Serves me right for saying Slashbots without a mitigating clause like "This will hurt my Karma" but anyway this theory that child pornography doesn't have any link to molesting youth is ridiculous.
http://www.ncmec.org/missingkids/servlet/NewsEvent Servlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=2022
Random search for a study on it but they all conclude pretty much the same thing, you start with child porn you end with molestation and often violence.
I don't attempt to explain it, I won't say it desensitizes them or anything of the kind but I think anyone who has done any research on this will agree, it's not something people do without it affecting them. And once it's affected them they seem quite likely to affect others in turn.
The comment that Freenet is largely used for distributing child pornography...
Is probably true, there are very few people who really need this kind of protection at the moment and it's disturbing but one of these groups is child pornographers.
Slashbots think that the parent poster is commiting a logical fallicy of some form (likely the slippery slope form) when in fact he is perfectly correct.
What he isn't taking into account is that these nets need to be running and populated when censorship does occur so that everyone involved with them can't be labelled a traitor.
As far as child pornography and mitigating circumstances, exposure to child pornography does lead people to be more likely to molest children. Molesting children has pretty serious consequnces on their mental health throughout their life(partially because of the views of society towards molestation). This is something it's pretty tough to condone, I think Freenet is a good idea if we need to trade a small increase in pedophilia for a permanent venue for free speech I think that is a trade off we will need to accept.
If pedophilia grows out of hand we may need to curtail these dark nets but that too becomes a tricky proposition.
But I imagine many really early adopters were disapointed with with the early mp3 players.
Namely the creative players, the Jukebox 1 was 6 gigs a nice peice of kit at the time but it had A LOT OF PROBLEMS it ate batteries like mad (6 batteries for 4 hours)...
It used the Creative Playcenter software (not replaced until they got past Jukebox 3[or one of the first small ones]).
If he tried one of those I can see why he wouldn't be motivated to give mp3 players another shot.
It's tied to the concept that men are somehow the wage earners for a family.
Which is tied historically to the few months of near uselessness brought on by pregnancy.
We have more and more single mothers and women who realize that maternity leave is a disadvantage they need to work to overcome... so basically look for things to even out in the near future.
Countries with high female education, good maternity leave policy, etc. (socialist countries) typically have much closer pay scales for the two genders.
Wikipedia... "a sensor placed near the television allows the computer to sense the controller's position in three-dimensional space."... I'm looking for an image of the sensor.
I think Nintendo is trying to cover this one up...
I was sooo enthusiastic about the revolution you wouldn't believe it until I learned a few key facts.
1. For the wireless to work it needs to have a stand set up in front of your TV (Yuck!). You'll note this stand isn't shown in any press pictures because it's so ugly, and who wants a tiny little sexy console with a huge frikkin antenna (or powerBrick).
Second the size of the antenna itself implies that the two points need to be very seperate to acheive what limited precision the machine does get, however I would be very reasured if the unit itself had the two transmitter/receivers because if you don't need say 2 ft of physical space you can keep your precision WAY higher.
I love my DS and I thought it would be what the Revolution is supposed to be, well designed, easy, fun, moddable, not too powerful but with added perks (no 2 minute load times ala PSP) and the stylus control is GREAT.
I'm concerned Revolution won't be a step beyond duckhunt but in some ways a step back.
It's a sad possibility but one you'll consider too when you see that antena.
Richard is definitely part of the problem, the open source community fears closed source patenting and liscencing because they know that corperations are maintaining their ability to sweep the rug out from under you.
But open source is doing much the same thing, businesses need the promise of upgradability and futureproofing and Linux until recently hasn't been able to offer that.
When Stallman comes out with GPLv3 it's just as scary to the business set as Gates coming out with DRM is to the Linux set.
5 Years ago it was a technical battle now it's an ideological one. And when you fight based on ideology you go to extremes, DRM isn't something the industry wants it costs them money but they're doing it to fight open source.
Likewise GPL suing to keep source open isn't the goal but it might help prevent open source from remaining marginalized and trampled on.
I think the real battle will be fought in education and the home where locking everything down isn't going to be popular but there is an arguement that open source won't have the initiative to produce good code for industry (read secure, slow, stable as all get out, ugly, integrated, administered).
Ah but they've been experimenting with electrodes in the brain for a while now and they've learned something.
The brain's structure is not defined at birth, it develops based on usage and adapts to problems early in life, so if you insert something early enough it can become a functional part of the brain and perhaps even have the brain adapt to use it.
It's still a pretty dicey concept (they've mainly been using it to restore some motor function or add new senses to lab animals) but it has some pretty solid proof, and it seems clear that once the technology we want to implant is there that the time table will be speeded up.
For me all I want is an optical cable to control my trigger finger, nerve transmission is slow.....
You forget VCD which still has a large install base in many countries.
The VCD to DVD upgrade seems silly as it forced consumers to use diffrent formats to burn their Video and Audio discs.
How many of you have both blank CDs and DVDs for this reason.
If the video disc market had upgraded their players to support Xvid or Divx or indeed any quality above mpg 1/2 (They did upgrade from mpg 1 eventually) no one would have upgraded to DVD.
Most movie encodes on the internet still adhere to the 700 meg (Cd size) format using encoding such as Xvid or Divx, these can be played on pirate/advanced DVD players, modified consoles etc.
People complaining about the new upgrade cycle have already missed the boat even the technical users have given in to the power of mass market by embracing DVD.
If a cd with an Xvid has more quality and equal features to a DVD (even menu's thanks to new Divx releases) then why did we upgrade in the first place? I have no idea and I doubt most/.ers do either.
Truthfully we're caught up in the upgrade cycle, for me it doesn't matter I like the 700 meg Xvid format and until I feel the need to upgrade to the next pirate/home movie standard (likely 4.7 gig Xvid or H.263/4) I won't... My players will support those discs as well.
Acting like we won't have to upgrade is silly, it will happen just as it did with DVD our only real hope is that Xvid or another open standard will make itself available to DVD player manufacturers in time to replace the current system.
This will...
A.) Make internet (connection fees) 50x cheaper.
2.) Finally still western telecoms complaining about the difficulties of offering fast service.
3.) Be considered too expensive to implement until someone who can't be bribed or bough enters the telecom game. 4.) Never see the light of day. 5.) Be implemented perfectly showing the telecommunications industy has a commitment to quality!
20 Years these computers will be where the pentium 1 is now... It's basically the slowest computer that can run a reasonable version of a modern OS (Linux or Windows)...
These computers are the limit of what gets shipped overseas to third world countries.
486s were rendered obsolete almost immedietly by the release of the first pentiums.
The same situation will probably occur fairly rapidly in the computer space. With the addition of more procesors, real time processing in the operating system will become increasingly likely.
It'll only take one Micrsoft engineer speaking up that "Hey we've got 20 cores! Let's make one a dedicated real time networking processor!" and bam everything 2-3 years old won't run the newer OSs at all.
Well that used to be the case... but Microsoft just said that they'd be open sourcing DirectX.
Hahahahahhaah Got you.
Ok that's not funny but seriously anything that motivates game programmers to look at openGl is a good thing right now most grahics proffesionals see it as significantly inferior and not being maintained well.
Which is really too bad because it does give Microsoft a monopoly in the Computer Gaming market which makes it almost impossible for Mac or Linux to overcome.
By almost an order of magnitude the largest companies in the U.S. are the credit card companies, they are getting rich off of people's debt.
When you can reconcile those two facts perhaps you might be able to make America not seem like the land of conservative milk and sugar that the rest of the world suspects but until then...
Part of the problem is American's watch a lot of TV and think that somewhere there are a bunch of American's living like that... sad.
" But that's okay... the market with figure it out for them."
Conservitive crap like this, everyone just work away and things will turn out allright.
Heard of Payola? Heard of why they do it? Because familiar stuff is popular, who makes it familiar and brands it? Big companies, the same is true for everything if there aren't proper reviewing systems, personal commitments to quality (government enforced... (I.E. selling a product that doesn't work with misleading reviews)... the market breaks down.
Approx 90% of the products you have are inferior to what you would have chosen if you knew EVERYTHING about the market.
Retail chains have supplanted the one group of people who actually WERE supposed to know which product to purchase, the store owner.
It's ludicrous to think that each consumer will do testing to find the best dishwasher... or cd or movie.
This free market stuff is a bunch of crap and those who relie on it are doing so to justify crap they've done in the past.. usually things they think are unethical but not illegal.
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Serves me right for saying Slashbots without a mitigating clause like "This will hurt my Karma" but anyway this theory that child pornography doesn't have any link to molesting youth is ridiculous. http://www.ncmec.org/missingkids/servlet/NewsEvent Servlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=2022
Random search for a study on it but they all conclude pretty much the same thing, you start with child porn you end with molestation and often violence.
I don't attempt to explain it, I won't say it desensitizes them or anything of the kind but I think anyone who has done any research on this will agree, it's not something people do without it affecting them. And once it's affected them they seem quite likely to affect others in turn.
The comment that Freenet is largely used for distributing child pornography...
Is probably true, there are very few people who really need this kind of protection at the moment and it's disturbing but one of these groups is child pornographers.
Slashbots think that the parent poster is commiting a logical fallicy of some form (likely the slippery slope form) when in fact he is perfectly correct.
What he isn't taking into account is that these nets need to be running and populated when censorship does occur so that everyone involved with them can't be labelled a traitor.
As far as child pornography and mitigating circumstances, exposure to child pornography does lead people to be more likely to molest children. Molesting children has pretty serious consequnces on their mental health throughout their life(partially because of the views of society towards molestation). This is something it's pretty tough to condone, I think Freenet is a good idea if we need to trade a small increase in pedophilia for a permanent venue for free speech I think that is a trade off we will need to accept.
If pedophilia grows out of hand we may need to curtail these dark nets but that too becomes a tricky proposition.
I think the alternative to spending on research seems to be spending on marketting.
:(
A LOT of companies are spending between 20-50% of their budget on marketing.
This is what we should be trying to cut back on.
If the barriers to research do increase the fear is that marketting will go through the roof
But I imagine many really early adopters were disapointed with with the early mp3 players.
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Namely the creative players, the Jukebox 1 was 6 gigs a nice peice of kit at the time but it had A LOT OF PROBLEMS it ate batteries like mad (6 batteries for 4 hours)...
It used the Creative Playcenter software (not replaced until they got past Jukebox 3[or one of the first small ones]).
If he tried one of those I can see why he wouldn't be motivated to give mp3 players another shot.
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It's tied to the concept that men are somehow the wage earners for a family.
Which is tied historically to the few months of near uselessness brought on by pregnancy.
We have more and more single mothers and women who realize that maternity leave is a disadvantage they need to work to overcome... so basically look for things to even out in the near future.
Countries with high female education, good maternity leave policy, etc. (socialist countries) typically have much closer pay scales for the two genders.
Examples: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Canada.
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Wikipedia... "a sensor placed near the television allows the computer to sense the controller's position in three-dimensional space."... I'm looking for an image of the sensor.
I think Nintendo is trying to cover this one up...
It's like the Balmers clip...
Developers devlopers developers devlopers developers devlopers developers devlopers developers devlopers...
That was his Plan!
I was sooo enthusiastic about the revolution you wouldn't believe it until I learned a few key facts.
1. For the wireless to work it needs to have a stand set up in front of your TV (Yuck!). You'll note this stand isn't shown in any press pictures because it's so ugly, and who wants a tiny little sexy console with a huge frikkin antenna (or powerBrick).
Second the size of the antenna itself implies that the two points need to be very seperate to acheive what limited precision the machine does get, however I would be very reasured if the unit itself had the two transmitter/receivers because if you don't need say 2 ft of physical space you can keep your precision WAY higher.
I love my DS and I thought it would be what the Revolution is supposed to be, well designed, easy, fun, moddable, not too powerful but with added perks (no 2 minute load times ala PSP) and the stylus control is GREAT.
I'm concerned Revolution won't be a step beyond duckhunt but in some ways a step back.
It's a sad possibility but one you'll consider too when you see that antena.
Richard is definitely part of the problem, the open source community fears closed source patenting and liscencing because they know that corperations are maintaining their ability to sweep the rug out from under you.
But open source is doing much the same thing, businesses need the promise of upgradability and futureproofing and Linux until recently hasn't been able to offer that.
When Stallman comes out with GPLv3 it's just as scary to the business set as Gates coming out with DRM is to the Linux set.
5 Years ago it was a technical battle now it's an ideological one. And when you fight based on ideology you go to extremes, DRM isn't something the industry wants it costs them money but they're doing it to fight open source.
Likewise GPL suing to keep source open isn't the goal but it might help prevent open source from remaining marginalized and trampled on.
I think the real battle will be fought in education and the home where locking everything down isn't going to be popular but there is an arguement that open source won't have the initiative to produce good code for industry (read secure, slow, stable as all get out, ugly, integrated, administered).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.263
Video, but yea I was fuzzy about that.
Look for wireless monkies looking up where to buy bananas in the next few years!
The only question will mapquest or google maps be better from a neuro-heuristic perspective which will the monkies use ADVERTISERS NEED TO KNOW!
Ah but they've been experimenting with electrodes in the brain for a while now and they've learned something.
The brain's structure is not defined at birth, it develops based on usage and adapts to problems early in life, so if you insert something early enough it can become a functional part of the brain and perhaps even have the brain adapt to use it.
It's still a pretty dicey concept (they've mainly been using it to restore some motor function or add new senses to lab animals) but it has some pretty solid proof, and it seems clear that once the technology we want to implant is there that the time table will be speeded up.
For me all I want is an optical cable to control my trigger finger, nerve transmission is slow.....
You forget VCD which still has a large install base in many countries.
/.ers do either.
The VCD to DVD upgrade seems silly as it forced consumers to use diffrent formats to burn their Video and Audio discs.
How many of you have both blank CDs and DVDs for this reason.
If the video disc market had upgraded their players to support Xvid or Divx or indeed any quality above mpg 1/2 (They did upgrade from mpg 1 eventually) no one would have upgraded to DVD.
Most movie encodes on the internet still adhere to the 700 meg (Cd size) format using encoding such as Xvid or Divx, these can be played on pirate/advanced DVD players, modified consoles etc.
People complaining about the new upgrade cycle have already missed the boat even the technical users have given in to the power of mass market by embracing DVD.
If a cd with an Xvid has more quality and equal features to a DVD (even menu's thanks to new Divx releases) then why did we upgrade in the first place? I have no idea and I doubt most
Truthfully we're caught up in the upgrade cycle, for me it doesn't matter I like the 700 meg Xvid format and until I feel the need to upgrade to the next pirate/home movie standard (likely 4.7 gig Xvid or H.263/4) I won't... My players will support those discs as well.
Acting like we won't have to upgrade is silly, it will happen just as it did with DVD our only real hope is that Xvid or another open standard will make itself available to DVD player manufacturers in time to replace the current system.
We have VooDoo Pc.
None of those sexy Alienware Laptops though.
Laptop and Notebook are technical terms there is some kind of weight restriction on laptops (less than 3 kg I think).
Hope that cleared that up!
This will...
A.) Make internet (connection fees) 50x cheaper.
2.) Finally still western telecoms complaining about the difficulties of offering fast service.
3.) Be considered too expensive to implement until someone who can't be bribed or bough enters the telecom game.
4.) Never see the light of day.
5.) Be implemented perfectly showing the telecommunications industy has a commitment to quality!
20 Years these computers will be where the pentium 1 is now... It's basically the slowest computer that can run a reasonable version of a modern OS (Linux or Windows)...
These computers are the limit of what gets shipped overseas to third world countries.
486s were rendered obsolete almost immedietly by the release of the first pentiums.
The same situation will probably occur fairly rapidly in the computer space. With the addition of more procesors, real time processing in the operating system will become increasingly likely.
It'll only take one Micrsoft engineer speaking up that "Hey we've got 20 cores! Let's make one a dedicated real time networking processor!" and bam everything 2-3 years old won't run the newer OSs at all.
Well that used to be the case... but Microsoft just said that they'd be open sourcing DirectX.
Hahahahahhaah Got you.
Ok that's not funny but seriously anything that motivates game programmers to look at openGl is a good thing right now most grahics proffesionals see it as significantly inferior and not being maintained well.
Which is really too bad because it does give Microsoft a monopoly in the Computer Gaming market which makes it almost impossible for Mac or Linux to overcome.
I like herring.... even Doj Red Herring.
By almost an order of magnitude the largest companies in the U.S. are the credit card companies, they are getting rich off of people's debt.
When you can reconcile those two facts perhaps you might be able to make America not seem like the land of conservative milk and sugar that the rest of the world suspects but until then...
Part of the problem is American's watch a lot of TV and think that somewhere there are a bunch of American's living like that... sad.
Hmmm Well America seems to be able to provide free broadband for a whole bunch or people overseas.
You'd think those resources would be even more useful used domestically.
Google can, do you understand what it means to be an advertiser?
A web portal? A search engine?
I can't believe you got modded up, there must be some other reason.
Not for the Google buying thing but for your mod... are you offering free sex?
I have some Danish background all my fellow danish relatives think they're always right.
I think it might be genetic.
It's pretty funny actually.
" But that's okay ... the market with figure it out for them."
Conservitive crap like this, everyone just work away and things will turn out allright.
Heard of Payola? Heard of why they do it? Because familiar stuff is popular, who makes it familiar and brands it? Big companies, the same is true for everything if there aren't proper reviewing systems, personal commitments to quality (government enforced... (I.E. selling a product that doesn't work with misleading reviews)... the market breaks down.
Approx 90% of the products you have are inferior to what you would have chosen if you knew EVERYTHING about the market.
Retail chains have supplanted the one group of people who actually WERE supposed to know which product to purchase, the store owner.
It's ludicrous to think that each consumer will do testing to find the best dishwasher... or cd or movie.
This free market stuff is a bunch of crap and those who relie on it are doing so to justify crap they've done in the past.. usually things they think are unethical but not illegal.