Mod parent up! Better to veer towards looking at things on the bright side - often it actually turns out that your fears are unfounded. My life has much improved since I started trying to focus on the positive parts of life. I still like to play devil's advocate and still could be considered cynical or at least detachedly rational at times, but I also try to foster good in myself and other people.
I was thinking similar things about her post but it's impossible to say that the things she mentions will not come true.. they'd certainly be possible in certain political climates - for example the current China - but I like to think that there are enough checks and balances in human nature to make sure that there will still be people in government who work to preserve dignity and privacy in our lives. There's also the fact that politicians have more to fear than most out of their lives being monitored, so I don't think they'd be too happy about this kind of tech being mandated.
There are still plenty of Music TV channels you know. MTV stopped playing so much music, but I used to watch MTV2 a lot when I still lived with my parents. I don't really watch TV these days so I don't know the current state of affairs, but I still see music videos on the TV when I go to places like the gym and the pub. Besides, radio isn't all about the music. Plenty of Radio 1 DJs are fun to listen to (Chris Moyles and Zane Lowe for example). Admittedly I don't listen to the radio very often either, I just listen to my MP3 collection (around 10000 songs, most of which are ripped from CDs but anything bought in the last year is very likely to be from the Amazon MP3 store).
Although I'm sure I could implement something like that in Gnome-Do with browser plugins, then I'd just hit win-space and type "ud word" or whatever. For the amount of times that I actually look up stuff on Urban Dictionary (maybe once a week) or Youtube (almost never) it wouldn't really be worth my time though. When I want to look up a word I usually just google define:word (in Chrome the address bar doubles as a Google search box), with a normal Google search or Urban Dictionary as my backup.
I used to move all my buttons, address bar and search bar up to the same row as the menu when I used Firefox, with only the back/forward buttons being to the left of the menus and the rest to the right. The default Chrome layout is pretty good.
In fact, the researchers saw an increase in apoptosis in MRL mice -- also known as programmed cell death -- the cell's self-destruct mechanism that is often switched on when DNA has been damaged. According to Heber-Katz, this is exactly the sort of behavior seen in naturally regenerative creatures.
Does that mean shorter lifespan for the lifeform overall, or does it simply mean that individual cells will die regularly and then quickly be regenerated?
I got your point and was just saying how crazy it is that people often know the actual address but still prefer to Google it. Looking at that article people are even more stupid than I had previously suspected though. It was almost like YouTube in there.
You can turn off auto-completion in your Google preferences. I don't know about the fade in stuff though, because I've taken to just using Chrome's address bar as my Google search box! And before that I was using iGoogle. I vaguely remember seeing stuff fade in on the Google homepage one time, but I can't remember what it actually did.
Actually they're probably googling Facebook.com instead of just typing it in the address bar. I've seen people do stuff like that. Hell, I always just google "urban dictionary" rather than type in urbandictionary.com..
Besides, by the very nature of facebook you will be navigating around a lot more looking at photos and such, whereas with google you often just need to have the main page, and one page of results. Admittedly if you're browsing for porn or similar you also probably will go through several pages of photos/results.
Or even worse, when one NPC has different voice actors or personalities depending on which dialog flow you choose.. the beggars in Oblivion sounded all crotchety and old for their own dialog, but ask them for some gossip and suddenly they're speaking with a perfectly enunciated middle class accent.
Brutal Legend was one game that I was thinking recently had some great voice acting, and it seems this guy was one of the voice actors in it:)
Voice acting is a very important component for making an immersive game, but you also have to have a good script. Was playing through Bad Company 2 in the last week and the script was awful compared to the first. Same great voice actors, but there was a sudden injection of swearing into every cut scene, and slightly less humour. I don't even have a problem with swearing in general (see Brutal Legend for details:) ), but after the first game having little to no swearing IIRC, it was out of place for those characters to be swearing like troopers all of a sudden. Despite being troopers.
There are a few games where you can tell that the actors had to record masses of dialog completely out of context - Oblivion for example has a lot of interactive voice dialog and the inflection in some of it can be rather iffy.
What they need to build is a car that can do that at the touch of a button and land on all 4 wheels.. kind of like in Speed Racer. Entirely pointless, but it would be fun on a victory lap!
I'm not even sure if he chose them himself - but yes he's our new Stores Manager. For some reason he keeps checking his network cable is plugged into the wall securely when the keyboard stops working.
Depends on what "programs and data" you need. Now that most of my development is on web apps rather than standalone apps, it's pretty damn trivial for me to switch between OSes. I use a VM for the very occasional bout of Windows development I have to do, and Remote Desktop for server administration.
And your "years of knowledge built up using Windows"? Gimme a break. Those "years of knowledge" for most (but obviously not all) people amount to how to do a right click and where to find "My Documents". OSX and Ubuntu are very easy for the average person to pick up even if they're used to Windows, because all they're ever going to do is browse Facebook and play flash games.
Personally I work for a small company and IT support is only part of my job role. I have much more fun when I'm actually coding. But anyway, very few of our problems over the last few years have involved malware or security issues - most of the time any "support" I do just involves helping people to actually read error messages or perform some simple task. I have had to help the same guy connect up his wireless mouse and keyboard 3 times in the last week. I don't know why he even has a wireless mouse and keyboard, there's plenty of space on his desk for a couple of extra cables, and they're a lot more likely to work next time he boots up his computer. People are idiots..
Although there is no rule that says a Jedi must always keep his hood up - or even wear a hooded item of clothing. So this would be stupid even if The Force were real.
I just like to play devil's advocate. Again just because some apps are awesome doesn't mean that people shouldn't have the option to open things up if they want. Okay, you can open it up if you jailbreak it, but I hate how locked down the mobile world is in general (No Skype for you! No tethering either!), and I dislike even more the fact that you can't even use iPhones as storage devices (I often use my phone as a data drive when I don't have a flash stick handy). The only way to get a decent phone at the moment seems to be to install a cracked or otherwise customised OS.
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Mod parent up! Better to veer towards looking at things on the bright side - often it actually turns out that your fears are unfounded. My life has much improved since I started trying to focus on the positive parts of life. I still like to play devil's advocate and still could be considered cynical or at least detachedly rational at times, but I also try to foster good in myself and other people.
I was thinking similar things about her post but it's impossible to say that the things she mentions will not come true.. they'd certainly be possible in certain political climates - for example the current China - but I like to think that there are enough checks and balances in human nature to make sure that there will still be people in government who work to preserve dignity and privacy in our lives. There's also the fact that politicians have more to fear than most out of their lives being monitored, so I don't think they'd be too happy about this kind of tech being mandated.
Weird - from reading your journal ages ago I thought you were actually a transexual dude who liked other dudes. >_>
There are still plenty of Music TV channels you know. MTV stopped playing so much music, but I used to watch MTV2 a lot when I still lived with my parents. I don't really watch TV these days so I don't know the current state of affairs, but I still see music videos on the TV when I go to places like the gym and the pub. Besides, radio isn't all about the music. Plenty of Radio 1 DJs are fun to listen to (Chris Moyles and Zane Lowe for example). Admittedly I don't listen to the radio very often either, I just listen to my MP3 collection (around 10000 songs, most of which are ripped from CDs but anything bought in the last year is very likely to be from the Amazon MP3 store).
I'm using Chrome.
Although I'm sure I could implement something like that in Gnome-Do with browser plugins, then I'd just hit win-space and type "ud word" or whatever. For the amount of times that I actually look up stuff on Urban Dictionary (maybe once a week) or Youtube (almost never) it wouldn't really be worth my time though. When I want to look up a word I usually just google define:word (in Chrome the address bar doubles as a Google search box), with a normal Google search or Urban Dictionary as my backup.
I used to move all my buttons, address bar and search bar up to the same row as the menu when I used Firefox, with only the back/forward buttons being to the left of the menus and the rest to the right. The default Chrome layout is pretty good.
The article also says this:
In fact, the researchers saw an increase in apoptosis in MRL mice -- also known as programmed cell death -- the cell's self-destruct mechanism that is often switched on when DNA has been damaged. According to Heber-Katz, this is exactly the sort of behavior seen in naturally regenerative creatures.
Does that mean shorter lifespan for the lifeform overall, or does it simply mean that individual cells will die regularly and then quickly be regenerated?
I got your point and was just saying how crazy it is that people often know the actual address but still prefer to Google it. Looking at that article people are even more stupid than I had previously suspected though. It was almost like YouTube in there.
You can turn off auto-completion in your Google preferences. I don't know about the fade in stuff though, because I've taken to just using Chrome's address bar as my Google search box! And before that I was using iGoogle. I vaguely remember seeing stuff fade in on the Google homepage one time, but I can't remember what it actually did.
Actually they're probably googling Facebook.com instead of just typing it in the address bar. I've seen people do stuff like that. Hell, I always just google "urban dictionary" rather than type in urbandictionary.com..
Besides, by the very nature of facebook you will be navigating around a lot more looking at photos and such, whereas with google you often just need to have the main page, and one page of results. Admittedly if you're browsing for porn or similar you also probably will go through several pages of photos/results.
Or even worse, when one NPC has different voice actors or personalities depending on which dialog flow you choose.. the beggars in Oblivion sounded all crotchety and old for their own dialog, but ask them for some gossip and suddenly they're speaking with a perfectly enunciated middle class accent.
Brutal Legend was one game that I was thinking recently had some great voice acting, and it seems this guy was one of the voice actors in it :)
Voice acting is a very important component for making an immersive game, but you also have to have a good script. Was playing through Bad Company 2 in the last week and the script was awful compared to the first. Same great voice actors, but there was a sudden injection of swearing into every cut scene, and slightly less humour. I don't even have a problem with swearing in general (see Brutal Legend for details :) ), but after the first game having little to no swearing IIRC, it was out of place for those characters to be swearing like troopers all of a sudden. Despite being troopers.
There are a few games where you can tell that the actors had to record masses of dialog completely out of context - Oblivion for example has a lot of interactive voice dialog and the inflection in some of it can be rather iffy.
that would be one hell of a sight, a submarine going across land at 1000mph.
My vote is on a Blue Whale. Technically it could also count as the driver.
What they need to build is a car that can do that at the touch of a button and land on all 4 wheels.. kind of like in Speed Racer. Entirely pointless, but it would be fun on a victory lap!
There is a high tech solution for that, it's called a "strap".
I'm not even sure if he chose them himself - but yes he's our new Stores Manager. For some reason he keeps checking his network cable is plugged into the wall securely when the keyboard stops working.
Depends on what "programs and data" you need. Now that most of my development is on web apps rather than standalone apps, it's pretty damn trivial for me to switch between OSes. I use a VM for the very occasional bout of Windows development I have to do, and Remote Desktop for server administration.
And your "years of knowledge built up using Windows"? Gimme a break. Those "years of knowledge" for most (but obviously not all) people amount to how to do a right click and where to find "My Documents". OSX and Ubuntu are very easy for the average person to pick up even if they're used to Windows, because all they're ever going to do is browse Facebook and play flash games.
Could run his VM without a network interface. Unless he is using the VM for Outlook of course.
Personally I work for a small company and IT support is only part of my job role. I have much more fun when I'm actually coding. But anyway, very few of our problems over the last few years have involved malware or security issues - most of the time any "support" I do just involves helping people to actually read error messages or perform some simple task. I have had to help the same guy connect up his wireless mouse and keyboard 3 times in the last week. I don't know why he even has a wireless mouse and keyboard, there's plenty of space on his desk for a couple of extra cables, and they're a lot more likely to work next time he boots up his computer. People are idiots..
Although there is no rule that says a Jedi must always keep his hood up - or even wear a hooded item of clothing. So this would be stupid even if The Force were real.
I just like to play devil's advocate. Again just because some apps are awesome doesn't mean that people shouldn't have the option to open things up if they want. Okay, you can open it up if you jailbreak it, but I hate how locked down the mobile world is in general (No Skype for you! No tethering either!), and I dislike even more the fact that you can't even use iPhones as storage devices (I often use my phone as a data drive when I don't have a flash stick handy). The only way to get a decent phone at the moment seems to be to install a cracked or otherwise customised OS.
Password resetting type services or phone calls to your bank etc if it's online, or if it's for work then phone up IT.
And what if the malware lets itself be swapped out of RAM the same as all of the other apps?
I'd love to have an approach to malware that could always detect unwanted processes, I'm just trying to find holes here.
Please insert your penis into GILIAN's* mouth and wait while she extracts a DNA sample.
*Government Investigatory Laboratory In Android Nymphomaniac
Don't forget anyone who feeds you too many donuts..
At least, we don't get spam from iPhones. That alone makes Apple's decision worth the hassle!
We should also just make everyone live in cages.. then we'd never have any crime or murder.. must be worth the hassle!
PS I hate spam, but I think it's a bit of a straw-man argument for trying to justify how locked down iPhones are.