Probably best in an environment like LyX. Any other semantic-only system where you don't have to care about layout will do (LaTeX, HTML, DocBook, etc.). I always recommend these for anything longer than a letter.
Given that all sides agree Sony has a goal of making game which is popular, fun, and commercially successful, it is totally valid for someone to use "must" if, in her opinion, the suggestion is a firm prerequisite towards that objective.
Correct, but I disagree that is the case here.
must, v. 1. to be obiliged or required by morality
I should have said that feel people want something that is best expressed by W3C RFC's "MUST", I should have stated that, my bad, no need to gloat.
I wasn't saying that emotional "arguments" are less relevant to someone, but they're deeply personal. Criticising people for making the rational argument "nature" (whatever exactly that may be) will "replace" a lost species by telling them an emotional problem some people may have with that is simply not an argument (which, if valid, needs to be accepted), it's an opinion and the grandparent assumed everyone had to share it, which just isn't the case.
Morals always are opinions, and while I tend to spend a lot of time figuring out what I consider to be right there's no way I'd ever argue my morals were "more right" than anyone elses, which includes no morals at all and eating babies. I'm just convinced that in the end, "right" doesn't exist outside each little mind...
BTW: I'm european, too, which is no argument either.
I think you display the core of the problem: rights don't exist, they're neither god-given, nor self-evident, nor unalienable. They are set and maintained by humans just like you and me and they only have validity as long as enough people actually grant them to others (Example: If not enough people grant each other the right to property, then there is no property).
Many people simply believe their rights to just be, so no government can take them away, which is why in many nations, like the US or the EU, rights can be & are taken away, as too few people defend them (the rest trusts politicians who say they don't intend to ever use the new law for something else, or at least believes they're somehow not able to do otherwise).
Bottom line: You want a right, make sure people are willing to grant it, be that your neighbors or your politicians (who are no authority, remember? They are there because enough people implicitly grant them authority...)
Maintain your ideals, but remember that there's nothing besides other humans helping or hindering you, especially not "rights"...
Reading the comments I get the feeling a lot of people have problems distinguishing "ought to" from "must", let me explain:
"Ought to"
based on moral beliefs (which can greatly differ!)
coders ought to release their code under a free license
websites ought to be valid
programs (including games) ought to be and remain accessible
"Must"
based on legal codes or technical/physical restrictions/necessities
Pacta sunt servanda (contracts must be respected, which includes "as advertised", if that diesn't include "experience may change during online play" e.g.)
Simply put, while I believe a patch that removes accessibility (that wasn't advertised before, AFAIK) "ought not" happen, there is no way I'm supporting the "must not" crowd.
and why exactly is not "replacing" them during my lifetime somehow bad if nature will sort it out eventually? Evolution does indeed work on geological timescales, that doesn't make it work any less... Showing polar bears to my grandkids is of purely romantic value, I'd say, not something I "need" from a rational POV.
By throwing thousands of soldiers at a fortified coast, because noone expects you being coldhearted enough to order your soldiers into such a suicide mission?
Holy shit, don't tell me people still us Windows for network critical systems, even in a home environment...
If that computer isn't a dedicated machine already, then buy one from ebay, go for the $50 maximum range in <300Mhz (An old 486 should be enough).
Aside from CPU, RAM (16MB minimum), it needs a 3.5-floppy-drive, a network card for your internal network and whatever for the connection (a second network card if you're using ADSL for example). Then go and use Fli4L, easy to setup, boots off a floppy and is damn reliable.
Everyone who thinks otherwise may come over and get them shitty binary drivers (and their evil companion, the installer) to run on my 64bit SuSE 9.1 (a lot of that is probably due to SuSEs directory changes, but without fucking docs from Ati there's no way to correct this). One of the reasons I still keep a WinXP install, otherwise I would've gone wine long ago.
Gladly, there's the R300 project (not usable, but on the way...)
Well, I did notice the nintendo. subdomain, but since the article claims "gamers", not "Nintendo Gamcube gamers", I still felt free to criticise that...
The article includes a list of titles to compare the gamers collection to, stating that if he/she has none of them, they probably don't have a taste and you can buy anything, since the'll probably not notice the difference. Sadly, I appear to have no taste:-D These types of games I think are missing (some probably because their list seems to target teenagers and aims to only include ESRB "right" games, still I was amazed not to find a single one of these):
Adventure Games (the Myst series, LucasArts, Sierra, simply put, there are none on the list)
FPSes (Half-Life, Doom, FEAR, System Shock, again none are on the list at all)
MMOs (WoW, EVE, you guessed right, none)
It would'nt hurt to include a warning about PC vs. console as well, I've seen clueless grandparents mix those things up...
...always getting out and having funky, social roleplaying fun! Back in my day we would sit home alone, on a wooden chair, in front of computers so slow, you could greet every single instruction before it went to execution and we certainly knew how to masturbate!
From what I've read so far it does rhyme with "bun":-P
But that doesn't seem to be the real problem, which seems to be based on their setup not reassembling http streams correctly, thus fucking up headers...
Where have I implied otherwise? Did I say "Let's all , so they don't try this scheme!"?
I speak for mayself and myself only. And for me it is a concern, based on prior experience with "business practices". That doesn't mean I think there's anything I (or even some metaphysical "we") could or should do about it.
Step 1: Offer virus scanning for a charge
Step 2: Require my customers to be virus-free
Step 3: Since I can only be sure they are virus-free after they have been checked (With my scanner, since I can't be bothered to support other peoples solutions): PROFIT!
Add to this the legitimate question about other OSes and AV-solutions and you have a bona fide extortion scheme.
But then, I'm a computer scientist, so I don't do "online banking" anyway...
That's why there aren't any IE-only sites out there anymore... Sorry to break this to you, but most "webmasters" will either slap something together that works in their browser (IE that is. "Why change something for the minority of users?" they ask) or that some "t00lz" creates for them (Hint: I've yet to see a CMS that produces, better yet, forces W3C valid output). It's a shame, yes, but I don't see why RSS should differ from HTML in that respect:-(
Well, Cyan Worlds "Uru", which tanked commercially and was revived as fan-hosted servers has recently seen the creation of a Blender Plugin, so fan-made content is now possible... Read about it here http://www.cobbs.ca/ and get access here http://alcugs.almlys.dyns.net/wiki/index.php/Main_ Page. Just be careful, there are a lot of unwritten rules in the Uru-Community.
Imagine you have a reason, any reason (not illegal, but you still don't want to tell your wife, maybe it's about a birthday present), to come home late a few times. Instead of asking where you've been your wife checks your GPS and realizes you've stopped by one address all the time. She gets a hunch you might be "seeing" another woman and decides to quietly check you up from now on. Surprise you're still going there (Building that grand new thingamob she's always wanted does take a while even when your buddy from work, who is an expert, is helping)! A few weeks later, she's convinced that you show aberrant behavior too (Pschology is a real bummer sometimes). One day you come home to find the divorce on the floor.
I won't go into any "distrusting the government" reasons here, but, you see, from my POV there are very real problems with such tech, so I'm tempted to answer: "There's invasion of privacy, and there's useful technology... PLEASE learn to spot the difference." But then I'd prefer you'd accept that there are a) different opinions on where exactly to draw the line, and b) legal things you could want to do without everyone knowing you are.
"But it's convenient" is decidedly not a good reason for anything, it's just being to lazy to look for a real one.
Though their Spamfilter is rather good, I still hate logging in every couple of days to see if it hasn't accidentaly gotten a false positive (It has, sometimes, because I don't store my friends addresses online, so they aren't whitelisted). I prefer using my own mail client and my own filters, thank you, Google. (Disallow pop3-access, if you dont want me to use it:-P )
Don't take me wrong, I encourage everyone to read every single Heinlein out there, he did a fantastic job at presenting different ideals, but if you want the readership to understand the story you have to take their current "level" of exposure into account. In case of pre-teen-to-teen girls in the USA I'd assume their level of exposure to be rather low, so "going slowly" seems like a good idea to me.
Harsh Mistress is great BTW! I tried not recommending specific stories though, since I don't want my personal opinion (since some differ vastly on an idealogical level, compare Troopers & Coventry for example) to influence decisions here. There are few RAHs I didn't love reading and even fewer I disagreed with.
Probably because she joins a group marriage including her rapist? That is the most strong Heinlein I've ever read (and one of the weakest story-wise), so I'm not going to suggest it alongside the juveniles, wait till readership is ready for it (I'd say 15 at earliest, but YMMV)
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Probably best in an environment like LyX. Any other semantic-only system where you don't have to care about layout will do (LaTeX, HTML, DocBook, etc.). I always recommend these for anything longer than a letter.
Given that all sides agree Sony has a goal of making game which is popular, fun, and commercially successful, it is totally valid for someone to use "must" if, in her opinion, the suggestion is a firm prerequisite towards that objective.
Correct, but I disagree that is the case here.
must, v. 1. to be obiliged or required by morality
I should have said that feel people want something that is best expressed by W3C RFC's "MUST", I should have stated that, my bad, no need to gloat.
I wasn't saying that emotional "arguments" are less relevant to someone, but they're deeply personal. Criticising people for making the rational argument "nature" (whatever exactly that may be) will "replace" a lost species by telling them an emotional problem some people may have with that is simply not an argument (which, if valid, needs to be accepted), it's an opinion and the grandparent assumed everyone had to share it, which just isn't the case.
Morals always are opinions, and while I tend to spend a lot of time figuring out what I consider to be right there's no way I'd ever argue my morals were "more right" than anyone elses, which includes no morals at all and eating babies. I'm just convinced that in the end, "right" doesn't exist outside each little mind... BTW: I'm european, too, which is no argument either.
I think you display the core of the problem: rights don't exist, they're neither god-given, nor self-evident, nor unalienable. They are set and maintained by humans just like you and me and they only have validity as long as enough people actually grant them to others (Example: If not enough people grant each other the right to property, then there is no property).
Many people simply believe their rights to just be, so no government can take them away, which is why in many nations, like the US or the EU, rights can be & are taken away, as too few people defend them (the rest trusts politicians who say they don't intend to ever use the new law for something else, or at least believes they're somehow not able to do otherwise).
Bottom line: You want a right, make sure people are willing to grant it, be that your neighbors or your politicians (who are no authority, remember? They are there because enough people implicitly grant them authority...)
Maintain your ideals, but remember that there's nothing besides other humans helping or hindering you, especially not "rights"...
"Ought to"
"Must"
Simply put, while I believe a patch that removes accessibility (that wasn't advertised before, AFAIK) "ought not" happen, there is no way I'm supporting the "must not" crowd.
and why exactly is not "replacing" them during my lifetime somehow bad if nature will sort it out eventually? Evolution does indeed work on geological timescales, that doesn't make it work any less... Showing polar bears to my grandkids is of purely romantic value, I'd say, not something I "need" from a rational POV.
Given your username, I'd like to say: :-)
By throwing thousands of soldiers at a fortified coast, because noone expects you being coldhearted enough to order your soldiers into such a suicide mission?
Holy shit, don't tell me people still us Windows for network critical systems, even in a home environment...
If that computer isn't a dedicated machine already, then buy one from ebay, go for the $50 maximum range in <300Mhz (An old 486 should be enough).
Aside from CPU, RAM (16MB minimum), it needs a 3.5-floppy-drive, a network card for your internal network and whatever for the connection (a second network card if you're using ADSL for example). Then go and use Fli4L, easy to setup, boots off a floppy and is damn reliable.
Everyone who thinks otherwise may come over and get them shitty binary drivers (and their evil companion, the installer) to run on my 64bit SuSE 9.1 (a lot of that is probably due to SuSEs directory changes, but without fucking docs from Ati there's no way to correct this). One of the reasons I still keep a WinXP install, otherwise I would've gone wine long ago.
Gladly, there's the R300 project (not usable, but on the way...)
Well, I did notice the nintendo. subdomain, but since the article claims "gamers", not "Nintendo Gamcube gamers", I still felt free to criticise that...
The article includes a list of titles to compare the gamers collection to, stating that if he/she has none of them, they probably don't have a taste and you can buy anything, since the'll probably not notice the difference. Sadly, I appear to have no taste :-D These types of games I think are missing (some probably because their list seems to target teenagers and aims to only include ESRB "right" games, still I was amazed not to find a single one of these):
Adventure Games (the Myst series, LucasArts, Sierra, simply put, there are none on the list)
FPSes (Half-Life, Doom, FEAR, System Shock, again none are on the list at all)
MMOs (WoW, EVE, you guessed right, none)
It would'nt hurt to include a warning about PC vs. console as well, I've seen clueless grandparents mix those things up...
...always getting out and having funky, social roleplaying fun! Back in my day we would sit home alone, on a wooden chair, in front of computers so slow, you could greet every single instruction before it went to execution and we certainly knew how to masturbate!
From what I've read so far it does rhyme with "bun" :-P
But that doesn't seem to be the real problem, which seems to be based on their setup not reassembling http streams correctly, thus fucking up headers...
I agree, is completely free of hardcoded rendering, while is always rendered as block. That is exactly the point of applying CSS to XML...
Where have I implied otherwise? Did I say "Let's all , so they don't try this scheme!"?
I speak for mayself and myself only. And for me it is a concern, based on prior experience with "business practices". That doesn't mean I think there's anything I (or even some metaphysical "we") could or should do about it.
If I were a credit institute/bank/whatever, I'd:
Step 1: Offer virus scanning for a charge
Step 2: Require my customers to be virus-free
Step 3: Since I can only be sure they are virus-free after they have been checked (With my scanner, since I can't be bothered to support other peoples solutions): PROFIT!
Add to this the legitimate question about other OSes and AV-solutions and you have a bona fide extortion scheme.
But then, I'm a computer scientist, so I don't do "online banking" anyway...
That's why there aren't any IE-only sites out there anymore... Sorry to break this to you, but most "webmasters" will either slap something together that works in their browser (IE that is. "Why change something for the minority of users?" they ask) or that some "t00lz" creates for them (Hint: I've yet to see a CMS that produces, better yet, forces W3C valid output). It's a shame, yes, but I don't see why RSS should differ from HTML in that respect :-(
Well, Cyan Worlds "Uru", which tanked commercially and was revived as fan-hosted servers has recently seen the creation of a Blender Plugin, so fan-made content is now possible... Read about it here http://www.cobbs.ca/ and get access here http://alcugs.almlys.dyns.net/wiki/index.php/Main_ Page. Just be careful, there are a lot of unwritten rules in the Uru-Community.
Imagine you have a reason, any reason (not illegal, but you still don't want to tell your wife, maybe it's about a birthday present), to come home late a few times. Instead of asking where you've been your wife checks your GPS and realizes you've stopped by one address all the time. She gets a hunch you might be "seeing" another woman and decides to quietly check you up from now on. Surprise you're still going there (Building that grand new thingamob she's always wanted does take a while even when your buddy from work, who is an expert, is helping)! A few weeks later, she's convinced that you show aberrant behavior too (Pschology is a real bummer sometimes). One day you come home to find the divorce on the floor.
... PLEASE learn to spot the difference." But then I'd prefer you'd accept that there are a) different opinions on where exactly to draw the line, and b) legal things you could want to do without everyone knowing you are.
I won't go into any "distrusting the government" reasons here, but, you see, from my POV there are very real problems with such tech, so I'm tempted to answer: "There's invasion of privacy, and there's useful technology
"But it's convenient" is decidedly not a good reason for anything, it's just being to lazy to look for a real one.
thanks
You use that as a wallpaper??? Where is the 1280x1024 (minimum) version?
Though their Spamfilter is rather good, I still hate logging in every couple of days to see if it hasn't accidentaly gotten a false positive (It has, sometimes, because I don't store my friends addresses online, so they aren't whitelisted). I prefer using my own mail client and my own filters, thank you, Google. (Disallow pop3-access, if you dont want me to use it :-P )
Don't take me wrong, I encourage everyone to read every single Heinlein out there, he did a fantastic job at presenting different ideals, but if you want the readership to understand the story you have to take their current "level" of exposure into account. In case of pre-teen-to-teen girls in the USA I'd assume their level of exposure to be rather low, so "going slowly" seems like a good idea to me.
Harsh Mistress is great BTW! I tried not recommending specific stories though, since I don't want my personal opinion (since some differ vastly on an idealogical level, compare Troopers & Coventry for example) to influence decisions here. There are few RAHs I didn't love reading and even fewer I disagreed with.
Probably because she joins a group marriage including her rapist? That is the most strong Heinlein I've ever read (and one of the weakest story-wise), so I'm not going to suggest it alongside the juveniles, wait till readership is ready for it (I'd say 15 at earliest, but YMMV)