Agreed. My understanding was that moderation was for subtleties - "Insightful", "Informative", "Off Topic" - and that meta moderation was simply a 'good' / 'bad' assessment of the moderation. The current meta moderation is fiddely. Make meta-moderation simplistic again, and get many people to meta-moderate. Then reward those assessed as good moderators with additional mod points.
On the video press conference - here at 1 hour 18 mins, Ballmer's asked about multi-platform. He mentions Office on Apple, and mentions Apple a couple of times - but didn't mention Linux or Android. He said it was important, but I'm not sure I'm sold. "I said it, and I mean it, we'll continue to support non-Microsoft"... followed by "Two, we're one of the few companies with a track record of actually doing this". So he kinda shot himself down a bit.
Ain't nothin' on my Facebook but my name, my friends, and my random attempts at being witty. I don't care if the gov't sees any of it. If I did, it wouldn't be on Facebook. The problem isn't Facebook, it's that people -- including Assange, actually -- have a binary idea of security and trust. They think something is either totally secret and revealing it would be a huge betrayal, or it's all out there in the wind open to everyone. If you think Facebook is a privacy threat, you don't have to stop using it: just stop posting private stuff to it.
Trust is multilayered. I have stuff I only tell my close friends. I have stuff I only tell my Warcraft guild. I have stuff I only tell my wife. I have stuff I keep entirely inside my head. And none of that stuff goes on Facebook. Facebook is fine for some sorts of privacy -- for instance, as a college professor, I don't Facebook friend my students, so I don't have to worry about saying something unbecoming of a professor. For other sorts of things, I use other sorts of communications.
But I've been living in this sort of multilayered online privacy world for two decades now. Hopefully someday soon the rest of the planet will figure out how it works, so I don't have to deal with Assange's paranoid ranting, or college students who can't get a job because they're naked and/or vomiting on their profile page.
This, in a nut shell. The idea of privacy being some kind of binary thing is odd - it's not on or off. You would think that levels of privacy would be part of a healthy outlook on the World. There's stuff I trust to X I would never trust to Y. Some overlap. Some are mutually exclusive.
Some if it I am willing to exchange for services. Be it certain information to Facebook for the services they provide, or other information to a gf for the services she would provide.
Bloody Finnish and your fantastic ISP's, superb internet connections, beautiful landscapes, charming witty intelligent populace, with smoking hot Scandinavian chicks. I don't know how you sleep at night.
The Razer Hydra will be available standalone or as part of a special edition Portal 2 Bundle that includes the Hydra system, that Portal 2 game and some Hydra-specific DLC. The Portal 2 Bundle will retail for US$139.99 and EUR139.99 – which seems a little unfair to European buyers
As a European gamer, that does sound tempting - except it should be around €100 ($140), not €140 ($200).
As I understand it, Ed Vaizey and our ISPs are fans of a two tier system.
It'd be a shame if anything.. happened... to the QOS for your Spotify account. You can always pay more, just to be sure you get only the finest bits available on the Interwebs.
Seriously. I've said this before - it's supposed to be about choice. If someone chooses to use Windows/other Microsoft products/other closed source products, well then isn't that their choice? I know some people will say "but it's wrong, abc product always crashes, MS can't build secure software" and so on. But - a technologist's job is to find the best solution, for whatever value of best applies to the particular customer in their particular context. And sometimes that may be a Microsoft product, or some other closed source product.* No product is a one-size-fits-all item. If you try and force something to fit the problem, or argue from politics or ideals rather than logic, you're less likely to make a positive impression.
Sometimes it seems as though people on this site want Linux to be everything to everyone, everywhere. I suppose it's not technically a monopoly, and maybe it's harder to argue that there's a lack of freedom of choice if there are different distributions - but I think it goes against the spirit of freedom and competition.
* Except for CA. They're dreadful, and there is never a context where CA is the best solution.
If someone chooses to use Windows/other Microsoft products/other closed source products, well then isn't that their choice? I know some people will say "but it's wrong, abc product always crashes, MS can't build secure software" and so on. But - a technologist's job is to find the best solution, for whatever value of best applies to the particular customer in their particular context. And sometimes that may be a Microsoft product, or some other closed source product.* No product is a one-size-fits-all item. If you try and force something to fit the problem, or argue from politics or ideals rather than logic, you're less likely to make a positive impression.
Sometimes it seems as though people on this site want Linux to be everything to everyone, everywhere. I suppose it's not technically a monopoly, and maybe it's harder to argue that there's a lack of freedom of choice if there are different distributions - but I think it goes against the spirit of freedom and competition.
* Except for CA. They're dreadful, and there is never a context where CA is the best solution.
Will someone please hit this man with a +5 Insightful? Superb piece. Choice - it's about choice. Not "This is better for you, take it otherwise you must be stupid". Technologists offer choices - offer opinions, and offer advice. But they shouldn't be getting sad if it doesn't go the way they'd prefer.
HTC have done it for years. Their HTC Universal phone was known for having a real weak point at the charger. Many people (myself included) suffered from the USB port becoming loose, and falling into the unit. Pain in the ass. They took no responsability for what was clearly a design flaw on a heavily used part.
Now that was can create anything that can imagined, our directors and writers just need to up the score on their imaginations. Oh, look, a blue alien thing that looks a bit like a cat.
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Agreed. My understanding was that moderation was for subtleties - "Insightful", "Informative", "Off Topic" - and that meta moderation was simply a 'good' / 'bad' assessment of the moderation. The current meta moderation is fiddely. Make meta-moderation simplistic again, and get many people to meta-moderate. Then reward those assessed as good moderators with additional mod points.
This sounds interesting - I like the "disconnecting OT posts, and letting them sink." Combine with "High scoring late posts float up".
Windows Phone 14? I think you're confusing MS with Mozilla. :)
It's a good old de Freedom Lump!
Or this one?
I went to Account > Account Settings on Facebook, and went with Download Your Information.
I've now got a zip file that includes a Photos folder, with sub-folders for all my albums, and all my photos.
I'll now use Picasa to upload them to Google+.
Am I missing something in this being tricky?
Totally opposite reaction to me. I got the creeps when I saw the little imps talking to each other to synchronize their flashing lights.
It was like watching the Borg boot up!
On the video press conference - here at 1 hour 18 mins, Ballmer's asked about multi-platform. He mentions Office on Apple, and mentions Apple a couple of times - but didn't mention Linux or Android. He said it was important, but I'm not sure I'm sold. "I said it, and I mean it, we'll continue to support non-Microsoft"... followed by "Two, we're one of the few companies with a track record of actually doing this". So he kinda shot himself down a bit.
Ha, easy! The solution is... ooooo, a shiny thing.
It links to Bing you idiot, blindly-accepting Mods.
Ain't nothin' on my Facebook but my name, my friends, and my random attempts at being witty. I don't care if the gov't sees any of it. If I did, it wouldn't be on Facebook. The problem isn't Facebook, it's that people -- including Assange, actually -- have a binary idea of security and trust. They think something is either totally secret and revealing it would be a huge betrayal, or it's all out there in the wind open to everyone. If you think Facebook is a privacy threat, you don't have to stop using it: just stop posting private stuff to it.
Trust is multilayered. I have stuff I only tell my close friends. I have stuff I only tell my Warcraft guild. I have stuff I only tell my wife. I have stuff I keep entirely inside my head. And none of that stuff goes on Facebook. Facebook is fine for some sorts of privacy -- for instance, as a college professor, I don't Facebook friend my students, so I don't have to worry about saying something unbecoming of a professor. For other sorts of things, I use other sorts of communications.
But I've been living in this sort of multilayered online privacy world for two decades now. Hopefully someday soon the rest of the planet will figure out how it works, so I don't have to deal with Assange's paranoid ranting, or college students who can't get a job because they're naked and/or vomiting on their profile page.
This, in a nut shell. The idea of privacy being some kind of binary thing is odd - it's not on or off. You would think that levels of privacy would be part of a healthy outlook on the World. There's stuff I trust to X I would never trust to Y. Some overlap. Some are mutually exclusive.
Some if it I am willing to exchange for services. Be it certain information to Facebook for the services they provide, or other information to a gf for the services she would provide.
Bloody Finnish and your fantastic ISP's, superb internet connections, beautiful landscapes, charming witty intelligent populace, with smoking hot Scandinavian chicks. I don't know how you sleep at night.
The Razer Hydra will be available standalone or as part of a special edition Portal 2 Bundle that includes the Hydra system, that Portal 2 game and some Hydra-specific DLC. The Portal 2 Bundle will retail for US$139.99 and EUR139.99 – which seems a little unfair to European buyers
As a European gamer, that does sound tempting - except it should be around €100 ($140), not €140 ($200).
Sorry, $999 for 1 seat Enterprise, $3999 is for 5 seat Enterprise.
Exactly what I thought. So I went and looked - $99 for student (non-commercial use), $399 for basic commercial, through to $3999 for enterprise.
Crazy. Would love to use it, won't touch it with a barge pole at that price.
It is if you put lipstick on it.
As I understand it, Ed Vaizey and our ISPs are fans of a two tier system.
It'd be a shame if anything.. happened... to the QOS for your Spotify account. You can always pay more, just to be sure you get only the finest bits available on the Interwebs.
Because there is no Netflix in my 'market'.
Seriously. I've said this before - it's supposed to be about choice. If someone chooses to use Windows/other Microsoft products/other closed source products, well then isn't that their choice? I know some people will say "but it's wrong, abc product always crashes, MS can't build secure software" and so on. But - a technologist's job is to find the best solution, for whatever value of best applies to the particular customer in their particular context. And sometimes that may be a Microsoft product, or some other closed source product.* No product is a one-size-fits-all item. If you try and force something to fit the problem, or argue from politics or ideals rather than logic, you're less likely to make a positive impression.
Sometimes it seems as though people on this site want Linux to be everything to everyone, everywhere. I suppose it's not technically a monopoly, and maybe it's harder to argue that there's a lack of freedom of choice if there are different distributions - but I think it goes against the spirit of freedom and competition.
* Except for CA. They're dreadful, and there is never a context where CA is the best solution.
If someone chooses to use Windows/other Microsoft products/other closed source products, well then isn't that their choice? I know some people will say "but it's wrong, abc product always crashes, MS can't build secure software" and so on. But - a technologist's job is to find the best solution, for whatever value of best applies to the particular customer in their particular context. And sometimes that may be a Microsoft product, or some other closed source product.* No product is a one-size-fits-all item. If you try and force something to fit the problem, or argue from politics or ideals rather than logic, you're less likely to make a positive impression.
Sometimes it seems as though people on this site want Linux to be everything to everyone, everywhere. I suppose it's not technically a monopoly, and maybe it's harder to argue that there's a lack of freedom of choice if there are different distributions - but I think it goes against the spirit of freedom and competition.
* Except for CA. They're dreadful, and there is never a context where CA is the best solution.
Will someone please hit this man with a +5 Insightful? Superb piece. Choice - it's about choice. Not "This is better for you, take it otherwise you must be stupid". Technologists offer choices - offer opinions, and offer advice. But they shouldn't be getting sad if it doesn't go the way they'd prefer.
I have a bag of sugar - we're half way there!
Those two are best buddies, if I remember my wikileaks correctly.
Yeah, thought so WikiLeaks 'to highlight Putin and Berlusconi's special relationship'
One controls the Italian Mafia, one controls the Russian Mafia.
The client workstations all need IIS installed??
A little too ironic...and, yeah, I really do think...
HTC have done it for years. Their HTC Universal phone was known for having a real weak point at the charger. Many people (myself included) suffered from the USB port becoming loose, and falling into the unit. Pain in the ass. They took no responsability for what was clearly a design flaw on a heavily used part.
Now that was can create anything that can imagined, our directors and writers just need to up the score on their imaginations. Oh, look, a blue alien thing that looks a bit like a cat.