IMAP is an open API - truly open, because it's a standard and multiple people support it. RSS is an open API - because I can use an RSS reader with anyone I like.
If an API is only supported by one site then it's still lock-in, and if they change it (or close down, or raise their rates) then you're still fucked.
Oh yes. If you _are_ going to create a product that depends on other people's then you want to use a supported interface, rather than depending on your knowledge of the underneaths of things.
My point would be that accessing the features that other people own is a dangerous thing, because they are not _your_ features, they are someone else's.
Many companies have built their products on top of someone else's APIs, to have those APIs change, vanish, or develop charges later on. Do be aware of the pitfalls before you make yourself totally dependent on someone who does not have your best interests at heart.
But it's not. Nobody can look on a map and see your name, If they're standing by your house and can receive the signal then they can tell where they are, but that's all.
(Unless Google are now publishing the complete lookup table, in which case I feel somewhat different.)
They aren't doing any snooping on your private data here, just noting where different SSIDs are broadcasting. Unless your SSID name consists of your name, DOB, mother's maiden name, etc. you have nothing to worry about.
If the company has gone out of its way in the past to look after you, then treat them likewise. At the least, you could see if a two month changeover would make their life easier (if the new company would be willing to do that).
If you've been treated as just another employee, then behave that way.
1) They host slide decks from presentations. I seem them being used by a wide variety of people, including lots of tech presentations. 2) Do you care about presentations, or HTML 5? If not, you wouldn't. 3) Because lots of us nerds care about HTML 5 and technical presentations.
I don't want the glasses. But if there's six of us going to a showing, five who want to see it in 3D and one who gets a headache from 3D, then the glasses are very useful.
I think that by now people know whether they like 3D or not.
Personally, I do, and telling me that I'm being scammed for something that I actively enjoy isn't going to suddenly persuade me that I don't.
"Oh my, I hadn't realised, but the time when I was completely blown away by How To Train Your Dragon that I was being scammed. In retrospect I shouldn't have enjoyed it at all!"
If you don't enjoy movies in 3D then the simple answer is to not watch them. Telling other people that they're wrong to enjoy something isn't going to gain you anything.
If your friends don't care about what you've been up to, and what activities you enjoyed or didn't, then I wouldn't want to switch social lives with you.
The definition of celebrity is "Someone who is known by more people than they know" - of course Charlie Sheen is followed by more people than he follows. He also appears in more celebrity magazines than his followers.
Next you'll be surprised that there are more people reading Linus Torvald's blog than he reads in return.
I use Twitter to keep in contact with a few people I know in person (20-30), and to keep up with a few people who say things I'm interested (about the same again). Same as with Livejournal/Blogs.
No, the average person isn't interested in whether I went to the cinema and enjoyed Rango - but (some of) my friends are. So I wouldn't expect to get followed by 10,000 people - just by my friends.
The series took a long hiatus from 89-2005, and was then basically rebooted. You can start in 2005 without knowing anything about the show before that point.
If you go to Amazon.com, they seem to be advertising "the complete first series", etc. - and they're starting from the 2005 series (with Christopher Ecclestone and Billie Piper). Start there, and work onwards. You'll be just fine.
(If you like it, you can then work your way back and try some of the classic stories. Genesis of the Daleks is well worth it, even if the special effects are a tad dated, what with being 35 years old now.)
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Some of us get their phone, install it the way _we_ want it, and then leave it like that (unless something spectacularly new comes along).
I don't change my keyboard weekly - but I did change it a couple of times, find one that suited me, and leave it that way.
Same with SMS, email client, and web browser. I haven't changed any of these in months, but they're all different to the stock version.
IMAP is an open API - truly open, because it's a standard and multiple people support it. RSS is an open API - because I can use an RSS reader with anyone I like.
If an API is only supported by one site then it's still lock-in, and if they change it (or close down, or raise their rates) then you're still fucked.
Thank you!
Particularly as those of us behind corporate firewalls can't get to Dropbox...
Version 10 no longer invalidates addons.
Version 12 (I believe) will do silent updates.
Oh yes. If you _are_ going to create a product that depends on other people's then you want to use a supported interface, rather than depending on your knowledge of the underneaths of things.
My point would be that accessing the features that other people own is a dangerous thing, because they are not _your_ features, they are someone else's.
I don't remember saying anything about source code.
Let's take another example - Google Maps:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15523050
or Google App Engine:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/cloud-computing/platform/231600672
Many companies have built their products on top of someone else's APIs, to have those APIs change, vanish, or develop charges later on. Do be aware of the pitfalls before you make yourself totally dependent on someone who does not have your best interests at heart.
But it's not. Nobody can look on a map and see your name, If they're standing by your house and can receive the signal then they can tell where they are, but that's all.
(Unless Google are now publishing the complete lookup table, in which case I feel somewhat different.)
Then don't broadcast it!
They aren't doing any snooping on your private data here, just noting where different SSIDs are broadcasting. Unless your SSID name consists of your name, DOB, mother's maiden name, etc. you have nothing to worry about.
Borderlands.
Modern Warfare 3.
Heck, Steam in general.
(And yes, I know there are hacks, but Windows Just Works for me. I can't think of a good reason to switch.)
I'll happily pay £10/month for access to all the books I can read.
They are being modded troll because it links to a goatse.cx image...
Depends how you've been treated.
If the company has gone out of its way in the past to look after you, then treat them likewise. At the least, you could see if a two month changeover would make their life easier (if the new company would be willing to do that).
If you've been treated as just another employee, then behave that way.
1) They host slide decks from presentations. I seem them being used by a wide variety of people, including lots of tech presentations.
2) Do you care about presentations, or HTML 5? If not, you wouldn't.
3) Because lots of us nerds care about HTML 5 and technical presentations.
So, not that different from the Momentus XT - which is a hard drive with a bunch of SSD as a cache...
I definitely agree about the surround sound - I have a 5 speaker setup at home, and it does make a difference.
I also agree that a lot of the implementations have been bad.
I don't want the glasses. But if there's six of us going to a showing, five who want to see it in 3D and one who gets a headache from 3D, then the glasses are very useful.
I think that those glasses are a great idea.
I think that by now people know whether they like 3D or not.
Personally, I do, and telling me that I'm being scammed for something that I actively enjoy isn't going to suddenly persuade me that I don't.
"Oh my, I hadn't realised, but the time when I was completely blown away by How To Train Your Dragon that I was being scammed. In retrospect I shouldn't have enjoyed it at all!"
If you don't enjoy movies in 3D then the simple answer is to not watch them. Telling other people that they're wrong to enjoy something isn't going to gain you anything.
If your friends don't care about what you've been up to, and what activities you enjoyed or didn't, then I wouldn't want to switch social lives with you.
The definition of celebrity is "Someone who is known by more people than they know" - of course Charlie Sheen is followed by more people than he follows. He also appears in more celebrity magazines than his followers.
Next you'll be surprised that there are more people reading Linus Torvald's blog than he reads in return.
I use Twitter to keep in contact with a few people I know in person (20-30), and to keep up with a few people who say things I'm interested (about the same again). Same as with Livejournal/Blogs.
No, the average person isn't interested in whether I went to the cinema and enjoyed Rango - but (some of) my friends are. So I wouldn't expect to get followed by 10,000 people - just by my friends.
The series took a long hiatus from 89-2005, and was then basically rebooted. You can start in 2005 without knowing anything about the show before that point.
If you go to Amazon.com, they seem to be advertising "the complete first series", etc. - and they're starting from the 2005 series (with Christopher Ecclestone and Billie Piper). Start there, and work onwards. You'll be just fine.
(If you like it, you can then work your way back and try some of the classic stories. Genesis of the Daleks is well worth it, even if the special effects are a tad dated, what with being 35 years old now.)