cico71

It's there, number 94

This. Anyway, we are not the target of these messages to legitimize the status quo of the ads business (or, even worse, that want to expand the influence on regulatory matters). We are too old, well past the point where ads may have had a significant impact on our choices, and where media could change radically our point of view. In other words, we are irrelevant to them and we can continue happily blocking everything, but younger people needs to be brainwashed to keep the current model and to mold the internet into its final form.

Can't really comment as I'm still on 8.0. For me it's enough that it's still there and can be scheduled as a PowerShell command (for files history I use Crashplan anyway) but I agree that if this is the case, it's pretty much hostile for consumer users.

Unfortunately it didn't really took off, but it's a shame because it's a good, polished and complete implementation that allows for some advanced scale-out topologies (it can also be used as a foundation for data dependent routing and map/reduce scenarios).

<rant>I guess it's not much used because people like to reinvent the wheel every time (by manually implementing queues using tables with all the traditional concurrency problems) instead of learning something a bit more complex.</rant>

Anyway, it's not going to be thrown away anytime soon as it's used in other parts of the engine (e.g. SMTP mail integration, Server Events and Query Notifications).

Last time that I decided to shell out more money investing in the "aluminium factory" I bought an mp3 player and found out rather quickly that they break as any other cheap player.

I also found out that the sustainable model of the "aluminium factory" is to make me pay almost the same price of a new player to replace a shattered display.

In the end I was lucky enough to find on ebay some companies madly working against the sustainability of the free market that sold me a replacement display for 20£.

I ever since bought only cheap, plastic players. They still even let you change batteries...

It's anecdotal at best. Not only it can't be generalized, at different ages the outcome may be a lot different. Kids need a certain level of maturity to understand properly conflicts and learn conflict resolution otherwise they simply feel them as a crack in their world. There are not fast and hard rules here, every kid/situation may be quite different...

Indeed. Even if there was such a contract, who fixed the price for it? In other words: who said that the right price/service in exchange for an incredibly precise audit trail of my behavior is targeted ads or some pretty lame free articles?

I paid my Navigon app, I pay for my Office 365 e-mail, I pay for the music I get, I pay for the local newspaper I read, I pay to access academia papers (i.e. ACM), I pay for a lot of tools many of which on a donor contract.

I don't even have a problem to pay a fee for a social site if I believe it gives me value in exchange.

Let's forge the contract in a different way: you want my data, you offer something in exchange, I decide if that's a good deal for me. If not, I may still decide to give you my data, but you pay.

At least it doesn't have a logo with lens flares....

Well, their lawyers apparently thought to know well the laws about warranty around Europe and they got fined...

Then again you could also make it complex with interleaved colors up to more than a hundred :)

I agree, especially sad.

The most productive and efficient mean for discussions is now pretty much just a binary deposit for porn and copyrighted material.

I still can't believe everyone got away with non-threaded forums vs. newsgroups when the Internets became mainstream.

Also, Google had its own share when they acquired Dejanews and broke the search.