If anything, Facebook has more chances of following Digg than AOL. Not caring about your users (check), constantly changing functionality with no regard for what's really needed (check), follows the latest fads as fast as possible (check).
Ironically, here in Quebec Bell is having competition it doesn't have elsewhere in Canada: Videotron. The result? Thanks to better (not saying great, but definitely better by a long shot) customer service, more incentives and better offerings, they're simply dominating the home Internet market. Once more, while I still do have a cap (and I pay a lot for the net I have), I still get 120gb/month and 30mbit down, ~8mbit up. The cap sucks, but it's better by far than even the top service Bell offers and it's faster to boot. It's also been increased from 100gb mere weeks ago, which is actually, you know, logical (things should always get better, not worse).
Then surely you don't need handguns, semi-autos and fully automatic weapons, right? Surely those hunting guns can also be restricted and monitored so that they are only used in proper hunting territories? Plus, it's a lot easier to notice the guy with his hunting rifle standing in the crowd than it is to see that crazy shooter with a small pistol under his coat.
I can't help but have trouble imagining how one could injure and/or kill at least 12 people by beating them, hitting them with a car, poisoning them, etc. A single person, maybe. Guns make killing easy; just spray and you're done. Almost all other weapons and methods tend to focus on a single target. There's also the point of ease: you know you cannot entirely eliminate violence, but your goal is to make it as hard as possible so that you discourage more and more people from attempting it. If that guy didn't have a gun, he could've used, what, a knife, a crossbow, a car? Chances are he would have been easier to detect and easier to stop, faster. 12 people might not have been injured, and maybe not so severely. Good luck running over somebody with your car without anybody noticing your approach.
I'd rather we avoid the book entirely for children than start making "clean" variants of certain books. Remember: what is offensive to you probably isn't what is offensive to the person next to you, so where do we draw the line? Who decides what's acceptable and what is not?
However, I think your concern highlights a much more critical issue: instead of attempting to shield children from the oh so "nasty" stuff, it should be the duty of educators and parents to follow their children and hold their hand as they read such books so that they may know the social implications behind the word "nigger" (and any such similar case). Thus we can avoid censoring out history and at the same time we make children better and more educated citizens.
Furthermore, they're running the service for a reason. If there was no incentive for them to run Hotmail, they'd have axed it a long time ago. Thus, legal obligations aside, if they want their product to help them, they need to offer a good service. If they don't, people will just move to another similar service and they'll have lost their customer base. Worse, it'll probably taint all of their other offerings. What if they have the same policies/stupidity with, say, Office Live?
I don't know for you, but I think no one scientist is worried that the Earth would not survive through this global warming we're experiencing. The entire reason behind the worrying is that WE don't want to die. Earth will go on no matter what, and so will life.
There's nothing blind in seeing, comprehending and accepting overwhelming evidence gathered over 30+ years by renown scientists all over the globe. In fact, blindness would be to deny all of this by throwing pseudo-philosophical arguments into the mix.
PC gamers are more dedicated and serious while console players are more casual. Unsurprising, considering the barrier of entry for a PC game versus its equivalent console game.
Security through obscurity is foolish. If this forces the banks to reinforce what they already know is weak, then I commend both the guy and the university.
Actually, it's just like the Commodore 64 resurrection that's essentially a netbook without a screen that's housed in a case similar to the C64. They're trying to ride off the nostalgia factor to sell you crap, and it might just work. Sigh.
At my high school, the entire network was based off dumb terminals from Sun. The "computers" room was full of old Macintosh running OS 9 (OSX had already been released for a fair bit) and we were programming using HyperCard. Either that or we had seminars on how Wikipedia is bad and how to browse the net safely.
It's the small guys' products I'm most interested about. Dell, HP, Asus, Acer & co. seem to be struggling to find something worthwhile, but small start-ups like Notion Ink and ExoPC are bringing genuinely interesting products that I'm far more interested to read about.
Yes, tablets will be a big thing in 2011 and probably beyond, but not because of all those slow megacorps.
Eh, I'm sorry but if there's one reply you shouldn't use, it's that one. You don't tend to convert people by blaming their choices for the shortcomings of the software. Instead, you fix the software. If all the Opera fans are like you, it's no wonder their market share is so small; I use Gmail and wouldn't go away from it for a browser (you know, the thing that's supposed to be as unobtrusive as possible?).
Oh the kill switch is true, it's been spoken of a few times already. However, it isn't part of the CPU but of the overall architecture and I believe a 3G modem has to be present already.
They're too busy watching re-re-reruns of Friends and thanks to the dismal education system and absurd value system wouldn't even comprehend what's wrong if they weren't.
It wasn't adult, it was trying to be adult and ending up being depressing. "Adult" doesn't have to rhyme with constant infighting and tension. If they want to be realistic, then comic relief actually has to be part of the show, but as it was it was always "ah, shit" over and over and over without the slightest high point. Concluding on a high note for them meant not losing too many cast members but otherwise not making any progress. All the characters seemingly hated each other and, as they were stranded alone lightyears away from Earth, merrily kept on being angry at one another despite the odds already being quite stacked against them without their best efforts to scuttle themselves.
It was a horrible show full of nonsensical plots, clichés and unlikable characters.
I'm not sure the Google engineers understood it either... It almost seems like anything that isn't "kid's book level" or "PHD degree" gets lumped into intermediate.
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If anything, Facebook has more chances of following Digg than AOL. Not caring about your users (check), constantly changing functionality with no regard for what's really needed (check), follows the latest fads as fast as possible (check).
I'm really trying to gauge whether you're joking. I want to laugh out loud but I'm not sure if it should be at you or with you.
Ironically, here in Quebec Bell is having competition it doesn't have elsewhere in Canada: Videotron. The result? Thanks to better (not saying great, but definitely better by a long shot) customer service, more incentives and better offerings, they're simply dominating the home Internet market. Once more, while I still do have a cap (and I pay a lot for the net I have), I still get 120gb/month and 30mbit down, ~8mbit up. The cap sucks, but it's better by far than even the top service Bell offers and it's faster to boot. It's also been increased from 100gb mere weeks ago, which is actually, you know, logical (things should always get better, not worse).
Then surely you don't need handguns, semi-autos and fully automatic weapons, right? Surely those hunting guns can also be restricted and monitored so that they are only used in proper hunting territories? Plus, it's a lot easier to notice the guy with his hunting rifle standing in the crowd than it is to see that crazy shooter with a small pistol under his coat.
I can't help but have trouble imagining how one could injure and/or kill at least 12 people by beating them, hitting them with a car, poisoning them, etc. A single person, maybe. Guns make killing easy; just spray and you're done. Almost all other weapons and methods tend to focus on a single target. There's also the point of ease: you know you cannot entirely eliminate violence, but your goal is to make it as hard as possible so that you discourage more and more people from attempting it. If that guy didn't have a gun, he could've used, what, a knife, a crossbow, a car? Chances are he would have been easier to detect and easier to stop, faster. 12 people might not have been injured, and maybe not so severely. Good luck running over somebody with your car without anybody noticing your approach.
Right now it seems to be a race between Apple and the UK, actually... Whoever wins, we lose.
I'd rather we avoid the book entirely for children than start making "clean" variants of certain books. Remember: what is offensive to you probably isn't what is offensive to the person next to you, so where do we draw the line? Who decides what's acceptable and what is not?
However, I think your concern highlights a much more critical issue: instead of attempting to shield children from the oh so "nasty" stuff, it should be the duty of educators and parents to follow their children and hold their hand as they read such books so that they may know the social implications behind the word "nigger" (and any such similar case). Thus we can avoid censoring out history and at the same time we make children better and more educated citizens.
Shit. It's raining.
Furthermore, they're running the service for a reason. If there was no incentive for them to run Hotmail, they'd have axed it a long time ago. Thus, legal obligations aside, if they want their product to help them, they need to offer a good service. If they don't, people will just move to another similar service and they'll have lost their customer base. Worse, it'll probably taint all of their other offerings. What if they have the same policies/stupidity with, say, Office Live?
I don't know for you, but I think no one scientist is worried that the Earth would not survive through this global warming we're experiencing. The entire reason behind the worrying is that WE don't want to die. Earth will go on no matter what, and so will life.
There's nothing blind in seeing, comprehending and accepting overwhelming evidence gathered over 30+ years by renown scientists all over the globe. In fact, blindness would be to deny all of this by throwing pseudo-philosophical arguments into the mix.
PC gamers are more dedicated and serious while console players are more casual. Unsurprising, considering the barrier of entry for a PC game versus its equivalent console game.
As for whether that's good or bad...
Well YOUR mother sure wasn't all too original. I see a MichaelKristopeit329, 330, 327... How many of you are there anyways?
Security through obscurity is foolish. If this forces the banks to reinforce what they already know is weak, then I commend both the guy and the university.
Actually, it's just like the Commodore 64 resurrection that's essentially a netbook without a screen that's housed in a case similar to the C64. They're trying to ride off the nostalgia factor to sell you crap, and it might just work. Sigh.
At my high school, the entire network was based off dumb terminals from Sun. The "computers" room was full of old Macintosh running OS 9 (OSX had already been released for a fair bit) and we were programming using HyperCard. Either that or we had seminars on how Wikipedia is bad and how to browse the net safely.
At this point "Nigerian scam" refers to the technique and proceedings more than the origin.
It's the small guys' products I'm most interested about. Dell, HP, Asus, Acer & co. seem to be struggling to find something worthwhile, but small start-ups like Notion Ink and ExoPC are bringing genuinely interesting products that I'm far more interested to read about.
Yes, tablets will be a big thing in 2011 and probably beyond, but not because of all those slow megacorps.
Eh, I'm sorry but if there's one reply you shouldn't use, it's that one. You don't tend to convert people by blaming their choices for the shortcomings of the software. Instead, you fix the software. If all the Opera fans are like you, it's no wonder their market share is so small; I use Gmail and wouldn't go away from it for a browser (you know, the thing that's supposed to be as unobtrusive as possible?).
Oh the kill switch is true, it's been spoken of a few times already. However, it isn't part of the CPU but of the overall architecture and I believe a 3G modem has to be present already.
Whatever it is, it's sure as hell better than the utter waste of corn subsidies and defense spending, huh?
It's unfortunate that politicians need to support that point of view for it to be adopted.
They're too busy watching re-re-reruns of Friends and thanks to the dismal education system and absurd value system wouldn't even comprehend what's wrong if they weren't.
It wasn't adult, it was trying to be adult and ending up being depressing. "Adult" doesn't have to rhyme with constant infighting and tension. If they want to be realistic, then comic relief actually has to be part of the show, but as it was it was always "ah, shit" over and over and over without the slightest high point. Concluding on a high note for them meant not losing too many cast members but otherwise not making any progress. All the characters seemingly hated each other and, as they were stranded alone lightyears away from Earth, merrily kept on being angry at one another despite the odds already being quite stacked against them without their best efforts to scuttle themselves.
It was a horrible show full of nonsensical plots, clichés and unlikable characters.
I'm not sure the Google engineers understood it either... It almost seems like anything that isn't "kid's book level" or "PHD degree" gets lumped into intermediate.