You know what? I don't have a problem with appliancing (yeah, I verbed). I think it's good for Linux distros in the long run.
He said that I could visit any site on the net. I mentioned what is probably the most popular page on the most popular site, which you can go to but which you won't be able to use. If you think playing Farmville is something that the average user of an iPad won't expect to be able to do, you're wrong. It's exactly the kind of casual web experience they prefer. A touchscreen tablet is also the perfect form factor.
Unlike the app store (which is iPad only), there is no iPad-certified web so don't compare web browsing to consoles. The user has no way to know whether a site will work or not. Disappointment will abound.
No skin off my back. I was just pointing out that Mr. countertrolling was wrong. There are plenty of sites that you can't visit (usefully, anyway).
A recent article on Google's data centers said that they run as close to maximum temperature as possible: if the servers are rated to 90, they only cool to 88. Google is extremely efficient. The article said that the energy overhead for their data centers is only about 20%, while most data centers run 100%. Because of that, I'm sure Google has studied the server fan issue and determined that it's not a significant factor.
You're missing the point. He didn't say "take our data back." He said "take our data with us." He wants portability. That has nothing to do with deleting stuff that's already out there. Look at the Data Liberation Front for an idea. If you can't do that, realize that you can move your blog from Blogger to Wordpress, and moving it doesn't delete your Blogger blog for you. You can, howeevr, continue your blog on Wordpress with the same pictures, tags, and everything that was on Blogger. In other words, you've "taken your data with you."
He wants to be able to move to a new social networking service without completely starting over. He wants the old pictures on the new site (not necessarily the old pictures off the old site. Do you get it?
You know, not everyone is a complete dick who will shit all over a lot of people to get rich. Most rich people will, but that's likely how they got rich. There are a bunch of good people who manage to make a good amount of money. It's not impossible.
OK. How about this? If you have a Slashdot journal with twenty or more entries, try to write another one. First, on the top of the page, click on Journal. Next, go to the bottom of the journal page, past the last ten journals, and try to click on "Write in Journal" before Slashdot has a chance to load ten more journal entries and pushes the write link down to the bottom of the page again. If you have hundreds of journal entries, it's like a game. For easy mode, use a mouse. Hard mode only needs a touchpad.
Any time you have to race the application, it's an evil interface.
I'm pretty sure the poster was talking about data portability, not ownership. He wants to be able to export his data when he leaves (a la Google's Data Liberation Front). There's no automated way to get your photos, blog posts, connection information, and the like out of FB.
Intel doesn't want netbooks to replace laptops, which is why (until this announcement, I guess) Intel strongly discouraged putting dual core Atoms on netbooks. Two-core Atom chips, which Intel has had for some time in the 330, were originally limited to nettops unless your company wanted to lose any discounts... er... marketing funds.
If patent trolls keep having all their cases in east Texas, eventually the average person there is going to become educated enough to say "Hey! I saw this in the last case. It seems obvious.";) I can hope, right?
I'm sure everyone at Slashdot is familiar with the internal strife and conflict that can currently be found in the Mae Ling Mak Naked and Petrified movement, a primary cause of which is YOU and your cronies and your watered-down version of the ideals of Mae Ling Mak Naked and Petrified, which you laughably refer to as Mae Ling Mak Immobilized and Not Fully Clothed. You've taken what was good and pure about Mae Ling Mak Naked and Petrified and watered it down so it would be more tolerable and acceptable to conservative blowhards who are afraid to think outside the terms of society's established notions and conditions. This is detailed on our web page (no GIFs due to patent problems!!!) in our founder's document "Mae Ling Mak Naked and Petrified vs. Mae Ling Mak Immobilized and Not Fully Clothed," so I won't repeat what's already been said.
You state that by changing "Petrified" to "Immobilzied" you placate those who are afraid of the idea of petrification, and by replacing "Naked" with "Not Fully Clothed" you placate those who fear nudity. I SAY THAT THIS IS WRONG!!! The entire HEART of Mae Ling (No GIFs due to patent problems) Mak naked and petrified is MAE LING MAK.... NAKED.... AND PETRIFIED. The nudity and the petrification are the essential elements!
This bastardized philosophy you preach flies in the face of the Mae Ling Mak Naked and Petrified movement, which you ONCE claimed to support! (No GIFs due to patent problems) Now you've stomped on our heads on your rise to glory with your own hacked-up version of our philosphy. "Immobilized and not fully clothed" indeed! Why, that could be referring to a paralyzed Polish cowboy wearing a bikini for all we know! (No GIFs due to patent problems)
We know what's GOOD for the people, even if the people don't know what's good for themselves. What's good for the people is Mae Ling Mak, naked, and petrified. The people (No GIFs due to patent problems) NEED a naked Mae Ling Mak statue. You can't dispute this. You believe this yourself. And yet you refuse to stand up for what you believe! You say, "Well, maybe it's okay if she's not petrified, as long as she can't move," or (No GIFs due to patent problems) "Well, maybe she doesn't have to be naked, but she could at least take her shirt off or something." You BELIEVE she should be naked and petrified, but you ALLOW other lesser variations on this perfect theme into what could otherwise be a strong, world-dominating paradigm! (No GIFs due to patent problems)
iTunes is not in and of itself profitable. There's no way that Lala could have been profitable.
That dog won't hunt. In 2008, the New York Times estimated that iTMS was making a gross profit of 26%, more than Amazon (24%) or eBay (9%). Too old? Sales in 2009 increased 21% year over year. Estimated profit by other sources was 10-15%. Even Oppenheimer claims that iTMS is profitable, though Apple appears to have a strict policy of secrecy (surprise!) on exactly how much "a bit" is.
Regarding the App Store and the iTunes stores, we are running those a bit over break even and that hasn’t changed. We are very excited to be providing our developers with a fabulous opportunity and we think that is helping us a lot with the iPhone and the iPod touch platform.
Now, 10-26% may not seem like much when compared to the 40% profit Apple has on other stuff, but it's still profit, and there's a lot it when you start adding up the numbers, probably more the $0.10 per share in earnings.
What do grocery stores make? 2-4%. They're happy to get that.
So you missed the next sentence where her says that many people bring their own, personal machines in? Yeah, I read the summary. That's why I said to make them supply you the hardware (and not use a personal machine).
Their network, their rules. Stop taking your personal machine, and require them to supply you with one to do your job. Stop accessing the network after work. They cannot force you to install something on your computer, so they can't force you to connect after hours from home.
Oh, yeah, and start looking for a new job. This stance will make your life easier, but you'll never get promoted.
Wow. You just described exactly how I see MMORPGs working, and why I've never been interested in one. Maybe if there were something interesting to do, I could get into it.
Fantasy MMORPGs just need to expand and let players be anyone in the land. Be a dragon that is "terrorizing" a city (actually just trying to eat) and which suffers quests against it. Instead of leveling characters, why not level players? When you die, you die, but your total XP as a player gives you new creatures to become? Reincarnation instead of resurrection. Advanced players can become the quest.
I was thinking of GTA earlier -- not about the setting, but that you never become almost invulnerable, which I see as a huge problem for many RPGs. Can't MMORPGs create less difference between level 1 and 80?
Now you understand why Jesus' Laborers in the Field parable so upset the Jews. No, I'm neither Christian nor Jewish. I just think that your comment screams for a comparison.
That's the "acquitted by a jury of civilians after a year" case. Yeah, it sucks. It's still not pulling you over, declaring you an enemy of the state, putting you on your knees, and executing you on the spot and in the open because they don't like you, then putting some drugs on your dead body in order to make summarily executing you legal.
Get some perspective. The cops in the U.S. trial freaked out and overreacted, and they killed someone. (Yeah, it's wrong and I'm not defending it.) Thaksin's police executed over a thousand people on purpose and with forethought.
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You know what? I don't have a problem with appliancing (yeah, I verbed). I think it's good for Linux distros in the long run.
He said that I could visit any site on the net. I mentioned what is probably the most popular page on the most popular site, which you can go to but which you won't be able to use. If you think playing Farmville is something that the average user of an iPad won't expect to be able to do, you're wrong. It's exactly the kind of casual web experience they prefer. A touchscreen tablet is also the perfect form factor.
Unlike the app store (which is iPad only), there is no iPad-certified web so don't compare web browsing to consoles. The user has no way to know whether a site will work or not. Disappointment will abound.
No skin off my back. I was just pointing out that Mr. countertrolling was wrong. There are plenty of sites that you can't visit (usefully, anyway).
But like you can visit any site with an iPad, you can put any food in the fridge..
I want to play Farmville on the Facebook site. How can I do that? ;)
A recent article on Google's data centers said that they run as close to maximum temperature as possible: if the servers are rated to 90, they only cool to 88. Google is extremely efficient. The article said that the energy overhead for their data centers is only about 20%, while most data centers run 100%. Because of that, I'm sure Google has studied the server fan issue and determined that it's not a significant factor.
You're missing the point. He didn't say "take our data back." He said "take our data with us." He wants portability. That has nothing to do with deleting stuff that's already out there. Look at the Data Liberation Front for an idea. If you can't do that, realize that you can move your blog from Blogger to Wordpress, and moving it doesn't delete your Blogger blog for you. You can, howeevr, continue your blog on Wordpress with the same pictures, tags, and everything that was on Blogger. In other words, you've "taken your data with you."
He wants to be able to move to a new social networking service without completely starting over. He wants the old pictures on the new site (not necessarily the old pictures off the old site. Do you get it?
You know, not everyone is a complete dick who will shit all over a lot of people to get rich. Most rich people will, but that's likely how they got rich. There are a bunch of good people who manage to make a good amount of money. It's not impossible.
Does your t-shirt read "I'm taking back porch monkey?" ;)
Seriously, though, I liked the articles "confuser interface design" better than Zucks.
OK. How about this? If you have a Slashdot journal with twenty or more entries, try to write another one. First, on the top of the page, click on Journal. Next, go to the bottom of the journal page, past the last ten journals, and try to click on "Write in Journal" before Slashdot has a chance to load ten more journal entries and pushes the write link down to the bottom of the page again. If you have hundreds of journal entries, it's like a game. For easy mode, use a mouse. Hard mode only needs a touchpad.
Any time you have to race the application, it's an evil interface.
I'm pretty sure the poster was talking about data portability, not ownership. He wants to be able to export his data when he leaves (a la Google's Data Liberation Front). There's no automated way to get your photos, blog posts, connection information, and the like out of FB.
The US used to have hard currency, but it stopped that, opting for fiat money, ruaway inflation and massive debt, instead.
Intel doesn't want netbooks to replace laptops, which is why (until this announcement, I guess) Intel strongly discouraged putting dual core Atoms on netbooks. Two-core Atom chips, which Intel has had for some time in the 330, were originally limited to nettops unless your company wanted to lose any discounts ... er ... marketing funds.
If patent trolls keep having all their cases in east Texas, eventually the average person there is going to become educated enough to say "Hey! I saw this in the last case. It seems obvious." ;) I can hope, right?
Useless in the tropics, then, eh?
I'm sure everyone at Slashdot is familiar with the internal strife and conflict that can currently be found in the Mae Ling Mak Naked and Petrified movement, a primary cause of which is YOU and your cronies and your watered-down version of the ideals of Mae Ling Mak Naked and Petrified, which you laughably refer to as Mae Ling Mak Immobilized and Not Fully Clothed. You've taken what was good and pure about Mae Ling Mak Naked and Petrified and watered it down so it would be more tolerable and acceptable to conservative blowhards who are afraid to think outside the terms of society's established notions and conditions. This is detailed on our web page (no GIFs due to patent problems!!!) in our founder's document "Mae Ling Mak Naked and Petrified vs. Mae Ling Mak Immobilized and Not Fully Clothed," so I won't repeat what's already been said.
You state that by changing "Petrified" to "Immobilzied" you placate those who are afraid of the idea of petrification, and by replacing "Naked" with "Not Fully Clothed" you placate those who fear nudity. I SAY THAT THIS IS WRONG!!! The entire HEART of Mae Ling (No GIFs due to patent problems) Mak naked and petrified is MAE LING MAK.... NAKED.... AND PETRIFIED. The nudity and the petrification are the essential elements!
This bastardized philosophy you preach flies in the face of the Mae Ling Mak Naked and Petrified movement, which you ONCE claimed to support! (No GIFs due to patent problems) Now you've stomped on our heads on your rise to glory with your own hacked-up version of our philosphy. "Immobilized and not fully clothed" indeed! Why, that could be referring to a paralyzed Polish cowboy wearing a bikini for all we know! (No GIFs due to patent problems)
We know what's GOOD for the people, even if the people don't know what's good for themselves. What's good for the people is Mae Ling Mak, naked, and petrified. The people (No GIFs due to patent problems) NEED a naked Mae Ling Mak statue. You can't dispute this. You believe this yourself. And yet you refuse to stand up for what you believe! You say, "Well, maybe it's okay if she's not petrified, as long as she can't move," or (No GIFs due to patent problems) "Well, maybe she doesn't have to be naked, but she could at least take her shirt off or something." You BELIEVE she should be naked and petrified, but you ALLOW other lesser variations on this perfect theme into what could otherwise be a strong, world-dominating paradigm! (No GIFs due to patent problems)
No, but they still want me to pay [a total of] $100 to get non-DRM versions of the music that I already rented ...
FTFY
Yeah. Google bought YouTube so that Google could shut down its own service and replace it with YouTube.
iTunes is not in and of itself profitable. There's no way that Lala could have been profitable.
That dog won't hunt. In 2008, the New York Times estimated that iTMS was making a gross profit of 26%, more than Amazon (24%) or eBay (9%). Too old? Sales in 2009 increased 21% year over year. Estimated profit by other sources was 10-15%. Even Oppenheimer claims that iTMS is profitable, though Apple appears to have a strict policy of secrecy (surprise!) on exactly how much "a bit" is.
Regarding the App Store and the iTunes stores, we are running those a bit over break even and that hasn’t changed. We are very excited to be providing our developers with a fabulous opportunity and we think that is helping us a lot with the iPhone and the iPod touch platform.
Now, 10-26% may not seem like much when compared to the 40% profit Apple has on other stuff, but it's still profit, and there's a lot it when you start adding up the numbers, probably more the $0.10 per share in earnings.
What do grocery stores make? 2-4%. They're happy to get that.
That was funny. Sorry you got modded down for it. (For casual readers, "distressd" was another mistake in the summary.)
So you missed the next sentence where her says that many people bring their own, personal machines in? Yeah, I read the summary. That's why I said to make them supply you the hardware (and not use a personal machine).
I'm sure he used what he had. Geez.
Did you write that in a non-western language and use machine translation?
Their network, their rules. Stop taking your personal machine, and require them to supply you with one to do your job. Stop accessing the network after work. They cannot force you to install something on your computer, so they can't force you to connect after hours from home.
Oh, yeah, and start looking for a new job. This stance will make your life easier, but you'll never get promoted.
Wow. You just described exactly how I see MMORPGs working, and why I've never been interested in one. Maybe if there were something interesting to do, I could get into it.
Fantasy MMORPGs just need to expand and let players be anyone in the land. Be a dragon that is "terrorizing" a city (actually just trying to eat) and which suffers quests against it. Instead of leveling characters, why not level players? When you die, you die, but your total XP as a player gives you new creatures to become? Reincarnation instead of resurrection. Advanced players can become the quest.
I was thinking of GTA earlier -- not about the setting, but that you never become almost invulnerable, which I see as a huge problem for many RPGs. Can't MMORPGs create less difference between level 1 and 80?
Now you understand why Jesus' Laborers in the Field parable so upset the Jews. No, I'm neither Christian nor Jewish. I just think that your comment screams for a comparison.
That's the "acquitted by a jury of civilians after a year" case. Yeah, it sucks. It's still not pulling you over, declaring you an enemy of the state, putting you on your knees, and executing you on the spot and in the open because they don't like you, then putting some drugs on your dead body in order to make summarily executing you legal.
Get some perspective. The cops in the U.S. trial freaked out and overreacted, and they killed someone. (Yeah, it's wrong and I'm not defending it.) Thaksin's police executed over a thousand people on purpose and with forethought.