Much like ChromeOS'(s?) App Marketplace, this could give web developers exposure and an easy payment model, driving up paid subscriptions. I think that's a good thing.
The legal language sounds exactly like what it means. Need to know. You asked for privacy and assurance that data's not mined. Ignore the legal NTK verbage if you like. It's no skin off my back.
6.1 Obligations. Each party will: (a) protect the other party’s Confidential Information with the same standard of care it uses to protect its own Confidential Information; and (b) not disclose the Confidential Information, except to Affiliates, employees and agents who need to know it and who have agreed in writing to keep it confidential. Each party (and any Affiliates, employees and agents to whom it has disclosed Confidential Information) may use Confidential Information only to exercise rights and fulfill its obligations under this Agreement, while using reasonable care to protect it. Each party is responsible for any actions of its Affiliates, employees and agents in violation of this Section. 6.2 Exceptions. Confidential Information does not include information that: (a) the recipient of the Confidential Information already knew; (b) becomes public through no fault of the recipient; (c) was independently developed by the recipient; or (d) was rightfully given to the recipient by another party. 6.3 Required Disclosure. Each party may disclose the other party’s Confidential Information when required by law but only after it, if legally permissible: (a) uses commercially reasonable efforts to notify the other party; and (b) gives the other party the chance to challenge the disclosure. 7. Intellectual Property Rights; Brand Features. 7.1 Intellectual Property Rights. Except as expressly set forth herein, this Agreement does not grant either party any rights, implied or otherwise, to the other’s content or any of the other’s intellectual property. As between the parties, Customer owns all Intellectual Property Rights in Customer Data, and Google owns all Intellectual Property Rights in the Services.
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Wow. I have five minutes between periods, during which I am required to be in the hall... standing. Since we've established that I didn't lie about that, a large part of your argument falls apart under its own weight.
I could answer all the remaining points equally succinctly, but why feed the trolls?
Being at the worst school in the district means that I am in at 7:30 to _actively_ tutor, have meetings with other teachers to align instruction, start teaching at 9 and stand straight through to 4:20 (except for my planning period, which is taken up by meetings), tutor more after school (and again a full day on Saturday), answer the forty e-mails I got but was unable to read during the day, then leave at 7:30. Planning generally happens at home.
1) Your math teacher was lazy and most of the students who left his/her class never "got" math.
2) You didn't go to a high school where 95% of students were on free lunch, the average reading ability was on the 4th grade level, and the average math student was unable to do simple 3rd-grade arithmetic or spatial reasoning problems.
If I don't work this hard, we will maintain our 50% drop-out rate, 60% of students will fail exit exams, and the school will be closed in two years (No Child Left Behind). Every teacher in our school is working just as hard as I am to try to turn things around in a community where teaching the way you describe has left us in this horrible situation.
Two months after taking a job teaching math at the worst high school in the district, making $42k and working 7:30 - 7:30, I walked by a Wendy's posting wanted signs for a manager at $55k. Sigh.
IMEIs are evil. The Thai carriers tried to use them to lock down phones a few years ago. Luckily,Thais are exceptionally good at getting around technological roadblocks,then sticking up shops on every corner to help the less tech-savvy get involved..;)
I was talking to a guy who lived in Costa Rica last week, and compared CR to SE Asia (where I lived for a few years). The funny thing is, you see virtually everything go through that whole list -- it's fixed until it no longer can be, then used for another purpose until it completely breaks, then the pieces are recycled.
I'm in a slightly different set: I want identity in a social browser, but using an open standard like XMPP + extensions (see any number of developing social networks, like OneSocialWeb) so that all this same stuff works but I don't need Facebook.
Take a look at the Nohrtec Edubook, which is completely modular, mod'able, and which is often shipped to clients disassembled for them to assemble themselves. Mike Barnes intentionally created a netbook computer that can be torn down and repaired easily, targeted at developing countries. Very interesting model. Uses rechargeable AAs, too.
X is a networked display server. You use a networked audio server to forward sound. I have forwarded apps + sound to thirty clients simultaneously from the same machine before. Not really an issue. (There was a proposal to add networked sound to X a couple of years ago, but it never picked up steam.)
Schmidt said it himself about six months ago: ChromeOS is targeted as a thin client for businesses on Google Apps, and he compared it to the SunRays. Heck, my employer could go ChromeOS -- everything is a web app already, and we use Google Apps for the students (and Lotus iNotes for the teachers... WTF?). I doubt very many people would whine if we switched.
I don't need a 4x4. I have told my gal several times that I'd like to get (or maybe build) a two-seat, covered trike (tuns out it's called a velocar) which is hybrid -- pedal/electric -- and the pedals are just geared up to a generator that runs the system and shunts extra energy over to a decent battery. Tired? Stop pedaling. Need to get to work without being sweaty? No need to pedal at all. Coming home from work, going shopping, working out, or just out for a fun drive with your SO? Pedal away as hard as you like. Hook up the battery at night to recharge if needed. If the vehicle has cargo capacity and the occupants are protected from the weather, it'd be awesome.
As an author, why couldn't you offer the first two chapters of an e-book for free and charge for the whole book if the reader wants to finish it? Readers would certainly feel a lot more comfortable buying a book they could preview (much like the 30-second clips on music sites).
The original saying was "You can't eat your cake and have it, too." That order makes it easier to understand the meaning -- once you eat it, you no longer have it. (You must make a choice)
Oh, and one more thing: if we went federated social with XMPP instead of FB, the VOIP and video would already be available with no work. In fact, FB exposes XMPP so they should be able to get voice/video pretty easily, too. Why do they need Skype?
Entirely too popular. Match the largest (maybe monopoly) consumer social network with the largest (also possibly a monopoly) consumer VOIP, and what do you get? It can't be good.
I am really on their side (and the side of all attempts at open social networking like XMPP's OneSocialWeb and Status.Net's OStatus), but they could have developed in the open from the beginning, and with the press they got, they would have had input on these problems when the code was in its infancy. It seems to me that the D team isn't open enough -- it's riding the fence and getting itself killed for the effort of doing so.
I read TFA (I know...) and comments and many of the issues mentioned are addressable within Rails generally so I don't think that saying the project has no chance is fair to either the developers or to the OSS devs the author besmirches. That said, I have never been very pro-Diaspora and didn't expect anything secure or even really working in the first release from that team: they're just a bunch of college kids with little experience on summer break, after all.
I still think that extending XMPP is the way to go -- there's no need to reinvent the wheel and XMPP has had time to work the security issues out already and has quite a few implementations available. Check http://onesocialweb.org/. The code has been available since Diaspora was announced and is developing quickly. XMPP with extensions has the benefit of having several large IM networks already in service that could simply move to the newer protocol. If Yahoo!, MSN, Baidu, and GTalk all went that way, Facebook would have to fall in line and update its XMPP, too.
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Much like ChromeOS'(s?) App Marketplace, this could give web developers exposure and an easy payment model, driving up paid subscriptions. I think that's a good thing.
The legal language sounds exactly like what it means. Need to know. You asked for privacy and assurance that data's not mined. Ignore the legal NTK verbage if you like. It's no skin off my back.
6.1 Obligations. Each party will: (a) protect the other party’s Confidential Information with the same standard of care it uses to protect its own Confidential Information; and (b) not disclose the Confidential Information, except to Affiliates, employees and agents who need to know it and who have agreed in writing to keep it confidential. Each party (and any Affiliates, employees and agents to whom it has disclosed Confidential Information) may use Confidential Information only to exercise rights and fulfill its obligations under this Agreement, while using reasonable care to protect it. Each party is responsible for any actions of its Affiliates, employees and agents in violation of this Section.
6.2 Exceptions. Confidential Information does not include information that: (a) the recipient of the Confidential Information already knew; (b) becomes public through no fault of the recipient; (c) was independently developed by the recipient; or (d) was rightfully given to the recipient by another party.
6.3 Required Disclosure. Each party may disclose the other party’s Confidential Information when required by law but only after it, if legally permissible: (a) uses commercially reasonable efforts to notify the other party; and (b) gives the other party the chance to challenge the disclosure.
7. Intellectual Property Rights; Brand Features.
7.1 Intellectual Property Rights. Except as expressly set forth herein, this Agreement does not grant either party any rights, implied or otherwise, to the other’s content or any of the other’s intellectual property. As between the parties, Customer owns all Intellectual Property Rights in Customer Data, and Google owns all Intellectual Property Rights in the Services.
App for that -- http://www.google.com/enterprise/marketplace/viewListing?productListingId=5282+1826658422239398150
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Wow. I have five minutes between periods, during which I am required to be in the hall ... standing. Since we've established that I didn't lie about that, a large part of your argument falls apart under its own weight.
I could answer all the remaining points equally succinctly, but why feed the trolls?
Removing the dependency on Java is a high priority for LO.
Being at the worst school in the district means that I am in at 7:30 to _actively_ tutor, have meetings with other teachers to align instruction, start teaching at 9 and stand straight through to 4:20 (except for my planning period, which is taken up by meetings), tutor more after school (and again a full day on Saturday), answer the forty e-mails I got but was unable to read during the day, then leave at 7:30. Planning generally happens at home.
1) Your math teacher was lazy and most of the students who left his/her class never "got" math.
2) You didn't go to a high school where 95% of students were on free lunch, the average reading ability was on the 4th grade level, and the average math student was unable to do simple 3rd-grade arithmetic or spatial reasoning problems.
If I don't work this hard, we will maintain our 50% drop-out rate, 60% of students will fail exit exams, and the school will be closed in two years (No Child Left Behind). Every teacher in our school is working just as hard as I am to try to turn things around in a community where teaching the way you describe has left us in this horrible situation.
I like teaching.
See Hudson Bay Company and Dutch East India Company.
Two months after taking a job teaching math at the worst high school in the district, making $42k and working 7:30 - 7:30, I walked by a Wendy's posting wanted signs for a manager at $55k. Sigh.
IMEIs are evil. The Thai carriers tried to use them to lock down phones a few years ago. Luckily,Thais are exceptionally good at getting around technological roadblocks,then sticking up shops on every corner to help the less tech-savvy get involved.. ;)
I'd like to edit your list:
I was talking to a guy who lived in Costa Rica last week, and compared CR to SE Asia (where I lived for a few years). The funny thing is, you see virtually everything go through that whole list -- it's fixed until it no longer can be, then used for another purpose until it completely breaks, then the pieces are recycled.
I'm in a slightly different set: I want identity in a social browser, but using an open standard like XMPP + extensions (see any number of developing social networks, like OneSocialWeb) so that all this same stuff works but I don't need Facebook.
Take a look at the Nohrtec Edubook, which is completely modular, mod'able, and which is often shipped to clients disassembled for them to assemble themselves. Mike Barnes intentionally created a netbook computer that can be torn down and repaired easily, targeted at developing countries. Very interesting model. Uses rechargeable AAs, too.
X is a networked display server. You use a networked audio server to forward sound. I have forwarded apps + sound to thirty clients simultaneously from the same machine before. Not really an issue. (There was a proposal to add networked sound to X a couple of years ago, but it never picked up steam.)
Schmidt said it himself about six months ago: ChromeOS is targeted as a thin client for businesses on Google Apps, and he compared it to the SunRays. Heck, my employer could go ChromeOS -- everything is a web app already, and we use Google Apps for the students (and Lotus iNotes for the teachers ... WTF?). I doubt very many people would whine if we switched.
I don't need a 4x4. I have told my gal several times that I'd like to get (or maybe build) a two-seat, covered trike (tuns out it's called a velocar) which is hybrid -- pedal/electric -- and the pedals are just geared up to a generator that runs the system and shunts extra energy over to a decent battery. Tired? Stop pedaling. Need to get to work without being sweaty? No need to pedal at all. Coming home from work, going shopping, working out, or just out for a fun drive with your SO? Pedal away as hard as you like. Hook up the battery at night to recharge if needed. If the vehicle has cargo capacity and the occupants are protected from the weather, it'd be awesome.
As an author, why couldn't you offer the first two chapters of an e-book for free and charge for the whole book if the reader wants to finish it? Readers would certainly feel a lot more comfortable buying a book they could preview (much like the 30-second clips on music sites).
The original saying was "You can't eat your cake and have it, too." That order makes it easier to understand the meaning -- once you eat it, you no longer have it. (You must make a choice)
Oh, and one more thing: if we went federated social with XMPP instead of FB, the VOIP and video would already be available with no work. In fact, FB exposes XMPP so they should be able to get voice/video pretty easily, too. Why do they need Skype?
Entirely too popular. Match the largest (maybe monopoly) consumer social network with the largest (also possibly a monopoly) consumer VOIP, and what do you get? It can't be good.
I am really on their side (and the side of all attempts at open social networking like XMPP's OneSocialWeb and Status.Net's OStatus), but they could have developed in the open from the beginning, and with the press they got, they would have had input on these problems when the code was in its infancy. It seems to me that the D team isn't open enough -- it's riding the fence and getting itself killed for the effort of doing so.
I read TFA (I know ...) and comments and many of the issues mentioned are addressable within Rails generally so I don't think that saying the project has no chance is fair to either the developers or to the OSS devs the author besmirches. That said, I have never been very pro-Diaspora and didn't expect anything secure or even really working in the first release from that team: they're just a bunch of college kids with little experience on summer break, after all.
I still think that extending XMPP is the way to go -- there's no need to reinvent the wheel and XMPP has had time to work the security issues out already and has quite a few implementations available. Check http://onesocialweb.org/. The code has been available since Diaspora was announced and is developing quickly. XMPP with extensions has the benefit of having several large IM networks already in service that could simply move to the newer protocol. If Yahoo!, MSN, Baidu, and GTalk all went that way, Facebook would have to fall in line and update its XMPP, too.
I thought this was part of GOOG's plan for its dark fiber. It'd make that city broadband offer easier to fulfill.