I get that its purpose is to be a long term archive, not a source of constantly accessed information (yes, I RTFA) but one of the benefits of a physical medium is its, you know, physicality. Exploring content by aimlessly perusing a library has different advantages than clicking on PDFs, and this project (cool as it is) doesn't seem to take that into account. If you can't enjoy the "bookness" of books, how is this better than a hard drive, and why should future generations bother keeping something like this around?
...and what about judging a book by its cover! More fun than judging a cardboard box by its label, that's for sure.
I'm afraid all I was able to understand is that you must be a law student who's never been thrown out of a bar before you were able to finish your drink(s).
Quick question-- how well does that work? Do you have true mirroring/2nd monitor functionality (drag an app window from one screen to the other)?
I know the HTC Evo has a crippled firmware driver that will only play "approved" content (Sprint and YouTube video, native slideshow viewers, etc). Luckily the dev community (Sam Bero with his FullHDMI app in particular) has stepped up and built a driver that allows for full output, but I felt pretty betrayed when I found that the implied functionality was not the actual functionality. Marketing douchebags-- "connect your phone to a hi-def tv" implies that you will actually be able to, you know-- PLAY stuff on the hi-def tv.
Hm. Maybe this is secretly a marketing scheme by Apple. Wouldn't be the first time some crappy "viral" marketing video has tricked itself into a/. story.
As pranks go, it's more of a wasted opportunity-- marking one commercial product's territory with another commercial product is not particularly radical.
I can't tell if this is trolling, or if there's someone on/. that actually thinks that leaving the house, exercise, and eating anything besides energy drinks and cheetoes is a good idea...
But it is summer, maybe I should go outsi-- oh look! COD has a new map pack!
Wow... forgot all about that...having to quit out of everything, do apple-i and re-allocate memory whenever I was working on some monster PSD file (like, more than 75 mb) then re-start the application. Made for a crappy workflow!
Thanks, you have made my old-mac nostalgia complete! I wonder where that UMAX box is now? It had a 175mhz processor as I recall... it's probably cavorting thru a pasture, nibbling on floppy discs, its external scuzzy zip drive flapping gently behind it...
Nope... no bootcamp... I do a lot of live video mixing (corporate raves with 6+projectors so these guys can run their powerpoints and commercial vids). I never ran an OS with 8gigs ram before so I thought it might help. I knew I wouldn't see much of a performance improvement, but I thought I would get SOMEthing. Call me naive if you must;)
Back when 128mb of ram was 100+ USD, doubling up was a really big deal for me. I remember when I made the leap to 256 on my UMAX Mac clone (remember those?) I was blown away...
Point is, it seems like most people have heard that "more RAM== more speed" but they don't know that "more maintenance == better performance" as well. Time for a car analogy!
Ugh... yeah, I've been there-- getting charged for a new oil filter/cabin air cleaner during a routine oil change only to find the dirty old one still there...
Since it's a car and not a computer I don't have to turn in my geek card, right?
Just a little knowledge or common sense will help with getting ripped off in so many cases. I recently had to repeatedly tell a dealership monkey that I had NO alignment problems with my car when he wanted to charge me to perform an alignment check during some random maintenance. The reason? Three old tires and a brand new one so uneven wear means alignment issues, right?
I agree-- these guys are shady, without a doubt... but I bet after the first few times you install some RAM as per request and get a customer get up in your face because their box doesn't run faster, the scam as solution seems less like a scam and more like a solution.
Not the way I do business, and definitely not cool-- I just wanted to make the point that what's asked for is often not needed. The correct approach is to explain that new RAM won't fix everything (for instance, I recently doubled my RAM in my Mac workstation up to 8gigs, and did not notice a performance improvement AT ALL) but a spyware removal would be more helpful, possibly cost more.
Right-- but what happens when you double the RAM and there's no increase in performance due to all the cruft on the box? Customer gets what they asked for (more RAM) but without what they wanted (improved performance) vs. customer gets what they WANT (performance) rather than what they asked for (RAM).
Sometimes good client service is giving what's needed, not what's asked for. Of course, excellent client service is letting the client know the difference, and giving them an opportunity to pick one or the other.
Somebody mod this guy informative-- not that I have ever worked with/gone to/would ever recommend a GS outlet, but because his comment sounds exactly right: "fix" in corporate speak means "if you can't make the problem go away in less than 10mins, upsell to a new product".
Different than what the average/. poster would do to fix a computer problem.
Making no excuses, of course, but incompetent and sh**ty service is not always the result of being evil.
As betteruixthanunix said, it's more difficult to get a warrant to search someone's house than it is to ask (not subpoena, just ask) one of these data aggregators to turn over all their data. The problem for me isn't so much the loss of privacy to the ad networks (you got that anyway every time you signed up for a magazine subscription back in the day) it's the potential for abuse by overzealous/lazy government agencies and law enforcement that want to let profiling and data mining take the place of doing their actual jobs. I would feel a lot better about the whole thing if there was a clear cut line defining WHERE, WHEN, and to WHOM this information could be made available. And severe penalties for crossing this line.
And no, one line of text buried in a 500000 character EULA does not count.
First, let me say I agree with you... but my understanding of the argument for prosecuting/persecuting the lone fapp'er goes something like this:
If you CONSUME child porn (no matter if it's images that are a hundred years old) you are by extension SUPPORTING the "industry" that manufactures it. Therefore... THOUGHT CRIME! MUST GO TO JAIL NOW!
I like XP! I have a dedicated XP box (circa 2004) that I use for all my non-work related computer stuff. Why should I bother to upgrade? It's stable, no-frills, and it does exactly what I want, the way I want it.
Forced obsolecence (no, I don't care how it's spelled) is bunk.
The AS language and IDE itself is not crappy by itself-- blame sh**ty flash developers for sh**ty performance. For instance, go ahead and ask your average flash monkey what a memory leak is.
Ah! I gotcha-- societal interactions seem arbitrary and capricious when compared to the interactions of maths, physics, etc.
I would suggest, however, that although they SEEM to be arbitrary and idiotic (not sure why you would call social functions "idiotic" since they evolve as surely as biological function, idiocy seems to be an innappropriate word) that they are sometimes rooted in BIOLOGICAl functions of the eye and brain. I just read a really interesting book called "Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions", which is an exploration of magic tricks from the standpoint of neuroscience. One of the things I got from it was that certain social cues seem to be hard-wired into the brain... careful use of eye contact or eye direction can have interesting results.
On the other hand, I do get cheezed off when incompetence combined with optimized social interaction is more valued in society and the workplace than competence combined with an indifference to such interaction... being good at socializing is often used by those who are dishonest.
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I get that its purpose is to be a long term archive, not a source of constantly accessed information (yes, I RTFA) but one of the benefits of a physical medium is its, you know, physicality. Exploring content by aimlessly perusing a library has different advantages than clicking on PDFs, and this project (cool as it is) doesn't seem to take that into account. If you can't enjoy the "bookness" of books, how is this better than a hard drive, and why should future generations bother keeping something like this around?
...and what about judging a book by its cover! More fun than judging a cardboard box by its label, that's for sure.
A tiger? In Africa?
This is not flamebait, I was surprised as well. +1 Suprised if you want.
Wow. That's a lot of words you typed there.
I'm afraid all I was able to understand is that you must be a law student who's never been thrown out of a bar before you were able to finish your drink(s).
Quick question-- how well does that work? Do you have true mirroring/2nd monitor functionality (drag an app window from one screen to the other)?
I know the HTC Evo has a crippled firmware driver that will only play "approved" content (Sprint and YouTube video, native slideshow viewers, etc). Luckily the dev community (Sam Bero with his FullHDMI app in particular) has stepped up and built a driver that allows for full output, but I felt pretty betrayed when I found that the implied functionality was not the actual functionality. Marketing douchebags-- "connect your phone to a hi-def tv" implies that you will actually be able to, you know-- PLAY stuff on the hi-def tv.
Hm. Maybe this is secretly a marketing scheme by Apple. Wouldn't be the first time some crappy "viral" marketing video has tricked itself into a /. story.
As pranks go, it's more of a wasted opportunity-- marking one commercial product's territory with another commercial product is not particularly radical.
Its Hopeless To Find Purpose.
It's Hard Teaching F**kin Punctuation...
I can't tell if this is trolling, or if there's someone on /. that actually thinks that leaving the house, exercise, and eating anything besides energy drinks and cheetoes is a good idea...
But it is summer, maybe I should go outsi--
oh look! COD has a new map pack!
Who was talking about child porn? or NAMBLA?
These are romance novels-- the majority of this material I don't even believe qualifies as "softcore".
Can someone mod this dimwit as "troll", please?
Wow... forgot all about that ...having to quit out of everything, do apple-i and re-allocate memory whenever I was working on some monster PSD file (like, more than 75 mb) then re-start the application. Made for a crappy workflow!
Thanks, you have made my old-mac nostalgia complete! I wonder where that UMAX box is now? It had a 175mhz processor as I recall... it's probably cavorting thru a pasture, nibbling on floppy discs, its external scuzzy zip drive flapping gently behind it...
Nope... no bootcamp... I do a lot of live video mixing (corporate raves with 6+projectors so these guys can run their powerpoints and commercial vids). I never ran an OS with 8gigs ram before so I thought it might help. I knew I wouldn't see much of a performance improvement, but I thought I would get SOMEthing. Call me naive if you must ;)
Back when 128mb of ram was 100+ USD, doubling up was a really big deal for me. I remember when I made the leap to 256 on my UMAX Mac clone (remember those?) I was blown away... Point is, it seems like most people have heard that "more RAM== more speed" but they don't know that "more maintenance == better performance" as well. Time for a car analogy!
Ugh... yeah, I've been there-- getting charged for a new oil filter/cabin air cleaner during a routine oil change only to find the dirty old one still there...
Since it's a car and not a computer I don't have to turn in my geek card, right?
Just a little knowledge or common sense will help with getting ripped off in so many cases. I recently had to repeatedly tell a dealership monkey that I had NO alignment problems with my car when he wanted to charge me to perform an alignment check during some random maintenance. The reason? Three old tires and a brand new one so uneven wear means alignment issues, right?
I agree-- these guys are shady, without a doubt... but I bet after the first few times you install some RAM as per request and get a customer get up in your face because their box doesn't run faster, the scam as solution seems less like a scam and more like a solution.
Not the way I do business, and definitely not cool-- I just wanted to make the point that what's asked for is often not needed. The correct approach is to explain that new RAM won't fix everything (for instance, I recently doubled my RAM in my Mac workstation up to 8gigs, and did not notice a performance improvement AT ALL) but a spyware removal would be more helpful, possibly cost more.
Right-- but what happens when you double the RAM and there's no increase in performance due to all the cruft on the box? Customer gets what they asked for (more RAM) but without what they wanted (improved performance) vs. customer gets what they WANT (performance) rather than what they asked for (RAM).
Sometimes good client service is giving what's needed, not what's asked for. Of course, excellent client service is letting the client know the difference, and giving them an opportunity to pick one or the other.
Somebody mod this guy informative-- not that I have ever worked with/gone to/would ever recommend a GS outlet, but because his comment sounds exactly right: "fix" in corporate speak means "if you can't make the problem go away in less than 10mins, upsell to a new product".
/. poster would do to fix a computer problem.
Different than what the average
Making no excuses, of course, but incompetent and sh**ty service is not always the result of being evil.
I had to make myself a drink just so I would have something to spray all over my keyboard.... tip of the hat to you, good sir!
Mod parent AWESOME!
I'm in! Where do I go to sign up?
Exactly.
As betteruixthanunix said, it's more difficult to get a warrant to search someone's house than it is to ask (not subpoena, just ask) one of these data aggregators to turn over all their data. The problem for me isn't so much the loss of privacy to the ad networks (you got that anyway every time you signed up for a magazine subscription back in the day) it's the potential for abuse by overzealous/lazy government agencies and law enforcement that want to let profiling and data mining take the place of doing their actual jobs. I would feel a lot better about the whole thing if there was a clear cut line defining WHERE, WHEN, and to WHOM this information could be made available. And severe penalties for crossing this line.
And no, one line of text buried in a 500000 character EULA does not count.
First, let me say I agree with you... but my understanding of the argument for prosecuting/persecuting the lone fapp'er goes something like this:
If you CONSUME child porn (no matter if it's images that are a hundred years old) you are by extension SUPPORTING the "industry" that manufactures it. Therefore... THOUGHT CRIME! MUST GO TO JAIL NOW!
Yep--- there was compensation... something along the line of a free game download (some kind of underwater game, I think-- you didn't have a choice).
I would have preferred some microsoft points instead tho.
I like XP! I have a dedicated XP box (circa 2004) that I use for all my non-work related computer stuff. Why should I bother to upgrade? It's stable, no-frills, and it does exactly what I want, the way I want it.
Forced obsolecence (no, I don't care how it's spelled) is bunk.
This video is horrible. Not being able to see the entire project moving in sequence makes it seem like it's fake.
I'm sure it's not-- but the video doesn't help any.
The AS language and IDE itself is not crappy by itself-- blame sh**ty flash developers for sh**ty performance. For instance, go ahead and ask your average flash monkey what a memory leak is.
Ah! I gotcha-- societal interactions seem arbitrary and capricious when compared to the interactions of maths, physics, etc.
I would suggest, however, that although they SEEM to be arbitrary and idiotic (not sure why you would call social functions "idiotic" since they evolve as surely as biological function, idiocy seems to be an innappropriate word) that they are sometimes rooted in BIOLOGICAl functions of the eye and brain. I just read a really interesting book called "Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions", which is an exploration of magic tricks from the standpoint of neuroscience. One of the things I got from it was that certain social cues seem to be hard-wired into the brain... careful use of eye contact or eye direction can have interesting results.
On the other hand, I do get cheezed off when incompetence combined with optimized social interaction is more valued in society and the workplace than competence combined with an indifference to such interaction... being good at socializing is often used by those who are dishonest.