Your mistake is that you didn't link to an ad-infested garbage tech site. Nobody makes any money with your sub.
It's rare to see a/. post that has a link directly to the meat of an issue these days, for just that reason. You can't do any search engine optimization for a third party your way.
Consumer, the term, is a pejorative. It implies that I am some sort of reverse landfill that will hand out money to any garbage truck full of products that gets dumped in my vicinity.
I am not a consumer. I am a *potential* customer. That implies that I am careful about how I spend my money, and that I value a company that attempts to forge a good relationship with me. I am not likely to buy something merely because it's on sale down at the feed farm.
I say no way! Nobody could be pirating my clicks./drools and goes back to raising virtual pigs and sending virtual gifts to virtually unknown "friends."
Well then you don't want personalized news. You may like the idea of it, but if you actually wanted it, you would arrange it.
I did read TFA. He's bullshitting about power users and nattering on about irrelevant crap. It's not exactly rocket science to click a few checkboxes after punching the big friendly "Customize" button.
If the news is automatically personalized, you may never find out about important stories. And if you click on a story that mildly interests you (say gays in the military) you might get nothing but gay-interest news from that point on.
Why does the title "Professor of Communications" sound like "Bullshit Artist Extraordinare" to my ears?
People love personalized news. Most folks I know get their news from Google News or other customizable news aggregators for just such a reason - it is a digest that you can edit so you are only seeing stories that matter to you. For example, I don't care about sports or entertainment. Lindsay Lohan's trials and tribulations, and big 'roided out athletes beating their mammas, are just not important. I also do not enjoy getting AP or Reuters news - neither can really be trusted after all their fuckups and propaganda plants. However I do enjoy getting news from abroad and Google lets me do this.
Professors of Communications are the people we can blame for the sorry, shabby state of the media today. Infotainment is the name of the game thanks to these bastards and their corporate overlords.
Fuck, why not? Everybody already knows Oracle are a bunch of cocks. Hearing it from Gosling, one of the guys who put Sun on the Internet radar screen in the 90s, is just gravy.
The actions you advocate are an Emperor's New Clothes scenario.
Eye strain can be fixed by adjusting your screen brightness. It's really quite simple, and the iPad has a little photometer that will even do that for you.
LCDs in and of themselves are not a significant cause of eyestrain. LCDs that are improperly adjusted to a too-high brightness level are.
Place the Kindle or iPad on a photocopier and get your hard copies that way. Easy, and perfectly legal as long as you are simply backing up your digital media for personal use.
Why don't you throw the code up on Github? Certainly then you could feel like you are giving your customer their value for the dollar. Somebody might be nice enough to come along and fix your code up - no matter how nice your code is, most programs can stand improvement.
Actually, with iTunes music, and books, and movies, everything you buy can be re-downloaded at will, for free. You can also put your downloaded books and shit onto multiple computers without paying more for each copy. Paper has its advantages, for sure, but ebooks are awfully nice to have.
I realize that it's fashionable to attempt to burn Apple at every turn, but in this case you are making yourself out to be a liar.
If your read in bed, the iPad beats the shit out of the Kindle. As you said, it's only good if you do your reading in a lighted room. But it has problems too - the page turn time is not acceptable for my use. It also sucks for annotation.
The iPad has a number of advantages over the Kindle, as the iPad is a multifunctional device. The Kindle reads books, and browses the web, poorly. I don't know about you, but I don't really want to carry an assload of gadgets, each one with a single purpose. I will take a single device that does a number of things decently instead.
And yet, since the very beginning of my Mac using days, my good old MS Intellimouse Optical has been able to use all 5 of its buttons without issue on any Mac.
Of course, the Microsoft and Linux Fanbois just can't see straight when you point this out.
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Bullshit. Schumer is one of the top ten evil elected officials in office.
Your mistake is that you didn't link to an ad-infested garbage tech site. Nobody makes any money with your sub.
It's rare to see a /. post that has a link directly to the meat of an issue these days, for just that reason. You can't do any search engine optimization for a third party your way.
Quit submitting. I did years ago.
Consumer, the term, is a pejorative. It implies that I am some sort of reverse landfill that will hand out money to any garbage truck full of products that gets dumped in my vicinity.
I am not a consumer. I am a *potential* customer. That implies that I am careful about how I spend my money, and that I value a company that attempts to forge a good relationship with me. I am not likely to buy something merely because it's on sale down at the feed farm.
I say no way! Nobody could be pirating my clicks. /drools and goes back to raising virtual pigs and sending virtual gifts to virtually unknown "friends."
Quit posting to /. anonymously, Mr. Brin. Jeez.
Yes, let us all sing praises for the media. Where would we be without them?
Well then you don't want personalized news. You may like the idea of it, but if you actually wanted it, you would arrange it.
I did read TFA. He's bullshitting about power users and nattering on about irrelevant crap. It's not exactly rocket science to click a few checkboxes after punching the big friendly "Customize" button.
If the news is automatically personalized, you may never find out about important stories. And if you click on a story that mildly interests you (say gays in the military) you might get nothing but gay-interest news from that point on.
Why does the title "Professor of Communications" sound like "Bullshit Artist Extraordinare" to my ears?
People love personalized news. Most folks I know get their news from Google News or other customizable news aggregators for just such a reason - it is a digest that you can edit so you are only seeing stories that matter to you. For example, I don't care about sports or entertainment. Lindsay Lohan's trials and tribulations, and big 'roided out athletes beating their mammas, are just not important. I also do not enjoy getting AP or Reuters news - neither can really be trusted after all their fuckups and propaganda plants. However I do enjoy getting news from abroad and Google lets me do this.
Professors of Communications are the people we can blame for the sorry, shabby state of the media today. Infotainment is the name of the game thanks to these bastards and their corporate overlords.
Fuck, why not? Everybody already knows Oracle are a bunch of cocks. Hearing it from Gosling, one of the guys who put Sun on the Internet radar screen in the 90s, is just gravy.
The actions you advocate are an Emperor's New Clothes scenario.
Most developers who write commercial software are not that inattentive. If they are they usually fail.
In the open source world you are correct, however.
Aside from saving a small amount of storage space, why are dynamic libraries "so much better?"
There really is little difference from a user standpoint.
I like that they are using QNX. Of course, this device will be just as awful as most blackberries.
It's also the only way to make any money coding mobile phone apps.
Eye strain can be fixed by adjusting your screen brightness. It's really quite simple, and the iPad has a little photometer that will even do that for you.
LCDs in and of themselves are not a significant cause of eyestrain. LCDs that are improperly adjusted to a too-high brightness level are.
Place the Kindle or iPad on a photocopier and get your hard copies that way. Easy, and perfectly legal as long as you are simply backing up your digital media for personal use.
Yeah, it seems she is an idiot to choose a commercial ad-service to distribute her data.
Why don't you throw the code up on Github? Certainly then you could feel like you are giving your customer their value for the dollar. Somebody might be nice enough to come along and fix your code up - no matter how nice your code is, most programs can stand improvement.
Actually, with iTunes music, and books, and movies, everything you buy can be re-downloaded at will, for free. You can also put your downloaded books and shit onto multiple computers without paying more for each copy. Paper has its advantages, for sure, but ebooks are awfully nice to have.
I realize that it's fashionable to attempt to burn Apple at every turn, but in this case you are making yourself out to be a liar.
If your read in bed, the iPad beats the shit out of the Kindle. As you said, it's only good if you do your reading in a lighted room. But it has problems too - the page turn time is not acceptable for my use. It also sucks for annotation.
The iPad has a number of advantages over the Kindle, as the iPad is a multifunctional device. The Kindle reads books, and browses the web, poorly. I don't know about you, but I don't really want to carry an assload of gadgets, each one with a single purpose. I will take a single device that does a number of things decently instead.
No, there's just a send thing. A request is sent over the network; it doesn't arrive by mentalism.
They "couldn't" shoot civilians?
Sure they could. It may be illegal under the laws of war, but laws are not actually able to enforce themselves.
What, her Twitter stream isn't enough? How about her email list?
Relying on Facebook for everything is just stupid, and this should be a lesson to your pregnant friend.
Yes, but you can't fucking use Rodgers from the middle of the Indian Ocean.
A satellite phone is not intended to replace your little tower based pocket accessory. It's a serious tool for serious users.
And yet, since the very beginning of my Mac using days, my good old MS Intellimouse Optical has been able to use all 5 of its buttons without issue on any Mac.
Of course, the Microsoft and Linux Fanbois just can't see straight when you point this out.
Yeah, the millions upon millions of people who bought iPads in the past few months did so because they wanted to "review" them. Sure.