*sigh*
It *is* a very reasonable point that he is making.
The growing significance of virtual domains and the significance of the relationships we develop there is a big and growing issue.
It is something we should be thinking about if we want to help shape our future instead of simply going with the flow.
Sadly I doubt the slashdot crowd will be able to get over the ridiculousness of the pope saying this.
given what I'm reading here about his wife I think he should be concerned about what she's up to if she is abroad.
we should care because it may fortify the ignorance of its users.
Too many ignorant or misinformed people in your society leads to all kinds of nasty things.
Hey, props to you for engaging for as long as you did.
I strongly disagree with you on the issue but stepping up and discussing it in an atheist stronghold like slashdot is commendable.
"their religion teaches them that they're one false move away from burning in hell for all eternity"
Which religion is that?
Catholicism.
...DVD resolution, which was once considered a high-definition format.
bah, maybe marketing droids considered it high-definition.
DVD's 480 lines of resolution is the resolution of the black and white tv my parents bought when I was 5.
I give you a "B". Good effort but you may have taken it a little too far.
You sir, are worse than Hitler.
It will be more than a decade before humans even attempt another trip outside of Earth's orbit. If NASA wants to inspire the next generation of astronauts and engineers... blah blah blah
Wow, a whole decade away? clearly out of reach of the next generation... wait, what?
Why would it be hard to connect the phone network?
You could for example use a phone line... or a voip service...
to receive and route calls TO mobile phone would be difficult or perhaps impossible but outbound calls would be trivially easy.
yeesh, that would be a terrible solution.
that's like saying "well, IE and firefox can't stick the the html standards but that's ok, we'll just make two copies of the www one for ie and one for firefox"
Holy hell my government is an embarrassment.
It is time for proportional representation in this country.
DRM is an unsolved problem. I tell my customers not to bother with it. Most take my advice.
There can be no solution to DRM. All you can do is spend piles of money to make it more difficult for people to save/copy things. Then you have to do it all over again a few years later because everyone has the cracking tools installed.
This is not a surprise, I work with online video professionally and html5 is not yet a serious option.
RealPlayer, Windows Media Player and Flash are the only players that have the suite of features that are required to stream live and on-demand video properly.
I am looking forward to the day when html5 is ready but it looks like it is a long way off.
The "Flash is dead!" people have no idea what they're talking about.
I mean just look at the API for windows media player or realplayer and then go look at html5... they're not in the same league.
Stop worrying about who's "to blame" for things and instead concentrate on identifying causal relationships and you may find yourself better able to reach useful conclusions. Fault is irrelevant, concentrate on cause and effect and you'll be more likely to come up with practical actions to affect outcomes.
The flow chart is a most thoroughly oversold piece of program documentation. -- Frederick Brooks, "The Mythical Man Month"
