Believe it or not, a couple (maybe 3) weeks ago I saw a *TV* ad for ICQ. This is a German TV channel. Now, I don't remember what they were advertizing but my reaction was "wow, are Germans still using ICQ in 2010!?". Granted, in this part of Germany (ex-eastern region still heavily depopulating) they still have some retrograd customs.
The Zune looked like a copy of the iPod. The Zune HD looked like a copy of the iPod Touch. Bing/Live Search all seemed to be copies of Google. Etc.
Man, with Microsoft you can go *waaaaaaay* back. Say, Windows was a copy of the Apple OS, (Lisa??) or Excel which was a copy of Lotus, or powerpoint which was a copy of harvard graphics etc, etc etc....
The funny thing is, the guy avoided using his 42'' TV, which was IN FRONT OF HIS FUCKING BED just to make a point that the iPad is oh-so more useful...
Yup, Apple is using the same "red ocean, white ocean" tactic that Nintendo used in the last console generation.
Apple does not care about us (slashdot tards), they care about the 95% of potential customers who find computers complicated.
Computers can be used to achieve a HUGE number of things. The problem is the majority of people do not know HOW to achieve them.
Apple products allow people to achieve a relatively small number of things, but they make it *really* easy to achieve them. So that 95% of people will be able to achieve those things which were only virtually possible doing a computer.
Oh, and I really hate Apple closeness policies... but then again I am posting in slashdot:)
The type of weenie who would seriously not buy an iPad (or anything else) because "there might be something better out in a few months" deserves to rot in the hell of their own indecision and loathsome need to be cool.
Obsessive compulsive disorder. So, you feel the need to buy every single piece of new technology that comes out?
I have to tell you, THANK YOU! It is because of guys like you that we all the non-worthy masses have the possibility to get cool technology at good prices. Because get yourself to endure all the "early adopters" issues (early beta quality [eg. Microsoft software], overpriced products [eg. cameras], non-relevant products [eg. HD-DVD], constrained products [eg. iPAD] etc.).
Me? I will definitely wait for a product with decent price, decent features and from a less-undecent company. Personally I like ASUS, Samsung stuff (among others) so, I'll gladly waiting for my DR-950 and whatever alternative to iPad suits MY NEEDS.
I read the story you linked and similarly to some comments in there I believe the people that BOUGHT the suitcase (legally from a pound shot that put it to sell after the OWNER gave it) are the right owners of the money.
Under the same logic followed by the Australian police, if you sell that old ugly painting your grandma has in the basement for say, $200 and then you realize that after one month the buyer is auctioning it for millions because it resulted that it was the lost Picasso painting... should you be entitled to get more money?
Or what about that lady who threw her mom's bed when replacing it with a new one... but the cushion was filled with money? if someone finds this old cushion in the garbage, should they return it? or worse yet, if after some time the previous owners (who threw it away) track it, should they get that money back?
I can feel your pain... I like Sony stuff such as their eBook readers... Unfortunately I hate Sony's customer-screwing policies so much that I would not touch Sony's products with a 10m pole...
<rant> Why would someone sane want to have that piece of shit in their computers is beyond my mind. Really, I always thought that McAfee and Symantec DVDs/downloads include some kind of porn or coupon for a blowjob. Who the heck would install them?
There are SO MANY good alternatives (Kaspersky, Nod32, AVG, Avira)... shit right now I even think that Microsoft antivirus toy is a hundred times better than McAfee/NAV !
If I were AVG, Kaspersky or whatnot I would right now make an offer to give 1/2 price on the product to all the people that was fuckedup with McAffee's bug. </rant> Sorry for the rant
My questions is if you do not want people to know the SSID of your device, then tell your device not to shout it.
It's like if a guy starts screaming "my name is James! my name is James!" and after someone tell him "hey James, please shut up!" he complains "how do you know my name? are you following me?"
Howdy cow, every time someone mentions a feature on ZFS (mostly everytime someone in/. ask "how do I... in Linux") I get more and more impressed.
I am seriously thinking to try PC-BSD as my next Operating system, with a rock solid and feature full file system like zfs, I am sure I should not let it pass!
Well... I was said that smoking pot makes you more intelligent according to Darwing's evolution theory:
See, according to the theory, when you smoke pot, some of your neurons will die, this way only the fittest neurons will survive! and so, your best neurons will be in your head...!
See? oh, and if you think I'm not making any sense it is because I am now two intellijent for yu!
The original objection was that if the data is hard to come by then it's unfair to academics who wouldn't get the credit after gathering the data.
We just have to publish the data in some journal (say as an online appendix of a paper *describing* the methods they used to collect it) and then/if/ such data is very important such papers would get hundreds of references!
Simply generating massive amounts of data isn't considered science - figuring out what it means is. I say this as someone who is very good at generating data quickly, but not particularly good at interpreting it.
Spot on. I have a PhD in Comp. Sci. (Multi-Agent Systems / Market Based Control). One of the things you learn (maybe in you Universitity degree courses or in your first paper presentation) is that data does not mean *anything*, what matters is the interpretation of such data.
Nevertheless, I am of the opinion that programs used for the generation / manipulation of such data should also be free / scrutinable. Specially those developped during the research as they are also being paid by the tax payers money.
In the field I am working now (Agent based computational economics) a lot of people do these so called agent-based simulations, then they write a nice paper about what their simulations showed and try to publish it. The problem is that they keep their code! and in that respect they are deffinitely removing a good chunk of the "methods" part of their research. It is absolutely impossible to duplicate that work without the code.
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Haha, I think I have a 6 digit ICQ account as well... the bad thing is I do not remember my password.
And now that we are talking about web-dong waving, My hotmail account was registered at:
28 august 1997
Believe it or not, a couple (maybe 3) weeks ago I saw a *TV* ad for ICQ. This is a German TV channel. Now, I don't remember what they were advertizing but my reaction was "wow, are Germans still using ICQ in 2010!?". Granted, in this part of Germany (ex-eastern region still heavily depopulating) they still have some retrograd customs.
Microsoft does not do hardware, they do software. The time when they have done hardware (except for the Xbox) they have been completely unsuccessful.
It is up for Asus, HP, Lenovo, Palm, Motorola and friends to develop the new hardware.
The bad news for Microsoft? More and more companies are using free software as backend OS for their hardware.
The Zune looked like a copy of the iPod. The Zune HD looked like a copy of the iPod Touch. Bing/Live Search all seemed to be copies of Google. Etc.
Man, with Microsoft you can go *waaaaaaay* back. Say, Windows was a copy of the Apple OS, (Lisa??) or Excel which was a copy of Lotus, or powerpoint which was a copy of harvard graphics etc, etc etc....
The funny thing is, the guy avoided using his 42'' TV, which was IN FRONT OF HIS FUCKING BED just to make a point that the iPad is oh-so more useful...
I really love Apple fanboys :)
You forgot a [Cancel or Allow] in addition to each of your interruptions :)
I hope you are not still using XP!
Sorry, that should have read "red ocean, blue ocean".
Yup, Apple is using the same "red ocean, white ocean" tactic that Nintendo used in the last console generation.
Apple does not care about us (slashdot tards), they care about the 95% of potential customers who find computers complicated.
Computers can be used to achieve a HUGE number of things. The problem is the majority of people do not know HOW to achieve them.
Apple products allow people to achieve a relatively small number of things, but they make it *really* easy to achieve them. So that 95% of people will be able to achieve those things which were only virtually possible doing a computer.
Oh, and I really hate Apple closeness policies... but then again I am posting in slashdot :)
The type of weenie who would seriously not buy an iPad (or anything else) because "there might be something better out in a few months" deserves to rot in the hell of their own indecision and loathsome need to be cool.
Obsessive compulsive disorder. So, you feel the need to buy every single piece of new technology that comes out?
I have to tell you, THANK YOU! It is because of guys like you that we all the non-worthy masses have the possibility to get cool technology at good prices. Because get yourself to endure all the "early adopters" issues (early beta quality [eg. Microsoft software], overpriced products [eg. cameras], non-relevant products [eg. HD-DVD], constrained products [eg. iPAD] etc.).
Me? I will definitely wait for a product with decent price, decent features and from a less-undecent company. Personally I like ASUS, Samsung stuff (among others) so, I'll gladly waiting for my DR-950 and whatever alternative to iPad suits MY NEEDS.
Well... maybe they somehow expected you would buy a Zune :P
No, they read "Catholic Church" and think "pedophile", for the same reason one would read, "Muslim church" and read "Terrorist"
I read the story you linked and similarly to some comments in there I believe the people that BOUGHT the suitcase (legally from a pound shot that put it to sell after the OWNER gave it) are the right owners of the money.
Under the same logic followed by the Australian police, if you sell that old ugly painting your grandma has in the basement for say, $200 and then you realize that after one month the buyer is auctioning it for millions because it resulted that it was the lost Picasso painting... should you be entitled to get more money?
Or what about that lady who threw her mom's bed when replacing it with a new one... but the cushion was filled with money? if someone finds this old cushion in the garbage, should they return it? or worse yet, if after some time the previous owners (who threw it away) track it, should they get that money back?
This is a site that seems to specialize in stealing stories from others to generate ad revenue
Uuuh, isn't that what "news aggregators" do? like uhm you know, Slashdot itself?
I can feel your pain...
I like Sony stuff such as their eBook readers...
Unfortunately I hate Sony's customer-screwing policies so much that I would not touch Sony's products with a 10m pole...
That's why I am waiting for Asus DR 900
That would work wonders as an open-source project. Unfortunately Open Source is also not known for such type of innovation.
Pirate McAfee?? are you serious?
<rant>
Why would someone sane want to have that piece of shit in their computers is beyond my mind. Really, I always thought that McAfee and Symantec DVDs/downloads include some kind of porn or coupon for a blowjob. Who the heck would install them?
There are SO MANY good alternatives (Kaspersky, Nod32, AVG, Avira)... shit right now I even think that Microsoft antivirus toy is a hundred times better than McAfee/NAV !
If I were AVG, Kaspersky or whatnot I would right now make an offer to give 1/2 price on the product to all the people that was fuckedup with McAffee's bug.
</rant>
Sorry for the rant
Howdy cow... from the top of my head (from the emails that spam my unused hotmail account):
Friendster,Hi5, Wayn, Zorpia, Buzznet, Multiply, Gather, Care2, etc... you can look at aa bunch more here
My questions is if you do not want people to know the SSID of your device, then tell your device not to shout it.
It's like if a guy starts screaming "my name is James! my name is James!" and after someone tell him "hey James, please shut up!" he complains "how do you know my name? are you following me?"
Or worse yet... it is like me driving around and logging (e.g. writing in a paper) the numbers of the houses...
And then some guy getting mad at me because I identified that the number of his house is in X street!! "OMG you are profiling me!"
off topic:
every type someone writes "IANAL" I think... either, he is a lucky guy or a kinky lady! as IANAL not :(
Howdy cow, every time someone mentions a feature on ZFS (mostly everytime someone in /. ask "how do I... in Linux") I get more and more impressed.
I am seriously thinking to try PC-BSD as my next Operating system, with a rock solid and feature full file system like zfs, I am sure I should not let it pass!
Thanks AC!
Well... I was said that smoking pot makes you more intelligent according to Darwing's evolution theory:
See, according to the theory, when you smoke pot, some of your neurons will die, this way only the fittest neurons will survive! and so, your best neurons will be in your head...!
See? oh, and if you think I'm not making any sense it is because I am now two intellijent for yu!
The original objection was that if the data is hard to come by then it's unfair to academics who wouldn't get the credit after gathering the data.
We just have to publish the data in some journal (say as an online appendix of a paper *describing* the methods they used to collect it) and then /if/ such data is very important such papers would get hundreds of references!
Simply generating massive amounts of data isn't considered science - figuring out what it means is. I say this as someone who is very good at generating data quickly, but not particularly good at interpreting it.
Spot on. I have a PhD in Comp. Sci. (Multi-Agent Systems / Market Based Control). One of the things you learn (maybe in you Universitity degree courses or in your first paper presentation) is that data does not mean *anything*, what matters is the interpretation of such data.
Nevertheless, I am of the opinion that programs used for the generation / manipulation of such data should also be free / scrutinable. Specially those developped during the research as they are also being paid by the tax payers money.
In the field I am working now (Agent based computational economics) a lot of people do these so called agent-based simulations, then they write a nice paper about what their simulations showed and try to publish it. The problem is that they keep their code! and in that respect they are deffinitely removing a good chunk of the "methods" part of their research. It is absolutely impossible to duplicate that work without the code.
Haha I agree... my thought was, if this guy considers community college students as "ivory tower academics" he really should be *very* disadvantaged.