I for one sincerely hope they can accomplish this. This is just another little skirmish in the major battle of our lifetimes, that of the individual over corporate control, and copyright is probably the single most important area of that fight.
In the coming years, we will either see more, harsher, more corporate oriented copyright laws or we will begin to see some improvements in the current system.
This is a terrifying thought. So, most small developers are going to be limited to creating PC quality games? Hopefully not. And if they do, they're not going to be able to compete in the PS2 market anyway.
Linux for PS2 just sems ridiculous though. The cost of creating PS2 games is SO high to just create the amount of content in a PS2 game that anyone who can even consider it can afford really expensive boxen and lots of 3d artists.
Another good question is, are there really a lot of usable high quality 3d modeling tools for use under linxu to make this viable? I never get to use Linux anymore because there's no Flash 5 for linux, and that's what I author all day.
Also, I'm sure all those art school graduated, maya using kids are not going to be very familiar with fsck or how to setup their xf86config when they have problems with their video card.
Not to be negative, but I just think we need to be realistic about the market for linux. This is business we're talking about, from sony's perspective. http://www.redpolygon.com
http://www.hyperpoem.net
It's really sad that something people think is really a classic success of open architechure like teh internet is really owned by a bunch of corporations.
thank you america, long live capitalism.:&
As lots of people have said, capitalism isn't good for people.
SEE, this is why we need nice cross platform non proprietary standards like SVG and SMIL. I oly use windows because there's no good flash program for linux. I wish there was, it's not like flash for windows is bug-free.
Come on people, you're talking about a country where almost half of the voters CHOSE bush. Of course we have a gun problem.
This is the man who's father was the head of the cia. This is the man who enacted the first laws in texas in over a century to allow handguns to be brought into churches and amusement parks. This is the man who wants to INCREASE military spending to modernize the military.
you know/. gods, there really needs to be a way to preview your signature. Or you could at least do us the favor and limit the field input to 120 chars so we know when we're over the limit!
I can't imagine the size and power of all the web professionals who've been layed off in the last few months and now can't find a job.
It'll be really interesing to see all the startups and ideas that bubble up from the froth in the next 6-12 months. I know I'm cooking up mine. Getting layed off was the best thing that's ever happened to me.
They cannot stop us from sharing the files we have on our computers.
I'll be the first ski mask wearing coder right on the front lines if file sharing is outlawed baby!
It's ridiculous to think they can even try. The nature of the net is to route around broken links, like napster. Bearshare, http://www.bearshare.com has over a million registered users now. Fuck the riaa, who needs em. We should all download the music we want and then mail a dollar to the artists whose albums you've downloaded. That's more $ than they would get from their record companies anyway.
Wasn't it bruce sterling who talked about a kind of organic based computer?
This will get really interesting when we have computing at a molecular level, but we can grow huge clusters of them like fruit or vines. Now that'll rock. Welcome to the next universe, baby!
Is this my idea or has anyone read about this organic computer idea somewhere before?
Obviously, the truly scary thing about this is the large scale big brother type of manipulation of information.
But I guess it doesn't really matter anymore since AOL-Time-Warner owns EVERYTHING including your ass!
And the other scary thing about this is that people don't care or even know about this type of thing. My X girlfriend's parents had a TV with a big V-Chip sticker right on the front proudly displayed that they never thought twice about.
Don't forget people, we live in a country where almost half of the voting population thought Bush should be elected. That alone is terrifying enough. I don't know if there's any hope left for this country.
I'm about to graduate and I feel like some kind of alien because I'm looking for jobs in science. I don't really want to work making websites for tennis shoes or making products for corporate america.
I've been looking for jobs at astronomy labs and physics labs and they're really hard to find. There aren't really a lot of resources dedicated to finding these jobs. Do you guys know where to look for this kind of thing?
Although there are some good points discussed here, such as the value of having your skillset up to date. But I don't see why you can't apply current techniques like web development, xml, sql, blah blah blah to scientific development? I'm sure scientists can benefit greatly from using the latest technologies, they just need a kick ass programmer to inform them about what they CAN do. Of course my other concern is that scientific institutions won't have the same budget as big software/deign houses, but there's always a price to pay for doing something you care about.
anyway, feel free to contact me. See my flash website to get my email address. (spam sucks)
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You sir are a fucking moron. Please go read Noam Chomsky and stop regurgitating propaganda and stop employing the mohawk vallery formula. Maybe if you spent less time in church and watching TV you could formulate a human opinion on your own and realize that Alan and the other workers of Amazon are the only real people who have a right to own it.
why dont you use that expensive dsl that your huge geek salary pays for and listen to something valuable, like anything from the noam chomsky archive:
http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/multimedia.cfm
or read this:
http://www.mcad.edu/classrooms/POLITPROP/palace/ li brary/mediacontrol.html
"The first trial was one year later, in 1936. There was a major strike, the Bethlehem Steel strike in western Pennsylvania at Johnstown, in the Mohawk Valley. Business tried out a new technique of labor destruction, which worked very well. Not through goon squads and breaking knees. That wasn't working very well any more, but through the more subtle and effective means of propaganda. The idea was to figure out ways to turn the public against the strikers, to present the strikers as disruptive, harmful to the public and against the common interests. The common interests are those of "us," the businessman, the worker, the housewife. That's all "us." We want to be together and have things like harmony and Americanism and working together. Then there's those bad strikers out there who are disruptive and causing trouble and breaking harmony and violating Americanism. We've got to stop them so we can all live together. The corporate executive and the guy who cleans the floors all have the same interests. We can all work together and work for Americanism in harmony, liking each other. That was essentially the message. A huge amount of effort was put into presenting it. This is, after all, the business community, so they control the media and have massive resources. And it worked, very effectively. In fact, it was later called the "Mohawk Valley formula" and applied over and over again to break strikes. They were called "scientific methods of strike breaking," and worked very effectively by mobilizing community opinion in favor of vapid, empty concepts like Americanism. "
Re:School Children saw it.
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I remember working on our "Oregon Trail" role play thing, and writing down something about supplies, and looking up to see the challenger exploding. I also remember my (4th grade) teachers being very sad. By that time, I was cognizant enough to know something very serious was happening.
yeah really, you know how long there have been ads in wired for ghost in the shell?
you think lots of "cool kids" pour over the pages of wired and have for years?
wired is another of those things actually, that used to be far cooler when it catered more to real nerds and people with far left political ideas. But now it's owned by conde nast, who has pruned all the valuable (read: radical left) political content, and it's bland and useless now.
Does it surprise anyone that in america corporate rights come before free speech? oh please.
i dont see why we even post this stuff anymore, america's such a pathetic place. and people don't even care. Remember, this is a place where 45% of the population voted for the son of the head of the cia, a man who passed the first law in over a hunred years to allow concealed handguns into churches and amusement parks.
I can't wait to graduate and move to london...
all that hype about the net creating a more educated, liberal citizenry was just that, hype. What it created was a society even more polarized and stratified, where people can find a whole chat room/discussion board full of other people with the same specific set of beliefs as they have. Just like this one...
it's really sad, although true, that this is the only real linux browser because of the lack of real encryption built in.
as far as i'm concerned, this is the first usable release, because with out the PSM, it's largely useless. I mean, no ecommerce? That's a big part of the web wouldn't you say?
How would you buy your perl shirts from thinkgeek without encryption?!?!!?
Slashdot Mirror
I for one sincerely hope they can accomplish this. This is just another little skirmish in the major battle of our lifetimes, that of the individual over corporate control, and copyright is probably the single most important area of that fight.
In the coming years, we will either see more, harsher, more corporate oriented copyright laws or we will begin to see some improvements in the current system.
http://www.redpolygon.com
http://www.hyperpoem.net
If you really want to volunteer your cpu cycles, you can look for the cure for cancer by using this client:
http://www.ud.com/home.htm
Or, you could keep file sharing freedom alive by running a Gnutella client!!!
http://www.bearshare.com
If you really want to volunteer your hardware, do it for something that will help people, please.
http://www.redpolygon.com
http://www.hyperpoem.net
This is a terrifying thought. So, most small developers are going to be limited to creating PC quality games? Hopefully not. And if they do, they're not going to be able to compete in the PS2 market anyway.
Linux for PS2 just sems ridiculous though. The cost of creating PS2 games is SO high to just create the amount of content in a PS2 game that anyone who can even consider it can afford really expensive boxen and lots of 3d artists.
Another good question is, are there really a lot of usable high quality 3d modeling tools for use under linxu to make this viable? I never get to use Linux anymore because there's no Flash 5 for linux, and that's what I author all day.
Also, I'm sure all those art school graduated, maya using kids are not going to be very familiar with fsck or how to setup their xf86config when they have problems with their video card.
Not to be negative, but I just think we need to be realistic about the market for linux. This is business we're talking about, from sony's perspective.
http://www.redpolygon.com
http://www.hyperpoem.net
If you've ever used bearshare, and lots of other current gnutella clients, you would know that they're simple to use.
The current crop auto-connects to a server for you and all you have to do is type in your search criteria.
people are not as dumb as you think. That's why there are millions and millions of napster users.
http://www.hyperpoem.net
It's really sad that something people think is really a classic success of open architechure like teh internet is really owned by a bunch of corporations.
:&
thank you america, long live capitalism.
As lots of people have said, capitalism isn't good for people.
http://www.hyperpoem.net
"Sunspot 9393 covers an area of the solar disk equivalent to the combined surface area of 13 planet Earths."
from spaceweather.com
wowza. aren't we tiny.
http://www.hyperpoem.net
SEE, this is why we need nice cross platform non proprietary standards like SVG and SMIL. I oly use windows because there's no good flash program for linux. I wish there was, it's not like flash for windows is bug-free.
:)
Maybe they'll make an osX version soon.
http://www.hyperpoem.net
Come on people, you're talking about a country where almost half of the voters CHOSE bush. Of course we have a gun problem.
This is the man who's father was the head of the cia. This is the man who enacted the first laws in texas in over a century to allow handguns to be brought into churches and amusement parks. This is the man who wants to INCREASE military spending to modernize the military.
http://www.hyperpoem.net
you know /. gods, there really needs to be a way to preview your signature. Or you could at least do us the favor and limit the field input to 120 chars so we know when we're over the limit!
http://www.hyperpoem.net
I can't imagine the size and power of all the web professionals who've been layed off in the last few months and now can't find a job.
It'll be really interesing to see all the startups and ideas that bubble up from the froth in the next 6-12 months. I know I'm cooking up mine. Getting layed off was the best thing that's ever happened to me.
http://www.hyperpoem.net
I can't wait until there's ubiquitous wireless broadband and we all have $50 5Ghz crusoe color handheld computer/cell phone/entertainment systems.
Should be about another 18 months right?
yeah baby.
http://www.hyperpoem.net
They cannot stop us from sharing the files we have on our computers.
I'll be the first ski mask wearing coder right on the front lines if file sharing is outlawed baby!
It's ridiculous to think they can even try. The nature of the net is to route around broken links, like napster. Bearshare, http://www.bearshare.com has over a million registered users now. Fuck the riaa, who needs em. We should all download the music we want and then mail a dollar to the artists whose albums you've downloaded. That's more $ than they would get from their record companies anyway.
http://www.hyperpoem.net
Wasn't it bruce sterling who talked about a kind of organic based computer?
This will get really interesting when we have computing at a molecular level, but we can grow huge clusters of them like fruit or vines. Now that'll rock. Welcome to the next universe, baby!
Is this my idea or has anyone read about this organic computer idea somewhere before?
http://www.hyperpoem.net
Obviously, the truly scary thing about this is the large scale big brother type of manipulation of information.
But I guess it doesn't really matter anymore since AOL-Time-Warner owns EVERYTHING including your ass!
And the other scary thing about this is that people don't care or even know about this type of thing. My X girlfriend's parents had a TV with a big V-Chip sticker right on the front proudly displayed that they never thought twice about.
Don't forget people, we live in a country where almost half of the voting population thought Bush should be elected. That alone is terrifying enough. I don't know if there's any hope left for this country.
http://www.hyperpoem.net
I'm about to graduate and I feel like some kind of alien because I'm looking for jobs in science. I don't really want to work making websites for tennis shoes or making products for corporate america.
I've been looking for jobs at astronomy labs and physics labs and they're really hard to find. There aren't really a lot of resources dedicated to finding these jobs. Do you guys know where to look for this kind of thing?
Although there are some good points discussed here, such as the value of having your skillset up to date. But I don't see why you can't apply current techniques like web development, xml, sql, blah blah blah to scientific development? I'm sure scientists can benefit greatly from using the latest technologies, they just need a kick ass programmer to inform them about what they CAN do. Of course my other concern is that scientific institutions won't have the same budget as big software/deign houses, but there's always a price to pay for doing something you care about.
anyway, feel free to contact me. See my flash website to get my email address. (spam sucks)
http://www.hyperpoem.net
I don't know about you, but it seems like every company I get hired at goes under.
Hmmm... maybe I should refine my job seach methods a little...
Well, then again, I'm just looking for a job to pay the bills in the little time before I graduate.
___________________________
http://www.hyperpoem.net
You sir are a fucking moron. Please go read Noam Chomsky and stop regurgitating propaganda and stop employing the mohawk vallery formula. Maybe if you spent less time in church and watching TV you could formulate a human opinion on your own and realize that Alan and the other workers of Amazon are the only real people who have a right to own it.
/ li brary/mediacontrol.html
why dont you use that expensive dsl that your huge geek salary pays for and listen to something valuable, like anything from the noam chomsky archive:
http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/multimedia.cfm
or read this:
http://www.mcad.edu/classrooms/POLITPROP/palace
"The first trial was one year later, in 1936. There was a major strike, the Bethlehem Steel strike in western Pennsylvania at Johnstown, in the Mohawk Valley. Business tried out a new technique of labor destruction, which worked very well. Not through goon squads and breaking knees. That wasn't working very well any more, but through the more subtle and effective means of propaganda. The idea was to figure out ways to turn the public against the strikers, to present the strikers as disruptive, harmful to the public and against the common interests. The common interests are those of "us," the businessman, the worker, the housewife. That's all "us." We want to be together and have things like harmony and Americanism and working together. Then there's those bad strikers out there who are disruptive and causing trouble and breaking harmony and violating Americanism. We've got to stop them so we can all live together. The corporate executive and the guy who cleans the floors all have the same interests. We can all work together and work for Americanism in harmony, liking each other. That was essentially the message. A huge amount of effort was put into presenting it. This is, after all, the business community, so they control the media and have massive resources. And it worked, very effectively. In fact, it was later called the "Mohawk Valley formula" and applied over and over again to break strikes. They were called "scientific methods of strike breaking," and worked very effectively by mobilizing community opinion in favor of vapid, empty concepts like Americanism. "
___________________________
http://www.hyperpoem.net
it's sad as hell, but i never remember anyone's phone number anymore, and when my cell phone battery dies, i'm shit out of luck.
___________________________
http://www.hyperpoem.net
I remember working on our "Oregon Trail" role play thing, and writing down something about supplies, and looking up to see the challenger exploding. I also remember my (4th grade) teachers being very sad. By that time, I was cognizant enough to know something very serious was happening.
___________________________
http://www.hyperpoem.net
yeah really, you know how long there have been ads in wired for ghost in the shell?
you think lots of "cool kids" pour over the pages of wired and have for years?
wired is another of those things actually, that used to be far cooler when it catered more to real nerds and people with far left political ideas. But now it's owned by conde nast, who has pruned all the valuable (read: radical left) political content, and it's bland and useless now.
___________________________
http://www.hyperpoem.net
pretty damn amazing. they must be using the spud-server.
___________________________
http://www.hyperpoem.net
Does it surprise anyone that in america corporate rights come before free speech? oh please.
i dont see why we even post this stuff anymore, america's such a pathetic place. and people don't even care. Remember, this is a place where 45% of the population voted for the son of the head of the cia, a man who passed the first law in over a hunred years to allow concealed handguns into churches and amusement parks.
I can't wait to graduate and move to london...
all that hype about the net creating a more educated, liberal citizenry was just that, hype. What it created was a society even more polarized and stratified, where people can find a whole chat room/discussion board full of other people with the same specific set of beliefs as they have. Just like this one...
___________________________
http://www.hyperpoem.net
Considering that we don't even have a real photo from a sattelite passing by pluto, it seems like mir is ahead of it's time.
Apparently the world ecomomy thinks that there are far more important things han space exploration/colonization, like buying more rifles.
___________________________
http://www.hyperpoem.net
it's really sad, although true, that this is the only real linux browser because of the lack of real encryption built in.
as far as i'm concerned, this is the first usable release, because with out the PSM, it's largely useless. I mean, no ecommerce? That's a big part of the web wouldn't you say?
How would you buy your perl shirts from thinkgeek without encryption?!?!!?
___________________________
http://www.hyperpoem.net
This is so fricken awesome. The advances in robotics and biotech are really creeping up on us...
. ht ml
just like bill joy said here:
http://www.wirednews.com/wired/archive/8.04/joy
to summarize - "Watch out!!!"
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http://www.hyperpoem.net