But MS DID license Mosaic, and DID use it as the foundation of IE. It was the talk of the town back when web pages were fighting gopher for popularity! Everybody saw NS and MS grabbing for Mosaic and the speculation was that we'd have a billion different branded, slightly modified, mosaics.
The real Threed's/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
...it's very likely that Garriot's game will borrow a lot of internal code ideas from UO, and THAT will be its downfall.
I will maintain till my death that UO's server software is a big POS, sloppily designed, hacked until it barely worked, and left in that bastardized state without any further refinement.
BTW: The asian game has its own unique problems... From what I hear, the police over there have special RL/PK units to combat the new phenomenon of taking RL revenge on an in-game PK.
The real Threed's/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
...which actually happened and, legally speaking, flew just fine (probably because Hank Sr was dead at the time). (Incidentally, I just can't call Hank Williams Jr 'Junior' anymore.)
Or maybe:
GET A VISA CARD FROM BIGBANK AT 1%* INTEREST!
(insert a page of advertising drivel)
*onlyforthefirsttwodays
...which I get in my mailbox every week.
Defamation, slander, copyright violation, theft of services, misapropriation of trademark, and the like are already crimes. Taking advantage of people who can't spell (and obviously can't bookmark either) isn't.
Note: I'm not taking a side on whether it's "right".
The real Threed's/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
To end the cascading torrent of self-referential popups-with-popups that can never be closed, switch to a browser that will let you disable "Window.Popup()" in javascript. I know Konqueror lets me do this, dunno about others. It may not stop the first dirty picture, but it'll stop the porn sites from bombarding your kids with crap if they click the wrong thing.
The real Threed's/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
The article is slightly revisionist, excepting that the author disclaims accuracy for those parts and requests enlightenment.
The real Threed's/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
--Threed
Email doesn't work like that
on
IETF vs. ICANN
·
· Score: 1
Damn, two replies calling your idea stupid, but no one gave the reason. So, to shed a little light:
EMAIL is going to be a problem for any scheme which puts the choice of root solvers in the users' hands. This is because you do not send email directly to the recipient's email client, or even directly to their mailbox. Email has to bounce around the network-in-a-network of SMTP servers before it arrives at its destination, and each of those SMTP servers needs to use the same namespace to figure out where mail is going.
The real Threed's/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
The space station's current handyman is NASA astronaut Jim Voss, a 52-year-old retired Army colonel.... "I spend most of my day with a tool in my hand,"... Voss said recently from the space station.
Hehehe... He said Tool. The real Threed's/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
The website looks like they've had some recent updates. I'll agree, it was looking pretty dead for a while but I bet that could be explained by the holiday season.
They've finished the proof-of-concept for the protocol, object model, and ai and it looks like they're working on expanding each of those.
Let them cruise along at their own pace and absorb all the best ideas from the commercial games and learn from their mistakes. It's open source, so at least it won't be rushed out the door before its done (like some other games we know).
(Moderators: I have a +1 and didn't use it. Consider this post already modded down.) The real Threed's/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
I was never an Ultima fan, but I loved UO. I played night and day for six months straight. I only gave it up when I realized that they were never going to make it the game it should have been.
I was expecting them to loosen up and let the players take some control over the world. Instead, they put a piece of software in charge of the criminal justice system (karma / reputation) and completely ignored any sense of realism. I can't seem to find the right words to properly frame my criticism, but it gives me the same sense of "that's just WRONG" that "security-through-obscurity" does.
So, I say forget Asheron's call, UO, UO2, EverQuest, and all that rot. They're closed source. The players are at the mercy of the developers. Why set yourself up for a fall, especially given the amount of time and energy that go into the characters?
Have a peek at www.worldforge.org
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I notice the story isn't about POP3, but qmail is getting a lot of attention for being as slow as it is. I just gotta put in a mention for the Cubic Circle POP Daemon, cucipop (search freshmeat). Small, fast, perfect for small- to mid-size email servers. As always read the dox before installing.
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The real Threed's/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
Would that have been "Stars and Stripes", "Liberty Line", or "Star Eagle"?
I remember one night, out of the blue, a bunch of MBBS sysops around the US (and maybe even Canada) linked their boards up. For a few hours, we had people chatting coast-to-coast. It was awesome, until one of the boards went down and dragged the rest with it.
I spend a LOT of time on those three boards. I know one of my handles was "Bird" and perhaps I might have used "Skandranon" there as well. Still quite a few people from that crowd gathered in EFNet #Cincinnati, but they're a surly crowd and don't take well to newcomers even if the newcomers are actually old timers.
The real Threed's/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
What you're suggesting is to remove the top two choices by letting the two "sub-majorities" cancel each other out (perhaps with one having a slight edge over the other). That's kinda contrary to the whole point of having an election.
What we're trying to do in an election is arrive at a concensus. A Borda Count does a better job at selecting the candidate that everyone could live with because it lets every voter give their complete opinion on every candidate.
(I was going to give some examples, but using actual candidates' names and the logic used by the typical party member would come off looking a bit flamish.)
The math in a Borda Count isn't so bad. Each first place vote earns a candidate n votes, second place n-1, and so on, n being the number of candidates. The points are tallied, the winner is clear.
I don't know whether the Borda Count would eliminate the need to vote indirectly. Democracy is pretty screwed up, especially when a popular vote is used. How much of that is the democratic process and how much is the popular vote, I dunno. The US is a Republic, and probably ought to stay that way for the time being.
The real Threed's/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
Direct democracy sucks. What we actually need (even more than campaign finance reform) is a new way of enumerating the votes. After reading some materials on the statistics of voting, I've been convinced that a slightly more complicated system such as a "Borda Count" would let the best candidate shine through regardless of party boundaries.
It works something like this... Each voter ranks the candidates according to preference. First place gets a certain number of points, second gets a little less, and so on. Then each candidate's points are totaled and the winner takes it.
One potentially amusing situation was highlighted: Say all the republicans rank Bush first and Gore last and the democrats do the opposite. In that situation, the second place candidates are more likely to win. We'd wind up with Nader or Browne, whom a lot of people think are a better choice than Bush or Gore anyway, but won't vote for them because of the percieved unlikelyhood that they'll win.
The real Threed's/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
The current state of affairs becomes the next "false vacuum" due to expansion cooling. The new vacuum takes over, changing physics in its wake as it spreads at the speed of light.
The real Threed's/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
The current drug warriors think they ARE attacking demand - by locking up users as a "deterrent" and refusing to consider decriminalization/legalization in hopes of "sending the right message to children".
The real Threed's/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
Only once have I ever gone completely without sleep for more than 24 hours. I was completely lucid the entire time, a total 48 hours wide awake. No one noticed anything wrong with me. No hallucinations. When it came time to fall asleep, I had to lay there for a while before I dozed off. I actually wanted to keep going but knew I'd best rest.
When I was in school, I'd go in short of sleep every day. Like 3 hours sleep then off to school and then staying up late again that night, repeat. After a few days of that, whoa...
Walking down the hall, heard my g/f call my name. Turned, no one there. Then went through a door, and she's at the other end of that hall. "Damn, it's only second period and I'm already hearing voices. Gonna be a long day."
Ever try to catch what the voices are saying? That's some wierd stuff!
The real Threed's/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
Slashdot Mirror
But MS DID license Mosaic, and DID use it as the foundation of IE. It was the talk of the town back when web pages were fighting gopher for popularity! Everybody saw NS and MS grabbing for Mosaic and the speculation was that we'd have a billion different branded, slightly modified, mosaics.
/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
The real Threed's
--Threed
What the hell do I need digitally encoded music for? I have VINYL! *wild cackling laugh fades into distance*
/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
The real Threed's
--Threed
...it's very likely that Garriot's game will borrow a lot of internal code ideas from UO, and THAT will be its downfall.
/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
I will maintain till my death that UO's server software is a big POS, sloppily designed, hacked until it barely worked, and left in that bastardized state without any further refinement.
BTW: The asian game has its own unique problems... From what I hear, the police over there have special RL/PK units to combat the new phenomenon of taking RL revenge on an in-game PK.
The real Threed's
--Threed
More like:
/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
hank williams jr sings the songs of
HANK WILLIAMS
...which actually happened and, legally speaking, flew just fine (probably because Hank Sr was dead at the time). (Incidentally, I just can't call Hank Williams Jr 'Junior' anymore.)
Or maybe:
GET A VISA CARD FROM BIGBANK AT 1%* INTEREST!
(insert a page of advertising drivel)
*onlyforthefirsttwodays
...which I get in my mailbox every week.
Defamation, slander, copyright violation, theft of services, misapropriation of trademark, and the like are already crimes. Taking advantage of people who can't spell (and obviously can't bookmark either) isn't.
Note: I'm not taking a side on whether it's "right".
The real Threed's
--Threed
To end the cascading torrent of self-referential popups-with-popups that can never be closed, switch to a browser that will let you disable "Window.Popup()" in javascript. I know Konqueror lets me do this, dunno about others. It may not stop the first dirty picture, but it'll stop the porn sites from bombarding your kids with crap if they click the wrong thing.
/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
The real Threed's
--Threed
NT means NO TEXT
/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
The real Threed's
--Threed
The article is slightly revisionist, excepting that the author disclaims accuracy for those parts and requests enlightenment.
/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
The real Threed's
--Threed
Damn, two replies calling your idea stupid, but no one gave the reason. So, to shed a little light:
/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
EMAIL is going to be a problem for any scheme which puts the choice of root solvers in the users' hands. This is because you do not send email directly to the recipient's email client, or even directly to their mailbox. Email has to bounce around the network-in-a-network of SMTP servers before it arrives at its destination, and each of those SMTP servers needs to use the same namespace to figure out where mail is going.
The real Threed's
--Threed
The space station's current handyman is NASA astronaut Jim Voss, a 52-year-old retired Army colonel. ... "I spend most of my day with a tool in my hand," ... Voss said recently from the space station.
/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
Hehehe... He said Tool.
The real Threed's
--Threed
Which they didn't. Everyone knows it's "GNU/Linux" hehehe
/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
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The real Threed's
--Threed
The website looks like they've had some recent updates. I'll agree, it was looking pretty dead for a while but I bet that could be explained by the holiday season.
/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
They've finished the proof-of-concept for the protocol, object model, and ai and it looks like they're working on expanding each of those.
Let them cruise along at their own pace and absorb all the best ideas from the commercial games and learn from their mistakes. It's open source, so at least it won't be rushed out the door before its done (like some other games we know).
(Moderators: I have a +1 and didn't use it. Consider this post already modded down.)
The real Threed's
--Threed
I was never an Ultima fan, but I loved UO. I played night and day for six months straight. I only gave it up when I realized that they were never going to make it the game it should have been.
/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
I was expecting them to loosen up and let the players take some control over the world. Instead, they put a piece of software in charge of the criminal justice system (karma / reputation) and completely ignored any sense of realism. I can't seem to find the right words to properly frame my criticism, but it gives me the same sense of "that's just WRONG" that "security-through-obscurity" does.
So, I say forget Asheron's call, UO, UO2, EverQuest, and all that rot. They're closed source. The players are at the mercy of the developers. Why set yourself up for a fall, especially given the amount of time and energy that go into the characters?
Have a peek at www.worldforge.org
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The real Threed's
--Threed
That was hella cool.
/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
(Moderators, I have a +1, and didn't use it. Consider this post already modded down.)
The real Threed's
--Threed
I notice the story isn't about POP3, but qmail is getting a lot of attention for being as slow as it is. I just gotta put in a mention for the Cubic Circle POP Daemon, cucipop (search freshmeat). Small, fast, perfect for small- to mid-size email servers. As always read the dox before installing.
/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
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The real Threed's
--Threed
As a Geek, the student should have recognized the name Giovanni and known not to be so trusting.
/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
Is it any real surprise that Giovanni wanted a cut? "It was tribute, just like in the old days..."
(Moderators, I have +1 and didn't use it. Consider this post already modded down.)
The real Threed's
--Threed
Would that have been "Stars and Stripes", "Liberty Line", or "Star Eagle"?
/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
I remember one night, out of the blue, a bunch of MBBS sysops around the US (and maybe even Canada) linked their boards up. For a few hours, we had people chatting coast-to-coast. It was awesome, until one of the boards went down and dragged the rest with it.
I spend a LOT of time on those three boards. I know one of my handles was "Bird" and perhaps I might have used "Skandranon" there as well. Still quite a few people from that crowd gathered in EFNet #Cincinnati, but they're a surly crowd and don't take well to newcomers even if the newcomers are actually old timers.
The real Threed's
--Threed
No Further Message /. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
The real Threed's
--Threed
...for the /. serialization of the new book.
/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
Bent rules, broken promises, much verbiage, little info. Thanks a lot, KatzBot.
The real Threed's
--Threed
My slashdot ID (13487) is 70,000 lower than yours (82141), isn't it. :) I've been around long enough.
/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
You have nothing to brag about. Move along.
The real Threed's
--Threed
What you're suggesting is to remove the top two choices by letting the two "sub-majorities" cancel each other out (perhaps with one having a slight edge over the other). That's kinda contrary to the whole point of having an election.
/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
What we're trying to do in an election is arrive at a concensus. A Borda Count does a better job at selecting the candidate that everyone could live with because it lets every voter give their complete opinion on every candidate.
(I was going to give some examples, but using actual candidates' names and the logic used by the typical party member would come off looking a bit flamish.)
The math in a Borda Count isn't so bad. Each first place vote earns a candidate n votes, second place n-1, and so on, n being the number of candidates. The points are tallied, the winner is clear.
I don't know whether the Borda Count would eliminate the need to vote indirectly. Democracy is pretty screwed up, especially when a popular vote is used. How much of that is the democratic process and how much is the popular vote, I dunno. The US is a Republic, and probably ought to stay that way for the time being.
The real Threed's
--Threed
Direct democracy sucks. What we actually need (even more than campaign finance reform) is a new way of enumerating the votes. After reading some materials on the statistics of voting, I've been convinced that a slightly more complicated system such as a "Borda Count" would let the best candidate shine through regardless of party boundaries.
/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
It works something like this... Each voter ranks the candidates according to preference. First place gets a certain number of points, second gets a little less, and so on. Then each candidate's points are totaled and the winner takes it.
One potentially amusing situation was highlighted: Say all the republicans rank Bush first and Gore last and the democrats do the opposite. In that situation, the second place candidates are more likely to win. We'd wind up with Nader or Browne, whom a lot of people think are a better choice than Bush or Gore anyway, but won't vote for them because of the percieved unlikelyhood that they'll win.
The real Threed's
--Threed
Intel Outside... The Solar System!
/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
The real Threed's
--Threed
My favorite... Collapse of the Vacuum...
/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
The current state of affairs becomes the next "false vacuum" due to expansion cooling. The new vacuum takes over, changing physics in its wake as it spreads at the speed of light.
The real Threed's
--Threed
The current drug warriors think they ARE attacking demand - by locking up users as a "deterrent" and refusing to consider decriminalization/legalization in hopes of "sending the right message to children".
/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
The real Threed's
--Threed
Only once have I ever gone completely without sleep for more than 24 hours. I was completely lucid the entire time, a total 48 hours wide awake. No one noticed anything wrong with me. No hallucinations. When it came time to fall asleep, I had to lay there for a while before I dozed off. I actually wanted to keep going but knew I'd best rest.
/. ID is lower than the real Bruce Perens'.
When I was in school, I'd go in short of sleep every day. Like 3 hours sleep then off to school and then staying up late again that night, repeat. After a few days of that, whoa...
Walking down the hall, heard my g/f call my name. Turned, no one there. Then went through a door, and she's at the other end of that hall. "Damn, it's only second period and I'm already hearing voices. Gonna be a long day."
Ever try to catch what the voices are saying? That's some wierd stuff!
The real Threed's
--Threed