The guys tone seems to be that he knows best and that his view is commonly held, and that the people arguing are only doing so for the sole purpose of arguing.
He's in charge of policing xbox live. Have you been on xbox live? Cops get jaded from seeing too many meth-heads, drunks, assholes, and wannabe gangsters. It should not be surprising if he gets a bit jaded. I mean, this is the internet. Imagine having to police a million teenagers. I saw him talk at PAX, and he actually was a lot less jaded than I would have anticipated, I was impressed. Here's a transcript of his talk, and includes some of what they clean up on live.
During the Q and A session, one or two people in the audience decided to try to argue that their being banned was unjustified. Needless to say, they said they had done nothing wrong and deserved to be reinstated. Also needless to say, there was no way for the guy at the podium to verify any of that, and yet these people would not shut up or let him continue. Those are the types of people he has to deal with all day, except they're not face to face, so they're more brazen than that. It's easy to see why he might assume they were arguing just to argue: it's undoubtedly happened to him many, many times before. For example, last year, some stupid kid got banned for numerous offenses while playing modern warfare. He put a video, heavily edited to make it look like he did nothing wrong, up online, and started trying to get people on his side. source
Anyway, Mr. Toulouse undoubtedly has little power to decide what MS will allow to be posted on their service, or their policy on users posting swastikas. It doesn't do anyone any good for him to say "Let's talk about this" when he's been told by his boss that he needs to keep swastikas off so that MS doesn't get bad PR from it.
I'm aware. That's not the same thing. I can't enable specific scripts on a page, I can only turn them all on or all off per page. Noscript also has a better interface.
I'm aware that facebook isn't the government. What I'm saying is that I find it odd that people are so much more vigilant about the government encroaching on their rights, but not private businesses. It seems to me that today, corporations like facebook are destroying privacy much more than the government hopes too. To only be concerned with the government seems outdated.
We haven't decided TSA isn't the government either. The reason they get away with it is, as I said, because you technically have a choice, they're not forcing you to submit to the scan or gate rape, you could stay at home. That and we forgot that those who would give up their liberties for a little security deserve and will get neither.
Opera also makes it very easy to block ads as you encounter them. Right click, block content.
Script blocking however has been terrible in my experience. You can block scripts by default, and can make exceptions for sites, but you cant allow single scripts within a page, at least not that I've found. Noscript is really a huge plus.
Popularity and exposure does count for a lot when it comes to social networks. I've heard of diaspora several times, and never heard of appleseed before now. I doubt many of my friends have heard of it either, odds are low they've heard of diaspora, but I'm guessing more will sign up with the one they hear more about.
GP also seems to think it's a zero sum game when it comes to news about non-facebook social networks. That's not true. I think most people aren't aware there is more than facebook and myspace, making them more aware of diaspora might lead them to investigate your preferred ones.
Like me and this appleseed you're talking about...
I guess that's one opinion, the "hold out for perfection and scorn anything that isn't perfect" model is popular with many slashdotters. I guess suppressing all mention of those imperfect alternatives is logical to some.
I personally think that's idiotic. The alternative is, what, wait for people to become so dissatisfied with facebook selling all their private information and location that they decide to make their own? I'm finding it hard to believe that people "who know what they're doing" are just not doing it because they haven't thought "maybe I could do better than facebook."
You're saying they won't be able to straightjacket you because of that? They'd say it's not arrest or detainment: you're free to not fly if you object that strongly to a straightjacket, if you're flying you agree to it.
Despite being idiotic, that justification flies with enough people. Same thing with corporations. We'd start throwing molotovs if the president announced privacy was a thing of the past and that their location would be tracked electronically. Facebook does it and people think -I'm- crazy for caring.
Valve is hardly indie. If Valve is indie, then who does that leave? EA and Activision as the only two companies who don't count as indie?
The first two fallouts were not FPS.
I haven't seen Inception, in fact I've seen no new movies in the theater since my son was born, so my negative talk against Hollywood may be a bit stale, it's possible. But not likely.
That sounds a little illogical there, don't you think? You say Hollywood can't make fresh movies these days, I bring up a recent fresh movie, and you say you don't watch movies anymore but you're probably still right?
No, which is why you'd probably be released after a strip search. They would assume you were hiding something like drugs. They definitely have the mindset of "only those who have something to hide, hide." It doesn't justifiy it, but that's how it would go.
You need to submit to either the pornography machine or through-the-clothing full body cavity search just to fly across the state. I wouldn't be surprised if they required a quarantine period for re-entry. If I remember correctly, they actually did quarantine the first few astronauts.
MoH can't be a serious treatment of a current war in the same way that Hollywood can no longer produce ground breaking cinema. They're both subject to a cookie cutter creation method that stifles any innovation that isn't purely technical.
I'm not a film expert, but "Inception" seemed both ground breaking and Hollywood.
I'm not a videogame expert (and didn't play MoH), but I think there are a number of innovations those "cookie cutter" created games you're talking about came up with. When playing through modern warfare 1 and 2, and black ops, I was impressed with the storytelling going on there. I don't think people who make FPS games have come up with a really good way of telling the story, most are shooting interspersed with movies. I've heard that criticism leveled against modern warfare and black ops, but I think they're less guilty of that than almost every other FPS. There are relatively few parts where you have no input. It's not revolutionary, but how many FPSes have been revolutionary in terms of narratives? Half life 1 and 2, and portal are all I can think of. Even fallout 3 and new vegas are basically "run and shoot things, talk to people, run and shoot more things."
They are very linear, which some people object to, but again, for FPS they're not bad. Anyway, if you're buying some of those games, you're not buying them for the campaign mode.
What I should be doing is making my cake better so that my existing customers are happy. Instead we have DRM, which is the digital equivalent of me putting a special coating on my cakes meaning they are tasteless without a decoating agent
THERE IS NO DRM HERE. That's the point. They're only suing/fining the pirates.
A DRM-free game released by a publisher that intends to hunt down pirates. Am I supposed to cheer them on or cry foul? I'm so confused:(
Cheer. DRM punishes non-pirates more than it prevents piracy. The pirates are in some ways on our side with the DRM vs no DRM argument, but that doesn't mean pirates have a peg-leg to stand on with all arguments.
I don't expect someone to make a good game and then be happy people are playing it without paying them, no developer is claiming to be a charity, and good revenue for good games means more good games. If devs want to specifically punish pirates, that's a good thing in my book.
You're the same kind of person who swears by the $700 dollar speaker cables, then in a blind test thinks the coathanger sounds the best.
No, he'd be the type of person who has the $700 cables, but acknowledges that a coathanger works too. Which is much more reasonable than the monster cable people you're referring to.
That's not what happened, judging from TFA. He ran it under warm water, a common technique to open stuck jars, the goal being to heat up the lid to make it expand a little and not be so tight (or maybe heat up the interior of the jar to increase the pressure, making the lid easier to take off). He hit the lid with the rubber end of a screwdriver, another common remedy (I guess the idea is to break the seal on the lid and allow the inside of the jar to equalize with the outside). I've done the same thing before dozens of times and in fact usually use the metal butt of a butterknife. It has -never- resulted in the lid shooting off and into my eye.
You make it sound like he had it heating on a stovetop and then smashed it with a hammer and then got cut by glass. "Heating" it with a stove would increase the pressure inside the jar, and hitting that with a hammer would be stupid.
Somehow the pressure inside the jar was a lot higher than the outside. That's usually the opposite of what you find. I've heard anerobic bacterial contamination can result in increased pressure in the jar (maybe that's the reason for the popup tab). If that's the case, then the company could genuinely be responsible.
Or maybe the guy was lying about what happened. Who knows. Either way, judging a court case as being stupid from just one or two paragraphs is, in my opinion, stupid.
Sounds like a great way to impoverish the soil even further
He seemed to be talking about residential areas, where leaves are often thrown away anyway. Using the leaves for energy wouldn't hurt the soil, since they're already being carted off and dumped in plastic bags rather than rotting on the ground.
Natural environment meaning microenvironment, or rather, with other cells.
A lot of cell biology is done on cells which have been mechanically or chemically separated, or cells grown in a single layer on a dish. That's okay for some studies, but if you want to study, for example, the stem cells of the intenstine, that's not much good. When you dissociate cells, they change shape which makes some of the microscopy you'd want to do on them pointless right off, and many if not most cells will start changing in other ways when you dissociate them. For many cells, being attached to other cells is a sign they're doing what they're supposed to, if they lose contact they'll start to kill themselves. It's a safeguard against metastasis of cancer cells. If you were looking at cells you isolated from the intestine after you'd dissociated them, you wouldn't be studying intestinal stem cells anymore, you'd be studying cells that were starting to commit suicide.
By freezing it and then leaving the tissue intact, you'd be able to study those cells as they are supposed to exist: attached to other cells and not undergoing apoptosis (assuming you did it right). There are ways of freezing tissues to prevent the formation of damaging ice crystals. They won't be alive, but they'll make a good snapshot.
And all of those cool military gadgets we ooh and ahh over will be deployed against citizens aspiring for freedom.
Revolution does not necessarily mean "violent uprising." Which is good, because it seems to me that the people most likely to take arms up against their government right now would be MORE in favor of censorship and less personal rights.
Hell, the RIAA and MPAA might decide to sponsor the armed revolution through Fox news.
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2. wtf is caner? i hope those poor turkeys are alright!
Caner is cancer for domesticated turkeys. Domesticated turkeys, being unearthly stupid, don't know how to spell "cancer" properly.
Sadly, they're not alright, their goose is cooked so to speak. And by goose, I mean themselves.
Although I'm sure the car fetishists are salivating at that prospect already.
Also those of us who like a good government-sponsored grope.
The guys tone seems to be that he knows best and that his view is commonly held, and that the people arguing are only doing so for the sole purpose of arguing.
He's in charge of policing xbox live. Have you been on xbox live? Cops get jaded from seeing too many meth-heads, drunks, assholes, and wannabe gangsters. It should not be surprising if he gets a bit jaded. I mean, this is the internet. Imagine having to police a million teenagers. I saw him talk at PAX, and he actually was a lot less jaded than I would have anticipated, I was impressed. Here's a transcript of his talk, and includes some of what they clean up on live.
During the Q and A session, one or two people in the audience decided to try to argue that their being banned was unjustified. Needless to say, they said they had done nothing wrong and deserved to be reinstated. Also needless to say, there was no way for the guy at the podium to verify any of that, and yet these people would not shut up or let him continue. Those are the types of people he has to deal with all day, except they're not face to face, so they're more brazen than that. It's easy to see why he might assume they were arguing just to argue: it's undoubtedly happened to him many, many times before. For example, last year, some stupid kid got banned for numerous offenses while playing modern warfare. He put a video, heavily edited to make it look like he did nothing wrong, up online, and started trying to get people on his side. source
Anyway, Mr. Toulouse undoubtedly has little power to decide what MS will allow to be posted on their service, or their policy on users posting swastikas. It doesn't do anyone any good for him to say "Let's talk about this" when he's been told by his boss that he needs to keep swastikas off so that MS doesn't get bad PR from it.
I'm aware. That's not the same thing. I can't enable specific scripts on a page, I can only turn them all on or all off per page. Noscript also has a better interface.
I'm aware that facebook isn't the government. What I'm saying is that I find it odd that people are so much more vigilant about the government encroaching on their rights, but not private businesses. It seems to me that today, corporations like facebook are destroying privacy much more than the government hopes too. To only be concerned with the government seems outdated.
We haven't decided TSA isn't the government either. The reason they get away with it is, as I said, because you technically have a choice, they're not forcing you to submit to the scan or gate rape, you could stay at home. That and we forgot that those who would give up their liberties for a little security deserve and will get neither.
I can't find noscript available. There's noTscript, which claims to be the same thing, but where's the real thing that I've been using for years?
Opera also makes it very easy to block ads as you encounter them. Right click, block content.
Script blocking however has been terrible in my experience. You can block scripts by default, and can make exceptions for sites, but you cant allow single scripts within a page, at least not that I've found. Noscript is really a huge plus.
Popularity and exposure does count for a lot when it comes to social networks. I've heard of diaspora several times, and never heard of appleseed before now. I doubt many of my friends have heard of it either, odds are low they've heard of diaspora, but I'm guessing more will sign up with the one they hear more about.
GP also seems to think it's a zero sum game when it comes to news about non-facebook social networks. That's not true. I think most people aren't aware there is more than facebook and myspace, making them more aware of diaspora might lead them to investigate your preferred ones.
Like me and this appleseed you're talking about...
I guess that's one opinion, the "hold out for perfection and scorn anything that isn't perfect" model is popular with many slashdotters. I guess suppressing all mention of those imperfect alternatives is logical to some.
I personally think that's idiotic. The alternative is, what, wait for people to become so dissatisfied with facebook selling all their private information and location that they decide to make their own? I'm finding it hard to believe that people "who know what they're doing" are just not doing it because they haven't thought "maybe I could do better than facebook."
No way, they said they want to start out small: they're going to invite everyone still on myspace first.
You're saying they won't be able to straightjacket you because of that? They'd say it's not arrest or detainment: you're free to not fly if you object that strongly to a straightjacket, if you're flying you agree to it.
Despite being idiotic, that justification flies with enough people. Same thing with corporations. We'd start throwing molotovs if the president announced privacy was a thing of the past and that their location would be tracked electronically. Facebook does it and people think -I'm- crazy for caring.
Okay, so you didn't like it, but that doesn't disqualify it from being "groundbreaking."
Valve is hardly indie. If Valve is indie, then who does that leave? EA and Activision as the only two companies who don't count as indie?
The first two fallouts were not FPS.
I haven't seen Inception, in fact I've seen no new movies in the theater since my son was born, so my negative talk against Hollywood may be a bit stale, it's possible. But not likely.
That sounds a little illogical there, don't you think? You say Hollywood can't make fresh movies these days, I bring up a recent fresh movie, and you say you don't watch movies anymore but you're probably still right?
No, which is why you'd probably be released after a strip search. They would assume you were hiding something like drugs. They definitely have the mindset of "only those who have something to hide, hide." It doesn't justifiy it, but that's how it would go.
You need to submit to either the pornography machine or through-the-clothing full body cavity search just to fly across the state. I wouldn't be surprised if they required a quarantine period for re-entry. If I remember correctly, they actually did quarantine the first few astronauts.
Gotta protect against space bugs after all
MoH can't be a serious treatment of a current war in the same way that Hollywood can no longer produce ground breaking cinema. They're both subject to a cookie cutter creation method that stifles any innovation that isn't purely technical.
I'm not a film expert, but "Inception" seemed both ground breaking and Hollywood.
I'm not a videogame expert (and didn't play MoH), but I think there are a number of innovations those "cookie cutter" created games you're talking about came up with. When playing through modern warfare 1 and 2, and black ops, I was impressed with the storytelling going on there. I don't think people who make FPS games have come up with a really good way of telling the story, most are shooting interspersed with movies. I've heard that criticism leveled against modern warfare and black ops, but I think they're less guilty of that than almost every other FPS. There are relatively few parts where you have no input. It's not revolutionary, but how many FPSes have been revolutionary in terms of narratives? Half life 1 and 2, and portal are all I can think of. Even fallout 3 and new vegas are basically "run and shoot things, talk to people, run and shoot more things."
They are very linear, which some people object to, but again, for FPS they're not bad. Anyway, if you're buying some of those games, you're not buying them for the campaign mode.
What I should be doing is making my cake better so that my existing customers are happy. Instead we have DRM, which is the digital equivalent of me putting a special coating on my cakes meaning they are tasteless without a decoating agent
THERE IS NO DRM HERE. That's the point. They're only suing/fining the pirates.
I just took off my jacket, so that's probably doing my part to reduce global warming. It's chilly though, so I'm going to have to turn on the heater.
A DRM-free game released by a publisher that intends to hunt down pirates. Am I supposed to cheer them on or cry foul? I'm so confused :(
Cheer. DRM punishes non-pirates more than it prevents piracy. The pirates are in some ways on our side with the DRM vs no DRM argument, but that doesn't mean pirates have a peg-leg to stand on with all arguments.
I don't expect someone to make a good game and then be happy people are playing it without paying them, no developer is claiming to be a charity, and good revenue for good games means more good games. If devs want to specifically punish pirates, that's a good thing in my book.
You're the same kind of person who swears by the $700 dollar speaker cables, then in a blind test thinks the coathanger sounds the best.
No, he'd be the type of person who has the $700 cables, but acknowledges that a coathanger works too. Which is much more reasonable than the monster cable people you're referring to.
That's not what happened, judging from TFA. He ran it under warm water, a common technique to open stuck jars, the goal being to heat up the lid to make it expand a little and not be so tight (or maybe heat up the interior of the jar to increase the pressure, making the lid easier to take off). He hit the lid with the rubber end of a screwdriver, another common remedy (I guess the idea is to break the seal on the lid and allow the inside of the jar to equalize with the outside). I've done the same thing before dozens of times and in fact usually use the metal butt of a butterknife. It has -never- resulted in the lid shooting off and into my eye.
You make it sound like he had it heating on a stovetop and then smashed it with a hammer and then got cut by glass. "Heating" it with a stove would increase the pressure inside the jar, and hitting that with a hammer would be stupid.
Somehow the pressure inside the jar was a lot higher than the outside. That's usually the opposite of what you find. I've heard anerobic bacterial contamination can result in increased pressure in the jar (maybe that's the reason for the popup tab). If that's the case, then the company could genuinely be responsible.
Or maybe the guy was lying about what happened. Who knows. Either way, judging a court case as being stupid from just one or two paragraphs is, in my opinion, stupid.
Sounds like a great way to impoverish the soil even further
He seemed to be talking about residential areas, where leaves are often thrown away anyway. Using the leaves for energy wouldn't hurt the soil, since they're already being carted off and dumped in plastic bags rather than rotting on the ground.
Natural environment meaning microenvironment, or rather, with other cells.
A lot of cell biology is done on cells which have been mechanically or chemically separated, or cells grown in a single layer on a dish. That's okay for some studies, but if you want to study, for example, the stem cells of the intenstine, that's not much good. When you dissociate cells, they change shape which makes some of the microscopy you'd want to do on them pointless right off, and many if not most cells will start changing in other ways when you dissociate them. For many cells, being attached to other cells is a sign they're doing what they're supposed to, if they lose contact they'll start to kill themselves. It's a safeguard against metastasis of cancer cells. If you were looking at cells you isolated from the intestine after you'd dissociated them, you wouldn't be studying intestinal stem cells anymore, you'd be studying cells that were starting to commit suicide.
By freezing it and then leaving the tissue intact, you'd be able to study those cells as they are supposed to exist: attached to other cells and not undergoing apoptosis (assuming you did it right). There are ways of freezing tissues to prevent the formation of damaging ice crystals. They won't be alive, but they'll make a good snapshot.
And all of those cool military gadgets we ooh and ahh over will be deployed against citizens aspiring for freedom.
Revolution does not necessarily mean "violent uprising." Which is good, because it seems to me that the people most likely to take arms up against their government right now would be MORE in favor of censorship and less personal rights.
Hell, the RIAA and MPAA might decide to sponsor the armed revolution through Fox news.
I certainly didn't. When I saw TFA was from "foxnews.com" I thought "This is going to be entirely reasonable and free of any fear-mongering."