Anyway, go free, get mass publicity, get 10x as many players, hook them in and when they're at their weakest offer them cheap ways to get whatever they want in game.
Spot on with your last sentence. As many have pointed out, Murdoch has lost both revenue and influence. He needs other papers to follow the model in order for it to work for him. When this bit of propaganda fails, It should be interesting to see Murdoch's next move.
I think I might be half a season behind (the last episode I saw was when Zoe was driving at a roadblock) but I thought she was a great actress and there was a lot more to come out of her relationship with her father.
What I really liked is the story of morality is told backwards. In BSG who's good and who's evil is clear until later on. In Caprica, everyone's on their own side, struggling with something major and morality is relative. Presumably it would go on to become more good vs evil.
The problem seems to be that you have to cater to people with the attention span of a bored 11 year old who forgot his ritalin. If you don't have whizz-bang big drama in the first episode, you're going to get cancelled.
Crusade was one obvious one, Defying Gravity another.
Q: "better than a shared whiteboard and phone call?" A: "well, no . .."
Actually yes, in many cases.
A shared whiteboard and phonecall requires everyone to be present at the same time. Wave doesn't. A whiteboard is too unstructured. Wave has minimal structure but enough.
Wave is the best online creativity tool I've ever seen.
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Mailing lists suck. You have to post to everyone or go back to your address list. No proper threading. Archival sucks. They actively restrict communication because everyone's worried that their thoughts won't be deemed worthy enough.
Formus have threading and reasonable archival, but are too restrictive, hard to set up etc.
By contrast, Wave is pro-communication, allowing you to edit and archive a real-time chat into an important summary.
Wave is too good to fail. Even Google won't be able to put this back in the box. Sooner or later, something Wave-like will replace email.
Quite liked the first one but the 'dungeons' were ridiculous. I stopped wanting to go into rooms because I just knew there would be a fight there almost exactly like the last fight.
If I wanted grind, I'd go back and get to level 200 on Dofus.
The only fights worth doing in RPGs are epic fights.
NHS Choose & Book and medical records database £13bn
- don't work properly, slow, horribly intrusive (central control of your medical records), new govt can't figure out whether to scrap it or try and get something useful out of the £13bn spent.
ID cards £20bn, £1+bn spent
- centrepiece of Labour's Stasi 2.0, including numbering the population and issuing them with tagging to collect data on the minutiae of their lives.
Contactpoint (ID cards for kids) £224m
- making sure the kiddies are on the database by insisting that all schoolkids & parents are registered
Defence Information Infrastructure £7bn
- still not finished
And which country's IT corporations got all the contracts? Yes, the good old US of A.
Funnnily enough, the British ID card scheme made no attempt to provide online authorisation/identification.
It was simply an attempt to get us to register our activities, medical records, DNA records, tax records etc into one big Stasi file on each of us.
Even when the scheme was changed to be non-compulsory, they had no intention of getting rid of the database, the National Identity Register. If you registered a passport before the election, you were liable to be registered on the NIR along with your bank details.
All of the IT companies Labour used are US-based. They're all represented by a lobbyist firm called Intellect who helped to write the ID card legislation - who was responsible for the deeply scary aspects of it, I don't know.
One of the IT contractors for British ID cards and the medical database, CSC, merged with a mercenary group similar to Blackwater. An IT group merging with a gang of thugs who do the CIA's dirty business... What do you make of that then?
Not sure what to make of Obama atm. Extraordinary rendition is unspeakably evil. Is he Frodo? Keeping an eye on the internet developments...
QWERTY doesn't cause RSI. Using a keyboard badly, or the wrong kind of keyboard, causes RSI - as well as carrying on when something hurts.
And what proportion of users of this new laptop do you think will be using the virtual keyboard 'well'?
QWERTY was supposedly designed to slow down typists (though finding *definitive* references to that reasoning is tricky).
This is a less credible point than the one I already made.
However, it doesn't mean that it's any more difficult to type on once you've been trained. As always, a 100wpm typist could jam up any typewriter anyway, and even in the computer age QWERTY doesn't slow a professional typist down (The Dvorak stuff is dubious - check any sources for their actual data / reasoning because often it stems from Dvorak-performed research and there is other, independent, research that suggests it's no different to QWERTY once you've used both for a while).
Funnily enough, this is exactly what is says in the page I linked to.
And few other input devices are used by approximately 100's of millions of users yet, and yet dozens if not hundreds of alternate input devices have existed for decades. Sticking one into a product you want to sell as anything other than an option is a REALLY bad idea, commercially speaking.
If you have a touchscreen then the new input device is going to be an option.
The keyboard is *still* the best input device in terms of ubiquity, security, speed, accuracy and time-to-learn in a modern "real-world" environment. And for your argument to work, you'd have to do about 10 years of study into the others to determine if they make RSI incidences worse when you use them every day for 8 hours a day.
I could use your argument against you: you'd have to do about 10 years study to prove the QWERTY keyboard is still the best, during which time we're almost certainly going to have something better.
For handheld computers, I'd guess that SlideIT is already better.
In sound-isolated environments, voice recognition software is better IMHO.
2nd sentence: "I guess people trying to read via email would make all the amazing stuff that Wave does rather useless."
But yeah, Google should provide an open-source (who would trust them otherwise?) offline email reader that covers POP3, Gmail, Wave, Buzz & RSS with Bayesian anti-spam.
Sadly, the IE Frame for Wave is borked and hence only FF & Chrome support Wave.
Wave is superb though - best thing to happen to the internet since Slashdot.;)
I also cornered a minister, Andy Burnham, in 2005 about ID cards. The Blair Govt at the time had already legislated to abolish elections (twice), lied to the public about WMD in Iraq and was set on building the kind of digital surveillance network that would have the Stasi drooling. They had eluded any kind of democratic debate and were forcibly ejecting protestors from their public events. The only way to get any kind of accountability was to challenge them in front of a network TV camera.
The minister refused. I boomed "What have you got to hide?" in front of the camera and you can see a minder trying to block the BBC's footage with his hand.
People on here have probably heard about the tragic state of the UK constitution and demolition of our rights. We have a new Govt now along with a fairly reliable promise to restore them.
The UK's tax office lost 2 discs containing the entire country's child benefits database. 3 years later, it seems that it didn't get into the hands of fraudsters.
Just want to say, get a move on and you'll clean up. There are hundreds of millions of FB users waiting for you or someone else to put out a decent alternative they can move to asap.
It just has to be easy - FB's success was all about convenience. Ideally, users could access on Appleseed the same info from the FB network they can already access. Cross-posting options are a must. Interfacing with Facebook XMPP chat is a must.
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Or sweeties as us Brits call them.
Anyway, go free, get mass publicity, get 10x as many players, hook them in and when they're at their weakest offer them cheap ways to get whatever they want in game.
You'd lose your sex drive too which, as a Slashdotter, might also be helpful.
Spot on with your last sentence. As many have pointed out, Murdoch has lost both revenue and influence. He needs other papers to follow the model in order for it to work for him. When this bit of propaganda fails, It should be interesting to see Murdoch's next move.
The Terran one sounds a bit dull but otherwise great ideas. Could you do this with a mod?
I also think slowing the game down would help. I've stopped playing until someone mods a decent AI at a slower pace.
Yes, I remember X-COM 3 attempted something like this. Very, very nearly a great game.
And such a scheme won't work with 3+ players, and only with 2 if you can synchronise slow down eg units automatically see each other at the same time.
I think I might be half a season behind (the last episode I saw was when Zoe was driving at a roadblock) but I thought she was a great actress and there was a lot more to come out of her relationship with her father.
What I really liked is the story of morality is told backwards. In BSG who's good and who's evil is clear until later on. In Caprica, everyone's on their own side, struggling with something major and morality is relative. Presumably it would go on to become more good vs evil.
The problem seems to be that you have to cater to people with the attention span of a bored 11 year old who forgot his ritalin. If you don't have whizz-bang big drama in the first episode, you're going to get cancelled.
Crusade was one obvious one, Defying Gravity another.
Correct, nor did the company find the dog. Instead, the new owners tried to register it.
However the company should have contacted the police, who should have investigated.
The law isn't at fault, the lazy buggers in the company & police are.
It's an 'n', not 'and'.
It's a great point. I wonder if Google will release the code - or perhaps someone will just take the design and write web-compliant code. ;)
You might be interested in OpenAtrium. Never used it but it looks awesome.
Maybe. I don't know why it doesn't work, it just doesn't, regardless of email software. Threads often get chopped in half.
Plus it's dependent on people to get threading right at their end, else they'll complain about too many posts.
"it allows you to collaborate".
Q: "better than a shared whiteboard and phone call?" ."
A: "well, no . .
Actually yes, in many cases.
A shared whiteboard and phonecall requires everyone to be present at the same time. Wave doesn't.
A whiteboard is too unstructured. Wave has minimal structure but enough.
Wave is the best online creativity tool I've ever seen.
Group collaboration
Mailing lists suck. You have to post to everyone or go back to your address list. No proper threading. Archival sucks. They actively restrict communication because everyone's worried that their thoughts won't be deemed worthy enough.
Formus have threading and reasonable archival, but are too restrictive, hard to set up etc.
By contrast, Wave is pro-communication, allowing you to edit and archive a real-time chat into an important summary.
Wave is too good to fail. Even Google won't be able to put this back in the box. Sooner or later, something Wave-like will replace email.
Quite liked the first one but the 'dungeons' were ridiculous. I stopped wanting to go into rooms because I just knew there would be a fight there almost exactly like the last fight.
If I wanted grind, I'd go back and get to level 200 on Dofus.
The only fights worth doing in RPGs are epic fights.
NHS Choose & Book and medical records database £13bn
- don't work properly, slow, horribly intrusive (central control of your medical records), new govt can't figure out whether to scrap it or try and get something useful out of the £13bn spent.
ID cards £20bn, £1+bn spent
- centrepiece of Labour's Stasi 2.0, including numbering the population and issuing them with tagging to collect data on the minutiae of their lives.
Contactpoint (ID cards for kids) £224m
- making sure the kiddies are on the database by insisting that all schoolkids & parents are registered
Defence Information Infrastructure £7bn
- still not finished
And which country's IT corporations got all the contracts? Yes, the good old US of A.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7079044.ece
Now if only I could find an IT-savvy MP I could forward this to...
Crowds are wise under specific circumstances just as capitalism works under specific circumstances.
Mod this whole story down.
Correct, and forgetting your passphrase isn't an excuse... which is pretty disturbing consider how often I forget easy passwords.
It's in RIPA 2000, another one for the Great Repeal Act.
Funnnily enough, the British ID card scheme made no attempt to provide online authorisation/identification.
It was simply an attempt to get us to register our activities, medical records, DNA records, tax records etc into one big Stasi file on each of us.
Even when the scheme was changed to be non-compulsory, they had no intention of getting rid of the database, the National Identity Register. If you registered a passport before the election, you were liable to be registered on the NIR along with your bank details.
All of the IT companies Labour used are US-based. They're all represented by a lobbyist firm called Intellect who helped to write the ID card legislation - who was responsible for the deeply scary aspects of it, I don't know.
One of the IT contractors for British ID cards and the medical database, CSC, merged with a mercenary group similar to Blackwater. An IT group merging with a gang of thugs who do the CIA's dirty business... What do you make of that then?
Not sure what to make of Obama atm. Extraordinary rendition is unspeakably evil. Is he Frodo? Keeping an eye on the internet developments...
QWERTY doesn't cause RSI. Using a keyboard badly, or the wrong kind of keyboard, causes RSI - as well as carrying on when something hurts.
And what proportion of users of this new laptop do you think will be using the virtual keyboard 'well'?
QWERTY was supposedly designed to slow down typists (though finding *definitive* references to that reasoning is tricky).
This is a less credible point than the one I already made.
However, it doesn't mean that it's any more difficult to type on once you've been trained. As always, a 100wpm typist could jam up any typewriter anyway, and even in the computer age QWERTY doesn't slow a professional typist down (The Dvorak stuff is dubious - check any sources for their actual data / reasoning because often it stems from Dvorak-performed research and there is other, independent, research that suggests it's no different to QWERTY once you've used both for a while).
Funnily enough, this is exactly what is says in the page I linked to.
And few other input devices are used by approximately 100's of millions of users yet, and yet dozens if not hundreds of alternate input devices have existed for decades. Sticking one into a product you want to sell as anything other than an option is a REALLY bad idea, commercially speaking.
If you have a touchscreen then the new input device is going to be an option.
The keyboard is *still* the best input device in terms of ubiquity, security, speed, accuracy and time-to-learn in a modern "real-world" environment. And for your argument to work, you'd have to do about 10 years of study into the others to determine if they make RSI incidences worse when you use them every day for 8 hours a day.
I could use your argument against you: you'd have to do about 10 years study to prove the QWERTY keyboard is still the best, during which time we're almost certainly going to have something better.
For handheld computers, I'd guess that SlideIT is already better.
In sound-isolated environments, voice recognition software is better IMHO.
2nd sentence: "I guess people trying to read via email would make all the amazing stuff that Wave does rather useless."
But yeah, Google should provide an open-source (who would trust them otherwise?) offline email reader that covers POP3, Gmail, Wave, Buzz & RSS with Bayesian anti-spam.
Sadly, the IE Frame for Wave is borked and hence only FF & Chrome support Wave.
Wave is superb though - best thing to happen to the internet since Slashdot. ;)
7" touch sensitive screens and the best thing they can think to put on it is a flat, non-feedback QWERTY keyboard that was originally designed to avoid keys sticking on typewriters and has caused millions of cases of RSI. The new input device has to be:
It's notable that Wii has done remarkably well with an obvious yet new input device, in spite of going backwards a generation in graphics capability.
Swype and SlideIT look pretty cool, especially if they allowed optimised keyboard layouts. What else is possible?
You get email notifications. I guess people trying to read via email would make all the amazing stuff that Wave does rather useless.
I'd be really angry about this if it was happening in Britain. A video camera is about the the only protection you have sometimes. It reminds me of a case in the UK where CCTV caught police beating up a non-resisting returning soldier from Afghanistan.
I also cornered a minister, Andy Burnham, in 2005 about ID cards. The Blair Govt at the time had already legislated to abolish elections (twice), lied to the public about WMD in Iraq and was set on building the kind of digital surveillance network that would have the Stasi drooling. They had eluded any kind of democratic debate and were forcibly ejecting protestors from their public events. The only way to get any kind of accountability was to challenge them in front of a network TV camera.
The minister refused. I boomed "What have you got to hide?" in front of the camera and you can see a minder trying to block the BBC's footage with his hand.
People on here have probably heard about the tragic state of the UK constitution and demolition of our rights. We have a new Govt now along with a fairly reliable promise to restore them.
The UK's tax office lost 2 discs containing the entire country's child benefits database. 3 years later, it seems that it didn't get into the hands of fraudsters.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_of_United_Kingdom_child_benefit_data_(2007)
Frankly, I celebrated. It was largely because of this that the average Brit became opposed to the NuLabour's attempt to build Stasi 2.0.
Just want to say, get a move on and you'll clean up. There are hundreds of millions of FB users waiting for you or someone else to put out a decent alternative they can move to asap.
It just has to be easy - FB's success was all about convenience. Ideally, users could access on Appleseed the same info from the FB network they can already access. Cross-posting options are a must. Interfacing with Facebook XMPP chat is a must.