Some repressed Japanese game desinger I think, it was the 1970s, after all PacMan himself looks a bit like a femine part and the ghosts look like eja... Oh crud, there goes my karma.
It seems to be OpenOffice on Windows. I have 64bit Linux, behind an Selinux hardened firewall - nothing is able to exploit office software from over the network. I send out documents in PDF format. People likewise send me docs in PDF or text (or Word arrr). If I was sent an ODF then I would probably open it with Abiword, is the macro going to exploit that, what about Koffice?
Not being part of the software monoculture has enough security benefits that I doubt it would ever pay to attack us when there are enough Windows zombies out there to get first.
I think it is really brave that Bruce came on here to discuss a post about himself.
As for the random SPI board, as an old Catholic Priest I used to know said when asked why he did not attend formal meetings, "For God so loved the world, he did not send a committee".
That said, even without that, it seems the people in Iraq are doing a fairly good job against our military with mere AK-47's and RPGs.
When I read RPG, I had a vision of a group of Iraqis sitting at a table with handfuls of dice shouting "My standard issue US army helmet parries the blast of your sucide bomber".
It is indeed vary possible for the citizens of the US to defeat the US government
Why would you want to uprise anyway? This requirement for a armed backup plan seems crazy. An armed revolution is a bit of a one time solution, you cannot get the guns out everytime the government attempts to remove your civil liberties.
A decent campaign funding and lobbying framework is what US politics needs, and perhaps a more proportional system of voting to allow for more than the two old parties.
If you have a problem with the government, then you can change them, protest outside, start a website and rely on the checks and balances provided by Judges and the constitution, or over here by the Humans Right Act and your right to be heard in Strasbourg (eventually, after the couple of years backlog).
In my humble opinion, looking from the outside, the real American way is not actually to bear arms, the al qaeda philosophy, but to do it yourself, to find other better solutions that compete with the bad systems. When that is not possible then sue the bastards.
If you read his post closely, you'll note that he didn't mention firearms anywhere.
Well the context of the article was guns. If you walk around with a staff, people will just probably think you are using it for walking or you are a shepherd or something.
As far as I know, you can carry a plainish staff with you without commiting any crimes in the UK, therefore the abandoned the traditional rights of Englishmen does not make sense as the mass of the population never did carry guns, there were some points in history where people carried quarterstaffs, but that was as much about wading through marshes and jumping over mud.
Apart from the quarterstaff example, I cannot personally think of any other weapon that was carried around by peasants during peacetime as a matter of course. Most other sophicasted weapons were always too expensive or cumbersome for the mass of the peasants to carry around while performing their daily tasks.
If you can think of a better example then do let me know.
... or do not live in London, there are plenty of smaller places where people are less anonymous and a quick scream can arrange a gang of farmers with rifles, he stole your what? ipod? Is that one of those new genetically modified breeds?
More seriously, I use a really old Walkman and listen to the Radio, if they steal it then I buy another for a tenner and start again.
Well it could be a straw man or shield or whatever, set up so with all the upcoming political events, activists do not interfere with the Wikipedia but there energies are absorbed by this one.
Well for the amount of times I have sent a laptop flying, and considering some of the other junk on the list. I would say the magnetic power cord does it for me.
Not to mention that we have two Mac minis in our office now, as compared to 0 mac boxes before.
. "...making it possible for a user with no technical knowledge to boot Windows on a Mac, thereby making Apple the only company in the world to sell computers that, out-of-the-box, were compatible with both the world's most popular operating system and the world's best-reviewed one."
"world's best-reviewed one." - well Hitler got rave reviews at the time, so that kind of argument is pointless IMHO. Most reviews are just rehashed press releases, or worse, paid for placements.
Users should simply not be encouraged to have "no technical knowledge", that is how we all got into this Windows mess to start with. Cars should not be designed for people with "no driving knowledge" nor should planes be designed for people with "no flying knowledge". There comes a point where people just have to RTFM.
'Dual-booting' is a panacea, you can only actually use one of them at once so why do you want two? Indecisiveness is not a cure-all for technical ignorance.
"When the css change-over went into effect, it should have been a separate story; "New format in effect!" Now the poor 100 best product story will be filled with NOTHING but comments on Slashdot itself."
True but are not all stories "filled with NOTHING but comments on Slashdot itself."?
Its the hermeneutical circle, as the Slashdot community we get there in the end.
The Boot camp is at number 10, while the Mac Mini is down at 35??? Surely they are the wrong way around?
Surely the trip-proof magnetic AC adapter is far more important than Boot camp?
Apple got Windows working on Intel hardware, Big Whoppee, Windows on Intel, like fifty billion other people haven't already?
----------------------- If this is nuts then excuse me but I having a hyper-fit with this new Slashdot layout. I'll just go lie down in dark room for a bit.
>Because as soon as someone smells a buck to be had, the lawyers come in.
That's the golden rule in Open Source, just have no money at all and then the leeches have nothing to grab on to. Whereas if you are IBM then everyone and his mum will have a go at you.
I think you need to think about fair use a little more. Well the fact that say Beckham plays for England is in the public domain so making a little player with a generic blond head and calling him Beckham is surely fair use.
>"with movie tie-ins, you have to pay for a license. I'm willing to bet that is out of a lot >of open source project's budgets."
Well it could be a tie-in with an open source movie!! Or at least a smaller movie that was happy for the free publicity. However, there are some enlightened TV shows that allow 'fan art' and the like. So there may be some hope.
Do not forget that it is always easier to get permission for something that will never make any money. This side of the pond, there ere are also public service broadcasters like the Beeb or whoever who often are very keen to get the public involved.
Many things are also in the public domain, such as the rules of football (soccer) and generic ideas such as cops and robbers or cowboys and Indians, Historical events and so on.
So it is probably best to start with to focus on more timeless projects as open-source games work better when they are upgradable and expandable.
Well 'Indie' is perhaps not really the model we want to be thinking about but rather 'open source'. A collaborative and distributed 'game houses' will emerge in time. So far all the attempts at open-source games have seemed somewhat behind the very big companies.
However, if you read between the lines of the fine article, you will know that there are some types of game which would suit the open-source model and some that won't.
Good example - A sports game - the rules of Soccer or Ice-hockey do not change much, so this would suit the open-source model. The game would be naff to start with but as more people play it then more people would want to improve it, and over time would emerge into a great game.
Bad example - A film tie-in - this would probably never work as by the time the game is at a playable state, everyone has long forgotton the film. However some open-source game engines might develop that allow for quick and easy re-theming.
Well my point was not to get overwhelmed. Just start where you can. You end up going around the hermeneutical circle several times anyway.
I agree that in IT there is nothing to fear but fear itself. So be technologically independent, get your hands dirty, get the hard stuff out of the way first then enjoy the ride back down, set yourself up an Apache server or install Gentoo. Compile "Hello World" with GCC. Try to use Emacs or Vi.
While graphical IDEs are all well and good, if you can put up with the command line, text-only way of doing things then you are a bit more future proof, know a bit more how it works and are ready when the brown stuff hits the fan.
If you have a satellite dish then you can do a bit of manual re-tuning:
ALL EUROPE:
BBC World is a digital channel available free-to-air from the Eutelsat Hotbird 6 satellite at 13 East with the following parameters:
Frequency: 12,597 MHz
Beam: Wide
Polarisation: Vertical
FEC: 3/4
Symbol Rate: 27.5 Msym/sec
BBC World is also available in digital format free-to-air from the Astra 1E satellite at 19.2 East with the following parameters:
Frequency: 11,597 MHz
Beam: Wide
Polarisation: Vertical
FEC: 5/6
Symbol Rate: 22 Msym/sec
To receive the signal from either satellite you will need an appropriate DVB compliant satellite receiver and a dish of an adequate size, usually 90cm, but please seek local advice.
Yeah you are right. The article is a unoriginal and obvious. Unless you are very new to computers (well done for getting to/. already) then the article is really not worth bothering about. Move along, nothing to see here people...
I'm really surprised it got onto the front page at all. I fail to see any merit in it at all.
About the parent post. It is intereseting that an actual comment on the article (i.e. it is on topic), abeit expressed in a direct and non-verbose form, "Article Sucks", is modded as a Troll. The article does really suck... and the '20 people who changed the industry' is actually a bit better.
This story came onto Slashdot in US time when we in Europe where in bed. Come on our American cousins, a Steve Ballmer story and it takes you until page 3 before someone mentions the word 'chair'??
"the "restriction" is imposed by the form-factor of the computer"
Well my G4 Desktop actually has a nice handle on the side which opens the case, allows very easy cold-swapping of bits. However I rarely use the thing (now Gentoo Linux on AMD64).
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Some repressed Japanese game desinger I think, it was the 1970s, after all PacMan himself looks a bit like a femine part and the ghosts look like eja... Oh crud, there goes my karma.
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No please get rid of Insert, I would give blood, sweat and tears for that!
It seems to be OpenOffice on Windows. I have 64bit Linux, behind an Selinux hardened firewall - nothing is able to exploit office software from over the network. I send out documents in PDF format. People likewise send me docs in PDF or text (or Word arrr). If I was sent an ODF then I would probably open it with Abiword, is the macro going to exploit that, what about Koffice?
Not being part of the software monoculture has enough security benefits that I doubt it would ever pay to attack us when there are enough Windows zombies out there to get first.
I think it is really brave that Bruce came on here to discuss a post about himself.
As for the random SPI board, as an old Catholic Priest I used to know said when asked why he did not attend formal meetings, "For God so loved the world, he did not send a committee".
Or even better, have you heard about an operating system called Linux? I give all door to door salesmen an Ubuntu CD.
That said, even without that, it seems the people in Iraq are doing a fairly good job against our military with mere AK-47's and RPGs.
When I read RPG, I had a vision of a group of Iraqis sitting at a table with handfuls of dice shouting "My standard issue US army helmet parries the blast of your sucide bomber".
It is indeed vary possible for the citizens of the US to defeat the US government
Why would you want to uprise anyway? This requirement for a armed backup plan seems crazy. An armed revolution is a bit of a one time solution, you cannot get the guns out everytime the government attempts to remove your civil liberties.
A decent campaign funding and lobbying framework is what US politics needs, and perhaps a more proportional system of voting to allow for more than the two old parties.
If you have a problem with the government, then you can change them, protest outside, start a website and rely on the checks and balances provided by Judges and the constitution, or over here by the Humans Right Act and your right to be heard in Strasbourg (eventually, after the couple of years backlog).
In my humble opinion, looking from the outside, the real American way is not actually to bear arms, the al qaeda philosophy, but to do it yourself, to find other better solutions that compete with the bad systems. When that is not possible then sue the bastards.
If you read his post closely, you'll note that he didn't mention firearms anywhere.
Well the context of the article was guns. If you walk around with a staff, people will just probably think you are using it for walking or you are a shepherd or something.
As far as I know, you can carry a plainish staff with you without commiting any crimes in the UK, therefore the abandoned the traditional rights of Englishmen does not make sense as the mass of the population never did carry guns, there were some points in history where people carried quarterstaffs, but that was as much about wading through marshes and jumping over mud.
Apart from the quarterstaff example, I cannot personally think of any other weapon that was carried around by peasants during peacetime as a matter of course. Most other sophicasted weapons were always too expensive or cumbersome for the mass of the peasants to carry around while performing their daily tasks.
If you can think of a better example then do let me know.
"Before the suppression of the Jacobites, there wasn't much dispute in Britain that free men are entitled to posess arms for their own defense."
Jacobites? You must be talking about pikes or quarterstaffs or maybe even long bows, there was no mass ownership of firearms in England in 1688!
... or do not live in London, there are plenty of smaller places where people are less anonymous and a quick scream can arrange a gang of farmers with rifles, he stole your what? ipod? Is that one of those new genetically modified breeds?
More seriously, I use a really old Walkman and listen to the Radio, if they steal it then I buy another for a tenner and start again.
Well it could be a straw man or shield or whatever, set up so with all the upcoming political events, activists do not interfere with the Wikipedia but there energies are absorbed by this one.
Well for the amount of times I have sent a laptop flying, and considering some of the other junk on the list. I would say the magnetic power cord does it for me.
Not to mention that we have two Mac minis in our office now, as compared to 0 mac boxes before.
. "...making it possible for a user with no technical knowledge to boot Windows on a Mac, thereby making Apple the only company in the world to sell computers that, out-of-the-box, were compatible with both the world's most popular operating system and the world's best-reviewed one."
"world's best-reviewed one." - well Hitler got rave reviews at the time, so that kind of argument is pointless IMHO. Most reviews are just rehashed press releases, or worse, paid for placements.
Users should simply not be encouraged to have "no technical knowledge", that is how we all got into this Windows mess to start with. Cars should not be designed for people with "no driving knowledge" nor should planes be designed for people with "no flying knowledge". There comes a point where people just have to RTFM.
'Dual-booting' is a panacea, you can only actually use one of them at once so why do you want two? Indecisiveness is not a cure-all for technical ignorance.
I never said the cord was on the mini.
"When the css change-over went into effect, it should have been a separate story; "New format in effect!"
Now the poor 100 best product story will be filled with NOTHING but comments on Slashdot itself."
True but are not all stories "filled with NOTHING but comments on Slashdot itself."?
Its the hermeneutical circle, as the Slashdot community we get there in the end.
I for one welcome our new CSS overlords.
The Boot camp is at number 10, while the Mac Mini is down at 35??? Surely they are the wrong way around?
Surely the trip-proof magnetic AC adapter is far more important than Boot camp?
Apple got Windows working on Intel hardware, Big Whoppee, Windows on Intel, like fifty billion other people haven't already?
-----------------------
If this is nuts then excuse me but I having a hyper-fit with this new Slashdot layout. I'll just go lie down in dark room for a bit.
"Lenovo is positioning itself as an exclusive partner of Microsoft"
The lady doth protest too much...
>Because as soon as someone smells a buck to be had, the lawyers come in.
That's the golden rule in Open Source, just have no money at all and then the leeches have nothing to grab on to. Whereas if you are IBM then everyone and his mum will have a go at you.
I think you need to think about fair use a little more. Well the fact that say Beckham plays for England is in the public domain so making a little player with a generic blond head and calling him Beckham is surely fair use.
>"with movie tie-ins, you have to pay for a license. I'm willing to bet that is out of a lot
>of open source project's budgets."
Well it could be a tie-in with an open source movie!! Or at least a smaller movie that was happy for the free publicity. However, there are some enlightened TV shows that allow 'fan art' and the like. So there may be some hope.
Do not forget that it is always easier to get permission for something that will never make any money. This side of the pond, there ere are also public service broadcasters like the Beeb or whoever who often are very keen to get the public involved.
Many things are also in the public domain, such as the rules of football (soccer) and generic ideas such as cops and robbers or cowboys and Indians, Historical events and so on.
So it is probably best to start with to focus on more timeless projects as open-source games work better when they are upgradable and expandable.
Well 'Indie' is perhaps not really the model we want to be thinking about but rather 'open source'. A collaborative and distributed 'game houses' will emerge in time. So far all the attempts at open-source games have seemed somewhat behind the very big companies.
However, if you read between the lines of the fine article, you will know that there are some types of game which would suit the open-source model and some that won't.
Good example - A sports game - the rules of Soccer or Ice-hockey do not change much, so this would suit the open-source model. The game would be naff to start with but as more people play it then more people would want to improve it, and over time would emerge into a great game.
Bad example - A film tie-in - this would probably never work as by the time the game is at a playable state, everyone has long forgotton the film. However some open-source game engines might develop that allow for quick and easy re-theming.
Well my point was not to get overwhelmed. Just start where you can. You end up going around the hermeneutical circle several times anyway.
I agree that in IT there is nothing to fear but fear itself. So be technologically independent, get your hands dirty, get the hard stuff out of the way first then enjoy the ride back down, set yourself up an Apache server or install Gentoo. Compile "Hello World" with GCC. Try to use Emacs or Vi.
While graphical IDEs are all well and good, if you can put up with the command line, text-only way of doing things then you are a bit more future proof, know a bit more how it works and are ready when the brown stuff hits the fan.
man ls
After that just follow your nose and interests.
If you have a satellite dish then you can do a bit of manual re-tuning: ALL EUROPE: BBC World is a digital channel available free-to-air from the Eutelsat Hotbird 6 satellite at 13 East with the following parameters: Frequency: 12,597 MHz Beam: Wide Polarisation: Vertical FEC: 3/4 Symbol Rate: 27.5 Msym/sec BBC World is also available in digital format free-to-air from the Astra 1E satellite at 19.2 East with the following parameters: Frequency: 11,597 MHz Beam: Wide Polarisation: Vertical FEC: 5/6 Symbol Rate: 22 Msym/sec To receive the signal from either satellite you will need an appropriate DVB compliant satellite receiver and a dish of an adequate size, usually 90cm, but please seek local advice.
Yeah you are right. The article is a unoriginal and obvious. Unless you are very new to computers (well done for getting to /. already) then the article is really not worth bothering about. Move along, nothing to see here people...
I'm really surprised it got onto the front page at all. I fail to see any merit in it at all.
About the parent post. It is intereseting that an actual comment on the article (i.e. it is on topic), abeit expressed in a direct and non-verbose form, "Article Sucks", is modded as a Troll. The article does really suck... and the '20 people who changed the industry' is actually a bit better.
Oh well just my 2p....
This story came onto Slashdot in US time when we in Europe where in bed. Come on our American cousins, a Steve Ballmer story and it takes you until page 3 before someone mentions the word 'chair'??
"the "restriction" is imposed by the form-factor of the computer"
Well my G4 Desktop actually has a nice handle on the side which opens the case, allows very easy cold-swapping of bits. However I rarely use the thing (now Gentoo Linux on AMD64).