I thought the same thing, really. Imagine being able to drown out auditory input that can't be ignored and gets garbled up by the mind. While I find this idea potentially dangerous (who knows that the long term affects could be) if refined it could have much more potential than just war and advertising.
I'd like to say that I agree that the marketplace will fulfill and push, but instead I see us waiting for the patent from something that was patented some time ago to change our lives when the patent finally expires.
So multiple votes, districts, nominations and entire elections can be horse traded by party leaders but selling a single vote is wrong? Nope, no hypocrisy here.
Yes, because corporate espionage is so often carried out by nefarious time travelers from the 70s and 80s. This gem should also include look for men with wavy hair and bright rays from the nearest time gate.
To rephrase what I said (saying FOSS was a mistake, I know), we are only creating more discerning consumers by taking this path. Of course this is a good thing given all of the crap software/spyware/malware/etc. out there (Facebook apps come to mind). But in the end no one is teaching them anything that won't be obsolete in 5-10 years. They need to know that these machines they are at sitting in front of aren't magic boxes, but tools that are to be used (and yes, manipulated).
You may have a paragraph or so about "marathon coding sessions", but that never really teaches them anything outside of our own kitsch. Of course I'm not knocking Doctorow or these guys, they really are the first to step out there in this field (and in this way), but kids crave substance and when they get real substance, they know it. This has the risk of being viewed as propaganda. The real answer is writing something that adults will learn from and then go from there.
With this and Doctorow's new book, I'm beginning to wonder if teens even know about F/OSS (or computers in general). In all seriousness, we have this stuff that gives them simple bites of what is going on (here is the latest, new free software and why it is a good idea to use it), but it worries me that we aren't really teaching them how things work.
OK, most of us can agree that kiddie porn is a bad thing. Terrorism, well I have no idea of how you judge that, but racial hatred? Honestly, if we banned racial hatred we would have to burn 95% of the history books out there.
Hows this? Take an account of the conflict in Bosnia Herzegovina. A Muslim account will be called racist/hate-driven content by many Serb; same goes for vice versa (well, only if you are a Serb, for everyone else it would be called honesty).
I can't say I completely agree with the prediction that the GOP is going to have its usual steamrolller victories in the south. Most southern, hell, all republicans aren't all that enthusiastic about McCain. He is a hard candidate when it comes to polarizing your voter base. Simply put if the commies and pro-Antichrist liberals decided to take over America and turn your children into gay socialist, they don't believe he would do a whole lot to turn the tide.
Also, no one seems to notice that there are plenty of black voters in the south. Contrary to what many in the media would have you believe, black voters aren't afraid to go to the polls; Sheriff Cracker hasn't been at the polls with his shotgun in a long, long time. The problem is that they, like every other voter group, seldom have a reason to go.
Perhaps I read it wrong, but yesterday's post was able the incessant use of Google/Wikipedia searches for information that you should put to memory, not the internet "makes us stupid".
Honestly, no one in politics gives a damn about the Fourth Amendment. In their world, only (copyright voilaters,) drug addicts and child molesters care about it and anyone campaigning in it's favor are supporters of illegal narcotics and child rape. Thats just the way politics works here.
Ya know, after 7+ years of watching the Republican party screw us (in the U.S.), it feels good to say, "Why are those damn Democrats screwing this country up?".
This whole liking the Democrats thing was getting old.
I wouldn't call this scaremongering. Just having a little fun.
There is something about geeks that leads them to be more suspicious of authority. Perhaps it is being ostracized at a young age or the fact that there are simply a lot of really dumb people out there who have somehow manage to get a little power.
I may be able to "recall" via Wikipedia, the capitol of any small country in the South Pacific, but that doesn't mean I know that countries' capitol. Ask me about it again an hour or so later and I'll probably end up going back to Wikipedia/Google, if I really didn't care about the subject when you asked me. We are relying on our short-term memory for so much but we are committing less and less to long-term. We can build better queries, but that doesn't mean we really know any more. Now I'm not knocking all of this information that we have instant access to, it makes this one of the most exciting times to be alive but when Alzheimer's skyrockets 30 years from now, who are we going to blame? Blueberry pancakes?
I've often heard it said that those in the legal profession are the ones who carry out responsibilities that were once held by kings and nobles. The RIAA's only fault is confusing kings and nobles with vindictive gods.
Sadly, they don't offer any of the SS games. I'd love to play those. I guess I should have made that one a little clearer. Sorry, I was half asleep and without coffee when posting earlier.
Its hard to have serious animosity towards Hollick. Where I live 100K is great cash, elsewhere it really isn't so much.
I see one big problem here. Games, unlike say, Victrola music, are more difficult and time consuming to "transfer" to newer technologies. For every Tomb Raider on GameTap there is a System Shock and System Shock 2 (bad examples I know). With so little "roll-over content" what is the purpose of the sending out residual checks on something that probably won't be selling 20 years from now.
I guess my point is that the game business isn't built like the movie or music business and it should be very wary of going the way of the beloved MPAA or RIAA.
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You seriously underestimate Carl Icahn. Granted he was dumb enough to buy into Blockbuster, so what do I know.
Why down on Silverlight? Am I the only person who hopes that Adobe has some real competition for once?
I thought the same thing, really. Imagine being able to drown out auditory input that can't be ignored and gets garbled up by the mind. While I find this idea potentially dangerous (who knows that the long term affects could be) if refined it could have much more potential than just war and advertising.
I'd like to say that I agree that the marketplace will fulfill and push, but instead I see us waiting for the patent from something that was patented some time ago to change our lives when the patent finally expires.
So multiple votes, districts, nominations and entire elections can be horse traded by party leaders but selling a single vote is wrong? Nope, no hypocrisy here.
So after the long and painful voyage it gets bombed by the allies, right?
I had the same questions.
Just like a Mac fan. Complain that 3rd party Trojans aren't good enough for them.
Yes, because corporate espionage is so often carried out by nefarious time travelers from the 70s and 80s. This gem should also include look for men with wavy hair and bright rays from the nearest time gate.
To rephrase what I said (saying FOSS was a mistake, I know), we are only creating more discerning consumers by taking this path. Of course this is a good thing given all of the crap software/spyware/malware/etc. out there (Facebook apps come to mind). But in the end no one is teaching them anything that won't be obsolete in 5-10 years. They need to know that these machines they are at sitting in front of aren't magic boxes, but tools that are to be used (and yes, manipulated).
You may have a paragraph or so about "marathon coding sessions", but that never really teaches them anything outside of our own kitsch. Of course I'm not knocking Doctorow or these guys, they really are the first to step out there in this field (and in this way), but kids crave substance and when they get real substance, they know it. This has the risk of being viewed as propaganda. The real answer is writing something that adults will learn from and then go from there.
With this and Doctorow's new book, I'm beginning to wonder if teens even know about F/OSS (or computers in general). In all seriousness, we have this stuff that gives them simple bites of what is going on (here is the latest, new free software and why it is a good idea to use it), but it worries me that we aren't really teaching them how things work.
No screen captures, just pics taken with a camera? Um, Ok.
OK, most of us can agree that kiddie porn is a bad thing. Terrorism, well I have no idea of how you judge that, but racial hatred? Honestly, if we banned racial hatred we would have to burn 95% of the history books out there.
Hows this? Take an account of the conflict in Bosnia Herzegovina. A Muslim account will be called racist/hate-driven content by many Serb; same goes for vice versa (well, only if you are a Serb, for everyone else it would be called honesty).
I can't say I completely agree with the prediction that the GOP is going to have its usual steamrolller victories in the south. Most southern, hell, all republicans aren't all that enthusiastic about McCain. He is a hard candidate when it comes to polarizing your voter base. Simply put if the commies and pro-Antichrist liberals decided to take over America and turn your children into gay socialist, they don't believe he would do a whole lot to turn the tide.
Also, no one seems to notice that there are plenty of black voters in the south. Contrary to what many in the media would have you believe, black voters aren't afraid to go to the polls; Sheriff Cracker hasn't been at the polls with his shotgun in a long, long time. The problem is that they, like every other voter group, seldom have a reason to go.
Perhaps I read it wrong, but yesterday's post was able the incessant use of Google/Wikipedia searches for information that you should put to memory, not the internet "makes us stupid".
Honestly, no one in politics gives a damn about the Fourth Amendment. In their world, only (copyright voilaters,) drug addicts and child molesters care about it and anyone campaigning in it's favor are supporters of illegal narcotics and child rape. Thats just the way politics works here.
Ya know, after 7+ years of watching the Republican party screw us (in the U.S.), it feels good to say, "Why are those damn Democrats screwing this country up?".
This whole liking the Democrats thing was getting old.
I wouldn't call this scaremongering. Just having a little fun.
There is something about geeks that leads them to be more suspicious of authority. Perhaps it is being ostracized at a young age or the fact that there are simply a lot of really dumb people out there who have somehow manage to get a little power.
I may be able to "recall" via Wikipedia, the capitol of any small country in the South Pacific, but that doesn't mean I know that countries' capitol. Ask me about it again an hour or so later and I'll probably end up going back to Wikipedia/Google, if I really didn't care about the subject when you asked me. We are relying on our short-term memory for so much but we are committing less and less to long-term. We can build better queries, but that doesn't mean we really know any more. Now I'm not knocking all of this information that we have instant access to, it makes this one of the most exciting times to be alive but when Alzheimer's skyrockets 30 years from now, who are we going to blame? Blueberry pancakes?
I didn't know it was being designed and marketed towards 12 year olds.
Actually that was the first thing I thought. The idea of Red "commie" Office just seems so Fox News friendly.
With talk of Wikipedia as Maoist and Linus's "communist roots", I'm not looking forward to the cultural backlash on all things "Open".
I've often heard it said that those in the legal profession are the ones who carry out responsibilities that were once held by kings and nobles. The RIAA's only fault is confusing kings and nobles with vindictive gods.
Cool, thanks. That was driving me crazy.
Sadly, they don't offer any of the SS games. I'd love to play those. I guess I should have made that one a little clearer. Sorry, I was half asleep and without coffee when posting earlier.
Its hard to have serious animosity towards Hollick. Where I live 100K is great cash, elsewhere it really isn't so much.
I see one big problem here. Games, unlike say, Victrola music, are more difficult and time consuming to "transfer" to newer technologies. For every Tomb Raider on GameTap there is a System Shock and System Shock 2 (bad examples I know). With so little "roll-over content" what is the purpose of the sending out residual checks on something that probably won't be selling 20 years from now.
I guess my point is that the game business isn't built like the movie or music business and it should be very wary of going the way of the beloved MPAA or RIAA.