It's not a problem. It's the problem. These aren't sewers; they're open sewers we have to step across (or wade through) to get in and out of the places we want to go.
We'll see Balkanization because many many groups will simultaneously say "we need a private place to carry on The Conversation" and come up with their own little private places and private protocols for communicating. If they come up with common standards and a general community, we will have the same problem once again.
So Mr. Auerbach is talking about signal/noise. At today's volumes, the problem isn't the Internet itself; it's our human ability to use it in a meaningful way.
4. Latency. The lag turnaround time on satellite packets is abysmal and your phone conversation may sound like those reporters in Afghanistan.
That said, get a satellite system for your normal surfing (at ~400kbps you'll beat your landline, lag time or no), then get a good cellphone plan and tell your landline provider to go whistle.
Who the hell do they think we are, losing twenty percent of our hydrogen?
Are these the same people who told us that if we ate twice our body weight in saccharine each week, we'd get cancer? Obviously this means three hundred milligrams in your iced tea will kill you deader'n'shit, too.
Myst is a fine example of how originality doesn't necessarily make a game important. An original execution of an unoriginal concept is very significant. Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a rewrite of a fairly well-known story. Hell, Star Wars is so unoriginal you can find all its archetypes in Joseph Campbell's works on myths and heroes.
Myst is just another puzzle game, but it is so beautiful to look at and wander through that I can't imagine another game I'd want to play long after I'd memorized the solution.
From the submission: "An article on the Tornonto Star about Canada's Telus...caught my eye today." and later "Since I work in the Telus Internet Service department..."
Is anybody else bothered that Telus's Internet Service department is finding this out by reading the Toronto Star?
No, Sparky, it's not flamebait, but it is a flame: The New York Times used to be the one remaining source for not necessarily objective but always very accurate and honest reporting.
Now they've proven untrustworthy and I'm pissed at them. I'm pissed off enough that the American press seemed never to question why our government wanted to kick around some oil rich but otherwise pissant country. But beyond that, now, I'm pissed off that I can't trust anybody to tell the truth about anything unless the truth happens to be profitable to them.
I saw the need to learn the fundamentals of C/C++ but I didn't think that boring projects were the way to accomplish that.
On the contrary, a boring project lets you ignore the details of the project and focus on what you're actually trying to learn. And if you've mastered what you're trying to learn and you're still bored, why not augment and enhance? Example: a project to solve a maze stored in a 10x10x10 array. Why not create the maze as a linked structure instead? Need to generate a report? Write a report engine!
I can't believe somebody could have an entire computer in front of them and still not think of something interesting to do.
History is cool too, though. Lots of interesting stuff has happened.
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You can kill people with your breath?
We'll see Balkanization because many many groups will simultaneously say "we need a private place to carry on The Conversation" and come up with their own little private places and private protocols for communicating. If they come up with common standards and a general community, we will have the same problem once again.
So Mr. Auerbach is talking about signal/noise. At today's volumes, the problem isn't the Internet itself; it's our human ability to use it in a meaningful way.
Does this mean the SCO thread is over?
Please, please say it's over.
If we installed bullshit detectors on government spokesmen and leaders, how long until civilisation collapses?
I hate that little fucker.
Maybe we could do this with Perl?
I have no comment; I just like saying "Yopy."
(No, I didn't read the article. Why should I read the article?)
Utah.
It's been over 24 hours since the last SCO article. I was starting to freak.
Get the first one take-out, and tip 'em so they'll remember. They'll deliver after that.
That said, get a satellite system for your normal surfing (at ~400kbps you'll beat your landline, lag time or no), then get a good cellphone plan and tell your landline provider to go whistle.
...is the software industry leaving the U.S. in droves for less litigious countries.
Here, here!
Are these the same people who told us that if we ate twice our body weight in saccharine each week, we'd get cancer? Obviously this means three hundred milligrams in your iced tea will kill you deader'n'shit, too.
"Here ya go."
Now if MS were appropriating GPL code, maybe we'd have something to talk about.
Soylent Industries has this under development.
Myst is just another puzzle game, but it is so beautiful to look at and wander through that I can't imagine another game I'd want to play long after I'd memorized the solution.
Try The Incredible Machine some time. You get to build Rube Goldberg devices.
Is anybody else bothered that Telus's Internet Service department is finding this out by reading the Toronto Star?
Now they've proven untrustworthy and I'm pissed at them. I'm pissed off enough that the American press seemed never to question why our government wanted to kick around some oil rich but otherwise pissant country. But beyond that, now, I'm pissed off that I can't trust anybody to tell the truth about anything unless the truth happens to be profitable to them.
I can't believe somebody could have an entire computer in front of them and still not think of something interesting to do.
History is cool too, though. Lots of interesting stuff has happened.
Then how do we know it's true?