It seems logical that they would want your data, but: 50gb is pretty much free for them (storage gets cheaper over time, for one) and maybe a good selling point, no sd card makes file system easier and phones thinner, and in addition to wanting all your data, they would want to have android users have the nice automatic expedience of having all their music in one place on all devices, for example. Want your users to have great simple experience. You want this for business reasons, and I am not saying they are not also data hungry.
World on a Wire is an adaptation of the same book directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (the greatest director of all time), and is definitely worth checking out.
Said this before, but Denno Coil is a recent post-cyberpunk sci-fi animated series from japan that explored AR tech in interesting new ways. It is not the "hardest" of sci-fi, and it is about kids, but it is touching, does not pull punches, and I like the art direction. I would suggest checking it out for anyone who wants some fresh sci-fi.
I think saying main stream movies are supposed to be imaginative is a bit of a straw man argument.
Same director as some of the Ghost in the Shell stuff (stand alone complex stuff) I believe. Also, everyone should check out Denno Coil. It is a super great post-cyberpunk drama that revolves around this cyberpunk ghost story. The main tech is the story is AR stuff, it is creatively drawn, and it brings new sci-fi stuff to the table as opposed to just more terminators and teleporters.
Thank you for this. I think this variant might tear me away from my long-time favorite, Inconsolata. It seems very close, yet even more readable. I love it.
I have (and I just did again). Maybe I should give it more time to warm up to it?
If I can't get a slashed zero deja vu sans mono, I will just have to buy a hi-res screen so the zero dot is less ugly (should do anyway).
So, before submitting, I found a slashed version (saved) and I am now happy! I forget source, but can email to people who want.
Why not something like medium.com? Well, it does look pretty nice (though, not as nice as mine), and it would save having to pick a domain name and such. Interesting note, same founder as blogger. While their beta/editor and area specific comments features are pretty cool (it seems easy to communicate to author), I am not too big on the social element, I do not prefer the lack of control (an example of this being how your writing will be linked to by or link to random other articles or not being able to link my soundcloud on my landing page), I don't think there is rss/email support, and it is also that it is rather new, and while I am not too proud to follow trends and I doubt it will die anytime soon (it is not like blogger is the most secure option), it will probably change and new features will roll out. What if there is ever ads that you can't control, or they add publicly available revision history, or you can't turn off public comments? So, while pretty cool, overall I still like blogger and my control over the html/css. We will see where it goes.
Side note: Why no svtle (or really any decent) theme/template for blogger?
I doubt this analogy is perfect. Location/upkeep/convenience are different in the software world, and one of the big problems with Walmart is that they underpay their workers. And whereas mass produced X and artisan X might be different, I don't see any advantage of artisan desktop sharing.
Maybe there is something to soaking up a market (RSS) then dropping it (though it seems the ball is being somewhat picked up there), But, maybe unlike walmart?, there is little reason to believe that was malicious. People (Kevin Rose, for example) were making fun of RSS being super dead in 2011. I am no expert, but I doubt it is a google plus play as much as a twitter defeat. Note: I personally love RSS, but if I was not a tech news junkie, it might be of little use to me.
If you want to carry on the analogy, Google has a debit card that only works at Google and unlike Walmart it won't accept competitors coupons and all the stuff sold in store isn't sold anywhere else. You also can't take it apart, and only people with Google debit cards can see any of it when it leaves the store.
Hangouts is becoming a nightmare of a proprietary locked in mess that is destroying decades of progress in FOSS space towards open standards for communication. They are killing Jingle and XMPP by depreciating Talk, and they are now killing VNC. They may not have played nice together, and they may be painfully outdated, but it isn't an excuse to take your toys from the community sandbox, go home, and build yourself a space rocket in your back yard and fence it off, because very few people will pay to get in your back yard and will stay in the sandbox with Tonka Trucks.
"They are killing Jingle and XMPP by depreciating Talk..."
As of two or three weeks ago, the Hangouts videoconferencing code used WebRTC, Jingle, and a variety of video and audio codecs (among which one could find Opus.).
If you run the software on a *nix system, you can verify my claims by checking the contents of /tmp/gtalkplugin.log while you're in a video call with someone. Note that that file seems to be flushed to disk at irregular intervals, and that it is removed after the call is terminated.
My point is more even if they continue to use Jingle on the backend they defeat the point of Jabber by putting the auth servers in a proprietary backend. The whole point of XMPP was to stop making messaging / communication formats that don't play in the same sandbox and can't interopt. I can't contact someone in a hangout (via chat or voice) with anything but a hangout.
Um, no. This feature substitutes for one small VNC use case -- a use case already largely controlled by commercial products like TeamViewer and Copilot anyway.
Good points.. however I don't thing they're killing off VNC. VNC, I believe, has a pretty narrow user base. Google's addition of remote desktop control will be doing more harm to small companies and their apps like FogCreek's Copilot.
I wasn't looking for a perfect analogy. Simply put that like WalMart killing off mom & pop shops, Google / Microsoft / Amazon are doing the same thing to niche application vendors who do one thing well to make a simple living.
"The reason I suggested college graduates not start startups immediately was that I felt most would fail. And they will. But ambitious programmers are better off doing their own thing and failing than going to work at a big company. Certainly they'll learn more. They might even be better off financially. A lot of people in their early twenties get into debt, because their expenses grow even faster than the salary that seemed so high when they left school. At least if you start a startup and fail your net worth will be zero rather than negative. "
-Paul Graham
Sounds strange to me. I put alot of my own money and some of my parents into my startup, got seed financing and failed 2 years later. I am now 30 and still have to pay back my parents and havent saved a dime in my life while being a pretty decent software developer (not in the US).
I learned a ton, but financially it has been a disaster.
So a Big-Co job ist still not too bad when starting out imo, you probably wont learn as much but startups are high-risk if you take it seriously.
Well, the mistake you made (and that a 19-year old starting a company should avoid) was getting into debt in the first place, even if it was with your family.
> But ambitious programmers are better off doing their own thing and failing than going to work at a big company.
I wish I could have told this to my wife when we were 22!
"I'm sorry, babe! You need to pay the bills and support me while I work to get my startup off-the-ground! You'll see! We'll be raking in the money in no-time. Our 130K of student loan debt will be paid off before you can say `boo'."
If that is the constraint, then don't go to school.
If you absolutely have to go to school, student loans are the responsibility of the person who takes them out, and have nothing to do with the blog's point. Get financial aid, get a merit scholarship, go to community college - there are alternatives within your control.
I kinda like the melodrama as much as or more than the story (the us/nsa being evil is no surprise), because this is one of the most cyberpunk things to happen in the last few years (TPB and stuxnet being others). I mean, their last name is Snowden! I could not think of a better one if I tried.
not that your point of getting down to brass facts is unreasonable, but the hype is part of the story, and getting more people interested is maybe important in getting lawmakers to maybe pay attention)
