Instead of a 'vision center' of the brain, for example, we may actually have a region that helps us 'see', whether that input comes from sight or sound."
How about instead of a 'vison center' you call it a 'spacial awareness center'. Then it fits the bill no matter where that information is coming from. Because vision can be broken down into "this is over here" and "that is over there". Now it would be interesting to know if the 'vison center' is active in the blind people who use echo-location, that would solidify my claim. Just because I devised my claim based on the above quote doesn't make it invalid, only not well tested.
I can't really answer the question, but I assume that you could still play already purchased games but wouldn't be able to add/buy new ones.
I started using steam a lot more last year when I wanted to start playing more games again. I played a lot in the late 80's and early 90's. A lot of the games are on CD or diskette (remember those), some were shareware purchases (original doom). Some things have been misplaced over time. CD's would install the original version, but there are certainly patches I would have to hunt down [I understand that there is no real "need" to patch].
The thing is that when you have a cloud based game list like what steam maintains you just tell it to install and it takes care of it. So yes, I have repurchased games on steam just so I don't have to fiddle with that crap. I repurchase intelligently, I watch for it to be on sale. Often they include DLC that came out afterward.
I know that there's a "risk" with any DRM and it going away, but I think of Valve as a pretty low risk in that regard. And those of us throwing money at them, even in small amounts, helps keep them around.
I also load my humble bundle purchases into steam, which makes those easier to remember and install.
If the carriers consulted a "stolen phone database" before allowing activation then you couldn't use a stolen phone. The market for stolen phones would disappear. Of course, scumbags would still try to sell them, but the buyers would be pissed afterward.
Somebody would need to house the DB, but it's much like the Do Not Call list - so the logistics are already in place. They would need to use the unique phone id, not the sim card id (obviously easily bypassed on sim card phones).
This would also not require some new special piece of hardware raising the cost of phones (and probably creating some artificial boon for the company that makes it).
Please make a law that prevents competition for our business.
Well why doesn't every business get that luxury - because it's bad for the citizens, the one's the government is supposed to protect.
I also find it interesting that the "competition" in question here is the municipality - the region, the town, the people that the business serves. If the region thinks your service sucks and that they can do better "in house"
A) the government shouldn't create a law saying they aren't allowed
B) you should react by saying "we can improve our service" and enter a dialog with the region - heaven forbid
C) you should increase the rollout of improved speed to prevent other regions from having to say that your service sucks
D) stop slashdot beta from becoming slashdot period
Trying to be more constructive I sent this message to the feedback email:
There are a lot of users who do not like the beta design. I don’t especially hate it, but I do like the turquoise bars signifying the start of a new thread or comment. The beta uses a larger font which is not nearly as apparent.
Comments are also very squished with the right bar eating so much space. 3 comments deep you can fit 70 characters opposed to 140 in classic. I also don’t like the font change in comments.
In reality I do hate the squished comments. I wrote that part before I went into comments.
That's why I didn't want IE removed from Windows - because it's what I use to go download Firefox. It would be nice to be able to remove it afterwards, though.
I'm with the other guys. I almost solely run FF current builds on multiple machines (work 6GB ram with intel graphics. home main 16GB with AMD. home media server was 2GB with nvidia - very recently upgraded). I haven't had crash issues on any of them. I definitely would have switched or investigated the cause, but I would have to say you have a bad addon. Potentially you have bad ram, but I would imagine that using a different browser wouldn't have fixed the issue.
I only sync Bookmarks and Addons (for security reasons I don't even store passwords). But I've never had a problem with the way sync works now. You need to have a synced device on had to generate a code to feed into the device you want to add. As long as you have 1 accessible synced device you're good.
If you were using it to back up bookmarks on one machine and you are rebuilding that machine, then you may be in trouble. So I guess that's what they're referring to here.
I have it on my phone, so I can always have that one on hand
I have used both, from working for a hosting provider as an administrator, to working for MS itself later, to my job now. Configuration of apache is only slightly more difficult in that you need to use a text editor instead of point and click hold handing, however IIS is no wear near as powerful in that you can do much more with apache because of the slightly more difficult configuration. In addition apache is more lightweight, and has better security.
It got a little confusing about which it you were referring, so I FTFY.
Why is it that after I've written the comment I get options to Submit - Continue Editing - Preview - Cancel , but not Login?
Why was this marked Funny? It's absolutely true and should be marked "Insightful". It's the same reason people, myself included, have a problem with Unity.
The menu is a great way to find something when A) You don't know what it's called, but you're likely to know it when you see it.
B) You just want to explore, browse, window shop, look around -- where you bump bump into something cool that you didn't know about.
I like the Windows 7 start menu. It works as a menu with a search (or filter) box to narrow things down. But taking away the menu entirely, or having some weird navigation, bothers me.
As far as I'm concerned I've thought of cryptocurrency as play money. What's to stop you from "item duping" to use a gaming phrase?
for example: backing up your wallet, transferring crypto bucks to some online wallet, restoring your local wallet, transferring those same crypto bucks somewhere else
I have read enough to believe that there's a verifiable way to know that some series of bits is a valid crypto buck. Since there's no "central bank" who's to say who owns any certain crypto buck or that any certain crypto buck is a dupe/fake/fraud?
I thought that it might be interesting to mine bit coin and just sell them off as soon as I "mined" them. It would be free money, minus the electricity, since I'm not really interested in having any bit coin. But I never found it worth the time to take it that seriously. I hate when there are fluff piece marketing drone gloss over videos (read advertisements) that don't tell me how to really use something. That's how I feel about a lot of frameworks. They make grand claims on the title screen, but until I see a real code example I just think "Well that sounds nice, but does it work?"
My daughter is 3. She will play some games or watch videos on the ipad. She likes having me repaint shapes on the laptop. I've had her mess around a little bit on gcompris. But we do just as much running around the house because a "giant is chasing us". And we go out for walks around the block to see if we can run into any neighborhood dogs getting walked. So their is a balance.
To answer the OP, no I don't intend to dig up old versions of software to show her the "roots". I will teach her command line tools, programming, and database management - on current tools. I will also express that it's best to know what's going on behind the scenes (or under the hood for your car reference).
Scenario: We have this proposal to spend lots of taxpayer dollars putting cameras up.
Side note: I didn't read the article, but I assume this comes with a monthly expense to monitor the footage.
Official: Do we have any information for or against putting these cameras up?
Person: No.
Official: Would we have any numbers to tell whether the cameras do any good?
Person: No, but you own stock in the company.
Official: Well then put up some cameras.
You put your car out in the public domain (on the streets/parking lots), yet you have some expectation of control over it and decency in how others treat it.
You put your information on the internet, yet that perception of control and decency in how it's handled does not exist. Although I think that many people think it's all okay because they don't understand how that data is slurped up stored and used...but that's another topic. Many would also decide that the convenience is worth their data being harvested because their data isn't worth much to them. That is the key that $BIG_CORP counts on.
I think a lot of little sites do vanish. The big stuff, even if you could request to "not post this anymore" it may not be shared, but that doesn't make it magically removed. Removing it from a server doesn't make it magically removed from backups or any other server. I don't work for one of these big data firms, but trying to unequivocally say that I don't have a copy of some piece of information anywhere is a hard statement to make. That's not to say that I can always find some piece of information that I know I have. That double edged sword of "can't get rid of it" and "can't find it when you need it".
Asked why the company underestimated the volume of air packages it would receive, Black noted that previous severe weather...
Umm, because we have very little influence on the volume... Perhaps you might think about that!?
Forecasting what kind of increase in online vs physical shopping is going to happen from year to year is some kind of black magic or dump luck - something akin to meteorology. Yea you can have an educated guess, but what really happens isn't in your control.
Sure, if you went out of your way to pay extra for 1 or 2 day delivery and it didn't arrive on time you have some right to whine, but if you waited until December 22nd to order your Christmas present then that's really on YOU.
There's a serious lack of taking responsibility in this country. It's been brewing for a while, but it needs to be repeated.
I find it difficult, nay impossible, to believe that that is *and will always remain* the case.
That is certainly something to consider, and I cannot argue against that. I hadn't thought about it, but I know far too much to think you're on the wrong track.
I do know that even if you never upload a picture others will, and once it's tagged back to you the cat's out of the bag. I didn't upload any pictures for a long time, but after someone privacy unconscious (to coin a phrase) tagged by in a photo I said "hell with it, the damage is done". You can try, but you just can't control other people.
Google Glass, at this point, isn't a constant roaming recording camera. The battery life doesn't permit that. I can't say the same about the future.
Honestly, I don't think anyone wants a society where you can't do or say something in the moment that is meant to stay in the moment.
It's nice to have the freedom to do something embarrassing when those who saw it saw it, but no one else will be able to see it out of context. Others can tell stories, but they will often be told in context. Clips on YouTube, however, don't always retain context. Compilations, even less so.
It doesn't know anything about you that isn't out in the public. If you put a profile on a dating site, or are in a pedophile database, you're there by your own doing. So glass' ability to pull that up quickly isn't invading anything...it's just saving time and manual effort.
Quoted from the article:
It’s not about invading anyone’s privacy; it’s about connecting people that want to be connected.
In light of what I said above there is a "feeling" of privacy invasion because that dating profile was only intended to be seen by someone interested in looking for a date, not the world at large. The other issue is that it's fine when "people want to be connected", but not so fine if "you want to be connected to me but I want nothing to do with you". aka, the stalker factor. I'm not saying that it should be banned because of that. The stalker can take a random photo and put in the manual effort just the same, it's only saving time for them as well.
It does have the benefit of not forgetting the name of that person from high school you just ran into on the street who remembers your name while you can't remember theirs.
I used to have a whole list of tweaks I would do to explorer on an XP machine to make it "ready for use". The first item on that list was to turn off Hide Extensions.
That, and show hidden files, are the only one's I still do routinely.
The first time an email cropped up exploiting the malware.jpg.exe "oo lookie, a picture" issue this (hiding information from the user) should have been dropped as the default.
Since when has hiding information ever made anything better? But what should we expect when they deciding to remove visual cues from their latest OS? Flat buttons anyone? Hidden magic corners (Linux distros jumped on board with that one too). Mobile OS's using picture buttons when you can't hover to see what it's going to do before clicking on it... but I digress
Slashdot Mirror
Instead of a 'vision center' of the brain, for example, we may actually have a region that helps us 'see', whether that input comes from sight or sound."
How about instead of a 'vison center' you call it a 'spacial awareness center'. Then it fits the bill no matter where that information is coming from. Because vision can be broken down into "this is over here" and "that is over there". Now it would be interesting to know if the 'vison center' is active in the blind people who use echo-location, that would solidify my claim.
Just because I devised my claim based on the above quote doesn't make it invalid, only not well tested.
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I'm not going to go all F.B. because I'm not a sailor, but as a techie site this definitely looks silly.
Vixin Licks? just sayin'
I can't really answer the question, but I assume that you could still play already purchased games but wouldn't be able to add/buy new ones.
I started using steam a lot more last year when I wanted to start playing more games again. I played a lot in the late 80's and early 90's. A lot of the games are on CD or diskette (remember those), some were shareware purchases (original doom). Some things have been misplaced over time. CD's would install the original version, but there are certainly patches I would have to hunt down [I understand that there is no real "need" to patch].
The thing is that when you have a cloud based game list like what steam maintains you just tell it to install and it takes care of it. So yes, I have repurchased games on steam just so I don't have to fiddle with that crap. I repurchase intelligently, I watch for it to be on sale. Often they include DLC that came out afterward.
I know that there's a "risk" with any DRM and it going away, but I think of Valve as a pretty low risk in that regard. And those of us throwing money at them, even in small amounts, helps keep them around.
I also load my humble bundle purchases into steam, which makes those easier to remember and install.
Part of it might be resale value, but I kind of think the robber understands those 2 points as well.
If the carriers consulted a "stolen phone database" before allowing activation then you couldn't use a stolen phone. The market for stolen phones would disappear. Of course, scumbags would still try to sell them, but the buyers would be pissed afterward.
Somebody would need to house the DB, but it's much like the Do Not Call list - so the logistics are already in place. They would need to use the unique phone id, not the sim card id (obviously easily bypassed on sim card phones).
This would also not require some new special piece of hardware raising the cost of phones (and probably creating some artificial boon for the company that makes it).
Please make a law that prevents competition for our business.
Well why doesn't every business get that luxury - because it's bad for the citizens, the one's the government is supposed to protect.
I also find it interesting that the "competition" in question here is the municipality - the region, the town, the people that the business serves. If the region thinks your service sucks and that they can do better "in house"
A) the government shouldn't create a law saying they aren't allowed
B) you should react by saying "we can improve our service" and enter a dialog with the region - heaven forbid
C) you should increase the rollout of improved speed to prevent other regions from having to say that your service sucks
D) stop slashdot beta from becoming slashdot period
There are a lot of users who do not like the beta design. I don’t especially hate it, but I do like the turquoise bars signifying the start of a new thread or comment. The beta uses a larger font which is not nearly as apparent.
Comments are also very squished with the right bar eating so much space. 3 comments deep you can fit 70 characters opposed to 140 in classic. I also don’t like the font change in comments.
In reality I do hate the squished comments. I wrote that part before I went into comments.
That's why I didn't want IE removed from Windows - because it's what I use to go download Firefox. It would be nice to be able to remove it afterwards, though.
I'm with the other guys. I almost solely run FF current builds on multiple machines (work 6GB ram with intel graphics. home main 16GB with AMD. home media server was 2GB with nvidia - very recently upgraded). I haven't had crash issues on any of them. I definitely would have switched or investigated the cause, but I would have to say you have a bad addon. Potentially you have bad ram, but I would imagine that using a different browser wouldn't have fixed the issue.
I only sync Bookmarks and Addons (for security reasons I don't even store passwords). But I've never had a problem with the way sync works now. You need to have a synced device on had to generate a code to feed into the device you want to add. As long as you have 1 accessible synced device you're good.
If you were using it to back up bookmarks on one machine and you are rebuilding that machine, then you may be in trouble. So I guess that's what they're referring to here.
I have it on my phone, so I can always have that one on hand
I have used both, from working for a hosting provider as an administrator, to working for MS itself later, to my job now. Configuration of apache is only slightly more difficult in that you need to use a text editor instead of point and click hold handing, however IIS is no wear near as powerful in that you can do much more with apache because of the slightly more difficult configuration. In addition apache is more lightweight, and has better security.
It got a little confusing about which it you were referring, so I FTFY. Why is it that after I've written the comment I get options to Submit - Continue Editing - Preview - Cancel , but not Login?
If the **AA are also shareholders in "for profit" prisons then it's a win win (for them)
They've made it clear that they don't care about anyone else.
1) Whether he has a wife or not is the government's business. He notifies them every time he files taxes (married and filing jointly/separately)
2) She can request that he buys milk on the way home. It's a sign of working as a team.
I could also say that he is likely to do it because he enjoys being married, but I think that's a bit sensationalist.
Why was this marked Funny? It's absolutely true and should be marked "Insightful". It's the same reason people, myself included, have a problem with Unity.
The menu is a great way to find something when A) You don't know what it's called, but you're likely to know it when you see it. B) You just want to explore, browse, window shop, look around -- where you bump bump into something cool that you didn't know about.
I like the Windows 7 start menu. It works as a menu with a search (or filter) box to narrow things down. But taking away the menu entirely, or having some weird navigation, bothers me.
So in short: Amen, brother!
Why can't I install it myself, send the data to me, and share that data with any doctor I see fit?
That's how it should be. Now, if it's making medication change suggestions the doctor should at least know about it.
But when it's your information and your device you should certainly have access to it.
I didn't read the article, so I may be whining about nothing...
As far as I'm concerned I've thought of cryptocurrency as play money. What's to stop you from "item duping" to use a gaming phrase?
for example: backing up your wallet, transferring crypto bucks to some online wallet, restoring your local wallet, transferring those same crypto bucks somewhere else
I have read enough to believe that there's a verifiable way to know that some series of bits is a valid crypto buck. Since there's no "central bank" who's to say who owns any certain crypto buck or that any certain crypto buck is a dupe/fake/fraud?
I thought that it might be interesting to mine bit coin and just sell them off as soon as I "mined" them. It would be free money, minus the electricity, since I'm not really interested in having any bit coin. But I never found it worth the time to take it that seriously. I hate when there are fluff piece marketing drone gloss over videos (read advertisements) that don't tell me how to really use something. That's how I feel about a lot of frameworks. They make grand claims on the title screen, but until I see a real code example I just think "Well that sounds nice, but does it work?"
Awesome sig.
My daughter is 3. She will play some games or watch videos on the ipad. She likes having me repaint shapes on the laptop. I've had her mess around a little bit on gcompris. But we do just as much running around the house because a "giant is chasing us". And we go out for walks around the block to see if we can run into any neighborhood dogs getting walked. So their is a balance.
To answer the OP, no I don't intend to dig up old versions of software to show her the "roots". I will teach her command line tools, programming, and database management - on current tools. I will also express that it's best to know what's going on behind the scenes (or under the hood for your car reference).
Do the meeting minutes look something like this:
Scenario: We have this proposal to spend lots of taxpayer dollars putting cameras up.
Side note: I didn't read the article, but I assume this comes with a monthly expense to monitor the footage.
Official: Do we have any information for or against putting these cameras up?
Person: No.
Official: Would we have any numbers to tell whether the cameras do any good?
Person: No, but you own stock in the company.
Official: Well then put up some cameras.
I agree. I appreciated it.
You put your car out in the public domain (on the streets/parking lots), yet you have some expectation of control over it and decency in how others treat it.
You put your information on the internet, yet that perception of control and decency in how it's handled does not exist. Although I think that many people think it's all okay because they don't understand how that data is slurped up stored and used...but that's another topic. Many would also decide that the convenience is worth their data being harvested because their data isn't worth much to them. That is the key that $BIG_CORP counts on.
I think a lot of little sites do vanish. The big stuff, even if you could request to "not post this anymore" it may not be shared, but that doesn't make it magically removed. Removing it from a server doesn't make it magically removed from backups or any other server. I don't work for one of these big data firms, but trying to unequivocally say that I don't have a copy of some piece of information anywhere is a hard statement to make. That's not to say that I can always find some piece of information that I know I have. That double edged sword of "can't get rid of it" and "can't find it when you need it".
Asked why the company underestimated the volume of air packages it would receive, Black noted that previous severe weather ...
Umm, because we have very little influence on the volume... Perhaps you might think about that!?
Forecasting what kind of increase in online vs physical shopping is going to happen from year to year is some kind of black magic or dump luck - something akin to meteorology. Yea you can have an educated guess, but what really happens isn't in your control.
Sure, if you went out of your way to pay extra for 1 or 2 day delivery and it didn't arrive on time you have some right to whine, but if you waited until December 22nd to order your Christmas present then that's really on YOU.
There's a serious lack of taking responsibility in this country. It's been brewing for a while, but it needs to be repeated.
I find it difficult, nay impossible, to believe that that is *and will always remain* the case.
That is certainly something to consider, and I cannot argue against that. I hadn't thought about it, but I know far too much to think you're on the wrong track.
I do know that even if you never upload a picture others will, and once it's tagged back to you the cat's out of the bag. I didn't upload any pictures for a long time, but after someone privacy unconscious (to coin a phrase) tagged by in a photo I said "hell with it, the damage is done". You can try, but you just can't control other people.
Google Glass, at this point, isn't a constant roaming recording camera. The battery life doesn't permit that. I can't say the same about the future.
Honestly, I don't think anyone wants a society where you can't do or say something in the moment that is meant to stay in the moment.
It's nice to have the freedom to do something embarrassing when those who saw it saw it, but no one else will be able to see it out of context. Others can tell stories, but they will often be told in context. Clips on YouTube, however, don't always retain context. Compilations, even less so.
I want to say two things. First I'll reply.
It doesn't know anything about you that isn't out in the public. If you put a profile on a dating site, or are in a pedophile database, you're there by your own doing. So glass' ability to pull that up quickly isn't invading anything...it's just saving time and manual effort.
Quoted from the article:
It’s not about invading anyone’s privacy; it’s about connecting people that want to be connected.
In light of what I said above there is a "feeling" of privacy invasion because that dating profile was only intended to be seen by someone interested in looking for a date, not the world at large. The other issue is that it's fine when "people want to be connected", but not so fine if "you want to be connected to me but I want nothing to do with you". aka, the stalker factor. I'm not saying that it should be banned because of that. The stalker can take a random photo and put in the manual effort just the same, it's only saving time for them as well.
It does have the benefit of not forgetting the name of that person from high school you just ran into on the street who remembers your name while you can't remember theirs.
I agree whole-heartedly with this.
I used to have a whole list of tweaks I would do to explorer on an XP machine to make it "ready for use". The first item on that list was to turn off Hide Extensions.
That, and show hidden files, are the only one's I still do routinely.
The first time an email cropped up exploiting the malware.jpg.exe "oo lookie, a picture" issue this (hiding information from the user) should have been dropped as the default.
Since when has hiding information ever made anything better? But what should we expect when they deciding to remove visual cues from their latest OS? Flat buttons anyone? Hidden magic corners (Linux distros jumped on board with that one too). Mobile OS's using picture buttons when you can't hover to see what it's going to do before clicking on it... but I digress
When you call in a bomb threat for a bomb that doesn't exist no physical damage is done.
When you start a fire in a trash can the building may catch on fire. Even if it's not your intention to cause a real fire, that may happen.
Just pulling the fire alarm itself will probably not cause enough of a delay to get you out of the test.
Moral is: Just study. (aka, do the work)