games today are lacking in story and adventure when compared to games of old. Sure they look great, but they lack that compelling factor.
That isn't a problem for everyone. If I am playing a game with cutscenes, stories, etc. I always skip them. Is the idea that I am supposed to "pretend" to be the character and become engrossed in pathetically scripted storylines? Please. Most people have trouble enough distinguishing reality in the first place. It is important to distinguish in your mind that your "desktop" is a virtual space that is created through signs and symbols but the reality is that you are staring at a computer monitor.
Personally I would worry about someone who became engrossed by moving images to such an extent and "preferred" these "story and adventure" games... television and the internet are isolating mediums which create illusions of engagement with society. There is a famous argument that the Gulf War never happened for the reason that the real "war" as it was understood was a series of moving images on a TV screen.
Could also be the sound of hundreds of thousands of Slashdot geeks rushing to quickly type out a housand variations (there will be dupes of course) of the "Ballmer Tossing Chairs" jokes. Each starting with "And in Redmond...".
Sounds like someone is throwing a chair because he didn't get the to post the first chair joke.
Thanks for your excellent response. Valid or not, here's why, to me, XP feels like DOS:
1. There are files everywhere in a root drive called C:\. 2. When my computer boots I see all these grey characters, bios, IDE info, etc. etc. 3. Some applications, when installed, seem to be "everywhere"... they aren't just single little entities. 4. There are thousands upon thousands of files, where you don't know what they do.
Of course, Windows has a lot of plusses -- I can't remember any time Windows XP told me I didn't have enough conventional memory. And these problems are not unique to Windows, either.
But I think my original point is that we would have to start seeing durastic changes in the way the computer works for the "next gen" operating system. Vista, IMHO, does not cut it.... in fact, it is (at least from what I have seen in the beta) the worst OS to be released since Windows 98.
The next generation of windows, I think, will erase some of our antiquated notions about what an operating system "must" have (a boot sequence, a file system, etc.) To me, and I'm sure many other slashdotters who can remember MS-DOS, Windows XP seems like a very souped-up version of MS DOS. OS X (while it has a boot sequence, file system, etc.) just some how does not seem like MS-DOS. Every iteration of Windows so far seems to pile on more and more disguises for an elaborately dressed MS DOS. This pattern needs to stop.
Totally agree with you -- especially about the moderation. I once saw a comment on digg about bacteria evolving in petri dishes and there was a troll comment about how niggers should evolve, and someone replied (in seriousness) about how black people were evolutionarily behind whites etc. The kicker is that the comment got +5 diggs...
Finally, an oppertunity for a Digg Sucks thread... while TFA may be right that Digg is "supplanting" Slashdot, this is not for the better. Digg posts inaccurate articles, tons of dupes, poorly edited articles, etc. on its front page. Slashdot occasionally does the same, but not like 20 times every day. Recently Digg seems to be up in arms about Scientology, as if this is some sort of new thing. I read "A Piece of Blue Sky" about 6 years ago...
Socrates said that democracy was the WORST form of government because it meant rule by the ignorant masses... the content of Digg is just proof of that.
Disease can wipe out species; insects can destroy local ecosystems; meteors can cause mass extinctions. Why is there "value" in these events? Why aren't people part of natural process? What is the difference between people building houses and eagles building nests?
The answer to your question is problematic for deep ecologists. You just have to accept that everything in nature has an inherent value, or you don't. I know, it sounds like a weak argument, and it is subject to the naturallistic fallacy (it is natural = therefore it is good). People do play an overall part but they are very, very, very tiny in the whole scheme of things.
That is why grandparent used the term deep ecology. In environmental philosophy and environmental science, deep ecologists believe that natural processes have inherent value. That is, if there were no humans on the earth, spotted owls, cuddly koalas, and majestic eagles would still have "value" and a right to exist, etc. The fact that you even use the terms "cuddly" and "majestic" suggest an anthropocentric view, i.e. that the environment is worth protecting only because of its use to humans as a resource, for enjoyment, etc.
Deep ecology is a specific belief about the environment and a well-developed philosophy. Basically, it says that the environment (trees, water, life, etc.) has inherent value outside of valuation by humans.
There are many reasons why an advertiser might choose to not flagrantly display their product in an advertisement. However, unless there was a tie-in to the product or brand somehere, the advertising would be pointless. It might be as simple as putting an ad with a certain woman on TV and then having pictures of the woman when you walked into the store (so you feel some fermilliarity with the product). But the tie-in is there.
Now that the market is almost saturated... why would I bother to switch from iTunes and my video ipod (which I just bought with my Macbook Pro) to an MS service? Are they going to seriously undercut prices? No.
Does anyone seriously disagree with me that Windows Media Player is a bloated piece of shit? Ever since like.. version... 6.4? MS has been trying to add every possible little thing to it... they are trying to make it so that it is the ONLY program you will ever need to run on your PC... personally I am all for decentralization but I realise there are some users who want to open up one program and then start typing an e-mail and buy movie tickets within the same app (a few years off in WMP)...
Hahahhaa, you have not tried the Vista beta apparantly. The thing is unusable, I swear. Plus, any time you want to do ANYTHING -- and I do mean anything, even deleting a shortcut -- you are prompted for the root password. You can doubt me or mod me as troll etc. but 3 years from now when Vista comes out, I will be there saying I TOLD YOU SO...
Which low-end machine is capable of running Vista?:-) Apparantly you have not tried the beta. I feel so sorry for the hardware manufacturers... suddenly those low-end machines are going to have to have blow-you-away specs... the real strategy would be to get one of them and install XP.
YOU might keep buying new comptuers. But for people who just browse the internet and use e-mail, the market is saturated. They already have a computer and they don't need a new one because their computer already does everything they want and more.
Currently, the low-end machines from most major companies do not support Windows Vista. And people who use WWW and e-mail don't want bragging rights and they don't buy gaming computers, they want WWW and e-mail.
1. You wrote a poem for class. Do you have to register it with the Copyright Board of Canada for your poem to be protected by copyright law? NO!!
2. Each province is covered by the same copyright law. True or false? TRUE!!
3. Your friend got a computer game and you want to download it to your computer. Is this something you may do? NO!! (even if it's freeware or shareware!!)
4. You framily has 3 computers in the house. When you get new software are you allowed to install it onto all of the family's computers? NO!! Unless you have volume licensing with MS, or it's OSS
5. What does "public domain" mean? a) it refers to the items found on the Internet b) it refers to a book found in your local public library c) it means the term of copyright in the work has ended C
6. Can a book title be copyrighted? NO!!
7. Your art teacher asks you to create a drawing and then wants to post your drawing on the school's Intranet. Does the teacher need your permission to do this? YES!! omg he will love you for stirring up shit too
8. In order to have copyright on the short story you just wrote for class, you must be 18 years old and a legal adult. True or False FALSE!!
9. Your school wants to do a mural in teh entry hall to the school and they want to use Curious George. Is it okay to project these two cartoon characters on to the wall to enlarge them and trace around them? NO!!
10. When you buy a book, you own the copyright to that book, and you can loan it out or copy it as you wish. True or false FALSE!!
Psychologists have consistently shown that people actually prefer fewer choices to more choices. It just makes life easier and more straightforward, even though it is counterintuitive.
Part of Apple's strength is that there aren't ten trillion different models with model numbers to purchase, only 3 that come in difference sizes. Has anyone seen Creative's lineup of MP3 players? They have an MP3 player for every occasion.
Copying one part of Apple's marketing strategy alone is not sufficient to match their unparalleled marketing genius.
there are a lot more sophisticated ways of hiding and transferring secret information. including texts, images, video and audio streams, ssl, gpg, tunneling, etc. why would anyone bother with a child games like that?
Because the publicity and simplicity of the cipher makes it very difficult to determine the intended recipent. Also, it may not be AES, but if it's a one-time-pad it's pretty damn secure.
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games today are lacking in story and adventure when compared to games of old. Sure they look great, but they lack that compelling factor.
That isn't a problem for everyone. If I am playing a game with cutscenes, stories, etc. I always skip them. Is the idea that I am supposed to "pretend" to be the character and become engrossed in pathetically scripted storylines? Please. Most people have trouble enough distinguishing reality in the first place. It is important to distinguish in your mind that your "desktop" is a virtual space that is created through signs and symbols but the reality is that you are staring at a computer monitor.
Personally I would worry about someone who became engrossed by moving images to such an extent and "preferred" these "story and adventure" games... television and the internet are isolating mediums which create illusions of engagement with society. There is a famous argument that the Gulf War never happened for the reason that the real "war" as it was understood was a series of moving images on a TV screen.
Could also be the sound of hundreds of thousands of Slashdot geeks rushing to quickly type out a housand variations (there will be dupes of course) of the "Ballmer Tossing Chairs" jokes. Each starting with "And in Redmond...".
Sounds like someone is throwing a chair because he didn't get the to post the first chair joke.
Jesus I am embarassed to find this on the front page of Slashdot. It kept showing up on Digg but... for this to make front page on Slashdot??
Here you go.
Firewire is crippled in Windows by default. You need the patch here to restore functionality.
Thanks for your excellent response. Valid or not, here's why, to me, XP feels like DOS:
1. There are files everywhere in a root drive called C:\.
2. When my computer boots I see all these grey characters, bios, IDE info, etc. etc.
3. Some applications, when installed, seem to be "everywhere"... they aren't just single little entities.
4. There are thousands upon thousands of files, where you don't know what they do.
Of course, Windows has a lot of plusses -- I can't remember any time Windows XP told me I didn't have enough conventional memory. And these problems are not unique to Windows, either.
But I think my original point is that we would have to start seeing durastic changes in the way the computer works for the "next gen" operating system. Vista, IMHO, does not cut it.... in fact, it is (at least from what I have seen in the beta) the worst OS to be released since Windows 98.
The next generation of windows, I think, will erase some of our antiquated notions about what an operating system "must" have (a boot sequence, a file system, etc.) To me, and I'm sure many other slashdotters who can remember MS-DOS, Windows XP seems like a very souped-up version of MS DOS. OS X (while it has a boot sequence, file system, etc.) just some how does not seem like MS-DOS. Every iteration of Windows so far seems to pile on more and more disguises for an elaborately dressed MS DOS. This pattern needs to stop.
Totally agree with you -- especially about the moderation. I once saw a comment on digg about bacteria evolving in petri dishes and there was a troll comment about how niggers should evolve, and someone replied (in seriousness) about how black people were evolutionarily behind whites etc. The kicker is that the comment got +5 diggs...
Finally, an oppertunity for a Digg Sucks thread... while TFA may be right that Digg is "supplanting" Slashdot, this is not for the better. Digg posts inaccurate articles, tons of dupes, poorly edited articles, etc. on its front page. Slashdot occasionally does the same, but not like 20 times every day. Recently Digg seems to be up in arms about Scientology, as if this is some sort of new thing. I read "A Piece of Blue Sky" about 6 years ago...
Socrates said that democracy was the WORST form of government because it meant rule by the ignorant masses... the content of Digg is just proof of that.
That word document has 37 pages, 12,946 words, 74,666 characters, and 564 paragraphs. I think there's enough detail.
Actually, no, that document is the sample IPv6 address.
So how much did the sumbitter get for referring people to Google's new program??
(That is Roland's new nick btw)
Disease can wipe out species; insects can destroy local ecosystems; meteors can cause mass extinctions. Why is there "value" in these events?
Why aren't people part of natural process? What is the difference between people building houses and eagles building nests?
The answer to your question is problematic for deep ecologists. You just have to accept that everything in nature has an inherent value, or you don't. I know, it sounds like a weak argument, and it is subject to the naturallistic fallacy (it is natural = therefore it is good). People do play an overall part but they are very, very, very tiny in the whole scheme of things.
That is why grandparent used the term deep ecology. In environmental philosophy and environmental science, deep ecologists believe that natural processes have inherent value. That is, if there were no humans on the earth, spotted owls, cuddly koalas, and majestic eagles would still have "value" and a right to exist, etc. The fact that you even use the terms "cuddly" and "majestic" suggest an anthropocentric view, i.e. that the environment is worth protecting only because of its use to humans as a resource, for enjoyment, etc.
Deep ecology is a specific belief about the environment and a well-developed philosophy. Basically, it says that the environment (trees, water, life, etc.) has inherent value outside of valuation by humans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_ecology
GEORGE W. BUSH WILL ALWAYS BE PROTETED!! Because GOD IS ON HIS SIDE!! MAY ANGELS &c. PROTECT HIM!!
OK mod me troll/flamebait please. I have had too much to drink, but I can get my Karma back.
There are many reasons why an advertiser might choose to not flagrantly display their product in an advertisement. However, unless there was a tie-in to the product or brand somehere, the advertising would be pointless. It might be as simple as putting an ad with a certain woman on TV and then having pictures of the woman when you walked into the store (so you feel some fermilliarity with the product). But the tie-in is there.
Remember, you don't sell the steak, you sell the sizzle... marketing revolves entirely around selling a manufactured image that isn't real.
Now that the market is almost saturated... why would I bother to switch from iTunes and my video ipod (which I just bought with my Macbook Pro) to an MS service? Are they going to seriously undercut prices? No.
Does anyone seriously disagree with me that Windows Media Player is a bloated piece of shit? Ever since like.. version... 6.4? MS has been trying to add every possible little thing to it... they are trying to make it so that it is the ONLY program you will ever need to run on your PC... personally I am all for decentralization but I realise there are some users who want to open up one program and then start typing an e-mail and buy movie tickets within the same app (a few years off in WMP)...
Hahahhaa, you have not tried the Vista beta apparantly. The thing is unusable, I swear. Plus, any time you want to do ANYTHING -- and I do mean anything, even deleting a shortcut -- you are prompted for the root password. You can doubt me or mod me as troll etc. but 3 years from now when Vista comes out, I will be there saying I TOLD YOU SO...
Are you suggeting that close to 50% of people are below average? That number seems high to me.
Which low-end machine is capable of running Vista? :-) Apparantly you have not tried the beta. I feel so sorry for the hardware manufacturers... suddenly those low-end machines are going to have to have blow-you-away specs... the real strategy would be to get one of them and install XP.
YOU might keep buying new comptuers. But for people who just browse the internet and use e-mail, the market is saturated. They already have a computer and they don't need a new one because their computer already does everything they want and more.
Currently, the low-end machines from most major companies do not support Windows Vista. And people who use WWW and e-mail don't want bragging rights and they don't buy gaming computers, they want WWW and e-mail.
Does anyone have any info on whether there are download caps?
You see, they were sneaky enough to use a book title... because of course as we all know... YOU CAN'T COPYRIGHT A BOOK TITLE!
Here are the answers to the Kids Quiz!!
1. You wrote a poem for class. Do you have to register it with the Copyright Board of Canada for your poem to be protected by copyright law? NO!!
2. Each province is covered by the same copyright law. True or false? TRUE!!
3. Your friend got a computer game and you want to download it to your computer. Is this something you may do? NO!! (even if it's freeware or shareware!!)
4. You framily has 3 computers in the house. When you get new software are you allowed to install it onto all of the family's computers? NO!! Unless you have volume licensing with MS, or it's OSS
5. What does "public domain" mean? a) it refers to the items found on the Internet b) it refers to a book found in your local public library c) it means the term of copyright in the work has ended C
6. Can a book title be copyrighted? NO!!
7. Your art teacher asks you to create a drawing and then wants to post your drawing on the school's Intranet. Does the teacher need your permission to do this? YES!! omg he will love you for stirring up shit too
8. In order to have copyright on the short story you just wrote for class, you must be 18 years old and a legal adult. True or False FALSE!!
9. Your school wants to do a mural in teh entry hall to the school and they want to use Curious George. Is it okay to project these two cartoon characters on to the wall to enlarge them and trace around them? NO!!
10. When you buy a book, you own the copyright to that book, and you can loan it out or copy it as you wish. True or false FALSE!!
Psychologists have consistently shown that people actually prefer fewer choices to more choices. It just makes life easier and more straightforward, even though it is counterintuitive.
Part of Apple's strength is that there aren't ten trillion different models with model numbers to purchase, only 3 that come in difference sizes. Has anyone seen Creative's lineup of MP3 players? They have an MP3 player for every occasion.
Copying one part of Apple's marketing strategy alone is not sufficient to match their unparalleled marketing genius.
there are a lot more sophisticated ways of hiding and transferring secret information. including texts, images, video and audio streams, ssl, gpg, tunneling, etc. why would anyone bother with a child games like that?
Because the publicity and simplicity of the cipher makes it very difficult to determine the intended recipent. Also, it may not be AES, but if it's a one-time-pad it's pretty damn secure.