You're right, I don't recall New York getting destroyed when a New York born, Army trained terrorist struck Oklahoma City. When it's an American that blows up innocent Americans the bloodlust revenge just isn't quite the same.
Everyone interested in indie games should sign up to computer graphics world and Game Developer mag. They give away subscriptions if you're a developer. You know, basically anyone who fills out their form. Their online articles are decent too.
One of the best features of Game Developer is the postmortem, the what went right, what went wrong. Fascinating stuff about the industry for an indie publisher or an outsider to read.
The Indie Games show off some of the best out there.
While there are some very good indie works out there it is like the movies. You can tell the difference between a hollywood movie and a indie film, just like a AAA game title and an indie title. Although there are enough gems in both indie movements to make it interesting.
Things like the solar cookers project are far geekier than a simple wood burning stove! Cooking food with reflected sunlight, even with snow on the ground, is surprisingly neat. Also for developing countries it's a way to cook without using any natural resources.
<tinfoilhat>Why do you think NPR is ranted against so much, given the "L"iberal name? It's not like they're trying to demean the source.</tinfoilhat>
I imagine since CNN and fox and every other mainstream media tries to appeal to the average masses, repeating the same news story ad nauseum, that any coherent, in depth reporting that isn't a sound bite is left to a 60 minutes, a NPR, or the few other news organizations that care to actually get it right. Who cares about a financial meltdown when we can find out if the Octuplet mom is trying to look like Angelina! Of course Watch out calling FOX a news source, Fox fought to outright lie.
Google Maps does some interesting things. I got driving directions from Michigan, USA to Australia. The 170 step process sent me west to hit the Pacific it told me to get in a kayak and go to japan, via a tour of Hawaii. From there it gave me directions through various Japanese routes until it told me to then row south to Australia. Total travel time was 55 days. Fun stuff
CALEA - Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act - already exists requiring the provider of the 'last link' to give data feed access to the feds upon a request. The way it reads the last link is responsible, not the ISP. This means almost every WIFI hot spot out there is already breaking the law. Every small open hotspot, even at your own house if it's open to the public, is required to use their funky format and allow access. Forget that it's not actually technically doable without very fancy equipment. Forget that even Meraki gear, partly owned by do no evil Google, can't handle it. It doesn't matter, it's the law.
Oh don't forget it's a 10,000 A DAY fine for non compliance and you are not allowed to pull the feed once they request it. You also can't talk about it.
Don't forget that policies are in place to not allow the media to show flag draped caskets. Seeing a number of dead soldiers is one thing, actually seeing the body count would be a much stronger reaction.
Having just seen a friend's presentation on the rise of GPU computing I'm looking forward to seeing OpenCL come out. Just on his test rig of a single Nvidia Tesla with 128 cores, a few hundred Gigaflops of number crunching was very interesting. He was also cheap and didn't throw in 3 more cards to get up to a few teraflops of processing. OpenCL could be a game changer for personal computers.
When I first skimmed the summary I read it as 'The Folks at TARP' as in the bank bailout package. After actually seeing my mistake I realize both plans are basically the same thing - try to convince suckers to give large corporations more money because honest, the next thing we do won't suck so badly.
Don't forget the other 8 trillion or so already spent on this bailout. If they had just sent a 24 grand check to everyone I don't see how everyone would be hurting so bad. Of course we average taxpayers just elect the schmucks into office, we don't lobby or give cushy jobs after the fact like all the big companies getting handouts.
Of course the Congressional Budget Office has been saying The bailout could make things worse but why should congress listen to their own experts.
Kids don't do drugs, or you may grow up to have more gold medals then anyone else, or even the President of the United States.
Hopefully Obama follows through with his view that "we need to...decriminalize our marijuana laws". While I'm not a user I'm all for clearing our jails/prisons from harmless offenders, or saving billions from a failed 'drug war'.
I thought the creating a cat person was resolved years ago. Just send a mining ship through space a few million years and the cat evolves into Felis Sapiens.
That's why there are numerous ajax libs that give you a standard of cross browser support without having to worry about oddities. YUI is my favorite although there are others. All of their main controls work the same across all top browsers - very nice stuff.
Data pipes are like realty, location location location. I'm in a rural area and a large part of the cost of a T1 is the local loop. The next factor is your type of upstream provider - Tier 1, etc. I can get a Tier 2 T1 for 595. If I was in a city it'd be cheaper but still expensive compared to cable or DSL. Also 1.5Mbps isn't what it used to be.
I just came up for contract renewal on my Sprint T1. One year is about a grand a month, a 3 year term drops it to 895. Do a NxT1 deal and it gets a little cheaper but not much. Still a decent deal compared to the pricing of other Tier 1s out there. In the decade I've had T1s the price has dropped by about 1/3. Local loop has stayed about the same - the ILECs (Verizon in my case) really are out to screw everyone.
So yes you may have some minor choices but telephone and cable are legislated monopolies. It's a losing game to try to compete against a company that you have to use along some point in your delivery to clients. There are obvious exemptions to this but there's a reason there aren't many local ISPs around. Last mile data connection has turned into a monopoly controlled commodity in the US.
Minority report's user interface wasn't prior art? I guess you could just use the minority report without gloves UI on a phone to bypass apple's patent.
They're just waiting for the new and improved telco bailout 2009. The latest offering is a 6 billion high speed Internet grant program. Why should comcast, or any big telco for that matter, spend money when the government will just give them handouts.
These companies have experience with this. They have already gotten away with a 200 billion broadband scandal without penalty for failure to deliver on their promises. Give crappy service and they get handed free money - what a great idea.
We've become a culture of guilty until proven innocent. Look at the problems the governor of Illinois is going through without being convicted of anything yet.
Slashdot Mirror
Once DS9 started taking Babylon 5 story lines the show got better.
You're right, I don't recall New York getting destroyed when a New York born, Army trained terrorist struck Oklahoma City. When it's an American that blows up innocent Americans the bloodlust revenge just isn't quite the same.
Everyone interested in indie games should sign up to computer graphics world and Game Developer mag. They give away subscriptions if you're a developer. You know, basically anyone who fills out their form. Their online articles are decent too.
One of the best features of Game Developer is the postmortem, the what went right, what went wrong. Fascinating stuff about the industry for an indie publisher or an outsider to read.
The Indie Games show off some of the best out there.
While there are some very good indie works out there it is like the movies. You can tell the difference between a hollywood movie and a indie film, just like a AAA game title and an indie title. Although there are enough gems in both indie movements to make it interesting.
With the way the economy is going having no money should take care of itself.
Things like the solar cookers project are far geekier than a simple wood burning stove! Cooking food with reflected sunlight, even with snow on the ground, is surprisingly neat. Also for developing countries it's a way to cook without using any natural resources.
OF course Microsoft is defending FAT32 - I mean it's one of the new supported features of Windows 7!
Diary of creating new life
<tinfoilhat>Why do you think NPR is ranted against so much, given the "L"iberal name? It's not like they're trying to demean the source.</tinfoilhat>
I imagine since CNN and fox and every other mainstream media tries to appeal to the average masses, repeating the same news story ad nauseum, that any coherent, in depth reporting that isn't a sound bite is left to a 60 minutes, a NPR, or the few other news organizations that care to actually get it right. Who cares about a financial meltdown when we can find out if the Octuplet mom is trying to look like Angelina! Of course Watch out calling FOX a news source, Fox fought to outright lie .
Just the other day linkedin was discussed on /. Time to join up and get recommendations from coworkers.
Google Maps does some interesting things. I got driving directions from Michigan, USA to Australia. The 170 step process sent me west to hit the Pacific it told me to get in a kayak and go to japan, via a tour of Hawaii. From there it gave me directions through various Japanese routes until it told me to then row south to Australia. Total travel time was 55 days. Fun stuff
CALEA - Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act - already exists requiring the provider of the 'last link' to give data feed access to the feds upon a request. The way it reads the last link is responsible, not the ISP. This means almost every WIFI hot spot out there is already breaking the law. Every small open hotspot, even at your own house if it's open to the public, is required to use their funky format and allow access. Forget that it's not actually technically doable without very fancy equipment. Forget that even Meraki gear, partly owned by do no evil Google, can't handle it. It doesn't matter, it's the law.
Oh don't forget it's a 10,000 A DAY fine for non compliance and you are not allowed to pull the feed once they request it. You also can't talk about it.
Don't forget that policies are in place to not allow the media to show flag draped caskets. Seeing a number of dead soldiers is one thing, actually seeing the body count would be a much stronger reaction.
Can't hide a shuttle loss so well.
Having just seen a friend's presentation on the rise of GPU computing I'm looking forward to seeing OpenCL come out. Just on his test rig of a single Nvidia Tesla with 128 cores, a few hundred Gigaflops of number crunching was very interesting. He was also cheap and didn't throw in 3 more cards to get up to a few teraflops of processing. OpenCL could be a game changer for personal computers.
When I first skimmed the summary I read it as 'The Folks at TARP' as in the bank bailout package. After actually seeing my mistake I realize both plans are basically the same thing - try to convince suckers to give large corporations more money because honest, the next thing we do won't suck so badly.
Or as the BBC show coupling said in the Lesbian Spank Inferno episode : Halfway down the birth canal we're already enjoying the view
Do a youtube search for the clip if you haven't seen the show - it's worth it.
Don't forget the other 8 trillion or so already spent on this bailout. If they had just sent a 24 grand check to everyone I don't see how everyone would be hurting so bad. Of course we average taxpayers just elect the schmucks into office, we don't lobby or give cushy jobs after the fact like all the big companies getting handouts.
Of course the Congressional Budget Office has been saying The bailout could make things worse but why should congress listen to their own experts.
Kids don't do drugs, or you may grow up to have more gold medals then anyone else, or even the President of the United States.
Hopefully Obama follows through with his view that "we need to...decriminalize our marijuana laws". While I'm not a user I'm all for clearing our jails/prisons from harmless offenders, or saving billions from a failed 'drug war'.
Sure am glad that Obama won't go along with an attack on any of our constitutional rights
Even before he took the mantel he reversed his commitment against telco immunity and gave immunity.
I'll be surprised if Obama actually sheds ANY of the executive powers that Bush gave that branch.
I thought the creating a cat person was resolved years ago. Just send a mining ship through space a few million years and the cat evolves into Felis Sapiens.
That's why there are numerous ajax libs that give you a standard of cross browser support without having to worry about oddities. YUI is my favorite although there are others. All of their main controls work the same across all top browsers - very nice stuff.
Data pipes are like realty, location location location. I'm in a rural area and a large part of the cost of a T1 is the local loop. The next factor is your type of upstream provider - Tier 1, etc. I can get a Tier 2 T1 for 595. If I was in a city it'd be cheaper but still expensive compared to cable or DSL. Also 1.5Mbps isn't what it used to be.
I just came up for contract renewal on my Sprint T1. One year is about a grand a month, a 3 year term drops it to 895. Do a NxT1 deal and it gets a little cheaper but not much. Still a decent deal compared to the pricing of other Tier 1s out there. In the decade I've had T1s the price has dropped by about 1/3. Local loop has stayed about the same - the ILECs (Verizon in my case) really are out to screw everyone.
So yes you may have some minor choices but telephone and cable are legislated monopolies. It's a losing game to try to compete against a company that you have to use along some point in your delivery to clients. There are obvious exemptions to this but there's a reason there aren't many local ISPs around. Last mile data connection has turned into a monopoly controlled commodity in the US.
I'm waiting for Pfizer to sponsor a new chapter of Leisure suit larry promoting the benefits of Viagra.
Minority report's user interface wasn't prior art? I guess you could just use the minority report without gloves UI on a phone to bypass apple's patent.
They're just waiting for the new and improved telco bailout 2009. The latest offering is a 6 billion high speed Internet grant program. Why should comcast, or any big telco for that matter, spend money when the government will just give them handouts.
These companies have experience with this. They have already gotten away with a 200 billion broadband scandal without penalty for failure to deliver on their promises. Give crappy service and they get handed free money - what a great idea.
We've become a culture of guilty until proven innocent. Look at the problems the governor of Illinois is going through without being convicted of anything yet.