Yet iTunes is still very monolithic in its support for i* devices. This post is not about the store, which I feel I have to keep pointing out. It's about the software. The quote in the summary is very misleading that way. The top down walled garden is the Appleverse, not mp3s. In other words, you don't have to buy into the Apple "experience" to get a good "experience".;)
They are talking about the software versus iTunes software. Not the store versus the iTunes store. This was an update to the player. The biggest point is synchronizing. They are saying, listen, we can sync very well without creating an artificial walled garden in the software. AKA - iTunes hates other music players, and is designed to only work with iP(od/hone/ad).
Of course the store sucks at this point. Google and Amazon, which have the real shots at popular stores, are working from a cloud perspective with cloud players. Miro is working from a local cache standpoint. Syncing to a computer and creating a local network cloud streamer.
If Google and Amazon are the big repositories, Miro is working on building the "last mile". Being that Miro is open source, they are really saying to Google and Amazon, if you like open source for Android, why not look at us as your open source music/video player for windows/linux/android. They are saying it to everyone, but I can bet they are hoping for a big check from the Googlzon to select them as the last mile solution to their crappy 1-off players.
For the same reason I don't assume there is a God. I'd rather see evidence of the existence of statistical methodology in place, vetted by other statisticians, before assuming that it exists and works.
On the other hand, my basic objection stands. How is this better than using in-store data? Even at best, it can't correlate foot traffic with actual purposes because foursquare doesn't collect purchase data except when a deal is used. And check-ins being so narrowly defined can't even estimate foot traffic.
If 20 people check in to Foot Locker, what does that mean for actual foot traffic? How is that correlated with an ad campaign.
Considering that as part of my job for a company that sells ad campaigns (of which I'm the network administrator, so I'm in on the IT discussions to do with digital sales) in this field and the use of QR Codes for real sales/traffic/ad statistics, I fail to see how Foursquare statistics are useful for anything except for promoting Foursquare usage by customers or for specifically targeting the Foursquare using demographic. That's not very useful, impo.
If I put a QR code on a coupon which is mailed out and scanned by McDonalds, I'll blow Foursquare out of the water with data. 1) I can hit every demographic with a mailing address. 2) I can measure the success of the ad campaign because, unlike Foursquare, I can embed the QR code on anything, even allowing cashiers to scan one for customers who did not receive the mailing. and 3) I can tie in online sales as well. That's useful and companies will pay my company significantly to do this for them.
On the other hand, at this moment, I don't believe we could sell a "Foursquare" campaign to anybody but say... a rock concert. And even then, the push would be for the use of codes on tickets. Foursquare wouldn't even really be an enhancement.
That makes sense. Of course, those groups don't make piles of cash. So that makes sense, too. I think it is at their loss. Of course, they aren't going to allow the RMS types in. But EFF lawyers, OSI, and the like seem like good speakers, even if they do have a natural bias... it is a bias that needs to be heard. The insulated elite draw the ire of the populous, which is something you would think centuries of experience would teach these supposedly smart people. Money no more buys success than tanks win wars.
No, but I could. As I just explained to another poster, I use hands free voice apps. I can upload a file to Youtube without touching my phone, not that I'd have to. Youtube is setup as a quick share for me. So, yes, taking my hands dangerously away from the wheel and touching the "Quick Share" button on the screen.
Heaven forbid I have to change a radio station, too! haha
I use Vlingo 100% hands free speech to text. I also start these programs before driving. That way, I can email comment back to people being assholes in their replies to me.:)
I was clocked moving from a 45mph zone to a 55mph highway zone, and hadn't sped up yet. It was also after dark. In adverse conditions, including night, rain, snow, etc, going the speed limit can still get you reckless driving. Review the laws in your state.
I have a Droid X and use the Motorola window mount with quick charger. There is little to no vibration except when sitting still and the engine idles. I get a clear unobstructed view in HD, and I can loosen the swivel and pan around.
What does the first sentence have to do with the story about eG8? Is there a direct cause/effect, is the G8 recognizing it in some sort of way, or is this story exploiting the eG8 story for self-promotion?
The eG8 story is significant, but let's not all sing Kumbaya just yet. The context is "freedom", but the content is money. The Internet is the new economic revolution. While the context of the industrial revolution may have been unions and labor law, the content for them would be how to cash in.
What is even more significant is the idea of moving the entire G8 to an Internet meeting through an undisclosed service. And before you cheer that Anonymous would take the place of the physical protesters, it would more than likely be hosted through a private VPN service to locations around the world.
What I would like to see, though, is a good portion of the meeting transmitted online. If they truly believe in access and against censorship, then they can at least post portions online and allow for responses.
... I can see not publicizing vulnerabilities. We don't, for instance, want our military publicly posting our vulnerabilities. Because, they sure as anything aren't going to ask for public patches. Public disclosure only really works if someone in the public can help. On the other hand, if you are running legacy systems in any number of unknown locations, you can't apply the patches anyways.
We always talk about how bad obfuscation is as a security vector. However, it is a vector. Knowledge of a thing can be its greatest weakness. For instance, publicizing how a company's internal network is setup can help an attacker greatly. But, hiding it can increase security. It's soft security, but it's better than no security.
IPv6 is the Microsoft Bob of the new Millennium. So, like Bob, let's drop it, keep Clippy and the Dog, and move on to IPv2000, to be followed by IPvXP, IPvVISTA (which we will all have to install, but downgrade to IPvXP), and IPv7.
That's a hell of a path from IPv6 to IPv7, but hey, what are you going to do? Install IPvBuntu?
There were/are many other cheap albums (though not AS cheap, but still). Personally, I liked getting my 20GB with the purchase of The Who's Greatest Hits on sale for, iirc, $2.99.
Yes, that's why it's been safely operated on every major long term deployment warship, aircraft carrier, and submarine the US operates. Because it's SO dangerous. You're probably right, coward, we should switch them all back to oil based fuels, and let them pull an exxon Valdez behind them instead.
Listen folks. Make up your minds. Every single source of fuel has a major environmental impact. Choose one, then please, STFU about it! Enough solar panels to power the world is going to completely cover (and kill) resources. Hydro-electric screws with fish and their breeding habits. Nuclear has waste that needs stored somwhere safe after use. Fossil fuels pollute the environment and are running short.
Your miracle fuel isn't coming. Wake the hell up already. It "may" come. But actually planning on it coming is not only foolish, it's the most dangerous thing to count on of all the options.
So, as I said, make a choice, or make several. I don't care, but please. PLEASE. STFU.
I think the biggest question is economic class. Sure, this works for Starbucks because Starbucks is a higher end retailer who's users are tech savvy. But this does nothing for Family Dollar who's users are all over the gambit. This means, then, that you can only poll a certain section of the populous, whereas, using instore data makes more since for most businesses which captures 100% of data, rather than a subset (bothers to check in) or a subset (uses Foursquare) or a subset (owns a smartphone).
The other problem is time is automatically skewed. People running to the store late night to pick up toilet paper are unlikely to check in, especially on a weekday. But those trying out a new steakhouse on a Saturday afternoon are more likely to check in. So the time data is naturally skewed to recreational times.
While I applaud this as a way to see when advertising deals on social networks may best impact your business, this by no means will help you determine if you need to make sure your toilet paper is fully stocked at 3am.
...it's called a smartphone. I use SpeedView to keep a permanent GPS record of all my driving, FuelLog to track my MPG, AutoBoy Blackbox to actually video record driving and automatically record crashes and call 911.
I voluntarily WANT this whenever I drive. I'm a great driver. Other people are idiots and assholes. And anytime I want, I'll post your bad driving on Youtube along with your license plate number. Also, I've had a cop give me a ticket for doing 65 in a 55, and I was actually doing 45 (I didn't even know I could ! Never again.
We don't need mandatory black boxes for idiots. There are enough of us good drivers would will be recording all of you bad drivers voluntarily. I do it for the lulz AND the $$$ when I sue the next guy who crosses 3 lanes and causes me to be in a multicar pile up.
Argue what you want about mandatory boxes in the FUTURE, I've got you on camera NOW, lmao.
It's not much of a secret that they've uncovered, though. Anyone who's ever spoken to a Google executive knows that they throw parties like there is no tomorrow, all over the world and with little care to "budget". I know one such executive who is no longer with the company, and let's just say, an annual trip to Vegas with a free buffet isn't quite their style. Wish I could do it to, but hey, doesn't bother me that they do. Just like it doesn't bother me that US Presidents take vacations in Hawaii (though some people still think that's a foreign country). The guy works every waking moment. There are no "off" days. Google execs do about the same, because the bar is set pretty damn high.
So, we cannot judge that which we are not fanboys of? FYI, I read a spectrum from NYT to USA Today (WSJ's more colloquial conservative cousin), and yes, WSJ articles that make it online. So let's put our big boy pants on today, m'kay?
And what on behalf of Google is hypocrisy? Did they search for their flight plans and vacation spots on Bing?
They got a FOIA for a reason. Sounds like a fishing expedition to find out who else people like Schwarzenegger were sleeping with and possibly which senators were going overseas that we did not know about.
But this is a story about a non-story with nothing more than peeping-tom appeal. Obviously, whatever they were really looking for did not show up. Rather than waste the FOIA, they publish the FOIA itself.
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... does it run BSD?
Did they breed them with the same spider that bit Peter Parker?
...oooooooooo!!!
Yet iTunes is still very monolithic in its support for i* devices. This post is not about the store, which I feel I have to keep pointing out. It's about the software. The quote in the summary is very misleading that way. The top down walled garden is the Appleverse, not mp3s. In other words, you don't have to buy into the Apple "experience" to get a good "experience". ;)
They are talking about the software versus iTunes software. Not the store versus the iTunes store. This was an update to the player. The biggest point is synchronizing. They are saying, listen, we can sync very well without creating an artificial walled garden in the software. AKA - iTunes hates other music players, and is designed to only work with iP(od/hone/ad).
Of course the store sucks at this point. Google and Amazon, which have the real shots at popular stores, are working from a cloud perspective with cloud players. Miro is working from a local cache standpoint. Syncing to a computer and creating a local network cloud streamer.
If Google and Amazon are the big repositories, Miro is working on building the "last mile". Being that Miro is open source, they are really saying to Google and Amazon, if you like open source for Android, why not look at us as your open source music/video player for windows/linux/android. They are saying it to everyone, but I can bet they are hoping for a big check from the Googlzon to select them as the last mile solution to their crappy 1-off players.
For the same reason I don't assume there is a God. I'd rather see evidence of the existence of statistical methodology in place, vetted by other statisticians, before assuming that it exists and works.
The TP section needs a "Like" button. ;)
On the other hand, my basic objection stands. How is this better than using in-store data? Even at best, it can't correlate foot traffic with actual purposes because foursquare doesn't collect purchase data except when a deal is used. And check-ins being so narrowly defined can't even estimate foot traffic.
If 20 people check in to Foot Locker, what does that mean for actual foot traffic? How is that correlated with an ad campaign.
Considering that as part of my job for a company that sells ad campaigns (of which I'm the network administrator, so I'm in on the IT discussions to do with digital sales) in this field and the use of QR Codes for real sales/traffic/ad statistics, I fail to see how Foursquare statistics are useful for anything except for promoting Foursquare usage by customers or for specifically targeting the Foursquare using demographic. That's not very useful, impo.
If I put a QR code on a coupon which is mailed out and scanned by McDonalds, I'll blow Foursquare out of the water with data. 1) I can hit every demographic with a mailing address. 2) I can measure the success of the ad campaign because, unlike Foursquare, I can embed the QR code on anything, even allowing cashiers to scan one for customers who did not receive the mailing. and 3) I can tie in online sales as well. That's useful and companies will pay my company significantly to do this for them.
On the other hand, at this moment, I don't believe we could sell a "Foursquare" campaign to anybody but say... a rock concert. And even then, the push would be for the use of codes on tickets. Foursquare wouldn't even really be an enhancement.
Yeah, it is nice. Though I usually find Independent artists that I like and pay full price for, and feel good about doing.
That makes sense. Of course, those groups don't make piles of cash. So that makes sense, too. I think it is at their loss. Of course, they aren't going to allow the RMS types in. But EFF lawyers, OSI, and the like seem like good speakers, even if they do have a natural bias... it is a bias that needs to be heard. The insulated elite draw the ire of the populous, which is something you would think centuries of experience would teach these supposedly smart people. Money no more buys success than tanks win wars.
No, but I could. As I just explained to another poster, I use hands free voice apps. I can upload a file to Youtube without touching my phone, not that I'd have to. Youtube is setup as a quick share for me. So, yes, taking my hands dangerously away from the wheel and touching the "Quick Share" button on the screen.
Heaven forbid I have to change a radio station, too! haha
I use Vlingo 100% hands free speech to text. I also start these programs before driving. That way, I can email comment back to people being assholes in their replies to me. :)
I was clocked moving from a 45mph zone to a 55mph highway zone, and hadn't sped up yet. It was also after dark. In adverse conditions, including night, rain, snow, etc, going the speed limit can still get you reckless driving. Review the laws in your state.
I have a Droid X and use the Motorola window mount with quick charger. There is little to no vibration except when sitting still and the engine idles. I get a clear unobstructed view in HD, and I can loosen the swivel and pan around.
What does the first sentence have to do with the story about eG8? Is there a direct cause/effect, is the G8 recognizing it in some sort of way, or is this story exploiting the eG8 story for self-promotion?
The eG8 story is significant, but let's not all sing Kumbaya just yet. The context is "freedom", but the content is money. The Internet is the new economic revolution. While the context of the industrial revolution may have been unions and labor law, the content for them would be how to cash in.
What is even more significant is the idea of moving the entire G8 to an Internet meeting through an undisclosed service. And before you cheer that Anonymous would take the place of the physical protesters, it would more than likely be hosted through a private VPN service to locations around the world.
What I would like to see, though, is a good portion of the meeting transmitted online. If they truly believe in access and against censorship, then they can at least post portions online and allow for responses.
... I can see not publicizing vulnerabilities. We don't, for instance, want our military publicly posting our vulnerabilities. Because, they sure as anything aren't going to ask for public patches. Public disclosure only really works if someone in the public can help. On the other hand, if you are running legacy systems in any number of unknown locations, you can't apply the patches anyways.
We always talk about how bad obfuscation is as a security vector. However, it is a vector. Knowledge of a thing can be its greatest weakness. For instance, publicizing how a company's internal network is setup can help an attacker greatly. But, hiding it can increase security. It's soft security, but it's better than no security.
That comment is like a dead horse, it wouldn't giddi-yup and go.
^^^THAT^^^ is a simile. THIS is a smile. :) NOTHING is a "simalies".
IPv6 is the Microsoft Bob of the new Millennium. So, like Bob, let's drop it, keep Clippy and the Dog, and move on to IPv2000, to be followed by IPvXP, IPvVISTA (which we will all have to install, but downgrade to IPvXP), and IPv7.
That's a hell of a path from IPv6 to IPv7, but hey, what are you going to do? Install IPvBuntu?
There were/are many other cheap albums (though not AS cheap, but still). Personally, I liked getting my 20GB with the purchase of The Who's Greatest Hits on sale for, iirc, $2.99.
/me dances to the Picard Song
Yes, that's why it's been safely operated on every major long term deployment warship, aircraft carrier, and submarine the US operates. Because it's SO dangerous. You're probably right, coward, we should switch them all back to oil based fuels, and let them pull an exxon Valdez behind them instead.
Listen folks. Make up your minds. Every single source of fuel has a major environmental impact. Choose one, then please, STFU about it! Enough solar panels to power the world is going to completely cover (and kill) resources. Hydro-electric screws with fish and their breeding habits. Nuclear has waste that needs stored somwhere safe after use. Fossil fuels pollute the environment and are running short.
Your miracle fuel isn't coming. Wake the hell up already. It "may" come. But actually planning on it coming is not only foolish, it's the most dangerous thing to count on of all the options.
So, as I said, make a choice, or make several. I don't care, but please. PLEASE. STFU.
I think the biggest question is economic class. Sure, this works for Starbucks because Starbucks is a higher end retailer who's users are tech savvy. But this does nothing for Family Dollar who's users are all over the gambit. This means, then, that you can only poll a certain section of the populous, whereas, using instore data makes more since for most businesses which captures 100% of data, rather than a subset (bothers to check in) or a subset (uses Foursquare) or a subset (owns a smartphone).
The other problem is time is automatically skewed. People running to the store late night to pick up toilet paper are unlikely to check in, especially on a weekday. But those trying out a new steakhouse on a Saturday afternoon are more likely to check in. So the time data is naturally skewed to recreational times.
While I applaud this as a way to see when advertising deals on social networks may best impact your business, this by no means will help you determine if you need to make sure your toilet paper is fully stocked at 3am.
...it's called a smartphone. I use SpeedView to keep a permanent GPS record of all my driving, FuelLog to track my MPG, AutoBoy Blackbox to actually video record driving and automatically record crashes and call 911.
I voluntarily WANT this whenever I drive. I'm a great driver. Other people are idiots and assholes. And anytime I want, I'll post your bad driving on Youtube along with your license plate number. Also, I've had a cop give me a ticket for doing 65 in a 55, and I was actually doing 45 (I didn't even know I could ! Never again.
We don't need mandatory black boxes for idiots. There are enough of us good drivers would will be recording all of you bad drivers voluntarily. I do it for the lulz AND the $$$ when I sue the next guy who crosses 3 lanes and causes me to be in a multicar pile up.
Argue what you want about mandatory boxes in the FUTURE, I've got you on camera NOW, lmao.
It's not much of a secret that they've uncovered, though. Anyone who's ever spoken to a Google executive knows that they throw parties like there is no tomorrow, all over the world and with little care to "budget". I know one such executive who is no longer with the company, and let's just say, an annual trip to Vegas with a free buffet isn't quite their style. Wish I could do it to, but hey, doesn't bother me that they do. Just like it doesn't bother me that US Presidents take vacations in Hawaii (though some people still think that's a foreign country). The guy works every waking moment. There are no "off" days. Google execs do about the same, because the bar is set pretty damn high.
Maybe it's jealousy.
So, we cannot judge that which we are not fanboys of? FYI, I read a spectrum from NYT to USA Today (WSJ's more colloquial conservative cousin), and yes, WSJ articles that make it online. So let's put our big boy pants on today, m'kay?
And what on behalf of Google is hypocrisy? Did they search for their flight plans and vacation spots on Bing?
They got a FOIA for a reason. Sounds like a fishing expedition to find out who else people like Schwarzenegger were sleeping with and possibly which senators were going overseas that we did not know about.
But this is a story about a non-story with nothing more than peeping-tom appeal. Obviously, whatever they were really looking for did not show up. Rather than waste the FOIA, they publish the FOIA itself.