Someone should write a series of books on what space would be like if we developed nuclear engines.
Day 1: Set out on trip to nearest star (not counting Sun).
Year 1: Still on course.
Decade 1: Still on course.
Century 1: Dead, but ship still on course.
Re:this sounds familiar! NOT FLAMEBAIT
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Unfair to have moderated this parent as Flamebait.
Satire or humor, absolutely!
Social commentary? I see it.
Geek humor? You bet!!
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I read a Xanth novel. Oh well, anyone can make a mistake.
If you say that, then you don't realize that PA was parodying the entire Wizard of OZ/Land of OZ series of books, with an adult twist.
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I especially like his Apprentice Adept series.
If You're Unhappy with SF...
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If you're unhappy with the state of SF, perhaps you've just been reading the wrong SF. I am not yet nearly so ready to consign away the entire field (with the exception of a few remaining choice nuggets) as you sound to be. This may well be an excellent book, however there remain more worthwhile books and authors out there to read that I've already discovered (and don't yet have time for) for me to believe SF is a dying field.
And as another person who has also read a great deal of Mr. Piers Anthony Jacob's works, he entertains well, and often slips in useful observations on life. (A certain RAH was also known for that once upon a time.) He entertained you well once, or you wouldn't have kept reading him.
To want those hours back now (or someday) is to say that time spent reading is not time well spent. I respectfully disagree, although time spent writing is even better time spent. What else would you have done during that time really that would have been better for you now? Split your time between reading the Encyclopedia Britannica and running cross-country to improve your health? I think not!
And if P.A. Jacob no longer meets your reading needs, it is not because he has changed, but rather you have. This is not a bad thing for either you -- or him.
Regardless, you have succeeded in interesting me in this book, and I'll add it to my list as well. However your reasoning behind it seems less than universal.
And consider reading some authors who only publish on the Internet. Some ideas are too leading edge to sell to editors and publishers. That's how I found this sig line.
The original article can be preserved forever in the/. archives by the first karma-chaser to post it here after HardOCP is/.'ed. Then let's see them try to remove that.
If Freenet has the code on it (anyone know?) and can survive Microsoft's attempts block its distribution, it can probably survive anything.
I, for one, would like to know just which P2P vendors are actually cooperating with MS? This thing smells of FUD to me.
Also, if they're trying to identify users by backtracking searches, what if you give it another name reasonable for a file that size: e.g. Ginger_Lynn_Does_Everything.mpg.
The news implies that MS has been able to fully identify P2P users far faster than the RIAA has ever managed. More FUD -- or truth?
If by chance you are sued and you stand up to them, you could be part of a watershed court case that results in the laws being changed. Hell, I can see it going up to the Supreme Court.
You clearly have no concept how much money it takes to bring a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. It's like having your wallet Slashdotted for years!
If you are not guilty, you have the absolute right to demand your day in court.
You would not be nearly so smug if they sued you, even by accident. Not only can anything happen in a court room, but you'll spend hundreds to throusands of your own dollars to prove your innocence -- of which you won't get a penny back if you do win.
Next time think of the real situation before you post.
It would be a nice gesture for the person who gets this running to give 1000 tunes to each of the pirates forced to appear in the Pepsi-Apple-RIAA Superbowl commercial as penance for their sins.
Steve Jobs once asked John Sculley if he wanted to change the world -- or just sell sugar water for the rest of his life. Now it seems that Jobs is the one selling Pepsi!
The way Steve Jobs manages all these tasks is that there is the real Steve Jobs, and the other company is run by a clever, leading edge animated, life-like, 3-Dimensional replica.
If Danger Mouse hadn't said where his samples came from, who would have guessed? Not EMI, I'm sure.
If he'd made it a mystery for people to guess at ("I sampled a well-known album, can you guess which one?") it would have made an interesting treasure hunt.
But if it hadn't come from such a famous album (and I do credit him with very creative rework here), would it have engendered this much interest? Or if it hadn't been banned??
Only the people replying to my post can answer that for sure.
Of course, EMI is nuts for believing they can put this Jeannie back in her bottle.
may legally impair their ability to make contributions to open source resembling anything that exists in Windows
Which, according to Microsoft, will be any operating system, program, applet, virus, or worm that runs on any computer physically smaller or newer than an IBM System 360/40.
A lot of you apparently haven't read yesterday's story.
Yeah, right. I've never seen so many/. posts on a single thread so quickly as I saw on that one. Four pages worth in the first few hours alone. SCO completely and utterly destroyed by IBM wouldn't attract that much comment.
The point of a takeover would be to ditch Eisner. That would be the quickest way of getting the company moving again. he did great for the company when he started
Who did great? I think it was Eisner + Frank Wells + Jeffrey Katzenberg that did great for Disney. Today only Eisner remains.
If you were able to go to the Comcast site referenced in the header of this article and hack the Presentation Slide show available there, what slide would you add, modify, or delete?
I'd add a slide right at the end reading: Eisner Fired!!
Slashdot Mirror
Day 1: Set out on trip to nearest star (not counting Sun).
Year 1: Still on course.
Decade 1: Still on course.
Century 1: Dead, but ship still on course.
Satire or humor, absolutely!
Social commentary? I see it.
Geek humor? You bet!!
If you say that, then you don't realize that PA was parodying the entire Wizard of OZ/Land of OZ series of books, with an adult twist.
I especially like his Apprentice Adept series.
And as another person who has also read a great deal of Mr. Piers Anthony Jacob's works, he entertains well, and often slips in useful observations on life. (A certain RAH was also known for that once upon a time.) He entertained you well once, or you wouldn't have kept reading him.
To want those hours back now (or someday) is to say that time spent reading is not time well spent. I respectfully disagree, although time spent writing is even better time spent. What else would you have done during that time really that would have been better for you now? Split your time between reading the Encyclopedia Britannica and running cross-country to improve your health? I think not!
And if P.A. Jacob no longer meets your reading needs, it is not because he has changed, but rather you have. This is not a bad thing for either you -- or him.
Regardless, you have succeeded in interesting me in this book, and I'll add it to my list as well. However your reasoning behind it seems less than universal.
And consider reading some authors who only publish on the Internet. Some ideas are too leading edge to sell to editors and publishers. That's how I found this sig line.
Peace!
The original article can be preserved forever in the /. archives by the first karma-chaser to post it here after HardOCP is /.'ed. Then let's see them try to remove that.
Remember all the forms (and hikau) of deCSS? How long before someone translates the Windows source to another form -- like Java?
Copy down the IP address of anyone who starts a multi-source download
Kill the download
Whois lookup
Letter to the ISP.
Of course if they're distributing it in that manner so that the hash codes match, does that qualify as them legally giving it away?
So has it made it onto Usenet yet?
If Freenet has the code on it (anyone know?) and can survive Microsoft's attempts block its distribution, it can probably survive anything.
I, for one, would like to know just which P2P vendors are actually cooperating with MS? This thing smells of FUD to me.
Also, if they're trying to identify users by backtracking searches, what if you give it another name reasonable for a file that size: e.g. Ginger_Lynn_Does_Everything.mpg.
The news implies that MS has been able to fully identify P2P users far faster than the RIAA has ever managed. More FUD -- or truth?
You clearly have no concept how much money it takes to bring a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. It's like having your wallet Slashdotted for years!
You would not be nearly so smug if they sued you, even by accident. Not only can anything happen in a court room, but you'll spend hundreds to throusands of your own dollars to prove your innocence -- of which you won't get a penny back if you do win.
Next time think of the real situation before you post.
MOD Parent Lighten-Up +1
It would be a nice gesture for the person who gets this running to give 1000 tunes to each of the pirates forced to appear in the Pepsi-Apple-RIAA Superbowl commercial as penance for their sins.
Steve Jobs once asked John Sculley if he wanted to change the world -- or just sell sugar water for the rest of his life. Now it seems that Jobs is the one selling Pepsi!
LOOSE is the opposite of TIGHT
It's really not that hard, people...
Tell it to my spell checker.
It's up to the reader to decide which is which.
If he'd made it a mystery for people to guess at ("I sampled a well-known album, can you guess which one?") it would have made an interesting treasure hunt.
But if it hadn't come from such a famous album (and I do credit him with very creative rework here), would it have engendered this much interest? Or if it hadn't been banned??
Only the people replying to my post can answer that for sure.
Of course, EMI is nuts for believing they can put this Jeannie back in her bottle.
Funny +5
If the Canadian people don't want this, then they can stop it.
Which, according to Microsoft, will be any operating system, program, applet, virus, or worm that runs on any computer physically smaller or newer than an IBM System 360/40.
Yeah, right. I've never seen so many /. posts on a single thread so quickly as I saw on that one. Four pages worth in the first few hours alone. SCO completely and utterly destroyed by IBM wouldn't attract that much comment.
I guess Windows is Open Source now!
Who did great? I think it was Eisner + Frank Wells + Jeffrey Katzenberg that did great for Disney. Today only Eisner remains.
I'd add a slide right at the end reading: Eisner Fired!!
However, in compensation for your cooperation, you will be allowed to keep 19 trinkets.
And some reports said there were two swastikas there.
Truth is that there was not even one.