Rent could. If you try to create a start up in say SF or NYC you are going to be wasting a lot of money on living expenses when it could have gone back into the product itself.
Could the companies that are under threat of legal action work together and risk the threat all at once?
What I am saying is that if one company such as Google was to breach their gag order from the government regarding these things then they would be in a pretty bad situation which could result in a major loss of money to the company. However a lot of these tech companies are American and for them to all breach the gag order at once would have a large impact on the already struggling economy. Could they not use this potential economic disaster as a get out of jail token?
I mean it's kinda what the banks did with the too big to fail stuff. Putting a lot of companies in jeopardy at once could force the government to not act on prosecuting them.
The reason they offer it for free is pretty simple to me. They have an app store which is making them more money than the Operating System itself. The more people who have access to the app store the more money they make, so why put a price barrier between the user and the store?
This is why Windows 8.1 is free and I will assume the next iterations of Windows will be. Windows now has an app store and they are banking on getting as many people into that ecosystem as possible. While they may lose money in the OS purchase, that isn't where the bulk of the money is made anymore.
Facebook is just shooting themselves in the foot. Instead of accommodating for it's users it wants its users to accommodate for facebook. These decisions are just silly and a slap in the face to anyone who wants a shred of privacy.
> Facebook actually will recognize if a name sounds "too fake" and reject it
Not all fake names! About six months ago I went to interview on-site at Facebook. I have two Facebook accounts, a legacy from before testing accounts were actually available on the platform. One's my real account, the other is under the name of 'Johnny Appleseed'.
When you arrive at Facebook you check-in using the e-mail address you've been using to communicate with your recruiter. What I didn't realise was that Facebook's systems then automatically look up that e-mail address, and pre-populate your visitors badge with information from that account.
So the upshot of this was that for the rest of the day I was 'Johnny Appleseed'. Given I was interviewing for a iOS role this raised a few eyebrows with my interviewers. The receptionist told me this happens a lot for software engineering interviews.
Wow that explains something I've been wondering about for a while. I interviewed there a few months back (using an email address not tied to a Facebook account) and all of a sudden I started getting emails about how I had joined Facebook using that address, and hadn't added any friends. I guess if you don't already have an account, they make one for you?
>Instead of accommodating for it's users it wants its users to accommodate for Facebook.
No, they are absolutely accommodating for their users -- and their users are advertisers. That is THE problem. Facebook Inc's #1 priority is making money (like all for-profit enterprises), and therefore their #1 priority is to make advertisers happy.
Why should advertisers care if you incorrectly 'spell' your name? All Facebook should care about, to support their income, is engaging real users - real names or no.
Advertisers want engaged, affluent users. Affluent users don't like getting trolled or harassed (supposedly). Real names create accountability, reducing trolling and harassment (supposedly). An application of the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory, if you will.
That's interesting, I recently had a friend change his name to something analagous to "SunBurned".
I thought it was bizarre, and maybe just temporary, but it's there, and since I have my contacts merged in my phone, I have to remember to search for SunBurned rather than his name when I want to text him.
My name is very unusual, so unusual that other family members haven't been able to sign-up with our surname for the three or four years as it's "too fake".
>Facebook actually will recognize if a name sounds "too fake" and reject it, saying that you can only use a real name
They say they will, but I've had a ton of friends change their names to obviously very fake names that Facebook has allowed, including "Sauce Money" (a rapper).
Totally, but in a comparison of vulnerabilities it is much different to compare flaws in apps versus the default software included in the system. The former is a vulnerability to a very small percentage of users whereas the latter applies to literally every device. It also relies heavily on the App store acceptance policies, the ability to install apps not through the app store, and the competence of the developers making those apps.
Really none of the major OS's are hard to learn at all. They might approach things differently but let's be honest, operating a phone is something an 8 year old can do (and sometimes better than their parents). If you're having any trouble at all it takes a twenty second google search to fix it.
The question is really around what you use your phone for and then choosing an operating system that supports your needs better than the others.
Why focus on climate change? Al Jazeera should be concerned about changing the way news networks discuss topics entirely, not just this isolated story.
There is too much forced drama in television news, like the typical "Watch ---- news at 9 to see if your child will die from a toy you might have in your house". I haven't seen any of the new Al Jazeera programming but I did see their four minute promo trailer for the network and it looked to me like the same kind of stuff. The narrator to that teaser sounded like he was doing a michael bay trailer and the news anchors had plastic smiles like all the other news channels.
That isn't to say I don't have hope though. Anything that is better than the methods which current networks employ is a step forward.
This is what is preventing me from learning Vim. I play games every day using WASD movement and if I have to switch to hjkl my brain goes haywire.
I have been waiting for someone to create a Vim control scheme that relies on WASD movement and maybe also brings in other common gaming related keys (E for insert?, space for escape?) To me this seems more logical than hjkl/i/esc.
Until then though it just feels like more work that it needs to be for me to personally learn Vim. Which is a shame because I can recognize how useful it can be, especially after watching Destroy all Software screencasts.
I do both regularly. They are different hands and the different movements actually become very different feeling. When my right hand is on the mouse, WASD feels natural. Otherwise, I naturally hold my left hand near the ESC key and my right hand over HJKL.
Because it's the home row, it also feels more natural when you are getting ready to type. The mental separation between "gaming" and "typing" is not hard to get a hold of really quick. Give it a try! I guarantee you'll be completely used to it within a week.
Also, keep in mind all of these keys can be remapped in Vim anyways :)
He said that because most people are not technically literate or have enough time to understand exactly what Snowden did. Considering the way he is portrayed in mass media I would bet that many people think what he did was along the lines of releasing the secret passwords to our spy computers of which then Al Qaeda can access and disrupt our job in killing and detaining terrorists.
