No, you're hyperbolizing. Some people (myself included) won't be happy until the government sets limits on how personal information can be used by corporations. I don't like the fact, for example, that my mother's phone company shares personal information with her Internet provider who then buys information derived from cookies to develop a package that allows telemarketers to target her based on what Web sites she uses.
I had to look it up, just to be sure: hyperbolize: overstate: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth...
None of these are "personal information." At no point was your mother's hair color revealed.
This is not what the Internet is there for, and I personally want a stop put to it. Limiting abuse of cookies (especially cross-site hand-offs that are used specifically to track broad activity across disconnected sites) would be a good first step, and one that should have happened years ago when certain companies which NDAs prevent me from naming (not related to my current company, thankfully) started the practice.
My browser has several security settings: Accept Cookies () Always, () Never, () Only from sites you navigate to
The default was the last one, which makes a fair amount of sense to me.
If you navigate to a site, YOU are sending THEM the cookie information. This is your problem/fault. You have the options to either () Not visit the site, () Disable Cookies, () Clear your cookies between visits.
The solution is not a legal one, it is a technical one. It is available. It is easy. The law should not get involved, and if it does, it will simply drive web hosting to china.
Nobody* watches movies on their computer or ipod. Everybody** listens to music on their computer and/or ipod.
If iTV can hit a fantastic price/quality/interface/buzzword level where Apple can sell 100's of 1000's, iTunes movies will matter.
If they can't sell the iTV to tons of people, iTunes movies won't matter.
That's all there is to is.
I think that Apple pre-announced this (something they never do) because they were afraid some other mover was going to pre-announce something. Or they were afraid everyone was gonna buy blu-ray players this holiday season. Or Steve just felt like it.
* You and your pirate buddies don't count ** You and your luddite buddies don't count
But it did suck compared to some of the multitasking DOS clones.
Xenix didn't such compared to other UNIXes.
Not sure on the timeframe or truth of that. Wasn't I using Dynix back in the day, and was that better than Xenix? I just don't know.
OS/2 didn't suck, and neither did Windows NT next to desktop UNIX or DR-DOS+GEM
Compared to NeXTstep, they all sucked. (OpenStep by the time NT came out)
Microsoft Word 2 didn't suck next to any of its competition.
When was WordPerfect released?
Microsoft have released more products that don't suck than Google (although, to be fair, I suspect most of us have been forced to use more of the ones that do suck).... Google is a young company, and they haven't had the time to screw up as badly as MS yet.
Here is something Google has not done that Microsoft constantly has: squash competition through marketshare AND incompatability. To be fair, Google has to work with the 800lb gorilla in terms of file formats and the like.
If Microsoft were buying youtube, the countdown would being as to when they stopped supporting any playback except Windows Media Player. And then they would make it WMP Vista, which would force you to upgrade. With Google, you just don't imagine that happening.
"What happens a few years from now, when some new dramatic improvement in turbine design happens? Or 100% efficient solar panels are invented? Or heck, maybe they even invent portable fusion reactors, who knows what is coming in the future?"
So "what happens if the energy problem is solved, in it's entirety? Won't you feel dumb?"
Yup. Everyone will feel a bit silly. In the meantime, if you would like to look at the current and past trends in energy costs and consumption and production, it doesn't seem like a crazy thing to invest in something that will take 20 years to pay off.
But you're right - it would be nice if there were more series that had the vision to stick to a beginning, middle, and ending. I would think that audiences would dig that. They seem to with 24, anyway...
You are assuming an infinite market with no cultural feedback effects/lock in. This assumption is false. As a such, it's necessary with regulation to actually preserve a working market.
Am I? How so? (seriously)
I thought I was assuming an already existing market (CDs), and no vendor lock in (burn CDs from tracks you've purchased via iTunes and do whatever you want).
If governments don't allow companies to create cool new stuff and sell them however they want, then consumers won't get to buy cool new stuff. That'd be free market thinkin.
If you don't like Apple's DRM, go buy a CD. It's not like Apple is a label and is keeping music from being released for other platforms (yes, I meant it that way).
(Someone correct me if I'm wrong - is Apple Computer doing exclusive media deals with anyone?)
Finally, if you don't like Apple's DRM, then burn the tunes to a regular CD and do whatever you want with it. (someone is going to say "yeah, but that's not really CD quality audio", to which I say "yeah, but CDs aren't vinyl quality audio")
You and I seem to differ on what we think the term "deadly" means.
A nuclear weapon is an airburst weapon. It is designed to be detonated thousands of feet above its target. If you detonate it on the ground then you drastically reduce the amount of damage the bomb will do.
I'm thinking that if a nuclear device goes off at ground level in your neighbor's back yard, their neighbor's back yard, or any place within a mile, it's really gonna suck to be you.
So huge, in fact, that you need something the size of a B29 in order to deliver it. We're talking several tons here.
We're past the age of the cruise missile. We know full well that any plane can be a delivery vehicle. I know too little of the local geography, flight paths, and etc - but exactly how long would it take to fly a 737 far enough into israeli space to make it worth detonating one of these nuclear devices? With a cruising speed around 500 knots ~550 mph.
Haifa looks to be about 20 miles south of lebanon. If my math is right, that's 3 minutes from border crossing to detonation - which isn't a lot of time, though it certainly is plenty enough to shoot down a plane if you have the stomache for it. I don't know how far out the airspace and waterspace rights/rules/whatever extend, but I'm *guessing* it is less than 20 miles.
From the East Coast to the West Coast, unobserved, and you're telling me it travelled under it's own steam the whole way? Maybe it did, and maybe it didn't - but that seems like a fine theory.
The car started in California, and is now in Italy. How'd it get there?
Maybe your car floats. Maybe it drives on the ocean floors. Maybe there WAS an ice bridge! Or maybe there was outside help.
Before this gets too flamey (am I too late?), I think we're all entitled to some healthy scientific scepticism. If nobody asks questions, then nobody learns.
Which is fascinating reading, and I'll have to go over it again. But I was hoping for something more. I'll have to take another look at the fruitfly data.
Even without these direct observations, it would be wrong to say that evolution hasn't been observed. Evidence isn't limited to seeing something happen before your eyes.
I disagree. Evidence isn't limited to seeing something happen before your eyes - but observation is.
What hasn't been observed is one animal abruptly changing into a radically different one, such as a frog changing into a cow.
Hell, eggs change into tadpoles change into frogs. That's pretty radical in itself.
Changes of species over time is a fact, in the sense that we've observed it. Explanations for how this occurs and what paths it has taken in the past are theory, and a very well established and empirically backed theory at that. Still, I'll accept this as a useful instance of pedantry.
Have we ever actually *observed* a case where a species splits to the point where the 2 species can breed amongst themselves, but not inter-breed? To my mind, until we've actually observed that, we have not really observed evolution; everything short of that seems like breeding and trait variation.
Encrypt the DVDs to however many keys you have consumers. Give away a USB keydrive with enough software to decrypt, tag, and install the image. Each USB drive has a unique key.
USB drives are pretty cheap, and can be quickly "burnt".
No, you could run the instance with 40 - but you could not complete quests that way.
Then it got put down to 15. Now I believe it is 10. How exactly is WoW changing the amount of people that can enter an instance "news?"
WoW has about 6.5 million players, last time I heard, making it the most popular MMO ever - by about a factor of 10. Big changes to WoW are news for nerds the same way changes to Star Trek are new for nerds.
What's more, RTFM. They are not changing the number of people that can enter an instance (again), they are declaring that they are changing the style of the new top end instances they are making (and other big changes).
It should read 'clinical psychologist who makes a living treating gaming addiction believes 40% of WoW players are addicted'.
Wow, you need to improve your media filter. That's how I read it to start with, except I added the subtext (posted to/. by the editors in order to increase click-count).
Pretty sure the credentials gave it away: 'This "dumbarse" with a blog has been writing professionally, full-time, about the Mac for over ten years. I sat a few cubicles away from him at MacWEEK when he was a news reporter and I was a reviews editor, waaay back in 1996.'
So... covered the mac when it was about as interesting as dirt. The 2 books are "The Cult of the Mac" and "The Cult of the iPod". I'm thinking that I have better things to do than read whatever this person is writing.
The reason this is "news" is because it will start a flamewar on/. Thank you, editors. How about covering the bitchin nerd stuff, like GC for Obj-C, the "opensource" stuff (http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/collaboration ), etc.
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No, you're hyperbolizing. Some people (myself included) won't be happy until the government sets limits on how personal information can be used by corporations. I don't like the fact, for example, that my mother's phone company shares personal information with her Internet provider who then buys information derived from cookies to develop a package that allows telemarketers to target her based on what Web sites she uses.
...
I had to look it up, just to be sure:
hyperbolize: overstate: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
None of these are "personal information." At no point was your mother's hair color revealed.
This is not what the Internet is there for, and I personally want a stop put to it. Limiting abuse of cookies (especially cross-site hand-offs that are used specifically to track broad activity across disconnected sites) would be a good first step, and one that should have happened years ago when certain companies which NDAs prevent me from naming (not related to my current company, thankfully) started the practice.
My browser has several security settings:
Accept Cookies () Always, () Never, () Only from sites you navigate to
The default was the last one, which makes a fair amount of sense to me.
If you navigate to a site, YOU are sending THEM the cookie information. This is your problem/fault. You have the options to either () Not visit the site, () Disable Cookies, () Clear your cookies between visits.
The solution is not a legal one, it is a technical one. It is available. It is easy. The law should not get involved, and if it does, it will simply drive web hosting to china.
Nobody* watches movies on their computer or ipod. Everybody** listens to music on their computer and/or ipod.
If iTV can hit a fantastic price/quality/interface/buzzword level where Apple can sell 100's of 1000's, iTunes movies will matter.
If they can't sell the iTV to tons of people, iTunes movies won't matter.
That's all there is to is.
I think that Apple pre-announced this (something they never do) because they were afraid some other mover was going to pre-announce something. Or they were afraid everyone was gonna buy blu-ray players this holiday season. Or Steve just felt like it.
* You and your pirate buddies don't count
** You and your luddite buddies don't count
Compared to NeXTstep, they all didn't require a $10,000 computer.
True, but nor did NS, once the slab was out.
MS-DOS didn't suck too badly compared to CP/M.
... Google is a young company, and they haven't had the time to screw up as badly as MS yet.
But it did suck compared to some of the multitasking DOS clones.
Xenix didn't such compared to other UNIXes.
Not sure on the timeframe or truth of that. Wasn't I using Dynix back in the day, and was that better than Xenix? I just don't know.
OS/2 didn't suck, and neither did Windows NT next to desktop UNIX or DR-DOS+GEM
Compared to NeXTstep, they all sucked. (OpenStep by the time NT came out)
Microsoft Word 2 didn't suck next to any of its competition.
When was WordPerfect released?
Microsoft have released more products that don't suck than Google (although, to be fair, I suspect most of us have been forced to use more of the ones that do suck).
Here is something Google has not done that Microsoft constantly has: squash competition through marketshare AND incompatability. To be fair, Google has to work with the 800lb gorilla in terms of file formats and the like.
If Microsoft were buying youtube, the countdown would being as to when they stopped supporting any playback except Windows Media Player. And then they would make it WMP Vista, which would force you to upgrade. With Google, you just don't imagine that happening.
Wow. I can't imagine who modded that insightful.
"What happens a few years from now, when some new dramatic improvement in turbine design happens? Or 100% efficient solar panels are invented? Or heck, maybe they even invent portable fusion reactors, who knows what is coming in the future?"
So "what happens if the energy problem is solved, in it's entirety? Won't you feel dumb?"
Yup. Everyone will feel a bit silly. In the meantime, if you would like to look at the current and past trends in energy costs and consumption and production, it doesn't seem like a crazy thing to invest in something that will take 20 years to pay off.
24
But you're right - it would be nice if there were more series that had the vision to stick to a beginning, middle, and ending. I would think that audiences would dig that. They seem to with 24, anyway...
You are assuming an infinite market with no cultural feedback effects/lock in. This assumption is false. As a such, it's necessary with regulation to actually preserve a working market.
Am I? How so? (seriously)
I thought I was assuming an already existing market (CDs), and no vendor lock in (burn CDs from tracks you've purchased via iTunes and do whatever you want).
If governments don't allow companies to create cool new stuff and sell them however they want, then consumers won't get to buy cool new stuff. That'd be free market thinkin.
If you don't like Apple's DRM, go buy a CD. It's not like Apple is a label and is keeping music from being released for other platforms (yes, I meant it that way).
(Someone correct me if I'm wrong - is Apple Computer doing exclusive media deals with anyone?)
Finally, if you don't like Apple's DRM, then burn the tunes to a regular CD and do whatever you want with it. (someone is going to say "yeah, but that's not really CD quality audio", to which I say "yeah, but CDs aren't vinyl quality audio")
I just can't imagine our fine governor taking time out to make T4. Who would be in it?
I want to put it on my Creative Muvo. Fairplay isn't THAT generous.
Sure it is. "burn" it to a CD image. Rip the CD image to any format you like. Presto.
Ripping out the DRM won't get you any closer unless you can convert from AAC to better than through CD audio.
Re:Dangerous but not deadly
You and I seem to differ on what we think the term "deadly" means.
A nuclear weapon is an airburst weapon. It is designed to be detonated thousands of feet above its target. If you detonate it on the ground then you drastically reduce the amount of damage the bomb will do.
I'm thinking that if a nuclear device goes off at ground level in your neighbor's back yard, their neighbor's back yard, or any place within a mile, it's really gonna suck to be you.
So huge, in fact, that you need something the size of a B29 in order to deliver it. We're talking several tons here.
We're past the age of the cruise missile. We know full well that any plane can be a delivery vehicle. I know too little of the local geography, flight paths, and etc - but exactly how long would it take to fly a 737 far enough into israeli space to make it worth detonating one of these nuclear devices? With a cruising speed around 500 knots ~550 mph.
Haifa looks to be about 20 miles south of lebanon. If my math is right, that's 3 minutes from border crossing to detonation - which isn't a lot of time, though it certainly is plenty enough to shoot down a plane if you have the stomache for it. I don't know how far out the airspace and waterspace rights/rules/whatever extend, but I'm *guessing* it is less than 20 miles.
Zooom. Right over my head. Good point.
I'm not saying that they should stop posting this tripe (though they should). Just please label it so that I know to move along.
That's because it's the same old inflammatory BS that has become standard fare on /.
From TFA: one guy has his life ruined from net->reality hostility.
Also from TFA: "A poll taken in November showed that nearly one of 10 South Koreans from 13 to 65 said they had experienced cyberviolence."
Whatever the hell that is.
Thanks, editors.
Let me do my share: the editors are jackasses. There now they have all suffered cyberviolence, too. Just like the single dude in this article.
Could we start tagging articles as flamebait? Please?
That's a great example.
From the East Coast to the West Coast, unobserved, and you're telling me it travelled under it's own steam the whole way? Maybe it did, and maybe it didn't - but that seems like a fine theory.
The car started in California, and is now in Italy. How'd it get there?
Maybe your car floats. Maybe it drives on the ocean floors. Maybe there WAS an ice bridge! Or maybe there was outside help.
Before this gets too flamey (am I too late?), I think we're all entitled to some healthy scientific scepticism. If nobody asks questions, then nobody learns.
Thanks to everyone who responded, and especially the link to
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http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.ht
Which I will have to spend more time with.
Biologists define evolution as a change in the gene pool of a population over time.
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OK, but I'm not interested in that definition.
The origin of new species by evolution has also been observed, both in the laboratory and in the wild...
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.ht
Which is fascinating reading, and I'll have to go over it again. But I was hoping for something more. I'll have to take another look at the fruitfly data.
Even without these direct observations, it would be wrong to say that evolution hasn't been observed. Evidence isn't limited to seeing something happen before your eyes.
I disagree. Evidence isn't limited to seeing something happen before your eyes - but observation is.
What hasn't been observed is one animal abruptly changing into a radically different one, such as a frog changing into a cow.
Hell, eggs change into tadpoles change into frogs. That's pretty radical in itself.
Changes of species over time is a fact, in the sense that we've observed it. Explanations for how this occurs and what paths it has taken in the past are theory, and a very well established and empirically backed theory at that. Still, I'll accept this as a useful instance of pedantry.
Have we ever actually *observed* a case where a species splits to the point where the 2 species can breed amongst themselves, but not inter-breed? To my mind, until we've actually observed that, we have not really observed evolution; everything short of that seems like breeding and trait variation.
Encrypt the DVDs to however many keys you have consumers. Give away a USB keydrive with enough software to decrypt, tag, and install the image. Each USB drive has a unique key.
USB drives are pretty cheap, and can be quickly "burnt".
Wow. Not just a little better - much better.
Thanks for shaming the editors and supplying something useful.
UBRS was once a 40-man instance.
No, you could run the instance with 40 - but you could not complete quests that way.
Then it got put down to 15. Now I believe it is 10. How exactly is WoW changing the amount of people that can enter an instance "news?"
WoW has about 6.5 million players, last time I heard, making it the most popular MMO ever - by about a factor of 10. Big changes to WoW are news for nerds the same way changes to Star Trek are new for nerds.
What's more, RTFM. They are not changing the number of people that can enter an instance (again), they are declaring that they are changing the style of the new top end instances they are making (and other big changes).
It should read 'clinical psychologist who makes a living treating gaming addiction believes 40% of WoW players are addicted'.
/. by the editors in order to increase click-count).
Wow, you need to improve your media filter. That's how I read it to start with, except I added the subtext (posted to
OT, FB, Insightful?
Pretty sure the credentials gave it away: 'This "dumbarse" with a blog has been writing professionally, full-time, about the Mac for over ten years. I sat a few cubicles away from him at MacWEEK when he was a news reporter and I was a reviews editor, waaay back in 1996.'
/. Thank you, editors. How about covering the bitchin nerd stuff, like GC for Obj-C, the "opensource" stuff (http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/collaboration ), etc.
So... covered the mac when it was about as interesting as dirt. The 2 books are "The Cult of the Mac" and "The Cult of the iPod". I'm thinking that I have better things to do than read whatever this person is writing.
The reason this is "news" is because it will start a flamewar on
Either we need a new definition for the word "Editor", or we need a new word for what it is the /. commanders do.