"Why isn't the government providing the tools the military needs.
Additionally there should be a significant discount if they make a nice large contract"
Or more likely you'd see the birth of the $100 can of silly string in camo colors as approved military issue.
In general the places with starving kids aren't attracting the interest of the mega-rich so how can you blame them? In fact when Western companies bring employment to poorer countries it's looked on as exploitation or off-shoring and they get dog's abuse anyway.
Isn't an embedded system something like a set-top box or a handheld or even a lathe? As much a fan of Ubuntu as I am I can't see much need for it on a CNC machine.
"and very few FPSes have weapons that can jam or break."
Boiling Point (FPS) had different quality weapons which were prone to jamming. Very prone, particularly when you were being attacked by a leopard while in the middle of a firefight between the mafia and the CIA. Not modelling realism indeed....
It's going to cost a certain amount of money to mirror a harddrive (say 60-70 dollars for a medium size drive and maybe 40 tops for commercial software. Not that bad. I assume they're trying to draw into question whether the email was ever received and will use the mirror to prove no copies were ever stored on the drive. Is it spam if you don't store it on your computer? (Obviously I still think it is but the law's a twisty thing if it hasn't been bolted down.)
I think it's about as true as the IRC pranks on Something Awful. ie as true as you want it to be. The difference is the SA pranks ARE funny and this really wasn't.
Of course the real problem is the proprietary software used by all these voting machines. They need to open source it to make it more secure. Have it so it'll run on standard hardware like a Lenovo desktop.
He means "killer" as in "killer app" rather than "buzz kill". Dapper's fine.
I think the main problem with the Edgy upgrade is that a lot of people came to Ubuntu with Dapper and once all their Multiverse-installs broke during the upgrade they didn't know how to fix it. I myself had the Edgy upgrade break the xserver-xorg config for my ATI card and fixed it by searching the forums a bit, despite knowing sod all about the nitty gritty of Linux. Next time though I'd do the fresh install.
Even if you bootlegged a DeBeers diamond who are you going to sell it to? The clientele that is going to be in the market for street corner diamond sales wouldn't care about a DeBeers microtag they can't see anyway.
"I don't doubt that you could get an OK or even good script by committee,"
Not really a problem as the script doesn't appear to be that open to involvement from the swarm. I joined the project when it made it onto Digg a couple or three weeks ago (and this isn't a dig(!) at Slashdot because I question whether it should be getting a mention anywhere.) and looked through the forums. I was member 780-ish of the proposed 1000 before membership is closed for phase 1. I went on the forums that constitute the bulk of the project and as is usual there are maybe 20 people with opinions and a lot of lurkers. Thing is there are only perhaps half a dozen key people making a contribution that's being listened to.
Being a longtime forum user (troll-lite) I immediately settled down for some robust debate. It's not happening. There were two script treatments for review but a decision was already being made to have a script extract ready for a ready for reading at a film festival in a month's time - and this without any vote on which treatment should be used. Meanwhile some critical decisions have already been made by the swarm such as what colour the already commissioned poster should be. So no community input into the promotional poster but we get to pick the colour - do you see where this is heading?
If you want to get involved remember this - the musicians, writers, and production staff will be drawing industry level wages regardless of whether it works out or not and if it is a massive success it has already been decided that there will be no reward to members of the project as it will be rolled forward into future projects (where the muscians, writers and production staff will no doubt once again draw industry wages.)
I pretty much left in disgust about two weeks ago and haven't been back so if anything has changed my apologies but hopefully my experience will encourage you to do some homework before throwing down the admittedly small amount of money involved to become a member.
"That's even worse. I can just see the 200,000 initial PS3 owners fighting over the 20 games available, with 199,980 owners looking at the pretty brick in their livingrooms until more are produced.:)"
It won't be THAT bad. A lot of those PS3 owners will just want it so they can watch their BluRay movie collections.
I read this yesterday I think and by now stretch was THIS guy's life wrecked. He put on a bit of weight, stopped some of his other hobbies and wasn't in touch with his friends as much. He met his current girlfriend in the game so lets put this in perspective. By some measures he's done okay.
Nanite workers would be better employed in breaking the broken area down to its constituent molecules and rebuilding it from scratch. Tiny hands capable of grasping tiny objects? Maybe a fastener of somekind. A kind of over-engineered velcro.
"Not to mention the outrage your typical gamer would have at having to cook or go to Lamaze with his pregnant mistress in a GTA or Soprano's game. "
And the typical viewer would be pissed off if the typical Sopranos episode was 50 minutes of cooking or Lamaze. That's what cut-scenes are for anyway. Skippable cut scenes.
And as you said it doesn't have to do HD so in the broadest terms possible it only needs a 1/4 of the power under the hood to render the same scene (I know I'm going to suffer for making such a horrible generalisation...) vs a HD rendering.
Except buying a lot of digital goods second hand is going to become next to impossible as they get tied to USERS rather than being tied to a physical product like a CD or DVD.
"f tomorrow Blizzard decided to discontinue World of Warcraft, that would be it. To the best of my knowledge, the game would never work again. Not even a single-player version where you run around the world by yourself and kill rats for old widows. I'm assuming that enough of the game data is stored on the disc to replicate a single-player world with hacking, but the point is that you will not readily be able to use what you paid for in this condition."
Yep, there's already a standalone server hack for WOW out in the wild.
Which is probably why there's been no loud official condemnation. Like you say if the US was to start flying over Chinese aurspace nobody would be too surprised if they retaliated so this is just a low level tit for tat that's doing no serious harm to either side as yet.
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Or more likely you'd see the birth of the $100 can of silly string in camo colors as approved military issue.
In general the places with starving kids aren't attracting the interest of the mega-rich so how can you blame them? In fact when Western companies bring employment to poorer countries it's looked on as exploitation or off-shoring and they get dog's abuse anyway.
Isn't an embedded system something like a set-top box or a handheld or even a lathe? As much a fan of Ubuntu as I am I can't see much need for it on a CNC machine.
Boiling Point (FPS) had different quality weapons which were prone to jamming. Very prone, particularly when you were being attacked by a leopard while in the middle of a firefight between the mafia and the CIA. Not modelling realism indeed....
Or, if copyright was for the life of the author, I could see a lot of co-authoring going on...
It's going to cost a certain amount of money to mirror a harddrive (say 60-70 dollars for a medium size drive and maybe 40 tops for commercial software. Not that bad. I assume they're trying to draw into question whether the email was ever received and will use the mirror to prove no copies were ever stored on the drive. Is it spam if you don't store it on your computer? (Obviously I still think it is but the law's a twisty thing if it hasn't been bolted down.)
Not if you're a sperm donor at the fertility clinic.
I think it's about as true as the IRC pranks on Something Awful. ie as true as you want it to be. The difference is the SA pranks ARE funny and this really wasn't.
Second pipe on the left.
Of course the real problem is the proprietary software used by all these voting machines. They need to open source it to make it more secure. Have it so it'll run on standard hardware like a Lenovo desktop.
In the enterprise server business? That doesn't seem all that likely...
I think the main problem with the Edgy upgrade is that a lot of people came to Ubuntu with Dapper and once all their Multiverse-installs broke during the upgrade they didn't know how to fix it. I myself had the Edgy upgrade break the xserver-xorg config for my ATI card and fixed it by searching the forums a bit, despite knowing sod all about the nitty gritty of Linux. Next time though I'd do the fresh install.
Even if you bootlegged a DeBeers diamond who are you going to sell it to? The clientele that is going to be in the market for street corner diamond sales wouldn't care about a DeBeers microtag they can't see anyway.
This may be a stupid question but did you ever think about buying another one, getting it set into a ring and then see what it would get make ebay?
Not really a problem as the script doesn't appear to be that open to involvement from the swarm. I joined the project when it made it onto Digg a couple or three weeks ago (and this isn't a dig(!) at Slashdot because I question whether it should be getting a mention anywhere.) and looked through the forums. I was member 780-ish of the proposed 1000 before membership is closed for phase 1. I went on the forums that constitute the bulk of the project and as is usual there are maybe 20 people with opinions and a lot of lurkers. Thing is there are only perhaps half a dozen key people making a contribution that's being listened to.
Being a longtime forum user (troll-lite) I immediately settled down for some robust debate. It's not happening. There were two script treatments for review but a decision was already being made to have a script extract ready for a ready for reading at a film festival in a month's time - and this without any vote on which treatment should be used. Meanwhile some critical decisions have already been made by the swarm such as what colour the already commissioned poster should be. So no community input into the promotional poster but we get to pick the colour - do you see where this is heading?
If you want to get involved remember this - the musicians, writers, and production staff will be drawing industry level wages regardless of whether it works out or not and if it is a massive success it has already been decided that there will be no reward to members of the project as it will be rolled forward into future projects (where the muscians, writers and production staff will no doubt once again draw industry wages.)
I pretty much left in disgust about two weeks ago and haven't been back so if anything has changed my apologies but hopefully my experience will encourage you to do some homework before throwing down the admittedly small amount of money involved to become a member.
It won't be THAT bad. A lot of those PS3 owners will just want it so they can watch their BluRay movie collections.
Seriously though, funny post!
I read this yesterday I think and by now stretch was THIS guy's life wrecked. He put on a bit of weight, stopped some of his other hobbies and wasn't in touch with his friends as much. He met his current girlfriend in the game so lets put this in perspective. By some measures he's done okay.
Nanite workers would be better employed in breaking the broken area down to its constituent molecules and rebuilding it from scratch. Tiny hands capable of grasping tiny objects? Maybe a fastener of somekind. A kind of over-engineered velcro.
It's sad that so few people outside of Germany will spot that as a Gothic 2 reference.
I guess we have to bow to your superior knowledge of both. ;-)
And the typical viewer would be pissed off if the typical Sopranos episode was 50 minutes of cooking or Lamaze. That's what cut-scenes are for anyway. Skippable cut scenes.
And as you said it doesn't have to do HD so in the broadest terms possible it only needs a 1/4 of the power under the hood to render the same scene (I know I'm going to suffer for making such a horrible generalisation...) vs a HD rendering.
Except buying a lot of digital goods second hand is going to become next to impossible as they get tied to USERS rather than being tied to a physical product like a CD or DVD.
Yep, there's already a standalone server hack for WOW out in the wild.
Which is probably why there's been no loud official condemnation. Like you say if the US was to start flying over Chinese aurspace nobody would be too surprised if they retaliated so this is just a low level tit for tat that's doing no serious harm to either side as yet.