And you can do all of those things without touching a single service or product sold by one of the big giants. In conclusion... what on earth is he talking about?
But it's not like, say, the presence of Facebook means IIRC has suddenly been uninvented.
He's not speaking about IRC (BTW: with one I; "IIRC" is "if I recall correctly", which you obviously didn't;-)), that's the topic of 10 years ago, when the web was eating into the rich non-web ecosystem and some people complained about others confusing the internet with the web.
But there's one common theme here: Centralization. For example, Usenet is a distributed system of many servers, and if one server was removed, almost all of the content was still there on other servers, and you could seamlessly switch. Web discussion boards are on a single server, and if that server is gone, it is gone. However, in the traditional web the different services are still independent. But with big companies like Facebook and Google, you've got yet another level: A single company controlling a complete ecosystem. If you want to participate in any part of that ecosystem, you have to subscribe to the complete ecosystem.
OK, my FORTRAN is a bit rusty; I thought the GOTO ended the loop.
But then, you don't know when this code was written. There was a time where avoiding an addition could well have been reasonable because adding floating point numbers was slow. If that snippet of code was called very often and zeros were common, the GOTO might easily have made the difference between the program running for a few minutes and the program running for a few hours.
Of course if you consider that flag as a sign of ownership, one has to ask how far does the ownership reach. The Sea of Tranquility? All places on moon from where you can see the flag? All places on moon which were visited by astronauts? The complete moon?
Actually, writing down passwords physically can be a safe thing when you store it in a place to which only you have access. Storing in a file is of course not that good an idea.
No, it isn't. The sun's habitable zone is between 0.9 AU and 1.5 AU. The maximum distance of Venus to the sun is 0.728 AU. So Venus doesn't even come close to the habitable zone.
As soon as you are starting to make money, you've changed the future and thus you knowledge of the unchanged future is worthless. Different stock prices will cause people to behave differently.
You'd be better off to take advice from Back to the Future and bet on sports events. There you've got a better change to make a big win before you changed the future so much that your information gets useless.
The term is not "rent", it is "license". As you read every time you "buy" some software, music, movie, etc: "This product is licensed, not sold." And the right to sublicense they explicitly added to the terms and conditions, so they cannot credibly claim that they don't intend to do that.
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And you can do all of those things without touching a single service or product sold by one of the big giants.
In conclusion... what on earth is he talking about?
Ever heard of Google Analytics?
Ever heard of RequestPolicy?
He's not speaking about IRC (BTW: with one I; "IIRC" is "if I recall correctly", which you obviously didn't ;-)), that's the topic of 10 years ago, when the web was eating into the rich non-web ecosystem and some people complained about others confusing the internet with the web.
But there's one common theme here: Centralization. For example, Usenet is a distributed system of many servers, and if one server was removed, almost all of the content was still there on other servers, and you could seamlessly switch. Web discussion boards are on a single server, and if that server is gone, it is gone. However, in the traditional web the different services are still independent. But with big companies like Facebook and Google, you've got yet another level: A single company controlling a complete ecosystem. If you want to participate in any part of that ecosystem, you have to subscribe to the complete ecosystem.
Which smartphone (that is still available) is not tied to either of Apple, Google or Microsoft?
Yeah, such people clearly must be kept off the online games. In the end they urinate in the message board, where everyone can read them!
OK, my FORTRAN is a bit rusty; I thought the GOTO ended the loop.
But then, you don't know when this code was written. There was a time where avoiding an addition could well have been reasonable because adding floating point numbers was slow. If that snippet of code was called very often and zeros were common, the GOTO might easily have made the difference between the program running for a few minutes and the program running for a few hours.
That's why people with bad memory should not use touch screen devices. There's just no keyboard to put your passwords under.
Everyone has the same capability of being stupid, but some of us at times have a greater capability of intelligence.
There are levels of stupidity which are inaccessible for most people.
You mean like this?
Or this?
SCNR :-)
OK, there are 6 spaces missing on the beginning of each line except the last, where only 2 spaces are missing. But otherwise, what's wrong with it?
There's something fishy about that statement.
Yeah, the ack should be pushed, not polled.
So if you happen to enjoy shooting on other people, you should be able to do so without remorse? I'd prefer to not live in your "utopia".
So in a society which abhors violence but glorifies sex, he would have raped the children instead?
Of course if you consider that flag as a sign of ownership, one has to ask how far does the ownership reach. The Sea of Tranquility? All places on moon from where you can see the flag? All places on moon which were visited by astronauts? The complete moon?
Oops, ignore my previous reply; I was only reading with half my mind, and misread your post.
When writing down passwords physically, you don't have a file you could encrypt. You have a piece of paper you can lock away.
So Instagram only allows photos made with cell phones, and only allows photos showing people?
Actually, writing down passwords physically can be a safe thing when you store it in a place to which only you have access. Storing in a file is of course not that good an idea.
Don't send them Windows. They may see that as a hostile act.
No, it isn't. The sun's habitable zone is between 0.9 AU and 1.5 AU. The maximum distance of Venus to the sun is 0.728 AU. So Venus doesn't even come close to the habitable zone.
As soon as you are starting to make money, you've changed the future and thus you knowledge of the unchanged future is worthless. Different stock prices will cause people to behave differently.
You'd be better off to take advice from Back to the Future and bet on sports events. There you've got a better change to make a big win before you changed the future so much that your information gets useless.
Even if 99% of the photos are crap, the remaining 1% still are a large number.
The term is not "rent", it is "license". As you read every time you "buy" some software, music, movie, etc: "This product is licensed, not sold." And the right to sublicense they explicitly added to the terms and conditions, so they cannot credibly claim that they don't intend to do that.
until it's been officially denied.
Only if the denial is legally binding.
Just as nobody had the intention to build a wall.
(For those who don't know: It's what the head of East Germany claimed just a few days before they started to build the Berlin wall.)