Some mook I was working for forced a team of ten of us onto dropbox last year because we weren't all in the same office and he couldn't figure out how to FTP. The dropbox advertising seemed very simple and reassuring to him. It makes sharing files easy! It was the right thing. Immediately everyone was walking around saying how they loved dropbox! It has a very simple graphic design people liked, like Apple computers and Google websites (most of the people on the team were "creative"). They even have an iPhone app!
The first thing that happened was some other mook accidentally the entire share because he didn't need all the files, not understanding how the folders are synced. There is no "mook" permission, no permission structure at all. Just in or out.
After that, none of us were shared with "everything" anymore, so it became a completely unmanageable mishmosh of invites. Everyone used different folder structures and ways of naming things, which you have to live with. The dumbest person on the team gets to set the SOP, which is just chaos of course. The only people who liked it were the ones who dumped files on there and didn't have to ever open them again (graphic designers). It tends to fill up your hard drive with stuff that maybe has a 20% chance of being for you. People work to these folders because they are local, not realizing or caring that everyone else has to download all their crap.
So when everyone is in the same room, it nukes the wi-fi completely as everyone tries to sync the same garbage at the same time.
If you do really care about a file, you have to copy it out of the dropbox folder so that someone else doesn't fuck it up. So you have to have two copies of everything. It ends up being a kind of fuzzy FTP anyway, which you have to manage, but is not manageable.
If you understand email and FTP you don't need it. If you don't understand those things, you definitely will not understand dropbox. I learned this when someone kept asking me to just "show her where the files are".
So to answer your question, you should trust them because they make sharing your files easier.
CERN has its own very accurate time product. There is a team at JPL that uses it and others to determine earth orientation. Altogether it might be the most accurate time product in the world. It's definitely more accurate than GPS and definitely available to scientists at CERN. If they were using GPS for this they are a bunch of mooks even if GPS was "good enough".
The elephant is dead, it just hasn't fallen down yet. You can see why creative professionals spent about 5 minutes crying, then somberly went about trying to find solutions that didn't hold them hostage. Maybe this will be good in the long run, it might encourage Adobe to "make it pro". They've fixed a lot. And Avid is there too. There's a huge opportunity for little guys to come up with hackintoshes, and write better linux apps, and find new ways to fill the vacuum.
I think corporate oversight is an urgent issue that they should do something about. Lawmakers don't seem lazy to me, only frozen by obstructionism, generated in large part by corporate interests that love a weak, divisive and gridlocked congress. Then they can do whatever they want to destroy our freedoms, without government interference. Do you realize they even pay people to sit around and post anti government talking points on message boards? It's gotten so out of hand. At least people are finally waking up to whats really going on. America's not working because trillions of dollars have been horked out of our monetary system by Wall St sharpies, banks and corporations. They swindled us. They're parasites. They're going to suck the blood of middle class americans as long as they can get away with it. An affluent middle class is just money that's not in their pocket.
This is a narrower issue. I am a professional editor and VFX artist, workflow supervisor, etc. I know our community is miniscule compared to the rest of the world. And we love iPhones, too. But from our point of view, we've been inhaling MacPro workstations and FCP licenses like crazy for years. We depend on them, but Apple's support for us has been on the downward slope for several years now. If Mac OS suddenly adopts a new document model and a bunch of other experimental stuff, and eviscerates FCP, and starts dumbing down MacPros, it creates a very serious bunch of question marks about the stability and sanity of our prime tech platform. It doesn't matter how much we loved or hated Jobs. For all the talk about how pro features are coming to FCX, that's getting old. We should not be having this conversation. Post houses are not waiting, they started jumping to Adobe CS5.5 right away. They are even going back to PCs, despite the codec issues and fear of windows. This is not actually fresh news. You are not seeing PC fanboys crapping on Apple here. You are seeing people whose livelihoods are in jeopardy.
On the other hand, aren't you sort of throwing gasoline on the fire? He didn't say anything denigrating about Asians. He was certainly overgeneralizing about Asian countries though. Only a few seem to have systemic trouble with the concept of ownership. Maybe PRC for instance?
Maybe you feel personally insulted, but if you are really trying to "fix things" for us, name-calling just makes your position weaker.There are too many amazing examples of disregard for property rights in the PRC for you to just brush this aside as racism. The existence of a much less dysfunctional system right next door in Taiwan certainly shows this has nothing to do with race. It's more likely due to living under a brutally repressive communist regime for so many years. Russia has had a lot of trouble adjusting to capitalism too, but they seem to be getting a little better. It takes time to accept the idea that cheating and stealing just give people a bad reputation, there's no benefit in the long run.
And thank God for you guys, really, you're doing a great job! Without you these big government types would run roughshod over our civil rights! Keep submitting stuff like this!
Let me just say I live in a mostly hot place, I painted my roof white a couple years ago, and I can't believe how much cooler it is in my house. If you live in a hot place, just do it. If you live in Labrador, maybe not.
Is saving lives or strengthening the economy justification enough for our Government to dictate our actions?
Yes, when you put it that way. In fact, if I was going to make a case that a national government should sometimes dictate the actions of its citizens, "saving lives" and "strengthening the economy" are two examples that I might use.
TFA is full of words like "reportedly" and "could". It's marketing baloney. If this stuff is so great, let's have a story about a working battery.
Also, the technical details in the summary about electrodes and battery size reduction don't appear in TFA. Please remember, No Original Research is one of the core content policies of/.
The Supreme Court of the United States stated that parody "is the use of some elements of a prior author's composition to create a new one that, at least in part, comments on that author's works."
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If I'm not mistaken, they did it for the lulz.
Some mook I was working for forced a team of ten of us onto dropbox last year because we weren't all in the same office and he couldn't figure out how to FTP. The dropbox advertising seemed very simple and reassuring to him. It makes sharing files easy! It was the right thing. Immediately everyone was walking around saying how they loved dropbox! It has a very simple graphic design people liked, like Apple computers and Google websites (most of the people on the team were "creative"). They even have an iPhone app!
The first thing that happened was some other mook accidentally the entire share because he didn't need all the files, not understanding how the folders are synced. There is no "mook" permission, no permission structure at all. Just in or out.
After that, none of us were shared with "everything" anymore, so it became a completely unmanageable mishmosh of invites. Everyone used different folder structures and ways of naming things, which you have to live with. The dumbest person on the team gets to set the SOP, which is just chaos of course. The only people who liked it were the ones who dumped files on there and didn't have to ever open them again (graphic designers). It tends to fill up your hard drive with stuff that maybe has a 20% chance of being for you. People work to these folders because they are local, not realizing or caring that everyone else has to download all their crap.
So when everyone is in the same room, it nukes the wi-fi completely as everyone tries to sync the same garbage at the same time.
If you do really care about a file, you have to copy it out of the dropbox folder so that someone else doesn't fuck it up. So you have to have two copies of everything. It ends up being a kind of fuzzy FTP anyway, which you have to manage, but is not manageable.
If you understand email and FTP you don't need it. If you don't understand those things, you definitely will not understand dropbox. I learned this when someone kept asking me to just "show her where the files are".
So to answer your question, you should trust them because they make sharing your files easier.
It's so cute when the kids think they've discovered something nobody's tried before (eyeballs roll up in head). Welcome to the 20th century!
CERN has its own very accurate time product. There is a team at JPL that uses it and others to determine earth orientation. Altogether it might be the most accurate time product in the world. It's definitely more accurate than GPS and definitely available to scientists at CERN. If they were using GPS for this they are a bunch of mooks even if GPS was "good enough".
The elephant is dead, it just hasn't fallen down yet. You can see why creative professionals spent about 5 minutes crying, then somberly went about trying to find solutions that didn't hold them hostage. Maybe this will be good in the long run, it might encourage Adobe to "make it pro". They've fixed a lot. And Avid is there too. There's a huge opportunity for little guys to come up with hackintoshes, and write better linux apps, and find new ways to fill the vacuum.
I think corporate oversight is an urgent issue that they should do something about. Lawmakers don't seem lazy to me, only frozen by obstructionism, generated in large part by corporate interests that love a weak, divisive and gridlocked congress. Then they can do whatever they want to destroy our freedoms, without government interference. Do you realize they even pay people to sit around and post anti government talking points on message boards? It's gotten so out of hand. At least people are finally waking up to whats really going on. America's not working because trillions of dollars have been horked out of our monetary system by Wall St sharpies, banks and corporations. They swindled us. They're parasites. They're going to suck the blood of middle class americans as long as they can get away with it. An affluent middle class is just money that's not in their pocket.
This is a narrower issue. I am a professional editor and VFX artist, workflow supervisor, etc. I know our community is miniscule compared to the rest of the world. And we love iPhones, too. But from our point of view, we've been inhaling MacPro workstations and FCP licenses like crazy for years. We depend on them, but Apple's support for us has been on the downward slope for several years now. If Mac OS suddenly adopts a new document model and a bunch of other experimental stuff, and eviscerates FCP, and starts dumbing down MacPros, it creates a very serious bunch of question marks about the stability and sanity of our prime tech platform. It doesn't matter how much we loved or hated Jobs. For all the talk about how pro features are coming to FCX, that's getting old. We should not be having this conversation. Post houses are not waiting, they started jumping to Adobe CS5.5 right away. They are even going back to PCs, despite the codec issues and fear of windows. This is not actually fresh news. You are not seeing PC fanboys crapping on Apple here. You are seeing people whose livelihoods are in jeopardy.
Jack Ma wants to regain control of Alibaba http://money.cnn.com/2011/10/01/technology/alibaba_yahoo/index.htm/, makes more sense for them than for Microsoft. I wonder if the MS interest is just to drive the price up for some reason.
On the other hand, aren't you sort of throwing gasoline on the fire? He didn't say anything denigrating about Asians. He was certainly overgeneralizing about Asian countries though. Only a few seem to have systemic trouble with the concept of ownership. Maybe PRC for instance?
Maybe you feel personally insulted, but if you are really trying to "fix things" for us, name-calling just makes your position weaker.There are too many amazing examples of disregard for property rights in the PRC for you to just brush this aside as racism. The existence of a much less dysfunctional system right next door in Taiwan certainly shows this has nothing to do with race. It's more likely due to living under a brutally repressive communist regime for so many years. Russia has had a lot of trouble adjusting to capitalism too, but they seem to be getting a little better. It takes time to accept the idea that cheating and stealing just give people a bad reputation, there's no benefit in the long run.
I got lost too :(
I shouldn't have typed the period.
Ultraman.
OK, I'm at Google. Now what, man?
And thank God for you guys, really, you're doing a great job! Without you these big government types would run roughshod over our civil rights! Keep submitting stuff like this!
Examples? Please include some links so we can discuss.
Is the earth in a tiny Lissajous orbit around it's L5?
Let me just say I live in a mostly hot place, I painted my roof white a couple years ago, and I can't believe how much cooler it is in my house. If you live in a hot place, just do it. If you live in Labrador, maybe not.
I'd hit it like a retard on a drumset.
Did you really just think of all those things? You are aptly named, sir.
Is saving lives or strengthening the economy justification enough for our Government to dictate our actions?
Yes, when you put it that way. In fact, if I was going to make a case that a national government should sometimes dictate the actions of its citizens, "saving lives" and "strengthening the economy" are two examples that I might use.
TFA is full of words like "reportedly" and "could". It's marketing baloney. If this stuff is so great, let's have a story about a working battery. Also, the technical details in the summary about electrodes and battery size reduction don't appear in TFA. Please remember, No Original Research is one of the core content policies of /.
If we make internets illegal, only criminals will have internets.
Is "like a surgeon" any kind of rational commentary on "like a virgin"? But would anybody claim it's not parody?
Anyway I don't blame him for asking first. He's covering his ass.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody/
The Supreme Court of the United States stated that parody "is the use of some elements of a prior author's composition to create a new one that, at least in part, comments on that author's works."
I'm beginning to think I can cure anything!