There's playing nice and there's being jerks and there're all sorts of grays in between. I don't know where facebook is but saying that they are too much to one side doesn't neccessarily imply that you mean they should be extreemely to the other.
Anyway, I read the same sentence (about exporting data) and it made me wonder if it wouldn't be fairly straightforward to make a facebook app that does just that.. Maybe there is one allready, but my point is that if there is a demand, there is probably nothing stopping it from happening (unless fb actually are beeing jerks in ways I don't know).
...with the sole exception of the volume keys. Most of the other feature keys that infest my keyboard don't work as they should, are completely useless or perform tasks that I can equally well do with a few normal keystrokes (and save myself the reach). Even a mouse click or two is a comparable alternative. Same goes for f-lock and the cryptic icons on my function keys.
...at NY, was not that bad. The wait was really long and the inspecor quite nosy... Err, come to think of it the experience was not that good either. But they were at least polite and even friendly (in a well rehearsed way), which was not what I had learned I should expect.
On the other hand I've had aquintances exposed to all sorts of visa stupidities that would've belonged better in the dark ages. No I think I'll stay away from the US insofar as I can.
This guy didn't ask for 'magic' but for software to perform a conceptually simple task. He got two or three concrete examples above. There are nuttier posts on/. you can go and make fun of.
Also Internet promotes piracy... We should shut it down. Then freedom promotes piracy because people who can meet physically are prone to copy each others songs etc. directly => everyone should be imprissoned. Oh and... no I'm going to stop here
I've allways stayed away from games that don't really end, as an all too alluring waste of time.. But if I could combine my weekly cardio with it... Allthough beeing competitve I think I would find it hard to stop at a few hours per week when others level faster. Still, if they installed something like this at my gym and took care not to make the game too levelling-focused, it might be fun.
How about one of them nifty collars that explode when you screw up? With cloning and whatever coming along we can just grow children in flocks and let evolution sort out the disobedient! Much more efficient in the long run.
I love watching people post as AC when they say stupid things.
There are plenty of great movies etc. that have run out of copyright and the number is increasing at about the same rate as the movie industry grew the last century. I'd guess it's even "exponentially" for a while. It's perfectly fine to share these with BitTorrent. There are also terriffic people who release media as CC today, for instance I share my collection of TED talks with BitTorrent.
As/.:ers so eagerly point out whenever RAID is mentioned: it's not for backup. It's for reducing downtime when hd's fail. So I assume that's the issue the original poster was thinking of. Not that I know what the solution would possibly be, but there's the correct question at least.
Thank you - I could hardly believe what I saw: Someone basically writes that there is a conspiracy to dumb down America.. and he gets firmly modded "insightful"! I think there may be economical interests that make it prefereable for companies to keep the public full of certain bullshit, something that we should be carefull with when we design laws. Then there is of course religious bullshit, a chapter on it's own. But I can't really bring myself to think that any (relevant) group of people would counsciously be trying to "dumb down" anyone, let alone an entire country. That'd be serious megalomania, for starters.
I think such ideas are shadows of the very dangerous thing that has caused so much trouble in the past: When there is some kind of trouble and we can't see an obvious cause, blame it on some foreigners! Are the Jews by any chance trying to dumb down America? Or maybe it is someone who has oil who is trying to dumb down America.
Not really true about the subways imho, though you may pass some station now and then where you barely have time to get some email transmitted. It is pretty neat to message your friends from the top of Fuji-san, 3800 meters up, though, but the connection is erradic.
Just like the movie industry and so many other: Most of the target consumers will buy whatever you tell them they should buy as long as you have a well known logo, enough money for advertising and don't screw up too badly with cultural context.
Hah, the old "if people stop pirating, prices will be lower" argument. No, a commodity is worth what a purchaser is willing to pay for it - I bet the Biz people know this very well (if little else) and thus the price of a specific item will not change as directly as that. What it (the amount of pirating) does affect is of course whether a product is worth marketing at all. A long winding argument from there might possibly lead to lower prices in some sense but it's certainly more tenous than these people would have us believe!
The belief, that we humans can 'engineer' the earth and bend it to our expectations is exactly, what got us into this mess in the first place. How about re-engineering ourselves instead for the better?
What, are you saying we tried to "engineer the earth" with the industrial revolution? Are you trying to "engineer the earth" when you drive your car? No, before now I don't think anyone (of consequence) has been trying to "engineer the earth" in the sence of the entire globe we live on.
Now, quite obviously, we have the capability to "engineer the earth" (in relatively minor ways) even though any such project would be huge (maybe Terra$'s). The problem is that we only have one system to test on and no Live CD with which to fix a misstake. But at some point we may very well find our selves in a situation where an option seems "safe enough" relative the consequences of inaction. Not researching these "options" because you're afraid of the consequences is just stupid.
"Engineering ourselves" on the other hand is something we have been doing since, well, I don't know - who first said "think what kind of children these two would have?"? And recently we are doing it more concretely to win basketball games. But in a larger sence than that no one has a clue what the heck "for the better" would be. Though I have my theories.
Methinks the thought of spending the rest of your life in jail for killing someone with your car would make people pay a little more attention than getting an occasional speeding ticket for doing 5mph more than everyone else, which is only a randomly collected road tax.
While I definately like courts to keep drivers of heavy vehicles on a short leash, I have to point out that there are levels of inattentiveness and levels of difficullt situations.. It'd hardly seem reasonable to send someone to prison for life for blinking twice in a situation where he might have avoided an accident had he blinked once. And surely noone would claim they can maintain the same maximum level of attentiveness throughout a two hour or so, ride?? I think it is very difficullt to judge in such cases unless you can prove something concrete sa. intoxication or cellphone usage. I doubt there're many reliable witnesses.
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...is a religious wacko undeserving of any recognition, imho.
There's playing nice and there's being jerks and there're all sorts of grays in between. I don't know where facebook is but saying that they are too much to one side doesn't neccessarily imply that you mean they should be extreemely to the other.
Anyway, I read the same sentence (about exporting data) and it made me wonder if it wouldn't be fairly straightforward to make a facebook app that does just that.. Maybe there is one allready, but my point is that if there is a demand, there is probably nothing stopping it from happening (unless fb actually are beeing jerks in ways I don't know).
...with the sole exception of the volume keys. Most of the other feature keys that infest my keyboard don't work as they should, are completely useless or perform tasks that I can equally well do with a few normal keystrokes (and save myself the reach). Even a mouse click or two is a comparable alternative. Same goes for f-lock and the cryptic icons on my function keys.
...at NY, was not that bad. The wait was really long and the inspecor quite nosy... Err, come to think of it the experience was not that good either. But they were at least polite and even friendly (in a well rehearsed way), which was not what I had learned I should expect.
On the other hand I've had aquintances exposed to all sorts of visa stupidities that would've belonged better in the dark ages. No I think I'll stay away from the US insofar as I can.
Wy do people think things like TiVO, Hulu,... are so successful?
Because of targeted advertising..?
I believe the general public is tired of be bombarded to "BUY MORE!"
Ooh - so you were going the other way with that.
This guy didn't ask for 'magic' but for software to perform a conceptually simple task. He got two or three concrete examples above. There are nuttier posts on /. you can go and make fun of.
All of the Adobe dialog boxes were designed for a vertical height larger than the physical screen resolution, so the OK/Cancel buttons are cut off.
Wow, what resolution do these laptops with GB's of RAM and hundreds of dollars of software actually have?
This guy shows time-lapse fotage of ice disappearing but there is also a nice graph of CO2 in there somewhere.
it sounds fairly reasonable to suggest that error bars are relatively small
Also the smoothness of the curves suggested by the green and blue dots respectively seem to suggest the error bars are relatively small.
Also Internet promotes piracy... We should shut it down. Then freedom promotes piracy because people who can meet physically are prone to copy each others songs etc. directly => everyone should be imprissoned. Oh and... no I'm going to stop here
Polls show that 78.6% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Strategic Vision's poll says 78.8..
I've allways stayed away from games that don't really end, as an all too alluring waste of time.. But if I could combine my weekly cardio with it... Allthough beeing competitve I think I would find it hard to stop at a few hours per week when others level faster. Still, if they installed something like this at my gym and took care not to make the game too levelling-focused, it might be fun.
How about one of them nifty collars that explode when you screw up? With cloning and whatever coming along we can just grow children in flocks and let evolution sort out the disobedient! Much more efficient in the long run.
I love watching people post as AC when they say stupid things.
There are plenty of great movies etc. that have run out of copyright and the number is increasing at about the same rate as the movie industry grew the last century. I'd guess it's even "exponentially" for a while. It's perfectly fine to share these with BitTorrent. There are also terriffic people who release media as CC today, for instance I share my collection of TED talks with BitTorrent.
Here's how to find alternative torrent search engines.
As /.:ers so eagerly point out whenever RAID is mentioned: it's not for backup. It's for reducing downtime when hd's fail. So I assume that's the issue the original poster was thinking of. Not that I know what the solution would possibly be, but there's the correct question at least.
Thank you - I could hardly believe what I saw: Someone basically writes that there is a conspiracy to dumb down America.. and he gets firmly modded "insightful"! I think there may be economical interests that make it prefereable for companies to keep the public full of certain bullshit, something that we should be carefull with when we design laws. Then there is of course religious bullshit, a chapter on it's own. But I can't really bring myself to think that any (relevant) group of people would counsciously be trying to "dumb down" anyone, let alone an entire country. That'd be serious megalomania, for starters.
I think such ideas are shadows of the very dangerous thing that has caused so much trouble in the past: When there is some kind of trouble and we can't see an obvious cause, blame it on some foreigners! Are the Jews by any chance trying to dumb down America? Or maybe it is someone who has oil who is trying to dumb down America.
My Worry isn't that, but rather that laws and regulations are so hopelessly naive and outdated that industry can even consider these DRM stupidities.
Not really true about the subways imho, though you may pass some station now and then where you barely have time to get some email transmitted. It is pretty neat to message your friends from the top of Fuji-san, 3800 meters up, though, but the connection is erradic.
Just like the movie industry and so many other: Most of the target consumers will buy whatever you tell them they should buy as long as you have a well known logo, enough money for advertising and don't screw up too badly with cultural context.
Hah, the old "if people stop pirating, prices will be lower" argument. No, a commodity is worth what a purchaser is willing to pay for it - I bet the Biz people know this very well (if little else) and thus the price of a specific item will not change as directly as that. What it (the amount of pirating) does affect is of course whether a product is worth marketing at all. A long winding argument from there might possibly lead to lower prices in some sense but it's certainly more tenous than these people would have us believe!
such an obvious piece of prior art
Have we heard that before?
The belief, that we humans can 'engineer' the earth and bend it to our expectations is exactly, what got us into this mess in the first place. How about re-engineering ourselves instead for the better?
What, are you saying we tried to "engineer the earth" with the industrial revolution? Are you trying to "engineer the earth" when you drive your car? No, before now I don't think anyone (of consequence) has been trying to "engineer the earth" in the sence of the entire globe we live on.
Now, quite obviously, we have the capability to "engineer the earth" (in relatively minor ways) even though any such project would be huge (maybe Terra$'s). The problem is that we only have one system to test on and no Live CD with which to fix a misstake. But at some point we may very well find our selves in a situation where an option seems "safe enough" relative the consequences of inaction. Not researching these "options" because you're afraid of the consequences is just stupid.
"Engineering ourselves" on the other hand is something we have been doing since, well, I don't know - who first said "think what kind of children these two would have?"? And recently we are doing it more concretely to win basketball games. But in a larger sence than that no one has a clue what the heck "for the better" would be. Though I have my theories.
Wouldn't the fair thing be to make Microsoft pay for Dell's expenses regarding the injunction on Word?
Methinks the thought of spending the rest of your life in jail for killing someone with your car would make people pay a little more attention than getting an occasional speeding ticket for doing 5mph more than everyone else, which is only a randomly collected road tax.
While I definately like courts to keep drivers of heavy vehicles on a short leash, I have to point out that there are levels of inattentiveness and levels of difficullt situations.. It'd hardly seem reasonable to send someone to prison for life for blinking twice in a situation where he might have avoided an accident had he blinked once. And surely noone would claim they can maintain the same maximum level of attentiveness throughout a two hour or so, ride?? I think it is very difficullt to judge in such cases unless you can prove something concrete sa. intoxication or cellphone usage. I doubt there're many reliable witnesses.
Thanks for a very nice answer. I suppose it must have been a stupid question as someone was kind enough to mod me down.