So OO.o isn't a fully functional, intuitive, reliable office sweet? So Ubuntu isn't easy enough to use and install that I'd feel comfortable handing my mom an install cd and walking her through the installation process over the phone and count on her being able to use it hassle free indefinitely? Ogg isn't a worthy media format? Firefox isn't leaps and bounds better than IE by every metric other than raw usage and market penetration? Amarok and MPlayer don't wipe the floor with WMP? ODF isn't a more stable, portable, and efficient document format than.doc?
You sir, are a tool. FOSS is only "getting" Microsoft by developing superior products and giving everyone a choice in what software they run. If Microsoft didn't believe themselves to be entitled to our money and CPU cycles, and view any attempt at competition as a direct assault on their god-given right to monopoly then this wouldn't be a problem.
Because the AV/S/M app is frequently able to obtain all sorts of wacky permissions and access, it could be viable to piggyback on it into otherwise secure systems. For example, if an AV was set up such that it could scan encrypted data, then exploiting it to get past the encryption could be feasible.
This doesn't quite meet the criteria for Godwin's law, as he was not calling anyone a Nazi (well, other than the actual Nazis, but that's just statement of fact), nor was he using them as an example because of their being Nazis, he was simply citing a well known instance where security through obscurity failed a group that believed their crypto to be perfect because nobody else knew how it worked.
Um... no, I really don't think that's it. If it were, they wouldn't be relocating to Canada, where businesses are very highly taxed (to help fund things like national health care), costs and standards of living are comparable to those in the US, and the locals are not inclined to do difficult and normally very high paying work any cheaper than those of us to the south because they aren't actually desperate.
This is probably more about hiring top talent from other countries who are unable to achieve citizenship or maintain the proper visas long-term. Vancouver's a pretty cool place, so it probably wasn't that hard a sell saying "look, your immigration status is getting to be a hassle for everyone, so we'd like to transfer you to your Vancouver office so we can all get back to work and not worrying about the INS finding an undotted 'i' or uncrossed 't', you won't have any cash salary pay, but since our taxes are a lot higher there, we won't be able to give you health insurance anymore... oh, but don't worry, they have a very good national health care system, and so long as you don't need anything exotic you probably won't even notice the difference."
Not liking MS is all well and good... but come on, this is just silly.
There is no good or evil with regards to a publicly held company; only profitable and unprofitable.
Not true. There are many companies that manage to be profitable and do good at the same time. Profitability and non-evil are not mutually exclusive, they aren't even directly related.
But... but... it isn't solving anything overnight! Totally unacceptable! Incremental change is for the weak and stupid and non-Slashdot readers! None of this pussy ass "right step" shit, we need everything to happen right now and any change short of that is not only inconsequential but should be derided and fought tooth and nail for the M$ propaganda/sell out itg is.
Yes, Dick, it's true, if you analyze enough stories, you find that there are only a few types of events.
Specifically, "$noun $verb" and often some number of "$adjective" or "$adverb" or more "$noun" and "$verb" fields.
Of course, this all obscures the fact that when stuff happens, it's news, and if people care about it, it's news worth reporting. This story involves stuff happening (specifically, researchers found a way to write software which will help respond to traffic problems), and people (particularly those who drive) care about it.
So there you go, Dick, it all makes sense. You can rest assured that despite the veracity of your statement, there is in fact news worth reporting to be had. I hope this cleared everything up for you, dick.
So the benefit is that he can skip the tedious not fun parts by, essentially, having a bot do it all at about the same efficiency as a human and using this bot to give 24/7 coverage while he eats, sleeps, goes to school, has a life outside of WoW, etc?
Sorry, but I just don't see where the problem comes in. Heck, I think a lot of problems could be solved by simply building a bot into the game... if everyone could skip the tedium of mindless grinding by having a bot do it while they sleep, or even better by having the server automatically distribute gold according to some sort of average table while a character is not currently in use, then it could make the game more fun for everyone AND completely defuse the farming and bot problems.
Not quite... it actually comes down to who successfully reproduces and best ensures the successful reproduction of their offspring that really counts. Just accomplishing the greatest quantity of gamete transfer means virtually nothing on its own.
truth be told, I'm pretty sure that this is symptomatic of the cultural differences between the east and west coasts. The times I've been out there, the couple of music shops I went to carried a great deal of music I had no interest in whatsoever, but appeared to be all the rage out there. Most of the genres you listed just don't have much presence in these parts, so I'm not surprised to hear you had trouble finding IDM.
This also brings into question the value of such cheats. If a cheat must be weakened so as to avoid notice, the eventually it needs to be weakened to the point where it doesn't even qualify as cheating any longer. Your home-made bot that acts exactly like a normal player in terms of imperfect timing and lack of percievable omniscience isn't a terribly effective way of cheating.
So why have the tedious and boring first part at all? If the real fun begins after experience and gold are irrelevant, then I can't see what purpose either experience or gold really serve except to make the game less fun and less interesting.
This is the problem I always have with MMOGs. It's why I've never even wanted to play WoW (ooh, EverQuest with updated graphics and a slightly different setting... where can I not sign up for the same thing all over again).
"No" does mean the same thing in Spanish, but "sí" ("yes") and "si" ("if") are both pronounced and spelled differently (watch the accents). They do look and sound quite similar, however.
The solution is to have a couple of good music stores in the area.
It always baffles me when people say they can't find even slightly obscure music until I remember that I live in an awesome culture bubble; I grew up with both a very good new music and excellent used music store right in town, and could double or triple both numbers by driving an extra 10-15 minutes to the nearest (very small) city. Anything we really wanted and couldn't get right away we could have special ordered, and it was rare that such a thing needed doing. I still have trouble comprehending when places like Best Buy or FYE (to be fair, they aren't so bad for a national chain) only carry an artist's latest release, or when they forgo well-known and highly influential bands that broke up over a decade ago for some no-hit-wonder pop kid that everybody has already forgotten just because they weren't born yet when the former was in their prime.
Anyway, if anyone out there is in the Amherst/Northampton, MA area and doesn't know any good music stores, check out Mystery Train (used) and Newbury Comics in Amherst, or Turn It Up! in Northampton. In Buffalo I also used to go to New World record on Elmwood, I recall it being next to a Spot Coffee.
The internet is great and all, but there's nothing quite like browsing through a local B&M for music.
I think the real problem, then is that in WoW "skill" can be bought. If some total chess n00b managed to play at a grand master level and hold his own, nobody would bitch about how he "cheated" and skipped the years of practice and learning that everyone else to go through... they'd be shitting themselves over what a genius such a kid must be to overcome decades of lacked experience and hold their own against someone who has been considered a master since before the prodigy was born.
The difference is that you can't buy your way into being better at chess, you're just either good or not good and that's that. The pieces and rules are always the same, and the only thing you can really buy is a nicer looking and longer lasting set, but never one that is notably different to play with.
Maybe if WoW were a game based on skill, rather than on the amount of time devoted to playing, this problem wouldn't exist.
It bears noting that Buffalo is less than two hours away from Toronto, and that all three cities in question are metropolitan areas with considerable historical, political, and social significance. Furthermore, Buffalo is situated right on the Canadian border... when I lived there it was actually feasible for me to walk to Canada via the Peace Bridge (I lived near Niagara St. on Prospect Ave.), which means that his aunt was under the impression that NYC is about an hour away from the US-Canada border. Considering that she is, effectively, a local, this is pretty inept.
The great moral lesson of human history is that dogmatism, refusal to cooperate with others, and cultural narrow-mindedness are the downfall of all societies. Labeling all opposition to your own power greed as evil is ultimately far more destructive to oneself than anyone else, it is cheapening and belies despair and desperation... call enough people evil, and YOU wind up on the outsider lunatic fringe. Do unto others and they will do unto you.
I just don't see what makes this so hard to understand.
Dude... where can I get my microwave that turns water into wine? Does it come with a "beer" setting? Any chance it can zap rocks into tasty appetizers? Does it also clone fish? I'm already sold.
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So OO.o isn't a fully functional, intuitive, reliable office sweet? So Ubuntu isn't easy enough to use and install that I'd feel comfortable handing my mom an install cd and walking her through the installation process over the phone and count on her being able to use it hassle free indefinitely? Ogg isn't a worthy media format? Firefox isn't leaps and bounds better than IE by every metric other than raw usage and market penetration? Amarok and MPlayer don't wipe the floor with WMP? ODF isn't a more stable, portable, and efficient document format than .doc?
You sir, are a tool. FOSS is only "getting" Microsoft by developing superior products and giving everyone a choice in what software they run. If Microsoft didn't believe themselves to be entitled to our money and CPU cycles, and view any attempt at competition as a direct assault on their god-given right to monopoly then this wouldn't be a problem.
Do we need a better reason?
Because the AV/S/M app is frequently able to obtain all sorts of wacky permissions and access, it could be viable to piggyback on it into otherwise secure systems. For example, if an AV was set up such that it could scan encrypted data, then exploiting it to get past the encryption could be feasible.
Sorry, but the Revolution can't ride on kneecapping.
In fact, we shouldn't even be killing people, I suggest we list the CODs as "brain hemorrhage, 9mm" instead. It's much classier.
It depends largely on which version of the German accent one wishes to use.
This doesn't quite meet the criteria for Godwin's law, as he was not calling anyone a Nazi (well, other than the actual Nazis, but that's just statement of fact), nor was he using them as an example because of their being Nazis, he was simply citing a well known instance where security through obscurity failed a group that believed their crypto to be perfect because nobody else knew how it worked.
Um... no, I really don't think that's it. If it were, they wouldn't be relocating to Canada, where businesses are very highly taxed (to help fund things like national health care), costs and standards of living are comparable to those in the US, and the locals are not inclined to do difficult and normally very high paying work any cheaper than those of us to the south because they aren't actually desperate.
This is probably more about hiring top talent from other countries who are unable to achieve citizenship or maintain the proper visas long-term. Vancouver's a pretty cool place, so it probably wasn't that hard a sell saying "look, your immigration status is getting to be a hassle for everyone, so we'd like to transfer you to your Vancouver office so we can all get back to work and not worrying about the INS finding an undotted 'i' or uncrossed 't', you won't have any cash salary pay, but since our taxes are a lot higher there, we won't be able to give you health insurance anymore... oh, but don't worry, they have a very good national health care system, and so long as you don't need anything exotic you probably won't even notice the difference."
Not liking MS is all well and good... but come on, this is just silly.
But... but... it isn't solving anything overnight! Totally unacceptable! Incremental change is for the weak and stupid and non-Slashdot readers! None of this pussy ass "right step" shit, we need everything to happen right now and any change short of that is not only inconsequential but should be derided and fought tooth and nail for the M$ propaganda/sell out itg is.
Dear Richard,
Can I call you Dick, great, thanks Dick.
Yes, Dick, it's true, if you analyze enough stories, you find that there are only a few types of events.
Specifically, "$noun $verb" and often some number of "$adjective" or "$adverb" or more "$noun" and "$verb" fields.
Of course, this all obscures the fact that when stuff happens, it's news, and if people care about it, it's news worth reporting. This story involves stuff happening (specifically, researchers found a way to write software which will help respond to traffic problems), and people (particularly those who drive) care about it.
So there you go, Dick, it all makes sense. You can rest assured that despite the veracity of your statement, there is in fact news worth reporting to be had. I hope this cleared everything up for you, dick.
So the benefit is that he can skip the tedious not fun parts by, essentially, having a bot do it all at about the same efficiency as a human and using this bot to give 24/7 coverage while he eats, sleeps, goes to school, has a life outside of WoW, etc?
Sorry, but I just don't see where the problem comes in. Heck, I think a lot of problems could be solved by simply building a bot into the game... if everyone could skip the tedium of mindless grinding by having a bot do it while they sleep, or even better by having the server automatically distribute gold according to some sort of average table while a character is not currently in use, then it could make the game more fun for everyone AND completely defuse the farming and bot problems.
I know, I must be crazy or something.
Not quite... it actually comes down to who successfully reproduces and best ensures the successful reproduction of their offspring that really counts. Just accomplishing the greatest quantity of gamete transfer means virtually nothing on its own.
truth be told, I'm pretty sure that this is symptomatic of the cultural differences between the east and west coasts. The times I've been out there, the couple of music shops I went to carried a great deal of music I had no interest in whatsoever, but appeared to be all the rage out there. Most of the genres you listed just don't have much presence in these parts, so I'm not surprised to hear you had trouble finding IDM.
This also brings into question the value of such cheats. If a cheat must be weakened so as to avoid notice, the eventually it needs to be weakened to the point where it doesn't even qualify as cheating any longer. Your home-made bot that acts exactly like a normal player in terms of imperfect timing and lack of percievable omniscience isn't a terribly effective way of cheating.
in Soviet Russia, the Polish tell "dumb Polack" jokes!
It most certainly is more than that, just not in the way those individuals think it is.
So why have the tedious and boring first part at all? If the real fun begins after experience and gold are irrelevant, then I can't see what purpose either experience or gold really serve except to make the game less fun and less interesting.
This is the problem I always have with MMOGs. It's why I've never even wanted to play WoW (ooh, EverQuest with updated graphics and a slightly different setting... where can I not sign up for the same thing all over again).
"No" does mean the same thing in Spanish, but "sí" ("yes") and "si" ("if") are both pronounced and spelled differently (watch the accents). They do look and sound quite similar, however.
The solution is to have a couple of good music stores in the area.
It always baffles me when people say they can't find even slightly obscure music until I remember that I live in an awesome culture bubble; I grew up with both a very good new music and excellent used music store right in town, and could double or triple both numbers by driving an extra 10-15 minutes to the nearest (very small) city. Anything we really wanted and couldn't get right away we could have special ordered, and it was rare that such a thing needed doing. I still have trouble comprehending when places like Best Buy or FYE (to be fair, they aren't so bad for a national chain) only carry an artist's latest release, or when they forgo well-known and highly influential bands that broke up over a decade ago for some no-hit-wonder pop kid that everybody has already forgotten just because they weren't born yet when the former was in their prime.
Anyway, if anyone out there is in the Amherst/Northampton, MA area and doesn't know any good music stores, check out Mystery Train (used) and Newbury Comics in Amherst, or Turn It Up! in Northampton. In Buffalo I also used to go to New World record on Elmwood, I recall it being next to a Spot Coffee.
The internet is great and all, but there's nothing quite like browsing through a local B&M for music.
I think the real problem, then is that in WoW "skill" can be bought. If some total chess n00b managed to play at a grand master level and hold his own, nobody would bitch about how he "cheated" and skipped the years of practice and learning that everyone else to go through... they'd be shitting themselves over what a genius such a kid must be to overcome decades of lacked experience and hold their own against someone who has been considered a master since before the prodigy was born.
The difference is that you can't buy your way into being better at chess, you're just either good or not good and that's that. The pieces and rules are always the same, and the only thing you can really buy is a nicer looking and longer lasting set, but never one that is notably different to play with.
Maybe if WoW were a game based on skill, rather than on the amount of time devoted to playing, this problem wouldn't exist.
Q: Does replying to the first post just to make your completely separate comment appear higher up in the discussion make you cool?
It bears noting that Buffalo is less than two hours away from Toronto, and that all three cities in question are metropolitan areas with considerable historical, political, and social significance. Furthermore, Buffalo is situated right on the Canadian border... when I lived there it was actually feasible for me to walk to Canada via the Peace Bridge (I lived near Niagara St. on Prospect Ave.), which means that his aunt was under the impression that NYC is about an hour away from the US-Canada border. Considering that she is, effectively, a local, this is pretty inept.
Congratulations on falling into that same trap.
The great moral lesson of human history is that dogmatism, refusal to cooperate with others, and cultural narrow-mindedness are the downfall of all societies. Labeling all opposition to your own power greed as evil is ultimately far more destructive to oneself than anyone else, it is cheapening and belies despair and desperation... call enough people evil, and YOU wind up on the outsider lunatic fringe. Do unto others and they will do unto you.
I just don't see what makes this so hard to understand.
Dude... where can I get my microwave that turns water into wine? Does it come with a "beer" setting? Any chance it can zap rocks into tasty appetizers? Does it also clone fish? I'm already sold.