Normally I would say the data collected by Instagram (location, photo subjects, likes, connections, etc) are all worth a good bit of money. However, because Facebook already collects much more than that and the overwhelming majority of Instagram users are also on Facebook, I agree with you in this case.
The only YouTube content I haven't been able to view on my iPhone is specifically disabled for mobile (some media company, which I now cannot recall, that mainly does music videos).
Yesterday I was at the Mall of America to let my kid ride some rides while it drizzled outside. I needed a new Invisible Shield for my phone (not realizing that the one that began to peel off, had I gone to a kiosk with it still on the phone, would have been covered by their lifetime warranty) and had one put on there for an additional $5 (saving me 20 minutes of utter frustration and sweat).
After waiting the 30 seconds for the dude to do it for me, I was about to walk away when a young guy and his family came up to me and asked about the product. I told him I had it on my phone for nearly two years and never suffered a scratch--except in the material itself. Two days after peeling it off, I ended up with a scratch in the glass--and thus why I was more than happy to pay the $20 to get another (even though, if I had known better, I wouldn't have had to). He bought one himself right then and there.
Could this have been interpreted as undercover marketing? Surely it could have. In fact, it probably would have looked just like that to anyone who walked by who is as paranoid as the typical Slashbot. However, I am genuinely impressed with the product (even though I was HIGHLY skeptical when my wife bought it for me the first time) and I have absolutely NOTHING to do w/the company.
But her concerns continue to grow. When Zuckerberg, apparently sensing this, said to Losse, âoeI donâ(TM)t know if I trust you,â she decided she needed to either be entirely committed to Facebook or leave. She soon sold some of her vested stock. She wonâ(TM)t say how much; they provided enough of a financial boon for her to go a couple of years without a salary, though not enough to stop working altogether, as some former colleagues have.
And that's the end of the story because the Washington Post won't let me read the rest.
So, if I understand this correctly, she got rich and decided working wasn't for her and she wanted to chase every writer's dream to lock themselves away in some far off locale to write their lifetime novel?
How is this news? Because it deals with the side of Facebook everyone knows about but ignores so they can post photos of their kids and let other people tell them how cute they are or is there something I missed in the last two pages?
You know, even grass fed meat isn't all that cost prohibitive when you think about it. Yeah, it's slightly more expensive but it's not like I would stop eating it all together if the corn subsidies were eliminated.
I'm guessing a lot of people would do the same because, well, most Americans hate vegetables and limit them in their diet as much as possible.
As a grad student I get a discount for Amazon Prime ($39/year). With a $80 Roku and a $3.25/month payment I have access to a ton of TV on DVD content as well as movies. Even at $80/year ($6.67/month) it's a huge bargain over the fear of having my ISP cut off my connection for piracy--something as a husband, parent, and professional I don't care to do like I did in college.
In our case we also have Netflix (the children's selection is better than Amazon) and for my wife, Hulu+ so she can watch her favorite crap.
So for less than $20/month we have access to a ton of mostly commercial free content (Hulu+ sucks for that) available on-demand.
It's just not worth it to me to deal with pirating shit anymore. Why is it worth it for you?
Even though I get ~1+ million pageviews per month and referrers from numerous outlets, my FB page (with only 280 likes) is the single best referrer each month and has been since the first day I setup the page years ago.
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According to The Ed Bott Report on ZDNet, Microsoft is turning over an entirely new leaf in its history by taking cues from Apple and developing its own hardware/software "ecosystem" (I hate that term) and alienating its OEMs which have been just as slow and lackluster as Microsoft has been over the last few years.
If we accept Bott's analysis as at least somewhat valid, Microsoft may be on the road to recovery--at least if they develop and release products that people desire.
They're already copying Apple and Google's consistent theme (copying "Metro" UI elements to their rebranded Hotmail, outlook.com) and they're developing software and hardware together. Perhaps he's right and this will bode well for Microsoft in the future.
However, there is the part of me that says that those people who want that sort of thing had already jumped ship to Apple's own "ecosystem" and everyone else was just fine staying with Microsoft because of whatever reason (cost, support, application support, familiarity, etc).
Personally I think the Metro UI (and the other unified design deals) is ridiculous and meaningless for me to get my work done and it's not going to make me move away from other products I've been using more recently. However, perhaps it will work and their demise as stated by you may be averted for another few years.
The best is that when you have, say Charter Business Class, you cannot stream the Olympics even if you have TV. Why? Because you are required to have a charter.net e-mail address, something you cannot get on business class.
This is the most ridiculous and obnoxious thing that has ever happened for the Olympics. I'd rather have NOTHING available than this.
1. Most of what are shown here are not surprises, they are iterative design concepts.
2. A kickstand is not a surprise; it seems logical.
3. The fact that the iPhone design was lifted from another product design seen by Apple's team isn't a surprise, it's how all companies work.
4. What is a surprise is that Sony didn't patent their design so they could be suing Apple right now for lifting it.
5. Another surprise is that this story continues to gain stories on Slashdot and other sites. It's a little overdone. Let us know when something of substance appears that is actually interesting.
We had none of this garbage. None. I knew I didn't even have to say a word to my guys...why? Because we're all adults and professionals and we know better than to do that shit.
Listen, it's 2012 and almost every single one of your employees has been through some sort of mandatory sexual harassment training at some point in their careers. If you have someone who hasn't (recent college grad with no other work history or an intern or something) pull them aside and handle it.
If this is an issue w/your staff, you should make some other changes, not just the woman you brought on board.
I'll stick to being worried about corrupt security guards.
Or, as in my case on two different occasions, asking the cleaning personnel to open my door because I got locked out while going to get ice.
But seriously, who leaves shit in their rooms at hotels anyway? The hotel safes can be opened with 0000 or 9999 most often and with staff members making minimum wage, the chance of theft is high.
When I'm traveling, all of my items of any real value come with me (laptop, phone, wallet, money, prescriptions) and if they want to steal my shitty clothing and toiletries, so be it.
The pair said they are considering legal options over the flyer, but will more likely use the incident to raise awareness about stop-and-frisk.
The only reason they would consider legal options would be because it would bring awareness to their (admittedly excellent) campaign.
If they want to record the cops doing what they believe is wrong, I honestly don't see why the police cannot publicly post a warning to other officers in what seems to be a mostly harmless joking way.
Listen, public embarrassment and notice is a two way street. If you want to publicly post the actions of the police, I don't see why you should feel others couldn't do the same to you.
So? Investing in a company is a gamble no matter what knowns there are. Companies always do things which are unexpected and possibly undesirable. However, sometimes these unexpected and undesirable actions have large payoffs.
Perhaps Facebook wants a better presence in Asia. If some of the Asian countries which will be best served by this updated cable now have better access to Facebook, the payoffs could be huge for the investors. If not, an investor can always take their money elsewhere.
A buddy of mine invited me and another friend to come stay at a Wyndham resort in WI for a ski weekend a few years ago. We stayed at a resort with multiple restaurants and shops on site.
Very long and creepy story short, in an attempt to sell more points to my friend (who was on his parent's million+ account) they Googled for us and knew everything about me including my preferences for music, good food, etc and tried to use that as leverage.
Outcomes:
1. It was uncomfortable because they only had a cursory knowledge of what I liked and they weren't really applying it well enough.
2. It was fucking SUPER creepy that they knew anything at all about me. Honestly, it was unnerving.
3. I don't want strangers treating me like I am eating at my favorite restaurant where I know the owner. You know why? Because they forgot the steps involved to get to that point--the one where you get to know someone from more than a cursory glance at Google.
A private business can refuse service to anyone as it sees fit. While putting up that big sign may bring the law (I don't know if it would to be honest), you could simply refuse to serve someone and there isn't a damn thing anyone could do about it except bitch.
In my limited experience in Boston, the problem wasn't the people living within the dense urban environment, it was the people coming in from the suburbs that was the problem. In fact, it was only some of those people because many drove to train stations and rode those into the urban center.
Now, contrast that with Los Angeles where people can live less than five miles from work but still drive in knowing it will take 45+ minutes--at least twice as long as it would by bike and almost as much time as it would take to walk.
Boston has a great public transportation system which is easily accessible. Los Angeles, OTOH, has a public transportation system but very few were using it compared to the sheet number of idiots driving from all over fucking creation.
BTW, when I was in Boston I walked or took the train/trolley and when I was in LA, I walked.
I realize this is Slashdot and eye-catching headlines tailored towards inciting the rabbleâ"rousers are the norm (yes, my UID is low) but are we somehow missing the headlines where political leadership (from any country) actually stand up for the rights of their citizenry instead of the business?
I rarely see politicians, on any side of the coin, standing up for the rights of the electorate and instead only see that they support business interests. These people must get elected somehow, and yes I realize there are possibilities that the electorate has no true influence here but it's improbable at least for now, so why the hell do we continue to put up with them doing this?
I've been disgusted for years by their actions but do they ever really stand up for The People and say, "no matter what we're going to do X even if you say no"?
I agree, I really do, but many aren't providing any reasons why:
1. No employer is going to care what you did the summer before you went to UG
2. The work leading up to the degree you learn at the end of your UG work may not challenge you at all. Working to "get ahead" may leave you frustrated and bewildered as to why you worked so hard.
3. School is just school. Just do it, enjoy it while you're there, get good grades, and get a job after you're done (or go on to advanced studies, whatever).
As for this summer, enjoy it. If that means writing code for fun or screwing around w/friends, do it. You'll be able to do that stuff in college too but in a much different way--especially if you want to do extremely well.
Who gives a shit who was first? It's a bunch of wasted effort.
Terrorists are going to do shit that authorities are not going to be able to combat with tools like these. The terrorists know there are checkpoints and their limitations. They know their conversation may be overheard so they don't talk. They know that they could walk into a mall or megachurch and do the same damage they did with an airplane.
We're wasting our fucking time and money chasing ghosts which will bite us in the ass regardless of the freedoms we continue to happily and passively give up.
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Umm, it got a scratch in it because I put it in my pocket with a set of keys.
And no, they're not a huge scam. It works great for me.
Normally I would say the data collected by Instagram (location, photo subjects, likes, connections, etc) are all worth a good bit of money. However, because Facebook already collects much more than that and the overwhelming majority of Instagram users are also on Facebook, I agree with you in this case.
The only YouTube content I haven't been able to view on my iPhone is specifically disabled for mobile (some media company, which I now cannot recall, that mainly does music videos).
YMMV.
Yesterday I was at the Mall of America to let my kid ride some rides while it drizzled outside. I needed a new Invisible Shield for my phone (not realizing that the one that began to peel off, had I gone to a kiosk with it still on the phone, would have been covered by their lifetime warranty) and had one put on there for an additional $5 (saving me 20 minutes of utter frustration and sweat).
After waiting the 30 seconds for the dude to do it for me, I was about to walk away when a young guy and his family came up to me and asked about the product. I told him I had it on my phone for nearly two years and never suffered a scratch--except in the material itself. Two days after peeling it off, I ended up with a scratch in the glass--and thus why I was more than happy to pay the $20 to get another (even though, if I had known better, I wouldn't have had to). He bought one himself right then and there.
Could this have been interpreted as undercover marketing? Surely it could have. In fact, it probably would have looked just like that to anyone who walked by who is as paranoid as the typical Slashbot. However, I am genuinely impressed with the product (even though I was HIGHLY skeptical when my wife bought it for me the first time) and I have absolutely NOTHING to do w/the company.
And that's the end of the story because the Washington Post won't let me read the rest.
So, if I understand this correctly, she got rich and decided working wasn't for her and she wanted to chase every writer's dream to lock themselves away in some far off locale to write their lifetime novel?
How is this news? Because it deals with the side of Facebook everyone knows about but ignores so they can post photos of their kids and let other people tell them how cute they are or is there something I missed in the last two pages?
You know, even grass fed meat isn't all that cost prohibitive when you think about it. Yeah, it's slightly more expensive but it's not like I would stop eating it all together if the corn subsidies were eliminated.
I'm guessing a lot of people would do the same because, well, most Americans hate vegetables and limit them in their diet as much as possible.
I was asking a serious question; I don't need a bunch of snark.
As a grad student I get a discount for Amazon Prime ($39/year). With a $80 Roku and a $3.25/month payment I have access to a ton of TV on DVD content as well as movies. Even at $80/year ($6.67/month) it's a huge bargain over the fear of having my ISP cut off my connection for piracy--something as a husband, parent, and professional I don't care to do like I did in college.
In our case we also have Netflix (the children's selection is better than Amazon) and for my wife, Hulu+ so she can watch her favorite crap.
So for less than $20/month we have access to a ton of mostly commercial free content (Hulu+ sucks for that) available on-demand.
It's just not worth it to me to deal with pirating shit anymore. Why is it worth it for you?
Even though I get ~1+ million pageviews per month and referrers from numerous outlets, my FB page (with only 280 likes) is the single best referrer each month and has been since the first day I setup the page years ago.
According to The Ed Bott Report on ZDNet, Microsoft is turning over an entirely new leaf in its history by taking cues from Apple and developing its own hardware/software "ecosystem" (I hate that term) and alienating its OEMs which have been just as slow and lackluster as Microsoft has been over the last few years.
If we accept Bott's analysis as at least somewhat valid, Microsoft may be on the road to recovery--at least if they develop and release products that people desire.
They're already copying Apple and Google's consistent theme (copying "Metro" UI elements to their rebranded Hotmail, outlook.com) and they're developing software and hardware together. Perhaps he's right and this will bode well for Microsoft in the future.
However, there is the part of me that says that those people who want that sort of thing had already jumped ship to Apple's own "ecosystem" and everyone else was just fine staying with Microsoft because of whatever reason (cost, support, application support, familiarity, etc).
Personally I think the Metro UI (and the other unified design deals) is ridiculous and meaningless for me to get my work done and it's not going to make me move away from other products I've been using more recently. However, perhaps it will work and their demise as stated by you may be averted for another few years.
The best is that when you have, say Charter Business Class, you cannot stream the Olympics even if you have TV. Why? Because you are required to have a charter.net e-mail address, something you cannot get on business class.
This is the most ridiculous and obnoxious thing that has ever happened for the Olympics. I'd rather have NOTHING available than this.
1. Most of what are shown here are not surprises, they are iterative design concepts.
2. A kickstand is not a surprise; it seems logical.
3. The fact that the iPhone design was lifted from another product design seen by Apple's team isn't a surprise, it's how all companies work.
4. What is a surprise is that Sony didn't patent their design so they could be suing Apple right now for lifting it.
5. Another surprise is that this story continues to gain stories on Slashdot and other sites. It's a little overdone. Let us know when something of substance appears that is actually interesting.
We had none of this garbage. None. I knew I didn't even have to say a word to my guys...why? Because we're all adults and professionals and we know better than to do that shit.
Listen, it's 2012 and almost every single one of your employees has been through some sort of mandatory sexual harassment training at some point in their careers. If you have someone who hasn't (recent college grad with no other work history or an intern or something) pull them aside and handle it.
If this is an issue w/your staff, you should make some other changes, not just the woman you brought on board.
When I said I was at a conference at WDW, I meant I went to WDW and took the stuff w/me. Again, I don't see the problem.
I never had a single problem with it (and I did exactly all of those things when I was at WDW for a conference in April).
Or, as in my case on two different occasions, asking the cleaning personnel to open my door because I got locked out while going to get ice.
But seriously, who leaves shit in their rooms at hotels anyway? The hotel safes can be opened with 0000 or 9999 most often and with staff members making minimum wage, the chance of theft is high.
When I'm traveling, all of my items of any real value come with me (laptop, phone, wallet, money, prescriptions) and if they want to steal my shitty clothing and toiletries, so be it.
If they were actual mugshots, then both the photos and their address at the time of arrest are public information.
I don't see a problem with it.
From the article:
The only reason they would consider legal options would be because it would bring awareness to their (admittedly excellent) campaign.
If they want to record the cops doing what they believe is wrong, I honestly don't see why the police cannot publicly post a warning to other officers in what seems to be a mostly harmless joking way.
Listen, public embarrassment and notice is a two way street. If you want to publicly post the actions of the police, I don't see why you should feel others couldn't do the same to you.
So? Investing in a company is a gamble no matter what knowns there are. Companies always do things which are unexpected and possibly undesirable. However, sometimes these unexpected and undesirable actions have large payoffs.
Perhaps Facebook wants a better presence in Asia. If some of the Asian countries which will be best served by this updated cable now have better access to Facebook, the payoffs could be huge for the investors. If not, an investor can always take their money elsewhere.
A buddy of mine invited me and another friend to come stay at a Wyndham resort in WI for a ski weekend a few years ago. We stayed at a resort with multiple restaurants and shops on site.
Very long and creepy story short, in an attempt to sell more points to my friend (who was on his parent's million+ account) they Googled for us and knew everything about me including my preferences for music, good food, etc and tried to use that as leverage.
Outcomes:
1. It was uncomfortable because they only had a cursory knowledge of what I liked and they weren't really applying it well enough.
2. It was fucking SUPER creepy that they knew anything at all about me. Honestly, it was unnerving.
3. I don't want strangers treating me like I am eating at my favorite restaurant where I know the owner. You know why? Because they forgot the steps involved to get to that point--the one where you get to know someone from more than a cursory glance at Google.
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Do not fucking do this. Thanks.
A private business can refuse service to anyone as it sees fit. While putting up that big sign may bring the law (I don't know if it would to be honest), you could simply refuse to serve someone and there isn't a damn thing anyone could do about it except bitch.
In my limited experience in Boston, the problem wasn't the people living within the dense urban environment, it was the people coming in from the suburbs that was the problem. In fact, it was only some of those people because many drove to train stations and rode those into the urban center.
Now, contrast that with Los Angeles where people can live less than five miles from work but still drive in knowing it will take 45+ minutes--at least twice as long as it would by bike and almost as much time as it would take to walk.
Boston has a great public transportation system which is easily accessible. Los Angeles, OTOH, has a public transportation system but very few were using it compared to the sheet number of idiots driving from all over fucking creation.
BTW, when I was in Boston I walked or took the train/trolley and when I was in LA, I walked.
I realize this is Slashdot and eye-catching headlines tailored towards inciting the rabbleâ"rousers are the norm (yes, my UID is low) but are we somehow missing the headlines where political leadership (from any country) actually stand up for the rights of their citizenry instead of the business?
I rarely see politicians, on any side of the coin, standing up for the rights of the electorate and instead only see that they support business interests. These people must get elected somehow, and yes I realize there are possibilities that the electorate has no true influence here but it's improbable at least for now, so why the hell do we continue to put up with them doing this?
I've been disgusted for years by their actions but do they ever really stand up for The People and say, "no matter what we're going to do X even if you say no"?
I agree, I really do, but many aren't providing any reasons why:
1. No employer is going to care what you did the summer before you went to UG
2. The work leading up to the degree you learn at the end of your UG work may not challenge you at all. Working to "get ahead" may leave you frustrated and bewildered as to why you worked so hard.
3. School is just school. Just do it, enjoy it while you're there, get good grades, and get a job after you're done (or go on to advanced studies, whatever).
As for this summer, enjoy it. If that means writing code for fun or screwing around w/friends, do it. You'll be able to do that stuff in college too but in a much different way--especially if you want to do extremely well.
Good luck.
Who gives a shit who was first? It's a bunch of wasted effort.
Terrorists are going to do shit that authorities are not going to be able to combat with tools like these. The terrorists know there are checkpoints and their limitations. They know their conversation may be overheard so they don't talk. They know that they could walk into a mall or megachurch and do the same damage they did with an airplane.
We're wasting our fucking time and money chasing ghosts which will bite us in the ass regardless of the freedoms we continue to happily and passively give up.