It makes it possible to turn Windows into a subscription-based service.
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Furthermore, it seems only to exist or pinpoint when you're communicating with another person. In total solitude, boundaries between your self-image and the other(s) just don't hold up, and the whole thing becomes almost meaningless.
Edit: the concept of time seems to be connected to it as well, but i really need to read this paper first now, i think :)
Many people seem to know what it is, no one can actually define it, and it has never been measured, located or proven to exist.
Maybe we should stop using it altogether.
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.13....
How many people does it take to properly care for ourselves and the planet we live on?
If destroying meant: making yet a better product and marginalizing the competition (with the product or through marketing) it would be business as usual, but it seems microsoft didn't understand that their embrace-extend-extinguish method would backfire in the internet age.
The question then would be if the goal of a justice system should be to hurt people in the most effective way imaginable.
I don't know what you mean by creating a "faux-clinical atmosphere".
Isn't the reason for punishing criminals that they broke some aspect of acceptable social interaction (not hurting others a major one of those aspects) ? Even in the context of the state having the monopoly on the use violence, they should not use violence to the fullest extent possible, if only to prove that some actions are really unacceptable and there is never a reason to sink to the same level of what the criminal did. Criminals may be one-time-offenders or life-long-monsters, they are still humans.
You may call that squeamish, but i don't think torture should have any place in a modern society.
Are you condoning torture, saying it has a function we should put to good use?
no mention of climate change, ever-increasing debts, failing antibiotics or social problems because of differences between people who can buy these "cybermedicine" / body-parts-replacements and those who cannot.
Can i conclude acquisition can be done in javascript by binding function objects ?
var fn = somefunc.bind(other_object)
Or is this still dynamic scoping because it only sets the value of this for fn ?
(as the article mentions: work-around needed with conditional comments)
absolutely off-topic and yes a bit unreasonable, but after years of webdevelopment, i'm getting a little cranky at every mention of this "browser" that microsoft forces developers to put up with. Yes, i know this is a "new" html5 feature and that i cant expect corporations or consumers to keep in-house browsers up-to-date, but really: its a microsoft failure. Is it really _that_ hard to keep up with the competition?
Yes, or they are simply not interested in stories about the risks and plans of Google and Facebook. Or do not understand when you try to explain it.
A significant part of my family and friends is already on that path: only reachable through sites like facebook or gmail. Taking some "political stance" in not joining (how they see it) will very readily be translated in "you are not joining. you are not really interested in keeping in touch with me."
So no. It will work out precisely the other way around.
maybe you should submit it to the frontpage ?
By 2015, IP and ads have divided the internet in seperate, national/corperate-defined segments ;)
This in combination with taking a shower to drop body temperature and then sitting in a comfortable warm and dark room for half an hour just before sleeping.