I actually had an interesting conversation with a designer friend about this. I've "shopped" images in the GIMP. It is kind of like "kleenex" being another word for "tissue". "Shopped" is what people know, and there can be value in saying that. Though personally I like saying "I gimped that photo" a lot more.
No worries. Anon is theoretically in support of a lot of things, though as the comments on this article have shown, they seem to sometimes hurt the causes they love.
As far as Occupy, some solutions have been put forth: Investigate the credit/housing crisis and actually prosecute anyone found to have committed crimes, repeal citizens united and impose strict campaign finance laws, institute instant-run-off voting (or something more effective than our current system). That's just off the top of my head, but more good ideas are coming out of Occupy, it isn't entirely comprised of people camping out and engaging in civil disobedience.
Your comment is insightful except for the fact this is anon, not occupy. Occupy does have one thing in common with anon: it is leaderless. That's it. So your little zinger at the end about Occupy isn't even on topic. Let's say it WAS on topic: Occupy is the voice of the people in a Plutocracy crying out for a Democracy. As far as what is being accomplished, let's see what they can do. Its a new movement, but so far it is already re-framing a number of key debates.
I wonder whether drugs ought to be patentable. But why should patents be against the law? If I come up with an amazing invention, shouldn't I be able to ensure someone else doesn't take the idea and run with it, even if just for a little while?
+1 I got my start this way. That said, helping out with open source projects will only get you part of the way there. Most companies want experience working with specific tools in a business environment. Another thing to keep in mind is "years of experience" is often a very flexible thing. Sometimes you can nudge your way into jobs looking for more experienced people by offering to take a smaller salary (even if just initially).
To those who will reply "It Works For Me", hey the rest of the world says Windows and OS X works for them, and OS X's market share has grown way more than Desktop Linux has in a shorter space of time.
Its true. The Linux community can ignore the requests of users, but then users will continue to migrate. Same deal with Windows and even Macs at different points in their history (and still today). Ignore your market, your market leaves. For Linux, I think the most common requests are "a desktop that isn't a resource hog, looks nice, and let's me work how *I* want to work" alongside the eternal ask for "better hardware support", with "better office apps" and "better support for windows apps" along for the ride. It isn't a question of what is a fair feature request, simply "if users don't get what they want, they leave", and that is a shame.
Its been that way even further back, in ye olde times of ancient television. A single station might produce a show, and that was your basic option for seeing said show. (Unless you wanted to purchase the VHS).
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Revenge is a stupid goal, but there is justice here. There is plenty of evidence that those involved in the subprime crash knew precisely what they were doing, and purposefully looked the other way because they were making mountains of cash. That's one side of things -> the crash and lack of accountability for those who profited from it. The other side is that the wealthy have a completely different justice system than the rest of us, and that isn't fair. Frankly movement on either point would be welcome progress.
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Your use of the phrase "whiny little bitch" sure inspires confidence. I gave a pretty damn good reason. Research the history behind the Code of Hammurabi, or any other number of instances where 1 set of rules for the rich and powerful and 1 set for everyone else has caused an uproar. It is reason enough.
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This is a myth. The Occupy movement has very clearly defined goals:
1. Justice - The 1% shouldn't be able to commit crimes the 99% would go to jail for and get away with it.
2. See #1.
This is essentially about the 1% exploiting the 99% and getting away with it.
This is clearly a personal account, that of his own volition he named and populated in a way that benefited the company he worked for. No good deed goes unpunished (or unjudged based on the current comments here). There is no reason a company should be able to claim ownership of a personal social networking account because the owner freely chose to promote said company's work and brand. Suing a former employee for such a ridiculous amount of money for not handing over his personal account is at best a wasted opportunity. Why not ask him to occasionally tweet about their site, especially if he left the company on good terms? Now they will get bad publicity under a public eye that has been increasingly critical of corporations acting like bullies - and deservedly so.
This is really cool, but how active is it? The last update from the status section reads "Out-of-process tabs for Fennec is utilized in the Mobile Firefox 4.0 betas, and will ship with the final version in March 2011."
+1 to you sir.
I am very curious, is there an effort to focus on speeding up the UI, or decoupling UI responsiveness from the pages/plugins active at the time? I'd say that is the biggest source of speed issues users notice directly.
And consumers generally should have the right to delete their data at any time, especially the data they post on the internet themselves.
Very interesting language. It suggests that data you haven't posted might be considered yours. I wonder how this applies to a range of gray areas social networking sites provide - such as someone posting a compromising photo of you, or even more interesting, something you've posted but someone else shared/reposted.
I couldn't resist posting in this discussion, or I'd mod this +1. I'd love a desktop that had slick themes, a UI that got out of your way, an easy method for customizing menus, keybindings, window behavior, etc, and yet didn't place a huge burden on the cpu or ram. So far on Linux you can get some, but not all, of these.
Me? I like Windows ME. It has the fastest interface (measured in boot time to blue screen). I also like ratpoison. For a Linux window manager I enjoy fluxbox.
Firefox deserves a lot of praise for finally putting in some protection against malicious 3rd party plugins. We've been asking for it, and they are delivering it. It also looks like they are working on speed improvements (hopefully outside of javascript, as most speed complaints seem to stem from the interface rather than the rendering engine). But you are so so right. As long as Firefox is an unstable mess (where an unstable plugin can down the whole browser, and without any plugins it still has issues running under Linux), it will continue to bleed users.
Very informative. It looks like Ubuntu has been bleeding users to Mint primarily, but also to Fedora and OpenSuse. (Debian seems to be a bit stable, but Mint users could be using their excellent Debian based distro as well).
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How difficult is it going up against corporate funded right wing groups like Bureaucrash? Do you feel like OWS going up against Koch/Fox funded astroturf movements like the Tea Party? Do you view Bureaucrash as on your level, or akin to a right wing comedian attempting to do what Colbert does?
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If they fix these issues, they will see more users flock their way.
I actually had an interesting conversation with a designer friend about this. I've "shopped" images in the GIMP. It is kind of like "kleenex" being another word for "tissue". "Shopped" is what people know, and there can be value in saying that. Though personally I like saying "I gimped that photo" a lot more.
It also uses advanced neural-network powered learning algorithms to allow it to also leverage "having seen a a great many shops".
No worries. Anon is theoretically in support of a lot of things, though as the comments on this article have shown, they seem to sometimes hurt the causes they love. As far as Occupy, some solutions have been put forth: Investigate the credit/housing crisis and actually prosecute anyone found to have committed crimes, repeal citizens united and impose strict campaign finance laws, institute instant-run-off voting (or something more effective than our current system). That's just off the top of my head, but more good ideas are coming out of Occupy, it isn't entirely comprised of people camping out and engaging in civil disobedience.
Your comment is insightful except for the fact this is anon, not occupy. Occupy does have one thing in common with anon: it is leaderless. That's it. So your little zinger at the end about Occupy isn't even on topic. Let's say it WAS on topic: Occupy is the voice of the people in a Plutocracy crying out for a Democracy. As far as what is being accomplished, let's see what they can do. Its a new movement, but so far it is already re-framing a number of key debates.
I wonder whether drugs ought to be patentable. But why should patents be against the law? If I come up with an amazing invention, shouldn't I be able to ensure someone else doesn't take the idea and run with it, even if just for a little while?
DRM isn't the issue. Its Vendor Lock-in. You can have the former without the latter. The author is using Vendor Lock-in to trash DRM.
Someone doesn't remember their GI Joe math. Knowing is 50% of the battle.
+1 I got my start this way. That said, helping out with open source projects will only get you part of the way there. Most companies want experience working with specific tools in a business environment. Another thing to keep in mind is "years of experience" is often a very flexible thing. Sometimes you can nudge your way into jobs looking for more experienced people by offering to take a smaller salary (even if just initially).
To those who will reply "It Works For Me", hey the rest of the world says Windows and OS X works for them, and OS X's market share has grown way more than Desktop Linux has in a shorter space of time.
Its true. The Linux community can ignore the requests of users, but then users will continue to migrate. Same deal with Windows and even Macs at different points in their history (and still today). Ignore your market, your market leaves. For Linux, I think the most common requests are "a desktop that isn't a resource hog, looks nice, and let's me work how *I* want to work" alongside the eternal ask for "better hardware support", with "better office apps" and "better support for windows apps" along for the ride. It isn't a question of what is a fair feature request, simply "if users don't get what they want, they leave", and that is a shame.
Its been that way even further back, in ye olde times of ancient television. A single station might produce a show, and that was your basic option for seeing said show. (Unless you wanted to purchase the VHS).
Revenge is a stupid goal, but there is justice here. There is plenty of evidence that those involved in the subprime crash knew precisely what they were doing, and purposefully looked the other way because they were making mountains of cash. That's one side of things -> the crash and lack of accountability for those who profited from it. The other side is that the wealthy have a completely different justice system than the rest of us, and that isn't fair. Frankly movement on either point would be welcome progress.
Your use of the phrase "whiny little bitch" sure inspires confidence. I gave a pretty damn good reason. Research the history behind the Code of Hammurabi, or any other number of instances where 1 set of rules for the rich and powerful and 1 set for everyone else has caused an uproar. It is reason enough.
Delusional: The 53% figures are BS.
This is a myth. The Occupy movement has very clearly defined goals:
1. Justice - The 1% shouldn't be able to commit crimes the 99% would go to jail for and get away with it.
2. See #1.
This is essentially about the 1% exploiting the 99% and getting away with it.
+1. The company would be well within its rights to tell this guy to rebrand his account - and he did that himself.
This is clearly a personal account, that of his own volition he named and populated in a way that benefited the company he worked for. No good deed goes unpunished (or unjudged based on the current comments here). There is no reason a company should be able to claim ownership of a personal social networking account because the owner freely chose to promote said company's work and brand. Suing a former employee for such a ridiculous amount of money for not handing over his personal account is at best a wasted opportunity. Why not ask him to occasionally tweet about their site, especially if he left the company on good terms? Now they will get bad publicity under a public eye that has been increasingly critical of corporations acting like bullies - and deservedly so.
This is really cool, but how active is it? The last update from the status section reads "Out-of-process tabs for Fennec is utilized in the Mobile Firefox 4.0 betas, and will ship with the final version in March 2011."
+1 to you sir. I am very curious, is there an effort to focus on speeding up the UI, or decoupling UI responsiveness from the pages/plugins active at the time? I'd say that is the biggest source of speed issues users notice directly.
Very interesting language. It suggests that data you haven't posted might be considered yours. I wonder how this applies to a range of gray areas social networking sites provide - such as someone posting a compromising photo of you, or even more interesting, something you've posted but someone else shared/reposted.
I couldn't resist posting in this discussion, or I'd mod this +1. I'd love a desktop that had slick themes, a UI that got out of your way, an easy method for customizing menus, keybindings, window behavior, etc, and yet didn't place a huge burden on the cpu or ram. So far on Linux you can get some, but not all, of these.
Me? I like Windows ME. It has the fastest interface (measured in boot time to blue screen). I also like ratpoison. For a Linux window manager I enjoy fluxbox.
Firefox deserves a lot of praise for finally putting in some protection against malicious 3rd party plugins. We've been asking for it, and they are delivering it. It also looks like they are working on speed improvements (hopefully outside of javascript, as most speed complaints seem to stem from the interface rather than the rendering engine). But you are so so right. As long as Firefox is an unstable mess (where an unstable plugin can down the whole browser, and without any plugins it still has issues running under Linux), it will continue to bleed users.
- Posted from Chrome.
Very informative. It looks like Ubuntu has been bleeding users to Mint primarily, but also to Fedora and OpenSuse. (Debian seems to be a bit stable, but Mint users could be using their excellent Debian based distro as well).
How difficult is it going up against corporate funded right wing groups like Bureaucrash? Do you feel like OWS going up against Koch/Fox funded astroturf movements like the Tea Party? Do you view Bureaucrash as on your level, or akin to a right wing comedian attempting to do what Colbert does?