To be clear, I like the place the article is coming from (personally). However, what the author is asking is akin to saying why should we not question soldiers when they kill when we hold buddhists to such high standards.
In a utopian world, I would agree with the author. However, we do not live in utopia - we live on earth with governments of ALL countries employing as many engineers as they can afford to design better and more effecient ways to kill (and defend themselves). Some of those people are even the doctors the author is describing (building biological weapons).
For as long as humans have existed, there has been conflict. It is a basic human right to have the ability to defend yourself (as a person or community) from agressors and it is these problems that engineers are working to solve.
... I just switched back to Firefox after years with Chrome. The ol' girl has just gotten so good in these last few version;...
Interestingly enough, I have just recently done the same. Don't get me wrong - Chrome is a great browser by all means. From a technical standpoint, I view them both as equals. However, given two equals, I will choose the browser that does not nag me to log into a Google account that I do not otherwise need "for a better experience".
Or you can try actually learning the new system - it really is better. I personally do not want to go back to the days of GNOME 2 or Windows XP. Have you actually tried it for any meaningful lenght of time? I mean seriously. You can get to all of your regular applications with a gesture to the left of the screen and a click. Another gesture gets you into a list of all of applications that you can then filter. Switching desktops is also trivial. Move forward, not back.
People put a lot of time into engineering and designing GNOME3 to be an elegant desktop solution that works great. What they did not account for was pig headed, stubborn, unwilling to learn users who wanted their knock-off of Windows XP back. Microsoft is going through this same backlash now for innovating with Windows 8. Same thing - you can now get to almost everything in a click - seemless UI. How do people react? "Give merh mah AXE PEE back!!!".
Seriously, people suck. I am grateful for both the GNOME and Microsoft people actually trying to innovate in the desktop area.
In down time it gets scary. You have a site that is losing 100K per minute because it is down. The old way takes 2-3 min to fix the issue. once your tools are hidden you are on a 30 minute google session to find out how to do what you have been doing forever. 3 million dollars out the window for a single admin on a single outage. I had a site that cost that when it went down.
World wide, I would not be at all shocked if this causes more than a trillion dollars in hidden and obvious losses. I'm sure the R2 removal of classic did.
It maybe that in the future we just have to change the windows UI from explorer to Powershell so our tools stop getting hidden every new version of Windows.
Are you an accountant for the MPAA or RIAA? I'd love to know where your calculations come from.
Seems to be. While working for a Japanese customer, they didn't take me serious 'til I brought our utility man along who was close to retirement and told them he's my superior. Everything went fine from that moment onwards. He didn't know anything about the matter at hand, but all he really had to do was to nod from time to time.
The really sad part about this is the fact that the only older person you could muster was the utility guy... Your company has no adult supervision?
Any time any company or organization markets itself as "the [insert adjective] [insert proper noun] alternative for the [insert other proper noun]" the group is destined to failure. The issue is, at its heart, where the company is coming from. Rather than trying to invent a great music/video player, they are trying to invent an iTunes (or anything else) clone. Please STOP! Go invent a great, open source, cross platform music player without looking at iTunes and people will come.
Don't believe me? In the electronic music community, there is a synth called Zebra 2. Its from a company run and developed entirely by one guy who never advertised it. He never pitched it as the "something for the something else alternative." He just made a great fucking synth. After a short amount of time, word got out, all of the music rags covered it, and now it tops all of the "greatest synth" lists.
You will never get anywhere making a clone. You'll always be a step behind.
Knowing people who work there, I can assure you that this is not a case of an evil corporate monster trying to keep "the man" down and profit for nothing. They review licenses and probably used the image from the OP because it was CC and did not or mistakingly read the fine print. I know for fact that they avoid copyrighted material and email original authors and artists for permission to use materials. This is either an honest mistake or an individuals rushed negligence. Either way, simply email them and ask about it. There is no story here.
Well, average life-expectancy of a species is 5-million years. Homo Sapience has already doubled that putting us at the extreme end of the scale that gives this average.
How are you doing your math? The genetic evidence shows that Homo Sapiens can be traced back 200,000 years. Nowhere near the 5 million you are stating as an average for species longevity. If you are counting Australopithecus anamensis, that would get you back to 4 million years, but I would hardly consider it to be the same species as us.
Furthermore, the actual average longevity of a species is 1 million years, not 5 (as evidenced here. Just because 10 million years appears to be an extreme upper limit does not make the average 5 million.
People with technical or scientific training are always told they have to learn how to communicate with people without that training. This is bullshit.
How about the mouth-breathers actually use the muscle between their ears during high school math and science classes so that they are better equiped to understand what scientists are trying to tell them later in life? Truly, you do not need to be a scientist to understand articles written for general consumption. A basic understanding of high school science (biology, physics, chemistry) and math (algebra and statistics) will get you there. While we are at it, I distinctly recall the steps of the scientific method explained in detail (several times in middle and high school), as were the definitions of "theory", "law", and "hypothesis". Jesus Christ people, use your brains.
A few days ago, there was a discussion here about how evil Apple was for trying to kill Flash. I said then, and will repeat here: Fuck you Adobe.
They took their sweet time porting their "cross platform" plugin to Linux, and in the meantime, we were stuck with the barely functioning (although I do not fault them for the effort) GNU implementation. Cross platform to Adobe means: Windows 7, Windows Vitsa, Windows XP, and Mac OS. Personally, I pine for the day that HTML 5 is able to displace Flash, and therefore Adobe, permanently. In my opinion, they have squandered any goodwill towards the open source community. I'll be the first one in line to dance on their grave.
If it comes down to Adobe Flash or HTML V5 H.264 I'll take Flash any day and twice on Sundays! At least Adobe doesn't act like douchebags and make you pony up $$$ just to have flash support in Linux distros. And SD Flash plays beautifully on this 1.8Ghz Sempron I use for a low power netbox, and with the latest Flash I can add a $50 AGP card and go full HD. From what I have seen HTML V5 is frankly a dog, and even in a window it runs like a slideshow.
People have VERY short memories. When I read TFA about how Adobe's sob story is that they offer a cross platform standard language that works in all browsers, I laughed so hard I cried.
Adobe took their SWEET time porting Flash to Linux. Getting it to work in different browsers was nearly impossible and the 64-bit version was a day later and a dollar short. The GNU alternative to Flash sucked, resulting in the same issue (things work on some browsers, but not others). Just a few short years ago, I hated Adobe with a passion for their piss poor Linux support.
I did not forget. I hope they die a slow death as more and more companies move toward a real standard (HTML5). In the end, I'll be there to dance on their grave.
My parents were evangelical nuts. They set me up to go be a victim in public schools, which I was. I have no idea what psychological ramifications that may have for me today...but I DO know that when I started training in martial arts in high school, the bullying stopped, and I never had to hit anyone (which actually kind of disappointed me, because I had a lot of anger I wanted to unleash on the next unsuspecting bully).
Arizona is embarking on a grand experiment, and as a free state it should be allowed to so do. We have heard the hypothesis that undocumented persons cause so much social and financial harm that any measure to thwart such persons from entering the state. Some would go as far as saying that even documented foreigners should be extremely limited as they take our jobs.
Is it accurate to say, then, that you feel that "Dey turk yer jerbs!?!"
I very much disagree. Open source is not the issue. Companies like Apple and Google manage to innovate with it every day (operating systems, servers, programming languages, libraries, etc.) and even manage to contribute back to the the communities that they borrow from. Plain and simply, the issue is corporations and executives not being properly educated with regards to strategy, tactics, and long term planning. The only long term plan that IBM has is to move from country to country like a plague of locusts. Once India's costs are up, the next emerging market will be targeted and India will be left to burn as the US currently is.
I agree with you that the parents have made an unforgivable mistake. However, the loss of their daughter is punishment enough. Their lives will already never be the same and I suspect that the grief they are dealing with is far worse than any punishment they may receive from a jail sentence. Why break up a family (they have another child) to sate YOUR rage?
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Or what? Someone will shake their finger at you?
No. Or your child (or other loved one) may die and you'll have to live with the repercussions for the rest of your life.
The Microsoft designs are all still prototypes. I would say that one of the two companies have "introduced" a multi-touch mouse. The other is currently researching a way to copy it (as always) and quite possibly playing with themselves. This design makes it look like you are holding a nutsack
On the bright side, I have a magic mouse now and will say that it really is a whole new (awesome) experience.
If I could, I would have modded you up. Instead, I'll add this anecdotal evidence:
Many moons ago (maybe in 2004), I was working on developing customizations to the SAP Enterprise Portal for my employer. We had a set of requirements to theme it to look a certain way (among alot of Java functionality to write). I went through ALL of the documentation and scoured the Internet for anything that I could find. All that I could come up with was how to change colors and the header background image. No information on how to set images (for gradients on menus, etc.). We finally caved and called SAP who very kindly sent us a consultant from Germany for the low low price or $280 per hour. Having spent weeks working with him, I got to know him and we got to talking. They often purposely leave stuff out of the manuals so that you have to call them as a way to drive consulting revenue.
Yes, watching Iron Man has given you many false impressions. To address this:
... Or a CS undergrad saying they can write an OS from scratch because they have played around with assembly a bit.
Do you mean like this guy: Linus Torvalds
It started with something small:
Hello everybody out there using minix -
I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things).
I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them:-)
Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)
PS. Yes – it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have:-(.
Its douche-bags like you that help to keep the general population convinced that they are incapable of anything special. News flash: Everyday people, with dedication, determination, hard work, and the proper application of intelligence and education are capable of doing huge things. The people working for the DoD are the same CS and EE majors working at IBM, OnStar, and Verizon.
This article is garbage... put the same query on the google search and almost the same results come up. Including Why are Macs so Expensive...
You are either delusional or full of crap. They are nothing alike.
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I am not sure how you got modded +5 insightful, but the only article in common is the "Why are Macs so expensive?" from TechRadar. Microsoft's results are obviously significantly skewed. I would encourage you to "get the facts"!
Its called "growing up". I was that kid in elementary school and junior high. By high school, you learn how stuff works and have ways of dealing with it. Regardless of that, schools have rules about harassing other students. Enforce those and stop trying to change a country's fundamental laws by invoking the "think of the children" clause.
Frankly, I am grateful to have had those experiences. Those same assholes from the playground exist in the workforce, bars, movie theaters, and just about anywhere you could go. Now I know how to recognize and deal with them.
The web isn't what it used to be. The days when the web was mostly a collection of static pages are long gone. The web is dynamic, interactive, and user-driven. The web is email, ftp, live video, instant messaging, word processing, photo galleries, forums, flash, games, television... You get the idea.
Web, you keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Of the technologies you listed above, the following: email, ftp, and instant messaging all fall squarely under the term "Internet", not web (although some of them have a web front end grafted on). Arguably, live video, games, and television fall into the same category. Word processing is something that should have been left on the desktop. Photo galleries, in terms of sharing data, are good candidates for the web. Flash should just die already and I wish forums were still mostly in Usenet.
Don't be fooled by the "it's mainly for web browsing spin"? It seemed pretty clear to me. Google's direction all along has been to move applications from the desktop to the web (which in many cases, in my opinion, is a stupid idea).
Google actually states: 'For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.'
Their comments about giving developers the largest user base of any platform are complete bullshit. Web developers already have that user base and not every application should be ported to run in a browser. At first, I cringed a little when I heard that they were getting pulled into an anti-trust investigation. Now I feel better about it. I have always had an uneasy feeling about an advertising company being able to gather and broker as much information about someone as they do. For Christ's sake, they archive, search, and use your EMAIL to develop more targeted ads. The idea that my entire OS could/would gather everything it could on me scares the crap out of me.
I realize I am sort of rambling, but I have two main points:
1) Not every app belongs on the web. In fact, most do not.
2) I am not comfortable with an advertising company being so in control of all of our private data. An earlier commenter pointed out what a big "win" this would be for corporations looking to deploy thin clients. How much of a "win" will it be to have Google searching, indexing, and archiving all of your company's sensitive documentation, all in the name of building better advertisements?
No, the irony is that the steps the author took to make sure he got one of the more close inspections of his gear so that he could have this anecdote to publish while getting dupes like you to believe that this is something other than a publicity stunt... the irony is that despite the sophomoric transparency of the whole thing, you fell for it.
To an extent, I agree with you. However, the problem remains that we live in a society where this kind of thing could happen. The bottom line is that TSA should not have had to read through his papers to ascertain that he was not a threat (nor should they have a right to). They very fact that there was a stunt to pull off is indicative of a problem with our society's acceptance of what rights authority has in our personal lives.
I see your point, but it is not exactly a false dichotomy. Take what Facebook is doing and contrast that with what Microsoft is doing with Bing. In the case of Facebook, you have another company who is executing a business plan based on their vision of how the world should be. Microsoft on the other hand is busily trying to emulate what Google is doing in hopes of catching up, gaining market share, and increasing revenue.
Because of how quickly the Internet evolves, grows, and new ideas are hatched, Microsoft will continually being playing catch up. I can't wait to see what their answer to Facebook will be. Maybe something really snazzzy like "Social Interwebs Friendly Home Edition". Their continual state of trying to emulate what people are doing in a dynamic environment makes me sleep better at night.
All that said, I agree with you. I think ultimately, both Facebook and Google will be around and have to live with each other. However, they may not each like it;-)
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To be clear, I like the place the article is coming from (personally). However, what the author is asking is akin to saying why should we not question soldiers when they kill when we hold buddhists to such high standards.
In a utopian world, I would agree with the author. However, we do not live in utopia - we live on earth with governments of ALL countries employing as many engineers as they can afford to design better and more effecient ways to kill (and defend themselves). Some of those people are even the doctors the author is describing (building biological weapons).
For as long as humans have existed, there has been conflict. It is a basic human right to have the ability to defend yourself (as a person or community) from agressors and it is these problems that engineers are working to solve.
... I just switched back to Firefox after years with Chrome. The ol' girl has just gotten so good in these last few version; ...
Interestingly enough, I have just recently done the same. Don't get me wrong - Chrome is a great browser by all means. From a technical standpoint, I view them both as equals. However, given two equals, I will choose the browser that does not nag me to log into a Google account that I do not otherwise need "for a better experience".
Or you can try actually learning the new system - it really is better. I personally do not want to go back to the days of GNOME 2 or Windows XP. Have you actually tried it for any meaningful lenght of time? I mean seriously. You can get to all of your regular applications with a gesture to the left of the screen and a click. Another gesture gets you into a list of all of applications that you can then filter. Switching desktops is also trivial. Move forward, not back.
People put a lot of time into engineering and designing GNOME3 to be an elegant desktop solution that works great. What they did not account for was pig headed, stubborn, unwilling to learn users who wanted their knock-off of Windows XP back. Microsoft is going through this same backlash now for innovating with Windows 8. Same thing - you can now get to almost everything in a click - seemless UI. How do people react? "Give merh mah AXE PEE back!!!".
Seriously, people suck. I am grateful for both the GNOME and Microsoft people actually trying to innovate in the desktop area.
In down time it gets scary. You have a site that is losing 100K per minute because it is down. The old way takes 2-3 min to fix the issue. once your tools are hidden you are on a 30 minute google session to find out how to do what you have been doing forever. 3 million dollars out the window for a single admin on a single outage. I had a site that cost that when it went down. World wide, I would not be at all shocked if this causes more than a trillion dollars in hidden and obvious losses. I'm sure the R2 removal of classic did. It maybe that in the future we just have to change the windows UI from explorer to Powershell so our tools stop getting hidden every new version of Windows.
Are you an accountant for the MPAA or RIAA? I'd love to know where your calculations come from.
Seems to be. While working for a Japanese customer, they didn't take me serious 'til I brought our utility man along who was close to retirement and told them he's my superior. Everything went fine from that moment onwards. He didn't know anything about the matter at hand, but all he really had to do was to nod from time to time.
The really sad part about this is the fact that the only older person you could muster was the utility guy... Your company has no adult supervision?
Any time any company or organization markets itself as "the [insert adjective] [insert proper noun] alternative for the [insert other proper noun]" the group is destined to failure. The issue is, at its heart, where the company is coming from. Rather than trying to invent a great music/video player, they are trying to invent an iTunes (or anything else) clone. Please STOP! Go invent a great, open source, cross platform music player without looking at iTunes and people will come.
Don't believe me? In the electronic music community, there is a synth called Zebra 2. Its from a company run and developed entirely by one guy who never advertised it. He never pitched it as the "something for the something else alternative." He just made a great fucking synth. After a short amount of time, word got out, all of the music rags covered it, and now it tops all of the "greatest synth" lists.
You will never get anywhere making a clone. You'll always be a step behind.
Knowing people who work there, I can assure you that this is not a case of an evil corporate monster trying to keep "the man" down and profit for nothing. They review licenses and probably used the image from the OP because it was CC and did not or mistakingly read the fine print. I know for fact that they avoid copyrighted material and email original authors and artists for permission to use materials. This is either an honest mistake or an individuals rushed negligence. Either way, simply email them and ask about it. There is no story here.
Well, average life-expectancy of a species is 5-million years. Homo Sapience has already doubled that putting us at the extreme end of the scale that gives this average.
How are you doing your math? The genetic evidence shows that Homo Sapiens can be traced back 200,000 years. Nowhere near the 5 million you are stating as an average for species longevity. If you are counting Australopithecus anamensis, that would get you back to 4 million years, but I would hardly consider it to be the same species as us.
Furthermore, the actual average longevity of a species is 1 million years, not 5 (as evidenced here. Just because 10 million years appears to be an extreme upper limit does not make the average 5 million.
People with technical or scientific training are always told they have to learn how to communicate with people without that training. This is bullshit.
How about the mouth-breathers actually use the muscle between their ears during high school math and science classes so that they are better equiped to understand what scientists are trying to tell them later in life? Truly, you do not need to be a scientist to understand articles written for general consumption. A basic understanding of high school science (biology, physics, chemistry) and math (algebra and statistics) will get you there. While we are at it, I distinctly recall the steps of the scientific method explained in detail (several times in middle and high school), as were the definitions of "theory", "law", and "hypothesis". Jesus Christ people, use your brains.
A few days ago, there was a discussion here about how evil Apple was for trying to kill Flash. I said then, and will repeat here: Fuck you Adobe.
They took their sweet time porting their "cross platform" plugin to Linux, and in the meantime, we were stuck with the barely functioning (although I do not fault them for the effort) GNU implementation. Cross platform to Adobe means: Windows 7, Windows Vitsa, Windows XP, and Mac OS. Personally, I pine for the day that HTML 5 is able to displace Flash, and therefore Adobe, permanently. In my opinion, they have squandered any goodwill towards the open source community. I'll be the first one in line to dance on their grave.
If it comes down to Adobe Flash or HTML V5 H.264 I'll take Flash any day and twice on Sundays! At least Adobe doesn't act like douchebags and make you pony up $$$ just to have flash support in Linux distros. And SD Flash plays beautifully on this 1.8Ghz Sempron I use for a low power netbox, and with the latest Flash I can add a $50 AGP card and go full HD. From what I have seen HTML V5 is frankly a dog, and even in a window it runs like a slideshow.
People have VERY short memories. When I read TFA about how Adobe's sob story is that they offer a cross platform standard language that works in all browsers, I laughed so hard I cried.
Adobe took their SWEET time porting Flash to Linux. Getting it to work in different browsers was nearly impossible and the 64-bit version was a day later and a dollar short. The GNU alternative to Flash sucked, resulting in the same issue (things work on some browsers, but not others). Just a few short years ago, I hated Adobe with a passion for their piss poor Linux support.
I did not forget. I hope they die a slow death as more and more companies move toward a real standard (HTML5). In the end, I'll be there to dance on their grave.
My parents were evangelical nuts. They set me up to go be a victim in public schools, which I was. I have no idea what psychological ramifications that may have for me today...but I DO know that when I started training in martial arts in high school, the bullying stopped, and I never had to hit anyone (which actually kind of disappointed me, because I had a lot of anger I wanted to unleash on the next unsuspecting bully).
Chuck, is that you?
If you live in a free country find a handgun range and go observe for awhile. You might be surprised at the range of applications for them.
Come again? You point the weapon at something, pull the trigger, and it makes a hole causing damage. There are other intended applications?
Arizona is embarking on a grand experiment, and as a free state it should be allowed to so do. We have heard the hypothesis that undocumented persons cause so much social and financial harm that any measure to thwart such persons from entering the state. Some would go as far as saying that even documented foreigners should be extremely limited as they take our jobs.
Is it accurate to say, then, that you feel that "Dey turk yer jerbs!?!"
I very much disagree. Open source is not the issue. Companies like Apple and Google manage to innovate with it every day (operating systems, servers, programming languages, libraries, etc.) and even manage to contribute back to the the communities that they borrow from. Plain and simply, the issue is corporations and executives not being properly educated with regards to strategy, tactics, and long term planning. The only long term plan that IBM has is to move from country to country like a plague of locusts. Once India's costs are up, the next emerging market will be targeted and India will be left to burn as the US currently is.
Law Enforcement: If You're a Gun Owner, You Have to Be Responsible
Or what? Someone will shake their finger at you?
No. Or your child (or other loved one) may die and you'll have to live with the repercussions for the rest of your life.
The Microsoft designs are all still prototypes. I would say that one of the two companies have "introduced" a multi-touch mouse. The other is currently researching a way to copy it (as always) and quite possibly playing with themselves. This design makes it look like you are holding a nutsack
On the bright side, I have a magic mouse now and will say that it really is a whole new (awesome) experience.
If I could, I would have modded you up. Instead, I'll add this anecdotal evidence:
Many moons ago (maybe in 2004), I was working on developing customizations to the SAP Enterprise Portal for my employer. We had a set of requirements to theme it to look a certain way (among alot of Java functionality to write). I went through ALL of the documentation and scoured the Internet for anything that I could find. All that I could come up with was how to change colors and the header background image. No information on how to set images (for gradients on menus, etc.). We finally caved and called SAP who very kindly sent us a consultant from Germany for the low low price or $280 per hour. Having spent weeks working with him, I got to know him and we got to talking. They often purposely leave stuff out of the manuals so that you have to call them as a way to drive consulting revenue.
Fucking infuriating.
... Or a CS undergrad saying they can write an OS from scratch because they have played around with assembly a bit.
Do you mean like this guy: Linus Torvalds It started with something small:
Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things). I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)
Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)
PS. Yes – it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. It is NOT portable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.
Its douche-bags like you that help to keep the general population convinced that they are incapable of anything special. News flash: Everyday people, with dedication, determination, hard work, and the proper application of intelligence and education are capable of doing huge things. The people working for the DoD are the same CS and EE majors working at IBM, OnStar, and Verizon.
This article is garbage ... put the same query on the google search and almost the same results come up. Including Why are Macs so Expensive...
You are either delusional or full of crap. They are nothing alike.
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I am not sure how you got modded +5 insightful, but the only article in common is the "Why are Macs so expensive?" from TechRadar. Microsoft's results are obviously significantly skewed. I would encourage you to "get the facts"!
Its called "growing up". I was that kid in elementary school and junior high. By high school, you learn how stuff works and have ways of dealing with it. Regardless of that, schools have rules about harassing other students. Enforce those and stop trying to change a country's fundamental laws by invoking the "think of the children" clause.
Frankly, I am grateful to have had those experiences. Those same assholes from the playground exist in the workforce, bars, movie theaters, and just about anywhere you could go. Now I know how to recognize and deal with them.
The web isn't what it used to be. The days when the web was mostly a collection of static pages are long gone. The web is dynamic, interactive, and user-driven. The web is email, ftp, live video, instant messaging, word processing, photo galleries, forums, flash, games, television... You get the idea.
Web, you keep using this word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Of the technologies you listed above, the following: email, ftp, and instant messaging all fall squarely under the term "Internet", not web (although some of them have a web front end grafted on). Arguably, live video, games, and television fall into the same category. Word processing is something that should have been left on the desktop. Photo galleries, in terms of sharing data, are good candidates for the web. Flash should just die already and I wish forums were still mostly in Usenet.
Don't be fooled by the "it's mainly for web browsing spin"? It seemed pretty clear to me. Google's direction all along has been to move applications from the desktop to the web (which in many cases, in my opinion, is a stupid idea).
Google actually states: 'For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.'
Their comments about giving developers the largest user base of any platform are complete bullshit. Web developers already have that user base and not every application should be ported to run in a browser. At first, I cringed a little when I heard that they were getting pulled into an anti-trust investigation. Now I feel better about it. I have always had an uneasy feeling about an advertising company being able to gather and broker as much information about someone as they do. For Christ's sake, they archive, search, and use your EMAIL to develop more targeted ads. The idea that my entire OS could/would gather everything it could on me scares the crap out of me.
I realize I am sort of rambling, but I have two main points:
1) Not every app belongs on the web. In fact, most do not.
2) I am not comfortable with an advertising company being so in control of all of our private data. An earlier commenter pointed out what a big "win" this would be for corporations looking to deploy thin clients. How much of a "win" will it be to have Google searching, indexing, and archiving all of your company's sensitive documentation, all in the name of building better advertisements?
No, the irony is that the steps the author took to make sure he got one of the more close inspections of his gear so that he could have this anecdote to publish while getting dupes like you to believe that this is something other than a publicity stunt... the irony is that despite the sophomoric transparency of the whole thing, you fell for it.
To an extent, I agree with you. However, the problem remains that we live in a society where this kind of thing could happen. The bottom line is that TSA should not have had to read through his papers to ascertain that he was not a threat (nor should they have a right to). They very fact that there was a stunt to pull off is indicative of a problem with our society's acceptance of what rights authority has in our personal lives.
I see your point, but it is not exactly a false dichotomy. Take what Facebook is doing and contrast that with what Microsoft is doing with Bing. In the case of Facebook, you have another company who is executing a business plan based on their vision of how the world should be. Microsoft on the other hand is busily trying to emulate what Google is doing in hopes of catching up, gaining market share, and increasing revenue.
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Because of how quickly the Internet evolves, grows, and new ideas are hatched, Microsoft will continually being playing catch up. I can't wait to see what their answer to Facebook will be. Maybe something really snazzzy like "Social Interwebs Friendly Home Edition". Their continual state of trying to emulate what people are doing in a dynamic environment makes me sleep better at night.
All that said, I agree with you. I think ultimately, both Facebook and Google will be around and have to live with each other. However, they may not each like it