This argument has never impressed me. As if unless you are a kernel coder, your opinion is irrelevant. He is critiquing some points of the UI style, and he's not alone in how he feels about them. Maybe you could step back from the debate, get some perspective and contribute to the discussion instead of just adding snarky comments
Your comments exactly mirror the ones I intended to post.
I would have expected that slashdotters would have taken a more intelligent response to this article instead of an instant "pile on" mentality
I've been a fan of the iPhone since it came out. Love it or hate it, it did change the landscape and it does a lot of things really well.
Unfortunately the whizzbang features with the faster processor and fingerprint scanner and such, while nifty, are less compelling to me than getting a larger screen for my aging eyes. That alone knocks it out of my "time to upgrade" category. It feels like too small of an incremental enhancement and not anything singularly so substantial that it's worth plunking down money for.
According to the speakers at the event, the fingerprint data is not transferred to any servers or backed up in icloud for precisely these security issues.
Has anyone else noticed that N Korea has been making a lot of noise the past month
Monday was the national celebration for the leader's grandfather the founder of N Korea. A day many analysts pointed at as a likely turning point in their ramp-up.
Tuesday Ricin letters were delivered to the White House and other locations.
Fault 1: You assume any conversation I have with my table companions must be obnoxious laughing?
Fault 2: you assume you cannot have a conversation with your distant loved ones from a quieter spot such as the lobby or outside where you hear them better and they hear you better and you do not generate irritation in the room around you?
You sir, seem to have some latent hostility creeping out.
The study you quote did not draw the conclusion you assert.
"We didn't study why cellphone conversations are more distracting,"
The difference could easily have been tonal or volume differences of one person on a cell phone versus two people speaking face to face. They stated that they need to do further research to find the cause.
There's a distinct and audible difference in the normal murmur of a restaurant that easily blends into a sea of ignorable noise.
A person speaking on a cell phone however, easily elevates above the steady noise level and is distinct and highly irritating to many. Do you really feel that it's too much to ask folks to go to a lobby area or step outside to take their call if it's so important?
After 35 years of living in South Florida where everyone you encounter is self-entitled, rude and generally uncaring of their impact on others, we moved to a far quieter, calmer, place where manners prevail and folks care more about those around them. In restaurants, children are generally well behaved, people mostly take calls in the lobby or outside. Is it really so much to ask that people show this level of common courtesy in other locales? Is being in a polite society such a horrid thing to you?
is it really so terrible for people to hope for a place where interactions are between people instead of devices?
I have Idiosyncratic Central Serous Retinopathy, which leads to Macular Degeneration
Among the challenges we face, is describing exactly what we see to the doctor for diagnostic use. For me that means I mock up my current visual state in Photoshop and bring it with me. But not everyone has these tools available to them to show vision distortion and areas of vision loss.
When I went through the experience of PEM (Pigment Epithelial Detachment) that ended with my ICSR my vision changed nearly every day for a period of nearly 3 months. The field of distortion changed regularly and it was a frightening and isolating experience. I'd have jumped at the chance to use a tool like this to record my daily experiences and results and log them for my doctor.
I can easily see where making an app like this required a known screen factor that makes the ambiguity of the Android marketplace tougher to use. No doubt once they have things running and approved on the iphone, if it proved profitable they would port it to Android for phones that meet certain display criteria.
The fallacy of the article is the fundamental assumption that the producer of work is only valid when controlled by the guiding hand of a company.
Workers rights exist to protect workers from abusive companies. But the case here doesn't even come close to rubbing up against that issue. The Gigers in these cases are able to work as much or as little as they please. No boss is standing behind them abusing them into performing more to justify management's salary or company profit margins.
Gigers will likely fall into two main groups:
A) Out of work and struggling to make ends meet.
This type is probably grateful for a way to make money in a world where there's currently no company to make him "a valuable asset and a productive member of society". No corporate overlord, no workers rights issues. If they dislike this type of work, they can continue seeking a job somewhere or they can learn to do without earning money for other people and keep making direct contacts for work.
B) People who do gigs on the side. Again, no right issues come up in this case. It's a totally voluntary way to make extra bucks.
I've used Fiverr to buy about 60 gigs now. In each case they were professional, quick and delivered exactly what they advertised. (in my case almost all were for artistic talent for personal and team building exercises). No company is offering me an equivalent service for less than an absurd amount of money which would have been a non-starter and caused me to engage in zero purchases. Their overhead for profit and management salaries is so high, they price themselves out of the market for what I need.
Instead of trying to demonize these companies, look at them as a means by which a lot of people are making ends meet while no company is willing to hire them. Life does not require anyone to work for a company. Sure they serve their purposes and for many scales and scopes of work, it takes a company to achieve success. I love the company that I work for. But I do not mistake that for believing that every person alive must either work for a company or earn nothing.
I'd rather look forward to a day when the gig market evolves and gig companies start offering discount benefit packages to Gigers who perform and produce well. What better way to hold onto good talent for your service.
It really sounded like they took the curve of data center power reduction and forecast it out, then took the amount of energy used by every corporate and home wireless device in the country(world?) and every cellular network (and it's devices) and projected them out.
Apples and oranges.
It also sounds like they felt a dire need to stick "Cloud" into the article for no other point than to raise the headline value. The article did nothing at all to convince me that their predictions really relate to cloud computing any more than anything else.
"scientists know this is a problem. They just don't know how to stop it."
Seriously? They don't know how to stop them?
Well, I've only put a total of 60 seconds of thought into this:
-Establish an industry guideline on how article review should happen that is respected by the general audience.
-Establish a name for this standard "Estra Special Gold Platinum Peer Review Whatever"
-Get the respected journals to adopt the standard to keep the riff-raff out
-Journals without the extra special seal on the front will be of dubious value to anyone and everyone.
-Make profit off of for the audits necessary each year to insure integrity among those who want the credentials
You are telling me that they could not come up with a better idea than that after giving it serious thought for years?
Actually this is one of the uses for Google Glasses that has gone unnoticed. Imagine starting a trend of encrypted marketing, social news, flash mob announcements, news articles and more that is all encrypted and your trusty Google Glasses decrypt them for you automatically.
I confess that I'm not really familiar with the technology, but this one gives me pause.
They are building a Walgreens on a street corner that will use geothermal energy for heat?
Can someone with a bit of knowledge share some insight on exactly how they plan to do that in a corner store?
I get systems data feeds in RSS form and would love to be able to filter the streams by relevancy of the content. Any reader that provided some filtering tools would be an upgrade.
Interesting thought you have there.
You could argue possible attack vector to the policy would be to create a file of your own IPs infringing your materials and demand representation with the ISPs. As more and more people demand the same services, it places additional load (cost) on the system and lowers reliability (as every submitter will have different levels of validity to their claims) resulting in more challenges and more increased costs.
"CCI’s content partners – companies that own and develop music, movies and TV shows – join peer-to-peer networks and locate the music, movies or TV shows they have created and own. Once they see a title being made available on the peer-to-peer network, they confirm that it is, in fact, copyrighted content.
After confirming that a file appears to have been shared illegally, content owners identify the Internet Protocol (IP) address used by the computer making the file available. Each IP address belongs to an Internet Service Provider (ISP), so content owners notify the ISP to which the address is assigned and the ISP then passes a Copyright Alert on to its customer."
1) Create a perfectly legal download of free material about the size of the average pirate movie.
2) Name the file after a newly released, highly popular movie that younger audiences would want to download
3) Encrypt the file with a password, making verifiction of the content by **AA unlikely and they will flag it anyway
4) Have all of your friends download it and seed it back up
5) Get your infringement alert and file your $35 which you can easily win back with the proof that it is a legal file
6) Grab popcorn and watch their system get clogged up
I'm just guessing here but I'd assume what they are referring to is lightweight drones, not full sized aircraft. A drone has a substantially lower mass to structural support ratio one would guess, making far higher G maneuvers possible.
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I'm so relieved that you were here to give us some solid facts on the officer's state of mind. Part Betazoid?
This argument has never impressed me. As if unless you are a kernel coder, your opinion is irrelevant. He is critiquing some points of the UI style, and he's not alone in how he feels about them. Maybe you could step back from the debate, get some perspective and contribute to the discussion instead of just adding snarky comments
Your comments exactly mirror the ones I intended to post. I would have expected that slashdotters would have taken a more intelligent response to this article instead of an instant "pile on" mentality
Why would you post technology in a home just because the home was built after 1986?
I've been a fan of the iPhone since it came out. Love it or hate it, it did change the landscape and it does a lot of things really well. Unfortunately the whizzbang features with the faster processor and fingerprint scanner and such, while nifty, are less compelling to me than getting a larger screen for my aging eyes. That alone knocks it out of my "time to upgrade" category. It feels like too small of an incremental enhancement and not anything singularly so substantial that it's worth plunking down money for.
According to the speakers at the event, the fingerprint data is not transferred to any servers or backed up in icloud for precisely these security issues.
Has anyone else noticed that N Korea has been making a lot of noise the past month
Monday was the national celebration for the leader's grandfather the founder of N Korea. A day many analysts pointed at as a likely turning point in their ramp-up.
Tuesday Ricin letters were delivered to the White House and other locations.
I think I need to find a blank to go hide under.
"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument" -William G. McAdoo
Fault 1: You assume any conversation I have with my table companions must be obnoxious laughing?
Fault 2: you assume you cannot have a conversation with your distant loved ones from a quieter spot such as the lobby or outside where you hear them better and they hear you better and you do not generate irritation in the room around you?
You sir, seem to have some latent hostility creeping out.
/golfclap
On this I agree :)
There are devices on the market that block cell traffic except for 911 calls.
The study you quote did not draw the conclusion you assert.
"We didn't study why cellphone conversations are more distracting,"
The difference could easily have been tonal or volume differences of one person on a cell phone versus two people speaking face to face. They stated that they need to do further research to find the cause.
There's a distinct and audible difference in the normal murmur of a restaurant that easily blends into a sea of ignorable noise.
A person speaking on a cell phone however, easily elevates above the steady noise level and is distinct and highly irritating to many. Do you really feel that it's too much to ask folks to go to a lobby area or step outside to take their call if it's so important?
After 35 years of living in South Florida where everyone you encounter is self-entitled, rude and generally uncaring of their impact on others, we moved to a far quieter, calmer, place where manners prevail and folks care more about those around them. In restaurants, children are generally well behaved, people mostly take calls in the lobby or outside. Is it really so much to ask that people show this level of common courtesy in other locales? Is being in a polite society such a horrid thing to you?
is it really so terrible for people to hope for a place where interactions are between people instead of devices?
I'm sure this is because anime never copied anything else.
ever.
Right?
I have Idiosyncratic Central Serous Retinopathy, which leads to Macular Degeneration Among the challenges we face, is describing exactly what we see to the doctor for diagnostic use. For me that means I mock up my current visual state in Photoshop and bring it with me. But not everyone has these tools available to them to show vision distortion and areas of vision loss. When I went through the experience of PEM (Pigment Epithelial Detachment) that ended with my ICSR my vision changed nearly every day for a period of nearly 3 months. The field of distortion changed regularly and it was a frightening and isolating experience. I'd have jumped at the chance to use a tool like this to record my daily experiences and results and log them for my doctor. I can easily see where making an app like this required a known screen factor that makes the ambiguity of the Android marketplace tougher to use. No doubt once they have things running and approved on the iphone, if it proved profitable they would port it to Android for phones that meet certain display criteria.
The fallacy of the article is the fundamental assumption that the producer of work is only valid when controlled by the guiding hand of a company.
Workers rights exist to protect workers from abusive companies. But the case here doesn't even come close to rubbing up against that issue. The Gigers in these cases are able to work as much or as little as they please. No boss is standing behind them abusing them into performing more to justify management's salary or company profit margins.
Gigers will likely fall into two main groups:
A) Out of work and struggling to make ends meet.
This type is probably grateful for a way to make money in a world where there's currently no company to make him "a valuable asset and a productive member of society". No corporate overlord, no workers rights issues. If they dislike this type of work, they can continue seeking a job somewhere or they can learn to do without earning money for other people and keep making direct contacts for work.
B) People who do gigs on the side. Again, no right issues come up in this case. It's a totally voluntary way to make extra bucks.
I've used Fiverr to buy about 60 gigs now. In each case they were professional, quick and delivered exactly what they advertised. (in my case almost all were for artistic talent for personal and team building exercises). No company is offering me an equivalent service for less than an absurd amount of money which would have been a non-starter and caused me to engage in zero purchases. Their overhead for profit and management salaries is so high, they price themselves out of the market for what I need.
Instead of trying to demonize these companies, look at them as a means by which a lot of people are making ends meet while no company is willing to hire them. Life does not require anyone to work for a company. Sure they serve their purposes and for many scales and scopes of work, it takes a company to achieve success. I love the company that I work for. But I do not mistake that for believing that every person alive must either work for a company or earn nothing.
I'd rather look forward to a day when the gig market evolves and gig companies start offering discount benefit packages to Gigers who perform and produce well. What better way to hold onto good talent for your service.
The article has very little detail in it.
It really sounded like they took the curve of data center power reduction and forecast it out, then took the amount of energy used by every corporate and home wireless device in the country(world?) and every cellular network (and it's devices) and projected them out.
Apples and oranges.
It also sounds like they felt a dire need to stick "Cloud" into the article for no other point than to raise the headline value. The article did nothing at all to convince me that their predictions really relate to cloud computing any more than anything else.
"scientists know this is a problem. They just don't know how to stop it."
Seriously? They don't know how to stop them?
Well, I've only put a total of 60 seconds of thought into this:
-Establish an industry guideline on how article review should happen that is respected by the general audience.
-Establish a name for this standard "Estra Special Gold Platinum Peer Review Whatever"
-Get the respected journals to adopt the standard to keep the riff-raff out
-Journals without the extra special seal on the front will be of dubious value to anyone and everyone.
-Make profit off of for the audits necessary each year to insure integrity among those who want the credentials
You are telling me that they could not come up with a better idea than that after giving it serious thought for years?
Actually this is one of the uses for Google Glasses that has gone unnoticed. Imagine starting a trend of encrypted marketing, social news, flash mob announcements, news articles and more that is all encrypted and your trusty Google Glasses decrypt them for you automatically.
I confess that I'm not really familiar with the technology, but this one gives me pause. They are building a Walgreens on a street corner that will use geothermal energy for heat? Can someone with a bit of knowledge share some insight on exactly how they plan to do that in a corner store?
I get systems data feeds in RSS form and would love to be able to filter the streams by relevancy of the content. Any reader that provided some filtering tools would be an upgrade.
Interesting thought you have there.
You could argue possible attack vector to the policy would be to create a file of your own IPs infringing your materials and demand representation with the ISPs. As more and more people demand the same services, it places additional load (cost) on the system and lowers reliability (as every submitter will have different levels of validity to their claims) resulting in more challenges and more increased costs.
"CCI’s content partners – companies that own and develop music, movies and TV shows – join peer-to-peer networks and locate the music, movies or TV shows they have created and own. Once they see a title being made available on the peer-to-peer network, they confirm that it is, in fact, copyrighted content.
After confirming that a file appears to have been shared illegally, content owners identify the Internet Protocol (IP) address used by the computer making the file available. Each IP address belongs to an Internet Service Provider (ISP), so content owners notify the ISP to which the address is assigned and the ISP then passes a Copyright Alert on to its customer."
1) Create a perfectly legal download of free material about the size of the average pirate movie.
2) Name the file after a newly released, highly popular movie that younger audiences would want to download
3) Encrypt the file with a password, making verifiction of the content by **AA unlikely and they will flag it anyway
4) Have all of your friends download it and seed it back up
5) Get your infringement alert and file your $35 which you can easily win back with the proof that it is a legal file
6) Grab popcorn and watch their system get clogged up
I'm just guessing here but I'd assume what they are referring to is lightweight drones, not full sized aircraft. A drone has a substantially lower mass to structural support ratio one would guess, making far higher G maneuvers possible.