They're more than welcome to check out my hometown (arkham, massachusets) or see where I went to school (Miskatonic U), or where I went to high school (sunnydale high).
Good point. The great thing about socializing in RL is the chance to be exposed to difference. That's one of the benefits of going away to college.
I wonder what this flattening/homogenization of socializing will do to the way people socialize in the long term, especially with kids now that are growing up with social media being the default method of interacting.
A free hotel room in exchange for watching a presentation is a good deal-- one where the terms are visible to both parties in advance.
An online service with dubious value with a murky TOS that nobody reads is not a good deal. What were people expecting? "I'll host all your pictures, provide all the sharing infrastructure, maintenance, platform upgrades and everything else FOR FREE, FOREVER?" Even if that was in the original TOS (there seems to be some debate about that) there's no reason Instawhatsit can't change their minds later on. "Pray I don't alter it further...."
Look, I agree that it's a crappy bait-and-switch, takes advantage of people's desire to socialize, and is generally kind of a dick move.
But we shouldn't act surprised, or be butt-hurt, when a "social media" company decides to monetize its free service... because we know what's going to happen. In a year, the kids are going to be all "Insta-what?" and the guys in suits are going to be looking at the ghost town that was their user base wondering what happened.
As far as I'm concerned, that's the cycle of (online) life... and that circle remains unbroken, by and by, oh lord... that circle remains unbroken.
Look, I pay money for a hotel room-- that fee goes to an expected level of security. I pay nothing for Instagram's services-- no expectation of security, or of any service at all. Is instagram an online storage business? No. Therefore, the pictures you upload are not there for you to store-- they're for Instagram to use however they want... your pictures are free, as in beer.
Point of fact, since no one is paying you for your pictures, they are literally worth nothing.
Link to an XKCD in case you're still confused as to what storage, business, and free is.
Mod parent insightful-- I think that's a major part of iDevice's success. Don't forget that with iDevices you can't really tinker under the hood to get it working, either-- you have to trust that if you keep tapping the screen eventually something will happen. It's easier to make that leap of faith since "it's easy and just works".
No one will ever say "it's hard to get my microwave working" because at the end of the day, all you have to do is keep hitting buttons and something will eventually get hot.. but I find microwaves' UI to be kind of baffling. "Dinner plate" setting? What does that even mean-- is it the same cooking time for collard greens and corn as for a steak? (That's a real button on my microwave, BTW).
Mod parent up. I've found that when providing any kind of software product, a clearly visible FAQ or forums that serve the same purpose can resolve all but the most fringe problems.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that it's been a while since you've been a teenage girl. At that age peer/parental/community pressure can seem like the most crushing, overwhelming burden to ever exist in the history of the planet. This is what makes what this guy (allegedly) did so repellent-- taking advantage of those who are more emotionally vulnerable, impulsive, and irrational than they ever will be in their lives.
Sure, "you own your own actions", etc, but for some of these kids the internet is their entire community or peer group, it is much more difficult to shrug off.
It's amazing what a few years out of high school will do to restore one's perspective-- don't kill yourselves, kids, it really does get better!
Sorry, my bad-- I was a little riled up by all the "Herp derp, wasting tax dollars for game related programs" trolling on the thread, and vented on you. My apologies.
Right, archiving is a total waste. Who needs the Rosetta Stone when we can just translate to English and throw the original away? That's certainly efficient, and will have no detrimental effects on our understanding of history. Maybe we can convert all records of human learning and knowledge into tweets or lolspeak and burn all original texts, no point in trying to justify the impracticality of maintaining anything that isn't current or faddish.
On a related note, I was involved in an exhibition that featured some work by Nam June Paik, the video artist-- the curator had to dig up a laserdisc player for the show since that's how his work was originally archived. It was a PITA, but that's how his estate wanted it... to preserve the "original" video.
Sure I do. For instance, developing educational software, training applications for mechanical/auto (flash is great at 3d and object handling-- perfect for interior vehicle/mechanical interactivity)
Oh yeah-- and games. Unless you don't consider game development to be "real" programming.
Devs use the appropriate tool for the job-- occasionally (not always, I'm not a crazy person) that tool is flash.
Eye roll all you want, but my points about user experience are valid. Flash is great at:
-- animation and synching audio support
-- a really deep audio toolkit-- you can tweak audio data down to the sample bit, I've rolled my own mp3 guitar effects box in flash with about 100 lines of code
-- seamless video embedding
-- consistent color space
-- robust and consistent font support
-- resolution independent vector graphics
Now, there's a ton of stuff flash sucks at-- memory sucking first and foremost, which is a dealbreaker for mobile... which is also a dealbreaker for commercial web development. Certainly no one appreciates poorly-written browser crashing apps built by total n00bs (as if you don't get that with javascript, php, ruby, etc). But to my mind, the advantages that HTML5 has in cross-platform and even cross browser development are spotty at best, and certainly not ready for prime time. I would prefer to see flash limp along for a couple more years until HTML5 has a deeper toolbox.
You meant to say, "Yes.... sometimes... on Safari, and maybe Chrome... Firefox kinda.... IE if the moon is full on a third thursday of a leap year".
The bitch about HTML 5 is that it will never, ever, have a consistent standard that corresponds what USERS really want--animation and syncing audio support, seamless video embedding, consistent color space and font support. Front-end web devs and designers are going to be fucked by this for years to come.
Please mod parent up. Shitty performance == shitty developers most of the time.... no one blames JAVA whenever some dimwit writes a memory-leakin app.
And Flash was a great write-once, deploy anywhere solution to web development. Now I have to worry about what flavor of IE wants to read my css correctly so my client doesn't cry about his fonts not being displayed properly.
Since your knowledge of multimedia on the web only seems to extend as far as the deployment of Silverlight, you probably wouldn't know that Flash has been around since '98. I guess a technology that's been around for 14 years is too flash-in-the-pan for a smart developer to work with.
\Maybe you can spend more time with Ruby on Rails, I'm sure that will still be around for the next decade and a half.\
Slashdot Mirror
Some of us look forward to the inevitable shitstorm and think this kind of excitement is just... great!
Obligitory Animal House
They're more than welcome to check out my hometown (arkham, massachusets) or see where I went to school (Miskatonic U), or where I went to high school (sunnydale high).
Good point. The great thing about socializing in RL is the chance to be exposed to difference. That's one of the benefits of going away to college.
I wonder what this flattening/homogenization of socializing will do to the way people socialize in the long term, especially with kids now that are growing up with social media being the default method of interacting.
A free hotel room in exchange for watching a presentation is a good deal-- one where the terms are visible to both parties in advance.
An online service with dubious value with a murky TOS that nobody reads is not a good deal. What were people expecting? "I'll host all your pictures, provide all the sharing infrastructure, maintenance, platform upgrades and everything else FOR FREE, FOREVER?" Even if that was in the original TOS (there seems to be some debate about that) there's no reason Instawhatsit can't change their minds later on. "Pray I don't alter it further...."
Look, I agree that it's a crappy bait-and-switch, takes advantage of people's desire to socialize, and is generally kind of a dick move.
But we shouldn't act surprised, or be butt-hurt, when a "social media" company decides to monetize its free service... because we know what's going to happen. In a year, the kids are going to be all "Insta-what?" and the guys in suits are going to be looking at the ghost town that was their user base wondering what happened.
As far as I'm concerned, that's the cycle of (online) life... and that circle remains unbroken, by and by, oh lord... that circle remains unbroken.
What nitwit modded you insightful?
Look, I pay money for a hotel room-- that fee goes to an expected level of security. I pay nothing for Instagram's services-- no expectation of security, or of any service at all. Is instagram an online storage business? No. Therefore, the pictures you upload are not there for you to store-- they're for Instagram to use however they want... your pictures are free, as in beer.
Point of fact, since no one is paying you for your pictures, they are literally worth nothing.
Link to an XKCD in case you're still confused as to what storage, business, and free is.
Black-eyed peas and cornbread-- traditionally brings luck for the new year.
Bacon and ham is usually involved as well.
That has never occurred to me in all the years I've had that microwave-- that there would be a setting for dishes rather than food.
See? Bad UI design... sometimes results in a PEBKAC error.
Mod parent insightful-- I think that's a major part of iDevice's success. Don't forget that with iDevices you can't really tinker under the hood to get it working, either-- you have to trust that if you keep tapping the screen eventually something will happen. It's easier to make that leap of faith since "it's easy and just works".
No one will ever say "it's hard to get my microwave working" because at the end of the day, all you have to do is keep hitting buttons and something will eventually get hot.. but I find microwaves' UI to be kind of baffling. "Dinner plate" setting? What does that even mean-- is it the same cooking time for collard greens and corn as for a steak? (That's a real button on my microwave, BTW).
The narrator's voice totally sounds like the FPS Russian's voice. Now I want an Arduino controlled 50-cal machine gun with explosive rounds!
Mod parent up. I never realized how much good a PM could do, until I worked with one that was good at his job.
The PM should be the one to put the kaibash on the creeps, both management and feature.
Mod parent up. I've found that when providing any kind of software product, a clearly visible FAQ or forums that serve the same purpose can resolve all but the most fringe problems.
+1 creepy
That.... is horrible and awesome.
Horbawesome? Awsorrible?
You have given that enough thought to be slightly disturbing.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that it's been a while since you've been a teenage girl. At that age peer/parental/community pressure can seem like the most crushing, overwhelming burden to ever exist in the history of the planet. This is what makes what this guy (allegedly) did so repellent-- taking advantage of those who are more emotionally vulnerable, impulsive, and irrational than they ever will be in their lives.
Sure, "you own your own actions", etc, but for some of these kids the internet is their entire community or peer group, it is much more difficult to shrug off.
It's amazing what a few years out of high school will do to restore one's perspective-- don't kill yourselves, kids, it really does get better!
Thanks for the tip-- I'd seen melodysheep's work before, but anything with Bruce Lee is always badass.... hasn't been taken down yet...
You could infuse hot milk with some cannabis, then add it to your coffee!
Fucking Magnets! How do they work?
Sorry, my bad-- I was a little riled up by all the "Herp derp, wasting tax dollars for game related programs" trolling on the thread, and vented on you. My apologies.
Right, archiving is a total waste. Who needs the Rosetta Stone when we can just translate to English and throw the original away? That's certainly efficient, and will have no detrimental effects on our understanding of history. Maybe we can convert all records of human learning and knowledge into tweets or lolspeak and burn all original texts, no point in trying to justify the impracticality of maintaining anything that isn't current or faddish.
On a related note, I was involved in an exhibition that featured some work by Nam June Paik, the video artist-- the curator had to dig up a laserdisc player for the show since that's how his work was originally archived. It was a PITA, but that's how his estate wanted it... to preserve the "original" video.
Mod parent +1 esperanto!
Sure I do. For instance, developing educational software, training applications for mechanical/auto (flash is great at 3d and object handling-- perfect for interior vehicle/mechanical interactivity)
Oh yeah-- and games. Unless you don't consider game development to be "real" programming.
Devs use the appropriate tool for the job-- occasionally (not always, I'm not a crazy person) that tool is flash.
Eye roll all you want, but my points about user experience are valid. Flash is great at:
-- animation and synching audio support
-- a really deep audio toolkit-- you can tweak audio data down to the sample bit, I've rolled my own mp3 guitar effects box in flash with about 100 lines of code
-- seamless video embedding
-- consistent color space
-- robust and consistent font support
-- resolution independent vector graphics
Now, there's a ton of stuff flash sucks at-- memory sucking first and foremost, which is a dealbreaker for mobile... which is also a dealbreaker for commercial web development. Certainly no one appreciates poorly-written browser crashing apps built by total n00bs (as if you don't get that with javascript, php, ruby, etc). But to my mind, the advantages that HTML5 has in cross-platform and even cross browser development are spotty at best, and certainly not ready for prime time. I would prefer to see flash limp along for a couple more years until HTML5 has a deeper toolbox.
Ugh. Nice try.
You meant to say, "Yes.... sometimes... on Safari, and maybe Chrome... Firefox kinda.... IE if the moon is full on a third thursday of a leap year".
The bitch about HTML 5 is that it will never, ever, have a consistent standard that corresponds what USERS really want--animation and syncing audio support, seamless video embedding, consistent color space and font support. Front-end web devs and designers are going to be fucked by this for years to come.
Please mod parent up. Shitty performance == shitty developers most of the time.... no one blames JAVA whenever some dimwit writes a memory-leakin app.
And Flash was a great write-once, deploy anywhere solution to web development. Now I have to worry about what flavor of IE wants to read my css correctly so my client doesn't cry about his fonts not being displayed properly.
Since your knowledge of multimedia on the web only seems to extend as far as the deployment of Silverlight, you probably wouldn't know that Flash has been around since '98. I guess a technology that's been around for 14 years is too flash-in-the-pan for a smart developer to work with.
\Maybe you can spend more time with Ruby on Rails, I'm sure that will still be around for the next decade and a half.\