How funny that all the sad little elitists of Slashdot are picking on myspace.
Everyone here is guilty of the same sin- applying The Entropy Law Of Intellect, which states that humans engage in activities most easy at their intellectual level.
Meaning
for a teen, blogging, networking, and making friends is at the easiest and most fun. Not reading scientific materials or self-education.
But look at slashdot. The/. crowd should be calling and mailing their senators to oppose the infringement of government into the internet.
We should be demanding a boycott of China for it's freedom of speech and human rights violations.
We should be actively working on developing vast encrypted stand-alone networks that cannot be filtered out, an internet within the internet.
Yet what the brightest and geekiest choose is posting comments on./ instead.
The entropy law of intellect applies.
So don't go crapping on myspace when you're doing the exact same thing on your own level- being content at the lowest level of intellectual activity for your developmental stage.
Damn the preview and submit buttons being so close!
Lucas has some education, which doesn't make him a better filmmaker, but did allow him to plot one good story (the last 3 episodes, being the first to come out).
His source is no other than Joseph Campbell,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell
I refer you to Campbell's canonical work The Hero With A Thousand Faces
The star wars prequel story is a classical myth of search of a power object, father, and a long roadie trip home.
Read your Campbell, kids, it did Lucas worlds of good, till he abandoned good solid universal mythology and decided to start making kiddie exploitation movies.
Of course, there is also Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress.
But the whole reason the original Star Wars was so good is that they had universal appeal and were based on subconcious archetypes.
And there are only 3 stories like that.
They were exhausted in the 3 original films.
This is one of the many reasons why the latest films sucked. Of course, Lucas becoming a greedy whore with age and lowering his standards is another.
If you actually take the time to explore the guy's biography, he was a pretty radical guy at the beginning.
And then of course, he grew up.
And became boring.
And stopped reading Campbell and watching other good films.
Actually, gentlemen, you are both wrong.
Lucas has some education, a little more than you, which doesn't make him a better filmmaker, but did allow him to plot one good story (the last 3 episodes, being the first to come out).
His source is no other than Joseph Campbell,
http://www.portfolios.com/nyfashionmodel
I refer you to Campbell's canonical work The Hero With A Thousand Faces
The star wars prequel story is a classical myth of search of a power object, father, and a long roadie trip home.
Read your Campbell, kids, it did Lucas worlds of good, till he abandoned good solid universal mythology and decided to start making kiddie exploitation movies.
Of course, there is also Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress.
But the whole reason the original Star Wars was so good is that they had universal appeal and were based on subconcious archetypes.
And there are only 3 stories like that.
They were exhausted in the 3 original films.
This is one of the many reasons why the latest films sucked. Of course, Lucas becoming a greedy whore with age and lowering his standards is another.
If you actually take the time to explore the guy's biography, he was a pretty radical guy at the beginning.
And then of course, he grew up.
And became boring.
And stopped reading Campbell and watching other good films.
Actually none of your comments make good sense.
I'll give you one example of why material/touch/physical interfaces/mechanisms beat electronics- the Russian SATAN ballistic rokets.(search for "soviet rocket pneumatic")
Their navigation system is pneumatic, not electronic. Yes, clockwork navigates those rockets that the USA will never hit down.
You can't get a physical mechanism to fail with a simple EMP blast.
So having pilots instead of computers makes good sense as far as fail safe.
So does having robots interact with panels by touch.
1)Robots are made to function in a human world.
It is easier to have one control interface (human touch based) than 2 separate interfaces. Again, mechanical interfaces are less prone to failure than electronic.
And we all know that direct signal communication (direct electrical link) is more efficient than wireless.
So none of your arguments make any sense.
On another note, the first films Spielberg created were better simply because they did not have the CGI to hack out a silly kid job like the last films.
Don't fetishize technology.
All the ideas you have are so 1990's...wireless, autopilots, robots.
Do you have a gps navigation system in your car? And i'll bet you own an ipod...
Another consumer masquerading as an intellectual.
Here's some ideas you might consider when you get a broader futuristic perspective:
Space travel and ships are not needed as people are traveling through gates.
People have a small implanted device that protects them from the elements and weapons via a force shield. Thus, people are walking around naked.
They extract nutrients through photosynthesis in their skin.
Humans no longer need food.
Primary communication is done via a global network without words or symbols, directly "in mind" via verbal and visual cortexes in the brain.
Some humans work for fun only, as alternative energy makes basic survival and travel "free".
The battle between "socialists" and "capitalists" is raging with new flames- the socialists have established communes of thousands of people thinking as one giant mind, and execute anyone...etc etc.
There are larger and broader horizons than robots and amoebas in polymer bags.
Oh wait, it's easier to dream of robots and wireless links.
I swear, the lead designer for the movie must have a serious star wars death star fetish- look at marvin's head,look at the shape of the Hear of Gold.
Neither looks like anything like what the book said,but boy,do they sure look like the death star...
I'm suprised no one has brought this up yet.
Several "leading" companies went through the public embarassment of such stupid flops as not being able to track their domain name expiration dates- the equivalent of dentists with toochaches or editors making spelling and grammar errors.
Some websites that lost their domains for some time:
hotmail.com
norton.com
For more information, I refer you to RenderMan's Art of Domain Stalking
Buying domains for a long time makes a lot of sense for anyone who's budget is over dozens of thousands of dollars - it's cheaper than having a department or even a single employee tracking the expiration date of your domains. $30'000 in employee salary versus $1000 for 100 years of registration- see the benefits?
Silent? How about overheated?
well, I sysadmined for a company that had 4 cubes, and 3 of those cracked in the same year because of internal heat.
And trust me, it's a well known problem
I'm a man that believes in objectivity. The little rendering farms I set up out of old PCs, network cable and FreeBSD allowed that company to do video renderings for about 1/8 of buying a Mac system.
Yeah, it looked like hell to a graphic designer, and it was noisy. But surprisingly, the electric costs were about the same.
And did I mention 1/8 price?
Looks are for superficial people. Go worship your Macs. I'll buy a Mac when it's worth the money.
I have a nonprofit site dedicated to japanese design. It was number one on google. it is now blocked out, and commercial links to amazon and other booksellers come first.
Apparently there is an agreement between Google and their advertisers to give priority to their pages.
Also, don't forget that google has a well known disrespect for searchers privacy, by placing permanent cookies, and has a long lasting relationship with the Feds, providing profiling information on suspicious searches.
Proof? Well, don't google for it. Googlewatch.org is a good place to start.
RTFL yourself.
"you only have to distribute source if you distribute binaries"- that means "if you sell (give away) a compiled program (binary executable),you must include it's source." How do you keep source secret? That's the thing businesses have problems with. They want to bake the cake, sell it, and keep the recipe.
BSD licensing allows them to do that.
GPL does not. Two different approaches.
Actually NetBSD(wasabi) is capitalising on the fact that they are GPL-free.
A quote from their website.
NetBSD is free of the GPL. Its BSD license is the most flexible, business-friendly license available. Users may change the kernel or add drivers while keeping the changes entirely secret. With NetBSD, OEM's IP is secure and protected. /end of quote
It's that classic battle of GPL vs BSD licensing.
There are now, today, more people running BSD,if you consider Darwin(osX,etc) BSD.the core sure is,but the mac os addon is not free... What will win in the end (abstract as the "end" be)? licensing that protects/supports the interests the developer(GPL)or the consumer (BSD)?
So far, surprising as it may sound, BSD is leading in user base, but GNU/Linux is far ahead with the developers(more applications made "for Linux").
Erm, a lot of different stuff. Techno is a genre- so there's different tools for different needs.
As far as random noise - cat/dev/rand>/dev/dsp
and cat/usr/src/linux >/dev/dsp produce interesting results:)
and then there's also phase, maube, free radio linux.
A very long list, really. will post some of it in my journal later on. hope this partially answers your question (if you had an account, would have been able to give you more info.
When will you people grow up?
Copyright protection laws (including Anti-Piracy) are great for Free Software!
Is copyright law was enforced 100%, 80 percent of the world's computer users would have been Free Software users by now.
$600 for MS Office? I don't think so.
If you don't like paying for music- don't support corporate artists.
Form a band of your own, for daemon's sake! I've been generating my own music (i'm a techno freak) for years. And guess what, ambient music is easy easy easy to make on your own.
Breaking rules is for kids, Making rules of their own is for adults.
The more you rant about Freedom and Piracy, the more power to the establishment to link Free Software and Piracy.
I didn't go to see the Matrix. I haven't bought a Music CD in 5 years.
Grow up and Fight!
Surpised no one commenting thought of that.
If you get tortured, you give the key to encrypted data that you feel can be compromised- and say it's all the data.
Make sure to include some actuall significant data there.
Sacrificing one operative is better than sacrificing all.
This has been implemented in
http://rubberhose.sourceforge.net/
(site down when i last checked)
I went to a Russian highschool till my junior year (there are 11 classes in the Russian system)graduated, and then attended an American highschool for part of a junior year, and graduated from senior.
I can tell you that the American school systems sucks really bad as far as getting students united socially.
First, classes in Russia consist of 30 people or less, and every class is your homeclass- that is, you take the same classes with a group of 30 people. Clasees are called Class A, B, C etc. There are usuall about a 100 kids of the same age in all the classes (a 100 of juniors, a 100 of freshmen, etc)
And unless you move out of town, you're with those people for 11 years of your life.
That means that most of the people in your class are friends. That also means that a lot of times kids from your class will stick out for you against bullies from other classes.
I remember how half of the students would go to smoke behind the school- nerds and jocks alike.
But you see, there is no public sports in Russian schools.
Somehow they don't think public sports are important to a person's education.
Sure, there's physical ed, but you don't get to be popular just because you run around with some stupid ball.
All in all, i enjoyed going to a Russian highschool much more. I believe the descibed system provided for better social skills - and saved me the ridicule of jock terrorism.
My advice- if you have a younger brother/sister nerd, get them to take karate.
And teach them to knock those bullys out.
Get them a stun gun if you have to.
Being expelled for that stun gun is nothing compared to the high they will have from winning over some dumb bully.
I remember some kid in the American school tried to bully me, and i just told him- "listen, i'm Russian. You hurt me, i will destroy you and your family."
And i meant it. And he knew i meant it.
Slashdot Mirror
How funny that all the sad little elitists of Slashdot are picking on myspace.
/. crowd should be calling and mailing their senators to oppose the infringement of government into the internet.
./ instead.
Everyone here is guilty of the same sin- applying The Entropy Law Of Intellect, which states that humans engage in activities most easy at their intellectual level.
Meaning for a teen, blogging, networking, and making friends is at the easiest and most fun. Not reading scientific materials or self-education.
But look at slashdot. The
We should be demanding a boycott of China for it's freedom of speech and human rights violations.
We should be actively working on developing vast encrypted stand-alone networks that cannot be filtered out, an internet within the internet.
Yet what the brightest and geekiest choose is posting comments on
The entropy law of intellect applies.
So don't go crapping on myspace when you're doing the exact same thing on your own level- being content at the lowest level of intellectual activity for your developmental stage.
Damn the preview and submit buttons being so close! Lucas has some education, which doesn't make him a better filmmaker, but did allow him to plot one good story (the last 3 episodes, being the first to come out). His source is no other than Joseph Campbell, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Campbell I refer you to Campbell's canonical work
The Hero With A Thousand Faces The star wars prequel story is a classical myth of search of a power object, father, and a long roadie trip home.
Read your Campbell, kids, it did Lucas worlds of good, till he abandoned good solid universal mythology and decided to start making kiddie exploitation movies.
Of course, there is also Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress.
But the whole reason the original Star Wars was so good is that they had universal appeal and were based on subconcious archetypes.
And there are only 3 stories like that.
They were exhausted in the 3 original films. This is one of the many reasons why the latest films sucked. Of course, Lucas becoming a greedy whore with age and lowering his standards is another.
If you actually take the time to explore the guy's biography, he was a pretty radical guy at the beginning.
And then of course, he grew up. And became boring.
And stopped reading Campbell and watching other good films.
Actually, gentlemen, you are both wrong. Lucas has some education, a little more than you, which doesn't make him a better filmmaker, but did allow him to plot one good story (the last 3 episodes, being the first to come out). His source is no other than Joseph Campbell, http://www.portfolios.com/nyfashionmodel I refer you to Campbell's canonical work
The Hero With A Thousand Faces The star wars prequel story is a classical myth of search of a power object, father, and a long roadie trip home.
Read your Campbell, kids, it did Lucas worlds of good, till he abandoned good solid universal mythology and decided to start making kiddie exploitation movies.
Of course, there is also Kurosawa's Hidden Fortress.
But the whole reason the original Star Wars was so good is that they had universal appeal and were based on subconcious archetypes. And there are only 3 stories like that. They were exhausted in the 3 original films. This is one of the many reasons why the latest films sucked. Of course, Lucas becoming a greedy whore with age and lowering his standards is another. If you actually take the time to explore the guy's biography, he was a pretty radical guy at the beginning. And then of course, he grew up. And became boring. And stopped reading Campbell and watching other good films.
Actually none of your comments make good sense. I'll give you one example of why material/touch/physical interfaces /mechanisms beat electronics- the Russian SATAN ballistic rokets.(search for "soviet rocket pneumatic")
Their navigation system is pneumatic, not electronic.
Yes, clockwork navigates those rockets that the USA will never hit down.
You can't get a physical mechanism to fail with a simple EMP blast.
So having pilots instead of computers makes good sense as far as fail safe.
So does having robots interact with panels by touch.
1)Robots are made to function in a human world. It is easier to have one control interface (human touch based) than 2 separate interfaces. Again, mechanical interfaces are less prone to failure than electronic.
And we all know that direct signal communication (direct electrical link) is more efficient than wireless.
So none of your arguments make any sense.
On another note, the first films Spielberg created were better simply because they did not have the CGI to hack out a silly kid job like the last films.
Don't fetishize technology.
All the ideas you have are so 1990's...wireless, autopilots, robots.
Do you have a gps navigation system in your car? And i'll bet you own an ipod... Another consumer masquerading as an intellectual.
Here's some ideas you might consider when you get a broader futuristic perspective: Space travel and ships are not needed as people are traveling through gates.
People have a small implanted device that protects them from the elements and weapons via a force shield. Thus, people are walking around naked. They extract nutrients through photosynthesis in their skin.
Humans no longer need food.
Primary communication is done via a global network without words or symbols, directly "in mind" via verbal and visual cortexes in the brain. Some humans work for fun only, as alternative energy makes basic survival and travel "free". The battle between "socialists" and "capitalists" is raging with new flames- the socialists have established communes of thousands of people thinking as one giant mind, and execute anyone...etc etc. There are larger and broader horizons than robots and amoebas in polymer bags.
Oh wait, it's easier to dream of robots and wireless links.
I swear, the lead designer for the movie must have a serious star wars death star fetish- look at marvin's head,look at the shape of the Hear of Gold.
Neither looks like anything like what the book said,but boy,do they sure look like the death star...
I'm suprised no one has brought this up yet.
Several "leading" companies went through the public embarassment of such stupid flops as not being able to track their domain name expiration dates- the equivalent of dentists with toochaches or editors making spelling and grammar errors. Some websites that lost their domains for some time:
hotmail.com
norton.com
For more information, I refer you to RenderMan's Art of Domain Stalking
Buying domains for a long time makes a lot of sense for anyone who's budget is over dozens of thousands of dollars - it's cheaper than having a department or even a single employee tracking the expiration date of your domains.
$30'000 in employee salary versus $1000 for 100 years of registration- see the benefits?
Silent? How about overheated?
well, I sysadmined for a company that had 4 cubes, and 3 of those cracked in the same year because of internal heat.
And trust me, it's a well known problem
I'm a man that believes in objectivity. The little rendering farms I set up out of old PCs, network cable and FreeBSD allowed that company to do video renderings for about 1/8 of buying a Mac system. Yeah, it looked like hell to a graphic designer, and it was noisy. But surprisingly, the electric costs were about the same. And did I mention 1/8 price?
Looks are for superficial people. Go worship your Macs. I'll buy a Mac when it's worth the money.
I have a nonprofit site dedicated to japanese design.
It was number one on google. it is now blocked out, and commercial links to amazon and other booksellers come first.
Apparently there is an agreement between Google and their advertisers to give priority to their pages.
Also, don't forget that google has a well known disrespect for searchers privacy, by placing permanent cookies, and has a long lasting relationship with the Feds, providing profiling information on suspicious searches.
Proof? Well, don't google for it. Googlewatch.org is a good place to start.
RTFL yourself.
"you only have to distribute source if you distribute binaries"- that means "if you sell (give away) a compiled program (binary executable),you must include it's source."
How do you keep source secret? That's the thing businesses have problems with. They want to bake the cake, sell it, and keep the recipe.
BSD licensing allows them to do that. GPL does not. Two different approaches.
Actually NetBSD(wasabi) is capitalising on the fact that they are GPL-free.
/end of quote
A quote from their website.
NetBSD is free of the GPL. Its BSD license is the most flexible, business-friendly license available. Users may change the kernel or add drivers while keeping the changes entirely secret. With NetBSD, OEM's IP is secure and protected.
It's that classic battle of GPL vs BSD licensing. There are now, today, more people running BSD,if you consider Darwin(osX,etc) BSD.the core sure is,but the mac os addon is not free...
What will win in the end (abstract as the "end" be)? licensing that protects/supports the interests the developer(GPL)or the consumer (BSD)? So far, surprising as it may sound, BSD is leading in user base, but GNU/Linux is far ahead with the developers(more applications made "for Linux").
Erm, a lot of different stuff. Techno is a genre- so there's different tools for different needs. /dev/rand>/dev/dsp
and cat /usr/src/linux > /dev/dsp produce interesting results :)
As far as random noise - cat
and then there's also phase, maube, free radio linux.
A very long list, really. will post some of it in my journal later on. hope this partially answers your question (if you had an account, would have been able to give you more info.
When will you people grow up?
Copyright protection laws (including Anti-Piracy) are great for Free Software!
Is copyright law was enforced 100%, 80 percent of the world's computer users would have been Free Software users by now.
$600 for MS Office? I don't think so.
If you don't like paying for music- don't support corporate artists.
Form a band of your own, for daemon's sake!
I've been generating my own music (i'm a techno freak) for years. And guess what, ambient music is easy easy easy to make on your own.
Breaking rules is for kids, Making rules of their own is for adults.
The more you rant about Freedom and Piracy, the more power to the establishment to link Free Software and Piracy.
I didn't go to see the Matrix. I haven't bought a Music CD in 5 years. Grow up and Fight!
interesting. here's how it works for me ls te.o.tt test.02 test.o test.oo rm -rf *.o ls te.o.tt test.02 test.oo
Thank You for sharing!!!!! Didn't know about them!
worse is better
And here is where you go to read O'reilly on Herbert
Double hosing, baby!
Surpised no one commenting thought of that.
If you get tortured, you give the key to encrypted data that you feel can be compromised- and say it's all the data.
Make sure to include some actuall significant data there.
Sacrificing one operative is better than sacrificing all.
This has been implemented in http://rubberhose.sourceforge.net/ (site down when i last checked)
I went to a Russian highschool till my junior year (there are 11 classes in the Russian system)graduated, and then attended an American highschool for part of a junior year, and graduated from senior.
/sister nerd, get them to take karate.
I can tell you that the American school systems sucks really bad as far as getting students united socially.
First, classes in Russia consist of 30 people or less, and every class is your homeclass- that is, you take the same classes with a group of 30 people. Clasees are called Class A, B, C etc. There are usuall about a 100 kids of the same age in all the classes (a 100 of juniors, a 100 of freshmen, etc)
And unless you move out of town, you're with those people for 11 years of your life.
That means that most of the people in your class are friends. That also means that a lot of times kids from your class will stick out for you against bullies from other classes.
I remember how half of the students would go to smoke behind the school- nerds and jocks alike.
But you see, there is no public sports in Russian schools.
Somehow they don't think public sports are important to a person's education.
Sure, there's physical ed, but you don't get to be popular just because you run around with some stupid ball.
All in all, i enjoyed going to a Russian highschool much more. I believe the descibed system provided for better social skills - and saved me the ridicule of jock terrorism. My advice- if you have a younger brother
And teach them to knock those bullys out. Get them a stun gun if you have to.
Being expelled for that stun gun is nothing compared to the high they will have from winning over some dumb bully.
I remember some kid in the American school tried to bully me, and i just told him- "listen, i'm Russian. You hurt me, i will destroy you and your family."
And i meant it. And he knew i meant it.
Fight for your rights to be a nerd.
Nerd power!