> I wonder if Mr Thompson is or has ever embarrassed by what he does
Perhaps when he's lucid. Reading some of his recent filings has changed my opinion of him from "That Jacky sure is wacky" to "This man quite probably has a serious mental illness."
Sorry, I kind of glossed over the part where you said exactly what I did.:)
Anyway, OLPC has pretty good reasons to limit public sales. I suspect that a successful launch will give Quanta plenty of interest in spinning out more of the public model. I suspect it'll be a more classic design though, and probably more like $300 at least. Personally I just want an ebook reader with the high-contrast screen, that runs on a Nokia battery. That would be nice.
> Negroponte has pretty much insisted from Day 1 that they wouldn't sell it in the West
No, he has insisted that the OLPC foundation would not be selling them, and that the OLPC model would not be available in the west. Quanta, however, has the right to produce their own models for sale in other markets, and they have said they'll be doing precisely that. Quanta isn't some nickel-and-dime company either: they make most of the laptops in the world.
> Incidentally, I have a partial solution to the developed world's energy crisis: decriminalize low-THC strains of hemp.
Already been done in many countries. By your reasoning, those fellas should be shoving OPEC's corpse over by now. Wonder why that hasn't happened, hmm? Oh, international conspiracy, right? Hemp's useful stuff, but it's hardly a miracle plant.
Oh I'll give him the benefit of his convictions -- I think he honestly does believe in his causes. I think he's also an arrogant, self-righteous, narcissistic ambulance-chaser with serious anger issues, and now I think he may not be entirely mentally stable.
Before you say "duh", I'm not talking solely about his rhetoric or his reasoning, I'm talking about his capacities: as his rhetoric his filings have become increasingly deficient in even basic technical matters, as evidenced by today's news of his suit being thrown out. He graduated from Vanderbilt, but now he's not even competent to file with the court. It reminds me of a certain Bush Jr -- highly articulate as a governer, but now he can't speak cogently even to an educated crowd that expects it.
I almost feel sorry for him... but I still dislike him enough to want to see him at least get his final comeuppance before he mercifully disappears into obscurity.
> he truly believes that video games are the cause of violence and the before video games were made the world was a perfect paradise with no violence or war.
No, because before video games, rap music was to blame for society's ills. And before that, pornography. Jack Thompson tilted at both of these windmills before he found his bete noir in video games.
> but suing the bar that accredits you is a good way to get a swift ass-kicking.
The Florida bar "kicked his ass" the last time he sued them by dropping 20 g's in his lap to shut him up.
Problem is, he didn't stay shut up, so he's before the FL supreme court facing disciplinary charges. He's not facing any felonies (not since Take-Two settled) so they probably won't do much more than suspend him for a year or two, if that.
It still doesn't affect his standing to file suits. Still, I see Kotaku collecting court costs when this one gets thrown out.
I'm getting an xbox elite as soon as it's out. The only thing I'm going to miss is the fact that I won't be playing the next katamari with symmetrical sticks.
So that makes him wrong, eh? Where's the idiots who sling around the term ad hominem when it's actually appropriate?
One anonymous slashbot dork is nothing, but probably the majority of the news/entertainment industry makes a living off of this kind of intellectual laziness. It disgusts me to share the planet with them.
I think the BSD thing is a bit of a stretch -- yeah it's extremely derivative, but it's also different enough, adds elements, and mixes them in from other works. If pop art is your bag, this is actually decent.
But since maestro Goldman is all about "recontextualization", I too will put that work in context, as just another bad-faith effort by a ripoff artist.
> Did that strike anyone else as odd? User mode rootkits... wouldn't that be "userkits"
Most of what root does is still in usermode. Rootkits should be called "kernelkits", but they get their name from the fact that a) it's usually a set of scripts (a "kit") to attempt to escalate normal user privs to root, and b) root is the only one that can touch the kernel in order to install malware modules and drivers.
The wisdom of a single god-user that can touch things it never should have to, such as kernel modules, even for most admin tasks that never need such access, is a ripe topic for discussion. It's also something that Linux will probably never really fix in the mainstream kernel.
> (as long as you don't judge them solely based on Fat Tire, which as far as I know is currently their only beer distributed outside of Colorado),
Nope, I can pick up all their stuff, including their seasonal brews, at Safeway here in San Francisco. Nice stuff. Fat Tire isn't all that bad, it's just not quite as "spicy" as some people like their Belgian beers (I drink Chimay if I want that). Sunshine Wheat is ambrosia on a hot fall day (San Francisco doesn't have hot summer days).
No kidding. Judging by the preachy responses I've heard, it's no wonder people get turned off. Let's compare and contrast:
Approach A: The formats like MP3 are patent-encumbered, which threatens everyone's freedom to use and implement it. Furthermore, proprietary formats like WMA and AAC lock you in to a single vendor, and also enable mechanisms like DRM, which doesn't supposedly stands for "Digital Rights Management" but we call it "Digital Restrictions Management"...etc ad nauseum.
Approach B:Ogg's the format that a lot of games use now. It sounds about as good as mp3, but they don't have to pay for it like with mp3 -- yeah no kidding, it costs a lot to legally make an mp3 player. Anyway, winamp plays 'em.
The average joe on the street isn't going to give a damn about the ideology until the alternatives aren't a hassle.
Bah. I remember typing in programs from COMPUTE! magazine that were more than half DATA statements that would be POKEd in. I felt stupid for not being able to understand what these long sequences of numbers meant, I thought all programming was like this, and for years it stunted my interest in learning. To say nothing of MLX... shudder. To this day I have a basic dislike of low-level programming... but I'd blame that on the way I like to over-abstract things, not on one non-educational magazine.
Going by all the accounts of his roommates, Cho didn't play videogames. Not that this will stop all the scapegoating and justifications, which is just human nature after all.
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> I wonder if Mr Thompson is or has ever embarrassed by what he does
Perhaps when he's lucid. Reading some of his recent filings has changed my opinion of him from "That Jacky sure is wacky" to "This man quite probably has a serious mental illness."
Sorry, I kind of glossed over the part where you said exactly what I did. :)
Anyway, OLPC has pretty good reasons to limit public sales. I suspect that a successful launch will give Quanta plenty of interest in spinning out more of the public model. I suspect it'll be a more classic design though, and probably more like $300 at least. Personally I just want an ebook reader with the high-contrast screen, that runs on a Nokia battery. That would be nice.
> Negroponte has pretty much insisted from Day 1 that they wouldn't sell it in the West
No, he has insisted that the OLPC foundation would not be selling them, and that the OLPC model would not be available in the west. Quanta, however, has the right to produce their own models for sale in other markets, and they have said they'll be doing precisely that. Quanta isn't some nickel-and-dime company either: they make most of the laptops in the world.
> Incidentally, I have a partial solution to the developed world's energy crisis: decriminalize low-THC strains of hemp.
Already been done in many countries. By your reasoning, those fellas should be shoving OPEC's corpse over by now. Wonder why that hasn't happened, hmm? Oh, international conspiracy, right? Hemp's useful stuff, but it's hardly a miracle plant.
Oh I'll give him the benefit of his convictions -- I think he honestly does believe in his causes. I think he's also an arrogant, self-righteous, narcissistic ambulance-chaser with serious anger issues, and now I think he may not be entirely mentally stable.
... but I still dislike him enough to want to see him at least get his final comeuppance before he mercifully disappears into obscurity.
Before you say "duh", I'm not talking solely about his rhetoric or his reasoning, I'm talking about his capacities: as his rhetoric his filings have become increasingly deficient in even basic technical matters, as evidenced by today's news of his suit being thrown out. He graduated from Vanderbilt, but now he's not even competent to file with the court. It reminds me of a certain Bush Jr -- highly articulate as a governer, but now he can't speak cogently even to an educated crowd that expects it.
I almost feel sorry for him
I am going to kill you before you can get to kill him before I do. I haven't decided on a weapon yet. Perhaps Jack can suggest one.
> he truly believes that video games are the cause of violence and the before video games were made the world was a perfect paradise with no violence or war.
No, because before video games, rap music was to blame for society's ills. And before that, pornography. Jack Thompson tilted at both of these windmills before he found his bete noir in video games.
> but suing the bar that accredits you is a good way to get a swift ass-kicking.
The Florida bar "kicked his ass" the last time he sued them by dropping 20 g's in his lap to shut him up.
Problem is, he didn't stay shut up, so he's before the FL supreme court facing disciplinary charges. He's not facing any felonies (not since Take-Two settled) so they probably won't do much more than suspend him for a year or two, if that.
It still doesn't affect his standing to file suits. Still, I see Kotaku collecting court costs when this one gets thrown out.
I'm getting an xbox elite as soon as it's out. The only thing I'm going to miss is the fact that I won't be playing the next katamari with symmetrical sticks.
So that makes him wrong, eh? Where's the idiots who sling around the term ad hominem when it's actually appropriate?
One anonymous slashbot dork is nothing, but probably the majority of the news/entertainment industry makes a living off of this kind of intellectual laziness. It disgusts me to share the planet with them.
I think the BSD thing is a bit of a stretch -- yeah it's extremely derivative, but it's also different enough, adds elements, and mixes them in from other works. If pop art is your bag, this is actually decent.
But since maestro Goldman is all about "recontextualization", I too will put that work in context, as just another bad-faith effort by a ripoff artist.
> Did that strike anyone else as odd? User mode rootkits... wouldn't that be "userkits"
Most of what root does is still in usermode. Rootkits should be called "kernelkits", but they get their name from the fact that a) it's usually a set of scripts (a "kit") to attempt to escalate normal user privs to root, and b) root is the only one that can touch the kernel in order to install malware modules and drivers.
The wisdom of a single god-user that can touch things it never should have to, such as kernel modules, even for most admin tasks that never need such access, is a ripe topic for discussion. It's also something that Linux will probably never really fix in the mainstream kernel.
> (as long as you don't judge them solely based on Fat Tire, which as far as I know is currently their only beer distributed outside of Colorado),
Nope, I can pick up all their stuff, including their seasonal brews, at Safeway here in San Francisco. Nice stuff. Fat Tire isn't all that bad, it's just not quite as "spicy" as some people like their Belgian beers (I drink Chimay if I want that). Sunshine Wheat is ambrosia on a hot fall day (San Francisco doesn't have hot summer days).
Not just that, their bus set sail on a steam ship. I think his high-flying analogy ran off the rails.
Here's a little contextual usage. Let's see if you can spot the word you're looking for:
Calling Wikipedia a dictionary is a misnomer.
Wikipedia's reputation for reliability and accuracy is a myth.
No kidding. Judging by the preachy responses I've heard, it's no wonder people get turned off. Let's compare and contrast:
...etc ad nauseum.
Approach A: The formats like MP3 are patent-encumbered, which threatens everyone's freedom to use and implement it. Furthermore, proprietary formats like WMA and AAC lock you in to a single vendor, and also enable mechanisms like DRM, which doesn't supposedly stands for "Digital Rights Management" but we call it "Digital Restrictions Management"
Approach B:Ogg's the format that a lot of games use now. It sounds about as good as mp3, but they don't have to pay for it like with mp3 -- yeah no kidding, it costs a lot to legally make an mp3 player. Anyway, winamp plays 'em.
The average joe on the street isn't going to give a damn about the ideology until the alternatives aren't a hassle.
> Men have to put up with it. Why shouldn't women?
Men are as free to leave as anyone else. Women are just doing it more.
> Why should a woman who has a little too much to drink gets knocked up be treated any differently?
Maybe because a woman who has to care for a child shouldn't be required to justify the circumstances of the conception. Dumbass.
> That's to say, Spain's population is halving every generation. By 2050, Italy's population will have fallen by 22%,
I guess what they say about Catholics just isn't so.. <smirk>
> This from the company that INVENTED FUD - they should know... And RH?
Ahem: "FUD" was coined by Gene Amdahl to describe the tactics that IBM deployed against his company.
> We didn't learn anything from the stupid processor we put into the PS2.
The chip in the most-sold longest-produced console in history? Yeah, what a bunch of idiots trying to repeat that.
> COMPUTE! was a great magazine!
... shudder. To this day I have a basic dislike of low-level programming ... but I'd blame that on the way I like to over-abstract things, not on one non-educational magazine.
Bah. I remember typing in programs from COMPUTE! magazine that were more than half DATA statements that would be POKEd in. I felt stupid for not being able to understand what these long sequences of numbers meant, I thought all programming was like this, and for years it stunted my interest in learning. To say nothing of MLX
Going by all the accounts of his roommates, Cho didn't play videogames. Not that this will stop all the scapegoating and justifications, which is just human nature after all.
Yet more old fogeys shaking their canes at "those whiz bang fancy dancy graphics". The previous generation's AI was always as bad or worse, full stop.