Let's treat social networks as Circles. There's the FB circle, Twitter circle, G+ circle, etc etc. Each with their idiosyncrasies and varying policies.
Then, choose not to use nor post to the G+ circle until special circumstances, as it been suggested.
Do you also not use Google? Do you also not use Apple products? Do you not use Windows? Do you live in a small, apolitical country that isn't a terrorist country like United States, China, Afghanistan, Iran, etc etc?
I'm curious as to how seriously you live your "DON'T.... USE THEM" as a personal example in the face of mainstream conformity vs marginalization - aka entropy.
Agreed. WimPy7s skills won't even translate to a decent mediocre 9-5 job in the mobile market as most will want iPhone or Android experience. The time you invest in your skills must have near maximum payoff, and it's not in WimPy7s.
The only nightmare was the lack of platform performance certification. MS was totally asleep at the wheel at the end letting HTC ship into production debugging DirectDraw drivers as "gold master" drivers. Just ask Don Couch about this.
IF MS had thrown Chassis requirements at WMobile instead of letting the OEMs do whatever they wanted, then it wouldn't have been so fragmented.
Android is walking this road, but at least the OEMs aren't half-assing the hardware as they used to (2.8" screens from HTC with partial and unreliable capacitive controls [Touch Pro] was the lowest point). At least Google throws out a reference device once in a while and works with an OEM to make sure the rest doesn't drift too far from the performance line (so far).
You need them 1GHz processors now because the last few generations of programmers have forgotten what it means to program closer to the metal, using data structures, O(n), and better algorithms. I see it all the time at <insert some company that makes dvrs>.
Deadlines have pretty much forced the rest to half-ass code in to get it on time, or not risk putting in better code that would rock the "stability" boat. The rest want to use a "managed" language to program, and so there goes all the original speeds on a 16MHz processor even though you still got a signal processor, a GPU, and even dedicated media decoders to help out. Don't get me started on the lack of inlining awareness, or lack of experience using templates to get high-level class abstraction with hand-assembly speeds and size.
It's a very sad state, and probably only Apple runs the tightest efficiency ship.
Out them now Google so we can verify them. Their PGP keys, SSL certs, etc too.
Google, you've said yourself people hiding behind anonymity are social criminals. I name these anonymous Verifiers and your customer support department as criminals too.
Who's talking about paying PR firms? This is about Google's koolaid-effect that effectively has people nonsensically/blindly shilling for them.
How many times have you read reviews blatantly stating that Circles are better and then admitting that they've never tried nor made an effort to use Facebook Friend Lists? I've seen too many. Just because the Facebook UI is bad doesn't excuse avoiding it. The Circles UI (adding/removing/copying/deleting etc) is just as bad but it's too cool to not use it.
I don't like Facebook directly, but I dislike people shilling from non-experience even more. That is effectively astroturfing.
@oakgrove curmudgeon or surly is the word, thanks.
Agreed. You get the clique feeling where people are cut out of conversations instead of democratizing it where unrelated friends on the side can quip some comments in. FB has exceptions if you really want to keep somebody out of a conversation. G+ has no such understanding.
G+ is black&white social networking, while FB is more fuzzy. The social world is more fuzzy than B&W.
So you haven't bothered to filter game content yourself on FB?
It is slightly annoying to do so, but it's only one time, and it points to design where the receiver and not just poster has granular control over what is seen. G+ has no such control except for muting. That's not orthogonal enough.
Just more astroturfing of what's already available on FB, but people are too lazy to activate. Maybe G+ is actually social network for the lazy.
So you couldn't separate family and various friends with Facebook friend lists and viewly status updates by only a specific Friend List?
G+'s Circles (being thinly veined, auto-tagging mailing-lists) have really thin walls and can just as easily mis-post as any other site. Nothing more than the koolaid effect and a better UI.
If Facebook bothered to raise their friend-list UI up, it would easily crush any advantage Circles thinks it has.
Oh look! It's another paid Google+ hypocrite shill. Aren't you all tired of astroturfing over G+'s Nymwars which has built up into another Buzz-level networking faux pas?
Google's lack of iteration on that as well as the unmanageable Circles (being nothing more than veiled, auto-tagging mailing-lists) points to serious white-tower design defects they aren't ready to back-track on.
Again, there is no such thing as entitlement spending. Social security and Medicare is 100% paid for. Everything else is discretionary spending that also borrows (and has previously massively borrowed) against Social Security and Medicare. At current levels, SS's solvent until 2030. If the current SS tax cap is reindexed to inflation, it'll last longer than that.
SS/Medicare is the same as having compensated utility bills. However, America spending the savings from that until it was deeply in debt and then turned around and blamed the utility bills for it.
Alternatively, if you're going to reclassify it as entitlements that needs to be cut, start with cutting social security and medicare taxes. You can't cut on one side without reducing your take on the other, unless you want to be a carrier "universal service fund" and their mysterious charges.
Correct. The difference between $22T and $20T is 10%. Drop in a bucket against the trajectory of American debt meltdown, or the broken political process that refuses to truly accept and fix it (drop Bush tax cuts).
five stages: Denial (yup), Anger (yup), Bargaining (happening), Depression (getting there), Acceptance (kick out the Tea Party)
Right. This isn't any different from Japan in the mid-2000s when they were downgraded under similiar conditions, nor any credit card carrier.
So of course they would raise your rates if you have a high credit-balance, only made the minimal payments and you were making a lot less money than your credit obligations.
Of course, the stupid Americans would choose to blame and cut water, electricity, food, insurance instead of cutting the much larger housing and commuting costs (war). Cutting insurance doesn't make sense since the paycheck already deducts for it, but that's American math.
This is nothing more than sheltered people discovering there's a "real" and "harsh" world out there, running scared, and wielding some power (anonymous banning of anonymity), becoming the very things they're scared of. Where's the non-anonymous face of the ban hammer?
"People hold online anonymity up as a virtue and necessity. I say it is the root cause of a social disease, and should be greatly limited." — Matt Greenfield
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>what difference does it make what the clock rate is
Does it really need to be spelled out? Battery life.
Let's treat social networks as Circles. There's the FB circle, Twitter circle, G+ circle, etc etc. Each with their idiosyncrasies and varying policies.
Then, choose not to use nor post to the G+ circle until special circumstances, as it been suggested.
Do you also not use Google? Do you also not use Apple products? Do you not use Windows? Do you live in a small, apolitical country that isn't a terrorist country like United States, China, Afghanistan, Iran, etc etc?
I'm curious as to how seriously you live your "DON'T .... USE THEM" as a personal example in the face of mainstream conformity vs marginalization - aka entropy.
Who is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Carvin ?
I found this off Google and it's Wikipedia, so that bio must be entirely unreputable.
You're thinking of Hulu: http://www.gottabemobile.com/2011/08/24/hulu-starts-blocking-the-hp-touchpad/
Agreed. WimPy7s skills won't even translate to a decent mediocre 9-5 job in the mobile market as most will want iPhone or Android experience. The time you invest in your skills must have near maximum payoff, and it's not in WimPy7s.
The webOS guy is at Android now. Let the Palm/HP webOS go away quietly.
The only nightmare was the lack of platform performance certification. MS was totally asleep at the wheel at the end letting HTC ship into production debugging DirectDraw drivers as "gold master" drivers. Just ask Don Couch about this.
IF MS had thrown Chassis requirements at WMobile instead of letting the OEMs do whatever they wanted, then it wouldn't have been so fragmented.
Android is walking this road, but at least the OEMs aren't half-assing the hardware as they used to (2.8" screens from HTC with partial and unreliable capacitive controls [Touch Pro] was the lowest point). At least Google throws out a reference device once in a while and works with an OEM to make sure the rest doesn't drift too far from the performance line (so far).
You need them 1GHz processors now because the last few generations of programmers have forgotten what it means to program closer to the metal, using data structures, O(n), and better algorithms. I see it all the time at <insert some company that makes dvrs>.
Deadlines have pretty much forced the rest to half-ass code in to get it on time, or not risk putting in better code that would rock the "stability" boat. The rest want to use a "managed" language to program, and so there goes all the original speeds on a 16MHz processor even though you still got a signal processor, a GPU, and even dedicated media decoders to help out. Don't get me started on the lack of inlining awareness, or lack of experience using templates to get high-level class abstraction with hand-assembly speeds and size.
It's a very sad state, and probably only Apple runs the tightest efficiency ship.
It's metaphorical, but ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
Out them now Google so we can verify them. Their PGP keys, SSL certs, etc too.
Google, you've said yourself people hiding behind anonymity are social criminals. I name these anonymous Verifiers and your customer support department as criminals too.
You can't share with everybody "except some people" in G+, unlike Facebook.
G+ doesn't let you do that explicitly for a single-post even though you can easily create a Circle to do that. How inane and unorthogonal is that?
Who's talking about paying PR firms? This is about Google's koolaid-effect that effectively has people nonsensically/blindly shilling for them.
How many times have you read reviews blatantly stating that Circles are better and then admitting that they've never tried nor made an effort to use Facebook Friend Lists? I've seen too many. Just because the Facebook UI is bad doesn't excuse avoiding it. The Circles UI (adding/removing/copying/deleting etc) is just as bad but it's too cool to not use it.
I don't like Facebook directly, but I dislike people shilling from non-experience even more. That is effectively astroturfing.
@oakgrove curmudgeon or surly is the word, thanks.
Agreed. You get the clique feeling where people are cut out of conversations instead of democratizing it where unrelated friends on the side can quip some comments in. FB has exceptions if you really want to keep somebody out of a conversation. G+ has no such understanding.
G+ is black&white social networking, while FB is more fuzzy. The social world is more fuzzy than B&W.
So you haven't bothered to filter game content yourself on FB?
It is slightly annoying to do so, but it's only one time, and it points to design where the receiver and not just poster has granular control over what is seen. G+ has no such control except for muting. That's not orthogonal enough.
Just more astroturfing of what's already available on FB, but people are too lazy to activate. Maybe G+ is actually social network for the lazy.
So you couldn't separate family and various friends with Facebook friend lists and viewly status updates by only a specific Friend List?
G+'s Circles (being thinly veined, auto-tagging mailing-lists) have really thin walls and can just as easily mis-post as any other site. Nothing more than the koolaid effect and a better UI.
If Facebook bothered to raise their friend-list UI up, it would easily crush any advantage Circles thinks it has.
Oh look! It's another paid Google+ hypocrite shill. Aren't you all tired of astroturfing over G+'s Nymwars which has built up into another Buzz-level networking faux pas?
Google's lack of iteration on that as well as the unmanageable Circles (being nothing more than veiled, auto-tagging mailing-lists) points to serious white-tower design defects they aren't ready to back-track on.
Have you tried Google Reader? It's a better RSS reader than following Sparks any day in my book.
Again, there is no such thing as entitlement spending. Social security and Medicare is 100% paid for. Everything else is discretionary spending that also borrows (and has previously massively borrowed) against Social Security and Medicare. At current levels, SS's solvent until 2030. If the current SS tax cap is reindexed to inflation, it'll last longer than that.
SS/Medicare is the same as having compensated utility bills. However, America spending the savings from that until it was deeply in debt and then turned around and blamed the utility bills for it.
Alternatively, if you're going to reclassify it as entitlements that needs to be cut, start with cutting social security and medicare taxes. You can't cut on one side without reducing your take on the other, unless you want to be a carrier "universal service fund" and their mysterious charges.
Correct. The difference between $22T and $20T is 10%. Drop in a bucket against the trajectory of American debt meltdown, or the broken political process that refuses to truly accept and fix it (drop Bush tax cuts).
five stages: Denial (yup), Anger (yup), Bargaining (happening), Depression (getting there), Acceptance (kick out the Tea Party)
Right. This isn't any different from Japan in the mid-2000s when they were downgraded under similiar conditions, nor any credit card carrier.
So of course they would raise your rates if you have a high credit-balance, only made the minimal payments and you were making a lot less money than your credit obligations.
Of course, the stupid Americans would choose to blame and cut water, electricity, food, insurance instead of cutting the much larger housing and commuting costs (war). Cutting insurance doesn't make sense since the paycheck already deducts for it, but that's American math.
This is nothing more than sheltered people discovering there's a "real" and "harsh" world out there, running scared, and wielding some power (anonymous banning of anonymity), becoming the very things they're scared of. Where's the non-anonymous face of the ban hammer?
Yes, the issue of "real names" will keep Twitter more relevant. Twitter is what the Internet is about.
Google+ Circles is just hypocrisy. Real Name v pseudonym is just different Circles. Begs the question of Circles existence.
The lacking ability to filter on the receiving end (for the main Stream) doesn't help either.
"People hold online anonymity up as a virtue and necessity. I say it is the root cause of a social disease, and should be greatly limited." — Matt Greenfield
This is probably the basis why Google wants only real names. But, they're only lying to themselves in their hubric white-towers: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
Or credit card universal default. Monopolistic hubris.