Sorry gang, I have to unload a bit on this one. This entire article is some brand of flamebait/troll/etc. The Borg (tm) can assist here.
What he thinks is irrelevant. What matters is the law. However he is above the law somehow by getting explicit permission to blatantly infringe. "Hai. Thank you for your article. Enjoy the $1,000 in ad revenue. Here is your bill for $877,000 for infringements listed."
Therefore I cannot figure out exactly what is being accomplished by letting his article live. Some sort of Controlled Devil's Advocate straw man?
"Is there really no way to create a system that provides both the benefits of their "curated computing" while not bringing about the drawbacks?"
Yes. It's called Difficulty Levels in software.
Check out Open Office for Kids (Or Your Average User).
It's got an adjustable toggle for user interface difficulty. It's NOT that tough! You start on "easy", and if you think you're got stuff, you can go to "intermediate" and "advanced". So the Just Works crowd can Just Work, while you might get some support tickets for "I went to Advanced but screwed it up". But at least they knew it was their fault for taking the training wheels off. It's not "the computer is stupid".
Anyone else have any other examples? That's about the only/clearest one I can find really labeled explicitly.
20 degree tangent here, but speaking of gaming the system, some marketers are wheeling out the line "Hi, I have $Boss 's cell number but I just don't have it with me. Can you give it to me?" They're trying to game the "OMG you blocked a call to $Boss" pressure.
However, I drill back the reply "Great, so you can look his number up in your records can call him on his cell. Have a nice day."
I chose to be nice enough to reply rather than start a mod-slam on you.
I would seriously not buy an iPad 1.0 with all of its really strange limitations because there might be a better Android pad out in a few months. Fixed that for you. See that German example last month.
"The Phone Is Not The Pad". I accept the locked mentality of the iPhone because lo, I still do regard it as a *phone* that happens to be capable of nifty other stuff. I treat a Pad as a *computer* and once that usage mode switches, I hold my real computers to higher standards where Locked doesn't cut it.
You've inadvertently saved the CarbonUnit Race! Will Skynet be based on Linux?
So, it will aim a thunderstorm at your head, then go use the Thunder package manager to get all the required bolts, but the jagged ones need proper moisture and the ziggy ones need dry charged air! You're safe!
Let's back down a min from calling everything "invented". I've had "crazy muscle twitches" that were funny, but not fake.
I vaguely recall there being one such event that has to do with low magnesium.
And therein rests the second half of the argument. Sometimes we *have* cures for stuff! But since it's old enough to be cheap and not Extortionable, the reason those drug CO's have huge ad budgets is to invent *alternative* versions of the *same* drug so they can *remarket* it!
Your leg going all twitchy on you? Dig around in your vitamin collection for one with high magnesium and take 3X the standard dose. Skies Alive, THREE TIMES!? Yes... because by definition of something being available OTC it has to have a safety profile where even something like 8 times the recommended dose won't do more than make you uncomfortable in most cases. The dividing line to be Prescription Only is when the dose is calibrated sharply enough where a double dose may be tricky.
So take your 3X vitamin dose and watch your twitches go away. But that's no fun for board meetings is it?
I had basically known it, but it's still daunting to face as an actual search customer.
I like trying out freeware utilities. But sometimes it's tricky to know which are real links (could be some 15 real ones) and which are nastylinks (could be 85) for my 100-result first page of returns.
"It'd be as if you told your kid to paint a room that had just been painted last week so that he'd learn how to do it, but instead he paid a guy down the street to do it for him."
Sounds like an A to me. Oh wait, this isn't Business 101?
Sweet old Lady, got some bad breaks earlier. She became a crystal clear YouTube phenom, and then this happened:
From Wiki: Global interest in Boyle was triggered by the contrast between her powerful voice and her plain appearance on stage. The juxtaposition of the audience's first impression of her with the standing ovation she received during and after her performance led to an international media and Internet response. Within nine days of the audition, videos of Boyle -- from the show, various interviews and her 1999 rendition of "Cry Me a River" -- had been watched over 100 million times.[7] To date, her audition video has been viewed on the internet over 347 million times.[8]
Okay, the article seems a bit fuzzy but I haven't dug into the fine print of the study. But we from the computer world may think of "task" differently than the psychologists. Perhaps a better word for us is "Application", aka a whole connected series of subtasks. So I'd say your typing to slashdot is the ONLY "task" you have going. If you opened your email and worked on that, to me that would be Task/Application 2, still within "Brain Specs". So then if you were posting on a message board, per the study that's when I think it would get a little hairy, but they said "a bit muddled, not a total disaster".
However, I believe that things like chewing gum are more loaded into automatic/muscle memory areas (roughly cited source - Biology of Transcendence by Joseph Chilton Pierce). So if muscle memory is handling that one, it doesn't hit the limit of the two front line tasks. Then drawing from This Is Your Brain On Music by Daniel Levitin, music also hits different areas of the brain, and can serve to actually help some people, perhaps such as you, focus better on a different two tasks.
Health care was a pretty big fish. No one has to like the big package as it exists right now. What Obama understood is it's easier to fiddle with details once the base package is in place than to keep overcoming sinker efforts by Republicans. Various Pres's couldn't pull that off for the past 50 years.
It's the second term about Year Five that lets a Pres start showing their riskier initiatives because there's nothing left to campaign for. Maybe he'll boost some things in 2013.
I'll go a little easier on the fellow and his 100 books. It's hard to not learn at least one nifty trick per book you write. So I'm sure the guy knows a few hundred nifty tricks.
I like your last sentence better. The article tone is wrong. Instead of "the world's hardest install", it should have been a "Friday-At-7PM-at-the-bar" story over a triple beer.
"Okay guys, I know, I know, but when my special spec system crashed on install, I was kinda fried and my method was like going to New York via Alaska..."
Slashdot Mirror
Here's one -
How are mods supposed to moderate anything in this thread? The usual -1 Troll comments become Insightful!!
Sorry gang, I have to unload a bit on this one. This entire article is some brand of flamebait/troll/etc. The Borg (tm) can assist here.
What he thinks is irrelevant. What matters is the law. However he is above the law somehow by getting explicit permission to blatantly infringe. "Hai. Thank you for your article. Enjoy the $1,000 in ad revenue. Here is your bill for $877,000 for infringements listed."
Therefore I cannot figure out exactly what is being accomplished by letting his article live. Some sort of Controlled Devil's Advocate straw man?
"Is there really no way to create a system that provides both the benefits of their "curated computing" while not bringing about the drawbacks?"
Yes. It's called Difficulty Levels in software.
Check out Open Office for Kids (Or Your Average User).
It's got an adjustable toggle for user interface difficulty. It's NOT that tough! You start on "easy", and if you think you're got stuff, you can go to "intermediate" and "advanced". So the Just Works crowd can Just Work, while you might get some support tickets for "I went to Advanced but screwed it up". But at least they knew it was their fault for taking the training wheels off. It's not "the computer is stupid".
Anyone else have any other examples? That's about the only/clearest one I can find really labeled explicitly.
20 degree tangent here, but speaking of gaming the system, some marketers are wheeling out the line "Hi, I have $Boss 's cell number but I just don't have it with me. Can you give it to me?" They're trying to game the "OMG you blocked a call to $Boss" pressure.
However, I drill back the reply "Great, so you can look his number up in your records can call him on his cell. Have a nice day."
No, he means Half-$hit and Half Drek!
I know this one!
"By sending benign text to your proposed ebook and then replacing it at the last minute, someone can exploit your creation!"
Teal Deer!
Tay Zonday, is that you?
I chose to be nice enough to reply rather than start a mod-slam on you.
I would seriously not buy an iPad 1.0 with all of its really strange limitations because there might be a better Android pad out in a few months. Fixed that for you. See that German example last month.
"The Phone Is Not The Pad". I accept the locked mentality of the iPhone because lo, I still do regard it as a *phone* that happens to be capable of nifty other stuff. I treat a Pad as a *computer* and once that usage mode switches, I hold my real computers to higher standards where Locked doesn't cut it.
No no no!
You've inadvertently saved the CarbonUnit Race!
Will Skynet be based on Linux?
So, it will aim a thunderstorm at your head, then go use the Thunder package manager to get all the required bolts, but the jagged ones need proper moisture and the ziggy ones need dry charged air! You're safe!
Let's back down a min from calling everything "invented". I've had "crazy muscle twitches" that were funny, but not fake.
I vaguely recall there being one such event that has to do with low magnesium.
And therein rests the second half of the argument. Sometimes we *have* cures for stuff! But since it's old enough to be cheap and not Extortionable, the reason those drug CO's have huge ad budgets is to invent *alternative* versions of the *same* drug so they can *remarket* it!
Your leg going all twitchy on you? Dig around in your vitamin collection for one with high magnesium and take 3X the standard dose. Skies Alive, THREE TIMES!? Yes... because by definition of something being available OTC it has to have a safety profile where even something like 8 times the recommended dose won't do more than make you uncomfortable in most cases. The dividing line to be Prescription Only is when the dose is calibrated sharply enough where a double dose may be tricky.
So take your 3X vitamin dose and watch your twitches go away. But that's no fun for board meetings is it?
I have a question.
What is http://hackerkey.com/ and why can't I get to it?
Sorry, 'www.hackerkey.com' does not exist or is not available.
I don't get it.
Won't the spammers just adopt sigs?
Bessie.
I had basically known it, but it's still daunting to face as an actual search customer.
I like trying out freeware utilities. But sometimes it's tricky to know which are real links (could be some 15 real ones) and which are nastylinks (could be 85) for my 100-result first page of returns.
"It'd be as if you told your kid to paint a room that had just been painted last week so that he'd learn how to do it, but instead he paid a guy down the street to do it for him."
Sounds like an A to me. Oh wait, this isn't Business 101?
Susan Boyle.
Sweet old Lady, got some bad breaks earlier.
She became a crystal clear YouTube phenom, and then this happened:
From Wiki:
Global interest in Boyle was triggered by the contrast between her powerful voice and her plain appearance on stage. The juxtaposition of the audience's first impression of her with the standing ovation she received during and after her performance led to an international media and Internet response. Within nine days of the audition, videos of Boyle -- from the show, various interviews and her 1999 rendition of "Cry Me a River" -- had been watched over 100 million times.[7] To date, her audition video has been viewed on the internet over 347 million times.[8]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Boyle
And of course that episode was not bought 347 million times.
So that's the absolute end of the line of the RIAA hardliner tactics.
Copyright/trademark?
Better minds than I would know, but declaring something NotArt might have legal ramifications. But good or evil?
Nice tip. That's a pretty good new source for my collection!
Okay, the article seems a bit fuzzy but I haven't dug into the fine print of the study. But we from the computer world may think of "task" differently than the psychologists. Perhaps a better word for us is "Application", aka a whole connected series of subtasks. So I'd say your typing to slashdot is the ONLY "task" you have going. If you opened your email and worked on that, to me that would be Task/Application 2, still within "Brain Specs". So then if you were posting on a message board, per the study that's when I think it would get a little hairy, but they said "a bit muddled, not a total disaster".
However, I believe that things like chewing gum are more loaded into automatic/muscle memory areas (roughly cited source - Biology of Transcendence by Joseph Chilton Pierce). So if muscle memory is handling that one, it doesn't hit the limit of the two front line tasks. Then drawing from This Is Your Brain On Music by Daniel Levitin, music also hits different areas of the brain, and can serve to actually help some people, perhaps such as you, focus better on a different two tasks.
Health care was a pretty big fish. No one has to like the big package as it exists right now. What Obama understood is it's easier to fiddle with details once the base package is in place than to keep overcoming sinker efforts by Republicans. Various Pres's couldn't pull that off for the past 50 years.
It's the second term about Year Five that lets a Pres start showing their riskier initiatives because there's nothing left to campaign for. Maybe he'll boost some things in 2013.
Have you seen the number of popups Pr0n pages spawn? Perhaps you mean $10 (YourCurrencyMayVary) per popup!
To the tune of a certain dance:
Anonymous! Anonymous! Anonymous! Anonymous!
Anonymous! Anonymous! Anonymous! Anonymous!
Anonymous! Anonymous! Anonymous! Anonymous!
Anonymous! Anonymous! Anonymous! Anonymous!
Let's keep this right! Come on!
No, there was one legitimate copy of the data, but it was multiplied several thousand times!
I'll go a little easier on the fellow and his 100 books. It's hard to not learn at least one nifty trick per book you write. So I'm sure the guy knows a few hundred nifty tricks.
I like your last sentence better. The article tone is wrong. Instead of "the world's hardest install", it should have been a "Friday-At-7PM-at-the-bar" story over a triple beer.
"Okay guys, I know, I know, but when my special spec system crashed on install, I was kinda fried and my method was like going to New York via Alaska..."