The public lives in a fantasy land. They also believe that the only thing between them and immortality (guaranteed healthcare for the rest of their natural and unnatural lives) is passage of a bill in congress.
Do you really not know that almost every other country in the world from Cuba on up already has guaranteed health care?
Not so! The DMCA was sold to Congress with a number of exemptions which "are granted when it is shown that access-control technology has had a substantial adverse effect on the ability of people to make non-infringing uses of copyrighted works" (to quote wikipedia). They're there for a reason. But to Apple, "fair use" means using Apple products in the precise manner dictated by Apple.
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Yes, we do hate those users who suck bandwidth via bittorrent to the detriment of the majority who simply want to read their email, keep up-to-date via a social networking site and do other non-intensive tasks.
This is a lost battle.
A few years ago, only bittorrent users were using video on the Internet. But now, my 4 and 6 year old kids seem to spend more time watching kids' shows on the Internet than they do on TV, my wife and I use netflix on demand, and my 11 year old watches dozens of youtube videos to learn card tricks and yo-yo tricks.
Video isn't exotic anymore. If the majority of your customers are just checking facebook and email, start the countdown because it won't last.
I honestly can't think of another president in recent history who has given so many concessions to the minority party and his political opponents.
He's playing right into their strategy - demand compromise, bring everything to a halt and complain about being shut out, then label Obama as weak and ineffectual.
Dismissing user reports is what got Toyota in trouble in the first place.
How many very similar reports are lodged against other car brands every year? If you sell enough units, you'll get complaints of every description sooner or later. It doesn't necessarily mean there's anything to them.
Your whole post is based on the false notion that anything can be exhaustively tested. It can't. Not just the software in cars, but also the mechanical systems in them, the aerodynamics and control systems aboard aircraft, anything... there is simply no point at which you can say you tested every possible unforeseen circumstance and you're all done. Of course that doesn't absolve them from doing everything within reason.
The whole Toyota situation has become irrational. People knowingly sell and buy cars with varying levels of safety every single day. The safety differences between all the different models of cars on the road, of varying sizes, ages, and safety features, utterly swaps any marginal risk Toyota is even alleged to have caused. Go ahead and take the model Toyota has recalled the most of, and I guarantee I can find many, many other makes/models with many more deaths per million miles driven. Again, certainly Toyota should fix it. But at some point, paranoia on one small issue just diverts resources away from other bigger problems.
Nah, I'm not allowed to bring a cellphone to work, and I don't like talking on the telephone anyways. I have a Tracfone but it lives in my car, turned off. I wear my watch, I always know the time, even when I wake up in the middle of the night, or when I'm running, or swimming, or to hurry me along in the shower as I'm getting ready for work.
Look at what Activision did to Guitar Hero and is trying to do to Call of Duty.
What did Activision do wrong with Guitar Hero? Fads come and go, there's nothing Activision could have done to make Guitar Hero stay on top forever. Besides, it's a content-dependent game; you get sick of playing the same few songs over and over, so frequent additional releases are necessary. And since not everybody likes the same music, it also makes perfect sense to release more versions in a given year than any single person could be expected to buy, just as music labels don't expect any single person to buy every album they release. Could they somehow have made a better guitar hero had they concentrated their efforts into a smaller number of titles? I don't see how; the game premise is pretty simple.
Or not. Without Activision they might just still be a pair of broke, anonymous game devs like they were in the first place. Sure, you would like to have it both ways - use the resources of a big company to produce big-budget AAA titles that rake in tons of cash, but then keep it all for yourself and not owe them anything. But it doesn't work that way.
But why, oh why, would somebody RAID0 a pair of 2.5" drives when a single 3.5" drive costs far less and is almost certainly faster, have equal or greater capacity, and be more reliable? I guess I could imagine RAID0 a pair of SSD drives in a high performance gaming laptop, but a server?
What an idea, a so-called "server" restricted to a single laptop hard drive. It's a netbook without a screen. For heaven's sake, a 6 year old bottom-of-the-line Dell desktop would be a better server. (And yes, you can plug external drives into a Mini. Is that your a idea of a server? A bunch of parts federated by USB?)
I always suspected that the theme of the lost "golden age" present in many creation myths is a faint echo of the change from a pure hunter-gatherer existance, where, given a low population density, food was abundant
Huh? The population density was low because the carrying capacity was low, precisely because food was scarce. The subsequent explosion in the human population (still ongoing for the most part) indicates we have been in an unusual transitory period where food has been plentiful, due to agriculture.
why wouldnt someone just embed a higher quality video into their site instead of rendering 3d inside of the browser?
Sheesh people, it's not like we're speculating about something totally new here. There are lots of popular 3d web apps already (such as this game, which should make the point of "why render in the browser" obvious). This is just a new language for doing it.
Clockwork Orange is the inspiration for this little blog entry we are all getting worked up about, but not for any of the alleged policies themselves. The whole thing is based on practically nothing - a quote from a "railway guy," and a report of a school where classical music is played in detention in hopes of calming the kids down. The rest is a bunch of pundits quoting each other. The inflamed response in here is a joke.
I got the impression he was about to post login credentials so we could all put our data on the LHC's 5PB of disk and 17PB tape and let him worry about it.
Seriously, though, any recommendation that starts with "hire an admin like me dedicated to data archival" isn't going to fly for a few TB.
Angry or not angry, the point is that disclosing security bugs directly to the vendor first minimizes harm to end users - assuming, that is, the vendor feels sufficiently motivated to fix the bug. You can't argue that "security researchers" who sell 0-day vulnerabilities on the black market are helping anybody but themselves (not that Prodeus fits this description).
No, not just "nicer." It fills in the data with what was most likely to have been there in the first place, given the prior probabilities on the data. The axiom of being unable to regain information that was lost or never captured is, as commonly applied, mostly wrong. The fact is, almost all of our data collection is on samples that we already know a LOT about what they look like. Does this let you recapture a license plate from a 4 pixel image, no, but given a photo of Barack Obama's face with half of it blacked out, you can estimate with great accuracy what was in the other half.
At the end of the day, violent games or violent media cause those who are predisposed to go nutso anyways to find something to fixate on. If they didn't have violent video games, they might go play football. Or full contact street basketball. Or get involved in the underground "street fighting" circuit. Or become UFC devotees. And a few of them will go nuts.
No. The article states: "We can now say with utmost confidence that regardless of research method -- that is experimental, correlational, or longitudinal -- and regardless of the cultures tested in this study [East and West], you get the same effects,"
If it is true that these findings are confirmed by experimental protocols, what that means is you can take a randomly selected group of people, have some of them play violent games, and they'll be more violent than those in the control group who did not play the games. If true, this is a much stronger form of evidence than personal anecdotes and ad hominem attacks, which rules out 99% of the slashdot comments to this thread.
I wish the people taking the majority here would at least post some links to well-designed studies that fail to find a link between the games and violence.
The high failure rate for large software projects is well known: "If Las Vegas sounds too tame for you, software might just be the right gamble. Software projects include a glut of risks that would give Vegas oddsmakers nightmares. The odds of a large project finishing on time are close to zero. The odds of a large project being canceled are an even-money bet (Jones 1991)."
Here is another fun page: "Most IT experts agree that such failures occur far more often than they should. What's more, the failures are universally unprejudiced: they happen in every country; to large companies and small; in commercial, nonprofit, and governmental organizations; and without regard to status or reputation."
I only question why, when large projects are almost universally over-budget or fail altogether, we persist in being surprised and outraged every time? The simple fact is, we don't know how to do it, any more than we know how to land on mars; that is, we can do it, sometimes, but you better know going in it is likely to end in tears.
(In general, it seems to me that most of the problems in government have direct parallels in private industry because they flow from the same underlying cause; the unaffordability of medicare/medicaid corresponds to skyrocketing premiums in the private market; social security corresponds to slashing pensions and now even 401k matches in private industry. But private industry does hold a trump card - they can always cut their losses by tossing people aside and moving on, whereas government is the safety net.)
Surely it would be based on user ratings rather than some poor slob having to look at hundreds of thousands of photographs (and drawing a salary)!
By the way, when taking your own photos, the best thing you can do is take those "narcissistic" shots that outsiders find un-interesting. Nobody, including mostly likely yourself, will ever care about most of the architecture or scenery shots you take; there are billions of those. Any shot of interest to the general public (that isn't a news event) has already been taken. So, take shots of your kids and friends and the places you live, and your dog.
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Do you really not know that almost every other country in the world from Cuba on up already has guaranteed health care?
Not so! The DMCA was sold to Congress with a number of exemptions which "are granted when it is shown that access-control technology has had a substantial adverse effect on the ability of people to make non-infringing uses of copyrighted works" (to quote wikipedia). They're there for a reason. But to Apple, "fair use" means using Apple products in the precise manner dictated by Apple.
This is a lost battle.
A few years ago, only bittorrent users were using video on the Internet. But now, my 4 and 6 year old kids seem to spend more time watching kids' shows on the Internet than they do on TV, my wife and I use netflix on demand, and my 11 year old watches dozens of youtube videos to learn card tricks and yo-yo tricks.
Video isn't exotic anymore. If the majority of your customers are just checking facebook and email, start the countdown because it won't last.
It doesn't have to be free, it just has to pay for itself.
He's playing right into their strategy - demand compromise, bring everything to a halt and complain about being shut out, then label Obama as weak and ineffectual.
How many very similar reports are lodged against other car brands every year? If you sell enough units, you'll get complaints of every description sooner or later. It doesn't necessarily mean there's anything to them.
The whole Toyota situation has become irrational. People knowingly sell and buy cars with varying levels of safety every single day. The safety differences between all the different models of cars on the road, of varying sizes, ages, and safety features, utterly swaps any marginal risk Toyota is even alleged to have caused. Go ahead and take the model Toyota has recalled the most of, and I guarantee I can find many, many other makes/models with many more deaths per million miles driven. Again, certainly Toyota should fix it. But at some point, paranoia on one small issue just diverts resources away from other bigger problems.
Nah, I'm not allowed to bring a cellphone to work, and I don't like talking on the telephone anyways. I have a Tracfone but it lives in my car, turned off. I wear my watch, I always know the time, even when I wake up in the middle of the night, or when I'm running, or swimming, or to hurry me along in the shower as I'm getting ready for work.
Digital watches are great. They're multi-functional, cheap, accurate, low maintainable, and sturdy.
I know human factors/designer types have their diatribe about them, but they're just being whiny.
What did Activision do wrong with Guitar Hero? Fads come and go, there's nothing Activision could have done to make Guitar Hero stay on top forever. Besides, it's a content-dependent game; you get sick of playing the same few songs over and over, so frequent additional releases are necessary. And since not everybody likes the same music, it also makes perfect sense to release more versions in a given year than any single person could be expected to buy, just as music labels don't expect any single person to buy every album they release. Could they somehow have made a better guitar hero had they concentrated their efforts into a smaller number of titles? I don't see how; the game premise is pretty simple.
So by your theory, in what decade did Madden NFL stop making money?
Or not. Without Activision they might just still be a pair of broke, anonymous game devs like they were in the first place. Sure, you would like to have it both ways - use the resources of a big company to produce big-budget AAA titles that rake in tons of cash, but then keep it all for yourself and not owe them anything. But it doesn't work that way.
Those use Small Form Factor SAS drives, the Mac Mini does not. They are two different things.
But why, oh why, would somebody RAID0 a pair of 2.5" drives when a single 3.5" drive costs far less and is almost certainly faster, have equal or greater capacity, and be more reliable? I guess I could imagine RAID0 a pair of SSD drives in a high performance gaming laptop, but a server?
What an idea, a so-called "server" restricted to a single laptop hard drive. It's a netbook without a screen. For heaven's sake, a 6 year old bottom-of-the-line Dell desktop would be a better server. (And yes, you can plug external drives into a Mini. Is that your a idea of a server? A bunch of parts federated by USB?)
Huh? The population density was low because the carrying capacity was low, precisely because food was scarce. The subsequent explosion in the human population (still ongoing for the most part) indicates we have been in an unusual transitory period where food has been plentiful, due to agriculture.
Sheesh people, it's not like we're speculating about something totally new here. There are lots of popular 3d web apps already (such as this game, which should make the point of "why render in the browser" obvious). This is just a new language for doing it.
Clockwork Orange is the inspiration for this little blog entry we are all getting worked up about, but not for any of the alleged policies themselves. The whole thing is based on practically nothing - a quote from a "railway guy," and a report of a school where classical music is played in detention in hopes of calming the kids down. The rest is a bunch of pundits quoting each other. The inflamed response in here is a joke.
Seriously, though, any recommendation that starts with "hire an admin like me dedicated to data archival" isn't going to fly for a few TB.
Well, you can always buy one, assuming you have $2e9.
Angry or not angry, the point is that disclosing security bugs directly to the vendor first minimizes harm to end users - assuming, that is, the vendor feels sufficiently motivated to fix the bug. You can't argue that "security researchers" who sell 0-day vulnerabilities on the black market are helping anybody but themselves (not that Prodeus fits this description).
No, not just "nicer." It fills in the data with what was most likely to have been there in the first place, given the prior probabilities on the data. The axiom of being unable to regain information that was lost or never captured is, as commonly applied, mostly wrong. The fact is, almost all of our data collection is on samples that we already know a LOT about what they look like. Does this let you recapture a license plate from a 4 pixel image, no, but given a photo of Barack Obama's face with half of it blacked out, you can estimate with great accuracy what was in the other half.
No. The article states: "We can now say with utmost confidence that regardless of research method -- that is experimental, correlational, or longitudinal -- and regardless of the cultures tested in this study [East and West], you get the same effects,"
If it is true that these findings are confirmed by experimental protocols, what that means is you can take a randomly selected group of people, have some of them play violent games, and they'll be more violent than those in the control group who did not play the games. If true, this is a much stronger form of evidence than personal anecdotes and ad hominem attacks, which rules out 99% of the slashdot comments to this thread.
I wish the people taking the majority here would at least post some links to well-designed studies that fail to find a link between the games and violence.
Here is another fun page: "Most IT experts agree that such failures occur far more often than they should. What's more, the failures are universally unprejudiced: they happen in every country; to large companies and small; in commercial, nonprofit, and governmental organizations; and without regard to status or reputation."
I only question why, when large projects are almost universally over-budget or fail altogether, we persist in being surprised and outraged every time? The simple fact is, we don't know how to do it, any more than we know how to land on mars; that is, we can do it, sometimes, but you better know going in it is likely to end in tears.
(In general, it seems to me that most of the problems in government have direct parallels in private industry because they flow from the same underlying cause; the unaffordability of medicare/medicaid corresponds to skyrocketing premiums in the private market; social security corresponds to slashing pensions and now even 401k matches in private industry. But private industry does hold a trump card - they can always cut their losses by tossing people aside and moving on, whereas government is the safety net.)
Surely it would be based on user ratings rather than some poor slob having to look at hundreds of thousands of photographs (and drawing a salary)!
By the way, when taking your own photos, the best thing you can do is take those "narcissistic" shots that outsiders find un-interesting. Nobody, including mostly likely yourself, will ever care about most of the architecture or scenery shots you take; there are billions of those. Any shot of interest to the general public (that isn't a news event) has already been taken. So, take shots of your kids and friends and the places you live, and your dog.