At first I was outraged that Microsoft "discounted" (read: bribed) the uiversity to switch but then I realised that the students are probably grateful because
Lotus Notes is a horrible horrible piece of software. Microsoft might be evil but Lotus Notes is the scourge. I would happily endure a Windows only hell over a life of Lotus Notes.
IBM probably did this to the university to begin with, no system administrator would use Lotus Notes willingly.
Does the Facebook/Skype use Flash or does it require you install Skype?
If it it uses Flash and you're on Windows you can block all websites from accessing your webcam in the Flash privacy settings. You have to do it after every update though because it resets.
That's insightful. If everything worked properly when I started using computers, I would never have had an interest in them now. As a child many things did not make sense, I thought things could be improved.
I feel sorry for the children who have everything working properly when they start using a computer. There will be less space for inspiration. I don't doubt they will be very capable users, perhaps in graphical programs for example. However they will be like my generation with cars and fridges - we buy a new one rather than try to learn how it works and how to fix it. Of course that might be an argument that relates more to complexity than 'everything being done for you'.
I am surprised how few people are able to understand this.
By outsourcing the manufacturing, you lose an essential part of the process. The skills are transferred abroad. The company loses value in the long term. Chinese companies are getting more skilled and knowledgeable over time. Western countries are making profits but losing knowledge.
The only way to improve a process is to experiment with that process. How can a architect in the Bay area truly learn from mistakes if they are cut off from the development process.
Where do you think manufacturing innovatiosn will occur? USA? No, they will occur in China.
In the UK it seems that lots of people drop out or they pass with very low marks. A degree in the UK pretty much means you hung around for three years at university. Its difficult to fail completely. It's easy to get into university too.
Of course employers ask for people with a certain level degree to filter out those who just sat around.
I can imagine an Android application being the standard format for small 'widget' like applications that run on GNOME and KDE or any other desktop environment.
They would replace the proprietary plasmoids and applets of DE and become standardized. I figure it makes sense because Android supports 'fragments' which are designed to scale up to larger interface.
It also comes with a permission system for free. Many Android APIs could be mapped to a Linux compatibility layer, a daemon called. androidd. Phone call Apps would be using standard Android APIs but integrate with the VOIP software configured by the layer, your contacts with your address book, Wifi with your LAN and so on.
Company A actively tried to hurt B by denying readers who happened upon that article at the time the mention of that company. They had a malicious motivation to stop the company's name from being heard.
If you allow this to happen, the act of hurting competitors becomes a slippery slope:
- supressing information about them
- spreading FUD about them
- physically damaging, 'removing' or intimidation them
A business ecosystem that works on these ethics is not a pleasant one (Goldman Sachs).
The author who wrote the article was probably not associated with either company, hence why both companies were mentioned. It would not have been anti-competitive if one of the companies edited the article to add their own name (it would have been against Wikipedia's neutral policy however).
Do you really want a web where companies and individuals are actively censoring one another for personal gain? It's starting to happen already.
Imagine the day you cannot find any negative reviews for any product or company.
Your negative or critical comments are removed from a blog because they are against the sponsors.
Your posts on a forum are modified to remove links to the competitors of the recommendations you wrote.
Welcome to shillnet. Honesty and personal integrity be dammed. If you don't stop this while it is obvious, it won't send out the warning signal that society does not tolerate low and pathetic business practices. Maybe that will force people to think twice about being assholes.
The GP is right though. The fact it's on wikipedia should never change the intended harm of the action.
If you are working for company A it is anti-competitive for you to tear down posters for company B. This is just as well. The fact is is happening on Wikipedia makes no difference.
Company A in this case would rather censor the competitor than compete fairly. I think people should avoid business with the anti-competitive company because it's dishonest. If they are willing to do this, why wouldn't they pull something similar on you? A micropayment service sounds like a perfect model for ripping off merchants and end users.
Those are businesses that operate on the internet architecture, known as the web. There's a big difference between the web and internet.
Who does most development on web browsers? The community. Think open developers, Chromium and Mozilla. Who makes the web more snazzy? Open source Javascript libraries maybe?
Who invented the web? A citizen.
Where was page rank invented? A university.
Do you really think your couple of examples of commercial successes are really entirely a contribution of commerci effort? I'd say that most of the effort was by citizens and academics. I wonder if Amazon uses Perl? Maybe an open source database?
The internet is damaged by commercial interests. I don't think I'm speaking from nostalgia about 'the good old days' but large commercial interests have only weakened the utility of the internet.
The top level domains should be neutral. The internet is no longer neutral if every company can buy out the namespace.
I envy biological scientists and ecologists with their highly organized binomial classification systems. They're neutral. They organize information how it should be organized.
I reckon we have difficulty classifying and namespacing the internet is because we don't really know what it is. I guarantee that the information architecture will have at least one massive restructuring in our lifetimes. One day it will be called something different, like 'the link' or the 'exchange'. You know the 'omniscient' like information system that you see alien races mention in Star Trek.
Easy, society has shortened words in this fashion for generations*. You could call it a portmanteau but with only the first letter taken.
You can easily claim that iplayer is short for 'internet player'. Email is electronic and mail. Blog is web and log.
I don't know the name of the process of a single-letter portemantaeu. *I can't think of any before the internet age but then I've not been alive that long and it's most likely we've forgotten the affixes through time. That is the beauty of the birth of two new words.
I like the aura of mystery your create and the menacingness. Yet at the same time you sound like a hero, almost an anti-hero, shrouded in justice and maybe a troubled past.
The most secure computer is one that is not on the internet or networked to other computers. I am surprised BSG preaches that to the mainstream. Or that never sleep with robots.
A BSG ship must be one that must be managed by a team of sysadmins. If you can't network you must have one physical computer per subsystem.
sudo/etc/init.d/hyperdrive restart Password: Core dump: Failed to restart, not aligned Hint: Is antimatter callibrator powered and within frequency range? vim/etc/hyperdrive.conf
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At first I was outraged that Microsoft "discounted" (read: bribed) the uiversity to switch but then I realised that the students are probably grateful because
Lotus Notes is a horrible horrible piece of software. Microsoft might be evil but Lotus Notes is the scourge. I would happily endure a Windows only hell over a life of Lotus Notes.
IBM probably did this to the university to begin with, no system administrator would use Lotus Notes willingly.
Does the Facebook/Skype use Flash or does it require you install Skype?
If it it uses Flash and you're on Windows you can block all websites from accessing your webcam in the Flash privacy settings. You have to do it after every update though because it resets.
That's insightful. If everything worked properly when I started using computers, I would never have had an interest in them now. As a child many things did not make sense, I thought things could be improved.
I feel sorry for the children who have everything working properly when they start using a computer. There will be less space for inspiration. I don't doubt they will be very capable users, perhaps in graphical programs for example. However they will be like my generation with cars and fridges - we buy a new one rather than try to learn how it works and how to fix it. Of course that might be an argument that relates more to complexity than 'everything being done for you'.
That post you linked is a well known troll. Look at his comment history.
I am surprised how few people are able to understand this.
By outsourcing the manufacturing, you lose an essential part of the process. The skills are transferred abroad. The company loses value in the long term. Chinese companies are getting more skilled and knowledgeable over time. Western countries are making profits but losing knowledge.
The only way to improve a process is to experiment with that process. How can a architect in the Bay area truly learn from mistakes if they are cut off from the development process.
Where do you think manufacturing innovatiosn will occur? USA? No, they will occur in China.
This is true.
In the UK it seems that lots of people drop out or they pass with very low marks. A degree in the UK pretty much means you hung around for three years at university. Its difficult to fail completely. It's easy to get into university too.
Of course employers ask for people with a certain level degree to filter out those who just sat around.
You aren't a pleasant or even a likable person.
I think the GP was joking.
I agree with you.
I can imagine an Android application being the standard format for small 'widget' like applications that run on GNOME and KDE or any other desktop environment.
They would replace the proprietary plasmoids and applets of DE and become standardized. I figure it makes sense because Android supports 'fragments' which are designed to scale up to larger interface.
It also comes with a permission system for free. Many Android APIs could be mapped to a Linux compatibility layer, a daemon called. androidd. Phone call Apps would be using standard Android APIs but integrate with the VOIP software configured by the layer, your contacts with your address book, Wifi with your LAN and so on.
Wikimedia is not the company that was wronged.
Company A actively tried to hurt B by denying readers who happened upon that article at the time the mention of that company. They had a malicious motivation to stop the company's name from being heard.
If you allow this to happen, the act of hurting competitors becomes a slippery slope:
- supressing information about them
- spreading FUD about them
- physically damaging, 'removing' or intimidation them
A business ecosystem that works on these ethics is not a pleasant one (Goldman Sachs).
The author who wrote the article was probably not associated with either company, hence why both companies were mentioned. It would not have been anti-competitive if one of the companies edited the article to add their own name (it would have been against Wikipedia's neutral policy however).
Has nothing to do with Wikipedia per se. That's not the fundamental issue.
Someone censored or supressed what was or is for selfish gain. It's wrong.
That's the anti-competitive act.
It's like me hiding your painting in a gallery so people buy mine rather than yours.
Do you really want a web where companies and individuals are actively censoring one another for personal gain? It's starting to happen already.
Imagine the day you cannot find any negative reviews for any product or company.
Your negative or critical comments are removed from a blog because they are against the sponsors.
Your posts on a forum are modified to remove links to the competitors of the recommendations you wrote.
Welcome to shillnet. Honesty and personal integrity be dammed. If you don't stop this while it is obvious, it won't send out the warning signal that society does not tolerate low and pathetic business practices. Maybe that will force people to think twice about being assholes.
The GP is right though. The fact it's on wikipedia should never change the intended harm of the action.
If you are working for company A it is anti-competitive for you to tear down posters for company B. This is just as well. The fact is is happening on Wikipedia makes no difference.
Company A in this case would rather censor the competitor than compete fairly. I think people should avoid business with the anti-competitive company because it's dishonest. If they are willing to do this, why wouldn't they pull something similar on you? A micropayment service sounds like a perfect model for ripping off merchants and end users.
Those are businesses that operate on the internet architecture, known as the web. There's a big difference between the web and internet.
Who does most development on web browsers? The community. Think open developers, Chromium and Mozilla. Who makes the web more snazzy? Open source Javascript libraries maybe?
Who invented the web? A citizen.
Where was page rank invented? A university.
Do you really think your couple of examples of commercial successes are really entirely a contribution of commerci effort? I'd say that most of the effort was by citizens and academics. I wonder if Amazon uses Perl? Maybe an open source database?
The internet is damaged by commercial interests. I don't think I'm speaking from nostalgia about 'the good old days' but large commercial interests have only weakened the utility of the internet.
The top level domains should be neutral. The internet is no longer neutral if every company can buy out the namespace.
I envy biological scientists and ecologists with their highly organized binomial classification systems. They're neutral. They organize information how it should be organized.
I reckon we have difficulty classifying and namespacing the internet is because we don't really know what it is. I guarantee that the information architecture will have at least one massive restructuring in our lifetimes. One day it will be called something different, like 'the link' or the 'exchange'. You know the 'omniscient' like information system that you see alien races mention in Star Trek.
Easy, society has shortened words in this fashion for generations*. You could call it a portmanteau but with only the first letter taken.
You can easily claim that iplayer is short for 'internet player'. Email is electronic and mail. Blog is web and log.
I don't know the name of the process of a single-letter portemantaeu. *I can't think of any before the internet age but then I've not been alive that long and it's most likely we've forgotten the affixes through time. That is the beauty of the birth of two new words.
Legality aside, you would think that if they had been using a name legally for 6 years, they have a right to keep using it.
Something is broken if a larger company can buy a trademark of a smaller company and claim ownership and prevent the smaller company from using it.
Of course the legal system is not designed for common courtesy or justice, it's for rent seeking legal professionals.
Interesting and creepy at the same time.
I like the aura of mystery your create and the menacingness. Yet at the same time you sound like a hero, almost an anti-hero, shrouded in justice and maybe a troubled past.
I can see a movie now.
I actually laughed out.
The most secure computer is one that is not on the internet or networked to other computers. I am surprised BSG preaches that to the mainstream. Or that never sleep with robots.
A BSG ship must be one that must be managed by a team of sysadmins. If you can't network you must have one physical computer per subsystem.
sudo /etc/init.d/hyperdrive restart /etc/hyperdrive.conf
Password:
Core dump: Failed to restart, not aligned
Hint: Is antimatter callibrator powered and within frequency range?
vim
Reminds me of a short story by Isaac Asimov called 'The Dead Past'. A society that directs its specialists can control its development.
Detagging your name doesn't really 'dereference' you in the Facebook database.
I quit Facebook ages ago. If GP's quote from Zuckerberg doesn't convince you there are plenty of reasons to not use Facebook.
I predicted facial recognition being used for nefarious purposes so it's no surprise to me.
I almost choked on my water when reading GPs post. He's an idiot and you are absolutely right.
If you're reading this and wondering why he's an idiot, pick up a book by Noam Chomsky, 'Manufacturing Consent' would be a good start.
Wait, wait.
You assume that he actually did rape someone. Isn't that the crux of your argument?
The songs on your site remind me of Hawkwind a bit.
Not bad! I like the singing style. Influenced by any bands in particular? The wobbliness reminds me of The Flaming Lips.
Where abouts do you play in London?