* You have to move your hands, without resting support. Thought mouse carpal tunnel is bad? Wait for days work with this tech
* I have yet to see demo which looks, well, usefull. It looks like it is all about eye candy. They do a lot, but they do "random stuff"... have photo pile, pick one at random, zoom, drag it to another pile at random. Impressive, but only if you don't think about what they do.
It is more like mouse gestures which have very low user penetration for reason. (Why draw glyph if you can just press button?). Or voice command. Voice reconginition was perfected, but noone wants to use it (its slow, using it looks kinda dumb, it has no added value if you do not have disability).
You wanna use https? Connect to host WE trust. Otherwise, forget it or learn to live with your ISP acting as man-in-middle attacker logging everything.
Hey, do we know whose this connection is? No? Why was it not "reset by peer" already?
Ups... was that your encrypted packet we just dropped? Sorry. Next time make sure we can understand what it contains.
Remember, ISP can choose what to allow on their tubes. Any technology based privacy attempt is doomed as they don't need to decrypt anything. All they have to do is to make sure that you can not use encryption to begin with. ISP wants to continue being in business. That means complying with law or closing.
Even community network parallel to internet is not answer. Too easy to just raid'n'smash equipment and beat'n'jail operator. And be sure that those guys would be treated as hitler reincarnate by media. Noone is gonna have sympathy with someone who "created network to perpetuate heinous images".
I'm not convinced it's worth drastically altering your life away from what you know and enjoy
No, it's:... from what you know. Fullstop.
You can hardly tell if your life is trully enjoyable if you did not experience different "way of life" indepth, it could as well be that your is quite miserable, but you are only really well ajdusted to it. Btw: Abundance of luxuries does not equal to quality lifetime.
You do not want to go back to trees/rocks/wooden sticks for practical reasons... i.e. because you do want to live longer than to your 30s. But if you are in for quality of life...
Average neolithic human is estimated to have worked 5 hours a week. Rest spent doing, well, nothing. Of their 30 years they spent 3% of their life on "necessary" stuff, ended up having "29" years of life.
If you are middle class guy you'd spend 10 hours a work day doing "necessary" stuff life work, commuting, shopping... . 30% of your life. If you live till 60 you spent 20 years on it... leaving you 40 years to live. Here is the kicker: 20 years of those you spend sleeping, leaving you 20 to "enjoy life" in small chunks.
Guess what? Taken sleep into account, neolithic dude too had 20 years to "enjoy life", nearly nonstop.
(PS: as homework, do some research on how much time per week it took to keep house tidy&neat for housewife in 19 century and 21 century. Guess which ended up having more free time? Sometimes, technology just does not work out to be better)
Its all about prespective and choice... you either spend your lifetime playing with technology toys, worrying about job security. Or you spend your life time basically just fucking around and worrying about winter. Not really different.
But again, I personally will not go back to trees just yet... But I do understand people who try alternative ways of life. Especially since nowadays they have science and modern medicine to back them up so they will not suffer worst effects of "back2trees".
If it was feasible to "erase" site from internet (and gathering global support for inital pedo-porn-stomp would be fairly easy; politicians would see benefits of continuing this cooperation in order to get everyone's favorite dissent site stomped too), they would not attempt to create such, well, amateurish, filters and this wikileaks incident would never happen.
But it seems they actually need those filters... curious.
While in reality it makes people quit. Idea of PvP with consequences being good idea is just form of self flattery (gamer expects to be in winning side there, forgetting that each PvP encounter also produces one loser. Stress becomes issue because it makes not playing the game more enjoyable than playing).
I have seen what you loathe happen over and over again before.com. Your conclusions are too hasty.
Certain percentage of geeks simply matures and "doing cool stuff" is not enough. Or maybe it is exposure to actual, non-academic, world of software development where cool ideas tend to work out as dumb waste of time.
If you have your pet project, it also has to be useful. It needs to be something worthy your time when not with family/working. It ideally should give you job-translatable skills (haha). And you definitely do not want to reinvent wheel or spend time making someone elses reinvented wheel working.
More on topic:
Installing Linux on PS3 is easy. Installing emulators on Linux is easy. Its nothing to write home if you do both. Hell, its wasted time if you do it because you could be actually look for those hidden hardware gems instead making videos of you playing Mario.
So, anyone disagreeing with current net-fashion trends is either dinosaur or mentally ill?
Or is it you rationalizing and emoing any downsides away?
Contrary to what you think, broadcasting massive amount of information about you to wide world can be very dangerous.
But again, I am one of those people who lived in commie countries and who knew that something that is passed like trivia could have cost you your life, job, education... anything.
Hell, even USians should remember Red Scare. It got pretty bad if you managed to get linked to wrong people. Facebook-like social networking diagram in hands of govt back then would have made life of many people much, much harder back then.
Likely, decision to use open systems is security one rather that any other.
Government computers running on closed source OS that is basically made by enemies is huge security risk. It is nothing you just ignore. Your own OS on the other hand...
USA has no reason to pursue "usaOS" - MS must play nice with them, so they have usaOS by default (It is Windows.)
That exclusivity is destroyed by process thou and can actually damage usefulness of information. Which can very directly map to profit loss and can be considered property damage.
Only if information owner releases it of his own will information can be *considered* part of "free for all" buffet.
You are mistaking trade secrets (good) and copyrights/patents (evil). Two different things.
We are creating generating where everyone is gonna be guilty of some crime because normal life would be impossible without breaking all those ridiculous laws.
Laws not enforced if citizen plays nice, but very useful to take care of troublemakers. Legal way to lock up anyone for life on whim.
You said it yourself - great way to create fascist government.
I like how you call methodology of study bullshit while you come up paragraph later with something smelling similar.
Bad customer with piratey tendencies are better than someone that just pirates. They don't cause aditional costs and biz still gets gets at least some profit from them, and evnetually each company gets their share. Sure, geting that one game of yours pirated while they actually buy someone elses stuff sucks, but it works both ways.
Err... no. First, using Debian is not mark of expertise.
Then, some people simply want to be different for sake of being different. Pwecious snowflake. To be apart from gray, group-think masses of dumb sheep that does not make choices. When confronted, making up hilarious points on how their choice was rational.
And among computer experts, those people are likely to use alternative OS for sake of not having Windows, Like Linux, and amongst those people, using Debian is certain fashion move as well. They won't run likes of plan9 or make their own distribution because *that* would require actual knowledge which takes too much time if you just want to make "I am different, adore me!" statement. They would play with packages alot thou. Using ORmail2.3.5 impresses people.
I bet they evolved from people whose first instinct on windows installed machine was to chance color scheme to "hod dog" and replace cursors and then diving in and changing every setting in control panels they can find.
Those files are never supposed to leave your property and oversight. No amount of secret tracking embedded info should concern you because it is pointless if you act responsibly and "play nice". If you let em spread to P2P in any way then you should face consequences.
"Gee, that guys ipod and computer contains music bought by that guy. Also, someone in his household was able to listen to it. Lets sue him. Not."
due to the nature of our software, it is 100% certain that those who download pirated versions will never become legitimate customers.
Indeed, due to nature of your actions, it would be 100% certain they would have no interest in becoming your legitimate customers ever.
Along with lots of people who actually would be your customers... you just dont buy software from people who wreck are prone to wrecking your workstation if they don't like something. You go to more reputable competition.
due to the nature of our software, it is 100% certain that those who download pirated versions will never become legitimate customers
It seems like major part of you focus group are actually pirates. Why are you suprised and angered that it is getting pirated?
Its this simple: Why should anyone make money from one idea over again for rest of ther life?
Socienty does not benefit by encouraging certain people to parasite on it for rest of their life for less than days job. Society benefits from those people continuing to create.
If you, an artist and want to make money, keep producing art. That simple. Works for every other job, you are not superhuman deserving different treatment.
If someone can succesfully make cheapie knockoffs without your cooperation, then they deserve money and you don't, because you had opportunity to be first, to be brand, to abuse new fad before it becomes old fad, to be The guy to come to when they want to make knockoffs and just missed it or werent good enough.
Socienty does not need institutionalized freeloaders.
As for that "several million years" figure for a devastating explosion of the kind TFA is describing, consider that the United States as a nation is still less than 250 years old. I'm not saying it can't happen, but the idea that "it hasn't happened in a long time so it must be ready to happen now" is just a popular Las Vegas delusion.
Problem is, that this statistical delusion is delusion only if you examine unconnected "mathematical" events.
But this supervolcano explosion thing is different: pressure builds up till it explodes. Question is when pressure is high enough so that its boom time. And we know three previous instances of how long it took.
Propability does not apply, statistics do. Nor "we know shit about this" applies.
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Even if it works perfectly, it will not cut it.
* You have to move your hands, without resting support. Thought mouse carpal tunnel is bad? Wait for days work with this tech
* I have yet to see demo which looks, well, usefull. It looks like it is all about eye candy. They do a lot, but they do "random stuff" ... have photo pile, pick one at random, zoom, drag it to another pile at random. Impressive, but only if you don't think about what they do.
It is more like mouse gestures which have very low user penetration for reason. (Why draw glyph if you can just press button?). Or voice command. Voice reconginition was perfected, but noone wants to use it (its slow, using it looks kinda dumb, it has no added value if you do not have disability).
You wanna use https? Connect to host WE trust. Otherwise, forget it or learn to live with your ISP acting as man-in-middle attacker logging everything.
Hey, do we know whose this connection is? No? Why was it not "reset by peer" already?
Ups ... was that your encrypted packet we just dropped? Sorry. Next time make sure we can understand what it contains.
Remember, ISP can choose what to allow on their tubes. Any technology based privacy attempt is doomed as they don't need to decrypt anything. All they have to do is to make sure that you can not use encryption to begin with. ISP wants to continue being in business. That means complying with law or closing.
Even community network parallel to internet is not answer. Too easy to just raid'n'smash equipment and beat'n'jail operator. And be sure that those guys would be treated as hitler reincarnate by media. Noone is gonna have sympathy with someone who "created network to perpetuate heinous images".
I'm not convinced it's worth drastically altering your life away from what you know and enjoy
No, it's: ... from what you know. Fullstop.
You can hardly tell if your life is trully enjoyable if you did not experience different "way of life" indepth, it could as well be that your is quite miserable, but you are only really well ajdusted to it. Btw: Abundance of luxuries does not equal to quality lifetime.
You do not want to go back to trees/rocks/wooden sticks for practical reasons ... i.e. because you do want to live longer than to your 30s. But if you are in for quality of life ...
Average neolithic human is estimated to have worked 5 hours a week. Rest spent doing, well, nothing. Of their 30 years they spent 3% of their life on "necessary" stuff, ended up having "29" years of life.
If you are middle class guy you'd spend 10 hours a work day doing "necessary" stuff life work, commuting, shopping... . 30% of your life. If you live till 60 you spent 20 years on it ... leaving you 40 years to live. Here is the kicker: 20 years of those you spend sleeping, leaving you 20 to "enjoy life" in small chunks.
Guess what? Taken sleep into account, neolithic dude too had 20 years to "enjoy life", nearly nonstop.
(PS: as homework, do some research on how much time per week it took to keep house tidy&neat for housewife in 19 century and 21 century. Guess which ended up having more free time? Sometimes, technology just does not work out to be better)
Its all about prespective and choice ... you either spend your lifetime playing with technology toys, worrying about job security. Or you spend your life time basically just fucking around and worrying about winter. Not really different.
But again, I personally will not go back to trees just yet... But I do understand people who try alternative ways of life. Especially since nowadays they have science and modern medicine to back them up so they will not suffer worst effects of "back2trees".
If it was feasible to "erase" site from internet (and gathering global support for inital pedo-porn-stomp would be fairly easy; politicians would see benefits of continuing this cooperation in order to get everyone's favorite dissent site stomped too), they would not attempt to create such, well, amateurish, filters and this wikileaks incident would never happen.
But it seems they actually need those filters ... curious.
Yes. My current ping to Google is 400ms.
Good luck selling me online game.
Scratch that.
Good luck convincing me to play one for free.
Err, no, try again.
Good luck guessing how much you would have to pay me to play one.
No, it is supposed to worsen it by making sure that bright children get less education while not as bright children get overloaded.
While in reality it makes people quit. Idea of PvP with consequences being good idea is just form of self flattery (gamer expects to be in winning side there, forgetting that each PvP encounter also produces one loser. Stress becomes issue because it makes not playing the game more enjoyable than playing).
See: http://www.brokentoys.org/2009/02/19/the-mordred-problem/
I have seen what you loathe happen over and over again before .com. Your conclusions are too hasty.
Certain percentage of geeks simply matures and "doing cool stuff" is not enough. Or maybe it is exposure to actual, non-academic, world of software development where cool ideas tend to work out as dumb waste of time.
If you have your pet project, it also has to be useful. It needs to be something worthy your time when not with family/working. It ideally should give you job-translatable skills (haha). And you definitely do not want to reinvent wheel or spend time making someone elses reinvented wheel working.
More on topic:
Installing Linux on PS3 is easy. Installing emulators on Linux is easy. Its nothing to write home if you do both. Hell, its wasted time if you do it because you could be actually look for those hidden hardware gems instead making videos of you playing Mario.
What about fine tuning ... population?
You need start with frog in cold water. One experiment here, deploying in whole district there ... small steps until it is everywhere.
DMCA & Patents & Copyrights (The Three Evils of /.) take care of that. On the other hand, we have first-sale doctrine and similar.
Still in bounds of "Obeying the Law" EULA.
Really, businesses have tools other than EULA, which is there to mostly just scare people with legaleese.
So, anyone disagreeing with current net-fashion trends is either dinosaur or mentally ill?
Or is it you rationalizing and emoing any downsides away?
Contrary to what you think, broadcasting massive amount of information about you to wide world can be very dangerous.
But again, I am one of those people who lived in commie countries and who knew that something that is passed like trivia could have cost you your life, job, education ... anything.
Hell, even USians should remember Red Scare. It got pretty bad if you managed to get linked to wrong people. Facebook-like social networking diagram in hands of govt back then would have made life of many people much, much harder back then.
Easy/Normal/Hard mode.
You can compromise Easy mode challenge and much as possible, up to including auto-solve button.
Then, you can throw your most sadistic version of game on users in hard mode.
Likely, decision to use open systems is security one rather that any other.
Government computers running on closed source OS that is basically made by enemies is huge security risk. It is nothing you just ignore. Your own OS on the other hand ...
USA has no reason to pursue "usaOS" - MS must play nice with them, so they have usaOS by default (It is Windows.)
Chances are, they are not real quotes.
I hope so. I really do.
I would expect *opposite* to happen. But with someone else than China.
After all, why propose treaty which you yourself will gain nothing and can end up paying dearly for upholding.
That exclusivity is destroyed by process thou and can actually damage usefulness of information. Which can very directly map to profit loss and can be considered property damage.
Only if information owner releases it of his own will information can be *considered* part of "free for all" buffet.
You are mistaking trade secrets (good) and copyrights/patents (evil). Two different things.
We are creating generating where everyone is gonna be guilty of some crime because normal life would be impossible without breaking all those ridiculous laws.
Laws not enforced if citizen plays nice, but very useful to take care of troublemakers. Legal way to lock up anyone for life on whim.
You said it yourself - great way to create fascist government.
They are not even green either.
Combined pollution from making em + using em + disposing them is order of magnitude worse than conventional lightbulbs.
I like how you call methodology of study bullshit while you come up paragraph later with something smelling similar.
Bad customer with piratey tendencies are better than someone that just pirates. They don't cause aditional costs and biz still gets gets at least some profit from them, and evnetually each company gets their share. Sure, geting that one game of yours pirated while they actually buy someone elses stuff sucks, but it works both ways.
Err ... no. First, using Debian is not mark of expertise.
Then, some people simply want to be different for sake of being different. Pwecious snowflake. To be apart from gray, group-think masses of dumb sheep that does not make choices. When confronted, making up hilarious points on how their choice was rational.
And among computer experts, those people are likely to use alternative OS for sake of not having Windows, Like Linux, and amongst those people, using Debian is certain fashion move as well. They won't run likes of plan9 or make their own distribution because *that* would require actual knowledge which takes too much time if you just want to make "I am different, adore me!" statement. They would play with packages alot thou. Using ORmail2.3.5 impresses people.
I bet they evolved from people whose first instinct on windows installed machine was to chance color scheme to "hod dog" and replace cursors and then diving in and changing every setting in control panels they can find.
Also, get out of my lawn, kids!
Those files are never supposed to leave your property and oversight. No amount of secret tracking embedded info should concern you because it is pointless if you act responsibly and "play nice". If you let em spread to P2P in any way then you should face consequences.
"Gee, that guys ipod and computer contains music bought by that guy. Also, someone in his household was able to listen to it. Lets sue him. Not."
due to the nature of our software, it is 100% certain that those who download pirated versions will never become legitimate customers.
Indeed, due to nature of your actions, it would be 100% certain they would have no interest in becoming your legitimate customers ever.
Along with lots of people who actually would be your customers ... you just dont buy software from people who wreck are prone to wrecking your workstation if they don't like something. You go to more reputable competition.
due to the nature of our software, it is 100% certain that those who download pirated versions will never become legitimate customers
It seems like major part of you focus group are actually pirates. Why are you suprised and angered that it is getting pirated?
What about NOT making software for pirates?
Like her or not, she is one of the most influential, and hence powerful, women on the planet.
How come i needed to google to find out who this "Oprah" is?
Its this simple: Why should anyone make money from one idea over again for rest of ther life?
Socienty does not benefit by encouraging certain people to parasite on it for rest of their life for less than days job. Society benefits from those people continuing to create.
If you, an artist and want to make money, keep producing art. That simple. Works for every other job, you are not superhuman deserving different treatment.
If someone can succesfully make cheapie knockoffs without your cooperation, then they deserve money and you don't, because you had opportunity to be first, to be brand, to abuse new fad before it becomes old fad, to be The guy to come to when they want to make knockoffs and just missed it or werent good enough.
Socienty does not need institutionalized freeloaders.
(emphasis mine)
As for that "several million years" figure for a devastating explosion of the kind TFA is describing, consider that the United States as a nation is still less than 250 years old. I'm not saying it can't happen, but the idea that "it hasn't happened in a long time so it must be ready to happen now" is just a popular Las Vegas delusion.
Problem is, that this statistical delusion is delusion only if you examine unconnected "mathematical" events.
But this supervolcano explosion thing is different: pressure builds up till it explodes. Question is when pressure is high enough so that its boom time. And we know three previous instances of how long it took.
Propability does not apply, statistics do. Nor "we know shit about this" applies.