...this really isn't surprising. If you build a serious of houses with a shitload of rad mod cons built in (broadband Internet access, 120 cable channels, home security systems) then obviously the house is going to be worth more.
What is a surprise is that it doesn't appear to be just geeks who dig this stuff.
"If you began with the early history of film - Lumiere, Melies - you would have had virtually no way of predicting it would become a social institution in which hundreds of people sat together in dark rooms watching 2 hour long narratives."
"If you begin with the early history of gaming - Pacman, Galaxian, Zork, Doom, and the like - you would have had virtually no way of predicting it would become a social institution in which hundreds of people sat in front of computers in dark rooms playing 40-hour long shoot-em-up marathons."
Those bastards stole my idea! *I* wanted to hack the military and boast to all my 1337 friends about it! Now I'll look like an unoriginal script kiddie if I try it!
"...just look at.jpg, that company recently saying they owned the rights, and.gif, compuserv (i think) has owned the rights to that forever, but they're EVERYWHERE, they can't sue everyone."
Yeah, just look at copyrighted music and the RIAA. They can't sue everyone either, but they can introduce laws to make new technology illegal!
"Linux is a super bright guy, but ignoring patents is just handing M$, SGI, Sun, etc. very effective weapons."
Do you really think he hasn't got a good reason for doing this? Here's a quote from him:
"I do not look up any patents on _principle_, because (a) it's a horrible waste of time and (b) I don't want to know. The fact is, technical people are better off not looking at patents. If you don't know what they cover and where they are, you won't be knowingly infringing on them."
"not to mention you can just VIEW SOURCE and just find the link to the picture in there and copy|paste it into your address bar then save the picture.:)"
not to mention you can fool these retarded scripts by just pressing the left and right buttons at the same time:)
"This is actually very useful. You don't need to look at the menu to click. If you preform an action often, you can just click, move, and click without even having to check where you moved your mouse too exactly."
Can't you just wait until a telemarketer faxes/calls you, and then just pick up the line and leave it off the hook for an hour or three? That'd annoy 'em (unless they had multiple phone lines, God damn 'em).
"Get real. This is worse then those telemarketer that say they are collecting money for your local police only to give them $20.00 and keep the rest ($2+ million in one case). This one is 100% illegal."
Um, no. That was just plain fraud. This actually has a tangible benefit - spreading the word of certain missing children. That can't be directed into their own pockets.
Still, I doubt if anyone is going to fall for their crude attempt to associate themselves for something virtuous.
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In Morse code, I presume.
"upper end of the 8-and-over target market" = "18-25 single Star Wars geeks"
...will it have this as a secret feature?
What is a surprise is that it doesn't appear to be just geeks who dig this stuff.
Stage one testing complete.
Stage two testing complete.
Testing complete for http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/china/test/ . Result:
Reported as accessible in China
Seems that you can access the testing site itself from within China. :-)
Er...wait.
"If you begin with the early history of gaming - Pacman, Galaxian, Zork, Doom, and the like - you would have had virtually no way of predicting it would become a social institution in which hundreds of people sat in front of computers in dark rooms playing 40-hour long shoot-em-up marathons."
The scary thing is, this could actually happen.
Damn.
Yeah, just look at copyrighted music and the RIAA. They can't sue everyone either, but they can introduce laws to make new technology illegal!
Do you really think he hasn't got a good reason for doing this? Here's a quote from him:
"I do not look up any patents on _principle_, because (a) it's a horrible waste of time and (b) I don't want to know.
The fact is, technical people are better off not looking at patents. If you don't know what they cover and where they are, you won't be knowingly infringing on them. "
Read it and weep, you whining bitches!
not to mention you can fool these retarded scripts by just pressing the left and right buttons at the same time :)
I know! Aren't drop-down menus just great?!
Can't you just wait until a telemarketer faxes/calls you, and then just pick up the line and leave it off the hook for an hour or three? That'd annoy 'em (unless they had multiple phone lines, God damn 'em).
Um, no. That was just plain fraud. This actually has a tangible benefit - spreading the word of certain missing children. That can't be directed into their own pockets.
Still, I doubt if anyone is going to fall for their crude attempt to associate themselves for something virtuous.
they send faxes about missing children! Without them children would stay missing."
Oh, yeah, don't sue them, because they care so much about our children.
I always get those six mixed up! Er...wait.
Yep, and if their karma's Excellent, they're a suckup. And if their karma's Terrible, they're an immature troll. So hire them if their karma's Good.
E.g. 1, 3, 7, 9, 8, 5, 4, 10, 6 becomes 137985410. The missing digit (in the range 0-9) is 6, therefore 6 is the missing no.
Still, it's not exactly efficient.
Ta da!
Can't think why ;-)
What if they're running Windows?
Linking to a website which forbids it in a Slashdot article: ROFLMAOUTB-piss-your-pants funny.