Yes, I understand the "yelling fire in a crowded theater" concept. It just seems foolish to put on the record, all of your social speech.
Everything you say to your friends on facebook, for example, can easily be used against you. Or Google Chat, or any service like Twitter. You may not be required to use your real name, but they have your IP, and all of your "friends", so we have taken what we typically said in private at parties, and put it out in the open, so that at anytime in your life, it can be used against you.
If you can be punished for saying the wrong thing on social media, then we should consider social media as a liability. Only post things that the court of law would deem appropriate.
It's like big brother gave you a terminal to type into. Whatever you say can and will be used against you.
Microsoft sees that they need to get into the "app" market to increase their profits, so they make a platform that puts "apps" first. Microsoft traditionally has removed options from users in subsequent OS changes, Windows 8 is the next progression of it.
How can you encourage people to upgrade if the UI looks the same? It would be much harder to do that.
I personally supplement Windows XP and 7 with tweaks that make it easy to do multiple things (VirtuaWin for multiple desktops, Find and Run robot for quickly opening programs, Winsplit Revolution for moving application windows to predefined areas, WizMouse for scrolling windows not in focus). I wish I could easily do all of those in Linux, but so far, it seems it would require a good amount of work to get it to work.
Music and Movie Industry has a broken model, so everyone has to pay? How does that make sense?
If your product doesn't compete, it should fail. There is a rise of Indie music and movies which in many cases are better than the Main stream equivalent.
good, and i hope you don't use any of those products or visit and ad-supported websites. or maybe you just like talking the talk?
I try to limit my exposure to those products and ad-supported websites. I have transitioned from gmail to a provider that offers free email without ads (but a limited inbox size). I also have emptied my Dropbox folder, deleting all backups.
The biggest challenge is to synchronize data among various devices, without the cloud.
The thing is, the ribbon interface isn't a choice. I imagine many people would be happy enabling it, but MS does not supply that option. Which is why we complain.
Keep the Doctor Who series the same quality show that I have come to love, it is the very last show I can bear. You have to love a show where the main character's weapon, is his mind.
is to set minimum spec's for the devices that are supported by the Google Market. They should have required a minimum discrete GPU if they wanted to guarantee minimum operating performance, but that didn't align with their needs...
All google cares about is maintaining the quality of their advertising platform, Android. Yes, a free phone OS sounds nice, until you realize that they store every action you perform on that device, or everywhere you go with that device. While databases like this have existed before (carriers can easily keep track of where you are via cell towers), what makes google so nefarious, is that they are so good at it.
Imagine every strange search query being saved (including all characters until you finally pressed enter), your exact picture being saved, every email you have ever sent being saved. It's a one stop shop for all the data that is you (well, need to stop by facebook as well). You give one company that power, for what?
Sorry to discourage you, but I have found that using pen and paper is the best way to take notes. Why? Maybe it helps your brain process what your trying to learn. It could be that it is distraction free. I know that it is the simplest way to take notes, and often times, the simplest is the best.
I notice that MS is using the success they've had with advertising on XBOX to transform their other projects into similiar Ad platforms. That is why the Metro interface looks like the XBox dashboard, so that it will be easier to slip advertisements in it. Outlook.com will be no different.
Exactly. We don't buy a computer to play with the Operating System, we buy it to get things done. Whichever OS lets you do that best without getting in the way is the winner. For me, that is Windows XP. Simple, fast, predictable.
Yep, companies are having to screen people by measures that exceed "do they have a BS", because they find that no matter which school you went to(or your GPA), it is not an indication of how well you will work.
The customer pays the company extra, but they company in turn wouldn't pay the developers who are burning the midnight oil extra.
"Want it a month sooner? Sure, we can do that for you"
Perhaps one pro would be that you could dump them for a pretty penny just when the Social Media bubble bursts. There were plenty who did the same with the.com bubble, but many who lost a lot.
My guess is investing newbs, people who would not ordinarily invest, will buy fb shares, and they will be left holding them when the price crashes.
Just keep in mind that even though Blizzard may have put DRM into Diablo 3 to attempt to battle the pirates, the pirated copy will still be better than the legit one. So in the end it is the actual paying users that suffer, not the pirates.
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Yes, I understand the "yelling fire in a crowded theater" concept. It just seems foolish to put on the record, all of your social speech.
Everything you say to your friends on facebook, for example, can easily be used against you. Or Google Chat, or any service like Twitter. You may not be required to use your real name, but they have your IP, and all of your "friends", so we have taken what we typically said in private at parties, and put it out in the open, so that at anytime in your life, it can be used against you.
If you can be punished for saying the wrong thing on social media, then we should consider social media as a liability. Only post things that the court of law would deem appropriate.
It's like big brother gave you a terminal to type into. Whatever you say can and will be used against you.
Microsoft sees that they need to get into the "app" market to increase their profits, so they make a platform that puts "apps" first. Microsoft traditionally has removed options from users in subsequent OS changes, Windows 8 is the next progression of it.
How can you encourage people to upgrade if the UI looks the same? It would be much harder to do that.
I personally supplement Windows XP and 7 with tweaks that make it easy to do multiple things (VirtuaWin for multiple desktops, Find and Run robot for quickly opening programs, Winsplit Revolution for moving application windows to predefined areas, WizMouse for scrolling windows not in focus). I wish I could easily do all of those in Linux, but so far, it seems it would require a good amount of work to get it to work.
Music and Movie Industry has a broken model, so everyone has to pay? How does that make sense?
If your product doesn't compete, it should fail. There is a rise of Indie music and movies which in many cases are better than the Main stream equivalent.
That's just what I was going to recommend.
Maybe delivery drivers + self addressed envelopes so that they can send them back.
You're gonna love the first episode in the new series of Red Dwarf.
I'll check it out, thanks!
good, and i hope you don't use any of those products or visit and ad-supported websites. or maybe you just like talking the talk?
I try to limit my exposure to those products and ad-supported websites. I have transitioned from gmail to a provider that offers free email without ads (but a limited inbox size). I also have emptied my Dropbox folder, deleting all backups.
The biggest challenge is to synchronize data among various devices, without the cloud.
The thing is, the ribbon interface isn't a choice. I imagine many people would be happy enabling it, but MS does not supply that option. Which is why we complain.
Keep the Doctor Who series the same quality show that I have come to love, it is the very last show I can bear. You have to love a show where the main character's weapon, is his mind.
is to set minimum spec's for the devices that are supported by the Google Market. They should have required a minimum discrete GPU if they wanted to guarantee minimum operating performance, but that didn't align with their needs...
All google cares about is maintaining the quality of their advertising platform, Android. Yes, a free phone OS sounds nice, until you realize that they store every action you perform on that device, or everywhere you go with that device. While databases like this have existed before (carriers can easily keep track of where you are via cell towers), what makes google so nefarious, is that they are so good at it.
Imagine every strange search query being saved (including all characters until you finally pressed enter), your exact picture being saved, every email you have ever sent being saved. It's a one stop shop for all the data that is you (well, need to stop by facebook as well). You give one company that power, for what?
I guess it's easier than making up a story that typical /. does, but still...
Just because, that is how many people would appreciate it.
This is a non-story, which isn't "News for Nerds" or "Stuff that matters".
Sorry to discourage you, but I have found that using pen and paper is the best way to take notes. Why? Maybe it helps your brain process what your trying to learn. It could be that it is distraction free. I know that it is the simplest way to take notes, and often times, the simplest is the best.
I notice that MS is using the success they've had with advertising on XBOX to transform their other projects into similiar Ad platforms. That is why the Metro interface looks like the XBox dashboard, so that it will be easier to slip advertisements in it. Outlook.com will be no different.
Whoosh!
Now with 3D Ad's!
Exactly. We don't buy a computer to play with the Operating System, we buy it to get things done. Whichever OS lets you do that best without getting in the way is the winner. For me, that is Windows XP. Simple, fast, predictable.
5. Facebook sells to some other corporation such as Yahoo to cash out for good.
Yep, companies are having to screen people by measures that exceed "do they have a BS", because they find that no matter which school you went to(or your GPA), it is not an indication of how well you will work.
The customer pays the company extra, but they company in turn wouldn't pay the developers who are burning the midnight oil extra. "Want it a month sooner? Sure, we can do that for you"
Wish there were options to switch to, will see if there are any small ISP's left.
Perhaps one pro would be that you could dump them for a pretty penny just when the Social Media bubble bursts. There were plenty who did the same with the .com bubble, but many who lost a lot.
My guess is investing newbs, people who would not ordinarily invest, will buy fb shares, and they will be left holding them when the price crashes.
That is just a simple message board, worse than reddit.
Well, provided that your okay with offline play. To play online, go legit.
Just keep in mind that even though Blizzard may have put DRM into Diablo 3 to attempt to battle the pirates, the pirated copy will still be better than the legit one. So in the end it is the actual paying users that suffer, not the pirates.