You don't need all of your controls, windows, etc. to look the same, you need the differences in appearance and functionality to actually mean something. OS X has very well-defined user interface guidelines, and they define the times when you use regular windows, black HUDs, etc. Furthermore, the "brushed metal" look is gone in 10.5.
GNOME has interface guidelines, Ubuntu doesn't. Furthermore, GNOME's guidelines appear to be built around cargo-culting existing (read: bad) UIs rather than designing something that works well from the ground up.
Also, FOSS projects are great, but they tend to attract few competent graphic designers. Hence the slick, polished look of OS X - Apple hires very good artists.
He sees that there's not really anything that separates him from people in wealthier parts of the world other than what's effectively birth right. He begins to resent that relative wealth, and he begins to develop a sense of entitlement. Why shouldn't he have the same wealth that the rich have?
Having actually lived in Ethiopia for a month, and having talked to dozens of people there, I assure you this isn't the case.
This view you describe, which seems to be based in cynicism and class envy, simply doesn't exist all over the world. I can't speak for Somalia, but in their neighbor Ethiopia, the attitude is largely one of overwhelming generosity despite having close to nothing.
I talked to one guy who said that he had a brother who lived in America, but he never even cared to visit. He loved his life in Ethiopia. The attitude that everyone in the third world resents everyone in the first world and is willing to set aside their morals to attain material wealth is ignorant and potentially racist.
Certainly every society has their criminals. But poverty is not itself a spawning pool for criminal behavior. Go ahead and witness children who eat about 10 bites of food per day offer you some of theirs, and come back and post again.
Is the first rule of pirated movies "do not talk about pirated movies?" Why shouldn't a journalist be allowed to discuss his opinions on something that's been leaked? Why should he get fired for that, regardless of the businesses involved?
Disappointed to see all the banal Fox News bashing in the comments of an article that's largely about censorship, especially since commenters here usually rise to the defense of sites like Wikileaks.
If the police aren't able to ascertain within 10 seconds of looking at that thing that it's not a bomb, they aren't doing their jobs.
Remember that the police get far far far far more bomb hoaxes and empty threats than they do actual bombs. Separating signal from noise is essential to them doing their jobs.
But the woman doesn't cause the death of the child she's carrying in the womb. I don't know what definition of "cause" you are using, but typically cause implies control.
Punishing someone for an event they didn't know would happen, did nothing to cause, could do nothing to prevent, and did not have control over is ludicrous, and weakens the whole of your argument.
Your Down's Syndrome argument is incorrect, primarily because the article I linked doesn't claim that a certain chromosome number is required to be human, and furthermore even directly states that Down's and Turner's syndromes are genetic variants of the species and not separate species.
As far as science, why are you claiming that there's "no science" in an article that cites scholarly medical and scientific journals? What further information do you want, and are you prepared to proffer it to support your side?
The difference between miscarriage and abortion is that miscarriage is not the willful action of the mother. You can't blame someone for the result of their natural biological processes.
Yes, miscarriage is unfortunate, but I fail to see how it relates to abortion.
It's scientifically indisputable that a human fetus is alive, and that a human fetus is fully human (i.e. the cells are all 100% his or her own DNA, and not his mother's.) The issue is whether or not the fetus has rights.
If a living organism is a human, "default = having human rights" seems perfectly rational to me, and if you're saying that "default = no human rights," what authority confers human rights?
Besides, if half the country says "X is a person and deserves human rights," we shouldn't allow the legalized killing of X.
You were going for a degree in AI, and hadn't yet read anything that said/demonstrated that go is a very very hard game for computers to win at? I'm not questioning your prudence, I'm just curious what AI books you read before deciding on AI as a focus.
How on earth are Prolog and Logo so high up on the list (after getting past the top 20?) Who uses them for any practical applications? I had always seen them as instructional tools or toys rather than functional languages (no pun intended, Prolog.)
It's kind of embarrassing as an Objective-C programmer to see Prolog and Logo doing better than Obj-C or Smalltalk.
Steve,
In 2006 Kinky Friedman ran for Governor of Texas, using a similarly "quirky" campaign approach, injecting humor into his message and campaigning in a style considered by many to be unconventional. While he made a strong showing as an independent (with 12.5% of the vote), he still placed fourth. What influences your campaigning style, and how do you seek to avoid the same pitfalls of other lighthearted (though serious) campaigns?
You mean the same Inquisition which was proposed by the lay King Ferdinand of Spain as an investigatory council, allowed by Pope Sixtus IV, and then shut down and condemned by that same Pope when he learned of the excesses and cruelties that went on?
Besides, people in the Church make mistakes. To hold the precepts of the Church meaningless because they've been violated would be like calling the principles of the Constitution meaningless because we allowed slavery as a country under the same Constitution.
It's always been a tenet of the Catholic Church that the ends do not justify the means. As a result, the Church would argue that a positive end (higher birth rate) cannot be the justification for an immoral means (separating the acts of sexual intercourse and the creation of new life.)
It's a bit upsetting that Nintendo feels that they can do this just because every single person who owns a Wii and liked the first & second games is a guaranteed sell, anyway. This isn't quality control - it's cost-cutting. Nintendo should have had more developers on this project from day 1 if this was the case.
DMCA questions aside - what gives the bartender the right to confiscate an ID she thinks is fake, then post it on the Internet? Not forgetting that now she's in possession of illegal property, she doesn't have the right to "play cop" with every young-looking kid who comes up there looking for a drink. I'm not defending the person who made the fake ID, I just see this kind of "vigilante justice" as an invasion of privacy, without warrant, that ends up going nowhere. The bartender should be fired for this.
With proprietary software, much of it in a legacy stage, keeping corporations using Windows PCs, it seems like Apple's business plan should be obvious:
Buy Parallels, and
Include it free with every new Mac sold through business channels.
Congratulations. Now there's nothing stopping corporations from making the switch.
Meteorology is the one profession where a scientist can be consistently wrong and yet still hold a job. Fire them for their views on global warming? I'd rather they get fired when they say it's not going to rain and it does.
I'm really tired of kdawson's stories always blaming Bush for everything he disagrees with in American government. This isn't simply because I disagree with his politics; it is foolish and irresponsible to blame one person (either individually, or by using the surrogate term "administration") for the problems of a government of hundreds of movers and shakers. Keep the partisan bull-droppings off of Slashdot, and especially out of stories about politically neutral topics like space.
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Oh, it happened to me at 1 AM. The worst part was: I thought I was about to fight the final boss so I figured I would beat it before I went to sleep even though I was way too tired. Because I was tired and it was late, I was sitting far closer to the TV than usual.
and then the game tells me..."You'll ruin your eyes playing too close to the TV!"
Unbelievably scary.
Surprised no one's mentioned this yet. When the Colonel at the end turns into a skull face and starts ordering you to turn off the game console, and starts talking gibberish. Then you realize that the main character is simply an allegory for you, the player, and that the designer, Hideo Kojima, has spent the entire game building up to this moment to freak you out of your mind.
At least with "scary games," you're expecting them to be scary. This was a perfectly normal game that suddenly became very different without warning.
It's only really an advertisement if it's designed to expose you to a product you've never been exposed to before and get you interested in it; otherwise it's a promotional material, designed to make those who are already interested in it more interested. This may be quiddling with semantics, but I think it's important when "advertisement" is a loaded word that echoes concepts such as inconvenience and marketing.
Furthermore, if people are willing to pay to see something, it's not exactly an advertisement anymore, is it? It's a product. I don't view this as making Silver customers second-class citizens; I view it as creating more incentives to upgrade to Gold.
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You don't need all of your controls, windows, etc. to look the same, you need the differences in appearance and functionality to actually mean something. OS X has very well-defined user interface guidelines, and they define the times when you use regular windows, black HUDs, etc. Furthermore, the "brushed metal" look is gone in 10.5.
GNOME has interface guidelines, Ubuntu doesn't. Furthermore, GNOME's guidelines appear to be built around cargo-culting existing (read: bad) UIs rather than designing something that works well from the ground up.
Also, FOSS projects are great, but they tend to attract few competent graphic designers. Hence the slick, polished look of OS X - Apple hires very good artists.
He sees that there's not really anything that separates him from people in wealthier parts of the world other than what's effectively birth right. He begins to resent that relative wealth, and he begins to develop a sense of entitlement. Why shouldn't he have the same wealth that the rich have?
Having actually lived in Ethiopia for a month, and having talked to dozens of people there, I assure you this isn't the case.
This view you describe, which seems to be based in cynicism and class envy, simply doesn't exist all over the world. I can't speak for Somalia, but in their neighbor Ethiopia, the attitude is largely one of overwhelming generosity despite having close to nothing.
I talked to one guy who said that he had a brother who lived in America, but he never even cared to visit. He loved his life in Ethiopia. The attitude that everyone in the third world resents everyone in the first world and is willing to set aside their morals to attain material wealth is ignorant and potentially racist.
Certainly every society has their criminals. But poverty is not itself a spawning pool for criminal behavior. Go ahead and witness children who eat about 10 bites of food per day offer you some of theirs, and come back and post again.
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Is the first rule of pirated movies "do not talk about pirated movies?" Why shouldn't a journalist be allowed to discuss his opinions on something that's been leaked? Why should he get fired for that, regardless of the businesses involved?
Disappointed to see all the banal Fox News bashing in the comments of an article that's largely about censorship, especially since commenters here usually rise to the defense of sites like Wikileaks.
If the police aren't able to ascertain within 10 seconds of looking at that thing that it's not a bomb, they aren't doing their jobs.
Remember that the police get far far far far more bomb hoaxes and empty threats than they do actual bombs. Separating signal from noise is essential to them doing their jobs.
But the woman doesn't cause the death of the child she's carrying in the womb. I don't know what definition of "cause" you are using, but typically cause implies control.
Punishing someone for an event they didn't know would happen, did nothing to cause, could do nothing to prevent, and did not have control over is ludicrous, and weakens the whole of your argument.
Your Down's Syndrome argument is incorrect, primarily because the article I linked doesn't claim that a certain chromosome number is required to be human, and furthermore even directly states that Down's and Turner's syndromes are genetic variants of the species and not separate species.
As far as science, why are you claiming that there's "no science" in an article that cites scholarly medical and scientific journals? What further information do you want, and are you prepared to proffer it to support your side?
The difference between miscarriage and abortion is that miscarriage is not the willful action of the mother. You can't blame someone for the result of their natural biological processes.
Yes, miscarriage is unfortunate, but I fail to see how it relates to abortion.
As for some science, this doctor can explain better than I.
It's scientifically indisputable that a human fetus is alive, and that a human fetus is fully human (i.e. the cells are all 100% his or her own DNA, and not his mother's.) The issue is whether or not the fetus has rights.
If a living organism is a human, "default = having human rights" seems perfectly rational to me, and if you're saying that "default = no human rights," what authority confers human rights?
Besides, if half the country says "X is a person and deserves human rights," we shouldn't allow the legalized killing of X.
I understand; he simply seemed surprised at the fact that it was a hard problem.
This is a win for parallel computing and computer architecture; much less so for artificial intelligence and algorithm development.
But it's still a win, and it's still significant.
You were going for a degree in AI, and hadn't yet read anything that said/demonstrated that go is a very very hard game for computers to win at? I'm not questioning your prudence, I'm just curious what AI books you read before deciding on AI as a focus.
How on earth are Prolog and Logo so high up on the list (after getting past the top 20?) Who uses them for any practical applications? I had always seen them as instructional tools or toys rather than functional languages (no pun intended, Prolog.) It's kind of embarrassing as an Objective-C programmer to see Prolog and Logo doing better than Obj-C or Smalltalk.
Steve,
In 2006 Kinky Friedman ran for Governor of Texas, using a similarly "quirky" campaign approach, injecting humor into his message and campaigning in a style considered by many to be unconventional. While he made a strong showing as an independent (with 12.5% of the vote), he still placed fourth. What influences your campaigning style, and how do you seek to avoid the same pitfalls of other lighthearted (though serious) campaigns?
You know the guy who invented the pet rock? That guy made a million dollars. A million dollars!
You mean the same Inquisition which was proposed by the lay King Ferdinand of Spain as an investigatory council, allowed by Pope Sixtus IV, and then shut down and condemned by that same Pope when he learned of the excesses and cruelties that went on? Besides, people in the Church make mistakes. To hold the precepts of the Church meaningless because they've been violated would be like calling the principles of the Constitution meaningless because we allowed slavery as a country under the same Constitution.
It's always been a tenet of the Catholic Church that the ends do not justify the means. As a result, the Church would argue that a positive end (higher birth rate) cannot be the justification for an immoral means (separating the acts of sexual intercourse and the creation of new life.)
It's a bit upsetting that Nintendo feels that they can do this just because every single person who owns a Wii and liked the first & second games is a guaranteed sell, anyway. This isn't quality control - it's cost-cutting. Nintendo should have had more developers on this project from day 1 if this was the case.
DMCA questions aside - what gives the bartender the right to confiscate an ID she thinks is fake, then post it on the Internet? Not forgetting that now she's in possession of illegal property, she doesn't have the right to "play cop" with every young-looking kid who comes up there looking for a drink. I'm not defending the person who made the fake ID, I just see this kind of "vigilante justice" as an invasion of privacy, without warrant, that ends up going nowhere. The bartender should be fired for this.
I would imagine that most companies using Windows PCs already have enough Windows licenses sitting around.
Congratulations. Now there's nothing stopping corporations from making the switch.
Meteorology is the one profession where a scientist can be consistently wrong and yet still hold a job. Fire them for their views on global warming? I'd rather they get fired when they say it's not going to rain and it does.
I'm really tired of kdawson's stories always blaming Bush for everything he disagrees with in American government. This isn't simply because I disagree with his politics; it is foolish and irresponsible to blame one person (either individually, or by using the surrogate term "administration") for the problems of a government of hundreds of movers and shakers. Keep the partisan bull-droppings off of Slashdot, and especially out of stories about politically neutral topics like space.
Oh, it happened to me at 1 AM. The worst part was: I thought I was about to fight the final boss so I figured I would beat it before I went to sleep even though I was way too tired. Because I was tired and it was late, I was sitting far closer to the TV than usual. and then the game tells me..."You'll ruin your eyes playing too close to the TV!" Unbelievably scary.
Surprised no one's mentioned this yet. When the Colonel at the end turns into a skull face and starts ordering you to turn off the game console, and starts talking gibberish. Then you realize that the main character is simply an allegory for you, the player, and that the designer, Hideo Kojima, has spent the entire game building up to this moment to freak you out of your mind.
At least with "scary games," you're expecting them to be scary. This was a perfectly normal game that suddenly became very different without warning.
It's only really an advertisement if it's designed to expose you to a product you've never been exposed to before and get you interested in it; otherwise it's a promotional material, designed to make those who are already interested in it more interested. This may be quiddling with semantics, but I think it's important when "advertisement" is a loaded word that echoes concepts such as inconvenience and marketing.
Furthermore, if people are willing to pay to see something, it's not exactly an advertisement anymore, is it? It's a product. I don't view this as making Silver customers second-class citizens; I view it as creating more incentives to upgrade to Gold.