Dating Design Patterns, with a cover suspiciously similar to Design Patterns by the Gang of Four, is the first attempt to bring verified solutions to common problems in the world of dating.
Look, just writing this thing in the first place PROVES that some folks will never quite get it.
Consider the plight of my nieces. All three -- in first grade and up -- woke up this morning during their school spring break to find nearly all children's program off-the-air. Granted one can argue that parents shouldn't use the TV as a babysitter but it happens, get over it, and it's going to be hard to be pacified when they're used to watching SpongeBob several hours out of the day and now have to watch HGTV.
I have compassion that this is a squabble between Echo and Via, but I really see this as extortion on both sides with consumers -- and parents -- caught in the middle.
I think that both of these companies are fooling themselves if they think consumers are going to bounce between two companies looking for people to complain to. Forget it. On to TimeWarner or Comcast or DirecTV.
I realize we have to pull out all the possible benefits and drawbacks, but, please, the "your software will break with an OS upgrade" is such a shallow argument.
Of COURSE your software will break if there's a major OS upgrade. Why wouldn't it whether the OS is open or closed. It's a fallacy to think that since PalmOS is closed source this automatically means your software will break and wouldn't if the source was open. C'mon, now.
We've been through many, many major revisions of PalmOS and PPCOS to see that most software developers -- those than plan to make money anyway -- update their software right away or BEFORE the OS update is released.
Sure, there are some software packages that haven't been updated since PalmOS 3, but is this Palm's fault?
I sincerely believe that marketing is ultimately responsible for the frustrations end-users experience. Although I'm sure the Fed guidelines would quibble with me, it seems that marketing is all too full of vague niceties that, to my mind, are simply lies.
Here's one example: Verizon Wireless runs two slogans, "Working Where You Want It To," and "We Never Stop Working For You." And, of course, the ads are full of high platitudes like "America's Number One Network" and "Voted Best For Reliablility."
One of the biggest factors folks weigh when they purchase a cell provider contract is reliability. Verizon's ads can easily lead a reasonable person to conclude that they're network is perfect, or near so.
The reality is, of course, that no cell provider's network is perfect. And, yes, one can find this out by reading the fine print as it blazes across the TV or call VZW to ask. But the ads are ever-prevalent. People rely on them, rightly or wrongly, for real information. Shame on the consumer for not delving into the details, but shame on the marketer for making it difficult for the consumer to discern real information.
There are TONS of examples of this: Wireless products that promise a connect-and-go atmosphere, "Plug-And-Play," "Unlimited" Internet Service, etc.
This marketing is a danger that's been around since advertising, but it seems to me that so much of marketing these days, especially technology marketing, is all about glitz and hooking and less about reality.
FWIW, one of the examples the author gives as a AV spam -- the one with the content "Mail Transaction Failed" -- is one of the mails MyDoom/Novarg sends out.
Many folks point out that it's going to be difficult to locate someone in these floating offices. That's true. However, all they need to do is develop those cool locator systems like they have on STTNG.
"Computer, where is Creative Director Algers?" "Creative Director Algers is in the Can."
What's next? Will the phone you buy occasionaly redirect your call to a telemarketer? Will your TV remote automatically switch channels to an infomercial? Maybe your car radio could redirect your listening to a clear channel station every 8 hours. These are business models I need to patent...
You forgot: A car that occasionally drives you to your favorite store's competitor.
You pull up to a stop light and some guy next to you has his stereo so far up and his bass so deep that your very fillings shake inside of your teeth enamel!
Well, just ONCE, I'd like this guy to turn his head into a speaker and do the same thing to himself that he's been doing to other drivers for years.
When I see the absolutely AMAZING things that people have done with older technology (TCP/IP stack on a C=64?!?!), the industry's collusion with Planned Obsolesence becomes mightily apparent.
We were all told our machines were old news and we had to get the latest and greatest. Now we're saddled with more complexity and more problems than ever before. Meanwhile, people are happily taking 486s and creating modern desktops (Linux) out of them.
I can't completely blame the industry. We all bought the latest and greatest exactly when the industry said we needed to do so.
(Yes, I am typing this on a snow iBook. Guilty as CHARGED.)
but it seems to me that the government has always kind of kept track of what I read anyway. Maybe the difference today is the possibility that they'll keep track of everything I read.
Still, I look at it this way: If I get a book or publication from Cuba, I'm gonna get watched. If I order a extreme left and/or right-wing publication, I am going to get watched (depending upon which is in charge, I suppose).
Sharman never complained that Google infringed on the rights of downloaders to pirate from Kazaa versus Kazaa Lite. Sharman complained that Google infringed on Kazaa's copyrights.
Whether or not Google has links to other sites that openly advocate piracy doesn't really have much to do with the Kazaa/Kazaa-Lite debate, methinks.
The RIAA simply brings a suit against "The Human Race." The Human Race will be defined as anyone who have used, uses, will use, tinkered on, mulled around, thought about, fathomed P2P networks that have at any time in their existence, include the future up to and beyond the Apocalypse, been used to trade one single song, even if it's Ernie's "Rubber Duckie."
People who sign onto their favorite P2P service will have a document immediately sent to them which will be entitled, "Red Head Raging Orgasm.pdf."
Simply downloading the document means you have been served.
Opening the document and clicking "Yes" on the 37-paragraph long EULA means you accept responsibiility to pay damages.
The RIAA can sit back and watch the checks roll in. Yay.
They'll have me sold -- and my customers sold -- when they are able to take an aftermarket, older laptop and build one of these Lindows (or Knoppix, or whatever) "Webstations" for the same price.
I can think of several people who want that right now.
My first thought after reading this was that the company was embarrassed and didn't want to admit to the bugs.
But then I realized something...
I've worked in companies which were active beta and alpha testers for adobe software of all kinds, but especially for the print industry.
Adobe rarely admits bugs. Period. As long as the problem is not a show-stopper (or is an obscure show-stopper), it will rarely get fixed. It _may_ get a mention in the knowledgebase, but this is not a given.
There are still things plauging the printing industry in multiple versions of multiple Adobe products -- Acrobat, Illustrator, Indesign, etc.
So, no, it's not a surpise that Adobe didn't fix this. They don't fix much.
Slashdot Mirror
Dating Design Patterns, with a cover suspiciously similar to Design Patterns by the Gang of Four, is the first attempt to bring verified solutions to common problems in the world of dating.
:-)
Look, just writing this thing in the first place PROVES that some folks will never quite get it.
The trick isn't to get more geeky, y'know.
Guerilla marketing and stickers?
It's better with the butterfly.
Consider the plight of my nieces. All three -- in first grade and up -- woke up this morning during their school spring break to find nearly all children's program off-the-air. Granted one can argue that parents shouldn't use the TV as a babysitter but it happens, get over it, and it's going to be hard to be pacified when they're used to watching SpongeBob several hours out of the day and now have to watch HGTV.
I have compassion that this is a squabble between Echo and Via, but I really see this as extortion on both sides with consumers -- and parents -- caught in the middle.
I think that both of these companies are fooling themselves if they think consumers are going to bounce between two companies looking for people to complain to. Forget it. On to TimeWarner or Comcast or DirecTV.
Both companies lose.
After that last report that said it was addictive and damaging, I tried to quit and couldn't.
Now I don't have to!
I realize we have to pull out all the possible benefits and drawbacks, but, please, the "your software will break with an OS upgrade" is such a shallow argument.
Of COURSE your software will break if there's a major OS upgrade. Why wouldn't it whether the OS is open or closed. It's a fallacy to think that since PalmOS is closed source this automatically means your software will break and wouldn't if the source was open. C'mon, now.
We've been through many, many major revisions of PalmOS and PPCOS to see that most software developers -- those than plan to make money anyway -- update their software right away or BEFORE the OS update is released.
Sure, there are some software packages that haven't been updated since PalmOS 3, but is this Palm's fault?
m
Note in Number 3 -- the entry for Ghettopoly -- that one of the related links is for "The Best Gifts at the Right Price".
Odd.
I sincerely believe that marketing is ultimately responsible for the frustrations end-users experience. Although I'm sure the Fed guidelines would quibble with me, it seems that marketing is all too full of vague niceties that, to my mind, are simply lies.
Here's one example: Verizon Wireless runs two slogans, "Working Where You Want It To," and "We Never Stop Working For You." And, of course, the ads are full of high platitudes like "America's Number One Network" and "Voted Best For Reliablility."
One of the biggest factors folks weigh when they purchase a cell provider contract is reliability. Verizon's ads can easily lead a reasonable person to conclude that they're network is perfect, or near so.
The reality is, of course, that no cell provider's network is perfect. And, yes, one can find this out by reading the fine print as it blazes across the TV or call VZW to ask. But the ads are ever-prevalent. People rely on them, rightly or wrongly, for real information. Shame on the consumer for not delving into the details, but shame on the marketer for making it difficult for the consumer to discern real information.
There are TONS of examples of this: Wireless products that promise a connect-and-go atmosphere, "Plug-And-Play," "Unlimited" Internet Service, etc.
This marketing is a danger that's been around since advertising, but it seems to me that so much of marketing these days, especially technology marketing, is all about glitz and hooking and less about reality.
m
FWIW, one of the examples the author gives as a AV spam -- the one with the content "Mail Transaction Failed" -- is one of the mails MyDoom/Novarg sends out.
But, in a way, the virus is spamming, too.
Many folks point out that it's going to be difficult to locate someone in these floating offices. That's true. However, all they need to do is develop those cool locator systems like they have on STTNG.
"Computer, where is Creative Director Algers?"
"Creative Director Algers is in the Can."
What's next? Will the phone you buy occasionaly redirect your call to a telemarketer? Will your TV remote automatically switch channels to an infomercial? Maybe your car radio could redirect your listening to a clear channel station every
8 hours. These are business models I need to patent...
You forgot: A car that occasionally drives you to your favorite store's competitor.
I know you've all seen it!
You pull up to a stop light and some guy next to you has his stereo so far up and his bass so deep that your very fillings shake inside of your teeth enamel!
Well, just ONCE, I'd like this guy to turn his head into a speaker and do the same thing to himself that he's been doing to other drivers for years.
m
it's this:
When I see the absolutely AMAZING things that people have done with older technology (TCP/IP stack on a C=64?!?!), the industry's collusion with Planned Obsolesence becomes mightily apparent.
We were all told our machines were old news and we had to get the latest and greatest. Now we're saddled with more complexity and more problems than ever before. Meanwhile, people are happily taking 486s and creating modern desktops (Linux) out of them.
I can't completely blame the industry. We all bought the latest and greatest exactly when the industry said we needed to do so.
(Yes, I am typing this on a snow iBook. Guilty as CHARGED.)
Proposed Nokia ad:
Is that a phone in your pocket, or... AGH, AGH, AGH!
but it seems to me that the government has always kind of kept track of what I read anyway. Maybe the difference today is the possibility that they'll keep track of everything I read.
Still, I look at it this way: If I get a book or publication from Cuba, I'm gonna get watched. If I order a extreme left and/or right-wing publication, I am going to get watched (depending upon which is in charge, I suppose).
Are we absolutely sure this is not another MSN/Butterfly thing?
Sharman never complained that Google infringed on the rights of downloaders to pirate from Kazaa versus Kazaa Lite. Sharman complained that Google infringed on Kazaa's copyrights.
Whether or not Google has links to other sites that openly advocate piracy doesn't really have much to do with the Kazaa/Kazaa-Lite debate, methinks.
Eh...
Firebird. Thunderbird.
We could go a couple of different ways for upcoming projects...
Cars:
Taurus
Pinto
Beetle
Wine:
Mad Dog
Cisco
Wild Irish Road
As a geek who understands how spammers operate and grew up in Louisiana, let me be the first to say...
I'm sorry. I'm so very, very sorry.
"Our compliments to the TAM5 unit, and regards to Captain Dunsel"
"The M5 must be destroyed."
"Destroyed, Kirk?! No. We're invincible. Look what we've done. Your might starships..."
"TAMs numbered one through four were not entirely successful. This one worked."
"You see! You SEE?! Your stupid minds! STUPID! STUPID!"
No Commodores
No L.T.D.
No McFadden and Whitehead
No Ashford and Simpson
No Gap Band
The RIAA simply brings a suit against "The Human Race." The Human Race will be defined as anyone who have used, uses, will use, tinkered on, mulled around, thought about, fathomed P2P networks that have at any time in their existence, include the future up to and beyond the Apocalypse, been used to trade one single song, even if it's Ernie's "Rubber Duckie."
People who sign onto their favorite P2P service will have a document immediately sent to them which will be entitled, "Red Head Raging Orgasm.pdf."
Simply downloading the document means you have been served.
Opening the document and clicking "Yes" on the 37-paragraph long EULA means you accept responsibiility to pay damages.
The RIAA can sit back and watch the checks roll in. Yay.
m
They'll have me sold -- and my customers sold -- when they are able to take an aftermarket, older laptop and build one of these Lindows (or Knoppix, or whatever) "Webstations" for the same price.
I can think of several people who want that right now.
"The New York Times has an article about a way to anonymously transfer cash online (NYT registration required)."
You mean I actually have to register with the NYT to anonymously transfer cash online?!
WHEN. WILL. IT. STOP?!
My first thought after reading this was that the company was embarrassed and didn't want to admit to the bugs.
But then I realized something...
I've worked in companies which were active beta and alpha testers for adobe software of all kinds, but especially for the print industry.
Adobe rarely admits bugs. Period. As long as the problem is not a show-stopper (or is an obscure show-stopper), it will rarely get fixed. It _may_ get a mention in the knowledgebase, but this is not a given.
There are still things plauging the printing industry in multiple versions of multiple Adobe products -- Acrobat, Illustrator, Indesign, etc.
So, no, it's not a surpise that Adobe didn't fix this. They don't fix much.