The "defectivebydesign" tag is intended for use whenever discussing DRM and the way that technology can and will be changed to further restrict or disenfranchise you from using content on your own hardware, even if you are otherwise completely in the clear by your rights as a consumer and citizen of your particular country. It's defective, but it was intentionally designed to be that way.
Not that it's not misused occasionally by idiots and zealots, but there you are.
So as not to be a complete git and only respond on the basis of a grammatical error, I am also wondering what they get out of this. As virtual as it is, they were selling real estate based on its perceived scarcity. With anyone setting up a server, and likely FAR improving upon the aesthetics over the SL landscape, who would continue to play in SL? As the saying goes, "there's no 'there' there."
In an e-mail to MVPs whose names contain 'Richard,' Kevin Beares, the Windows Home Server community lead at Microsoft, wrote: 'For right now, you have no access to the beta until I can find the Richard who posted the WHS (Windows Home Server) CTP on this site.
This reminds me of Senator Fritz "representing Hollywood from afar" Hollings, and his attempt at legalizing vigilante destruction of alleged infringers' machines. Wouldn't it be nice if the representatives represented people, not industries? Bah, what am I saying... the check(books) and (account) balances of Democracy will fix that.
Any case involving "Copyright, Patent, Trademark or Trade Secret"?
Wasn't the whole HP thing about the leaking of trade secrets? Wasn't the whole HP thing the inspiration for this long-overdue-but-should-never-have-been-necessary legislation in the first place?
No, if we're talking about Disney Monopoly, it's a very abbreviated form of the game. There's just castles, not houses and hotels. The properties are more like $2 and feature all of the princesses and their doofy animal friends. Even when your young child understands the money math and can follow the rules, they can still get restless and bored before the game is half done. "It's your turn, sweety" starts out gently, and gets more tedious and more edgy as the energy saps right out of you. By the end of the game, parent and child can both be relieved it's done, regardless of the winner.
Now, I don't know what it was like to be a board-game playing kid in the 50s, but today's kids are definitely not goal-driven and follow-through or "sticktuitiveness" is hard to develop. As soon as the mind wanders, their first instinct is to bail on the current activity and try something else. It seems a natural (although worrisome) outcome of the huge array of stimuli which our world offers... there's always something more fun than what you're currently doing. Unless the tasks or games have a satisfying reward within a reasonable time, the sense of accomplishment will not be experienced often.
I wrote "Right to Work California" for a reason. They're not forbidden, they're just typically unenforceable. Big difference. They're written all the time, and there are many employees who don't know the law is on their side.
Noncompetes are not uncommon, and even in "Right To Work" California, they're seen as a way of avoiding the loss of well-trained employees.
So, these guys spend a little while writing either (1) serious musical instruction software for the PCs and Apples of the world, like GarageBand assistants, or (2) games which don't leverage your typical musical instrument but do develop a certain motor skill to play, like iToy-enabled Sonic titles. Anyone who loves to write code that focus on the smooth and artistic participation of the user should be more than creative enough to walk away from Guitar for a short respite.
Yeah, and you missed the part where they show up with the sheriff, and they have matching blue windbreakers which say RIAA in big letters, just like BATF or FBI's jackets, and their "expert" cart off the following items in a truckful of cardboard boxes.
HD #1
HD #2
HD #3
The CPU
Your roommate's CPU and HDs
Your wireless router
Your wireless keyboard
Your programmable television remote control
Your non-programmable television remote control
Your USB thumbdrive
Your mother's keychain which unlocks her car but looks like a USB thumbdrive
Your electric can opener used only for moist catfood
Thanks for reminding me a bit early that the entire techno-hip tragically-leet intarweb will be a steaming pile of uselessness for the next 30 hours or so. I can just skip the inanity and catch up on anything interesting later.
And by the way, on Safari, the new voting doohickey completely and unavoidably obscures the left chunk of the story's blurb.
Of course they won't because a child without food or clean drinking water really gets a huge benefit out of a laptop or the support infrastructure to support it.
I know it might blow your mind, but there really are a lot of kids who live in areas that are somewhere BETWEEN the relative wealth levels of "must buy an iPod for my dog" and "must steal more cardboard for the roof". The XO isn't going to help a kid who can't lift her malnourished bones off the hardscrabble. The XO is going to help a kid who would have to travel 10mi to the nearest well-stocked library.
The cellphone has become a major boon for farmers in several countries-- they can call ahead and negotiate their crop's value before spending the resources to haul perishable product to an uninterested market. The XO may have other "game changing" advantages. It will only have the chance to make a difference if the rich people quit naysaying every last little nit based on their own shortsightedness.
I think it makes perfect sense for them to use the Sims AI for a Middle Earth environment, especially around the behaviors of the Istari (wizards). For example, Gandalf can change his raiment whenever he wants to, in remote wilderness and underground situations, without a closet or seamstress in sight. Saruman can gab on and on and on about the same megolomanic topic, blindly ignoring how his friends are all getting annoyed with little red -- signs over their heads. Also, it takes several months for Radagast to walk *anywhere*, even when there's significant time pressure to deliver important news.
High speed trains are almost a non-starter in America. Why? Property rights.
Any location which is important enough to deserve a high-speed train route is a large, sprawling metropolitan area. Thousands of land owners and a byzantine tangle of "environmental impact" and other zoning considerations are in the way of any proposed route. There's no way to just declare a new train route without destroying an established major highway, and there's no major city which will accept the loss of an established major highway for the project. For low-speed rail such as BART, one can occasionally squeeze the infrastructure to share the route with an existing highway, but politically (if not realistically), safety dictates require more room for a high-speed railbed.
I bought a PSone just for FF9 (my first FF game). I bought a PS2 just for FFX but have now played FFX,FFX-2,FFXII. (I did subsequently buy some other games for each, and loved Katamari Damashii.) I saw the upcoming issues with PS3 and said I would not buy it, even if the next FF standalone was exclusive on it.
Sony knows that FF has enormous draw but even that has limits. I hope Square does more with other platforms.
The above command, in English, is "replace one specific character in the file/etc/inittab" which will disable the typical runlevel that uses X11.
While anyone COULD let it boot up into a bloated graphical environment and perform the task in something like Notepad, the whole point of the task is to disable the use of bloated graphical environments.
Furthermore, while the above could be done in about as many keystrokes using a lightweight interactive editor like vi, if the guy is doing so many installs that he knows what he's got to do "first" on each one, then he likely has added this command to a long list of site-specific customizations to suit his particular requirements. It's not like he types this 500 times in a day, and repeats every 6 months.
And then there's the guy in IT who uses the phrase "public domain" for things that are open sourced, licensed with sources, published in textbooks, or anywhere in between. Even if he knows the difference, he's poisoning the well by callously disregarding the important distinction of "the owner makes the source available" and "the source has no owner."
It includes a demonstration of an early version of the software that can recognize handwritten letters and distinguish between stick figure dogs and cats.
Yeah, but can it distinguish the invention of PalmOS Graffiti from the invention of PARC Unistroke? That would have been handy...
Erm, except to do it your way, each of the microexposures have to be quantified before they could be shifted and averaged, and when you quantify a high-gain low-photon data set, you INCREASE the amount of noise in the final data. Also, since it would take some time to decide how far to shift each of the microexposures, you're now taking longer to get a total of 1/30sec of actual photon-catching exposure, and fast-moving objects would appear to be stuttering along instead of smoothly blurred.
Look up 'ubiquitous' before you whine about how far behind Intel might seem to be.
Though having one demonstration will help spur the demand, and the demand will spur production, I still think it'll be five years before everybody's grandmother will have a Tf lying around on their checkbook-balancing credenza, and every PHB will have one under their desk warming their feet during long conference calls.
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The "defectivebydesign" tag is intended for use whenever discussing DRM and the way that technology can and will be changed to further restrict or disenfranchise you from using content on your own hardware, even if you are otherwise completely in the clear by your rights as a consumer and citizen of your particular country. It's defective, but it was intentionally designed to be that way.
Not that it's not misused occasionally by idiots and zealots, but there you are.
I think you mean, "So what's their angle?"
So as not to be a complete git and only respond on the basis of a grammatical error, I am also wondering what they get out of this. As virtual as it is, they were selling real estate based on its perceived scarcity. With anyone setting up a server, and likely FAR improving upon the aesthetics over the SL landscape, who would continue to play in SL? As the saying goes, "there's no 'there' there."
Translation, "Are you the Dick who leaked?"
This reminds me of Senator Fritz "representing Hollywood from afar" Hollings, and his attempt at legalizing vigilante destruction of alleged infringers' machines. Wouldn't it be nice if the representatives represented people, not industries? Bah, what am I saying... the check(books) and (account) balances of Democracy will fix that.
Any case involving "Copyright, Patent, Trademark or Trade Secret"?
Wasn't the whole HP thing about the leaking of trade secrets? Wasn't the whole HP thing the inspiration for this long-overdue-but-should-never-have-been-necessary legislation in the first place?
No, if we're talking about Disney Monopoly, it's a very abbreviated form of the game. There's just castles, not houses and hotels. The properties are more like $2 and feature all of the princesses and their doofy animal friends. Even when your young child understands the money math and can follow the rules, they can still get restless and bored before the game is half done. "It's your turn, sweety" starts out gently, and gets more tedious and more edgy as the energy saps right out of you. By the end of the game, parent and child can both be relieved it's done, regardless of the winner.
Now, I don't know what it was like to be a board-game playing kid in the 50s, but today's kids are definitely not goal-driven and follow-through or "sticktuitiveness" is hard to develop. As soon as the mind wanders, their first instinct is to bail on the current activity and try something else. It seems a natural (although worrisome) outcome of the huge array of stimuli which our world offers... there's always something more fun than what you're currently doing. Unless the tasks or games have a satisfying reward within a reasonable time, the sense of accomplishment will not be experienced often.
I wrote "Right to Work California" for a reason. They're not forbidden, they're just typically unenforceable. Big difference. They're written all the time, and there are many employees who don't know the law is on their side.
Noncompetes are not uncommon, and even in "Right To Work" California, they're seen as a way of avoiding the loss of well-trained employees.
So, these guys spend a little while writing either (1) serious musical instruction software for the PCs and Apples of the world, like GarageBand assistants, or (2) games which don't leverage your typical musical instrument but do develop a certain motor skill to play, like iToy-enabled Sonic titles. Anyone who loves to write code that focus on the smooth and artistic participation of the user should be more than creative enough to walk away from Guitar for a short respite.
Thanks for reminding me a bit early that the entire techno-hip tragically-leet intarweb will be a steaming pile of uselessness for the next 30 hours or so. I can just skip the inanity and catch up on anything interesting later.
And by the way, on Safari, the new voting doohickey completely and unavoidably obscures the left chunk of the story's blurb.
Never tick off the incumbent who could just write new laws to throw YOUR ass in jail.
I know it might blow your mind, but there really are a lot of kids who live in areas that are somewhere BETWEEN the relative wealth levels of "must buy an iPod for my dog" and "must steal more cardboard for the roof". The XO isn't going to help a kid who can't lift her malnourished bones off the hardscrabble. The XO is going to help a kid who would have to travel 10mi to the nearest well-stocked library.
The cellphone has become a major boon for farmers in several countries-- they can call ahead and negotiate their crop's value before spending the resources to haul perishable product to an uninterested market. The XO may have other "game changing" advantages. It will only have the chance to make a difference if the rich people quit naysaying every last little nit based on their own shortsightedness.
I think it makes perfect sense for them to use the Sims AI for a Middle Earth environment, especially around the behaviors of the Istari (wizards). For example, Gandalf can change his raiment whenever he wants to, in remote wilderness and underground situations, without a closet or seamstress in sight. Saruman can gab on and on and on about the same megolomanic topic, blindly ignoring how his friends are all getting annoyed with little red -- signs over their heads. Also, it takes several months for Radagast to walk *anywhere*, even when there's significant time pressure to deliver important news.
High speed trains are almost a non-starter in America. Why? Property rights.
Any location which is important enough to deserve a high-speed train route is a large, sprawling metropolitan area. Thousands of land owners and a byzantine tangle of "environmental impact" and other zoning considerations are in the way of any proposed route. There's no way to just declare a new train route without destroying an established major highway, and there's no major city which will accept the loss of an established major highway for the project. For low-speed rail such as BART, one can occasionally squeeze the infrastructure to share the route with an existing highway, but politically (if not realistically), safety dictates require more room for a high-speed railbed.
I bought a PSone just for FF9 (my first FF game). I bought a PS2 just for FFX but have now played FFX,FFX-2,FFXII. (I did subsequently buy some other games for each, and loved Katamari Damashii.) I saw the upcoming issues with PS3 and said I would not buy it, even if the next FF standalone was exclusive on it.
Sony knows that FF has enormous draw but even that has limits. I hope Square does more with other platforms.
Hey, this is Unix! I know this!
That poster looks like Edward Tufte got sick after trying to make sense of all that information.
Joke aside, it's gorgeous in the pure organic feel of it, but not particularly informative other than illustrative.
Unless they're gay and someone notices. In which case they're out on their arabic_for('ass') while any investment in their skills is squandered.
Personally, I think it would just be cheaper to not fly metric tons of paper cash into the country and then misplace it.
Wow, nice analogy. Three points:
The above command, in English, is "replace one specific character in the file /etc/inittab" which will disable the typical runlevel that uses X11.
While anyone COULD let it boot up into a bloated graphical environment and perform the task in something like Notepad, the whole point of the task is to disable the use of bloated graphical environments.
Furthermore, while the above could be done in about as many keystrokes using a lightweight interactive editor like vi, if the guy is doing so many installs that he knows what he's got to do "first" on each one, then he likely has added this command to a long list of site-specific customizations to suit his particular requirements. It's not like he types this 500 times in a day, and repeats every 6 months.
And then there's the guy in IT who uses the phrase "public domain" for things that are open sourced, licensed with sources, published in textbooks, or anywhere in between. Even if he knows the difference, he's poisoning the well by callously disregarding the important distinction of "the owner makes the source available" and "the source has no owner."
Yeah, but can it distinguish the invention of PalmOS Graffiti from the invention of PARC Unistroke? That would have been handy...
Finally, a situation where we can correctly use the phrase, "It begs the question..." and nobody takes the opportunity!
Erm, except to do it your way, each of the microexposures have to be quantified before they could be shifted and averaged, and when you quantify a high-gain low-photon data set, you INCREASE the amount of noise in the final data. Also, since it would take some time to decide how far to shift each of the microexposures, you're now taking longer to get a total of 1/30sec of actual photon-catching exposure, and fast-moving objects would appear to be stuttering along instead of smoothly blurred.
Look up 'ubiquitous' before you whine about how far behind Intel might seem to be.
Though having one demonstration will help spur the demand, and the demand will spur production, I still think it'll be five years before everybody's grandmother will have a Tf lying around on their checkbook-balancing credenza, and every PHB will have one under their desk warming their feet during long conference calls.