Intentions are irrelevant. It's what the software does that matters. And what it does is compromise your computer's security and disable functionality. Malware if I ever saw any.
And how, pray tell, would you get rid of the nerdy jargon and technobabble that lets us, the filthy computer elites, talk about computers efficiently? It's not our fault other people can't understand us. Just as it isn't the artist's fault when we don't understand his art. Ultimately sales staff gets paid to convince customers to leave as much money as possible at the shop, and that's what they do - it is their nature, so to speak.
The ribbon might be useful if you have a large set of tools. A browser on the other hand only needs an address bar, back, forward, reload/stop and home. And perhaps a quick access bookmark bar. That's it. The rest of the options is used so incredibly rarely, that It's good that they're hidden - that way they don't take up valuable screen real-estate and don't clutter up the interface, while still remaining perfectly findable when you need them. Yes, sure, you can perform any action in two clicks with a ribbon, but what's the point of saving a second on switching the theme when you're loosing three every time you're looking for the back button because of the additional clutter?
True enough, but it would sure work with legal ones. And it would be up to the user to determine if he/she wants to accept calls from callers who fail to identify themselves. I have a feeling most users would opt not to (it is, after all, rude to fail to say who you are). With enough of a user base, everybody interested in making successful calls would need to disclose their numbers and the market would sort itself out.
What we need is a technological solution to the problem. I think an AdBlock type approach would work - the phone would automatically hang up calls without ringing (perhaps playing back a "Do not call this number again" automated message beforehand) from numbers on a blacklist synced daily via wifi or dial-up. Additionally, should a call somehow get through, there would be a nice big red "Ban" button that would add a number to a local list and submit it to the list maintainer during the next sync. If a sufficient number of users ban a number, it would be added to the blacklist. Simple and, with the right number of users, effective.
Wait, what number is that? I haven't IDd my computers. Maybe they mean MACs or something. But that only identifies a network interface and not a computer, let alone a user.
Here's a better idea: Get an internal PCI RAM drive. Store the encryption keys there. They come in, seize your equipment, unplug the computer, POOF, it's gone. And they were the ones who did it. And the best part is, the encryption key doesn't even have to be there, the one in your head is fine as long as you have plausible deniability.
That's not really a problem. The moment the ads become too annoying for me, I'll just switch over to another site. It's not like there's a shortage of news sites.
So basically.... you're too cheap to spend $99 on an SDK. Sure, the GPL does require providing everything necessary to compile the source, but that doesn't include a compiler - if it did, you'd have to extend that requirement to a computer to run the compiler on, the electricity to power it, the infrastructure to transfer the power, the powerplant to create it, the fuel to run it, the train/ship/both to get it to the powerplant, the mine to extract it and perhaps some miners. That would be rather costly to open-source developers.
Common sense suggests they can. If you go into a cave, or anywhere else there's an echo, you can easily distinguish your own voice, even in a crowd of echoes, because you know exactly what you shouted, including timbre, tone, content, rythm, little rasps, etc. You can also approximate when to expect an echo based on whan you shouted and the timing of your previous shouts. And a bat's hearing is a lot better than ours. Then again, whether bats can remember the particular way they had just screached is not certain. But if they could, it would probably raise their survivability quite a bit, so I would expect mother nature to have given them that ability, at least to a certain extent. Someone probably already studied this.
Echolocation only works when and where you sent out the signal in the first place. A signal sent out from a different location than your current, at an unknown time carries little to no data. Therefore, I don't think you can really impersonate a bat and make it think there's a wall ahead.
While I believe that's true in most cases, there are some games where realistic physics actually do make them more fun. Just play Red Faction: Guerilla.
So basically, you're saying a religion is better than a cult because it's more benign. Flu is more benign than cancer, but that doesn't make either of them desirable.
5 or 6? Never. They'll put a single movie on a disk using the computationally cheapest compression and fill the largest possible space with it, slap on 20 minutes of cheap marketing materials and sell it at a premium. Of course, the master will be nowhere near good enough to fill 500GBs with meaningful data, so the enthusiast market will drone over how well defined the film grain is. That's the future. Oh, wait, no, it's already happening with bluray.
1. Plant strawberries.
2. Buy thousands of robots to do your bidding.
3. Hire thousands of Mexicans to whip them.
4. Ask the Mexicans to save the presets.
5. Fire the Mexicans.
6. Preset robots to kill any rebel Mexicans.
7. Profit!
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Have you ever roasted an apple? The laser does the same thing. Besides, stickers need glue that I don't want on my food.
Intentions are irrelevant. It's what the software does that matters. And what it does is compromise your computer's security and disable functionality. Malware if I ever saw any.
And how, pray tell, would you get rid of the nerdy jargon and technobabble that lets us, the filthy computer elites, talk about computers efficiently? It's not our fault other people can't understand us. Just as it isn't the artist's fault when we don't understand his art. Ultimately sales staff gets paid to convince customers to leave as much money as possible at the shop, and that's what they do - it is their nature, so to speak.
The ribbon might be useful if you have a large set of tools. A browser on the other hand only needs an address bar, back, forward, reload/stop and home. And perhaps a quick access bookmark bar. That's it. The rest of the options is used so incredibly rarely, that It's good that they're hidden - that way they don't take up valuable screen real-estate and don't clutter up the interface, while still remaining perfectly findable when you need them. Yes, sure, you can perform any action in two clicks with a ribbon, but what's the point of saving a second on switching the theme when you're loosing three every time you're looking for the back button because of the additional clutter?
True enough, but it would sure work with legal ones. And it would be up to the user to determine if he/she wants to accept calls from callers who fail to identify themselves. I have a feeling most users would opt not to (it is, after all, rude to fail to say who you are). With enough of a user base, everybody interested in making successful calls would need to disclose their numbers and the market would sort itself out.
What we need is a technological solution to the problem. I think an AdBlock type approach would work - the phone would automatically hang up calls without ringing (perhaps playing back a "Do not call this number again" automated message beforehand) from numbers on a blacklist synced daily via wifi or dial-up. Additionally, should a call somehow get through, there would be a nice big red "Ban" button that would add a number to a local list and submit it to the list maintainer during the next sync. If a sufficient number of users ban a number, it would be added to the blacklist. Simple and, with the right number of users, effective.
Wait, what number is that? I haven't IDd my computers. Maybe they mean MACs or something. But that only identifies a network interface and not a computer, let alone a user.
Here's a better idea: Get an internal PCI RAM drive. Store the encryption keys there. They come in, seize your equipment, unplug the computer, POOF, it's gone. And they were the ones who did it. And the best part is, the encryption key doesn't even have to be there, the one in your head is fine as long as you have plausible deniability.
Sounds great in theory, but judging from iPod sales around the world, the opposite seems to be true.
That's not really a problem. The moment the ads become too annoying for me, I'll just switch over to another site. It's not like there's a shortage of news sites.
Where, pray tell, does a retailer come in with a game only available as a digital download?
So basically.... you're too cheap to spend $99 on an SDK. Sure, the GPL does require providing everything necessary to compile the source, but that doesn't include a compiler - if it did, you'd have to extend that requirement to a computer to run the compiler on, the electricity to power it, the infrastructure to transfer the power, the powerplant to create it, the fuel to run it, the train/ship/both to get it to the powerplant, the mine to extract it and perhaps some miners. That would be rather costly to open-source developers.
Common sense suggests they can. If you go into a cave, or anywhere else there's an echo, you can easily distinguish your own voice, even in a crowd of echoes, because you know exactly what you shouted, including timbre, tone, content, rythm, little rasps, etc. You can also approximate when to expect an echo based on whan you shouted and the timing of your previous shouts. And a bat's hearing is a lot better than ours. Then again, whether bats can remember the particular way they had just screached is not certain. But if they could, it would probably raise their survivability quite a bit, so I would expect mother nature to have given them that ability, at least to a certain extent. Someone probably already studied this.
Echolocation only works when and where you sent out the signal in the first place. A signal sent out from a different location than your current, at an unknown time carries little to no data. Therefore, I don't think you can really impersonate a bat and make it think there's a wall ahead.
Yes, well, the Nissan also probably goes 5 times as fast. Or more.
It is new in the sense that there are no such devices on the market today that are affordable (excepting second hand and outdated hardware).
While I believe that's true in most cases, there are some games where realistic physics actually do make them more fun. Just play Red Faction: Guerilla.
So basically, you're saying a religion is better than a cult because it's more benign. Flu is more benign than cancer, but that doesn't make either of them desirable.
5 or 6? Never. They'll put a single movie on a disk using the computationally cheapest compression and fill the largest possible space with it, slap on 20 minutes of cheap marketing materials and sell it at a premium. Of course, the master will be nowhere near good enough to fill 500GBs with meaningful data, so the enthusiast market will drone over how well defined the film grain is. That's the future. Oh, wait, no, it's already happening with bluray.
Gawd dang eet! I just a-realized mah pronunceeayetion handbook duzzent come with a read-out-loud right!
The last time I read a hardcopy of a magazine I was really upset Ctrl+F and AdBlock weren't working and I couldn't click the links.
The page zoom isn't so hot either if you compare it to firefox or opera.
Via a series of tubes.
1. Plant strawberries.
2. Buy thousands of robots to do your bidding.
3. Hire thousands of Mexicans to whip them.
4. Ask the Mexicans to save the presets.
5. Fire the Mexicans.
6. Preset robots to kill any rebel Mexicans.
7. Profit!
Actually, it would probably work fine with software rendering. It worked great on my ancient p4 2.8 laptop. The cell's PPE should be able to keep up.