In the video, Shuttleworth goes on about how Ubuntu is this revolutionary way to have the same software on your phone and desktop. Umm, did he miss the memo about windows 8? I mean I know Windows 8 sucks and all, but ignoring the big gorilla in the room just makes him seem out of touch.
You have to do a full left-to-right swipe on Mark to get him to see all the active operating systems.
Exactly. I'm waiting for the day I forget to lock the screen, the phone slides around in my backpack and find I've accidentally bought a 1000 dildos through the Amazon Shopping Lens, with express shipping, or installed Windows Phone on the damn thing.:-)
I mean, what -- do you really think they're keeping all your data just to mail you the weekly flyer that they're going to send to every house *anyway*, as "current resident"?
Here's an NYT article from Feb that answers that very question. Companies like Target can actually tailor those weekly flyers on a per-address basis. Target apparently has a pregnancy-prediction model that pretty accurate (see article excerpt below). It's a long article, but worth the read:
About a year after Pole created his pregnancy-prediction model, a man walked into a Target outside Minneapolis and demanded to see the manager. He was clutching coupons that had been sent to his daughter, and he was angry, according to an employee who participated in the conversation.
“My daughter got this in the mail!” he said. “She’s still in high school, and you’re sending her coupons for baby clothes and cribs? Are you trying to encourage her to get pregnant?”
The manager didn’t have any idea what the man was talking about. He looked at the mailer. Sure enough, it was addressed to the man’s daughter and contained advertisements for maternity clothing, nursery furniture and pictures of smiling infants. The manager apologized and then called a few days later to apologize again.
On the phone, though, the father was somewhat abashed. “I had a talk with my daughter,” he said. “It turns out there’s been some activities in my house I haven’t been completely aware of. She’s due in August. I owe you an apology.”
As long as the milk is properly pasteurized, it poses no threat to consumers, but anyone working directly with the animals bears a small risk of infection.
Perhaps if the theaters didn't try to rape our wallets for the 3D glasses (every time), then - to add insult to injury - ask us to "please recycle them". I can't imagine the things the theaters sell cost more than a nickle to make in volume. Perhaps if they let us buy a permanent pair and/or bring our own. Ya, I get that's how they try to recoup their expenses for the 3D projectors, etc, but that's their problem, not mine.
Perhaps it's how the 3D isn't used to add anything of real value to the plot, movie or viewing experience - like watching the News on TV in high definition (seriously, a channel in my area advertises that as a plus). It's the frelling NEWS people. Avatar wasn't too bad in 3D, as it seemed to add interesting visual depth, but I also saw it in the theater in 2D for comparison and much preferred the movie and experience in 2D.
They might not release that information to an individual w/o justifiable need, probably for safety reasons, but I would not be surprised if the rules were different for organizations / companies, especially if there were willing to pay a processing fee. Most (all?) information held by the government is, by definition, a public record - the public pays for the collection, retention and dissemination of that data - but there may be rules/laws controlling the availability of some/all that information, especially the free release (as w/o payment and accountability) of that data.
Indeed. I don't understand why this is public information to begin with. It's no ones business what products I buy or own.
It seems that these newspapers are publishing information on people who have a gun *permit* or license. Most (all?) government-issued licenses are public information. This has nothing to do with the products you buy or own, as one can have a gun permit w/o having any guns.
To be precise: a tremendous amount of source code written for real applications is not merely less perfect than the simple examples seen in school — it's outright terrible by any number of measures.
Life is messy and the real world is complex; deal with it.
Although some primatologists may argue that chimpanzees are the most aggressive apes, I think the evidence suggests that humans are substantially more violent.
Set the chimps down in front of a few Windows systems and we'll see...
[ Sorry, just finished working on my Windows 7 system and reading the recent Windows 8 thread and am feeling a little violent. ]
how to close a metro app. you click and you drag it down to the bottom of the screen and let go
I'm happy that you figured that out in 8s, but it's really not intuitive. MS ditched all the customary window controls, made Metro apps full-screen, added gestures and the (fucking stupidly named) "charm" bar to make them better suited to the limited screen real estate on a smart-phone and, to a lesser extent, tablet. Those optimizations make zero sense on a desktop with a mouse.
Yes I use the command line and the function keys and I can fly around the thing when I have to.
So, the Microsoft/Windows 8, Ubuntu/Unity contribution to continuing modern GUI design and usability is keyboard shortcuts and a command-line interface? Nice.
While Windows 7 was a bit annoying when you were trying to find somehting in the new control panel...
Or trying to search for files. (Slightly off topic for Win8, but within the realm of Usability) Seriously. I don't need or want the Indexing service scanning everything and I don't want the content searched/reported when I'm looking for a file name. Having to know the secret search keywords to *limit* my search is really annoying (I had to search the Internet for those). I'd much rather have a GUI mechanism to specify or expand my search. And don't get me started on using "Back" instead of "Up"... In short, the Windows Explorer is better in XP than 7 (haven't tried it in Win8) - and anything pre-Unity for Ubuntu (to be fair to MS).
A note on the Metro apps: you aren't "supposed" to close them,...
And that's a "control" issue. If I want to close a fucking app, I should be able to do so easily. "Live Tiles" my ass. Sure it all looks good on a touch-screen phone/tablet, but Windows 8 (and Unity) are stupid, non-intuitive UIs for desktop/server systems.
Yes, people are amazingly adaptable.
That doesn't mean what they adapt to is any good.
Yes. I've just about gotten over the Sci-Fi channel name switch to "SyFy" - though it still makes me gag a bit.
[ P.S. Anyone saying that was about "branding" is an idiot, it was about copyright and trademark. ]
Wait, so if a 17yo has sex with someone around 20, the older will never be able to have an iPhone or play wow in his/her life? What's wrong with you people?
Yup. Welcome to America. Home of the "free" and the "brave".
I understand that sex offenders have an unusually high recidivism rate
This is a common misunderstanding as two minutes on Google will show. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_offender#Recidivism sex offenders have a recidivism rate of 5.3% (or 43% when considering any crime rather then sex crimes) compared with 68% for non-sex crime recidivism.
Thanks, I did not know that and fell victim to the common perception. I didn't think to actually check...
just wanted to point out the obvious here, but a rapist IS a sex offender.. sex offenders are not just pedophiles.
Thanks. I knew/know that, but wanted a more specific example case and didn't mean to misrepresent. The up-shot is that sex offenders are harassed and punished long after they've paid their debt to society and it's wrong. Yes, they may commit future crimes, but so may all other criminals. All individuals need to take responsibility for their own actions, not (ex-)criminals.
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In the video, Shuttleworth goes on about how Ubuntu is this revolutionary way to have the same software on your phone and desktop. Umm, did he miss the memo about windows 8? I mean I know Windows 8 sucks and all, but ignoring the big gorilla in the room just makes him seem out of touch.
You have to do a full left-to-right swipe on Mark to get him to see all the active operating systems.
Exactly. I'm waiting for the day I forget to lock the screen, the phone slides around in my backpack and find I've accidentally bought a 1000 dildos through the Amazon Shopping Lens, with express shipping, or installed Windows Phone on the damn thing. :-)
"On the internet, nobody can hear you being subtle".
Made me think: Alien in a code review.
2 + 2 = 5, for very large values of 2
Here's another one for you that shows how detailed a profile they can build.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-target-figured-out-a-teen-girl-was-pregnant-before-her-father-did/
Here's my post with an excerpt from and direct link to the NYT article, which is a really good, but long, read.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3342087&cid=42406221
I mean, what -- do you really think they're keeping all your data just to mail you the weekly flyer that they're going to send to every house *anyway*, as "current resident"?
Here's an NYT article from Feb that answers that very question. Companies like Target can actually tailor those weekly flyers on a per-address basis. Target apparently has a pregnancy-prediction model that pretty accurate (see article excerpt below). It's a long article, but worth the read:
How Companies Learn Your Secrets
About a year after Pole created his pregnancy-prediction model, a man walked into a Target outside Minneapolis and demanded to see the manager. He was clutching coupons that had been sent to his daughter, and he was angry, according to an employee who participated in the conversation.
“My daughter got this in the mail!” he said. “She’s still in high school, and you’re sending her coupons for baby clothes and cribs? Are you trying to encourage her to get pregnant?”
The manager didn’t have any idea what the man was talking about. He looked at the mailer. Sure enough, it was addressed to the man’s daughter and contained advertisements for maternity clothing, nursery furniture and pictures of smiling infants. The manager apologized and then called a few days later to apologize again.
On the phone, though, the father was somewhat abashed. “I had a talk with my daughter,” he said. “It turns out there’s been some activities in my house I haven’t been completely aware of. She’s due in August. I owe you an apology.”
More specifically, my two favorite panels, in order:
Snow Queen (NSFW)
Bad Falcon
As long as the milk is properly pasteurized, it poses no threat to consumers, but anyone working directly with the animals bears a small risk of infection.
Pasteurize the cows.
Perhaps if the theaters didn't try to rape our wallets for the 3D glasses (every time), then - to add insult to injury - ask us to "please recycle them". I can't imagine the things the theaters sell cost more than a nickle to make in volume. Perhaps if they let us buy a permanent pair and/or bring our own. Ya, I get that's how they try to recoup their expenses for the 3D projectors, etc, but that's their problem, not mine.
Perhaps it's how the 3D isn't used to add anything of real value to the plot, movie or viewing experience - like watching the News on TV in high definition (seriously, a channel in my area advertises that as a plus). It's the frelling NEWS people. Avatar wasn't too bad in 3D, as it seemed to add interesting visual depth, but I also saw it in the theater in 2D for comparison and much preferred the movie and experience in 2D.
They might not release that information to an individual w/o justifiable need, probably for safety reasons, but I would not be surprised if the rules were different for organizations / companies, especially if there were willing to pay a processing fee. Most (all?) information held by the government is, by definition, a public record - the public pays for the collection, retention and dissemination of that data - but there may be rules/laws controlling the availability of some/all that information, especially the free release (as w/o payment and accountability) of that data.
Indeed. I don't understand why this is public information to begin with. It's no ones business what products I buy or own.
It seems that these newspapers are publishing information on people who have a gun *permit* or license. Most (all?) government-issued licenses are public information. This has nothing to do with the products you buy or own, as one can have a gun permit w/o having any guns.
The material in question depicts gruesome murders, torture, sexual abuse, assaults and necrophilia — all with young female victims.
Basically, a Wednesday afternoon on 4chan /b/.
To be precise: a tremendous amount of source code written for real applications is not merely less perfect than the simple examples seen in school — it's outright terrible by any number of measures.
Life is messy and the real world is complex; deal with it.
Although some primatologists may argue that chimpanzees are the most aggressive apes, I think the evidence suggests that humans are substantially more violent.
Set the chimps down in front of a few Windows systems and we'll see...
[ Sorry, just finished working on my Windows 7 system and reading the recent Windows 8 thread and am feeling a little violent. ]
how to close a metro app. you click and you drag it down to the bottom of the screen and let go
I'm happy that you figured that out in 8s, but it's really not intuitive. MS ditched all the customary window controls, made Metro apps full-screen, added gestures and the (fucking stupidly named) "charm" bar to make them better suited to the limited screen real estate on a smart-phone and, to a lesser extent, tablet. Those optimizations make zero sense on a desktop with a mouse.
Yes I use the command line and the function keys and I can fly around the thing when I have to.
So, the Microsoft/Windows 8, Ubuntu/Unity contribution to continuing modern GUI design and usability is keyboard shortcuts and a command-line interface? Nice.
While Windows 7 was a bit annoying when you were trying to find somehting in the new control panel...
Or trying to search for files. (Slightly off topic for Win8, but within the realm of Usability) Seriously. I don't need or want the Indexing service scanning everything and I don't want the content searched/reported when I'm looking for a file name. Having to know the secret search keywords to *limit* my search is really annoying (I had to search the Internet for those). I'd much rather have a GUI mechanism to specify or expand my search. And don't get me started on using "Back" instead of "Up" ... In short, the Windows Explorer is better in XP than 7 (haven't tried it in Win8) - and anything pre-Unity for Ubuntu (to be fair to MS).
A note on the Metro apps: you aren't "supposed" to close them,...
And that's a "control" issue. If I want to close a fucking app, I should be able to do so easily. "Live Tiles" my ass. Sure it all looks good on a touch-screen phone/tablet, but Windows 8 (and Unity) are stupid, non-intuitive UIs for desktop/server systems.
Yes, people are amazingly adaptable.
That doesn't mean what they adapt to is any good.
Yes. I've just about gotten over the Sci-Fi channel name switch to "SyFy" - though it still makes me gag a bit.
[ P.S. Anyone saying that was about "branding" is an idiot, it was about copyright and trademark. ]
...he can always switch to Ubuntu and Unity - oh wait...
Wait, so if a 17yo has sex with someone around 20, the older will never be able to have an iPhone or play wow in his/her life? What's wrong with you people?
Yup. Welcome to America. Home of the "free" and the "brave".
[citation required] DC has gun laws but a high homicide rate. North Dakota has few laws but a low one.
Or, same population size living in vastly different population densities.
D.C.: Population: 617,996, Area: 68.3 sq mi
North Dakota: Population: 683,932, Area: 70,703 sq mi
What does NASA use the other 58% of their budget on?
Hookers and Black Jack, or so I've heard.
I understand that sex offenders have an unusually high recidivism rate
This is a common misunderstanding as two minutes on Google will show. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_offender#Recidivism sex offenders have a recidivism rate of 5.3% (or 43% when considering any crime rather then sex crimes) compared with 68% for non-sex crime recidivism.
Thanks, I did not know that and fell victim to the common perception. I didn't think to actually check...
just wanted to point out the obvious here, but a rapist IS a sex offender.. sex offenders are not just pedophiles.
Thanks. I knew/know that, but wanted a more specific example case and didn't mean to misrepresent. The up-shot is that sex offenders are harassed and punished long after they've paid their debt to society and it's wrong. Yes, they may commit future crimes, but so may all other criminals. All individuals need to take responsibility for their own actions, not (ex-)criminals.