If that bothers you, stop giving away your work for free. You chose to release under the GPL (assuming that you ever released anything at all) and you should have known that this was a possible outcome of that lisence. If not, you really should spend some time reading the lisence a bit more.
300 is nothing. I've recieved over 3,500! And it's not slowing down at all! It's a damned good thing my ISP runs a virus/spam filter or I'd be up my eyeballs in this crap.
Take a minute to actually think, okay?
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Think about this for a moment. You've just made a neet new FPS game. Which game do you compair your new baby to? The older, less technologically advanced game, or the newer, sexier, technological wonder?
Yeah, I thought so.
And you're wrong, anyway. Before Wolf3D there was Catacomb as well as that Ultima game. But even further back there was an old first-person version of Pac Man that ran on CGA or Monochrome IBM PCs.
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The Johns stay together, get married, and live happily ever after!
I think I read a fan-fic where that happened. It was very disturbing.
They are a lot easier to add to a large network now. Gone are the days of whacked out third-party TCP/IP drivers. I remember back in 1995/196 when getting a Mac to talk to TCP/IP was a major pain in the ass! I hated it back then.
you'd think they would have updated all the computer hardware
Why? If it works, why bother. It's not like they can just stuff a Pnetium unit in there. The computer has to be tough enough to do the job while being cheap enough to throw away at the end of the mission. And it's not like you need a whole lot of power to get a rocket into orbit.
I personally think we'll achieve immortality by porting ourselves to computer systems before we solve all of the problems of biological immortality...
And that's no kind of immortality. All that you've done is make a carbon copy of brain. You are still going to die. The you that exists right now, the one in your body, will still die. What will be left is a doppleganger. It may not know the difference, and thanks to your inevitable death, neither will you. But again, you will still be dead.
Any form of immortality that does not preserve the brain you are in is no form of immortality at all.
While his rant was immature and probably intentionally flamebaity, his point has more validity than yours. How the hell does anyone living in Amerca (or Brittain, or France, etc...) have a chance of competing with someone who will do his/her job for wages that would leave an American/Brit/Frenchie homless and near starvation?
I can't live on what they pay Indian tech people. I can't afford groceries on those wages (and I eat cheap!), to hell with car payments/bus tokens, insurance, my mortgage, or any of the other costs of living my life. And this doesn't even include ANY luxuries like TV, Internet, clothes, pets, etc...
It doesn't matter how much time and energy anyone spends improving their skillsets. There will be people of equal skills in India, Russia, or whatever economically depressed countries out there that will do the same job for almost nothing. It's not the skills you have that matter anymore. It's how little management can pay to get the work done so they can make the next quarterly report look good and collect those fat cost-savings bonuses.
The only point that this guy is really wrong about is that he's hating the wrong people. It's not the Indians that he should be hating. It's the CEO's that are sending his job overseas that he should hate.
Who has the room? I'd love to have a few of my favorite arcade games (Tempest isn't Tempest without the knob), but I don't have room in my house for a cabinet.
No species lives more than a few thousand years and this must likely include modern humans. Though the dinosaurs ruled the earth for many 10s of millions of years, no single species of dinosaur lasted anywhere near that long. Every single one of them died out and was replaced with something else.
This is absolutely untrue. While many species do just die out, many evolve into something else. There is no time limit on species. Any species will continue to thrive, or at least get by, until environmental forces either kill off the population or force the population to adapt and therefore evolve into another species.
And as for the "severl thousand years" limit, utter hogwash. While homo sapiens (modern man, but I don't have to the people here that) have only been around for some 50,000 years, neadnerthall man lived in Europe for 200,000 years. Going back further we fiind that the T Rex roamed North America for at least five million years. Even further back we find that the trilobites ruled the shallow seas for some 250,000,000 years and had some species that survived (as best as we can tell) for upwards of tens of millions of years. And then we have the coelacanth, an ancient speces of fish that has been around for some 400,000,000 years and still swims the deep ocean depths to this day.
Another problem with these ideas is that the "system" would allow for errors to be detected by the "inhabitants". Any system suffiently complex to simulate the richness of teh universe we live in would more than likely have the ability to auto-correct errors and remove them from the memory of the system.
Consider the "Where the hell are my keys!?" glitch. Would the simulation really need to send you on a wild goose chase to find them while it bided it's time to find a place to put your keys? Why not just put your keys where you thought they were? Why not just freeze your process until it could figure out where your keys are and put them there before you notice they were missing.
On of the basic foundations for the simulation argument, as I have heard them, is that it explains these missing objects, deja-vu, vuja-de (the feeling that none of this has ever happened before) and other anomolies. This is not the expected behavior of a complex and powerful simulation.
Serious theory if you are stuck in high school level philosophy. While it sounds cool and all, it's pointless unless you want to write a sci-fi book and dazzle thirteen-year olds. It, like the "life came from outer space" argument simply passes the buck to another layer but does not answer the question. If we exist in a simulation, where does the simulation reside? What universe contains the computer that we all live inside of?
Um, no. He said that the universe will expand forever and freeze to death. He stated that one of the theorized ends of the universe was the Big Crunch, but he said that it's been pretty well decided that the universe is not going that way.
(Not that anyone will ever see this post...) My main annoyance with Linux is that almost EVERYTHING is a pre-1.0 release and is still a beta! How the hell can any sane person build an OS using pre-1.0 software? Who decided it was a good idea to make an OS with software that wasn't finished, that lacks features and documentation.
And speaking of documentation, none of it is worth a damn! It's always a few majore kernel or filesystem revisions behind. Thatnk Googness for DKE being able to handle most of the common configuration issues from within the GUI. I hate trying to figure out where the hell all of the revised and no longer working like the How-To's and MAN pages says they do config files have moved with THIS release.
When I was 19 I went out into the desert and hid in my tent from the ending if sunset until about 9:00 pm. I then went outside with a baseball cap on and kept my eyes to the ground. I closed my eyes, took off the cap, turned off the flash light and looked up.
The night sky struck me like a mugger in a dark alley. I litterally fell flat on my ass from the sight of all those stars. It was one of teh most amazing things I've ever seen. You could actually see DEPTH to the night sky.
On clear nights I sometimes walk the half mile up the mountain road into the valley behind my house and look up at the sky. The air here (southeast Alaska) is not as clear as the air of the Arizona desert due to all the moisture of the nearby Pacific Ocean, but the view is still damned impressive.
And yes, on a clear night I can see the Milky Way glowing brightly in the sky.
Excessive light in the summer is a bad problem, here in Alaska. While the long nights of winter cause depression in some people, the endless days of summer really screw with people's sleep patterns and cause other health issues as well. They don't get the same press as the winter cases of S.A.D., but they exist.
Yeah. If you mounted a Logitech Trackman upper on a Logitech Optical MOuse lower and hooked the upper trackball to the scroll fucntion, that would be pretty cool.
Or it could be really dorky like those joysticks that have a second pivot halfway up the handle in addition to the pivot at the base and the hat at the top.
Of course it's in Red Hat's best intereste! Why else would they get involved at all? You don't see Adobe or VAlve Software bringing in a lawsuit. Why? Because it is not in their business interests to get involved.
Businesses do not EVER fight for anything other than their own interests.
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If that bothers you, stop giving away your work for free. You chose to release under the GPL (assuming that you ever released anything at all) and you should have known that this was a possible outcome of that lisence. If not, you really should spend some time reading the lisence a bit more.
300 is nothing. I've recieved over 3,500! And it's not slowing down at all! It's a damned good thing my ISP runs a virus/spam filter or I'd be up my eyeballs in this crap.
Think about this for a moment. You've just made a neet new FPS game. Which game do you compair your new baby to? The older, less technologically advanced game, or the newer, sexier, technological wonder?
Yeah, I thought so.
And you're wrong, anyway. Before Wolf3D there was Catacomb as well as that Ultima game. But even further back there was an old first-person version of Pac Man that ran on CGA or Monochrome IBM PCs.
I think I read a fan-fic where that happened. It was very disturbing.
They are a lot easier to add to a large network now. Gone are the days of whacked out third-party TCP/IP drivers. I remember back in 1995/196 when getting a Mac to talk to TCP/IP was a major pain in the ass! I hated it back then.
Why? If it works, why bother. It's not like they can just stuff a Pnetium unit in there. The computer has to be tough enough to do the job while being cheap enough to throw away at the end of the mission. And it's not like you need a whole lot of power to get a rocket into orbit.
Probably because the students are the ones downloading the files.
And that's no kind of immortality. All that you've done is make a carbon copy of brain. You are still going to die. The you that exists right now, the one in your body, will still die. What will be left is a doppleganger. It may not know the difference, and thanks to your inevitable death, neither will you. But again, you will still be dead.
Any form of immortality that does not preserve the brain you are in is no form of immortality at all.
Why not? What if you had 100 years of healthy retirement? How about 200 years? And what's so great about sitting around the house with nothing to do?
I don't know about you, but working gives my life structure. I don't mind it.
Behold my power saving and dispair!
While his rant was immature and probably intentionally flamebaity, his point has more validity than yours. How the hell does anyone living in Amerca (or Brittain, or France, etc...) have a chance of competing with someone who will do his/her job for wages that would leave an American/Brit/Frenchie homless and near starvation?
I can't live on what they pay Indian tech people. I can't afford groceries on those wages (and I eat cheap!), to hell with car payments/bus tokens, insurance, my mortgage, or any of the other costs of living my life. And this doesn't even include ANY luxuries like TV, Internet, clothes, pets, etc...
It doesn't matter how much time and energy anyone spends improving their skillsets. There will be people of equal skills in India, Russia, or whatever economically depressed countries out there that will do the same job for almost nothing. It's not the skills you have that matter anymore. It's how little management can pay to get the work done so they can make the next quarterly report look good and collect those fat cost-savings bonuses.
The only point that this guy is really wrong about is that he's hating the wrong people. It's not the Indians that he should be hating. It's the CEO's that are sending his job overseas that he should hate.
Who has the room? I'd love to have a few of my favorite arcade games (Tempest isn't Tempest without the knob), but I don't have room in my house for a cabinet.
And volunteer code isn't free, either. Someone spent time and energy on that code.
Nothing is free. Nothing.
This is absolutely untrue. While many species do just die out, many evolve into something else. There is no time limit on species. Any species will continue to thrive, or at least get by, until environmental forces either kill off the population or force the population to adapt and therefore evolve into another species.
And as for the "severl thousand years" limit, utter hogwash. While homo sapiens (modern man, but I don't have to the people here that) have only been around for some 50,000 years, neadnerthall man lived in Europe for 200,000 years. Going back further we fiind that the T Rex roamed North America for at least five million years. Even further back we find that the trilobites ruled the shallow seas for some 250,000,000 years and had some species that survived (as best as we can tell) for upwards of tens of millions of years. And then we have the coelacanth, an ancient speces of fish that has been around for some 400,000,000 years and still swims the deep ocean depths to this day.
Another problem with these ideas is that the "system" would allow for errors to be detected by the "inhabitants". Any system suffiently complex to simulate the richness of teh universe we live in would more than likely have the ability to auto-correct errors and remove them from the memory of the system.
Consider the "Where the hell are my keys!?" glitch. Would the simulation really need to send you on a wild goose chase to find them while it bided it's time to find a place to put your keys? Why not just put your keys where you thought they were? Why not just freeze your process until it could figure out where your keys are and put them there before you notice they were missing.
On of the basic foundations for the simulation argument, as I have heard them, is that it explains these missing objects, deja-vu, vuja-de (the feeling that none of this has ever happened before) and other anomolies. This is not the expected behavior of a complex and powerful simulation.
Serious theory if you are stuck in high school level philosophy. While it sounds cool and all, it's pointless unless you want to write a sci-fi book and dazzle thirteen-year olds. It, like the "life came from outer space" argument simply passes the buck to another layer but does not answer the question. If we exist in a simulation, where does the simulation reside? What universe contains the computer that we all live inside of?
Um, no. He said that the universe will expand forever and freeze to death. He stated that one of the theorized ends of the universe was the Big Crunch, but he said that it's been pretty well decided that the universe is not going that way.
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This Counter claim as reported on the front page of Slashdot just yesterday.
(Not that anyone will ever see this post...)
My main annoyance with Linux is that almost EVERYTHING is a pre-1.0 release and is still a beta! How the hell can any sane person build an OS using pre-1.0 software? Who decided it was a good idea to make an OS with software that wasn't finished, that lacks features and documentation.
And speaking of documentation, none of it is worth a damn! It's always a few majore kernel or filesystem revisions behind. Thatnk Googness for DKE being able to handle most of the common configuration issues from within the GUI. I hate trying to figure out where the hell all of the revised and no longer working like the How-To's and MAN pages says they do config files have moved with THIS release.
When I was 19 I went out into the desert and hid in my tent from the ending if sunset until about 9:00 pm. I then went outside with a baseball cap on and kept my eyes to the ground. I closed my eyes, took off the cap, turned off the flash light and looked up.
The night sky struck me like a mugger in a dark alley. I litterally fell flat on my ass from the sight of all those stars. It was one of teh most amazing things I've ever seen. You could actually see DEPTH to the night sky.
On clear nights I sometimes walk the half mile up the mountain road into the valley behind my house and look up at the sky. The air here (southeast Alaska) is not as clear as the air of the Arizona desert due to all the moisture of the nearby Pacific Ocean, but the view is still damned impressive.
And yes, on a clear night I can see the Milky Way glowing brightly in the sky.
Excessive light in the summer is a bad problem, here in Alaska. While the long nights of winter cause depression in some people, the endless days of summer really screw with people's sleep patterns and cause other health issues as well. They don't get the same press as the winter cases of S.A.D., but they exist.
Yeah. If you mounted a Logitech Trackman upper on a Logitech Optical MOuse lower and hooked the upper trackball to the scroll fucntion, that would be pretty cool.
Or it could be really dorky like those joysticks that have a second pivot halfway up the handle in addition to the pivot at the base and the hat at the top.
Abso-fucking-lutely!
Of course it's in Red Hat's best intereste! Why else would they get involved at all? You don't see Adobe or VAlve Software bringing in a lawsuit. Why? Because it is not in their business interests to get involved.
Businesses do not EVER fight for anything other than their own interests.