I never been into the game, but wouldn't it have some capacity to passing along body language (either cued by keyboard or sensed in real-time)? If so, one might actually have a passing chance of doing some good old fashion interaction, using the full panoply of our mammal-technology tricks.
Body language, or any significent emulation thereof (emoticons don't bloody count -- you, shut up!), is required if insecure human beings are to be included in the chats. Otherwise, as with IRC, IM and e-mail, people who don't like themselves read all sorts of non-existent hostile tone into the exchanges and then get all uppity or cry or go on a school shooting.
Avatars, despite teh gayness of the nineties, may still have a function to fulfill.
Actually, it's a sliding scale depending on the genre. While jazz and classical might have to keep over 40% of the content Canadian, pseudo-American pop music by Canadian artists need take up only 25% of the valuable airtime otheriwse devoted to truly American pop pseudo-music.
Ahem.
Avante-garde Brazilian elevator music, to take another example, has a special exemption that requires only 2% of the material aired be produced or mixed in Canada. John Cage performances are required to have only an 8% Canadian quality to the street noise that fills in the silences.
Also, for some reason, Hip Hop from Quebec counts.
Consider many people can't distinguish between a high definition picture and a standard definition picture warped to fit their HD screen, this question seems largely academic.
In my locality in the exurbs of everybody's least favourite megalopolis, BitTorrenting using all encrypted connections worked like a charm right up until 1 January 2007. From that point on torrenting works in surges -- a few seconds or minutes or normal speeds, followed by a few seconds or moments of clogged pipes -- a seemingly regular periodic cycle of clench and release.
I can still torrent, but what used to take two hours now takes two days. (By the book, Mr. Saavik.)
For the record, I'm using Azureus for OS X.
Also since January my VPN connection to the office has been rendered practically unusable. Very, very sluggish. Rogers Support claims there should be no problem, and suggests it's because I use a Mac (in my experience, this is a thing retards say when they're stumped or lying).
All I can say is thank Xenu for good, old fashioned Usenet. Otherwise how would I get me Doctor Who stories?
My Usenet downloads still experience Rogers' advertized bandwidth.
I would argue that "wanting out" is not the same as freedom in any meaningful sense.
Perhaps it's best put another way: anyone who can ask not to be murdered probably deserves the right to have their freedom to pursue life defended.
While many animals may resist being killed instinctively (and may -- it's another argument -- have some sort of "right to life"), it's the animals that can communicate to you on a semantic level their unwillingness to be forcibly killed that's got to make you sit up and pay attention.
Similarly, if an ape asks to be protected from certain kinds of harm that's got to be taken seriously. If the ape cannot articulate in any way its awareness of such abstract harms, it's back in the same camp with cats and dogs and bunnies.
If you can ask for freedom, and you have a basic understanding of what you're asking for, you deserve freedom.
That isn't to say that those who don't understand don't deserve, or else 90% of management at my workplace would be stripped of their basic human rights. They do tend to throw their excrement at one another as it is.
It's nice sometimes when the stream of stories about how multinationals are reaming us is interrupted with one flavoured by just desserts.
Also, the comeuppance is doubly sweet when it's underdogs. And who's more of an underdog than an intelligent high school student with an avid interest in science?
In the movie version, there would be a B-plot about the nerds winning the hearts of two pretty girls through the process. Maybe the girls are interns at GSK. I don't know. Hire Charlie Kauffman.
Optimistic: one day our grandchildren won't believe us when we tell them how ridiculous the state of intellectual property law was back in the early 21st century.
Pessimistic: we won't be allowed to tell them, for copyright reasons.
I think you're right. Microsoft has failed to appreciate the user psychology of interacting with authorization prompts in a way that would shame most retarded chimpanzees. The only explanation that doesn't invoke something more bizarre than Xenu is that they figured most Deltas would simply turn off the feature out of annoyance, and thus Microsoft would bear no blame in the subsequent (and likely rapid) zombification of said Delta's system.
"What? We put the thingy in. It's not our fault if idiotsticks turns it off because he's too lazy to take security seriously."
This is a way to let themselves off the hook, escalating user error to the root of all evil instead of, say, a hopelessly fractured and bloated development bureaucracy overseen by demented lizard people. This is a response to the criticisms about Windows having a default configuration more favourable to trojans than users, so they can now claim that the default configuration is solid. You changed a setting? The buck stops at you, sucker.
Maybe Microsoft needs someone with some insight into user behaviour and interface psychology on staff. I hear Steve Jobs has a reasonable hourly rate. (/me ducks)
I'm not sure why you think this would end the arms race between search engines and abusers.
Granted, if Google's ranking system were perfect having it open would do no harm, but since it an evolving solution the inevitable result of full disclosure would be abusers being handed the tools to hone their skewing of the results to razor-sharp precision, leaving honest folk in the dust.
Blind trust in Google would be foolish, but at least I remain relatively sure that Google and I have one thing in common: neither of us are on the side of the spammers, linkfarmers or bombers.
Different sources on the wide Web trot out wildly different facts on how much energy a human being might be able to output this way, with some claiming that one couldn't even keep a light-bulb lit while others claiming to be able to store battery power for running laptops, DVD players and even very small appliances.
Naturally, the energy isn't free: it comes from food (which is also not free). However, a person can work all day dribbling out energy as they do quality control watch on an assembly line, or they could output some of those calories to contribute to an already spinning flywheel (NB: their effort doesn't have to start the flywheel -- it's already in motion). Even if they only put out 150 watts they would be contributing to accelerating the flywheel by a small degree, or stemming the loss of momentum to friction.
In the story, such efforts are only worth nickels and dimes.
For a science-fiction cant on some of the issues raised in TFA, take a look at The Bikes of New York which explores a post-energy crisis near-future in which impoverished people have the option of riding stationary bicycles to spin massive underground flywheels that top up the energy needs of commercial enterprises.
I think creative solutions to electricity problems are in all our futures. Personally, I live about 75% off the grid and am looking forward to be able to afford to get all the way off -- but I need to get my roof re-done before I can even think about solar panels or mounting a wind turbine up there.
Whenever these topics come up many of us seem to agree that TV sucks, yet somehow the issue remains worthy of debate. Why hand over more money for rights-handicapped mediocrity? Do we for some reason feel we require television in order to fit into our culture?
Personally, I'm saying "to hell with it!" I just stripped my cable package down to nothing but Internet, and I can't imagine regretting it. While it's true that I may not be hip to the latest watercooler joke, but I bet I'll survive the trauma.
TV needs me more than I need TV. Let them sweeten the deal before I come back.
Isn't that a bit like solving your home renovation issues by buying a new house?
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I haven't heard much coverage on the MOAB since the QuickTime revelation -- haven't they dug up any further baloney in the OS or its core of Jobsian iApps?
If the highlight of the month is the damn QuickTime thing, this has worked out to be a fairly dull bug hunt. The submitter should've at least linked up the MOAB reference with some supporting fun.
Also: is Steve Jobs technically a bug or a feature?
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The existence of the iTimeMachine. Doc Brown's gonna shit.
This is yet another flagrant incursion into history and unforgivable mussing of the timeline by Steve Jobs, a monster whose rampage will never end until our hard-working scientists develop a weapon that can pierce his infamous Reality Distortion Field. Myself, I suggest realigning the Bussard collectors to emit anti-neutrinos.
While it's definitely a cool application, it is worth noting that those of us with PowerPC-based Macintoshes are left in the lurch on this one (some reasons for which should be obvious).
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That'll turn this whole sick, sad music situation around once and for all.
I never been into the game, but wouldn't it have some capacity to passing along body language (either cued by keyboard or sensed in real-time)? If so, one might actually have a passing chance of doing some good old fashion interaction, using the full panoply of our mammal-technology tricks.
Body language, or any significent emulation thereof (emoticons don't bloody count -- you, shut up!), is required if insecure human beings are to be included in the chats. Otherwise, as with IRC, IM and e-mail, people who don't like themselves read all sorts of non-existent hostile tone into the exchanges and then get all uppity or cry or go on a school shooting.
Avatars, despite teh gayness of the nineties, may still have a function to fulfill.
Actually, it's a sliding scale depending on the genre. While jazz and classical might have to keep over 40% of the content Canadian, pseudo-American pop music by Canadian artists need take up only 25% of the valuable airtime otheriwse devoted to truly American pop pseudo-music.
Ahem.
Avante-garde Brazilian elevator music, to take another example, has a special exemption that requires only 2% of the material aired be produced or mixed in Canada. John Cage performances are required to have only an 8% Canadian quality to the street noise that fills in the silences.
Also, for some reason, Hip Hop from Quebec counts.
Consider many people can't distinguish between a high definition picture and a standard definition picture warped to fit their HD screen, this question seems largely academic.
In my locality in the exurbs of everybody's least favourite megalopolis, BitTorrenting using all encrypted connections worked like a charm right up until 1 January 2007. From that point on torrenting works in surges -- a few seconds or minutes or normal speeds, followed by a few seconds or moments of clogged pipes -- a seemingly regular periodic cycle of clench and release.
I can still torrent, but what used to take two hours now takes two days. (By the book, Mr. Saavik.)
For the record, I'm using Azureus for OS X.
Also since January my VPN connection to the office has been rendered practically unusable. Very, very sluggish. Rogers Support claims there should be no problem, and suggests it's because I use a Mac (in my experience, this is a thing retards say when they're stumped or lying).
All I can say is thank Xenu for good, old fashioned Usenet. Otherwise how would I get me Doctor Who stories?
My Usenet downloads still experience Rogers' advertized bandwidth.
I would argue that "wanting out" is not the same as freedom in any meaningful sense.
Perhaps it's best put another way: anyone who can ask not to be murdered probably deserves the right to have their freedom to pursue life defended.
While many animals may resist being killed instinctively (and may -- it's another argument -- have some sort of "right to life"), it's the animals that can communicate to you on a semantic level their unwillingness to be forcibly killed that's got to make you sit up and pay attention.
Similarly, if an ape asks to be protected from certain kinds of harm that's got to be taken seriously. If the ape cannot articulate in any way its awareness of such abstract harms, it's back in the same camp with cats and dogs and bunnies.
If you can ask for freedom, and you have a basic understanding of what you're asking for, you deserve freedom.
That isn't to say that those who don't understand don't deserve, or else 90% of management at my workplace would be stripped of their basic human rights. They do tend to throw their excrement at one another as it is.
Tolerate my tolerance or I won't tolerate you.
Yes, I see now that they're girls. I missed that. My Fark-brain filtered it out as some advert for a calendar girls site.
It's nice sometimes when the stream of stories about how multinationals are reaming us is interrupted with one flavoured by just desserts.
Also, the comeuppance is doubly sweet when it's underdogs. And who's more of an underdog than an intelligent high school student with an avid interest in science?
In the movie version, there would be a B-plot about the nerds winning the hearts of two pretty girls through the process. Maybe the girls are interns at GSK. I don't know. Hire Charlie Kauffman.
Optimistic: one day our grandchildren won't believe us when we tell them how ridiculous the state of intellectual property law was back in the early 21st century.
Pessimistic: we won't be allowed to tell them, for copyright reasons.
What are the advantages of this software over using an encrypted disk image created with Tiger's build-in Disk Utility?
I think you're right. Microsoft has failed to appreciate the user psychology of interacting with authorization prompts in a way that would shame most retarded chimpanzees. The only explanation that doesn't invoke something more bizarre than Xenu is that they figured most Deltas would simply turn off the feature out of annoyance, and thus Microsoft would bear no blame in the subsequent (and likely rapid) zombification of said Delta's system.
"What? We put the thingy in. It's not our fault if idiotsticks turns it off because he's too lazy to take security seriously."
This is a way to let themselves off the hook, escalating user error to the root of all evil instead of, say, a hopelessly fractured and bloated development bureaucracy overseen by demented lizard people. This is a response to the criticisms about Windows having a default configuration more favourable to trojans than users, so they can now claim that the default configuration is solid. You changed a setting? The buck stops at you, sucker.
Maybe Microsoft needs someone with some insight into user behaviour and interface psychology on staff. I hear Steve Jobs has a reasonable hourly rate. (/me ducks)
I'm not sure why you think this would end the arms race between search engines and abusers.
Granted, if Google's ranking system were perfect having it open would do no harm, but since it an evolving solution the inevitable result of full disclosure would be abusers being handed the tools to hone their skewing of the results to razor-sharp precision, leaving honest folk in the dust.
Blind trust in Google would be foolish, but at least I remain relatively sure that Google and I have one thing in common: neither of us are on the side of the spammers, linkfarmers or bombers.
Different sources on the wide Web trot out wildly different facts on how much energy a human being might be able to output this way, with some claiming that one couldn't even keep a light-bulb lit while others claiming to be able to store battery power for running laptops, DVD players and even very small appliances.
Naturally, the energy isn't free: it comes from food (which is also not free). However, a person can work all day dribbling out energy as they do quality control watch on an assembly line, or they could output some of those calories to contribute to an already spinning flywheel (NB: their effort doesn't have to start the flywheel -- it's already in motion). Even if they only put out 150 watts they would be contributing to accelerating the flywheel by a small degree, or stemming the loss of momentum to friction.
In the story, such efforts are only worth nickels and dimes.
For a science-fiction cant on some of the issues raised in TFA, take a look at The Bikes of New York which explores a post-energy crisis near-future in which impoverished people have the option of riding stationary bicycles to spin massive underground flywheels that top up the energy needs of commercial enterprises.
I think creative solutions to electricity problems are in all our futures. Personally, I live about 75% off the grid and am looking forward to be able to afford to get all the way off -- but I need to get my roof re-done before I can even think about solar panels or mounting a wind turbine up there.
At any rate, fiction for thought.
I love it when accountability works -- you know, checks and balances, blind justice, and so on and so forth.
Do as I say not as I do should be the new motto on the money.
Whenever these topics come up many of us seem to agree that TV sucks, yet somehow the issue remains worthy of debate. Why hand over more money for rights-handicapped mediocrity? Do we for some reason feel we require television in order to fit into our culture?
Personally, I'm saying "to hell with it!" I just stripped my cable package down to nothing but Internet, and I can't imagine regretting it. While it's true that I may not be hip to the latest watercooler joke, but I bet I'll survive the trauma.
TV needs me more than I need TV. Let them sweeten the deal before I come back.
Isn't that a bit like solving your home renovation issues by buying a new house?
I haven't heard much coverage on the MOAB since the QuickTime revelation -- haven't they dug up any further baloney in the OS or its core of Jobsian iApps?
If the highlight of the month is the damn QuickTime thing, this has worked out to be a fairly dull bug hunt. The submitter should've at least linked up the MOAB reference with some supporting fun.
Also: is Steve Jobs technically a bug or a feature?
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A major blow to star trek fans...
That's the gist of the wet dreams, yes. Hope will never die.
...Or Jobs'll rub out your great-grandfather!
The existence of the iTimeMachine. Doc Brown's gonna shit.
This is yet another flagrant incursion into history and unforgivable mussing of the timeline by Steve Jobs, a monster whose rampage will never end until our hard-working scientists develop a weapon that can pierce his infamous Reality Distortion Field. Myself, I suggest realigning the Bussard collectors to emit anti-neutrinos.
While it's definitely a cool application, it is worth noting that those of us with PowerPC-based Macintoshes are left in the lurch on this one (some reasons for which should be obvious).