Life imitates art, mostly 'cos companies are lazy and steal ideas no matter how nuts they are.
Red Dwarf, the books not the show, the reason Kryten is really where he is was because of the leading cola company was sending stars super-nova in order to write a slogan across the sky that would be seen night and day.
I bet Naylor is pissing himself laughing at this story.
When I was young 'un of about 11 me and my mates used find porn by looking for discarded mags under bushes in the park! Well I can see kids from now on doing the equivalent online, looking for "scraps" of online porn in discard file dumps, PasteBin links and open Google Drives. There'll be links texted around schools about where you can get small snippets of free porn.
If you want something you'll find a way to get it without getting caught 'cos that why we've risen to the top of the food chain. If history teaches kids nothing else, it's that human beings know how to get one over on the authority figures in charge of us when we want stuff!
JS and HTML are at the top of a list of programming languages? Why don't we list Batch, shell script, powershell, and R as programm...oh wait!
R and SQL as fully fledged programming languages? Hmmm, I was a DBA for 25 years, so I lived and breathed SQL and procedural SQL in all it's whacky disguises, but when it came to automation, coding interfaces or anything outside the DB there's wasn't much SQL was going to for you when all you had was a stack of libraries written in C or Java. Even as a non-developer, working in Infrastructure you still need at least one "proper language" under your belt if you want to stand a hope in hell of keeping up with the dev teams or getting decent hooks into the array of software you have to work with. Yes, I'll admit I still like mashochistic coding in C++ and Java, nothing beats using a "chainsaw to slice bread"! ha ha!
Yet another media streaming service, fragmenting the media market and forcing people on limited budgets to choose, or more often a lot of people simply picking one and then obtaining their other media through sometimes less than legal channels.
Now, I'm sure Apple won't actually look at user's data ( ahem ) but there's no harm in gathering some, well a absolute ton, of interesting stats about file types, amount of data, number of websites visited, number emails, apps used, the sort of metadata it's not always easy to get people to agree to let them look at with telemetry services.
Well I am surprised, guy with enourmous bank balance running huge advertising website with 500 million targets...sorry, customers, oops, sorry, users....is a money grabbing scuzzbag with all the morals of a piece of pond scum. Who'd a thunk it, eh?!
Pop has always been throwaaway, that's the reason the songs are only a couple of minutes long. To start with it was to fit on vinyl, now it's simply to ensure people will listen, not tune out and immediately go on iTunes/Amazon and buy the download. To learn that some of the most popular pop music was 100% manufactured is no great surprise to most of us,we've suspect it for the last 25 years. I think it's kind of sad that rather than trying to agonise over getting your emotions into music, really find a way to express your inner feelings, you simply flip a few toggles on some software and out come multi-million dollar hits but hey, if people like it good for them.
Most of us go through the pop listening stage until we discover the music we truly like and pursue that. I loved pop music from 8-11, then I discovered Queen, then Iron Maiden and by the time I was 14 I was a full on metal fan getting into Thrash/Speed/Death as it emerged from the US to Europe in the mid-eighties. I'm almost 50 now and I see my kids going through the same phase, they're hitting their mid-teens and doscovering music like the Cure, Smiths, Joy Division, Queen and Pink Floyd. They still like pop music but they're starting grow out of it as they discover intellectual pursuits and need their music to deliver something with some substance or give them something to think about, not just mindless pap about boy-meets-girl.
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Life imitates art, mostly 'cos companies are lazy and steal ideas no matter how nuts they are. Red Dwarf, the books not the show, the reason Kryten is really where he is was because of the leading cola company was sending stars super-nova in order to write a slogan across the sky that would be seen night and day. I bet Naylor is pissing himself laughing at this story.
When I was young 'un of about 11 me and my mates used find porn by looking for discarded mags under bushes in the park! Well I can see kids from now on doing the equivalent online, looking for "scraps" of online porn in discard file dumps, PasteBin links and open Google Drives. There'll be links texted around schools about where you can get small snippets of free porn. If you want something you'll find a way to get it without getting caught 'cos that why we've risen to the top of the food chain. If history teaches kids nothing else, it's that human beings know how to get one over on the authority figures in charge of us when we want stuff!
JS and HTML are at the top of a list of programming languages? Why don't we list Batch, shell script, powershell, and R as programm...oh wait! R and SQL as fully fledged programming languages? Hmmm, I was a DBA for 25 years, so I lived and breathed SQL and procedural SQL in all it's whacky disguises, but when it came to automation, coding interfaces or anything outside the DB there's wasn't much SQL was going to for you when all you had was a stack of libraries written in C or Java. Even as a non-developer, working in Infrastructure you still need at least one "proper language" under your belt if you want to stand a hope in hell of keeping up with the dev teams or getting decent hooks into the array of software you have to work with. Yes, I'll admit I still like mashochistic coding in C++ and Java, nothing beats using a "chainsaw to slice bread"! ha ha!
Yet another media streaming service, fragmenting the media market and forcing people on limited budgets to choose, or more often a lot of people simply picking one and then obtaining their other media through sometimes less than legal channels.
Now, I'm sure Apple won't actually look at user's data ( ahem ) but there's no harm in gathering some, well a absolute ton, of interesting stats about file types, amount of data, number of websites visited, number emails, apps used, the sort of metadata it's not always easy to get people to agree to let them look at with telemetry services.
Well I am surprised, guy with enourmous bank balance running huge advertising website with 500 million targets...sorry, customers, oops, sorry, users....is a money grabbing scuzzbag with all the morals of a piece of pond scum. Who'd a thunk it, eh?!
Pop has always been throwaaway, that's the reason the songs are only a couple of minutes long. To start with it was to fit on vinyl, now it's simply to ensure people will listen, not tune out and immediately go on iTunes/Amazon and buy the download. To learn that some of the most popular pop music was 100% manufactured is no great surprise to most of us,we've suspect it for the last 25 years. I think it's kind of sad that rather than trying to agonise over getting your emotions into music, really find a way to express your inner feelings, you simply flip a few toggles on some software and out come multi-million dollar hits but hey, if people like it good for them. Most of us go through the pop listening stage until we discover the music we truly like and pursue that. I loved pop music from 8-11, then I discovered Queen, then Iron Maiden and by the time I was 14 I was a full on metal fan getting into Thrash/Speed/Death as it emerged from the US to Europe in the mid-eighties. I'm almost 50 now and I see my kids going through the same phase, they're hitting their mid-teens and doscovering music like the Cure, Smiths, Joy Division, Queen and Pink Floyd. They still like pop music but they're starting grow out of it as they discover intellectual pursuits and need their music to deliver something with some substance or give them something to think about, not just mindless pap about boy-meets-girl.