Yeah, that was a hastily thrown together argument. I blended Woody being creepy with Polanski raping a 13 year into one charge of child molestation. Point is, no one seems to have a problem with 90% of the creepy/illegal shit entertainers do, but one campaigns against gay marriage and they start a boycott. It's just a weird hypocrisy. There are probably much worse people than Orson Scott Card who have received plenty of Hatta's money. But whatever, way to take a stand on something.
While I disagree with the guy's views, I wonder about the zealotry against him. Did you to see Midnight in Paris? How about The Piano? If you are that concerned with the character of those who benefit from your entertainment consumption, should I take your choice to watch those as an endorsement of child molestation? And if you haven't seen those, give me any list of 20 movies you like, I'm sure I could find others.
Valve has a long history of finding value in community creations. Most of their biggest games started out as mods. So it makes sense that they would want to keep up this concept of seeing what the users can come up with.
This is how I feel. I hate intrusive DRM. And I'm not a person that bitches about it and then shovels money at the companies that screw over their customers. I have not bought Diablo 3, SimCity, any Ubisoft game, any GFWL game, or any other (non-multiplayer) game that requires 100% online. But I have no trouble with Steam, because it has never once caused me any inconvenience. I have not been without internet for more than a day in the past decade, so it's once-a-week check-in isn't an issue for me.
I guess I'd like the ability to resell games, but not really, cause I never sold my old boxed games. I never know when the mood will strike to play something five years later.
From the Questions section, they say you can hack it as you like, change the OS, change the hardware, and that the SteamOS source code will be available.
Yeah, I hate the TSA as much as anyone, and have not flown in at least 6 years because of it, but I'm having trouble believing this account as 100% accurate. If it were, why can't he link to any credible news report about it? There is not a single journalist out there interested in exposing government abuse? He doesn't even have any communication with JetBlue over the matter posted. Surely he discussed this while trying to get a refund? No e-mails or anything? I don't doubt he dealt with some overzealous TSA agents, and that he felt singled out because of his appearance, but I think he has really tried to sensationalize the story.
This is very well put. I think the hardest thing I've had to learn working in IT is not how to write code or troubleshoot software, but how to talk to non-IT people. When I first arrived at my current job, I saw many opportunities to improve things, and excitedly suggested a dozen projects. All people would hear though was that I thought they were bad at there jobs, the only reason they could see that I could be talking about improving how they do things. I'm still working on that aspect.
I lived in a neighborhood where a brat kid several times shot out car windows with a BB gun (including mine once). If later someone moved in and burned down my house, raped my dog, and stole my mail, I wouldn't say "More of the same (TM)".
You're not answering the question. Yes, terrible President, terrible Vice President. Not the One True Evil, where all following Evils are just another version of that Evil. This reeks of the usual Democrat/Republican partisan crap, so since Obama is unpopular now, instead of talking about him and his policies, they try to paint him as Bush 2.0.
Why do so many people treat Bush like Original Sin? Bush is not the First, Greatest, or Final Evil. The world was not perfect pre-Bush, and the world post-Bush is not a mirror image. The Obama administration has some originality you know.
Any 1000 average people are richer than one rich person. If they act as a group, they are just as influential.
That is incorrect. Discretionary income is what matters here. If the 1000 average people make just enough to cover their basic necessities, and assuming the 1 rich person has the same basic necessities, than he has a near infinite greater discretionary income, which is the source of influence in this argument.
I can't help but feel a lot of this anti-Google venom is from people not living in one of the cities getting fiber.
For what it's worth, I'm getting my fiber hookup in a couple weeks, I will be hosting my own server from home (just a hobby, non-profit, doubt it'll get any traffic), and I really don't expect to get any trouble for it.
XBox One is no longer a gaming console. Microsoft has reversed the policy about playing games on their upcoming console. The company has not revealed what it will do now, but given the amount of anger over every move they have made so far, industry analysts believe it may be their best decision now to just do nothing.
No, you were recorded as an "on the fence consumer". The only thing remaining for you to make a purchasing decision was complete turkey fat fryer immersion. Surely if your inbox, weather report, news feed, and pr0n all featured banners and videos of turkey fat, you would jump into that greasy purchase.
I wouldn't do that. I'm sure at some point the IAB will announce "we've received thousands of e-mails" with zero mention if they are all telling them to go fuck themselves. And I wouldn't expect any news site to think twice about publishing their article about the massive outcry at StopMozzilla@aboutads.info. No, if you want to support Mozilla, switch your browser to Mozilla, tell your friends to switch, switch your families' computers or anyone else that you provide any kind of computer advice to.
I disagree. The more intrusive your advertising is, the more people are likely to search for solutions. This pushes more and more of your users to adopt script and ad blockers (really, abp is so simple to install and use I'm amazed anyone doesn't at least use it). I read a study recently, unfortunately I don't have the source, that suggested 10% of internet users are now running ad blockers. Facebook has to try to estimate how many more people will start blocking all ads, and if the lost value of an increased portion of their users not seeing any ads at all is more or less than the increased revenue from inflicting more intrusive ads on those remaining unblocked.
That is reasonable, and I wasn't looking at this article as any kind of comprehensive study on the merits of deploying Linux in the workforce. It serves as no more than anecdotal evidence, but as an IT support staff for a medium size office who has to choose and deploy software for a lot of non-IT people, citing that high school girls picked it up fine would make me inclined to think our typical office staff can handle it.
There are still plenty other reasons why we won't or can't deploy Linux in our office, but the fact that a girl's high school did is not one of them.
Let me understand this: high school girls have no trouble using Linux, and high school girls like Twilight and Bieber, hence, Linux must suck? Am I understanding your logic ok here?
My take from this story is that a group of people with no general predisposition toward using an OS that is commonly seen as difficult to learn and just for geek hobbyists picked up on it without trouble.
Why would you assume the normal user is rational and practical? If you've ever worked desktop support, you wouldn't. So the point of this article is that a group of students, in this case high school age females, had no trouble with the transition. There is no reason I can think of to assume they would be more likely to adapt then another sample.
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Yeah, my mistake. The Polanski one.
Yeah, that was a hastily thrown together argument. I blended Woody being creepy with Polanski raping a 13 year into one charge of child molestation. Point is, no one seems to have a problem with 90% of the creepy/illegal shit entertainers do, but one campaigns against gay marriage and they start a boycott. It's just a weird hypocrisy. There are probably much worse people than Orson Scott Card who have received plenty of Hatta's money. But whatever, way to take a stand on something.
While I disagree with the guy's views, I wonder about the zealotry against him. Did you to see Midnight in Paris? How about The Piano? If you are that concerned with the character of those who benefit from your entertainment consumption, should I take your choice to watch those as an endorsement of child molestation? And if you haven't seen those, give me any list of 20 movies you like, I'm sure I could find others.
Steam already does sell non-game software: Steam Software
Valve has a long history of finding value in community creations. Most of their biggest games started out as mods. So it makes sense that they would want to keep up this concept of seeing what the users can come up with.
This is how I feel. I hate intrusive DRM. And I'm not a person that bitches about it and then shovels money at the companies that screw over their customers. I have not bought Diablo 3, SimCity, any Ubisoft game, any GFWL game, or any other (non-multiplayer) game that requires 100% online. But I have no trouble with Steam, because it has never once caused me any inconvenience. I have not been without internet for more than a day in the past decade, so it's once-a-week check-in isn't an issue for me.
I guess I'd like the ability to resell games, but not really, cause I never sold my old boxed games. I never know when the mood will strike to play something five years later.
From the Questions section, they say you can hack it as you like, change the OS, change the hardware, and that the SteamOS source code will be available.
Yeah, I hate the TSA as much as anyone, and have not flown in at least 6 years because of it, but I'm having trouble believing this account as 100% accurate. If it were, why can't he link to any credible news report about it? There is not a single journalist out there interested in exposing government abuse? He doesn't even have any communication with JetBlue over the matter posted. Surely he discussed this while trying to get a refund? No e-mails or anything? I don't doubt he dealt with some overzealous TSA agents, and that he felt singled out because of his appearance, but I think he has really tried to sensationalize the story.
This is very well put. I think the hardest thing I've had to learn working in IT is not how to write code or troubleshoot software, but how to talk to non-IT people. When I first arrived at my current job, I saw many opportunities to improve things, and excitedly suggested a dozen projects. All people would hear though was that I thought they were bad at there jobs, the only reason they could see that I could be talking about improving how they do things. I'm still working on that aspect.
I lived in a neighborhood where a brat kid several times shot out car windows with a BB gun (including mine once). If later someone moved in and burned down my house, raped my dog, and stole my mail, I wouldn't say "More of the same (TM)".
You're not answering the question. Yes, terrible President, terrible Vice President. Not the One True Evil, where all following Evils are just another version of that Evil. This reeks of the usual Democrat/Republican partisan crap, so since Obama is unpopular now, instead of talking about him and his policies, they try to paint him as Bush 2.0.
Why do so many people treat Bush like Original Sin? Bush is not the First, Greatest, or Final Evil. The world was not perfect pre-Bush, and the world post-Bush is not a mirror image. The Obama administration has some originality you know.
And reading the comments, especially on the Reuters article, is depressing. There is a lot of hate out there, and blind devotion to the overlords.
Any 1000 average people are richer than one rich person. If they act as a group, they are just as influential.
That is incorrect. Discretionary income is what matters here. If the 1000 average people make just enough to cover their basic necessities, and assuming the 1 rich person has the same basic necessities, than he has a near infinite greater discretionary income, which is the source of influence in this argument.
I can't help but feel a lot of this anti-Google venom is from people not living in one of the cities getting fiber.
For what it's worth, I'm getting my fiber hookup in a couple weeks, I will be hosting my own server from home (just a hobby, non-profit, doubt it'll get any traffic), and I really don't expect to get any trouble for it.
XBox One is no longer a gaming console. Microsoft has reversed the policy about playing games on their upcoming console. The company has not revealed what it will do now, but given the amount of anger over every move they have made so far, industry analysts believe it may be their best decision now to just do nothing.
No, you were recorded as an "on the fence consumer". The only thing remaining for you to make a purchasing decision was complete turkey fat fryer immersion. Surely if your inbox, weather report, news feed, and pr0n all featured banners and videos of turkey fat, you would jump into that greasy purchase.
I wouldn't do that. I'm sure at some point the IAB will announce "we've received thousands of e-mails" with zero mention if they are all telling them to go fuck themselves. And I wouldn't expect any news site to think twice about publishing their article about the massive outcry at StopMozzilla@aboutads.info. No, if you want to support Mozilla, switch your browser to Mozilla, tell your friends to switch, switch your families' computers or anyone else that you provide any kind of computer advice to.
You fail horribly at reply direction.
I disagree. The more intrusive your advertising is, the more people are likely to search for solutions. This pushes more and more of your users to adopt script and ad blockers (really, abp is so simple to install and use I'm amazed anyone doesn't at least use it). I read a study recently, unfortunately I don't have the source, that suggested 10% of internet users are now running ad blockers. Facebook has to try to estimate how many more people will start blocking all ads, and if the lost value of an increased portion of their users not seeing any ads at all is more or less than the increased revenue from inflicting more intrusive ads on those remaining unblocked.
That is all.
That is reasonable, and I wasn't looking at this article as any kind of comprehensive study on the merits of deploying Linux in the workforce. It serves as no more than anecdotal evidence, but as an IT support staff for a medium size office who has to choose and deploy software for a lot of non-IT people, citing that high school girls picked it up fine would make me inclined to think our typical office staff can handle it.
There are still plenty other reasons why we won't or can't deploy Linux in our office, but the fact that a girl's high school did is not one of them.
Let me understand this: high school girls have no trouble using Linux, and high school girls like Twilight and Bieber, hence, Linux must suck? Am I understanding your logic ok here?
My take from this story is that a group of people with no general predisposition toward using an OS that is commonly seen as difficult to learn and just for geek hobbyists picked up on it without trouble.
Why would you assume the normal user is rational and practical? If you've ever worked desktop support, you wouldn't. So the point of this article is that a group of students, in this case high school age females, had no trouble with the transition. There is no reason I can think of to assume they would be more likely to adapt then another sample.
Is there any reason to think this user base would be any more or less likely to adapt to Linux than a "normal user base"?