I feel like a should be scared of how much influence and power Google is gaining - any corporation that size just HAS to evil, doesn't it? But they keep impressing me! Like Google Maps is 100x better than mapquest. They just keep rolling out great features, so I can't bring myself to fear them.
Airlines are private companies...can't they require whatever the hell they want? A company doesn't need a law to back showing IDs. They can't ask you for your social security #, but ID is fine as far as I know.
I mean, how does the security of a cell provider's web page affect their service overall? If they have fewer dropped calls, better coverage, etc. I could really care less if their web admins don't really know what they're doing.
He heads an organization that is ostensibly about regulating new technologies, but employs almost 10 times as many lawyers as engineers, and the average age of the engineers is quite high (in the 40s, if memory serves). He has done a surprisingly good job of staying moderate in terms of amount of regulation. He generally knows when to stay out of the fray, and has been quick to officially adopt standards that have been cemented internationally.
He really has an impossible job, and I think he has been doing as well as anyone could have expected.
My family runs a company called Wellcoaches that specializes in reducing stress of corporate employees. The company has some pretty good ideas - the concept is to certify coaches around the country who then schedule sessions with employees in companies to maintain better wellness/fitness/health.
The interesting part is that insurance companies are behind the methodology, so the cost for health insurance for companies using Wellcoaches is lower. The program is non-medical, instead concentrating on exercise and eating well, so it's nice to see that insurance companies put stock into what people have always known is good for your health.
I want to find out exactly how much stuff I have that the MPAA deems 'copy protected'. I would run their crazy program to find out, but I'm scared it's going to make me delete it all if I run it. Someone has to be first! If it will just give you a count, we could have a competition to see who has the most! Awesome.
While you are correct in that I didn't provide any evidence, I certainly didn't mean this as a troll. Trust me, I don't have the time to sit here and make up opinions. While I would say this particular opinion is not the status quo on/., this was by no means flamebait or a troll. Ass.
I've always felt that MS isn't inherently an evil company, it's just that any company that size is going to screw up. The fact of the matter is that no one else can pull off what MS has done - it takes a huge amount of resources to make some of their products and innovate like they do. Yes, Linux, Firefox, and a host of other free software has pretty much identical functionality, but that functionality wouldn't have ever been thought of without MS. This interview indicates to me that MS is not trying to hide anything, but is instead genuinley trying to improve their products. They know that apps that size are going to have products, and they apologize - it's too bad when they are accused of being a horrible company because of bugs. Applications these days are just too complicated to be completely secure. In recent months MS has actually been very forthcoming with what their plans for the future are. As much as you might like open source, MS's influence has been integral to the developement of those technologies. I'm not exactly sure what my point is, but articles like this really make me like MS more - maybe even feel sorry for them as they fight a losing battle against people who want to cause damage to their customers and to the company itself.
Great jumpin-jehosephat; I have tons of shrink-wrapped DVDs sitting on my shelf waiting to be watched! Cripes, the only chance I've had to play Doom III was at a Circuit City, with a small Japanese child behind me screaming helpful hints. I don't have time to go buy games, let alone play them. You want to talk about a genre where there's too much stuff to deal with? Talk about books! People have written books for millenia and they don't ever go out of date. Hell, almost every medium out there comes out faster than one person can deal with. Magazines, TV, movies, books, radio, newspapers, internet sites - video games probably come out at the most REASONABLE pace of all, simply because you only play up-to-date games. You never have to retroactively play a game because your friends can't believe you missed that classic. I haven't seen Scarface - I get bothered about it daily. No one ever yells at me for not playing Contra enough.
I feel like Mr. Felton is looking for things to be wrong with PHP 5:
"There are private and protected members and methods, abstract classes and interfaces, in practice, identical to Java's object model." A ton of languages treat classes like this. This is really pretty standard. The underpinnings of the way PHP handles classes may be like Java, which makes sense because Java does it pretty well, but as far as the developer is concerned, it's just like a host of other languages.
"companies whose coffers are already overflowing" Sun's coffers are not exactly overflowing
"Java became successful for a reason: it's intelligently designed and facilitates code reuse." exactly. why shouldn't php do the same?
"Instead of passing the actual object itself, PHP's object model passes by reference" This has been deprecated for some time - most PHP developers knew this was coming and had php.ini configured to do this by default already. This has nothing to do with my point, but is an interesting side note.
"if PHP is a developer's primary language and he or she hasn't been introduced to the world of static variables, public and private methods" oh come on. This is CS 101 stuff...how many serious PHP developers could there be who don't know that stuff?
I think this is one of the most exciting missions NASA has done in a quite some time. Articles like this really remind us that we have no idea what's going on and that there's a whole lot out there we haven't seen. Exploration is something else. I think what NASA really needs is some better marketing so people who aren't paying attention to these types of missions are drawn in. People love exploration - they just don't realize it's going on.
It seems to me the logical extension of this would be to build an actual open source engine based on a pencil+paper system, like perhaps GERPS. Creating the actual game could be left completely to fans, and the engine could be modified at will. A commercial model could be developed based on selling the engine along with popular fan-made extensions. If one could generate enough buzz for such a project, an entire game engine could conceivably be built for no cost and the contributers could split any profits that were incidentally made.
Absolutely right. I *never* liked playing this game, but I had a friend could beat it quite easily and it was always awesome to watch him work his magic. I personally never had the memory (or perhaps the timing) for it. But man, watching someone else beat that game is really pretty entertaining.
I find motivation thinking about how to find happy comprimises so that people can stop fighting, but when I try to contemplate something like the size of the universe, it makes me want to do nothing. But I guess people draw motivation wherever they find it.
Also, I'm not sure he was really looking towards moving humanity towards the stars. For all his philosophizing, Sagan always struck me as fairly pragmatic - he knew that something like long-distance space travel isn't a realistic goal for anyone living today.
I agree, his point was to move past out petty human differences, but the natural extension of that is to sit around in wonder, not doing anything because it's all insignificant. I understand that some people could be taken by such a philosophy, but I would just sit around fretting about how nothing i do matters.
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I feel like a should be scared of how much influence and power Google is gaining - any corporation that size just HAS to evil, doesn't it? But they keep impressing me! Like Google Maps is 100x better than mapquest. They just keep rolling out great features, so I can't bring myself to fear them.
How will you get your WoW updates??
I would probably go into withdrawl and die in my dorm room.
Airlines are private companies...can't they require whatever the hell they want? A company doesn't need a law to back showing IDs. They can't ask you for your social security #, but ID is fine as far as I know.
Yeah, you're right. I screwed up in the original post. Good catch.
Irregardless, I couldn't care less.
I mean, how does the security of a cell provider's web page affect their service overall? If they have fewer dropped calls, better coverage, etc. I could really care less if their web admins don't really know what they're doing.
I just find myself not caring. Great, another company has an insecure website. Can someone explain why this is a big deal?
I would encourage you to read this article: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.12/view.html ?pg=5
While it doesn't completely reflect my views, it should give you an idea of what im saying.
I think you all are too harsh on my man Mikey P.
He heads an organization that is ostensibly about regulating new technologies, but employs almost 10 times as many lawyers as engineers, and the average age of the engineers is quite high (in the 40s, if memory serves). He has done a surprisingly good job of staying moderate in terms of amount of regulation. He generally knows when to stay out of the fray, and has been quick to officially adopt standards that have been cemented internationally.
He really has an impossible job, and I think he has been doing as well as anyone could have expected.
My family runs a company called Wellcoaches that specializes in reducing stress of corporate employees. The company has some pretty good ideas - the concept is to certify coaches around the country who then schedule sessions with employees in companies to maintain better wellness/fitness/health.
The interesting part is that insurance companies are behind the methodology, so the cost for health insurance for companies using Wellcoaches is lower. The program is non-medical, instead concentrating on exercise and eating well, so it's nice to see that insurance companies put stock into what people have always known is good for your health.
Let's sneak across the border to Indiana to buy DOA:Extreme Beach Volleyball! Heh heh *snort*
I want to find out exactly how much stuff I have that the MPAA deems 'copy protected'. I would run their crazy program to find out, but I'm scared it's going to make me delete it all if I run it. Someone has to be first! If it will just give you a count, we could have a competition to see who has the most! Awesome.
That is perhaps the most draconian registration process ever. Feel free to use my info:
user: numlocked@gmail.com
pass: 78b9602a
While you are correct in that I didn't provide any evidence, I certainly didn't mean this as a troll. Trust me, I don't have the time to sit here and make up opinions. While I would say this particular opinion is not the status quo on /., this was by no means flamebait or a troll. Ass.
I've always felt that MS isn't inherently an evil company, it's just that any company that size is going to screw up. The fact of the matter is that no one else can pull off what MS has done - it takes a huge amount of resources to make some of their products and innovate like they do. Yes, Linux, Firefox, and a host of other free software has pretty much identical functionality, but that functionality wouldn't have ever been thought of without MS. This interview indicates to me that MS is not trying to hide anything, but is instead genuinley trying to improve their products. They know that apps that size are going to have products, and they apologize - it's too bad when they are accused of being a horrible company because of bugs. Applications these days are just too complicated to be completely secure. In recent months MS has actually been very forthcoming with what their plans for the future are. As much as you might like open source, MS's influence has been integral to the developement of those technologies. I'm not exactly sure what my point is, but articles like this really make me like MS more - maybe even feel sorry for them as they fight a losing battle against people who want to cause damage to their customers and to the company itself.
although I can't say I'm upset either!
Great jumpin-jehosephat; I have tons of shrink-wrapped DVDs sitting on my shelf waiting to be watched! Cripes, the only chance I've had to play Doom III was at a Circuit City, with a small Japanese child behind me screaming helpful hints. I don't have time to go buy games, let alone play them. You want to talk about a genre where there's too much stuff to deal with? Talk about books! People have written books for millenia and they don't ever go out of date. Hell, almost every medium out there comes out faster than one person can deal with. Magazines, TV, movies, books, radio, newspapers, internet sites - video games probably come out at the most REASONABLE pace of all, simply because you only play up-to-date games. You never have to retroactively play a game because your friends can't believe you missed that classic. I haven't seen Scarface - I get bothered about it daily. No one ever yells at me for not playing Contra enough.
If you found this interview interesting, I would recommend his book (ghost-written, of course), Just for Fun. It's suprisingly light reading.
I feel like Mr. Felton is looking for things to be wrong with PHP 5:
"There are private and protected members and methods, abstract classes and interfaces, in practice, identical to Java's object model."
A ton of languages treat classes like this. This is really pretty standard. The underpinnings of the way PHP handles classes may be like Java, which makes sense because Java does it pretty well, but as far as the developer is concerned, it's just like a host of other languages.
"companies whose coffers are already overflowing"
Sun's coffers are not exactly overflowing
"Java became successful for a reason: it's intelligently designed and facilitates code reuse."
exactly. why shouldn't php do the same?
"Instead of passing the actual object itself, PHP's object model passes by reference"
This has been deprecated for some time - most PHP developers knew this was coming and had php.ini configured to do this by default already. This has nothing to do with my point, but is an interesting side note.
"if PHP is a developer's primary language and he or she hasn't been introduced to the world of static variables, public and private methods"
oh come on. This is CS 101 stuff...how many serious PHP developers could there be who don't know that stuff?
I think this is one of the most exciting missions NASA has done in a quite some time. Articles like this really remind us that we have no idea what's going on and that there's a whole lot out there we haven't seen. Exploration is something else. I think what NASA really needs is some better marketing so people who aren't paying attention to these types of missions are drawn in. People love exploration - they just don't realize it's going on.
yes, yes. GURPS. Sorry, my mistake.
It seems to me the logical extension of this would be to build an actual open source engine based on a pencil+paper system, like perhaps GERPS. Creating the actual game could be left completely to fans, and the engine could be modified at will. A commercial model could be developed based on selling the engine along with popular fan-made extensions. If one could generate enough buzz for such a project, an entire game engine could conceivably be built for no cost and the contributers could split any profits that were incidentally made.
Absolutely right. I *never* liked playing this game, but I had a friend could beat it quite easily and it was always awesome to watch him work his magic. I personally never had the memory (or perhaps the timing) for it. But man, watching someone else beat that game is really pretty entertaining.
...as long as he keeps those dirt cheap plasmas coming!
I find motivation thinking about how to find happy comprimises so that people can stop fighting, but when I try to contemplate something like the size of the universe, it makes me want to do nothing. But I guess people draw motivation wherever they find it.
Also, I'm not sure he was really looking towards moving humanity towards the stars. For all his philosophizing, Sagan always struck me as fairly pragmatic - he knew that something like long-distance space travel isn't a realistic goal for anyone living today.
I agree, his point was to move past out petty human differences, but the natural extension of that is to sit around in wonder, not doing anything because it's all insignificant. I understand that some people could be taken by such a philosophy, but I would just sit around fretting about how nothing i do matters.