The only company I would trust LESS than Facebook with my personal data, the only company with an even more cavalier attitude towards privacy, is Google. I'm more likely to hire Casey Anthony to babysit my daughters.
I find it truly, genuinely, startling that anyone outside of spinster aunts, fourteen year-old girls, and twitchy Marketing Suits whack-a-mole-ing anything and everything termed "social media" are giving this thing a second, un-shuddering glance.
This is exactly the kind of behavior I would expect from a group of guys who, once routinely stuffed into their high school lockers, have now grown up (?) to become full-fledged white cat-stroking Bond villains.
I give it another 6-9 months more of federal government inquiries and subpoenas before they dig a moat around their campus and fill it with laser-headed sharks...
That's the point: We don't NEED an "IT professional" when we have a couple of PCs and a wireless router, if we avail ourselves of outsourced cloud services for the stuff we formerly might have needed an IT professional for.
No disrespect is meant to IT professionals here: they are a vital and intrinsic resource -- within the cloud services with whom we will be contracting for service. They're just not needed on the payroll of every company with more than a dozen employees, as they were perceived as being needed back in the Corporate IT Hay Day a few years back.
Here in the NY area, there's a cloud services company doing heavy radio ad marketing that basically promotes its services as being able to say, "Take a Hike, IT Guy!"
No start-up wants to begin by spending money on beige (or even white...) boxes. Unlike the '90s, when corporate IT was in ascendancy, almost every worker today has sufficient computer proficiency to make most of the day-to-day work of an IT department unnecessary -- except as relates to the systems and software crafted by the IT department themselves. Things that make you go, "Hmmmmm..."
There are times I even think the whole "you better fear for your privacy!!" meme is FUD being churned up by the corporate IT guys who see the writing on the wall.
...this...this...what do they call it? "Palin Derangement Syndrome." Yeah. "PDS." But I see it now, with this whole e-mail witch hunt, and man, is it ugly and perverse. And from the people who typically whine the most about "privacy," no less!
The "Waah Waah Content Pirates aren't Pirates, they don't have ships or parrots!" whine is even more tedious than the "Hackers are computer hobbyists, and not necessarily bad!" screed.
Language evolves (c.f., the original meaning of "geek" in the subject here).
I first heard the use of the word "pirate" in this modern context to refer to the people who were stealing satellite signals from premium cable TV networks back in the '70s, pre-dating popular Internet usage by around 15 years. Get over yourselves and move on.
Yet so, so many people seem to love the work of our artists, writers, producers, directors, and musicians. Now, if they'd only agree to pay for it, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Hey, I know: How about the Spanish Government makes it legal for Spaniards to pirate Spanish-produced movies and music exclusively? Sure, there'd be considerably less worthwhile stuff to purloin, but think of the boost to Julio Iglesias' career!
Let them dig an electronic moat around themselves. Christians, Jews, Homosexuals, Brave Women, Free Thinkers -- everybody hop on the Underground Railroad and follow the setting sun to salvation, contentment, education and prosperity. Let these backwards mutherf*ckers intellectually inbreed themselves into complete drooling impotence and irrelevancy.
To her credit, I believe she acknowledges this. In fact, that's why she calls her self "Lady GaGa." It's a hat-tip to the old Queen bic-lighter anthem, "Radio Ga Ga"
So the greatest living practitioner of the art of Hype and Personal Perpetual Re-invention releases an album that has been universally panned in pre-sale auditions on the world's most robust e-tailer huckster (one in the midst of it's own marketing push to sell cloud storage) and the headlines are all a-chuckle over how Herself's new album is so-o-o-o-o popular (along with the free-for-a-limited-time-only neato-cloud-storage-thingy!) it crashed even Amazon's servers.
They bought their indulgences (carbon credits) from The Church of Global Warming. Their sins are forgiven.
Look, stupid new religions based on politics and pseudo-half-science I can abide, but I won't tolerate hypocrisy: if the Google boys put sufficient money in the collection plate, they should be cut sufficient slack. The consequences of indiscretion, today as in the Middle Ages, should only be for the poor...
they fail to address the matrix of which service and format is support/authorized for which device
Matrix, schmatrix.
Calibre finds, downloads, converts, views, organizes, tweaks, and edits just about every kind of digital book from/into just about every format. And it's free.
Links to an Ad, no pictures, no mention of battery life... is there an question that if InfoWorld wasn't paying for this placement slashdot would not even run this crap?
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The only company I would trust LESS than Facebook with my personal data, the only company with an even more cavalier attitude towards privacy, is Google. I'm more likely to hire Casey Anthony to babysit my daughters.
I find it truly, genuinely, startling that anyone outside of spinster aunts, fourteen year-old girls, and twitchy Marketing Suits whack-a-mole-ing anything and everything termed "social media" are giving this thing a second, un-shuddering glance.
This is exactly the kind of behavior I would expect from a group of guys who, once routinely stuffed into their high school lockers, have now grown up (?) to become full-fledged white cat-stroking Bond villains.
I give it another 6-9 months more of federal government inquiries and subpoenas before they dig a moat around their campus and fill it with laser-headed sharks...
uhhh, what?
Oh, yeah, I forgot: Christian-Bashing is the last acceptable and politically-correct form of prejudice and ignorant hatred.
Carry on.
That's the point: We don't NEED an "IT professional" when we have a couple of PCs and a wireless router, if we avail ourselves of outsourced cloud services for the stuff we formerly might have needed an IT professional for.
No disrespect is meant to IT professionals here: they are a vital and intrinsic resource -- within the cloud services with whom we will be contracting for service. They're just not needed on the payroll of every company with more than a dozen employees, as they were perceived as being needed back in the Corporate IT Hay Day a few years back.
Here in the NY area, there's a cloud services company doing heavy radio ad marketing that basically promotes its services as being able to say, "Take a Hike, IT Guy!"
No start-up wants to begin by spending money on beige (or even white...) boxes. Unlike the '90s, when corporate IT was in ascendancy, almost every worker today has sufficient computer proficiency to make most of the day-to-day work of an IT department unnecessary -- except as relates to the systems and software crafted by the IT department themselves. Things that make you go, "Hmmmmm..."
There are times I even think the whole "you better fear for your privacy!!" meme is FUD being churned up by the corporate IT guys who see the writing on the wall.
...this ...this ...what do they call it? "Palin Derangement Syndrome." Yeah. "PDS." But I see it now, with this whole e-mail witch hunt, and man, is it ugly and perverse. And from the people who typically whine the most about "privacy," no less!
Pathetic.
What's that like, getting thrown out of your local community college for poor grades?
It takes a bit to piece together the timeline of the relationship
It takes a bit to Get a Life, too, but I recommend you begin the process as soon as possible.
I stumbled upon something interesting there
That you're a manipulated tool?
Remember the conspiracies around Trig's birth, April 18, 2008?
Uh, no. But now you're scaring us...
Who the hell is Easily, and why should he be getting all those patents?
The "Waah Waah Content Pirates aren't Pirates, they don't have ships or parrots!" whine is even more tedious than the "Hackers are computer hobbyists, and not necessarily bad!" screed.
Language evolves (c.f., the original meaning of "geek" in the subject here).
I first heard the use of the word "pirate" in this modern context to refer to the people who were stealing satellite signals from premium cable TV networks back in the '70s, pre-dating popular Internet usage by around 15 years. Get over yourselves and move on.
or: "Where did all those flames come from and why are we in this handbasket?"
Had it been a penguin, then it would have been funny...
Had it been a penguin, 98% of the people passing by the installation would have thought it was an ad for the next Pixar movie.
Yet so, so many people seem to love the work of our artists, writers, producers, directors, and musicians. Now, if they'd only agree to pay for it, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Hey, I know: How about the Spanish Government makes it legal for Spaniards to pirate Spanish-produced movies and music exclusively? Sure, there'd be considerably less worthwhile stuff to purloin, but think of the boost to Julio Iglesias' career!
Let them dig an electronic moat around themselves. Christians, Jews, Homosexuals, Brave Women, Free Thinkers -- everybody hop on the Underground Railroad and follow the setting sun to salvation, contentment, education and prosperity. Let these backwards mutherf*ckers intellectually inbreed themselves into complete drooling impotence and irrelevancy.
You're suggesting the man should switch from Newly-Borg'd to S.P.E.C.T.R.E.-from-Birth?
Know the problem with most Christians?
They're too nice, generally, to tell trolling atheist assholes like you to go fuck yourself.
Guess that'll be my job today.
Freddie Mercury did all before
To her credit, I believe she acknowledges this. In fact, that's why she calls her self "Lady GaGa." It's a hat-tip to the old Queen bic-lighter anthem, "Radio Ga Ga"
So the greatest living practitioner of the art of Hype and Personal Perpetual Re-invention releases an album that has been universally panned in pre-sale auditions on the world's most robust e-tailer huckster (one in the midst of it's own marketing push to sell cloud storage) and the headlines are all a-chuckle over how Herself's new album is so-o-o-o-o popular (along with the free-for-a-limited-time-only neato-cloud-storage-thingy!) it crashed even Amazon's servers.
Sh'yeah...
...if your target metric is trendoid self-absorbed hipsters.
Impossible.
They bought their indulgences (carbon credits) from The Church of Global Warming. Their sins are forgiven.
Look, stupid new religions based on politics and pseudo-half-science I can abide, but I won't tolerate hypocrisy: if the Google boys put sufficient money in the collection plate, they should be cut sufficient slack. The consequences of indiscretion, today as in the Middle Ages, should only be for the poor...
Hey, Jeff Bezos, instead of wasting time posting as an Anonymous Coward on Slashdot, why don't you work on a better lending scheme for the kindle?
they fail to address the matrix of which service and format is support/authorized for which device
Matrix, schmatrix.
Calibre finds, downloads, converts, views, organizes, tweaks, and edits just about every kind of digital book from/into just about every format. And it's free.
Links to an Ad, no pictures, no mention of battery life... is there an question that if InfoWorld wasn't paying for this placement slashdot would not even run this crap?