The problems the PS3 has are very much the result of Sony's own stupidity. In many respects, they have priced themselves out of the market. If you consider the Nintendo Wii, however, it has demonstrated a distinctly clever design and is something genuinely new. If Nintendo could just manufacture them fast enough they could take a very large market share.
This is very similar to the debate of calculators versus sliderules. The sliderule and the calculator both have imprecision inherent in their use. With the sliderule, these are visible and distinct and difficult to ignore. With a calculator, these are masked by the device and people will place confidence in numbers that do not deserve said confidence. A print encyclopedia is susceptible to many of the same inaccuracies as wikipedia, however with wikipedia we remember that the inaccuracy is there. It does not call upon false authority in order to lead people to place more faith in the text than is warranted.
When you are doing an academic paper and must have every detail right, neither wikipedia nor veropedia would be sufficient. Not even Encyclopedia Britannica is sufficient. You must check references and verify them personally. If it's not referenced, it never happened.
Regarding new firmware bricking an unlocked iphone - tampering is the wrong word. You may have modified it, altered it or changed it. Tamper implies a level of deception or inappropriate behaviour. The phone is your property, and is not even subject to a carrier subsidy. When you unlock it, you are not tampering with it. You are modifying it. In actuality, you are *repairing* it. Having it locked to one carrier is brain damage. You are simply correcting the brain damage.
I am aware of an effort underway to sue apple for bricking unlocked phones, and I say bully to them. There needs to be more of this happening. Manufacturers are not used to producing smart devices, products which have capabilities far exceeding anything they intended. To date the gut reaction has been to stop people from exploring this new technology. Once we can defeat this anachronistic way of thought, we will truly begin to discover the wonders that this equipment can carry out.
There is nothing about the convenience store that intrinsically prevents children from spending hours there. It doesn't matter what parents will let children do, that element is obviously being ignored in application to the internet.
There exists a place where any child can walk in, and be instantly exposed to cigarette advertising, pornography, and sugary snacks that lead to obesity and tooth decay. A place were predators walk about unfettered, unquestioned. Where they are allowed to approach any child they see and talk to them.
This place, is the neighbourhood convenience store.
This is a part of the nature of companies. Since a company is composed of many people, and often many divisions, it's behaviours can become very schizophrenic. There has been more than one occasion where a company ended up suing itself.
In response to the final question, they did not completely build the present internet. There has been substantial public funding involved. As well, in the above analogy, there is a public alternative to the private. In regard to the internet, there is often no such variety in provider. As well, since we are speaking of lowering bandwidth available for packets to certain destinations the question is somewhat different. Consider Michigan. There is a single road system linking Utica, Lansing and Detroit. The owner of the road determines in a given time that most of the traffic on said road is going to Detroit. In this case, said owner decides to force travellers heading for Detroit to stop periodically at rest stops and wait five or ten minutes. Other vehicles may come and go as pleased. The owner of the roadway forces this practice until Detroit pays him a per-car fee to remove these limits.
Framed in the perspective, it smells very much of extortion.
It's hardly mutilated. The body would have born acephalic. It's a question of genetics. There isn't much difference between genetically engineering a race of acephalic humans for medical purposes and aborting a fetus. A proper fetus even has a brain and the potential to be a fully functional human, the acephalic creations would never have this and would be human in name only.
The biggest problem is that the analogy is to postal mail. Mail is a batched system, whereas the internet is not. The analogy is profoundly and egregiously flawed. It exposes a profound lack of understanding in regards the function of the internet.
My hope was that the initiative's goal would be making science easier. Increasing availability of the equipment needed, fostering science clubs and encouraging people to pursue an interest in how the world works. We are fundamentally a tool-making species, it isn't natural for us to go through life without questioning the inner workings of the universe.
Provide children with guidance, teach them how to evaluate a study to see if it's bunk or solid research. Teach skepticism, teach them to try out everything they are told. Science is the crucible within which we refine truth from the scummy dross of fiction.
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There is at least one problem with a one-time pad. We *know* the information being sent, language. We know it's pattern.
The funny thing is, there are a lot of charities that do exactly this. Although stealing no doubt happens, it is in the minority. 90% of people are honest 90% of the time. They have to be, without a generically high level of honesty everything falls apart. When you get a credit card, you trust the company not to put fictional charges on your bill. When you hand that card to the waiter, you trust that he's not writing down the information. Civilization is a delicate construct founded on trust.
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The problems the PS3 has are very much the result of Sony's own stupidity. In many respects, they have priced themselves out of the market. If you consider the Nintendo Wii, however, it has demonstrated a distinctly clever design and is something genuinely new. If Nintendo could just manufacture them fast enough they could take a very large market share.
This reminds me of an old quote,
"The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
Recording Industry associations: You are now being routed around. Congratulations.
This is very similar to the debate of calculators versus sliderules. The sliderule and the calculator both have imprecision inherent in their use. With the sliderule, these are visible and distinct and difficult to ignore. With a calculator, these are masked by the device and people will place confidence in numbers that do not deserve said confidence. A print encyclopedia is susceptible to many of the same inaccuracies as wikipedia, however with wikipedia we remember that the inaccuracy is there. It does not call upon false authority in order to lead people to place more faith in the text than is warranted.
When you are doing an academic paper and must have every detail right, neither wikipedia nor veropedia would be sufficient. Not even Encyclopedia Britannica is sufficient. You must check references and verify them personally. If it's not referenced, it never happened.
Of course, you realize, that once this happens it won't qualify as a supercomputer anymore.
Regarding new firmware bricking an unlocked iphone - tampering is the wrong word. You may have modified it, altered it or changed it. Tamper implies a level of deception or inappropriate behaviour. The phone is your property, and is not even subject to a carrier subsidy. When you unlock it, you are not tampering with it. You are modifying it. In actuality, you are *repairing* it. Having it locked to one carrier is brain damage. You are simply correcting the brain damage.
I am aware of an effort underway to sue apple for bricking unlocked phones, and I say bully to them. There needs to be more of this happening. Manufacturers are not used to producing smart devices, products which have capabilities far exceeding anything they intended. To date the gut reaction has been to stop people from exploring this new technology. Once we can defeat this anachronistic way of thought, we will truly begin to discover the wonders that this equipment can carry out.
Clearly this points to an epidemic of sleep-kissing in the workplace!
It does occur to one that if you actually clicked that 'enable instant search' bar, it might go away:)
He's still charging 30 pieces of silver, as long as they're silver dollars!
See, this is what happens when you count in binary and run out of fingers.
I think your post can be applied to nearly all posts on slashdot, simply replacing Vista with X, where X = the subject of discussion.
I find your faith in humanity touching.
I'm still trying to figure out which one of you was first to invoke Godwin's Law...
There is nothing about the convenience store that intrinsically prevents children from spending hours there. It doesn't matter what parents will let children do, that element is obviously being ignored in application to the internet.
There exists a place where any child can walk in, and be instantly exposed to cigarette advertising, pornography, and sugary snacks that lead to obesity and tooth decay. A place were predators walk about unfettered, unquestioned. Where they are allowed to approach any child they see and talk to them.
This place, is the neighbourhood convenience store.
This is a part of the nature of companies. Since a company is composed of many people, and often many divisions, it's behaviours can become very schizophrenic. There has been more than one occasion where a company ended up suing itself.
In response to the final question, they did not completely build the present internet. There has been substantial public funding involved. As well, in the above analogy, there is a public alternative to the private. In regard to the internet, there is often no such variety in provider. As well, since we are speaking of lowering bandwidth available for packets to certain destinations the question is somewhat different. Consider Michigan. There is a single road system linking Utica, Lansing and Detroit. The owner of the road determines in a given time that most of the traffic on said road is going to Detroit. In this case, said owner decides to force travellers heading for Detroit to stop periodically at rest stops and wait five or ten minutes. Other vehicles may come and go as pleased. The owner of the roadway forces this practice until Detroit pays him a per-car fee to remove these limits.
Framed in the perspective, it smells very much of extortion.
Sounds like a whole new Real Doll business in some respects. Hmm, now I need to look up brain in ancient greek...
It's hardly mutilated. The body would have born acephalic. It's a question of genetics. There isn't much difference between genetically engineering a race of acephalic humans for medical purposes and aborting a fetus. A proper fetus even has a brain and the potential to be a fully functional human, the acephalic creations would never have this and would be human in name only.
But it's hard to beat the rate on prescription drugs:)
The biggest problem is that the analogy is to postal mail. Mail is a batched system, whereas the internet is not. The analogy is profoundly and egregiously flawed. It exposes a profound lack of understanding in regards the function of the internet.
My hope was that the initiative's goal would be making science easier. Increasing availability of the equipment needed, fostering science clubs and encouraging people to pursue an interest in how the world works. We are fundamentally a tool-making species, it isn't natural for us to go through life without questioning the inner workings of the universe.
Provide children with guidance, teach them how to evaluate a study to see if it's bunk or solid research. Teach skepticism, teach them to try out everything they are told. Science is the crucible within which we refine truth from the scummy dross of fiction.
There is at least one problem with a one-time pad. We *know* the information being sent, language. We know it's pattern.
How Euclidean of you!
Credits? Credits?! We don't use no steenking credits here! Latinum, pure and simple!
The funny thing is, there are a lot of charities that do exactly this. Although stealing no doubt happens, it is in the minority. 90% of people are honest 90% of the time. They have to be, without a generically high level of honesty everything falls apart. When you get a credit card, you trust the company not to put fictional charges on your bill. When you hand that card to the waiter, you trust that he's not writing down the information. Civilization is a delicate construct founded on trust.