Get rid of the basketball court and the football field. Just have rows and rows of systems rigged up with FPS games.
At least fewer people will be killed inadvertently the next time a Columbine happens. The kids will have better aim.
On a more serious note, this is both interesting to me and disturbing at the same time. It's one of those things we probably should do something about, but won't.
This is a very small bone. NDIS is the network driver standard. This is nice, as noted, for WiFi card owners, but other than that it doesn't buy us much. Hell finding an NDIS 5 driver for some older cards will be nigh-impossible, so it doesn't buy us much greater compatibility than we already had, except at the bleeding edge.
It does nothing for modems, video, scanners, USB chipsets, etc etc etc etc.
On OS/2 they are emulating printer drivers. I suspect this is easier to do on OS/2 than it would be on Linux given the similarity of the OS/2 printing structure to Microsoft's own setup in Win32.
These are clever hacks but I doubt it is going to go much further, and doesn't alter the landscape all that much. Kudos to the authors, but the struggle to maintain hardware support for non-mainstream OS' continues.
Speaks volumes for their business acumen, doesn't it? I think these people are trying to make a quick buck and don't know what they have gotten themselves into.
I wouldn't be hasty in making some kind of conspiracy theory out of this.
But there is a difference between saying "The cultural and political climate in Europe is showing signs of the insular racism that led to Nazism in the past." and saying "Your grandparent was a Nazi, and you could turn into one ANY SECOND."
OK. I'll accept it's a little unfair. I agree with the previous statement regarding the political climate in Europe incidentally. However, I will say that the unctious sanctimony of the Europeans regarding the affairs of Israel reminds me of the behavior of ex-smokers who decry smoking in their presence.
I'll also admit that I just don't like Europeans in general. I have a bias. I used to like them too. The last 10 years have been very destructive to my opinion of same, and the hypocrisy on the Israel issue is just the tip of the iceberg.
Mine still remembered, particularly my grandfather who, with Patch's First Army in France and Germany, liberated Lyon and discovered some of the more odious locations in the Pan-European Reich. What he was willing to say was enough.
It could happen again. Don't think things have gotten any better, really. You're fooling yourself.
The Europeans don't like to be reminded about their past harassment, oppression and extermination of Jews. Hence, the flamebait mod. Don't worry, this one is going down too because it tells the truth about them.
Can't be having that, can we? Unfortunately you might succeed in downmodding a post on Slashdot today, but we will always know the truth about you.
My point was that you had Turbo Pascal on the DOS side, and VB on the Win 3.1 end. TP was what all the BBS people were using for everything, suites and entire door games. VB was what businesses were using to make stupid little apps for themselves. Nothing was done to compete along those lines - and with the developer mindshare entrenched on Microsoft's side, you aren't going to win.
The same thing is happening now with the.NET stuff.
Microsoft's dominance is fairly well assured without competition along those lines.
I had my copy of OS/2 2.0 the day it was released. The same crap kept on coming up. No applications.
Warp was dead before Win95 was even released. It was a comedy of errors, but the primary one is the one that Ballmer was teaching you in his monkey boy video. "Developers, developers, developers...". If you can control the development target for application developers, then you can control the OS market.
IBM was openly hostile to the hobbyist developer as well as the small shop. Getting a SDK was a nightmare. Getting compilers was even rougher. Ironically most of the stuff available was Microsoft software - for 16-bit OS/2. (MS BASIC, C, MASM all supported 16 bit OS/2 targets)
Providing some visual support for developing under Linux (ala Kylix) should be a priority, but using the GNU toolchain. It should be easy, fast, and reliable and not depend on controversial software. It should produce legible code naturally and require a dedicated person to screw it up.
Kdevelop + the QT tools are attempting to go in this direction but they haven't gone far enough. Kylix is too proprietary to be of much use (and too dependent on particular distributions)
... He says on a commercial site using a comercial connection.
This site is making nothing off of me. Some commerce.
The fact a commercial connection happens to be easier to work with than my work one proves nothing either. In the past I would use a remote dialup - i'm sure by today there would be something better, probably ISDN services.
None of the things you mention except the manga purchasing require commercialization of the net. Babelfish was a free service 8 or 9 years ago. I was happy with porn mags or ordered videotapes myself, so I don't need to get it online.
Like somehow everyone would still be using character mode apps in this day and age. You know better, and so do I.
I would like explained to me exactly how compulsory licensing is going to produce quality art, whether in music, movies, or the written word.
Exactly what impetus does an artist have to produce quality stuff under this socialist system? Why not turn out total horseshit. I mean after all, you're getting paid anyway. Furthermore, what if I record a song in my basement. Do I get a cut? How do they gauge how large of a cut I deserve?
Every time I am reminded of the fact that old protocols must die, I think on why the net has changed so much.
I think it is because of the commercialization of the internet, I remember what the visionaries were saying back in the early 1990s about how much we all would benefit from this. Then the floodgates of AOL users arrived. What did we get that we didn't have in 1994?
Broadband? Ok. That is good. But at this price? I'd trade an ISDN BRI setup for the cable modem, gladly, if it would clean things up again.
I can't think of anything else we wouldn't have already in some form or another without all these lame assholes providing food for spammers and overall just wrecking things.
While you are right in essence, you fail to trace the reason why. Most Republicans support business not out of idealism but expediency. If business does well, the argument goes, the economy will fare well, people will have jobs, etc. Also, we will remain in our current role as the dominant economy in the world.
Your average Republican will point at the Euro zone and show what we would become if we started making exceptions for file downloaders and such. Anemic economic performance is the perceived detriment.
There are flaws in this argument, but that's not the point right now.
Bad news: unless the degree is from some 'name' school it is just a check mark on the list anyway. MBAs are the worst for this - a MBA that doesn't come from HBS or some near equivalent school is a piece of paper. You could literally wipe your ass with it.
Online is probably just as good as going to a second-rate brick and mortar school.
Chances are the people doing the hiring won't know the difference, or won't care.
"So why is unsolicited commercial snail-mail not a problem, but unsolicited commercial e-mail is a problem?"
If the sheer bulk of commercial snail mail were equivalent to the spam load on my mailbox (40+ per day, filtered, but still...) then we'd have rules about that too. Commercial mail costs money, which is a significant barrier to entry: they aren't going to waste $.25 or so on someone who is sure not to buy their stuff. As it is, the junk mail I receive at home is a major component of all the trash I throw out, so i'd be all for limiting that too. But hey, it might be just me in that case. The spam case is clear-cut. There is virtually no cost for the sender.
Me, I think that spam is a passing fad, much like flyers placed on car windshields. When printing first became really affordable, many people put flyers on cars. It hardly happens today because people realize it just doesn't work - no one ever buys anything from a flyer - and it still costs money to print the thing.
Actually the reason why people don't put flyers on windshields probably has more to do with litter ordinances than anything else. I remember I worked at the family business and we got nailed a few times (people were taking said flyer and throwing it on the ground, township got involved and there you go) and then said screw it and got a bulk mailing permit. Also, there are postal regulations regarding putting flyers anywhere on or near a mailbox, and they will hit you with those too.
My point is that you are ignoring a lot of not-so-subtle disincentives to the activities you cite. All of these are provided by government in one way or another.
You did not address the personal responsibility of my user who solicited spam. Do you think that passing a law "protecting" her is really in her best interest?
Ulitmately, what is in my best interest is that she learns not to talk to strangers. I don't think you can legislate that.
One of the nicest features of contract law in the US is that a minor cannot enter into a binding contract. They can disavow the contract at will, even after they achieve majority. Obviously, this was done to protect minors, who are assumed to be dumb like your example user. Note that businesses tailor their operations around this. For example, a dealership won't sell a car to a minor, unless Daddy cosigns, or whomever.
I submit that someday we'll look back on whatever antispam measures are enacted in the same light. A bit of a nudge by the government to assure that business on the net is conducted reasonably. Some regulation is in fact good.
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Get rid of the basketball court and the football field. Just have rows and rows of systems rigged up with FPS games.
At least fewer people will be killed inadvertently the next time a Columbine happens. The kids will have better aim.
On a more serious note, this is both interesting to me and disturbing at the same time. It's one of those things we probably should do something about, but won't.
This is a very small bone. NDIS is the network driver standard. This is nice, as noted, for WiFi card owners, but other than that it doesn't buy us much. Hell finding an NDIS 5 driver for some older cards will be nigh-impossible, so it doesn't buy us much greater compatibility than we already had, except at the bleeding edge.
It does nothing for modems, video, scanners, USB chipsets, etc etc etc etc.
On OS/2 they are emulating printer drivers. I suspect this is easier to do on OS/2 than it would be on Linux given the similarity of the OS/2 printing structure to Microsoft's own setup in Win32.
These are clever hacks but I doubt it is going to go much further, and doesn't alter the landscape all that much. Kudos to the authors, but the struggle to maintain hardware support for non-mainstream OS' continues.
When you do it, it's extortion.
When a lawyer does it, it's presenting a claim and making a good faith attempt to settle it before litigation.
I find UT is the cure for my frequent attacks of workophobia. An application at lunch and at quitting time seems to correct the condition.
Yes, it's true.
Speaks volumes for their business acumen, doesn't it? I think these people are trying to make a quick buck and don't know what they have gotten themselves into.
I wouldn't be hasty in making some kind of conspiracy theory out of this.
But there is a difference between saying "The cultural and political climate in Europe is showing signs of the insular racism that led to Nazism in the past." and saying "Your grandparent was a Nazi, and you could turn into one ANY SECOND."
OK. I'll accept it's a little unfair. I agree with the previous statement regarding the political climate in Europe incidentally. However, I will say that the unctious sanctimony of the Europeans regarding the affairs of Israel reminds me of the behavior of ex-smokers who decry smoking in their presence.
I'll also admit that I just don't like Europeans in general. I have a bias. I used to like them too. The last 10 years have been very destructive to my opinion of same, and the hypocrisy on the Israel issue is just the tip of the iceberg.
I would say the sins of your grandparents.
Mine still remembered, particularly my grandfather who, with Patch's First Army in France and Germany, liberated Lyon and discovered some of the more odious locations in the Pan-European Reich. What he was willing to say was enough.
It could happen again. Don't think things have gotten any better, really. You're fooling yourself.
The Europeans don't like to be reminded about their past harassment, oppression and extermination of Jews. Hence, the flamebait mod. Don't worry, this one is going down too because it tells the truth about them.
Can't be having that, can we? Unfortunately you might succeed in downmodding a post on Slashdot today, but we will always know the truth about you.
You mean the 'boom' modem. I witnessed two burn up and literally smoke.
Those things overheated like mad. I ended up burning a hole in the top of mine with a soldering iron to provide some ventilation.
My point was that you had Turbo Pascal on the DOS side, and VB on the Win 3.1 end. TP was what all the BBS people were using for everything, suites and entire door games. VB was what businesses were using to make stupid little apps for themselves. Nothing was done to compete along those lines - and with the developer mindshare entrenched on Microsoft's side, you aren't going to win.
.NET stuff.
The same thing is happening now with the
Microsoft's dominance is fairly well assured without competition along those lines.
I had my copy of OS/2 2.0 the day it was released. The same crap kept on coming up. No applications.
Warp was dead before Win95 was even released. It was a comedy of errors, but the primary one is the one that Ballmer was teaching you in his monkey boy video. "Developers, developers, developers...". If you can control the development target for application developers, then you can control the OS market.
IBM was openly hostile to the hobbyist developer as well as the small shop. Getting a SDK was a nightmare. Getting compilers was even rougher. Ironically most of the stuff available was Microsoft software - for 16-bit OS/2. (MS BASIC, C, MASM all supported 16 bit OS/2 targets)
Providing some visual support for developing under Linux (ala Kylix) should be a priority, but using the GNU toolchain. It should be easy, fast, and reliable and not depend on controversial software. It should produce legible code naturally and require a dedicated person to screw it up.
Kdevelop + the QT tools are attempting to go in this direction but they haven't gone far enough. Kylix is too proprietary to be of much use (and too dependent on particular distributions)
Learn from history, or be destined to repeat it.
Your data files disappear after 9 months.
I had that happen when I used the web version in 2002. Fuckers.
Buy the binary version.
Thanks Ulrik!
Is this the same Matt Messier that was/is the MudOS maintainer?
here
"To each according to his need, from each according to his ability"
Yeah that sounds like this. Fundamentally it puts musicians on the dole.
Maybe you could pull your head out of your ass long enough to see it.
... He says on a commercial site using a comercial connection.
This site is making nothing off of me. Some commerce.
The fact a commercial connection happens to be easier to work with than my work one proves nothing either. In the past I would use a remote dialup - i'm sure by today there would be something better, probably ISDN services.
None of the things you mention except the manga purchasing require commercialization of the net. Babelfish was a free service 8 or 9 years ago. I was happy with porn mags or ordered videotapes myself, so I don't need to get it online.
Like somehow everyone would still be using character mode apps in this day and age. You know better, and so do I.
Silly.
I would like explained to me exactly how compulsory licensing is going to produce quality art, whether in music, movies, or the written word.
Exactly what impetus does an artist have to produce quality stuff under this socialist system? Why not turn out total horseshit. I mean after all, you're getting paid anyway. Furthermore, what if I record a song in my basement. Do I get a cut? How do they gauge how large of a cut I deserve?
This sounds like one of those stillborn ideas.
Every time I am reminded of the fact that old protocols must die, I think on why the net has changed so much.
I think it is because of the commercialization of the internet, I remember what the visionaries were saying back in the early 1990s about how much we all would benefit from this. Then the floodgates of AOL users arrived. What did we get that we didn't have in 1994?
Broadband? Ok. That is good. But at this price? I'd trade an ISDN BRI setup for the cable modem, gladly, if it would clean things up again.
I can't think of anything else we wouldn't have already in some form or another without all these lame assholes providing food for spammers and overall just wrecking things.
I like this. A 'Vaporware' topic that I can safely ignore. Instead of front page stories that are virtually meaningless and thus, filler.
This is the best reason I have found yet to delete all P2P applications off my system and never install one again.
Sheesh. Talk about inspiring confidence.
While you are right in essence, you fail to trace the reason why. Most Republicans support business not out of idealism but expediency. If business does well, the argument goes, the economy will fare well, people will have jobs, etc. Also, we will remain in our current role as the dominant economy in the world.
Your average Republican will point at the Euro zone and show what we would become if we started making exceptions for file downloaders and such. Anemic economic performance is the perceived detriment.
There are flaws in this argument, but that's not the point right now.
Bad news: unless the degree is from some 'name' school it is just a check mark on the list anyway. MBAs are the worst for this - a MBA that doesn't come from HBS or some near equivalent school is a piece of paper. You could literally wipe your ass with it.
Online is probably just as good as going to a second-rate brick and mortar school.
Chances are the people doing the hiring won't know the difference, or won't care.
And yes, I actually have hired and hire people.
"So why is unsolicited commercial snail-mail not a problem, but unsolicited commercial e-mail is a problem?"
If the sheer bulk of commercial snail mail were equivalent to the spam load on my mailbox (40+ per day, filtered, but still...) then we'd have rules about that too. Commercial mail costs money, which is a significant barrier to entry: they aren't going to waste $.25 or so on someone who is sure not to buy their stuff. As it is, the junk mail I receive at home is a major component of all the trash I throw out, so i'd be all for limiting that too. But hey, it might be just me in that case. The spam case is clear-cut. There is virtually no cost for the sender.
Me, I think that spam is a passing fad, much like flyers placed on car windshields. When printing first became really affordable, many people put flyers on cars. It hardly happens today because people realize it just doesn't work - no one ever buys anything from a flyer - and it still costs money to print the thing.
Actually the reason why people don't put flyers on windshields probably has more to do with litter ordinances than anything else. I remember I worked at the family business and we got nailed a few times (people were taking said flyer and throwing it on the ground, township got involved and there you go) and then said screw it and got a bulk mailing permit. Also, there are postal regulations regarding putting flyers anywhere on or near a mailbox, and they will hit you with those too.
My point is that you are ignoring a lot of not-so-subtle disincentives to the activities you cite. All of these are provided by government in one way or another.
You did not address the personal responsibility of my user who solicited spam. Do you think that passing a law "protecting" her is really in her best interest?
Ulitmately, what is in my best interest is that she learns not to talk to strangers. I don't think you can legislate that.
One of the nicest features of contract law in the US is that a minor cannot enter into a binding contract. They can disavow the contract at will, even after they achieve majority. Obviously, this was done to protect minors, who are assumed to be dumb like your example user. Note that businesses tailor their operations around this. For example, a dealership won't sell a car to a minor, unless Daddy cosigns, or whomever.
I submit that someday we'll look back on whatever antispam measures are enacted in the same light. A bit of a nudge by the government to assure that business on the net is conducted reasonably. Some regulation is in fact good.