On the Android side, Amazon's app-store certainly had an impact, but it didn't cause the Play store to make any paradigm shifting moves, and F-Droid is barely a curiosity.
Sure. Shills would play a larger part in the moderation of potentially "valuable" apps. If you had the possibility of making Candy Crush money, you'd hire armies of Indonesian "reviewers" to "moderate" your apps to the top, but what's the alternative? Use your army of shills to fake download your app as many times as possible and give it five-star ratings?
I enjoy how the Play store does things. Shows me top apps in a number of categories, and shows me some reviewer-picked shakers and movers.
A shame I commented, because I'd moderate this up.
There's a reason that large corporations and governments are faceless, and soulless. Lawsuits. Treat anyone or anything outside of a documented formula, and *whammo!*, lawsuit.
I like the idea of moderation and meta-moderation still, however, in at least you can say, "Hey, wasn't us. Sue *them*."
Even if the electronics fail to get much smaller, there's plenty of room to be had in batteries, screens, and the physical casings of our handheld devices.
An example of one of the most egregious GUI offenders is... Windows Media Center. If you want to scroll left or right on something (like the program guide so you can see what is on later today) you have to roll over JUST the right spot on the screen and a magical left or right arrow (less than or greater than characters) will appear. Same with up and down. And if you are looking through the list of recorded programs, if you dare keep the cursor over one program too long the entire list will shift to the left so that item is the leftmost. Even if it started as the rightmost. That means you can put your cursor over a program in anticipation of viewing it, pause to read the description to make sure it is the right one, and just before you click on it it will run away and you'll be clicking on the wrong thing.
Using MCE with a remote control is perhaps one of the best user interfaces out there.
Police, I suppose should wander the streets with blindfolds on, only removing them if they get within 20 yards of an out-of-bounds ankle bracelet or a ringing alarm.:/
If you add "automation' to existing processes, freedom isn't necessarily lost.
There's been a lot of 1984-esque technology stories of late, each of which has been tied to catching a child predator.
The tinfoil crowd sees this as how "the man" intends to deliver all of these intrusions to us -- by showing how they stop kid touchers.
Me? Meh. Neat that we're cross-referencing FBI wanted posters against passports. Seems a good use of the technology -- better than tagging people on Facebook automatically, I guess.
the fix? Hard reboot, remove and reinstall the keyboard driver, do a factory reset and reinstall all apps and data -- all pretty extreme. And gestures? Well, sometimes they work but mostly no.
TBF, a low-end trombone is $120 on Craigslist, and a brand new Conn student trombone is $500 retail, and cheap student trombones are $200 (etude/alora).
Low end for a concert-playing professional musician might be 12k, but not a student instrument.
Teachers are also expected to ride the never-ending cycle of student debt themselves, as a Master's degree -- which they should be pursuing in the evenings on top of teaching during the day - is essential to advancement from starting salaries.
The allure of eSports (gah) is that you too, with a little practice, could be the next great star. It's a fantasy for most people without 10,000 hours to play Starcraft at a competitive level, but it's the same fantasy that has 5-10,000 people attending the WSOP every year to become the next Moneymaker.
Skills transfer. A great player at any of those is likely to be a good player at any other, but I think the entire point of the article is that the super elite "athletes" seem wired for a very narrow range of skills, and easily lose a step when moved to another similar - but not exact - platform.
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On the Android side, Amazon's app-store certainly had an impact, but it didn't cause the Play store to make any paradigm shifting moves, and F-Droid is barely a curiosity.
Sure. Shills would play a larger part in the moderation of potentially "valuable" apps. If you had the possibility of making Candy Crush money, you'd hire armies of Indonesian "reviewers" to "moderate" your apps to the top, but what's the alternative? Use your army of shills to fake download your app as many times as possible and give it five-star ratings?
I enjoy how the Play store does things. Shows me top apps in a number of categories, and shows me some reviewer-picked shakers and movers.
Cole's Law.
[...thinly sliced cabbage...]
You forgot (3), de-ice Hell.
Apple is never going to voluntarily let people out of the walled garden.
A shame I commented, because I'd moderate this up.
There's a reason that large corporations and governments are faceless, and soulless. Lawsuits. Treat anyone or anything outside of a documented formula, and *whammo!*, lawsuit.
I like the idea of moderation and meta-moderation still, however, in at least you can say, "Hey, wasn't us. Sue *them*."
On Windows, from an enterprise perspective, that's not the way to do it.
Java has moved to a set of files that go in %systemroot%\sun\java\deployment that now manages those settings.
Moderation and meta-moderation solve all problems. :/
Even if the electronics fail to get much smaller, there's plenty of room to be had in batteries, screens, and the physical casings of our handheld devices.
An example of one of the most egregious GUI offenders is ... Windows Media Center. If you want to scroll left or right on something (like the program guide so you can see what is on later today) you have to roll over JUST the right spot on the screen and a magical left or right arrow (less than or greater than characters) will appear. Same with up and down. And if you are looking through the list of recorded programs, if you dare keep the cursor over one program too long the entire list will shift to the left so that item is the leftmost. Even if it started as the rightmost. That means you can put your cursor over a program in anticipation of viewing it, pause to read the description to make sure it is the right one, and just before you click on it it will run away and you'll be clicking on the wrong thing.
Using MCE with a remote control is perhaps one of the best user interfaces out there.
Mouse control seems to be an afterthought.
Java's sideloading of other crap causes anger to the power of a thousand suns.
It'd be less bothersome if every JRE update didn't suck so much to begin with.
Even smart people (in other arenas) don't get it.
It's that many more days between fixes to someone's computer after you install Chrome -- if Chrome is still your browser of choice.
If he wanders into a country other than France, we just might...
Police, I suppose should wander the streets with blindfolds on, only removing them if they get within 20 yards of an out-of-bounds ankle bracelet or a ringing alarm. :/
If you add "automation' to existing processes, freedom isn't necessarily lost.
Was your question, "Beyond something bad happening to them, what bad things could happen to them?!?"
It's a difficult question. Risk what little motor control you have left (fingers you say?) in a gamble to get some more (or all) back.
I'd roll the dice, but I'm not sure everyone would.
Rolling....1....fumble!
With changes to the Canada and Mexico borders, it's getting a little harder...
More importantly, any good library has back issues of those periodicals, and your main public library has them going back for decades...
Cross-checking the FBI wanted list against passport photos (or driver's license photos for that matter) doesn't disgust me.
To each their own.
There's been a lot of 1984-esque technology stories of late, each of which has been tied to catching a child predator.
The tinfoil crowd sees this as how "the man" intends to deliver all of these intrusions to us -- by showing how they stop kid touchers.
Me? Meh. Neat that we're cross-referencing FBI wanted posters against passports. Seems a good use of the technology -- better than tagging people on Facebook automatically, I guess.
If something goes awesome will these trial patients end up like Wolverine or "the Terminator2000"?
More like that...
the fix? Hard reboot, remove and reinstall the keyboard driver, do a factory reset and reinstall all apps and data -- all pretty extreme. And gestures? Well, sometimes they work but mostly no.
On an RT?
TBF, a low-end trombone is $120 on Craigslist, and a brand new Conn student trombone is $500 retail, and cheap student trombones are $200 (etude/alora).
Low end for a concert-playing professional musician might be 12k, but not a student instrument.
Except you're not doing blue-collar work, and white collar workers would *love* to only work 2080 hours a year.
Teachers are also expected to ride the never-ending cycle of student debt themselves, as a Master's degree -- which they should be pursuing in the evenings on top of teaching during the day - is essential to advancement from starting salaries.
The allure of eSports (gah) is that you too, with a little practice, could be the next great star. It's a fantasy for most people without 10,000 hours to play Starcraft at a competitive level, but it's the same fantasy that has 5-10,000 people attending the WSOP every year to become the next Moneymaker.
Skills transfer. A great player at any of those is likely to be a good player at any other, but I think the entire point of the article is that the super elite "athletes" seem wired for a very narrow range of skills, and easily lose a step when moved to another similar - but not exact - platform.