So by your description, they already don't know who's inside the theater so, by their rationale, it's already "very difficult to provide security." Why sue over a person who's selling the tickets?
It's a problem that will be solved gradually, before the lawyers can really catch a hold of it. It's not like cars tomorrow till be driving themselves. At first, it will come in the form of a better cruise control that will move with the road and maintain speed. It will still be up to the driver to keep control so they will be held liable. Then at some point it will be mandated that cars have some form of RFID chip to broadcast their location to cars nearby, so now there will be a cruise control that might change lanes and slow down when cars are near. If the technology develops so that it is safer to drive with the computer at the wheel then with the driver there, then it's going to become mandatory, just so long as there isn't a rash of fatal car crashes that show that computerized cars are dangerous.
Better to fix the leak rather than put a bigger or more sophisticated bucket under it.
Cars that drive themselves are a way of fixing the leak... what you're proposing is fixing the leak by tearing out all of the pipes and starting from scratch. Cities have already been built. It will be VERY time consuming and EXTREMELY costly to rebuild them to be more efficient with everything within walking distance. Cars are constantly changing, new models come out every year and nowadays have a 10 year shelf life. We could update pretty much our whole society into self-driving cars within 20 years and at the expense of the driver. Can the same be said about rebuilding cities?
The main evil with Microsoft is seen by the IT professional, not the consumer. With Apple, it's generally the other way around.
It's the IT professionals and developers that are on Microsoft's and Apple's case. The consumer just doesn't care either way. The regular consumer doesn't care that the iPhone SDK is under a strict NDA because the regular consumer doesn't write iPhone apps. The regular consumer judges the product by what it is capable of doing right now, and not what it can do if hackers got a hold of it. This is why Microsoft is losing market share to Apple; not because Microsoft is evil and Apple is less evil, but because Microsoft Vista makes using the computer a more difficult experience than Apple does. There's a lot of whining going on among developers, and the main difference is that developers and power users want the hardware to be free and open to them to do as they please because functionality is king. Apple, though, wants it closed so they could keep the user experience consistent for the regular consumer because to them form is king*. This is the unstoppable force meeting the immovable object and the argument has been going on with Apple for over a decade.
* Of course, there will be people responding that Apple thinks money, and not form, is king, and that's the ultimate truth. To Apple, though, making a product with a consistent and pleasing user interface is what's making them money hand over fist.
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There were a bunch of people trying to kill the lawyer, including the one cop that had his wife in the hospital. The problem with just killing that guy to satisfy the Joker is that the Joker has lied about everything since the beginning of the movie. Why would anybody (especially law enforcement) trust him to keep his word and not blow up the hospital? It makes sense that they didn't just kill the lawyer - we don't bow down to terrorist demands. As for the lawyer giving up Batman's identity; Bruce Wayne saved the lawyer's life when he drove his car in front of the van that was going to crash into the lawyer's vehicle. The lawyer saw what Bruce Wayne did and I took it that he at that point realized that he shouldn't give up Batman's identity since Wayne saved his life even in spite of him about to give away his identity. That's what I got out of it anyway. Sure they could have had a newscast or something at the end with the lawyer saying he was gonna keep Batman's identity a secret, but what would be the point?
You forgot to add that Global Warming is another factor in keeping pirates in check, as shown by this chart. Since this whole scheme is made to stop Global Warming, that would increase the number of pirates even faster than you can imagine!
All of your issues have been talked about in another response, but I'll respond as well. I just got rid of my Treo to get the iPhone and I have to say it's the best phone I've ever owned, and I'm not much for hype. It just a good smartphone. I don't know what magic phone provider you have (you might be in Australia, so that would explain it) but in the US, every carrier has crap restrictions that beat the pants off anything Apple can do with their phone and App Store. 25 cents a text message? 3 bucks for a ringtone when you can't use your own mp3s? This is standard fare for a US carrier and it's ridiculous. So, I'll go through your list and make a comparison.
1) Heavily restricted and requires "jailbreak" - Every phone in the US is heavily restricted. In comparison, the iPhone is a dream. I haven't seen as many free high quality apps on my Treo (which cost me more at Verizon than the iPhone did) and on general, the Treo apps were more expensive than their iPhone counterparts.
2) I read that in Australia at least must be hooked up to iTunes before it can make anything other than emergency calls! WTF???? - What's the problem here? The iPhone is a small computer that benefits from being hooked up to your desktop. It backs up contacts, e-mail, etc and most importantly it links up to your iTunes library to get music from it. If you're not using iTunes already and don't want your phone to play music and videos or save contacts to your desktop, then why are you getting an iPhone? You probably just want something that comes free from your carrier with a 2-year contract.
3) Doesn't play as many different types of media as other devices? - Again, it plays anything that iTunes plays, and there's a ton of converters to convert your ogg vorbis files into a compatible format. In comparison, my Treo didn't even support video and had crap support for any music format (without a 3rd party app). What magic phone does what the iPhone does as well as support any format you want?
4) Overhyped and overpriced - Overhyped yes, but overpriced definitely not. I paid $350 for my Treo and had to sign a 2 year contract with Verizon. In comparison, I paid 300 for the iPhone, it has a LOT more built in storage than the Treo does, supports video and music out of the box, has a better browser, and a better interface.
5) Built in expensive to replace battery. - As someone has already said, there are a couple of battery rechargers for the iPhone on the go which solves the problem of running out of battery power in the middle of nowhere.
6) No storage expansion. - It's also got the biggest internal drive from any phone I know of. I got the 16 gig version. My internal Treo storage was measured in the megabytes with an expansion card that didn't come NEAR the storage of the iPhone. How is this an issue?
Where is this magic phone that you're talking about that is $100-$150 bucks (since the cheapest iPhone is $200 and according to you "overpriced"), plays every format with a screen at the quality as the iPhones, is completely open to any carrier and any developers and, has a fully useable web browser, and a good intuitive user interface? Tell me about it and I'll buy it immediately. Until then, the iPhone is the best phone I've ever owned.
Why not require sedating of all passengers on international flights?
If it puts those damn screaming kids to rest, I'm for it. Actually, since flying in and of itself is annoying, time consuming, and uncomfortable, setting up a sedation policy will go over better with the public than shock bracelets will and might be more effective as well.
I think if they could have shut up their most ardent supporters, the Democrats would have won the last election.
That's a load of crap. It wasn't the ardent democrat supporters who lost the election, it was the ardent Republican supports being more underhanded. They turned "swiftboating" into a verb. Stuff like this doesn't backfire because the majority of the population just looks at the message and not the messenger.
you're completely right that some programmers Could get bilked by a rogue artist. If not for this quote from the article, I would have given them the benefit of the doubt;
"Between the three of us we researched, wrote, designed, animated, scripted and developed the whole game from home."
I believe Obama is a "person who can evaluate situations as they come along and apply a little bit of common sense in government." Maybe that's why his technology representative is from MIT while McCain's is a former Time Warner executive. I forgot who it was (maybe one of you/.ers will remember) but awhile back a major tech guy endorsed Obama and one of his anecdotes for doing so is that he had a conversation with him in which Obama asked questions that showed that he genuinely wanted to know how the tech worked and where it was going. I wish I still had the link as it would make a stronger case for him, but I think Obama is the best candidate for the job because I believe he's shown himself to be good at evaluating situations. He's ran his campaign pretty well while Hillary drained away all of her money. The media's been very kind to McCain but I think they're just waiting for the general election to start bringing it all out.
It would be sad to take the example of primitive people as how we should treat aliens attempting to make contact. What if we attempt an attack and they realize we still basically haven't left the trees and just move on? If they're really evil and are sophisticated enough to build spaceships capable of traveling to meet us, then we have no chance of surviving an attack, much like these people with their bows and arrows. If they're peaceful, then why even attempt an attack? "To see how serious they are about making contact" seems like a pretty stupid excuse for it. If there's peaceful aliens out there, then we want to meet them and learn from them.
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hence the "more than 25-30 years old" in the original post. Jeez, young people today have no reading comprehension skills... now get off my lawn!
They're crumbling walls and the Lego pieces are temoprary. What's the problem? Not every old wall is an ancient relic... some are just old walls.
So by your description, they already don't know who's inside the theater so, by their rationale, it's already "very difficult to provide security." Why sue over a person who's selling the tickets?
Well, no one's debating that girls aren't better at English.
It's a problem that will be solved gradually, before the lawyers can really catch a hold of it. It's not like cars tomorrow till be driving themselves. At first, it will come in the form of a better cruise control that will move with the road and maintain speed. It will still be up to the driver to keep control so they will be held liable. Then at some point it will be mandated that cars have some form of RFID chip to broadcast their location to cars nearby, so now there will be a cruise control that might change lanes and slow down when cars are near. If the technology develops so that it is safer to drive with the computer at the wheel then with the driver there, then it's going to become mandatory, just so long as there isn't a rash of fatal car crashes that show that computerized cars are dangerous.
Better to fix the leak rather than put a bigger or more sophisticated bucket under it.
Cars that drive themselves are a way of fixing the leak... what you're proposing is fixing the leak by tearing out all of the pipes and starting from scratch. Cities have already been built. It will be VERY time consuming and EXTREMELY costly to rebuild them to be more efficient with everything within walking distance. Cars are constantly changing, new models come out every year and nowadays have a 10 year shelf life. We could update pretty much our whole society into self-driving cars within 20 years and at the expense of the driver. Can the same be said about rebuilding cities?
The main evil with Microsoft is seen by the IT professional, not the consumer. With Apple, it's generally the other way around.
It's the IT professionals and developers that are on Microsoft's and Apple's case. The consumer just doesn't care either way. The regular consumer doesn't care that the iPhone SDK is under a strict NDA because the regular consumer doesn't write iPhone apps. The regular consumer judges the product by what it is capable of doing right now, and not what it can do if hackers got a hold of it. This is why Microsoft is losing market share to Apple; not because Microsoft is evil and Apple is less evil, but because Microsoft Vista makes using the computer a more difficult experience than Apple does. There's a lot of whining going on among developers, and the main difference is that developers and power users want the hardware to be free and open to them to do as they please because functionality is king. Apple, though, wants it closed so they could keep the user experience consistent for the regular consumer because to them form is king*. This is the unstoppable force meeting the immovable object and the argument has been going on with Apple for over a decade.
* Of course, there will be people responding that Apple thinks money, and not form, is king, and that's the ultimate truth. To Apple, though, making a product with a consistent and pleasing user interface is what's making them money hand over fist.
There were a bunch of people trying to kill the lawyer, including the one cop that had his wife in the hospital. The problem with just killing that guy to satisfy the Joker is that the Joker has lied about everything since the beginning of the movie. Why would anybody (especially law enforcement) trust him to keep his word and not blow up the hospital? It makes sense that they didn't just kill the lawyer - we don't bow down to terrorist demands. As for the lawyer giving up Batman's identity; Bruce Wayne saved the lawyer's life when he drove his car in front of the van that was going to crash into the lawyer's vehicle. The lawyer saw what Bruce Wayne did and I took it that he at that point realized that he shouldn't give up Batman's identity since Wayne saved his life even in spite of him about to give away his identity. That's what I got out of it anyway. Sure they could have had a newscast or something at the end with the lawyer saying he was gonna keep Batman's identity a secret, but what would be the point?
You forgot to add that Global Warming is another factor in keeping pirates in check, as shown by this chart. Since this whole scheme is made to stop Global Warming, that would increase the number of pirates even faster than you can imagine!
All of your issues have been talked about in another response, but I'll respond as well. I just got rid of my Treo to get the iPhone and I have to say it's the best phone I've ever owned, and I'm not much for hype. It just a good smartphone. I don't know what magic phone provider you have (you might be in Australia, so that would explain it) but in the US, every carrier has crap restrictions that beat the pants off anything Apple can do with their phone and App Store. 25 cents a text message? 3 bucks for a ringtone when you can't use your own mp3s? This is standard fare for a US carrier and it's ridiculous. So, I'll go through your list and make a comparison.
1) Heavily restricted and requires "jailbreak" - Every phone in the US is heavily restricted. In comparison, the iPhone is a dream. I haven't seen as many free high quality apps on my Treo (which cost me more at Verizon than the iPhone did) and on general, the Treo apps were more expensive than their iPhone counterparts.
2) I read that in Australia at least must be hooked up to iTunes before it can make anything other than emergency calls! WTF???? - What's the problem here? The iPhone is a small computer that benefits from being hooked up to your desktop. It backs up contacts, e-mail, etc and most importantly it links up to your iTunes library to get music from it. If you're not using iTunes already and don't want your phone to play music and videos or save contacts to your desktop, then why are you getting an iPhone? You probably just want something that comes free from your carrier with a 2-year contract.
3) Doesn't play as many different types of media as other devices? - Again, it plays anything that iTunes plays, and there's a ton of converters to convert your ogg vorbis files into a compatible format. In comparison, my Treo didn't even support video and had crap support for any music format (without a 3rd party app). What magic phone does what the iPhone does as well as support any format you want?
4) Overhyped and overpriced - Overhyped yes, but overpriced definitely not. I paid $350 for my Treo and had to sign a 2 year contract with Verizon. In comparison, I paid 300 for the iPhone, it has a LOT more built in storage than the Treo does, supports video and music out of the box, has a better browser, and a better interface.
5) Built in expensive to replace battery. - As someone has already said, there are a couple of battery rechargers for the iPhone on the go which solves the problem of running out of battery power in the middle of nowhere.
6) No storage expansion. - It's also got the biggest internal drive from any phone I know of. I got the 16 gig version. My internal Treo storage was measured in the megabytes with an expansion card that didn't come NEAR the storage of the iPhone. How is this an issue?
Where is this magic phone that you're talking about that is $100-$150 bucks (since the cheapest iPhone is $200 and according to you "overpriced"), plays every format with a screen at the quality as the iPhones, is completely open to any carrier and any developers and, has a fully useable web browser, and a good intuitive user interface? Tell me about it and I'll buy it immediately. Until then, the iPhone is the best phone I've ever owned.
Umm... that sloth wasn't radioactive.
Google could set another precedent in webmail by introducing outgoing filters which would block or slow down mail appearing to be 'spammy'.
The day that happens is the day I never get an e-mail from my grandma again.
By saying that, you've just solidified it's meme status.
Sounds like Deja Vu at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
Why not require sedating of all passengers on international flights?
If it puts those damn screaming kids to rest, I'm for it. Actually, since flying in and of itself is annoying, time consuming, and uncomfortable, setting up a sedation policy will go over better with the public than shock bracelets will and might be more effective as well.
if the earth was to go boom, (and somehow live), we'd lose our reference.
I think in that case, we're gonna have other things to worry about than knowing the exact measurement of 1kg
(4) Stand back and watch the fun as they are forced to recall every last fuckin' license plate and replace it with numbers-only plates.
I just got one word for that... 5319009
I think if they could have shut up their most ardent supporters, the Democrats would have won the last election.
That's a load of crap. It wasn't the ardent democrat supporters who lost the election, it was the ardent Republican supports being more underhanded. They turned "swiftboating" into a verb. Stuff like this doesn't backfire because the majority of the population just looks at the message and not the messenger.
you're completely right that some programmers Could get bilked by a rogue artist. If not for this quote from the article, I would have given them the benefit of the doubt;
"Between the three of us we researched, wrote, designed, animated, scripted and developed the whole game from home."
I'm sure with those rules, you're a big hit with the ladies.
To what extent have studies like this modified governments' behavior?
They're going to need another study to find that out.
I believe Obama is a "person who can evaluate situations as they come along and apply a little bit of common sense in government." Maybe that's why his technology representative is from MIT while McCain's is a former Time Warner executive. I forgot who it was (maybe one of you /.ers will remember) but awhile back a major tech guy endorsed Obama and one of his anecdotes for doing so is that he had a conversation with him in which Obama asked questions that showed that he genuinely wanted to know how the tech worked and where it was going. I wish I still had the link as it would make a stronger case for him, but I think Obama is the best candidate for the job because I believe he's shown himself to be good at evaluating situations. He's ran his campaign pretty well while Hillary drained away all of her money. The media's been very kind to McCain but I think they're just waiting for the general election to start bringing it all out.
It would be sad to take the example of primitive people as how we should treat aliens attempting to make contact. What if we attempt an attack and they realize we still basically haven't left the trees and just move on? If they're really evil and are sophisticated enough to build spaceships capable of traveling to meet us, then we have no chance of surviving an attack, much like these people with their bows and arrows. If they're peaceful, then why even attempt an attack? "To see how serious they are about making contact" seems like a pretty stupid excuse for it. If there's peaceful aliens out there, then we want to meet them and learn from them.
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