If, like me, you do not want all your private information "integrated" with Facebook and its ever-changing use of private information, maybe this is the time to contact Skype (maybe via posts to their blog?) and letting them know how you feel about having all your calling information and other Skype data "integrated" with facebook.
I for one have long ago deleted my Facebook profile after I started seeing how pervasive their tracking and data agglomeration on individual has become and how lax they are about sharing that data with other vendors and application developers.
I share Julian Assange's assertion that Facebook is "near-evil" and cannot imagine continuing using Skype if it is a Facebook extension.
How many times have people been unable to "see" beyond the current paradigm? Need I remind you of the famous Watson quote that there is a need for at most 16 computers worldwide, or the quote attributed to Gates that no-one would need more than 640KB? THere are many, many similar short-sighted "I don't see the need for this" examples in history, and not only in technology (although all things at some time or another are "technology").
can also be observed in another rather limited case.
In the arena of Person-to-Person (P2P) lending on the Internet, the first-mover company Prosper.com had so much trouble with its first set of forums, that it deleted them (a copy is available at ProsperReport).
"Uncensored forums then sprang into existence at prospers.org.
The tone of the Prosper forum, which is moderated and where each post is subject to review before it is allowed to pass is dramatically different from the tone of prospers.org, where a number of the vocal critics of Prosper continues to point out flaws in the operation of P2P lending and in the company itself.
There's a lot of waiting by the audio and character threads until everything catches up. That's called synchronization. That's called wasted CPU cycles. Actually, synchronization and waiting does not necessarily equate to wasted cycles. Only if the waiting thread holds the CPU to the exclusion of other tasks does it equate to waste. In other cases it equates to multiprogramming - a familiar concept.
Add me as a fan of the Trackpoint. I can't live without it. If I ever have to use a keyboard other than my Thinkpad's, I'll have to get those IBM ones that have a trackpoint in it.
I don't need to move the base of my hands from their typing position to scroll the mouse or to click a button. With the scrollpoint, page scrolling is effortless.
Vive le trackpoint!
But I have no sympathy whatsoever for technical users who should know better that continue to use Internet Explorer to visit websites that are in no way trustworthy.
But why, if you "know better", are you visiting websites that "are in no way trustworthy", regardless of which web browser you are using??
Surely the only excuse for visiting untrustworthy websites is "I didn't know better"?
I'm wondering if this is somehow aimed at eventually preventing Google from a) searching Amazon.com's site and b) throwing a spanner into Google's efforts to scan the contents of several libraries into its archives.
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If, like me, you do not want all your private information "integrated" with Facebook and its ever-changing use of private information, maybe this is the time to contact Skype (maybe via posts to their blog?) and letting them know how you feel about having all your calling information and other Skype data "integrated" with facebook. I for one have long ago deleted my Facebook profile after I started seeing how pervasive their tracking and data agglomeration on individual has become and how lax they are about sharing that data with other vendors and application developers. I share Julian Assange's assertion that Facebook is "near-evil" and cannot imagine continuing using Skype if it is a Facebook extension.
How many times have people been unable to "see" beyond the current paradigm? Need I remind you of the famous Watson quote that there is a need for at most 16 computers worldwide, or the quote attributed to Gates that no-one would need more than 640KB? THere are many, many similar short-sighted "I don't see the need for this" examples in history, and not only in technology (although all things at some time or another are "technology").
Hmm, I messed up the HTML. Here is a link to the article in The Register.
Seems to have closed one of it's more popular message boards for the Today Programme. I just came across a mention of that in The Register.
can also be observed in another rather limited case. In the arena of Person-to-Person (P2P) lending on the Internet, the first-mover company Prosper.com had so much trouble with its first set of forums, that it deleted them (a copy is available at ProsperReport). "Uncensored forums then sprang into existence at prospers.org. The tone of the Prosper forum, which is moderated and where each post is subject to review before it is allowed to pass is dramatically different from the tone of prospers.org, where a number of the vocal critics of Prosper continues to point out flaws in the operation of P2P lending and in the company itself.
Add me as a fan of the Trackpoint. I can't live without it. If I ever have to use a keyboard other than my Thinkpad's, I'll have to get those IBM ones that have a trackpoint in it. I don't need to move the base of my hands from their typing position to scroll the mouse or to click a button. With the scrollpoint, page scrolling is effortless. Vive le trackpoint!
I'm wondering if this is somehow aimed at eventually preventing Google from a) searching Amazon.com's site and b) throwing a spanner into Google's efforts to scan the contents of several libraries into its archives.