Well, that may be, but I think that any addiction has both a physical and psychological leg to it.
I totally agree. What I'm saying is that any addiction based on a single exposure is psychological in nature. The addict goes back for more because they enjoyed the experience, not because their body requires it.
Obviously that can grow over time into a physical addiction.
slightly different usage is the more commonly known Biblical Hebrew word "Yahweh"
More specifically, the name of God is written in the Torah/Old Testament as YHVH (Hebrew: "Yud-hey-vahv-hey) AKA the Tetragrammaton, which many scholars believe was pronounced "Yahweh." No one can be really sure about that unless a way is found to travel back in time before 70 CE though =).
But no matter, after a few "uninstalls" over the last few month where I would re-install it 6 hours later, I finally broke the addiction last week. I told a freind my password while I was at work, he logged in without my account, wiped all my characters permanently and canceled my account. He then came to my work, I gave him my house key, and he went home and snapped every single EQ cd I owned in half.
I hope my lost-to-EQ friend lets me do that eventually. A bunch of us hadn't heard from him in so long we'd thought he'd offed himself.
Personally, I'm waiting for the EQ equivalent of William S. Burroughs to start writing novels about moldy codpieces and accidentally killing members of their party when they try to play William Tell with the Longbow of Straggoth the Undying.
My biggest complaint is that the interface is completely nonstandard, so nothing is where it would be expected. The designers couldn't even make the password dialogue box a normal one, so you can't tell how many characters you've entered.
It's also terrible at handling multiple users on the same workstation.
I don't need to worry about GTA-3 showing up in Nintendo land. I haven't yet (NOTE: I said YET) seen a game with obvious gore.
Nintendo seems to be changing its tune on this topic. Blood Omen 2, Resident Evil, and several other moderately graphically violent games are available for the Gamecube. I'd be surprised if something like Soldier of Fortune were released for their system, but I think even Nintendo realizes that they need to broaden their selection of titles to have the widest audience possible.
Then so have I, and pretty much everyone I know. The only Sony product I have ever owned that quit working was a pair of headphones when I was in high school, and that's because I slammed their cable in a car door.
OTOH, I've had an Onkyo tapedeck and CD player go bad, a Panasonic TV burn up while I was watching a video, and a JVC VCR (high-end consumer, at the time) that needed to be repaired every six months so it could play back tapes instead of just recording them.
Imagine if you were trapped by an earthquake under tonnes of microwave transparent material, and the only thing in your little coffin shaped cavity was your fully charged and still operational laptop. You fire up snort and find a wireless lan and then attempt to contact the admin...
Network security could be a matter of life and death.
Didn't you just invalidate your own argument? By that logic all wireless networks should be open, so that if I'm ever trapped by an earthquake while visiting another company I can use their network to contact help.
If a gun shop left the place unprotected and criminals were able to take the guns easily and use it for a crime, to what degree should they be held accountable?
To the same degree that they already are - that making poor choices that allow someone access to your weapons leaves you liable for the damage they do with them.
Most crimes on the internet do no involve death, they can/do cause huge financial, emotional, pyschological problems
Those crimes are already illegal. Punish the offender - not the victim - as I said.
What you probably don't notice is that most spaces open to the public maintain some time of "security" force (rent-a-cops to shoo away homeless people who want to sleep where it's warm and take a sponge bath in their bathrooms).
You are missing my point. Are the businesses legally required to have a security force? No. And that's the way it should remain. Your other two examples are for specific kinds of businesses, not businesses in general.
The fact that you don't know these things points out quite clearly that you have no actual rubber-meets-the-road business experience.
Ad hominem attacks are a poor style to use in a debate.
What about suicide? The criminal and the victim are one and the same. The state intervenes: you must not kill yourself. Police state, or state of mandatory benevolence?
There are two major viewpoints to this argument.
One is that the suicidal (barring the terminally ill, of course) are mentally unfit to make such a decision for themselves, and so they need someone else to protect them until they are stable again.
I personally believe that suicide should be legal. IMO your body is yours to do with as you please - even to make incredibly poor decisions regarding - as long as you don't hurt/endanger other people in the process.
It's a very detailed document that covers just about everything and every possibility; compare that to the quality of documentation that other distributions provide.
I would argue that a well-designed and intuitive system shouldn't require the average technical user to RTFM for basic functionality. Allowing in-depth technical use is an admirable feature, but forcing it is atavistic. It belongs in the past, just like boot floppies.
These people need to take action and clean up before the govt gets more motivated to regulate them.
Should it be illegal for businesses to have poor security for their buildings? Breaking and entering (in the physical and electronic world) is already a crime. Only a police state regulates the actions of potential victims of crimes to "protect" them.
I've heard that the Microsoft exams can be rather tricky and somewhat difficult.
Yes, they are. My understanding is that there was a lot of complaints about the NT4 exams being too easy, so they increased the difficulty significantly for the 2k exams.
I never saw the ones for NT4 personally, but I'm studying for the 2k series in my spare time and while the books are pretty easy to get through, the tests are reasonably tough. A lot of the answers you can't get from the official curriculum, so I'm assuming the idea is to see if you've had to look it up when in a real-world situation.
I'm having trouble seeing the difference between what this article is describing and a mobile/"manufactured" home, other than the technological aspect.
I can see this kind of mass-produced housing being useful for apartments (like Bruce Willis had in The Fifth Element), where the goal is basically to cram as much functionality into as little space as possible. There was a prototype apartment building in Japan, for example, that was basically a framework that all of the living pods bolted to. The idea was that you could take your module with you when you moved to another city, but it would also be handy to be able to replace individual units in case of a fire or whatever.
I really don't see this happening for individual homes, though, other than in the existing market for trailers and other "manufactured" living. If I'm going to plonk down a sizeable amount of money for the land to live on, I want a one-off house. One that I can customize by knocking down/building walls, and so forth. When I read this article I think of a family where I grew up who had a big old trailer of a home, which had moveable plastic walls. I'm hardly Dr. Debonaire, Professor of Style, but that's just way too tacky for me.
I *can*, however, see standardized electronic modules that are added to new and existing homes in the same manner as appliances, hidden in ceilings and crawlspaces, or built into walls like an ATM. The difference to me is analogous to androids vs. cyborgs. One is a simulation, and the other is an augmentation.
BIOS is a no no even if you know what you are doing.
I have to disagree on this. Sometimes changing settings in the BIOS is necessary (both of my Athlon system motherboards default to 100MHz FSB even with a 133MHz FSB CPU installed, so I've had to manually reconfigure that). OTOH it's also useful for changing things like boot order, num lock on/off by default, checking CPU temperature when you've installed a new chip, disabling onboard audio if you've got an add-in card, et cetera.
Anyone who is incapable of or uncomfortable with changing BIOS settings should be treating their PC like I treat cars - something to be bought as a whole instead of building from pieces, and which is serviced by professionals. I'm not saying this is a bad thing. We all specialize in different areas.
My first tattoo was a barcode (my SSN as a UPC) that I made myself using barcode software, and had tattooed by hand.
The second was Kain's clan symbol from the Legacy of Kain games, which was originally designed by a human artist, but given to me by the director of the series as an EPS file, which was then tattooed by hand.
(not some faster than light boat that uses a gear powered engine).
Maybe you can clue us in as to what a real FTL drive looks like?
Why is it so implausible that technology from 500 years in the future still has some mechanical components? Just because Rick Berman and Michael Pillar explode in a jizz-supernova every time their design department comes up with a new neon-tube-covered warp core with no moving parts doesn't make that the authoritative statement on what it would look like in real life, assuming it were possible.
There are a few exceptions, of course, but in general I couldn't agree with you more.
UI design is one of the most important parts of a project, and the vast majority of OSS projects seem to slap it on as an afterthought.
It's *possible* to use software with a geek-oriented, unfriendly interface (*cough*mainframes*cough*), but it doesn't *invite* users.
Putting a pleasing, intuitive UI on a product is the equivalent to looking nice for a job interview. It's *possible* to get hired if you come in with ripped jeans and scraggly facial hair, but you limit your audience severely.
But should we stop jailing all criminals on the basis that every now and again someone innocent gets put away?
Put away the straw man, please. I was attacking the asinine concept of "if you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear!" and nothing else.
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Well, that may be, but I think that any addiction has both a physical and psychological leg to it.
I totally agree. What I'm saying is that any addiction based on a single exposure is psychological in nature. The addict goes back for more because they enjoyed the experience, not because their body requires it.
Obviously that can grow over time into a physical addiction.
slightly different usage is the more commonly known Biblical Hebrew word "Yahweh"
More specifically, the name of God is written in the Torah/Old Testament as YHVH (Hebrew: "Yud-hey-vahv-hey) AKA the Tetragrammaton, which many scholars believe was pronounced "Yahweh." No one can be really sure about that unless a way is found to travel back in time before 70 CE though =).
But no matter, after a few "uninstalls" over the last few month where I would re-install it 6 hours later, I finally broke the addiction last week. I told a freind my password while I was at work, he logged in without my account, wiped all my characters permanently and canceled my account. He then came to my work, I gave him my house key, and he went home and snapped every single EQ cd I owned in half.
I hope my lost-to-EQ friend lets me do that eventually. A bunch of us hadn't heard from him in so long we'd thought he'd offed himself.
Personally, I'm waiting for the EQ equivalent of William S. Burroughs to start writing novels about moldy codpieces and accidentally killing members of their party when they try to play William Tell with the Longbow of Straggoth the Undying.
I single hit of heroin is all you need to become addicted.
Maybe psychologically. It's not possible to create a physical addiction based on a single dose of anything.
So what exactly is wrong with Lotus notes ??
Um, everything?
My biggest complaint is that the interface is completely nonstandard, so nothing is where it would be expected. The designers couldn't even make the password dialogue box a normal one, so you can't tell how many characters you've entered.
It's also terrible at handling multiple users on the same workstation.
I don't need to worry about GTA-3 showing up in Nintendo land. I haven't yet (NOTE: I said YET) seen a game with obvious gore.
Nintendo seems to be changing its tune on this topic. Blood Omen 2, Resident Evil, and several other moderately graphically violent games are available for the Gamecube.
I'd be surprised if something like Soldier of Fortune were released for their system, but I think even Nintendo realizes that they need to broaden their selection of titles to have the widest audience possible.
The athlons are really, really bad running a single thread on dual-cpus.
Can you provide some documentation for that claim? Every benchmark I've seen shows them running at normal single CPU speed on non-SMP-capable apps.
I can't be the only one who looked at that site and thought "I love the Power Glove, because it's bad!", can I?
You've gotten lucky.
Then so have I, and pretty much everyone I know. The only Sony product I have ever owned that quit working was a pair of headphones when I was in high school, and that's because I slammed their cable in a car door.
OTOH, I've had an Onkyo tapedeck and CD player go bad, a Panasonic TV burn up while I was watching a video, and a JVC VCR (high-end consumer, at the time) that needed to be repaired every six months so it could play back tapes instead of just recording them.
Imagine if you were trapped by an earthquake under tonnes of microwave transparent material, and the only thing in your little coffin shaped cavity was your fully charged and still operational laptop. You fire up snort and find a wireless lan and then attempt to contact the admin...
Network security could be a matter of life and death.
Didn't you just invalidate your own argument? By that logic all wireless networks should be open, so that if I'm ever trapped by an earthquake while visiting another company I can use their network to contact help.
If a gun shop left the place unprotected and criminals were able to take the guns easily and use it for a crime, to what degree should they be held accountable?
To the same degree that they already are - that making poor choices that allow someone access to your weapons leaves you liable for the damage they do with them.
Most crimes on the internet do no involve death, they can/do cause huge financial, emotional, pyschological problems
Those crimes are already illegal. Punish the offender - not the victim - as I said.
What you probably don't notice is that most spaces open to the public maintain some time of "security" force (rent-a-cops to shoo away homeless people who want to sleep where it's warm and take a sponge bath in their bathrooms).
You are missing my point. Are the businesses legally required to have a security force? No. And that's the way it should remain.
Your other two examples are for specific kinds of businesses, not businesses in general.
The fact that you don't know these things points out quite clearly that you have no actual rubber-meets-the-road business experience.
Ad hominem attacks are a poor style to use in a debate.
What about suicide? The criminal and the victim are one and the same. The state intervenes: you must not kill yourself. Police state, or state of mandatory benevolence?
There are two major viewpoints to this argument.
One is that the suicidal (barring the terminally ill, of course) are mentally unfit to make such a decision for themselves, and so they need someone else to protect them until they are stable again.
I personally believe that suicide should be legal. IMO your body is yours to do with as you please - even to make incredibly poor decisions regarding - as long as you don't hurt/endanger other people in the process.
It's a very detailed document that covers just about everything and every possibility; compare that to the quality of documentation that other distributions provide.
I would argue that a well-designed and intuitive system shouldn't require the average technical user to RTFM for basic functionality.
Allowing in-depth technical use is an admirable feature, but forcing it is atavistic. It belongs in the past, just like boot floppies.
These people need to take action and clean up before the govt gets more motivated to regulate them.
Should it be illegal for businesses to have poor security for their buildings?
Breaking and entering (in the physical and electronic world) is already a crime. Only a police state regulates the actions of potential victims of crimes to "protect" them.
I've heard that the Microsoft exams can be rather tricky and somewhat difficult.
Yes, they are. My understanding is that there was a lot of complaints about the NT4 exams being too easy, so they increased the difficulty significantly for the 2k exams.
I never saw the ones for NT4 personally, but I'm studying for the 2k series in my spare time and while the books are pretty easy to get through, the tests are reasonably tough. A lot of the answers you can't get from the official curriculum, so I'm assuming the idea is to see if you've had to look it up when in a real-world situation.
I'm having trouble seeing the difference between what this article is describing and a mobile/"manufactured" home, other than the technological aspect.
I can see this kind of mass-produced housing being useful for apartments (like Bruce Willis had in The Fifth Element), where the goal is basically to cram as much functionality into as little space as possible. There was a prototype apartment building in Japan, for example, that was basically a framework that all of the living pods bolted to. The idea was that you could take your module with you when you moved to another city, but it would also be handy to be able to replace individual units in case of a fire or whatever.
I really don't see this happening for individual homes, though, other than in the existing market for trailers and other "manufactured" living. If I'm going to plonk down a sizeable amount of money for the land to live on, I want a one-off house. One that I can customize by knocking down/building walls, and so forth. When I read this article I think of a family where I grew up who had a big old trailer of a home, which had moveable plastic walls. I'm hardly Dr. Debonaire, Professor of Style, but that's just way too tacky for me.
I *can*, however, see standardized electronic modules that are added to new and existing homes in the same manner as appliances, hidden in ceilings and crawlspaces, or built into walls like an ATM. The difference to me is analogous to androids vs. cyborgs. One is a simulation, and the other is an augmentation.
BIOS is a no no even if you know what you are doing.
I have to disagree on this. Sometimes changing settings in the BIOS is necessary (both of my Athlon system motherboards default to 100MHz FSB even with a 133MHz FSB CPU installed, so I've had to manually reconfigure that). OTOH it's also useful for changing things like boot order, num lock on/off by default, checking CPU temperature when you've installed a new chip, disabling onboard audio if you've got an add-in card, et cetera.
Anyone who is incapable of or uncomfortable with changing BIOS settings should be treating their PC like I treat cars - something to be bought as a whole instead of building from pieces, and which is serviced by professionals. I'm not saying this is a bad thing. We all specialize in different areas.
I did both, twice.
My first tattoo was a barcode (my SSN as a UPC) that I made myself using barcode software, and had tattooed by hand.
The second was Kain's clan symbol from the Legacy of Kain games, which was originally designed by a human artist, but given to me by the director of the series as an EPS file, which was then tattooed by hand.
Lawrence Fishburne. I know you never meant for them to be actors.
Dude, how can you diss Jimmy Jump? Do you have a pathological hatred of root beer or something?
The problem with that argument is that Intel is not a word in the English language outside of Intel Corp.
It is in the US "Excess of Abbreviations? I think it's EXOBREV that takes care of those" military.
(not some faster than light boat that uses a gear powered engine).
Maybe you can clue us in as to what a real FTL drive looks like?
Why is it so implausible that technology from 500 years in the future still has some mechanical components? Just because Rick Berman and Michael Pillar explode in a jizz-supernova every time their design department comes up with a new neon-tube-covered warp core with no moving parts doesn't make that the authoritative statement on what it would look like in real life, assuming it were possible.
The user interace is lacking severely.
There are a few exceptions, of course, but in general I couldn't agree with you more.
UI design is one of the most important parts of a project, and the vast majority of OSS projects seem to slap it on as an afterthought.
It's *possible* to use software with a geek-oriented, unfriendly interface (*cough*mainframes*cough*), but it doesn't *invite* users.
Putting a pleasing, intuitive UI on a product is the equivalent to looking nice for a job interview. It's *possible* to get hired if you come in with ripped jeans and scraggly facial hair, but you limit your audience severely.
They (russians) just lost a comm satellite yesterday
Was that satellite sent on a Soyuz? No.
But should we stop jailing all criminals on the basis that every now and again someone innocent gets put away?
Put away the straw man, please. I was attacking the asinine concept of "if you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to fear!" and nothing else.