You are all missing a very vital and important point here.
HE DIED ON FRIDAY THE 13th!
Dear god, when will the madness end? When will we do something about these evil days? Sure, Ashcroft deals with the evil black cats (or was it calico), but what did he do about the terrorism that is friday the 13th?!
DEAR GOD, MY FELLOW AMERICANS, WON'T YOU PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!
It's amazing what brilliant advancements have been lost or indefinitely delayed to appease the self-serving dogma of various religions and political systems. Some places keep the sciences in the dark ages due to *both* religious dogma and self-serving political systems. *cough*
Okay, see - you *can* blame them, because it wasn't just a matter of copying and recopying "text". It was a concious choice to destroy (this involved cutting up and rebinding and erasing the contenst of) a book filled with one thing, so that you can replace it with another thing (your religous dogma).
It doesn't become any more of a concious choice than that. This would be like over-writing someone else's floppy, if overwriting their floppy required you to dissassemble the casing, remove the floppy magnetic disc inside, remove the metal head from the disc, cut the casing and the floppy platter, reassemble them into a different shape, recover the floppy plater with the casing, glue the pressing back together, insert it back into the computer, delete the contents that remain on it and then fill it up with your own content.
I've held an additional grudge against religion for a very long time over just this sort of thing. Can you imagine where our society might be today if they had not so carelessly obscured and nearly vanished such incredible mathematical advances?
We're talking knowledge that took the better part of two milleniums for us to rediscover on our own. In this circumstance alone, religion directly set us back who knows how many hundreds of years.
And no, I don't mean this as a flamebait in the least. Just a rather obvious factual observation. And claiming "well, we don't know that it wouldn't have been destroyed by someone else in some other way anyway" is hardly adequate justification.
Yeah, a monk destroying massive amounts of unsurpassed (for many centuries) science in the name of a frigging "prayer book". Who would have thought, the church setting back science to remain in the dark ages?
Next thing you're going to tell me is that religous nuts would rather throw away frozen embryos that couples no longer want to retain, rather than putting them to use saving lives through stem-cell research.
Or worse, you're going to tell me that the church threatened, tortured or killed people who claimed the earth was round or that the Sun was the center of the solar system!
I prefer to go the cheapest route whenever I can. I'm not rich and I'd rather get free entertainment when possible. I won't try to justify it, because that's beside the point (I gladly PAY for good movies I really want to see in the theater or own on DVD and I buy LOTS of software, when it's good software).
That said, not only haven't Ipaid to see Star Wars in the theater, but I wouldn't and haven't wasted the time to download it over bit torrent. It's one of those things you couldn't PAY me to take. Sorry. *shrug*
That there are $50,000,000 worth of dumb people who are so captivated by a stupid *name* that they'd rush to see a movie overnight is just sad and says a lot. You could call the next one Star Wars 7: Lucas Gets A Rectal Exam and it would set box-office records.
Exactly. This is like one of those dumb old people complaining about the phone company, because they fell for some random con-artist's stupid ploy that involved them wiring the guy $15,000 in order to "win a free trip".
That Microsoft is so susceptable to so many viruses is their fault. That the user doesn't have a virus scaner is the use's fault. That the user is dumb enough to believe what is the email equivalent of a cold-call fraud attempt is the user's fault.
Yeah, those people who build companies and have busted their asses to get rich (or are the beneificiaries of those who busted their asses to make themselves and their children rich) don't deserve to spend that money on anything! They should be obligated to give it away to the poorer among us, who use our average incomes to buy playstations and toys to decorate our cubicle office.
Yeah, fuck those stupid entrepranuerial cocksuckers! HOW DARE THEY!
The simplest available phone I"ve found still comes with a flashlight, some games, a tip calculator, a calendar, a reminder, text messaging, downloadable ringtones, downloadable wallpaper, animated wallpaper, calculator...
All I need is a phone that let's me make and recieve calls, has call-waiting and voicemail. Good luck finding something so simple in the states.
If I put a hand grenade on your front porch with a note that says "instant home cleaning kit - just pull pin!" and you're dumb enough to pull it, you get what you deserve.
I remember back in the old days, when having blogs were called webpages. You know, people made websites about themselves, things they liked and topics that interested them long before anyone called them "blogs". This is new sort of the way IRC is new or the Atari 2600 is new.
Yes, for one - the graphics finally look like something I have been seeing on my PC for a long time. And second, there look to be some games coming down the pipeline that are not just bad knockoffs or adaptations of existing PC games.
Until now, I haven't seen anything a console is good for other than sports games - and I feel kind of funny playing *sports* games from my sofa.
Really, I've never been excited about console launches. EVER. I am now.
I thought there was always a massive shortage? Isn't that why congress allowed for massive amounts of additional H1Bs almost a decade ago and why we're offshoring everything?
Farm the work out to the cheapest sources you can find, reducing the salary and benefit levels of the industry, making it less enticing to future students entering the workforce. And then wonder why you have a shortage?
Trust me, there are plenty of young people who want a career in computers. However, they don't want to live ten deep in a studio apartment, take the bus to work and worry if their job is going to be outsourced at any time.
People go where the good pay and benefits are. No matter how "fun" a job is, there is a level below which the compensation for that job does not justify it. Students today are not stupid.
I am not a console owner. I have never cared for consoles. I owned a used Nintendo (classic) console when I was in my teens for a couple years and that was it. Everything else has been PC. And I didn't really even get into games until I was an adult.
I have never seen the point in buying consoles for a hundred bucks or three hundred bucks, plus games at $80 each. Especially since they become obsolete. On the PC, I can demo (okay, bit-torrent - but if I play them more than a couple hours I tend to buy them) games. And I can copy them for backups easily. And there are plenty of mods for them. And they variety of keyboards and mice to interact with the game is better than the ditzy console controllers. And I already have a computer - so I save a few hundred bucks off a console right there.
However, after seeing the X-Box demos... and ESPECIALLY the Play Station 3 demos... I am seriously considering buying one or both in the coming year. No, they aren't extremely revolutionary. No, this isn't the same leap in technology that we've grown use to seeing from one iteration to the next... But they still are quite remarkable and there are some great looking games pending.
I've seen two things that made my jaw drop. One is FEAR and the other is Gear. But I'm sure there will be plenty more to come. Anyway - 2006 may be the year I finally start playing consoles. In my mind, they have finally arrived and there is now a *REASON* to buy them, even for a PC gamer.
Yes, but remember, bit torrent isn't used for worthy purposes. It's only used for piracy! And piracy is teh eeeeeeeeeeevil! Poor people don't deserve entertainment!
The original author of that post should be forced to give up his internet access. Just think of all the money he spent on his computer and connection (not to mention the hours wasted away at it) that could go to a better cause.
This is what I gathered from browsing the wiki page on it awhile bag.
If I understand the point of this decentralization - it's only to decentralize allowing clients to find each other. That is, if you have a torrent and the tracker for it is down, you are screwed. But with the decentralized system, you can still open the torrent and it will continue to operate.
I don't see how this helps at all with obscurity or security or anything else. I think people just misunderstand (or I do?). Of course, I guess the next step is to make a system such that trackers as we know them now will be completely unnecessary.
I couldn't figure out how to find files with the new Azureus. I tried as soon as it came out, but no luck. Maybe it's much more involved than I imagined, but I didn't have the time to spend on it. Hopefully it will become more intuitive in the future, because it sounds great.
It doesn't matter. Some other rare thing will replace the diamond and nobody will want diamonds anymore (except for industrial purposes). When it comes to women, it will still just be a matter of how much you are willing to spend to get a piece of that self-absorbed, attention-seeking, validation-needing ass. If diamonds become as cheap as glass, something else will become common to replace them as a means of proving your desperation for a piece of ass by buying something technically worthless and useless.
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You are all missing a very vital and important point here.
HE DIED ON FRIDAY THE 13th!
Dear god, when will the madness end? When will we do something about these evil days? Sure, Ashcroft deals with the evil black cats (or was it calico), but what did he do about the terrorism that is friday the 13th?!
DEAR GOD, MY FELLOW AMERICANS, WON'T YOU PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!
(And the elderly scientists).
Absolutely.
It's amazing what brilliant advancements have been lost or indefinitely delayed to appease the self-serving dogma of various religions and political systems. Some places keep the sciences in the dark ages due to *both* religious dogma and self-serving political systems. *cough*
That's kind of like killing someone and claiming "but I saved them from getting run over by a bus!".
Okay, see - you *can* blame them, because it wasn't just a matter of copying and recopying "text". It was a concious choice to destroy (this involved cutting up and rebinding and erasing the contenst of) a book filled with one thing, so that you can replace it with another thing (your religous dogma).
It doesn't become any more of a concious choice than that. This would be like over-writing someone else's floppy, if overwriting their floppy required you to dissassemble the casing, remove the floppy magnetic disc inside, remove the metal head from the disc, cut the casing and the floppy platter, reassemble them into a different shape, recover the floppy plater with the casing, glue the pressing back together, insert it back into the computer, delete the contents that remain on it and then fill it up with your own content.
Certainly a bit more than an "uh oh".
I've held an additional grudge against religion for a very long time over just this sort of thing. Can you imagine where our society might be today if they had not so carelessly obscured and nearly vanished such incredible mathematical advances?
We're talking knowledge that took the better part of two milleniums for us to rediscover on our own. In this circumstance alone, religion directly set us back who knows how many hundreds of years.
And no, I don't mean this as a flamebait in the least. Just a rather obvious factual observation. And claiming "well, we don't know that it wouldn't have been destroyed by someone else in some other way anyway" is hardly adequate justification.
by jd (1658)
This story deserves telling in the full, especially on a site like Slashdot where people have the background to appreciate the nuances involved.
You must be new here.
Yeah, a monk destroying massive amounts of unsurpassed (for many centuries) science in the name of a frigging "prayer book". Who would have thought, the church setting back science to remain in the dark ages?
Next thing you're going to tell me is that religous nuts would rather throw away frozen embryos that couples no longer want to retain, rather than putting them to use saving lives through stem-cell research.
Or worse, you're going to tell me that the church threatened, tortured or killed people who claimed the earth was round or that the Sun was the center of the solar system!
I prefer to go the cheapest route whenever I can. I'm not rich and I'd rather get free entertainment when possible. I won't try to justify it, because that's beside the point (I gladly PAY for good movies I really want to see in the theater or own on DVD and I buy LOTS of software, when it's good software).
That said, not only haven't Ipaid to see Star Wars in the theater, but I wouldn't and haven't wasted the time to download it over bit torrent. It's one of those things you couldn't PAY me to take. Sorry. *shrug*
That there are $50,000,000 worth of dumb people who are so captivated by a stupid *name* that they'd rush to see a movie overnight is just sad and says a lot. You could call the next one Star Wars 7: Lucas Gets A Rectal Exam and it would set box-office records.
Exactly. This is like one of those dumb old people complaining about the phone company, because they fell for some random con-artist's stupid ploy that involved them wiring the guy $15,000 in order to "win a free trip".
That Microsoft is so susceptable to so many viruses is their fault. That the user doesn't have a virus scaner is the use's fault. That the user is dumb enough to believe what is the email equivalent of a cold-call fraud attempt is the user's fault.
Yeah, those people who build companies and have busted their asses to get rich (or are the beneificiaries of those who busted their asses to make themselves and their children rich) don't deserve to spend that money on anything! They should be obligated to give it away to the poorer among us, who use our average incomes to buy playstations and toys to decorate our cubicle office.
Yeah, fuck those stupid entrepranuerial cocksuckers! HOW DARE THEY!
The simplest available phone I"ve found still comes with a flashlight, some games, a tip calculator, a calendar, a reminder, text messaging, downloadable ringtones, downloadable wallpaper, animated wallpaper, calculator...
All I need is a phone that let's me make and recieve calls, has call-waiting and voicemail. Good luck finding something so simple in the states.
If I put a hand grenade on your front porch with a note that says "instant home cleaning kit - just pull pin!" and you're dumb enough to pull it, you get what you deserve.
IT'S IN MY INBOX - IT MUST BE TRUE!
I remember back in the old days, when having blogs were called webpages. You know, people made websites about themselves, things they liked and topics that interested them long before anyone called them "blogs". This is new sort of the way IRC is new or the Atari 2600 is new.
Yes, for one - the graphics finally look like something I have been seeing on my PC for a long time. And second, there look to be some games coming down the pipeline that are not just bad knockoffs or adaptations of existing PC games.
Until now, I haven't seen anything a console is good for other than sports games - and I feel kind of funny playing *sports* games from my sofa.
Really, I've never been excited about console launches. EVER. I am now.
How dare you. It is not corporate America's fault that you can't live on the $1/day that slave labor in China can.
I thought there was always a massive shortage? Isn't that why congress allowed for massive amounts of additional H1Bs almost a decade ago and why we're offshoring everything?
Farm the work out to the cheapest sources you can find, reducing the salary and benefit levels of the industry, making it less enticing to future students entering the workforce. And then wonder why you have a shortage?
Trust me, there are plenty of young people who want a career in computers. However, they don't want to live ten deep in a studio apartment, take the bus to work and worry if their job is going to be outsourced at any time.
People go where the good pay and benefits are. No matter how "fun" a job is, there is a level below which the compensation for that job does not justify it. Students today are not stupid.
I've already overclocked my 64 to a 96. W00T!
I am not a console owner. I have never cared for consoles. I owned a used Nintendo (classic) console when I was in my teens for a couple years and that was it. Everything else has been PC. And I didn't really even get into games until I was an adult.
I have never seen the point in buying consoles for a hundred bucks or three hundred bucks, plus games at $80 each. Especially since they become obsolete. On the PC, I can demo (okay, bit-torrent - but if I play them more than a couple hours I tend to buy them) games. And I can copy them for backups easily. And there are plenty of mods for them. And they variety of keyboards and mice to interact with the game is better than the ditzy console controllers. And I already have a computer - so I save a few hundred bucks off a console right there.
However, after seeing the X-Box demos... and ESPECIALLY the Play Station 3 demos... I am seriously considering buying one or both in the coming year. No, they aren't extremely revolutionary. No, this isn't the same leap in technology that we've grown use to seeing from one iteration to the next... But they still are quite remarkable and there are some great looking games pending.
I've seen two things that made my jaw drop. One is FEAR and the other is Gear. But I'm sure there will be plenty more to come. Anyway - 2006 may be the year I finally start playing consoles. In my mind, they have finally arrived and there is now a *REASON* to buy them, even for a PC gamer.
Who knows?
Even the time spent downloading it is more than it's worth.
Yes, but remember, bit torrent isn't used for worthy purposes. It's only used for piracy! And piracy is teh eeeeeeeeeeevil! Poor people don't deserve entertainment!
The original author of that post should be forced to give up his internet access. Just think of all the money he spent on his computer and connection (not to mention the hours wasted away at it) that could go to a better cause.
This is what I gathered from browsing the wiki page on it awhile bag.
If I understand the point of this decentralization - it's only to decentralize allowing clients to find each other. That is, if you have a torrent and the tracker for it is down, you are screwed. But with the decentralized system, you can still open the torrent and it will continue to operate.
I don't see how this helps at all with obscurity or security or anything else. I think people just misunderstand (or I do?). Of course, I guess the next step is to make a system such that trackers as we know them now will be completely unnecessary.
I couldn't figure out how to find files with the new Azureus. I tried as soon as it came out, but no luck. Maybe it's much more involved than I imagined, but I didn't have the time to spend on it. Hopefully it will become more intuitive in the future, because it sounds great.
Firefox. FREE IS A VERY GOOD PRICE (at Tom Peterson's... and Gloria's Too!).
To quote Scott Adams: if rabbits were rare and endagered, we'd be buying rabbit shit necklaces for our girlfriends.
Why would you buy a diamond necklace for a girlfriend?! Holy crap, I hope guys don't really do that...?
It doesn't matter. Some other rare thing will replace the diamond and nobody will want diamonds anymore (except for industrial purposes). When it comes to women, it will still just be a matter of how much you are willing to spend to get a piece of that self-absorbed, attention-seeking, validation-needing ass. If diamonds become as cheap as glass, something else will become common to replace them as a means of proving your desperation for a piece of ass by buying something technically worthless and useless.