I'm 21 now. The generation gap worked in my favor so that I had no effective supervision on my computering, and I had access to the Net since I was... 9, i think. Maybe 10. Point is: it didn't harm me. "Oh teh noes, my son/daughter might talk to just about anyone!" "Oh teh noes, he/she might look at dirty pictures!" I think most people really need to sit down for a moment and consider why these things seem so damaging to them.
(Side note: a whole generation - mine - is growing up with access to pornography from a very early age. I hold out hope that my kind will never manage to "understand" what all the fear is. Also, is there some extra high percentage of people with sexual issues in my generation? I don't believe so.)
Wow. So IBM only supports Linux because it thinks it'll make them money? Next you're going to tell me that Apple only sells iPods for the same reason. Or that the purpose of a business is to make a profit.
The ease with which anyone of any age can create a page, upload photos, share deeply personal details of their lives, and make new "friends" quickly turned MySpace into a one-stop shopping mall for online predators.
I lost interest in the article right about here. thinkofthechildren, etc. (Come to think of it, aren't shopping malls one-stop shopping malls for "predators"? Oh, teh irony!)
I guess I'm just going to have to keep saying it until it stops:
When it is released and available for purchase, have someone review it like any other product, make one post, and be done with it. We don't need to hear about or debate every single time a developer in the Windows group sneezes or a random blogger decides to write their personal conclusions on a product that isn't even released
I know, bitching about needless Slashdot stories is Cool. Seriously, though: many people obviously enjoy periodic Microsoft debates/flame wars. Let us have our fun. It doesn't hurt you if you don't want to get involved.
Using multiple descriptive tags for each game might make the problem easier.
For example, a game can be a "platformer" and an "adventure" game. It might even be in "3D". So perhaps "3D platformer adventure" works as a set of tags for a game rather than an atomic category.
In addition, we could use tags like "fud", "notfud", "dupe" for rip-offs and "thinkofthechildren" for GTA.
All of those things are annoying, I agree, but they're consistant. If my headlights automatically turn off whenever the cars parked for a certain length of time, that's alot less frustrating than it/sometimes/ doing it.
As I commented on the intuitive OS thread or whatever it was called, users (or at least I) don't want an OS that acts unpredictable. I don't want to wait around for hours for a message before finally figuring out that my cell phone decided I didn't want to be reminded of them right then. Consistency is uncompromisable.
Eh. I think people overestimate how serious the conspiracy theory people are. Most of them are only half-serious. Yet some of the theories are probably true. I mean, a board of directors is a conspiracy, isn't it?
What are "the media companies" and why would they be behind this?
It was probably meant as a joke. The idea, as I see it, was that the MPAA could have put this out to discourage the use of compressed video files. Best not to take it seriously, instead of fmaling it as stupid (as I'm sure some are getting ready to).
If you want this crap to stop, you need to stop flying. Once the airlines start losing sheep, er customers, they will bribe, er contribute to the campaign of, Bush to change the rules and it will happen.
Damn straight! To quote my man Stephen Colbert, "Let the free market do what it does best: bring justice to the disenfranchised."
Seriously, Slashdot is the home of vote-with-your-pocketbook rhetoric.
This discussion sounds a lot like the divisiion between Marx's authoritarian communism and Bakunin's libertarian socialism
Funny, it would make alot more sense if you had said "Marx's authoritarian socialism and Bakunin's libertarian communism." I mean, if we're going to make a disctinction between "socialism" and "communism" in the somewhat more classical senses of the terms, then "authoritarian communism" is an oxymoron.
But anyway, you're right. I was thinking the same thing. However, in Marxist theory authority exists to exert the dominance of one class (or more) over another (or more). There are no classes in a free software project, only differences in opinion, skill and expertise. The need for authority in a project like Debian, then, has no simple explanation in Marxist terms and your analogy starts to fall apart. But the old debate would still prove very enlightening to anyone interested in this subject.
Al Gore is on the board at Apple? Wasn't there an article recently about how Apple was one of the least environmentally-friendly tech companies?
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You hit the nail on the head. That's why this is a horrible idea, consistency. If I come to expect an e-mail alert when I recieve a new e-mail, I'd get irritated really fast if it started not alerting me sometimes because it thinks I'm busy. If I expect the search feature to search with certain settings, I'd be really pissed if it changed the settings because of what it thought I was doing. OS adapting around me? More liking requiring me to learn to mind read my computer to compensate for its trying to mind read me.
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I'm 21 now. The generation gap worked in my favor so that I had no effective supervision on my computering, and I had access to the Net since I was... 9, i think. Maybe 10. Point is: it didn't harm me. "Oh teh noes, my son/daughter might talk to just about anyone!" "Oh teh noes, he/she might look at dirty pictures!" I think most people really need to sit down for a moment and consider why these things seem so damaging to them.
(Side note: a whole generation - mine - is growing up with access to pornography from a very early age. I hold out hope that my kind will never manage to "understand" what all the fear is. Also, is there some extra high percentage of people with sexual issues in my generation? I don't believe so.)
Wow. So IBM only supports Linux because it thinks it'll make them money? Next you're going to tell me that Apple only sells iPods for the same reason. Or that the purpose of a business is to make a profit.
Like perhaps most people, I skipped first to #1.
The ease with which anyone of any age can create a page, upload photos, share deeply personal details of their lives, and make new "friends" quickly turned MySpace into a one-stop shopping mall for online predators.
I lost interest in the article right about here. thinkofthechildren, etc.
(Come to think of it, aren't shopping malls one-stop shopping malls for "predators"? Oh, teh irony!)
I guess I'm just going to have to keep saying it until it stops:
When it is released and available for purchase, have someone review it like any other product, make one post, and be done with it. We don't need to hear about or debate every single time a developer in the Windows group sneezes or a random blogger decides to write their personal conclusions on a product that isn't even released
I know, bitching about needless Slashdot stories is Cool. Seriously, though: many people obviously enjoy periodic Microsoft debates/flame wars. Let us have our fun. It doesn't hurt you if you don't want to get involved.
Microsoft's biggest enemy is not Linux nor Apple but is rather Microsoft itself. Microsoft's entire business model is built on growth and expansion.
Wow. That's called capitalism. And anyhow, that's especially a rule for a software company, isn't it?
Using multiple descriptive tags for each game might make the problem easier.
For example, a game can be a "platformer" and an "adventure" game. It might even be in "3D". So perhaps "3D platformer adventure" works as a set of tags for a game rather than an atomic category.
In addition, we could use tags like "fud", "notfud", "dupe" for rip-offs and "thinkofthechildren" for GTA.
All of those things are annoying, I agree, but they're consistant. If my headlights automatically turn off whenever the cars parked for a certain length of time, that's alot less frustrating than it /sometimes/ doing it.
No, no, no, no.
As I commented on the intuitive OS thread or whatever it was called, users (or at least I) don't want an OS that acts unpredictable. I don't want to wait around for hours for a message before finally figuring out that my cell phone decided I didn't want to be reminded of them right then. Consistency is uncompromisable.
Let's all hope that, when they do that, it'll get discovered and publicized quickly.
Eh. I think people overestimate how serious the conspiracy theory people are. Most of them are only half-serious. Yet some of the theories are probably true. I mean, a board of directors is a conspiracy, isn't it?
Also, best to ignore my inability to type "flaming" instead of making fun of me for it. My fragile ego can't take it.
What are "the media companies" and why would they be behind this?
It was probably meant as a joke. The idea, as I see it, was that the MPAA could have put this out to discourage the use of compressed video files. Best not to take it seriously, instead of fmaling it as stupid (as I'm sure some are getting ready to).
If you want this crap to stop, you need to stop flying. Once the airlines start losing sheep, er customers, they will bribe, er contribute to the campaign of, Bush to change the rules and it will happen.
Damn straight! To quote my man Stephen Colbert, "Let the free market do what it does best: bring justice to the disenfranchised."
Seriously, Slashdot is the home of vote-with-your-pocketbook rhetoric.
"Hate comes from fear. Fear comes from weakness."
Suffering comes from hate?
This discussion sounds a lot like the divisiion between Marx's authoritarian communism and Bakunin's libertarian socialism
Funny, it would make alot more sense if you had said "Marx's authoritarian socialism and Bakunin's libertarian communism." I mean, if we're going to make a disctinction between "socialism" and "communism" in the somewhat more classical senses of the terms, then "authoritarian communism" is an oxymoron.
But anyway, you're right. I was thinking the same thing. However, in Marxist theory authority exists to exert the dominance of one class (or more) over another (or more). There are no classes in a free software project, only differences in opinion, skill and expertise. The need for authority in a project like Debian, then, has no simple explanation in Marxist terms and your analogy starts to fall apart. But the old debate would still prove very enlightening to anyone interested in this subject.
Check these places:
Marx and Engels on Anarchism
Marxism, Freedom and the State by Mikhail Bakunin
It's kind of like the US vs European Union.
Ookay, I'll bite. How is it like that? The US has a real central government while the EU mostly doesn't?
Al Gore is on the board at Apple? Wasn't there an article recently about how Apple was one of the least environmentally-friendly tech companies?
You hit the nail on the head. That's why this is a horrible idea, consistency. If I come to expect an e-mail alert when I recieve a new e-mail, I'd get irritated really fast if it started not alerting me sometimes because it thinks I'm busy. If I expect the search feature to search with certain settings, I'd be really pissed if it changed the settings because of what it thought I was doing. OS adapting around me? More liking requiring me to learn to mind read my computer to compensate for its trying to mind read me.
"This is one of many times you'll see Microsoft bent by the immense power and will of open source!
This is MS looking out for their bottom dollar"
Just a note: that's precicely what it means for a corporation to be bent by the might of a competitor.
"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer" (c. 6th century BC)
Yup, Microsoft finally catches up with 6th Century BC China.
I'm aware. I was complimenting your 1337 parody skillz.
Yes please.
Damn, man. You're already +5 funny, but if I had mod points I'd give you another one. :)
Don't confuse addiction with habit. Addiction is a physical dependency
You've got the right idea, but you've got the terminology wrong. "Addiction" can be "mental" (which is more than a mere habit).
With that said, I've bought several of Rockstar's games which have been considered 'violent'
Oh, I'd love to hear the arguments against this.