But what digital watches can't do, according to sweep-hand proponents, is display the time and context as elegantly and intuitively as an analog model.
I don't know about anybody else but I grew up telling the time with digital displays. It takes me a fair bit longer working out the time on old clocks and if there's light on the clock it can be hard to distingush between the hour and minute hand. As a result I will often look at an old clock and then take out my phone in stupidity (which usefully has the time in large characters as a 'screensaver').
With the way games are written these days (requiring massive amounts of time and money)
Hmm, I'm not sure that's the best way to make games. Some of the best games were very simple and probably didn't have too many people working on them. Tetris, Pac-Man. But I guess big-cost games are good too.
I'm kind of embarassed that I'm 17 and Metroid Prime scares me... I WANT to play it, I'm just scared of it. Usually when I decide to play it I just get scared and run as fast as I can back to the save room.
It's none of their business to decide who can use their stuff and who can't. If this were allowed wouldn't we have companies deciding not to sell their goods and services to homosexuals and black people?
I don't think it's right what the Chinese government is doing but I also don't think it's right to pick and choose who to sell to. I mean if they didn't buy Microsoft they'd download somethingbetter and it would make life even harder for those poor Chinese.
The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
RMS, we hold you responsible for human rights violations because somebody used Emacs to write down the names of people to be tortured... (well it could have happened)
is that they can only take lives but it's dictators and laws secretly passed that takes freedom. Sure you could argue that it's a freedom to live but what's the point of living if you're being watched all the time? In the words of a famous Scottish leader in a film: You can take our lives but you will never take our freedom.
I wonder how often giant people will be forced to pick it up and turn it around when it gets stuck in a corner. It's not a fault, it's a feature... to keep the giants well-exercised.
I propose we test this: Show American bomber pilots and AIs some pictures of buildings. See how many more AIs can tell the difference between a hospital and a WMD production building...
Making weapons remote-controlled would elliminate the 'human cost' of war for the aggressor (America) but the other side (Eurasia or Eastasia?) would still be getting lots of civilian casulaties - 'but that red cross looked like a sickle and hammer on the monitor!'. As long as America pays in people for wars it's going to have to think (overstatement) about the war.
If America didn't have to spend any people on a war they'd probably start WW3 and WW4 simultaniously because they're very very rich and with all that oil they're only going to get richer.
I should probably be less harsh on America for being a wanker, Britain was a wanker when it ruled the world.
IANASociologist...
A class ruling over people = capitalism.
Centralised, non-democratic control = totalitarianism.
Why do people insist on calling it communism? It's totalitarian capitalism! (correct me if I'm wrong)
So fraud's legal in America, interesting. Here in little old England we have something called Trading Standards, we have some laws (which weren't designed to emprison us for saying 'terrorist') too. If companies lie to you, you phone Trading Standards and they tell the company off.
And now another British classic is getting the Hollywood bastardisation, sorry, the Hollywood treatment whereby a film is destroyed and the basic plot is taken and Americanised and popularised.
Hmm, if the Americans complain about our good humour all the time they're going to burn the cinema down after H2G2. I wonder if they could be made to burn America (USA) down.
Or do various space agencies in Europe and the US have an infinate number of Mars probes at the moment?
Seriously, everytime I switch the news//. on I hear about a new damn probe. When the hell are they going to run out?
Firebird (0.7) displays http://www.slashdot.org:foo@www.whitehouse.gov/ in the URL bar. I think that pretty much solves the problem of misleading people. Although gullability and stupidity is always a problem.
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I would like to note for legal reasons that I do not sympathise with the writer of the MyDoom.A worm and that I do not advise SCO to be DDoSed again.
But what digital watches can't do, according to sweep-hand proponents, is display the time and context as elegantly and intuitively as an analog model.
I don't know about anybody else but I grew up telling the time with digital displays. It takes me a fair bit longer working out the time on old clocks and if there's light on the clock it can be hard to distingush between the hour and minute hand. As a result I will often look at an old clock and then take out my phone in stupidity (which usefully has the time in large characters as a 'screensaver').
With the way games are written these days (requiring massive amounts of time and money)
Hmm, I'm not sure that's the best way to make games. Some of the best games were very simple and probably didn't have too many people working on them. Tetris, Pac-Man. But I guess big-cost games are good too.
We had to go over to the console to press the pause button. We also didn't spend 10 hours playing a game...
I'm kind of embarassed that I'm 17 and Metroid Prime scares me... I WANT to play it, I'm just scared of it. Usually when I decide to play it I just get scared and run as fast as I can back to the save room.
It's none of their business to decide who can use their stuff and who can't. If this were allowed wouldn't we have companies deciding not to sell their goods and services to homosexuals and black people?
I don't think it's right what the Chinese government is doing but I also don't think it's right to pick and choose who to sell to. I mean if they didn't buy Microsoft they'd download something better and it would make life even harder for those poor Chinese.
The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
RMS, we hold you responsible for human rights violations because somebody used Emacs to write down the names of people to be tortured... (well it could have happened)
is that they can only take lives but it's dictators and laws secretly passed that takes freedom.
Sure you could argue that it's a freedom to live but what's the point of living if you're being watched all the time? In the words of a famous Scottish leader in a film: You can take our lives but you will never take our freedom.
I wonder how often giant people will be forced to pick it up and turn it around when it gets stuck in a corner. It's not a fault, it's a feature... to keep the giants well-exercised.
I propose we test this: Show American bomber pilots and AIs some pictures of buildings. See how many more AIs can tell the difference between a hospital and a WMD production building...
Making weapons remote-controlled would elliminate the 'human cost' of war for the aggressor (America) but the other side (Eurasia or Eastasia?) would still be getting lots of civilian casulaties - 'but that red cross looked like a sickle and hammer on the monitor!'. As long as America pays in people for wars it's going to have to think (overstatement) about the war.
If America didn't have to spend any people on a war they'd probably start WW3 and WW4 simultaniously because they're very very rich and with all that oil they're only going to get richer.
I should probably be less harsh on America for being a wanker, Britain was a wanker when it ruled the world.
IANASociologist... A class ruling over people = capitalism. Centralised, non-democratic control = totalitarianism. Why do people insist on calling it communism? It's totalitarian capitalism! (correct me if I'm wrong)
We'll have DVDs with a little hole for coins in the side and it'll cost you 1 per play. Or not...
How about, "Click here if you are not in the Netherlands." It worked for porn websites, why not for Lindows.com?
So fraud's legal in America, interesting. Here in little old England we have something called Trading Standards, we have some laws (which weren't designed to emprison us for saying 'terrorist') too. If companies lie to you, you phone Trading Standards and they tell the company off.
And now another British classic is getting the Hollywood bastardisation, sorry, the Hollywood treatment whereby a film is destroyed and the basic plot is taken and Americanised and popularised. Hmm, if the Americans complain about our good humour all the time they're going to burn the cinema down after H2G2. I wonder if they could be made to burn America (USA) down.
...their code is in all the Mars Rovers, most of the shuttles and I hear GNU/Linux boxes are popular with the Martians.
These plants could be a really inexpensive way of exposing landmines. I really hope this project works out.
Or do various space agencies in Europe and the US have an infinate number of Mars probes at the moment? Seriously, everytime I switch the news//. on I hear about a new damn probe. When the hell are they going to run out?
Firebird (0.7) displays http://www.slashdot.org:foo@www.whitehouse.gov/ in the URL bar. I think that pretty much solves the problem of misleading people. Although gullability and stupidity is always a problem.