Why do you disagree otherwise though? In both cases, recording someone without their knowledge is trivially easy.
Why do you think the designer of Star Trek's "The Borg" designed them that way?
The eye, and the gaze (the direction a person is looking) is extremely powerful at an instinctive level. Other common reason for bar fights is simply "Were you looking at me?", and "Were you looking at my girl?" and "He was looking at me in a funny way." sometimes phrased as "Are you disrespecting me?
Much the same reasons of inadvised looks also seems to start fights amongst chimps, so it;s not merely cultural.
Introduce a mechanical element to that. One that may be recording at any time. And you are magnifying that reaction, in a way that having a separate camera/cameraphone doesn't.
My son was bemused when the Russian Olympics featured French announcements. Why not Spanish or Chinese which have each have more speakers than French?
Why should they use English? The modern Olympics were restarted in Greece, and then made into an international event by a Frenchman. and this year held in Russia. Why not cut the English language when not held in countries that have English as their language.
Your answer is probably - "well more of the world speak English." Well if that's your measure, they should use Chinese rather than English.
In truth your reason is because you are part of the English language cultural imperialist forces. You were brought up that way, just as you're bringing up your own son to be that way.
The owner and other customers have NO RIGHT AT ALL to threaten or steal. No justification for the actions of patrons is legal, ethical, or moral.
I never said they did. I simply pointed out when you provoke people to violence with rudeness and thoughtlessness, you bear some of the moral responsibility for what happens to you.
Even if those laws are morally wrong or economically stupid? Just because it is a law doesn't make it a good idea nor does it mean that you should automatically comply with a stupid and pointless law. Fight the good fight if it is worth fighting. I know plenty of businessmen (including some of my family) who refuse to do business in France because of the burden of this language law.
Easy and small minded to say when your language is the majority one that's killing others.
Passing laws like this will not "defend their culture".
It's not unique to Canada and France. For example Wales uses it for the Welsh language. And it works. Welsh was on the verge of dying out. But legislation to make all official materials and signage to be in Welsh first has reversed the trend. Your opinion is wrong.
Furthermore, the VAST majority of Canada (you know, the country they are part of) speaks English as their primary language so your argument that this has anything to do with the US is bogus on the face of it.
You must be American. Everyone in the world understands the reality and pressure of US cultural imperialism, except for the Americans themselves. It's hard to see imperialism when you come from the country that's doing it. Even if you travel, you simply won't see how much your country's culture has invaded, because familiar things are mostly invisible to you. You tend to notice only the differences.
It was the same in previous centuries with the British empire's imperialism. Those back home didn't understand it's effects, and certainly couldn't see anything wrong with it. Americans and the other colonies could though.
Really? The slow iOS-ification of the OS doesn't count?
No. One or two interfaces had their skeuomorphic interface elements removed. But there's no widespread iOS-ification in Mavericks, let alone the equivalent of Metro.
Mavericks drops another set of iOS apps onto OS X that don't need to be there
You're complaining about new apps? Don't be silly. If you don't want them don't use them. Other people will find them useful.
I don't remember when they added their version of the Start Screen (Launchpad)
Lion. So wouldn't count as a negative towards Mavericks, even if it was a problem. Again, if you don't want it, don't use it.
and you can't get rid of it.
Deleting any part of an OS would be a silly thing to do. But it doesn't have to appear on the dock. Right click and "Remove from Dock".
There's been no battery life improvement.
There certainly has. Of more than an hour. You obviously can't remember what the battery was like on previous versions.
I do notice that trying to open the battery menu causes some system process to crash with 100% CPU usage, so that's a new - uh, thing. Not sure it was worth the upgrade, though...
What? Some system process? Name names, otherwise this is as worthless as your opinion that battery life didn't improve. If you mean the new feature to list any apps that might be draining your battery, that is a great new feature..
It only seems like a stupid law to you because you don't share a belief in it's objective. But yours is not the only opinion, and it's not even an important one if you don't live in Quebec. Do you even speak French?
Don't unquestionably believe everything you read in an article. It's bad reporting. It's an absolute and indisputable fact that Google Glass does not have a recording light. It's not a matter of opinion.
What's likely to have been meant is that the LCD screen that the viewer uses is on when filming. From some angles and in dark lighting conditions other people might be able to see that. But it's not an actual indicator intended to be seen by others.
Yet Mavericks hasn't had any Metro like interface reboot...
And the Mavericks improvements I describe are most certainly noticeable. Most people use laptops these days and more than an hour extra battery life really makes a difference.
Near a border is a an irrelevant legal distinction. You're in one region or the other. And you have to comply with the laws of that region. And yes, you should have to.
Nor does it matter if you don't share the politics of those that won democratic elections and made the law.
They want to defend their culture against the cultural imperialism of the US and their use of the English language. They are quite entitled to do so.
Bullshit. App Nap, Timer coalescing and compressed app memory would have been worth a paid upgrade on their own. Between them there is both more responsiveness, and a significantly improved battery life.
Funnily enough people do want to be able to make and receive calls in bars, for example to coordinate a meet up with friends. So no, that doesn't work.
There really is no rational reason for people to treat those with Glass any differently than anyone who doesn't have their phone in their pocket.
Even if there was no difference (and I disagree with you on that), expecting people's reactions to be rational in the best of circumstances is misguided. To expect it in a bar, where people are in various degrees of drunk, is a fool's errand.
There's almost always better solutions than violence.
Sure, but this was in a bar. Where people tend to be drunk. You can easily get beaten up in a bar for simply looking at someone for what they believe is too long, or in a funny way. If you look with Google Glass on your face the likelihood of exception being taken and fists flying is of course magnified.
No it doesn't. Read the spec. Watch YouTube, whatever. There is no recording indicator LED on Google Glass. Nor has there been on camcorders for the last decade or so.
Wearing a short skirt isn't an invasion of other people's privacy. Pointing a camera at them is. If people make it clear they don't want a recording device pointing at them, and you persist, then you do indeed bear some responsibility if it results in a bad outcome for you.
This update had one security fix. The fix for the recent SSL bug. This bug did not affect OSX Snow Leopard or earlier, therefore this update is not needed.
It's not at all a sign that Apple no longer supports Snow Leopard.
If there's only a couple of examples of people getting hassle for wearing something new and novel then I'd say that's pretty much the definition of generally accepted.
For a device that's still not generally available; only available in developer quantities at a high price? I don't think so.
A number of us here have pointed out that people wearing Google Glass are so annoying to people around them that they risk being punched. A warning that's been repeated by Google fans as if it's a threat. But it was no threat, just a prediction. And here we see one early example of that prediction more or less coming true.
She wasn't punched, but it was bad enough considering she's female. A male probably would have been punched.
The other side of the coin is that the people (typically geek cyrptocurrency early adopters, NOT rich people) that sold those bitcoins that people bought between $1000 and $800 made a profit.
And some people that buy lottery tickets win.
There is risk around bitcoins yes, but if you buy smart and sell smart you can make a high rate of return that can justify the risk.
The same lie by which most individuals trading on the stock market in the last couple of decades have lost money. Certainly now, when the banks have machines that are making profitable trades so quick, the speed of fibre-optic network links are the limiting factor, and insider trading is so widespread, the individual is so disadvantaged, they can't hope to win, except by holding on to stocks an being lucky with them.
Bitcoins, with their disappearing and hacked wallets and exchanges are an even worse idea. They are destined to be yet another way by which the gullible are fleeced. And that's started already.
No how much CO2 and other contaminants are emitted from a power plant? Does the Tesla recharge itself? Of course it also depends on what fuel the plant uses.
Depends where you live. A number of countries such as Norway and Iceland are 100% renewable for electricity. A few more are in the 90%+ range. Others have committed themselves to 100% by various target dates.
My country, the UK, is doing badly with about 4% renewables. The USA better than the UK, but still fairly poor with about 13%.
Still all of those are better than the Prius, that uses 0% renewables.
Also bear in mind that there are people who charge their EVs at home using their own power from solar or wind. And that some public charging points are similarly 100% renewable.
Note also that the percentage of electricity coming from renewables increases year on year. So will get better over the life of the car.
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And so the libertarian unregulated money dream dies.
Why do you disagree otherwise though? In both cases, recording someone without their knowledge is trivially easy.
Why do you think the designer of Star Trek's "The Borg" designed them that way?
The eye, and the gaze (the direction a person is looking) is extremely powerful at an instinctive level. Other common reason for bar fights is simply "Were you looking at me?", and "Were you looking at my girl?" and "He was looking at me in a funny way." sometimes phrased as "Are you disrespecting me?
Much the same reasons of inadvised looks also seems to start fights amongst chimps, so it;s not merely cultural.
Introduce a mechanical element to that. One that may be recording at any time. And you are magnifying that reaction, in a way that having a separate camera/cameraphone doesn't.
My son was bemused when the Russian Olympics featured French announcements. Why not Spanish or Chinese which have each have more speakers than French?
Why should they use English? The modern Olympics were restarted in Greece, and then made into an international event by a Frenchman. and this year held in Russia. Why not cut the English language when not held in countries that have English as their language.
Your answer is probably - "well more of the world speak English." Well if that's your measure, they should use Chinese rather than English.
In truth your reason is because you are part of the English language cultural imperialist forces. You were brought up that way, just as you're bringing up your own son to be that way.
So if you are wearing a short skirt and someone points a camera up it (upskirts, very popular on the web), who's fault is it?
You have to ask? What's the matter with you?
And if you don't wear underwear, then weren't you asking for it?
Are you really so stupid?
The owner and other customers have NO RIGHT AT ALL to threaten or steal.
No justification for the actions of patrons is legal, ethical, or moral.
I never said they did. I simply pointed out when you provoke people to violence with rudeness and thoughtlessness, you bear some of the moral responsibility for what happens to you.
Even if those laws are morally wrong or economically stupid? Just because it is a law doesn't make it a good idea nor does it mean that you should automatically comply with a stupid and pointless law. Fight the good fight if it is worth fighting. I know plenty of businessmen (including some of my family) who refuse to do business in France because of the burden of this language law.
Easy and small minded to say when your language is the majority one that's killing others.
Passing laws like this will not "defend their culture".
It's not unique to Canada and France. For example Wales uses it for the Welsh language. And it works. Welsh was on the verge of dying out. But legislation to make all official materials and signage to be in Welsh first has reversed the trend. Your opinion is wrong.
Furthermore, the VAST majority of Canada (you know, the country they are part of) speaks English as their primary language so your argument that this has anything to do with the US is bogus on the face of it.
You must be American. Everyone in the world understands the reality and pressure of US cultural imperialism, except for the Americans themselves. It's hard to see imperialism when you come from the country that's doing it. Even if you travel, you simply won't see how much your country's culture has invaded, because familiar things are mostly invisible to you. You tend to notice only the differences.
It was the same in previous centuries with the British empire's imperialism. Those back home didn't understand it's effects, and certainly couldn't see anything wrong with it. Americans and the other colonies could though.
Really? The slow iOS-ification of the OS doesn't count?
No. One or two interfaces had their skeuomorphic interface elements removed. But there's no widespread iOS-ification in Mavericks, let alone the equivalent of Metro.
Mavericks drops another set of iOS apps onto OS X that don't need to be there
You're complaining about new apps? Don't be silly. If you don't want them don't use them. Other people will find them useful.
I don't remember when they added their version of the Start Screen (Launchpad)
Lion. So wouldn't count as a negative towards Mavericks, even if it was a problem. Again, if you don't want it, don't use it.
and you can't get rid of it.
Deleting any part of an OS would be a silly thing to do. But it doesn't have to appear on the dock. Right click and "Remove from Dock".
There's been no battery life improvement.
There certainly has. Of more than an hour. You obviously can't remember what the battery was like on previous versions.
I do notice that trying to open the battery menu causes some system process to crash with 100% CPU usage, so that's a new - uh, thing. Not sure it was worth the upgrade, though...
What? Some system process? Name names, otherwise this is as worthless as your opinion that battery life didn't improve. If you mean the new feature to list any apps that might be draining your battery, that is a great new feature..
It only seems like a stupid law to you because you don't share a belief in it's objective. But yours is not the only opinion, and it's not even an important one if you don't live in Quebec. Do you even speak French?
Don't unquestionably believe everything you read in an article. It's bad reporting. It's an absolute and indisputable fact that Google Glass does not have a recording light. It's not a matter of opinion.
What's likely to have been meant is that the LCD screen that the viewer uses is on when filming. From some angles and in dark lighting conditions other people might be able to see that. But it's not an actual indicator intended to be seen by others.
Yet Mavericks hasn't had any Metro like interface reboot...
And the Mavericks improvements I describe are most certainly noticeable. Most people use laptops these days and more than an hour extra battery life really makes a difference.
Near a border is a an irrelevant legal distinction. You're in one region or the other. And you have to comply with the laws of that region. And yes, you should have to.
Nor does it matter if you don't share the politics of those that won democratic elections and made the law.
They want to defend their culture against the cultural imperialism of the US and their use of the English language. They are quite entitled to do so.
You're right. But I was referring to morality rather than the law.
Still doing the fool dance I see.
Bullshit. App Nap, Timer coalescing and compressed app memory would have been worth a paid upgrade on their own. Between them there is both more responsiveness, and a significantly improved battery life.
As it was a free upgrade, it was a no brainer.
Thats's quite amusing big talk for a middle aged nerd. Armchair warrior much?
I can't make sense of that sentence. Could you rephrase?
Funnily enough people do want to be able to make and receive calls in bars, for example to coordinate a meet up with friends. So no, that doesn't work.
There really is no rational reason for people to treat those with Glass any differently than anyone who doesn't have their phone in their pocket.
Even if there was no difference (and I disagree with you on that), expecting people's reactions to be rational in the best of circumstances is misguided. To expect it in a bar, where people are in various degrees of drunk, is a fool's errand.
There's almost always better solutions than violence.
Sure, but this was in a bar. Where people tend to be drunk. You can easily get beaten up in a bar for simply looking at someone for what they believe is too long, or in a funny way. If you look with Google Glass on your face the likelihood of exception being taken and fists flying is of course magnified.
No it doesn't. Read the spec. Watch YouTube, whatever. There is no recording indicator LED on Google Glass. Nor has there been on camcorders for the last decade or so.
Wearing a short skirt isn't an invasion of other people's privacy. Pointing a camera at them is. If people make it clear they don't want a recording device pointing at them, and you persist, then you do indeed bear some responsibility if it results in a bad outcome for you.
This update had one security fix. The fix for the recent SSL bug. This bug did not affect OSX Snow Leopard or earlier, therefore this update is not needed.
It's not at all a sign that Apple no longer supports Snow Leopard.
If there's only a couple of examples of people getting hassle for wearing something new and novel then I'd say that's pretty much the definition of generally accepted.
For a device that's still not generally available; only available in developer quantities at a high price? I don't think so.
A number of us here have pointed out that people wearing Google Glass are so annoying to people around them that they risk being punched. A warning that's been repeated by Google fans as if it's a threat. But it was no threat, just a prediction. And here we see one early example of that prediction more or less coming true.
She wasn't punched, but it was bad enough considering she's female. A male probably would have been punched.
The other side of the coin is that the people (typically geek cyrptocurrency early adopters, NOT rich people) that sold those bitcoins that people bought between $1000 and $800 made a profit.
And some people that buy lottery tickets win.
There is risk around bitcoins yes, but if you buy smart and sell smart you can make a high rate of return that can justify the risk.
The same lie by which most individuals trading on the stock market in the last couple of decades have lost money. Certainly now, when the banks have machines that are making profitable trades so quick, the speed of fibre-optic network links are the limiting factor, and insider trading is so widespread,
the individual is so disadvantaged, they can't hope to win, except by holding on to stocks an being lucky with them.
Bitcoins, with their disappearing and hacked wallets and exchanges are an even worse idea. They are destined to be yet another way by which the gullible are fleeced. And that's started already.
No how much CO2 and other contaminants are emitted from a power plant? Does the Tesla recharge itself? Of course it also depends on what fuel the plant uses.
Depends where you live. A number of countries such as Norway and Iceland are 100% renewable for electricity. A few more are in the 90%+ range. Others have committed themselves to 100% by various target dates.
My country, the UK, is doing badly with about 4% renewables. The USA better than the UK, but still fairly poor with about 13%.
Still all of those are better than the Prius, that uses 0% renewables.
Also bear in mind that there are people who charge their EVs at home using their own power from solar or wind. And that some public charging points are similarly 100% renewable.
Note also that the percentage of electricity coming from renewables increases year on year. So will get better over the life of the car.