Can't wait until Ubuntu starts altering grep and find to start using libcurl to report search terms to amazon. Maybe even return ads to a new IO stream: stdadvert.
First of all, do most people actually have meaningful secrets? I doubt it.
Meaningful to whom? Russia? China? Al-Qaeda? The United States? Their rival from years ago who still holds a grudge? Their boss? Old SO's? Current SO's? Random dude who wants to abuse their credit? Themselves?
I doubt most people's secrets will ruin their nation if exposed, but most will ruin (or drastically alter) their own lives; else why keep them secret in the first place?
Note the wording: Include Online Search Results =/= Search Online Also They can still search and give amazon et al your searches, but they just won't show you the results.
Do you have a shred of evidence that this is actually how the privacy settings work?
No, but if you'll note my wording, I don't exactly accuse them of doing so. I'm just pointing out that the phrasing allows for things which people don't expect at first glance. It should be phrased more clearly one way or the other.
Note the wording:
Include Online Search Results =/= Search Online Also
They can still search and give amazon et al your searches, but they just won't show you the results.
As for Canonical, I think that they didn't have, as Sherlock Holmes once put it, 'the supreme gift of an artist - the idea of when to stop, and hence, ruined everything'. They were doing fine w/ GNOME2, and they could have introduced Unity as a new 'try-it-out' option for their new version, instead of deprecating GNOME2 as a whole. Just like Microsoft could have done w/ Metro.
Exactly. They were trying to court the corporate world's money with "Look at us, we're totally unstable and you can't plan anything around our distro. Please pay us for support contracts".
More than half of what made planescape torment was the planescape setting. "$unfamiliar_fantasy_setting torment" sounds less likely to draw my dollars (not that I'd pay for a DRM crippled planescape game anyway).
Thunderbird has moved to monthly releases, which are more maintenance releases containing security fixes but little functional change â" and little new development.
You know what else hasn't had much functional change in a while but I still use regularly? Wow, that really sounds like the beginning to a "your mom" joke. But I digress. I'm talking about furniture. Tables, wooden chairs, desks. Bookshelves too. To bring it back around to written communication, my postal mailbox hasn't upgraded in the past T-bird release cycle. When something's not broken, don't fix it.
Bitching to a company that clearly doesn't care won't help (because YOU AREN'T BUYING THEIR NEW GAMES!)
But if enough people are playing the old games still, they don't have to go through the expense of making new ones. They could use the PBS model: "Attention valued players of $GAME, our servers and bandwidth cost money, and Mitt Romney threatened to eat Big Bird for Thanksgiving. Please donate $2,000,000 so that we can keep the servers running for another year." When the money stream finally dries up, they can let it die with very little ill-will.
"Valve promised that they'll unlock all the 'requires server to install' bits when/if they go under!"
Yeah right. You think they'll spend the extra money/time it takes to do that for every game if everyone is scrambling for their own careers and/or raiding the supply closet? For any game? The fact that they made such a verbal promise is proof of bad faith (or wishful idealism on their part).
Everyone must be clamoring to sell Fish now. A smart investor buys low and sells high. A wise investor has a sandwich-heavy portfolio to protect against market crashes.
"Why won't my key work? I. I have to get inside. It's raining out here. I'll just throw a rock through my window and fix it in the morning." When you drive a friend home; make sure to give him is keys back, or he will smash his own window. Bonus points for driving him to the right house.
I would love to see the result of two of these systems in the same room, like a Furby and Siri talking to each other. On the downside, our current president's last name has the sound of a weapon in it, so would that increment his name and that weapon every time only his name was spoken? Would the SS be summarily notified?
...to have those "mystery" vaccines shot into you which were concocted in those dirty bathtubs by sub-sub-subcontractors in China --- you ever follow the current news, ever?????
Whew, for a moment there I thought my investment in tin foil stocks was a bad choice. Thank you good Sir for proving me wrong.
I believe GP is referring to the fungal meningitis infected steroid shots which were processed in a "factory" with wild birds flying (and pooping) in the rafters. The compounding center was in New England, not China.
No, hard core Baha'i have trained themselves to believe anything. Hard core Christians have trained themselves to believe the tenets of Christianity (a tautology).
That is all that patents have ever been used for since their inception. It is their primary function. Their side effect is spreading of knowledge (the eventual purpose).
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Can't wait until Ubuntu starts altering grep and find to start using libcurl to report search terms to amazon. Maybe even return ads to a new IO stream: stdadvert.
First of all, do most people actually have meaningful secrets? I doubt it.
Meaningful to whom? Russia? China? Al-Qaeda? The United States? Their rival from years ago who still holds a grudge? Their boss? Old SO's? Current SO's? Random dude who wants to abuse their credit? Themselves?
I doubt most people's secrets will ruin their nation if exposed, but most will ruin (or drastically alter) their own lives; else why keep them secret in the first place?
Note the wording: Include Online Search Results =/= Search Online Also They can still search and give amazon et al your searches, but they just won't show you the results.
Do you have a shred of evidence that this is actually how the privacy settings work?
No, but if you'll note my wording, I don't exactly accuse them of doing so. I'm just pointing out that the phrasing allows for things which people don't expect at first glance. It should be phrased more clearly one way or the other.
I'm sure they can profit purely from the data (noting emerging search trends etc).
Is Mint still an Ubuntu derivative or has it started to derive directly from Debian finally?
Note the wording:
Include Online Search Results =/= Search Online Also
They can still search and give amazon et al your searches, but they just won't show you the results.
As for Canonical, I think that they didn't have, as Sherlock Holmes once put it, 'the supreme gift of an artist - the idea of when to stop, and hence, ruined everything'. They were doing fine w/ GNOME2, and they could have introduced Unity as a new 'try-it-out' option for their new version, instead of deprecating GNOME2 as a whole. Just like Microsoft could have done w/ Metro.
Exactly. They were trying to court the corporate world's money with "Look at us, we're totally unstable and you can't plan anything around our distro. Please pay us for support contracts".
Comparing vaporware to Planescape is a great way to draw the ire of Planescape fans.
More than half of what made planescape torment was the planescape setting. "$unfamiliar_fantasy_setting torment" sounds less likely to draw my dollars (not that I'd pay for a DRM crippled planescape game anyway).
Thunderbird has moved to monthly releases, which are more maintenance releases containing security fixes but little functional change â" and little new development.
You know what else hasn't had much functional change in a while but I still use regularly? Wow, that really sounds like the beginning to a "your mom" joke. But I digress. I'm talking about furniture. Tables, wooden chairs, desks. Bookshelves too. To bring it back around to written communication, my postal mailbox hasn't upgraded in the past T-bird release cycle. When something's not broken, don't fix it.
Bitching to a company that clearly doesn't care won't help (because YOU AREN'T BUYING THEIR NEW GAMES!)
But if enough people are playing the old games still, they don't have to go through the expense of making new ones. They could use the PBS model: "Attention valued players of $GAME, our servers and bandwidth cost money, and Mitt Romney threatened to eat Big Bird for Thanksgiving. Please donate $2,000,000 so that we can keep the servers running for another year." When the money stream finally dries up, they can let it die with very little ill-will.
"Valve promised that they'll unlock all the 'requires server to install' bits when/if they go under!"
Yeah right. You think they'll spend the extra money/time it takes to do that for every game if everyone is scrambling for their own careers and/or raiding the supply closet? For any game? The fact that they made such a verbal promise is proof of bad faith (or wishful idealism on their part).
Then we'll have to make nice with Pyongyang for their Unicorn Lair.
Everybody lies. Not just politicians. Absolute statements like this are true and meaningless.
Are they always meaningless?
Everyone must be clamoring to sell Fish now. A smart investor buys low and sells high. A wise investor has a sandwich-heavy portfolio to protect against market crashes.
You just won an Internet as compensation.
"Why won't my key work? I. I have to get inside. It's raining out here. I'll just throw a rock through my window and fix it in the morning." When you drive a friend home; make sure to give him is keys back, or he will smash his own window. Bonus points for driving him to the right house.
I would love to see the result of two of these systems in the same room, like a Furby and Siri talking to each other. On the downside, our current president's last name has the sound of a weapon in it, so would that increment his name and that weapon every time only his name was spoken? Would the SS be summarily notified?
As long as the 'verts don't blow up any heads, where's the harm? /sarcasm
...to have those "mystery" vaccines shot into you which were concocted in those dirty bathtubs by sub-sub-subcontractors in China --- you ever follow the current news, ever?????
Whew, for a moment there I thought my investment in tin foil stocks was a bad choice. Thank you good Sir for proving me wrong.
I believe GP is referring to the fungal meningitis infected steroid shots which were processed in a "factory" with wild birds flying (and pooping) in the rafters. The compounding center was in New England, not China.
Where will the majority of the folks go? You know, the educated religious people???
North, according to GP
us educated, non secular folk go north
That's not really an option. You'll have a shadow account for life.
No, hard core Baha'i have trained themselves to believe anything. Hard core Christians have trained themselves to believe the tenets of Christianity (a tautology).
That is all that patents have ever been used for since their inception. It is their primary function. Their side effect is spreading of knowledge (the eventual purpose).
Hey, eminent domain means they have to pay us fair market value for Earth.