Easily within the next decade, without some major, MAJOR backlash, almost all vendors will be doing some form of mass, directed spam. It'll be personalized far more than before, but will still be spam. Right now we just have the luxury of "unsubscribe" options. Which won't really matter when companies are targeting even those that don't sign up.
The trick is that the industry likes one and views it as a form of prosperous godliness, and views the other as the unaffiliated malarkey perpetuated by third world scum. When, in reality, they are the exact same thing.
I think it would not be so bad if not for the fact that everyone, everywhere is selling the exact same shit I don't want or need at the exact same price. Advertising is needed because it isn't needed; if there was diversity, advertising would be needed to raise attention to products; since there is no diversity, you get these massive ad/spam engines being constructed because these companies have no real way to distinguish themselves.
IBM's only real, true, main prediction is that information itself and the analytics of it therein will be one of, if not the most important emerging industry in software/IT/CS world. And quite frankly, I'd say they're right. Attaining data on all people, analyzing it, and using that analysis to predict trends (or, for a more direct example, create perfectly oriented, placed and timed advertisements; a more "helpful" example is creating intelligent streetlight timing systems based off of daily, emergent traffic data) seems like a very smart place to hedge their bets. Which is probably why they've been purchasing every analytical startup that looks promising over the past few years.
And really, many decades ago, they made a few key predictions that worked out quite dandy for them. And some that did not so much.
Uh...Linux and open source projects are made up of many, many different people who are building on Project A,B,C, etc. because it reflects their own personal vision or goals or accomplishes tasks they want done.
There is no "unified vision" because there is not and can not be a unified purpose/goal. Some DEs are for research environments, others are for standard workstations, others favor people that desire total flexibility, and some are geared towards trying to merge completely contradictory dichotomies, and so on. Each has their own set of maintainers and each seems to have its own specific vision, like you ask for.
This is like asking why mobile handset manufacturers don't just come up with one unified Android handset design instead of doing their own thing while retaining similar tenants/requirements.
I think the advantage is that everything Qt-based will work without a single hitch. If Qt got a decent enough port to mobile platforms, then porting basic applications would be a cinch.
In fairness; -He was assured that the names of sensitive peoples would be scrubbed. Or rather, the truly sensitive cables would not be leaked. And Wikileaks actually did not release many documents purely because of that. -Wikileaks was using agencies like TheGuardian for the leaks, which assured them that they would properly vet the cables -The last, drastic and total leak was the result of general incompetence in regards to the total file and the security passcode for it having been posted online by different people, unawares. Oops.
Really, his duty is to the US constitution, and if he believed that there was cause for the leaks - that the army or military or diplomats were treasonous in their duty and that the cables were proof needed to bring this to light - then it's quite understandable that he tried to expose them.
His main mistake was pure naivety or pure dumbassery in trusting a random foreigner with such sensitive data - he had NO way of knowing that this information wasn't going straight into enemy hands - and not trying to bring this data to a local news agency like the NYT (just an example).
"Other than the whole sleeping in a cell and working on a chain gang thing that makes up prison existence, my life is totally in my control!"
There honestly does not have to be a trade-off. You can allow users to install their own apps from external sources, and still lock down your own marketplace - they could go out of their way to get their own, unofficial one! That is actual control, while still keeping the majority of the users within the default walled garden.
Ease of use doesn't have to be at all compromised. You can always obfuscate or hide ugly customization options and techniques, so long as they are still there and they still work.
More like Apple takes half-baked and poorly executed ideas and executes them excellently
Sure. Regardless, they did not greatly innovate nor invent the ideas nor practicalities of the whole thing, and their claims otherwise are really fucking annoying.
I saw a demo a month ago of a software product in development that only needs the sparsest of details about your friends, and a few time-lapsed satphotos or GPS data about/of your vehicle at specific times to be able to predict *exactly* where you would be on a given night (barring outlier events, like an earthquake - though there were examples of how to factor that in if you think it's a possibility). And the kicker, is that the mass-majority of the data this system needs (for North Americans and western Europeans) is already available for free.
Yes. It's that evil random Canadian news mag! They orchestrated the whole thing! With help from that evil Soros and his powers of the lieberal agenda!
OWS is, at the very least, PRO-Capitalism - Capitalism that is regulated and properly controlled to create a system that grows exponentially and encourages innovation, competition and security and growth for its workers as well.
Granted, you get the fringe groups within - the super communists, the anarchists, the actual liberals, etc. - in the same way that you get the extreme fringe on the further right groups (the blatant racists, the "illegal immigrants should be granted amnesty on the condition that they work for 10c an hour" peoples, the birthers, etc.)
Koch Bros. are just an example of the original complainant target though. That is, the rich people spiting the country that gave them their capabilities for the sake of a few more dollars today rather than long term growth.
Haha, what? They're a puppet GOP group. The thorn they have been is the same one as the birthers; a random proxy issue used to yell at the Democrats/Obama for the sake of yelling.
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It really just would not have worked out very well.
It's just pie in the sky bullhonkey.
Some form of general "directions" for the SmarterPlanet groups/initiatives.
Easily within the next decade, without some major, MAJOR backlash, almost all vendors will be doing some form of mass, directed spam. It'll be personalized far more than before, but will still be spam. Right now we just have the luxury of "unsubscribe" options. Which won't really matter when companies are targeting even those that don't sign up.
Bingo!
It's another data stream to track for a given person. Another set of heuristic data.
The trick is that the industry likes one and views it as a form of prosperous godliness, and views the other as the unaffiliated malarkey perpetuated by third world scum.
When, in reality, they are the exact same thing.
I think it would not be so bad if not for the fact that everyone, everywhere is selling the exact same shit I don't want or need at the exact same price.
Advertising is needed because it isn't needed; if there was diversity, advertising would be needed to raise attention to products; since there is no diversity, you get these massive ad/spam engines being constructed because these companies have no real way to distinguish themselves.
IBM's only real, true, main prediction is that information itself and the analytics of it therein will be one of, if not the most important emerging industry in software/IT/CS world. And quite frankly, I'd say they're right. Attaining data on all people, analyzing it, and using that analysis to predict trends (or, for a more direct example, create perfectly oriented, placed and timed advertisements; a more "helpful" example is creating intelligent streetlight timing systems based off of daily, emergent traffic data) seems like a very smart place to hedge their bets.
Which is probably why they've been purchasing every analytical startup that looks promising over the past few years.
And really, many decades ago, they made a few key predictions that worked out quite dandy for them.
And some that did not so much.
Uh...Linux and open source projects are made up of many, many different people who are building on Project A,B,C, etc. because it reflects their own personal vision or goals or accomplishes tasks they want done.
There is no "unified vision" because there is not and can not be a unified purpose/goal. Some DEs are for research environments, others are for standard workstations, others favor people that desire total flexibility, and some are geared towards trying to merge completely contradictory dichotomies, and so on. Each has their own set of maintainers and each seems to have its own specific vision, like you ask for.
This is like asking why mobile handset manufacturers don't just come up with one unified Android handset design instead of doing their own thing while retaining similar tenants/requirements.
I think the advantage is that everything Qt-based will work without a single hitch.
If Qt got a decent enough port to mobile platforms, then porting basic applications would be a cinch.
It would be *fucking awesome* if this outright supplanted G3 and Unity.
You really think he would have even had the time to have scoured the cables?
In fairness;
-He was assured that the names of sensitive peoples would be scrubbed. Or rather, the truly sensitive cables would not be leaked. And Wikileaks actually did not release many documents purely because of that.
-Wikileaks was using agencies like TheGuardian for the leaks, which assured them that they would properly vet the cables
-The last, drastic and total leak was the result of general incompetence in regards to the total file and the security passcode for it having been posted online by different people, unawares. Oops.
Really, his duty is to the US constitution, and if he believed that there was cause for the leaks - that the army or military or diplomats were treasonous in their duty and that the cables were proof needed to bring this to light - then it's quite understandable that he tried to expose them.
His main mistake was pure naivety or pure dumbassery in trusting a random foreigner with such sensitive data - he had NO way of knowing that this information wasn't going straight into enemy hands - and not trying to bring this data to a local news agency like the NYT (just an example).
Apple was also on top of the a couple decades ago.
"Other than the whole sleeping in a cell and working on a chain gang thing that makes up prison existence, my life is totally in my control!"
There honestly does not have to be a trade-off. You can allow users to install their own apps from external sources, and still lock down your own marketplace - they could go out of their way to get their own, unofficial one! That is actual control, while still keeping the majority of the users within the default walled garden.
Ease of use doesn't have to be at all compromised. You can always obfuscate or hide ugly customization options and techniques, so long as they are still there and they still work.
More like Apple takes half-baked and poorly executed ideas and executes them excellently
Sure. Regardless, they did not greatly innovate nor invent the ideas nor practicalities of the whole thing, and their claims otherwise are really fucking annoying.
This kills the crab/pig.
I would have to start mailing PETA pictures of my lovely steaks.
Doubling its revenue every few years as well.
I saw a demo a month ago of a software product in development that only needs the sparsest of details about your friends, and a few time-lapsed satphotos or GPS data about/of your vehicle at specific times to be able to predict *exactly* where you would be on a given night (barring outlier events, like an earthquake - though there were examples of how to factor that in if you think it's a possibility). And the kicker, is that the mass-majority of the data this system needs (for North Americans and western Europeans) is already available for free.
Uh, no, there's no question. MegaUpload contracted/solicited the actual video - *they* paid to have it made, completely from scratch.
MU owns the entire thing. Everything else is horseshit and FUD.
Yes. It's that evil random Canadian news mag!
They orchestrated the whole thing! With help from that evil Soros and his powers of the lieberal agenda!
OWS is, at the very least, PRO-Capitalism - Capitalism that is regulated and properly controlled to create a system that grows exponentially and encourages innovation, competition and security and growth for its workers as well.
Granted, you get the fringe groups within - the super communists, the anarchists, the actual liberals, etc. - in the same way that you get the extreme fringe on the further right groups (the blatant racists, the "illegal immigrants should be granted amnesty on the condition that they work for 10c an hour" peoples, the birthers, etc.)
Koch Bros. are just an example of the original complainant target though. That is, the rich people spiting the country that gave them their capabilities for the sake of a few more dollars today rather than long term growth.
Haha, what?
They're a puppet GOP group. The thorn they have been is the same one as the birthers; a random proxy issue used to yell at the Democrats/Obama for the sake of yelling.
They did not have the copyright to it.
The second they backed down from choosing OBL.
Jeeze, was being Person of the Year once already just not good enough?
Next thing you know, everyone's going to be demanding Person of the Century and then cats will live with dogs and the whole system will collapse!