I was so expecting to see an article about a Windows Emulator...I'm offically a hopeless nerd. Heh anyway...
My parents own a bar in Ohio. You know you'd be surprised the amount of laws there still are about these kind of things. I'm happy to see that these steps are being taken but really it makes one wonder about the state of interstate commerce.
Here's just some oberservaions and predictions about how this industry will shape up:
1) We'll see the wide spread use of the internet slowly transform it into huge single communications network. Everything, telephonery, telivision, and radio will be done online.
2) We will finally see the advent of video telephones like in the Jetsons
3) This switch to the new distrubion medium will shatter traditional industry and decentralize content production.
4) The decentalization will lead to a decrease in professionalism and for the first years the content will suffer a decline in quality.
5) Online media interst groups will emerge offering higher quality content and reintroduce large corparations into the industry.
6) News types of content will result from the above processes and...
7) Maybe 50 years from now the internet will be free to all.
I don't know just some things I think will happen....
If you look you'll see that the internet has already been adapted for home made short films and that the industry has slowly been showing signs of becoming more decentralized. I suppose that there being "nothing on" would all depend what you want on. Where I could really see this technology taking off (at least in a direction that alot of people might not expect) would be in a video tutorial world. Say I have a new desk I need to put together. I hop on my laptop, load a video service and boom I have a video demonstartion from the maker on how to put it together.
What took so long was that the world at large hasn't widely adapted a fast enough internet connection to make these services profitable. Also you have to remember that the internet is still in its infancy. On top of that we haven't seen great inovations in video compression that would make it possible to deliever realtime streaming video at the same quailty as TV can. Couple all this with the fact that this would potentially be a huge shift in the industry (meaning that large corporations will fight the move) and you have your answer.
Though I must agree I wish it had happened faster.
No. The software that drives this revolution has been in the making for years. In fact corporations are fighting the switch to online programming hard. Their conservative stance that has made them so against change has for years has also left them wrong on every decision about content distrubution through the years.
This was foreshadowed by the Napster fight. The difference is that the television market is too diversified for any single group to put it in a chokehold. This means that home produced shows are able to make way into the home. In the end that means the consumer will win and eventually big business will come in and take over the market but until then be prepared for large corporations to fight this to no end.
I don't know. Is it just me or does google remind anyone else of the brainiac from Superman comics. It was this robot that went planet to planet indexing all that planet's knowledge and then destroying the planet so it was the only one with the information. Google already wants to index the world's knowledge....
Well actually that's part of the Slashdot effect. See it was 4.65 but then they posted an article on slashdot and everyone went out and got it to check it out and now it's 25%. Oh my if they would only use their power for good.....
In that regard you are most likely correct. Spelling has always been one of my downfalls (I should really try to run spell check before I post). I'll try to do better in subsequent posts.
You're correct, I'm not worried about getting in trouble for showing them anything. Maybe I should clarify what's going on. I have gotten in trouble before for logging in to other peoples accounts. When we had the hearing on it I was lucky in the fact that our Network Admin sided with me and basically they made me promise not to do it again and let me go. I've brought up security questions in the past and they've all been quickly corrected. This past summer the school hired me and four other students to service the computers (mostly running cable, cleaning computers, updating windows ect.) but they also had me setting up a new server and some other things (I'm CCNA and Net+ certified). Last summer they gave me and another student who was working there the admin password. Now that I'm graduating the computer teachers and our Net Admin asked if I knew any security related holes in the network or had any suggestions. So it's not a question of if I should talk, I'm just wondering what to tell them because I know that they can overzealous and if shown how they might have a tendency to competely lock down the machines and then people would run into problems (I'm also wondering if I should show them how to use things like keyloggers ect).
Lol I wish I completely understood databases. I meant that I understood them more in VB than in any other language. I needed to be able to take text files, and use them to create databases that I could edit at runtime. I knew how to do that in VB but not in C++.
Honestly I used VB because I didn't have much time to do it and I wanted a nice user interface because next year I'll be gone and it's likely they won't touch the actual code for a very long time. That and I used databases which, sadly because VB was my first language I don't completely understand in C++ and java.
You know it's my senior year of highschool, for the past 5 years I've gotten around every filter my school has had up, and I've spent my time in computer classes finding expolites in the network that let me do everything from changes grades to veiw teachers emails (They had a great way of asigning network user names and passwords to teachers their username as their last name and the first inital of their first name, then the password was 'blackhawk', the name of the school.) Well last year my school decided to start hiring students to fix it's computers. Now that I'm leaving they asked if I would give them an evulation of their network and holes in it's security. I'm not sure what I'll tell them. I'm thinking of being honest and explaining that their efforts are good but misdirected (for example they have certain universal network usernames with no passwords and the computers that keep the grades are on the same network as all the other school computers so you can login to them from anywhere in the school...well actually anywhere if you have TightVNC *rolls eyes*). But I'm worried that they would only close up the holes I point out and coutinue to use filtering polices that don't make sense (they use SonicWall...which blocks great sites like Disney)
Offtopic:
Simply put many people's violent reactions are produced by their own insecurities. While I don't pretend to fully understand much of the world around me, I would say it is fairly certain that through time I have learned a humble amount and that as time progresses and I expirence more I'll become more aware. Your atack on my sexual activity and merits simply a product of your own fear. I truly hope that some day you will be confortable enough with yourself to be able to enter a dicussion with purpose instead of lashing out and attacking those are you.
Ontopic: Because I'd be wasting a post if I merely responded to you, allow me to address here a comment made above yours. Yes, I'm sure my view on java would be much different if I had been writing code for year. I am in essence, not trying to bash java. I'm simply questioning if it's the best thing out there. I feel that java is incredibly usefull in cross platform and internet oriented programs. I use it in that regard (though I do use python heavily when I find I might need a program to run somewhere else). Still I'm sometimes annoyed by the length of java code. If I know I'm writing a program for myself or for a freind where I can assure that it will be run under windows I find it easier to use VB. Sometimes I like the power of C++. I think java pushed the envelop and now we're going to see growth in other languages to compensate. I wasn't trying to say that java wasn't a good language, only that it's not the only good choice out there.
Lol. Funny, but really Sun's point of view is quite off. I really take heart to issues involving the merits of java. I'm in my senior year of high school right now. For the past 3 years our school has taught programming in nothing besides java. There are plenty of java zelots at our school (including the programming teacher *pulls out hair*) that insist that soon everything will be done in java, that C, C++, and perl are dead languages. Oddly enough our computer club does computer related fundraisers (for example we offer a matchmaking services to the students called computerdate). This year I rewrote all the old Pascal programs that we use for them in VB. We've sent teams to 8 or 9 programming contests, 4 or 5 of them we've won using Python where allowed and C++ the other times while the java teams consistantly placed last. The three of us that know C++ (we have about 40 kids in our computer club) even won a java triva contest. I know java and use it where it's approiate but I can't understand why people think it's such an amazing language. I understand it's merits but it's still a normal programming language.
Those are made by Wizards of the Coast (also the makers of Magic: The Gathering). While the orginal concept for pokemon comes from Nintendo. For the most part Nintendo doesn't influence the card game and other than royalites they don't get money from them.
You know I never liked Yamauchi but I respect the man for what he was able to do. Your observations about the game industry are slighly off base. You're right times did change. Still Nintendo wasn't standing still. More 64's were sold than super nintendos believe it or not. It's simply that Sony opened up NEW markets. They found people who had never owned a gaming console and they sold to them. At first they fudged the numbers to try and make their console look better. They orginally marketed the PS2 as a cheap DVD player. In fact, the fact that they included a DVD player and the Dreamcast didn't have one was proablly a big reason that Sony went down so hard in those console wars. Nintendo's marketshare may be a shadow of it's former self but I wouldn't go counting them down and out. On a side note, god bless microsoft (bet I just offened 80% of slashdot with that). But I mean it. I'm thankfull for the X-Box. It's a good concept and god forbid it's by an American company. I hope they crush Sony in the next round of consoles and I'm pretty sure that if they do they'll do it with better games (they already have better hardware) so everyone will win.
It was a clever marketing ploy, they say they'll go private and their stocks spike, they sell some stock and make alittle money. Once people think they were joking, the price will fall. Then they'll surpirse everyone with an actual buyback.
I've had this machine for over a year now. To me, it's approaching the end of its lifetime as my main computer (I plan to switch it out next January). To this date I've had a problem with spyware once. I ran microsoft's antispyware program and it was taken care of that easy. I check every other month or after I plug my computer into a network that I'm unsure of with three different programs and I have yet to have a problem. I honestly don't know how people get so much spyware/viruses on their computer but I can tell you that I don't.
Those are all good reasons I'm sure but there are some key points that you're missing. First of all Firefox doesn't have a spyware problem simply because it's not used by enough people. What I advocate is that people install firefox on their system because if IE fails them they have a backup. I know I've used it that way, and that's why I put it on all the computers I fix. I care because it will make life easier for them and I want to pass the word along.
There are treaties against testing nuclear weapons in space (Or did Bush pull the US out of those? I honestly can't remember). Nuclear fuels are a good choice due to the fact that the potential for use is greatly increased while the danger a mistake leading to an explosion is small and mostly not dangerous to us or anyone with the probe far out in space. This idea has been long proposed, it's nice to see it gaining momentum. And for the record, it would benifit everyone to colonize space. We already have missiles that launch from space (thanks to clinton) which Bush has already used...there's not really much more that could be done with the militarization of space.
I agree. I'm not saying that you couldn't get around it. Then again you're here on slashdot. I've had the debate about wether you can really lock down a machine and still have it be functional, and you simply can't. There are lots of kids out there who won't get around it. There are also alot more who need their parents just to talk to them. But if nothing else this could stop some kids from accidently playing games that their parents wouldn't like.
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I was so expecting to see an article about a Windows Emulator...I'm offically a hopeless nerd. Heh anyway...
My parents own a bar in Ohio. You know you'd be surprised the amount of laws there still are about these kind of things. I'm happy to see that these steps are being taken but really it makes one wonder about the state of interstate commerce.
Here's just some oberservaions and predictions about how this industry will shape up:
1) We'll see the wide spread use of the internet slowly transform it into huge single communications network. Everything, telephonery, telivision, and radio will be done online.
2) We will finally see the advent of video telephones like in the Jetsons
3) This switch to the new distrubion medium will shatter traditional industry and decentralize content production.
4) The decentalization will lead to a decrease in professionalism and for the first years the content will suffer a decline in quality.
5) Online media interst groups will emerge offering higher quality content and reintroduce large corparations into the industry.
6) News types of content will result from the above processes and...
7) Maybe 50 years from now the internet will be free to all.
I don't know just some things I think will happen....
If you look you'll see that the internet has already been adapted for home made short films and that the industry has slowly been showing signs of becoming more decentralized. I suppose that there being "nothing on" would all depend what you want on. Where I could really see this technology taking off (at least in a direction that alot of people might not expect) would be in a video tutorial world. Say I have a new desk I need to put together. I hop on my laptop, load a video service and boom I have a video demonstartion from the maker on how to put it together.
What took so long was that the world at large hasn't widely adapted a fast enough internet connection to make these services profitable. Also you have to remember that the internet is still in its infancy. On top of that we haven't seen great inovations in video compression that would make it possible to deliever realtime streaming video at the same quailty as TV can. Couple all this with the fact that this would potentially be a huge shift in the industry (meaning that large corporations will fight the move) and you have your answer.
Though I must agree I wish it had happened faster.
No. The software that drives this revolution has been in the making for years. In fact corporations are fighting the switch to online programming hard. Their conservative stance that has made them so against change has for years has also left them wrong on every decision about content distrubution through the years.
This was foreshadowed by the Napster fight. The difference is that the television market is too diversified for any single group to put it in a chokehold. This means that home produced shows are able to make way into the home. In the end that means the consumer will win and eventually big business will come in and take over the market but until then be prepared for large corporations to fight this to no end.
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http://www.toynk.com/catalog/superman__brainiac_1
I don't know. Is it just me or does google remind anyone else of the brainiac from Superman comics. It was this robot that went planet to planet indexing all that planet's knowledge and then destroying the planet so it was the only one with the information. Google already wants to index the world's knowledge....
Well actually that's part of the Slashdot effect. See it was 4.65 but then they posted an article on slashdot and everyone went out and got it to check it out and now it's 25%. Oh my if they would only use their power for good.....
In that regard you are most likely correct. Spelling has always been one of my downfalls (I should really try to run spell check before I post). I'll try to do better in subsequent posts.
You're correct, I'm not worried about getting in trouble for showing them anything. Maybe I should clarify what's going on. I have gotten in trouble before for logging in to other peoples accounts. When we had the hearing on it I was lucky in the fact that our Network Admin sided with me and basically they made me promise not to do it again and let me go. I've brought up security questions in the past and they've all been quickly corrected. This past summer the school hired me and four other students to service the computers (mostly running cable, cleaning computers, updating windows ect.) but they also had me setting up a new server and some other things (I'm CCNA and Net+ certified). Last summer they gave me and another student who was working there the admin password. Now that I'm graduating the computer teachers and our Net Admin asked if I knew any security related holes in the network or had any suggestions. So it's not a question of if I should talk, I'm just wondering what to tell them because I know that they can overzealous and if shown how they might have a tendency to competely lock down the machines and then people would run into problems (I'm also wondering if I should show them how to use things like keyloggers ect).
Lol I wish I completely understood databases. I meant that I understood them more in VB than in any other language. I needed to be able to take text files, and use them to create databases that I could edit at runtime. I knew how to do that in VB but not in C++.
Honestly I used VB because I didn't have much time to do it and I wanted a nice user interface because next year I'll be gone and it's likely they won't touch the actual code for a very long time. That and I used databases which, sadly because VB was my first language I don't completely understand in C++ and java.
You know it's my senior year of highschool, for the past 5 years I've gotten around every filter my school has had up, and I've spent my time in computer classes finding expolites in the network that let me do everything from changes grades to veiw teachers emails (They had a great way of asigning network user names and passwords to teachers their username as their last name and the first inital of their first name, then the password was 'blackhawk', the name of the school.) Well last year my school decided to start hiring students to fix it's computers. Now that I'm leaving they asked if I would give them an evulation of their network and holes in it's security. I'm not sure what I'll tell them. I'm thinking of being honest and explaining that their efforts are good but misdirected (for example they have certain universal network usernames with no passwords and the computers that keep the grades are on the same network as all the other school computers so you can login to them from anywhere in the school...well actually anywhere if you have TightVNC *rolls eyes*). But I'm worried that they would only close up the holes I point out and coutinue to use filtering polices that don't make sense (they use SonicWall...which blocks great sites like Disney)
Offtopic:
Simply put many people's violent reactions are produced by their own insecurities. While I don't pretend to fully understand much of the world around me, I would say it is fairly certain that through time I have learned a humble amount and that as time progresses and I expirence more I'll become more aware. Your atack on my sexual activity and merits simply a product of your own fear. I truly hope that some day you will be confortable enough with yourself to be able to enter a dicussion with purpose instead of lashing out and attacking those are you.
Ontopic:
Because I'd be wasting a post if I merely responded to you, allow me to address here a comment made above yours. Yes, I'm sure my view on java would be much different if I had been writing code for year. I am in essence, not trying to bash java. I'm simply questioning if it's the best thing out there. I feel that java is incredibly usefull in cross platform and internet oriented programs. I use it in that regard (though I do use python heavily when I find I might need a program to run somewhere else). Still I'm sometimes annoyed by the length of java code. If I know I'm writing a program for myself or for a freind where I can assure that it will be run under windows I find it easier to use VB. Sometimes I like the power of C++. I think java pushed the envelop and now we're going to see growth in other languages to compensate. I wasn't trying to say that java wasn't a good language, only that it's not the only good choice out there.
Lol. Funny, but really Sun's point of view is quite off. I really take heart to issues involving the merits of java. I'm in my senior year of high school right now. For the past 3 years our school has taught programming in nothing besides java. There are plenty of java zelots at our school (including the programming teacher *pulls out hair*) that insist that soon everything will be done in java, that C, C++, and perl are dead languages. Oddly enough our computer club does computer related fundraisers (for example we offer a matchmaking services to the students called computerdate). This year I rewrote all the old Pascal programs that we use for them in VB. We've sent teams to 8 or 9 programming contests, 4 or 5 of them we've won using Python where allowed and C++ the other times while the java teams consistantly placed last. The three of us that know C++ (we have about 40 kids in our computer club) even won a java triva contest. I know java and use it where it's approiate but I can't understand why people think it's such an amazing language. I understand it's merits but it's still a normal programming language.
Thanks, for the link, I stand corrected.
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Those are made by Wizards of the Coast (also the makers of Magic: The Gathering). While the orginal concept for pokemon comes from Nintendo. For the most part Nintendo doesn't influence the card game and other than royalites they don't get money from them.
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/?t=archives&date= 2005-02-05 Check it out, you might be able to relate.
You know I never liked Yamauchi but I respect the man for what he was able to do. Your observations about the game industry are slighly off base. You're right times did change. Still Nintendo wasn't standing still. More 64's were sold than super nintendos believe it or not. It's simply that Sony opened up NEW markets. They found people who had never owned a gaming console and they sold to them. At first they fudged the numbers to try and make their console look better. They orginally marketed the PS2 as a cheap DVD player. In fact, the fact that they included a DVD player and the Dreamcast didn't have one was proablly a big reason that Sony went down so hard in those console wars. Nintendo's marketshare may be a shadow of it's former self but I wouldn't go counting them down and out. On a side note, god bless microsoft (bet I just offened 80% of slashdot with that). But I mean it. I'm thankfull for the X-Box. It's a good concept and god forbid it's by an American company. I hope they crush Sony in the next round of consoles and I'm pretty sure that if they do they'll do it with better games (they already have better hardware) so everyone will win.
It was a clever marketing ploy, they say they'll go private and their stocks spike, they sell some stock and make alittle money. Once people think they were joking, the price will fall. Then they'll surpirse everyone with an actual buyback.
I've had this machine for over a year now. To me, it's approaching the end of its lifetime as my main computer (I plan to switch it out next January). To this date I've had a problem with spyware once. I ran microsoft's antispyware program and it was taken care of that easy. I check every other month or after I plug my computer into a network that I'm unsure of with three different programs and I have yet to have a problem. I honestly don't know how people get so much spyware/viruses on their computer but I can tell you that I don't.
Not to mention that openoffice and wordperfect and abiword can open word docs......
Those are all good reasons I'm sure but there are some key points that you're missing. First of all Firefox doesn't have a spyware problem simply because it's not used by enough people. What I advocate is that people install firefox on their system because if IE fails them they have a backup. I know I've used it that way, and that's why I put it on all the computers I fix. I care because it will make life easier for them and I want to pass the word along.
There are treaties against testing nuclear weapons in space (Or did Bush pull the US out of those? I honestly can't remember). Nuclear fuels are a good choice due to the fact that the potential for use is greatly increased while the danger a mistake leading to an explosion is small and mostly not dangerous to us or anyone with the probe far out in space. This idea has been long proposed, it's nice to see it gaining momentum. And for the record, it would benifit everyone to colonize space. We already have missiles that launch from space (thanks to clinton) which Bush has already used...there's not really much more that could be done with the militarization of space.
I agree. I'm not saying that you couldn't get around it. Then again you're here on slashdot. I've had the debate about wether you can really lock down a machine and still have it be functional, and you simply can't. There are lots of kids out there who won't get around it. There are also alot more who need their parents just to talk to them. But if nothing else this could stop some kids from accidently playing games that their parents wouldn't like.