Get that PSP away from me, I don't want any of your second-hand fragging to endanger my health!" Yeah. I don't think I'll be hearing that one.
I don't know why you'd even question it. It should be fairly obvious to any reasonable human being that seeing other humans depicted doing something, and other humans participating in a game where they play out something, is going to influence you to think similarly. We do it, chimps do it, and (arguably, but again, probably not by reasonable people) every other mammal does it.
Ahh, but compared to the Shelbyville Bullet, our new maglev kicks butt. Therefore, it must be done.
Shelbyville, n: Town in The Simpsons, in Japan, or in any country other which arrogance tells us we have to be better than.
Maglev, n: nice idea, for some ideal country where people actually realise that public transport is potentially better than the private variety.
This is why statistics are often useless BS. When it comes to environmental impact, and lives affected, a photo is worth a thousand reports. I partly agree with people who say that nuclear power is the sane alternative vs. coal etc. However, I challenge anyone with a mature conscience to look at photos of Hiroshima or Chernobyl and say that we're truly ready to have that kind of thing in widespread use.
PLEASE stop using this term "bricked" around IT stuff. Here in the UK at least, it does not mean what you think it means. Here's a few typical UK uses of the word. Spot the one that your use verges on:
* I'll use these bricks to build a wall. * It's about the size of a brick. * I wasn't just scared; I was shitting bricks.
The UK has had a policy of equal consideration for open source solutions for years now. Unfortunately there are still many cases of corruption -- Microsoft's recent "Schools 2000" (I think that was the name, but possibly not) program, for instance, where it gets a monopoly in every school, and cases where the best bidders on non-IT contracts have been told that they "said all the right things, except that they didn't use the word 'Microsoft'".
Unfortunately it's easy for a country to say it supports open standards, just as it's easy for a country to say it's "helping" in Iraq. Reality is often much different.
Well, disingenuous/dishonest/unethical, yes. I guess I didn't worry too much about which I meant, since distinctions between such words tend to matter most to people trying to avoid them:) (Not that I'm accusing *you* of anything; just saying!)
The kindle ain't sold out because it is still in production. It is trivial to set this scenario up and Amazon should fire its marketting department if they hadn't set this up. It is a basic move. Make the item seem hot, so that people get the idea that they MUST buy it now or they may not have another chance.
Well, personally I would say that they should fire their marketing department for not being capable of marketing honestly. But that's another issue.
On gullibility vs. sales tricks, I agree. The very fact that amazon's kindle page has a special sold out message instead of the usual tried and tested stock level reporting system that's used for other products should tell you that it's fishy... as if you needed any more evidence of it.
You could certainly set up your own DNS servers...but that doesn't really get you very far since the rest of the world is still using ICANN's root servers.
No, I was thinking more of setting up new root servers, and everyone else agreeing to boycott ICANN, and route traffic to/from the new servers instead. I mean, **if** ICANN wasn't wanted, it could be ignored.
The internet is designed to survive nuclear attack. There ARE no core systems. Surely if everyone else wanted to wrest control away from the US govt., all they would need to do would be setup a new system providing the same facilities, and then route traffic there instead.
I was lazy. Yes I know SQL is a language used by a wide range of products, including a swath of OSS offerings.
Did you ever consider that it's exactly this kind of laziness which microsoft is counting on, when it uses generic names like "SQL Server" and "Windows" and "Word" for it's products? Your laziness makes you the puppet of a corporation which does harm on a daily basis, and yet you insult the people who simply point out the issue to you, trying to help you out. And I was trying to help you out, if you read my comment again.
Hell some versions of MS Office install SQL on your computer.
Makes you sound like an amateur who's never used anything but Microsoft's database products. SQL is a language.
On another note...
There should be many MORE open databases online, just like there are many websites online. Then maybe this whole semantic "web" thing would've taken off years ago.
WEN: (sweating now) Oh, well, we sold one of our submarines to somebody awhile back. It was probably them.
There is no plausible deniability when it comes to something like this. Meesh.
No, but until citizens don't allow war to be sold to them using vaguely plausible propaganda, it doesn't matter. When your country's on-side, and you're sufficiently power-hungry or deluded, you can launch any war you want.
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I don't know why you'd even question it. It should be fairly obvious to any reasonable human being that seeing other humans depicted doing something, and other humans participating in a game where they play out something, is going to influence you to think similarly. We do it, chimps do it, and (arguably, but again, probably not by reasonable people) every other mammal does it.
Ahh, but you neglected to search for the term "webbertubes", didn't you?
Ahh, but compared to the Shelbyville Bullet, our new maglev kicks butt. Therefore, it must be done.
Shelbyville, n: Town in The Simpsons, in Japan, or in any country other which arrogance tells us we have to be better than.
Maglev, n: nice idea, for some ideal country where people actually realise that public transport is potentially better than the private variety.
This is why statistics are often useless BS. When it comes to environmental impact, and lives affected, a photo is worth a thousand reports. I partly agree with people who say that nuclear power is the sane alternative vs. coal etc. However, I challenge anyone with a mature conscience to look at photos of Hiroshima or Chernobyl and say that we're truly ready to have that kind of thing in widespread use.
PLEASE stop using this term "bricked" around IT stuff. Here in the UK at least, it does not mean what you think it means. Here's a few typical UK uses of the word. Spot the one that your use verges on:
* I'll use these bricks to build a wall.
* It's about the size of a brick.
* I wasn't just scared; I was shitting bricks.
The UK has had a policy of equal consideration for open source solutions for years now. Unfortunately there are still many cases of corruption -- Microsoft's recent "Schools 2000" (I think that was the name, but possibly not) program, for instance, where it gets a monopoly in every school, and cases where the best bidders on non-IT contracts have been told that they "said all the right things, except that they didn't use the word 'Microsoft'".
Unfortunately it's easy for a country to say it supports open standards, just as it's easy for a country to say it's "helping" in Iraq. Reality is often much different.
Well, disingenuous/dishonest/unethical, yes. I guess I didn't worry too much about which I meant, since distinctions between such words tend to matter most to people trying to avoid them :) (Not that I'm accusing *you* of anything; just saying!)
True. I can usually get around that by facing in the other direction though, when sitting at least.
I think a small holiday would be in order no matter how long it takes to defeat DRM.
Well, personally I would say that they should fire their marketing department for not being capable of marketing honestly. But that's another issue.
On gullibility vs. sales tricks, I agree. The very fact that amazon's kindle page has a special sold out message instead of the usual tried and tested stock level reporting system that's used for other products should tell you that it's fishy... as if you needed any more evidence of it.
For ebook readers, I'd say the main issue is long-term readability on a sunny day in the park.
But still pretty awful compared to a typical printed novel or a glossy magazine.
As in, "I find your lack of leapsecond-accuracy disturbing..."?
I used to have a lot of respect for the police. Then I actually had to try to reason with one. Now, I share that exact same assessment.
No, I was thinking more of setting up new root servers, and everyone else agreeing to boycott ICANN, and route traffic to/from the new servers instead. I mean, **if** ICANN wasn't wanted, it could be ignored.
The internet is designed to survive nuclear attack. There ARE no core systems. Surely if everyone else wanted to wrest control away from the US govt., all they would need to do would be setup a new system providing the same facilities, and then route traffic there instead.
Well I guess we'll have to agree to differ on that then.
Did you ever consider that it's exactly this kind of laziness which microsoft is counting on, when it uses generic names like "SQL Server" and "Windows" and "Word" for it's products? Your laziness makes you the puppet of a corporation which does harm on a daily basis, and yet you insult the people who simply point out the issue to you, trying to help you out. And I was trying to help you out, if you read my comment again.
Makes you sound like an amateur who's never used anything but Microsoft's database products. SQL is a language.
On another note...
There should be many MORE open databases online, just like there are many websites online. Then maybe this whole semantic "web" thing would've taken off years ago.
You're thinking about this cloning thing all wrong. Think Scarlet Johannson.
If we are, this research sure isn't going to help. The same observations could be made by watching any given swarm for about 2 minutes.
Unless, of course, they happen to come across some woman who's even more catty than a cat
No, but until citizens don't allow war to be sold to them using vaguely plausible propaganda, it doesn't matter. When your country's on-side, and you're sufficiently power-hungry or deluded, you can launch any war you want.
They're not giving ANYTHING away. They're licensing a copy of their product to you, under certain conditions.
I have my own cocktail waitress??? Why did no one tell me this?!?!
:) Exactly so.