There's no reason not to have a version control system for a web-based app, and a release cycle to go with it. The reason sites don't tend to do this is that no-one takes web apps seriously enough to bother.
100's of sets of tourist photos randomly scattered across the internet, being added and removed and reorganized by their takers at their whim is not remetely the same thing as a single permanent indexed geo-tagged database filled with photos that were carefully and systematically taken and stitched together.
Tourists take geo-tagged photos with GPS enabled camera.
Tourists upload said photos to Flickr.
Trendy web 2.0 developer writes Google Maps / Flickr mashup. *
???
Profit (for burglars?)
(* many of which, I assume, already exist)
The point is, this is one genie that can't be put back in the bottle, Google or no Google. I'm sure David Brin had something to say about all this.
What's the big deal? Microsoft has provided this feature in Windows for a long time now. Whenever I open a URL from a Microsoft product, there's a good chance it's going to "allow me to preview the output" from the URL in Internet Explorer, despite the fact that IE hasn't been my default browser for about ten years.
There is no "moral wrong" in blocking ads. The problem is far more practical than that.
The web sites you visit cost money to run. Perhaps you pay a subscription to some of the sites you visit. Those sites that you visit, but do not directly give money to, have to find a way to finance themselves.
One such way is through advertising. Experience has proved to companies that exposing people to carefully designed propaganda can influence their spending habits, and thus these companies are willing to pay money to owners of web sites in order to display this advertising to visitors.
If you use AdBlock, you will never click on an ad on a site, and thus never provide any revenue to the site owner to offset his running costs. That is the practical (not moral) problem with running AdBlock.
I run AdBlock, but I would never click an advert anyway, even if I ever saw one. However, this is a mere rationalisation - I am still denying revenue to the owners of the sites that I visit.
I am not being immoral in doing so, since I am under no moral obligation to view these ads. However, if everyone did the same as me, the site owner would receive no revenue whatsoever and (unless some kind benefactor financed the site out of his or her own pocket) the site would be forced to close. This is the heart of the problem.
I don't understand why the author thinks these issues are specific to video games.
It can be hard finding players of comparable skill-level to create even match-ups
...like it can be with any face-to-face game. In fact, video games make this vastly easier by allowing you to play with anyone across the world, instead of being limited to the set of people who can physically hook up with you.
diverse gameplay options can quickly become irrelevant if someone finds a broken feature that beats everything else
...just like in any board game, where one of the primary design trade-offs is to balance the various options available to the players, such that a variety of different strategies become viable, without any one strategy being a no-brainer.
some online games make your ability to play competitively a question of how much time and money you've invested in a game, rather than the skill you possess
...just like Magic the Gathering, or any other collectible card game, where the amount of money you have spent on your deck directly influences the options available to you in-game.
Even if everyone agrees from the trailer that the movie will be a triumph, not bothering to release it might have some degree of negative impact on box office takings.
The original poster claimed it's ironic that China has more will to get space projects up and running than the USA. You might view this as "a shame" (most examples in the Alanis Morissette song fall into this category, as does the song itself for that matter) but it certainly isn't "ironic".
An example of irony would be if China launched so many military satellites that two of them crashed into each other, and the resulting debris fell to Earth and wiped out a Chinese military base.
Therefore, I would suggest that the alternate term you are looking for is "a shame". If you can give me an example of a situation where this term is inadequate, but "ironic" does not apply either, I'll be glad to reconsider.
I saw two shooting stars last night,
I wished on them but they were only satellites.
Is it wrong to wish on space hardware?
I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care.
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That's all well and good, but none of this explains why I need to click on a cheese grater to Configure my Preferences.
Russia and China tolerate him, as he is their geo-political bishop piece.
Meanwhile, in the rest of the world, the will is gradually building to thoroughly and vigorously bash that bishop.
Ah, you use Visual Studio too?
He said authorised.
There's no reason not to have a version control system for a web-based app, and a release cycle to go with it. The reason sites don't tend to do this is that no-one takes web apps seriously enough to bother.
100's of sets of tourist photos randomly scattered across the internet, being added and removed and reorganized by their takers at their whim is not remetely the same thing as a single permanent indexed geo-tagged database filled with photos that were carefully and systematically taken and stitched together.
(* many of which, I assume, already exist)
The point is, this is one genie that can't be put back in the bottle, Google or no Google. I'm sure David Brin had something to say about all this.
If its a midi cable for data I'd guess it has a 50-100ft range.
If you'll excuse me asking... what other kind of MIDI cable is there?
Could someone help me out? I'm confused as to which story I'm supposed to be posting in to get "The April Fool" achievement. Thanks.
I expect the knitting helps.
Tell them you have a four digit Slashdot UID.
Alternatively, try trimming your beard.
What's the big deal? Microsoft has provided this feature in Windows for a long time now. Whenever I open a URL from a Microsoft product, there's a good chance it's going to "allow me to preview the output" from the URL in Internet Explorer, despite the fact that IE hasn't been my default browser for about ten years.
One only has to watch The Wire to see the validity of this claim. Oh McNulty, what crazy hijinks are you up to now?
Oh my God, you're right - if I want to play any game with a short-ass hairy Italian plumber in it, I'm screwed.
Make it look like you are a contentious employee doing your best for the company
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
I'm surprised Slashdot are stupid enough to even pick up on it..
You must be new here.
Oi - people holding USB sticks - get off my lawn!
Now get off his lawn.
There is no "moral wrong" in blocking ads. The problem is far more practical than that.
The web sites you visit cost money to run. Perhaps you pay a subscription to some of the sites you visit. Those sites that you visit, but do not directly give money to, have to find a way to finance themselves.
One such way is through advertising. Experience has proved to companies that exposing people to carefully designed propaganda can influence their spending habits, and thus these companies are willing to pay money to owners of web sites in order to display this advertising to visitors.
If you use AdBlock, you will never click on an ad on a site, and thus never provide any revenue to the site owner to offset his running costs. That is the practical (not moral) problem with running AdBlock.
I run AdBlock, but I would never click an advert anyway, even if I ever saw one. However, this is a mere rationalisation - I am still denying revenue to the owners of the sites that I visit.
I am not being immoral in doing so, since I am under no moral obligation to view these ads. However, if everyone did the same as me, the site owner would receive no revenue whatsoever and (unless some kind benefactor financed the site out of his or her own pocket) the site would be forced to close. This is the heart of the problem.
plastic containers from small electronic equipment
That's one thing I'd welcome a law banning.
This is not collective geri-oligarchism... this is California!
"Arised"? Please. I know the editors here aren't famed for their intelligence, but they could at least try using actual words.
I don't understand why the author thinks these issues are specific to video games.
It can be hard finding players of comparable skill-level to create even match-ups
...like it can be with any face-to-face game. In fact, video games make this vastly easier by allowing you to play with anyone across the world, instead of being limited to the set of people who can physically hook up with you.
diverse gameplay options can quickly become irrelevant if someone finds a broken feature that beats everything else
...just like in any board game, where one of the primary design trade-offs is to balance the various options available to the players, such that a variety of different strategies become viable, without any one strategy being a no-brainer.
some online games make your ability to play competitively a question of how much time and money you've invested in a game, rather than the skill you possess
...just like Magic the Gathering, or any other collectible card game, where the amount of money you have spent on your deck directly influences the options available to you in-game.
Even if everyone agrees from the trailer that the movie will be a triumph, not bothering to release it might have some degree of negative impact on box office takings.
The original poster claimed it's ironic that China has more will to get space projects up and running than the USA. You might view this as "a shame" (most examples in the Alanis Morissette song fall into this category, as does the song itself for that matter) but it certainly isn't "ironic".
An example of irony would be if China launched so many military satellites that two of them crashed into each other, and the resulting debris fell to Earth and wiped out a Chinese military base.
Therefore, I would suggest that the alternate term you are looking for is "a shame". If you can give me an example of a situation where this term is inadequate, but "ironic" does not apply either, I'll be glad to reconsider.
I saw two shooting stars last night,
I wished on them but they were only satellites.
Is it wrong to wish on space hardware?
I wish, I wish, I wish you'd care.