game companies.. need to put some real loot in the game.... gas discount cards, fun tickets to go to the movies or discounts on outdoor activities. At least that would give some players a better reason to log on than mindless hours of grinding and crafting. Sure , that would shoot them in the foot. Not really I say, then you get a player wins a gas card.. they are on the road not logged in but stll are paying 14.99 month for something they do not use. Sounds win-win for the game company. So you want WoW to give discounts on out-of-house things so that people will spend more time playing in order to get the discounts which will then cause them to go outside and spend less time playing while still paying their subscription?
You are a marketing genius. I tip my hat to you sir.
I already have a life-size photo of a blue whale, thanks.
Of course, from my 5MP digital camera, that means a resolution of only 2dpi, but still "life size" in the sense that it would take 110ft (by a couple dozen rolls wide) of plotter paper to print. The kind of thinking that only comes from a lifetime of desperately struggling to come to terms with size-related inadequacy.
My first thought was to flame you for being a jerk. Instead, you have my commiserations.
The summary suggests that they measured the frequency of mentions of these terms in the source code - the article seems to suggest that they measured the terms searched for using the Krugle search engine. The former would be interesting, the latter would not.
Nowhere does it say in the article that it'll actually cut power to a house outright. In fact power cuts are one of the primary reasons for the system. All of this is made abundantly clear in the article. You did read the article, right?
"See how much harder and more dangerous it is to drive drunk? And this is just in a video game...imagine what would happen if you did it in real life." Yeah it's way harder to run down pedestrians while drunk. I'm staying sober tonight!
Having engaged in it consensually would not be a crime, but to have a photograph of it in one's possession would be a crime. That does not seem to make sense to me. You mean like having sex with a 16-17 year old?
Of course this new law is obscene, but the concept of having photographs/video of something that's legal being illegal is not new (even if the reasons are different in that case).
Best quote from Brad Smith (of Microsoft):
"We're doing this to help ensure that the Internet stays safe." That's a relief.
Seriously though, I'm curious to know more about what exactly this does. At first I assumed this was typical/. FUD and was essentially just a bootable USB drive to dodge Windows user permissions etc. but from reading the article it does actually sound like it's taking advantage of real security flaws in a running instance of the OS.
(Bold added by me to further highlight the already obvious). He's saying he wants a camera that might actually produce images that will identify the intruders on top of being a deterrent. That wasn't so hard to figure out was it? And it certainly isn't as unreasonable or suspicion-worthy as you seem to think.
First of all, what pretense was given to the test subjects for the experiment? Obviously you can't tell them "we're going to see if you're paranoid", so what did they tell them? The very act of being in an experiment where you're put in a VR environment is likely to affect behavour and the way you interpret people.
Secondly, put this in context of the location used for the experiment. A VR reproduction of the London underground? A place where you're crowded by people, a place which in all honesty does have a reputation for being a haven for pickpockets (whether that's deserved or not I don't know), and oh yes, one other thing - the site of the last major (successful) terrorist attack on Britain. Gee, do you think any of this might make people a little more wary when put into that environment for an experiment?
Some of this is addressed in TFA of course, but it doesn't correspond to the sensational headlines this peice has been getting in tabloids and on the Internet. Being somewhat cautious in that particular situation is a world away from the headlines implicating that 40% of us are clinically paranoid all the time.
Well breaking a finger wouldn't stop you getting the fingerprint generally speaking. Even if it did you'd have up to nine others to pick from with any decent system.
If you manage to incapacitate all ten fingers in such a way that you can't get a print scan off any of them maybe that's a good warning to your boss that you need a competency review. Or at least a holiday until something heals.
It sounds simple and obvious enough, but thinking about how to create materials that behave like this one realizes the challenges involved (not that I am a materials engineer and know anything about it.) Forget synthesising the process, I think we all know where this is headed: Squid farming. Why figure out how to do it when nature has provided us with the goods, handily attached to a tasty snack.
OK, so there may be a few disappointed faces when people get a prosthetic beak instead of a hand. But I'm sure they'll come around to the idea when they think about it a little bit and realise that beaks are awesome.
Oh, you may notice he never said he was a Windows user. And the "Year of Linux" isn't defined by when you started using Linux. What, did you think we were all sitting around with baited breath hoping this would be the year that Zero__Kelvin gave his mark of approval? I'm not surprised you feel bad when you tell people what you paid for your laptop. A Sony Vaio? Talk about low value for money...
Acid3 had been in development for 11 months so it's not like this suddenly sprung into existence overnight to "prove" Microsoft's inadequacies or anything. Even if you consider the release date to be intriguing, I'm not sure what difference you think the Acid3 developers thought it would make to have IE8 fail Acid3. It's not like there are really any users who decide which browser to use based on its ability to accurately render complete standards anyway. Most people don't know what the web standards Acid tests are and won't care even if you tell them.
Putting all that aside, it would still hardly constitute some unfair conspiracy. For one thing every other renderer in released browsers fails quite miserably at it too. Secondly, it's not some arbitrary test, Acid3 measures accuracy of conformance to DOM and ECMAscript standards. Acid3 didn't just make up the standards on the spot, they have existed for years and IE could have (and should have) been attempting to conform the whole time (as should every other renderer).
In other words: No, I don't find it intriguing. It's a mild coincidence, nothing more.
If you're a Linux contributor (and also then presumably a user too), then the benefit of more Linux users should be obvious: Better driver support from hardware manufacturers, more software being targeted to the platform, and of course more people willing and able to contribute to Linux and Linux-oriented software.
While it's a fair point that blindly copying Windows is not a good idea, I don't see many Linux distributions doing that. There is plenty going on in the arena of Windows inter-operation sure, but that's something entirely different.
How long before police start scanning in school yearbooks en masse into some giant database, then use data-mining and age-progression to match with crimes caught on video. Now I feel glad I skipped every school picture day in all four years of high school. I guess from now on anyone doing that will instantly be labelled as a future criminal and have their DNA recorded instead. Brilliant...
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You are a marketing genius. I tip my hat to you sir.
Yeah I remember that time in Cuba when all those guys got hanged because people found they couldn't TiVo the latest episodes of Lost.
Of course, from my 5MP digital camera, that means a resolution of only 2dpi, but still "life size" in the sense that it would take 110ft (by a couple dozen rolls wide) of plotter paper to print. The kind of thinking that only comes from a lifetime of desperately struggling to come to terms with size-related inadequacy.
My first thought was to flame you for being a jerk. Instead, you have my commiserations.
First of all... you got second post. Second of all, TFA is about Javascript, not Java.
Other than that your post was completely relevant.
...And people say nobody uses IRC anymore.
The summary suggests that they measured the frequency of mentions of these terms in the source code - the article seems to suggest that they measured the terms searched for using the Krugle search engine. The former would be interesting, the latter would not.
Study conducted of whether long-held belief has real benefits. Conclusion: Maybe a little.
News at 11.
Nowhere does it say in the article that it'll actually cut power to a house outright. In fact power cuts are one of the primary reasons for the system. All of this is made abundantly clear in the article. You did read the article, right?
Of course this new law is obscene, but the concept of having photographs/video of something that's legal being illegal is not new (even if the reasons are different in that case).
Seriously though, I'm curious to know more about what exactly this does. At first I assumed this was typical
"To me, the object isn't just deterrence"
(Bold added by me to further highlight the already obvious). He's saying he wants a camera that might actually produce images that will identify the intruders on top of being a deterrent. That wasn't so hard to figure out was it? And it certainly isn't as unreasonable or suspicion-worthy as you seem to think.
First of all, what pretense was given to the test subjects for the experiment? Obviously you can't tell them "we're going to see if you're paranoid", so what did they tell them? The very act of being in an experiment where you're put in a VR environment is likely to affect behavour and the way you interpret people.
Secondly, put this in context of the location used for the experiment. A VR reproduction of the London underground? A place where you're crowded by people, a place which in all honesty does have a reputation for being a haven for pickpockets (whether that's deserved or not I don't know), and oh yes, one other thing - the site of the last major (successful) terrorist attack on Britain. Gee, do you think any of this might make people a little more wary when put into that environment for an experiment?
Some of this is addressed in TFA of course, but it doesn't correspond to the sensational headlines this peice has been getting in tabloids and on the Internet. Being somewhat cautious in that particular situation is a world away from the headlines implicating that 40% of us are clinically paranoid all the time.
Well breaking a finger wouldn't stop you getting the fingerprint generally speaking. Even if it did you'd have up to nine others to pick from with any decent system.
If you manage to incapacitate all ten fingers in such a way that you can't get a print scan off any of them maybe that's a good warning to your boss that you need a competency review. Or at least a holiday until something heals.
...And now I can't log in.
Pass.
OK, so there may be a few disappointed faces when people get a prosthetic beak instead of a hand. But I'm sure they'll come around to the idea when they think about it a little bit and realise that beaks are awesome.
Hello there. Jokes, ever hear of them?
Oh, you may notice he never said he was a Windows user. And the "Year of Linux" isn't defined by when you started using Linux. What, did you think we were all sitting around with baited breath hoping this would be the year that Zero__Kelvin gave his mark of approval? I'm not surprised you feel bad when you tell people what you paid for your laptop. A Sony Vaio? Talk about low value for money...
I don't see the connection. In what way is a joystick any more useful or practical than a steering wheel?
Acid3 had been in development for 11 months so it's not like this suddenly sprung into existence overnight to "prove" Microsoft's inadequacies or anything. Even if you consider the release date to be intriguing, I'm not sure what difference you think the Acid3 developers thought it would make to have IE8 fail Acid3. It's not like there are really any users who decide which browser to use based on its ability to accurately render complete standards anyway. Most people don't know what the web standards Acid tests are and won't care even if you tell them.
Putting all that aside, it would still hardly constitute some unfair conspiracy. For one thing every other renderer in released browsers fails quite miserably at it too. Secondly, it's not some arbitrary test, Acid3 measures accuracy of conformance to DOM and ECMAscript standards. Acid3 didn't just make up the standards on the spot, they have existed for years and IE could have (and should have) been attempting to conform the whole time (as should every other renderer).
In other words: No, I don't find it intriguing. It's a mild coincidence, nothing more.
If you're a Linux contributor (and also then presumably a user too), then the benefit of more Linux users should be obvious: Better driver support from hardware manufacturers, more software being targeted to the platform, and of course more people willing and able to contribute to Linux and Linux-oriented software.
While it's a fair point that blindly copying Windows is not a good idea, I don't see many Linux distributions doing that. There is plenty going on in the arena of Windows inter-operation sure, but that's something entirely different.
As opposed to Ruby? Ruby is more hyped right now than any other language I know of - Ruby on Rails in particular.
We can only hope. I need someone to plough my fields.
...Awkard...
Oh, you meant that the other way.
Just please God, tell me they didn't try to fertilise a laser with shark sperm.