In the book fahrenheit 451, the people hated books and things about them. The gov't had educated people in them that realized that the book burning was wrong. Congress sat there, biding its time, while the people watched tv.
Would it have been a better world if congress had 100% followed the will of the majority?
Its more that they don't understand either the technology (which is probably unstoppable), or their own customers.
I'm SURE that that the RIAA understand the technology. They understand that in the future when more people have broadband, large drives, and spiffy software that it will be very easy and convenient to download songs. If people continue to buy music or not is unknown except that if the MPAA (AND RIAA) and get something like SSSCA passed, then the control they will get will earn them cash for the long haul.
hmmm.... I wonder how much commitment they have to the linux branch. The beta test, under "what OS do you use" only lists windows. I sure hope the linux version gets thorough testing, otherwise linux gaming will take another bad hit.
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actually, as someone posted above me, they will never give anything to wine again. Wine used to have an X11 style liscence, now its LGPL. Transgaming can't use the new wine stuff while keeping some stuff, like cd-copy protection secret (which, according to them would violate the DMCA if it is released). you can check out the offical word here
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actually if you read the history things that came up when loki died, it was from multiple reasons 1) believing the market would constantly grow (and thus loki grew, while the market stayed around the same size), 2) internet bubble popped and VCs wanted to pull out. The ceo or leader or whatever became curropt (buying new house when not enough money to pay employes).
While Loki was in a screwed position from 1 and 2, its 3 that killed the moral and the compony entirely.
Re:Using it right now!!!
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just telling you, if you want info about over 150+ games and how they work with linux, check out:
1 bug with current cvs builds is that sound doesn't work, you can either get an old copy of winex (check the forum for the site above, they have old working copies) or edit your config.cfg and disable voice.
Also, even if the above worked perfectly, there is no way to transmit voice from linux, only listen.
I guess that the problem I mentioned above about current programmers writing code which is not exactly space- and time-efficient is that they must think "it's not worth it" (or many haven't actually even thought about the subject). A pity indeed.
Its worse than what you even think. I'm taking a highschool CS course and the instructor doesn't care about gettwing it done faster, just getting it done. In fact he talks about how bad, but easily understood code is better because there is normally a group of people working on the software. The only time we even talked about big O was a 1 week trip into sorting.
I also think that many programming environments are an incentive to trial-and-error programming ("recompiling the program is too easy -- don't even bother to think if we have to add 1 or subtract 1"). This, of course, leads to sloopy programming.
For me this isn't true at all, while our code can be horrible, it still must work completely and be logically sound. So thats good at least.
Re:It's a kind of intellectual arrogance.
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do you think they want to run this as a business? NO WAY. THEY ARE NOT IN THIS FOR THE MONEY BUT FOR THE FUN. The problem is that fun costs money, so they would like heavy slashdot users to donate (this system is MUCH more like a donation system than a subscription system, taco even says that in the article) to help them out. Is that too much to ask? or should they start being like Salon and all the other news sites where you have to pay for the good info? Please tell me which you would rather have.
have you ever been to cryptome.org, or any sites like it? Those sites create lots of enemies because of their content. If their content was copied to freenet, then it can't all be lost in one fell swoop. Freenet would be the mirror that couldn't be taken down. As for what it currently is being used for? Well, 1) its still beta, but just like all new techs it has lots of porn on it. But i havn't used it in months so i'm not the best source.
Basicly, once its big enough, i'll use it just like i currently use gnutella.
I recently listened to 1/2 a speech by Ralph Nader, for a while he was talking about how the capatilism in U.S. was getting messed up because in many markets monoplys or oligarchies are forming and are being supported by the Courts. The courts were what was killing capitalism because they stopped new innovative companies to challenge established firms (funny how the left wine sounds like the right wing sometimes, but mainstream is always way off).
i don't know why i must state this on slashdot, but You Can Make Software Open Source AND Sell it! Ask RMS who initally sold emacs for $100. Look at Redhat or any linux distro compony. I'm not saying it works for all programs. The little proggie that is merely an enhanced version of cat would not benefit, but there are plenty of programs, and considering that your program is highly specialized it might have worked fine also. Basicly, the more mission critical the software, the easier it is to make incomse based on consulting and support.
simple, replace the old tar balls (those arn't binaries) with the new ones AND make a show of the md5sum of the new kernel. that way people could download from a mirror (most mirrors show the md5sum anyway) and md5 it and see if they get the same value.
I'm actually planning on doing this sometime in the far future. Once life becomes completely unacceptable i'm going to move to Brazil. Its a country that cares more about the people than the corporations and while its extremely clear to me that i have not thought this out. I'm just glad that there are places to excape U.S.
People don't want options, they just want it to "work." Most People would rather alter themselves to fit with the computer than figure out how to alter the computer (but this might be from the belief that a computer is an appliance that can't really be changed).
Heres an ancedote for you people. I was talking to some one about this really great browser (Opera), someone else came and asked why it was so great (this guy is not tech oriented at all), i told him how in Opera you can change and custumized tons of stuff, and he replied that that he didn't like messing around with his programs.
Either you or me is forgetting something. When MS releases XP, they knew every single number that is in those boxes, so if some number is used, and was not in those boxes, its obvious it was generated. BUT, what if one of those XP boxes is never sold, and some person generates that exact key, then MS will not be able to tell that that key has been generated.
I don't know if you play Half-Life or not, but there is a group of people who's sole purpose is too be punks. What they do, is whenever they get banned, they walk into compusa, but half-life again, go home record the WonID and return the package unopened. I don't know if this is possible for XP, but it sure isn't hard to do.
You need all of these things for evolution (defined as changing frequencies of alleles) to stop:
(an allele is one varient of a gene, like some people have the blue eye allele, some have brown eye allele, while almost all of us have the genes for eye).
1. random mating (i.e. people will randoming mate with any other person)
2. constant sized society (no one leaves or enter, everytime someone is born, someone dies)
3. large society (a group of 50 people, even isolated, will still evolve, while a group of 5000, if the rest of these condistions are met, wont)
4. No selective pressure (favoring one type of allele vs. another)
These were all learned in a basic biology class, btw.
wow, DDR 2700 ram, eh? you do realize that unless you OC, that that ram is just as good as 2100. When you start OCing the front side bus, thats where you get the real preformance. Please tell me that you would like to have a 1.8Ghz (real gigs, not AMD gigs) TBird? I have a friend that was able to do that. Sure the case is extremely expensive, and you can find it other places. But remember, the $350 is a 1 time cost, while the performance gain is evident everytime you turn on the computer.
3: Most of all biological elements are within the top 10 elements on the peridic chart. The reason these are used is because nuclear fusion within the sun allows these to be made with much greater abundance. This reason also coves why no Earthen creatures use silicon instead of carbon.
Actually, thats wrong, Earth itself has MUCH more silicon than carbon, ever go to the beach? or the desert? You are right in a logical aspect, but on earth your premise is wrong (that silicon would be less abundant). One of the main reasons we don't use silicon is the strength. In biology class you learned that we have lots of long, long carbon chains in our body, which do lots of things. Silicon has a larger outer shell, causing the electrons to have a weaker bond to the atom, thus covalent bonding would be weaker. so, if we had long silicon strands, they would have a higher chance of breaking.
I can see why for somehoe with an email address shown on slashdot might get tons of spam, but the far majority of regular users could easily not get spam anymore. Here are the steps i did to not get spam EVER.
1. don't use your isp's email address. I don't know why, but those always get lots of spam. I think its because the isp gives you webspace, in a folder named from your username. So a spambot just needs to go to aol.com/users/ read all the folder names and tack on @aol.com.
2. have 2 email addresses, one which is for actual usage, such as communicating with friends. The other is just for all the things where you have to give a valid email address to sign up.
Thats all i did, and it works great for me. I guess a possible third step is that, if you get any spam, to ALWAYS hunt it down. look in the headers of the email, find where it came from (for example, aol.com) and forward the spam to abuse@aol.com, if that doesn't exist, forward it to webmaster@aol.com, root@aol.com, admin@aol.com, administrator@aol.com and any other names you can think of.
Seriously, look at it. it looks like a very interesting product, with nice specs, but whos gonna buy it? its too big to fit in your pocket, and if you are going to bother to carry it around in case, (as one of its features is its wirelessness) then you might as well carry a full fledged laptop (except that a laptop is heavier). The only use i can see is for someone you really needs a laptop, but can't afford/doesn't want the extras of a laptop, then this would be a good option. But, there arn't many businesses that 1) have a need for lots of people moving around and 2) will take a chance on this product, and businesses are one of their primary targets.
It is a very interesting concept, but one that should not even be explored until we have the capabilities to give realtime data transmission and to guarentee that random/arbitrary disconnects just dont occur.
We basicly do, Iternet2. there are FAR less users than on the regular internet, everyone has a minimum of 150K/s? (can't remember) and i seriously doubt anyone would get random disconections.
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Small point:
In the book fahrenheit 451, the people hated books and things about them. The gov't had educated people in them that realized that the book burning was wrong. Congress sat there, biding its time, while the people watched tv.
Would it have been a better world if congress had 100% followed the will of the majority?
Its more that they don't understand either the technology (which is probably unstoppable), or their own customers.
I'm SURE that that the RIAA understand the technology. They understand that in the future when more people have broadband, large drives, and spiffy software that it will be very easy and convenient to download songs. If people continue to buy music or not is unknown except that if the MPAA (AND RIAA) and get something like SSSCA passed, then the control they will get will earn them cash for the long haul.
Or buy your copy from tuxgames.com. you will 1) support linux gaming and 2) it will show the makers that linux users buy games.
hmmm.... I wonder how much commitment they have to the linux branch. The beta test, under "what OS do you use" only lists windows. I sure hope the linux version gets thorough testing, otherwise linux gaming will take another bad hit.
actually, as someone posted above me, they will never give anything to wine again. Wine used to have an X11 style liscence, now its LGPL. Transgaming can't use the new wine stuff while keeping some stuff, like cd-copy protection secret (which, according to them would violate the DMCA if it is released). you can check out the offical word here
actually if you read the history things that came up when loki died, it was from multiple reasons 1) believing the market would constantly grow (and thus loki grew, while the market stayed around the same size), 2) internet bubble popped and VCs wanted to pull out. The ceo or leader or whatever became curropt (buying new house when not enough money to pay employes).
While Loki was in a screwed position from 1 and 2, its 3 that killed the moral and the compony entirely.
just telling you, if you want info about over 150+ games and how they work with linux, check out:
Code Weaver's wine
just look on the left for "app database" and your set.
half-life (including CS) has worked for linux for 1.5+ yrs
lhl.linuxgames.com
1 bug with current cvs builds is that sound doesn't work, you can either get an old copy of winex (check the forum for the site above, they have old working copies) or edit your config.cfg and disable voice.
Also, even if the above worked perfectly, there is no way to transmit voice from linux, only listen.
I guess that the problem I mentioned above about current programmers writing code which is not exactly space- and time-efficient is that they must think "it's not worth it" (or many haven't actually even thought about the subject). A pity indeed.
Its worse than what you even think. I'm taking a highschool CS course and the instructor doesn't care about gettwing it done faster, just getting it done. In fact he talks about how bad, but easily understood code is better because there is normally a group of people working on the software. The only time we even talked about big O was a 1 week trip into sorting.
I also think that many programming environments are an incentive to trial-and-error programming ("recompiling the program is too easy -- don't even bother to think if we have to add 1 or subtract 1"). This, of course, leads to sloopy programming.
For me this isn't true at all, while our code can be horrible, it still must work completely and be logically sound. So thats good at least.
do you think they want to run this as a business? NO WAY. THEY ARE NOT IN THIS FOR THE MONEY BUT FOR THE FUN. The problem is that fun costs money, so they would like heavy slashdot users to donate (this system is MUCH more like a donation system than a subscription system, taco even says that in the article) to help them out. Is that too much to ask? or should they start being like Salon and all the other news sites where you have to pay for the good info? Please tell me which you would rather have.
have you ever been to cryptome.org, or any sites like it? Those sites create lots of enemies because of their content. If their content was copied to freenet, then it can't all be lost in one fell swoop. Freenet would be the mirror that couldn't be taken down. As for what it currently is being used for? Well, 1) its still beta, but just like all new techs it has lots of porn on it. But i havn't used it in months so i'm not the best source.
Basicly, once its big enough, i'll use it just like i currently use gnutella.
I recently listened to 1/2 a speech by Ralph Nader, for a while he was talking about how the capatilism in U.S. was getting messed up because in many markets monoplys or oligarchies are forming and are being supported by the Courts. The courts were what was killing capitalism because they stopped new innovative companies to challenge established firms (funny how the left wine sounds like the right wing sometimes, but mainstream is always way off).
i don't know why i must state this on slashdot, but You Can Make Software Open Source AND Sell it! Ask RMS who initally sold emacs for $100. Look at Redhat or any linux distro compony. I'm not saying it works for all programs. The little proggie that is merely an enhanced version of cat would not benefit, but there are plenty of programs, and considering that your program is highly specialized it might have worked fine also. Basicly, the more mission critical the software, the easier it is to make incomse based on consulting and support.
simple, replace the old tar balls (those arn't binaries) with the new ones AND make a show of the md5sum of the new kernel. that way people could download from a mirror (most mirrors show the md5sum anyway) and md5 it and see if they get the same value.
I'm actually planning on doing this sometime in the far future. Once life becomes completely unacceptable i'm going to move to Brazil. Its a country that cares more about the people than the corporations and while its extremely clear to me that i have not thought this out. I'm just glad that there are places to excape U.S.
EXACTLY
People don't want options, they just want it to "work." Most People would rather alter themselves to fit with the computer than figure out how to alter the computer (but this might be from the belief that a computer is an appliance that can't really be changed).
Heres an ancedote for you people. I was talking to some one about this really great browser (Opera), someone else came and asked why it was so great (this guy is not tech oriented at all), i told him how in Opera you can change and custumized tons of stuff, and he replied that that he didn't like messing around with his programs.
Either you or me is forgetting something. When MS releases XP, they knew every single number that is in those boxes, so if some number is used, and was not in those boxes, its obvious it was generated. BUT, what if one of those XP boxes is never sold, and some person generates that exact key, then MS will not be able to tell that that key has been generated.
I don't know if you play Half-Life or not, but there is a group of people who's sole purpose is too be punks. What they do, is whenever they get banned, they walk into compusa, but half-life again, go home record the WonID and return the package unopened. I don't know if this is possible for XP, but it sure isn't hard to do.
You need all of these things for evolution (defined as changing frequencies of alleles) to stop:
(an allele is one varient of a gene, like some people have the blue eye allele, some have brown eye allele, while almost all of us have the genes for eye).
1. random mating (i.e. people will randoming mate with any other person)
2. constant sized society (no one leaves or enter, everytime someone is born, someone dies)
3. large society (a group of 50 people, even isolated, will still evolve, while a group of 5000, if the rest of these condistions are met, wont)
4. No selective pressure (favoring one type of allele vs. another)
These were all learned in a basic biology class, btw.
Force = Weight.
the formula for Force is: F=ma, replace a with the acceleration caused by gravity and you got weight.
actually according to the article, china already has it implemented.
wow, DDR 2700 ram, eh? you do realize that unless you OC, that that ram is just as good as 2100. When you start OCing the front side bus, thats where you get the real preformance. Please tell me that you would like to have a 1.8Ghz (real gigs, not AMD gigs) TBird? I have a friend that was able to do that. Sure the case is extremely expensive, and you can find it other places. But remember, the $350 is a 1 time cost, while the performance gain is evident everytime you turn on the computer.
3: Most of all biological elements are within the top 10 elements on the peridic chart. The reason these are used is because nuclear fusion within the sun allows these to be made with much greater abundance. This reason also coves why no Earthen creatures use silicon instead of carbon.
Actually, thats wrong, Earth itself has MUCH more silicon than carbon, ever go to the beach? or the desert? You are right in a logical aspect, but on earth your premise is wrong (that silicon would be less abundant). One of the main reasons we don't use silicon is the strength. In biology class you learned that we have lots of long, long carbon chains in our body, which do lots of things. Silicon has a larger outer shell, causing the electrons to have a weaker bond to the atom, thus covalent bonding would be weaker. so, if we had long silicon strands, they would have a higher chance of breaking.
I can see why for somehoe with an email address shown on slashdot might get tons of spam, but the far majority of regular users could easily not get spam anymore. Here are the steps i did to not get spam EVER.
1. don't use your isp's email address. I don't know why, but those always get lots of spam. I think its because the isp gives you webspace, in a folder named from your username. So a spambot just needs to go to aol.com/users/ read all the folder names and tack on @aol.com.
2. have 2 email addresses, one which is for actual usage, such as communicating with friends. The other is just for all the things where you have to give a valid email address to sign up.
Thats all i did, and it works great for me. I guess a possible third step is that, if you get any spam, to ALWAYS hunt it down. look in the headers of the email, find where it came from (for example, aol.com) and forward the spam to abuse@aol.com, if that doesn't exist, forward it to webmaster@aol.com, root@aol.com, admin@aol.com, administrator@aol.com and any other names you can think of.
Seriously, look at it. it looks like a very interesting product, with nice specs, but whos gonna buy it? its too big to fit in your pocket, and if you are going to bother to carry it around in case, (as one of its features is its wirelessness) then you might as well carry a full fledged laptop (except that a laptop is heavier). The only use i can see is for someone you really needs a laptop, but can't afford/doesn't want the extras of a laptop, then this would be a good option. But, there arn't many businesses that 1) have a need for lots of people moving around and 2) will take a chance on this product, and businesses are one of their primary targets.
It is a very interesting concept, but one that should not even be explored until we have the capabilities to give realtime data transmission and to guarentee that random/arbitrary disconnects just dont occur.
We basicly do, Iternet2. there are FAR less users than on the regular internet, everyone has a minimum of 150K/s? (can't remember) and i seriously doubt anyone would get random disconections.