I really don't see anything wrong with this, as long as it is used for what it is - a tool. A tool to have a rough gauge of what developers are up to. We don't throw out weigh scales because it isn't an accurate measure of a person's health, do we?
If you have a good and competent manager she/he can use this tool as a rough measure to see what people are doing. Trends probably matter too. If you see a developer suddenly drop off in terms of commits, this is cause to look at other metrics and perhaps view some commits to see what's happening, or to watch a bit more closely in meetings. There are many metrics (lines of code, style errors, poor commit messages, the way a developer interacts with others, work habits, hand inspected code quality, problem solving approach) that each contain a small picture of how well a developer is doing his/her job. A lot of these on their own are worthless, but if you are able to properly interpret the data then the data can be useful.
IMO, the bottom line is that a crappy manager will do a crappy job no matter what tools he/she has. A good manager may be able to use a tool like this to help her/him do her/his job better.
Sure, but IMO the point of open source software isn't necessarily altruism. The idea is voluntarily contributing to necessary software infrastructure.
I like to ponder sometimes what would happen if businesses stopped purchasing MS Office licenses and instead donated 10% of the cost of an MS Office license to a development fund for an open source office package. Or the same thing with Windows, or Autocad, or pick any number of software packages. I would like to think that with 10% of the revenue you could create some fairly impressive software (and yes I am aware of many reasons why practical implementation would be difficult).
But you missed the point. The idea is the ability to search through all the classified listings for items that are within 25 kilometres from my location. I don't want to have to look through 300 listings to find those items - I want search to work.
This probably isn't as necessary in smaller centres, but where I live, there is a wall of city for 100km. Craigslist breaks this up into small segments and you browse those segments.
Kijiji on the other hand, lets me pick a precise location and filter out ads that are inside a certain radius of it. This, IMO, is much friendlier to people in larger centres.
I think you're saying more or less what the summary says: See: "Hed explained that Rovio sees it as "futile" to pursue pirates through the courts, except in cases where it feels the products they are selling are harmful to the Angry Birds brand, or ripping off its fans." and " When that's not the case, Rovio sees it as a way to attract more fans, even if it is not making money from the products. "Piracy may not be a bad thing: it can get us more business at the end of the day.""
Your point is obvious - piracy doesn't make you money. On the other hand, piracy can lead to a growing customer base. The point Hed is making is more that suing customers is more likely to lead to reducing your customer base rather than growing it. This is perhaps particularly applicable when it comes to small games like Angry Birds where there is money to be made off of merchandising.
In Rovio's case, as you seem to inadvertently point out, Rovio makes money both on the sale of the game and on the generated advertising revenue. If people pirate the game, they still make the advertising revenue.
Wrapped up in this is the idea that Rovio's business model doesn't just depend on game sales, but also on advertising revenue and merchandising. This should be obvious as Angry Birds is free on Android anyway.
I think what they recognize is that for their particular product, there is a large portion of users who would not pay for the game. The choice for them is play the game for free or don't play it at all - they might as well have these users playing the game and generating hype than going and playing some other game and making it popular instead.
Hmmm... do most network configurations restrict IPs to a certain computer/ethernet port? I'm rather unaware as to how most corporations setup their networks. Would there be something that would stop me from powering off somebody's computer and using their IP?
Is OpenStreetMaps a credible competitor to Google Maps? I've only used their data for maps in the Caribbean where it is okay, but leaves a lot to be desire (which is reasonable since there is likely less of a crowd to source from). Is it better in the US?
On the other hand, when I was doing my master's degree there were a number of people with palm pilots and foldout keyboards who would use them to take notes. The touchscreen would be nice to be able to add in diagrams and formulas which during my undergrad always seemed to be a challenge to keep up.
I suppose the problem is that Facebook probably forces recoding of the image so the exif data is stripped. Flickr was probably one of few viable options for analyzing this kind of data.
Also, I would be surprised if you can't upload from a mobile right to Flickr also.
Yeah, but look at the advertising the company has received - sales of Steve Jobs dolls are going to go through the roof. People now know they are available and where to get them.
The Apple fanbois will buy them to show respect for Steve Jobs, rather, 'Sir Steve'.
The Android and Microsoft fanbois will buy them to mock Steve Jobs.
If the entire story is fabricated by the Chinese company, brilliant strategy if you ask me.
I figured the decision would be left to the individual teacher. Different students learn in different ways. At the same time, different teachers have different teaching styles. One teacher might find certain technologies to be very helpful in doing their job, while others might find that it gets in the way. The obvious challenge with this is the temptation that technological toys can be and that teachers might choose it for the sake of it rather than for the benefits that it may provide.
Also, parents may assume that teachers that don't use technology are less qualified to teach or may have some other ideas that don't line up with reality.
I don't know that you would want it left in the hands of parents, because parents might feel that technology is the silver bullet that will help their children to be geniuses.
All things considered, I don't know what the best answer is. In an ideal world every teacher is amazing and only has the best interest of the students at heart. Unfortunately, teachers are people and as such don't act as they might in an ideal world.
I was being quite sarcastic. My suspicion is that in our culture today kids will have no shortage of experience working with technology. I don't necessarily see a problem with having a course teaching certain computer skills. But I don't know that it is necessary to force teachers to use computers in every class.
I recently was at a dollar store and and the cashier couldn't make change for $2 from a $1.13 sale. She had to pull out her calculator.
All this being said, if you want to treat teacher's as professionals, then it seems reasonable to entrust them with the decision of what tools to use. Maybe that will involve technology. Maybe that will involve good old pen and paper.
Bah. I meant Webkit when I said Gecko. I think I alluded to everything you said in my post, which may have been clearer had I not substituted the word Gecko when I meant webkit. But I fully agree, that nobody seems to use Konqueror anymore.
I didn't see him claim Firefox used Gecko, though he was vague in regards to what browser he actually was referring to. My guess would be either Konqueror, which probably had a bigger market share in the past, or Google Chrome, but it would be hard to call that Linux's competitor to Firefox, though it probably is the major alternative to Firefox on the Linux desktop.
I suppose I would assume that if you were paying the extra amount for a 25 Mbps connection it was because you were a heavy Internet user who would be using your connection a lot. Obviously you don't need 25Mbps to stream TV. Is there a reason to pay for a 25 Mbps connection if you aren't going to be using the full capacity at least some of the time and say half capacity a decent amount of time?
It's not quite as steep as $5 per GB, but it is still high IMO.
$2.50 / GB or $5/month for 40GB prepaid Performance: $2 / GB or $5/month for 40GB prepaid Fibe6: $2 / GB or $5/month for 40GB prepaid Fibe12: $1.50 / GB or $5/month for 40GB prepaid Fibe16: $1 / GB or $5/month for 40GB prepaid Fibe25: $1 / GB or $5/month for 40GB prepaid
"As a Bell Internet or Bell Fibe Internet customer, you can log in to My Bell and add the 40 GB Usage Insurance plan to your service any time. For the 80 GB or 120 GB plan, call us at 310-SURF (7873)."
I just love how they call it a 'Usage Insurance' plan.
So, for what this means, here is some data on pricing and data caps: Essential Plus - Speeds up to 2Mbps - $34 per month 2GB of bandwidth per month = 2.27 hours of usage per month
Performance - Speeds up to 6 Mbps - $44 per month 25GB of bandwidth per month = 9.5 hours of usage per month
Fibe 6 - Speeds up to 6 Mbps - $44 per month 25GB of bandwidth per month = 9.5 hours of usage per month
Fibe 12 - Speeds up to 12 Mbps - $54 per month 50GB of bandwidth per month + $5 per 40GB ($1.50 per GB not prepaid) = 9.5 hours of usage per month
Fibe 16 - Speeds up to 16Mbps - $64 per month 75GB of bandwidth per month = 10.7 hours of usage per month
Fibe 25 - Speeds up to 25Mbps - $74 per month 125GB of bandwidth per month = 11.4 hours of usage per month
Basically, Bell figures that you will use the full capacity of your connection about 10 hours a month or so.
No, Steve Jobs said fairly clearly that he simply wants Android to die, and I somehow doubt that sentiment was isolated to him alone, especially considering he personally groomed Tim Cook.
Considering the majority of the patents were invalidated, it isn't driving innovation they were after. If it were, they would limit their claims to those that are copying their innovative ideas. Rather, they are trying to impede the success of their competitors.
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I really don't see anything wrong with this, as long as it is used for what it is - a tool. A tool to have a rough gauge of what developers are up to. We don't throw out weigh scales because it isn't an accurate measure of a person's health, do we?
If you have a good and competent manager she/he can use this tool as a rough measure to see what people are doing. Trends probably matter too. If you see a developer suddenly drop off in terms of commits, this is cause to look at other metrics and perhaps view some commits to see what's happening, or to watch a bit more closely in meetings. There are many metrics (lines of code, style errors, poor commit messages, the way a developer interacts with others, work habits, hand inspected code quality, problem solving approach) that each contain a small picture of how well a developer is doing his/her job. A lot of these on their own are worthless, but if you are able to properly interpret the data then the data can be useful.
IMO, the bottom line is that a crappy manager will do a crappy job no matter what tools he/she has. A good manager may be able to use a tool like this to help her/him do her/his job better.
But one side of a particular town might be doable and another side might not. Not just because of size but because of traffic.
Sure, but IMO the point of open source software isn't necessarily altruism. The idea is voluntarily contributing to necessary software infrastructure.
I like to ponder sometimes what would happen if businesses stopped purchasing MS Office licenses and instead donated 10% of the cost of an MS Office license to a development fund for an open source office package. Or the same thing with Windows, or Autocad, or pick any number of software packages. I would like to think that with 10% of the revenue you could create some fairly impressive software (and yes I am aware of many reasons why practical implementation would be difficult).
But you missed the point. The idea is the ability to search through all the classified listings for items that are within 25 kilometres from my location. I don't want to have to look through 300 listings to find those items - I want search to work.
This probably isn't as necessary in smaller centres, but where I live, there is a wall of city for 100km. Craigslist breaks this up into small segments and you browse those segments.
Kijiji on the other hand, lets me pick a precise location and filter out ads that are inside a certain radius of it. This, IMO, is much friendlier to people in larger centres.
I think you're saying more or less what the summary says:
See:
"Hed explained that Rovio sees it as "futile" to pursue pirates through the courts, except in cases where it feels the products they are selling are harmful to the Angry Birds brand, or ripping off its fans."
and
" When that's not the case, Rovio sees it as a way to attract more fans, even if it is not making money from the products. "Piracy may not be a bad thing: it can get us more business at the end of the day.""
Your point is obvious - piracy doesn't make you money. On the other hand, piracy can lead to a growing customer base. The point Hed is making is more that suing customers is more likely to lead to reducing your customer base rather than growing it. This is perhaps particularly applicable when it comes to small games like Angry Birds where there is money to be made off of merchandising.
In Rovio's case, as you seem to inadvertently point out, Rovio makes money both on the sale of the game and on the generated advertising revenue. If people pirate the game, they still make the advertising revenue.
Wrapped up in this is the idea that Rovio's business model doesn't just depend on game sales, but also on advertising revenue and merchandising. This should be obvious as Angry Birds is free on Android anyway.
I think what they recognize is that for their particular product, there is a large portion of users who would not pay for the game. The choice for them is play the game for free or don't play it at all - they might as well have these users playing the game and generating hype than going and playing some other game and making it popular instead.
It's revolutionary because it is on an iPad.
Suppose $175 for a time limited e-book was the only option for a book that was required for a university class?
What do you do then?
Ah yes.
Crystal clear.
Hmmm... do most network configurations restrict IPs to a certain computer/ethernet port? I'm rather unaware as to how most corporations setup their networks. Would there be something that would stop me from powering off somebody's computer and using their IP?
Is OpenStreetMaps a credible competitor to Google Maps? I've only used their data for maps in the Caribbean where it is okay, but leaves a lot to be desire (which is reasonable since there is likely less of a crowd to source from). Is it better in the US?
So... just for clarification, does an IP identify somebody? or not?
I'm fairly certain that when I visited the GooglePlex they had a publically accessible WIFI connection. Do those count as Google owned IPs?
On the other hand, when I was doing my master's degree there were a number of people with palm pilots and foldout keyboards who would use them to take notes. The touchscreen would be nice to be able to add in diagrams and formulas which during my undergrad always seemed to be a challenge to keep up.
I suppose the problem is that Facebook probably forces recoding of the image so the exif data is stripped. Flickr was probably one of few viable options for analyzing this kind of data.
Also, I would be surprised if you can't upload from a mobile right to Flickr also.
Yeah, but look at the advertising the company has received - sales of Steve Jobs dolls are going to go through the roof. People now know they are available and where to get them.
The Apple fanbois will buy them to show respect for Steve Jobs, rather, 'Sir Steve'.
The Android and Microsoft fanbois will buy them to mock Steve Jobs.
If the entire story is fabricated by the Chinese company, brilliant strategy if you ask me.
I figured the decision would be left to the individual teacher. Different students learn in different ways. At the same time, different teachers have different teaching styles. One teacher might find certain technologies to be very helpful in doing their job, while others might find that it gets in the way. The obvious challenge with this is the temptation that technological toys can be and that teachers might choose it for the sake of it rather than for the benefits that it may provide.
Also, parents may assume that teachers that don't use technology are less qualified to teach or may have some other ideas that don't line up with reality.
I don't know that you would want it left in the hands of parents, because parents might feel that technology is the silver bullet that will help their children to be geniuses.
All things considered, I don't know what the best answer is. In an ideal world every teacher is amazing and only has the best interest of the students at heart. Unfortunately, teachers are people and as such don't act as they might in an ideal world.
I was being quite sarcastic. My suspicion is that in our culture today kids will have no shortage of experience working with technology. I don't necessarily see a problem with having a course teaching certain computer skills. But I don't know that it is necessary to force teachers to use computers in every class.
I recently was at a dollar store and and the cashier couldn't make change for $2 from a $1.13 sale. She had to pull out her calculator.
All this being said, if you want to treat teacher's as professionals, then it seems reasonable to entrust them with the decision of what tools to use. Maybe that will involve technology. Maybe that will involve good old pen and paper.
And I'm sure that basic computer literacy is the biggest shortcoming of students that our education systems are pumping out today.
Bah. I meant Webkit when I said Gecko. I think I alluded to everything you said in my post, which may have been clearer had I not substituted the word Gecko when I meant webkit. But I fully agree, that nobody seems to use Konqueror anymore.
I didn't see him claim Firefox used Gecko, though he was vague in regards to what browser he actually was referring to. My guess would be either Konqueror, which probably had a bigger market share in the past, or Google Chrome, but it would be hard to call that Linux's competitor to Firefox, though it probably is the major alternative to Firefox on the Linux desktop.
And DRM'ed software that relies on proprietary software. How many people use Linux for everything except Netflix?
It's a vending machine that dispenses pudding.
I suppose I would assume that if you were paying the extra amount for a 25 Mbps connection it was because you were a heavy Internet user who would be using your connection a lot. Obviously you don't need 25Mbps to stream TV. Is there a reason to pay for a 25 Mbps connection if you aren't going to be using the full capacity at least some of the time and say half capacity a decent amount of time?
It's not quite as steep as $5 per GB, but it is still high IMO.
$2.50 / GB or $5/month for 40GB prepaid
Performance: $2 / GB or $5/month for 40GB prepaid
Fibe6: $2 / GB or $5/month for 40GB prepaid
Fibe12: $1.50 / GB or $5/month for 40GB prepaid
Fibe16: $1 / GB or $5/month for 40GB prepaid
Fibe25: $1 / GB or $5/month for 40GB prepaid
"As a Bell Internet or Bell Fibe Internet customer, you can log in to My Bell and add the 40 GB Usage Insurance plan to your service any time. For the 80 GB or 120 GB plan, call us at 310-SURF (7873)."
I just love how they call it a 'Usage Insurance' plan.
So, for what this means, here is some data on pricing and data caps:
Essential Plus - Speeds up to 2Mbps - $34 per month
2GB of bandwidth per month
= 2.27 hours of usage per month
Performance - Speeds up to 6 Mbps - $44 per month
25GB of bandwidth per month
= 9.5 hours of usage per month
Fibe 6 - Speeds up to 6 Mbps - $44 per month
25GB of bandwidth per month
= 9.5 hours of usage per month
Fibe 12 - Speeds up to 12 Mbps - $54 per month
50GB of bandwidth per month + $5 per 40GB
($1.50 per GB not prepaid)
= 9.5 hours of usage per month
Fibe 16 - Speeds up to 16Mbps - $64 per month
75GB of bandwidth per month
= 10.7 hours of usage per month
Fibe 25 - Speeds up to 25Mbps - $74 per month
125GB of bandwidth per month
= 11.4 hours of usage per month
Basically, Bell figures that you will use the full capacity of your connection about 10 hours a month or so.
No, Steve Jobs said fairly clearly that he simply wants Android to die, and I somehow doubt that sentiment was isolated to him alone, especially considering he personally groomed Tim Cook.
Considering the majority of the patents were invalidated, it isn't driving innovation they were after. If it were, they would limit their claims to those that are copying their innovative ideas. Rather, they are trying to impede the success of their competitors.