Sorry if that complicates the "Noble Farmer vs. Evil Corporation" black-and-white narrative.
No, it just turns it into a slightly-scummy underdog versus one of the greatest hives of evil in the world. Monsanto has claimed it literally does not matter how their seed ends up in a farm, or if it is being used in any way whatsoever, they will still sue for patent infringement merely by it being present without being purchased. Lookup Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser if you don't believe me. For comparison, this would be like (not just kind of similar, but almost exactly the same as) suing someone for copyright infringement after finding a copy of your virus on their system, which they did not put there, and then winning.
No, it's more like Apple making an iPad 3 that makes copies of itself that walk into your lap and turn on.
Are farmers supposed to do an analysis of every plant to verify that it isn't someone elses?
These were probably children that were misled. Everyone was a child at one point, they need guidance not your bullshit. What we should do is toss the assholes that make these scams into the clink for a couple decades.
You're faulting people for exploiting the weaknesses and insecurities of others? I can't even imagine what Television would be like without it.
Are you seriously suggesting Apple was first to release a tablet device with a touch screen?
Name the prior ones. Describe them. Were they decent multi-touch? Touch at all or just stylus? What kind of processor? What OS? What resolution & color depth screen? How thick? How heavy? Battery life? What was the price? How many apps were available?
Uh-huh, I thought so.
You smarmy twerp. There were plenty of PC tablets out there with reasonable touch / stylus input. Multi-touch is cute but not necessary.
Apple was the first to miniaturize it and make something that causes yuppie envy. They were the first to make a luxury tablet, but not the first to make a tablet.
The recent developments within Google and their moving to identity servi.. social networking with demands for ID scans if someone reports you for "fake" name, and other general evil stuff just shows Google has matured as a company and is now just like everyone else. It's not a recent development either, it has been going on for several years, but now everyone else is starting to notice it too. They cut down the amount of geeky stuff like work-on-your-own-projects, they go aggressively into markets and they use every evil marketing tactic in the book.
That is fine. Every company is like that. But slashdotters should stop giving them free passes because they're "google".
This actually makes me want to use their products more. Instead of creating anything their engineers feel like, they are focusing on what they can support that is in line with their profit center. Good. No free passes, but at least it seems like all arms of the company are starting to move in lockstep.
For at least 15 years I've been hearing that various postal services all over the world are "losing battle against e-mail age" while in fact that scary "e-mail age" (or Internet age, as I would call it) should be the best thing they should hope could possible happen. Never before in human history we were buying so many goods from remote locations all over the world to be delivered by... postal services! And now they want an end to Saturday delivery? They should start Sunday delivery. They missed the opportunity to start the biggest online payment system in the world so they should at least focus on being the best at delivering good bought on the Internet, not being worse still.
The "proliferation of e-mail and online bill-paying services" should have been started by USPS because they already had the infrastructure to do that and the client base. If back in the nineties everyone paying bills at USPS were told that they could do the same faster, cheaper and more conveniently at USPSpal.com then people would do that.
The problem is not that the world is not friendly to postal services but that they don't want to change. They missed the train and now they want our help to survive.
This has never worked in the long term before.
Trust me, you don't want the post office to have had any input on the design of the internet.
Thought it might have incorporated the building architecture or something sort of cool. Instead, this is just a 80s video game projected against a blank wall at night. Instead of pressing the button to go left, you lean to the left to go left, the same as every other Kinect game but much simpler. Totally unimpressive.
I can see how moving might be a turnoff for you. Rest assured, there are many other people who like to move around.
I disagree, I believe that people should be constantly evaluating and giving consideration to all information they take in. After making decisions about who they want to be, they should change themselves to become the person they want to be.
Example: If you don't think you're a douchebag, but everyone is telling you that you are, then maybe you should consider the possibility that you really are a douchebag and you just didn't know it. Assuming that you are in fact a douchebag, you should consider whether it's worthwhile to change that characteristic.
The involvement of integrity implies that change is inherently unethical or immoral. That's just not true.
Agreed, however the primary attribute of the Douchebag is that they know it, and enjoy being one. Negative attention is still attention.
is your weight. If you are overweight online dating will not work. In person dating might work if you carry yourself well, but in the online world where the next profile is a click away you less of a chance than a snowball in Hell.
Two word counter argument: Chubby Chasers. I am one. More for me.
If you get high enough up in a company, you can do whatever you want, get in whatever trouble you want, and some smaller company will always hire you.
Another recent(ish?) example I can think of is Mark Hurd from HP, Oracle immediately gave him a job.
The old boys club. It's killing industry worldwide.
Nope, it's the reward for building a ladder of other people's bodies to climb your way to the top.
Isn't no Farmville spam the entire selling point of Google+? Everybody I know using it is there precisely because it's NOT Facebook and doesn't have all the annoying spam (and even more annoying emo users) that make Facebook a wasteland of human stupidity.
Also, at what point has humanity not been comprised mainly of a wasteland of stupidity? And what, exactly is wrong with that? Some people were born/raised with the capacity to appreciate subtle culture. Other people were born/raised with the propensity to post pictures of their friends/family and talk about it online with each other.
If they enjoy playing a simplistic treadmill game and spending money on it, why shouldn't people develop content for that. It's not like Michelangelo-2012 is going to decide to shy away from creating a masterpiece so he can draw virtual cows for people to click on and breed.
Isn't no Farmville spam the entire selling point of Google+? Everybody I know using it is there precisely because it's NOT Facebook and doesn't have all the annoying spam (and even more annoying emo users) that make Facebook a wasteland of human stupidity.
Right, but Mr Ryan isn't addressing users, he is addressing people who are considering spending development money to create programs that will separate end users from their money. He is right that there are more of these types of people on Facebook.
If there was no fall, there was no need for redemption. If there was no need for redemption, there was no need for a savior. And without a savior, there is no Christianity.
There was still a "fall". The evolution of consciousness brings us the "fruit of the garden of eden" i.e. the knowledge of right/wrong, good/evil, i.e. free will. In this particular nugget, they are compatible.
Now if only "Jesus" can be transferred back into metaphor, and salvation to be considered knowing what good is and pursuing it, and asking for forgiveness when we transgress, rather than literally being interpreted as a magical bearded man born a few thousand years ago. That and forgiving me for terrible run-on sentences.
I will set aside the public transit time; I never use it myself. With all the waiting time and endless stops at every corner it is indeed a waste of life.
You are very judgmental and close minded. Also, a little short sighted. I read, text, daydream, talk with my friends, draw, listen to music on public transit. Waste of life? It is life. Sitting in a car, where I can't really dedicate much thought to a complex topic that isn't the road? That is a waste of life.
Another item which most people without homes or family are easily overlooking is that cars are necessary to transport essential cargo, such as food, materials, and everything else that a household may require. You need a car to transport things and people when your relatives need that help. Car is not simply a people's mover - it is a cargo mover. Rare is a day when I don't carry some cargo in my car that won't fit on a bicycle. Long gone are the careless days when all I needed to deliver was myself. Today I carry metal pieces, electronic equipment, wood, tools, and all kinds of stuff that I need every day. I will go and collect a UPS package in an hour or so; it is so large that it can't be conveniently transported on a bicycle. I will throw it into the car and that's all.
Again, you're stretching here. I regularly carry groceries and things that are essential on my bike. Things that are larger, I have a bike rig that I connect to the back. It's convenient, easy. It takes less time to get to and from the store than in a car.
I'm glad that you've decided that riding the bus and riding a bike are wastes of time for you. It's your life. I'm shaming you for deciding that everyone else who had chosen to do these things is making a poor use of their time.
As the Pacific Institute has shown, you'd have to be eating an all-beef diet to offset the environmental benefits of walking or bicycling.
You need to consider other factors too. Showers, for example, which bicycle riders use more often (after each trip.) You also need to count how one bicycle on a busy road affects efficiency of a 1,000 cars that have to slow down or otherwise navigate around the bicycle. And if you get into an accident (regardless of why) you need to count the carbon footprint of airlifting you to the hospital and treating you there for as long as it takes. But even if you don't get into an accident, what is the "carbon footprint" of you wasting your life on a bike instead of getting home earlier and doing something productive instead? You can't possibly suggest that riding at rush hour, among cars, is in any way healthy.
Really? The cars slow down for the bikes? I ride 20 miles a day, and those cars are pretty stationary waiting for the light to change during rush hour while I zoom past them. I easily shave half my commute time by riding a bike. So, "wasting my life" is a fallacy. Net time saving. I don't have to shower after every ride. I also don't get into an accident every time I ride. It seems as if you are reaching for something to be wrong with this.
Seems to me that the trend isn't "the death of the PC" so much as "the rise of shiny toys for simpletons who don't know how to computer"
1) You are classist and are putting an artificial premium on your preference to use a very specific computer in a very specific way.
2) I would argue that the vast majority of people do not need to know how to use a computer. If they have a hand gadget that lets them watch video, listen to music, and stay in touch with people then the invisible hand has spoken
3) Don't all the slashdot form-factor fascists *want* these people off the PC platform so they stop influencing desktop OS design and bugfix priorities? I think the scouring throngs who are sunshine deprived would love for a second, separate internet / gadget platform to fork and splinter off so that they can wipe their cheeto stained hands on their shirt and return to their clackity and clunky desktops, unencumbered by the silent majority of luddites.
Hipsters flaming hipsters. I knew this day would eventually come...
It's been happening since the dawn of slashdot. What are technology cry-babies, except for hipsters that aren't cool (Just like the stereotype hipster who "likes everything before you ever did" isn't cool.
Listening to slashdot members cry tears over people using the internet in ways they don't approve (facebook, twitter, flash, ipods, etc) is so parallel to the stereotype of a hipster, but with programs replacing music and art.
Political correctness is daintily tip-toeing around words and phrases because those words or phrases may or may not be taboo relative to modern cultural, racial, religious, sexual, etc. constructs.
A Spiderman with non-white ethnic background is just diverse. Anyone can get bitten by a radioactive spider.
No, being politically correct is respecting diversity and realizing that, for example, the white mens' club is extremely offensive to racial minorities, women, political minorities, etc. For example, being politically correct means that having a business meeting at a strip club is now frowned upon. Or, perhaps a black person might like to work in an office where being referred to as a "nigger" is banned. This is not tiptoeing. This is common fucking courtesy.
Unfortunately, many members of said club disliked losing their former free reign and exaggerated the practice to walking on eggshells, lest they make the slightest transgression against the smallest of sub-groups. This cartoon of political correctness is a shame, because most sane people believe they should be able to work in an environment without prejudice or bigotry.
There are also, however, instances when the smallest of sub-groups cry wolf and raise a big fuss. Overall theses annoyances are worth the tradeoff. For example, women can now wear pants in the workplace, which makes them much more fun to chase.
Sound like Google is desperate to keep Google+ in the spotlight if they are dredging up ho bags like Lady Gaga to push it.
Well, she's certainly more influential than a sweaty nerd who wouldn't understand talent or normal human sexuality if it were walking around right outside his mother's basement bedroom window.
This is why I've been sending back 3 DVDs in one mailer. I now have several hundred empty envelopes which I will promptly insert a slice of balogna into each and drop them into the mailbox. Statement made.
I love it! You could provide a whole deli-by-mail service -- a slice of bologna in one, cheese in another, mayo in a third, and perhaps a slice apiece of nice garlicky bread in a couple more.
Mm, mm! I'm'a have me some of that! Especially after going through all that US Postal Service machinery. Yum!
I am in love with this idea! I'm sure that this will do so much better than my fax-me-a-burrito service that I drove into the ground in the early 90s.
This is why I've been sending back 3 DVDs in one mailer. I now have several hundred empty envelopes which I will promptly insert a slice of balogna into each and drop them into the mailbox. Statement made.
My favorite introduction to Google plus was it scanning my gmails, then asking me if I want to add my ex-wife. WTF?! is wrong with you Google?!
Lets not even get into the lack of public groups/circles, what a fiasco. I'm not going to add 500+ people individually to make a group.
This is almost on par of Google Wave, waited weeks to get in, and nobody was on to make it useful. Google killed it off by a horrible launch. This time its a horrible lunch and major flaws. I like Google, but too many people are giving undo fan praise and not real evaluation of the product.
Would you prefer that Google scanned your emails and figured out she was your ex-wife and kept her off the list?
jeebus cristo, you people are TECHIES. act like it. 'big content' hosting sites are not the only way to serve your own photos and html, even free forum software.
lazy. do your own site and html. its not rocket science!
stop giving all your content to the big corps.
Yes, I am a technical creator. The difference between us, is that I choose not to reinvent the wheel. Lazy? How about wise. You sound like an indie rock snob, except with technology. #digitalHipster #withEnoughHashtagsMaybeYouWillExplode
I finally got a sense of why so many people feel this way (That *every* time someone uses a gadget while driving it is an unacceptable distraction). I recently visited the Massachusetts area where the roads were extremely curvy and you could not see hundreds of yards in advance like you can in the Midwest.
No, I am not special. I can, however, look at the road and figure out how much time I can not look at the road based upon my speed and the obstacles that are ahead. I think that two seconds to look down at my phone is reasonable on a highway when there are no other cars around. I think that it's terrible that so many people default to nanny government mode and pass a law that punishes competent drivers from making educated decisions that put very little additional risk to the situation.
Or, the phrase that precipitated you title: Just because you can't do it safely, and you have data to prove that other people can't do it safely, doesn't mean that everyone can't do it safely. It is within the bell curve of cognitive capability. I may be deluding myself, but there are people who are just that smart. I don't see it happening, but a reasonable compromise is a license to drive distracted.
And finally, my fallback comment that although completely truthful, is still intended on trolling: I really don't pay attention when I drive. Driving really isn't that hard. When I'm using my cell phone, I'm actually paying more attention. No, I am not the guy who drives too slow, or too fast, or the guy who cut you off. It's just not that hard to be a conscientious driver and not pay attention. Sorry.
Blogger and Picasa are good names: concise, searchable, and trademarkable.
But I guess that Google's marketing department wants headlines to reverberate their name in the tech and business media.
I will adjust, but I still think that the decision sucks.
The marketing department can save your job. Be nice to them. Bear in mind, they do two things. 1) Promote existing products 2) Figure out what the available market is for a given product. As far as #2 goes, there is an incredible market segment to take away from competitors.
Picasa has a wide user base, but it is still unknown to large swaths of the web. You and I know that Google owns blogger, but do most people? Rebranding is important to create a unified product portfolio. Especially, if they can get more users / eyeballs onto Picasa and off of competing photo sharing sites (*cough* Facebook)
require everyday acts of spontaneous co-operation and yielding to others — acts that are 'un-American.'"
Wow... Just Wow... That's an argument against roundabouts?!? I personally find that one of the most sad statements I've read in a long time.
This is a surprise to you? There are many kind, wonderful people in this country of ours. There are many individualists who strive to not step on others. And, there are plenty of people who act in completely self-centered ways, whether it helps them or not.
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Sorry if that complicates the "Noble Farmer vs. Evil Corporation" black-and-white narrative.
No, it just turns it into a slightly-scummy underdog versus one of the greatest hives of evil in the world. Monsanto has claimed it literally does not matter how their seed ends up in a farm, or if it is being used in any way whatsoever, they will still sue for patent infringement merely by it being present without being purchased. Lookup Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser if you don't believe me. For comparison, this would be like (not just kind of similar, but almost exactly the same as) suing someone for copyright infringement after finding a copy of your virus on their system, which they did not put there, and then winning.
No, it's more like Apple making an iPad 3 that makes copies of itself that walk into your lap and turn on.
Are farmers supposed to do an analysis of every plant to verify that it isn't someone elses?
These were probably children that were misled. Everyone was a child at one point, they need guidance not your bullshit. What we should do is toss the assholes that make these scams into the clink for a couple decades.
You're faulting people for exploiting the weaknesses and insecurities of others? I can't even imagine what Television would be like without it.
Are you seriously suggesting Apple was first to release a tablet device with a touch screen?
Name the prior ones. Describe them. Were they decent multi-touch? Touch at all or just stylus? What kind of processor? What OS? What resolution & color depth screen? How thick? How heavy? Battery life? What was the price? How many apps were available?
Uh-huh, I thought so.
You smarmy twerp. There were plenty of PC tablets out there with reasonable touch / stylus input. Multi-touch is cute but not necessary.
Apple was the first to miniaturize it and make something that causes yuppie envy. They were the first to make a luxury tablet, but not the first to make a tablet.
The recent developments within Google and their moving to identity servi.. social networking with demands for ID scans if someone reports you for "fake" name, and other general evil stuff just shows Google has matured as a company and is now just like everyone else. It's not a recent development either, it has been going on for several years, but now everyone else is starting to notice it too. They cut down the amount of geeky stuff like work-on-your-own-projects, they go aggressively into markets and they use every evil marketing tactic in the book. That is fine. Every company is like that. But slashdotters should stop giving them free passes because they're "google".
This actually makes me want to use their products more. Instead of creating anything their engineers feel like, they are focusing on what they can support that is in line with their profit center. Good. No free passes, but at least it seems like all arms of the company are starting to move in lockstep.
For at least 15 years I've been hearing that various postal services all over the world are "losing battle against e-mail age" while in fact that scary "e-mail age" (or Internet age, as I would call it) should be the best thing they should hope could possible happen. Never before in human history we were buying so many goods from remote locations all over the world to be delivered by ... postal services! And now they want an end to Saturday delivery? They should start Sunday delivery. They missed the opportunity to start the biggest online payment system in the world so they should at least focus on being the best at delivering good bought on the Internet, not being worse still.
The "proliferation of e-mail and online bill-paying services" should have been started by USPS because they already had the infrastructure to do that and the client base. If back in the nineties everyone paying bills at USPS were told that they could do the same faster, cheaper and more conveniently at USPSpal.com then people would do that. The problem is not that the world is not friendly to postal services but that they don't want to change. They missed the train and now they want our help to survive. This has never worked in the long term before.
Trust me, you don't want the post office to have had any input on the design of the internet.
Thought it might have incorporated the building architecture or something sort of cool. Instead, this is just a 80s video game projected against a blank wall at night. Instead of pressing the button to go left, you lean to the left to go left, the same as every other Kinect game but much simpler. Totally unimpressive.
I can see how moving might be a turnoff for you. Rest assured, there are many other people who like to move around.
I disagree, I believe that people should be constantly evaluating and giving consideration to all information they take in. After making decisions about who they want to be, they should change themselves to become the person they want to be.
Example: If you don't think you're a douchebag, but everyone is telling you that you are, then maybe you should consider the possibility that you really are a douchebag and you just didn't know it. Assuming that you are in fact a douchebag, you should consider whether it's worthwhile to change that characteristic.
The involvement of integrity implies that change is inherently unethical or immoral. That's just not true.
Agreed, however the primary attribute of the Douchebag is that they know it, and enjoy being one. Negative attention is still attention.
is your weight. If you are overweight online dating will not work. In person dating might work if you carry yourself well, but in the online world where the next profile is a click away you less of a chance than a snowball in Hell.
Two word counter argument: Chubby Chasers. I am one. More for me.
If you get high enough up in a company, you can do whatever you want, get in whatever trouble you want, and some smaller company will always hire you. Another recent(ish?) example I can think of is Mark Hurd from HP, Oracle immediately gave him a job.
The old boys club. It's killing industry worldwide.
Nope, it's the reward for building a ladder of other people's bodies to climb your way to the top.
Isn't no Farmville spam the entire selling point of Google+? Everybody I know using it is there precisely because it's NOT Facebook and doesn't have all the annoying spam (and even more annoying emo users) that make Facebook a wasteland of human stupidity.
Also, at what point has humanity not been comprised mainly of a wasteland of stupidity? And what, exactly is wrong with that? Some people were born/raised with the capacity to appreciate subtle culture. Other people were born/raised with the propensity to post pictures of their friends/family and talk about it online with each other.
If they enjoy playing a simplistic treadmill game and spending money on it, why shouldn't people develop content for that. It's not like Michelangelo-2012 is going to decide to shy away from creating a masterpiece so he can draw virtual cows for people to click on and breed.
Isn't no Farmville spam the entire selling point of Google+? Everybody I know using it is there precisely because it's NOT Facebook and doesn't have all the annoying spam (and even more annoying emo users) that make Facebook a wasteland of human stupidity.
Right, but Mr Ryan isn't addressing users, he is addressing people who are considering spending development money to create programs that will separate end users from their money. He is right that there are more of these types of people on Facebook.
If there was no fall, there was no need for redemption. If there was no need for redemption, there was no need for a savior. And without a savior, there is no Christianity.
There was still a "fall". The evolution of consciousness brings us the "fruit of the garden of eden" i.e. the knowledge of right/wrong, good/evil, i.e. free will. In this particular nugget, they are compatible.
Now if only "Jesus" can be transferred back into metaphor, and salvation to be considered knowing what good is and pursuing it, and asking for forgiveness when we transgress, rather than literally being interpreted as a magical bearded man born a few thousand years ago. That and forgiving me for terrible run-on sentences.
I will set aside the public transit time; I never use it myself. With all the waiting time and endless stops at every corner it is indeed a waste of life.
You are very judgmental and close minded. Also, a little short sighted. I read, text, daydream, talk with my friends, draw, listen to music on public transit. Waste of life? It is life. Sitting in a car, where I can't really dedicate much thought to a complex topic that isn't the road? That is a waste of life.
Another item which most people without homes or family are easily overlooking is that cars are necessary to transport essential cargo, such as food, materials, and everything else that a household may require. You need a car to transport things and people when your relatives need that help. Car is not simply a people's mover - it is a cargo mover. Rare is a day when I don't carry some cargo in my car that won't fit on a bicycle. Long gone are the careless days when all I needed to deliver was myself. Today I carry metal pieces, electronic equipment, wood, tools, and all kinds of stuff that I need every day. I will go and collect a UPS package in an hour or so; it is so large that it can't be conveniently transported on a bicycle. I will throw it into the car and that's all.
Again, you're stretching here. I regularly carry groceries and things that are essential on my bike. Things that are larger, I have a bike rig that I connect to the back. It's convenient, easy. It takes less time to get to and from the store than in a car.
I'm glad that you've decided that riding the bus and riding a bike are wastes of time for you. It's your life. I'm shaming you for deciding that everyone else who had chosen to do these things is making a poor use of their time.
As the Pacific Institute has shown, you'd have to be eating an all-beef diet to offset the environmental benefits of walking or bicycling.
You need to consider other factors too. Showers, for example, which bicycle riders use more often (after each trip.) You also need to count how one bicycle on a busy road affects efficiency of a 1,000 cars that have to slow down or otherwise navigate around the bicycle. And if you get into an accident (regardless of why) you need to count the carbon footprint of airlifting you to the hospital and treating you there for as long as it takes. But even if you don't get into an accident, what is the "carbon footprint" of you wasting your life on a bike instead of getting home earlier and doing something productive instead? You can't possibly suggest that riding at rush hour, among cars, is in any way healthy.
Really? The cars slow down for the bikes? I ride 20 miles a day, and those cars are pretty stationary waiting for the light to change during rush hour while I zoom past them. I easily shave half my commute time by riding a bike. So, "wasting my life" is a fallacy. Net time saving. I don't have to shower after every ride. I also don't get into an accident every time I ride. It seems as if you are reaching for something to be wrong with this.
Seems to me that the trend isn't "the death of the PC" so much as "the rise of shiny toys for simpletons who don't know how to computer"
1) You are classist and are putting an artificial premium on your preference to use a very specific computer in a very specific way.
2) I would argue that the vast majority of people do not need to know how to use a computer. If they have a hand gadget that lets them watch video, listen to music, and stay in touch with people then the invisible hand has spoken
3) Don't all the slashdot form-factor fascists *want* these people off the PC platform so they stop influencing desktop OS design and bugfix priorities? I think the scouring throngs who are sunshine deprived would love for a second, separate internet / gadget platform to fork and splinter off so that they can wipe their cheeto stained hands on their shirt and return to their clackity and clunky desktops, unencumbered by the silent majority of luddites.
Hipsters flaming hipsters. I knew this day would eventually come...
It's been happening since the dawn of slashdot. What are technology cry-babies, except for hipsters that aren't cool (Just like the stereotype hipster who "likes everything before you ever did" isn't cool.
Listening to slashdot members cry tears over people using the internet in ways they don't approve (facebook, twitter, flash, ipods, etc) is so parallel to the stereotype of a hipster, but with programs replacing music and art.
Political correctness is daintily tip-toeing around words and phrases because those words or phrases may or may not be taboo relative to modern cultural, racial, religious, sexual, etc. constructs.
A Spiderman with non-white ethnic background is just diverse. Anyone can get bitten by a radioactive spider.
No, being politically correct is respecting diversity and realizing that, for example, the white mens' club is extremely offensive to racial minorities, women, political minorities, etc. For example, being politically correct means that having a business meeting at a strip club is now frowned upon. Or, perhaps a black person might like to work in an office where being referred to as a "nigger" is banned. This is not tiptoeing. This is common fucking courtesy.
Unfortunately, many members of said club disliked losing their former free reign and exaggerated the practice to walking on eggshells, lest they make the slightest transgression against the smallest of sub-groups. This cartoon of political correctness is a shame, because most sane people believe they should be able to work in an environment without prejudice or bigotry.
There are also, however, instances when the smallest of sub-groups cry wolf and raise a big fuss. Overall theses annoyances are worth the tradeoff. For example, women can now wear pants in the workplace, which makes them much more fun to chase.
Sound like Google is desperate to keep Google+ in the spotlight if they are dredging up ho bags like Lady Gaga to push it.
Well, she's certainly more influential than a sweaty nerd who wouldn't understand talent or normal human sexuality if it were walking around right outside his mother's basement bedroom window.
This is why I've been sending back 3 DVDs in one mailer. I now have several hundred empty envelopes which I will promptly insert a slice of balogna into each and drop them into the mailbox. Statement made.
I love it! You could provide a whole deli-by-mail service -- a slice of bologna in one, cheese in another, mayo in a third, and perhaps a slice apiece of nice garlicky bread in a couple more.
Mm, mm! I'm'a have me some of that! Especially after going through all that US Postal Service machinery. Yum!
I am in love with this idea! I'm sure that this will do so much better than my fax-me-a-burrito service that I drove into the ground in the early 90s.
This is why I've been sending back 3 DVDs in one mailer. I now have several hundred empty envelopes which I will promptly insert a slice of balogna into each and drop them into the mailbox. Statement made.
My favorite introduction to Google plus was it scanning my gmails, then asking me if I want to add my ex-wife. WTF?! is wrong with you Google?!
Lets not even get into the lack of public groups/circles, what a fiasco. I'm not going to add 500+ people individually to make a group.
This is almost on par of Google Wave, waited weeks to get in, and nobody was on to make it useful. Google killed it off by a horrible launch. This time its a horrible lunch and major flaws. I like Google, but too many people are giving undo fan praise and not real evaluation of the product.
Would you prefer that Google scanned your emails and figured out she was your ex-wife and kept her off the list?
get your own website and put your photos there.
jeebus cristo, you people are TECHIES. act like it. 'big content' hosting sites are not the only way to serve your own photos and html, even free forum software.
lazy. do your own site and html. its not rocket science!
stop giving all your content to the big corps.
Yes, I am a technical creator. The difference between us, is that I choose not to reinvent the wheel. Lazy? How about wise. You sound like an indie rock snob, except with technology. #digitalHipster #withEnoughHashtagsMaybeYouWillExplode
No, you're NOT special.
I finally got a sense of why so many people feel this way (That *every* time someone uses a gadget while driving it is an unacceptable distraction). I recently visited the Massachusetts area where the roads were extremely curvy and you could not see hundreds of yards in advance like you can in the Midwest.
No, I am not special. I can, however, look at the road and figure out how much time I can not look at the road based upon my speed and the obstacles that are ahead. I think that two seconds to look down at my phone is reasonable on a highway when there are no other cars around. I think that it's terrible that so many people default to nanny government mode and pass a law that punishes competent drivers from making educated decisions that put very little additional risk to the situation.
Or, the phrase that precipitated you title: Just because you can't do it safely, and you have data to prove that other people can't do it safely, doesn't mean that everyone can't do it safely. It is within the bell curve of cognitive capability. I may be deluding myself, but there are people who are just that smart. I don't see it happening, but a reasonable compromise is a license to drive distracted.
And finally, my fallback comment that although completely truthful, is still intended on trolling: I really don't pay attention when I drive. Driving really isn't that hard. When I'm using my cell phone, I'm actually paying more attention. No, I am not the guy who drives too slow, or too fast, or the guy who cut you off. It's just not that hard to be a conscientious driver and not pay attention. Sorry.
Blogger and Picasa are good names: concise, searchable, and trademarkable.
But I guess that Google's marketing department wants headlines to reverberate their name in the tech and business media.
I will adjust, but I still think that the decision sucks.
The marketing department can save your job. Be nice to them. Bear in mind, they do two things. 1) Promote existing products 2) Figure out what the available market is for a given product. As far as #2 goes, there is an incredible market segment to take away from competitors.
Picasa has a wide user base, but it is still unknown to large swaths of the web. You and I know that Google owns blogger, but do most people? Rebranding is important to create a unified product portfolio. Especially, if they can get more users / eyeballs onto Picasa and off of competing photo sharing sites (*cough* Facebook)
Wow... Just Wow... That's an argument against roundabouts?!? I personally find that one of the most sad statements I've read in a long time.
This is a surprise to you? There are many kind, wonderful people in this country of ours. There are many individualists who strive to not step on others. And, there are plenty of people who act in completely self-centered ways, whether it helps them or not.