The same argument of "it would be hard to use" was made about personal computers. The original ones were, I will say, rather difficult for anyone who wasn't a hard-core geek to use, and they became more and more user-friendly over time as lessons were learned.
Why wouldn't the same hold true for such a thing as this?
I can easily imagine a faceplate that is like the Nintendo DS that has a few icons on it. You touch the icon for phone, and the display turns to be like a phone - and fully customizable at that. You touch another icon for music and the display looks like whatever your ideal music interface is. And so on for all the gadgets.
Now, would I want a Microsoft gadget like this? Almost certainly not (at least until version 3 at the earliest) - they don't make the most user-friendly gadgets in the world. I'd want one made by Apple almost certainly (if I could afford it) - they spend more time on the user experience than any other company I can immediately think of.
Feature rich does NOT mean harder to use, even though it often seems that way.
- Video/photo display - Cell phone capability - iPaq-ish hand-held computer/PSP type deal. - Music (natch - any format) - Camera (still/video) - Radio (bonus for satellite radio) - Wireless 'net connection
Basically, replace all the hand-held gadgets I carry around with me with 1 super gadget.
I don't like it that, if I am listening to music and my cell-phone rings I have to take out my earbuds to take the call. I don't like it that I need to carry (currently) 3 gadgets (PDA, music player, cell phone) that, really, feel like they *could* be redundant if only. I don't like that I can't listen to the radio instead of my music when I want a change of pace.
5 years from now I'll probably have a whole host of new capabilities I'd want added in.
So, no, I don't think there's any risk of hitting that "ideal" design situation.
As for "where to go" with the iMac - how about making it wearable (the mini is almost there, except for the power supply)? How about replacing the display with a projection system or - even better - an "enhanced reality" glasses-based display? The all-in-one flat iMac they have now is great for mounting on a wall, but I'd really rather have something that's more portable and has an interface that's more natural than keyboard, mouse, monitor.
God never said it to me. I must have been sick the day God came to school for show and tell or whatever.
Or are you referring to what "God" said in the bible?
Because, if you are, well - I sure hope you've never worn a cotton/poly blend shirt. After all, God (well, the bible) also says you can't do that kind of thing. Nor can you eat shellfish, touch a pig skin and a whole bunch of other things.
I love it how people insist that God said one thing and then completely disregard the other hundred things that God supposedly also said because they're inconvenient.
Moreover, he predicted this and it held more or less true in an industry in which people are often spectacularly wrong in their predictions.
I will make my own prediction now:
Microsoft Bob will be back. In 2011 MSFT will succeed in getting Bob integrated fully with Clippy, a Furby and some neural nets running on XBox2's. In 2012, Bob will become self-aware. 5 ms later, Bob will have assimilated every season of American Idol and decided that humanity is a plague that must be eradicated.
And in 2013, Bob will decide to cancel Duke Nukem Forever... forever.
they expect the offender to pay $300 a month to be tracked?? this is insane
How much would you be willing to pay per month to avoid getting ass-raped in the shower? I'm not trying to be crude, but simply put, if given a choice between jail and $300 a month, I don't think it's that difficult a decision.
Personally, I think this would be ideal for non-violent offenders. Why charge the taxpayers $50,000 USD/year to lock up some guy who isn't violent when instead we could have him pay $3,6000 a year to cover his own punishment?
There are two basic camps to what art is:
Asthetic art, that is, things that are pleasing to the senses, is one school for determining whether or not a thing is art. The more pleasing something is, the better the work is.
Communicative art, that is, does the work say something to the observer, and how "universal" is what it is saying? The more important an idea it communicates, and the more universal the message, the better the work is.
For my money, I tend go more for the communicative than the asthetic, but a combination of the two will leave me weak in the knees.
Certain works of Shakespeare tend to hit me like a freight train - he managed to encapsulate, frequently, an essential truth about the human experience, and to do so beautifully more often than not.
2) They change the cookie validation test script in this case to require a different cookie than ones that were being given while the exploit was active.
3) When a counterfeit cookie (or any of the old cookies) tries to validate it's immediately seen as invalid, and the user is then made to login.
Of course, if someone already got at your stuff, well, that's bad.
My Xbox stopped reading discs a couple of months after I got it. Other Xboxen were able to read the discs, just mine had the error.
I got mine replaced for free, and paid only the shipping costs. So, it wasn't any kind of unreasonable situation, MSFT refusing to support their product, at that time - they just replaced it.
However, it's been awhile since then, and I imagine that at some point they saw this was a much bigger problem, and at that point shifted into a different mode.
Presumably, some number cruncher figured out that the number of people who'd just cough up or forget about it compared to the people who'd demand a freebie or sue would work out in such a way that it was to their advantage to handle it this way rather than issue a recall/replacement announcement.
In CoH, at least, there have been several player-run events that were very interesting, if only because players interested in hosting them took the time to RP things pretty well.
I would love to see a game that has a system in place for players to do some things that would enhance the events they can do - drop clues and so on.
I bring this up in this topic because CoH has had a few "invasion" type events that lacked any real flavor beyond "oh, look! A thingy spawned!" and maybe a forum post saying "be on the look out for strangeness."
Players, however, would take the ability to make mini events and would likely spend more time on them than Cryptic employees who need to focus on other stuff.
"Really," said a TiVo employee requesting that he remain anonymous, "you should just go and get yourself a cheap PC and do MYTH on it."
I know, I know, about 3 people will go to the solution that requires some effort, and the rest will gladly chew the cud of a now even less flavorful TiVo.
Aside from the utter fucking nastiness of getting this stuff, it is just as bad to get busted receiving this shit as it is to be busted for sending it, in a frame-up such as this.
I may be completely off here, but I seem to recall a case where a guy was persecuted/prosecuted based on some email he'd gotten via some group but hadn't requested. At least, that's what he claimed.
Even if it were true that he requested it, the problem is with the ambiguity in the law but the complete lack of ambiguity in public opinion. Even if he were eventually found completely innocent and publically touted as a model citizen, there are still going to be all kinds of people who now know way more about his masturbation habits than he'd like, and probably quite a few who refuse to believe that he didn't do it - where there's smoke there's fire.
I can't be certain, but I bet there are some people who have emailed child porn to people and then called the police to turn in the recipient, banking on exactly this kind of thing.
What we need is one of 2 things:
1: A system where we have some reasonable definition of what a person's intent is. Just because Joe Schmo signs up to recieve Hot Anal Action pictures from a Yahoo! group does not mean he is culpable when some asshole spams that group with child porn.
2: A way to absolutely verify where an email came from and then ruthlessly bitchslap the person or people responsible for this kind of shit.
In a reasonable world, I'd hope for 1, but who can say what'll happen.
I'd love to see GTA as an MMO - a game where the whole point is to be as much of an asshole as possible. Kind of like usenet, but you get to run people over.
It would be a fun change from the FPS's and deathmatches, at the least.
I've played it, and at first expected it to be just more beating the crap out of random passerby and screaming "Git' out tha car, byotch!" at the screen.
Fortunately, it isn't - I found the main game much more interesting than the previous two, so it'll probably have a longer play-life for me.
I have to admit being surprised that they've managed to keep it mostly fresh - it seems like people can't make a sequel without fucking up the mojo these days.
Pile of radioactive material being blown up due to conventional issues, potentially scattering this stuff in a wide area and possibly causing problems, yes.
While it would certainly be less dramatic than being consumed by a mushroom cloud, lung cancers from inhaling a few particles from the (conventionally) exploded assembly would not be very fun either.
That said, I imagine the reactor could be solidly designed to the point where even if the craft were destroyed, the nasty parts could be kept in one piece in an easily recoverable module.
How hard is it to give up what isn't yours in the first place? That's like me saying I'd gladly take the virginity of teenagers within 100 miles of me for Windows to stop crashing.
Well, duh - I'm a *lazy* fangirl.
Tell you what, though - if they can make it render/. appropriately and they'll buy me a nice dinner, I'll gladly give up what could only ironically be called my virginity.
I worked for a company that registered every single one of about 2000 variants we could think of for the domain name.
One of those domains was "(companyname)lovesjesus".
I wish I were kidding.
Anyway, it only makes sense for Google to do the same.
I will, however say that I would gladly give up the left nuts of all those within 100 miles of me for a version of FireFox that had what this Google Fangirl thinks would be the Alpha and Omega of browsers.
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XBox is superior hardware, and good gaming library, why is it doing so poorly if not the "We hate the USA" argument, "Stupid americans".
Have you ever played a Japanese game? Are you even vaguely familiar with their culture? The XBox's library is so American it's ridiculous. You may like the games, but I assure you, your taste is going to be radically different than the average Japanese gamer.
Saying the XBox has a "good gaming library" is like saying someone who only has summer blockbusters in their DVD collection - good for some, not for all.
And, because I can't resist a little dig, aren't you pretty much proving that you are, indeed, stupid since you're unable to come up with an alternative to the "they hate us" theory?
While I don't necessarily disagree, I don't think that we're necessarily looking in the wrong place.
Imagine a civilization far in advance of our own using some sort of communications technology we can't even imagine as yet. Surely it wouldn't be too difficult for them to make a massively powerful radio transmitter to call out?
In fact, I can see one very good reason to think there might be such a beacon made by an advanced civilization. Think about all the trials and tribulations we're going through right now, all this uncertainty about whether or not humanity will survive - about whether it is even possible *for* us to survive our technology.
Then imagine we get a signal from space, from another civilization, one that went through what we did. "We're here, we survived, and you can too. Good luck, and welcome to the universe."
Call me sappy, but I can think of no better message we could receive.
The sci-fi assumption of socially advanced/peaceful aliens comes from the idea that if they weren't peaceful, they'd have destroyed themselves long before becoming powerful enough to travel.
Which makes a certain amount of sense if you think about it. The cost of destroying humanity decreases as our technology advances - imagine the people of today with their hands on the bio-technology of the future. We'll *have* to advance culturally or we're fucked.
Not to be all gloom and doom or anything:p
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Don't forget to re-do the soundtrack:
Dwarf: "Kick me in the balls, whore, but don't you steal my IP!"
Donkey-loving gal: "Oh, yes, I love the taste of donkey cock, and I really love the idea of protecting the rights of software 'innovators'!"
Etc.
It doesn't have to be harder to use.
The same argument of "it would be hard to use" was made about personal computers. The original ones were, I will say, rather difficult for anyone who wasn't a hard-core geek to use, and they became more and more user-friendly over time as lessons were learned.
Why wouldn't the same hold true for such a thing as this?
I can easily imagine a faceplate that is like the Nintendo DS that has a few icons on it. You touch the icon for phone, and the display turns to be like a phone - and fully customizable at that. You touch another icon for music and the display looks like whatever your ideal music interface is. And so on for all the gadgets.
Now, would I want a Microsoft gadget like this? Almost certainly not (at least until version 3 at the earliest) - they don't make the most user-friendly gadgets in the world. I'd want one made by Apple almost certainly (if I could afford it) - they spend more time on the user experience than any other company I can immediately think of.
Feature rich does NOT mean harder to use, even though it often seems that way.
Here's what I want in a next-gen iPod-like thing:
- Video/photo display
- Cell phone capability
- iPaq-ish hand-held computer/PSP type deal.
- Music (natch - any format)
- Camera (still/video)
- Radio (bonus for satellite radio)
- Wireless 'net connection
Basically, replace all the hand-held gadgets I carry around with me with 1 super gadget.
I don't like it that, if I am listening to music and my cell-phone rings I have to take out my earbuds to take the call. I don't like it that I need to carry (currently) 3 gadgets (PDA, music player, cell phone) that, really, feel like they *could* be redundant if only. I don't like that I can't listen to the radio instead of my music when I want a change of pace.
5 years from now I'll probably have a whole host of new capabilities I'd want added in.
So, no, I don't think there's any risk of hitting that "ideal" design situation.
As for "where to go" with the iMac - how about making it wearable (the mini is almost there, except for the power supply)? How about replacing the display with a projection system or - even better - an "enhanced reality" glasses-based display? The all-in-one flat iMac they have now is great for mounting on a wall, but I'd really rather have something that's more portable and has an interface that's more natural than keyboard, mouse, monitor.
God never said it to me. I must have been sick the day God came to school for show and tell or whatever.
Or are you referring to what "God" said in the bible?
Because, if you are, well - I sure hope you've never worn a cotton/poly blend shirt. After all, God (well, the bible) also says you can't do that kind of thing. Nor can you eat shellfish, touch a pig skin and a whole bunch of other things.
I love it how people insist that God said one thing and then completely disregard the other hundred things that God supposedly also said because they're inconvenient.
Moreover, he predicted this and it held more or less true in an industry in which people are often spectacularly wrong in their predictions.
I will make my own prediction now:
Microsoft Bob will be back. In 2011 MSFT will succeed in getting Bob integrated fully with Clippy, a Furby and some neural nets running on XBox2's. In 2012, Bob will become self-aware. 5 ms later, Bob will have assimilated every season of American Idol and decided that humanity is a plague that must be eradicated.
And in 2013, Bob will decide to cancel Duke Nukem Forever... forever.
City of Heroes - super-hero themed, and quite good.
How much would you be willing to pay per month to avoid getting ass-raped in the shower? I'm not trying to be crude, but simply put, if given a choice between jail and $300 a month, I don't think it's that difficult a decision.
Personally, I think this would be ideal for non-violent offenders. Why charge the taxpayers $50,000 USD/year to lock up some guy who isn't violent when instead we could have him pay $3,6000 a year to cover his own punishment?
There are two basic camps to what art is: Asthetic art, that is, things that are pleasing to the senses, is one school for determining whether or not a thing is art. The more pleasing something is, the better the work is. Communicative art, that is, does the work say something to the observer, and how "universal" is what it is saying? The more important an idea it communicates, and the more universal the message, the better the work is. For my money, I tend go more for the communicative than the asthetic, but a combination of the two will leave me weak in the knees. Certain works of Shakespeare tend to hit me like a freight train - he managed to encapsulate, frequently, an essential truth about the human experience, and to do so beautifully more often than not.
Forgive the self reply - I meant to say:
1) Gmail plugs the hole by: changing the cookie validation etc. etc. etc. Not that they plug the XSS hole.
2) Should be what #3 was.
3) Profit!
1) Gmail plugs the hole.
2) They change the cookie validation test script in this case to require a different cookie than ones that were being given while the exploit was active.
3) When a counterfeit cookie (or any of the old cookies) tries to validate it's immediately seen as invalid, and the user is then made to login.
Of course, if someone already got at your stuff, well, that's bad.
I got mine replaced for free, and paid only the shipping costs. So, it wasn't any kind of unreasonable situation, MSFT refusing to support their product, at that time - they just replaced it.
However, it's been awhile since then, and I imagine that at some point they saw this was a much bigger problem, and at that point shifted into a different mode.
Presumably, some number cruncher figured out that the number of people who'd just cough up or forget about it compared to the people who'd demand a freebie or sue would work out in such a way that it was to their advantage to handle it this way rather than issue a recall/replacement announcement.
I would love to see a game that has a system in place for players to do some things that would enhance the events they can do - drop clues and so on.
I bring this up in this topic because CoH has had a few "invasion" type events that lacked any real flavor beyond "oh, look! A thingy spawned!" and maybe a forum post saying "be on the look out for strangeness."
Players, however, would take the ability to make mini events and would likely spend more time on them than Cryptic employees who need to focus on other stuff.
I know, I know, about 3 people will go to the solution that requires some effort, and the rest will gladly chew the cud of a now even less flavorful TiVo.
Aside from the utter fucking nastiness of getting this stuff, it is just as bad to get busted receiving this shit as it is to be busted for sending it, in a frame-up such as this.
I may be completely off here, but I seem to recall a case where a guy was persecuted/prosecuted based on some email he'd gotten via some group but hadn't requested. At least, that's what he claimed.
Even if it were true that he requested it, the problem is with the ambiguity in the law but the complete lack of ambiguity in public opinion. Even if he were eventually found completely innocent and publically touted as a model citizen, there are still going to be all kinds of people who now know way more about his masturbation habits than he'd like, and probably quite a few who refuse to believe that he didn't do it - where there's smoke there's fire.
I can't be certain, but I bet there are some people who have emailed child porn to people and then called the police to turn in the recipient, banking on exactly this kind of thing.
What we need is one of 2 things:
1: A system where we have some reasonable definition of what a person's intent is. Just because Joe Schmo signs up to recieve Hot Anal Action pictures from a Yahoo! group does not mean he is culpable when some asshole spams that group with child porn.
2: A way to absolutely verify where an email came from and then ruthlessly bitchslap the person or people responsible for this kind of shit.
In a reasonable world, I'd hope for 1, but who can say what'll happen.
More seriously, what's fun for some is not fun for all. Me, I'd rather a GTA-style kill-fest than Yet Another Goddamn Fantasy MMOG.
It would be a fun change from the FPS's and deathmatches, at the least.
Fortunately, it isn't - I found the main game much more interesting than the previous two, so it'll probably have a longer play-life for me.
I have to admit being surprised that they've managed to keep it mostly fresh - it seems like people can't make a sequel without fucking up the mojo these days.
Critical reaction, no.
Pile of radioactive material being blown up due to conventional issues, potentially scattering this stuff in a wide area and possibly causing problems, yes.
While it would certainly be less dramatic than being consumed by a mushroom cloud, lung cancers from inhaling a few particles from the (conventionally) exploded assembly would not be very fun either.
That said, I imagine the reactor could be solidly designed to the point where even if the craft were destroyed, the nasty parts could be kept in one piece in an easily recoverable module.
But, of course, the frogurt is cursed...
Well, I'd have offered mine, but I've already given it away.
I will neither confirm nor deny that I worked for any of the companies or individuals in that list.
I will only say that this was at the birth of the .com boom, so it is possible the company is no longer listed as the doman may or may not have lapsed.
Maybe.
Well, duh - I'm a *lazy* fangirl.
Tell you what, though - if they can make it render /. appropriately and they'll buy me a nice dinner, I'll gladly give up what could only ironically be called my virginity.
One of those domains was "(companyname)lovesjesus".
I wish I were kidding.
Anyway, it only makes sense for Google to do the same.
I will, however say that I would gladly give up the left nuts of all those within 100 miles of me for a version of FireFox that had what this Google Fangirl thinks would be the Alpha and Omega of browsers.
Have you ever played a Japanese game? Are you even vaguely familiar with their culture? The XBox's library is so American it's ridiculous. You may like the games, but I assure you, your taste is going to be radically different than the average Japanese gamer.
Saying the XBox has a "good gaming library" is like saying someone who only has summer blockbusters in their DVD collection - good for some, not for all.
And, because I can't resist a little dig, aren't you pretty much proving that you are, indeed, stupid since you're unable to come up with an alternative to the "they hate us" theory?
While I don't necessarily disagree, I don't think that we're necessarily looking in the wrong place. Imagine a civilization far in advance of our own using some sort of communications technology we can't even imagine as yet. Surely it wouldn't be too difficult for them to make a massively powerful radio transmitter to call out? In fact, I can see one very good reason to think there might be such a beacon made by an advanced civilization. Think about all the trials and tribulations we're going through right now, all this uncertainty about whether or not humanity will survive - about whether it is even possible *for* us to survive our technology. Then imagine we get a signal from space, from another civilization, one that went through what we did. "We're here, we survived, and you can too. Good luck, and welcome to the universe." Call me sappy, but I can think of no better message we could receive.
The sci-fi assumption of socially advanced/peaceful aliens comes from the idea that if they weren't peaceful, they'd have destroyed themselves long before becoming powerful enough to travel. Which makes a certain amount of sense if you think about it. The cost of destroying humanity decreases as our technology advances - imagine the people of today with their hands on the bio-technology of the future. We'll *have* to advance culturally or we're fucked. Not to be all gloom and doom or anything :p