There was a post here about how Sony was artificially expanding PS3's life by making it very hard to use all the features it has to offer as a developer. Everyone was flaming about it.
Now imagine a world where a big corporation can no longer have an everlasting patent (or copyright or whatever). For the sake of the milking of his products, corporations would start releasing crappy improvements (or half-finished inventions), getting protection for them and when that protection is over, the corporation (or perhaps someone else) would release just a bit more of it, just enough to patent it again and the process repeats itself.
What I mean is that once a company has the full product, it'll strip it of the more innovating features and release it, half-featured. Then, as time passes, the corporation would release more and more features. Instead of what happens now (or rather what we want to have), that a corporation releases the full-featured product and then is free to milk it forever.
Well yeah, but think about it: your brain can differentiante between your boss calling you a useless waste of oxygen from inside his office and the giggles from your coworkers on the outside.
The aim for technology is, of course, that a microphone can do the same.
And it makes sense that Windows would understand "Fuck", being the word that it hears the most.
I don't see the average user uninstalling IE8 just because there's an option to do it.
It's an option that most people won't use, so Microsoft is giving in on something that really doesn't do them any harm.
The smart part is that now that there's an option to uninstall IE8, it's harder to complain about it since the fact that it's still in any given computer is not Microsoft's doing, but the user's lack of desire to uninstall it, so IE8 must be working well enough for the average user. At least that's what MS will say.
The H-1B debate is pointless. Americans are too expensive, even H-1B's living in America are too expensive. The trend will be to continue to offshore the work in order to leverage lower costs of living elsewhere.
That's what "he's either just plain smarter than you..." is talking about: One Indian and one American, both living in the US. If the Indian (having, as you said, the same living costs) is getting Your job (despite all your american-born advantages), then he's just plain smarter or more hard-working.
That's the price of globalization: you're now competing against the whole world to get a job, even if that job is in a company just around the corner from your house.
Right now it costs between $70 and $100 per pound. You can reasonably expect that to become at least several thousand within the next ten years.
I don't think that's right. If it becomes more expensive (or harder to obtain), it will no longer be viable and thus people won't use it, and that's because there are, and still will be in 20 years, alternatives.
Thus, it's not a good investment.
Now've they found a medical reason to bash videogames.
They'll call it acute necrotizing videogamitis and claim it's a terminal desease. That way people will finally forbid the use of videogames.
Damn alarmists.
Right, because it's a well known scientific fact that those who actually make a bomb are totally immune to the bomb's effects.
Besides, having explosives is not illegal just because you could use them for therrorism, but because accidents happen; accidents which might not only harm yourself (being stupid enough to have a bomb with you, whatever happens, you had it coming), but those around you as well. More so with something as powerful as a nuke.
The phone companies could create a bunch of toll-call numbers (with a crazy fee for the caller, of course and are of no public use) and mix them up with the DNC list.
That way, a spammer, who is dialing all numbers from the list, will eventually (maybe in a 1-1 ratio) hit those toll-call numbers and thus have a huge bill to pay.
How about a society where I, a 250 pounds muscle freak do not use my physical power to force you, the 100 pounds computer nerd, to do anything you don't want to, just because I am civilized? No need for guns.
Besides, your whole argument crumbles apart when you consider three simple facts of life:
- There are shootouts
- Armed policemen get killed by armed thugs
- Thugs fight each other... with guns.
So the guns don't actually stop fights, just make them worse.
A gun in your pocket only makes you more "trigger-happy". It won't stop a guy from mugging you, it'll just cause the thug to shoot you first from afar and then rob you. Or just get a better gun.
A gun in your pocket will make you more likely to pull it out in a situation that didn't require it. You can end up shooting someone who just tripped onto you in a dark alley.
A gun in your pocket can turn a simple robbery into a slaughter. It can get you and some innocent people killed.
When you carry a gun in your pocket, you are no longer an innocent victim.
On the bright side, a gun in everyone's pocket would leave us better prepared for Halo's alien invasions.
You guys are missing the point. If they only wanted data to survive for 25 years, they'd just keep it in a computer and that's it.
The fact is that people like this "diggin' up the past" thingy and love time capsules. Don't know why, but that's not the point.
The idea is to keep old stuff buried (not "buried" as in "buried under a stash of porn videos" or anything like that, but actually, physically buried) and then have them "rediscover their past", thus, "check up on it periodically" and "keeping redundant backups" just defeats the purpose.
Hey! A scientist should NOT be granted any budget unless he can explain how a complicated, multi-million dollar machine that is at the peak of human technology and developed by 8000 thousand top-notch scientists with money from several countries and the knowledge all human-kind has ever accumulated works with only an abacus and a hot chick to show it!
Well, it ain't that complicated! Let me clarify some terms:
pp: car-crash
cross-section: number of limbs flying in a certain area
Luminosity-independent: Regardless of day or night
T1 and T2: Cops saying "ew... " when they see a limb
The rest is boring.
I can see where anti-LHC freaks think this is going to end:
**humming of LHC on the background**
Sci1: Do you see that black thing?
Sci2: I don't see anything.
Sci1: Yeah... that's my point! And it's growing!!
Sci2: Ah, so they were right... I'll call my mom.
Then you could go as far as saying that TV spams your vision with Cars, medicines, insurance, cellphones, ISPs, etc, adds, which is certainly true.
This issue has nothing to do with man/women differences nor the target audience. The difference between spam and "regular" adds is that spam kicks into your personal communication ways, like your e-mail and even your regular mail, without you wanting it there and for no particular reason.
Of course you can ask why there are so many penis enlargement spam mails on your Inbox (at some point I was beginning to think that someone thought MY penis was too short...), and that probably has more to do with a "socio-economical study" of the people who are willing to click on just about any link. I mean those kids that spend their whole life on the computer gaming or just doing nothing in cyber-particular. They're usually male, aren't they? Aren't we?
Another difference is the fact that on TV or magazines or whatever mass-communication device, it's the company that runs the device the one that includes the adds. In spam, you have hotmail working it's ass off to give you (or try...) a decent service and then you have those who take advantage of it and, well... spam.
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There was a post here about how Sony was artificially expanding PS3's life by making it very hard to use all the features it has to offer as a developer. Everyone was flaming about it.
Now imagine a world where a big corporation can no longer have an everlasting patent (or copyright or whatever). For the sake of the milking of his products, corporations would start releasing crappy improvements (or half-finished inventions), getting protection for them and when that protection is over, the corporation (or perhaps someone else) would release just a bit more of it, just enough to patent it again and the process repeats itself.
What I mean is that once a company has the full product, it'll strip it of the more innovating features and release it, half-featured. Then, as time passes, the corporation would release more and more features. Instead of what happens now (or rather what we want to have), that a corporation releases the full-featured product and then is free to milk it forever.
Will this mean war? Norway vs the EU! nay! against the whole world!
But wouldn't it be great if you caught your wife cheating on you and your sound system started playing O Fortuna?!
I can't wait to get a wife and catch her cheating on me!
Well yeah, but think about it: your brain can differentiante between your boss calling you a useless waste of oxygen from inside his office and the giggles from your coworkers on the outside.
The aim for technology is, of course, that a microphone can do the same.
And it makes sense that Windows would understand "Fuck", being the word that it hears the most.
They became aware of each other. It's only a matter of time before they become aware of themselves!
They're making a bold statement here:
"Playing Videogames produces sedentarism which in turn produces illness"
It's not the videogames that make a people sedentary. It's the other way around: sedentary people like to play videogames.
If videogames didn't exist, those people would just watch tv and still wither and die.
I don't see the average user uninstalling IE8 just because there's an option to do it.
It's an option that most people won't use, so Microsoft is giving in on something that really doesn't do them any harm.
The smart part is that now that there's an option to uninstall IE8, it's harder to complain about it since the fact that it's still in any given computer is not Microsoft's doing, but the user's lack of desire to uninstall it, so IE8 must be working well enough for the average user. At least that's what MS will say.
Correct, but being able to do it in hiding means more freedom than not being able to do it at all.
The H-1B debate is pointless. Americans are too expensive, even H-1B's living in America are too expensive. The trend will be to continue to offshore the work in order to leverage lower costs of living elsewhere.
That's what "he's either just plain smarter than you..." is talking about: One Indian and one American, both living in the US. If the Indian (having, as you said, the same living costs) is getting Your job (despite all your american-born advantages), then he's just plain smarter or more hard-working.
That's the price of globalization: you're now competing against the whole world to get a job, even if that job is in a company just around the corner from your house.
According to your ideas, then, Linux would have never got off the ground and yet here we are.
Right now it costs between $70 and $100 per pound. You can reasonably expect that to become at least several thousand within the next ten years.
I don't think that's right. If it becomes more expensive (or harder to obtain), it will no longer be viable and thus people won't use it, and that's because there are, and still will be in 20 years, alternatives. Thus, it's not a good investment.
Now've they found a medical reason to bash videogames. They'll call it acute necrotizing videogamitis and claim it's a terminal desease. That way people will finally forbid the use of videogames. Damn alarmists.
What are you, a murderer?! You know damn well that if you tell a /.er NOT to watch a video for his/her own health, he/she will invariantly watch it!
So what is this? Like 10,000 mpx?
Right, because it's a well known scientific fact that those who actually make a bomb are totally immune to the bomb's effects.
Besides, having explosives is not illegal just because you could use them for therrorism, but because accidents happen; accidents which might not only harm yourself (being stupid enough to have a bomb with you, whatever happens, you had it coming), but those around you as well. More so with something as powerful as a nuke.
It would not be terrorism unless he used it deliberately to terrorize a group of people.
Tell that to the people who were arrested by homeland security at any USA airport for saying the word "bomb" after the 9/11...
The phone companies could create a bunch of toll-call numbers (with a crazy fee for the caller, of course and are of no public use) and mix them up with the DNC list. That way, a spammer, who is dialing all numbers from the list, will eventually (maybe in a 1-1 ratio) hit those toll-call numbers and thus have a huge bill to pay.
Ah, of course, the Microsoft-approach to things! Charge the users some more and all will be well.
Rrrright...
How about a society where I, a 250 pounds muscle freak do not use my physical power to force you, the 100 pounds computer nerd, to do anything you don't want to, just because I am civilized? No need for guns.
Besides, your whole argument crumbles apart when you consider three simple facts of life:
- There are shootouts
- Armed policemen get killed by armed thugs
- Thugs fight each other... with guns.
So the guns don't actually stop fights, just make them worse.
A gun in your pocket only makes you more "trigger-happy". It won't stop a guy from mugging you, it'll just cause the thug to shoot you first from afar and then rob you. Or just get a better gun.
A gun in your pocket will make you more likely to pull it out in a situation that didn't require it. You can end up shooting someone who just tripped onto you in a dark alley.
A gun in your pocket can turn a simple robbery into a slaughter. It can get you and some innocent people killed. When you carry a gun in your pocket, you are no longer an innocent victim.
On the bright side, a gun in everyone's pocket would leave us better prepared for Halo's alien invasions.
Schrodinger's cat taken to a whole new level.
You guys are missing the point. If they only wanted data to survive for 25 years, they'd just keep it in a computer and that's it. The fact is that people like this "diggin' up the past" thingy and love time capsules. Don't know why, but that's not the point.
The idea is to keep old stuff buried (not "buried" as in "buried under a stash of porn videos" or anything like that, but actually, physically buried) and then have them "rediscover their past", thus, "check up on it periodically" and "keeping redundant backups" just defeats the purpose.
Hey! A scientist should NOT be granted any budget unless he can explain how a complicated, multi-million dollar machine that is at the peak of human technology and developed by 8000 thousand top-notch scientists with money from several countries and the knowledge all human-kind has ever accumulated works with only an abacus and a hot chick to show it!
Well, it ain't that complicated! Let me clarify some terms:
pp: car-crash
cross-section: number of limbs flying in a certain area
Luminosity-independent: Regardless of day or night
T1 and T2: Cops saying "ew... " when they see a limb
The rest is boring.
I can see where anti-LHC freaks think this is going to end:
**humming of LHC on the background**
Sci1: Do you see that black thing?
Sci2: I don't see anything.
Sci1: Yeah... that's my point! And it's growing!!
Sci2: Ah, so they were right... I'll call my mom.
Then you could go as far as saying that TV spams your vision with Cars, medicines, insurance, cellphones, ISPs, etc, adds, which is certainly true.
This issue has nothing to do with man/women differences nor the target audience. The difference between spam and "regular" adds is that spam kicks into your personal communication ways, like your e-mail and even your regular mail, without you wanting it there and for no particular reason.
Of course you can ask why there are so many penis enlargement spam mails on your Inbox (at some point I was beginning to think that someone thought MY penis was too short...), and that probably has more to do with a "socio-economical study" of the people who are willing to click on just about any link. I mean those kids that spend their whole life on the computer gaming or just doing nothing in cyber-particular. They're usually male, aren't they? Aren't we?
Another difference is the fact that on TV or magazines or whatever mass-communication device, it's the company that runs the device the one that includes the adds. In spam, you have hotmail working it's ass off to give you (or try...) a decent service and then you have those who take advantage of it and, well... spam.
Now I can go bear-wrestle like I've always wanted to!