I don't think the problem is so much a lack of choice on the users' part.
With such a large market share, if Google starts censoring results then a site essentially doesn't exist any more.. If google were censoring specific results, how would you know? Sure, if it's your data being censored, you'll probably find out, but if it isn't something you really know well, then how do you know that you're getting totally accurate results in every search?
I'm not saying that Google is consciously censoring results (except in China), but with that kind of power, how can you be sure it won't be misused?
The reason you don't see fencing games (or anything else with a lot of skilled movement involved) is because of the skill required to do those things.
Although I hate using Red Steel as an example, that's one game where they had the option of making sword movements 1:1, but instead opted for simple movements because 1:1 movements would have made the game too complex to play for most people.
Now granted, the typical gamer would probably have no problem practicing enough to become extremely adept at a true sword fighting game. The reason 1:1 isn't used is because the Wii is geared towards the casual gamer and more family oriented controls that are easy to just pick up.
This is why Wii games havent't been 1:1 yet. Wii Sports was pretty decent at picking up motion (in my opinion) but it purposely didn't pick up extremely subtle movements just because it would alienate the game from a lot of their target audience.
The rich should pay more because they can. If a family of 4 makes $100K a year (for example) and another family of 4 makes $500K a year, the one with $500K has more disposable income.
If both families manage their money well, there shouldn't be much difference between the 2 as far as the minimum cost of living goes.
That leaves the family with 500K more disposable income. The family who doesn't need the income as desperately should be taxed more, in my opinion.
The gov't costs a lot of money to run and is way overbudget. If taxes are the only way to recoup those costs, the rich should be the ones paying for it most. Families who can barely get by on the income they have shouldn't have to be taxed into poverty by the gov't if there are people out there who can easily afford the higher taxes.
They actually do still call it JScript. I'm not sure where you've seen them stop calling it JScript and call it ECMAScript, but the latest version of Visual Studio (2008) has JScript intellisense and debugging, not ECMAScript.
You're making the common mistake of thinking that "every pirated copy is a lost sale."
Spiderman 3 may be available worldwide since it was such a big budget movie, but it was not by any means worth spending the money to buy. I will never spend money on Spiderman 3 because it was just a bad movie. I wouldn't want it for free either, so I wouldn't pirate it, but I'm sure there are enough people out there that might think a movie would be "nice to have" but not worth spending the money on. If someone can get the movie for free, they might be willing to take it, but otherwise they'd never want to bother with it.
You might think that no one would profit from this idea either, but think of all of the on-screen advertising in big budget movies. That's sure to have an impact on people who pirate the movies (either consciously or subconsciously.) Also, if a person who downloaded Spiderman 3 showed it to friends and family, one of those people who watched it may have enjoyed it enough to think it is worth spending money on. Some people may even want to download the movie just to decide whether it is worth owning before they spend the money. Afterward, they may enjoy it enough to legally buy it, or decide it is garbage and delete it.
I can see my current Win 2K install becoming as outdated and unsupported as Windows 98.
I don't think that will happen too soon. Windows 98 was based on the DOS kernel. Windows 2000 was the first mainstream MS OS to be based on the NT kernel. All Windows OSes have been based off the NT kernel since 2000 (and of course even before that, but not as mainstream). Since Windows 2000 uses a kernel similar to XP and Vista, I can see MS supporting it for a while (or at least it would make sense to). MS isn't giving 2000 some things, such as IE, but I don't think they'll cut it for a few years still. I can also see software developers continuing to make things compatible with 2000 since it shouldn't be very hard to do seeing as it uses a very similar kernel.
I realize that the NT kernel has been updated and changed quite a lot over the years, but I'm pretty sure it's similar enough to keep support for a while.
Star Trek was one of the last refuges of classical theater on television (as well as with the movies). The actors were brilliant (even many of the guest actors).
I guess you've never seen much... of... the... original series and... Shatner's amazing... acting... ability.
Pacing a course to the best and brightest probably isn't the way to go either.
I did well in high school and now being in college I'm about 1-2 years ahead of every person in most of my classes. If my classes went at my pace, sure I'd learn more, but the majority of the class would be left in the dust. Then you'd need private tutors for most of the class. That just wouldn't work. I think the best way to go about it is it look at what the average of the class is, and try to pace the class to that average. The slower kids can either work harder or get tutoring, and the quicker kids can just go ahead at their own pace.
Of course, the slower kids probably wouldn't have any desire to catch up to the class. In my experience, students who fall behind in school, for the most part, fall behind because they don't care to begin with. They wouldn't want to have to do anything to catch up with the class.
That's the problem with our educational system. Schools don't teach things like the value of learning, and why it is important to learn and do well in school. You just sit in a desk and learn whatever is in the textbook. I think instead of worrying about "no child left behind" we should have a reform in our schools to teach more usable life skills like how to use the web properly, and how loans work. Many Americans have no clue about the world. Our public school system could change that.
There's a big difference between Feng Shui and medical science.
5 different doctors could have varying opinions on certain remedies, but usually because a condition hasn't been around long enough for the medical community to agree on a solution that works every time in every scenario. Feng Shui is a "science" that has been around for a very long time and is touted as being an exact science. Doctors may not have a good idea on how to treat cancer, but the science and technology used to fight cancer is still relatively new so it's expected that it will change as we learn more about it. That's how science works, many different theories are brought up for review until a conclusion is met. No good doctor will give you a recommendation on how to treat something and tell you with 100% certainty that it will work unless it is known for sure.
Something so established like Feng Shui should not vary so much
Your analogy doesn't work in this case. Feng Shui is considered a "science" but if you were to hire 5 different feng shui "experts" they would all re-arrange your furniture 5 completely different ways. Any exact science should yield the same results every time. If you don't understand that you shouldn't be on Slashdot.
Penn and Teller did an episode of Bullshit on Feng Shui that did a pretty good job of showing that Feng Shui is bullshit. Check it out and you'll see see that feng shui is far from correct.
it looks like I'll be purchasing yet another copy of these movies. Boy, Lucasfilm sure has my number.
Don't give in to hollywood's remarketing schemes. Wait until they release all 6 Star Wars moves on DVD in a set (or HD-DVD/Blu-Ray at this rate) and buy them all at once.
That's what I'm going to do. I own IV, V, & VI on VHS from when they were digitally remastered before they added scenes. I'm going to wait until all 6 are available in one big box set since I'm sure that it'll happen some day. Until then, I can wait a while and save my money.
I may be mistaken, but I think the PS2 came out almost a year before the gamecube and the Xbox. The PS2 was still considered part of that generation.
What sort of amazes me is that even though their last console came out before everyone else's, their newest console is a year behind the latest generation. I realize that the PS3 uses a totally new processor technology, but they still have taken a long time...
I've had a duct tape wallet for quite some time now. I've actually gone through 3 of them over a period of about 5 years. None of them ever wore out, I just thought of more creative things I could do.
My first wallet was made with silver tape, then I found black duct tape so I made one out of that so it would look more like a real wallet, then I thought of a way to make a pocket for my driver's license that had an open window on it, so I made another. I've had that one for over a year now and it's doing just fine.
I've left my wallet in my car on hot days, I've sat on it plenty, put it through a washer and dryer, among other things and it has stood up to it all. I don't get any sticky stuff on my license or credit cards, and nothing smells like duct tape in it.
If I ever have anything that uses RFID I'll probably make a fourth one, but for now nothing I have in my wallet uses RFID.
Googles already ridiculously low income-stream
That ridiculously low income stream makes up aproximately 95% of google's multi-billion dollar income.
I may be off on that statistic, but it isn't far from the truth. If you label a company by what makes them the most money, they are an advertising company first and a search engine second.
Sadly, I clicked a link like that, from a person who normally talks like that so it didn't seem too suspicious until firefox asked if I wanted to download something.
Of course the security on my computer is too tight for it to have any affect on me. The next time I restarted my computer it tried to access the internet, my firewall stopped that, it try to change my startup registry, M$ spyway scanner stopped that, and then Norton Anti-virus deleted the virus.
Even if you do click it, most people reading slashdot probably have software to stop it from doing harm.
Sony is ignorant to realize that the secure windows media format that they use on their CDs is also proprietary. Microsoft may have the majority market share, but they are still proprietary. Their secure wma format will not run on apple computers or on open alternatives, just the same as apple's secure format will not work with windows media player or an open alternative.
Both companies are just being ignorant and childish tring to get their DRM format to come out on top, but I think that Sony is in the wrong on this occasion for trying to say that apple is not cooperating.
On WinXP Pro you can't encrypt data on flash drives, only on the hard drive.
I think it is because windows only encrypts data that is stored on NTFS drives
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I don't think the problem is so much a lack of choice on the users' part.
With such a large market share, if Google starts censoring results then a site essentially doesn't exist any more.. If google were censoring specific results, how would you know? Sure, if it's your data being censored, you'll probably find out, but if it isn't something you really know well, then how do you know that you're getting totally accurate results in every search?
I'm not saying that Google is consciously censoring results (except in China), but with that kind of power, how can you be sure it won't be misused?
The reason you don't see fencing games (or anything else with a lot of skilled movement involved) is because of the skill required to do those things.
Although I hate using Red Steel as an example, that's one game where they had the option of making sword movements 1:1, but instead opted for simple movements because 1:1 movements would have made the game too complex to play for most people.
Now granted, the typical gamer would probably have no problem practicing enough to become extremely adept at a true sword fighting game. The reason 1:1 isn't used is because the Wii is geared towards the casual gamer and more family oriented controls that are easy to just pick up.
This is why Wii games havent't been 1:1 yet. Wii Sports was pretty decent at picking up motion (in my opinion) but it purposely didn't pick up extremely subtle movements just because it would alienate the game from a lot of their target audience.
The rich should pay more because they can. If a family of 4 makes $100K a year (for example) and another family of 4 makes $500K a year, the one with $500K has more disposable income.
If both families manage their money well, there shouldn't be much difference between the 2 as far as the minimum cost of living goes.
That leaves the family with 500K more disposable income. The family who doesn't need the income as desperately should be taxed more, in my opinion.
The gov't costs a lot of money to run and is way overbudget. If taxes are the only way to recoup those costs, the rich should be the ones paying for it most. Families who can barely get by on the income they have shouldn't have to be taxed into poverty by the gov't if there are people out there who can easily afford the higher taxes.
They actually do still call it JScript. I'm not sure where you've seen them stop calling it JScript and call it ECMAScript, but the latest version of Visual Studio (2008) has JScript intellisense and debugging, not ECMAScript.
You're making the common mistake of thinking that "every pirated copy is a lost sale."
Spiderman 3 may be available worldwide since it was such a big budget movie, but it was not by any means worth spending the money to buy. I will never spend money on Spiderman 3 because it was just a bad movie. I wouldn't want it for free either, so I wouldn't pirate it, but I'm sure there are enough people out there that might think a movie would be "nice to have" but not worth spending the money on. If someone can get the movie for free, they might be willing to take it, but otherwise they'd never want to bother with it.
You might think that no one would profit from this idea either, but think of all of the on-screen advertising in big budget movies. That's sure to have an impact on people who pirate the movies (either consciously or subconsciously.) Also, if a person who downloaded Spiderman 3 showed it to friends and family, one of those people who watched it may have enjoyed it enough to think it is worth spending money on. Some people may even want to download the movie just to decide whether it is worth owning before they spend the money. Afterward, they may enjoy it enough to legally buy it, or decide it is garbage and delete it.
Every pirated copy is not a lost sale...
I don't think that will happen too soon. Windows 98 was based on the DOS kernel. Windows 2000 was the first mainstream MS OS to be based on the NT kernel. All Windows OSes have been based off the NT kernel since 2000 (and of course even before that, but not as mainstream). Since Windows 2000 uses a kernel similar to XP and Vista, I can see MS supporting it for a while (or at least it would make sense to). MS isn't giving 2000 some things, such as IE, but I don't think they'll cut it for a few years still. I can also see software developers continuing to make things compatible with 2000 since it shouldn't be very hard to do seeing as it uses a very similar kernel.
I realize that the NT kernel has been updated and changed quite a lot over the years, but I'm pretty sure it's similar enough to keep support for a while.
No where in the article summary does it say black is a color. It just say it's the "blackest" material.
Then again, most shades of black are colors since they're usually just a very dark shade of some other color.
I guess you've never seen much... of... the... original series and... Shatner's amazing... acting... ability.
Pacing a course to the best and brightest probably isn't the way to go either.
I did well in high school and now being in college I'm about 1-2 years ahead of every person in most of my classes. If my classes went at my pace, sure I'd learn more, but the majority of the class would be left in the dust. Then you'd need private tutors for most of the class. That just wouldn't work. I think the best way to go about it is it look at what the average of the class is, and try to pace the class to that average. The slower kids can either work harder or get tutoring, and the quicker kids can just go ahead at their own pace.
Of course, the slower kids probably wouldn't have any desire to catch up to the class. In my experience, students who fall behind in school, for the most part, fall behind because they don't care to begin with. They wouldn't want to have to do anything to catch up with the class.
That's the problem with our educational system. Schools don't teach things like the value of learning, and why it is important to learn and do well in school. You just sit in a desk and learn whatever is in the textbook. I think instead of worrying about "no child left behind" we should have a reform in our schools to teach more usable life skills like how to use the web properly, and how loans work. Many Americans have no clue about the world. Our public school system could change that.
You're right about there being a mass march to refund windows. It happened quite a few years ago, back in 1999. It was on Slashdot.
Windows Refund Day, February 15th.
There's a big difference between Feng Shui and medical science.
... unless it is bullshit.
5 different doctors could have varying opinions on certain remedies, but usually because a condition hasn't been around long enough for the medical community to agree on a solution that works every time in every scenario. Feng Shui is a "science" that has been around for a very long time and is touted as being an exact science. Doctors may not have a good idea on how to treat cancer, but the science and technology used to fight cancer is still relatively new so it's expected that it will change as we learn more about it. That's how science works, many different theories are brought up for review until a conclusion is met. No good doctor will give you a recommendation on how to treat something and tell you with 100% certainty that it will work unless it is known for sure.
Something so established like Feng Shui should not vary so much
Your analogy doesn't work in this case. Feng Shui is considered a "science" but if you were to hire 5 different feng shui "experts" they would all re-arrange your furniture 5 completely different ways. Any exact science should yield the same results every time. If you don't understand that you shouldn't be on Slashdot.
Penn and Teller did an episode of Bullshit on Feng Shui that did a pretty good job of showing that Feng Shui is bullshit. Check it out and you'll see see that feng shui is far from correct.
it looks like I'll be purchasing yet another copy of these movies. Boy, Lucasfilm sure has my number.
Don't give in to hollywood's remarketing schemes. Wait until they release all 6 Star Wars moves on DVD in a set (or HD-DVD/Blu-Ray at this rate) and buy them all at once. That's what I'm going to do. I own IV, V, & VI on VHS from when they were digitally remastered before they added scenes. I'm going to wait until all 6 are available in one big box set since I'm sure that it'll happen some day. Until then, I can wait a while and save my money.
smartass
I may be mistaken, but I think the PS2 came out almost a year before the gamecube and the Xbox. The PS2 was still considered part of that generation.
What sort of amazes me is that even though their last console came out before everyone else's, their newest console is a year behind the latest generation. I realize that the PS3 uses a totally new processor technology, but they still have taken a long time...
I still feel better that google may only have my gmails and word documents. I'm more uneasy about every website I've ever shopped on.
I'm more uncomfortable about giving up my credit/debit card info than I am my emails.
Google's still ok in my book. They aren't forcing you to give in all of your information to use their services. They give you choices.
Have you ever actually tried that for yourself?
Read the last paragraph, it will explain it.
I've had a duct tape wallet for quite some time now. I've actually gone through 3 of them over a period of about 5 years. None of them ever wore out, I just thought of more creative things I could do.
My first wallet was made with silver tape, then I found black duct tape so I made one out of that so it would look more like a real wallet, then I thought of a way to make a pocket for my driver's license that had an open window on it, so I made another. I've had that one for over a year now and it's doing just fine.
I've left my wallet in my car on hot days, I've sat on it plenty, put it through a washer and dryer, among other things and it has stood up to it all. I don't get any sticky stuff on my license or credit cards, and nothing smells like duct tape in it.
If I ever have anything that uses RFID I'll probably make a fourth one, but for now nothing I have in my wallet uses RFID.
We were the ones who made them extinct. We meddled with nature when we introduced predators they were not capable of handling.
I think that if it's possible, we should meddle with nature again to undo our first mistake.
Googles already ridiculously low income-stream That ridiculously low income stream makes up aproximately 95% of google's multi-billion dollar income. I may be off on that statistic, but it isn't far from the truth. If you label a company by what makes them the most money, they are an advertising company first and a search engine second.
Sadly, I clicked a link like that, from a person who normally talks like that so it didn't seem too suspicious until firefox asked if I wanted to download something. Of course the security on my computer is too tight for it to have any affect on me. The next time I restarted my computer it tried to access the internet, my firewall stopped that, it try to change my startup registry, M$ spyway scanner stopped that, and then Norton Anti-virus deleted the virus. Even if you do click it, most people reading slashdot probably have software to stop it from doing harm.
Sony is ignorant to realize that the secure windows media format that they use on their CDs is also proprietary. Microsoft may have the majority market share, but they are still proprietary. Their secure wma format will not run on apple computers or on open alternatives, just the same as apple's secure format will not work with windows media player or an open alternative. Both companies are just being ignorant and childish tring to get their DRM format to come out on top, but I think that Sony is in the wrong on this occasion for trying to say that apple is not cooperating.
On WinXP Pro you can't encrypt data on flash drives, only on the hard drive. I think it is because windows only encrypts data that is stored on NTFS drives