What you missed is the fact that it takes 1-2 weeks to help you get over the cold.
No, it takes 1-2 weeks to relieve you from allergies. Ask anyone who suffers from seasonal allergies, everyone will answer that those do last more than 2 weeks. The idea of starting medication before you expect contact with allergens is also not that silly. For years I was highly allergic to cats (now I have two of my own), and my grandparents had like 4. Every trip to their place was a small sample of hell unless I took some histamine antagonists before leaving home.
You haven't said whether they have been proven right or not.
Considering his argument is undoubtedly true -- WYSIWYG editors do produce crap code, and handwritten code is smaller and more compatible -- if he was a failure it would only add more punch to his final point, that if he can everybody can. Consider that the guy whose counsellors, friends and family all thought would amount to nothing is doing it. Accept for a moment it's true. If that guy can write proper HTML, why can't a freaking professional web designer do it?
Of course, life throws curveballs, and it seems the guy who would amount to nothing has a clue, in an area where most "professionals" don't.
I've said it before, I'll say it again: The good Wii games don't use the motion controller unless it's the primary control system. They use the infrared pointer, and cry a tear of joy about having a gamepad and a mouse at the same time.
You missed the point entirely. Your argument would be equally valid for any closed source technology that might be in some way better than what's presently installed.
The point isn't that you should switch, the point is that, given two exactly identical products, but for the openness, Open Source adds value to the product, Closed Source doesn't. Hence, there is no case under which it is directly advantageous for the customer to to choose closed source per se.
There's plenty of "fun" stuff that can only be had on the Wii, and other stuff where the Wii has a palpable edge.
Let's start with games that can't be reproduced on other consoles without mangling their control scheme: Wii Sports, Trauma Centre, House of the Dead Overkill come to mind (though games like the latter typically include a dedicated lightgun).
Multi-platform games with well thought-out Wii control schemes are real value-add: Resident Evil 4 works great, Okami is pretty good, and from what I understand FIFA and PES use the pointer to great effect.
Then there are games that just use the motion sensor as a (fun!) gimmick -- these are easy enough to reproduce in some fashion or another. Mercury Meltdown Revolution is a good example of a well thought-out game based on the motion sensitivity of the controller that could be done on the Sixaxis just as easily. Mini-games like Raving Rabbits or Warioware, or any of the umpteen others are really just that, mini-games, and motion control is pure gimmick there.
Then there's the first/second party exclusives: Metroid and Zelda come to mind, as do the several Mario games (I'm partial to Mario Galaxy, but that's something else). These are not so much games at which the Wii excels as they are marketed only for the Wii, so they don't really count I guess...
Finally, there are games like Guitar Hero (I love Guitar Hero, btw). The control scheme is the same across all platforms, and I guess that, nominally, the Wii is the worst platform to run it on, as it would have better graphics on the 360 or the PS3 -- but does it actually matter? I'll accept that The Force Unleashed looks a lot better on the higher end consoles than on the Wii, and that it might influence the enjoyment of the game, but for Guitar Hero, all that matters is that the freaking fretboard is legible. The rest is just a distraction.
All in all, though, I find that what makes the Wii's controller truly great is not motion sensing, but the pointer. It's like having a gamepad and a mouse at the same time, and the games I feel best use the Wii's controller all capitalize on that (RE4, Trauma Center and Mario Galaxy spring to mind)
AFAIK (IANAL etc etc), entrapment involves actively offering something. Typical case is: If I look like a drug dealer and you ask me for drugs, it's not entrapment. If I walk over to you, offer drugs and you say yes, it's entrapment.
So the question is: Is posting on alt.porn.kiddy saying "I have some kiddy porn here" actually offering something? I can easily consider it going either way...
And how, pray tell, would you get "sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health" without collecting taxes (and, to an extent, controlling money supply)?
Am I the only one who was glad that "waggle" games were segmented to the Wii? Don't get me wrong, the games on wii that use waggle well are fun games and all, but for every game that uses it well, there are 50 that abuse it/don't understand it.
Mouse and keyboard will STILL be better and more accurate for FPS games, and dual analogue sticks will still be better for platformers. I can see these controllers being pretty good for DS type games, using your TV like a touchscreen, even a 3d touchscreen (some sort of 3d maze game, where you have to drag a ball through a 3d maze). Otherwise, I still prefer existing control options...
Personally, I'm not at all glad the waggle games got shoved into the Wii. After playing through RE4 and HotD:Overkill, I'm willing to call the Wii one of the best shooter platforms yet (I tend to dislike FPSes though). Then I triedTrauma Center, and realized that the biggest strength of the Wii's controller isn't motion control, it's the freaking pointer! Very, very few games that revolve around the motion controls actually last long as fun games unless they're very simple. Wii Sports works, fighting games mostly don't. I've grown tired of wildly swinging my arms around to play Zelda, but aiming in Resident Evil never got old.
Now you've decided to share that two-way communication with a hidden third party,
I did no such thing. I placed a link in my page to the third party. Your web browser, running on your computer, executed the link to the 3rd party and provided the data.
Next time someone complains about legalese, think of this sort of shmuck.
You're not in a mess? Fine, I am. I use Firefox and Chrome interchangeably, but whenever I fire up a text editor to write HTML/CSS , I have to deal with the fact that my customers want their sites to be viewable in IE6 still. You can't make people care, but you can push and prod until you reach critical mass for decent standards support, so we can just move on and ignore IE6's quirks.
The problem in your breaking and entering example is that the police would collect evidence against Joe as a by-product of capturing you. What the MediaSentry guys are doing is more akin to deliberately breaking and entering, and submitting the results of their little forays as evidence. Wilful illegal behaviour on the part of those collecting evidence and with the objective of collecting said evidence should be more than enough to get anything they produce tossed out with extreme prejudice.
Of course MediaSentry monitoring its own traffic in its own network is similar to wiretapping. Just the same as, say, filming myself having sex with my girlfriend is similar to voyeurism (BadAnalogyGuy, eat your heart out!). That doesn't make it illegal per se. What does (in my non-legally trained opinion) make it illegal is that "its own traffic in its own network" in this case also means you're eavesdropping on other people. Think a hidden camera my girlfriend isn't aware of.
And yes, recording a phone call when the other party isn't aware is often a legally troublesome thingie. AFAIK, most of the US will at least tell you that it's not admissible as evidence.
Integration. The "integrated" part comes from the tools working well together. If the compiler spits out a syntax error, the editor highlights the relevant line. If you tag the line in the editor, it tells the debugger that's a breakpoint. If you double click a function name, it navigates to the function definition, or perhaps the documentation for it.
Now, Vim might be customizable to provide those features (in fact, I recall it working well with gcc errors), but its not anywhere near as integrated as, e.g., Visual Studio is. Vim is a very good text editor, not an IDE. And that's ok. IDEs aren't the be-all, end-all of software development -- I personally dislike the bloat, and am in fact a Vim user. But to pretend that Vim has the same degree of integration an IDE does is asinine.
The OP has a point: If you need Tor, or an equivalent thing, "which is the best anonymizer available" is the wrong problem to try to solve. "How do I make sure I can talk freely?" is the problem you should be tackling, and Tor is a workaround, not a solution.
Likewise, hiding the information about social caste is "solving the wrong problem" because what should be solved is the reason why that information is dangerous. Or, to use your example, the world would be a much better place if I could safely tell you my bank account details over slashdot. Not telling them to you is a workaround to the more fundamental problem of "I can't trust people I don't know". (How I love the smell of utopia in the afternoon!)
More to the point, neither linked article seems to touch is how the question was asked. Multiple choice or open answer changes things dramatically: If I'm asked what's the most important amenity in an airport, I'm unlikely to even say "clean restrooms", I'll take that for granted. If I'm given a list and that pops up in there, I'll decidedly think "yeah, that's more important than wireless".
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Actually, despite the ad hominem-ness of the post, his point stands: the "real world" still very much uses, and expects you to use, e-mail.
What you missed is the fact that it takes 1-2 weeks to help you get over the cold.
No, it takes 1-2 weeks to relieve you from allergies. Ask anyone who suffers from seasonal allergies, everyone will answer that those do last more than 2 weeks. The idea of starting medication before you expect contact with allergens is also not that silly. For years I was highly allergic to cats (now I have two of my own), and my grandparents had like 4. Every trip to their place was a small sample of hell unless I took some histamine antagonists before leaving home.
Or using the same handle online as she had used offline before that.
You haven't said whether they have been proven right or not.
Considering his argument is undoubtedly true -- WYSIWYG editors do produce crap code, and handwritten code is smaller and more compatible -- if he was a failure it would only add more punch to his final point, that if he can everybody can. Consider that the guy whose counsellors, friends and family all thought would amount to nothing is doing it. Accept for a moment it's true. If that guy can write proper HTML, why can't a freaking professional web designer do it?
Of course, life throws curveballs, and it seems the guy who would amount to nothing has a clue, in an area where most "professionals" don't.
Being a homosexual isn't a handicap. Being stupid is (even when well above the technical "handicapped" line).
Hate to double post, but for some reason I brain cramped and posted that as a quote...
Guitar Hero III (and Metallica, I think) can't, Guitar Hero World Tour can.
I've said it before, I'll say it again: The good Wii games don't use the motion controller unless it's the primary control system. They use the infrared pointer, and cry a tear of joy about having a gamepad and a mouse at the same time.
The problem with this approach is the nature of collage assignments.
I vote this the most unwittingly insightful comment ever.
You missed the point entirely. Your argument would be equally valid for any closed source technology that might be in some way better than what's presently installed.
The point isn't that you should switch, the point is that, given two exactly identical products, but for the openness, Open Source adds value to the product, Closed Source doesn't. Hence, there is no case under which it is directly advantageous for the customer to to choose closed source per se.
There's plenty of "fun" stuff that can only be had on the Wii, and other stuff where the Wii has a palpable edge.
Let's start with games that can't be reproduced on other consoles without mangling their control scheme: Wii Sports, Trauma Centre, House of the Dead Overkill come to mind (though games like the latter typically include a dedicated lightgun).
Multi-platform games with well thought-out Wii control schemes are real value-add: Resident Evil 4 works great, Okami is pretty good, and from what I understand FIFA and PES use the pointer to great effect.
Then there are games that just use the motion sensor as a (fun!) gimmick -- these are easy enough to reproduce in some fashion or another. Mercury Meltdown Revolution is a good example of a well thought-out game based on the motion sensitivity of the controller that could be done on the Sixaxis just as easily. Mini-games like Raving Rabbits or Warioware, or any of the umpteen others are really just that, mini-games, and motion control is pure gimmick there.
Then there's the first/second party exclusives: Metroid and Zelda come to mind, as do the several Mario games (I'm partial to Mario Galaxy, but that's something else). These are not so much games at which the Wii excels as they are marketed only for the Wii, so they don't really count I guess...
Finally, there are games like Guitar Hero (I love Guitar Hero, btw). The control scheme is the same across all platforms, and I guess that, nominally, the Wii is the worst platform to run it on, as it would have better graphics on the 360 or the PS3 -- but does it actually matter? I'll accept that The Force Unleashed looks a lot better on the higher end consoles than on the Wii, and that it might influence the enjoyment of the game, but for Guitar Hero, all that matters is that the freaking fretboard is legible. The rest is just a distraction.
All in all, though, I find that what makes the Wii's controller truly great is not motion sensing, but the pointer. It's like having a gamepad and a mouse at the same time, and the games I feel best use the Wii's controller all capitalize on that (RE4, Trauma Center and Mario Galaxy spring to mind)
AFAIK (IANAL etc etc), entrapment involves actively offering something. Typical case is: If I look like a drug dealer and you ask me for drugs, it's not entrapment. If I walk over to you, offer drugs and you say yes, it's entrapment.
So the question is: Is posting on alt.porn.kiddy saying "I have some kiddy porn here" actually offering something? I can easily consider it going either way...
Apple made a big deal out of the Macbook Air being .25" thick at its thinnest point. That's nothing. My 2D laptop has 0 thickness!
You got it all mixed up, silly. "Nothing" is your 0-thickness laptop. the Air is something, to the tune of .25".
And how, pray tell, would you get "sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health" without collecting taxes (and, to an extent, controlling money supply)?
Am I the only one who was glad that "waggle" games were segmented to the Wii? Don't get me wrong, the games on wii that use waggle well are fun games and all, but for every game that uses it well, there are 50 that abuse it/don't understand it. Mouse and keyboard will STILL be better and more accurate for FPS games, and dual analogue sticks will still be better for platformers. I can see these controllers being pretty good for DS type games, using your TV like a touchscreen, even a 3d touchscreen (some sort of 3d maze game, where you have to drag a ball through a 3d maze). Otherwise, I still prefer existing control options...
Personally, I'm not at all glad the waggle games got shoved into the Wii. After playing through RE4 and HotD:Overkill, I'm willing to call the Wii one of the best shooter platforms yet (I tend to dislike FPSes though). Then I triedTrauma Center, and realized that the biggest strength of the Wii's controller isn't motion control, it's the freaking pointer! Very, very few games that revolve around the motion controls actually last long as fun games unless they're very simple. Wii Sports works, fighting games mostly don't. I've grown tired of wildly swinging my arms around to play Zelda, but aiming in Resident Evil never got old.
No, that's group double-D.
Now you've decided to share that two-way communication with a hidden third party,
I did no such thing. I placed a link in my page to the third party. Your web browser, running on your computer, executed the link to the 3rd party and provided the data.
Next time someone complains about legalese, think of this sort of shmuck.
You're not in a mess? Fine, I am. I use Firefox and Chrome interchangeably, but whenever I fire up a text editor to write HTML/CSS , I have to deal with the fact that my customers want their sites to be viewable in IE6 still. You can't make people care, but you can push and prod until you reach critical mass for decent standards support, so we can just move on and ignore IE6's quirks.
You can share your opinion. Your opinion is still about a battle you don't understand though :)
The problem in your breaking and entering example is that the police would collect evidence against Joe as a by-product of capturing you. What the MediaSentry guys are doing is more akin to deliberately breaking and entering, and submitting the results of their little forays as evidence. Wilful illegal behaviour on the part of those collecting evidence and with the objective of collecting said evidence should be more than enough to get anything they produce tossed out with extreme prejudice.
Of course MediaSentry monitoring its own traffic in its own network is similar to wiretapping. Just the same as, say, filming myself having sex with my girlfriend is similar to voyeurism (BadAnalogyGuy, eat your heart out!). That doesn't make it illegal per se. What does (in my non-legally trained opinion) make it illegal is that "its own traffic in its own network" in this case also means you're eavesdropping on other people. Think a hidden camera my girlfriend isn't aware of.
And yes, recording a phone call when the other party isn't aware is often a legally troublesome thingie. AFAIK, most of the US will at least tell you that it's not admissible as evidence.
You rarely, if ever, play poker against the house. Casinos make money from poker by collecting a rake.
Integration. The "integrated" part comes from the tools working well together. If the compiler spits out a syntax error, the editor highlights the relevant line. If you tag the line in the editor, it tells the debugger that's a breakpoint. If you double click a function name, it navigates to the function definition, or perhaps the documentation for it.
Now, Vim might be customizable to provide those features (in fact, I recall it working well with gcc errors), but its not anywhere near as integrated as, e.g., Visual Studio is. Vim is a very good text editor, not an IDE. And that's ok. IDEs aren't the be-all, end-all of software development -- I personally dislike the bloat, and am in fact a Vim user. But to pretend that Vim has the same degree of integration an IDE does is asinine.
The OP has a point: If you need Tor, or an equivalent thing, "which is the best anonymizer available" is the wrong problem to try to solve. "How do I make sure I can talk freely?" is the problem you should be tackling, and Tor is a workaround, not a solution.
Likewise, hiding the information about social caste is "solving the wrong problem" because what should be solved is the reason why that information is dangerous. Or, to use your example, the world would be a much better place if I could safely tell you my bank account details over slashdot. Not telling them to you is a workaround to the more fundamental problem of "I can't trust people I don't know". (How I love the smell of utopia in the afternoon!)
More to the point, neither linked article seems to touch is how the question was asked. Multiple choice or open answer changes things dramatically: If I'm asked what's the most important amenity in an airport, I'm unlikely to even say "clean restrooms", I'll take that for granted. If I'm given a list and that pops up in there, I'll decidedly think "yeah, that's more important than wireless".