I agree you on product quality, and I use Macs, iPods/iPhones, and iWork (when I can), but Ballmer reminds me of any other arrogant and out of touch CEO out there, and is just a spokeshole for a collective of people who actually create cool things when they have near unlimited resources. I give him little credit but what the heck, give him all the blame, after all, that's what he is paid to do.
It's a societal thing this commerce stuff. I believe the story of how sane a society is told every time something is bought, sold, or traded. In Nepal we work with fractional margins yet still have a cup of tea and a chat over any deal.My only guess is that it's a matter of respect and child-rearing.
Well, I think you are missing the point. Facebook is not about discrete uploaded data by one user. That's a part of it, but it's all about the interaction and glues between the data shared from your machine and others. I think we should give Matt Asay the benefit of the doubt, and assume that's what he meant. That gorp is impossible to recreate or to re-store locally. There is no real way to get any of that out (some would argue 'why would you?'). But from a knowledge perspective, social networks are group silos, and if the farm burns, so it all goes. One might ask 'so what?'. But apparently the article was written as a tribute to an old Eagles song, and not much else is revealed, and no smell of colitas here.
Ha! But apple's app store is so full of bogus positive reviews for junk apps it's crazy. If all those reviews were real, it would be proof that human beings are rock stupid. The negative reviews are the only one's worth reading, and then discarded as disgruntled users of the product. Need a review? Download a trial version and review it yourself or get a money-back satisfaction guaranteed with return shipping paid deal. Trust no one.
Nabsterize? To distribute copyrighted materials without payment of royalties? Like Amazon does with free kindle books? No mention of the thousands of free books already online, no mention of Project Gutenberg, Feedbooks, etc. nor authors like Cory Doctrow? That's quality reporting for ya...slanted towards feeding the hungry money machines. But bad reporting aside, I've been doing all my reading online now for years, as anything made of paper is impossible to deal with on the road and in the Himalayas, unless you can read dogeared greasy ancient paperbacks and mags left over from generations of English-reading tourists. For books, I use Kindle for iPhone and Stanza, and they are both pretty good apps. Plenty of free/cheap stuff to keep you entertained (especially if you like old sci-fi or the classics). If you learn to live with less, you'll be happier:)
HA! I guess there are crooks and shadies everywhere. At least here, most folks are honest and would not think to hold you hostage...and they will also not give out your personal information without your consent. Here, everything is done on a personal level, from buying bananas to getting your website hosted. I think that makes a difference in QOS.
Most ISPs in India/Nepal operate like this as well. It's not true you can't change domains or that you don't own the domain, it just means that you have to go through your provider to make any changes. Not a big deal, just an email.
Interesting that. I was wondering about this the other day, why do "under developed" countries like Nepal have none of the problems discussed so much here on/.. Internet privacy is not an issue. Pedophilia is not an issue. Hmmm...
Not sure why you did NOT add in the time it takes to recover from a major derailment when the engineer screws up while texting little boys and slams into an oncoming freight train.That's at least 210 hours laid up if you survive. But seriously, while this is a worthwhile project for Cali, how are they going to pay for it...are they going to raise more taxes on soda pop & porno mags? But if it could be done without bankrupting my mother, it would be grand for those that have to fight the crowds at LAX.
Demonoid is out of commission as well right now, been down for almost two weeks. The mad craze for trying new software (and to make all the updates for Snow Leopard) has been dampened considerably, and peeps now find time to walk the dog and water the garden. My inside sources tell me the real reason Demoniod is down is due to the kidnapping of their lead database manager by MPAA insurgents, who stormed the facility in late September, extracting the prisoner and fragging a server cluster on the way out. Desperate times call for desperate measures it seems. Meanwhile, software sales are actually up around the globe, as folks are paying for piddly upgrades in hopes their apps will continue to work in OSX 10.6.1. With Demoniod and Piratebay down, the vast majority of decent Leopard torrents have dried up, leaving folks with unseeded downloads for Sims2 and ancient versions of Adobe CS suites. These are dark times indeed.
Crap, I can't even text on an iPhone when I am sitting at my desk and the phone is perched on it's suction cup stalk, so I can't imagine how it's done on American or UK roadways. What a hoot! But the bigger question is, why can't people just drive from point A to point B and do only that? Is it that hard to do one thing well, and with full attention on the doing? If drivers can't do that, then I think they are just plain stupid and ill-trained from birth.
Great stuff! Best I've read on/. all day. If I knew how to mod (or what that was) I would. Reminds me of Hunter S. shooting his TV. Somedays I feel I should just shoot the LCD and then grow rice for the rest of my life.
I think a distinction needs to be made here between hackers and users. You say "... or 2) increase company profit by trying to coerce hackers into buying a copy by not allowing them this download." The number of hackers using pirated software must be 1 in 100,000 or less. In hundreds of thousands of cases in Nepal alone, ordinary people who don't even have a clue what a hacker is, buy "quasi-legal" copies of XP and Vista or have them installed on PCs that they purchase here. They are clueless that this software is not legal (after all, they bought the disk from a licensed, tax-paying retailer). When they get WGA notifications, they simply ignore them. I don't think you can call these villagers "hackers" as they barely know how to install an anti-virus package. China, India, Burma, Sikkim, Pakistan, Afghanistan (all of SAARC) is in the same boat. Users here just live with rootkits and other baddies, and make up the huge botnet or whatever is out there. Even if given the option to buy the software, there is no way they can (the cost of the license is over one month's salary and/or they have no credit cards, as US currency is illegal to hold by natives). It seems since MS helped create this mess, they should do something to help fix it. I suppose it needs UN intervention at this point to bring about herd immunity in developing countries.
Read ur blog, don't understand how it relates, but I liked the blog post. On topic, I agree with posters that say they should ban all distractions possible, and just make driving safer - full stop. If there was a/. back when Nader was pushing seat belts, the comments would read just about the same as today: "Why shouldn't I have the right to move about the cabin as I feel fit?" I don't live in America anymore, and I never feel safe while on the road when I visit. However, where I do live now, I feel very safe whenever in a vehicle and I am never in a car alone - so always "distracted" while talking to my wife - hey hon, who's that on the phone? Works for us.
But the dude was still busted on cocaine possession, and the conviction held. However, kudos to the Mass Supreme Court for pointing to errs in police ways. The cops just have to get more creative then that to track down whoever, and quit trying to cut corners using technology - instead they should develop better detective skills.
Do we really need another framework or even another browser? From a web developer's viewpoint, I think we would all be better off with one browser in total, with an open plugin architecture and just one great render engine. I think this is what the world would want as well. I agree with what Baker says, and just wish an end to browser wars in my lifetime, as it's just gotten tiresome, and looks to get worse with Chrome coming on the scene. But I guess that's life on the web as it's always been...
Looks great, and the article by Emil Protalinski is well written. I am not a windows user (unless supporting XP, Vista, & 7 in VMWare 2 counts) and I am not going to renew Nod32 next time. Those detractors can't be trusted to review this new program, can they? A few months in the field here will give it a good test (India/Nepal) and I'll report back then. So far, the only thing that has given trouble free protection in this environment has been Nod32, which MSE sure looks a lot like from the screen shots. But as I tell my clients, to be really safe they have to run windows virtualized with snapshots or whatever, as it's the only 100% safe way to protect their PCs, albeit a bit technical. Thx/. for keeping on top of this...
i agree with you on the iphone. But iPhone kindle does not allow you to make margin notes and the bookmark thingee is not working well on my phone. Looks like for real students (for now), the best thing still out there is a marker pen and a physical book. good luck to them!
As someone who hosts the Nepali apple user group once a month, i found the one video i watched to be informative - useful - well thought out, and i am going to use all those tips the next time i setup a meeting. Gee wiz MS, thanks so much for that.
I guess I am just tired of the debate. When I was a kid we were all petrified by the thought of a Nuclear Winter. Now everyone is trembling over a climate change that would look like a Perpetual Summer. How much of "climate change" has to do with our apparent need to have something global to fear? I understand that we fixed the Nuclear Fear, but that was just replaced by a half dozen others. Now I just wonder what would happen if everyone overnight just became Fearless.
Exactly what I meant to say - thx. I'm old enough to remember the dream that by 2001 we would be drinking martinis on the way to the moonbase, as promised by A. Clarke. Look where we are now. (Can't even get a free beer on a decrepit 757.) NASA seems to be one of the last Ma Bells. I'm glad they are finding private companies to provide services, in fact, if they did not use SpaceX, where would they be now without a shuttle craft for the next 5-10 years? Kudos to SpaceX for bailing out America.
Ha Me, I guess you are more of an optimist then I am thinking that polls are fair, ethical, scientific, or not rigged most of the time. I find them entertaining, but that's about it. Cheers!
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I agree you on product quality, and I use Macs, iPods/iPhones, and iWork (when I can), but Ballmer reminds me of any other arrogant and out of touch CEO out there, and is just a spokeshole for a collective of people who actually create cool things when they have near unlimited resources. I give him little credit but what the heck, give him all the blame, after all, that's what he is paid to do.
It's a societal thing this commerce stuff. I believe the story of how sane a society is told every time something is bought, sold, or traded. In Nepal we work with fractional margins yet still have a cup of tea and a chat over any deal.My only guess is that it's a matter of respect and child-rearing.
Well, I think you are missing the point. Facebook is not about discrete uploaded data by one user. That's a part of it, but it's all about the interaction and glues between the data shared from your machine and others. I think we should give Matt Asay the benefit of the doubt, and assume that's what he meant. That gorp is impossible to recreate or to re-store locally. There is no real way to get any of that out (some would argue 'why would you?'). But from a knowledge perspective, social networks are group silos, and if the farm burns, so it all goes. One might ask 'so what?'. But apparently the article was written as a tribute to an old Eagles song, and not much else is revealed, and no smell of colitas here.
Ha! But apple's app store is so full of bogus positive reviews for junk apps it's crazy. If all those reviews were real, it would be proof that human beings are rock stupid. The negative reviews are the only one's worth reading, and then discarded as disgruntled users of the product. Need a review? Download a trial version and review it yourself or get a money-back satisfaction guaranteed with return shipping paid deal. Trust no one.
Nabsterize? To distribute copyrighted materials without payment of royalties? Like Amazon does with free kindle books? No mention of the thousands of free books already online, no mention of Project Gutenberg, Feedbooks, etc. nor authors like Cory Doctrow? That's quality reporting for ya...slanted towards feeding the hungry money machines. But bad reporting aside, I've been doing all my reading online now for years, as anything made of paper is impossible to deal with on the road and in the Himalayas, unless you can read dogeared greasy ancient paperbacks and mags left over from generations of English-reading tourists. For books, I use Kindle for iPhone and Stanza, and they are both pretty good apps. Plenty of free/cheap stuff to keep you entertained (especially if you like old sci-fi or the classics). If you learn to live with less, you'll be happier:)
HA! I guess there are crooks and shadies everywhere. At least here, most folks are honest and would not think to hold you hostage...and they will also not give out your personal information without your consent. Here, everything is done on a personal level, from buying bananas to getting your website hosted. I think that makes a difference in QOS.
Most ISPs in India/Nepal operate like this as well. It's not true you can't change domains or that you don't own the domain, it just means that you have to go through your provider to make any changes. Not a big deal, just an email.
Ditto, that PDF will rock your world if you are a Windows user. Wow. Well, thx for that, good to know...
Interesting that. I was wondering about this the other day, why do "under developed" countries like Nepal have none of the problems discussed so much here on /.. Internet privacy is not an issue. Pedophilia is not an issue. Hmmm...
Not sure why you did NOT add in the time it takes to recover from a major derailment when the engineer screws up while texting little boys and slams into an oncoming freight train.That's at least 210 hours laid up if you survive. But seriously, while this is a worthwhile project for Cali, how are they going to pay for it...are they going to raise more taxes on soda pop & porno mags? But if it could be done without bankrupting my mother, it would be grand for those that have to fight the crowds at LAX.
Demonoid is out of commission as well right now, been down for almost two weeks. The mad craze for trying new software (and to make all the updates for Snow Leopard) has been dampened considerably, and peeps now find time to walk the dog and water the garden. My inside sources tell me the real reason Demoniod is down is due to the kidnapping of their lead database manager by MPAA insurgents, who stormed the facility in late September, extracting the prisoner and fragging a server cluster on the way out. Desperate times call for desperate measures it seems. Meanwhile, software sales are actually up around the globe, as folks are paying for piddly upgrades in hopes their apps will continue to work in OSX 10.6.1. With Demoniod and Piratebay down, the vast majority of decent Leopard torrents have dried up, leaving folks with unseeded downloads for Sims2 and ancient versions of Adobe CS suites. These are dark times indeed.
Crap, I can't even text on an iPhone when I am sitting at my desk and the phone is perched on it's suction cup stalk, so I can't imagine how it's done on American or UK roadways. What a hoot! But the bigger question is, why can't people just drive from point A to point B and do only that? Is it that hard to do one thing well, and with full attention on the doing? If drivers can't do that, then I think they are just plain stupid and ill-trained from birth.
Great stuff! Best I've read on /. all day. If I knew how to mod (or what that was) I would. Reminds me of Hunter S. shooting his TV. Somedays I feel I should just shoot the LCD and then grow rice for the rest of my life.
I think a distinction needs to be made here between hackers and users. You say "... or 2) increase company profit by trying to coerce hackers into buying a copy by not allowing them this download." The number of hackers using pirated software must be 1 in 100,000 or less. In hundreds of thousands of cases in Nepal alone, ordinary people who don't even have a clue what a hacker is, buy "quasi-legal" copies of XP and Vista or have them installed on PCs that they purchase here. They are clueless that this software is not legal (after all, they bought the disk from a licensed, tax-paying retailer). When they get WGA notifications, they simply ignore them. I don't think you can call these villagers "hackers" as they barely know how to install an anti-virus package. China, India, Burma, Sikkim, Pakistan, Afghanistan (all of SAARC) is in the same boat. Users here just live with rootkits and other baddies, and make up the huge botnet or whatever is out there. Even if given the option to buy the software, there is no way they can (the cost of the license is over one month's salary and/or they have no credit cards, as US currency is illegal to hold by natives). It seems since MS helped create this mess, they should do something to help fix it. I suppose it needs UN intervention at this point to bring about herd immunity in developing countries.
Well, the supreme of MASS agrees with u! In this case, the behaviors were separated. All is well in America.
Read ur blog, don't understand how it relates, but I liked the blog post. On topic, I agree with posters that say they should ban all distractions possible, and just make driving safer - full stop. If there was a /. back when Nader was pushing seat belts, the comments would read just about the same as today: "Why shouldn't I have the right to move about the cabin as I feel fit?" I don't live in America anymore, and I never feel safe while on the road when I visit. However, where I do live now, I feel very safe whenever in a vehicle and I am never in a car alone - so always "distracted" while talking to my wife - hey hon, who's that on the phone? Works for us.
But the dude was still busted on cocaine possession, and the conviction held. However, kudos to the Mass Supreme Court for pointing to errs in police ways. The cops just have to get more creative then that to track down whoever, and quit trying to cut corners using technology - instead they should develop better detective skills.
Do we really need another framework or even another browser? From a web developer's viewpoint, I think we would all be better off with one browser in total, with an open plugin architecture and just one great render engine. I think this is what the world would want as well. I agree with what Baker says, and just wish an end to browser wars in my lifetime, as it's just gotten tiresome, and looks to get worse with Chrome coming on the scene. But I guess that's life on the web as it's always been...
Looks great, and the article by Emil Protalinski is well written. I am not a windows user (unless supporting XP, Vista, & 7 in VMWare 2 counts) and I am not going to renew Nod32 next time. Those detractors can't be trusted to review this new program, can they? A few months in the field here will give it a good test (India/Nepal) and I'll report back then. So far, the only thing that has given trouble free protection in this environment has been Nod32, which MSE sure looks a lot like from the screen shots. But as I tell my clients, to be really safe they have to run windows virtualized with snapshots or whatever, as it's the only 100% safe way to protect their PCs, albeit a bit technical. Thx /. for keeping on top of this...
i agree with you on the iphone. But iPhone kindle does not allow you to make margin notes and the bookmark thingee is not working well on my phone. Looks like for real students (for now), the best thing still out there is a marker pen and a physical book. good luck to them!
As someone who hosts the Nepali apple user group once a month, i found the one video i watched to be informative - useful - well thought out, and i am going to use all those tips the next time i setup a meeting. Gee wiz MS, thanks so much for that.
Let me answer that as soon as lemmings organize and create a UN, and then establish carbon taxes. Cheers!
I guess I am just tired of the debate. When I was a kid we were all petrified by the thought of a Nuclear Winter. Now everyone is trembling over a climate change that would look like a Perpetual Summer. How much of "climate change" has to do with our apparent need to have something global to fear? I understand that we fixed the Nuclear Fear, but that was just replaced by a half dozen others. Now I just wonder what would happen if everyone overnight just became Fearless.
Exactly what I meant to say - thx. I'm old enough to remember the dream that by 2001 we would be drinking martinis on the way to the moonbase, as promised by A. Clarke. Look where we are now. (Can't even get a free beer on a decrepit 757.) NASA seems to be one of the last Ma Bells. I'm glad they are finding private companies to provide services, in fact, if they did not use SpaceX, where would they be now without a shuttle craft for the next 5-10 years? Kudos to SpaceX for bailing out America.
Ha Me, I guess you are more of an optimist then I am thinking that polls are fair, ethical, scientific, or not rigged most of the time. I find them entertaining, but that's about it. Cheers!