This qualifies as a paradigm shift in computing. Smartphones and tablets are essentially different mediums with different habits and a whole new human–computer interaction science. In-fact many consumers —specially in emerging markets— are jumping directly to the use of a smartphone or tablet computer without buying or learning how to use a desktop PC.
There are more than 5 billion mobile phones in the world, with almost 4 billion feature phones and more than 1 billion smartphones. As smartphone prices come down, many people who currently have feature phones will be able to afford smartphones over the next 5 years.
This comes from the document explaining the internet.org initiative by Facebook. Which is something I’m really excited about, it would simply help balance out the economic differences in the world a little bit by getting the rest of the world online. If a success, this will cause an explosion in the smartphone and tablet installed base units.
The article contains some graphs and charts explaining the danger, the dagger pointed at the web in the form of a smart phone. Its a smart weapon of mass destruction, threatening world peace and understanding, Too many apps, not enough boots on the ground holding bits together.
I'm sparing you the details, but, you can always go and check the charts and figures that show how the smart phone is fundamentally different as a medium carrying the elements of bits and data that will alter the course of international norms, figures and lastly, but not leastly, text.
Why Does it Matter?
The idea that someone would own the Web seems very wrong to me and I’m sure to many of the technologists and entrepreneurs in the world. I try to be reflective and aware of the fact that I’m deeply invested in the web and it’s going to be hard for me to speak objectively. However, the truth of the matter is that I can jump on the next application platform and be good enough to be dangerous within a month. I and many of the engineers like me will even find ways to automatically port many of our applications and knowledge to the new dominant platform.
Nonetheless, I don’t have to be overly objective about this, because the influence of the web can’t be fully quantified. The Web as a concept and as a technology has great virtues that can’t be found elsewhere in the world and we must try to salvage it or come up with something similar. It has been a big driver of great social and economical change that has been unprecedented in the history of the world. The idea that someone can make a webpage in an afternoon, put it up online and have thousands, or even millions of people be able to find it and interact with it is completely mind-blowing. The fact that machines can understand the entirety of the human knowledge, organise it, and present it in the most convenient of ways shows that there is a great value in preserving an open and connected web of information, information processes, and communication technology.
The title of the piece is Is The Web Dying. I thought that a little over the top, so I changed it.
Sarah Silverman.
Sarah Silverman's Dirty Smartphone Hack
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Sarah Silverman is a big girl.
I hadn't realized that.
Silverman is on of those odd women who pride themselves on being an asshole.
A fag hag, too. Not surprising.
AIDS research is so heavily funded that research agencies can barely figure out how to spend the tsunami of money.
I'm at a loss as to why a woman being a complete asshole is funny. This is the sort of shit that makes you wonder if the Islamist are right.
And, on topic:
The web as a mass media phenomenon is barely 20 years old.
So, the "web as we know it" is a pretty difficult concept to get hold of.
There has been no point of stasis in the nature of the beast either. One of the reasons I'm trying to stay retired is that the technology has changed so dramatically every two or three years that I've had to continually re-learn programming languages and development tools, and I'm fed up.
My brain can't take it any more.
The whole point of the web, and accessing it, is that it should not require that people "learn something." Did you have to learn something to watch TV?
Cygwin under XP forever. I don't have a cell phone.
If it works, don't fix it.
The desktop is work.
Mobile is just that, take it anywhere.
We'll all be extensions of the Web.
Silverman's shilling for Obama was profoundly unfunny.
To this day we call m b and p labials.
Pudendum pride has an etymological problem.
Pudendum pride has an etymological problem.
Sort of like M+M matrimony does.
Silverman's shilling for Obama was profoundly unfunny.
Her humor calls for her to get bonafides. I don't hold it against her.
She's gotta have their permission.
I don't understand the question. If phones are linked into the Web, how does that change the Web as we know it?
Also, is there a difference between the World Wide Web and the Internet?
I read that article and didn't understand it, so I read it again. I still don't understand it.
I thought it must be me until I saw the author's tagline under his photo - "I grow software." I get it now. He's full of crap and I am wasting my time trying to understand his crap.
Also, his charts are misleading.
If Conan and Andy said: "Yea, your right Sarah. We shouldn't be ashamed of our bodies." Then, they started taking off their clothes, and asked her to get naked too. Who do you think would be leaving first with their clothes still on? This crap about we shouldn't be ashamed of our bodies is such worn out bullshit trying to be edgy. Does she know we had the 1960s and 70s already, with streaking and nudist colonies, and naked sit-ins.
We cover up because most of us are ugly ass animals without clothes, and nobody wants to see it. We are ashamed because we have common sense, and don't all have 19 year old bodies. I have so many scars that one time Michael Jackson offered me $500K just to let him mummify my body and make me into a giant Pez dispenser for his game room. I agreed, but it was just verbal, and now nobody in his family wants to honor the deal.
Yes, rh, labium superius oris and inferius oris to labia minora, huge leap there, but it's funny because one comic totally gets another comic who is suspicious all along and still did not see that one coming. I think we were all expecting her to do some amusing regular lip-substitution thing by placing it to her own lips. The whole, "a little more tongue, a little more, come on," that's funny. Ha! It's like taking a huge plastic hammer and conking Conan on the head. In real life, at a party, you could go, "Bad girl!" )))whap(((
Is anyone reversing the idea? There could be an app that makes your vagina photo talk, and you could hold it up over your mouth, and monologue all over the place.
I had to consider phones taking over computing for a new blog and I must consider it in changing an old one.
I use a blank template for the food blog for years that has no side columns so the column for posts can be as wide as I say and I like it to be very wide.
Also, I closed a site that I own because their costs have gone up and since starting it there are excellent free services so I must move content over and I notice all the templates offered on Blogger are accounting for telephone activity. That is why the column for posts is so narrow, and wide photos discouraged.
The food blog may be too wide for telephone use, I might have to change the template for that or make the column more narrow.
And the new blog to accept the old content from the shut down site is already to use on telephones without having to scroll back and forth left to right, as all of the new choices are.
is there a difference between the World Wide Web and the Internet?
Found an answer at Webopedia -- they're separate, but related:
"The Internet is a massive network of networks, a networking infrastructure. It connects millions of computers together globally, forming a network in which any computer can communicate with any other computer as long as they are both connected to the Internet. Information that travels over the Internet does so via a variety of languages known as protocols.
The World Wide Web, or simply Web, is a way of accessing information over the medium of the Internet. It is an information-sharing model that is built on top of the Internet. The Web uses the HTTP protocol, only one of the languages spoken over the Internet, to transmit data. ...
The Web is just one of the ways that information can be disseminated over the Internet. The Internet, not the Web, is also used for e-mail, which relies on SMTP, Usenet news groups, instant messaging and FTP."
Thanks, Lydia. Innnnteresting. So the www overlies the internet, and uses the http protocol, but other protocols such as SMTP, Usenet, and IM and FTP are access the Web. TY :)
Bags, that's a stellar idea! A lot better than the one that adds weight to your face.
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