bouncing: Thoughts? [www.latimes.com]
2003-11-01 20:18:45
Zan Lynx: The Confederate flag stands for different things for different people.
2003-11-01 21:03:12
Bitscape: I don't find the Confederate flag particularly offensive. OTOH, it's not really an inspiring thing either. Ho hum. *shrug*
2003-11-01 22:02:35
bouncing: I'd say Dean's record makes him obviously pro-civil-rights. But in light of the fact that the flag was designed by one of the founders of the KKK and how it's been used as an image of hate, I'd say it's just plain foolish for Dean not to distance himself from it.
2003-11-01 22:33:30
Bitscape: Done.
2003-11-03 23:12:00
Nemo: Thanks Bitscape
2003-11-04 09:42:16
Lounge Lurker: fun
2003-11-04 18:36:03
scottgalvin.com: let me just be the first to riducule jaeger's hacker logo on his site. wow. keep fightin, brother
2003-11-04 18:44:34
Bitscape: Now that his site also has comments, you could also ridicule it there. Of course, don't let that stop you from posting here too. :)
2003-11-04 18:50:54
Jäger: Hey, at least I *have* a website.
2003-11-04 20:23:36
Bitscape: All ready for Revolutions?
2003-11-04 22:06:05
Bitscape: [www.weeklystandard.com]
2003-11-07 02:17:26
Bitscape: What is The Matrix? [www.tomsimpson.org]
2003-11-10 01:57:43
Bitscape: Anti-fans of Britney Spears might appreciate the title of her latest single: "Me Against the Music." [www.cnn.com]
2003-11-10 10:03:53
Jäger wonders if it would be possible to create non-stupid AIs
2003-11-10 14:40:31
Jäger: (I'd guess, though, if it were possible (for some reasonable price/performance ratio), timegate would have done it already.)
2003-11-10 14:40:57
Yanthor: Actually, I think the AI players are far better than other RTS games I've played. Yeah, they definately have problems and I think complicated maps are their worst challenge, but Timegate is working on it. They've had hiring notices for experienced AI programmers for awhile.
2003-11-12 08:59:56
Bitscape: Speaking of AI... a fascinating alternative vision by a fan of what the Matrix Revolutions might have been, had it been a completely different story than what it was. [slashdot.org]
2003-11-12 11:35:14
Bitscape: ...and a very insightful comment about the movie that WAS made. (and I promise to stop linking to slashdot comments after this, and BTW, this one does contain real spoilers) [slashdot.org]
2003-11-12 11:40:55
Jäger checks in after loosing an epic Kohan: Ahriman's Gift game
2003-11-12 19:54:39
Bitscape: This one's for Jaeger and I... [www.theonion.com]
2003-11-14 02:01:32
Jäger: Listening to Morning Edition this morning, I heard a sponsorship from eSoft.
2003-11-14 13:23:30
Bitscape: Hmmm, interesting. So one might derive that just because a company craps on its employees, it doesn't necessarily mean they wouldn't advertise on npr.
2003-11-15 11:17:32
Jäger: "On the web at www dot esoft dot com"
2003-11-15 17:30:19
Bitscape: Funny.
2003-11-15 23:35:35
Bitscape: Then again, maybe something good could come of it. (Like if they get more business, maybe future layoffs can be prevented.)
2003-11-16 00:30:26
Jäger checks in while moving furniture
2003-11-16 13:24:41
Yanthor: bouncing, are you saying all big businesses harm humanity?
2003-11-18 09:45:53
Bitscape: Though I cannot answer for bouncing, I would submit that while not all big business is necessarily harmful, the bigger an organization gets (either business, government, or otherwise), the more prone it becomes to corruption.
2003-11-18 13:07:03
Bitscape: Therefore, the really big businesses, especially multi-national corporations, which arguably possess more power and influence than many countries' governments, inevitably become the most destructive.
2003-11-18 13:10:24
Bitscape: Why do I get the feeling that all the votes on the latest poll except mine are going to be for the last option?
2003-11-18 15:47:29
bouncing: Yanthor, I would generally say that small business is good, medium business can be good, but in order to even become big (blue chip), you have to step on someone, and in order to continue to be big, you have to harm humanity as a whole. Generally speaking, I would support Green-party sponsored policies in Europe that literally cap the size a business can be.
2003-11-18 16:45:46
bouncing: Bitscape's exactly right. The idea of a benevolent large corporation is as impossible as a benevolent totalitarian government. Power leads to corruption, and in America, corporations have more powerful than any other institutions.
2003-11-18 16:48:20
bouncing: "I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws our country." -- Thomas Jefferson
2003-11-18 16:48:31
scottgalvin.com: [cyber.playboy.com] i think this pretty much sums up what happens to large corporations
2003-11-18 20:37:51
scottgalvin.com: (safe for um, "home viewing" no nudity)
2003-11-18 20:38:28
Bitscape: lol. At first I thought it was a joke. Then I realized that no, they're actually serious. Which only makes it even more funny.
2003-11-18 20:53:56
Jäger: Cursed! Cursed, I tell you!
2003-11-18 21:29:26
Jäger: (I think I just killed my mother's iMac.)
2003-11-18 21:29:37
Bitscape: 1) it's real-time, 2) supports multi-user discussions, 3) has a multitude of widely available clients available, 4) doesn't have to rely on an outside entity to function (like AIM), and you can setup and configure an irc server to meet your specific needs.
2003-11-19 13:45:07
humblik: Maybe it would be better to have them look at it as an additional resource.
2003-11-19 14:08:41
Bitscape: I am not familiar with SameTime. Unless it provides some kind of functionality you need that doesn't exist with irc, it seems kind of silly to use it, since irc is an open protocol. Although if it's already entrenched, I could see how it might be difficult to convince people to change, even if there's another better solution.
2003-11-19 14:37:31
Jäger: You forget that some PHBs think "closed system" == "security"
2003-11-19 15:48:26
bouncing: Can you find other large institutions that use IRC? Go for the limmings effect! :)
2003-11-19 17:20:42
bouncing: Today I saw someone on the street collecting money to pay his buddy's traffic ticket(*). Thought of scottgalvin.com. (*) Purpose of funds was not specified by person on street, but he was out in front of the courthouse.
2003-11-19 17:22:33
Yanthor: scottgalvin, regarding your playboy post...I read in the Wall Street Journal back during the Enron scandal that Playboy was recruiting women from Enron to pose in a special issue. That caused quite a stir at the time and Playboy defended it by saying that they always do this when a company gets a lot of bad press. It is one of their marketing tactics. So wasn't surprised to see the Walmart link. Oh, the articles about Enron also said that Playgirl magazine was recruiting Enron men for the same reasons.
2003-11-20 13:48:59
Bitscape: It's rumored that they have offered Britney 7 figures to appear on those pages. As of yet, there has been no word on what her response was.
2003-11-20 16:11:51
Bitscape: Turn up the fun!
2003-11-21 12:30:46
Bitscape: RIP mp3.com. Like the article says, grab what you want now, because next month, it will all be gone. [www.theregister.co.uk]
2003-11-21 13:01:16
Elaine Benes: STELLA!
2003-11-21 14:57:11
Bitscape: I haven't tried it with apache 2. I suspect it would depend on which version of apache your php package is compiled for.
2003-11-21 15:50:07
Jäger: If you installed pre-compiled Apache binaries, you might also need to hunt down the -headers package if you're trying to compile php.
2003-11-21 16:11:56
Bitscape: A good little summary of how Wal Mart acts as a driving force in the race to the bottom. [www.fastcompany.com]
2003-11-21 22:57:07
Jäger: yeek!
2003-11-22 20:32:58
Jäger: Hardware failures are evil.
2003-11-22 20:33:12
Zan Lynx: Orson Scott Card says just about what I feel about the Bush bashing I read: [www.rhinotimes.com]
2003-11-23 11:46:30
bouncing: go read this:[www.amazon.com]
2003-11-23 12:23:24
bouncing: Compelling point, linknoid. Compelling point.
2003-11-23 18:56:16
Bitscape checks in using mozilla from an as-of-yet unnamed desktop machine running on a Celeron 450 with an s3 ViRGE graphics card.
2003-11-24 16:34:13
Yanthor: Humblik, don't even try to get Apache2 and PHP to work together. The PHP project does not support Apache2 and I've heard lots of bad stories like yours of trying to get them to work together. If you want PHP, run Apache 1.x branch.
2003-11-24 16:50:16
Jäger recalls Bitscape considering the name "Moya" at some point in the distant past.
2003-11-24 16:54:46
Yanthor: Zan Lynx, I liked your Orson Scott Card link quite a bit. It said what I think pretty wel, too. :-)
2003-11-24 16:58:56
Bitscape: That will be when I get a laptop.
2003-11-24 17:18:17
Bitscape: I'm thinking I'll call this one Rygel.
2003-11-24 17:23:49
Bitscape: If I had money, I think I'd buy one of these. [www.digitalnetworksna.com]
2003-11-24 20:50:01
Jäger: I suppose usb2.0 might be almost as fast as Firewire... but it still disturbs me to know that there are those who attempt to access their multi-gigabyte mp3 players with usb1.1.
2003-11-24 23:12:38
Jäger: (Can we say exceedingly slow?)
2003-11-24 23:12:46
Jäger considers himself a firewire partisan.
2003-11-24 23:12:57
Jäger checks in from the Stone Estate
2003-11-26 15:36:46
bouncing: Oooo, it supports ogg files!
2003-11-26 21:59:11
bouncing: Bitscape, one oddity about the new lounge code. When you visit bitscape.org, that rambling's fully qualified url (...?rambling=) is not used. Therefor later, when you're navigating the site, it looks like you haven't seen the current story because the browser doesn't match the root domain to the URL with the rambling id.
2003-11-26 22:02:26
Bitscape: Yes, I have been pondering possible ways to fix that. The most likely seems to be to turn the index into a redirect.
2003-11-27 12:18:26
Jäger: Alias is fiendish.
2003-11-30 20:54:35
Bitscape: No kidding. Sometimes, I think it might be better to hold off and watch the whole thing a season at a time, so I wouldn't have to wait for these insane cliffhangers. But it's just too addictive...
2003-11-30 21:40:00
