"'Darwin was right - mankind evolved over a long period of time from primitive animal ancestors'"
also...
"he or she would learn that Darwin believed that all creatures evolved together from more primitive versions of themselves, not that humans evolved from monkeys who evolved from lesser creatures."
Ok, then.
If a "more primitive version of ourselves" is not exactly ourselves, than one could pick a threshold past which it would be 'too primitive' to be 'human' and would therefore be 'animal'. Therefore, "from primitive animal ancestors" would be exactly accurate.
Also, no one has indicated that humans evolved from monkeys. You are right, Darwin didn't. Neither did the article. Darwin, I thought, indicated that both humans and monkeys evolved from a common, monkey-like ancestor. Which, of course, would be a "primitive animal ancestor", as the article indicated.
I guess I just fail to see what actual part of that first quote you used you are disagreeing with. It seems more like you are disagreeing with a common misconception about evolution, but not one that is found in that quote and therefore the article. Hence, I wonder if your critique of the article is unfounded.
Well, that really depends on the religion. With Catholicism, it's possible. With Christianity, it's not. The answer to why is within another one of your statements:
> The Biblical tale of Adam and Even should be
> interpreted as "folklore".
That's a very, well, Catholic point of view. Christianity does not offer one the freedom to choose to interpret a section of the Bible as "folklore." In Christianity, bible == word of god == truth. So, unfortunately, I don't see a good way for true, fundamental Christianity and Evolution to co-exist that peacefully.
Remember, Catholics have a slightly more progressive view of the bible than Christians. Christians are conservative. To them, Adam really was created out of clay and had life breathed into him and Eve really was created from Adam's rib. Not folklore. Truth.
I have heard religious people expout what you are saying, that when they say that God created man they meant that God sent the chain of events into motion which via Evolution would lead to Man. However, none of those people were fundamental Christians. Good luck convincing them...
Yes, thanks... we call that "semantics." I call it a new OS cause it's the newest version of the NT line and also the first Microsoft OS to be a supposed merger between the home and business lines. Plus a deal of it was rewritten.
You call it and "old" os cause it's based on earlier work. Would that not imply that linux kernel 2.4 is not a new kernel? It's obviously new, in that it just recently came out. But it's obviously old in that it is based on prior work.
You are MOSTLY right. Although the next versions of both glibc and GTK are BOTH going to be binary incompatible. glibc 3.0 and GTK ?.0 (3?). But, mostly, yes.
Well there's your problem. Of course THEY haven't advanced at all. Win95 was their last advancement in that product line. Win98/ME are just repackages of 95. I'm talking about their NEW OS. Windows 2000.
We run Win2k on a bunch of computers are work and most of my friends run it at home too. I use my for a web/ftp server and as a gaming/dvd machine. It has never crashed. Not even once.
Yes, 2000 DOES still have DLL problems. They aren't NEARLY as bad as they used to be. I was just trying to point out that Windows isn't alone in these problems. Linux has them too. I haven't had any yet with this box though. Mostly those problems are with their home product line.
That's a real nice troll there: Look at me, I can whine about DLL problems in windows cause it had them with the old versions but its somehow still relavent cause I'm a linux bigot.
Linux has DLL problems too, but we call them library versioning problems. Ever try upgrading your glibc version? Notice all the dependency problems when you try to do an apt-get dist-upgrade. There must be SOME reason that it held back a lot of my X font packages. Maybe its VERSIONING ISSUES.
Oh, my, 54000 bugs in an operating system with millions of lines of code.
Now, lets add up all the bugs in all the pieces of free software that microsoft would consider part of the operating system. That's kernel + x + a handful of servers + window manager + file manager. I bet it's darn near 54000 total if not over.
I've been running Win2000 since I installed it three weeks ago without rebooting for anything but driver installs. No blue screens thus far. And I abuse the hell outta my machine. AND I'm running beta drivers (video and dvd).
And it is a shame how much Microsoft is trying to emulate the Mac look-and-feel. Cause, I mean, they have a Desktop. And Windows. And menus and toolbars. And translucency. Just like a Mac.
Unlike linux, which has a Desktop. And Windows. And menus and toolbars. And is still working hard on ironing out the translucency. AND HAS AN AQUA THEME FOR GTK/KDE/GNOME/etc...
I also run Debian. I don't like Microsoft. But I hate people who troll with this kind of drivel. Linux is perfect and Windows sucks. Wait, that's a complete lie. Windows is GREAT at some things. Linux SUCKS at some things. In other words, they both have their strengths and weaknesses. Linux is not perfect. FAAARR from it. So is Windows though. Life with it. Open your eyes. Stop using slashdot as your primary source of news.
Hehe. Yeah, that quote works too. I just used the Lao Tzu one cause I know it off hand from studying Taoism.
I'll have to get my some of that Belgian beer sometime. Shame I'm not 21 yet...:-). Yeah, I'm a young'n. 20. Oh, well. I'll just get a friend to buy it. Anyway, thanks for the reply. Have a good time,
It has a little bit to do with what you say, but this is also the same kind of thing as religions. People believe whatever it makes them the happiest to believe, and it's as simple as that. All those people who don't believe we went to the moon are also general conspiracy theorists. They like pretending that there is some elaborate plot cause it makes them feel special to think that they know something no one else does. That's all there is to it.
I'll say it again. People will believe whatever it makes them the happiest to believe in spite of everything. Logic, reason, fact, evidence... bah! I could make some evil parallels to some religious groups, but I won't...
First they ingore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.
Either way, it mostly applies to large groups of individuals taking part in a long stint of passive resistance. Cute though... trying to break out a can of Ghandi on me...
Dude, it's a modified Debian box. Throw on whatever servers you want. Make it run ssh. They are only advertising the web-interface cause it's not something that you normally see on linux boxes and cause it's trendy.
Yeah, fine, web-interfaces "lack the power of the command line", so does EVERY OTHER GUI. That's why I said you can throw on the ssh server. And yeah, it does "lack all the ease of use of a convential gui application." That's kinda the price you pay for a web-app, and one that isn't bandwidth hungry. If you want to use XDMCP, go for it, but that's a LOT of bandwidth to use for monitoring a network. Half the packets you'd be sniffing would be your own traffic...:-).
Anyway, I just tend to ignore the corporate buzzwords. It looks like a cool box,
How dare you insinuate that Belgians are child molesters? That would be like me saying every American is a pot-bellied, poorly-educated ass-scratching subhuman.
Damn you and your close-minded Belgian hogwash.
I am an American. I can say, definitively, that beyond the shadow of a doubt ALL Americans ARE in fact pot-bellied, poorly-educated ass-scratching sub-humans. But, atleast we aren't Belgian!
We are all people.
Except for the Belgians! Hah! I use my double-standard to mock your views!
If there's one thing that computers and the Internet should have taught us, it's that we are all the same and we should love each other.
If there's one thing the "Internet" has taught us it's that all Belgians are kiddie-pr0n viewing, child-molesting, sons-of-bitches. But yes, we should all love eachother, except for the DAMNED DIRTY BELGIANS.
How about some manner of GENERIC installer? What a waste to have everyone who wants a GUI installer to have to roll one from scratch. This would even give all programs a common look-and-feel for their installations. Wouldn't that be nice?
Frankly I'll never convince my sister to "./configure; make; make test; make install". It'll just never happen. Even "apt-get install" is too much for some people. Having a common GUI installer with a consistant look and feel would be REALLY beneficial to new users and wouldn't hurt us l33t h4x0rz either...
I'm of the general philosophy that more effort needs to go in to GENERIC tools and less into non-portable or app-specific ones, that way real, large-scale, code reuse can happen.
I'm not taking sides. Just commenting. I agree with you. I've played every fps game ever made from Wolfenstein on up, and I'm only 19 now, so Wolfenstein must have been when I was in early middle school or something. I have been completely unaffected by the violence on screen, aside from those 5 murder convictions.:-). The only problem with your idea is that parents will never take that responsibiilty to keep track of their kids actions because parents are lazy bastards.
We need to fix the kind of people that have kids if we want to fix how these parents act toward their kids. This is a much deeper social problem than it is made out to be and video games are just a scapegoat.
I saw a suggestion on here I liked, but it wasn't modded up. So I'll try it for him with my own little spin on it...
We already have stdin, stdout and stderr. Why not three more for GUI manipulation. gstdin, gstdout and gstderr or whatever you want to call them. Than you could just write to them if you would like to for GUI output, maybe in some manner of XMLish language, and a special program or daemon would interpret and display the widgets and windows and status bars by reading the stream.
Then all you have to do is just not use them if you don't want a GUI. Or redirect them to a log file if you want and use the software to play back a graphical log of the actions of a program later on. Sounds reasonable.
It wouldn't break any existing programs cause they just wouldn't use the new streams but they could easliy be extended to take advantage of it.
This is the same debait in my mind as to why Napster was wrong but FreeNet was right. Napster was specifically designed to trade illegal MP3's regardless of the lies the creater spews out to cover his ass. Freenet was designed as a generic way of trading files. All files. Random files. There is nothing illegal about that.
I find it absurd that a program that has no illegal intent, but COULD be used illegal could possibly be viewed negatively. You shouldn't have to limit your program to make it legal.
Is fdisk illegal? I could use it to wipe out your harddrive. Or a companies harddrive. Just throw it on a bootdisk and go computer to computer rebooting off the disk and wiping harddrives. That would be illegal use of the software. Should fdisk have been designed to make those kinds of things impossible? I don't think so. What's the difference?
I'm praying to god that this is a troll. If not, here's my response:
The ability to copy digital video DOES NOT IMPLY PIRATING you CLOSE MINDED BAFOON! Macintoshes can do this already. Do you associate THEM with pirating?!?! What if you happen to have a digital video recorder or some such device and which to easily copy its contents to your harddrive?
Copying digital video to your harddrive WILL NEVER BE ILLEGAL. Copying specially COPYPROTECTED digital video will be, probably. A humungous difference.
Also, I'm not completely sure that seeing an OS as good for pirating will hurt your business with consumers. It may make companies more wary but I'd think it would actually attract users.
Also, yes, linux CAN rip DVD's. Both legally and illegally. This is not wrong. If you want an impotent OS that can't do anything illegal even if you wanted to than go to Win98. You'll be too busy rebooting to notice how much it sucks though.
No one here is "'Hacking' devices for illegal purposes", we are just hacking devices. Hacking is not wrong. This is not wrong. It COULD be used for things that are wrong. I could also beat you to death with one of my Neal Stephenson books, which sounds pretty good right now (probably the effect of playing all those video games;-)), so maybe we should just outlaw books since they can be used for illegal purposes.
I've been here for a while. At slashdot that is. I've read a lot of articles here about censorship. I've read a lot of comments about censorship. Here's what I've noticed:
1) People NEVER EVER read the articles.
2) People react to the word censorship as if the government wants to break into your house and rape your children.
3) People feel that kids are resilient to ANYTHING and showing them horrible violence every day of their lives will not have any effect on them.
4) People REFUSE to accept that video games should be censored even though they may have killing or nudity (fake or not) but have no problem with keeping kids out of R or X rated movies. For some reason that protection isn't needed cause our sacred computers are involved and they are perfect.
I think that in general slashdot people are very techno-oriented. Very hell-bent on freedom at any cost. Very close-minded and bigoted. And I think I need to stop reading here so much. The highest moderated comments on these kinds of articles are always the ones that make me want to choke the life out of the poster... (almost always).
Hmmmm.... no. Sega is on the down-and-out right now. They are ditching the Dreamcast and leaving buyers screwed. They ditched their last system too (anyone remember the Saturn. Yeah, that $600 piece of crap).
Yes, NVidia is a monopolist. I challenge you to find me a large company that is not. 3dfx was. They just failed. Intel is. AMD is trying to be. That's the nature of this our wonderful economy.
Anyway, my point is that as SOL as Sega is right now as far as their console systems, I don't see ANYTHING giving them an easy comeback barring a merger with Time Warner/AOL.:-). I just don't see it happening, NVidia or not...
I'm trying to figure out why you keep using the future tense. The NV2 is long gone. It WAS planned for the dreamcast but was ditched for 3dfx and PowerVR. The NV2 is pre-RIVA128 (NV3) which is pre-TNT which is pre-TNT2 which is pre-GeForce which is pre-GeForce2 which will not to long from now be pre-NV20. The NV2 will not be a failure, it WAS a failure. A big one. Poor NVidia, I hope they recover...;-)
I'm really just not sure what planet you are on. Cause it ain't earth.
Have you ever actually SEEN a ps2? Not just screenshots on the web? It's freaking beautiful looking. Play Madden 2001 with snow and fog cranked up and tell me it doesn't look kickass. And EA has even stated that this was just their first game so they just cranked it out. Their second generation games always look sooo much better. Madden 2002 will blow your freaking mind.
And about the modelers not being able to keep up. Dream on, buddy. We have to hold them down and threaten them with blunt objects to meet polygon counts. When you render something in 3D you don't do it with trianges. You use the software afterwords to tesselate the model into trianges. Getting high-poly models is as simple as increasing the resolution of the tesselations. You don't design animations using discrete frames either. You use keyed frames or skeletal animation systems so you just tell it how to move and it breaks it down into as many distinct frames as it feels like depending on your frame rate. For that matter most textures are designed at higher resolutions and than scaled down to fix in 256x256 buffers.
Now, once the video cards can render things CG stuff in realtime, which is estimated to be atleast 10 years off (i don't remember offhand) than we are closer. But even CG doesn't look "real". I don't think graphics cards will EVER hit a point where people look at them and say, "It's got too much power, we can't use it." "Wadda we do with all them triangles."
I work tech jobs at a local newspaper and get plenty of respect. I sit in on meetings on occasion to give input as to how things should work and what hardware to purchase. Of course, as another poster mentioned, my boss is somewhat younger (mid 30's) so that may be part of it. I'm 19 btw. Also, i think the name "intern" has a bad connotation right off the bat, so you have to overcome that. I'm techincally "part-time" and I think just that subtle name change may have helped. Who knows,
Okay, could we be any more biased. Do you realize how many players there are in the NFL? Do you know how many of them have criminal records? Then how about we stop generalizing.
The percentage of NFL players currently in legal trouble is not that far removed from that stats from society as a whole. It SEEMS like more NFL players are in trouble cause every time one of them gets in trouble it is front page news.
If every time a random person got in legal trouble they ran an article in the paper it would take several fleets of trucks to carry around the newspaper. Just cause the NFL players problems are more visible doesn't make them more wrong or more abundant.
Ray Lewis specifically, well, he messed up. Unfortunately so did the police. He DID NOT murder anyone. He wasn't even an accomplice to murder. The police TRIED to make an example of him and see how well it worked.
As for Mark Chmura, the 17-year-old most likely teased him into bed so she could change her mind afterwords and get rich. He shouldn't have done it, but it's not all his fault. He's not the only one to ever fall into that trap. Non-NFL players do it too.
In any group like this its the odd balls who generate the stereotypes cause they are more memorable. All NFL players are not criminals. Not even most of them. Not even 5% of them. But yeah, a few are. So are a few other people in America so stop vilifying the NFL.
This means that we will no longer require an OS. To use an OS on such a simple system is just an additional layer of complexity and a security risk. Its best just to run the browser on the metal, and elliminate these difficulties
Hmmmm... it seems to me that in some case someone would DEFINITLY win the OS war. Since the "browser" is running on the "bare metal" than the "browser" IS the OS! So, whoevers standard that browser conforms to has won.
OS's will NEVER EVER be obsolite. You can claim to have a browser instead, but one would hope that that browser would have memory management, disk caching and multitasking... so it's a OS.
Slashdot Mirror
"'Darwin was right - mankind evolved over a long period of time from primitive animal ancestors'"
...
also
"he or she would learn that Darwin believed that all creatures evolved together from more primitive versions of themselves, not that humans evolved from monkeys who evolved from lesser creatures."
Ok, then.
If a "more primitive version of ourselves" is not exactly ourselves, than one could pick a threshold past which it would be 'too primitive' to be 'human' and would therefore be 'animal'. Therefore, "from primitive animal ancestors" would be exactly accurate.
Also, no one has indicated that humans evolved from monkeys. You are right, Darwin didn't. Neither did the article. Darwin, I thought, indicated that both humans and monkeys evolved from a common, monkey-like ancestor. Which, of course, would be a "primitive animal ancestor", as the article indicated.
I guess I just fail to see what actual part of that first quote you used you are disagreeing with. It seems more like you are disagreeing with a common misconception about evolution, but not one that is found in that quote and therefore the article. Hence, I wonder if your critique of the article is unfounded.
Justin Dubs
> God and Darwin can be both correct.
Well, that really depends on the religion. With Catholicism, it's possible. With Christianity, it's not. The answer to why is within another one of your statements:
> The Biblical tale of Adam and Even should be
> interpreted as "folklore".
That's a very, well, Catholic point of view. Christianity does not offer one the freedom to choose to interpret a section of the Bible as "folklore." In Christianity, bible == word of god == truth. So, unfortunately, I don't see a good way for true, fundamental Christianity and Evolution to co-exist that peacefully.
Remember, Catholics have a slightly more progressive view of the bible than Christians. Christians are conservative. To them, Adam really was created out of clay and had life breathed into him and Eve really was created from Adam's rib. Not folklore. Truth.
I have heard religious people expout what you are saying, that when they say that God created man they meant that God sent the chain of events into motion which via Evolution would lead to Man. However, none of those people were fundamental Christians. Good luck convincing them...
Justin Dubs
Yes, thanks... we call that "semantics." I call it a new OS cause it's the newest version of the NT line and also the first Microsoft OS to be a supposed merger between the home and business lines. Plus a deal of it was rewritten.
You call it and "old" os cause it's based on earlier work. Would that not imply that linux kernel 2.4 is not a new kernel? It's obviously new, in that it just recently came out. But it's obviously old in that it is based on prior work.
Again, semantics.
Justin Dubs
You are MOSTLY right. Although the next versions of both glibc and GTK are BOTH going to be binary incompatible. glibc 3.0 and GTK ?.0 (3?). But, mostly, yes.
Justin Dubs
Family Computer?
Well there's your problem. Of course THEY haven't advanced at all. Win95 was their last advancement in that product line. Win98/ME are just repackages of 95. I'm talking about their NEW OS. Windows 2000.
We run Win2k on a bunch of computers are work and most of my friends run it at home too. I use my for a web/ftp server and as a gaming/dvd machine. It has never crashed. Not even once.
Yes, 2000 DOES still have DLL problems. They aren't NEARLY as bad as they used to be. I was just trying to point out that Windows isn't alone in these problems. Linux has them too. I haven't had any yet with this box though. Mostly those problems are with their home product line.
Justin Dubs
That's a real nice troll there: Look at me, I can whine about DLL problems in windows cause it had them with the old versions but its somehow still relavent cause I'm a linux bigot.
Linux has DLL problems too, but we call them library versioning problems. Ever try upgrading your glibc version? Notice all the dependency problems when you try to do an apt-get dist-upgrade. There must be SOME reason that it held back a lot of my X font packages. Maybe its VERSIONING ISSUES.
Oh, my, 54000 bugs in an operating system with millions of lines of code.
Now, lets add up all the bugs in all the pieces of free software that microsoft would consider part of the operating system. That's kernel + x + a handful of servers + window manager + file manager. I bet it's darn near 54000 total if not over.
I've been running Win2000 since I installed it three weeks ago without rebooting for anything but driver installs. No blue screens thus far. And I abuse the hell outta my machine. AND I'm running beta drivers (video and dvd).
And it is a shame how much Microsoft is trying to emulate the Mac look-and-feel. Cause, I mean, they have a Desktop. And Windows. And menus and toolbars. And translucency. Just like a Mac.
Unlike linux, which has a Desktop. And Windows. And menus and toolbars. And is still working hard on ironing out the translucency. AND HAS AN AQUA THEME FOR GTK/KDE/GNOME/etc...
I also run Debian. I don't like Microsoft. But I hate people who troll with this kind of drivel. Linux is perfect and Windows sucks. Wait, that's a complete lie. Windows is GREAT at some things. Linux SUCKS at some things. In other words, they both have their strengths and weaknesses. Linux is not perfect. FAAARR from it. So is Windows though. Life with it. Open your eyes. Stop using slashdot as your primary source of news.
Justin Dubs
Hehe. Yeah, that quote works too. I just used the Lao Tzu one cause I know it off hand from studying Taoism.
:-). Yeah, I'm a young'n. 20. Oh, well. I'll just get a friend to buy it. Anyway, thanks for the reply. Have a good time,
I'll have to get my some of that Belgian beer sometime. Shame I'm not 21 yet...
Justin Dubs
It has a little bit to do with what you say, but this is also the same kind of thing as religions. People believe whatever it makes them the happiest to believe, and it's as simple as that. All those people who don't believe we went to the moon are also general conspiracy theorists. They like pretending that there is some elaborate plot cause it makes them feel special to think that they know something no one else does. That's all there is to it.
I'll say it again. People will believe whatever it makes them the happiest to believe in spite of everything. Logic, reason, fact, evidence... bah! I could make some evil parallels to some religious groups, but I won't...
Justin Dubs
btw, the quote is thus:
First they ingore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.
Either way, it mostly applies to large groups of individuals taking part in a long stint of passive resistance. Cute though... trying to break out a can of Ghandi on me...
Justin dubs
Dude, it's a modified Debian box. Throw on whatever servers you want. Make it run ssh. They are only advertising the web-interface cause it's not something that you normally see on linux boxes and cause it's trendy.
:-).
Yeah, fine, web-interfaces "lack the power of the command line", so does EVERY OTHER GUI. That's why I said you can throw on the ssh server. And yeah, it does "lack all the ease of use of a convential gui application." That's kinda the price you pay for a web-app, and one that isn't bandwidth hungry. If you want to use XDMCP, go for it, but that's a LOT of bandwidth to use for monitoring a network. Half the packets you'd be sniffing would be your own traffic...
Anyway, I just tend to ignore the corporate buzzwords. It looks like a cool box,
Justin Dubs
Dude, chill. It was JUST a joke. Don't take yourself OR your country OR ANYTHING so seriously.
:-))
"Man's greatest folly is taking himself too seriously." (possibly badly paraphrased...
- Lao Tzu
Justin Dubs
How dare you insinuate that Belgians are child molesters? That would be like me saying every American is a pot-bellied, poorly-educated ass-scratching subhuman.
Damn you and your close-minded Belgian hogwash.
I am an American. I can say, definitively, that beyond the shadow of a doubt ALL Americans ARE in fact pot-bellied, poorly-educated ass-scratching sub-humans. But, atleast we aren't Belgian!
We are all people.
Except for the Belgians! Hah! I use my double-standard to mock your views!
If there's one thing that computers and the Internet should have taught us, it's that we are all the same and we should love each other.
If there's one thing the "Internet" has taught us it's that all Belgians are kiddie-pr0n viewing, child-molesting, sons-of-bitches. But yes, we should all love eachother, except for the DAMNED DIRTY BELGIANS.
King Misanthrope
How about some manner of GENERIC installer? What a waste to have everyone who wants a GUI installer to have to roll one from scratch. This would even give all programs a common look-and-feel for their installations. Wouldn't that be nice?
Frankly I'll never convince my sister to "./configure; make; make test; make install". It'll just never happen. Even "apt-get install" is too much for some people. Having a common GUI installer with a consistant look and feel would be REALLY beneficial to new users and wouldn't hurt us l33t h4x0rz either...
I'm of the general philosophy that more effort needs to go in to GENERIC tools and less into non-portable or app-specific ones, that way real, large-scale, code reuse can happen.
Justin Dubs
I'm not taking sides. Just commenting. I agree with you. I've played every fps game ever made from Wolfenstein on up, and I'm only 19 now, so Wolfenstein must have been when I was in early middle school or something. I have been completely unaffected by the violence on screen, aside from those 5 murder convictions. :-). The only problem with your idea is that parents will never take that responsibiilty to keep track of their kids actions because parents are lazy bastards.
We need to fix the kind of people that have kids if we want to fix how these parents act toward their kids. This is a much deeper social problem than it is made out to be and video games are just a scapegoat.
Justin Dubs
I saw a suggestion on here I liked, but it wasn't modded up. So I'll try it for him with my own little spin on it...
We already have stdin, stdout and stderr. Why not three more for GUI manipulation. gstdin, gstdout and gstderr or whatever you want to call them. Than you could just write to them if you would like to for GUI output, maybe in some manner of XMLish language, and a special program or daemon would interpret and display the widgets and windows and status bars by reading the stream.
Then all you have to do is just not use them if you don't want a GUI. Or redirect them to a log file if you want and use the software to play back a graphical log of the actions of a program later on. Sounds reasonable.
It wouldn't break any existing programs cause they just wouldn't use the new streams but they could easliy be extended to take advantage of it.
Justin Dubs
This is the same debait in my mind as to why Napster was wrong but FreeNet was right. Napster was specifically designed to trade illegal MP3's regardless of the lies the creater spews out to cover his ass. Freenet was designed as a generic way of trading files. All files. Random files. There is nothing illegal about that.
I find it absurd that a program that has no illegal intent, but COULD be used illegal could possibly be viewed negatively. You shouldn't have to limit your program to make it legal.
Is fdisk illegal? I could use it to wipe out your harddrive. Or a companies harddrive. Just throw it on a bootdisk and go computer to computer rebooting off the disk and wiping harddrives. That would be illegal use of the software. Should fdisk have been designed to make those kinds of things impossible? I don't think so. What's the difference?
Justin Dubs
I'm praying to god that this is a troll. If not, here's my response:
;-)), so maybe we should just outlaw books since they can be used for illegal purposes.
The ability to copy digital video DOES NOT IMPLY PIRATING you CLOSE MINDED BAFOON! Macintoshes can do this already. Do you associate THEM with pirating?!?! What if you happen to have a digital video recorder or some such device and which to easily copy its contents to your harddrive?
Copying digital video to your harddrive WILL NEVER BE ILLEGAL. Copying specially COPYPROTECTED digital video will be, probably. A humungous difference.
Also, I'm not completely sure that seeing an OS as good for pirating will hurt your business with consumers. It may make companies more wary but I'd think it would actually attract users.
Also, yes, linux CAN rip DVD's. Both legally and illegally. This is not wrong. If you want an impotent OS that can't do anything illegal even if you wanted to than go to Win98. You'll be too busy rebooting to notice how much it sucks though.
No one here is "'Hacking' devices for illegal purposes", we are just hacking devices. Hacking is not wrong. This is not wrong. It COULD be used for things that are wrong. I could also beat you to death with one of my Neal Stephenson books, which sounds pretty good right now (probably the effect of playing all those video games
Justin Dubs
I've been here for a while. At slashdot that is. I've read a lot of articles here about censorship. I've read a lot of comments about censorship. Here's what I've noticed:
1) People NEVER EVER read the articles.
2) People react to the word censorship as if the government wants to break into your house and rape your children.
3) People feel that kids are resilient to ANYTHING and showing them horrible violence every day of their lives will not have any effect on them.
4) People REFUSE to accept that video games should be censored even though they may have killing or nudity (fake or not) but have no problem with keeping kids out of R or X rated movies. For some reason that protection isn't needed cause our sacred computers are involved and they are perfect.
I think that in general slashdot people are very techno-oriented. Very hell-bent on freedom at any cost. Very close-minded and bigoted. And I think I need to stop reading here so much. The highest moderated comments on these kinds of articles are always the ones that make me want to choke the life out of the poster... (almost always).
Justin Dubs
Hmmmm.... no. Sega is on the down-and-out right now. They are ditching the Dreamcast and leaving buyers screwed. They ditched their last system too (anyone remember the Saturn. Yeah, that $600 piece of crap).
:-). I just don't see it happening, NVidia or not...
Yes, NVidia is a monopolist. I challenge you to find me a large company that is not. 3dfx was. They just failed. Intel is. AMD is trying to be. That's the nature of this our wonderful economy.
Anyway, my point is that as SOL as Sega is right now as far as their console systems, I don't see ANYTHING giving them an easy comeback barring a merger with Time Warner/AOL.
Justin Dubs
I'm trying to figure out why you keep using the future tense. The NV2 is long gone. It WAS planned for the dreamcast but was ditched for 3dfx and PowerVR. The NV2 is pre-RIVA128 (NV3) which is pre-TNT which is pre-TNT2 which is pre-GeForce which is pre-GeForce2 which will not to long from now be pre-NV20. The NV2 will not be a failure, it WAS a failure. A big one. Poor NVidia, I hope they recover... ;-)
Justin Dubs
I'm really just not sure what planet you are on. Cause it ain't earth.
Have you ever actually SEEN a ps2? Not just screenshots on the web? It's freaking beautiful looking. Play Madden 2001 with snow and fog cranked up and tell me it doesn't look kickass. And EA has even stated that this was just their first game so they just cranked it out. Their second generation games always look sooo much better. Madden 2002 will blow your freaking mind.
And about the modelers not being able to keep up. Dream on, buddy. We have to hold them down and threaten them with blunt objects to meet polygon counts. When you render something in 3D you don't do it with trianges. You use the software afterwords to tesselate the model into trianges. Getting high-poly models is as simple as increasing the resolution of the tesselations. You don't design animations using discrete frames either. You use keyed frames or skeletal animation systems so you just tell it how to move and it breaks it down into as many distinct frames as it feels like depending on your frame rate. For that matter most textures are designed at higher resolutions and than scaled down to fix in 256x256 buffers.
Now, once the video cards can render things CG stuff in realtime, which is estimated to be atleast 10 years off (i don't remember offhand) than we are closer. But even CG doesn't look "real". I don't think graphics cards will EVER hit a point where people look at them and say, "It's got too much power, we can't use it." "Wadda we do with all them triangles."
Justin Dubs
Only if you assume zero overdraw... and good luck with that...
Justin Dubs
I work tech jobs at a local newspaper and get plenty of respect. I sit in on meetings on occasion to give input as to how things should work and what hardware to purchase. Of course, as another poster mentioned, my boss is somewhat younger (mid 30's) so that may be part of it. I'm 19 btw. Also, i think the name "intern" has a bad connotation right off the bat, so you have to overcome that. I'm techincally "part-time" and I think just that subtle name change may have helped. Who knows,
Justin Dubs
Okay, could we be any more biased. Do you realize how many players there are in the NFL? Do you know how many of them have criminal records? Then how about we stop generalizing.
The percentage of NFL players currently in legal trouble is not that far removed from that stats from society as a whole. It SEEMS like more NFL players are in trouble cause every time one of them gets in trouble it is front page news.
If every time a random person got in legal trouble they ran an article in the paper it would take several fleets of trucks to carry around the newspaper. Just cause the NFL players problems are more visible doesn't make them more wrong or more abundant.
Ray Lewis specifically, well, he messed up. Unfortunately so did the police. He DID NOT murder anyone. He wasn't even an accomplice to murder. The police TRIED to make an example of him and see how well it worked.
As for Mark Chmura, the 17-year-old most likely teased him into bed so she could change her mind afterwords and get rich. He shouldn't have done it, but it's not all his fault. He's not the only one to ever fall into that trap. Non-NFL players do it too.
In any group like this its the odd balls who generate the stereotypes cause they are more memorable. All NFL players are not criminals. Not even most of them. Not even 5% of them. But yeah, a few are. So are a few other people in America so stop vilifying the NFL.
Justin Dubs
This means that we will no longer require an OS. To use an OS on such a simple system is just an additional layer of complexity and a security risk. Its best just to run the browser on the metal, and elliminate these difficulties
Hmmmm... it seems to me that in some case someone would DEFINITLY win the OS war. Since the "browser" is running on the "bare metal" than the "browser" IS the OS! So, whoevers standard that browser conforms to has won.
OS's will NEVER EVER be obsolite. You can claim to have a browser instead, but one would hope that that browser would have memory management, disk caching and multitasking... so it's a OS.
Justin Dubs