That wasnt "insightful", it was a fucking question. God damn, moderators are stupid. I'm not trying to be clever, I want to know why I should care. Anyone who knows, please answer.
What is this? Why should I care? News for nerds, stuff that matters. So, why does it matter? I've never heard of this, so by itself "hey look, we've implimented the most basic window manager possible" isnt all that impressive. Are they doing this on a toaster or something? I implimented rollups in my window manager a few months ago, should I post a slashdot story about it?
Trying to find out exactly how much money per viewer a TV show can expect to make, and whether charging a buck to download the episode would be an increase or decrease to that number (*anyone who says "BUT IT COSTS MONEY TO RUN SERVERS OMG!!!!" can go look for the point and then fuck themselves with it)
See, it's code. You can copy it. You can license it. Developing a really good game doesnt make other games worse, it makes them better. When a good game comes out, everyone buys license to use the game engine and makes more "really spectacular" things.
Am I the only one who doesnt always care about resolution? Sure, some things I want them to look nice, but if I'm catching up on a TV show with 900 episodes, why not cram 24 episodes onto a single disc? (And if I like a particular episode and want to see it in HD, I'll buy it seperately)
Does anyone care about HD? Yeah, of course. Do enough people care about HD that eliminating (or simply never producing) lower-resolution formats makes sense?
why is it legal to tack absolutely anything onto an unrelated bill? Why do lawmakers not vote on each individual section?
My bill gives people named Vinnie $10,000,000 and states that in general, having a gorilla shit on your mother's chest would be a bad thing. You dont think having a gorilla shit on your mother's chest would be a good thing, do you??
as opposed to mirrordot which is less complicated how? You know it's possible for the tracker to also provide the initial seed, right? It's not like mirrordot is capable of handling slashdot's traffic, but using torrents (*maybe with some of that distributed tracker technology I havent read anything about) there would be less actual data being transfered by the server itself.
There is no barrier to automation of snapshots. There is no need for an extensive network of automated seeds- that's the point of bittorrent- instead of one server trying to send everything, one server tries to send everything to one guy, then sends half to the next guy, then a third to the next guy, then a fourth to the next guy, then a fifth to the next guy. (obviously not as simple as that, but the point remains intact)
"When was the last time you read a book on your PC?"
This morning?
I am not suggesting we take away the already widespread (though not nearly widespread enough) public access terminals.
Yes, I want to close down one avenue of free (to the user) reading and research material in favor of a different avenue.
Wanting to delay this until cheaper tablets come out is perfectly understandable, however. I still like to hold the words in my hand and look down at them too.
The government funds libraries, the government should fund high-speed internet. Make people get an internet card the way they get a library card, pay for high usage the way they pay for late fees, seems fairly straight-forward to me. Libraries are closing due to lack of interest- shut down five real libraries to open one lower-cost digital library.
lighthearted? The movie was ruined by the characters giving too much of a shit. The great thing about the books is that it doesnt, cosmically speaking, matter if one gets up to go to work tomorrow. In the movie everyone's all whiney about the planet earth being destroyed. The universe is big, really big. Big enough that a planet suddenly blowing up doesnt actually matter that much, and though you'll be peeved when you find out Zaphod may have had something to do with its destruction as part of a vast philosopher conspiracy, once you've experienced a tiny fraction of !earth, the destruction of earth is shrug-offable.
And of course, there wasnt any trying to convince people not to do their jobs (Mr Prosser, the Vogon Gaurd, the Magrothean Gaurds), that's the other light-heartedness: even when people are trying to kill you, or knock your house down, be easy-going enough to try to talk about it instead of fighting about it.
Can you please shut up? The idea of prison time for COPYING A MOVIE does not need to be compared to anything in order to be a horrible misjustice and a sign that we need to take immediate and violent action against those who would attempt to take away our rights. It would be self defense and completely justified. Not our right to copy movies, our right to freedom. You know, those inaliable ones which are worth fighting and dying for.
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Oh, yes, I'm definately baiting myself so that I'll flame myself.
That wasnt "insightful", it was a fucking question. God damn, moderators are stupid. I'm not trying to be clever, I want to know why I should care. Anyone who knows, please answer.
What is this? Why should I care? News for nerds, stuff that matters. So, why does it matter? I've never heard of this, so by itself "hey look, we've implimented the most basic window manager possible" isnt all that impressive. Are they doing this on a toaster or something?
I implimented rollups in my window manager a few months ago, should I post a slashdot story about it?
Trying to find out exactly how much money per viewer a TV show can expect to make, and whether charging a buck to download the episode would be an increase or decrease to that number (*anyone who says "BUT IT COSTS MONEY TO RUN SERVERS OMG!!!!" can go look for the point and then fuck themselves with it)
See, it's code. You can copy it. You can license it. Developing a really good game doesnt make other games worse, it makes them better. When a good game comes out, everyone buys license to use the game engine and makes more "really spectacular" things.
keep in mind that for many the only access is through computers on which software cannot be installed (eg: internet cafes).
You're talking about a physical medium, I'm talking about what gets put onto the physical medium. Try again.
Am I the only one who doesnt always care about resolution? Sure, some things I want them to look nice, but if I'm catching up on a TV show with 900 episodes, why not cram 24 episodes onto a single disc? (And if I like a particular episode and want to see it in HD, I'll buy it seperately)
Does anyone care about HD? Yeah, of course. Do enough people care about HD that eliminating (or simply never producing) lower-resolution formats makes sense?
If anyone needs me, I'll be under my desk.
why is it legal to tack absolutely anything onto an unrelated bill? Why do lawmakers not vote on each individual section?
My bill gives people named Vinnie $10,000,000 and states that in general, having a gorilla shit on your mother's chest would be a bad thing. You dont think having a gorilla shit on your mother's chest would be a good thing, do you??
as opposed to mirrordot which is less complicated how? You know it's possible for the tracker to also provide the initial seed, right? It's not like mirrordot is capable of handling slashdot's traffic, but using torrents (*maybe with some of that distributed tracker technology I havent read anything about) there would be less actual data being transfered by the server itself.
There is no barrier to automation of snapshots.
There is no need for an extensive network of automated seeds- that's the point of bittorrent- instead of one server trying to send everything, one server tries to send everything to one guy, then sends half to the next guy, then a third to the next guy, then a fourth to the next guy, then a fifth to the next guy. (obviously not as simple as that, but the point remains intact)
"So, what does a worm look like when it spreads? Install this program to find out!"
and ALT-F4 will activate "ultra mode"
and why dont we have it?
Get the math right :)
welcome to the internet! There are many new and exciting technologies which you should look in to now that you are here!
shouldnt we wait until we have desktop fabricators.... and defabricators?
don't moderate "Insightful"! Be my friend! seriously! I'm a loser!
"When was the last time you read a book on your PC?"
This morning?
I am not suggesting we take away the already widespread (though not nearly widespread enough) public access terminals.
Yes, I want to close down one avenue of free (to the user) reading and research material in favor of a different avenue.
Wanting to delay this until cheaper tablets come out is perfectly understandable, however. I still like to hold the words in my hand and look down at them too.
The government funds libraries, the government should fund high-speed internet. Make people get an internet card the way they get a library card, pay for high usage the way they pay for late fees, seems fairly straight-forward to me. Libraries are closing due to lack of interest- shut down five real libraries to open one lower-cost digital library.
lighthearted? The movie was ruined by the characters giving too much of a shit. The great thing about the books is that it doesnt, cosmically speaking, matter if one gets up to go to work tomorrow. In the movie everyone's all whiney about the planet earth being destroyed. The universe is big, really big. Big enough that a planet suddenly blowing up doesnt actually matter that much, and though you'll be peeved when you find out Zaphod may have had something to do with its destruction as part of a vast philosopher conspiracy, once you've experienced a tiny fraction of !earth, the destruction of earth is shrug-offable.
And of course, there wasnt any trying to convince people not to do their jobs (Mr Prosser, the Vogon Gaurd, the Magrothean Gaurds), that's the other light-heartedness: even when people are trying to kill you, or knock your house down, be easy-going enough to try to talk about it instead of fighting about it.
I need new friends.
a sex offender never hurt anybody.
I have an asshole friend who pulls the e-brake in order to do that GTA thing. He doesnt do it anymore, but, yeah, been there.
I have never heard of anyone else who experienced bugs remotely similar to that.
But I agree with your initial premise.
Can you please shut up? The idea of prison time for COPYING A MOVIE does not need to be compared to anything in order to be a horrible misjustice and a sign that we need to take immediate and violent action against those who would attempt to take away our rights. It would be self defense and completely justified.
Not our right to copy movies, our right to freedom. You know, those inaliable ones which are worth fighting and dying for.