I recall this kind of comment being old. I don't know why it is being posted again, although probably due to the fact people think it never gets old.;)
You do realize each Chinese character has a meaning? If you simply substitute for near-homographs, they will look vastly different in meaning, though they may sound nearly the same as words being censored. It's quite different from l33t speak, which can't be pronounced but looks somewhat similar.
In Chinese (and Japanese), if it looks different, it means different and they don't even need to be "read" to understand the meaning. One can simply "look." So unless someone's being dictated, it's no more effective in going around the filter because at a glance, it won't "look" like the original word.
don't you think Chinese bloggers would blog in Chinese? unless they pheonetically substitute for the words, they can't "l33t" spell those words since Chinese letters aren't alphabets.
PC gaming won't die. There's something macho, so to speak, about the mere existence of $400 graphics cards. It makes the hobby more "manic."
Sort of like golf, ski or cycling. Being able to pay so much for equipment adds a bit to the aura of the hobby. Anyone can buy a $200-300 console, sssh! It takes a real gamer to drop a month rent on a graphics card! (Oh wait, manic gamers don't pay rent, do they?:P)
This is too simplistic. "Music people want to hear" is different from "Music people are willing to hear for free."
If the quality of music is truly awful, we should see overall sale AND download activities to go down. If music is something people don't want to hear, then why would anyone download them?
Music quality is no worse than it's ever been. The business model of music distribution/production/marketing, however, is outdated and that's why the industry seems to be of lesser quality - but I don't believe it has anything to do with the quality of music. (I am talking about the masses here. Of course, in any given era, the music experts are always lamenting the declining quality of current offerings and longing for the good old, quality stuff from yesterdays.)
>Make music people are willing to pay for, and cultivate mature customers.
I don't believe it's the music label's duty to "cultivate mature customers." We, as consumers, probably should show more maturity about IP as well. We can't just "take, take and take" and claim we are doing no harm, or that it's music label's fault for offering inferior products. If we want it enough that we'd download it, shouldn't we consider that "good enough quality"? You can't download and claim that it's not worth paying. If we think it's not worth paying, shouldn't we live without it?
I've seen enough posts here about how something "is utter crap and I wouldn't have bought it" leading to "since I wouldn't have bought it, it does no harm for me to download." The threashold for "worthy" quality significantly drops when something is available for free, so it's conceivable that the default quality becomes "crap" that's good enough for free, but not for payment. Then, no one will pay for anything since it's all "crap."
I hate DRM. I don't care if music labels are wrong about putting DRM or that it's stupid - the fact is, music labels are seeing "pirates" to be problems and whether that's true or not, they are deciding to impose DRM and inconvenience me.
>Holy crap, just how many languages exactly does a country need!
I know you weren't passing a judgment, but the number of languages in a country is not about a "need." It's more about the diversity of cultural/ethnical heritage. Also, I imagine the recognition of different languages as "official" probably contribute quite a bit to the preservation of different culture/ethnicity and improve political relations between them.
I don't agree that it's completely useless. Don't we all tend to type the most important query word first?
In any case, for Japanese/Chinese/Korean - autocomplete is almost a natural part of using a web search engine, so it's not a "useless feature that nobody wants to see."
Those languages use alphabet-based inputs which are then converted into native text. Why bother converting if you can take the direct alphabetical input and start showing native text autocompletes?
> Have you seen Tablet PC prices? They're through the roof! I can buy a traditional laptop for $1400, but buying something with the SAME EXACT HARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS as a slate-form tablet costs me $2000!
Having the tablet capability makes tablets to not have the "SAME EXACT HARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS".
Sorry that I didn't notice your satire. On a topic like this, it would not surprise me for someone, even on/., to pretty much state exactly what you posted, except being 100% serious.
When you do radiation exposure testing, you take a radiation source with the same energy spectrum, but more activity. When you say "intensity" it's the flux of radiation. Energy spectrum has nothing to do with the "intensity of the source" in cases like this.
That's is such a flawed analogy, I don't know where to start. The damaging characteristics of water changes dramatically when it's scalding hot as opposed to merely warm. Radiation doesn't work that way. Like the grandparent said, it either ionizes or not.
Correct analogy would have been, in order to test the damaging effect of being soaked in 50 gallons of warm water for 10 hours, we'll flood you with 5000 gallons for 6 minutes.
...stop "forcing" periodic password updates. in doing so, more people are likely to develop bad habits, i.e. sequencing their "secure" password or recycling between several "secure" passwords since they can't invent/remember "secure" password every N days.
isn't it about time we realize that if users do things like sequencing or recycling, the password is no more secure than if users were allowed to keep using the same original "secure" password to begin with?
...are 2 mountains in Switzerland. They come in 3's, as they are a part of a famous Alpine range. So... what is Jungfrau, the 3rd mountain in the range?
>there is a reason to believe that file trading actually helps the artists by increasing the public's awareness of their music/art/whatever.
i always hate this line of reasoning. the fact is, whether or not filesharing helps the actual copyright holder is irrelevant. you don't have the right to re-distribution, plain and simple. let the copyright holder decide for him/herself if they want to allow sharing. otherwise, it's just poor attempt at justifying copyright infringement.
i have the right to determine who enters my house. even if there are outsiders that can help me out, ultimately i make the decision whether or not they enter my house.
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I recall this kind of comment being old. I don't know why it is being posted again, although probably due to the fact people think it never gets old. ;)
That's what Ballmer actually said. Big difference.
iGoogle?
In Chinese (and Japanese), if it looks different, it means different and they don't even need to be "read" to understand the meaning. One can simply "look." So unless someone's being dictated, it's no more effective in going around the filter because at a glance, it won't "look" like the original word.
don't you think Chinese bloggers would blog in Chinese? unless they pheonetically substitute for the words, they can't "l33t" spell those words since Chinese letters aren't alphabets.
There are plenty of college/graduate students around the country sharing an apartment/house/etc. and paying $400...
Sort of like golf, ski or cycling. Being able to pay so much for equipment adds a bit to the aura of the hobby. Anyone can buy a $200-300 console, sssh! It takes a real gamer to drop a month rent on a graphics card! (Oh wait, manic gamers don't pay rent, do they? :P)
If the quality of music is truly awful, we should see overall sale AND download activities to go down. If music is something people don't want to hear, then why would anyone download them?
Music quality is no worse than it's ever been. The business model of music distribution/production/marketing, however, is outdated and that's why the industry seems to be of lesser quality - but I don't believe it has anything to do with the quality of music. (I am talking about the masses here. Of course, in any given era, the music experts are always lamenting the declining quality of current offerings and longing for the good old, quality stuff from yesterdays.)
I don't believe it's the music label's duty to "cultivate mature customers." We, as consumers, probably should show more maturity about IP as well. We can't just "take, take and take" and claim we are doing no harm, or that it's music label's fault for offering inferior products. If we want it enough that we'd download it, shouldn't we consider that "good enough quality"? You can't download and claim that it's not worth paying. If we think it's not worth paying, shouldn't we live without it?
I've seen enough posts here about how something "is utter crap and I wouldn't have bought it" leading to "since I wouldn't have bought it, it does no harm for me to download." The threashold for "worthy" quality significantly drops when something is available for free, so it's conceivable that the default quality becomes "crap" that's good enough for free, but not for payment. Then, no one will pay for anything since it's all "crap."
I hate DRM. I don't care if music labels are wrong about putting DRM or that it's stupid - the fact is, music labels are seeing "pirates" to be problems and whether that's true or not, they are deciding to impose DRM and inconvenience me.
I know you weren't passing a judgment, but the number of languages in a country is not about a "need." It's more about the diversity of cultural/ethnical heritage. Also, I imagine the recognition of different languages as "official" probably contribute quite a bit to the preservation of different culture/ethnicity and improve political relations between them.
In any case, for Japanese/Chinese/Korean - autocomplete is almost a natural part of using a web search engine, so it's not a "useless feature that nobody wants to see."
Those languages use alphabet-based inputs which are then converted into native text. Why bother converting if you can take the direct alphabetical input and start showing native text autocompletes?
Having the tablet capability makes tablets to not have the "SAME EXACT HARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS".
Sorry that I didn't notice your satire. On a topic like this, it would not surprise me for someone, even on /., to pretty much state exactly what you posted, except being 100% serious.
Ok... now, test it.
That receipt will just prove you have bought a legit copy. Why would MS help you then?
You need to send a receipt...
When you do radiation exposure testing, you take a radiation source with the same energy spectrum, but more activity. When you say "intensity" it's the flux of radiation. Energy spectrum has nothing to do with the "intensity of the source" in cases like this.
Raising the intensity of radiation doesn't increase the energy and the ionizing property remains the same.
Correct analogy would have been, in order to test the damaging effect of being soaked in 50 gallons of warm water for 10 hours, we'll flood you with 5000 gallons for 6 minutes.
As someone recently started working at an IT company (but not in the Valley), I found the article/discussions very interesting.
Having your email monitored at work is not an "invasion of privacy."
isn't it about time we realize that if users do things like sequencing or recycling, the password is no more secure than if users were allowed to keep using the same original "secure" password to begin with?
...are 2 mountains in Switzerland. They come in 3's, as they are a part of a famous Alpine range. So... what is Jungfrau, the 3rd mountain in the range?
more like MS is hiring an artist who can draw a beautiful picture. MS has enough colored pencils, if you will.
if a university pulls a nobel laureate away from another, would you say "he won't accomplish anything since there are no grad students"?
i always hate this line of reasoning. the fact is, whether or not filesharing helps the actual copyright holder is irrelevant. you don't have the right to re-distribution, plain and simple. let the copyright holder decide for him/herself if they want to allow sharing. otherwise, it's just poor attempt at justifying copyright infringement.
i have the right to determine who enters my house. even if there are outsiders that can help me out, ultimately i make the decision whether or not they enter my house.