From Joes vantage point a lot of the linux expierience does not seem like progress. I'm sorry but after 'it won't work' the common user simply has lost interest. That is, if the naiv GUI designs didn't drive him away before he even got to that point.
Linux has serious issues (in the desktop world) and they aren't going to go away by pointing fingers at everybody else.
I think supreme commander is pretty much a blockbuster rts that's been released this year. The art work isn't as nice as in SC but I doubt that's what it's gonna come down to. I'm a huge fan of blizzard games, from WCI through WoW, Diabolo, SC etc. but this time I'm concerened that Bliz is only releasing starcraft with better graphics and new units. I just can't see any innovation in the videos.
Well, the refutation of "the climate is to complex to model" wasn't very good. You can not model coupled feedback chaotic system as complex as the climate ever. It's just not possible unless you rebuild the universe (yes, cosmic rays influence the climate) and run it twice as fast.
Who cares 'where' it is? If it's true that the only known properties of dark matter are 'exterts gravitiy' and 'except for exerting gravitity it isn't at all like normal matter' then all you have is a crutch that adjustes a faulty models to fit observations. How much you can detail that crutch really doesn't matter if you can't answer the important questions like: what does this dark matter consist of? how does it react to normal matter? In short, what is this dark matter?
Javascript isn't a bad language (actually, quite the oposite). The problem is that the browsers have different DOM implementations so object specific functions might not be available on all plattforms or behave differently. And those problems you run across anytime you try to do something beyond scrolling text in the status bar. But the DHTML/Javascript issues go futher than mere incompatibility. Sure, a lot has been bolted on to make static html dynamic and to enable statefulness for webapplications but seriously, it's becoming a nightmare. Just look at the source of some complex webapp and tell me honestly if you think that/anyone/ should be subjected to such horros. Plus, the tool support for HTML AND JS is a complete joke.
I have high hopes for JavaFX. Hopefully it will surpase Flash in functionality AND be free. The added benefit is that you then can implement webapps completely in Java within a single toolsuite (go eclipse!).
It's more reasonable to demand from other people that they fix your problem, self inflicted or not? And damn them to hell if they don't do it in the exact way you figured? It's not like MERCK is infecting Brasilians with HIV...
Yeah so nice. It's gonna be real nice when the next big epedemic comes along but investors aren't willing to fund research because precedence suggest that success will just lead to confiscation. Go humanity! Socialized sticks, stones and caves are enough for everyone!
I know you where quoting matrix but still take objection. And if only because every Joe Smoe goes like 'right on, we are viruses!' at that scene.
The answer to the classification of the human race as a virus was rather clever, though. We, unlike all other species, do not enter an area and strike a balance with the environment... we change it, use it up, and move on to the next area... behaviorally, that's a virus.;)
But do we? In the area I life in there have been humans and their ancestors for the last 500.000 years (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_heidelbergensis) . Seems like a stable arrangement with the 'environment' to me though we certaintly altered it to suit us better. In my book that speaks for us as a species and not against, though.
What's the value of leaving planets that are not inhabited by intelligent life untouched? So mars should stay a very boring, very cold rock just for the sake of being natural? If can't go there, explore there, enjoy it we might as well blow it up because at this point it seems we are the only species that can attach value to anything in a meaningful sense.
We are not a virus or when was the last time you subverted a cell so it creates bazillion clones of yourself?
I'm sorry to be so thight-assed but this human self-loathing really bothers me since it became en vogue. People that hate what they are so much should just take the next logical step...
Nice rant. Though I think you wanted to say this so much (why, oh why?) that you missed the parents point. He wasn't saying that human feet aren't apt at walking without shoes per se.
Oh, there are plenty of apex predators, nothing at all special about being one. It simply means that no animal has humans as their natural prey. Will animals kill humans when they wander into whatever they consider to be their territory? Yes, certainly. Will they let food go to waste, if it's there? No, of course not. But that's not what "preying on" means. What it does mean is "hunt in order to eat". That happens very very rarely to humans.
That's a broad definition of reasonable. Mandatory content is wrong on so many levels, one of which is that it violates freedom of speech, an other that it's basically censorship in reverse.
While your point seems plausible it completely falls apart when one considers that billions and billions can be made by selling bottled water. In most wester countires tab water is completely safe to drink and yet people choose to buy Evian. Why is that? Maybe this could also work for IP?
Consider this: if there was a site that would instantly stream any movie/music/game/show you'd ever want, legally, at the top of your bandwidth for maybe 20 bucks a month, wouldn't you subscribe?
Let me start of by saying that I love WoW but I've come to realize that the game is not a lot more than 7th grade algebra, especially when playing against NPCs. Is it nice to partake in an epic questline and to defeat nameless horrors together with your friends? Yes it certainly is! But everyone can do it. You can not honestly derive a permanent sense of achievement out of PVE in WoW when sooner or later every boss will be farmed over and over and over again. It would be like taking pride in your "ability" to breathe!
That's why PvP is so important: humans are the most advanced form of intelligence we know of and pitting yourself against that is worthy of the hero we all would like to be (when playing games).
After reading the ethernet specification "street + cars" seems to be a suitable methaphore.
Nonetheless, although this though-experiment sounds like something a 5 year old would wonder ("gee, what happens if everyone in the WHOLE world turns on thar intarnet?") it shows that the public perception of the internet has shifted form "toy for nerds & criminals" to "serious infrastructure". Which to me seems to be a good thing.
You definatly have time on your hands. I checked your forum. The 'style' of your writing is unmistakable which uncovers immediatly that you post under at least three different nicknames. Loads of threads only consist of (sometimes multiple) post by you.
I don't care about the spam or about how blantanly bad your posts smell of a marketing .
I care about your mental health. Usually spammers and scammers stand to gain from their activities. That's not the case with you. I suspect that you simply are mad.
So please, go see a doctor. Don't harm yourself or other!
It might be that it's only the expression that is fobidden for practical reasons but the intention of the law is clear: censorship at the the root-most level. If it becomes possible to know what people think any law forbidding you to say something will be changed to forbidding you to think something.
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From Joes vantage point a lot of the linux expierience does not seem like progress. I'm sorry but after 'it won't work' the common user simply has lost interest. That is, if the naiv GUI designs didn't drive him away before he even got to that point.
Linux has serious issues (in the desktop world) and they aren't going to go away by pointing fingers at everybody else.
I think supreme commander is pretty much a blockbuster rts that's been released this year. The art work isn't as nice as in SC but I doubt that's what it's gonna come down to. I'm a huge fan of blizzard games, from WCI through WoW, Diabolo, SC etc. but this time I'm concerened that Bliz is only releasing starcraft with better graphics and new units. I just can't see any innovation in the videos.
Well, the refutation of "the climate is to complex to model" wasn't very good. You can not model coupled feedback chaotic system as complex as the climate ever. It's just not possible unless you rebuild the universe (yes, cosmic rays influence the climate) and run it twice as fast.
Who cares 'where' it is? If it's true that the only known properties of dark matter are 'exterts gravitiy' and 'except for exerting gravitity it isn't at all like normal matter' then all you have is a crutch that adjustes a faulty models to fit observations. How much you can detail that crutch really doesn't matter if you can't answer the important questions like: what does this dark matter consist of? how does it react to normal matter? In short, what is this dark matter?
Javascript isn't a bad language (actually, quite the oposite). The problem is that the browsers have different DOM implementations so object specific functions might not be available on all plattforms or behave differently. And those problems you run across anytime you try to do something beyond scrolling text in the status bar. But the DHTML/Javascript issues go futher than mere incompatibility. Sure, a lot has been bolted on to make static html dynamic and to enable statefulness for webapplications but seriously, it's becoming a nightmare. Just look at the source of some complex webapp and tell me honestly if you think that /anyone/ should be subjected to such horros. Plus, the tool support for HTML AND JS is a complete joke.
I have high hopes for JavaFX. Hopefully it will surpase Flash in functionality AND be free. The added benefit is that you then can implement webapps completely in Java within a single toolsuite (go eclipse!).
It's more reasonable to demand from other people that they fix your problem, self inflicted or not? And damn them to hell if they don't do it in the exact way you figured? It's not like MERCK is infecting Brasilians with HIV ...
Yeah so nice. It's gonna be real nice when the next big epedemic comes along but investors aren't willing to fund research because precedence suggest that success will just lead to confiscation. Go humanity! Socialized sticks, stones and caves are enough for everyone!
In this context? How about:
Data = any type of information represented in a form that is processable by an electronic device?
I know you where quoting matrix but still take objection. And if only because every Joe Smoe goes like 'right on, we are viruses!' at that scene.
;)
) . Seems like a stable arrangement with the 'environment' to me though we certaintly altered it to suit us better. In my book that speaks for us as a species and not against, though.
The answer to the classification of the human race as a virus was rather clever, though. We, unlike all other species, do not enter an area and strike a balance with the environment... we change it, use it up, and move on to the next area... behaviorally, that's a virus.
But do we? In the area I life in there have been humans and their ancestors for the last 500.000 years (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_heidelbergensis
What's the value of leaving planets that are not inhabited by intelligent life untouched? So mars should stay a very boring, very cold rock just for the sake of being natural? If can't go there, explore there, enjoy it we might as well blow it up because at this point it seems we are the only species that can attach value to anything in a meaningful sense.
actually, I wear it all the time, too! It's home to such a splendid civilization of micro-organisms ;)
Seriously though: virus replication and sexual reproduction are two quite different things!
We are not a virus or when was the last time you subverted a cell so it creates bazillion clones of yourself? ...
I'm sorry to be so thight-assed but this human self-loathing really bothers me since it became en vogue. People that hate what they are so much should just take the next logical step
Nice rant. Though I think you wanted to say this so much (why, oh why?) that you missed the parents point. He wasn't saying that human feet aren't apt at walking without shoes per se.
that works so well because people are nacked all the time so it's always visible that someone is packing!
Insightful? How about: completely untrue? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2002/02/24/nguns24.xml
Read this and weep for the 1997 act when personal firearms where banned from private use.
do explain! Such valuable and original insight must be shared.
Oh, there are plenty of apex predators, nothing at all special about being one. It simply means that no animal has humans as their natural prey. Will animals kill humans when they wander into whatever they consider to be their territory? Yes, certainly. Will they let food go to waste, if it's there? No, of course not. But that's not what "preying on" means. What it does mean is "hunt in order to eat". That happens very very rarely to humans.
Humans are apex predators. Yes, we may die to animal attacks but there is not a single animal that hunts us to eat us.
That's a broad definition of reasonable. Mandatory content is wrong on so many levels, one of which is that it violates freedom of speech, an other that it's basically censorship in reverse.
While your point seems plausible it completely falls apart when one considers that billions and billions can be made by selling bottled water. In most wester countires tab water is completely safe to drink and yet people choose to buy Evian. Why is that? Maybe this could also work for IP?
Consider this: if there was a site that would instantly stream any movie/music/game/show you'd ever want, legally, at the top of your bandwidth for maybe 20 bucks a month, wouldn't you subscribe?
Let me start of by saying that I love WoW but I've come to realize that the game is not a lot more than 7th grade algebra, especially when playing against NPCs. Is it nice to partake in an epic questline and to defeat nameless horrors together with your friends? Yes it certainly is! But everyone can do it. You can not honestly derive a permanent sense of achievement out of PVE in WoW when sooner or later every boss will be farmed over and over and over again. It would be like taking pride in your "ability" to breathe!
That's why PvP is so important: humans are the most advanced form of intelligence we know of and pitting yourself against that is worthy of the hero we all would like to be (when playing games).
Yes it did, in a way. That's not to say that the EU counsel will do anything about this wreck of a law.
After reading the ethernet specification "street + cars" seems to be a suitable methaphore.
Nonetheless, although this though-experiment sounds like something a 5 year old would wonder ("gee, what happens if everyone in the WHOLE world turns on thar intarnet?") it shows that the public perception of the internet has shifted form "toy for nerds & criminals" to "serious infrastructure". Which to me seems to be a good thing.
You definatly have time on your hands. I checked your forum. The 'style' of your writing is unmistakable which uncovers immediatly that you post under at least three different nicknames. Loads of threads only consist of (sometimes multiple) post by you.
I don't care about the spam or about how blantanly bad your posts smell of a marketing .
I care about your mental health. Usually spammers and scammers stand to gain from their activities. That's not the case with you. I suspect that you simply are mad.
So please, go see a doctor. Don't harm yourself or other!
It might be that it's only the expression that is fobidden for practical reasons but the intention of the law is clear: censorship at the the root-most level. If it becomes possible to know what people think any law forbidding you to say something will be changed to forbidding you to think something.