I always thought the "Do No Evil" thing was a bit weak. As in, I'm not doing evil, I'm just being an asshole.
I think "Don't be a dick" would be a better, and harder, mantra to follow. If they followed that, then they'd pay their share of taxes, stand up to the cell phone oligarchy a bit more, and not shove Google+ down your throat every opportunity.
And to be pedantic, no it has not literally lost all meaning.
A warning, this isn't a true NAS, this is an SMB share on a router. No hard core robustness, especially with FAT. (something corrupted one of my drives) My suggestion would be to not export this as a read/write share.
Life Of Pi used 3D for metaphorical depth. It had it's moments when Pi was released against the vastness of the Universe (capitalization c/o Buckminster Fuller) and he seemed lost and insignificant against this vastness. It helped at that point. In some ways, it was more of a metaphorical tool than either Avatar or Hobbit, which they used to show the depth of the worlds they inhabited, but not really a metaphor. It's subtle and wasn't critical to the story, but it did help, IMHO.
Me being oddly pedantic... The katana is the long sword, too long to commit seppuku easily. The wakizashi is the (usually) smaller, backup blade that can be used for seppuku (among other things).
Related - the movie Harakari is awesome. It was also recently remade.
Back to your original idea - there is no one thing. Arguing that "it's not X, look at country Somewhere-ia which also has X" doesn't solve that There are many things that fold in. The issue is easy access to guns AND a culture that tolerates violence AND (related to that) a culture that glorifies violence AND a weak social safety net that makes violence as a means to get money a real option for a subset of people AND a bad mental health program that either criminalizes mental health issues or forces them underground AND...
Well, I could add on a few more, but you get the picture. There is no one answer. This is a long hard slog. We have to push on many fronts. Saying "well, doing X won't solve the problem" is true. Because we have to do Y, Z,.... But it may be a start.
Two destroyed buildings and 3000 deaths was enough for the US to use military and economic force to change the rest of the world (and kill millions).
Two destroyed buildings and just under 3000 deaths was just the trigger to perform what Bush wanted to do from Day 1. It was a pre-emptive war with a very thin and false justification by the Towers. There is no such underlying push to take out N. Korea. The reaction, though intense, will not be quite the same.
Iraq had oil. N Korea has millions of starving people. There are much fewer spoils for the victor there.
I always thought that "do no evil" was a bit weak. A mining company could say "well we only maimed. 10 employees today, but no one killed.... that's not really evil is it?" A better policy would be "don't be a dick".
So we have Google, which started in a government funded university using a network with initially designed and funded by the government to make piles of money, that refuses to give back to the government in way of taxes. Maybe not evil, but definitely dick-ish.
The same site did a similar test with iOS browsers, and the performance results were very similar, which isn't exactly surprising since they all use the same back end.
Actually, 3rd party browsers will be slightly worse, since they can not access the Nitro Javascript engine, which is significantly faster.
I have a box at my house that signs into google voice to do VOIP. you can log into it (if i ever bothered to make the firewall work) with an iOS app and use that to make calls. This can call any phone endpoint, not just BlackBerries.
So, as listed over and over in this forum, there are several different ways to already do this. By baking it into BBM, they're both making it slightly easier (and harder, you ever try to remember a friend's BBM ID?) and slightly less useful - this is limited to the dwindling number of friends i'd have with BlackBerries and who also would bother to upgrade to this OS version.
This will maybe save a just a couple current users from jumping ship, as this may weigh very small into their mental calculations about if they should change. But it will not get new users, which is what RIM needs more.
Republicans had a chance, but they needed a stronger candidate. Why is it so hard to find one strong candidate? I mean, look at who Romney was competing against at the end -- Gingrich, McCain, Santorum...
Republican candidate issues can (mostly) be placed at the feet of the Republican party. The only person who could possibly fit through their obstacle course was Romney, only because he was the best in changing positions (a/k/a outright lying about what he really was).
Case in point: Christie post-Sandy. The fact he actually praised Obama for helping his state, and Christie doing the job he's supposed to (helping his electorate) gets him skewered in the press. Any remotely moderate candidate for office gets a hard-core conservative Republican challenger in the primaries. The fact that Republicans have to deal with: the current system for vetting candidates makes them appeal to a hard core conservative wing that hurts them in any nationwide election. You may be able to get Texas to be vote for God and guns, but you're running in 50 states.
The fault is not in (y)our stars, but in (y)ourselves.
Slightly off-topic, but i highly recommend seeing Broke from ESPN's very good 30 for 30 series. All about how sudden riches for people who are not ready for them can cause real problems.
In the movie a shoulder fired antiaircraft missile was supposed to be disabled. It was - it's flight computer was in fact disabled. But they used the explosives to blow up a ship.
The world is a big place. You trying to shut down *everything* bad that can ever happen isn't gonna work out how you planned.
Romney's economic policy as been "cut spending like crazy, and assume that people will see we're cutting spending and a miracle will happen and we'll be good". Austerity! Look to Britain, which has had a longer slump then the Great Depression as how wrong-headed a policy this is. Ireland also tried this, their economy is pathetic.
Romney's other idea is "the economy will get better because I am awesome". His awesomeness will make the Dow Rise, the sky brighter, etc. He has no other ideas.
Meanwhile the world economy is slipping back into recession. Europe is a train wreck in very very slow motion. Japan can't move out of it's own way. China is retrenching. If we practiced austerity in any meaningful way, the global economy is toast. America still makes it's own gravity, and drags others with it. Other countries hope the next President won't make things much much worse.
I kind of know what you mean, but Apple is no overvalued dotcom. Their price/earnings ratio has been under 15 for a while. Lower than Google's, much lower than Facebook. Apple has a high valuation for a reason.
Pixar reverse acquired Disney. Toy Story 3. About the best #3 movie you can get.
Marvel, they're comic book movies. None are great, but have given them massive amounts of cash.
Muppets, well, not a classic film, but they did give the film to a Muppet nut, and let him run his vision. I can't say he ruined anything. It had it's moments. Even won an Oscar, in an off category.
It s not about the method, it's people have a specific wired set of beliefs, and some need to hold onto them so tightly they'd rather kill you than go back on their foundations.
A billion years ago.. well, maybe not.... This is all from memory. I didn't have anything specific to do with any of these groups, though my job depended on HTTP, HTML and web server programming, so I kept an interest.
Netscape as a company was toast. They had been beaten by IE, they weren't moving servers (I used Netscape's webserver once, and found it was pretty clunky compared to Apache even in those days). As they shrank, they what code they could to the Mozilla project.
So, now you have these smart and fast engineers, and with less corporate management you can let them run free and produce the greatest browser ever! Well, not really... it looked like Navigator, but with no market researchers telling them no, they're free to jam even more features in it. Lets keep usenet there, even though only geeks know what an NNTP server is. Lets keep mail and a web browser together. And lets add IRC chat, cause everyone uses IRC right? As for the shiny stuff under, lets rewrite COM to be cross platform! Lets write a cross platform XML based GUI! In short, it was a mess. It was crash prone, and even the shiny cool tech under was shiny and cool (the XML based GUI layout engine has been copied by many now, including Microsoft) it was not ready for prime time. It was just too big, too bulky to get right. And too much for the timelines they wanted to use. The fact that they coded a lot of other tools (Bugzilla, Tinderbox) didn't help timelines either. They had good ideas, its just the three goals "code everything", "code perfectly", and "release early and often" just don't mix.
As it stuttered, a group of Mozilla folks forked some of the code and made a lean mean browser. Since they thought Mozilla was bogged down, they wanted to rise from the ashes of Netscape and Mozilla, and called their fork Phoenix. Even early on, it was fast, lean, and got a lot of attention. Very early, it was obvious that this was the direction of Mozilla. Then the name changes. Eventually, Phoenix tech, the guys that make the BIOS on your box sued. They might want to have a webclient in the BIOS, and a Phoenix web browser may be confusing. OK, lets call it Firebird. And then we call the mail client Thunderbird, very cool. But wait, there is already an OpenSource project called Firebird. So, we get Firefox.
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Jokes aside, there was a rim.jobs website a while ago, for applying for employment at RIM.
No, it's mostly wallets.
Nobody goes there anymore - it's too crowded.
-- Lawrence "Yogi" Berra.
I always thought the "Do No Evil" thing was a bit weak. As in, I'm not doing evil, I'm just being an asshole.
I think "Don't be a dick" would be a better, and harder, mantra to follow. If they followed that, then they'd pay their share of taxes, stand up to the cell phone oligarchy a bit more, and not shove Google+ down your throat every opportunity.
And to be pedantic, no it has not literally lost all meaning.
I have an E4200
1) fat32 drives work.
2) multiple shares also work.
A warning, this isn't a true NAS, this is an SMB share on a router. No hard core robustness, especially with FAT. (something corrupted one of my drives) My suggestion would be to not export this as a read/write share.
Life Of Pi used 3D for metaphorical depth. It had it's moments when Pi was released against the vastness of the Universe (capitalization c/o Buckminster Fuller) and he seemed lost and insignificant against this vastness. It helped at that point. In some ways, it was more of a metaphorical tool than either Avatar or Hobbit, which they used to show the depth of the worlds they inhabited, but not really a metaphor. It's subtle and wasn't critical to the story, but it did help, IMHO.
Me being oddly pedantic... The katana is the long sword, too long to commit seppuku easily. The wakizashi is the (usually) smaller, backup blade that can be used for seppuku (among other things).
Related - the movie Harakari is awesome. It was also recently remade.
Back to your original idea - there is no one thing. Arguing that "it's not X, look at country Somewhere-ia which also has X" doesn't solve that There are many things that fold in. The issue is easy access to guns AND a culture that tolerates violence AND (related to that) a culture that glorifies violence AND a weak social safety net that makes violence as a means to get money a real option for a subset of people AND a bad mental health program that either criminalizes mental health issues or forces them underground AND...
Well, I could add on a few more, but you get the picture. There is no one answer. This is a long hard slog. We have to push on many fronts. Saying "well, doing X won't solve the problem" is true. Because we have to do Y, Z, .... But it may be a start.
Two destroyed buildings and just under 3000 deaths was just the trigger to perform what Bush wanted to do from Day 1. It was a pre-emptive war with a very thin and false justification by the Towers. There is no such underlying push to take out N. Korea. The reaction, though intense, will not be quite the same.
Iraq had oil. N Korea has millions of starving people. There are much fewer spoils for the victor there.
I always thought that "do no evil" was a bit weak. A mining company could say "well we only maimed. 10 employees today, but no one killed.... that's not really evil is it?" A better policy would be "don't be a dick".
So we have Google, which started in a government funded university using a network with initially designed and funded by the government to make piles of money, that refuses to give back to the government in way of taxes. Maybe not evil, but definitely dick-ish.
Actually, 3rd party browsers will be slightly worse, since they can not access the Nitro Javascript engine, which is significantly faster.
Well, they can't unless you jailbreak it
Vegas is old enough to have much immature life.
I have a box at my house that signs into google voice to do VOIP. you can log into it (if i ever bothered to make the firewall work) with an iOS app and use that to make calls. This can call any phone endpoint, not just BlackBerries.
So, as listed over and over in this forum, there are several different ways to already do this. By baking it into BBM, they're both making it slightly easier (and harder, you ever try to remember a friend's BBM ID?) and slightly less useful - this is limited to the dwindling number of friends i'd have with BlackBerries and who also would bother to upgrade to this OS version.
This will maybe save a just a couple current users from jumping ship, as this may weigh very small into their mental calculations about if they should change. But it will not get new users, which is what RIM needs more.
I only clicked the comments to check on XBMC support. This too makes it a non-starter for me.
Republican candidate issues can (mostly) be placed at the feet of the Republican party. The only person who could possibly fit through their obstacle course was Romney, only because he was the best in changing positions (a/k/a outright lying about what he really was).
Case in point: Christie post-Sandy. The fact he actually praised Obama for helping his state, and Christie doing the job he's supposed to (helping his electorate) gets him skewered in the press. Any remotely moderate candidate for office gets a hard-core conservative Republican challenger in the primaries. The fact that Republicans have to deal with: the current system for vetting candidates makes them appeal to a hard core conservative wing that hurts them in any nationwide election. You may be able to get Texas to be vote for God and guns, but you're running in 50 states.
The fault is not in (y)our stars, but in (y)ourselves.
Everything is an abbreviation to Computer geeks. Calling them apps has always been common.
The original MacApp was a framework for building apps on the Mac. Web Applications have been WebApps since the 90's.
Slightly off-topic, but i highly recommend seeing Broke from ESPN's very good 30 for 30 series. All about how sudden riches for people who are not ready for them can cause real problems.
In the movie a shoulder fired antiaircraft missile was supposed to be disabled. It was - it's flight computer was in fact disabled. But they used the explosives to blow up a ship.
The world is a big place. You trying to shut down *everything* bad that can ever happen isn't gonna work out how you planned.
Also, a more sane economic policy.
Romney's economic policy as been "cut spending like crazy, and assume that people will see we're cutting spending and a miracle will happen and we'll be good". Austerity! Look to Britain, which has had a longer slump then the Great Depression as how wrong-headed a policy this is. Ireland also tried this, their economy is pathetic.
Romney's other idea is "the economy will get better because I am awesome". His awesomeness will make the Dow Rise, the sky brighter, etc. He has no other ideas.
Meanwhile the world economy is slipping back into recession. Europe is a train wreck in very very slow motion. Japan can't move out of it's own way. China is retrenching. If we practiced austerity in any meaningful way, the global economy is toast. America still makes it's own gravity, and drags others with it. Other countries hope the next President won't make things much much worse.
"... rest of the mortals"
I kind of know what you mean, but Apple is no overvalued dotcom. Their price/earnings ratio has been under 15 for a while. Lower than Google's, much lower than Facebook. Apple has a high valuation for a reason.
Slightly off topic, but this is how you're coached to defend in basketball and football too. Check the opponents center of gravity, not their eyes.
Pixar reverse acquired Disney. Toy Story 3. About the best #3 movie you can get.
Marvel, they're comic book movies. None are great, but have given them massive amounts of cash.
Muppets, well, not a classic film, but they did give the film to a Muppet nut, and let him run his vision. I can't say he ruined anything. It had it's moments. Even won an Oscar, in an off category.
So, last we left our friends on the Ewok planet Endor, do I see an Ewok Christmas 2 on the horizon? A very Ewok Hannukah? A somber Ewok Kwanzaa?
Socrates tried this.
They made him kill himself.
It s not about the method, it's people have a specific wired set of beliefs, and some need to hold onto them so tightly they'd rather kill you than go back on their foundations.
I personally use them as nightlights.
A billion years ago.. well, maybe not.... This is all from memory. I didn't have anything specific to do with any of these groups, though my job depended on HTTP, HTML and web server programming, so I kept an interest.
Netscape as a company was toast. They had been beaten by IE, they weren't moving servers (I used Netscape's webserver once, and found it was pretty clunky compared to Apache even in those days). As they shrank, they what code they could to the Mozilla project.
So, now you have these smart and fast engineers, and with less corporate management you can let them run free and produce the greatest browser ever! Well, not really... it looked like Navigator, but with no market researchers telling them no, they're free to jam even more features in it. Lets keep usenet there, even though only geeks know what an NNTP server is. Lets keep mail and a web browser together. And lets add IRC chat, cause everyone uses IRC right? As for the shiny stuff under, lets rewrite COM to be cross platform! Lets write a cross platform XML based GUI! In short, it was a mess. It was crash prone, and even the shiny cool tech under was shiny and cool (the XML based GUI layout engine has been copied by many now, including Microsoft) it was not ready for prime time. It was just too big, too bulky to get right. And too much for the timelines they wanted to use. The fact that they coded a lot of other tools (Bugzilla, Tinderbox) didn't help timelines either. They had good ideas, its just the three goals "code everything", "code perfectly", and "release early and often" just don't mix.
As it stuttered, a group of Mozilla folks forked some of the code and made a lean mean browser. Since they thought Mozilla was bogged down, they wanted to rise from the ashes of Netscape and Mozilla, and called their fork Phoenix. Even early on, it was fast, lean, and got a lot of attention. Very early, it was obvious that this was the direction of Mozilla. Then the name changes. Eventually, Phoenix tech, the guys that make the BIOS on your box sued. They might want to have a webclient in the BIOS, and a Phoenix web browser may be confusing. OK, lets call it Firebird. And then we call the mail client Thunderbird, very cool. But wait, there is already an OpenSource project called Firebird. So, we get Firefox.