Is anything interesting (aside from what shows up on Failbook) served up on FB?
You have to add "friends" first... And show interest in the things they do and while doing it amply and enlarge their ego, backpatting them if they successfully prepare a meal or make a picture of their ugly babies.
Or, type a form of affirmation of established "friendship" by typing "lol" or other re-enforcing comments when they do something they perceive as "daring", "desirable", "funny",... (which is easily to be read in which context the content is provided. A picture with caption including a posessive noun indicates the desire for ego-rubbing. If there's an added ":(", it might be a primal desire for support and consolace, like "the puppy was old anyway" or "you deserve better as this mating parting that has parted you")
After a while, you will be "liked", and people will express this by clicking a link whenever you "do something of interest", as a social contract for your added value to their virtual lives. This is also some form of conditioning, so people will train you like a puppy to do things they like and you hence become a "interactive entertainment object".
It's really easy. The more you "share" of yourself (be sure to have something to share, if needed, go to an old nostalgic place and re-enact moments you like or were fond of, take 300 pictures from 20 different angles of a single location so people feel "they are standing there with you" and will like you for bringing "reality" to their virtual experience. Never forget to "open up private moments", and repeat them on each occassoin they occur, say christmass. And repeat this every year to share with your friends, show how great of a person you think you are.
It is imperative to find a balance to be "virtual active"( you have to show interest to "your friends", but at the same time "create content from the real world" or invite alot of people to the games you're playing to "bound".) as people need their ego's to be rubbed regularly in order to want to rub yours: it's a system where one seeks the "most beneficial to my psychological and social perceived wellbeing", where people tune out "haters" or "cancer" and hence create an idealized mentally projected world. A bit like psychotic monkeys.
tl:dr; you were doing it wrong. But now, with these steps, facebook might be more interesting to you.
Yes, I have a facebook. I removed it once, but my telephone was constantly ringing from all over the world with people asking me if I was still alive. So I restored it to make it stop. But, OTOH: Who doesn't want to be globally loved while others enforce your dillusions about yourself? And you filter out those things not fitting in your world picture or within your ability to conceptualize and understand?
Hell, I don't know what this Sipdroid is at all.All I do is hit the "use wifi" checkbox
SIP is a protocol to make phonecalls and videocalls over the internet.
Before cheap cellphone plans, before Wifi even, people wanted to use their existing connections to also make phonecalls and so was SIP born. As well the need to program PBX's (telephone switchboards, call forwarding, answering machines, option menu's,...) in companies for internal telephone traffic -without using an expensive solution from a telecom operator. These things all use SIP (probably the phone sitting on your desk is connected to a PBX redirecting calls and initiazing SIP-based calls.)
The SIPdroid on Android thus, is a client using the internet to make phonecalls and allows you to set up a telephony switchboard with all the options you might want (research Asterisk or TrixBox) without paying a single connection-cost to your telephony provider. And allows you to transfer incoming calls to your home (say you have a telephone number hooked to your PBX) to your cellphone if your cellphone is connected to the internet. (wifi, mobile).
As added funbonus, you can programm your PBX (Asterisk) to automate things in your house (domotica) triggered by say a telephone menu and operate your house by your phone and secure it through a obligatory SIP-connection (takes username and password).
Plenty of reasons to want to run a SIP-client on your Android.
Before "wifi cellphones", you had "wifi telephones" for VOIP dialing or connecting to a PBX
They are cheap and you can get them off of ebay for 50-70usd a piece. I have one laying around I could send you as I'm not using it anymore (my wet dream was a wifi cellphone with API - and have this now with Android. Rendering my Wif-connecting Linksys redundant.)
But I strongly advise you to invest a bit more and get the joys of an Android phone and open alot of experimenting possibilities; those prices are dropping as they're already teasing consumers with a 3rd wave of Android phones.
Fair enough.
If I want to kill those who enable the creation of botnets, I feel I should be able to do so.
I'm a developer, I love to experiment and thinking "outside of the API" and such. It's why I've been extatic with access to opensource smartphones (before Neo1973, think 5 years ago, I was hoping for an affordable wifi-enabled cellphone with decent API to implement VOIP dailing and implement my messaging and email off the GSM grid to cut costs and for coolfactor. Android has brought this to the world.).
So it's a bit the interpretation of google what is malicious or not (I'm not a hacker, I just poke around) and shouldn't control what I want to do with my device. But it's perfectly acceptable for them, according to my concepts, to enforce their interpretation of "malicious" onto people using the marketplace, as they trust google to make a good judgement and for this software to be clean.
This raises again the question wherever we need to call murder and fire about privacy and "it's my phone don't touch it" kindof thing.
OTOH, the marketplace is a "trusted content provider" in control and under the responsability of google. In that regard, I think they have the right and obligation to "keep the market clean", for me it would become unacceptable if they start to remove applications who are "breaching vague copyright claims", and take a weak stance or remove applications on nonsene like that.
If the application would've advertized or mentioned it was "for research purposes", I don't think google should've removed it.
But it's my phone, and if I want to run malicious software on it, I feel I should be able to do so. But I cannot expect the "marketplace" to hold malicious software because I want that possibility.
They could start up a SETI-like initiative, or a STARRS-picture-a-day with people (amateurs who don't know what to look for) reporting and analysing the pictures.
But then they'll have to show the pictures with UFO's as well, so they have to first process the pictures and detect metallic floating objects, and pas those to the airbrush department before releasing them to the public, obviously.
Point being, they'll always need the automated processing: be it to airbrush the UFO's out or to detect things of specific interest which a human might miss or don't know what to look for.
With the added sensation I put in more then I take out of it, so working on starting my own business where my work and money I generate (as a consultant) isn't distributed by all the open held hands in between.
Sortof a weighing of input(long nights, weekends, putting out fire, compensating for misestimates or even certain incompetence sometimes -be it my own in certain aspects or others) and output: I live very humble and don't have much spare time, which I fill with trying to feel the creative and explorative buzz I used to enjoy as a starting softdev which now evolved to creative interaction and useless meetings with dosens of stakeholders all wanting to get their limited vision pushed through trying to break the opposition ending up with a monster of a result and alot of frustrated and drained people.
Hum? Isn't it the natural course of events where the next generation stands "on the shoulders of the previous"? What's religious about awknowledging the efforts of your generation create a new ground for the next, with insights your generation left behind? (or the mess it left behind)
You talk like you need to get laid
What has my sexual activity to do with it? fyi, I got laid last night, and last week and every day in the week before that.
Grow up. Get a life.
Well I feel I DO have a life; I work long days for my ideals and colour my life with things I find valuable and worth doing or enjoying. (after work, that's 90% of outdoor, physical or social activity). Maybe I could be paid more for the work I do, but it doesn't matter to me honestly; I don't feel I can enjoy doing it and at the same time "make a living". As long I feel what I do is worthwhile my time, it's not an imprisonment or enslavement.
Is it that you imply that all you "do" or all your "work" is something hanging over your head because you'd otherwise starve? And without, you'd rather just vegitate?
Get over it. Manned space flight was a 20th-century phenomenon that has been determined to be too expensive and too limited in returns to be continued at its former funding levels
I'm holding in the palm of my hand a device more powerful then the computer they used to explore most of our solarsystem. Called a cellphone. (actually a smartphone which is more then a high end computer could do 10 years ago.)
Now, let me tell you, context changes. Time changes. Our technology and knowledge about the universe has changed.
Be it by gazing at the stars and learning about the universe, about motivating and inspiring people to push the limits of the physical possible while they dream about doing awesome things, fed by media, scifi, fantasy, dream-technology or what have you. It inspires and makes you work for days, months, years without end to a seemingly useless purpose.
We have evolved these decades, we have new minds, a new "basic understanding", we process information differently and our younglings and the active working society has different morals, different insights and different goals or knowledge as decades ago.
Instead of shooting it all down, believing your world is fixed and you possess all the current knowledge, you've very intellectually gathered over all these years, as I, it's no reason to disallow discovery or handing over the flag to those who are still eager and unspoilt in their concepts but dare to dream. And their dreams, as yours or mine, are different too.
You wont restore your economy by suffocating it, but by creating economical activity and draw in foreign currency. The problem is when you have "fat years" in a country, people sortof lay back and consume and import. While they're at the same time exporting their wealth, just up the point where it tips over and they're dependent of import (of goods, services, knowledge,...).
So let these suckers play around with their concept of science, give them boundaries in which they can manoeuvre and need to be creative (no needless large fundings and no "wealthfare" bureaucratic jobs.) things will look much different, then.
They have an inflatable device in rubber with a with depressurisation mechanism attached to the side of the craft for transpermia, nicknamed "love glove".
Nokia did a "me-tooo!!" online software store. It couldn't engage developers and it flopped.
Android started it smart with the summer code-challenges almost a year before the first phones came to the general market and have now the power to offer phonevendors the ease of NOT having to design an OS or upgrade/modify what they have for each phone model they release.
Microsoft still looked like they buttkicked PalmOS and went into a comfy zone "no competition. We know it sucks balls, but hey, what are your alternatives, management boy? Here, have a free magnetic stylus, so you can sync exchange."
Android has put Microsoft to shame with their pants on their knees in a "developer developers!" conference, touchscreening it to youtube and twitter while the WM6 guys are, well.. sortof trying to find the right program files folder and waiting a bit to open their browser...
Microsoft will have to "pull another IE" to get "sortof back in the game". The same way they are now throwing in everything to be ready for HTML5 and are a bit neglecting canvas.
They thought their honeycomb design on WM6 would be sufficient to give Android surprice buttseks, but they've been surprice-somethingelse'd themselves right now while they thought they had full game
I know this engineer who can feel colours: in his experience certain sensations would invoke colours.
He can't really explain or verbalize it and while he tries to he is at lost for words. When I inquire it's just a "strong association" he insists it's a physical experience and not so much "association". You often hear him say "this feels yellow" something in that fashion.
It used to be that you could take a small amount of money, invest it in a company with a good idea - along with many other people - and you could profit from it too
To my definition the market is more like wealth redistribution; "I have a great idea but I do not have funds" "ok buddy, I like your idea. I'll make sure you can work out this idea and for my trust in you and for taking the risk of losing my 'investment', I ask a small margin."
Now, you do the same thing with a loan: "I want a house, but I do not have the funds." "I have funds, I can give you a house and allow you usage of it, while you pay off during your life time. I'll ask some interest from you for the risk involved not seeing my money back and making it profitable for me to help you out."
So, after a while someone started to think up funds and insurances "oh, you have this kindof risk involved... we can pool a bit and pull statistics so we can calculate how much we must keep in the pool to cover the risk involved and bring the other part back into the market. (eg. 'investments')
It's a good system which allows redistributing wealth around; it allows you to be born dirtpoor yet cover, used to be with your life, to pay back and make something different of your life. It's a great system which allows innovation and evolution without forcing the more well-off to sit on their money and opressing; they get a percentage on making their money accessable to people.
To me it seems, it's the shuffling around of these "I owe you"'s which makes it very abstract and tends to be lottery like, while each generation thinks up their new methods to "pull out a few bucks".
Same with currency gauging ("inflate, so our 'IOU's inflate. Attract instream of money and investement, so we have a larger buffer") or reselling "hey, this obligation of country x is hot stuff, I can give you a percentage on that one", etc... It becomes a very abstract absurd game.
My company pays me from 9 to 5 and that does NOT give them the right to invade my live the rest of the time.
I wholeheartedly agree.
It seems the concept "working" has become a bit warped in our society. If you formulate it differently things look entirely different:
"My employer pays me for my skill and service which I'm willing to deliver for the price I'm being paid. We both have a contract and agreement where we stipulate which service he wants me to provide to him and for which compensation I will dedicate my time to this person. If the agreement isn't met, the agreement is voided and I will put my skills and time to use for someone else who needs my expertise with whom I negotiate the terms for my service to him or her."
These days it seems like a job is something you have to bend over for and you're at mercy of someone who is "kind enough to give you a buck to mope the floor and make coffee."
Other then your "service" with your mutual agreed terms (you've signed a contract, you can scratch clausules and modify others if you don't agree, you're negotiating terms that moment...) your employer has no say in your private life.
While I might agree you should sortof keep the both seperated, it's a personal choice and it's up to you. Knowing much more about one's personal life does affect professionalism (after getting closer to some colleagues I often lost respect but you remain professional), but your employer has no authority over what you do in your passed time.
No special syntax needed, no complex logical operations to try and get results, just key in terms or phrases and you get good results.
Haven't we been doing this since the early 90s?
Hotbot
yahoo
askjeeves
altavista ...
It's because you have more control no your searches ('filetype:jpg',...) with relevant results and hat made google what it is, is "unintrusive and related advertizing". It used to be about the "most flashy", "most blinky", "largest", "impossible to click away" and what have you.
(Before popupblockers, oh lord.. you couldn't surf porn at all because each time your IE4 or Netscape Navigator would hit a page with a thousand popups your PC with 32MB ram would choke. And then, you have only one page to look at at the same time. If you opened 3, your PC would bluescreen or you'd try to find "tweaks" to strip your system.)
If you feel it's because "google put a textbox with a button on a page, which made them what they are now", you must've joined the internet game mightly late.
It's "the issue" now, by the way, that advertisers are looking for "targetted, relevant advertizing", and we are now once again in an oversaturation of something that used to work. It's overdone, and it's why they want their greedy hands on your facebook data and general statistics.
Scenario 1: You have a drive full of happy family pictures, with your 2yo running around naked on the beach.
Scernario 2: You lend your laptop to your 14-15yo something teen for homework or an assignment, who ends up collecting sexy pictures of current love-interest or webcamfling, or whatever. You walk through security with a confident smile because you don't look at pron (on that laptop).
You're jolly entering Australia for a nice warm vacation or business, but you did not get in because you're now in jail for childpornography.
"Sir, did you leave your laptop unguarded? Did you pack your laptop yourself?"
The problem with that is that generally speaking the fatter you are, the more you fart. Since there's carbon dioxide and quite frequently methane in the resulting... expulsion... you're contributing to global warming that way.
wow: (with other words) so they could/should raise fastfood and snacktax?
"If you eat unhealthy, you grow fatter and polute more by flatulence"
Consumer reasons: "I didn't know it makes me fart more, the companies providing me this should carry the tax"
Producer reasons: "We get flatulencetaxed because the preception of flatulent people, who CHOOSe to be flatulent and love the product for that very reason, which is the users personal responsability. Internal R&D on flatulenceless junkfood and research on the corelation of their product and the level of flatulence as a result (study is inconclusive, suggests some personal responsability -exercise or combination with other products- is out of their scope of responsability)."
Government reasons: "He who chooses to eat more flatulent products, should be taxed for poluting. He who creates flatulence-stimulating products, should be held accountable and should be taxed for indirect poluting and apply flatulence-level labels to make the user or consumer aware of the raised flatulence polution the product may impact in a easy to understand 5-level rating determined by a assembled board of flatulence-advisors.
From "mild flatulence motivating (MFM)", receiving mild flatulence tax, up to "very strong flatulence motivating (VSFM)", requiring a higher level of taxation.
(and by no means, we'll utilize this tax to neutralize the flatulence impact on the environment)
I thought FOX (bastards!) canceled that show over 5 years ago
They cancelled it. Internet community cried out it never had a chance with its programming and how it was the next evolution of the simpsons (they were getting old, and futurama connected with the upcoming technological revolutions), so after a few years (7 or so) they brought out movies of Futurama on DVD only to test the success and keep it alive resulting in 4 Futurama movies.
The DVD success has given them enough momentum to restart the series; first new episode will be aired the 24th this month if I recall this alright.
So, to me it's not that strange to see Futurama more in the media again and get it more weight at relaunch by showing the intelligence in it in science magazines and other media to draw in attention of people who would enjoy the humor alike.
I for one, am rejoicing! 10 years ago I enjoyed this series and devoured it, but maybe the world wasn't ready for it yet.
Ofcourse, now they want money to support themselves so they can run the project.
Afterwards, if it works and would run (unlikely in that timeframe) they will want to make money out of it because "they put alot into it and need to maintain it".
Not soon after, they'll want to make a fulltime living out of it, and try to come up with a way to make it "free" for users, yet try to find creative ways to make money off of it, like advertizing.
After that, we get the same thing.
I'm more for the idea of decoupling data on these kindof site and make them transferable, sortof like RFC-protocol which sites can implement to talk to eachother. The "brand"-dependency would dissapear, and users will be able to use services based on relevance and enjoyment without needing to be "tied in".
Slashdot Mirror
Not all occupy themselves playing games...
I use my trackball to throw at colleagues who piss me off.
You have to add "friends" first... And show interest in the things they do and while doing it amply and enlarge their ego, backpatting them if they successfully prepare a meal or make a picture of their ugly babies.
Or, type a form of affirmation of established "friendship" by typing "lol" or other re-enforcing comments when they do something they perceive as "daring", "desirable", "funny", ... (which is easily to be read in which context the content is provided. A picture with caption including a posessive noun indicates the desire for ego-rubbing. If there's an added ":(", it might be a primal desire for support and consolace, like "the puppy was old anyway" or "you deserve better as this mating parting that has parted you")
After a while, you will be "liked", and people will express this by clicking a link whenever you "do something of interest", as a social contract for your added value to their virtual lives. This is also some form of conditioning, so people will train you like a puppy to do things they like and you hence become a "interactive entertainment object".
It's really easy. The more you "share" of yourself (be sure to have something to share, if needed, go to an old nostalgic place and re-enact moments you like or were fond of, take 300 pictures from 20 different angles of a single location so people feel "they are standing there with you" and will like you for bringing "reality" to their virtual experience. Never forget to "open up private moments", and repeat them on each occassoin they occur, say christmass. And repeat this every year to share with your friends, show how great of a person you think you are.
It is imperative to find a balance to be "virtual active"( you have to show interest to "your friends", but at the same time "create content from the real world" or invite alot of people to the games you're playing to "bound".) as people need their ego's to be rubbed regularly in order to want to rub yours: it's a system where one seeks the "most beneficial to my psychological and social perceived wellbeing", where people tune out "haters" or "cancer" and hence create an idealized mentally projected world. A bit like psychotic monkeys.
tl:dr; you were doing it wrong. But now, with these steps, facebook might be more interesting to you.
Yes, I have a facebook. I removed it once, but my telephone was constantly ringing from all over the world with people asking me if I was still alive. So I restored it to make it stop. But, OTOH: Who doesn't want to be globally loved while others enforce your dillusions about yourself? And you filter out those things not fitting in your world picture or within your ability to conceptualize and understand?
* grandstream wifi
* linksys voip wifi
* voip phone wifi
* IPphone
* ip phone
SIP is a protocol to make phonecalls and videocalls over the internet.
Before cheap cellphone plans, before Wifi even, people wanted to use their existing connections to also make phonecalls and so was SIP born. As well the need to program PBX's (telephone switchboards, call forwarding, answering machines, option menu's, ...) in companies for internal telephone traffic -without using an expensive solution from a telecom operator. These things all use SIP (probably the phone sitting on your desk is connected to a PBX redirecting calls and initiazing SIP-based calls.)
The SIPdroid on Android thus, is a client using the internet to make phonecalls and allows you to set up a telephony switchboard with all the options you might want (research Asterisk or TrixBox) without paying a single connection-cost to your telephony provider. And allows you to transfer incoming calls to your home (say you have a telephone number hooked to your PBX) to your cellphone if your cellphone is connected to the internet. (wifi, mobile).
As added funbonus, you can programm your PBX (Asterisk) to automate things in your house (domotica) triggered by say a telephone menu and operate your house by your phone and secure it through a obligatory SIP-connection (takes username and password).
Plenty of reasons to want to run a SIP-client on your Android.
Before "wifi cellphones", you had "wifi telephones" for VOIP dialing or connecting to a PBX
They are cheap and you can get them off of ebay for 50-70usd a piece. I have one laying around I could send you as I'm not using it anymore (my wet dream was a wifi cellphone with API - and have this now with Android. Rendering my Wif-connecting Linksys redundant.)
But I strongly advise you to invest a bit more and get the joys of an Android phone and open alot of experimenting possibilities; those prices are dropping as they're already teasing consumers with a 3rd wave of Android phones.
Setup your environment
And to my first impression (you never know for sure until you try), create an app which hooks to BroadcastReceiver and poke around with it.
Maybe even grantUriPermission on a service.
I'm a developer, I love to experiment and thinking "outside of the API" and such. It's why I've been extatic with access to opensource smartphones (before Neo1973, think 5 years ago, I was hoping for an affordable wifi-enabled cellphone with decent API to implement VOIP dailing and implement my messaging and email off the GSM grid to cut costs and for coolfactor. Android has brought this to the world.).
So it's a bit the interpretation of google what is malicious or not (I'm not a hacker, I just poke around) and shouldn't control what I want to do with my device. But it's perfectly acceptable for them, according to my concepts, to enforce their interpretation of "malicious" onto people using the marketplace, as they trust google to make a good judgement and for this software to be clean.
I live in Belgium, lets have some fun ;)
This raises again the question wherever we need to call murder and fire about privacy and "it's my phone don't touch it" kindof thing.
OTOH, the marketplace is a "trusted content provider" in control and under the responsability of google. In that regard, I think they have the right and obligation to "keep the market clean", for me it would become unacceptable if they start to remove applications who are "breaching vague copyright claims", and take a weak stance or remove applications on nonsene like that.
If the application would've advertized or mentioned it was "for research purposes", I don't think google should've removed it.
But it's my phone, and if I want to run malicious software on it, I feel I should be able to do so. But I cannot expect the "marketplace" to hold malicious software because I want that possibility.
They could start up a SETI-like initiative, or a STARRS-picture-a-day with people (amateurs who don't know what to look for) reporting and analysing the pictures.
But then they'll have to show the pictures with UFO's as well, so they have to first process the pictures and detect metallic floating objects, and pas those to the airbrush department before releasing them to the public, obviously.
Point being, they'll always need the automated processing: be it to airbrush the UFO's out or to detect things of specific interest which a human might miss or don't know what to look for.
With the added sensation I put in more then I take out of it, so working on starting my own business where my work and money I generate (as a consultant) isn't distributed by all the open held hands in between.
Sortof a weighing of input(long nights, weekends, putting out fire, compensating for misestimates or even certain incompetence sometimes -be it my own in certain aspects or others) and output:
I live very humble and don't have much spare time, which I fill with trying to feel the creative and explorative buzz I used to enjoy as a starting softdev which now evolved to creative interaction and useless meetings with dosens of stakeholders all wanting to get their limited vision pushed through trying to break the opposition ending up with a monster of a result and alot of frustrated and drained people.
Hum? Isn't it the natural course of events where the next generation stands "on the shoulders of the previous"? What's religious about awknowledging the efforts of your generation create a new ground for the next, with insights your generation left behind? (or the mess it left behind)
What has my sexual activity to do with it? fyi, I got laid last night, and last week and every day in the week before that.
Well I feel I DO have a life; I work long days for my ideals and colour my life with things I find valuable and worth doing or enjoying. (after work, that's 90% of outdoor, physical or social activity). Maybe I could be paid more for the work I do, but it doesn't matter to me honestly; I don't feel I can enjoy doing it and at the same time "make a living". As long I feel what I do is worthwhile my time, it's not an imprisonment or enslavement.
Is it that you imply that all you "do" or all your "work" is something hanging over your head because you'd otherwise starve? And without, you'd rather just vegitate?
You sound very bitter to me.
I'm holding in the palm of my hand a device more powerful then the computer they used to explore most of our solarsystem. Called a cellphone. (actually a smartphone which is more then a high end computer could do 10 years ago.)
Now, let me tell you, context changes. Time changes. Our technology and knowledge about the universe has changed.
Be it by gazing at the stars and learning about the universe, about motivating and inspiring people to push the limits of the physical possible while they dream about doing awesome things, fed by media, scifi, fantasy, dream-technology or what have you. It inspires and makes you work for days, months, years without end to a seemingly useless purpose.
We have evolved these decades, we have new minds, a new "basic understanding", we process information differently and our younglings and the active working society has different morals, different insights and different goals or knowledge as decades ago.
Instead of shooting it all down, believing your world is fixed and you possess all the current knowledge, you've very intellectually gathered over all these years, as I, it's no reason to disallow discovery or handing over the flag to those who are still eager and unspoilt in their concepts but dare to dream. And their dreams, as yours or mine, are different too.
You wont restore your economy by suffocating it, but by creating economical activity and draw in foreign currency. The problem is when you have "fat years" in a country, people sortof lay back and consume and import. While they're at the same time exporting their wealth, just up the point where it tips over and they're dependent of import (of goods, services, knowledge, ...).
So let these suckers play around with their concept of science, give them boundaries in which they can manoeuvre and need to be creative (no needless large fundings and no "wealthfare" bureaucratic jobs.) things will look much different, then.
tl:dr; time changes.
They have an inflatable device in rubber with a with depressurisation mechanism attached to the side of the craft for transpermia, nicknamed "love glove".
Jupiters late missing spot :)
We've been playing this game for over a decade now..
Are there already good alternatives for bittorrents?
The onion-based darknets seem to be empty because it hasn't been as necessary yet there hasn't been anything other then torrents it seems..?
Nokia did a "me-tooo!!" online software store. It couldn't engage developers and it flopped.
Android started it smart with the summer code-challenges almost a year before the first phones came to the general market and have now the power to offer phonevendors the ease of NOT having to design an OS or upgrade/modify what they have for each phone model they release.
Microsoft still looked like they buttkicked PalmOS and went into a comfy zone "no competition. We know it sucks balls, but hey, what are your alternatives, management boy? Here, have a free magnetic stylus, so you can sync exchange."
Android has put Microsoft to shame with their pants on their knees in a "developer developers!" conference, touchscreening it to youtube and twitter while the WM6 guys are, well.. sortof trying to find the right program files folder and waiting a bit to open their browser...
Microsoft will have to "pull another IE" to get "sortof back in the game". The same way they are now throwing in everything to be ready for HTML5 and are a bit neglecting canvas.
They thought their honeycomb design on WM6 would be sufficient to give Android surprice buttseks, but they've been surprice-somethingelse'd themselves right now while they thought they had full game
brb, getting some perception in my brain with a pole.
I know this engineer who can feel colours: in his experience certain sensations would invoke colours.
He can't really explain or verbalize it and while he tries to he is at lost for words. When I inquire it's just a "strong association" he insists it's a physical experience and not so much "association".
You often hear him say "this feels yellow" something in that fashion.
To my definition the market is more like wealth redistribution; "I have a great idea but I do not have funds" "ok buddy, I like your idea. I'll make sure you can work out this idea and for my trust in you and for taking the risk of losing my 'investment', I ask a small margin."
Now, you do the same thing with a loan: "I want a house, but I do not have the funds." "I have funds, I can give you a house and allow you usage of it, while you pay off during your life time. I'll ask some interest from you for the risk involved not seeing my money back and making it profitable for me to help you out."
So, after a while someone started to think up funds and insurances "oh, you have this kindof risk involved... we can pool a bit and pull statistics so we can calculate how much we must keep in the pool to cover the risk involved and bring the other part back into the market. (eg. 'investments')
It's a good system which allows redistributing wealth around; it allows you to be born dirtpoor yet cover, used to be with your life, to pay back and make something different of your life. It's a great system which allows innovation and evolution without forcing the more well-off to sit on their money and opressing; they get a percentage on making their money accessable to people.
To me it seems, it's the shuffling around of these "I owe you"'s which makes it very abstract and tends to be lottery like, while each generation thinks up their new methods to "pull out a few bucks".
Same with currency gauging ("inflate, so our 'IOU's inflate. Attract instream of money and investement, so we have a larger buffer") or reselling "hey, this obligation of country x is hot stuff, I can give you a percentage on that one", etc... It becomes a very abstract absurd game.
I wholeheartedly agree.
It seems the concept "working" has become a bit warped in our society. If you formulate it differently things look entirely different:
"My employer pays me for my skill and service which I'm willing to deliver for the price I'm being paid. We both have a contract and agreement where we stipulate which service he wants me to provide to him and for which compensation I will dedicate my time to this person. If the agreement isn't met, the agreement is voided and I will put my skills and time to use for someone else who needs my expertise with whom I negotiate the terms for my service to him or her."
These days it seems like a job is something you have to bend over for and you're at mercy of someone who is "kind enough to give you a buck to mope the floor and make coffee."
Other then your "service" with your mutual agreed terms (you've signed a contract, you can scratch clausules and modify others if you don't agree, you're negotiating terms that moment...) your employer has no say in your private life.
While I might agree you should sortof keep the both seperated, it's a personal choice and it's up to you. Knowing much more about one's personal life does affect professionalism (after getting closer to some colleagues I often lost respect but you remain professional), but your employer has no authority over what you do in your passed time.
Haven't we been doing this since the early 90s?
Hotbot
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yahoo
askjeeves
altavista
It's because you have more control no your searches ('filetype:jpg',...) with relevant results and hat made google what it is, is "unintrusive and related advertizing". It used to be about the "most flashy", "most blinky", "largest", "impossible to click away" and what have you.
(Before popupblockers, oh lord.. you couldn't surf porn at all because each time your IE4 or Netscape Navigator would hit a page with a thousand popups your PC with 32MB ram would choke. And then, you have only one page to look at at the same time. If you opened 3, your PC would bluescreen or you'd try to find "tweaks" to strip your system.)
If you feel it's because "google put a textbox with a button on a page, which made them what they are now", you must've joined the internet game mightly late.
It's "the issue" now, by the way, that advertisers are looking for "targetted, relevant advertizing", and we are now once again in an oversaturation of something that used to work. It's overdone, and it's why they want their greedy hands on your facebook data and general statistics.
Scenario 1:
You have a drive full of happy family pictures, with your 2yo running around naked on the beach.
Scernario 2:
You lend your laptop to your 14-15yo something teen for homework or an assignment, who ends up collecting sexy pictures of current love-interest or webcamfling, or whatever. You walk through security with a confident smile because you don't look at pron (on that laptop).
You're jolly entering Australia for a nice warm vacation or business, but you did not get in because you're now in jail for childpornography.
"Sir, did you leave your laptop unguarded? Did you pack your laptop yourself?"
Australia, it could happen to you!
wow: (with other words) so they could/should raise fastfood and snacktax?
"If you eat unhealthy, you grow fatter and polute more by flatulence"
Consumer reasons: "I didn't know it makes me fart more, the companies providing me this should carry the tax"
Producer reasons: "We get flatulencetaxed because the preception of flatulent people, who CHOOSe to be flatulent and love the product for that very reason, which is the users personal responsability.
Internal R&D on flatulenceless junkfood and research on the corelation of their product and the level of flatulence as a result (study is inconclusive, suggests some personal responsability -exercise or combination with other products- is out of their scope of responsability)."
Government reasons: "He who chooses to eat more flatulent products, should be taxed for poluting.
He who creates flatulence-stimulating products, should be held accountable and should be taxed for indirect poluting and apply flatulence-level labels to make the user or consumer aware of the raised flatulence polution the product may impact in a easy to understand 5-level rating determined by a assembled board of flatulence-advisors.
From "mild flatulence motivating (MFM)", receiving mild flatulence tax, up to "very strong flatulence motivating (VSFM)", requiring a higher level of taxation.
(and by no means, we'll utilize this tax to neutralize the flatulence impact on the environment)
They cancelled it. Internet community cried out it never had a chance with its programming and how it was the next evolution of the simpsons (they were getting old, and futurama connected with the upcoming technological revolutions), so after a few years (7 or so) they brought out movies of Futurama on DVD only to test the success and keep it alive resulting in 4 Futurama movies.
The DVD success has given them enough momentum to restart the series; first new episode will be aired the 24th this month if I recall this alright.
So, to me it's not that strange to see Futurama more in the media again and get it more weight at relaunch by showing the intelligence in it in science magazines and other media to draw in attention of people who would enjoy the humor alike.
I for one, am rejoicing! 10 years ago I enjoyed this series and devoured it, but maybe the world wasn't ready for it yet.
Ofcourse, now they want money to support themselves so they can run the project.
Afterwards, if it works and would run (unlikely in that timeframe) they will want to make money out of it because "they put alot into it and need to maintain it".
Not soon after, they'll want to make a fulltime living out of it, and try to come up with a way to make it "free" for users, yet try to find creative ways to make money off of it, like advertizing.
After that, we get the same thing.
I'm more for the idea of decoupling data on these kindof site and make them transferable, sortof like RFC-protocol which sites can implement to talk to eachother. The "brand"-dependency would dissapear, and users will be able to use services based on relevance and enjoyment without needing to be "tied in".