You seem to have missed my point. I never claimed this was the only type of acceptable article. I was simply pointing out that it is a deliberate choice to post articles like these.
Yes, it did start indexing my porn. No, it wasn't hard to set it not to watch those folders.
Automagic indexing is good for most people -- the majority of which don't even know where on their HD the damn pics are, as they never changed their digicam software's defaults.
One thing I've learned over the years: Slashdot editors aren't much interested in science. The publish a lot of pseudo-science articles, or nonsense science articles like this one.
This is the very kind of article that belongs on Slashdot. The whole point of posting something like this is having it taken apart and scrutinized by the Slashdot community.
How much fun would an article be was bullet proof? There would be nothing to say about it.
The day when I can download my latest episodes of SG1 or my girlfriends O.C for $1.99 rather than wait 6-9months for it to come on TV in the UK is the day that I stop using eMule!
Exactly. I can't be bothered to wait for god know how long here in Finland for SG[1| Atlantis] to air. Especially when I don't have the time to watch when it airs at some random inconvenient time.
I'd happily pay for the downloads, but as long as that's not an option I'm sticking to eMule. *sigh*
It's interesting to note that Word 12 seems to mess up the one Really Important Thing about document editing: Proper Structure.
The styles seem to be practically hidden while the font etc. tools are easy to reach. This is not good, the UI should make it easier to use styles (and customize them) than to simply apply fonts and stuff to unstuctured text.
In Finland there was a law change which forced the telephone operators to lease their wiring to anyone who wanted. In my area I can get unbundled DSL from around 20-ish competitors, and in fact we don't even have a regular phone, only cellulars.
Even the pricing is OK these days, I pay about 20 EUR / month for 1Mb/512Kb. Faster rates are available, up to 24Mb ADSL2 for those who want/need it.
As stupid as it is, I would actually accept it if it means distributing copyrighted material would be legal. But they're getting it both ways (it's illegal, AND we're supposed to pay for those who don't follow the law, regardless what we do ourselves) and that's just stupid.
In Finland it at least use to be that you had to pay a levy, but copying was permitted and legal. This was introduced with C-casettes, which of course couldn't be copied indefinetly.
Digital storage has changed that, and copyright laws are in pressure of being tightened as we speak... Naturally the levy remains. Argh.
The nano actually allows a car stereo sytem to amplify the sound! What will Apple think of next?
Seriously, what kind of reviewer is impressed by this?
A reviewer who knows anything about analogue audio tech. There are things like impedances, voltages and signal to noise ratios involed in a task like this. Few devices can actually output a signal which is truly suitable for amplification.
You kids these days don't realize that 24 bits at 96 KHz isn't worth jack shit if you don't have a clean signal chain all the way through... digital audio is only pristine as long as it stays digital;)
Since most people just click past the nag screen this is the sensible thing to do: Give people the basics for free, and charge for the advanced features that really are corporate time-savers and hence worth paying for.
While this in interesting research, I can't help wonder if they are taking into account the possible negative effects this might have on real bats. Could too much noise confuse them? As I've understood, bats can cooperate in order not to create too much noise. One chirps, many listen to the result.
Nakedness is no big deal, but the social dynamics of having sex is not something little kids can comprehend. Sex is perfectly natural, once you're ready.
Porn is especially tricky as it's not real sex. It's a fantasy world, with fantasy values. Kids using porn as a model for their own sexual activity can end up getting hurt both physically and psychologically. (For instance: You seldom see people applying lube before an anal sex scene in a porn flick, but I sure wouldn't want to engage in anal sex without it...)
Assuming that you should "control" a teenager is disgusting.
No it's not. As long as the child is your legal responsibility you are obligated to control her, to a degree. I'm not talking remote-control kind of control, but a parent should decide what their children can and can't do, to a sensible extent.
Unless you've fucked up badly as a parent, you should be able to talk to your kids about games, movies, drugs, sex, and whatever else so that they know what's garbage and what's not.
True. I fail to see how this conflicts with my original claim.
Hiding things from teenagers is just stupid. Let them play GTA. If you've done your job, they should know that beating up hookers is a sick kind of fantasy.
Why do you assume that I suggest hiding the "bad stuff"? I made no such remark. Information should indeed me made available to teenagers, but there is a limit to what makes sense. There is loads of research to prove that kids who watch movies that are rated over what's recommended for them can have all sorts of trauma, but regularly fail to discuss this with anyone, due to the need to appear cool.
I'm all for watching movies and playing games with teenagers so that issues can be discussed. But I think that a responsible parent will have the guts to say: "The rating is there for a reason. You can see all the movies and play all the games you want when you're old enough."
Trying to tell teenagers what they can and cannot see is stupid, and will not work.
You know rather little about kids, do you?
Trying to tell kids stuff won't work. Telling them does. If they do brake the rules, a suitable (non physical) punishment should be issued, like grounding them with no computer and/or TV access.
Naturally, good behaviour should be rewarded as well.
But assuming you can't control a teenager to a reasonable degree is simply weak. Of course teens will disobey you from time to time, but that's a far cry from letting them do whatever they want.
It's still possible to make money from GPLed software. Ergo, RMS's job is not done.
You clearly have no idea what you are talking about.
The pupose of the GPL is to ensure that you are provided with the GPL licensed source of a program upon distribution. The program can cost a million dollars, as long as you get the source, under the GPL license.
Of course, you are perfectly within your rights to redistribute the program under the terms of the GPL. As this is the case it makes little sense to charge for GPL licensed software.
The GPL is about freedom, not cost. Making money out of GPL licensed software is a good thing, as people can thus both feed the families and add to the pool of free software at the same time.
But what is the relationship between TIMOTHY and ROLAND?
I have no idea. But does it matter? Timothy is an editor, it is perfectly within his rights to choose which stories he posts. Slashdot doesn't exactly have some elaborate social contract controlling what gets posted and what doesn't.
For whatever reason everyone seems that bashing Roland is mandatory... Mostly because his site has ads. But so do most other sites out there, especially the big ones.
Roland's stories are quite simply better quality than a lot of the stuff posted on Slashdot. If you hate him so much then just ignore the stories, quit bitching about it.
I've written both interfaces and feature/engine code. I've worked in a helpdesk, and I do know the importance of UI design. I haven't claimed UI design was easy at any point.
My original point was simply that it's foolish to judge an unfinished product based on it's interface, of all things.
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You seem to have missed my point. I never claimed this was the only type of acceptable article. I was simply pointing out that it is a deliberate choice to post articles like these.
Yes, it did start indexing my porn. No, it wasn't hard to set it not to watch those folders.
Automagic indexing is good for most people -- the majority of which don't even know where on their HD the damn pics are, as they never changed their digicam software's defaults.
This is the very kind of article that belongs on Slashdot. The whole point of posting something like this is having it taken apart and scrutinized by the Slashdot community.
How much fun would an article be was bullet proof? There would be nothing to say about it.
Slow, requires physical transactions, and costs way too much (about 30 EUR for three episodes or about 80 EUR for a season).
Besides, why buy the DVD to watch it once?
Exactly. I can't be bothered to wait for god know how long here in Finland for SG[1| Atlantis] to air. Especially when I don't have the time to watch when it airs at some random inconvenient time.
I'd happily pay for the downloads, but as long as that's not an option I'm sticking to eMule. *sigh*
It's interesting to note that Word 12 seems to mess up the one Really Important Thing about document editing: Proper Structure.
The styles seem to be practically hidden while the font etc. tools are easy to reach. This is not good, the UI should make it easier to use styles (and customize them) than to simply apply fonts and stuff to unstuctured text.
In Finland there was a law change which forced the telephone operators to lease their wiring to anyone who wanted. In my area I can get unbundled DSL from around 20-ish competitors, and in fact we don't even have a regular phone, only cellulars.
Even the pricing is OK these days, I pay about 20 EUR / month for 1Mb/512Kb. Faster rates are available, up to 24Mb ADSL2 for those who want/need it.
As stupid as it is, I would actually accept it if it means distributing copyrighted material would be legal. But they're getting it both ways (it's illegal, AND we're supposed to pay for those who don't follow the law, regardless what we do ourselves) and that's just stupid.
In Finland it at least use to be that you had to pay a levy, but copying was permitted and legal. This was introduced with C-casettes, which of course couldn't be copied indefinetly.
Digital storage has changed that, and copyright laws are in pressure of being tightened as we speak... Naturally the levy remains. Argh.
The nano actually allows a car stereo sytem to amplify the sound! What will Apple think of next?
;)
Seriously, what kind of reviewer is impressed by this?
A reviewer who knows anything about analogue audio tech. There are things like impedances, voltages and signal to noise ratios involed in a task like this. Few devices can actually output a signal which is truly suitable for amplification.
You kids these days don't realize that 24 bits at 96 KHz isn't worth jack shit if you don't have a clean signal chain all the way through... digital audio is only pristine as long as it stays digital
Um, I don't know about you guys, but as I see it GTA is not something suitable for kids regardles off the amount of booty shown.
Any game with that amount of violence should be adults only. It's funny as hell, but it really does demand a mature mind... IMHO anyways.
Seeing as vaporware doesn't actually draw any current.
Well duh! Vapourware obviously runs off Vacuum energy!
Pics seem to work in Mirrordot now, don't know why they failed before...
Here's the Coral Cache link:3 71/101/
http://www.macmod.com.nyud.net:8090/content/view/
Should start working after a while... Coral should cache the pics as well, as Mirrordot is useless in this regard (picks behind links)...
Since most people just click past the nag screen this is the sensible thing to do: Give people the basics for free, and charge for the advanced features that really are corporate time-savers and hence worth paying for.
While this in interesting research, I can't help wonder if they are taking into account the possible negative effects this might have on real bats. Could too much noise confuse them? As I've understood, bats can cooperate in order not to create too much noise. One chirps, many listen to the result.
I doubt a robot would show the same courtesy...
The main interest of this article is the IBM SoulPad research project, here: http://www.research.ibm.com/WearableComputing/Soul Pad/soulpad.html.
There's a neat video of how it works too.
Nakedness is no big deal, but the social dynamics of having sex is not something little kids can comprehend. Sex is perfectly natural, once you're ready.
Porn is especially tricky as it's not real sex. It's a fantasy world, with fantasy values. Kids using porn as a model for their own sexual activity can end up getting hurt both physically and psychologically. (For instance: You seldom see people applying lube before an anal sex scene in a porn flick, but I sure wouldn't want to engage in anal sex without it...)
Assuming that you should "control" a teenager is disgusting.
No it's not. As long as the child is your legal responsibility you are obligated to control her, to a degree. I'm not talking remote-control kind of control, but a parent should decide what their children can and can't do, to a sensible extent.
Unless you've fucked up badly as a parent, you should be able to talk to your kids about games, movies, drugs, sex, and whatever else so that they know what's garbage and what's not.
True. I fail to see how this conflicts with my original claim.
Hiding things from teenagers is just stupid. Let them play GTA. If you've done your job, they should know that beating up hookers is a sick kind of fantasy.
Why do you assume that I suggest hiding the "bad stuff"? I made no such remark. Information should indeed me made available to teenagers, but there is a limit to what makes sense. There is loads of research to prove that kids who watch movies that are rated over what's recommended for them can have all sorts of trauma, but regularly fail to discuss this with anyone, due to the need to appear cool.
I'm all for watching movies and playing games with teenagers so that issues can be discussed. But I think that a responsible parent will have the guts to say: "The rating is there for a reason. You can see all the movies and play all the games you want when you're old enough."
Trying to tell teenagers what they can and cannot see is stupid, and will not work.
You know rather little about kids, do you?
Trying to tell kids stuff won't work. Telling them does. If they do brake the rules, a suitable (non physical) punishment should be issued, like grounding them with no computer and/or TV access.
Naturally, good behaviour should be rewarded as well.
But assuming you can't control a teenager to a reasonable degree is simply weak. Of course teens will disobey you from time to time, but that's a far cry from letting them do whatever they want.
It's still possible to make money from GPLed software. Ergo, RMS's job is not done.
You clearly have no idea what you are talking about.
The pupose of the GPL is to ensure that you are provided with the GPL licensed source of a program upon distribution. The program can cost a million dollars, as long as you get the source, under the GPL license.
Of course, you are perfectly within your rights to redistribute the program under the terms of the GPL. As this is the case it makes little sense to charge for GPL licensed software.
The GPL is about freedom, not cost. Making money out of GPL licensed software is a good thing, as people can thus both feed the families and add to the pool of free software at the same time.
It is real time. There's a lag, but it's still real time. Even the Mars rovers are real time, but with a bigger lag... ;)
Non-real time is stuff that idles/qets queued before commands get executed.
But what is the relationship between TIMOTHY and ROLAND?
I have no idea. But does it matter? Timothy is an editor, it is perfectly within his rights to choose which stories he posts. Slashdot doesn't exactly have some elaborate social contract controlling what gets posted and what doesn't.
For whatever reason everyone seems that bashing Roland is mandatory... Mostly because his site has ads. But so do most other sites out there, especially the big ones.
Roland's stories are quite simply better quality than a lot of the stuff posted on Slashdot. If you hate him so much then just ignore the stories, quit bitching about it.
I've written both interfaces and feature/engine code. I've worked in a helpdesk, and I do know the importance of UI design. I haven't claimed UI design was easy at any point.
My original point was simply that it's foolish to judge an unfinished product based on it's interface, of all things.
You should design the user interface THEN code the rest of the functionality around that.
No. You should determine the use cases for your application and THEN design the both UI and the funtionality around those.