Indeed. I was wildly enthusiastic about G+ pre-launch and badgered the first person I found who had invites to send me one. When I realised the real names rule would rule out a number of key social contacts I gave up on the whole G+ thing. I'm pretty stubborn and would have forced all my FB contacts to convert to G+, and had previously decided to only post to G+ and never to Facebook again.
Now... what's the point? Might as well stick with the hated Facebook, it's not like there is any better alternative. G+ effectively killed itself.
Society is a bit messed up. I remember Michael Jackson was considered a freak and a pedophile until he died, then suddenly everybody was mourning saying how perfect he was. Before that there was the Princess Diana over-reaction.
I agree with RMS, I'm glad Steve Jobs is gone. He has become more and more detrimental to the computing scene. As a hard-core capitalist, in knowing how to screw consumers making infeasibly high margins selling style over substance he was an industry leader. From a technology viewpoint he hadn't done anything particularly new in decades. Promoting the idea that when you buy a device you are in fact just renting it from Apple is just wrong. Controlling content just because you sell somebody some hardware is wrong. His walled gardens, wrong. Firing off lawsuits all over the place to restrain trade just because he can't hack the competition any more, wrong. Submitting fake evidence in courts, wrong.
I used to push people towards buying Apple as a way of not having to spend hours helping them fix Microsoft Windows. Now there is no way in hell I will recommend Apple to anybody.
It's a shame anybody has to die of cancer. But as far as computing goes, good riddance to Steve Jobs.
Nice has already an electric tramway, all the buses have been running on natural gas for over a decade, it has a communal bike rental system, and for the past few months you can just pick up an electric car and use it for something like €5 per hour. Last month they celebrated over 1,000 regular subscribers to the car scheme.
Anything but C#? Personally I would like to see a move towards Python. It's solid, not a resource-hog like Java, has plenty of libraries, has threading, and is just nice to use.
Even more farcical than trying to trademark something like "App Store". Though not quite as bad as claiming ownership on the idea of a rectangular shape with a touchscreen.
Though I've been a professional Java programmer I never enjoyed it as much as the other languages. It died on the desktop, it died on the web, but got a good foothold in the enterprise web services side. Mostly thanks to Sun driving it very hard, and it riding on their reputation of Sun's rock solid hardware and Solaris OS.
Oracle has done a good job of killing it. It is clear the owners don't care about it, it's sinking in a legal mire, and now it breaks in ways that would never have happened under Sun's stewardship. Time to move on.
How is this modded '+4 Insightful'? It's not that hard to create cheap simulated oil from CO2 and water? What crackpot modded this up? Not being able to burn the statistically insignificant amount of biofuels is a nail in hydrogen's coffin? And the killer line that burning biofuels in a hydrogen engine will be massively inefficient... the whole combustion engine is massively inefficient hence moving to fuel cell technology that bumps efficiency up from 25% in an IC to currently around 60% for fuel cell. Oh plus you don't lose energy idling or through a transmission.
You can use hydrogen in two different ways. You can burn it in an internal combustion engine instead of petrol, where both are around 25% efficient. Some cars you can work directly with hydrogen unmodified, others you can adapt.
Or you can use the hydrogen in a fuel cell to power an EV. This gives incredibly high efficiency. The hydrogen and fuel cell are effectively your battery in the EV. We know it works as hydrogen fuel cell cars have been driving around for a decade. Getting them cost effective is the billion dollar battle, and that is the engineering problem.
It currently looks like a dual market, battery for urban vehicles and hydrogen for longer range and commercial vehicles, but it only takes a breakthrough in either field to sweep the market.
Bit ironic using the Guardian as they didn't seem to consider the consequences of publishing a book with the encryption key that released the entire unredacted archive of US diplomatic cables to the world.
"Assange seems like the kind of person [that steals money]". Nice random made-up observation. Any proof that he is a habitual criminal?
Why would they assassinate Assange? He's not actually leaking the information, only publishing from anonymous sources. His murder wouldn't actually solve any of their problems, just push them elsewhere.
You are using a bait and switch. The rules on prior art haven't changed. They could do your described scenario before the new act came into force with the web site, and they can do it now. But they are doing it with a patent that has been granted where the examiner has missed the web site with the prior art. Falsely claiming a patent exists is a completely difference scenario. Whether punished or not it doesn't make any difference to the first-to-file vs first-to-invent.
"LG Electronics has claimed the iPhone's design was copied from the LG Prada. Woo-Young Kwak, head of LG Mobile Handset R&D Center, said at a press conference, “We consider that Apple copied the Prada phone after the design was unveiled when it was presented in the iF Design Award and won the prize in September 2006."
If you look at photos of both, with Prada's tablet like look and large capacitative touch screen, it's pretty clear the iPhone is just a rip-off.
Samsung has market cap of $130bn and Apple of $380bn, but the latter also has $76.4bn cash reserves. Apple may make flash looking mediocre products but they know how to squeeze their clients for high margins.
"What I expected, was that I can make circles as mailinglists. That when I add 5 person to circle, they dont know anyone else on that circle. Then when they comment my posts, they dont see other persons posts there."
Sorry to be pedantic but when you reply to a mailing list everybody else on that list can see your reply.
Wow you have completely the opposite take to me! With G+ forcing me to use my real name, tracking my emails, tracking my browsing habits, that little red dot is a constant reminder that Google is no longer just sifting data to serve me ads but is constantly watching ME. Not some hypothetical concept of 'me' but one that can be linked to my parents, my friends, my work colleagues.
Not that I'm going to stop using Google for search, I love it too much. Instead I do the same as I do with Facebook, I keep multiple profiles using Firefox extension "Cookie Swap", and will do so until both Facebook and G+ are consigned to the dustbin of history by the next service that "gets it".
I've read the reports of people being kicked of G+ and their Gmail accounts for not using their real names and its disappointing. Apparently you are supposed to use your real name on Facebook but a large percentage of the people I know don't and none of them have been cancelled.
Diaspora is a copy of a faulty paradigm. I have a much better idea but I am not ready to publish yet;-).
They don't need to buy Facebook, they just needed to avoid messing up G+ which unfortunately they did with the Real Names fiasco. If they hadn't shown themselves to be as bad if not worse than Facebook then they would have millions of people welcoming G+ with open arms.
The risk of having your photo album on Facebook is that if you violate their TOS of not using your real name then they just cancel the account and lose all your friends and photos with no warning. This why G+ is so good... oh they now do the same thing. So why do I want to move over?
I don't see how preventing government from massively expanding its powers into realms it has never had it before is "minimising government". Also, preventing abuse of copyright is just as much of a job as helping its abuse, it's just too many governments are misdirecting their resources into the long term destruction of society.
This is depressing. Slashdot really has gone to the dogs. The 'Business Insider' article isn't even a critic of the change to first-to-file, as the summary tries brazenly to infer, it actually says that the patent system is so broken that this change isn't going to make any difference. The whole link is a complete distraction and irrelevance.
The whole of the world outside of the USA uses first-to-file. It works fine. Nobody else is stupid enough to allow software or business patents. That's your problem. Suits us fine though, America's loss is often Europe's gain.
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Indeed. I was wildly enthusiastic about G+ pre-launch and badgered the first person I found who had invites to send me one. When I realised the real names rule would rule out a number of key social contacts I gave up on the whole G+ thing. I'm pretty stubborn and would have forced all my FB contacts to convert to G+, and had previously decided to only post to G+ and never to Facebook again.
Now... what's the point? Might as well stick with the hated Facebook, it's not like there is any better alternative. G+ effectively killed itself.
Phillip.
Society is a bit messed up. I remember Michael Jackson was considered a freak and a pedophile until he died, then suddenly everybody was mourning saying how perfect he was. Before that there was the Princess Diana over-reaction.
I agree with RMS, I'm glad Steve Jobs is gone. He has become more and more detrimental to the computing scene. As a hard-core capitalist, in knowing how to screw consumers making infeasibly high margins selling style over substance he was an industry leader. From a technology viewpoint he hadn't done anything particularly new in decades. Promoting the idea that when you buy a device you are in fact just renting it from Apple is just wrong. Controlling content just because you sell somebody some hardware is wrong. His walled gardens, wrong. Firing off lawsuits all over the place to restrain trade just because he can't hack the competition any more, wrong. Submitting fake evidence in courts, wrong.
I used to push people towards buying Apple as a way of not having to spend hours helping them fix Microsoft Windows. Now there is no way in hell I will recommend Apple to anybody.
It's a shame anybody has to die of cancer. But as far as computing goes, good riddance to Steve Jobs.
Phillip.
Nice has already an electric tramway, all the buses have been running on natural gas for over a decade, it has a communal bike rental system, and for the past few months you can just pick up an electric car and use it for something like €5 per hour. Last month they celebrated over 1,000 regular subscribers to the car scheme.
Phillip.
We've had this in Nice for a long time already.
Phillip.
Anything but C#? Personally I would like to see a move towards Python. It's solid, not a resource-hog like Java, has plenty of libraries, has threading, and is just nice to use.
Phillip.
Even more farcical than trying to trademark something like "App Store". Though not quite as bad as claiming ownership on the idea of a rectangular shape with a touchscreen.
Phillip.
Though I've been a professional Java programmer I never enjoyed it as much as the other languages. It died on the desktop, it died on the web, but got a good foothold in the enterprise web services side. Mostly thanks to Sun driving it very hard, and it riding on their reputation of Sun's rock solid hardware and Solaris OS.
Oracle has done a good job of killing it. It is clear the owners don't care about it, it's sinking in a legal mire, and now it breaks in ways that would never have happened under Sun's stewardship. Time to move on.
Phillip.
The same editor that lied about a French nuclear leak?
Phillip.
What do you think petrol is?
Phillip.
How is this modded '+4 Insightful'? It's not that hard to create cheap simulated oil from CO2 and water? What crackpot modded this up? Not being able to burn the statistically insignificant amount of biofuels is a nail in hydrogen's coffin? And the killer line that burning biofuels in a hydrogen engine will be massively inefficient... the whole combustion engine is massively inefficient hence moving to fuel cell technology that bumps efficiency up from 25% in an IC to currently around 60% for fuel cell. Oh plus you don't lose energy idling or through a transmission.
Slashdot really has gone to the dogs.
Phillip.
You can use hydrogen in two different ways. You can burn it in an internal combustion engine instead of petrol, where both are around 25% efficient. Some cars you can work directly with hydrogen unmodified, others you can adapt.
Or you can use the hydrogen in a fuel cell to power an EV. This gives incredibly high efficiency. The hydrogen and fuel cell are effectively your battery in the EV. We know it works as hydrogen fuel cell cars have been driving around for a decade. Getting them cost effective is the billion dollar battle, and that is the engineering problem.
It currently looks like a dual market, battery for urban vehicles and hydrogen for longer range and commercial vehicles, but it only takes a breakthrough in either field to sweep the market.
Phillip.
Bit ironic using the Guardian as they didn't seem to consider the consequences of publishing a book with the encryption key that released the entire unredacted archive of US diplomatic cables to the world.
"Assange seems like the kind of person [that steals money]". Nice random made-up observation. Any proof that he is a habitual criminal?
Phillip.
Why would they assassinate Assange? He's not actually leaking the information, only publishing from anonymous sources. His murder wouldn't actually solve any of their problems, just push them elsewhere.
Phillip.
You are using a bait and switch. The rules on prior art haven't changed. They could do your described scenario before the new act came into force with the web site, and they can do it now. But they are doing it with a patent that has been granted where the examiner has missed the web site with the prior art. Falsely claiming a patent exists is a completely difference scenario. Whether punished or not it doesn't make any difference to the first-to-file vs first-to-invent.
Phillip.
That's odd. Europe has first-to-file rather than first-to-invent, yet is less subservient to corporations than the USA. How exactly have they won?
Phillip.
Uh huh. iPhone - 2007. LG Prada - 2006.
"LG Electronics has claimed the iPhone's design was copied from the LG Prada. Woo-Young Kwak, head of LG Mobile Handset R&D Center, said at a press conference, “We consider that Apple copied the Prada phone after the design was unveiled when it was presented in the iF Design Award and won the prize in September 2006."
If you look at photos of both, with Prada's tablet like look and large capacitative touch screen, it's pretty clear the iPhone is just a rip-off.
Phillip.
Samsung has market cap of $130bn and Apple of $380bn, but the latter also has $76.4bn cash reserves. Apple may make flash looking mediocre products but they know how to squeeze their clients for high margins.
Phillip.
"What I expected, was that I can make circles as mailinglists. That when I add 5 person to circle, they dont know anyone else on that circle. Then when they comment my posts, they dont see other persons posts there."
Sorry to be pedantic but when you reply to a mailing list everybody else on that list can see your reply.
Phillip.
Wow you have completely the opposite take to me! With G+ forcing me to use my real name, tracking my emails, tracking my browsing habits, that little red dot is a constant reminder that Google is no longer just sifting data to serve me ads but is constantly watching ME. Not some hypothetical concept of 'me' but one that can be linked to my parents, my friends, my work colleagues.
Not that I'm going to stop using Google for search, I love it too much. Instead I do the same as I do with Facebook, I keep multiple profiles using Firefox extension "Cookie Swap", and will do so until both Facebook and G+ are consigned to the dustbin of history by the next service that "gets it".
Phillip.
I've read the reports of people being kicked of G+ and their Gmail accounts for not using their real names and its disappointing. Apparently you are supposed to use your real name on Facebook but a large percentage of the people I know don't and none of them have been cancelled.
Diaspora is a copy of a faulty paradigm. I have a much better idea but I am not ready to publish yet ;-).
Phillip.
They don't need to buy Facebook, they just needed to avoid messing up G+ which unfortunately they did with the Real Names fiasco. If they hadn't shown themselves to be as bad if not worse than Facebook then they would have millions of people welcoming G+ with open arms.
Phillip.
Taking photos on your phone assumes the phone won't get stolen. Not like that ever happens...
Phillip.
The risk of having your photo album on Facebook is that if you violate their TOS of not using your real name then they just cancel the account and lose all your friends and photos with no warning. This why G+ is so good... oh they now do the same thing. So why do I want to move over?
Phillip.
I don't see how preventing government from massively expanding its powers into realms it has never had it before is "minimising government". Also, preventing abuse of copyright is just as much of a job as helping its abuse, it's just too many governments are misdirecting their resources into the long term destruction of society.
Phillip.
This is depressing. Slashdot really has gone to the dogs. The 'Business Insider' article isn't even a critic of the change to first-to-file, as the summary tries brazenly to infer, it actually says that the patent system is so broken that this change isn't going to make any difference. The whole link is a complete distraction and irrelevance.
The whole of the world outside of the USA uses first-to-file. It works fine. Nobody else is stupid enough to allow software or business patents. That's your problem. Suits us fine though, America's loss is often Europe's gain.
Phillip.