This is one of a series of "Facebook-taking-on-X" trial balloons, where X is a well-known, highly-capitalized company with a real business model. The last wave had X = Google, which made no sense at all because Google's search rocks, while Facebook can barely tie its shoes with its own search (try searching comments on your own Wall if you don't believe me).
The legions of Cloud fanboys will be all over this, because Facebook can't really create apps in the same way that the iTunes store can, so of course it means transient operation. (Ignore slow download times and bad performance because everything has to run on a scripting engine.) Techcrunch isn't much on actual analysis, but they sure do a great job as a press release outlet.
The Cloud is a great deal for the provider, and a terrible deal for the customer. No data security, and no guarantees in case of a catastrophic provider failure.
Yup.
"The cloud" is just another way to rip people off while making it more expensive to play music you ostensibly own (mobile devices increasingly come with per-megabyte limits). Why is this attractive to ANY customer?
The last time I tried to buy MP3s at Amazon, I was assaulted with a hard sales pitch for their cloud services, now apparently the default for download if you don't look closely. No, never.
However, those involved in budget matters often produce two sets of numbers, one without Social Security included in the budget totals and one with Social Security included. Thus, Social Security is still frequently treated as though it were part of the unified federal budget even though, technically, it no longer is.
The "included in" numbers are, without exception, the ones used for public consumption.
And who does Obama think he is, a czar from old pre-Soviet Russia?
Electric cars will succeed or fail based on their utility to actual customers, not because of some cockamamie subsidy scheme.
is about making people feel the capital costs needed at peak times. Currently this is not the case. I fail to see how this will make energy more affordable.
Is there some reason people continue to think Java is a good idea in handhelds? It's almost a religion, and no amount of dissuading seems enough to change people's minds.
... remembering how to write their own language thanks to auto-completing Latin-to-Chinese. The Chinese takeover of the Web may yet happen, but I wonder how long it will be before Chinese itself is overtaken by some Latin transliterations.
Has Joel Spolsky done anything that's worth a damn? I am a long-time user of Fogbugz, and can attest to that product's general lack of attention to detail in its design. It's almost as if it were written by people who hated each other and didn't want to communicate. Several of my co-workers attended a release conference with him present, and the uniform reaction I got back from them was that he had moved on from Fogbugz, wasn't interested in the problems we had found in its implementation, and was fascinated by some other product.
But getting back to this, Garcia's list appears to be fairly sound. I have some comments on two of his modified questions:
Do you use a distributed source control system? Why should I care about distributed source code control in a monolithic commercial development environment? I can see its value in a distributed open-source project, but I really don't understand the necessity otherwise.
Do you fix bugs before implementing new features?All bugs? Some bugs? This tells me nothing about prioritization. Sometimes you need to do both at once. Sometimes it's not worth it to fix a bug if the circumstance is rare enough.
is the fact that we have apparent non-experts deciding whether what he took was in fact proprietary, and the case is sealed so we cannot judge for ourselves. On the other hand, if what he took was legitimately open source, how comes it he couldn't have downloaded that elsewhere and saved himself a trial?
This reading utterly misses the fact that the Pentagon Papers were commissioned and released during the Johnson Administration. I very much doubt that LBJ or many Congressional Democrats at the time favored the release of those papers.
By implanting the gold nanoparticles into the leaves of the Bacopa caroliniana plants, the scientists were able to induce the chlorophyll in the leaves to produce a red emission. Under a high wavelength of ultraviolet light, the gold nanoparticles were able to produce a blue-violet fluorescence to trigger a red emission in the surrounding chlorophyll.
So it appears as though the effect requires an outside energy source to be useful. Nothing to see here, move on.
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Watch him start a "consulting" business that counts among its clients some very high profile tech companies.
This is one of a series of "Facebook-taking-on-X" trial balloons, where X is a well-known, highly-capitalized company with a real business model. The last wave had X = Google, which made no sense at all because Google's search rocks, while Facebook can barely tie its shoes with its own search (try searching comments on your own Wall if you don't believe me).
The legions of Cloud fanboys will be all over this, because Facebook can't really create apps in the same way that the iTunes store can, so of course it means transient operation. (Ignore slow download times and bad performance because everything has to run on a scripting engine.) Techcrunch isn't much on actual analysis, but they sure do a great job as a press release outlet.
The "enough to power X number of homes" is therefore a kind of fraud.
the cops could have avoided all that trouble, and then it would just be a he-said/she-said scenario. Neat. Clean.
Hubris, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
And isn't it the case now that stuff is embedded in all the major telecom hardware makers?
The Cloud is a great deal for the provider, and a terrible deal for the customer. No data security, and no guarantees in case of a catastrophic provider failure.
People who have money put in solar panels. People who have money ALSO live in rich neighborhoods. Who knew?
Yup. "The cloud" is just another way to rip people off while making it more expensive to play music you ostensibly own (mobile devices increasingly come with per-megabyte limits). Why is this attractive to ANY customer? The last time I tried to buy MP3s at Amazon, I was assaulted with a hard sales pitch for their cloud services, now apparently the default for download if you don't look closely. No, never.
This actually doesn't seem to be the case. There are some indications of radioactive cesium and iodine.
4G is in the eye of the beholder. As it always was.
This is what the Social Security Administration has to say about it:
The "included in" numbers are, without exception, the ones used for public consumption.
Boing Boing captures a great comeback at a Kenneth Cole store.
And who does Obama think he is, a czar from old pre-Soviet Russia? Electric cars will succeed or fail based on their utility to actual customers, not because of some cockamamie subsidy scheme.
If people wanted to be on a train in Europe, they have plenty of opportunities to do so.
Wouldn't this falsely convict anyone carrying a Windows Phone 7 phone, which sends tons of data unbidden?
is about making people feel the capital costs needed at peak times. Currently this is not the case. I fail to see how this will make energy more affordable.
Is there some reason people continue to think Java is a good idea in handhelds? It's almost a religion, and no amount of dissuading seems enough to change people's minds.
That is all.
... remembering how to write their own language thanks to auto-completing Latin-to-Chinese. The Chinese takeover of the Web may yet happen, but I wonder how long it will be before Chinese itself is overtaken by some Latin transliterations.
But getting back to this, Garcia's list appears to be fairly sound. I have some comments on two of his modified questions:
Do you use a distributed source control system? Why should I care about distributed source code control in a monolithic commercial development environment? I can see its value in a distributed open-source project, but I really don't understand the necessity otherwise.
Do you fix bugs before implementing new features? All bugs? Some bugs? This tells me nothing about prioritization. Sometimes you need to do both at once. Sometimes it's not worth it to fix a bug if the circumstance is rare enough.
Carbon monoxide is the starting point for Fischer-Tropsch synthesis.
is the fact that we have apparent non-experts deciding whether what he took was in fact proprietary, and the case is sealed so we cannot judge for ourselves. On the other hand, if what he took was legitimately open source, how comes it he couldn't have downloaded that elsewhere and saved himself a trial?
This reading utterly misses the fact that the Pentagon Papers were commissioned and released during the Johnson Administration. I very much doubt that LBJ or many Congressional Democrats at the time favored the release of those papers.
So it appears as though the effect requires an outside energy source to be useful. Nothing to see here, move on.