... Facebook's development is out of control, that Facebook does not even know what its developers are doing. Or maybe the developers are doing exactly what Facebook wants, and Facebook thinks the public is too stupid to figure it out.
It is nice to see Microsoft clean up the malware mess that is endemic in the Windows world. Microsoft Windows has always looked to me as if it were designed with a features are more important than security attitude. Now that the ramifications of that design strategy are coming home to roost, Microsoft is participating in the fight against the very criminal element that Microsoft allowed to blossom.
When I got my cell phone a few years back, I had the misfortune of inheriting the number of a person who did not pay her bills. The debt collectors were calling my cell every hour or two, until I finally convinced them I did not know whom they were calling about.
If you go back to 1989, you'll see that The Heritage Foundation (a very conservative think-tank) floated the idea of the individual mandate for health insurance.
The Republicans are, as usual, being quite hypocritical in their objections to the individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Perhaps it is time for the Republicans to back away from their objection to everything and roadblock generation, and get down to the business of governing.
GOP Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin said, "Class warfare may make for really good politics but it makes for rotten economics."
The GOP has been waging a class war on the middle class for over a decade and guess what, the middle class lost. Since 2000 the median income level has been dropping, while the top 1% of income earners has seen a 20% increase. The shift of income from the middle class to the most wealthy has already taken place. Now the GOP wants to assure the top earners do not lose what they stole from the middle class. It is the height of unmitigated gall for Rep. Ryan to use the "class warfare" meme.
It looks to me as if Netflix will next be looking for a buyer for Quiflix. First the separate the HQ, then totally separate pricing with no discount if you use both services, now the separate name. It looks Quikflix is being separated away from Netflix because Netflix will soon be selling the Quikflix business off to another entity.
"Always looks best before the official release" is just insane. Have you ever installed a beta in your life?
Many, many times. But I was not talking about actually using the product, I was talking about the perception created about the product by Microsoft's extensive grass-roots efforts. Just look at the unabashed gushing that is already occurring here over Windows 8. It's Windows, for Pete's sake, not the Second Coming. How can the actual released version of Windows 8 live up to that hype? That was a part of Windows Vista's problem, they pre-release perception was built too high by the grass-roots efforts; and when customers actually started to use Windows Vista, the fiasco unfolded.
The actual product that is released never lives up to the perception that Microsoft's grass-rooting builds for the product.
Microsoft will be using all its grassroots capability to hype up Windows 8 here on/.
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It is going to be Windows 8 all the time here.
The problem is that Microsoft software always looks best before the official release. What we see of Windows 8 before the launch will be carefully orchestrated and controlled by Microsoft. Even Windows Vista looked good before the launch.
All versions of Windows 8 — whether used on a touchscreen device or not — will use the operating system's new Metro interface
I thought that Microsoft had learned its lesson with Windows Vista, and would not try to pull the "Microsoft knows best, customers know nothing" approach on its customers again.
Architecture is art. Some will like it, some won't. Like art, if it generates discussion, that is good. You can be sure that any "architecture critic" who has something negative to say about the new Apple HQ will receive a lot of press attention.
. But I have to wonder, was the purpose of the critique to be ego-building for the author?
.. The hurricane planes measured hurricane force wind in one of the outer bands of the hurricane. The storm is classified as a hurricane if any area of the storm has hurricane force winds present. Those winds do not need to be over a populated area, near the eye of the storm, or even at sea level. They just need to be somewhere in the storm.
Cable TV set top boxes report back what you're watching, and the cable companies sell that data to market research companies and others. Look at fine print in the privacy agreement that you agreed to when you signed up for cable TV. You gave the cable companies permission to do that.
Do not blame Mozilla because addon creators are too lazy or don't care enough to update their addons properly
But I do blame Mozilla for starting down the path of a rapid-release cycle that is unneeded and unwanted by Firefox users. I do not blame the addon developers if they choose not to participate in the egregiously inane rapid-release cycle that Firefox is using.
The root problem is not with the addon developers, no matter how much you try to deflect the issue.
The root problem is the foolish and resource-wasteful rapid-release cycle that Firefox has engaged.
Mozilla needs to rethink a lot of things about addon support before pushing their new release and version philosophy any further.
One of the things I'd like them to provide is the ability to remove extensions and add-ons, instead of just disabling them. I have been accumulating unwanted extensions that I have disabled but I see no button to uninstall them.
The market watcher defines 'success rate' as the percentage of search queries that result in a visit to a website.
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That definition of "success rate" highlights the possibility that google may be more effective in placing a relevant site at the top of the results list. So the user will tend to click on one only site per search; while for bing, so-so results are spread throughout the results list, requiring many click-throughs to find a useful site in the results list.
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... quite well with 256MB of memory. Will Windows 8 be able to best that?
Who designed that comm system?
... Facebook's development is out of control, that Facebook does not even know what its developers are doing. Or maybe the developers are doing exactly what Facebook wants, and Facebook thinks the public is too stupid to figure it out.
... Amazon starts selling premium space on its servers to those sites who want to provide fast access to their viewers? Good-bye akamai....
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Thank-you Microsoft. It is about time.
Not all debt collectors follow the rules. I know that some of the ones who had called me did not follow the rules you mentioned.
When I got my cell phone a few years back, I had the misfortune of inheriting the number of a person who did not pay her bills. The debt collectors were calling my cell every hour or two, until I finally convinced them I did not know whom they were calling about.
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Through the 1990's, various Republicans submitted health care bills specifying the individual mandate.
The Republicans are, as usual, being quite hypocritical in their objections to the individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Perhaps it is time for the Republicans to back away from their objection to everything and roadblock generation, and get down to the business of governing.
problem solved.
I'm sorry to say this, but the radicals are now in control
Yup. America's Political Spectrum
GOP Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin said, "Class warfare may make for really good politics but it makes for rotten economics."
The GOP has been waging a class war on the middle class for over a decade and guess what, the middle class lost. Since 2000 the median income level has been dropping, while the top 1% of income earners has seen a 20% increase. The shift of income from the middle class to the most wealthy has already taken place. Now the GOP wants to assure the top earners do not lose what they stole from the middle class. It is the height of unmitigated gall for Rep. Ryan to use the "class warfare" meme.
It looks to me as if Netflix will next be looking for a buyer for Quiflix. First the separate the HQ, then totally separate pricing with no discount if you use both services, now the separate name. It looks Quikflix is being separated away from Netflix because Netflix will soon be selling the Quikflix business off to another entity.
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"The world"? Probably the funniest thing I read all day.
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Sometimes.
"Always looks best before the official release" is just insane. Have you ever installed a beta in your life?
Many, many times. But I was not talking about actually using the product, I was talking about the perception created about the product by Microsoft's extensive grass-roots efforts. Just look at the unabashed gushing that is already occurring here over Windows 8. It's Windows, for Pete's sake, not the Second Coming. How can the actual released version of Windows 8 live up to that hype? That was a part of Windows Vista's problem, they pre-release perception was built too high by the grass-roots efforts; and when customers actually started to use Windows Vista, the fiasco unfolded.
The actual product that is released never lives up to the perception that Microsoft's grass-rooting builds for the product.
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It is going to be Windows 8 all the time here.
The problem is that Microsoft software always looks best before the official release. What we see of Windows 8 before the launch will be carefully orchestrated and controlled by Microsoft. Even Windows Vista looked good before the launch.
Think about it....
All versions of Windows 8 — whether used on a touchscreen device or not — will use the operating system's new Metro interface
I thought that Microsoft had learned its lesson with Windows Vista, and would not try to pull the "Microsoft knows best, customers know nothing" approach on its customers again.
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But I have to wonder, was the purpose of the critique to be ego-building for the author?
.. The hurricane planes measured hurricane force wind in one of the outer bands of the hurricane. The storm is classified as a hurricane if any area of the storm has hurricane force winds present. Those winds do not need to be over a populated area, near the eye of the storm, or even at sea level. They just need to be somewhere in the storm.
Cable TV set top boxes report back what you're watching, and the cable companies sell that data to market research companies and others. Look at fine print in the privacy agreement that you agreed to when you signed up for cable TV. You gave the cable companies permission to do that.
but my first problem with this study is that's not the only way to measure 'security'.
Exactly correct. Indeed, if you read the first footnote of the report, you will see,
Note: This study does not evaluate browser security related to vulnerabilities in plug-ins or the browsers themselves.
The study does not evaluate the security of the browsers themselves.
Do not blame Mozilla because addon creators are too lazy or don't care enough to update their addons properly
But I do blame Mozilla for starting down the path of a rapid-release cycle that is unneeded and unwanted by Firefox users. I do not blame the addon developers if they choose not to participate in the egregiously inane rapid-release cycle that Firefox is using.
The root problem is not with the addon developers, no matter how much you try to deflect the issue.
The root problem is the foolish and resource-wasteful rapid-release cycle that Firefox has engaged.
Mozilla needs to rethink a lot of things about addon support before pushing their new release and version philosophy any further.
One of the things I'd like them to provide is the ability to remove extensions and add-ons, instead of just disabling them. I have been accumulating unwanted extensions that I have disabled but I see no button to uninstall them.
... of users not liking the inane rapid development cycle --- try to hide the rapid release of versions from the customers.
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That definition of "success rate" highlights the possibility that google may be more effective in placing a relevant site at the top of the results list. So the user will tend to click on one only site per search; while for bing, so-so results are spread throughout the results list, requiring many click-throughs to find a useful site in the results list.
Opera's not an elephant. It's more of a mouse.