good number of differences between gmail and pre-gmail hotmail. most obvious is storage capacity. the concept of not ever deleting another email again didn't really exist until gmail - in fact no one considered that a feature that would even be desired. but humans are pack rats - we don't throw shit away - we don't really want to get rid of anything. apple understands this too - and realized that the secret sell for ipods INITIALLY was size. go bigger. carry all your music. SMART. human beings have a fascination with size and interpret size as added value. google so smartly realized this thatthey advertise how much new space you're getting right on the log-in page. for a team of really smart folk - with a aversion to unnecessary elements on a web page - there is critical thought that went into that inclusion. once both apple and gmail have this mindshare, copycat firms have to fight the emotional concept of "not innovating". It hearkens back to being a child and there was that one kid that copied every thing you did and you hated him for it - as it encroached on your individuality and there was nothing you could do about it. A quick glance at any forum reveals lines like: "microsoft copying apple/google again. why can't they just be original/themselves?"
hotmail was like at 2 mb or 10 mb at the time. it meant your email had to be managed by YOU - time and effort towards organization you probably (not you literally - but you figuratively/generally) do not exhibit in your normal life.
gmail meant no organizing. want to find something? just leave it lying around and search for it - we'll bring it right to you. SCORE!
genius is in the details right? user interface is important - but people will look past interface if you give them WHAT THEY WANT. I know a lot of folks that don't like gmail's interface but like the fact the gmail doesn't force them to delete anything. makes them feel like they can go searching back through their life - and that in this google must somehow "get" them, or "understand" their needs. of course, in this regard, as the size of your inbox increases, inertia sets in. how likely is the average gmail user to pack up 4 gigs of shit and bounce? GENIUS.
in short there were huge differences.
re the iphone? the user interface is snazzy, but is IMO less functional than a winmo device with a keyboard. also, and my evidence is purely anecdotal (i.e. worthless), I don't know an iphone user who migrated from a non-smartphone/pda device. ever iphone user i know migrated from blackberry/nokia smartphone/winmo/sidekick. i personally use my iphone as a vanity phone for meetings/conferences/dinners/etc. and a winmo 6 device for the daily work/heavy lifting. the iphone is my porsche - not a daily commuter car. my winmo is my ford focus/whatever. not flashy - but day in/out more functional than the porsche.
DAPs existed before IPOD. smartphones existed before IPHONE. ipod "got" something that IPHONE doesn't "get." It's not user interface - it's something else.
social scientists have long inferred that dumber people are less likely to fall for hustles/social engineering/hacking/etc., because they lack the imagination to consider alternate realities.
i've been consulting for a new york firm for about 9 months now. i do a lot of traveling, but i'm in the new york home base office at least 4 times a week. i often misplace my card-key - and the receptionist refuses to buzz me in, EVERY TIME. She's always like, "I'm sorry, I don't know who you are." her policy is to never buzz anyone in. She angered the chairman once over it, who was talked out of firing her precisely because he's in the office like 3 times a year. She won't buzz people in and she's unrepentently steadfast about it. She's dumb as dirt.
Simple systems are more likely to be secure than more complex systems in general as they are less prone to component failure.
the japanese grow much taller in america when exposed to milk and western diets. even height has much is the way of variability. so in reference to size i refer to both height and weight, both of which have genetic limits on them but are widely variable depending on environment.
i know of this. a lot of this resistance is attributed to green tea consumption and miso soup... both of which are daily essential components of a traditional japanese diet.
miso was used in WWII to combat radiation sickness.
green tea supposedly provides lung protection benefits and signals for malignant cell apoptosis (sp).
there is clearly more to their longevity than diet - but they are not as long-lived in the western world on western diets, indicating perhaps that diet is a component.
there are also studies that show that women have higher baseline levels of hgh production up until menopause, as compared to men. higher levels of hgh production are associated with decreased rates of aging.
the japanese are pretty long-lived, and tend to be pretty small. i heard life expectancy for the japanese drops when they adopt western eating habits (mostly consuming milk) which causes them to grow larger in addition to the fact that the western diet is nutritionally deficient relative to the tradition japanese one. also incidences of all prime causes of early mortality increase: heart disease, etc.
also, women across all societies live longer than men. i think that while women tend to be smaller overall (than men), they tend to have higher BMIs, correct - in the sense that women carry more fat than men in general.
i also read somewhere - and never was able to find it again - that death rates decreased in general the closer one's body mass got to 55kg. man, if i can find that link i'll post it.
when i was a kid, i was undersized for a while - and there was an old lady who lived next door who saw me frustrated about not being big enough to ride the bike i'd gotten. i told her my frustration about being small and she said, "look at hte bright side. if you're small, you'll probably live a long time." Apparently there is some anecdote about living longer if you are smaller.
not that anecdotal evidence means anything, but the japanese population is not an insignificant sample size. interestingly enough, on a biological level longevity is inversely associated with fertility (another factoid i read somehweree that i cannot substantiate at all - no flames please) - and the japanese have one of the lowest birth rates in the first world.
again, no flames as i cannot substantiate these assertions and don't have the time to. But the japanese thing and the woman thing are pretty much documented as regards longevity.
toddlers of different human "breeds" will often group up according to race, age, and gender given free opportunity to self organize. one can argue that they've already been imprinted with bias at that young age - but one can also argue that they have not.
google does charge. they charge advertisers. they offer a litany of free services to the end user in order to charge advertisers. it's the same model that supported free OTA television. SOMEONE is paying.
I was never sure who was paying in Skype. VOIP is not a strongly positioned standalone app (unless they were doing skype to all phones for free and using the app as a advertising platform), so they had no real positioning marketwise other than a bit of first mover branding.
there is, of course, irony in your statement. or perhaps it's something else. in any case it's funny.
In new york, private (non-yellow) car services already all have cameras in them. it is routine to see the pics of idiot cab robbers plastered in the media as they sit in the back of the cab nervously plotting their attacks.
some yellow cabs have them as well - but i'm not certain of the penetration in that regard.
i have no expectation of privacy in a public place - and a cab is public. i don't even have an expectation of privacy in a changing room in a retail store. i would think it naive to expect otherwise.
Ever play pickup basketball with old guys? I'm a run and gun type player myself - and the old timers neutralize all that with the ground and pound. They back up the whole way down the court at two meters an hour, talking shit the whole way while swatting at you when you try to steal the ball. You get overzealous, he threads a backdoor pass from the three point line to the basket for an easy layup. It you tap the ball away he cries foul and complains that the young guys are beating up on the warhorses. Or he'll pump fake you like 14 times until you give up and he banks in the shot. old guys ALWAYS use the glass.
the lawsuits are that old guy - taking a speedy process and slowing it down to their pace in order to give them time to catch up. they call fouls all the time and make the whole process generally unpleasant at times. But they are doing what they need to do to WIN.
pointing out that the lawsuit strategy failed is assuming that it was to attempt to deter change - it's not. Big companies are about slowing down the process and milking every dime they can out of it. Innovating is an interesting thing. For every innovator who succeeds, countless others fail for reasons other than technical viability. The smart thing to for large moneyed firms to do is to wait - let the innovators do their thing; when the market reacts in kind - bully into the market with dollars and positioning. It's the lion chasing off the hyenas after they've made the kill. The king of the jungle feeds off carrion something like 30% of the time.
I'm certain I'll get modded down for this, but the future of this business is not in selling music. What the internet has taught us is that content is devalued by an inability to secure exclusivity of access. The future of media is not ITUNES - that's another example of slowing down change. It is not change itself. It is still selling music. the paradigm shift is that they are not going to sell MUSIC at all.
I disagree. If it were just about the story - then I can imagine that the average run of the mill romance novel with comparably effective storylines would do it for you. Or perhaps a long-winded edith wharton affair.
I've read some pretty bad sci-fi novels (storywise) with so many awesome ideas (both big and small) that made them well worth the read. Sci-fi is about positing on alternate future realities in my estimation. It's what makes sci-fi a genre where even mediocre works by unknown writers can be an exercise in imagination and thoughtfulness - not just about the human condition - but the parameters of humanity's future condition and the manner in which we interact with the matter of the universe. I contend that really good sci-fi is like being reborn. I'm not certain that's fair or accurate for other genres.
correct me if I'm wrong, but don't most who complain about microsoft OSes point to prior defaults to administrator privileges as a major security concern? If so, by that same reasoning, shouldn't web services default to more secure configurations as opposed to less?
b. a video camera in a movie theater that is recording the screen is a violation of theater policy and could be a potetial infringement of copyright.
c. prohibiting electronics in the theater is a fool's errand.
d. she won't go to prison. she probably won't be fined the maximum. This is flamebait.
e. the copyright system isn't perfect by any means, but then again what is. Some form of system is important as it provides incentive for continued creation.
It is merely not in the benefit of the species to have a greater number of inordinately intelligent people. That is sensible.
There is an argument about lefties. The number of lefties has been relatively consistent at around 10 percent IIRC. There are advantages to being a lefty enough to support that number of lefties - an advantage that would diminish if lefties became more populous.
Civilication needs a critical mass - this critical mass needs to be populous and not really specialized.
this isn't proof that intelligence is being selected out. It's proof that intelligence is so potent that a little goes a long way.
i can imagine that the future of music delivery is a perpetually untethered device. one of the interesting things about the iphone is that - AFAIK - you still need to synch/dock in order to load music - you're still tied to the desktop.
the telcos are positioned to sell music - but the devices/phones are not ideal. form factors and battery life are prime issues - along with telco lock-in that prevents getting the best deal/price.
this is one of those things that doesn't seem like an issue now but will be - when devices will not need to be synched in order to acquire and/or expand your music library.
i think gattaca did a great job in this regard. miminize styling cues that are anachronistic - and if you need to refer to a time - go back to a time it obviously isn't.
in gattaca the cars were electric-powered but had a very retro vibe to them. i couldn't place it exactly - 40s perhaps? late 60s? not sure. and that made it a good fit.
the other thing that i thing gattaca did by inference was convey the notion of ubiquitious behind the scenes computing. whereas in many sci-fi films and indeed reality - we still are obviously aware of a computer as such - as opposed to being a seamless critical component of our daily lives. i guess that's what apple is trying to usher in.
the minimalism in design allowed for good aging going forward. clothing was at once severe and classic. haircuts were similarly severe and not obtrusive.
in that sense, 2001 did a great job of creating something convincing as well.
nonetheless, blade runner is my favorite film. "I want more life, fucker..." it doesn't get any more elemental and to the point than that.
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good number of differences between gmail and pre-gmail hotmail. most obvious is storage capacity. the concept of not ever deleting another email again didn't really exist until gmail - in fact no one considered that a feature that would even be desired. but humans are pack rats - we don't throw shit away - we don't really want to get rid of anything. apple understands this too - and realized that the secret sell for ipods INITIALLY was size. go bigger. carry all your music. SMART. human beings have a fascination with size and interpret size as added value. google so smartly realized this thatthey advertise how much new space you're getting right on the log-in page. for a team of really smart folk - with a aversion to unnecessary elements on a web page - there is critical thought that went into that inclusion. once both apple and gmail have this mindshare, copycat firms have to fight the emotional concept of "not innovating". It hearkens back to being a child and there was that one kid that copied every thing you did and you hated him for it - as it encroached on your individuality and there was nothing you could do about it. A quick glance at any forum reveals lines like: "microsoft copying apple/google again. why can't they just be original/themselves?"
hotmail was like at 2 mb or 10 mb at the time. it meant your email had to be managed by YOU - time and effort towards organization you probably (not you literally - but you figuratively/generally) do not exhibit in your normal life.
gmail meant no organizing. want to find something? just leave it lying around and search for it - we'll bring it right to you. SCORE!
genius is in the details right? user interface is important - but people will look past interface if you give them WHAT THEY WANT. I know a lot of folks that don't like gmail's interface but like the fact the gmail doesn't force them to delete anything. makes them feel like they can go searching back through their life - and that in this google must somehow "get" them, or "understand" their needs. of course, in this regard, as the size of your inbox increases, inertia sets in. how likely is the average gmail user to pack up 4 gigs of shit and bounce? GENIUS.
in short there were huge differences.
re the iphone? the user interface is snazzy, but is IMO less functional than a winmo device with a keyboard. also, and my evidence is purely anecdotal (i.e. worthless), I don't know an iphone user who migrated from a non-smartphone/pda device. ever iphone user i know migrated from blackberry/nokia smartphone/winmo/sidekick. i personally use my iphone as a vanity phone for meetings/conferences/dinners/etc. and a winmo 6 device for the daily work/heavy lifting. the iphone is my porsche - not a daily commuter car. my winmo is my ford focus/whatever. not flashy - but day in/out more functional than the porsche.
DAPs existed before IPOD. smartphones existed before IPHONE. ipod "got" something that IPHONE doesn't "get." It's not user interface - it's something else.
social scientists have long inferred that dumber people are less likely to fall for hustles/social engineering/hacking/etc., because they lack the imagination to consider alternate realities.
i've been consulting for a new york firm for about 9 months now. i do a lot of traveling, but i'm in the new york home base office at least 4 times a week. i often misplace my card-key - and the receptionist refuses to buzz me in, EVERY TIME. She's always like, "I'm sorry, I don't know who you are." her policy is to never buzz anyone in. She angered the chairman once over it, who was talked out of firing her precisely because he's in the office like 3 times a year. She won't buzz people in and she's unrepentently steadfast about it. She's dumb as dirt.
Simple systems are more likely to be secure than more complex systems in general as they are less prone to component failure.
the japanese grow much taller in america when exposed to milk and western diets. even height has much is the way of variability. so in reference to size i refer to both height and weight, both of which have genetic limits on them but are widely variable depending on environment.
i know of this. a lot of this resistance is attributed to green tea consumption and miso soup... both of which are daily essential components of a traditional japanese diet.
miso was used in WWII to combat radiation sickness.
green tea supposedly provides lung protection benefits and signals for malignant cell apoptosis (sp).
there is clearly more to their longevity than diet - but they are not as long-lived in the western world on western diets, indicating perhaps that diet is a component.
there are also studies that show that women have higher baseline levels of hgh production up until menopause, as compared to men. higher levels of hgh production are associated with decreased rates of aging.
M.A.D. It worked for your superpowers. Now let's make it work for you.
the japanese are pretty long-lived, and tend to be pretty small. i heard life expectancy for the japanese drops when they adopt western eating habits (mostly consuming milk) which causes them to grow larger in addition to the fact that the western diet is nutritionally deficient relative to the tradition japanese one. also incidences of all prime causes of early mortality increase: heart disease, etc.
also, women across all societies live longer than men. i think that while women tend to be smaller overall (than men), they tend to have higher BMIs, correct - in the sense that women carry more fat than men in general.
i also read somewhere - and never was able to find it again - that death rates decreased in general the closer one's body mass got to 55kg. man, if i can find that link i'll post it.
when i was a kid, i was undersized for a while - and there was an old lady who lived next door who saw me frustrated about not being big enough to ride the bike i'd gotten. i told her my frustration about being small and she said, "look at hte bright side. if you're small, you'll probably live a long time." Apparently there is some anecdote about living longer if you are smaller.
not that anecdotal evidence means anything, but the japanese population is not an insignificant sample size. interestingly enough, on a biological level longevity is inversely associated with fertility (another factoid i read somehweree that i cannot substantiate at all - no flames please) - and the japanese have one of the lowest birth rates in the first world.
again, no flames as i cannot substantiate these assertions and don't have the time to. But the japanese thing and the woman thing are pretty much documented as regards longevity.
toddlers of different human "breeds" will often group up according to race, age, and gender given free opportunity to self organize. one can argue that they've already been imprinted with bias at that young age - but one can also argue that they have not.
lol @ "breed".
what kind of games would you suggest?
google does charge. they charge advertisers. they offer a litany of free services to the end user in order to charge advertisers. it's the same model that supported free OTA television. SOMEONE is paying.
I was never sure who was paying in Skype. VOIP is not a strongly positioned standalone app (unless they were doing skype to all phones for free and using the app as a advertising platform), so they had no real positioning marketwise other than a bit of first mover branding.
there is, of course, irony in your statement. or perhaps it's something else. in any case it's funny.
My math isn't strong. 1 in 30 you say?
In new york, private (non-yellow) car services already all have cameras in them. it is routine to see the pics of idiot cab robbers plastered in the media as they sit in the back of the cab nervously plotting their attacks.
some yellow cabs have them as well - but i'm not certain of the penetration in that regard.
i have no expectation of privacy in a public place - and a cab is public. i don't even have an expectation of privacy in a changing room in a retail store. i would think it naive to expect otherwise.
Ever play pickup basketball with old guys? I'm a run and gun type player myself - and the old timers neutralize all that with the ground and pound. They back up the whole way down the court at two meters an hour, talking shit the whole way while swatting at you when you try to steal the ball. You get overzealous, he threads a backdoor pass from the three point line to the basket for an easy layup. It you tap the ball away he cries foul and complains that the young guys are beating up on the warhorses. Or he'll pump fake you like 14 times until you give up and he banks in the shot. old guys ALWAYS use the glass.
the lawsuits are that old guy - taking a speedy process and slowing it down to their pace in order to give them time to catch up. they call fouls all the time and make the whole process generally unpleasant at times. But they are doing what they need to do to WIN.
pointing out that the lawsuit strategy failed is assuming that it was to attempt to deter change - it's not. Big companies are about slowing down the process and milking every dime they can out of it. Innovating is an interesting thing. For every innovator who succeeds, countless others fail for reasons other than technical viability. The smart thing to for large moneyed firms to do is to wait - let the innovators do their thing; when the market reacts in kind - bully into the market with dollars and positioning. It's the lion chasing off the hyenas after they've made the kill. The king of the jungle feeds off carrion something like 30% of the time.
I'm certain I'll get modded down for this, but the future of this business is not in selling music. What the internet has taught us is that content is devalued by an inability to secure exclusivity of access. The future of media is not ITUNES - that's another example of slowing down change. It is not change itself. It is still selling music. the paradigm shift is that they are not going to sell MUSIC at all.
I disagree. If it were just about the story - then I can imagine that the average run of the mill romance novel with comparably effective storylines would do it for you. Or perhaps a long-winded edith wharton affair.
I've read some pretty bad sci-fi novels (storywise) with so many awesome ideas (both big and small) that made them well worth the read. Sci-fi is about positing on alternate future realities in my estimation. It's what makes sci-fi a genre where even mediocre works by unknown writers can be an exercise in imagination and thoughtfulness - not just about the human condition - but the parameters of humanity's future condition and the manner in which we interact with the matter of the universe. I contend that really good sci-fi is like being reborn. I'm not certain that's fair or accurate for other genres.
correct me if I'm wrong, but don't most who complain about microsoft OSes point to prior defaults to administrator privileges as a major security concern? If so, by that same reasoning, shouldn't web services default to more secure configurations as opposed to less?
points:
a. jhannet is hot.
b. a video camera in a movie theater that is recording the screen is a violation of theater policy and could be a potetial infringement of copyright.
c. prohibiting electronics in the theater is a fool's errand.
d. she won't go to prison. she probably won't be fined the maximum. This is flamebait.
e. the copyright system isn't perfect by any means, but then again what is. Some form of system is important as it provides incentive for continued creation.
It is merely not in the benefit of the species to have a greater number of inordinately intelligent people. That is sensible.
There is an argument about lefties. The number of lefties has been relatively consistent at around 10 percent IIRC. There are advantages to being a lefty enough to support that number of lefties - an advantage that would diminish if lefties became more populous.
Civilication needs a critical mass - this critical mass needs to be populous and not really specialized.
this isn't proof that intelligence is being selected out. It's proof that intelligence is so potent that a little goes a long way.
is this.... HRM?
I'm sorry. I had to do it.
burn, baby, burn.
indeed, the premium for a notebook with comparable specs is probably not considered such when portability is taken into account.
dude i damn near tore my arm out of its socket doing the same thing in mexico a couple of weeks ago. wave runners are so fucking awesome though.
i can imagine that the future of music delivery is a perpetually untethered device. one of the interesting things about the iphone is that - AFAIK - you still need to synch/dock in order to load music - you're still tied to the desktop.
the telcos are positioned to sell music - but the devices/phones are not ideal. form factors and battery life are prime issues - along with telco lock-in that prevents getting the best deal/price.
this is one of those things that doesn't seem like an issue now but will be - when devices will not need to be synched in order to acquire and/or expand your music library.
microsoft's desktop search is better than google's.
i think gattaca did a great job in this regard. miminize styling cues that are anachronistic - and if you need to refer to a time - go back to a time it obviously isn't.
in gattaca the cars were electric-powered but had a very retro vibe to them. i couldn't place it exactly - 40s perhaps? late 60s? not sure. and that made it a good fit.
the other thing that i thing gattaca did by inference was convey the notion of ubiquitious behind the scenes computing. whereas in many sci-fi films and indeed reality - we still are obviously aware of a computer as such - as opposed to being a seamless critical component of our daily lives. i guess that's what apple is trying to usher in.
the minimalism in design allowed for good aging going forward. clothing was at once severe and classic. haircuts were similarly severe and not obtrusive.
in that sense, 2001 did a great job of creating something convincing as well.
nonetheless, blade runner is my favorite film. "I want more life, fucker..." it doesn't get any more elemental and to the point than that.
man, i read that as "planets recognize their own siblings". smh. that would have been awesome.
i never knew my father. i've only met him twice in my life. he's not rich.