At LSU, he hopes to develop the next generation of high-performance computers that will give birth to true artificial intelligence.
2theadvocate was down when I tried to read their story, so mirrors please?
I'll comment briefly (WRTFA):
I am sick of the term next generation: it irks me. I think if you're talking about devoting the next twenty years towards developing true AI, then the focus has to be about the direction that could be taken, the nuts and bolts of it all, and what the setbacks could be. High performance computers are like high performance people, in many ways, or at least they should be. Incentives must exist for a metrological system to present itself into the true nature of self and this measure supercedes the facility of overexaggeration, to the point where no truly defined system can surpass the narrow view of purpose devoted by the creator, without being heralded as a foolish endeavour. The heavy processing of high performance computing works against the nature of AI.
True AI means that mistakes will be made by the creator and the subject, and emotions will exist in the subject to counter-attack development stumbling blocks, and assist in development, or improve development of wisdom and ultimate self-awareness comes only from experiences of contrast, pain and pleasure (for example). These precepts have never come into cause with a system yet, because each system is built as an object and not a person; each system is built for a financial purpose and not a scientific purpose.
Science and finance are enemies, strange bedfellows that hate eachother but rely on eachother, in a bad marriage, with nothing to lose and at times everything to lose. How can balance come to this nature, to enable true AI to come forward out of the ashes?
How is it possible at all? I don't see it. I see just another generation of the same thing, so perhaps the term next generation is apt?
When do we get to the "rant" part? This is boring.
It was a nice trip down memory lane, so don't knock yourself about it. I have fond memories of ICQ with buddies on Captured.com, planetquake.com and late nite mapping sessions with the UH-OH echoing into my brain. And then there was that dreaded song -- you know what I'm talking about. ICQ invaded MTV. Ack -- **flips channel**.
What makes Jabber truly great is that it is a decentralized system.
You can't really make any money in a decentralized system, which proves Google is still looking to captivate us because they have always been quite central. They may have a bottom line to think about, yet we are not in business as free-thinking human beings to serve the needs of one company. What we tend to want always comes first, we are all very selfish -- centralized and independant. We do not want to give control to anyone. We want to save it for ourselves, because we have learned from our mistakes and we know what happens when you trust something far bigger than you.
We want to be free, open, decentralized.
But at Google, it's all about centralization. That's their way. The information they have access to at any given moment is insane, and I think it's the primary reason they believe so strongly in centralization, so that they can collect more information.
It's time to embrace a truly workable and distributed topology that will move us past these ridiculous incompatibilities.
The story may have been here before in other forms, but RFID is nothing new and while we don't like the fact that big brother keeps getting their tech-house in order, the simple truth is that every tool can be used for good or evil, just not RFID, right?
My initial thought is that anyone who would run a pokerbot is evil. Then my attention turns to Las Vegas and the enormous rooms of metalic robots who are all fixed to win and win big, suck the life, time (24/7 baby), and money, out of would-be regular people. Then I don't feel as bad. I still don't like cheaters, tho. The answer? Play free online poker. Save your money for BYOB -- real games with your friends. We play Texas Holdem from time to time at the cottage and it's a hoot. Games should be fun -- not business, IMHO.
FTA: "It's not just the Defense Department but a wide variety of networks that have been hit," including the departments of State, Energy and Homeland Security as well as defense contractors, the official said. "This is an ongoing, organized attempt to siphon off information from our unclassified systems."
This seems like the work of terrorists to me. They gather unclassified intel from multiple sources and then they can prove/disprove rumours (leaks?) of a secret nature. This puts a strain on the agencies to ensure that solid intel can not be assembled from less potent information, and yet many citizens complain about the slow pace in which free information flows out of the government. Look at what they are up against, today. (I know I'm going to get hammered on that statement) I think we're seeing that delicate balance between freedom of information and security will be tipping in the near future as a direct result of these attacks. It's never been very balanced anyway. I might be a touch left-wing, an idealist -- but to me there needs also to be a careful approach to protecting the homeland, whether it's in Canada, the US or abroad. I have a sneaky feeling that someone we know had something to do with this, and it's likely not the Chinese government -- I think it was the FSM, or possibly a smaller cell -- the Army of the 12 Monkeys!
I happen to love football, the actual game, not really most of the video games (for a number of reasons). Before we get a slew of comments making fun of Madden's often repetitive commentary, I wanted to add my 2 cents. NFL football is a game that does not change every year... the rules are pretty much the same from one year to the next, and the real life games themselves were far more interesting in the seventies and mid-eighties than they are today, barring of course some of the big plays (and big win streaks) you see from time to time. New players and annual player turnover only makes the competition slightly more interesting, but the actual systemic variance between each year is minimal.
Systemic differences and improvements are what drive the typical gamer's series purchases. Video games, for the most part, try to deliver a REVOLUTION on each upgrade. About the only revolution you could get with a series like Madden is having the guy come up with something original to say (hasn't happened yet), improving the UI, and making the players look more realistic. But there is a time when this effort stalls, because the game of football itself doesn't change enough to keep fans as interested in purchasing an upgrade to a game that they already own.
Any football fan here would agree that there is very little difference between each new Madden release, except for possibly the player names, stats and some minor UI changes, and Madden saying something slightly different from time to time. But most of his old bricks stay in the game.
Someone could easily reskin and redevelop the game using Madden's engine to make it far more interesting. Like how about a game of medieval football where you have to slit the guy's tendons with your sock-knife, like they used to do back in the day? Seriously... there are a lot of different avenues game developers could be taking to add some spice to these types of games.
If you break it down and see Madden 04 and Madden 05 sitting in either the week rental or the 2 night rental, you'll pick 04 so you can have it a few more days... or at least I would.
My point is that they have to really do something different if they want to improve their ratings and this has to be one of the hardest challenges facing any game designer in the world right now. How do you take a regular sport and make a game out of it that will release a new title each year, without boring the hell out of your fans? It's hard.
I started coding for TI/99 4A and sold cassette tapes around my neighbourhood. I wondered why sales were bad, but since I was only 10 yrs old... I tried to convince people to buy a TI so they could play my adventure games.
23 years later, I'm still not in the gaming industry. I'm not bitter either because the whole thing is flakey anyway. Many companies try squeeze all the good years out of someone until they've got nothing left, and then toss them asside for newer blood.
I'm looking for something more stable and with better hours. Maybe I should take Scott Adams' advice and be a cartoonist. Okay I'd have to be able to draw first.
Ajax will inadvertently end up being a driving force for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) for many organizations since it requires high performance back-end XML services.
I think we've been seeing this shift for a while now, since people went from fat client software towards more streamlined C/S replacements, due mostly to convenience and easier features, server updates etc. Plus you can't argue with the repeat revenue stream generated by services that you can offer your customer, as opposed to a single sale.
When did you move your email handling from a fat client to webmail? My first move was from Eudora to Outlook, then Outlook (yuk) to Pegasus (don't ask) and then to Hotmail and now Gmail. I don't think I'll move away from Gmail, but you never know.
Ajax unplugs you because you get the immediate, targeted response from the server that wasn't available before. So refreshing a whole page when I only need to see a small widget change is really what Ajax fixes. I look at Ajax as being only a bugfix to the intarweb and nothing else, really. Seriously, why do I want to refresh a whole template when I want to send only a little widget of text in the middle?
Frames were not the way to handle this kind of presentation/data separation, mostly because they could be indexed and that would confuse visitors coming to the center frame and not the whole display. Eventually many people just stopped using frames because they are clunky, and have strange display problems on varrious systems. Ajax remedies this problem, really. Hypothetically you could set up a site that had a bunch of frames that interacted independantly and achieve a similar result to Ajax, but who would want to have to handle the cross platform and cross browser problems that arrive when you rely on frames?
Ajax is definately going to push for more service oriented contracts and eventually I can see products dwindling or becoming wrapped into services and monthly subscriptions instead of out of the box solutions that are popular today.
I will bet that eventually we'll see some very thin looking clients in the near future, thanks to Ajax.
Not sure if this is FUD or not. I've seen a lot of the celeb poker tourneys where they would promote a particular brand of online poker or another. I would think that if anyone could clamp down on cheating it would be the online rooms mostly because they could run stats realtime to be sure or not if a pair were duping a table. Just because they can run stats and check people out online, doesn't mean they do. I guess it's a matter of caveat emptor, or in this case: Adversus solem ne loquitor.
I'm not going to mince words. I think that if you have a book on Java, it really only applies to Java. Anyone can claim a book will apply to other languages, but some differences could cause confusion and hours of lost productivity. I might read the book you suggested but I wanted to make it clear that I would be only reading it in terms of Java and not PHP. Mixing languages is what causes so many compsci students to skip class and play Quake.
It may eventually have an effect rendering the methodology much like that of the current TV/radio paradigm in that large repositories of media will be constantly available waiting for an application to travel to the database to query and assemble your media request.
It's funny you should mention sneakers. I just finished Who Moved My Cheese and I was thinking that the RIAA are a bunch of Hems, stuck in a rut they can never get out of.
I think that music is going to become more and more over rated as time goes on. We'll have lots of ways to obtain it, but eventually we'll just forget the relevance of it, if orgs like the RIAA keep pressing for more control. What will be more interesting to us, will be making our own music using better apps and samples.
Eventually we'll have the singing sword, like in the Forgotten Realms, so we won't need to tip the Bards any more than they are due, which by now is about the cost of a kick in the arse.
I've been into video game editing for some time, with mods and stuff like that. Now I've pretty much given up on it as a viable career, due to the instability involved with trying to obtain (and most of all SECURE) a good video game designing career.
I have had a few interviews, and some really bad experiences with video game companies out there who shall remain anonymous for the purpose of this question.
In once instance, I've been lied to by HR directors on the annual salary, told it was around $65k and it turned out to be $35-40k (which must have meant $35k right?). In another instance, I was strung along for months by a company who decided at the last minute to drop me as a candidate. What a huge waste of time that was. I've been promised before by a designer from a major company that we would do a big project together and get funding for it, only to have the guy over for a steak dinner (filet mignon no less), and a week later he went off and took a job somewhere else, and dropped the project.
What do you say to someone like me who has had ONLY these kinds of experiences with the video game industry?
Apple should start sending out OS X on CD AOL-style.
No. They should not do that. Please no. Actually they should just release the thing like Linux, over torrents, if you ask me. But it will never happen. How would they explain the move to their stockholders? I mean really -- how do you explain a risky plan like that? "We are giving our merchandise away in hopes we will make up for losses with hardware sales." Many stock holders will applaud it. But what of the little old Granny who doesn't understand Open Source? It would be a nightmare for them...
But who knows. Maybe software distrobution is going to end up going that way anyway. If AJAX has it's way with us, we'll be skipping the OS layer altogether soon enough!!
I'm a CMS designer, and I think this service is likely a bad idea. I won't be adding it to my service, or at least not in its present state.
Here are a few of my reasons:
XML-RPC had a recent exploit that could be revisited in a very nasty way. Even though this appears to use POST, it's still looking pretty complicated from my perspective. I think the same results could be achieved in a much easier way.
I think the motivation for this service is skewed. The only motivation I can detect for Open Id is to save people FIVE SECONDS by logging into a new forum, website... etc. People already have their own methods to achieve this kind of simplicity in their lives.
Tools like Firefox's "remember password" make these kinds of shared identity systems obosolete, don't they? Who cares how many passwords you have to remember? You don't have to remember ANY of them anymore, really.
Caution should be applied when linking with systems using any kind of third party medium. KISS.
A system should rely on as few other systems as possible. Minimalism will make a web experience a happy one.
This could be ripe for phishing.
Lag. If systems must cooperate, they should do so passively. Most XML-RPC calls, for example, will put the lag on the end-user. This should become a passive cron job or something like it, if it must be used. Make the user "temporarily unverified" until he/she/it can be verified at a later date by an automated process. Let the lag be placed on the system, not the user.
This system provides a false sense of security. You will never know exactly who you are dealing with over the internet. Behavioural tests should be part of this system and they are lacking. Also, nobody is going to use a secure pipe at both ends to handle this kind of data, are they? Uh...
CMS designers can achive semi-stable identity recognition without this service by simply reading an XML page instead of adding a layer of communication between servers.
China is being really smart. This is not just a move to demonstrate they are against spam or limit liability; I think it's to show that they can be a lovable government. Would Mao care about spammers? China appears to be taking a page from Canada in how to be a liked country. They are ratifying a London anti-spam accord and that to me spells maybe some change in their normally opressive attitudes? How long before China starts ratifying UN human rights accords and the like? It could not be soon enough and this is a sign that they are moving in the right direction. I applaud this and only hope that it is as good as it looks. Please, China, keep progressing towards a free society. (and I could say as much for the USA, too)
I've never gotten a first post, and its fucked up my chi.
This makes me sad, so I will help you to lose your lawsuit by telling you how to get a FP. If this doesn't work you will have to contact me for more help... but here goes...
Get a few bucks on PayPal, and get a subscription on your account. Each pageview you make will stip away one point off your account, so set the threshold to 10 pages ad-blocked per day which is the minimum. The higher the number, the faster your subscription will run out. This will keep you subscribed for over a year even if you visit Slashdot every day, and you won't lose the right to the services.
Once subscribed, read any Mysterious Future post before it comes live and put together an informative/insightful/interesting reply.
Keep refreshing until the post says "nothing to see here, please move along".
Then you have about 30-60 seconds on average to wait before you can comment. The more you refresh the greater your chance of getting a first post.
You only get about 2000 pageviews on Slashdot per day before you are banned, so don't reload that much. I am sure that there is a Greasemonkey attachment for Slashdot first post refreshing.
The admins will consider this to be abusive, but it's the only way to get a first post and since you are paying money for the service of having a subscription, they should not mind. Furthermore, if you are contributing something really interesting to the site, then you will get recognized for doing it. If you're trolling, you won't be able to post anyway after a very short while so I guess it's win-win for the editors.
Passing untrusted input directly to eval is gross negligence
I pass ALL fsk'ing data through strict purify scripts. Most data is assumed numeric and if'd to be >0 or forced to -10.
Man Slashdot has stupid filters but I guess they are needed... I just tried posting some PHP code to this comment and got this error: Your comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition. Comment aborted.
Well I guess that ends my post about purification. Sometimes you have too much of it and sometimes you don't have enough. Go figure.
Well I guess you can have the blue prints open sourced, but really, that's next to useless in the need for testing, distribution and manufacture of the real thing.
I think you are on to something. Creative Commons license on the blue prints would throw a monkey wrench into patent scams, would it not?
were actually about his Santa-killing spiked chimney.
The legal aspects of patenting Santa Claus' delivery of gifts is pretty low -- I am against it. I would still like to see these kinds of delivery improvements to all shipping services, so that I could actually send a gift to someone I did not know. So my comment is only about the idea of a service, and not really about this Grinch in particular.
A few years ago, I had problems with the refund policy at Future Shop, a Canadian company that is a little like Best Buy. In a fit of blind rage, I smashed the defective software cds they refused to refund me for. With this service, I could have sent a piece of the cds to each executive at the company with a note about their horrible customer service and I could have had the PLEASURE of knowing my message WAS RECEIVED by the people in question.
I don't know about Christmas, but it would be nice to be able to trust a shipping company to actually find out where people are so you can remind them of their responsibilities.
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At LSU, he hopes to develop the next generation of high-performance computers that will give birth to true artificial intelligence.
2theadvocate was down when I tried to read their story, so mirrors please?
I'll comment briefly (WRTFA):
I am sick of the term next generation: it irks me. I think if you're talking about devoting the next twenty years towards developing true AI, then the focus has to be about the direction that could be taken, the nuts and bolts of it all, and what the setbacks could be. High performance computers are like high performance people, in many ways, or at least they should be. Incentives must exist for a metrological system to present itself into the true nature of self and this measure supercedes the facility of overexaggeration, to the point where no truly defined system can surpass the narrow view of purpose devoted by the creator, without being heralded as a foolish endeavour. The heavy processing of high performance computing works against the nature of AI.
True AI means that mistakes will be made by the creator and the subject, and emotions will exist in the subject to counter-attack development stumbling blocks, and assist in development, or improve development of wisdom and ultimate self-awareness comes only from experiences of contrast, pain and pleasure (for example). These precepts have never come into cause with a system yet, because each system is built as an object and not a person; each system is built for a financial purpose and not a scientific purpose.
Science and finance are enemies, strange bedfellows that hate eachother but rely on eachother, in a bad marriage, with nothing to lose and at times everything to lose. How can balance come to this nature, to enable true AI to come forward out of the ashes?
How is it possible at all? I don't see it. I see just another generation of the same thing, so perhaps the term next generation is apt?
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When do we get to the "rant" part? This is boring.
It was a nice trip down memory lane, so don't knock yourself about it. I have fond memories of ICQ with buddies on Captured.com, planetquake.com and late nite mapping sessions with the UH-OH echoing into my brain. And then there was that dreaded song -- you know what I'm talking about. ICQ invaded MTV. Ack -- **flips channel**.
What makes Jabber truly great is that it is a decentralized system.
You can't really make any money in a decentralized system, which proves Google is still looking to captivate us because they have always been quite central. They may have a bottom line to think about, yet we are not in business as free-thinking human beings to serve the needs of one company. What we tend to want always comes first, we are all very selfish -- centralized and independant. We do not want to give control to anyone. We want to save it for ourselves, because we have learned from our mistakes and we know what happens when you trust something far bigger than you.
We want to be free, open, decentralized.
But at Google, it's all about centralization. That's their way. The information they have access to at any given moment is insane, and I think it's the primary reason they believe so strongly in centralization, so that they can collect more information.
It's time to embrace a truly workable and distributed topology that will move us past these ridiculous incompatibilities.
I concur.
The story may have been here before in other forms, but RFID is nothing new and while we don't like the fact that big brother keeps getting their tech-house in order, the simple truth is that every tool can be used for good or evil, just not RFID, right?
This is what happens when the war on terror meets the entrepreneurial spirit.
Because we all know how effective giant lightning bolts are at seeking out a terrorist in a populated urban area...
... because of OSDN's trademark. And the moderation system is changing, to FSM-knows-what.
Nice of you to link FSM with g00gle, and decidedly speaking, the Google logo seems to fit the image of the FSM. Coincidence?
My initial thought is that anyone who would run a pokerbot is evil. Then my attention turns to Las Vegas and the enormous rooms of metalic robots who are all fixed to win and win big, suck the life, time (24/7 baby), and money, out of would-be regular people. Then I don't feel as bad. I still don't like cheaters, tho. The answer? Play free online poker. Save your money for BYOB -- real games with your friends. We play Texas Holdem from time to time at the cottage and it's a hoot. Games should be fun -- not business, IMHO.
To rebuild the internet is insane. To slowly change the direction we are building it is more likely.
I agree. It's about standards that companies should follow. Those that fail to follow the standards will lose relevance and compatability.
And yes, the article title was misleading. They won't be rebuilding the Internet any time soon.
I dunno, the article sounds rather like pretty wild speculation to me.
Consider the source...
FTA: "It's not just the Defense Department but a wide variety of networks that have been hit," including the departments of State, Energy and Homeland Security as well as defense contractors, the official said. "This is an ongoing, organized attempt to siphon off information from our unclassified systems."
This seems like the work of terrorists to me. They gather unclassified intel from multiple sources and then they can prove/disprove rumours (leaks?) of a secret nature. This puts a strain on the agencies to ensure that solid intel can not be assembled from less potent information, and yet many citizens complain about the slow pace in which free information flows out of the government. Look at what they are up against, today. (I know I'm going to get hammered on that statement) I think we're seeing that delicate balance between freedom of information and security will be tipping in the near future as a direct result of these attacks. It's never been very balanced anyway. I might be a touch left-wing, an idealist -- but to me there needs also to be a careful approach to protecting the homeland, whether it's in Canada, the US or abroad. I have a sneaky feeling that someone we know had something to do with this, and it's likely not the Chinese government -- I think it was the FSM, or possibly a smaller cell -- the Army of the 12 Monkeys!
I happen to love football, the actual game, not really most of the video games (for a number of reasons). Before we get a slew of comments making fun of Madden's often repetitive commentary, I wanted to add my 2 cents. NFL football is a game that does not change every year... the rules are pretty much the same from one year to the next, and the real life games themselves were far more interesting in the seventies and mid-eighties than they are today, barring of course some of the big plays (and big win streaks) you see from time to time. New players and annual player turnover only makes the competition slightly more interesting, but the actual systemic variance between each year is minimal.
Systemic differences and improvements are what drive the typical gamer's series purchases. Video games, for the most part, try to deliver a REVOLUTION on each upgrade. About the only revolution you could get with a series like Madden is having the guy come up with something original to say (hasn't happened yet), improving the UI, and making the players look more realistic. But there is a time when this effort stalls, because the game of football itself doesn't change enough to keep fans as interested in purchasing an upgrade to a game that they already own.
Any football fan here would agree that there is very little difference between each new Madden release, except for possibly the player names, stats and some minor UI changes, and Madden saying something slightly different from time to time. But most of his old bricks stay in the game.
Someone could easily reskin and redevelop the game using Madden's engine to make it far more interesting. Like how about a game of medieval football where you have to slit the guy's tendons with your sock-knife, like they used to do back in the day? Seriously... there are a lot of different avenues game developers could be taking to add some spice to these types of games.
If you break it down and see Madden 04 and Madden 05 sitting in either the week rental or the 2 night rental, you'll pick 04 so you can have it a few more days... or at least I would.
My point is that they have to really do something different if they want to improve their ratings and this has to be one of the hardest challenges facing any game designer in the world right now. How do you take a regular sport and make a game out of it that will release a new title each year, without boring the hell out of your fans? It's hard.
I started coding for TI/99 4A and sold cassette tapes around my neighbourhood. I wondered why sales were bad, but since I was only 10 yrs old... I tried to convince people to buy a TI so they could play my adventure games.
23 years later, I'm still not in the gaming industry. I'm not bitter either because the whole thing is flakey anyway. Many companies try squeeze all the good years out of someone until they've got nothing left, and then toss them asside for newer blood.
I'm looking for something more stable and with better hours. Maybe I should take Scott Adams' advice and be a cartoonist. Okay I'd have to be able to draw first.
Ajax will inadvertently end up being a driving force for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) for many organizations since it requires high performance back-end XML services.
I think we've been seeing this shift for a while now, since people went from fat client software towards more streamlined C/S replacements, due mostly to convenience and easier features, server updates etc. Plus you can't argue with the repeat revenue stream generated by services that you can offer your customer, as opposed to a single sale.
When did you move your email handling from a fat client to webmail? My first move was from Eudora to Outlook, then Outlook (yuk) to Pegasus (don't ask) and then to Hotmail and now Gmail. I don't think I'll move away from Gmail, but you never know.
Ajax unplugs you because you get the immediate, targeted response from the server that wasn't available before. So refreshing a whole page when I only need to see a small widget change is really what Ajax fixes. I look at Ajax as being only a bugfix to the intarweb and nothing else, really. Seriously, why do I want to refresh a whole template when I want to send only a little widget of text in the middle?
Frames were not the way to handle this kind of presentation/data separation, mostly because they could be indexed and that would confuse visitors coming to the center frame and not the whole display. Eventually many people just stopped using frames because they are clunky, and have strange display problems on varrious systems. Ajax remedies this problem, really. Hypothetically you could set up a site that had a bunch of frames that interacted independantly and achieve a similar result to Ajax, but who would want to have to handle the cross platform and cross browser problems that arrive when you rely on frames?
Ajax is definately going to push for more service oriented contracts and eventually I can see products dwindling or becoming wrapped into services and monthly subscriptions instead of out of the box solutions that are popular today.
I will bet that eventually we'll see some very thin looking clients in the near future, thanks to Ajax.
Not sure if this is FUD or not. I've seen a lot of the celeb poker tourneys where they would promote a particular brand of online poker or another. I would think that if anyone could clamp down on cheating it would be the online rooms mostly because they could run stats realtime to be sure or not if a pair were duping a table. Just because they can run stats and check people out online, doesn't mean they do. I guess it's a matter of caveat emptor, or in this case: Adversus solem ne loquitor.
I'm not going to mince words. I think that if you have a book on Java, it really only applies to Java. Anyone can claim a book will apply to other languages, but some differences could cause confusion and hours of lost productivity. I might read the book you suggested but I wanted to make it clear that I would be only reading it in terms of Java and not PHP. Mixing languages is what causes so many compsci students to skip class and play Quake.
It may eventually have an effect rendering the methodology much like that of the current TV/radio paradigm in that large repositories of media will be constantly available waiting for an application to travel to the database to query and assemble your media request.
It's funny you should mention sneakers. I just finished Who Moved My Cheese and I was thinking that the RIAA are a bunch of Hems, stuck in a rut they can never get out of.
I think that music is going to become more and more over rated as time goes on. We'll have lots of ways to obtain it, but eventually we'll just forget the relevance of it, if orgs like the RIAA keep pressing for more control. What will be more interesting to us, will be making our own music using better apps and samples.
Eventually we'll have the singing sword, like in the Forgotten Realms, so we won't need to tip the Bards any more than they are due, which by now is about the cost of a kick in the arse.
I've been into video game editing for some time, with mods and stuff like that. Now I've pretty much given up on it as a viable career, due to the instability involved with trying to obtain (and most of all SECURE) a good video game designing career.
I have had a few interviews, and some really bad experiences with video game companies out there who shall remain anonymous for the purpose of this question.
In once instance, I've been lied to by HR directors on the annual salary, told it was around $65k and it turned out to be $35-40k (which must have meant $35k right?). In another instance, I was strung along for months by a company who decided at the last minute to drop me as a candidate. What a huge waste of time that was. I've been promised before by a designer from a major company that we would do a big project together and get funding for it, only to have the guy over for a steak dinner (filet mignon no less), and a week later he went off and took a job somewhere else, and dropped the project.
What do you say to someone like me who has had ONLY these kinds of experiences with the video game industry?
Perhaps this is the way we can get Dead Like Me back?
Apple should start sending out OS X on CD AOL-style.
No. They should not do that. Please no. Actually they should just release the thing like Linux, over torrents, if you ask me. But it will never happen. How would they explain the move to their stockholders? I mean really -- how do you explain a risky plan like that? "We are giving our merchandise away in hopes we will make up for losses with hardware sales." Many stock holders will applaud it. But what of the little old Granny who doesn't understand Open Source? It would be a nightmare for them...
But who knows. Maybe software distrobution is going to end up going that way anyway. If AJAX has it's way with us, we'll be skipping the OS layer altogether soon enough!!
For those who are interested in learning more about Rosetta.
Here are a few of my reasons:
China is being really smart. This is not just a move to demonstrate they are against spam or limit liability; I think it's to show that they can be a lovable government. Would Mao care about spammers? China appears to be taking a page from Canada in how to be a liked country. They are ratifying a London anti-spam accord and that to me spells maybe some change in their normally opressive attitudes? How long before China starts ratifying UN human rights accords and the like? It could not be soon enough and this is a sign that they are moving in the right direction. I applaud this and only hope that it is as good as it looks. Please, China, keep progressing towards a free society. (and I could say as much for the USA, too)
I've never gotten a first post, and its fucked up my chi.
This makes me sad, so I will help you to lose your lawsuit by telling you how to get a FP. If this doesn't work you will have to contact me for more help... but here goes...
Get a few bucks on PayPal, and get a subscription on your account. Each pageview you make will stip away one point off your account, so set the threshold to 10 pages ad-blocked per day which is the minimum. The higher the number, the faster your subscription will run out. This will keep you subscribed for over a year even if you visit Slashdot every day, and you won't lose the right to the services.
Once subscribed, read any Mysterious Future post before it comes live and put together an informative/insightful/interesting reply.
Keep refreshing until the post says "nothing to see here, please move along".
Then you have about 30-60 seconds on average to wait before you can comment. The more you refresh the greater your chance of getting a first post.
You only get about 2000 pageviews on Slashdot per day before you are banned, so don't reload that much. I am sure that there is a Greasemonkey attachment for Slashdot first post refreshing.
The admins will consider this to be abusive, but it's the only way to get a first post and since you are paying money for the service of having a subscription, they should not mind. Furthermore, if you are contributing something really interesting to the site, then you will get recognized for doing it. If you're trolling, you won't be able to post anyway after a very short while so I guess it's win-win for the editors.
Passing untrusted input directly to eval is gross negligence
I pass ALL fsk'ing data through strict purify scripts. Most data is assumed numeric and if'd to be >0 or forced to -10.
Man Slashdot has stupid filters but I guess they are needed... I just tried posting some PHP code to this comment and got this error: Your comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition. Comment aborted.
Well I guess that ends my post about purification. Sometimes you have too much of it and sometimes you don't have enough. Go figure.
Well I guess you can have the blue prints open sourced, but really, that's next to useless in the need for testing, distribution and manufacture of the real thing.
I think you are on to something. Creative Commons license on the blue prints would throw a monkey wrench into patent scams, would it not?
were actually about his Santa-killing spiked chimney.
The legal aspects of patenting Santa Claus' delivery of gifts is pretty low -- I am against it. I would still like to see these kinds of delivery improvements to all shipping services, so that I could actually send a gift to someone I did not know. So my comment is only about the idea of a service, and not really about this Grinch in particular.
A few years ago, I had problems with the refund policy at Future Shop, a Canadian company that is a little like Best Buy. In a fit of blind rage, I smashed the defective software cds they refused to refund me for. With this service, I could have sent a piece of the cds to each executive at the company with a note about their horrible customer service and I could have had the PLEASURE of knowing my message WAS RECEIVED by the people in question.
I don't know about Christmas, but it would be nice to be able to trust a shipping company to actually find out where people are so you can remind them of their responsibilities.