1. What are you talking about? The active window gets the menu bar. How is that confusing?
2. You're just making stuff up. There's no "configuration panel" in which to select wireless networks at all. You just click on the WiFi icon in the menu bar then select one from the list.
3. It's called security. Guess what, if you can change the settings without a password, so can XYZ Soft that you downloaded and ran for some other reason. There is a reason that Windows has a spyware problem and OS X doesn't this is it.
4. Fair enough. There is a logic to the zoom button, but it's not always clear to people. I think it should be reformed some.
I haven't installed Windows in years, but back when I did I remember always thinking, "Why are they advertising Windows to me during the installation process!" It would always tell me about these great new features--as if I hadn't already paid for them!
Apparently/. user "Yagu" was in MS back when they decided to do half-assed POSIX compatibility. It's really sad too, because if MS had copied Unix better, a lot of their security problems would never have happened.
A virus gets on to the network and thinks, "Hmm, who should I try to attack next." Suddenly, a broadcast, "Hey, everyone! I'm running Vista version XYZ. You know, the one that came out before that big vulnerability patch? Yeah, if someone were to try to infect me, no need to waste time with technique B since I still have security flaw A from before that patch came out." Virus says, "Thanks for the tip," infects the machine, tells it to shut up about needing patches. Administrator comes by and looks at the setting reported by the network. "Hmm, looks like they're up-to-date. Good. Now it's safe for me to let my guard down."
Seriously, there is no chance of this helping security at all and a strong chance that it will set security back.
TCIP is an IETF standard, not a W3C or ISO. In fact, W3C doesn't actually make publish "standards" at all -- only recommendations. ISO does publish standards, but it hasn't made many very important internet standards, unless you count string encodings, but those can be used offline as well.
This isn't to say MS isn't trying to destroy standards. Just know what you're talking about before you say something.
Those problems are real, but I'm not clear about your approach to solving them (if you think they even can be solved). We can't invade the world and impose good governance. That just doesn't work. The local people have to want good government more than they want revenge. The idea of the OLPC project is that the masses can bypass the corrupt elites through the magic of the internet or whatever, and thus short circuit the repression-rebellion-corruption loop. OK, it's a little pie-in-the-sky, but I can't see how it can hurt. If the leaders rip off the laptops... well, they're already ripping off everything anyway. So, status quo. But at least we will have given solving the problem a shot, which is something.
I guess the idea of the project is to flood the market, so that no one bothers to try to sell them off because the value from selling will be lower than what you can earn by using it. That makes sense to me.
Huh? You're talking as if the food problem hasn't been basically solved. If people in the third world can produce something people in the first world want, they'll get money. Money buys food. There's enough food for everyone now. It's just a matter of distribution.
In fact, the real problem for a lot of third world is they're poor people and the only thing they can afford to do is grow their own food. So they do that. Then if they have some extra, they try to sell it. But they can't get enough money for it, because there is so much food on the world market, that the amount of food one person can grow without modern technology, while more than enough to feed that person and his family, isn't worth jack. So, that country does all its farming itself.
Then oops, there's a local famine. Well, that's OK, they can just buy food from some other country. Except they can't because they don't have any money. The only jobs they have are in farming, and as mentioned before, there's no money in farming because the food problem has been solved (but not the distribution problem).
OK, let's try that again: we give the kids a laptop. While Dad keeps farming, Junior becomes a gold farmer on World of Warcraft. White people send Junior money for his time. There's another famine. Junior uses his money to get the white people to send him food from someplace where it's still cheap.
They're banning violent games eh!? Well, I'll show them! Just wait until one of those politicians shows their face in public. I'll put the reticule over their face and just keep clicking until their head explodes! Fear my clicking finger of death!
But, first what's the command to bring up a reticule IRL? Mine's busted, I think. The graphics are decent, but the server must have wicked lag, 'cos I move really slow. Does anyone know the spawn point for ammo packs? I think I need to walk over one first before I can implement my plan. Right now I click and nothing happens.:/
So, you're saying that our space program today is in the same place as the space program in 1956? 'Cos that was 14 years before 1970, but we hadn't even orbited a single tin can.
Let's face facts: when you announce a 14 year schedule to go to the Moon, you're announcing "We have not intention of going to the Moon."
Once we're storing a bit of so per atom (maybe a full byte if you jigger it right), there's nowhere left to go. Atoms are around an angstrom large. Google calc says 889 000 000 angstroms in 3.5 inches. Square it: 8×10^17. Google also says a petabyte is 9x10^15. So, basically as much storage as you could ever hope to have on an iPod is 10 petabytes. That's the limit.
Here's another sad thought: if you calculate time it takes for light to go the length of a CPU, you realize we'll never make it very far into the Terahertz.:-(
Romaaji de kaku no ga, gomen nasai ga, kyomi wo motte ori, surashudotto ni nihon moji de kakemasen. Hontou ni sono kaisha de hataraite irasshaimasu ka. Yahari, kono chotto dake no nihongo wo rikai shite iru no wa tashika na shoumei dewa nai desuga, kore sae yomenai hito wa zettai ni usotsuki desu kara kou iu fuu ni kubetsu shite mite orimasu. Go-henji wa eigo demo ii desu kerdomo, kono mae no bubun ga honyaku dekiru no wo arawashite kudasai ne.
Game magazines as a place where game publishers show off screen shots from upcoming games and reviewers give scores no longer make sense as a business model. No one who is really interested in games is without an internet connection, so they can go to the game publisher's website themselves or get them from other sites that totally ad supported and thus free. The web also has videos, which are superior to screen shots. The web is also more timely. Furthermore, the web is full of average people who will give their opinion on games. Go to GameFAQs.com, and you can read a lot of average people's opinions. Yes, they only ever score things 10 or 5 (love it or hate it), but you can still figure out what kind of game it is when they explain why.
No, the only reason for publishing a monthly game magazine now is to talk about news that says new: that is to talk about games as a medium, instead of hyping big upcoming game X. As gamers get more mature, there are more people who want to read New Yorker-style intelligent breakdowns of what gaming conventions mean and what the role of games is in society. Things like the Escapist and Gamers Quarter may seem too on the fringe right now to make much money, but the fact is that in the future, that kind of content is the only thing gamers will be willing to actually spend money on. Everything else we can just get for free*.
*With ads, of course. But at least no cover or subscription price.
If you were using Gopher in 1990, you're a time traveller. The Web slightly predates Gopher, though obviously Gopher became popular before the Web did.
I can (sort of) speak Japanese. The three ads are from left to right: "Mac & PC" "Virus" "iLife" (ok, so the last one was a gimme)
In the "Mac & PC" they note that Macs are technically just a kind of personal computer then wonder why Mac gets a special name as part of that, but other computers are just "PCs." Mac suggests its a kind of nickname because people enjoy their Macs. As a nickname for the other other kind of PCs, they suggest "Work," (which sounds like Mac in Japanese).
In "Virus," PC gets one of his thousands of viruses, but Mac says he's OK.
In "iLife," PC jams out on iPod and Mac informs him that Mac comes with iTunes-like software for dealing with movies and photos as well. PC says he has cool software, too. "For instance?" ask Mac. "Um, calculator... Clock..."
Yeah, as one might guess from my screenname, I'm a pretty big fan of the game. I played it on an emulator my senior year of high school, and it blew my mind. After that, I just so happened to end up learning Japanese, so I've been able to play Mother1+2 for the GBA and the new Mother3 in the original language and mostly follow the plot. (Well, sometimes I have to look stuff up, but I get the gist for the most part...) Still, I'll be pretty disappointed if Nintendo never releases at least EarthBound 0 and EarthBound for the Virtual Console of the Wii. It's always more fun to play a text heavy game in your native language. I've already bought the games once for GBA but I'd be willing to buy them again for the Wii. In other words, I'm willing to shovel money into Nintendo for basically nothing. And I'm not the only one either. Starmen.net have gotten 30,000 people to sign a petition for the various games. Not to release them in English is just foolishness on Nintendo's part.
So, my hope is that by threatening to put out a patched ROM, Starmen.net will scare Nintendo into actually releasing a translation themselves, but my worry is that Nintendo will just sue Starmen, kill off a really great fansite, then continue not picking up the freaking free money all of us fans are trying unsuccessfully to shove into their faces. Ugh! C'mon Nintendo, get it together!
Those ACs are just pissed that they don't know what a gazebo is either. Dude, that was hilarious, better than the post we're supposed to be talking about.
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Huh?
1. What are you talking about? The active window gets the menu bar. How is that confusing?
2. You're just making stuff up. There's no "configuration panel" in which to select wireless networks at all. You just click on the WiFi icon in the menu bar then select one from the list.
3. It's called security. Guess what, if you can change the settings without a password, so can XYZ Soft that you downloaded and ran for some other reason. There is a reason that Windows has a spyware problem and OS X doesn't this is it.
4. Fair enough. There is a logic to the zoom button, but it's not always clear to people. I think it should be reformed some.
I haven't installed Windows in years, but back when I did I remember always thinking, "Why are they advertising Windows to me during the installation process!" It would always tell me about these great new features--as if I hadn't already paid for them!
Apparently /. user "Yagu" was in MS back when they decided to do half-assed POSIX compatibility. It's really sad too, because if MS had copied Unix better, a lot of their security problems would never have happened.
Nah, I heard she's not into that.
I would... but I am already in my pajamas.
Well, they just seem to make a big deal about it not being a "standard" in the ISO sense sometimes is all I'm saying.
A virus gets on to the network and thinks, "Hmm, who should I try to attack next." Suddenly, a broadcast, "Hey, everyone! I'm running Vista version XYZ. You know, the one that came out before that big vulnerability patch? Yeah, if someone were to try to infect me, no need to waste time with technique B since I still have security flaw A from before that patch came out." Virus says, "Thanks for the tip," infects the machine, tells it to shut up about needing patches. Administrator comes by and looks at the setting reported by the network. "Hmm, looks like they're up-to-date. Good. Now it's safe for me to let my guard down."
Seriously, there is no chance of this helping security at all and a strong chance that it will set security back.
TCIP is an IETF standard, not a W3C or ISO. In fact, W3C doesn't actually make publish "standards" at all -- only recommendations. ISO does publish standards, but it hasn't made many very important internet standards, unless you count string encodings, but those can be used offline as well.
This isn't to say MS isn't trying to destroy standards. Just know what you're talking about before you say something.
Those problems are real, but I'm not clear about your approach to solving them (if you think they even can be solved). We can't invade the world and impose good governance. That just doesn't work. The local people have to want good government more than they want revenge. The idea of the OLPC project is that the masses can bypass the corrupt elites through the magic of the internet or whatever, and thus short circuit the repression-rebellion-corruption loop. OK, it's a little pie-in-the-sky, but I can't see how it can hurt. If the leaders rip off the laptops... well, they're already ripping off everything anyway. So, status quo. But at least we will have given solving the problem a shot, which is something.
I guess the idea of the project is to flood the market, so that no one bothers to try to sell them off because the value from selling will be lower than what you can earn by using it. That makes sense to me.
Huh? You're talking as if the food problem hasn't been basically solved. If people in the third world can produce something people in the first world want, they'll get money. Money buys food. There's enough food for everyone now. It's just a matter of distribution.
In fact, the real problem for a lot of third world is they're poor people and the only thing they can afford to do is grow their own food. So they do that. Then if they have some extra, they try to sell it. But they can't get enough money for it, because there is so much food on the world market, that the amount of food one person can grow without modern technology, while more than enough to feed that person and his family, isn't worth jack. So, that country does all its farming itself.
Then oops, there's a local famine. Well, that's OK, they can just buy food from some other country. Except they can't because they don't have any money. The only jobs they have are in farming, and as mentioned before, there's no money in farming because the food problem has been solved (but not the distribution problem).
OK, let's try that again: we give the kids a laptop. While Dad keeps farming, Junior becomes a gold farmer on World of Warcraft. White people send Junior money for his time. There's another famine. Junior uses his money to get the white people to send him food from someplace where it's still cheap.
Hooray, the distribution problem is fixed!
They're banning violent games eh!? Well, I'll show them! Just wait until one of those politicians shows their face in public. I'll put the reticule over their face and just keep clicking until their head explodes! Fear my clicking finger of death!
:/
But, first what's the command to bring up a reticule IRL? Mine's busted, I think. The graphics are decent, but the server must have wicked lag, 'cos I move really slow. Does anyone know the spawn point for ammo packs? I think I need to walk over one first before I can implement my plan. Right now I click and nothing happens.
No, the Internet 2 is actually a truck.
So, you're saying that our space program today is in the same place as the space program in 1956? 'Cos that was 14 years before 1970, but we hadn't even orbited a single tin can.
Let's face facts: when you announce a 14 year schedule to go to the Moon, you're announcing "We have not intention of going to the Moon."
That's it. From now on, I'm going to tag every article "slashdot," so I'll know who linked to it.
Once we're storing a bit of so per atom (maybe a full byte if you jigger it right), there's nowhere left to go. Atoms are around an angstrom large. Google calc says 889 000 000 angstroms in 3.5 inches. Square it: 8×10^17. Google also says a petabyte is 9x10^15. So, basically as much storage as you could ever hope to have on an iPod is 10 petabytes. That's the limit.
:-(
Here's another sad thought: if you calculate time it takes for light to go the length of a CPU, you realize we'll never make it very far into the Terahertz.
"Well clearly, he didn't fall asleep typing it. Why would he type 'zzz' then click submit?"
"Maybe he was dictating it."
Who modded that troll? Mods on crack, I reckon.
Romaaji de kaku no ga, gomen nasai ga, kyomi wo motte ori, surashudotto ni nihon moji de kakemasen. Hontou ni sono kaisha de hataraite irasshaimasu ka. Yahari, kono chotto dake no nihongo wo rikai shite iru no wa tashika na shoumei dewa nai desuga, kore sae yomenai hito wa zettai ni usotsuki desu kara kou iu fuu ni kubetsu shite mite orimasu. Go-henji wa eigo demo ii desu kerdomo, kono mae no bubun ga honyaku dekiru no wo arawashite kudasai ne.
Yoroshiku oneigashimasu.
Game magazines as a place where game publishers show off screen shots from upcoming games and reviewers give scores no longer make sense as a business model. No one who is really interested in games is without an internet connection, so they can go to the game publisher's website themselves or get them from other sites that totally ad supported and thus free. The web also has videos, which are superior to screen shots. The web is also more timely. Furthermore, the web is full of average people who will give their opinion on games. Go to GameFAQs.com, and you can read a lot of average people's opinions. Yes, they only ever score things 10 or 5 (love it or hate it), but you can still figure out what kind of game it is when they explain why.
No, the only reason for publishing a monthly game magazine now is to talk about news that says new: that is to talk about games as a medium, instead of hyping big upcoming game X. As gamers get more mature, there are more people who want to read New Yorker-style intelligent breakdowns of what gaming conventions mean and what the role of games is in society. Things like the Escapist and Gamers Quarter may seem too on the fringe right now to make much money, but the fact is that in the future, that kind of content is the only thing gamers will be willing to actually spend money on. Everything else we can just get for free*.
*With ads, of course. But at least no cover or subscription price.
If you were using Gopher in 1990, you're a time traveller. The Web slightly predates Gopher, though obviously Gopher became popular before the Web did.
I can (sort of) speak Japanese. The three ads are from left to right: "Mac & PC" "Virus" "iLife" (ok, so the last one was a gimme)
In the "Mac & PC" they note that Macs are technically just a kind of personal computer then wonder why Mac gets a special name as part of that, but other computers are just "PCs." Mac suggests its a kind of nickname because people enjoy their Macs. As a nickname for the other other kind of PCs, they suggest "Work," (which sounds like Mac in Japanese).
In "Virus," PC gets one of his thousands of viruses, but Mac says he's OK.
In "iLife," PC jams out on iPod and Mac informs him that Mac comes with iTunes-like software for dealing with movies and photos as well. PC says he has cool software, too. "For instance?" ask Mac. "Um, calculator... Clock..."
Satoru Iwata is my Prime Minister.
Yeah, as one might guess from my screenname, I'm a pretty big fan of the game. I played it on an emulator my senior year of high school, and it blew my mind. After that, I just so happened to end up learning Japanese, so I've been able to play Mother1+2 for the GBA and the new Mother3 in the original language and mostly follow the plot. (Well, sometimes I have to look stuff up, but I get the gist for the most part...) Still, I'll be pretty disappointed if Nintendo never releases at least EarthBound 0 and EarthBound for the Virtual Console of the Wii. It's always more fun to play a text heavy game in your native language. I've already bought the games once for GBA but I'd be willing to buy them again for the Wii. In other words, I'm willing to shovel money into Nintendo for basically nothing. And I'm not the only one either. Starmen.net have gotten 30,000 people to sign a petition for the various games. Not to release them in English is just foolishness on Nintendo's part.
So, my hope is that by threatening to put out a patched ROM, Starmen.net will scare Nintendo into actually releasing a translation themselves, but my worry is that Nintendo will just sue Starmen, kill off a really great fansite, then continue not picking up the freaking free money all of us fans are trying unsuccessfully to shove into their faces. Ugh! C'mon Nintendo, get it together!
No, he's serving XHTML 1.0, which can be served as text/html if necessary, not 1.1, which cannot.
Those ACs are just pissed that they don't know what a gazebo is either. Dude, that was hilarious, better than the post we're supposed to be talking about.