Remember those flash cartoons during the early days of the Napster "pirating" issue with Metallica and the Napster Bad cartoons? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napster_Bad!. Huge piles of money in the background and big companies screaming that net neutrality bad...
I don't have Flash installed, so I can't see how the game really works, but would Steve Jackson's old Car Wars (and Ogre and whatever) games count as prior art? As I recall, there were cars and whatnot that were a key component of the game (so much so that you couldn't play without them)...
I doubt they have a trademark on everything beginning with "i" (otherwise my buddy igor is in trouble;)) but could this be a deeper beta-beta-beta of the Apple/Google partnership everyone keeps mumbling about? Otherwise, I agree - It does lend itself to people pointing out the "i-linkage" between Apple and Google, and free publicity for both can only be good...
I agree. When Sun purchased Watson from Karelia, I believe they code named it "Alameda" or some such. There were promises of maintaining the functionality of Watson, even adding new channels. But with what seems to be their usual crappy follow-up on these types of events, nothing seems to have come from what had been a popular application (and yes, yes, I don't care about "popular" being relative term when discussing Mac market share).
Luckily, this effort can't hurt Linux. Hell, if anything it will increase interest: Sun will promise all kinds of neat things and claim that they'll be Linux-like. When they fail, folks might just start poking around the various flavors of Linux and decide that they're better than just "good enough."
It's a standard. I remember being one of the people stuck... er, tasked with, reviewing the first version. It was a painful read, but definately showed that there was "something new in the air." A lot of surprising things were taken into account, especially in a time frame where DSL was just starting to kick cable's ass. I'm curious to see what the new standard includes.
When These United States became The United States. It was a slow transition until it got to the point that it was - and is - generally accepted. Unless states like these step up and defend their rights (for whatever reason - maintaining funds for internal driver's licenses, etc.) and continue to do so, then everything will continue to move toward "central processing." And I'm sure things like National ID cards (and their predecessor, the "required-to-travel" passport) will continue to happen and will grow in numbers and requirements.
Will he fight for a GNU/Creative Commons/whatever license for the source code to the voting machines? THAT will make a difference...
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Actually, he probably was in his younger days. Had the honor of meeting him once when I was a reporter. This was around 10 years ago and you wouldn't believe the number of women flocking around him to hear his stories...
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Bull. Most contracts have a clause that says that if any part of the contract is declared null and void, it has no effect on the rest of the contract. Hell, check your lease agreement for you apartment. Bet 10 Mod points something similar is in there...
Good call on referencing the book. When I spoke to the authors a number of years ago they were appreciative that I read it and asked me to pass the word as the sales (at least at the time) were low. It's definately an interesting read about the intents, PDPs, etc. But, if I recall (and like I said, it's been years) the actual initial thought had to do with some general not wanting to remember different passwords for two divergent systems/networks and so thought that one, large network would make things easier and allow computers involved with different projects in different locations to communicate.
From Wikipedia, "the ARPAnet came out of our frustration that there were only a limited number of large, powerful research computers in the country, and that many research investigators who should have access to them were geographically separated from them."
(I do seem to recall the bit about the lazy officer, but can't find my copy of the book.)
Big deal - The content of that screen is damn near impossible to see outdoors. I've tried playing with every setting and when the sun is out, you can barely see it. I've tried games, I've tried movies, but no luck. I figured I'd play it in the car when I'm a passenger and once the sun comes up, it goes back in the bag. To me, that's a big deal. Sure, proprietary memory is the much suck, as is the stupid game disc format, but more than that, I want to be able to see what I'm playing/watching...
> which many see as a viable option to the traditional
> approach of having users install applications on their
> own PCs and servers.'"
Here's a post that I'm sure will be marked as Troll, but why does the whole remote application thing always seem to be big news? It seems very much like a throwback to the old "share resources on a big box" times. Wouldn't those constitute, in effect, thin clients or machines that didn't host their own applications. And was it in the mid-90s that there was another push for thin clients that would do the same. Larry Ellison made some remark about the network being the computer and that started the cycle again. The only difference now is that the application is stored on a WAN vice a LAN and only run locally on the machine via a brower. If the remote machine goes down, the application can't be run (again, like the old shared time on a box thing, where students couldn't crunch big numbets from their terminals in the big iron wasn't running.) Again, unless I'm missing something, isn't this just the cycle coming around again?
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I suppose it depends on the language of the EULA (Which I have zero desire to read.)
Jesus, I'm used to Dupe stories, but Dupe comments from just a few days ago!??! http://ask.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/05/01 36220
> Faith is a poison upon mankind.
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And all this time we've been looking for the WMDs
Remember those flash cartoons during the early days of the Napster "pirating" issue with Metallica and the Napster Bad cartoons? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napster_Bad!. Huge piles of money in the background and big companies screaming that net neutrality bad ...
I only read it for the page numbers ... ;)
Well sure, but that's what my binoculars and rear window are for :)
I don't have Flash installed, so I can't see how the game really works, but would Steve Jackson's old Car Wars (and Ogre and whatever) games count as prior art? As I recall, there were cars and whatnot that were a key component of the game (so much so that you couldn't play without them)...
... But I expect your bill to be paid before you leave ... *grin*
iConspiracy? ;)
I doubt they have a trademark on everything beginning with "i" (otherwise my buddy igor is in trouble ;)) but could this be a deeper beta-beta-beta of the Apple/Google partnership everyone keeps mumbling about? Otherwise, I agree - It does lend itself to people pointing out the "i-linkage" between Apple and Google, and free publicity for both can only be good ...
Just an FYI: "but for most of us Ubuntu needs some more Q&A" - I think you mean QA for Quality Assurance. Q&A is "Questions and Answers."
Or, if it's really like MTV, more like CMGI's MyWay ... http://www.restaurantrow.com/mywaypress.cfm/ And we all know how well that did ...
I agree. When Sun purchased Watson from Karelia, I believe they code named it "Alameda" or some such. There were promises of maintaining the functionality of Watson, even adding new channels. But with what seems to be their usual crappy follow-up on these types of events, nothing seems to have come from what had been a popular application (and yes, yes, I don't care about "popular" being relative term when discussing Mac market share).
Luckily, this effort can't hurt Linux. Hell, if anything it will increase interest: Sun will promise all kinds of neat things and claim that they'll be Linux-like. When they fail, folks might just start poking around the various flavors of Linux and decide that they're better than just "good enough."
It's a standard. I remember being one of the people stuck ... er, tasked with, reviewing the first version. It was a painful read, but definately showed that there was "something new in the air." A lot of surprising things were taken into account, especially in a time frame where DSL was just starting to kick cable's ass. I'm curious to see what the new standard includes.
When These United States became The United States. It was a slow transition until it got to the point that it was - and is - generally accepted. Unless states like these step up and defend their rights (for whatever reason - maintaining funds for internal driver's licenses, etc.) and continue to do so, then everything will continue to move toward "central processing." And I'm sure things like National ID cards (and their predecessor, the "required-to-travel" passport) will continue to happen and will grow in numbers and requirements.
I'm confused: Why wouldn't MUDs be considered the first MMOs?
Will he fight for a GNU/Creative Commons/whatever license for the source code to the voting machines? THAT will make a difference ...
Actually, he probably was in his younger days. Had the honor of meeting him once when I was a reporter. This was around 10 years ago and you wouldn't believe the number of women flocking around him to hear his stories ...
Bull. Most contracts have a clause that says that if any part of the contract is declared null and void, it has no effect on the rest of the contract. Hell, check your lease agreement for you apartment. Bet 10 Mod points something similar is in there ...
Good call on referencing the book. When I spoke to the authors a number of years ago they were appreciative that I read it and asked me to pass the word as the sales (at least at the time) were low. It's definately an interesting read about the intents, PDPs, etc. But, if I recall (and like I said, it's been years) the actual initial thought had to do with some general not wanting to remember different passwords for two divergent systems/networks and so thought that one, large network would make things easier and allow computers involved with different projects in different locations to communicate.
From Wikipedia, "the ARPAnet came out of our frustration that there were only a limited number of large, powerful research computers in the country, and that many research investigators who should have access to them were geographically separated from them."
(I do seem to recall the bit about the lazy officer, but can't find my copy of the book.)
Big deal - The content of that screen is damn near impossible to see outdoors. I've tried playing with every setting and when the sun is out, you can barely see it. I've tried games, I've tried movies, but no luck. I figured I'd play it in the car when I'm a passenger and once the sun comes up, it goes back in the bag. To me, that's a big deal. Sure, proprietary memory is the much suck, as is the stupid game disc format, but more than that, I want to be able to see what I'm playing/watching ...
They're going to have Richard Gere kiss a router ...
> which many see as a viable option to the traditional
> approach of having users install applications on their
> own PCs and servers.'"
Here's a post that I'm sure will be marked as Troll, but why does the whole remote application thing always seem to be big news? It seems very much like a throwback to the old "share resources on a big box" times. Wouldn't those constitute, in effect, thin clients or machines that didn't host their own applications. And was it in the mid-90s that there was another push for thin clients that would do the same. Larry Ellison made some remark about the network being the computer and that started the cycle again. The only difference now is that the application is stored on a WAN vice a LAN and only run locally on the machine via a brower. If the remote machine goes down, the application can't be run (again, like the old shared time on a box thing, where students couldn't crunch big numbets from their terminals in the big iron wasn't running.) Again, unless I'm missing something, isn't this just the cycle coming around again?
and some bad news... apparently Derek is in rehab for addiction to the Internet.
/. Now he's got his own dupe! :)
He's probably reading about himself on Slashdot right now...
By posting this twice, he'll know he's on
In the book, Lippincott admits that he actually fired first ...