If normal people heard "Go to getfirefox" they would say "Where am I supposed to go to get this foxfire thing?".
I suppose I would be thinking like a technologist if every non-techie I have encountered didn't know what Googling was and how to do it. And all of them, without exception, automatically go to Google (or more rarely, Yahoo) and type in whatever they've been told to "go to".
I consistently have this problem, for instance, with my sister: if I tell her to go to Amazon, she automatically goes to Google and types in "Amazon". Since she always finds what she's looking for, she assumes that what she's doing is "right" (and who's to say it isn't?).
Normal people don't google something as their first course of action.
We must know different kinds of people. Or maybe it's somehow a California thing. But every non-technical computer user I know -- from younger people I work with to my 50-something mother-in-law -- will go to Google by reflex.
The way I see it, "normal" people don't understand what the Internet is the way you and I do. They know there's stuff out there, and they learn that Google is their Oracle (no pun intended). Many of them seem to believe that Google is the "official" doorway to the Internet (and they may not be entirely wrong). They find the idea of the Web confusing, and Google (or whichever search engine they first learned about) helps allay that befuddlement.
If people hear instead "go to getfirefox" that will require further explanation...
You're thinking like a technologist. Normal people would hear "go to getfirefox" and react by going to Google or Yahoo search and typing "getfirefox". The search would product this (actual Google result for "getfirefox"):
Firefox - Rediscover the web Official site of the open-source browser. Includes product downloads, release notes, features overview, and information about switching from other browsers. www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ - 29k - Nov 24, 2005 - Cached - Similar pages - Remove result - Filter Home of the Firefox web browser and... Thunderbird - Reclaim Your Inbox - Products More results from www.mozilla.org
... and they wouldn't even understand that you would personally find the behavior odd or "wrong".
The Dot is dying. It is official; Netcraft has confirmed.
Star Wars V is "not that great"? You're talking about The Empire Strikes Back, you realize. Most people I know consider that movie the best of the series.
Even Steve, bless his heart... prances about the stage proclaiming his intense love for everything microsoft.
When did Steve (Jobs, I presume) ever prance around proclaiming love for Microsoft?
"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste... I don't mean that in a small way; I mean that in a big way... in the sense that they they don't think of original ideas and they don't bring much culture into their product. And you say why is that important -- well, you know proportionally spaced fonts come from type setting and beautiful books; that's where one gets the idea. If it weren't for the Mac, they would never have that in their products. And so I guess I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success -- I have no problem with their success, they've earned their success for the most part -- I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third rate products." --Steve Jobs
The headline should be "The New Norm." I wouldn't bother to say this, but Taco's always hooting about how he's a "journalist" now. Journalists know English grammar, and have editors, to boot.
The only "agenda" that any group of stockholders has is a return on investment.
Anything beyond that is the product of the board and -- much more significantly -- management.
Employees, in my experience, *are* the company. That's why the poster brings them up. It's ironic that companies would do this when they'll be hurting their own employees -- kind of like hurting your own body.
I did pull the example out of my ass, but it's not out of the realm of possibility. The backwoods boys would be easily put down by the military. And the grocery bill reduction CDs -- well, sure, it'd start that way. But given the example of Greed 2.0 by the record companies, don't think they'll stop with just an incentive.
Just wait until it's illegal or impossible not to buy these things. No, I'm not nuts, just a little paranoid. What if there was a nice little agreement between all your local grocery chains and the RIAA, so that you are forced to pay for an RIAA CD every time you buy something at the store.
Competition will just come in and fix that, right?
Er, well, no, maybe not. For one thing, the RIAA can just buy them out. If not, the grocery stores can simply find a way to make it illegal for anyone to compete with them.
At that point, you grow your own food, support the RIAA, or starve.
How stable is your application? When I first walked into one particular job, the outgoing tech guy was crowing about how super-redundant that this ONE box was that he was running the ONE webserver on.
That was all fine and good -- dual power supplies, multiple CPUs, yadda yadda -- but the app was not stable and could not handle the traffic it was getting. It crashed a lot, and when it did, there was no more business until someone bounced it.
Redundancy was good in that case.
You're running a database? That's a challenge to run in a clustered setup. It can be done and done right, but you need experts. If you're Amazon, you need that -- clustered geographically as well as locally. You're a little startup? Cluster your website and your app servers and just make your db internally redundant. And for chrissakes, don't run MS products. Stick with things that are easy to keep stable.
aware that Apple might start dealing directly with the artists? Of course, they would have to come to a deal with the other Apple, but I'm sure that wouldn't be a huge problem.
...
If not for most artists already having a strangling deal with a major record company which prohibits them from doing so.
The artists need to get themselves released from their contracts, or merely let them expire.
Then, Apple promotes them. They go from making.45 (you read that right, 45 cents) per CD to something closer to 100%.
That wasn't a typo, son. That was an example of typical Execu-speak in the Bush Era. It's their way of showing off how arrogant they are; the subtext is "I'm so privileged I don't have to put any effort into making sense or remembering words or grammar. I'm entitled to everything I want."
Main Entry: arrogance Pronunciation: 'ar-&-g&n(t)s Function: noun : a feeling or an impression of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or presumptuous claims
Of course Windows will try to look like the Mac. As Steve "Developers! Developers! I'm sweaty and insane!" Baller once proudly crowed to MS employees in a speech, "We *will* continue to allow others to innovate!" Like that was a virtue or something. Look at us! We're real good at imitating!
In lieu of an expected mod-down as Troll, I will Meta-Moderate today and mark all Troll, Redundant, and Flamebait mods as Unfair. I encourage anyone reading this to do the same. We *can* destroy the./ moderation system in our time.
Shrug -- I hope you're right. Given the near-constant attempts to put permanent DRM schemes into everything, and the huge money backing them, it seems like it's only a matter of time. Technically, yeah, we can likely break everything they throw at us. But even today that's illegal in the US (and the EU, IIRC), and the governments haven't really started to impose serious penalties -- yet.
Dead Tree books don't have my rights "managed" for me. I like that about a technology.
Book publishers are trying to eliminate paper books, and create a mandatory pay-per-read system. Like the RIAA's racket, authors get little or no money, while readers will be forced to pay publishers every time they read a book. Lending books to friends -- that'll be a thing of the past.
Sorry, no escape to the world of words. They'll get you there, too.
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If normal people heard "Go to getfirefox" they would say "Where am I supposed to go to get this foxfire thing?".
I suppose I would be thinking like a technologist if every non-techie I have encountered didn't know what Googling was and how to do it. And all of them, without exception, automatically go to Google (or more rarely, Yahoo) and type in whatever they've been told to "go to".
I consistently have this problem, for instance, with my sister: if I tell her to go to Amazon, she automatically goes to Google and types in "Amazon". Since she always finds what she's looking for, she assumes that what she's doing is "right" (and who's to say it isn't?).
Normal people don't google something as their first course of action.
We must know different kinds of people. Or maybe it's somehow a California thing. But every non-technical computer user I know -- from younger people I work with to my 50-something mother-in-law -- will go to Google by reflex.
The way I see it, "normal" people don't understand what the Internet is the way you and I do. They know there's stuff out there, and they learn that Google is their Oracle (no pun intended). Many of them seem to believe that Google is the "official" doorway to the Internet (and they may not be entirely wrong). They find the idea of the Web confusing, and Google (or whichever search engine they first learned about) helps allay that befuddlement.
Actually, it's a hardcore pr0n site.
You're thinking like a technologist. Normal people would hear "go to getfirefox" and react by going to Google or Yahoo search and typing "getfirefox". The search would product this (actual Google result for "getfirefox"):
Firefox - Rediscover the web
Official site of the open-source browser. Includes product downloads, release
notes, features overview, and information about switching from other browsers.
www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ - 29k - Nov 24, 2005 - Cached - Similar pages - Remove result - Filter
Home of the Firefox web browser and
Thunderbird - Reclaim Your Inbox - Products
More results from www.mozilla.org
The Dot is dying. It is official; Netcraft has confirmed.
Who's getting this money?
Say it with me: Tom DeLay
Star Wars V is "not that great"? You're talking about The Empire Strikes Back, you realize. Most people I know consider that movie the best of the series.
Even Steve, bless his heart ... prances about the stage proclaiming his intense love for everything microsoft.
... I don't mean that in a small way; I mean that in a big way ... in the sense that they they don't think of original ideas and they don't bring much culture into their product. And you say why is that important -- well, you know proportionally spaced fonts come from type setting and beautiful books; that's where one gets the idea. If it weren't for the Mac, they would never have that in their products. And so I guess I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success -- I have no problem with their success, they've earned their success for the most part -- I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third rate products."
When did Steve (Jobs, I presume) ever prance around proclaiming love for Microsoft?
"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste
--Steve Jobs
The headline should be "The New Norm." I wouldn't bother to say this, but Taco's always hooting about how he's a "journalist" now. Journalists know English grammar, and have editors, to boot.
Uhhhhh --
The only "agenda" that any group of stockholders has is a return on investment.
Anything beyond that is the product of the board and -- much more significantly -- management.
Employees, in my experience, *are* the company. That's why the poster brings them up. It's ironic that companies would do this when they'll be hurting their own employees -- kind of like hurting your own body.
I did pull the example out of my ass, but it's not out of the realm of possibility. The backwoods boys would be easily put down by the military. And the grocery bill reduction CDs -- well, sure, it'd start that way. But given the example of Greed 2.0 by the record companies, don't think they'll stop with just an incentive.
Just wait until it's illegal or impossible not to buy these things. No, I'm not nuts, just a little paranoid. What if there was a nice little agreement between all your local grocery chains and the RIAA, so that you are forced to pay for an RIAA CD every time you buy something at the store.
Competition will just come in and fix that, right?
Er, well, no, maybe not. For one thing, the RIAA can just buy them out. If not, the grocery stores can simply find a way to make it illegal for anyone to compete with them.
At that point, you grow your own food, support the RIAA, or starve.
Welcome to the future.
It really all depends.
How stable is your application? When I first walked into one particular job, the outgoing tech guy was crowing about how super-redundant that this ONE box was that he was running the ONE webserver on.
That was all fine and good -- dual power supplies, multiple CPUs, yadda yadda -- but the app was not stable and could not handle the traffic it was getting. It crashed a lot, and when it did, there was no more business until someone bounced it.
Redundancy was good in that case.
You're running a database? That's a challenge to run in a clustered setup. It can be done and done right, but you need experts. If you're Amazon, you need that -- clustered geographically as well as locally. You're a little startup? Cluster your website and your app servers and just make your db internally redundant. And for chrissakes, don't run MS products. Stick with things that are easy to keep stable.
Boy, isn't this the pot calling the kettle black?
Record Companies More Likely to Cheat, Gouge
Sure you can do it. Samba and Apache just have to be part of the same security domain. Study up, boy.
aware that Apple might start dealing directly with the artists? Of course, they would have to come to a deal with the other Apple, but I'm sure that wouldn't be a huge problem.
...
.45 (you read that right, 45 cents) per CD to something closer to 100%.
If not for most artists already having a strangling deal with a major record company which prohibits them from doing so.
The artists need to get themselves released from their contracts, or merely let them expire.
Then, Apple promotes them. They go from making
That wasn't a typo, son. That was an example of typical Execu-speak in the Bush Era. It's their way of showing off how arrogant they are; the subtext is "I'm so privileged I don't have to put any effort into making sense or remembering words or grammar. I'm entitled to everything I want."
Main Entry: arrogance
Pronunciation: 'ar-&-g&n(t)s
Function: noun
: a feeling or an impression of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or presumptuous claims
Perhaps iPods combined with iPods are selling music as well, and it's not just a one-way street?"
It means that he wants one album per iPod, at a price of $100. New U2 album? $100. New Beyonce? $100.
The funny thing is, the market already decided -- and it said that music isn't physical property, and has an intrinsic value of 0.
Hey, I have a better idea: come up with a business model that fits the state of technology!
Er -- unfortunately, that business model might be "go out of business." You're no longer needed.
Weird; firefox on my mac downloaded
f html
http://smorye.apeha.ru/message1_pt_32627_page_18.
when I clicked on your aaaaaaaa link.
It's LABOR DAY you insensitive clod!
Of course Windows will try to look like the Mac. As Steve "Developers! Developers! I'm sweaty and insane!" Baller once proudly crowed to MS employees in a speech, "We *will* continue to allow others to innovate!" Like that was a virtue or something. Look at us! We're real good at imitating!
./ moderation system in our time.
In lieu of an expected mod-down as Troll, I will Meta-Moderate today and mark all Troll, Redundant, and Flamebait mods as Unfair. I encourage anyone reading this to do the same. We *can* destroy the
Shrug -- I hope you're right. Given the near-constant attempts to put permanent DRM schemes into everything, and the huge money backing them, it seems like it's only a matter of time. Technically, yeah, we can likely break everything they throw at us. But even today that's illegal in the US (and the EU, IIRC), and the governments haven't really started to impose serious penalties -- yet.
How the hell is this a Troll? Oh, wait, I forgot: a Troll == an opinion you don't like, expressed strongly.
This, ladies and gents, is why meta-moderate all the time: so I can mark every single Troll and Flamebait and Redundant moderation as Unfair.
Dead Tree books don't have my rights "managed" for me. I like that about a technology.
Book publishers are trying to eliminate paper books, and create a mandatory pay-per-read system. Like the RIAA's racket, authors get little or no money, while readers will be forced to pay publishers every time they read a book. Lending books to friends -- that'll be a thing of the past.
Sorry, no escape to the world of words. They'll get you there, too.