They pretty much never lead to anything but a payday for lawyers, and an almost insulting token gift (if even that) for the plaintiffs. At least the Apple one sounds good for those who were denied, but how many people still have texts from that long ago to prove Papa John's sent you a text?
A chunk of missing grades before the pass point and a spike at the pass point is not an artifact of the scoring system. The missing numbers, however, could well be.
I can see that we are just going to have to continue to disagree on this. We fundamentally disagree concerning what people want, need, and/or expect out of devices in irreconcilable ways.
I'm trying to figure out right now whether office PCs will see the difference between AMD and Intel. It seems like as long as you install plenty of RAM, pretty much anything should handle a moderately multitasking business PC for at least a few years. I keep seeing posts of Intel vs AMD benchmarks, but even with the benchmarks being what they are, how much difference will a nontechnical end user really notice in an office environment? I run an AMD A8 quad core laptop at home, but it runs Linux and does just fine. I don't want to judge Windows performance based on my experience with Linux though.
Deleted the account? Never. Deleted all my posts and uploads? More times than I can quantify off the top of my head. My account presently consists of a picture of a stormtrooper, a couple private messages, and a few posts on relatives' statuses.
It is, in the purest linguistic sense. Just as the Microsoft strategy is.
I think what separates what people are usually referring to as "crowdsourcing" and just general begging and fundraising is that generally people are expecting some kind of return on their investment when they go someplace like Kickstarter, even if it is just the privilege of purchasing the album/book/film or tickets to the film/whatever. It's more about being part of a project that the donor feels is worthwhile from but may not otherwise be possible.
In that light, even the band trip example fits the bill a lot better than a new product preloaded with Windows 8. Especially if the band brings recording equipment and brings back some kind of recorded version of their performance.
I usually just go delete everything I've ever post and then contemplate whether deleting the account is worth never hearing from several cousins again unless they figure out that I left Facebook and seek me out. I don't even know how many relatives even have my contact info anymore outside of Facebook...
...but it really doesn't help when this kind of project tries to get people to turn it into spam. Want to drive your early 1980s Vanagon through China on the Silk Road, and write a book about the experience? Good project for crowdsourcing (but didn't make its kickstarter goal). Want to record an album with your band or film a documentary on something super-nerdy? By all means give it a shot.
Poor student wanting to buy a device Microsoft picked for you? Just makes the whole concept of crowdsourcing look like what it is: begging. The appeal of crowdsourcing, in my opinion, is that if the project succeeds, something fun, interesting, or exciting gets brought back that the people who helped it happen get to enjoy. Not just the person who gathered the funds.
Inevitably, an emotional plea related to a single case like this one will lead to a bad precedent. It's worked historically, and continues to work today.
If it's anything like other "regulations" in the United States, Congress won't really be involved at all, and if they are, it will just be a quick consent. Thanks to the creation of countless agencies with "regulatory" power granted by congress, rules with the force of law seem to be created all the time without properly being legislated and debated by our elected officials. Not that they are good at doing so on most days...
I love how everyone is trying to force the position of either "agreement with Ormandy's actions" and/or "that's not how it ends up working in open source" on me when I never argued either way. My post was about the difference in possibilities between the two paradigms, not about Ormandy's motives and the way things end up really working in Open Source.
Seriously, looking at the possibilities is how most of us Slashdot users ended up in technology in the first place.
I'm not sure you understood my position well enough to continue this conversation if you are arguing that I used "special pleading." My argument is about user expectations, not about whether the devices are fundamentally different on a strictly technological level.
My contention has always been that user expectations from a tablet and user expectations from a laptop are very different, just as their expectations from a phone and a laptop are very different. Meanwhile, for many people's actual usage, a tablet will fill the needs where their laptop has previously served.
As far as building a user base for Ubuntu's app store, you are assuming that I care more than I do. I'm not that interested. My tablet runs Android, my laptop runs Linux. Two separate devices. However, I see no fundamental reason to run two operating systems on one convertible device. Why not develop a compatibility layer for Android apps, and then provide better functionality for app developers for platform-specific development? One has to admit that Linux provides a lot of possibilities in that way.
I see where you're going with this, but the markets are too fundamentally different for your direction to be correct. What impresses people about a phone will just disappoint most the laptop market. Especially as far as "apps" go, which are mostly a far cry from the programs people have become accustomed to.
Indeed. At this point, the main problem with those machines is the moving parts. A problem tablets lack...aside from the similarly problematic integrated battery.
The irony of the difference between closed source and open source is that while Ormandy has posted an exploit to this Windows bug, in the open-source world he potentially could have posted a fix too, considering he's the one who seems to understand the bug itself the best...
Think of all the gestures that could trigger Marvin Gaye songs and soft lighting.
But more disconcerting ins the fact that even if rolled out with the best of intentions, this will inevitably lead to parents, flatmates, and siblings using it to spy on each other in some way.
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They pretty much never lead to anything but a payday for lawyers, and an almost insulting token gift (if even that) for the plaintiffs. At least the Apple one sounds good for those who were denied, but how many people still have texts from that long ago to prove Papa John's sent you a text?
A chunk of missing grades before the pass point and a spike at the pass point is not an artifact of the scoring system. The missing numbers, however, could well be.
Not all his observations. The notable lack of scores leading up to the pass point and the sudden spike at that exact point are particularly notable.
I can see that we are just going to have to continue to disagree on this. We fundamentally disagree concerning what people want, need, and/or expect out of devices in irreconcilable ways.
I'm trying to figure out right now whether office PCs will see the difference between AMD and Intel. It seems like as long as you install plenty of RAM, pretty much anything should handle a moderately multitasking business PC for at least a few years. I keep seeing posts of Intel vs AMD benchmarks, but even with the benchmarks being what they are, how much difference will a nontechnical end user really notice in an office environment? I run an AMD A8 quad core laptop at home, but it runs Linux and does just fine. I don't want to judge Windows performance based on my experience with Linux though.
Of course I don't think it deletes it. but at least it's less visible than otherwise.
Deleted the account? Never. Deleted all my posts and uploads? More times than I can quantify off the top of my head. My account presently consists of a picture of a stormtrooper, a couple private messages, and a few posts on relatives' statuses.
It is, in the purest linguistic sense. Just as the Microsoft strategy is.
I think what separates what people are usually referring to as "crowdsourcing" and just general begging and fundraising is that generally people are expecting some kind of return on their investment when they go someplace like Kickstarter, even if it is just the privilege of purchasing the album/book/film or tickets to the film/whatever. It's more about being part of a project that the donor feels is worthwhile from but may not otherwise be possible.
In that light, even the band trip example fits the bill a lot better than a new product preloaded with Windows 8. Especially if the band brings recording equipment and brings back some kind of recorded version of their performance.
I usually just go delete everything I've ever post and then contemplate whether deleting the account is worth never hearing from several cousins again unless they figure out that I left Facebook and seek me out. I don't even know how many relatives even have my contact info anymore outside of Facebook...
...but it really doesn't help when this kind of project tries to get people to turn it into spam. Want to drive your early 1980s Vanagon through China on the Silk Road, and write a book about the experience? Good project for crowdsourcing (but didn't make its kickstarter goal). Want to record an album with your band or film a documentary on something super-nerdy? By all means give it a shot.
Poor student wanting to buy a device Microsoft picked for you? Just makes the whole concept of crowdsourcing look like what it is: begging. The appeal of crowdsourcing, in my opinion, is that if the project succeeds, something fun, interesting, or exciting gets brought back that the people who helped it happen get to enjoy. Not just the person who gathered the funds.
Inevitably, an emotional plea related to a single case like this one will lead to a bad precedent. It's worked historically, and continues to work today.
If it's anything like other "regulations" in the United States, Congress won't really be involved at all, and if they are, it will just be a quick consent. Thanks to the creation of countless agencies with "regulatory" power granted by congress, rules with the force of law seem to be created all the time without properly being legislated and debated by our elected officials. Not that they are good at doing so on most days...
I love how everyone is trying to force the position of either "agreement with Ormandy's actions" and/or "that's not how it ends up working in open source" on me when I never argued either way. My post was about the difference in possibilities between the two paradigms, not about Ormandy's motives and the way things end up really working in Open Source.
Seriously, looking at the possibilities is how most of us Slashdot users ended up in technology in the first place.
I'm not sure you understood my position well enough to continue this conversation if you are arguing that I used "special pleading." My argument is about user expectations, not about whether the devices are fundamentally different on a strictly technological level.
My contention has always been that user expectations from a tablet and user expectations from a laptop are very different, just as their expectations from a phone and a laptop are very different. Meanwhile, for many people's actual usage, a tablet will fill the needs where their laptop has previously served.
As far as building a user base for Ubuntu's app store, you are assuming that I care more than I do. I'm not that interested. My tablet runs Android, my laptop runs Linux. Two separate devices. However, I see no fundamental reason to run two operating systems on one convertible device. Why not develop a compatibility layer for Android apps, and then provide better functionality for app developers for platform-specific development? One has to admit that Linux provides a lot of possibilities in that way.
Actually, I agree with your point entirely. I don't know about dpidcoe, but my post was meant in jest.
I see where you're going with this, but the markets are too fundamentally different for your direction to be correct. What impresses people about a phone will just disappoint most the laptop market. Especially as far as "apps" go, which are mostly a far cry from the programs people have become accustomed to.
Indeed. At this point, the main problem with those machines is the moving parts. A problem tablets lack...aside from the similarly problematic integrated battery.
The irony of the difference between closed source and open source is that while Ormandy has posted an exploit to this Windows bug, in the open-source world he potentially could have posted a fix too, considering he's the one who seems to understand the bug itself the best...
A user base.
Think of all the gestures that could trigger Marvin Gaye songs and soft lighting.
But more disconcerting ins the fact that even if rolled out with the best of intentions, this will inevitably lead to parents, flatmates, and siblings using it to spy on each other in some way.
to see how many people seem to believe that proposed rules are already in effect. Please read the article a bit more carefully, guys.
That said, this rule really shows how crazy the US government has gotten.
I would like to state at this time that I am not now nor have I ever been a member of the US State Department...
This is a proposal at this point, not an active rule. If I were Branson, I'd get moving.
This is presently just a proposed rule. If Branson moves quickly, he can do whatever he pleases within the present rules.
Does this mean Virgin Intergalactic will be offshoring their operation, like what happened with RSA when the government pressured them on crypto?