Those who criticize the Segway are missing the point. Without this incredible device how will Americans maintain their worldwide leadership in arse size through the next century and beyond? It's a breakthrough in allowing sedentary mobility!
"The first approach to a modern assessment roll or cataster is the well known Domesday Book."
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/domesday1. ht ml
"The Domesday Book was ordered by William the Conqeror to assess the value of his conquered kingdom 20 years after defeating Harold at the Battle of Hastings."
http://www.villagenet.co.uk/history/1086-domesda y. html
"Will Free/Open Source authors/users ever admit that they have to listen to end users, or will they continue their elite cries of "RTFM!" whenever a "luser" can't do something that is perfectly fucking obvious?"
Sadly the answer seems to be NO as you gentlemen have shown. It's not whether Open Source/Free software is capable of beating Microsoft at their own game; I truly believe that MS would die the death of a thousand cuts if all the hackers out there just got their shit together and tried to produce a real windows replacement. However that isn't what it's all about. It's about producing cool stuff to be used by those in the know, and it's never about producing hand-holding software like Apple's iPhoto. Sure there might be something like iPhoto in some ways but was the primary focus to write an app that would act, as Gassee used to say, as a "tractor" app? Didn't think so.
Unreal Tournament is great. I bought the Xbox and Live just for Mechassault, but Unreal is the no. 1 game for me so far. A lot of people are talking about Ghost Recon too. And all this stuff would be just console games without real humans as opponents. Once the AI is eliminated and real intelligence (well, semi-) takes over the game gets a lot mroe interesting. The difference between the bots and the real players in Unreal is obvious, even if they havan't changed their player name from the default which the bots also use.
I'm 33, and expected to have trouble putting up with a bunch of kids screaming "I 0wn j00! OMG LOL ur so lame!!11!!!11111" - but it's not. Most people sound about my age. The funniest thing about Live is that the headset will pick up people in the room with you. So you can hear someone's mum come into the room and tell him to stop playing now, and listen to him whine "just finish this game oh please oh please" and she won't let him. Or in some cases it's the wife saying "we have to go NOW!"
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You shouldn't get into Nethack. The longer you are able to think of it as a seemingly lame game the longer you will maintain your job and relationships. You won't like it, honestly. There are too many levels to bother with.
(started playing (Hack for Amiga) 1987; first ascended (Nethack 3 on a VAX) in 1992)
If the huge false start that was Application Service Providers showed anything it is that corporate customers don't trust computing resources that are outside their control. It doesn't matter if IBM can provide a better service or a more reliable one, it just doesn't feel that way - and the IT guys will never report favorably on something that will put them out of a job.
It's PCjr, it's Gavilan, it's all kind of failures. And $10,000,000,000!
That's Australian management all over. They expect you to be there at 9, never spend more than 30 minutes at lunch and like to turn the lights off promptly at 6. If you want to work after hours, burn your own damn electricity! In short, absolutely fucking clueless. This is great!
First, it helps me consider my options when looking at a prospective employer. I can separate the control freaks and PHBs from people I could happily work with much more easily. I don't mind a tie when I have to meet customers but it's just silly otherwise.
Second, should I decide to have my own business one day it will be just another way to attract the best people to work for me. Nope, no stupid dress codes when I'm the boss.
Yup. An incredibly useless review that should never have been posted. Where are the fans from Verax, with the newly designed rotors - they are the quietest fans currently available. Where are the Vantec tip-motor fans?
Pretty lights. Useless! I bet he has a 3-foot spoilier on the back of his Honda too.
OK, we slashdotted him! Now support the members of the Aquatic Plants Digest by going here and buying a T-shirt or something - more than half of each purchase goes to their legal defense fund. And if you're on the east coast the asshole might even see you wearing it.
Don't EVER waste money on "Monster Cable". It is bullshit and you are paying for all the pretty packaging and 2" thick filler and covering. In the end it's all copper and it doesn't have to be thick to be good. Try Markertek.com or some other professional supply store for the cables the professionals use for less than the suckers at Best Buy have to pay.
Leftist dilettantes attending expensive college attain success beyond their wildest dreams, as administrators bring them more publicity than they ever believed possible. Bands are racing to book their events at the cafe, sure to be packed with students eager to show their support for their international comrades by getting very drunk and damaging their hearing. Not even the extreme flatulence of a vegan all-you-can-eat party will prevent these young activists from partying until they vomit in support of revolutionaries everywhere!
Just don't take any pictures, OK? This kind of thing could be quite damaging when applying for jobs after college.
Did you play "Freedom Force"? There was a wealth of abilities and attributes for creating your own character. Running out of Marvel identities shouldn't be too much of a problem, in fact I wouldn't be letting random players have Marvel characters at all, but I would have all the big names as NPCs or hire people to play them as staff - kind of like walking into Disneyland and there's a guy in a Mickey Mouse suit, if you know what I mean.
Or, auction the Marvel characters, or compete for the right to play them. You could use a ladder system like Bungie did for Myth online, top player of the month gets to pick a Marvel character first, and so on.
I really doubt it's worth explaining. He's all excited about being able to file a lawsuit now. But here's what I might say....
If an email server is open to spammers who choose to be dishonest about who they are (i.e. all of them) then it is open. No point trying to argue that it is closed. If these people had any honesty would they be trying to sell the questionable products and services they do? To the people sending spam it doesn't get much more open.
What you've missed is that you're having trouble sending email because a very great number of people want you to have trouble until you close your relays in a certain way. A little group in Denmark has no power at all unless what they say is reasonable and accepted by said people. The RIAA would have to pass the same test to have addresses suspected of involvement in piracy banned also and doubt they would have the same kind of support, as they are not addressing an issue that is universally annoying (as is spam), and they have generally made asses of themselves - but they could try to do the same thing, yes. You could too - start your own campaign to have those Danish guys ignored! Oh but wait, everybody agrees with them and not you.
Too bad you feel you have to file a lawsuit. You might win, and the guys in Denmark might have a good laugh and have their stereotypical image of an American lawyer confirmed. They might even have to stay out of the USA, but you still won't be able to send your email. The net effect is probably that you will be invited to kiss some Danish ass. For real results you would have to file suit, and win, against everyone who does not accept your email. Kind of like the RIAA choosing to target tools that facilitate copying rather than the people who actually do the copying. Has that strategy worked?
Now the RIAA appears to be targeting individuals - finally they understand! You might like to read this if you think the RIAA could demand blocking like those guys in Denmark - ISPs don't appear ready to acts as rent-a-cops for the RIAA.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-957332.html
"But at the same time, any private operator at an end point in the Internet's architecture can restrict the flow of content to a user."
For an "internet attorney" you don't appear to understand much about the internet. Unless, as I suspect, this is just hyperbole from a guy who wants to get his own way.
Microsoft is the world's most profitable company because they ensure that their partners (who create machines that use Windows) survive. Microsoft wants everyone to survive so that there is always price war in the hardware sector. The more competitors there are the lower prices get. So yes, they make money by giving it away.
Read joelonsoftware.com - he has an excellent article about the complements of products. Essentially, if you drive down the cost of a product's complement (as a PC is to Windows) you sell more and make more money. Another example, MP3 players sell like hot cakes because it's easy to get free music.
a) what do you expect from HP? They're a company trying to make money (that's what companies do). They don't have the luxury of political pointmaking while doing so. Their responsibility is to their shareholders. Bruce's responsibility was to help. Instead he thought he should be changing the world. Sucks to be Bruce.
b) what do you expect from HP? A company that has been sliding into corporate mediocrity for years, now run by an idiot with a degree in medieval studies who preserves her private jet complete with hair stylist while laying off thousands. Are you really that amazed that someone was fired for stepping out of his box?
Who are you talking to, heretic108? Senator Alston? The guy that says that South Korea has great broadband because they love their pr0n so much? Are you actually imagining either cares about rational argument? His mind has already been made up for him...
he feels that IT is very scary and any law that holds it down, like patents, is worth having.
Oooh I love this thread. Now we can go back and forth arguing about what's equivalent and how much it all costs. This could last all day if we're careful. And certainly one side will walk away completely enlightened.
Who was it said "You'll never go broke appealling to the lowest common denominator"? If you look at Robot Wars, Battlebots etc. one thing is obvious - it's just a tractor pull for people who aren't from farms, but come from trailer parks. Pure white trash. Don't look for autonomous robots because they're not capable of building any. You won't see it as popular entertainment until robots are ubiquitous and disposable, just like demolition derbys didn't happen until America had more cars than it knew what to do with.
The status is that people just don't care because nebulous issues like bypassing DRM are the only argument for it.
First, people designing and/or producing open hardware can't compete with the companies producing closed hardware. To produce cutting edge stuff you need huge budgets, good relationships with chip makers and and design teams that are all in one place. Smaller less experienced teams, lower budgets, later access to new technology and the problems of a distributed design team mean that open hardware stays a generation or two behind. Hmmm, "Open" 500MHz PowerPC or 2GHz Athlon - and the Athlon is $500 cheaper. What kind of choice is that?
Second, production of hardware on a big scale (as you get with closed hardware) is cheaper. There is some incentive to produce hardware in huge quantity and obtain the discounts when there is capital to risk. Nobody wants to produce 20,000 CHRP boards when there's no indication that they will all sell, "Open" hardware people don't even get a tax writeoff for obsolete stock. This is especially true when some companies make little or nothing on the hardware (X Box, PS2) and use the software to make their profits, requiring that the hardware remain as closed as they can make it.
Hey, great way to distort the truth and make "wireless activists" sound important! From the headline you would think "wireless activists" had themselves drawn the scrutiny of the FBI.
But all they said was that if you notice a chalk mark advertising your wireless network you should think about securing it. Well duh!
And "wireless activists"? More like geeks with toys. I wonder how long the novelty lasts for the average "activist". It's a network. But without wires! WOW!
The purchaser decides of course. The law proposed removes the right to make that decision and that's why it's wrong. A blanket rule about choosing Open Source fails to consider cases where there that choice would be wrong. It might even prove more expensive in some cases.
"Superior" just means that for whatever reason it does the job required in a better way. Even Stallman would have to admit that for some tasks there just isn't a usable Open Source equivalent. Of course he'd rather eat vomit than use proprietary software even if it was better but that's beside the point.
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Those who criticize the Segway are missing the point. Without this incredible device how will Americans maintain their worldwide leadership in arse size through the next century and beyond? It's a breakthrough in allowing sedentary mobility!
If you're too lazy or ignorant to use Google:
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"The first approach to a modern assessment roll or cataster is the well known Domesday Book."
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/domesday1
"The Domesday Book was ordered by William the Conqeror to assess the value of his conquered kingdom 20 years after defeating Harold at the Battle of Hastings."
http://www.villagenet.co.uk/history/1086-domesd
And this is the question he should be asking -
"Will Free/Open Source authors/users ever admit that they have to listen to end users, or will they continue their elite cries of "RTFM!" whenever a "luser" can't do something that is perfectly fucking obvious?"
Sadly the answer seems to be NO as you gentlemen have shown. It's not whether Open Source/Free software is capable of beating Microsoft at their own game; I truly believe that MS would die the death of a thousand cuts if all the hackers out there just got their shit together and tried to produce a real windows replacement. However that isn't what it's all about. It's about producing cool stuff to be used by those in the know, and it's never about producing hand-holding software like Apple's iPhoto. Sure there might be something like iPhoto in some ways but was the primary focus to write an app that would act, as Gassee used to say, as a "tractor" app? Didn't think so.
Unreal Tournament is great. I bought the Xbox and Live just for Mechassault, but Unreal is the no. 1 game for me so far. A lot of people are talking about Ghost Recon too. And all this stuff would be just console games without real humans as opponents. Once the AI is eliminated and real intelligence (well, semi-) takes over the game gets a lot mroe interesting. The difference between the bots and the real players in Unreal is obvious, even if they havan't changed their player name from the default which the bots also use.
I'm 33, and expected to have trouble putting up with a bunch of kids screaming "I 0wn j00! OMG LOL ur so lame!!11!!!11111" - but it's not. Most people sound about my age. The funniest thing about Live is that the headset will pick up people in the room with you. So you can hear someone's mum come into the room and tell him to stop playing now, and listen to him whine "just finish this game oh please oh please" and she won't let him. Or in some cases it's the wife saying "we have to go NOW!"
Yes, for PETA members.
(People for Eating Tasty Animals)
You shouldn't get into Nethack. The longer you are able to think of it as a seemingly lame game the longer you will maintain your job and relationships. You won't like it, honestly. There are too many levels to bother with.
(started playing (Hack for Amiga) 1987; first ascended (Nethack 3 on a VAX) in 1992)
If the huge false start that was Application Service Providers showed anything it is that corporate customers don't trust computing resources that are outside their control. It doesn't matter if IBM can provide a better service or a more reliable one, it just doesn't feel that way - and the IT guys will never report favorably on something that will put them out of a job.
It's PCjr, it's Gavilan, it's all kind of failures. And $10,000,000,000!
That's Australian management all over. They expect you to be there at 9, never spend more than 30 minutes at lunch and like to turn the lights off promptly at 6. If you want to work after hours, burn your own damn electricity! In short, absolutely fucking clueless. This is great!
First, it helps me consider my options when looking at a prospective employer. I can separate the control freaks and PHBs from people I could happily work with much more easily. I don't mind a tie when I have to meet customers but it's just silly otherwise.
Second, should I decide to have my own business one day it will be just another way to attract the best people to work for me. Nope, no stupid dress codes when I'm the boss.
Yup. An incredibly useless review that should never have been posted. Where are the fans from Verax, with the newly designed rotors - they are the quietest fans currently available. Where are the Vantec tip-motor fans?
Pretty lights. Useless! I bet he has a 3-foot spoilier on the back of his Honda too.
OK, we slashdotted him! Now support the members of the Aquatic Plants Digest by going here and buying a T-shirt or something - more than half of each purchase goes to their legal defense fund. And if you're on the east coast the asshole might even see you wearing it.
Don't EVER waste money on "Monster Cable". It is bullshit and you are paying for all the pretty packaging and 2" thick filler and covering. In the end it's all copper and it doesn't have to be thick to be good. Try Markertek.com or some other professional supply store for the cables the professionals use for less than the suckers at Best Buy have to pay.
Leftist dilettantes attending expensive college attain success beyond their wildest dreams, as administrators bring them more publicity than they ever believed possible. Bands are racing to book their events at the cafe, sure to be packed with students eager to show their support for their international comrades by getting very drunk and damaging their hearing. Not even the extreme flatulence of a vegan all-you-can-eat party will prevent these young activists from partying until they vomit in support of revolutionaries everywhere!
Just don't take any pictures, OK? This kind of thing could be quite damaging when applying for jobs after college.
Did you play "Freedom Force"? There was a wealth of abilities and attributes for creating your own character. Running out of Marvel identities shouldn't be too much of a problem, in fact I wouldn't be letting random players have Marvel characters at all, but I would have all the big names as NPCs or hire people to play them as staff - kind of like walking into Disneyland and there's a guy in a Mickey Mouse suit, if you know what I mean.
Or, auction the Marvel characters, or compete for the right to play them. You could use a ladder system like Bungie did for Myth online, top player of the month gets to pick a Marvel character first, and so on.
I really doubt it's worth explaining. He's all excited about being able to file a lawsuit now. But here's what I might say....
If an email server is open to spammers who choose to be dishonest about who they are (i.e. all of them) then it is open. No point trying to argue that it is closed. If these people had any honesty would they be trying to sell the questionable products and services they do? To the people sending spam it doesn't get much more open.
What you've missed is that you're having trouble sending email because a very great number of people want you to have trouble until you close your relays in a certain way. A little group in Denmark has no power at all unless what they say is reasonable and accepted by said people. The RIAA would have to pass the same test to have addresses suspected of involvement in piracy banned also and doubt they would have the same kind of support, as they are not addressing an issue that is universally annoying (as is spam), and they have generally made asses of themselves - but they could try to do the same thing, yes. You could too - start your own campaign to have those Danish guys ignored! Oh but wait, everybody agrees with them and not you.
Too bad you feel you have to file a lawsuit. You might win, and the guys in Denmark might have a good laugh and have their stereotypical image of an American lawyer confirmed. They might even have to stay out of the USA, but you still won't be able to send your email. The net effect is probably that you will be invited to kiss some Danish ass. For real results you would have to file suit, and win, against everyone who does not accept your email. Kind of like the RIAA choosing to target tools that facilitate copying rather than the people who actually do the copying. Has that strategy worked?
Now the RIAA appears to be targeting individuals - finally they understand! You might like to read this if you think the RIAA could demand blocking like those guys in Denmark - ISPs don't appear ready to acts as rent-a-cops for the RIAA.
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-957332.html
"But at the same time, any private operator at an end point in the Internet's architecture can restrict the flow of content to a user."
For an "internet attorney" you don't appear to understand much about the internet. Unless, as I suspect, this is just hyperbole from a guy who wants to get his own way.
Microsoft is the world's most profitable company because they ensure that their partners (who create machines that use Windows) survive. Microsoft wants everyone to survive so that there is always price war in the hardware sector. The more competitors there are the lower prices get. So yes, they make money by giving it away.
Read joelonsoftware.com - he has an excellent article about the complements of products. Essentially, if you drive down the cost of a product's complement (as a PC is to Windows) you sell more and make more money. Another example, MP3 players sell like hot cakes because it's easy to get free music.
a) what do you expect from HP? They're a company trying to make money (that's what companies do). They don't have the luxury of political pointmaking while doing so. Their responsibility is to their shareholders. Bruce's responsibility was to help. Instead he thought he should be changing the world. Sucks to be Bruce.
b) what do you expect from HP? A company that has been sliding into corporate mediocrity for years, now run by an idiot with a degree in medieval studies who preserves her private jet complete with hair stylist while laying off thousands. Are you really that amazed that someone was fired for stepping out of his box?
But when you spend more than two hours searching for a $20 program you tell the world:
"Hey, my time is worth less than $10 an hour! Does anyone know of an opening at Jiffy Lube?" --PITIABLE
Who are you talking to, heretic108? Senator Alston? The guy that says that South Korea has great broadband because they love their pr0n so much? Are you actually imagining either cares about rational argument? His mind has already been made up for him...
he feels that IT is very scary and any law that holds it down, like patents, is worth having.
Or maybe because they don't have the pull to get their thoughts on the matter published where you will see them.
Duh....
Anyone who really cares is going balanced (XLR) wherever possible, and it's a big factor in choosing components.
Oooh I love this thread. Now we can go back and forth arguing about what's equivalent and how much it all costs. This could last all day if we're careful. And certainly one side will walk away completely enlightened.
Who was it said "You'll never go broke appealling to the lowest common denominator"? If you look at Robot Wars, Battlebots etc. one thing is obvious - it's just a tractor pull for people who aren't from farms, but come from trailer parks. Pure white trash. Don't look for autonomous robots because they're not capable of building any. You won't see it as popular entertainment until robots are ubiquitous and disposable, just like demolition derbys didn't happen until America had more cars than it knew what to do with.
The status is that people just don't care because nebulous issues like bypassing DRM are the only argument for it.
First, people designing and/or producing open hardware can't compete with the companies producing closed hardware. To produce cutting edge stuff you need huge budgets, good relationships with chip makers and and design teams that are all in one place. Smaller less experienced teams, lower budgets, later access to new technology and the problems of a distributed design team mean that open hardware stays a generation or two behind. Hmmm, "Open" 500MHz PowerPC or 2GHz Athlon - and the Athlon is $500 cheaper. What kind of choice is that?
Second, production of hardware on a big scale (as you get with closed hardware) is cheaper. There is some incentive to produce hardware in huge quantity and obtain the discounts when there is capital to risk. Nobody wants to produce 20,000 CHRP boards when there's no indication that they will all sell, "Open" hardware people don't even get a tax writeoff for obsolete stock. This is especially true when some companies make little or nothing on the hardware (X Box, PS2) and use the software to make their profits, requiring that the hardware remain as closed as they can make it.
Hey, great way to distort the truth and make "wireless activists" sound important! From the headline you would think "wireless activists" had themselves drawn the scrutiny of the FBI.
But all they said was that if you notice a chalk mark advertising your wireless network you should think about securing it. Well duh!
And "wireless activists"? More like geeks with toys. I wonder how long the novelty lasts for the average "activist". It's a network. But without wires! WOW!
The purchaser decides of course. The law proposed removes the right to make that decision and that's why it's wrong. A blanket rule about choosing Open Source fails to consider cases where there that choice would be wrong. It might even prove more expensive in some cases.
"Superior" just means that for whatever reason it does the job required in a better way. Even Stallman would have to admit that for some tasks there just isn't a usable Open Source equivalent. Of course he'd rather eat vomit than use proprietary software even if it was better but that's beside the point.