I've got a roughly a thousand people in circles, and I'm in a about a other people's circles -- mostly as the result of playing a game in which having friends helped early on the G+ platform when they first rolled them out [Dragon Age - for whatever that's worth] -- and now from local Ingress circles.
I've always had a smattering of obvious spam/marketing accounts add me, but I haven't seen much of a change at all, and I still haven't seen one email in my inbox from G+. Maybe it's coming, but I haven't seen it yet.
You've got hundreds of posts here bitching about Google. I'm going to guess you knew their privacy policies sometime before they started putting messages from people on G+ in your (low priority) inbox.
How can a guy that links his website every time he posts, and has contact button on that website, complain that he might get an unsolicited email? What sort of lunacy is that?
I installed Schemer a month or two back, and uninstalled it today on news of it's impending demise.
It was interesting, in that you could share "real-world achievements" with your social circles, but it was underpowered since it didn't have very good integration into G+ other than your circles. You could, for example, cross off the "Went to an NFL game in January" goal, and share it with others. Nothing special there, but seeing that someone else got their "Went hot air ballooning" goal might make you think about doing something off the beaten path yourself. It was also good for ideas, since it showed events near you, and you could make "schemes" others could participate in.
It wasn't that polished, and I only visited it a few times while waiting for my dinner to show up...
Isn't it easier to just ignore a mail you might get this way, since it's unlikely to end up in a priority inbox unless you've got a relationship with that person on G+ anyway?
As mentioned in my post, the double-whammy of location and time-shifting (with the ability to skip commercials) makes it, in your words, "a whole other situation."
It's not Hopper-esque commercial skipping, but they offer broadcast television essentially commercial free.
ABC/NBC/FOX/CBS pretty much only produce 15 hours of programming a week anyway that isn't the nightly news or the Latenight Show.
For the most part, the four broadcast networks have a pretty good suite of dramas and comedies. I think tier-1 cable has better shows, but most reality shows are saved for mid-season replacements and summer. [Cooking and Singing shows are the recent exception, but those 15 hours a week are pretty good.]
My guess would be that the net number of viewers of OTA television drop as a result of Aereo, but that, yes, the total number of television viewers increases somewhat. Aereo probably brings in plenty of rural customers who wouldn't get NBC/CBS/ABC/FOX, but also probably also has a lot of urban customers who just want to time-shift.
It's a clever idea, a cool service, an interesting business model, and part of why I'm torn about them.
...and I'm sure my opinion will be torn to shreds for it.
I firmly believe that what Aereo does is, strictly speaking, legal, but hardly fair play.
Broadcast television got a pretty sweetheart deal: All of this spectrum is yours, just give us a little public interest news every day. The TV broadcasters use their ownership of the airwaves to produce content that'll get us to watch their sponsor's commercials.
While there are obviously other ways to time and location-shift television, Aereo is essentially a leech on the system. They give nothing back to the content producers. It's hard to root for them unless your only goal is the collapse of broadcast television.
The math has been done in every previous thread. The fire rate for Teslas is something like 5x lower than normal cars -- but we'll see if that changes once they age.
They exist in another time-space, I'm certain of it...
The Lord Mayor of London and the two Sheriffs are chosen by liverymen meeting in Common Hall. Sheriffs, who serve as assistants to the Lord Mayor, are chosen on Midsummer Day. The Lord Mayor, who must have previously been a Sheriff, is chosen on Michaelmas. Both the Lord Mayor and the Sheriffs are chosen for terms of one year.
One day, Google is just going to build a space station and all of their workers will be up there. Then other companies will follow suit.
Eventually, all that will be left on the hot drought stricken planet will be the unemployable dregs with no skills and no worthwhile education - you know, all those losers that companies say have no skills or inadequate education. And the folks who don't fit into the corporate culture *cough*too old*cough*.
If Google had built their own bus stops, people would have been up in arms about them not peacefully coexisting with existing infrastructure.
It's all sour grapes.
I know SF runs on a tight schedule - it's always moving quickly to its next destination - but you can't have it both ways.
Reminds me of a little neighborhood here downtown. [Overall, downtown here is a hit-and-miss mixture of early century houses, new businesses, run down junk, industrial areas - quite a mix indeed.] Anyway, a corner full of abandoned buildings was renovated to bring in a lunch destination for downtown workers. Half a dozen new popular "fast fresh" restaurants moved into the corner to provide a lunch Mecca, and the corner across the street follow suit, making it quite a place for the thousands of people who work downtown to consider.
During lunch, Mon-Fri the only time of the day that there's anyone downtown, parking could get bad enough to force people into residential neighborhoods. The neighborhoods responded by getting brand new no-parking signs for 11am to 2pm because they want the businesses to fold up and go back to being check cashing and foreign dentistry. [Apparently.]
Roadable has been part of the lexicon since the early 20's. Leverage has been in common use as a verb since the mid 50's. This is how language works. It evolves. Get with the program.
>And since when is "roadable" a word? It always comes off as a pathetic attempt to legitimize a concept; the idea that something is so new and so awesome they had to make up a new term.
Ross' greatest contribution was giving us a story worthy of a Movie of the Week if not at least a Dateline episode narrated by that white haired guy with the awesome voice:)
Quibble: The owners of BTC wallets are anonymous; not the transactions.
But sure, there were some other confidence scares with the bust -- not just the loss of SR itself.
...if anyone asked me what you could do with BTC, I pretty much said, "Well, you can rent some server space, donate to the EFF or buy some party drugs."
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You contract with Google doesn't force any action on your part. You're free to exit the contract at any time by not using their services.
Every time they change their service, you get a new TOS, and you can agree to it or not use their service...
Which is why we'd like the ability to persist the arrangement we originally agreed to
The original agreement allowed them to make these changes without consulting you.
I've got a roughly a thousand people in circles, and I'm in a about a other people's circles -- mostly as the result of playing a game in which having friends helped early on the G+ platform when they first rolled them out [Dragon Age - for whatever that's worth] -- and now from local Ingress circles.
I've always had a smattering of obvious spam/marketing accounts add me, but I haven't seen much of a change at all, and I still haven't seen one email in my inbox from G+. Maybe it's coming, but I haven't seen it yet.
You've got hundreds of posts here bitching about Google. I'm going to guess you knew their privacy policies sometime before they started putting messages from people on G+ in your (low priority) inbox.
How can a guy that links his website every time he posts, and has contact button on that website, complain that he might get an unsolicited email? What sort of lunacy is that?
I installed Schemer a month or two back, and uninstalled it today on news of it's impending demise.
It was interesting, in that you could share "real-world achievements" with your social circles, but it was underpowered since it didn't have very good integration into G+ other than your circles. You could, for example, cross off the "Went to an NFL game in January" goal, and share it with others. Nothing special there, but seeing that someone else got their "Went hot air ballooning" goal might make you think about doing something off the beaten path yourself. It was also good for ideas, since it showed events near you, and you could make "schemes" others could participate in.
It wasn't that polished, and I only visited it a few times while waiting for my dinner to show up...
I guess I'm responsible for it shutting down.
Isn't it easier to just ignore a mail you might get this way, since it's unlikely to end up in a priority inbox unless you've got a relationship with that person on G+ anyway?
Demand your money back.
...and yes, I know there are dozens of other ways to time-shift.
My argument is that I'm conflicted.
Aereo's business plan is "stream NBC over the internet and get paid for it."
It doesn't pass the sniff-test of what's kosher.
As mentioned in my post, the double-whammy of location and time-shifting (with the ability to skip commercials) makes it, in your words, "a whole other situation."
It's not Hopper-esque commercial skipping, but they offer broadcast television essentially commercial free.
ABC/NBC/FOX/CBS pretty much only produce 15 hours of programming a week anyway that isn't the nightly news or the Latenight Show.
For the most part, the four broadcast networks have a pretty good suite of dramas and comedies. I think tier-1 cable has better shows, but most reality shows are saved for mid-season replacements and summer. [Cooking and Singing shows are the recent exception, but those 15 hours a week are pretty good.]
My guess would be that the net number of viewers of OTA television drop as a result of Aereo, but that, yes, the total number of television viewers increases somewhat. Aereo probably brings in plenty of rural customers who wouldn't get NBC/CBS/ABC/FOX, but also probably also has a lot of urban customers who just want to time-shift.
It's a clever idea, a cool service, an interesting business model, and part of why I'm torn about them.
...and I'm sure my opinion will be torn to shreds for it.
I firmly believe that what Aereo does is, strictly speaking, legal, but hardly fair play.
Broadcast television got a pretty sweetheart deal: All of this spectrum is yours, just give us a little public interest news every day. The TV broadcasters use their ownership of the airwaves to produce content that'll get us to watch their sponsor's commercials.
While there are obviously other ways to time and location-shift television, Aereo is essentially a leech on the system. They give nothing back to the content producers. It's hard to root for them unless your only goal is the collapse of broadcast television.
The math has been done in every previous thread. The fire rate for Teslas is something like 5x lower than normal cars -- but we'll see if that changes once they age.
They exist in another time-space, I'm certain of it...
Midsummer Day? Are you effing kidding me?
The city of London, or the City of London?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London
Up next, a discussion of "United Kingdom"
People aren't upset at the car/van/bus-pooling per se.
They're upset about the gentrification of neighborhoods, as tech millionaires "ruin" old neighborhoods by living in them.
As an example, look how "awful" Brooklyn is now. Damned hipsters and their mayonnaise store.
One day, Google is just going to build a space station and all of their workers will be up there. Then other companies will follow suit.
Eventually, all that will be left on the hot drought stricken planet will be the unemployable dregs with no skills and no worthwhile education - you know, all those losers that companies say have no skills or inadequate education. And the folks who don't fit into the corporate culture *cough*too old*cough*.
I watched Elysium too!
They did not. THE Vandals objected.
If Google had built their own bus stops, people would have been up in arms about them not peacefully coexisting with existing infrastructure.
It's all sour grapes.
I know SF runs on a tight schedule - it's always moving quickly to its next destination - but you can't have it both ways.
Reminds me of a little neighborhood here downtown. [Overall, downtown here is a hit-and-miss mixture of early century houses, new businesses, run down junk, industrial areas - quite a mix indeed.] Anyway, a corner full of abandoned buildings was renovated to bring in a lunch destination for downtown workers. Half a dozen new popular "fast fresh" restaurants moved into the corner to provide a lunch Mecca, and the corner across the street follow suit, making it quite a place for the thousands of people who work downtown to consider.
During lunch, Mon-Fri the only time of the day that there's anyone downtown, parking could get bad enough to force people into residential neighborhoods. The neighborhoods responded by getting brand new no-parking signs for 11am to 2pm because they want the businesses to fold up and go back to being check cashing and foreign dentistry. [Apparently.]
... please stop making words up... AMERICANS...
Leverage is not a verb either.
Roadable has been part of the lexicon since the early 20's.
Leverage has been in common use as a verb since the mid 50's.
This is how language works. It evolves. Get with the program.
>And since when is "roadable" a word? It always comes off as a pathetic attempt to legitimize a concept; the idea that something is so new and so awesome they had to make up a new term.
The early 1920's.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/roadable
They're likely top-heavy, and poorly balanced, especially for off-road operations.
A new SR is up and doing well...
Ross' greatest contribution was giving us a story worthy of a Movie of the Week if not at least a Dateline episode narrated by that white haired guy with the awesome voice :)
Quibble: The owners of BTC wallets are anonymous; not the transactions.
But sure, there were some other confidence scares with the bust -- not just the loss of SR itself.