5. The App Store is primarily a fence, not a farm. Its purpose is to make the iPhone safe as a mass market device. So long as there are _enough_ apps to keep iPhone users giggly with delight as they finger their toy -- and there are plenty -- Apple will choose to err on the side of over-censoring. Better to block an app that might offend than make the iPhone seem threatening or risque.
This totalitarianism has been so successful for Apple that we should expect it to grow upwards as Apple introduces its next round of mass-market "computers," such as the rumored iPad.
Because of the strict limits on the number of atoms per issue, journals reject perfectly good science that isn't important enough science. And that makes us stupider.
To assume they were genuinely seat savers, we'd have to also assume that dozens of lobbyists intended to show up but were somehow all delayed, and thus all missed the panel they'd flown in for.
I was there. The "seat savers" sat there all morning, applauded loudly for David Cohen (the Comcast guy), and left immediately after that first panel. They were not replaced by lobbyists or Comcast employees simultaneously muttering "Darn that flat tire" under their breaths. They were replaced mainly by students.
I myself have been showing disturbing signs of being compulsively human. I've noticed that I feel an urge I simply cannot control to be social. This really began to scare me when I tried not to talk and found that after a mere seven hours - seven hours! -- I said, "Howya doin'?" to the bagger at the supermarket. I didn't want to. It just slipped out. I couldn't control myself. Ever since, I've given in to my urge - yes, I know, I'm sick - answering the phone when it rings, responding not only to questions but to mere pleasantries, and even initiating conversations when they weren't strictly required.
It's a nightmare. And it gets worse.
it's not just that when I'm with others, I - ugh! - participate in destructive social rituals like caring what people are saying. Even when I'm alone, kind thoughts about other people invade my consciousness. I feel an impulse to wonder what they're thinking and what matters to them. I try to focus on computing pi or to remember the 1955 Dodgers starting lineup, but I just can't shut out those images and feelings.
Sometimes - and I'm so ashamed to admit this - I use the Internet to sate these shameful urges.
Admitting all this in public is, I can only hope, the first step towards healing.
I'm sorry to be a weasel about this, but the "Crime against Humanity" headline came from Wired. I didn't know about it until I read it in the magazine. Even so, I took it as purposeful overstatement and, as a Jew well aware of the Holocaust, I'm not bothered by it.
It sounds like Jon's review is based on the first eight pages (of a book that won't be published until early April) in which I use shopping at eBay as a prosaic first example precisely because I figured it's a common experience. The book - the whole book - is my attempt to answer a question implicit in Jon's review. He says I'm "quite correct in suggesting that the hyperlinking era the Web begins is astounding, even revolutionary." If so, then what's it revolutionizing? If the Web is as boring and quotidian as Jon says, then what's astounding about it? For some of us, even while we're bidding on quilts at eBay or downloading porn, there's something importantly different about the Web. That's what the book's about. And one of its points is how extraordinary the ordinary is on the Web. Astonishment isn't such a bad response.
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So can it have a cure?
You know it's the only way this cheesy sf-horror premise gets any good.
Suppose I pay you $2.50 a month, and you tell me what the Times says?
5. The App Store is primarily a fence, not a farm. Its purpose is to make the iPhone safe as a mass market device. So long as there are _enough_ apps to keep iPhone users giggly with delight as they finger their toy -- and there are plenty -- Apple will choose to err on the side of over-censoring. Better to block an app that might offend than make the iPhone seem threatening or risque.
This totalitarianism has been so successful for Apple that we should expect it to grow upwards as Apple introduces its next round of mass-market "computers," such as the rumored iPad.
From the campaign:
We've been updating the entire website to ensure consistency across the pages. The full tech plan is still available on the page, so there is absolutely no substantive change to our policy -- folks who want more information can click to get our full plan. http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/issues/technology/Fact_Sheet_Innovation_and_Technology.pdf
Because of the strict limits on the number of atoms per issue, journals reject perfectly good science that isn't important enough science. And that makes us stupider.
To assume they were genuinely seat savers, we'd have to also assume that dozens of lobbyists intended to show up but were somehow all delayed, and thus all missed the panel they'd flown in for.
I was there. The "seat savers" sat there all morning, applauded loudly for David Cohen (the Comcast guy), and left immediately after that first panel. They were not replaced by lobbyists or Comcast employees simultaneously muttering "Darn that flat tire" under their breaths. They were replaced mainly by students.
Thank God!
I myself have been showing disturbing signs of being compulsively human. I've noticed that I feel an urge I simply cannot control to be social. This really began to scare me when I tried not to talk and found that after a mere seven hours - seven hours! -- I said, "Howya doin'?" to the bagger at the supermarket. I didn't want to. It just slipped out. I couldn't control myself. Ever since, I've given in to my urge - yes, I know, I'm sick - answering the phone when it rings, responding not only to questions but to mere pleasantries, and even initiating conversations when they weren't strictly required.
It's a nightmare. And it gets worse.
it's not just that when I'm with others, I - ugh! - participate in destructive social rituals like caring what people are saying. Even when I'm alone, kind thoughts about other people invade my consciousness. I feel an impulse to wonder what they're thinking and what matters to them. I try to focus on computing pi or to remember the 1955 Dodgers starting lineup, but I just can't shut out those images and feelings.
Sometimes - and I'm so ashamed to admit this - I use the Internet to sate these shameful urges.
Admitting all this in public is, I can only hope, the first step towards healing.
I'm sorry to be a weasel about this, but the "Crime against Humanity" headline came from Wired. I didn't know about it until I read it in the magazine. Even so, I took it as purposeful overstatement and, as a Jew well aware of the Holocaust, I'm not bothered by it.
- David Weinberger, the article's author.
It sounds like Jon's review is based on the first eight pages (of a book that won't be published until early April) in which I use shopping at eBay as a prosaic first example precisely because I figured it's a common experience. The book - the whole book - is my attempt to answer a question implicit in Jon's review. He says I'm "quite correct in suggesting that the hyperlinking era the Web begins is astounding, even revolutionary." If so, then what's it revolutionizing? If the Web is as boring and quotidian as Jon says, then what's astounding about it? For some of us, even while we're bidding on quilts at eBay or downloading porn, there's something importantly different about the Web. That's what the book's about. And one of its points is how extraordinary the ordinary is on the Web. Astonishment isn't such a bad response.