Zynga has product that people can walk away with in the blink of an eye. After spending how many hours clicking mindlessly on games that do not materially change no matter how long you click on them, you are just a couple of days away from breaking the habit and moving on to the next click fest, or better yet, opening a book and reading something that actually is not brain numbing. Or doing gaming that is actually fun. Games are entertainment, Zynga games aren't entertaining, they depend solely on the addictive nature of the click-reward, it is a real force to be sure, but ultimately the little mini click fest games fail for lack of actual entertainment value.
I don't get this at all, especially with programs like Calibre, Amazon makes it as easy as possible to get documents into your Kindle using the Personal Documents feature it is a piece of cake! I have never met a document format I could not easily get onto my Kindle device. True, if you want things that are DRM'ed you have to jump through some hoops but that would be no different on any device.
Now when work calls me at 3AM because a mainframe job failed I will have to say "Please reboot the mainframe and call me back again if it still fails!" Then I can go back to sleep.
There are several other possibilities, I tend to favor the simulation hypothesis, if for no other reason that it has a certain postmodern aesthetic to it I appreciate.
Sounds like you've never sat on a jury. I have and I've never before sat in a room with such a group of uninformed, uninterested, and poorly educated people. The attorneys dismiss anyone they can if they think they care at all about the issues more than they care about getting home as quickly as possible with as little inconvience to themselves as possible. Yes, I know, this could be applied to me, but I ended up being dismissed after the evidence in the trial I sat through. I was an "alternate" selected just to make sure there were 12 people left standing by the time the deliberations began.
Trey and Matt could move the show to HBO, that will show Comedy Central. If that doesn't work, hell they could probably move it to the Playboy Channel and people would sign up. If we can pay for naked people maybe if we pay enough someday we can hear words and watch cartoons without censorship.
A Micky Mouse suit would have been better. Then everytime you see Micky Mouse you'd have to try to figure out if it was really Muhammad under there or not.
They may not have the source code anymore if it's that old. Modern mainframes have continued to evolve and a recompile might be necessary. It's actually not that hard to believe that the source code might be missing, in that era the source code was usually punched out on cards which had to be physically maintained in boxes which could easily be lost.
Get a white noise generator. I have an ancient one that sits in the corner of my office. It helps drown out the background chit chat and definitely helps me focus my attention without distraction.
No one notices that is is on but if I ever turn it off you suddenly become aware of just how noisy everyone is, you can hear every sniffle and word spoken and you realize just how distracting that really is. Maybe stage such a demo, have your noise generator running for a couple of weeks, then one day when your boss is in your cube, just reach over casually and turn it off. When he suddenly becomes aware of all the distracting chit chat pouring in, point out how much more productive you have been since you got the white noise generator and how it serves the same purpose for you music used to do when it was allowed. It might open his mind a little. Or not. But the main thing is you can concentrate.
Same reason so many people use the crappy msn email accounts that come with their crappy msn internet connection. They don't know any better and since it's microsoft - it must be good enough.
Microsoft dosen't need the smarter than average half of the bell curve to use their products, they only need a certain market share and they'll make buckets of money.
There is still no need to prohibit, rather educate and if necessary medically rehabilitate. Locking people up for addiction rather than helping them cope is not cheap, but it's still cheaper than housing them (in prison) for many years or even the rest of their lives. Many have lived out quite productive lives while nevertheless addicted to drugs like cocaine and heroin. Opiate additions do not really harm the organism until the supply is cut. I'm not saying it's great to be hooked on opiates, but there's no legitimate reason to favor criminal incarceration of an opiate addict vs. building a counseling and treatment network designed to build skillful means so that an addict can managing their use intelligently.
All drugs have a context for use that doesn't automatically put bystanders at risk. Clearly if you're going to do PCP you shouldn't get behind the wheel until it is safe to do so, several hours later. Provided guided and smart contexts where drug use can be matched with a responsible setting can eliminate these side effects. If you could go somewhere safe and guided to trip on LSD for 10 hours, be fed, spend time to reflect and consider your experience, it might be very interesting. You might be less likely to drop some acid and get behind the wheel and go look at the pretty lights and end up in the ditch wondering what happened.
This is a myopic POV. Imagine, if people were holding their breath until they passed out while driving people would die as a result, sure. But people don't do that. Create a context where smart drug use is allowed without the need for the furtive criminality, you can go somewhere safe, use, trip, sleep, whatever you need. You don't have to get behind the wheel. The reason people are driving around stoned on drugs is because we haven't funneled them into a constructive drug use pattern since it's illegal to do so. A supportive drug use setting removes much of the cultural and circumstantial reasons for the harm. No one really wants to combine doing drugs with driving, but they are forced to drive and do stupid stuff because we haven't provided smart conscious and innovative alternatives.
I am willing to bet that people pay more to house and prosecute numberless drug users/sellers than it would cost to provide social services to help them cope when their usage becomes a detriment to sustaining themselves in the context of their other decisions. Not everyone has the same responsibilities. If you have a wife and kids and a mortgage and a bunch of bills it hurts you more to be an addict. If you live in a cheap apartment and live off your investments, what's the difference if you chose to live your life stoned out of your mind.
1. Man has the right to live by his own law--
to live in the way that he wills to do:
to work as he will:
to play as he will:
to rest as he will:
to die when and how he will.
2. Man has the right to eat what he will:
to drink what he will:
to dwell where he will:
to move as he will on the face of the earth.
3. Man has the right to think what he will:
to speak what he will:
to write what he will:
to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will:
to dress as he will.
4. Man has the right to love as he will.
5. Man has the right to kill those who would thwart these rights.
Lots of small businesses and groups used shared hosting where sometimes hundreds of domains are all hosted on a single server. If one domain with some files it shouldn't have is going to result in the entire server being seized the value of shared hosting is going to go down the tubes.
Nikon has Image Authentication software that can detect whether an image has been processed or altered after having been taken. I would expect to see this used in cases where digital photographs are used as evidence in a trial.
It's because PC operating systems we never designed for mission critical applications. Unlike mainframe operating systems where down time was unacceptable, PCs were luxury items that power users basically just dinked around with. Eventually abominations like MS Access caused leakage and end users started to imagine that PCs were suitable for production work. Unfortunately since they were never built with reliability in mind, being basically toys for power users, the result is the sad state of affairs we have.
This suggests the quantum suicide gambit. Devise a fail proof device which will kill you as soon as it becomes know that the desired result has not occured. You should continue to exist only in those worlds in which the desired result occured. For example if you wish to live in a world in which you have won the lottery, create a device that will kill you if you lose the lottery.
I'm not recommending anyone try it, but it seems theoretically possible.
Of course the other even more disturbing outcome is the back water of infinte sorrow. Each fatality which occurs includes some small chance of survival which also occurs. Therefore in some sense we're all doomed to spend eternity narrowly escaping termination in what must become an increasingly bizzare state of being immortally close to death.
Perhaps in the future this will be resolved by packaging applications with their own minimal operating system as part of the package. The user will simply run the virtual machine package within a generic VM supervisor. Each application need only be packaged with exactly the operating system it needs in an efficient form of virtual device management.
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Zynga has product that people can walk away with in the blink of an eye. After spending how many hours clicking mindlessly on games that do not materially change no matter how long you click on them, you are just a couple of days away from breaking the habit and moving on to the next click fest, or better yet, opening a book and reading something that actually is not brain numbing. Or doing gaming that is actually fun. Games are entertainment, Zynga games aren't entertaining, they depend solely on the addictive nature of the click-reward, it is a real force to be sure, but ultimately the little mini click fest games fail for lack of actual entertainment value.
I don't get this at all, especially with programs like Calibre, Amazon makes it as easy as possible to get documents into your Kindle using the Personal Documents feature it is a piece of cake! I have never met a document format I could not easily get onto my Kindle device. True, if you want things that are DRM'ed you have to jump through some hoops but that would be no different on any device.
Now when work calls me at 3AM because a mainframe job failed I will have to say "Please reboot the mainframe and call me back again if it still fails!" Then I can go back to sleep.
There are several other possibilities, I tend to favor the simulation hypothesis, if for no other reason that it has a certain postmodern aesthetic to it I appreciate.
How long before they finally crack down on all those Anonymous users posting on Slashdot
Same here. IE7 is the only browser we can use and Slashdot is completely unusable
Sounds like you've never sat on a jury. I have and I've never before sat in a room with such a group of uninformed, uninterested, and poorly educated people. The attorneys dismiss anyone they can if they think they care at all about the issues more than they care about getting home as quickly as possible with as little inconvience to themselves as possible. Yes, I know, this could be applied to me, but I ended up being dismissed after the evidence in the trial I sat through. I was an "alternate" selected just to make sure there were 12 people left standing by the time the deliberations began.
Trey and Matt could move the show to HBO, that will show Comedy Central. If that doesn't work, hell they could probably move it to the Playboy Channel and people would sign up. If we can pay for naked people maybe if we pay enough someday we can hear words and watch cartoons without censorship.
A Micky Mouse suit would have been better. Then everytime you see Micky Mouse you'd have to try to figure out if it was really Muhammad under there or not.
They may not have the source code anymore if it's that old. Modern mainframes have continued to evolve and a recompile might be necessary. It's actually not that hard to believe that the source code might be missing, in that era the source code was usually punched out on cards which had to be physically maintained in boxes which could easily be lost.
Get a white noise generator. I have an ancient one that sits in the corner of my office. It helps drown out the background chit chat and definitely helps me focus my attention without distraction. No one notices that is is on but if I ever turn it off you suddenly become aware of just how noisy everyone is, you can hear every sniffle and word spoken and you realize just how distracting that really is. Maybe stage such a demo, have your noise generator running for a couple of weeks, then one day when your boss is in your cube, just reach over casually and turn it off. When he suddenly becomes aware of all the distracting chit chat pouring in, point out how much more productive you have been since you got the white noise generator and how it serves the same purpose for you music used to do when it was allowed. It might open his mind a little. Or not. But the main thing is you can concentrate.
This doesn't sound like a bug or leak, more like some users set up links or otherwise made their messages public.
Same reason so many people use the crappy msn email accounts that come with their crappy msn internet connection. They don't know any better and since it's microsoft - it must be good enough. Microsoft dosen't need the smarter than average half of the bell curve to use their products, they only need a certain market share and they'll make buckets of money.
There is still no need to prohibit, rather educate and if necessary medically rehabilitate. Locking people up for addiction rather than helping them cope is not cheap, but it's still cheaper than housing them (in prison) for many years or even the rest of their lives. Many have lived out quite productive lives while nevertheless addicted to drugs like cocaine and heroin. Opiate additions do not really harm the organism until the supply is cut. I'm not saying it's great to be hooked on opiates, but there's no legitimate reason to favor criminal incarceration of an opiate addict vs. building a counseling and treatment network designed to build skillful means so that an addict can managing their use intelligently.
Legal drugs would allows you to pay for a nanny fee by participating in a professional setting.
All drugs have a context for use that doesn't automatically put bystanders at risk. Clearly if you're going to do PCP you shouldn't get behind the wheel until it is safe to do so, several hours later. Provided guided and smart contexts where drug use can be matched with a responsible setting can eliminate these side effects. If you could go somewhere safe and guided to trip on LSD for 10 hours, be fed, spend time to reflect and consider your experience, it might be very interesting. You might be less likely to drop some acid and get behind the wheel and go look at the pretty lights and end up in the ditch wondering what happened.
This is a myopic POV. Imagine, if people were holding their breath until they passed out while driving people would die as a result, sure. But people don't do that. Create a context where smart drug use is allowed without the need for the furtive criminality, you can go somewhere safe, use, trip, sleep, whatever you need. You don't have to get behind the wheel. The reason people are driving around stoned on drugs is because we haven't funneled them into a constructive drug use pattern since it's illegal to do so. A supportive drug use setting removes much of the cultural and circumstantial reasons for the harm. No one really wants to combine doing drugs with driving, but they are forced to drive and do stupid stuff because we haven't provided smart conscious and innovative alternatives.
I am willing to bet that people pay more to house and prosecute numberless drug users/sellers than it would cost to provide social services to help them cope when their usage becomes a detriment to sustaining themselves in the context of their other decisions. Not everyone has the same responsibilities. If you have a wife and kids and a mortgage and a bunch of bills it hurts you more to be an addict. If you live in a cheap apartment and live off your investments, what's the difference if you chose to live your life stoned out of your mind.
1. Man has the right to live by his own law-- to live in the way that he wills to do: to work as he will: to play as he will: to rest as he will: to die when and how he will.
2. Man has the right to eat what he will: to drink what he will: to dwell where he will: to move as he will on the face of the earth.
3. Man has the right to think what he will: to speak what he will: to write what he will: to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will: to dress as he will.
4. Man has the right to love as he will.
5. Man has the right to kill those who would thwart these rights.
Lots of small businesses and groups used shared hosting where sometimes hundreds of domains are all hosted on a single server. If one domain with some files it shouldn't have is going to result in the entire server being seized the value of shared hosting is going to go down the tubes.
Those were definitely not the requirements on that proposal.
Nikon has Image Authentication software that can detect whether an image has been processed or altered after having been taken. I would expect to see this used in cases where digital photographs are used as evidence in a trial.
It's because PC operating systems we never designed for mission critical applications. Unlike mainframe operating systems where down time was unacceptable, PCs were luxury items that power users basically just dinked around with. Eventually abominations like MS Access caused leakage and end users started to imagine that PCs were suitable for production work. Unfortunately since they were never built with reliability in mind, being basically toys for power users, the result is the sad state of affairs we have.
This suggests the quantum suicide gambit. Devise a fail proof device which will kill you as soon as it becomes know that the desired result has not occured. You should continue to exist only in those worlds in which the desired result occured. For example if you wish to live in a world in which you have won the lottery, create a device that will kill you if you lose the lottery. I'm not recommending anyone try it, but it seems theoretically possible. Of course the other even more disturbing outcome is the back water of infinte sorrow. Each fatality which occurs includes some small chance of survival which also occurs. Therefore in some sense we're all doomed to spend eternity narrowly escaping termination in what must become an increasingly bizzare state of being immortally close to death.
Perhaps in the future this will be resolved by packaging applications with their own minimal operating system as part of the package. The user will simply run the virtual machine package within a generic VM supervisor. Each application need only be packaged with exactly the operating system it needs in an efficient form of virtual device management.