No seriously. Does Jack really USE twitter? I don't think so. I've been on twitter a long time and this drivel looks like he misses the entire point of what makes twitter useful and why numerous people are more than a little annoyed that obvious improvements aren't being done.
1) Generally nothing has been about harassment. Those that report and include everything from death threats to flat our racist remarks get told "nothing can be done." 2) Steering the platform towards seeing "content' that interests you is rather crazy when much of the appeal is not only connecting with those you know but being able to 'hang out' and in some cases actually interact with various authors, stars, scientists is what makes it cool. Take a look at what NaNoWriMo does. Take look at the spread of news, or more out of the way things like archeology, the scientific community.
If you look at one of the major ills of Facebook, it's the content. The propaganda that gets circulated around that then incites flame wars doesn't in any way help humanity and frankly has done much to break up friendships and worse. How is this in any way good?
3) 3rd party clients have been treated horribly on twitter yet these are the clients that have made for the best experience and typically been the source for innovation on the platform. Sure says a lot when the best things about the platform came from elsewhere, including Ollie.
I use a positively ancient Apple Extended II for many of exactly the same reasons. I could agree more that these positively old keyboards are in so many ways completely superior to current keyboard technology.
Solid well built devices that are a joy to use, who knew that such things matter....
This article is pretty much click bait, Samsung hasn't actually reported official numbers so it's speculation as far as what the profit numbers actually are, much less Galaxy sales.
First I'd setup a game store, lots of tables, make it a great community place to discover and play.
Second, I'd be writing open source software, kinda like I do now but picking my own projects. Hacking ART or the soon to be released source for swift on Linux.
So the person making this assertion is a consultant....
They didn't show their work in any way shape or form to back up their claim. Why would this person be any more knowledgable about potential fraud rates than either the banks or Apple for that matter?
Let's see, CurrentC collects personal information. It cuts out the credit card companies. Consumers like their bank ergo their credit card companies. It doesn't turn transactions into anonymous one use tokens that prevent fraud. The source of data breaches is the very source of this "solution." There's so many things wrong with CurrentC and somehow it is going to win?
Yeah. Right.
Why should we as consumers vote against Apple/Google and the banks?
This piece reads like some fluff piece by the CurrentC propaganda^hmarketing department.
I'll be impressed with Google's solution once they leave the comforts of California and drive day to day on the snow and ice of places like Minnesota, Montana and so on.
I'm sure they will master it someday but until then, Googles solution is incomplete.
While the page with benchmark data includes an intel v ARM comparison, when it came to the power consumption charts there was no intel data to be found. None.
If one of the major themes of the product is power consumption, wouldn't it stand to reason that Intel numbers to compare would be critical as part of the review?
So let's assume for a moment and this is true and there really were 8-10 million pre-installs of ubuntu on new hardware. If true, this should be detectable and show up in the form of ubuntu boxes running on the network and their users surfing the web. After all 8-10 million is a little under yearly mac sales. Sure maybe not all ubuntu installs will be on the network, but a significant percentage SHOULD be...
But it doesn't add up. Consider:
http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8&qpcustomd=0 Apr 2012 Mac 6.5%, Linux 1%
or even: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems Linux ranges from 0.7% to 2.9% Apple's OSX 6.3% to 14.04%
Certainly this kind of measurement is far less then perfect, but what strikes me is that if as Canonical asserts they are seeing these kind of install numbers for Ubuntu and if one were to add in Debian, RedHat and so on, yet still in the counting of web clients OSX is being seen in the wild several multiples more often than all Linux installs together, it would strongly suggest to me that the Linux numbers quoted are at best incorrect. We know how many new Macs are sold every quarter since Apple shares those numbers.
It's not the year of the Linux Desktop as much as we might all want it to be. Sadly Windows AND OSX are kicking Linux's butt when it comes down to number of users.
Asking if Apple is responsible for the "revolutionary" devices like the iPad, iPod, iPhone vs the first devices in the class is like suggesting George Washington wasn't responsible for a good portion of the American revolution but instead it was all some guy in a bar who was bitching about the British before everyone else was.
If you're someone that wants to get into the device, and do plenty of your own modifications then sure get an android based tablet that fits into your desired price/feature range. You'll be glad you did and have lots of fun.
If you want to use a tablet and not fiddle with it then I'd recommend getting an iPad. It "just works" and there's plenty of great software.
You are of course assuming that only Motorola, HTC and Samsung make Android devices. I didn't make any claims wrt those companies and what they have or haven't licensed. You're right, not all makers of Android devices are in trouble unless say the Oracle case goes bad.
Rather my point is that if you make an Android device and you don't have your license agreements in place, that's not exactly a warm cozy place to be. Nokia wants (and needs) their licensing revenue.
Now with Apple and Nokia making up, users of Android are likely in for it next. Consider Apple has more than enough money to make Nokia go away and settle this suit. Apple almost makes more money in this space this all the mobile handset makers combined. This does imply that while the Android makers ship plenty of devices, (more than apple) they don't make a great deal of profit at it.
Nokia is in need of money. A lot of money. So they went after Apple and Apple gave them what they wanted and needed. Apple while no friend of Nokia is slaughtering them in the market... course so is everyone else.
However the next competitors to Nokia are the Android handset makers. Nokia needs more money, so I don't doubt we'll see more lawsuits but now aimed at Android.
Thus far as reported these people are innocent and that it was perhaps a posting to a website or other innocent thing that they did so it's unreasonable for the FBI to take any interest into these people.
Really?
Like the FBI has broadcast to the public all the information they know about these people and what their connections are which has gained them interest by the FBI.
What's the chances that the folks be watched when confronted or approached by the media are going to loudly proclaim something to the effect "DIE AMERICANS! The streets will flow with the blood of the... ".. you get my point. Not likely.
So I appreciate that one is innocent until proven guilty but I think you also have to acknowledge that certainly 3 letter organizations are going to follow leads and check into people to keep the country safe. That's their job. It's not necessarily evil nor is necessarily good either but that's how these things work in this day and age of bat-shit crazy terrorism.
I have one and thus far comparing it to my 3Gs, reception seems to be markedly better. I'm in a fairly rural area on the edge of AT&T service. I just don't see what the fuss is about.
Yeah... that Java.. the one that promised to compile once and run everywhere....
It sucked. Least the user interfaces always did. There was never a native look to it. You could always tell you were staring at a Java app.
So, in a way, I'm kinda with Apple on this one. Cross - FOO to iPhone direct... no. C# -> XCode -> iPhone which uses the native interfaces. Yes.
Least that's my reading of it. There's a great deal of concern yet as no one exactly knows if environments like Unity 3D a popular 3D game creation environment which uses C# and/or JavaScript and does the C#/Javascript -> Xcode -> iPhone is actually affected by the 3.3.1 license change or not. It it's affected. Color me in the pissed off camp. But until then... it's hard to get too excited. It's like banning BASIC... yawn.
Census data is akin to medical records. You want your person information to remain confidential generally speaking but aggregated together, it's not hard to argue that such data could be used to benefit research and therefore benefit mankind. However confidentiality to one's family is probably less important. For example if your family has a history of heart conditions, you'd rather like to know that, even if Grandpa so and so never told you.
Having access to census data when trying to even research your family tree is critical. While genealogy isn't as much of a benefit to mankind as medicine, it at least means something to me at a personal level. I'm very very glad that old census records are available.
I completely agree that census data just like medical records is open to abuse. Profiling of any race is just plain wrong and the government should never have allowed that and those that did it should have been caught and prosecuted.
There's a small part of me that would like to see other companies follow in the footsteps of Google. Get out of China. Just leave.
Why?
This is a poor example but I can't help using it. Remember South Africa? There was a time when quite a number of companies just didn't do business there given how that government was (not) working for it's people. I'd like to think this helped change things for the better in South Africa.
It's not that I want to force my idea / style of government onto the people of China, but.. well.. besides North Korea and Cuba are there any other communistic states left? Would any people as a whole choose to convert to a communistic system. I'm thinking no.
And in a way, walking away from China as a whole, send a bit of a wake up call to the Chinese that, "O by the way, we care about how people are treated. We care about freedom." They need to too. When people in a place such as China can see how things are elsewhere in the world, it can and should plant the seed for change for the better for China. Probably overly optimistic on my part but hey, it's something.
Great grand internet firewalls need to go. Speech needs to be free.
If you were to take the Apple agreement and compare it to many a confidentiality agreement or similar agreements when two companies are working together you'd find the language etc etc etc are pretty much the same.
But alas that kind of reality check doesn't make good inflammatory "news" nor get the slashdot crowd up in arms to advance someone else's agenda.
1) We upgraded one of our boxes to the DirecTV DVR... cost us a few hundred dollars as I recall... only to find out that unlike our own receiver(s) this upgrade wasn't owned by us but leased with a monthly charge for the lease no less. So I called them up indicating I wanted my old hardware back and to come and get the new box. They never returned the old hardware claiming, "well we're not sure where that went, would you like a movie channel free for a month?"
Bastards!
Time passes....
2) Our bill suddenly shows a "2nd" leased receiver charge... Do we have a 2nd receiver that is leased? No. As I indicated before I always bought our own hardware with the exception of the "upgrade" fiasco. Never mind this other supposedly leased receiver isn't even hooked up... took them the better part of an hour to finally get it. Granted I probably will be hooking that one back up again (and HR10-250) since the MPEG 4 tivo receiver STILL isn't out yet and their HD DVR really really sucks.
And hey while I'm bending your ear... the other thing that makes me see red is wrt their NFL sunday ticket. So I like football and the team I follow isn't always on the local channels since we're in a different market. Now everybody everywhere is shooting NFL football in HD. You think DirecTV Sunday Ticket would show you the game in HD? HA! Fork over another $99 on top of the already astronomical NFL Sunday Ticket price. Now I could understand the extra price back the "good ol days" before the switch over but we're well past that.
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No seriously. Does Jack really USE twitter? I don't think so. I've been on twitter a long time and this drivel looks like he misses the entire point of what makes twitter useful and why numerous people are more than a little annoyed that obvious improvements aren't being done.
1) Generally nothing has been about harassment. Those that report and include everything from death threats to flat our racist remarks get told "nothing can be done."
2) Steering the platform towards seeing "content' that interests you is rather crazy when much of the appeal is not only connecting with those you know but being able to 'hang out' and in some cases actually interact with various authors, stars, scientists is what makes it cool. Take a look at what NaNoWriMo does. Take look at the spread of news, or more out of the way things like archeology, the scientific community.
If you look at one of the major ills of Facebook, it's the content. The propaganda that gets circulated around that then incites flame wars doesn't in any way help humanity and frankly has done much to break up friendships and worse. How is this in any way good?
3) 3rd party clients have been treated horribly on twitter yet these are the clients that have made for the best experience and typically been the source for innovation on the platform. Sure says a lot when the best things about the platform came from elsewhere, including Ollie.
I could go on.
I use a positively ancient Apple Extended II for many of exactly the same reasons. I could agree more that these positively old keyboards are in so many ways completely superior to current keyboard technology.
Solid well built devices that are a joy to use, who knew that such things matter....
This article is pretty much click bait, Samsung hasn't actually reported official numbers so it's speculation as far as what the profit numbers actually are, much less Galaxy sales.
First I'd setup a game store, lots of tables, make it a great community place to discover and play.
Second, I'd be writing open source software, kinda like I do now but picking my own projects. Hacking ART or the soon to be released source for swift on Linux.
So the person making this assertion is a consultant....
They didn't show their work in any way shape or form to back up their claim. Why would this person be any more knowledgable about potential fraud rates than either the banks or Apple for that matter?
#businesstroll
... and the makers of the rules under which NASA operates? Congress. ... and the ones that set which projects NASA may or may not pursue? Congress.
Seems pretty obvious to me, it's not an engineering problem.
Let's see, CurrentC collects personal information. It cuts out the credit card companies. Consumers like their bank ergo their credit card companies. It doesn't turn transactions into anonymous one use tokens that prevent fraud. The source of data breaches is the very source of this "solution." There's so many things wrong with CurrentC and somehow it is going to win?
Yeah. Right.
Why should we as consumers vote against Apple/Google and the banks?
This piece reads like some fluff piece by the CurrentC propaganda^hmarketing department.
I'll be impressed with Google's solution once they leave the comforts of California and drive day to day on the snow and ice of places like Minnesota, Montana and so on.
I'm sure they will master it someday but until then, Googles solution is incomplete.
While the page with benchmark data includes an intel v ARM comparison, when it came to the power consumption charts there was no intel data to be found. None.
If one of the major themes of the product is power consumption, wouldn't it stand to reason that Intel numbers to compare would be critical as part of the review?
So let's assume for a moment and this is true and there really were 8-10 million pre-installs of ubuntu on new hardware. If true, this should be detectable and show up in the form of ubuntu boxes running on the network and their users surfing the web. After all 8-10 million is a little under yearly mac sales. Sure maybe not all ubuntu installs will be on the network, but a significant percentage SHOULD be...
But it doesn't add up. Consider:
http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8&qpcustomd=0
Apr 2012 Mac 6.5%, Linux 1%
or even:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems
Linux ranges from 0.7% to 2.9% Apple's OSX 6.3% to 14.04%
Certainly this kind of measurement is far less then perfect, but what strikes me is that if as Canonical asserts they are seeing these kind of install numbers for Ubuntu and if one were to add in Debian, RedHat and so on, yet still in the counting of web clients OSX is being seen in the wild several multiples more often than all Linux installs together, it would strongly suggest to me that the Linux numbers quoted are at best incorrect. We know how many new Macs are sold every quarter since Apple shares those numbers.
It's not the year of the Linux Desktop as much as we might all want it to be. Sadly Windows AND OSX are kicking Linux's butt when it comes down to number of users.
or more simply put:
Asking if Apple is responsible for the "revolutionary" devices like the iPad, iPod, iPhone vs the first devices in the class is like suggesting George Washington wasn't responsible for a good portion of the American revolution but instead it was all some guy in a bar who was bitching about the British before everyone else was.
I thought 2012 was the year of the Linux Desktop!
For sure.
Really!
Anytime now.
Please?
If you're someone that wants to get into the device, and do plenty of your own modifications then sure get an android based tablet that fits into your desired price/feature range. You'll be glad you did and have lots of fun.
If you want to use a tablet and not fiddle with it then I'd recommend getting an iPad. It "just works" and there's plenty of great software.
You are of course assuming that only Motorola, HTC and Samsung make Android devices. I didn't make any claims wrt those companies and what they have or haven't licensed. You're right, not all makers of Android devices are in trouble unless say the Oracle case goes bad.
Rather my point is that if you make an Android device and you don't have your license agreements in place, that's not exactly a warm cozy place to be. Nokia wants (and needs) their licensing revenue.
Now with Apple and Nokia making up, users of Android are likely in for it next. Consider Apple has more than enough money to make Nokia go away and settle this suit. Apple almost makes more money in this space this all the mobile handset makers combined. This does imply that while the Android makers ship plenty of devices, (more than apple) they don't make a great deal of profit at it.
Nokia is in need of money. A lot of money. So they went after Apple and Apple gave them what they wanted and needed. Apple while no friend of Nokia is slaughtering them in the market... course so is everyone else.
However the next competitors to Nokia are the Android handset makers. Nokia needs more money, so I don't doubt we'll see more lawsuits but now aimed at Android.
So we have a Windows columnist suggesting that Apple is going to kill off OSX?
Sure it could happen.
This is akin to Microsoft killing off Windows.
Sure it could happen.
Monkeys might flight out of my butt.
Hmm so a mere 100 people are responsible for most that is uploaded to BT sites.... their names?
ub3rh4x0r ...
Al De Boner
PirateBob
Huge Jackman
Have these people never seen the movie Sparticus?
Thus far as reported these people are innocent and that it was perhaps a posting to a website or other innocent thing that they did so it's unreasonable for the FBI to take any interest into these people.
Really?
Like the FBI has broadcast to the public all the information they know about these people and what their connections are which has gained them interest by the FBI.
What's the chances that the folks be watched when confronted or approached by the media are going to loudly proclaim something to the effect "DIE AMERICANS! The streets will flow with the blood of the ... " .. you get my point. Not likely.
So I appreciate that one is innocent until proven guilty but I think you also have to acknowledge that certainly 3 letter organizations are going to follow leads and check into people to keep the country safe. That's their job. It's not necessarily evil nor is necessarily good either but that's how these things work in this day and age of bat-shit crazy terrorism.
I have one and thus far comparing it to my 3Gs, reception seems to be markedly better. I'm in a fairly rural area on the edge of AT&T service. I just don't see what the fuss is about.
Yeah ... that Java .. the one that promised to compile once and run everywhere....
It sucked. Least the user interfaces always did. There was never a native look to it. You could always tell you were staring at a Java app.
So, in a way, I'm kinda with Apple on this one. Cross - FOO to iPhone direct... no. C# -> XCode -> iPhone which uses the native interfaces. Yes.
Least that's my reading of it. There's a great deal of concern yet as no one exactly knows if environments like Unity 3D a popular 3D game creation environment which uses C# and/or JavaScript and does the C#/Javascript -> Xcode -> iPhone is actually affected by the 3.3.1 license change or not. It it's affected. Color me in the pissed off camp. But until then... it's hard to get too excited. It's like banning BASIC... yawn.
Census data is akin to medical records. You want your person information to remain confidential generally speaking but aggregated together, it's not hard to argue that such data could be used to benefit research and therefore benefit mankind. However confidentiality to one's family is probably less important. For example if your family has a history of heart conditions, you'd rather like to know that, even if Grandpa so and so never told you.
Having access to census data when trying to even research your family tree is critical. While genealogy isn't as much of a benefit to mankind as medicine, it at least means something to me at a personal level. I'm very very glad that old census records are available.
I completely agree that census data just like medical records is open to abuse. Profiling of any race is just plain wrong and the government should never have allowed that and those that did it should have been caught and prosecuted.
There's a small part of me that would like to see other companies follow in the footsteps of Google. Get out of China. Just leave.
Why?
This is a poor example but I can't help using it. Remember South Africa? There was a time when quite a number of companies just didn't do business there given how that government was (not) working for it's people. I'd like to think this helped change things for the better in South Africa.
It's not that I want to force my idea / style of government onto the people of China, but .. well .. besides North Korea and Cuba are there any other communistic states left? Would any people as a whole choose to convert to a communistic system. I'm thinking no.
And in a way, walking away from China as a whole, send a bit of a wake up call to the Chinese that, "O by the way, we care about how people are treated. We care about freedom." They need to too. When people in a place such as China can see how things are elsewhere in the world, it can and should plant the seed for change for the better for China. Probably overly optimistic on my part but hey, it's something.
Great grand internet firewalls need to go. Speech needs to be free.
If this data is so critical, it's not like the US government doesn't have it. How do you know this?
You know those things called W-2 tax forms? Remember ... the US government gets a copy of those which has the employer ID on it. The data is there.
So if the US government would like a nice break down of all employers and employees .. there ya go. Crunch away on the IRS data base.
If you were to take the Apple agreement and compare it to many a confidentiality agreement or similar agreements when two companies are working together you'd find the language etc etc etc are pretty much the same.
But alas that kind of reality check doesn't make good inflammatory "news" nor get the slashdot crowd up in arms to advance someone else's agenda.
We've had equally "interesting" experiences ....
1) We upgraded one of our boxes to the DirecTV DVR ... cost us a few hundred dollars as I recall... only to find out that unlike our own receiver(s) this upgrade wasn't owned by us but leased with a monthly charge for the lease no less. So I called them up indicating I wanted my old hardware back and to come and get the new box. They never returned the old hardware claiming, "well we're not sure where that went, would you like a movie channel free for a month?"
Bastards!
Time passes....
2) Our bill suddenly shows a "2nd" leased receiver charge... Do we have a 2nd receiver that is leased? No. As I indicated before I always bought our own hardware with the exception of the "upgrade" fiasco. Never mind this other supposedly leased receiver isn't even hooked up... took them the better part of an hour to finally get it. Granted I probably will be hooking that one back up again (and HR10-250) since the MPEG 4 tivo receiver STILL isn't out yet and their HD DVR really really sucks.
And hey while I'm bending your ear... the other thing that makes me see red is wrt their NFL sunday ticket. So I like football and the team I follow isn't always on the local channels since we're in a different market. Now everybody everywhere is shooting NFL football in HD. You think DirecTV Sunday Ticket would show you the game in HD? HA! Fork over another $99 on top of the already astronomical NFL Sunday Ticket price. Now I could understand the extra price back the "good ol days" before the switch over but we're well past that.
Pretty sad state of affairs....