"If I had gone to university and attained a bachelor's in CS, I would've graduated in 1992. State of the art technology in 1992 is largely irrelevant today, and the only thing that would have been proven by that degree is that I could finish what I started."
Yea, because all those things like algorithms, O notation, principles of optimization, etc, have all changed completely and totally in the past 12 years!
Zing Perhaps you'd have a better appreciation of what you don't know if you took the time to learn about the depth of knowledge that exists in a CS course. Yes, some people can slack through, but there's a reason someone who goes to University will be paid more -- they also happen to know more.
A PDA is a satalite computing device. You use it for quick updates and little else, typically. Its major use is that you can pull it out quickly from a pocket and check your contacts, todo list, and more! On my Palm, for example, I can pull out the application Due Yesterday and check my GPA in all my classes, what assignments are due, etc.
People may say, "hey, why use a Palm when you can use a cell phone or laptop?"
I also have a cell phone that claims to have PDA support. Unless you own a P800 or a P900, the interface on a cellphone is too clunky. Graffiti or the recognizer on a PocketPC will beat the shit out of the tap entry methods that cellphones use. The major cons of the cellphone are that the interface is crap, there isn't a large library of extension software, and it's not easy to sync with my PC.
The cons of a laptop are just as serious. First, they cost about 3-4x the price of even the most fancy 500$ Palm units with built in cameras. They don't really fit in my pocket, either. Even if they could, chances are I wouldn't be able to whip it out and hit a button and have the unit power up in less than 1 second like a Palm does. I'm always having to use a large physical keyboard, even if I'm not seated at a desk or table with a laptop. And chances are I'll have to deal with Windows, unless Apple starts making the units, as Linux doesn't tend to work on a laptop without much messing around. For all the effort, I'd rather have the smaller unit which costs less and Just Works (TM).
Plus, with Bluetooth, my Palm can sync its contacts with the cellphone, control it for outgoing dialing, use it for sending SMS, etc, while it's in my pocket. The PDA interface is much more flexible and has a much larger screen real estate, so it's like I've upgraded my phone without making it into something the size of a brick!
So why choose something that doesn't have these size, speed, and cost benefits? I don't get it.
Give us a new word to use which contains the concept that people are deprived of a copy of their work, which is indeed a fruit of their mental powers. We don't have such a word yet in the English language. Until one is made up, theft will still be used when dealing with copyright crimes because we lack the language to describe the actions.
If you want to change the usage, come up with a new word.
How you do keep US prisons clear of natives, because in Canada natives make up something like 70-80% of the prison population!
Oh, you don't have as many natives, because you have black people in there? Why would black people commit crimes? Not very many black people are criminal in Canada. This is clearly an error on your prison system's part in assigning the blame to the wrong people, because all natives steal and all women can't write computer code!
Go read "Black Like Me" before you start stereotyping. The reason female programmers don't contribute is a heady concotion of many social pressures, not the least of which are gender biased people like you.
When the way to keep up with your hobby is to spend your time and money upgrading Windows, downloading new drivers, rebooting constantly, buying new sticks of RAM, buying new video cards, replacing HDs, watching games install, dealing with Windows security, rebooting some more, dealing with games that don't work and can't be returned, OR buy 1 game console w/ memory card and 1 game disc for it, and play...
You begin to see that it's just the matter that PC gaming is expensive in time and money. When you stop using your PC for gaming, you'll find it'll take a good 4 years before your computer is "too slow" and you upgrade for a fraction of the cost. Plus your computer's suddenly a lot more reliable because you can use an OS which has fewer games but more stability, like Mac OS X or a Linux flavour.
I'll put it another way: my swiss army knife isn't as good at some things as a butcher knife, and if cutting meat was something I'd want to do a lot, a butcher knife would be the way to go for me. A console's just a better, more concentrated way to game!
Gaming isn't a hobby for you. It's obviously far too expensive. Take up sewing. That's cheap!
Seriously, though, then you have even less reason to not rebuy repackaged childhood memories. It beats the piss out of importing a Wondarswan and apropos cartridge!
FF1 and 2 are being remade (again) for the GBA. To encourage you to buy a game you probably own 3 copies of, they're even throwing in a new dungeon that has bosses from newer games in FF1 (you can fight the Phantom Train from FF6!), and FF2 is getting a new story via the 'Soul of Rebirth'
This has been reported everywhere, both in Japanese and English! How'd you miss out?
Don't forget also River City Ransom EX, Virtua Fighter Quest, RE 4, the Mega Man collections for GBA and GCN, and Shinning Force coming to the GBA! It's not the horrible Shinning Soul dungeon crawler;P
Ratio of BIND domains serviced to installs: 24,335,752 / 340,345 = 71.5 domains/server.
Ration of MS DNS domains to installs: 2,165,143 / 101,781 = 21.27 domains/server.
Ratio of TinyDNS domains to installs: 5,405,266 / 12,130 = 445.6 domains/server!
Despite only having 2% of the installs, TinyDNS serves 15% of all domains on the internet. Obviousy it is very capable, and has few to no exploits available for it. Why don't more people use TinyDNS if it's so capable?
Buy the Phantasy Star Collection for GBA and the Sonic Mega Collection for GCN. I know that the Sonic Mega Collection is a Players' Choice title now because of how popular it is.
"That is true only to the extent that there's a high margin on the currently-priced good. Coke doubling the price would drive people to Pepsi, as you point out. One might think, therefore, that Pepsi should halve their own price and get the same effect -- but that implies that halving their price won't have them producing at a loss."
Yes, this is true too. There is a certain price point and level of production where fixed-costs are marginal, and the marginal cost of producing the amount is all balanced by the demand, and there is a set of theory behind the oligopoly state of Pepsi and Coke, but that's all way beyond a post on Slashdot. Take a couple of first-year economics classes, they'll do you a world of wonders:)
* WHITE WOLF ZERO SIX TO TWO SIX. This is two six. * WE GOT ACTIVITY OUT HERE, BUT I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO REPORT IT. What do you see? * APPEARS TO BE FORNICATION IN A CONVERTIBLE. Do a target store and I'll be there in a sec. * UH, WE'RE TAPING IT. Roger.
Remember that while the addage, "if everyone drove these cars, the price of these cars fuel would skyrocket" is true, it ignorse the fact that by having easily substitable goods, you change the price elasticity of demand. Coke and Pepsi share similar prices because Coke knows that if they double their prices, people will just buy Pepsi.
So while there might be a bit of an increase in the price of diesel or biodiesel, the price of gasoline would be affected as well because we would consume less of it. The more alternatives you have for an activity, the more in touch with reality their pricing is. Take CDs -- their pricing should be dropping because DVDs and video games are (bang for the buck) much more effective. However, because the RIAA is ignorant, they're trying to use price fixing. Naturally, this isn't working as the price elasticity for that good has been increasing in the past few years:)
Every time there is another way to solve a problem, we all benefit.
That would defeat the point of developing the games as one where people have different maps and objectives. You'd take the main point of the multiplayer away. Have you played it single player? It's not anywhere near as fun, and that's exactly how the multi-player would play out without the innovative gameplay.
This is why gameplay doesn't change much -- people have to be dragged kicking and screaming from their boring rehashes of old ideas!
When people trade in a game that at 5$, and the store sells it for 20$, they're making a healthy profit. Even if the game companies go ahead and decide to drop prices of their new games by 1/3rd, the used stores can still absorb that easily because they're paying about 60% to as low as 2% of the final price of a used game to take it in.
What's worse, you've suddenly made used game trade ins more valuable because they can get more new games or used games for the same amount of trade ins!
Natuarally, this is why providers are trying to move to a model where you don't own the content (online). I don't like that either. There are still game companies out there, though, that can make games that are worth enough that I'll hang on to them after I beat them, even if they have limited replayability (like Beyond Good and Evil, or Deus Ex: TIW).
"I further explained that I wasn't planning on giving in to Nintendo's marketing scheme by going out and buying a GBA."
Yea, Nintendo really needs to use the awesome GameCube to prop up the ailing GameBoy Advance platform! I mean, it's not like the GBA sells itself, or is even close to outselling any other platforms...
Oh-fucking-wait, it's outselling the PS2 on its own merits!
I really wish people would grow up and realize that Nintendo is inovating, not trying to sell you a 99$ USD controller. The GBA is not a high-margin device, that's the software's job. That's why companies are always cutting hardware prices. People just try to justify anything they don't like by making it a part of some EVIL CORPORATE PLOT (TM) to SELL MORE EVIL or some such.
Nintendo probably makes more on the GBA player, since there's no screen, battery, or anything else to include beyond a small DVD and the plastic case around reclaimed non-SP GBA guts.
I check in from time to time, but Rusty transfered DNS and email management (as well as unix adimining stuff) away from me one-piece at a time over the course of 3 years. In the beginning, I was doing everything that wasn't Scoop. Around fall 2003, it was down to DNS and email service. I switched from one provider to another, but has having troubles with it as my day job kept interfering with getting the network going (I was working 10 hour days and always burnt out), so Rusty moved that away too.
At that point, the only thing I had on K5 has my account, which is still there. I revised the FAQ a little, and checked into some of the new admin stuff (abuse reporting and handling), but the site content itself went downhill around the same time.
It's funny.. I run my own site, and have been doing this and that there in my spare time (right now I'm back in university and working on top of it, so this time is little), and nothing I've ever mentioned on it in 5 years of updates has ever gotten me in trouble, but one diary entry on K5 3 years ago got me thrown out of a computer programming contest run by some religious freaks.
I have something lined up that might be cool, but it's strictly video game related. I'm hoping to combine the best of several sites into one, and ditch the paid-for inflated review structure:) Once I have finished my degree, though, I may try and figure out a better way to model social structure in software, learning from previous lessons... I'm not sure if there's anything scalable in the way I want it to be, though, without hiding a lot of stuff ala Livejournal.
Once the magic smoke's left, most electronics tend to be silent.
In fact, sometimes it goes silent before the smoke goes out! Once those silly fans aren't busy pressing the smoke into the chips, they gout out like no one's business;)
Kuro5hin was dead 2 years ago. The body was still just twitching.
Once it stopped being fun, Kuro5hin became something you participated in because you paid for it or were being paid to work on it. Once you weren't paid for it, you stopped caring. If you happened to be a person who paid for it, maybe you paid in a little more because you weren't sure. It took the remaining 2 years for all this to sort itself out.
Once it became about political speech that never really went anywhere (I'm not talking about interesting projects, like freenet, I'm talking about the people who wanted to protest, but never did outside of Kuro5hin), it was officially dead. Slashdot avoids this by having stricter control over the stories, but it also lacks the various tools that allowed users to find each other. I think that's part of what kept K5 going so long.
I'm not sure what will be the solution of a social site where people can post interesting things to a wider audience, and still managed to make friends and such. Livejournal seems to be a good example of this situation (it serves the purpose for me), but there isn't really an easy digest method that allows you to get into it -- you pretty much have to know someone using it, or sift through thousands of random, shitty journals before you find any of the social groups that are interesting.
I just hope I have a hand in making the next big thing:)
The 24hr busride deposited us at the Vancouver bus station right after the last train and busses had left. The next ones wouldn't have been in time for the outgoing plane the next morning, so I had to improvise.
It all worked out, although I also had to go through 3 separate security checks at Seatac. CHAPS thinks I'm bad, I guess.
Slashdot Mirror
"If I had gone to university and attained a bachelor's in CS, I would've graduated in 1992. State of the art technology in 1992 is largely irrelevant today, and the only thing that would have been proven by that degree is that I could finish what I started."
Yea, because all those things like algorithms, O notation, principles of optimization, etc, have all changed completely and totally in the past 12 years!
Zing Perhaps you'd have a better appreciation of what you don't know if you took the time to learn about the depth of knowledge that exists in a CS course. Yes, some people can slack through, but there's a reason someone who goes to University will be paid more -- they also happen to know more.
I still can't sync my iPod. It takes longer to break, but sbp2 is still fucked for fw HDs.
A PDA is a satalite computing device. You use it for quick updates and little else, typically. Its major use is that you can pull it out quickly from a pocket and check your contacts, todo list, and more! On my Palm, for example, I can pull out the application Due Yesterday and check my GPA in all my classes, what assignments are due, etc.
People may say, "hey, why use a Palm when you can use a cell phone or laptop?"
I also have a cell phone that claims to have PDA support. Unless you own a P800 or a P900, the interface on a cellphone is too clunky. Graffiti or the recognizer on a PocketPC will beat the shit out of the tap entry methods that cellphones use. The major cons of the cellphone are that the interface is crap, there isn't a large library of extension software, and it's not easy to sync with my PC.
The cons of a laptop are just as serious. First, they cost about 3-4x the price of even the most fancy 500$ Palm units with built in cameras. They don't really fit in my pocket, either. Even if they could, chances are I wouldn't be able to whip it out and hit a button and have the unit power up in less than 1 second like a Palm does. I'm always having to use a large physical keyboard, even if I'm not seated at a desk or table with a laptop. And chances are I'll have to deal with Windows, unless Apple starts making the units, as Linux doesn't tend to work on a laptop without much messing around. For all the effort, I'd rather have the smaller unit which costs less and Just Works (TM).
Plus, with Bluetooth, my Palm can sync its contacts with the cellphone, control it for outgoing dialing, use it for sending SMS, etc, while it's in my pocket. The PDA interface is much more flexible and has a much larger screen real estate, so it's like I've upgraded my phone without making it into something the size of a brick!
So why choose something that doesn't have these size, speed, and cost benefits? I don't get it.
Reading this comic.
To the parent of the person I'm replying to:
PhD is latin, something like "Philosopia Doctorate".
DPhil is what Oxford gives out, a English titled "Doctorate of Philosphy".
Give us a new word to use which contains the concept that people are deprived of a copy of their work, which is indeed a fruit of their mental powers. We don't have such a word yet in the English language. Until one is made up, theft will still be used when dealing with copyright crimes because we lack the language to describe the actions.
If you want to change the usage, come up with a new word.
How you do keep US prisons clear of natives, because in Canada natives make up something like 70-80% of the prison population!
Oh, you don't have as many natives, because you have black people in there? Why would black people commit crimes? Not very many black people are criminal in Canada. This is clearly an error on your prison system's part in assigning the blame to the wrong people, because all natives steal and all women can't write computer code!
Go read "Black Like Me" before you start stereotyping. The reason female programmers don't contribute is a heady concotion of many social pressures, not the least of which are gender biased people like you.
When the way to keep up with your hobby is to spend your time and money upgrading Windows, downloading new drivers, rebooting constantly, buying new sticks of RAM, buying new video cards, replacing HDs, watching games install, dealing with Windows security, rebooting some more, dealing with games that don't work and can't be returned, OR buy 1 game console w/ memory card and 1 game disc for it, and play...
You begin to see that it's just the matter that PC gaming is expensive in time and money. When you stop using your PC for gaming, you'll find it'll take a good 4 years before your computer is "too slow" and you upgrade for a fraction of the cost. Plus your computer's suddenly a lot more reliable because you can use an OS which has fewer games but more stability, like Mac OS X or a Linux flavour.
I'll put it another way: my swiss army knife isn't as good at some things as a butcher knife, and if cutting meat was something I'd want to do a lot, a butcher knife would be the way to go for me. A console's just a better, more concentrated way to game!
Gaming isn't a hobby for you. It's obviously far too expensive. Take up sewing. That's cheap!
Seriously, though, then you have even less reason to not rebuy repackaged childhood memories. It beats the piss out of importing a Wondarswan and apropos cartridge!
I don't understand your use of the words from the context.
FF1 and 2 are being remade (again) for the GBA. To encourage you to buy a game you probably own 3 copies of, they're even throwing in a new dungeon that has bosses from newer games in FF1 (you can fight the Phantom Train from FF6!), and FF2 is getting a new story via the 'Soul of Rebirth'
;P
This has been reported everywhere, both in Japanese and English! How'd you miss out?
Don't forget also River City Ransom EX, Virtua Fighter Quest, RE 4, the Mega Man collections for GBA and GCN, and Shinning Force coming to the GBA! It's not the horrible Shinning Soul dungeon crawler
I don't understand how a sample of roughly 24 and 1/3rd million is a "tiny number"
Perhaps you have a very weird definition of "tiny" that really means big.
Ratio of BIND domains serviced to installs: 24,335,752 / 340,345 = 71.5 domains/server.
Ration of MS DNS domains to installs: 2,165,143 / 101,781 = 21.27 domains/server.
Ratio of TinyDNS domains to installs: 5,405,266 / 12,130 = 445.6 domains/server!
Despite only having 2% of the installs, TinyDNS serves 15% of all domains on the internet. Obviousy it is very capable, and has few to no exploits available for it. Why don't more people use TinyDNS if it's so capable?
Because they haven't read how easy it is to setup!
Buy the Phantasy Star Collection for GBA and the Sonic Mega Collection for GCN. I know that the Sonic Mega Collection is a Players' Choice title now because of how popular it is.
"That is true only to the extent that there's a high margin on the currently-priced good. Coke doubling the price would drive people to Pepsi, as you point out. One might think, therefore, that Pepsi should halve their own price and get the same effect -- but that implies that halving their price won't have them producing at a loss."
:)
Yes, this is true too. There is a certain price point and level of production where fixed-costs are marginal, and the marginal cost of producing the amount is all balanced by the demand, and there is a set of theory behind the oligopoly state of Pepsi and Coke, but that's all way beyond a post on Slashdot. Take a couple of first-year economics classes, they'll do you a world of wonders
* WHITE WOLF ZERO SIX TO TWO SIX.
This is two six.
* WE GOT ACTIVITY OUT HERE, BUT I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO REPORT IT.
What do you see?
* APPEARS TO BE FORNICATION IN A CONVERTIBLE.
Do a target store and I'll be there in a sec.
* UH, WE'RE TAPING IT.
Roger.
(Get the joke)
Remember that while the addage, "if everyone drove these cars, the price of these cars fuel would skyrocket" is true, it ignorse the fact that by having easily substitable goods, you change the price elasticity of demand. Coke and Pepsi share similar prices because Coke knows that if they double their prices, people will just buy Pepsi.
:)
So while there might be a bit of an increase in the price of diesel or biodiesel, the price of gasoline would be affected as well because we would consume less of it. The more alternatives you have for an activity, the more in touch with reality their pricing is. Take CDs -- their pricing should be dropping because DVDs and video games are (bang for the buck) much more effective. However, because the RIAA is ignorant, they're trying to use price fixing. Naturally, this isn't working as the price elasticity for that good has been increasing in the past few years
Every time there is another way to solve a problem, we all benefit.
That would defeat the point of developing the games as one where people have different maps and objectives. You'd take the main point of the multiplayer away. Have you played it single player? It's not anywhere near as fun, and that's exactly how the multi-player would play out without the innovative gameplay.
This is why gameplay doesn't change much -- people have to be dragged kicking and screaming from their boring rehashes of old ideas!
When people trade in a game that at 5$, and the store sells it for 20$, they're making a healthy profit. Even if the game companies go ahead and decide to drop prices of their new games by 1/3rd, the used stores can still absorb that easily because they're paying about 60% to as low as 2% of the final price of a used game to take it in.
What's worse, you've suddenly made used game trade ins more valuable because they can get more new games or used games for the same amount of trade ins!
Natuarally, this is why providers are trying to move to a model where you don't own the content (online). I don't like that either. There are still game companies out there, though, that can make games that are worth enough that I'll hang on to them after I beat them, even if they have limited replayability (like Beyond Good and Evil, or Deus Ex: TIW).
"I further explained that I wasn't planning on giving in to Nintendo's marketing scheme by going out and buying a GBA."
Yea, Nintendo really needs to use the awesome GameCube to prop up the ailing GameBoy Advance platform! I mean, it's not like the GBA sells itself, or is even close to outselling any other platforms...
Oh-fucking-wait, it's outselling the PS2 on its own merits!
I really wish people would grow up and realize that Nintendo is inovating, not trying to sell you a 99$ USD controller. The GBA is not a high-margin device, that's the software's job. That's why companies are always cutting hardware prices. People just try to justify anything they don't like by making it a part of some EVIL CORPORATE PLOT (TM) to SELL MORE EVIL or some such.
Nintendo probably makes more on the GBA player, since there's no screen, battery, or anything else to include beyond a small DVD and the plastic case around reclaimed non-SP GBA guts.
I check in from time to time, but Rusty transfered DNS and email management (as well as unix adimining stuff) away from me one-piece at a time over the course of 3 years. In the beginning, I was doing everything that wasn't Scoop. Around fall 2003, it was down to DNS and email service. I switched from one provider to another, but has having troubles with it as my day job kept interfering with getting the network going (I was working 10 hour days and always burnt out), so Rusty moved that away too.
:) Once I have finished my degree, though, I may try and figure out a better way to model social structure in software, learning from previous lessons... I'm not sure if there's anything scalable in the way I want it to be, though, without hiding a lot of stuff ala Livejournal.
At that point, the only thing I had on K5 has my account, which is still there. I revised the FAQ a little, and checked into some of the new admin stuff (abuse reporting and handling), but the site content itself went downhill around the same time.
It's funny.. I run my own site, and have been doing this and that there in my spare time (right now I'm back in university and working on top of it, so this time is little), and nothing I've ever mentioned on it in 5 years of updates has ever gotten me in trouble, but one diary entry on K5 3 years ago got me thrown out of a computer programming contest run by some religious freaks.
I have something lined up that might be cool, but it's strictly video game related. I'm hoping to combine the best of several sites into one, and ditch the paid-for inflated review structure
Once the magic smoke's left, most electronics tend to be silent.
;)
In fact, sometimes it goes silent before the smoke goes out! Once those silly fans aren't busy pressing the smoke into the chips, they gout out like no one's business
Kuro5hin was dead 2 years ago. The body was still just twitching.
:)
Once it stopped being fun, Kuro5hin became something you participated in because you paid for it or were being paid to work on it. Once you weren't paid for it, you stopped caring. If you happened to be a person who paid for it, maybe you paid in a little more because you weren't sure. It took the remaining 2 years for all this to sort itself out.
Once it became about political speech that never really went anywhere (I'm not talking about interesting projects, like freenet, I'm talking about the people who wanted to protest, but never did outside of Kuro5hin), it was officially dead. Slashdot avoids this by having stricter control over the stories, but it also lacks the various tools that allowed users to find each other. I think that's part of what kept K5 going so long.
I'm not sure what will be the solution of a social site where people can post interesting things to a wider audience, and still managed to make friends and such. Livejournal seems to be a good example of this situation (it serves the purpose for me), but there isn't really an easy digest method that allows you to get into it -- you pretty much have to know someone using it, or sift through thousands of random, shitty journals before you find any of the social groups that are interesting.
I just hope I have a hand in making the next big thing
Otherwise your weights will be all wrong.
Equal parts ham and spam will yield good spam catching. RTFAQ.
NOT having companies advertise on my computer without my permission.
This is also your right on line...
The 24hr busride deposited us at the Vancouver bus station right after the last train and busses had left. The next ones wouldn't have been in time for the outgoing plane the next morning, so I had to improvise.
It all worked out, although I also had to go through 3 separate security checks at Seatac. CHAPS thinks I'm bad, I guess.