C'mon, seriously guys... They hired additional "antenna engineers" at Apple shortly after the incident. Having the lead engineer leave, is as the article states, not very likely related. But it's good PR for Apple, not so much for Papermaster if they play it out as the stroman.
In a large organisation like that it's not just "one's" responsability intermediate processes and prioritylitst. For such a slipup you wont likely "point at someone and fire them" unless if it's a PR-stunt to clear the brands name in public.
Wouldn't ignoring it decrease the chances of people hearing about them and going to read them? Literally millions more people are aware of these documents being leaked thanks to news sources talking about how bad it is that they were leaked.
You don't understand media yet well yet.
This is a pull-out action: they demonstrate "how bad it really is" and needed a swing on the "patriotic" and chauvenistic attitude from the populus.
The media echo's this around, awaring EVERYBODY and thus crafting the public opinion. So John Pack, Six is aware as well of this website "wikileaks" and your grandmother or mom.
Eventually, there will a massive decline of public support "on the war", which is now heavily supported on chauvenism and emulated "patriotism". They'll pull out massively leaving the mess overthere to rot with public support.
Eventually, some puppet will be used as strohman and action on this person will be taken to sush the crowd and to make peace with it.
This is nothing more as an evacuation circus, nothing less. There will be a "common enemy" or one single source/cause appointed and found, smeared out in the media until your grandmother is raging about the things she hears in the news that are so unjust she would torch this strohman with deep passion if she'd have the chance.
As they're pointing to their own government, some skelletons will be crafted and launched to be appearing to fall out of the closet to clean house a bit.
was being hyped and I needed an invite to use it. Why should it be a big surprise this thing never got wide spread adoption
People used to ebay gmail invites. It took a long time before gmail invites got further out as "only employees" or "family of employees".
But ofcourse, thats why gmail is not wide spread adopted.
They tried to recreate the same momentum, but the software wasn't ready; I've used wave but it was a horrid mess to start with. So after trying to write documentation and an analysis with colleagues trying the "replay" functionality and collaboration options. But it soon became frustration.
Online people complained it felt like they were on an island: you needed other wave-using people to actually get down with it. So google opened up the system and threw invites like a pedophile at children but it never really caught on.
I guess there's no point in rationalizing hallucinations or just plain made up stories
What about all these people who were captured by Science Fiction in the 40s, 50s and up?
Even in the USSR they had a broad spectrum of inspiring Science Fiction.
Wherever it was an active effort to get people engaged or wherever it's been just entertainment and exploring the possible future or not-so-likely... You cannot disregard it has inspirated and driven alot of people towards a certain direction, imprented certain dreams to follow or dedicated themselves to achieve such a thing.
Without these "made up stories", nobody would've imagined going to the moon.
"The aim of work package 4 (WP4) is the development of key technologies that facilitate the building of an intelligence gathering system by combining and extending the current state-of-the-art methods in Natural Language Processing (NLP). One of the goals of WP4 is to propose NLP and machine learning methods that learn relationships between people and organizations through websites and social networks. Key requirements for the development of such methods are: (1) the identification of entities, their relationships and the events in which they participate, and (2) the labelling of the entities, relationships and events in a corpus that will be used as a means both for developing the methods."
I have the simular sensation, and not just this site but alot of fluffy content: The internet was a geek-out place for the last decade.
Now it's just like "interaction television" and advertizing is taking over wheras it used to be a common technological playground.
I wonder who still is getting experimental instead of "studying frameworks", and trying to figure things out?
News online is diluted and reintrepreted from only a few main sources (everything is echo'd around, reaggregated, reposted, retweeted,...)
I really lack authentic content and people doing new significant things instead of facebooking and being scuked into online pseudo social life or rehash over rehash over rehash over rehash.
Really, it seems this decade people are only watching screens and pushing buttons.
For me it was superawesomely cool to push some buttons, and have a physical result (driving hardware) now all feels very virtual; it has quasi no meaning when you turn off your PC and you're not "interacting".
And in case you have not heard, people of been reporting their neighbors forever in the US.
I believe in the US it's because people are selfish and want to fuck eachother over.
In communists countries, people fear imprisonment or "dissapearing", being checked or whatever by not doing your "duty".
Simularly, there are "government informants": say you have a goverenmt informant living in your building, you wont know he or she works for the government, you just see the people "doing crime" being taken away.
I've been in Belarus, the absence of crime was staggering, just by the fact "everybody could be an informant". And not "because everybody doesn't care about others and want to fuck them over". It might sound utopian, but it's control and inducing fear of retaliation.
Maybe they are excellent programmers, but bad business men. It doesn't mean they deserve to have their blood sucked from them.
I used to write stockmarket software for a global supplier. Nice stuff, through this software ran billions a day, direct feed to the stockmarket-floor.
Now I work as a consultant for a consultancy firm, to get this contract they had a "fixed entermediate consultancy firm", who took 10% profit on my price just to put me into the company. (under their labels and what not)
So I filled in timesheets for my employers, the intermediate party and for the client. It wasn't very clear why I was filling in timesheets for the client as well, but it turned out my work was billed to their clients billing my work per hour with a factor of 2.5 on my price because they could.
This effectively resulted in me working hard, virtually for free, and generating profit for 4 companies (employer, intermediator, client, clients' client) while my pay was insulting for the work I've put out (under 8% of the cash my work generated).
If you want to keep your devs productive and happy, you should spoil them a bit and they'll put out. But I know alot with the same sentiments and effectively migrating to management hoping they'll make their big bucks, often resulting in incompetent management.
Unless they can get Farmville ported to an open platform most facebook users will never leave no matter hope open or technically superior an alternative is.
I don't know, I "deactivated" my facebook. And felt disconnected, as all my contacts are integrated on my Android system and everybody is communicating in that fashion. (when I did, people from all over the world started texting asking me wherever I died.)
The "Farmville" and other apps like that are on ignore on my facebook.
The same with holiday pictures: instead of having to show alot of people my pictures, I just dump them on facebook; who cares looks at them (people who were there, family,...), who doesn't ignores them while it takes me only once a small effort compared to physically have someone sit next to you watching or to setup a dedicated site/album/... with only the pictures to see. (there's a seemingless integration aspect).
So yes, I would hop on the opensource bandwagon as I don't want to be locked into a service which acts questionably with my data. And I'm certain once this is available, there's the possibility to migrate your data through the facebook API and aggregate your content to other services from your opensource driven base.
This discussion has come up quite a few times already: "are we going to decentralize our social activity online" "are we going to opensource it" "can we still trust facebook" "what about privacy? it's all so obscure", "what about security with my data?",...
When will we see actual implementations? Are they too busy facebooking? In the 90s people made websites from scratch with cats, animated gifs *and* wrote alot of software for the fun of it and the experimentat and not so much being stuck in just the "dreaming up phase" or "plausability analysis".
So you're strangely addicted to staring at male genetalia
No, it's serendipity, not knowing what (experience) you'll get next, it might be something way out of your frame of reference, which gives a sense of something possibly entirely new by the click of a button.
While for others it's a way to express themselves creatively, experiment and test the boundaries in a social setting without negative consequences.
You were quasi annonymous, you could reinvent yourself over while knowing your chatpartner wont see or meet you again if you don't want to, while testing how to entertain, shock or interact with people.
It's just normal that such a platform brings out also sexual fantasies and desires in people, but there's a whole lot more to such a platform imho.
fe. see the piano dude, as there are many more of these type of people.
We also have to accept that everything like the fossil record could be faked (or at least just evolved once and then put in place billions of times from backup copies
We get nerd-ons thinking about intergalactic travel and want so desperatly to contact other civilizations but many have trouble interacting with "other races" on their own planet.
All clichés and cultural differences aside; if you meet up with a civilization on another solarsystem, the cultural differences you might like or not will be a massive magnitude greater.
In short: Why would you think to be able to interact with an alien race while you cannot properly interact with the wide array of cultural differences on this planet?
To me it seemsit's often fantasized about as superiour in intelligence and peaceful thus able to teach us things, or massively inferiour and able to be dominated or controlled. But what if they are a bunch of weirdo's alot of people are avoiding in real life and are unable to interact with, even when the cultural or behavioural differences are marginal and limited to one planet? Are we mature enough in that regard to go out and deal with cultures unknown with unknown (to us) origins and behavioural patterns?
What's he going to do when they come to fire him ? Throw an entire office set ?
He'll cash in his layoff-bonus he surely has somewhere on contract, and start up something of his own.
Microsoft will flourish again with all the young idealistic minds working hard and get slowly more solid and standard-comliant, but wont get so much back into the front-game.
Balminator, on the other hand, will be very loud with his "next new best thing" and go after Apple's marketshare. Ultimately, he'll end up as a lonely old but relatively rich man and being moderatly successful in the furtniture durability testing-industry.
This should still be impossible if The user pays attention
Well, you cannot expect the user to take this responsibility of "checking for a specific digit", they'll go to the competition if the procedure is too "complex". Why is Apple booming? Not because of feature-gallore.
You cannot imagine how many emails I get of "regular users" who entered their login details on some random webpage resulting in a email to all contacts in a format "follow this link to see [facebook-style test results]" to be prompted to login with your credentials and continue the chain. (I've given up on educating and sending a reply explaining how their credentials have been comprimised").
And why wouldn't those people?
It is simular as Microsofts' passport or the facebook implementation on webpages which is pushed everywhere as a "ease of use" and "seemlessly integration everywhere". (which, if with malicious intent, could hijack your accounts as well and get to your emails, banking details or get creative and infect someone)
Glad to see it's still around for those who hate needles.
A needle sortof awares you if some foreign agent is introduced in your body.
Imagine this scenario: you create patches of some sort, or bandaids or somehow "inject" people unknowingly to themselves and repeat a the story at Pont-Saint-Esprit, but very subtle?
I'm not a "oh noes the mercury in vaccins"-nut, but I sortof like the fact that there's a bit of a barriere before introducing chemicals or organic compounds directly into my bloodstream of which I have little to know knowledge about content and result.p>
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Yes, trolling slashdot nerds to install silverlight to view the image out of uncontrollable curiousity.
Someone at M$ is now chuckling while you sell your soul clicking "install silverlight plugin": trolled hard.
I do not often visit The Times web site, I prefer the paper version. I do mainly if I want to share an article with a friend or few, some item of common interest. Something that has the side effect of introducing non Times readers to The Times.
I notice that I can no longer do that, it will cost me & my friends to be able to share such things. As a result, after 35 years, I will change newspaper; I will no longer buy your paper copy - probably going for the Guardian or Independent.
This paywall is a bad idea, the only way that I can adapt to it is to change which newspaper I read. Your foolish action will cost you. I give you permission to email me (once) when you reverse this policy; however I expect that, by then, I will be happy with my new newspaper.
Regards
Best sir,
We are crying here at HQ, as you were one of these loyal long lasting clients we were boasting about.
Irma overhere, is devistated; she used to ask every week to handmail out your paper personally but now feels rejected and just was going around with a card to contratulate you on your 35th year of subscription with us. She cancelled the cake-order with your name on it.
We hope your new meaningful relationship with another paper will bring your more satisfaction, while we try to calm Irma down and try to fix our strategy with the purpose to remain profitable in a digital age.
Please accept our sincere appologies of the actions of executive management, and accept these scissors to share your news articles with us.
Who would have thought people would object to paying for information (or the closest Murdoch equivalent thereof; this guy owns Fox News) that is also provided for free?
I don't think that's the only problem: internet news tends to be very flaky to push out "interesting" articles and it allows "on the fly editting" compared to a paper for example: unnecessary sensationalists "breaking news!" banners, reedits and a general lower quality of written content.
So, people don't want to pay for sensationalist articles but would if the content would be, as you say, unique, solid and giving a decent added value: If I take the train and read the free Metro paper, log online and keep an eye on the newsfeeds from different RSS-feeds or different newspapers there's very cleary just some channels distributing the same "news" but depending on the papers "target crowd", reworded, restyled and reprioritized.
The "online news" seems often just like a gossip magazine.
Slashdot Mirror
C'mon, seriously guys... They hired additional "antenna engineers" at Apple shortly after the incident. Having the lead engineer leave, is as the article states, not very likely related. But it's good PR for Apple, not so much for Papermaster if they play it out as the stroman.
In a large organisation like that it's not just "one's" responsability intermediate processes and prioritylitst. For such a slipup you wont likely "point at someone and fire them" unless if it's a PR-stunt to clear the brands name in public.
You don't understand media yet well yet.
This is a pull-out action: they demonstrate "how bad it really is" and needed a swing on the "patriotic" and chauvenistic attitude from the populus.
The media echo's this around, awaring EVERYBODY and thus crafting the public opinion. So John Pack, Six is aware as well of this website "wikileaks" and your grandmother or mom.
Eventually, there will a massive decline of public support "on the war", which is now heavily supported on chauvenism and emulated "patriotism". They'll pull out massively leaving the mess overthere to rot with public support.
Eventually, some puppet will be used as strohman and action on this person will be taken to sush the crowd and to make peace with it.
This is nothing more as an evacuation circus, nothing less. There will be a "common enemy" or one single source/cause appointed and found, smeared out in the media until your grandmother is raging about the things she hears in the news that are so unjust she would torch this strohman with deep passion if she'd have the chance.
As they're pointing to their own government, some skelletons will be crafted and launched to be appearing to fall out of the closet to clean house a bit.
You will enjoy this documentary: Politics - The Power of Nightmares
People used to ebay gmail invites. It took a long time before gmail invites got further out as "only employees" or "family of employees".
But ofcourse, thats why gmail is not wide spread adopted.
They tried to recreate the same momentum, but the software wasn't ready; I've used wave but it was a horrid mess to start with. So after trying to write documentation and an analysis with colleagues trying the "replay" functionality and collaboration options. But it soon became frustration.
Online people complained it felt like they were on an island: you needed other wave-using people to actually get down with it. So google opened up the system and threw invites like a pedophile at children but it never really caught on.
What about all these people who were captured by Science Fiction in the 40s, 50s and up?
Even in the USSR they had a broad spectrum of inspiring Science Fiction.
Wherever it was an active effort to get people engaged or wherever it's been just entertainment and exploring the possible future or not-so-likely... You cannot disregard it has inspirated and driven alot of people towards a certain direction, imprented certain dreams to follow or dedicated themselves to achieve such a thing.
Without these "made up stories", nobody would've imagined going to the moon.
EU already has a simular technology in place.
You can get the analysis at wikileaks: EU social network spy system brief, INDECT Work Package 4
I have the simular sensation, and not just this site but alot of fluffy content: The internet was a geek-out place for the last decade.
...)
Now it's just like "interaction television" and advertizing is taking over wheras it used to be a common technological playground.
I wonder who still is getting experimental instead of "studying frameworks", and trying to figure things out?
News online is diluted and reintrepreted from only a few main sources (everything is echo'd around, reaggregated, reposted, retweeted,
I really lack authentic content and people doing new significant things instead of facebooking and being scuked into online pseudo social life or rehash over rehash over rehash over rehash.
Really, it seems this decade people are only watching screens and pushing buttons.
For me it was superawesomely cool to push some buttons, and have a physical result (driving hardware) now all feels very virtual; it has quasi no meaning when you turn off your PC and you're not "interacting".
Nukem 'till they glow, then shoot 'em in the dark!
I believe in the US it's because people are selfish and want to fuck eachother over.
In communists countries, people fear imprisonment or "dissapearing", being checked or whatever by not doing your "duty".
Simularly, there are "government informants": say you have a goverenmt informant living in your building, you wont know he or she works for the government, you just see the people "doing crime" being taken away.
I've been in Belarus, the absence of crime was staggering, just by the fact "everybody could be an informant". And not "because everybody doesn't care about others and want to fuck them over". It might sound utopian, but it's control and inducing fear of retaliation.
They opensourced policing!
I used to write stockmarket software for a global supplier. Nice stuff, through this software ran billions a day, direct feed to the stockmarket-floor.
Now I work as a consultant for a consultancy firm, to get this contract they had a "fixed entermediate consultancy firm", who took 10% profit on my price just to put me into the company. (under their labels and what not)
So I filled in timesheets for my employers, the intermediate party and for the client. It wasn't very clear why I was filling in timesheets for the client as well, but it turned out my work was billed to their clients billing my work per hour with a factor of 2.5 on my price because they could.
This effectively resulted in me working hard, virtually for free, and generating profit for 4 companies (employer, intermediator, client, clients' client) while my pay was insulting for the work I've put out (under 8% of the cash my work generated).
If you want to keep your devs productive and happy, you should spoil them a bit and they'll put out. But I know alot with the same sentiments and effectively migrating to management hoping they'll make their big bucks, often resulting in incompetent management.
You are malinformed, the space elevator EXISTS today and was created by Albert Hofmann.
I don't know, I "deactivated" my facebook. And felt disconnected, as all my contacts are integrated on my Android system and everybody is communicating in that fashion. (when I did, people from all over the world started texting asking me wherever I died.)
The "Farmville" and other apps like that are on ignore on my facebook.
The same with holiday pictures: instead of having to show alot of people my pictures, I just dump them on facebook; who cares looks at them (people who were there, family, ...), who doesn't ignores them while it takes me only once a small effort compared to physically have someone sit next to you watching or to setup a dedicated site/album/... with only the pictures to see. (there's a seemingless integration aspect).
So yes, I would hop on the opensource bandwagon as I don't want to be locked into a service which acts questionably with my data. And I'm certain once this is available, there's the possibility to migrate your data through the facebook API and aggregate your content to other services from your opensource driven base.
This discussion has come up quite a few times already: "are we going to decentralize our social activity online" "are we going to opensource it" "can we still trust facebook" "what about privacy? it's all so obscure", "what about security with my data?", ...
When will we see actual implementations? Are they too busy facebooking? In the 90s people made websites from scratch with cats, animated gifs *and* wrote alot of software for the fun of it and the experimentat and not so much being stuck in just the "dreaming up phase" or "plausability analysis".
... the article sounds like the things I used to wonder about and do during boring classes in highschool.
No, it's serendipity, not knowing what (experience) you'll get next, it might be something way out of your frame of reference, which gives a sense of something possibly entirely new by the click of a button.
While for others it's a way to express themselves creatively, experiment and test the boundaries in a social setting without negative consequences.
You were quasi annonymous, you could reinvent yourself over while knowing your chatpartner wont see or meet you again if you don't want to, while testing how to entertain, shock or interact with people.
It's just normal that such a platform brings out also sexual fantasies and desires in people, but there's a whole lot more to such a platform imho.
fe. see the piano dude, as there are many more of these type of people.
Have you read Terry Pratchetts' strata?
It describes a universe with "planet builders", who build in anachronisms "as a joke" (like dino's with rolexes) and design planets.
I wont give you further spoilers, but it's a really fascinating read and describes part of what you are suggesting.
We get nerd-ons thinking about intergalactic travel and want so desperatly to contact other civilizations but many have trouble interacting with "other races" on their own planet.
All clichés and cultural differences aside; if you meet up with a civilization on another solarsystem, the cultural differences you might like or not will be a massive magnitude greater.
In short: Why would you think to be able to interact with an alien race while you cannot properly interact with the wide array of cultural differences on this planet?
To me it seemsit's often fantasized about as superiour in intelligence and peaceful thus able to teach us things, or massively inferiour and able to be dominated or controlled. But what if they are a bunch of weirdo's alot of people are avoiding in real life and are unable to interact with, even when the cultural or behavioural differences are marginal and limited to one planet? Are we mature enough in that regard to go out and deal with cultures unknown with unknown (to us) origins and behavioural patterns?
Can someone please elaborate on this?
I have copywriters, websales, marketting and a legal department for that.
And most certainly for content in my 4th language.
Now, you can judge me on my code as it's my field of expertise ;)
He'll cash in his layoff-bonus he surely has somewhere on contract, and start up something of his own.
Microsoft will flourish again with all the young idealistic minds working hard and get slowly more solid and standard-comliant, but wont get so much back into the front-game.
Balminator, on the other hand, will be very loud with his "next new best thing" and go after Apple's marketshare. Ultimately, he'll end up as a lonely old but relatively rich man and being moderatly successful in the furtniture durability testing-industry.
They promise to delete your account within 14 days without active use. (if you login, you reactivate your account.)
See delete account
Well, you cannot expect the user to take this responsibility of "checking for a specific digit", they'll go to the competition if the procedure is too "complex". Why is Apple booming? Not because of feature-gallore.
You cannot imagine how many emails I get of "regular users" who entered their login details on some random webpage resulting in a email to all contacts in a format "follow this link to see [facebook-style test results]" to be prompted to login with your credentials and continue the chain.
(I've given up on educating and sending a reply explaining how their credentials have been comprimised").
And why wouldn't those people?
It is simular as Microsofts' passport or the facebook implementation on webpages which is pushed everywhere as a "ease of use" and "seemlessly integration everywhere". (which, if with malicious intent, could hijack your accounts as well and get to your emails, banking details or get creative and infect someone)
A needle sortof awares you if some foreign agent is introduced in your body.
Imagine this scenario: you create patches of some sort, or bandaids or somehow "inject" people unknowingly to themselves and repeat a the story at Pont-Saint-Esprit, but very subtle?
I'm not a "oh noes the mercury in vaccins"-nut, but I sortof like the fact that there's a bit of a barriere before introducing chemicals or organic compounds directly into my bloodstream of which I have little to know knowledge about content and result.p>
Yes, trolling slashdot nerds to install silverlight to view the image out of uncontrollable curiousity.
Someone at M$ is now chuckling while you sell your soul clicking "install silverlight plugin": trolled hard.
Best sir,
We are crying here at HQ, as you were one of these loyal long lasting clients we were boasting about. Irma overhere, is devistated; she used to ask every week to handmail out your paper personally but now feels rejected and just was going around with a card to contratulate you on your 35th year of subscription with us. She cancelled the cake-order with your name on it.
We hope your new meaningful relationship with another paper will bring your more satisfaction, while we try to calm Irma down and try to fix our strategy with the purpose to remain profitable in a digital age. Please accept our sincere appologies of the actions of executive management, and accept these scissors to share your news articles with us.
Your friends,
The Times
I don't think that's the only problem: internet news tends to be very flaky to push out "interesting" articles and it allows "on the fly editting" compared to a paper for example: unnecessary sensationalists "breaking news!" banners, reedits and a general lower quality of written content.
So, people don't want to pay for sensationalist articles but would if the content would be, as you say, unique, solid and giving a decent added value: If I take the train and read the free Metro paper, log online and keep an eye on the newsfeeds from different RSS-feeds or different newspapers there's very cleary just some channels distributing the same "news" but depending on the papers "target crowd", reworded, restyled and reprioritized.
The "online news" seems often just like a gossip magazine.