Just because someone isn't tech savvy doesn't make them stupid. Tech is what we are good at, other people are good at different things. I am sure there are many simple things you and I would fail at, that other find easy. Just because we can configure wifi settings doesn't make us superior.
Yeah, the only kind of communication that we're good at is network communication. We can make WiFi satellite dishes out of a wok, USB cord, and a dongle.
But they are good at interpersonal communication. They can make babies with beautiful women...
The doctor doesn't heal you; he just helps you rid yourself of your ailment. Your body does its own healing...
Oh not that natural healing crap again. Yes the body heals itself but 'medicine' such as antibiotics also heal the body. You're not one of those homoeopathy sorcerers with your naturally healing magical memory water are you? I always wondered why if people who believe that homoeopathic substances become more potent the more dilute they get, are not worried that terrorists may threaten to destroy the universe by infinitely diluting a homoeopathic bomb.
Uh. You completely misunderstood what I said. I wasn't talking about magical water or sorcery or any of that...
When a doctor gives you an antibiotic, that drug hinders the harmful bacteria's ability to reproduce or live. It doesn't generate new flesh in your body to replace dead flesh. Your body rebuilds itself; the doctor just helps to remove the obstacles.
Personally I think in a lot of these cases "the cloud" is a better descriptor than "internet". For me at least the "internet" is a bunch of websites. So if you say my settings are stored "on the internet" the mental picture I have is opening a web browser. If you say "in the cloud" then I picture a data service like Dropbox or LiveMesh.
Your keywords are "personally" and "for me" and "mental picture I have"... It's not anyone else's fault that you have assigned the definition of "world-wide web" to "internet" in your own mind.
When someone tells you that they play games on the internet, do you think of flash web games or do you think of counter-strike, world of warcraft, etc?
And before anyone tells me how old the term "world-wide web" is, think about what terms are still used today: www, web, website, etc...
Just as it's only a matter of time until you get sick. At least this might help keep your doctor affordable to actually heal you instead of the possibility that someone will know what Allergy medication I'm on.
The doctor doesn't heal you; he just helps you rid yourself of your ailment. Your body does its own healing...
What do you mean Diaspora hasn't moved anywhere in a long time? Their blog (http://blog.joindiaspora.com/) didn't get updated from January to May, but they stated that they've been bad about updating the blog because they've been busy on Github.
Instead, I'd say Google hasn't gone anywhere with their social networking attempts in a very long time. I'd be surprised if this newest incarnation is any better than Orkut or Buzz...
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It's a messed-up business model when the pirated version is easier and more pleasant to use
You follow this by saying you can understand DRM. You do realize that this story is even on/. because DRM is moving away from activation-limits and moving to play-limits, right?
If DVDs were released without any forced-adverts, but were only allowed to be played once, would you still buy them?
That's because like every other Blackberry user I ever knew, you NEVER LEFT THE EMAIL CLIENT.
Not even to talk...
Most pre-iPhone smart phone users used the BlackBerry as a portable email client (and breakout game for the subway), while they maintained a regular cell-phone for talking. I can probably count the number of times I received a call from a BlackBerry on one hand, and those were only in situations when the regular phone had a problem. BlackBerries used to pick up ridiculous amounts of background noise (and maybe still do).
TLDR -- you're right: many probably never left the email client to talk... They DID probably leave it to play breakout.
Not to beat the Obama drum, but TSA was created during the Bush years.
Shhh! Don't disturb their selective/limited memory! Bush was perfect! All of his policies were great. For example, financial deregulation is the way to profit! The resulting--I mean, unrelated--current economic conditions are all the fault of Obama, because cause-effect ONLY happens immediately.
Not saying Obama is good... but seriously guys? Is the GP really trying to blame yet ANOTHER one of Bush's legacies onto Obama?
Or, playing devil's advocate, is the GP calling out the fact that Obama does not stand up for the 95-year old woman? In that sense, Obama IS letting this happen...
Outsiders' money is more than welcome. Wikipedia begs for it, and they try to use nice wording to veil that fact. I can't remember how many different Wikia-associated people had their sad/worried face put on a banner with "A personal appeal from ______, Wikipedia editor/founder/elitest/contributor". Probably not surprising at all, but it was always an economic appeal--not a personal appeal.
Further, tt was really annoying that clicking the "x" to hide the banner didn't persist; it was back with every page load. What, then, was the point of having the ability to hide it at all?
There are many people, myself included, who would step down given someone with better credentials (especially phd level). Meritocracy and all that. Maybe the situation is worse than I think, and a Pagerank system for people would need to be used. It could be abused, but I think it could work well. People could be marked down as well as up, and the strength of that marking would depend on the 'rank' of the person doing the marking.
I'm not sure if the "wisdom of the crowds" theory applies to knowledge, as well as optimization tasks.
Be sure to note the part where a kid with self-proclaimed PhD in Theology used his false credentials in arguments over content... If you start asking people to PeopleRank each other, you'll just get a popularity contest--not a measure of knowledge.
Are there Android apps to access first the DropBox account and then decrypt the TrueCrypt inside of it? If not, this option doesn't fully answer the asked question.
...how did an app like "Big Brother" make it onto the App(le) store?
I thought they paid people to test each app before approval; you know, as a first defense against apps that look to imitate the lock screen and steal passcodes...
Whoever made this should be forbidden from working with computers ever again. Is there any legal process that can do this?
I was going to mention Kevin Mitnick and just leave it at that...
But then I thought better of it: If the government has a "legal" process to restrict people from using computers, how do we know they won't abuse it? They seem to have a pretty piss-poor track record with buckling under the MAFIAA's requests. What happens when people start getting "forbidden to use any communications technology other than a landline telephone" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick#Arrest.2C_conviction.2C_and_incarceration) for alleged copyright infringement (of movies, music, whatever)? Just look at ICE's recent domain name seizures; "fighting copyright infringement" my ass.
credit card numbers are not transmitted over the internet... rather an encrypted block of text is sent, and that block doesn't mean anything to anyone except the holder of the encryption keys.
You've got a lot to learn about SSL if you believe that...
Now let me close by redirecting your own words back at you:
but keep being an idiot, i mean, since that's all you are and all you could hope to be and all....
You would have had more effect, because after all, the only thing you accomplished by posting was to prove my point.
How can you claim that he proved your point? What exactly is it that he says that proves your point?
Your point was that people like to blame everything (eg, any change in climate or environment) on humans. His point was that there's no way of knowing what effect we actually have on the environment.
Both lead to the idea that we should leave stuff alone, but they aren't the same point...
Great article. Not only does it get "TinEye" wrong (Tiny Eye? Really?) but it also fails to link to Google.
It's supposed to be part of images.google.com, although it's not working for me currently (the camera icon doesn't show up in the search box).
Are you surprised that TFA is wrong? (The repeated reference to "Tiny Eye" didn't give you a hint?) It hasn't launched yet. It launches in a couple of days...
Did you miss the part where "Adventure Mode" is just survival mode with the ability-to-destroy-blocks disabled? You can't destroy blocks, so you can't pick blocks up, so you can't place blocks. Maybe there will be a better interface for sharing your world, but that's already (easily) possible according to a few of my friends that do play minecraft.
I don't see how that's as big of an update as people are making it out to be... The whole "fun" part of the game that I've seen is the ability to create your own style of home base. You can't even create anything in this new game, thus ripping out the only thing the game had going for it in the first place.
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I think I recall that site. It said that Microsoft's only innovation in user interfaces was the combo box -- which is a terrible design.
Terrible design... Except when used in browsers with search suggestions and possible URL matches.
Just because someone isn't tech savvy doesn't make them stupid. Tech is what we are good at, other people are good at different things. I am sure there are many simple things you and I would fail at, that other find easy. Just because we can configure wifi settings doesn't make us superior.
Yeah, the only kind of communication that we're good at is network communication. We can make WiFi satellite dishes out of a wok, USB cord, and a dongle.
But they are good at interpersonal communication. They can make babies with beautiful women...
I think we lose this one.
Sounds like you need to do your JavaScript development in a different language then... Check out GWT (Java) or Emscripten (LLVM)
The doctor doesn't heal you; he just helps you rid yourself of your ailment. Your body does its own healing...
Oh not that natural healing crap again. Yes the body heals itself but 'medicine' such as antibiotics also heal the body. You're not one of those homoeopathy sorcerers with your naturally healing magical memory water are you? I always wondered why if people who believe that homoeopathic substances become more potent the more dilute they get, are not worried that terrorists may threaten to destroy the universe by infinitely diluting a homoeopathic bomb.
Uh. You completely misunderstood what I said. I wasn't talking about magical water or sorcery or any of that...
When a doctor gives you an antibiotic, that drug hinders the harmful bacteria's ability to reproduce or live. It doesn't generate new flesh in your body to replace dead flesh. Your body rebuilds itself; the doctor just helps to remove the obstacles.
Personally I think in a lot of these cases "the cloud" is a better descriptor than "internet". For me at least the "internet" is a bunch of websites. So if you say my settings are stored "on the internet" the mental picture I have is opening a web browser. If you say "in the cloud" then I picture a data service like Dropbox or LiveMesh.
Your keywords are "personally" and "for me" and "mental picture I have"... It's not anyone else's fault that you have assigned the definition of "world-wide web" to "internet" in your own mind.
When someone tells you that they play games on the internet, do you think of flash web games or do you think of counter-strike, world of warcraft, etc?
And before anyone tells me how old the term "world-wide web" is, think about what terms are still used today: www, web, website, etc...
Just as it's only a matter of time until you get sick. At least this might help keep your doctor affordable to actually heal you instead of the possibility that someone will know what Allergy medication I'm on.
The doctor doesn't heal you; he just helps you rid yourself of your ailment. Your body does its own healing...
What do you mean Diaspora hasn't moved anywhere in a long time? Their blog (http://blog.joindiaspora.com/) didn't get updated from January to May, but they stated that they've been bad about updating the blog because they've been busy on Github.
Check out the commit log if you want to see progress: https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/commits/master
Instead, I'd say Google hasn't gone anywhere with their social networking attempts in a very long time. I'd be surprised if this newest incarnation is any better than Orkut or Buzz...
Thar's a tau-day post every day, n' tau-morrow thar'll be posts too!
Incidentally, my voicemail PIN begins with 41...
The image to support your point: http://www.halolz.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/halolz-dot-com-fpsmapdesign-1993-2010-doom.gif
It's a messed-up business model when the pirated version is easier and more pleasant to use
You follow this by saying you can understand DRM. You do realize that this story is even on /. because DRM is moving away from activation-limits and moving to play-limits, right?
If DVDs were released without any forced-adverts, but were only allowed to be played once, would you still buy them?
That's because like every other Blackberry user I ever knew, you NEVER LEFT THE EMAIL CLIENT. Not even to talk...
Most pre-iPhone smart phone users used the BlackBerry as a portable email client (and breakout game for the subway), while they maintained a regular cell-phone for talking. I can probably count the number of times I received a call from a BlackBerry on one hand, and those were only in situations when the regular phone had a problem. BlackBerries used to pick up ridiculous amounts of background noise (and maybe still do).
TLDR -- you're right: many probably never left the email client to talk... They DID probably leave it to play breakout.
Not to beat the Obama drum, but TSA was created during the Bush years.
Shhh! Don't disturb their selective/limited memory! Bush was perfect! All of his policies were great. For example, financial deregulation is the way to profit! The resulting--I mean, unrelated--current economic conditions are all the fault of Obama, because cause-effect ONLY happens immediately.
Not saying Obama is good... but seriously guys? Is the GP really trying to blame yet ANOTHER one of Bush's legacies onto Obama?
Or, playing devil's advocate, is the GP calling out the fact that Obama does not stand up for the 95-year old woman? In that sense, Obama IS letting this happen...
Outsiders' money is more than welcome. Wikipedia begs for it, and they try to use nice wording to veil that fact. I can't remember how many different Wikia-associated people had their sad/worried face put on a banner with "A personal appeal from ______, Wikipedia editor/founder/elitest/contributor". Probably not surprising at all, but it was always an economic appeal--not a personal appeal.
Further, tt was really annoying that clicking the "x" to hide the banner didn't persist; it was back with every page load. What, then, was the point of having the ability to hide it at all?
There are many people, myself included, who would step down given someone with better credentials (especially phd level). Meritocracy and all that. Maybe the situation is worse than I think, and a Pagerank system for people would need to be used. It could be abused, but I think it could work well. People could be marked down as well as up, and the strength of that marking would depend on the 'rank' of the person doing the marking.
I'm not sure if the "wisdom of the crowds" theory applies to knowledge, as well as optimization tasks.
You must not have been around when the scandal about "Essjay" came out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essjay_controversy
Be sure to note the part where a kid with self-proclaimed PhD in Theology used his false credentials in arguments over content... If you start asking people to PeopleRank each other, you'll just get a popularity contest--not a measure of knowledge.
Why is SVN being compared to DropBox? There's no mobile app for SVN access because, typically, people don't do development on their phones...
Dropbox is perfectly secure if you use TrueCrypt.
Are there Android apps to access first the DropBox account and then decrypt the TrueCrypt inside of it? If not, this option doesn't fully answer the asked question.
Apple has none.
Apple, as a very wealthy corporation, has plenty of freedom. I think you meant to say Apple users have none.
What if a bunch of aliens in Alpha Centauri start talking about freedom, democracy, or the Jasmine Revolution.
How is china supposed to censor free speach _in space_ ?
Why are you trying so desperately to turn any discussion about China into a political one?
...how did an app like "Big Brother" make it onto the App(le) store?
I thought they paid people to test each app before approval; you know, as a first defense against apps that look to imitate the lock screen and steal passcodes...
Whoever made this should be forbidden from working with computers ever again. Is there any legal process that can do this?
I was going to mention Kevin Mitnick and just leave it at that...
But then I thought better of it: If the government has a "legal" process to restrict people from using computers, how do we know they won't abuse it? They seem to have a pretty piss-poor track record with buckling under the MAFIAA's requests. What happens when people start getting "forbidden to use any communications technology other than a landline telephone" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Mitnick#Arrest.2C_conviction.2C_and_incarceration) for alleged copyright infringement (of movies, music, whatever)? Just look at ICE's recent domain name seizures; "fighting copyright infringement" my ass.
credit card numbers are not transmitted over the internet... rather an encrypted block of text is sent, and that block doesn't mean anything to anyone except the holder of the encryption keys.
You've got a lot to learn about SSL if you believe that...
Now let me close by redirecting your own words back at you:
but keep being an idiot, i mean, since that's all you are and all you could hope to be and all....
You should have moderated.
You would have had more effect, because after all, the only thing you accomplished by posting was to prove my point.
How can you claim that he proved your point? What exactly is it that he says that proves your point?
Your point was that people like to blame everything (eg, any change in climate or environment) on humans. His point was that there's no way of knowing what effect we actually have on the environment.
Both lead to the idea that we should leave stuff alone, but they aren't the same point...
Great article. Not only does it get "TinEye" wrong (Tiny Eye? Really?) but it also fails to link to Google.
It's supposed to be part of images.google.com, although it's not working for me currently (the camera icon doesn't show up in the search box).
Are you surprised that TFA is wrong? (The repeated reference to "Tiny Eye" didn't give you a hint?) It hasn't launched yet. It launches in a couple of days...
Did you miss the part where "Adventure Mode" is just survival mode with the ability-to-destroy-blocks disabled? You can't destroy blocks, so you can't pick blocks up, so you can't place blocks. Maybe there will be a better interface for sharing your world, but that's already (easily) possible according to a few of my friends that do play minecraft.
I don't see how that's as big of an update as people are making it out to be... The whole "fun" part of the game that I've seen is the ability to create your own style of home base. You can't even create anything in this new game, thus ripping out the only thing the game had going for it in the first place.