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I'm sorry you don't see the fun in it. My suggestion to you would be, bluntly, to lighten up a little. Journals are as open to the world or as closed to it as you want. You can make them accessible to everyone, you can make them accessible only to yourself. Password protect them if you want, and only give the pw to your friends. If you're afraid of people knowing too much, don't write too much.
I'm not saying you should start a journal. It doesn't sound like you'd have very much fun with it. But don't suggest it's a waste of time. Slashdot, arguably, is a waste of time. That rant of yours, arguably, is a waste of time. No one is forcing their opinions on you unless you decide to read their opinions.
And as for "plagarism" who cares! It's a diary! I hope someone would quote me if they used my writing, but more than anything else, I'd be flattered that they thought it was good.
Jon Katz writes to an audience, so I can see how some of your claims make sense with him. But the nice thing about slashdot is it allows you to turn off Jon Katz, which I have. Don't bemoan free expression. Not even stupid free expression. Do what I do. Ignore it.
If you're looking for some interesting reading, or maybe even a diary of your own, check out Diaryland. It is no surprise that you can have hours and hours of deep insight into the lives of tens, if not hundreds of people you will never want to meet. However, there are a few beacons out there. I ran into this one a while back. She's funny, interesting, and she has a consistent style. I ran into the site totally on accident, and it inspired me to start my own diary(My sig).
Go start one today. Maybe no one is reading. Who cares? Dead tree journals are all right, but if nothing else, you can atleast html format one of these babies. Spill your guts. Or better yet, lie! Have fun and good writing.
In a groundbreaking engagement today that has left many constitution signers spinning in their graves, Apple has finally stopped beating around the bush and patented style.
The patent reads as follows:
Systems and methods for providing a user with increased flexibility and control over the appearance and behavior of objects on a user interface are described. Sets of objects(read: clothes, accessories) can be grouped into themes to provide a user with a distinct overall impression of the interface. These themes can be invoked by calling a corresponding theme engine(read: wife, girlfriend, mother). Theme engines can be hard-coded(naturally stylish) or data-driven(Cosmopolitan, GQ).
Carrot Top was among the many celebrities concerned about this patenet and was, astonishingly, available for comment. "Oh man, I just made a milkshake machine out of a remote control submarine and a spatoon! That's got style, right? Right guys? Oh man, they better not try to patent this bad boy! I've got prior art, and it tasted like crap! Man, if they sue me, I'll finally get a spot on Extra or ET again like the one I got for beating the boy out of Gary Coleman!"
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- A giant balloon, which scientists hope will usher in a new age of near space research by riding on the edge of the Earth's atmosphere, took off Sunday after a two-month delay.
"Everybody's a bit relieved," said Garry Woods, the acting launch station director.
Especially relieved was the crew of technicians, 400 strong, who could finally relax.
"We had quite a time of it," said Binky, the team director. "There was a lot of controversy at first, as to what shape the giant balloon would be in. Garry was originally inclined to go with a weiner dog, because he thought it would be most aerodynamic. But we managed to talk him out of. He just didn't understand at first that that particular balloon animal simply didn't scale well. Giggles was the one that had the bright idea of suggesting the ellipse shape, which everyone seemed to like."
Before the clowns finally hopped into their tiny car the launch site, the were nice enough to stop to answer a few questions. Asked what was the hardest part of the process, a short, green wigged clown smoking a cigarette stated simply: "blowing the goddamn thing up. I need a beer."
Why can't I get quake3 on floppy anymore? Oh yeah, because it would cost too much to ship a box with that many damn disks.
The fact is, I'm kind of glad that these games don't really work well with modem connections because it increases the demand for bandwidth in the home market, something I'm all for. It's obvious that modems aren't going to cut it for even the more mundane functions of the internet soon (if this isn't true already). I'd say it's better to expect more from the bandwidth providers than it is to expect less (read: games that require less information passed around) from the gaming industry.
I know not having a fast connection is frustrating. I spend my summers away from school and wish we had cable. I think this is good though, because I know, despite what anyone says, that kids (oh yeah, and adults) who want computer games to run fast are the people who really drive the hardware end of the home computing market.
A gamete delivery architecture dynamically generates a Salene-Propelled Unique NooKie locator (spunk) to distribute information. Each private spunk uniquely identifies an intended recipient of a spunk, the spunk or set of spunks to be delivered, and (optionally) other parameters specific to the delivery process. The intended recipient of a spunk uses the spunk(Base1) with its existing data base(Base2). The server, upon retrieval of the spunk, customizes the behavior of the Base1 And Base2 Yield (baby) based upon attributes included in the spunk, as well as log information associated with the retrieval in a data base(Base2). This architecture and usage of spunks enables secure spunk delivery and tracking of spunk germination.
1. A spunk delivery system for delivering one or more(!) spunks between a sender and at least(!) one recipient, said system comprising:
* a Server CReation and OpTimization Unit-Machine (SCROTUM) that temporarily stores said spunks, wherein said server generates a spunk for each intended recipient of said spunks, the spunk unique to each recipient, and sends each of the spunks to each respective intended recipient.
If you just do a search on for patents on google, there's a link to a place that supposedly contains "the only large database in the galaxy, with information on over: 15,000 computer programs available in source code form, 50,000 software patents, and 800,000 abstracts to algorithms and software technology reports and articles. These software resources are the output of hundreds of government, academic and corporate facilities, not only in the United States, but also from foreign facilities. Our database has been under private development for eight years."
Not that it's needed in this case, but apparently for $400 bucks, they'll do a search for prior art.
"In these sources, many forms of prior art/reusable software components are searched for: source code listings to a program, pointer to where source code can be obtained, a pointer to where object libraries are located, moderately decomposed structural configuration for a computer program, pseudo-code description of a computer algorithm, and the claims to a software patent." It looks like they look through a lot of different kinds of material: "We check many sources, including government/university/corporate technical reports, journal articles, university theses, published books, commercial products (source code and object libraries), programs posted to/announced on the Internet, programs posted to standalone bulletin board systems, collections of software distributed as libraries on CDROMs, and existing software patents. Over 150 government/university/corporate facilities and over 240 journals are tracked." As I say, it's probably not need in this case, considering just how much prior art there is for these URLs, but in the future, someone should really make use of this database if stuff like this is ever in question.
Speaking of prior art... did any of you notice that URL I used to link to google?
RMS, but, of all the bleeding edge (and I mean political here) zealots you could have, this man is wonderfully articulate. He takes a lot of guff for his opinions, but if nothing else, he sure expresses them well.
Wow, I'm not sure how this got pegged as a troll. It was supposed to be funny. Sorry if I contaminated the screenwaves. That goes for the other one too. That was just slashdot not reloading when I clicked the button.
Yes, thanks. Some necessary perspective most appreciated. I guess what I meant is that you could have it however you want it. There'e the customization/optimization of a computer. Oh yeah, and I can't jet across the country in real time to hang out with my old friends. It would be kind of nice to actually see them once in a while.
Doesn't the idea of being able to make anything you ever wanted (besides, like, uh... valuable human relationships) out of thin air? Isn't that at all tantilizing? Not to spend your life in, but to experience every once in a while.
After reading "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson, I've just been waiting for a widely used real-time, virtual arena where individuals can actually interact in ways other than murdering one another with railguns. I could really see something like this coming out of a networked arcade. It's got big, expensive, custom hardware, cashing pouring in, and just the kind of people who would throw their money at really cool, but presently uneconomical eye candy. Arcades are a great place for murdering others, but I think all this hardware has potential for even more. If you think about it, we can't really even talk to each other in these games without disabling movement (since you need hands to steer).
I'd love to see an environment that actually is a world... a place where people can actually talk with each other by talking, or even smiling, and frowning, and gesturing, instead of typing. Arcades are just the place to get into this type of technology. Think about it. The nice thing about having public terminals is that lots of people are using the same gear and they're all paying to use it at different times. Because of this, the hardware can be way more expensive and therefore way cooler. What I'm wondering is whether anyone realizes the potential for an actual world, with actual people, rather than just musclebound, guntoting automatons. Imagine stepping into a booth, putting on a headset, and opening your eyes to an artifical, yet somehow real digital world, where you can actually meet people on the other side of the world, rather than just passing back and forth colorless messages in a terminal window...
As a quite young man sits at the defendent's table waiting for the trial to begin, a representative from the AAAS hurriedly pushes past the flock of reporters to bring in their appointed expert witness.
Judge: Is this our expert witness?
AAAS: It is, your honor.
Judge: Please approach the bench, and state your name, for the court's records.
Hey. This isn't a insult, flame, or personal attack. Please don't read it as such.
Why are geeks so into cartoons? I'm down with watching Akira as much as the next guy but I still don't understand the correlation. It reminds me of one of those SAT analogy tests.
I'm totally psyched about the prospect of killing the animated gifs. They're a serious hassle whenever I'm SSHed(Or whatever the hell I'm supposed to call it now... I use OpenSSH) into some box running mozilla remotely. They're a pointless waste of bandwidth for remote X login and not pretty enough to be useful in any cases I can think of other than, just possibly, porn. But even in the latter case, their sole purpose is to provide that sleazy sense of tactless production one comes to expect from all forms of adult entertainment.
How is access to information about the ISP going to be of any use if these guys are using anonymous remailers or even hotmail? How about hushmail? If these guys are using P2P encrypted anonymous email accounts to trade illegal materials, ISP information isn't really going to be of much use, is it?
I mean, good luck catching the people making ISP. I'm all for punishing child abusers, but this just isn't a very effective way of doing it.
It's good to hear your input. Check out my response to DoorFrame. Thanks very much for the additional information. I'll take a look at it as soon as I can get a hold of it. I'm doubtful, but we'll see if Mark Turner and Ortony can change my mind.
I see your point. I guess what I was trying to get at was this: if you're trying to figure out what's actually going on, simply replacing one metaphor with another isn't enough. You need to stop and consider what other affects a metaphor is having. Is your metaphor implying additional similarities beyond the one that is obvious both to the writer and the reader? If so, have you taken that into account and tried to dispell the myth that those additional similarities have the same validity of the first one?
I don't really expect to do away with metaphors. I agree with you, they really are useful. But of the 4 choices, (unconscious incompitence, conscious incompitence, conscious compitence, and unconscious compitence) I'd take the second over the first. You need to recognize when an argument may be misleading to you or you're probably getting your head messed with in the worst way.
That's a very interesting comment. I don't really have anything insightful to add. I just wanted to say thanks. I hadn't considered the distinction you made.
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I'm sorry you don't see the fun in it. My suggestion to you would be, bluntly, to lighten up a little. Journals are as open to the world or as closed to it as you want. You can make them accessible to everyone, you can make them accessible only to yourself. Password protect them if you want, and only give the pw to your friends. If you're afraid of people knowing too much, don't write too much.
I'm not saying you should start a journal. It doesn't sound like you'd have very much fun with it. But don't suggest it's a waste of time. Slashdot, arguably, is a waste of time. That rant of yours, arguably, is a waste of time. No one is forcing their opinions on you unless you decide to read their opinions.
And as for "plagarism" who cares! It's a diary! I hope someone would quote me if they used my writing, but more than anything else, I'd be flattered that they thought it was good.
Jon Katz writes to an audience, so I can see how some of your claims make sense with him. But the nice thing about slashdot is it allows you to turn off Jon Katz, which I have. Don't bemoan free expression. Not even stupid free expression. Do what I do. Ignore it.
If you're looking for some interesting reading, or maybe even a diary of your own, check out Diaryland. It is no surprise that you can have hours and hours of deep insight into the lives of tens, if not hundreds of people you will never want to meet. However, there are a few beacons out there. I ran into this one a while back. She's funny, interesting, and she has a consistent style. I ran into the site totally on accident, and it inspired me to start my own diary(My sig).
Go start one today. Maybe no one is reading. Who cares? Dead tree journals are all right, but if nothing else, you can atleast html format one of these babies. Spill your guts. Or better yet, lie! Have fun and good writing.
--Raymond Stray
In a groundbreaking engagement today that has left many constitution signers spinning in their graves, Apple has finally stopped beating around the bush and patented style.
The patent reads as follows:
Systems and methods for providing a user with increased flexibility and control over the appearance and behavior of objects on a user interface are described. Sets of objects(read: clothes, accessories) can be grouped into themes to provide a user with a distinct overall impression of the interface. These themes can be invoked by calling a corresponding theme engine(read: wife, girlfriend, mother). Theme engines can be hard-coded(naturally stylish) or data-driven(Cosmopolitan, GQ).
Carrot Top was among the many celebrities concerned about this patenet and was, astonishingly, available for comment. "Oh man, I just made a milkshake machine out of a remote control submarine and a spatoon! That's got style, right? Right guys? Oh man, they better not try to patent this bad boy! I've got prior art, and it tasted like crap! Man, if they sue me, I'll finally get a spot on Extra or ET again like the one I got for beating the boy out of Gary Coleman!"
sorry about posting this to the wrong place. I don't know what happened.
February 24, 2001
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- A giant balloon, which scientists hope will usher in a new age of near space research by riding on the edge of the Earth's atmosphere, took off Sunday after a two-month delay.
"Everybody's a bit relieved," said Garry Woods, the acting launch station director.
Especially relieved was the crew of technicians, 400 strong, who could finally relax.
"We had quite a time of it," said Binky, the team director. "There was a lot of controversy at first, as to what shape the giant balloon would be in. Garry was originally inclined to go with a weiner dog, because he thought it would be most aerodynamic. But we managed to talk him out of. He just didn't understand at first that that particular balloon animal simply didn't scale well. Giggles was the one that had the bright idea of suggesting the ellipse shape, which everyone seemed to like."
Before the clowns finally hopped into their tiny car the launch site, the were nice enough to stop to answer a few questions. Asked what was the hardest part of the process, a short, green wigged clown smoking a cigarette stated simply: "blowing the goddamn thing up. I need a beer."
Why can't I get quake3 on floppy anymore? Oh yeah, because it would cost too much to ship a box with that many damn disks.
The fact is, I'm kind of glad that these games don't really work well with modem connections because it increases the demand for bandwidth in the home market, something I'm all for. It's obvious that modems aren't going to cut it for even the more mundane functions of the internet soon (if this isn't true already). I'd say it's better to expect more from the bandwidth providers than it is to expect less (read: games that require less information passed around) from the gaming industry.
I know not having a fast connection is frustrating. I spend my summers away from school and wish we had cable. I think this is good though, because I know, despite what anyone says, that kids (oh yeah, and adults) who want computer games to run fast are the people who really drive the hardware end of the home computing market.
Pish-posh! persons pressing puns painstakingly perplex potential Petrified Portman posters.
"This is actually fairly old, but its a nice slow friday. Personally I'm resolving this by re-reading every Penny Arcade."
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PennyArcade is great. here's the code to stick it in your slashbox:
<A href=http://penny-arcade.com/view.php3> <IMG src="http://a332.g.akamai.net/7/332/493/v1/www.pe
And in case you live in a box (albiet one with an internet connection), go check out the onion, at http://theonion.com. It's hilarious.
And if you want to stick it in your user defined slashbox:
<A href=http://theonion.com><IMG src="http://graphics.theonion.com/universal_pics/
Forget that. I've got my own Patent.
A gamete delivery architecture dynamically generates a Salene-Propelled Unique NooKie locator (spunk) to distribute information. Each private spunk uniquely identifies an intended recipient of a spunk, the spunk or set of spunks to be delivered, and (optionally) other parameters specific to the delivery process. The intended recipient of a spunk uses the spunk(Base1) with its existing data base(Base2). The server, upon retrieval of the spunk, customizes the behavior of the Base1 And Base2 Yield (baby) based upon attributes included in the spunk, as well as log information associated with the retrieval in a data base(Base2). This architecture and usage of spunks enables secure spunk delivery and tracking of spunk germination.
1. A spunk delivery system for delivering one or more(!) spunks between a sender and at least(!) one recipient, said system comprising:
* a Server CReation and OpTimization Unit-Machine (SCROTUM) that temporarily stores said spunks, wherein said server generates a spunk for each intended recipient of said spunks, the spunk unique to each recipient, and sends each of the spunks to each respective intended recipient.
Read my diary.
If you just do a search on for patents on google, there's a link to a place that supposedly contains "the only large database in the galaxy, with information on over: 15,000 computer programs available in source code form, 50,000 software patents, and 800,000 abstracts to algorithms and software technology reports and articles. These software resources are the output of hundreds of government, academic and corporate facilities, not only in the United States, but also from foreign facilities. Our database has been under private development for eight years."
Not that it's needed in this case, but apparently for $400 bucks, they'll do a search for prior art.
"In these sources, many forms of prior art/reusable software components are searched for: source code listings to a program, pointer to where source code can be obtained, a pointer to where object libraries are located, moderately decomposed structural configuration for a computer program, pseudo-code description of a computer algorithm, and the claims to a software patent." It looks like they look through a lot of different kinds of material: "We check many sources, including government/university/corporate technical reports, journal articles, university theses, published books, commercial products (source code and object libraries), programs posted to/announced on the Internet, programs posted to standalone bulletin board systems, collections of software distributed as libraries on CDROMs, and existing software patents. Over 150 government/university/corporate facilities and over 240 journals are tracked." As I say, it's probably not need in this case, considering just how much prior art there is for these URLs, but in the future, someone should really make use of this database if stuff like this is ever in question.
Speaking of prior art... did any of you notice that URL I used to link to google?
RMS, but, of all the bleeding edge (and I mean political here) zealots you could have, this man is wonderfully articulate. He takes a lot of guff for his opinions, but if nothing else, he sure expresses them well.
Read my diary.
Wow, I'm not sure how this got pegged as a troll. It was supposed to be funny. Sorry if I contaminated the screenwaves. That goes for the other one too. That was just slashdot not reloading when I clicked the button.
Oh.
Wait.
Check out my diary.
Try this link or this link istead...
Read my diary.
Yes, thanks. Some necessary perspective most appreciated. I guess what I meant is that you could have it however you want it. There'e the customization/optimization of a computer. Oh yeah, and I can't jet across the country in real time to hang out with my old friends. It would be kind of nice to actually see them once in a while.
Doesn't the idea of being able to make anything you ever wanted (besides, like, uh... valuable human relationships) out of thin air? Isn't that at all tantilizing? Not to spend your life in, but to experience every once in a while.
After reading "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson, I've just been waiting for a widely used real-time, virtual arena where individuals can actually interact in ways other than murdering one another with railguns. I could really see something like this coming out of a networked arcade. It's got big, expensive, custom hardware, cashing pouring in, and just the kind of people who would throw their money at really cool, but presently uneconomical eye candy. Arcades are a great place for murdering others, but I think all this hardware has potential for even more. If you think about it, we can't really even talk to each other in these games without disabling movement (since you need hands to steer).
I'd love to see an environment that actually is a world... a place where people can actually talk with each other by talking, or even smiling, and frowning, and gesturing, instead of typing. Arcades are just the place to get into this type of technology. Think about it. The nice thing about having public terminals is that lots of people are using the same gear and they're all paying to use it at different times. Because of this, the hardware can be way more expensive and therefore way cooler. What I'm wondering is whether anyone realizes the potential for an actual world, with actual people, rather than just musclebound, guntoting automatons. Imagine stepping into a booth, putting on a headset, and opening your eyes to an artifical, yet somehow real digital world, where you can actually meet people on the other side of the world, rather than just passing back and forth colorless messages in a terminal window...
As a quite young man sits at the defendent's table waiting for the trial to begin, a representative from the AAAS hurriedly pushes past the flock of reporters to bring in their appointed expert witness.
/\r3 1337!!!!!
Judge: Is this our expert witness?
AAAS: It is, your honor.
Judge: Please approach the bench, and state your name, for the court's records.
Expert Witness: 1 0w(\)z Jo0! (v)y Hax0r 5Ty]_3z
Judge: Umm... court reporter, did you, uh, did you get that?... Court Reporter?
Court Reporter: (looking at stenographic machine) Umm.... I don't think I have a "]_" on this thing. You know what? I'll just use a pen.
Check out my diary.
Hey. This isn't a insult, flame, or personal attack. Please don't read it as such.
Why are geeks so into cartoons? I'm down with watching Akira as much as the next guy but I still don't understand the correlation. It reminds me of one of those SAT analogy tests.
Geeks are to toons as
Kids:Icecream
Signal11:flames
KDE:GTK
Fratboys:football
Discuss.
I'm totally psyched about the prospect of killing the animated gifs. They're a serious hassle whenever I'm SSHed(Or whatever the hell I'm supposed to call it now... I use OpenSSH) into some box running mozilla remotely. They're a pointless waste of bandwidth for remote X login and not pretty enough to be useful in any cases I can think of other than, just possibly, porn. But even in the latter case, their sole purpose is to provide that sleazy sense of tactless production one comes to expect from all forms of adult entertainment.
Good riddance and good night.
mod this guy up.
He's right. It's an important distinction.
Geez... third mention of ISP == child porn. What a goof. Could be a freudian slip, but I seriously dout it.
it isn't going to do any good anyway.
How is access to information about the ISP going to be of any use if these guys are using anonymous remailers or even hotmail? How about hushmail? If these guys are using P2P encrypted anonymous email accounts to trade illegal materials, ISP information isn't really going to be of much use, is it?
I mean, good luck catching the people making ISP. I'm all for punishing child abusers, but this just isn't a very effective way of doing it.
It's good to hear your input. Check out my response to DoorFrame. Thanks very much for the additional information. I'll take a look at it as soon as I can get a hold of it. I'm doubtful, but we'll see if Mark Turner and Ortony can change my mind.
-- PhatKat
I see your point. I guess what I was trying to get at was this: if you're trying to figure out what's actually going on, simply replacing one metaphor with another isn't enough. You need to stop and consider what other affects a metaphor is having. Is your metaphor implying additional similarities beyond the one that is obvious both to the writer and the reader? If so, have you taken that into account and tried to dispell the myth that those additional similarities have the same validity of the first one?
I don't really expect to do away with metaphors. I agree with you, they really are useful. But of the 4 choices, (unconscious incompitence, conscious incompitence, conscious compitence, and unconscious compitence) I'd take the second over the first. You need to recognize when an argument may be misleading to you or you're probably getting your head messed with in the worst way.
That's a very interesting comment. I don't really have anything insightful to add. I just wanted to say thanks. I hadn't considered the distinction you made.
--PhatKat