Wierd Al, like any artist, would no doubt do a 'lil research before he released something to the whole world. Whether or not he was already familar with the net community or not is unknown to me, but he's always be right on with the proper teminology and tone of his songs. I'd be willing to bet that these lyrics are indeed by him.
Long time fan, long time geek. Conincidence?;) SirSlud.
Re:Should GPL prohibit use of code to KILL people?
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This would get sticky though. Are cigarette companies killing people with their products? Should they get to run GPLed stuff in house? And I think the army does a little more than killing. For instance, they must use computers for hacking into enemy networks and grabbing data and or corrupting enemy data. This may not be direct violence, but it might lead to it. What then?
Quote from story: "Doi, [snip], said he expected every household to have two to three entertainment robots within 10 years time."
Man oh man. Let me add this up according to the predictions of the people in the field. In 5 or ten years it looks like I'll have:
4 Computers 2 robots 4 TVs 2 VCRs
.. along with 2 or 3 God-Knows-What-Else-They'll-Invent.. I'm starting to wonder if I'll have space for my food, water, and wife. On the other hand, if these robots can hunt for me, feed me, tell me the synopsis of last night's Simpsons, and provide emotional support and love, maybe it won't be so much of a problem.
I agree 100% with the last paragraph. Most independant programmers seem to get bored with a product they are working on once they've figured out that they/can/ do it.
It makes sense that the trench work involved in writing a game only seems to happen when you're employed by someone and under a contractual obligation to read those joystick specs and support all those sound cards and all those video cards, etc, etc...
This is what made the demoscene so cool; you got to show/what/ you could do, but you never had to do more than you wanted to before moving onto another product. I suspect this was the ultimate fate of alotta the guys outta the demo scene that figured since they had written a demo, they could write a game. It wasn't that they/couldn't/, but rather that it just got a little boring in the end.
At any rate, to stay kinda on topic, the Glaze3D doesn't quite look like Vaporware to me, but I'm sure just like any news, it's significance and excitement tends to decrease exponentially as the release date approaches as other manufacturers flood the market with their competative offerings. We'll see.
I do admit I get more and more excited as the PC offerings align themselves to the specs of the current generation of arcade consoles.
SirSlud
BTW, people seem to forget Scream Tracker, which was finished, for all intensive purposes, and is still being used by trackers all around the world.:) So theres some non-vaporware outta the Future Crew ranks.
Quote from their webpage: "Bentspace is only responsible for sending the messages, and not for any consequence as a result of the messages that are sent."
Damnit, are they saying that when aliens recieve offensive email and blast us outta the sky, we can't sue Bentspace.com?
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The only thing scarier than the name "Lineo" is probably the amount of money that went into coming up with it.
Alas, the real reason I wanted to comment here is to tell all the folks at Motorola that I can't wait till my Toaster and Cell Phone both run Linux. Hrm. I could call my toaster from my car, load some bread, check on the status of my toast when I'm almost home, adjust the light/dark setting, and have it ready, perfectly golden-brown when I arrive home from work. The future is now! (Take that George Jetson.)
What a complete load of hooey. First off, its worth mentionning that the article is obviously USA specific. The first ad, which deals partly with the 5th amendment is an american issue. So other countries inhabitants have never had such 'rights' in the first place. But that amendment confuses the hell out of me at any rate: if you're doing something wrong, shouldn't you be working to change the law that makes it wrong rather than trying to uphold the amendment which keeps you from incriminating yourself for it?
People often confuse the growing rate of human interaction with privacy. I'd argue that back in the 1800's, you're privacy was no better - there simply was not the means to track such detailed information, nor services which would require such information. But if those infrastucture elements had been there, no one would have been better off. No one knew it was going to come to this, and so no one could act upon it in time. And now that it's here - well good luck changing things.
Remember, the real goal of everyone in this society is money and power. Capitalism encourages the storage of information, because it can be used later (even if the owner of such information isn't sure how to leverage it's value quite yet, s/he'd argue that it never hurts to store it until it does become useful.) So is it really a surprise that people in power wanna know everything about you?
Every day I see people running stop lights, people taking advantage of other people, people bending the truth about themselves in order to gain access to services, discounts, and such. People going for theirs. What boggles my mind is how hot headed they get when they discover that those in power act pretty much in the same vain, albiet on a larger scale. Information, and consequently people's 'privacy', is one such thing abused by everyone, on a daily basis. (Like the guy who passes around his ex-gfs phone number as revenge, and then turns around and bitches about the government or some company asking him for his.)
I'd argue that the democratic and capitalist system is set up such that the storage of your private deails is an inherently attractive notion to those in power. Rather than some sort of control on the information, which is pretty useless considering the people we think are abusing it are the ones to whom we'd trust the task to implementing those controls, we need to rethink our social structure. Otherwise, just get used to it. I have.
(And no, calling me a 'commie' won't work.;) I'll fully admit that capitalism and democracy seems to be the best of the evils so far.)
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I know, I know, I was just kidding around. =)
I'm pretty much in agreement here. I'm surprised they're displaying the IP#s ..... kinda kills my desire to take a crack at it.
SirSlud
Sounds suspiciously like a contest I run everyday when I bike to work. It's called "break the bike lock and keep the bike!".
SirSlud
Wierd Al, like any artist, would no doubt do a 'lil research before he released something to the whole world. Whether or not he was already familar with the net community or not is unknown to me, but he's always be right on with the proper teminology and tone of his songs. I'd be willing to bet that these lyrics are indeed by him.
;)
Long time fan, long time geek. Conincidence?
SirSlud.
Shoeboy - aspiring Onion jounalist? ;)
SirSlud
This would get sticky though. Are cigarette companies killing people with their products? Should they get to run GPLed stuff in house? And I think the army does a little more than killing. For instance, they must use computers for hacking into enemy networks and grabbing data and or corrupting enemy data. This may not be direct violence, but it might lead to it. What then?
I do see your point tho:
[root@army] insmod infrared_navigation_32.o
Heehee.
SirSlud
Quote from story: "Doi, [snip], said he expected every household to have two to three entertainment robots within 10 years time."
Man oh man. Let me add this up according to the predictions of the people in the field. In 5 or ten years it looks like I'll have:
4 Computers
2 robots
4 TVs
2 VCRs
.. along with 2 or 3 God-Knows-What-Else-They'll-Invent.. I'm starting to wonder if I'll have space for my food, water, and wife. On the other hand, if these robots can hunt for me, feed me, tell me the synopsis of last night's Simpsons, and provide emotional support and love, maybe it won't be so much of a problem.
SirSlud
> But we don't make toasters. Yet. :-) We do make some pretty cool phones, though. :-)
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Well, someone could and use a Moterola-born embedded os? Thats kinda what I was thinking of
I agree 100% with the last paragraph. Most independant programmers seem to get bored with a product they are working on once they've figured out that they /can/ do it.
...
/what/ you could do, but you never had to do more than you wanted to before moving onto another product. I suspect this was the ultimate fate of alotta the guys outta the demo scene that figured since they had written a demo, they could write a game. It wasn't that they /couldn't/, but rather that it just got a little boring in the end.
:) So theres some non-vaporware outta the Future Crew ranks.
It makes sense that the trench work involved in writing a game only seems to happen when you're employed by someone and under a contractual obligation to read those joystick specs and support all those sound cards and all those video cards, etc, etc
This is what made the demoscene so cool; you got to show
At any rate, to stay kinda on topic, the Glaze3D doesn't quite look like Vaporware to me, but I'm sure just like any news, it's significance and excitement tends to decrease exponentially as the release date approaches as other manufacturers flood the market with their competative offerings.
We'll see.
I do admit I get more and more excited as the PC offerings align themselves to the specs of the current generation of arcade consoles.
SirSlud
BTW, people seem to forget Scream Tracker, which was finished, for all intensive purposes, and is still being used by trackers all around the world.
Quote from their webpage: "Bentspace is only responsible for sending the messages, and not for any consequence as a result of the messages that are sent."
Damnit, are they saying that when aliens recieve offensive email and blast us outta the sky, we can't sue Bentspace.com?
SirSlud
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A day? Well now you can!!
Our proven, legal technique can make you thousands of dollars a day. All you need is a few boxes full of electronics, a web site, and a (preferably vast) universe full of sentient creatures with POP3 complient clients!
Don't delay! Send 10.95$ to the address below and we'll tell you how you can reach an audience of quadra-gazillions of intelligent lifeforms (the number is unmeasurable if you include the ones that run Microsoft Windows)!
Here are some of our happy customers:
"I couldn't believe it. Normally, even my husband won't listen to my incessant rambling. But now my pointless blather is reaching countless intelligent species, and I'm making more money than I ever have! You've got to try it!" - M. Hekman
"I'm rich! And I owe it all to SirSlud Inc, who showed me how to fire off more trash per second than my garbage men take from my curb every year! When I got that first reply from HjjkKk'a:sd, from the Gamma quandrant, asking for more information about my guacamole and peach casarole recipie, I knew I was set to make a bundle. If you've got pointless things to say, the galaxy has aliens who don't wanna hear it! It's instant riches!" - J. Harper
There you have it! Make millions! Become a household name across the vast skies! Don't delay, start today!
SirSlud Inc.
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The only thing scarier than the name "Lineo" is probably the amount of money that went into coming up with it.
Alas, the real reason I wanted to comment here is to tell all the folks at Motorola that I can't wait till my Toaster and Cell Phone both run Linux. Hrm. I could call my toaster from my car, load some bread, check on the status of my toast when I'm almost home, adjust the light/dark setting, and have it ready, perfectly golden-brown when I arrive home from work. The future is now! (Take that George Jetson.)
SirSlud
What a complete load of hooey. First off, its worth mentionning that the article is obviously USA specific. The first ad, which deals partly with the 5th amendment is an american issue. So other countries inhabitants have never had such 'rights' in the first place. But that amendment confuses the hell out of me at any rate: if you're doing something wrong, shouldn't you be working to change the law that makes it wrong rather than trying to uphold the amendment which keeps you from incriminating yourself for it?
;) I'll fully admit that capitalism and democracy seems to be the best of the evils so far.)
People often confuse the growing rate of human interaction with privacy. I'd argue that back in the 1800's, you're privacy was no better - there simply was not the means to track such detailed information, nor services which would require such information. But if those infrastucture elements had been there, no one would have been better off.
No one knew it was going to come to this, and so no one could act upon it in time. And now that it's here - well good luck changing things.
Remember, the real goal of everyone in this society is money and power. Capitalism encourages the storage of information, because it can be used later (even if the owner of such information isn't sure how to leverage it's value quite yet, s/he'd argue that it never hurts to store it until it does become useful.) So is it really a surprise that people in power wanna know everything about you?
Every day I see people running stop lights, people taking advantage of other people, people bending the truth about themselves in order to gain access to services, discounts, and such. People going for theirs. What boggles my mind is how hot headed they get when they discover that those in power act pretty much in the same vain, albiet on a larger scale. Information, and consequently people's 'privacy', is one such thing abused by everyone, on a daily basis. (Like the guy who passes around his ex-gfs phone number as revenge, and then turns around and bitches about the government or some company asking him for his.)
I'd argue that the democratic and capitalist system is set up such that the storage of your private deails is an inherently attractive notion to those in power. Rather than some sort of control on the information, which is pretty useless considering the people we think are abusing it are the ones to whom we'd trust the task to implementing those controls, we need to rethink our social structure. Otherwise, just get used to it. I have.
(And no, calling me a 'commie' won't work.