I could not agree more. As I stated before, I am optimistic in Google's case. Yet, it would be prudent to keep our eyes open. My submission is not for blind cynicism, rather for awareness. In any case, blind faith is a far worse attribute than blind cynicism.
True, it is a bit off-topic. But am I the only one whose thought stream automatically wanders to Google when it encounters yet another example of MSFT and evil? Is it not intriguing to list out how Google is different? Do the mechanics of large corporations, by that very fact, lend themselves to evil in some way, shape or form? Or is it something one could avoid, in reasonable measure, if the founding principles are so chosen?
Can anyone imagine Google trying to pull off something like this? Yet, every so often, we do see articles touting that Google is slowly but steadily becoming more MSFT-like in their sense of ethics.
At present they are far, far away from that, but who knows what will happen in 10-15 years? While being optimistic in the matter, it might be prudent to keep your eyes open.
I totally agree, it is a problem of organization. The choice to have more information faster is a good thing, but it is a personal decision on how to harness and use it.
It is interesting to note the case of Donald E Knuth (of The Art of Computer Programming fame), no doubt one of the most productive and eminent scientists of our age. He stopped using email 15+ years ago!!
And the point is well made. Email can be a distraction and the solution has to come from the consumer of the technology in terms of deciding how to use it.
But what do we do to the itch for checking slashdot every 3 minutes:) ?
Maybe some bugs someone ought to look for in FF? I just verified and that was indeed the case (on both counts). Though, I am not sure if it is owing to FF bugs or Opera including some 'features' that IE has. I should think the behavior is researched/documented somewhere?
Outlook Web Access seems to work fine in Opera 8 - so I would guess it ought to work in FF.
It does, but its quirky. Sometimes the tables get misaligned. Often the 'New Mail' button will not popup a new window. The user experience is spoiled just enough, that if you have IE on the same machine, you would rather just use that.
While IE is obviously going to learn a lot from Firefox and improve their browser, there is one thing they are unlikely to provide. And that is the component model that Firefox offers. The basic browser is very small (and fast). Then there are hundreds of add-ons to choose from. Users get to decide what they want and install it. The browser morphs to serve the user rather than the other way around.
Now if only they said this much up front. There is nothing surprising in the article (that I spent half an hour reading) and this filters out the only real content (for most readers).
I would just like to add (not really based on much research, rather experience) that, apparently, hotmail addresses are subjected to dictionary attacks much more than any others I have tried. I never posted my hotmail address to the Web, Usenet or on any Web Service. I gave it out only to close friends; yet, I get most of my spam there.
Warm regards, Sharad Agarwal 'Musafir' "Against Stupidity, the Gods themselves contend in vain" - Schiller
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I could not agree more. As I stated before, I am optimistic in Google's case. Yet, it would be prudent to keep our eyes open. My submission is not for blind cynicism, rather for awareness. In any case, blind faith is a far worse attribute than blind cynicism.
True, it is a bit off-topic. But am I the only one whose thought stream automatically wanders to Google when it encounters yet another example of MSFT and evil? Is it not intriguing to list out how Google is different? Do the mechanics of large corporations, by that very fact, lend themselves to evil in some way, shape or form? Or is it something one could avoid, in reasonable measure, if the founding principles are so chosen?
Happy musing!
Can anyone imagine Google trying to pull off something like this? Yet, every so often, we do see articles touting that Google is slowly but steadily becoming more MSFT-like in their sense of ethics.
At present they are far, far away from that, but who knows what will happen in 10-15 years? While being optimistic in the matter, it might be prudent to keep your eyes open.
With hardware cost falling steeply, when will it become viable for home users to start having RAID-based PCs?
All said and done, many of us do keep fairly important data on our home PCs. How many of us make an effort to back it up?
I totally agree, it is a problem of organization. The choice to have more information faster is a good thing, but it is a personal decision on how to harness and use it.
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It is interesting to note the case of Donald E Knuth (of The Art of Computer Programming fame), no doubt one of the most productive and eminent scientists of our age. He stopped using email 15+ years ago!!
http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.h
And the point is well made. Email can be a distraction and the solution has to come from the consumer of the technology in terms of deciding how to use it.
But what do we do to the itch for checking slashdot every 3 minutes
Maybe some bugs someone ought to look for in FF?
I just verified and that was indeed the case (on both counts). Though, I am not sure if it is owing to FF bugs or Opera including some 'features' that IE has. I should think the behavior is researched/documented somewhere?
Outlook Web Access seems to work fine in Opera 8 - so I would guess it ought to work in FF.
It does, but its quirky. Sometimes the tables get misaligned. Often the 'New Mail' button will not popup a new window. The user experience is spoiled just enough, that if you have IE on the same machine, you would rather just use that.
While IE is obviously going to learn a lot from Firefox and improve their browser, there is one thing they are unlikely to provide. And that is the component model that Firefox offers. The basic browser is very small (and fast). Then there are hundreds of add-ons to choose from. Users get to decide what they want and install it. The browser morphs to serve the user rather than the other way around.
Interesting that Slashdot should feature this article, roughly 4 weeks after I posted something similar (albeit with less information and more deliberations):o w-what-we-know-about.html/
http://agsharad.blogspot.com/2005/06/how-do-we-kn
What is Sim City??
Now if only they said this much up front. There is nothing surprising in the article (that I spent half an hour reading) and this filters out the only real content (for most readers).
I would just like to add (not really based on much research, rather experience) that, apparently, hotmail addresses are subjected to dictionary attacks much more than any others I have tried. I never posted my hotmail address to the Web, Usenet or on any Web Service. I gave it out only to close friends; yet, I get most of my spam there.
Warm regards,
Sharad Agarwal 'Musafir'
"Against Stupidity, the Gods themselves contend in vain"
- Schiller