I don't think the MeeGo strategy is a wise one for them. The problem is they're already in a hole. And if they went with MeeGo, they'd largely have to dig themselves out of it. In the meantime, other than Apple, nearly all their competitors are getting a lot of work paid for by Google at no cost to them. So they'd be setting themselves up in a very dangerous position. However, by going this path, they get another well-heeled company to cover a lot of costs that they'd otherwise have to absorb, and they can focus on revamping themselves. I think if they get their hardware house in order, they will be very able to jump more into Android if they see a good opportunity. It's a huge point of transition...on a very short timescale, brand loyalty has shifted largely away from the hardware manufacturer to the OS. So I don't think that by doing this now that they'll make it much more difficult for themselves to release Android handsets in a few years. If the hardware is good, they'll get buyers, people are largely not going to get hung up on, "but I'm a Motorola user!!".
And as far as developer interest goes...you'll get developers but it will definitely be more focused on the corporate market. The Microsoft brand is still Very Strong for Corporate IT, and if the integration is good with the suite of apps they're already using (Office, Exchange, Sharepoint), it will get uptake. Of course, MS still has work to do to really make that work as good as it should, but it *can* happen. And if/when it does, you will get enough developers to make the device useful.
Well, unfortunately, there's something of a dearth of details. The official announcement said that WP7 would be Nokia's "principal smartphone strategy" (emphasis mine). I believe that it makes sense...but the devil is in the details. If Nokia has the necessary flexibility to continue to experiment with and keep a toe in Android or whatever else is truly worth pursing long term, then it's a good deal. If it's more exclusive and they're prohibited from keeping their options open, then it's a bad deal. And I didn't find it in a quick search...in fact, the official announcement indicates that details still have to be worked out (although I'm sure the broad outlines are already agreed to or else we wouldn't know about it).
that they have a bad hand, and that they're playing a desperate game for the life of the company. Yes, they could do a bunch of other things...and none of them would be great for them. At this point, they do not have a winning hand. There is no winning move for them. The choice he made is a pragmatic one, to stay in the game. It doesn't mean it has to be their 50 year strategy, but it keeps them in the game for the next 3-5 years at least and that's crucial. They screwed up, and it's not the recent decision that was the big mistake. They missed the boat...arguing about why doesn't really change the basic fact that they missed the boat...and they are left in a precarious position. No, the MS way isn't going to get them to #1, or #2. But they can be #3. They can't run iOS...so they're cut off from apps on that platform. They can't be RIM...so they're cut off from that. They could do Android, and probably do it well...but he's right, that they would be subject to severe price pressure and that it would be brutally competitive, low margin. It would gut the company. Any of the other options, save MS, would consign them to the Nokia ghetto, with few apps, no significant community. Going with MS at this point is the only option which helps them to keep profit margins more than razor thin and also gets them access to a larger community, as well as a built in market, that they otherwise wouldn't have. IN THE MEANTIME...if they don't bust their butts on R&D and get out ahead of the next game changer, they will eventually fade away, but at least this buys them time to do that.
Sometimes, the best move is just staying in the game, and they've done that. Yeah, I know, there's lots of risk, and lots of people would want anything but to be wedded to Microsoft, but...sorry guys, too little too late.
When Haggis joined, he had no gay daughters. He probably didn't care much either way back then. However, his views had since evolved, and he probably believed the church had clarified away those now troubling doctrines. He'd allowed himself to become personally invested in those repudiations, those edits. However, he felt betrayed when he realized that those repudiations were likely just window dressing. I don't think that's b.s. He was very arguably being a bit naive, but, taking his cult at its word, he legitimately felt betrayed.
Dell has stores, so it's really not an equal comparison at all. Someone doing the lion's share of their business online isn't the point. And you're right...a warehouse isn't a store. Sucks though...as someone in Texas, this means my shipping delays when I order from Amazon are set to get a lot longer.:(
is from October of 2008, if you actually follow through to the study (not very new, but, okay, fine). Also, it's not measuring "cheating", it's measuring "plagiarism", which by any standard is not the only means of cheating. And, it's a study of 1222 students in the UK which means it probably wouldn't be generalizable across the pond. I don't want to pay to get the full article, but I'd be curious if there was control for any regional differences, and if the sample adequately represented students from institutions at all selectivity levels. If the sample was only from the author's institution, I'd be concerned whether it could be generalized at all, other than to say that they've got a fair bit of plagiarism at that school.
I don't believe that intelligence is emergent like that. I think it develops because it helps convey a survival advantage, not because it's the natural state of things. And the forest fires...I think there are far too many things which influence the path and genesis and demise of forest fires for them to make a useful mechanism for thought. It's flipping the utility of the "brainwaves" on its head. The brainwaves are the result of the actions of individual neurons, they're not governed by the weather, it's not like a brainwave ripples over the brain and then a new thought is generated where the shape of that thought is governed by whatever external forces controlled the dynamics of the brainwave.
I think science fiction is great for coming up with flights of fancy, but there's a lot of things we can imagine that require a suspension of disbelief and reality, where the real world has rules that can't just be imagined away.
i don't think live evolves without challenges...without some sort of selective pressure. i don't believe it is simply emergent. so, maybe they'd have different selective pressures, but they'd still have selective pressures. and i don't think there's such a thing as a planet in stasis. the constant in the universe is change....at least until it expands enough and is old enough to finally reach absolute zero.:)
It's amazing how many people don't understand this. "Anonymous" is as smart or as dumb as whichever person wants to ascribe their current actions to anonymous. And the more you have a "fight against anonymous", the more you make it real. It's like a self-fulfilling fiction...someone makes it up, people hear about it, decide they want to be a part of it, and make it real, even though it was never real to begin with. Also.
or, maybe were simply at the sweet spot for aggression. less aggression would have resulted in fewer wars, less churning of the gene pool, perhaps less pressure to innovate. more aggression would have prevented formation of societies and kept us few and far between.
I think it's exceedingly unlikely. Events happen in "real time", and a brain that operated vastly slower than ours would likely be at a severe evolutionary disadvantage because it would be unable to respond quickly to circumstances where quick action is warranted (flood, fire, storms...). There would be selective pressure to react faster, so you'd trend towards a faster species, even if you somehow started out "slower". On the other hand, it gets more challenging to be faster beyond a certain point, with diminishing returns, so you wouldn't expect the process to continue unabated. Their time scale might be different than ours, but I think it's unlikely it would be vastly so. However, their lifespans could be rather different, so their perception of the value of time could be quite different. That would be a cultural difference though, I think, not the barrier to communication that physically processing at a vastly different speed would be.
depends on whether you did anything crossing state lines...the federal government often uses seemingly trivial things like "you bought a car in another state" or something to make it a federal case.
When I load any story, the initial screen I see has roughly 1/4 of the page with blank white. There's FAR too much dead space between the little meta sections "share this", "has x comments" "may also like to read" etc on the left, and the threshold control on the right. PLEASE consider doing the meta sections in a multi column layout so that it doesn't waste so much space. Or, even more ideally, give me the option of turning most of them off. I want an information dense page. Clean layout is a great thing, I want to find that information...but clean does not need to mean lots of wasted space.
:) It's actually mostly kids shows and nature documentaries--we use it as combo bookmarks for things we would be okay showing our daughter/things we want to see. There is the search interface now (didn't used to be, at least on Wii), but it's often still handy to just see something that might be good to watch sometime and pop it in the queue. Queue, in our case, is a bad name...the only ordering is roughly date added to queue.
Dunno, but I doubt it's the power of the PS3. We have a queue currently of 149 items, and we only watch on the Wii...not exactly ahigh powered computing device...and it's been very responsive. There were about 2 weeks after Christmas where it was EXTREMELY slow to pull down the queue and other categories, and the connection was dropping regularly, but it's picked back up and seems to be perfectly fine lately.
Well, that would have been helpful when I first moved my email onto Gmail a few months before that. It didn't exist, though, and I went through a painful process of getting rid of my / delimited labels and converting to composite labels. le sigh. Don't suppose they have a bookmarks lab with something similar? Don't see it myself, but doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Yeah, I've thought about this. I do think it's somewhat of a hack though, to have to go into another email account rather than having it built into the account you are actually using (granted I'm doing that with the Yahoo account, but other than saving me $19/year, there's not a lot of benefit to me vs the pain of switching all the extant registrations I have). There is another problem with it I ran into before, though. When I started migrating to Gmail, I initially was going to try to do something like that and I found a couple of places I tried to use gmail +suffix syntax which insisted that the + character was invalid. I think not enough people use it to have support be as widespread as it should be. I know, not Google's problem, exactly, although it would be helpful if they let you use either + or - as the delimiter.
I actually still maintain a premium email account with them for one reason: the disposable email addresses. I have the email all forwarded to my Gmail account because the integration with my phone is...considerably better. However, the email address I give out when shopping or to corporations I do business with is one of my disposable email addys on yahoo. Gmail doesn't have anything like it, afaik. Yes, on gmail you can add suffixes (myemail+ebay@gmail.com), but people are free to leave out the suffix and your actual email addy is right there. With the yahoo disposable addys, the root/prefix isn't the same as the account, and once you get rid of a suffix, you won't ever get any email on it. It's a good system, I think. The only improvement I'd like to see is some way to make creating the disposable addresses even easier, instead of having to navigate to a config page under the mail options.
Of course, the other thing Yahoo does well, which for some reason Google refuses to really do, is support hierarchies. Yeah, I get it, labels in gmail are cool and all...but I'd still like to organize them hierarchically. I've got a lot of labels, and the gmail interface kinda blows having to always see all of them over there on the left. And google bookmarks REALLY could use some hierarchical structure. I want to organize my bookmarks into folders, thank you very much.... Labels just aren't the same when you're pulling down a drop down in a browser.
I use Google for most things, and they have some great products, but sometimes they're just as bad as...some other fruity companies with the "this is how you SHOULD do things" lack of flexibility.
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It is meet that thou dost fear this bastardization of Couth Speech. I would that there be no turning to the Right nor to the Left in our honest pursuit of Gude Englishe. It is Most Unseemly that tittle hath passed to dot, and I wot that thou has judged true, that current Forms and Proper Usages for the Setting of Type shall soon pass away. It is a most lamentable state of affairs, second only unto the Deplorable disinclination towards Proper Capitalisation where it is most Called For. All of these Offences do but appear as shadows before the Principle Sin, however: the demise of Proper Spelling. Woe betide us all!
not true anymore. though I still harbour some residual offence that they would have tried such a shite tactic...and I'm not even an iPhone dev...just offended me on principle.
classic autism was a single diagnosis. Which was distinct from other the two other disorders which are now included in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Also note that there wasn't a good diagnostic questionnaire until the early 1990s which could reliably find "milder" cases of ASD. It's a very basic fact that the definition of the disease has evolved and its diagnosis has evolved. I'm not aware of any study which controls for this...I'm not really sure it could even be done. Given the above facts, I think it's entirely plausible that the changes related to diagnosis and definition coupled with the heightened media presence could very easily play a significant role in the rising rate.
well, while i don't entirely disagree...you're discounting the value of convenience. And your ink jet example proves it. Yeah, you get a crappier product and it costs more to boot, and yet we having a thriving industry churning out the home printers nonetheless. if I can print out the replacement [insert thingamabob i need] right now, and not have to go to the store or wait for it to come in the mail, that's worth something. Whether it will ever be worth it *enough* to me personally? I don't know, but I wouldn't discount it being a real market, one that extends beyond hobbyists. The tech will have to be a lot better...the things you can print a lot more useful, but I'd certainly not bet against it.
I don't think that's the point. Unless you have info that all the titles Amazon has censored are how-to manuals for incest, I'm pretty sure gp's point is that the book contains a depiction of it, as do the censored books.
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I don't think the MeeGo strategy is a wise one for them. The problem is they're already in a hole. And if they went with MeeGo, they'd largely have to dig themselves out of it. In the meantime, other than Apple, nearly all their competitors are getting a lot of work paid for by Google at no cost to them. So they'd be setting themselves up in a very dangerous position. However, by going this path, they get another well-heeled company to cover a lot of costs that they'd otherwise have to absorb, and they can focus on revamping themselves. I think if they get their hardware house in order, they will be very able to jump more into Android if they see a good opportunity. It's a huge point of transition...on a very short timescale, brand loyalty has shifted largely away from the hardware manufacturer to the OS. So I don't think that by doing this now that they'll make it much more difficult for themselves to release Android handsets in a few years. If the hardware is good, they'll get buyers, people are largely not going to get hung up on, "but I'm a Motorola user!!".
And as far as developer interest goes...you'll get developers but it will definitely be more focused on the corporate market. The Microsoft brand is still Very Strong for Corporate IT, and if the integration is good with the suite of apps they're already using (Office, Exchange, Sharepoint), it will get uptake. Of course, MS still has work to do to really make that work as good as it should, but it *can* happen. And if/when it does, you will get enough developers to make the device useful.
Well, unfortunately, there's something of a dearth of details. The official announcement said that WP7 would be Nokia's "principal smartphone strategy" (emphasis mine). I believe that it makes sense...but the devil is in the details. If Nokia has the necessary flexibility to continue to experiment with and keep a toe in Android or whatever else is truly worth pursing long term, then it's a good deal. If it's more exclusive and they're prohibited from keeping their options open, then it's a bad deal. And I didn't find it in a quick search...in fact, the official announcement indicates that details still have to be worked out (although I'm sure the broad outlines are already agreed to or else we wouldn't know about it).
that they have a bad hand, and that they're playing a desperate game for the life of the company. Yes, they could do a bunch of other things...and none of them would be great for them. At this point, they do not have a winning hand. There is no winning move for them. The choice he made is a pragmatic one, to stay in the game. It doesn't mean it has to be their 50 year strategy, but it keeps them in the game for the next 3-5 years at least and that's crucial. They screwed up, and it's not the recent decision that was the big mistake. They missed the boat...arguing about why doesn't really change the basic fact that they missed the boat...and they are left in a precarious position. No, the MS way isn't going to get them to #1, or #2. But they can be #3. They can't run iOS...so they're cut off from apps on that platform. They can't be RIM...so they're cut off from that. They could do Android, and probably do it well...but he's right, that they would be subject to severe price pressure and that it would be brutally competitive, low margin. It would gut the company. Any of the other options, save MS, would consign them to the Nokia ghetto, with few apps, no significant community. Going with MS at this point is the only option which helps them to keep profit margins more than razor thin and also gets them access to a larger community, as well as a built in market, that they otherwise wouldn't have. IN THE MEANTIME...if they don't bust their butts on R&D and get out ahead of the next game changer, they will eventually fade away, but at least this buys them time to do that.
Sometimes, the best move is just staying in the game, and they've done that. Yeah, I know, there's lots of risk, and lots of people would want anything but to be wedded to Microsoft, but...sorry guys, too little too late.
When Haggis joined, he had no gay daughters. He probably didn't care much either way back then. However, his views had since evolved, and he probably believed the church had clarified away those now troubling doctrines. He'd allowed himself to become personally invested in those repudiations, those edits. However, he felt betrayed when he realized that those repudiations were likely just window dressing. I don't think that's b.s. He was very arguably being a bit naive, but, taking his cult at its word, he legitimately felt betrayed.
Dell has stores, so it's really not an equal comparison at all. Someone doing the lion's share of their business online isn't the point. And you're right...a warehouse isn't a store. Sucks though...as someone in Texas, this means my shipping delays when I order from Amazon are set to get a lot longer. :(
is from October of 2008, if you actually follow through to the study (not very new, but, okay, fine). Also, it's not measuring "cheating", it's measuring "plagiarism", which by any standard is not the only means of cheating. And, it's a study of 1222 students in the UK which means it probably wouldn't be generalizable across the pond. I don't want to pay to get the full article, but I'd be curious if there was control for any regional differences, and if the sample adequately represented students from institutions at all selectivity levels. If the sample was only from the author's institution, I'd be concerned whether it could be generalized at all, other than to say that they've got a fair bit of plagiarism at that school.
I don't believe that intelligence is emergent like that. I think it develops because it helps convey a survival advantage, not because it's the natural state of things. And the forest fires...I think there are far too many things which influence the path and genesis and demise of forest fires for them to make a useful mechanism for thought. It's flipping the utility of the "brainwaves" on its head. The brainwaves are the result of the actions of individual neurons, they're not governed by the weather, it's not like a brainwave ripples over the brain and then a new thought is generated where the shape of that thought is governed by whatever external forces controlled the dynamics of the brainwave.
I think science fiction is great for coming up with flights of fancy, but there's a lot of things we can imagine that require a suspension of disbelief and reality, where the real world has rules that can't just be imagined away.
i don't think live evolves without challenges...without some sort of selective pressure. i don't believe it is simply emergent. so, maybe they'd have different selective pressures, but they'd still have selective pressures. and i don't think there's such a thing as a planet in stasis. the constant in the universe is change....at least until it expands enough and is old enough to finally reach absolute zero. :)
It's amazing how many people don't understand this. "Anonymous" is as smart or as dumb as whichever person wants to ascribe their current actions to anonymous. And the more you have a "fight against anonymous", the more you make it real. It's like a self-fulfilling fiction...someone makes it up, people hear about it, decide they want to be a part of it, and make it real, even though it was never real to begin with. Also.
risky, i'd think. i'd imagine someone clever could play you right into a blackmail conviction if you use that tactic. but glad it worked.
or, maybe were simply at the sweet spot for aggression. less aggression would have resulted in fewer wars, less churning of the gene pool, perhaps less pressure to innovate. more aggression would have prevented formation of societies and kept us few and far between.
I think it's exceedingly unlikely. Events happen in "real time", and a brain that operated vastly slower than ours would likely be at a severe evolutionary disadvantage because it would be unable to respond quickly to circumstances where quick action is warranted (flood, fire, storms...). There would be selective pressure to react faster, so you'd trend towards a faster species, even if you somehow started out "slower". On the other hand, it gets more challenging to be faster beyond a certain point, with diminishing returns, so you wouldn't expect the process to continue unabated. Their time scale might be different than ours, but I think it's unlikely it would be vastly so. However, their lifespans could be rather different, so their perception of the value of time could be quite different. That would be a cultural difference though, I think, not the barrier to communication that physically processing at a vastly different speed would be.
depends on whether you did anything crossing state lines...the federal government often uses seemingly trivial things like "you bought a car in another state" or something to make it a federal case.
When I load any story, the initial screen I see has roughly 1/4 of the page with blank white. There's FAR too much dead space between the little meta sections "share this", "has x comments" "may also like to read" etc on the left, and the threshold control on the right. PLEASE consider doing the meta sections in a multi column layout so that it doesn't waste so much space. Or, even more ideally, give me the option of turning most of them off. I want an information dense page. Clean layout is a great thing, I want to find that information...but clean does not need to mean lots of wasted space.
nicely done.
:) It's actually mostly kids shows and nature documentaries--we use it as combo bookmarks for things we would be okay showing our daughter/things we want to see. There is the search interface now (didn't used to be, at least on Wii), but it's often still handy to just see something that might be good to watch sometime and pop it in the queue. Queue, in our case, is a bad name...the only ordering is roughly date added to queue.
Dunno, but I doubt it's the power of the PS3. We have a queue currently of 149 items, and we only watch on the Wii...not exactly ahigh powered computing device...and it's been very responsive. There were about 2 weeks after Christmas where it was EXTREMELY slow to pull down the queue and other categories, and the connection was dropping regularly, but it's picked back up and seems to be perfectly fine lately.
Well, that would have been helpful when I first moved my email onto Gmail a few months before that. It didn't exist, though, and I went through a painful process of getting rid of my / delimited labels and converting to composite labels. le sigh. Don't suppose they have a bookmarks lab with something similar? Don't see it myself, but doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Yeah, I've thought about this. I do think it's somewhat of a hack though, to have to go into another email account rather than having it built into the account you are actually using (granted I'm doing that with the Yahoo account, but other than saving me $19/year, there's not a lot of benefit to me vs the pain of switching all the extant registrations I have). There is another problem with it I ran into before, though. When I started migrating to Gmail, I initially was going to try to do something like that and I found a couple of places I tried to use gmail +suffix syntax which insisted that the + character was invalid. I think not enough people use it to have support be as widespread as it should be. I know, not Google's problem, exactly, although it would be helpful if they let you use either + or - as the delimiter.
I actually still maintain a premium email account with them for one reason: the disposable email addresses. I have the email all forwarded to my Gmail account because the integration with my phone is...considerably better. However, the email address I give out when shopping or to corporations I do business with is one of my disposable email addys on yahoo. Gmail doesn't have anything like it, afaik. Yes, on gmail you can add suffixes (myemail+ebay@gmail.com), but people are free to leave out the suffix and your actual email addy is right there. With the yahoo disposable addys, the root/prefix isn't the same as the account, and once you get rid of a suffix, you won't ever get any email on it. It's a good system, I think. The only improvement I'd like to see is some way to make creating the disposable addresses even easier, instead of having to navigate to a config page under the mail options.
Of course, the other thing Yahoo does well, which for some reason Google refuses to really do, is support hierarchies. Yeah, I get it, labels in gmail are cool and all...but I'd still like to organize them hierarchically. I've got a lot of labels, and the gmail interface kinda blows having to always see all of them over there on the left. And google bookmarks REALLY could use some hierarchical structure. I want to organize my bookmarks into folders, thank you very much.... Labels just aren't the same when you're pulling down a drop down in a browser.
I use Google for most things, and they have some great products, but sometimes they're just as bad as...some other fruity companies with the "this is how you SHOULD do things" lack of flexibility.
It is meet that thou dost fear this bastardization of Couth Speech. I would that there be no turning to the Right nor to the Left in our honest pursuit of Gude Englishe. It is Most Unseemly that tittle hath passed to dot, and I wot that thou has judged true, that current Forms and Proper Usages for the Setting of Type shall soon pass away. It is a most lamentable state of affairs, second only unto the Deplorable disinclination towards Proper Capitalisation where it is most Called For. All of these Offences do but appear as shadows before the Principle Sin, however: the demise of Proper Spelling. Woe betide us all!
not true anymore. though I still harbour some residual offence that they would have tried such a shite tactic...and I'm not even an iPhone dev...just offended me on principle.
classic autism was a single diagnosis. Which was distinct from other the two other disorders which are now included in Autism Spectrum Disorder. Also note that there wasn't a good diagnostic questionnaire until the early 1990s which could reliably find "milder" cases of ASD. It's a very basic fact that the definition of the disease has evolved and its diagnosis has evolved. I'm not aware of any study which controls for this...I'm not really sure it could even be done. Given the above facts, I think it's entirely plausible that the changes related to diagnosis and definition coupled with the heightened media presence could very easily play a significant role in the rising rate.
well, while i don't entirely disagree...you're discounting the value of convenience. And your ink jet example proves it. Yeah, you get a crappier product and it costs more to boot, and yet we having a thriving industry churning out the home printers nonetheless. if I can print out the replacement [insert thingamabob i need] right now, and not have to go to the store or wait for it to come in the mail, that's worth something. Whether it will ever be worth it *enough* to me personally? I don't know, but I wouldn't discount it being a real market, one that extends beyond hobbyists. The tech will have to be a lot better...the things you can print a lot more useful, but I'd certainly not bet against it.
I don't think that's the point. Unless you have info that all the titles Amazon has censored are how-to manuals for incest, I'm pretty sure gp's point is that the book contains a depiction of it, as do the censored books.