Why didn't ecma just use Mozilla's implementation?
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2. Any person you deal with is also a human and has the same ability to control their reaction to anything.
Therefore, someone's reaction is 100% their choice, just as it is yours. We all have this ability, few of us exercise it. However, it is not my own fault that someone else doesn't exercise this control.
> "Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things. [...] When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others."
- Epictetus
That's not as strong as the sense as described in this article, and I don't see the colors, so I don't know what's going on.
That's how technology moves. Ground-breaking technology becomes a commodity, often laying the foundation for bigger innovations to take place.
"... 'A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.' Now, I don't know how the hell that relates to this argument, but I thought it was a good quote."
Perhaps some Mark Twain quotes from the late 1800s might change your mind about us having recently "come to this":
"All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity."
"It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress."
"[I] was reporter in a legislature two sessions and the same in Congress one session, and thus learned to know personally three sample bodies of the smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes."
They don't just apply to Congressmen. They're relevant to pretty much any level of our government. It seems to apply anywhere that people are given power before they deserve it.
It could also just be overall common sense: a nonprofit vs a company built on data. Who would you expect to care more about keeping your data yours?
An hour long of unchanging audio sort of fades into the background so you are unaware of it.
With un-monitized mobile apps and notifications on every device, it's just a communication tool nowadays. Instagram and Pinterest are what I notice teens using the same way I used Facebook in highschool.
So my predicion: it either becomes like Google and Email...or it dies. But nothing can bring back its coolness factor.
Just wondering what the qualifications are for working in the USPTO are. Do you have to be fully cut off from the modern world and be strongly against innovation?
How is it even possible to patent such fundamental concepts? I bet they would approve a patent for "A system for transferring audio to the ears via vibrations in the surrounding air (sound waves)" AKA speakers. Then you could sue not just the podcasters, but the listeners too.
>Eventually there will be no strangers, and there will be no friends. Everyone's name will be public, and nobody will get to know each other.
We'll have to see. So far that's been the trend, and it's really aggravating walking into a coffee shop and so seeing few conversations; just all staring at a glowing screen. But I think there's only so much of that we can take and maybe the trend will reverse.
My hopes for wearable tech is that it actually becomes less intrusive. The Pebble and Glass are my two biggest hopes. Think about this: If everyone had Glass, there would be no need for cell phones. You can do all the useful things a phone can do, but the touchscreen is gone. No touchscreen makes it REALLY hard to have time-wasters like games and instagram. Tweeting is possible, but mindlessly scrolling through a tweet stream during a date? Not so much.
Let's cross our fingers, because you gotta admit, Glass is pretty damn cool.
Other than that, it's not so much the form factor that's different from now, it's the software. As awesome as Ubuntu Tablet is, I think all of our tablet OSes carry too many PC relics with them. The OS in those videos looks nothing like software now.
But watch a couple clips for me:
http://youtu.be/Jx7VNP5UO2k?t=5m9s (at 5:09) http://youtu.be/5jzAAPccBaU?t=2m27s (at 2:27)
That's the future. That's when the tablet becomes extremely useful. Productive-yet-portable in a way a laptop can't be. What I think the Microsoft guys really nailed is that the tablet is ultimately just another tool. The "post-pc" era still has plenty of PC's in it; they just work alongside tablets and phones.
A lot of times we think “Why is the television programming so bad? Why are television shows so demeaning, so poor?” The first thought that occurs to you is “Well, there is a conspiracy: the networks are feeding us this slop because its cheap to produce. [...] but the truth of the matter, if you study it in any depth, is that networks absolutely want to give people what they want so that they will watch the shows. If people wanted something different, they would get it. And the truth of the matter is that the shows that are on television, are on television because that’s what people want. [...] And that’s far more depressing than a conspiracy. Conspiracies are much more fun than the truth of the matter, which is that the vast majority of the public are pretty mindless most of the time.
There's no conspiracy, just mindlessness. It's just how society has evolved over time.
...Then I realized how their billing works: It's a prepaid model. And I'm so sad to say, this won't work for me. Any chance of invoice-billing coming soon?
But things like Pebble, Google Glass, and Nest are fixing this. Tech will be less in-our-face, more useful, and less annoying than ever.
Your comment in 1995: Soon we can get rid of the standards committee and just talk to the implementers of Netscape to define the "standard".
And in 2001: Soon we can get rid of the standards committee and just talk to the implementers of IE to define the "standard".
And in 2006: Soon we can get rid of the standards committee and just talk to the implementers of Firefox to define the "standard".
...and for more comparison:
Your comment in the late 70's on computers: Soon we can get rid of the hobbyists and just talk to Apple to define "standard".
And in 1996: Soon we can get rid of Apple and just talk to the creators of the PC to define the "standard".
And in 2010: Soon we can get rid of the PC and just talk to the creators of the iPad to define the "standard".
Just sayin'
If that happens, we'll see more mobile OSes being created, competing and innovating because you've solved the "chicken and the egg" problem with apps. Devs won't stay with the Big 2 simply because that's where the customers are, because the customers won't stick with a phone OS they hate simply because that's where the apps are.
What I find interesting is how much the trend in mobile resembles the PC/Web boom. Ten years ago everything you did on the PC besides browsing required its own software. Not so true anymore, huh? I hope mobile continues to follow the PC's trends and make this happen next.