'so tricky tax/accounting issues' ?
the accountant I spoke to didn't have to think twice about bitcoin; it is just another currency. If bitcoins are considered tricky this probably says more about the company/accountant than the currency.
I agree, totally culturally blinkered by the last 50 years. To the point where I was cautioned as to the reality of the Mars Exploration Rovers by a post doctoral telecoms/fiber optics student. At the time I was astonished by the beauty of the photos I couldn't give a shit if it was nasa, jaxa? or esa. Later it came as no surprise to hear 'human-rights and democracy not possible when you are trying run a country as large as china'.
It is now dawning on me how dangerous it is to share a planet where 1/5th have mindset like that and no access to quality and varied information.
but is it not better to find new and further evidence (corroborating or not) rather than accepting a religious explanation and not looking further into it ?
I think that the change you speak of is a good thing, to have a good or complete understanding of nature and how it works only two decades after the first extra-solar planets were found is unrealistic. New findings are going to be inevitable, there is nothing whispery about the old ones. These will either be integrated and explained, observed to be incorrect or remain incongruous with the new ones and pending new working models.
I agree it is repulsive, with terms like 'behavioral targeting optimizers' it really makes you wish Bill Hicks was still alive to mock Phorm's morals or and lack of scruples. Anonymous or not, their technology is pernicious and targets individuals the maximum extent possible. If ads are actually inserted they can go fuck themselves, but I think they will track you with an isp held uber-cookie, eventually to replace ads in ad based sites. I think this is not acceptable civil or commercial behavior and clearly shows that Phorm does not have a shred of corporate responsibility or ethics.
Phorm's proprietary ad serving technology uses anonymised ISP data to deliver the right ad to the right person at the right time - the right number of times. Our platform gives consumers advertising that's tailored to their interests - in real time - with irrelevant ads replaced in the process.
What makes the technology behind OIX and Webwise truly groundbreaking is that it takes consumer privacy protection to a new level. Our technology doesn't store any personally identifiable information or IP addresses and we don't retain information on user browsing behaviour. So we never know -- and can't record - who's browsing, or where they've browsed. eew, language like that makes you want to puke. It hides more than it explains, kudos to the pp for calling it disgusting.
Students shouldn't have to learn vi in order to type out a book report
Just imagine if they did. perhaps they'd forgo the idiotic preocupation of font selection, color and layout that modern word processors distract our students with.
If its not a huge pain, and you gain new functionality, microsoft should be charging for this 'experience'. I bet that with the right packaging/marketing that most sheeple would swallow an enhancement charge; what is more they would vociferously justify it as paying for technical innovation or Rn'D costs.
if facebook is the future then the future is shit. What is the point of this social online activity if mimics what happens irl already ? Facebook has no social inovation or vision for the future; and its success depends on these two factors.
hmm, since when have twitter-enabled vanity pages been of any consequence ?
What is more, I assume microsoft's interest is not alturistic. The percieved high value of facebook is nothing but a warning of the intellectual rape of a user base which already has serious issues with cognitive and creative autonomy.
What about content they did create, e.g. all those 10000000s of hours of radio and news. Why the piss-poor offereing there ? There is an archive which they did create and do own, p2p is ideal, yet the BBC archive has a zero online footprint.
And for shows which they don't own; why did they agree to such poor licensing that they can't distribute via the internet ? If it is not negligence, then they should renegotiate their charter to renege exisiting agreements in order to remove these artificial, moronic and backwards licensing laws for the sake of availablity in the digital domain.
You are wrong in practice but not in intention. I'd say it is more accurate to say that you have missed the point. This is the digital age and our stand point only makes sense if bits didn't fly through the ether for next to nothing.
yah sounds dubious, because they have offered our (smallish english ~c15k) university the service for free. The current exchange admins didn't hear a thing about it, because m$ didn't even bother getting their input. How long will it be free, and free in what way ? And how long will it be before value added 'power-admin' tools, pluggins and upgrades will come along that aren't free ? How long will it be before you have no other choice but to stick with it because it isn't interoperable with other VLEs or student records systems ? It is bait, switch and entrench\subvert.
Looking at the track record; the current exchange admin tools are a disgrace, especially with respect to groups. The beacon of standards-based design that is outlook-web-access fills me with confidence for future incarnations (compared to yahoo beta, fastmail, roundcube, squirelmail, horde or gmail) for example, i can only dread what kinda activex admin abomination this service is going to depend on. And to top it all off; guess who is going to be dealing with abuse and legal issues, yes it will still be coming to us despite the fact that the accounts are outsourced, they'll still be from 'our' domain.
Microshafted is what we'll be. No matter of how glossy the marketing people present it at first, it is still going to hurt, depress and frustrate a lot.
down to ones cultural core by falsehoods, thats gotta hurt. Not that its going to happen quickly, they are only just getting the hang of parody over there. Damn thats like 100's of years old here.
MS innovates in their marketing and licensing schemes, but is that really what you want from a TECHNOLOGY firm?.
wow the essence of it in two phrases.
Just like the forcing of intelligent-design into scientific controversy. It associates two mainly unrelated concepts into the same question in the hope of gaining traction/legitimacy. Nah, innovation for microsoft is what intelligent design is for christian science; propangandist dogma.
If it catches on, and it starts getting blocked, there will be other ways.
Which came first, throwaway email addresses or email-hoarding / pointless-registrations ? I think its a justified reaction, and will remain so for the forseable.
especially to small time users. It would have generated goodwill. I'm sure their agreements with the 3rd party providers didn't stipulate not to allow other api's to be developed, merely (ab)use of the dataset by said apis. Grey areas would benefit both parties.
It kinda makes me/you wonder why we call them christians at all. No good sources of information, only word of mouth and a 16 century old book, mangled by selective interpretation of and uncritical evaluation. Now there is a heritage of knowledge and wisodom to be proud of. I'd love to be taught by some one with that background.
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'so tricky tax/accounting issues' ? the accountant I spoke to didn't have to think twice about bitcoin; it is just another currency. If bitcoins are considered tricky this probably says more about the company/accountant than the currency.
just as users are acquiring a healthy skepticism to web generated dialogs, VISA undoes it !
MS gets it by offering office lite (works) via a web browser when you are offline whist the full version of office is installed and paid for ?
sounds like a problem for a http://www.launchloop.com/
I agree, totally culturally blinkered by the last 50 years. To the point where I was cautioned as to the reality of the Mars Exploration Rovers by a post doctoral telecoms/fiber optics student. At the time I was astonished by the beauty of the photos I couldn't give a shit if it was nasa, jaxa? or esa. Later it came as no surprise to hear 'human-rights and democracy not possible when you are trying run a country as large as china'.
It is now dawning on me how dangerous it is to share a planet where 1/5th have mindset like that and no access to quality and varied information.
crappy keyboards and washed out screens with newer poorer contrast and super-reflective coating.
but is it not better to find new and further evidence (corroborating or not) rather than accepting a religious explanation and not looking further into it ? I think that the change you speak of is a good thing, to have a good or complete understanding of nature and how it works only two decades after the first extra-solar planets were found is unrealistic. New findings are going to be inevitable, there is nothing whispery about the old ones. These will either be integrated and explained, observed to be incorrect or remain incongruous with the new ones and pending new working models.
What makes the technology behind OIX and Webwise truly groundbreaking is that it takes consumer privacy protection to a new level. Our technology doesn't store any personally identifiable information or IP addresses and we don't retain information on user browsing behaviour. So we never know -- and can't record - who's browsing, or where they've browsed. eew, language like that makes you want to puke. It hides more than it explains, kudos to the pp for calling it disgusting.
Students shouldn't have to learn vi in order to type out a book report
Just imagine if they did. perhaps they'd forgo the idiotic preocupation of font selection, color and layout that modern word processors distract our students with.
If its not a huge pain, and you gain new functionality, microsoft should be charging for this 'experience'. I bet that with the right packaging/marketing that most sheeple would swallow an enhancement charge; what is more they would vociferously justify it as paying for technical innovation or Rn'D costs.
if facebook is the future then the future is shit. What is the point of this social online activity if mimics what happens irl already ? Facebook has no social inovation or vision for the future; and its success depends on these two factors.
hmm, since when have twitter-enabled vanity pages been of any consequence ?
What is more, I assume microsoft's interest is not alturistic. The percieved high value of facebook is nothing but a warning of the intellectual rape of a user base which already has serious issues with cognitive and creative autonomy.
Just watched it to see why it got the Hugo award. I loved the movie, but I wouldn't associate it with sf,
tbh I don't think there was much out there to choose from tho.
What about content they did create, e.g. all those 10000000s of hours of radio and news. Why the piss-poor offereing there ? There is an archive which they did create and do own, p2p is ideal, yet the BBC archive has a zero online footprint.
And for shows which they don't own; why did they agree to such poor licensing that they can't distribute via the internet ? If it is not negligence, then they should renegotiate their charter to renege exisiting agreements in order to remove these artificial, moronic and backwards licensing laws for the sake of availablity in the digital domain.
upload is another story, unfortunately it *is* the only story that matters in this context and many many others.
You are wrong in practice but not in intention. I'd say it is more accurate to say that you have missed the point. This is the digital age and our stand point only makes sense if bits didn't fly through the ether for next to nothing.
yah sounds dubious, because they have offered our (smallish english ~c15k) university the service for free. The current exchange admins didn't hear a thing about it, because m$ didn't even bother getting their input. How long will it be free, and free in what way ? And how long will it be before value added 'power-admin' tools, pluggins and upgrades will come along that aren't free ? How long will it be before you have no other choice but to stick with it because it isn't interoperable with other VLEs or student records systems ? It is bait, switch and entrench\subvert.
Looking at the track record; the current exchange admin tools are a disgrace, especially with respect to groups. The beacon of standards-based design that is outlook-web-access fills me with confidence for future incarnations (compared to yahoo beta, fastmail, roundcube, squirelmail, horde or gmail) for example, i can only dread what kinda activex admin abomination this service is going to depend on. And to top it all off; guess who is going to be dealing with abuse and legal issues, yes it will still be coming to us despite the fact that the accounts are outsourced, they'll still be from 'our' domain.
Microshafted is what we'll be. No matter of how glossy the marketing people present it at first, it is still going to hurt, depress and frustrate a lot.
why on earth ? can anyone confirm ?
I like 'applianceized', next, next, next, next, next, pay m$, ok, next, next, next, next ...
down to ones cultural core by falsehoods, thats gotta hurt. Not that its going to happen quickly, they are only just getting the hang of parody over there. Damn thats like 100's of years old here.
wow the essence of it in two phrases.
Just like the forcing of intelligent-design into scientific controversy. It associates two mainly unrelated concepts into the same question in the hope of gaining traction/legitimacy. Nah, innovation for microsoft is what intelligent design is for christian science; propangandist dogma.
If it catches on, and it starts getting blocked, there will be other ways. Which came first, throwaway email addresses or email-hoarding / pointless-registrations ? I think its a justified reaction, and will remain so for the forseable.
Cool thanks for that. Is 48 hours enough though ? They'll soon be looking at correlations in whois info. Shame they can't randomize those.
especially to small time users. It would have generated goodwill. I'm sure their agreements with the 3rd party providers didn't stipulate not to allow other api's to be developed, merely (ab)use of the dataset by said apis. Grey areas would benefit both parties.
It kinda makes me/you wonder why we call them christians at all. No good sources of information, only word of mouth and a 16 century old book, mangled by selective interpretation of and uncritical evaluation. Now there is a heritage of knowledge and wisodom to be proud of. I'd love to be taught by some one with that background.