interesting idea. slashdot has an incredible double standard when it comes to freedom of information. we don't want to pay for any of 'the man's' information, but if you want our information, you'll have to not only pay for it, but then also pry it from our cold dead fingers.
hmm, i guess i don't have a point here. move along
how bout a moderate function? outfoxed allows you to tag a site with a review, and see others in your social network and what they thought of the site. if it catches on, google could augment page rank with similar functionality.
I feel like I'm in a fog, without a seeing eye dog. What a sog! Burninate, Trog! Jeremiah was a bullfrog, but there was a server backlog. And that was just the prologue. Later we took a jog to get some egg nog. Just make sure to oil the cog. I know its a slog, but its better than smog. Thats the end of this log.
Am I the only one who thinks this could go well for IP in the long run?
If the patent office makes a blatantly terrible move like this one seems to be, its possible it could trigger a backlash that will get patent law fixed up properly. People talk about this with the Supreme Court as well - it might be better to overturn Roe v. Wade because it would so energize the choice crowd and maybe even motivate congressional action.
but it would at least be english. actually, nevermind, babelfish is probably better. at least it doesnt make cracks about what it would do in soviet russia.
Rather than just caching the poorly done translation, make it editable. So when this is posted, 1000 slashdotters have already done what they can to clean up the text, maybe even add something relevant.
Slashwiki anyone? Use the moderating system and karma to determine what shows up for each person. Slashdot is great for finding good articles, but the discussion is difficult to relate efficiently. If it worked like I'm describing, people could make the online equivalent of margin notes.
I would love to make this happen, drop me a line at my gmail - djtumolo - if you want to work on this.
The basic idea of how this works is like a railgun, except you're trying to get the gun to move, not the projectile. Two parallel bars, with a third across the two, and massive current going through the system. The third bar experiences terrific force. In this system, the perpendicular bar is actually a conducting gas.
I really want to make some new stuff for fallout, cuz it doesnt seem like theres going to be anything like it for a while. post apocalyptica doesnt seem to be a popular topic for rpg's... sad really. so drop me a line if you want to work on something. hell, if interplay won't make fallout 3, why dont we?
The whole time I was reading this article, I kept thinking Open Source, Open Source. I checked out source forge, and theres a couple of fairly well developed projects, but nothing up to the level of Everquest. I think it would be cool if a developer made an open source, highly moddable and most importantly, responsive and fun mmorpg, preferably set in a fallout type world. 90% of the time the reason i stop playing a game isnt because i've beaten it or because I'm bored, its because part of the interface has gotten too frustrating for me to deal with. With open source, those kinds of things could be dealt with.
My basic vision is for a server architecture that is simply a framework for hosting many different universes simultaneously, all open source. mmorpg's dont need thousands of simultaneous players, they need about a thousand. i'm not looking for a huge daunting experience with tons of people, i'm looking for something fun, more like a pickup game than a job. thats the problem with everquest, its a job, not a game. games have gotten so advanced and in depth that most of them arent even fun, theyre frustrating, addicting, and tedious. well, thats my rant.
peace
I got this forwarded to me by 3 or 4 friends, who all deleted their java manager files because an email/instant message told them it was a virus. Nobody was bothered by the fact that Norton or some other program didnt pick it up, or that they had never downloaded anything from AOL or Email, like the hoax said. Blind acceptance is the evil in this situation, and education is the solution. If we stop waiting for people to solve our problems for us, we'll be better able to effectively filter information.
The people in other countries are having such averse reactions to what we import because it is coming so fast and hard. Slashdotters and the media are able to absorb and defray these falsifications, because we've been at the mercy of the torrent of media for so long. We are accustomed to the deluge, and can find the nuggets of truth among all the falsehoods and simple wastes of bandwidth. The vast majority of culture in America, and especially the rest of the world, has been hit with the wave all at once, as the internet has literally flooded to all corners. They still lack the skills to decide sense from nonsense on the net, and buy into whatever fits their stereotypes.
Also important, but on a different note, is the "Clash of Civilizations" predicted by Samuel P. Huntington that is being accelerated by the media and the internet. Civilizations are revealed to be the last and most pivotal differences between people, and it is these divisions that will cause the next wars. More than ideology, power, greed, or anything else, culture will be the battleground and the spoils. Palestine doesn't want land, really, they want their culture, their holy lands. Albanians don't want military glory, land, or political power, they want to have a society of Albanians.
Chechnya, Tibet, Falun Gong, Israel, East Europe, the Balkans, Africa, all are gripped in these conflicts. The internet gives other cultures a window to the big, benevolent wests society, and these people are apalled by what they see.
They don't see liberty, freedom, equality, opportunity, or any of the values we profess. They see our children, photographed for the pleasure of older men. They see our teenagers, half naked dancing on MTV. They see our politicians and pundits, going back on their words, and decrying the nations they try to help. They see an America that they, frankly, don't want to be helped by. That is why they bomb us. That is why they attack us. They don't want that for their children, for their friends, and I don't blame them.
That's because the Founding Father's had an overly authoritative monarchy to deal with. We have a free society, obscenely free actually. What rational person would protect someone's undeniable constitutional right to dress twenty year old women as children and then photograph them stripping? This country was founded when freedom was in short supply, now its a little too widespread, and we need to rein it in if we want a society that's acceptable for our children. I agree with what the foreigners are saying. We have a very dangerous, disturbing culture, and its our obsession with freedom that has enabled it to form.
Slashdot Mirror
I've seen people chug a frisbee, the ultimate short, wide glass. Apparently it holds about 3 - 4 beers. Dangerous.
interesting idea. slashdot has an incredible double standard when it comes to freedom of information. we don't want to pay for any of 'the man's' information, but if you want our information, you'll have to not only pay for it, but then also pry it from our cold dead fingers.
hmm, i guess i don't have a point here. move along
how bout a moderate function? outfoxed allows you to tag a site with a review, and see others in your social network and what they thought of the site. if it catches on, google could augment page rank with similar functionality.
I feel like I'm in a fog, without a seeing eye dog. What a sog! Burninate, Trog! Jeremiah was a bullfrog, but there was a server backlog. And that was just the prologue. Later we took a jog to get some egg nog. Just make sure to oil the cog. I know its a slog, but its better than smog. Thats the end of this log.
And then the boulder starts rolling, arrows, pygmies, etc. Lets put a video camera in there, Lucas will foot the bill.
sure, chinese peasants are cheap, but you dont have to feed, clothe and shelter processor power.
Am I the only one who thinks this could go well for IP in the long run?
If the patent office makes a blatantly terrible move like this one seems to be, its possible it could trigger a backlash that will get patent law fixed up properly. People talk about this with the Supreme Court as well - it might be better to overturn Roe v. Wade because it would so energize the choice crowd and maybe even motivate congressional action.
Just something to consider.
but it would at least be english. actually, nevermind, babelfish is probably better. at least it doesnt make cracks about what it would do in soviet russia.
What about helping the fish out?
Rather than just caching the poorly done translation, make it editable. So when this is posted, 1000 slashdotters have already done what they can to clean up the text, maybe even add something relevant.
Slashwiki anyone? Use the moderating system and karma to determine what shows up for each person. Slashdot is great for finding good articles, but the discussion is difficult to relate efficiently. If it worked like I'm describing, people could make the online equivalent of margin notes.
I would love to make this happen, drop me a line at my gmail - djtumolo - if you want to work on this.
The basic idea of how this works is like a railgun, except you're trying to get the gun to move, not the projectile. Two parallel bars, with a third across the two, and massive current going through the system. The third bar experiences terrific force. In this system, the perpendicular bar is actually a conducting gas.
just make sure its red.
not mine, but this http://www.gregduffy.com/2005/03/04/1109964561920. html page has a great technique (some coding required) for getting around the page limit.
I really want to make some new stuff for fallout, cuz it doesnt seem like theres going to be anything like it for a while. post apocalyptica doesnt seem to be a popular topic for rpg's... sad really. so drop me a line if you want to work on something. hell, if interplay won't make fallout 3, why dont we?
tiny bubbles, make me romp fp
The whole time I was reading this article, I kept thinking Open Source, Open Source. I checked out source forge, and theres a couple of fairly well developed projects, but nothing up to the level of Everquest. I think it would be cool if a developer made an open source, highly moddable and most importantly, responsive and fun mmorpg, preferably set in a fallout type world. 90% of the time the reason i stop playing a game isnt because i've beaten it or because I'm bored, its because part of the interface has gotten too frustrating for me to deal with. With open source, those kinds of things could be dealt with. My basic vision is for a server architecture that is simply a framework for hosting many different universes simultaneously, all open source. mmorpg's dont need thousands of simultaneous players, they need about a thousand. i'm not looking for a huge daunting experience with tons of people, i'm looking for something fun, more like a pickup game than a job. thats the problem with everquest, its a job, not a game. games have gotten so advanced and in depth that most of them arent even fun, theyre frustrating, addicting, and tedious. well, thats my rant. peace
I got this forwarded to me by 3 or 4 friends, who all deleted their java manager files because an email/instant message told them it was a virus. Nobody was bothered by the fact that Norton or some other program didnt pick it up, or that they had never downloaded anything from AOL or Email, like the hoax said. Blind acceptance is the evil in this situation, and education is the solution. If we stop waiting for people to solve our problems for us, we'll be better able to effectively filter information. The people in other countries are having such averse reactions to what we import because it is coming so fast and hard. Slashdotters and the media are able to absorb and defray these falsifications, because we've been at the mercy of the torrent of media for so long. We are accustomed to the deluge, and can find the nuggets of truth among all the falsehoods and simple wastes of bandwidth. The vast majority of culture in America, and especially the rest of the world, has been hit with the wave all at once, as the internet has literally flooded to all corners. They still lack the skills to decide sense from nonsense on the net, and buy into whatever fits their stereotypes. Also important, but on a different note, is the "Clash of Civilizations" predicted by Samuel P. Huntington that is being accelerated by the media and the internet. Civilizations are revealed to be the last and most pivotal differences between people, and it is these divisions that will cause the next wars. More than ideology, power, greed, or anything else, culture will be the battleground and the spoils. Palestine doesn't want land, really, they want their culture, their holy lands. Albanians don't want military glory, land, or political power, they want to have a society of Albanians. Chechnya, Tibet, Falun Gong, Israel, East Europe, the Balkans, Africa, all are gripped in these conflicts. The internet gives other cultures a window to the big, benevolent wests society, and these people are apalled by what they see. They don't see liberty, freedom, equality, opportunity, or any of the values we profess. They see our children, photographed for the pleasure of older men. They see our teenagers, half naked dancing on MTV. They see our politicians and pundits, going back on their words, and decrying the nations they try to help. They see an America that they, frankly, don't want to be helped by. That is why they bomb us. That is why they attack us. They don't want that for their children, for their friends, and I don't blame them.
That's because the Founding Father's had an overly authoritative monarchy to deal with. We have a free society, obscenely free actually. What rational person would protect someone's undeniable constitutional right to dress twenty year old women as children and then photograph them stripping? This country was founded when freedom was in short supply, now its a little too widespread, and we need to rein it in if we want a society that's acceptable for our children. I agree with what the foreigners are saying. We have a very dangerous, disturbing culture, and its our obsession with freedom that has enabled it to form.