"happy weed". great pac-man clone for the mac. don't know how many physics labs passed more quickly due to having this game on the LAN.
-rp
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okay. this is the one thing which bothered me also, other than why didn't the evil doctor just butcher and kill tom cruise out of revenge, instead of HELP him. anyway...
it goes like this. the old guy (who anderton works for) finds out that agatha has contacted anderton about her mother's murder. the old guy has to cover it up.
so he finds the sap (crowe) and pays him to be in a hotel room, acting like he killed anderton's son.
now -- this would still not be enough to trigger the pre-cogs vision, because without the vision, anderton would have NO IDEA how to find this guy. and what is MORE strange is that it is a "premeditated" murder.
so i can't tie it all together either. in any case, only a few of the names and the basic principle of precrime were taken from the short story, everything else was basically an entirely new story.
yes, but the internet is bad. the internet means piracy, which means profits go down. at least that is the 'company line'.
actually the real reason is the record companies like the CONTROL they have over radio. sure, it costs them money to pay off clear channel, but the record companies really choose who gets played by paying the big bucks -- it's a high cost of entry and they are the only ones with the money. in turn, they strangle the artists by saying "do what we want or we won't have you played. sign our contracts or we won't have you played and you'll never become anything." since (at least before the recent LoC levy on internet broadcasts) the cost barrier to the internet broadcast was very very low, they were afraid of this.
the real reason the record companies wanted the prices higher was to regain the effectual control of the medium by raising the cost of entry to a price only they could afford. either that, or they wanted it so high, that no one could afford it.
i actually really believe that the record companies are getting ready to deliver their own internet broadcasts -- and this will be at no cost to them as they do not have to pay their own copyright fees.
much like politicians. the people who would make the best candidates for the jobs of police officer or state representative have the intelligence not to throw their life or morals away doing either.
And of course - the most suspicious of all transactions are illegal anyway and surely wouldn't use a scanner. Drug Dealer to client - "Hod on, lemme scan yo $20."
but what happens when there must be a record of all transactions of money? the USA Patriot Act II, or whatever it eventually is called.
John is carrying a $20 #BB774532A. Everyone knows he is carrying it, because he received it from an ATM this morning and it has not shows up on any transaction records. The next day, Larry, known dealer in Mary Jane, uses the $20 #BB774532A to buy a 12-pack of Corona at the corner Quick Stop. Moments later, a warrant is automatically printed out and faxed to the precinct closest to where John works. He is picked up on suspicion of Marijuana posession, searched, and lo and behold, there's the little Zip-Loc baggie of grass.
I sure wouldn't want to live 20 years on the moon, and then come back to Earth.
in "the moon is a harsh mistress" it was also postulated that once on the moon for a significant time (without excercising in a centrifuge, of course) an irreversible physiological change would occur. now i don't buy that, but i think that your heart would definitely find pumping at 1g pretty difficult, and if you didn't excercise those legs, you'd be pretty much confined to a wheelchair while you were on earth. not irreversible, but pretty hard to reverse without dying:)
is it possible they are finally catching a clue? from kyocera's man Goetter: "Voice is still the killer application, and our device has been tailored for voice first," Goetter said. The gadget's design is more like that of a phone than a PDA. It's foldable and has a keypad, and its size is phonelike too. It measures 3.97 inches by 2.43 inches by 1.17 inches and weighs 6.6 ounces.
"Other (similar devices) are very much PDAs first. We're coming at it from a phone-centric standpoint," Goetter said.
exactly. i'm not carrying two clunky devices (cell phone and PDA), but one of those devices is more important (cell phone). maybe when i'm tired of my nokia i'll check out this one, after the price drops a bit next year.
This is great for things like pagers or handhelds where you dont even need to power the clock nets while you are not doing anything.
but don't most handhelds have little things called calendars, with little events, which can have alarms. thus, the handheld has to have a little loop running (at least once per minute) to check "are there any events scheduled to have an alarm fired at this time". this is why my Palm has to have its batteries replaced every few weeks regardless of whether i turn the damned thing on or not.
but what about simple things, like the heart not having to pump so hard (against gravity)? other than disease (into which I'll lump things like Lou Gherig's Disease, Alzheimers, etc), "old age" basically means you are about to die of a vital organ failure, e.g., the heart, the brain (stroke) kidneys, lungs, liver, etc. perhaps the lessened gravitational force the heart has to deal with allows it to continue on much longer than at our 1g. perhaps not.
and heinlein had about as much of an idea of what weightlessness could result in as i do (Well, he probably had more, he was smarter, but anyway...).
at least as described in "the moon is a harsh mistress" is that reduced weight environs, such as the moon, prolong life indefinitely. although my gut feeling is that prolonged weightlessness would be very bad for you -- atrophied muscles and the like -- perhaps the benefits of your organs not cramming into one another constantly, and your back not being hunched down, and the ease of pressure on the joints... maybe it's not too far fetched?
1 million years = 31557600000000 seconds. so the difference (literal) between a million years and one second is 31557599999999 seconds, or, about one million years.
but on a more pragmatic scale, the difference is about 13 orders of magnitude.
maybe if the state didn't fund health care for alcohol or tobacco users, i.e., the first day you buy a cigarrette or a bottle of Jack your record indicates you have opted out of all future state health funding.
step 1: you put your copyrighted content on the WWW.
step 2: i visit your website and your copyrighted content goes into my cache.
step 3: i make my cache available on the WWW.
step 4: you sue me for copyright infringement.
it actually DOES make a little sense. i mean, i could understand a search engine providing a LINK to your WWW page based on the KEYWORDS of the site which they have cached, but i really don't know how they can get away with republishing cached COPIES of your WWW page if those pages are copyrighted.
if the home owner provides a large wall facing the public, with a sign which says "draw something" and several pieces of chalk. the home owner is then responsible for whatever graffiti is scribbled.
your example seems to be vandalism, itself a crime.
you don't force him to accept the role, you simply point out that he is not fulfilling the role in the way you had hoped for. that's all anyone has done.
You obviously miss the fact that the source-code for the kernel is available for each and everyone to take up and fork off if your fears came true.
You obviously didn't read the articles linked to in the story. One details the fact that substantial amounts of binary-only code is in the source tree.
am I the only one who is sick of RMS whining about the naming of Linux?
so it's not okay to whine, but it's okay to whine about someone whining. cool. sounds like a Maple Leafs fan.
RMS has the right to his opinion, but not to insult the intelligence of all of us by tring to tell us that we're all compromising our values by allowing this.
but that is the point, we ARE compromising our values by allowing this. would you be happy if Linus openly professed his love for Internet Explorer (it is available free of charge)? As I said in an earlier post, Linus does not have the privilege of being able to choose the tool he wants based on its merits. he is the poster child of the revolution, the role model to aspiring little hackers everywhere. for him to use non-free tools to distribute a free OS sends the kind of mixed message that got us into this mess (first IBM, then Windows) in the first place.
The accepted name is Linux not GNU/Linux.
accepted by whom? you? not by RMS, not by a lot of people.
gee, it's a good thing we have the personal promise of a human being to rest the future of our operating system on (i say our as a kernel contributor, PCMCIA stack). i feel very reassured, how about everybody else? i would rather have that freedom assured by the GPL than by the promise of a human being, which no matter how great you think Linus is (and i do think he's great...) he is still human.
no, but "the kids" see Linus using it and go "gee, that must be the cool new hacker thing to do. I'll use BitKeeper, too! who cares if it is not free software, what does that mean, anyway? 1 0wn j00!".
my post was not about BitKeeper. if you read RMS's rant about BitKeeper, he mentioned many of the problems with Linus using "something that works better for him" because Linus does NOT have that privilege as thousands of programmers worship him. like it or not, he IS THE ROLE MODEL for this generation of hackers, much as Bill Joy, etc, were the role models for my generation.
again my post was more about the other non-free things which have crept into the kernel SOURCE tree -- read the article. large chunks of binary firmware in the kernel source means kernel not able to be distrubted under GPL.
-rp (proud user of both *BSD and Slackware GNU/Linux so don't blindly call me a FSF zealot)
you can't be "a little bit non-free" just as you can't be "a little bit pregnant". you either are, or you aren't.
did you read what RMS had to say about Linux not even legally being able to be distributed under the terms of the GPL? and that has nothing to do with BitKeeper.
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yeah, mistakes like allow the human species to remain alive.
</sarcasm>
-rp
"happy weed". great pac-man clone for the mac. don't know how many physics labs passed more quickly due to having this game on the LAN.
-rp
okay. this is the one thing which bothered me also, other than why didn't the evil doctor just butcher and kill tom cruise out of revenge, instead of HELP him. anyway...
it goes like this. the old guy (who anderton works for) finds out that agatha has contacted anderton about her mother's murder. the old guy has to cover it up.
so he finds the sap (crowe) and pays him to be in a hotel room, acting like he killed anderton's son.
now -- this would still not be enough to trigger the pre-cogs vision, because without the vision, anderton would have NO IDEA how to find this guy. and what is MORE strange is that it is a "premeditated" murder.
so i can't tie it all together either. in any case, only a few of the names and the basic principle of precrime were taken from the short story, everything else was basically an entirely new story.
-rp
yes, but the internet is bad. the internet means piracy, which means profits go down. at least that is the 'company line'.
actually the real reason is the record companies like the CONTROL they have over radio. sure, it costs them money to pay off clear channel, but the record companies really choose who gets played by paying the big bucks -- it's a high cost of entry and they are the only ones with the money. in turn, they strangle the artists by saying "do what we want or we won't have you played. sign our contracts or we won't have you played and you'll never become anything." since (at least before the recent LoC levy on internet broadcasts) the cost barrier to the internet broadcast was very very low, they were afraid of this.
the real reason the record companies wanted the prices higher was to regain the effectual control of the medium by raising the cost of entry to a price only they could afford. either that, or they wanted it so high, that no one could afford it.
i actually really believe that the record companies are getting ready to deliver their own internet broadcasts -- and this will be at no cost to them as they do not have to pay their own copyright fees.
-rp
much like politicians. the people who would make the best candidates for the jobs of police officer or state representative have the intelligence not to throw their life or morals away doing either.
-rp
And of course - the most suspicious of all transactions are illegal anyway and surely wouldn't use a scanner. Drug Dealer to client - "Hod on, lemme scan yo $20."
but what happens when there must be a record of all transactions of money? the USA Patriot Act II, or whatever it eventually is called.
John is carrying a $20 #BB774532A. Everyone knows he is carrying it, because he received it from an ATM this morning and it has not shows up on any transaction records. The next day, Larry, known dealer in Mary Jane, uses the $20 #BB774532A to buy a 12-pack of Corona at the corner Quick Stop. Moments later, a warrant is automatically printed out and faxed to the precinct closest to where John works. He is picked up on suspicion of Marijuana posession, searched, and lo and behold, there's the little Zip-Loc baggie of grass.
It will happen.
-rp
I sure wouldn't want to live 20 years on the moon, and then come back to Earth.
:)
in "the moon is a harsh mistress" it was also postulated that once on the moon for a significant time (without excercising in a centrifuge, of course) an irreversible physiological change would occur. now i don't buy that, but i think that your heart would definitely find pumping at 1g pretty difficult, and if you didn't excercise those legs, you'd be pretty much confined to a wheelchair while you were on earth. not irreversible, but pretty hard to reverse without dying
-rp
is it possible they are finally catching a clue? from kyocera's man Goetter:
"Voice is still the killer application, and our device has been tailored for voice first," Goetter said. The gadget's design is more like
that of a phone than a PDA. It's foldable and has a keypad, and its size is phonelike too. It measures 3.97 inches by 2.43 inches by 1.17 inches and weighs 6.6 ounces.
"Other (similar devices) are very much PDAs first. We're coming at it from a phone-centric standpoint," Goetter said.
exactly. i'm not carrying two clunky devices (cell phone and PDA), but one of those devices is more important (cell phone). maybe when i'm tired of my nokia i'll check out this one, after the price drops a bit next year.
-rp
This is great for things like pagers or handhelds where you dont even need to power the clock nets while you are not doing anything.
but don't most handhelds have little things called calendars, with little events, which can have alarms. thus, the handheld has to have a little loop running (at least once per minute) to check "are there any events scheduled to have an alarm fired at this time". this is why my Palm has to have its batteries replaced every few weeks regardless of whether i turn the damned thing on or not.
-rp
but what about simple things, like the heart not having to pump so hard (against gravity)? other than disease (into which I'll lump things like Lou Gherig's Disease, Alzheimers, etc), "old age" basically means you are about to die of a vital organ failure, e.g., the heart, the brain (stroke) kidneys, lungs, liver, etc. perhaps the lessened gravitational force the heart has to deal with allows it to continue on much longer than at our 1g. perhaps not.
and heinlein had about as much of an idea of what weightlessness could result in as i do (Well, he probably had more, he was smarter, but anyway...).
-rp
at least as described in "the moon is a harsh mistress" is that reduced weight environs, such as the moon, prolong life indefinitely. although my gut feeling is that prolonged weightlessness would be very bad for you -- atrophied muscles and the like -- perhaps the benefits of your organs not cramming into one another constantly, and your back not being hunched down, and the ease of pressure on the joints... maybe it's not too far fetched?
-rp
how many millions? assuming 1...
1 million years = 31557600000000 seconds. so the difference (literal) between a million years and one second is 31557599999999 seconds, or, about one million years.
but on a more pragmatic scale, the difference is about 13 orders of magnitude.
-rp
maybe if the state didn't fund health care for alcohol or tobacco users, i.e., the first day you buy a cigarrette or a bottle of Jack your record indicates you have opted out of all future state health funding.
-rp
you seem to be arguing for this scenario:
step 1: you put your copyrighted content on the WWW.
step 2: i visit your website and your copyrighted content goes into my cache.
step 3: i make my cache available on the WWW.
step 4: you sue me for copyright infringement.
it actually DOES make a little sense. i mean, i could understand a search engine providing a LINK to your WWW page based on the KEYWORDS of the site which they have cached, but i really don't know how they can get away with republishing cached COPIES of your WWW page if those pages are copyrighted.
-rp
how about this:
if the home owner provides a large wall facing the public, with a sign which says "draw something" and several pieces of chalk. the home owner is then responsible for whatever graffiti is scribbled.
your example seems to be vandalism, itself a crime.
-rp
you don't force him to accept the role, you simply point out that he is not fulfilling the role in the way you had hoped for. that's all anyone has done.
-rp
You obviously miss the fact that the source-code for the kernel is available for each and everyone to take up and fork off if your fears came true.
You obviously didn't read the articles linked to in the story. One details the fact that substantial amounts of binary-only code is in the source tree.
-rp
all we know for sure is that the GNU Project is responsible for more lines of code than any other contributor.
now, whatever the hell that means...
-rp
am I the only one who is sick of RMS whining about the naming of Linux?
so it's not okay to whine, but it's okay to whine about someone whining. cool. sounds like a Maple Leafs fan.
RMS has the right to his opinion, but not to insult the intelligence of all of us by tring to tell us that we're all compromising our values by allowing this.
but that is the point, we ARE compromising our values by allowing this. would you be happy if Linus openly professed his love for Internet Explorer (it is available free of charge)? As I said in an earlier post, Linus does not have the privilege of being able to choose the tool he wants based on its merits. he is the poster child of the revolution, the role model to aspiring little hackers everywhere. for him to use non-free tools to distribute a free OS sends the kind of mixed message that got us into this mess (first IBM, then Windows) in the first place.
The accepted name is Linux not GNU/Linux.
accepted by whom? you? not by RMS, not by a lot of people.
-rp
Linus has promised it never will become either.
gee, it's a good thing we have the personal promise of a human being to rest the future of our operating system on (i say our as a kernel contributor, PCMCIA stack). i feel very reassured, how about everybody else? i would rather have that freedom assured by the GPL than by the promise of a human being, which no matter how great you think Linus is (and i do think he's great...) he is still human.
-rp
no, but "the kids" see Linus using it and go "gee, that must be the cool new hacker thing to do. I'll use BitKeeper, too! who cares if it is not free software, what does that mean, anyway? 1 0wn j00!".
-rp
my post was not about BitKeeper. if you read RMS's rant about BitKeeper, he mentioned many of the problems with Linus using "something that works better for him" because Linus does NOT have that privilege as thousands of programmers worship him. like it or not, he IS THE ROLE MODEL for this generation of hackers, much as Bill Joy, etc, were the role models for my generation.
again my post was more about the other non-free things which have crept into the kernel SOURCE tree -- read the article. large chunks of binary firmware in the kernel source means kernel not able to be distrubted under GPL.
-rp (proud user of both *BSD and Slackware GNU/Linux so don't blindly call me a FSF zealot)
you can't be "a little bit non-free" just as you can't be "a little bit pregnant". you either are, or you aren't.
did you read what RMS had to say about Linux not even legally being able to be distributed under the terms of the GPL? and that has nothing to do with BitKeeper.
-rp
it's not multiplayer
it wasn't an online game, but you could play with two controllers.
-rp
Diablo ported to the Playstation
um... Diablo was on the ORIGINAL Playstation. Two-player hack'n'slash action.
-rp