How much crack do I have to smoke to be as optimistic as you are that Comcast won't abuse power? Cause I got a dealer right here and he's giving me a good bulk discount.
It's not as prevalent or widespread, no, but it sure as hell is already a reality. Especially for comic books, a 5 minute search can typically yield complete collections of comics pertaining to whatever character you feel like reading for a while, and then with a handy program called CDisplayEx, you can read them page by page with great ease, even turning the image 90 degrees to get a larger image on your screen.
The tools are there, the materials are there, it's just that the community isn't yet, and neither is the awareness of the piracy.
General rule. If it could be pirated, it can and will be pirated. No exceptions.
That actually sounds quite a bit like freenet. Too bad that freenet is the slowest thing on the internet ATM. But hey, what you lose in bandwidth you gain in anonymity.
Ok now I am almost positive I'm going to incite some flames with this comment, but I'm actually curious about the opinion here.
If this same idea were to be proposed by an open-source anti-malware solution, would you still be so hesitant about it?
How about if the proprietary companies were able to provide concrete evidence of the anonymity of your collected information?
Again, I'm NOT trying to incite a flame war with this, but it just seems so often that people rally a (mostly deserved) hatred and distrust of any and all companies that are proprietary, while having a (possibly detrimental) implicit trust of open-source solutions.
Besides, this could actually be a good idea. After all, we can't cure the common cold, but we can somewhat effectively stop it in it's tracks because we know how it's transmitted from person and can thus take appropriate measures against it. What's more is that the same goes for most all acquired illnesses. I'm not saying mandate the submission of such data, but having it as an option for users could provide anti-malware researchers with a powerful tool in studying them akin to biologic researchers and strain discs.
CELL PHONES
DO NOT
COMPETE
WITH CONSOLES!!!!!!!!!
Just look at the iPhone game section and it's easy to see why. Noone puts any damn effort into these games, because noone takes it seriously as a platform. Sure, you get casual games (Tetris, bejeweled, whatever), but look at how people play those games. 5 Minutes while they are waiting to do something else. I don't really know of anyone who puts any real dedication into playing a cell phone game because there's not really anything to put any dedication into. And besides, if a gamer want's to play a game with dedication, he or she can just go to the console he or she already owns and play a REAL video game. Not the latest touch knockoff of Tetris.
People owns cell phones for calling people. Not video games. Stop saying that they are the gaming market of the future, cause all you accomplish is making the gaming market laugh at you.
If you can stop waving your freak out stick for a second, you'd see that he's trying to make an analogy to the natural world so as to better illustrate the mechanism behind this technique. Furthermore, seeing as how the natural ant mechanism was the inspiration for this, how exactly is it ridiculous?
Or is the issue that you just lack the imagination to take one model and superimpose it's properties onto another setting?
Another major boon for the PSX is that Sony came forward and said that it was fronting publishing costs out of it's own disc presses, instead of needing each developer to find a manufacturer themselves. This dramatically cuts the costs of production to the developer. Additionally, disc pressing was and still is a far faster method of production. Fast enough in fact that you could actually respond to market pressures with some degree of accuracy, as opposed to with cartridges where you frequently saw a 2 to 4 week lead in on any production push, which just about ruins any chance at anticipating the market. To put it simply, Sony made it way easier for developers to get games to market with the Playstation, and that drew alot of AAA talent to Sony early on.
Because everything is woefully behind DirectX, and DirectX is the best supported PC Graphics layer for the majority of PC gamers. Besides, this was just announced to even be this far along. At least let them get it to retail with the most widespread graphics layer on the PC gaming market before demanding that they support everything else.
I'm not really ok with 99% of religions. Most of them are hocus pocus that people still blindly cling to out of some misplaced faith that all life's answers can be derived from them.
Of course nevermind that this magical answer divining power was really the result of bedtime stories created to explain what science couldn't at the time. You know, pay that no mind.
Only religion I don't have much issue with is Buddhism, and that's for 3 reasons.
1.) Buddhists don't care if you are Buddhist or not.
2.) Buddhists expect you to interpret Buddhism in whatever fashion makes the most sense to you, even if you completely throw out parts of it.
3.) The most important concept to Buddhists is "Don't be a dick." Whereas in other religions it's "Our God is the best and everyone elses sucks and they are gonna burn in whatever version of hell we use to scare ourselves with."
Commercially available small form GPS tracking systems available to the common person. Oh yea. I mean, there is NO way that this tech could be used by stalkers to follow someone, or my organized crime to track things.
Jeeze, sometimes people will accept any idiot idea if could in some random remote possibility help children.
Here's a good reason why this should burn in hell. Small child in a warzone slips it onto a military convoy as it passes through the town doing whatever good press PR work that unit is on for the day.
Totally freaking awesome.
I know you can answer Jedi on a census in some countries apparently the UK is one of them, but I don't know if it is given all of the recognition of other religions. It could I suppose if the wikipedia numbers are accurate than that would count in many countries. Otherwise if it has such protections than this company has probably just ran afoul of the law and this young Jedi will be getting some cash out of it.
Possibly because it's directly derived from a science fiction movie who's practitioners have telekinetic powers? I'm not saying it's right, but I have just as hard a time taking Scientology seriously too so I guess it comes with the territory.
Still though, I don't understand the UK link I guess, but where I grew up (Ohio. Yay.../montypython) hoodies are just comfortable and warm.
The HD in HD Radio refers to the fact that the sound quality is far better than standard radio. Go take your vinyl high horse and shove it cause it has nothing to do with this argument.
And for the record, vinyl is terrible from an archival standpoint. The amount of work that you have to put into your records to keep them in top shape is insane compared to a CD, even if the sound quality is better. It's a trade off, not a better or worse scenario.
Even though I'm almost positive that noone will figure it out before I die, this sounds like the beginnings of Ghost in the Shell style cyberization. Of course, there are alot of issues to be solved as well, such as the copying of one brain to another, as well as consciousness and the like, but still, everything has got to have a first step.
Now if only these types of scientists could stop saying "We could do this in blah blah timespan" and just do it already.
Gamers have such a strong reaction to threats of censorship because most of us understand that it's not real. I don't know about you, but I find it infuriating when I hear about some random politician saying "Games are bad. Vote for me. Blah blah blah blah blah!", but has never even played the game. It's like that woman who tried to stir up a bunch of controversy on Fox News with the XBoXXX scandal over Mass Effect shortly after she'd just published her new book by saying that there was full frontal nudity and sex in it, and everyone on the program was eating it up until her counterpoint speaker, Geoff Keighly bluntly asked "Have you even played this game?"
For those who didn't see it, her answer was no. And yet, even when she admitted that she'd never actually had any face time with the game, she kept jumping up and down about content that didn't exist in the game, and at the end of the segment they asked a bunch of random people what they thought of Mass Effect and they all basically said "Well clearly it's a sex simulator and I won't have anything to do with it."
THAT is why gamers get so ticked off about censorship. Because the ones doing the censoring more often than not don't have the slightest clue what they are talking about, and we have to suffer for it. Most of the time, the only effect it as on them is how many votes their uninformed soapboxing garners them. What's worse is that by in large gamers can't defend themselves from this because whenever we do, we are brushed off by society as immature video game addicts who can't think rationally. As fluffy and happy as the notion that everyone will figure out the true facts eventually may be, historically this isn't how the human race works. Sadly, the more realistic scenario is that the people who shout the loudest and throw the most money around get to decide what the facts are until everything goes straight to hell. Want proof? Just look at medical trials, the persecution of science by religion, politics, the "Separate but Equal" doctrine. In each case, it takes the instance of all hell breaking loose before the masses will question it in even the slightest capacity. I mean, how many ads have you heard talking about some major class action lawsuit over big drugs that were being advertised on every station imaginable in the last ten years. And some of those are major issues, causing death, blindness, or a whole host of other complications. Looking at them now it's easy to wonder, "How in the hell did this drug get approved when this kind of seriously detrimental side effect existed?", and the answer is simple; The drug companies had enough money and a loud enough voice to drown out the dissenters for years. But hey, just sit back and people will figure it out eventually right? Nevermind what casualties may be incurred in the mean time.
You do have the right idea behind actually being engaged in the lives of your children and saying "No, you can't play this game because you aren't mature enough yet." It's simple, and requires minimal effort. But it's so much easier for a politician, or a third-rate lawyer, or a parent who can't be bothered to read the back of a box to throw out the blanket and yell "GAMES ARE BAD!!!!" than it is to be a responsible, mature adult about the issue. So go ahead and just sit on the sidelines waiting for everyone to figure it out on their own. I'll be in their faces trying as hard as I can to keep the ignorance of the masses from destroying one of my favorite hobbies.
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How much crack do I have to smoke to be as optimistic as you are that Comcast won't abuse power? Cause I got a dealer right here and he's giving me a good bulk discount.
Anonymous will NEVER try to abuse this. Nuh-uh. Won't happen.
*facepalm to unconsciousness*
Lightdrive Engine? Sounds better for marketing at least.
No spy is as pervasive or unstoppable as the internet.
It's not as prevalent or widespread, no, but it sure as hell is already a reality. Especially for comic books, a 5 minute search can typically yield complete collections of comics pertaining to whatever character you feel like reading for a while, and then with a handy program called CDisplayEx, you can read them page by page with great ease, even turning the image 90 degrees to get a larger image on your screen.
The tools are there, the materials are there, it's just that the community isn't yet, and neither is the awareness of the piracy.
General rule. If it could be pirated, it can and will be pirated. No exceptions.
That actually sounds quite a bit like freenet. Too bad that freenet is the slowest thing on the internet ATM. But hey, what you lose in bandwidth you gain in anonymity.
The article about Google purging the Pirate Bay from their search servers has been itself purged.
I wonder when I can buy myself one of these. It's only a matter of time before you can buy it in the Sharper Image.
Ok now I am almost positive I'm going to incite some flames with this comment, but I'm actually curious about the opinion here.
If this same idea were to be proposed by an open-source anti-malware solution, would you still be so hesitant about it?
How about if the proprietary companies were able to provide concrete evidence of the anonymity of your collected information?
Again, I'm NOT trying to incite a flame war with this, but it just seems so often that people rally a (mostly deserved) hatred and distrust of any and all companies that are proprietary, while having a (possibly detrimental) implicit trust of open-source solutions.
Besides, this could actually be a good idea. After all, we can't cure the common cold, but we can somewhat effectively stop it in it's tracks because we know how it's transmitted from person and can thus take appropriate measures against it. What's more is that the same goes for most all acquired illnesses. I'm not saying mandate the submission of such data, but having it as an option for users could provide anti-malware researchers with a powerful tool in studying them akin to biologic researchers and strain discs.
CELL PHONES DO NOT COMPETE WITH CONSOLES!!!!!!!!! Just look at the iPhone game section and it's easy to see why. Noone puts any damn effort into these games, because noone takes it seriously as a platform. Sure, you get casual games (Tetris, bejeweled, whatever), but look at how people play those games. 5 Minutes while they are waiting to do something else. I don't really know of anyone who puts any real dedication into playing a cell phone game because there's not really anything to put any dedication into. And besides, if a gamer want's to play a game with dedication, he or she can just go to the console he or she already owns and play a REAL video game. Not the latest touch knockoff of Tetris. People owns cell phones for calling people. Not video games. Stop saying that they are the gaming market of the future, cause all you accomplish is making the gaming market laugh at you.
You ever actually look into what it takes to immigrate to another country? It's not near that simple.
If you can stop waving your freak out stick for a second, you'd see that he's trying to make an analogy to the natural world so as to better illustrate the mechanism behind this technique. Furthermore, seeing as how the natural ant mechanism was the inspiration for this, how exactly is it ridiculous? Or is the issue that you just lack the imagination to take one model and superimpose it's properties onto another setting?
Another major boon for the PSX is that Sony came forward and said that it was fronting publishing costs out of it's own disc presses, instead of needing each developer to find a manufacturer themselves. This dramatically cuts the costs of production to the developer. Additionally, disc pressing was and still is a far faster method of production. Fast enough in fact that you could actually respond to market pressures with some degree of accuracy, as opposed to with cartridges where you frequently saw a 2 to 4 week lead in on any production push, which just about ruins any chance at anticipating the market. To put it simply, Sony made it way easier for developers to get games to market with the Playstation, and that drew alot of AAA talent to Sony early on.
Because everything is woefully behind DirectX, and DirectX is the best supported PC Graphics layer for the majority of PC gamers. Besides, this was just announced to even be this far along. At least let them get it to retail with the most widespread graphics layer on the PC gaming market before demanding that they support everything else.
I'm not really ok with 99% of religions. Most of them are hocus pocus that people still blindly cling to out of some misplaced faith that all life's answers can be derived from them. Of course nevermind that this magical answer divining power was really the result of bedtime stories created to explain what science couldn't at the time. You know, pay that no mind. Only religion I don't have much issue with is Buddhism, and that's for 3 reasons. 1.) Buddhists don't care if you are Buddhist or not. 2.) Buddhists expect you to interpret Buddhism in whatever fashion makes the most sense to you, even if you completely throw out parts of it. 3.) The most important concept to Buddhists is "Don't be a dick." Whereas in other religions it's "Our God is the best and everyone elses sucks and they are gonna burn in whatever version of hell we use to scare ourselves with."
Twatch, the waterproof watch/portable porn service.
Teenagers are also probably smart enough to know that a little bit of copper screening could render it completely useless too.
Commercially available small form GPS tracking systems available to the common person. Oh yea. I mean, there is NO way that this tech could be used by stalkers to follow someone, or my organized crime to track things. Jeeze, sometimes people will accept any idiot idea if could in some random remote possibility help children. Here's a good reason why this should burn in hell. Small child in a warzone slips it onto a military convoy as it passes through the town doing whatever good press PR work that unit is on for the day. Totally freaking awesome.
I know you can answer Jedi on a census in some countries apparently the UK is one of them, but I don't know if it is given all of the recognition of other religions. It could I suppose if the wikipedia numbers are accurate than that would count in many countries. Otherwise if it has such protections than this company has probably just ran afoul of the law and this young Jedi will be getting some cash out of it.
Possibly because it's directly derived from a science fiction movie who's practitioners have telekinetic powers? I'm not saying it's right, but I have just as hard a time taking Scientology seriously too so I guess it comes with the territory. Still though, I don't understand the UK link I guess, but where I grew up (Ohio. Yay... /montypython) hoodies are just comfortable and warm.
The HD in HD Radio refers to the fact that the sound quality is far better than standard radio. Go take your vinyl high horse and shove it cause it has nothing to do with this argument. And for the record, vinyl is terrible from an archival standpoint. The amount of work that you have to put into your records to keep them in top shape is insane compared to a CD, even if the sound quality is better. It's a trade off, not a better or worse scenario.
I'm just waiting to hear that some medical tool company will start producing these for 30 times the price of an egg beater.
Even though I'm almost positive that noone will figure it out before I die, this sounds like the beginnings of Ghost in the Shell style cyberization. Of course, there are alot of issues to be solved as well, such as the copying of one brain to another, as well as consciousness and the like, but still, everything has got to have a first step. Now if only these types of scientists could stop saying "We could do this in blah blah timespan" and just do it already.
Gamers have such a strong reaction to threats of censorship because most of us understand that it's not real. I don't know about you, but I find it infuriating when I hear about some random politician saying "Games are bad. Vote for me. Blah blah blah blah blah!", but has never even played the game. It's like that woman who tried to stir up a bunch of controversy on Fox News with the XBoXXX scandal over Mass Effect shortly after she'd just published her new book by saying that there was full frontal nudity and sex in it, and everyone on the program was eating it up until her counterpoint speaker, Geoff Keighly bluntly asked "Have you even played this game?"
For those who didn't see it, her answer was no. And yet, even when she admitted that she'd never actually had any face time with the game, she kept jumping up and down about content that didn't exist in the game, and at the end of the segment they asked a bunch of random people what they thought of Mass Effect and they all basically said "Well clearly it's a sex simulator and I won't have anything to do with it."
THAT is why gamers get so ticked off about censorship. Because the ones doing the censoring more often than not don't have the slightest clue what they are talking about, and we have to suffer for it. Most of the time, the only effect it as on them is how many votes their uninformed soapboxing garners them. What's worse is that by in large gamers can't defend themselves from this because whenever we do, we are brushed off by society as immature video game addicts who can't think rationally. As fluffy and happy as the notion that everyone will figure out the true facts eventually may be, historically this isn't how the human race works. Sadly, the more realistic scenario is that the people who shout the loudest and throw the most money around get to decide what the facts are until everything goes straight to hell. Want proof? Just look at medical trials, the persecution of science by religion, politics, the "Separate but Equal" doctrine. In each case, it takes the instance of all hell breaking loose before the masses will question it in even the slightest capacity. I mean, how many ads have you heard talking about some major class action lawsuit over big drugs that were being advertised on every station imaginable in the last ten years. And some of those are major issues, causing death, blindness, or a whole host of other complications. Looking at them now it's easy to wonder, "How in the hell did this drug get approved when this kind of seriously detrimental side effect existed?", and the answer is simple; The drug companies had enough money and a loud enough voice to drown out the dissenters for years. But hey, just sit back and people will figure it out eventually right? Nevermind what casualties may be incurred in the mean time.
You do have the right idea behind actually being engaged in the lives of your children and saying "No, you can't play this game because you aren't mature enough yet." It's simple, and requires minimal effort. But it's so much easier for a politician, or a third-rate lawyer, or a parent who can't be bothered to read the back of a box to throw out the blanket and yell "GAMES ARE BAD!!!!" than it is to be a responsible, mature adult about the issue. So go ahead and just sit on the sidelines waiting for everyone to figure it out on their own. I'll be in their faces trying as hard as I can to keep the ignorance of the masses from destroying one of my favorite hobbies.