Shouldn't these be called 'Windows viruses'? It's not clear what their count entails, but the viruses listed seem to all be Windows-centric.
And no, this is not a troll--I use Windows, too. But this language reinforces the idea that the problem is with any and all computers, which hinders adoption of alternatives. (C.f. the growth in non-IE browsers once the problems with IE were understood by more people.)
...does anyone actually expect these kids to be impressed by this stuff?
Heck, how many kids were actually 'impressed' at the time these were released? I loved Adventure, but your guy was a friggin' square! It was cool because it was a game you could play on the TV, but I don't think it was impressive even then. (Now, if I had known more about the limitations of the 2600's hardware, and how ingeneous the programmers had to be, I'd have been impressed--but that's different.)
Aside from the standard "My pencil is yellow" fare, you cold load them up with popular Japanese songs (and traditional ones.) Mini-immersion, if you will.
The iPods even have some PDA functionality, so you get that, too.
PLUS, for c. $250 per pupil, you can add some serious 'polish' to people's perception of your school. "You get an iPod? To keep?" You'll be amazed at what that does to their willingness to fork over the big dollars! (There's almost certainly a discount for schools, too.)
Heck, set up a 'podcast' exchange with a Japanese english school. (Podcasts are recordings meant to be downloaded for later listening in the iPod.) Have the Japanese students do three minutes of dialog in Japanese, and in exchange the Yanks do three minutes in American.
OR, distribute lessons in podcast format, and charge people for distance-learning! (OR, distribute them for free and charge for the testing!)
Great line, but I don't think it's there yet. Talk radio, FOX, and the right half of the blogosphere are exploiting the public's hunger for a "differently biased" media. (So is Air America and the left half of Blogistan.) The Mainstream Media still has some clout, however. The New York Times still shapes the news cycle most days. Perhaps a better way of phrasing it would be "The media is only as biased as its audience will let it be." People are realizing that they have alternatives, left and right.
I would like to see the distinction restored between "reporting" and "journalism." Journalism is the fun part, and it's also the easiest. Lots of non-professionals do it well--check out the blogosphere. The need is for solid, steady reporting to serve up the facts. Unfortunately, I suspect we're going to get a more journalist/reporters.
You mean "Hot Potato"? That was supposed to be an appealing tune. This is more like the sun-crashing band from the Hitchiker series. Only not as melodious.
The media isn't liberal or conservative: it's corporate.
Yes and no. There's a corporate element to it, but the bigger problem is that the media has a point of view. I consider it a liberal one, my girlfriend thinks it's conservative. Regardless, it is an identifiable, largely predictable, point of view. That's understandable, since the bulk of the news is written by a relative handful of reporters, and they all read each other. That sets up a situation where the news reflects the culture of the reporters. They think--tell us, even--that they're being objective, but they're obviously not.
The problem is that any group is going to have the same issues, to some degree. My hope for online media rests in the feedback avenues that are (often) provided the readers. This creates a bit of a reality check. (The problem there is that the feedback avenues can become jammed with cranks, and subsequently ignored.)
"Journalism" on the Net seems to mean learning how to google and then
exchanging email with someone to get a quote or two.
At least they're googling! An awful lot of print reporters don't even do that. (Let's not even mention Nexis!)
You may be overstating the "release early, release often" model of online journalism. Many sites take that approach, but others don't. The important thing is the willingness to correct or clarify, and the ability to do it in the article in question.
Meh. I gave up on the review after, "I do not think of
twelve-year-olds as "little children," but rather as pre-teens well on the way to adulthood." Obviously, this review was written by a twelve-year old.
why would a journalist, that is former NSA, and supposedly has all
these tech credentials use an AOL addres?
Because you get five addresses, and can change the names of four of them at any time? If only for spam-dodging, this is useful.
(I had an AOL account ten years ago, when they were the only game in my neck of the woods, and it took me a long time to switch over to another ISP once I realized that not everyone offered that ability.)
No serious executive is going to propose starting a 'wiki'. It's just too, er, well, it's a term a man would want to use. [I think AC meant "wouldn't"]
If a serious executive can hire a "Webmaster", he can be sure enough in his manhood to tell him that he wants a Wiki.
I think the classic examples is from Reservoir Dogs - when he cuts the ear off... you never see anything
That's because Tarantino couldn't get it to look real enough. If you get the DVD, there's a couple of outtakes in which they tried to film it from various angles. The prosthetic ear didn't fit quite right.
Your broader point is a good one, though: less is often more.
...and a modified Tit-for-Tat that can spoof the recognition algorithm of
colluders will trounce them.
Except then it wouldn't be Tit-For-Tat (T4T). The S/M programs work by using a predefined set of moves to "tap out" a kind of code that other S/M programs will recognize. T4T would have to spoof this code to flush out the S/M programs, so it wouldn't fall back into T4T mode until five (or more) moves in, which really screws with the T4T strategy.
The only way that would work is if there were a large population of programs that had a similar five-move recognition code, which would essentially be starting the game on move six.
But look at it another way: guns--something whose purpose is solely
violence--are regulated.
It's probably not a good idea to use a more contentious issue as your metaphor. You tend to lose people who are otherwise sympathetic to your argument. Care to explain it to me in abortion terms?
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Shouldn't these be called 'Windows viruses'? It's not clear what their count entails, but the viruses listed seem to all be Windows-centric.
And no, this is not a troll--I use Windows, too. But this language reinforces the idea that the problem is with any and all computers, which hinders adoption of alternatives. (C.f. the growth in non-IE browsers once the problems with IE were understood by more people.)
Heck, how many kids were actually 'impressed' at the time these were released? I loved Adventure, but your guy was a friggin' square! It was cool because it was a game you could play on the TV, but I don't think it was impressive even then. (Now, if I had known more about the limitations of the 2600's hardware, and how ingeneous the programmers had to be, I'd have been impressed--but that's different.)
No. "Darwinism" is about replicators...
You could just as easily say that "Darwinism" is about selection, which would make "Quantum Darwinism" less of a leap.
Seriously, some schools are using iPods.
Aside from the standard "My pencil is yellow" fare, you cold load them up with popular Japanese songs (and traditional ones.) Mini-immersion, if you will.
The iPods even have some PDA functionality, so you get that, too.
PLUS, for c. $250 per pupil, you can add some serious 'polish' to people's perception of your school. "You get an iPod? To keep?" You'll be amazed at what that does to their willingness to fork over the big dollars! (There's almost certainly a discount for schools, too.)
Heck, set up a 'podcast' exchange with a Japanese english school. (Podcasts are recordings meant to be downloaded for later listening in the iPod.) Have the Japanese students do three minutes of dialog in Japanese, and in exchange the Yanks do three minutes in American.
OR, distribute lessons in podcast format, and charge people for distance-learning! (OR, distribute them for free and charge for the testing!)
Good Luck!
The media is only as biased as its audience.
Great line, but I don't think it's there yet. Talk radio, FOX, and the right half of the blogosphere are exploiting the public's hunger for a "differently biased" media. (So is Air America and the left half of Blogistan.) The Mainstream Media still has some clout, however. The New York Times still shapes the news cycle most days. Perhaps a better way of phrasing it would be "The media is only as biased as its audience will let it be." People are realizing that they have alternatives, left and right.
I would like to see the distinction restored between "reporting" and "journalism." Journalism is the fun part, and it's also the easiest. Lots of non-professionals do it well--check out the blogosphere. The need is for solid, steady reporting to serve up the facts. Unfortunately, I suspect we're going to get a more journalist/reporters.
listen to this an not think of dirk gently?
You mean "Hot Potato"? That was supposed to be an appealing tune. This is more like the sun-crashing band from the Hitchiker series. Only not as melodious.
The media isn't liberal or conservative: it's corporate.
Yes and no. There's a corporate element to it, but the bigger problem is that the media has a point of view. I consider it a liberal one, my girlfriend thinks it's conservative. Regardless, it is an identifiable, largely predictable, point of view. That's understandable, since the bulk of the news is written by a relative handful of reporters, and they all read each other. That sets up a situation where the news reflects the culture of the reporters. They think--tell us, even--that they're being objective, but they're obviously not.
The problem is that any group is going to have the same issues, to some degree. My hope for online media rests in the feedback avenues that are (often) provided the readers. This creates a bit of a reality check. (The problem there is that the feedback avenues can become jammed with cranks, and subsequently ignored.)
"Journalism" on the Net seems to mean learning how to google and then exchanging email with someone to get a quote or two.
At least they're googling! An awful lot of print reporters don't even do that. (Let's not even mention Nexis!)
You may be overstating the "release early, release often" model of online journalism. Many sites take that approach, but others don't. The important thing is the willingness to correct or clarify, and the ability to do it in the article in question.
Because Steve's ego is large enough to need its own TLD.
and low and behold every product will sudenly start supporting every format
No doubt. The real 'war' here is settling which format groups will be able to collect licensing fees from which manufacturers.
Meh. I gave up on the review after, "I do not think of twelve-year-olds as "little children," but rather as pre-teens well on the way to adulthood." Obviously, this review was written by a twelve-year old.
why would a journalist, that is former NSA, and supposedly has all these tech credentials use an AOL addres?
Because you get five addresses, and can change the names of four of them at any time? If only for spam-dodging, this is useful.
(I had an AOL account ten years ago, when they were the only game in my neck of the woods, and it took me a long time to switch over to another ISP once I realized that not everyone offered that ability.)
Open Source Geeks Considered Modern Heroes
...but decided they prefered the Silver Age ones.
When will people wake up and smell the carbon dioxide?
Never. It's odorless. (And a good thing, too, 'cause otherwise you'd be sick of the smell by now.)
WWI!
Isn't it amazing that reporting on WWII is still under copyright?
I think your lynx does not support SSL. Am I wrong?
Apparently it does:
If you could figure out exactly what lynx doesn't like about it, I'd be love to fix it.
Lynx complains, "Alert!: Illegal redirection URL received from server!" and then tells me "Illegal URL: https://voteprotect.org/"
No serious executive is going to propose starting a 'wiki'. It's just too, er, well, it's a term a man would want to use. [I think AC meant "wouldn't"]
If a serious executive can hire a "Webmaster", he can be sure enough in his manhood to tell him that he wants a Wiki.
That's Twiki. (Which you can find by consulting the Wikipedia!)
Nice idea, but doesn't seem to work for Connecticut or Maryland (the two I tried.)
The database worked fine for me, but the EIRS url is "illegal" according to lynx--probably uses a re-direct.
I think the classic examples is from Reservoir Dogs - when he cuts the ear off... you never see anything
That's because Tarantino couldn't get it to look real enough. If you get the DVD, there's a couple of outtakes in which they tried to film it from various angles. The prosthetic ear didn't fit quite right.
Your broader point is a good one, though: less is often more.
Except then it wouldn't be Tit-For-Tat (T4T). The S/M programs work by using a predefined set of moves to "tap out" a kind of code that other S/M programs will recognize. T4T would have to spoof this code to flush out the S/M programs, so it wouldn't fall back into T4T mode until five (or more) moves in, which really screws with the T4T strategy.
The only way that would work is if there were a large population of programs that had a similar five-move recognition code, which would essentially be starting the game on move six.
And an RSS feed.
Everyone restart your browser at the top of the hour ;-)
But look at it another way: guns--something whose purpose is solely violence--are regulated.
It's probably not a good idea to use a more contentious issue as your metaphor. You tend to lose people who are otherwise sympathetic to your argument. Care to explain it to me in abortion terms?
Larger point taken, however.