I just installed an internet backup service. My initial backup is about 250gb. If there was a 5gb a month limit, it would take me over 2 years to backup my system. And after that, my internet traffic is essentially doubled for anything I download that I'd want backed up (me downloading it and then me uploading it again for backup). Unless others follow suit, TW will have problems from the telcos who aren't as reliant on the cable revenue or spreading a lot higher bandwidth out there (like Verizon FiOS). TW is just trying to see how much longer they can try and force people to use the old infrastructure. Why give people a better experience if you can force them to use what they already have or force them to use even less?
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Well don't get mad at individuals when they say, I'm not going to use Linux BECAUSE IT DOESN'T WORK. People aren't going to switch to a free OS when it requires them to replace their hardware that costs a significant amount of money. Linux may be free, but chances are, any new users already made the investment in hardware beforehand. Don't get upset when people complain that Linux has issues when, in fact, it DOES. If hardware doesn't work with Linux, it's not Linux's fault, but it IS a problem for them. Just because something isn't someone's fault doesn't mean they shouldn't try to solve it, especially when its a huge obstacle to their success. Thats elitism and lazy all bunched together. You're expecting people who are used to OSes where all this hardware works and then you're trying to explain to them that this superior OS is so great but oh yea, you're gonna have so many headaches if you use it with that machine.
Don't you realize that the problems introduced by incompatible hardware like this makes Linux have MORE PROBLEMS for that particular user THAN WINDOWS? Why would someone switch to an OS that has more problems than their current OS?
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You missed the point. You make a statement "its not their problem" but then the argument you use is about assigning blame. Like the guy said, its *not* the developer's fault but it *IS* their problem. The problem is that a lot of people have all this hardware that won't work with Linux and won't just spend money that they probably don't have just so they can use Linux. Why switch to something that only works with x% of the hardware out there when you can use something that works with (x+y)% of the hardware, where "y" is usually a significantly sized number. So its their problem insofar as they have to figure out a way to pass this hurdle, otherwise you'll never reach critical mass in terms of people adopting Linux.
Strangely enough, I just posted about my current situation with Swedish and French programmers. The Swedish code in English, have english function calls, class names, and their documentation is either written in English or they have a superb translator on staff. The French write everything in French. Could it be the French? I don't know. It's only a sample group of 2.
but I think English tends to be the least common denominator. From my experience there's a greater chance the non-US individual knows English as opposed to the US individual (generally me) knowing whatever language that person is from. I deal with third-party libraries from both Sweden and France. The Sweden folks sometimes seem to know English better than I do and all classes, sample code, and documentation is in English. The French stuff though is not. The documentation gets translated (sometimes poorly), the class names are all based on French abbreviations and what not. Even the registry keys have French names. From this small, statistically insignificant sample group, 2 of the groups code and speak in English whereas the 3 can speak in English, but code and put the documentation in French first (though to be honest, the Swedes may be translating the documentation too and just doing a fantastic job with it). So, we have English: 2+, French: 1, Swedish: 1. I use the "+" to denote that all 3 can speak it, but only two code in it. So, English would be the common sense choice.
This is completely anecdotal evidence, but from what I can tell, on average, Americans can barely speak English let alone another language. So unless you want to cut them out of the loop for the time being, English would seem to make sense. This ignores any discussion between two non-English speaking countries of course. Though again, on some of my travels, I've met a strangely high number of English speaking natives.
They can still publish it. They just unfortunately couldn't stop someone else from publishing it. Plus, its possible to create copyrightable art from public domain content. Plus, even if the content creator gets some sort of competition in terms of someone else also trying to publish the work, I'm sure the content creator can put in a lot more extra content into the work that the other guy couldn't. Analysis, inspiration, etc.
Copyright isn't required to make money off of something nor is it required to publish something. Trent Reznor released an album under creative commons and yet still sold out of the $300 deluxe limited edition version of that free content. He also *still* sold the plain 'ol digital download version as well, even though it was completely LEGAL to get it for free.
You shouldn't *make* someone pay for your works. They should want to pay you for it.
In the TOS instead of saying the author keeps the copyright and that they suggest they submit it to the public domain, Twitter can just take it upon itself to do so. If anybody will get upset with that... well, thats kinda ridiculous.
They won't ignore it, but they won't get a search warrant based on that either. They can have someone watch the mailbox and see if they can get any evidence to search it. But no, they can't get a search warrant for your mail box because they've seen other people use them to break the law. If its not illegal to own a mail box in your hypothetical, then its not legal to just get a search warrant because "hey, they can be used illegally sometimes." In that world, they'd then be allowed to search every mail box without any reason whatsoever. It's entirely foolish to think that makes sense. Thats like saying criminals wear hoodies so therefore cops should stop everyone in hoodies just to see if they have anything illegal on them.
No, that isn't enough for a search warrant. Thats like saying denying police a search into your car is enough for a search warrant (and its not. in fact, if thats all they got, you'll have an extremely good case for getting off without whatever illegal stuff they may have had and you may have a personal suit as well... most intelligent police officers will NOT use that as their only reason).
Audible confirmations have their purposes. They may be overused, but they can help. Plus, some people might like them in the same way people need white noise machines, etc. I can't sleep without a fan or my computer running. If I don't require either of them running, I just use a white noise app on my phone.
I find the number 123 no harder to remember than 4. I also find that 22 is an accurate enough representation for 22.22 and I find 22.5 even more cumbersome in terms of detail. The ability for a human to discern a difference between 22C and 22.5C in terms of air temperature is highly unlikely, plus the already inaccurate methods used to determine air temperature, thereby negating any need for decimal places to begin with. Therefore, there really is no need for fractions unless you require that much detail, in which case you'll probably want that much detail with Fahrenheit as well, thereby negating that argument as well. So, really, the way I see it, Fahrenheit is more cumbersome because it uses more numbers to pretty much give the same level of information. I don't see why Celsius would require fractions and Fahrenheit wouldn't. It seems to be an arbitrary decision made on someone's part and is completely unnecessary. The Celsius scale would more than suffice in a climate-control system for an average house.
Moreover, I still fail to see why someone would imagine the amount of brain power used to comprehend the number "22.5" requires such a significant increase that they would even notice it. If such a noticeable increase is even required, perhaps the temperature of your house isn't your only problem.
How is that more of a pain? You're still giving arbitrary statements. It's still just noting the difference of an arbitrary measurement. Actually, Fahrenheit is arguably more arbitrary than Celsius. So, really how do you care about the difference between 72F and 73F, but find 22C and 22.5C a problem? I fail to see any difference between the two statements.
They'd probably charge for upgrades to the iPhone as well, but then they'd have to deal with the hassle of various iPhone OS support on networks and what not. There's a reason AT&T sends out that text telling you to upgrade. They don't want people on old software on the network. So that hassle outweighs the benefits of charging iPhone users. So its free to them. iPod Touch users don't have that same situation.
Anyone who confuses "science content" with "scientific method" is kidding themselves. It has science content, they just don't adhere strictly to the scientific method. i'll admit sometimes i disagree with their conclusiveness (even if i don't always disagree with the conclusion), but I still find it entertaining. Can you imagine if they had to actually follow the scientific method? It wouldn't be nearly as entertaining. As it stands, they may get some people turned on to the various fields of science through entertainment as opposed to making people think science is ridiculously boring (which as a spectator sport, it is).
It is DRM as only approved applications are allowed to be installed. It's "Digital Rights Management" not "Digital Copyright Management." Seeing as how its spelled out in the EULA that you're not allowed to jailbreak or install 3rd party apps, it sounds like they're digitally managing the owner's right to install their software of choice on their hardware.
I live in Central NJ and I couldn't agree more. I switched from Cingular to Verizon to AT&T over the past few years (I didn't switch to AT&T for the iPhone. I switched about a year ago for other reasons and when the 3G came out, I wanted to converge my music player and phone, so I got the 3G). I did notice more dropped calls after switching to the iPhone, but I did notice dropped calls in general after switching to AT&T. With Verizon, I never had a problem. I've yet to find a place where Verizon has no service and AT&T does BUT I know of a few places that Verizon has service and AT&T doesn't. When my contract is up (in just under 2 years... blarg), I wanna switch to Verizon and the Storm (or whatever phone may be out by then)
Run an app that you didn't purchase from the App Store. *That* DRM. I have an iPhone 3G and I wish I could get apps elsewhere that Apple didn't approve of for whatever reason.
I don't want a larger iphone, but a smaller computer. I'm already pissed that my iPhone can't run more than one app at a time. This makes virtually all messenger clients useless. I have a feeling messenger clients are going to be popular on netbooks (though this would require research that i don't have nor am i certain if anyone's done it... like i said, its just a feeling). I'm also upset that I can't install third party apps (well, i *could* but i'm not risking the operational condition of my cell phone to jailbreak it...). Also, cut & paste is going to be required and if they haven't figured it out yet, i don't know if they ever will. Plus, people want to be able to do what they want. If you lock down the netbook as much as the iphone people will complain. People will point out how every other netbook can do stuff that every other computer can do as well and it'll make the apple gadget look retarded in comparison (seriously... why the hell can't i receive MMS?).
If the minimalist interface means I can only do like 70% of the things I want to do, but do them really well, I think I'd prefer being able to do 100% of them just slightly less well, but by no means terrible (Storm anyone? i have serious storm envy. soon it'll probably be replaced by pre envy. i can't afford to switch plans or buy a new phone though. blarg.)
there's nothing instant about how long it takes the iphone to turn on. my iphone 3g takes 40 seconds to turn on (i just timed it). There's a huge difference between "instant" and "forty seconds"
Part of it is definitely Fox's fault that good shows get canceled 'cause they don't know a good show even when it bites them on the ass (arrested development anybody?). Another part of it though is just the nation as a whole. They flock to those damn reality shows and sitcoms. Sitcoms aren't terrible (some of them are damn good in my opinion, but only a few). People don't want their brain to have to be turned on to understand their shows. They just wanna kinda go along in neutral like your car at a car wash. They feel like its too much effort to follow a show that actually kinda requires you to follow every episode. I think this is a shame. There's really only one show going on right now on the major networks that has this requirement and it's doing just fine. "Lost" is the only show I can think of that has this kind of structure in that if you miss one episode, you *need* to watch it somewhere else before you can catch the next week's or you'll be lost.
Our country needs to wake up and realize that relaxation and fun doesn't necessarily require us to turn off our brains.
Fringe is as much sci-fi as X-Files is sci-fi. X-files dealt with a lot more paranormal content than Fringe. Fringe deals with the same content, but wraps it up in a (pseudo)scientific explanation, thereby removing paranormal from the mix. Yea, it has a few seemingly paranormal background story arcs that are slowly developing, but again, they're slowing developing. a lot of their stuff always looks paranormal at first, but gets explained later. i'm fairly certain that nothing in the show is going to fall outside their newly defined areas of science.
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I just installed an internet backup service. My initial backup is about 250gb. If there was a 5gb a month limit, it would take me over 2 years to backup my system. And after that, my internet traffic is essentially doubled for anything I download that I'd want backed up (me downloading it and then me uploading it again for backup). Unless others follow suit, TW will have problems from the telcos who aren't as reliant on the cable revenue or spreading a lot higher bandwidth out there (like Verizon FiOS). TW is just trying to see how much longer they can try and force people to use the old infrastructure. Why give people a better experience if you can force them to use what they already have or force them to use even less?
Well don't get mad at individuals when they say, I'm not going to use Linux BECAUSE IT DOESN'T WORK. People aren't going to switch to a free OS when it requires them to replace their hardware that costs a significant amount of money. Linux may be free, but chances are, any new users already made the investment in hardware beforehand. Don't get upset when people complain that Linux has issues when, in fact, it DOES. If hardware doesn't work with Linux, it's not Linux's fault, but it IS a problem for them. Just because something isn't someone's fault doesn't mean they shouldn't try to solve it, especially when its a huge obstacle to their success. Thats elitism and lazy all bunched together. You're expecting people who are used to OSes where all this hardware works and then you're trying to explain to them that this superior OS is so great but oh yea, you're gonna have so many headaches if you use it with that machine.
Don't you realize that the problems introduced by incompatible hardware like this makes Linux have MORE PROBLEMS for that particular user THAN WINDOWS? Why would someone switch to an OS that has more problems than their current OS?
You missed the point. You make a statement "its not their problem" but then the argument you use is about assigning blame. Like the guy said, its *not* the developer's fault but it *IS* their problem. The problem is that a lot of people have all this hardware that won't work with Linux and won't just spend money that they probably don't have just so they can use Linux. Why switch to something that only works with x% of the hardware out there when you can use something that works with (x+y)% of the hardware, where "y" is usually a significantly sized number. So its their problem insofar as they have to figure out a way to pass this hurdle, otherwise you'll never reach critical mass in terms of people adopting Linux.
That sounds like a challenge...
wow. just wow.
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In the FAQ for achievements, it says while it was launched on April Fool's Day, it's supposedly real.
Strangely enough, I just posted about my current situation with Swedish and French programmers. The Swedish code in English, have english function calls, class names, and their documentation is either written in English or they have a superb translator on staff. The French write everything in French. Could it be the French? I don't know. It's only a sample group of 2.
but I think English tends to be the least common denominator. From my experience there's a greater chance the non-US individual knows English as opposed to the US individual (generally me) knowing whatever language that person is from. I deal with third-party libraries from both Sweden and France. The Sweden folks sometimes seem to know English better than I do and all classes, sample code, and documentation is in English. The French stuff though is not. The documentation gets translated (sometimes poorly), the class names are all based on French abbreviations and what not. Even the registry keys have French names. From this small, statistically insignificant sample group, 2 of the groups code and speak in English whereas the 3 can speak in English, but code and put the documentation in French first (though to be honest, the Swedes may be translating the documentation too and just doing a fantastic job with it). So, we have English: 2+, French: 1, Swedish: 1. I use the "+" to denote that all 3 can speak it, but only two code in it. So, English would be the common sense choice.
This is completely anecdotal evidence, but from what I can tell, on average, Americans can barely speak English let alone another language. So unless you want to cut them out of the loop for the time being, English would seem to make sense. This ignores any discussion between two non-English speaking countries of course. Though again, on some of my travels, I've met a strangely high number of English speaking natives.
They can still publish it. They just unfortunately couldn't stop someone else from publishing it. Plus, its possible to create copyrightable art from public domain content. Plus, even if the content creator gets some sort of competition in terms of someone else also trying to publish the work, I'm sure the content creator can put in a lot more extra content into the work that the other guy couldn't. Analysis, inspiration, etc.
Copyright isn't required to make money off of something nor is it required to publish something. Trent Reznor released an album under creative commons and yet still sold out of the $300 deluxe limited edition version of that free content. He also *still* sold the plain 'ol digital download version as well, even though it was completely LEGAL to get it for free.
You shouldn't *make* someone pay for your works. They should want to pay you for it.
In the TOS instead of saying the author keeps the copyright and that they suggest they submit it to the public domain, Twitter can just take it upon itself to do so. If anybody will get upset with that... well, thats kinda ridiculous.
They won't ignore it, but they won't get a search warrant based on that either. They can have someone watch the mailbox and see if they can get any evidence to search it. But no, they can't get a search warrant for your mail box because they've seen other people use them to break the law. If its not illegal to own a mail box in your hypothetical, then its not legal to just get a search warrant because "hey, they can be used illegally sometimes." In that world, they'd then be allowed to search every mail box without any reason whatsoever. It's entirely foolish to think that makes sense. Thats like saying criminals wear hoodies so therefore cops should stop everyone in hoodies just to see if they have anything illegal on them.
No, that isn't enough for a search warrant. Thats like saying denying police a search into your car is enough for a search warrant (and its not. in fact, if thats all they got, you'll have an extremely good case for getting off without whatever illegal stuff they may have had and you may have a personal suit as well... most intelligent police officers will NOT use that as their only reason).
Audible confirmations have their purposes. They may be overused, but they can help. Plus, some people might like them in the same way people need white noise machines, etc. I can't sleep without a fan or my computer running. If I don't require either of them running, I just use a white noise app on my phone.
I find the number 123 no harder to remember than 4. I also find that 22 is an accurate enough representation for 22.22 and I find 22.5 even more cumbersome in terms of detail. The ability for a human to discern a difference between 22C and 22.5C in terms of air temperature is highly unlikely, plus the already inaccurate methods used to determine air temperature, thereby negating any need for decimal places to begin with. Therefore, there really is no need for fractions unless you require that much detail, in which case you'll probably want that much detail with Fahrenheit as well, thereby negating that argument as well. So, really, the way I see it, Fahrenheit is more cumbersome because it uses more numbers to pretty much give the same level of information. I don't see why Celsius would require fractions and Fahrenheit wouldn't. It seems to be an arbitrary decision made on someone's part and is completely unnecessary. The Celsius scale would more than suffice in a climate-control system for an average house.
Moreover, I still fail to see why someone would imagine the amount of brain power used to comprehend the number "22.5" requires such a significant increase that they would even notice it. If such a noticeable increase is even required, perhaps the temperature of your house isn't your only problem.
How is that more of a pain? You're still giving arbitrary statements. It's still just noting the difference of an arbitrary measurement. Actually, Fahrenheit is arguably more arbitrary than Celsius. So, really how do you care about the difference between 72F and 73F, but find 22C and 22.5C a problem? I fail to see any difference between the two statements.
They'd probably charge for upgrades to the iPhone as well, but then they'd have to deal with the hassle of various iPhone OS support on networks and what not. There's a reason AT&T sends out that text telling you to upgrade. They don't want people on old software on the network. So that hassle outweighs the benefits of charging iPhone users. So its free to them. iPod Touch users don't have that same situation.
Anyone who confuses "science content" with "scientific method" is kidding themselves. It has science content, they just don't adhere strictly to the scientific method. i'll admit sometimes i disagree with their conclusiveness (even if i don't always disagree with the conclusion), but I still find it entertaining. Can you imagine if they had to actually follow the scientific method? It wouldn't be nearly as entertaining. As it stands, they may get some people turned on to the various fields of science through entertainment as opposed to making people think science is ridiculously boring (which as a spectator sport, it is).
It is DRM as only approved applications are allowed to be installed. It's "Digital Rights Management" not "Digital Copyright Management." Seeing as how its spelled out in the EULA that you're not allowed to jailbreak or install 3rd party apps, it sounds like they're digitally managing the owner's right to install their software of choice on their hardware.
That is DRM to me.
I live in Central NJ and I couldn't agree more. I switched from Cingular to Verizon to AT&T over the past few years (I didn't switch to AT&T for the iPhone. I switched about a year ago for other reasons and when the 3G came out, I wanted to converge my music player and phone, so I got the 3G). I did notice more dropped calls after switching to the iPhone, but I did notice dropped calls in general after switching to AT&T. With Verizon, I never had a problem. I've yet to find a place where Verizon has no service and AT&T does BUT I know of a few places that Verizon has service and AT&T doesn't. When my contract is up (in just under 2 years... blarg), I wanna switch to Verizon and the Storm (or whatever phone may be out by then)
Run an app that you didn't purchase from the App Store. *That* DRM. I have an iPhone 3G and I wish I could get apps elsewhere that Apple didn't approve of for whatever reason.
I don't want a larger iphone, but a smaller computer. I'm already pissed that my iPhone can't run more than one app at a time. This makes virtually all messenger clients useless. I have a feeling messenger clients are going to be popular on netbooks (though this would require research that i don't have nor am i certain if anyone's done it... like i said, its just a feeling). I'm also upset that I can't install third party apps (well, i *could* but i'm not risking the operational condition of my cell phone to jailbreak it...). Also, cut & paste is going to be required and if they haven't figured it out yet, i don't know if they ever will. Plus, people want to be able to do what they want. If you lock down the netbook as much as the iphone people will complain. People will point out how every other netbook can do stuff that every other computer can do as well and it'll make the apple gadget look retarded in comparison (seriously... why the hell can't i receive MMS?).
If the minimalist interface means I can only do like 70% of the things I want to do, but do them really well, I think I'd prefer being able to do 100% of them just slightly less well, but by no means terrible (Storm anyone? i have serious storm envy. soon it'll probably be replaced by pre envy. i can't afford to switch plans or buy a new phone though. blarg.)
there's nothing instant about how long it takes the iphone to turn on. my iphone 3g takes 40 seconds to turn on (i just timed it). There's a huge difference between "instant" and "forty seconds"
Part of it is definitely Fox's fault that good shows get canceled 'cause they don't know a good show even when it bites them on the ass (arrested development anybody?). Another part of it though is just the nation as a whole. They flock to those damn reality shows and sitcoms. Sitcoms aren't terrible (some of them are damn good in my opinion, but only a few). People don't want their brain to have to be turned on to understand their shows. They just wanna kinda go along in neutral like your car at a car wash. They feel like its too much effort to follow a show that actually kinda requires you to follow every episode. I think this is a shame. There's really only one show going on right now on the major networks that has this requirement and it's doing just fine. "Lost" is the only show I can think of that has this kind of structure in that if you miss one episode, you *need* to watch it somewhere else before you can catch the next week's or you'll be lost.
Our country needs to wake up and realize that relaxation and fun doesn't necessarily require us to turn off our brains.
Fringe is as much sci-fi as X-Files is sci-fi. X-files dealt with a lot more paranormal content than Fringe. Fringe deals with the same content, but wraps it up in a (pseudo)scientific explanation, thereby removing paranormal from the mix. Yea, it has a few seemingly paranormal background story arcs that are slowly developing, but again, they're slowing developing. a lot of their stuff always looks paranormal at first, but gets explained later. i'm fairly certain that nothing in the show is going to fall outside their newly defined areas of science.