You can assess the moral fiber of a person when (s)he is in a situation that they can get away with something.
It's certainly possible to do so, but what conclusion you come to is another matter entirely.
I would definitely have a certain perception about someone who insists on keeping an accidently misdelivered item. That person would likely do the same with a found wallet.
You can assess the moral fiber of a person when (s)he is in a situation that they can get away with something.
Helping or not to rectify an honest mistake is such a situation.
I fully agree. It is normal decency. If you make such a mistake you'd also want your stuff back.
Hate to quote by memory from the bible, but that old saying "don't do upon others what you don't want them to do upon you" is still a good approach to life.
I also don't quite get the argument that because it's a big retailer, there is no guilt over keeping the stuff. The size of the originator is irrelevant in my opinion.
Also, it was clearly not a scam trying to sell the console, simply a dumb mistake.
So far in his prolific career, Stross has never been short of ideas. Writer's Block is highly unlikely. As he posts in the blog, likely he will write a book with the recent NSA revelations as the baseline, and extrapolate from there.
I agree about its general slowness on windows. It must be said that on osx it works smoothly, from my direct experience, i like to buy music and apps through it, and it plays music through an apple tv and an airport express in the house, without any configuration.
While scientifically interesting, I can imagine a dystopian future where employers mandate their works to wear special "brain helmets" so that they are fully focused on the task at hand...
Oh, I know that, it is a nice theory. However in many cases we end up with many half-finished applications for roughly the same functionality instead of one neat app. Gnome and KDE are each quite succesful but they and their apps could have been 4 years further in the evolution if there was one desktop. In my opinion!
I am a regular user of open source. I am not a programmer.
Obviously it has been successful in linux kernel stuff.
But while there are a number of successful end user application projects, there could be many more.
The one thing that is frustrating for me is how many interesting projects die when the primary programmer moves on. Also I find it a pity that several open source programmers work on competing projects, which often get left behind. Imagine if they had pulled forces together - like on the most succesful project such as VLC, it simply does not seem necessary to start your own variant project of these.
At the risk of getting flak, I always found it such a waste to have both KDE and GNOME desktop and overlapping related apps projects. Both are of course rather succesful, but imagine what the current status would be if people had stayed with one project instead.
You are very naive. I am European and lived recently in Singapore, now in Hong Kong and I notice that children in my family-in-law and of my friends have lots of challenging homework.
To be fair, it even goes too much, a little niece of my wife has to do an entry exam to go to a quality primary school. It is also common over here to get tutoring even if the kid scores say 85%, because (s)he should do better than that.
From direct observation this article did not surprise me at all.
I am all for modestly budgeted yet highly creative movies from all over the globe.
At the same time, it is unlikely that a movie like Gravity (my favourite film of 2013 despite the scientific errors) would have been possible at that technical quality level outside Hollywood.
It seems that these are stories from the late 1940s - early 1950s.
Years ago I had already found a document with uncollected Salinger stories (meaning, they were published in magazines, but never collected afterwards in book form). These were for the most part older work that in my opinion is not as elegantly crafted as his well known books and short stories. That document did also contain Hapworth 16, 1924 which was his last published story. I found it barely readable, strange as I have good memories of many of his published stories. A Perfect Day for Bananafish. For Esme, with Love and Squalor. Etc.
Now I have not revisited those cherished Salinger books in many years, so I don't know if I would still love them so much. But i am curious enough to give these newly uncovered stories a try.
HOWEVER, I would be much more interested in reading Salinger's later work, to see how his craft would evolve. If I am not mistaken, he has at least a few much more recent unpublished novels, which will now of course be very well guarded.
As an aside, in general I do NOT condone book piracy. I am an habitual buyer of paper books and kindle books. I don't mind paying for a cultural product. But sadly in this case the only way I will ever read these stories is through piracy. The chances are not that high that I will still be alive in 2060.
The author really wanted these and other unpublished work to be judged on its own merit, without being coloured about the notion of that reclusive author. I can see his point, but it is mightily frustrating.
Apple is quite succesful in marketing their thin computers, first the popular Macbook Air, now the Macbook Pro is nearly as thin. And thent here is also the slick ipad Air. I notice that most of my friends love the slick, thin design of these devices, rarely if every people wonder about repairability.
In this case, i am not sure it is such a big issue in practice. I would recommend to buy the machine with enough RAM to begin with, and despite the battery being glued I understand that Apple can easily exchange it for another one. The screen's lack of easy repairability, yes I can see that issue, but if you take Apple Care (as many do) then you do not need to care about that for three years. Even when repairable, when a laptop screen gives the ghost after say 5 years, most people would rather buy anew computer then rather than repair.
So, all in all, I am not sure how much of a dealbreaker these elements, esp. Considering that on the plus side you will have a marvelously thin and thus easily portable device.
I do expect that similar construction will soon be ubiquitous also amongst pc laptops. Most People tend to prefer the stylish presence of elegant, "trim" laptops. It will be difficult to offer both easy upgradability and sleekness together.
I did a quick google and found that he posted on September 16:
http://lists.kde.org/?a=120532466800019&r=1&w=2
So let us hope that the man returns.
On a bigger topic, this is the kind of software that would really benefit from having far more contributors. I am not a programmer but I'd think that working on a video editor is rather cool.
I wonder what the impact would be if everyone in the world would have a meatless monday. Of course, in some regions in the world not that much meat is eaten already now, but I expect that the total would be a significant difference.
I forgot to mention one thing which would have made my post more on topic: in the stock Memrise app that I use with the Mandarin course download, I have not yet encountered cute cats. Even so the methodology works really quite well to learn this fiendishly difficult to memorise language.
It seems to be a case of whatever rocks your boat.
I have been using Memrise since a while to learn Mandarin vocabulary including both characters and pronunciation and I have to say that its playful approach works very well indeed. It does not teach you the finesses of grammar but it works well for vocabulary. Really a cool app.
Why so cynical? I think it looks great, it will likely be talked about for many decades to come, just like Calatrava's designs.
As headquarters go, this is impressive.
I have also seen a wonderful project of someone using a raspberry pi inside a very oldfashioned table radio as an internet radio. Nice.
Or, using a gutted old Macintosh, you know the early all in one models, as an arcade machine.
Another application was using the pi as a wifi access point with ad filtering already built in.
All fun projects... for people with enough free time !
There are amways reasons not to do something or adopt something, and sadly slashdot it very good at pointing these things out instead of embracing what you can do.
Technically it is nice. It works great for games. But Apple is not really a game company so I am thinking how they would use it.
This could be, next to really innovative uses that are outside my limited imagination:
- gesture control for TV (Apple TV or upcoming TV)
- gesture controle of home automation (considering that they also bought a home automation firm), perhaps the sensor could be in the upcoming iwatch
- gesture control, next to the current input methods for osx and IOS - but I am not yet sure about the extra value.
- turn an iphone into a 3D scanner by for example tracing the outline of an object with one corner of the device.
So, I can imagine some use cases outside gaming, but somehow what I can come up with seem rahter nice to haves than killer apps. Any other ideas?
Actually, I am European, now living in Asia. Once again, my mindset is quite different from Americans or at leadt slashdot americans.
I fly approx 40 times per year. I have no real problem with tbe security checks that happen everywhere. They should at least discourage the more classic terrorist attempts.
I twice took an internal flight in the USA before the September 11 tragedy and I was shocked that there was so little security, at least compared to Europe back then. I thought back then already that it was asking for problems.
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You can assess the moral fiber of a person when (s)he is in a situation that they can get away with something.
It's certainly possible to do so, but what conclusion you come to is another matter entirely.
I would definitely have a certain perception about someone who insists on keeping an accidently misdelivered item. That person would likely do the same with a found wallet.
You can assess the moral fiber of a person when (s)he is in a situation that they can get away with something. Helping or not to rectify an honest mistake is such a situation.
I fully agree. It is normal decency. If you make such a mistake you'd also want your stuff back.
Hate to quote by memory from the bible, but that old saying "don't do upon others what you don't want them to do upon you" is still a good approach to life.
I also don't quite get the argument that because it's a big retailer, there is no guilt over keeping the stuff. The size of the originator is irrelevant in my opinion.
Also, it was clearly not a scam trying to sell the console, simply a dumb mistake.
So far in his prolific career, Stross has never been short of ideas. Writer's Block is highly unlikely. As he posts in the blog, likely he will write a book with the recent NSA revelations as the baseline, and extrapolate from there.
I agree about its general slowness on windows. It must be said that on osx it works smoothly, from my direct experience, i like to buy music and apps through it, and it plays music through an apple tv and an airport express in the house, without any configuration.
While scientifically interesting, I can imagine a dystopian future where employers mandate their works to wear special "brain helmets" so that they are fully focused on the task at hand...
Please explain how capitalism can thrive on piracy. Clearly it becomes less interesting to invest in big budget movies.
Thanks for your comment. This is exactly what I meant in my original post.
Oh, I know that, it is a nice theory. However in many cases we end up with many half-finished applications for roughly the same functionality instead of one neat app. Gnome and KDE are each quite succesful but they and their apps could have been 4 years further in the evolution if there was one desktop. In my opinion!
I am a regular user of open source. I am not a programmer. Obviously it has been successful in linux kernel stuff. But while there are a number of successful end user application projects, there could be many more. The one thing that is frustrating for me is how many interesting projects die when the primary programmer moves on. Also I find it a pity that several open source programmers work on competing projects, which often get left behind. Imagine if they had pulled forces together - like on the most succesful project such as VLC, it simply does not seem necessary to start your own variant project of these. At the risk of getting flak, I always found it such a waste to have both KDE and GNOME desktop and overlapping related apps projects. Both are of course rather succesful, but imagine what the current status would be if people had stayed with one project instead.
You are very naive. I am European and lived recently in Singapore, now in Hong Kong and I notice that children in my family-in-law and of my friends have lots of challenging homework.
To be fair, it even goes too much, a little niece of my wife has to do an entry exam to go to a quality primary school. It is also common over here to get tutoring even if the kid scores say 85%, because (s)he should do better than that.
From direct observation this article did not surprise me at all.
I am all for modestly budgeted yet highly creative movies from all over the globe. At the same time, it is unlikely that a movie like Gravity (my favourite film of 2013 despite the scientific errors) would have been possible at that technical quality level outside Hollywood.
>> the media industry however can die.
So, if it dies, which new movies will you enjoy?
It seems that these are stories from the late 1940s - early 1950s.
Years ago I had already found a document with uncollected Salinger stories (meaning, they were published in magazines, but never collected afterwards in book form). These were for the most part older work that in my opinion is not as elegantly crafted as his well known books and short stories. That document did also contain Hapworth 16, 1924 which was his last published story. I found it barely readable, strange as I have good memories of many of his published stories. A Perfect Day for Bananafish. For Esme, with Love and Squalor. Etc.
Now I have not revisited those cherished Salinger books in many years, so I don't know if I would still love them so much. But i am curious enough to give these newly uncovered stories a try.
HOWEVER, I would be much more interested in reading Salinger's later work, to see how his craft would evolve. If I am not mistaken, he has at least a few much more recent unpublished novels, which will now of course be very well guarded.
As an aside, in general I do NOT condone book piracy. I am an habitual buyer of paper books and kindle books. I don't mind paying for a cultural product. But sadly in this case the only way I will ever read these stories is through piracy. The chances are not that high that I will still be alive in 2060.
The author really wanted these and other unpublished work to be judged on its own merit, without being coloured about the notion of that reclusive author. I can see his point, but it is mightily frustrating.
Apple is quite succesful in marketing their thin computers, first the popular Macbook Air, now the Macbook Pro is nearly as thin. And thent here is also the slick ipad Air. I notice that most of my friends love the slick, thin design of these devices, rarely if every people wonder about repairability.
In this case, i am not sure it is such a big issue in practice. I would recommend to buy the machine with enough RAM to begin with, and despite the battery being glued I understand that Apple can easily exchange it for another one. The screen's lack of easy repairability, yes I can see that issue, but if you take Apple Care (as many do) then you do not need to care about that for three years. Even when repairable, when a laptop screen gives the ghost after say 5 years, most people would rather buy anew computer then rather than repair.
So, all in all, I am not sure how much of a dealbreaker these elements, esp. Considering that on the plus side you will have a marvelously thin and thus easily portable device.
I do expect that similar construction will soon be ubiquitous also amongst pc laptops. Most People tend to prefer the stylish presence of elegant, "trim" laptops. It will be difficult to offer both easy upgradability and sleekness together.
I did a quick google and found that he posted on September 16: http://lists.kde.org/?a=120532466800019&r=1&w=2 So let us hope that the man returns. On a bigger topic, this is the kind of software that would really benefit from having far more contributors. I am not a programmer but I'd think that working on a video editor is rather cool.
If he were a psychopath, he'd not be disturbed by it. Of course, maybe he's only faking being disturbed by it to promote his career.
Or, he's simply a scientist who discovers that he himself is an interesting test case.
I wonder what the impact would be if everyone in the world would have a meatless monday. Of course, in some regions in the world not that much meat is eaten already now, but I expect that the total would be a significant difference.
I forgot to mention one thing which would have made my post more on topic: in the stock Memrise app that I use with the Mandarin course download, I have not yet encountered cute cats. Even so the methodology works really quite well to learn this fiendishly difficult to memorise language. It seems to be a case of whatever rocks your boat.
I have been using Memrise since a while to learn Mandarin vocabulary including both characters and pronunciation and I have to say that its playful approach works very well indeed. It does not teach you the finesses of grammar but it works well for vocabulary. Really a cool app.
Why so cynical? I think it looks great, it will likely be talked about for many decades to come, just like Calatrava's designs. As headquarters go, this is impressive.
I have also seen a wonderful project of someone using a raspberry pi inside a very oldfashioned table radio as an internet radio. Nice. Or, using a gutted old Macintosh, you know the early all in one models, as an arcade machine. Another application was using the pi as a wifi access point with ad filtering already built in. All fun projects... for people with enough free time !
There are amways reasons not to do something or adopt something, and sadly slashdot it very good at pointing these things out instead of embracing what you can do.
Technically it is nice. It works great for games. But Apple is not really a game company so I am thinking how they would use it.
This could be, next to really innovative uses that are outside my limited imagination:
- gesture control for TV (Apple TV or upcoming TV)
- gesture controle of home automation (considering that they also bought a home automation firm), perhaps the sensor could be in the upcoming iwatch
- gesture control, next to the current input methods for osx and IOS - but I am not yet sure about the extra value.
- turn an iphone into a 3D scanner by for example tracing the outline of an object with one corner of the device.
So, I can imagine some use cases outside gaming, but somehow what I can come up with seem rahter nice to haves than killer apps. Any other ideas?
Actually, I am European, now living in Asia. Once again, my mindset is quite different from Americans or at leadt slashdot americans. I fly approx 40 times per year. I have no real problem with tbe security checks that happen everywhere. They should at least discourage the more classic terrorist attempts. I twice took an internal flight in the USA before the September 11 tragedy and I was shocked that there was so little security, at least compared to Europe back then. I thought back then already that it was asking for problems.