This would be just my room. My own residence. I'm not talking about a common mingling area where anyone can waltz about and watch whatever. This would be my residence (the common area being shared by my suitemates). Good thing you pointed that out. I wanna make sure I'm clear here.
In my dorm next fall, I plan on implementing a system by which I would take the DVDs that I currently own (and have paid PLENTY for already) and extracting the content to my computer's harddrive (in compressed form, of course). I will run the videocard's TV-out out from the computer's resting place and to the TV in the common room. The whole system would be remote controlled by palm/i-opener/whatever-I-can-get-cheap-and-hook-up -to-it-that-will-control-a-perl-script-on-the-serv er-side. This will not be legal with the DMCA in effect unfortunately.
While a professional system is your best bet, for reasons stated in previous posts, but if you wanna do this yourself, here's my suggestion. Anything you can get off the shelf to build your own system will not be able to call the police as soon as your residence has been raided (far as I know, I may be wrong) and therefore is pretty useless. Even if you video tape tape them, nothing beats an alert to the 5-0 as soon as that door opens. So, if you don't wanna spring for somekind of professional system, then maybe instead of doing something once the crooks get it, try to stop them from coming in in the first place. Criminals will only try to break in if they think you aren't at home (for the most part, I'm not saying that it's an 'always' thing). Using timers for lights, TV, stereo, etc, can give your home that 'lived in' look while you are away.
...there probably wouldn't be anything in place that would say that even if a.xxx TLD was created, pr0n sites couldn't just redirect from a.com TLD to a.xxx TLD to fool people.
I've grown up in a very politically opiniated family, and have always been active in politics, even when I was too young to vote. My sister, who is also my best friend, has always encouraged me to be politically active in whatever way I can, and has had me participate in literature drops, telethons, and the like. For a long time I've wanted to be able to vote, so my opinions and views that had been shaped by others, as well as myself, could be voiced. This year I got a chance to do that with the upcoming presidential election. I decided that the candiate I thought would best represent my views belonged to a third party, and I had made my mind up about this. My sister on the other hand, thought it was her responsibility to make sure I voted for the "correct" major party candidate who I believed would best represent me, because with a third party, I would just be "throwing my vote away". Maybe I am throwing my vote away in the eyes of others, but the point of the election, so far as I understand it, is not to vote for the person MOST LIKELY to be able to win, but for the person you genuinely think would do the best job. I was also under the impression that it is very rude to ask others who they are voting/voted for in the election, be they stranger or family. All this harassment coupled with the pain-in-the-ass that is the absentee ballot, I'm glad this is all over now.
Sorry sony, but DVD-A has already got you beat. If DVD-A disks will play on existing DVD-V players, which are already very well established, then the format will have instant acceptance. Also, the already existing audio CD format and DVD are as much of Compact Disc based media as most people are willing to accept. People are now waiting for something smaller and better. Size is the new frontier to break in terms of consumer entertaiment media. Course, I really can't tell if what I just said made any sense at all cuz I'm kinda drunk now. I'm a college student, what do you want from me.
Originally, the geek houses were established because the surrounding universities were the only institutions, outsides large businesses, that had high-speed internet access. The geekhouses would tap into the T1 lines used by the universites for their own purposes. Now that high-speed internet access is available anywhere, the geekhouses simply don't flourish like they did.
Personally, I believe that the geek houses should remain in existance simply for social purposes. Right now I'm a freshman at a midwest college and there isn't a hardcore geek in sight ('cept one, but he's an upper-classmen, and as such doesn't think much of me for the meantime). Geekhouses are a great way to mesh together the minds of similar thinking individuals and to reap the fruits of their collective consciousness as such. Look at projects like project submersible 2. It's efforts like these that show the ingenuity that geek collectives can produce. Think of the possibilities. It all starts when they all get up on a weekend afternoon and say, "I have nothing to do, so I think that I'll..." and out comes and number of wonderful projects/ideas/terrorist acts/etc that produce something wonderful.
Let's presuppose that their ranking criteria are reasonably accurate. If you search for "girl's soccor" (sans the quotes, since most people don't use them, or know the option is available to them), or something pertaining to female gender in a non sexual sense, why are most of the top results pornography related material? Is it just because there are so many adult oriented sites, or is it because they have some sort of technique that allows search spiders to place them in all sorts of unrelated catagories, say using meta information?
I don't get CN on the cable system at my college, so I'm rather bummed that I'll be missing all this. Anyone know any sites with good episode-by-episode synopsies?
I'm going partially by experience of just having gone through highschool (as a nerd, thank you very much), and partially by what I've learned from Saved by the Bell (and don't tell me you haven't learned anything from that show!)
Nerds and Geeks may both have similar interests (i.e. computing, star trek, physics, etc), however a Geek is someone who is socially inept. Geek's tend to have poor interpersonal skills, which makes it very hard for them to have a social life. Nerds, on the other hand, are quite social creatures and tend to have friends in the nerd kingdom and in the non-nerd kingdom as well. Geeks tend to be loners, or have few friends. Nerds can be the life of the party, although it is rare.
Example: Nerd
Screech, from Saved by the Bell: He had a girlfriend, had the most popular guy in school as his best friend, and maintained stellar grades.
Example: Geek
Lisa Simpson, from the Simpsons: Sad but true, Lisa is a geek. She really doesn't have that many friends and has trouble relating to people her age. She is often alone playing her sax or reading.
Barney: "I made a movie?! No wonder I was on the cover of Entertainment Weekly!"
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From a social standpoint, I think many people would agree with me when I say that it is very rude to talk in a cellular phone while in public. Now imagine someone who is not only talking loudly on the phone, disturbing everyone around him or her; writing email while walking about, not looking where he or she is going; listening to a personal stereo, unable to hear important noises like emergency sirens, women screaming, etc. Besides, if you're wearing a jacket like this, it's obviously the winter-time, and I don't think you need to be outside writing wireless messages. Hell, if it's cold enough, the LAST thing you wanna me doing is exposing your digits to the elements (for comfort and safety purposes) so you can type/dial/whatnot. But that's just my theory, and don't get me wrong, I think wired clothes are a good idea, but I want something more along the lines of the jacket Michael J. Fox wore in Back the the Future II.
I wouldn't know, because MY FUCKING TEACHER NEVER TAUGHT ME HOW!! Hell neither did the text book that we used either (I look the second day of class;)) Anyway, it doesn't matter how long it takes to learn, because it can be used is so many entertaining fashions. Oh well.
The one thing that bored the hell out of me in my highschool programming class (C++) is that all we ever did was math related projects. Making up algorithems and more loops than you can shake a stick at. While these are very very important, it gets very very repetative and needs variety. Teach them how to use ports so they can make anything from 2 player network Battleship to and instant messaging client.
I somewhat agree with where you are going, but I don't think you can completely base your argument on the fact that Windows is the dominent UI in the world today; a fact with which I do not argue. However, I think that, while Windows has something going for it in terms of years of research M$ has put into GUI design and implementation, it is still imperfect, and there is room for improvement, while still maintaining the ease of use. The pie menus mentioned in the original question are a fantastic idea! I don't think anyone would have difficulty learning them, or be apposed to saving time by using them. Also today's operating systems have to cater to the lowest common denominator, meaning it will never take advantage of the latest technology fully. If you were to design a system that took advantage of a 1600x1200 resolution, you could have all sorts of useful items to make things even easier for grandma or junior, such as something that was mentioned in a previous Ask Slashdot commentary; smart icons (i.e. a small text document is represented by a page icon, a larger document would be represented by a book, and still a larger document represented by a bookshelf.) This would stick with the tradition of windows, and enhance the usablility.
Even with the advent and the humoungous (sp?) popularity of web-based message boards, I think in the end usenet still remains the best message-board system available. The old (relatively) methods are always the best. FTP is still the staple file transfering, and IRC remains a chat king (does AIM have more users?). Usenet has had the following from the begining and still is thought of as a place where the intellegent and learned go to converse (at least from my perspective, and don't get me wrong, it has it's share of trolls, just like anywhere else). I know my oldest brother to be one of the most knowlageable civilians in the country when it comes to military aviation, and where does he go to chat it up? Usenet. There's a wealth of useful information there that not many people know how to access.
I know I personally have bought more CDs since using Napster, because I've been able to try before I buy! The reason I didn't buy as many before is that I'm quite cautious about my spending because I budget myself quite tightly, as most students do. I used to wait for friend to get the CD so I could listen to the material first. I was especially able to do this when there was a Blockbuster music located in my area because they let you listen to anything in the store! However now with Napster, I am able to preview what I potentially want to buy. If I just like the single from a CD, I will keep that as apposed to buying a $6 single, because I know it will be waste of money and I will tire of it shortly. However lately I've been able to find some wonderful thing that have inspired me to buy some sensational albums I know I'll never tire of. NOW TO MY POINT: If people on Napster didn't buy CDs, the system would die. Napster relys on people (at this point mostly the warez-like IRC release groups, but not for much longer). People are refining their taste in music and sharing their MP3'd collections with the world. If this was not the case, if it were just petty theft of each song without care for the system, then Napster would die, because it would run out of new material.
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This would be just my room. My own residence. I'm not talking about a common mingling area where anyone can waltz about and watch whatever. This would be my residence (the common area being shared by my suitemates). Good thing you pointed that out. I wanna make sure I'm clear here.
In my dorm next fall, I plan on implementing a system by which I would take the DVDs that I currently own (and have paid PLENTY for already) and extracting the content to my computer's harddrive (in compressed form, of course). I will run the videocard's TV-out out from the computer's resting place and to the TV in the common room. The whole system would be remote controlled by palm/i-opener/whatever-I-can-get-cheap-and-hook-up -to-it-that-will-control-a-perl-script-on-the-serv er-side. This will not be legal with the DMCA in effect unfortunately.
While a professional system is your best bet, for reasons stated in previous posts, but if you wanna do this yourself, here's my suggestion. Anything you can get off the shelf to build your own system will not be able to call the police as soon as your residence has been raided (far as I know, I may be wrong) and therefore is pretty useless. Even if you video tape tape them, nothing beats an alert to the 5-0 as soon as that door opens. So, if you don't wanna spring for somekind of professional system, then maybe instead of doing something once the crooks get it, try to stop them from coming in in the first place. Criminals will only try to break in if they think you aren't at home (for the most part, I'm not saying that it's an 'always' thing). Using timers for lights, TV, stereo, etc, can give your home that 'lived in' look while you are away.
What I don't understand is, can you really live off sponsors forever?
What about television stations? Granted it's a little different, but it's a fine example.
...there probably wouldn't be anything in place that would say that even if a .xxx TLD was created, pr0n sites couldn't just redirect from a .com TLD to a .xxx TLD to fool people.
I'm at Xavier University in Cincinnati. Anyone nearby? I could probably find us somewhere on campus.
I am, but I'm in school in Cincinnati. Summer is always a possibility.
I've grown up in a very politically opiniated family, and have always been active in politics, even when I was too young to vote. My sister, who is also my best friend, has always encouraged me to be politically active in whatever way I can, and has had me participate in literature drops, telethons, and the like. For a long time I've wanted to be able to vote, so my opinions and views that had been shaped by others, as well as myself, could be voiced. This year I got a chance to do that with the upcoming presidential election. I decided that the candiate I thought would best represent my views belonged to a third party, and I had made my mind up about this. My sister on the other hand, thought it was her responsibility to make sure I voted for the "correct" major party candidate who I believed would best represent me, because with a third party, I would just be "throwing my vote away". Maybe I am throwing my vote away in the eyes of others, but the point of the election, so far as I understand it, is not to vote for the person MOST LIKELY to be able to win, but for the person you genuinely think would do the best job. I was also under the impression that it is very rude to ask others who they are voting/voted for in the election, be they stranger or family. All this harassment coupled with the pain-in-the-ass that is the absentee ballot, I'm glad this is all over now.
slashdo.org, slahdot.org, sashdot.org, slashot.org, slshdot.org, slasdot.org, slashdo.org
all lead to slahdot.org (on sale if you want it!)
slashdot.com - I didn't know that was the same thing? Oh well. Learn something new everyday.
slashdot.net is a publisher of some sort.
slachdot.org, slashdt.org leads to some namezero site. No idea here.
http://www.lashdot.org/ - Under construction. Who knows.
Still couldn't find the site that is slashdot with a banner ad. I'm retarded.
How in the hell are you supposed to pronounce that guy's last name?!
Sorry sony, but DVD-A has already got you beat. If DVD-A disks will play on existing DVD-V players, which are already very well established, then the format will have instant acceptance. Also, the already existing audio CD format and DVD are as much of Compact Disc based media as most people are willing to accept. People are now waiting for something smaller and better. Size is the new frontier to break in terms of consumer entertaiment media. Course, I really can't tell if what I just said made any sense at all cuz I'm kinda drunk now. I'm a college student, what do you want from me.
Originally, the geek houses were established because the surrounding universities were the only institutions, outsides large businesses, that had high-speed internet access. The geekhouses would tap into the T1 lines used by the universites for their own purposes. Now that high-speed internet access is available anywhere, the geekhouses simply don't flourish like they did.
Personally, I believe that the geek houses should remain in existance simply for social purposes. Right now I'm a freshman at a midwest college and there isn't a hardcore geek in sight ('cept one, but he's an upper-classmen, and as such doesn't think much of me for the meantime). Geekhouses are a great way to mesh together the minds of similar thinking individuals and to reap the fruits of their collective consciousness as such. Look at projects like project submersible 2. It's efforts like these that show the ingenuity that geek collectives can produce. Think of the possibilities. It all starts when they all get up on a weekend afternoon and say, "I have nothing to do, so I think that I'll..." and out comes and number of wonderful projects/ideas/terrorist acts/etc that produce something wonderful.
Maybe it's just the beer talking. I love college.
Yeh, I can't spell. Thanks for the correction.
Let's presuppose that their ranking criteria are reasonably accurate. If you search for "girl's soccor" (sans the quotes, since most people don't use them, or know the option is available to them), or something pertaining to female gender in a non sexual sense, why are most of the top results pornography related material? Is it just because there are so many adult oriented sites, or is it because they have some sort of technique that allows search spiders to place them in all sorts of unrelated catagories, say using meta information?
I don't get CN on the cable system at my college, so I'm rather bummed that I'll be missing all this. Anyone know any sites with good episode-by-episode synopsies?
Nerds and Geeks may both have similar interests (i.e. computing, star trek, physics, etc), however a Geek is someone who is socially inept. Geek's tend to have poor interpersonal skills, which makes it very hard for them to have a social life. Nerds, on the other hand, are quite social creatures and tend to have friends in the nerd kingdom and in the non-nerd kingdom as well. Geeks tend to be loners, or have few friends. Nerds can be the life of the party, although it is rare.
Example: Nerd
Example: Geek
Thoughts?
Mayday! Mayday! Slashdot has posted a story linking to us!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH......
The site is already down. Waiting....
Bart: "You made a movie?!"
Barney: "I made a movie?! No wonder I was on the cover of Entertainment Weekly!"
From a social standpoint, I think many people would agree with me when I say that it is very rude to talk in a cellular phone while in public. Now imagine someone who is not only talking loudly on the phone, disturbing everyone around him or her; writing email while walking about, not looking where he or she is going; listening to a personal stereo, unable to hear important noises like emergency sirens, women screaming, etc. Besides, if you're wearing a jacket like this, it's obviously the winter-time, and I don't think you need to be outside writing wireless messages. Hell, if it's cold enough, the LAST thing you wanna me doing is exposing your digits to the elements (for comfort and safety purposes) so you can type/dial/whatnot. But that's just my theory, and don't get me wrong, I think wired clothes are a good idea, but I want something more along the lines of the jacket Michael J. Fox wore in Back the the Future II.
I wouldn't know, because MY FUCKING TEACHER NEVER TAUGHT ME HOW!! Hell neither did the text book that we used either (I look the second day of class ;)) Anyway, it doesn't matter how long it takes to learn, because it can be used is so many entertaining fashions. Oh well.
The one thing that bored the hell out of me in my highschool programming class (C++) is that all we ever did was math related projects. Making up algorithems and more loops than you can shake a stick at. While these are very very important, it gets very very repetative and needs variety. Teach them how to use ports so they can make anything from 2 player network Battleship to and instant messaging client.
I somewhat agree with where you are going, but I don't think you can completely base your argument on the fact that Windows is the dominent UI in the world today; a fact with which I do not argue. However, I think that, while Windows has something going for it in terms of years of research M$ has put into GUI design and implementation, it is still imperfect, and there is room for improvement, while still maintaining the ease of use. The pie menus mentioned in the original question are a fantastic idea! I don't think anyone would have difficulty learning them, or be apposed to saving time by using them. Also today's operating systems have to cater to the lowest common denominator, meaning it will never take advantage of the latest technology fully. If you were to design a system that took advantage of a 1600x1200 resolution, you could have all sorts of useful items to make things even easier for grandma or junior, such as something that was mentioned in a previous Ask Slashdot commentary; smart icons (i.e. a small text document is represented by a page icon, a larger document would be represented by a book, and still a larger document represented by a bookshelf.) This would stick with the tradition of windows, and enhance the usablility.
Even with the advent and the humoungous (sp?) popularity of web-based message boards, I think in the end usenet still remains the best message-board system available. The old (relatively) methods are always the best. FTP is still the staple file transfering, and IRC remains a chat king (does AIM have more users?). Usenet has had the following from the begining and still is thought of as a place where the intellegent and learned go to converse (at least from my perspective, and don't get me wrong, it has it's share of trolls, just like anywhere else). I know my oldest brother to be one of the most knowlageable civilians in the country when it comes to military aviation, and where does he go to chat it up? Usenet. There's a wealth of useful information there that not many people know how to access.
Thank you so very much for your response! I've just turned it into a text file and will save it as a reminder sheet. Thanks again.
I know I personally have bought more CDs since using Napster, because I've been able to try before I buy! The reason I didn't buy as many before is that I'm quite cautious about my spending because I budget myself quite tightly, as most students do. I used to wait for friend to get the CD so I could listen to the material first. I was especially able to do this when there was a Blockbuster music located in my area because they let you listen to anything in the store! However now with Napster, I am able to preview what I potentially want to buy. If I just like the single from a CD, I will keep that as apposed to buying a $6 single, because I know it will be waste of money and I will tire of it shortly. However lately I've been able to find some wonderful thing that have inspired me to buy some sensational albums I know I'll never tire of.
NOW TO MY POINT: If people on Napster didn't buy CDs, the system would die. Napster relys on people (at this point mostly the warez-like IRC release groups, but not for much longer). People are refining their taste in music and sharing their MP3'd collections with the world. If this was not the case, if it were just petty theft of each song without care for the system, then Napster would die, because it would run out of new material.