The DOJ should STFU. WTF are they doing commenting on a ruling by the European Union? Does the US care what France has to say about the Martha Stewart trial?
US companies are censored and fined all the time that do business in the EU. Read the Economist and you see all kinds of articles, one was about Coca-Cola and some fine on distribution. The DOJ didn't say anything about that.
As another poster pointed out, if the DOJ had prosecuted their case CORRECTLY, and broken Microsoft up along O/S and application lines, none of this would be an issue. Microsoft will continue to blur the line between stuff that the O/S loads at startup via linked libs and shared objects, as long as they can get away with it. Pretty soon, we'll find out that Longhorn REQUIRES Media PLayer Player 9 to be installed AND be linked to all the major media types like.mpg and.avi, or the new "video help system" won't work.
I think you can fully expect to see massive spam "campaigns" from both parties, or people who support them. Usenet is already deluged with pictures of Kerry kissing Hanoi Jane and GWB shooting Saddam and so on.
I read Rheingold's book on his days at the WELL. First of all, what Rheingold seems to gloss over, was that the Well was a BBS. As in, the one that you dial into. not a Web BBS.
What's really annoying about his book, is his tone that the Well was the only interesting, progressive BBS *ever*. He wasn't on Compuserve or GEnie in the old days, so he has no fucking idea what he's talking about, but because the Well was made up of Bay area intellectuals, they thing the experience only pertained to them.
I'm a somewhat old timer when it comes to this stuff, I started BBSing in the early 80s. I found his book insulting and incredibly egotistic.
I agree with the Bowler. Rheingold may wish it to be so, but there is no concrete proof that it helps a candidate get elected.
What there is evidence of, is that it is a new source of fundraising. The stat that everyone is buzzing about in the beltway, is how far that Dean lowered the average campaign contribution to. I don't have the number, and can't find it right now, but I think it's down around $60 or so. Kerry wants desperately to figure out a way to fundraise via the net, expect something BIG from the Democrats regarding this around the time of the convention. I'm predicting they are going to all out with a "flash"y website and Paypal integration, as much as they figure out how to do.
The history of the Supreme Court shows very little traction for the reframing of constitutional questions and going back up. Even though they make a big deal about how this isn't Eldred vs. Ashcroft, it really is a distinction the court will find tenuous. They got shot down on the copyright extensions, they will get shot down on the inclusionary aspects of this.
I believe they are right and the court is wrong on Eldred, but until a Democratic president can get in for another 8 years and Kennedy and Scalia get the boot, they won't win.
Here is a quote from the MSN article: "By bringing a real-world relationship model online -- one where individuals are identified and held accountable -- social networking has the potential to make the Internet a healthier, more civil place. "
And there you have it, folks. That is what it is really all about. It's a false mechanism to strip the Internet of the ability to act and speak anonymously. What MSN and other VC dollars are pushing for, is a world where every TCP socket uses SSL, everything is digitially signed, where you can't even get ON the net until you are tied to a PKI infrastructure.
Social clubs like these create the natural response to the stories of 45 year old fat guys posing as teenage girls. It smashes a key attribute of the Internet that made it alluring for many. I'm not passing judgement on this, as good or bad, just pointing out that creating exclusionary groups and networking the "good" people is a predictable response. This is what gives University campuses the feeling of safety, esp. at Ivy League schools. The sense that everyone was "chosen" to be there.
What will happen to groups like Orkut that are founded from places like Stanford are they will come to reflect the population of Stanford. Alumnis will get pref treatment. Then what happens is a fragmentation of social networks, pretty soon you have social networks based on race, such as the Hispanic or Latino social network, and you get the Republican golf league social network, and pretty soon the system breaks down under the weight of 8 million social networks that are split up along cultural and economic lines, and there is no anonymity, and it just mirrors society, and while that may make it "accepted", it removes all the sense of wonder and finding new things that the net was about.
I join a web board for SimRacing (www.racesimcentral.com) because that is an activity that I enjoy. Because of people I've met there, I could attend the Goodwood festival in the UK even though I'm an American. And I may only know the people from their Nom De Plume, I may never know their real names. And it doesn't matter. I think social networks really exist to destroy things like that.
I'm glad you posted the story. I knew a guy who worked at NCSA during this period. They described Andressen as a marginal talent programmer who basically "robbed" them. That's the word he used. I guess Marc was reclusive and anti-social, so he told nobody of his plans to run away with that booty.
Andressen now lives on a farm somewhere, with his money, and really could give a shit. Like another post points out, he creates closed source software, everyone ought to ignore this guy.
Can I keep it going?
15. Obligatory greets to Lucas includes Martians using R2D2.
14. Dying martian to utter the phrase "Phone home".
13. Naval Commander to say "we're gonna need a bigger boat."
12. Shot of Dennis Weaver driving a late model Dodge Dart swerving wildly.
11. Once word: Whoopi
Paul Turturro, who got fired from reviewing movies on CNN, even though he was hilarious and spoke the truth - once said that he always knew how a Gwyneth Paltrow shot would be blocked, because if she turned sideways, she would vanish.
Speilberg took Kubrick's notes and unfinished script and finished AI and filmed it. And it was very much in the vein of a Kubrick film, it was to be the flipside of 2001 and Kubrick's final statement on AI. Speilberg should have ended the film underwater at the Blue Fairy, what he filmed after that felt tacked on. But Speilberg was the only director with the clout and the guts to pull that off.
Minority Report, for all of Cruise's non-acting (he always looks like he is going to puke whenever he is supposed to emote), the story was very good. Although, I would have preferred the darker ending, which is that the child molester was real, and Cruise does choose to kill him.
WoW is about xenophobia, and I think Speilberg will understand that. How he chooses to the do the science and the FX will be interesting, I think you want to stay far away from any sense of campiness, and make it truly scary. Have the Martians knock down a skyscraper, like the Sears Tower or the Transamerica building. I think the audience will "get it". We'll see.
Point is, I think Speilberg has a good record with Sci-Fci.
By the way, one of the penultimate films regarding xenophobia and consumer culture was Romero's Dawn of the Dead. It was a horror movie that had a LOT of social commentary. My guess is the remake coming out this weekend is stripped of all of it, and just concentrates on quick cut scream-inducing "pounce" shots and gory makeup. I digress.
Decrepit smelly old people care about what kind of world their grandchildren grow up in. After all, they are part of the Greatest generation. It's the Baby Boomers who don't give a fuck.
I would feel better if the Sci Fi channel were handling this. A lot (not all) Sci Fi deals with social and political questions. The culmination of this, of course, is Dune. Dune deals in many ways with the British occupation of Afghanistan, and it resonates so soundly today it's frightening. Spice is oil.
If I had the CBS writers in a room, I'm not sure what I'd pass out. heinlein, Herbert, Orsan Scott Card, and maybe Necromancer. All required reading even before you get to start the first script. Really good sci-fi, the kind of stuff that clearly understands and reflects history is very rare and very special. I'm going to go out on a limb here, and guess the people who pen the jokes on 'Everybody Loves Raymon' or the plots on 'CSI' are going to be up to the challenge of writing good sci-fi.
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Well, I've seen many negative depictions of Gates. But never a racist. Bravo.
The DOJ should STFU. WTF are they doing commenting on a ruling by the European Union? Does the US care what France has to say about the Martha Stewart trial?
.mpg and .avi, or the new "video help system" won't work.
US companies are censored and fined all the time that do business in the EU. Read the Economist and you see all kinds of articles, one was about Coca-Cola and some fine on distribution. The DOJ didn't say anything about that.
As another poster pointed out, if the DOJ had prosecuted their case CORRECTLY, and broken Microsoft up along O/S and application lines, none of this would be an issue. Microsoft will continue to blur the line between stuff that the O/S loads at startup via linked libs and shared objects, as long as they can get away with it. Pretty soon, we'll find out that Longhorn REQUIRES Media PLayer Player 9 to be installed AND be linked to all the major media types like
Toothing, anyone?
I think you can fully expect to see massive spam "campaigns" from both parties, or people who support them. Usenet is already deluged with pictures of Kerry kissing Hanoi Jane and GWB shooting Saddam and so on.
I read Rheingold's book on his days at the WELL. First of all, what Rheingold seems to gloss over, was that the Well was a BBS. As in, the one that you dial into. not a Web BBS.
What's really annoying about his book, is his tone that the Well was the only interesting, progressive BBS *ever*. He wasn't on Compuserve or GEnie in the old days, so he has no fucking idea what he's talking about, but because the Well was made up of Bay area intellectuals, they thing the experience only pertained to them.
I'm a somewhat old timer when it comes to this stuff, I started BBSing in the early 80s. I found his book insulting and incredibly egotistic.
I think we all know he never said that, as much as Rush Limbaugh and his Percodin popping mouth would like to believe.
I agree with the Bowler. Rheingold may wish it to be so, but there is no concrete proof that it helps a candidate get elected.
What there is evidence of, is that it is a new source of fundraising. The stat that everyone is buzzing about in the beltway, is how far that Dean lowered the average campaign contribution to. I don't have the number, and can't find it right now, but I think it's down around $60 or so. Kerry wants desperately to figure out a way to fundraise via the net, expect something BIG from the Democrats regarding this around the time of the convention. I'm predicting they are going to all out with a "flash"y website and Paypal integration, as much as they figure out how to do.
It's applied directly to the new yacht that Jack Valenti is buying.
Ol Jack is going to sail the high seas and become a real pirate! Argh!
He's like a real life Monty Burns.
The history of the Supreme Court shows very little traction for the reframing of constitutional questions and going back up. Even though they make a big deal about how this isn't Eldred vs. Ashcroft, it really is a distinction the court will find tenuous. They got shot down on the copyright extensions, they will get shot down on the inclusionary aspects of this.
I believe they are right and the court is wrong on Eldred, but until a Democratic president can get in for another 8 years and Kennedy and Scalia get the boot, they won't win.
Uh oh, girl fight!
Here is a quote from the MSN article: "By bringing a real-world relationship model online -- one where individuals are identified and held accountable -- social networking has the potential to make the Internet a healthier, more civil place. "
And there you have it, folks. That is what it is really all about. It's a false mechanism to strip the Internet of the ability to act and speak anonymously. What MSN and other VC dollars are pushing for, is a world where every TCP socket uses SSL, everything is digitially signed, where you can't even get ON the net until you are tied to a PKI infrastructure.
Social clubs like these create the natural response to the stories of 45 year old fat guys posing as teenage girls. It smashes a key attribute of the Internet that made it alluring for many. I'm not passing judgement on this, as good or bad, just pointing out that creating exclusionary groups and networking the "good" people is a predictable response. This is what gives University campuses the feeling of safety, esp. at Ivy League schools. The sense that everyone was "chosen" to be there.
What will happen to groups like Orkut that are founded from places like Stanford are they will come to reflect the population of Stanford. Alumnis will get pref treatment. Then what happens is a fragmentation of social networks, pretty soon you have social networks based on race, such as the Hispanic or Latino social network, and you get the Republican golf league social network, and pretty soon the system breaks down under the weight of 8 million social networks that are split up along cultural and economic lines, and there is no anonymity, and it just mirrors society, and while that may make it "accepted", it removes all the sense of wonder and finding new things that the net was about.
I join a web board for SimRacing (www.racesimcentral.com) because that is an activity that I enjoy. Because of people I've met there, I could attend the Goodwood festival in the UK even though I'm an American. And I may only know the people from their Nom De Plume, I may never know their real names. And it doesn't matter. I think social networks really exist to destroy things like that.
I'm glad you posted the story. I knew a guy who worked at NCSA during this period. They described Andressen as a marginal talent programmer who basically "robbed" them. That's the word he used. I guess Marc was reclusive and anti-social, so he told nobody of his plans to run away with that booty.
Andressen now lives on a farm somewhere, with his money, and really could give a shit. Like another post points out, he creates closed source software, everyone ought to ignore this guy.
If you blow it up with Photoshop, you clearly see it's a Piper pulling a flying banner that reads "Welcome to Amity Island!"
Night of the Living Dead, of course. I linked to the word because Dawn was the 2nd film in the trilogy. It's use in that context is not 100% correct.
...is just gonna look like a homeless wacko saying "can you hear me now?" just staring into the sky...
Mod up. That was hilarious.
Can I keep it going?
15. Obligatory greets to Lucas includes Martians using R2D2.
14. Dying martian to utter the phrase "Phone home".
13. Naval Commander to say "we're gonna need a bigger boat."
12. Shot of Dennis Weaver driving a late model Dodge Dart swerving wildly.
11. Once word: Whoopi
Paul Turturro, who got fired from reviewing movies on CNN, even though he was hilarious and spoke the truth - once said that he always knew how a Gwyneth Paltrow shot would be blocked, because if she turned sideways, she would vanish.
Michael Bay AND Vin Diesel! kewl! Could we get Nick Cage in there somehow?
Speilberg took Kubrick's notes and unfinished script and finished AI and filmed it. And it was very much in the vein of a Kubrick film, it was to be the flipside of 2001 and Kubrick's final statement on AI. Speilberg should have ended the film underwater at the Blue Fairy, what he filmed after that felt tacked on. But Speilberg was the only director with the clout and the guts to pull that off.
Minority Report, for all of Cruise's non-acting (he always looks like he is going to puke whenever he is supposed to emote), the story was very good. Although, I would have preferred the darker ending, which is that the child molester was real, and Cruise does choose to kill him.
WoW is about xenophobia, and I think Speilberg will understand that. How he chooses to the do the science and the FX will be interesting, I think you want to stay far away from any sense of campiness, and make it truly scary. Have the Martians knock down a skyscraper, like the Sears Tower or the Transamerica building. I think the audience will "get it". We'll see.
Point is, I think Speilberg has a good record with Sci-Fci.
By the way, one of the penultimate films regarding xenophobia and consumer culture was Romero's Dawn of the Dead. It was a horror movie that had a LOT of social commentary. My guess is the remake coming out this weekend is stripped of all of it, and just concentrates on quick cut scream-inducing "pounce" shots and gory makeup. I digress.
So, then - what is sci-fi? If the caselaw they are dealing with does not exist today, and is speculative, what keeps it from the sci-fi label?
Decrepit smelly old people care about what kind of world their grandchildren grow up in. After all, they are part of the Greatest generation. It's the Baby Boomers who don't give a fuck.
I have no idea why Ford was included in the Oligopoly. The GT is a cool car, but we all know that Toyota will rule the world eventually.
They can debate the merits of the Bertuzzi hit. Or assault, the Vancouver police still haven't decided.
So what you are saying is, if Orwell were alive today, he would write for CBS.
I would feel better if the Sci Fi channel were handling this. A lot (not all) Sci Fi deals with social and political questions. The culmination of this, of course, is Dune. Dune deals in many ways with the British occupation of Afghanistan, and it resonates so soundly today it's frightening. Spice is oil.
If I had the CBS writers in a room, I'm not sure what I'd pass out. heinlein, Herbert, Orsan Scott Card, and maybe Necromancer. All required reading even before you get to start the first script. Really good sci-fi, the kind of stuff that clearly understands and reflects history is very rare and very special. I'm going to go out on a limb here, and guess the people who pen the jokes on 'Everybody Loves Raymon' or the plots on 'CSI' are going to be up to the challenge of writing good sci-fi.