The mentality shown in this article scares me more than any heart attack I would ever have.
It seems that just because new technology has been invented, we are all stupid if we don`t use it. Not only that but the rethorics used in the article is styled to promote fear and uncertainty about something that is important to us all: the state of our bodies.
Constant focus on unimportant things like this and what Obama said about the special olympics helps remove attention from what matters.
Enough with the monitoring and surveillance. I`ve had enough invasion of privacy to last me a lifetime. With or without the heart attack.
Whats been going on in the IT industry in general is to create a demand for services. This has been done by making software and hardware unnecessary difficult to use and thereby creating a need for support, consultant services and other related services. If the industry focuses on creating a demand for services, that implicitly mean that they DO NOT focus on creating good products. Rather, they focus on creating mediocre products that require users to pay for additional services to function optimally (if at all). A prime example of this is Microsoft (who by the way must be the only company in my experience, that consistently is incompatible with itself). The IT industry can operate in this way because their source code is not public and can therefore not be modified or improved and because customers mostly think that "This is a stupid way to work, but I guess its not possible to do it any other way".
To create good products is with todays "strategies" the same as reducing revenue drastically from the services required to make the products work.
I would love to see a revolution in this area. Products that focus on making the customer 99.9% self sufficient, with clean, easy to understand instructions and intuitive handling. So far, only Apple has managed to go in that direction. They`re not there yet, and there is lots of room for improvement but so far, so good.
Anyway, focusing on creating employment is basically the same as shooting yourself in the foot. With a shotgun.
Wow, will people never get tired of this? For chris`s sake, there has not been any real innovation on the internet for the last 5 years! Start thinking creative, people!
I`ve read through all the posts in this thread, and I agree with you up to the LoJack part. I think you do a great job as a parent and wish more people did what you do. However, despite your well meaning I think LoJacking is going to far. It is dehumanizing, reducing the kid to a thing or an animal thats owned by someone else (ok, they are YOUR children, but they are NOT your PROPERTY, if you get my differentiation between the two). It is is privacy invading par excellence with no escape and it -as someone already mentioned- simplifies the future job of a government who is already keen on ID implants for all, a prospect that scares the living daylights out of me.... These are the reasons I would never in a million years even consider LoJacking any of my two kids (who are also very well behaved, btw). If I found out at 18 that my parents had done that to me, it would be the end of my relationship with them, as well as the beginning of a huge law suit against them. Thats how serious I take my privacy.
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The mentality shown in this article scares me more than any heart attack I would ever have. It seems that just because new technology has been invented, we are all stupid if we don`t use it. Not only that but the rethorics used in the article is styled to promote fear and uncertainty about something that is important to us all: the state of our bodies. Constant focus on unimportant things like this and what Obama said about the special olympics helps remove attention from what matters. Enough with the monitoring and surveillance. I`ve had enough invasion of privacy to last me a lifetime. With or without the heart attack.
Are you completely tone deaf, ignorant or just flame bait?
Whats been going on in the IT industry in general is to create a demand for services. This has been done by making software and hardware unnecessary difficult to use and thereby creating a need for support, consultant services and other related services. If the industry focuses on creating a demand for services, that implicitly mean that they DO NOT focus on creating good products. Rather, they focus on creating mediocre products that require users to pay for additional services to function optimally (if at all). A prime example of this is Microsoft (who by the way must be the only company in my experience, that consistently is incompatible with itself). The IT industry can operate in this way because their source code is not public and can therefore not be modified or improved and because customers mostly think that "This is a stupid way to work, but I guess its not possible to do it any other way". To create good products is with todays "strategies" the same as reducing revenue drastically from the services required to make the products work. I would love to see a revolution in this area. Products that focus on making the customer 99.9% self sufficient, with clean, easy to understand instructions and intuitive handling. So far, only Apple has managed to go in that direction. They`re not there yet, and there is lots of room for improvement but so far, so good. Anyway, focusing on creating employment is basically the same as shooting yourself in the foot. With a shotgun.
Wow, will people never get tired of this? For chris`s sake, there has not been any real innovation on the internet for the last 5 years! Start thinking creative, people!
I`ve read through all the posts in this thread, and I agree with you up to the LoJack part. I think you do a great job as a parent and wish more people did what you do. However, despite your well meaning I think LoJacking is going to far. It is dehumanizing, reducing the kid to a thing or an animal thats owned by someone else (ok, they are YOUR children, but they are NOT your PROPERTY, if you get my differentiation between the two). It is is privacy invading par excellence with no escape and it -as someone already mentioned- simplifies the future job of a government who is already keen on ID implants for all, a prospect that scares the living daylights out of me.... These are the reasons I would never in a million years even consider LoJacking any of my two kids (who are also very well behaved, btw). If I found out at 18 that my parents had done that to me, it would be the end of my relationship with them, as well as the beginning of a huge law suit against them. Thats how serious I take my privacy.