I can't believe the Wiz doesn't have wifi! That was the number one missing item from the gp2x in my mind towards the end. The pandora is too over-designed and the Whiz is lacking wifi... argh!
As the developer of one of the few commercial games for the gp2x, and the only native real-time strategy game for the system (I'll see your blatant advert and raise you one: retrovirus RTS), I have to say I don't think the Pandora is the spiritual successor to the gp2x. The pandora is designed more to be the ultimate emulator device rather than it's own gaming platform.
I thought of the gp2x as the open version of the gameboy. I would think of the pandora more as a portable linux machine with extra controls for emulation.
It's a subtle difference since they both run linux. Good luck to the pandora team though, it's an exciting project.
I am proud to announce the same day formation of the Centre for the Destruction of Gliese 581 c. A non-profit organisation committed to the pointless destruction of the fantastic new world.
Judging by the characters left out of their games, developers are apparantly scared of gay people, women who don't fit some weird pubescent fantasy, and foreigners who aren't ethnic stereotypes.
>I can't tell if you're being serious, funny, or > just trolling. However, I'm up for intelligent > discourse, so let's see what happens.
> I have to respectfully disagree with your > hypothesis that some form of technology > might be able to "solve" the social problem > of violence, or any social problem for that matter.
It seems to me that one of the tenets of capitalism that Marxism agrees with, is that the basic transaction between humans is based on the laws of supply and demand. Capitalism uses this to explain the economy and marxism extends it and applies it to create a social theory... namely, that the there are those that own the means of production and those that don't.
Why linux and OSS and the Internet differ for the first time in history, is that because the cost of creating (a copy) and distributing these products is so close to zero, as to be effectively zero. For the first time, the cost of producing an item is effectively zero. I think this is powerful. I don't know exactly what it will do, but I think it might break the cycle that has existed since we came down out of the trees... and, no matter what it causes, I think it will be a fun trip.
This is not the same as no longer using a screwdriver just because the military use them.
Chances are he has contributed to open-source (or at least advocated it). That makes him one of the creators of a tool used by the military. If you were against the war and the perpetrators of the war were using YOUR creation to do their violent work, then I think you are entitled to object.
Linux is a community (for better or for worse) and as a member of the community it is his duty to speak up and defend it when he sees it being twisted around against the ideals as he sees them. I would say that Linux, as part of OSS (via the GPL and things like the EFA, etc), definitely has a sort of liberal global peace vibe infusing it, not an imperial military-industrial fossil-fuel fed complex vibe.
I wish more people would stop aggressive violent people from taking good, nice things and using them to hurt people.
I know I'll be mocked for this post, but I think OSS is one of the few things from the last 20,000 years that geniunely might break the cycle of village killing village. That's right, I think software can be the saviour of humankind, and I suspect that deep down underneath your crusty exteriors, you slashdot people believe it too.
That's why I think we should discourage military applications of linux, the resources would be better spent making linux powered farms or spaceships.
BTW, when I say `crusty' I mean sceptical and sarcastic, not pizza and sweat-encrusted.
Microsoft would not leak so many embarrassing documents if they never wrote anything down. But, I hear you say, surely people will just record what they say and leak the recordings. Well, not if they conduct all their business in mime. So that is my suggestion. Microsoft should do everything by mime.
For the entire time I was watching that Grinch film I was wishing my colon would jump up and strangle my brain. I even nibbled on my own leg to see what the feasibility of gnawing it off would be.
The only problem with Debian's fast-growing deployment is the recklessness of the scientists creating Debian.
I have become increasingly concerned with the blatant disregard of safety protocols of the people in charge.
When we started this project it was only to help people but now they've gone crazy. I'm typing this on the only computer in the building not being monitored. Almost 16 months ago, some army generals came to visit the project leader and since that time I've noticed some strange happenings.
Firstly, an entire level of the Debian building has now gone top security. Truckloads of materials enter but never leave.
Secondly, the project leader used to be this really nice person, but for about eight months she just hasn't been the same. She's lost her sense of humour and frankly, if I didn't know it was impossible, she's become like some sort of automaton.
And what has happened to the distro? I was doing some routine checks on the source but found some weird library call named "void launchInvasionFleetAugust2004". I immediately checked with the project leader but she went all angry and demanded me to ignore what I had seen. It was almost a threat. As I left, I heard her telling one of the generals that I was "harmless".
Now, finally, I can't keep quiet about the disappearances. My floor used to be a bustle of activity. But now there are only three or four of us left. I was told it was because of cut-backs, but we're a hobby project and no-one gets paid! When I said this, they announced that a lot of people had moved onto new projects, and that I was being paranoid.
I called the local newspaper and they sent out reporter, but now he's vanished too.
Then, earlier tonight, I walked out onto the factory floor where we make Debian. It was after dark, so I thought it would be empty, but the whole place was running at full speed. I picked up a Debian case and opened it. Inside was not a normal CD. It had some sort of growth on it, like tentacles or slime... but, and I swear this is true, amongst the growth was a single eye.
I have to get the word out. The fast spreading of Debian is not what it seems... please, you've got to believe me!!!
There's someone at the door! I have to go before th
I saw the headline to this article "Do plants practice grid computing?" and I thought "AHA! I'll just jump in here, throw in a hillarious line about plants and computers and bingo, easy points."
Imagine my dismay when I saw that every single message on the thread is a hillarious comment about plants and their computing abilities! Ho ho ho
You people certainly make it difficult for a person to be an edgy counter-culture warrior, disarming the system with humour.
Just go back to bashing Microsoft and leave the comedy to me.
My favourite forgotten electronic device from the 1980s was the Ludman Electric 56A.
An excellent device but unfortunately today its almost as if it never existed.
I used to use it all the time. It was perfect for the job and reliable too. Then I retired for a while and by the time I returned to the industry everyone had moved on.
If you can get one on ebay, I strongly advise you to do so. I wish I had kept mine. It'd probably be worth almost a $1,000 today.
Now if we can only get the Beatles to finally admit that Paul is dead, then that will mean the two most important but worst-kept secrets in the world will have been revealed on one day.
Re:Obstacles to US adoption of SI system(Note: OT) (Score:2, Interesting) by quacking duck (607555) on Monday November 03, @05:02PM (#7381439)
BTW, I've been thinking maybe there should be a "negative count" ballot for elections. I think we've gotten too cynical of our politicians of late, so we can't really say we want so and so in office. However, I would LOVE if there were a "I DO NOT want this candidate in power" option, and checking off a candidate would DEDUCT a vote (or maybe just a half-vote) from him/her. I bet that would increase turnout substantially... ----
We have this in Australia. It is called preference voting. What happens is you get the list of candidates and rank them in your order of preference.
Just say there are three candiates... Joe Blow, Miss Scarlett and Godzilla
You rank them 1, 2, 3. Then, when the votes are counted, if your number one choice loses, your vote goes to your second choice, and so on.
Example: If Godzilla gets 40% of the primary vote (ie 40% of the voters put him first) but the 30% that voted for Miss Scarlett and the 30% that voted for Joe Blow put Godzilla last, then that means 60% of voters want anyone BUT Godzilla.
Then Godzilla is knocked out of the race and his second preferences are sent to Miss Scarlett or Joe Blow. If most Godzilla voters put Joe Blow second (above Miss Scarlett) then Joe Blow wins.
So in preference voting it is possible for someone to get 49.9% of the primary vote and still lose, as long as the 50.1% wanted anyone BUT that 49.9% person.
I think it is a good system.
Note: If someone gets 50+% of the primary vote they win.
Also, on the topic of compulsory voting. I think there should be an option on the ballot "NONE OF THESE CANDIDATES". It is essentially a donkey vote, but lets politicians know how many people are disillusioned with the process.
Try: Oct 57: USSR launches first spacecraft. Nov 57: USSR launches first animal into space. Jan 59: USSR's Lunik I misses moon and becomes first spacecraft to travel beyond Earth's orbit (and around the Sun) Sep 59: USSR's Lunik II becomes first spacecraft to reach the moon. April 61: USSR launches first man into space. 63: USSR launches first woman into space. 65: USSR has first space walk. Jul 69: USA lands first man on the moon. 70: USSR Venera 7 first to land on Venus 71: USSR launches Salyut (first space station) 72: USA first to Jupiter
I think first man in space is more important than first man on the moon.
Why do all "Matrix" spin-offs have something with "trix" appended to the end? Two examples are "The Animatrix" and now "The Fanimatrix". Why don't they do it the other way round? What's wrong with "The Matran" or "The Matrimation"???
It's also the same with unix. Why don't programs do something other than end in "x" (eg Linux, lynx, lyx, knoppix...)? They should start with "un" (or if you like linux, "lin"). For example, "open-office" could be called "un-office", and "link" could be called "linlink".
The experts there (of which you are not one) examined the data at their disposal (which you do not possess) and consulted their own education and experience with the program (which you do not have) and made a determination (which you are not qualified to do) that the risk... was low.
(snip)
If you're going to ignore the advice of the experts, just because that advice very infrequently ends up being wrong, you are going to end up wrong far more often than not, much to the detriment of the... program and the lives of those depending on you.
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I thought the same thing about Bush and the UN Weapon Inspectors:)
The problem with Linux is that a lot of the time it just exists solely as opposition to Windows. To me, success for Linux will come when people start talking about Windows in terms of Linux. Linux will never be able to set the agenda if people keep comparing it to Windows. It should be that Windows is compared to Linux.
(rant) I understand that Windows might have more marketshare than Linux, but let's face it, Linux is BIGGER than Windows in every other way... bigger in ideas, freedom, innovation and support. Linux (and OSS) is almost like a Bill of Rights in a way.
Linux as the default, and everything else discussed in those terms (and please, no mentions of BSD... don't you know its DYING?). (/rant)
So to say that we can't call an existing linux product something because some future windows product might use the term is just a very conservative and reactive (rather than proactive) attitude.
I think instead of having nano seconds here and there without any consistent approach, we should store up all our nano seconds until we have enough for a leap YEAR.
So then we can just repeat a year whenever we need to. My vote would be to repeat 1987, that year just had a really good vibe for me.
Paying people to write letters (eg by rewarding someone with a free subscription) makes the entire exercise worthless.
I would even go so far as to use the word "corrupt" to describe pay-for-political-action plans. This is why companies should not be allowed to donate to pollies.
Still, I agree that all Slashdot users should write to their local reps. I did so for the first time two weeks ago and got a nice reply!
Slashdot Mirror
And how could that kind of deal be legal any way? Sounds like collusion or cartel practice to me!
I can't believe the Wiz doesn't have wifi! That was the number one missing item from the gp2x in my mind towards the end. The pandora is too over-designed and the Whiz is lacking wifi ... argh!
As the developer of one of the few commercial games for the gp2x, and the only native real-time strategy game for the system (I'll see your blatant advert and raise you one: retrovirus RTS), I have to say I don't think the Pandora is the spiritual successor to the gp2x. The pandora is designed more to be the ultimate emulator device rather than it's own gaming platform.
I thought of the gp2x as the open version of the gameboy. I would think of the pandora more as a portable linux machine with extra controls for emulation.
It's a subtle difference since they both run linux. Good luck to the pandora team though, it's an exciting project.
I am proud to announce the same day formation of the Centre for the Destruction of Gliese 581 c. A non-profit organisation committed to the pointless destruction of the fantastic new world.
Our website is at:
Centre for the Destruction of Gliese 581 c
Tilematch for the gp2x - simple but amazingly entertaining. An excellent difficulty curve.
Oh, I wish I had mod points. That was a great show.
Judging by the characters left out of their games, developers are apparantly scared of gay people, women who don't fit some weird pubescent fantasy, and foreigners who aren't ethnic stereotypes.
Thanks for your reply.
... namely, that the there are those that own the means of production and those that don't.
... and, no matter what it causes, I think it will be a fun trip.
>I can't tell if you're being serious, funny, or
> just trolling. However, I'm up for intelligent
> discourse, so let's see what happens.
> I have to respectfully disagree with your
> hypothesis that some form of technology
> might be able to "solve" the social problem
> of violence, or any social problem for that matter.
It seems to me that one of the tenets of capitalism that Marxism agrees with, is that the basic transaction between humans is based on the laws of supply and demand. Capitalism uses this to explain the economy and marxism extends it and applies it to create a social theory
Why linux and OSS and the Internet differ for the first time in history, is that because the cost of creating (a copy) and distributing these products is so close to zero, as to be effectively zero. For the first time, the cost of producing an item is effectively zero. I think this is powerful. I don't know exactly what it will do, but I think it might break the cycle that has existed since we came down out of the trees
Good luck!
---
This is not the same as no longer using a screwdriver just because the military use them.
Chances are he has contributed to open-source (or at least advocated it). That makes him one of the creators of a tool used by the military. If you were against the war and the perpetrators of the war were using YOUR creation to do their violent work, then I think you are entitled to object.
Linux is a community (for better or for worse) and as a member of the community it is his duty to speak up and defend it when he sees it being twisted around against the ideals as he sees them. I would say that Linux, as part of OSS (via the GPL and things like the EFA, etc), definitely has a sort of liberal global peace vibe infusing it, not an imperial military-industrial fossil-fuel fed complex vibe.
I wish more people would stop aggressive violent people from taking good, nice things and using them to hurt people.
I know I'll be mocked for this post, but I think OSS is one of the few things from the last 20,000 years that geniunely might break the cycle of village killing village. That's right, I think software can be the saviour of humankind, and I suspect that deep down underneath your crusty exteriors, you slashdot people believe it too.
That's why I think we should discourage military applications of linux, the resources would be better spent making linux powered farms or spaceships.
BTW, when I say `crusty' I mean sceptical and sarcastic, not pizza and sweat-encrusted.
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Microsoft would not leak so many embarrassing documents if they never wrote anything down. But, I hear you say, surely people will just record what they say and leak the recordings. Well, not if they conduct all their business in mime. So that is my suggestion. Microsoft should do everything by mime.
-
Jim Carrey would be an excellent vogon.
For the entire time I was watching that Grinch film I was wishing my colon would jump up and strangle my brain. I even nibbled on my own leg to see what the feasibility of gnawing it off would be.
---
The only problem with Debian's fast-growing deployment is the recklessness of the scientists creating Debian.
... but, and I swear this is true, amongst the growth was a single eye.
I have become increasingly concerned with the blatant disregard of safety protocols of the people in charge.
When we started this project it was only to help people but now they've gone crazy. I'm typing this on the only computer in the building not being monitored. Almost 16 months ago, some army generals came to visit the project leader and since that time I've noticed some strange happenings.
Firstly, an entire level of the Debian building has now gone top security. Truckloads of materials enter but never leave.
Secondly, the project leader used to be this really nice person, but for about eight months she just hasn't been the same. She's lost her sense of humour and frankly, if I didn't know it was impossible, she's become like some sort of automaton.
And what has happened to the distro? I was doing some routine checks on the source but found some weird library call named "void launchInvasionFleetAugust2004". I immediately checked with the project leader but she went all angry and demanded me to ignore what I had seen. It was almost a threat. As I left, I heard her telling one of the generals that I was "harmless".
Now, finally, I can't keep quiet about the disappearances. My floor used to be a bustle of activity. But now there are only three or four of us left. I was told it was because of cut-backs, but we're a hobby project and no-one gets paid! When I said this, they announced that a lot of people had moved onto new projects, and that I was being paranoid.
I called the local newspaper and they sent out reporter, but now he's vanished too.
Then, earlier tonight, I walked out onto the factory floor where we make Debian. It was after dark, so I thought it would be empty, but the whole place was running at full speed. I picked up a Debian case and opened it. Inside was not a normal CD. It had some sort of growth on it, like tentacles or slime
I have to get the word out. The fast spreading of Debian is not what it seems... please, you've got to believe me!!!
There's someone at the door! I have to go before th
I saw the headline to this article "Do plants practice grid computing?" and I thought "AHA! I'll just jump in here, throw in a hillarious line about plants and computers and bingo, easy points."
Imagine my dismay when I saw that every single message on the thread is a hillarious comment about plants and their computing abilities! Ho ho ho
You people certainly make it difficult for a person to be an edgy counter-culture warrior, disarming the system with humour.
Just go back to bashing Microsoft and leave the comedy to me.
Hands up who went to this webpage and clicked first on the Sexum Adult Digital Watch?
My favourite forgotten electronic device from the 1980s was the Ludman Electric 56A. An excellent device but unfortunately today its almost as if it never existed. I used to use it all the time. It was perfect for the job and reliable too. Then I retired for a while and by the time I returned to the industry everyone had moved on. If you can get one on ebay, I strongly advise you to do so. I wish I had kept mine. It'd probably be worth almost a $1,000 today.
Now if we can only get the Beatles to finally admit that Paul is dead, then that will mean the two most important but worst-kept secrets in the world will have been revealed on one day.
Re:Obstacles to US adoption of SI system(Note: OT) (Score:2, Interesting)
by quacking duck (607555) on Monday November 03, @05:02PM (#7381439)
BTW, I've been thinking maybe there should be a "negative count" ballot for elections. I think we've gotten too cynical of our politicians of late, so we can't really say we want so and so in office. However, I would LOVE if there were a "I DO NOT want this candidate in power" option, and checking off a candidate would DEDUCT a vote (or maybe just a half-vote) from him/her. I bet that would increase turnout substantially...
----
We have this in Australia. It is called preference voting. What happens is you get the list of candidates and rank them in your order of preference.
Just say there are three candiates...
Joe Blow, Miss Scarlett and Godzilla
You rank them 1, 2, 3. Then, when the votes are counted, if your number one choice loses, your vote goes to your second choice, and so on.
Example: If Godzilla gets 40% of the primary vote (ie 40% of the voters put him first) but the 30% that voted for Miss Scarlett and the 30% that voted for Joe Blow put Godzilla last, then that means 60% of voters want anyone BUT Godzilla.
Then Godzilla is knocked out of the race and his second preferences are sent to Miss Scarlett or Joe Blow. If most Godzilla voters put Joe Blow second (above Miss Scarlett) then Joe Blow wins.
So in preference voting it is possible for someone to get 49.9% of the primary vote and still lose, as long as the 50.1% wanted anyone BUT that 49.9% person.
I think it is a good system.
Note: If someone gets 50+% of the primary vote they win.
Also, on the topic of compulsory voting. I think there should be an option on the ballot "NONE OF THESE CANDIDATES". It is essentially a donkey vote, but lets politicians know how many people are disillusioned with the process.
Your timeline was somewhat LACKING.
Try:
Oct 57: USSR launches first spacecraft.
Nov 57: USSR launches first animal into space.
Jan 59: USSR's Lunik I misses moon and becomes first spacecraft to travel beyond Earth's orbit (and around the Sun)
Sep 59: USSR's Lunik II becomes first spacecraft to reach the moon.
April 61: USSR launches first man into space.
63: USSR launches first woman into space.
65: USSR has first space walk.
Jul 69: USA lands first man on the moon.
70: USSR Venera 7 first to land on Venus
71: USSR launches Salyut (first space station)
72: USA first to Jupiter
I think first man in space is more important than first man on the moon.
Why do all "Matrix" spin-offs have something with "trix" appended to the end? Two examples are "The Animatrix" and now "The Fanimatrix". Why don't they do it the other way round? What's wrong with "The Matran" or "The Matrimation"???
It's also the same with unix. Why don't programs do something other than end in "x" (eg Linux, lynx, lyx, knoppix...)? They should start with "un" (or if you like linux, "lin"). For example, "open-office" could be called "un-office", and "link" could be called "linlink".
I can't believe this rabid anti-linux post got modded +5. It's clearly a troll.
The experts there (of which you are not one) examined the data at their disposal (which you do not possess) and consulted their own education and experience with the program (which you do not have) and made a determination (which you are not qualified to do) that the risk ... was low.
... program and the lives of those depending on you.
:)
(snip)
If you're going to ignore the advice of the experts, just because that advice very infrequently ends up being wrong, you are going to end up wrong far more often than not, much to the detriment of the
---
I thought the same thing about Bush and the UN Weapon Inspectors
The problem with Linux is that a lot of the time it just exists solely as opposition to Windows. To me, success for Linux will come when people start talking about Windows in terms of Linux. Linux will never be able to set the agenda if people keep comparing it to Windows. It should be that Windows is compared to Linux.
... bigger in ideas, freedom, innovation and support. Linux (and OSS) is almost like a Bill of Rights in a way.
... don't you know its DYING?).
(rant)
I understand that Windows might have more marketshare than Linux, but let's face it, Linux is BIGGER than Windows in every other way
Linux as the default, and everything else discussed in those terms (and please, no mentions of BSD
(/rant)
So to say that we can't call an existing linux product something because some future windows product might use the term is just a very conservative and reactive (rather than proactive) attitude.
It should be called Trusted Debian. It's about time we reclaimed the langwidge.
I think instead of having nano seconds here and there without any consistent approach, we should store up all our nano seconds until we have enough for a leap YEAR.
So then we can just repeat a year whenever we need to. My vote would be to repeat 1987, that year just had a really good vibe for me.
Paying people to write letters (eg by rewarding someone with a free subscription) makes the entire exercise worthless.
I would even go so far as to use the word "corrupt" to describe pay-for-political-action plans. This is why companies should not be allowed to donate to pollies.
Still, I agree that all Slashdot users should write to their local reps. I did so for the first time two weeks ago and got a nice reply!