even if every mac on the planet turned into a robot and killed a baby before collapsing into a pile of toxic debris, it would only shut the fanboys up for 5 minutes
This is blatantly false and you know it!
If that happened, every true fanboy would immediately start talking about how awesome it was that Jobs had his own robot army.
Well, among other things if you want to stay true to the original game, every time a character disappears off one edge of the screen, they must immediately reappear at the opposite edge of the screen.
And the following must happen at least once:
CAPTAIN: "Fire!"
CREWMAN: "Sir, we can't - our last shot hasn't hit anything yet!"
I know, I know, that's dissociative identity disorder, but you still laughed.
Roses are red, Violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, And so am I.
Re:And what could be more pointless than Twitter?
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that is like complaining that phones or the web are overrated and pointless because most of the content is of no interest to you.
I disagree. It would be more like complaining that the 5-second time limit for phone calls, or the 140-byte limit for web pages is pointless... except that these limits don't exist.
You don't have to read those posts you know!
But you do have to wade through them if you're trying to find something interesting - which is the exact problem with Twitter.
Here's a rundown on why (and virtually everybody I've ever met) dislikes twitter:
Prelude: Traditional publishing relies on publishers and editors deciding what everyone should read. They take massive amounts of information, and strip out the crap (as they see it.) Blogging changes that - there are no publishers, we rely on other methods (reputation, moderation, etc) to filter the crap from the good stuff. (Clay Shirkey touches on that here, among other things, if you want a great read.:)
I've tried twitter a couple of times, but keep getting turned off by one simple thing: There doesn't appear to be any filtering mechanism. Everyone I've talked to about it says the same thing.
When I've met (online or off) someone interesting enough to want to follow their twitter feed, I went to their page, looking for a stream of what they've posted recently (maybe the last few days or weeks.) Instead, I'm greeted by one post from them, followed by masses of "replies" from people I don't know, saying things I really don't care about. I went to Twitter to find something, and Twitter makes it impossible to find it.
When I describe this to people I've met, they agree that this is why they don't use it - there's too much crap they don't want, and it's impossible (not just very difficult - actually impossible) to find what you do want.
Now, maybe it's just because I'm Canadian, but maybe not.
following the odd celebrity like the mythbusters is interesting.
Well, it might be, if there wasn't so much crap from other people on that page.
Some people on Palm boards or literally on their THIRD PRE because its so poorly constructed, yet a handful of iPhones get hot and Apple is this awful company.
I realize that in Macfanboyland this probably isn't true, but in the real world, it's possible for two companies to be bad at the same time.
In other words, just because Palm is bad, doesn't mean that Apple isn't either.
No, the price remains the same - the disposal cost exists whether it's paid by the manufacturer or the consumer. The only difference is that it all needs to be paid up-front, rather than the disposal cost being paid after the product's useful life.
Currently, product waste is an "externality" - the cost of recycling/disposing of the product is borne by someone other than the manufacturer. When buying a new item, virtually all consumers don't take into account the cost of disposal, but it still needs to be paid.
Making the manufacturers responsible for recycling/disposal of their products means that they will need to increase their price to the consumer, thereby showing the true cost of the product at purchase time.
BTW, I'm told New Zealand currently has a similar law (for all products, not just electronics), and it works quite well.
I would say that it's more like someone going into an emergency room with a paper cut and whining about how someone who has just been raped, thrown out of a car at 55mph, run over, lit on fire, then hacked up with machetes is getting treated first.
You would be wrong.
To make your analogy correct, it would be like someone going into an emergency room with a broken arm, and whining about how someone in an emergency room in another country is getting treated first.
If you don't stand against it openly, even if it is hypocritical to do so patriotically, then there's no reason for those within your own country to desist from their own actions.
No.
If you denounce it abroad, while not doing anything about it at home, then there's no reason for anyone to believe you're being sincere, and therefore you are actually saying it's a good thing.
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Can you clarify by what you mean by copy protected?
He means Apps with the "copy protected" flag set.
Do you mean I can't redownload apps I bought or you can't even buy apps on the unlocked phone?
Neither.
You can redownload apps you bought, and you can buy apps (even copy-protected ones) on an unlocked phone.
Apps that are flagged as "copy protected" cannot be copied from your phone to somewhere else. You can re-download them as many times as you want to your handset, however with a ADP1 (specific hardware purchased from Google for the purposes of software development) these apps are not available.
While this seems like an opinion that runs counter to many tenants slashdotters hold dear, I think we should at least consider it
No, we shouldn't. Unreasonable BS like this should *not* be considered.
As a copyright holder, I propose that all suspected infringers should be immediately castrated by copyright holders, or that copyright holders should be allowed to enslave anyone they suspect of infringing their content.
Is that reasonable? Fuck no. But by your own argument, we must at least consider it. So, how are you going to defend my proposal?
Posner is one of the most impressive judges on the bench today-- and in my opinion, one of the only judges that really 'get' all the issues surrounding copyright and digital things in general.
If he's serious about this then he most certainly does not "get" anything about copyright. Pretty much by definition.
There is also a lucrative market for used video games to consider. After some gamers complete a title, they sell it back to the retailer. How will benefit denial handle that situation?
Simple: it will not be allowed.
You *really* think that they'd all the used market to exist if they had a choice?
Read this for an idea of what the game publishers think about the used market. (Yes, the guy is an obvious shill.)
Microsoft offers a bundle of products and services which have become the de facto global standard for office work. That solves many problems for your employer.
No, it doesn't. It might, if the file formats weren't changed on each version solely to fuck all of their customers.
He can open an office anywhere south of the Arctic Circle - an office of any size - with perfect confidence that an MS Office solution will scale to his needs and that local recruitment and training will present no particular difficulty.
Only if the version he's using is the same as the version used in all of the other locations. Otherwise, he gets on the upgrade treadmill, and *everybody* gets fucked.
It is rather typical of the geek to focus on something like the "openness" of a file format - and miss the significance of The Ribbon.
Au contraire, it's rather typical of the MS shill/apologist to invent scenarios that don't actually happen in an attempt to claim that MS is a good solution.
in order to support socialist ideals like universal health care, many socialist regimes limit the personal freedom to experiment with substances such as cannabis.
What the hell are you smoking?
Your statement is *exactly* backwards. Contrast the USA and Netherlands.
One is at the forefront of prohibition (going so far as to push it on other nations), and doesn't have universal health care, while the other has socialized health care, and does not subscribe (as much) to prohibition.
Prohibition comes out of conservative ideals, not liberal ones.
Having emigrated here from the UK I can thoroughly recommend it.
I emigrated to Edmonton from the UK many many years ago, however recently I've come to the conclusion that there are more downsides than upsides.
Upside: Summer Festivals (Fringe, StreetFest, Heritage, Taste of Edmonton, etc.)
Downside: The city is so spread out you need a vehicle to get anywhere (public transit is useless, taking several hours to get anywhere) and the road system is a mess - which combined with the fact that we have the worst drivers in the country (which I believe is because we have the worst roads:) means that it's incredibly frustrating to try to enjoy and of the festivals.
If they're using Zend and still can't get the performance they need, they just need to accept that PHP's flexibility and rapid development friendliness come at a price-runtime speed.
This has probably already happened at a lower level, but this is a manager - there must be someone to blame. I imagine a conversi
VP: Why are our services so slow?
Programmer: The software is running as fast as it can - it's not possible to make it faster without rewriting it in another language, or getting faster computers.
VP: OK, how much to rewrite it?
Programmer: Probably a couple of years, at $120,000 per programmer.
VP: OK then, let's get faster hardware.
Programmer: It doesn't exist.
VP: Damn Intel and AMD - they can't solve our problem for us!
If these pictures ever get in the wild and someone recognizes the child and tells the child or parents, or worse, doesn't tell them but starts calling the kid a slut without explaination, then someone will get hurt.
So what you're saying is that it's OK to punish someone for something that someone elsemight do?
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Oh no, it helps the industry, it just harms culture.
I would say that it helps industry in the short term, but harms it in the long term.
I know a lot of web developers who dont know the difference between XHTML and HTML, and I hear XHTML as a buzzword all the time.
Duh. Everyone knows that the "X" is for Xtreme! It's Xtreme HTML, right?
even if every mac on the planet turned into a robot and killed a baby before collapsing into a pile of toxic debris, it would only shut the fanboys up for 5 minutes
This is blatantly false and you know it!
If that happened, every true fanboy would immediately start talking about how awesome it was that Jobs had his own robot army.
Well, among other things if you want to stay true to the original game, every time a character disappears off one edge of the screen, they must immediately reappear at the opposite edge of the screen.
And the following must happen at least once:
CAPTAIN: "Fire!"
CREWMAN: "Sir, we can't - our last shot hasn't hit anything yet!"
I know, I know, that's dissociative identity disorder, but you still laughed.
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I'm schizophrenic,
And so am I.
that is like complaining that phones or the web are overrated and pointless because most of the content is of no interest to you.
I disagree. It would be more like complaining that the 5-second time limit for phone calls, or the 140-byte limit for web pages is pointless... except that these limits don't exist.
You don't have to read those posts you know!
But you do have to wade through them if you're trying to find something interesting - which is the exact problem with Twitter.
Here's a rundown on why (and virtually everybody I've ever met) dislikes twitter:
Prelude: Traditional publishing relies on publishers and editors deciding what everyone should read. They take massive amounts of information, and strip out the crap (as they see it.) Blogging changes that - there are no publishers, we rely on other methods (reputation, moderation, etc) to filter the crap from the good stuff. (Clay Shirkey touches on that here, among other things, if you want a great read. :)
I've tried twitter a couple of times, but keep getting turned off by one simple thing: There doesn't appear to be any filtering mechanism. Everyone I've talked to about it says the same thing.
When I've met (online or off) someone interesting enough to want to follow their twitter feed, I went to their page, looking for a stream of what they've posted recently (maybe the last few days or weeks.) Instead, I'm greeted by one post from them, followed by masses of "replies" from people I don't know, saying things I really don't care about. I went to Twitter to find something, and Twitter makes it impossible to find it.
When I describe this to people I've met, they agree that this is why they don't use it - there's too much crap they don't want, and it's impossible (not just very difficult - actually impossible) to find what you do want.
Now, maybe it's just because I'm Canadian, but maybe not.
following the odd celebrity like the mythbusters is interesting.
Well, it might be, if there wasn't so much crap from other people on that page.
Some people on Palm boards or literally on their THIRD PRE because its so poorly constructed, yet a handful of iPhones get hot and Apple is this awful company.
I realize that in Macfanboyland this probably isn't true, but in the real world, it's possible for two companies to be bad at the same time.
In other words, just because Palm is bad, doesn't mean that Apple isn't either.
/me waits for fanboys to mod me down
Wouldn't this be a good idea for all products?
Yes.
The only downside I see is higher prices
No, the price remains the same - the disposal cost exists whether it's paid by the manufacturer or the consumer. The only difference is that it all needs to be paid up-front, rather than the disposal cost being paid after the product's useful life.
Currently, product waste is an "externality" - the cost of recycling/disposing of the product is borne by someone other than the manufacturer. When buying a new item, virtually all consumers don't take into account the cost of disposal, but it still needs to be paid.
Making the manufacturers responsible for recycling/disposal of their products means that they will need to increase their price to the consumer, thereby showing the true cost of the product at purchase time.
BTW, I'm told New Zealand currently has a similar law (for all products, not just electronics), and it works quite well.
I would say that it's more like someone going into an emergency room with a paper cut and whining about how someone who has just been raped, thrown out of a car at 55mph, run over, lit on fire, then hacked up with machetes is getting treated first.
You would be wrong.
To make your analogy correct, it would be like someone going into an emergency room with a broken arm, and whining about how someone in an emergency room in another country is getting treated first.
If you don't stand against it openly, even if it is hypocritical to do so patriotically, then there's no reason for those within your own country to desist from their own actions.
No.
If you denounce it abroad, while not doing anything about it at home, then there's no reason for anyone to believe you're being sincere, and therefore you are actually saying it's a good thing.
That's OK, she'll get over it when she presents her findings at the big opening.
I would say everyone is 100% likely to die.
Speak for yourself. I plan on living forever.
So far, so good!
Can you clarify by what you mean by copy protected?
He means Apps with the "copy protected" flag set.
Do you mean I can't redownload apps I bought or you can't even buy apps on the unlocked phone?
Neither.
You can redownload apps you bought, and you can buy apps (even copy-protected ones) on an unlocked phone.
Apps that are flagged as "copy protected" cannot be copied from your phone to somewhere else. You can re-download them as many times as you want to your handset, however with a ADP1 (specific hardware purchased from Google for the purposes of software development) these apps are not available.
How does that even work? If the USD is low, shouldn't that make american products cheaper?
Only if you assume this isn't a monopoly pricing things as they see fit.
I think we can tolerate the absence of people who can afford computers and not cellphone cameras.
And only land-owners should have the right to vote?
I'm guessing just like me, he missed the fact that this was about voting.
Oh wait, I still don't see it - care to point out where it says that this was going to be used for voting?
While this seems like an opinion that runs counter to many tenants slashdotters hold dear, I think we should at least consider it
No, we shouldn't. Unreasonable BS like this should *not* be considered.
As a copyright holder, I propose that all suspected infringers should be immediately castrated by copyright holders, or that copyright holders should be allowed to enslave anyone they suspect of infringing their content.
Is that reasonable? Fuck no. But by your own argument, we must at least consider it. So, how are you going to defend my proposal?
Posner is one of the most impressive judges on the bench today-- and in my opinion, one of the only judges that really 'get' all the issues surrounding copyright and digital things in general.
If he's serious about this then he most certainly does not "get" anything about copyright. Pretty much by definition.
There is also a lucrative market for used video games to consider. After some gamers complete a title, they sell it back to the retailer. How will benefit denial handle that situation?
Simple: it will not be allowed.
You *really* think that they'd all the used market to exist if they had a choice?
Read this for an idea of what the game publishers think about the used market. (Yes, the guy is an obvious shill.)
Microsoft offers a bundle of products and services which have become the de facto global standard for office work.
That solves many problems for your employer.
No, it doesn't. It might, if the file formats weren't changed on each version solely to fuck all of their customers.
He can open an office anywhere south of the Arctic Circle - an office of any size - with perfect confidence that an MS Office solution will scale to his needs and that local recruitment and training will present no particular difficulty.
Only if the version he's using is the same as the version used in all of the other locations. Otherwise, he gets on the upgrade treadmill, and *everybody* gets fucked.
It is rather typical of the geek to focus on something like the "openness" of a file format - and miss the significance of The Ribbon.
Au contraire, it's rather typical of the MS shill/apologist to invent scenarios that don't actually happen in an attempt to claim that MS is a good solution.
in order to support socialist ideals like universal health care, many socialist regimes limit the personal freedom to experiment with substances such as cannabis.
What the hell are you smoking?
Your statement is *exactly* backwards. Contrast the USA and Netherlands.
One is at the forefront of prohibition (going so far as to push it on other nations), and doesn't have universal health care, while the other has socialized health care, and does not subscribe (as much) to prohibition.
Prohibition comes out of conservative ideals, not liberal ones.
More like a bunch of defective Lego that was rejected by the factory and doesn't quite fit together properly.
You mean megabloks?
No, no, no.
Megabloks were never rejected by the factory. :)
Having emigrated here from the UK I can thoroughly recommend it.
I emigrated to Edmonton from the UK many many years ago, however recently I've come to the conclusion that there are more downsides than upsides.
Upside: Summer Festivals (Fringe, StreetFest, Heritage, Taste of Edmonton, etc.)
Downside: The city is so spread out you need a vehicle to get anywhere (public transit is useless, taking several hours to get anywhere) and the road system is a mess - which combined with the fact that we have the worst drivers in the country (which I believe is because we have the worst roads :) means that it's incredibly frustrating to try to enjoy and of the festivals.
If they're using Zend and still can't get the performance they need, they just need to accept that PHP's flexibility and rapid development friendliness come at a price-runtime speed.
This has probably already happened at a lower level, but this is a manager - there must be someone to blame. I imagine a conversi
VP: Why are our services so slow?
Programmer: The software is running as fast as it can - it's not possible to make it faster without rewriting it in another language, or getting faster computers.
VP: OK, how much to rewrite it?
Programmer: Probably a couple of years, at $120,000 per programmer.
VP: OK then, let's get faster hardware.
Programmer: It doesn't exist.
VP: Damn Intel and AMD - they can't solve our problem for us!
If these pictures ever get in the wild and someone recognizes the child and tells the child or parents, or worse, doesn't tell them but starts calling the kid a slut without explaination, then someone will get hurt.
So what you're saying is that it's OK to punish someone for something that someone else might do?
Sorry, that just doesn't make any sense at all.
The guys at NASA are pretty clever.
Oh come on - it's not like they're rocket scientists or anything! :) :) :)