I'd be interested to see the same experiment undertaken in WoW, where game mechanic feature to follow people are built in.
In any case, since the player view is 3rd person, the movements of the avatar don't correspond directly to the view of the player (camera), which should lesson the perception of a social faux-pas, no?
Also, I wonder if the delineation into strict sides also lessens the effect - a player may be a stranger, but he's on your side, so to speak.
Apple 'provides a useful illustration of how an attack on intellectual property rights can threaten dynamic innovation.'
Third party manufacturers cannot make Wi-Fi or UPNP streaming devices since they can't decrypt the DRM, programmers can't write plugins to dynamically mash-up your favourite tracks, etc etc etc, since Apple impedes your property rights with their digital restricitons.
With the accession of the new member states the European Union became the largest single market in the world - if the fine was much *much* worse MS still wouldn't pull out.
I know we like our OSS community to be warm and fuzzy, but these guys need to make money. If they have to get a little less "easy-going" in the process, then so be it.
I don't understand why they're so insistant the technology is *new* and in R&D - Nokia have had applications that do useful things with cell id - such as Nokia Album, which allow you to organise photos by shooting location - for some time.
I think they have to be seen protecting their "Intellectual Property" in case someone else borrows the image and starts printing t-shirts, or using them for some other money-making purpose. You can buy everything from t-shirts to tea-towels with the London underground map embossed, and many tourists do, so I guess it's a bit of a cash cow.
That said it's ridiculous that tourist guides, free maps, and free-to-view billboards can carry the image, yet I can't load it onto an iPod. The first thing I do in any new city is take a photo of the metro-system with my phone, I'm not sure how they're going to police against that.
I know this isn't going to go down well in our little world here, but I contest
The average Windows user tends to be less than satisfied with Windows.
At the very least I'd like to see compelling evidence supporting the statement.
"The average user" is probably frustrated with computing in general, "the average user" hasn't tried any other operating system, and in my experience, when "the average user" tries another platform, the initial frustration spike caused by evertyhing being slightly different, is enough to see them run back to suckle at the Microsoft's corporate teat.
I sometimes feel I'm in a silent majority here, who actually acknowledges that all their average user friends except the arty kid, not only user windows, but haven't even considered anything else.
We used to be unclean, unloved by the opposiste sex, but in the modern, wired world, a geek is a bit like an all round handy-man about the house, who also (probably) pulls in a good salary, and lets face it, we're generally literally about the house when we're not at work (in front of the pc) rather than hanging around bars... We're pretty much IBM.
What about when the battery runs out on your expensive consumer device, Joe, and you think - "Hey, I don't need to pay the service guy $50 dollars to open this up and replace the battery, I'll buy a $5 dollar battery and do it myself, saving $45 for more consuming, ooohhh yeaaaaah".
You bring your trusty phillips, you examine the device and... it's got non-standard screws.
This is what we're talking about Mr Consumer, don't you see!
That interview just underlines apple's focus isn't on The Next Big Thing, or technological progress, it's something much more attractive to consumers - elegant design.
They've been very lucky, releasing highly polished articles at just the time when consumers, spoiled by choice, are beginning to use quality of a design as a differentiator betweem almost equal rival products.
Sometimes they're monomaniacal obsession with elegance causes them to make decisions that seem idiotic from our technical viewpoint (you can't get to the battery on an iPod because they wanted it to look "perfect" with no nasty access doors...) but the public doesn't care.
Does anyone know what the anti-trust or monopoly issues surrounding this might be. How many serious competitors does Oracle have in the US? How many in the world?
Isn't their behaviour of late equivalent to apple buying out Sun, Unix, Linux (metahphorically) and everyone else an an attempt to be bigger than microsoft?
Admittedly nowhere, but in most of the genres they claim to be able to generate, a beginning (verses & choruses), a middle 8th, and an end, with the implied progression are a given, unless the artist is being very experimental. I don't think it's a very restrictive metric.
When it comes down to it, this is a way of interpretting a psuedeo random series of dots in a grid. Saying it's a "new kind of music" is a bit misleading - There's no flow, no beginning, no middle, no end. It's a new way of randomly generating midi note events within certain constraints.
On the whole, this is probably the best thing that has happened to Microsoft lately - it'll encourage clueless managers to order that their company's systems be upgraded, with a release of Vista around the corner. It's amazing just how many businesses still rely upon W2k.
Yes, but presumably your expert is rather expensive, either to keep on site (expertise costs) or to have consult (external expertise really costs).
Either way it's facile to imply that it's somehow more expensive to have Microsoft software break down on you. Or was your point that you'd have to pay Microsoft, specifically?
It's also possible to look at the story, note that God tells porkies, the serpent tells the truth and then write a super successful series of semi-subversive childrens' novels involving dust and blades and things.
Exactly. The word "theory" has distinct implications when used in a scientific context, that are absent when used in a philosophical or social context.
The Theory of Relativity should stay in Biology 101, and christian creationism (without the word "theory" attached) can be discussed side by side with other faith's creation beliefs (which I find particularly fascinating)
I don't think it's quite as different as it seems. The equivalent of "up and right" on this table is anti-clockwise from 6 o'clock and towards the centre, no? If they replaced the silly galaxy background with some kind of intensity gradient it might even be apparant...
Also I think this would work much more effectively if they connected the "rows" of the table along eleptical orbits - that galaxy image is just marketeering.
It's the "rabidly Irish" bit I'm taking specific offense at. You're not qualifying your statements with "terrorist" etc, you're just lumping everything as "Irish".
And before you try to give me a history of the splintering of the IRA, I'm Irish myself, in case you hadn't quite figured out, and from a border county to boot.
" and all of these can be controlled from a PC using wired or wireless LAN."
I would hope they mean that how the robot uses these things can be programmed on a PC and dumped via W/LAN. If it needs to be within W/LAN range of a host computer serving its instructions, how am I ever going to build my rampaging mini-bot army, without devoting my Gauss-gun budget to portable hotspots...
Meme is definately not synonymous with "theme", meme being defined as a piece of information passed on through the generations. I wouldn't say "How to build a brain" is a very memetic idea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
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I'd be interested to see the same experiment undertaken in WoW, where game mechanic feature to follow people are built in. In any case, since the player view is 3rd person, the movements of the avatar don't correspond directly to the view of the player (camera), which should lesson the perception of a social faux-pas, no? Also, I wonder if the delineation into strict sides also lessens the effect - a player may be a stranger, but he's on your side, so to speak.
Er, that would still be one unique IP - it counts connections to the update server, not iso downloads.
Apple 'provides a useful illustration of how an attack on intellectual property rights can threaten dynamic innovation.'
Third party manufacturers cannot make Wi-Fi or UPNP streaming devices since they can't decrypt the DRM, programmers can't write plugins to dynamically mash-up your favourite tracks, etc etc etc, since Apple impedes your property rights with their digital restricitons.
With the accession of the new member states the European Union became the largest single market in the world - if the fine was much *much* worse MS still wouldn't pull out.
Business Seek to Stay Solvent! The cheek!
I know we like our OSS community to be warm and fuzzy, but these guys need to make money. If they have to get a little less "easy-going" in the process, then so be it.
I don't understand why they're so insistant the technology is *new* and in R&D - Nokia have had applications that do useful things with cell id - such as Nokia Album, which allow you to organise photos by shooting location - for some time.
I think they have to be seen protecting their "Intellectual Property" in case someone else borrows the image and starts printing t-shirts, or using them for some other money-making purpose. You can buy everything from t-shirts to tea-towels with the London underground map embossed, and many tourists do, so I guess it's a bit of a cash cow.
That said it's ridiculous that tourist guides, free maps, and free-to-view billboards can carry the image, yet I can't load it onto an iPod. The first thing I do in any new city is take a photo of the metro-system with my phone, I'm not sure how they're going to police against that.
At the very least I'd like to see compelling evidence supporting the statement. "The average user" is probably frustrated with computing in general, "the average user" hasn't tried any other operating system, and in my experience, when "the average user" tries another platform, the initial frustration spike caused by evertyhing being slightly different, is enough to see them run back to suckle at the Microsoft's corporate teat.
I sometimes feel I'm in a silent majority here, who actually acknowledges that all their average user friends except the arty kid, not only user windows, but haven't even considered anything else.
We used to be unclean, unloved by the opposiste sex, but in the modern, wired world, a geek is a bit like an all round handy-man about the house, who also (probably) pulls in a good salary, and lets face it, we're generally literally about the house when we're not at work (in front of the pc) rather than hanging around bars... We're pretty much IBM.
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What about when the battery runs out on your expensive consumer device, Joe, and you think - "Hey, I don't need to pay the service guy $50 dollars to open this up and replace the battery, I'll buy a $5 dollar battery and do it myself, saving $45 for more consuming, ooohhh yeaaaaah". You bring your trusty phillips, you examine the device and... it's got non-standard screws. This is what we're talking about Mr Consumer, don't you see!
Hear hear. CO2 emmissions taxes stateside would be a good start.
That interview just underlines apple's focus isn't on The Next Big Thing, or technological progress, it's something much more attractive to consumers - elegant design.
They've been very lucky, releasing highly polished articles at just the time when consumers, spoiled by choice, are beginning to use quality of a design as a differentiator betweem almost equal rival products.
Sometimes they're monomaniacal obsession with elegance causes them to make decisions that seem idiotic from our technical viewpoint (you can't get to the battery on an iPod because they wanted it to look "perfect" with no nasty access doors...) but the public doesn't care.
Design is the new black.
Does anyone know what the anti-trust or monopoly issues surrounding this might be. How many serious competitors does Oracle have in the US? How many in the world?
Isn't their behaviour of late equivalent to apple buying out Sun, Unix, Linux (metahphorically) and everyone else an an attempt to be bigger than microsoft?
Admittedly nowhere, but in most of the genres they claim to be able to generate, a beginning (verses & choruses), a middle 8th, and an end, with the implied progression are a given, unless the artist is being very experimental. I don't think it's a very restrictive metric.
When it comes down to it, this is a way of interpretting a psuedeo random series of dots in a grid. Saying it's a "new kind of music" is a bit misleading - There's no flow, no beginning, no middle, no end. It's a new way of randomly generating midi note events within certain constraints.
On the whole, this is probably the best thing that has happened to Microsoft lately - it'll encourage clueless managers to order that their company's systems be upgraded, with a release of Vista around the corner. It's amazing just how many businesses still rely upon W2k.
Yes, but presumably your expert is rather expensive, either to keep on site (expertise costs) or to have consult (external expertise really costs).
Either way it's facile to imply that it's somehow more expensive to have Microsoft software break down on you. Or was your point that you'd have to pay Microsoft, specifically?
It's also possible to look at the story, note that God tells porkies, the serpent tells the truth and then write a super successful series of semi-subversive childrens' novels involving dust and blades and things.
Exactly. The word "theory" has distinct implications when used in a scientific context, that are absent when used in a philosophical or social context.
The Theory of Relativity should stay in Biology 101, and christian creationism (without the word "theory" attached) can be discussed side by side with other faith's creation beliefs (which I find particularly fascinating)
I don't think it's quite as different as it seems. The equivalent of "up and right" on this table is anti-clockwise from 6 o'clock and towards the centre, no? If they replaced the silly galaxy background with some kind of intensity gradient it might even be apparant...
Also I think this would work much more effectively if they connected the "rows" of the table along eleptical orbits - that galaxy image is just marketeering.
The fact that he's over 18 now should be irrelevant - he was a minor when the crime was commited, he should be tried as a minor.
It's the "rabidly Irish" bit I'm taking specific offense at. You're not qualifying your statements with "terrorist" etc, you're just lumping everything as "Irish".
And before you try to give me a history of the splintering of the IRA, I'm Irish myself, in case you hadn't quite figured out, and from a border county to boot.
I realize that blaming the Irish may be like Spain blaming the ETA
No, blaming the Irish is not a bit like Spain blaming ETA - blaming the IRA would be. Way to paint an entire nation as rabid terrorists. Amadain
" and all of these can be controlled from a PC using wired or wireless LAN."
I would hope they mean that how the robot uses these things can be programmed on a PC and dumped via W/LAN. If it needs to be within W/LAN range of a host computer serving its instructions, how am I ever going to build my rampaging mini-bot army, without devoting my Gauss-gun budget to portable hotspots...
Meme is definately not synonymous with "theme", meme being defined as a piece of information passed on through the generations. I wouldn't say "How to build a brain" is a very memetic idea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme