Video games really don't teach dammit about war. Think about it. That clicking a mouse is not equivalent to aiming a gun and pulling a trigger is patently obvious to anyone who had done both, but, moreover, playing a video game doesn't teach the reflexes and muscle memory necessary to effectively duck, for instance, when the bullets start flying. There are dozens of videos on the net showing one after another American being killed by a sniper because they didn't take cover after the first shot.
But claiming video games teach about real war is advantageous to the government because it will encourage kids to sign up thinking they will be hot shit on the battlefield because "it's just like a video game." Problem is, when your ass gets waxed in real life, you don't respawn at base camp. Instead, after the fighting dies down, they gather up whatever pieces of you they can find and send you home in a flag-drapped tin box and your family gets to attend your closed-casket funeral. But your mom gets a free american flag neatly folded into a triangle and a shiny purple heart.
Is what it feels like having your head explode from a sniper bullet because the other guy is just a damn little bit more sneaky than you are; or
What it feels like to ride around in a wheelchair signing your name with your teeth because your arms and legs have been blown off by a roadside bomb; or
How to support your family when you come back and are unemployed and unemployable because while you were off fighting to steal Iraqi oil, your country gave all the jobs to China.
Yeah, they need to work on realism in these games, but, then again, if they did, no one would sign up.
In particular in this case the EFF should recognize that SOONER OR LATER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO PUT PERSONAL INFORMATION ON SERVERS THEY DON'T OWN. The conveince benefits are just too great for people not to want their stuff accesable everywhere and the cost of running your own servers is just too great.
Oh yeah, enabling port forwarding on my firewall cost me all of about 3 minutes of my time and now all my documents are available to me anywhere.
"I have heard nothing from Google employees about them caring about their stock price, and I posted this yesterday [slashdot.org]:"
LOL, and I bet you haven't heard anything about them not caring about their stock prices either.
Personally, I haven't heard Google employees talking about caring about anything at all. Maybe that's because I: a) don't know any Google employees; b) am not a Google fanboy so don't stalk Google employees; c) wouldn't remember anything a Google employee said even if I did hear it because, well, I just don't care.
You know, Slashdot titles aren't aimed at being perfect - they are aimed at being catchy, and most do a good job of it.
Since this is not particularly a scientific journal, I'd rather have the former and have it catch my eye than being drab and something that I'd skip over.
If all you want is an article that will grab attention and get people to read and respond to it, then all articles on Slashdot should just be titled "Linux sucks" and you will be guaranteed everyone will read them.:-P
Well, I'm not some StorminMormon fanboy, if that's what your asking, so, no, I didn't read all your post to try to decipher the one post I responded to. But I did read the one in which you said:
Having a Google-branded distro would be like a huge signpost reading "this is safe" that would encourage droves of people to try linux out. Of coruse - most people aren't going to reinstall the OS on their desktop, but it opens the opportunity for IT service companies to come in and say "you know that Google OS you've been hearing about? We can install it for you.
Now you certainly appear to be saying that "IT service companies" can sell the GoogleOS to their customers. I don't know about you, but as a home user, I don't rely on IT service companies to sell me my desktop OS, so I made the natural assumption you were talking about their customers being businesses.
To which I pondered what Google could bring to the table for businesses that IBM, HP, and Dell couldn't.
Now your point is that because "googling" has become a slang verb, people will buy their OS. By that rationale, Xerox should be able to launch a Linux distro and spank MS too because people "xerox" copies all the time. It can't, and it won't. Neither will Google.
You and I are techies, we like hardware and software and we post on here about technical aspects of these items. To most people, "Windows" is not just a piece of software that runs on a computer, it is the computer. I ask people what browser they use and they tell me "Windows." I tell them Mac software won't run on Windows and they can't understand it becuase to them the Mac runs "Windows," ie, it isn't DOS so it must be Windows.
Windows is far more entrenched with just about every segment, than is Google.
Or were the other 53% confused? I would love to see the actual questions that are asked. Giving poll results without the source information is complete nonsense.
"Personally I don't think that anything God does contravenes or 'breaks' the laws of physics. I DO think that there are things that we haven't learned yet, and if we ever learn them, then it will be obvious how God does things."
So for you:
1. God exists inside the universe, not outside of it, and
2. He is constrained by the laws of the universe (i.e. physics, mathematics, etc) and cannot contravene them
This is certainly contrary to a long line a Christian thought about the nature of God and seems to vitiate the whole concept of a god at all. For all you know, some really smart space alien might be God.
I'm not saying you are wrong, I'm just saying that if you are right your insights aren't adding much to the debate, and these positions are non consistent with the positions of those who advocate ID.
The head of state, the Queen, is also the head of the Church of England. Nothin' secular about that, mate, unless you Brits have redefined "secular" and didn't clue the rest of us in on it.
Maybe Apple's spyware just sucks, but the songs that come up on the iTunes Music Store for me bear no relation to the type of music I have on my hard drive.
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'Other than usage as a gee-whiz or a joke, is there any practicality to it other than the excercise of making it happen?'
Sure, theoretically, terrorists can now send messages coded in pictures. When printed on the propre line printer or scanned with the proper scanner it gives all the secrets for their next daring plot.
Ooooo. Time for more Big Brother legislation, me thinks.
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Not to mention that the list of "operating system vulnerabilities" appears to contain a lot of what appear to be application vulnerabilities for all OSes. Also, what in the world is a "multiple operating system?" It apprears to be a cluster-boff category for all the OSes that aren't Windows or Unix.
Well, gee, if the CIA says so, then it must be true. Right? Just like the yellow cake in Niger and the WMD's in Iraq and how the Iranians just love the Shah, and how with just a little air support a bunch of expatriot grocers and hoteliers will be able to overthrow Castro and...
MS is releasing a beta version of anti-virus software it intends to sell as a subscription service to Windows users. The beta testers will, for free, help MS trouble-shoot this software which MS will then sell to them to correct problems in its bug- and security hole-ridden operating system which MS has already sold to its customers. Meanwhile, there are free and commercial alternative OSes available that do not have these problems. Nevertheless, the Windows users (95% of all computer users, as we have been told) will actually buy the buggy OS, participate in the beta program, and then substribe to the anti-virus service and this will make sense to them and they will, apparently, not feel they are getting bent over and reamed without lube. Have I got this about right?
If this is true, then either 95% of the computer users are idiots or 95% of the comptuer users are anal-masochists.
The fall of man isn't literally true,
and if no fall of man, no original sin,
and if no original sin, no need for a redeemer,
and if no need for a redeemer, no Jesus,
and if no Jesus, no salvation,
and if no salvation, no eternal life.
I don't think the Christer-fundies will ever accept this.
Only Catholics, who, by and large don't take their religin seriously anyway, could posit this interpretation.
doubling as a calculator
Sending email (if they have networking of some sort and a thumb board)
reading ebooks (if you have a high resolution, decent-sized screen)
They suck at:
Web-surfing
Word processing
Spread sheet use
Games (except solitare)
picture taking
picture manupulation
video shooting
video manipulation
storage
speed (Palms are decent here, but not good)
playing music
note taking
one handed UI navigation
What are they marketed as? A device that does all the things in the bottom list.
In fact it will only get worse as technology coverage is handed to newer, less-qualified observers who simply cannot use a Microsoft Windows computer.
Exactly how "qualified" does one have to be in order to use Windows? Dvorak seems to be suggesting that Windows use requires some special college degree, but Macs can be used by everybody.
If so, then this just proves Apple's point and the point of the people writing the stories he is complaining about: Windows sucks because it is hard to use, counter-intuitive, and a kludge, while the Mac is elegant and user-friendly.
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Bwwwhhhhaaaaaa! ROTFLMAO!
I'd be embarassed to even type that as a joke, but I think you actually believe it.
Doctor's advice: take a red pill and call me in the morning.
But claiming video games teach about real war is advantageous to the government because it will encourage kids to sign up thinking they will be hot shit on the battlefield because "it's just like a video game." Problem is, when your ass gets waxed in real life, you don't respawn at base camp. Instead, after the fighting dies down, they gather up whatever pieces of you they can find and send you home in a flag-drapped tin box and your family gets to attend your closed-casket funeral. But your mom gets a free american flag neatly folded into a triangle and a shiny purple heart.
Is what it feels like having your head explode from a sniper bullet because the other guy is just a damn little bit more sneaky than you are; or
What it feels like to ride around in a wheelchair signing your name with your teeth because your arms and legs have been blown off by a roadside bomb; or
How to support your family when you come back and are unemployed and unemployable because while you were off fighting to steal Iraqi oil, your country gave all the jobs to China.
Yeah, they need to work on realism in these games, but, then again, if they did, no one would sign up.
Oh yeah, enabling port forwarding on my firewall cost me all of about 3 minutes of my time and now all my documents are available to me anywhere.
LOL, and I bet you haven't heard anything about them not caring about their stock prices either.
Personally, I haven't heard Google employees talking about caring about anything at all. Maybe that's because I: a) don't know any Google employees; b) am not a Google fanboy so don't stalk Google employees; c) wouldn't remember anything a Google employee said even if I did hear it because, well, I just don't care.
I'm not seeing a whole lot of free speach in the good ol' U.S. of A lately.
If all you want is an article that will grab attention and get people to read and respond to it, then all articles on Slashdot should just be titled "Linux sucks" and you will be guaranteed everyone will read them. :-P
Well, I'm not some StorminMormon fanboy, if that's what your asking, so, no, I didn't read all your post to try to decipher the one post I responded to. But I did read the one in which you said:
Now you certainly appear to be saying that "IT service companies" can sell the GoogleOS to their customers. I don't know about you, but as a home user, I don't rely on IT service companies to sell me my desktop OS, so I made the natural assumption you were talking about their customers being businesses.
To which I pondered what Google could bring to the table for businesses that IBM, HP, and Dell couldn't.
Now your point is that because "googling" has become a slang verb, people will buy their OS. By that rationale, Xerox should be able to launch a Linux distro and spank MS too because people "xerox" copies all the time. It can't, and it won't. Neither will Google.
You and I are techies, we like hardware and software and we post on here about technical aspects of these items. To most people, "Windows" is not just a piece of software that runs on a computer, it is the computer. I ask people what browser they use and they tell me "Windows." I tell them Mac software won't run on Windows and they can't understand it becuase to them the Mac runs "Windows," ie, it isn't DOS so it must be Windows.
Windows is far more entrenched with just about every segment, than is Google.
I suspect the answer is: "Not much."
Or were the other 53% confused? I would love to see the actual questions that are asked. Giving poll results without the source information is complete nonsense.
So for you:
1. God exists inside the universe, not outside of it, and
2. He is constrained by the laws of the universe (i.e. physics, mathematics, etc) and cannot contravene them
This is certainly contrary to a long line a Christian thought about the nature of God and seems to vitiate the whole concept of a god at all. For all you know, some really smart space alien might be God.
I'm not saying you are wrong, I'm just saying that if you are right your insights aren't adding much to the debate, and these positions are non consistent with the positions of those who advocate ID.
The head of state, the Queen, is also the head of the Church of England. Nothin' secular about that, mate, unless you Brits have redefined "secular" and didn't clue the rest of us in on it.
Maybe Apple's spyware just sucks, but the songs that come up on the iTunes Music Store for me bear no relation to the type of music I have on my hard drive.
Sure, theoretically, terrorists can now send messages coded in pictures. When printed on the propre line printer or scanned with the proper scanner it gives all the secrets for their next daring plot.
Ooooo. Time for more Big Brother legislation, me thinks.
Geez, and I really wanted to see this movie.
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Not to mention that the list of "operating system vulnerabilities" appears to contain a lot of what appear to be application vulnerabilities for all OSes. Also, what in the world is a "multiple operating system?" It apprears to be a cluster-boff category for all the OSes that aren't Windows or Unix.
Well, gee, if the CIA says so, then it must be true. Right? Just like the yellow cake in Niger and the WMD's in Iraq and how the Iranians just love the Shah, and how with just a little air support a bunch of expatriot grocers and hoteliers will be able to overthrow Castro and...
If this is true, then either 95% of the computer users are idiots or 95% of the comptuer users are anal-masochists.
Or maybe if you had no original to begin with you would still be working there. :-)
As if Motorola really needs help sabotaging its products. From what I have seen, Motorola can do a fine job of that all by itself.
and if no fall of man, no original sin,
and if no original sin, no need for a redeemer,
and if no need for a redeemer, no Jesus,
and if no Jesus, no salvation,
and if no salvation, no eternal life.
I don't think the Christer-fundies will ever accept this.
Only Catholics, who, by and large don't take their religin seriously anyway, could posit this interpretation.
Keeping a mobile Calendar
Keeping a contact list
They are OK at:
doubling as a calculator
Sending email (if they have networking of some sort and a thumb board)
reading ebooks (if you have a high resolution, decent-sized screen)
They suck at:
Web-surfing
Word processing
Spread sheet use
Games (except solitare)
picture taking
picture manupulation
video shooting
video manipulation
storage
speed (Palms are decent here, but not good)
playing music
note taking
one handed UI navigation
What are they marketed as? A device that does all the things in the bottom list.
Exactly how "qualified" does one have to be in order to use Windows? Dvorak seems to be suggesting that Windows use requires some special college degree, but Macs can be used by everybody.
If so, then this just proves Apple's point and the point of the people writing the stories he is complaining about: Windows sucks because it is hard to use, counter-intuitive, and a kludge, while the Mac is elegant and user-friendly.
For that matter, how many people can actually tell that a new Dell product is actually new?