I don't know, a lot of the "news" in the early part of this decade, in the papers, was reporting whatever the Bush administration wanted them to report, just like the TV. Embedded journalists getting sound-bites from the military, seeing what the military wanted them to see...
It was the bloggers telling us that Bush had no clothes. Something that the regular press didn't pick up on until after the 2004 election...
Why am I playing the game at all, if the only difference between it and real life is that everyone I interact with is a talking animal?
I think you're rather aggressively simplifying the difference between the game and real life.
Most games are, one way or another, simplifications of some aspect of real life. Animal Crossing simplifies a different aspect than Half Life. Some of us see games like Half Life as childish. Deal with it.
As a private citizen anywhere else in the world, you have the right to absolutely everything imaginable - except what is specifically prohibited by law.
Indeed. Standardizing on a single interface is definitely desirable.
But that's a completely separate issue from whether that interface should be wired or not.
Manufacturers pick connectors because it saves them pennies in manufacturing costs, so if they're not going to use the cheap and ubiquitous mini USB connector they're certainly not going to use a more expensive inductive one.
Last I checked USB was pretty much the defacto standard power connector already, for low power devices. And you can make a nice looking USB charging dock for SUB a lot more cheaply than you can make these space-wasting power pads.
Even if iPods, iPhones and Macs start to suck (which they, one day, will, Steve Jobs or no Steve Jobs; depending on the criteria you choose, they may already do), you'll be stuck with them because of iTunes, iLife, appleTV.
Bullshit. The real lock-in to the iPod is from the peripheral market. No other music player has the breadth and quality of peripherals that the iPod does, thanks to Apple's decision to stick to a stable interface. Oh, it hasn't been completely stable, but changes in the iPod interfaces and form factors have been mostly a matter of adapters rather than throwing out all your cables and speaker sets.
If you care about the quality of the music you're playing, you're already ripping it yourself or buying the DRM-free iTunes Plus version. If you don't, then "Mix, Burn, Rip" should be part of your music purchasing process. I've gone from a non-iPod to an iPod and back without losing any music... and you can too, if you actually care.
The main effect of Apple's proprietary DRM is that it keeps DRM in people's minds. If they weren't doing it we'd all be using Plays For Sure by now and those of us who are bothered by that would be out in the cold.
Video? I don't think people have ever been able to buy DRM-free digital video. You don't have to buy The White Album again, but you've had to buy Star Wars about four times by now.
"The 10th Bolgia? Oh, young Dante, you do not want to know. It is reserved for... we will call them 'the creators of proprietary web technologies'. No, no, be glad that you do not understand. Seven hundred years from now, the wailing, the gnashing of teeth..."
You realise that then the login form wouldn't be filled in if you found yourself on "tech.slashdot.org" instead of "slashdot.org".
Yes. Just like it wouldn't be if I happened to sign in with apple.slashdot.org and found myself following a link to tech.slashdot.org.
Or, what clueless users will probably encounter more often: their password stored for "www.something.com" doesn't autofill because they typed "something.com" into the address bar, or vice versa.
Speaking as someone who has spent 20 years as a network and system administrator, supporting a herd of cats, that would be just fine.
Maybe websites would quit playing musical subdomains, too.
That's even different again... that's submitting the same password credentials to different parts of different sites!
If I have a password on www.amazon.com/somepage, and I visit www.amazon.com/anotherpage, or anotherdomain.amazon.com/somepage, or anotherdomain.www.amazon.com/anypage, these should all be seen as *different* locations.
The password manager should not fill in the password from anything.example.com/whatever when you visit anythingelse.example.com/whateverelse, no matter whether it sees a subset, superset, or jet-set.
When questioned about the applicability of the test to people from countries not renowned for their appreciation of sarcasm or irony, Hodges said the test could be modified.
No, it's like how if you download something from Amazon, you download it from a local s3 cache instead of them copying it over the backbone multiple times. This provides MORE bandwidth for everyone, including Amazon's competition.
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I don't know, a lot of the "news" in the early part of this decade, in the papers, was reporting whatever the Bush administration wanted them to report, just like the TV. Embedded journalists getting sound-bites from the military, seeing what the military wanted them to see...
It was the bloggers telling us that Bush had no clothes. Something that the regular press didn't pick up on until after the 2004 election...
Why am I playing the game at all, if the only difference between it and real life is that everyone I interact with is a talking animal?
I think you're rather aggressively simplifying the difference between the game and real life.
Most games are, one way or another, simplifications of some aspect of real life. Animal Crossing simplifies a different aspect than Half Life. Some of us see games like Half Life as childish. Deal with it.
In other words, they don't actually want mature games?
That was my first reaction too.
So are they going to have more innovative mature peripherals?
As a private citizen anywhere else in the world, you have the right to absolutely everything imaginable - except what is specifically prohibited by law.
That's not what the Code Napoleon says.
In the US, you are restricted to what is listed in the "consitution".
Since the constitution states that all rights not limited by the constitution are reserved to the people and the states, that shouldn't be a problem.
And the theme music would be "Re: Your brains".
Indeed. Standardizing on a single interface is definitely desirable.
But that's a completely separate issue from whether that interface should be wired or not.
Manufacturers pick connectors because it saves them pennies in manufacturing costs, so if they're not going to use the cheap and ubiquitous mini USB connector they're certainly not going to use a more expensive inductive one.
Last I checked USB was pretty much the defacto standard power connector already, for low power devices. And you can make a nice looking USB charging dock for SUB a lot more cheaply than you can make these space-wasting power pads.
Even if iPods, iPhones and Macs start to suck (which they, one day, will, Steve Jobs or no Steve Jobs; depending on the criteria you choose, they may already do), you'll be stuck with them because of iTunes, iLife, appleTV.
Bullshit. The real lock-in to the iPod is from the peripheral market. No other music player has the breadth and quality of peripherals that the iPod does, thanks to Apple's decision to stick to a stable interface. Oh, it hasn't been completely stable, but changes in the iPod interfaces and form factors have been mostly a matter of adapters rather than throwing out all your cables and speaker sets.
If you care about the quality of the music you're playing, you're already ripping it yourself or buying the DRM-free iTunes Plus version. If you don't, then "Mix, Burn, Rip" should be part of your music purchasing process. I've gone from a non-iPod to an iPod and back without losing any music... and you can too, if you actually care.
The main effect of Apple's proprietary DRM is that it keeps DRM in people's minds. If they weren't doing it we'd all be using Plays For Sure by now and those of us who are bothered by that would be out in the cold.
Video? I don't think people have ever been able to buy DRM-free digital video. You don't have to buy The White Album again, but you've had to buy Star Wars about four times by now.
Isn't Interix based on OpenBSD?
20 posts before the first one that actually provides useful information.
Is that a typical ratio on slashdot? I haven't been keeping track.
The input is the time set by the knob on the side of the mechanism.
It's an analog computer.
So is a clock.
"The 10th Bolgia? Oh, young Dante, you do not want to know. It is reserved for ... we will call them 'the creators of proprietary web technologies'. No, no, be glad that you do not understand. Seven hundred years from now, the wailing, the gnashing of teeth..."
You realise that then the login form wouldn't be filled in if you found yourself on "tech.slashdot.org" instead of "slashdot.org".
Yes. Just like it wouldn't be if I happened to sign in with apple.slashdot.org and found myself following a link to tech.slashdot.org.
Or, what clueless users will probably encounter more often: their password stored for "www.something.com" doesn't autofill because they typed "something.com" into the address bar, or vice versa.
Speaking as someone who has spent 20 years as a network and system administrator, supporting a herd of cats, that would be just fine.
Maybe websites would quit playing musical subdomains, too.
That's even different again... that's submitting the same password credentials to different parts of different sites!
If I have a password on www.amazon.com/somepage, and I visit www.amazon.com/anotherpage, or anotherdomain.amazon.com/somepage, or anotherdomain.www.amazon.com/anypage, these should all be seen as *different* locations.
The password manager should not fill in the password from anything.example.com/whatever when you visit anythingelse.example.com/whateverelse, no matter whether it sees a subset, superset, or jet-set.
What many may not have seen in manga before are things like calculating the mean, median and deviation of bowling scores.
But I'd be pretty surprised if there was ANY kind of deviation they haven't covered.
The netBook really had a better keyboard than many other devices at the time, and even now.
Oh, that's interesting. I had never seen that device... the Psion organizers I had seen had all membrane or chiclet keyboards.
(2) If something happens to require a complete reinstall, the passwords are all lost and you have no clue what they were.
I just restore ~/Library/Keychains from backup. Don't you keep backups?
I wish Firefox would use the Keychain, or I wish Camino would fix the bug where a laggy proxy locks the whole thing up for minutes at a time.
All the way to the last sentence?
Or was that sarcasm?
One problem is that some password managers can be tricked into submitting different password credentials to different parts of the same Web site.
Don't you mean "password managers can be tricked into submitting the same password credentials to different parts of the same Web site"?
No, it's like how if you download something from Amazon, you download it from a local s3 cache instead of them copying it over the backbone multiple times. This provides MORE bandwidth for everyone, including Amazon's competition.