With your precious privacy being invaded like this more and more, pretty soon you'll have to live alone your basement just to keep 'them' from staring at you with their beady little eyes...
Maybe its just me, but I tend to absorb lare phrases and clauses at once. Sentances and sometimes whole paragraphs. Are just a few entities linked up. I cant seem to do it with mixed up letters, though. Reading one word at a time is so darn slow, i can imagine anyone going at it one letter at a time.
Those unions opposed bringing automation and robots to the factory. If the Japanese had labor unions, their auto industry wouldnt be as efficient and the per worker productivity would be lower thus they could never get as high wages as they have now.
On the other hand, my wife and 12-year-old daughter don't like Opera. In both cases, I think it's because Opera doesn't have enough security holes, and it interferes with their game downloads.
Pure techno-elitism. If it interferes with their game downloads then it is _useless_ for them, regardless of how many geek friendly things it has(standards compliance, security, etc.) If it doesnt work for the end user, it wont be used.
This kind of power is only really useful for professionals or niche users. I wanna see a low-end low-power conusumption G5 in a PowerBook. That will make my day (..week, year)
If I was faced with the choice of being able to buy a DVD for £15 rather than £20, or having a health service that actually worked, guess which I'd opt for.
I see. Or you could opt to live in the US (or have a US style system). The you could have a DVD for $15 AND have health service that works. =)
When I first got my powerbook (my first mac) I was using the ctrl+click (i.e. the fake right click) all the freakin time. However once I got used to using the OS X interface and I learned the most useful keyboard shortcuts I found that I almost never needed to use the right click. Its just not neccesary in the mac environment.
"If these cards are getting so powerful at computations then why do we need a Intel/AMD processor at all? Just make a graphics card with more transistors and drop the traditional processor..."
"If these processors are getting so powerful at computations then why do we need ATi/INVIDIA cards at all? Just make a processor with more transistors and drop the traditional graphics card..."
Well obviously most people ARE getting their music for free. It will take something compelling to make them shell out for something that they arent paying for now. Apparently.99 isnt cheap enough. For people who listen to bands that put out albums (as opposed to 1 song + fluff).99 cents a song comes out to about $15 an album. Hardly a price break. Might as well buy the damn album.
The reason we have voter apathy is that noones life is riding on an election. Be thankful that we dont have elections like 3rd world countries. Its not like if the republicans win they are going to start a war with Canada and if the democrats win there is going to be a purge of reactionary faction members in the military. If your house was going to be siezed if rebel leaders win the election youd be goddamn sure to make it to the voting booth, more than once if neccesary.
In this country, things will continue (more or less) to be business as usual, regardless of the results of any one election. No news is good news in this sense, regardless of what any reactionary or revolutionary wants you to think.
If you liberate "Bob Smith purchased a box of Froot Loops on 01/07/02 at 21:06 for $3.27", you can write better advertising. As a society, we don't want better advertising. We want advertising to fail so miserably that they stop doing it!
This seems like a totally arbitrary distinction. Basically you are saying you want information that will benefit me to be available but any information that will benefit a certain group should not be available. This is exactly the contradiction that I wanted to avoid. The ideal is that more information and more readily available information is always better, period. Ideally, anyways.
I do mean to troll here. Can somebody explain why the "Information wants to be Free" crowd at the same time is so obsessed with privacy? Does anyone have a good explaination of this or a pointer to further reading?
Several posters have mentioned a chicken and egg problem in the video game industry: games are targeted at teenage boys because teenage buy games. The source of this, however can be seen in one of the concluding comments of the article:
what girls want out of games are themes like "open-ended" and "less-goal oriented" and "co-operative play". These are also the themes which most adult gamers seem to want, too".
In terms of game design, games targeted for adolecent boys are just easier. The aspects of game design that are still immature are those that will attract other demographics: open-endedness, cooperative play etc. Only when game designs become more sophisticated will they attract a broader demographic of players.
Journalistic credibility issues asside, Im so damn embarrassed that I believed the "Saddam in gay porno" story that I cant bring myself to use anything Yahoo related.
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# To further develop our manned space craft, so that eventually we will know enough to get a ship to Alpha Centauri....and Alpha Centauri gets us WHAT? Hello, pay attention here please.
Dude. If get to Alpha Centauri you win the game! Isnt that the point of civilization?
Like MP3 players. Or hardrives that come with "100 greatest albums" to get you started on your music collection. Or some such nonsense. Reminds me of those CDs you used to find at frys of "100 great programs" that were all freely available shareware and freeware that were just compiled on one CD so you didnt have to download them (this was when CD-roms were fairly new and internet access generally limited to 14.4kb.) Sell the media with the content as the value added.
There have been many times that we browsed Blockbuster Video (yes, they suck, but that's a different story) in search of a movie and ended up there an entire hour because we became so engrossed in searching (and ended up with 3 or 4 movies by the end of it). A web site can offer the content, but seldom can it recreate that experience.
I love browsing netflix. I now have over 100 movies in my queue because I just like to browse their database for things i might like. The ranking/recommendation thing and the detailed catagorization makes it far more enjoyable than browsing blockbuster, not to mention the library that is several orders of magnitude larger.
Why is that every time there is a post regarding the linux kernel someone has to repost this thing? I mean it was funny the first time, but I mean really is all that karma whoring really neccessary?
What should companies be doing to prevent the loss of income from pirating while leaving inviolate the right of the consumer to make copies of materials to which we own legal license?
Locks only keep honest people out. So basically if a game company should only put nonminal copy protection on their games. Effectivly a "please dont copy me" sign. People who want to crack the game will. But people who are not too inclined to do so will be stopped. Above all, the copy protection shouldnt reduce the experience of paying customers.
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With your precious privacy being invaded like this more and more, pretty soon you'll have to live alone your basement just to keep 'them' from staring at you with their beady little eyes...
Maybe its just me, but I tend to absorb lare phrases and clauses at once. Sentances and sometimes whole paragraphs. Are just a few entities linked up. I cant seem to do it with mixed up letters, though. Reading one word at a time is so darn slow, i can imagine anyone going at it one letter at a time.
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There was one on El Camino in sunnyvale too. But the touch screens have been out of use as long as I can remember.
Those unions opposed bringing automation and robots to the factory. If the Japanese had labor unions, their auto industry wouldnt be as efficient and the per worker productivity would be lower thus they could never get as high wages as they have now.
Pure techno-elitism. If it interferes with their game downloads then it is _useless_ for them, regardless of how many geek friendly things it has(standards compliance, security, etc.) If it doesnt work for the end user, it wont be used.
This kind of power is only really useful for professionals or niche users. I wanna see a low-end low-power conusumption G5 in a PowerBook. That will make my day (..week, year)
Lets hear it for Mercantilism! Woo Hoo! I guess who ever said theres nothing new under the sun wasnt that far off.
I see. Or you could opt to live in the US (or have a US style system). The you could have a DVD for $15 AND have health service that works. =)
When I first got my powerbook (my first mac) I was using the ctrl+click (i.e. the fake right click) all the freakin time. However once I got used to using the OS X interface and I learned the most useful keyboard shortcuts I found that I almost never needed to use the right click. Its just not neccesary in the mac environment.
What he refers to is generally called "Rent Seeking" and is a pretty well researched field in political economy. Google search will take you far.
"If these processors are getting so powerful at computations then why do we need ATi/INVIDIA cards at all? Just make a processor with more transistors and drop the traditional graphics card..."
Hello? The 80s called. They want their metadata back.
Well obviously most people ARE getting their music for free. It will take something compelling to make them shell out for something that they arent paying for now. Apparently .99 isnt cheap enough. For people who listen to bands that put out albums (as opposed to 1 song + fluff) .99 cents a song comes out to about $15 an album. Hardly a price break. Might as well buy the damn album.
In this country, things will continue (more or less) to be business as usual, regardless of the results of any one election. No news is good news in this sense, regardless of what any reactionary or revolutionary wants you to think.
Nitrous Oxide, Tire Rubber and Flames? Maybe they got their inspiration from "The Fast and the Furious"??
I do mean to troll here. Can somebody explain why the "Information wants to be Free" crowd at the same time is so obsessed with privacy? Does anyone have a good explaination of this or a pointer to further reading?
Journalistic credibility issues asside, Im so damn embarrassed that I believed the "Saddam in gay porno" story that I cant bring myself to use anything Yahoo related.
. # To further develop our manned space craft, so that eventually we will know enough to get a ship to Alpha Centauri. ...and Alpha Centauri gets us WHAT? Hello, pay attention here please.
Dude. If get to Alpha Centauri you win the game! Isnt that the point of civilization?
Like MP3 players. Or hardrives that come with "100 greatest albums" to get you started on your music collection. Or some such nonsense. Reminds me of those CDs you used to find at frys of "100 great programs" that were all freely available shareware and freeware that were just compiled on one CD so you didnt have to download them (this was when CD-roms were fairly new and internet access generally limited to 14.4kb.) Sell the media with the content as the value added.
There have been many times that we browsed Blockbuster Video (yes, they suck, but that's a different story) in search of a movie and ended up there an entire hour because we became so engrossed in searching (and ended up with 3 or 4 movies by the end of it). A web site can offer the content, but seldom can it recreate that experience. I love browsing netflix. I now have over 100 movies in my queue because I just like to browse their database for things i might like. The ranking/recommendation thing and the detailed catagorization makes it far more enjoyable than browsing blockbuster, not to mention the library that is several orders of magnitude larger.
Why is that every time there is a post regarding the linux kernel someone has to repost this thing? I mean it was funny the first time, but I mean really is all that karma whoring really neccessary?
What should companies be doing to prevent the loss of income from pirating while leaving inviolate the right of the consumer to make copies of materials to which we own legal license? Locks only keep honest people out. So basically if a game company should only put nonminal copy protection on their games. Effectivly a "please dont copy me" sign. People who want to crack the game will. But people who are not too inclined to do so will be stopped. Above all, the copy protection shouldnt reduce the experience of paying customers.