I don't know about other people but I don't experience many times that are slow. I'm busy the entire 40+ hours a week I work plus I'm on call 24/7 even for things that aren't my job. Over the holiday weekend a proprietary server was having issues and although we pay tens of thousands of dollars a year for support they weren't available so somehow it was my job to try to get things working. The only reason I haven't pushed for on call pay is because they are nice enough to let me have a flexible schedule.
I think they should at least pay for a cellphone for me though if I'm going to be on call.
I could see Google buying out a bunch of papers just for the right to scan all the old material in. Imagine how many small 'home town' papers it could buy up. It'd be awesome to have all that history searchable. To me, that history is a lot more interesting than all their fluff opinion pieces that the big papers think people are going to pay to read.
Side note.. I remember when About.com was the Mining Co. It was less spammy then and a lot closer in spirit to Wikipedia. It'd be interesting to see Google acquire them and send them back down their original path.
What the heck do you need to multitask for on a phone anyway? Apps are supposed to save what they are doing and quit quickly and reload just as quickly (not that they always do.. the price of 3rd party apps.). If I were Apple I'd start rejecting apps that couldn't reload in 5 seconds. These apps annoy me anyway because they take forever just to load and most of them are from PC game companies that seemingly don't know the meaning of a mobile app. (Why the fsck does Scrabble take so long to load?)
There is usually no reason to have that app running when you aren't using it. The only real exceptions I can think of is live-event notifications for alarms, im, phone calls, etc which they've gotten closer to, network connections, and maybe background media playing which is built-in anyway.
I'd like to see them offer real multitasking but make it so users can disable apps from doing it if wanted because I don't want 10 badly written apps running in the background when they should just be able to reload quickly when I want them. The hard part is offering a good UI for open app management. Compare WinCE or Android to the iPhone for ease of use and they are lacking (more flexible means harder to use most of the time). I'd suggest making double-clicking the home button bring up an open apps manager along w/ the music controls - sweep left/right to find the desired app and click to resume.
It seems you're saying smart phones have to be difficult to use with poor battery-life. In that case you can keep it.
Let people do simple tasks for themselves with toy languages. That takes the burden off those of us that like programming so that we can spend time on harder stuff. IMO it's like being able to change the oil in my car myself but the serious upkeep is done by trained mechanics.
You could probably force just about anything in this language (as you can with many other simple languages) but the work required probably grows quickly as you try to do larger projects not within the pre-defined problem domain. English-like syntax is quickly confusing and hard to manage too. My example is SQL. SQL is awesome for things it is really meant for but as you start trying to do things it wasn't meant for your code gets more and more tangled, slow, and hard to manage. Even some things it is meant for, like joins, can get pretty hard to understand as they get more complex. A non-human-like language could be a lot more direct as to the relationships being defined.
Wanting to program in natural language is like wanting to build skyscrapers with legos. Just because it's what you learned as a kid doesn't mean it's the optimal way to go.
Google is big enough to just buy or create their own newspaper. If the newspapers cut themselves off from Google there is no reason for Google not to compete with them. Hire their own journalistic team to create high-quality content that people actually want to see instead of the dribble in most newspapers. They could take advantage of technology to be something between a newspaper (text) and tv news (multimedia).
Scrap the darn things. I don't go to their sites anyway. I certainly won't pay to do so. They're usually biased fluff pieces anyway. I might pay for some journal sites that carry real information but only if they could work out a really transparent (no sign-up, no login) micro-payment system.
Analytics isn't really an advertising tool. It just keeps statistics on things obvious to the web server when you connect to it. IP address, location, referring page, browser, etc. It's like knowing that a middle-aged white male in a red sweatshirt came in the door.
If you come to my website then I, or my designated party, have the right to record the fact that you came to my website. If you don't like it then don't use the web. Is it also against the law to record what customers come in the door of your brick and mortar store in Germany?
I think somewhat that is true. I can think of lots of good ideas for sci fi but the general population is to stupid to grasp the ideas other than calling them magic because the amazing changes in the near future and going to be small and fiddly. I think the last great sci-fi books are things like The Diamond Age, Distraction, and The Bohr Maker. As you get more into genetics, nanotechnology, and beyond things reach more into the realm of magic.
Of course that's why I expect the near future to be pretty fractured. Most of our society isn't ready for what is about to happen to it.
I write search spiders as a hobby. Part of their job is downloading lots of random files. So if it indexes a child porn site will I get arrested? Just having the content on your computer or having downloaded content doesn't mean there was any intention.
I wonder how this compares to an iPod Touch (about $200 + $50 for cables) for playback quality. I dump HD files on that and play them to my tv all the time and they look good. $150 would be a bit cheaper but not a lot.
Apple is stupid for not giving playback to tv a nicer interface and including a remote (bluetooth?) with the AV cable for the $50. If it worked as a lite Apple TV it'd be a good way to convert people over.
I'd still want a mouse too in addition to the touchpad and keyboard. Even if you can use the touchpad as mouse and keyboard I'd still want them for heavy use.
I'd also want a task-based system added to this. Instead of one monolithic group of apps, windows, and files let them be broken up by task so they fit how users think. Maybe a vertical scroll for switching between tasks and when zoomed out it's easy to move/copy between tasks.
The fact she did this using the Internet shouldn't matter. If an adult were harassing a child, without the Internet, and drove the child to suicide would she just be let off? She did this on purpose and should suffer a serious punishment. I think she should face a similar to punishment to what she'd have gotten for killing the child.
I thought the point was that sex sells. I added nude girls praising my apps to my website. Everyone comes in, sees boobs, and accidentally buys my G rated app thinking it'll fulfill all their dreams. Press here [X] to see more girls.
It seems horribly over complex. The ones I've used you simply parked and paid like any normal meter. If you paid cash it was a prepaid amount of time. If you paid with a credit card it would simply keep billing you until you left (a feature I found very handy).
I agree - why should gender matter? Women want equality so give it to them. If they can't compete then that's their problem. If they can then they deserve to compete against the best (male, female, or other). I can't imagine something much more hurtful than someone attacking you or gender. You take a woman that probably got teased a lot and overlooked by men because she is a bit manly and then you publicly accuse her of not being a woman? That's just mean.
I think designer babies is something we'll have to deal with in the not to distant future. Genetically modified people designed to be stronger, faster, etc. Are we going to allow them? But then are we going to exclude people whose whole family tree is full of professional athletes for having naturally received the same benefits?
Keep it simple and classify people based on how well they play and have them compete with other players in their own class?
I frequently have to type my passwords to see what they are.
My spelling has improved since I started typing my grammar has gotten worse. I was always a big reader so I knew lots of good words and how to put them altogether when I was a kid. To much time in online forums has destroyed my ability to string meaningful sentences together.
Something businesses should be complaining about is the fact that Bing hits websites over and over while posing as a normal browser (user agent is IE - no mention of Bing) with a referrer that claims it's a search from Bing. Artificially making it look like Bing is driving more traffic than it really is while just using up resources. Two thirds of my traffic that claims to be normal users directed from Bing comes from a Bing IP address and Microsoft refuses to explain it. Suspicious.
Probes are the kiss of death anyway. Besides a few geeks nobody gets excited about probes going into space. Lack of interest means lack of funding.
Send your probes but recognize that space tourism, colonization, and farming is what is going to pay the bills. Besides you never know when mankind might need a back-up plan so it'd be good to work towards self suffiencient colonies.
At least work on automated machines that could construct bases and make a habitable place for humans.
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I don't know about other people but I don't experience many times that are slow. I'm busy the entire 40+ hours a week I work plus I'm on call 24/7 even for things that aren't my job. Over the holiday weekend a proprietary server was having issues and although we pay tens of thousands of dollars a year for support they weren't available so somehow it was my job to try to get things working. The only reason I haven't pushed for on call pay is because they are nice enough to let me have a flexible schedule.
I think they should at least pay for a cellphone for me though if I'm going to be on call.
Absolutely. With automated controls I can set up.
I could see Google buying out a bunch of papers just for the right to scan all the old material in. Imagine how many small 'home town' papers it could buy up. It'd be awesome to have all that history searchable. To me, that history is a lot more interesting than all their fluff opinion pieces that the big papers think people are going to pay to read.
Side note.. I remember when About.com was the Mining Co. It was less spammy then and a lot closer in spirit to Wikipedia. It'd be interesting to see Google acquire them and send them back down their original path.
What the heck do you need to multitask for on a phone anyway? Apps are supposed to save what they are doing and quit quickly and reload just as quickly (not that they always do.. the price of 3rd party apps.). If I were Apple I'd start rejecting apps that couldn't reload in 5 seconds. These apps annoy me anyway because they take forever just to load and most of them are from PC game companies that seemingly don't know the meaning of a mobile app. (Why the fsck does Scrabble take so long to load?)
There is usually no reason to have that app running when you aren't using it. The only real exceptions I can think of is live-event notifications for alarms, im, phone calls, etc which they've gotten closer to, network connections, and maybe background media playing which is built-in anyway.
I'd like to see them offer real multitasking but make it so users can disable apps from doing it if wanted because I don't want 10 badly written apps running in the background when they should just be able to reload quickly when I want them. The hard part is offering a good UI for open app management. Compare WinCE or Android to the iPhone for ease of use and they are lacking (more flexible means harder to use most of the time). I'd suggest making double-clicking the home button bring up an open apps manager along w/ the music controls - sweep left/right to find the desired app and click to resume.
It seems you're saying smart phones have to be difficult to use with poor battery-life. In that case you can keep it.
Let people do simple tasks for themselves with toy languages. That takes the burden off those of us that like programming so that we can spend time on harder stuff. IMO it's like being able to change the oil in my car myself but the serious upkeep is done by trained mechanics.
You could probably force just about anything in this language (as you can with many other simple languages) but the work required probably grows quickly as you try to do larger projects not within the pre-defined problem domain. English-like syntax is quickly confusing and hard to manage too. My example is SQL. SQL is awesome for things it is really meant for but as you start trying to do things it wasn't meant for your code gets more and more tangled, slow, and hard to manage. Even some things it is meant for, like joins, can get pretty hard to understand as they get more complex. A non-human-like language could be a lot more direct as to the relationships being defined.
Wanting to program in natural language is like wanting to build skyscrapers with legos. Just because it's what you learned as a kid doesn't mean it's the optimal way to go.
Google is big enough to just buy or create their own newspaper. If the newspapers cut themselves off from Google there is no reason for Google not to compete with them. Hire their own journalistic team to create high-quality content that people actually want to see instead of the dribble in most newspapers. They could take advantage of technology to be something between a newspaper (text) and tv news (multimedia).
Scrap the darn things. I don't go to their sites anyway. I certainly won't pay to do so. They're usually biased fluff pieces anyway. I might pay for some journal sites that carry real information but only if they could work out a really transparent (no sign-up, no login) micro-payment system.
It's not personal information. It's anonymous stats.
Analytics isn't really an advertising tool. It just keeps statistics on things obvious to the web server when you connect to it. IP address, location, referring page, browser, etc. It's like knowing that a middle-aged white male in a red sweatshirt came in the door.
So turn off cookies. I don't need them to track you.
Businesses will.
If you come to my website then I, or my designated party, have the right to record the fact that you came to my website. If you don't like it then don't use the web. Is it also against the law to record what customers come in the door of your brick and mortar store in Germany?
I'm gonna use this to force Google Chrome Frame to install.
I think somewhat that is true. I can think of lots of good ideas for sci fi but the general population is to stupid to grasp the ideas other than calling them magic because the amazing changes in the near future and going to be small and fiddly. I think the last great sci-fi books are things like The Diamond Age, Distraction, and The Bohr Maker. As you get more into genetics, nanotechnology, and beyond things reach more into the realm of magic.
Of course that's why I expect the near future to be pretty fractured. Most of our society isn't ready for what is about to happen to it.
I write search spiders as a hobby. Part of their job is downloading lots of random files. So if it indexes a child porn site will I get arrested? Just having the content on your computer or having downloaded content doesn't mean there was any intention.
I wonder how this compares to an iPod Touch (about $200 + $50 for cables) for playback quality. I dump HD files on that and play them to my tv all the time and they look good. $150 would be a bit cheaper but not a lot.
Apple is stupid for not giving playback to tv a nicer interface and including a remote (bluetooth?) with the AV cable for the $50. If it worked as a lite Apple TV it'd be a good way to convert people over.
I'd still want a mouse too in addition to the touchpad and keyboard. Even if you can use the touchpad as mouse and keyboard I'd still want them for heavy use.
I'd also want a task-based system added to this. Instead of one monolithic group of apps, windows, and files let them be broken up by task so they fit how users think. Maybe a vertical scroll for switching between tasks and when zoomed out it's easy to move/copy between tasks.
The fact she did this using the Internet shouldn't matter. If an adult were harassing a child, without the Internet, and drove the child to suicide would she just be let off? She did this on purpose and should suffer a serious punishment. I think she should face a similar to punishment to what she'd have gotten for killing the child.
I thought the point was that sex sells. I added nude girls praising my apps to my website. Everyone comes in, sees boobs, and accidentally buys my G rated app thinking it'll fulfill all their dreams. Press here [X] to see more girls.
It seems horribly over complex. The ones I've used you simply parked and paid like any normal meter. If you paid cash it was a prepaid amount of time. If you paid with a credit card it would simply keep billing you until you left (a feature I found very handy).
I agree - why should gender matter? Women want equality so give it to them. If they can't compete then that's their problem. If they can then they deserve to compete against the best (male, female, or other). I can't imagine something much more hurtful than someone attacking you or gender. You take a woman that probably got teased a lot and overlooked by men because she is a bit manly and then you publicly accuse her of not being a woman? That's just mean.
I think designer babies is something we'll have to deal with in the not to distant future. Genetically modified people designed to be stronger, faster, etc. Are we going to allow them? But then are we going to exclude people whose whole family tree is full of professional athletes for having naturally received the same benefits?
Keep it simple and classify people based on how well they play and have them compete with other players in their own class?
I frequently have to type my passwords to see what they are.
My spelling has improved since I started typing my grammar has gotten worse. I was always a big reader so I knew lots of good words and how to put them altogether when I was a kid. To much time in online forums has destroyed my ability to string meaningful sentences together.
I hate that the Flash plugin crashes my browser frequently. Without Flash installed the browser is a lot more stable.
Something businesses should be complaining about is the fact that Bing hits websites over and over while posing as a normal browser (user agent is IE - no mention of Bing) with a referrer that claims it's a search from Bing. Artificially making it look like Bing is driving more traffic than it really is while just using up resources. Two thirds of my traffic that claims to be normal users directed from Bing comes from a Bing IP address and Microsoft refuses to explain it. Suspicious.
Probes are the kiss of death anyway. Besides a few geeks nobody gets excited about probes going into space. Lack of interest means lack of funding.
Send your probes but recognize that space tourism, colonization, and farming is what is going to pay the bills. Besides you never know when mankind might need a back-up plan so it'd be good to work towards self suffiencient colonies.
At least work on automated machines that could construct bases and make a habitable place for humans.