Nobody can know everything about everyone. The human capacity for information is limited. So we focus on the most salacious details and persecute people for them. Privacy is an important workaround for this bug in human psychology.
If you are confidant that others can not use personal information against you, then there is no need for privacy. For instance, if everyone knew everything about everyone, then everyone would know that someone was using your information against you, and could act against that person.
You don't think that a guarantee of privacy would have made, say, Alan Turing's life much better? If you do things that are not morally wrong, but other people think they are then privacy is very much essential for your quality of life.
If you own the previous consoles, why does every new iteration have to have backward compatability with everything that was ever released for the whole line?
Well that's you. Some of us can appreciate classics. Can you imagine someone saying "It's nice to think you'll play your old music (or movies) when a new format comes out, but it's my experience that it just doesn't happen"?
Classics are timeless. Sure Sonic the Hedgehog or Ocarina of Time are showing their age, but so are Magical Mystery Tour and Gone With the Wind. It doesn't make them experiences not worth having.
Being free from the manipulations of other people who think they know what is best for me is an absolutely indispensable part of a quality life. Be it marketers or moralists, I don't care.
While it may not have saved Terri I'm pretty sure it will save some others.
Save them from what? I'm pretty sure living out the rest of your life unable to move, communicating only through blinks would be worse than the alternative.
I remember playing Doom in the mid-90's on my friend's Gateway 2000 Pentium 100Mhz.
And that was way over powered for Doom. I played Half-life for the first time (all the way through) on a P133. Yeah it sucked, but not as much as not playing Half-Life. Doom was certainly playable with a 386, and a 486 was more than enough. These days I can even play Doom on my Sansa C250 with Rockbox, and my printer has a faster processor than the computer I first played Half-Life on.
I'm not sure I agree. I've also been through periods of depression. When I'm having a good day and do nothing but internet, I end up feeling like shit. When I'm not having a good day, and I force myself out and about, I feel a lot better by the end of it. I'm sure there's some causation going both ways.
It's a goddamned index in a database record, people treat it as if it's some shorthand for your IQ or something around here. For all you know, I signed up for an account once in 1999 then never visited the site again until yesterday.
And if you had enough foresight to register the name "LinusT" or some such, you'd be in for some epic lulz. Few people plan their trolling that far in advance, which is why it seems likely that SteveWoz (152247) is who he says he is.
Those last couple questions were really wasted. Why not ask him what he's been doing for the past 15 years? Does he ever think about doing another strip, or any sort of art again?
You know, he could do one strip a week, any subject he wanted, any format he wanted, post it on the web (editors? who needs them?) and it would be huge. He'd have complete creative control. Would that sound appealing to Watterson? Or would that cut too much into his golf time? We'll never know because this journalist squandered this opportunity.
I have a DS. There are a few games that make great use of the touch screen. Touch the Dead is excellent. The Missile Command port on the Atari classics cart is also excellent. But the real mainstays of gaming are not really point and click friendly. I can't imagine trying to play New Super Mario Brothers or Ketsui Death Label with the touch screen.
Cave is a company that develops (mostly) shmups. They typify the "bullet hell" style of shmup. You might know them for Dodonpachi? Recently, the only Cave games that have gotten home ports have been on the Xbox 360. These include DeathSmiles, Mushihime-sama Futari, Espgaluda II.
If you have MAME, give Dodonpachi a try. You'll want a gamepad with a good dpad (a USB saturn pad is great), or an arcade stick. Oh, and lots and lots of patience and practice.
This is true. I carry my DS everywhere I go, but seldom find the time to spend more than 10min a day on it. When I get home, there's a dozen full sized consoles hooked up to a big TV in front of the couch.
That was true 5 years ago, but lots has happened. Look at who is getting all the US localization of Cave shmups. The Xbox 360. Gaming doesn't get much more serious than a Cave shmup.
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Nobody can know everything about everyone. The human capacity for information is limited. So we focus on the most salacious details and persecute people for them. Privacy is an important workaround for this bug in human psychology.
If you are confidant that others can not use personal information against you, then there is no need for privacy. For instance, if everyone knew everything about everyone, then everyone would know that someone was using your information against you, and could act against that person.
You don't think that a guarantee of privacy would have made, say, Alan Turing's life much better? If you do things that are not morally wrong, but other people think they are then privacy is very much essential for your quality of life.
If you own the previous consoles, why does every new iteration have to have backward compatability with everything that was ever released for the whole line?
Because hardware doesn't last forever.
Well that's you. Some of us can appreciate classics. Can you imagine someone saying "It's nice to think you'll play your old music (or movies) when a new format comes out, but it's my experience that it just doesn't happen"?
Classics are timeless. Sure Sonic the Hedgehog or Ocarina of Time are showing their age, but so are Magical Mystery Tour and Gone With the Wind. It doesn't make them experiences not worth having.
Being free from the manipulations of other people who think they know what is best for me is an absolutely indispensable part of a quality life. Be it marketers or moralists, I don't care.
I'm a firm believer that one should be able to put a "Please kill me nicely" card in their wallet/will,
Or one of these. Cause, hey why not? You're dead.
While it may not have saved Terri I'm pretty sure it will save some others.
Save them from what? I'm pretty sure living out the rest of your life unable to move, communicating only through blinks would be worse than the alternative.
Is not privacy essential to a high quality of life?
I remember playing Doom in the mid-90's on my friend's Gateway 2000 Pentium 100Mhz.
And that was way over powered for Doom. I played Half-life for the first time (all the way through) on a P133. Yeah it sucked, but not as much as not playing Half-Life. Doom was certainly playable with a 386, and a 486 was more than enough. These days I can even play Doom on my Sansa C250 with Rockbox, and my printer has a faster processor than the computer I first played Half-Life on.
I'm not sure I agree. I've also been through periods of depression. When I'm having a good day and do nothing but internet, I end up feeling like shit. When I'm not having a good day, and I force myself out and about, I feel a lot better by the end of it. I'm sure there's some causation going both ways.
Acquaint yourself with the wonders of 'ssh -D'.
It's a goddamned index in a database record, people treat it as if it's some shorthand for your IQ or something around here. For all you know, I signed up for an account once in 1999 then never visited the site again until yesterday.
And if you had enough foresight to register the name "LinusT" or some such, you'd be in for some epic lulz. Few people plan their trolling that far in advance, which is why it seems likely that SteveWoz (152247) is who he says he is.
Reading Spaceman Spiff turned Nelson's Ledges into a hasty retreat through a hostile alien environment.
I'm sure the LSD didn't hurt either. Love the Ledges.
Calvin's dad looks like Watterson's dad, which would explain the resemblance. Watterson himself looks much more like Uncle Max.
Those last couple questions were really wasted. Why not ask him what he's been doing for the past 15 years? Does he ever think about doing another strip, or any sort of art again?
You know, he could do one strip a week, any subject he wanted, any format he wanted, post it on the web (editors? who needs them?) and it would be huge. He'd have complete creative control. Would that sound appealing to Watterson? Or would that cut too much into his golf time? We'll never know because this journalist squandered this opportunity.
I have a DS. There are a few games that make great use of the touch screen. Touch the Dead is excellent. The Missile Command port on the Atari classics cart is also excellent. But the real mainstays of gaming are not really point and click friendly. I can't imagine trying to play New Super Mario Brothers or Ketsui Death Label with the touch screen.
Cave is a company that develops (mostly) shmups. They typify the "bullet hell" style of shmup. You might know them for Dodonpachi? Recently, the only Cave games that have gotten home ports have been on the Xbox 360. These include DeathSmiles, Mushihime-sama Futari, Espgaluda II.
If you have MAME, give Dodonpachi a try. You'll want a gamepad with a good dpad (a USB saturn pad is great), or an arcade stick. Oh, and lots and lots of patience and practice.
No d-pad. Instant gaming fail.
This is true. I carry my DS everywhere I go, but seldom find the time to spend more than 10min a day on it. When I get home, there's a dozen full sized consoles hooked up to a big TV in front of the couch.
That was true 5 years ago, but lots has happened. Look at who is getting all the US localization of Cave shmups. The Xbox 360. Gaming doesn't get much more serious than a Cave shmup.
Sports nerds are generally called "jocks".
The planet the other person of course refers to, is the planet run by psychopaths and narcissists
You mean, Earth?
Learning, teaching, and compassion are all things that have been driven by the survival instinct. Not the other way around.
Maybe we could put solar panels on our windmills so we could generate green energy while generating green energy.
Who shot who in the what now?