You hold people's post in a webforum to the same standard as a newspaper?
Either you read very shoddy newspapers, or your everyday webbrowsing experience is a very very frustrating experience.
Be that as it may, communication has different modes, or levels, and it's a lot more productive to take the environment in which something was said into account when figuring out what was actually said.
No no, the parent's anecdote only said there is at least one person at Rockstar with a sense of entitlement that supersedes his or her sense of ethics, and at least one gaming journalist who's extremely stupid.
Extrapolating from those facts is left as an exercise for the reader, the game in question has nothing to do with it though.
Clones from Chinese knockoff companies are very easily identified as such. Plus they have less of a need for own prototypes (I don't know how far developed that particular prototype was).
Yeah, it's a problem, been one for a while now.
But what's with that dude posting an email from Rockstar? I'm not defending the email as such, it is bullshit. Posting it on ones Facebook profile is a very stupid thing to do though. Had he spent a little effort to anonymize that drivel he might have would have gotten away with plausible deniability..
Then you have no business selling anything marketed as a "platform".
I wouldn't. Especially not as cheap as MS does. They're practically giving their OS away, expecting them to continue supporting it is pretty harsh.
Computers handling TV capture and embedded controllers have lots of reasons to be connected to the internet(encoding/uploading pirated episodes of Lost?), and even if they weren't, Windows is meant to be 'general purpose'. You're supposed to be able to have it all. People who use other OSes get to.
Really? How well does Apple support its OSes from that time? Most Linux Distribution that were popular in 2001 don't even exist anymore. Are they still supported? Who supports them? Hobbyists I'd guess, and that wouldn't work very well with Windows or MacOSX. That's a completely different discussion though..
Except for the Skype thing, computers handling that kind of stuff have no reason to be connected to the Internet.
And I personally, I wouldn't continue support some old software of mine just because some other guy's software relies on it.
So, either firewall that Skype box as much as possible and hope you won't be victim of a Skype exploit, or realize you failed in that particular investment.
Seriously? People put up with that barely working binary only blob for ages, have been coding around it, thought up hacks like ndiswrapper, all while the filetype is openly documented?
I agree it's a theater, making people feel more secure somehow.
But there are many opportunities for MitM attacks for Google queries, and making those harder does make sense.
Google came forward with it? It says something about "after prodding from the Germans" in the summary. While I don't know exactly how this prodding was done, it means the Google did not came forward voluntarily, admitting their mistake, before someone was on to them.
Unsecured WiFi networks might technically be like a radio station, but they're not meant to be. Nobody broadcasts on an open WLAN because they want an audience.
Public is not the opposite of private on every level. You should not have to give up your right for privacy in public places either. Otherwise, camera surveillance (with face recognition), vehicle tracking, high range RFID readers (for electronic passports), etc. in public places would not be a problem. But they are.
I think your tinfoil hat's on too tight.
Not refuting your observations of Germany's ministry of interior, but from what Google has said it has gathered, there is no value in this information they are trying to get. Just a few packets if WIFI payload data, big deal.
So, if Google has collected more information, information the Government would want, people should know about it. Or it hasn't and the Government wants to make sure. Which is a reasonable thing to do.
Still sucks for Google of course, but c'mon, that's was a pretty stupid thing to do, collecting people's traffic...
You're giving a company the benefit of the doubt. Interesting.
I don't know about the law wherever Canonical is based, but usually companies are required by law to first and foremost generate revenue.
Anyways, reencoding an MP3 to OGG (converting one lossy format into another lossy format) is a bad idea.
Last I heard, electric vehicles were very limited in their range. Which doesn't seem to suit a country as large as Australia.
Have I missed some huge jump in development?
Interesting. I would have expected Playstation Network to have some kind of age filter, so kids can only get access to things appropriate for their age. The community part of Little Big Planet is a big part of the game, and as far as I have seen it's safe for children.
You think they haven't thought of that?
They only have statistics to go on, like what percentage of the population would buy games at all, what percentage has broadband access, how many of those can or would buy their games, and of those, how many are broadband subscribers.
Following those stats, it's not hard to see how they would think a large enough amount of their potential customers has net access, especially in this case - it's a download title after all.
Why anyone would buy any of those in the first place is beyond me...
Of course a PDF file doesn't replace paper. Otherwise, book piracy would be as widespread as music/movie piracy is.
Paper manual can get passed around when taking turns playing a game (e-Reader are not common enough), their content can easily be changed (by taking notes, marking text, folding pages... Things e-Readers can't do very well yet)...
So yes, I'd always prefer paper to some file, except when I have to carry it around a lot.
[...] and I said that having a large family when you lack a very large income means the PARENTS are stupid.
Maybe they're unable to control their urges, maybe their religion prohibits birth control. This is a layer (for lack of a better word) of human behavior that's not related to cognitive ability.
Ignorant intelligence and Ignorant stupidity are effectively identical in their results.
There are some cases where people solved problems outside their field partly because they weren't trained in that field. Enabled them to go about things differently.
I'm not even so sure Einstein would have come up with relativity if he were a trained physicist.
Many musicians I know play the way they do partly because they aren't trained. Were they educated musicians, their music would most likely not exist. Sure, it's not very likely they'll have a direct influence on human culture, but I for one wouldn't want to miss their way of making music.
Furthermore, there is only one thing more dangerous and actively HARMFUL to society than ignorance and that is DELIBERATE ignorance, choosing to ignore facts that don't fit your worldview rather than adjusting it. Intriguingly willful and deliberate ignorance (like religion with which it is closely associated) is primarily an activity of people with little or no education.
A lot of very smart and educated people are religious. It's not anyone's business to judge people or their effect on society based on religion.
Freedom of religion was a very important advancement of human culture.
Sorry, equality is a principle of how the government and law should treat our rights, not a fact of life. Equality means that stupid people have just as much free speech as smart people, it doesn't mean they will use it with the same benefit to society. Some people ARE better than others, mostly because they worked harder to GET better. That's the entire point of meritocratic thinking.
There just isn't a way to quantify how much good a person does to society. I've seen very highly educated people do as many stupid things as I've seen otherwise ignorant people do what turned out to be the right thing[tm] intuitively.
You do KNOW that there is a direct correlation between the education level of a society and the strength of it's economy right ? That education shows a direct CAUSAL correlation to personal wealth, success and achievement right ? Yet you don't think that it's a PROBLEM that the vast majority of people in the world are born without access to it ? Largely because their parents, having been denied that same access, had more children than they could afford to ?
You yourself know better than to turn a correlation into a causality. Public education came along when it was in the state's best interest to educate their people. Starting with the French revolution, when there was a need for citizen's army and therefor a need for educated citizens. The time following that revolution was not exactly a prime example of a time where people had a chance for "personal wealth, success and achievement".
Reducing the issues of developing countries to their lack of education is a very simplistic approach. Of course it's an issue, but not any more so than them being unable to feed their population.
And don't go blaming that on their lack of education. Circular arguments don't take you anywhere. They reproduce because it's in their economic interest to do so, as children are a cheap workforce. That doesn't always turn out that way, but often enough it does.
People have been able to feed themselves before there was education.
If "everyone" is smart, then nobody is. Funny how they ONLY do this with intelligence.
"Intelligence" isn't acurately defined. Not in it's common use at least. There are many different personality traits besides measurable IQ that are perceived as "intelligence", which makes it possible for many very different people to claim it.
Only from a very arrogant, elitist standpoint.
Every human, no matter how dumbed down, has some kind of drive to accomplish something. That drive was not taken into consideration in Idiocracy's portrayal of the future.
Aren't you romantic.
The primary purpose of having a sexual relationship remains the continued survival of the species. Love and companionship - that you can get from friends, without the strain of an exclusive, longterm relationship that's ultimately founded on two people's need for sex and self reproduction, i.e. their instincts.
Naturally it's nice to reproduce, if it weren't the species would have died out a long time ago.
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You hold people's post in a webforum to the same standard as a newspaper?
Either you read very shoddy newspapers, or your everyday webbrowsing experience is a very very frustrating experience.
Be that as it may, communication has different modes, or levels, and it's a lot more productive to take the environment in which something was said into account when figuring out what was actually said.
No no, the parent's anecdote only said there is at least one person at Rockstar with a sense of entitlement that supersedes his or her sense of ethics, and at least one gaming journalist who's extremely stupid.
Extrapolating from those facts is left as an exercise for the reader, the game in question has nothing to do with it though.
Clones from Chinese knockoff companies are very easily identified as such. Plus they have less of a need for own prototypes (I don't know how far developed that particular prototype was).
Hehe yeah, that iPhone prototype could be anybody's!
Yeah, it's a problem, been one for a while now.
But what's with that dude posting an email from Rockstar? I'm not defending the email as such, it is bullshit. Posting it on ones Facebook profile is a very stupid thing to do though. Had he spent a little effort to anonymize that drivel he might have would have gotten away with plausible deniability..
Then you have no business selling anything marketed as a "platform".
I wouldn't. Especially not as cheap as MS does. They're practically giving their OS away, expecting them to continue supporting it is pretty harsh.
Computers handling TV capture and embedded controllers have lots of reasons to be connected to the internet(encoding/uploading pirated episodes of Lost?), and even if they weren't, Windows is meant to be 'general purpose'. You're supposed to be able to have it all. People who use other OSes get to.
Really? How well does Apple support its OSes from that time? Most Linux Distribution that were popular in 2001 don't even exist anymore. Are they still supported? Who supports them? Hobbyists I'd guess, and that wouldn't work very well with Windows or MacOSX. That's a completely different discussion though..
Except for the Skype thing, computers handling that kind of stuff have no reason to be connected to the Internet.
And I personally, I wouldn't continue support some old software of mine just because some other guy's software relies on it.
So, either firewall that Skype box as much as possible and hope you won't be victim of a Skype exploit, or realize you failed in that particular investment.
Seriously? People put up with that barely working binary only blob for ages, have been coding around it, thought up hacks like ndiswrapper, all while the filetype is openly documented?
I agree it's a theater, making people feel more secure somehow.
But there are many opportunities for MitM attacks for Google queries, and making those harder does make sense.
Just a reading comprehension test.
You fail by the way. Epically.
Google came forward with it? It says something about "after prodding from the Germans" in the summary. While I don't know exactly how this prodding was done, it means the Google did not came forward voluntarily, admitting their mistake, before someone was on to them.
Unsecured WiFi networks might technically be like a radio station, but they're not meant to be. Nobody broadcasts on an open WLAN because they want an audience.
Public is not the opposite of private on every level. You should not have to give up your right for privacy in public places either. Otherwise, camera surveillance (with face recognition), vehicle tracking, high range RFID readers (for electronic passports), etc. in public places would not be a problem. But they are.
I think your tinfoil hat's on too tight.
Not refuting your observations of Germany's ministry of interior, but from what Google has said it has gathered, there is no value in this information they are trying to get. Just a few packets if WIFI payload data, big deal.
So, if Google has collected more information, information the Government would want, people should know about it. Or it hasn't and the Government wants to make sure. Which is a reasonable thing to do.
Still sucks for Google of course, but c'mon, that's was a pretty stupid thing to do, collecting people's traffic...
You're giving a company the benefit of the doubt. Interesting.
I don't know about the law wherever Canonical is based, but usually companies are required by law to first and foremost generate revenue.
Anyways, reencoding an MP3 to OGG (converting one lossy format into another lossy format) is a bad idea.
Oh, Austria. Never mind then..
Last I heard, electric vehicles were very limited in their range. Which doesn't seem to suit a country as large as Australia.
Have I missed some huge jump in development?
It's news to me too, but that 250 Mbps you're talking about indeed does require gigabit ethernet.
Interesting. I would have expected Playstation Network to have some kind of age filter, so kids can only get access to things appropriate for their age. The community part of Little Big Planet is a big part of the game, and as far as I have seen it's safe for children.
You hear that distant sobbing as Sony cries itself to sleep?
No? Me neither.
You think they haven't thought of that?
They only have statistics to go on, like what percentage of the population would buy games at all, what percentage has broadband access, how many of those can or would buy their games, and of those, how many are broadband subscribers.
Following those stats, it's not hard to see how they would think a large enough amount of their potential customers has net access, especially in this case - it's a download title after all.
Why anyone would buy any of those in the first place is beyond me...
Sounds interesting. Which of those many Spring Engine based RTS games would you recommend?
Of course a PDF file doesn't replace paper. Otherwise, book piracy would be as widespread as music/movie piracy is.
Paper manual can get passed around when taking turns playing a game (e-Reader are not common enough), their content can easily be changed (by taking notes, marking text, folding pages... Things e-Readers can't do very well yet)...
So yes, I'd always prefer paper to some file, except when I have to carry it around a lot.
[...] and I said that having a large family when you lack a very large income means the PARENTS are stupid.
Maybe they're unable to control their urges, maybe their religion prohibits birth control. This is a layer (for lack of a better word) of human behavior that's not related to cognitive ability.
Ignorant intelligence and Ignorant stupidity are effectively identical in their results.
There are some cases where people solved problems outside their field partly because they weren't trained in that field. Enabled them to go about things differently.
I'm not even so sure Einstein would have come up with relativity if he were a trained physicist.
Many musicians I know play the way they do partly because they aren't trained. Were they educated musicians, their music would most likely not exist. Sure, it's not very likely they'll have a direct influence on human culture, but I for one wouldn't want to miss their way of making music.
Furthermore, there is only one thing more dangerous and actively HARMFUL to society than ignorance and that is DELIBERATE ignorance, choosing to ignore facts that don't fit your worldview rather than adjusting it. Intriguingly willful and deliberate ignorance (like religion with which it is closely associated) is primarily an activity of people with little or no education.
A lot of very smart and educated people are religious. It's not anyone's business to judge people or their effect on society based on religion.
Freedom of religion was a very important advancement of human culture.
Sorry, equality is a principle of how the government and law should treat our rights, not a fact of life. Equality means that stupid people have just as much free speech as smart people, it doesn't mean they will use it with the same benefit to society. Some people ARE better than others, mostly because they worked harder to GET better. That's the entire point of meritocratic thinking.
There just isn't a way to quantify how much good a person does to society. I've seen very highly educated people do as many stupid things as I've seen otherwise ignorant people do what turned out to be the right thing[tm] intuitively.
You do KNOW that there is a direct correlation between the education level of a society and the strength of it's economy right ? That education shows a direct CAUSAL correlation to personal wealth, success and achievement right ? Yet you don't think that it's a PROBLEM that the vast majority of people in the world are born without access to it ? Largely because their parents, having been denied that same access, had more children than they could afford to ?
You yourself know better than to turn a correlation into a causality. Public education came along when it was in the state's best interest to educate their people. Starting with the French revolution, when there was a need for citizen's army and therefor a need for educated citizens. The time following that revolution was not exactly a prime example of a time where people had a chance for "personal wealth, success and achievement".
Reducing the issues of developing countries to their lack of education is a very simplistic approach. Of course it's an issue, but not any more so than them being unable to feed their population.
And don't go blaming that on their lack of education. Circular arguments don't take you anywhere. They reproduce because it's in their economic interest to do so, as children are a cheap workforce. That doesn't always turn out that way, but often enough it does.
People have been able to feed themselves before there was education.
If "everyone" is smart, then nobody is. Funny how they ONLY do this with intelligence.
"Intelligence" isn't acurately defined. Not in it's common use at least. There are many different personality traits besides measurable IQ that are perceived as "intelligence", which makes it possible for many very different people to claim it.
Only from a very arrogant, elitist standpoint.
Every human, no matter how dumbed down, has some kind of drive to accomplish something. That drive was not taken into consideration in Idiocracy's portrayal of the future.
Don't go bashing philosophy. It's the mother of all science, after all.
No way to anticipate where philosophical thought can lead, dismissing it doesn't seem like a very smart thing to do.
Aren't you romantic.
The primary purpose of having a sexual relationship remains the continued survival of the species. Love and companionship - that you can get from friends, without the strain of an exclusive, longterm relationship that's ultimately founded on two people's need for sex and self reproduction, i.e. their instincts.
Naturally it's nice to reproduce, if it weren't the species would have died out a long time ago.