The short answer is to just stop being so damn stubborn about it. I don't know why my fellow Americans have such a hard time with metric. It's just multiples of ten, much easier then all the odd numbers that we use. But when I reach for a ruler I automatically use the metric side, so maybe I'm just some sort of demented pervert. My idea is to have a "transitional period" in which all signs and whatnot should have both metric and imperial on them, and over years switch.
That's the tradgedy of Second Life. You can't give a huge gaggle of people the ability to make anything they can think of, and assume that nobody is going to make guns, or large flying pink members, or whatever. Second Life gets hit with grey goo attacks and vandalism because Linden Labs did not prepare properly, and do not handle problems very well when they spring up. On a side note, I did not anticipate seeing anybody being showboated by gigantic flying wangs today.
I always take note when somebody that invented something cool dies. Instant ramen is one of the best foody inventions, and it's sad that the king of the fast and cheap, but still edible and tasty noodle is gone. 96 is a pretty good run, though. Everybody eat instant ramen! You'll live longer.
I disagree with this article on three points.
Saying "what went wrong" before anything has happened is silly. The thing is not released into the mainstream yet. Nothing has gone wrong.
The bit about the light of the screen lighting up the hut is really ignorant. They aren't giving these things out in war zones or ultimate poverty zones. It's insulting, making it seems as if the people that get the machines are mud-covered extras in an Indianna Jones movie. "They don't need laptops, they're poor savages." They're for areas that have economies and infastructure but not great ones. Hell, parts of the US qualify. It's tool for communication, like the wind-up radio.
The "sopping up mind-share time" doesn't really make sense either. It's not as if we're kidnapping guys working on engineering corn and making them design a laptop or anything. It seems to me that any help is good help.
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The short answer is to just stop being so damn stubborn about it. I don't know why my fellow Americans have such a hard time with metric. It's just multiples of ten, much easier then all the odd numbers that we use. But when I reach for a ruler I automatically use the metric side, so maybe I'm just some sort of demented pervert. My idea is to have a "transitional period" in which all signs and whatnot should have both metric and imperial on them, and over years switch.
That's the tradgedy of Second Life. You can't give a huge gaggle of people the ability to make anything they can think of, and assume that nobody is going to make guns, or large flying pink members, or whatever. Second Life gets hit with grey goo attacks and vandalism because Linden Labs did not prepare properly, and do not handle problems very well when they spring up. On a side note, I did not anticipate seeing anybody being showboated by gigantic flying wangs today.
I always take note when somebody that invented something cool dies. Instant ramen is one of the best foody inventions, and it's sad that the king of the fast and cheap, but still edible and tasty noodle is gone. 96 is a pretty good run, though. Everybody eat instant ramen! You'll live longer.
I disagree with this article on three points. Saying "what went wrong" before anything has happened is silly. The thing is not released into the mainstream yet. Nothing has gone wrong. The bit about the light of the screen lighting up the hut is really ignorant. They aren't giving these things out in war zones or ultimate poverty zones. It's insulting, making it seems as if the people that get the machines are mud-covered extras in an Indianna Jones movie. "They don't need laptops, they're poor savages." They're for areas that have economies and infastructure but not great ones. Hell, parts of the US qualify. It's tool for communication, like the wind-up radio. The "sopping up mind-share time" doesn't really make sense either. It's not as if we're kidnapping guys working on engineering corn and making them design a laptop or anything. It seems to me that any help is good help.