religion.scientology newsgroup FAQ.
If you support Earthlink, you ARE supporting Scientology as prominent Scientologists still hold majority shares of the company. This is why I cancelled my MindSpring account when they were bought up by ELN.
AOL may be corporate evil, but Earthlink is corporate evil plus cult-religion evil all in one.
You are missing the best use, display of porn!!
Imagine being able to thrust your front-side into an unbalanced wash load while displaying porn on the plasma screen!! An end to wrist pain for chronic wankers like myself!!!
Microsoft will not go around 'upgrading' the XBOX from year to year. If developers and users wanted to deal with that shit, they'd stick with PC titles. Sure, next year's XBOX would run all the old games, but THIS years XBOX might not run next years games (at least if they take full advantage of the upgrades), so developers are right back to having to code all sorts of fallback code for different versions of the console, or explaining to users why their XBOX game wont run on their XBOX.
Microsoft, sadly, isn't that stupid, and won't do that.
On the other hand, there's some truth to what CNBC said in that when it comes time to develop XBOX 2, 3-5 years down the road, Microsoft can reap many of the benefits of the PC world's progression and save time, whereas other manufacturers will be designing consoles from scratch or moving over more to off-the-shelf parts.
This article is riddled with all sorts of errors, omissions and just plain stupidity.
Space war "was the first first-person shooter console game"? I don't want to get into any arguments over what WAS the first person shooter game, but Space War, while possibly being the first graphical real-time computer game was certainly no first-person shooter by any stretch of the imagination.
The Genesis wasn't a success (and thus not bolded in the chart)? Ridiculous! The SNES isn't even on the chart despite being quite successful itself, particularly in non-US markets.
Doom was important, yes, but I believe he is missing some other games that were involved in getting people to purchase game-ready PCs. Notably, Wing Commander is absent, despite the fact that at that time many people cited that game as the reason for going to VGA graphics with a digital soundcard.
And to top it off, beyond all the problems with the article, when it does get things right it doesn't say anything that isn't completely obvious to even the most casual gamer. The article basically takes 5 pages to say "We don't know what will happen with the future of console gaming..it depends on a lot of things". Well, no shit!
it's probably a joke, but M$ will cash in if ppl listen to this [modernhumorist.com]:
Subject: Fwd: Please participate - satellite project
Its PROBABLY a joke? The site name is modernHUMORIST.com. Are you really that fucking dense? Neither NASA nor Microsoft had anything to do with this completely false spam email. You must be the kind of guy who opens email attachments and spreads virii if you're dumb enough to even question whether that is a joke or not.
If you do shuttle up the slashdot folk, don't let Katz go. The last thing I need to hear is him whining about the corporatization of space, or how the 'jock' astronauts bully the poor geek space tourists, or how difficult is is to find a TV station airing buffy the vampire slayer up there.
It annoys me when anti-Microsoft people point to "monopolistic practices" as the only key to Microsoft's success. Obviously, since MS didn't START with a Monopoly position (unlike the phone companies, power companies, etc, which were government setup monopolies) they did SOMETHING right when they first started in order to get that monopoly position. I'm not saying they did the technical things right, it was likely a lot more to do with shrewd marketing, good relationships with 3rd party developers (until they decided to compete with them) etc, but you can't point to the monopoly as Microsoft's only reason for success!
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I'd rather hear them referred to as "JASC Software Paint Shop Pro 7.04, saved in JPG format Ringwraiths"
The Mir was ridiculously successful..Sure, it had some trouble in its last couple of years, but the station outlived its original mission plan for many years.
Bashing Mir renders the rest of your post irrelevant by marking you a fool whose knowledge of Mir comes from Jay Leno jokes.
Now, if Microsoft were pushing for LAWS stating that all Operating Systems must include some verification technique like, say, I don't know, Passport? Then I'd be upset..I'm not saying Microsoft won't do something like that in the future..They very well could, but until it happens and is taken seriously by lawmakers, etc, then I have no problems...If you don't like Microsoft, don't use Windows, it really boils down to that.
Your Rights Online? WTF?
As Quarters said, nobody is forcing you to use Passport..If you disagree with the idea of Passport, don't use the Zone. Last time I read it the US Constitution (and I'm sure the founding documents of all other countries) didn't grant anyone the right to play Asheron's Call without signing up for a Passport account.
The only way this would be a rights issue, and then corporate more than individual, is if Microsoft were NOT allowed to make such decisions about properties that it fully owns.
Heh why don't you just come out and say 'Gee, I just started getting into this *NIX thing last week, when my friend said it was cool?'. Anyone that has been around for a long time realizes that UNIX has been a source of major security flaws for decades. Consider that the much-ballyhooed "Internet Worm", which took out pretty much the ENTIRE INTERNET in its time relied primarily on some really stupid bugs in UNIX-based programs such as sendmail. Before 1992 or so, a determined script kiddie could root virtually any Internet accessible UNIX box within hours using only widely known buffer overflow and/or library path problems.
I don't mean this as an anti-UNIX rant. My point is simply that complex software is bound to have bugs until companies start development policies which highlight 'security first' in the way that "Extreme Programming" highlights 'test first'. The economics of doing this, though, are such that no company that wants to make money is very likely to bother in the near future. Thus we'll have this never-ending cycle of finding and fixing bugs. And this goes for all commercial platforms, UNIX and Windows alike.
Anyone that gets on a high-horse about such things, either pro-Microsoft or pro-UNIX, just shows he/she doesn't have all the facts, or is the equivalent of a religious fanatic who only sees what he/she wants to see.
PS. I realize there are projects to address the issue I spoke about, namely OpenBSD. And that's great. I disagree on many of the merits people claim that OSS has (most of these merits are theoretical only and never pan out in practice), but OpenBSD, by mixing security minded developers and the removal of profit as the primariy motive for working, has been doing quite a lot to make *BSD based UNIX systems more secure.
Contrary to what chrisd said, I'd be pretty shocked to see Miguel being objective. Have you actually read any of his GNOME vs KDE rants in the past?
That's too bad. Know his current email address? I'd like to email him the answer to the trivia question ("A New Hope"). Hopefully I'll win a prize or something.
Wait, can I remove my posts from Deja? What's the link?!? There's a ton of really stupid things I said on usenet in the early 90s that I'd like to get out of there!!
When the original "20 year" announcement post was made on Slashdot, I went to deja, searched on my name & former email addresses and took a walk of shame into my past. It wasn't pretty!
While Slashdot has a formidable user base, I'm sure the Slashdot Effect barely registers compared to the mountains of traffic google gets every minute of every day. It is, after all, the #1 Search Engine.
Google has very intelligent people working for it and they have done an excellent job of keeping the site light and responsive!
First off, Slashdot has tons of problems, not the least of which is the fact that the editors seem to post basically the same story multiple times quite often. Honestly, how busy are these editors that they post this stuff without noticing it is the same story they posted the day before, just mirrored through a third party?
I leave coming up with the other problems as an exercise to the reader..But the important part is this...Despite the fact that Slashdot clearly sucks, I feel myself compelled to come here anyway. almost as an obsessive compulsive disorder...Any armchair shrinks care to diagnose why that is? Do I hate myself?
Thanks in advance.
Another in the long line of smart moves Apple has made over the years.
The funny thing about the DDR memory is that when you run it its about faster and better and that is what the thing of it is. I always said that when it comes to DDR memory that I would buy a chunk of chocolate and eat it before the DDR memory would address a bit. And you know what? I was right !!
As an American I have to say you might be surprised at how many people on the street here ARE asking for more censorship. Many people here in the USA, particularly parents who don't want to take responsibility for what their kids do, do ASK for more and more censorship.
The politicians certainly don't help matters, but unfortunately they actually do represent what seems to be an unfortunate majority of the American public.
Having said that, for OSS to foster the giant leap forward that you suggest would require a large shift in the way people look at and create OSS. The simple truth is that 99.99% of all OSS is just reinvention of closed source software to scratch an itch or for political reasons. This is not the type of environment in which such a leap springs forth.
While Open Source has many benefits, it would take an awful lot for me to agree with your premise that its more well suited than closed source for the type of efficency gain you're looking for. Such leaps are often made by one or very few people, with everyone else following later. Given that, such a leap is just as likely to occur with plain-old closed source as with OSS.
What languages have YOU designed?
Reuel.
Geek.
Man, I used to be such an idiot...Oh wait, I still am..nevermind.
It'll be on ESPN approximately...never.
There's a ton of issues with online gaming that will relegate it to niche status at best for the foreseeable future.
One of the biggest issues is that the game of choice changes too often due to progressing technology -- compare this to baseball (or even newer sports) where the rules and gameplay remain relatively the same..In the gaming world, the game of choice changes about once every year, or two years at the most. This causes a few problems, one is that it is very confusing to spectators who don't play these games themselves and two is that it limits the options for having 'star players' ala basketball, etc.. Today's top CS players aren't likely to be the top players of tomorrow's game-of-choice. Very few 'pro level' game players dominate in more than one game, as the short history of this activity has shown.
Secondly, gaming just doesn't have much potential as a mainstream spectator sport. Sure, people that play these games all the time might appreciate the skill involved in winning the top gaming tournaments, but to people who don't play these games, they have no basis for understanding this skill. In traditional sports they can still be impressed by the human factors involved -- eg. "wow that guy jumps real high", or "wow that guy runs real fast". When it comes to gaming, there's no context for them to make any relationship like that unless they game quite a lot themselves, thus the spectator potential is very limited.
This is not a troll. Earthlink was started by Sky Dayton with significant funding from Kevin O'Donell. Both of them are high-up in the Scientology religion. Back when Earthlink was smaller and located in Glendale (they later moved to Pasedena), the company was made up of about 90% Scientologists, including Brian Wenger who acted as CTO and used to be the maintainer of the pro-Scientology version of the alt.religion.scientology newsgroup FAQ. If you support Earthlink, you ARE supporting Scientology as prominent Scientologists still hold majority shares of the company. This is why I cancelled my MindSpring account when they were bought up by ELN. AOL may be corporate evil, but Earthlink is corporate evil plus cult-religion evil all in one.
You are missing the best use, display of porn!! Imagine being able to thrust your front-side into an unbalanced wash load while displaying porn on the plasma screen!! An end to wrist pain for chronic wankers like myself!!!
Microsoft will not go around 'upgrading' the XBOX from year to year. If developers and users wanted to deal with that shit, they'd stick with PC titles. Sure, next year's XBOX would run all the old games, but THIS years XBOX might not run next years games (at least if they take full advantage of the upgrades), so developers are right back to having to code all sorts of fallback code for different versions of the console, or explaining to users why their XBOX game wont run on their XBOX.
Microsoft, sadly, isn't that stupid, and won't do that.
On the other hand, there's some truth to what CNBC said in that when it comes time to develop XBOX 2, 3-5 years down the road, Microsoft can reap many of the benefits of the PC world's progression and save time, whereas other manufacturers will be designing consoles from scratch or moving over more to off-the-shelf parts.
This article is riddled with all sorts of errors, omissions and just plain stupidity.
Space war "was the first first-person shooter console game"? I don't want to get into any arguments over what WAS the first person shooter game, but Space War, while possibly being the first graphical real-time computer game was certainly no first-person shooter by any stretch of the imagination.
The Genesis wasn't a success (and thus not bolded in the chart)? Ridiculous! The SNES isn't even on the chart despite being quite successful itself, particularly in non-US markets.
Doom was important, yes, but I believe he is missing some other games that were involved in getting people to purchase game-ready PCs. Notably, Wing Commander is absent, despite the fact that at that time many people cited that game as the reason for going to VGA graphics with a digital soundcard.
And to top it off, beyond all the problems with the article, when it does get things right it doesn't say anything that isn't completely obvious to even the most casual gamer. The article basically takes 5 pages to say "We don't know what will happen with the future of console gaming..it depends on a lot of things". Well, no shit!
Subject: Fwd: Please participate - satellite project
Its PROBABLY a joke? The site name is modernHUMORIST.com. Are you really that fucking dense? Neither NASA nor Microsoft had anything to do with this completely false spam email. You must be the kind of guy who opens email attachments and spreads virii if you're dumb enough to even question whether that is a joke or not.
If you do shuttle up the slashdot folk, don't let Katz go. The last thing I need to hear is him whining about the corporatization of space, or how the 'jock' astronauts bully the poor geek space tourists, or how difficult is is to find a TV station airing buffy the vampire slayer up there.
It annoys me when anti-Microsoft people point to "monopolistic practices" as the only key to Microsoft's success. Obviously, since MS didn't START with a Monopoly position (unlike the phone companies, power companies, etc, which were government setup monopolies) they did SOMETHING right when they first started in order to get that monopoly position. I'm not saying they did the technical things right, it was likely a lot more to do with shrewd marketing, good relationships with 3rd party developers (until they decided to compete with them) etc, but you can't point to the monopoly as Microsoft's only reason for success!