I have 129 facial points that look exactly like Charlie Sheen. Could be worse, but still not a great hand to be dealt. But I'm not alone: 130 facial points factored by 7B people on earth, what were my chances of this, exactly?
I can't decide whether the tone of this discussion reminds me more of Austen Powers post-insult "meow", or the two grumpy balcony muppets. All the article says is that several people set their Google+ to "friends only" or something.
I lived in Africa, and built outhouses. We dug a deep hole. Then, we made a shallow square hole, about 6 inches deep, in the soft pile of dirt. We placed a bucket on the ground inside the square, poured cement (and rebar) around the bucket, and when the cement dried we removed the bucket and had a floor with a hole in it. We put the floor with the hole over the hole we'd dug. Then we required people to sign a EULA agreement that by peeing in the outhouse, they agreed not to copy our idea. Wait, no we didn't. Kidding aside, I don't see that water has ever been part of the toilet equation in the developing world.
Maybe this has been tried... But if Oracle or Google or Microsoft... Someone with these lawyers on retainer... Will please patent or reverse patent or trademark "first post" and kindly sue Anonymous, we slashdoters will be eternally grateful and go red sox.
I wonder if this is going to affect the price of space on server farms? And then we will need more officers to read the growing data. Sounds like inflation.
If I'm uncomfortable with a new technology (plastic, e-waste, cell phone, packaging, condoms) I could avoid them myself. The column, which is excellent, is trying to predict when the panic over "witches brews" of technology create a stampede, legislation, or environmentalist-locust mode of panic. I am not sure I buy the common correlations Genevieve Bell postulates about space and time. People have always been more afraid of plastic packaging than paper. It's interesting when a group in society becomes irrationally panicked about a technology, and then another technology company with a commercial interest in the panic plays a role in stirring it up.
What about the 75% of accidents which were not correlated with gadgetry? And what about the gadgetry in use while driving which did not create an accident? I have seen enough weaving on the road that I don't wish to blindly defend people using GPS while driving. But what percentage of people who had an accident had brown eyes? Or is this based on the claim of the driver, which would discount a) liars (drinkers?) who have been in accidents, and b) fatal accidents.
I think we need to figure out what is going on. When car blinkers and car radios were first introduced, people had accidents because they didn't know how to use them, and people driving stick who learned to drive automatic may be a risk element too.
But it is the weakest in the majority who hound the outsiders. It is not "tribalism" as much as "alpha-dog-ism". It is easier to gain acceptance at the top of the tribe than at the bottom.
Piratism has a decent chance of becoming a religion. It just takes a couple of centuries for a religion to "gel", to be recognized as meeting the key criterion, recognized by the Romans etc.: "It's not going away". In the meantime, they will need to practice what they preach, and take their trials and tribulations.
That an Egyptian can fix a bad joint on a laptop. Americans are going to be banned from selling laptops with loose power adapters (the number one cause of failure of several Dell and Lenovo and other models) under legislation introduced by Green-Thompson "ewaste". Only "tested working" electronics can be resold. Vermont now bans sale between Vermonters without a hazardous waste permit. We know the issue is the adapter plug (people carry the laptop around with the plug inserted, and it breaks the solder). But it is about to be made illegal to sell laptops etc. for repair, even if the Egyptian/Indonesian/Peruvian knows schematic diagrams AND is also more than 4 years old(!). Maybe if we make laptops out of play-dough, they will be considered less "hazardous", though currently even play-dough laptops are covered by Vermont E-waste law. Imagine this applied to cars - if it doesn't pass inspection, it's haz waste, moon suit tow trucks.
I own CDs because I had the habit of owning records. I came to own records because, in every Parade Magazine in the 1970s, the Columbia Record club offered an astounding 12 albums for one penny. You just had to join the club and agree to try/buy an album each month, and had the right to return the album if you were not completely satisfied. Of course, kids like me wound up paying more and buying a lot of music, and sometimes got an album we didn't like but didn't return (and there was a used record store for that). Anyway, my question is, why does the entertainment industry, of all industries, not understand the concept of offering people a better deal? Why didn't they think of Napster, as a record club, before Napster ever happened? Why didn't they INVENT torrents to sell their product? Lazy.
According to the article: "The understandability to interact has always been an issue on Twitter for new users — this hopefully will solve the problem."
Well, there you go. Couldn't have said it any better.
It is better than Bill Clinton's "write your questions on the back of a box of kleenex" town hall, or Reagan's "chalkboard" town hall. We have to keep trying, until we get it right.
In the ancient past, whether one was "Anglican" or "Catholic" meant one whole hellova lot... But, MY kids are dual nationalities, bi-lingual, and I bet my grand-kids will have more loyalty to their dot-com address than their passport. The beautiful thing is that we used to worry about Chinese starving and feeling guilty about not finishing food on our plates... and NOW we discuss whether Foxconn or Apple made the Star Trek transmitter device! Melting Pot 2.0 = beachfront property! American mojo is greek mojo on Romans? cOOLio DuDes
Pffff is right. To be truly "recycled", something needs to add value in a way that avoids use of finite natural resources. Trees saved from recycled paper, mining averted from recycled metals.
On the other hand, THIS type of "end use" is referred to as "the solution is dilution". All the world's waste could get blended into eyeglasses if the percentage was small enough and the eyeglasses compensate for the amount of non-value material by getting bigger (as these thick critters do - the amount of "bioresin" appears to be increased to make up for the superfluous hair). Jimmy Hoffa may have been "recycled" into a parking lot somewhere, but if it didn't add value to the parking lot then we don't need to waste our time promoting it.
I do not remember that storage media was required a license. Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. is the 1984 USA Supreme Court ruling which said once I bought a song I can record it in another media for my own use. Sony, BASF and Maxell made the cassettes used for the backups, and only Sony objected. But did Sony, like Apple (in the current article) feel it necessary to pay license fees when their own cassette tapes were being used to back up the media?
If Google was a pocket knife, it would still fit in my pocket. Turning this upside down, searching and locating is common in browsers, advertising, networking, search, and crosses over multiple devices. The article makes it sound like people ten years from now will still treat all of these as different fields. Tech companies will be more like Wal-Mart, and less like drug stores, soda shops, butchers and cheese shops.
I do a lot of used computer business with Egypt, have friends who set up internet cafes and other geek traders, share with them on Facebook and Twitter etc. Last January, they were all trying to encrypt the posts "3gyp7ian R3v0lution" style. http://tinyurl.com/3phbv7j Hopefully China will find it similarly impossible to keep the genie inside the bottle.
On the other hand, if they succeeded, and they recreate a Twitter with nothing provocative, political, or edgy.. The only thing that saves twitter is the search function, finding something interesting. If it's really about reading the banal tweets ("Walking my Chinese dog, saw a taxi")... Just kill me now.
Simplified: Browsers A, B, C are introduced in order to billions of users. Browser A starts with 100% of Market, using Marketing tools like bundling, until Browser B is introduced. Browser B does not have marketing dollars but over time achieves 30% share, Browser A falls to 70%. Browser C is introduced, using Marketing tools similar to Browser A, and in shorter period of time takes 20% share, mostly from Browser A. A now = 50%, B = 30%, and C = 20%.
65% of Slashdot comments are then griping about Browser C using Marketing tools of Browser A.
The real challenge is to think of something interesting to say on this topic. It's like commenting on which of your neighbors schoolkids is the smartest looking. Oh and sorry Netscape, you were the first A, but I wasn't talking about you.
Since it is well established that familiarity is a safer return on investment than risk, this is a circular argument. Saturday Night Live has a successful skit, reworks successful skit again. Broadway has a successful musical, are they going to follow with a circus act or another musical? Do people want to buy tickets to see a different team play in their local stadium every time, or do they buy more tickets based on knowing the team and basically what to expect? This is as scientifically exciting as "people like to eat hamburgers". Music has always been about "acquired taste" going back to Beethoven.
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I have 129 facial points that look exactly like Charlie Sheen. Could be worse, but still not a great hand to be dealt. But I'm not alone: 130 facial points factored by 7B people on earth, what were my chances of this, exactly?
I can't decide whether the tone of this discussion reminds me more of Austen Powers post-insult "meow", or the two grumpy balcony muppets. All the article says is that several people set their Google+ to "friends only" or something.
I lived in Africa, and built outhouses. We dug a deep hole. Then, we made a shallow square hole, about 6 inches deep, in the soft pile of dirt. We placed a bucket on the ground inside the square, poured cement (and rebar) around the bucket, and when the cement dried we removed the bucket and had a floor with a hole in it. We put the floor with the hole over the hole we'd dug. Then we required people to sign a EULA agreement that by peeing in the outhouse, they agreed not to copy our idea. Wait, no we didn't. Kidding aside, I don't see that water has ever been part of the toilet equation in the developing world.
We post the photos on Wikipedia now, and wait to see who challenges copyright!
Maybe this has been tried... But if Oracle or Google or Microsoft... Someone with these lawyers on retainer... Will please patent or reverse patent or trademark "first post" and kindly sue Anonymous, we slashdoters will be eternally grateful and go red sox.
I wonder if this is going to affect the price of space on server farms? And then we will need more officers to read the growing data. Sounds like inflation.
If I'm uncomfortable with a new technology (plastic, e-waste, cell phone, packaging, condoms) I could avoid them myself. The column, which is excellent, is trying to predict when the panic over "witches brews" of technology create a stampede, legislation, or environmentalist-locust mode of panic. I am not sure I buy the common correlations Genevieve Bell postulates about space and time. People have always been more afraid of plastic packaging than paper. It's interesting when a group in society becomes irrationally panicked about a technology, and then another technology company with a commercial interest in the panic plays a role in stirring it up.
That's what the Cairo police said. See picture of water cannon kindly cooling protesters. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Hyqgkdw6s
What about the 75% of accidents which were not correlated with gadgetry? And what about the gadgetry in use while driving which did not create an accident? I have seen enough weaving on the road that I don't wish to blindly defend people using GPS while driving. But what percentage of people who had an accident had brown eyes? Or is this based on the claim of the driver, which would discount a) liars (drinkers?) who have been in accidents, and b) fatal accidents.
I think we need to figure out what is going on. When car blinkers and car radios were first introduced, people had accidents because they didn't know how to use them, and people driving stick who learned to drive automatic may be a risk element too.
1) Mankind decides we are special and better than all other creatures.
2) Man makes list of things that support that belief (language, tools, cultivation, etc.)
3) Man discovers animals do things on the list (language, tools, cultivation, etc.) [Octopus tool use, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DoWdHOtlrk ]
4) Man is amazed that animal has "human quality"
Dolphins talk, ants take other ant species as slaves, mantis preys. Whatever. Let's just write a new list, like "can program a VCR" and start over.
But it is the weakest in the majority who hound the outsiders. It is not "tribalism" as much as "alpha-dog-ism". It is easier to gain acceptance at the top of the tribe than at the bottom.
Piratism has a decent chance of becoming a religion. It just takes a couple of centuries for a religion to "gel", to be recognized as meeting the key criterion, recognized by the Romans etc.: "It's not going away". In the meantime, they will need to practice what they preach, and take their trials and tribulations.
That an Egyptian can fix a bad joint on a laptop. Americans are going to be banned from selling laptops with loose power adapters (the number one cause of failure of several Dell and Lenovo and other models) under legislation introduced by Green-Thompson "ewaste". Only "tested working" electronics can be resold. Vermont now bans sale between Vermonters without a hazardous waste permit. We know the issue is the adapter plug (people carry the laptop around with the plug inserted, and it breaks the solder). But it is about to be made illegal to sell laptops etc. for repair, even if the Egyptian/Indonesian/Peruvian knows schematic diagrams AND is also more than 4 years old(!). Maybe if we make laptops out of play-dough, they will be considered less "hazardous", though currently even play-dough laptops are covered by Vermont E-waste law. Imagine this applied to cars - if it doesn't pass inspection, it's haz waste, moon suit tow trucks.
I own CDs because I had the habit of owning records. I came to own records because, in every Parade Magazine in the 1970s, the Columbia Record club offered an astounding 12 albums for one penny. You just had to join the club and agree to try/buy an album each month, and had the right to return the album if you were not completely satisfied. Of course, kids like me wound up paying more and buying a lot of music, and sometimes got an album we didn't like but didn't return (and there was a used record store for that). Anyway, my question is, why does the entertainment industry, of all industries, not understand the concept of offering people a better deal? Why didn't they think of Napster, as a record club, before Napster ever happened? Why didn't they INVENT torrents to sell their product? Lazy.
According to the article: "The understandability to interact has always been an issue on Twitter for new users — this hopefully will solve the problem."
Well, there you go. Couldn't have said it any better.
It is better than Bill Clinton's "write your questions on the back of a box of kleenex" town hall, or Reagan's "chalkboard" town hall. We have to keep trying, until we get it right.
Next thing you know, flying carseats will be exempted. This is a slippery slope.
In the ancient past, whether one was "Anglican" or "Catholic" meant one whole hellova lot... But, MY kids are dual nationalities, bi-lingual, and I bet my grand-kids will have more loyalty to their dot-com address than their passport. The beautiful thing is that we used to worry about Chinese starving and feeling guilty about not finishing food on our plates... and NOW we discuss whether Foxconn or Apple made the Star Trek transmitter device! Melting Pot 2.0 = beachfront property! American mojo is greek mojo on Romans? cOOLio DuDes
I thought that's how you become a $17b company?
Pffff is right. To be truly "recycled", something needs to add value in a way that avoids use of finite natural resources. Trees saved from recycled paper, mining averted from recycled metals.
On the other hand, THIS type of "end use" is referred to as "the solution is dilution". All the world's waste could get blended into eyeglasses if the percentage was small enough and the eyeglasses compensate for the amount of non-value material by getting bigger (as these thick critters do - the amount of "bioresin" appears to be increased to make up for the superfluous hair). Jimmy Hoffa may have been "recycled" into a parking lot somewhere, but if it didn't add value to the parking lot then we don't need to waste our time promoting it.
I do not remember that storage media was required a license. Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. is the 1984 USA Supreme Court ruling which said once I bought a song I can record it in another media for my own use. Sony, BASF and Maxell made the cassettes used for the backups, and only Sony objected. But did Sony, like Apple (in the current article) feel it necessary to pay license fees when their own cassette tapes were being used to back up the media?
If Google was a pocket knife, it would still fit in my pocket. Turning this upside down, searching and locating is common in browsers, advertising, networking, search, and crosses over multiple devices. The article makes it sound like people ten years from now will still treat all of these as different fields. Tech companies will be more like Wal-Mart, and less like drug stores, soda shops, butchers and cheese shops.
I do a lot of used computer business with Egypt, have friends who set up internet cafes and other geek traders, share with them on Facebook and Twitter etc. Last January, they were all trying to encrypt the posts "3gyp7ian R3v0lution" style. http://tinyurl.com/3phbv7j Hopefully China will find it similarly impossible to keep the genie inside the bottle.
On the other hand, if they succeeded, and they recreate a Twitter with nothing provocative, political, or edgy.. The only thing that saves twitter is the search function, finding something interesting. If it's really about reading the banal tweets ("Walking my Chinese dog, saw a taxi")... Just kill me now.
Simplified: Browsers A, B, C are introduced in order to billions of users. Browser A starts with 100% of Market, using Marketing tools like bundling, until Browser B is introduced. Browser B does not have marketing dollars but over time achieves 30% share, Browser A falls to 70%. Browser C is introduced, using Marketing tools similar to Browser A, and in shorter period of time takes 20% share, mostly from Browser A. A now = 50%, B = 30%, and C = 20%.
65% of Slashdot comments are then griping about Browser C using Marketing tools of Browser A.
The real challenge is to think of something interesting to say on this topic. It's like commenting on which of your neighbors schoolkids is the smartest looking. Oh and sorry Netscape, you were the first A, but I wasn't talking about you.
Since it is well established that familiarity is a safer return on investment than risk, this is a circular argument. Saturday Night Live has a successful skit, reworks successful skit again. Broadway has a successful musical, are they going to follow with a circus act or another musical? Do people want to buy tickets to see a different team play in their local stadium every time, or do they buy more tickets based on knowing the team and basically what to expect? This is as scientifically exciting as "people like to eat hamburgers". Music has always been about "acquired taste" going back to Beethoven.