That raises the question "is animal reseach acceptable if it benefits a larger number of humans?", which is a debate beyond the scope of this article, in my opinion. There's no indication that any animals were harmed in the process, and there's no mention whether there is any lasting damage, or if the proceedure is reversable. But, if I were going to use the technology, I personally would like the answers to those questions beforehand.
That's not the impression I got. It seems more like the monkey was moving the tool as if it were it's own limb, i.e. the moneky tried to move its hand and the tool moved instead. If this is the case, all it shows is that monkeys can control their own limbs.
Or, in the case of the Final Fantasy movie, they have just enough of a plot, but not the movie-making expertise to create something that appeals to a wider audience than gamers. Saying that, I'll reserve judgement on the Halo movie until I see the final cut.
The fact that they are messed up to begin with...France is irrelevant.
That's rather extreme. Just because the French state has different political views and opinions to you, doesnt mean they are any less valid. We don't know enough about the case to judge whether or not their was any bias, so jumping to these sort of conclusions is not particularly helpful.
Personally, I dont believe that a 'crackdown' on drugs, unsafe sex, and selling violent games to younger children is a plot to drive more people to the army. I think it's more likely that lawmakers and politicians just want to impose their own morality onto the lives of others? That's not to say I agree or disagree with these 'crackdowns', just that I'm not sure I agree with your view of the motive behind them.
This is all a political stunt with no thought behind it.
That may be the case, but the other possibility is that lawmakers just aren't very knowledgable about technology. They may not know how simple it is to just download a game and burn it to CD. So, while they go about making laws which wont really have that great an effect, they not only make themselves look good in the eyes of 'concerned' parents, but they allow the 'problem' to carry on behind closed doors. As far as I'm concerned, they're trying to fix the 'problem' but looking in the wrong place. Good luck to them:)
That would certainly be consistent with current rumours about the XBox 2 price being remarkable high for a console. Personally, I believe that MS will probably try and further integrate a console, a music player and a dvd player to create a home entertainment console aimed at a young market interested in such devices. It's what I would do in their sitaution.
It just seems like more marketing spin to me. Regardless of your view of MS products, security is a major problem and all Gates seems to do here is to calm the fears of the less knowledgable technology users who haven't the in-depth knowledge to worry about these security flaws.
To continue the slightly offtopic theme even further, I have to commend Nobuo Uematsu for his work on the Final Fantasy X soundtrack. Now there's a guy who knows how to make a good rock song!
I understand the benefits of integration should there exist a totally secure and compliant web browser, but I'm afraid there just isnt one. Security holes are found in all browsers all of the time, and I feel that tying an OS too closely with a program that is specifically targetted due to its insecurity is foolish.
Perhaps the new IE will be incredibly secure, or the open source community will create a browser incapable of having security flaws, etc etc, but I would still prefer some degree of separation of browser and OS, if only for security reasons. It only takes one small flaw for someone to capitalise on before a fault in a browser could potentially bring down a whole OS.
One area that DOJ regulators will be looking at, in particular, is a control panel in Longhorn that facilitates use of a browser and media player other than the Microsoft versions that will be pre-built into the system. Does this mean that the next version of IE will be built directly into the new OS, as with XP, ME etc? I sincerely hope not, as I am not looking forward to further years of routine tech maintenance on my friend's PCs due to this integration.
While I can understand 'Benny's' intentions with regard to wanting to innovate, and to help to create a more secure PC, many other virus writers seem to just want to cause mayhem, or to get credit. Therefore, I think it makes a great deal of sense for AntiVirus firms to employ people who've had a great deal of experience with the issue, like Benny. Only by employing similar minded people, can we help to prevent new and devastating new virii from appearing.
Any review of any service or product is simply someone's opinion, regardless of their writing style, whether it be detailing certain aspects of the product in detail, or having rather abstract ideas based on one's own gamimg experience. I feel it important to find reviewers that you can often agree with, and that you can trust to be impartial. So, I think that a game review is a game review if you think it is, and if you are more informed after reading it.
Even though GMail is still being offered as a preview, there seem to be more invites then there are people willing to sign up, in my experience. Basically, in my opinion, if you want an account it isn't too hard to get one nowadays
And while GMail is still in Beta, it is still a widespread and widely used email service. So, while I can understand that there are still bugs in the service which Gmail could iron out without too much trouble, I would disagree with people who underestimate the severity of those bugs, and their implications, simply because Gmail hasn't reached final status.
Well, he's already said that he has a final veto over what goes on his head. If goatse guy bids, and wins, then it's up to Mr Fisher whether he wants that on his head. But frankly...who wouldn't?
Look folks, can't we just let Santa be the exception where we don't bother applying rules of science! What's wrong with just believing in good ol' fashioned Xmas magic?!
Well, I say the exception to the rule...I use the term 'magic' to explain to my parents how technology works.
I laughed out loud when I saw that one of the patents was for 'Fun'. It's funny now, but let's just hope that we're still able to laugh at it in a couple of years time...
Yes, but we're entering an age where we have, or will probably soon have, the technology to not only detect these threats, but also to destroy them. Just because it hasn't happened before in the course of recorded human history, doesn't mean we can be complacent.
I don't really think there's too much point in getting concerned just yet. There are many asteroids that we can't track until they've already passed us, so worrying about a 1 in roughly 300 chance of an asteroid hitting us in 30 years time isn't really a major problem yet. Personally, I'd like to see some sort of government funding for machinery to detect a greater number of asteroids which are potentially on a course for us. Otherwise, our fate is just in the hands of luck.
How will this affect the rumoured Stargate movie that is apparently in planning stages? I don't know about any other fans of the show, but a big budget Stargate film without Anderson in the main role somehow doesn't seem as appealing. Oh well, back to watching old McGyver episodes, I guess...
It seems Steam is really proving useful in preventing illegal use of Half Life 2 and, once certain bugs are ironed out of Steam, I can see it being used across the board as the main deterrant of pirating games. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is another discussion entirely.
The only things I would be concerned about are ensuring that of the 30000 banned, all of them are actually banned for valid reasons and not due to any error. Valve has said they wont reactivate these accounts, so once it's gone, it's gone.
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That raises the question "is animal reseach acceptable if it benefits a larger number of humans?", which is a debate beyond the scope of this article, in my opinion. There's no indication that any animals were harmed in the process, and there's no mention whether there is any lasting damage, or if the proceedure is reversable. But, if I were going to use the technology, I personally would like the answers to those questions beforehand.
That's not the impression I got. It seems more like the monkey was moving the tool as if it were it's own limb, i.e. the moneky tried to move its hand and the tool moved instead. If this is the case, all it shows is that monkeys can control their own limbs.
Or, in the case of the Final Fantasy movie, they have just enough of a plot, but not the movie-making expertise to create something that appeals to a wider audience than gamers. Saying that, I'll reserve judgement on the Halo movie until I see the final cut.
The fact that they are messed up to begin with...France is irrelevant.
That's rather extreme. Just because the French state has different political views and opinions to you, doesnt mean they are any less valid. We don't know enough about the case to judge whether or not their was any bias, so jumping to these sort of conclusions is not particularly helpful.
Personally, I dont believe that a 'crackdown' on drugs, unsafe sex, and selling violent games to younger children is a plot to drive more people to the army. I think it's more likely that lawmakers and politicians just want to impose their own morality onto the lives of others? That's not to say I agree or disagree with these 'crackdowns', just that I'm not sure I agree with your view of the motive behind them.
This is all a political stunt with no thought behind it.
:)
That may be the case, but the other possibility is that lawmakers just aren't very knowledgable about technology. They may not know how simple it is to just download a game and burn it to CD. So, while they go about making laws which wont really have that great an effect, they not only make themselves look good in the eyes of 'concerned' parents, but they allow the 'problem' to carry on behind closed doors. As far as I'm concerned, they're trying to fix the 'problem' but looking in the wrong place. Good luck to them
That would certainly be consistent with current rumours about the XBox 2 price being remarkable high for a console. Personally, I believe that MS will probably try and further integrate a console, a music player and a dvd player to create a home entertainment console aimed at a young market interested in such devices. It's what I would do in their sitaution.
The second part of the article is here
It just seems like more marketing spin to me. Regardless of your view of MS products, security is a major problem and all Gates seems to do here is to calm the fears of the less knowledgable technology users who haven't the in-depth knowledge to worry about these security flaws.
To continue the slightly offtopic theme even further, I have to commend Nobuo Uematsu for his work on the Final Fantasy X soundtrack. Now there's a guy who knows how to make a good rock song!
I understand the benefits of integration should there exist a totally secure and compliant web browser, but I'm afraid there just isnt one. Security holes are found in all browsers all of the time, and I feel that tying an OS too closely with a program that is specifically targetted due to its insecurity is foolish.
Perhaps the new IE will be incredibly secure, or the open source community will create a browser incapable of having security flaws, etc etc, but I would still prefer some degree of separation of browser and OS, if only for security reasons. It only takes one small flaw for someone to capitalise on before a fault in a browser could potentially bring down a whole OS.
One area that DOJ regulators will be looking at, in particular, is a control panel in Longhorn that facilitates use of a browser and media player other than the Microsoft versions that will be pre-built into the system.
Does this mean that the next version of IE will be built directly into the new OS, as with XP, ME etc? I sincerely hope not, as I am not looking forward to further years of routine tech maintenance on my friend's PCs due to this integration.
While I can understand 'Benny's' intentions with regard to wanting to innovate, and to help to create a more secure PC, many other virus writers seem to just want to cause mayhem, or to get credit. Therefore, I think it makes a great deal of sense for AntiVirus firms to employ people who've had a great deal of experience with the issue, like Benny. Only by employing similar minded people, can we help to prevent new and devastating new virii from appearing.
I stress that this is very preliminary!
:)
Did this guy think that by saying that he would somehow prevent half of the internet preparing some crackpot theory within 5 seconds of reading it?
Personally, I'll wait before jumping to conclusions, and look forward to reading the followup!
Any review of any service or product is simply someone's opinion, regardless of their writing style, whether it be detailing certain aspects of the product in detail, or having rather abstract ideas based on one's own gamimg experience. I feel it important to find reviewers that you can often agree with, and that you can trust to be impartial. So, I think that a game review is a game review if you think it is, and if you are more informed after reading it.
If you disagree with me, you do so at your own peril
Anyone else picturing an evil bald guy sitting in a black chair, stroking a white cat?
Unless they're specifically after herbal penis enlargers, or super zoom spy cameras, and just aren't lucky enough to be spammed with adverts for them.
Even though GMail is still being offered as a preview, there seem to be more invites then there are people willing to sign up, in my experience. Basically, in my opinion, if you want an account it isn't too hard to get one nowadays
And while GMail is still in Beta, it is still a widespread and widely used email service. So, while I can understand that there are still bugs in the service which Gmail could iron out without too much trouble, I would disagree with people who underestimate the severity of those bugs, and their implications, simply because Gmail hasn't reached final status.
Well, he's already said that he has a final veto over what goes on his head. If goatse guy bids, and wins, then it's up to Mr Fisher whether he wants that on his head. But frankly...who wouldn't?
Look folks, can't we just let Santa be the exception where we don't bother applying rules of science! What's wrong with just believing in good ol' fashioned Xmas magic?!
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Well, I say the exception to the rule...I use the term 'magic' to explain to my parents how technology works.
Oh, and merry holidays
I laughed out loud when I saw that one of the patents was for 'Fun'. It's funny now, but let's just hope that we're still able to laugh at it in a couple of years time...
Ah, I hate being cynical at XMas.
Just like the previous thousands of years?
Yes, but we're entering an age where we have, or will probably soon have, the technology to not only detect these threats, but also to destroy them. Just because it hasn't happened before in the course of recorded human history, doesn't mean we can be complacent.
I don't really think there's too much point in getting concerned just yet. There are many asteroids that we can't track until they've already passed us, so worrying about a 1 in roughly 300 chance of an asteroid hitting us in 30 years time isn't really a major problem yet. Personally, I'd like to see some sort of government funding for machinery to detect a greater number of asteroids which are potentially on a course for us. Otherwise, our fate is just in the hands of luck.
How will this affect the rumoured Stargate movie that is apparently in planning stages? I don't know about any other fans of the show, but a big budget Stargate film without Anderson in the main role somehow doesn't seem as appealing. Oh well, back to watching old McGyver episodes, I guess...
It seems Steam is really proving useful in preventing illegal use of Half Life 2 and, once certain bugs are ironed out of Steam, I can see it being used across the board as the main deterrant of pirating games. Whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is another discussion entirely.
The only things I would be concerned about are ensuring that of the 30000 banned, all of them are actually banned for valid reasons and not due to any error. Valve has said they wont reactivate these accounts, so once it's gone, it's gone.
You couldn't be more wrong! Just look at Popular Sports Topics. David Beckham is No.1 What more proof could you need?!?