The question was never about intelligence. There's plenty of that to go around. It's our bureaucracy that's so massive that a lot of absurd stuff happens.
Fortunately, our bureaucrats are good at banning stuff.
You have a point, but nobody should really be surprised, since facebook has done this kind of crap before. Furthermore, the fact that people aren't abandoning instagram/facebook en masse just proves that in the end they don't care and are too lazy to change.
You're right. But you're missing one detail in your corrected analogy: There is no direct benefit for Fred-Iggy if they run a business for free. Something has to be sold to someone in some way.
My interpretation of the whole process goes like this, based on your two interpretations:
* Iggy asks Paul to use his garage to store stuff for free, which attracts Paul * Paul puts lots of stuff in Iggy's garage * Iggy hides his intention to sell the stuff off OR genuinely did not plan on selling the stuff and has no idea how to make money * Behind the scenes, Fred buys Iggy's assets for an obscene amount of cash, again revealing evil plans OR no business sense * At this point, Iggy has tons of stuff he can't use directly and is paying storage costs for * Fred-Iggy decide to monetize (due to malice or shareholder pressure) their assets: the stuff they're keeping * Paul gets upset because he believes he's the customer for Fred-Iggy's service, while Fred-Iggy see him as a source of material that can be sold to a third-party * Fred-Iggy have a notorious policy of doing way more than just storing and displaying according to your rules what you gave them: they harvest everything they can about you to sell it to whoever wants the information
In conclusion, both parties are made up of morons. The difference between them being that Facebook-Instagram are just acting the way they're expected to in their role of an evil faceless (even though Facebook's not faceless, no pun intended) corporation, by stepping on the general public. Meanwhile the users expected all sorts of things for free, oppose to having their data sold off to the highest bidder (and rightly so) and are surprised by that move (nobody with half a brain should be surprised by now). And that's ignoring the fact that instagram has alternatives (dropbox, google drive, skydrive, iCloud) which are far more reputable and are only not chosen because of the possibility of taking a crappy cell phone picture and making it even worse by cropping and applying a tacky filter, making it "artistic".
tl;dr Facebook/Instagram are overhyped crap and I have little to no sympathy for anyone who expects Facebook to run a charity business.
Any energy gain would be similar to the energy produced by photovoltaic arrays, which have the advantage (over corn) of not needing fertile soil and water.
Nobody is starving because we make corn into fuel. You think that they are, but there's actually plenty of food to feed them, going to waste. People are starving because nobody cares.
Probably, but at the very least it's driving prices up for the benefit of a small group of individuals.
Intel is selling millions of processors made with a 22nm process right now.
Samsung just finished designing a processor that will enter prototyping soon/is being tested. Their process may have horrible yields, be too costly or have any number of problems. This "milestone" is akin to having the tech drawings of a car ready - it's hype until we see results.
Last I checked, most Samsung silicon was at 28nm, I think, with NAND flash at 23/22nm.
I'd rather pay 200 bucks for a processor that actually gets stuff done, than pay 25 for one that tends to work well with very specific stuff. And let's not even go into energy efficiency.
It's a matter of principle. Windows doesn't automatically allow something to be run if it's signed by Microsoft, neither does OS X, as far as I've seen.
The true lego propellers I've seen would never be able to produce any thrust. The NXT + motors would be too heavy for it to fly, too. Don't get me wrong, it'd be massively cool, but just sounds unfeasible using all Lego.
You sound like you've never used Symbian. It never was really good, it just worked and you got used to its quirks. Then came Symbian 5th edition, which definitely competes with Windows ME for the worst OS ever - the phones weren't absolutely cutting-edge, but they got the job done. The software was absolutely atrocious and they let everyone who bought the original N97 behind, not even updating it to the 3.x software of the N97 mini. All while updating the 5800 XpressMusic on a fairly regular basis... 8 updates, I think it got...
I won't say MeeGo was "The One True Way", but it sure as hell was a very good platform to build stuff upon. Improved hardware and a few bug fixes would make it a killer platform, except for one tiny thing: its "ecosystem" as the buzzword went... That's the major obstacle in MeeGo's way, as it was back then. The point could be made that it was just as far along as Windows Phone (if not ahead), but Windows Phone would surely attract more developers than MeeGo, and Microsoft offered a truckload of cash (or however you pay someone huge amounts of money). Symbian was/is a freaking Zombie and Android is Android, with all associated virtues and flaws. Considering all this, I can't say I would certainly have done things differently. If someone can be criticized, it's Microsoft for not being aggressive enough with quickly improving their OS.
Let's not forget that Nuclear's impressive safety record was achieved with a lot of 50s-60s technology around.
The worst cases have happened and they're still not that bad. Modern reactors are even safer. Definitely safer than global warming, the radiation and other pollutants released by coal power plants in regular use, among other problems with the "alternatives".
Nuclear reactor: Big steel container that's mostly isolated from the outside world, with a concrete strucutre around it if something goes FUBAR.
Coal plant: Big furnace that burns shit someone dug out of the ground (and will probably get cancer from said activity) and dumps the products into the atmosphere.
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One less thing to install, then. Just reconfigure it andgift it away to powerful people.
Not happening. Especially not to Huawei. Why would they need Nokia's assets?
That and the $800 n-series phones.
So now we have 800€ Samsung flagships, 1000€+ iPhones...
It could probably be used as a hammer to break an iPhone. A Gorilla Glass vs. whatever it is that Apple uses match would be interesting...
Yup. The app itself isn't as powerful though. Basic navigation (pedestrian, car and mass transit), maps, and city lens are available.
The question was never about intelligence. There's plenty of that to go around. It's our bureaucracy that's so massive that a lot of absurd stuff happens.
Fortunately, our bureaucrats are good at banning stuff.
You have a point, but nobody should really be surprised, since facebook has done this kind of crap before.
Furthermore, the fact that people aren't abandoning instagram/facebook en masse just proves that in the end they don't care and are too lazy to change.
You're right. But you're missing one detail in your corrected analogy: There is no direct benefit for Fred-Iggy if they run a business for free. Something has to be sold to someone in some way.
My interpretation of the whole process goes like this, based on your two interpretations:
* Iggy asks Paul to use his garage to store stuff for free, which attracts Paul
* Paul puts lots of stuff in Iggy's garage
* Iggy hides his intention to sell the stuff off OR genuinely did not plan on selling the stuff and has no idea how to make money
* Behind the scenes, Fred buys Iggy's assets for an obscene amount of cash, again revealing evil plans OR no business sense
* At this point, Iggy has tons of stuff he can't use directly and is paying storage costs for
* Fred-Iggy decide to monetize (due to malice or shareholder pressure) their assets: the stuff they're keeping
* Paul gets upset because he believes he's the customer for Fred-Iggy's service, while Fred-Iggy see him as a source of material that can be sold to a third-party
* Fred-Iggy have a notorious policy of doing way more than just storing and displaying according to your rules what you gave them: they harvest everything they can about you to sell it to whoever wants the information
In conclusion, both parties are made up of morons. The difference between them being that Facebook-Instagram are just acting the way they're expected to in their role of an evil faceless (even though Facebook's not faceless, no pun intended) corporation, by stepping on the general public. Meanwhile the users expected all sorts of things for free, oppose to having their data sold off to the highest bidder (and rightly so) and are surprised by that move (nobody with half a brain should be surprised by now). And that's ignoring the fact that instagram has alternatives (dropbox, google drive, skydrive, iCloud) which are far more reputable and are only not chosen because of the possibility of taking a crappy cell phone picture and making it even worse by cropping and applying a tacky filter, making it "artistic".
tl;dr Facebook/Instagram are overhyped crap and I have little to no sympathy for anyone who expects Facebook to run a charity business.
Certainly more efficient than processing corn into ethanol
http://xkcd.com/1150/
Anyone who expects stuff like this for free should think twice.
Then again, anyone who uses Instagram is an idiot, but that's a different story.
Any energy gain would be similar to the energy produced by photovoltaic arrays, which have the advantage (over corn) of not needing fertile soil and water.
Nobody is starving because we make corn into fuel. You think that they are, but there's actually plenty of food to feed them, going to waste. People are starving because nobody cares.
Probably, but at the very least it's driving prices up for the benefit of a small group of individuals.
The real issue here is that food is being used to make fuel.
They must have a mad libs book for crazy stories...
*American agency* scientists are planning to *verb* a *singular noun* and use it as a *singular noun* for *insert job* on their way to *place*.+
Pretty big difference:
Intel is selling millions of processors made with a 22nm process right now.
Samsung just finished designing a processor that will enter prototyping soon/is being tested. Their process may have horrible yields, be too costly or have any number of problems. This "milestone" is akin to having the tech drawings of a car ready - it's hype until we see results.
Last I checked, most Samsung silicon was at 28nm, I think, with NAND flash at 23/22nm.
I beg to differ.
I'd rather pay 200 bucks for a processor that actually gets stuff done, than pay 25 for one that tends to work well with very specific stuff. And let's not even go into energy efficiency.
It's a matter of principle. Windows doesn't automatically allow something to be run if it's signed by Microsoft, neither does OS X, as far as I've seen.
I never did understand why being so closely tied to a specific company and its servers was viewed as good for privacy and security.
The true lego propellers I've seen would never be able to produce any thrust. The NXT + motors would be too heavy for it to fly, too.
Don't get me wrong, it'd be massively cool, but just sounds unfeasible using all Lego.
You sound like you've never used Symbian. It never was really good, it just worked and you got used to its quirks. Then came Symbian 5th edition, which definitely competes with Windows ME for the worst OS ever - the phones weren't absolutely cutting-edge, but they got the job done. The software was absolutely atrocious and they let everyone who bought the original N97 behind, not even updating it to the 3.x software of the N97 mini. All while updating the 5800 XpressMusic on a fairly regular basis... 8 updates, I think it got...
I won't say MeeGo was "The One True Way", but it sure as hell was a very good platform to build stuff upon. Improved hardware and a few bug fixes would make it a killer platform, except for one tiny thing: its "ecosystem" as the buzzword went... That's the major obstacle in MeeGo's way, as it was back then.
The point could be made that it was just as far along as Windows Phone (if not ahead), but Windows Phone would surely attract more developers than MeeGo, and Microsoft offered a truckload of cash (or however you pay someone huge amounts of money). Symbian was/is a freaking Zombie and Android is Android, with all associated virtues and flaws.
Considering all this, I can't say I would certainly have done things differently. If someone can be criticized, it's Microsoft for not being aggressive enough with quickly improving their OS.
Or have a very large collection of games installed.
To be pedantic, HDDs haven't used Iron Oxide in a long time. Last I checked, some Cobalt alloy was used in pretty much every drive instead of rust.
Let's not forget that Nuclear's impressive safety record was achieved with a lot of 50s-60s technology around.
The worst cases have happened and they're still not that bad. Modern reactors are even safer. Definitely safer than global warming, the radiation and other pollutants released by coal power plants in regular use, among other problems with the "alternatives".
It's obvious if you think about it for a second:
Nuclear reactor: Big steel container that's mostly isolated from the outside world, with a concrete strucutre around it if something goes FUBAR.
Coal plant: Big furnace that burns shit someone dug out of the ground (and will probably get cancer from said activity) and dumps the products into the atmosphere.
Guess which one is designed not to let crap out.