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Seattle HTML Sig
Java-XML Special Interest Group
Others searches are sure to yield more. I love how people don't even seem to try to do things for themselves anymore, but it gives me an excuse to post;)
To allow the police, fbi, cia, etc.. do to their job without cutting through 10 miles of red tape. That's why they should be able to. If they can collect information on somebody they suspect of being "troublesome", it will allow them to get more complete data. Myself, as an innocent, I want them to be able to get lots of data on me and see that I'm innocent. Yes, I do things that I don't want people to know about, but nothing the government would care about. So if some agent, in some office reads a couple of my secrets, I can live with that. Now, if they're able to get good data on somebody planning to kill, then that's a good thing, not a bad thing.
I honestly don't care if the government checks on my reading habits. Who cares? Yes, I read alot of computer books and go to libraries, I don't think they're going to stop me from getting onto a plain because of this. It reminds me of when people were complaining that G-mail was dangerous, because everythings is archived and the government could subpeona(sp?) it. Once again, who cares? I honestly don't believe I'm important enough and/or interesting enough to have anybody read my e-mail. Besides, if your plotting to destroy some building somewhere, why don't you download a good ol' fashioned version of PGP and protect yourself (or if you just really paranoid). So now everybody take off your tinfoil hat and take a deep breath. Your not interesting enough to worry about the government reading your e-mail. If you are doing something that requires you to hide it from the government, your breaking the law, and deserve to be caught.
I remember when I used to play the drums, they sold a "drum puddy" or something like that. You could use it stress ball style to improve your hand strength, or you could flatten it out, and hit it with drum sticks to practice rolls and such. It was nice because it had a nice bounce back and a nice muffled sound. You could hear what you were playing, but you wouldn't bother anybody by any means. It's not really making my own instrument, but it seemed to be along the same lines...
Old copper can't always handle newer techs like DSL. I suppose that installing a "repeater" (if that applies to this tech) would be much easier than replacing miles of copper that still performs it's old job. Some phones are even done with metals other than copper which certainly couldn't handle DSL. I personally think that the wireless solutions are a better "bonnie solution". Examples have been on slashdot before but I'm much to lazy to search slashdot and google for all of you people.
You know that you won't actually get 10Mbps for this, because the ISP's end bill and equipment needs would be to much. That's why all of the DSL/Cable companies have started sending acceptable usage warnings to their customers because they used up all of their unlimited bandwidth (God I love irony) (God I love being an agnostic who says God alot). Any who, as far as I know, this tech was meant more for giving broadband to them crazy country foke who ain't got them thar new digitized lines.... Right? Anyway, what is the range of these lines? How far away can you live from a "hub" or how exactly does that work....
This court enjoins plaintiff 321 Studios from manufacturing, distributing, or otherwise trafficking" in the software
Now, IAMNAL, can retailers continue to destribute the software most likely? I know they wouldn't, but couldn't 3-2-1 say.... Open Source X-Copy and then we could all distribute it legally? Who would the MPAA have to sue then?
Linux is secure... out of the box. However without a skilled administrator, it's very easy to open up LOTS of holes. I think that linux is a great operating system for power users, but lets face it, the average desktop user or the new sys admin, doesn't belong on a powerful distro right now. Perhaps lindows, but not Red Hat Enterprise. One thing I found interesting was this:
"For the first time, the number of recorded breaches against government servers running BSD or Mac OS X worldwide fell to zero in January 2004," the analyst said.
I'm in the army in Europe and we're not allowed to run BSD or OS X. Only non-windows I'm authorized is AIX or um... (I'm really sorry to admit this) SCO. So I'm sure alot of other government agencies (besides DoD), don't allow BSD and OSX.
Now I can give phone solicators the finger and they can even see it! How do I get myself off of the do-not-call list?
I'm also thinking phone sex would be much more interesting now.... although I don't think the 900 numbers will have video on their ends....
whose quality of output is sometimes a bit questionable
I actually couldn't agree more with that part of this post. EA makes the finest sports games around. I don't understand why they would try and undertake difficult sequals when the only games that they really do well are sports oriented. Lets face it, EA makes some kick ass sports games, but can jack up almost anything else. That's capitalism, find what your good at, and do it.... now if Microsoft would figure that out and stick to making hardware and games (because they actually do a damn fine job with hardware, and their games are pretty good) then the world would truly be a better place. Now if only SCO could find something it could do well.....
Many claim that linux is held back by several factors including ease of use, interface, etc.. etc... I've always felt it was hardware compatiability. You could never be sure all of your hardware would work easily, and the average user can't try and go and build their own custom drivers, or even download them. This will certainly put pressure on the rest of the hardware manufacturors, and this could help linux take a few more points in the market share. No, it's not the magical answer, as their isn't one, but it's another start.
I'm surprised we haven't seen cheaper MMO games popping up. I'd say the easiest way to do it would simply be to tone down everything except story and such a notch. Notch down the graphics and the engine just a little bit, and you'll save HUGE amounts of money. From development, to distribution, to server bandwidth, you could save money. I think players who were on a tight budget, with a slow computer would flock to a game like this as long as it still had good gaming content, just minus the eye candy.
I think that the tech industry has felt this pretty bad with every aspect of new growth. When will it end? Should I realease my product and waste all of this capital? You won't know until it happens. Even then, I think it's a pointless question. The video game industry as a whole is still growing. As long as a product is in some way innovative, there will be people willing to pay for it. I think a better question is how many clones will people be willing to swallow, until they demand something new again.
with defendant agreeing to donate money to lawyers
Um, these organazations are run by lawyers yes, but most of them are actually donating alot of their time. These donations are going into the pocket of a money hungry lawyer, it's going to pay other neccesary legal fees and court fees to help keep free software free. No point in writing free software if people can trample over your rights. I can't believe you'd say anything negative about these sorts of groups... *sigh*
Wow... people resolving lawsuits....GPL related... and it's on slashdot.... I... I'm speechless... I want to make fun of somebody and talk about how sucky the world is... i..i... can't.....
Well, I know that some distro's can have installs of up to 2 or 3GB (ok, alot of that is source-code), but why aren't there any live DVD's? People really haven't explored this medium for distributing data. Many programs and games have still refused to switch over to DVD, despite it's wide usage in most new computers. Why is this?
I don't want MORE things to search for, I want it to return more relavant searches. I know that the information I usually search for is out there, the problem is that there's so much chafe out there, that I can't find what I want. No matter what I search for, there are at least 2 or 3 responses related to porn. I understand that their are alot of variety of porn out there, but common... Search engines are getting even worse by throwing in search results that are hardly relevant, just because they got paid money by the company. I would even be willing to pay for a "google membership" if they eliminated the advertisers mixed in with search results and maybe gave me another special feature or 2. I'd want a search engine that returns just 1 or 2 good results over one that returns 5 good results mixed in with 200 bad ones.
Ok, the constitution was a great idea once. It didn't entirely work though. Slavery was legal under it. We had to add stuff in to make that illegal. It was a great idea, and a framework, but I don't think it was quite detailed enough. I think it was more of a great and grand idea thought up by our fore-fathers, and we were supposed to uphold the ideal of the constitution, not "interpret the wording" and all of that fun stuff. It's an idea, and it's an idea that's been perverted for the past 200 years or so.
I remember Blake Stone. Great game on my ol' 486. It came out the same time as the original Duke Nukems and such. You got about 10 levels for only $5 or $10. Then they advertised the rest of the 20 levels and new baddies for another $20. Get you hooked, then try and sell you more. That was back in the early 90's now, so this ain't new. My $.02 anyway.
I actually love the idea of ads in games for so many reasons. The biggest one is that it makes the game developer more income from the game, meaning that they can both charge me less, and make more exciting games. It's a win win. I think that I'll only keep on enjoying this if they use advertisements in the current way. Having banners for McDonals in the background of a basketball game actually makes the game feel more real. When I watch a real basketball game there are ads, why should the computer game not have them? I think that certain websites could learn from this. When you push advertisements right into the middle of a page or have a bunch of popups, the user doesn't even look at them. They just get annoyed and leave your site (sometimes). If you do it unobtrusively, then users can still enjoy your site, and you can make a profit. If advertisements are "integrated" into the website and not forced into it, they can even add to the experience.
Um, most likely nothing. Many things in nature create more and louder noises... some in the sky... um... lightning? er, thunder... You know.
Not to mention the noise polution humans already create. Cars, planes, American Idol. One little cannon making noise during thunderstorms which are already loud really shouldn't affect anything.
I'd suggest The Da Vinci Code to people who are all sorts of interested in this sort of thing. Da Vinci played a small part in all this fun Phi stuff, and evidence of it can be found in his paintings. Besides, this is just a great book that everybody should read! They point out many places where one can find the "Golden Ratio" within this fine book.
We just believe that GPL code should STAY free for all like it was when it was published under the GPL. I know such an idea could come only from a zealot... but hey....
"The services are profiting to the tune of millions of dollars from music that is written by songwriters who are not getting a dime from the use of their music on these services," said Carey Ramos, a lawyer representing songwriters and music publishers
First of all, people who did nothing and make money off of recording artists is the entire foundation of the RIAA... lets face it.
Second of all, don't these people understand a few key things.
1) There are things besides music being traded on these networks
2) Even if people are making money off of it, that has nothing to do with the law. The fact of the matter is that if a copyrighted song is illegally sent over a P2P network, the network has no control over it. It's the user who's breaking the law.
Lets face it, the major P2P networks don't advocate breaking the law. They provide a simple medium for trading files over the internet, which is a great thing for young song writers looking to put their name out there, the trading of software that's legal, free, shareware, open, etc... The porn industry has figured out that you can even combat the P2P networks in a positive way. They fill up P2P networks with movie clips and pictures with URLs all over them, so you can say, "Hey! That's some good pr0n! I'm going to that site!" (or so I hear). There are so many wonderful uses for this medium. Why can't these people realize that.
This is just further proof that the OS community can right good, solid, secure code. Pooring lots of money at a problem just makes prices higher, and a few high level management people richer. It's just adding overhead to the problem. OS can right good solid secure code. If only Microsoft could....
Slashdot Mirror
Google always helps. The first few results include:
;)
Seattle HTML Sig
Java-XML Special Interest Group
Others searches are sure to yield more. I love how people don't even seem to try to do things for themselves anymore, but it gives me an excuse to post
To allow the police, fbi, cia, etc.. do to their job without cutting through 10 miles of red tape. That's why they should be able to. If they can collect information on somebody they suspect of being "troublesome", it will allow them to get more complete data. Myself, as an innocent, I want them to be able to get lots of data on me and see that I'm innocent. Yes, I do things that I don't want people to know about, but nothing the government would care about. So if some agent, in some office reads a couple of my secrets, I can live with that. Now, if they're able to get good data on somebody planning to kill, then that's a good thing, not a bad thing.
I honestly don't care if the government checks on my reading habits. Who cares? Yes, I read alot of computer books and go to libraries, I don't think they're going to stop me from getting onto a plain because of this. It reminds me of when people were complaining that G-mail was dangerous, because everythings is archived and the government could subpeona(sp?) it. Once again, who cares? I honestly don't believe I'm important enough and/or interesting enough to have anybody read my e-mail. Besides, if your plotting to destroy some building somewhere, why don't you download a good ol' fashioned version of PGP and protect yourself (or if you just really paranoid). So now everybody take off your tinfoil hat and take a deep breath. Your not interesting enough to worry about the government reading your e-mail. If you are doing something that requires you to hide it from the government, your breaking the law, and deserve to be caught.
I remember when I used to play the drums, they sold a "drum puddy" or something like that. You could use it stress ball style to improve your hand strength, or you could flatten it out, and hit it with drum sticks to practice rolls and such. It was nice because it had a nice bounce back and a nice muffled sound. You could hear what you were playing, but you wouldn't bother anybody by any means. It's not really making my own instrument, but it seemed to be along the same lines...
Old copper can't always handle newer techs like DSL. I suppose that installing a "repeater" (if that applies to this tech) would be much easier than replacing miles of copper that still performs it's old job. Some phones are even done with metals other than copper which certainly couldn't handle DSL. I personally think that the wireless solutions are a better "bonnie solution". Examples have been on slashdot before but I'm much to lazy to search slashdot and google for all of you people.
claims data rates exceeding 10 Mpbs
You know that you won't actually get 10Mbps for this, because the ISP's end bill and equipment needs would be to much. That's why all of the DSL/Cable companies have started sending acceptable usage warnings to their customers because they used up all of their unlimited bandwidth (God I love irony) (God I love being an agnostic who says God alot). Any who, as far as I know, this tech was meant more for giving broadband to them crazy country foke who ain't got them thar new digitized lines.... Right? Anyway, what is the range of these lines? How far away can you live from a "hub" or how exactly does that work....
This court enjoins plaintiff 321 Studios from manufacturing, distributing, or otherwise trafficking" in the software
Now, IAMNAL, can retailers continue to destribute the software most likely? I know they wouldn't, but couldn't 3-2-1 say.... Open Source X-Copy and then we could all distribute it legally? Who would the MPAA have to sue then?
Linux is secure... out of the box. However without a skilled administrator, it's very easy to open up LOTS of holes. I think that linux is a great operating system for power users, but lets face it, the average desktop user or the new sys admin, doesn't belong on a powerful distro right now. Perhaps lindows, but not Red Hat Enterprise. One thing I found interesting was this:
"For the first time, the number of recorded breaches against government servers running BSD or Mac OS X worldwide fell to zero in January 2004," the analyst said.
I'm in the army in Europe and we're not allowed to run BSD or OS X. Only non-windows I'm authorized is AIX or um... (I'm really sorry to admit this) SCO. So I'm sure alot of other government agencies (besides DoD), don't allow BSD and OSX.
Now I can give phone solicators the finger and they can even see it! How do I get myself off of the do-not-call list? I'm also thinking phone sex would be much more interesting now.... although I don't think the 900 numbers will have video on their ends....
whose quality of output is sometimes a bit questionable
I actually couldn't agree more with that part of this post. EA makes the finest sports games around. I don't understand why they would try and undertake difficult sequals when the only games that they really do well are sports oriented. Lets face it, EA makes some kick ass sports games, but can jack up almost anything else. That's capitalism, find what your good at, and do it.... now if Microsoft would figure that out and stick to making hardware and games (because they actually do a damn fine job with hardware, and their games are pretty good) then the world would truly be a better place. Now if only SCO could find something it could do well.....
Many claim that linux is held back by several factors including ease of use, interface, etc.. etc... I've always felt it was hardware compatiability. You could never be sure all of your hardware would work easily, and the average user can't try and go and build their own custom drivers, or even download them. This will certainly put pressure on the rest of the hardware manufacturors, and this could help linux take a few more points in the market share. No, it's not the magical answer, as their isn't one, but it's another start.
I'm surprised we haven't seen cheaper MMO games popping up. I'd say the easiest way to do it would simply be to tone down everything except story and such a notch. Notch down the graphics and the engine just a little bit, and you'll save HUGE amounts of money. From development, to distribution, to server bandwidth, you could save money. I think players who were on a tight budget, with a slow computer would flock to a game like this as long as it still had good gaming content, just minus the eye candy.
I think that the tech industry has felt this pretty bad with every aspect of new growth. When will it end? Should I realease my product and waste all of this capital? You won't know until it happens. Even then, I think it's a pointless question. The video game industry as a whole is still growing. As long as a product is in some way innovative, there will be people willing to pay for it. I think a better question is how many clones will people be willing to swallow, until they demand something new again.
with defendant agreeing to donate money to lawyers
Um, these organazations are run by lawyers yes, but most of them are actually donating alot of their time. These donations are going into the pocket of a money hungry lawyer, it's going to pay other neccesary legal fees and court fees to help keep free software free. No point in writing free software if people can trample over your rights. I can't believe you'd say anything negative about these sorts of groups... *sigh*
Wow... people resolving lawsuits....GPL related... and it's on slashdot.... I... I'm speechless... I want to make fun of somebody and talk about how sucky the world is... i..i... can't.....
Well, I know that some distro's can have installs of up to 2 or 3GB (ok, alot of that is source-code), but why aren't there any live DVD's? People really haven't explored this medium for distributing data. Many programs and games have still refused to switch over to DVD, despite it's wide usage in most new computers. Why is this?
I don't want MORE things to search for, I want it to return more relavant searches. I know that the information I usually search for is out there, the problem is that there's so much chafe out there, that I can't find what I want. No matter what I search for, there are at least 2 or 3 responses related to porn. I understand that their are alot of variety of porn out there, but common... Search engines are getting even worse by throwing in search results that are hardly relevant, just because they got paid money by the company. I would even be willing to pay for a "google membership" if they eliminated the advertisers mixed in with search results and maybe gave me another special feature or 2. I'd want a search engine that returns just 1 or 2 good results over one that returns 5 good results mixed in with 200 bad ones.
Ok, the constitution was a great idea once. It didn't entirely work though. Slavery was legal under it. We had to add stuff in to make that illegal. It was a great idea, and a framework, but I don't think it was quite detailed enough. I think it was more of a great and grand idea thought up by our fore-fathers, and we were supposed to uphold the ideal of the constitution, not "interpret the wording" and all of that fun stuff. It's an idea, and it's an idea that's been perverted for the past 200 years or so.
I remember Blake Stone. Great game on my ol' 486. It came out the same time as the original Duke Nukems and such. You got about 10 levels for only $5 or $10. Then they advertised the rest of the 20 levels and new baddies for another $20. Get you hooked, then try and sell you more. That was back in the early 90's now, so this ain't new. My $.02 anyway.
I actually love the idea of ads in games for so many reasons. The biggest one is that it makes the game developer more income from the game, meaning that they can both charge me less, and make more exciting games. It's a win win. I think that I'll only keep on enjoying this if they use advertisements in the current way. Having banners for McDonals in the background of a basketball game actually makes the game feel more real. When I watch a real basketball game there are ads, why should the computer game not have them? I think that certain websites could learn from this. When you push advertisements right into the middle of a page or have a bunch of popups, the user doesn't even look at them. They just get annoyed and leave your site (sometimes). If you do it unobtrusively, then users can still enjoy your site, and you can make a profit. If advertisements are "integrated" into the website and not forced into it, they can even add to the experience.
Um, most likely nothing. Many things in nature create more and louder noises... some in the sky... um... lightning? er, thunder... You know. Not to mention the noise polution humans already create. Cars, planes, American Idol. One little cannon making noise during thunderstorms which are already loud really shouldn't affect anything.
I'd suggest The Da Vinci Code to people who are all sorts of interested in this sort of thing. Da Vinci played a small part in all this fun Phi stuff, and evidence of it can be found in his paintings. Besides, this is just a great book that everybody should read! They point out many places where one can find the "Golden Ratio" within this fine book.
who believe that code should be free to all
We just believe that GPL code should STAY free for all like it was when it was published under the GPL. I know such an idea could come only from a zealot... but hey....
"The services are profiting to the tune of millions of dollars from music that is written by songwriters who are not getting a dime from the use of their music on these services," said Carey Ramos, a lawyer representing songwriters and music publishers
First of all, people who did nothing and make money off of recording artists is the entire foundation of the RIAA... lets face it. Second of all, don't these people understand a few key things. 1) There are things besides music being traded on these networks 2) Even if people are making money off of it, that has nothing to do with the law. The fact of the matter is that if a copyrighted song is illegally sent over a P2P network, the network has no control over it. It's the user who's breaking the law. Lets face it, the major P2P networks don't advocate breaking the law. They provide a simple medium for trading files over the internet, which is a great thing for young song writers looking to put their name out there, the trading of software that's legal, free, shareware, open, etc... The porn industry has figured out that you can even combat the P2P networks in a positive way. They fill up P2P networks with movie clips and pictures with URLs all over them, so you can say, "Hey! That's some good pr0n! I'm going to that site!" (or so I hear). There are so many wonderful uses for this medium. Why can't these people realize that.
This is just further proof that the OS community can right good, solid, secure code. Pooring lots of money at a problem just makes prices higher, and a few high level management people richer. It's just adding overhead to the problem. OS can right good solid secure code. If only Microsoft could....