You see... Twitter lets you talk about yourself all day long and Facebook makes you read about your friends and family. Who wants to read bout your friends and family when you have so much of yourself to talk about?
One of my friends wants someone to make GTA like games for all the real cities with real street names... but that wouldn't go over very well and I'm sure it would be quite an undertaking.;)
That would be cool... unfortunately, games have become very watered down. Even simple challenges in games are documented and detailed on sites like GameFAQs within the first few days of release. If a kid is stuck on a puzzle that would challenge their critical thinking skills they are more likely to alt-tab to read the answer on the web than the are to complete the objective on their own. It's not fun for them to have to think!;)
If someone figures out a way to get past rudimentary math skills in a game (Inventory space / x bullets per y clips) then you'll have a winner but I can't think of any situation where you're going to challenge kids enough for them to do it in game and no so much that they feel frustrated with the game and look up the answer.
At my work, I used to be able to VPN to the corporate network using my Linux machine and do 100% of my job from home. With the new VPN software they limited access to port 80 for non-company owned machines (probably because people were doing this with less secure machines.) The only way I can get access to servers to do my work now is if I had a domain built Windows laptop and they don't want to spend money on a laptop for people who are not supervisors or managers. (So the people who pretty much only need port 80 web access have more access than those that need it...)
So now I'm sitting on an RSA token that does me no good... I'm trying to determine a good use for it besides a doorstop.
Even if you skin Linux to look and act like Windows (there are many many ways out there...) you still find that people (my Mother for example) don't like using it because they can't download whatever stupid screensaver or game they want from the Internet. She's still stuck in the mindset that you get new things from the internet and the "add new programs" is only if you have the disk. It doesn't help that she's obsessed with Karaoke CDs and I can't find a proper burning software that does CD+G easily.
I put her on a Linux machine with a VM to run her Quicken from but I still hear her complain that she couldn't install some hummingbird screensaver and I keep telling her those are probably where all her viruses came from... but it doesn't matter.
I run Linux just fine because I don't go searching for crap to install. It does everything I need and it's great at that. However, until it's to the point where she can click "Download" on a webpage and run that program (Ugh!) it won't be enough for her.
On the good side, I haven't had to rebuild her PC in over a year... where before it was almost a quarterly event. I wish she could understand that.
Yeah, and if Microsoft thinks they can throw Windows 7 on a tablet without massively changing the interface and take over the tablet landscape, they are sadly mistaken. (Yes, I still own a tablet and I hated using it, so it collects dust.)
One could argue that you can't set an age on when a person leaves childhood. Depending on how protective their parents were and how they were raised, children would mentally mature at different points.
Kim found creativity scores had been steadily rising, just like IQ scores, until 1990. Since then, creativity scores have consistently inched downward.
I'm not saying there's a correlation here, but HFCS came into mainstream usage in the mid 90s as well. While I'm sure prescription drugs were a big part, stripping out sugar from normal consumption I'm guessing may have a little impact.
But as it is, atoms can't be freely replicated in the same form as the machine in question. If that time comes, I'd say that patents would be worthless because if you can replicate atoms in a particular form, there's no real need for patent protection for monetary gain. Software (aka: the cookie recipe), however, is freely replicable and therefore impossible to protect.
There is one for a cookie pie: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2007/0166435.html... but that's not my point. It's the idea behind the fact that you can patent what amounts to a recipe, along with every variation of said recipe.
Patenting the algorithm for detecting music from a small sample without listing the method for which you do this is tantamount to patenting a cookie like object that can contain any number of ingredients. Then once you achieve such patent, suing every website that posts a recipe for something that could be baked to look like a cookie.
So is posting a recipe for chocolate chip cookies, but you don't see Betty Crocker suing every mother in the world who makes the same cookies for their kids.
It's a fairy tale for grown ups. Give the people something similar with more special effects and they'll relate to it from their childhood and feel better about it...
Look, Windows is a HUGE product. Last I heard, it takes something like 12-15 hours JUST TO BUILD. God knows how long the regression testing takes.
Maybe they need to split it up into small parts or something that can be compiled in a shorter period of time in order to be able to fix and test these individual pieces. Let's call these parts libraries and/or modules and maybe if they just change the ones that are impacted by the exploit it might not take hours to compile...
No, but you could always perform said music at night (for real money!) to entertain those that enjoy listening to your music and write more during the day...
Difference between inalienable rights and granted rights. I think GP was referring to inalienable. You could possibly argue that you have the inalienable right to mimic/copy what you see/hear/etc. in your daily life. When someone takes that right away you may feel restricted artificially.
Defending oneself, living, breathing, your voice, sight, earing and all that comes with it are a part of human nature just as it is in our nature to mimic the actions of those around us to either fit in or adapt to our surroundings. Singing "Happy Birthday" for instance, is something we were all taught and grew up with yet it's artificially restricted from our rights to reproduce.
National defense isn't something a single person could do, but it's something an individual chooses to do. (Unless drafted, which is another "violation" of natural inalienable human rights.)
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Think of the arms you'd have... maybe nerds would finally break the stigma of the target of bullies!
You see... Twitter lets you talk about yourself all day long and Facebook makes you read about your friends and family. Who wants to read bout your friends and family when you have so much of yourself to talk about?
You obviously aren't looking close enough!
Humans are naturally drawn towards justice and fairNess, And see Zuckerberg as a person who denIgrates his customers
One of my friends wants someone to make GTA like games for all the real cities with real street names... but that wouldn't go over very well and I'm sure it would be quite an undertaking. ;)
That would be cool... unfortunately, games have become very watered down. Even simple challenges in games are documented and detailed on sites like GameFAQs within the first few days of release. If a kid is stuck on a puzzle that would challenge their critical thinking skills they are more likely to alt-tab to read the answer on the web than the are to complete the objective on their own. It's not fun for them to have to think! ;)
If someone figures out a way to get past rudimentary math skills in a game (Inventory space / x bullets per y clips) then you'll have a winner but I can't think of any situation where you're going to challenge kids enough for them to do it in game and no so much that they feel frustrated with the game and look up the answer.
Microsoft will defiantly put out a good tablet they know what people want and they will defiantly do a good job.
2. It's spelled "definitely"
I read that as the joke. ;)
At my work, I used to be able to VPN to the corporate network using my Linux machine and do 100% of my job from home. With the new VPN software they limited access to port 80 for non-company owned machines (probably because people were doing this with less secure machines.) The only way I can get access to servers to do my work now is if I had a domain built Windows laptop and they don't want to spend money on a laptop for people who are not supervisors or managers. (So the people who pretty much only need port 80 web access have more access than those that need it...)
So now I'm sitting on an RSA token that does me no good... I'm trying to determine a good use for it besides a doorstop.
Even if you skin Linux to look and act like Windows (there are many many ways out there...) you still find that people (my Mother for example) don't like using it because they can't download whatever stupid screensaver or game they want from the Internet. She's still stuck in the mindset that you get new things from the internet and the "add new programs" is only if you have the disk. It doesn't help that she's obsessed with Karaoke CDs and I can't find a proper burning software that does CD+G easily.
I put her on a Linux machine with a VM to run her Quicken from but I still hear her complain that she couldn't install some hummingbird screensaver and I keep telling her those are probably where all her viruses came from... but it doesn't matter.
I run Linux just fine because I don't go searching for crap to install. It does everything I need and it's great at that. However, until it's to the point where she can click "Download" on a webpage and run that program (Ugh!) it won't be enough for her.
On the good side, I haven't had to rebuild her PC in over a year... where before it was almost a quarterly event. I wish she could understand that.
Yeah, and if Microsoft thinks they can throw Windows 7 on a tablet without massively changing the interface and take over the tablet landscape, they are sadly mistaken. (Yes, I still own a tablet and I hated using it, so it collects dust.)
I think the OP is referring to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg
One could argue that you can't set an age on when a person leaves childhood. Depending on how protective their parents were and how they were raised, children would mentally mature at different points.
Kim found creativity scores had been steadily rising, just like IQ scores, until 1990. Since then, creativity scores have consistently inched downward.
I'm not saying there's a correlation here, but HFCS came into mainstream usage in the mid 90s as well. While I'm sure prescription drugs were a big part, stripping out sugar from normal consumption I'm guessing may have a little impact.
But as it is, atoms can't be freely replicated in the same form as the machine in question. If that time comes, I'd say that patents would be worthless because if you can replicate atoms in a particular form, there's no real need for patent protection for monetary gain. Software (aka: the cookie recipe), however, is freely replicable and therefore impossible to protect.
There is one for a cookie pie: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2007/0166435.html ... but that's not my point. It's the idea behind the fact that you can patent what amounts to a recipe, along with every variation of said recipe.
Patenting the algorithm for detecting music from a small sample without listing the method for which you do this is tantamount to patenting a cookie like object that can contain any number of ingredients. Then once you achieve such patent, suing every website that posts a recipe for something that could be baked to look like a cookie.
So is posting a recipe for chocolate chip cookies, but you don't see Betty Crocker suing every mother in the world who makes the same cookies for their kids.
Mazda also co-designed and makes some engines for Ford.
It's a fairy tale for grown ups. Give the people something similar with more special effects and they'll relate to it from their childhood and feel better about it...
My guess is that they will link it to a name on a Credit Card account.
Look, Windows is a HUGE product. Last I heard, it takes something like 12-15 hours JUST TO BUILD. God knows how long the regression testing takes.
Maybe they need to split it up into small parts or something that can be compiled in a shorter period of time in order to be able to fix and test these individual pieces. Let's call these parts libraries and/or modules and maybe if they just change the ones that are impacted by the exploit it might not take hours to compile...
Doesn't extortion require some sort of demand for payment?
Have you tried?
I've had more USB devices "just work" in Linux where I had to install something special BEFORE plugging in my hardware in XP.
Linux's USB Mass storage drivers are light years ahead of Windows, IMHO.
No, but you could always perform said music at night (for real money!) to entertain those that enjoy listening to your music and write more during the day...
Difference between inalienable rights and granted rights. I think GP was referring to inalienable. You could possibly argue that you have the inalienable right to mimic/copy what you see/hear/etc. in your daily life. When someone takes that right away you may feel restricted artificially.
Defending oneself, living, breathing, your voice, sight, earing and all that comes with it are a part of human nature just as it is in our nature to mimic the actions of those around us to either fit in or adapt to our surroundings. Singing "Happy Birthday" for instance, is something we were all taught and grew up with yet it's artificially restricted from our rights to reproduce.
National defense isn't something a single person could do, but it's something an individual chooses to do. (Unless drafted, which is another "violation" of natural inalienable human rights.)
No. I didn't.
FYI, I'm not a Republican. Though I find it funny that someone decided that modding all my posts in this thread as "troll" would somehow matter.