actually I'm more currious, what enforces the stranger to call you, I know there is a robot for backup to them if they aren't available, but what happens if they let it ring once and hang up imidiately? I mean wouldn't the service be a bit risky to count on.
Well what if we find really primative aliens with rediculously long life, that just happen to be rediculously durrable but dumb as bricks. IE somehow capable of surviving the vaccume of space, and the pressure of ground level earth, and entery into earths atmosphere, and somehow live for a few billion years to make the trip via leaping off a native asteroid. OK that's a pretty pathetic stretch, but technically not imposible
aye, while I agree there is little defense for what the rioters do, there is something important about them having the technology to have either option. You can't ban talking to each-other, or even saying specific things (even if it is down with big brother). The right to say things the government dosn't want you to say should be fought for, regardless of the consequences, and banning twitter etc... just gives the rioters/looters something to justify their actions with.
Microsoft is desperate to land a successful product outside of their OS business. Microsoft sees that the cloud is posing a serious threat to the home desktop market. (web based apps means all OS's are equal, they have to actually compete on features, reliability and price, rather then keep the loop of "everyone codes for windows because that's where the users are, all the users stay with windows because that's what all the software is written for"). As a result of this Microsoft knows that they can't necessarily rely on pulling in troffs of money from windows forever, and absolutely must get a grip in some other market, no matter how much the upfront cost is.
It is a valid point, but you also are forgetting, they are chasing after webos developers, which had even lower chance of success out of the gate then WP7 (pretty much equal odds but minus a company that will continue to poor heaps of money into a failing project for years in a desperate hope it will eventually turn profitable).
Neither you nor he can know for certain what happened. There is an absence of facts on either side. It certainly falls within plausibility that a 14 year old can in fact be comparable strength to a 17 year old, at the very least it is guaranteed strong enough to hurt one that isn't fighting back if he sets his mind to it. I certainly agree that the child's own words are crap for evidence, but if it lines up with witnesses it certainly could be the truth, and regardless of the fault, or a 4 year age difference, a school fight is ridiculous way to get put on the "violent offender" list, expelled from school is perfectly reasonable. Tried as an adult is just madness.
I would have to assume a very large percentage of blind people are on disability. Someone who has just turned blind almost certainly is on disability (Not many people have jobs that can be done blind these days, can you name 3 jobs that don't involve navigating thin hallways, operating a computer (obviously not your computer so it hasn't been specially adapted for the blind), handling money etc.... Secondly money and experience, I'm sure the basics of the hand sonar will not take long, but actually using it efficiently for many tasks isn't necessarily going to be easy or an instant gain of knowledge, nor is the device itself going to be cheap or free. Not to say this idea doesn't have advantages, particularly if their isn't a location for the echolocation schools nearby and so on. Both methods have advantages and disadvantages.
This much is true, currently but they aren't above reason to fear now. Between apple, android etc moving forward, and the lack of incentive to care about what OS a computer is running, 1 bad business decision could lose them everything. They are essentially in the same position they were in during the browser wars. IE an insanely huge lead, no competition eating more then 5% of their market, and best of all half the internet needed IE, even if you liked Netscape or Mozilla (original Mozilla) better, most pages wouldn't load right and half would reject you. Then the web shifted, firefox was released, and pages began setting themselves to work universally regardless of browser, choices existed and people used them. We are hitting that point with the OS market now, more and more software is moving to web based, meaning you can edit the file in google docs on your windows desktop, your linux desktop, your IPad, or whatever you feel like using. When microsoft loses it's you can switch but your stuff won't work form of lock in, their market-share plummets fast. It won't necessarily be to linux, but it could be to anyone, even chromeOS or a new variant of android, can be a significant threat right now.
I'd imagine the retailer would just assume a few people are griefing them. They know you bought it just to return it pretty quickly (who on earth would buy the game and then hand it right back unopened? If you are smart enough to read labels and notice the warning about the DRM, you would have been smart enough to do it before you paid for it. The only thing this idea would accomplish is to annoy one minimum wage EB employee.
Didn't Microsoft once say something along the lines of, it is better to have someone pirate the OS, then to lose them to linux or other competitors?, Stacked with the rapid growth of cloud applications and the age of everything being done in the browser. I am seeing less and less reason to care what OS your system is running. For anything other then some PC games, is there really any motivation to fork over $200 for a windows license?
There are still other flaws, things that can be dangerous to the students within schools, If there are only 2 black students, and 15 white students in a class, both black students are doing terrible, The teacher may be afraid to fail them due to the risk of frivolous lawsuits or accusations of racism that can damn a career whether they succeed or fail. The fact is they can't prove or disprove anything of racism, the only fair way to test would be to have a white person and a black person submit identical papers, forge it so their histories are identical, send the white guys application to 50+ reviewers, and the black guys application to a different 50+ reviewers, then compare their rates. It may be racism, it might not be racism, but I believe trying to claim "The only reason I didn't get the job/grant/acceptance/promotion is because I am Black/Female/Asian/whatever is in more cases then not, a bogus claim, that then turns into a self fulfilling prophesy, almost everyone I have heard blame their race/gender for things, is almost always an underachiever hiding behind it saying they don't have a chance anyway.
Admitted I don't believe an extinction event or a normal meteor would be the chosen means to destroy humanity if they got here, unless they are on some sort of religious crusade, I can't see a sane reason for another species to really care one way or another about humans. Either our planet has something they want and they will come for it, or it doesn't and they won't. Odds are I would imagine some sort of technology to kill humans and leave almost everything else unharmed.
At least until it is invalidated by a rich oil or power company that will dig up some retarded vague patent that says something on the lines of "solar panels arranged in a unique way to generate more power. Patents are only overly dangerous when you have the lawyers to abuse them. Without a lawyer hoard they only sometimes can protect you from misuse of the invention.
Well you do also have to keep in mind that on a good movie, they can cram it down peoples throats on new mediums repeatedly and continue profiting for decades, while games tend to make little to nothing 5 years after their initial launch. How many games from the PSX/N64 era have you seen legitimate copies being sold for? Admitted they have just recently started figuring out they can nickle and dime them with Wii downloads and the like. But in general video games have a window of time where they are wanted, and even the classics will never be worth more then a dollar in any other format. Meanwhile movies, can be re-released in every new format that comes out, and people will still pay full price for them every time they are released. You wouldn't be surprised to see someone buying the DVD/Blu ray of the wizard of oz, the first 3 star wars movies, The naked gun, Monty python etc... for $15-$30, but you would probably be surprised to see someone spend over $5 on, super Mario world, metroid etc... Despite the fact that both industries have a continual boost in special effects/graphics, movie fans will continue to see the full value in the old movies, gamers will rarely pay over $1 for a 5 year old game.
Well you can play the game on their normal websites if that is what you are after, I mean that is the only reason to put a game on a social network, is for it to be socialized I thought. Angry birds is available on chromes app store, most of the others are available on their own sites where they don't have to involve your friends.
I do agree that the general concept of getting general ideas for robots and advancing them is a good idea, although I do have to question the practicality of focusing on making them bipeds, Evolution saw biped as a function that wasn't worth adding for a very long time, instead it spent a few Milena on mastering quadrupeds while it waited for the AI to catch up to handle the balancing act that is biped walking (and even those units take close to a year to calibrate themselves), Personally I would imagine a modified tank tread system could be modified to get them fairly efficiently to most places humans go, just add a secondary system for tight turns etc... and some decent balance/grip mechanism for stairs. I think the emphasis on bipedal robots is what is slowing down the process of actually accomplishing most of what they are intended to do.
Well for the second one, what exactly is the point of playing the game on a social network if it isn't limiting the high scores it shows you to the high scores of your friends. I mean lets face it if you wanted a global high score, then you would be playing on kongregate or something, if you wanted to compare your high score to your close friends, well then the game would have to know who your close friends are to do that wouldn't it?
Have you ever used ghostery or similar plugins. Have you ever noticed what percentage of web pages have "Like" buttons at the bottom of them etc? Ever seen an advertisement on a page that has your friends list on it (ok well you probably use ad-block to hide that, but it is still tracking you more likely then not but if you are taking action to protect yourself then it's a moot point for either service), If you think facebook only advertises and gathers your information from people who are currently at facebook.com you are dead wrong.
I believe the way google has it set up, is better for all users (including those that want to play those types of games), but less attractive for developing games like farmville and the like. If the user wants to play the game, there's a seperate tab for all of the games to post their crap to. It will not go on the feeds and will not get in the way of anything else. I imagine this will be bad for zynga and the like because spamming people who don't play games is their preferred method of advertising.
From what I can see it just looks at a list of your friends, so that it can cross reference it with the list it has of people playing. It dosn't bug your friends, but when you clear a level, it shows you the high scores of people on your friends list. In the case of angry birds it also has certain levels that are unlocked by totaling the stars of you and all of your friends. The best part, not one of my friends has ever gotten a Timmy wants you on angry birds, message or anything like that.
Well it is true that this is at least the second time Microsoft has proven that IE blocks more dangerous URLs, but the bigger question is, which browser actually catches infections from the URLs. Via this study it would consider me browsing to a site infected with a script that can't even have a chance of infecting my computer as a failure (say whatever vulnerability the site attempts to take advantage of was already patched 3 years prior, or never even effected the browser being tested). While simultaneously ignoring the risk of infections from legitimate sites that chose to display the wrong advertisement, or were hacked.
Well being caught may or may not imply he was a terrible driver. Depends what got the officers attention. Maybe the officer pulled him over because he swerved or almost hit another car, maybe the officer pulled him over because he was looking through his window and saw the guys knees on the wheel, and before you use the excuse if he were paying attention he'd have seen the cop, the guy may not have thought about what he was doing as a crime.
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actually I'm more currious, what enforces the stranger to call you, I know there is a robot for backup to them if they aren't available, but what happens if they let it ring once and hang up imidiately? I mean wouldn't the service be a bit risky to count on.
Well what if we find really primative aliens with rediculously long life, that just happen to be rediculously durrable but dumb as bricks. IE somehow capable of surviving the vaccume of space, and the pressure of ground level earth, and entery into earths atmosphere, and somehow live for a few billion years to make the trip via leaping off a native asteroid. OK that's a pretty pathetic stretch, but technically not imposible
aye, while I agree there is little defense for what the rioters do, there is something important about them having the technology to have either option. You can't ban talking to each-other, or even saying specific things (even if it is down with big brother). The right to say things the government dosn't want you to say should be fought for, regardless of the consequences, and banning twitter etc... just gives the rioters/looters something to justify their actions with.
Microsoft is desperate to land a successful product outside of their OS business. Microsoft sees that the cloud is posing a serious threat to the home desktop market. (web based apps means all OS's are equal, they have to actually compete on features, reliability and price, rather then keep the loop of "everyone codes for windows because that's where the users are, all the users stay with windows because that's what all the software is written for"). As a result of this Microsoft knows that they can't necessarily rely on pulling in troffs of money from windows forever, and absolutely must get a grip in some other market, no matter how much the upfront cost is.
It is a valid point, but you also are forgetting, they are chasing after webos developers, which had even lower chance of success out of the gate then WP7 (pretty much equal odds but minus a company that will continue to poor heaps of money into a failing project for years in a desperate hope it will eventually turn profitable).
Neither you nor he can know for certain what happened. There is an absence of facts on either side. It certainly falls within plausibility that a 14 year old can in fact be comparable strength to a 17 year old, at the very least it is guaranteed strong enough to hurt one that isn't fighting back if he sets his mind to it. I certainly agree that the child's own words are crap for evidence, but if it lines up with witnesses it certainly could be the truth, and regardless of the fault, or a 4 year age difference, a school fight is ridiculous way to get put on the "violent offender" list, expelled from school is perfectly reasonable. Tried as an adult is just madness.
I would have to assume a very large percentage of blind people are on disability. Someone who has just turned blind almost certainly is on disability (Not many people have jobs that can be done blind these days, can you name 3 jobs that don't involve navigating thin hallways, operating a computer (obviously not your computer so it hasn't been specially adapted for the blind), handling money etc.... Secondly money and experience, I'm sure the basics of the hand sonar will not take long, but actually using it efficiently for many tasks isn't necessarily going to be easy or an instant gain of knowledge, nor is the device itself going to be cheap or free. Not to say this idea doesn't have advantages, particularly if their isn't a location for the echolocation schools nearby and so on. Both methods have advantages and disadvantages.
No RMS didn't patent smell different, he licensed it under GPL so that all hard core OS enthusiasts can use it.
This much is true, currently but they aren't above reason to fear now. Between apple, android etc moving forward, and the lack of incentive to care about what OS a computer is running, 1 bad business decision could lose them everything. They are essentially in the same position they were in during the browser wars. IE an insanely huge lead, no competition eating more then 5% of their market, and best of all half the internet needed IE, even if you liked Netscape or Mozilla (original Mozilla) better, most pages wouldn't load right and half would reject you. Then the web shifted, firefox was released, and pages began setting themselves to work universally regardless of browser, choices existed and people used them. We are hitting that point with the OS market now, more and more software is moving to web based, meaning you can edit the file in google docs on your windows desktop, your linux desktop, your IPad, or whatever you feel like using. When microsoft loses it's you can switch but your stuff won't work form of lock in, their market-share plummets fast. It won't necessarily be to linux, but it could be to anyone, even chromeOS or a new variant of android, can be a significant threat right now.
I'd imagine the retailer would just assume a few people are griefing them. They know you bought it just to return it pretty quickly (who on earth would buy the game and then hand it right back unopened? If you are smart enough to read labels and notice the warning about the DRM, you would have been smart enough to do it before you paid for it. The only thing this idea would accomplish is to annoy one minimum wage EB employee.
Didn't Microsoft once say something along the lines of, it is better to have someone pirate the OS, then to lose them to linux or other competitors?, Stacked with the rapid growth of cloud applications and the age of everything being done in the browser. I am seeing less and less reason to care what OS your system is running. For anything other then some PC games, is there really any motivation to fork over $200 for a windows license?
There are still other flaws, things that can be dangerous to the students within schools, If there are only 2 black students, and 15 white students in a class, both black students are doing terrible, The teacher may be afraid to fail them due to the risk of frivolous lawsuits or accusations of racism that can damn a career whether they succeed or fail. The fact is they can't prove or disprove anything of racism, the only fair way to test would be to have a white person and a black person submit identical papers, forge it so their histories are identical, send the white guys application to 50+ reviewers, and the black guys application to a different 50+ reviewers, then compare their rates. It may be racism, it might not be racism, but I believe trying to claim "The only reason I didn't get the job/grant/acceptance/promotion is because I am Black/Female/Asian/whatever is in more cases then not, a bogus claim, that then turns into a self fulfilling prophesy, almost everyone I have heard blame their race/gender for things, is almost always an underachiever hiding behind it saying they don't have a chance anyway.
Admitted I don't believe an extinction event or a normal meteor would be the chosen means to destroy humanity if they got here, unless they are on some sort of religious crusade, I can't see a sane reason for another species to really care one way or another about humans. Either our planet has something they want and they will come for it, or it doesn't and they won't. Odds are I would imagine some sort of technology to kill humans and leave almost everything else unharmed.
At least until it is invalidated by a rich oil or power company that will dig up some retarded vague patent that says something on the lines of "solar panels arranged in a unique way to generate more power. Patents are only overly dangerous when you have the lawyers to abuse them. Without a lawyer hoard they only sometimes can protect you from misuse of the invention.
Well you do also have to keep in mind that on a good movie, they can cram it down peoples throats on new mediums repeatedly and continue profiting for decades, while games tend to make little to nothing 5 years after their initial launch. How many games from the PSX/N64 era have you seen legitimate copies being sold for? Admitted they have just recently started figuring out they can nickle and dime them with Wii downloads and the like. But in general video games have a window of time where they are wanted, and even the classics will never be worth more then a dollar in any other format. Meanwhile movies, can be re-released in every new format that comes out, and people will still pay full price for them every time they are released. You wouldn't be surprised to see someone buying the DVD/Blu ray of the wizard of oz, the first 3 star wars movies, The naked gun, Monty python etc... for $15-$30, but you would probably be surprised to see someone spend over $5 on, super Mario world, metroid etc... Despite the fact that both industries have a continual boost in special effects/graphics, movie fans will continue to see the full value in the old movies, gamers will rarely pay over $1 for a 5 year old game.
Well you can play the game on their normal websites if that is what you are after, I mean that is the only reason to put a game on a social network, is for it to be socialized I thought. Angry birds is available on chromes app store, most of the others are available on their own sites where they don't have to involve your friends.
I do agree that the general concept of getting general ideas for robots and advancing them is a good idea, although I do have to question the practicality of focusing on making them bipeds, Evolution saw biped as a function that wasn't worth adding for a very long time, instead it spent a few Milena on mastering quadrupeds while it waited for the AI to catch up to handle the balancing act that is biped walking (and even those units take close to a year to calibrate themselves), Personally I would imagine a modified tank tread system could be modified to get them fairly efficiently to most places humans go, just add a secondary system for tight turns etc... and some decent balance/grip mechanism for stairs. I think the emphasis on bipedal robots is what is slowing down the process of actually accomplishing most of what they are intended to do.
I wouldn't say none of them https://www.google.com/takeout/
Well for the second one, what exactly is the point of playing the game on a social network if it isn't limiting the high scores it shows you to the high scores of your friends. I mean lets face it if you wanted a global high score, then you would be playing on kongregate or something, if you wanted to compare your high score to your close friends, well then the game would have to know who your close friends are to do that wouldn't it?
Have you ever used ghostery or similar plugins. Have you ever noticed what percentage of web pages have "Like" buttons at the bottom of them etc? Ever seen an advertisement on a page that has your friends list on it (ok well you probably use ad-block to hide that, but it is still tracking you more likely then not but if you are taking action to protect yourself then it's a moot point for either service), If you think facebook only advertises and gathers your information from people who are currently at facebook.com you are dead wrong.
I believe the way google has it set up, is better for all users (including those that want to play those types of games), but less attractive for developing games like farmville and the like. If the user wants to play the game, there's a seperate tab for all of the games to post their crap to. It will not go on the feeds and will not get in the way of anything else. I imagine this will be bad for zynga and the like because spamming people who don't play games is their preferred method of advertising.
Slow at copying facebook's features? They seem to be much faster at it then Facebook was at copying them from MySpace
From what I can see it just looks at a list of your friends, so that it can cross reference it with the list it has of people playing. It dosn't bug your friends, but when you clear a level, it shows you the high scores of people on your friends list. In the case of angry birds it also has certain levels that are unlocked by totaling the stars of you and all of your friends. The best part, not one of my friends has ever gotten a Timmy wants you on angry birds, message or anything like that.
Well it is true that this is at least the second time Microsoft has proven that IE blocks more dangerous URLs, but the bigger question is, which browser actually catches infections from the URLs. Via this study it would consider me browsing to a site infected with a script that can't even have a chance of infecting my computer as a failure (say whatever vulnerability the site attempts to take advantage of was already patched 3 years prior, or never even effected the browser being tested). While simultaneously ignoring the risk of infections from legitimate sites that chose to display the wrong advertisement, or were hacked.
Well being caught may or may not imply he was a terrible driver. Depends what got the officers attention. Maybe the officer pulled him over because he swerved or almost hit another car, maybe the officer pulled him over because he was looking through his window and saw the guys knees on the wheel, and before you use the excuse if he were paying attention he'd have seen the cop, the guy may not have thought about what he was doing as a crime.