Firstly, you'd have to have a broad coalition for this to work. You're talking about MSN, Google and Yahoo all agreeing on something. Good luck with that.
Secondly, it's not like search utilities are some magical things that no one understands. Even if item 1 comes to pass, there's still all the homegrown search sites lieke baidu (sp?).
Thirdly, if you honestly think that it's lack of a really good search engine that'll be the last straw that incites the Chinese to rise up and revolt, I don't even know what to say. Get outside more, I guess, would be a start.
It's easy to be heroic when you have nothing to lose. It's like instead of rescuing the princess from a fire-breathing dragon, Jimmy is rescuing her from a field mouse.
I mean, yes, it's the right thing to do to rescue princesses, but lets not be throwing the word 'heroic' around for no good reason.
I mean, yeah, they really should have destroyed those tapes if they meant to throw them out. But I'm having a hard time believing that any dumpster divers are actually crawling through trash cans and picking up old backup tapes just on the off-chance that there might be credit card info on them. Seems like there's probably far, far easier ways to get 2 million valid credit card numbers.
The problem was a local one and while it obeyed the letter of the law, the upshot was that the local cost of living was so high that poor people did not qualify for free lunches - if you'd been poor enough to qualify, you'd be homeless. The resolution was pretty bad too: kids had to bring in all kinds of reciepts and stand in special lines and all kinds of stupidity.
A fun thing to think about sometimes before you post is how some places have different policies, laws, and practices than the places you might be used to!
I understand that - I didn't mean to imply that it was a good idea on their part, I just didn't want to sound like I thought the law was anything more than a pantsload.
> America needs to raise its own damn children (and I say this as an American)
Yes and no. The US is really schitzophrenic about this. On one hand it's hyperprotective about ludicrous bullshit (cf: GTA) and on the other hand it won't even provide decent free lunches to poor kids. It's sort of baffling.
None, that's not the issue. Apparently Xanga has been doing exactly what any rational person would do in the face of a pointless law: ignoring it completely.
n its complaint, the FTC alleged that Xanga, a rival to the popular MySpace.com, allegedly permitted creation of 1.7 million accounts by users who submitted birthdays indicating they were under 13.
It's a shame that someone will actually have to pay a fine for this bullshit, but really, they shoulda known.
I don't see what difference the fact that it runs linux makes. It offloads work from the CPU onto an external device. If my video card ran, say, QNX for some reason, would that really change anything?
My guess is that the reason they're after the gamer market is because it's the tech-world equivalent of audiophiles - where some people in the market are willing to pay big money for items of questionable utility that would likely not stand up to hard scrutiny by people who actually know what they're doing. Prove me wrong, KillerNIC, prove me wrong!
yeah. this thing is as much "a self-contained VM in hardware" as a video card is.
In other news, the day I trust IGN to do hardware reviews is the day I just give up, buy whatever the internet tells me to and spend 30 minutes punching the monkey to win.
You're misinterpreting the 'get code right away' mindset with 'get it done quick-and-dirty' mindset. Design and rapid iteration are not mutually exclusive, and in fact one re-enforces the other, since rapid iteration exposes poor design and good design enables rapider(?) iteration. There are some people who confuse the two, but there's always someone who won't understand any particular engineering process.
> the current buzzword development models (XP, most other agile techniques) try and avoid doing it
You either don't or won't understand current development models. Agile methods have nothing to do with avoiding good software design - that's ridiculous on the face of it.
Your argument that "omg, the 3rd party tools can do whatever they want" also applies to any code you use. It's made even more [fill-in-your-own-derogatory-adjective] because it's pretty easy to find any naughtiness on the part of javascript code.
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I'll just refer you to the nintey hojillion 'would you rather have some google or no google' posts.
That's a cute attempt at analogy, but it doesn't work. People sometimes need information more than they need complete freedom.
I find that argument pretty weak.
Firstly, you'd have to have a broad coalition for this to work. You're talking about MSN, Google and Yahoo all agreeing on something. Good luck with that.
Secondly, it's not like search utilities are some magical things that no one understands. Even if item 1 comes to pass, there's still all the homegrown search sites lieke baidu (sp?).
Thirdly, if you honestly think that it's lack of a really good search engine that'll be the last straw that incites the Chinese to rise up and revolt, I don't even know what to say. Get outside more, I guess, would be a start.
If you're searching for information on, for instance, how to avoid cholera, would you rather have:
(a) something that would help you find this information but hides information about your governments human rights abuses or
(b) no help
It's easy to be heroic when you have nothing to lose. It's like instead of rescuing the princess from a fire-breathing dragon, Jimmy is rescuing her from a field mouse.
I mean, yes, it's the right thing to do to rescue princesses, but lets not be throwing the word 'heroic' around for no good reason.
Dear Steve Jobs,
Just make a goddamn phone already, Jesus fucking Christ!!
Sincerely,
bunions
I mean, yeah, they really should have destroyed those tapes if they meant to throw them out. But I'm having a hard time believing that any dumpster divers are actually crawling through trash cans and picking up old backup tapes just on the off-chance that there might be credit card info on them. Seems like there's probably far, far easier ways to get 2 million valid credit card numbers.
"Hot Jupiters!" has just become my favorite exclamation, bumping "Good Gravy!" off the list and pushing "OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY!!!" down to the #2 spot.
The problem was a local one and while it obeyed the letter of the law, the upshot was that the local cost of living was so high that poor people did not qualify for free lunches - if you'd been poor enough to qualify, you'd be homeless. The resolution was pretty bad too: kids had to bring in all kinds of reciepts and stand in special lines and all kinds of stupidity.
> But the kids will only eat pizza, tacos, and chicken fingers, which are far more expensive.
They'll eat them if they're hungry.
> I don't understand why the schools are feeding the kids anyways.
Because some kids have parents who are too poor to afford decent food for their children.
> At what point did people lose the ability to take care of themselves
When they became very poor? It's not like this is a new phenomenon.
> and the desire to directly take care of others?
Yeah, you're got a point. This "charity" thing is a pretty new concept, I guess we should just give it time.
A fun thing to think about sometimes before you post is how some places have different policies, laws, and practices than the places you might be used to!
I understand that - I didn't mean to imply that it was a good idea on their part, I just didn't want to sound like I thought the law was anything more than a pantsload.
> America needs to raise its own damn children (and I say this as an American)
Yes and no. The US is really schitzophrenic about this. On one hand it's hyperprotective about ludicrous bullshit (cf: GTA) and on the other hand it won't even provide decent free lunches to poor kids. It's sort of baffling.
if it's on Rainbow Brite or My Pretty Pony stationary, or if it's written in crayon, you are denied. Otherwise, you're in.
It's a shame that someone will actually have to pay a fine for this bullshit, but really, they shoulda known.
I don't see what difference the fact that it runs linux makes. It offloads work from the CPU onto an external device. If my video card ran, say, QNX for some reason, would that really change anything?
My guess is that the reason they're after the gamer market is because it's the tech-world equivalent of audiophiles - where some people in the market are willing to pay big money for items of questionable utility that would likely not stand up to hard scrutiny by people who actually know what they're doing. Prove me wrong, KillerNIC, prove me wrong!
yeah. this thing is as much "a self-contained VM in hardware" as a video card is.
In other news, the day I trust IGN to do hardware reviews is the day I just give up, buy whatever the internet tells me to and spend 30 minutes punching the monkey to win.
Killer NICs, hanging machines, framerates getting murdered ... oh, Jack Thompson, you were right all along!
If you really want to believe that, I certainly won't stand in your way. Enjoy your ignorance, I'm sure being right is worth it.
> Do these trains really wander from from the tracks we know the location of?
well, duh: Amtrak. helloooo! Anybody home, McFly??
You're misinterpreting the 'get code right away' mindset with 'get it done quick-and-dirty' mindset. Design and rapid iteration are not mutually exclusive, and in fact one re-enforces the other, since rapid iteration exposes poor design and good design enables rapider(?) iteration. There are some people who confuse the two, but there's always someone who won't understand any particular engineering process.
> the current buzzword development models (XP, most other agile techniques) try and avoid doing it
You either don't or won't understand current development models. Agile methods have nothing to do with avoiding good software design - that's ridiculous on the face of it.
argh. duh. I apparently ate a brain tumor for breakfast, please disregard my previous post.
everyone delete your copies of prototype.
Your argument that "omg, the 3rd party tools can do whatever they want" also applies to any code you use. It's made even more [fill-in-your-own-derogatory-adjective] because it's pretty easy to find any naughtiness on the part of javascript code.