In a way I agree. However, myspace, and by extension other sites like it, DO have some utility. After my wife signed up for a myspace account she ended up getting in touch with quite a few friends from school. I decided to get an account just to see how many of my friends I could get in touch with again, and I was surprised that within one day I had gotten back in touch with numerous good friends and family members that I had lost the contact information for. Now all I do is check it every once in a while (every other week or so) and browse new additions to my high school/college classes and see if it's anyone I would want to get back in touch with. Not to mention any new messages I receive in myspace (including friend requests) I have sent to my email.
You're missing a big point. People who are still using IE don't want to decide what new browser to use. IE "works fine" for most of them, so if you say "Hey your browser isn't what it could be, why don't you try another?" They, typically, don't want to have to pick it out. You're the one that tld them it could be better, so they will WANT to know what you recommend.
Only if you have the attitude that "If perfection can not be achieved we shouldn't bother striving for it." Another wrong only leads us further away from a peaceful society towards the vigilante style societies of our past. By your model if I consider what your posting as "wrong," I have the right to seek vengence to "right" it. Only by treating others how we WISH to be treated, and not by how they treat us first, is our society going to advance. Will we ever achieve 100% of people doing it? No, but that doesn't mean that it's a dumb thing to do.
They've always been tremendously helpful, non-judgemental and ready to listen.
I agree 100%. As someone who upgrades frequently I have on quite a few occasions since I legally acuired Windows XP made it think I had installed it on too many machines. A quick call to MS NEVER failed to resolve the issue and I was never treated with anything but dignity and respect.
It's hardly insightful to point out the winning strategy of any successfull company (maybe GM was a bad example here?) - that is selling new products to existing customers.
Your analogy is flawed though. This is the equivalent of your GM car suddenly not working in some of the advertised ways because it thinks the car is stolen, forcing you to buy a new GM. Which doesn't happen, and would be a cause of many lawsuits.
For the sake of honesty: I use Windows XP and prefer it over anything else I've tried.
Why is it ok to write books, plays, film movies and TV shows about horrible events - but you depict it in a video game and suddenly your an amoral asshat?
I think the difference is level of interactivity. In a book, play, film, or show you are not participating in the events, in a game you are.
Or war films like Pearl Harbour, Saving Private Ryan etc?
The difference, to me at least, is the romticisization of it. In SPR and PH, war is depicted fairly accurately, at least from a sense of "This is bad stuff, that you wouldn't want to take part in yourself." Not having played the game, I can't say how romantisized the violence is therein, but from what I've been reading it's way too casual to bear a resemblance to the aforementioned films.
Is it really so hard to pull over, or wait 5 minutes to finish your coffee, apply your makeup, or whatever it is you have to do?
I think this more of a problem of societal norms than anything. Most people are raised to try to multitask, and be as efficient as possible in our society. This is not to say that it isn't irresponsible, or that these people are blameless, but it does give us insight into the question fo "Why?"
I know Mythbusters' results aren't highly regarded in the Slashdot community, but a recent episode they did showed that (at least for them) talking on a cell phone degraded their ability to drive in a similar manner that driving under the influence of alcohol did.
They (Adam and Kari) basically drove a road course sober, with no distractions to establish a baseline driving skill level with such things as obstacle avoidance, reaction time, and parking being tested. They were graded on both time and accuracy. Then they attempted to talk to Jamie while driving, and were evaluated. Then they drank enough beer to be just under the legal blood alcohol limit in California (greater than.07 but less than.08), and were graded again. While both of them passed the baseline, they failed the cell phone test and the alcohol test, and the failures were similar (as far as degradations in reaction time and such). This correlated with research done by the nsurance Institute for Highway Safety who found that cell phone users were four times as likely to be involved in a serious crash.
I have a really hard time believing that the Mythbusters team woke up one day and decided to investigate a myth about the quality of Vex robotics kits.
Contrary to popular belief they do other stuff besides busting myths. Robotics being one of them. They are the ones behind the diet pepsi machine football commercials, and Grant Imahara only works for the Mythbusters team BECAUSE of his experience in robotics. So if given an oppurtunity to utilize a preexisting and (relatively) cheap system to make their robots the question would be why WOULDN'T they want to try them out?
LONE STARR: But, Yogurt, what is this place? What is that you do here?
YOGURT: Merchandising.
BARF: Merchandising? What's that?
YOGURT: Merchandising. Come. I'll show. Open up this door.
DINKS open a slab in the wall. In it, is a whole bunch of "Spaceballs - The Movie" merchandise.
YOGURT: Ha, ha, ha, come. Walk this way. Take a look. We put the pictures name on everything. Merchandising. Merchandising. Where the real money from the movie is made. Spaceballs-the T-shirt, Spaceballs-the Coloring Book, Spaceballs-the Lunch box, Spaceballs-the Breakfast Cereal, Spaceballs-the Flame Thrower. (turns it on)
DINKS: Ooooooo.
YOGURT: The kids love this one. Last, but not least, Spaceballs - the Doll. (hold up a doll of himself) Me. (pulls on the string)
Slashdot version:
In Norway, they drink their vodka with water.
In Sweden, they drink their vodka without water.
In Finland, they drink their vodka like water.
And in soviet Russia, vodka drinks you.
Pretty sure there's also a standalone REXX for Windows.
There is. My company builds a piece of software for OS/2 and Windows XPE. We use the same REXX script (written many moons ago) to compile it on both platforms.
No it isn't. Texas is larger than Japan, but not Japan and S. Korea together.
Let's look at the facts shall we? At 696,241 km^2 Texas is not only bigger than Japan (377,835 km^2) and South Korea (98,480 km^2), it also bigger than every other country listed on the grandparent's list combined (with the exception of Canada, but the inclusion of the unmentioned Japan). Doing some simple math we can see that 377,835 + 98,480 + 1,103 + 20,770 + 35,801 + 693 + 41,526 + 2 + 41,285 + 43,094 = 660,589, less than 696,241.
Just because your software uses something that's GPL, doens't mean that you have to release all your source code.
Absolutely true. Unfortunately with MySQL it gets a little tricky. If you write your own library to connect to MySQL via a standard socket you are fine. If you use a standard MySQL library (which is also GPL) you MUST release the source. Most people are doing the latter without realizing it's a GPL violation.
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In a way I agree. However, myspace, and by extension other sites like it, DO have some utility. After my wife signed up for a myspace account she ended up getting in touch with quite a few friends from school. I decided to get an account just to see how many of my friends I could get in touch with again, and I was surprised that within one day I had gotten back in touch with numerous good friends and family members that I had lost the contact information for. Now all I do is check it every once in a while (every other week or so) and browse new additions to my high school/college classes and see if it's anyone I would want to get back in touch with. Not to mention any new messages I receive in myspace (including friend requests) I have sent to my email.
Yes that's a GREAT idea. Take the malware approach! People have NO right to keep using IE if they want!
You're missing a big point. People who are still using IE don't want to decide what new browser to use. IE "works fine" for most of them, so if you say "Hey your browser isn't what it could be, why don't you try another?" They, typically, don't want to have to pick it out. You're the one that tld them it could be better, so they will WANT to know what you recommend.
Only if you have the attitude that "If perfection can not be achieved we shouldn't bother striving for it." Another wrong only leads us further away from a peaceful society towards the vigilante style societies of our past. By your model if I consider what your posting as "wrong," I have the right to seek vengence to "right" it. Only by treating others how we WISH to be treated, and not by how they treat us first, is our society going to advance. Will we ever achieve 100% of people doing it? No, but that doesn't mean that it's a dumb thing to do.
That's the spirit! It's only illegal if you get caught!
Remember: two wrongs don't make a right.
Why is it ok to write books, plays, film movies and TV shows about horrible events - but you depict it in a video game and suddenly your an amoral asshat?
I think the difference is level of interactivity. In a book, play, film, or show you are not participating in the events, in a game you are.
Or war films like Pearl Harbour, Saving Private Ryan etc?
The difference, to me at least, is the romticisization of it. In SPR and PH, war is depicted fairly accurately, at least from a sense of "This is bad stuff, that you wouldn't want to take part in yourself." Not having played the game, I can't say how romantisized the violence is therein, but from what I've been reading it's way too casual to bear a resemblance to the aforementioned films.
Hell I have yet to play a WW2 game that lets me fight as a Nazi! Where are the Italian/Japanese/Nazi campaigns in these games?
Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (and it's free).
Has anyone used both?
For the sake of honesty, I must say no.
Is SketchUp useful at all for something like a detailed floorplan, or just for big primitive, blocky structures?
I've used it for floorplans before and found it quite easy.
Is it really so unbelievably easy to use that it's worth booting into XP?
I think so, but, again for the sake of honesty, I admit I have little problem with XP and use it as my daily operating system.
Could you not afford to take unpaid leave? You should be allowed to by law.
Is it really so hard to pull over, or wait 5 minutes to finish your coffee, apply your makeup, or whatever it is you have to do?
I think this more of a problem of societal norms than anything. Most people are raised to try to multitask, and be as efficient as possible in our society. This is not to say that it isn't irresponsible, or that these people are blameless, but it does give us insight into the question fo "Why?"
I know Mythbusters' results aren't highly regarded in the Slashdot community, but a recent episode they did showed that (at least for them) talking on a cell phone degraded their ability to drive in a similar manner that driving under the influence of alcohol did.
They (Adam and Kari) basically drove a road course sober, with no distractions to establish a baseline driving skill level with such things as obstacle avoidance, reaction time, and parking being tested. They were graded on both time and accuracy. Then they attempted to talk to Jamie while driving, and were evaluated. Then they drank enough beer to be just under the legal blood alcohol limit in California (greater thanI can't wash my hair more than once every other day. If I do, I get cradle cap. Seriously.
she probably does work twice as efficiently because she doesn't visit slashdot enough to consider making an account.
And the fact that, unlike most slashdotters, she actually has two hands free to type.
I have a really hard time believing that the Mythbusters team woke up one day and decided to investigate a myth about the quality of Vex robotics kits.
Contrary to popular belief they do other stuff besides busting myths. Robotics being one of them. They are the ones behind the diet pepsi machine football commercials, and Grant Imahara only works for the Mythbusters team BECAUSE of his experience in robotics. So if given an oppurtunity to utilize a preexisting and (relatively) cheap system to make their robots the question would be why WOULDN'T they want to try them out?
If iPod + iTunes is a solution, I don't want to know what the problem was.
LONE STARR: But, Yogurt, what is this place? What is that you do here?
YOGURT: Merchandising.
BARF: Merchandising? What's that?
YOGURT: Merchandising. Come. I'll show. Open up this door.
DINKS open a slab in the wall. In it, is a whole bunch of "Spaceballs - The Movie" merchandise.
YOGURT: Ha, ha, ha, come. Walk this way. Take a look. We put the pictures name on everything. Merchandising. Merchandising. Where the real money from the movie is made. Spaceballs-the T-shirt, Spaceballs-the Coloring Book, Spaceballs-the Lunch box, Spaceballs-the Breakfast Cereal, Spaceballs-the Flame Thrower. (turns it on)
DINKS: Ooooooo.
YOGURT: The kids love this one. Last, but not least, Spaceballs - the Doll. (hold up a doll of himself) Me. (pulls on the string)
YOGURT DOLL: May the Schwartz be with you.
Slashdot version: In Norway, they drink their vodka with water. In Sweden, they drink their vodka without water. In Finland, they drink their vodka like water. And in soviet Russia, vodka drinks you.
Pretty sure there's also a standalone REXX for Windows.
There is. My company builds a piece of software for OS/2 and Windows XPE. We use the same REXX script (written many moons ago) to compile it on both platforms.
No it isn't. Texas is larger than Japan, but not Japan and S. Korea together.
Let's look at the facts shall we? At 696,241 km^2 Texas is not only bigger than Japan (377,835 km^2) and South Korea (98,480 km^2), it also bigger than every other country listed on the grandparent's list combined (with the exception of Canada, but the inclusion of the unmentioned Japan). Doing some simple math we can see that 377,835 + 98,480 + 1,103 + 20,770 + 35,801 + 693 + 41,526 + 2 + 41,285 + 43,094 = 660,589, less than 696,241.
Just because your software uses something that's GPL, doens't mean that you have to release all your source code.
Absolutely true. Unfortunately with MySQL it gets a little tricky. If you write your own library to connect to MySQL via a standard socket you are fine. If you use a standard MySQL library (which is also GPL) you MUST release the source. Most people are doing the latter without realizing it's a GPL violation.