If there's something older and bigger and all-people-have-it (facebook acknowledges this also) than e-mail then I'am still to learn about it.
Also, IRC, as someone already mentioned it. And of course skype and every possible IM.... Even ICQ was useful to connect to people and have them in touch.
Facebook would like to become Internet, and it will - when and if reality TV becomes The TV. When and if people forget forums and blogs. Why do we think Facebook pages and discussions will be less ad-plagued once FB feels secure in it's uniqueness? Right now they are working advertising voodoo behind our backs, but how long will we wait to have it right into our faces like we have AdSense now?
Everybody brags of freedom this freedom that... And forgets how employers also have some rights, for example to have the best employees their money can buy....
Thus said - of course they can give opportunity to each employee to keep their job, or advance in it, and of course to lose it to better suited individual if they fail to catch up. Wouldn't it be unfair to everybody else if they can't get some job, even if they are better choice for employer - just because someone got there first?
Opportunity to study at company time, or to have paid exams are just perks of some job... Many people, and I mean MANY, just don't get perk like that.
Maybe some people just need to move to some socialist country for change?:)
I think people are just playing blind and dumb here. Sport/betting scandals are everywhere and with computer gaming incentive is just too great to pass for many people. Especially when losing a game is just order of clicks or just a bit slower reaction.
For people seeking some adrenaline and easy money, of course it doesn't matter.
What I saw in this article, and what was esp fun - "retired players". Of course, PRO computer game playing is dumb for itself, together with "sports" part in e-sports, but... I think lots of people lost their lives somewhere on the road to PRO gaming league:).
Some leaks out, but a very large chunk of the $450MM the government spends per launch comes right back in the form of taxes.
In lifecycle of every dollar, it comes as a tax some xy% of time, xy being average tax rate, or something.
This argument is.... Nowhere near stellar.
I think this $55.8M is opportunistic ripoff, and $450M even more so. Whole space thing is monopolistic affair and taxpayer is robbed on every corner of it.
It's been PR game too long. As article says, usability of program is limited, as was (IMHO) usability of Apolo before it.
After so many people walking on Moon, is it illogical to expect, for example, moon landing and launching to be something we know as we know to operate space station? Or, after human beings passed through heavy radiation not once, but many times, why don't we do it more often these days?
If our space tehnology was so advanced FORTY yrs ago, why we don't see manned missions going further than low earth orbit?
Had we, as humanity, gained anything from Apollo program? Excepts some moon rocks, of course.
This is only part of cover story on Chinese vs. Google fiasco.
Obviously, Chinese used earlier Google "teaming up" with NSA as part of action pretext, and now someone is wrapping up things. That was not so, it is this, and so on. A bit oblique, but it must be...
Too bad Chinese won't buy it.
One possibility is - they already "did". And stories like these are to cover tracks when both Google and Chinese pull their moves back.
And there are free-media-zealots - enforcement branch of freedom! Their intention is noble, but usually blinded. Maybe most of them are such - others are just paid for it.
Probably every single country in the world has some kind of "secret deal" policy on it's media. It's pretty obvious who pays whom, and it's only readiness to accept such kind of embarassment and pressure weighted against harm these media make which decides government action.
For anyone seeing through it's lot of fun seeing energy spent defending media mercenaries - richly paid for what they did - poor souls who find themselves on the wrong side of scales from previous paragraph.
Math educaton goes deeper than proficiency with math aparatus. Disciplined mind is really useful when you have to think abstract and uknown. Something you do when doing anything software.
Google si important thing, but Google works on money. Unless they are subsidized by US gov for losses they get for this... behaviour... they are ones being hit hard here. For Chinese people, they are just-another-internet-search and/or just-another-mobile-vendor... Winner is probably MS - US company always playing "nice". and Chinese gov is bussiness-as-usual.
Someone can say that "US government power comes from ridiculing true information", for example. It is always eye of beholder, and it's highly politically influenced. I don't approve of any overt political influences in everyday life, not Chinese nor American, but they are facts of life. State propaganda is what keeps countries content and safe. It's pity how smart people do not see through it.
Everyone is not equal and every barely intellligent person is aware of it. Economically, intelectually, socially, whateverally. People who claim equality is really frontend value of almost any ruling elite are simply keeping their heads in sand. Of course Google promotes American values, it is an American company working in concert with American laws. No problem with this, only a truth to accept. Whoever does not like it is free to select another search/mail/whatever for her use.
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Then why almost all text in their HTML5 introductory comic was overflowing those baloons? Isn't it supposed to be WYSIWYG thing?
Chrome can be verrry fast, but why is it so hard to support as simple extension as Greasemonkey?
Last time I checked it, they lacked GM persistent data calls from API. Shame.
Because I still have to think of scenario in any modern OS where only one process wants CPU for itself.
Nobody will think bombs can solve international IP mess :D
Exactly my thought.... Arms race is, well, race... And nobody won it to date.
Let's hope nobody will.
If there's something older and bigger and all-people-have-it (facebook acknowledges this also) than e-mail then I'am still to learn about it.
Also, IRC, as someone already mentioned it. And of course skype and every possible IM.... Even ICQ was useful to connect to people and have them in touch.
Facebook would like to become Internet, and it will - when and if reality TV becomes The TV. When and if people forget forums and blogs. Why do we think Facebook pages and discussions will be less ad-plagued once FB feels secure in it's uniqueness? Right now they are working advertising voodoo behind our backs, but how long will we wait to have it right into our faces like we have AdSense now?
Everybody brags of freedom this freedom that... And forgets how employers also have some rights, for example to have the best employees their money can buy....
Thus said - of course they can give opportunity to each employee to keep their job, or advance in it, and of course to lose it to better suited individual if they fail to catch up. Wouldn't it be unfair to everybody else if they can't get some job, even if they are better choice for employer - just because someone got there first?
Opportunity to study at company time, or to have paid exams are just perks of some job... Many people, and I mean MANY, just don't get perk like that.
Maybe some people just need to move to some socialist country for change? :)
Pranav Mistry, TED, SixthSense... This HybridUI is so cheap copy it hurts.
http://www.ted.com/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html
If, or when, they sue - they'll have some evidence to show. "Of course we allow competition, see this".
I think people are just playing blind and dumb here. Sport/betting scandals are everywhere and with computer gaming incentive is just too great to pass for many people. Especially when losing a game is just order of clicks or just a bit slower reaction.
For people seeking some adrenaline and easy money, of course it doesn't matter.
What I saw in this article, and what was esp fun - "retired players". Of course, PRO computer game playing is dumb for itself, together with "sports" part in e-sports, but... I think lots of people lost their lives somewhere on the road to PRO gaming league :).
And we all know what it really is.
Protect your system as good as you can, firewalls, backups, whatever, or just rely on your own obscurity, and publish!
Act surprised, act I-told-you-so, be outraged with whatever happens, and then - in few days - install a patch.
Some leaks out, but a very large chunk of the $450MM the government spends per launch comes right back in the form of taxes.
In lifecycle of every dollar, it comes as a tax some xy% of time, xy being average tax rate, or something.
This argument is.... Nowhere near stellar.
I think this $55.8M is opportunistic ripoff, and $450M even more so. Whole space thing is monopolistic affair and taxpayer is robbed on every corner of it.
What does it cost with Shuttle?
It's been PR game too long. As article says, usability of program is limited, as was (IMHO) usability of Apolo before it.
After so many people walking on Moon, is it illogical to expect, for example, moon landing and launching to be something we know as we know to operate space station? Or, after human beings passed through heavy radiation not once, but many times, why don't we do it more often these days?
If our space tehnology was so advanced FORTY yrs ago, why we don't see manned missions going further than low earth orbit?
Had we, as humanity, gained anything from Apollo program? Excepts some moon rocks, of course.
No, you hate us because have and control the world's money and cultural trends.
Minor military fuckups like this happen all over the world everyday, it's not a problem unique to the US.
How sweet of you. Minor military fuckup :).
What would be major one? Bombardment of Belgrade? Grdelica train?
In fact, you are soo right. This sort of things is nothing unique to US military. NATO did worse things. Coerced and led by US, but yes - not US only.
That would fill "cultural trends" part?
I remember reading od slashdot how problem was not in Chinese root server, but in ISP's who misconfigured...
Now I read about that root server being shut down.
Next posting will be some YRO but of course not about right of biggest Internet nation in the world to operate it's own DNS root server.
Someone, during all this mess, decided - everyone can have some rights, except China.
And slashdot is in concert with that someone.
But, it's nothing new, of course. History repeats. Amplitude varies, period is shorter.
Next week: Commizon's of the world are experiencing unexpected problems on fiber routes to China, all seventeen of them.
This is only part of cover story on Chinese vs. Google fiasco.
Obviously, Chinese used earlier Google "teaming up" with NSA as part of action pretext, and now someone is wrapping up things. That was not so, it is this, and so on. A bit oblique, but it must be...
Too bad Chinese won't buy it.
One possibility is - they already "did". And stories like these are to cover tracks when both Google and Chinese pull their moves back.
... Chinese! Or Chavez as his timezone is closer and he can adopt his schedule for some webex work.
This wumao touch.
Makes you wonder how much does HR-zealoting pay in western markets. Maybe I can try to get some work on these lines.
And there are free-media-zealots - enforcement branch of freedom! Their intention is noble, but usually blinded. Maybe most of them are such - others are just paid for it.
Probably every single country in the world has some kind of "secret deal" policy on it's media. It's pretty obvious who pays whom, and it's only readiness to accept such kind of embarassment and pressure weighted against harm these media make which decides government action.
For anyone seeing through it's lot of fun seeing energy spent defending media mercenaries - richly paid for what they did - poor souls who find themselves on the wrong side of scales from previous paragraph.
..is TV considered "online"?
Is it really something for "Your Rights Online" or just simple /.'s HR activism? Some kind of tax incentive like when movie displays US flag? :)
Math educaton goes deeper than proficiency with math aparatus. Disciplined mind is really useful when you have to think abstract and uknown. Something you do when doing anything software.
Google si important thing, but Google works on money. Unless they are subsidized by US gov for losses they get for this... behaviour... they are ones being hit hard here. For Chinese people, they are just-another-internet-search and/or just-another-mobile-vendor... Winner is probably MS - US company always playing "nice". and Chinese gov is bussiness-as-usual.
Someone can say that "US government power comes from ridiculing true information", for example. It is always eye of beholder, and it's highly politically influenced.
I don't approve of any overt political influences in everyday life, not Chinese nor American, but they are facts of life. State propaganda is what keeps countries content and safe. It's pity how smart people do not see through it.
Everyone is not equal and every barely intellligent person is aware of it. Economically, intelectually, socially, whateverally.
People who claim equality is really frontend value of almost any ruling elite are simply keeping their heads in sand.
Of course Google promotes American values, it is an American company working in concert with American laws. No problem with this, only a truth to accept. Whoever does not like it is free to select another search/mail/whatever for her use.