Funny to hear the Gig Economy gospel from Mr. Sundararajan, a tenured university professor with all the benefits that regular employment can bring, along with the job security that few jobs can offer.
Maybe he should leave the ivory tower and try living out the precarious work life he preaches.
I eventually switched to OneNote, after I decided not to pay for Evernote's Premium features. I do miss Evernote, but I found OneNote to be adequate for the work I needed to do: not great, but good enough for me. I also started getting concerned about losing my content in Evernote, if the company ever went under, given the lackluster management team that they had in the last few years. I figured Microsoft had a more stable footing.
Hopefully the company can find its mojo back, and return to their initial decent, simple (free) offerings.
One can argue that the Surveillance State has grown under Bush and Obama, and that it won't go away.
As the articles in the posting indicate, the US Executive branch has a lot of leeway and discretion in how to use these powers.
What worries me here is Trump's record of singling out people or groups as enemies to be crushed or humiliated. Combine that with his paranoid "Alt-Right" cohort in the White House, and you have the potential for serious mis-use of surveillance powers against domestic adversaries (or anyone who just doesn't agree with them).
I'll always found it interesting that Wikileaks\Assange have a fixation on exposing American secrets, but have shown little enthusiasm in doing the same with exposing Russian or Chinese misdeeds: surely there's lots of skeletons to be found in these two countries' records, especially with their dismal human rights records. Maybe Wikileaks should focus of political killings and the murder of journalists, rather than fixate on petty internal disputes within the U.S. Democratic party. Same thing vis-à-vis the corporate and financial sectors: I haven't really seen Wikileaks expose the corruption that the ICIJ managed to do with the Panama papers. As time goes on, I'm starting to question Wikileaks' motives and objectives.
Like you, I'm also looking for a good Internet tablet and electronic reader. The closest things I've seen are the Archos players 5 and 7 (mentioned in previous postings), as well as the iPod Touch. Both are excellent products that come close, but not quite close enough for me. There's been lots of buzz about the Crunchpad, as well as some rumors about an upcoming Android-based Archos tablet (apart from the Windows-powered Archos 9). I'll wait until these products come out before making up my mind.
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Funny to hear the Gig Economy gospel from Mr. Sundararajan, a tenured university professor with all the benefits that regular employment can bring, along with the job security that few jobs can offer.
Maybe he should leave the ivory tower and try living out the precarious work life he preaches.
I eventually switched to OneNote, after I decided not to pay for Evernote's Premium features. I do miss Evernote, but I found OneNote to be adequate for the work I needed to do: not great, but good enough for me. I also started getting concerned about losing my content in Evernote, if the company ever went under, given the lackluster management team that they had in the last few years. I figured Microsoft had a more stable footing.
Hopefully the company can find its mojo back, and return to their initial decent, simple (free) offerings.
One can argue that the Surveillance State has grown under Bush and Obama, and that it won't go away.
As the articles in the posting indicate, the US Executive branch has a lot of leeway and discretion in how to use these powers.
What worries me here is Trump's record of singling out people or groups as enemies to be crushed or humiliated. Combine that with his paranoid "Alt-Right" cohort in the White House, and you have the potential for serious mis-use of surveillance powers against domestic adversaries (or anyone who just doesn't agree with them).
Happy days ahead.
I'll always found it interesting that Wikileaks\Assange have a fixation on exposing American secrets, but have shown little enthusiasm in doing the same with exposing Russian or Chinese misdeeds: surely there's lots of skeletons to be found in these two countries' records, especially with their dismal human rights records. Maybe Wikileaks should focus of political killings and the murder of journalists, rather than fixate on petty internal disputes within the U.S. Democratic party.
Same thing vis-à-vis the corporate and financial sectors: I haven't really seen Wikileaks expose the corruption that the ICIJ managed to do with the Panama papers. As time goes on, I'm starting to question Wikileaks' motives and objectives.
Like you, I'm also looking for a good Internet tablet and electronic reader. The closest things I've seen are the Archos players 5 and 7 (mentioned in previous postings), as well as the iPod Touch. Both are excellent products that come close, but not quite close enough for me. There's been lots of buzz about the Crunchpad, as well as some rumors about an upcoming Android-based Archos tablet (apart from the Windows-powered Archos 9). I'll wait until these products come out before making up my mind.