"You're in a Johnny Cab"
While I doubt the cabs envisioned in this plan will possess the enraged mind of a serial killer like in the movie, and by serial killer I'm referring to corrupt and otherwise mysterious government or non-government agencies, I'm not sure what advantage they're going to have over other forms of transportation.
I think the cabs might be a good idea if they were servicing people who were going to many different destinations - why do we take real cabs? because we're not always going to the same place that the bus or train is going to. I think the real advantage of this system would be to allow users to access many destination points along a given track. But the shortness of this track, as well as the limited number of destinations, makes me wonder why someone thought that little pod-cars would be better than a train/monorail as others have suggested.
The pod-cars are cool enough, but let's build a city around them, not just a single end-to-end terminal run!
I think it's great that Fierfly is going to re-air, but how many times are we going to be able to watch those same initial episodes without wanting so much more? My hope is that they will air the pilot that they failed to air the first time. I know it's probably too much to hope for, but they should really get the cast and crew back together for some more episodes. I don't think it's too far gone yet to do so.
I had fun listening to the firefly podcasts people were making. I think the series has a potential similar to starwars if it were developed further. They created the possiblity of a large universe with lots of characters, plot elements, and scenarios.
All in all, I can't wait to see what happens.
I agree, but let's use the word friend in a liberal sense, perhaps the word "contact" is more to the point. Facebook can be used as something like a self-updating address book. You add friend/contacts and they keep their most recent contact information updated (yes, this assumes that they will update their profiles, but the vast majority do, so i think it's a fair assumption). The point is, if you have like 500 contacts in your facebook account it doesn't mean you're trying to be friends with all of them, it means that you want to retain their contact information because at some point in the future you may want to talk to them, ask them for a job, hang out etc. My point was, i consider some of the people on facebook close friends and I wouldn't mind getting this digest on them if they wanted me to have it, but for all those other people I consider more in the "contact" category, it's really not something I want to see every day - that was the point I was trying to make in the last post.
I doubt they're going to revoke the system, but I think they should at least update facebook preferences so that users can control whether or not they want to see the news feed from certain people or even broadcast their own. When we originally signed up for facebook accounts the news feed feature wasn't available. The feature has been implemented without a way to consent, and in my opinion that's wrong. They we're trying to be progressive, i can see that, but what is progressive and what is an abuse of power on the part of the system admin?
The fact is it's too much information. I don't want to see what everyone is doing every five seconds and neither does anyone else. Assuming I had something like 500 friends I'd see a lot of information about people I rarely if ever talk to on a daily basis. Moreover, the system keeps track, for a time, of deleted information - prompting users of the change.
While it's true that all the information on a persons profile is "public" to their friends at least, it takes the mystery out of poking around facebook to see what has changed etc. They should at least make an option to enable/disable your facebook digest in other peoples feeds. A good idea in principle, but in practice it's a dud in my opinion.
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"You're in a Johnny Cab" While I doubt the cabs envisioned in this plan will possess the enraged mind of a serial killer like in the movie, and by serial killer I'm referring to corrupt and otherwise mysterious government or non-government agencies, I'm not sure what advantage they're going to have over other forms of transportation. I think the cabs might be a good idea if they were servicing people who were going to many different destinations - why do we take real cabs? because we're not always going to the same place that the bus or train is going to. I think the real advantage of this system would be to allow users to access many destination points along a given track. But the shortness of this track, as well as the limited number of destinations, makes me wonder why someone thought that little pod-cars would be better than a train/monorail as others have suggested. The pod-cars are cool enough, but let's build a city around them, not just a single end-to-end terminal run!
I think it's great that Fierfly is going to re-air, but how many times are we going to be able to watch those same initial episodes without wanting so much more? My hope is that they will air the pilot that they failed to air the first time. I know it's probably too much to hope for, but they should really get the cast and crew back together for some more episodes. I don't think it's too far gone yet to do so. I had fun listening to the firefly podcasts people were making. I think the series has a potential similar to starwars if it were developed further. They created the possiblity of a large universe with lots of characters, plot elements, and scenarios. All in all, I can't wait to see what happens.
I agree, but let's use the word friend in a liberal sense, perhaps the word "contact" is more to the point. Facebook can be used as something like a self-updating address book. You add friend/contacts and they keep their most recent contact information updated (yes, this assumes that they will update their profiles, but the vast majority do, so i think it's a fair assumption). The point is, if you have like 500 contacts in your facebook account it doesn't mean you're trying to be friends with all of them, it means that you want to retain their contact information because at some point in the future you may want to talk to them, ask them for a job, hang out etc. My point was, i consider some of the people on facebook close friends and I wouldn't mind getting this digest on them if they wanted me to have it, but for all those other people I consider more in the "contact" category, it's really not something I want to see every day - that was the point I was trying to make in the last post. I doubt they're going to revoke the system, but I think they should at least update facebook preferences so that users can control whether or not they want to see the news feed from certain people or even broadcast their own. When we originally signed up for facebook accounts the news feed feature wasn't available. The feature has been implemented without a way to consent, and in my opinion that's wrong. They we're trying to be progressive, i can see that, but what is progressive and what is an abuse of power on the part of the system admin?
The fact is it's too much information. I don't want to see what everyone is doing every five seconds and neither does anyone else. Assuming I had something like 500 friends I'd see a lot of information about people I rarely if ever talk to on a daily basis. Moreover, the system keeps track, for a time, of deleted information - prompting users of the change. While it's true that all the information on a persons profile is "public" to their friends at least, it takes the mystery out of poking around facebook to see what has changed etc. They should at least make an option to enable/disable your facebook digest in other peoples feeds. A good idea in principle, but in practice it's a dud in my opinion.