If that was their intent, why didn't they put that as the reason... the document is crystal clear "Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values arification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based
ducation (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challengine student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority."
They voiced their objections, nothing about them lacking substance, being ineffective or anything of the nature. It isn't a fear of it not doing anything, it is a fear that it may cause the student to second guess what he believes.
I don't know about your parenting style if you are a parent, but if I tell my son to do something and he asks why, that is encouraged and a reason is given, things are explained. I don't subject to the "because I said so" mentality of parenting. Sometimes you let them do stupid things to learn and see the consequences. If a parent can't give a good reason for why something can or can't be done, perhaps that isn't a rule that needs to be enforced. Now there are time and places where asking questions isn't a good idea, but those are not as common. IMO if you explain to a child the reasoning behind something, he will make better decisions when no-one is around to tell him not to do something, and while I have his best interests at heart, sometime in his life he will find an authority figure that does not, maybe a crappy boss trying to take advantage of him, maybe a teacher is actually teaching incorrect facts, maybe I'm actually wrong about something. If my son can present me a solid case for why a rule I have is unneeded or wrong I will look over what he gives discuss with him any errors in his logic and possibly adjust the rule. He's allowed to "question" whether I am right all he wants, and if he finds a reason I am not right, then things are adjusted fairly.
The washington post article may not be telling the whole story, but the reasoning and explanations are right in the document. If the texas government was opposed to it because they thought it teaches poorly or has something wrong in the curriculum I could sympathize, the republican party's actual platform documentation specifically states the issue with the programs is "Challenging the students fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority". Quite simply, they oppose the idea of teaching kids to think for themselves instead of blindly following what their parents or other authority figures tell them.
Not to mention the other benefits of OGL. Not just for suppliments, but for the benefit's of web searchable rules. Software character generators etc... In 3.5 if a DM wanted to look something up, d20srd.org was awesome, as long as it was in one of the core rulebooks. If one of your players wants to use something from anything non-core if the DM doesn't own the book then the DM has to borrow the book to actually confirm the legitimacy and that the player is understanding it right etc... Pathfinder, well I can go to d20pfsrd.com or to pathfinders official SRD and look up anything in the game, including what was added in later source books etc... Monsters added in Bestiary 3, check. Races added in advanced race guide released this month, check, etc... Also spectacular from a DM's perspective for when players want to join in the game, but don't have the money to buy any books until they confirm they like the game.
For me anyway, when it comes to finding good reviews of things, I've always found a mass average entirely useless. Just because 10,000 out of 15,000 like something, it has no bearing over if I will like it and quite often leads to the oposite. Instead what I do is I check reviews of the games movies shows etc... that I already have seen, I find the reviewers that are the closest match to how I felt about things in the past. Then I check their reviews of what I haven't seen. It isn't a perfect system, but it works overall, and tends to be more accurate to my tastes than other methods that I have tried. In addition of course actually reading detailed reviews with explanations of why they felt that way. If you are one who is looking for a game for a deep story and the review is 9/10 saying "Great explosions, incredible action at every turn, the graphics were spectacular, the story was a little weak but that is made up for by the incredible pace of the combat", odds are it isn't a good game for someone looking for a deep plot.
I wouldn't even say it is that dependant on gas prices going up much more than they already are. Electric cars just need to overcome the current hurdles. Namely the issue of charging, max speed and battery life. Currently we have a few paradoxes, People aren't going to invest in an infrastructure for charging electric cars, until enough people have them. Only crazy people are going to buy a car that can't work without an infrastructure. If I can't drive a car more than an hour from my house or risk having to have it towed home, that is a big problem. If I can't have it charged up on the way, that is a huge issue. So first off we need technology that can get a good distance per charge, then we need a universal system to allow for charging it (currently without a set agreed upon charging system, we are kind of at a dead end, as no one is going to invest heavily into an infrastructure, that could be the wrong one when all the cars go the other way).
Well yeah obviously it will never outperform native, but the fact does remain that for many games it is good enough, also depends largely on your system, with most games, it gets about 70% of the framerate of running it natively in windows. Which if you are getting it up to 100 FPS in windows it is probably close to an invisible difference as many people can't differentiate 100 vs 70 FPS. Course quite a few factors still go into play, your wine setup etc... and of course as you mentioned, the games themselves have a huge varience for how much the framerate matters, which ones are considered unplayable and which ones are barely noticable, but the fact still is some is better than none. Playing say skyrim at 45 FPS is better than not being able to play it at all, and even if valve puts their games as linux native, many people will run steam through wine, just to play the games that work well enough under wine, that's own developers have shown no interest in creating a linux port, as I imagine will be the case with many many of the games that are on steam currently.
Well I would say the plus of kickstarter is it fills a need that wasn't being met. The companies with the money, have stopped listening to the fans that buy their products. The same crap has been rehashed 500 times because people with money, will not invest money until after they have seen evidence that the fans will buy that product. The end result came the new methods of selling. Including the method games such as minecraft and project zomboid used by selling the very rough alpha of the game with the promise of future updates, and kickstarters. The end result is that games that otherwise had no way of coming into being have been funded and several released, as the fans have more or less purchased the games in advance to fund the development. While I do agree it shifts the burden of risk onto the fans at least it is shifting the risks onto fans that want to take that risk. Compare that to the banks etc... who gamble with our money whether we want them to or not.
Well I hate to break it to you, but they will likely profit from that, as you aren't buying the phone alone but the $49 for the phone plus oh lets go on the light end and assume $40 a month for 2 years for the service contract you lock yourself into with the phone, thus you still have paid the carrier $960, so they are still at a $610 profit.
On one hand I do like the fact that this has potential to bring games out to the linux market that haven't been there, and to eliminate the viewpoint that there are no gamers on linux. On the other side of the coin, I'm not sure how useful this will actually be for current linux fans. Almost all valve games have gold or platnum wineHQ ratings, as do a huge portion of games on steam. Running steam on wine I can play left4dead, half life, portal 1+2, magika etc... As well as quite a few non-valve games, Skyrim etc... Now assuming valve fully devotes to the project and makes native linux versions of all of their games, it is unlikely that half of the games that can be played via wine, will be ported, making the official linux client, less useful than valves port. As a result many linux users will still be identified as windows users (since wine will identify as windows XP), the numbers for linux will still show as low, and linux support will stay very weak.
Sounds the most plausible to me. Bringing in the most advanced projectors available, and supplying the mass chaos of a convention with 3-D glasses does not seem the most practical. The "Fear of an outcry" makes even less sense to me. I'm worried the fans will complain about the picture quality... so I'm going to provide it in lower picture quality? That arguement dosn't really make much sense to me. If you believe that the extra's improve the film, then the rational response to avoid negative reviews is to put the best possible foot foward. Unless we think Peter Jackson himself see's the 3-D and the 48FPS as a gimic that if anything hurts the film, but he went with them anyway to encorage the investors to let him make the movie.
Megauploads model was not illegal, at least no more so than dropbox etc... No more so than memorex and roxio were in the late 90s. You think memorex really believed that the massive surge in sales for blank CDRs were from people backing up documents? Or roxio believed that most people burning MP3s onto CDs and didn't download them from napster? Megaupload followed the DMCA to a T, they gave the IAA's a tool to instantly pull copywrited materials with the push of a button, something they used freely and even very clumsily (quite a few reports of them killing legitimate software that was using megaupload as their distribution system). Now I admit if the alogations of megaupload actually directly conspiring with others to upload pirated material to megauploads servers are true (what they actually are charged for), then there is a case. However I find it absolutely apauling that the US somehow had the right to shut down a full business BEFORE the trial. If the FBI's case is true, they should have had NZ police establish a search warrent, and check some parts of megaupload (IE they should not have been able to fully close down the business indefinently), then tried him in NZ, and were he found guilty THEN shut him down. This method of bogus due process is ridiculous, could you imagine if the anti-trust cases against microsoft worked that way. "OK we have accusations of antitrust, we need to pull every copy of windows from the shelves, halt all development, and put bill behind bars, once the trial is over we can decide if we'll let you re-release or send you to jail. I dislike microsofts tactics, but even against microsoft I would have found that result BS.
The same could more or less be said about CGI in movies or upgrades to graphics in games. That being said, they can improve the overall quality of movies or games, when they are in the background and not the primary attempted selling point. I think the core issue of 3D movies, is the filmers think to take advantage of it, if something isn't flying in your face every 5 minutes, they are wasting their time. Same could be said about the decrease in quality of movies due to special effects. Many movies are going the direction of porn, where the plot just has to be some loose half attempt to string things together to give half a believable transition from one explosion to the next. If 3D could just go in the background without overtaking and replacing the plot/characters, it could be a good thing. That being said, I don't see it happening until they invent screens that do not need glasses, and that can be watched comparable amounts of time to normal screens without causing headaches etc... Until then 3D is going to be in front and get in the way of the movies/games instead of add a nicer looking background to the movies/games.
There are 2 sides to this IMO, first off I don't consider this top down censorship, because it sounds like an optional service, not a requirement for an ISP. Now yes if it is a requirement, IE you cannot use the ISP without having the filter, or it gets legislated that if you have kids in the house, you must have parental controls turned on, then it becomes censorship. Personally I do have a few dislikes of the idea, namely that if religious groups are going with it, you are bound to have some blatant blocks, say r\atheism could be blocked, but still that is within the bounds of what a parent has the right to do if they chose.
Well considering deaf people are the large majority of who needs this technology. A good portion of them are particularly good lip readers. Especially ones who are in the habit of being around non-deaf people. So them telling you what they want, is a tenfold larger challenge then them understanding your response.
I for one disagree, honestly the QWERTY layout, is a relic of the past. We have dvorak and colemak that are drastically better for the job of typing faster with fewer typos. They aren't adopted because for people already familiar with QWERTY it is hard to learn something new, and we don't insist on having our teachers teach the next generation what is best. Honestly if we started teaching dvorak at the age we start teaching typing, we would have a huge improvement in typing efficiancy for the next generation of kids. Just like we would have drastically easier time in math and sciences, if we started teaching with the metric system. Now as far as the actual topic, I don't see how comparing QWERTY or any keyboard to a system for typing on a celphone has any merit whatsoever. Keyboards aren't going to go away. No matter how efficiant or well designed a system designed for compactness instead of raw speed and ease of use is, it will never compare to a keyboard, and thus never be the ideal choice for anything involving dealing with more than a paragraph at a time. Well that is until we master reading of brain waves and can just think our words onto a screen, but that is probably at least a decade off.
Why would you not use it much if it works better? My guess, is that there are a handful of things that bing does find better than google, lets assume 10-20% of things you search for, when google fails, you use bing, and it happens to do better. google is still better for that 80-90% of things you search for, but the handful of things you can't find easilly on google, can be found easily on bing. If instead of only checking bing on what google works poorly for, try doing your normal searches on both, and see which one has unhelpful results more often. There are many firefox and chrome extensions designed to do just that.
well the greater concern is what the virus is and intends to do. Something doesn't need a root password to say, run an individual keylogger for what that user types, ftp that log file in addition to everything in ~/Documents to a server in sealand, or whatever. If just ruining someones day is the goal rm -rf ~ would pretty much be the kiss of death. Linux's greater strength in the more robust, harder to break root privileges compared to windows, actually doesn't really come into play until linux hits a point where it is targeted well enough to use antivirus software. The main thing I see windows virus's doing with admin rights, is disabling windows updates and preventing AV software from getting the new updates, to ensure it's own position at being ahead in the arms race, stays the same.
Honestly I'm not seeing where apple is more inovative than Microsoft, if anything MS is more innovative than apple IMO. Unless the definition of "innovative" is taking 1-2 existing popular technologies, slightly improving them and putting a big marketing scheme behind it, I just don't see it. Almost everything in the iphones capabilities, were being done by PDA's turned phones, and blackberry's long before them. The reason they started failing wasn't the product at all, it was simply the direction of origin. Start something out as a toy, then advertise that it has business uses = awsome now my boss will let me use a toy for work. Start something out as a business tool and then add the toys = meh I don't really want a business tool. Even if the end point of both paths is exactly the same, the one that has the image of being used for fun first, will win the race.
I would imagine to properly implement multi-screen, the best method would not be to treat it as 1 big ass monitor with a divider in the middle, but instead 2 screens with different designated uses. Look at the DS, even among games that didn't need touch screen (IE the hinderance of a finger blocking the view). The bottom screen was rarely a continuation for the top screen. I could see the same approach for more advanced PC games.
FPS: Primary monitor shows the field of vision, Secondary monitor shows, multi-level more detailed radar, coms information, HP, weapons etc... in some co-op games if it fits the storyline's abilities, possibly field of vision for team mate etc...
RPG: Move all of the party information, skill bars etc... off the primary screen. make them more detailed and easier to see the hotkeys or whatever has been associated etc...
Basically instead of using the monitor to make one huge split function screen, take everything that somewhat clutters the field of vision, but is also critical, and move it to the second monitor.
IMO not informing them of what happened is. Believe it or not disconecting people, does not solve the problem, they buy a new computer take it to geek squad who nukes and paves it and sells them a rediculously overpriced unreliable antivirus. What could help would be to redirect the DNS servers to an informational page on how to clean off the current infection (IE hosting some cleanup tools), with tips of how to avoid infection again. No it won't educate 100% of them, some will take it to geeksquad anyway, some will find the download button and not read anything etc... but SOME will, and some is always better than none.
The walking dead comic is a story, then the characters personalities were sucked dry to make the TV series. Now an FPS.... I just can't see that working, if they do the appropriate mix would be similar to dayZ, but the reality is it will most likely be like left4dead
I'd say that is far from accurate, Bin Laden would never have had the ties and budget if some countries didn't have the religious extremism to support his attack, they clearly had the expectations that Allah would protect them from the impending fallback caused by directly attacking the united states. If one of these middle eastern theocracies got their hands on nukes, I can pretty much be certain their view of self preservation, is drastically lower than one might expect. Honestly I think even parts of the united states want a nuclear war. There are christian fundimentalists who believe that WW3 is the last thing that needs to start before Jesus comes back and saves them all, it is highly probable that that was a small part of Dubya's motivation in picking a fight with Iraq.
Or skip the wake them up phase and wind up with a good news bad news scenerio. Good news, you aren't getting aids... bad news your new cell-mate might.
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Indeed if the packaging looks too good, it might become "cool enough". which would allow the product to be banned.
They voiced their objections, nothing about them lacking substance, being ineffective or anything of the nature. It isn't a fear of it not doing anything, it is a fear that it may cause the student to second guess what he believes.
I don't know about your parenting style if you are a parent, but if I tell my son to do something and he asks why, that is encouraged and a reason is given, things are explained. I don't subject to the "because I said so" mentality of parenting. Sometimes you let them do stupid things to learn and see the consequences. If a parent can't give a good reason for why something can or can't be done, perhaps that isn't a rule that needs to be enforced. Now there are time and places where asking questions isn't a good idea, but those are not as common. IMO if you explain to a child the reasoning behind something, he will make better decisions when no-one is around to tell him not to do something, and while I have his best interests at heart, sometime in his life he will find an authority figure that does not, maybe a crappy boss trying to take advantage of him, maybe a teacher is actually teaching incorrect facts, maybe I'm actually wrong about something. If my son can present me a solid case for why a rule I have is unneeded or wrong I will look over what he gives discuss with him any errors in his logic and possibly adjust the rule. He's allowed to "question" whether I am right all he wants, and if he finds a reason I am not right, then things are adjusted fairly.
The washington post article may not be telling the whole story, but the reasoning and explanations are right in the document. If the texas government was opposed to it because they thought it teaches poorly or has something wrong in the curriculum I could sympathize, the republican party's actual platform documentation specifically states the issue with the programs is "Challenging the students fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority". Quite simply, they oppose the idea of teaching kids to think for themselves instead of blindly following what their parents or other authority figures tell them.
Not to mention the other benefits of OGL. Not just for suppliments, but for the benefit's of web searchable rules. Software character generators etc... In 3.5 if a DM wanted to look something up, d20srd.org was awesome, as long as it was in one of the core rulebooks. If one of your players wants to use something from anything non-core if the DM doesn't own the book then the DM has to borrow the book to actually confirm the legitimacy and that the player is understanding it right etc... Pathfinder, well I can go to d20pfsrd.com or to pathfinders official SRD and look up anything in the game, including what was added in later source books etc... Monsters added in Bestiary 3, check. Races added in advanced race guide released this month, check, etc... Also spectacular from a DM's perspective for when players want to join in the game, but don't have the money to buy any books until they confirm they like the game.
For me anyway, when it comes to finding good reviews of things, I've always found a mass average entirely useless. Just because 10,000 out of 15,000 like something, it has no bearing over if I will like it and quite often leads to the oposite. Instead what I do is I check reviews of the games movies shows etc... that I already have seen, I find the reviewers that are the closest match to how I felt about things in the past. Then I check their reviews of what I haven't seen. It isn't a perfect system, but it works overall, and tends to be more accurate to my tastes than other methods that I have tried. In addition of course actually reading detailed reviews with explanations of why they felt that way. If you are one who is looking for a game for a deep story and the review is 9/10 saying "Great explosions, incredible action at every turn, the graphics were spectacular, the story was a little weak but that is made up for by the incredible pace of the combat", odds are it isn't a good game for someone looking for a deep plot.
I wouldn't even say it is that dependant on gas prices going up much more than they already are. Electric cars just need to overcome the current hurdles. Namely the issue of charging, max speed and battery life. Currently we have a few paradoxes, People aren't going to invest in an infrastructure for charging electric cars, until enough people have them. Only crazy people are going to buy a car that can't work without an infrastructure. If I can't drive a car more than an hour from my house or risk having to have it towed home, that is a big problem. If I can't have it charged up on the way, that is a huge issue. So first off we need technology that can get a good distance per charge, then we need a universal system to allow for charging it (currently without a set agreed upon charging system, we are kind of at a dead end, as no one is going to invest heavily into an infrastructure, that could be the wrong one when all the cars go the other way).
Well yeah obviously it will never outperform native, but the fact does remain that for many games it is good enough, also depends largely on your system, with most games, it gets about 70% of the framerate of running it natively in windows. Which if you are getting it up to 100 FPS in windows it is probably close to an invisible difference as many people can't differentiate 100 vs 70 FPS. Course quite a few factors still go into play, your wine setup etc... and of course as you mentioned, the games themselves have a huge varience for how much the framerate matters, which ones are considered unplayable and which ones are barely noticable, but the fact still is some is better than none. Playing say skyrim at 45 FPS is better than not being able to play it at all, and even if valve puts their games as linux native, many people will run steam through wine, just to play the games that work well enough under wine, that's own developers have shown no interest in creating a linux port, as I imagine will be the case with many many of the games that are on steam currently.
Well I would say the plus of kickstarter is it fills a need that wasn't being met. The companies with the money, have stopped listening to the fans that buy their products. The same crap has been rehashed 500 times because people with money, will not invest money until after they have seen evidence that the fans will buy that product. The end result came the new methods of selling. Including the method games such as minecraft and project zomboid used by selling the very rough alpha of the game with the promise of future updates, and kickstarters. The end result is that games that otherwise had no way of coming into being have been funded and several released, as the fans have more or less purchased the games in advance to fund the development. While I do agree it shifts the burden of risk onto the fans at least it is shifting the risks onto fans that want to take that risk. Compare that to the banks etc... who gamble with our money whether we want them to or not.
Well I hate to break it to you, but they will likely profit from that, as you aren't buying the phone alone but the $49 for the phone plus oh lets go on the light end and assume $40 a month for 2 years for the service contract you lock yourself into with the phone, thus you still have paid the carrier $960, so they are still at a $610 profit.
On one hand I do like the fact that this has potential to bring games out to the linux market that haven't been there, and to eliminate the viewpoint that there are no gamers on linux. On the other side of the coin, I'm not sure how useful this will actually be for current linux fans. Almost all valve games have gold or platnum wineHQ ratings, as do a huge portion of games on steam. Running steam on wine I can play left4dead, half life, portal 1+2, magika etc... As well as quite a few non-valve games, Skyrim etc... Now assuming valve fully devotes to the project and makes native linux versions of all of their games, it is unlikely that half of the games that can be played via wine, will be ported, making the official linux client, less useful than valves port. As a result many linux users will still be identified as windows users (since wine will identify as windows XP), the numbers for linux will still show as low, and linux support will stay very weak.
Sounds the most plausible to me. Bringing in the most advanced projectors available, and supplying the mass chaos of a convention with 3-D glasses does not seem the most practical. The "Fear of an outcry" makes even less sense to me. I'm worried the fans will complain about the picture quality... so I'm going to provide it in lower picture quality? That arguement dosn't really make much sense to me. If you believe that the extra's improve the film, then the rational response to avoid negative reviews is to put the best possible foot foward. Unless we think Peter Jackson himself see's the 3-D and the 48FPS as a gimic that if anything hurts the film, but he went with them anyway to encorage the investors to let him make the movie.
Megauploads model was not illegal, at least no more so than dropbox etc... No more so than memorex and roxio were in the late 90s. You think memorex really believed that the massive surge in sales for blank CDRs were from people backing up documents? Or roxio believed that most people burning MP3s onto CDs and didn't download them from napster? Megaupload followed the DMCA to a T, they gave the IAA's a tool to instantly pull copywrited materials with the push of a button, something they used freely and even very clumsily (quite a few reports of them killing legitimate software that was using megaupload as their distribution system). Now I admit if the alogations of megaupload actually directly conspiring with others to upload pirated material to megauploads servers are true (what they actually are charged for), then there is a case. However I find it absolutely apauling that the US somehow had the right to shut down a full business BEFORE the trial. If the FBI's case is true, they should have had NZ police establish a search warrent, and check some parts of megaupload (IE they should not have been able to fully close down the business indefinently), then tried him in NZ, and were he found guilty THEN shut him down. This method of bogus due process is ridiculous, could you imagine if the anti-trust cases against microsoft worked that way. "OK we have accusations of antitrust, we need to pull every copy of windows from the shelves, halt all development, and put bill behind bars, once the trial is over we can decide if we'll let you re-release or send you to jail. I dislike microsofts tactics, but even against microsoft I would have found that result BS.
The same could more or less be said about CGI in movies or upgrades to graphics in games. That being said, they can improve the overall quality of movies or games, when they are in the background and not the primary attempted selling point. I think the core issue of 3D movies, is the filmers think to take advantage of it, if something isn't flying in your face every 5 minutes, they are wasting their time. Same could be said about the decrease in quality of movies due to special effects. Many movies are going the direction of porn, where the plot just has to be some loose half attempt to string things together to give half a believable transition from one explosion to the next. If 3D could just go in the background without overtaking and replacing the plot/characters, it could be a good thing. That being said, I don't see it happening until they invent screens that do not need glasses, and that can be watched comparable amounts of time to normal screens without causing headaches etc... Until then 3D is going to be in front and get in the way of the movies/games instead of add a nicer looking background to the movies/games.
There are 2 sides to this IMO, first off I don't consider this top down censorship, because it sounds like an optional service, not a requirement for an ISP. Now yes if it is a requirement, IE you cannot use the ISP without having the filter, or it gets legislated that if you have kids in the house, you must have parental controls turned on, then it becomes censorship. Personally I do have a few dislikes of the idea, namely that if religious groups are going with it, you are bound to have some blatant blocks, say r\atheism could be blocked, but still that is within the bounds of what a parent has the right to do if they chose.
Well considering deaf people are the large majority of who needs this technology. A good portion of them are particularly good lip readers. Especially ones who are in the habit of being around non-deaf people. So them telling you what they want, is a tenfold larger challenge then them understanding your response.
I for one disagree, honestly the QWERTY layout, is a relic of the past. We have dvorak and colemak that are drastically better for the job of typing faster with fewer typos. They aren't adopted because for people already familiar with QWERTY it is hard to learn something new, and we don't insist on having our teachers teach the next generation what is best. Honestly if we started teaching dvorak at the age we start teaching typing, we would have a huge improvement in typing efficiancy for the next generation of kids. Just like we would have drastically easier time in math and sciences, if we started teaching with the metric system. Now as far as the actual topic, I don't see how comparing QWERTY or any keyboard to a system for typing on a celphone has any merit whatsoever. Keyboards aren't going to go away. No matter how efficiant or well designed a system designed for compactness instead of raw speed and ease of use is, it will never compare to a keyboard, and thus never be the ideal choice for anything involving dealing with more than a paragraph at a time. Well that is until we master reading of brain waves and can just think our words onto a screen, but that is probably at least a decade off.
Why would you not use it much if it works better? My guess, is that there are a handful of things that bing does find better than google, lets assume 10-20% of things you search for, when google fails, you use bing, and it happens to do better. google is still better for that 80-90% of things you search for, but the handful of things you can't find easilly on google, can be found easily on bing. If instead of only checking bing on what google works poorly for, try doing your normal searches on both, and see which one has unhelpful results more often. There are many firefox and chrome extensions designed to do just that.
well the greater concern is what the virus is and intends to do. Something doesn't need a root password to say, run an individual keylogger for what that user types, ftp that log file in addition to everything in ~/Documents to a server in sealand, or whatever. If just ruining someones day is the goal rm -rf ~ would pretty much be the kiss of death. Linux's greater strength in the more robust, harder to break root privileges compared to windows, actually doesn't really come into play until linux hits a point where it is targeted well enough to use antivirus software. The main thing I see windows virus's doing with admin rights, is disabling windows updates and preventing AV software from getting the new updates, to ensure it's own position at being ahead in the arms race, stays the same.
Honestly I'm not seeing where apple is more inovative than Microsoft, if anything MS is more innovative than apple IMO. Unless the definition of "innovative" is taking 1-2 existing popular technologies, slightly improving them and putting a big marketing scheme behind it, I just don't see it. Almost everything in the iphones capabilities, were being done by PDA's turned phones, and blackberry's long before them. The reason they started failing wasn't the product at all, it was simply the direction of origin. Start something out as a toy, then advertise that it has business uses = awsome now my boss will let me use a toy for work. Start something out as a business tool and then add the toys = meh I don't really want a business tool. Even if the end point of both paths is exactly the same, the one that has the image of being used for fun first, will win the race.
I would imagine to properly implement multi-screen, the best method would not be to treat it as 1 big ass monitor with a divider in the middle, but instead 2 screens with different designated uses. Look at the DS, even among games that didn't need touch screen (IE the hinderance of a finger blocking the view). The bottom screen was rarely a continuation for the top screen. I could see the same approach for more advanced PC games. FPS: Primary monitor shows the field of vision, Secondary monitor shows, multi-level more detailed radar, coms information, HP, weapons etc... in some co-op games if it fits the storyline's abilities, possibly field of vision for team mate etc... RPG: Move all of the party information, skill bars etc... off the primary screen. make them more detailed and easier to see the hotkeys or whatever has been associated etc... Basically instead of using the monitor to make one huge split function screen, take everything that somewhat clutters the field of vision, but is also critical, and move it to the second monitor.
IMO not informing them of what happened is. Believe it or not disconecting people, does not solve the problem, they buy a new computer take it to geek squad who nukes and paves it and sells them a rediculously overpriced unreliable antivirus. What could help would be to redirect the DNS servers to an informational page on how to clean off the current infection (IE hosting some cleanup tools), with tips of how to avoid infection again. No it won't educate 100% of them, some will take it to geeksquad anyway, some will find the download button and not read anything etc... but SOME will, and some is always better than none.
The walking dead comic is a story, then the characters personalities were sucked dry to make the TV series. Now an FPS.... I just can't see that working, if they do the appropriate mix would be similar to dayZ, but the reality is it will most likely be like left4dead
I'd say that is far from accurate, Bin Laden would never have had the ties and budget if some countries didn't have the religious extremism to support his attack, they clearly had the expectations that Allah would protect them from the impending fallback caused by directly attacking the united states. If one of these middle eastern theocracies got their hands on nukes, I can pretty much be certain their view of self preservation, is drastically lower than one might expect. Honestly I think even parts of the united states want a nuclear war. There are christian fundimentalists who believe that WW3 is the last thing that needs to start before Jesus comes back and saves them all, it is highly probable that that was a small part of Dubya's motivation in picking a fight with Iraq.
Or skip the wake them up phase and wind up with a good news bad news scenerio. Good news, you aren't getting aids... bad news your new cell-mate might.