So I guess everybody forgot about the MS Courier concept introduced in 2009 (Video is from 2010 but Gizmodo broke the Courier story in September 2009, posting leaked pictures of what the device might look like and how it might work):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And in typical MS fashion, a project that would have beat Apple at their own game and create a new device/market was killed in it's prime because it threatened Windows.
http://gizmodo.com/5855260/the...
So the question now is whether it's still novel enough and whether they will still force it to run some kind of Windows instead of the GUI that the Courier was meant to run. Knowing MS culture and history, I wouldn't play those odds.
Much more effective. There still so many mainstream sites like the Weather Channel that use only flash and are now unusable in chrome. Doing this will put the onus on the site if they want to keep their standings and push quicker adoption. Not doing it just leads people to use an insecure browser that runs flash and circumvents the whole reason that Google pushed Flash out in the first place.
Television news departments were never supposed to be profitable. They were supposed to be a compliance to the original guidelines of the FCC licensing to provide for the 'common good'. You did news so that you could put on all the other entertainment pieces. But at some point this all changed and news became yet another profit center for networks and ratings were tied into them to come up with advertising pricing.
Between that motivation and the new 24 hour news cycles, network tele-journalism lost it's way. Once it bled over into a new medium like the internet where there were literally no controls in place and narrowcasting was the way to build views and ad revenue, we ended up with the echo chamber that now mainly serves to generate clicks and reinforce personal bias.
We still have some great journalism in place in some of the remaining newspapers, but as readership dies (thanks partly to millennials defining it as a dead medium) we're going to lose those credible, researched sources by reporters who actually go out and get stories as opposed to algorithmic re-posting and re-editing of someone else's shit posts.
Kevin Nealon “reviewed” some heterosexual porn in a Weekend Update segment:
Kevin Nealon: I was interested at first... then got more interested... Then very interested... Then very interested... Then very, very interested... Then suddenly... not that interested.
But then Nealon “reviews” a gay porn movie, All About Jeff, featuring a cassette
with a picture of gay porn star Jeff Stryker:
Kevin Nealon: I was horrified, disgusted... somewhat interested, interested... very interested, then suddenly embarrassed, disgusted with myself,
ashamed."
Dearest Mike -
I can imagine that you are frantic and don't know where to turn next. My prayers are with you beloved one and I offer my sacred help. As I am sure you have been stripped of all your funds, I am offering you a cheque in the amount of $20000 USD. I have secured a legal representative for you and he will take a retainer of only $10000 USD so you can cash the cheque, pay the representative and you can keep the balance of the $10000 USD for your troubles.
I await your reply.
Your humble servant,
Jadquest Farhrquar
Minister of Irony
Maybe you need to spend more time in usersub instead of the 'front page'. I found imgur to be pretty open to arguments and discussions form all sides and not overly pansy-ass... but then again I spend all my time in usersub. Viral groups like the 'front page' and other category groups may be different; honestly wouldn't know. But in general I've found imgur to be a great community.
Exactly my point. If you remain silent, if you just sign an online petition and think that alone will "mean something", then you're kidding yourself.
While it is an elected official's job to represent the people who elected them, it is the citizen's responsibility to participate. They don't come to your door and ask your advice.
In short, the same power (to most extents) is available to gun safety advocates as it is to the NRA. They're just actively using theirs.
This is the thing people alway get wrong about the NRA, they put so little money into campaign donations and 'gifts', less than many lobbyists.
What the NRA fights with is their ability to get asses in the seats. NRA members vote. They go to protests. They go to caucuses and rallies. They go pretty much anywhere they are told they need to go. And their platform is single issue; namely any kind of gun control is a take over of the constitution or a slippery slope leading there. It's easy to put into sound bites and their membership believe it fully and feel like they responsibility as citizens is to stand between the Second Amendment and armed militia in the streets coming to take their guns, They honestly believe that - not because they are stupid but because the NRA pounds it into them through every means possible.
So they have a **VOTING** army at their disposal - and that is the power they use to control politicians who want to keep their jobs instead of doing them.
If you want to blame the NRA for something, you need to understand this. Otherwise you're bringing a knife to a gun fight.
As someone who has spent the majority of my 30 + year IT career in K12 and Higher Ed marketplace, I have to remind folks that the Internet is not a magic teaching machine. It is just another tool, like a text book or a blackboard. Without competent educators and a lesson plan that utilizes the tool effectively, the Internet is just another way to keep kids occupied. All too often I see this. There are many teachers out there truly utilizing the Internet effectively and getting outstanding results, but only because they made the lesson plan the focus and not the technology.
WaterFox's latest build seems to still have the granularity. For those not familiar, Waterfox is a high performance browser based on the Mozilla platform. Made specifically for 64-Bit systems. It is speedy and all your FF extensions should work. In fact, in upgrading to WF, all of my FF prefs, extensions and addons were in place and working right on first boot.
https://www.waterfoxproject.or...
Thank you. The author missed the point. Apple is not interested in becoming a game platform rival. They are only interested in becoming the streaming media box of choice.
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Thanks - article reads like Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg!
So I guess everybody forgot about the MS Courier concept introduced in 2009 (Video is from 2010 but Gizmodo broke the Courier story in September 2009, posting leaked pictures of what the device might look like and how it might work):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And in typical MS fashion, a project that would have beat Apple at their own game and create a new device/market was killed in it's prime because it threatened Windows.
http://gizmodo.com/5855260/the...
So the question now is whether it's still novel enough and whether they will still force it to run some kind of Windows instead of the GUI that the Courier was meant to run. Knowing MS culture and history, I wouldn't play those odds.
Am I the only one giggling at this point or is just because I'm stoned?
I guess "Scientists are predicting something that already happened" doesn't have the same click power.
I can't believe they wouldn't be renegotiating after the breach. Why would they pay that much for the extra liability?
"No, just a little headache." (Obligatory "Hardware Wars" reference.)
Child: Mommy, buy me a license plate!
Mother: No. Come along, Bort.
Man: Are you talking to me?
Mother: No, my son is also named Bort.
I agree, because he "knows a lot about hacking".
Much more effective. There still so many mainstream sites like the Weather Channel that use only flash and are now unusable in chrome. Doing this will put the onus on the site if they want to keep their standings and push quicker adoption. Not doing it just leads people to use an insecure browser that runs flash and circumvents the whole reason that Google pushed Flash out in the first place.
Television news departments were never supposed to be profitable. They were supposed to be a compliance to the original guidelines of the FCC licensing to provide for the 'common good'. You did news so that you could put on all the other entertainment pieces. But at some point this all changed and news became yet another profit center for networks and ratings were tied into them to come up with advertising pricing. Between that motivation and the new 24 hour news cycles, network tele-journalism lost it's way. Once it bled over into a new medium like the internet where there were literally no controls in place and narrowcasting was the way to build views and ad revenue, we ended up with the echo chamber that now mainly serves to generate clicks and reinforce personal bias. We still have some great journalism in place in some of the remaining newspapers, but as readership dies (thanks partly to millennials defining it as a dead medium) we're going to lose those credible, researched sources by reporters who actually go out and get stories as opposed to algorithmic re-posting and re-editing of someone else's shit posts.
Just to avoid confusion. Otherwise, great post.
Kevin Nealon: I was interested at first... then got more interested... Then very interested... Then very interested... Then very, very interested... Then suddenly... not that interested.
But then Nealon “reviews” a gay porn movie, All About Jeff, featuring a cassette with a picture of gay porn star Jeff Stryker:
Kevin Nealon: I was horrified, disgusted... somewhat interested, interested... very interested, then suddenly embarrassed, disgusted with myself, ashamed."
As a stockholder, I am prone to agree. I feel like it's John Scully all over again. But this time there is no Steve waiting in the wings to save us.
GOTO START
This situation will get better when President Trump takes over....
Dearest Mike - I can imagine that you are frantic and don't know where to turn next. My prayers are with you beloved one and I offer my sacred help. As I am sure you have been stripped of all your funds, I am offering you a cheque in the amount of $20000 USD. I have secured a legal representative for you and he will take a retainer of only $10000 USD so you can cash the cheque, pay the representative and you can keep the balance of the $10000 USD for your troubles. I await your reply. Your humble servant, Jadquest Farhrquar Minister of Irony
Wow, sorry you had such a bad experience. Mine couldn't have been more different and continues to be so.
Maybe you need to spend more time in usersub instead of the 'front page'. I found imgur to be pretty open to arguments and discussions form all sides and not overly pansy-ass... but then again I spend all my time in usersub. Viral groups like the 'front page' and other category groups may be different; honestly wouldn't know. But in general I've found imgur to be a great community.
Exactly my point. If you remain silent, if you just sign an online petition and think that alone will "mean something", then you're kidding yourself. While it is an elected official's job to represent the people who elected them, it is the citizen's responsibility to participate. They don't come to your door and ask your advice. In short, the same power (to most extents) is available to gun safety advocates as it is to the NRA. They're just actively using theirs.
This is the thing people alway get wrong about the NRA, they put so little money into campaign donations and 'gifts', less than many lobbyists. What the NRA fights with is their ability to get asses in the seats. NRA members vote. They go to protests. They go to caucuses and rallies. They go pretty much anywhere they are told they need to go. And their platform is single issue; namely any kind of gun control is a take over of the constitution or a slippery slope leading there. It's easy to put into sound bites and their membership believe it fully and feel like they responsibility as citizens is to stand between the Second Amendment and armed militia in the streets coming to take their guns, They honestly believe that - not because they are stupid but because the NRA pounds it into them through every means possible. So they have a **VOTING** army at their disposal - and that is the power they use to control politicians who want to keep their jobs instead of doing them. If you want to blame the NRA for something, you need to understand this. Otherwise you're bringing a knife to a gun fight.
As someone who has spent the majority of my 30 + year IT career in K12 and Higher Ed marketplace, I have to remind folks that the Internet is not a magic teaching machine. It is just another tool, like a text book or a blackboard. Without competent educators and a lesson plan that utilizes the tool effectively, the Internet is just another way to keep kids occupied. All too often I see this. There are many teachers out there truly utilizing the Internet effectively and getting outstanding results, but only because they made the lesson plan the focus and not the technology.
WaterFox's latest build seems to still have the granularity. For those not familiar, Waterfox is a high performance browser based on the Mozilla platform. Made specifically for 64-Bit systems. It is speedy and all your FF extensions should work. In fact, in upgrading to WF, all of my FF prefs, extensions and addons were in place and working right on first boot. https://www.waterfoxproject.or...
Because censoring these types of people *always* leads to better understanding and peace. Said no one ever. Anywhere.
Thank you. The author missed the point. Apple is not interested in becoming a game platform rival. They are only interested in becoming the streaming media box of choice.
...when the watchers hide behind masks? Anyone taking this whole thing seriously is fooling themselves. (Hint: The 24 hour news cycle)