As always, the third 50% is desperate speculation about what the other comments will be like, hoping to be modded insightful if you're right or funny if you're wrong.:)
Your "tragedy of the commons" reminds me of this anecdote:
Marketer 1: You can only sharpen a pencil so much until you can't write with it anymore, so let's not put any graphite in the last inch. - later - Marketer 2: There is no graphite in the last inch of the pencil! Why waste wood on that section? Shorten the pencil. - later - Marketer 1: You can only sharpen a pencil so much until you can't write with it anymore, so let's not put any graphite in the last inch. - later - Marketer 2: There is no graphite in the last inch of the pencil! Why waste wood on something that's not useful? Shorten the pencil. - later -...
Transistors are capable of more than on and off -- they can handle many intermediate stages of charge (fundamentally low, medium, high), which computing applications do not currently exploit. Why not add a third state by using technology that already exists? What are the benefits of quantum computing over the existing versatility of transistors?
I assume most of the devices used to access these APs will be wireless g devices. As such, won't the APs fall back to g compatibility mode, preventing you from getting either the range or the speed that wireless n offers? What's the point of having an n sender and a g receiver?
That's fine. That's great. We've pretty much agreed that no one benefits if Digg tries to defend itself in court or "die trying" or any nonsense like that. The major problem is that stories were removed that talked about Digg removing stories -- and there is exactly no legal trouble which could possibly arise from these. Digg was trying to selfishly save face and prevent smearing of the company image. This pat-pat-it's-okay-don't-cry post doesn't respond in any manner whatsoever to the claim that Digg eventually censored its users purely for its own gain and tried to do so behind their backs hoping to keep them in the dark.
FUD. What you're referring to was that, previously, the adware was not as clearly labelled - it was simply a text screen in the installer with a yes default, the kind that you click through automatically. It NEVER disguised itself, it NEVER misrepresented itself, it NEVER installed anything without you accepting the prompt, and you could ways remove it. The problem was that a lot of people were clicking through the installer and so ended up with the Adware despite it being marked -- this happened to one of my friends to whom I recommended Plus!, and I assure you that she just ran the uninstaller and it was all gone, and I went over her system pretty carefully to make sure. Listening to the users who were not even reading his installer, he made a warning in bold about the page being very important. When even that failed to catch attention, he added an image of the search bar and finally made the installer default to 'no'. As you can see, patchou NEVER tried to get anything on his users' systems without their knowledge; when he understood that what he had set up wasn't working well, he made it better, the same way any program is written. Stop spreading FUD please; get your facts straight.
Never seen him on IRC; I wouldn't know.
I've used Messenger Plus! for a very long time. The adware is clearly warned, you are given a very clear prompt whether to install or not install it, and it uninstalls cleanly, AFAIK. The guy has to get a return from his product, doesn't he? And Messnger Plus! itself, which I've been using since its early days, is a brilliant and very functional addition to MSN Messenger and I loathe using MSN without it. Sure, he might bundle Adware, but I don't think Microsoft gave him the award because of the adware, but because of the dedication and ingenuity he put forth in developing such a simple, powerful MSN addon back when Microsoft knew nothing about him, working from reverse-engineering the source and a general will to help make a good chat program better. I haven't been following MSN Plus! closely since I've moved to Linux, although it's still there in my Windows partition, but it is (or was the last time I checked) a great program with fantastic functionality, the adware portion of which is clearly marked and very easy to avoid installing, and the reasons for it as very understandable.
That would be a bad idea, because simple programs like Audacity can be used to strip things like that out in two seconds, and then the people who took out the music would explain to others how to do it. It would simply lead to the common man discovering music manipulation software out of need. Also, less tech savvy users would just seek to the start of the song.
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As always, the third 50% is desperate speculation about what the other comments will be like, hoping to be modded insightful if you're right or funny if you're wrong. :)
Your "tragedy of the commons" reminds me of this anecdote:
Marketer 1: You can only sharpen a pencil so much until you can't write with it anymore, so let's not put any graphite in the last inch.
- later -
Marketer 2: There is no graphite in the last inch of the pencil! Why waste wood on that section? Shorten the pencil.
- later -
Marketer 1: You can only sharpen a pencil so much until you can't write with it anymore, so let's not put any graphite in the last inch.
- later -
Marketer 2: There is no graphite in the last inch of the pencil! Why waste wood on something that's not useful? Shorten the pencil.
- later -...
Transistors are capable of more than on and off -- they can handle many intermediate stages of charge (fundamentally low, medium, high), which computing applications do not currently exploit. Why not add a third state by using technology that already exists? What are the benefits of quantum computing over the existing versatility of transistors?
I assume most of the devices used to access these APs will be wireless g devices. As such, won't the APs fall back to g compatibility mode, preventing you from getting either the range or the speed that wireless n offers? What's the point of having an n sender and a g receiver?
That's fine. That's great. We've pretty much agreed that no one benefits if Digg tries to defend itself in court or "die trying" or any nonsense like that. The major problem is that stories were removed that talked about Digg removing stories -- and there is exactly no legal trouble which could possibly arise from these. Digg was trying to selfishly save face and prevent smearing of the company image. This pat-pat-it's-okay-don't-cry post doesn't respond in any manner whatsoever to the claim that Digg eventually censored its users purely for its own gain and tried to do so behind their backs hoping to keep them in the dark.
FUD. What you're referring to was that, previously, the adware was not as clearly labelled - it was simply a text screen in the installer with a yes default, the kind that you click through automatically. It NEVER disguised itself, it NEVER misrepresented itself, it NEVER installed anything without you accepting the prompt, and you could ways remove it. The problem was that a lot of people were clicking through the installer and so ended up with the Adware despite it being marked -- this happened to one of my friends to whom I recommended Plus!, and I assure you that she just ran the uninstaller and it was all gone, and I went over her system pretty carefully to make sure. Listening to the users who were not even reading his installer, he made a warning in bold about the page being very important. When even that failed to catch attention, he added an image of the search bar and finally made the installer default to 'no'. As you can see, patchou NEVER tried to get anything on his users' systems without their knowledge; when he understood that what he had set up wasn't working well, he made it better, the same way any program is written. Stop spreading FUD please; get your facts straight. Never seen him on IRC; I wouldn't know.
I've used Messenger Plus! for a very long time. The adware is clearly warned, you are given a very clear prompt whether to install or not install it, and it uninstalls cleanly, AFAIK. The guy has to get a return from his product, doesn't he? And Messnger Plus! itself, which I've been using since its early days, is a brilliant and very functional addition to MSN Messenger and I loathe using MSN without it. Sure, he might bundle Adware, but I don't think Microsoft gave him the award because of the adware, but because of the dedication and ingenuity he put forth in developing such a simple, powerful MSN addon back when Microsoft knew nothing about him, working from reverse-engineering the source and a general will to help make a good chat program better. I haven't been following MSN Plus! closely since I've moved to Linux, although it's still there in my Windows partition, but it is (or was the last time I checked) a great program with fantastic functionality, the adware portion of which is clearly marked and very easy to avoid installing, and the reasons for it as very understandable.
That would be a bad idea, because simple programs like Audacity can be used to strip things like that out in two seconds, and then the people who took out the music would explain to others how to do it. It would simply lead to the common man discovering music manipulation software out of need. Also, less tech savvy users would just seek to the start of the song.