Yeah, I thought it was an old-school BBS, too, after reading the headline...
That being said, there are plenty of BBS's still running, you just telnet to them now (99.9% of the time, I'm sure there's still a couple 'true old school' ones around). And many of them have plenty active communities, classic door games, etc, etc.
As a matter of fact, I was playing around with BBS server software called Synchronet about a year ago. I got re-insterested in BBSes after watching that History of the BBS documentary and having a wave of nostalgia hit me. Synchronet is a 'classic' BBS (telnet connection), has an HTTP, NNTP, FTP, GOPHER, and IRC connections among other things. It's pretty cool.
Disclaimer: If you couldn't tell I'm not officially connected with Synchronet in any way, just enjoyed some time at the vert.synchro.net BBS, and playing around with the software.
What do you think, does "ISP-friendly P2P" mean implementing local swarming algorithms and the like, or some sort of net-neutrality-breaking official P2P?
A total overhaul of the legal system? Do you have any idea how much work that is? Rethinking our morals as a species, and now lots of "new" technology comes under consideration, opposing views and interests, etc...
As much as I'd like to see that, I feel like society as a whole is far too lazy to do more than talk about such things until there is some major shift in society that makes them realize that laws and government aren't perpetual and tend to lose power as society revokes it.
Sadly, I feel like over the years people have come to trust the government and almost think of it as a given in the natural order of things.
Sounds like what happens at various US universities. Students set up DC hubs, the IT dept. looks the other way, everybody wins. The hub keeps file-sharing traffic internal to the school, meaning the heavy traffic is on the intranet (where the school's infrastructure can handle it better than saturating their external pipe) and since no students are using KaZaa, there are no lawsuits.
What you didn't mention is that Tom had previously declined their offer to use a song of his ("Step Right Up", off of Small Change, for those that care). Frito-Lay turned around and hired an impersonator to sing a jingle similar to the song.
The difference here is that they had permission from the band to make a cover, they made a cover, and now the band is pissed for no legally-justifiable reason. Also, Tom Waits is 10 million times as awesome as The Romantics.
Kind of. I've played MUDs where you can be a politician, and MUDs where you can own shops, but never one where you can break into player-owned houses/shops (or, perhaps, I've just never tried).
..I should go back to playing MUDs...those were the days.
...if they could pull it off correctly. TES games tend to have much more freedom than most MMOs. In MMOs you basically have a few choices no matter what class you are: grind, instance, quest, PvP, GvG, Raid, etc. In TES games you can do pretty much anything. A TES MMO would be perfect if you could: become a thief/bandit, a pickpocket, break into people's houses, buy/operate a shop, become a noble/politician, etc.
OTOH, TES games are good because they have more freedom than an MMO without all of the 12-year olds to piss you off, and without the need to find a guild to adventure with, and things like that.
Basically, I'd be interested in a TES MMO if it were pulled off with more of a TES spirit than YAWoWC (yet another world of warcraft clone).
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Yeah, I thought it was an old-school BBS, too, after reading the headline...
That being said, there are plenty of BBS's still running, you just telnet to them now (99.9% of the time, I'm sure there's still a couple 'true old school' ones around). And many of them have plenty active communities, classic door games, etc, etc.
As a matter of fact, I was playing around with BBS server software called Synchronet about a year ago. I got re-insterested in BBSes after watching that History of the BBS documentary and having a wave of nostalgia hit me. Synchronet is a 'classic' BBS (telnet connection), has an HTTP, NNTP, FTP, GOPHER, and IRC connections among other things. It's pretty cool.
Disclaimer: If you couldn't tell I'm not officially connected with Synchronet in any way, just enjoyed some time at the vert.synchro.net BBS, and playing around with the software.
What do you think, does "ISP-friendly P2P" mean implementing local swarming algorithms and the like, or some sort of net-neutrality-breaking official P2P?
...there is no spoon.
I just thought you should know that I've tried explaining this to everyone around me that heard me laughing, and I think I failed at it.
...controls the movie industry.
LHC = Large Hadron Collider: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider
001 = First black hole created by LHC
Some people are afraid the LHC-001 is going to destroy the Earth.
Perhaps we should focus on Martian Porn. Would that help usher in an era of Star Trek-like unity and space exploration?
Your analogy is also flawed: Apple doesn't make Coke.
Fixed.
I wish I hadn't already wasted all my mod points. I love the Twilight Zone (the 28dvd set for $200 was sooo worth it).
You should spend more time at reddit, then...
I'm pretty sure he was scared of his kid breaking it by bending/snapping it, not looking down the cable...
A total overhaul of the legal system? Do you have any idea how much work that is? Rethinking our morals as a species, and now lots of "new" technology comes under consideration, opposing views and interests, etc...
As much as I'd like to see that, I feel like society as a whole is far too lazy to do more than talk about such things until there is some major shift in society that makes them realize that laws and government aren't perpetual and tend to lose power as society revokes it.
Sadly, I feel like over the years people have come to trust the government and almost think of it as a given in the natural order of things.
Sounds like someone didn't do too well on the SATs.
You really call that image "amazing"? Hardly. Hell, give me 2 cats and 2 flashlights and I'll come up with a better image.
Also, I'm putting my money on hoax.
A large chunk of my immortal soul died when I saw that, does that count?
Ummm... Mark Cuban != Mark Shuttleworth
Just FYI.
Sounds like what happens at various US universities. Students set up DC hubs, the IT dept. looks the other way, everybody wins. The hub keeps file-sharing traffic internal to the school, meaning the heavy traffic is on the intranet (where the school's infrastructure can handle it better than saturating their external pipe) and since no students are using KaZaa, there are no lawsuits.
What you didn't mention is that Tom had previously declined their offer to use a song of his ("Step Right Up", off of Small Change, for those that care). Frito-Lay turned around and hired an impersonator to sing a jingle similar to the song.
The difference here is that they had permission from the band to make a cover, they made a cover, and now the band is pissed for no legally-justifiable reason. Also, Tom Waits is 10 million times as awesome as The Romantics.
I know this doesn't apply to Joel directly, but: http://www.mst3kinfo.com/cheap.html
Kind of. I've played MUDs where you can be a politician, and MUDs where you can own shops, but never one where you can break into player-owned houses/shops (or, perhaps, I've just never tried).
..I should go back to playing MUDs...those were the days.
Sure, Fallout 3. But do they have the rights to a Fallout MMO?
...if they could pull it off correctly. TES games tend to have much more freedom than most MMOs. In MMOs you basically have a few choices no matter what class you are: grind, instance, quest, PvP, GvG, Raid, etc. In TES games you can do pretty much anything. A TES MMO would be perfect if you could: become a thief/bandit, a pickpocket, break into people's houses, buy/operate a shop, become a noble/politician, etc.
OTOH, TES games are good because they have more freedom than an MMO without all of the 12-year olds to piss you off, and without the need to find a guild to adventure with, and things like that.
Basically, I'd be interested in a TES MMO if it were pulled off with more of a TES spirit than YAWoWC (yet another world of warcraft clone).
Of course basic human urges can be punished. But should they be? And should prostitution be illegal?
It's like Valentine's Day, but I'm taking part in it!