And then it STILL does not hurt anybody, when that other person would not have bought it anyway. Which by definition makes it no crime. A real crime has to hurt somebody in some way. Everything else is no crime, but a law that only exists to give some people an unfair advantage. Which makes that law, that is hurting the people that are punished because of it, by definition a crime.
This is how things really look. But it seems you have already bought their newspeak dictionary. Which makes me want to sink some "ships", killing some people. Especially those with the **AA on their flags.
But I'd personally say, that being able to install your own software, and run Java apps (which every phone on the planet supports, except for the iPhone of course), alone, is a killer feature.:) Also, to me personally, a real keyboard with all keys (that you would use on a shell) is a killer feature too. (That's why I also would never buy that 5800 model.)
If you like the iPhone because of its nice UI and looks, or whatever, so be it. I can respect that. But to me I can only explain people buying it, with a large reality distortion bubble / hype.
Well, if you think about it, humans are made to be efficient: Only do what is really needed.
So nowadays, where there are enough people for it to be very unlikely that the *whole* humanity could become extinct, and where everything is taken care of, people just instinctively wonder, why they should do anything at all... beyond reproducing etc.
So, as I always say: The intelligence on this planet is constant. Only the number of humans grows.
Only when the planet will become overcrowded, and life will become harder again (and it *will* become harder, until newborns and deaths balance each other out), will humans start to think again. So at our current rate, give us one, maybe two decades, and you will see races to other planets, extreme efficiency improvements, etc. Oh, and wars! Lots of wars! And diseases! And nature getting it trouble. You know, to keep the death rate high enough.)
It's the same fake attitude surface, that that group of pseudo-therapists recommends: To "just smile". As if it would be equal to inner happyness.
On the other hand, fake seems to be very popular in the US too. Boobies, buildings (wood and drywall, really?), monuments (Las Vegas), fights (Wrestling), politics (the Bush puppet + pretty much everything else), news (everyone, especially FOX) you name it. ^^
The point of proper cheat codes is, to make it fun again! This means that if you are stuck, and the game stops being fun, you can shortly use a cheat code and be done with it.
Cheating in multiplayer games is just a result of bad balancing. You actually have more fun when you lose half the time, than when you win all the time. If you you lose more than halt the time, something with the balancing (which includes the [automated] right choice of other players!!!) is wrong.
As a game designer, there is just no excuse for cheating players. It is your fault. Period.
From what planet are you, that you never heard of Bugatti before the Veyron? I knew them in the 80s, from making racing cars and there being vintage/veteran cars from Bugatti at shows and in some playing cards.
Hell, the built cars with rocket engines and whatnot in the 60s, that could go 650 km/h without problems! And if you go extreme, the speed record for anything with wheels and no wings lies at 1223.657 km/h (over one km. or 766 over one mile).
You haven't seen their Africa challenge, have you? I think it is by far one of the best things that were ever shown on TV, on this planet! (The north pole and the USA challenge are also very impressive, but not quite as funny.)
Because most of us iPhone users are willing to trade "device freedom" for "device just works for the last person that sent you an sms of for your cell phone provider."
There, fixed that for you.
Also, you know, that Benjamin Franklin quote about deserving a little bit of freedom: It is true for this too.
How about using your brain? It would help with having more complex things than toys for four year olds "just working".
Give every child a netbook at their first school day, and let the textbook companies create a website. Then reproduction is practically free. I bet the whole netbook, the monthly rate that pays the texbook company people of your choice (or rather of the choice of the school you chose), and the WLAN will still cost less then a tenth of the price of the textbooks, over the whole school time.
Then, some people invest into paying people to extend free textbooks (eg. wikibooks, but with more background checks), base WLAN/WiMAX will become a citywide utility that is payed trough taxes (because anyone uses it anyway, doing it together will be cheaper), and those netbook will become disposable goods, and we get it all for free. (Because it will just be a feature of something that you buy anyway because of other reasons.)
I know what you mean. The general rule of system administration and work in general is: If they can do it wrong, they will! And if you tell them, they will forget it as soon as you leave the room.
I used it exactly like the video tag back in the days. No need to specify any plugin. No need to even choose between video, audio, etc. Just use
<object data="my_video.mkv">Your browser can not display MKV videos. If your computer can play it, try <a href="my_video.mkv">downloading it</a>.</object>
and it works with any plugin that supports the mime type of that data. Optionally you can define that mime type yourself in the object tag (in case the web-server does not know it). And if you want, yo can even define an interpreter executable, including its mime type. (This allows for java viewers for example.)
You can even do something like AJAX with it, by making it one pixel big, invisible, and then send POSTs by loading a page with a form into the object, input the data via JavaScript, submit the form, and then run a callback in the resulting page, to load in the JSON data. I find it even more efficient than XML requests. The only problem is, that you have to serialize the posted data yourself. (But the toSource() function helps much with this!) I did this back in 2004, and even before (when it did only work in the old Mozilla), as you can see in this early Alpha that I got running again.
Yeah, being stupid has the advantage of numbing you down, so you can be the cattle of the population. It's so nice because you do not have to use any good arguments of proper reasoning. You simply say "it is so", and it will be. And because your imagination of intelligence is limited you can not imagine what it is to be intelligent anyway, so you assume people being just as dumb as you, or dumber, when their arguments are so far out of your complexity meter's limit, that they go into the negative integers again.
Also you get the "retard protection"(TM) anti-discriminatory protection. Which means nobody is allowed to call you dumb. Ever. While you can spit the biggest hatred since the nazis on intelligent people, and it is just awww-right.
Also with everything you do, you do not have to think before acting, and so you do not come up with a thousand and one possible endings, before you even start doing it. So you get to do all the stupid things, like putting your caravan into speed control, and going in the back, to make yourself a coffee... on the highway at full speed. Just blame someone else for it! Sue if you want! Your "retard protection"(TM) protects you, and so you win in court. This also makes picking up girls easier, because you approach her before without coming up with the thought that she might not like such a half-chimp like you. You do not have to numb yourself down to a IQ of below 120 with alcohol, to clear your brain of the constant chatter of reasoning, pattern detection and prediction-making.
You do not come up with intelligent sentences that the mob will make fun of. You do not get called a nerd because you get an above-average score in school.
And it is just soo cool to be dumb. You can say "Hey, I do not know how to program a video recorder, but I can go online! Thanks AOL!", and get away with it. Because in society, it is cool to refuse to use your brain. Homer Simpson doesn't have to, so why do you? After all, the meat comes pre-cooked, pre-cut and pre-eaten on a plate, and the chair has a hole to shit trough. And everything you need is transported right into you trough TV.
You really have no idea, how much better you have it in this world! You have no idea!
So? It will not be forbidden to pay someone money for the service of offering a huge screen, THX sound ready-made popcorn, and all that. (Ok, I hope the popcorn prices will be more reasonable.)
Me, of course, I watch many movies on my home cinema system (beamer + 5.1 sound) that I bought before I basically became broke, because I can't afford cinema anymore nowadays. But I do absolutely love the big bass and full sound of THX cinemas, and think the money is well worth it, if I got it. (Although nothing beats 300 in an 3D IMAX cinema with THX! [look out for the analog film ones. They have a much higher resolution for non-CGI movies.])
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Copying a floppy NEVER was "piracy", and never will be!
First and foremost, it as fair use.
THEN, in case you are giving it to someone, without having a license to do so, is copyright infringement. Which has nothing do to with stealing, killing, sinking ships, or anything like that!
And then it STILL does not hurt anybody, when that other person would not have bought it anyway.
Which by definition makes it no crime.
A real crime has to hurt somebody in some way. Everything else is no crime, but a law that only exists to give some people an unfair advantage.
Which makes that law, that is hurting the people that are punished because of it, by definition a crime.
This is how things really look. But it seems you have already bought their newspeak dictionary.
Which makes me want to sink some "ships", killing some people. Especially those with the **AA on their flags.
Well, maybe the features are disabled for US phones. Hmm, I don't know if you can make sense of this, but here is a little list of features, of their newest model:
http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=n&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.xonio.com%2Fartikel%2FNokia-5800-XpressMusic-Handy-Test-5_34346709.html&sl=de&tl=en&history_state0=
Versus the list of the iPhone 3G
http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=en&js=n&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.xonio.com%2Fartikel%2FApple-iPhone-3GS-Handy-Test-5_32211220.html&sl=de&tl=en&history_state0=
But I'd personally say, that being able to install your own software, and run Java apps (which every phone on the planet supports, except for the iPhone of course), alone, is a killer feature. :)
Also, to me personally, a real keyboard with all keys (that you would use on a shell) is a killer feature too. (That's why I also would never buy that 5800 model.)
If you like the iPhone because of its nice UI and looks, or whatever, so be it. I can respect that. But to me I can only explain people buying it, with a large reality distortion bubble / hype.
I do not have a car either. But Top Gear is not about having a car. It is about wanting a car. (Quite obvious when you think about it. :)
Especially about wanting a car that you will never be able to drive or even own.
OK, OK, Top Gear is about the fun with it. The hosts are really great, with their emotions and how they act. :)
Well, if you think about it, humans are made to be efficient: Only do what is really needed.
So nowadays, where there are enough people for it to be very unlikely that the *whole* humanity could become extinct, and where everything is taken care of, people just instinctively wonder, why they should do anything at all... beyond reproducing etc.
So, as I always say: The intelligence on this planet is constant. Only the number of humans grows.
Only when the planet will become overcrowded, and life will become harder again (and it *will* become harder, until newborns and deaths balance each other out), will humans start to think again.
So at our current rate, give us one, maybe two decades, and you will see races to other planets, extreme efficiency improvements, etc. Oh, and wars! Lots of wars! And diseases! And nature getting it trouble. You know, to keep the death rate high enough.)
It's the same fake attitude surface, that that group of pseudo-therapists recommends: To "just smile". As if it would be equal to inner happyness.
On the other hand, fake seems to be very popular in the US too. Boobies, buildings (wood and drywall, really?), monuments (Las Vegas), fights (Wrestling), politics (the Bush puppet + pretty much everything else), news (everyone, especially FOX) you name it. ^^
and once somebody exploits it, they will lose money really quickly.
You mean quicker than until now? ^^
the internet became sentient sometime ago and used to babble like a baby.
So THAT is how babby is formed!?
The point of proper cheat codes is, to make it fun again! This means that if you are stuck, and the game stops being fun, you can shortly use a cheat code and be done with it.
Cheating in multiplayer games is just a result of bad balancing. You actually have more fun when you lose half the time, than when you win all the time. If you you lose more than halt the time, something with the balancing (which includes the [automated] right choice of other players!!!) is wrong.
As a game designer, there is just no excuse for cheating players. It is your fault. Period.
Exactly. <randy marsh>I can't go back to Wired now!</randy marsh>
From what planet are you, that you never heard of Bugatti before the Veyron? I knew them in the 80s, from making racing cars and there being vintage/veteran cars from Bugatti at shows and in some playing cards.
Hell, the built cars with rocket engines and whatnot in the 60s, that could go 650 km/h without problems!
And if you go extreme, the speed record for anything with wheels and no wings lies at 1223.657 km/h (over one km. or 766 over one mile).
You haven't seen their Africa challenge, have you?
I think it is by far one of the best things that were ever shown on TV, on this planet!
(The north pole and the USA challenge are also very impressive, but not quite as funny.)
That thing is OLD! It is in production since 2005! Or am I just getting a "you must be new here" for stating the obvious?
Because most of us iPhone users are willing to trade "device freedom" for "device just works for the last person that sent you an sms of for your cell phone provider."
There, fixed that for you.
Also, you know, that Benjamin Franklin quote about deserving a little bit of freedom: It is true for this too.
How about using your brain? It would help with having more complex things than toys for four year olds "just working".
Let me guess: You never had a Nokia phone with Symbian.
Give every child a netbook at their first school day, and let the textbook companies create a website. Then reproduction is practically free.
I bet the whole netbook, the monthly rate that pays the texbook company people of your choice (or rather of the choice of the school you chose), and the WLAN will still cost less then a tenth of the price of the textbooks, over the whole school time.
Then, some people invest into paying people to extend free textbooks (eg. wikibooks, but with more background checks),
base WLAN/WiMAX will become a citywide utility that is payed trough taxes (because anyone uses it anyway, doing it together will be cheaper),
and those netbook will become disposable goods,
and we get it all for free. (Because it will just be a feature of something that you buy anyway because of other reasons.)
I know what you mean. The general rule of system administration and work in general is: If they can do it wrong, they will! And if you tell them, they will forget it as soon as you leave the room.
This: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsYMBYhcO8I
Read my words: OBJECT tag!
I used it exactly like the video tag back in the days. No need to specify any plugin. No need to even choose between video, audio, etc. Just use
<object data="my_video.mkv">Your browser can not display MKV videos. If your computer can play it, try <a href="my_video.mkv">downloading it</a>.</object>
and it works with any plugin that supports the mime type of that data. Optionally you can define that mime type yourself in the object tag (in case the web-server does not know it). And if you want, yo can even define an interpreter executable, including its mime type. (This allows for java viewers for example.)
You can even do something like AJAX with it, by making it one pixel big, invisible, and then send POSTs by loading a page with a form into the object, input the data via JavaScript, submit the form, and then run a callback in the resulting page, to load in the JSON data. I find it even more efficient than XML requests. The only problem is, that you have to serialize the posted data yourself. (But the toSource() function helps much with this!)
I did this back in 2004, and even before (when it did only work in the old Mozilla), as you can see in this early Alpha that I got running again.
So what? You only need to transfer the *keys*. Not the data! The data is safe, because the keys are safe. I thought that was the point, wasn't it?
Yeah, being stupid has the advantage of numbing you down, so you can be the cattle of the population. It's so nice because you do not have to use any good arguments of proper reasoning. You simply say "it is so", and it will be. And because your imagination of intelligence is limited you can not imagine what it is to be intelligent anyway, so you assume people being just as dumb as you, or dumber, when their arguments are so far out of your complexity meter's limit, that they go into the negative integers again.
Also you get the "retard protection"(TM) anti-discriminatory protection. Which means nobody is allowed to call you dumb. Ever. While you can spit the biggest hatred since the nazis on intelligent people, and it is just awww-right.
Also with everything you do, you do not have to think before acting, and so you do not come up with a thousand and one possible endings, before you even start doing it. So you get to do all the stupid things, like putting your caravan into speed control, and going in the back, to make yourself a coffee... on the highway at full speed. Just blame someone else for it! Sue if you want! Your "retard protection"(TM) protects you, and so you win in court.
This also makes picking up girls easier, because you approach her before without coming up with the thought that she might not like such a half-chimp like you. You do not have to numb yourself down to a IQ of below 120 with alcohol, to clear your brain of the constant chatter of reasoning, pattern detection and prediction-making.
You do not come up with intelligent sentences that the mob will make fun of. You do not get called a nerd because you get an above-average score in school.
And it is just soo cool to be dumb. You can say "Hey, I do not know how to program a video recorder, but I can go online! Thanks AOL!", and get away with it. Because in society, it is cool to refuse to use your brain. Homer Simpson doesn't have to, so why do you? After all, the meat comes pre-cooked, pre-cut and pre-eaten on a plate, and the chair has a hole to shit trough. And everything you need is transported right into you trough TV.
You really have no idea, how much better you have it in this world!
You have no idea!
What? Grog, wenches and plunder are the most popular things ever amongst pirates!
Yarrrrr! *raises the saber and runs for the enemies*
It's just as important!
So? It will not be forbidden to pay someone money for the service of offering a huge screen, THX sound ready-made popcorn, and all that. (Ok, I hope the popcorn prices will be more reasonable.)
Me, of course, I watch many movies on my home cinema system (beamer + 5.1 sound) that I bought before I basically became broke, because I can't afford cinema anymore nowadays.
But I do absolutely love the big bass and full sound of THX cinemas, and think the money is well worth it, if I got it. (Although nothing beats 300 in an 3D IMAX cinema with THX! [look out for the analog film ones. They have a much higher resolution for non-CGI movies.])
You mean, since they are the first on the north american continent? Oh wait...!
-- Proud voter of the Pirate Party in the EU election 2009!