A more accurate headline for this piece would be, "EU Pushes to Limit Hate Speech on the Internet."
The title as it stands is not inaccurate; a limit on hate speech is certainly a limit on speech. However the particular choice of title puts the subject matter in a realm that is beyond debate for most/.er's...it's like skewing a poll's responses by a choice of phrase.
I'm not in favor of banning any type of speech, however, appeals to racial and national hatred are a problem that merit serious discussion. I feel that the way this article was presented throws a straw man into the works that prevents discussion of the real issue -- that is to say, what can legitimately be done about this issue?
A number of things in the piece were grating, and you've put your finger on the most annoying. It was quite clear that Brooks was talking about concept integrity; he did not say to refuse the client's request -- he only stated that "ease of use" is dependent on the core concept's correspondence to the client's needs. Had Willis put this concept together in his mind with Brooks's willingness to "throw one away" (which Willis also rejects), perhaps he would have understood both concepts better, and seen valid modern analogs to them.
It annoyed me especially to see Willis call Brooks "smug," when Willis seems to view previous generations as Marie Antionette viewed the hungry.
He repeatedly clucks at Brooks for "almost getting it right," where "getting it right" seems to be certain memes which the author takes for granted -- as if Brooks were in some parallel world that had no part in the creation of those memes!
It's not a strawman; your unilateral decision that I have broken some rule of yours, and so now you will unilaterally close discussion is as inflexible as your initial post in this thread, and equally unreasoning.
Backward compatability is the issue here, and if including a tweak in Windows allows a popular game to work, how the hell is that different in basis from Sony deciding to support games from a previous console? A LOT more trade-offs were involved in that decision, as you should know quite well.
"Backward compatability" is sometimes about considering the experience of the user more than programming ideals. It's about the reality of markets. Stuff that Linux developers need to deal with, not run away from.
I would imagine his option on the rights dropped and was picked up by Linklater's producers.
Gilliam on A Scanner Darkly:
"After The Fisher King, Richard LaGravenese who wrote the film, and I went to the studio with his script for Philip K Dick's A Scanner Darkly. Nobody's done a Dick novel right yet; Blade Runner was stunningly good, but Dick's idea was missing - that people were killing replicants to buy real animals. I saw how to make Scanner cheaply, and for it to be disturbing. But did the studio say, 'These two guys just made us our second-most profitable film of the year, let's give them the money to develop the idea?' No. I simply wasn't understanding the rules of this place called Hollywood."
Yeah but sometimes that cheaper product accomplishes what you need and is still cheaper.
That's why this 8-hour cd will be a boon to IP renegades. Insted of hours of downloading, buy a $2-4 dvd, rip it in minutes, toss.
The only upsetting thing is the amount of landfill material implied by these discs. There should be a way to make manufacturers pay in advance for the trash disposal costs such a practice would make inevitable.
What are the real benefits -- apart from satisfying abstract programming ideals -- of leaving out the one line of configuration settings (it's not code, it's a tweak) for compatability with a product that was designed for a different operating system?
Failing to include the line creates hassles for both the OS publisher and the games publisher. But most importantly, it creates inconvenience and frustration for the user.
If there's no benefit to omitting the single line of config data, omitting it is purely a punitive measure; "developers would've gotten the message that either you play by the rules, or you get hosed," in your own words.
Do you also believe Sony made an error in making PS1 games playable on PS2?
A compatability tweak is hardly a "bending of the features" of the new OS, those features remain fully intact when an app that has no need of the tweak is run. The absence of the tweak would not enhance the performance of Windows, except to the extent of lightening the registry by a single line.
Do you feel that Linux is a viable candidate for the consumer desktop? Would you argue that Linux can be as "user friendly" as Windows?
Unless your answers to these 2 questions are no and no, I would recommend you think a bit more about the end-user, and less about the extent to which compatability tweaks like this one fail to punish those you think should be punished.
I read threads that interest me by their topic matter. Though I asked you your "excuse" for being here, I honestly do not think you need one, and only did so because of the way in which you challenged me.
People have differing motivations for what they read and I don't think it's my business why any one is interested in a particular topic. If there are ways in which you could make a positive contribution to a thread on Mac OS, I think it's stingy of you to hold back because Mac users are not part of your general demographic. I like living in a world with people different from myself. YMMV.
I offered a Gamespot link to illuminate the topic of discussion; had it come from an Xbox, PS2 or Nintendo user it would still be a relevant reference.
By saying it's a troll, you are saying I made the post to provoke. If you wish to believe that, it's your choice. I know that's not true, but apparently the only way justify that post to you is for me to be a console gamer. (I play PC games, though, and have since 1979, when I played Scott Adams text adventures on a TRS-80.)
If you have mod points, go ahead and take the post down a peg, or perhaps your posts will persuade a mod that you are correct in calling me a troll and he will do so. But excuse me for thinking you're a little nuts.
I marvel at how they managed to get completion insurance. Milos Forman and producer Oliver Stone had to fight the studio tooth & nail to keep Courtney Love in The People vs. Larry Flynt due to the cost of completion insurance.
Little that was in the story was omitted, however. O'Bannon's additions, which I assume were there to meet running-time, were trivial and boring, which is why I tend to discount them.
Had O'Bannon treated Dick with less respect he might have monkeyed with the film's intriguing core concepts, instead of its boring minutiae.
Hold on...Reeves was an unknown at the time, and no one ever expected "Bill and Ted" to be "War and Peace."
People stopped making Tom Hanks apologize for "Bosom Buddies" a long time ago.
I'm more concerned about "Johnny Mnemonic" (less because of Reeves, more because of how W. Gibson talked it up pre-release) and the headache-provoking animation technique of "Waking Life."
I share your cynical view wrt academia and $, but individual researchers don't have the means to change the influence of market forces on the field as a whole; it's hard to be sure when anyone is "ho'ing."
One could argue that, when market forces draw researchers to a field of such potential, such forces are working the way they should.
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Perhaps the only way I can make a positive contribution to a discussion of QM.
Though I'm currently "at liberty," most of my life I've been a writer and editor of magazines for the teen market, so I have a certain amount of professional interest in anything pertaining to teens.
So, if everybody needs an excuse to be here now, and I told you mine, what is yours?
Is this supposed to be a criticism of MS? They didn't "fix a bug" here, they built-in forgiveness for a third party's bug. If they hadn't, Maxis, end-users, and MS would have suffered.
I don't; I own no game consoles, and I don't plan to own one.
The question was about whether Xbox and Sony have a heated competition or not, I simply offered the info I have.
Why all the passion about one soulless multinational corporation versus another? Do you suppose the brass at Sony wouldn't step over your corpse to pick up a buck?
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The title as it stands is not inaccurate; a limit on hate speech is certainly a limit on speech. However the particular choice of title puts the subject matter in a realm that is beyond debate for most /.er's...it's like skewing a poll's responses by a choice of phrase.
I'm not in favor of banning any type of speech, however, appeals to racial and national hatred are a problem that merit serious discussion. I feel that the way this article was presented throws a straw man into the works that prevents discussion of the real issue -- that is to say, what can legitimately be done about this issue?
It annoyed me especially to see Willis call Brooks "smug," when Willis seems to view previous generations as Marie Antionette viewed the hungry.
He repeatedly clucks at Brooks for "almost getting it right," where "getting it right" seems to be certain memes which the author takes for granted -- as if Brooks were in some parallel world that had no part in the creation of those memes!
Backward compatability is the issue here, and if including a tweak in Windows allows a popular game to work, how the hell is that different in basis from Sony deciding to support games from a previous console? A LOT more trade-offs were involved in that decision, as you should know quite well.
"Backward compatability" is sometimes about considering the experience of the user more than programming ideals. It's about the reality of markets. Stuff that Linux developers need to deal with, not run away from.
Gilliam on A Scanner Darkly: "After The Fisher King, Richard LaGravenese who wrote the film, and I went to the studio with his script for Philip K Dick's A Scanner Darkly. Nobody's done a Dick novel right yet; Blade Runner was stunningly good, but Dick's idea was missing - that people were killing replicants to buy real animals. I saw how to make Scanner cheaply, and for it to be disturbing. But did the studio say, 'These two guys just made us our second-most profitable film of the year, let's give them the money to develop the idea?' No. I simply wasn't understanding the rules of this place called Hollywood."
http://www.smart.co.uk/dreams/tgprojct.htm
That's why this 8-hour cd will be a boon to IP renegades. Insted of hours of downloading, buy a $2-4 dvd, rip it in minutes, toss.
The only upsetting thing is the amount of landfill material implied by these discs. There should be a way to make manufacturers pay in advance for the trash disposal costs such a practice would make inevitable.
Failing to include the line creates hassles for both the OS publisher and the games publisher. But most importantly, it creates inconvenience and frustration for the user.
If there's no benefit to omitting the single line of config data, omitting it is purely a punitive measure; "developers would've gotten the message that either you play by the rules, or you get hosed," in your own words.
Do you also believe Sony made an error in making PS1 games playable on PS2?
Do you feel that Linux is a viable candidate for the consumer desktop? Would you argue that Linux can be as "user friendly" as Windows?
Unless your answers to these 2 questions are no and no, I would recommend you think a bit more about the end-user, and less about the extent to which compatability tweaks like this one fail to punish those you think should be punished.
People have differing motivations for what they read and I don't think it's my business why any one is interested in a particular topic. If there are ways in which you could make a positive contribution to a thread on Mac OS, I think it's stingy of you to hold back because Mac users are not part of your general demographic. I like living in a world with people different from myself. YMMV.
I offered a Gamespot link to illuminate the topic of discussion; had it come from an Xbox, PS2 or Nintendo user it would still be a relevant reference.
By saying it's a troll, you are saying I made the post to provoke. If you wish to believe that, it's your choice. I know that's not true, but apparently the only way justify that post to you is for me to be a console gamer. (I play PC games, though, and have since 1979, when I played Scott Adams text adventures on a TRS-80.)
If you have mod points, go ahead and take the post down a peg, or perhaps your posts will persuade a mod that you are correct in calling me a troll and he will do so. But excuse me for thinking you're a little nuts.
Had O'Bannon treated Dick with less respect he might have monkeyed with the film's intriguing core concepts, instead of its boring minutiae.
I see your point, though.
Screamers, despite the title, is a faithful, low-budget, low-key adaptation of "Second Variety." Unfortunately it's also a bit of a bore.
People stopped making Tom Hanks apologize for "Bosom Buddies" a long time ago.
I'm more concerned about "Johnny Mnemonic" (less because of Reeves, more because of how W. Gibson talked it up pre-release) and the headache-provoking animation technique of "Waking Life."
I share your cynical view wrt academia and $, but individual researchers don't have the means to change the influence of market forces on the field as a whole; it's hard to be sure when anyone is "ho'ing."
One could argue that, when market forces draw researchers to a field of such potential, such forces are working the way they should.
Perhaps the only way I can make a positive contribution to a discussion of QM.
If not, are you certain it was grant money and not closer examination of the premises that caused the prof's conversion?
So, if everybody needs an excuse to be here now, and I told you mine, what is yours?
Perhaps I need clarification of your point?
I don't; I own no game consoles, and I don't plan to own one.
The question was about whether Xbox and Sony have a heated competition or not, I simply offered the info I have.
Why all the passion about one soulless multinational corporation versus another? Do you suppose the brass at Sony wouldn't step over your corpse to pick up a buck?
And, while everyone is complaining about the grave ommissions, here's mine:
The greatest time-travel series ever made. Imogene Coca as Shad. Joe E. Ross as Gronk. Mike Mazursky as Clon.
One blessed season. The end of which leaves me, still, unconsolable.