I don't see the correlation between protecting yourself from SPAM and this last statement. Posting your e-mail at the bottom of an article read by thousands of people and THEN having that article posted to Slashdot pretty much makes that e-mail address about as public as information can get. A couple of SPAM a day, shit, a couple hundred SPAM a day is going to be least of his worries, and Seltzers proposed ideas wouldn't change this fact one bit.
"When will they understand that you don't need to provide a user experience for everything?
Not to nitpick your thoughts, but there is a user-experience for everything. At Google, the user experience is based on getting your search done fast and accurately. At MS it is consistently not. I work directly under our CIO and Director of Information Technology, and I watch them consistently buy into MS products when they know better alternatives exist. The reason they do so is because they get demos and partner packages of their solutions with promises of many features and total integration with our existing MS solutions, ie, Exchange. However, the end result is always the same, they pay out their ass, and all the promising features fall short or turn into something we did not need in future versions. This is how we have been consistently eliminating our ability to choose which solution we are going with. This week it was MS's recently released CRM solution, which promises integration with sheduling and task lists in Outlook. If we were not already running Exchange and Outlook, we would not have even considered running this piece of crap (so far as I have seen). We would have built our own database and frontend in SQL and PHP, and it would do exactly what we wanted. The fact of the matter is that Microsoft never succeeds on providing the best user-experience. Not with little animated dogs or with auto-correct spelling or with an integrated media player or with . . .
I believe that the reason for this innovation in learning user behavior might be considered a breakthrough in technology is just because people don't always want endless features upon features on their cell phones. The truth is that most people still only use their cell phone for *gasp* talking on the phone. That's why this innovation would be technologically significant. As you continued to make decisions about how to use the available 1, 3 or 5G networks that were available, your CR would eventually learn these behaviors and then use the available technology when it made sense.
Ten years ago, we may have pondered why in the hell anyone would need a wireless phone every where they went, that had free long distance, caller ID and all those things that we were used to getting maybe at work on the corporate LAN, if we were lucky. Now every thirteen year old girl that walks down the street is sporting a neon cell phone with unlimited calling. We may balk at this vision of a "smart cell phone" right now, but that sort of technology may be just what we need in order to merge existing wireless networks into something that truly is useful AND affordable.
CR: New mail has arrived from "Teeniesinbikinis@aol.com" should I utilize free 56k dialup modem service to download or download at $5.00/min using new 500k bluetooth technology?"
I do believe it is time that someone introduced Europe to the concept of the 'spatula'. We sort a solved this whole pancakes on the floor dilehma a looooooooong time ago . . . You know what? While we're at it, let's give China forks and spoons.
This was an attempt by the Gov. to attract big businesses to Maine and bolster economic conditions. What better way to do this than to educate youths in one of the largest growing industries. I'm guessing they are hoping this will inspire more high-level jobs from students coming out the educational system in Maine as well as help make Maine more of a technology center for new business.
However, when a bunch of geeks on/. can't find it in their hearts to agree with this move then you really got to wonder.
Yeah, advertising has absolutely NO effect on me either! Those idiot marketers are just wasting their millions of dollars! AW DAMN, I just spilled Dr. Pepper on my brand new GAP jeans! SONOFA-
If this has not already been done, I would like to voulenteer to be the first. I have finally realized why God put me on this earth . . .
Wireless will undoubtedly have to be used, I couldn't possibly be tied down by cables all day. I think my only stipulation is that I would like some say as to where the LED's would be placed . . .
I will be the prototype for the future of the internet where everyone will be able to instantly collaborate what they know and they are thinking via TCP/IP . . .
Aaaahhhgreed!
Let's take this from the perspective of DVD technology to store music files. Is our biggest problem *really* that you can only fit around 50 hours of music on a single dvd-r disc? We can do this, but we can't create a cd/dvd/etc that doesn't begin to skip after three months in my car? I still record cd's to cassette to go running with for love of Pete! Maybe something like this could help increase the life-expectancy of cd/dvd media and usability as well.
"Sony's Blu-ray machine will be able to play red-laser discs using the DVD-R and DVD-RW formats, but not those using the DVD-RAM or DVD+RW formats. . . Toshiba Corp 6502.T , a pioneer in DVD technology, has weighed in with a competing blue-laser format it says will be less expensive and more compatible with existing recorders, although it would only store 15-20 gigabytes of data per disc."
No, but you will be able to play all your old DVD's on your new blue-laser recorder/player, once the cost is down to a reasonable level. It would have been fairly difficult to foresee making the DVD player you own "forewards" compatible with the next dvd format to come out.;)
But the backwards compatibility is what's important. So long as I don't have to reamass my DVD movie collection just as blue laser DVD's come out, just as UV lasers DVD's come out, just as . . .
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I don't see the correlation between protecting yourself from SPAM and this last statement. Posting your e-mail at the bottom of an article read by thousands of people and THEN having that article posted to Slashdot pretty much makes that e-mail address about as public as information can get. A couple of SPAM a day, shit, a couple hundred SPAM a day is going to be least of his worries, and Seltzers proposed ideas wouldn't change this fact one bit.
"When will they understand that you don't need to provide a user experience for everything?
Not to nitpick your thoughts, but there is a user-experience for everything. At Google, the user experience is based on getting your search done fast and accurately. At MS it is consistently not. I work directly under our CIO and Director of Information Technology, and I watch them consistently buy into MS products when they know better alternatives exist. The reason they do so is because they get demos and partner packages of their solutions with promises of many features and total integration with our existing MS solutions, ie, Exchange. However, the end result is always the same, they pay out their ass, and all the promising features fall short or turn into something we did not need in future versions. This is how we have been consistently eliminating our ability to choose which solution we are going with. This week it was MS's recently released CRM solution, which promises integration with sheduling and task lists in Outlook. If we were not already running Exchange and Outlook, we would not have even considered running this piece of crap (so far as I have seen). We would have built our own database and frontend in SQL and PHP, and it would do exactly what we wanted. The fact of the matter is that Microsoft never succeeds on providing the best user-experience. Not with little animated dogs or with auto-correct spelling or with an integrated media player or with . . .
I believe that the reason for this innovation in learning user behavior might be considered a breakthrough in technology is just because people don't always want endless features upon features on their cell phones. The truth is that most people still only use their cell phone for *gasp* talking on the phone. That's why this innovation would be technologically significant. As you continued to make decisions about how to use the available 1, 3 or 5G networks that were available, your CR would eventually learn these behaviors and then use the available technology when it made sense.
Ten years ago, we may have pondered why in the hell anyone would need a wireless phone every where they went, that had free long distance, caller ID and all those things that we were used to getting maybe at work on the corporate LAN, if we were lucky. Now every thirteen year old girl that walks down the street is sporting a neon cell phone with unlimited calling. We may balk at this vision of a "smart cell phone" right now, but that sort of technology may be just what we need in order to merge existing wireless networks into something that truly is useful AND affordable.
CR: New mail has arrived from "Teeniesinbikinis@aol.com" should I utilize free 56k dialup modem service to download or download at $5.00/min using new 500k bluetooth technology?"
"Talk to any public school teacher and you can find out pretty quick just how bady most parents are neglecting their jobs
Give me a friggin break. Talk to any public school student and find out pretty quick how badly most teachers are neglecting their jobs.
I do believe it is time that someone introduced Europe to the concept of the 'spatula'. We sort a solved this whole pancakes on the floor dilehma a looooooooong time ago . . .
You know what? While we're at it, let's give China forks and spoons.
This was an attempt by the Gov. to attract big businesses to Maine and bolster economic conditions. What better way to do this than to educate youths in one of the largest growing industries. I'm guessing they are hoping this will inspire more high-level jobs from students coming out the educational system in Maine as well as help make Maine more of a technology center for new business.
/. can't find it in their hearts to agree with this move then you really got to wonder.
However, when a bunch of geeks on
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If this has not already been done, I would like to voulenteer to be the first. I have finally realized why God put me on this earth . . . Wireless will undoubtedly have to be used, I couldn't possibly be tied down by cables all day. I think my only stipulation is that I would like some say as to where the LED's would be placed . . . I will be the prototype for the future of the internet where everyone will be able to instantly collaborate what they know and they are thinking via TCP/IP . . .
Aaaahhhgreed! Let's take this from the perspective of DVD technology to store music files. Is our biggest problem *really* that you can only fit around 50 hours of music on a single dvd-r disc? We can do this, but we can't create a cd/dvd/etc that doesn't begin to skip after three months in my car? I still record cd's to cassette to go running with for love of Pete! Maybe something like this could help increase the life-expectancy of cd/dvd media and usability as well.
"Sony's Blu-ray machine will be able to play red-laser discs using the DVD-R and DVD-RW formats, but not those using the DVD-RAM or DVD+RW formats. . . Toshiba Corp 6502.T , a pioneer in DVD technology, has weighed in with a competing blue-laser format it says will be less expensive and more compatible with existing recorders, although it would only store 15-20 gigabytes of data per disc." No, but you will be able to play all your old DVD's on your new blue-laser recorder/player, once the cost is down to a reasonable level. It would have been fairly difficult to foresee making the DVD player you own "forewards" compatible with the next dvd format to come out. ;)
But the backwards compatibility is what's important. So long as I don't have to reamass my DVD movie collection just as blue laser DVD's come out, just as UV lasers DVD's come out, just as . . .