Most decent muds will easily identify any macro or script users and the Imms will punish characters, or ban them from the game. The problem with muds is that they are so abundant. It is hard to find the right one that fits your personal style of adventuring.
US is also one of the few countries where 2 wheeled vehicles like motorbikes/scooters are almost non existent.
Motorized scooters are simply not as viable of an option in the US as in Europe. Cities in Europe are much more compact than in the US, most everything you can think of can be found in a relativly small distance away. Nothing is really more than 10 minutes walk for a lot of city dwellers. Also the parking in Europe is considerably worse than in the US. Its easier to just park your scooter on the sidewalk then drive around looking for parking, and paying a steep fee.
In the US, free parking is fairly abundant, at least where I live. But more importantly, the US feels more spread out than Europe. I often have to travel at least 30 minutes to get to movies, or to the great big grocery store, and often it involves highway driving instead of just walking down the street. Navigating all this on a motor scooter is just not as reasonable for longer trips, which are definatly more the norm for Americans.
And I liked the part where he compared Microsoft Support to the Psychic Friends Network.. Hey, maybe he's on to something here... They can have the solution to my problem ready before I even call, and give me lotto number to boot.
How many threads in this very discussion have been about how robots are going to "change the world".
It doesn't matter, we're discussing YOUR thread.
Now, rewind 10 years, and substitute "robots" for "Internet." Rewind 30 years and substitute "Internet" for "Personal Computers". Rewind 50 years and substitute "Personal Computers" for "Automobiles. Rewind 80 years and substitute "Automobiles" for "Airplanes".
Yes, because no one uses Cars, Planes, PC's, or the Internet anymore. They were all just fads, or other "booms" if you will, weren't they? How can you compare these products, to an investment bubble surrounding the internet that burst?
And the Internet *has* changed to world. E-mail and IM let me meet new people and keep in contact with those throughout the country and the world for that matter. The open source software would be impossible as we know it today without the internet. File sharing and the internet have the potential to bring down dinosaur media oligopolists. There's so much more! Sorry i you feel disappointed having bought into that 'scheme' called the internet, but I have found it to become an invaluable resource in daily life. As for cars, planes, and pc's, how can you say they've NOT changed the world either. I think you really ARE on crack.
It's the same bait and switch.
Dude, its a vac, its going to clean. If it works, it works, if it doesc't you shouldn't have bought one. Bait and Switch? Just what in the hell are you talking about.
They tell you how the rules no longer apply, get you to buy into their scheme, and then act all sorts of surprised when in the end, they have your money and you are out in the cold.
Out in the cold? All I did was buy a vaccuumm! They'll have my money, and I'll have the product. Its called a purchase.
It sounds like you just took it in the ass when the bubble burst and are looking to blame anything other than yourself for believing the hype and thoughtlessly dumping wads of cash into online pet stores or whatever. No ones fault but your own.
What does this have to do with the.com boom? Nothing at all. These companies are selling an actual product, a physical thing. They're selling because people actually want to buy this stuff. It nothing to do with clueless investors inflating stock based on a virtual business that does virtually nothing but play foosball all day. Have you used a Roomba? It works great. Set it go when you leave your home, come back to clean floors..com boom? Lay off the crack man.
This piece was suspicously left out of the overview:
snip:
While the Roomba floor vac robot, and similar household cleaning models are showing sings of an increasing level of sale, robot models T-800 and T-1000 are WAY WAY down. "People just haven't yet discovered the need nor convienence of robotic automated human termination" claims Dr. Miles Bennett Dyson, pioneer of SkyNet systems. "I still maintain my vision for the future, where humans sit back and enjoy a life where all terminations are carried out through robots equiped with our advanced neural-net processors." However, some proclaim that SkyNet itself has hindered the adoption of its T series by showing its prototype T-X model too early. With its sleek new design and automated chest-inflation sub-processor, this is the one adopters of the T-series have been waiting for.
I know thats why I haven't my own yet. I can't belive this was left out....
You'll notice I didn't say Washington died or Jefferson died, but people were killed for their conviction. I meant more like farmer, carpenter, merchant, and working man who gave up everything they had, many of them their LIVES to defend this country from the kind of shit and unruly government intrusion that has begun to rear its ugly head.(I guess I did say founding fathers, I meant forefathers). This same man today, doesn't seem to give a shit. We've gone from the tough rebels who stopped at nothing to ensure freedom to a bunch of lazy-roll over-wheres my beer-change the channel-pathetic bunch. And no one seems to give a flying fuck. THATS more what I was getting at.
I can't but help imagine the reactions our Founding Fathers would have to this, and other similarly proposed acts of our federal goverment. These people died, they DIED, to free themselves of this kind of rule by a governemt not subject to the will of the people. These men had a vision and this is certainly NOT it. I mean, imagine if Franklin had a covered wagon. Say he wanted to fix a broken wheel, and the best and cheapest wheels came from "region 3", but were made incompatible with his wagon on purpose by the manufacturer. But say he possessed the capibilites to make it work somehow through his own modifications. But then making this wheel work violated the law and he was SENT TO PRISON FOR MAKING IT COMPATABLE. What rubbish. If this kind of shit flew back in the late 1700's we'd be reading about it along with the outragous tea taxes, et al. At what point did we let power slip from our humble hands to our corporate/government overlords? It just seems like day after day we become one step closer to living like serfs again paying the already rich for the right to simply exist. I for one am fucking sick of it. But what can I do? I don't have the money or connections to be influencial. The mainstream media doesn't give a fuck. They're busy keeping people outraged with pointless shit like "The Pledge Debate." While clueless people get all wound up over 2 fucking words, the Government cronies (Democrats and Republicans, fuck em both) are using the fog to pass drastic societal changes right under our noses. AND NO ONE SEEMS TO CARE! Outside of a few places, like Slashdot, NO ONE cares, much less even knows about it. When did we become so apathetic? When did we decide that Brittney kissing Madonna or the 6 remaining fuckers on Survivor were more important than our inalieable right to live as free men and women? Will we ever revolt and take back what is rightfully ours, as our forefathers did for us? Or are we now just a bunch of mindless pathetic consumers that gobble up anything seen on tv as fact and all we are meant for is to spend spend spend.
I fear we have become the latter...
HyperColor shirts make fashion comeback! We all surrender to our color changing overlords... in Soviet Russia... with hot grits... in Natelie Portmans pants...
Seriously though, while satisfying the geek kid in me, these clothes really don't do much for the practical adult side. Until my ungeekly girlfriend wants technofied clothes, these aren't gonna sell much of anything, at least in Europe/US.
I envision this stuff taking off in Japan much sooner than here. That's where I would try to market it.
You know, Hillary did lose her position at the RIAA. I wonder if she's in contention. She certainly has the experience, and the huge fan base one woujld need to take this position.
Thats pretty cool that SunComm isn't going to sue. In fact, I'm happy that they essentially screwed the record companies out of millions for this pathetic attempt at copy protection. My question is: Can the RIAA still use the DMCA to sue, since its their prodcut under this 'protection'? We might still not be safe...
I spent a few weeks in Germany this summer and had the "pleasure" of using a German style keyboard. Alt-Graph is used for a variety of characters on keys with 3 characters. Remember, Germans have a, o, and u with the umlaut above them (I dont have time to find the ascii). You have the key, the key+shift (like the ; : key) and the key+alt graph (or Alt-Gr as I saw it) Let me tell you, German keyboards are NUTS. I typed so many e-mails back home with sooo many typos. I don't have a keyboard like it here or I'd give some specific examples, but I DO know for sure that the 'Y' and 'Z' keys are switched as well, as Z occurs much much more frequently than a Y in german texts. "Hez Guzs, what have zou been up to for the last few dazs" is a pretty good example of what more than a few of My e-mails were like, especially after having a few liters of delicious Bier. Until then though, I had never even heard of Alt-gr before. Another weird aspect is that only the left Alt key was converted to Alt-Gr. The right Alt remained simply Alt.
I agree. I really don't understand they way SCO has been working. I'm pretty convinced of the whole pump-dump stock theory. I mean, what the hell kind of way to make money is ceasing to do business with two of your biggest clients, one of them being practically the largest computer company on Earth? Now THAT smarts...
I really don't think SGI has anything to lose by telling people just to take a closer look at certain parts of code. SCO has ALREADY revoked SGI's Unix license, what more can they do? There is nothing SCO can do about SGI pointing towards a few sections of linux source with a wink and a nod towards the community.
I really don't think this analogy works. Say a free book is published and millions of people own a copy. Then it is found that one page in the book is really infringing in another work. I really don't think it would be illegal for someone who managed to discover where the infringement was to tell people a page number in the book.
Yeah but some of the stuff that came up they considered trivial and didn't change anything. Even if they are "trivial", they still came up somehow in a match, and a look should be taken at those sources of code in a more open way. Regardless of how trivial or not these findings are, ANY amount of secrecy and undisclosure is simply not a GoodThing.
SGI also just commited changes for THIER code, while they had an opportunity to compare the entire codebase.
So, SGI has something we've all been wanting access to, essentially the System V Source. They run a check against the Linux kernal for infingement and only tell us a summary of their findings? Why can't they be more specific? Why can't they say lines 100-110 of module X in Y in the linux kernal came up infringing. They don't have to reveal any "sco owned" code, just what is already opened sourced on the Linux side. I'm I missing something?
I'm a fairly avid guitar player, and the computer/music connection has always had me interested. Being a poor college kid though, I can't afford to spend 1000's on a sweet rig that lets me get the sounds I want, much less record them as well. Thats when I started looking for free software solutions. I've played with Stompboxes2 and Gnuitar, which were novel at the time, but now I feel that they just don't seem to give me the best controls to customize my sound, nor a decent gui to do it with. I wish I was a slick coder so I could help some of these projects out, but I'm really not that great. As for recording software, I really don't even know what to look for, I feel pretty overwhelemed just looking for stuff.
I'm just wondering if any other Slashdotters can share their experiences and recomend any cool projects that are worth checking out. Does anyone have good experiences using open source software for recording or playing? Any good resources for getting your feet wet in terms of recording? I feel like such a n00b, but I just want to know what any other like minded people have come up with.
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Most decent muds will easily identify any macro or script users and the Imms will punish characters, or ban them from the game. The problem with muds is that they are so abundant. It is hard to find the right one that fits your personal style of adventuring.
US is also one of the few countries where 2 wheeled vehicles like motorbikes/scooters are almost non existent. Motorized scooters are simply not as viable of an option in the US as in Europe. Cities in Europe are much more compact than in the US, most everything you can think of can be found in a relativly small distance away. Nothing is really more than 10 minutes walk for a lot of city dwellers. Also the parking in Europe is considerably worse than in the US. Its easier to just park your scooter on the sidewalk then drive around looking for parking, and paying a steep fee. In the US, free parking is fairly abundant, at least where I live. But more importantly, the US feels more spread out than Europe. I often have to travel at least 30 minutes to get to movies, or to the great big grocery store, and often it involves highway driving instead of just walking down the street. Navigating all this on a motor scooter is just not as reasonable for longer trips, which are definatly more the norm for Americans.
You just made me laugh :)
No, they were both invented by SCO.
And I liked the part where he compared Microsoft Support to the Psychic Friends Network.. Hey, maybe he's on to something here... They can have the solution to my problem ready before I even call, and give me lotto number to boot.
How many threads in this very discussion have been about how robots are going to "change the world".
It doesn't matter, we're discussing YOUR thread.
Now, rewind 10 years, and substitute "robots" for "Internet." Rewind 30 years and substitute "Internet" for "Personal Computers". Rewind 50 years and substitute "Personal Computers" for "Automobiles. Rewind 80 years and substitute "Automobiles" for "Airplanes".
Yes, because no one uses Cars, Planes, PC's, or the Internet anymore. They were all just fads, or other "booms" if you will, weren't they? How can you compare these products, to an investment bubble surrounding the internet that burst? And the Internet *has* changed to world. E-mail and IM let me meet new people and keep in contact with those throughout the country and the world for that matter. The open source software would be impossible as we know it today without the internet. File sharing and the internet have the potential to bring down dinosaur media oligopolists. There's so much more! Sorry i you feel disappointed having bought into that 'scheme' called the internet, but I have found it to become an invaluable resource in daily life. As for cars, planes, and pc's, how can you say they've NOT changed the world either. I think you really ARE on crack.
It's the same bait and switch.
Dude, its a vac, its going to clean. If it works, it works, if it doesc't you shouldn't have bought one. Bait and Switch? Just what in the hell are you talking about.
They tell you how the rules no longer apply, get you to buy into their scheme, and then act all sorts of surprised when in the end, they have your money and you are out in the cold.
Out in the cold? All I did was buy a vaccuumm! They'll have my money, and I'll have the product. Its called a purchase.
It sounds like you just took it in the ass when the bubble burst and are looking to blame anything other than yourself for believing the hype and thoughtlessly dumping wads of cash into online pet stores or whatever. No ones fault but your own.
What does this have to do with the .com boom? Nothing at all. These companies are selling an actual product, a physical thing. They're selling because people actually want to buy this stuff. It nothing to do with clueless investors inflating stock based on a virtual business that does virtually nothing but play foosball all day. Have you used a Roomba? It works great. Set it go when you leave your home, come back to clean floors. .com boom? Lay off the crack man.
This piece was suspicously left out of the overview:
snip:
While the Roomba floor vac robot, and similar household cleaning models are showing sings of an increasing level of sale, robot models T-800 and T-1000 are WAY WAY down. "People just haven't yet discovered the need nor convienence of robotic automated human termination" claims Dr. Miles Bennett Dyson, pioneer of SkyNet systems. "I still maintain my vision for the future, where humans sit back and enjoy a life where all terminations are carried out through robots equiped with our advanced neural-net processors." However, some proclaim that SkyNet itself has hindered the adoption of its T series by showing its prototype T-X model too early. With its sleek new design and automated chest-inflation sub-processor, this is the one adopters of the T-series have been waiting for.
I know thats why I haven't my own yet. I can't belive this was left out....
You'll notice I didn't say Washington died or Jefferson died, but people were killed for their conviction. I meant more like farmer, carpenter, merchant, and working man who gave up everything they had, many of them their LIVES to defend this country from the kind of shit and unruly government intrusion that has begun to rear its ugly head.(I guess I did say founding fathers, I meant forefathers). This same man today, doesn't seem to give a shit. We've gone from the tough rebels who stopped at nothing to ensure freedom to a bunch of lazy-roll over-wheres my beer-change the channel-pathetic bunch. And no one seems to give a flying fuck. THATS more what I was getting at.
I can't but help imagine the reactions our Founding Fathers would have to this, and other similarly proposed acts of our federal goverment. These people died, they DIED, to free themselves of this kind of rule by a governemt not subject to the will of the people. These men had a vision and this is certainly NOT it. I mean, imagine if Franklin had a covered wagon. Say he wanted to fix a broken wheel, and the best and cheapest wheels came from "region 3", but were made incompatible with his wagon on purpose by the manufacturer. But say he possessed the capibilites to make it work somehow through his own modifications. But then making this wheel work violated the law and he was SENT TO PRISON FOR MAKING IT COMPATABLE. What rubbish. If this kind of shit flew back in the late 1700's we'd be reading about it along with the outragous tea taxes, et al. At what point did we let power slip from our humble hands to our corporate/government overlords? It just seems like day after day we become one step closer to living like serfs again paying the already rich for the right to simply exist. I for one am fucking sick of it. But what can I do? I don't have the money or connections to be influencial. The mainstream media doesn't give a fuck. They're busy keeping people outraged with pointless shit like "The Pledge Debate." While clueless people get all wound up over 2 fucking words, the Government cronies (Democrats and Republicans, fuck em both) are using the fog to pass drastic societal changes right under our noses. AND NO ONE SEEMS TO CARE! Outside of a few places, like Slashdot, NO ONE cares, much less even knows about it. When did we become so apathetic? When did we decide that Brittney kissing Madonna or the 6 remaining fuckers on Survivor were more important than our inalieable right to live as free men and women? Will we ever revolt and take back what is rightfully ours, as our forefathers did for us? Or are we now just a bunch of mindless pathetic consumers that gobble up anything seen on tv as fact and all we are meant for is to spend spend spend. I fear we have become the latter...
Upgrades.
HyperColor shirts make fashion comeback! We all surrender to our color changing overlords... in Soviet Russia... with hot grits... in Natelie Portmans pants... Seriously though, while satisfying the geek kid in me, these clothes really don't do much for the practical adult side. Until my ungeekly girlfriend wants technofied clothes, these aren't gonna sell much of anything, at least in Europe/US. I envision this stuff taking off in Japan much sooner than here. That's where I would try to market it.
From what I know, Austrailia is outside of Europe....
You know, Hillary did lose her position at the RIAA. I wonder if she's in contention. She certainly has the experience, and the huge fan base one woujld need to take this position.
Thats pretty cool that SunComm isn't going to sue. In fact, I'm happy that they essentially screwed the record companies out of millions for this pathetic attempt at copy protection. My question is: Can the RIAA still use the DMCA to sue, since its their prodcut under this 'protection'? We might still not be safe...
I spent a few weeks in Germany this summer and had the "pleasure" of using a German style keyboard. Alt-Graph is used for a variety of characters on keys with 3 characters. Remember, Germans have a, o, and u with the umlaut above them (I dont have time to find the ascii). You have the key, the key+shift (like the ; : key) and the key+alt graph (or Alt-Gr as I saw it) Let me tell you, German keyboards are NUTS. I typed so many e-mails back home with sooo many typos. I don't have a keyboard like it here or I'd give some specific examples, but I DO know for sure that the 'Y' and 'Z' keys are switched as well, as Z occurs much much more frequently than a Y in german texts. "Hez Guzs, what have zou been up to for the last few dazs" is a pretty good example of what more than a few of My e-mails were like, especially after having a few liters of delicious Bier. Until then though, I had never even heard of Alt-gr before. Another weird aspect is that only the left Alt key was converted to Alt-Gr. The right Alt remained simply Alt.
Good thing I'm an x,y,z looping kind of guy. All you i,j,k'ers are going to jail for being evil pirates!! Arghhhhh!
Heh, this reminds me of the legal work arounds for publishing the DeCSS code :)
I agree. I really don't understand they way SCO has been working. I'm pretty convinced of the whole pump-dump stock theory. I mean, what the hell kind of way to make money is ceasing to do business with two of your biggest clients, one of them being practically the largest computer company on Earth? Now THAT smarts...
I really don't think SGI has anything to lose by telling people just to take a closer look at certain parts of code. SCO has ALREADY revoked SGI's Unix license, what more can they do? There is nothing SCO can do about SGI pointing towards a few sections of linux source with a wink and a nod towards the community.
I really don't think this analogy works. Say a free book is published and millions of people own a copy. Then it is found that one page in the book is really infringing in another work. I really don't think it would be illegal for someone who managed to discover where the infringement was to tell people a page number in the book.
Yeah but some of the stuff that came up they considered trivial and didn't change anything. Even if they are "trivial", they still came up somehow in a match, and a look should be taken at those sources of code in a more open way. Regardless of how trivial or not these findings are, ANY amount of secrecy and undisclosure is simply not a GoodThing. SGI also just commited changes for THIER code, while they had an opportunity to compare the entire codebase.
SantaCruz Operation I believe, no?
So, SGI has something we've all been wanting access to, essentially the System V Source. They run a check against the Linux kernal for infingement and only tell us a summary of their findings? Why can't they be more specific? Why can't they say lines 100-110 of module X in Y in the linux kernal came up infringing. They don't have to reveal any "sco owned" code, just what is already opened sourced on the Linux side. I'm I missing something?
I'm a fairly avid guitar player, and the computer/music connection has always had me interested. Being a poor college kid though, I can't afford to spend 1000's on a sweet rig that lets me get the sounds I want, much less record them as well. Thats when I started looking for free software solutions. I've played with Stompboxes2 and Gnuitar, which were novel at the time, but now I feel that they just don't seem to give me the best controls to customize my sound, nor a decent gui to do it with. I wish I was a slick coder so I could help some of these projects out, but I'm really not that great. As for recording software, I really don't even know what to look for, I feel pretty overwhelemed just looking for stuff. I'm just wondering if any other Slashdotters can share their experiences and recomend any cool projects that are worth checking out. Does anyone have good experiences using open source software for recording or playing? Any good resources for getting your feet wet in terms of recording? I feel like such a n00b, but I just want to know what any other like minded people have come up with.