It is paranoid to think passport will "take over the world"- most businesses have margins so tight they would not even consider paying MS a fee to use passport, and what user wants to pay a fee for the "convenience"-
I think you'll find that users pay fees for the "convenience" of something all the time. What about shipping and handling charges on EVERYTHING one buys on the Net, when one could walk outside on a gray Chicago day at 24 degrees and buy something without that charge? Webvan and Kosmo may have collapsed, but that was from bad business strategies, not lack of customers. People will always be willing to pay a few more dollars if it makes simple tasks easier.
Passport offers users "easier" logins (in principle, anyway; in RL it's slow and clunky) and people will pay for that with lack of privacy. We do it all the time. It's not too unrealistic to think that M$ could charge for using the Passport service in the future; "can you believe they're going to make us pay to read Salon.com?" It's like any other $ervice.
How, exactly, is this camera going to take pictures without a light? I mean, I see the diagram, I read the article...what gives?
Someone, as usual, clue me in.
Honestly, I don't know where the people that did that study were researching, or who they were questioning. I think if girls have a choice of: getting ahead in the world through intelligence and knowledge of computer skills; (let's bring up that 5-1 ratio again) always having a date; talking to guys who share similar interests and having INTELLIGENT conversations; relying on themselves instead of tech support or slimy salesmen; and generally making themselves less helpless, the smart thing to do would be to be a geek. but haven't the geeks always known that?
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I think you'll find that users pay fees for the "convenience" of something all the time. What about shipping and handling charges on EVERYTHING one buys on the Net, when one could walk outside on a gray Chicago day at 24 degrees and buy something without that charge? Webvan and Kosmo may have collapsed, but that was from bad business strategies, not lack of customers. People will always be willing to pay a few more dollars if it makes simple tasks easier.
Passport offers users "easier" logins (in principle, anyway; in RL it's slow and clunky) and people will pay for that with lack of privacy. We do it all the time. It's not too unrealistic to think that M$ could charge for using the Passport service in the future; "can you believe they're going to make us pay to read Salon.com?" It's like any other $ervice.
How, exactly, is this camera going to take pictures without a light? I mean, I see the diagram, I read the article...what gives? Someone, as usual, clue me in.
Honestly, I don't know where the people that did that study were researching, or who they were questioning. I think if girls have a choice of: getting ahead in the world through intelligence and knowledge of computer skills; (let's bring up that 5-1 ratio again) always having a date; talking to guys who share similar interests and having INTELLIGENT conversations; relying on themselves instead of tech support or slimy salesmen; and generally making themselves less helpless, the smart thing to do would be to be a geek. but haven't the geeks always known that?