The problems stem from the fact that the barrier to entry is so low and that anonymity is far more easily attained (or assumed) on the internet.
This manifests itself quite simply in something like an online forum. If you had a group of people discussing an issue face-to-face, rarely would you have heated arguments develop virtually instantaneously, but within a forum you'll have people criticising each other and generally being offensive all over the place.
As long as you can run a server for nothing on a static IP or Dynamic DNS system, or get bulk hosting $5/month, you'll have poorly configured servers.
But a lot of it comes back to the default software being released. Make it harder for someone to fuck something up and that's a start.
How about pissing off other countries a little bit less and then you wouldn't have such a problem with national defense.
I seriously think it's that simple (on a base level anyway).
The US has a massive problem with the corporate interest dominating what's best for the people.
I saw a Fahrenheit 911 preview screening a few days ago and to me the strongest messages were that power corrupts, the divide between rich and poor is growing, and there are problems with the US political system that places so much emphasis on corporate donations/influence and makes it literally impossible for an alternative to the two major parties to have a viable chance at making a difference.
(I already knew that Bush was a wanker, that Afghanistan was about gas and that Iraq is about oil.)
One thing that I find strange is that many people in the US are so strongly supportive of either of the two parties that they'll argue to the death for, say, the Republicans despite not standing to directly gain from oil profits, etc, just because that's their team. I mean, barrack for a sporting team and the characters you like, but politics go a bit further and your vote endorses all sorts of shit.
I think it can come down to brand inheritance too. Look in your fridge and then look in your parents and you'll see more similarities than you would otherwise expect. I think that can often happen in politics too.
I don't want to get into a huge argument because I know it's a contentious topic, but corporate interests creeping into schools is dodgy and massive defensive expenditure limits what's available for other elements (environment, education, public health, etc).
Don't educate people too much, though, because they won't head off to die blindly for your oil and gas profits. I think that's a realistic point to make.
Is it all that different to other companies providing branded materials to schools servicing younger brackets (i.e., notepads, textbooks, rulers, etc). I've read that this is quite extensive in poorer regions within the US.
I don't think it's a slow day on slashdot -- I just don't think that some contributors and editors understand that this is essentially the equivalent of someone formatting a set of data as text files for a specific system: not very special at all.
Having such a broad range of phones does very little for brand/model strengthening.
I don't love flip-phones or the current ability of camera phones, but Nokia may have just lost it in the fad-stakes more than many would expect. Also, when many people are making price-based decisions, those manufacturers with the best distributions offers will likely have the stores advertising most.
Currently getting a lot of advertising space in Australia is LG's flip/video phone for the 3 market.
True. Anyone using a webmail service is putting a lot of trust in a company not holding personal missives for private gain. But what's to say that any mailserver out of your hands isn't logging full copies of everything you send?
Which is the better path?
1. Spread a tenth of your data between each of ten commercial providers, each with x% chance of abusing it.
2. Put all of your information with a single operator with that same chance.
I mean, if you're doing seriously dodgy stuff, then something like Echelon is going to bust you anyway.
I search with Google, appreciate the traffic it brings my sites, and use their AdSense program. From my experiences with them and other companies, I would trust Google before a lot of others. And that was, ultimately, my point -- doing the right thing (at least in the sense that perception is reality) brings reward. It might not give you 90% market share the week you start the business, or rain angel VC cash upon you, and it won't grab those lovely users who'll use and abuse whatever is the latest craze, but it will (with time) bring you loyalty and long-term users. And those people are priceless -- they'll market your business for you.
Well, it would've been an interesting decision for Fiat. Do they sit around hoping someone else will offer to get them in the headlines, looking like they're doing something interesting, or do they take Microsoft up on their offer and risk endless Slashdot ridicule by partnering with them?
I've heard little good said about Fiat or Microsoft. Maybe this is a case of some guy trying to pick up the ugly girl because there'd be less competition?
OK, true. I no longer buy anything but MS mice and recommend them to everyone (all the Mac users in our office have them now).
I know a lot of people love Age of Empires and stuff like that from MS and my cousin loves some Impossible Creatures game that looks pretty cool, but I've had no experience with any of their games.
Still, they had no reputation in consoles at all whereas Nintendo and Sony are household names in that market.
Revoke their license and give it to a company who restricts their commercial endeavours to what is considered *reasonable*.
Too much power to a company or individual without the best interests of the masses at heart is not a great thing and something should be done about it.
Google has, and continues to do so, proven that doing the right thing can bring commercial reward and brand loyalty.
I think MS did better with the xbox than I expected. I previously owned the initial Playstation, and before that we had a SNES in the family (as teens).
Now I have a modded xbox, my brother has one, and a few friends have bought them.
MS have gone from having no console product and no real reputation in games (negative if anything) to selling a decent number and giving us a real competition for the next generation of consoles. I know people have wanted MS to fail, but I think it's hard to disagree with Ballmer: MS could very well take Sony or come very close next time around.
I have my xbox loaded with games, mp3s, movies and use it to play DVDs, etc. I think Halo is brilliant (and play it through quite regularly), enjoyed Splinter Cell, and have a great time with Fusion Frenzy, Unreal, Tiger Woods, about 5 different NBA games and so on. I don't even pretend to buy the games -- I have a 250GB HDD in there for a reason!
It's a great mix of playing games and tinkering with alternative dashboards/launchers and applications, etc.
If it came from anyone but Microsoft, I think the slashdot crowd would be all over it, installing open apps, getting it to do a myriad of different things.
An example of an excellent blog from someone in power is that of Mark Cuban (www.blogmaverick.com) who owns the Dallas Mavericks. Very open and candid discussion of his business past, his dealings with the NBA and his team, etc. A great read, IMHO.
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I have designed and HTMLed 100+ sites over a number of years. The present situation is nowhere near as bad as it has been in the past.
Currently, I will code, check IE and then check Mozilla, Safari and IE for Mac. There are some critical differences if you're obsessive on pixel-perfect placement (I am) and it's probably more trouble if you're using CSS for positioning (ideal, but still trouble and I avoid it), but generally things look pretty decent in all of these. One of the older IE/Mac browsers was a bit agonising, but I think there's probably been a solid uptake of Safari, and the percentage of Mac users in Australia is low.
That said, I tend to avoid really over-the-top features that could be seen as unnecessary by some. We integrate Flash where appropriate, but it's never for something like critical navigation, and I think Flash has better support than some of the other options out there.
What about Gilette? I read an article saying that they were using small cameras on store shelves and RFID tags in their products to take photos of people who picked up one of their products.
A similar thing happened with a murder trial within Northern Queensland in Australia. The major telcos publically revealed how long they held messages with a range of 3 days to 1 month.
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Without Flash, how do you watch HomeStarRunner.com?
The problems stem from the fact that the barrier to entry is so low and that anonymity is far more easily attained (or assumed) on the internet.
This manifests itself quite simply in something like an online forum. If you had a group of people discussing an issue face-to-face, rarely would you have heated arguments develop virtually instantaneously, but within a forum you'll have people criticising each other and generally being offensive all over the place.
As long as you can run a server for nothing on a static IP or Dynamic DNS system, or get bulk hosting $5/month, you'll have poorly configured servers.
But a lot of it comes back to the default software being released. Make it harder for someone to fuck something up and that's a start.
How about pissing off other countries a little bit less and then you wouldn't have such a problem with national defense.
I seriously think it's that simple (on a base level anyway).
The US has a massive problem with the corporate interest dominating what's best for the people.
I saw a Fahrenheit 911 preview screening a few days ago and to me the strongest messages were that power corrupts, the divide between rich and poor is growing, and there are problems with the US political system that places so much emphasis on corporate donations/influence and makes it literally impossible for an alternative to the two major parties to have a viable chance at making a difference.
(I already knew that Bush was a wanker, that Afghanistan was about gas and that Iraq is about oil.)
One thing that I find strange is that many people in the US are so strongly supportive of either of the two parties that they'll argue to the death for, say, the Republicans despite not standing to directly gain from oil profits, etc, just because that's their team. I mean, barrack for a sporting team and the characters you like, but politics go a bit further and your vote endorses all sorts of shit.
I think it can come down to brand inheritance too. Look in your fridge and then look in your parents and you'll see more similarities than you would otherwise expect. I think that can often happen in politics too.
I don't want to get into a huge argument because I know it's a contentious topic, but corporate interests creeping into schools is dodgy and massive defensive expenditure limits what's available for other elements (environment, education, public health, etc).
Don't educate people too much, though, because they won't head off to die blindly for your oil and gas profits. I think that's a realistic point to make.
Is it all that different to other companies providing branded materials to schools servicing younger brackets (i.e., notepads, textbooks, rulers, etc). I've read that this is quite extensive in poorer regions within the US.
Tomorrow's slashdot article: "iPod based Notes!"
I don't think it's a slow day on slashdot -- I just don't think that some contributors and editors understand that this is essentially the equivalent of someone formatting a set of data as text files for a specific system: not very special at all.
I can't remember, is the Pam III icon the one from before or after the breast reduction?
You forgot the final point:
"I'm the only person who matters and since I don't want to game on my TV this article is a waste of time."
JK! JK!
Altavista's Babelfish assures me that the correct response* to this is to say:
"Vá-se foder. Você não me é nada. Fale minha língua ou, eu , para err, para não poder compreender."
(In English: "Fuck off. You are nothing to me. Speak my language or, I will, err, not be able to understand.")
*To anyone taking this seriously, don't; Be reasonable and polite!
http://www.nokiausa.com/phones/
Having such a broad range of phones does very little for brand/model strengthening.
I don't love flip-phones or the current ability of camera phones, but Nokia may have just lost it in the fad-stakes more than many would expect. Also, when many people are making price-based decisions, those manufacturers with the best distributions offers will likely have the stores advertising most.
Currently getting a lot of advertising space in Australia is LG's flip/video phone for the 3 market.
True. Anyone using a webmail service is putting a lot of trust in a company not holding personal missives for private gain. But what's to say that any mailserver out of your hands isn't logging full copies of everything you send?
Which is the better path?
1. Spread a tenth of your data between each of ten commercial providers, each with x% chance of abusing it.
2. Put all of your information with a single operator with that same chance.
I mean, if you're doing seriously dodgy stuff, then something like Echelon is going to bust you anyway.
I search with Google, appreciate the traffic it brings my sites, and use their AdSense program. From my experiences with them and other companies, I would trust Google before a lot of others. And that was, ultimately, my point -- doing the right thing (at least in the sense that perception is reality) brings reward. It might not give you 90% market share the week you start the business, or rain angel VC cash upon you, and it won't grab those lovely users who'll use and abuse whatever is the latest craze, but it will (with time) bring you loyalty and long-term users. And those people are priceless -- they'll market your business for you.
Well, it would've been an interesting decision for Fiat. Do they sit around hoping someone else will offer to get them in the headlines, looking like they're doing something interesting, or do they take Microsoft up on their offer and risk endless Slashdot ridicule by partnering with them?
I've heard little good said about Fiat or Microsoft. Maybe this is a case of some guy trying to pick up the ugly girl because there'd be less competition?
I don't think backwards compatibility is a big deal. I went back to play my PSX games the other day and christ, the graphics were abysmal.
Back in the day, playing Tenchu, it was easy to get hooked on the atmosphere and have fond memories, but the reality is pretty different.
I guess it's preferable, but I think the main issue would be a point of argument for fanboys. Zzz.
OK, true. I no longer buy anything but MS mice and recommend them to everyone (all the Mac users in our office have them now).
I know a lot of people love Age of Empires and stuff like that from MS and my cousin loves some Impossible Creatures game that looks pretty cool, but I've had no experience with any of their games.
Still, they had no reputation in consoles at all whereas Nintendo and Sony are household names in that market.
Revoke their license and give it to a company who restricts their commercial endeavours to what is considered *reasonable*.
Too much power to a company or individual without the best interests of the masses at heart is not a great thing and something should be done about it.
Google has, and continues to do so, proven that doing the right thing can bring commercial reward and brand loyalty.
I think MS did better with the xbox than I expected. I previously owned the initial Playstation, and before that we had a SNES in the family (as teens).
Now I have a modded xbox, my brother has one, and a few friends have bought them.
MS have gone from having no console product and no real reputation in games (negative if anything) to selling a decent number and giving us a real competition for the next generation of consoles. I know people have wanted MS to fail, but I think it's hard to disagree with Ballmer: MS could very well take Sony or come very close next time around.
I have my xbox loaded with games, mp3s, movies and use it to play DVDs, etc. I think Halo is brilliant (and play it through quite regularly), enjoyed Splinter Cell, and have a great time with Fusion Frenzy, Unreal, Tiger Woods, about 5 different NBA games and so on. I don't even pretend to buy the games -- I have a 250GB HDD in there for a reason!
It's a great mix of playing games and tinkering with alternative dashboards/launchers and applications, etc.
If it came from anyone but Microsoft, I think the slashdot crowd would be all over it, installing open apps, getting it to do a myriad of different things.
Err, he owns the team? He has power in that he authorises decisions or makes them. Didn't think it was that difficult to follow.
The theme was communicating with your customers or constituents, right?
An example of an excellent blog from someone in power is that of Mark Cuban (www.blogmaverick.com) who owns the Dallas Mavericks. Very open and candid discussion of his business past, his dealings with the NBA and his team, etc. A great read, IMHO.
I have designed and HTMLed 100+ sites over a number of years. The present situation is nowhere near as bad as it has been in the past.
Currently, I will code, check IE and then check Mozilla, Safari and IE for Mac. There are some critical differences if you're obsessive on pixel-perfect placement (I am) and it's probably more trouble if you're using CSS for positioning (ideal, but still trouble and I avoid it), but generally things look pretty decent in all of these. One of the older IE/Mac browsers was a bit agonising, but I think there's probably been a solid uptake of Safari, and the percentage of Mac users in Australia is low.
That said, I tend to avoid really over-the-top features that could be seen as unnecessary by some. We integrate Flash where appropriate, but it's never for something like critical navigation, and I think Flash has better support than some of the other options out there.
Oh come on, where did I say that any human was a monkey?
So now when they set a million monkeys typing away to reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare, they'll only need 250,000 computers!
This is a win-win-win-win-etc situation!
first programmer to try a real-life rocket jump? John Carmack? you wimp!
By "common man", I think he meant "cheap".
What about Gilette? I read an article saying that they were using small cameras on store shelves and RFID tags in their products to take photos of people who picked up one of their products.
A similar thing happened with a murder trial within Northern Queensland in Australia. The major telcos publically revealed how long they held messages with a range of 3 days to 1 month.
Right here: Score -1, Nerd drivel!
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