Its not just limited to war games. The GTA series lets you kill cops and that really does happen in RL. As mentioned in another post, you could be a terrorist in Counter Strike. There are 2 sides to everything and some people just don't want you to see any side but theirs. Its how the US has slowly becoming a Nanny state because someone didn't like something they saw/heard/ect and felt that if they didn't like it, no one should see/hear/ect it.
Thats because you were the child, not the parent. You mis-read that. The parents are wanting to profit (not necessarily financially) so are using their children as a gambling chip. As a child you wanted to profit but couldn't use yourself as your own gamboling chip, and that ended up leaving you in a losing situation.
My guess, it's the parents. The parents want the children to be sick and press/force it upon the children to be sick. Its a common incident in lawsuits.
This is Canada. We don't have the lawsuit lottery that the USA has.
I know, but not every lawsuit is about money. Sometimes its about pressing ones views/pseudo science on others.
Its much worse than that. A parent can lead the child on in a way that the child *believes* its true. Even at quite old ages (~10) this is true and makes children's testimony very unreliable. This has come out after some child abuse cases. But heres the real rub. Leading statements like "did he do this to you", and "did he touch you there", has strong effects on our imagination. At all ages we can has some sort of experience from situations that we imagine. At a young age we often can't distinguish between real and imaged situations. They child not only believes it happened, but is traumatized in the same way as if it really happened.
I don't have the references handy and i can't be bothered looking them up. But a few high profile cases have turned out to be total BS because one partner assumed, led the child on, and got the courts rolling on it. However there would be physical trauma related to the accusations. There was none. It never happened.
You've pretty much managed to sum up want I wanted to say without me making 3-5 different Parent/Child talk examples. I'm also aware about it being involved in child abuse cases (thus my comment of lawsuits), I was just not wanting to make such a statement of the exact nature of the crime because its a bit drastic to equal "WiFi is making our kids sick" to child molesting. Though for those curious about the most famous case of children being lead to falsely accuse adults of sexually abusing them, then it'll be best to read about the Little Rascals Day Care scandal.
As also for your comment about the child believing it to be true, thats a form of hypochondria and they can and will show physical symptoms to help with the problem. As for people at a young age having ahard time distinguishing between real and imaged situations, it can and does happen in adults. Enough stress and reinforcement of the ideas and they begin to blur and that typically leads to false positives in identifying who did what crime, ect...
My guess, it's the parents. The parents want the children to be sick and press/force it upon the children to be sick. Its a common incident in lawsuits.
Parent: "Its ok, just tell me that your getting sick from the stuff at school. You don't need to hide it, just tell me."
Child: "But I'm fine, nothings wrong."
Parent: "Please, you shouldn't bottle these things up. Just tell me that its making you sick and I'll make it stop. Now please, don't hide these things from me."
Child: "But there really isn't anything wrong."
Parent: "Now we've talked about this, you don't need to keep secrets from me. Just tell me its making you sick because I know it is. So just be honest and go ahead and tell me its making you sick and then we can go have ice cream. And then we can talk to everyone about this because they will like to hear what you have to say."
Child after hearing they will get a reward and lots of positive attention for agreeing to claim it makes them sick: "Yes mommy, it makes me feel really ill and sick. Can we have that ice cream now?"
Keep instilling that its making them sick after a while mind over matter will happen and you'll have a child with a minor form of hypochondria that will claim its the school since they are getting rewards for it and lots of positive attention, the two things most children want it abundance.
Why anyone would pay micro-payments towards a private server is beyond me. If you have ever wasted precious minutes of your life attempting to play on one you will soon see why it's just worth it to fork over 10-15 bucks a month for the real deal.
People pay money because of what you can parts of the games whole you can alter. Remove level caps, allow learning more then 2 core skill sets and then the real "fun" mode when you die, you can stay dead. Like Diablo 2 online's Hardcore mode.
Where there is excessive control, there's plenty of place for corruption/etc.
So a complete lack of control would lead to few places for corruption? Your argument makes absolutely no sense.
I think he meant excessive control by one person (Jobs). When there is too much control by one person your more likely to see corruption because your stuck with the whims that one person where as if there are many people in control they are more likely to debate amongst themselves and see more of the positive/negatives of suggestions and ideas. So if the one person who controls too much says "no" to your idea that your entire department thinks is amazing then they are more likely to be more corrupt, and since they are doing something they shouldn't be doing why not make some extra cash on the side since they feel its not going to be noticed anyways.
Cowon (english site makes music players and mini-tablets that are made in South Korea. They are also some of the best on the market, but tend to be harder to find/buy due to their lack of marketing and they are a Korean company, with very little to no North American market visibility.
I always thought Minority Report was a possibility. It's easy to predict human behaviour when backed up against a wall...
Police: You're going to resist arrest, so we're arresting you for that.
Person: I'm not going to resist arrest, you can't arrest me for that.
Police: You are resisting arrest right now.
Person: No, I'm - oh wait...so either way I'm going to be arrested?
Police: Yes
Person: No way copper...*runs*
Police: He's resisting arrest! Let's go!
Congress: See, the system is perfect. The reports never lie...
Reminds me of the concept from the 70's and needing to watch out for being arrested for a "Sayso". ie "Why am I being arrested?" "Because I say so."
Yes, Canonical could have done a better disclosure job. Never the less, once you know one of the several ways of turning it off, I don't believe its a problem. Editing the crontab is probably one of the easiest things to do on a unix-like system.
Turning it off? Its not installed by default. I just made sure it my Ubuntu 10.04 was updated and then checked up the canonical-census was installed. Its not, in fact I have to go out of my way to 1) know it exists and then 2) install it on my own through the Synaptic Package Manager (I couldn't find it with a quick look in the Ubuntu Software Center). Most basic users won't install it since they tend to avoid the package manager, and even when you do find it in the package manager it has this as it's description:
send "I am alive" ping to Canonical
This package installs a daily cron job for surveying how many original OEM
installs are running in the world. Note that this does not send any
user specific data; it only transmits the operating system version
(/var/lib/ubuntu_dist_channel), the machine product name, and a counter how
many pings were sent.
Maybe in the future if it becomes pre-installed we might have an issue, but until then, its opt-in only.
I'm sure it's somehow different, but at my college, we have a public wifi all over campus and as you walk around, your connection will get dropped and picked up by several different routers, but you continue to be connected. If you go to a totally dead area, yes it will drop and you'll have to reconnect, but not finding it for a short bit doesn't seem to be a problem. Of course this is a private university paying for large wireless routers that cover larger areas, concentrated in a much smaller area than Manhattan.
Your college will also most likely have more access points in a closer range and have a constant power supply being plugged into a socket. These cabs won't have this option and will cause it to suffer.
On paper you could, but a city has a lot of things that would kill/degrade the connections from street lamps degrading the signal to buildings, back streets behind/between the buildings and the other cars themselves. This alone could likely cause the cars to drop from the wireless mesh, not to mention its signal would cause it to crawl. People would want to do things like tether their smartphones to it to save money (with VoIP and video chat), add laptops/desktops in houses and you have a LOT of traffic moving through quite possibly a poor mesh signal. Cellphone towers have a lot larger of an access point that has a lot more power running through it to fight these problems, a cab can't/won't.
at least it's free wifi for people inside the car. But yea, it's a bit dishonest to call this free public wifi. I'm not sure if slashdot interpreted the article incorrectly or if the company is just really inept and actually thinks thousands of moving wifi APs will create a sustainable public wifi network.
The article states "It would provide Wi-Fi to people in the cars, as well as those within about 400 feet of the car." Now with it stating that it will provide WiFi to those within 400 feet of the car, it brings to mind the idea of a free public WiFi that could all together cover the entire city. It still is a little dishonest but who is wrong here depends on who felt that mentioning it would transmit a signal 400 feet of the car, it could be either the company or the article writer adding more information here then they should have.
Unless they plan on parking the cars a lot, I don't see how this can be useful. Once the car goes down the block it will be out of range and the connection will drop. Won't matter if another one is behind it since it won't be the same connection so no auto-reconnect either.
Your entire post needs a citation about how Mac's are somehow magically better then any other laptop made, because I can smell the kool-aid reeking off you. Oh, to be fair though, here's my citation.
In this corner: Spend a weekend recompiling my kernel two dozen times to get some piece of hardware to work the way it's supposed to.
AKA my friends Mac. Damn that was a pain in the a$$ to get that smartphone to backup properly.
In this corner: Plug it in and it does what the hell I need it to do, no kernel recompiles required, thus allowing me to spend the rest of my time doing other things I enjoy.
Sounds like my Ubuntu box. Found drivers for every piece of hardware for me, didn't even need to go to the makers website for drivers.
If you think I'm trolling, no less an authority than JWZagrees.
Ummmm.... the first site hasn't been updated in 5 years, the other was written in 2003... thats trolling if your cherry picking through very old, non-factual websites for your "facts".
we get it... you have never used a mac and have never looked up any statistics comparing mac repairs to windows repairs. you dont have to rub it in. just because you dont know what your talking about doesnt make us bad people here.
Most MacBooks will last a long time; 6 years would be about average, but 7 years or more is not uncommon. That's better than twice as long as any other laptop manufacturer.
Citation needed because I'm calling bullshit right now.
So consider the useful life of the machine before you throw money away on garbage. Because, no matter what, you get what you pay for. I don't even have to know what the machine is to tell you a $1500 machine is gonna be a lot better than a $350 machine. They aren't made of the same stuff, nor designed the same way. Believe it or not, there's a damn good reason for the higher price tag: quality and expense of materials, engineering and design.
And you want to compare a near top of the line MBP to a bottom of the barrel Windows netbook... seriously? Here's a radical idea, maybe you could *shock* try a real, honest comparison with specs that match... or just stay there and keep lying to yourself, your call.
It's not me I'm worried about. It's my kid, my dog, my drunk roommate etc.
Thats how we almost broke my brothers Mac, my drunk roommate tripped on the cord and since it had been pulled behind the Mac it yanked it a good 3 feet and made the MacBook spin a 180. Don't bother hoping that it will always let go because we almost found out the hard way that the cable is touching the MacBook it will "pull" on the frame before the magnet will let go.
So you want a frontpage story of a smartphone almost a year old... I don't see any iPhone 3GS stories...
As for the Droid, it had a huge marketing campaign, seriously, how did you miss it? It had frontpage news on Slashdot. It was a major thing when it came out. Not knowing what the Droid is shows you aren't paying attention to anythng but Apple. Not knowing things like the Desire, Dream and other models, sure, they didn't have agressive marketing. But the Droid did and it was really hard to miss. As for why aren't we talking more about it? Because it's not a huge screwed up mess that iPhone has managed to drag itself into.
As for your other post about news count, thats a poor way to examine anything. RIM is well known as the biggest seller of smartphones, but they don't have aggressive marketing like Apple declaring that they "Just work" when in reality, they don't always work with the newer issue of the antenna that should have been noticed long before it was released. Its like the saying goes "When I do something right, no one notices. When I do something wrong, everyone notices." Blackberry/RIM isn't screwing up so what is there to post? "RIM has another smartphone that works..." Doesn't quite get your attention does it? Now "Apple, who claims they always work, has a major screw up." That gets attention. Welcome to news, its about sensationalism at its finest, looking for the next Clinton/Monica Lewinsky, not Mother Teresa, its why your newspaper will have on it's cover page about a murder three cities away from you, but not about the huge fundraiser 3 blocks from you. Or a better example, there are more books written about Jack the Ripper then George Washington because not as many care about good, they want the horror and screw ups.
Problem is for all of Jobs complaining about Adobe (and more accurately Flash), Jobs seems to love Flash. While its not on the iPhone, it is installed by default on every Mac and is the only major OS that does that. Windows, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, these need you to go get Flash after you've installed the OS. OSX has it out of the box showing that Jobs does indeed feel a big love for Flash and feels it really is something that helps make a system feel "more complete" and ready for the mass market.
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Its not just limited to war games. The GTA series lets you kill cops and that really does happen in RL. As mentioned in another post, you could be a terrorist in Counter Strike. There are 2 sides to everything and some people just don't want you to see any side but theirs. Its how the US has slowly becoming a Nanny state because someone didn't like something they saw/heard/ect and felt that if they didn't like it, no one should see/hear/ect it.
Thats because you were the child, not the parent. You mis-read that. The parents are wanting to profit (not necessarily financially) so are using their children as a gambling chip. As a child you wanted to profit but couldn't use yourself as your own gamboling chip, and that ended up leaving you in a losing situation.
My guess, it's the parents. The parents want the children to be sick and press/force it upon the children to be sick. Its a common incident in lawsuits.
This is Canada. We don't have the lawsuit lottery that the USA has.
I know, but not every lawsuit is about money. Sometimes its about pressing ones views/pseudo science on others.
Its much worse than that. A parent can lead the child on in a way that the child *believes* its true. Even at quite old ages (~10) this is true and makes children's testimony very unreliable. This has come out after some child abuse cases. But heres the real rub. Leading statements like "did he do this to you", and "did he touch you there", has strong effects on our imagination. At all ages we can has some sort of experience from situations that we imagine. At a young age we often can't distinguish between real and imaged situations. They child not only believes it happened, but is traumatized in the same way as if it really happened. I don't have the references handy and i can't be bothered looking them up. But a few high profile cases have turned out to be total BS because one partner assumed, led the child on, and got the courts rolling on it. However there would be physical trauma related to the accusations. There was none. It never happened.
You've pretty much managed to sum up want I wanted to say without me making 3-5 different Parent/Child talk examples. I'm also aware about it being involved in child abuse cases (thus my comment of lawsuits), I was just not wanting to make such a statement of the exact nature of the crime because its a bit drastic to equal "WiFi is making our kids sick" to child molesting. Though for those curious about the most famous case of children being lead to falsely accuse adults of sexually abusing them, then it'll be best to read about the Little Rascals Day Care scandal.
As also for your comment about the child believing it to be true, thats a form of hypochondria and they can and will show physical symptoms to help with the problem. As for people at a young age having ahard time distinguishing between real and imaged situations, it can and does happen in adults. Enough stress and reinforcement of the ideas and they begin to blur and that typically leads to false positives in identifying who did what crime, ect...
My guess, it's the parents. The parents want the children to be sick and press/force it upon the children to be sick. Its a common incident in lawsuits.
Parent: "Its ok, just tell me that your getting sick from the stuff at school. You don't need to hide it, just tell me."
Child: "But I'm fine, nothings wrong."
Parent: "Please, you shouldn't bottle these things up. Just tell me that its making you sick and I'll make it stop. Now please, don't hide these things from me."
Child: "But there really isn't anything wrong."
Parent: "Now we've talked about this, you don't need to keep secrets from me. Just tell me its making you sick because I know it is. So just be honest and go ahead and tell me its making you sick and then we can go have ice cream. And then we can talk to everyone about this because they will like to hear what you have to say."
Child after hearing they will get a reward and lots of positive attention for agreeing to claim it makes them sick: "Yes mommy, it makes me feel really ill and sick. Can we have that ice cream now?"
Keep instilling that its making them sick after a while mind over matter will happen and you'll have a child with a minor form of hypochondria that will claim its the school since they are getting rewards for it and lots of positive attention, the two things most children want it abundance.
Why anyone would pay micro-payments towards a private server is beyond me. If you have ever wasted precious minutes of your life attempting to play on one you will soon see why it's just worth it to fork over 10-15 bucks a month for the real deal.
People pay money because of what you can parts of the games whole you can alter. Remove level caps, allow learning more then 2 core skill sets and then the real "fun" mode when you die, you can stay dead. Like Diablo 2 online's Hardcore mode.
Where there is excessive control, there's plenty of place for corruption/etc.
So a complete lack of control would lead to few places for corruption? Your argument makes absolutely no sense.
I think he meant excessive control by one person (Jobs). When there is too much control by one person your more likely to see corruption because your stuck with the whims that one person where as if there are many people in control they are more likely to debate amongst themselves and see more of the positive/negatives of suggestions and ideas. So if the one person who controls too much says "no" to your idea that your entire department thinks is amazing then they are more likely to be more corrupt, and since they are doing something they shouldn't be doing why not make some extra cash on the side since they feel its not going to be noticed anyways.
Cowon (english site makes music players and mini-tablets that are made in South Korea. They are also some of the best on the market, but tend to be harder to find/buy due to their lack of marketing and they are a Korean company, with very little to no North American market visibility.
It's like the Minority Report...
I always thought Minority Report was a possibility. It's easy to predict human behaviour when backed up against a wall...
Police: You're going to resist arrest, so we're arresting you for that. Person: I'm not going to resist arrest, you can't arrest me for that. Police: You are resisting arrest right now. Person: No, I'm - oh wait...so either way I'm going to be arrested? Police: Yes Person: No way copper...*runs* Police: He's resisting arrest! Let's go!
Congress: See, the system is perfect. The reports never lie...
Reminds me of the concept from the 70's and needing to watch out for being arrested for a "Sayso". ie "Why am I being arrested?" "Because I say so."
Yes, Canonical could have done a better disclosure job. Never the less, once you know one of the several ways of turning it off, I don't believe its a problem. Editing the crontab is probably one of the easiest things to do on a unix-like system.
Turning it off? Its not installed by default. I just made sure it my Ubuntu 10.04 was updated and then checked up the canonical-census was installed. Its not, in fact I have to go out of my way to 1) know it exists and then 2) install it on my own through the Synaptic Package Manager (I couldn't find it with a quick look in the Ubuntu Software Center). Most basic users won't install it since they tend to avoid the package manager, and even when you do find it in the package manager it has this as it's description:
send "I am alive" ping to Canonical
This package installs a daily cron job for surveying how many original OEM installs are running in the world. Note that this does not send any user specific data; it only transmits the operating system version (/var/lib/ubuntu_dist_channel), the machine product name, and a counter how many pings were sent.
Maybe in the future if it becomes pre-installed we might have an issue, but until then, its opt-in only.
I'm sure it's somehow different, but at my college, we have a public wifi all over campus and as you walk around, your connection will get dropped and picked up by several different routers, but you continue to be connected. If you go to a totally dead area, yes it will drop and you'll have to reconnect, but not finding it for a short bit doesn't seem to be a problem. Of course this is a private university paying for large wireless routers that cover larger areas, concentrated in a much smaller area than Manhattan.
Your college will also most likely have more access points in a closer range and have a constant power supply being plugged into a socket. These cabs won't have this option and will cause it to suffer.
On paper you could, but a city has a lot of things that would kill/degrade the connections from street lamps degrading the signal to buildings, back streets behind/between the buildings and the other cars themselves. This alone could likely cause the cars to drop from the wireless mesh, not to mention its signal would cause it to crawl. People would want to do things like tether their smartphones to it to save money (with VoIP and video chat), add laptops/desktops in houses and you have a LOT of traffic moving through quite possibly a poor mesh signal. Cellphone towers have a lot larger of an access point that has a lot more power running through it to fight these problems, a cab can't/won't.
at least it's free wifi for people inside the car. But yea, it's a bit dishonest to call this free public wifi. I'm not sure if slashdot interpreted the article incorrectly or if the company is just really inept and actually thinks thousands of moving wifi APs will create a sustainable public wifi network.
The article states "It would provide Wi-Fi to people in the cars, as well as those within about 400 feet of the car." Now with it stating that it will provide WiFi to those within 400 feet of the car, it brings to mind the idea of a free public WiFi that could all together cover the entire city. It still is a little dishonest but who is wrong here depends on who felt that mentioning it would transmit a signal 400 feet of the car, it could be either the company or the article writer adding more information here then they should have.
FTFA:
"It would provide Wi-Fi to people in the cars, as well as those within about 400 feet of the car.
Unless they plan on parking the cars a lot, I don't see how this can be useful. Once the car goes down the block it will be out of range and the connection will drop. Won't matter if another one is behind it since it won't be the same connection so no auto-reconnect either.
Your entire post needs a citation about how Mac's are somehow magically better then any other laptop made, because I can smell the kool-aid reeking off you. Oh, to be fair though, here's my citation.
In this corner: Spend a weekend recompiling my kernel two dozen times to get some piece of hardware to work the way it's supposed to.
AKA my friends Mac. Damn that was a pain in the a$$ to get that smartphone to backup properly.
In this corner: Plug it in and it does what the hell I need it to do, no kernel recompiles required, thus allowing me to spend the rest of my time doing other things I enjoy.
Sounds like my Ubuntu box. Found drivers for every piece of hardware for me, didn't even need to go to the makers website for drivers.
If you think I'm trolling, no less an authority than JWZ agrees.
Ummmm.... the first site hasn't been updated in 5 years, the other was written in 2003... thats trolling if your cherry picking through very old, non-factual websites for your "facts".
we get it... you have never used a mac and have never looked up any statistics comparing mac repairs to windows repairs. you dont have to rub it in. just because you dont know what your talking about doesnt make us bad people here.
And we get it, you've never used a Windows 7 and never looked up any statistics comparing Mac failure rates to Windows failure rates. You don't have to rub it.
Most MacBooks will last a long time; 6 years would be about average, but 7 years or more is not uncommon. That's better than twice as long as any other laptop manufacturer.
Citation needed because I'm calling bullshit right now.
So consider the useful life of the machine before you throw money away on garbage. Because, no matter what, you get what you pay for. I don't even have to know what the machine is to tell you a $1500 machine is gonna be a lot better than a $350 machine. They aren't made of the same stuff, nor designed the same way. Believe it or not, there's a damn good reason for the higher price tag: quality and expense of materials, engineering and design.
And you want to compare a near top of the line MBP to a bottom of the barrel Windows netbook... seriously? Here's a radical idea, maybe you could *shock* try a real, honest comparison with specs that match... or just stay there and keep lying to yourself, your call.
It's not me I'm worried about. It's my kid, my dog, my drunk roommate etc.
Thats how we almost broke my brothers Mac, my drunk roommate tripped on the cord and since it had been pulled behind the Mac it yanked it a good 3 feet and made the MacBook spin a 180. Don't bother hoping that it will always let go because we almost found out the hard way that the cable is touching the MacBook it will "pull" on the frame before the magnet will let go.
Didn't notice I pushed the Post Anonymously button.
So you want a frontpage story of a smartphone almost a year old... I don't see any iPhone 3GS stories...
As for the Droid, it had a huge marketing campaign, seriously, how did you miss it? It had frontpage news on Slashdot. It was a major thing when it came out. Not knowing what the Droid is shows you aren't paying attention to anythng but Apple. Not knowing things like the Desire, Dream and other models, sure, they didn't have agressive marketing. But the Droid did and it was really hard to miss. As for why aren't we talking more about it? Because it's not a huge screwed up mess that iPhone has managed to drag itself into.
As for your other post about news count, thats a poor way to examine anything. RIM is well known as the biggest seller of smartphones, but they don't have aggressive marketing like Apple declaring that they "Just work" when in reality, they don't always work with the newer issue of the antenna that should have been noticed long before it was released. Its like the saying goes "When I do something right, no one notices. When I do something wrong, everyone notices." Blackberry/RIM isn't screwing up so what is there to post? "RIM has another smartphone that works..." Doesn't quite get your attention does it? Now "Apple, who claims they always work, has a major screw up." That gets attention. Welcome to news, its about sensationalism at its finest, looking for the next Clinton/Monica Lewinsky, not Mother Teresa, its why your newspaper will have on it's cover page about a murder three cities away from you, but not about the huge fundraiser 3 blocks from you. Or a better example, there are more books written about Jack the Ripper then George Washington because not as many care about good, they want the horror and screw ups.
In your other post you mention why does Android have a problem outsell iPhone? The reality is, it doesn't. It took 1 year for Android to ship 5 million unit, it took Apple a year and a half (with the help of the 3G) to do that. Sorry, but you really should try to look up the facts before you start shooting your mouth off.
Interesting. I had never heard of that phone. Not sure what it is but the iPhone is the only smartphone which is talked about in the media.
You might want to not filter out every non-Apple story then...
Its more like just pick a stance, not say yes on one (OSX) and then turn around and declare it the devil on the other (iOS).
Jobs has yet to slay the beast
Problem is for all of Jobs complaining about Adobe (and more accurately Flash), Jobs seems to love Flash. While its not on the iPhone, it is installed by default on every Mac and is the only major OS that does that. Windows, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, these need you to go get Flash after you've installed the OS. OSX has it out of the box showing that Jobs does indeed feel a big love for Flash and feels it really is something that helps make a system feel "more complete" and ready for the mass market.