"Step 1 is to get a version that works for one user.
Step 2 is to get more than one user."
Step 3: Piss off your early adapters when too many users kill the system.
Plan for success. If you're not expecting to succeed, why bother doing it at all?
Folks, any poster who talks about "folders" in Gmail is not someone to listen to. Gmail doesn't use folders. Messages are tagged with labels and sorted and viewed using those labels. I was modding posts down, but there are just too many that show no understanding of Gmail, yet pretend to have worthwhile points (shock!).
When I worked at MIT (admittedly, years ago), we left things open because to do otherwise was to challenge students to attack. Security through boredom worked - until the outside world caught up to the point where they presented a significant threat.
The problem isn't lack of privacy, the problem is unbalanced power. You have no way to perform this sort of data analysis, only Big Gov/Corp can. It's like how banks are Too Big To Fail, but we let individual homeowners default on their mortgage and lose their homes. Read "The Shockwave Rider" someday - people knew this in the 70's.
Bozo alert:
"Government regulation is bad in almost all respects when it comes to the economy."
followed in rapid succession by:
"It's all a mater[sic] of making it law that they have to give it to you before you sign a contract."
... with a message asking them: " In today's world, where commerce, and a person's ability to apply for jobs, pay bills, get an education, and participate in our democracy depends on their ability to access the Internet, what are you doing to head off these attempts to cut off that access without due process?"
Just sayin'. I'd even sign up for Amazon Prime, if they'd realize that I can read more than one book a month.
BTW, MY books are sold without DRM. Has anyone pirated a copy?
Between us, my wife and I have two Windows desktops, two Windows laptops, an iPad, two iPhones, three nanos, a Shuffle, and a Kindle, AND she has a work laptop too. And they all get used almost every day, except for the Shuffle.
In today's world, unless you've already done it, HR and hiring managers won't believe that you can do it. 30 years of proven ability to learn new things is irrelevant.
When I'm shopping for ebooks, the cover image isn't much of a consideration. It matters when I'm browsing in a brick-and-mortar store, but the small (sometimes tiny) "cover" (covering exactly what?) image isn't much of an influence when I'm searching on my computer.
The study doesn't say that 92 minutes of exercise a week is the minimum necessary to extend life. It says that all groups in the study that exercised at all showed extended life when compared to the inactive group, and the average weekly exercise duration of the study group with the lowest amount of exercise was 92 minutes.
Whoop-de-do. Exercise is good for you. Who knew?
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Streaming doesn't replace ownership. Streaming replaces radio.
Facebook Search has always been a bad joke. The only fix that might work? Let Google run it.
Oh, wait. Google+.
"Step 1 is to get a version that works for one user. Step 2 is to get more than one user." Step 3: Piss off your early adapters when too many users kill the system. Plan for success. If you're not expecting to succeed, why bother doing it at all?
Folks, any poster who talks about "folders" in Gmail is not someone to listen to. Gmail doesn't use folders. Messages are tagged with labels and sorted and viewed using those labels. I was modding posts down, but there are just too many that show no understanding of Gmail, yet pretend to have worthwhile points (shock!).
When I worked at MIT (admittedly, years ago), we left things open because to do otherwise was to challenge students to attack. Security through boredom worked - until the outside world caught up to the point where they presented a significant threat.
The problem isn't lack of privacy, the problem is unbalanced power. You have no way to perform this sort of data analysis, only Big Gov/Corp can. It's like how banks are Too Big To Fail, but we let individual homeowners default on their mortgage and lose their homes. Read "The Shockwave Rider" someday - people knew this in the 70's.
Obviously, the best place to get rid of annoying web content is at the source, by not posting it in the first place.
Almost every password crack I see is email sent from a cracked Yahoo account.
Bozo alert: "Government regulation is bad in almost all respects when it comes to the economy." followed in rapid succession by: "It's all a mater[sic] of making it law that they have to give it to you before you sign a contract."
... with a message asking them: " In today's world, where commerce, and a person's ability to apply for jobs, pay bills, get an education, and participate in our democracy depends on their ability to access the Internet, what are you doing to head off these attempts to cut off that access without due process?"
They don't know how to PROFIT from mobile.
I've been trying to get the EULA for Expression Web Studio 4, but the site: http://www.microsoft.com/About/Legal/EN/US/IntellectualProperty/UseTerms/Default.aspx fails constantly, even if I use IE. MS "support" has sent me the same form letter three times, saying that if I haven't heard from them in three days, to email them back.
Just sayin'. I'd even sign up for Amazon Prime, if they'd realize that I can read more than one book a month. BTW, MY books are sold without DRM. Has anyone pirated a copy?
Without BitTorrent, I would never have heard of Jim Butcher, so I wouldn't have bought his latest book when it came out.
CEOs pause from giving themselves another raise and more stock options to exercise their egos. In other news, sun rises in east.
Between us, my wife and I have two Windows desktops, two Windows laptops, an iPad, two iPhones, three nanos, a Shuffle, and a Kindle, AND she has a work laptop too. And they all get used almost every day, except for the Shuffle.
Porn and religion, both a drain on society, but leaders in advancing technology to bring content to the masses.
If 20 years of experience doesn't preclude the need for a diploma when applying for a job, why would a few online classes?
In today's world, unless you've already done it, HR and hiring managers won't believe that you can do it. 30 years of proven ability to learn new things is irrelevant.
It's even simpler on the Kindle WiFi - no jailbreak required: http://y42k.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/block-kindle-special-offers-easy-and-free/
> > Why should one be allowed to steal stuff ? > It all depends on whom gets to define "steal". It all depends on whom gets to define "stuff".
...unless Google does a better job with music than they did with books. Who buys books from Google?
When I'm shopping for ebooks, the cover image isn't much of a consideration. It matters when I'm browsing in a brick-and-mortar store, but the small (sometimes tiny) "cover" (covering exactly what?) image isn't much of an influence when I'm searching on my computer.
"...it seems the bet choice in terms of convenience and user experience is using Amazon and Barnes and Noble's reader software on an Apple device."
Isn't it great that we live in a world where vendors provide open platforms that don't try to lock us into a proprietary ecosystem? Oh...
The study doesn't say that 92 minutes of exercise a week is the minimum necessary to extend life. It says that all groups in the study that exercised at all showed extended life when compared to the inactive group, and the average weekly exercise duration of the study group with the lowest amount of exercise was 92 minutes. Whoop-de-do. Exercise is good for you. Who knew?