Seems pretty dry to me. News editorialists love to invent portmanteaus and then pat themselves over the back for a self-perceived job well done, but virtually nobody outside of their little news bubble acknowledges it beyond groaning about its overuse. (staycation)
Oh, I agree with you fully re: Facebook's policies. Ever since the privacy issues earlier this year I started quarantining Facebook -- Linux partition only while using the Chrome browser. (since I typically use Firefox for everything else) Never use it on Windows (I'm 90% Linux and 10% Windows use on my home PC) so good luck with Facebook tracking me with my own information. IP address? Pfft, there's two other internet users in the house with wildly different interests from my own. So if Facebook ever comes up with a "sarysa's recent websites", it'll be really empty.
Oh, it's definitely deeper than my one-liner up there, but they only know as much about you as you submit to them. (granted, computer alias can tell a lot) The spirit of what I was trying to say is not lost -- they really just want to figure out ways to sell you stuff with a higher clickthrough rate. The summary, on the other hand, has a bit of a Glenn Beckish FUD tone to it. Having cookies unchecked over a year will take ads from being analytics-driven stereotypes to more accurate ads based on your personal likes and dislikes, but it's still nothing to be afraid of. If anything, it's funny to see what happens when your SO starts rating stuff while you're both browsing on your personal PC. I get some weird recommendations from Hulu these days.
To be fair, I absolutely think Facebook has serious privacy issues. I realize now that anything I do there, despite how private I set it to be, will eventually be readable by anyone on my friends list -- friends, family, and co-workers. I hardly use the site anymore for that reason. TFA isn't in line with those issues.
Some people seem to have the delusion that companies actually care about who you are and why you're clicking this and that, but they only care about your statistics. They want to know that single white 27 year old female likes Lady GaGa, not that Janet Doe likes Lady GaGa...
This needs to be modded up, and then sent to all the major players in Xbox 360 development. (including Microsoft) I hope that companies take advantage of this in the future, so we're not doomed to just rail games...
I wonder if there could be a swordfighting game that goes beyond Kinect's core functionality to include a sword with a d-stick and a couple buttons, reading both the sword and the user's skeleton to make an advanced swordfighting adventure...
The term slippery slope has been treated negatively lately, but -1 Trolling this person? Seriously, just look at the history involved here. In fact, think of Apple as a microcosm(weird term for the #1 market value company) of government. You can't take rights away all at once or the interested party will revolt. It's like a game of chess, taking your time to choose your moves carefully, collecting piece after piece until people forget how much better things were when they were open now that they're utterly beholden to their new master.
Oh, and to deflect the inevitable "don't like it, don't use it" argument, their business strategy involves getting their products into the schools and now even enterprise. If we don't make it clear to both that we don't want Apple's closed standards dominating said environments, only a self-employed childless individual will be able to "not use it".
Actually, Microsoft has been really terrible with marketing lately. I think you're mistaking them with Apple. (it's been happening a lot lately, but Jon Stewart recently picked up on this)
In fact, they've been so bad with marketing that I've been checking the news lately to see if my Kinect pre-order would be a doorstop in a year. Luckily I've read otherwise...
I'm only a light TV watcher, but the nuisance of switching from 360 to my secondary Uverse set-top box actually kept me from watching classic TV in the bedroom. (in other words, "at all") Why bother when I watch most content online? Now I may be motivated to do so casually. (i.e. random History channel programming)
Never thought I'd fit the niche of one of these "[whatever] added to your console" stories.
Show of hands here, who could write a communication program in an hour that would defeat all attempts at decryption if the two "terrorists" exchanged the program in person? I know I could! Maybe someone who can needs to testify to Congress as a software/communications expert and knock some sense into them.
What I don't get is how this didn't hit the mainstream sooner. You need only play both games for five minutes to realize that Mafia Wars stole from Mob Wars practically verbatim, that FarmVille stole from Farm Town, etc. I plan to read TFAs later for their insights, but the fact that Zynga has been a household name for months, have been stealing for over a year, yet their activities get ignored until now -- THAT is the root of the problem.
I'd like to see someone argue (whether true or not) that they disagreed with the EULA and decided to sell it rather than return it. After all, they truly never agreed to any contract at that point.
CD key reported to some remote server? Cry "wasn't me, keygen!"
"Ping" has an established meaning among a very small segment of computer users. [...]
Don't forget the large segment of PC gamers. Console games typically do not show ping but virtually all PC games do. I can only imagine the annoying trademark battles to come starting ~3 years from now...
There was also a lot of virgin land that needed those extra hands to tend, build, and manage. Birth rates went down when we started needing to build up to house everyone. Sure, it's not disgusting when your nearest neighbor is 10 miles away, but it's disgusting if you're living in NYC.
Also, if you read the fine print on the page, it suggests that a general average of 4-5 living children was the norm. (where infant mortality rate is provided)
Oh and one more thing: If you can't out-code quite naturally a college grad after 20 years in the game, you're in the wrong game, or in the wrong job all along. By naturally I mean without spending a lot of your own time learning.
Sad but true. I'm 30 myself, and I've met plenty of 40-somethings who ended up teaching me a lot by proxy, and I've also met fewer 40-somethings whose credentials I'd seriously question. Same goes for degree levels.
Can't blame geek sites for recycling these stories every 6-12 months, though. Doom and gloom sells, and it's as effective as filler for geeks as the flag burning amendment is for everyone else.
I'm not surprised by TFA, but I'm not in the know when it comes to which domain parkers are "legitimate" and which aren't. Regardless of their status, accidentally hitting a parked domain on a Windows box (i.e. my work PC) has been a bit of a gut-wrenching experience for a number of years now...
Having been a child and making it well enough into adulthood, I can understand why your post was marked Insightful. My first response to the article was denial, but one second later I realized that I've thought in line with the article fairly often in the last few years. In a superficial way, I have changed a lot, but base aspects of my personality are still there. To name a couple, first-run timidness/caution, sense-of-humor, and an innate desire to explore are a few I could think of off-hand. Personality "changes" are more like things that are not applicable to a 6 year old that seep into adult life, like response to tragedy. Furthermore, conflicting personality traits will outwardly fool others into thinking that someone's personality has changed, when in reality life events just caused one personality aspect to override another.
I'm no longer so bothered by the seemingly deterministic nature of basic personality traits. I've come to accept that I'm a certain way and I've learned to manipulate my own impulses and flaws in various ways.
At the risk of getting Troll/Flamebaited like the other detractors, I'd like to make some points.
Your statement, that 99% of the requirements are cost-free or very low cost, indicates part of the problem. That other 1% is killer.
ADA litigation is where the real cost is. In California, we have an expression: "You can never be ADA compliant." Local ADA laws conflict with federal laws.
There's plenty of people around who'll take advantage of the lack of protections for businesses against ADA litigation abuse. Here's one local (to NorCal) individual whose litigation has been famously(local) described as blackmail. Businesses will often submit to said blackmail without verifying the validity of it -- it's not worth the cost to fight.
While ADA was well intentioned, we need to fix the brick-and-mortar version of the law before even THINKING about applying it to websites. Period.
Even though Android is a smartphone platform, it will ultimately be the carriers' and manufacturers' successor to the J2ME and BREW platforms. Android is merely inheriting practices that have evolved over the last 8 years or so. My Palm Pre also has unremovable bloatware. (unless you root the device) It's not going to go away anytime soon.
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What we saw with Wintel? What exactly did we see with Wintel?
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Wintel
Seems pretty dry to me. News editorialists love to invent portmanteaus and then pat themselves over the back for a self-perceived job well done, but virtually nobody outside of their little news bubble acknowledges it beyond groaning about its overuse. (staycation)
Oh, I agree with you fully re: Facebook's policies. Ever since the privacy issues earlier this year I started quarantining Facebook -- Linux partition only while using the Chrome browser. (since I typically use Firefox for everything else) Never use it on Windows (I'm 90% Linux and 10% Windows use on my home PC) so good luck with Facebook tracking me with my own information. IP address? Pfft, there's two other internet users in the house with wildly different interests from my own. So if Facebook ever comes up with a "sarysa's recent websites", it'll be really empty.
Oh, it's definitely deeper than my one-liner up there, but they only know as much about you as you submit to them. (granted, computer alias can tell a lot) The spirit of what I was trying to say is not lost -- they really just want to figure out ways to sell you stuff with a higher clickthrough rate. The summary, on the other hand, has a bit of a Glenn Beckish FUD tone to it. Having cookies unchecked over a year will take ads from being analytics-driven stereotypes to more accurate ads based on your personal likes and dislikes, but it's still nothing to be afraid of. If anything, it's funny to see what happens when your SO starts rating stuff while you're both browsing on your personal PC. I get some weird recommendations from Hulu these days.
To be fair, I absolutely think Facebook has serious privacy issues. I realize now that anything I do there, despite how private I set it to be, will eventually be readable by anyone on my friends list -- friends, family, and co-workers. I hardly use the site anymore for that reason. TFA isn't in line with those issues.
Some people seem to have the delusion that companies actually care about who you are and why you're clicking this and that, but they only care about your statistics. They want to know that single white 27 year old female likes Lady GaGa, not that Janet Doe likes Lady GaGa...
This needs to be modded up, and then sent to all the major players in Xbox 360 development. (including Microsoft) I hope that companies take advantage of this in the future, so we're not doomed to just rail games...
I wonder if there could be a swordfighting game that goes beyond Kinect's core functionality to include a sword with a d-stick and a couple buttons, reading both the sword and the user's skeleton to make an advanced swordfighting adventure...
In California, the police tell you to vote against the anti-union candidate.
The term slippery slope has been treated negatively lately, but -1 Trolling this person? Seriously, just look at the history involved here. In fact, think of Apple as a microcosm(weird term for the #1 market value company) of government. You can't take rights away all at once or the interested party will revolt. It's like a game of chess, taking your time to choose your moves carefully, collecting piece after piece until people forget how much better things were when they were open now that they're utterly beholden to their new master.
Oh, and to deflect the inevitable "don't like it, don't use it" argument, their business strategy involves getting their products into the schools and now even enterprise. If we don't make it clear to both that we don't want Apple's closed standards dominating said environments, only a self-employed childless individual will be able to "not use it".
That clip cannot be unseen.
Actually, Microsoft has been really terrible with marketing lately. I think you're mistaking them with Apple. (it's been happening a lot lately, but Jon Stewart recently picked up on this)
In fact, they've been so bad with marketing that I've been checking the news lately to see if my Kinect pre-order would be a doorstop in a year. Luckily I've read otherwise...
Except I prefer to be on Linux most of the time. I use Linux for geek stuff and web, do gaming on the Windows side.
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TV isn't very important to me. I usually only watch TV when I'm too tired to do anything else.
I'm only a light TV watcher, but the nuisance of switching from 360 to my secondary Uverse set-top box actually kept me from watching classic TV in the bedroom. (in other words, "at all") Why bother when I watch most content online? Now I may be motivated to do so casually. (i.e. random History channel programming)
Never thought I'd fit the niche of one of these "[whatever] added to your console" stories.
Wow, good observation with the SSH.
Show of hands here, who could write a communication program in an hour that would defeat all attempts at decryption if the two "terrorists" exchanged the program in person? I know I could! Maybe someone who can needs to testify to Congress as a software/communications expert and knock some sense into them.
What I don't get is how this didn't hit the mainstream sooner. You need only play both games for five minutes to realize that Mafia Wars stole from Mob Wars practically verbatim, that FarmVille stole from Farm Town, etc. I plan to read TFAs later for their insights, but the fact that Zynga has been a household name for months, have been stealing for over a year, yet their activities get ignored until now -- THAT is the root of the problem.
I'd like to see someone argue (whether true or not) that they disagreed with the EULA and decided to sell it rather than return it. After all, they truly never agreed to any contract at that point.
CD key reported to some remote server? Cry "wasn't me, keygen!"
"Ping" has an established meaning among a very small segment of computer users. [...]
Don't forget the large segment of PC gamers. Console games typically do not show ping but virtually all PC games do.
I can only imagine the annoying trademark battles to come starting ~3 years from now...
Not to mention, Zynga points have been sold at GameStop and other venues for months now...
There was also a lot of virgin land that needed those extra hands to tend, build, and manage. Birth rates went down when we started needing to build up to house everyone. Sure, it's not disgusting when your nearest neighbor is 10 miles away, but it's disgusting if you're living in NYC.
Also, if you read the fine print on the page, it suggests that a general average of 4-5 living children was the norm. (where infant mortality rate is provided)
Oh and one more thing: If you can't out-code quite naturally a college grad after 20 years in the game, you're in the wrong game, or in the wrong job all along. By naturally I mean without spending a lot of your own time learning.
Sad but true. I'm 30 myself, and I've met plenty of 40-somethings who ended up teaching me a lot by proxy, and I've also met fewer 40-somethings whose credentials I'd seriously question. Same goes for degree levels.
Can't blame geek sites for recycling these stories every 6-12 months, though. Doom and gloom sells, and it's as effective as filler for geeks as the flag burning amendment is for everyone else.
To be fair, the mainstream media often picks up /. stories months later. It's amusing to see CNN headline an old /. story on a slow news day.
If you have a beater and you'd lose more money by not showing up at work, it'd be smarter to just abandon the car.
What kind of penalties do you incur in China for abandoning a car?
Not to mention, how many people in that nightmare pileup have run out of gas?
Security System.
I'm not surprised by TFA, but I'm not in the know when it comes to which domain parkers are "legitimate" and which aren't. Regardless of their status, accidentally hitting a parked domain on a Windows box (i.e. my work PC) has been a bit of a gut-wrenching experience for a number of years now...
Having been a child and making it well enough into adulthood, I can understand why your post was marked Insightful. My first response to the article was denial, but one second later I realized that I've thought in line with the article fairly often in the last few years. In a superficial way, I have changed a lot, but base aspects of my personality are still there. To name a couple, first-run timidness/caution, sense-of-humor, and an innate desire to explore are a few I could think of off-hand. Personality "changes" are more like things that are not applicable to a 6 year old that seep into adult life, like response to tragedy. Furthermore, conflicting personality traits will outwardly fool others into thinking that someone's personality has changed, when in reality life events just caused one personality aspect to override another.
I'm no longer so bothered by the seemingly deterministic nature of basic personality traits. I've come to accept that I'm a certain way and I've learned to manipulate my own impulses and flaws in various ways.
While ADA was well intentioned, we need to fix the brick-and-mortar version of the law before even THINKING about applying it to websites. Period.
Even though Android is a smartphone platform, it will ultimately be the carriers' and manufacturers' successor to the J2ME and BREW platforms. Android is merely inheriting practices that have evolved over the last 8 years or so. My Palm Pre also has unremovable bloatware. (unless you root the device) It's not going to go away anytime soon.