No, that is not it at all. Cheating ruins the game for all players. It has nothing to do with peer to peer anything. It is a "feature" in the video drivers to allow you to see through Walls and other object, letting you see the players hiding there. How dare you compare cheating to peer to peer file sharing?
I'm not comparing cheating with peer to peer file sharing. I'm comparing the "SeeThrough" technology with peer to peer file sharing. Both can be abused but that doesn't make the technology invalid.
Why suspend the student for 10 days when you can work with the kid and counsel him? What good would a suspension do? You're basically saying, "for doing this bad thing, we're going to give you two weeks vacation. You'll have some catching up to do when you get back since no one else is getting a vacation."
ARSDigita is just another company so whats the big hooplah about. So they have ties with software, web resources, etc.
Yahoo is the same shit, yet when they were shitted on, no one posted about the possible demise of Yahoo. Whats the big difference its just another corporation, and they haven't done anything to improve the Internet as a whole anyFsckingway, so who gives a damn?
What?!! What have they done? They haven't done anything to improve the Internet as a whole? What are you talking about? Clearly you don't know anything about ArsDigita and Greenspun.
Philip has written a great book on designing and deploying web services and made it available online as well as in print. He also makes all the source code for the toolkit that his company uses available free of charge and licensed under the GPL. He, and other people in his company, have written numerous articles at the ArsDigita Systems Journal including his book, a tutorial on SQL, and a tutorial on TCL. He gives you every resource that they use to compete with them, including the ability to educate yourself on their tools and methodology.
ArsDigita also helps to fund ArsDigita University which is starting to make lectures and information on classes available online. Just because you can't physically attend doesn't mean you can't learn what they are teaching. They even sponsor getting kids into development and give away a $10,000US prize in a yearly competition they hold. In their words ArsDigita "recognizes achievement by young people who have built and maintained web services. Web programmers 18 and younger are rewarded for creating non-commercial sites that are useful, educational, and collaborative."
Philip and ArsDigita also give free two-week long boot camps on how to use their software, as well as online web seminars and free one day lectures around the world. Philip was recently here in the San Francisco area and I had a chance to attend one of his seminars.
In short, Philip and ArsDigita have done a lot more than just try to make a lot of money. Unlike Yahoo who just uses free software, Philip and aD actually create it and then go a step further -- They train you on how to use it and make a slew of resources about it and related technologies available on their dime and no cost to you. That's a lot more than most companies can say.
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Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly is TiVo? I went to their site and read up on it, but it seemed to be marketing speak rather than just telling me what the hell it does. It looks like it records shows digitally. If that's the case, how would it send information back to the company? My VCR doesn't do that.
Does it have to be web based? I rember seeing polls on BBSes back in the late 80s, and early 90s. PC-Board is a popular BBS that had poll plug-ins. Also, C-Net that ran on the Commodore 64 and C128 had them.
You're smoking waaayyyy too much crack, monkey boy.
Hey, go fuck yourself, AC. If you'd taken one minute to read my post, you'd realize that I have no clue if Macs read PC disks at all. Maybe they just spit them back out since they auto-eject floppies. The poster that I was responding to also didn't give any indication if it read long filenames or not.
Put a Wintel-formatted floppy (1.44M, ZIP, JAZ, LS-120, whatever) into a Macintosh. Move a long-named Mac file onto it. Bring it to a Windoze box, look for the file. Put a long-named Windoze file on it. Sneaker the disk back to the Mac. Look for the second file.
Not having access to a Mac and you not being generous to tell us what results to expect, I can only say that if the Mac doesn't support long filenames after this long then its implementation of read/write of MS-DOS filesystems is broken. Period. Get a better implementation or find a better OS.
We all know what's next. They'll be awarded a patent for the "delivery of CD title and track information over a networked service" and attempt to shut FreeDB down.
I agree that it will get expensive for them once it starts getting really popular. But you'll see people step up to the plate to offer bandwidth. More than likely there will be regional DNS entries like us.freedb.org and europe.freedb.org. These might use round-robin entries to point off to different servers much like distributed.net does for their keyservers now.
Honestly: Another one of the reasons is that StarOffice ran unbelievably slow on that box, even with 128M of RAM and a 220 MHz processor ? old, but not so old as to be inoperable. And Office is zippy on those specs? Please.
I don't know about those specs, but my laptop is a P166 with 80M of RAM and Win2000 and Office 2000 are quite zippy. I think StarOffice is just too large. Hopefully openoffice will fix that.
It's really hard to take seriously a letter coming from a PacBell dialup email address. MPAA23@pacbell.net ? Whatever. Give me a break. All that money and the MPAA doesn't have their own domain name for sending email. Can you say hoax?
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So now people want to get rid of "SeeThrough technology" in graphics cards because it might be used to cheat by some individuals?
What next? Getting rid of peer-to-peer file sharing because some people might trade copyrighted data?
Yes, let's deny something that could be useful to many because of the actions of a few.
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I don't understand these schools.
Philip has written a great book on designing and deploying web services and made it available online as well as in print. He also makes all the source code for the toolkit that his company uses available free of charge and licensed under the GPL. He, and other people in his company, have written numerous articles at the ArsDigita Systems Journal including his book, a tutorial on SQL, and a tutorial on TCL. He gives you every resource that they use to compete with them, including the ability to educate yourself on their tools and methodology.
ArsDigita also helps to fund ArsDigita University which is starting to make lectures and information on classes available online. Just because you can't physically attend doesn't mean you can't learn what they are teaching. They even sponsor getting kids into development and give away a $10,000US prize in a yearly competition they hold. In their words ArsDigita "recognizes achievement by young people who have built and maintained web services. Web programmers 18 and younger are rewarded for creating non-commercial sites that are useful, educational, and collaborative."
Philip and ArsDigita also give free two-week long boot camps on how to use their software, as well as online web seminars and free one day lectures around the world. Philip was recently here in the San Francisco area and I had a chance to attend one of his seminars.
In short, Philip and ArsDigita have done a lot more than just try to make a lot of money. Unlike Yahoo who just uses free software, Philip and aD actually create it and then go a step further -- They train you on how to use it and make a slew of resources about it and related technologies available on their dime and no cost to you. That's a lot more than most companies can say.
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Pardon my ignorance, but what exactly is TiVo? I went to their site and read up on it, but it seemed to be marketing speak rather than just telling me what the hell it does. It looks like it records shows digitally. If that's the case, how would it send information back to the company? My VCR doesn't do that.
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Does it have to be web based? I rember seeing polls on BBSes back in the late 80s, and early 90s. PC-Board is a popular BBS that had poll plug-ins. Also, C-Net that ran on the Commodore 64 and C128 had them.
We all know what's next. They'll be awarded a patent for the "delivery of CD title and track information over a networked service" and attempt to shut FreeDB down.
I agree that it will get expensive for them once it starts getting really popular. But you'll see people step up to the plate to offer bandwidth. More than likely there will be regional DNS entries like us.freedb.org and europe.freedb.org. These might use round-robin entries to point off to different servers much like distributed.net does for their keyservers now.
It's really hard to take seriously a letter coming from a PacBell dialup email address. MPAA23@pacbell.net ? Whatever. Give me a break. All that money and the MPAA doesn't have their own domain name for sending email. Can you say hoax?