Now find Norway. Now have a look at what happens when you sort by homicides rather than total deaths, which include Norway's comparitively high (but still way less than the US) suicide rate.
Now find Australia, which has even more restrictive laws. One-tenth the number of firearm related deaths compared to the US, 80% of which are suicides rather than homicides. The US has 40 times more firearm homicides than Australia per capita. That is mindboggling to anyone outside the US.
Gun control isn't the only solution. There is more than one issue at play here. But to put your fingers in your ears and ignore international statistics like these by claiming that gun control isn't a big part of the solution is idiocy.
New software should be coded in a way that handles variable vertical resolution - i.e. liquid layout. The iOS6 SDK supports this. Most screen designs have a scrollable area than can easily be made variable height, while locking elements to the top or bottom. It's still not as big a deal as supporting the multitude of Android resolutions.
3. The fact that the iPhone design was lifted from another product design seen by Apple's team isn't a surprise, it's how all companies work.
Except that this didn't happen. The product design mockup was created by "Apple industrial designer, Shin Nishibori" who was inspired by a Sony designer's article that describes the device, using words alone. The design itself is Apple's property. There was nothing for Sony to patent.
I was active in the MP3.com scene both before Payback for Playback (we called it P4P not PfP), during P4P and up until the demise of MP3.com. While there were musicians who were gaming the system (and it was fairly obvious who they were), it by no means destroyed any communities, nor turned artist against artist. I was lucky enough to earn over ten thousand dollars during P4P without any gaming (up to US$3k during my best month), and I know several other artists who did much better, and just as honestly. Those who gamed the system generally weren't part of the community to begin with, as their forum posts mainly amounted to spam.
After MP3.com, most of the electronic music community moved onto Artist Server (back then ElectronicScene), a site developed by an MP3.com artist called Sonic Wallpaper. It still has a big electronic slant, but now caters to all genres. While I haven't been a part of it for years, both the site and community are still going strong at ArtistsServer.com, and browsing through the forums I remember many of the names fondly.
P4P did not destroy communities like the article makes out. I won't pretend that it had no effect - it did create an edge of commercialism. But it was the sale to Vivendi Universal that destroyed MP3.com, not P4P.
You can only parallel import legally available material. If it's RC, then it's "Importation of refused classification material". Same as child pornography.
It is not illegal to own RC material. It is only illegal to sell it or publicly broadcast it. Even importing is a grey area. It will probably get through, or you might, maybe get fined.
It's nothing like child pornography. Not even in the same league. Child porn is illegal to own/sell/make/distribute and you'll face a jail term if caught.
Comparing importing RC material to child porn is like comparing jay-walking to murder.
I didn't say "without any input whatsoever". I said without you telling her. She could observe the data on your phone - your SMS messages or emails for example. I still wouldn't consider that learning, but its certainly more advanced than just remembering a connection between two pieces of data that you told her about, which is what you consider to be learning. You're welcome to hold that definition, but while you do, don't expect people to agree with you, nor me to continue this debate.
I told Siri to text my mom. Siri asked who my mom was. I told her. Siri recorded that information and relationship in the contact database. Next time I said, "Send a text to my mom," Siri did.
Siri learned the relationship.
If Siri had done that without you telling her, it could tenuously be construed as "learning". But Siri recording that information after you told her is not much more advanced than my computer remembering a setting once I click a checkbox.
Siri has very good voice recognition and amazing natural language processing, and remembers the things you tell her. But she doesn't learn.
Alan Wake and Deadly Premonition do exactly that. And it worked. I sometimes go for a week between sessions and got straight back into both of these games thanks to this.
Hell, back when Bullfrog were making Syndicate they produced a series of articles for one of the computer magazines that used the Syndicate graphics and showed the code and techniques they'd used to move them around on an isometric grid. Nothing "secret" but they had snippets of actual game code in there and it was for a programming article on, basically, "how to make a game like Syndicate".
I remember playing around with that! Do you know which magazine it was in? Edge?
I am Reversebert. I have played thousands of videogames, and consider myself a well versed videogame critic. The other day I watched Transformers: The Movie. And I read a Mills & Boone novel. Then I played Shadow of the Colossus. Based on that, I have decided that movies and books can never attain the level of art that games have. I couldn't interact with the movie or novel in any way! I was a passive spectator and felt like both experiences were already determined for me. Based on such an unfair comparison, neither movies nor books can ever hope to attain the level of art that videogames have.
right wing parties anywhere around the world, always support corporations over people.
The person I replied to then questioned why a "left" party in the united states wasn't behaving any differently. I succinctly pointed this out.
Then you got all pedantic but we'll overlook that, because this is Slashdot after all.
I can see why, flash is a bloated, update happy, buggy, insecure beast of a program, sort of like java through the years.
That may be true, but so far every performance comparison shows that HTML5 is slower, performs worse and consumes more power than Flash. So if you hate Flash, prepare to hate HTML5 even more. Oh - and you won't be able to block HTML5 like you can with Flash.
Flash supports mouseover - your device doesn't (because it's a touchscreen). Flash has supported multitouch, gestures and even accelerometer events since late 2009.
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Have a look where the US is on this list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate
Nice company you're keeping there.
Now find Norway. Now have a look at what happens when you sort by homicides rather than total deaths, which include Norway's comparitively high (but still way less than the US) suicide rate.
Now find Australia, which has even more restrictive laws. One-tenth the number of firearm related deaths compared to the US, 80% of which are suicides rather than homicides. The US has 40 times more firearm homicides than Australia per capita. That is mindboggling to anyone outside the US.
Gun control isn't the only solution. There is more than one issue at play here. But to put your fingers in your ears and ignore international statistics like these by claiming that gun control isn't a big part of the solution is idiocy.
New software should be coded in a way that handles variable vertical resolution - i.e. liquid layout. The iOS6 SDK supports this. Most screen designs have a scrollable area than can easily be made variable height, while locking elements to the top or bottom. It's still not as big a deal as supporting the multitude of Android resolutions.
3. The fact that the iPhone design was lifted from another product design seen by Apple's team isn't a surprise, it's how all companies work.
Except that this didn't happen. The product design mockup was created by "Apple industrial designer, Shin Nishibori" who was inspired by a Sony designer's article that describes the device, using words alone. The design itself is Apple's property. There was nothing for Sony to patent.
Cover up the indicator. DOUBLE ACCURACY!
I was active in the MP3.com scene both before Payback for Playback (we called it P4P not PfP), during P4P and up until the demise of MP3.com. While there were musicians who were gaming the system (and it was fairly obvious who they were), it by no means destroyed any communities, nor turned artist against artist. I was lucky enough to earn over ten thousand dollars during P4P without any gaming (up to US$3k during my best month), and I know several other artists who did much better, and just as honestly. Those who gamed the system generally weren't part of the community to begin with, as their forum posts mainly amounted to spam.
After MP3.com, most of the electronic music community moved onto Artist Server (back then ElectronicScene), a site developed by an MP3.com artist called Sonic Wallpaper. It still has a big electronic slant, but now caters to all genres. While I haven't been a part of it for years, both the site and community are still going strong at ArtistsServer.com, and browsing through the forums I remember many of the names fondly.
P4P did not destroy communities like the article makes out. I won't pretend that it had no effect - it did create an edge of commercialism. But it was the sale to Vivendi Universal that destroyed MP3.com, not P4P.
But there's no "classical video game technique".
Reclined, feet up. 2ft from the TV. Beer on the left, pizza on the right, controller in hand.
He invited me to the sales meeting to describe the product and demonstrate how easy it is to moderate and administrate.
I was asked how much this all cost,
It wasn't your job to tell them how much it cost. You should have deferred that question to your sales team. They were right to fire you.
You mean high delta-v travel. Not high velocity travel.
How exactly are you going achieve the high velocity without accelerating?
You can only parallel import legally available material. If it's RC, then it's "Importation of refused classification material". Same as child pornography.
It is not illegal to own RC material. It is only illegal to sell it or publicly broadcast it. Even importing is a grey area. It will probably get through, or you might, maybe get fined.
It's nothing like child pornography. Not even in the same league. Child porn is illegal to own/sell/make/distribute and you'll face a jail term if caught.
Comparing importing RC material to child porn is like comparing jay-walking to murder.
Mmmmm... Triffids.....
I didn't say "without any input whatsoever". I said without you telling her. She could observe the data on your phone - your SMS messages or emails for example. I still wouldn't consider that learning, but its certainly more advanced than just remembering a connection between two pieces of data that you told her about, which is what you consider to be learning. You're welcome to hold that definition, but while you do, don't expect people to agree with you, nor me to continue this debate.
I told Siri to text my mom. Siri asked who my mom was. I told her. Siri recorded that information and relationship in the contact database. Next time I said, "Send a text to my mom," Siri did.
Siri learned the relationship.
If Siri had done that without you telling her, it could tenuously be construed as "learning". But Siri recording that information after you told her is not much more advanced than my computer remembering a setting once I click a checkbox.
Siri has very good voice recognition and amazing natural language processing, and remembers the things you tell her. But she doesn't learn.
OK lets define "use" as making the computer bend to my will
Let's not. No normal person would define "use" that way.
Tell that to the dinosaurs.
Alan Wake and Deadly Premonition do exactly that. And it worked. I sometimes go for a week between sessions and got straight back into both of these games thanks to this.
They're completely different games, set in the same world.
Yeah, internationally he's one of the most popular American comedians.
Hell, back when Bullfrog were making Syndicate they produced a series of articles for one of the computer magazines that used the Syndicate graphics and showed the code and techniques they'd used to move them around on an isometric grid. Nothing "secret" but they had snippets of actual game code in there and it was for a programming article on, basically, "how to make a game like Syndicate".
I remember playing around with that! Do you know which magazine it was in? Edge?
I am Reversebert. I have played thousands of videogames, and consider myself a well versed videogame critic. The other day I watched Transformers: The Movie. And I read a Mills & Boone novel. Then I played Shadow of the Colossus. Based on that, I have decided that movies and books can never attain the level of art that games have. I couldn't interact with the movie or novel in any way! I was a passive spectator and felt like both experiences were already determined for me. Based on such an unfair comparison, neither movies nor books can ever hope to attain the level of art that videogames have.
right wing parties anywhere around the world, always support corporations over people.
The person I replied to then questioned why a "left" party in the united states wasn't behaving any differently. I succinctly pointed this out. Then you got all pedantic but we'll overlook that, because this is Slashdot after all.
That's because in the US, "left" means "slightly left of far-right".
but it's a pretty significant problem if you're using half as much broccoli as the author intended
From my experience, it's not.
If you're doing a stirfry, then it won't be. If you're using it as a stuffing in, say cannelloni, you're going to run out of stuffing.
I can see why, flash is a bloated, update happy, buggy, insecure beast of a program, sort of like java through the years.
That may be true, but so far every performance comparison shows that HTML5 is slower, performs worse and consumes more power than Flash. So if you hate Flash, prepare to hate HTML5 even more. Oh - and you won't be able to block HTML5 like you can with Flash.
Well, there's also the fact that you live in the middle of millions of degenerate, hardcore criminals.
They're all dead now. Just like that joke.
Flash supports mouseover - your device doesn't (because it's a touchscreen). Flash has supported multitouch, gestures and even accelerometer events since late 2009.