The specifications imply that the only thing needed to do this would be the software. It has support for myriad broadband connections and an RJ11 telephone jack. You can also bet that they will be hooking their smart phones up to this puppy. "My works are like water. The works of the great
masters is like wine, but everybody drinks water."
Developing open source and free software is the ultimate in charity work. You get to pick what you are involved in, you can make an impact on a global scale, and your provide quality software to organizations that can't afford commercial software licenses.
If you develop open source/free software and encourage young people to learn about technology, the problems that you hope to address by volunteering will take care of themselves.
Good luck!! "My works are like water. The works of the great masters is like wine, but everybody drinks water."
...and that cuts to the heart of the issue. The oversight committee wants to develop a legislative solution that is long term - one that will stand the test of time in face of the exponential growth of technology. There are a couple of assumptions that they should operate from:
Securing digital media through encryption is not a viable solution. Crackers will always be able to get you an unadulterated copy.
The U.S. constitution gives Congress the authority and duty to protect the rights of artists and inventors to their respective works (Article I, Sec. 8, clause 8)
There is no way to determine if an act of "piracy" by a private citizen did indeed result in a lost sale of intellectual property. "I wouldn't have paid money for it in the first place."
What happens when, through the use of portable recording and computing devices, individuals become capable of recording, playing back, and distributing everything they hear in its original form with minimal loss to quality and no limitation to the scale of distribution?
First, deaf prostitutes will become extremely popular in Washington, D.C. Secondly, the last shred of hope that policing the private citizenry to eliminate "unlawful" sharing of audible intellectual property will dissipate. Finally, the real money in the music industry will revert back to the people who deserve it, the performers.
When the dead weight known as the recording industry is kicked off the supply chain, music will once again become a performance art and musicians will make their money providing the visceral experience of a live performance, something which will never be replaceable by technology.
This outcome is just a shadow of things to come, it's funny how technology can cause society to revert back to things that worked when we were communities and not producers/consumers.
"My works are like water. The works of the great masters is like wine, but everybody drinks water."
Corporations are not the first organizations wherein the power and influence of the few is used to control the many. Most large religious groups are guilty of this practice and even the American government is constructed this way.
So why don't the people rise up and wrest control of their lives from the those who would dominate them? Because they like their lives. They don't want to be awakened to the reality of their existence. This was one of the major themes of The Matrix. The reason democracy works is that the people who care enough to vote decide the outcome. Most people are perfectly content to wait to see all the new fashions, who will win the next big sports championship, or who will be elected.
Let me put it this way, "small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, and great minds talk about ideas." Start up a conversation with 10 people today. Let them lead it where they may... I would wager that at most two of those people will talk about something other than people or events.
Fret not though, for this does not diminish the importance of individualism. Part of the article's argument centered on how unfair it is that one is marginalized by corporations and other entities for being an individual... I say, "Get over it!" The truth is that your decision is to be marginalized. If you want to be called names, made fun of, jeered- be different. Is it fair? Who said life is fair? The point is if you are not strong enough to withstand the masses don't charge against them. And if you do understand it is futile unless you change the majority opinion of what makes you different. Acceptance of homosexuality has flip-flopped many times in many cultures throughout history, is it a valid choice? Of course it is, but you have to accept the baggage. If you want to have blue hair in corporate America you had better be a damn good worker and it would help if you didn't deal directly with clients. The only real way to affect change is to organize.
I'm ranting... Basically what I'm saying is that any choice is a valid choice, just take care not to get trampled by the herd. They like the stability and ease of the highly-controlled lives.
Traditional "meatspace" primary and secondary education institutions have long battled the problem of inequality. That is to say that students attending one school (traditionally urban) receive an overall inferior education to that of students attending smaller or private schools. This educational divide stems from myriad reasons, including over-crowding, under-funding, and inability to attract good teachers. Many measures have been taken to ameliorate the situation to limited success.
My question speaks to the potential parallels of these problems in online education. The most apparent of these is commonly known in the media as the "digital divide". At this time only roughly 50% of American households are currently online and the overwhelming majority of those households don't have broadband (cable, xDSL, etc.) Many educators claim that simple HTML is insufficient to provide quality education and that a very minimum some sort of voice technology in an interactive mode would be required to meet proper educational goals. Others claim a great deal of success with current technologies like message boards, email lists, and searchable online class materials.
Admittedly I am uninformed as to the mechanics that Ars Digita plans to use to reach its students and I am also aware that you have chosen to deal only with a highly selective group given overall global demographics (i.e. only post-baccalaureate candidates need apply). With all that said, I would like to ask how or if you plan on dealing with the digital divide. While this is intriguing in terms of online education, feel free to expound into others subject areas (the political process, consumerism, etc.).
Re:Is the Metaverse nearing practicality?
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If we think of this in terms of a paradigm shift from 2D GUI (a la KDE/GNOME) to a 3D one, this concept becomes much more feasible. Replace the current file system explorer with a map within the 3D space, replace the GTK+ with an entity toolkit for creating app interfaces in the 3D space, replace desktop shortcuts with an "inventory", create application interfaces that are accessible within the 3D space (inventory shortcuts and object in rooms (aka folders)), stir mix and enjoy.
Imagine a telnet application like this- select it from your inventory; a console of sorts popups in your HUD (heads up display) with fields for hostname/IP addy, password, etc.; click the connect button and the console drops out and a portal appears before you; walk through and you are in the 3D space of a remote machine.
The only real things on the internet are files, connections, and processes- representing these in a 3D space is not only possible, but realistic.
Detractors of this concept will have similar arguments as the GUIs-suck-command-line-rules crowd. Once we make it possible to interact with computers in a 3D space we will see the same explosion in usability (and coolness) that we saw with the genesis of the 2D GUI.
I think the major online music portals are of course going to "screw the artist". That attitude is a natural extension of the blatant commercialism that these companies must exhibit in order to satisfy their investors. When a common goes public the ethics/motives of the investors supplant those of the founders. Let's just hope that doesn't happen to/. someday. (Though some might argue it has already)
Anyway, if you are looking for a great indie "label" where the artists are the MAIN attraction, check out NoType
How about this- combine the ball bearings idea with a motion sensor.
After the user dons specially outfitted "booties" containing sensors and soles designed for walking on bearings, they step into the ring and onto a bed of ball bearings. The bearings sole purpose is to facilitate walking in place, while the booties transmit their signals to the surrounding receptor equipment which encompasses the ring.
The receptor equipment feeds into a system which uses the data to triangulate the location of the feet- sampling as often as is necessary to simulate smooth walking/running. All processed in real-time... Does that make sense?
It seems to me that Microsoft has a new kind of monopoly. In the past, monopolists' antitrust violations concerned the dominance of a manufactured good. Distribution chains, prices, etc. were all subject to their complete sovereignity.
This is not the case with Microsoft. They are guilty of _lowering_ prices so as to cut out competitors, insofar as to give away their products. The primary mode of delivery of their product(s), through PC OEM channels, is owned by other companies. Certainly those OEMs have experienced some anti-competitive tactics of Microsoft, but they still own those channels. These are not common themes of monopolies. Standard Oil owned every step of the process from the oil fields to your doorstep. IBM and Ma Bell controlled/raised prices.
The monopoly that Microsoft enjoys is a monopoly of consumer mindshare! Most consumers believe that Microsoft Windows _is_ computers.
Microsoft's share price hasn't been hit nearly as hard as one would have expected by the findings of fact announcement. My belief is that current laws do not take into account the current market. When anti-trust law was formulated a business model like Microsoft's wasn't possible. How can outmoded laws hope to curb anti-competitve practices of such a company?
Here are some of the proposals:
Break up the company- What does this accomplish? Does it reduce the barrier to entry for any of the markets which Microsoft dominates?
Force Microsoft to port their software to other platforms- Here's a slippery slope. Microsoft ports their software roughshod resulting in more demand for Windows because their software doesn't run well on anything else.
The list goes on...
My question to the panel is simply this- If/When Microsoft is found guilty of anti-trust violations, what actions could feasibly be taken that would effectively allow for sustained competition in the respective markets without destroying Microsoft outright? In my estimation the crux of this question is- how do you anti-monopolize mindshare?
Thanks, Is0t0pe "My works are like water. The works of the great masters is like wine, but everybody drinks water."
Exactly, TNT=TwiN Texel pipeline, GeForce = quad texel pipeline... "My works are like water. The works of the great masters is like wine, but everybody drinks water."
Quake was one of the earliest examples of a commercial software house doing open development. By allowing the general public to create mods and to pass them around freely on the internet, Quake created a worldwide community of users/advocates/junkies. In a sense, this is why Microsoft has spent so much effort developing Visual Studio and various APIs. This trend toward catering to your most important, affluent customers is evident in many successful companies. As Kevin Kelly says, "in the network (new) economy, the companies with the smartest customers win."
Linux empowers users with increased uptime and stability, available source code, and Unix-style functionality (not to mention zero cost). It is obvious that these qualities are most important to sysadmins, hackers, and old school programmers. These qualities do not appeal to the unwashed masses- and certainly do not outweigh the difficulty of use to these folks.
What are some things the Linux community can do to create an environment that empowers the Windows API junkies and clueless masses?
"My works are like water. The works of the great masters is like wine, but everybody drinks water."
You've stated in the past that you're developing Q3:A on NT because you want to use MS Visual C++.
Have you tried KDevelop or any of the other Linux GUI IDEs? What is your opinion of these IDEs? What do you think could be done to make them better for developers?
CVS vs. Visual Source Safe?
Aren't you sick of NT crashing on you?:)
"My works are like water. The works of the great masters is like wine, but everybody drinks water."
In the past, you've stated that you had a good deal of technical respect for Linux.
Technically, what changes need to be made to Linux to make it the fastest PC gaming platform available to developers? Where do the bottlenecks exist? Mesa? The kernel?
"My works are like water. The works of the great masters is like wine, but everybody drinks water."
/. killed my HTML formatting... here goes again. This is obviously "redundant" but it is worthwhile, I think.
I just wanted to help out by giving the answers to some previously answered questions.:) I read through some of the more highly-moderated questions for things that I, through various Carmack interviews, already knew. I would hate for/. to send him some questions that have been asked of him a million times. Hopefully others will follow suit, and the moderators will notice and not mark these questions up.
You just recently GPLed Doom. Thanks a million for that. Do you have plans to GPL any of your other titles?
When the last Quake licensee finishes their title (*cough* ION Storm), Carmack has stated he will release the source of Quake. I'm not certain if he'll GPL it or not, but the source will be available.
Are you guys thinking of doing a something besides first person shooters? & Assuming Q3:A isn't the last game you make will the next game be another FPS? Or do you see ID branching into other game types? Are there already plans for another game?
Carmack and others at id (read: Mr. Devine) have stated that the next game probably will not be an FPS (first-person shooter), but there will be a next game from all signs.
"My works are like water. The works of the great masters is like wine, but everybody drinks water."
I just wanted to help out by giving the answers to some previously answered questions.:) I read through some of the more highly-moderated questions for things that I, through various Carmack interviews, already knew. I would hate for/. to send him some questions that have been asked of him a million times. Hopefully others will follow suit, and the moderators will notice and not mark these questions up. You just recently GPLed Doom. Thanks a million for that. Do you have plans to GPL any of your other titles? When the last Quake licensee finishes their title (*cough* ION Storm), Carmack has stated he will release the source of Quake. I'm not certain if he'll GPL it or not, but the source will be available. Are you guys thinking of doing a something besides first person shooters? Assuming Q3:A isn't the last game you make will the next game be another FPS? Or do you see ID branching into other game types? Are there already plans for another game? Carmack and others at id (read: Mr. Devine) have stated that the next game probably will not be an FPS (first-person shooter), but there will be a next game from all signs. "My works are like water. The works of the great masters is like wine, but everybody drinks water."
Re:TIME got its content from this CNet article
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Seems like y'all *want* Mozilla to fail.
My sentiments exactly... the TIME piece was drivel, completely uninformed and misleading, yet we have/.ers blathering about the delays and some sort of "war". Ironically, an item posted on the front page here provides a great deal of insight into why we don't have a "Netscape 5", yet, and why that is a Good Thing!
Most OSS projects could only hope to be this healthy- how many nascent OSS projects have their own 'zine in addition to the project website? Rest assured that all the detractors and nay-sayers will be the first ones extolling the virtues of the browser when it is completed.
Unlike Microsoft's ideal of the web browser as an "OS integrated" marketing tool, the Mozilla crew are building a standards compliant browser that fits into Berners-Lee's ideals, has true technical merit, and will deliver on the promises that neither of the "big browsers" delivered in the past.
The most insightful piece of that article, which I'm sure the author didn't even grasp, was referring to the Mozilla project as an OSS experiment. The lessons learned about the OSS development model in this project may have an even greater impact than the software produced. Most importantly, as others have tried to communicate, patience is key. As Nikolai Bezroukov stated, "Speed kills". I personally hope that the mainstream media believes Mozilla to be dead. Hopefully, that will ease some of the stress placed upon the core Mozilla team. I'm sure we're all glad that they dumped the old code.
Enough ranting... viva Mozilla!:)
"My works are like water. The works of the great masters is like wine, but everybody drinks water."
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First, I agree with the assertions about MM being unneccessary and in some ways detrimental to the goals of the threaded discussions here at/. I am also greatly intrigued by the proposition (though I believe it has come up before) of fractional moderation. This, in general, has the same potential effects of MM without adding further complexity to the system.
The following especially sparked my interest: On many occasions, a great off-topic discussion has been sparked by an article. This discussion either flops for being off-topic, or dies when the article expires from the main page.
I think what you are driving at here is that the discussions should be given a life of their own. I don't have access to the logs of/. but I highly suspect that there is a huge chunk of traffic to the front page that never finds its way through the Read more... links.
Having said that, I believe that the discussions are an integral part of the/. experience. I also feel that articles that generate "abnormal" amounts of comments should be "kept alive", so to speak. By this I mean that they should be readily accessible to the regular user. I'm no interface guru so I wouldn't begin to recommend how that could be accomplished.
In short, while I commend the efforts of our beloved CmdrTaco, I think it would be more fruitful to focus development efforts on extending the lifespan of worthy discussions/comments than trying to kill the lame ones. Besides, I have no problem getting the cream of the crop- threshold permanently set to 2.
"My works are like water. The works of the great masters is like wine, but everybody drinks water."
I'd like to second this sentiment. There are a couple of things that I would like to point out though. First, the URL listed for the OpenBooks section of the O'Reilly website wasn't working a moment ago (it is now, his web team probably couldn't type ln -s fast enough).
Secondly, and more importantly, I don't think we should let Tim off easy for going for the NT server solution he mentioned. After all, if everyone just followed the path of least resistance, we'd all be waiting around to be spoon fed solutions from Microsoft. Bad Tim, bad! Next time, "talk the talk".
Anyway, thanks again for the insightful answers, Tim!
"My works are like water. The works of the great masters is like wine, but everybody drinks water."
I don't mean to sound rude, but don't you think it's silly of you to ask this? There were lots of folks with questions that scored highly. In the end, it's the/. staff who pick the "winners". Besides, your claim that are "expensive" seemed acidic, which is probably why Rob didn't send 'em. "My works are like water. The works of the great masters is like wine, but everybody drinks water."
1) Someone cracked it and disable/removed the IIS_USR account (anonymous webuser) 2) Someone cracked it and changed the permissions of the site itself 3) Microsoft (out of fear of the/. effect) disabled anonymous access- so they could say that the machine was never cracked
Personally, the way they had it configured, I don't see how it could've been cracked. I doubt that there was even any trusted machines to tunnel through on that server's network.
Slashdot Mirror
The specifications imply that the only thing needed to do this would be the software. It has support for myriad broadband connections and an RJ11 telephone jack. You can also bet that they will be hooking their smart phones up to this puppy.
"My works are like water. The works of the great masters is like wine, but everybody drinks water."
Developing open source and free software is the ultimate in charity work. You get to pick what you are involved in, you can make an impact on a global scale, and your provide quality software to organizations that can't afford commercial software licenses.
If you develop open source/free software and encourage young people to learn about technology, the problems that you hope to address by volunteering will take care of themselves.
Good luck!!
"My works are like water. The works of the great masters is like wine, but everybody drinks water."
What happens when, through the use of portable recording and computing devices, individuals become capable of recording, playing back, and distributing everything they hear in its original form with minimal loss to quality and no limitation to the scale of distribution?
First, deaf prostitutes will become extremely popular in Washington, D.C. Secondly, the last shred of hope that policing the private citizenry to eliminate "unlawful" sharing of audible intellectual property will dissipate. Finally, the real money in the music industry will revert back to the people who deserve it, the performers.
When the dead weight known as the recording industry is kicked off the supply chain, music will once again become a performance art and musicians will make their money providing the visceral experience of a live performance, something which will never be replaceable by technology.
This outcome is just a shadow of things to come, it's funny how technology can cause society to revert back to things that worked when we were communities and not producers/consumers.
"My works are like water. The works of the great masters is like wine, but everybody drinks water."
Corporations are not the first organizations wherein the power and influence of the few is used to control the many. Most large religious groups are guilty of this practice and even the American government is constructed this way.
So why don't the people rise up and wrest control of their lives from the those who would dominate them? Because they like their lives. They don't want to be awakened to the reality of their existence. This was one of the major themes of The Matrix. The reason democracy works is that the people who care enough to vote decide the outcome. Most people are perfectly content to wait to see all the new fashions, who will win the next big sports championship, or who will be elected.
Let me put it this way, "small minds talk about people, average minds talk about events, and great minds talk about ideas." Start up a conversation with 10 people today. Let them lead it where they may... I would wager that at most two of those people will talk about something other than people or events.
Fret not though, for this does not diminish the importance of individualism. Part of the article's argument centered on how unfair it is that one is marginalized by corporations and other entities for being an individual... I say, "Get over it!" The truth is that your decision is to be marginalized. If you want to be called names, made fun of, jeered- be different. Is it fair? Who said life is fair? The point is if you are not strong enough to withstand the masses don't charge against them. And if you do understand it is futile unless you change the majority opinion of what makes you different. Acceptance of homosexuality has flip-flopped many times in many cultures throughout history, is it a valid choice? Of course it is, but you have to accept the baggage. If you want to have blue hair in corporate America you had better be a damn good worker and it would help if you didn't deal directly with clients. The only real way to affect change is to organize.
I'm ranting... Basically what I'm saying is that any choice is a valid choice, just take care not to get trampled by the herd. They like the stability and ease of the highly-controlled lives.
Traditional "meatspace" primary and secondary education institutions have long battled the problem of inequality. That is to say that students attending one school (traditionally urban) receive an overall inferior education to that of students attending smaller or private schools. This educational divide stems from myriad reasons, including over-crowding, under-funding, and inability to attract good teachers. Many measures have been taken to ameliorate the situation to limited success.
My question speaks to the potential parallels of these problems in online education. The most apparent of these is commonly known in the media as the "digital divide". At this time only roughly 50% of American households are currently online and the overwhelming majority of those households don't have broadband (cable, xDSL, etc.) Many educators claim that simple HTML is insufficient to provide quality education and that a very minimum some sort of voice technology in an interactive mode would be required to meet proper educational goals. Others claim a great deal of success with current technologies like message boards, email lists, and searchable online class materials.
Admittedly I am uninformed as to the mechanics that Ars Digita plans to use to reach its students and I am also aware that you have chosen to deal only with a highly selective group given overall global demographics (i.e. only post-baccalaureate candidates need apply). With all that said, I would like to ask how or if you plan on dealing with the digital divide. While this is intriguing in terms of online education, feel free to expound into others subject areas (the political process, consumerism, etc.).
If we think of this in terms of a paradigm shift from 2D GUI (a la KDE/GNOME) to a 3D one, this concept becomes much more feasible. Replace the current file system explorer with a map within the 3D space, replace the GTK+ with an entity toolkit for creating app interfaces in the 3D space, replace desktop shortcuts with an "inventory", create application interfaces that are accessible within the 3D space (inventory shortcuts and object in rooms (aka folders)), stir mix and enjoy.
Imagine a telnet application like this- select it from your inventory; a console of sorts popups in your HUD (heads up display) with fields for hostname/IP addy, password, etc.; click the connect button and the console drops out and a portal appears before you; walk through and you are in the 3D space of a remote machine.
The only real things on the internet are files, connections, and processes- representing these in a 3D space is not only possible, but realistic.
Detractors of this concept will have similar arguments as the GUIs-suck-command-line-rules crowd. Once we make it possible to interact with computers in a 3D space we will see the same explosion in usability (and coolness) that we saw with the genesis of the 2D GUI.
Is this a cool time to be alive or what?
I think the major online music portals are of course going to "screw the artist". That attitude is a natural extension of the blatant commercialism that these companies must exhibit in order to satisfy their investors. When a common goes public the ethics/motives of the investors supplant those of the founders. Let's just hope that doesn't happen to /. someday. (Though some might argue it has already)
Anyway, if you are looking for a great indie "label" where the artists are the MAIN attraction, check out NoType
How about this- combine the ball bearings idea with a motion sensor.
After the user dons specially outfitted "booties" containing sensors and soles designed for walking on bearings, they step into the ring and onto a bed of ball bearings. The bearings sole purpose is to facilitate walking in place, while the booties transmit their signals to the surrounding receptor equipment which encompasses the ring.
The receptor equipment feeds into a system which uses the data to triangulate the location of the feet- sampling as often as is necessary to simulate smooth walking/running. All processed in real-time...
Does that make sense?
This is not the case with Microsoft. They are guilty of _lowering_ prices so as to cut out competitors, insofar as to give away their products. The primary mode of delivery of their product(s), through PC OEM channels, is owned by other companies. Certainly those OEMs have experienced some anti-competitive tactics of Microsoft, but they still own those channels. These are not common themes of monopolies. Standard Oil owned every step of the process from the oil fields to your doorstep. IBM and Ma Bell controlled/raised prices.
The monopoly that Microsoft enjoys is a monopoly of consumer mindshare! Most consumers believe that Microsoft Windows _is_ computers.
Microsoft's share price hasn't been hit nearly as hard as one would have expected by the findings of fact announcement. My belief is that current laws do not take into account the current market. When anti-trust law was formulated a business model like Microsoft's wasn't possible. How can outmoded laws hope to curb anti-competitve practices of such a company?
Here are some of the proposals:
- Break up the company- What does this accomplish? Does it reduce the barrier to entry for any of the markets which Microsoft dominates?
- Force Microsoft to port their software to other platforms- Here's a slippery slope. Microsoft ports their software roughshod resulting in more demand for Windows because their software doesn't run well on anything else.
- The list goes on...
My question to the panel is simply this- If/When Microsoft is found guilty of anti-trust violations, what actions could feasibly be taken that would effectively allow for sustained competition in the respective markets without destroying Microsoft outright? In my estimation the crux of this question is- how do you anti-monopolize mindshare?Thanks, Is0t0pe
"My works are like water. The works of the great masters is like wine, but everybody drinks water."
Exactly, TNT=TwiN Texel pipeline, GeForce = quad texel pipeline...
"My works are like water. The works of the great masters is like wine, but everybody drinks water."
Quake was one of the earliest examples of a commercial software house doing open development. By allowing the general public to create mods and to pass them around freely on the internet, Quake created a worldwide community of users/advocates/junkies. In a sense, this is why Microsoft has spent so much effort developing Visual Studio and various APIs. This trend toward catering to your most important, affluent customers is evident in many successful companies. As Kevin Kelly says, "in the network (new) economy, the companies with the smartest customers win."
Linux empowers users with increased uptime and stability, available source code, and Unix-style functionality (not to mention zero cost). It is obvious that these qualities are most important to sysadmins, hackers, and old school programmers. These qualities do not appeal to the unwashed masses- and certainly do not outweigh the difficulty of use to these folks.
What are some things the Linux community can do to create an environment that empowers the Windows API junkies and clueless masses?
"My works are like water. The works of the great masters is like wine, but everybody drinks water."
What are you favourite programming books?
"My works are like water. The works of the great masters is like wine, but everybody drinks water."
You've stated in the past that you're developing Q3:A on NT because you want to use MS Visual C++.
:)
Have you tried KDevelop or any of the other Linux GUI IDEs? What is your opinion of these IDEs? What do you think could be done to make them better for developers?
CVS vs. Visual Source Safe?
Aren't you sick of NT crashing on you?
"My works are like water. The works of the great masters is like wine, but everybody drinks water."
In the past, you've stated that you had a good deal of technical respect for Linux.
Technically, what changes need to be made to Linux to make it the fastest PC gaming platform available to developers? Where do the bottlenecks exist? Mesa? The kernel?
"My works are like water. The works of the great masters is like wine, but everybody drinks water."
/. killed my HTML formatting... here goes again. This is obviously "redundant" but it is worthwhile, I think.
:) /. to send him some questions that have been asked of him a million times. Hopefully others will follow suit, and the moderators will notice and not mark these questions up.
I just wanted to help out by giving the answers to some previously answered questions.
I read through some of the more highly-moderated questions for things that I, through various Carmack interviews, already knew. I would hate for
You just recently GPLed Doom. Thanks a million for that. Do you have plans to GPL any of your other titles?
When the last Quake licensee finishes their title (*cough* ION Storm), Carmack has stated he will release the source of Quake. I'm not certain if he'll GPL it or not, but the source will be available.
Are you guys thinking of doing a something besides first person shooters?
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Assuming Q3:A isn't the last game you make will the next game be another FPS? Or do you see ID branching into other game types? Are there already plans for another game?
Carmack and others at id (read: Mr. Devine) have stated that the next game probably will not be an FPS (first-person shooter), but there will be a next game from all signs.
"My works are like water. The works of the great masters is like wine, but everybody drinks water."
I just wanted to help out by giving the answers to some previously answered questions. :) I read through some of the more highly-moderated questions for things that I, through various Carmack interviews, already knew. I would hate for /. to send him some questions that have been asked of him a million times. Hopefully others will follow suit, and the moderators will notice and not mark these questions up. You just recently GPLed Doom. Thanks a million for that. Do you have plans to GPL any of your other titles? When the last Quake licensee finishes their title (*cough* ION Storm), Carmack has stated he will release the source of Quake. I'm not certain if he'll GPL it or not, but the source will be available. Are you guys thinking of doing a something besides first person shooters? Assuming Q3:A isn't the last game you make will the next game be another FPS? Or do you see ID branching into other game types? Are there already plans for another game? Carmack and others at id (read: Mr. Devine) have stated that the next game probably will not be an FPS (first-person shooter), but there will be a next game from all signs.
"My works are like water. The works of the great masters is like wine, but everybody drinks water."
Seems like y'all *want* Mozilla to fail.
/.ers blathering about the delays and some sort of "war". Ironically, an item posted on the front page here provides a great deal of insight into why we don't have a "Netscape 5", yet, and why that is a Good Thing!
:)
My sentiments exactly... the TIME piece was drivel, completely uninformed and misleading, yet we have
Most OSS projects could only hope to be this healthy- how many nascent OSS projects have their own 'zine in addition to the project website? Rest assured that all the detractors and nay-sayers will be the first ones extolling the virtues of the browser when it is completed.
Unlike Microsoft's ideal of the web browser as an "OS integrated" marketing tool, the Mozilla crew are building a standards compliant browser that fits into Berners-Lee's ideals, has true technical merit, and will deliver on the promises that neither of the "big browsers" delivered in the past.
The most insightful piece of that article, which I'm sure the author didn't even grasp, was referring to the Mozilla project as an OSS experiment. The lessons learned about the OSS development model in this project may have an even greater impact than the software produced. Most importantly, as others have tried to communicate, patience is key. As Nikolai Bezroukov stated, "Speed kills". I personally hope that the mainstream media believes Mozilla to be dead. Hopefully, that will ease some of the stress placed upon the core Mozilla team. I'm sure we're all glad that they dumped the old code.
Enough ranting... viva Mozilla!
"My works are like water. The works of the great masters is like wine, but everybody drinks water."
First, I agree with the assertions about MM being unneccessary and in some ways detrimental to the goals of the threaded discussions here at /. I am also greatly intrigued by the proposition (though I believe it has come up before) of fractional moderation. This, in general, has the same potential effects of MM without adding further complexity to the system.
/. but I highly suspect that there is a huge chunk of traffic to the front page that never finds its way through the Read more... links.
/. experience. I also feel that articles that generate "abnormal" amounts of comments should be "kept alive", so to speak. By this I mean that they should be readily accessible to the regular user. I'm no interface guru so I wouldn't begin to recommend how that could be accomplished.
The following especially sparked my interest:
On many occasions, a great off-topic discussion has been sparked by an article. This discussion either flops for being off-topic, or dies when the article expires from the main page.
I think what you are driving at here is that the discussions should be given a life of their own. I don't have access to the logs of
Having said that, I believe that the discussions are an integral part of the
In short, while I commend the efforts of our beloved CmdrTaco, I think it would be more fruitful to focus development efforts on extending the lifespan of worthy discussions/comments than trying to kill the lame ones. Besides, I have no problem getting the cream of the crop- threshold permanently set to 2.
"My works are like water. The works of the great masters is like wine, but everybody drinks water."
I'd like to second this sentiment.
There are a couple of things that I would
like to point out though. First, the URL
listed for the OpenBooks section of the
O'Reilly website wasn't working a moment ago
(it is now, his web team probably couldn't
type ln -s fast enough).
Secondly, and more importantly, I don't think
we should let Tim off easy for going for the
NT server solution he mentioned. After all,
if everyone just followed the path of least
resistance, we'd all be waiting around to be
spoon fed solutions from Microsoft. Bad Tim,
bad! Next time, "talk the talk".
Anyway, thanks again for the insightful answers, Tim!
"My works are like water. The works of the great masters is like wine, but everybody drinks water."
I don't mean to sound rude, but don't you think it's silly of you to ask this? There were lots of folks with questions that scored highly. In the end, it's the /. staff who pick the "winners". Besides, your claim that are "expensive" seemed acidic, which is probably why Rob didn't send 'em.
"My works are like water. The works of the great masters is like wine, but everybody drinks water."
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There are a few possibilities:
/. effect) disabled anonymous access- so they could say that the machine was never cracked
1) Someone cracked it and disable/removed the IIS_USR account (anonymous webuser)
2) Someone cracked it and changed the permissions of the site itself
3) Microsoft (out of fear of the
Personally, the way they had it configured, I don't see how it could've been cracked. I doubt that there was even any trusted machines to tunnel through on that server's network.
So I vote for 3. Anyone else have any ideas?
Actually, I did (but I had it refresh to the
:)
... :(
same page)...
Someone else was slick enough to use javascript's
"location.replace" function to ship us to
debian I think... almost like you were never there.
But then they changed the code to check for ""