You're missing the point. It is not the truants themselves that will be conditioned, but their fellow students. They'll grow up thinking its normal for "bad" kids/people to be tracked like cattle. That will become acceptable.
It is not acceptable. Its a violation of our fundamental rights, and, at least in the US, our society needs to be made to realize that and fight against this sort of thing. It's against the basic principals that our country was founded for
Really? The market demands that such a large and influential company just disappear and create a power vacuum? I mean, I get the anti-MS attitude, really I do, but some of your points seem to be more the rantings of an anti-MS fanboy then anything else.
Vista;s Service Pack 1 came out February 4, 2008 and Win7 came out October 22, 20009. That's like, 20 some odd months apart. And given Vista came out January of 2007 its not like things were just all rushed out (remember, Win7 was technically in development while WinVista was). And really, Win7 is an amazing OS. Personally i had no problems with Vista because my home PC was overpowered so I don't feel my expectations were set low. I manage ~1300 computers and the ones moved over to Windows7 have comparatively far fewer issues. The thing is rock solid and easy to recover in the odd event it does run into an issue. Mind you my *nix box at home still has a better uptime (over a year since the last power outage).
Also, anyone actually involved in the computer industry knows how widely used IE still is, despite the advantages of alternative browsers. With so many people looking to use their PC as an appliance (as Steve Jobs predicted back in the day) and so many old corporate webapps dependent on it its no wonder either.
By the way, when the Zune first came out it was the second most popular mobile device after the iPod. Agreed that doesn't seem to have lasted long. Latest story regarding it I can find regales how they fell to single digits of market share. Having used a 1st generation Zune and multiple versions of the iPod this doesn't surprise me, even with the integration with the Xbox I like.
Honestly I would rather see some new blood in Microsoft, and new ideas not get squashed. Their corporate culture needs to adapt. A company that big won't just die overnight and its decline would be more harmful for computing as it gets more desperate.
Correction. Apparently the French military victories thing was just a practical joke by some Canadian student, and the George Bush thing was a Google Bomb. Makes sense when you compare the style of Google's jokes to them: Life, the universe and everything giving a Google calculator result of 42, the anagram of anagram being nag a ram as your intended search if you Google anagram...
IIRC, the French military victories thing wasn't actually a joke. At the time, that really was what would happen if you Google'd "French military victories". Over time, as the albinoblacksheep page with the screenshot of this grew more popular you got different results.
With the Google jokes like anagram and I'm Feeling Lucky when searching "miserable failure" or "worst president ever" (returning G W Bush Jr's biography) you can still get those results by making those searches now. You can't with the French military victories thing.
Oddly enough, the top search results for that still doesn't actually have any French military victories.
If after two weeks of driving a manual you still have to think to shift then you're doing something wrong. Really, once you drive a manual for a while it becomes second nature and you don't think about it. Since I've switched I'll never be able to back to an automatic and be comfortable for long periods of time.
Ahh, but good hoaxes are like good street graffiti. They can be considered art, even if there are other social issues (such as not wanting them on YOUR building or YOUR webpage). Wikipedia is as much about our culture (ALL of ours) as it is about just raw knowledge.
You're making the false assumption that because people are in IT and work with computers that they are logical, reasonable people. I applaud your faith in humanity, but my experience in IT, working with other IT people, has been vastly different.
When you're working with an IT director and manager or one of their underlings, you're supposed to expect them to understand what you're going on about when you're having systems show up on different subnets and not be able to talk to one another like they are supposed to be.
People are people everywhere. You have people that want to make "easy" money (everyone's value of easy varies). They're the same people as construction workers (of which while the majority tend to lean right in the US, there are those that lean left), as the burger flippers, as the lawyers... well maybe not the lawyers. That'd be assuming lawyers are people too.
The point is, there isn't a class of people that's "better" than any other. People will be people, and most people (of all archetypes and stereotypes) have political views based on how they were raised, with opinions varying based on what directly affected them as they grew up. At least in the US. But I imagine its similar elsewhere.
As I mentioned before, people are people everywhere....
You forget, most users don't change ANY settings. Only the most "hardcore" WoW players would look that up, and out of the millions in its player base only a small percentage are "hardcore" (small enough that Blizzard has changed the game to be playable for 10 man groups instead of 60 man groups).
Your point? Look, creating a martyr would be like dumping gasoline on a fire in an effort to put it out: Stupid, and counter to their goals. It's the difference between a sadistic murderer and a methodical murderer. One enjoys the violence, the other does it for a purpose, both are crazy not right.
Agreed. Users simply do not care. You can't teach what doesn't want to learn or understand the necessity of learning. It also goes a long way to show part of the problem with American public schools (i.e. a cultural thing).
Um no it wouldn't add time. If you read his statement and look up the facts, your average traveler going through Tel Aviv spends 20-30 minutes in the airport. People now spend 2-8 hours on non-holiday weekdays depending on the airport in the US. These times were increased dramatically since 9/11 with the introduction of the TSA's new policies.
When people are showing up an *hour early* to account for the security theater, we know there is a problem. Really, this is getting from incompetence to deliberate action (read: corruption) in an obvious way.
There is a constitutional right to travel freely within the united states. How you do that is up to you. You seem to be missing the point in that this doesn't happen on Trains (including Subways) or Buses (though they are thinking of making it happen that way too) so it shouldn't happen on Airplanes. Period.
Besides, the founding fathers didn't need to know about any of this crap. What they knew was enough: the only way to be 100% safe is to be locked up, and death was better than that. Its more important to be free and face risk of injury than to lose all freedom for the false notion that it makes you safer.
Seconded, the problems with Bush didn't "start" until they invaded Iraq. Immediately after 9/11 I even liked the guy. When he went to ground zero that same day and was basically doing everything off the cuff and without handlers I thought he was a better president than at any other time he was in office.
Of course, his memoirs seem to suggest he misses the perks of the office (understandable) but doesn't even grasp what he did wrong so I don't think he's a great president now. But for a brief point of time I thought he was a good guy.
Why should getting on an airplane be any more difficult than getting on a public bus, train or subway? The drivers are more secure on an airplane than any of those, and with a subway or surface train as many or more lives can be put at risk potentially.
No, its not a valid point. LAN Parties were not and are not just so people without good 'Net connections can play an unlaggy game. The entire point to a LAN party is the *social* experience it entails. Talking to people over Ventrilo is one thing. Getting drunk while Evil Dead is playing on a projector and you and your friends do something ridiculous in-game makes it all more entertaining.
Shit, I don't even remember most of what happened in the GAMES during a LAN party. I remember more interesting stuff, such as a pair of friends arguing over whether or not pants are facist or hooking up with the girl all of your friends wanted to date but always got shut down because of that ridiculous friend zone that you mysteriously were immune to. Or the commentary we decided to add MST3K style to some B movies while we wind down for the night.
I don't know, maybe I'm weird and had parties that happened to have video games in them rather than "LAN parties" but to my friends and I, they were LAN parties and they were awesome and if it wasn't StarCraft or Command & Conquerer it was a cheap FPS everyone had. Blizzard flat out has made a *stupid* call that serves *no* purpose. It costs them *nothing* to implement LAN play and in fact this very well could *increase* the chances their game gets pirated, because the pirated game will eventually have LAN play. Blizzard issued a challenge and the crackers of the world are going to take it up.
Remember, in less then a century ago atheism was a big taboo. Like it or not the idea of a single God has been part of the majority of American's religious beliefs since the founding. Recently the principals that were set down before that are being shaped into an "america for everybody" have been making it less of a pain in the ass to not believe in a Christian God so maybe in time we'll get mail on Sundays as well.
Going down? They WERE down and now they are going back up. Yet again it is taking me 50 dollars to fill my Honda. For a few months there it was just below 30.
Not in this country, though the powers that be see determined to change that and are very patient. The entire *idea* behind the US (once everyone was properly motivated by unjust taxation and show of force) is that the People are more powerful than the Government, and that the Government is the People's play thing. This is dangerous (see "mob rule") and attempts have been made to mitigate that.
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And that the white guy wasn't the guy in charge usually....
You're missing the point. It is not the truants themselves that will be conditioned, but their fellow students. They'll grow up thinking its normal for "bad" kids/people to be tracked like cattle. That will become acceptable.
It is not acceptable. Its a violation of our fundamental rights, and, at least in the US, our society needs to be made to realize that and fight against this sort of thing. It's against the basic principals that our country was founded for
Really? The market demands that such a large and influential company just disappear and create a power vacuum? I mean, I get the anti-MS attitude, really I do, but some of your points seem to be more the rantings of an anti-MS fanboy then anything else.
Vista;s Service Pack 1 came out February 4, 2008 and Win7 came out October 22, 20009. That's like, 20 some odd months apart. And given Vista came out January of 2007 its not like things were just all rushed out (remember, Win7 was technically in development while WinVista was). And really, Win7 is an amazing OS. Personally i had no problems with Vista because my home PC was overpowered so I don't feel my expectations were set low. I manage ~1300 computers and the ones moved over to Windows7 have comparatively far fewer issues. The thing is rock solid and easy to recover in the odd event it does run into an issue. Mind you my *nix box at home still has a better uptime (over a year since the last power outage).
Also, anyone actually involved in the computer industry knows how widely used IE still is, despite the advantages of alternative browsers. With so many people looking to use their PC as an appliance (as Steve Jobs predicted back in the day) and so many old corporate webapps dependent on it its no wonder either.
By the way, when the Zune first came out it was the second most popular mobile device after the iPod. Agreed that doesn't seem to have lasted long. Latest story regarding it I can find regales how they fell to single digits of market share. Having used a 1st generation Zune and multiple versions of the iPod this doesn't surprise me, even with the integration with the Xbox I like.
Honestly I would rather see some new blood in Microsoft, and new ideas not get squashed. Their corporate culture needs to adapt. A company that big won't just die overnight and its decline would be more harmful for computing as it gets more desperate.
Correction. Apparently the French military victories thing was just a practical joke by some Canadian student, and the George Bush thing was a Google Bomb. Makes sense when you compare the style of Google's jokes to them: Life, the universe and everything giving a Google calculator result of 42, the anagram of anagram being nag a ram as your intended search if you Google anagram...
IIRC, the French military victories thing wasn't actually a joke. At the time, that really was what would happen if you Google'd "French military victories". Over time, as the albinoblacksheep page with the screenshot of this grew more popular you got different results. With the Google jokes like anagram and I'm Feeling Lucky when searching "miserable failure" or "worst president ever" (returning G W Bush Jr's biography) you can still get those results by making those searches now. You can't with the French military victories thing. Oddly enough, the top search results for that still doesn't actually have any French military victories.
If after two weeks of driving a manual you still have to think to shift then you're doing something wrong. Really, once you drive a manual for a while it becomes second nature and you don't think about it. Since I've switched I'll never be able to back to an automatic and be comfortable for long periods of time.
Nice troll attempt AC. For those like yourself who haven't seen it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEv8TRzxbNs
Ahh, but good hoaxes are like good street graffiti. They can be considered art, even if there are other social issues (such as not wanting them on YOUR building or YOUR webpage). Wikipedia is as much about our culture (ALL of ours) as it is about just raw knowledge.
Because I like the taste.
You're making the false assumption that because people are in IT and work with computers that they are logical, reasonable people. I applaud your faith in humanity, but my experience in IT, working with other IT people, has been vastly different.
When you're working with an IT director and manager or one of their underlings, you're supposed to expect them to understand what you're going on about when you're having systems show up on different subnets and not be able to talk to one another like they are supposed to be.
People are people everywhere. You have people that want to make "easy" money (everyone's value of easy varies). They're the same people as construction workers (of which while the majority tend to lean right in the US, there are those that lean left), as the burger flippers, as the lawyers... well maybe not the lawyers. That'd be assuming lawyers are people too.
The point is, there isn't a class of people that's "better" than any other. People will be people, and most people (of all archetypes and stereotypes) have political views based on how they were raised, with opinions varying based on what directly affected them as they grew up. At least in the US. But I imagine its similar elsewhere.
As I mentioned before, people are people everywhere....
No actually you are wrong. Both are war crimes certainly, but one is not necessarily terrorism.
You forget, most users don't change ANY settings. Only the most "hardcore" WoW players would look that up, and out of the millions in its player base only a small percentage are "hardcore" (small enough that Blizzard has changed the game to be playable for 10 man groups instead of 60 man groups).
Your point? Look, creating a martyr would be like dumping gasoline on a fire in an effort to put it out: Stupid, and counter to their goals. It's the difference between a sadistic murderer and a methodical murderer. One enjoys the violence, the other does it for a purpose, both are crazy not right.
Agreed. Users simply do not care. You can't teach what doesn't want to learn or understand the necessity of learning. It also goes a long way to show part of the problem with American public schools (i.e. a cultural thing).
Actually there is no way to do #2. Your example at least would fall under the category of "parody" which is a protected First Amendment right.
That sounds more like a Trademark issue than a Copyright issue in my opinion...
Um no it wouldn't add time. If you read his statement and look up the facts, your average traveler going through Tel Aviv spends 20-30 minutes in the airport. People now spend 2-8 hours on non-holiday weekdays depending on the airport in the US. These times were increased dramatically since 9/11 with the introduction of the TSA's new policies. When people are showing up an *hour early* to account for the security theater, we know there is a problem. Really, this is getting from incompetence to deliberate action (read: corruption) in an obvious way.
There is a constitutional right to travel freely within the united states. How you do that is up to you. You seem to be missing the point in that this doesn't happen on Trains (including Subways) or Buses (though they are thinking of making it happen that way too) so it shouldn't happen on Airplanes. Period. Besides, the founding fathers didn't need to know about any of this crap. What they knew was enough: the only way to be 100% safe is to be locked up, and death was better than that. Its more important to be free and face risk of injury than to lose all freedom for the false notion that it makes you safer.
Seconded, the problems with Bush didn't "start" until they invaded Iraq. Immediately after 9/11 I even liked the guy. When he went to ground zero that same day and was basically doing everything off the cuff and without handlers I thought he was a better president than at any other time he was in office. Of course, his memoirs seem to suggest he misses the perks of the office (understandable) but doesn't even grasp what he did wrong so I don't think he's a great president now. But for a brief point of time I thought he was a good guy.
Why should getting on an airplane be any more difficult than getting on a public bus, train or subway? The drivers are more secure on an airplane than any of those, and with a subway or surface train as many or more lives can be put at risk potentially.
No, its not a valid point. LAN Parties were not and are not just so people without good 'Net connections can play an unlaggy game. The entire point to a LAN party is the *social* experience it entails. Talking to people over Ventrilo is one thing. Getting drunk while Evil Dead is playing on a projector and you and your friends do something ridiculous in-game makes it all more entertaining.
Shit, I don't even remember most of what happened in the GAMES during a LAN party. I remember more interesting stuff, such as a pair of friends arguing over whether or not pants are facist or hooking up with the girl all of your friends wanted to date but always got shut down because of that ridiculous friend zone that you mysteriously were immune to. Or the commentary we decided to add MST3K style to some B movies while we wind down for the night.
I don't know, maybe I'm weird and had parties that happened to have video games in them rather than "LAN parties" but to my friends and I, they were LAN parties and they were awesome and if it wasn't StarCraft or Command & Conquerer it was a cheap FPS everyone had. Blizzard flat out has made a *stupid* call that serves *no* purpose. It costs them *nothing* to implement LAN play and in fact this very well could *increase* the chances their game gets pirated, because the pirated game will eventually have LAN play. Blizzard issued a challenge and the crackers of the world are going to take it up.
http://vega.org.uk/video/subseries/8 Requires QuickTime or RealPlayer I think, I don't remember which. But they're already online for free.
Remember, in less then a century ago atheism was a big taboo. Like it or not the idea of a single God has been part of the majority of American's religious beliefs since the founding. Recently the principals that were set down before that are being shaped into an "america for everybody" have been making it less of a pain in the ass to not believe in a Christian God so maybe in time we'll get mail on Sundays as well.
Going down? They WERE down and now they are going back up. Yet again it is taking me 50 dollars to fill my Honda. For a few months there it was just below 30.
Not in this country, though the powers that be see determined to change that and are very patient. The entire *idea* behind the US (once everyone was properly motivated by unjust taxation and show of force) is that the People are more powerful than the Government, and that the Government is the People's play thing. This is dangerous (see "mob rule") and attempts have been made to mitigate that.