Believe that if you will, but music from the late 60s to early 2000s was pretty good. The poison pill was introduced in the 80s. It took a while to kill, but it surely did. On the bright side, that pill caused pressure to build and some of the best thrash metal came out then (late 80s).

However; Ozzy was wrong... apparently you CAN kill Rock 'n Roll. I would say that today, it is dead; not even on life support any more. It may be underground, but it seems like it is 6 feet underground.

Um, COLBOL is probably one of the few languages out there that DOESNT have a dedicated fan-boy following. Seriously, watch this thread and see which of the following statements gets the most hate:

Ruby, as an untyped language, is incredibly slow and thus should not be used for large scale systems

Node.js encourages unmaintainable code because of "callback hell" and prototype inheritance is an abomination

Java is way too verbose to be useful, and the JVMs gc sucks

Python is a fractured environment and should only be used for small-scale projects

COBOL is a dinosaur language that is only useful for maintaining crufty legacy code.

Hey, can we maybe put some effort into cracking down on government spending, too? I mean, it has only been like 240 years. Maybe it's about time we finally do some snipping?

I can't figure out if I'm just too old and grumpy or if operating systems are just desperately uninspired. I remember how exciting a new OS used to be. Couldn't wait to learn about it. To get your hands on it. To install it. To customize it. To get things just right. It has been a good decade since an OS -- OSX, Windows, Linux, etc -- made me do much more than groan and think "maybe I can skip this one and the next one will be interesting". The most thought I find myself giving any of them, now, is to wonder just how much stuff they're going to fuck up that I'm going to have to learn to deal with.

I think the last thing I ever got excited about, OS-wise, was when I gave up on everything and said "I'm sticking with XFCE as much as possible" -- and that was less glee than exasperation.

sure, but this is a fucking gimmick "experiment".

the algo could be really simple too.

and for developing said algorithm, no actual robots are necessary at all - except for showing to journos, no actual AI researchers would find that part necessary, the testing can happen entirely in simulation - and no actual ethics need to enter the picture even, the robot doesn't need to understand what a human is on the level a robot that would need to in order to act by asimovs laws.

a spinning blade cutting tool that has an automatic emergency brake isn't sentient- it's not acting on asimovs laws, but you could claim so to some journalists anyways.. the thing to take home is that they built into the algorithm the ability to fret over the situation. if it just projected and saved what can be saved, it wouldn't fret or hesitate - and hesitate is really the wrong word.

better than that the system allows for password reset by using email(among other methods). so with the data they posses, they can generate access to all the data. that means that any encryption or access blocks or whatever there are, are meaningless from the logical point of "can they read it?"

so they can reset the password without having anything from you - that means they can read everything is in there and can be coerced to do so by legal means.

on some other site it might be worth mentioning that they don't really need to change the password so you wouldn't really notice it either.. they can do whatever they want with the data - nothing required from the account owner.

...but they can change the password for you.
so they can read the mail.

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so how is it not total bullshit that is is spewing from his filthy mouth?

a) it comes along with sync.

and it will go away in a month as I understood? the thing is though that they just used millions of peoples paid data to do their little stunt - AND they could have made it for free to _choose_ on itunes.

but bono, that fuckhead, didn't want it free unless it was pushed to every device.

and it'll count as wasted storage space too. there's a difference in putting it for free to sync if you want and synching it for you. that they needed to make a tool to get rid of it just tells that it wasn't simple to get it off your shuffle list(and this from a company that prides on usability, yet even newspaper articles on it couldn't provide instructions on how to remove it from your idevice without crippling synch or it appearing on shuffle!

thus they had to make the removal tool.

and U2's manager commented that he had to find new ways to market.. well.. that's because nobody would've even known the friggin album about "their roots" and "the songs are about the early days" and shit like that had even come out. I certainly would not have known they had a new album.. not that I'm looking to listen to it now..

NO!

He is bringing legitimate usability problems to light. I did not stop recommending Firefox to friends and relatives because of slow javascript performance. I stopped recommending it because it became less usable. It is people like me who spread Firefox so widely. In fact, I am personally responsible for over 100 thousand people being able to use Firefox on their work computers. Granted, I would not have been able to push it over the top if others had not already pushed it up as a possibility... but,

Very few of us a give a fuck any more. And again, it is not because of javascript and mobile and all that other bullshit. We are the real users and we want a usable fucking interface that WE can configure. We want the browser to do what we want. Fuck you and your goddamned "optimal paradigms" that remove choice ans super optimal javascript. Do you think it is a coincidence that Gnome started dying when they took the same fucking attitude? No.

Firefox will die. They are incapable of providing what their real users want. Perhaps Microsoft has someone on the inside pushing this shit. It would not surprise me. They did it to Nokia. They surely hate Mozilla enough to do it there too.

Massively optimized javascript is useful for only ONE thing. Applications in web browsers. Very few end users want that but all the corporate types are drooling over it. We want control over our applications which applications in web browsers take from us. It is clear that all of this effort at optimizing the javascript engine is NOT for the end users but for the corporations who want to control us.

They will have polarized glasses.

I dunno... Geography and Chemistry seem like they could be enhanced with VR. Sure, 90% of the time, even in those ideal classes, you would not be using VR... but 20 minutes of VR could likely replace 30 days of failed learning about electron "orbits" and sharing.

Sure, but when the RFID tags in your tires are noted going under an overpass and the tollbooth notes your EZPASS... all combined with your cell phone not being seen, you will stand out for immediate black helicopter inspection.

Don't forget about all of the cameras...

My father was a police officer. My father had guns unattended around the house relatively frequently. As a child, I picked them up. I looked at them. There was zero chance anyone was ever going to get hurt.

Why?

I was taught what guns could could do. I had actually fired guns. I fired my first gun (a rifle) when I was I was 3 years old.

I never had guns in my house when I became an adult. It was not because I was afraid of them, it was because I had children and knew I could not train them like I had been trained. I did take them to the range but only my daughter shot a gun there. My son wanted nothing to do with it.

Relying on a gun safe to keep your children out of trouble is insanity. If you love guns so much and need to have them around, train your children. That way, if you accidentally forget to lock a gun up one day, you do not come home to a catastrophe. Children may be irresponsible but if they know they are handling something that is dangerous, they will NOT play with it. It can not just be words either. They have to SEE that it is dangerous.

There is a bit of a lie in what you say: As soon as the 4 was released, the updated to IOS pretty much killed the 3GS off by making it unusably slow. I "restored" it to an earlier version and never updated it anymore. What was that, IOS 3.2 or somesuch? Yeah. You can claim updates but that is essentially a lie.

All the goggles are accomplishing is wrapping an image around your face. Until touch, movement, smell, and sound are also adequately reproduced, it's not virtual reality anymore than the Hard Drivin' arcade machine from the 90s was. And replication of those elements are not coming in our life time; likely won't come until we've figured out a way to trick the brain into doing the work for us.

Also -- holy shit, the pink eye this is going to cause. Gross.