No no, this is a fantastically socially responsible idea! I'm excited about it.
Think about it - armed police issuing warnings that they will use capsicum if provoked, or are in "baton mode" or simply want the crowd to "disperse peacefully"...
There is so much violence caused by misunderstanding between police forces and crowds, this would be a wonderful idea!!
This calls to mind Facebook's cute way of sending out invitations for your new Facebook page to _every_ contact in your Yahoo account. Completely counter-intuitive but very effective marketing.
So, great marketing tool for Google in much the same way. But counter-intuitive, and I'd also say just as irresponsible to its users.
I hope this is a lesson to people who use online sites to store private data. You cannot trust these companies to use your data in the way you would expect from a friend. Your friends are the people you know. Not the company who knows you know them..
I'm not sure exactly what question was asked to get that 2-in-500 response. It would be interesting to know for obvious reasons.
There could be many reasons for that response, like mistrust in IP laws, the awareness that music middle-men (producers) suck profits from performers, things like that. It would depend on the context of the question.
There's download managers, PaintShop et al, Acrobat, disc label designers, all kinds of apps with graphical interfaces that you simply cannot achieve online without a complete rethink of what HTML does in your browser.
Either that, we'd end up with a variety of propriety browser plugins or thin client apps to give us the interface required for the online software in question.
Either way, you still need a desktop you can install stuff on. I can't see how to get away from that, or even why we'd need to if someone somewhere didn't see a revenue model in it.
Exactly. I feel that tables should have been more focussed on instead of less so. The colspan/rowspan requirements are difficult to manage for average users, and when building apps to generate them.
Simple things, like a table attribute meaning "inherit width from previous table". That alone would be very useful, minimising the need to calculate colspans when breaking up tables of data with headings etc. You're guaranteed the tables will render to the same width (assuming its variable).
Tables could be made so much more powerful, less restrictive, easier to use. I'm not ashamed to be a table fan!
True... I think we're yet to see a good web page designer that doesn't require the user to be a good web page designer. You can create a blog at blogger etc, but making your own site as you want it is still difficult.
Then again, as a dev, I don't want to be put out of work.. I knew there was a conspiracy in there somewhere.
The Second Life client software is basically a browser. If the fault is in the QT player, then it's like a hacker setting up a site to exploit your browser vulnerabilities. Browsers aren't held responsible for loss, so why should the SL client software?
Robots are at least uncorruptable. They should be deployed in government, programmed with everything it takes to run an economy and provide for the needs of citizens. Even with minimal personality AI, they'd be more appealing than the ones that breathe.
Firstly, I was invited to join Facebook by someone I knew a while ago. I thought, gee how sweet, ok. Once signed up, I discovered it's an automated email based on your Yahoo address book.
Knell 1(b): When I contacted her to say "hi, thanks for inviting me, how have you been?" she apologised, not having realised she'd invited me. (insert canned laughter here)
Knell 2: A close friend spotted me online and invited me. Again I thought, how nice. When I saw his page - 40+ friends and most interactions being via these game/toy-proxies without any real communication going on, I didn't really see the point.
Knell 3: Soon ended up having 8 friends, people I actually knew. I refused adding all these toys (vampire bites, likeness polls, etc.) that people sent me, but instead wrote a few blog entries about what I've been up to. No-one else had any, and no-one read mine.
Tried to watch this doco, but it was too ADHD and not enough depth.
They didn't even mention text! Remember the original Lunar Lander, Star Trek, Eliza? What "history of gaming" doco is complete without referencing the huge influence of text games? Or the ground-breaking interpretive text parser used in The Hobbit, that let us speak to characters in normal language? That has never been duplicated again, afaik.
Instead, they made every reference to war, rockets to the moon, anything that flashes or goes "ping" so the poor viewer doesn't get bored with watching people actually speaking at any length about interesting topics.
Oh, to see Carl Sagan wandering through the woods, enchanting us with adventures in Zork on a DEC, and interstellar trading on the IBM5110. The days when games were more intense than HDR, and AI really worked - simply because we imagined it to be so.
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sitting in a synthetic cave with real-leather seats and fake bats seems a little strange.
No no, this is a fantastically socially responsible idea! I'm excited about it.
Think about it - armed police issuing warnings that they will use capsicum if provoked, or are in "baton mode" or simply want the crowd to "disperse peacefully"...
There is so much violence caused by misunderstanding between police forces and crowds, this would be a wonderful idea!!
Simple - the Project Leader of AWS is not the Marketing Director.
But, like Daleks, only while you're looking at something else.
Then it's a good thing Kaspersky doesn't have voice recognition. I don't want to be confined for something I say.
oops. shh, don't want to give the government any more ideas here..
Excellent.. now I can pwn without being busted for botting in UT2004.
At least it will allow hijacked planes to do some nice formation flying.
This calls to mind Facebook's cute way of sending out invitations for your new Facebook page to _every_ contact in your Yahoo account. Completely counter-intuitive but very effective marketing.
So, great marketing tool for Google in much the same way. But counter-intuitive, and I'd also say just as irresponsible to its users.
I hope this is a lesson to people who use online sites to store private data. You cannot trust these companies to use your data in the way you would expect from a friend. Your friends are the people you know. Not the company who knows you know them..
I'm not sure exactly what question was asked to get that 2-in-500 response. It would be interesting to know for obvious reasons.
There could be many reasons for that response, like mistrust in IP laws, the awareness that music middle-men (producers) suck profits from performers, things like that. It would depend on the context of the question.
The only reason I can think you'd be drinking heavily at such a time, is you've seen the Robot Chicken Half-Assed Christmas Special.
It's an interesting premise, but not worth pursuing to wits' end.
You can chase absolute morality too, as long as you apply it to your own culture or, at a stretch, the human race.
Absolute hot/cold is only relevant our own physics.
Of course, before Relativism, "our physics" meant something completely different again.
Black Holes imply Windows, not Linux.
When I think about it, this seems ridiculous.
How long did it take market forces to vanquish vinyl in favour of CDs? 2 years?
But when we need decisive action on important issues, it's 10, 15, 20 years...
What exactly was government for again, I forgot..
No, there's a BIG difference.
When you successfully land a job, you generally do what you boss/manager says.
When politicians land a job, they do what the party says; not what you want, often not even what they want.
When a President or Prime Minister lands a job, nobody can stop him using the company photocopier all he likes.
#11: Slashdot mod system succumbs to reverse psychology.
VB always has, and always will, eventually catch up to whatever you crazy guys are doing.
I am the turtle. Phear me.
..besides MS Office and Open Office.
There's download managers, PaintShop et al, Acrobat, disc label designers, all kinds of apps with graphical interfaces that you simply cannot achieve online without a complete rethink of what HTML does in your browser.
Either that, we'd end up with a variety of propriety browser plugins or thin client apps to give us the interface required for the online software in question.
Either way, you still need a desktop you can install stuff on. I can't see how to get away from that, or even why we'd need to if someone somewhere didn't see a revenue model in it.
Exactly. I feel that tables should have been more focussed on instead of less so. The colspan/rowspan requirements are difficult to manage for average users, and when building apps to generate them. Simple things, like a table attribute meaning "inherit width from previous table". That alone would be very useful, minimising the need to calculate colspans when breaking up tables of data with headings etc. You're guaranteed the tables will render to the same width (assuming its variable). Tables could be made so much more powerful, less restrictive, easier to use. I'm not ashamed to be a table fan!
True... I think we're yet to see a good web page designer that doesn't require the user to be a good web page designer. You can create a blog at blogger etc, but making your own site as you want it is still difficult.
Then again, as a dev, I don't want to be put out of work.. I knew there was a conspiracy in there somewhere.
The beauty of the web was that anyone could put up a web page.
All you "standards nazis" out there, please don't forget that. The web is for everyone, yes, even those who can't write HTML "properly".
Hopefully browsers will always render badly formed HTML, otherwise the web will be a poorer place for it.
The answer to the question is simply no.
The Second Life client software is basically a browser. If the fault is in the QT player, then it's like a hacker setting up a site to exploit your browser vulnerabilities. Browsers aren't held responsible for loss, so why should the SL client software?
Robots are at least uncorruptable. They should be deployed in government, programmed with everything it takes to run an economy and provide for the needs of citizens. Even with minimal personality AI, they'd be more appealing than the ones that breathe.
Knell 1:
Firstly, I was invited to join Facebook by someone I knew a while ago. I thought, gee how sweet, ok. Once signed up, I discovered it's an automated email based on your Yahoo address book.
Knell 1(b):
When I contacted her to say "hi, thanks for inviting me, how have you been?" she apologised, not having realised she'd invited me. (insert canned laughter here)
Knell 2:
A close friend spotted me online and invited me. Again I thought, how nice. When I saw his page - 40+ friends and most interactions being via these game/toy-proxies without any real communication going on, I didn't really see the point.
Knell 3:
Soon ended up having 8 friends, people I actually knew. I refused adding all these toys (vampire bites, likeness polls, etc.) that people sent me, but instead wrote a few blog entries about what I've been up to. No-one else had any, and no-one read mine.
Facebook is already dead if you ask me.
Tried to watch this doco, but it was too ADHD and not enough depth.
They didn't even mention text! Remember the original Lunar Lander, Star Trek, Eliza? What "history of gaming" doco is complete without referencing the huge influence of text games? Or the ground-breaking interpretive text parser used in The Hobbit, that let us speak to characters in normal language? That has never been duplicated again, afaik.
Instead, they made every reference to war, rockets to the moon, anything that flashes or goes "ping" so the poor viewer doesn't get bored with watching people actually speaking at any length about interesting topics.
Oh, to see Carl Sagan wandering through the woods, enchanting us with adventures in Zork on a DEC, and interstellar trading on the IBM5110. The days when games were more intense than HDR, and AI really worked - simply because we imagined it to be so.
Hang on... you go to your gf's house and... play WoW? :)