The consequences of being without access are rapidly getting worse though. As recently as five years ago, internet access was a small luxury along the lines of having cable television. Today it's rapidly approaching the point where net access will rival having a place of residence in importance for your everyday life.
As I said, that doesn't scale well. You'd need multiple bots doing this for this to have any real effect, and you'd only target those people that read largely the same subset of tech sites.
And remember, they'd only push their own dating sites, or Viagra sites or whatever, over their competition. You need to search for a dating site to begin with for their manipulation to have any effect at all.
This is about the +1 button on search results, not G+. G+ has nothing to do with this.
There is a risk of spamming, but it depends also on how they end up using it. If, say, it ends up promoting things similar to those I've +1'd, but only for my own searches, then the risk of spamming is quite low. If similarity is determined by the +1 from people that tend to +1 similar sites to myself then you can't really spam it at large scale.
A user that +1s every site in sight will not have a similar profile to anybody else but other spammers. If they +1 their own sites and a coherent set of other sites then they'll only target the specific people interested in those kind of sites; too much work for too little effect for it to be an effective manipulation method.
Never mind the graphics, the fact that it's completely open-ended is what makes it for me.
Right now I'm working on the finished touches on my cross-map railway; I want to finish the "On the rails" achievement and do a long train ride before the update. Just doing a long rail ride isn't particularly fun, though, so I've been doing it "right",following the terrain properly, with a whole series of bridges, tunnels, passageways and so on along the line. That needs lots more iron and gold than just a simple straight line, so I've had to expand my mines - which need their own train lines to avoid the embarrassment of walking, so I need more resources still...
Other games may keep my interest for a few hours. This is the only game I've become completely stuck in for months since becoming an adult. It is the only non-adventure game to hever have done so.
Slashdot has been a daily - no, constant - companion to me ever since I started reading it as a student. It's been my go-to timewaster all trough grade school, when writing my thesis, through postdocs and temp jobs.
Sitting here as an overage postdoc on the tail end of a temporary project I can't even begin to imagine where I would be if slashdot and CmdrTaco hadn't been there whenever I needed a distraction - tenured professor perhaps, CEO, jet-setting billionaire...
It's worth noting that there's been a free Android app for this on the -a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=jp.twiple.android.quake&feature=search_result">market (including Softbank phones I assume) for a good long while already.
It works quite nicely; I've gotten alerts for every small quake we've had since I installed it, before they happened. You get a graphical display with the epicenter and you can set your minimum strength, distance and shindo (surface effect) to filter out uninteresting warnings. It sits and waits for push notifications and alerts you immediately when it gets a quake that exceeds your filter settings.
You don't need any low-level OS support or anything in other words. Surely there must be a similar app for iOS already?
"[â¦.]but generally the rest of the world doesn't think twice when watching those movies[...]"
Why do you assume that?
I mean, unless you speak the language and participate in the local conversation you're not likely to pick up anything about how people react and what they think, right?
How out doing both? Even if one fails the other would succeed, and you'd test both technologies in a real-world setting. We're talking fairly cheap missions, relatively speaking, and they could almost be worth it just for the incidental research data if you let some of their mass be instruments and communications equipment.
I played with the Sony E-reader with the idea that I'd use it for bringing papers to read (yes, it's a Sony, but despite that the e-reader is quite open and format-agnostic).
In some ways it could work quite well: it has a mode that shows you one quarter of the page at a time, which fits very neatly with the typical two-column format. And the touch screen makes it natural to swipe around in the text.
But it has two downsides: it doesn't do color, which makes many illustrations unreadable. And there's no way to organize large amounts of papers - no good way to index them or search them.
Instead I'm going to get an Andy Pad Pro next month. The long format of Android tablets is a good fit for two-column papers. It's the same size as the Galaxy Tab, but with higher resolution screen, and cheap enough that I can justify getting it just as a tech toy even if it doesn't work out as a paper reader.
Which leads me to a question: anybody know of Android software to index PDF files? Or, optimally, a way to transfer papers directly from Zotero, keeping labels and notes intact? Not likely that last one, I know, but just in case...
I agree with your greater point that complexity is not net necessarily a bad thing. But your bridge simile is flawed. Many other programmers - the majority in fact - do use "simpler formulas" without their bridges becoming any less safe for their purpose.
C++ is one lf the most used languages in the world, and for good reason, but it does have an awful lot of cruft, odd corner cases and complexity for what it does. It is a big-n-tall language, for good and bad.
What I'm saying is, you can't blame the market actors without also blaming the people who give them the money to play with. Which are most of us, one way or another.
They don't play with their own money. If you're putting your money into the market - directly or indirectly - then you're complicit. You could simply put your money in a savings account or in a safety deposit box after all. But no, you like the better returns over time. You're like a punter who sneers at his bookie as a lower class of person.
Put your money - including your pension benefits; they're among the largest actors in the market and known for not taking responsibility as stock owners - where your mouth is.
"Apple tried this back in the day, both producing its own hardware and licensing the software and it didn't work. "
Of course, in this case the software is licensed free of charge for everyone. I'd say that, and the fact that the base is all open source, does quite a bit to calm other manufacturers.
The only thing Google would need to be careful about is to not give preferential access to its subsidiary; such as getting early builds before the other big manufacturers and so on.
Think body embedded sensors for instance. They use a tiny amount of power; getting at them for battery replacement is very invasive; and active recharge though an external coil or similar requires external equipment and having users remember to do so would be a common point of failure.
So⦠What about shielding then? Having RF shielding to protect electronics (or using building materials that shield an entire room or house for that matter) also degrades the downstream signal, without using the data in any way.
I could be wrong Ââ" I frequently am â" but I doubt your argument would really hold in practice.
"Most try to get the MBA to avoid a future scenario where they're the only ones trying to compete as a BA in a sea of candidates with equal experience, but with an MBA."
of course, the MBA people don't all have the same experience, do they? Some people will have "sports reporting" to pad out their credits. Other may have spent most of those extra credits on a second language, introductory IT or science courses, or perhaps extra law classes.
If you're a biotech company and one applicant gets the basics of what your company is doing while the other one has "sports reporting", I'd say the first applicant has quite a leg up right there.
It seems to index just a small subset though. I'm not in there, and neither are any of the friends I know are on G+. Early days yet; I guess with the public API it will be easier to make a comprehensive search function.
Yes, just look what a complete failure that actor was with that weird foreign, long, impossible to even spell name; what was it - "Arnold Schwarzenegger" or some completely, utterly hopeless name like that. No way it could have worked.
We discovered an issue with the version of the iPhone Google+ App that was on the App Store. When we launched, the App Store started serving a previous test version of the App which didn't have the stability and fixes that the latest version had. It started serving the correct version a little later. If you downloaded within the first 1 hour 40 mins, you may have downloaded the older test version.
To check: - Click on the gear icon on the top left of your App's homescreen and look right above the Help button, the version number of the App should be: 1.0.1.1809
- If that is not the version number, then please uninstall and reinstall by clicking on the link below: itunes.apple.com
The R9 is light - I had the earlier version before my current machine and it really feels like the same size as a netbook, but being a full-featured laptop. I can have it in my bag and not know it's there (a problem in fact; I few times I forget it at home or at work and not realize it until I arrived).
I've considered a tablet, but they take as much weight and bulk as a similarly specced netbook. Add a portable keyboard and it's as heavy as, and bulkier than, the R9 or similar.
How about a Let's Note R9 or J10 (J10 has wider screen and much faster CPU)? Both are less than 1kg (the J10 just barely less), and get looong battery life even without an extra battery.
I use the next larger model, the S9, and get about 7 hours of real-world usage with Ubuntu.
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"You do realize people still buy software, and that it still comes on optical disks."
This is a Linux system they built, though. Shrinkwrapped software is very rare, verging on nonexistent, for that OS.
The consequences of being without access are rapidly getting worse though. As recently as five years ago, internet access was a small luxury along the lines of having cable television. Today it's rapidly approaching the point where net access will rival having a place of residence in importance for your everyday life.
As I said, that doesn't scale well. You'd need multiple bots doing this for this to have any real effect, and you'd only target those people that read largely the same subset of tech sites.
And remember, they'd only push their own dating sites, or Viagra sites or whatever, over their competition. You need to search for a dating site to begin with for their manipulation to have any effect at all.
This is about the +1 button on search results, not G+. G+ has nothing to do with this.
There is a risk of spamming, but it depends also on how they end up using it. If, say, it ends up promoting things similar to those I've +1'd, but only for my own searches, then the risk of spamming is quite low. If similarity is determined by the +1 from people that tend to +1 similar sites to myself then you can't really spam it at large scale.
A user that +1s every site in sight will not have a similar profile to anybody else but other spammers. If they +1 their own sites and a coherent set of other sites then they'll only target the specific people interested in those kind of sites; too much work for too little effect for it to be an effective manipulation method.
Never mind the graphics, the fact that it's completely open-ended is what makes it for me.
Right now I'm working on the finished touches on my cross-map railway; I want to finish the "On the rails" achievement and do a long train ride before the update. Just doing a long rail ride isn't particularly fun, though, so I've been doing it "right",following the terrain properly, with a whole series of bridges, tunnels, passageways and so on along the line. That needs lots more iron and gold than just a simple straight line, so I've had to expand my mines - which need their own train lines to avoid the embarrassment of walking, so I need more resources still...
Other games may keep my interest for a few hours. This is the only game I've become completely stuck in for months since becoming an adult. It is the only non-adventure game to hever have done so.
Slashdot has been a daily - no, constant - companion to me ever since I started reading it as a student. It's been my go-to timewaster all trough grade school, when writing my thesis, through postdocs and temp jobs.
Sitting here as an overage postdoc on the tail end of a temporary project I can't even begin to imagine where I would be if slashdot and CmdrTaco hadn't been there whenever I needed a distraction - tenured professor perhaps, CEO, jet-setting billionaire...
Rob, thank you for all these years.
It's worth noting that there's been a free Android app for this on the -a href="https://market.android.com/details?id=jp.twiple.android.quake&feature=search_result">market (including Softbank phones I assume) for a good long while already.
It works quite nicely; I've gotten alerts for every small quake we've had since I installed it, before they happened. You get a graphical display with the epicenter and you can set your minimum strength, distance and shindo (surface effect) to filter out uninteresting warnings. It sits and waits for push notifications and alerts you immediately when it gets a quake that exceeds your filter settings.
You don't need any low-level OS support or anything in other words. Surely there must be a similar app for iOS already?
"[â¦.]but generally the rest of the world doesn't think twice when watching those movies[...]"
Why do you assume that?
I mean, unless you speak the language and participate in the local conversation you're not likely to pick up anything about how people react and what they think, right?
How out doing both? Even if one fails the other would succeed, and you'd test both technologies in a real-world setting. We're talking fairly cheap missions, relatively speaking, and they could almost be worth it just for the incidental research data if you let some of their mass be instruments and communications equipment.
I played with the Sony E-reader with the idea that I'd use it for bringing papers to read (yes, it's a Sony, but despite that the e-reader is quite open and format-agnostic).
In some ways it could work quite well: it has a mode that shows you one quarter of the page at a time, which fits very neatly with the typical two-column format. And the touch screen makes it natural to swipe around in the text.
But it has two downsides: it doesn't do color, which makes many illustrations unreadable. And there's no way to organize large amounts of papers - no good way to index them or search them.
Instead I'm going to get an Andy Pad Pro next month. The long format of Android tablets is a good fit for two-column papers. It's the same size as the Galaxy Tab, but with higher resolution screen, and cheap enough that I can justify getting it just as a tech toy even if it doesn't work out as a paper reader.
Which leads me to a question: anybody know of Android software to index PDF files? Or, optimally, a way to transfer papers directly from Zotero, keeping labels and notes intact? Not likely that last one, I know, but just in case...
I agree with your greater point that complexity is not net necessarily a bad thing. But your bridge simile is flawed. Many other programmers - the majority in fact - do use "simpler formulas" without their bridges becoming any less safe for their purpose.
C++ is one lf the most used languages in the world, and for good reason, but it does have an awful lot of cruft, odd corner cases and complexity for what it does. It is a big-n-tall language, for good and bad.
What I'm saying is, you can't blame the market actors without also blaming the people who give them the money to play with. Which are most of us, one way or another.
They don't play with their own money. If you're putting your money into the market - directly or indirectly - then you're complicit. You could simply put your money in a savings account or in a safety deposit box after all. But no, you like the better returns over time. You're like a punter who sneers at his bookie as a lower class of person.
Put your money - including your pension benefits; they're among the largest actors in the market and known for not taking responsibility as stock owners - where your mouth is.
"Apple tried this back in the day, both producing its own hardware and licensing the software and it didn't work. "
Of course, in this case the software is licensed free of charge for everyone. I'd say that, and the fact that the base is all open source, does quite a bit to calm other manufacturers.
The only thing Google would need to be careful about is to not give preferential access to its subsidiary; such as getting early builds before the other big manufacturers and so on.
"Capiche?"
No thanks, I just ate.
Think body embedded sensors for instance. They use a tiny amount of power; getting at them for battery replacement is very invasive; and active recharge though an external coil or similar requires external equipment and having users remember to do so would be a common point of failure.
"Soæ "
I'm sure slashdot will support something beyond 7-bit ascii any century now...
So⦠What about shielding then? Having RF shielding to protect electronics (or using building materials that shield an entire room or house for that matter) also degrades the downstream signal, without using the data in any way.
I could be wrong Ââ" I frequently am â" but I doubt your argument would really hold in practice.
The SDK uses X too; does that imply Android uses X? The implementation language for the development environment is immaterial.
"Most try to get the MBA to avoid a future scenario where they're the only ones trying to compete as a BA in a sea of candidates with equal experience, but with an MBA."
of course, the MBA people don't all have the same experience, do they? Some people will have "sports reporting" to pad out their credits. Other may have spent most of those extra credits on a second language, introductory IT or science courses, or perhaps extra law classes.
If you're a biotech company and one applicant gets the basics of what your company is doing while the other one has "sports reporting", I'd say the first applicant has quite a leg up right there.
It seems to index just a small subset though. I'm not in there, and neither are any of the friends I know are on G+. Early days yet; I guess with the public API it will be easier to make a comprehensive search function.
Yes, just look what a complete failure that actor was with that weird foreign, long, impossible to even spell name; what was it - "Arnold Schwarzenegger" or some completely, utterly hopeless name like that. No way it could have worked.
From the developers:
The R9 is light - I had the earlier version before my current machine and it really feels like the same size as a netbook, but being a full-featured laptop. I can have it in my bag and not know it's there (a problem in fact; I few times I forget it at home or at work and not realize it until I arrived).
I've considered a tablet, but they take as much weight and bulk as a similarly specced netbook. Add a portable keyboard and it's as heavy as, and bulkier than, the R9 or similar.
I'd look at a netbook if I were you.
How about a Let's Note R9 or J10 (J10 has wider screen and much faster CPU)? Both are less than 1kg (the J10 just barely less), and get looong battery life even without an extra battery.
I use the next larger model, the S9, and get about 7 hours of real-world usage with Ubuntu.