No, the goal *should* be to eliminate the risk, with the maturity to know that it never will be. You start aiming to only "mitigate" risk, and you start having a few who take it to heart, but many who use the ambiguity to cut corners and trade risk for profit. Stick with the unambiguous goal, and a realistic understanding of what it means.
LG is preforming a bait-and-switch with their line of 32-42 LED LCD displays. Worth looking into VA vs. IPS, if you're looking to buy. Quite infuriating.
As many in the U.S. (and elsewhere?) have probably seen, they've been trying to market the BlackBerry as a social networks platform... quite explicitly at least, for "flirting." You know, the very unrealistic ads featuring hipster boys and girls raving about how BBM lets them connect. (Finally!)
Anyway, it's a huge departure from what people associate with BB and is obviously a bit of a desperation tactic. You can bet they're trying to cash in on the affluent youth, but if it's backfiring, it may alienate the corporate buyers from investing in the newer BB models.
A risky move, and unfortunately for RIM, it doesn't look like it will work.
They're concerned with the varying percentage of kids whose parents won't take the time / know better to talk to them and give context, etc. Ideally, sure, all the world's parents would have a bit of guidance and insight for each of the things their kids see/hear/experience, but we know that's not the case.
I'm usually all-for telling parents to get their shit in order and to do a good job raising their kids, but going on about the ideal situation is to miss some valuable details about what effect these things have on development. We should accept the fact that many, many families lack parental guidance, and the results should be studied and understood.
I bet it had a lot less to do with class economics and much more to do with "trusting the Japanese to have a handle on things."
Remember, we did send them something on the day-of, according to Sec. Clinton... who knows what it was, though.
And some time from now, they will begin selling their own robots to America, only with better efficiency and higher standards. Yes, I made a Detroit joke.
What? It's not like there's anyone left there to feel bad!
Indeed, Playstation Network is free for online games and Netflix... only very few titles are on their "Plus" membership tier, and even then, you can buy those one-off without signing up for the whole year. And if you do, it's cheaper than Gold membership. For how much they screw over some of their customers, they also take pretty good care of the majority, relatively speaking.
Moreover, this really isn't "monitoring anything, [...] in realtime." The map they set up requires manual, voluntary data input. Open to abuse, and certainly not crowd-sourcing in the sense of remote monitoring.
Pretty much, yeah. The fact that it (was) there didn't matter to me - it wasn't a concern. But now that it's gone, there's a certain measure of "yeah, take that, you bigots," belying the fact that it's just another increment towards "Apple's Internet," which is different from Android's, Comcast's, Etc. "Walled gardens" might mean something after all. I guess you gotta go with the best one... does cleaning up bigotry (bending to the pressure) count in their favor or not?
Well one of the points that Lt. Colonel makes in the article is that they have rules that restrain themselves from using propaganda against American civilians. So I guess, in that sense, they're not really lobbyists.
This is another example of a slow series of changes over there. Is it time to regard Apple with contempt? Do they still "know what they are doing?" How much confidence has been lost over the last few quarters?
Especially when you consider their plans for cloud computing and recent developments with their iOS restrictions and deployment of the App Store on X, It's hard to not see Apple's actions here as pushing toward that centralized, controlled future they chuckled at in that famous commercial of theirs.
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No, the goal *should* be to eliminate the risk, with the maturity to know that it never will be. You start aiming to only "mitigate" risk, and you start having a few who take it to heart, but many who use the ambiguity to cut corners and trade risk for profit. Stick with the unambiguous goal, and a realistic understanding of what it means.
Otherwise, I agree with you.
LG is preforming a bait-and-switch with their line of 32-42 LED LCD displays. Worth looking into VA vs. IPS, if you're looking to buy. Quite infuriating.
As many in the U.S. (and elsewhere?) have probably seen, they've been trying to market the BlackBerry as a social networks platform... quite explicitly at least, for "flirting." You know, the very unrealistic ads featuring hipster boys and girls raving about how BBM lets them connect. (Finally!)
Anyway, it's a huge departure from what people associate with BB and is obviously a bit of a desperation tactic. You can bet they're trying to cash in on the affluent youth, but if it's backfiring, it may alienate the corporate buyers from investing in the newer BB models.
A risky move, and unfortunately for RIM, it doesn't look like it will work.
Kano!
Liu Kang!
Raiden!
Johnny Cage!
Scorpion!
Sub-Zero!
Sonya!
They're concerned with the varying percentage of kids whose parents won't take the time / know better to talk to them and give context, etc. Ideally, sure, all the world's parents would have a bit of guidance and insight for each of the things their kids see/hear/experience, but we know that's not the case.
I'm usually all-for telling parents to get their shit in order and to do a good job raising their kids, but going on about the ideal situation is to miss some valuable details about what effect these things have on development. We should accept the fact that many, many families lack parental guidance, and the results should be studied and understood.
I bet it had a lot less to do with class economics and much more to do with "trusting the Japanese to have a handle on things."
Remember, we did send them something on the day-of, according to Sec. Clinton... who knows what it was, though.
And some time from now, they will begin selling their own robots to America, only with better efficiency and higher standards.
Yes, I made a Detroit joke.
What? It's not like there's anyone left there to feel bad!
Indeed, Playstation Network is free for online games and Netflix... only very few titles are on their "Plus" membership tier, and even then, you can buy those one-off without signing up for the whole year. And if you do, it's cheaper than Gold membership. For how much they screw over some of their customers, they also take pretty good care of the majority, relatively speaking.
What about lead panties for the whole Tokyo vending machine market?
Oooh, such a tough one.
Moreover, this really isn't "monitoring anything, [...] in realtime." The map they set up requires manual, voluntary data input. Open to abuse, and certainly not crowd-sourcing in the sense of remote monitoring.
...slippery slope... something about smartphones... standard fud... etc. etc.
Because you don't have to pay for it.
"Well, gentlemen, we either need to cut the expense accounts or throw up a paywall that will add more revenue."
Paywalls fail.
Pretty much, yeah. The fact that it (was) there didn't matter to me - it wasn't a concern. But now that it's gone, there's a certain measure of "yeah, take that, you bigots," belying the fact that it's just another increment towards "Apple's Internet," which is different from Android's, Comcast's, Etc. "Walled gardens" might mean something after all. I guess you gotta go with the best one... does cleaning up bigotry (bending to the pressure) count in their favor or not?
Edison was a hack!
I'm glad my computer can't see how unexcited I am for this technology. Poor little guy. Doesn't have any idea.
They lead the world in even in this?
He self-proclaims himself to be an Inclusionist there. Hah.
Well one of the points that Lt. Colonel makes in the article is that they have rules that restrain themselves from using propaganda against American civilians. So I guess, in that sense, they're not really lobbyists.
Yeah, no more screwin' around... time to get serious.
Where do we file bug reports?
Too many precedents have been set lately by allowing manufacturers/distributors to control content. And not just in publishing, either.
This is something from Freelancer, isn't it?
This is another example of a slow series of changes over there. Is it time to regard Apple with contempt? Do they still "know what they are doing?" How much confidence has been lost over the last few quarters?
Especially when you consider their plans for cloud computing and recent developments with their iOS restrictions and deployment of the App Store on X, It's hard to not see Apple's actions here as pushing toward that centralized, controlled future they chuckled at in that famous commercial of theirs.