Huh. I thought my statement was logical-- humans have an innate, gut-level reaction to agressive, incompetent, or distasteful social interaction. It can make your life harder if you have to interact with humans, which is well-nigh inevitable.
Therefore, pick up on easy-to learn social cues in order to minimize difficulty and hassle in your life.
Therefore, eye-contact and handshakes are a useful tool to have in your toolbox. Of course, YEMV depending on culture-- for instance, I had a difficult time in Korea while adjusting to the perception there that eye contact is an aggressive act. Until I was able to modify my social cues I unintentionally came across as kind of a dick to those I was trying to work with.
Argument still stands tho-- if your toolbox of social skills contains only a mouse and keyboard, everyone looks like a nail.... wait, what?
I betcha you can figure out ALL KINDS of interestin' factoids about folk just by sittn' down and takin' a gander that their syntax, word choice, and punctuation cues;)
They useta call it poetry, back afore all the intarwebs.
Sure-- if you want to give off the constant, gut-level, and unshakable vibe of being either 1) creepy or 2) contemptuous of the person you're talking to.
Eye contact and handshakes are part of the social contract-- if you screw it up, you risk alienating those who you are trying to communicate with in a very real way. "I don't care about that 'fake' social stuff" is all well and good, but be prepared to deal with the results.
For example, in the professional world, when you hear someone talking about an ex-employee along the lines of "well, he was good at his job.. but he didn't work out", that's usually what that means.
I see your definition of "poor" includes possession of shelter (so the rain doesn't get on your 400 dollar device) wired to the electric grid (to power said device). And credit cards.
After all, when I want to give a handout to a beggar on the street I prefer to use a credit card swiper, or direct deposit my spare change into their tin cup.
I don't think "poor" means what you think it means.
Ugh. Horrible, horrible. There's a few possiblities:
1. The dev that built the skin for the hulu video player screwed up the platform "sniffer" and the "cant provide your content" message is the default. There is no native platform sniffer in the Flash IDE, you have to program that in yourself.
2. Hulu wants you to buy their premium package, and figures tablet users will pay extra for functionality that is already provided by their online portal-- give it away for free at one location, and pay extra at another
3. The content providers THEMSELVES stipulate that their content can only be viewed on a certain platform, because some marketing douchebag doesn't get how people consume media nowadays. This seems the most likely case-- similar to why I can't watch a live stream of an NBA game from the official site, even though I can see it live on a TV. Annoying when I want to watch basketball from my office that doesn't have a TV-- sometimes I work late and can't take a break to go to the local sports bar, and I don't want to catch the game later... somehow the "liveness" makes it more exciting.
Why is this guy modded down? Now I Android want to go back and Android read all posts, looking for shills by checking the "tells" listed above. Android. Those M$ punks can't fool me! Wait, what? Dammit!
My post only referred to the "standing on the edge of the pipe" trick, I should have been more clear. Sorry for the confusion.
That set aside, I consider that maneuvers that a human can perform only with extreme difficulty (frame-accurate timing, hitting multiple buttons at once) to be exploits, not bugs. Splitting hairs, I know.
That's not a bug, or human-impossible-- it's the way the hit boxes are set up. Similar to doing a "pit" maneuver on the spiky-wheeled cars in the original "Spy Hunter", I used to do that all the time back in the day.
you do realise that "intellectual property" was invented only a few hundred years ago, right?
Wrong. For instance, goldsmiths since.... well, whenever.... have carefully guarded trade secrets to protect their methods and skills that they spent lifetimes to learn/master. It might not have been called "ip" back in the day, but it certainly is an example of information that doesn't "want" to be free.
When an artist, craftsman, or a business wants to protect these methods and techniques from lazy assholes that want to exploit their hard work without giving anything back to them or the community at large, why is it so many/.ers come up with the same tired "info free derp derp" meme?
There are shades of grey in this situation-- I don't buy Sony products because I don't like the way they treat members of the (mod) community that I feel their products should serve... and I publish my source code, tutorials of my own projects, etc, for free and to download because I want to contribute to the community that supports me and my work (and not just in a financial way-- support can take the form of inspiration or shared enthusiasm, which is often worth more to me than money).
IP laws (broken as they may be) are here to enforce the social contract between creators and consumers. The fact that some groups exploit these laws does not mean that this contract should not exist. If anyone believes differently, they're a fucking leech on society.
Why is it pro-capital, rather than pro free speech?
It's not for the courts to decide whether or not a business is run poorly-- only illegally. I think delirium referred to "taking 'captial's side" in terms of issuing a decision that would restrict worker's freedoms in order to benefit a "captialist" enterprise.
What's "financial details"? If you have a phone that stores e-mail, and you've ever had your bank/paypal/credit card/amazon/etc send you a "I've forgotten my password" email.... then that info is fairly easy to access. Even finding out answers to your typical "security questions" would be fairly trivial.
I would be surprised if your average smartphone user has thought this through.
Can we mod this guy +1 troll? Fantastic trolling-- the fake sincerity, the butt-hurt tone, the puritanical finger wagging hinted at in the phrase "you know where to go when 'the day' comes", the mis-identification of a nice topless model shot with the "hardcore pornography"...
Why is this comment modded down? It's insightful, as far as I'm concerned.
However, I personally feel that "adver-creep" is becoming the bane of civilization, and I'd like to see it curbed. Maybe this is a step in the right direction.
Huh-- I haven't had a correct birthdate on my DL in twenty years! The last three licenses I've had, some flunky either typed my DOB in wrong or (as you suggested) the OCR software converted something incorrectly. The last two licensed I've gotten, I've had to explain "yes, my DOB is really this, but it says that on the license-- pls fix" with incorrect results each time.
It's worth it to get a passport for this exact reason. I don't even know what a voter ID card is...
Name me five laptops across different brands/makes/specs that have a standard, cheaply available power connector. Not just being snarky, I'd really like to know. None of the dells I've had (various inspirions) have the same power brick.
And, of course, don't forget about the mac, with its magical magnetic connector.
Ugh. I know people that buy pirated software so they can get their "creative suite" for ten bucks, or whatever.
Somehow that seems even sh*ttier than stealing it, since they are actually paying money, but not to the people who created the software. It's like a double f*ck you.
The funny thing is, I even took the trouble to google the story before posting-- I initially remembered it as being a Harlan Ellison yarn, and wanted to make sure.
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Huh. I thought my statement was logical-- humans have an innate, gut-level reaction to agressive, incompetent, or distasteful social interaction. It can make your life harder if you have to interact with humans, which is well-nigh inevitable.
Therefore, pick up on easy-to learn social cues in order to minimize difficulty and hassle in your life.
Therefore, eye-contact and handshakes are a useful tool to have in your toolbox. Of course, YEMV depending on culture-- for instance, I had a difficult time in Korea while adjusting to the perception there that eye contact is an aggressive act. Until I was able to modify my social cues I unintentionally came across as kind of a dick to those I was trying to work with.
Argument still stands tho-- if your toolbox of social skills contains only a mouse and keyboard, everyone looks like a nail.... wait, what?
I betcha you can figure out ALL KINDS of interestin' factoids about folk just by sittn' down and takin' a gander that their syntax, word choice, and punctuation cues ;)
They useta call it poetry, back afore all the intarwebs.
Sure-- if you want to give off the constant, gut-level, and unshakable vibe of being either 1) creepy or 2) contemptuous of the person you're talking to.
Eye contact and handshakes are part of the social contract-- if you screw it up, you risk alienating those who you are trying to communicate with in a very real way. "I don't care about that 'fake' social stuff" is all well and good, but be prepared to deal with the results.
For example, in the professional world, when you hear someone talking about an ex-employee along the lines of "well, he was good at his job.. but he didn't work out", that's usually what that means.
I see your definition of "poor" includes possession of shelter (so the rain doesn't get on your 400 dollar device) wired to the electric grid (to power said device). And credit cards.
After all, when I want to give a handout to a beggar on the street I prefer to use a credit card swiper, or direct deposit my spare change into their tin cup.
I don't think "poor" means what you think it means.
Ugh. Horrible, horrible. There's a few possiblities:
1. The dev that built the skin for the hulu video player screwed up the platform "sniffer" and the "cant provide your content" message is the default. There is no native platform sniffer in the Flash IDE, you have to program that in yourself.
2. Hulu wants you to buy their premium package, and figures tablet users will pay extra for functionality that is already provided by their online portal-- give it away for free at one location, and pay extra at another
3. The content providers THEMSELVES stipulate that their content can only be viewed on a certain platform, because some marketing douchebag doesn't get how people consume media nowadays. This seems the most likely case-- similar to why I can't watch a live stream of an NBA game from the official site, even though I can see it live on a TV. Annoying when I want to watch basketball from my office that doesn't have a TV-- sometimes I work late and can't take a break to go to the local sports bar, and I don't want to catch the game later... somehow the "liveness" makes it more exciting.
Does that happen? Under what circumstances? Citation needed, please.
I agree with the "tablet as a gimped PC" thing as well.... but I think that's kind of the point.
Why is this guy modded down? Now I Android want to go back and Android read all posts, looking for shills by checking the "tells" listed above. Android. Those M$ punks can't fool me!
Wait, what? Dammit!
I, for one, am lookin forward to building mobile phone games that can handle real joystick input.
Real question is, how's this going to work with the Android API? Special input class? Does anybody know?
Oh, and, um... fuck Sony, BTW.
RTFV? You must be new here ;)
My post only referred to the "standing on the edge of the pipe" trick, I should have been more clear. Sorry for the confusion.
That set aside, I consider that maneuvers that a human can perform only with extreme difficulty (frame-accurate timing, hitting multiple buttons at once) to be exploits, not bugs. Splitting hairs, I know.
That's not a bug, or human-impossible-- it's the way the hit boxes are set up. Similar to doing a "pit" maneuver on the spiky-wheeled cars in the original "Spy Hunter", I used to do that all the time back in the day.
you do realise that "intellectual property" was invented only a few hundred years ago, right?
Wrong. For instance, goldsmiths since.... well, whenever.... have carefully guarded trade secrets to protect their methods and skills that they spent lifetimes to learn/master. It might not have been called "ip" back in the day, but it certainly is an example of information that doesn't "want" to be free.
/.ers come up with the same tired "info free derp derp" meme?
When an artist, craftsman, or a business wants to protect these methods and techniques from lazy assholes that want to exploit their hard work without giving anything back to them or the community at large, why is it so many
There are shades of grey in this situation-- I don't buy Sony products because I don't like the way they treat members of the (mod) community that I feel their products should serve... and I publish my source code, tutorials of my own projects, etc, for free and to download because I want to contribute to the community that supports me and my work (and not just in a financial way-- support can take the form of inspiration or shared enthusiasm, which is often worth more to me than money).
IP laws (broken as they may be) are here to enforce the social contract between creators and consumers. The fact that some groups exploit these laws does not mean that this contract should not exist. If anyone believes differently, they're a fucking leech on society.
+1 Hilarious
Why is it pro-capital, rather than pro free speech?
It's not for the courts to decide whether or not a business is run poorly-- only illegally. I think delirium referred to "taking 'captial's side" in terms of issuing a decision that would restrict worker's freedoms in order to benefit a "captialist" enterprise.
What's "financial details"?
If you have a phone that stores e-mail, and you've ever had your bank/paypal/credit card/amazon/etc send you a "I've forgotten my password" email.... then that info is fairly easy to access. Even finding out answers to your typical "security questions" would be fairly trivial.
I would be surprised if your average smartphone user has thought this through.
Weird-- I was just reading some "New Gods" by Jack Kirby with reference to "boom tubes".... wonder if there's a connection.
Go ahead and mark me offtopic if you like-- I could use the negative karma.
Can we mod this guy +1 troll?
Fantastic trolling-- the fake sincerity, the butt-hurt tone, the puritanical finger wagging hinted at in the phrase "you know where to go when 'the day' comes", the mis-identification of a nice topless model shot with the "hardcore pornography"...
Masterful troll, sir-- masterful!
Why is this comment modded down? It's insightful, as far as I'm concerned.
However, I personally feel that "adver-creep" is becoming the bane of civilization, and I'd like to see it curbed. Maybe this is a step in the right direction.
I've been to Bulgaria on a few occasions to do video installation work-- Sofia, Veliko Tarnovo... beautiful country, great clubs, hardly backwater.
Some of the most beautiful women in the world as well!
Huh-- I haven't had a correct birthdate on my DL in twenty years! The last three licenses I've had, some flunky either typed my DOB in wrong or (as you suggested) the OCR software converted something incorrectly. The last two licensed I've gotten, I've had to explain "yes, my DOB is really this, but it says that on the license-- pls fix" with incorrect results each time.
It's worth it to get a passport for this exact reason. I don't even know what a voter ID card is...
Please mod parent up--- I have never seen the term "Balkanize" used in the context of software dev. Awesome, and appropriate.
Name me five laptops across different brands/makes/specs that have a standard, cheaply available power connector.
Not just being snarky, I'd really like to know. None of the dells I've had (various inspirions) have the same power brick.
And, of course, don't forget about the mac, with its magical magnetic connector.
Can we have this guy and the nitwit who posts excerpts from "Turner Diaries" go fight it out on some deserted island somewhere?
Somewhere without internet, of course.
Ugh. I know people that buy pirated software so they can get their "creative suite" for ten bucks, or whatever.
Somehow that seems even sh*ttier than stealing it, since they are actually paying money, but not to the people who created the software. It's like a double f*ck you.
The funny thing is, I even took the trouble to google the story before posting-- I initially remembered it as being a Harlan Ellison yarn, and wanted to make sure.
And I still spaced the spelling.
Mod parent up. Amazing story... I need to go back and re-read me some Azimov.