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I admire Steve's courage, his enthusiasm, his zest for life and for letting us all share a little bit of the wondererous life he lived. Many of us can only hope to be so lucky as to live a life that isn't mundane, tedious and predictable. Steve's been to more places, witnessed more beautiful and fascinating cultures and people and animals than most of us would if we had 3 lives to live. He knew the risks and chose to live his life the way he wanted to live it. Not many people can say that. We're all gonna die. Might as well go out while living life to the fullest.
This sounds too absurd to be true, but if it were to happen i would boycott Google for better or for worse. Yes it would suck having to use another search engine, but I'd have no choice but to boycott them for principles sake.
What is the case for manned exploration again? Robots seem to be doing a pretty good job already. We just need increasingly more advanced robots. This seems to be the logical path to follow. Eventually we will get to the point where robots can be programmed to construct anything needed for a human "base" and when its proven to be ready, then we can start sending people.
Robots FTW!
I wouldn't doubt it. But I think its nearly guaranteed that "they" will try to make an example out of him in one way or another in order to discourage others from doing as he did.
OMG, that is one funny video. Did the documentation for the table come with any warnings "DO NOT ADJUST TABLE WHILE IN USE" or something to that effect?
What a cool video. Scott Adams can probably come up with a months worth of new cartoon's based on all this. Mr Adams hasn't spent enough time lambasting government clients and I think all that is about to change.
the "motivational" differences he describes for Yau's politicing is interesting, but if it still amounts to taking undo credit for the work it's not justified although perhaps migitgated to some minor degree.
Malnutrition affects half of all children in India, and there is little sign that they are being helped by the country's market reforms, which have focused on creating private wealth rather than expanding access to health care and education. Despite the country's growing economy, 2.5 million Indian children die annually, accounting for one out of every five child deaths worldwide; and facilities for primary education have collapsed in large parts of the country (the official literacy rate of 61 percent includes many who can barely write their names). In the countryside, where 70 percent of India's population lives, the government has reported that about 100,000 farmers committed suicide between 1993 and 2003.
So I have no idea what you're talking about. Change is not important to them? I guess they like seeing their children die and develop all sorts of diseases stemming from malnutrition and living in squalor.
"Oh, how I miss the days when a man's word was good for a loan at the bank, a student's teacher kept records of a students behaviour (read: their opinion of) only in their minds, clerks kept knowledge of your preferences and purchases to themselves,,,,"
Wow, I didnt realize 90 year old people read Slashdot. Way to be hip grandpa!
Huh? What about cdroms? What about floppy disks?
I think the point is, if a user finds a data disk of any format, they might try to see what is on the disk. Further, by filling the disk with seemingly legitimate user data (image files, documents, spreadsheets, then when they come across a binary or script, they are going to be very inclined to TRUST IT).
Good lord, can you imagine if highways and roads WERE owned by corporations? Everyone would wind up with the equivalent of bus passes just to drive their own cars. Then when switching to the roads owned by another company you'd start paying roaming charges... LITTERALLY.
And then some roads... would be just impossible to get on. What's that? You say you want to drive to Disneyland? Congratulations because now the roads to access the Disneyland parking lots all charge a sur-charge of 20.00.
What's this? You want to drive to the beach? Well because its the weekend and the first hot sunny day in 3 weeks, you're going to be charged an extra 10.00 "good weather weekend" surcharge if you want to drive closer than a 10 block walk to the beach. But surely this is fair? I mean these are private roads, don't they have the right to restrict access to the better roads or the roads that get you closer to where you actually want to go?
Blind capitalism is not the American way.
As far as Bridget's arguments however... its totally rediculous. Content providers and content users all PAY for their bandwidth. If i want more bandwidth i have to pay for it. If my website goes over so much traffic, I pay for it. If I want a T1 installed to my house, I have to pay ALOT for it. Do you think E-Bay is paying the same amount in bandwidth cost that Craigslist is paying? No freaking way.
This isnt about paying for bandwidth, this is about fragmenting the internet, blocking competition, blocking voices, blocking access. For the home user, they want to charge you extra for being able to access Ebay just as if it were a premium channel on HBO. For companies like Ebay and Google, they understand that they'll be extorted to pay a premium to not have their service to certain areas degraded! It's the flipside of the cable analogy whereby instead of hte customers paying for access to some services on the web somewhere, now services on the web also have to pay a "fee" to be carried on these networks!
For a so called "big studio" you have to realize that their overhead is huge. They couldnt produce a "cheap" game by indie standards if they wanted to. For big studios or publishers, the only games that make sense to make are the ones that currently or are expected to appeal to the mainstream.
This is why PC sports, space, racing, flight simulations have died... the cost to produce them outweights the potential returns. Mainstream gamers dont play sports, space, racing and flight sims anymore.
An indie film producer can purchase a camera and some film (or use digital for cheaper). Recruit a crew and actors and shoot their film and have it in the can in a couple of months. And not counting CGI and special FX and stunts, they can come reasonably close to hollywood style production values. Afterall, a camera shoots what it shoots.
But for a video game, to get the perceived production values of a mainstream game requires so much more time and money. Content is an especially big hurdle since every single sound, model, texture, has to be created and this costs money... alot of money. And if you want really good sound, models and textures... its going to cost ALOT of money.
In my opinion, this article is misplaced. Although there are many similarites in production between movies and games, comparing indie movies and indie game development is silly. Primarily, as a percentage of budget, an indie film on a $500,000 budget or less can potentially compete with a $50,000,000 budget movie in terms of becoming accessible to the mainstream movie going public. (Blair Witch Project, Memento, Primer, Napolean Dynamite, etc) but there has never been an indie game created at such a fraction of the mainstream budget for the current time period, that managed to reach mainstream gamers.
The meaning of "hand" or "HAND" has been updated from "Have a nice day" to the much more hip and trendy "Talk to the (hand)". Please make a note of it.
All these "useless legal actions" are a bi-product of being a publicly held corporation. Public corporations are encouraged by their lawyers to engage in legal actions whenever and wherever they feel that doing so will help preserve their piece of the pie or make it fatter.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 21 (Reuters Future News Service) - A parental advice Internet site Kinderstart.com has sued Open Source Technolgoy Group (OSTG) owners of the popular internet news site Slashdot.org, charging it unfairly deprived the company of customers by not perptually running stories about it. An attorney at the law firm of Slippe, Falle & Sioux whom are representing Kinderstart.com commented that "It's unfair to give that kind of free publicity one day, and then take it away the next. Frankly, any company with that much power make's me salivate."
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I admire Steve's courage, his enthusiasm, his zest for life and for letting us all share a little bit of the wondererous life he lived. Many of us can only hope to be so lucky as to live a life that isn't mundane, tedious and predictable. Steve's been to more places, witnessed more beautiful and fascinating cultures and people and animals than most of us would if we had 3 lives to live. He knew the risks and chose to live his life the way he wanted to live it. Not many people can say that. We're all gonna die. Might as well go out while living life to the fullest.
This sounds too absurd to be true, but if it were to happen i would boycott Google for better or for worse. Yes it would suck having to use another search engine, but I'd have no choice but to boycott them for principles sake.
What is the case for manned exploration again? Robots seem to be doing a pretty good job already. We just need increasingly more advanced robots. This seems to be the logical path to follow. Eventually we will get to the point where robots can be programmed to construct anything needed for a human "base" and when its proven to be ready, then we can start sending people. Robots FTW!
I wouldn't doubt it. But I think its nearly guaranteed that "they" will try to make an example out of him in one way or another in order to discourage others from doing as he did.
OMG, that is one funny video. Did the documentation for the table come with any warnings "DO NOT ADJUST TABLE WHILE IN USE" or something to that effect?
What a cool video. Scott Adams can probably come up with a months worth of new cartoon's based on all this. Mr Adams hasn't spent enough time lambasting government clients and I think all that is about to change.
The end is near. Repent Sun employees!
the "motivational" differences he describes for Yau's politicing is interesting, but if it still amounts to taking undo credit for the work it's not justified although perhaps migitgated to some minor degree.
Nikola Tesla.
We have always been at war with Eurasia.
And most of the damage was caused by our own over & inappropriate reations to the threat.
"Oh, how I miss the days when a man's word was good for a loan at the bank, a student's teacher kept records of a students behaviour (read: their opinion of) only in their minds, clerks kept knowledge of your preferences and purchases to themselves,,,," Wow, I didnt realize 90 year old people read Slashdot. Way to be hip grandpa!
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Nice catch. MOD PARENT UP
Huh? What about cdroms? What about floppy disks? I think the point is, if a user finds a data disk of any format, they might try to see what is on the disk. Further, by filling the disk with seemingly legitimate user data (image files, documents, spreadsheets, then when they come across a binary or script, they are going to be very inclined to TRUST IT).
Good lord, can you imagine if highways and roads WERE owned by corporations? Everyone would wind up with the equivalent of bus passes just to drive their own cars. Then when switching to the roads owned by another company you'd start paying roaming charges... LITTERALLY.
And then some roads... would be just impossible to get on. What's that? You say you want to drive to Disneyland? Congratulations because now the roads to access the Disneyland parking lots all charge a sur-charge of 20.00.
What's this? You want to drive to the beach? Well because its the weekend and the first hot sunny day in 3 weeks, you're going to be charged an extra 10.00 "good weather weekend" surcharge if you want to drive closer than a 10 block walk to the beach. But surely this is fair? I mean these are private roads, don't they have the right to restrict access to the better roads or the roads that get you closer to where you actually want to go?
Blind capitalism is not the American way.
As far as Bridget's arguments however... its totally rediculous. Content providers and content users all PAY for their bandwidth. If i want more bandwidth i have to pay for it. If my website goes over so much traffic, I pay for it. If I want a T1 installed to my house, I have to pay ALOT for it. Do you think E-Bay is paying the same amount in bandwidth cost that Craigslist is paying? No freaking way.
This isnt about paying for bandwidth, this is about fragmenting the internet, blocking competition, blocking voices, blocking access. For the home user, they want to charge you extra for being able to access Ebay just as if it were a premium channel on HBO. For companies like Ebay and Google, they understand that they'll be extorted to pay a premium to not have their service to certain areas degraded! It's the flipside of the cable analogy whereby instead of hte customers paying for access to some services on the web somewhere, now services on the web also have to pay a "fee" to be carried on these networks!
Ants dont like Diet soda.
For a so called "big studio" you have to realize that their overhead is huge. They couldnt produce a "cheap" game by indie standards if they wanted to. For big studios or publishers, the only games that make sense to make are the ones that currently or are expected to appeal to the mainstream. This is why PC sports, space, racing, flight simulations have died... the cost to produce them outweights the potential returns. Mainstream gamers dont play sports, space, racing and flight sims anymore.
An indie film producer can purchase a camera and some film (or use digital for cheaper). Recruit a crew and actors and shoot their film and have it in the can in a couple of months. And not counting CGI and special FX and stunts, they can come reasonably close to hollywood style production values. Afterall, a camera shoots what it shoots. But for a video game, to get the perceived production values of a mainstream game requires so much more time and money. Content is an especially big hurdle since every single sound, model, texture, has to be created and this costs money... alot of money. And if you want really good sound, models and textures... its going to cost ALOT of money. In my opinion, this article is misplaced. Although there are many similarites in production between movies and games, comparing indie movies and indie game development is silly. Primarily, as a percentage of budget, an indie film on a $500,000 budget or less can potentially compete with a $50,000,000 budget movie in terms of becoming accessible to the mainstream movie going public. (Blair Witch Project, Memento, Primer, Napolean Dynamite, etc) but there has never been an indie game created at such a fraction of the mainstream budget for the current time period, that managed to reach mainstream gamers.
The meaning of "hand" or "HAND" has been updated from "Have a nice day" to the much more hip and trendy "Talk to the (hand)". Please make a note of it.
TTYL.
All these "useless legal actions" are a bi-product of being a publicly held corporation. Public corporations are encouraged by their lawyers to engage in legal actions whenever and wherever they feel that doing so will help preserve their piece of the pie or make it fatter.
Where was the glitter? Who the hell uses SAND to make a glitter text sign. I bet he did the impossible when he failed kindergarten.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 21 (Reuters Future News Service) - A parental advice Internet site Kinderstart.com has sued Open Source Technolgoy Group (OSTG) owners of the popular internet news site Slashdot.org, charging it unfairly deprived the company of customers by not perptually running stories about it. An attorney at the law firm of Slippe, Falle & Sioux whom are representing Kinderstart.com commented that "It's unfair to give that kind of free publicity one day, and then take it away the next. Frankly, any company with that much power make's me salivate."