Posts by JDX 6848 publicly visible posts • joined 28 May 2010
I think we're only scratching the surface what their data could be used for, the problem is it's so much data it's hard to process.
I bet you could in theory develop intelligence agents which identify criminal/terrorist groups based on the interactions and interconnections between people for instance.
The moron is the person who:
a)calls people morons for not making their own opinions
b)tries to force his own opinion on others
c)thinks his opinions are not the result of all the opinions he was exposed to
No man is an island as the saying goes
Not the news, just the inevitable "it's just spyware" comments. FB in particular has the most amazing collection of data available which could be used for absolutely astonishing projects, but you supposed techy experts can't see past them sticking your face next to an advert, and classifying this as some ultra-heinous near-criminal offence.
>>It's actually quite difficult to imagine that anyone would own a Mac and a Windows Moble Phone...
Not really, it's pretty easy to imagine. Hard to believe maybe is what you meant.
Although I own a Mac and a Windows phone. And an iPad and a Windows desktop with Cygwin installed. And a Kindle.
I hope that didn't stretch your imagination too far.
You're right, a social networking site would work much better if the site and other users couldn't see any information about you at all. It's nearly as bad as the time BT put my home phone number in their phone book... how is that not illegal?!
Crap troll. When Linux is used people are building on a legacy. When NT is used it's "can't be bothered to write a new OS".
People who don't know the first thing about programming probably shouldn't weigh in on subjects they are embarrassingly ignorant of, especially when they are fans of a 25-year-old OS.
I thought SkyDrive was available for other OS too - not the case?
I have a SD account (I assume, I own a WP7.5 phone) but never used it... DB does exactly what I need in a no-hassle way so I am struggling to see how any product will improve on that.
I wonder if I can set SD and DB up to monitor the same folder without them interfering?
The article makes it clear the 2012 is pretty awesome and mentions catching up or sometimes surpassing the competition a few times... but the competition is (presumably) Linux which is free. Now I know that software/license costs can dwindle to insignificance compared to hardware and human costs but even so, you'd want to be cost-effective.
AS a non-server guy powershell sounds a killer feature but doesn't nix match that for example?
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