> Google succeeded by making the search place on the Internet simple to use
No. That's not why it succeeded. It gave much better results than everything else because of the PageRank: the algorithm that the founders worked on in Stanford.
Come on already with the humble modesty. Ninety nine percent of people who did their first website in 1994 did it because "they could" and the choice of the subject: themselves, was dictated by the fact that for 99% of them "myself" is the only subject they have been proficient.
The remaining 1 percent did it because they (A) knew how to HTML and where to steal inline emoticons (B) knew something else very well and wanted to spread knowledge.
Firefox is the last light in the "true" open-source, multi-platform, modern browser era
You omitted the most important thing. It's the _last_ prominent browser that is open to all adblockers.
Screw Google, screw Microsoft, screw Apple.
When and if they take last adblocker from my hand, the only website on the Internet I am going to visit will be my bank, my work and moonsighting.com (it is already infested with everything and looks like nightmare without blockers, but I will go there at least twice a year, no matter what)
Another feature is the absence of 3D. Try White House on Google Maps in 3D. The background highrises will be 3D and the whole Mall area is flat. Even the tall Washington Monument and prominent Lincoln Memorial.
Article poorly defines nevertheless real class of computers that did come to prominence.
Follow the examples, not how author poorly defines the area of these examples in words.
The key word is interaction, not the fact that computers operate in the background without people knowing it.
Fitbit in your list is the only relevant example.
What author talks about is about UI. Where UI is something that you control less and less with your conscience, and more and more by something that you can't control with your brain.
fitbit monitors your pulse and pressure and computes based on that UI. Alexa monitors your spontaneous desires to buy things during advertising seasons. Almost. You still have to add "Alexa" because lawsuits.
One of non-Tesla American car manufacturers monitors your pupil activity to detect if you are fully aware of driving while using modern car assist technologies that do not require your driving input for quite long periods of time now.
Tesla uses the touch of your hand for the same purpose, but it's the same thing.
Soon the computers will detect you shivering and warm you up with a whiff of a warm air from nearby air duct nozzle. Or detect your body head via infrared monitors and cool you off with a whiff of a gentle San Diego night breeze.
There are plenty of independent driving factors that will help these sort of technologies take larger and larger share of the market:
- aging population that (a) can't catch up with modern computing (b) loses sanity - necessity to know and exploit what consumer _really_ feels about things to personalize the marketing
These two giant factors are pretty solid.
Besides, we have already invented all these devices zillion times over in our Sci-Fi literature. This sort of computing have been a collective dream of humanity for a long time now.
I had "because we can" attitude 30 years ago. Then I got annoyed of doing things nobody else needed, because "I could". So I stopped being a scientist to become an engineer for real users. Paradoxically, eventually my h-index went up as well:-)
Science is dead. It's over. What we see as advances in science: 90% is technology, 10% is very, very, very applied science.
Nobel Prize for Graphene? Come on... We already had it for Fullerenes. Full 7A resolution structure of the ribosome? Impressive, but technical.
Science is a frontier of human practice. We have limited existence as any material object, so inevitably the frontier is limited and we are getting exponentially close to our limit.
There are zillion things in the world that could be done but are not done only because we do not have enough people to write a program for it. Another zillion things _are_ done, but we will never know about them because they are poorly marketed (and by poorly I mean "not in a really, really, really innovative way" needed to survive in the world of overproduction).
Sheikh Yaseen was very well known spiritual leader of Hamas on West bank. His schedule of going to the prayer was very well known for many years. Finally, Israelis decided to take him out. It was very easy for them.
My point is that Sheikh Yaseen did not give a damn about enemy knowing his position.
It is more useful to think of corruption without implying "government corruption". Corruption is affecting every single complex enough hierachic monolithic structure. It does not matter if it is a government or transnational corporation.
Slashdot Mirror
The Apple just leaped into the world of non Eucledean geometry
>The place to stop pollution is at the source
They are not stopping pollution, they are cleaning already polluted environment.
Said that, this is of course true:
> it is absurd to send ships thousands of miles out to sea to strain a few microparticles out of the ocean
> Google succeeded by making the search place on the Internet simple to use
No. That's not why it succeeded. It gave much better results than everything else because of the PageRank: the algorithm that the founders worked on in Stanford.
Come on already with the humble modesty. Ninety nine percent of people who did their first website in 1994 did it because "they could" and the choice of the subject: themselves, was dictated by the fact that for 99% of them "myself" is the only subject they have been proficient.
The remaining 1 percent did it because they (A) knew how to HTML and where to steal inline emoticons (B) knew something else very well and wanted to spread knowledge.
...in a such shitty neighborhood?
Any rational man would just reject both parties, but you are not
>when a small Hyundai Elantra for 9K would suffce?
MSRP: From $17,100
Why don't you piss off and never show up again, AC?
You just convinced me to buy an iPhone next time. I am looking at my 2014 phone and last time I got any was almost two years ago.
Do you have to pay extra? Are your updates filtered through the provider, can the provider block them?
Do providers put a lot of their bloatware on iPhones?
It looks like you are looking for flagship series, for which you must pay much more than for J or A.
You omitted the most important thing. It's the _last_ prominent browser that is open to all adblockers.
Screw Google, screw Microsoft, screw Apple.
When and if they take last adblocker from my hand, the only website on the Internet I am going to visit will be my bank, my work and moonsighting.com (it is already infested with everything and looks like nightmare without blockers, but I will go there at least twice a year, no matter what)
Another feature is the absence of 3D. Try White House on Google Maps in 3D. The background highrises will be 3D and the whole Mall area is flat. Even the tall Washington Monument and prominent Lincoln Memorial.
Is very simple: it's not meat. It's food with taste and texture of meat.
If you did not use non halal animal products in it, alcohol or otherwise harmful substances, it's as halal as potatoes.
Islam is a very simple religion and you do not have to be a scholar to be able to act on such simple matter.
I do not discuss it openly because pearls before swine.
Loyalty is needed in the world of silos
Article poorly defines nevertheless real class of computers that did come to prominence.
Follow the examples, not how author poorly defines the area of these examples in words.
The key word is interaction, not the fact that computers operate in the background without people knowing it.
Fitbit in your list is the only relevant example.
What author talks about is about UI. Where UI is something that you control less and less with your conscience, and more and more by something that you can't control with your brain.
fitbit monitors your pulse and pressure and computes based on that UI. Alexa monitors your spontaneous desires to buy things during advertising seasons. Almost. You still have to add "Alexa" because lawsuits.
One of non-Tesla American car manufacturers monitors your pupil activity to detect if you are fully aware of driving while using modern car assist technologies that do not require your driving input for quite long periods of time now.
Tesla uses the touch of your hand for the same purpose, but it's the same thing.
Soon the computers will detect you shivering and warm you up with a whiff of a warm air from nearby air duct nozzle. Or detect your body head via infrared monitors and cool you off with a whiff of a gentle San Diego night breeze.
There are plenty of independent driving factors that will help these sort of technologies take larger and larger share of the market:
- aging population that (a) can't catch up with modern computing (b) loses sanity
- necessity to know and exploit what consumer _really_ feels about things to personalize the marketing
These two giant factors are pretty solid.
Besides, we have already invented all these devices zillion times over in our Sci-Fi literature. This sort of computing have been a collective dream of humanity for a long time now.
I had "because we can" attitude 30 years ago. Then I got annoyed of doing things nobody else needed, because "I could". So I stopped being a scientist to become an engineer for real users. Paradoxically, eventually my h-index went up as well :-)
Science is dead. It's over. What we see as advances in science: 90% is technology, 10% is very, very, very applied science.
Nobel Prize for Graphene? Come on... We already had it for Fullerenes. Full 7A resolution structure of the ribosome? Impressive, but technical.
Science is a frontier of human practice. We have limited existence as any material object, so inevitably the frontier is limited and we are getting exponentially close to our limit.
There are zillion things in the world that could be done but are not done only because we do not have enough people to write a program for it. Another zillion things _are_ done, but we will never know about them because they are poorly marketed (and by poorly I mean "not in a really, really, really innovative way" needed to survive in the world of overproduction).
Welcome to Internet, where consumers have much more power to control the ads up to complete annihilation.
Vive les ad blockers
... to choose from.
"because we can"?
How difficult is actually to find these smudges?
I have never found a single smudge myself, only by reference
And the danger is?
You are right. I should have used the word "strategic"
Actually, correct answer is: leave Web 2.0 to academics only as it was 30 years ago
Sheikh Yaseen was very well known spiritual leader of Hamas on West bank. His schedule of going to the prayer was very well known for many years. Finally, Israelis decided to take him out. It was very easy for them.
My point is that Sheikh Yaseen did not give a damn about enemy knowing his position.
It is more useful to think of corruption without implying "government corruption". Corruption is affecting every single complex enough hierachic monolithic structure. It does not matter if it is a government or transnational corporation.