Well, most OS's include their own hardware drivers, so it's microsoft's fault for not providing any drivers, and forcing you to use third party drivers. Also, aren't the nvidia drivers MS-certified?
Wrong, high quality leather is not a by product, animals used for high quality leather are raised and used especifically for that purpose. In cases like cows, meat is generally sold as very low quality meat, but plenty of other animals are discarted.
There are also lots of artificial products that are better than leather too - meaning "keep you warmer, are rain-resistant, etc".
I guess the chicken scenario is fine. The problem is, most chickens are raised in farms deprived of any freedom. Vegans don't quite stand against eating eggs, but rather, against raising chickens in inhuman conditions.
To get basic results, you are correct that the search engine doesn't need any personal information. However, being charitable and assuming that the technology is mature, having a search engine that can produce individually tailored results can be immensely useful. The fact that I can just type in the word "restaurant" and Google will automatically give me results tailored to my location and food preferences is quite useful. I would imagine looking up searchers' locations via ip address for every search would be pretty slow so them knowing where I live or getting the GPS data off my mobile device makes a lot of sense. The realistic alternative being for me to type "restaurants $ZIPCODE" is just annoying and thanks to technology pointless.
Google can just cache geoIP data (which they probably do already). They don't need to track you to know your IP on the current request either, nor do they need to store the IP.
Google being able to identify me as a user also makes it easy for me to use their "block site" filter in the search results so the same undesired domains don't keep popping up every time I search for things that trigger them.
You're talkbout about a feature which requires registration. This discussion does not apply to registered users, since they actually GIVING google their data, ie: actually opting-in.
Of course, while I may question the usefulness of a particular site, that doesn't mean somebody else might not think it's great so just spitting the exact same results for every single person like the soup line in Oliver Twist seems unnecessarily simple-minded and even worse it introduces a cognitive burden on the user that can be avoided with an accurate enough set of pertinent user characteristics.
It's hard to see how a suitably designed search engine can't produce superior results by knowing more about its users. I understand the privacy worries but, assuming they didn't exist, I believe it's fair to say that most people would have no qualms about a modern day "Oracle of Delphi" that isn't limited to just giving canned answers to every phrase entered into it. And as search engine technology gets more and more sophisticated, the good answers should get even better. Ultimately culminating in you not even having to ask in the first place. Some people might think that's a bad thing but I for one look forward to it.
I want to decide what information I find relevant for myself, and not have big brother do it for me.
There will always be providers for the niche that prefers their results in the raw and that's a good thing. Personally I use Google and provide them with as much information as I am comfortable with and I have been happy with the results. Thanks to competition, you shouldn't have any problem satisfying your preference of getting the same answer to "sushi" whether you are in HI or NY (first raw result is for a restaurant in Santa Clara CA). While I'll be enjoying my lunch at the place right down the street that I never heard of before but happens to be the very second result Google returned for me.
Again, you can submit your GPS coordinates with the search query, but what makes it "tracking" is the fact that google LOGS those coordinates, and links them to you.
The same was true in Argentina about two years ago, but Rapidshare/4shared/etc has slowly died in favour of streaming sites like Cuevana. Most people either stream movies, and the rest torrent them.
Actually, being third world only promotes piracy, because of the huge price difference. In Argentina, salaries start at about 300USD per month (and there's probably people making way less too). Middle class (ie: a software developer) might start at 1k USD per month.
The Star Wars Trilogy costs 150 USD here (say this a few days ago). A Blu Ray reader costs around 300 USD, and each movie between 30USD and 50USD usually. ~10% of one's salary is way too much for a single movie. Broadband costs me less than a one or two movie would, and gives mes dozens per month. I'd also have to make the investment in a blu-ray drive, which is not cheap at all.
As an additional fact, about 10 years ago, it was imposible to find original DVD movies in most cities (except maybe two or three major cities). The same applied to VHS, of course. Therefore, people just purchased pirated DVDs, and many people still do that, mainly, because it's the only then they know and it's what they've always done, and they most likely never though about it twice.
You've a pretty good bank. I've three bank accounts: 1) 4 digits (yes, numeric only), account disabled after ONE failed attempt (need to re-enable it at an ATM). 2) 8 letters/numbers, need to change it every 90days. Can't repeat old passwords. 3) 4 digits, and the username is "secret" too. If you fail to log in 3 times, your account is disabled and you need to pick a new password AND username.
While the latter offers a wierd but somewhat better form of security than the rest, you can be pretty sure that 12 letters is pretty good, since banks have extremely lousy standards!
In a class of 30, it's generally more of less: 20 windows notebooks. 2 or 3 linux notebooks. 1 or 2 macbooks. The rest have no notebook (or dont' bring them along).
Macbook users are the most irrelevant in this particular scope.
I do belive that a huge percentage of new hardware is amd64, and the OS they include is amd64. Wouldn't that mean that youneed to bring all your dependencies in 32bit form, making your package huge and, honestly, very poor quality?
I don't use any PAID software for work at all. As a matter of fact, the only PAID software I use is actually games (leisure). I don't see how paid software makes you save money either.
Ever been on a crowded bus/subway? Distance between people tend to be 0cm at certain times of the day, not hard to put your cell phone next to someone else's pocket.
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Well, most OS's include their own hardware drivers, so it's microsoft's fault for not providing any drivers, and forcing you to use third party drivers.
Also, aren't the nvidia drivers MS-certified?
Wrong, high quality leather is not a by product, animals used for high quality leather are raised and used especifically for that purpose. In cases like cows, meat is generally sold as very low quality meat, but plenty of other animals are discarted.
There are also lots of artificial products that are better than leather too - meaning "keep you warmer, are rain-resistant, etc".
I guess the chicken scenario is fine.
The problem is, most chickens are raised in farms deprived of any freedom. Vegans don't quite stand against eating eggs, but rather, against raising chickens in inhuman conditions.
To get basic results, you are correct that the search engine doesn't need any personal information. However, being charitable and assuming that the technology is mature, having a search engine that can produce individually tailored results can be immensely useful. The fact that I can just type in the word "restaurant" and Google will automatically give me results tailored to my location and food preferences is quite useful. I would imagine looking up searchers' locations via ip address for every search would be pretty slow so them knowing where I live or getting the GPS data off my mobile device makes a lot of sense. The realistic alternative being for me to type "restaurants $ZIPCODE" is just annoying and thanks to technology pointless.
Google can just cache geoIP data (which they probably do already). They don't need to track you to know your IP on the current request either, nor do they need to store the IP.
Google being able to identify me as a user also makes it easy for me to use their "block site" filter in the search results so the same undesired domains don't keep popping up every time I search for things that trigger them.
You're talkbout about a feature which requires registration. This discussion does not apply to registered users, since they actually GIVING google their data, ie: actually opting-in.
Of course, while I may question the usefulness of a particular site, that doesn't mean somebody else might not think it's great so just spitting the exact same results for every single person like the soup line in Oliver Twist seems unnecessarily simple-minded and even worse it introduces a cognitive burden on the user that can be avoided with an accurate enough set of pertinent user characteristics.
It's hard to see how a suitably designed search engine can't produce superior results by knowing more about its users. I understand the privacy worries but, assuming they didn't exist, I believe it's fair to say that most people would have no qualms about a modern day "Oracle of Delphi" that isn't limited to just giving canned answers to every phrase entered into it. And as search engine technology gets more and more sophisticated, the good answers should get even better. Ultimately culminating in you not even having to ask in the first place. Some people might think that's a bad thing but I for one look forward to it.
I want to decide what information I find relevant for myself, and not have big brother do it for me.
There will always be providers for the niche that prefers their results in the raw and that's a good thing. Personally I use Google and provide them with as much information as I am comfortable with and I have been happy with the results. Thanks to competition, you shouldn't have any problem satisfying your preference of getting the same answer to "sushi" whether you are in HI or NY (first raw result is for a restaurant in Santa Clara CA). While I'll be enjoying my lunch at the place right down the street that I never heard of before but happens to be the very second result Google returned for me.
Again, you can submit your GPS coordinates with the search query, but what makes it "tracking" is the fact that google LOGS those coordinates, and links them to you.
Uhm. Did you actually read the GPs comment? My reply makes perfect sense in that context.
So I shouldn't use mobile devices outside the privacy of my house?
The same was true in Argentina about two years ago, but Rapidshare/4shared/etc has slowly died in favour of streaming sites like Cuevana. Most people either stream movies, and the rest torrent them.
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Actually, being third world only promotes piracy, because of the huge price difference.
In Argentina, salaries start at about 300USD per month (and there's probably people making way less too). Middle class (ie: a software developer) might start at 1k USD per month.
The Star Wars Trilogy costs 150 USD here (say this a few days ago). A Blu Ray reader costs around 300 USD, and each movie between 30USD and 50USD usually.
~10% of one's salary is way too much for a single movie. Broadband costs me less than a one or two movie would, and gives mes dozens per month. I'd also have to make the investment in a blu-ray drive, which is not cheap at all.
As an additional fact, about 10 years ago, it was imposible to find original DVD movies in most cities (except maybe two or three major cities). The same applied to VHS, of course. Therefore, people just purchased pirated DVDs, and many people still do that, mainly, because it's the only then they know and it's what they've always done, and they most likely never though about it twice.
if (password.length() < 16)
rejectPassword();
else
hashAndStore(password);
I'm pretty sure we'll be able to crack 20 char passwords in a matter of seconds in less than 1k years.
Someone paying attention while I type my password with a good memory might remember 16 digits. The same does not apply for 50 digits.
You've a pretty good bank. I've three bank accounts:
1) 4 digits (yes, numeric only), account disabled after ONE failed attempt (need to re-enable it at an ATM).
2) 8 letters/numbers, need to change it every 90days. Can't repeat old passwords.
3) 4 digits, and the username is "secret" too. If you fail to log in 3 times, your account is disabled and you need to pick a new password AND username.
While the latter offers a wierd but somewhat better form of security than the rest, you can be pretty sure that 12 letters is pretty good, since banks have extremely lousy standards!
In a class of 30, it's generally more of less:
20 windows notebooks.
2 or 3 linux notebooks.
1 or 2 macbooks.
The rest have no notebook (or dont' bring them along).
Macbook users are the most irrelevant in this particular scope.
I do belive that a huge percentage of new hardware is amd64, and the OS they include is amd64. Wouldn't that mean that youneed to bring all your dependencies in 32bit form, making your package huge and, honestly, very poor quality?
*profiler
I can deal with no profiles, but the second point makes it completey useless, unless you fall into a portal to 2002.
It's pretty good. It's equally ugle, though I guess I can use Stylish to fix that. :)
You could just use some desktop youtube application. The rest is easily replaceable.
I don't use any PAID software for work at all. As a matter of fact, the only PAID software I use is actually games (leisure).
I don't see how paid software makes you save money either.
On the other hand, if the user knows how to use a search engine, the search engine doesn't need to know anything about the user.
If that's the case, then you're putting people in jail without being sure enough they're guilty either.
Ever been on a crowded bus/subway? Distance between people tend to be 0cm at certain times of the day, not hard to put your cell phone next to someone else's pocket.
You could just download the update from the net/using the OS's update mechanism. If your ISP filters this, just use WiFi.
Out of curiosity, why is it so terrible expensive?