That would make them very deadly indeed... instead of early rushes you'd get short freezes... then instead of a massive overwhelming wave of guardians you'll get a BSOD:-P
Tip to break off the diablo2 addiction (I wasted most of two summers on it):
Repeat after me:
1) roaming episode5 and episode3 endlessly looking for eq is not fun
2) there is no ultimate point to this game. Once you've figured out how to survive you need to figure out how to make big levels. Once you've figured out that to make big levels you need great eq, the whole game becomes a mechanical combing for quality eq. There's no fun in that.
3) there are 100's of more worthwhile things to do with your time than killing mephisto again and again in hope that he'll pop some nice eq.
4) When you finally realise the above 3 truths, you will be ashamed of having wasted so much of your precious time on this earth on such a worthless occupation. The amount of shame or anger you will feel is directly proportional to the time you will have wasted... so stop now!
That's relieving... but it's very disturbing that they own Blizzard, though... I mean, these are two of the best damn game companies around. HL on one side, and the plethora of amazingly good Blizzard games on the other... hell, take Valve and leave us Blizzard, you evil Micro$oft bastards!!!:-P
"These fonts will be available to all developers and
users, giving GNOME and other open source programs a
great look right out of the box that has been lacking
until now."
They obviously haven't tried RH8.0:-)
Not that I'm complaining... the more fonts the better!!!
Depends what you mean by raising the dead. If you mean "oh, make a clone of John, educate it, let it grow up to John's age, and you have John again", then obviously that's never going to work, and there was never really any doubt about that. Unless you can reproduce the exact environment of John's life, down to the quark configuration of the entire universe (every little bit can alter events), it's impossible to get John again through that method.
However, another much better method is this: Make a clone of John, keep its brain blank as you grow it (maybe in an accelerated fashion) to John's size, and then transfer John's thoughts to that clone. Of course that requires very advanced brain knowledge to "read" and "write" a brain - assuming that's even possible.
But that would give you immortality (so long as you keep your brain safe).
I have to say... there's quite a few of these cars around here (Switzerland), they're the ugliest cars I've ever seen. And I wouldn't want to get driven into by another car while driving one of these... there wouldn't even be pancakes left of the occupier. Might as well drive in a papier maché car...
It would, even more than the 'enter' key stuff, give much meaning to Homer Simpson's legendary (if not original) "Where's the any key?"
Daniel
Re:Computer lab or vocational education?
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I think the "everyone uses Widnows apps, so kids should learn to use Windows" is a silly bugaboo.
It's even simpler than that, especially in reference to the fact that the software that "everyone uses" changes through time. Because it changes to what? Mostly to the software that they were using at school and uni. So if you let kids play with linux instead of windows at school, and extend that through uni by giving them good and preferential access to linux computers, when they come out of school/uni and their employers realise that all these kids can use linux software, which is cheaper, and so don't need retraining, they'll switch to linux without a second thought.
You missed the point. Sure, Disney and such would take great pains to go and pay the $1 or $50 or whatever, on everything they could possibly claim as theirs. But there's a lot of content which is kept in copyrights which no one uses anymore, which is the propriety of defunct corporations, dead authors whose families couldn't care less, and other disinterested parties. If you're still making money out of a product, sure, you'll pay the money and keep it out of the public domain. If you're not, however, why would you bother? And this means that those works which aren't being exploited by anyone would automatically fall into the public domain.
That's because you download the crap stuff which they try to sell you in the first place. Go look for your own music, and you'll find that there ARE artists out there (mostly unmarketted, selling little) who put out albums full of good songs, or even artists who don't put out albums at all but are still good. Live sets rock.
IF ONLY the p2p networks could finally have the effect you describe, and rid us of the likes of Britney Spears, the world would be a happy place (or at least more artistic).
But they're hanging on... tough buggers. We're gonna have to think of something more effective to get rid of them.
Most of the artists I listen to have nothing to do with the RIAA, and most of the music I listen from them doesn't even come out in CD form. For instance, I listen to a lot of swiss trance and progressive trance, and most of what I listen to in that genre is live sets recorded from the radio. The RIAA has done fuck all to put that in front of me (thank god, maybe it would sound more commercial if they had).
As for the so-called artists à la Britney Spears that the RIAA does expend a lot of effort on, to get them in my face whether I want to hear about them or not, those can go rot in hell. If they all go bankrupt I'll be happy. Finally the airwaves will be free for the types of artists which don't need multi-million dollar marketting campaigns to be listened to. And there's plenty of those, believe you me.
Anyway, in answer to you and the AC before, you, on the theft thing: Theft would be for my benefit - I'm doing this to do my bit to help the RIAA go bankrupt. I'm not making any financial gains by letting other people download my music, so if I'm stealing, where's it going? Huh?
They already have gotten away with that (them and the MPAA). They got a price markup on audio cassettes and video cassettes, to pay for the pirating, and no one complained about it.
Imho, this sort of thing just makes me doubly motivated to go out and download all the music I want. If I'm going to be paying a markup for it, might as well take advantage of it.
Oh, and I haven't bought a single music CD in the last 3 years. And I'm proud of it. Once a system is in place to pay money to artists directly, I'll put some money in towards the artists I like. Until then, I ain't paying squat.
Make the expiration 50 years from the creation or publiction, whichever is earlier
I may just have misunderstood you, but did you just suggest that something can be published before it is created? Are you sure you thought this through?
That sounds like a brilliant idea. Somehow I think it won't get implemented, because probably the corporations will oppose it on principle, as a knee-jerk reaction, but let me be hopeful for a moment...
Great move and timing on Lessig's part definitely, at the very least. The man knows what he's doing.
So maybe someone should start a central resource for independent games, where small developers can advertise their cool stuff, and then everyone concentrate on marketting that resource?
Daniel
So what if they fell for it?
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Spammers Busted
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There's really less realistic spam around than "stealth" driving licences... I mean, the people I'm really worried about are those who fall for someone selling them pills that will (all at one time):
1) Stop aging
2) Increase their IQ
3) Increase the size of their penis
4) Make them earn more money NOW
Now the people who fall for that are really in need of psychiatric assistance, and there must be some or the spammers wouldn't bother.
Damn, they distributed Princess Mononoke? I rented that at the DVD store recently... in Europe though, god knows who it's distributed by over here - hopefully not Disney.
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Well, given the amount of time I've spent playing TFC and CS, I count Valve as a brilliant game company :-)
Daniel
That would make them very deadly indeed... instead of early rushes you'd get short freezes... then instead of a massive overwhelming wave of guardians you'll get a BSOD :-P
Daniel
Tip to break off the diablo2 addiction (I wasted most of two summers on it):
Repeat after me:
1) roaming episode5 and episode3 endlessly looking for eq is not fun
2) there is no ultimate point to this game. Once you've figured out how to survive you need to figure out how to make big levels. Once you've figured out that to make big levels you need great eq, the whole game becomes a mechanical combing for quality eq. There's no fun in that.
3) there are 100's of more worthwhile things to do with your time than killing mephisto again and again in hope that he'll pop some nice eq.
4) When you finally realise the above 3 truths, you will be ashamed of having wasted so much of your precious time on this earth on such a worthless occupation. The amount of shame or anger you will feel is directly proportional to the time you will have wasted... so stop now!
Daniel
Obviously some first-posters are also modders, and they're pissed off cause they didn't get to type their inanities this time.
Daniel
That's relieving... but it's very disturbing that they own Blizzard, though... I mean, these are two of the best damn game companies around. HL on one side, and the plethora of amazingly good Blizzard games on the other... hell, take Valve and leave us Blizzard, you evil Micro$oft bastards!!! :-P
Daniel
"These fonts will be available to all developers and users, giving GNOME and other open source programs a great look right out of the box that has been lacking until now."
:-)
They obviously haven't tried RH8.0
Not that I'm complaining... the more fonts the better!!!
Daniel
Method 1 would not preserve your soul, as it is a transfer of information, not matter. Daniel
Depends what you mean by raising the dead. If you mean "oh, make a clone of John, educate it, let it grow up to John's age, and you have John again", then obviously that's never going to work, and there was never really any doubt about that. Unless you can reproduce the exact environment of John's life, down to the quark configuration of the entire universe (every little bit can alter events), it's impossible to get John again through that method.
However, another much better method is this: Make a clone of John, keep its brain blank as you grow it (maybe in an accelerated fashion) to John's size, and then transfer John's thoughts to that clone. Of course that requires very advanced brain knowledge to "read" and "write" a brain - assuming that's even possible.
But that would give you immortality (so long as you keep your brain safe).
Daniel
I have to say... there's quite a few of these cars around here (Switzerland), they're the ugliest cars I've ever seen. And I wouldn't want to get driven into by another car while driving one of these... there wouldn't even be pancakes left of the occupier. Might as well drive in a papier maché car...
Daniel
Advogato's trust metric looks really interesting. Has it been tested to resist attacks in practice?
Daniel
It would, even more than the 'enter' key stuff, give much meaning to Homer Simpson's legendary (if not original) "Where's the any key?"
Daniel
I think the "everyone uses Widnows apps, so kids should learn to use Windows" is a silly bugaboo.
It's even simpler than that, especially in reference to the fact that the software that "everyone uses" changes through time. Because it changes to what? Mostly to the software that they were using at school and uni. So if you let kids play with linux instead of windows at school, and extend that through uni by giving them good and preferential access to linux computers, when they come out of school/uni and their employers realise that all these kids can use linux software, which is cheaper, and so don't need retraining, they'll switch to linux without a second thought.
Daniel
No? You'd have thought so with all the typically american mis-spellings... :-)
Daniel
You missed the point. Sure, Disney and such would take great pains to go and pay the $1 or $50 or whatever, on everything they could possibly claim as theirs. But there's a lot of content which is kept in copyrights which no one uses anymore, which is the propriety of defunct corporations, dead authors whose families couldn't care less, and other disinterested parties. If you're still making money out of a product, sure, you'll pay the money and keep it out of the public domain. If you're not, however, why would you bother? And this means that those works which aren't being exploited by anyone would automatically fall into the public domain.
And that's a LOT of works.
Daniel
That's because you download the crap stuff which they try to sell you in the first place. Go look for your own music, and you'll find that there ARE artists out there (mostly unmarketted, selling little) who put out albums full of good songs, or even artists who don't put out albums at all but are still good. Live sets rock.
Daniel
IF ONLY the p2p networks could finally have the effect you describe, and rid us of the likes of Britney Spears, the world would be a happy place (or at least more artistic).
But they're hanging on... tough buggers. We're gonna have to think of something more effective to get rid of them.
Daniel
Most of the artists I listen to have nothing to do with the RIAA, and most of the music I listen from them doesn't even come out in CD form. For instance, I listen to a lot of swiss trance and progressive trance, and most of what I listen to in that genre is live sets recorded from the radio. The RIAA has done fuck all to put that in front of me (thank god, maybe it would sound more commercial if they had).
As for the so-called artists à la Britney Spears that the RIAA does expend a lot of effort on, to get them in my face whether I want to hear about them or not, those can go rot in hell. If they all go bankrupt I'll be happy. Finally the airwaves will be free for the types of artists which don't need multi-million dollar marketting campaigns to be listened to. And there's plenty of those, believe you me.
Anyway, in answer to you and the AC before, you, on the theft thing: Theft would be for my benefit - I'm doing this to do my bit to help the RIAA go bankrupt. I'm not making any financial gains by letting other people download my music, so if I'm stealing, where's it going? Huh?
Daniel
They already have gotten away with that (them and the MPAA). They got a price markup on audio cassettes and video cassettes, to pay for the pirating, and no one complained about it.
Imho, this sort of thing just makes me doubly motivated to go out and download all the music I want. If I'm going to be paying a markup for it, might as well take advantage of it.
Oh, and I haven't bought a single music CD in the last 3 years. And I'm proud of it. Once a system is in place to pay money to artists directly, I'll put some money in towards the artists I like. Until then, I ain't paying squat.
Daniel
Make the expiration 50 years from the creation or publiction, whichever is earlier
I may just have misunderstood you, but did you just suggest that something can be published before it is created? Are you sure you thought this through?
Daniel
Riiight... hold on, I'm not following you too well. You're saying that to prove that we don't support Disney, we should buy their shares??
ARE YOU NUTS?
Daniel
That sounds like a brilliant idea. Somehow I think it won't get implemented, because probably the corporations will oppose it on principle, as a knee-jerk reaction, but let me be hopeful for a moment...
Great move and timing on Lessig's part definitely, at the very least. The man knows what he's doing.
Daniel
Can I download a version for linux?
Daniel
So maybe someone should start a central resource for independent games, where small developers can advertise their cool stuff, and then everyone concentrate on marketting that resource?
Daniel
There's really less realistic spam around than "stealth" driving licences... I mean, the people I'm really worried about are those who fall for someone selling them pills that will (all at one time):
1) Stop aging
2) Increase their IQ
3) Increase the size of their penis
4) Make them earn more money NOW
Now the people who fall for that are really in need of psychiatric assistance, and there must be some or the spammers wouldn't bother.
Daniel
Damn, they distributed Princess Mononoke? I rented that at the DVD store recently... in Europe though, god knows who it's distributed by over here - hopefully not Disney.
Daniel