But China doesn't want to steal Google's proprietary secrets, they want to access the emails of Chinese rights activists.
I'm sure accessing some activist's inbox is a whole lot different thing than hacking into a place where Google is going to keep their secrets.
It's not that the word "Evolve" in the title is misleading, it's that the whole article has NOTHING to do with males evolving faster than females. It says that the Y chromosome is evolving rapidly. That's it. Nothing more. The Slashdot editor took that simple premise in the article and decided to create a masterpiece of flamebait. Thanks for turning what might have been an interesting genetic discussion into nothing.
I recall reading about why 3D mice failed or why Minority Report interfaces may not be as viable - it's very tiring for users to hold up and wave their hands in the air for extended periods of time.
So true! I've been playing a kart racing game on my iTouch, and the only reason I ever stop playing that game is because after twenty minutes of gaming, my arms are exhuasted from the simulated turning around sharp corners.
It seems to me that diagonal lines aren't that bad of a test actually. Just hitting links doesn't seem as good of a test, because the line test is more generalized. FTA:
Instead, the lines look jagged or zig-zag, no matter how slowly you go, because the sensor size is too big, the touch-sampling rate is too low, and/or the algorithms that convert gestures into images are too non-linear to faithfully represent user inputs.
From this, it looks like the line test actually does a good job of determining how accurate the touch screen is going to be overall. You can still say the person drawing the lines is inconsistent, but I'd say that's not a big deal, considering it's just an online article.
It would be totally silly if someone was to sue Facebook over this.
Yeah, they do have fault in that they didn't design Beacon better so that 3rd parties wouldn't be able to trick users, but I just feel like people want a reason to sue, sue, sue.
I mean, it has been around for two years, and if a 3rd party site uses it, I believe that you'll notice, because it will show up in Facebook.
And truthfully? I loved this feature. I would order out to restaurants and at the end it would be like "do you want to share this over Facebook" and I'd be like "Shit why not!" and I'd get a laugh out of my friends criticizing or commending me on my food choice.
I personally think this is an okay move, but I also think that it is a problem. Contradiction? I don't think so...
It's the right move because Wikipedia is moving to the point where it needs to lock itself down more, but it's a problem because this raises concerns of the WP elite having too much power. But this is to be expected. Every big change has solutions that also come with problems. You can't paint the whole situation as a lose-lose scenerio though. You have to accept the solution and address the problems that come with that solution. And we need to now address these problems; namely, the WP elite that have much more power than they did before.
And I think this is the problem with what Wikipedia is becoming. People are gaining "power" in the Wikipedia system, and that "power" is real-world power.
Think about it, Wikipedia is a big deal, what did the article say? 6 million people viewed Michael Jackson's Wikipedia article in six hours. Almost anything you search online, you get Wikipedia as the first result. Companies already use Wikipedia to "advertise" themselves. How long will it be until these heavyweights on Wikipedia realize that they have real-world power, and sell themselves to spread misinformation on Wikipedia for money? All it would take is for Joe Corporation to pay Joe Wikipedia an amount of money, Joe Wikipedia edits Joe Corporation's Wikipedia article, and no-one can or will challenge Joe Wikipedia, because he's one of the elite.
Yeah, yeah, take off the tinfoil hat, but this seems likely to me. I know I'll be taking everything I read on Wikipedia with a grain of salt, which of course anyone should be doing anyways.
Not that I oppose this move, Wikipedia has got to do what it's got to do. But I also think there should be a watchdog system in place.
I'd like to comment on DSL. A lot of people are saying "get naked DSL", and you can certainly do that, but nonetheless the infrastructure of phone lines still needs to remain in place for people to get DSL. The article doesn't address this at all and I think they should. Maybe the infrastructure will remain for the use of DSL.
I liked the first fable but the second fable seemed awful to me. I didn't like the dog, I didn't like the arrow consistantly telling me where to go. It was too easy to wander into too high level of enemies.
So I'll pass on the third too.
From TFA:
Another new mechanic will be called touch, as your interactions with other people will be measured in a more precise manner. For example, if you are trying to court a woman, the new system will slowly allow you to shake her hand, hug her and more. This will be the expression touch, but there will also be a dynamic touch, which will let you reach out and interact with others. Molyneux then describes a good example of when you hear a baby crying. In Fable II, the game would say press A to save the child, but with the touch system, you will be able to pull the child from the house, while cuddling and reassuring him.
Haha I wonder if eventually video games will get so advanced that you'll be able to tell by watching me play that I have no idea how to flirt with girls.
Yes, today that's easy listening. At least some of their songs, if not most, are mainstream vanilla pop. But that was new back then. They created a style that wasn't heard before, that was new and rebellious, their music, their style, their everything. You have to understand that in those days, even this rather tame beat was rebellious and quite suitable to drive your parents nuts. More than Marilyn Manson could today.
This reminds me of how I was talking with a friend about Black Sabbath. My dad came in the room and said, "Man, Black Sabbath, back in my day those guys were OUT THERE. My teachers said their music would rot your brain". And it made me laugh because I could totally see their music being totally strange back when they first started, but now their music is the norm because everyone is influenced by them.
The article touts Guitar Hero and similar games as the "big three's" counterattack to streaming game content, but that doesn't make sense, because the Guitar Hero franchise exploded while the streaming services were barely thought of. The author of the article is talking out his ass IMO.
Also I hate the digs he takes on the streaming services. Oh Noes! Is the new technology going to upset your precious status quo?! Get over it bitch. Either write an article and give me facts, or write an editorial and give me opinions. Don't give me a half-assed mix of both.
I misread this as "California Student Arrested for Console Hating."
I imagined a college student having an impassioned argument with a police officer on whether the ps3 or the xbox 360 is better. The student goes too far and insults Halo and he's lead away in handcuffs.
I think your comparison is flawed in that movies in the 40s or whatever were consumed by the general population. This is not the case with video games (for now). Right now teenager boys play video games. I almost said teenage white boys, but I feel like the racial barrier has gone down in recent years.
Yeah the supporting characters in Half Life are racially diverse and diverse in age, but the most important character is the main character, because the main character is what the protagonist plays.
Gordan Freeman is white and male. White male players (the primary audience of Half Life) can identify as him. Also, he is a theoretical physicist and kicks major ass. This is important because every white guy playing Half Life wants to be Gordan Freeman. Everyone wants themselves to kick ass and be smart and have a romantic relationship with a mixed-race girl. Therein lies the escapist appeal of the game.
Main characters don't succeed by random chance. They succeed because players identify with them and can use them as escapist vehicles. See Gears of War. Game developers know this.
Make the mixed race girl the protagonist of the game, and then have Gordan Freeman as an NPC as her significant other. Have the player have romantic moments while being the girl and looking at Gordan Freeman. I don't think Half Life will be as popular.
If people want to take issue with minority representation in video games, fine. They can go create their own games. This is 2009, and there are virtually no barriers to doing so should anyone be interested.
That's like if I wrote an article saying the president sucked and then you said, "if you don't like it, run for president, there's nothing stopping you."
Yeah, technically there's nothing stopping me, but in reality I will never become president. Same for these social scientists, you can tell them to make games, but even if they made games, they couldn't have a real effect on the games industry.
I don't agree that we should worry about this, but I do see their reasons for making this point.
It's completely laughable that now you're modded to +5 while the OP is now a troll.
What he said had truth in it, even if it does have a somber meaning.
I'm sure he isn't gleefully advocating the idea that no one in Africa should get immunized, and you're creating a straw man by implied he is. He's pointing out the dangerous population explosion that will occur in Africa in the next ten-ish years. Africa will not be able to handle this population explosion, and all of your silly bleeding heart rhetoric won't be able to save them.
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But China doesn't want to steal Google's proprietary secrets, they want to access the emails of Chinese rights activists. I'm sure accessing some activist's inbox is a whole lot different thing than hacking into a place where Google is going to keep their secrets.
It's not that the word "Evolve" in the title is misleading, it's that the whole article has NOTHING to do with males evolving faster than females. It says that the Y chromosome is evolving rapidly. That's it. Nothing more. The Slashdot editor took that simple premise in the article and decided to create a masterpiece of flamebait. Thanks for turning what might have been an interesting genetic discussion into nothing.
I recall reading about why 3D mice failed or why Minority Report interfaces may not be as viable - it's very tiring for users to hold up and wave their hands in the air for extended periods of time.
So true! I've been playing a kart racing game on my iTouch, and the only reason I ever stop playing that game is because after twenty minutes of gaming, my arms are exhuasted from the simulated turning around sharp corners.
It seems to me that diagonal lines aren't that bad of a test actually. Just hitting links doesn't seem as good of a test, because the line test is more generalized. FTA:
Instead, the lines look jagged or zig-zag, no matter how slowly you go, because the sensor size is too big, the touch-sampling rate is too low, and/or the algorithms that convert gestures into images are too non-linear to faithfully represent user inputs.
From this, it looks like the line test actually does a good job of determining how accurate the touch screen is going to be overall.
You can still say the person drawing the lines is inconsistent, but I'd say that's not a big deal, considering it's just an online article.
You are such an idiot for comparing "rewriting history" to "dude dancing around in lingerie."
It would be totally silly if someone was to sue Facebook over this.
Yeah, they do have fault in that they didn't design Beacon better so that 3rd parties wouldn't be able to trick users, but I just feel like people want a reason to sue, sue, sue.
I mean, it has been around for two years, and if a 3rd party site uses it, I believe that you'll notice, because it will show up in Facebook.
And truthfully? I loved this feature. I would order out to restaurants and at the end it would be like "do you want to share this over Facebook" and I'd be like "Shit why not!" and I'd get a laugh out of my friends criticizing or commending me on my food choice.
Can we have a Windows 7 release party in his kitchen?
Every time I've used Bing the experience has been substandard to google. The results I want are always buried lower.
So this program simulates every synapse individually?
Does the program respond to external stimuli?
The movie looks simply awful.
I could barely make it through the trailer without throwing something at the tv.
Are you sure that's what the article is talking about? It doesn't even resemble what was in the NYTimes article...
I personally think this is an okay move, but I also think that it is a problem. Contradiction? I don't think so...
It's the right move because Wikipedia is moving to the point where it needs to lock itself down more, but it's a problem because this raises concerns of the WP elite having too much power. But this is to be expected. Every big change has solutions that also come with problems. You can't paint the whole situation as a lose-lose scenerio though. You have to accept the solution and address the problems that come with that solution. And we need to now address these problems; namely, the WP elite that have much more power than they did before.
And I think this is the problem with what Wikipedia is becoming. People are gaining "power" in the Wikipedia system, and that "power" is real-world power.
Think about it, Wikipedia is a big deal, what did the article say? 6 million people viewed Michael Jackson's Wikipedia article in six hours. Almost anything you search online, you get Wikipedia as the first result. Companies already use Wikipedia to "advertise" themselves. How long will it be until these heavyweights on Wikipedia realize that they have real-world power, and sell themselves to spread misinformation on Wikipedia for money? All it would take is for Joe Corporation to pay Joe Wikipedia an amount of money, Joe Wikipedia edits Joe Corporation's Wikipedia article, and no-one can or will challenge Joe Wikipedia, because he's one of the elite.
Yeah, yeah, take off the tinfoil hat, but this seems likely to me. I know I'll be taking everything I read on Wikipedia with a grain of salt, which of course anyone should be doing anyways.
Not that I oppose this move, Wikipedia has got to do what it's got to do. But I also think there should be a watchdog system in place.
I am curious about the RTS aspect of this game, not much has been said on it. Also, what does DUST 514 mean?
I'd like to comment on DSL. A lot of people are saying "get naked DSL", and you can certainly do that, but nonetheless the infrastructure of phone lines still needs to remain in place for people to get DSL. The article doesn't address this at all and I think they should. Maybe the infrastructure will remain for the use of DSL.
So I'll pass on the third too.
From TFA:
Another new mechanic will be called touch, as your interactions with other people will be measured in a more precise manner. For example, if you are trying to court a woman, the new system will slowly allow you to shake her hand, hug her and more. This will be the expression touch, but there will also be a dynamic touch, which will let you reach out and interact with others. Molyneux then describes a good example of when you hear a baby crying. In Fable II, the game would say press A to save the child, but with the touch system, you will be able to pull the child from the house, while cuddling and reassuring him.
Haha I wonder if eventually video games will get so advanced that you'll be able to tell by watching me play that I have no idea how to flirt with girls.
Yes, today that's easy listening. At least some of their songs, if not most, are mainstream vanilla pop. But that was new back then. They created a style that wasn't heard before, that was new and rebellious, their music, their style, their everything. You have to understand that in those days, even this rather tame beat was rebellious and quite suitable to drive your parents nuts. More than Marilyn Manson could today.
This reminds me of how I was talking with a friend about Black Sabbath. My dad came in the room and said, "Man, Black Sabbath, back in my day those guys were OUT THERE. My teachers said their music would rot your brain". And it made me laugh because I could totally see their music being totally strange back when they first started, but now their music is the norm because everyone is influenced by them.
The article touts Guitar Hero and similar games as the "big three's" counterattack to streaming game content, but that doesn't make sense, because the Guitar Hero franchise exploded while the streaming services were barely thought of. The author of the article is talking out his ass IMO.
Also I hate the digs he takes on the streaming services. Oh Noes! Is the new technology going to upset your precious status quo?! Get over it bitch. Either write an article and give me facts, or write an editorial and give me opinions. Don't give me a half-assed mix of both.
I misread this as "California Student Arrested for Console Hating."
I imagined a college student having an impassioned argument with a police officer on whether the ps3 or the xbox 360 is better. The student goes too far and insults Halo and he's lead away in handcuffs.
I think your comparison is flawed in that movies in the 40s or whatever were consumed by the general population. This is not the case with video games (for now). Right now teenager boys play video games. I almost said teenage white boys, but I feel like the racial barrier has gone down in recent years.
Yeah the supporting characters in Half Life are racially diverse and diverse in age, but the most important character is the main character, because the main character is what the protagonist plays.
Gordan Freeman is white and male. White male players (the primary audience of Half Life) can identify as him. Also, he is a theoretical physicist and kicks major ass. This is important because every white guy playing Half Life wants to be Gordan Freeman. Everyone wants themselves to kick ass and be smart and have a romantic relationship with a mixed-race girl. Therein lies the escapist appeal of the game.
Main characters don't succeed by random chance. They succeed because players identify with them and can use them as escapist vehicles. See Gears of War. Game developers know this.
Make the mixed race girl the protagonist of the game, and then have Gordan Freeman as an NPC as her significant other. Have the player have romantic moments while being the girl and looking at Gordan Freeman. I don't think Half Life will be as popular.
If people want to take issue with minority representation in video games, fine. They can go create their own games. This is 2009, and there are virtually no barriers to doing so should anyone be interested.
That's like if I wrote an article saying the president sucked and then you said, "if you don't like it, run for president, there's nothing stopping you."
Yeah, technically there's nothing stopping me, but in reality I will never become president. Same for these social scientists, you can tell them to make games, but even if they made games, they couldn't have a real effect on the games industry.
I don't agree that we should worry about this, but I do see their reasons for making this point.
OT: Dude we have the same sig!
It's completely laughable that now you're modded to +5 while the OP is now a troll.
What he said had truth in it, even if it does have a somber meaning.
I'm sure he isn't gleefully advocating the idea that no one in Africa should get immunized, and you're creating a straw man by implied he is. He's pointing out the dangerous population explosion that will occur in Africa in the next ten-ish years. Africa will not be able to handle this population explosion, and all of your silly bleeding heart rhetoric won't be able to save them.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/aug/25/uganda.mainsection
Sounds like they're trying to turn the console into a locked-down PC
You could make the argument that any console is a locked-down PC. But with every generation they add new features to these bastardized PCs.