The most interesting part of having the volume of the speech proportional to the size of the text would be in sales ads. Things like "on sale now" or "bad credit is not a problem" would be yelled out while all of the fine print would be whispered and almost impossible to hear.
dumbing down the work of government to cartoon-form, with nothing more than a series of 5-second sound-bites, then good luck. But that's not government in action, it's a soap-opera.
I think they will care very much, if you mean wide-scale China-esque censorship. I also think it's not going to happen, at least not much. AFAIK, many many people are quite upset over what they hear about China's internet censorship crud, so I don't expect anything like that is going to be feasible in the US. Besides, it's a little bit out of FOX News Network's control, don't you think?
I do believe that most of our 'news programs' make their way by being scary. Making people afraid is both easy and profitable- that's what FUD refers to. Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. It's basically a marketing strategy. It's a way of making your customers feel that they need you.
I've had a disturbing revelation in the last hour or so- I actually just tried to defend 4chan. From FOX. I don't know how I wound up on either side of this. Everything I thought I stood for, I have started to destroy.
Really, though, I just get extremely frustrated when I see such careless (or is it careful?) ignorance and stupidity, especially when it is represented as news.
I do my best to distinguish between Anon- and anon-, but I disagree with that old cautionary phrase.
A third-rate professional is always better than a first-rate amateur.
I don't think it fits, and for a few reasons. First, I don't believe that major media groups like FOX really exist for the purpose of informing the public, but rather to turn a profit, and the FUD angle is one of their most used and most valuable tools (A shocking, radical opinion, I know).
Second, in situations like this, they may be better at gathering information than John and Jane Soccerparent, but that's really all they have. They refer to Facebook as Myspace, they add zapping noises to emphasize the virus 'destroying' a computer, and they at least, fail to distinguish between Anonymous as a meme, and plain old anonymous users. Almost anyone who is proficient with computers and internet 'culture' knows roughly six-hundred million times more than the reporters about this stuff, and most geeks have experience trying to communicate it effectively to our more technologically-inhibited friends and family. Nowadays there are so many news sites and blogs (you may have noticed that/. is, for better or worse, constantly linking to blogs), and some of them rise to a very high level of quality. More importantly, the many of them, together, are a resource which can be more useful than any television program.
Huge numbers of first-rate amateurs are better than any third-rate professional. That seems to be the philosophy that has produced Wikipedia, that moderates Slashdot, and that drives so much of the web nowadays. You may not agree with it, and it may not always be true, but here's another way to look at it:
To make something your profession and to do a thing well are not the same anymore, if they ever were.
Exactly what I thought- therefore, why not just rebrand bittorrent clients as MSCD clients? Everyone wins!
Although, the RIAA/MPAA will still claim to be losing.
A Brilliant Plan occurs to me!
1. If all or most of current bittorrent networks could be 'changed' into 'MSCD' networks
2. Upload a bunch of fake 'torrents' using the 'old' technology as a trap (a reversal of the very same technique that the RIAA types have tried using).
3. Hammer them with legal action and bad PR over attempting to obtain + distribute child pornography or something horrible like that
people associated with Anonymous did threaten several football stadiums
Are you serious? It's not like people who post anonymously all know each other or something. You seem to have fallen into the trap, by buying into the idea that 'Anonymous' is a specific group of people. I'm sorry, it doesn't work that way.
Oh, man. I'm watching the video as I type this (still loading on my dial-up connection, or I'd have watched it first). Oh hell. It just gets worse and worse. Do people not remember that 'anonymous' is a WORD? (wikipedia powers GO! "derived from the Greek word , meaning 'without a name' or 'name-less'"). The video is now making reference to "sites linked with Anonymous!" Oh no! These nefarious ne'er do wells are using the proper word to describe an individual whose identity is not known! Google and I have found a great many sites linked with Anonymous: there's www.alcoholics-anonymous.org, www.anonymousclothing.com, and an extensive collection of their quotes on www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Anonymous.
Jeez, now I'm really getting worked up about this.
they use the internet and their moniker sounds a little like AC
Again, same point./.'s Anonymous Coward may be an original implementation, but GUESS WHAT. It's not a coincidence that it sounds like Anonymous. It's not a word that was spontaneously invented for the internet./. didn't just pull it out of thin air.
IT. IS. A. WORD.
I apologize, now, for venting my frustration at you. Don't take it personally.
But discussion of Anonymous as if 'he' were an individual is a joke, just another meme. Just look at the last shot in the video, which I think sums it up. It's another mock-up of an inspirational poster, reading:
"ANONYMOUS - because none of us are as cruel as all of us"
As an "amateur psychologist and observer of human nature", I hope you an understand its meaning- the mob mentality of high-traffic message boards (which are nevertheless out of the mainstream), combined with the relative unimportance of an individual's identity in that environment, results in a higher tendency for unreasonable aggression. Some 'sophisticated thinker' took the time to make it into a joke.
Well, worry not. You may have lost $250 in electronics, but at least you know the thief won't be able to use it either. Just imagine the bumbling bandito's frustration when he discovers he has a useless lump that merely looks like a functional iPod, and wear a smug grin of satisfaction as he sells it to some chump over the internet for $200.
Ha! You really showed him. I'm willing to bet that soon, with more and more advanced technology, crime will be completely impossible!
Stands for 'Role Playing Game', right? Not 'Rocket Propelled Game'? Not 'Really Pompous Game'? Meaning, you play a role somehow. Processing tactial decisions is not really role playing, I contend, and such games should not be called RPGs (but what can I do? They are).
*Warning: I don't have any specific message in mind, and I'm just trying to include whatever responses occur to me. My thoughts may be a bit disjointed.*
IMHO, the neccessary quality would be that the presence of you, the player, creates a unique game experience- this is totally impossible, of course, when someone has to code it all ahead of time. This is the reason people play tabletop RPGs, of the D&D variety.
I notice a lot of discussion about "linear" games, or a "linear" story, or "linear" whatever else. I have to say this: "linear" means following a straight line, right? Time is more or less linear. That is not really an issue in games. The talk is about gameplay, where calling it linear is a little more ambiguous- do you mean you progress at a steady pace towards your goal? Do you mean that you have no real choices within the storyline? Do you mean that the game is literally a straight line, ala Crash Bandicoot? I guess what I mean is: please find another word to express your idea- "linear" is currently fully booked for the rest of the discussion.
I have to go now, so I've forgotten my other random points.
Well, if people to take a moment and RTFA, (which is more than 15 sentences long), they would have more to talk about than why light can travel at %90 the speed of light. But, as you say, Nostradamus I am not- this is Slashdot, so the fact that most people here didn't RTFA isn't particularly odd;)
New estimates indicate that Sony's numbers were even lower than the world's already lowered expectations. According to industry analysts, only 10 PS3's were shipped, and around 100,000 were sold.
This is obviously a bid to compete with Sony. It's designed to bring in those consumers who already prefer the Wii over the PS3, but who are worried they might get an inferior product because they are not spending as many hundreds of dollars.
Slashdot Mirror
Blind. He's blind. He can't see. The man developing this is unable to look at the phone.
That's certainly how they do it on the radio.
Perhaps we need to start a space program for our politicians, then...
I've always heard it called 'television news'.
You don't bite the hand that feeds you. Or, in this case, you don't criticize the methods of the hand that passes the food across the counter to you.
Note: the above is a relatively simple joke. If you know what the words 'radial' and 'bilateral' mean, you should be fine.
can the babies run linux? Sorry.
I think they will care very much, if you mean wide-scale China-esque censorship. I also think it's not going to happen, at least not much. AFAIK, many many people are quite upset over what they hear about China's internet censorship crud, so I don't expect anything like that is going to be feasible in the US. Besides, it's a little bit out of FOX News Network's control, don't you think? I do believe that most of our 'news programs' make their way by being scary. Making people afraid is both easy and profitable- that's what FUD refers to. Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. It's basically a marketing strategy. It's a way of making your customers feel that they need you.
It was a terrible joke. I don't think it's even in the same time zone as a good idea.
I've had a disturbing revelation in the last hour or so- I actually just tried to defend 4chan. From FOX. I don't know how I wound up on either side of this. Everything I thought I stood for, I have started to destroy.
Really, though, I just get extremely frustrated when I see such careless (or is it careful?) ignorance and stupidity, especially when it is represented as news.
I do my best to distinguish between Anon- and anon-, but I disagree with that old cautionary phrase.
I don't think it fits, and for a few reasons. First, I don't believe that major media groups like FOX really exist for the purpose of informing the public, but rather to turn a profit, and the FUD angle is one of their most used and most valuable tools (A shocking, radical opinion, I know).Second, in situations like this, they may be better at gathering information than John and Jane Soccerparent, but that's really all they have. They refer to Facebook as Myspace, they add zapping noises to emphasize the virus 'destroying' a computer, and they at least, fail to distinguish between Anonymous as a meme, and plain old anonymous users. Almost anyone who is proficient with computers and internet 'culture' knows roughly six-hundred million times more than the reporters about this stuff, and most geeks have experience trying to communicate it effectively to our more technologically-inhibited friends and family. Nowadays there are so many news sites and blogs (you may have noticed that /. is, for better or worse, constantly linking to blogs), and some of them rise to a very high level of quality. More importantly, the many of them, together, are a resource which can be more useful than any television program.
Huge numbers of first-rate amateurs are better than any third-rate professional. That seems to be the philosophy that has produced Wikipedia, that moderates Slashdot, and that drives so much of the web nowadays. You may not agree with it, and it may not always be true, but here's another way to look at it:
To make something your profession and to do a thing well are not the same anymore, if they ever were.
Although, the RIAA/MPAA will still claim to be losing.
A Brilliant Plan occurs to me!
1. If all or most of current bittorrent networks could be 'changed' into 'MSCD' networks
2. Upload a bunch of fake 'torrents' using the 'old' technology as a trap (a reversal of the very same technique that the RIAA types have tried using).
3. Hammer them with legal action and bad PR over attempting to obtain + distribute child pornography or something horrible like that
4. ?????
5. Profit
Are you serious? It's not like people who post anonymously all know each other or something. You seem to have fallen into the trap, by buying into the idea that 'Anonymous' is a specific group of people. I'm sorry, it doesn't work that way.
Oh, man. I'm watching the video as I type this (still loading on my dial-up connection, or I'd have watched it first). Oh hell. It just gets worse and worse. Do people not remember that 'anonymous' is a WORD? (wikipedia powers GO! "derived from the Greek word , meaning 'without a name' or 'name-less'"). The video is now making reference to "sites linked with Anonymous!" Oh no! These nefarious ne'er do wells are using the proper word to describe an individual whose identity is not known! Google and I have found a great many sites linked with Anonymous: there's www.alcoholics-anonymous.org, www.anonymousclothing.com, and an extensive collection of their quotes on www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Anonymous.
Jeez, now I'm really getting worked up about this.
Again, same point. /.'s Anonymous Coward may be an original implementation, but GUESS WHAT. It's not a coincidence that it sounds like Anonymous. It's not a word that was spontaneously invented for the internet. /. didn't just pull it out of thin air.
IT. IS. A. WORD.
I apologize, now, for venting my frustration at you. Don't take it personally.
But discussion of Anonymous as if 'he' were an individual is a joke, just another meme. Just look at the last shot in the video, which I think sums it up. It's another mock-up of an inspirational poster, reading:
"ANONYMOUS - because none of us are as cruel as all of us"
As an "amateur psychologist and observer of human nature", I hope you an understand its meaning- the mob mentality of high-traffic message boards (which are nevertheless out of the mainstream), combined with the relative unimportance of an individual's identity in that environment, results in a higher tendency for unreasonable aggression. Some 'sophisticated thinker' took the time to make it into a joke.
Ha! You really showed him. I'm willing to bet that soon, with more and more advanced technology, crime will be completely impossible!
Hey man, are you fat? Or what?
Quit teasing, I thought you were serious.
Any sufficiently advanced serfdom is indistinguishable from freedom.
-1 Stupid Meme
*Warning: I don't have any specific message in mind, and I'm just trying to include whatever responses occur to me. My thoughts may be a bit disjointed.*
IMHO, the neccessary quality would be that the presence of you, the player, creates a unique game experience- this is totally impossible, of course, when someone has to code it all ahead of time. This is the reason people play tabletop RPGs, of the D&D variety.
I notice a lot of discussion about "linear" games, or a "linear" story, or "linear" whatever else. I have to say this: "linear" means following a straight line, right? Time is more or less linear. That is not really an issue in games. The talk is about gameplay, where calling it linear is a little more ambiguous- do you mean you progress at a steady pace towards your goal? Do you mean that you have no real choices within the storyline? Do you mean that the game is literally a straight line, ala Crash Bandicoot? I guess what I mean is: please find another word to express your idea- "linear" is currently fully booked for the rest of the discussion.
I have to go now, so I've forgotten my other random points.
.02 cents? Or .02 dollars?
Well, if people to take a moment and RTFA, (which is more than 15 sentences long), they would have more to talk about than why light can travel at %90 the speed of light. But, as you say, Nostradamus I am not- this is Slashdot, so the fact that most people here didn't RTFA isn't particularly odd ;)
As soon as I read that, it occurred to me that half of the comments were going to focus on that one sentence. And what do you know? I was right.
Oops, sorry. I didn't notice the 0-digit UID.
You are posting as an AC. You don't get to say that.
New estimates indicate that Sony's numbers were even lower than the world's already lowered expectations. According to industry analysts, only 10 PS3's were shipped, and around 100,000 were sold.
This is obviously a bid to compete with Sony. It's designed to bring in those consumers who already prefer the Wii over the PS3, but who are worried they might get an inferior product because they are not spending as many hundreds of dollars.
Towards the lower half of the page, someone says "Also, to anyone trying to start a browser pissing contest, remember, this isn't slashdot."