did you really say that Android is on borrowed time??
that's just utterly ridiculous...even if Google stopped work on it today, the OS community and the huge worldwide installed userbase would keep it going forever, just like Linus did with unix.
i flew for several years with an active felony warrant and never got arrested, and have never seen anyone get led away at a TSA checkpoint.
if they were doing it now, i'd be willing to bet that everyone who flew regularly would be very accustomed to seeing folks getting handcuffed and taken to the "back room".
wow...about 9 months ago after a particularly inane SN issue, I realized that this shit has gone from being interesting and useful to being mindless and high-schooly...in fact it all seems pretty much like an lifelong extension of high school nowadays.
I had no real clue that I wasn't basically the only one who was experiencing this, much less that the phenomenon has been labeled and studied already.
FTA..." Instead, the reasons were more emotionally based, with “dissatisfaction” — the thought that users’ needs are not really being met by technology "
i have a four-year degree (CPEE) and decided long ago to focus on software instead of hardware, and thru my 30 year professional journey I have seen *drastic* changes in the personal make-up of the shops I've worked at.
Back in "the day" (hate that euphemism but used it anyway), programming in C, there was little room for error, as bad code could easily crash systems and cause very expensive issues. I took probably a year of working with them to *really* understand pointers. Companies simply couldn't allow just anyone to code...the potential and real costs were way too high.
Interpreted languages like PHP, Ruby, and Python make it so that pretty much anyone can start hacking away on some code and see results that make them think "damn, I can do this a make a decent living". If they can find someone looking for inexpensive development they can get a job, for awhile at least until either they reach a level where there incompetence shows (the tech "Peter Principle" of course)
Those with the determination and/or genetic blessing to understand coding can do even better and make a very very good living. Overall, I think this is a good thing.
Due to very poor life choices I currently work in a low-end web shop, and the people I code with don't even *like* programming, and are almost totally clueless about OO principles, design patterns and the like...they just want to collect a decent paycheck and don't want to work at McDonalds.
hey...it's always good politics to strike while iron is still hot.
the media has force-fed the "Tea Party Is The Whole Problem" narrative into gullible mouths for a few weeks now...why waste all that free brain-washing on just the federal budget?
expect a few more metaphorical comparisons before things cool down...i'm sure they are coming
HFT has only one purpose nowadays, to suck the $85bil USD in quantitative easing money (QE) that our federal government pumps into the market every month *out* of the market in light speed.
why do you think these guys are worrying about fucking cable lengths?
then why not just get one of the gazillion inexpensive Android tablets that already saturate the market?...and talk about archaic...why not just use google docs for your "office" needs? oh, you don't like the cloud that's ok i suppose.
i'm sure you know you can run all sorts of Android VMs in virtualbox or whatever...Android on the desktop is already here.
its probably only a matter of time before important OS apps get ported.
that "...small, windowless room high up in a San Francisco office building (that) gets no service at all." sure has one hell of a view according to the pic in TFA.
Then go ahead and argue the pro side, because I seem to lack the imagination (or ability to lie without laughing at the idea tht anyone would believe me). Students have been tracked for many years - they're called school records. Part of them was kept confidential, and there is no reason to share them beyond a student's parents, teachers, and maybe a few school officials. Let's keep it out of the "cloud". Woz was right - the "cloud" is dangerous and downright un-American. People should own their own data.
ok i will...i have three children, two grown and a 11-year old girl. i sure would love to see *exactly* how she is doing in school thru an advanced web portal so we could keep her focused on areas she is "falling behind in". hell, i could even see creating an app that automatically monitors her "scores" thru this Gates/Fox database and then delivers homework assignments specifically tailored to her needs IN REAL TIME...who wouldn't want something like that?
isn't this the promise of the Network Society
What the hell is a "network society", and where do I go to opt out (and opt out on my children's behalf)? Sounds a lot to me like the old society, except with information needlessly given to certain parties with a vested interest.
look around you...we are all submersed in it. REST-ful servers spit out slivers of data packets by the trillions everyday, giving up our once-private information mindlessly to those who know how to get at it. 100's of companies vie to sell this data to interested parties behind our backs, as our neighbors and potential mates run free background checks the moment they meet us and get our full names.
I mean, really...I have to explain this? here.. of all places? here is the catch (like i really need to say this again)...lots of people in authority *love* this new stuff as they get to peer into our lives with unimaginable ease. does it matter if the data is collected by Gates an FOX as opposed to Google, Facebook, or the government?
...so yes..can't we just agree already that networked computers are gathering data points on everyone and everything at an astounding pace, and much of it is freely donated by the people themselves thru SN's and other social portals.
but is it a net plus or a net negative? it's easy to argue both sides of this Gate's Foundation initiative to track student progress and use the date to tailor individual plans...i mean really isn't this the promise of the Network Society?
but wait!! collecting all this data and centralizing and making the results just a SQL query away can have dangerous consequences! blah blah i get it...
i guess, as Einstein showed over 100 years ago, it REALLY IS all relative (except the speed of light of course)...
right...we agree on this...but again, the article states that they became suspicious AFTER ONE SESSION. that just doesnt really makes sense, to me at least.
i'll say again, people can easily win for a couple of hours playing really really badly. it happens all the time. of course, even more people lose during this time too.
it's in the casino's interest, in order to prevent future attempts at cheating, to make up cover stories as to their prowess at catching cheats and to how complicated and difficult it really is. i believe Occam's razor should be applied.
i'm sure you have heard about standard deviation, haven't you? without it, *no one* would ever win at a casino and then, hopefully, no one would then be foolish enough to ever try. casinos would be out of business.
people win at casino's all the time...certain people even go on week long lucky streaks and defy the odds for days...without cheating.
i read the original story...there is some odd things about it. it reports that "two casino employees" marked the cards ahead of time and then "put the cards back in the cellophane". if i remember right, the whole purpose of the cellophane is to prevent this type of tampering and ive heard its pretty secure.
also, how in the world did anyone know exactly what decks of cards were going to be used at the time this guy was going to gamble? finally, people do all sorts of stupid shit when playing cards...hell i lived in vegas for 2 years and saw people double-down on 12 and hit 17s all the time in blackjack...talk about dumb.
its more likely that 1. no casino employees were needed for this scam 2. the guy marked the cards on-the-fly with ink on his fingers and 3. somebody snitched on him.
ahhh yes another story about over-reaching corporate/government culture invading the private inner sanctums of our lives...how predictable...the song remains the same only the names change.
i mean, really now, how many times over the past 80 years has this story been written?
the real story here isn't that huge entities want to know/control all aspects of things, but the overall acceptance is this culture in society...i know lots of friends who think all this geo-twit blog diarrhea is great fun. but imo they all live carefully constructed lives where they see threats everywhere, just as corporations and governments do, and fear the unknown.
i don't live a carefully constructed life...i just live.
second, it sure looks like there are a lot of real instruments in this pic...
third, your use of the adverb "perhaps" signaled to me that you wern't at all sure if artist appearing on stage sans "real" instruments (altho i would argue in the 21st century a laptop is the ultimate musical instrument) was happening.
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did you really say that Android is on borrowed time??
that's just utterly ridiculous...even if Google stopped work on it today, the OS community and the huge worldwide installed userbase would keep it going forever, just like Linus did with unix.
Android is going to be with us forever.
no it doesn't
i flew for several years with an active felony warrant and never got arrested, and have never seen anyone get led away at a TSA checkpoint.
if they were doing it now, i'd be willing to bet that everyone who flew regularly would be very accustomed to seeing folks getting handcuffed and taken to the "back room".
so does this mean they are going to start arresting people with active warrants at the TSA checkpoint?
...and definitely by not replying to snarky comments.
wow...about 9 months ago after a particularly inane SN issue, I realized that this shit has gone from being interesting and useful to being mindless and high-schooly...in fact it all seems pretty much like an lifelong extension of high school nowadays.
I had no real clue that I wasn't basically the only one who was experiencing this, much less that the phenomenon has been labeled and studied already.
FTA..." Instead, the reasons were more emotionally based, with “dissatisfaction” — the thought that users’ needs are not really being met by technology "
nail meet hammer.
i have a four-year degree (CPEE) and decided long ago to focus on software instead of hardware, and thru my 30 year professional journey I have seen *drastic* changes in the personal make-up of the shops I've worked at.
Back in "the day" (hate that euphemism but used it anyway), programming in C, there was little room for error, as bad code could easily crash systems and cause very expensive issues. I took probably a year of working with them to *really* understand pointers. Companies simply couldn't allow just anyone to code...the potential and real costs were way too high.
Interpreted languages like PHP, Ruby, and Python make it so that pretty much anyone can start hacking away on some code and see results that make them think "damn, I can do this a make a decent living". If they can find someone looking for inexpensive development they can get a job, for awhile at least until either they reach a level where there incompetence shows (the tech "Peter Principle" of course)
Those with the determination and/or genetic blessing to understand coding can do even better and make a very very good living. Overall, I think this is a good thing.
Due to very poor life choices I currently work in a low-end web shop, and the people I code with don't even *like* programming, and are almost totally clueless about OO principles, design patterns and the like...they just want to collect a decent paycheck and don't want to work at McDonalds.
I can't say I blame them.
hey...it's always good politics to strike while iron is still hot.
the media has force-fed the "Tea Party Is The Whole Problem" narrative into gullible mouths for a few weeks now...why waste all that free brain-washing on just the federal budget?
expect a few more metaphorical comparisons before things cool down...i'm sure they are coming
oh this is an easy one...
HFT has only one purpose nowadays, to suck the $85bil USD in quantitative easing money (QE) that our federal government pumps into the market every month *out* of the market in light speed.
why do you think these guys are worrying about fucking cable lengths?
then why not just get one of the gazillion inexpensive Android tablets that already saturate the market? ...and talk about archaic...why not just use google docs for your "office" needs? oh, you don't like the cloud that's ok i suppose.
i'm sure you know you can run all sorts of Android VMs in virtualbox or whatever...Android on the desktop is already here.
its probably only a matter of time before important OS apps get ported.
and i agree...duel boot is a pita.
that "...small, windowless room high up in a San Francisco office building (that) gets no service at all." sure has one hell of a view according to the pic in TFA.
but does it run on a beowulf cluster?
Then go ahead and argue the pro side, because I seem to lack the imagination (or ability to lie without laughing at the idea tht anyone would believe me). Students have been tracked for many years - they're called school records. Part of them was kept confidential, and there is no reason to share them beyond a student's parents, teachers, and maybe a few school officials. Let's keep it out of the "cloud". Woz was right - the "cloud" is dangerous and downright un-American. People should own their own data.
ok i will...i have three children, two grown and a 11-year old girl. i sure would love to see *exactly* how she is doing in school thru an advanced web portal so we could keep her focused on areas she is "falling behind in". hell, i could even see creating an app that automatically monitors her "scores" thru this Gates/Fox database and then delivers homework assignments specifically tailored to her needs IN REAL TIME...who wouldn't want something like that?
isn't this the promise of the Network Society
What the hell is a "network society", and where do I go to opt out (and opt out on my children's behalf)? Sounds a lot to me like the old society, except with information needlessly given to certain parties with a vested interest.
look around you...we are all submersed in it. REST-ful servers spit out slivers of data packets by the trillions everyday, giving up our once-private information mindlessly to those who know how to get at it. 100's of companies vie to sell this data to interested parties behind our backs, as our neighbors and potential mates run free background checks the moment they meet us and get our full names.
I mean, really...I have to explain this? here.. of all places? here is the catch (like i really need to say this again)...lots of people in authority *love* this new stuff as they get to peer into our lives with unimaginable ease. does it matter if the data is collected by Gates an FOX as opposed to Google, Facebook, or the government?
...so yes..can't we just agree already that networked computers are gathering data points on everyone and everything at an astounding pace, and much of it is freely donated by the people themselves thru SN's and other social portals.
but is it a net plus or a net negative? it's easy to argue both sides of this Gate's Foundation initiative to track student progress and use the date to tailor individual plans...i mean really isn't this the promise of the Network Society?
but wait!! collecting all this data and centralizing and making the results just a SQL query away can have dangerous consequences! blah blah i get it ...
i guess, as Einstein showed over 100 years ago, it REALLY IS all relative (except the speed of light of course)...
i like my pancreas with bacon and real maple syrup...and a cold glass of milk.
artificial? yeah figures...its probably that bisquick crap man i hate that stuff...
...do all this and elect people who are instantly corrupted by Washington culture anyway.
"overwhelming odds"...uhhh not really.
grabbing a "basic strategy" card from the casino store lowers your expected loss to about 0.6% of all money bet.
so you bet $10...the house has an expected win of only 6 cents. overwhelming? probably not.
right...we agree on this...but again, the article states that they became suspicious AFTER ONE SESSION. that just doesnt really makes sense, to me at least.
i'll say again, people can easily win for a couple of hours playing really really badly. it happens all the time. of course, even more people lose during this time too.
it's in the casino's interest, in order to prevent future attempts at cheating, to make up cover stories as to their prowess at catching cheats and to how complicated and difficult it really is. i believe Occam's razor should be applied.
nonsense.
i'm sure you have heard about standard deviation, haven't you? without it, *no one* would ever win at a casino and then, hopefully, no one would then be foolish enough to ever try. casinos would be out of business.
people win at casino's all the time...certain people even go on week long lucky streaks and defy the odds for days...without cheating.
i read the original story...there is some odd things about it. it reports that "two casino employees" marked the cards ahead of time and then "put the cards back in the cellophane". if i remember right, the whole purpose of the cellophane is to prevent this type of tampering and ive heard its pretty secure.
also, how in the world did anyone know exactly what decks of cards were going to be used at the time this guy was going to gamble? finally, people do all sorts of stupid shit when playing cards...hell i lived in vegas for 2 years and saw people double-down on 12 and hit 17s all the time in blackjack...talk about dumb.
its more likely that 1. no casino employees were needed for this scam 2. the guy marked the cards on-the-fly with ink on his fingers and 3. somebody snitched on him.
ahhh yes another story about over-reaching corporate/government culture invading the private inner sanctums of our lives...how predictable...the song remains the same only the names change.
i mean, really now, how many times over the past 80 years has this story been written?
the real story here isn't that huge entities want to know/control all aspects of things, but the overall acceptance is this culture in society...i know lots of friends who think all this geo-twit blog diarrhea is great fun. but imo they all live carefully constructed lives where they see threats everywhere, just as corporations and governments do, and fear the unknown.
i don't live a carefully constructed life...i just live.
why not just use Aldiko for other document types?
..but the rumor is it runs Crysis.
first, i was born in 1965...
second, it sure looks like there are a lot of real instruments in this pic...
third, your use of the adverb "perhaps" signaled to me that you wern't at all sure if artist appearing on stage sans "real" instruments (altho i would argue in the 21st century a laptop is the ultimate musical instrument) was happening.
"old man yells at cloud"?
man this is Slashdot...the proper meme is "old man yells to get off his lawn"
goodness...you do know you come across as a completely self-absorbed elitist, don't you?
if you have to tell people how "successful" and "complex" your music is and how you are as an artist, you have already lost those battles.
like downloading a cracked copy of Antares's seminal Auto-Tune or Celemony's Melodyne VSTs and installing them is hard?