but that assumes you don't want ANY text messages displayed. I have need to see most text messages when in lock mode, and there's no way to screen this specific type of notification out. One approach would be for the initial message from yahoo to not contain the actual code, but rather requires a response before sending the actual code in a second text message. And yes, text messaging rates would apply:)
I can easily see how to capitalize on this by releasing it via pay per view/on-demand or other services (assuming, of course, these providers can do a better job at protecting their servers than Sony did in the first place). Who says you have to sit in a physical movie theater with a bunch of strangers that you don't talk to in order to enjoy this movie?
If you really want to get a sense of how machavellian the Cable industry can be, read the book The Billionaire Shell Game [,A href="http://www.amazon.com/Billionaire-Shell-Game-Assorted-Corporate/dp/0385479271">Amazon]. Written before the Internet Bubble of 2000, it speaks to the early days of TCI and Bell Atlantic, but loops in a lot of other major industry players at the time.
I had the (dis)fortune to observe firsthand how some of these cable giants played the game in late 1999/early 2000, and wished I had read that book before taking the consulting gig.
World is full of stupid people. Easy to imagine someone on the witness stand saying "We kept telling Ed not to text-and-drive. It's such a shame that he didn't want to wait until he stopped to read my text message to pick up milk."
Would seem that any action that distracts a driver would then be fair game. Called someone you know on their mobile phone? Even the simple act of them having to reach for the phone, or put their bluetooth headset one, or (heck) even press the answer button on their in-dash system could be argued by a lawyer to have caused a distraction.
And what's next? Can I be liable simply for waiving at someone from the sidewalk? After all, they may have to turn their head to see who it was that was waiving, and next thing you know.... BLAM!
sigh.
I sure do love living in NJ at times.
I wouldn't be surprised if the lawyers at these drug companies were concerned that they would somehow be violating the medical privacy laws by allowing visibility of (potential) users of their product by other FB users. If you were to post on their wall that you had adverse side effects, and your boss saw that comment and took action because of concern for a medical condition the company had previously not known about, I'm sure some plaintiff's lawyer would try to hold the drug company liable for exposing that fact (even while the boss/employer was also clearly in the wrong).
My company has 1 specific application out of 100+ (provided by a 3rd party vendor, not built internally) that is causing us to maintain IE6 as the corporate standard.
And since you can't have both IE6 and IE8 installed at the same time on the same machine without jumping through hoops (and apparently it's too difficult a learning curve for IT to support Firefox for some 99% of the apps while relegating IE6 only for use with this one application in question), we're stuck with IE6 as a corporate standard.
Which also means we can't get off XP easily either. Bleah all around.
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Ya ever wonder if Slashdot had been a Facebook app, whether anyone would have used it?
Here in the states, they've been very careful to describe emergency and non-emergency numbers as "nine-one-one" and "three-one-one". This way, no one is looking for the "eleven" key on their phones.
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Wazza matter? They don't know how to use Google maps to pinpoint the closest Dunkin' Donuts and just start looking for cop there like everyone here in NJ does?
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Yeah, I know it's a cliche. Actually, our local cops are at the diner, not the donut shop. But diners are a regional thing. Donut shops are pretty much worldwide.
My sister used to play this game (in a 2D way) all the time when she was younger (I swear... It wasn't my idea).
But you could float the jacks around in a 3D space, then bounce the ball off some wall and try to grab all of the jacks in your hands and still catch the ball off the bounce.
First round you have to grab one jack. Second round, two. And so on.
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Hide and seek seems like it would be a bit more challenging on the space station. "Anyone seen Dave? Or his EVA suit?"
But it has a lot to do with what you think you real long term career path is going to be.
When I graduated high school, I also had the choice between a small state college Liberal Studies curriculum with a Compsci concentration, or some heavy Compsci programs at larger schools. I've actually found that my Liberal Studies background helped my long term career far more, because it gave me skills that could be leveraged in product management, strategy, marketing, etc.
It's really tempting to think you'll want to spend your life programming - I know I started out that way, and held my own very well against peers who graduated from Stanford, MIT, etc. But over time, I also came to realize that 1) programmers were becoming a dime-a-dozen (especially with offshoring going on), and 2) kids coming out of school even just a few years after me were bringing new technical skills in OO programming, Java, etc. that surpassed mine from the start.
But I also realized that these same graduates had no skills to help drive product evolution - they couldn't think strategically about markets and competition, they couldn't create and give decent customer and industry presentations, they couldn't necessarily write position papers or article, etc.
So my Liberal Studies background actually became a benefit, because it gave me more flexibility in my career.
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And yes, I'm now qualified to ask, "Do you want fries with that?"
Actually, I can think of several business uses for Twitter. Imagine owning a small business and needing to track delivery or service teams. Rather than invest in a large and expensive transportation and GPS tracking system, just have your drivers twitter when they've reached or are leaving a specific destination.
As a manager, I could then subscribe to their twittering, and track the location of my resources, redirecting them as appropriate for emergency services, pickups, deliveries, etc.
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There is no try, there is only do, do not, or tell the wife you forgot
While I can understand the argument about cell phones, there is no one to blame but myself when my cell phone battery dies. So if you think cell-based mobile communications are mission critical, you have to address the issues of never having a dead battery.
Network failure or endpoint failure... doesn't make much difference. In either case, you have a multitude of fallback options.
So the simple answer is that I have more options. When my cell phone doesn't work, I have my desktop phone (or vice versa). or IM. Or email. Or fax.
Basically, we don't rely so much on a single system that a brief outage can be tolerated because there are alternatives to choose from.
This is also the basis of Clayton Christensen's theories on disruptive innovation - that a consumer of something (technology, etc.) is willing to trade off some of these aspects, like reliability, for cost or performance benefits (however you wish to define those benefits...).
Slashdot Mirror
... and this is 'current news' because?
But only at 2:35am. And from random spots in the house.
but that assumes you don't want ANY text messages displayed. I have need to see most text messages when in lock mode, and there's no way to screen this specific type of notification out. One approach would be for the initial message from yahoo to not contain the actual code, but rather requires a response before sending the actual code in a second text message. And yes, text messaging rates would apply :)
I can easily see how to capitalize on this by releasing it via pay per view/on-demand or other services (assuming, of course, these providers can do a better job at protecting their servers than Sony did in the first place). Who says you have to sit in a physical movie theater with a bunch of strangers that you don't talk to in order to enjoy this movie?
If you really want to get a sense of how machavellian the Cable industry can be, read the book The Billionaire Shell Game [,A href="http://www.amazon.com/Billionaire-Shell-Game-Assorted-Corporate/dp/0385479271">Amazon]. Written before the Internet Bubble of 2000, it speaks to the early days of TCI and Bell Atlantic, but loops in a lot of other major industry players at the time.
I had the (dis)fortune to observe firsthand how some of these cable giants played the game in late 1999/early 2000, and wished I had read that book before taking the consulting gig.
It's easy to know if the sender knew. Just ask the NSA. Apparently, they know everything these days....
World is full of stupid people. Easy to imagine someone on the witness stand saying "We kept telling Ed not to text-and-drive. It's such a shame that he didn't want to wait until he stopped to read my text message to pick up milk."
Would seem that any action that distracts a driver would then be fair game. Called someone you know on their mobile phone? Even the simple act of them having to reach for the phone, or put their bluetooth headset one, or (heck) even press the answer button on their in-dash system could be argued by a lawyer to have caused a distraction. And what's next? Can I be liable simply for waiving at someone from the sidewalk? After all, they may have to turn their head to see who it was that was waiving, and next thing you know.... BLAM! sigh. I sure do love living in NJ at times.
I wouldn't be surprised if the lawyers at these drug companies were concerned that they would somehow be violating the medical privacy laws by allowing visibility of (potential) users of their product by other FB users. If you were to post on their wall that you had adverse side effects, and your boss saw that comment and took action because of concern for a medical condition the company had previously not known about, I'm sure some plaintiff's lawyer would try to hold the drug company liable for exposing that fact (even while the boss/employer was also clearly in the wrong).
That's not a fossil. That's a monolith.
And since you can't have both IE6 and IE8 installed at the same time on the same machine without jumping through hoops (and apparently it's too difficult a learning curve for IT to support Firefox for some 99% of the apps while relegating IE6 only for use with this one application in question), we're stuck with IE6 as a corporate standard.
Which also means we can't get off XP easily either. Bleah all around.
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Ya ever wonder if Slashdot had been a Facebook app, whether anyone would have used it?
SO.... calling it a "20-girl Go-go-rama. Free buffet" would be perfectly legal?
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Not that the slashdot crowd would be in to either football or go-go-rama's. Or even know 20 girls to begin with.
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Yeah, I know it's a cliche. Actually, our local cops are at the diner, not the donut shop. But diners are a regional thing. Donut shops are pretty much worldwide.
Umm.. that we now have found Prior Art, and can prove the Monty Python patent application should be declared invalid?
Sniff. -- I'm not crying. I just have something in my eye.
Oh wait... that was the Coyote....My bad.
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needing all the good karma I can get these days
But you could float the jacks around in a 3D space, then bounce the ball off some wall and try to grab all of the jacks in your hands and still catch the ball off the bounce.
First round you have to grab one jack. Second round, two. And so on.
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Hide and seek seems like it would be a bit more challenging on the space station. "Anyone seen Dave? Or his EVA suit?"
When I graduated high school, I also had the choice between a small state college Liberal Studies curriculum with a Compsci concentration, or some heavy Compsci programs at larger schools. I've actually found that my Liberal Studies background helped my long term career far more, because it gave me skills that could be leveraged in product management, strategy, marketing, etc.
It's really tempting to think you'll want to spend your life programming - I know I started out that way, and held my own very well against peers who graduated from Stanford, MIT, etc. But over time, I also came to realize that 1) programmers were becoming a dime-a-dozen (especially with offshoring going on), and 2) kids coming out of school even just a few years after me were bringing new technical skills in OO programming, Java, etc. that surpassed mine from the start.
But I also realized that these same graduates had no skills to help drive product evolution - they couldn't think strategically about markets and competition, they couldn't create and give decent customer and industry presentations, they couldn't necessarily write position papers or article, etc.
So my Liberal Studies background actually became a benefit, because it gave me more flexibility in my career.
--
And yes, I'm now qualified to ask, "Do you want fries with that?"
As a manager, I could then subscribe to their twittering, and track the location of my resources, redirecting them as appropriate for emergency services, pickups, deliveries, etc.
--
There is no try, there is only do, do not, or tell the wife you forgot
Network failure or endpoint failure... doesn't make much difference. In either case, you have a multitude of fallback options.
Basically, we don't rely so much on a single system that a brief outage can be tolerated because there are alternatives to choose from.
This is also the basis of Clayton Christensen's theories on disruptive innovation - that a consumer of something (technology, etc.) is willing to trade off some of these aspects, like reliability, for cost or performance benefits (however you wish to define those benefits...).
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And then he handed me a bill for 1 hours' work... wish I could get away with that
Depends. How good is my lawyer?