Whether storing your email forever is evil depends on what they actually do with it. Do you have any evidence that they're doing more than data mining? Or that they're doing something more with the data they extract than using it to ensure they give you relevant advertising and better services?
Please do enlighten us as to what you think the rest of this 'iceberg' consists of. Personally, I'm off to sign up for them to remember everything I do with my browser. If I want to do anything which I'm bothered about anyone else in the world seeing, I'll log out of Google and do it. It's not like once you sign up they own you!
It seems a bit crazy to me. Planting evidence in the form of files on a hard drive is, firstly, easy and, secondly, very difficult (if not impossible) to detect.
If I dragged someone into court, saying they sent me poison pen emails, would I be allowed access to their computer to search for evidence? Isn't that lunacy? So how come a trade group gets that privilege?
The problem isn't necessarily the money. It's the culture and attitude toward IP in the US. I know a bunch of rich kids in the US and most of them have never bought a DVD in their life. They download all their software, movies, etc.
Assigning more programmers to a project running behind schedule will make it even later, due to the time required for the new programmers to learn about the project, as well as the increased communication overhead.
If you use a mobile phone at 30,000 feet, you sometimes get a crossed line and find yourself talking to an alien. The governments don't want everyone who uses a phone on a plane to know that aliens exist.
Won't sell well on desktops? What about office users? What about people who don't care about gaming? I'm sure it'll be enough to run Aero Glass, which is probably enough for most people.
Oh wow! Programmable pixel shaders! I remember when I were a lad, out on my bike. How I envied those other kids with programmable pixel shaders on their spokes. They were having so much more fun than me.
That's the perfect approach, if your sole goal is to find what their favourite colour is.
Which is why many mockup tools specifically try to make the mocked-up screens as 'functional' (read: ugly) as possible, to stop people saying 'I think I'd prefer it in minty buff'
Google calendar is pretty decent. It's main drawback is the lack of an easy way to sync to your cell/pda, but i'm sure they'll provide a mobile client that will reduce that need.
Anyone could pick it up - but if the 'real thing' starts faltering and people start editing on alternative server(s), Wikipedia will end up being fractured - something I really wouldn't like to see happen, but I'm sure the paper encyclopedias would.
If poorly-written (or malicious) applications can crash the entire operating system, the operating system is quite simply not doing its job.
True. Try this on a standard Linux install, but not on someone else's box, or where you mind the box being brought to its knees. You don't have to be root.
Ok, don't ban people based on their age, but at least check they know what they're doing - whatever their age. I know of a lady who signed up for an account with an ISP, not realising that to 'get the Internet' she also needed a computer.
Every so often, a hard drive will start making horrible clicking or grinding noises. If I buy a new hard drive, format it, copy the data over from the old one, then throw the old one away, everything's fine! I recommend this fix to anyone with failing hardware.
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I was just about to post to say that Tetley and Caffreys are piss - but you beat me to it. Consider this another vote for the opinion.
Whether storing your email forever is evil depends on what they actually do with it. Do you have any evidence that they're doing more than data mining? Or that they're doing something more with the data they extract than using it to ensure they give you relevant advertising and better services?
Please do enlighten us as to what you think the rest of this 'iceberg' consists of. Personally, I'm off to sign up for them to remember everything I do with my browser. If I want to do anything which I'm bothered about anyone else in the world seeing, I'll log out of Google and do it. It's not like once you sign up they own you!
It seems a bit crazy to me. Planting evidence in the form of files on a hard drive is, firstly, easy and, secondly, very difficult (if not impossible) to detect.
If I dragged someone into court, saying they sent me poison pen emails, would I be allowed access to their computer to search for evidence? Isn't that lunacy? So how come a trade group gets that privilege?
The problem isn't necessarily the money. It's the culture and attitude toward IP in the US. I know a bunch of rich kids in the US and most of them have never bought a DVD in their life. They download all their software, movies, etc.
Visual SourceSafe isn't what Microsoft want you to use anymore. They now sell Team Foundation Server, which is not related to VSS.
For me, Subversion with VisualSVN (for VS.NET integration) and TortoiseSVN (for Explorer integration) is just about nirvana.
I vote for this as winner of most insightful comment on slashdot 2007
If this is true, it may be a bad idea.
-- Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month
Let's just hope iPhone wasn't behind schedule in the first place.
If you use a mobile phone at 30,000 feet, you sometimes get a crossed line and find yourself talking to an alien. The governments don't want everyone who uses a phone on a plane to know that aliens exist.
You know that things compile twice as fast in Windows, too, right?
Won't sell well on desktops? What about office users? What about people who don't care about gaming? I'm sure it'll be enough to run Aero Glass, which is probably enough for most people.
Oh wow! Programmable pixel shaders! I remember when I were a lad, out on my bike. How I envied those other kids with programmable pixel shaders on their spokes. They were having so much more fun than me.
Which is why many mockup tools specifically try to make the mocked-up screens as 'functional' (read: ugly) as possible, to stop people saying 'I think I'd prefer it in minty buff'
Try this.
"January had an extra week"
Next time there's an extra week in January, please let me know in advance.
Anyone could pick it up - but if the 'real thing' starts faltering and people start editing on alternative server(s), Wikipedia will end up being fractured - something I really wouldn't like to see happen, but I'm sure the paper encyclopedias would.
"The iPhone, despite its many media-oriented virtues and its sweet design, will do far less than most existing smart phones"
That's a good thing.
I now write code in VS.NET and use ViEmu, which makes the text editor quite vi-like (actually vim-like).
Heartily recommended.
14% market share in the UK, apparently: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/12/alllofmp3_ uk_download_demand/
I wish I had mod points today. Sterling post.
True. Try this on a standard Linux install, but not on someone else's box, or where you mind the box being brought to its knees. You don't have to be root.
Ok, don't ban people based on their age, but at least check they know what they're doing - whatever their age. I know of a lady who signed up for an account with an ISP, not realising that to 'get the Internet' she also needed a computer.
Well, I didn't buy them because: 1. I've never seen any. 2. They won't play in my CD player.
I haven't looked at the picture, but I'd guess it's cache.
Every so often, a hard drive will start making horrible clicking or grinding noises. If I buy a new hard drive, format it, copy the data over from the old one, then throw the old one away, everything's fine! I recommend this fix to anyone with failing hardware.