You say mindless chit-chat, I say social interaction... Do you never just shoot the breeze with a friend? You know, just kick back and relax and chat about nothing in particular?
If citizens start to view the law as less than fair, or even immorally unfair, you start to see people openly and enthusiastically break the laws
While that's true to an extent, it is unfortunately not possible to differentiate between them and the ones that do exactly the same merely because they like getting stuff for free.
The real difference is that the ones are doing it for noble reasons are supposed to stand up in court (if caught) and loudly proclaim "Yes, I did it, but because the law is unjust and so should be struck down!".
Whatever happened to due process and not being able to stand trial for the same crime twice?
As this is the RIAA bringing the case, rather than The People (or whatever the US's equivalent of the UK's "Crown vs..." is), surely it's a civil case and it can be brought as many times as a judge is willing to put up with it before throwing it out of court and telling them not to come back?
Exactly; it's a law to hit someone with when you think they've done something else but can't prove it, or when you can and want to really throw the book at them.
Can't prove that they were directly involved with a bomb plot or similar? Never mind, you have them anyway for meeting with their alleged co-conspirators - literally guilt by association.
We really ought to create software which is safe by design.
And how do we protect a machine from its user installing trojans disguised as fun cursors, web browser toolbars, weather apps, sexy picture screensavers, etc?
Let me get this straight - you'd rather they have access to your cell phone number than your photos?
Re:Not groundbreaking at all, System Shock 2 clone
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they were two very different games
Note: mild spoilers ahead.
System Shock 2
* you awake to find yourself in the middle of a catastrophe; disorientated you must fight to survive in an unfamiliar environment * you can specialise in combat, psi powers or a mixture * there are automated systems and vending machines that can be hacked * there are collectable upgrade modules that can be exchanged for upgraded stats, new psi powers, etc * there are hypos, first aid kits, food and drink that can be used to increase health and/or psi power; some things increase one while decreasing the other * you are guided by the voice of a remote actor who is later revealed to be something other than they claimed to be * you are fighting the mutated inhabitants of the ship, and a range of bio-engineered creatures and robots * you can modify weapons and research alien objects to gain advantages
Bioshock
* you begin the game in the middle of a catastrophe; disorientated you must fight to survive in an unfamiliar environment * there is no specialisation, though you still have to choose which plasmids, tonics, etc to use * there are automated systems and vending machines that can be hacked * you can collect Adam, which can be exchanged for new plasmids, combat tonics, etc - but there is no stat development and no pre-req for using any weapon or plasmid, etc * there are hypos, first aid kits, food and drink that can be used to increase health and/or Eve; some things increase one while decreasing the other * you are guided by the voice of a remote actor who is later revealed to be something other than they claimed to be * you are fighting the mutated inhabitants of the city * you can modify weapons and create new items
I'm sorry, there are differences between the two of course, but having played them both recently they really are extremely similar.
There are creatures on earth that do not get their energy from the sun - they live near hydrothermal vents deep in the oceans. That's one possibility that we have seen ourselves; in fact it was this discovery in part that spurred on the search for life on other planets that would normally have been written off as far as supporting life was concerned.
I had similar (though not from the GP afaik) when I voiced my disappointment that my iPod Touch doesn't present as a USB mass storage device, unlike every other iPod (at least since they stopped being Firewire-only, which predates my use of them). Suddenly, I hate Apple. Wtf?
Indeed; I own an iPod Touch and fail to see how I am renting it.
I bought it as a media player; the fact that it also supports apps (all be it from a walled garden) is a bonus.
I do not want or need a media player (or phone) that is a general-purpose computational device; I already have both a laptop and a desktop that serve that purpose admirably.
If the alternative is indeed crappier than iTMS, and if the number of people who buy an iPod when they don't have to use iTMS who otherwise would not have done so start using it despite their objections outweighs the number of current iTMS users who use the alternative despite it being crappy.
It most definitely is not as cut-and-dried as "open up and gain more sales!".
Do people in management at large corporations actually talk like this?
No, the programmers do.
Agile is all about breaking the project down into small, more-or-less self-contained (sets of) features, and getting the users involved in the process. The aim is the same, to go from a set of requirements to a finished product, but it's supposed to be more flexible, more able to cope with changes along the way, etc (hence, "agile").
It differs from the traditional waterfall method in that it allows for coding of one (set of) requirement(s) to start, while the next set is being specced out; it also allows (in fact, requires) that testing of the last set of delivered functionality is performed while the current set is being developed. Thus it runs several separate workstreams in parallel. If that testing reveals any bugs that need to be fixed now, then the fixes can be worked into the next sprint as required (which yes, may well push features out, either to a later date or completely out of the project).
Agile suits some projects better than others, some customers better than others, and some project teams better than others. When it works well, it can work really well; similarly when it's poorly managed or people have unrealistic expectations, it can crash and burn like any other method. (And similarly, of course, other methods of running software projects can work very well too - use the right tool for the right job...)
Can you use media services other than iTunes on the iPad?
Uhm.. New to Apple's stuff? The answer is big NO!
Seriously, the answer to that question is so obvious it really didn't need to be asked. There are two reasons for the tight integration between iTunes and the iPod/iPhone, and "end-user convenience" isn't the most important one for Apple.
Will Apple make it even easier for people to buy their music from a service other than iTMS? Why on Earth would that want to do that?
But what makes that different to the current situation in the US? Is it illegal for US citizens (while in the US) to gamble online at sites hosted elsewhere in the world? Given the amount of spam I get for online casinos (with most of the sign-up bonuses quoted in dollars) I assumed it was not, but I'm wiling to be proved wrong.
Precisely, why can't Adobe let us decide. I can disable Java, Javascript, image animation. I can block pop ups. Why not Flash?
Why is that the Flash plugin's problem? Why is that not a browser option, just like the other things you mention are? When you disable Java applets, you're not telling the JVM "please don't run this", you are telling the browser.
You're right, but you're upset at the wrong people.
Funnily enough (though slightly off-topic), iTunes runs like a dog on my dual-core Windows XP machine at work, with the UI frequently freezing for no apparent reason. It's not so bad that I don't use it of course (but then I have to, nothing else will access my iPod), but it does make me wonder what it's doing to act like that.
Obviously he didn't hate them until he experienced the product.
Actually I don't hate them at all, and I'm surprised to see that expressing disappointment in an artificial limitation of a product (when previous models had no such limitation) constitutes hatred of the company.
I would say that I'm surprised to see that anyone would hate a company based purely on the products they produce, but I'm tired of pointing out to people that (as my UID implies) no, I am not new here...;)
I was rather irritated to find that my nice, new 16GB iPod Touch, shiny and gorgeous and amazing as it is, does not present as a USB mass storage device, unlike pretty-much every other mp3 player including most iPods to date. Great, so now I need to carry a USB memory stick with me as well? Thanks Apple.
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You say mindless chit-chat, I say social interaction... Do you never just shoot the breeze with a friend? You know, just kick back and relax and chat about nothing in particular?
Maybe "don't be evil" makes that safe for now
How does a soundbite make anything safe?
If citizens start to view the law as less than fair, or even immorally unfair, you start to see people openly and enthusiastically break the laws
While that's true to an extent, it is unfortunately not possible to differentiate between them and the ones that do exactly the same merely because they like getting stuff for free.
The real difference is that the ones are doing it for noble reasons are supposed to stand up in court (if caught) and loudly proclaim "Yes, I did it, but because the law is unjust and so should be struck down!".
Whatever happened to due process and not being able to stand trial for the same crime twice?
As this is the RIAA bringing the case, rather than The People (or whatever the US's equivalent of the UK's "Crown vs ..." is), surely it's a civil case and it can be brought as many times as a judge is willing to put up with it before throwing it out of court and telling them not to come back?
(ObDisclaimer: IANAL)
Exactly; it's a law to hit someone with when you think they've done something else but can't prove it, or when you can and want to really throw the book at them.
Can't prove that they were directly involved with a bomb plot or similar? Never mind, you have them anyway for meeting with their alleged co-conspirators - literally guilt by association.
We really ought to create software which is safe by design.
And how do we protect a machine from its user installing trojans disguised as fun cursors, web browser toolbars, weather apps, sexy picture screensavers, etc?
Let me get this straight - you'd rather they have access to your cell phone number than your photos?
they were two very different games
Note: mild spoilers ahead.
System Shock 2
* you awake to find yourself in the middle of a catastrophe; disorientated you must fight to survive in an unfamiliar environment
* you can specialise in combat, psi powers or a mixture
* there are automated systems and vending machines that can be hacked
* there are collectable upgrade modules that can be exchanged for upgraded stats, new psi powers, etc
* there are hypos, first aid kits, food and drink that can be used to increase health and/or psi power; some things increase one while decreasing the other
* you are guided by the voice of a remote actor who is later revealed to be something other than they claimed to be
* you are fighting the mutated inhabitants of the ship, and a range of bio-engineered creatures and robots
* you can modify weapons and research alien objects to gain advantages
Bioshock
* you begin the game in the middle of a catastrophe; disorientated you must fight to survive in an unfamiliar environment
* there is no specialisation, though you still have to choose which plasmids, tonics, etc to use
* there are automated systems and vending machines that can be hacked
* you can collect Adam, which can be exchanged for new plasmids, combat tonics, etc - but there is no stat development and no pre-req for using any weapon or plasmid, etc
* there are hypos, first aid kits, food and drink that can be used to increase health and/or Eve; some things increase one while decreasing the other
* you are guided by the voice of a remote actor who is later revealed to be something other than they claimed to be
* you are fighting the mutated inhabitants of the city
* you can modify weapons and create new items
I'm sorry, there are differences between the two of course, but having played them both recently they really are extremely similar.
There are creatures on earth that do not get their energy from the sun - they live near hydrothermal vents deep in the oceans. That's one possibility that we have seen ourselves; in fact it was this discovery in part that spurred on the search for life on other planets that would normally have been written off as far as supporting life was concerned.
How on earth did this get modded Informative?!
Laziness? Why would I move to another social networking site, if all my friends are still on Facebook?
Some of us grew up on non-PC, non-Windows machines for decades* before ever getting a Windows PC, and are not so easily confused :)
(Well, about 1.5 decades, anyway...)
I had similar (though not from the GP afaik) when I voiced my disappointment that my iPod Touch doesn't present as a USB mass storage device, unlike every other iPod (at least since they stopped being Firewire-only, which predates my use of them). Suddenly, I hate Apple. Wtf?
Indeed; I own an iPod Touch and fail to see how I am renting it.
I bought it as a media player; the fact that it also supports apps (all be it from a walled garden) is a bonus.
I do not want or need a media player (or phone) that is a general-purpose computational device; I already have both a laptop and a desktop that serve that purpose admirably.
He said iPad Nano; it was a joke. Duh.
If the alternative is indeed crappier than iTMS, and if the number of people who buy an iPod when they don't have to use iTMS who otherwise would not have done so start using it despite their objections outweighs the number of current iTMS users who use the alternative despite it being crappy.
It most definitely is not as cut-and-dried as "open up and gain more sales!".
Do people in management at large corporations actually talk like this?
No, the programmers do.
Agile is all about breaking the project down into small, more-or-less self-contained (sets of) features, and getting the users involved in the process. The aim is the same, to go from a set of requirements to a finished product, but it's supposed to be more flexible, more able to cope with changes along the way, etc (hence, "agile").
It differs from the traditional waterfall method in that it allows for coding of one (set of) requirement(s) to start, while the next set is being specced out; it also allows (in fact, requires) that testing of the last set of delivered functionality is performed while the current set is being developed. Thus it runs several separate workstreams in parallel. If that testing reveals any bugs that need to be fixed now, then the fixes can be worked into the next sprint as required (which yes, may well push features out, either to a later date or completely out of the project).
Agile suits some projects better than others, some customers better than others, and some project teams better than others. When it works well, it can work really well; similarly when it's poorly managed or people have unrealistic expectations, it can crash and burn like any other method. (And similarly, of course, other methods of running software projects can work very well too - use the right tool for the right job...)
Seriously, the answer to that question is so obvious it really didn't need to be asked. There are two reasons for the tight integration between iTunes and the iPod/iPhone, and "end-user convenience" isn't the most important one for Apple.
Will Apple make it even easier for people to buy their music from a service other than iTMS? Why on Earth would that want to do that?
But what makes that different to the current situation in the US? Is it illegal for US citizens (while in the US) to gamble online at sites hosted elsewhere in the world? Given the amount of spam I get for online casinos (with most of the sign-up bonuses quoted in dollars) I assumed it was not, but I'm wiling to be proved wrong.
Precisely, why can't Adobe let us decide. I can disable Java, Javascript, image animation. I can block pop ups. Why not Flash?
Why is that the Flash plugin's problem? Why is that not a browser option, just like the other things you mention are? When you disable Java applets, you're not telling the JVM "please don't run this", you are telling the browser.
You're right, but you're upset at the wrong people.
Funnily enough (though slightly off-topic), iTunes runs like a dog on my dual-core Windows XP machine at work, with the UI frequently freezing for no apparent reason. It's not so bad that I don't use it of course (but then I have to, nothing else will access my iPod), but it does make me wonder what it's doing to act like that.
at least these systems produce independant legislators.
Independent, apart from being beholden to their financiers...
He's in good company then...
Obviously he didn't hate them until he experienced the product.
Actually I don't hate them at all, and I'm surprised to see that expressing disappointment in an artificial limitation of a product (when previous models had no such limitation) constitutes hatred of the company.
I would say that I'm surprised to see that anyone would hate a company based purely on the products they produce, but I'm tired of pointing out to people that (as my UID implies) no, I am not new here... ;)
I was rather irritated to find that my nice, new 16GB iPod Touch, shiny and gorgeous and amazing as it is, does not present as a USB mass storage device, unlike pretty-much every other mp3 player including most iPods to date. Great, so now I need to carry a USB memory stick with me as well? Thanks Apple.