There are two different things. Ads and search results. The fact that both are being investigated shouldn't cause you to dismiss one because the ads part is stupid.
Although, I don't know what exactly they're saying about the ads.
I really have no concern about sharing it with Google, because no one is ever going to see it.
Well, an individual person doesn't need to see it. If they're willing to use searches to send people job offers and ads, what else can they automate?
And what happens when Google has a breech or a bad setting. Remember when Google signed people up for G+,. and a lot of private data got exposed. Then a person will see it, because many eyes all looking at their friend's data.
I suppose if Google is beneficent, never hacked, and remains both of those forever, we're fine.
Google is creepier than all those data analysts snooping through everyone's text messages at the NSA.
The NSA analysts at least in theory need permission to trawl through your data and there is theoretical oversight. After all, its' the government's data, not a private companies.
Also, if you accept Google's default hooks, Google knows far more about you than the NSA.
It depends on how big those pieces are. The energy going into spitting the chunks apart would otherwise be damaging a chunk. Old nokia phones used to break when dropped, into four pieces: Front faceplate, rear cover, battery, remainder. You could snap them back together with your fingures.
You're doing work on the plane. I consider that analogous to watching videos, etc. If you want to do that on a plane, maybe you should download videos to watch/files you want to work on ahead of time (I do.).
A business traveler staying connected is an entirely different use case. There, the timeliness of communication is of paramount importance. It's also a place where latency will be annoying, but not prohibitive.
Well, for example, I can think of a situation for: create, NOT delete, NOT modifiy, NOT read. If there is a shared area where people are putting resumes, or other submissions. You don't want htem to affect or compete with one already there. Nor read the others.
I can see a log file you can append-only to.
There's a lot of interesting cases if the permissions are cut fine enough.
? That's actually more effort to maintain than just doing it right in the first place
You assume they're not writing it in Flash and exporting it as HTML5 for mobile. And some people still cannot use HTML5. Heck, I'm doing some work now in Flash for a client that still mandates IE7 on their machines (change is slow).
But also, Flash is good in many ways. It isolates stuff in a plug-in, and not every site assumes you have it. Unlike JavaScript, which people have started to require to load static pages. For reasons.
Okay, "a lot" on the internet is probably not really a great measure, since it just means a few people were vocal enough. And I don't really recall if it was CNN or other news agencies, although I'm pretty sure it was CNN among others.
But, I know that famously (on Slashdot), someone was suing CNN plus a bunch of others for using his photos of Haiti's earthquake.
Yeah, I get that. Totally optional. You can disguise unpleasantness as long as that doesn't prevent the message from getting across.
Sometimes its better to be brutal. Sometimes, it doesn't even work to not be brutal. But most people would prefer that their errors get pointed out softly.
I mean, "How does your design handle failure condition X" is not brutal. But there are definately other ways to phrase the issue that are.
Which way? They contacted you, so presumably that division cares. We know the broadcast division has done this before, from a lot of non-litigious complaining on the internet.
So, just to be clear: doing research on teh company I'm investing in to a degree other people cannot: illegal insider traidng. Doing automated research on what offers are currentyl out there, with no information at all, perfectly fine?
you are going to claim that the barrier to entry is a higher cost to do those things then, well, I would like to point out that it is not unfair that I get to buy a BMW while you are stuck in a Ford Focus
Can we distinguish between capital investments and consumer goods? No one (here) is saying you getting a BMW is unfair. What people are saying is that the stock market is a pay to win game that results in positive feedback loops. And it's kinda ridiculous.
Imagine this: I pay someone at a company for advance notice of their sales figures. Classic insider trading. How is it different to pay someone to know what the stock price is several microseconds before anyone else, so I can respond first?
where do we stand when I may literally pay more for my insurance than the guy at the next desk for no other reason than Fitbit's crappy quality control?
At the plantiff's table as part of a class action lawsuit.
But you'd be doing it wrong. Poor quality control means that you should be able to figure out how to errs and get unearned discounts.
Yes you need insurance, that's not even a question. Do you need commercial insurancce? Well, probably not. Because, among other things, charging only gas money makes it clear that it's not a commercial activity. However, note that people make money driving for Uber.
Slicing PSDs is crude, antiquated (even though most shops still do it), and reinforces the fallacy that web design begins in Photoshop.
That really overrides any technical considerations. This isn't "design what you want from scratch". This is "you are providing a service to students so they can get a job in an industry". If most employers worked in DOS, at least some of the time, it's horrible not to teach that skill. Because someone else will and their graduates will get the job.
You are perpetuating Adobe's dominance by furthering a bad workflow that benefits them. Your course isn't about Photoshop, that shouldn't be the keystone of it.
Well, it doesn't sound like the primary way he's teaching people, just a way. Which is important, because X% of the jobs (or projects) will require that workflow.
But far more importantly: Fuck your self-rightousness. His job isn't to try to change the landscape of an industry. It's to get 90 people jobs within it. He can also train them in different workflows. But they have to operate within the world. Just like all schools. Which is why Adobe's dominance is perpetuated. See network effects, etc. But if he changes, Adobe's dominance is still perpetuated, his students are just living off welfare instead of getting jobs.
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I'm honestly lost by what you wrote. People cared about offering a free web browser. I've never heard of the other points you brought up.
There are two different things. Ads and search results. The fact that both are being investigated shouldn't cause you to dismiss one because the ads part is stupid.
Although, I don't know what exactly they're saying about the ads.
So a paid operating system included a free web browser I don't like. Oh the humanity!
Well, there are primaries between now and then. And the first primaries are in only like 5 months.
Still seems like it's really early, but not 1 year+ early
Well, it's strange it says Google. Didn't they just re-org so that Fiber and Nest are no longer under the Google name?
And Apple is in a super-duper conspiracy to take over (your computing) world. That's their credo. "We will control everything, and it will just work."
Well, an individual person doesn't need to see it. If they're willing to use searches to send people job offers and ads, what else can they automate?
And what happens when Google has a breech or a bad setting. Remember when Google signed people up for G+,. and a lot of private data got exposed. Then a person will see it, because many eyes all looking at their friend's data.
I suppose if Google is beneficent, never hacked, and remains both of those forever, we're fine.
The NSA analysts at least in theory need permission to trawl through your data and there is theoretical oversight. After all, its' the government's data, not a private companies.
Also, if you accept Google's default hooks, Google knows far more about you than the NSA.
It depends on how big those pieces are. The energy going into spitting the chunks apart would otherwise be damaging a chunk. Old nokia phones used to break when dropped, into four pieces: Front faceplate, rear cover, battery, remainder. You could snap them back together with your fingures.
Same reason crumple zones save lives.
You're doing work on the plane. I consider that analogous to watching videos, etc. If you want to do that on a plane, maybe you should download videos to watch/files you want to work on ahead of time (I do.).
A business traveler staying connected is an entirely different use case. There, the timeliness of communication is of paramount importance. It's also a place where latency will be annoying, but not prohibitive.
Well, for example, I can think of a situation for: create, NOT delete, NOT modifiy, NOT read. If there is a shared area where people are putting resumes, or other submissions. You don't want htem to affect or compete with one already there. Nor read the others.
I can see a log file you can append-only to.
There's a lot of interesting cases if the permissions are cut fine enough.
Except the AS engine was opensourced, Adobe offered to merge with JavaScript, and there are (or was, I dunno anymore) an active fork for FireFox.
Heck, JS irks me a hell of a lot more, because Flash at least didn't try to pretend it was a web site when it was trying to run a ton of code.
You assume they're not writing it in Flash and exporting it as HTML5 for mobile. And some people still cannot use HTML5. Heck, I'm doing some work now in Flash for a client that still mandates IE7 on their machines (change is slow).
But also, Flash is good in many ways. It isolates stuff in a plug-in, and not every site assumes you have it. Unlike JavaScript, which people have started to require to load static pages. For reasons.
Okay, "a lot" on the internet is probably not really a great measure, since it just means a few people were vocal enough. And I don't really recall if it was CNN or other news agencies, although I'm pretty sure it was CNN among others.
But, I know that famously (on Slashdot), someone was suing CNN plus a bunch of others for using his photos of Haiti's earthquake.
Yeah, I get that. Totally optional. You can disguise unpleasantness as long as that doesn't prevent the message from getting across.
Sometimes its better to be brutal. Sometimes, it doesn't even work to not be brutal. But most people would prefer that their errors get pointed out softly.
I mean, "How does your design handle failure condition X" is not brutal. But there are definately other ways to phrase the issue that are.
No, you need to be accurate and complete. Painful/brutal is totally optional.
You need to ensure a drone doesn't kill someone. You can accomplish that through quite a few methods. Being a dick is unnecessary.
FFS, the first version looked horrible too. Who needs a button, or even a menu option, for "new" or "save" in a text editor.
Which way? They contacted you, so presumably that division cares. We know the broadcast division has done this before, from a lot of non-litigious complaining on the internet.
C-levels in public companies always resign. Never get laid off. Their compensation does not suffer from putting a spin-friendly name on it.
Sounds like their web division uses good practices and their broadcast division does whatever they like.
So, just to be clear: doing research on teh company I'm investing in to a degree other people cannot: illegal insider traidng. Doing automated research on what offers are currentyl out there, with no information at all, perfectly fine?
Can we distinguish between capital investments and consumer goods? No one (here) is saying you getting a BMW is unfair. What people are saying is that the stock market is a pay to win game that results in positive feedback loops. And it's kinda ridiculous.
Imagine this: I pay someone at a company for advance notice of their sales figures. Classic insider trading. How is it different to pay someone to know what the stock price is several microseconds before anyone else, so I can respond first?
At the plantiff's table as part of a class action lawsuit.
But you'd be doing it wrong. Poor quality control means that you should be able to figure out how to errs and get unearned discounts.
Yes you need insurance, that's not even a question. Do you need commercial insurancce? Well, probably not. Because, among other things, charging only gas money makes it clear that it's not a commercial activity. However, note that people make money driving for Uber.
That really overrides any technical considerations. This isn't "design what you want from scratch". This is "you are providing a service to students so they can get a job in an industry". If most employers worked in DOS, at least some of the time, it's horrible not to teach that skill. Because someone else will and their graduates will get the job.
Well, it doesn't sound like the primary way he's teaching people, just a way. Which is important, because X% of the jobs (or projects) will require that workflow.
But far more importantly: Fuck your self-rightousness. His job isn't to try to change the landscape of an industry. It's to get 90 people jobs within it. He can also train them in different workflows. But they have to operate within the world. Just like all schools. Which is why Adobe's dominance is perpetuated. See network effects, etc. But if he changes, Adobe's dominance is still perpetuated, his students are just living off welfare instead of getting jobs.
That was Enron's business model as well.