Thank you for your comment, however your comment assumes that school administrators and parents can act with basic common sense and logic. That assumption is not possible in the United States in 2011.
So suing kids for sharing cupcakes is based on common sense and logic? If you think so than the problem lies not only with school administrators and parents
I think big IT issue in most corporations is not the lowly IT tech guys, but their management, especially the corporate architects, the directors and veeps, that have their head shoved so far up their asses they have no idea that they are allowed to and even required to innovate.
Based on my experience in several international corporations it's quite the contrary. The usual IT guy I had to deal with would be happy if he could lock everything, including a mouse and a keyboard. The less the users can interact with their computers the less likely they are to screw something up or to have questions, and in turn the less likely they are to bother the "lowly IT guys". Just as most other people, they would rather work less than more
I know what you mean, it felt the same way when I started. I was sitting there, wondering how to get more of my Facebook people over to G+ since it felt so empty. Then I started following William Shatner, then Guy Kawasaki, Alyssa Milano, Tren Reznor, Wil Wheaton, Michelle Marie.
In that case may I recommend following Jeri Ryan/7 of 9?;) Anyway, if G+ looks empty to anyone it's because they're doing it wrong. All it takes is a little interest in whom your friends circled, who replies to the posts of the people you follow. Or you could just sit and wait for google to do it for you, you know, automagically.
it means they already have Android phones - likely because the iPhone wasn't available on their carrier, or they absolutely hate Apple and refuse to buy Apple products
I believe the latter is true. Where I live all the major carriers have offered various versions of iPhones for more than 3 years and they're pretty rare. Most people choose android for its relative openness and because there are various phone models to choose from - anything from cheap entry-level models to beasts like Nexus S or Galaxy S 2. Not to mention that perceived price/value ratio is pretty low if you care about functionality and not the apple logo. When it comes to windows over the last six years I have actually met just one person using an Omnia and he's kind of a luddite...
Apple should be fined a stupid amount for such bullshit, as well as causing SERIOUS damage to sales from Samsung using doctored evidence.
Not only that but the people who submitted such evidence (and approved the move on behalf of Apple) should face criminal charges just as anyone else trying to lie to the court would.
Honestly, I can't even figure out who is voting the idots in at this point. Everyone I talk to hates every single politicain they know by name.
We have a similar problem where I live. However, I feel that in our case it's much easier for independent candidates and small parties to be heard and elected, while in the US it's either R or D (and frankly there's not much difference if you look from the outside).
Not to troll but if it goes on like this the safest option to travel across the US will be by car or train. And if other countries become concerned with degrading safety of US airlines it'll be ships for you if you want to go to Europe... Seriously guys, why don't you just vote all those idiots from their offices? You're a democracy, aren't you?
The rating agencies are a kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy. They give you good rating and people throw their money at you without bothering to check if the rating is justified; they rate you poorly and everyone will panic and there's no way you can convince them to listen to your explanations.
DRM cracked within weeks and paying customers left unplayable when disconnected while pirates will play happily offline.
Luckily, in some cases DRM gets cracked even before the game is released, often within a few days of its release and only rarely it takes weeks. You'd thing they would draw some conclusions...
Also it's important to note that Paypal has never been hacked in 10+ years which is very important for a company that stories credit card and bank account info.
A good book/movie/game will alway leave feeling it was too short, regardless of the number of pages/duration. A lousy story will be too long even if it fits on half a page. So it would seem that the only solution to the problem is to start making good games/movies instead of churning out dozens of shooter/racing clones and remakes. I think the problem is that many companies are headed by guys like Robert Kotick, who don't play games - just sell them.
The problem that I have with microtransactions is that a game that's designed around them is usually (I haven't yet seen an exception) that the primary focus is to make profit off the player. Whereas traditionally, the primary purpose was to entertain the player and thereby make money off of them.
Well, Team Fortress was a "normal" game, which is now free to play with a microtransaction system. The game is fun and the hats you can buy don't affect the game play that much;)
Not exactly. At the moment you can add people to circels whether they have a google account or not (and in some strange cases you can't add people who do and are in your contact list even if they have a profile but hey! pre-beta) but you can choose which g+ circles are visible to public. Eg I keep my "family" circle only to myself, while my "acquaintences" and "following" circles are visible to general public. However, people without a public profile are invisible to anyone but you (or so it seems at the moment) even if you add them to one of your "visible" circles. Google announced that they would soon delete all non-public profiles, though.
The economic system does not encourage greed. It's about economic freedom without a government dictating how you should spend/invest your money.
that's free market and free market != capitalism
sooo... if one of google's servers runs out of disk space doesn't it mean that people are quite busy using the service? And since it's in 'limited field trial" it means you need to try hard to get in - I know I had to - hence lack of "casual people"
Apple's entire strategy here is to extend their lock in while fixing one of the annoyances of multi-device usage with iTunes.
true, but most of the people using iPods/iPhones/iWhathaveyous just don't care - most importantly they are happy with a system which "just works", automagically at that, and they're pretty happy with paying a premium for Apple's logo and the illusion of being exceptional that comes with it for many.
Actually as a translator/interpreter I can tell you that one pass can mangle the source text beyond recognition. What the machine translation cannot deal with at a good level at the moment is context. So as an example: a single Polish word rak can be translated as: a crayfish, cancer or a crampon. The machine translation also makes a mess in case of present perfect and past perfect as Polish generally lacks perfect tenses. Similar problems always occur in case of language pairs with very different grammar. As a different example automatic Spanish to Polish translation sometimes gets better results than Spanish to English because both Polish and Spanish skip personal pronouns like in "Jestem synem mojego ojca" or "Soy un hijo de mi padre" as opposed to English "I am a son of my father". There are plenty of similar examples but the point is that even if you get the grammar right and the translated phrase is understandable it often sounds wrong or odd. If you need to translate a short text or statement it's OK, but if you were to listen to someone who uses very awkward constructions for several hours or read some phone book of a contract you wold probably have your brain would probably melt. The language is so organic and natural to us that we basically don't notice how complex it is until someone starts making strange errors.
And if it got really bad, they'd have to ship those resources from Africa to China, getting through the navies of the world.
Yet somehow I doubt anyone would actually risk military confrontation with China. I think everyone would rather pretend not to see the problem, just like they do in case of their general disregard for human rights/patents, international law and all that nonsense...
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Thank you for your comment, however your comment assumes that school administrators and parents can act with basic common sense and logic. That assumption is not possible in the United States in 2011.
So suing kids for sharing cupcakes is based on common sense and logic? If you think so than the problem lies not only with school administrators and parents
Thanks, I've been trying to remember the name of the series for ages...
Based on my experience in several international corporations it's quite the contrary. The usual IT guy I had to deal with would be happy if he could lock everything, including a mouse and a keyboard. The less the users can interact with their computers the less likely they are to screw something up or to have questions, and in turn the less likely they are to bother the "lowly IT guys". Just as most other people, they would rather work less than more
Try following Guy Kawasaki, Wil looks like a meek introvert by comparison...
I know what you mean, it felt the same way when I started. I was sitting there, wondering how to get more of my Facebook people over to G+ since it felt so empty. Then I started following William Shatner, then Guy Kawasaki, Alyssa Milano, Tren Reznor, Wil Wheaton, Michelle Marie. In that case may I recommend following Jeri Ryan/7 of 9? ;) Anyway, if G+ looks empty to anyone it's because they're doing it wrong. All it takes is a little interest in whom your friends circled, who replies to the posts of the people you follow. Or you could just sit and wait for google to do it for you, you know, automagically.
it means they already have Android phones - likely because the iPhone wasn't available on their carrier, or they absolutely hate Apple and refuse to buy Apple products
I believe the latter is true. Where I live all the major carriers have offered various versions of iPhones for more than 3 years and they're pretty rare. Most people choose android for its relative openness and because there are various phone models to choose from - anything from cheap entry-level models to beasts like Nexus S or Galaxy S 2. Not to mention that perceived price/value ratio is pretty low if you care about functionality and not the apple logo. When it comes to windows over the last six years I have actually met just one person using an Omnia and he's kind of a luddite...
maybe because the images haven't been edited?
They're also specifically considering those communications used to support violence, disorder, or criminal behavior.
The problem is that in case of totalitarian regimes like China "looking funny at a government official" can constitute all of the above
Apple should be fined a stupid amount for such bullshit, as well as causing SERIOUS damage to sales from Samsung using doctored evidence.
Not only that but the people who submitted such evidence (and approved the move on behalf of Apple) should face criminal charges just as anyone else trying to lie to the court would.
Honestly, I can't even figure out who is voting the idots in at this point. Everyone I talk to hates every single politicain they know by name.
We have a similar problem where I live. However, I feel that in our case it's much easier for independent candidates and small parties to be heard and elected, while in the US it's either R or D (and frankly there's not much difference if you look from the outside).
I should have written "some of your politicians claim US is a democracy". Still, some people believe it...
Not to troll but if it goes on like this the safest option to travel across the US will be by car or train. And if other countries become concerned with degrading safety of US airlines it'll be ships for you if you want to go to Europe... Seriously guys, why don't you just vote all those idiots from their offices? You're a democracy, aren't you?
The rating agencies are a kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy. They give you good rating and people throw their money at you without bothering to check if the rating is justified; they rate you poorly and everyone will panic and there's no way you can convince them to listen to your explanations.
DRM cracked within weeks and paying customers left unplayable when disconnected while pirates will play happily offline.
Luckily, in some cases DRM gets cracked even before the game is released, often within a few days of its release and only rarely it takes weeks. You'd thing they would draw some conclusions...
Also it's important to note that Paypal has never been hacked in 10+ years which is very important for a company that stories credit card and bank account info.
Oh... wasn't it?
Everything is cylical in nature indeed.
All this has happened before, and all this will happen again
A good book/movie/game will alway leave feeling it was too short, regardless of the number of pages/duration. A lousy story will be too long even if it fits on half a page. So it would seem that the only solution to the problem is to start making good games/movies instead of churning out dozens of shooter/racing clones and remakes. I think the problem is that many companies are headed by guys like Robert Kotick, who don't play games - just sell them.
Tells you how deep our government representatives are in the pockets of the RIAA/MPAA crowd.
That and that they're clueless when it comes to tech more advanced than a biface
The problem that I have with microtransactions is that a game that's designed around them is usually (I haven't yet seen an exception) that the primary focus is to make profit off the player. Whereas traditionally, the primary purpose was to entertain the player and thereby make money off of them.
Well, Team Fortress was a "normal" game, which is now free to play with a microtransaction system. The game is fun and the hats you can buy don't affect the game play that much ;)
Not exactly. At the moment you can add people to circels whether they have a google account or not (and in some strange cases you can't add people who do and are in your contact list even if they have a profile but hey! pre-beta) but you can choose which g+ circles are visible to public. Eg I keep my "family" circle only to myself, while my "acquaintences" and "following" circles are visible to general public. However, people without a public profile are invisible to anyone but you (or so it seems at the moment) even if you add them to one of your "visible" circles. Google announced that they would soon delete all non-public profiles, though.
The economic system does not encourage greed. It's about economic freedom without a government dictating how you should spend/invest your money. that's free market and free market != capitalism
sooo... if one of google's servers runs out of disk space doesn't it mean that people are quite busy using the service? And since it's in 'limited field trial" it means you need to try hard to get in - I know I had to - hence lack of "casual people"
Apple's entire strategy here is to extend their lock in while fixing one of the annoyances of multi-device usage with iTunes.
true, but most of the people using iPods/iPhones/iWhathaveyous just don't care - most importantly they are happy with a system which "just works", automagically at that, and they're pretty happy with paying a premium for Apple's logo and the illusion of being exceptional that comes with it for many.
Actually as a translator/interpreter I can tell you that one pass can mangle the source text beyond recognition. What the machine translation cannot deal with at a good level at the moment is context. So as an example: a single Polish word rak can be translated as: a crayfish, cancer or a crampon. The machine translation also makes a mess in case of present perfect and past perfect as Polish generally lacks perfect tenses. Similar problems always occur in case of language pairs with very different grammar. As a different example automatic Spanish to Polish translation sometimes gets better results than Spanish to English because both Polish and Spanish skip personal pronouns like in "Jestem synem mojego ojca" or "Soy un hijo de mi padre" as opposed to English "I am a son of my father". There are plenty of similar examples but the point is that even if you get the grammar right and the translated phrase is understandable it often sounds wrong or odd. If you need to translate a short text or statement it's OK, but if you were to listen to someone who uses very awkward constructions for several hours or read some phone book of a contract you wold probably have your brain would probably melt. The language is so organic and natural to us that we basically don't notice how complex it is until someone starts making strange errors.
And if it got really bad, they'd have to ship those resources from Africa to China, getting through the navies of the world.
Yet somehow I doubt anyone would actually risk military confrontation with China. I think everyone would rather pretend not to see the problem, just like they do in case of their general disregard for human rights/patents, international law and all that nonsense...