Check out their Amiga demo Lapsuus, released under the name "Maturefurk". Awesome display of coding skills. People were accusing them of using code from 3d-mark and Max Payne (which is insane, the Amiga don't run directx:)), that's how good it looked on a 50 mhz 68060.
Released at the Assembly in 2001, it beat all other demos in the combined compo, including demos running on gigahertz plus pc's with 3d accelerated graphic cards.
Ironically, it runs quite well under WinUAE on an XP2400.
Legal means nothing between nations. Law implies a higher power, and there is no such thing (that all the nations will recognize, all the time).
There is this thing called the UN. And yes, they have laws for this kind of thing. Even if nations aren't abiding them all the time, most nations have agreed to them. By your logic, there is no such thing as law at all, since all the people in a nation aren't abiding all the laws all the time. Enforcement got nothing to do with the laws themselves.
[Lot's of jingoistic drivel cut]
It looks ideal when we compare it to anything else.
Maybe you should travel some, learn some, think some, before coming to such conclusions.
Just because you think that this was the reason for invading, doesn't make it so.
If you really believe that the US government acts out of concern for other than their own, you must be severly deranged.
PS! I'm not saying that acting out of concern for your own is bad, but don't make it sound like a heroic effort motivated by a concern for humankind. The real question is, was the motive that of economy or national security?
And what group of US citizens had the most to gain economically?
Mr. Iwanyk, 32 years old, first suspected that his TiVo thought he was gay,
since it inexplicably kept recording programs with gay themes. A film studio
executive in Los Angeles and the self-described "straightest guy on earth,"
he tried to tame TiVo's gay fixation by recording war movies and other "guy
stuff."
"The problem was, I overcompensated," he says. "It started giving me
documentaries on Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Eichmann. It stopped thinking I
was gay and decided I was a crazy guy reminiscing about the Third Reich."
It's nice to finally see Weeta's acomplishments awarded. They've certainly deserved whatever price MTV have given them.
It's very symptomatic that this award comes from the underground rather than from the academy. The academy might have been in the award business a tad longer, but lately their judgements have been out of synch with the US population.
Many people are complaining about the horrors of pop culture and MTV in particular, but were not Mozart, Beathoven and Bach pop artists of their time? In due time, the real talents of people like REM and Eminem will be aknowledged.
The "harpoon an asteroid" idea is old as stone. Think it was Verne himself who cooked it up at one time.
I'm not a hundred percent sure if it's doable, but I imagine you would need a cord with an extremely high tensile strength. Think space elevator material.
Anyway, the benefits from asteroid harpooning would be enormous. Right now, we're running out of important elements here on earth at an alarming rate (things like platinum used in exhaust cleaning systems, and diamonds used in drilling rigs). Think of all the resources we could get from mining asteroids.
The trick is to not make people aggressive towards you. I guess you guys have a problem with that too??
Also, I know non lethal Kung Fu, so if I ever have to defend myself, I can disable my opponent with a few quick blows. Without hurting them in a serious manner, of course.
Whatever will they cook up next? Bullets that "think for themselves"? People put far too much trust into "AI" and "computer controlled". If you knew how difficult it is to something so mundane as getting a robot to walk.. this seems ludicrous.
Have you ever read the warnings that come with the x86 assembly books from Intel? "Do not use for lifesupport systems" etc. etc. There you have it from the horses mouth.
I'm glad that I'm a pacifist, so I don't have to face these on the battlefield any time soon.
I sometimes wonder if people here are reading or spending time on things other than Slashdot. If you were to, you would discover that elsewhere in society, the opposition against RIAA is almost non existant. Most people find it perfectly reasonable to protect their intellectual property for monetary gain.
Same thing with the MPAA. If you were running a movie studio, like Paramount, who bet all their assets on three movies (the LotR trilogy), then you would also be defending your property as offensively as they do. For them it's not an abstract discussion about "free speech css descramble" or any such nonsense, but about putting food on their families tables and putting their children through college.
If you for once tried to put yourself in their situation, I'm sure you would rethink your position on this one.
This is actually the "ultimate search engine test" proposed by Thompson et all. You select each search engine in the test as a state, start out randomly in one state and jump to the next state by searching for "search engine" (or a similar string).
When the time spent in a state -> infinity, you have found the one you're looking for. Mind you, this test doesn't take into consideration that results may be fixed (which they probably are).
Couple of years ago, me and some friends were going snowboarding. We were going to a cabin belonging to the parents of one of us. It was a long drive and when we finally got there it was quite dark.
Problem was, the cabin were in the woods, some distance from any road, and the one who were supposed to know where it was, hadn't been there in about ten years. So.. we ended up stranded in a dark forest, with no idea where we were or where the cars were, with snow up to our thighs. When we finally found a cabin, we found ten of them.
Since it was pitch dark and extremely cold, fiddling with a key trying to find a keyhole in ten cabins were almost hopeless. Until we remembered that we had mobile phones. With the light from the panel of five Nokia phones, we finally managed to find and open the right cabin. So, yeah. Americans suck.
Sure, if you mess things up you have to straighten it out (or take the punishment). But don't make it sound like this is a big tragedy.
The people who got paged in the middle of the night were probably the same people who didn't do their job while securing this server. The internet is so big and far reaching now, if you put an unsecure box on it, it will get hacked. It doesn't really matter who does it. Harsh punishment of scriptkiddies won't make this go away.
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I say this as a US citizen BTW
Be careful of what you say in public dude.
Is Ximian Desktop the continuation of Gnome?
They have continued to rule into the 2000's.
Check out their Amiga demo Lapsuus, released under the name "Maturefurk". Awesome display of coding skills. People were accusing them of using code from 3d-mark and Max Payne (which is insane, the Amiga don't run directx :)), that's how good it looked on a 50 mhz 68060.
Released at the Assembly in 2001, it beat all other demos in the combined compo, including demos running on gigahertz plus pc's with 3d accelerated graphic cards.
Ironically, it runs quite well under WinUAE on an XP2400.
I can't really see how this is supposed to accomplish anything at all.
Possibly a publicity thing from Lessig and Eldrig? Getting attention to arcane and over potent copyright laws from the guys in charge is a good thing.
Ah.. Oochy Koochy. Nice track by Baby Ford of Rephlex fame.
Doesn't sound quite as fresh anymore though. And the bassline is quite trashy sounding in all the mp3's I found when searching for it now.
Legal means nothing between nations. Law implies a higher power, and there is no such thing (that all the nations will recognize, all the time).
There is this thing called the UN. And yes, they have laws for this kind of thing. Even if nations aren't abiding them all the time, most nations have agreed to them. By your logic, there is no such thing as law at all, since all the people in a nation aren't abiding all the laws all the time. Enforcement got nothing to do with the laws themselves.
[Lot's of jingoistic drivel cut]
It looks ideal when we compare it to anything else.
Maybe you should travel some, learn some, think some, before coming to such conclusions.
You stupid fuck.
Just because you think that this was the reason for invading, doesn't make it so.
If you really believe that the US government acts out of concern for other than their own, you must be severly deranged.
PS! I'm not saying that acting out of concern for your own is bad, but don't make it sound like a heroic effort motivated by a concern for humankind. The real question is, was the motive that of economy or national security?
And what group of US citizens had the most to gain economically?
Mr. Iwanyk, 32 years old, first suspected that his TiVo thought he was gay, since it inexplicably kept recording programs with gay themes. A film studio executive in Los Angeles and the self-described "straightest guy on earth," he tried to tame TiVo's gay fixation by recording war movies and other "guy stuff."
"The problem was, I overcompensated," he says. "It started giving me documentaries on Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Eichmann. It stopped thinking I was gay and decided I was a crazy guy reminiscing about the Third Reich."
Not so sure the Tivo data is worth much.
It's nice to finally see Weeta's acomplishments awarded. They've certainly deserved whatever price MTV have given them.
It's very symptomatic that this award comes from the underground rather than from the academy. The academy might have been in the award business a tad longer, but lately their judgements have been out of synch with the US population.
Many people are complaining about the horrors of pop culture and MTV in particular, but were not Mozart, Beathoven and Bach pop artists of their time? In due time, the real talents of people like REM and Eminem will be aknowledged.
The "harpoon an asteroid" idea is old as stone. Think it was Verne himself who cooked it up at one time.
I'm not a hundred percent sure if it's doable, but I imagine you would need a cord with an extremely high tensile strength. Think space elevator material.
Anyway, the benefits from asteroid harpooning would be enormous. Right now, we're running out of important elements here on earth at an alarming rate (things like platinum used in exhaust cleaning systems, and diamonds used in drilling rigs). Think of all the resources we could get from mining asteroids.
Don't you think religion might have something to do with religious wars?
That's just the reason I'm registered as an atheist, smartass.
The trick is to not make people aggressive towards you. I guess you guys have a problem with that too??
Also, I know non lethal Kung Fu, so if I ever have to defend myself, I can disable my opponent with a few quick blows. Without hurting them in a serious manner, of course.
Pretty snide remark, considering it's coming from a navy trainer/warmonger.
Whatever will they cook up next? Bullets that "think for themselves"? People put far too much trust into "AI" and "computer controlled". If you knew how difficult it is to something so mundane as getting a robot to walk.. this seems ludicrous.
Have you ever read the warnings that come with the x86 assembly books from Intel? "Do not use for lifesupport systems" etc. etc. There you have it from the horses mouth.
I'm glad that I'm a pacifist, so I don't have to face these on the battlefield any time soon.
It doesn't seem so "mindnumbingly obvious" to most people who post here though. That was my point.
Also, if you buy a CVD and expect it work in your DVD player, then tough luck.
It's time for another flame fest, I see.
I sometimes wonder if people here are reading or spending time on things other than Slashdot. If you were to, you would discover that elsewhere in society, the opposition against RIAA is almost non existant. Most people find it perfectly reasonable to protect their intellectual property for monetary gain.
Same thing with the MPAA. If you were running a movie studio, like Paramount, who bet all their assets on three movies (the LotR trilogy), then you would also be defending your property as offensively as they do. For them it's not an abstract discussion about "free speech css descramble" or any such nonsense, but about putting food on their families tables and putting their children through college.
If you for once tried to put yourself in their situation, I'm sure you would rethink your position on this one.
Oh, your "ivy league equals smart" illusions were shattered? What other delusions might you have?
How about this; the US is not the philantropic do gooder it's inhabitants like to believe it is.
This is actually the "ultimate search engine test" proposed by Thompson et all. You select each search engine in the test as a state, start out randomly in one state and jump to the next state by searching for "search engine" (or a similar string).
When the time spent in a state -> infinity, you have found the one you're looking for. Mind you, this test doesn't take into consideration that results may be fixed (which they probably are).
aol, dude
You should be.
Couple of years ago, me and some friends were going snowboarding. We were going to a cabin belonging to the parents of one of us. It was a long drive and when we finally got there it was quite dark.
Problem was, the cabin were in the woods, some distance from any road, and the one who were supposed to know where it was, hadn't been there in about ten years. So.. we ended up stranded in a dark forest, with no idea where we were or where the cars were, with snow up to our thighs. When we finally found a cabin, we found ten of them.
Since it was pitch dark and extremely cold, fiddling with a key trying to find a keyhole in ten cabins were almost hopeless. Until we remembered that we had mobile phones. With the light from the panel of five Nokia phones, we finally managed to find and open the right cabin. So, yeah. Americans suck.
Many people have already commented on it, but if a company can make money from selling a browser, the browser war can't be over just yet.
If your front door were accessible instantenously from anywhere in the world, by a very large amount of people, then yeah.
Btw. those analogies between houses/locked doors and computer security are getting really tired.
Sure, if you mess things up you have to straighten it out (or take the punishment). But don't make it sound like this is a big tragedy.
The people who got paged in the middle of the night were probably the same people who didn't do their job while securing this server. The internet is so big and far reaching now, if you put an unsecure box on it, it will get hacked. It doesn't really matter who does it. Harsh punishment of scriptkiddies won't make this go away.