The fact of the matter is that people who want to do drugs, do drugs.
Desire for drugs is not a dichotomy. The world is not divided neatly into "the straight edge public" and "junkies who will do anything for drugs".
Alcohol is legal, and research shows that an increase in price causes a decrease in consumption.
Alcoholics will keep drinking viper fluid even if you ban alcohol, and teetotalers will not touch it if you paid them, but the whole gray area in between is influenced by availability.
I can actively avoid going to jail or Apple. However, once I have an iPhone, I can't just walk away by installing Meego on it. If I've bought a bunch of movies on iTunes, I can't just walk away by installing Linux.
I can throw away everything, of course, and so can you -- by hanging yourself in your cell.
If the accident was caused by a programming error, do you think Google would have admitted it and risked killing all th new legislation that's being passed, and thereby also the project?
See how lost she is? How the OS isn't giving her a damned clue about where to go or what to do?
My folks needed help when starting to use the web, wifi and digital cameras. These technologies didn't flop as a result.
I, for one, think Windows 8 is awesome. It's basically the Windows version of Maemo -- a nice touch interface backed by a fairly complete desktop OS. I'd easily ditch my iPad for this, and would even be able to dock it with a full keyboard and high res screen for using Visual Studio and similar.
There are 500,000 apps, and at most 5000 of them have any value to anyone (and this estimate includes fart apps). That means that if buying indiscriminately at 99c, each usable app costs you $99 -- not counting loss from SMS scam apps.
I'll buy $12 apps of known quality without thinking, but I'll agonise over buying some 99c app because I don't want to support people who make a living writing garbage, spamming fake reviews, and posting pirate versions with malware or their own ads.
I had one of those. It had its moments, particularly when getting hit, but ultimately it didn't add much to the overall experience.
The only great force feedback application I've seen in a game is the buzzer alerting your drunken, distracted friends that it's their turn in Mario Party.
Facebook stopped being new and exciting years ago. Its usefulness is now taken for granted. You no longer see stories about how Facebook lets you invite your friends from pottery class to your party, just like how you no longer see stories about how you can use email to easily send small files to people.
You don't even have to log in to use it, just read messages and accept invites by email.
Sounds plausible to me. An employee saw a breaking news story affecting demand, and responded to take advantage of it to make money for the company and a probably a small bonus for themselves. That kind of quick thinking is grounds for a promotion in sales and marketing.
I don't think that Sony had time to gather their dark council of unspeakable evil in just 30 minutes.
Your boss could keep track of where you plan to go if you use the office network, and he can keep track of where you are if you have VPN enabled on your phone or tablet and use Google navigation software.
"You're not looking up addresses of our competitors, are you Karl? You know, we don't tolerate disloyalty here at the company. And did you visit a.. gentleman's club after hours yesterday? We're a family company, Karl. We need all employees to represent our family values at all times, also outside work."
I wonder how many bugs, worms, rodents, amphibians and assorted other animals are killed when some farmer runs a combine or plough over a field during the course of a year
Car analogy time:
Yeah, they want humane treatment for humans too
I wonder how many people die on the roads each year
Hah, idiots. They think they can be for driving but against murder. It makes no sense!
I am quite surprised that your first example of "bad food" is GMO produce, while the last is "eating garbage loaded with trans fats, not eating any fresh fruit, and in general having a very poor diet."
I have never seen any scientific claim that GMO vs industrialized vs organic produce have any nutritional differences.
I love organic food, but I don't think that Twinkies with organic, refined flour and beef tallow from organic, grass-fed, free-range cattle is going to make any difference compared to your last few points.
They keep saying that CD's are going to be replaced by: DVDs, Blu-ray, HVDs, etc. But the moment any of these media are advanced enough to replace the compact disc they ARE the compact disc.
That's why in the end the only thing that will truly replace the CD is another CD. Doh.
(Just because PC is short for "personal computer" doesn't mean it's (commonly understood as) a catch-all term for personal computers. Dells are international business machines, but not IBMs. SSDs are random access memory, but you wouldn't count them as RAM. )
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Desire for drugs is not a dichotomy. The world is not divided neatly into "the straight edge public" and "junkies who will do anything for drugs".
Alcohol is legal, and research shows that an increase in price causes a decrease in consumption.
Alcoholics will keep drinking viper fluid even if you ban alcohol, and teetotalers will not touch it if you paid them, but the whole gray area in between is influenced by availability.
I don't mean to rain on the geek parade, but both The Gimp and modern Photoshop runs natively and smoothly on my x86 based Windows 8 tablet.
Whether Windows 8 makes for a better tablet UI than a cross-arch emulated Windows 3.1 with twenty year old software is another discussion.
I can actively avoid going to jail or Apple. However, once I have an iPhone, I can't just walk away by installing Meego on it. If I've bought a bunch of movies on iTunes, I can't just walk away by installing Linux.
I can throw away everything, of course, and so can you -- by hanging yourself in your cell.
I would venture to say that people would discover side swiping before they discovered the four finger iPad gesture.
There is no absolute minimum. The IQ scale is well defined towards negative infinity.
It will benefit Windows and OSX a lot more since suspending there actually works.
If you ever successfully unsuspend a *BSD or Linux box, you should post a bragging video on youtube and never, ever update anything.
If the accident was caused by a programming error, do you think Google would have admitted it and risked killing all th new legislation that's being passed, and thereby also the project?
My folks needed help when starting to use the web, wifi and digital cameras. These technologies didn't flop as a result.
I, for one, think Windows 8 is awesome. It's basically the Windows version of Maemo -- a nice touch interface backed by a fairly complete desktop OS. I'd easily ditch my iPad for this, and would even be able to dock it with a full keyboard and high res screen for using Visual Studio and similar.
There are 500,000 apps, and at most 5000 of them have any value to anyone (and this estimate includes fart apps). That means that if buying indiscriminately at 99c, each usable app costs you $99 -- not counting loss from SMS scam apps.
I'll buy $12 apps of known quality without thinking, but I'll agonise over buying some 99c app because I don't want to support people who make a living writing garbage, spamming fake reviews, and posting pirate versions with malware or their own ads.
Donald Trump isn't necessarily the next messiah, but The Apprentice was still an interesting and entertaining show.
This could still be interesting, even if done for the wrong reasons.
So pretty much like the Microsoft Sidewinder Force Feedback joystick from 1998.
I had one of those. It had its moments, particularly when getting hit, but ultimately it didn't add much to the overall experience.
The only great force feedback application I've seen in a game is the buzzer alerting your drunken, distracted friends that it's their turn in Mario Party.
Kids whose parents incentivize them.
You could say the same thing about email.
Facebook stopped being new and exciting years ago. Its usefulness is now taken for granted. You no longer see stories about how Facebook lets you invite your friends from pottery class to your party, just like how you no longer see stories about how you can use email to easily send small files to people.
You don't even have to log in to use it, just read messages and accept invites by email.
Sounds plausible to me. An employee saw a breaking news story affecting demand, and responded to take advantage of it to make money for the company and a probably a small bonus for themselves. That kind of quick thinking is grounds for a promotion in sales and marketing.
I don't think that Sony had time to gather their dark council of unspeakable evil in just 30 minutes.
Your boss could keep track of where you plan to go if you use the office network, and he can keep track of where you are if you have VPN enabled on your phone or tablet and use Google navigation software.
"You're not looking up addresses of our competitors, are you Karl? You know, we don't tolerate disloyalty here at the company. And did you visit a.. gentleman's club after hours yesterday? We're a family company, Karl. We need all employees to represent our family values at all times, also outside work."
Car analogy time:
Hah, idiots. They think they can be for driving but against murder. It makes no sense!
I am quite surprised that your first example of "bad food" is GMO produce, while the last is "eating garbage loaded with trans fats, not eating any fresh fruit, and in general having a very poor diet."
I have never seen any scientific claim that GMO vs industrialized vs organic produce have any nutritional differences.
I love organic food, but I don't think that Twinkies with organic, refined flour and beef tallow from organic, grass-fed, free-range cattle is going to make any difference compared to your last few points.
I like Apple's solution of letting you chat directly with your phone instead of with other people.
It extends the battery life and there's never poor coverage. And Siri doesn't tell you to shut up about the great new iPhone features.
I'm a software consultant. The difference is that I come to them.
But this one brings something new and interesting to the Super Mario franchise. They must cease & desist at once!
Good luck, CmdrTaco, and thanks for everything!
...indistinguishable from a CD.
They keep saying that CD's are going to be replaced by: DVDs, Blu-ray, HVDs, etc. But the moment any of these media are advanced enough to replace the compact disc they ARE the compact disc.
That's why in the end the only thing that will truly replace the CD is another CD. Doh.
(Just because PC is short for "personal computer" doesn't mean it's (commonly understood as) a catch-all term for personal computers. Dells are international business machines, but not IBMs. SSDs are random access memory, but you wouldn't count them as RAM. )
I did some research on this, namely read TFA. The summary is extremely misleading.
The actual story is "Old programmers have better reputions on stackoverflow. They don't write better posts, they just spend more time there."
The "study" says absolutely nothing about programming skill. Just stackoverflow profile statistics.
What struck me was that C++ got lambda expressions before Java did!
The quoted billion passwords per second was for ancient Zip 2.0 encryption.
The actual numbers for modern RAR encryption (from TFA) is 14605/sec.
That's an average of 4 years for a random 7 character alphanumeric password, or 200 years for a 8 character one.