... extrapolate social interactions onto non-sentient objects. Would you like me to:
1) Find some friends for you on facebook? 2) Order you some books on interpersonal relationships from Amazon.com? 3) Club CN over the head with a baseball bat, so he'll stop trying to shoehorn 'social' interactions into my goddamn UI.
(And, yes: This is a gross generalization, but not totally untrue.)
Do you really think that the CEO and founder of Facebook, didn't know the implications of what is possibly the biggest feature launch so far this year?
Not to mention, setting 'his shit to private' as you so eloquently put it would contradict the mission statement of Facebook.
Anyway... them's the facts* FWIW... you can choose to believe what you'd like.
You sir are an idiot. Lessig is possibly the most knowledgable person on the planet regarding US Copyright law, especially in it's relation to fair use.
Your lecturing tone, in addressing Lessig, is only showing your ignorance.
It's C. The cough_up_hairball() function has undocumented side effects, including all of he aforementioned.
Now, in C++, he could have just overloaded the "<<" operator to do all of that.
Well, at least it's better than cat implemented in Java:
AnimalInstance ourCat = new Cat ourCat.meow() ourCat.sleep_in_sun() ourCat.eat() ourCat.tear_through_house_for_no_apparent_reason() java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at org.slashdot.animal.Cat.tear_through_house_for_no_apparent_reason()...
The reasons you stated are exactly why I decided on electrical engineering instead of computer science, and my alma matter has one of the best CS dept's in the country.
It's incredible how many people think being able to stitch some crap together, likely barely-working and in Java, is a skill set these days. Without understanding the mechanics behind what your code is doing, what's the point? (Speaking of which, I've met "developers" who don't know what a pointer is. WTF?)
Albeit, it's not that often that I need to delve down to (or below) the opcode level, but it's sure nice to know that I can when necessary.
No offense, but if you're in disaster recovery mode, I don't think you're going to care about drive depreciation or random access. You don't pull your tapes in from off-site because someone deleted the e-card their mom sent them for christmas -- you pull your tapes when a meteor hits your DC and you don't have any other option.
Um... not to nit-pick, but free-space losses are for isotropic radiation, and can be compensated for by a high gain antenna -- remember that lasers are also em-waves -- a perfectly focused beam, if technologically possible to generate, would travel through a vacuum indefinitely (otherwise, it'd be a violation of conservation of energy, no?). So, throw a well designed antenna system up there and although you still won't have 100% efficiency, it certainly won't be 1/150th of the power generated in geosync.
Ok. So How about this for a non-self-important, non-jealous, non-douchey response:
Disclaimer: I happen to know many of Mark's friends, as well as having gone to school @ Stanford when Facebook made it's break-through in the beta stages. I've been a member for ages, and seen pretty much everything. I almost tried to work there, but when I interviewed I knew it wasn't the place for me.
Now to go on. Zuck, and Facebook by extension, really do think they know better than their users and everyone else. Their opt-out marketing ploys and from-the-first-day terrible privacy and retention policy's (go to the picture bucket for something you deleted. see it still? yeah, me too.) show their true colors as a data aggregation service.
They managed to create a token service that in exchange for hundreds of dollars of personal information (ie. your contact info is generally accepted as being worth $5. For browsing habits, preferences, etc. go up an order of magnitude), they give you shiny trinkets and a simplified website.
Zuck and many of his friends are more concerned with how they're going to cash out than any social good that they could bring from the service. Time and time again they demonstrate how little they are concerned by the preferences of their users, and believe that huge privacy and datamining fau paux's can be made up for by a well-worded apology (no doubt, written by their writing staff).
Do me a favor, and don't defend him. He doesn't deserve his success, and although he's been lucky, I expect the luck to run out before they sell out for their desired Billions.
In fact, how about this:
I'll put a $5k bounty on a very well written, adaptable Facebook scraper that can transfer all personal information and friends from their platform, to OpenSocial or a platform of my choosing.
Watch Facebook's bottom line once a altruistic company comes along with the same service.
If someone creates a cookie recipe that happens to, in several dozen years time, be interpretable as a Grand Unified Theory then there might be some gray area
Then I want a cookie. Probably a damn good cookie at that.
Because of the limitations and expenses involved in deploying such an architecture, they're working together. The full project is coordinated by the Vehicle Infrastructure Integration Consortium, of which Ford, General Motors, DaimlerChrysler, Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Volkswagen, and BMW are members.
Actually, the Vehicle-to-Vehicle and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure programs at many of the leading auto industry R&D programs, are working on exactly this approach.
Certain portions of CA infrastructure have been equipped with the first generation of this equipment (DSRC 1000m range radio equipment) and there's even a traffic light in Palo Alto (Page Mill Rd & El Camino Real) where you can receive broadcast status and phase information as you approach.
You make the cars aware of each other, and aware of the road, at first for safety and driver-assistance purposes--and the you gradually phase in the AI portion as it matures.
Slashdot Mirror
IIRC: http://www.redwoodsystems.com/products
... extrapolate social interactions onto non-sentient objects. Would you like me to:
1) Find some friends for you on facebook?
2) Order you some books on interpersonal relationships from Amazon.com?
3) Club CN over the head with a baseball bat, so he'll stop trying to shoehorn 'social' interactions into my goddamn UI.
(And, yes: This is a gross generalization, but not totally untrue.)
Lets double check your logic Dahamma:
Step 1) Pictures are posted
Step 2) Media makes a big deal out of it
Step 3) Less pictures are posted
Somehow, from this process, you assume step 2, despite occurring before step 3, has no causal relation?
Seriously ... I need to stop feeding the trolls.
Do you really think that the CEO and founder of Facebook, didn't know the implications of what is possibly the biggest feature launch so far this year?
Not to mention, setting 'his shit to private' as you so eloquently put it would contradict the mission statement of Facebook.
Anyway ... them's the facts* FWIW ... you can choose to believe what you'd like.
*Why yes, IAAFbE.
You sir are an idiot. Lessig is possibly the most knowledgable person on the planet regarding US Copyright law, especially in it's relation to fair use.
Your lecturing tone, in addressing Lessig, is only showing your ignorance.
-J
protons != photons FTW
you sir are an idiot.
oh damn, did I just feed the trolls? :-(
FAIL
No, seriously, the absolute frequency doesn't matter worth shit.
It's the delta(frequency), or "band-width". Specifically fmax-fmin=bandwidth which is proportional to channel capacity.
That said, you can fit more X MHz channels into the spectrum @ 1 GHz than you can at 1MHz ... but the point stands.
Wherever photons = light?
2400 baud!?! You must be using the *new* Iridium modems :-)
In my day we were happy with 600! And that was after walking 14 miles through the snow and cold to find a signal...
No UAV is capable of fighting a mannned air craft and winning.
Actually, the main limiting factor for the latest generation of manned aircraft is not the airframe, but the pilot.
I would imagine that a UAV could OWN a human pilot, just pull a 10G turn and then fire a missile where the F-22 will be. Done and done.
It's C. The cough_up_hairball() function has undocumented side effects, including all of he aforementioned.
Now, in C++, he could have just overloaded the "<<" operator to do all of that.
Well, at least it's better than cat implemented in Java:
AnimalInstance ourCat = new Cat ...
ourCat.meow()
ourCat.sleep_in_sun()
ourCat.eat()
ourCat.tear_through_house_for_no_apparent_reason()
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
at
org.slashdot.animal.Cat.tear_through_house_for_no_apparent_reason()
*sigh* Oh Java.
May she rot in hell for what she did to HP Labs.
Iridium modems.
Yes, it actually is good for something, albeit slow as old-school dialup.
The reasons you stated are exactly why I decided on electrical engineering instead of computer science, and my alma matter has one of the best CS dept's in the country.
It's incredible how many people think being able to stitch some crap together, likely barely-working and in Java, is a skill set these days. Without understanding the mechanics behind what your code is doing, what's the point? (Speaking of which, I've met "developers" who don't know what a pointer is. WTF?)
Albeit, it's not that often that I need to delve down to (or below) the opcode level, but it's sure nice to know that I can when necessary.
No offense, but if you're in disaster recovery mode, I don't think you're going to care about drive depreciation or random access. You don't pull your tapes in from off-site because someone deleted the e-card their mom sent them for christmas -- you pull your tapes when a meteor hits your DC and you don't have any other option.
Um ... not to nit-pick, but free-space losses are for isotropic radiation, and can be compensated for by a high gain antenna -- remember that lasers are also em-waves -- a perfectly focused beam, if technologically possible to generate, would travel through a vacuum indefinitely (otherwise, it'd be a violation of conservation of energy, no?). So, throw a well designed antenna system up there and although you still won't have 100% efficiency, it certainly won't be 1/150th of the power generated in geosync.
More significantly, the page does exist, but there's an access restriction or mod_rewrite style rule to 404 the page.
Compare:
http://www.google.com/chrome
http://www.google.com/thisdontexist
So hopefully we don't have to wait long for the other shoe to drop :-)
Ok. So How about this for a non-self-important, non-jealous, non-douchey response:
Disclaimer: I happen to know many of Mark's friends, as well as having gone to school @ Stanford when Facebook made it's break-through in the beta stages. I've been a member for ages, and seen pretty much everything. I almost tried to work there, but when I interviewed I knew it wasn't the place for me.
Now to go on. Zuck, and Facebook by extension, really do think they know better than their users and everyone else. Their opt-out marketing ploys and from-the-first-day terrible privacy and retention policy's (go to the picture bucket for something you deleted. see it still? yeah, me too.) show their true colors as a data aggregation service.
They managed to create a token service that in exchange for hundreds of dollars of personal information (ie. your contact info is generally accepted as being worth $5. For browsing habits, preferences, etc. go up an order of magnitude), they give you shiny trinkets and a simplified website.
Zuck and many of his friends are more concerned with how they're going to cash out than any social good that they could bring from the service. Time and time again they demonstrate how little they are concerned by the preferences of their users, and believe that huge privacy and datamining fau paux's can be made up for by a well-worded apology (no doubt, written by their writing staff).
Do me a favor, and don't defend him. He doesn't deserve his success, and although he's been lucky, I expect the luck to run out before they sell out for their desired Billions.
In fact, how about this:
I'll put a $5k bounty on a very well written, adaptable Facebook scraper that can transfer all personal information and friends from their platform, to OpenSocial or a platform of my choosing.
Watch Facebook's bottom line once a altruistic company comes along with the same service.
Then I want a cookie. Probably a damn good cookie at that.
Because of the limitations and expenses involved in deploying such an architecture, they're working together. The full project is coordinated by the Vehicle Infrastructure Integration Consortium, of which Ford, General Motors, DaimlerChrysler, Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Volkswagen, and BMW are members.
Actually, the Vehicle-to-Vehicle and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure programs at many of the leading auto industry R&D programs, are working on exactly this approach.
Certain portions of CA infrastructure have been equipped with the first generation of this equipment (DSRC 1000m range radio equipment) and there's even a traffic light in Palo Alto (Page Mill Rd & El Camino Real) where you can receive broadcast status and phase information as you approach.
You make the cars aware of each other, and aware of the road, at first for safety and driver-assistance purposes--and the you gradually phase in the AI portion as it matures.
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_infrastructure_integration
The point is that you are committed to AT&T for the effective life of the phone, not just two years.
Bzzzzzt. FYI:
AT&T has publicly stated they will unlock customers iPhones after the 2-year initial contract.
Valid point. Although long term capital gains still runs 15% ...
R&D: $10 000 000
...
Marketing: $25 000 000
Logistics: $5 000 000
Steve's Salary: $1
Bringing a new iPod to market: $40 000 000+
Having your CEO cost less than your annual paperclip budget: priceless
Most things money can by; and if you have enough of it: you probably buy Apple.
for early acceptance.
for not doing your research.
for not waiting to know if the product is going to fit your lifestyle.
for being a consumer whore.
And how!