Chrome in and of itself really hasn't won me over. I like the idea that every tab is a process and that if one page locks up the browser I can just kill that process, but that is kind of like buying a really fast speedboat because it has better fire extinguishers on board.
I'd like to say it is just paranoia, but from the few times I've flown, I had the distinct feeling that much of what was done, was done for affect. I haven't heard the terms, "now", " immediately" or "we cannot/will not tolerate" as often since perhaps high school.
It is the gestapo imagery that really kicks it off. Uniformed men lining you up one by one to pass you through a set of doors to some unseen location. First they take any small valuables you may be carrying for inspection/safe keeping, then they take your shoes and check your mouth for gold fillings. Your loved ones, pass into another stall and are sometimes re-grouped elsewhere. On the sideline there are guards yelling at you; demanding obedience. To hear myself, it sounds completely nutty, but on a subconscious level the process is terrifying.
Because if you want to get something off of a forum you just send a DMCA notice and it is gone. Also you can buy out someone's forum and easily wire that info into whatever social networking service you plan on building. From a top-down, birds eye view, forums are more easily viewed as assets (in other words, a good thing for everyone but the consumer), while Usenet is like some kind unseen Vole's den.
Around 94-95 when I was in high school the library only had a few computers. There were PS/2 machines setup as terminals for checking the card catalog (logging out of the catalog system was considered "hacking"; ground for expulsion). Two computers setup for Lexus-Nexus and Discuss and tiny little PC setup for gopher that the Librarian referred to as: that Jughead machine and it was the only computer that had unrestricted access to the outside world and I think I was the only person in the building who bothered to spend any time with it. I still get a warm fuzzy feeling when I open up Lynx and check out Veronica 2.
For either, the point isn't stopping innovation, that is just a side effect. The goal is moving the market in whatever direction you want and Apple has been doing to a greater or lesser degree of success for about as long as MS has. They both buy out mindshare and patent portfolios to get either a leg up or on the throat of their competition. Apple's saving grace is that they have done a much better job of dealing with others in their industry.
When Apple was getting into the desktop publishing business they knew that they couldn't just buy Adobe out, so they played ball. Had MS lumbered off into this before standards were set, they would have tried and failed at creating everything from scratch.
Honestly, I don't get why people are so defensive for Apple. They may be the "little guy", but they have enough IP in enough industries to live in one form or another indefinitely.
Apple's Mac sales consistently increase above the PC market in general. For example the last quarter was up 33% over the year ago quarter. They don't need anyone to tell them how run their Mac lines - they are doing rather well themselves.
We run a javabased VNC through IE on an NT box that connects to to a Win7 box running Feisty Fawn on VirtualBox running Ice Weasel for Gopher sessions.
I know it's a compromise, but at least Valve offer something for their DRM: unlimited downloads (well, at least for Valve's games, too bad some of the other publishers aren't as keen to the idea). I hate to say it, but in the game biz there is a certain amount of hate for Linux and Linux nerds. It is viewed as a money pit and its user's are often typified as pirates, this by a business whose hate for piracy can at times pale that of the *AAs. If Valve wants to throw Linux users a bone, I'm all for it.
What really galls me with half of these Apple iPad stories (and now iPad retrospectives) are the adjectives. Apple doesn't have engineers who must sign NDAs, they have brilliant geniuses who work under conditions of absolute secrecy. If you took some of these stories seriously you would think that Cupertino was the new Oak Ridge.
The planned release of a blockbuster motion picture should be acknowledged as an event that attracts the focused efforts of copyright thieves, who will seek to obtain and distribute pre-release versions and/or to undermine legitimate release by unauthorized distribution through other channels.
I find this interesting. The last time I checked, a good enough DA could probably talk a cherry picked jury into believing that someone taping a movie was attempting to circumvent protections (water marks on the screen) and have them tried as terrorist. Suddenly we would have reports of terrorists in America's theaters. The industry gets rid of people recording in theaters and the news gets rid of ticket sales. Win-win in my book.
Bad news: Now every single scrap of paper and electronic barf that crosses your desk must be recorded and filed.
I'd say this is the one serious drawback. For the most part we have moved over to using IM to gut perhaps 60% of our meetings, but those IMs have segmented into:
-Company Client: No man's land of IMs, every word is saved internally, completely public and only the top dogs even touch it. Every word you type is an invitation for termination and hitting enter is like signing a mortgage.
-Pidgin: Logs are shared locally, unless you are an idiot and save it on a share; often used for poisioning your enemies well, spreading misinformation via modified logs, etc. Oddly enough it gets used more than anything else though the quality varies from dept to dept.
-GMail chat: No local records, completely off the radar and I have no idea how much work gets done there.
Pro-meeting folks just want CYA or at least a feeling of total control. For everyone else it is a tool. Regardless, I'd rather just answer an IM than put the effort into getting 8 or 9 people in the same place at the same time.
I've been hearing one version of this or another my entire life. A vote for Perot was a vote for NAFTA. A vote for greens is a vote for instantaneous war, death and destruction.
You know what? Screw it. If a party would rather get favors from large interests and lose a few votes for not tending its own garden then it deserves to lose an election or two.
Frankly, I'm tired of compromising on issues, sometimes the only issues, that are dear to me simply for the sake of taking another one for the team while my representative gets a large check from an *AA.
Not just to fudge the numbers, they also throw stuff on torrents as advertisement and have been doing it for years. If it weren't for that tiny, tiny bit of hypocrisy, my feelings for them would be purely ambivalent.
It really amazes me that the same guy who went on an on about how magical the iPad is, was once this guy:
These Heathkits would come with these detailed manuals about how to put this thing together and all the parts would be laid out in a certain way and color coded. You'd actually build this thing yourself. I would say that this gave one several things. It gave one a understanding of what was inside a finished product and how it worked because it would include a theory of operation but maybe even more importantly it gave one the sense that one could build the things that one saw around oneself in the universe. These things were not mysteries anymore.
An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.
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Nonsense, everyone knows the Gulf Coast, America's top priority, always bounces back from major disasters. Everything will be fine, two weeks tops.
Chrome in and of itself really hasn't won me over. I like the idea that every tab is a process and that if one page locks up the browser I can just kill that process, but that is kind of like buying a really fast speedboat because it has better fire extinguishers on board.
I'd like to say it is just paranoia, but from the few times I've flown, I had the distinct feeling that much of what was done, was done for affect. I haven't heard the terms, "now", " immediately" or "we cannot/will not tolerate" as often since perhaps high school.
It is the gestapo imagery that really kicks it off. Uniformed men lining you up one by one to pass you through a set of doors to some unseen location. First they take any small valuables you may be carrying for inspection/safe keeping, then they take your shoes and check your mouth for gold fillings. Your loved ones, pass into another stall and are sometimes re-grouped elsewhere. On the sideline there are guards yelling at you; demanding obedience. To hear myself, it sounds completely nutty, but on a subconscious level the process is terrifying.
Oh, you know where.
Because if you want to get something off of a forum you just send a DMCA notice and it is gone. Also you can buy out someone's forum and easily wire that info into whatever social networking service you plan on building. From a top-down, birds eye view, forums are more easily viewed as assets (in other words, a good thing for everyone but the consumer), while Usenet is like some kind unseen Vole's den.
And lawyers. Lots of lawyers.
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For great justice?
Around 94-95 when I was in high school the library only had a few computers. There were PS/2 machines setup as terminals for checking the card catalog (logging out of the catalog system was considered "hacking"; ground for expulsion). Two computers setup for Lexus-Nexus and Discuss and tiny little PC setup for gopher that the Librarian referred to as: that Jughead machine and it was the only computer that had unrestricted access to the outside world and I think I was the only person in the building who bothered to spend any time with it. I still get a warm fuzzy feeling when I open up Lynx and check out Veronica 2.
For either, the point isn't stopping innovation, that is just a side effect. The goal is moving the market in whatever direction you want and Apple has been doing to a greater or lesser degree of success for about as long as MS has. They both buy out mindshare and patent portfolios to get either a leg up or on the throat of their competition. Apple's saving grace is that they have done a much better job of dealing with others in their industry.
When Apple was getting into the desktop publishing business they knew that they couldn't just buy Adobe out, so they played ball. Had MS lumbered off into this before standards were set, they would have tried and failed at creating everything from scratch.
Honestly, I don't get why people are so defensive for Apple. They may be the "little guy", but they have enough IP in enough industries to live in one form or another indefinitely.
Apple's Mac sales consistently increase above the PC market in general. For example the last quarter was up 33% over the year ago quarter. They don't need anyone to tell them how run their Mac lines - they are doing rather well themselves.
Said the stock holder to the purchaser.
I think I can boil that down for you. You can have all the taste and all the money in the world, but neither will buy you class.
1996 was listening: http://www.theonion.com/articles/nasa-nascar-merge,1051/
We run a javabased VNC through IE on an NT box that connects to to a Win7 box running Feisty Fawn on VirtualBox running Ice Weasel for Gopher sessions.
Praise Bob!
For example, would you want a 50" display on your desktop?
Monday would be nice.
I know it's a compromise, but at least Valve offer something for their DRM: unlimited downloads (well, at least for Valve's games, too bad some of the other publishers aren't as keen to the idea). I hate to say it, but in the game biz there is a certain amount of hate for Linux and Linux nerds. It is viewed as a money pit and its user's are often typified as pirates, this by a business whose hate for piracy can at times pale that of the *AAs. If Valve wants to throw Linux users a bone, I'm all for it.
What really galls me with half of these Apple iPad stories (and now iPad retrospectives) are the adjectives. Apple doesn't have engineers who must sign NDAs, they have brilliant geniuses who work under conditions of absolute secrecy. If you took some of these stories seriously you would think that Cupertino was the new Oak Ridge.
The planned release of a blockbuster motion picture should be acknowledged as an event that attracts the focused efforts of copyright thieves, who will seek to obtain and distribute pre-release versions and/or to undermine legitimate release by unauthorized distribution through other channels.
I find this interesting. The last time I checked, a good enough DA could probably talk a cherry picked jury into believing that someone taping a movie was attempting to circumvent protections (water marks on the screen) and have them tried as terrorist. Suddenly we would have reports of terrorists in America's theaters. The industry gets rid of people recording in theaters and the news gets rid of ticket sales. Win-win in my book.
Bad news: Now every single scrap of paper and electronic barf that crosses your desk must be recorded and filed.
I'd say this is the one serious drawback. For the most part we have moved over to using IM to gut perhaps 60% of our meetings, but those IMs have segmented into:
-Company Client: No man's land of IMs, every word is saved internally, completely public and only the top dogs even touch it. Every word you type is an invitation for termination and hitting enter is like signing a mortgage.
-Pidgin: Logs are shared locally, unless you are an idiot and save it on a share; often used for poisioning your enemies well, spreading misinformation via modified logs, etc. Oddly enough it gets used more than anything else though the quality varies from dept to dept.
-GMail chat: No local records, completely off the radar and I have no idea how much work gets done there.
Pro-meeting folks just want CYA or at least a feeling of total control. For everyone else it is a tool. Regardless, I'd rather just answer an IM than put the effort into getting 8 or 9 people in the same place at the same time.
I've been hearing one version of this or another my entire life. A vote for Perot was a vote for NAFTA. A vote for greens is a vote for instantaneous war, death and destruction.
You know what? Screw it. If a party would rather get favors from large interests and lose a few votes for not tending its own garden then it deserves to lose an election or two.
Frankly, I'm tired of compromising on issues, sometimes the only issues, that are dear to me simply for the sake of taking another one for the team while my representative gets a large check from an *AA.
Not just to fudge the numbers, they also throw stuff on torrents as advertisement and have been doing it for years. If it weren't for that tiny, tiny bit of hypocrisy, my feelings for them would be purely ambivalent.
It really amazes me that the same guy who went on an on about how magical the iPad is, was once this guy:
These Heathkits would come with these detailed manuals about how to put this thing together and all the parts would be laid out in a certain way and color coded. You'd actually build this thing yourself. I would say that this gave one several things. It gave one a understanding of what was inside a finished product and how it worked because it would include a theory of operation but maybe even more importantly it gave one the sense that one could build the things that one saw around oneself in the universe. These things were not mysteries anymore.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/comphist/sj1.html
I guess owning your own content distribution platform really gives you a sense of spirituality.
He had that one parts catalog in the bathroom.
Yep, bright future ahead.
They are one step ahead of you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_safe_cigarette
Because 2,495,510,734 people can't be wrong.