They're horribly biased towards certain agendas, including banning drugs, banning guns, banning knives, socialist government, reduction of civil liberties, promotion of police power and (in the UK) populist claptrap.
With the exception of banning drugs and populist claptrap, I like all of those ideas. I'll take the BBC over Fox News any day.
That's capitalism for you.
How about the NPR/PBS model? If the NYT was desperate for money and sent letters begging for donations, I'm sure more than a few faithful readers would step up to the plate. Conservatives could donate to Murdoch (cuz he doesn't have enough money already) and I can donate to whoever I think is good. It would be extra cool if I had the option of donating to specific reporters that I liked (Frank Rich).
Capitalism does not always work for everything, markets fail more often than your libertarian econ profs tell you. I always enjoyed PBS more than any other broadcast TV, and I wouldn't miss a world without reality shows.
The reality is that the city of the future will likely have many aspects of a contained and managed ecosystem
is just retarded, as anyone who has ever been anywhere near a city realizes that none of them are remotely resemble contained ecosystems, no matter how much solar power and internet you add.
we just might all be screwed in the fight for "freedoms", "rights", and "privileges"
And how is that any different from 50 years ago? It's not called "the struggle" for no reason. The real victory here is in the p2p software. No one can legislate away my right to encrypt data and send it over the intertubes. (At least so far.)
we trust and respect the American people.
As a citizen of the US, may I suggest your trust and respect is misplaced? Every country is in an eternal struggle with its majority of idiots. Only trust a country when sane people are in charge.
Am I missing something?
Slow news day on Slashdot. Did you look at the previous "story"?
how long until we see a MMO that is run _entirely_ server-side - that is, a game that does all graphics and game logic calculations server-side, OnLive style, and simply streams HD-video to each client. If this considerable hurdle could be jumped, we might be able to see a lot more in the way of a dynamic MMO world, with actual physics, terrain deformation, collision detection, and a bunch of other features that are tough to do with the current client-server system.
Just.... no. There are many reasons graphics are done client side. Let me know when you figure them all out. Sure, something like this is theoretically possible, but only if you want to pay upwards of $200 per month to play that game. Since it's a lot cheaper for me to buy a really nice graphics card, why not render client side?
Always look over your shoulder because everyone is watching and plotting against you.
