Exactly. Just because you don't use any typical consumer application doesn't mean you're not a user with needs that may not (yet) be fulfilled by the applications you do use.
What the poster wants doesn't sound like a Wiki at all. Unless he wants ALL other random people to add, change and update information, he would be better off using any random CMS. Wiki's trade content creation features for maintenance/editing features. Content in a Wiki is easy to change and hard to make look perfect. If you want perfect looking content and don't need the ability for anybody to change content in a few seconds, don't use a Wiki.
They are indeed free to do so just like you and me. But it's not part of their job and they have no more legal standing to do so than you or I. So in proposing laws they are NOT acting as a territorial police force of sworn constables, they are in fact acting as a corporate lobbying group.
City of London Police when enforcing laws = territorial police force of sworn constables. City of London Police when proposing laws = corporate lobbying group. It's important to distinguish these two roles and their difference.
In the Netherlands, we have such a system (called "iDeal"). As far as I know, atleast Germany and a few scandinavian countries have similar systems. I dare bet a lot of countries have such systems as well.
You'd also be complaining if they labeled it warming or cooling. It's fighting climate science by being a grammar nazi. Just say "I don't care what happens to the world after I'm gone" if you don't, but stop playing word-games to justify your believes.
The best anti-yelp sites are sites like this and others that help spread the word about yelp's unworthiness of trust. Give it a few more years and yelp simple won't matter any more; they'll have scammed themselves out of relevance.
A: "Hey look at this social media website I made last weekend" B: "Does it have all the features of Facebook?" A: "No, it was just meant as an experiment and I don't expect anybody would want to use it even if we gave it away for free" B: "How about we tell everybody it's exclusive and charge a very high entrance fee?" A: "Great idea, that'd solve the scaling issues too!"
This is commoditization of 3D printing. No ordering from small companies online or spending weeks finetuning; just go to the local store, unpack it from the box and start using it. Isn't this what we've been talking about for so many years; printing out spare parts at home and such? If I see one of my non-techy relatives print out some boring part they need to fix something, I'll go "WOW".
It's not a complete myth, they still exist but, IMHO, they mostly focus on developing the new, exciting, risky and often hopeless ideas. I'm perfectly happy with corporations focussing on stability, testing, documentation and all the other stuff that goes into actually finishing a project.
Why would you request a fastlane for Netflix? As you can just buffer the video. If it's not fast enough you need a better internet connection.
Current internet connections are fast enough, future ones may not be. Video file size will continue to increase. Connection bandwidth will not increase if ISP's can earn money from not increasing it.
For fast paced multiplayer games you would request a fast lane, or any multiplayer game really.
For games you mostly need low latency, not necessarily high bandwidth (which is what the fast lanes are about).
But what connections can be fastlaned? If Netflix or Valve have to negotiate for users to have fastlanes, then it will still cause the same problems.
That basically sums up the entire problem. Content providers will all pay extra for the fast lanes, as a result all content providers' traffic will be equally fast. Internet will be just as fast as it would be with true net neutrality but ISP are raking in a lot of money for doing effectively nothing.
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Exactly. Just because you don't use any typical consumer application doesn't mean you're not a user with needs that may not (yet) be fulfilled by the applications you do use.
If you like the user-to-guru-to-contributer path, but you're not really using any application... think again; IDE's are applications too.
Yup. a ghetto of money-printing mainframes, application servers, supercomputers and cheap sub-par IT labor services.
What the poster wants doesn't sound like a Wiki at all.
Unless he wants ALL other random people to add, change and update information, he would be better off using any random CMS.
Wiki's trade content creation features for maintenance/editing features.
Content in a Wiki is easy to change and hard to make look perfect.
If you want perfect looking content and don't need the ability for anybody to change content in a few seconds, don't use a Wiki.
They are indeed free to do so just like you and me.
But it's not part of their job and they have no more legal standing to do so than you or I.
So in proposing laws they are NOT acting as a territorial police force of sworn constables, they are in fact acting as a corporate lobbying group.
City of London Police when enforcing laws = territorial police force of sworn constables.
City of London Police when proposing laws = corporate lobbying group.
It's important to distinguish these two roles and their difference.
As a territorial police force of sworn constables, are they responsible for proposing laws?
Because that's what they're doing here.
In the Netherlands, we have such a system (called "iDeal").
As far as I know, atleast Germany and a few scandinavian countries have similar systems.
I dare bet a lot of countries have such systems as well.
"Web-scale" is "big enough to hold a Wordpress database"?
"I like and believe very much that we should have to obtain a warrant from an independent judge to be able to take the contents,"
The citizens would like and believe that very much too
But that isn't really what's happening, now is it?
Yeah, why aren't they taking on all the poor people buying vacant lots and building houses with pools on them?
Wordprocessors are used by lazy typists and compilers are used by lazy programmers.
The only reason Microsoft needs to argue this point at all is to present the pretense that politicians are uninformed, as opposed to corrupt.
I disagree. There's no reason politicians can't be both.
Oh noes, Gnome is losing the ever important "So alcoholic they have always have a beer and bottle opener within seconds reach" market.
If you're such a slow typist, perhaps a terminal is not for you.
Remember the Kyoto protocol?
You'd also be complaining if they labeled it warming or cooling. It's fighting climate science by being a grammar nazi.
Just say "I don't care what happens to the world after I'm gone" if you don't, but stop playing word-games to justify your believes.
The best anti-yelp sites are sites like this and others that help spread the word about yelp's unworthiness of trust.
Give it a few more years and yelp simple won't matter any more; they'll have scammed themselves out of relevance.
/me presses the "Record" button on his memocorder; "So tell me, Bono, how exactly does this non-piratable media format work?".
I tried your http://127.0.0.1/ website and all I see is porn.
At which point they might even have enough money to hire a developer to actually build a site and keep the yearly fee rolling in.
A: "Hey look at this social media website I made last weekend"
B: "Does it have all the features of Facebook?"
A: "No, it was just meant as an experiment and I don't expect anybody would want to use it even if we gave it away for free"
B: "How about we tell everybody it's exclusive and charge a very high entrance fee?"
A: "Great idea, that'd solve the scaling issues too!"
This is commoditization of 3D printing.
No ordering from small companies online or spending weeks finetuning; just go to the local store, unpack it from the box and start using it.
Isn't this what we've been talking about for so many years; printing out spare parts at home and such?
If I see one of my non-techy relatives print out some boring part they need to fix something, I'll go "WOW".
Which will be useful for the average iPhone 6 user in 1,000,000,000..., 999,999,999..., 999,999,998...
Some stupid student had pictures of himself naked with his gay friend in his University home folder! ;-)
Some normal student with a sexlife had private pictures in his private University home directory.
although I was tempted to post the gay guys pictures somewhere public.
Why would you do that? What exactly tempted you?
It's not a complete myth, they still exist but, IMHO, they mostly focus on developing the new, exciting, risky and often hopeless ideas.
I'm perfectly happy with corporations focussing on stability, testing, documentation and all the other stuff that goes into actually finishing a project.
Why would you request a fastlane for Netflix? As you can just buffer the video. If it's not fast enough you need a better internet connection.
Current internet connections are fast enough, future ones may not be.
Video file size will continue to increase. Connection bandwidth will not increase if ISP's can earn money from not increasing it.
For fast paced multiplayer games you would request a fast lane, or any multiplayer game really.
For games you mostly need low latency, not necessarily high bandwidth (which is what the fast lanes are about).
But what connections can be fastlaned? If Netflix or Valve have to negotiate for users to have fastlanes, then it will still cause the same problems.
That basically sums up the entire problem. Content providers will all pay extra for the fast lanes, as a result all content providers' traffic will be equally fast.
Internet will be just as fast as it would be with true net neutrality but ISP are raking in a lot of money for doing effectively nothing.