the solution is to have the players democratically regulate themselves...
if you've ever played tribes 2 you can vote to kick certain players out of the game. if someone's cheating it's usually obvious and they get booted pretty quick. if someone's just causing trouble by trying to boot honest players, people vote no about kicking the honest player and the troublemaker ends up getting booted next.
i'm not sure how this would work in a one on one card game, maybe some sort of point system where kick requests are reviewed by moderators but the solution is democratic self regulation by the players themselves.
it works because 90% of gamers are pretty honest people and just want to have a good time...
You say it doesn't allow small artists airtime. So what. If they're good, they can get a record contract and get on the air too
This is not true.
The problem with payola is that most artists getting signed these days has more to do with their looks than their talent.
The record companies aren't selling music, they sell a product, one they are trying to maximize profits on meaning cross media market saturation and mass appeal to the lowest common denominator. Britney Spears being on the radio all the time has a lot more to do with the quality of her videos and the way she looks on posters than it does her music because it's the image they're selling and the image that makes money.
Getting airplay is just like bonus free advertising, except in the case of payola where it's like traditional paid advertising.
he's so intent on selling a "secure, reliable, and hippie-free" product to other corporate-minded folks, he's fallen completely out of touch with the entire linux community.
i suppose that would make the Linux community a bunch of insecure unreliable hippies then?;)
i get so sick of people saying 'winamp is pointless b/c of xmms'
i guarantee you these are the same hypocrites who say 'gee, kde and gnome bring such great choice and variety to the linux desktop!'
how about we applaud a company that recognizes that there are linux users out there in the market and have actually put some resources towards noticing us as opposed to being so close minded against anything that didn't start on *nix? and no, i don't own stock in winamp and i use xmms all the time, i'm just saying we should _encourage_ ALL companies to make linux versions of their products even if there is already an alternative...
who decides though, what is human centric?
if you think about, the whole reason humans are in the position they are in is our ability to adapt to things NOT 'human centric'.
by the same token you could argue that we have developed in such way, so well suited for our environment, that EVERYTHING is 'human centric'.
the fact that we can pick up a stick and use it for a tool, does that make us more adaptable or does it make a stick more 'human centric'?
given that we can interact fairly well with just about anything, how are they deciding what actions/motions are more native to humans?
they didn't answer this either, from the project site it seemed that most of the 'improvements' focused on voice commands and having the computer do menial tasks for you, meaning less interaction, not easier interaction.
remember, there are no security 'bugs' if there are no attacks.
a bug implies an imperfection in the code that occurs without any outside pressure.
that being the case, because new bugs get 'created' all the time, the real measure of security is time to response since before the attack existed it could not be protected against.
in this respect open source is much more secure due to the sheer volume of people who are able to respond. whether it's the original programming team or some hobbyist in zimbabwe, your chances for a quick response are much greater, not to mention you might fix the thing yourself.
maybe this isn't the right guy to ask this question, but i've always wondered, was something like AdWords planned from the start or did you guys have to throw them up in a hurry because you found yourself low on cash?
also, are there more plans for parts of Google like this that are strictly to make money or is most of the new coding focused on projects like what can be found on the labs page?
is there ever any tension deciding what to focus on, things that make money or things that are useful or cool?
do the engineers have any input or are these all management decisions?
I'm sure some people have exciting stories of battling the talking paperclip...
LMAO.
'It was a dark and stormy night. My nervous grip on my trusty Xconfigurator tightened as I heard the 'BOOIIING!' from the distance. Only one thing in this world made that sound. And that thing was Bob...'
How about things they _didn't_ catch, like this jewel of marketing speak:
As far as our disposability: don't get too concerned on our behalf, Linux will always have bugs and there will always be room for improvement. (emphasis mine)
Any MS marketing execs probably passed out cold when they read this, coming straight from the horses mouth...
I have an client (a rather large health care provider) that still hasn't changed the default password to the publically available administration section of their system... which is more common than one would care to think. This is a testiment to how high companies consider security important.
Im sorry, but this is _wrong_. This is not the client not caring about security, rather this is a testament to just how much blind faith people have in software systems.
My experience has been that people not directly involved in software development, bosses and project managers included, have a wide eyed and innocent perception of software that in can do anything and never messes up.
The corollary to this is their unreasonable expectations of your development cycle.
As far as they're concerned they press a button and something they don't understand does something else as if by magic and they get their result.
I guarantee the minute someone guesses that guys password he's going to blame you for a bug in the software, without ever considering that he might somehow be invloved.
Note to the unwise - vinyl sales are on the up, they have been for 5 years. At least 50% of the major single releases each week are available on vinyl. 100% of dance oriented ones are. The vast majority of dance music (the biggest selling sector in europe) is ONLY available on vinyl.
This is only because dance and hip-hop DJ's through finding a new use for the medium have created a renewed interest in a previously obsolete format. It's a simple case of the market reacting to consumer demand.
If you really want to see a dead format, try 8-track, nobodies been able to find a decent use for it in the modern age so 8-track == dead.
'Clive, we need some way to get a lot of heavy computer users to our new spiffy search engine...'
'I've got it Herbert! Let's make some inflammatory claim about Google that has nothing to do with the actual quality of either sites results and sit back and watch the hits roll in!'
yeah, so it's an obvious troll, but i guarantee you it's true.
"Today, Firestone can produce a tire with a systemic flaw and they're liable,"
This will probably be viewed as a troll but I feel I have to say it:
The problem with software is that when a virus/cracker compromises your system, any resulting damage can not logically be attributed to the software developer.
Nobody is out there expressly trying to break and/or compromise Firestone tires. They were sued because the tires malfunctioned of their own accord.
If IIS blew up on it's own and erased your disk you would have a legitimate case. As soon as a third party maliciously tries to compromise it, the case is off. If someone broke into your house would you sue the lock maker? Likewise, if someone deflates your tires you have no case against Firestone. If you can show me one case where code in IIS itself was responsible for damage (i.e. damage occurred while the code was running normally without any provocation) then I'm all for this, otherwise (as much as I hate to stick up for MS) you can't possibly blame them for Code Red etc.
The real solution is just to get a better product; if you are having a problem with break-ins buy a better lock, don't just try to shift blame for your bad purchase decisions on someone else.
i know it sounds like a trendy buzz-word but i think it's here to stay and some seriously cool stuff will start to happen soon (look at Google).
at any rate, if you can walk into a potential employer and say 'I can convert your current software into a remote API for access by your clients in a multitude of languages' I think you have a pretty good shot at a job. at least, this is what I would be trying to learn if I had time.
Oh, and being able to throw around 'SOAP' and '.NET' a lot doesn't hurt too much either;)
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if you've ever played tribes 2 you can vote to kick certain players out of the game. if someone's cheating it's usually obvious and they get booted pretty quick. if someone's just causing trouble by trying to boot honest players, people vote no about kicking the honest player and the troublemaker ends up getting booted next.
i'm not sure how this would work in a one on one card game, maybe some sort of point system where kick requests are reviewed by moderators but the solution is democratic self regulation by the players themselves.
it works because 90% of gamers are pretty honest people and just want to have a good time...
Not really. They don't mind showing pop-up ads, they just don't want to show someone else's pop-up ad instead of their own.
wait, are you talking about what makes them better search engines or better /. stories?
I was like 'what? lunch meat I can't hear?'
God, it's been a long day...
This is not true.
The problem with payola is that most artists getting signed these days has more to do with their looks than their talent.
The record companies aren't selling music, they sell a product, one they are trying to maximize profits on meaning cross media market saturation and mass appeal to the lowest common denominator.
Britney Spears being on the radio all the time has a lot more to do with the quality of her videos and the way she looks on posters than it does her music because it's the image they're selling and the image that makes money.
Getting airplay is just like bonus free advertising, except in the case of payola where it's like traditional paid advertising.
I suppose the good news is we can run it on the Hurd...
i suppose that would make the Linux community a bunch of insecure unreliable hippies then?;)
scot 2: 'Bloody hell Angus, I think that's 0.004 of a UFO!!'
so if i burn a picture of a felt tip marker slash on the edge can i make an un-protectable cd?;)
i get so sick of people saying 'winamp is pointless b/c of xmms'
i guarantee you these are the same hypocrites who say 'gee, kde and gnome bring such great choice and variety to the linux desktop!'
how about we applaud a company that recognizes that there are linux users out there in the market and have actually put some resources towards noticing us as opposed to being so close minded against anything that didn't start on *nix? and no, i don't own stock in winamp and i use xmms all the time, i'm just saying we should _encourage_ ALL companies to make linux versions of their products even if there is already an alternative...
if you think about, the whole reason humans are in the position they are in is our ability to adapt to things NOT 'human centric'.
by the same token you could argue that we have developed in such way, so well suited for our environment, that EVERYTHING is 'human centric'.
the fact that we can pick up a stick and use it for a tool, does that make us more adaptable or does it make a stick more 'human centric'?
given that we can interact fairly well with just about anything, how are they deciding what actions/motions are more native to humans?
they didn't answer this either, from the project site it seemed that most of the 'improvements' focused on voice commands and having the computer do menial tasks for you, meaning less interaction, not easier interaction.
you ever tried to give an american Canadian money?
;)
I think I can safely rest my case
remember, there are no security 'bugs' if there are no attacks.
a bug implies an imperfection in the code that occurs without any outside pressure.
that being the case, because new bugs get 'created' all the time, the real measure of security is time to response since before the attack existed it could not be protected against.
in this respect open source is much more secure due to the sheer volume of people who are able to respond. whether it's the original programming team or some hobbyist in zimbabwe, your chances for a quick response are much greater, not to mention you might fix the thing yourself.
maybe this isn't the right guy to ask this question, but i've always wondered, was something like AdWords planned from the start or did you guys have to throw them up in a hurry because you found yourself low on cash?
also, are there more plans for parts of Google like this that are strictly to make money or is most of the new coding focused on projects like what can be found on the labs page?
is there ever any tension deciding what to focus on, things that make money or things that are useful or cool? do the engineers have any input or are these all management decisions?
don't buy IBuyPower computers. my disk died today and I had to use a Windoze box just to get my work done. AAAAAAAAAAAHHH!
LMAO.
'It was a dark and stormy night. My nervous grip on my trusty Xconfigurator tightened as I heard the 'BOOIIING!' from the distance. Only one thing in this world made that sound. And that thing was Bob...'
now we'll have to take our kids to see 'GNU/Snow White', and when they ask we'll have to explain who RMS is.
way to go Disney.
As far as our disposability: don't get too concerned on our behalf, Linux will always have bugs and there will always be room for improvement. (emphasis mine)
Any MS marketing execs probably passed out cold when they read this, coming straight from the horses mouth...
Im sorry, but this is _wrong_. This is not the client not caring about security, rather this is a testament to just how much blind faith people have in software systems.
My experience has been that people not directly involved in software development, bosses and project managers included, have a wide eyed and innocent perception of software that in can do anything and never messes up.
The corollary to this is their unreasonable expectations of your development cycle.
As far as they're concerned they press a button and something they don't understand does something else as if by magic and they get their result.
I guarantee the minute someone guesses that guys password he's going to blame you for a bug in the software, without ever considering that he might somehow be invloved.
3) If we get there first do we get to yell 'FIRST MEET!'???
2) Will there be moderators monitoring our conversations? If so do I get more karma for imported beer?
1) Hey man, if we linked them all up together via video conferencing it would be like a Beowulf cluster of /. meetings!!!
I assume you're new to /.? You're in for a long ride my friend...
This is only because dance and hip-hop DJ's through finding a new use for the medium have created a renewed interest in a previously obsolete format. It's a simple case of the market reacting to consumer demand.
If you really want to see a dead format, try 8-track, nobodies been able to find a decent use for it in the modern age so 8-track == dead.
'I've got it Herbert! Let's make some inflammatory claim about Google that has nothing to do with the actual quality of either sites results and sit back and watch the hits roll in!'
yeah, so it's an obvious troll, but i guarantee you it's true.
This will probably be viewed as a troll but I feel I have to say it:
The problem with software is that when a virus/cracker compromises your system, any resulting damage can not logically be attributed to the software developer.
Nobody is out there expressly trying to break and/or compromise Firestone tires. They were sued because the tires malfunctioned of their own accord.
If IIS blew up on it's own and erased your disk you would have a legitimate case. As soon as a third party maliciously tries to compromise it, the case is off.
If someone broke into your house would you sue the lock maker? Likewise, if someone deflates your tires you have no case against Firestone.
If you can show me one case where code in IIS itself was responsible for damage (i.e. damage occurred while the code was running normally without any provocation) then I'm all for this, otherwise (as much as I hate to stick up for MS) you can't possibly blame them for Code Red etc.
The real solution is just to get a better product; if you are having a problem with break-ins buy a better lock, don't just try to shift blame for your bad purchase decisions on someone else.
i know it sounds like a trendy buzz-word but i think it's here to stay and some seriously cool stuff will start to happen soon (look at Google).
at any rate, if you can walk into a potential employer and say 'I can convert your current software into a remote API for access by your clients in a multitude of languages' I think you have a pretty good shot at a job. at least, this is what I would be trying to learn if I had time.
Oh, and being able to throw around 'SOAP' and '.NET' a lot doesn't hurt too much either ;)