Camino is a Gecko browser. It's whole purpose in life is to be the equivalent of Firefox, but use OS X's native Aqua toolkit and follow its user interface guidelines. It's even listed on Mozilla's website. You're right, though, the the most obvious explanation for Safari is that Apple got burned by relying on others for a browser too many times. I would have preferred if they used all their Safari developers to get behind the Camino project instead (no reason they can't fork if they ever need to), but oh well.
Of course its not a hard science. The term was created specifically to exclude sciences like psychology and sociology. Anyway, yes: there are many defined psychological terms. For instance, every recognized psychological disorder is spelled out very clearly in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Hopefully they don't continue the unfortunate RTS trend of focusing more on offense, to the exclusive of defense and the intricacies of building up an economy.
My problem is that I enjoy base-building and defense too much. I lost many a Starcraft game because I never got around to attacking, and the game is designed so that no base is impenetrable. One of the things I love about Civilization IV is that peace and diplomacy is a perfectly viable and enjoyable strategy. It fits me like a glove.
They use the term "spirituality" like its a defined psychological term. They just chose some arbitrary ideas and declared them to be a measurement of spirituality. Perhaps the worst is "belief in a higher power". If "spiritual" is a basic mental state, then whether or not one agrees with the proposition that X exists is hardly a measure of that state. It would make more sense, but still be utterly bogus, to take belief in angels and an invisible man in the sky as a measure of psychosis.
The problem was we are all now in our 30s for example trying to watch a film made for young kids and expecting to see it like a young kid. The fact is the prequels were not made for us, they were made for kids and teens. The same way the original 3 were made. Have a 30 year old watch Star Wars for the first time and, on the few times I've been able to find someone who has never seen it, gotten the same 'meh' response I had to the Phantom Menace.
I saw Episode I when I was 14. I basically felt like everyone else, that it sucked. I just watched episodes IV and V again (haven't got around to VI) for the first time since I was even younger, and I admit that I was a bit underwhelmed: not as good (now) as I remember them (then). However, they're still profoundly better than the prequels.
Incidentally, from what I understand, the original trilogy was a big hit with all ages when it came out.
The love/hate relationship obsessive fans have with their objects of devotion is indeed worthy of investigation. I looked through the archives at snpp.com, which record comments on/reviews of Simpsons episodes on the Simpsons newsgroup. The first episode they record any real reviews for, Radio Bart, is episode 13 in season 3. It got great reviews. With the very next episode, you start getting reviews saying that the Simpsons had lost its way, become crap, etc.. Obsessed Simpsons fans have been saying that over and over to this very day.
Star Wars is a little bit different, though. The prequels just sucked. There's no psychological analysis necessary. They were just lame movies.
Give me a break. Even the title of the story doesn't imply which causes which. Just because they've "only" found a correlation, that doesn't mean there's "nothing to see here".
The trend is that the average age of gamers is now in the 30s.
I get the sneaking suspicion that you pulled that out of your ass (or whoever you're getting that from is full of shit). Gaming has been growing more and more mainstream, even ubiquitous, over successive generations. It may have reached its peak (can't get more popular than "everybody plays video games") by now, but it didn't with kids growing up in the 80s. I know it wasn't completely true in the 90s, when I was growing up.
I have yet to come across one single game I had any trouble playing an unbought copy of because of DRM (granted, figuring out how to get around it maybe have taken *someone* a lot of work, but not me). Anyway, to reiterate: not once have I been stopped by DRM from pirating a game. On the other hand, if I do purchase a game, you can bet I'm one of those people who won't get one that makes me jump through hoops just to play a game I actually paid for.
Chrome : Chromium is closer to Firefox : Icewasel. For better or worse, right or wrong, Mozilla owns their brand names and protects them as proprietary property.
Actually, that's the number three need (according to a certain Abraham Maslow).
Maslow's hierarchy of needs: 1) Physiological (food, sleep, etc.) 2) Safety 3) Love/Belonging 4) Esteem (confidence, achievement, respect, etc.) 5) Self-actualization (all the great stuff one can do when all their basic needs are met, Cleared Theta Clear =)
Don't forget that Bush outright promoted using nukes again ("bunker buster" nukes). There's also the little-mentioned detail that Obama's new budget will increase spending on nuclear weapons by 7 billion dollars. The US government's love affair with The Bomb hasn't gone anywhere.
I don't know where you got that idea, but Android has no Flash support to date. There were promises of support for all Android phones by the end of 2009. Current word is that it'll be out by the end of the first half of 2010, for Android 2 phones only.
I strongly disagree with your premise. Whether or not the German government's policy is wrong, there's no such thing as Parents' Rights. It's a horrible concept. When it comes down to a choice between respecting the rights of the parents and protecting the rights of the child, the child should win every time -- at least in principal, which is why using the term "right" is wrong. There are good arguments against disallowing homeschooling, including from a civil liberties perspective, but that isn't one of them.
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Camino is a Gecko browser. It's whole purpose in life is to be the equivalent of Firefox, but use OS X's native Aqua toolkit and follow its user interface guidelines. It's even listed on Mozilla's website. You're right, though, the the most obvious explanation for Safari is that Apple got burned by relying on others for a browser too many times. I would have preferred if they used all their Safari developers to get behind the Camino project instead (no reason they can't fork if they ever need to), but oh well.
Of course its not a hard science. The term was created specifically to exclude sciences like psychology and sociology. Anyway, yes: there are many defined psychological terms. For instance, every recognized psychological disorder is spelled out very clearly in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Safari they did because they had to. IE on the Mac was crap, and MS had no reason to care.
Firefox and Camino were both available and mature. They made Safari because, for whatever reason, they *wanted* to design their own browser.
Hopefully they don't continue the unfortunate RTS trend of focusing more on offense, to the exclusive of defense and the intricacies of building up an economy.
My problem is that I enjoy base-building and defense too much. I lost many a Starcraft game because I never got around to attacking, and the game is designed so that no base is impenetrable. One of the things I love about Civilization IV is that peace and diplomacy is a perfectly viable and enjoyable strategy. It fits me like a glove.
They use the term "spirituality" like its a defined psychological term. They just chose some arbitrary ideas and declared them to be a measurement of spirituality. Perhaps the worst is "belief in a higher power". If "spiritual" is a basic mental state, then whether or not one agrees with the proposition that X exists is hardly a measure of that state. It would make more sense, but still be utterly bogus, to take belief in angels and an invisible man in the sky as a measure of psychosis.
whatever they do on Tatooine for entertainment
Shoot womp rats? Jesus, I'm not even a big fan of the movies and I knew that. :-P
The problem was we are all now in our 30s for example trying to watch a film made for young kids and expecting to see it like a young kid. The fact is the prequels were not made for us, they were made for kids and teens. The same way the original 3 were made. Have a 30 year old watch Star Wars for the first time and, on the few times I've been able to find someone who has never seen it, gotten the same 'meh' response I had to the Phantom Menace.
I saw Episode I when I was 14. I basically felt like everyone else, that it sucked. I just watched episodes IV and V again (haven't got around to VI) for the first time since I was even younger, and I admit that I was a bit underwhelmed: not as good (now) as I remember them (then). However, they're still profoundly better than the prequels.
Incidentally, from what I understand, the original trilogy was a big hit with all ages when it came out.
spreading out and being racist (ok, species-ist)
Actually, that's a real word.
The love/hate relationship obsessive fans have with their objects of devotion is indeed worthy of investigation. I looked through the archives at snpp.com, which record comments on/reviews of Simpsons episodes on the Simpsons newsgroup. The first episode they record any real reviews for, Radio Bart, is episode 13 in season 3. It got great reviews. With the very next episode, you start getting reviews saying that the Simpsons had lost its way, become crap, etc.. Obsessed Simpsons fans have been saying that over and over to this very day.
Star Wars is a little bit different, though. The prequels just sucked. There's no psychological analysis necessary. They were just lame movies.
Give me a break. Even the title of the story doesn't imply which causes which. Just because they've "only" found a correlation, that doesn't mean there's "nothing to see here".
The trend is that the average age of gamers is now in the 30s.
I get the sneaking suspicion that you pulled that out of your ass (or whoever you're getting that from is full of shit). Gaming has been growing more and more mainstream, even ubiquitous, over successive generations. It may have reached its peak (can't get more popular than "everybody plays video games") by now, but it didn't with kids growing up in the 80s. I know it wasn't completely true in the 90s, when I was growing up.
I have yet to come across one single game I had any trouble playing an unbought copy of because of DRM (granted, figuring out how to get around it maybe have taken *someone* a lot of work, but not me). Anyway, to reiterate: not once have I been stopped by DRM from pirating a game. On the other hand, if I do purchase a game, you can bet I'm one of those people who won't get one that makes me jump through hoops just to play a game I actually paid for.
TraceMonkey makes it reasonable to set Digg to automatically expand all comments. That alone makes me love it (though I'm increasingly hating Digg).
Chrome : Chromium is closer to Firefox : Icewasel. For better or worse, right or wrong, Mozilla owns their brand names and protects them as proprietary property.
I don't know about getting rid of all down moderations, but Overrated and especially Offtopic should go away. They provide no benefit.
Actually, that's the number three need (according to a certain Abraham Maslow).
Maslow's hierarchy of needs:
1) Physiological (food, sleep, etc.)
2) Safety
3) Love/Belonging
4) Esteem (confidence, achievement, respect, etc.)
5) Self-actualization (all the great stuff one can do when all their basic needs are met, Cleared Theta Clear =)
Yes, because clearly our actions abroad could never come back to bite us on the ass.
Don't forget that Bush outright promoted using nukes again ("bunker buster" nukes). There's also the little-mentioned detail that Obama's new budget will increase spending on nuclear weapons by 7 billion dollars. The US government's love affair with The Bomb hasn't gone anywhere.
Maybe it's obvious to everybody else, but what problem is this law supposed to solve? What are the arguments in favor of it?
I don't want to live in a world where the US can threaten nuclear attack knowing that it can't be retaliated against.
Forgive me if this is an ignorant question, but is there a particular reason these aren't being called "electric motorcycles"?
I don't know where you got that idea, but Android has no Flash support to date. There were promises of support for all Android phones by the end of 2009. Current word is that it'll be out by the end of the first half of 2010, for Android 2 phones only.
I strongly disagree with your premise. Whether or not the German government's policy is wrong, there's no such thing as Parents' Rights. It's a horrible concept. When it comes down to a choice between respecting the rights of the parents and protecting the rights of the child, the child should win every time -- at least in principal, which is why using the term "right" is wrong. There are good arguments against disallowing homeschooling, including from a civil liberties perspective, but that isn't one of them.
I just did. I still see the same thing.
I see an ordered, numeric list. What are you seeing?