Real ads can add up to the player experience, if integrated correctly in to the game world.
There lies the trick where just about every good or reasonable idea falls down. If we removed advertising from the equation and it was about using real products as props/set pieces when designing a environment it would be a no-brainer when/where it was appropriate, but since we're talking about product placement or in-game advertising where the goal is to get your product NOTICED we can't have the discussion assuming the images or placement will be tactful or appropriated (they won't).
By hook in you mean allow you to manipulate file, pipe data or run services? Honestly, I'm a Linux guy and the only major difference off the top of my head would be the extra prefix required to access the rest of the file system. What do you see as the major differences then?
This has been complicated by being "tough on crime." Things like Three Strikes laws have dramatically increased California's prison population in recent years. This has resulted in an increase in funds that must go to prisons.
Don't you see it? California penal pot-farms! Spawn a whole lucrative industry using cheap possibly experienced labor! In fact if the state took over pot clubs and replaced them with state operated dispensaries (ala state run liqueur stores in Washington) we probably have to work to create another budget short-fall anytime in the near future (but unfortunately we might be too stoned to care if we successfully did). Invest in junk food stocks now!
What is it about porn that provokes such an outrage?
Simple, people performing blatant acts of sexuality make people unable to accept their own sexuality uncomfortable. Not that I'm saying everyone should love porn, but if we de-sensationalize it at worst it should simply become boring and not provoke such emotional knee-jerk reactions. In the 21st century people are still ashamed of sex.
Perhaps the real question should be if the porn surfing impacted his work negatively, why wasn't his performance addressed directly. If the surfing didn't impact his performance then why was some department allowed to waste the time, resources and money required to perform the witch hunt?
If fraud detection is a concern and chasing individuals based on their web-browsing habits is somehow getting in the way of that it seems like a better use of policy would be to discipline the person in charge who began the porn surfing witch-hunt for wasting important time and resources.
While marking up a book may decrease it's resale value considerably it doesn't decrease the value of the information it contains. I used to stop in at our local thrift-store (urban) and purchase used textbooks on subjects that interested me on the cheap. They has all sorts of scribbles, but for the most part the information was just as good as the day they'd bought it.
I'd call it a novelty. Instead of having a big box with excess room for customization/accessories we have a hodge-podge of compartments clustered together to form our chassis, each with individual air-flow concerns and complications. I don't hate the idea of modularization but I'd rather see slots with data/power ports (think hot-swap bays on server hardware) built into standard cases then something as needlessly complicated as this.
If the end-result offers no clear advantage (not counting additional complexity) I'd simply call it novelty and keep walking.
Heh. Does that mean that winter babies would tend to be physically larger then their spring counter-parts? With the spring babies beginning earlier having less physically developed frames?
Do winter babies get picked more in dodge-ball?
Once and for all, have we discovered the true source of the jock/nerd divide!;-)
Why exactly do we need to import military devices to keep citizens from embarrassing government? If you can't handle the fact that some portion of the population disagrees with you or your policy you should leave office. Repressing our natural socio-political means of expression only forces the act underground, and that's where a once healthy form of expression can become dangerous.
The importance of the rights of the people isn't just for the people, it also helps protect the stability and longevity of the government and other business/economic forces by providing a means for compromise, which is often better for all parties then forcing unilateral action. A government for and of the people simply makes healthier economic sense.
Hating on RMS may be fashionable, but it's still childish. By understanding the copyright system he'd taught all of us not to just disagree but to actively work to subvert the system, or actually use the system. He may not have invented free software single-handedly, but anyone having any interest in open software of any variety owes him some debt of gratitude.
RMS and people like him have fundamentally changed the way we view and discuss software and more broadly our increasingly important digital rights.
As for Shuttleworth I don't know so much about him, but generally I believe the proof is in the pudding and while Ubuntu might be the best or most popular desktop Linux distribution he seems to be more focused on assembling and polishing existing pieces of software leaving very little to differentiate his vision from the rest. Ubuntu isn't fundamentally much different from RHEL or Suse or Mandriva and that makes it hard for me to think of Shuttleworth as much more then a funding source for a popular and fairly vocal distribution.
Windows 7 isn't a good educational platform, it's a proprietary platform. It's a fine platform to run other software on, even open software, but it fails when you want to learn more, or change something, or fix something and it's fundamentally inappropriate for specifically that reason.
It's also yet another Microsoft misstep down that long and windy road towards a DRM nirvana which is a sort of magnification of the above mentioned problems but with whole slew of new rights limiting issues which only further marginalizes the end user from both their data and environment. By failing to advocate for the rights of their customers they put their own demise into play. Tick-tock.
How about counter-suing for environmental contamination. I mean, it's kind of like IP and file sharing right? And their not just making the pollen of Monsanto genetic ip 'available', but allowing it to spread unchecked, which is akin to somehow sharing files and infecting other people computers with those files (and then suing them for having them).
What is it with high-profile open source projects trying to emulate Microsoft blunders, is it a sort of status thing? Firefox can give us ribbons, Open Office has Clippy what next?
Demonstrating the history of child control devices to put things like this watch into a more accurate, historic perspective. The leash comes to mind, but I'd be willing to bet there's been a wealth of such devices for as long as there have been worried parents.
Eh? Do you really want to sue the people who help protect you for making mistakes? I mean, if it was done with malice it's a criminal issue but the piece you quote says the they lost track of the calls which is terrible and the results even more so, but the problem with taking responsibility for anything, particularly safety, is that at some point we all are guaranteed to make some form of mistake.
Imagine for a second if you were sued for every mistake that you made. That would be the life eh? You misconfigured apache, please see the judge in his chambers.
The technology was too cumbersome for use in casually and had a negative connotation because of its use in DRM. Being technically geeky does not make us immune to laziness or inconvenience, hence the bad-man argument (why bother hiding something if the thing is not worth hiding).
I don't know if Moblin will succeed or not, and I suspect many variables will play into that but am I the only one that sees their attempt at different as a rare but positive move? So far from the desktop-Linux world we've seen distros patch, compile and configure all the same pieces of open source software. This gives us a vary organic and grass-rootsy environment, and for familiarity and compatibility that's really great. But on the same note there's very little to differentiate one desktop distribution from another and I've typically made my decisions based on package manager and the size of the user base (popular distros/ good community support).
On the server I really think that all the above is important, and I'm in not hurry to see any of that change. However on the desktop all these marginally different distributions provide very little compelling reason to use one over the other and honestly without the branding (or having installed it myself) I'd be hard pressed to tell you which distribution I might be using at any given instance.
In the cases of commercial distributions aiming at the desktop, like Ubuntu or Mandriva I really see this a failure build on the advantages made available by open source software. Canonical could risk designing an operating system based on this wealth open source software, but instead they choose to focus on packaging and polishing disparate pieces of existing software, designed my a multitude of people for a for an even greater variety of reasons.
Distributions succeed at being usable collections of polished software, but they fail at being what I'd consider true operating systems because of the nature of their design and I for one hope that we continue to see more movement in projects aiming at the mobile and netbook market where it seems to be considered more important (or more plausible) to design the operating systems interface.
Granted, I'm not suggesting I'd like to see change for the sake of change but I would like to see a more serious attempt at OS design coming from somewhere in the Linux distribution space and right now that seems to be happening in the mobile space on platforms like Android and Moblin and I believe that the risk of good design could be a sea-change that doesn't just push Linux onto the desktop, but answers the question once and for all about the idea of a widely used free software platform.
It simply makes too much economic sense.
I honestly haven't used it, but it came up over a project a few years back and I'd been meaning to try it out myself. Our data center is about 5 miles from the office and about 15 miles from my home and we manage mostly via ssh/rdp/vnc with the occasional on-site visit as needed.
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There lies the trick where just about every good or reasonable idea falls down. If we removed advertising from the equation and it was about using real products as props/set pieces when designing a environment it would be a no-brainer when/where it was appropriate, but since we're talking about product placement or in-game advertising where the goal is to get your product NOTICED we can't have the discussion assuming the images or placement will be tactful or appropriated (they won't).
By hook in you mean allow you to manipulate file, pipe data or run services? Honestly, I'm a Linux guy and the only major difference off the top of my head would be the extra prefix required to access the rest of the file system. What do you see as the major differences then?
When your on a Wintel box why not use cygwin?
Don't you see it? California penal pot-farms! Spawn a whole lucrative industry using cheap possibly experienced labor! In fact if the state took over pot clubs and replaced them with state operated dispensaries (ala state run liqueur stores in Washington) we probably have to work to create another budget short-fall anytime in the near future (but unfortunately we might be too stoned to care if we successfully did). Invest in junk food stocks now!
The slippery slope.
But seriously, have the mods gotten more stupid lately?
Simple, people performing blatant acts of sexuality make people unable to accept their own sexuality uncomfortable. Not that I'm saying everyone should love porn, but if we de-sensationalize it at worst it should simply become boring and not provoke such emotional knee-jerk reactions. In the 21st century people are still ashamed of sex.
Perhaps the real question should be if the porn surfing impacted his work negatively, why wasn't his performance addressed directly. If the surfing didn't impact his performance then why was some department allowed to waste the time, resources and money required to perform the witch hunt?
If fraud detection is a concern and chasing individuals based on their web-browsing habits is somehow getting in the way of that it seems like a better use of policy would be to discipline the person in charge who began the porn surfing witch-hunt for wasting important time and resources.
While marking up a book may decrease it's resale value considerably it doesn't decrease the value of the information it contains. I used to stop in at our local thrift-store (urban) and purchase used textbooks on subjects that interested me on the cheap. They has all sorts of scribbles, but for the most part the information was just as good as the day they'd bought it.
I'd call it a novelty. Instead of having a big box with excess room for customization/accessories we have a hodge-podge of compartments clustered together to form our chassis, each with individual air-flow concerns and complications. I don't hate the idea of modularization but I'd rather see slots with data/power ports (think hot-swap bays on server hardware) built into standard cases then something as needlessly complicated as this.
If the end-result offers no clear advantage (not counting additional complexity) I'd simply call it novelty and keep walking.
Agreed. That was amazing both musically and intellectually.
Maybe the market they mean is the newly identified lethargic gamer market. The kind of people who might play Tetris or Solitaire on a console.
Heh. Does that mean that winter babies would tend to be physically larger then their spring counter-parts? With the spring babies beginning earlier having less physically developed frames?
;-)
Do winter babies get picked more in dodge-ball?
Once and for all, have we discovered the true source of the jock/nerd divide!
Why exactly do we need to import military devices to keep citizens from embarrassing government? If you can't handle the fact that some portion of the population disagrees with you or your policy you should leave office. Repressing our natural socio-political means of expression only forces the act underground, and that's where a once healthy form of expression can become dangerous.
The importance of the rights of the people isn't just for the people, it also helps protect the stability and longevity of the government and other business/economic forces by providing a means for compromise, which is often better for all parties then forcing unilateral action. A government for and of the people simply makes healthier economic sense.
Hating on RMS may be fashionable, but it's still childish. By understanding the copyright system he'd taught all of us not to just disagree but to actively work to subvert the system, or actually use the system. He may not have invented free software single-handedly, but anyone having any interest in open software of any variety owes him some debt of gratitude.
RMS and people like him have fundamentally changed the way we view and discuss software and more broadly our increasingly important digital rights.
As for Shuttleworth I don't know so much about him, but generally I believe the proof is in the pudding and while Ubuntu might be the best or most popular desktop Linux distribution he seems to be more focused on assembling and polishing existing pieces of software leaving very little to differentiate his vision from the rest. Ubuntu isn't fundamentally much different from RHEL or Suse or Mandriva and that makes it hard for me to think of Shuttleworth as much more then a funding source for a popular and fairly vocal distribution.
Windows 7 isn't a good educational platform, it's a proprietary platform. It's a fine platform to run other software on, even open software, but it fails when you want to learn more, or change something, or fix something and it's fundamentally inappropriate for specifically that reason.
It's also yet another Microsoft misstep down that long and windy road towards a DRM nirvana which is a sort of magnification of the above mentioned problems but with whole slew of new rights limiting issues which only further marginalizes the end user from both their data and environment. By failing to advocate for the rights of their customers they put their own demise into play. Tick-tock.
How about counter-suing for environmental contamination. I mean, it's kind of like IP and file sharing right? And their not just making the pollen of Monsanto genetic ip 'available', but allowing it to spread unchecked, which is akin to somehow sharing files and infecting other people computers with those files (and then suing them for having them).
What an amazing business model.
What is it with high-profile open source projects trying to emulate Microsoft blunders, is it a sort of status thing? Firefox can give us ribbons, Open Office has Clippy what next?
Demonstrating the history of child control devices to put things like this watch into a more accurate, historic perspective. The leash comes to mind, but I'd be willing to bet there's been a wealth of such devices for as long as there have been worried parents.
Eh? Do you really want to sue the people who help protect you for making mistakes? I mean, if it was done with malice it's a criminal issue but the piece you quote says the they lost track of the calls which is terrible and the results even more so, but the problem with taking responsibility for anything, particularly safety, is that at some point we all are guaranteed to make some form of mistake.
Imagine for a second if you were sued for every mistake that you made. That would be the life eh? You misconfigured apache, please see the judge in his chambers.
The technology was too cumbersome for use in casually and had a negative connotation because of its use in DRM. Being technically geeky does not make us immune to laziness or inconvenience, hence the bad-man argument (why bother hiding something if the thing is not worth hiding).
Right, criminals will still use it but the majority of the citizenry wouldn't and who is it the NSA is spying on again?
If you do it naked no matter how dull the content it will be an event they shall all long remember!
I don't know if Moblin will succeed or not, and I suspect many variables will play into that but am I the only one that sees their attempt at different as a rare but positive move? So far from the desktop-Linux world we've seen distros patch, compile and configure all the same pieces of open source software. This gives us a vary organic and grass-rootsy environment, and for familiarity and compatibility that's really great. But on the same note there's very little to differentiate one desktop distribution from another and I've typically made my decisions based on package manager and the size of the user base (popular distros/ good community support).
On the server I really think that all the above is important, and I'm in not hurry to see any of that change. However on the desktop all these marginally different distributions provide very little compelling reason to use one over the other and honestly without the branding (or having installed it myself) I'd be hard pressed to tell you which distribution I might be using at any given instance.
In the cases of commercial distributions aiming at the desktop, like Ubuntu or Mandriva I really see this a failure build on the advantages made available by open source software. Canonical could risk designing an operating system based on this wealth open source software, but instead they choose to focus on packaging and polishing disparate pieces of existing software, designed my a multitude of people for a for an even greater variety of reasons.
Distributions succeed at being usable collections of polished software, but they fail at being what I'd consider true operating systems because of the nature of their design and I for one hope that we continue to see more movement in projects aiming at the mobile and netbook market where it seems to be considered more important (or more plausible) to design the operating systems interface.
Granted, I'm not suggesting I'd like to see change for the sake of change but I would like to see a more serious attempt at OS design coming from somewhere in the Linux distribution space and right now that seems to be happening in the mobile space on platforms like Android and Moblin and I believe that the risk of good design could be a sea-change that doesn't just push Linux onto the desktop, but answers the question once and for all about the idea of a widely used free software platform. It simply makes too much economic sense.
I honestly haven't used it, but it came up over a project a few years back and I'd been meaning to try it out myself. Our data center is about 5 miles from the office and about 15 miles from my home and we manage mostly via ssh/rdp/vnc with the occasional on-site visit as needed.