am I the only person here who senses an innate danger to entrusting one's data to a for-profit entity?
I would rather entrust anything to a for-profit entity than to a non-profit one. With for-profits it is clear that their goal is to make money and that they will behave in line with this goal. Non-profits on the other hand must have some different agenda which may be very well hidden and which I think should be a subject of concern.
If need be, we can organize and pass a law or three.
Pass a law stripping Apple of part of their property rights in the App Store? Now what stops you from taking the whole App Store? Guess this is the reason United States is not a democracy.
Why not simply nationalize Apple? I know you did not sugest this directly, but from your logic this would also be a right/legitimate/moral thing to do.
Does this look like a mere buzzword? I am not a.NET developer, but after reading this whitepaper i seriously consider catching up on this C#/ASP.NET/VS thing. Why is this knee-jerk negative reaction every time cloud computing is mentioned on Slashdot? Is this that IT technicians are afraid they'll be soon out of servers to maintain?
My Intel M25 G2 is supposed to last 5 years assuming 20GB are written to it daily, which is pretty conservative. I doubt that in 5 years I am going to use any piece of electronics I own now, so the problem of write cycle limit can be considered solved for all practical purposes.
Other things to consider: knitting your clothes and growing your own food. After all, we all know that division of labor and specialization are efficient and governments should be not.
Please, watch this presentation. I was actually impressed by the amount of usability research they put into the Ribbon. Also, data show, that users like it, so enough of these horse laugh comments already.
My country does too. But we have been damn lucky that americans have been covering our asses since the 1950s. Otherwise we would be now living in the European Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Give the folks some credit.
"Same reason we prefer the poor to starve and the sick to have no medical care."
As if anyone is preventing you from donating to charities who feed the poor and provide medical care. Unless you want to donate other people's money, of course.
For the lack of a better metric, the developer with higher IQ should earn more. Programming is a highly g-loaded job, so I would rather maintain a 10 year-old code of someone with IQ 125 than of IQ 105. Anyways from what i've heard, the hiring tests they give at Microsoft or Google are basically IQ tests.
Probably we should even devise an IQ-based project metric. Something like a "this projet is 1000 IQ-months." Since this does not exclude employing a 100 monkeys for a month, maybe it is better to express it in terms of standard deviations, or IQ above 100, or something like that.
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am I the only person here who senses an innate danger to entrusting one's data to a for-profit entity?
I would rather entrust anything to a for-profit entity than to a non-profit one. With for-profits it is clear that their goal is to make money and that they will behave in line with this goal. Non-profits on the other hand must have some different agenda which may be very well hidden and which I think should be a subject of concern.
If need be, we can organize and pass a law or three.
Pass a law stripping Apple of part of their property rights in the App Store? Now what stops you from taking the whole App Store? Guess this is the reason United States is not a democracy.
Why not simply nationalize Apple? I know you did not sugest this directly, but from your logic this would also be a right/legitimate/moral thing to do.
I still don't think it's the correct thing to do.
The market thinks otherwise.
is there any way to measure how many of these downloads were due to users making an informed choice
Hate to break it to you, but users don't care. And neither should you.
Does this look like a mere buzzword? I am not a .NET developer, but after reading this whitepaper i seriously consider catching up on this C#/ASP.NET/VS thing. Why is this knee-jerk negative reaction every time cloud computing is mentioned on Slashdot? Is this that IT technicians are afraid they'll be soon out of servers to maintain?
whatever works...
Same for closed source. Although, with a simple recompile user experience will suck in any case.
...and because they are communists, they can not buy fuel on the market.
My Intel M25 G2 is supposed to last 5 years assuming 20GB are written to it daily, which is pretty conservative. I doubt that in 5 years I am going to use any piece of electronics I own now, so the problem of write cycle limit can be considered solved for all practical purposes.
You don't need to wade through registry to install a driver, or for that matter to do virtually anything a home user might want to do.
In Germany, I pay €20 per month for tethering through the iPhone and it just works!
Major versions mean breaking APIs. This is the reason behind 5.1 and 6.1--both versions are largely compatible with their predecessors.
Other things to consider: knitting your clothes and growing your own food. After all, we all know that division of labor and specialization are efficient and governments should be not.
This is especially dangerous for government who, for particular branches, have to be able to transparently show how they came to certain decisions.
So in your opinion, is a database dump a more convenient tool to illustrate transparent decision-making?
A company wants to have competitive advantage and make profit. News at eleven. The only censor we should be concerned of is the government.
Isn't it good that as space exploration moves towards private sector, it will focus more on pragmatic goals instead of sticking it up to russkies?
Please, watch this presentation. I was actually impressed by the amount of usability research they put into the Ribbon. Also, data show, that users like it, so enough of these horse laugh comments already.
ok, so voting only works when we win. that's a timely re-definition of democracy/market.
Auction? Market?
Supply and demand
here you go: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/widget
Or, as Wikipedia has it: "An indefinite name for a gadget or mechanical contrivance, esp. a small manufactured item"
My country does too. But we have been damn lucky that americans have been covering our asses since the 1950s. Otherwise we would be now living in the European Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Give the folks some credit.
"Same reason we prefer the poor to starve and the sick to have no medical care."
As if anyone is preventing you from donating to charities who feed the poor and provide medical care. Unless you want to donate other people's money, of course.
True, this may happen, but i wouldn't bet on it.
For the lack of a better metric, the developer with higher IQ should earn more. Programming is a highly g-loaded job, so I would rather maintain a 10 year-old code of someone with IQ 125 than of IQ 105. Anyways from what i've heard, the hiring tests they give at Microsoft or Google are basically IQ tests.
Probably we should even devise an IQ-based project metric. Something like a "this projet is 1000 IQ-months." Since this does not exclude employing a 100 monkeys for a month, maybe it is better to express it in terms of standard deviations, or IQ above 100, or something like that.