When in doubt, lie, cheat, and steal. Strong ethics and morales will get you nowhere in this world kids.
Sounds about right. Is the whole damn app store even worth $2 billion? I find that hard to believe. That's a lot of pocket change people are spending on apps.
What's really funny is that people are worried about the particulars of the lie they're being told about the product (what colour of happy family guy the product will magically transform you into) rather than the fact that it has become accepted practice in advertising.
Truth in advertising got steadily eroded over time and now it's a joke.
And just like in the Road Runner cartoons, Wikipedia will just ignore the abyss below, run to the opposite side of the canyon and happily continue its journey into the future, while the coyotes (= trolls, spammers, vandals) will suddenly notice the large amount of fresh air beneath their feet and descend into the land of pain (because now people will pay even less attention to their desperate attempts of getting some social interaction with real people).
Just keep on keepin' on. If you just keep predicting doom and gloom upon anything any time anything happens, you're bound to be right one of these times! And then you'll Win(tm)! That'll show 'em all!
I think you're confusing me with Nostradamas. Take a look at my history here. I'm not going around predicting doom and gloom. But hey don't let me stop you from burying your head in the sand every time someone says something you don't like.
Mostly its idiots and desperate people that commit serious crimes in the first place. So the camera doesn't filter many people at all.
Have you never seen "World's dumbest criminals" or similar shows? Plenty of criminals walk into a service station with their face covered in whipped cream or shaving cream, as it if were some grand original idea (clearly they haven't heard of it being done) only to wind up with the stuff falling off revealing their face and getting in their eyes obscuring their own vision.
This won't work. The idea of encylopedia as wiki only works while editing is relatively straight forward and can be done by almost anyone. I know it hasn't REALLY been like that for some time, but I think what we're seeing is the next phase of a decline not a brave new world of better encylopedias.
The fundamental problem: Make too many editors trusted, and you have the potential for wide spread abuse by the editors going unchecked. Too few trusted editors and you get edits stagnating and awaiting approval indefinitely. Both will turn people off contributing, and striking a balance is next to impossible.
It's not a new problem. I remember the old "talkers" (social MUDs) in the 90's. Becoming a super user became a trophy win. You'd either get too few or too many, people would actually trade real world sexual favours for the privellege of being an SU (or use it as a pretext for sex - we're talking about college kids) and things would go to hell. If you don't have any experience with that, imagine how well a Unix system would run if every time you changed file permissions, a super user was needed to approve the change.
This change has doomed Wikipedia. In a decade we'll all be reminiscing about it. The staff at the paid encyclopedias must be cracking open bottles of champagne. Wait and see.
I'm just as much a member of the tinfoil hat brigade as anyone else, but doesn't that seem a bit of a leap of logic? It seems to me that the simplest explanation for their presence (deterring crime and identifying criminals) is in this case the best one.
No tinfoil hat required to realise that such cameras grant an awful lot of power and can be abused.
For me the leap of logic is assuming that the authorities didn't realise how ineffective these things would be. Surveillance footage is notoriously of poor quality and rarely does a conviction occur on the basis of such footage alone.
It's not about solving crimes and those of us that aren't complete sheep know it. It's about getting people use to an intrusive government presence and getting them to accept it with minimum complaint. For that it's been very effective.
Oracle does not have a tradition of giving away much of it's software. Sun by contrast has a lot of open source or free as in beer software. I am worried that Oracle will either kill or start charging for Java, OpenOffice, Solaris, VirtualBox, MySQL and other products based on it's own business interests. It's only natural for it to do so. With this aquisition, Oracle is in a position of great power. It can kill or alter the course of all the products of both companies. Absolute power corrupts.
For example MySQL and PostgressSQL are the only 2 viable open source alternatives to an Oracle DB for many systems. (There are critical systems for which Oracle is absolutely needed, but the percentage that could be served well by an open source alternative is probably significant). It is definitely in Oracle's interest to kill or dillute MySQL.
You've obviously never been in a public facing position with an angry New Yorker who's Tom Tom is telling them to go down a road that's closed either. Why should they require their staff to put up with rude and aggressive asshats when the situation is caused by something totally out of their control?
Because it's public transport, not a gentleman's carriage service. If the public are rude and aggressive enough, you call the police in.
But the real WTF is the title "Windows 7 Igniting Touchscreen PC Market." Seriously? That's 100% marketing speak. How is Windows 7 "igniting" this market, when there are no actual units being sold, and thus no idea if it will actually "catch fire" or not?
What it means is that the software used to interpret screen touches is so CPU intensive that it will melt your computer. Combine it with a bad lithium battery and you'll pretty soon see why these things can be described as igniting the market.
Hey, somebody discovered the slippery slope fallacy!
Hey, somebody discovered that if they cryptically accuse the other person of a logical error without any kind of backing to the accusation, they can avoid the issue altogether!
Worked well for Hitler, too. One fumble after the next (He did some idiotic things fortunately or we might be having this discussion in German), Germany in ruins and him and his loved ones left feeling the need to commit suicide.
I would disagree with that. A guy I work with is a Linux Fan. He's technically advanced. He's using Ubuntu. He can't figure out how to give me read access to a given folder on his computer. With Windows, i can do it with my eyes closed.
Now mount a particular drive letter read only. Can't do it? Shame that.
It doesn't matter what the operating system is, people can be incompetent at using it or just have a mental blank.
Said that, I walked past an billboard advertising W7 and I was sold. It was so good, even on a huge paper display, that I am fully Microsoft now. I have become a c# developer over the last 20 minutes, and I am now as proficient in that as I was in C/C++. I have bought all the MS hardware, as well as all my clothes have little Microsoft icons on them.
Sure you can have lots of RAM for quite cheap, but most people won't ever need that much RAM.
640k should be enough for anyone huh? Where've I heard that before.
You're forgetting a number of factors, not the least of which is application bloat. In 5 years there will be applications that don't load in under 2GB. It's sad. It's unnecessary. Hell they managed to program the orbital mechanics for the lunar lander to fit in a few kb. But it's the way the world works. Until software writing practices change - both OS AND application - 64 bit will be a consideration.
I think it's funny. Microsoft steps right into a landmines of patents, and problems and complications seem to go off at every turn. Ironic? A little bit. Come on, it's a little funny.
Only if you find the decay of human civilizations funny. No one is immune to this nonsense and in the end innovation grinds to a halt and everything goes backwards until the current IP laws are replaced with something saner and more sustainable. In the meantime expect to see less progress on everything from things that make your life more convenient to medical technology your life may depend on.
1. Cross-link Facebook, Slashdot, Twitter, Second Life, Google Earth 2. Create detailed 3D body model for all Slashdotters 3. Render 3D models to latex masks. 4. Render 3D models to simulated virtual environment 5. Capture, drug and equip Slashdotters with goggles 6. Replace real-world Slashdotters with robot duplicates. 7. Profit!
Steps 1-5 are a lot of effort when you could just create a large number of over and under weight asexual robots with no body strength that consume caffeine and pizza, and end up with a pretty close approximation.
Slashdot Mirror
When in doubt, lie, cheat, and steal. Strong ethics and morales will get you nowhere in this world kids.
Sounds about right. Is the whole damn app store even worth $2 billion? I find that hard to believe. That's a lot of pocket change people are spending on apps.
Go a step further - write a book.
Go a step further - become a best selling author.
What's really funny is that people are worried about the particulars of the lie they're being told about the product (what colour of happy family guy the product will magically transform you into) rather than the fact that it has become accepted practice in advertising.
Truth in advertising got steadily eroded over time and now it's a joke.
CCTV cameras are a one-time installation cost (with a minor amount of maintenance). Regular police forces are a continuous cost.
Yeah and when I buy a computer I also plan for it to never break down, become outdated or need replacing.
What nonsense!
And just like in the Road Runner cartoons, Wikipedia will just ignore the abyss below, run to the opposite side of the canyon and happily continue its journey into the future, while the coyotes (= trolls, spammers, vandals) will suddenly notice the large amount of fresh air beneath their feet and descend into the land of pain (because now people will pay even less attention to their desperate attempts of getting some social interaction with real people).
I bet you believe in fairies and angels too.
Indeed, and in fact, this is a step forward ...Off a cliff. Like in the Road Runner cartoons.
...She goes off like a rocket!
Just keep on keepin' on. If you just keep predicting doom and gloom upon anything any time anything happens, you're bound to be right one of these times! And then you'll Win(tm)! That'll show 'em all!
I think you're confusing me with Nostradamas. Take a look at my history here. I'm not going around predicting doom and gloom. But hey don't let me stop you from burying your head in the sand every time someone says something you don't like.
only idiots commit crimes in front of cameras.
Mostly its idiots and desperate people that commit serious crimes in the first place. So the camera doesn't filter many people at all.
Have you never seen "World's dumbest criminals" or similar shows? Plenty of criminals walk into a service station with their face covered in whipped cream or shaving cream, as it if were some grand original idea (clearly they haven't heard of it being done) only to wind up with the stuff falling off revealing their face and getting in their eyes obscuring their own vision.
This won't work. The idea of encylopedia as wiki only works while editing is relatively straight forward and can be done by almost anyone. I know it hasn't REALLY been like that for some time, but I think what we're seeing is the next phase of a decline not a brave new world of better encylopedias.
The fundamental problem: Make too many editors trusted, and you have the potential for wide spread abuse by the editors going unchecked. Too few trusted editors and you get edits stagnating and awaiting approval indefinitely. Both will turn people off contributing, and striking a balance is next to impossible.
It's not a new problem. I remember the old "talkers" (social MUDs) in the 90's. Becoming a super user became a trophy win. You'd either get too few or too many, people would actually trade real world sexual favours for the privellege of being an SU (or use it as a pretext for sex - we're talking about college kids) and things would go to hell. If you don't have any experience with that, imagine how well a Unix system would run if every time you changed file permissions, a super user was needed to approve the change.
This change has doomed Wikipedia. In a decade we'll all be reminiscing about it. The staff at the paid encyclopedias must be cracking open bottles of champagne. Wait and see.
I'm just as much a member of the tinfoil hat brigade as anyone else, but doesn't that seem a bit of a leap of logic?
It seems to me that the simplest explanation for their presence (deterring crime and identifying criminals) is in this case the best one.
No tinfoil hat required to realise that such cameras grant an awful lot of power and can be abused.
For me the leap of logic is assuming that the authorities didn't realise how ineffective these things would be. Surveillance footage is notoriously of poor quality and rarely does a conviction occur on the basis of such footage alone.
It's not about solving crimes and those of us that aren't complete sheep know it. It's about getting people use to an intrusive government presence and getting them to accept it with minimum complaint. For that it's been very effective.
I have a few concerns.
Oracle does not have a tradition of giving away much of it's software. Sun by contrast has a lot of open source or free as in beer software. I am worried that Oracle will either kill or start charging for Java, OpenOffice, Solaris, VirtualBox, MySQL and other products based on it's own business interests. It's only natural for it to do so. With this aquisition, Oracle is in a position of great power. It can kill or alter the course of all the products of both companies. Absolute power corrupts.
For example MySQL and PostgressSQL are the only 2 viable open source alternatives to an Oracle DB for many systems. (There are critical systems for which Oracle is absolutely needed, but the percentage that could be served well by an open source alternative is probably significant). It is definitely in Oracle's interest to kill or dillute MySQL.
How is this a troll? Sticking your head in the sand doesn't make a response less valid.
It doesn't give you access to unpublished drafts, storyboards, concept designs, deleted scenes, sets, props, costumes, etc.
You just described the usual extras published on a DVD.
You've obviously never been in a public facing position with an angry New Yorker who's Tom Tom is telling them to go down a road that's closed either. Why should they require their staff to put up with rude and aggressive asshats when the situation is caused by something totally out of their control?
Because it's public transport, not a gentleman's carriage service. If the public are rude and aggressive enough, you call the police in.
But the real WTF is the title "Windows 7 Igniting Touchscreen PC Market." Seriously? That's 100% marketing speak. How is Windows 7 "igniting" this market, when there are no actual units being sold, and thus no idea if it will actually "catch fire" or not?
What it means is that the software used to interpret screen touches is so CPU intensive that it will melt your computer. Combine it with a bad lithium battery and you'll pretty soon see why these things can be described as igniting the market.
I'd never actually do what you suggested of course, but thank you for making me laugh so hard I cried. That was a fantastic mental image you evoked!
Hey, somebody discovered the slippery slope fallacy!
Hey, somebody discovered that if they cryptically accuse the other person of a logical error without any kind of backing to the accusation, they can avoid the issue altogether!
Worked well for Hitler, too. One fumble after the next (He did some idiotic things fortunately or we might be having this discussion in German), Germany in ruins and him and his loved ones left feeling the need to commit suicide.
I would disagree with that. A guy I work with is a Linux Fan. He's technically advanced. He's using Ubuntu. He can't figure out how to give me read access to a given folder on his computer. With Windows, i can do it with my eyes closed.
Now mount a particular drive letter read only. Can't do it? Shame that.
It doesn't matter what the operating system is, people can be incompetent at using it or just have a mental blank.
Said that, I walked past an billboard advertising W7 and I was sold. It was so good, even on a huge paper display, that I am fully Microsoft now. I have become a c# developer over the last 20 minutes, and I am now as proficient in that as I was in C/C++. I have bought all the MS hardware, as well as all my clothes have little Microsoft icons on them.
You could have just said you'd been assimilated.
Sure you can have lots of RAM for quite cheap, but most people won't ever need that much RAM.
640k should be enough for anyone huh? Where've I heard that before.
You're forgetting a number of factors, not the least of which is application bloat. In 5 years there will be applications that don't load in under 2GB. It's sad. It's unnecessary. Hell they managed to program the orbital mechanics for the lunar lander to fit in a few kb. But it's the way the world works. Until software writing practices change - both OS AND application - 64 bit will be a consideration.
I think it's funny. Microsoft steps right into a landmines of patents, and problems and complications seem to go off at every turn. Ironic? A little bit. Come on, it's a little funny.
Only if you find the decay of human civilizations funny. No one is immune to this nonsense and in the end innovation grinds to a halt and everything goes backwards until the current IP laws are replaced with something saner and more sustainable. In the meantime expect to see less progress on everything from things that make your life more convenient to medical technology your life may depend on.
1. Cross-link Facebook, Slashdot, Twitter, Second Life, Google Earth
2. Create detailed 3D body model for all Slashdotters
3. Render 3D models to latex masks.
4. Render 3D models to simulated virtual environment
5. Capture, drug and equip Slashdotters with goggles
6. Replace real-world Slashdotters with robot duplicates.
7. Profit!
Steps 1-5 are a lot of effort when you could just create a large number of over and under weight asexual robots with no body strength that consume caffeine and pizza, and end up with a pretty close approximation.