You're right that it's not discrimination so much as managers who want to pay less, but you're wrong to suggest that it's a cost-quality trade-off that's "not worth paying extra for." The real issue is that companies want everyone the same (just another cog) and they don't expect IT Managers to judge good programmers from bad. Managers get blame for paying too much, but not for hiring a poor performing employee. If they hire cheap they can't be blamed; if they hire expensive then they are responsible.
If anyone thinks this is the first collaboration between Google and the NSA, I've got a wall in China I want to sell you.
I know you're joking but it's true, so really: The US has decided to publicly announce collaboration between Google and the NSA. It's Diplomacy by other means.
There's a problem for those who aren't interested in sports, because unlike national healthcare, I can't ignore it.
I know all the top headlines, I can't bring myself to set aside time to study sports. It's so painfully boring to read about sets of people reperforming the same actions every week, every year. They even attach numbers to the repetition and find amazement and wonder in it. All I see is that somebody put a ball through the hoop...AGAIN, what makes it different this time? They do it all the time!
Nobody wants to talk to me about the news, and nobody wants to hear me talk to them about it. But sports? It's/everywhere/, and I have to either study it, or sit there numbly while everybody else bonds and networks around me.
Many people feel this way about politics. Seriously. Another politician said or did blah/blah/blah "...AGAIN, what makes it different this time? They do it all the time!" And you can ignore National Healthcare: you don't have any influence and when changes finally happen years from now, you'll be told and told and told about it. You could argue that healthcare will eventually cause some sort of change in your life, but the new stadium they're spending your tax dollars on will affect your life too. And if you think about it in social, personal terms, sports has a big influence on your life even if you don't follow it. Personally I don't think it's right to ignore politics and be cynical about it, but it's easy to live that way, and hard to argue against.
The proliferation of game distribution platforms is very annoying. Which is why I am the CEO of a company that is introducing an innovative new product that distributes and manages game distribution platforms.
Bittorrent should be counted for the another reason: if someone is taking the time to download it we can be very sure they are watching it, unlike the TV show that may be on without anybody paying attention. Turing that interest into revenue is still a challenge, but it's not made harder by counting torrents; it wouldn't condone or justify torrents only make the rating numbers more accurate.
* All existing websites would need to be retrofitted to host.swf (.flv?) movies differently
No, just enough of the big sites like Youtube. If a Flash replacement isn't advanced enough to do this it won't get widely used, but most people don't care about the little sites.
* All popular browsers would need to embrace HTML5 video playback *Microsoft would have to emphasize this over their own product. * Adobe would have to emphasize this over their own product.
uh... do you think Flash would magically disappear if a competitor arrives?
* The marketing department being utilized for this tech (at this time that would be 'no one') would have to be better funded and more highly motivated than both the Microsoft and Adobe marketing departments
If Firefox included it by default, it would be in almost 1/4 of all browsers globally. Sites will pay attention to that.
* The vast majority of web users would have to care.
No, they just have to use a modern Free browser that includes a reasonable Flash replacement.
A Firefox embedded implementation would almost certainly allow users to switch to a different plug-in, like the canonical Adobe version. Change does happen; it's not impossible to replace Flash and there is no prerequisite for 100% compatibility.
"You may also have web-based applications that don't work well, or even at all, unless they are accessed with Internet Explorer. That's not going to be good for productivity. And finally, what if your replacement browser itself turns out to contain a vulnerability? Are you going to switch again?"
That's the sort of shallow, thoughtless attitude that got you stuck with IE6 in the first place.
As said below, never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Must be really easy to just beat you in the face, and say “Ooops, I’m sorry, I’m so st00pid! *drool*”
I call bullshit on that rule.
My rule: Don’t make judgements at all (either way), about things that you just don’t know.
How about: Don't mistake organizational stupidity for individual stupidity. This isn't the case of a single bad coder making a mistake, this is an organization that's chosen to how much effort to apply. How much testing and review? What failsafe's, logging and active monitoring? Will options for feedback be accessible and responsive? Stupidity and Malice aren't mutually exclusive for an individual, and certainly not for an organization.
... Chinese politics and all for the past 15 (or 65) years.
US politics towards China for 50 years has been engagement then change. The argument was: We won't get China to change it's policies if we don't do business with them.
So why should anyone find it surprising that after 50 years of business "engagement", the push for change is in the veneer of business? Consider: an *immediate* response from the US Secretary of State. 20+ multinationals attacked, it's not just Google. The last decade has seen political hearings on Chinese laptop manufacturers, internet attacks, Chinese held US debt, Chinese censorship and the role of US companies, etc...
People also aren't acknowledging the power of Google and other multinationals in China. When big companies what change in the US they go out and get it. When they want change in China they'll do the same thing. The form is just different then campaign contributions.
Impossible, unless all apps are required to be open source...
Not true. You can have binary only repositories. Ubuntu 9.10 has a "partner" repository from which you can install Flash, and interestingly, you can add it to your sources list by clicking a link in Firefox.
An iPhone-like vetting process would be "we'll reject it if we don't like the look of it". How about "Linux-distro style vetting process"?
Multiple repositories solve part of the problem, but more then just vetting the repository as a whole we need to score/rank/blacklist/require individual applications and authors. What friends think of an application is much more important than the "average" score of everyone. IT departments need to add/update/remove applications for workers phones, but also let the end user manage applications. Ban lists need to be available in a form that lets the end user (or their tech. support) decide what to trust.
It's amazing that such a big industry has such crappy tools to manage applications. Making things "just work" for the end user does not need to mean a monopoly or tyrant controlling the (only) store.
Checkout 80225 in Denver - small grey square east of down town above the "L" for Lakewood. It looks like just one persons queue; titles from the same series, common sense of humour, etc... Plus, according to this random page there's only one person living in that zip code. I think we have winner for this round of "thoughtless privacy invasion".
Most watched for 55450 is Battlestar Galactica season 3 and nothing else. It's the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport; on the map it's the empty grey area south of the cities. Maybe this is TSA homework?
Free digital copy of "Blade Runner" with every Nexus One (director's cut, of course). Google gets to demo the phones' video chops and gets the coolness cred, PKD's heirs get a chunk of the royalties. Win-win.
The royalty money would have come from somewhere... you do understand that "free" doesn't mean that money just materializes, right? Do you want the price raised to cover this "free" movie, or should Google lose some profit to pay these trolls?
I should pay my plumber every time I flush, forever. And, I should pay some carpenter every time I go up or down "their" stairs. Its not fair that they don't have a perpetual revenue stream from work they did in the past.
This is a terrible argument. Not to defend the **AA, but other workers could license their work so that you had to, for example, pay each time you flush. Nobody would buy a pay-per-flush toilet for their home, but the **AA has demonstrated that people will license their products, and is now asking for protection (pun intended.) This isn't the case for plumbers who could theoretically demand protection for a non-existent market. We could make an analogy to the auto industry and argue that people are required to have their emissions checked, so why shouldn't they be required to have their digital library checked?
You won't just have the option to prove who you are (or have the "proof" stolen), but be required to identify yourself by law. All Identity systems have worked like this: made for smaller/local problems, the identity system is expanded to general use, then mandated for more and more things.
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A pig and a chicken are walking down a road. The chicken looks at the pig and says, "Hey, why don't we open a restaurant?" The pig looks back at the chicken and says, "Good idea, what do you want to call it?" The chicken thinks about it and says, "Why don't we call it 'Ham and Eggs'?" "I don't think so," says the pig, "I'd be committed, but you'd only be involved."
If the internet went all Silverlight in the next few years, Google would be dead. So they're committed to an open internet. Witness Chrome, ChromeOS and Android, all of which are made to keep the internet an open platform. Not a Google-controlled locked-down internet, like Microsoft has consistently tried to create (MSN, IE, ActiveX, Silverlight, etc...), but an open platform.
Well since all software is math, this would effectively ban all software patents.
Correspondence is not equivalence. If you digitize the Mona Lisa you could say it's a binary string, or a number, or an image, or the definition of a Turing machine. The context is what defines the significance. Saying that every grain of sand on a beach has a corresponding number doesn't mean that a sandy beach is really just a bunch of numbers, and saying that every computer program has a corresponding mathematical algorithm doesn't mean that computer programming is just mathematics.
None of that means the USPO won't take the chance to stop patenting software, but that'll be a political decision, not something based on an abstract correspondence.
I installed Flash through the website with the "Ubuntu Partners Channel" on 9.10 and it was really easy. The partners channel looks like just another apt source. It'll be interesting to see if upgrades "just work".
Exactly: there is no communication to the AD makers about which AD's go to far. Ironic that communication between advertiser and their audience is the problem.
Don't buy crap. Period. It does not affect me in the least that everyone else around me is wasting their money on crap.
That's just wrong. What's made in a free market is what most people choose. If people buy big gas-guzzling cars, then that's what the industry makes, and what you have to choose from. The rest is outliers. And while there may be a few other options, or not buying at all, you can't say that what "everyone else around me is wasting their money on"... "does not affect me in the least". Since teenagers are the "everyone else", and games don't matter much, or last very long, we can't count on the market to provide sufficient resistance to the "crap".
Even if Slashdot added a 'short URL link' feature for people to read over the phone, most people wouldn't know how to find it - there's no standard mechanism to expose or relate such a thing.
Wouldn't it be easier to just change all the phones into computers?
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You're right that it's not discrimination so much as managers who want to pay less, but you're wrong to suggest that it's a cost-quality trade-off that's "not worth paying extra for." The real issue is that companies want everyone the same (just another cog) and they don't expect IT Managers to judge good programmers from bad. Managers get blame for paying too much, but not for hiring a poor performing employee. If they hire cheap they can't be blamed; if they hire expensive then they are responsible.
If anyone thinks this is the first collaboration between Google and the NSA, I've got a wall in China I want to sell you.
I know you're joking but it's true, so really: The US has decided to publicly announce collaboration between Google and the NSA. It's Diplomacy by other means.
There's a problem for those who aren't interested in sports, because unlike national healthcare, I can't ignore it.
I know all the top headlines, I can't bring myself to set aside time to study sports. It's so painfully boring to read about sets of people reperforming the same actions every week, every year. They even attach numbers to the repetition and find amazement and wonder in it. All I see is that somebody put a ball through the hoop...AGAIN, what makes it different this time? They do it all the time!
Nobody wants to talk to me about the news, and nobody wants to hear me talk to them about it. But sports? It's /everywhere/, and I have to either study it, or sit there numbly while everybody else bonds and networks around me.
Many people feel this way about politics. Seriously. Another politician said or did blah/blah/blah "...AGAIN, what makes it different this time? They do it all the time!" And you can ignore National Healthcare: you don't have any influence and when changes finally happen years from now, you'll be told and told and told about it. You could argue that healthcare will eventually cause some sort of change in your life, but the new stadium they're spending your tax dollars on will affect your life too. And if you think about it in social, personal terms, sports has a big influence on your life even if you don't follow it. Personally I don't think it's right to ignore politics and be cynical about it, but it's easy to live that way, and hard to argue against.
Well not really, they would rather ban Monopoly and its ... "Get out of jail" card ...
That could give ideas to inmates.
Also, they should ban the Dictionary
The proliferation of game distribution platforms is very annoying. Which is why I am the CEO of a company that is introducing an innovative new product that distributes and manages game distribution platforms.
So can I play meta-games on this new platform?
Bittorrent should be counted for the another reason: if someone is taking the time to download it we can be very sure they are watching it, unlike the TV show that may be on without anybody paying attention. Turing that interest into revenue is still a challenge, but it's not made harder by counting torrents; it wouldn't condone or justify torrents only make the rating numbers more accurate.
* All existing websites would need to be retrofitted to host .swf (.flv?) movies differently
No, just enough of the big sites like Youtube. If a Flash replacement isn't advanced enough to do this it won't get widely used, but most people don't care about the little sites.
* All popular browsers would need to embrace HTML5 video playback *Microsoft would have to emphasize this over their own product. * Adobe would have to emphasize this over their own product.
uh... do you think Flash would magically disappear if a competitor arrives?
* The marketing department being utilized for this tech (at this time that would be 'no one') would have to be better funded and more highly motivated than both the Microsoft and Adobe marketing departments
If Firefox included it by default, it would be in almost 1/4 of all browsers globally. Sites will pay attention to that.
* The vast majority of web users would have to care.
No, they just have to use a modern Free browser that includes a reasonable Flash replacement.
A Firefox embedded implementation would almost certainly allow users to switch to a different plug-in, like the canonical Adobe version. Change does happen; it's not impossible to replace Flash and there is no prerequisite for 100% compatibility.
"You may also have web-based applications that don't work well, or even at all, unless they are accessed with Internet Explorer. That's not going to be good for productivity. And finally, what if your replacement browser itself turns out to contain a vulnerability? Are you going to switch again?"
That's the sort of shallow, thoughtless attitude that got you stuck with IE6 in the first place.
As said below, never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Must be really easy to just beat you in the face, and say “Ooops, I’m sorry, I’m so st00pid! *drool*” I call bullshit on that rule.
My rule: Don’t make judgements at all (either way), about things that you just don’t know.
How about: Don't mistake organizational stupidity for individual stupidity. This isn't the case of a single bad coder making a mistake, this is an organization that's chosen to how much effort to apply. How much testing and review? What failsafe's, logging and active monitoring? Will options for feedback be accessible and responsive? Stupidity and Malice aren't mutually exclusive for an individual, and certainly not for an organization.
... Chinese politics and all for the past 15 (or 65) years.
US politics towards China for 50 years has been engagement then change. The argument was: We won't get China to change it's policies if we don't do business with them.
So why should anyone find it surprising that after 50 years of business "engagement", the push for change is in the veneer of business? Consider: an *immediate* response from the US Secretary of State. 20+ multinationals attacked, it's not just Google. The last decade has seen political hearings on Chinese laptop manufacturers, internet attacks, Chinese held US debt, Chinese censorship and the role of US companies, etc...
People also aren't acknowledging the power of Google and other multinationals in China. When big companies what change in the US they go out and get it. When they want change in China they'll do the same thing. The form is just different then campaign contributions.
How about "Linux-distro style vetting process"?
Impossible, unless all apps are required to be open source ...
Not true. You can have binary only repositories. Ubuntu 9.10 has a "partner" repository from which you can install Flash, and interestingly, you can add it to your sources list by clicking a link in Firefox.
An iPhone-like vetting process would be "we'll reject it if we don't like the look of it". How about "Linux-distro style vetting process"?
Multiple repositories solve part of the problem, but more then just vetting the repository as a whole we need to score/rank/blacklist/require individual applications and authors. What friends think of an application is much more important than the "average" score of everyone. IT departments need to add/update/remove applications for workers phones, but also let the end user manage applications. Ban lists need to be available in a form that lets the end user (or their tech. support) decide what to trust.
It's amazing that such a big industry has such crappy tools to manage applications. Making things "just work" for the end user does not need to mean a monopoly or tyrant controlling the (only) store.
Checkout 80225 in Denver - small grey square east of down town above the "L" for Lakewood. It looks like just one persons queue; titles from the same series, common sense of humour, etc... Plus, according to this random page there's only one person living in that zip code. I think we have winner for this round of "thoughtless privacy invasion".
Most watched for 55450 is Battlestar Galactica season 3 and nothing else. It's the Minneapolis/St. Paul airport; on the map it's the empty grey area south of the cities. Maybe this is TSA homework?
Free digital copy of "Blade Runner" with every Nexus One (director's cut, of course). Google gets to demo the phones' video chops and gets the coolness cred, PKD's heirs get a chunk of the royalties. Win-win.
The royalty money would have come from somewhere... you do understand that "free" doesn't mean that money just materializes, right? Do you want the price raised to cover this "free" movie, or should Google lose some profit to pay these trolls?
... and the extra publicity is likely to far outweigh any boycott.
This really emphasizes that the "estate" has no creative role, and that copyright no longer promotes "the progress of science and useful arts."
I should pay my plumber every time I flush, forever. And, I should pay some carpenter every time I go up or down "their" stairs. Its not fair that they don't have a perpetual revenue stream from work they did in the past.
This is a terrible argument. Not to defend the **AA, but other workers could license their work so that you had to, for example, pay each time you flush. Nobody would buy a pay-per-flush toilet for their home, but the **AA has demonstrated that people will license their products, and is now asking for protection (pun intended.) This isn't the case for plumbers who could theoretically demand protection for a non-existent market. We could make an analogy to the auto industry and argue that people are required to have their emissions checked, so why shouldn't they be required to have their digital library checked?
Identity Standard == Identity Mandate
You won't just have the option to prove who you are (or have the "proof" stolen), but be required to identify yourself by law. All Identity systems have worked like this: made for smaller/local problems, the identity system is expanded to general use, then mandated for more and more things.
A pig and a chicken are walking down a road. The chicken looks at the pig and says, "Hey, why don't we open a restaurant?" The pig looks back at the chicken and says, "Good idea, what do you want to call it?" The chicken thinks about it and says, "Why don't we call it 'Ham and Eggs'?" "I don't think so," says the pig, "I'd be committed, but you'd only be involved."
If the internet went all Silverlight in the next few years, Google would be dead. So they're committed to an open internet. Witness Chrome, ChromeOS and Android, all of which are made to keep the internet an open platform. Not a Google-controlled locked-down internet, like Microsoft has consistently tried to create (MSN, IE, ActiveX, Silverlight, etc...), but an open platform.
Well since all software is math, this would effectively ban all software patents.
Correspondence is not equivalence. If you digitize the Mona Lisa you could say it's a binary string, or a number, or an image, or the definition of a Turing machine. The context is what defines the significance. Saying that every grain of sand on a beach has a corresponding number doesn't mean that a sandy beach is really just a bunch of numbers, and saying that every computer program has a corresponding mathematical algorithm doesn't mean that computer programming is just mathematics.
None of that means the USPO won't take the chance to stop patenting software, but that'll be a political decision, not something based on an abstract correspondence.
I installed Flash through the website with the "Ubuntu Partners Channel" on 9.10 and it was really easy. The partners channel looks like just another apt source. It'll be interesting to see if upgrades "just work".
Exactly: there is no communication to the AD makers about which AD's go to far. Ironic that communication between advertiser and their audience is the problem.
Don't buy crap. Period. It does not affect me in the least that everyone else around me is wasting their money on crap.
That's just wrong. What's made in a free market is what most people choose. If people buy big gas-guzzling cars, then that's what the industry makes, and what you have to choose from. The rest is outliers. And while there may be a few other options, or not buying at all, you can't say that what "everyone else around me is wasting their money on" ... "does not affect me in the least". Since teenagers are the "everyone else", and games don't matter much, or last very long, we can't count on the market to provide sufficient resistance to the "crap".
Even if Slashdot added a 'short URL link' feature for people to read over the phone, most people wouldn't know how to find it - there's no standard mechanism to expose or relate such a thing.
Wouldn't it be easier to just change all the phones into computers?
I don't understand the TLA you used..!?