I wouldn't worry... as long as there are people who want a well-crafted and immersive story, who are willing to give up a little control over their character (you look like this, your history is this) then games of that nature will be designed by anyone with the skills who wants the same thing.
The ultimate future of gaming, in say, 50 years, will be virtual worlds that will stand alone as well as come together to form a larger, more complex world... That's the time to wring your hands, when one can construct fully immersive fantasy and pick and choose the pieces of reality to enhance it with.... God banished us from Eden, we may well banish ourselves back into it.
If quantum computers are available to the code-breakers, that means that they are also available to the code-makers
Yes but it's not very egalitarian anymore, is it? The people you're hiding your message from can afford the quantum computers, but not those just wanting to send encrypted email.
That's still not a tautology, it's simply an assertion, at without your rather stretched definition of a christian, which Russell simply did not assert in that statement. You want tautologies, go read Rand... somehow she managed to make a whole philosophy out of them.
(BTW, I'm an atheist, find something else to club me with in response)
I have so often wondered why debian, redhat, suse, et al have gone with Sys V style init scripts. BSD init is so much more concsise and easier to maintain it just seems the logical choice to go with.
Because with one script, you can bundle the stop, start, restart (and i tend to add "status" and "kill" as well) into ONE script. Then insert it anywhere in any init process without opening and modifying any existing files, requiring a script to puzzle out the format of the file. And only have to maintain one file.
If you hate SysV init so much, you can always just edit only/etc/rc and delete all the init scripts (at least with solaris's init). I thought unix was about orthogonality tho?
I think you need to work on your deductive reasoning skills. An image that lampoons frivolous patents does not by extension lampoon all patents as frivolous.
There _is_ no Central Hacker to be imprisoned- just legions of geeks and script kiddies who are becoming increasingly politicized
Don't need one. Just need to make an example out of a few of them, have them busting rocks at Leavenworth and their rapable young ass sold for cigarettes. Leave out the Federal prison part and there's even a growth industry, namely the "corrections" industry, who would be tickled pink to have a new stream of "clients" that way.
Welcome to the 21st century: your right to think is over.
Shouldn't we be past the use of titles in our supposedly egalitarian society? Do people need some special letters before or after their name to prove how smart or accomplished they are? Do we need this hierarchy in our society? Isn't modesty a virtue?
Maybe I've been reading too much Ayn Rand, but God forbid that I should ever want to live in such a sick society.
(some of you might catch the ironic phrasing there)
I don't see why I'd want my mouse over (even a personal) ethernet (that's only connected to my computer). More latency is bad - I expect and demand immediate response from my pointing device... no slowdowns are acceptable
SunRays redirect their USB over 100Mb ethernet, and there is no latency at all til the load average starts pushing 120 on the server (at which point we start killing netscape processes -- not like they don't crash at random anyway)
> My personal preference is KDE simply because GTK's API is (IMO) painful for programmers
Try Gtk--, the C++ binding to gtk+. Looks very Qt-ish, except it uses template functions for signal/slot connections instead of a gross macro hack to the language.
I use plain ol twm myself, there's something zen about having a completely blank desktop when you're not using anything.
> A superb technology would be cross-platform so at least everyone can use it.
A little unclear on the concept of intranet are we?
I still fail to see the qualitative difference between an ActiveX control and a Netscape plugin other than that the latter is more hassle, less efficient, and therefore less peopl are inclined to develop or use them.
> This lack of consistent interface is one of the major things that the X environment ugly as hell, along with things like having no anti-aliasing, that should be replaced in the next release.
You mean like X12? Or Xfree 4.0? Because I guarantee you, there is no antialiasing support in any of the imminent releases.
So how many times do I have to learn how to add a printer to printers.byname then pull the nis maps on each client before I get a tool that will let some intern do it so I can learn something else?
How many times do I have to learn how to add a new account's entry to auto_home and create their homedir and calendar and additional mail aliases before I get a tool to do it for me?
How many times must I write the same damn scripts to do this crap over and over and convince the supreme admins of the site to install it, only if I'm the sole contact person for support if users have questions, because the scripts are "unofficial"?
When am I going to stop having to work bottom-up at every new unix shop I go to, all because you want someone with far less experience than me to learn what I already am sick to death of doing?
A million wires? Hardly, try one. I sincerely doubt the decryption would be done at the demultiplexer that feeds your display matrix (let's assume this is a plasma or LCD display by this time). You just need to split that off into a recording device. You still lose a lot of the benefits of the recording medium (multiple scene selection, optional captioning, etc) but you have the content more or less.
Of course that still means cracking open your tamper-protected sealed-unit display and risking a federal prison sentence for doing it, which will get noticed the next time they knock down your door on a no-knock drug raid. I guess I better stop before I start talking black helicopters (they're not black, they say POLICE on them, they're state property, and they IR scan your neighborhood for grow lamps -- okay, nuff)
1. The fidelity you're going to get from TEMPEST is going to suck. Just running my microwave in the same room would probably give the picture the jaggies from hell.
2. When a TEMPEST system tries to read your screen, it's amusingly easy to fool (there's a paper that showed how using antialiasing tricks, they could change one sentence into a completely different one on TEMPEST). So there's your MacroVision for TEMPEST. TEMPEST is good for showing that a CRT was on at all, and that the activity corresponded to some known signal. It's more like *listening* than watching.
3. TEMPEST only works for CRT's. It does NOT work on LCD, and I suspect it doesn't work on plasma. CRT is a slowly dying technology for home entertainment units (I emphasize slowly).
Anyhow, let's imagine this succeeds, and the DVD CCA gets end-to-end encodning. First, the technology transfer rate in the TV world is *glacial*, so it'd take at *least* 10 years for this to get out to market. Secondly, we already broke their code the first time. Putting the decryption key in the medium is inherently flawed. It WILL be broken. This technology isn't for DVD's, it's for video-on-demand, where the server can encrypt per-session. So long as you're not a VLSI hardware hacker, then Disney-Microsoft-AOL-Time-Warner-TCI can be assured that you're paying whatever they want you to.
I had more to add, but ultimately I just have to throw up my hands at some point and say forget it. Create your own content, use your brain, and stop consuming, and starve the media conglomerates into submission. When you stop feeding at the trough, they will do what you tell them to, they're addicts to your money. Unfortunately that takes faith in the others around you to do the same, and neither the prevailing zeitgeist nor history give me much to hope for.
It's a Brave New World (copyright renewed 2358-49000, estate of Aldous Huxley Inc)
bully for you if you're using emacs. now all i need to whip up a script is an editor that starts at 8 megs. i still fail to be convinced by the whitespace issue, and it is still the main reason i can't stand working in python.
i'm also not fond of its naive scoping rules (i have a slight conceptual disagreement with passing parameters as themselves, e.g. lambda x=x). the list slicing semantics is inconsistent -- 1-based in one slot and zero-based in the other. much of python and perl seem to have been based on "what's good for guido/larry is good for everyone". I guess i identify with larry's warped and confused mind better.
i like cats. when was the last time you had to walk the cat?
I have always felt that the value judgements in the moderation system were not a good idea, and that it was better off with straight points up/down. For some reason, "insightful" really makes me twitch... having a dozen posts marked up as "insightful" just feels too damn touchy-feely, too loose with the term. And "interesting" is as subjective as it gets.
I imagine "overrated" was supposed to be used to mark down posts that were moderated up for no good reason, as a check against moderation inflation. The one I see abused most often is "redundant", actually.
3. NT is theorectically hardware independent, very little has to be rewritten because of the HAL. However the market wasn't very good for MIPS, ALPHA, SPARC or PPC and those ports kind of died.
Was NT ever ported to SPARC? I can't imagine anything would ever make Sun happier than a working port of NT to SPARC hardware. Sun considers Solaris as a loss-leader, it just continues to flog it because NT's scalability has always ben too laughable for the big servers Sun wants to sell. That and McNealy's ego.
> I think this is a really good example of where open source has some advantages. Little "niggly" things get fixed by the person they're "niggling".;-)
I really really doubt this is actually true in the large sense. First, there are non-programmer users who simply can't fix the bugs (yes, they must be eliminated like the worthless deadweight they are, because knowledge of C is the only skill worth having). Secondly, there are technical users like me who simply don't care about having their own little private code fork that has to be maintained separately (if the original source was kept around at all) who have a very much accurately-formed impression that a diff from Joe Random Luser will be ignored, and generally don't feel like going through the bureacracy of whatever ad hoc QA system, if any, there might have been set up. KDE's bug reporting system is illustrative here: you must send an email that you must hand-format, with a module name that you must guess at, and you get a nastygram if it doesn't fit the formatting criteria. God forbid you get an actual response.
Yes it's possible to fix it yourself. It just hasn't become any less of an irksome chore.
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I wouldn't worry ... as long as there are people who want a well-crafted and immersive story, who are willing to give up a little control over their character (you look like this, your history is this) then games of that nature will be designed by anyone with the skills who wants the same thing.
... That's the time to wring your hands, when one can construct fully immersive fantasy and pick and choose the pieces of reality to enhance it with.... God banished us from Eden, we may well banish ourselves back into it.
The ultimate future of gaming, in say, 50 years, will be virtual worlds that will stand alone as well as come together to form a larger, more complex world
If quantum computers are available to the code-breakers, that means that they are also available to the code-makers
Yes but it's not very egalitarian anymore, is it? The people you're hiding your message from can afford the quantum computers, but not those just wanting to send encrypted email.
I have an idea: stop feeding the troll.
That's still not a tautology, it's simply an assertion, at without your rather stretched definition of a christian, which Russell simply did not assert in that statement. You want tautologies, go read Rand ... somehow she managed to make a whole philosophy out of them.
(BTW, I'm an atheist, find something else to club me with in response)
I have so often wondered why debian, redhat, suse, et al have gone with Sys V style init scripts. BSD init is so much more concsise and easier to maintain it just seems the logical choice to go with.
/etc/rc and delete all the init scripts (at least with solaris's init). I thought unix was about orthogonality tho?
Because with one script, you can bundle the stop, start, restart (and i tend to add "status" and "kill" as well) into ONE script. Then insert it anywhere in any init process without opening and modifying any existing files, requiring a script to puzzle out the format of the file. And only have to maintain one file.
If you hate SysV init so much, you can always just edit only
p.s. And did anyone notice that Bill was called 'phlegmatic'? I thought they meant 'pragmatic', but that's one helluva typo.
What typo? Go grab a dictionary. Websters definition 2 of the word is "having or showing a slow and stolid temperament." In other words, level-headed.
I think you need to work on your deductive reasoning skills. An image that lampoons frivolous patents does not by extension lampoon all patents as frivolous.
There _is_ no Central Hacker to be imprisoned- just legions of geeks and script kiddies who are becoming increasingly politicized
Don't need one. Just need to make an example out of a few of them, have them busting rocks at Leavenworth and their rapable young ass sold for cigarettes. Leave out the Federal prison part and there's even a growth industry, namely the "corrections" industry, who would be tickled pink to have a new stream of "clients" that way.
Welcome to the 21st century: your right to think is over.
Shouldn't we be past the use of titles in our supposedly egalitarian society? Do people need some special letters before or after their name to prove how smart or accomplished they are? Do we need this hierarchy in our society? Isn't modesty a virtue?
Maybe I've been reading too much Ayn Rand, but God forbid that I should ever want to live in such a sick society.
(some of you might catch the ironic phrasing there)
> It should be noted that many other operating systems also currently support USB as well. BSD's not with standing.
... but FreeBSD has had USB support for some time now.
I'll suppress the flames, it didn't look like a troll
SunRays redirect their USB over 100Mb ethernet, and there is no latency at all til the load average starts pushing 120 on the server (at which point we start killing netscape processes -- not like they don't crash at random anyway)
> My personal preference is KDE simply because GTK's API is (IMO) painful for programmers
Try Gtk--, the C++ binding to gtk+. Looks very Qt-ish, except it uses template functions for signal/slot connections instead of a gross macro hack to the language.
I use plain ol twm myself, there's something zen about having a completely blank desktop when you're not using anything.
> One of the biggest problems with garbage collection is that it can't really be controlled
Says who? Most gc's operate in threads. Make your critical operations atomic. Presto, no interruptions.
> A superb technology would be cross-platform so at least everyone can use it.
A little unclear on the concept of intranet are we?
I still fail to see the qualitative difference between an ActiveX control and a Netscape plugin other than that the latter is more hassle, less efficient, and therefore less peopl are inclined to develop or use them.
> This lack of consistent interface is one of the major things that the X environment ugly as hell, along with things like having no anti-aliasing, that should be replaced in the next release.
You mean like X12? Or Xfree 4.0? Because I guarantee you, there is no antialiasing support in any of the imminent releases.
So how many times do I have to learn how to add a printer to printers.byname then pull the nis maps on each client before I get a tool that will let some intern do it so I can learn something else?
How many times do I have to learn how to add a new account's entry to auto_home and create their homedir and calendar and additional mail aliases before I get a tool to do it for me?
How many times must I write the same damn scripts to do this crap over and over and convince the supreme admins of the site to install it, only if I'm the sole contact person for support if users have questions, because the scripts are "unofficial"?
When am I going to stop having to work bottom-up at every new unix shop I go to, all because you want someone with far less experience than me to learn what I already am sick to death of doing?
> "This is a great leap forward in consumer copyright protection!" [said Bill Gates]
:-/
... who went on to say, "A cultural revolution is sweeping the industry and the nation!"
> Privacy
Not when you don't own the keys, friend...
A million wires? Hardly, try one. I sincerely doubt the decryption would be done at the demultiplexer that feeds your display matrix (let's assume this is a plasma or LCD display by this time). You just need to split that off into a recording device. You still lose a lot of the benefits of the recording medium (multiple scene selection, optional captioning, etc) but you have the content more or less.
Of course that still means cracking open your tamper-protected sealed-unit display and risking a federal prison sentence for doing it, which will get noticed the next time they knock down your door on a no-knock drug raid. I guess I better stop before I start talking black helicopters (they're not black, they say POLICE on them, they're state property, and they IR scan your neighborhood for grow lamps -- okay, nuff)
1. The fidelity you're going to get from TEMPEST is going to suck. Just running my microwave in the same room would probably give the picture the jaggies from hell.
2. When a TEMPEST system tries to read your screen, it's amusingly easy to fool (there's a paper that showed how using antialiasing tricks, they could change one sentence into a completely different one on TEMPEST). So there's your MacroVision for TEMPEST. TEMPEST is good for showing that a CRT was on at all, and that the activity corresponded to some known signal. It's more like *listening* than watching.
3. TEMPEST only works for CRT's. It does NOT work on LCD, and I suspect it doesn't work on plasma. CRT is a slowly dying technology for home entertainment units (I emphasize slowly).
Anyhow, let's imagine this succeeds, and the DVD CCA gets end-to-end encodning. First, the technology transfer rate in the TV world is *glacial*, so it'd take at *least* 10 years for this to get out to market. Secondly, we already broke their code the first time. Putting the decryption key in the medium is inherently flawed. It WILL be broken. This technology isn't for DVD's, it's for video-on-demand, where the server can encrypt per-session. So long as you're not a VLSI hardware hacker, then Disney-Microsoft-AOL-Time-Warner-TCI can be assured that you're paying whatever they want you to.
I had more to add, but ultimately I just have to throw up my hands at some point and say forget it. Create your own content, use your brain, and stop consuming, and starve the media conglomerates into submission. When you stop feeding at the trough, they will do what you tell them to, they're addicts to your money. Unfortunately that takes faith in the others around you to do the same, and neither the prevailing zeitgeist nor history give me much to hope for.
It's a Brave New World (copyright renewed 2358-49000, estate of Aldous Huxley Inc)
> Um, actually, why are you using tabs alternated with spaces in the first place?
Why is my code failing to parse because I do?
bully for you if you're using emacs. now all i need to whip up a script is an editor that starts at 8 megs. i still fail to be convinced by the whitespace issue, and it is still the main reason i can't stand working in python.
i'm also not fond of its naive scoping rules (i have a slight conceptual disagreement with passing parameters as themselves, e.g. lambda x=x). the list slicing semantics is inconsistent -- 1-based in one slot and zero-based in the other. much of python and perl seem to have been based on "what's good for guido/larry is good for everyone". I guess i identify with larry's warped and confused mind better.
i like cats. when was the last time you had to walk the cat?
I have always felt that the value judgements in the moderation system were not a good idea, and that it was better off with straight points up/down. For some reason, "insightful" really makes me twitch ... having a dozen posts marked up as "insightful" just feels too damn touchy-feely, too loose with the term. And "interesting" is as subjective as it gets.
I imagine "overrated" was supposed to be used to mark down posts that were moderated up for no good reason, as a check against moderation inflation. The one I see abused most often is "redundant", actually.
Was NT ever ported to SPARC? I can't imagine anything would ever make Sun happier than a working port of NT to SPARC hardware. Sun considers Solaris as a loss-leader, it just continues to flog it because NT's scalability has always ben too laughable for the big servers Sun wants to sell. That and McNealy's ego.
> I think this is a really good example of where open source has some advantages. Little "niggly" things get fixed by the person they're "niggling". ;-)
I really really doubt this is actually true in the large sense. First, there are non-programmer users who simply can't fix the bugs (yes, they must be eliminated like the worthless deadweight they are, because knowledge of C is the only skill worth having). Secondly, there are technical users like me who simply don't care about having their own little private code fork that has to be maintained separately (if the original source was kept around at all) who have a very much accurately-formed impression that a diff from Joe Random Luser will be ignored, and generally don't feel like going through the bureacracy of whatever ad hoc QA system, if any, there might have been set up. KDE's bug reporting system is illustrative here: you must send an email that you must hand-format, with a module name that you must guess at, and you get a nastygram if it doesn't fit the formatting criteria. God forbid you get an actual response.
Yes it's possible to fix it yourself. It just hasn't become any less of an irksome chore.