The idea is that you move with traffic as if other cars and your car share the same goal: Getting from point a to point b as quickly and safely as possible. You've missed his point.
I'm sure that was meant to wow us, but what the hell is the point of including potential that is untappable in a product? That would be like putting wings on my car even though it can't fly.
Salesman> The full potential for your car to fly will never be used! Me> Right, why does it have wings then? Salesman> To give it untapped potential! Me> Because paying $300 extra for something I will never be able to use is worth so much more.
Just out of curiosity, what store, city, and state do you work at so that I can never buy anything from you? For a small hint on why it would be difficult for most people to get off their lazy asses and go look, see the fact that you're WORKING while the store is getting a shipment. Quit bitching and deal with it.
Just one little niggle, but citizens are most certainly not required to stop distributing an idea once the implementation of that idea is copyrighted. Otherwise there would be no more crappy songs about high school relationships on the radio after the first, as the idea of obsessively romantic love will have been copyrighted. The idea is to expressly prohibit the copying of a specific expression of an idea while still maintaining everyone's right to love each other like idiots, for example.
Agree. The purpose of picking up large game projects like this is to appeal to those of us gamers who really would be interested in jumping to OSS but would still like to play MMORPGs and the like. Particularly for Linux, it's not about developing a rock-solid game, it's about building a variety of uses for your OS beyond server and workstation markets. Besides, if enough gamers jump over to Linux, ATI and nVidia will finally have enough market share to write good drivers for their video cards. The donators aren't doing it to buy the game itself, they're doing it as a bid to gain a market for open-source gaming.
Yeah. I really wish I could change a lot of the defaults for data storage. It's not just Windows itself that's single-disk designed, it's all the software for windows that does it. I've got two SATA drives in my system, one for data and non-critical apps, and one for startup and things that need high throughput. It'd be nice to have a registry key for default installation root on non-system applications and it would be nice if developers actually thought to default to it.
And no, you really can't have a Windows XP install span multiple volumes.
I'd be more interested in a reduction in carbon pollution as a pedestrian than I would be as a "responsible world citizen." Inhaling the pollution from the cloud of thick, black smoke from a semi truck changing gears as it drives by is as bad as smoking a carton of cigarretes. I think we should do something to reduce our emissions because of smog. It's not that I don't care about nature, but people like me are more inclined to care about your cause when your solution actually directly impacts our lives. Reliable, efficient, and clean mass-transit systems are socialist programs that I'm very amicable to.
While I agree that some of the analysis is a little overblown in significance, I think you might be overreacting. Slashdot is what brings us news every day, and to say that its parent should never have made it makes it feel very sad and unwanted.
The guy who wrote this article is very clearly a troll. He's "concerned" because his ads frequently take second place to Google's ads. He even blows the whole thing out of proportion by claiming that it's the same as Microsoft embedding IE into its operating system. This, of course, assumes that we all(95%) use Google, that Google is in fact the only search engine that anyone is aware of, and that Google actively prevents us from using alternatives. None of these things is true.
Microsoft actually has a monopoly and has abused it, whereas Google has no monopoly and doesn't appear to be willing to abuse it, judging by their past behavior. Even if all they care about is shoving as many ads down our throats as possible, they at least present the ads in a tasteful manner, where I can choose to click or not. They don't display flashing ad banners that distract from the material on the page, which I do consider an abusive practice. When Google has 90% of the search market, and everyone is advertising with them, then they have to start allowing competitive ads to appear in whatever slot the advertiser pays for. They also have to be careful to not abuse their customers by losing mail in gmail inboxes, filtering mail from competing companies, etc.. As it stands, it's impossible for Google to exploit a monopoly Google doesn't have.
What is it with all the console fanboys who always come into these discussions and derail them? It's about the cost of game development, we're not here to argue the various merits and drawbacks of the PS3, or the Xbox360, or the Wii. How did you get "PS3" from $699? It was priced at $599. It'd be okay for this discussion to happen if we were actually talking about the consoles. As it stands, I'm getting really sick of this argument. It's like watching Star Trek reruns on Spike TV in that I'd do it if there was nothing else on.
Yeah, they need a window key like I did on my 15 year old backup keyboard.
I'm also worried about WWIII happening when the third world countries realised just how screwed they are in the deal between them and Microsoft and decide to take the failed negotiation to its logical conclusion. Think about how expensive a million 1-gigabyte SD cards is going to be. That might be more than a country's gross domestic product, and that means debt. Why, it could turn out that the world market becomes like the US stock market in the Roaring Twenties, until it all goes to hell.
This might even set off the supposed war. I do agree that if we were to donate the equivalent of our Iraq War expenditures to these countries, the world would be a better place. After all, if you give a man a fish, he eats for a day, but if you teach a man for fish he soon develops an overwhelming dislike of our ocean-dwelling friends. Might we also send around Christian Missionaries to help these poor, starving children assemble their PC parts?
My "relevant issue," and the reason I won't be touching Vista as an individual user, is that my rights to use the OS as I see fit have slowly been eroded by everything Microsoft has released in the past two or three years. It started with SP1, and their system to lock individual users out for having bad keys. That was okay, because it didn't affect me. Then Microsoft decided that it would be a great idea if they locked you out after X number of upgrades, even if your full retail license specifically allows unlimited upgrades, until you called them and asked "please, sir, may I use my computer?" That bothered me. With Vista retail(fuck you in the ass edition), you have to buy a new $300 copy every other upgrade. Plus, there are enough editions to confuse a robot as to what he's buying when he grabs which box.
I fondly remember the days of Windows 98, where security was horrible but we could install it on as many boxes as we pleased, without having to call our parents. I would make some comment about switching to Linux, but I've got a copy of XP SP2 and a slipstream for my current install, so that won't happen until I'm forced to upgrade to Vista or until the restrictions get bad enough to piss me off.
I spent $10 on a set of titanium scissors, large and small, to use in popping the zip ties off my case for an install. They work great at slicing through clamshell packaging. And yes, they're real titanium. I can scratch my steel knives with them.
I stand corrected on that point. Coming from a community college where it wasn't available to a 4-year institution where it's required is kind of difficult to adjust to. The 2-year had grade reports and class schedules available online, too. It doesn't help that the 4-year school's system is a lot clunkier and less efficient than the 2-year's system. Pressing enter after finishing a form resets the page instead of submitting the form. When a part of the page is updated, the entire page is refreshed, so if you move on to enter something else in the form it clears whatever you just entered. It also doesn't preserve whatever selection you made when you reviewed whatever agreements they show, so you have to agree every time even though they never update. They also gave us student email accounts, and the web client is slower than gmail by a huge margin.
Even having to stand in line for an hour or two to register for classes is better than the headache that is my current school's electronic system.
I was going around looking for Wii controllers with a friend in Tacoma and it seems they sell out rapidly. I'm just waiting for someone to unload his entire PS2/PSX collection so that I can rush in and snap up anything that's no longer being pressed(I'm looking at you, Digital Devil Saga.).
BTW, it's even colder and snowier on the east side.
I might try to get a DS for myself too.
If you're interested in something a little more robust and definitely different than an iPod, check out the Creative Zen Sleek. It's got a burly aluminum case instead of plastic. It looks cooler too, and the UI is a bit easier to use(for me).
I'm 21, and I have trouble adjusting to a lot of the very new technologies coming about. Future Shock doesn't come from the newness of technology, but the rate at which technology is changing our lives. Back when I was a kid, colleges didn't require or even think about computerized registration systems. They didn't post your grades online so that you could retrieve them. Now I have to deal with the crap-shoot of a registration system instead of walking up to a real-live person who can tell me that he's made a mistake. Pretty soon there will be one guy behind the counter in the registrar's office whose only purpose is to point to the computers lined up against the wall. What's really upsetting to me is that if those computers won't let me do something that I know I should be able to do, tough shit. Instead of a nice, warm, inviting human edifice of apathy, I get a frigid emotionless computerized edifice of apathy.
It's not about the ability of the society to cope with the technology, it's about the ability of the society to cope with the uses of technology. I can cope with computers, I can cope with everything else, but I'll be damned before I'll accept that my only contact with friends and family may some day be a messaging service. In fact, it's not even about the society's ability to cope with technology, it's about the human being's ability to cope with the insertion of a bit of silicon between him and his fellow humans. That, I cannot deal with.
Monks used to store their paper in bound stacks with leather at either end. This could be feasible for this technology, considering that the cover of a book can get damaged but the inside remains relatively intact. Book covers also keep books out of sunlight, direct rain contact, and impact damage. I'd be more worried about keeping this data stored in a computer long enough to use it. It'd be more feasible to keep your backups on a bookshelf than to read your operating system in off of a book.
Brin and Page started immediately with the Orwellian doublespeak. Like the US government naming their War Department the Department of Defense, they make their motto "Don't be evil", while doing all manner of evil things. They record everything you've ever searched on, your emails on gmail, they know who your friends are, they actively hire and work with the NSA and CIA, they decide what are newsworthy sources, what sections of news you care about, and what should be news on any given day.
If you've ever had a mail account anywhere, the mail server stores your mail for you. Does that make them inheriently evil? Also, Slashdot, maintains a history of all the past discussion which is searchable by the NSA and CIA. Of course, any forum/message board in existance does this.
Just as scary is the profiling. It would be trivial to compile a list of crimes and or suspects, and match the reason for suspicion/type of crime with their search history. Just do a large enough sample, maybe ten thousand people. Correlate the search terms with the crimes and suspects. Now for the general populace, add up the frequencies of search terms, multiply by the high correlations found in your previous experiment, and you have an easily ranked list of who to watch.
Yeah, you're right. But by the same logic we should stop using all search engines, as they all have access to such data. You talk as if this is already going on, without citing proof of the existance of such a program within Google.
I'm capable of much evil simply be existing. Does this mean that I will do such evil if it serves me?
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Snooty comic book guy, everyone! Give it up!
The idea is that you move with traffic as if other cars and your car share the same goal: Getting from point a to point b as quickly and safely as possible. You've missed his point.
Clearly you're the only person in the thread who feels strongly against the song. Why don't you shut up and let the rest of us have our fun?
I'm sure that was meant to wow us, but what the hell is the point of including potential that is untappable in a product? That would be like putting wings on my car even though it can't fly.
Salesman> The full potential for your car to fly will never be used!
Me> Right, why does it have wings then?
Salesman> To give it untapped potential!
Me> Because paying $300 extra for something I will never be able to use is worth so much more.
Just out of curiosity, what store, city, and state do you work at so that I can never buy anything from you? For a small hint on why it would be difficult for most people to get off their lazy asses and go look, see the fact that you're WORKING while the store is getting a shipment. Quit bitching and deal with it.
Just one little niggle, but citizens are most certainly not required to stop distributing an idea once the implementation of that idea is copyrighted. Otherwise there would be no more crappy songs about high school relationships on the radio after the first, as the idea of obsessively romantic love will have been copyrighted. The idea is to expressly prohibit the copying of a specific expression of an idea while still maintaining everyone's right to love each other like idiots, for example.
Agree. The purpose of picking up large game projects like this is to appeal to those of us gamers who really would be interested in jumping to OSS but would still like to play MMORPGs and the like. Particularly for Linux, it's not about developing a rock-solid game, it's about building a variety of uses for your OS beyond server and workstation markets. Besides, if enough gamers jump over to Linux, ATI and nVidia will finally have enough market share to write good drivers for their video cards. The donators aren't doing it to buy the game itself, they're doing it as a bid to gain a market for open-source gaming.
Yeah. I really wish I could change a lot of the defaults for data storage. It's not just Windows itself that's single-disk designed, it's all the software for windows that does it. I've got two SATA drives in my system, one for data and non-critical apps, and one for startup and things that need high throughput. It'd be nice to have a registry key for default installation root on non-system applications and it would be nice if developers actually thought to default to it.
And no, you really can't have a Windows XP install span multiple volumes.
I'd be more interested in a reduction in carbon pollution as a pedestrian than I would be as a "responsible world citizen." Inhaling the pollution from the cloud of thick, black smoke from a semi truck changing gears as it drives by is as bad as smoking a carton of cigarretes. I think we should do something to reduce our emissions because of smog. It's not that I don't care about nature, but people like me are more inclined to care about your cause when your solution actually directly impacts our lives. Reliable, efficient, and clean mass-transit systems are socialist programs that I'm very amicable to.
Give me the bat, Wendy. Give me the bat. Gimmie the bat. Give me the bat. Wendy, give me the bat.
While I agree that some of the analysis is a little overblown in significance, I think you might be overreacting. Slashdot is what brings us news every day, and to say that its parent should never have made it makes it feel very sad and unwanted.
The guy who wrote this article is very clearly a troll. He's "concerned" because his ads frequently take second place to Google's ads. He even blows the whole thing out of proportion by claiming that it's the same as Microsoft embedding IE into its operating system. This, of course, assumes that we all(95%) use Google, that Google is in fact the only search engine that anyone is aware of, and that Google actively prevents us from using alternatives. None of these things is true.
Microsoft actually has a monopoly and has abused it, whereas Google has no monopoly and doesn't appear to be willing to abuse it, judging by their past behavior. Even if all they care about is shoving as many ads down our throats as possible, they at least present the ads in a tasteful manner, where I can choose to click or not. They don't display flashing ad banners that distract from the material on the page, which I do consider an abusive practice. When Google has 90% of the search market, and everyone is advertising with them, then they have to start allowing competitive ads to appear in whatever slot the advertiser pays for. They also have to be careful to not abuse their customers by losing mail in gmail inboxes, filtering mail from competing companies, etc.. As it stands, it's impossible for Google to exploit a monopoly Google doesn't have.
You cannot copyright ideas, only their implementations.
What is it with all the console fanboys who always come into these discussions and derail them? It's about the cost of game development, we're not here to argue the various merits and drawbacks of the PS3, or the Xbox360, or the Wii. How did you get "PS3" from $699? It was priced at $599. It'd be okay for this discussion to happen if we were actually talking about the consoles. As it stands, I'm getting really sick of this argument. It's like watching Star Trek reruns on Spike TV in that I'd do it if there was nothing else on.
Yeah, they need a window key like I did on my 15 year old backup keyboard.
I'm also worried about WWIII happening when the third world countries realised just how screwed they are in the deal between them and Microsoft and decide to take the failed negotiation to its logical conclusion. Think about how expensive a million 1-gigabyte SD cards is going to be. That might be more than a country's gross domestic product, and that means debt. Why, it could turn out that the world market becomes like the US stock market in the Roaring Twenties, until it all goes to hell.
This might even set off the supposed war. I do agree that if we were to donate the equivalent of our Iraq War expenditures to these countries, the world would be a better place. After all, if you give a man a fish, he eats for a day, but if you teach a man for fish he soon develops an overwhelming dislike of our ocean-dwelling friends. Might we also send around Christian Missionaries to help these poor, starving children assemble their PC parts?
My "relevant issue," and the reason I won't be touching Vista as an individual user, is that my rights to use the OS as I see fit have slowly been eroded by everything Microsoft has released in the past two or three years. It started with SP1, and their system to lock individual users out for having bad keys. That was okay, because it didn't affect me. Then Microsoft decided that it would be a great idea if they locked you out after X number of upgrades, even if your full retail license specifically allows unlimited upgrades, until you called them and asked "please, sir, may I use my computer?" That bothered me. With Vista retail(fuck you in the ass edition), you have to buy a new $300 copy every other upgrade. Plus, there are enough editions to confuse a robot as to what he's buying when he grabs which box.
I fondly remember the days of Windows 98, where security was horrible but we could install it on as many boxes as we pleased, without having to call our parents. I would make some comment about switching to Linux, but I've got a copy of XP SP2 and a slipstream for my current install, so that won't happen until I'm forced to upgrade to Vista or until the restrictions get bad enough to piss me off.
Hmm... good point, and I think I remember him posting the exact same thing from the slashdot story linked by this story, now that I think about it.
I spent $10 on a set of titanium scissors, large and small, to use in popping the zip ties off my case for an install. They work great at slicing through clamshell packaging. And yes, they're real titanium. I can scratch my steel knives with them.
Oh yeah? Do you have links to any of the "facts" you cited? At least the AC is collecting links demonstrating some form of research.
Yeah. We're supposed to be over there helping them to be free from opression... as long as they accept democracy.
I stand corrected on that point. Coming from a community college where it wasn't available to a 4-year institution where it's required is kind of difficult to adjust to. The 2-year had grade reports and class schedules available online, too. It doesn't help that the 4-year school's system is a lot clunkier and less efficient than the 2-year's system. Pressing enter after finishing a form resets the page instead of submitting the form. When a part of the page is updated, the entire page is refreshed, so if you move on to enter something else in the form it clears whatever you just entered. It also doesn't preserve whatever selection you made when you reviewed whatever agreements they show, so you have to agree every time even though they never update. They also gave us student email accounts, and the web client is slower than gmail by a huge margin.
Even having to stand in line for an hour or two to register for classes is better than the headache that is my current school's electronic system.
I was going around looking for Wii controllers with a friend in Tacoma and it seems they sell out rapidly. I'm just waiting for someone to unload his entire PS2/PSX collection so that I can rush in and snap up anything that's no longer being pressed(I'm looking at you, Digital Devil Saga.).
BTW, it's even colder and snowier on the east side.
I might try to get a DS for myself too.
If you're interested in something a little more robust and definitely different than an iPod, check out the Creative Zen Sleek. It's got a burly aluminum case instead of plastic. It looks cooler too, and the UI is a bit easier to use(for me).
I'm 21, and I have trouble adjusting to a lot of the very new technologies coming about. Future Shock doesn't come from the newness of technology, but the rate at which technology is changing our lives. Back when I was a kid, colleges didn't require or even think about computerized registration systems. They didn't post your grades online so that you could retrieve them. Now I have to deal with the crap-shoot of a registration system instead of walking up to a real-live person who can tell me that he's made a mistake. Pretty soon there will be one guy behind the counter in the registrar's office whose only purpose is to point to the computers lined up against the wall. What's really upsetting to me is that if those computers won't let me do something that I know I should be able to do, tough shit. Instead of a nice, warm, inviting human edifice of apathy, I get a frigid emotionless computerized edifice of apathy.
It's not about the ability of the society to cope with the technology, it's about the ability of the society to cope with the uses of technology. I can cope with computers, I can cope with everything else, but I'll be damned before I'll accept that my only contact with friends and family may some day be a messaging service. In fact, it's not even about the society's ability to cope with technology, it's about the human being's ability to cope with the insertion of a bit of silicon between him and his fellow humans. That, I cannot deal with.
Monks used to store their paper in bound stacks with leather at either end. This could be feasible for this technology, considering that the cover of a book can get damaged but the inside remains relatively intact. Book covers also keep books out of sunlight, direct rain contact, and impact damage. I'd be more worried about keeping this data stored in a computer long enough to use it. It'd be more feasible to keep your backups on a bookshelf than to read your operating system in off of a book.
If you've ever had a mail account anywhere, the mail server stores your mail for you. Does that make them inheriently evil? Also, Slashdot, maintains a history of all the past discussion which is searchable by the NSA and CIA. Of course, any forum/message board in existance does this.
Yeah, you're right. But by the same logic we should stop using all search engines, as they all have access to such data. You talk as if this is already going on, without citing proof of the existance of such a program within Google.
I'm capable of much evil simply be existing. Does this mean that I will do such evil if it serves me?