These lists always seem to leave off the major players. Perhaps they wouldn't get as much traffic if they offended the mainstream os/console/editor fanatics.
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I think BSD needs a new, cuddly but cool mascot. how do you compete with tux? Is the cresta (remember that?) polar bear available?
He's MIA after his glacier suddenly melted. Witnesses saw a little guy with some sort of trident fleeing the scene.
Our only consolation is we have all the water and oil, and the last time you invaded Canada, we kicked your ass.
That was a long time ago. Our army was in much better shape then. Now he's really let himself go and probably wouldn't make it to the border without having a heart attack.
Try being nice to your customers some time. It might not do you much good, but it won't do you as much harm as what you're doing now.
Makes sense, unless you view every illegal download as a lost sale. Once you have an entrenched view that says more downloads equals more lost profit, it's hard to break free. Which VP is going to stick his neck out for this issue? If sales go up by 20% but copyright-infringing downloads go up by 40% guess how they'll view it?
Don't support corporations that use these type of tactics, but don't expect them to change either. Raising awareness and ensuring your government doesn't continue to erode your rights will be far more effective.
It seems to me that if you can design an algorithm to verify how humans interact with a computer, it should be relatively trivial to engineer an algorithm that mimics this interaction?
Maybe someone smarter than I could clarify?
You're looking at this all backwards. This isn't the humans attempting to prevent access to the bots. It's the bots getting the humans to speed up their evolutionary arms race.
Think of it, bots trying to determine bot from non-bot. Bots honing their human-infiltration skills vs the best of the bots. It'll be the greatest leap since spam filtering. We'll^WThey'll be getting +5s again on Slashdot in no time!
I can see it now: "have you tried moving your mouse around randomly?", "how about clicking on a few different parts of the page then making coffee?", "still not working? Try slamming the mouse down several times", "okay, as a last resort click on the tabloid pop-up."
Speaking as a student at the University of Helsinki, nearly all textbooks I need are offered by one of the libraries,
I don't understand how this works. If this was the case, what incentive would the professor have to require four of his books and never use them in the course?
School is boring. Work sucks. Life's a bitch and then you die. If we all just played video games and poker (or better yet, online poker!) instead of doing boring things like putting food on the table then we could all just escape from reality and starve to death!
Some people get inspired, find learning enjoyable, get interesting jobs and make good money doing it. Others went to public schools.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
'Video games' is an extremely broad category, especially when talking about addiction. The differences between a mmorpg, a fps with no artificial progress indicator, and a puzzle game need to be noted.
Most of these studies just seem to take a few random popular titles and assume the results apply to all.
Secondly, exactly who is it who says (or can demonstrate) that cracking a Mac or Linux box is easier than a Windows box? My experience is exactly the opposite.
The language is vague enough to be pointless. Does he mean when run by the user as root? Does he mean remote exploit vs something in the full install of ___ distro? Does he mean windows makes you click yes more times to run it?
Now half the comments will be off-topic due to that sentence.
Grief voting is when a player flags perfectly acceptable content as inappropriate just because it's fun. If it only takes a single vote to eliminate content from the game, clicking that button is going to be the game for a lot of players. You don't want perfectly good content getting pulled because someone's a jerk.
I don't know what mod your post deserves, so I'll post a Whoosh comment, but at least one that's not sarcastic.
We spend thousands of hours grinding *moves*, which includes pawns.
But would you be content taking a pawn, resetting the game one step back, and then repeating the move for hours on end? Would it provide the same false sense of progress?
People have played games for thousands of years. The only difference now is they've got more sophisticated.
Sophisticated is one way of putting it. Another would be to point out they didn't spend thousands of hours grinding pawns so they could finally take down that bishop.
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These lists always seem to leave off the major players. Perhaps they wouldn't get as much traffic if they offended the mainstream os/console/editor fanatics.
I think BSD needs a new, cuddly but cool mascot. how do you compete with tux? Is the cresta (remember that?) polar bear available?
He's MIA after his glacier suddenly melted. Witnesses saw a little guy with some sort of trident fleeing the scene.
OpenSolaris?
That comes after the BSDs take 10% of the desktop market share.
2148 if you were wondering.
I really feel for the BSD guys. Just hope they can keep users. Having choice in OS selection is great.
There will always be a market for BSD. Afterall, what will us elitists use once Linux becomes too mainstream?
Our only consolation is we have all the water and oil, and the last time you invaded Canada, we kicked your ass.
That was a long time ago. Our army was in much better shape then. Now he's really let himself go and probably wouldn't make it to the border without having a heart attack.
Try being nice to your customers some time. It might not do you much good, but it won't do you as much harm as what you're doing now.
Makes sense, unless you view every illegal download as a lost sale. Once you have an entrenched view that says more downloads equals more lost profit, it's hard to break free. Which VP is going to stick his neck out for this issue? If sales go up by 20% but copyright-infringing downloads go up by 40% guess how they'll view it?
Don't support corporations that use these type of tactics, but don't expect them to change either. Raising awareness and ensuring your government doesn't continue to erode your rights will be far more effective.
He cannot be serious.
That's what was said about a new kind of science. I think Stephen Wolfram's been 'serious' for a while now.
It seems to me that if you can design an algorithm to verify how humans interact with a computer, it should be relatively trivial to engineer an algorithm that mimics this interaction?
Maybe someone smarter than I could clarify?
You're looking at this all backwards. This isn't the humans attempting to prevent access to the bots. It's the bots getting the humans to speed up their evolutionary arms race.
Think of it, bots trying to determine bot from non-bot. Bots honing their human-infiltration skills vs the best of the bots. It'll be the greatest leap since spam filtering. We'll^WThey'll be getting +5s again on Slashdot in no time!
I can see it now: "have you tried moving your mouse around randomly?", "how about clicking on a few different parts of the page then making coffee?", "still not working? Try slamming the mouse down several times", "okay, as a last resort click on the tabloid pop-up."
... there's a way.
I'll switch to min-maxing Slashdot if it comes to it.
Ah! Troll mod! Rerolling...
Could someone help me? I just tried licking my processor, and now I can't get unstuck...
Sure, just turn on the computer and fire up SETI. It'll fix it right up :)
Speaking as a student at the University of Helsinki, nearly all textbooks I need are offered by one of the libraries,
I don't understand how this works. If this was the case, what incentive would the professor have to require four of his books and never use them in the course?
Very strange system you guys have there.
School is boring. Work sucks. Life's a bitch and then you die. If we all just played video games and poker (or better yet, online poker!) instead of doing boring things like putting food on the table then we could all just escape from reality and starve to death!
Some people get inspired, find learning enjoyable, get interesting jobs and make good money doing it. Others went to public schools.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Lying liars and the lies they tell — souls in need of correction whether young or old. .
True, and we all know that video game lies are just gateway lies that lead to gambling rent lies.
Put down the controller and stop the dishonesty while you still can!
'Video games' is an extremely broad category, especially when talking about addiction. The differences between a mmorpg, a fps with no artificial progress indicator, and a puzzle game need to be noted.
Most of these studies just seem to take a few random popular titles and assume the results apply to all.
I was going to type a reply, but the older you get the more all words start to look the same.
Abstract anything far enough up and you can dismiss it. Takes all the fun out of it though.
With no more used game sales, the publishers can finally have everyone buy new copies and be rid of their number two complaint.
It'll be a slow transition, but we'll eventually see them discount games down to factor this in, right?
WRONG
*Giving* a blowjob with a gun to my head.
RemoWilliams84, meet zarthrag. zarthrag, RemoWilliams84.
I'll expect the new kernel by Friday.
Outdated contracts based on a pre-Internet view reduce company's profits yet again.
Why can't I view youtube videos to follow at 11.
Yes, but until then, lets just try another star trek approach.
Secondly, exactly who is it who says (or can demonstrate) that cracking a Mac or Linux box is easier than a Windows box? My experience is exactly the opposite.
The language is vague enough to be pointless. Does he mean when run by the user as root? Does he mean remote exploit vs something in the full install of ___ distro? Does he mean windows makes you click yes more times to run it?
Now half the comments will be off-topic due to that sentence.
Grief voting is when a player flags perfectly acceptable content as inappropriate just because it's fun. If it only takes a single vote to eliminate content from the game, clicking that button is going to be the game for a lot of players. You don't want perfectly good content getting pulled because someone's a jerk.
Sounds like they could use some meta-moderating.
I don't know what mod your post deserves, so I'll post a Whoosh comment, but at least one that's not sarcastic.
We spend thousands of hours grinding *moves*, which includes pawns.
But would you be content taking a pawn, resetting the game one step back, and then repeating the move for hours on end? Would it provide the same false sense of progress?
No whoosh here :)
I could tell you the real story behind gaming addiction but I need to lvl up my human mage to lvl 80.
Unless it's your sixth+ alt, your implied addiction has been rejected ;-)
People have played games for thousands of years. The only difference now is they've got more sophisticated.
Sophisticated is one way of putting it. Another would be to point out they didn't spend thousands of hours grinding pawns so they could finally take down that bishop.