My son is active, but any gadgets that hold my attention become the objects of his desire. Phones, tablets, computers, etc., generally get shelved while he is awake. If I want to play something, I'll get down on my hands and knees and play hide and seek or blocks or something. Video games can wait till he's asleep or till some other odd hour.
When we what?!?
Our kids will be pushed outside for as long as they can take it, and then they'll come inside and play on whatever system is en vogue when they're the right age for it. They don't give a crap about your nostalgia, and your music sucks.
Many replies below mine will be from Nintendo eta hipsters who'll be pushing them Mario, so they can feel good about their 8-bit tattoos.
It's easier to shoot yourself in the foot with the command line. A wrong character at some position might cause a lot of unexpected behavior and leave a good mess to clean. Just offering a counter-argument for the sake of discussion.
"The wrong character" is only going to affect you if you are the sort of gung-ho user who does not believe in iterating. Perfect your filtering first. Then and only then, act on it. At that point, you are no worse off than a GUI user who made a typo or ticked the wrong box. Or is the problem an inability to type?
slashdot or other forum == public
my xmpp sessions == private
public irc == public
voip == private
publicly open chat room == public
facebook chat == private
anything on facebook marked as friends only or private == private
anything on facebook marked as public or everyone == public
twitter == public
email == private
All nice, but what about when the public thinks they are engaging in private conversations, but aren't? Consider all the flack Google caught because they captured a few seconds of network traffic from unencrypted networks as they drove by. You know, information people were broadcasting in the clear.
Making high-quality music used to require investment. Expensive instruments at a minimum - but if you didn't want to sound like Kenny, you'd also need high quality microphones, sound damped recording studio, mixing desk, specialist technician to operate it and several high-end recorders capable of syncronised operation.
That's all changed now. One person working on consumer, affordable equipment can - on a purely technical level - match that quality with comparative ease. It's down to the level where people can and do make music as a hobby, without any expectation of payment.
There are still things that cannot yet be replicated in the home studio. Good acoustics and a studio band, for starters.
Chimps aren't human, and don't deserve civil rights.
I don't see how these two things are related. Rights are pretty basic things - right to life, right to liberty, etc. I isn't clear to me that a human has done more to earn these than a chimp.
I don't care what people here say. This whole discussion makes no sense if you don't believe in a Creator.
It's also less stressful for the eyes than looking at a screen
Argh. You're comparing books with tablets, but ignoring dedicated e-ink ereaders. A reader with e-ink does not have this problem. The battery problem is virtually non-existent. A charge lasts a week of heavy reading or a month in most of my usage.
Yes I like the smell of paper, and the ability to thumb through a book, and the ability to write a personalized note inside when giving one as a gift... but if your primary motivation is getting through content, if the experience of reading books is more important than the experience of having books, ereaders win. They are smaller, and can contain most/all of your collection simultaneously. No more having to choose which book to take on your vacation. Take all of them.
It's a cheap second machine for anyone who plans to play the new Pokemon games. You need one to play, and one to trade, in order to get the interesting evolutions and version exclusives. It works like this. You play A all the way through. Then you play B, trade over the pokemon from A, get version exclusives, and breed. Then you play A one more time, trading all the eggs/babies over for a great starter set. Yes, the Pokemon franchise forces you to own two machines.
I agree; I'm no gamer (though I own a DS Lite that I don't use often) and my first thought was that the buttons should have been a *quarter* of the way up (i.e. halfway up the lower screen as they would be on the original DSes and the 3DS).
I believe the controls were placed where they are to allow the use of shoulder buttons.
Traffic deaths are set to outpace AIDS/HIV and malaria in the developing world, so the UN is trying to change that perception.
I don't see what perception the UN is trying to change. That traffic accidents are a lesser cause of deaths than AIDS and malaria in developing countries? Does this even qualify as a "perception," much less one that needs rectifying?
Oh god, your naivety would be so funny if our reality wasn't so sad.
Like barbaric idiots we still have no laws mandating that anything produced be recyclable or biodegradable. Faced with the facts of how plastic kills wildlife and pollutes the environment, we just happily keep producing more.
Nobody said the bottles weren't recyclable (recyclable in the traditional sense; this story is about a novel way to recycle bottles).
no one was ever prevented from buying the same music for similar devices, Apple has always made most of their money from selling hardware not music or software, and Apple has maintained their market dominance long after unencumbered songs have become the norm.
What is meant by vendor lock in is this: There was only one digital music store that could compete with physical media at the time, and that was iTunes. Apple got this exclusivity because they went with DRM. The DRM also meant your $500 in digital music purchases wouldn't play on non-Apple media players. Want to buy music? Well there was only one place to get it digitally: iTunes. Want to buy a new media player? Well, there was only one brand that would play your collection: Apple.
This is why Jobs's statement that he was against DRM came across as disingenuous.
Um what, they pushed to get music publisher's to sell tracks without DRM.
Said Steve Jobs. In reality, Apple had nothing to lose and everything to gain from the vendor lock in. I didn't think anyone actually took that statement at face value.
When I buy a printed book, I own the book. I can read the book whenever and where ever I want.
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When I buy an eBook, I do not own the book. In order to read the book, I have to hope that some DRM server somewhere will authorize the eBook reader to show me the book I want to read.
I have books on my book shelves that are over 50 years old, and I can still read them fine. Can the same be said about eBooks 50 years from now?
I have a bookshelf, and an ereader. I can only have one of them with me most of the time, and it's not the bookshelf. I love reading, but I'm a slow reader, so it helps if I can squeeze in a few pages here and there wherever I am. Hard to do with a big hardback or with a book you weren't planning to read that day. Between keeping books and reading. read them, I prefer the latter.
I read your comment and have been trying to understand what the issue is. This plane has flown at night before. It collects more solar energy during daytime flight than it uses for power and stores the remainder in batteries for use during nighttime flight. Even if it couldn't, this aircraft is quite slow so, it wouldn't outrun the sun in an east-to-west flight.
Slashdot Mirror
At least they built a challenge response system into their hack, that's just f*'ing funny to me!!
Alternative explanation: The outfit that developed the malware is selling it as a service to independent thieves.
Forgot to mention, he's only one.
When we what?!?
Our kids will be pushed outside for as long as they can take it, and then they'll come inside and play on whatever system is en vogue when they're the right age for it. They don't give a crap about your nostalgia, and your music sucks.
Many replies below mine will be from Nintendo eta hipsters who'll be pushing them Mario, so they can feel good about their 8-bit tattoos.
It's easier to shoot yourself in the foot with the command line. A wrong character at some position might cause a lot of unexpected behavior and leave a good mess to clean. Just offering a counter-argument for the sake of discussion.
"The wrong character" is only going to affect you if you are the sort of gung-ho user who does not believe in iterating. Perfect your filtering first. Then and only then, act on it. At that point, you are no worse off than a GUI user who made a typo or ticked the wrong box. Or is the problem an inability to type?
its not that hard.
slashdot or other forum == public my xmpp sessions == private public irc == public voip == private publicly open chat room == public facebook chat == private anything on facebook marked as friends only or private == private anything on facebook marked as public or everyone == public twitter == public email == private
All nice, but what about when the public thinks they are engaging in private conversations, but aren't? Consider all the flack Google caught because they captured a few seconds of network traffic from unencrypted networks as they drove by. You know, information people were broadcasting in the clear.
You can't see lips and body language on the phone.
you listen to truly public chatter
Good luck defining that.
Making high-quality music used to require investment. Expensive instruments at a minimum - but if you didn't want to sound like Kenny, you'd also need high quality microphones, sound damped recording studio, mixing desk, specialist technician to operate it and several high-end recorders capable of syncronised operation.
That's all changed now. One person working on consumer, affordable equipment can - on a purely technical level - match that quality with comparative ease. It's down to the level where people can and do make music as a hobby, without any expectation of payment.
There are still things that cannot yet be replicated in the home studio. Good acoustics and a studio band, for starters.
Chimps aren't human, and don't deserve civil rights.
I don't see how these two things are related. Rights are pretty basic things - right to life, right to liberty, etc. I isn't clear to me that a human has done more to earn these than a chimp.
I don't care what people here say. This whole discussion makes no sense if you don't believe in a Creator.
It's also less stressful for the eyes than looking at a screen
Argh. You're comparing books with tablets, but ignoring dedicated e-ink ereaders. A reader with e-ink does not have this problem. The battery problem is virtually non-existent. A charge lasts a week of heavy reading or a month in most of my usage.
Yes I like the smell of paper, and the ability to thumb through a book, and the ability to write a personalized note inside when giving one as a gift... but if your primary motivation is getting through content, if the experience of reading books is more important than the experience of having books, ereaders win. They are smaller, and can contain most/all of your collection simultaneously. No more having to choose which book to take on your vacation. Take all of them.
After removing the "Other OS" feature in the Playstation 3...
There are so many better grudges to hold against Sony, I feel like you just phoned this one in and went back to sleep.
It's a cheap second machine for anyone who plans to play the new Pokemon games. You need one to play, and one to trade, in order to get the interesting evolutions and version exclusives. It works like this. You play A all the way through. Then you play B, trade over the pokemon from A, get version exclusives, and breed. Then you play A one more time, trading all the eggs/babies over for a great starter set. Yes, the Pokemon franchise forces you to own two machines.
Or, make a friend.
I agree; I'm no gamer (though I own a DS Lite that I don't use often) and my first thought was that the buttons should have been a *quarter* of the way up (i.e. halfway up the lower screen as they would be on the original DSes and the 3DS).
I believe the controls were placed where they are to allow the use of shoulder buttons.
Traffic deaths are set to outpace AIDS/HIV and malaria in the developing world, so the UN is trying to change that perception.
I don't see what perception the UN is trying to change. That traffic accidents are a lesser cause of deaths than AIDS and malaria in developing countries? Does this even qualify as a "perception," much less one that needs rectifying?
Oh god, your naivety would be so funny if our reality wasn't so sad.
Like barbaric idiots we still have no laws mandating that anything produced be recyclable or biodegradable. Faced with the facts of how plastic kills wildlife and pollutes the environment, we just happily keep producing more.
Nobody said the bottles weren't recyclable (recyclable in the traditional sense; this story is about a novel way to recycle bottles).
That's right... you'll never catch me driving a crappy Toyota car. I'll drive a Lexus any and every day.
Idiots.
Now Microsoft on the desktop is another matter... a lot harder to get away from.
I'm missing the analogy. Lexus is a re-badged and gussied up Toyota. And both are reliable cars.
no one was ever prevented from buying the same music for similar devices, Apple has always made most of their money from selling hardware not music or software, and Apple has maintained their market dominance long after unencumbered songs have become the norm.
What is meant by vendor lock in is this: There was only one digital music store that could compete with physical media at the time, and that was iTunes. Apple got this exclusivity because they went with DRM. The DRM also meant your $500 in digital music purchases wouldn't play on non-Apple media players. Want to buy music? Well there was only one place to get it digitally: iTunes. Want to buy a new media player? Well, there was only one brand that would play your collection: Apple.
This is why Jobs's statement that he was against DRM came across as disingenuous.
Um what, they pushed to get music publisher's to sell tracks without DRM.
Said Steve Jobs. In reality, Apple had nothing to lose and everything to gain from the vendor lock in. I didn't think anyone actually took that statement at face value.
OF COURSE if you give real-time access to the OBD-II port, you can have all kinds of shenanigans. So don't do that!
How many people would notice an ODB-II Bluetooth adapter plugged into the port? http://www.amazon.com/Soliport-Bluetooth-OBDII-Diagnostic-Scanner/dp/B004KL0I9I
That depends on where the port is located and if the attacker is using an extension cable or some other way of stowing the adapter.
When I buy a printed book, I own the book. I can read the book whenever and where ever I want.
. When I buy an eBook, I do not own the book. In order to read the book, I have to hope that some DRM server somewhere will authorize the eBook reader to show me the book I want to read.
I have books on my book shelves that are over 50 years old, and I can still read them fine. Can the same be said about eBooks 50 years from now?
I have a bookshelf, and an ereader. I can only have one of them with me most of the time, and it's not the bookshelf. I love reading, but I'm a slow reader, so it helps if I can squeeze in a few pages here and there wherever I am. Hard to do with a big hardback or with a book you weren't planning to read that day. Between keeping books and reading. read them, I prefer the latter.
I see - metaphorically - what you did there.
I hear ya, buddy.
Publicity, I'm sure.
I read your comment and have been trying to understand what the issue is. This plane has flown at night before. It collects more solar energy during daytime flight than it uses for power and stores the remainder in batteries for use during nighttime flight. Even if it couldn't, this aircraft is quite slow so, it wouldn't outrun the sun in an east-to-west flight.
I think he means http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_stream.
unions have done a poor job of putting out their side of the story.
I dunno, when they froth and scream "shame" at people, their side comes across pretty clearly.