I can't imagine trying to learn art and literature without formal higher education. Programming... maybe, but literature? no. But yeah, just because it's mandatory for literature doesn't mean it's mandatory for programming. However there's a distinction between programming and CS.
While subtle discrimination is really bad, how does she get from low cut dress to slut? That's surely something she came up with herself and nothing like that the guy intended. The guy certainly doesn't want her to wrap herself up in sweaters, why does she feel like that's how she should respond?
I feel like there's a huge gulf between second and third wave feminists. Modern ones would find the above comment empowering, you only react in this way if you've been brought up in a society and culture that demeans female sexuality and teaches you that low cut dresses implies slutiness and so on.
Probably some kind of super DRM. Think OnLive or the new Diablo 3 where you need to be on the internet to play.
Obviously music cannot follow this model, meaning sounds themselves (in the context of the essay sounds are not so different from smells) will become un-ownable and the only thing left having any value will be live performances. Artists could still make a good living if they are any good at it. It would be the same as what we had a few hundred years ago before mass media, and the music industry would transform from a creative industry into a service industry.
Of course this is just my impression of what pg means, I don't want to put words into his mouth.
This is going to be more of a pain in the ass than Vista's Security popup or whatever it's called. It'll be the #1 way to make users hate using your application, I assure you.
Badges need to enhance the application not interrupt it. I have never seen a badge application pause the application to award you with the badge. The entire concept is pretty nuts. It's a good idea, such a shame about the implementation.
Mozilla can easily provide an interface to delete badges you don't want, or ban applications that spam you from the badge system. The whole threat model idea is just self-sabotage.
The reason we're even presenting the user with a dialog is because we want to prevent badge spamming, whereby third-party issuers spam a user's backpack with badges that they don't want. Consequently, we need the backpack to ask for the user's consent. This will be accomplished via an iframe embedded in the issuer's page.
The only sensitive information that a user needs to enter in this flow is login credentials. Since authentication is done via BrowserID, which opens in a pop-up window, the consequences of spoof attacks are minimal–so long as the user knows to look at domain names in their address bar and BrowserID's UI."
I was really interested until I got to this part. Asking the user for permission each time I want to award a badge? Complete fail. Mozilla doesn't get UI.
I haven't played video games in a long time. Exactly as that writer says I find combat dreadfully dull. I wouldn't play any bioware games unless a no-combat mode is possible. But there is a genre of entertainment that's perfect for me. It's called Visual Novels. It combines all the best parts of multiple media with the interactivity of gaming. A popular visual novel you might've heard of is Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney. There's a ton more in that genre.