One of my favorite books of all time is Sources
of Power by Gary Klein. Gary Klein studied how people made
decisions in high pressure situations, like fire commanders and military personnel,
and pioneered a lot of the concepts in intuitive decision making. This is one
of the best written, most informative books I've ever read. I highly recommend
it to everyone. The follow up The Power of Intuition is great in that it teaches
you how to become a better decision maker, but isn't as well written as Sources
of Power.
When I heard of Malcolm Gladwell's book, I immediately thought "Awesome,
the great popularizer is going to be bringing these concepts to the rest of
the world and people will finally know what I'm talking about."
Seeing the subtitle Blink: The Power of Thinking Without
Thinking, I knew that this was a reference to Klein's book.
If you like Blink, or even like the idea of Blink, definately check out Sources
of Power
... and I'll never get modded up, but this could be pure genius. They could have bars on the screen showing the amount of votes for any given action and people could get addicted to watching these bars and voting on things. Just look at the popularity of:
1. TRL 2. The Presidential Elections 3. Home Shopping 4. Reality TV
People love these little competitions about nothing consequential.
I've played both the original "2013" rules (set 25 years after when it came out in 1988) and the 2020 edition. I vastly prefer the look and feel of the original. It had a certain "DIY" attitude that fit well with the world, and the combat system came in it's own slim volume (Friday Night FireFight), and were a lot grittier and more realistic than most games (though it did have it's flaws, you couldn't ever kill someone with a.22 caliber gun). The 2nd version had some cool graphics (though I saw the cover art on a Sci Fi novel as well), but just wasn't the same.
What's really great about this is that when they combined with Champion/Hero, they merged the rules in a really impressive way, and open sourced the rules! They created the "Fuzion" system which was highly flexible, and said "anyone can create a game with our rules." This was years before WOTC did this with the D20 system.
I've been a fan of Mike Pondsmith's ever since 2013, and though I'm not in to RPG's anymore, I'll definately check out the next version of Cyberpunk. He's been promising a new version for a while as a pure labor of love, but he got a job with Microsoft and didn't have the time.
FWIW, R. Talsorian Games/Mike Pondsmith also have games set in a steam-driven Victorian world (Castle Falkenstein - diceless, you use cards), a giant mecha game (again, the first in the genre - Mekton), a goofy anime game (Teenagers From Outer Space), and have Dragonball Z and Bubblegum Crisis titles licensed.
That's a load of crap, Microsoft bought this product, not develop it in house.
All products Microsoft buys are great products - Visio, NT, DOS, (the list goes on and on) but they end up ruining them in a few years.
... with the 60 cycle hum that already comes through my speakers, if we add in lots of digital information too, I won't need to download the latest Aphex Twin album from BitTorrent, I can just listen to the bizarre noises that come out of my speakers because my neighbor is downloading pr0n.
No, I meant fast _and_ anonymous. Fast for those who want it, anonymous for those who want it. Yes, you can't be both at the same time, but the application itself would support both.
I love Waste too. Though, I disagree with the/. idea that this was a subtle reference, he flat out told us he was going to release something that would revolutionize the internet.
If I had to guess, it would be a completely decentralized P2P app. A cross between Gnutella & BitTorrent, perhaps with some proxying for anonymity added on top. Proxying will slow you down, but confound the **AA, which he seems to love doing. If you could turn the proxying on & off, you could get a fast _and_ anonymous service. Fast for people who just want to download, anon for people who feel they need it.
Waste had a lot of protocols that would be useful for proxying, file transfer, etc. He should be able to build something like what I described on top of that.
That senator who said physical damage should occur to anyone's computer that had illegal software/music/movies on it? And does anyone remember when they found some JavaScript on his site that was used without permission?
You do realize that the page you linked to was a giant page with a giant GIF. Linking to the Google Cache version only saved them about 50% of the bandwidth because the giant image still had to be loaded from the original site.
Google may have a complete mirror of the web, but only the text portions (and thumbnails of the images).
I wonder if you could attach a solar panel for when it surfaces, or a propeller that, instead of pushing it foward, recharges the battery as it spins, and send one of these things across the ocean, maybe with a little camera and light mounted on it to take pictures as it goes. That would be a lot of fun. Just set it in the ocean and see how long it can go.
Overwriting your Hosts file is an obvious way to trick people, and Outlook is a prime target for this kind of hack, because it gives incoming email rediculous amounts of control over the rest of the computer.
Remind me to tell my mother to start using Thunderbird and Firefox and install a firewall.
Slashdot Mirror
1. Google is the search engine everyone goes to to find information on the web.
2. Google is a Registrar.
3. Google is a web host.
4. Google IS THE WEB!
One day all domain will resolve to Google's servers.
One of my favorite books of all time is Sources of Power by Gary Klein. Gary Klein studied how people made decisions in high pressure situations, like fire commanders and military personnel, and pioneered a lot of the concepts in intuitive decision making. This is one of the best written, most informative books I've ever read. I highly recommend it to everyone. The follow up The Power of Intuition is great in that it teaches you how to become a better decision maker, but isn't as well written as Sources of Power.
When I heard of Malcolm Gladwell's book, I immediately thought "Awesome, the great popularizer is going to be bringing these concepts to the rest of the world and people will finally know what I'm talking about."
Seeing the subtitle Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, I knew that this was a reference to Klein's book.
If you like Blink, or even like the idea of Blink, definately check out Sources of Power
... and I'll never get modded up, but this could be pure genius. They could have bars on the screen showing the amount of votes for any given action and people could get addicted to watching these bars and voting on things. Just look at the popularity of:
1. TRL
2. The Presidential Elections
3. Home Shopping
4. Reality TV
People love these little competitions about nothing consequential.
"11 Dec 2001 Google offers 20-year Usenet Archive" Where did we get the word "just" ????
I've played both the original "2013" rules (set 25 years after when it came out in 1988) and the 2020 edition. I vastly prefer the look and feel of the original. It had a certain "DIY" attitude that fit well with the world, and the combat system came in it's own slim volume (Friday Night FireFight), and were a lot grittier and more realistic than most games (though it did have it's flaws, you couldn't ever kill someone with a .22 caliber gun). The 2nd version had some cool graphics (though I saw the cover art on a Sci Fi novel as well), but just wasn't the same.
What's really great about this is that when they combined with Champion/Hero, they merged the rules in a really impressive way, and open sourced the rules! They created the "Fuzion" system which was highly flexible, and said "anyone can create a game with our rules." This was years before WOTC did this with the D20 system.
I've been a fan of Mike Pondsmith's ever since 2013, and though I'm not in to RPG's anymore, I'll definately check out the next version of Cyberpunk. He's been promising a new version for a while as a pure labor of love, but he got a job with Microsoft and didn't have the time.
FWIW, R. Talsorian Games/Mike Pondsmith also have games set in a steam-driven Victorian world (Castle Falkenstein - diceless, you use cards), a giant mecha game (again, the first in the genre - Mekton), a goofy anime game (Teenagers From Outer Space), and have Dragonball Z and Bubblegum Crisis titles licensed.
More information on http://www.talsorian.com/
That's a load of crap, Microsoft bought this product, not develop it in house. All products Microsoft buys are great products - Visio, NT, DOS, (the list goes on and on) but they end up ruining them in a few years.
... with the 60 cycle hum that already comes through my speakers, if we add in lots of digital information too, I won't need to download the latest Aphex Twin album from BitTorrent, I can just listen to the bizarre noises that come out of my speakers because my neighbor is downloading pr0n.
No, I meant fast _and_ anonymous. Fast for those who want it, anonymous for those who want it. Yes, you can't be both at the same time, but the application itself would support both.
I love Waste too. Though, I disagree with the /. idea that this was a subtle reference, he flat out told us he was going to release something that would revolutionize the internet.
If I had to guess, it would be a completely decentralized P2P app. A cross between Gnutella & BitTorrent, perhaps with some proxying for anonymity added on top. Proxying will slow you down, but confound the **AA, which he seems to love doing. If you could turn the proxying on & off, you could get a fast _and_ anonymous service. Fast for people who just want to download, anon for people who feel they need it.
Waste had a lot of protocols that would be useful for proxying, file transfer, etc. He should be able to build something like what I described on top of that.
Why did Ken Jennings - multi millionaire - decide to hook up with Microsoft to promote a less-than stellar product. Is it...
Because he really believes in it?
Because he loves the celebrity and thinks spokesperson is the next logical step in his career?
Or because Microsoft has agreed to pay all the taxes on his Jeopardy winnings?
That senator who said physical damage should occur to anyone's computer that had illegal software/music/movies on it? And does anyone remember when they found some JavaScript on his site that was used without permission?
Good times.
or to purchase a small net services company called NeXT ... that happened to be founded by Apple founder Steve Jobs.
I thought for sure this would be an article about IT workers moving to Canada where they're actually hiring people
You do realize that the page you linked to was a giant page with a giant GIF. Linking to the Google Cache version only saved them about 50% of the bandwidth because the giant image still had to be loaded from the original site.
Google may have a complete mirror of the web, but only the text portions (and thumbnails of the images).
I wonder if you could attach a solar panel for when it surfaces, or a propeller that, instead of pushing it foward, recharges the battery as it spins, and send one of these things across the ocean, maybe with a little camera and light mounted on it to take pictures as it goes. That would be a lot of fun. Just set it in the ocean and see how long it can go.
Some guys dressed up like characters from America's Army flew halfway around the world and killed several thousand Iraqi's.
Oh wait...
http://www.newzbin.com/ - Search on Newzbin, download a file, plug it in to your usenet reader, poof.
But SHHHHHH you don't want them sueing usenet useres too.
Not that they will (not high profile enough), but let us enjoy it while it exists.
Bush got more votes than any American in history.
All that means is more people voted in this election. Kerry probably got more votes than any runner up in history.
Me> Hi, I'm new here, I don't know anything about MUDding
Old Timer> Okay, well it's pretty simple. Just follow me.
> (Old Timer) Exits.
Me> Where did he go? How do I follow him? This sucks.
Thank you. ;-)
All of America Flip Flopped in this election. Damn flip floppers. It's a nation of flip floppers.
Overwriting your Hosts file is an obvious way to trick people, and Outlook is a prime target for this kind of hack, because it gives incoming email rediculous amounts of control over the rest of the computer.
Remind me to tell my mother to start using Thunderbird and Firefox and install a firewall.
I would've done that too, but I got some "compression error" because of the repetition. I guess I just needed a large enough blurb before it.
http://www.electoral-vote3.com/
through
http://www.electoral-vote8.com/
If one doesn't come up, use another.