Some people enjoy the thrill, and playing the games can, in fact, be enjoyable until you realize that there's often a "best move" that you should always take at any given time. Once it becomes rote memorization of which move to make, it's less fun.
People do different things for fun. I like to go to movies. I pay $6 for 90 minutes of pretty mindless entertainment. When I come out, I'm rarely a better person for having seen the movie. In a week, I'll have probably forgotten a lot of the movie. In 2 years, I may not remember much more than the basic plot. In 10 years, I may have trouble remembering that.
I used to like amusement parks. God, what a rip off! You pay something like $50, and while you may spend all day there, during the busy season, you may get to ride 10 rides if you're lucky. And the rides are short--3 minutes or so each. You probably also eat while you're there, and the food is expensive (and bad for you.)
I rarely gamble, and when I do, I never spend more than $100. I could probably do better things with that money, but you could say that about most of the things that most of people spend their money on. I never expect to win, though I recognize that there's a chance that I could. And if I ever end up with more than twice what I started with, I walk away.
On the one hand, I think this could be ripe for abuse. However you could implement controls to address most of the problems. A reputation system could punish users who falsely report crimes. Government review of all flagged crimes (these are cameras, so the feed should be still be available) would ensure that people who are falsely flagged are not unduly persecuted. Not allowing users to choose which cameras to view would mitigate the issue of stalking.
Really, this is little more than a broad-scale crime tips system like we have in the states. You can be rewarded for information about crimes, if they lead to a conviction. In fact, if implemented well, this system is better because the evidence of the alleged crime can be reviewed without imposition on the subject.
It probably uses a binary driver for the wireless, if not for the switching. I think that was the grandparent's point.
What the grandparent fails to realize is that Netgear is marketing the device as open-source, when it contains significant closed-source components. If you say something is open-source, that's an all-or-nothing. What Netgear should have said was that their router "uses open-source software."
Your statement is in fact deceptive and skewed. You are buying hardware with a lot of proprietary technology in it. I'm sure there are at least a hundred different proprietary components in the device. The device is not open source, it does however, run some open source software. It does not run OSS exclusively.
Netgear's site claims:
Open-source Wireless-N router with Gigabit wired ports for Linux developers and open-source enthusiasts.
Now we can quibble over the definition of an Open-source router, but I'd say that this device is open source in the same way that Hershey bars are nutritious.
Honestly, I'm not sure that the 'troll' label applies, but something about the post didn't sit right with me.
Apparently, he used good judgment in the end (he was "a few clicks away" from being phished, he changed his passwords afterward to be safe, and he doesn't use online banking anymore because he is worried about it.)
The grandparent was trying to make a point, but failed. Similar behavior exists throughout the FreeBSD userland--you can send SIGINFO with ctrl-t to many userland processes to get information on what they're doing. The point is that FreeBSD's kernel and userland were designed as a system, and little touches like this show that off.
Wow, you got modded Troll and Timothy got modded Offtopic for describing a legitimate concern. Man, this place has gone downhill.
The correct rebuttal to your statement is that you don't mess with things on production machines. You don't uninstall that third package. If you want to make changes like that, you do it on your test machine first. Timothy was concerned with packages dropping dependencies, but that shouldn't happen within -stable.
I haven't noticed many stability differences between FreeBSD and Linux. What I have noticed is ABI stability--which is much better on FreeBSD.
5 years ago, I probably would have been really gung-ho about Debian FreeBSD. Back then, managing FreeBSD ports was difficult, and there wasn't a binary update mechanism for kernel or world. Now we have freebsd-update (which rocks), portsnap (for syncing your ports tree) and the port management tools are more fleshed out and stable. You still have to compile for ports updates, which takes time, so that's probably the main place where Debian can improve things at this point.
Overall, I like the FreeBSD system more than most Linux distributions I've tried. PF is great at what it does, though the modularity and extensions to Netfilter can be pretty useful. In ad-hoc testing of stock FreeBSD and Linux systems, we tend to get more throughput from FreeBSD bridging firewalls, and I personally find them easier to manage than most Linux distributions.
My "best of both worlds" would be the performance of FreeBSD, the drivers of Linux, and a flexible firewall. Unfortunately, I suspect that you only get one of these with Debian's FreeBSD offering.
First of all, they moved the timeslot around. You had to be seeking out Firefly in order to watch it. You'll never attract new viewers this way.
Second, the show was expensive. It's not enough for a show to just make money--it has to make more money than another show would in the same timeslot. Firefly started airing when reality TV was really starting to get popular, and reality TV was cheap to produce compared to traditional fiction series. The numbers just didn't work for Firefly.
Third, the types of people who were interested in Firefly were also early adopters of DVRs and other technology that don't get counted when you start looking at ratings.
Firefly was immensely popular in the geek and Whedon crowds. It was not that popular with everyone else. The ratings were poor, it wasn't bringing in enough profit, and so it got canceled. That Fox is particularly bad at only giving new shows a few episodes to prove themselves is really only part of the equation.
I think I'd notice someone running up to my monitor in order to put a photo in front of it. If the software activates within a couple of seconds of not detecting a face, that's what they'd have to do.
If you don't use flat view, or if you like to have subjects collapsed, it's much faster to use the (sluggish) Javascript view than to constantly reload the page with a different comment open.
I don't understand. Did we follow different links? You have to pay attention to the "more/fewer is better" line--for a lot of those charts, larger bar graphs meant worse performance.
For multiplayer games, time can be a dealbreaker. When it came out, Little Big Planet was quite successful. Lots of people bought and played it. All of my friends did, that's for sure.
Now that it's cheaper, I was considering getting it. However, since my friends have all finished with it, a large part of the enjoyment will be gone. Even if I get someone to help me through the puzzles that require a second player, they'll probably just be directing me through them.
Different pricing in different regions. In some countries, they can get away with charging a lot more, so they do. If imports weren't prevented from playing through the use of region-coding, people in those countries could just import a cheaper version of the same DVD.
Why do you think they're wrong? In a comment above you, someone pointed out that now you're vulnerable to any Chrome vulnerabilities as well as any IE vulnerabilities. worse, you're also exposing yourself to any vulnerabilities in the plugin architecture that you might not be vulnerable to if you were just running IE.
That's not to say that the Chrome plugin is a bad idea--but many times when you add complexity to a system, you reduce security.
The songs and videos sold are the "other products" from the grandparent post which Apple hopes to sell people.
Are you confusing iTunes with the iTunes Music Store? The former is software that lets you manage media collections, as well as purchase media from the latter.
It does protect your data, just not in every possible scenario.
But it's really, really bad to start thinking about it as protection for your data.
Anyway, RAID started out as a way to get higher performance I/O. Doing this reduced reliability, so measures were taken to restore some of that reliability. Using RAID5 for reliability is like going to Afghanistan, but only staying in the good parts.
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Some people enjoy the thrill, and playing the games can, in fact, be enjoyable until you realize that there's often a "best move" that you should always take at any given time. Once it becomes rote memorization of which move to make, it's less fun.
People do different things for fun. I like to go to movies. I pay $6 for 90 minutes of pretty mindless entertainment. When I come out, I'm rarely a better person for having seen the movie. In a week, I'll have probably forgotten a lot of the movie. In 2 years, I may not remember much more than the basic plot. In 10 years, I may have trouble remembering that.
I used to like amusement parks. God, what a rip off! You pay something like $50, and while you may spend all day there, during the busy season, you may get to ride 10 rides if you're lucky. And the rides are short--3 minutes or so each. You probably also eat while you're there, and the food is expensive (and bad for you.)
I rarely gamble, and when I do, I never spend more than $100. I could probably do better things with that money, but you could say that about most of the things that most of people spend their money on. I never expect to win, though I recognize that there's a chance that I could. And if I ever end up with more than twice what I started with, I walk away.
http://www.blueservo.net/ lets you watch the Texas border for illegal activity. I don't think you can win prizes, though.
I'm of two minds.
On the one hand, I think this could be ripe for abuse. However you could implement controls to address most of the problems. A reputation system could punish users who falsely report crimes. Government review of all flagged crimes (these are cameras, so the feed should be still be available) would ensure that people who are falsely flagged are not unduly persecuted. Not allowing users to choose which cameras to view would mitigate the issue of stalking.
Really, this is little more than a broad-scale crime tips system like we have in the states. You can be rewarded for information about crimes, if they lead to a conviction. In fact, if implemented well, this system is better because the evidence of the alleged crime can be reviewed without imposition on the subject.
It probably uses a binary driver for the wireless, if not for the switching. I think that was the grandparent's point.
What the grandparent fails to realize is that Netgear is marketing the device as open-source, when it contains significant closed-source components. If you say something is open-source, that's an all-or-nothing. What Netgear should have said was that their router "uses open-source software."
Your statement is in fact deceptive and skewed. You are buying hardware with a lot of proprietary technology in it. I'm sure there are at least a hundred different proprietary components in the device. The device is not open source, it does however, run some open source software. It does not run OSS exclusively.
Netgear's site claims:
Open-source Wireless-N router with Gigabit wired ports for Linux developers and open-source enthusiasts.
Now we can quibble over the definition of an Open-source router, but I'd say that this device is open source in the same way that Hershey bars are nutritious.
"Look at the funny Adam Sandler movie!"
Honestly, I'm not sure that the 'troll' label applies, but something about the post didn't sit right with me.
Apparently, he used good judgment in the end (he was "a few clicks away" from being phished, he changed his passwords afterward to be safe, and he doesn't use online banking anymore because he is worried about it.)
The grandparent was trying to make a point, but failed. Similar behavior exists throughout the FreeBSD userland--you can send SIGINFO with ctrl-t to many userland processes to get information on what they're doing. The point is that FreeBSD's kernel and userland were designed as a system, and little touches like this show that off.
Wow, you got modded Troll and Timothy got modded Offtopic for describing a legitimate concern. Man, this place has gone downhill.
The correct rebuttal to your statement is that you don't mess with things on production machines. You don't uninstall that third package. If you want to make changes like that, you do it on your test machine first. Timothy was concerned with packages dropping dependencies, but that shouldn't happen within -stable.
I haven't noticed many stability differences between FreeBSD and Linux. What I have noticed is ABI stability--which is much better on FreeBSD.
5 years ago, I probably would have been really gung-ho about Debian FreeBSD. Back then, managing FreeBSD ports was difficult, and there wasn't a binary update mechanism for kernel or world. Now we have freebsd-update (which rocks), portsnap (for syncing your ports tree) and the port management tools are more fleshed out and stable. You still have to compile for ports updates, which takes time, so that's probably the main place where Debian can improve things at this point.
Overall, I like the FreeBSD system more than most Linux distributions I've tried. PF is great at what it does, though the modularity and extensions to Netfilter can be pretty useful. In ad-hoc testing of stock FreeBSD and Linux systems, we tend to get more throughput from FreeBSD bridging firewalls, and I personally find them easier to manage than most Linux distributions.
My "best of both worlds" would be the performance of FreeBSD, the drivers of Linux, and a flexible firewall. Unfortunately, I suspect that you only get one of these with Debian's FreeBSD offering.
I don't know--the same one where people clamor for an eight year old OS?
It's a little more complicated.
First of all, they moved the timeslot around. You had to be seeking out Firefly in order to watch it. You'll never attract new viewers this way.
Second, the show was expensive. It's not enough for a show to just make money--it has to make more money than another show would in the same timeslot. Firefly started airing when reality TV was really starting to get popular, and reality TV was cheap to produce compared to traditional fiction series. The numbers just didn't work for Firefly.
Third, the types of people who were interested in Firefly were also early adopters of DVRs and other technology that don't get counted when you start looking at ratings.
Firefly was immensely popular in the geek and Whedon crowds. It was not that popular with everyone else. The ratings were poor, it wasn't bringing in enough profit, and so it got canceled. That Fox is particularly bad at only giving new shows a few episodes to prove themselves is really only part of the equation.
I challenge you to look up the definitions of words.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/amoral
Adjective
amoral (comparative more amoral, superlative most amoral)
Positive
amoral
Comparative
more amoral
Superlative
most amoral
1. (of acts) being neither moral nor immoral
2. (of people) not believing in or caring for morality and immorality
I think I'd notice someone running up to my monitor in order to put a photo in front of it. If the software activates within a couple of seconds of not detecting a face, that's what they'd have to do.
If you don't use flat view, or if you like to have subjects collapsed, it's much faster to use the (sluggish) Javascript view than to constantly reload the page with a different comment open.
I don't understand. Did we follow different links? You have to pay attention to the "more/fewer is better" line--for a lot of those charts, larger bar graphs meant worse performance.
You can edit your replies, and people don't complain that you're asking them how to do your job.
Well done, sir. Not specifically on the content, but on knowing the correct spelling of prerogative.
When most people use the word, they forget that it has two 'r's. Or they never knew.
For multiplayer games, time can be a dealbreaker. When it came out, Little Big Planet was quite successful. Lots of people bought and played it. All of my friends did, that's for sure.
Now that it's cheaper, I was considering getting it. However, since my friends have all finished with it, a large part of the enjoyment will be gone. Even if I get someone to help me through the puzzles that require a second player, they'll probably just be directing me through them.
Different pricing in different regions. In some countries, they can get away with charging a lot more, so they do. If imports weren't prevented from playing through the use of region-coding, people in those countries could just import a cheaper version of the same DVD.
Maybe so.
Why do you think they're wrong? In a comment above you, someone pointed out that now you're vulnerable to any Chrome vulnerabilities as well as any IE vulnerabilities. worse, you're also exposing yourself to any vulnerabilities in the plugin architecture that you might not be vulnerable to if you were just running IE.
That's not to say that the Chrome plugin is a bad idea--but many times when you add complexity to a system, you reduce security.
I didn't get any software bundled with my iPhone.
The songs and videos sold are the "other products" from the grandparent post which Apple hopes to sell people.
Are you confusing iTunes with the iTunes Music Store? The former is software that lets you manage media collections, as well as purchase media from the latter.
It does protect your data, just not in every possible scenario.
But it's really, really bad to start thinking about it as protection for your data.
Anyway, RAID started out as a way to get higher performance I/O. Doing this reduced reliability, so measures were taken to restore some of that reliability. Using RAID5 for reliability is like going to Afghanistan, but only staying in the good parts.