You are insinuating that the collected data leaves Google's servers and enters the advertiser's servers.
It does not.
Google's business model is: give ad banner to Google, fill out a form specifying the desired demographic targets, done. Google then stores the banner on their server and their server sends out the banner when a user matching the chosen demographics views a page with Google backed ads on it.
I am insinuating nothing of the kind. If you read what I have said and what you quoted I have not stated that Google passes personal user details on directly to the customer. That categorised data becomes the product which Google sells via their advertising program. As you have said, they sell targeted advertising and without user data supplied via interaction with their services there would be no product for them to sell. I would be interested to know how you know exactly what Google does with the data they collect however. Perhaps you work for them?
Google will NEVER sell data of its customers...not because of any moral code, but because it is simply not profitable. They sell *targeted* advertising space on services offered for free, Like TV...or newspapers. Its why Google make Billions.
Exactly how do you think they "target" that advertising? They use algorithms applied to the data supplied by the users through their interaction with the Google services including search history, chats, contact lists etc. to categorise what the users' and their friends' and contacts' interests are, what socio-economic category they fall into, and where they are geographically. That data is the Google product and that is what they sell.
There is a fundamental difference to your example. When you visit a restaurant, you as the diner are the customer, the restaurant is the supplier and the product is the food and service. I think you misundertand the Google service user's relationship to Google. The service user isn't the customer. Google encourages the user to provide personal data in return for access to a service. That data then becomes Google's product which Google then sells on businesses and organisations - it's actual customers. It is the data customers who have the customer - supplier relationship.
Agreed, this constant chasing of crappy video with modern technology is simply amazing to me. (looking at you Instagram).
Its not like the current users have any fond memories of the great 16mm heyday, most of the users grew up in the digital age.
Every one of them has a cell phone in their pocket that can do a better job. None of them have any memories of Bolex, and those that do
are well over 65 years old.
Where is the market for this device?
The market is probably for people who like the Bolex film camera - they still make the H16 (16mm) camera in electric or mechanical versions. The market for these is mostly small film makers or wealthy hobbyists. Some higher budget films are also still shot on 16mm for atmospheric effect with the added grain giving a rawer or grittier "more real-life" effect.
I agree, the Unicomp has exactly the same feel (and sound) as the Model M and far superior build and 'heft' compared to most keyboards. Well worth the money and I've bought three from them. Model Ms - certainly here in the UK - are very hard to come by and ultra expensive when they come up with a UK layout. The Unicomp, even with the high shipping cost from the US and import duty, comes in at around £100. I did manage to banjax one by spilling coffee over it but barring future liquid intrusion, my other two are going strong and feel like they'll last a lifetime - just like the Model M.
Me too. My 11C is 32 years old and my daily user. The design is near perfect and only bettered by the 15C for it's complex number handling in my humble opinion. I must admit I was never a fan if TIs, always considering HP to have much better quality and of course, RPN. The output from HP these days is all from China and the build quality nowhere near what it was - the only plus is that they still make a few RPN models.
Each control system requires comparatively little processing power but high reliability and redundancy. As an example, the back-up flight computer on the space shuttles was an HP-41CV/CX pocket calculator and later, an HP42S. These models were chosen specifically for build quality, reliability and lack of known inherent bugs, oh - and low outgassing.
This is yet another example of politicians throwing money at technology to try and solve problems of policy and administration. It's a bit like buying a new TV to cure a broken leg. Nothing but a distraction.
I'm using Mate 1.4 and it is good and definitely improving. There are still some bits of integration, especially in the file manager, which could do with improvement but it's coming along at a pace considering they are also removing a lot of redundant code from Gnome 2. The user experience in pretty near to the final versions of Gnome 2 and coming versions should be even better. Overall, very nice.
First off it is to be expected that gas/petrol prices will raise year on year it has done for the past decade and will continue to do so. Was it really such a big surprise to find out that 2012 was the most expensive year for petrol in the USA?
Secondly, this highly USA-centric story doesn't compare to the UK, Europe and other regions of the planet. All stories like this do is make some people want to slap Americans for whining about the cost of petrol when in Europe we are more often than not paying double for petrol as referenced in this map.
How this made it to the front page I don't know, it's common sense and does not require a notice to the people who actually drive cars as well as being incredibly whiny to the rest of the world.
Well said! In my area of Scotland petrol (gas) averages the equivalent of USD 8.10 per US gallon for unleaded or USD 8.75 for less refined Diesel - and we are supposed to be an oil producing nation. Unfortunately, in the 1970s our wonderful government in London sold off the rights to extract the oil to mostly American oil companies who now sell it back to us at a premium while our government then then taxes it punitively on top.
According to Ted Ts'o's latest update (https://plus.google.com/117091380454742934025/posts) this actually involved a combination of "umount -l" and shutting down while the filesystem was still mounted, and the user also had "nobarrier" set on the filesystem as well as "journal_async_commit".
So it sure looks like the user was playing fast and loose...this is not something that's going to hit your average person.
I noticed this addendum too. Looks to be a very specific (and oddly ill considered) configuration required to trigger the bug. Quite a few other people here are going off on tangents and haven't read the addendum or your comment by the looks of it.
HP are floundering and it's really sad to see a company with so many technology innovations to it's name struggling to find it's feet. Maybe people stopped asking "what would Bill and Dave do . ..?" If anyone wants a (quite extensive) peek into the way HP was, there is an excellent booklet by former employee, John Minck, available as a pdf at http://www.hpalumni.org/HPNAR110227.pdf.
Ubuntu ignored a large number it's users and ploughed on with some poor changes to the UI which ironically both of the major closed source OS makers seem to have also embraced. Look at Mint which basically offers a choice of UIs designed for proper desktops. It has usurped Ubuntu's position (in distrowatch hits anyway) and become the most popular desktop distro. You would think the people aping the mistakes Ubuntu made would notice the correlation between adopting a phone UI on the desktop for your OS and dwindling popularity with users or do companies still delude themselves that you can tell the customer what they want?
I would suggest using a Rolodex or similar card file, either rotary or box type. I personally like rotary files because it is harder for the cards to get out of order. I find these convenient as you can just replace a card when the information needs updated and securely shred the old card. Store the card file somewhere safe, either in a fireproof safe or a secure deposit box and lodge a note of the location with your solicitor. When writing on the cards use fade-proof ink such as Registrar's ink which is designed to be archival.
I have a lot of accounts and thousands of emails in Evolution and it seems pretty instant to me too. Evolution also has a PIM built in for contacts and the search works quickly in that too.
They've been at this for years. There are warehouses the size of towns in China full of minerals, there too keep prices high. It can only eventually all come crashing down though.
Happened at a Bonfire Night show where I live and it was the best show they had put on in years. 20 minutes of fireworks in one minute. Very noisy though I would recommend it.
Computers are horribly complex devices accounting for both hardware and software and the majority of people are, unfortunately, lazy and don't want to put any effort into learning how to use them. Blame the manufacturers, both of hardware and software, who know this and market them as consumer appliances, just like a TV or washing machine. This is why the constant push to hide the complexity from the users and restrict their ability to break anything thus denying them the ability to ever learn how to operate the machine properly.
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You are insinuating that the collected data leaves Google's servers and enters the advertiser's servers.
It does not.
Google's business model is: give ad banner to Google, fill out a form specifying the desired demographic targets, done. Google then stores the banner on their server and their server sends out the banner when a user matching the chosen demographics views a page with Google backed ads on it.
I am insinuating nothing of the kind. If you read what I have said and what you quoted I have not stated that Google passes personal user details on directly to the customer. That categorised data becomes the product which Google sells via their advertising program. As you have said, they sell targeted advertising and without user data supplied via interaction with their services there would be no product for them to sell. I would be interested to know how you know exactly what Google does with the data they collect however. Perhaps you work for them?
Google will NEVER sell data of its customers...not because of any moral code, but because it is simply not profitable. They sell *targeted* advertising space on services offered for free, Like TV...or newspapers. Its why Google make Billions.
Exactly how do you think they "target" that advertising? They use algorithms applied to the data supplied by the users through their interaction with the Google services including search history, chats, contact lists etc. to categorise what the users' and their friends' and contacts' interests are, what socio-economic category they fall into, and where they are geographically. That data is the Google product and that is what they sell.
There is a fundamental difference to your example. When you visit a restaurant, you as the diner are the customer, the restaurant is the supplier and the product is the food and service. I think you misundertand the Google service user's relationship to Google. The service user isn't the customer. Google encourages the user to provide personal data in return for access to a service. That data then becomes Google's product which Google then sells on businesses and organisations - it's actual customers. It is the data customers who have the customer - supplier relationship.
Agreed, this constant chasing of crappy video with modern technology is simply amazing to me. (looking at you Instagram).
Its not like the current users have any fond memories of the great 16mm heyday, most of the users grew up in the digital age. Every one of them has a cell phone in their pocket that can do a better job. None of them have any memories of Bolex, and those that do are well over 65 years old.
Where is the market for this device?
The market is probably for people who like the Bolex film camera - they still make the H16 (16mm) camera in electric or mechanical versions. The market for these is mostly small film makers or wealthy hobbyists. Some higher budget films are also still shot on 16mm for atmospheric effect with the added grain giving a rawer or grittier "more real-life" effect.
Can I listen to it on my mp3 player?
Of course! You can listen while sitting on anything you wish.
I agree, the Unicomp has exactly the same feel (and sound) as the Model M and far superior build and 'heft' compared to most keyboards. Well worth the money and I've bought three from them. Model Ms - certainly here in the UK - are very hard to come by and ultra expensive when they come up with a UK layout. The Unicomp, even with the high shipping cost from the US and import duty, comes in at around £100. I did manage to banjax one by spilling coffee over it but barring future liquid intrusion, my other two are going strong and feel like they'll last a lifetime - just like the Model M.
Me too. My 11C is 32 years old and my daily user. The design is near perfect and only bettered by the 15C for it's complex number handling in my humble opinion. I must admit I was never a fan if TIs, always considering HP to have much better quality and of course, RPN. The output from HP these days is all from China and the build quality nowhere near what it was - the only plus is that they still make a few RPN models.
All they have to do now is implement 'ed' inside Vim inside Emacs, and we'll have a Software Turducken!
Drop the "ucken" and you would be very close to the truth.
WordPerfect?
Each control system requires comparatively little processing power but high reliability and redundancy. As an example, the back-up flight computer on the space shuttles was an HP-41CV/CX pocket calculator and later, an HP42S. These models were chosen specifically for build quality, reliability and lack of known inherent bugs, oh - and low outgassing.
This is yet another example of politicians throwing money at technology to try and solve problems of policy and administration. It's a bit like buying a new TV to cure a broken leg. Nothing but a distraction.
I'm using Mate 1.4 and it is good and definitely improving. There are still some bits of integration, especially in the file manager, which could do with improvement but it's coming along at a pace considering they are also removing a lot of redundant code from Gnome 2. The user experience in pretty near to the final versions of Gnome 2 and coming versions should be even better. Overall, very nice.
First off it is to be expected that gas/petrol prices will raise year on year it has done for the past decade and will continue to do so. Was it really such a big surprise to find out that 2012 was the most expensive year for petrol in the USA? Secondly, this highly USA-centric story doesn't compare to the UK, Europe and other regions of the planet. All stories like this do is make some people want to slap Americans for whining about the cost of petrol when in Europe we are more often than not paying double for petrol as referenced in this map. How this made it to the front page I don't know, it's common sense and does not require a notice to the people who actually drive cars as well as being incredibly whiny to the rest of the world.
Well said! In my area of Scotland petrol (gas) averages the equivalent of USD 8.10 per US gallon for unleaded or USD 8.75 for less refined Diesel - and we are supposed to be an oil producing nation. Unfortunately, in the 1970s our wonderful government in London sold off the rights to extract the oil to mostly American oil companies who now sell it back to us at a premium while our government then then taxes it punitively on top.
Maybe I could run an HP emulator on it then? RPN or RPL on a TI would be very cool - probably not to TI though.
According to Ted Ts'o's latest update (https://plus.google.com/117091380454742934025/posts) this actually involved a combination of "umount -l" and shutting down while the filesystem was still mounted, and the user also had "nobarrier" set on the filesystem as well as "journal_async_commit".
So it sure looks like the user was playing fast and loose...this is not something that's going to hit your average person.
I noticed this addendum too. Looks to be a very specific (and oddly ill considered) configuration required to trigger the bug. Quite a few other people here are going off on tangents and haven't read the addendum or your comment by the looks of it.
Well, it's a step up from getting chimpanzees to design their UIs!
HP are floundering and it's really sad to see a company with so many technology innovations to it's name struggling to find it's feet. Maybe people stopped asking "what would Bill and Dave do . . .?" If anyone wants a (quite extensive) peek into the way HP was, there is an excellent booklet by former employee, John Minck, available as a pdf at http://www.hpalumni.org/HPNAR110227.pdf.
Ubuntu ignored a large number it's users and ploughed on with some poor changes to the UI which ironically both of the major closed source OS makers seem to have also embraced. Look at Mint which basically offers a choice of UIs designed for proper desktops. It has usurped Ubuntu's position (in distrowatch hits anyway) and become the most popular desktop distro. You would think the people aping the mistakes Ubuntu made would notice the correlation between adopting a phone UI on the desktop for your OS and dwindling popularity with users or do companies still delude themselves that you can tell the customer what they want?
I would suggest using a Rolodex or similar card file, either rotary or box type. I personally like rotary files because it is harder for the cards to get out of order. I find these convenient as you can just replace a card when the information needs updated and securely shred the old card. Store the card file somewhere safe, either in a fireproof safe or a secure deposit box and lodge a note of the location with your solicitor. When writing on the cards use fade-proof ink such as Registrar's ink which is designed to be archival.
Seems very stable to me now. Had a couple of crashes in the last year but I haven't lost any data or had to restore.
I have a lot of accounts and thousands of emails in Evolution and it seems pretty instant to me too. Evolution also has a PIM built in for contacts and the search works quickly in that too.
They've been at this for years. There are warehouses the size of towns in China full of minerals, there too keep prices high. It can only eventually all come crashing down though.
Happened at a Bonfire Night show where I live and it was the best show they had put on in years. 20 minutes of fireworks in one minute. Very noisy though I would recommend it.
Computers are horribly complex devices accounting for both hardware and software and the majority of people are, unfortunately, lazy and don't want to put any effort into learning how to use them. Blame the manufacturers, both of hardware and software, who know this and market them as consumer appliances, just like a TV or washing machine. This is why the constant push to hide the complexity from the users and restrict their ability to break anything thus denying them the ability to ever learn how to operate the machine properly.
Quite! Real beer should be drunk warm. Chemical beer should be chilled then flushed down the sink.