I saw a clip recently how an Islamic country has combined paper card ballots with thumb prints. I think with that combo there is no room for BS as long as the people push the government to care enough to fairly scrutinize the votes in suspicious situations.
Under our ( U.S. ) current ( lack of ) healthcare system, if I got cancer or something similar, it could ruin me financially. My bank account would get emptied out and I would lose everything.
Yet, someone could charging 2 million dollars for my organs if I died of a head trauma. I doubt all of that would be hospital costs and none of it would be going to my family or friends.
Why the hell should I donate my organs to a system, for free, when they will profit like crazy from it, but if I am living with a severe disease that same system will bankrupt my ass?
I think naming the new interface may be a future marketing FAIL.
Think of all of the different kinds of people who use Microsoft Windows. There is a chunk of yokels and very conservative types among them.
To them "Metro" is short of "metrosexual" or "gay". At best to those people "metro" means "urban" with means black people, teenagers having babies and abortions, liberals coming to sodomize them, etc.
Have this unconscious thing going on while NON-COMPUTER-ENTHUSIASTS get frustrated with a FORCED UI change and you have the start of marketing FAIL, possibly a user rebellion as well.
However, a lot of people have zero interest or enthusiasm for computers. To them, their PC is just to get something done. In that situation a gratuitous change is just a nuisance on their way toward doing something they already knew how to do.
Some people don't, Some deleted theirs, Some are under aliases, with all of the privacy settings locked down such that searching under their real or fake name will yield no results.
So, what does a potential employer do if the applicant claims s/he doesn't have such a page and searching on his/her real name produces no results?
The motivation behind this Orwellian move in the first place is discretion. They don't want employees who will embarrass the org.
As far as they should be concerned such people will deliver on that.
I don't understand how someone came up with the slang "Ginger" for redheads when ginger is yellow and red hair is closer to being or orange or the closer to the color of turmeric.
No disrespect, I think the beliefs "justifying" the paleodiet are psudeoscience. Buy one of the books and run one of the theories by anyone with an archeological background.
1. I can drop a paper book off of the roof of a building into a deep puddle. I can still do data retrieval and even enter new data ( with a pen, if I have one ). Try that with a kindle.
2. I can buy a paper book, with cash and not have Amazon, the government and everyone else in the world know about it.
3. Paper can be made out of almost anything, even fallen leaves. It is renewable, recyclable and can be produced mostly without any toxins. Kindles, tablet PCs, etc get sent to the 3rd world where the toxic parts are pulled apart by poor children struggling to eat. That is after their environments were polluted by mining for the minerals to make the kindles, tablets etc.
4. I can lend a paper book to a friend, many times and reread the book many times and there is no way for Amazon or anyone else to charge me.
I started reading the title of this thread and though "please don't be the US".
After all, we have - global climate change deniers - anti-vaccination groups - paleo diet followers - raw foodism - a museum that claims dinosaurs and cavemen lived together on the newly created 5 thousand year old Earth.
What a relief to know that the US is not the only developed country with a problem of people making up their own reality.
The question isn't what form of government works best. It is about people having the right to make decisions for their own lives, even if those decisions aren't the best ones.
I mean no personal disrespect to you, but I find it out that any person in 2012, let alone an IT person or a Slash Dot reader would be asking such a question.
Your company laptop is for company use.
Yes, they will likely examine it.
If you want to surf the web while traveling why not buy yourself your own smart phone, tablet pc or laptop.
Kubuntu integrates the KDE and Ubuntu, both things built by other people, so they can't have had a very big staff aka a lot of costs. Plus a lot of people like Kunbuntu, which will likely become more important until the Unity thing becomes resolved. So, I didn't think Kubuntu would be going anywhere.
Accept that people will come to you for help graciously.
It is a small world and probably a bit smaller due to the economy. You are also staying within the same organization.
You never know when someone you worked for in the past will be asked to give an opinion of you.
Due your best to prepare for your departure. Be available after your departure as well.
If people get excessive about asking you questions after you leave, respond slower and slower. They will get the message and they will not be sore about it.
There was an article on Slashdot a few months ago stating that several members of HP's WebOS team felt that WebOS was a dead end since it was based on web technology that didn't have enough horsepower to keep up with Android or the various tablet OSes.
HP is doing the cool thing by turning it over to people who may want it, instead of locking it in a drawer, but how smart would it be to continue developing it as an open source project if the paid full time professionals who developed it think it is a dead end technically?
People's main problem with Facebook is privacy and lack of control over their information. Google's CEO came out with some very aggressive sounding statements and policies about wanting to rape people's privacy the way Facebook is. So, why should people bother to use Google+?
I think the Google+ interface is far nicer than the interface at Facebook.
It was VERY HARD to get ANY of my FB friends to join me on Google+. Why should they? The were happy at their watering hole. It is a phenomenon as old as the internet itself. You have a popular forum, it has troubles, someone runs off and creates an alternative, it mostly gets ignored. Google is learning what Microsoft is learning. It is very hard to have an intentional success, especially by copying something that worked SPONTANEOUSLY, BY ACCIDENT for someone else.
Those kind of successes have to happen on their own and organically.
Then there were the comments from the Google CEO about the real name policy. He came off as nasty. After being told I would be forced to use my real name so he could make money off of my life I got a "fuck you" attitude toward the whole thing and stopped using Google+.
I'm not thrilled with their new Orwellian privacy policy either.
I use several Google services and I don't like living in fear of things from one showing up on another. With Facebook, I have the option of logging it out and leaving it alone. It is free standing.
I use too much of Google's stuff to do that easily.
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"What do you find worth tracking? What is ripe for developing into a business?"
Money and food. I use less of each when I track each and avoid excess.
To answer your question: AdBlock
I rarely ever see ads on any of Google services. When I do it is usually once every few years when I do a 100% clean install of Firefox.
Last time this happened I was SHOCKED by how many ads it filters out.
My guess is that if AdBlock and similar extensions did not exist Google would have hit the upper level of Ad tolerance among its users long ago.
I've read Richard Stallman's writings......he is about as extreme as FOSS gets. He isn't against people making money.....at all.
The claim that FOSS advocates are against profit is either a mistaken view or a writer deliberately spreading misinformation to gain attention.
As far as attitudes holding FOSS back is that if the users find your software difficult to use, the problem is with the user not your software.
Seeing the results of what you write is what debuggers are all about.
The only problem is that debuggers have universally horrible documentation and are difficult to get hooked up, so most programmers don't bother.
Make a debugger with easy to understand documentation ( don't hire the tech writers from Oracle ) that is easy and fast to set up.
I saw a clip recently how an Islamic country has combined paper card ballots with thumb prints. I think with that combo there is no room for BS as long as the people push the government to care enough to fairly scrutinize the votes in suspicious situations.
I have an organ donor card.
Under our ( U.S. ) current ( lack of ) healthcare system, if I got cancer or something similar, it could ruin me financially. My bank account would get emptied out and I would lose everything.
Yet, someone could charging 2 million dollars for my organs if I died of a head trauma. I doubt all of that would be hospital costs and none of it would be going to my family or friends.
Why the hell should I donate my organs to a system, for free, when they will profit like crazy from it, but if I am living with a severe disease that same system will bankrupt my ass?
You have a choice between two completely equal houses.
One a single block away from a nuclear power plant. The other without.
Everything else being equal, would you live in the house with the nuclear power plant down the street?
Would you live there if you were raising small children?
Would you live there with a beloved wife, GF or your parents living with you?
I think naming the new interface may be a future marketing FAIL.
Think of all of the different kinds of people who use Microsoft Windows. There is a chunk of yokels and very conservative types among them.
To them "Metro" is short of "metrosexual" or "gay". At best to those people "metro" means "urban" with means black people, teenagers having babies and abortions, liberals coming to sodomize them, etc.
Have this unconscious thing going on while NON-COMPUTER-ENTHUSIASTS get frustrated with a FORCED UI change and you have the start of marketing FAIL, possibly a user rebellion as well.
I agree with you.
However, a lot of people have zero interest or enthusiasm for computers. To them, their PC is just to get something done. In that situation a gratuitous change is just a nuisance on their way toward doing something they already knew how to do.
Some people don't,
Some deleted theirs,
Some are under aliases, with all of the privacy settings locked down such that searching under their real or fake name will yield no results.
So, what does a potential employer do if the applicant claims s/he doesn't have such a page and searching on his/her real name produces no results?
The motivation behind this Orwellian move in the first place is discretion. They don't want employees who will embarrass the org.
As far as they should be concerned such people will deliver on that.
Aren't you a charming person. Your graciousness is only surpassed by your concern for other people and the world.
If evolution was perfect you would die before you have a chance to reproduce and pass your dispositions onto another generation.
I don't understand how someone came up with the slang "Ginger" for redheads when ginger is yellow and red hair is closer to being or orange or the closer to the color of turmeric.
No disrespect, I think the beliefs "justifying" the paleodiet are psudeoscience. Buy one of the books and run one of the theories by anyone with an archeological background.
Be prepared for snorting and other rude noises.
1. I can drop a paper book off of the roof of a building into a deep puddle. I can still do data retrieval and even enter new data ( with a pen, if I have one ). Try that with a kindle.
2. I can buy a paper book, with cash and not have Amazon, the government and everyone else in the world know about it.
3. Paper can be made out of almost anything, even fallen leaves. It is renewable, recyclable and can be produced mostly without any toxins. Kindles, tablet PCs, etc get sent to the 3rd world where the toxic parts are pulled apart by poor children struggling to eat. That is after their environments were polluted by mining for the minerals to make the kindles, tablets etc.
4. I can lend a paper book to a friend, many times and reread the book many times and there is no way for Amazon or anyone else to charge me.
I started reading the title of this thread and though "please don't be the US".
After all, we have
- global climate change deniers
- anti-vaccination groups
- paleo diet followers
- raw foodism
- a museum that claims dinosaurs and cavemen lived together on the newly created 5 thousand year old Earth.
What a relief to know that the US is not the only developed country with a problem of people making up their own reality.
Can anyone point me to a totalitarian ruled country where life is better for the majority of people than in the U.S. Canada, The UK or Europe?
Yes, democracy may not work well, but I don't see anyone else doing a better job.
The question isn't what form of government works best. It is about people having the right to make decisions for their own lives, even if those decisions aren't the best ones.
Hi Sam;
I mean no personal disrespect to you, but I find it out that any person in 2012, let alone an IT person or a Slash Dot reader would be asking such a question.
Your company laptop is for company use.
Yes, they will likely examine it.
If you want to surf the web while traveling why not buy yourself your own smart phone, tablet pc or laptop.
Happy Monday
This post should be modded up to a 10
I've been hearing about cool stuff like this for years. When can an ordinary person get it?
That is sort of what I thought would happen.
Kubuntu integrates the KDE and Ubuntu, both things built by other people, so they can't have had a very big staff aka a lot of costs. Plus a lot of people like Kunbuntu, which will likely become more important until the Unity thing becomes resolved. So, I didn't think Kubuntu would be going anywhere.
Accept that people will come to you for help graciously.
It is a small world and probably a bit smaller due to the economy. You are also staying within the same organization.
You never know when someone you worked for in the past will be asked to give an opinion of you.
Due your best to prepare for your departure. Be available after your departure as well.
If people get excessive about asking you questions after you leave, respond slower and slower. They will get the message and they will not be sore about it.
There was an article on Slashdot a few months ago stating that several members of HP's WebOS team felt that WebOS was a dead end since it was based on web technology that didn't have enough horsepower to keep up with Android or the various tablet OSes.
HP is doing the cool thing by turning it over to people who may want it, instead of locking it in a drawer, but how smart would it be to continue developing it as an open source project if the paid full time professionals who developed it think it is a dead end technically?
People's main problem with Facebook is privacy and lack of control over their information. Google's CEO came out with some very aggressive sounding statements and policies about wanting to rape people's privacy the way Facebook is. So, why should people bother to use Google+?
I think the Google+ interface is far nicer than the interface at Facebook.
It was VERY HARD to get ANY of my FB friends to join me on Google+. Why should they? The were happy at their watering hole. It is a phenomenon as old as the internet itself. You have a popular forum, it has troubles, someone runs off and creates an alternative, it mostly gets ignored. Google is learning what Microsoft is learning. It is very hard to have an intentional success, especially by copying something that worked SPONTANEOUSLY, BY ACCIDENT for someone else.
Those kind of successes have to happen on their own and organically.
Then there were the comments from the Google CEO about the real name policy. He came off as nasty. After being told I would be forced to use my real name so he could make money off of my life I got a "fuck you" attitude toward the whole thing and stopped using Google+.
I'm not thrilled with their new Orwellian privacy policy either.
I use several Google services and I don't like living in fear of things from one showing up on another. With Facebook, I have the option of logging it out and leaving it alone. It is free standing.
I use too much of Google's stuff to do that easily.