Yeah... taking the Express Train to Nopeville on that one. I don't have any FB product installed on my phone, and I'll be damned if I ever bother (the web browser will work just fine for that purpose...)
Because people like sites to be indexed, but then they get indexed, and that index shown by Google search results. Catch-22 if you ask me.
I could think of a solution to the problem, but it would require anti-indexing the results.
Maybe the solution isn't an either/or (either full index, or no index). Maybe the solution is to allow indexing to a certain point (or depth, if you will), but allow it no further. It may require tossing up a not-very-well-traveled index in parallel for the bots to read, and it would take more than a little work, but it's doable.
Why shouldn't someone operating a hotel out of an apartment be expected to operate under the same rules?
...because the vast majority of those rules involve running an operation with many multiple temporary renters in one (or more) building(s)?
I perfectly understand the need for basic health/safety regulation - e.g. providing sufficient fire protection (smoke detectors, extinguishers, etc), having at least a basic usable map detailing the emergency exits, not having an apartment full of black mold (or worse), etc.
So what, above and beyond the basics, would be required for someone temporarily letting their apartment?
Given the topic of the movie, how frickin' hard would it be for IMDb to dump anything with a Turk/Russian/{CDNs-common-to-VPNs}-IP-originate vote of less than 3 stars?
I'm guessing they'll wait for some SJW-centric production to get vote-bombed, and then decide to do something about it?
Fairly certain that the first case that does this will result in a panicked flood of subscribers clamoring for the ISP to either allow one to shut that feature off, or to get a new modem/router sans wifi.
2) Piracy is a pain in the ass. Paying a few dollars for content is far easier, so that's what most people will do.
#2 has been the case for nearly two decades now, in spite of technology and bandwidth advancements. The only real difference between then and now is that getting legit content by way of streaming or for-purchase services (iTunes, Amazon, whatever) is drop-easy and dirt-cheap for most folks... so, as you said, most folks don't bother.
Then again, the MP/RIAA have to remain relevant *somehow*, no?
Depends - it's mega-cheaper for me to just have a limited data plan (2GB), since my home is way, way, way, *way* out in the sticks (one side of my property has a working data/cell connection, the other side of it has zero cell coverage). However, when I'm in town, I'll turn on wifi on the phone if I have to (or want to) do anything that uses streaming or a lot of phone data.
Usually though, I'm not actually moving anywhere, unless the train has wifi on it already, which makes the concept of handover moot.
You should foresee the day the swat team kicks in your door at 3 am to shoot you for peddling kiddie porn.
Pretty sure Virgin is going to do the same thing that Comcast does now - separate IP range, separate SSID, separate MAC addys, separate bandwidth allocation/QoS......so instead of logging into an open Comcast SSID with a Comcast account, you just do a quickie click-trhough EULA like any other open hotspot, and whoever is renting the router is completely isolated from the public SSID (unless the person is actually using the hotspot him/herself...)
If your work can be outsourced, and your contributions aren't sufficient to justify keeping you (versus hiring some warm body in Pune or Hyderabad), then it won't mean shit if you sat in the office for 18 hours a day...
I get that office culture and politics practically requires face-time, but any environment where they put priority on the Good-Old-Boy network is one in which you do not want to be working. I've turned down job offers before due to the culture sucking (it's fairly easy to spot, even in interviews. If you're not sure, ask - what they don't tell you in return says more than what they do tell you.)
All that said, you can rig-up a hybrid arrangement, where you work from home 3-4 days a week, and drive into the office for one or two. When you do that, it turns out that you end up being far more productive overall. At home, you can put nose-to-grindstone, and crank out the work without interruption (so long as you have the discipline and isolation to do it). When you're in the office, you can go bother folks for the informal stuff, be available for people who want to bother you, and you get all the face-to-face meetings out of the way on the days you're in.
Is anyone going to be surprised by the massive lawsuit that Lyft is about to launch? Not me either.
It does lead me to wonder, though, if Uber is actually charged with a crime (because Lord knows if some random kid did it, the FBI would be kicking his basement door in right about now...)
...and by then they'll be using something else (maybe).
When I was a teenager, BBS (and if you were lucky and your parents had a uni account, IRC and NNTP) was about as close as you could get to a social network.
But, old people stuff aside, look at progression here: NNTP, IRC, basic web forums, ICQ groups, PHPNuke forums, MySpace, Facebook, Snapchat,...? (or similar, YMMV.)
Odds are perfect someone else may come out with yet another means to communicate in groups by the time today's teenagers are old enough to drink.
I've had to re-book more than once at the last minute during business trips, and when I did, they would re-arrange the schedule, leaving a seat open for someone else. Since they couldn't re-sell the now-open seat in the few hours before the plane actually takes off, it makes perfect business sense for them to have an overbooked ticket waiting to fill that seat. Happens way more often than you think (and not always for business reasons - a kid gets real sick the night before and the family has to canx/rebook, or some other personal emergency pops up, etc.)
Airlines actually have algorithms for this and take it into account when it comes to overbooking (and in how much they overbook).
In this particular case (United's little incident), it was a last-mintue addition of four UA employees who had to be at the destination to fly another plane out the next morning (and this was the last flight of the day).
Actually, TFA is a bit off if they're referring to the United Airlines incident, since it wasn't simple overbooking (which would mean passengers would be denied at the gate). In that case it was four UA aircrew that needed to get a flight at the last minute, and UA decided that they needed someone to be voluntold off the plane itself.
I wouldn't know though... I just "Request Desktop Site" if I have a PM on Facebook, and use the mobile Chrome app to read it like I do the rest of Facebook.
(no, seriously, fuck their apps. I got no use for 'em.)
Oh, there are better places than most. My last gig was a shithole boiler-room (a non-profit), full of hipster kids who didn't like the 'old man' (me) telling them that maybe they should think about maintainability and long-term stability in their code, and not just push for latest/greatest w/o even doing a POC first. I was informed by my (now-ex) boss that maybe I didn't fit in with the culture, and that maybe I should be like the cool kids lest I find myself unemployed.
I found a better position within a week of that little chat (including interview and offer negotiation), and happily informed him at the next standup that this would be my last week... and by the way, my new employer gave me 27,500 additional reasons why I should leave, on top of the ones previously discussed. The look on his and my former team's collective face was priceless.
Been at my current gig for 2+ years, it's a great company to work for, I've moved up a *lot* since I started there, and I don't give the previous one much thought these days, if at all.
In some cases, that's exactly the problem... doubly so if the 3rd-party repair shop uses gray-market, eBay-sourced, or similarly dodgy parts to fix it. Also note that the 3rd-party repair shop may or may not (likely not) have sufficient training and knowledge of how the things are put together. Sure, some of them have former Apple employees of sufficient training or such working there, but I doubt that they all do.
In your own house there's always something else to do next. the mind moves on.
This would be the case at home or at the cinema, with the exception that you have the drive home to talk about the movie... unless you're at a mall, where being in a giant building expressly designed to distract the hell out of you (so they can sell you stuff) would tend to get in the way of any serious discussions about the movie you just saw. Or, if traffic gets ugly on the way home. Or, well, at least one person in the car has to focus on the road, and not the soul-tingling implications of what he or she just saw...
Then again, after a good flick on TV at home, the missus and I can yap about it all we want while having a smoke on the back porch, or whatever.;)
Unless you're seriously knee-deep in ADD/ADHD, the mind moves on when you want it to.
My assumption is that business users that are going to give the whole smartphone-dock-PC thing a go will end up with the productivity applications on the phone that they expect to have, without themselves having to figure out how to install them.
Err... 1) Open the Google Play app on your phone. 2) Search for productivity app you want 3) Tap the really big "Install" button. If the app requires payment for purchase, provide that info when prompted.
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A few problems with that...
1) So who sets the prices? Any governmental price controls on any commodity (which carbon credits are) means there is no free market involvement.
1a) If the government sets prices, it is nothing more than a de facto regulatory scheme dressed up as commodity.
2) Enforcement? Good luck with that.
3) What's to keep government from requiring individuals (in addition to businesses) to buy these things, as a form of consumption tax?
4) I thought we all got out of the business of selling indulgences back when Martin Luther showed up?
Yeah... taking the Express Train to Nopeville on that one. I don't have any FB product installed on my phone, and I'll be damned if I ever bother (the web browser will work just fine for that purpose...)
You want your site indexed, or not?
Because people like sites to be indexed, but then they get indexed, and that index shown by Google search results. Catch-22 if you ask me.
I could think of a solution to the problem, but it would require anti-indexing the results.
Maybe the solution isn't an either/or (either full index, or no index). Maybe the solution is to allow indexing to a certain point (or depth, if you will), but allow it no further. It may require tossing up a not-very-well-traveled index in parallel for the bots to read, and it would take more than a little work, but it's doable.
Why shouldn't someone operating a hotel out of an apartment be expected to operate under the same rules?
...because the vast majority of those rules involve running an operation with many multiple temporary renters in one (or more) building(s)?
I perfectly understand the need for basic health/safety regulation - e.g. providing sufficient fire protection (smoke detectors, extinguishers, etc), having at least a basic usable map detailing the emergency exits, not having an apartment full of black mold (or worse), etc.
So what, above and beyond the basics, would be required for someone temporarily letting their apartment?
The Internet keeps leaking documents, somebody should fix those pipes!
Tubes. It's a series of tubes.
Well, in the UNIX world...
Pretty much this, right here.
Given the topic of the movie, how frickin' hard would it be for IMDb to dump anything with a Turk/Russian/{CDNs-common-to-VPNs}-IP-originate vote of less than 3 stars?
I'm guessing they'll wait for some SJW-centric production to get vote-bombed, and then decide to do something about it?
Fairly certain that the first case that does this will result in a panicked flood of subscribers clamoring for the ISP to either allow one to shut that feature off, or to get a new modem/router sans wifi.
Indeed. GNOME has had this for roughly two geologic eras now. Good to see that Windows has finally come up to 2002 UI standards. ;)
2) Piracy is a pain in the ass. Paying a few dollars for content is far easier, so that's what most people will do.
#2 has been the case for nearly two decades now, in spite of technology and bandwidth advancements. The only real difference between then and now is that getting legit content by way of streaming or for-purchase services (iTunes, Amazon, whatever) is drop-easy and dirt-cheap for most folks... so, as you said, most folks don't bother.
Then again, the MP/RIAA have to remain relevant *somehow*, no?
Depends - it's mega-cheaper for me to just have a limited data plan (2GB), since my home is way, way, way, *way* out in the sticks (one side of my property has a working data/cell connection, the other side of it has zero cell coverage). However, when I'm in town, I'll turn on wifi on the phone if I have to (or want to) do anything that uses streaming or a lot of phone data.
Usually though, I'm not actually moving anywhere, unless the train has wifi on it already, which makes the concept of handover moot.
You should foresee the day the swat team kicks in your door at 3 am to shoot you for peddling kiddie porn.
Pretty sure Virgin is going to do the same thing that Comcast does now - separate IP range, separate SSID, separate MAC addys, separate bandwidth allocation/QoS... ...so instead of logging into an open Comcast SSID with a Comcast account, you just do a quickie click-trhough EULA like any other open hotspot, and whoever is renting the router is completely isolated from the public SSID (unless the person is actually using the hotspot him/herself...)
Besides, I'm not certain that biking actually equates less pressure on the roads.
Actually, thanks to the utopianists running Portland, OR, cyclists have actually put *more* pressure on the roads, by taking perfectly usable road space away from automotive traffic.
This, precisely.
If your work can be outsourced, and your contributions aren't sufficient to justify keeping you (versus hiring some warm body in Pune or Hyderabad), then it won't mean shit if you sat in the office for 18 hours a day...
Yeah, what sibling said.
I get that office culture and politics practically requires face-time, but any environment where they put priority on the Good-Old-Boy network is one in which you do not want to be working. I've turned down job offers before due to the culture sucking (it's fairly easy to spot, even in interviews. If you're not sure, ask - what they don't tell you in return says more than what they do tell you.)
All that said, you can rig-up a hybrid arrangement, where you work from home 3-4 days a week, and drive into the office for one or two. When you do that, it turns out that you end up being far more productive overall. At home, you can put nose-to-grindstone, and crank out the work without interruption (so long as you have the discipline and isolation to do it). When you're in the office, you can go bother folks for the informal stuff, be available for people who want to bother you, and you get all the face-to-face meetings out of the way on the days you're in.
Is anyone going to be surprised by the massive lawsuit that Lyft is about to launch? Not me either.
It does lead me to wonder, though, if Uber is actually charged with a crime (because Lord knows if some random kid did it, the FBI would be kicking his basement door in right about now...)
Pretty sure there was a precedent back when Microsoft went to make a web browser in the 1990s...
...and by then they'll be using something else (maybe).
When I was a teenager, BBS (and if you were lucky and your parents had a uni account, IRC and NNTP) was about as close as you could get to a social network.
But, old people stuff aside, look at progression here: NNTP, IRC, basic web forums, ICQ groups, PHPNuke forums, MySpace, Facebook, Snapchat, ...?
(or similar, YMMV.)
Odds are perfect someone else may come out with yet another means to communicate in groups by the time today's teenagers are old enough to drink.
I haven't seen a typical Network TV channel in literally months.
Strike all you want, campers. I'm fine with it.
Depends on the circumstances.
I've had to re-book more than once at the last minute during business trips, and when I did, they would re-arrange the schedule, leaving a seat open for someone else. Since they couldn't re-sell the now-open seat in the few hours before the plane actually takes off, it makes perfect business sense for them to have an overbooked ticket waiting to fill that seat. Happens way more often than you think (and not always for business reasons - a kid gets real sick the night before and the family has to canx/rebook, or some other personal emergency pops up, etc.)
Airlines actually have algorithms for this and take it into account when it comes to overbooking (and in how much they overbook).
In this particular case (United's little incident), it was a last-mintue addition of four UA employees who had to be at the destination to fly another plane out the next morning (and this was the last flight of the day).
Actually, TFA is a bit off if they're referring to the United Airlines incident, since it wasn't simple overbooking (which would mean passengers would be denied at the gate). In that case it was four UA aircrew that needed to get a flight at the last minute, and UA decided that they needed someone to be voluntold off the plane itself.
It probably isn't.
I wouldn't know though... I just "Request Desktop Site" if I have a PM on Facebook, and use the mobile Chrome app to read it like I do the rest of Facebook.
(no, seriously, fuck their apps. I got no use for 'em.)
You assume other places are better.
Oh, there are better places than most. My last gig was a shithole boiler-room (a non-profit), full of hipster kids who didn't like the 'old man' (me) telling them that maybe they should think about maintainability and long-term stability in their code, and not just push for latest/greatest w/o even doing a POC first. I was informed by my (now-ex) boss that maybe I didn't fit in with the culture, and that maybe I should be like the cool kids lest I find myself unemployed.
I found a better position within a week of that little chat (including interview and offer negotiation), and happily informed him at the next standup that this would be my last week... and by the way, my new employer gave me 27,500 additional reasons why I should leave, on top of the ones previously discussed. The look on his and my former team's collective face was priceless.
Been at my current gig for 2+ years, it's a great company to work for, I've moved up a *lot* since I started there, and I don't give the previous one much thought these days, if at all.
You're repairing it wrong.
In some cases, that's exactly the problem... doubly so if the 3rd-party repair shop uses gray-market, eBay-sourced, or similarly dodgy parts to fix it. Also note that the 3rd-party repair shop may or may not (likely not) have sufficient training and knowledge of how the things are put together. Sure, some of them have former Apple employees of sufficient training or such working there, but I doubt that they all do.
In your own house there's always something else to do next. the mind moves on.
This would be the case at home or at the cinema, with the exception that you have the drive home to talk about the movie... unless you're at a mall, where being in a giant building expressly designed to distract the hell out of you (so they can sell you stuff) would tend to get in the way of any serious discussions about the movie you just saw. Or, if traffic gets ugly on the way home. Or, well, at least one person in the car has to focus on the road, and not the soul-tingling implications of what he or she just saw...
Then again, after a good flick on TV at home, the missus and I can yap about it all we want while having a smoke on the back porch, or whatever. ;)
Unless you're seriously knee-deep in ADD/ADHD, the mind moves on when you want it to.
My assumption is that business users that are going to give the whole smartphone-dock-PC thing a go will end up with the productivity applications on the phone that they expect to have, without themselves having to figure out how to install them.
Err...
1) Open the Google Play app on your phone.
2) Search for productivity app you want
3) Tap the really big "Install" button. If the app requires payment for purchase, provide that info when prompted.