Number of people i _personally_ know who use ICQ: pretty much everyone. Number of people i _personally_ know who use something else than ICQ: pretty much noone.
Here in Czechia, ICQ is simply THE im to use.
IT just makes no sense to register on something else when you know you wont be able to talk to anyone. And it makes no sense to switch if majority does no switch with you.
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In the end stuff like aim or messenger have exaclty same type of bloat (sometimes even more anoying than icq bloat) and zero killer features.
Wont work, coprorations will just use white horses to do punishable decidions.
since i dont know if white horse is right idiom for this i will explain:
Company intentionally hires naive, power hungry or just plain stupid person and gives him major post somewhere... even add him to board of directors. He wont have any reall power (so he wont fuck company up with his own bad decidions), instead he will be used to authorize questionable and dangerous deciditions that company wants to make (i.e. "friend" will hive him tip for something great to suggest to help his career or he will just be given documents to sign). If he wont cooperate, he is quickly replaced.
Later, when this decidion backfires, our White Horse is one to take blame and jail time. Person who really made decidion is untouchable by law.
artifacts would be designed to make the process of accessing the information clear with instructions in multiple languages or hieroglyphics. Hieroglyph of futureman booting vista. Hireroglyph of futureman accessing eshop where he can buy rights to view artifact information. Futureman angry about 'play once secure feature (customer first!), that destroy artefact after one view.' Futureman using google. Futureman downloading linux and artefact-rip. Futureman enjoying better part of 21st centruty pornograhpy.
Once created public game, and srated unloading everything i had, after eahc unload, character got deleted. It took me 1/2 hour to drop all mules:-), it was proprably one of best feelings I had... But again, game just got boring
Anyway, if I was to help out someone:
1) Try to sabotage their gaming evening... by sabotage i DO mean: power blackout, internet connection interuption. Or getting em banned from game (even if it means lying to customer support, or getting time alone with their comp and instaling easily detectable hack), or steal/reset game password.
ANYTHING that will make it IMPOSSIBLE to play for some period will do.
Idea is to get him withdrawal period that will last long enough to force him to find any substitution (be it reading, other game, porn watching). Thet will mess up with his recieving pleasure from game (alternative sources...).
With luck, re-discovering substitutes will make him see that there is other stuff worth doing that is not necesarily desctructive, nor time consuming, but still FUN. With "new stuff" comes boredness of old stuff, and soon enough he will realize that game got repetitive and boring, and there are better stimuli aviable (and more varied ones).
It will be several "interupts" needed, it might take some time. (And, he should never find out you did it:-))
In fact, this works for internet addiction, general game addiction, too. Make it boring and unsatysfiing for him, make game frustrating and hes out.
Thats why eMule (THE ed2k client i might add) had Kademlia (decentralized ed2k-kinda-combatible network) running paralel to server network for quite a time...
Its explained there quite neatly. Smart people make nonsmarts feel uneasy and jelaous, and if majority feels bad, you have problem. Easy solution is to detect smarties and run them though comforming process, remove mental stimula, average em with rest of class.
After all, everything we really needed was developed, there is no longer need for smart people:
TV works flawlessly in controling thoughts of general population, it replaced (or complemented religion) US already has Ultimate weapons (nukies), and is far away from rest of world. Internet? Behold as once free-idea-market turns to strictly DRMed/Trusted comercial distribution/comunication network.
(Do you know that schools in my country had quota for smart people in comunist era? they HAD to produce certain amount of manual workers, clerks, etc..., if someone was bright but his origin were not from loyal population, he still became manual worker in factory, if there were too many bright kids, some got special attention (smaalish problems with, i.e. beauty of their handwriting were exagorated, they got dyslexia mark on papers, then they were forced to endure special lessons on writing, with the really stupid ones, always remided that they are too stupid.) Yes, im not making it up. Yes, it happened to me and my brothers.(thank god it didnt break us:) )
and oh, yeah.. it made me think of Farenheit 451 (the book), where every book was banned, because there was always someone who would object to it contents or get hurt by it or so...
Hmmm... not everywhere in europe. In my area (Czech repubicl) Everyone uses ICQ, and it kind of out-of-question to use anything else, I've met only one person that used MSN messer, and he made quick switch afret realizing that noone else is using it.
As zou say, it would be wisest for google to use free protocol (Jabber) with multi-network client (so its would be easy to break addiction to other networks)
But there will be problem in server-stranlation of protocol and multiprotocol client - i seiously dount. that owners of MSNM, ICQ and AIM will let google do it, because it will make them loose valuable advertizing space and visible brand.
Yeah, point is that bitzi is not tied to specifical network, protocol or client and it is free and easy to implement its support.
Too bad that not that many people use it...
Credence is simply not needed and fro what i read it is still rpone to false rating abuse (spammers will simply have to vote fro good files sometimes to get their trustworthyness to decent level, or they simply can flood network sp that cood votes will be minority)
Yes, they are THE enemy, but why should i or someone else live in shaddow of fear because of them? Why make useless getures afout security when it only limits normal people and not those which they are designed against.
BTW: Sadly, i remeber comunists, for what i know current western democracy is making huge leaps towards being regimes which i experienced, and all of it in name of freedom and security (just like nacis did in name of order and security and comunits in name of equality and security)...
Some attack in Tube with relativelly small body count (more people die from traffic accidents daily in UK), and soon we have detectors while entering it, population is RFIDed, (There were already microphones and cameras in london on every step and it obviously didnt help a bit.)
All security "measures" simply dont work against determined attacker, they only bring discomfort and fear to normal people.
Yep, people are sheep - scare them and theyll do anything that you want and what looks like it might help a bit.
Terroris have surely won, no matter what their goal was.
Bottom line: im never going to USA or other similar country of "freedom". Ever.
Well, here in Czech republic is similar organizaton (Called OSA),
sometimes things are really fucked up:
imagine radio playing in pub.
OSA collests money like this:
1, from pub owner who has to play legal rights to "broadcast copyrighted material" to his guests 2, shop which sold him radio has to give them part of profit from that piece of equpiment. 3, radio station has of course pay fees again. 4, recording company to pay OSA that it defends it 5, musician himself paying part of profit to osa as membership fees.
note that musician cannot be non-member, its compulsory....
at first, weather in two weeks != climate in 100 years, which is FAR better predicable ( see http://www.climateprediction.net/ ) its not about technology, its about fact that weather forecat is expected to be really precise in time, location and efect, but in global climate, one can ommit time and location preciseness
seccond, everytime someone suggest, that we should not care about our envroment because some economical issue, i have to punch him into face.
i mean, it is short sighted, there are issues that has to be resolved right now.
let me put it this way: every day, we human race harvest natural resources worh of triple budget of usa, if we had to produce them by industry. if we are not carefull and reguating, we can soon find ourcelwes in reall ecomonical trouble, because there will be no funcking way to produce energy, food and enviromental necesities like clean air, since global economy canot handle simulationg even percent of nature.
(note: im from post comunistic coutry, i know how much unrepairable damage can do "glorious industry and economy", damage that peoplbe will have to suffer a long time. damage that will cost tenfold to undo than was worth of products produced)
Riiight... because Photoshop has no real competition.... except, um Corel Photopaint (superior in usability), Paint Shop Pro (superior in price) and ton of other programs, including metioned Gimp (unbeatable price), Xara, Scetcher...
and so we need someone to show this market that monopoly ends HERE, and so MS will be our saviour and it will change lots of things to better
Slashdot Mirror
Talk about it ... for me this is 1st time I ever heard about this 'Ocarina' (25 years in here) how come its supposed to be best game ever?
Transport most of Venus atmosphere to Mars. bingo, two terraformed planets!
Number of people i _personally_ know who use ICQ: pretty much everyone.
Number of people i _personally_ know who use something else than ICQ: pretty much noone.
Here in Czechia, ICQ is simply THE im to use.
IT just makes no sense to register on something else when you know you wont be able to talk to anyone. And it makes no sense to switch if majority does no switch with you.
---
In the end stuff like aim or messenger have exaclty same type of bloat (sometimes even more anoying than icq bloat) and zero killer features.
Those who clicked the link will not understand why you even tried to look for it.
Wont work, coprorations will just use white horses to do punishable decidions.
... even add him to board of directors. He wont have any reall power (so he wont fuck company up with his own bad decidions), instead he will be used to authorize questionable and dangerous deciditions that company wants to make (i.e. "friend" will hive him tip for something great to suggest to help his career or he will just be given documents to sign). If he wont cooperate, he is quickly replaced.
since i dont know if white horse is right idiom for this i will explain:
Company intentionally hires naive, power hungry or just plain stupid person and gives him major post somewhere
Later, when this decidion backfires, our White Horse is one to take blame and jail time. Person who really made decidion is untouchable by law.
Nope, whan i read was this:
artifacts would be designed to make the process of accessing the information clear with instructions in multiple languages or hieroglyphics. Hieroglyph of futureman booting vista. Hireroglyph of futureman accessing eshop where he can buy rights to view artifact information. Futureman angry about 'play once secure feature (customer first!), that destroy artefact after one view.' Futureman using google. Futureman downloading linux and artefact-rip. Futureman enjoying better part of 21st centruty pornograhpy.
you missed The Lawnmower Man 2. believe it or not, it was actually filmed and should be #1 on your list.
> So what makes a MMORPG mouse MMORPG?
several million subscribers make 'MMORPG' label for any product good bet. Thats it, plain marketing lie designed to catch attention.
Sigh, old Diablo II adicition.
:-), it was proprably one of best feelings I had... But again, game just got boring
... by sabotage i DO mean: power blackout, internet connection interuption. Or getting em banned from game (even if it means lying to customer support, or getting time alone with their comp and instaling easily detectable hack), or steal/reset game password.
...).
:-))
Once created public game, and srated unloading everything i had, after eahc unload, character got deleted. It took me 1/2 hour to drop all mules
Anyway, if I was to help out someone:
1) Try to sabotage their gaming evening
ANYTHING that will make it IMPOSSIBLE to play for some period will do.
Idea is to get him withdrawal period that will last long enough to force him to find any substitution (be it reading, other game, porn watching). Thet will mess up with his recieving pleasure from game (alternative sources
With luck, re-discovering substitutes will make him see that there is other stuff worth doing that is not necesarily desctructive, nor time consuming, but still FUN. With "new stuff" comes boredness of old stuff, and soon enough he will realize that game got repetitive and boring, and there are better stimuli aviable (and more varied ones).
It will be several "interupts" needed, it might take some time. (And, he should never find out you did it
In fact, this works for internet addiction, general game addiction, too. Make it boring and unsatysfiing for him, make game frustrating and hes out.
Thats why eMule (THE ed2k client i might add) had Kademlia (decentralized ed2k-kinda-combatible network) running paralel to server network for quite a time...
"l0lz ypou no0bzor, my l33t axe d3als 10 tim3s d4mage th4n your does."
Really? its already here:
http://sexylosers.com/231.html
Ever read book Fahrenhet 451?
..., if someone was bright but his origin were not from loyal population, he still became manual worker in factory, if there were too many bright kids, some got special attention (smaalish problems with, i.e. beauty of their handwriting were exagorated, they got dyslexia mark on papers, then they were forced to endure special lessons on writing, with the really stupid ones, always remided that they are too stupid.) Yes, im not making it up. Yes, it happened to me and my brothers.(thank god it didnt break us :) )
Its explained there quite neatly. Smart people make nonsmarts feel uneasy and jelaous, and if majority feels bad, you have problem. Easy solution is to detect smarties and run them though comforming process, remove mental stimula, average em with rest of class.
After all, everything we really needed was developed, there is no longer need for smart people:
TV works flawlessly in controling thoughts of general population, it replaced (or complemented religion)
US already has Ultimate weapons (nukies), and is far away from rest of world.
Internet? Behold as once free-idea-market turns to strictly DRMed/Trusted comercial distribution/comunication network.
(Do you know that schools in my country had quota for smart people in comunist era? they HAD to produce certain amount of manual workers, clerks, etc
Althou I can understand their anti-alcohol thing, whats wrong with cofee (I a little about Mormon faith thou)?
Anyway, I personally think that joining such restrictive uni just because of scholarship is not generally good idea...
and oh, yeah .. it made me think of Farenheit 451 (the book), where every book was banned, because there was always someone who would object to it contents or get hurt by it or so ...
hurtfull/discriminative ... i sense monster of Political Corectness making its way to slashdot ...
if people cant cope with bad words or something that they dont agree with, how can they cope with whole world?
Hmmm... not everywhere in europe. In my area (Czech repubicl) Everyone uses ICQ, and it kind of out-of-question to use anything else, I've met only one person that used MSN messer, and he made quick switch afret realizing that noone else is using it.
As zou say, it would be wisest for google to use free protocol (Jabber) with multi-network client (so its would be easy to break addiction to other networks)
But there will be problem in server-stranlation of protocol and multiprotocol client - i seiously dount. that owners of MSNM, ICQ and AIM will let google do it, because it will make them loose valuable advertizing space and visible brand.
Yeah, point is that bitzi is not tied to specifical network, protocol or client and it is free and easy to implement its support.
Too bad that not that many people use it...
Credence is simply not needed and fro what i read it is still rpone to false rating abuse (spammers will simply have to vote fro good files sometimes to get their trustworthyness to decent level, or they simply can flood network sp that cood votes will be minority)
Well, it happens... i once tried to submit stories, got no-nos and then found them on frontpage day later...
...) just like mod reason ...
What we need is Reason of rejection (duplicate/not worthy/editor is having bad day
Yes, they are THE enemy, but why should i or someone else live in shaddow of fear because of them? Why make useless getures afout security when it only limits normal people and not those which they are designed against.
BTW: Sadly, i remeber comunists, for what i know current western democracy is making huge leaps towards being regimes which i experienced, and all of it in name of freedom and security (just like nacis did in name of order and security and comunits in name of equality and security)...
Its not scarry, its disastrous.
Some attack in Tube with relativelly small body count (more people die from traffic accidents daily in UK), and soon we have detectors while entering it, population is RFIDed, (There were already microphones and cameras in london on every step and it obviously didnt help a bit.)
All security "measures" simply dont work against determined attacker, they only bring discomfort and fear to normal people.
Yep, people are sheep - scare them and theyll do anything that you want and what looks like it might help a bit.
Terroris have surely won, no matter what their goal was.
Bottom line: im never going to USA or other similar country of "freedom". Ever.
I mean, It only took 5 minutes to find active Wiki vandal in slashdot crowd ... its kind of sad that there are such people
...)
(pwned? wtf? some kid just spent last night on fps
Well, here in Czech republic is similar organizaton (Called OSA),
sometimes things are really fucked up:
imagine radio playing in pub.
OSA collests money like this:
1, from pub owner who has to play legal rights to "broadcast copyrighted material" to his guests
2, shop which sold him radio has to give them part of profit from that piece of equpiment.
3, radio station has of course pay fees again.
4, recording company to pay OSA that it defends it
5, musician himself paying part of profit to osa as membership fees.
note that musician cannot be non-member, its compulsory....
at first, weather in two weeks != climate in 100 years, which is FAR better predicable ( see http://www.climateprediction.net/ ) its not about technology, its about fact that weather forecat is expected to be really precise in time, location and efect, but in global climate, one can ommit time and location preciseness
seccond, everytime someone suggest, that we should not care about our envroment because some economical issue, i have to punch him into face.
i mean, it is short sighted, there are issues that has to be resolved right now.
let me put it this way: every day, we human race harvest natural resources worh of triple budget of usa, if we had to produce them by industry. if we are not carefull and reguating, we can soon find ourcelwes in reall ecomonical trouble, because there will be no funcking way to produce energy, food and enviromental necesities like clean air, since global economy canot handle simulationg even percent of nature.
(note: im from post comunistic coutry, i know how much unrepairable damage can do "glorious industry and economy", damage that peoplbe will have to suffer a long time. damage that will cost tenfold to undo than was worth of products produced)
Riiight ... because Photoshop has no real competition .... except, um Corel Photopaint (superior in usability), Paint Shop Pro (superior in price) and ton of other programs, including metioned Gimp (unbeatable price), Xara, Scetcher ...
and so we need someone to show this market that monopoly ends HERE, and so MS will be our saviour and it will change lots of things to better