Or can I buy up 2.4ghz and be a total bastard by making everyone else turn their transmitter off?
This would be great news as the guy next door is cutting down on my range and THE GOIT MUST BE STOPPED! I MUST BE ABLE TO SURF THE WEB FOR FREE AT THE PUB! THE WORLD WILL BE MINE! *foam frothes from mouth*
Dear Slashdot "Editors"... Please for christmas, can Santa bring you all an unabridged grammar book and a spell checker.
Our new processor wordy hqs a spiel chequer it in, but languag bad so is that we not print out even label understandingable to send it back! Until come refound we cant buy new since spreadsheet for finance from same plaice com.
We cant buy a US subscription, so we have to wait until January for the game to be translated in French and German.
THEN we cant play on the US servers, without getting a US address and credit card and buying a second subscription.
AND the preorder starts on Friday but the only retailer knows nothing about it and the stock of pre-order boxes are not yet in store.
What the hell is the point in paying $15/mth for a worldwide MMPORG when it's not worldwide! I want to play with friends both in the EU and in the US, so WoW is right out the Window for me. All they have to do is make it possible for those in the EU to play with those in the US and bang... they get my money... but no, the bl00dy publisher (Vevendi I believe) are so stuck on making a bigger profit that it's not possible to do that.
Valves - why they are better than transistors. Transistors - why they are better than valves. The Transputer - computing the future in paralell. Pong - strategy guide.
I would hazard a guess that most of these contributors also have PAYING jobs, otherwise they might not feel so charitable.
Of course when _everything_ is free paying jobs are not required to sustain yourself or your family... this is the whole basis of the argument. If you can afford to work for free, and you like it, why not?
While we might be able to find some people who like to write code or find the cure to a particular disease, it will be much tougher to find someone that enjoys working in a coal mine or cleaning the toilets at the bus station.
Again you miss the point. One of the key enablers of this kind of system is AUTOMATION... so no one has to clean the toilets. I agree with you that cleaning the toilets would suck, however I personally would quite enjoy the challenge of designing a robot that cleaned toilets automatically. And of course building the toilet cleaning robot is probably something that could be automated as well... whilst the interesting problem of setting up a factory to build those robots remains with people that enjoy that sort of thing (my GF loves logisitics and production work, and would happily do that for free if she knew where her next meal was comming from).
They also say that Firefox is a 'browser for Windows' and that it requires 'Windows 95, 98, 2000 or XP'. Infact from their whole mention of it one could assume that Microsoft had done you a huge favour by offering you a better browser.
No mention of the fact that it works on Linux or OS X. Spin it your way, uh huh:\
The cost of production of everything drops all the time. It takes one man now to do a thousand men's work from a thousand years ago. Since the cost of production is tending to 0 (thanks mostly to increased automation) there is no reason why everything cant be free in the long term.
All that is required for this to work is for a small minority to be willing to work for no gain except prestiege. It's not like the work would be boring - mostly conceptual and design, like the creation of new robots. The repetative or boring stuff can be automated.
The proof that this sort of system _can_ work is the open source movement. Where the marginal cost of production is 0 enough people (especially the talented, gifted, self motivated people) seem to be willing to contribute for free to keep the whole system running perfectly well. Those that use and give nothing back... well they cost nothing to those who do contribute, so it doesn't bother them much.
Open source software offers more than just free software. It offers hope that in the long run the sort of utopian vision that had us all not working but enjoying our time on our persuit of choice (which may indeed be something useful - even if no one is making us do it) CAN become a reality. In fact it's fairly inevitable... the only way it can be stopped is tying up of ideas that provide artifical costs to make sure that the things you need never become essentially free.
I still see the adds on penny arcade because they are small enough it's not worth my effort to block them, and occasionally something interesting comes up.
I see no adds here because they are huge flash obscenities for Microsoft FUD campaigns.
You want clickthroughs? Rethink your ad placement policies. (If I could select as a pref nothing but text adds for Linux/Unix/Hardware with _informational_ content - I might well see adds on Slashdot. And you might get paid more that the 0 you get for me at present.)
The thing that pisses me off most of course is that the ultra lightweight version still has the heavy and blotated flash/animated adverts:\
Of course the article is about lower schools... but the same principle applies. Being safe == no experience of the real world, so what value is there to your education?
E-tagging students to provide them with security listed as a good thing? Roland Piquepaille, get the fuck out, you know nothing of geeks.
College is about drinking, sleeping late, cutting class and still passing because you are smart enough to do it all without getting caught. It certainly isn't about being tagged like cattle and herded from one carefully controlled, spoon fed 'educational experience' to another.
For all you Americans who don't want to suffer crap like that I suggest college in England where attending classes is a decision you make, and the consequences are entirely your responsibility. And to top if off it'll be cheaper (even with flights) and it only takes 3 years not 4 because you don't have to dick around with bullshit subjects just to jump your tuition fees up another thousand bucks.
I don't know about you but I use the SSL support in Gaim 99% of the time. Any people who dont want to use that (beyond people I hadly talk to) know to contact me in other ways.
But then even my mother uses SSL-Gaim and PGP so I guess I'm lucky.
The best bit is that there is probably someone somewhere wondering what the hell $^&$%%^"""23745 means as it keeps showing up in his log file stats:D
Tell that to the NWN scripters who have spent literally years creating fantasticly detailed worlds, the kind of thing that can only be achieved free of commercial pressure and driven by the players.
Most is dross but a significant minority is OUTSTANDING and the man is a tool to ignore it.
You get a lot more LoCs per gigabyte as plain text, and it's a lot more useful if you can search it.
Perhaps later on an image archive would be useful, but untill they can get several terrabytes of bandwidth for free and image->text (on the fly) systems are perfected text is probably a better idea.
Grep! The only way to search 100 years of data for a misspelled word so you can poke fun at the foolish writer.
Pay college students $0.03 an hour to type them in. Monkey see monkey do monkey buy coffee with proceeds.
Presumably papers after 1923 will be added one year at a time as the copyright expires? Or will the mouse protection league keep them locked away for ever?*
*On a related note a BBC radio broadcast about a hitch hiking trip had a comment from a Fat Woman in her slightly derranged middle age who was on her way to Disney World in Florida. She said that America would be a much better place if Disney ran it, just look at how nice and clean and safe Disney World is. Perhaps she should take a closer look at opensecrets.org and where the money tree grows.
Does this have anything to do with that new Sewage To The House initiative?
There are times I'm glad I don't watch TV, and with the prospect of the future of TV being controlled by Microsoft's shitty DVR products now is one of them. That and who the fuck would pay $80+ a month to pointlessly chew up 5 hours of their life _every day_? I'm not suggestuing you do anything radical like go outside, but something even slightly interactive might be a good start.
Cheating a man who is already giving things away for free with only the requirement that you be generous in return is NOT the same thing as stealing from a thief.
Slashdot users do tend to play fast and lose with copyright, but there is a certain respect (not without merit) for the selfless who contribute to free software that makes it beyond the pale to rip that off whilst others who are less altrustic get no such status. What's so surprising about that?
Linux can do it just as well as Microsoft and Lexmark! Admittedly, you do have to install it yourself, but the feature is there and just as good as these so called professional vendors can offer!
Well that certainly would explain the popularity of this whole Linux thing.
Now tell me, are all of the open source projects actually pr0n code names? Apache is native american girls? KDE is girls wrapped in tin foil? What the hell is Gnome?
Time to fire up bit torrent and download one of them 5gb "SuSE" (SupremelySExy???) and see what this thing is all about!
Slashdot Mirror
Or can I buy up 2.4ghz and be a total bastard by making everyone else turn their transmitter off?
This would be great news as the guy next door is cutting down on my range and THE GOIT MUST BE STOPPED! I MUST BE ABLE TO SURF THE WEB FOR FREE AT THE PUB! THE WORLD WILL BE MINE! *foam frothes from mouth*
Dear Slashdot "Editors"... Please for christmas, can Santa bring you all an unabridged grammar book and a spell checker.
Our new processor wordy hqs a spiel chequer it in, but languag bad so is that we not print out even label understandingable to send it back! Until come refound we cant buy new since spreadsheet for finance from same plaice com.
For us in the UK...
We cant buy a US subscription, so we have to wait until January for the game to be translated in French and German.
THEN we cant play on the US servers, without getting a US address and credit card and buying a second subscription.
AND the preorder starts on Friday but the only retailer knows nothing about it and the stock of pre-order boxes are not yet in store.
What the hell is the point in paying $15/mth for a worldwide MMPORG when it's not worldwide! I want to play with friends both in the EU and in the US, so WoW is right out the Window for me. All they have to do is make it possible for those in the EU to play with those in the US and bang... they get my money... but no, the bl00dy publisher (Vevendi I believe) are so stuck on making a bigger profit that it's not possible to do that.
They can go to hell as far as I am concerned.
Valves - why they are better than transistors.
Transistors - why they are better than valves.
The Transputer - computing the future in paralell.
Pong - strategy guide.
And the number one computing book of 1979.
Miss DEC - the pagent.
I would hazard a guess that most of these contributors also have PAYING jobs, otherwise they might not feel so charitable.
Of course when _everything_ is free paying jobs are not required to sustain yourself or your family... this is the whole basis of the argument. If you can afford to work for free, and you like it, why not?
While we might be able to find some people who like to write code or find the cure to a particular disease, it will be much tougher to find someone that enjoys working in a coal mine or cleaning the toilets at the bus station.
Again you miss the point. One of the key enablers of this kind of system is AUTOMATION... so no one has to clean the toilets. I agree with you that cleaning the toilets would suck, however I personally would quite enjoy the challenge of designing a robot that cleaned toilets automatically. And of course building the toilet cleaning robot is probably something that could be automated as well... whilst the interesting problem of setting up a factory to build those robots remains with people that enjoy that sort of thing (my GF loves logisitics and production work, and would happily do that for free if she knew where her next meal was comming from).
They also say that Firefox is a 'browser for Windows' and that it requires 'Windows 95, 98, 2000 or XP'. Infact from their whole mention of it one could assume that Microsoft had done you a huge favour by offering you a better browser.
:\
No mention of the fact that it works on Linux or OS X. Spin it your way, uh huh
Were this a utopia...
The cost of production of everything drops all the time. It takes one man now to do a thousand men's work from a thousand years ago. Since the cost of production is tending to 0 (thanks mostly to increased automation) there is no reason why everything cant be free in the long term.
All that is required for this to work is for a small minority to be willing to work for no gain except prestiege. It's not like the work would be boring - mostly conceptual and design, like the creation of new robots. The repetative or boring stuff can be automated.
The proof that this sort of system _can_ work is the open source movement. Where the marginal cost of production is 0 enough people (especially the talented, gifted, self motivated people) seem to be willing to contribute for free to keep the whole system running perfectly well. Those that use and give nothing back... well they cost nothing to those who do contribute, so it doesn't bother them much.
Open source software offers more than just free software. It offers hope that in the long run the sort of utopian vision that had us all not working but enjoying our time on our persuit of choice (which may indeed be something useful - even if no one is making us do it) CAN become a reality. In fact it's fairly inevitable... the only way it can be stopped is tying up of ideas that provide artifical costs to make sure that the things you need never become essentially free.
The prize is $10,000US... I knew iPods were expensive, but man...
I still see the adds on penny arcade because they are small enough it's not worth my effort to block them, and occasionally something interesting comes up.
:\
I see no adds here because they are huge flash obscenities for Microsoft FUD campaigns.
You want clickthroughs? Rethink your ad placement policies. (If I could select as a pref nothing but text adds for Linux/Unix/Hardware with _informational_ content - I might well see adds on Slashdot. And you might get paid more that the 0 you get for me at present.)
The thing that pisses me off most of course is that the ultra lightweight version still has the heavy and blotated flash/animated adverts
Of course the article is about lower schools... but the same principle applies. Being safe == no experience of the real world, so what value is there to your education?
E-tagging students to provide them with security listed as a good thing? Roland Piquepaille, get the fuck out, you know nothing of geeks.
College is about drinking, sleeping late, cutting class and still passing because you are smart enough to do it all without getting caught. It certainly isn't about being tagged like cattle and herded from one carefully controlled, spoon fed 'educational experience' to another.
For all you Americans who don't want to suffer crap like that I suggest college in England where attending classes is a decision you make, and the consequences are entirely your responsibility. And to top if off it'll be cheaper (even with flights) and it only takes 3 years not 4 because you don't have to dick around with bullshit subjects just to jump your tuition fees up another thousand bucks.
I don't know about you but I use the SSL support in Gaim 99% of the time. Any people who dont want to use that (beyond people I hadly talk to) know to contact me in other ways.
:D
But then even my mother uses SSL-Gaim and PGP so I guess I'm lucky.
The best bit is that there is probably someone somewhere wondering what the hell $^&$%%^"""23745 means as it keeps showing up in his log file stats
Tell that to the NWN scripters who have spent literally years creating fantasticly detailed worlds, the kind of thing that can only be achieved free of commercial pressure and driven by the players.
Most is dross but a significant minority is OUTSTANDING and the man is a tool to ignore it.
If they tax the internet the real geeks can go back to fido/bbs and we can let the useless languish in commercialised hell.
what did they write/read in 19th Century?
Words. They had moved on from heiroglyphics and runes by then.
You get a lot more LoCs per gigabyte as plain text, and it's a lot more useful if you can search it.
Perhaps later on an image archive would be useful, but untill they can get several terrabytes of bandwidth for free and image->text (on the fly) systems are perfected text is probably a better idea.
Grep! The only way to search 100 years of data for a misspelled word so you can poke fun at the foolish writer.
Pay college students $0.03 an hour to type them in. Monkey see monkey do monkey buy coffee with proceeds.
Presumably papers after 1923 will be added one year at a time as the copyright expires? Or will the mouse protection league keep them locked away for ever?*
*On a related note a BBC radio broadcast about a hitch hiking trip had a comment from a Fat Woman in her slightly derranged middle age who was on her way to Disney World in Florida. She said that America would be a much better place if Disney ran it, just look at how nice and clean and safe Disney World is. Perhaps she should take a closer look at opensecrets.org and where the money tree grows.
Does this have anything to do with that new Sewage To The House initiative?
There are times I'm glad I don't watch TV, and with the prospect of the future of TV being controlled by Microsoft's shitty DVR products now is one of them. That and who the fuck would pay $80+ a month to pointlessly chew up 5 hours of their life _every day_? I'm not suggestuing you do anything radical like go outside, but something even slightly interactive might be a good start.
...when you can write some software to do it automatically?
Already been answered by them in a strip:
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Cheating a man who is already giving things away for free with only the requirement that you be generous in return is NOT the same thing as stealing from a thief.
Slashdot users do tend to play fast and lose with copyright, but there is a certain respect (not without merit) for the selfless who contribute to free software that makes it beyond the pale to rip that off whilst others who are less altrustic get no such status. What's so surprising about that?
Linux can do it just as well as Microsoft and Lexmark! Admittedly, you do have to install it yourself, but the feature is there and just as good as these so called professional vendors can offer!
Well that certainly would explain the popularity of this whole Linux thing.
Now tell me, are all of the open source projects actually pr0n code names? Apache is native american girls? KDE is girls wrapped in tin foil? What the hell is Gnome?
Time to fire up bit torrent and download one of them 5gb "SuSE" (SupremelySExy???) and see what this thing is all about!
And what about the people using Mozilla, Lynx, Links etc who don't want to see annoying nag screens?
:o)
Better to detect only IE. They should be used to interruptions by now
Guess it's not time to abandon treating all wireless hosts as bastions and using SSH to tunnel/authenticate just yet then.
Treat wireless just like you do a student network and everything will be fine.