A guy like Steve Jobs probably accomplished the most when he felt his time was severely limited. Stephen Hawking seems to have a similar motivation. I even find it hard to really put everything into a project when the deadline is still far away. If people think they are going to live twice as long, they'll probably just procrastinate 4x as much.
This idea is lame. Content is on pages in books because of a limitation of the media. Digital content doesn't have the same limitation, why enforce it?
I really wish kindle and ibooks would dispense with this page notion. Well ibooks anyway. eink has certain limitations or at least things it's bad at.
I've never understood security through obscurity to be inherently bad. It's most often leveled as a critique of a system. But that doesn't mean it isn't a viable layer to add.
Consider a web application with an admin section. You use 4096 bit encryption, 9 factor authentication, etc. That's all very good. You can also not put a link to the admin site anywhere on the site. That's your security through obscurity. And it's good. Probably even better if you host it on an entirely different domain.
It will keep snooping down. As long as you understand you can't rely on just the obscure admin site to keep attackers out, it's a good decision to make.
Too often, a naive engineer will think having a secret admin page is enough. That's when we point and laugh about security through obscurity.
If i live in a neighborhood that has a lot of crime, I'd like the police to come and catch lots of criminals. I like the sight of cops walking the beat around my block.
I'd also welcome a speed trap right outside my front door. Speeding on the highway is ok within reason. 10 - 15 over is probably fine. but a residential neighborhood is another matter entirely. We've got kids playing and people backing out of driveways.
I agree, it's a case of looking back over many years and seeing a large collection of great ideas, then comparing it to a small snapshot of present time.
I also wonder if the big ideas of today are simply too specialized for lay people to understand easily. Talking about quantum computing, multiverses, exotic higgs bossons, etc makes people's heads hurt. It's not as easy to swallow today's ideas because they've gone further down the roads started by yesterday's ideas.
I know in my field, data oriented programming is creating a buzz. That seems like a big idea. It's not something i can discuss with my family around the dinner table though.
What industry are all you people in where project managers come from programming? In all the jobs i've ever had, project managers were just people who had little to no software engineering experience and just liked to play with calendars and dates and ask, "is it done yet?"
That was what i first thought when i read the summary. The article was more interesting. It wasn't about tricking anyone, it was about delivering a message in a way that they felt it would best be received. If you just show up to some rally trying to tell people how they can get out of that group, you are unlikely to make headway. Whatever you give out would be tossed away or defiled. This was crafted to only reveal it's message in a situation where the individual was not being influenced by the people around him/her.
The goal wasn't to trick people into wearing a t-shirt that clashed with their ideals. It was to deliver a message when they felt the recipient would best be able to hear it. I think it was pretty clever.
But if google docs gets so good that everyone is using it, isn't that one more thing that makes what desktop os you run irrelevant? That would be good for the linux desktop, right?
I don't care that facebook sells my "private" information.
I don't care if facebook gets destroyed.
I am curious to see what it means to destroy facebook though. are they going to delete every possible restore point and all of the source code? are they going to make it so i never said my coworker's puppy was cute? are they going to destroy my relationships with all my friends? make it so my niece was never born and there are no baby pictures of her? is it going to be impossible to ever host anything under the domain facebook.com again?
full disclosure: i work for a marketing agency and my primary role is game programmer / designer.
Why do people care so much if a razor has an online leaderboard showing who shaved the most square meters, or if a hotel gives people badges for checking in at 2 places 1000 miles apart in a day? Yes it's marketing. Yes it's leveraging people's competitive nature to incite them to purchase the product. Yes, most often it's a bastardization of the art of game design. It's probably possible to do it right, and do it well, and it doesn't take anything away from the art of games.
Marketing bastardizes everything. photography, film, music, are all art forms that are used to sell crap. Nobody seems to be claiming that marketing has ruined these mediums and destroyed the talent pool. Sure, people will say that ad is a horrible perversion of photography. I never hear people calling for a moratorium on using photographs in marketing. Often times marketing in these mediums is even held up as a shining example of the art done well. Isn't it possible that gamification could be done well?
I don't think it's inherently bullshit. Most of the time it's going to be employed because the agencies think, this will sell our product. Some of the time it might be legitimately fun. If someone comes up with a strategy that sells a product people want and actually make a fun competition around the purchase of that product, how is that not on par with a revered tv spot? Hell. I'll grant an achievement to the best use of gamification!
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My understanding was it is absolute. same stardate at the same time on Kronos, earth, and Vulcan.
we can all just switch to stardate now!
A guy like Steve Jobs probably accomplished the most when he felt his time was severely limited. Stephen Hawking seems to have a similar motivation. I even find it hard to really put everything into a project when the deadline is still far away. If people think they are going to live twice as long, they'll probably just procrastinate 4x as much.
This idea is lame. Content is on pages in books because of a limitation of the media. Digital content doesn't have the same limitation, why enforce it? I really wish kindle and ibooks would dispense with this page notion. Well ibooks anyway. eink has certain limitations or at least things it's bad at.
It worked great for the iPhone.
I've never understood security through obscurity to be inherently bad. It's most often leveled as a critique of a system. But that doesn't mean it isn't a viable layer to add.
Consider a web application with an admin section. You use 4096 bit encryption, 9 factor authentication, etc. That's all very good. You can also not put a link to the admin site anywhere on the site. That's your security through obscurity. And it's good. Probably even better if you host it on an entirely different domain.
It will keep snooping down. As long as you understand you can't rely on just the obscure admin site to keep attackers out, it's a good decision to make.
Too often, a naive engineer will think having a secret admin page is enough. That's when we point and laugh about security through obscurity.
I bought my last notebook from newegg. An asus g- something or other. I'll probably buy another one in 1.5 years.
Last time i checked. there really isn't any way to guarantee that i am the one who used my computer.
Well, if you can nudge it close enough to earth you can mine it right here on earth!
how much of that was people?
There's no way i'm buying the nextgen Atari console now!
I have come to the conclusion that this has nothing to do with Amazon.com
I had a Nielsen book once. i didn't watch any tv the whole time i had it. I sent back a blank book. easiest $10 i ever made.
I've done years of Java, .Net, then the past few years have been mostly objective-c. Now i'm about to take a job that is all c++.
i should have picked that one. it would have gone great with all the wooshes your comment generated.
If i live in a neighborhood that has a lot of crime, I'd like the police to come and catch lots of criminals. I like the sight of cops walking the beat around my block.
I'd also welcome a speed trap right outside my front door. Speeding on the highway is ok within reason. 10 - 15 over is probably fine. but a residential neighborhood is another matter entirely. We've got kids playing and people backing out of driveways.
would you kindly stop shooting fucking BEES out of your arms!!!!? it's freaking me out.
I agree, it's a case of looking back over many years and seeing a large collection of great ideas, then comparing it to a small snapshot of present time.
I also wonder if the big ideas of today are simply too specialized for lay people to understand easily. Talking about quantum computing, multiverses, exotic higgs bossons, etc makes people's heads hurt. It's not as easy to swallow today's ideas because they've gone further down the roads started by yesterday's ideas.
I know in my field, data oriented programming is creating a buzz. That seems like a big idea. It's not something i can discuss with my family around the dinner table though.
What industry are all you people in where project managers come from programming? In all the jobs i've ever had, project managers were just people who had little to no software engineering experience and just liked to play with calendars and dates and ask, "is it done yet?"
That was what i first thought when i read the summary. The article was more interesting. It wasn't about tricking anyone, it was about delivering a message in a way that they felt it would best be received. If you just show up to some rally trying to tell people how they can get out of that group, you are unlikely to make headway. Whatever you give out would be tossed away or defiled. This was crafted to only reveal it's message in a situation where the individual was not being influenced by the people around him/her.
The goal wasn't to trick people into wearing a t-shirt that clashed with their ideals. It was to deliver a message when they felt the recipient would best be able to hear it. I think it was pretty clever.
But if google docs gets so good that everyone is using it, isn't that one more thing that makes what desktop os you run irrelevant? That would be good for the linux desktop, right?
I don't care that facebook sells my "private" information.
I don't care if facebook gets destroyed.
I am curious to see what it means to destroy facebook though. are they going to delete every possible restore point and all of the source code? are they going to make it so i never said my coworker's puppy was cute? are they going to destroy my relationships with all my friends? make it so my niece was never born and there are no baby pictures of her? is it going to be impossible to ever host anything under the domain facebook.com again?
or is it just going to be slow for a day?
I imagine that after losing the cyber war, we would go over and break the victors' computers. nobody can really win a cyberwar.
full disclosure: i work for a marketing agency and my primary role is game programmer / designer.
Why do people care so much if a razor has an online leaderboard showing who shaved the most square meters, or if a hotel gives people badges for checking in at 2 places 1000 miles apart in a day? Yes it's marketing. Yes it's leveraging people's competitive nature to incite them to purchase the product. Yes, most often it's a bastardization of the art of game design. It's probably possible to do it right, and do it well, and it doesn't take anything away from the art of games.
Marketing bastardizes everything. photography, film, music, are all art forms that are used to sell crap. Nobody seems to be claiming that marketing has ruined these mediums and destroyed the talent pool. Sure, people will say that ad is a horrible perversion of photography. I never hear people calling for a moratorium on using photographs in marketing. Often times marketing in these mediums is even held up as a shining example of the art done well. Isn't it possible that gamification could be done well?
I don't think it's inherently bullshit. Most of the time it's going to be employed because the agencies think, this will sell our product. Some of the time it might be legitimately fun. If someone comes up with a strategy that sells a product people want and actually make a fun competition around the purchase of that product, how is that not on par with a revered tv spot? Hell. I'll grant an achievement to the best use of gamification!
Of course the building blocks of life are in space. They are on earth.