"I've also heard of ones that shutoff your fans causing your processor to overheat"
As far as I know, since the introduction of the Pentium II 10 years ago, just about every BIOS will power your system down if it detects overheating. And most CPUs on the market have some variation of "SpeedStep", to clock down, and eventually halt, themselves in the case of overheating.
These aren't really things you can tamper with in software. Especially SpeedStep.
But really, isn't that rather like saying "If this 'dollar store' idea takes off, they'll put every retail store out of business!!"?
I'm not convinced that gametap and the indie game markets are mutually exclusive. No one's going to release new games straight to gametap when they can sell them in stores and online for far more, just like no one releases new, quality products straight to the dollar store.
Relax. Keep making new, interesting games, and we'll keep buying them. The vast majority of gamers want the latest and greatest anyway. Most of those of us who play older games do so for nostalgia, because we played those games as children. All the kids turning 13 this year, and getting their first console are still going to want 2k7, and the latest FPS.
GameTap just lets us older gamers play our favorite NES titles without blowing the dust out of the cartridge and resetting the system a few dozen times. By the way -- you wouldn't be making any money off us doing that, either -- we either already own them, or bought them on the used market. At least you get a few cents when we play the same games on GameTap.
God damnit slashdot! When I say "Plain old text", I mean "Plain old text", not "Please, remove all less-than characters I may have inserted, I didn't really want them"
He's from the east coast. He just works in Palo Alto. Seems he, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes met at Harvard.
Had any of them attended Paly I believe they would have been class of '02. I was class of '01 at Paly. I'm pretty sure none of the three of 'em are in the yearbook.
As far as I can tell, Flickr has boomed since Yahoo! came into the picture. If they can avoid trashing Flickr, maybe they can keep Facebook cool too, eh?
Now they know...what it's like to be on the artist's end of the contract.
That's the problem. Both the artist *and* the retailer get shafted (see: the recent collapse of Tower Records). The only people making money on this whole game are the labels.
In fact, Weird Al recently pointed out that he, personally gets *less* from an iTunes sale than he does from a CD sale, thanks to his contract's "New Technology" clause. So even though the label's costs are *lower* for iTunes sales, they're making more, and *taking* more from the artist.
The middlemen get everything. The retailers and the artists get nothing.
For the record, I never meant to imply in any way that P&T's Bullshit! is a bastion of flawless logic and peer-reviewed science. Only that I hoped that *anyone* attempting to make *any* argument publicly, would probably try to avoid using 'experts' to support their claims whom had no professional clout at all.
If they were trying to support smoking, you'd hope they'd avoid citing Smokey McSmokerton, Vice President of Phillip Morris as their primary witness. And/or some random homless guy off the street. There's little point in citing 'experts' if those listening to your arguments are completely unconvinced of your experts' expertise.
CEI's got some great anti-global warming stuff. I've seen claims that they're funded by Exxon. On the flip-side, Penn and Teller's have a CEI 'expert' on, in an episode of their show, "Penn and Teller's Bullshit!" -- one would hope that P&T would avoid using oil industry shills to support the points they make on their show.
It was a big deal to me, 'cause my commute was well over 100 miles a day. My gas bill was a quarter of my income. So a 50 cent fluxuation in gas prices meant a much larger fluxuation in my remaining earnings for the month.
I was buying well over 100 gallons of gas a month. I don't buy 100 bottles of shampoo a month.
At any rate, I solved that problem the best way possible. I moved to within a mile of work. There's no better way to save on gas than that.
Wish I had a mod point for you. File shares are doing a bit more than breaking the law: they're pushing for change. See also the EFF page on alternative music industry business models.
The "File Sharer" position (which includes people who aren't engaged in copyright violation -- merely interested in fair use freedom) is that the RIAA *cannot win* this fight; the state of technology is such that some of us will share music and movies in such a way that we can't be caught. The technically savvy have been miles ahead of the **AA every step of the way. While they were tearing down napster, we were building Gnutella. They're just now suing children and women using Kazaa, while we've moved on to bittorrent. They just killed eDonkey, but we've been using eMule for years.
If they follow us here, we'll move to encryption, darknets, and traffic obfuscation. Technology moves too fast. Copying data will always be easy. Copying it anonymously won't be much harder.
If they keep pushing like this, there will come a time where they can't reach us any more. Then they'll have to change.
So why not cut to the chase? Give us what we want at a fair price.
Re:A funny memory about hard drive memory
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A friend's grandfather actually worked at the San Jose IBM lab back in the days when they were working on early drives -- I think he just turned 88 this month.
At any rate, he talked my ear off for an hour once, talking about how they'd spent a bunch of time trying to figure out the optimal height above the platter to float the head at. He said they used a jet of compressed air under the head to float it, not unlike an air hockey puck.
Long story short, if they really were working on these things in this scale back in those days, I can't say I can blame your professor -- you might as well have been talking about flying cars and having an entire meal in a single pill. I mean, hell, drives these days hold millions of times more data than they did just a couple of decades ago. I don't think anything's ever miniaturized that fast.
Re:Disparaging members of other races? Hardly
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Disparaging or not, and Arnold may or may not be racist, it still attributes personality traits based on racial ethnicity.
"Hot" is a personality trait? I thought it was a set of physical features dictated by genetics.
Which by definition, is tied to race.
People of Asian decent are generally shorter than most people. That's not racist. It's genetics.
Driver Patching One of the weaknesses of the fingerprinting method is that it cannot tell what version driver you are running. More secure drivers and better driver patching mechanisms will narrow this attack vector in the future.
That's only true assuming the probing method doesn't change between patches. Granted, usually it *won't*, but there are probably going to be cases cases where does.
The instructions tell you feed the paper into your printer and visit a certain URL to print a "special one day only" coupon.
This is why I print to a PDFcreator printer, and save the PDF any time I want to use a "Print-your-own-(coupon/tickets/postage)" service.
Not that I've ever tried to re-use postage, that'd be bad. -- it's just handy for the inevitable situation in which something misprints. Lots of print-your-own-postage software only lets you reprint once; and there's been more than once that I've had something misprint on me twice.
I thought Grim Fandango was 3d adventure, while Mario 64 was a 3d platformer?
Honestly, I think trying to pigeon hole any form of media into precise genres is a lost cause. Sure, you can say "That's a race game", and "This is a sports game", but if you get much more specific than that, you're just wasting your time. Not everything fits into an existing genre. Nor are the existing genres well defined. And many things blur the lines between adjacent genres.
This is something people usually get into with music -- e.g. the various flavors of electronica (I almost called it techno, which is always grounds for a flamewar) and metal. Is it jungle? Or house? Or techno? Or euro acid trance-hop?
A temporary stop gap measure might be to use the current Captchas in combination of looking at the users geolocation. I can see how this measure though would really anger free speech advocates for the third world.
Not to mention that this is trivially bypassed with a proxy in the US.
What a waste. Three hours of my life. Every single day! I could be learning how to juggle or searching for a significant other or reading a book or hacking! Something!
I quit, and found an SO. After all the intense fling stuff, she went back to doing what she used to do with her free time -- role playing (in the colaborative fiction sense, not the MMO sense).
I found myself spending a lot of time with her at home during which her attention was directed at her laptop.
So, with nothing better to do, I bought myself a laptop and started playing MMOs again:p
Slashdot Mirror
"I've also heard of ones that shutoff your fans causing your processor to overheat"
As far as I know, since the introduction of the Pentium II 10 years ago, just about every BIOS will power your system down if it detects overheating. And most CPUs on the market have some variation of "SpeedStep", to clock down, and eventually halt, themselves in the case of overheating.
These aren't really things you can tamper with in software. Especially SpeedStep.
...for indie developers.
But really, isn't that rather like saying "If this 'dollar store' idea takes off, they'll put every retail store out of business!!"?
I'm not convinced that gametap and the indie game markets are mutually exclusive. No one's going to release new games straight to gametap when they can sell them in stores and online for far more, just like no one releases new, quality products straight to the dollar store.
Relax. Keep making new, interesting games, and we'll keep buying them. The vast majority of gamers want the latest and greatest anyway. Most of those of us who play older games do so for nostalgia, because we played those games as children. All the kids turning 13 this year, and getting their first console are still going to want 2k7, and the latest FPS.
GameTap just lets us older gamers play our favorite NES titles without blowing the dust out of the cartridge and resetting the system a few dozen times. By the way -- you wouldn't be making any money off us doing that, either -- we either already own them, or bought them on the used market. At least you get a few cents when we play the same games on GameTap.
What's even worse, this concept has been tried, and it failed miserably.
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Clearly, between this, and the AI prediction, this guy is completely unaware of computing history.
Only a fool would try to predict the future with no knowledge of the past.
Dijkstra dismissed the idea long ago. But of course, I'm sure this no-name doofus knows better!
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_and
But of course, increased online digital music sales couldn't possibly have anything to do with *that* could they?
Lots of things have changed in the last 10 years. P2P fileswapping is one of them. iTunes is another.
God damnit slashdot! When I say "Plain old text", I mean "Plain old text", not "Please, remove all less-than characters I may have inserted, I didn't really want them"
In all seriousness:
x - y - z = -1635
0 y 100
0 x 773
0 z 10000
There are only so many solutions to that problem...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Zuckerberg
He's from the east coast. He just works in Palo Alto. Seems he, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes met at Harvard.
Had any of them attended Paly I believe they would have been class of '02. I was class of '01 at Paly. I'm pretty sure none of the three of 'em are in the yearbook.
If Yahoo buys, it will fail
As far as I can tell, Flickr has boomed since Yahoo! came into the picture. If they can avoid trashing Flickr, maybe they can keep Facebook cool too, eh?
I got my first few Lamb of God albums via copy infringement, a couple years ago.
Since then, I've bought a shirt, both their DVDs, pre-ordered their last CD, bought the rest, and saw 'em live twice.
Yep. They sure got screwed. I'm sure they really wish I'd never even heard of 'em.
Now they know...what it's like to be on the artist's end of the contract.
That's the problem. Both the artist *and* the retailer get shafted (see: the recent collapse of Tower Records). The only people making money on this whole game are the labels.
In fact, Weird Al recently pointed out that he, personally gets *less* from an iTunes sale than he does from a CD sale, thanks to his contract's "New Technology" clause. So even though the label's costs are *lower* for iTunes sales, they're making more, and *taking* more from the artist.
The middlemen get everything. The retailers and the artists get nothing.
Climate Scientist To CEI: Stop Misrepresenting My Research
For the record, I never meant to imply in any way that P&T's Bullshit! is a bastion of flawless logic and peer-reviewed science. Only that I hoped that *anyone* attempting to make *any* argument publicly, would probably try to avoid using 'experts' to support their claims whom had no professional clout at all.
If they were trying to support smoking, you'd hope they'd avoid citing Smokey McSmokerton, Vice President of Phillip Morris as their primary witness. And/or some random homless guy off the street. There's little point in citing 'experts' if those listening to your arguments are completely unconvinced of your experts' expertise.
CEI's got some great anti-global warming stuff. I've seen claims that they're funded by Exxon. On the flip-side, Penn and Teller's have a CEI 'expert' on, in an episode of their show, "Penn and Teller's Bullshit!" -- one would hope that P&T would avoid using oil industry shills to support the points they make on their show.
So what's the deal with CEI? Are they reputable?
http://www.cei.org/
It was a big deal to me, 'cause my commute was well over 100 miles a day. My gas bill was a quarter of my income. So a 50 cent fluxuation in gas prices meant a much larger fluxuation in my remaining earnings for the month.
I was buying well over 100 gallons of gas a month. I don't buy 100 bottles of shampoo a month.
At any rate, I solved that problem the best way possible. I moved to within a mile of work. There's no better way to save on gas than that.
Wish I had a mod point for you. File shares are doing a bit more than breaking the law: they're pushing for change. See also the EFF page on alternative music industry business models.
The "File Sharer" position (which includes people who aren't engaged in copyright violation -- merely interested in fair use freedom) is that the RIAA *cannot win* this fight; the state of technology is such that some of us will share music and movies in such a way that we can't be caught. The technically savvy have been miles ahead of the **AA every step of the way. While they were tearing down napster, we were building Gnutella. They're just now suing children and women using Kazaa, while we've moved on to bittorrent. They just killed eDonkey, but we've been using eMule for years.
If they follow us here, we'll move to encryption, darknets, and traffic obfuscation. Technology moves too fast. Copying data will always be easy. Copying it anonymously won't be much harder.
If they keep pushing like this, there will come a time where they can't reach us any more. Then they'll have to change.
So why not cut to the chase? Give us what we want at a fair price.
http://www.eff.org/share/?f=legal.html
http://www.eff.org/share/?f=compensation.html
A friend's grandfather actually worked at the San Jose IBM lab back in the days when they were working on early drives -- I think he just turned 88 this month.
At any rate, he talked my ear off for an hour once, talking about how they'd spent a bunch of time trying to figure out the optimal height above the platter to float the head at. He said they used a jet of compressed air under the head to float it, not unlike an air hockey puck.
Long story short, if they really were working on these things in this scale back in those days, I can't say I can blame your professor -- you might as well have been talking about flying cars and having an entire meal in a single pill. I mean, hell, drives these days hold millions of times more data than they did just a couple of decades ago. I don't think anything's ever miniaturized that fast.
Disparaging or not, and Arnold may or may not be racist, it still attributes personality traits based on racial ethnicity.
"Hot" is a personality trait? I thought it was a set of physical features dictated by genetics.
Which by definition, is tied to race.
People of Asian decent are generally shorter than most people. That's not racist. It's genetics.
Driver Patching
One of the weaknesses of the fingerprinting method is that it cannot tell what version driver you are running. More secure drivers and better driver patching mechanisms will narrow this attack vector in the future.
That's only true assuming the probing method doesn't change between patches. Granted, usually it *won't*, but there are probably going to be cases cases where does.
You see, the problem is that we could all get sucked off before we know what's going on.
That would be whorible.
It's taken me over seven years to truly learn the worth of version control. These days I'd dare not live without it. It really is that good. Honest!
;)
When I started at my current job, we had 3 coders. An overseas idiot who's changes frequently broke things, my boss, and myself.
Originally, we had no version control. It was my duty to manually merge any changes any of us made using WinDiff.
I learned the worth of version control in about 7 minutes
Being able to see who did what, when, and why is also nice.
I've found Munin much easier to configure and extend than cacti.
Quite frankly, I found cacti's interface, abstractions, and terminology very difficult to grasp.
Munin, on the other hand, I've written a half dozen plugins for.
Admittedly, cacti is more powerful, but that didn't do me much good, as I couldn't for the life of me harness that power.
The instructions tell you feed the paper into your printer and visit a certain URL to print a "special one day only" coupon.
This is why I print to a PDFcreator printer, and save the PDF any time I want to use a "Print-your-own-(coupon/tickets/postage)" service.
Not that I've ever tried to re-use postage, that'd be bad. -- it's just handy for the inevitable situation in which something misprints. Lots of print-your-own-postage software only lets you reprint once; and there's been more than once that I've had something misprint on me twice.
I thought Grim Fandango was 3d adventure, while Mario 64 was a 3d platformer?
Honestly, I think trying to pigeon hole any form of media into precise genres is a lost cause. Sure, you can say "That's a race game", and "This is a sports game", but if you get much more specific than that, you're just wasting your time. Not everything fits into an existing genre. Nor are the existing genres well defined. And many things blur the lines between adjacent genres.
This is something people usually get into with music -- e.g. the various flavors of electronica (I almost called it techno, which is always grounds for a flamewar) and metal. Is it jungle? Or house? Or techno? Or euro acid trance-hop?
Who gives a fuck?
If "many" did this, the spammers would just use proxies in the US.
And in the age of botnets, there are an essentially limitless number of available proxies, so blacklisting is a futile persuit.
A temporary stop gap measure might be to use the current Captchas in combination of looking at the users geolocation. I can see how this measure though would really anger free speech advocates for the third world.
Not to mention that this is trivially bypassed with a proxy in the US.
What a waste. Three hours of my life. Every single day! I could be learning how to juggle or searching for a significant other or reading a book or hacking! Something!
:p
I quit, and found an SO. After all the intense fling stuff, she went back to doing what she used to do with her free time -- role playing (in the colaborative fiction sense, not the MMO sense).
I found myself spending a lot of time with her at home during which her attention was directed at her laptop.
So, with nothing better to do, I bought myself a laptop and started playing MMOs again