The key here is the "non-verbal communication" which you wouldn'y normally get without actually being in the target environment.
Sounds like a valuable tool for educating the young soldiers whom I guess haven't had much contact with other cultures other than at the checkout of a Kwik-E Mart.
This is either gonna be over before we know it... or its gonna be the beginning of a mighty war between the heavyweights. My money is on the latter. In 20 years time we're still gonna be talking about these two giants. And we read it first on slashdot.
I am absolutely for this. I am sick of companies creating brand-new-whiz-bang products that are completely disposable. Why not create something that works once but can be RELOADED?!
There is waaaay too much shit (plastic, non-biodegradeable) that clogs our planet that will take thousands, if not millions of years to disintegrate.
Given, there are things that need to be manufactured of a disposable nature... but movies??? and more significantly the crap that Hollywood is known for regurgitating??? I cannot think of a worse application.
i dont have time to scour the web looking for cult browsers. my point is that for mainstream browsers - part of which firefox has now become - it is clearly a crowd pleaser.
"crowd pleasing" = doesnt use gay looking icons to enable lusers to click on the correct button in the toolbar (read: internet explorer's BIG gold star favorites button, and the hugely fashionable history button with a big arrow pointing in a counter-clockwise fashion, just so people remember history means in the past).
We still live in an age where "most" people still cannot use a computer. Why implement free WiFi for the minority, when even they are yet to fully embrace it. Let's face it, we don't even really need it yet.
You're exactly right.
Keeping ISP records, albeit for only 2 months (where does it stop), makes customers susceptible to profiling. It can be thought of the same way as having a CIA file kept on you.
I for one do not want my online activities stored. Its bad enough that companies like Gmail want to archive all your correspondance... now we have the ISP's keeping their own backups? Who is to say that they wont abuse the procedure? Who checks on the ISP's logs?
You cannot justify your statements while using an OS that has whored itself to the internet... a freshly installed OS is the only way to compare start times.
If you are going to make bold statements please follow *some* basic scientific procedures to create a baseline.
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out of Google's book?
Isn't this already being pioneered in San Francisco and countless other places?
The key here is the "non-verbal communication" which you wouldn'y normally get without actually being in the target environment.
Sounds like a valuable tool for educating the young soldiers whom I guess haven't had much contact with other cultures other than at the checkout of a Kwik-E Mart.
Internet Addiction Clinic = Luddite Re-Assimilation Camp
Also known as the Falun Gong Realignment Centre
This is either gonna be over before we know it... or its gonna be the beginning of a mighty war between the heavyweights. My money is on the latter. In 20 years time we're still gonna be talking about these two giants. And we read it first on slashdot.
I am absolutely for this. I am sick of companies creating brand-new-whiz-bang products that are completely disposable. Why not create something that works once but can be RELOADED?!
There is waaaay too much shit (plastic, non-biodegradeable) that clogs our planet that will take thousands, if not millions of years to disintegrate.
Given, there are things that need to be manufactured of a disposable nature... but movies??? and more significantly the crap that Hollywood is known for regurgitating??? I cannot think of a worse application.
avant?... sorry never heard of it.
i dont have time to scour the web looking for cult browsers. my point is that for mainstream browsers - part of which firefox has now become - it is clearly a crowd pleaser.
"crowd pleasing" = doesnt use gay looking icons to enable lusers to click on the correct button in the toolbar (read: internet explorer's BIG gold star favorites button, and the hugely fashionable history button with a big arrow pointing in a counter-clockwise fashion, just so people remember history means in the past).
For something so simple as providing users with a browser that had a little imagination put into its design.
Who would have thunk it?!
when projects like these really will take off.
We still live in an age where "most" people still cannot use a computer. Why implement free WiFi for the minority, when even they are yet to fully embrace it. Let's face it, we don't even really need it yet.
You're exactly right. Keeping ISP records, albeit for only 2 months (where does it stop), makes customers susceptible to profiling. It can be thought of the same way as having a CIA file kept on you. I for one do not want my online activities stored. Its bad enough that companies like Gmail want to archive all your correspondance... now we have the ISP's keeping their own backups? Who is to say that they wont abuse the procedure? Who checks on the ISP's logs?
You cannot justify your statements while using an OS that has whored itself to the internet... a freshly installed OS is the only way to compare start times.
If you are going to make bold statements please follow *some* basic scientific procedures to create a baseline.
It's a big publicity stunt - but a needed one at that.