I guess I can see the point of not doing it then, as I've never been to england. I do think more cities should reconsider their downtown arrangements, though. Sure, it would be costly and there would be less space for businesses and housing, but so long as people can get in and out, the property values would do nothing but increase and buildings would go higher instead of having more girth. This increased property value would repay the city in the form of higher taxes etc...
And, no, I wasn't trying to be trollish. I'm often confused about elementary principles.
Why in the world don't they just make the roads bigger? Doesn't that seem to be the logical route, rather than rely on high technology? Sure, I'm all for high tech, but we're talking about roads and traffic. People might be displaced, but they would get fair market for their houses, if the system is the same as it is here in the US.
I agree, I'm also a very satisfied mozilla user. When my non-tech-savvy mother finally bought a computer I removed all references to ie and put mozilla on the desktop and used the ie icon for it and called it "The internet." I figure since she's never really dealt with ie, it would be just as easy to begin learning the internet with mozilla. Often, she asks me what a pop up ad is, as she's never seen one.:)
The only trouble I've had from that computer is when one of her internet/computer savvy friends opened ie manually and changed the security settings.
I'm going to have to agree at least on one point. I love my Microsoft mice. I know, I know, they are really Logitech or something, but they have been total tanks, all of them.
As far as MS the company goes, I really don't like them though.
Thwarting the xbox hackers... well, that's their basic business model. Closed source and they like it that way. They've made it plain that they do not wish to share their source in any way shape or form unless they are mandated by law. (and if I read the press realease concerning the API's correctly, they don't want to tell you how much they will charge you for the API's until you sign a non-disclosure agreement)
They are who they are and I don't expect them to change. I will defend their mice but as far as the company itself goes, I really wish it would go the way of Enron.
Initailly I noticed the number of pages and was impressed. Then I read through the sample chapter and noticed how it looked like each page was a powerpoint slide or something. Plenty of whitespace, not enough information per page, IMHO.
Regarding your first point, I find it somewhat odd that slashdot would even accept a story where the supporting documentation is on geocities at all. I would think anyone could photoshop just about anything they like and have it put up nearly anonymously there.
I'll believe this story when a better source is obtained.
So in your opinion do the ISP's just fall off the face of the earth due to wireless communications? Sure, you could set up a wireless network in your community and not have any internet access. You could set up the mail server, someone else could operate the intranet server and you could ignore the rest of the world. But if you want hooked to the rest of the internet you'll need someone with a connection to it. That person will have to pay for it and if only one account is set up and your entire neighborhood or community is using that one account, how does the ISP make enough money to justify staying in business?
I know I must be missing something here because if this really happens, who is getting paid? Companies need paid for their bandwidth and usage and one guy with a link to the net isn't going to feed the ISP's families.
In a utopian society where everything is free and shared this would work great. But the ISP has to pay its employees and those employees have to pay their bills. If the ISP doesn't get paid the employee doesn't get paid and the employee doesn't get to pay his/her bills until they find a new job.
It doesn't seem to make economic sense to me is all. Can someone explain how it could work, financially, for everyone?
Regarding the email address being posted on slashdot, I use a special account for my slashdot mail which is never given out for any reason. The only things I ever get at this email address is a monster.com ripoff for the 'data community.'
After several unsubscribe attempts I not so politely told them how and where they got my email address. I haven't heard from them since.
I have received some of these 419 offers, but never at my/. address. And I've been lurking here for quite some time. I don't, however, post that often.
Right, and to expand on this idea, what about the ability of the government to scan emails for words... who is to say they aren't archiving in the process?
Sure, I know pgp and they say they aren't doing this and all that, but who's to say really?
Yeah, here I was thinking that if it is dark in america it wouldn't be dark in all of the rest of the world. I don't know, maybe my math is bad, but I assumed it would be breaking day there, not seemingly the same time zone as I'm in.
It really made me consider what "LIVE" means to television stations.
Why do they have to be devices of destruction? With all the interest in car/racing movies lately, why not just make radio controlled cars from scratch? Parts are readily available for things that would be too difficult to make and it would offer the same amount of learning potential. The nitro burning engines could lead the class down a path of combustion engine history, dynamics of an engine, as well as learning what horsepower and torque are. The suspension could teach physics and angles. The servos and batteries could teach them about impedance, torque, and amps.
All of these items are on a battlebot. The only difference is that is in the world of rc cars, the competition is benign. In battlebots, it is open and obvious destruction. We should be fostering construction rather than destruction, imho.
I'm against the fact that they may be able to target users for whatever reasons. But I'm also against P2P networks. It is stealing, no matter how you look at it. This isn't robin hood, people. You aren't getting food to survive on. You are getting music and programs. Music and programs are not necessary for life, so there can be no justification for stealing. If your family is poor and are on the brink of starvation, I can see justification for stealing from a garden.
I can't see why somone doesn't just shut down the P2P networks instead of targetting the users. It's like a war on drugs where the dealers are allowed to walk and the junkies are targeted and jailed. It simply won't work in the long run, imho.
Online, the "newbie" or "novice" channels seem to be full of experts getting their jollys off by fragging inexperienced players. Tell me, how is *that* not cheating?
I understand what you are saying here and I call this "dirty playing" but not cheating. Cheating is running a program / plugin / etc that specifically allows you an advantage. I've never become very good at any online games, though I have tried from time to time, specifically in the Half Life (and mods) areas. When I suspect someone to be cheating I go into spectator mode to see if they are just hella good or if they are walking through walls. When they are walking through walls or making shots that are simply unbelievable (through the wall, through the post behind the wall, straight between the center of the eyes), I give up. I can accept being owned by a better player. I cannot play if I am being owned by a cheater.
And in that case, the odds of me using my personal purchasing power to get another online game? Not gonna happen. Who is left to suffer from this? Well, the cheaters have one less PLAYER to kill and the game companies won't be getting their part of the purchase price from my wallet.
I have to disagree with your post. I've been around many online gamers and I've not met a single one who thinks cheaters make them better. It is unfair to try to compete in an area where the odds are completely in the other man's favor. The world is not about fairness, but online gaming should not offer one player any advantage over another.
I think this is an excellent idea. Make it real, put it in their back yard. Make cheaters pay to cheat, and make the fine stiff enough that their gained status from cheating is not well worth it!
And by making fines, the parents are sure to find out the kids are cheating. I can visualize the conversations now:
Parent: You were cheating? Child: No, they had the wrong guy. Parent: but this printed log we got in the mail clearly shows you were cheating. Child: Umm, I was being hacked. Parent: Oh really? Perhaps its time you stopped using the internet due to security risks... Child: OK, I was cheating but it was just that once... Parent: Well, you've lost your internet privileges for just this month. Next time it is until you start paying for it yourself. [pause] oh, and you won't be playing THAT game ever again.
Lets just say that a person works for a publicly traded company. And said company puts out certain news releases. And let's say you are the database administrator with access to all of the (we'll call it...) REAL data. And let's suppose the news releases contain out and out lies...
Now let us suppose that due to technicalities, this database administrator is not an "insider"...
What responsibility, morally and legally, does said database administrator have?
This is somewhat offtopic, but it relates in the aspect of power creation.
Why haven't we created some sort of system along our many many miles of interstates where the vehicles pass over a power generator of sorts? For example, back in the day when you arrived at a filling station, a hose on the ground rang a bell using compressed air. Unless I am totally misunderstanding this system, work is performed by the weight of the vehicle. Why not put these on the roads and have mini substations to collect the energy? I don't mean rubber hoses of course, simply a system that collects energy from weight, like a hydraulic reservoir that gets compressed and pushes on a miniature generator. I don't think we'd want them ringing bells but we certainly could harness this "free" power. There would be costs involved in upkeep and construction, but one would think that the benefits would outweigh these costs.
Another possibility is to put simlar devices in sidewalks that create some sort of power that can be used for things like street lights.
It just seems that in our quest for power sources, we are missing the obvious ones. Let us use what is already working.
It seems reasonable to me, so I'll be waiting for the reasons why these things can't happen.:)
As a mysql user that was aware of this for quite some time, I see that the good people at MySql left out a section on their website, I think it goes like this:
Dear longtime users and people who actually keep up with our progress and don't just come here from slashdot:
Thanks for participating in our contest, which had been slated to end Dec 31,2001, as previously posted on our site. None of your entries were very creative so we thought we'd extend this indefinitely and let slashdotters have a stab at it.
On a serious note, this was a rude move by MySql for the people that had previously voted and had been watching their website for results. I'm not saying that a free-based product (for the most part) has to cater to a bunch of non-paying users, but they have the emails of the people who voted, why didn't they send out a note like the one above to the people on file as voting before the previously stated deadline?!
While I had some trouble getting java up and running on my Win32 build, once it was in, it stayed rock solid. I spend several hours at a time with java actively running and haven't had a bit of trouble with it on any of the 3 machines (all win32) that I run 0.9.5 on.
Slashdot Mirror
it doesn't work in win32 1.3alpha either.9 is the closest bug but it's marked WONTFIX.
I think http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15337
minor detail, I suppose.
Or if you want to get them from the source, netscape is available back to 2.0x at http://wp.netscape.com/download/archive.html
I guess I can see the point of not doing it then, as I've never been to england. I do think more cities should reconsider their downtown arrangements, though. Sure, it would be costly and there would be less space for businesses and housing, but so long as people can get in and out, the property values would do nothing but increase and buildings would go higher instead of having more girth. This increased property value would repay the city in the form of higher taxes etc...
And, no, I wasn't trying to be trollish. I'm often confused about elementary principles.
Why in the world don't they just make the roads bigger? Doesn't that seem to be the logical route, rather than rely on high technology? Sure, I'm all for high tech, but we're talking about roads and traffic. People might be displaced, but they would get fair market for their houses, if the system is the same as it is here in the US.
I agree, I'm also a very satisfied mozilla user. When my non-tech-savvy mother finally bought a computer I removed all references to ie and put mozilla on the desktop and used the ie icon for it and called it "The internet." I figure since she's never really dealt with ie, it would be just as easy to begin learning the internet with mozilla. Often, she asks me what a pop up ad is, as she's never seen one. :)
The only trouble I've had from that computer is when one of her internet/computer savvy friends opened ie manually and changed the security settings.
The oddest error I ever saw was this one
For those not interested in the 15k image, it says:
Error: The operation completed successfully.
I know the guy with the 24 HD computer. He might be a bit too busy to get back to you.
He runs linux on several servers. He's not a zealot either way. He just wanted to see if he could do it using old parts and a windows box.
I agree with you. All the people are outraged about 'theft' of one sort or another. Yet theft is what these programs are all about.
Yes, I understand there are legal uses of these programs, but...
How many people out of a hundred are engaged in a legal transaction through a peer to peer network at any given moment?
SURVEY SAYS!: less than one.
Can we get the "drugs==Terrorism" campaign to a "stealing==terrorism" campaign?
I'm going to have to agree at least on one point. I love my Microsoft mice. I know, I know, they are really Logitech or something, but they have been total tanks, all of them.
As far as MS the company goes, I really don't like them though.
Thwarting the xbox hackers...
well, that's their basic business model. Closed source and they like it that way. They've made it plain that they do not wish to share their source in any way shape or form unless they are mandated by law. (and if I read the press realease concerning the API's correctly, they don't want to tell you how much they will charge you for the API's until you sign a non-disclosure agreement)
They are who they are and I don't expect them to change. I will defend their mice but as far as the company itself goes, I really wish it would go the way of Enron.
Initailly I noticed the number of pages and was impressed. Then I read through the sample chapter and noticed how it looked like each page was a powerpoint slide or something. Plenty of whitespace, not enough information per page, IMHO.
Anyone else notice this?
Regarding your first point, I find it somewhat odd that slashdot would even accept a story where the supporting documentation is on geocities at all. I would think anyone could photoshop just about anything they like and have it put up nearly anonymously there.
I'll believe this story when a better source is obtained.
So in your opinion do the ISP's just fall off the face of the earth due to wireless communications? Sure, you could set up a wireless network in your community and not have any internet access. You could set up the mail server, someone else could operate the intranet server and you could ignore the rest of the world. But if you want hooked to the rest of the internet you'll need someone with a connection to it. That person will have to pay for it and if only one account is set up and your entire neighborhood or community is using that one account, how does the ISP make enough money to justify staying in business?
I know I must be missing something here because if this really happens, who is getting paid? Companies need paid for their bandwidth and usage and one guy with a link to the net isn't going to feed the ISP's families.
In a utopian society where everything is free and shared this would work great. But the ISP has to pay its employees and those employees have to pay their bills. If the ISP doesn't get paid the employee doesn't get paid and the employee doesn't get to pay his/her bills until they find a new job.
It doesn't seem to make economic sense to me is all. Can someone explain how it could work, financially, for everyone?
Regarding the email address being posted on slashdot, I use a special account for my slashdot mail which is never given out for any reason. The only things I ever get at this email address is a monster.com ripoff for the 'data community.'
/. address. And I've been lurking here for quite some time. I don't, however, post that often.
After several unsubscribe attempts I not so politely told them how and where they got my email address. I haven't heard from them since.
I have received some of these 419 offers, but never at my
Right, and to expand on this idea, what about the ability of the government to scan emails for words... who is to say they aren't archiving in the process?
Sure, I know pgp and they say they aren't doing this and all that, but who's to say really?
Yeah, here I was thinking that if it is dark in america it wouldn't be dark in all of the rest of the world. I don't know, maybe my math is bad, but I assumed it would be breaking day there, not seemingly the same time zone as I'm in.
It really made me consider what "LIVE" means to television stations.
Why do they have to be devices of destruction? With all the interest in car/racing movies lately, why not just make radio controlled cars from scratch? Parts are readily available for things that would be too difficult to make and it would offer the same amount of learning potential. The nitro burning engines could lead the class down a path of combustion engine history, dynamics of an engine, as well as learning what horsepower and torque are. The suspension could teach physics and angles. The servos and batteries could teach them about impedance, torque, and amps.
All of these items are on a battlebot. The only difference is that is in the world of rc cars, the competition is benign. In battlebots, it is open and obvious destruction. We should be fostering construction rather than destruction, imho.
I'm against the fact that they may be able to target users for whatever reasons. But I'm also against P2P networks. It is stealing, no matter how you look at it. This isn't robin hood, people. You aren't getting food to survive on. You are getting music and programs. Music and programs are not necessary for life, so there can be no justification for stealing. If your family is poor and are on the brink of starvation, I can see justification for stealing from a garden.
I can't see why somone doesn't just shut down the P2P networks instead of targetting the users. It's like a war on drugs where the dealers are allowed to walk and the junkies are targeted and jailed. It simply won't work in the long run, imho.
Online, the "newbie" or "novice" channels seem to be full of experts getting their jollys off by fragging inexperienced players. Tell me, how is *that* not cheating?
I understand what you are saying here and I call this "dirty playing" but not cheating. Cheating is running a program / plugin / etc that specifically allows you an advantage. I've never become very good at any online games, though I have tried from time to time, specifically in the Half Life (and mods) areas. When I suspect someone to be cheating I go into spectator mode to see if they are just hella good or if they are walking through walls. When they are walking through walls or making shots that are simply unbelievable (through the wall, through the post behind the wall, straight between the center of the eyes), I give up. I can accept being owned by a better player. I cannot play if I am being owned by a cheater.
And in that case, the odds of me using my personal purchasing power to get another online game? Not gonna happen. Who is left to suffer from this? Well, the cheaters have one less PLAYER to kill and the game companies won't be getting their part of the purchase price from my wallet.
I have to disagree with your post. I've been around many online gamers and I've not met a single one who thinks cheaters make them better. It is unfair to try to compete in an area where the odds are completely in the other man's favor. The world is not about fairness, but online gaming should not offer one player any advantage over another.
I think this is an excellent idea. Make it real, put it in their back yard. Make cheaters pay to cheat, and make the fine stiff enough that their gained status from cheating is not well worth it!
And by making fines, the parents are sure to find out the kids are cheating. I can visualize the conversations now:
Parent: You were cheating?
Child: No, they had the wrong guy.
Parent: but this printed log we got in the mail clearly shows you were cheating.
Child: Umm, I was being hacked.
Parent: Oh really? Perhaps its time you stopped using the internet due to security risks...
Child: OK, I was cheating but it was just that once...
Parent: Well, you've lost your internet privileges for just this month. Next time it is until you start paying for it yourself. [pause] oh, and you won't be playing THAT game ever again.
Lets just say that a person works for a publicly traded company. And said company puts out certain news releases. And let's say you are the database administrator with access to all of the (we'll call it...) REAL data. And let's suppose the news releases contain out and out lies...
Now let us suppose that due to technicalities, this database administrator is not an "insider"...
What responsibility, morally and legally, does said database administrator have?
...just a thought.
This is somewhat offtopic, but it relates in the aspect of power creation.
:)
Why haven't we created some sort of system along our many many miles of interstates where the vehicles pass over a power generator of sorts? For example, back in the day when you arrived at a filling station, a hose on the ground rang a bell using compressed air. Unless I am totally misunderstanding this system, work is performed by the weight of the vehicle. Why not put these on the roads and have mini substations to collect the energy? I don't mean rubber hoses of course, simply a system that collects energy from weight, like a hydraulic reservoir that gets compressed and pushes on a miniature generator. I don't think we'd want them ringing bells but we certainly could harness this "free" power. There would be costs involved in upkeep and construction, but one would think that the benefits would outweigh these costs.
Another possibility is to put simlar devices in sidewalks that create some sort of power that can be used for things like street lights.
It just seems that in our quest for power sources, we are missing the obvious ones. Let us use what is already working.
It seems reasonable to me, so I'll be waiting for the reasons why these things can't happen.
As a mysql user that was aware of this for quite some time, I see that the good people at MySql left out a section on their website, I think it goes like this:
Dear longtime users and people who actually keep up with our progress and don't just come here from slashdot:
Thanks for participating in our contest, which had been slated to end Dec 31,2001, as previously posted on our site. None of your entries were very creative so we thought we'd extend this indefinitely and let slashdotters have a stab at it.
On a serious note, this was a rude move by MySql for the people that had previously voted and had been watching their website for results. I'm not saying that a free-based product (for the most part) has to cater to a bunch of non-paying users, but they have the emails of the people who voted, why didn't they send out a note like the one above to the people on file as voting before the previously stated deadline?!
While I had some trouble getting java up and running on my Win32 build, once it was in, it stayed rock solid. I spend several hours at a time with java actively running and haven't had a bit of trouble with it on any of the 3 machines (all win32) that I run 0.9.5 on.