Showing up as a new feature in Minecraft in 3... 2... 1...

In other breaking news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead. This has been Weekend Update with Chevy Chase.

I don't know about that worst job. I mean, I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK.

Good Lord. Are people still confusing these two things? Words can have different meanings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E5kCRsr4gQ

That reminds me of this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/31/deer-crossing-sign-problem_n_869214.html

It's no less arbitrary that those of us who create content (and I'm one of them) claim it's somehow our right to profit from it.

Take a look at this blog post by Jonathan Coulton. I can't think of any way I could agree more:
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2012/01/21/megaupload/

But the artists are making fractions of a percent on CD sales, and paying for their advances from that net payment... Many end up in debt, even after a fairly decent hit. And the engineers usually work for hire - they get paid once for the work and make no royalties for sales.

So the middlemen are screwing the artists (thousands, all but the top dozen or two per year, lose money) and grabbing all the cash from CD sales. Meanwhile, the engineers already made their livable but modest salary and get nothing (except possibly reputation) if a record goes multi-platinum.

These bastards are trying to save their own gravy train by claiming that the piracy is harming the artists. They are being disingenuous.

Piracy does sometimes harm artists, but it's not a black-and-white situation. Some piracy harms, but some piracy helps due to publicity. Personally, I'd rather become popular by giving good stuff away and letting people voluntarily pay for it - look at Jonathan Coulton's business model.

Slippery slope / black & white thinking. Not true.

Plenty of popular novels were written in days or weeks. Michael Moorcock, for example

I take it he's a writer of romance novels?

Good points. One minor objection: the objective-C/kool-aid thing is true for iOS, but not really for OSX (yet, at least).

...I wonder if it has http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_beats in it.

Here's the "Uncanny Valley" effect again. Fringe actually doesn't bother me because it's SO out there - to me it presents an expectation of "we're not even going to *try* to come close to the real world."

For this reason, I'm able to suspend disbelief without discomfort for Fringe; the "reality" is so cracked that I don't even try to compare it to real life.

The Sound FX department may well not be braindead and probably do know the difference in sound. It's almost certain that they are being directed by others who care about the emotional/visceral impact of the sound and don't care much about accuracy. All storytelling does this in innumerable ways - compromise accuracy for spectacle and impact. Different people just have different taste for where and how much they are willing to suspend disbelief for those compromises.

Except it's NOT EVEN A PDF, so you don't need to take those precautions. OS X will say "_____ is an application you downloaded from the Internet. Are you sure you want to run it?" so any tech-literate user will know that it's an executable, not a PDF.

This reminds me of the old joke:

Alice and Bob are camping when they get attacked by a hungry lion. Running away at top speed, Alice begins to overtake Bob. "We'll never be able to outrun it!" says Bob. Alice replies, "I don't need to outrun the lion - I only need to outrun YOU!"

In that sense, all the security any given person needs is just not to be low-hanging fruit.