Yep . . . I rarely post, have never used 'Login with FB', I use a unique email address for FB, don't have the app on my phone (and when I did, I never allowed it to access contacts), and IE/Edge has always been my "FB browser" . . . when I downloaded the data they had on me recently, it was nothing I was uncomfortable with at all . . . the new FB container on Firefox is really interesting, but I haven't started using it.
Part of it also is that Giphy has licensing agreements with media rights owners to create gifs based on their content . . . they're not just indexing existing gifs.
Well the whole "tipping" mindset leads to that. It's supposed to be something extra, beyond what's required. Now they've started using it instead of having realistic prices and wages and developed social standards where tipping less than x% is supposed to be the signal (x ever increasing). The idea has gotten so ingrained that people tip on "tip-included" prices too. Soon it'll all be a "donation" with a "service charge", de facto mandatory "tip", and extra tips on top.
It's an unfortunate situation. I wonder if perhaps it could have been mitigated by small changes to the wording to make it gender neutral:
"A Relationship with Maven..."
- Looks Great
- Complains A lot
- Demands Attention
- Interrupts Us When We're Working
- Doesn't Play Well With Our Other Friends
Of course, the photo to the right would need to be gender neutral, too. Perhaps just the logo.
I can't imagine that such a slide would have any repercussions, but it would get the same point across. It's often not hard at all to just be inclusive.
A presenter could do that, but the greater specificity – "my girlfriend" – makes for a stronger, more relatable, and mostly self-deprecating joke. After all, he's not saying Maven is "like" his specific, real girlfriend, or girlfriends in general. He's saying Maven "is" his problematic girlfriend.
That makes it an embarrassing confession, about a universally-understandable human situation – having some frustrations with a romantic partner. But he's in a grating relationship with a software tool! The joke's on him!
There's no necessary implication all girlfriends/partners, or all women, fit that model – just that it's a recognizable pattern. Anyone who's ever seen a sitcom, family-comedy-movie, adult-comedy-movie, or stand-up-comic will be familiar with the fact that some SOs/hookups/spouses can sometimes annoy, in the manner of the bullet points.
As a proud Gen 1 Surface Pro owner, this looks spectacular.
My Surface replaced my laptop, and while I definitely had my issues with the transition (trackpad sucks so often use external mouse, aspect ratio is inconvenient for Office, display angle is limiting, and no built-in LTE), I've ultimately come to enjoy using it.
I've almost always got it with me, and I've found I've become nearly as productive on it as I was with my laptop. I've been willing to make the "nearly" tradeoff since I have it on me more often, so more opportunity to be productive, and I do use it as a tablet in ways that I obviously couldn't with my laptop.
The updates in the Gen 3 address nearly all of my gripes (why can't they integrate LTE??). I'm not sure if I'll pick up a 3, but only because my Gen 1 is less than 2 years old and still under warranty. If not a Gen 3, then a Gen 4 will definitely be on my shopping list.
I can't imagine I'll go back to a normal laptop. I guess I'm exactly who they are targeting.
Yeah I have a Surface Pro 1 and I now use it for everything - development, taking notes, writing apps, playing minecraft, scribbling on PDFs. The direction they're taking the Pro 3 seems to be a good clear message at last 'the tablet that can replace your laptop' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t7rSZT_77E
The bigger screen is a good move I think.
I've started using the ArcTouch mouse with my surface when I'm out and about, rather than the touchpad on the cover. Works pretty nicely and folds flat. But then I've always preferred a proper mouse to a touchpad.
> The updates in the Gen 3 address nearly all of my gripes (why can't they integrate LTE??).
I suspect that enough of the people who want LTE have shareable (wirelessly or with wires) LTE modem with them at all times as to make the added cost of integrated LTE not a particularly effective selling point for the added cost (and very much not attractive for the base model, so it would necessitate added SKUs, as well.)
Oh indubitably! It was really more of a rhetorical question, but it is my biggest lingering gripe and wish the segmentations would work in my favor to make it a viable/valuable option for them.
It's just frustrating to see that the Surface 2 (not pro) has integrated LTE as an option, but it's not available for the Pro line.
Basically, the Yahoo valuation builds in some expectation that it will sell its shares in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan, but instead of returning the proceeds to shareholders (fully realizing its value), they will attempt to reinvest in Yahoo and destroy some of the value
It's relatively common practice - buy RE as a speculative investment and hold hoping that it will grow in value as an area develops.
In the meantime, it would be great to have the property throw off some free cash flow, so developers build businesses on the property that involve highly generic structures that are easy to build (low investment) and easy to demolish - otherwise, the cost of demolition for any prospective buyer will reduce the value they are willing to pay for the land.
Common businesses for this purpose are parking lots/garages and storage. When you see those, it's pretty safe to assume the owner is trying to maintain as much option value as possible in the property.
Once you build a specialized structure, you lose option value on the property.
When I was in Germany in 2006 during the World Cup, they had an online system in place to allow people to return their tickets. They would then periodically re-release those tix into the pool . . . it was through that reissue process that I secured all of my tix.
Of course, the Olympics is a far more complex set of events, but I'd have to imagine it would have been easy to implement this year (6 years later).
It doesn't seem like the areas are created equal; I'd expect a few more hotspots elsewhere (California), but so far I haven't found much, but then again "Data not available for metropolitan areas with fewer than 50,000 households."
The internet is big, but please don't think for a moment that awareness of SOPA/PIPA is big at all . . . "normals" have absolutely zero clue about what it is . . . even many who aren't "normals" aren't aware.
As tech/internet professionals, we often forget the echo chamber we live in . . . we all read the same publications and participate in the same communities. Awareness/publication outside those communities is negligible. As an example, take a look at the blackoutsopa campaign on Twitter . . . 10,000 people (I'm one of them, by the way) out of 180 million on Twitter?? . . . the most recent claim I saw is that those 10,000 people have 20 million followers . . . in aggregate, sure . . . wouldn't be surprised if it was a net of only 1 million . . . if that.
That said, it's impressive that the anti-SOPA/PIPA campaign has had an outsized impact for its population, but there is a LONG way to go before the rest of the internet has even the slightest hint anything is even going on . . . and I do think FB/Google/Wiki/Tumblr blackouts would be needed to get there.
> "normals" have absolutely zero clue about what it is
I was surprised to hear my relatively non-technical father ask me back in December if SOPA was as bad as he had heard. Discussion of this legislation seems to be making it out into the mainstream press in bits and pieces. NPR has done several segments on it that I know of for instance.
