So what are individuals and small businesses supposed to do?
What about "Initial submission $5000, refunded if approved". That way you'd want to be certain that what your trying to patent is demonstratably unique and worth patenting.
Windmills don't take mass away from the planet. Mining a bunch of stuff and shipping it off the planet (er, moon) does.
People have mined stuff from Earth and sent it into space (rockets, satalites). I don't think there's been a noticable difference. I'd be surprised if there was enough material worth mining on the moon to make a significant impact on its mass if it were removed.
If he has information on illegal dealings, corruption, etc., release it.. Why the threats, why the talk? His current behavior is more like someone
trying to shake down folks, not someone trying to uncover the truth.
A while ago (last year I think) when some wikileak documents were released, they were criticized for not redacting sufficiently (I recall that some analysis into found that they were, and the criticism was mostly unfounded, of the informant names that were actually available, one was dead and one was a double agent or something like that). I suspect now the time between getting a leak and releasing it has increased a lot, due to an increase in checking and double checking, to avoid those sort of criticisms again.
I guess its kind of like a double edged sword; they'll either be criticised for not allowing sufficient time for redaction, or criticised for taking some time to release something.
The best thing of Vista I noticed in my short experience was that it required rights escalation at every important change. I was shocked (although I should have expected it) to read people were disabling it, or even that there was an easy option to do so.
My partner got a laptop that had Vista on it and finds this annoying (if it is what I think it is, I've not used Vista apart from looking at her laptop when something goes wrong on it). If something was going to happen, the laptop would freeze for a few seconds, with no warning, then make the background darker and pop up a message. It would even do this if you were in the middle of something. Its not so much what it was doing that was objectivable, more the speed (or lack thereof) it took to do it, and the inability to do anything else while it was loading its pop up box.
I never put information that detailed up there in the first place. Partially for this sort of reason, but also partially because not everyone on my friends list needs to know all of it (or would care if it was there). Anyone who would want to know, already does.
b. If computers are coming and going how do you ensure they aren't a threat for Virii or bots
i. At least with company sanctioned computers they should have virus scanners with updated definitions
In the article, one of the requirements from a firm questioned about it is to have a McAfee Anti-Virus installed.
a. Whaawhaaa, my xxx isn't working properly; can you fix it: "I NEED IT RIGHT NOW"
While not explicitly mentioned in the article, it is hinted that they have some kind of VPN or remote access system (no data on the computers, on accessible through the network, I think the same with programs although this isn't too clear). In the case that they are just using their computer as a client for programs/files on the company network, it would be a bit easier to fix problems with programs than having them installed on the actual machines.
2) The removal of "Quick search/keyword" functionality of bookmarks that Firefox has. For example I like to type "imdb [moviename]" or "ud [urban dictionary term]" in the URL bar, and the browser then looks stuff up for me without having to navigate a landing page.
I have imdb set up as an extra search engine in Chrome. I type in imdb into the address bar and press enter and it takes me to the search results page of imdb.com, for my search terms (not doing the standard Google seach). Is this what you mean? You mentioned seaching bookmarks, do you have a lot of imdb bookmarks in that case?
Does not being able to see a fourth page fill you with fear? How about uncertainty that you may be missing something important? Or doubt about the rest of the summary if a simple number count was incorrect?
When I was at Uni (in the UK), we were reccommended to not only turn phones off, but remove the battery, because in the past they have had phones that were turned off, turn on by themselves and start beeping because the owner had a repeating alarm set (some phones auto-turn on for the alarm if they are off)
I was in an exam once at Uni and somones phone (it was in their bag at the side of the room) did start beeping for whatever reason; one of the invigilators just picked up the entire bag and took it outside and left it there, still beeping, but we couldn't hear it from the exam hall.
I can think of at least three people I know on Facebook who have a variation on their name (switching letters of first/last name, different spelling etc) for their account. I suspect it is to prevent people searching for them and finding them, while still having people they have actual contact with knowing who they are.
I see the Free-to-play games as slightly more aimed at a casual gamer than someone who games daily. If you game daily, it's fairly easy to justify a subscription, but if you play either a lot of different games, or play sparingly, the free-to-play ones can be beneficial. I played DDO last year, but stopped playing when I started my thesis. Have been thinking about playing again, but am in no particular rush, and don't feel the need to rush into playing again becuase I'm not paying monthly. I did spend some money getting new areas/quests, but have completed them once so don't feel as though I'm losing out by not playing them now (in fact using them again would be more of a bonus, if I were to start playing again)
As far as I'm aware you don't need a subscription to play Farmville, Angry Birds or similar (note: I have played neither so am only speculating I'm afraid), yet these are quite profitable.
As a side note, I was shopping at the weekend and saw a selection of 'gift' style cards (iTunes for example); I'm fairly sure they had Farmville ones among them.
There is a pub (I live in the UK) near where I used to live that had similar above-urinal-boards, but they had pages of newspaper in there. I think it was old (like a few years) articles about something, probabaly related to the pub (as a show-off thing more than anything), or about the history of the pub (really old, could be interesting to some). They did also advertise their drink deals though.
I usually set an alarm earlier than I need to get up, and snooze it until I actually have to get up. The snooze is partially a fail-safe in case I fall back asleep again and need re-awakening, and partially because it is rare that I can hear an alarm and be awake enough to get up straight away; if I could do that I probably wouldn't need the alarm.
"That's right officer, I was distracted trying to disable my GPS's nav safety feature when I ran into that tree." Wonder how that would turn out for Garmin?
I bet you'd get laughed out of the courtroom, seeing as it's easier to disable the safety feature before you start driving.
Wikipedia can make the ad section blatantly obvious, so to distinguish between ads and content.
I think you missed eldavojohn's point. The fear is that the ads will inevitably leak into the content -- that is, not only will you have the "blatantly obvious" ads on some separate section of the page, you'll also have content rewritten to push products. And this fear is quite justified.
What if Wikipedia implimented a system when users could decide on some pages that they feel are 'complete' and will not change, and lock them so no more editing can be done. Then only have adverts (that are clearly separated from content) on these locked pages? This would obviously only work for certain topics; for example an event that has happened in the past that it is unlikely that any new information could be added to it.
How old are you? Do you know anyone under the age of 25 (number pulled from my arse) who doesn't use their phone for alarms? I mean nearly everyone I know doesn't have an alarm clock. Nearly everyone I know doesn't have a clock at their bedside either.
I'm 23 and have an alarm clock on the bedside table that plays a CD to wake me up. However I doalso use my phone as a secondary alarm clock (partially in case I don't get up for the CD alarm and partially in case of a power cut which would re-set the CD alarm time to 00:00)
I remember a few years back I had a old (well, by today's standards) Nokia phone with me on a trip to Hungary. I set an alarm on my last day to ensure that I would be up on time to catch the plane (I had no other form of alarm, didn't bring too much as we were mostly backpacking around hostels). The battery died during the night, but we were up in plenty of time anyway (the plane wasn't early, but I still didn't want to risk missing it).
During the day, while we were getting ready to head to the airport, I heard a noise from my pocket; the phone (battery dead remember) had saved enough power to inform me that my alarm was going off (all that was displayed on the screen was 'ALARM' and the time, I couldn't relly do anything else apart from turn the alarm off). THAT is what I would call something that has been very well thought out, and a very useful feature, particularly in critical situations. I don't know if its a feature on new phones nowadays though.
I suggest we adopt a 12 month 30 day calendar, with a five day holiday at the end of the year (six days for leap year.) And no friggin' daylight savings.
No international time zones would be helpful too; set everyone's clocks to the same time around the world. Sure it might confuse some, but I'm sure people would get the hang of it after a while.
If 700 me-too's is what it takes to get Google to throw some resources at this bug then I'm happy to put up with the 'bugspam' as you call it.
Even if the resources are going to spend most their time trawling through useless comments instead of actually trying to figure out what is going wrong?
Also, why is all this aimed at Google? I've not followed the Android development that much, but I thought it was developed by a consortium of 50 companies? Or am I thinking of something else?
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Initial submissions $5,000?
So what are individuals and small businesses supposed to do?
What about "Initial submission $5000, refunded if approved". That way you'd want to be certain that what your trying to patent is demonstratably unique and worth patenting.
But you only need to ask "Why" once
Try telling that to someone under 10
Windmills don't take mass away from the planet. Mining a bunch of stuff and shipping it off the planet (er, moon) does.
People have mined stuff from Earth and sent it into space (rockets, satalites). I don't think there's been a noticable difference. I'd be surprised if there was enough material worth mining on the moon to make a significant impact on its mass if it were removed.
If he has information on illegal dealings, corruption, etc., release it.. Why the threats, why the talk? His current behavior is more like someone trying to shake down folks, not someone trying to uncover the truth.
A while ago (last year I think) when some wikileak documents were released, they were criticized for not redacting sufficiently (I recall that some analysis into found that they were, and the criticism was mostly unfounded, of the informant names that were actually available, one was dead and one was a double agent or something like that). I suspect now the time between getting a leak and releasing it has increased a lot, due to an increase in checking and double checking, to avoid those sort of criticisms again.
I guess its kind of like a double edged sword; they'll either be criticised for not allowing sufficient time for redaction, or criticised for taking some time to release something.
The best thing of Vista I noticed in my short experience was that it required rights escalation at every important change. I was shocked (although I should have expected it) to read people were disabling it, or even that there was an easy option to do so.
My partner got a laptop that had Vista on it and finds this annoying (if it is what I think it is, I've not used Vista apart from looking at her laptop when something goes wrong on it). If something was going to happen, the laptop would freeze for a few seconds, with no warning, then make the background darker and pop up a message. It would even do this if you were in the middle of something. Its not so much what it was doing that was objectivable, more the speed (or lack thereof) it took to do it, and the inability to do anything else while it was loading its pop up box.
I never put information that detailed up there in the first place. Partially for this sort of reason, but also partially because not everyone on my friends list needs to know all of it (or would care if it was there). Anyone who would want to know, already does.
b. If computers are coming and going how do you ensure they aren't a threat for Virii or bots i. At least with company sanctioned computers they should have virus scanners with updated definitions
In the article, one of the requirements from a firm questioned about it is to have a McAfee Anti-Virus installed.
a. Whaawhaaa, my xxx isn't working properly; can you fix it: "I NEED IT RIGHT NOW"
While not explicitly mentioned in the article, it is hinted that they have some kind of VPN or remote access system (no data on the computers, on accessible through the network, I think the same with programs although this isn't too clear). In the case that they are just using their computer as a client for programs/files on the company network, it would be a bit easier to fix problems with programs than having them installed on the actual machines.
We could make cars much, much safer, but they would then be much, much more expensive...
I've heard that attaching a large spike sticking out of the steering wheel would make drivers drive very, very carefully.
2) The removal of "Quick search/keyword" functionality of bookmarks that Firefox has. For example I like to type "imdb [moviename]" or "ud [urban dictionary term]" in the URL bar, and the browser then looks stuff up for me without having to navigate a landing page.
I have imdb set up as an extra search engine in Chrome. I type in imdb into the address bar and press enter and it takes me to the search results page of imdb.com, for my search terms (not doing the standard Google seach). Is this what you mean? You mentioned seaching bookmarks, do you have a lot of imdb bookmarks in that case?
I SEE THREE PAGES!
Does not being able to see a fourth page fill you with fear? How about uncertainty that you may be missing something important? Or doubt about the rest of the summary if a simple number count was incorrect?
When I was at Uni (in the UK), we were reccommended to not only turn phones off, but remove the battery, because in the past they have had phones that were turned off, turn on by themselves and start beeping because the owner had a repeating alarm set (some phones auto-turn on for the alarm if they are off)
I was in an exam once at Uni and somones phone (it was in their bag at the side of the room) did start beeping for whatever reason; one of the invigilators just picked up the entire bag and took it outside and left it there, still beeping, but we couldn't hear it from the exam hall.
I can think of at least three people I know on Facebook who have a variation on their name (switching letters of first/last name, different spelling etc) for their account. I suspect it is to prevent people searching for them and finding them, while still having people they have actual contact with knowing who they are.
The way "trickle down" actually works is this:
1. Megacorp X gets a massive tax cut.
2. CEO of megacorp X buys himself a gold-plated urinal.
I see, so money trickles down to the gold-plated urinal company...
What's that painandgreed? You aren't dead, you were just testing your script?
'Ere, he says he's not dead. I can't take him like that. It's against regulations.
I see the Free-to-play games as slightly more aimed at a casual gamer than someone who games daily. If you game daily, it's fairly easy to justify a subscription, but if you play either a lot of different games, or play sparingly, the free-to-play ones can be beneficial. I played DDO last year, but stopped playing when I started my thesis. Have been thinking about playing again, but am in no particular rush, and don't feel the need to rush into playing again becuase I'm not paying monthly. I did spend some money getting new areas/quests, but have completed them once so don't feel as though I'm losing out by not playing them now (in fact using them again would be more of a bonus, if I were to start playing again)
As far as I'm aware you don't need a subscription to play Farmville, Angry Birds or similar (note: I have played neither so am only speculating I'm afraid), yet these are quite profitable.
As a side note, I was shopping at the weekend and saw a selection of 'gift' style cards (iTunes for example); I'm fairly sure they had Farmville ones among them.
There is a pub (I live in the UK) near where I used to live that had similar above-urinal-boards, but they had pages of newspaper in there. I think it was old (like a few years) articles about something, probabaly related to the pub (as a show-off thing more than anything), or about the history of the pub (really old, could be interesting to some). They did also advertise their drink deals though.
I usually set an alarm earlier than I need to get up, and snooze it until I actually have to get up. The snooze is partially a fail-safe in case I fall back asleep again and need re-awakening, and partially because it is rare that I can hear an alarm and be awake enough to get up straight away; if I could do that I probably wouldn't need the alarm.
"That's right officer, I was distracted trying to disable my GPS's nav safety feature when I ran into that tree." Wonder how that would turn out for Garmin?
I bet you'd get laughed out of the courtroom, seeing as it's easier to disable the safety feature before you start driving.
Or set the destination before starting driving
Would that also help against one-click buying with a site that already has your card details stored?
Would it be better or worse if a comment that was removed was replaced with a link saying "Comment removed, click here to view it"?
Wikipedia can make the ad section blatantly obvious, so to distinguish between ads and content.
I think you missed eldavojohn's point. The fear is that the ads will inevitably leak into the content -- that is, not only will you have the "blatantly obvious" ads on some separate section of the page, you'll also have content rewritten to push products. And this fear is quite justified.
What if Wikipedia implimented a system when users could decide on some pages that they feel are 'complete' and will not change, and lock them so no more editing can be done. Then only have adverts (that are clearly separated from content) on these locked pages? This would obviously only work for certain topics; for example an event that has happened in the past that it is unlikely that any new information could be added to it.
If this actually gets implemented, I wonder what percent of photos uploaded will be edited in some way or another.
How old are you? Do you know anyone under the age of 25 (number pulled from my arse) who doesn't use their phone for alarms? I mean nearly everyone I know doesn't have an alarm clock. Nearly everyone I know doesn't have a clock at their bedside either.
I'm 23 and have an alarm clock on the bedside table that plays a CD to wake me up. However I do also use my phone as a secondary alarm clock (partially in case I don't get up for the CD alarm and partially in case of a power cut which would re-set the CD alarm time to 00:00)
I remember a few years back I had a old (well, by today's standards) Nokia phone with me on a trip to Hungary. I set an alarm on my last day to ensure that I would be up on time to catch the plane (I had no other form of alarm, didn't bring too much as we were mostly backpacking around hostels). The battery died during the night, but we were up in plenty of time anyway (the plane wasn't early, but I still didn't want to risk missing it).
During the day, while we were getting ready to head to the airport, I heard a noise from my pocket; the phone (battery dead remember) had saved enough power to inform me that my alarm was going off (all that was displayed on the screen was 'ALARM' and the time, I couldn't relly do anything else apart from turn the alarm off). THAT is what I would call something that has been very well thought out, and a very useful feature, particularly in critical situations. I don't know if its a feature on new phones nowadays though.
I suggest we adopt a 12 month 30 day calendar, with a five day holiday at the end of the year (six days for leap year.) And no friggin' daylight savings.
No international time zones would be helpful too; set everyone's clocks to the same time around the world. Sure it might confuse some, but I'm sure people would get the hang of it after a while.
If 700 me-too's is what it takes to get Google to throw some resources at this bug then I'm happy to put up with the 'bugspam' as you call it.
Even if the resources are going to spend most their time trawling through useless comments instead of actually trying to figure out what is going wrong?
Also, why is all this aimed at Google? I've not followed the Android development that much, but I thought it was developed by a consortium of 50 companies? Or am I thinking of something else?