That's pretty hard. We'd need an alternative vehicle infrastructure, including either a way of getting sufficient supplies of rare earth metals or hydrogen power stations. We'd then need to convert electricity production to nuclear, and manage to build those in a way where contractors aren't walking off with gobs of money for building Fukushimabombs. Even with clean nuclear, we need something to do with the spent fuel that doesn't allow it to become rogue state bombs. And we'd have to do all that under the nose of companies so rich they get away without paying US taxes.
According to the NOAA, 9 of the 10 warmest years since 1880 (the first year we kept records) have been since 2000. And they've all been in the top 13.
But it's the personal anecdotal evidence that people really respond to. And this is the year where Winter skipped the east coast. The past few years have been off, but it's crazy now. Everyone seems to see the weather doing something bonkers.
As much as I like and respect the members of Monty Python, they're not the same, their comedy is not the same, and comedy is not the same. Which is not to say that they're bad now, just that they've each hit very different comedic strides in the past 30 years. Cleese is more Nearly Headless Nick than the early 80's Robin Williams. Heck, Robin Williams is more like Nearly Headless Nick than the early 80's Robin Williams. Gilliam's such a legendary director that it's easy to forget he was a Monty Python member. Terry Jones is hardly ever on camera now, but has been writing an awful lot (including Labyrinth). And Palin, well, working actor and all that.
When a reunion like this happens, it's always nice to trot out the old gang for once, shower them with applause for the years they've done good work, and pretend that the work isn't mildly disappointing. 99 times out of 100, you can't recapture that lightning. Being influential means that everyone after you copies you, and that makes you less interesting.
We've grown up with Monty Python. We owe huge debts of gratitude and culture to their body of work. But let's not pretend that when the blonde bombshell from the 1970's shakes he tassles again it will be the same as 40 years ago. Entertaining? Yes. Worth seeing? Yes. The same? If they try to be the same, they're going to be dead in the water.
The comparison to parking violations seems particularly apt. You can never stop parking violations. And everyone parking willy-nilly in big cities is a major problem. But we all have to do it from time to time. Parking tickets will never completely "solve" the problem, but it does a good enough job that most people don't just park in front of everyone else's driveways.
Our copyright regime at the moment fires off $100,000 lawsuits at people who should be getting the equivalent of a parking ticket. But, being a huge expense and a risk to all industries every time they do it, not many can come out. If every now and then people got a $100 ticket for illegally torrenting Herbie: Fully Loaded, maybe they'd think twice about doing it.
Of course, the valuations need to change. And the associated fines need to have the slightest clue of reality. And the companies need to stop being allowed to write the rules of what "fair use" means. And we need to take our government back from the entertainment maffia that values sales over human rights.
But turning the war on pirates into mild parking restrictions seems like a good idea.
I support the core idea of SOPA while opposing the bill, and I suspect many others do too. If you don't read the damned thing, SOPA sounds like "let's reduce the rampant unchecked piracy online." Sure, that's great. There are many reasons why people should have to really look if they want a pirated copy of The Hangover 2.
BUT: it's all the details that make SOPA / ProIP terrible ideas. Taking down sites on suspicion without a proper day in court is a TERRIBLE idea. We already have examples of legitimate sites caught in the crossfire, who never had due process before being destroyed. Breaking our DNS is a TERRIBLE idea. Giving law enforcement powers to US Companies is a TERRIBLE idea. And all of this is to take power away from our courts, bypassing what they can already do anyway. Oh, let's not forget that the distinction between a "US" site and a "foreign" site is ill-defined.
I'm sure there are many intelligent people who support the idea of reducing online piracy. I just wish they had read the bill.
Or possibly because VGA & DVI are bulky ports, laptops are the profitable market now, and laptops with just HDMI ports would be lighter, thinner, and more salable than laptops with all three of them?
PCMCIA died for similar reasons: things get obsolete faster in the laptop world. If you need the functionality, plug into a USB port. Or in this case, plug a HDMI->VGA adapter. Most users won't even notice it's gone.
I think you're confused. You buy Facebook credits with real money, you don't earn them. They're a secondary medium of exchange, like Microsoft points on Xbox. You spend real money on them. You can't give them to friends, or use them to buy soda, etc. They're just a convenient way of not realizing that you're spending dollars.
I don't mean to reduce your entire comment to a few lines, but I have to take point with paragraph 1.
In commercial for-profit ("capitalist" although that's not a perfect match) products the customer is in charge. "In the limit", the product that's made is the one customers want, subject to the limitations the environment provides (ie. laws, like copyright, and technical and economical) limitations. The products made, due to competition are the best that are technically and economically possible, and they are available to all.
The producer is in charge. The producer is looking to maximize profit for themselves. The most stark example of this is downtuning in the semiconductor industry... Intel's high-end and low-end chips frequently are identical silicon (with sorting for impurities, etc), but certain "features" of the high-end chips will be broken after creation to form a low-end chip. The producer is spending money to reduce the quality of a product, in order to create artificial price differentiation. Whether a product is viable at all is purely a function of how much profit (and at what risk) the producer can create it at.
Further, the "customer," frequently is the middle man. Television shows aren't sold to viewers. They're sold to Networks. Gadgets aren't sold to consumers. They're sold to Best Buy. You may have a perfectly functional dirt-cheap HDMI cable, but if Best Buy thinks it is going to destroy their profit margins on their cash cow $50 cables they're not going to carry it.
The producers are not trying to create the "perfect" product. Actually providing a "valuable product to the people" is a negative for producers for exactly the same reasons that it is to Negroponte: money/people/resources. That's why products are engineered to break after a specific amount of time (ever wonder why toasters from the 70's are still around, but modern toasters die in 10 years?). That's why significantly more money is spent on advertising most products than product development (raising the perception of value without actually needing to raise the value).
I'm not saying capitalism is bad. Just that anyone who believes that capitalism produces perfect products hasn't used an HP computer in a long time.
Sad really, as it 'normalizes' the true acts of terrorism. If everything is labeled terrorism, it becomes 'yet another crime' and is ignored.
To be fair, terrorism actually is 'yet another crime,' and ignoring it would probably be rather effective at reducing it. I'm not quite sure why we're freaking out about terrorism, when people are still more likely to be raped, murdered, stabbed, killed by industrial pollutants, or drown. Car crashes kill 400 times more people than terrorism. Even in the year of 9-11, terrorism wasn't in the top 10 causes of death in the US.
Terrorism needs to be normalized... not that everything is terrorism now. But that dealing with terrorism is as much a part of life as dealing with poisonous snakes, drunk drivers, workplace harassment, and second hand smoke. And all expenditures and liberties we give up to deal with it needs to be in perspective.
Check the bottom-right section of their home page for some changes to their collection methodology. They seem like they have their heads on the right way about the data they're receiving, though it makes me increasingly sad for the mutilation of browser agent strings.
Nowhere does the data say that it refers to the US, though. In fact, Netmarketshare specifically weights data by country. I was in Thailand 7 or 8 years ago, and internet stuff (especially e-mail) was pretty common to see everyone doing on all handsets, most of which would be considered dumbphones (or Symbian).
iPhones are disproportionately popular in the US. The rest of the world has been using Java handsets for smartphone tasks forever, including Opera Mobile (which is excellent, by the way).
The second linked article does refer to the US specifically, with dumbphones making up %60 of install. But that doesn't mean the first article, which is worldwide, is incorrect.
I remember experimentally buying a 500kb (little b) game back in the day over my phone. AT&T charged $5 for the game, and about $5 for the bandwidth to receive the game. It seemed like a bad case of double-dipping to me.
To be fair, the OLPC was a crappy 200 dead end, that spurned the development of the $200 broadly available netbook and the $400 entry-level laptop. Smartphones were derided as incompatible portable browsers attached to a uselessly tiny screen, until they took over the world. The "Race to the bottom" is pretty much where most people live, and where revolutions happen.
Maybe a $35 uselessly anachronistic tablet will finally spurn some $50 broadly available tablites. Or single-use interactive eTextbooks. Or embed it into devices as a standard UI component on dishwashers, cars, or other things. Or maybe it will actually take off on its own.
Who knows? But give credit where due: they've done something fantastically geeky.
BASIC also doesn't fit the phone. It's a terminal-and-keyboard based language that doesn't really understand graphics and mice, let alone touches.
What we need is a language that works well with touches. But short of some experimental graphical languages from the 90's that never gained traction, there is no clear frontrunner there.
Microsoft should fix the in-kernel graphics code so you can't use it to break into the system.
As a game developer, I need graphics code to be low level, fast, and insecure. There are times I just need it to be a rocketship without handrails.
If there is a way to secure it without sacrificing speed, that's great! But doing a great deal of error checking on that level? Leave me some insecure route to blitting billions of bits to the screen without guardrails please.
If Dell stays in markets that it can't compete successfully in, it will definitely be in trouble. But nobody but Apple makes money on Tablets, and nobody seems to make money on netbooks. Getting out of both seem like good ideas.
Generally, not cutting losses is how companies get into trouble.
Can someone please explain this windows 8 Metro thing? It's a parallel user interface, vaguely like the Xbox, Windows Phone 7, or the failed Windows Media Center Edition. Does it have to be launched from within the usual windows? Or do the two live together, like running ios9 apps within OSX?
I was using a Lenovo with a manual hybrid SSD / HDD (I.E. they have a laptop with a SSD drive, an HDD drive, and some logic to link the two into one drive). It actually booted about twice as fast as the HDD alone, and launched applications rather snapily.
Of course, when the drive had problems it was impossible to get at or fix. That's why I went up to a 256 SSD System drive and traditional HDD for data / programs. But a more traditional hybrid drive wouldn't have that problem, and would just run faster.
MTBF is a complete BS statistic. Take the first week of a hard drive's life. Make a linear extrapolation to that over the next 1000 years. Post marketing statistic that is grossly divergent from reality. The Western Digital listed in the thread below has a MTBF of 171 years. Anyone working in a real environment will confirm that is just ludicrous. What you're measuring is that for the first week of a hard drive's life, it behaves like it would live for 171 years. After the first week, it's all downhill. Back in the real world I kill laptop drives at least every 2 years, and desktops every 5.
This makes MTBF an OK but not great cross-device comparison statistic, with the assumption that all hard drives age in about the same way. SSD's really don't age like Hard Drives. They're less prone to total catastrophic failure. They lose a little capacity on a regular basis. They don't have axle bearings or dust to worry about. They will age and have electrical problems, but nowhere near the mechanical problems of hard drives. They will age in a more linear fashion. A 50 year MTBF of an SSD drive is actually a plausibly useful data point, whereas a 200 year MTBF of a hard disk is a BPOS.
People that are in computer science for the money generally aren't very good at computer science. People who like logistical structures and puzzles, however, can make excellent programmers.
A lot of students, sadly, get their first exposure to programming once they're in college. Sadly, that is far too late to know if you have any real attraction to it or not.
Programming isn't something that should be started in High School. Programming should be started in elementary school at the same time as math. You wouldn't expect to raise someone until High School on nothing but English Lit and PE and expect them to jump straight into Calculus in High School. Similarly, you can't expect that students will ambiently absorb the background needed to program well.
They've got to start programming simple things when they're young and their brain is still forming.
If I'm remembering my history correctly, those laws were enacted under Tarkin's reign. The Thai monarchy was basically an afterthought early this century, until he leveraged his legacy position to legitimize military rules who in turn, legitimized him.
We're talking about a country where at an appointed time of day, everyone is required to turn to a picture of the king and sing. Do you really think that was voted up in a properly open legislature?
Animal lovers will appreciate the banning of the words "Cockfight," and "Pussy Cat." Rich people will get behind "Deposit," "Penthouse," and "Showtime." Reporters will love "Hostage," "Kill," "Murder," "Suicide," "Sniper," and presumably "Stupid." Construction workers seem to get the best with the banning of "Deeper," "Back Door," "Laid," "Banging," "Dome," "Harder," "Hole," "Joint," "Period," "Slant," "Screw," and "Budweiser." Everyone else will get behind the banning of such horrible words as "Creamy," "Jugs," and "K Mart." And pretty much all feminine hygiene is, by definition, unhygienic.
Strangely, they banned both root words and modifiers of root words... like calling out ass AND ass clown, ass banger, etc. It's like they don't know how filtering, or words, work. Also, they banned the phrases "XXX" which is, itself, a censor word to represent something else.
Everyone will look at photos and videos. Some people will launch games. Most people won't bother launching applications. Nobody will use installers.
Throw a couple of funny videos on there, a quick message to your friends, maybe some photos of cats. A link to Kiva if you're feeling like being socially positive.
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just stop burning fossil fuels
That's pretty hard. We'd need an alternative vehicle infrastructure, including either a way of getting sufficient supplies of rare earth metals or hydrogen power stations. We'd then need to convert electricity production to nuclear, and manage to build those in a way where contractors aren't walking off with gobs of money for building Fukushimabombs. Even with clean nuclear, we need something to do with the spent fuel that doesn't allow it to become rogue state bombs. And we'd have to do all that under the nose of companies so rich they get away without paying US taxes.
According to the NOAA, 9 of the 10 warmest years since 1880 (the first year we kept records) have been since 2000. And they've all been in the top 13.
But it's the personal anecdotal evidence that people really respond to. And this is the year where Winter skipped the east coast. The past few years have been off, but it's crazy now. Everyone seems to see the weather doing something bonkers.
As much as I like and respect the members of Monty Python, they're not the same, their comedy is not the same, and comedy is not the same. Which is not to say that they're bad now, just that they've each hit very different comedic strides in the past 30 years. Cleese is more Nearly Headless Nick than the early 80's Robin Williams. Heck, Robin Williams is more like Nearly Headless Nick than the early 80's Robin Williams. Gilliam's such a legendary director that it's easy to forget he was a Monty Python member. Terry Jones is hardly ever on camera now, but has been writing an awful lot (including Labyrinth). And Palin, well, working actor and all that.
When a reunion like this happens, it's always nice to trot out the old gang for once, shower them with applause for the years they've done good work, and pretend that the work isn't mildly disappointing. 99 times out of 100, you can't recapture that lightning. Being influential means that everyone after you copies you, and that makes you less interesting.
We've grown up with Monty Python. We owe huge debts of gratitude and culture to their body of work. But let's not pretend that when the blonde bombshell from the 1970's shakes he tassles again it will be the same as 40 years ago. Entertaining? Yes. Worth seeing? Yes. The same? If they try to be the same, they're going to be dead in the water.
The comparison to parking violations seems particularly apt. You can never stop parking violations. And everyone parking willy-nilly in big cities is a major problem. But we all have to do it from time to time. Parking tickets will never completely "solve" the problem, but it does a good enough job that most people don't just park in front of everyone else's driveways.
Our copyright regime at the moment fires off $100,000 lawsuits at people who should be getting the equivalent of a parking ticket. But, being a huge expense and a risk to all industries every time they do it, not many can come out. If every now and then people got a $100 ticket for illegally torrenting Herbie: Fully Loaded, maybe they'd think twice about doing it.
Of course, the valuations need to change. And the associated fines need to have the slightest clue of reality. And the companies need to stop being allowed to write the rules of what "fair use" means. And we need to take our government back from the entertainment maffia that values sales over human rights.
But turning the war on pirates into mild parking restrictions seems like a good idea.
I support the core idea of SOPA while opposing the bill, and I suspect many others do too. If you don't read the damned thing, SOPA sounds like "let's reduce the rampant unchecked piracy online." Sure, that's great. There are many reasons why people should have to really look if they want a pirated copy of The Hangover 2.
BUT: it's all the details that make SOPA / ProIP terrible ideas. Taking down sites on suspicion without a proper day in court is a TERRIBLE idea. We already have examples of legitimate sites caught in the crossfire, who never had due process before being destroyed. Breaking our DNS is a TERRIBLE idea. Giving law enforcement powers to US Companies is a TERRIBLE idea. And all of this is to take power away from our courts, bypassing what they can already do anyway. Oh, let's not forget that the distinction between a "US" site and a "foreign" site is ill-defined.
I'm sure there are many intelligent people who support the idea of reducing online piracy. I just wish they had read the bill.
Or possibly because VGA & DVI are bulky ports, laptops are the profitable market now, and laptops with just HDMI ports would be lighter, thinner, and more salable than laptops with all three of them?
PCMCIA died for similar reasons: things get obsolete faster in the laptop world. If you need the functionality, plug into a USB port. Or in this case, plug a HDMI->VGA adapter. Most users won't even notice it's gone.
I think you're confused. You buy Facebook credits with real money, you don't earn them. They're a secondary medium of exchange, like Microsoft points on Xbox. You spend real money on them. You can't give them to friends, or use them to buy soda, etc. They're just a convenient way of not realizing that you're spending dollars.
I don't mean to reduce your entire comment to a few lines, but I have to take point with paragraph 1.
In commercial for-profit ("capitalist" although that's not a perfect match) products the customer is in charge. "In the limit", the product that's made is the one customers want, subject to the limitations the environment provides (ie. laws, like copyright, and technical and economical) limitations. The products made, due to competition are the best that are technically and economically possible, and they are available to all.
The producer is in charge. The producer is looking to maximize profit for themselves. The most stark example of this is downtuning in the semiconductor industry... Intel's high-end and low-end chips frequently are identical silicon (with sorting for impurities, etc), but certain "features" of the high-end chips will be broken after creation to form a low-end chip. The producer is spending money to reduce the quality of a product, in order to create artificial price differentiation. Whether a product is viable at all is purely a function of how much profit (and at what risk) the producer can create it at.
Further, the "customer," frequently is the middle man. Television shows aren't sold to viewers. They're sold to Networks. Gadgets aren't sold to consumers. They're sold to Best Buy. You may have a perfectly functional dirt-cheap HDMI cable, but if Best Buy thinks it is going to destroy their profit margins on their cash cow $50 cables they're not going to carry it.
The producers are not trying to create the "perfect" product. Actually providing a "valuable product to the people" is a negative for producers for exactly the same reasons that it is to Negroponte: money/people/resources. That's why products are engineered to break after a specific amount of time (ever wonder why toasters from the 70's are still around, but modern toasters die in 10 years?). That's why significantly more money is spent on advertising most products than product development (raising the perception of value without actually needing to raise the value).
I'm not saying capitalism is bad. Just that anyone who believes that capitalism produces perfect products hasn't used an HP computer in a long time.
Sad really, as it 'normalizes' the true acts of terrorism. If everything is labeled terrorism, it becomes 'yet another crime' and is ignored.
To be fair, terrorism actually is 'yet another crime,' and ignoring it would probably be rather effective at reducing it. I'm not quite sure why we're freaking out about terrorism, when people are still more likely to be raped, murdered, stabbed, killed by industrial pollutants, or drown. Car crashes kill 400 times more people than terrorism. Even in the year of 9-11, terrorism wasn't in the top 10 causes of death in the US.
Terrorism needs to be normalized... not that everything is terrorism now. But that dealing with terrorism is as much a part of life as dealing with poisonous snakes, drunk drivers, workplace harassment, and second hand smoke. And all expenditures and liberties we give up to deal with it needs to be in perspective.
Check the bottom-right section of their home page for some changes to their collection methodology. They seem like they have their heads on the right way about the data they're receiving, though it makes me increasingly sad for the mutilation of browser agent strings.
http://www.netmarketshare.com/
Nowhere does the data say that it refers to the US, though. In fact, Netmarketshare specifically weights data by country. I was in Thailand 7 or 8 years ago, and internet stuff (especially e-mail) was pretty common to see everyone doing on all handsets, most of which would be considered dumbphones (or Symbian).
iPhones are disproportionately popular in the US. The rest of the world has been using Java handsets for smartphone tasks forever, including Opera Mobile (which is excellent, by the way).
The second linked article does refer to the US specifically, with dumbphones making up %60 of install. But that doesn't mean the first article, which is worldwide, is incorrect.
I remember experimentally buying a 500kb (little b) game back in the day over my phone. AT&T charged $5 for the game, and about $5 for the bandwidth to receive the game. It seemed like a bad case of double-dipping to me.
To be fair, the OLPC was a crappy 200 dead end, that spurned the development of the $200 broadly available netbook and the $400 entry-level laptop. Smartphones were derided as incompatible portable browsers attached to a uselessly tiny screen, until they took over the world. The "Race to the bottom" is pretty much where most people live, and where revolutions happen.
Maybe a $35 uselessly anachronistic tablet will finally spurn some $50 broadly available tablites. Or single-use interactive eTextbooks. Or embed it into devices as a standard UI component on dishwashers, cars, or other things. Or maybe it will actually take off on its own.
Who knows? But give credit where due: they've done something fantastically geeky.
BASIC also doesn't fit the phone. It's a terminal-and-keyboard based language that doesn't really understand graphics and mice, let alone touches.
What we need is a language that works well with touches. But short of some experimental graphical languages from the 90's that never gained traction, there is no clear frontrunner there.
You might as well teach them Javascript / HTML5.
Microsoft should fix the in-kernel graphics code so you can't use it to break into the system.
As a game developer, I need graphics code to be low level, fast, and insecure. There are times I just need it to be a rocketship without handrails.
If there is a way to secure it without sacrificing speed, that's great! But doing a great deal of error checking on that level? Leave me some insecure route to blitting billions of bits to the screen without guardrails please.
If Dell stays in markets that it can't compete successfully in, it will definitely be in trouble. But nobody but Apple makes money on Tablets, and nobody seems to make money on netbooks. Getting out of both seem like good ideas.
Generally, not cutting losses is how companies get into trouble.
Can someone please explain this windows 8 Metro thing? It's a parallel user interface, vaguely like the Xbox, Windows Phone 7, or the failed Windows Media Center Edition. Does it have to be launched from within the usual windows? Or do the two live together, like running ios9 apps within OSX?
you will absolutely no longer exclusively have root for your hardware.
Considering the number of boxes I've had to clean up over the years, very few people exclusively have root on their hardware.
I was using a Lenovo with a manual hybrid SSD / HDD (I.E. they have a laptop with a SSD drive, an HDD drive, and some logic to link the two into one drive). It actually booted about twice as fast as the HDD alone, and launched applications rather snapily.
Of course, when the drive had problems it was impossible to get at or fix. That's why I went up to a 256 SSD System drive and traditional HDD for data / programs. But a more traditional hybrid drive wouldn't have that problem, and would just run faster.
MTBF is a complete BS statistic. Take the first week of a hard drive's life. Make a linear extrapolation to that over the next 1000 years. Post marketing statistic that is grossly divergent from reality. The Western Digital listed in the thread below has a MTBF of 171 years. Anyone working in a real environment will confirm that is just ludicrous. What you're measuring is that for the first week of a hard drive's life, it behaves like it would live for 171 years. After the first week, it's all downhill. Back in the real world I kill laptop drives at least every 2 years, and desktops every 5.
This makes MTBF an OK but not great cross-device comparison statistic, with the assumption that all hard drives age in about the same way. SSD's really don't age like Hard Drives. They're less prone to total catastrophic failure. They lose a little capacity on a regular basis. They don't have axle bearings or dust to worry about. They will age and have electrical problems, but nowhere near the mechanical problems of hard drives. They will age in a more linear fashion. A 50 year MTBF of an SSD drive is actually a plausibly useful data point, whereas a 200 year MTBF of a hard disk is a BPOS.
People that are in computer science for the money generally aren't very good at computer science. People who like logistical structures and puzzles, however, can make excellent programmers.
A lot of students, sadly, get their first exposure to programming once they're in college. Sadly, that is far too late to know if you have any real attraction to it or not.
Programming isn't something that should be started in High School. Programming should be started in elementary school at the same time as math. You wouldn't expect to raise someone until High School on nothing but English Lit and PE and expect them to jump straight into Calculus in High School. Similarly, you can't expect that students will ambiently absorb the background needed to program well.
They've got to start programming simple things when they're young and their brain is still forming.
If I'm remembering my history correctly, those laws were enacted under Tarkin's reign. The Thai monarchy was basically an afterthought early this century, until he leveraged his legacy position to legitimize military rules who in turn, legitimized him.
We're talking about a country where at an appointed time of day, everyone is required to turn to a picture of the king and sing. Do you really think that was voted up in a properly open legislature?
Animal lovers will appreciate the banning of the words "Cockfight," and "Pussy Cat." Rich people will get behind "Deposit," "Penthouse," and "Showtime." Reporters will love "Hostage," "Kill," "Murder," "Suicide," "Sniper," and presumably "Stupid." Construction workers seem to get the best with the banning of "Deeper," "Back Door," "Laid," "Banging," "Dome," "Harder," "Hole," "Joint," "Period," "Slant," "Screw," and "Budweiser." Everyone else will get behind the banning of such horrible words as "Creamy," "Jugs," and "K Mart." And pretty much all feminine hygiene is, by definition, unhygienic.
Strangely, they banned both root words and modifiers of root words... like calling out ass AND ass clown, ass banger, etc. It's like they don't know how filtering, or words, work. Also, they banned the phrases "XXX" which is, itself, a censor word to represent something else.
Everyone will look at photos and videos. Some people will launch games. Most people won't bother launching applications. Nobody will use installers.
Throw a couple of funny videos on there, a quick message to your friends, maybe some photos of cats. A link to Kiva if you're feeling like being socially positive.