But it's only been five years since she became an adult. She was a minor at the time of the incident. Often, time doesn't start counting against the Statute of Limitations for a minor until they become an adult. So the crime could still be within the limit. Maybe this works differently in Texas though.
The big news is that HTML 5 is now a "native" programming platform for the client UI.
Standards-compliant HTML 5? Or some weird Microsoft "extension" that gets popular enough to do damage, but not popular enough to take over (think IE 6)?
LYCEUM, Athens -- Researchers led by Aristotle have released a startling scroll detailing their findings on a beverage called "wine." Apparently, when consumed in sufficient quantities, wine can lead to loss of inhibition, poor judgement, and lascivious behavior. Combined with last year's discovery that head trauma can make a person "loopy," it appears that our cherished ideas about the soul and free will must be called into question.
What if there are no woods because they've been logged, and no hills because they've been strip mined, and no fields because they're private property, and no beach to fish because it's been turned into condos for foreigners? Or, what if there are woods, but not enough animals there to support you and the other 142 million people who want to eat them too?
Have you tried a game search algorithm? It seems like you have the move-generation part handled, and a static board evaluation function should be easy to write.
What really happened, is a young Jutnar (a species of large mountain troll) wandered into Oslo through the sewer system. It was eventually destroyed near the capital building when courageous members of the TSS removed a manhole cover above the troll. Sadly, the dying troll exploded in a massive burst destroying several city blocks.
It's sad that so many teen waste their high school years on stoopid stuff, but equally sad that our society expects and encourages this, and that our high school educational system has been reduced to a holding pen.
Consumers want the best of both worlds, too, though. We want the work to be treated as IP for which we have a personal license -- one which lets us make as many copies as we want, on as many devices, for our own use. But we also want the work to be treated as physical property which we own -- loaning it to someone, gifting it, reselling it, returning it, etc. And let's be honest, for most people, "loaning" and "gifting" don't involve deleting their own copy first.
I'm not saying that the current DRM clusterfuck is the consumers' fault (I place blame on the publishers, who ought to be more in tune with what their customers want), just that consumers aren't helping much, either. It's just human nature to want to have it all. Big media publishers may be greedy incompetents whose terrible DRM schemes are driving people to piracy, but the average consumer is no innocent powerless victim, either.
Now excuse me, I need to start copying my friends 400GB music collection.
Network effects: because so many people play WoW, if your friends play any MMORPG, that is probably the one. Barring specific hatred of some aspect of WoW, you will default to playing the one that your friends are playing.
"People come for the game, but stay for the community."
Honestly, does anyone think people pay $15/month to an MMO because it's a good game? Heck no; if that were true, we'd see single-player games with a similar subscription model and gradual content delivery. Nobody plays a single player game for YEARS on end, the way they do with MMOs. (Notable exceptions, such as the roguelike games and [insert contrary anecdote here] are usually played by an obsessive minority, not the mainstream 10 million people who play WoW.)
People play WoW because they have friends that play. They don't want to move to another game and lose touch with those friends. The only way to "beat" WoW is to be part of their community -- integrate to their chat system, preserve guilds and friend lists across game boundaries, etc. -- so that when a person goes to play your game, their friends can come too. Barring some deep Facebook integration, the only company that could really pull this off is... Blizzard. Yup. The only way to beat WoW is to be WoW.
Am I the only one who thinks that when I buy a piece of hardware it should be mine to control, and that the company that built it should not be allowed to control it via software? For example, I want full and explicit control over whether programs can read my location -- like, a physical switch or something. Or the stories about how the FBI can remotely activate your phone's mic and listen to your conversations. That's kind of crap.
Then this article comes along and... they want to give my boss control over my phone? Sorry, but that sucks too.
News sites are suddenly going to get really diligent about citing sources? What would motivate them to do that, when they can't get basic facts straight or use a fucking grammar checker? I thought Cory Doctorow laid it out pretty clearly in Metacrap.
Author makes common mistake of confusing a monopoly with most successful provider of something that one could, if one wanted, get from 20 other places.
You (and many of the other posters on this thread) have missed a key point: The value of a network is proportional to the number of people using it.
This is easiest to see in the case of sites like Facebook. Sure, you could use a competitor, but if none of your friends are on it, what would be the point? If your peeps do all their communication through Facebook, and you want to get their updates, you need to use the Facebook. It's less clear-cut with sites like Google. I mean, you could use Bing for search, or Yahoo!. But what about ads? If you want to advertise, or host ads on your site, the sheer size of Google's ad network makes it more attractive than any competitor.
This is what TFA author was getting at with his analogies to things like the telegraph networks and phone networks. Just because Facebook or Google doesn't own the actual fiber (oh wait, they are a tier 1 provider and own a ton of fiber) doesn't mean they don't have anything of value. They have the network of users -- a "critical mass" of participants that will make it hard for competitors to break into the market.
The nice thing, is that there could be a technological solution to this. Aggregation. Remember when you had like 3-4 different IM clients? Then multi-protocol clients like Trillian came out and suddenly network didn't matter any more. For ads there are already options like this. Let's just hope somebody can wrapper Facebook soon.
Sorry! From the subject ("Waste is what drives the economy") and the assertion that removing waste would shrink the IT sector, it sounded like you were pro-broken windows. (Removing waste spending would allow the IT sector to move on to bigger and better things.)
I agree that the way we as a society think about things like "wealth" and "growth" is pretty screwed up. Hopefully a person will read this thread and learn more and make all our typing worthwhile. Now, I need to go back to implementing workarounds for bugs in IIS 7 ASP.NET, when I could be off writing features...
It's for liability reasons. If you run back into the burning building to rescue someone and die, your next-of-kin could theoretically sue the building owner and management. Because of the sign, they can mount a defense of "We specifically said not to do that."
I love the idea of the civil court system, but somehow our society became overly lawsuit-happy and heroism (or, hell, just being a doctor) has suffered for it.
Yes. Until they have another revenue stream, ads are their bottom line, and everything they do directly or indirectly (sometimes very subtly) furthers this goal.
Slashdot Mirror
...for calling them "criminals" and not "cyber-criminals."
But it's only been five years since she became an adult. She was a minor at the time of the incident. Often, time doesn't start counting against the Statute of Limitations for a minor until they become an adult. So the crime could still be within the limit. Maybe this works differently in Texas though.
-- 77IM
The big news is that HTML 5 is now a "native" programming platform for the client UI.
Standards-compliant HTML 5? Or some weird Microsoft "extension" that gets popular enough to do damage, but not popular enough to take over (think IE 6)?
-- 77IM
It's our only sure defense against the Cylon menace!
FYI, that icon to the right of the article is not Mister Pedantic, it's Bill Gates.
-- 77IM
LYCEUM, Athens -- Researchers led by Aristotle have released a startling scroll detailing their findings on a beverage called "wine." Apparently, when consumed in sufficient quantities, wine can lead to loss of inhibition, poor judgement, and lascivious behavior. Combined with last year's discovery that head trauma can make a person "loopy," it appears that our cherished ideas about the soul and free will must be called into question.
What if there are no woods because they've been logged, and no hills because they've been strip mined, and no fields because they're private property, and no beach to fish because it's been turned into condos for foreigners? Or, what if there are woods, but not enough animals there to support you and the other 142 million people who want to eat them too?
-- 77IM
Who needs healthcare? Just replace your aging human with one of the newer, higher-efficiency models that become available every year.
-- 77IM
Have you tried a game search algorithm? It seems like you have the move-generation part handled, and a static board evaluation function should be easy to write.
-- 77IM
The terrorist story is a cover-up.
What really happened, is a young Jutnar (a species of large mountain troll) wandered into Oslo through the sewer system. It was eventually destroyed near the capital building when courageous members of the TSS removed a manhole cover above the troll. Sadly, the dying troll exploded in a massive burst destroying several city blocks.
No, that's what high school is for.
It's sad that so many teen waste their high school years on stoopid stuff, but equally sad that our society expects and encourages this, and that our high school educational system has been reduced to a holding pen.
-- 77IM
DRM has nothing to do with piracy.
It has everything to do with eliminating the secondary market and forcing consumers to "subscribe" to media rather than purchase it.
That's the real motive. Every time you hear piracy mentioned -- for or against DRM -- just repeat to yourself, "DRM has nothing to do with piracy."
http://code.google.com/p/mod-spdy/
Consumers want the best of both worlds, too, though. We want the work to be treated as IP for which we have a personal license -- one which lets us make as many copies as we want, on as many devices, for our own use. But we also want the work to be treated as physical property which we own -- loaning it to someone, gifting it, reselling it, returning it, etc. And let's be honest, for most people, "loaning" and "gifting" don't involve deleting their own copy first.
I'm not saying that the current DRM clusterfuck is the consumers' fault (I place blame on the publishers, who ought to be more in tune with what their customers want), just that consumers aren't helping much, either. It's just human nature to want to have it all. Big media publishers may be greedy incompetents whose terrible DRM schemes are driving people to piracy, but the average consumer is no innocent powerless victim, either.
Now excuse me, I need to start copying my friends 400GB music collection.
it brings in the $, and that's all that matters
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is about 3/4 of what's wrong with our society.
-- 77IM
You are correct, sir!
Network effects: because so many people play WoW, if your friends play any MMORPG, that is probably the one. Barring specific hatred of some aspect of WoW, you will default to playing the one that your friends are playing.
"People come for the game, but stay for the community."
Honestly, does anyone think people pay $15/month to an MMO because it's a good game? Heck no; if that were true, we'd see single-player games with a similar subscription model and gradual content delivery. Nobody plays a single player game for YEARS on end, the way they do with MMOs. (Notable exceptions, such as the roguelike games and [insert contrary anecdote here] are usually played by an obsessive minority, not the mainstream 10 million people who play WoW.)
People play WoW because they have friends that play. They don't want to move to another game and lose touch with those friends. The only way to "beat" WoW is to be part of their community -- integrate to their chat system, preserve guilds and friend lists across game boundaries, etc. -- so that when a person goes to play your game, their friends can come too. Barring some deep Facebook integration, the only company that could really pull this off is... Blizzard. Yup. The only way to beat WoW is to be WoW.
-- 77IM
Am I the only one who thinks that when I buy a piece of hardware it should be mine to control, and that the company that built it should not be allowed to control it via software? For example, I want full and explicit control over whether programs can read my location -- like, a physical switch or something. Or the stories about how the FBI can remotely activate your phone's mic and listen to your conversations. That's kind of crap.
Then this article comes along and... they want to give my boss control over my phone? Sorry, but that sucks too.
-- S77IM
News sites are suddenly going to get really diligent about citing sources? What would motivate them to do that, when they can't get basic facts straight or use a fucking grammar checker? I thought Cory Doctorow laid it out pretty clearly in Metacrap.
-- 77IM
Author makes common mistake of confusing a monopoly with most successful provider of something that one could, if one wanted, get from 20 other places.
You (and many of the other posters on this thread) have missed a key point:
The value of a network is proportional to the number of people using it.
This is easiest to see in the case of sites like Facebook. Sure, you could use a competitor, but if none of your friends are on it, what would be the point? If your peeps do all their communication through Facebook, and you want to get their updates, you need to use the Facebook. It's less clear-cut with sites like Google. I mean, you could use Bing for search, or Yahoo!. But what about ads? If you want to advertise, or host ads on your site, the sheer size of Google's ad network makes it more attractive than any competitor.
This is what TFA author was getting at with his analogies to things like the telegraph networks and phone networks. Just because Facebook or Google doesn't own the actual fiber (oh wait, they are a tier 1 provider and own a ton of fiber) doesn't mean they don't have anything of value. They have the network of users -- a "critical mass" of participants that will make it hard for competitors to break into the market.
The nice thing, is that there could be a technological solution to this. Aggregation. Remember when you had like 3-4 different IM clients? Then multi-protocol clients like Trillian came out and suddenly network didn't matter any more. For ads there are already options like this. Let's just hope somebody can wrapper Facebook soon.
-- 77IM
I think the analogy you are looking for is, "Separate is inherently unequal."
Sorry! From the subject ("Waste is what drives the economy") and the assertion that removing waste would shrink the IT sector, it sounded like you were pro-broken windows. (Removing waste spending would allow the IT sector to move on to bigger and better things.)
I agree that the way we as a society think about things like "wealth" and "growth" is pretty screwed up. Hopefully a person will read this thread and learn more and make all our typing worthwhile. Now, I need to go back to implementing workarounds for bugs in IIS 7 ASP.NET, when I could be off writing features...
-- 77IM
It's for liability reasons. If you run back into the burning building to rescue someone and die, your next-of-kin could theoretically sue the building owner and management. Because of the sign, they can mount a defense of "We specifically said not to do that."
I love the idea of the civil court system, but somehow our society became overly lawsuit-happy and heroism (or, hell, just being a doctor) has suffered for it.
-- 77IM
WHOOPS, while trying to be smart, I committed Broken Link Fallacy. Correct Link
Your analysis is wrong; it's a classic example of the Broken Window Fallacy.
-- 77IM
"Did Google ________ Just To Show More Ads?"
Yes. Until they have another revenue stream, ads are their bottom line, and everything they do directly or indirectly (sometimes very subtly) furthers this goal.