Everything you say is true. But that doesn't stop "blog" from being the ugliest most annoying word in the English language.
there is a continuous process whereby experts in given domains coin new jargon terms.
This is inevitable, and understandable. Said experts just need to coin these terms sometime other than at 4 am when they're drunk on Jager Bombs and playing Nintendo in the nude.
When I worked for a large financial institution "getting websites shut down" would be the least of our worries during a serious DDOS attack (though that is straight from TFA). The folks in the data centers would get a bit testy though. I'm sure it's the same for government institutions as well.
"getting websites shutdown" is straight from the article though. Does anyone really believe we're talking about websites here?
It's really just a matter of making the concept cost effective to produce.
Yes, and from TFA:
But accomplishing this is going to require a strong effort in several research areas - a commitment of funding, people power, industrial involvement and academic involvement."
So in other words, cross your fingers and check back some time around 2020.
Spellcheck is a TOOL! It was under the Tools menu. Perfect.
Spellcheck is not a message. What's it's doing under the Message menu ("ribbon", whatever)?
Why is message formating under the Options menu, and font formating under the Format Text menu?
It's idiotic. It's change for the sake of change. All the formating options under the Format menu and all the tools widgets under the Tools menu, now that made perfect sense.
The new arrangement, even after you learn it, doesn't make much sense. It's almost, but not quite, entirely unlike something intuitive.
Analogies are like fire, wonderfully useful but with a lot of potential for danger. (meta usage intended)
With that in mind...
Picture the internet as a vast ever changing network of many many spiderwebs all interwoven together. These spiderwebs were spun in many shapes and sizes and thicknesses by many different kinds of spiders who decided to cooperate. But, instead of catching bugs with this giant ever-evolving spiderweb, the spiders pass data through its strands to each other. Accordingly, scattered everywhere throughout this megaweb are devices that tap into the strands and pull out the data and in some way make the data useful to the spiders. More and more spiders are now carrying small portable devices that can tap into the web strands wherever they go on this giant heterogeneous megaweb. The data could be a catalog of things for sale, it could be data that is reassembled into voices for talking, or it could be pictures of the spiders doing gross things in their bathrooms. Picture some of these interconnected webs being electronic in nature like telephone lines, some are fiber-optic, and some you can't see at all, they're just made of radio waves. Now you have a basic understanding of the internet.
Elementary - check, layperson - check, succinct - hmmmm... I'm sure somebody could shorten it and not lose much.
I'm surprised Firefox doesn't have a preference to disable allowing JavaScript to do this in the first place.
It does:
Tools|Options| Click the Advanced button that is next to the checked box to enable JavaScript| Uncheck the box to Allow JavaScript to Change status bar text.
Holy jumping Jesus on a pogo stick! No offense but if right clicking and copying and pasting a link location is +5 informative, then this must be a phishing site. Where did the real slashdot go?
2nd - what's the point of tracking somebody down in Nigeria or Kazakhstan?
and more importantly
3rd - One would expect Google to police their sponsored links a tad bit better than slashdot polices their article submissions. At least have a prominent easy-to-use Bad Guy reporting tool. The first thing that comes to mind - a little link like the cached link under each sponsored add might do the trick.
# The Tomakak is just a problem on top of a problem, it's going nowhere fast.
# So we had this ingenious idea for making charged particles go into the center of a load of magnets oriented in a certain way which would solve all the Tomakak's problems.
When I first saw the title I thought sarcastically "Why don't you take Excel which is an accounting spreadsheet application and wildly contort it to your needs, like everyone else does.
Then I read the rest of the summary and.. well..
Enjoy your migration. I feel your pain. Whoever made that bed should have to lie in it. Ya right.
Slobs are more productive when there's only one person (the slob) working on something, when you start having more than one person working on a job then you'll probably find the tidy people start overtaking the slobs quite quickly.
This is why I was so effective a slob bachelor, but can't find sh*t as a married man.
Wife: "Why can't you put things away?!"
Me: "Why can't you leave my stuff where I put it?! Stop moving stuff around!"
Wife: "How can you find anything when it's all over the place?"
Me: "When I was a bachelor I knew where everything was. The reason I can't find anything now is that you keep moving things around!"
AARRGH! This same thing must play out in so many households. Of course it's always the "messy" person who's "at fault".
Social promotions and strict rulesets are eliminating the gap that previously existed between the achieving students and the ones who would fail out.
To oversimplify a bit, it's called "No Child Left Behind", AKA teach to the slowest and/or laziest kid in class and let the rest suffer in pure boredom and angst.
Let's just say for the sake of argument you had the most incredible idea for a media company in the history of corporate media...
You're missing the point. Ideas all by themselves are worthless. You have to actually take big risks to do something with them to create value. Anybody who thought of the next "most incredible media company" has 3 options,
1- interrupt their busy schedule, miss their kids soccer games, likely quite their job, and then dedicate a good portion of their lives trying to get seed money.
2- share it with their bar buddies and tell themselves it would probably never work anyway.
3 - or toss their idea at Red Stripe and see if it sticks.
The corresponding risk/reward scenario is then
1 - Huge risk, give up tons of family time, maybe declare bankruptcy, maybe kill your marriage, and MAYBE make your idea work and get rich.
2 - no risk, your buddies might think you're clever for a minute or 2.
3 - No risk again, but your idea might take flight and you might get some small credit.
Now... which risk-reward proposition do you think sounds the most attractive to most people?
Again, ideas are totally worthless by themselves. Here on Earth, it's risk and effort that create value and earn rewards.
I'm reading a lot of what sound to me like childish viewpoints regarding their request for idea submissions. Great ideas are thought up every day. In bars and laundramats and grocery lines all over the world people come up with ideas. Most of them suck, and most of the rest are never shared with anyone, even if they're decent ideas. How many people thought of a chip-clip before somebody actually made and marketed one? My mom used to use clothes pins back when they weren't such a rare item. WAY before anybody sold a something called a chip-clip.
Back to the Red Stripe solicitation for ideas... you don't need to (and shouldn't) spend a lot of money on a fancy website, or promise riches, for what is essentially a request to be spammed with thousands of bar-napkin ideas from people who are otherwise very unlikely to do ANYTHING about their idea, including share it, if it weren't for Red Stripe.
If they have created a sort of small targeted think tank, then what they are really looking for is an endless flood of "inkblots" and doodles and crackpot ideas so they can sit around playing free association games in their effort to "innovate".
I seriously doubt they are expecting to receive a business plan for the next e-bay. But in exchange for the word "auction" they'll toss you a bone.
I forget what old "worse than B" sci-fi movie I was watching and they kept saying things like "computer data", "computer results", and "computer readout".
It sounded ridiculous because of course now it's just "data", "results", and "display".
So again, I say "phone" is the new name for "cell phone". It's no longer helpful or novel to differentiate. In fact I'd say "land line" is the new differentiation for the old technology.
Far too much attention has been paid to whether or not the prices on Antique Roadshow are accurate enough. The greater significance of the Antique Roadshow today, and even more for those in the future, is its reality as the most detailed, comprehensive, concise, culturally-sensitive record of old human junk.... Today, archaeologists are doing digs to understand how people lived only 150 years ago, making guesses based on the random bits and pieces of peoples' lives that they find. In the future, that won't be necessary, as archaeologists are replaced by antiquers and people who rummage through your attic.
Wikipedia is almost all text. It will never replace, for instance, the feel of an iPod in your hand, with it's little bud in your ear.
Text and data, just like a billion attics full of antiques, will never replace the archaeological shovel.
Or to put it another way, once you get all the data out of a relic, you don't discard the relic. You need both, data and relics.
If the business model makes sense then yes people will care. Comcast (for example) would like nothing more than to offer 'special content', and since they're already paying for said content to air it on TV...
What people don't care about are "pure" technologies with no business model anywhere in sight.
there's what cable operators pay to carry us. If we broadcast our material online, whether or not we charge, we've devalued the product.
Why not allow the cable companies to provide the content to their Cable Internet Customers? I.e. - "Log into your Comcast account to access Comcast TV Online" ? And there's your content.
This seems to be the first time the porn industry is hopping onto a media (medium?) bandwagon, rather than driving the wagon.
Is this unique because of the nature of the PSP, or is it a harbinger of the day when the media industry is no longer market driven. When the market must hop on to whatever wagon they're permitted to? Hmmm...
"Dear Porn Industry, we have graciously decided to -partner- with you and allow you to purchase authoring/encoding tools and use of our moniker for..."
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Everything you say is true. But that doesn't stop "blog" from being the ugliest most annoying word in the English language.
there is a continuous process whereby experts in given domains coin new jargon terms.
This is inevitable, and understandable.
Said experts just need to coin these terms sometime other than at 4 am when they're drunk on Jager Bombs and playing Nintendo in the nude.
When I worked for a large financial institution "getting websites shut down" would be the least of our worries during a serious DDOS attack (though that is straight from TFA). The folks in the data centers would get a bit testy though. I'm sure it's the same for government institutions as well.
"getting websites shutdown" is straight from the article though.
Does anyone really believe we're talking about websites here?
What do they teach in news reporter school?
Yes, and from TFA:
So in other words, cross your fingers and check back some time around 2020.
I couldn't agree more.
Spellcheck is a TOOL! It was under the Tools menu. Perfect.
Spellcheck is not a message. What's it's doing under the Message menu ("ribbon", whatever)?
Why is message formating under the Options menu, and font formating under the Format Text menu?
It's idiotic. It's change for the sake of change.
All the formating options under the Format menu and all the tools widgets under the Tools menu, now that made perfect sense.
The new arrangement, even after you learn it, doesn't make much sense. It's almost, but not quite, entirely unlike something intuitive.
Analogies are like fire, wonderfully useful but with a lot of potential for danger.
(meta usage intended) With that in mind...
Picture the internet as a vast ever changing network of many many spiderwebs all interwoven together. These spiderwebs were spun in many shapes and sizes and thicknesses by many different kinds of spiders who decided to cooperate. But, instead of catching bugs with this giant ever-evolving spiderweb, the spiders pass data through its strands to each other. Accordingly, scattered everywhere throughout this megaweb are devices that tap into the strands and pull out the data and in some way make the data useful to the spiders. More and more spiders are now carrying small portable devices that can tap into the web strands wherever they go on this giant heterogeneous megaweb. The data could be a catalog of things for sale, it could be data that is reassembled into voices for talking, or it could be pictures of the spiders doing gross things in their bathrooms. Picture some of these interconnected webs being electronic in nature like telephone lines, some are fiber-optic, and some you can't see at all, they're just made of radio waves. Now you have a basic understanding of the internet.
Elementary - check, layperson - check, succinct - hmmmm... I'm sure somebody could shorten it and not lose much.
Your house will be trashed.
Yes I would like my house trashed now. | No I will trash the house myself later.
I'm surprised Firefox doesn't have a preference to disable allowing JavaScript to do this in the first place.
It does:
Tools|Options| Click the Advanced button that is next to the checked box to enable JavaScript| Uncheck the box to Allow JavaScript to Change status bar text.
Holy jumping Jesus on a pogo stick!
No offense but if right clicking and copying and pasting a link location is +5 informative, then this must be a phishing site. Where did the real slashdot go?
Well...
1st - it's not a virus, it's a browser exploit.
2nd - what's the point of tracking somebody down in Nigeria or Kazakhstan?
and more importantly
3rd - One would expect Google to police their sponsored links a tad bit better than slashdot polices their article submissions.
At least have a prominent easy-to-use Bad Guy reporting tool. The first thing that comes to mind - a little link like the cached link under each sponsored add might do the trick.
# The Tomakak is just a problem on top of a problem, it's going nowhere fast.
# So we had this ingenious idea for making charged particles go into the center of a load of magnets oriented in a certain way which would solve all the Tomakak's problems.
FYI - it's a tokamak
An ISP email address works great as a spam catcher. What kinds of friends are these? :]
When I first saw the title I thought sarcastically "Why don't you take Excel which is an accounting spreadsheet application and wildly contort it to your needs, like everyone else does.
Then I read the rest of the summary and.. well..
Enjoy your migration. I feel your pain. Whoever made that bed should have to lie in it. Ya right.
Slobs are more productive when there's only one person (the slob) working on something, when you start having more than one person working on a job then you'll probably find the tidy people start overtaking the slobs quite quickly.
This is why I was so effective a slob bachelor, but can't find sh*t as a married man.
Wife: "Why can't you put things away?!"
Me: "Why can't you leave my stuff where I put it?! Stop moving stuff around!"
Wife: "How can you find anything when it's all over the place?"
Me: "When I was a bachelor I knew where everything was. The reason I can't find anything now is that you keep moving things around!"
AARRGH! This same thing must play out in so many households. Of course it's always the "messy" person who's "at fault".
Social promotions and strict rulesets are eliminating the gap that previously existed between the achieving students and the ones who would fail out.
To oversimplify a bit, it's called "No Child Left Behind", AKA teach to the slowest and/or laziest kid in class and let the rest suffer in pure boredom and angst.
You're missing the point. Ideas all by themselves are worthless. You have to actually take big risks to do something with them to create value. Anybody who thought of the next "most incredible media company" has 3 options,
1- interrupt their busy schedule, miss their kids soccer games, likely quite their job, and then dedicate a good portion of their lives trying to get seed money.
2- share it with their bar buddies and tell themselves it would probably never work anyway.
3 - or toss their idea at Red Stripe and see if it sticks.
The corresponding risk/reward scenario is then
1 - Huge risk, give up tons of family time, maybe declare bankruptcy, maybe kill your marriage, and MAYBE make your idea work and get rich.
2 - no risk, your buddies might think you're clever for a minute or 2.
3 - No risk again, but your idea might take flight and you might get some small credit.
Now... which risk-reward proposition do you think sounds the most attractive to most people?
Again, ideas are totally worthless by themselves. Here on Earth, it's risk and effort that create value and earn rewards.
Or do you think somebody will send Arthur C. Clark a check for his idea to build a space elevator?
I'm reading a lot of what sound to me like childish viewpoints regarding their request for idea submissions. Great ideas are thought up every day. In bars and laundramats and grocery lines all over the world people come up with ideas. Most of them suck, and most of the rest are never shared with anyone, even if they're decent ideas. How many people thought of a chip-clip before somebody actually made and marketed one? My mom used to use clothes pins back when they weren't such a rare item. WAY before anybody sold a something called a chip-clip.
Back to the Red Stripe solicitation for ideas... you don't need to (and shouldn't) spend a lot of money on a fancy website, or promise riches, for what is essentially a request to be spammed with thousands of bar-napkin ideas from people who are otherwise very unlikely to do ANYTHING about their idea, including share it, if it weren't for Red Stripe.
If they have created a sort of small targeted think tank, then what they are really looking for is an endless flood of "inkblots" and doodles and crackpot ideas so they can sit around playing free association games in their effort to "innovate".
I seriously doubt they are expecting to receive a business plan for the next e-bay. But in exchange for the word "auction" they'll toss you a bone.
Sounds fair and bright to me.
How about just "Phone" ?
I forget what old "worse than B" sci-fi movie I was watching and they kept saying things like "computer data", "computer results", and "computer readout".
It sounded ridiculous because of course now it's just "data", "results", and "display".
So again, I say "phone" is the new name for "cell phone". It's no longer helpful or novel to differentiate. In fact I'd say "land line" is the new differentiation for the old technology.
Wikipedia is almost all text. It will never replace, for instance, the feel of an iPod in your hand, with it's little bud in your ear. Text and data, just like a billion attics full of antiques, will never replace the archaeological shovel.
Or to put it another way, once you get all the data out of a relic, you don't discard the relic. You need both, data and relics.
If the business model makes sense then yes people will care. Comcast (for example) would like nothing more than to offer 'special content', and since they're already paying for said content to air it on TV...
What people don't care about are "pure" technologies with no business model anywhere in sight.
there's what cable operators pay to carry us. If we broadcast our material online, whether or not we charge, we've devalued the product.
Why not allow the cable companies to provide the content to their Cable Internet Customers? I.e. - "Log into your Comcast account to access Comcast TV Online" ? And there's your content.
Problem solved yes?
Agreed. The only thing on Adult Swim that doesn't make me want to shoot my TV is Cowboy Bebop.
Which of course is outstanding.
I can just picture the case mod.
This seems to be the first time the porn industry is hopping onto a media (medium?) bandwagon, rather than driving the wagon.
Is this unique because of the nature of the PSP, or is it a harbinger of the day when the media industry is no longer market driven. When the market must hop on to whatever wagon they're permitted to? Hmmm...
"Dear Porn Industry, we have graciously decided to -partner- with you and allow you to purchase authoring/encoding tools and use of our moniker for
On today's front page so far we've had:
OSS: Europe vs. the USA
Gaming: Nintendo vs. Sony
Gaming: PCs vs. Consoles
Gaming: Sex & Gender vs. Gender
Platforms: Apple vs. Intel combined with MAC vs. Linux.
Google: New feature
Google: Owns all your data, again.
Linux & Apache: Used by popular (real) news site (wow).
Next up:
Flames vs. Yawns vs. News, the slashdot version of Rock, Paper, Scissors.
Sure, this is a troll, flame whatever. But isn't that what we do here lately?
From this point forward, no Terminator references will be permitted. ;-)
Ok but... I'll be back.