After reading about this the other day I was trying to find some nice pictures of the lunar shadow on the earth. Have there been any pics of it from high up? I found one or two blurry shots from a plane, but nothing that really looked inspiring.
I disagree and agree. Every FPS basically does what your complaints are. Some (like Call of Duty or Halo for example) might limit how much you can carry, but they're all artificial limits. You can only carry two pistols, or one pistol and a rifle, how are those equivalent spacewise? What I loved about Bioshock was the environment and letting myself become immersed in it. I expected a FPS, and got a FPS, but thoroughly enjoyed the art deco style, the fear they build in when you come around corners and here someone singing, seeing shadows around the bend, the environment they clearly spent time putting together.
And if you want to die more, you can turn off the Vita-Chambers (I think that's their name) so that you don't respawn. That's just a toggle setting.
I think the being anonymous on a social networking site is opposite the idea. At least with something like Facebook, where the point is to reconnect with friends from school or family. And given that you no doubt want to be found by those people (and can refuse people who you don't want to have access to your information), it's not like you're going to obfuscate yourself to the point of being invisible. Now having said that, yes, some small number of people out there are still going to. And when I go to any other site needing information, I still use an alias/handle/username that isn't related to me except for those people who know that I always use the same one or two.
I've run into exactly this with my in-laws. Their GPS is telling them the, of course, major roads and things, but when we're around my area and I try and give them a nice shortcut my father-in-law has the reaction of 'well, the GPS is saying to go this way'. (Cue the inlaw jokes if you like.) People can certainly get so attached to their GPS that they never want to go against it aka the Office and driving into the lake.
However, I have one myself for long drives, and I have no problem with a female voice giving me directions. What sort of loony response is that? I buy a GPS, but don't want to listen to it then? I have a great sense of direction, but nothing beats having a fall back in the GPS (and the directions I printed from Google, along with extra maps or places to stop).
I started at a general computer support/consulting company doing non-programming things. Made it known with my boss I was into that (my degree was CompSci), and we started doing inhouse things with Lotus Notes, which moved into web apps and SQL databases. Then clients started wanted work done and I was able to do that until now I'm basically doing web app/database development full-time with ASP.Net and SQL Server. The only drawback being I'm the only developer, so I don't get to interface with other devs to bounce ideas off of, or know when I'm on the wrong track with something.
On the other hand, I'm learning and playing with Objective-C on OS X from a book, which is how I learned the other languages I currently use, so if the books work for you it's not a bad route to take.
I just read it for the first time about a month ago, and thought the same thing. There are parts of the story where you just need to accept what is being said and delve into it later, otherwise you keep going back thinking you missed some explanation of a word/thing/scene. Thankfully I've played Shadowrun which is basically based on Gibson's stories that I can see (although he's not a fan of it apparently). I'm about half-way through Count Zero and so far its ok, but is starting to refer back to Neuromancer, so I'm hoping it gets a bit more interesting.
I haven't had a chance to try the new iPhones, but I remember my black Motorola flip phone from about 8 or so years ago doing exactly that. Calling from the car and thinking it was almost too hot to hold to my head. Now, that was also 8 years ago, so you'd think they'd be better, but it's not like it's the first phone to scald your face off.
I have wanted an iPhone since they came out, but I have a corporate plan so I'm not eligible, ever, for an upgrade the way our company handles it. I have to buy one outright to get it too, so stop whining. One of these days I may actually buy one as a gift to myself, but until then I'm in the same boat. Just be glad you have one and not some generic blackberry.
There are books that no one is printing anymore, we all know this, and most of us have probably wanted one at some time or another. Here is Google putting together a solution, and people are bitching? I understand the general complain of 'monopoly', but as other people have stated they aren't destroying the other books out there. If it's in a library and you don't want to pay Google, go look it up in the library.
As for the other people who are complaining, again, go start a business and start digitizing them yourself. At face value I don't see a problem with this, they have the means to fill a niche that no one else wants/can. Why aren't publishers already doing all this? I should be able to go to a publisher's website and purchase/download any book they have rights to, but they don't, so let Google step in and attempt to create a new market.
That makes complete sense. Why not cut yourself off from the biggest search engine. That way, when I'm searching the hundreds (thousands?) of news sites out there for some random term, your site won't show up. Because, of course, you know I visit each and every news site in the world daily, and Google is taking away from your revenue by pointing me to your site to read your articles.
I agree. I don't know this is flamebait. Often on remote support calls you tell the user, over and over, 'yes, that's fine.. just click OK.. just click Next... ok you are good, if anything else pops up just keep clicking OK'. The problem is that for an install of MS Office or something, it's no big deal, but the user doesn't always understand the danger when their browser or some random app starts prompting them in the same manner.
I like VMWare partially because I have clients using that to virtualize servers, so I'm familiar with them as a company. I also didn't like how I couldn't completely uninstall Parallels when I tried a demo of it. It left pieces installed and I ended up rebuilding my MBP at one point partially because of that. I don't know that VMWare doesn't do the same thing, so it may be as bad as well. However I'm also more comfortable knowing that they have experience in the server world in general, and not just desktops.
Many would say the same thing about faith/God/etc. Just because one group doesn't see the value of the other, doesn't mean there isn't value to someone.
1. Trojan != Virus
2. Social engineering is the best way to hack/infect a system
3. Downloading software illegally may cause you problems.
Not exactly newsworthy, but I appreciate the info should I decide to nab iWork myself. I suppose the buzz is because this is happening to OS X and Mac users.
I mean, sure it's surprising that people would do something like this, but it's also probably been in the works since before Apple made their announcement.
Otherwise, MS has made it clear they are trying to protect the 'rights' of the companies producing content by tying in protection with their OS. Trying to prevent unencrypted content from being sent over video connections or such. I'm not a video/audiophile, so I don't recall the specifics, but I'm sure someone can list them if needed.
Why is this listed as being humorous?/. generally bemoans the fact that normal users don't use Linux, and that people just assume Windows for everything. And yet here is a normal person, trying to use it, and finding it frustrating and causing her problems, and people mock her attempt.
As always, someone up the food chain hears about all these 'bad things' from a site, and rather than come up with a useful policy (if censorship can be considered useful) to apply, they just jump out of their chair 'Blacklist it! The whole thing!'
Nothing new there. We've all had bosses or clients that do the same thing. No surprise. Just more heads shaking in disappointment.
I love the correlationisnotcausation tag. It gets applied to any story like this, and while it often seems to be accurate, I imagine someone would stick it on a story titled 'Study shows stabbing yourself may increase blood loss'.
If you want to hear the latest RIAA top 40 dreck, turn on the radio. It's free and it's legal, and if you want a digital copy of that single you can sample the radio. Legal? I don't know, but back in the cassette days they specifically made recording off the air legal.
Well that's just silly. People want to take their music with them, and whether or not you listen to Top 40 songs/classical music/country/whatever doesn't matter. If you are a fan of independent artists, that's great, but most of what people are exposed to comes from record companies with ties to the RIAA. If my favorite artist sold their music directly to me, that would be great, but at least if I'm buying it in some format I know that at least some amount is in fact going to them.
Odd, I don't know a single one. I hear it from the RIAA all the time, but have never met this mythical pirate. Why would one steal bottled water when you have a filtered tap on your sink and money in your pocket?
That's great. Now we have two anecdotal stories. People can draw their own conclusions from their own experiences.
BTW, iTunes doesn't sell music, they rent it. If you want to "buy music" you need to buy a CD, as you have resale and lending rights with it.
I suppose this is about DRM or digital ownership. I agree that DRM is terrible, no one wants it as it simply impedes playing music where and on what device you want. iTunes is getting rid of it. Amazon sells only MP3s (I think, I haven't been there). And as for resale value, I'm not sure the point. I never buy a product with the expectation that I'm going to resell it. Again that's just silly. I don't go to a store and appraise the expected resale value of everything going into my cart.
Great, a stimulus package that helps everyone else except for those people who happen to develop software for a living. It's not like jobs in those areas haven't already had problems with being outsourced over seas.
I develop a bit of software for a computer/network consulting company, so I'm insulated from that type of thing in general. But if I was writing software and charging a fair (important here) price, I don't think the government should be coming in to compete against me. This isn't like people are building bridges, but then only letting Fords across, or charging outrageous prices for tolls. The government builds a bridge because there's a need, and they are the ones to do it.
If they want to help, investigate and fully deal with the monopolies or unfair business practices out there that allow Microsoft (or whoever) to do what they do and force competition out of the market.
The RIAA cannot be forgiven for the things they try and pull, or the extortion they have forced onto many people. But it drives me nuts the people that still continue to grab their music illegally which just helps prolong and reinforce the idea that the RIAA is needed (to record companies). Buy a CD, buy from iTunes, buy from Amazon, I don't care. I know people who can absolutely afford to purchase their music legally, but don't. Not because of any stance against record companies or compensation for artists. They just do it, 'because'. It's free after all. BLARG. /RANT
Sorry. Just had to say it.
Um, because that's part of college? It is often the first time a lot of students are on their own for their first time, and while it's not a replica of real life, it's important. Education, time management, social interactions, all of it is part of the experience. To suggest that just because some of it doesn't translate on some ratio to RL doesn't make it less valuable.
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After reading about this the other day I was trying to find some nice pictures of the lunar shadow on the earth. Have there been any pics of it from high up? I found one or two blurry shots from a plane, but nothing that really looked inspiring.
I disagree and agree. Every FPS basically does what your complaints are. Some (like Call of Duty or Halo for example) might limit how much you can carry, but they're all artificial limits. You can only carry two pistols, or one pistol and a rifle, how are those equivalent spacewise? What I loved about Bioshock was the environment and letting myself become immersed in it. I expected a FPS, and got a FPS, but thoroughly enjoyed the art deco style, the fear they build in when you come around corners and here someone singing, seeing shadows around the bend, the environment they clearly spent time putting together.
And if you want to die more, you can turn off the Vita-Chambers (I think that's their name) so that you don't respawn. That's just a toggle setting.
I think the being anonymous on a social networking site is opposite the idea. At least with something like Facebook, where the point is to reconnect with friends from school or family. And given that you no doubt want to be found by those people (and can refuse people who you don't want to have access to your information), it's not like you're going to obfuscate yourself to the point of being invisible. Now having said that, yes, some small number of people out there are still going to. And when I go to any other site needing information, I still use an alias/handle/username that isn't related to me except for those people who know that I always use the same one or two.
I've run into exactly this with my in-laws. Their GPS is telling them the, of course, major roads and things, but when we're around my area and I try and give them a nice shortcut my father-in-law has the reaction of 'well, the GPS is saying to go this way'. (Cue the inlaw jokes if you like.) People can certainly get so attached to their GPS that they never want to go against it aka the Office and driving into the lake.
However, I have one myself for long drives, and I have no problem with a female voice giving me directions. What sort of loony response is that? I buy a GPS, but don't want to listen to it then? I have a great sense of direction, but nothing beats having a fall back in the GPS (and the directions I printed from Google, along with extra maps or places to stop).
I started at a general computer support/consulting company doing non-programming things. Made it known with my boss I was into that (my degree was CompSci), and we started doing inhouse things with Lotus Notes, which moved into web apps and SQL databases. Then clients started wanted work done and I was able to do that until now I'm basically doing web app/database development full-time with ASP.Net and SQL Server. The only drawback being I'm the only developer, so I don't get to interface with other devs to bounce ideas off of, or know when I'm on the wrong track with something.
On the other hand, I'm learning and playing with Objective-C on OS X from a book, which is how I learned the other languages I currently use, so if the books work for you it's not a bad route to take.
I just read it for the first time about a month ago, and thought the same thing. There are parts of the story where you just need to accept what is being said and delve into it later, otherwise you keep going back thinking you missed some explanation of a word/thing/scene. Thankfully I've played Shadowrun which is basically based on Gibson's stories that I can see (although he's not a fan of it apparently). I'm about half-way through Count Zero and so far its ok, but is starting to refer back to Neuromancer, so I'm hoping it gets a bit more interesting.
I haven't had a chance to try the new iPhones, but I remember my black Motorola flip phone from about 8 or so years ago doing exactly that. Calling from the car and thinking it was almost too hot to hold to my head. Now, that was also 8 years ago, so you'd think they'd be better, but it's not like it's the first phone to scald your face off.
I have wanted an iPhone since they came out, but I have a corporate plan so I'm not eligible, ever, for an upgrade the way our company handles it. I have to buy one outright to get it too, so stop whining. One of these days I may actually buy one as a gift to myself, but until then I'm in the same boat. Just be glad you have one and not some generic blackberry.
There are books that no one is printing anymore, we all know this, and most of us have probably wanted one at some time or another. Here is Google putting together a solution, and people are bitching? I understand the general complain of 'monopoly', but as other people have stated they aren't destroying the other books out there. If it's in a library and you don't want to pay Google, go look it up in the library.
As for the other people who are complaining, again, go start a business and start digitizing them yourself. At face value I don't see a problem with this, they have the means to fill a niche that no one else wants/can. Why aren't publishers already doing all this? I should be able to go to a publisher's website and purchase/download any book they have rights to, but they don't, so let Google step in and attempt to create a new market.
Sweet, sweet achievements. One more way to waste my time.
That makes complete sense. Why not cut yourself off from the biggest search engine. That way, when I'm searching the hundreds (thousands?) of news sites out there for some random term, your site won't show up. Because, of course, you know I visit each and every news site in the world daily, and Google is taking away from your revenue by pointing me to your site to read your articles.
I agree. I don't know this is flamebait. Often on remote support calls you tell the user, over and over, 'yes, that's fine.. just click OK.. just click Next... ok you are good, if anything else pops up just keep clicking OK'. The problem is that for an install of MS Office or something, it's no big deal, but the user doesn't always understand the danger when their browser or some random app starts prompting them in the same manner.
Now the terrorists will know exactly where to strike! Did no one think to obscure the important parts? Oh wait...
I like VMWare partially because I have clients using that to virtualize servers, so I'm familiar with them as a company. I also didn't like how I couldn't completely uninstall Parallels when I tried a demo of it. It left pieces installed and I ended up rebuilding my MBP at one point partially because of that. I don't know that VMWare doesn't do the same thing, so it may be as bad as well. However I'm also more comfortable knowing that they have experience in the server world in general, and not just desktops.
Many would say the same thing about faith/God/etc. Just because one group doesn't see the value of the other, doesn't mean there isn't value to someone.
1. Trojan != Virus
2. Social engineering is the best way to hack/infect a system
3. Downloading software illegally may cause you problems.
Not exactly newsworthy, but I appreciate the info should I decide to nab iWork myself. I suppose the buzz is because this is happening to OS X and Mac users.
I mean, sure it's surprising that people would do something like this, but it's also probably been in the works since before Apple made their announcement.
Otherwise, MS has made it clear they are trying to protect the 'rights' of the companies producing content by tying in protection with their OS. Trying to prevent unencrypted content from being sent over video connections or such. I'm not a video/audiophile, so I don't recall the specifics, but I'm sure someone can list them if needed.
Why is this listed as being humorous? /. generally bemoans the fact that normal users don't use Linux, and that people just assume Windows for everything. And yet here is a normal person, trying to use it, and finding it frustrating and causing her problems, and people mock her attempt.
As always, someone up the food chain hears about all these 'bad things' from a site, and rather than come up with a useful policy (if censorship can be considered useful) to apply, they just jump out of their chair 'Blacklist it! The whole thing!'
Nothing new there. We've all had bosses or clients that do the same thing. No surprise. Just more heads shaking in disappointment.
I love the correlationisnotcausation tag. It gets applied to any story like this, and while it often seems to be accurate, I imagine someone would stick it on a story titled 'Study shows stabbing yourself may increase blood loss'.
If you want to hear the latest RIAA top 40 dreck, turn on the radio. It's free and it's legal, and if you want a digital copy of that single you can sample the radio. Legal? I don't know, but back in the cassette days they specifically made recording off the air legal.
Well that's just silly. People want to take their music with them, and whether or not you listen to Top 40 songs/classical music/country/whatever doesn't matter. If you are a fan of independent artists, that's great, but most of what people are exposed to comes from record companies with ties to the RIAA. If my favorite artist sold their music directly to me, that would be great, but at least if I'm buying it in some format I know that at least some amount is in fact going to them.
Odd, I don't know a single one. I hear it from the RIAA all the time, but have never met this mythical pirate. Why would one steal bottled water when you have a filtered tap on your sink and money in your pocket?
That's great. Now we have two anecdotal stories. People can draw their own conclusions from their own experiences.
BTW, iTunes doesn't sell music, they rent it. If you want to "buy music" you need to buy a CD, as you have resale and lending rights with it.
I suppose this is about DRM or digital ownership. I agree that DRM is terrible, no one wants it as it simply impedes playing music where and on what device you want. iTunes is getting rid of it. Amazon sells only MP3s (I think, I haven't been there). And as for resale value, I'm not sure the point. I never buy a product with the expectation that I'm going to resell it. Again that's just silly. I don't go to a store and appraise the expected resale value of everything going into my cart.
FYI: This article needs more acronyms. STAT. ASAP.
Great, a stimulus package that helps everyone else except for those people who happen to develop software for a living. It's not like jobs in those areas haven't already had problems with being outsourced over seas.
I develop a bit of software for a computer/network consulting company, so I'm insulated from that type of thing in general. But if I was writing software and charging a fair (important here) price, I don't think the government should be coming in to compete against me. This isn't like people are building bridges, but then only letting Fords across, or charging outrageous prices for tolls. The government builds a bridge because there's a need, and they are the ones to do it.
If they want to help, investigate and fully deal with the monopolies or unfair business practices out there that allow Microsoft (or whoever) to do what they do and force competition out of the market.
The RIAA cannot be forgiven for the things they try and pull, or the extortion they have forced onto many people. But it drives me nuts the people that still continue to grab their music illegally which just helps prolong and reinforce the idea that the RIAA is needed (to record companies). Buy a CD, buy from iTunes, buy from Amazon, I don't care. I know people who can absolutely afford to purchase their music legally, but don't. Not because of any stance against record companies or compensation for artists. They just do it, 'because'. It's free after all. BLARG.
/RANT
Sorry. Just had to say it.
Um, because that's part of college? It is often the first time a lot of students are on their own for their first time, and while it's not a replica of real life, it's important. Education, time management, social interactions, all of it is part of the experience. To suggest that just because some of it doesn't translate on some ratio to RL doesn't make it less valuable.