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I didn't read the latest round of mainstream 'headlines', but I hope everyone knows there is an Anon that matters. The Mexi Guv despises him/he,r as do the cartels, for publicizing what is not in the mainstream b/c of cover-ups and outright fear of retribution. Post is to Google page, pick your translator if no habla español...

Most is NSFW & NSFL but, nevertheless, a stunning and violent reality for Mexico...
Talk to Blog Del Narco

So it's just occurred to me that G+ is a good way of hosting debates on your favourite topics without needing a social link as strong as a "Facebook friend." Look at how Robert Llewellyn is using it for an example. It's more engaging than a blog but less intimate for Facebook so it's almost the perfect fan club mechanism for whatever. (In his case, the next generation of personal transport.)

https://plus.google.com/114018232303831249060#114018232303831249060/posts

"Death-by-Budget-Cut" since 1987, at least:

http://www.google.com/search?q="Death-by-Budget-Cut"&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&client=iceweasel-a#q="Death-by-Budget-Cut"&hl=en&source=lnt&tbs=tl:1&sa=X

Well, at least the phrase itself.

android is pretty open by default, and it's even feasible (not easy or fun) to write programs directly on the phone.

Actually, with SL4A it IS sort of fun, especially if you add Amarino into the mix

"Scripting Layer for Android (SL4A) brings scripting languages to Android by allowing you to edit and execute scripts and interactive interpreters directly on the Android device. These scripts have access to many of the APIs available to full-fledged Android applications, but with a greatly simplified interface that makes it easy to get things done."

http://code.google.com/p/android-scripting/

Maybe you're just not following the right/enough people. I have over 40 posts from the last four hours in my stream. Try following some of these people and I guarantee G+ won't feel like a ghost town:

Tom Merritt Leo Laporte
Cali Lewis Danny Sullivan Jeff Jarvis Louis Gray Tim O'Reilly Jonathan Strickland Natalie Villalobos Eileen Rivera Kiki Sanford Colby Brown Dan Patterson Felicia Day Surprise! Harry McCracken Trey Ratcliff Gina Trapani Veronica Belmont Ron Garan Clever Nickname

Maybe you're just not following the right/enough people. I have over 40 posts from the last four hours in my stream. Try following some of these people and I guarantee G+ won't feel like a ghost town:

Tom Merritt Leo Laporte
Cali Lewis Danny Sullivan Jeff Jarvis Louis Gray Tim O'Reilly Jonathan Strickland Natalie Villalobos Eileen Rivera Kiki Sanford Colby Brown Dan Patterson Felicia Day Surprise! Harry McCracken Trey Ratcliff Gina Trapani Veronica Belmont Ron Garan Clever Nickname

Maybe you're just not following the right/enough people. I have over 40 posts from the last four hours in my stream. Try following some of these people and I guarantee G+ won't feel like a ghost town:

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Cali Lewis Danny Sullivan Jeff Jarvis Louis Gray Tim O'Reilly Jonathan Strickland Natalie Villalobos Eileen Rivera Kiki Sanford Colby Brown Dan Patterson Felicia Day Surprise! Harry McCracken Trey Ratcliff Gina Trapani Veronica Belmont Ron Garan Clever Nickname

Maybe you're just not following the right/enough people. I have over 40 posts from the last four hours in my stream. Try following some of these people and I guarantee G+ won't feel like a ghost town:

Tom Merritt Leo Laporte
Cali Lewis Danny Sullivan Jeff Jarvis Louis Gray Tim O'Reilly Jonathan Strickland Natalie Villalobos Eileen Rivera Kiki Sanford Colby Brown Dan Patterson Felicia Day Surprise! Harry McCracken Trey Ratcliff Gina Trapani Veronica Belmont Ron Garan Clever Nickname

Maybe you're just not following the right/enough people. I have over 40 posts from the last four hours in my stream. Try following some of these people and I guarantee G+ won't feel like a ghost town:

Tom Merritt Leo Laporte
Cali Lewis Danny Sullivan Jeff Jarvis Louis Gray Tim O'Reilly Jonathan Strickland Natalie Villalobos Eileen Rivera Kiki Sanford Colby Brown Dan Patterson Felicia Day Surprise! Harry McCracken Trey Ratcliff Gina Trapani Veronica Belmont Ron Garan Clever Nickname

Maybe you're just not following the right/enough people. I have over 40 posts from the last four hours in my stream. Try following some of these people and I guarantee G+ won't feel like a ghost town:

Tom Merritt Leo Laporte
Cali Lewis Danny Sullivan Jeff Jarvis Louis Gray Tim O'Reilly Jonathan Strickland Natalie Villalobos Eileen Rivera Kiki Sanford Colby Brown Dan Patterson Felicia Day Surprise! Harry McCracken Trey Ratcliff Gina Trapani Veronica Belmont Ron Garan Clever Nickname

Maybe you're just not following the right/enough people. I have over 40 posts from the last four hours in my stream. Try following some of these people and I guarantee G+ won't feel like a ghost town:

Tom Merritt Leo Laporte
Cali Lewis Danny Sullivan Jeff Jarvis Louis Gray Tim O'Reilly Jonathan Strickland Natalie Villalobos Eileen Rivera Kiki Sanford Colby Brown Dan Patterson Felicia Day Surprise! Harry McCracken Trey Ratcliff Gina Trapani Veronica Belmont Ron Garan Clever Nickname

Maybe you're just not following the right/enough people. I have over 40 posts from the last four hours in my stream. Try following some of these people and I guarantee G+ won't feel like a ghost town:

Tom Merritt Leo Laporte
Cali Lewis Danny Sullivan Jeff Jarvis Louis Gray Tim O'Reilly Jonathan Strickland Natalie Villalobos Eileen Rivera Kiki Sanford Colby Brown Dan Patterson Felicia Day Surprise! Harry McCracken Trey Ratcliff Gina Trapani Veronica Belmont Ron Garan Clever Nickname

Maybe you're just not following the right/enough people. I have over 40 posts from the last four hours in my stream. Try following some of these people and I guarantee G+ won't feel like a ghost town:

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Maybe you're just not following the right/enough people. I have over 40 posts from the last four hours in my stream. Try following some of these people and I guarantee G+ won't feel like a ghost town:

Tom Merritt Leo Laporte
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Maybe you're just not following the right/enough people. I have over 40 posts from the last four hours in my stream. Try following some of these people and I guarantee G+ won't feel like a ghost town:

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Maybe you're just not following the right/enough people. I have over 40 posts from the last four hours in my stream. Try following some of these people and I guarantee G+ won't feel like a ghost town:

Tom Merritt Leo Laporte
Cali Lewis Danny Sullivan Jeff Jarvis Louis Gray Tim O'Reilly Jonathan Strickland Natalie Villalobos Eileen Rivera Kiki Sanford Colby Brown Dan Patterson Felicia Day Surprise! Harry McCracken Trey Ratcliff Gina Trapani Veronica Belmont Ron Garan Clever Nickname

Maybe you're just not following the right/enough people. I have over 40 posts from the last four hours in my stream. Try following some of these people and I guarantee G+ won't feel like a ghost town:

Tom Merritt Leo Laporte
Cali Lewis Danny Sullivan Jeff Jarvis Louis Gray Tim O'Reilly Jonathan Strickland Natalie Villalobos Eileen Rivera Kiki Sanford Colby Brown Dan Patterson Felicia Day Surprise! Harry McCracken Trey Ratcliff Gina Trapani Veronica Belmont Ron Garan Clever Nickname

Maybe you're just not following the right/enough people. I have over 40 posts from the last four hours in my stream. Try following some of these people and I guarantee G+ won't feel like a ghost town:

Tom Merritt Leo Laporte
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Maybe you're just not following the right/enough people. I have over 40 posts from the last four hours in my stream. Try following some of these people and I guarantee G+ won't feel like a ghost town:

Tom Merritt Leo Laporte
Cali Lewis Danny Sullivan Jeff Jarvis Louis Gray Tim O'Reilly Jonathan Strickland Natalie Villalobos Eileen Rivera Kiki Sanford Colby Brown Dan Patterson Felicia Day Surprise! Harry McCracken Trey Ratcliff Gina Trapani Veronica Belmont Ron Garan Clever Nickname

Maybe you're just not following the right/enough people. I have over 40 posts from the last four hours in my stream. Try following some of these people and I guarantee G+ won't feel like a ghost town:

Tom Merritt Leo Laporte
Cali Lewis Danny Sullivan Jeff Jarvis Louis Gray Tim O'Reilly Jonathan Strickland Natalie Villalobos Eileen Rivera Kiki Sanford Colby Brown Dan Patterson Felicia Day Surprise! Harry McCracken Trey Ratcliff Gina Trapani Veronica Belmont Ron Garan Clever Nickname

Maybe you're just not following the right/enough people. I have over 40 posts from the last four hours in my stream. Try following some of these people and I guarantee G+ won't feel like a ghost town:

Tom Merritt Leo Laporte
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Maybe you're just not following the right/enough people. I have over 40 posts from the last four hours in my stream. Try following some of these people and I guarantee G+ won't feel like a ghost town:

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Maybe you're just not following the right/enough people. I have over 40 posts from the last four hours in my stream. Try following some of these people and I guarantee G+ won't feel like a ghost town:

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Maybe you're just not following the right/enough people. I have over 40 posts from the last four hours in my stream. Try following some of these people and I guarantee G+ won't feel like a ghost town:

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They should revoke his Imperial Warrant!

The difference between Google and Microsoft is that Google invented AppEngine, Microsoft would be trying to extend someone else's existing project.

Also Google has published the API openly and supports third-party attempts to implement it like this project. Microsoft would have released the API details under NDA to registered developers, and would sue anyone attempting to reverse-engineer them.

http://www.google.com/search?sclient=psy&hl=en&site=&source=hp&q=%22dh.3515.info%22&btnG=Search

APK

I'm fine with Google developing their own language, but I prefer Facebook's style. Reaching the limitations of php, they built their own compiler (even though there already was a decent compiler), where as google has the scrap it all and start from scratch.

Um, V8?

Wasn't IBM the owner of the Jet Powered Surfboard Patent? I wonder if that was included in the deal...

I like to think Microsoft just a bunch of assholes trying to see how much humiliation their users will endure before they switch.

First, there was the Microsoft television ad closing with Bill Gates wiggling his ass in our faces. Now, they name the UI for their latest OS "Metro," which condescends to the androgynous metrosexuality of the users of the iOS UI that Microsoft feels Win8 must rip off in order to be successful.

p.s. apparently I was the first to link Win8's "metro" with metrosexuality.

Oh, and since it's unique platform and the backend is closed, you either have to accept whatever price Google is asking or abandon the project and code it again from the beginning.

WTF are you talking about? According to the documentation

"App Engine uses the Java Servlet standard for web applications. You provide your app's servlet classes, JavaServer Pages (JSPs), static files and data files, along with the deployment descriptor (the web.xml file) and other configuration files, in a standard WAR directory structure. App Engine serves requests by invoking servlets according to the deployment descriptor."

"Apps can use the App Engine datastore for reliable, scalable persistent storage of data. The datastore supports two standard Java interfaces: Java Data Objects (JDO) 2.3 and Java Persistence API (JPA) 1.0. These interfaces are implemented using DataNucleus Access Platform, the open source implementation of these standards."

Granted not all features of JDO or JPA are fully supported and there are other services such as URLFetch that you can choose to use which won't be portable, but if you have even half a brain when designing your application you'll hardly have to "code it again from the beginning" if you want to move to a different host.

"The wireless access point signals we use in our location services don't identify people..."
-Peter Fleischer, Global Privacy Counsel (9-13-2011)

Q. "But doesn't this information identify people?"
A. "SSIDs are often just the name of the router manufacturer or ISP with numbers and letters added, though some people do also personalize them."
--Peter Fleischer, Global Privacy Counsel (4-27-2010)

"What is the SSID for Google WiFi?
The SSID for the Google WiFi service in Mountain View is GoogleWiFi (case-sensitive).
The SSID for the WPA protected service is GoogleWiFiSecure (case-sensitive)"
--Google Wifi Help

then raise prices significantly.

That's debatable. The pricing model changed, and it's likely more expensive, but also clearer and potentially cheaper.

Oh, and since it's unique platform and the backend is closed, you either have to accept whatever price Google is asking or abandon the project and code it again from the beginning.

Disclaimer: I contribute to dm-appengine, a DataMapper (for Ruby) layer for Google App Engine. It's part of why people can run Ruby on Rails on JRuby on App Engine.

But I think dm-appengine alone makes a compelling case that you don't have to code from the beginning unless you've done something fantastically stupid. DataMapper has backends in everything from sqlite to Oracle, from RDF to IMAP. It's entirely possible to develop an app which targets both MySQL and App Engine. You'll probably have some porting work, but it's hardly a "code everything from the beginning" situation.

If you developed for Python or Java, there's appscale, and I'm not sure that's the only alternative. You could port your entire app as-is from App Engine to Amazon EC2, or to your own private Eucalyptus infrastructure.

Also, note that Google has made no aggressive moves against these organizations. I don't just mean lawsuits; they haven't even been passively-aggressively mentioning "We might maybe sort of have some patents on that App Engine stuff."

You might have a point here:

So much for Google's openness.

But Google never was completely open source all the time. I can't download the source to Google Docs -- or, for that matter, Google Search -- and launch my own competing service. I have a much bigger problem with lock-in, but it looks like they aren't doing that here.

No published docs, no information about the API's

So how do developers know how to write code that works in AppEngine?

The APIs are infact documented.

The APIs have in fact been copied and Google actually hosts the code (though they only host, don't think they have any other involvement than it sitting on their servers)

http://code.google.com/p/appscale/

Pretty much the same result as with .NET isn't it.

So thats why the most popular sites on the internet-- Google, Craigslist, Wikipedia-- are or have been moving towards clean, simpler designs?

I think in your mind they're the most useful. But Wikipedia lies behind Facebook, Yahoo and a number of other complex UIs. Craigslist is number 37 on that list. You also don't define what "clean, simpler" means in terms of UI. It's part magic and part science so until you can tell me what makes wikipedia cleaner and simpler than, say, a bulletin board system I can ask why we're not all recording articles and editing them in some sort of encyclopedic bulletin board system.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8960833940831434429

the newer one was not as cool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_cAzTn3c0Y&feature=related

If it wasn't so hit and miss with basic survival right now, I might see it a bit differently.

US Average Lifespans

Looks like we're doing pretty good.

Subsistence farmers in third world countries probably won't be affected by any first world legislation that attempts to protect the environment.

You might be right here, but there are other people in third world countries who are already affected: http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&gcx=c&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=food+prices+rise+riots

I was using Google books awhile back for some genealogical research. One of the books I was using was the Diary of Joshua Hempstead of New London, Connecticut, published in 1901, which was originally written in 1711-1758.

It's dull diary entries, mostly describing the weather, what task the author had accomplished that day, any income, and who died.

Oddly, the book was republished in 2008, in paperback format. I can buy it on Amazon for $39. But I would have never found it. I'm not related to the author. My relatives are mentioned in there, mostly in passing, or noting their deaths. My access to the book on google doesn't result in a lost sale. I wouldn't know the book had information that was relevant without seeing it, nor would I spend $38 on a whim just in case a relative was mentioned in it.

(By the way, the publishing company (Kessinger Publishing) has been accused of ripping off public domain books digitized by other sources, including google. Here's a thread on that. I don't know if this is true or not, but buyer beware!)

I was using Google books awhile back for some genealogical research. One of the books I was using was the Diary of Joshua Hempstead of New London, Connecticut, published in 1901, which was originally written in 1711-1758.

It's dull diary entries, mostly describing the weather, what task the author had accomplished that day, any income, and who died.

Oddly, the book was republished in 2008, in paperback format. I can buy it on Amazon for $39. But I would have never found it. I'm not related to the author. My relatives are mentioned in there, mostly in passing, or noting their deaths. My access to the book on google doesn't result in a lost sale. I wouldn't know the book had information that was relevant without seeing it, nor would I spend $38 on a whim just in case a relative was mentioned in it.

(By the way, the publishing company (Kessinger Publishing) has been accused of ripping off public domain books digitized by other sources, including google. Here's a thread on that. I don't know if this is true or not, but buyer beware!)

There are gui version based on Duplicity for Windows and Linux
Duplicati http://code.google.com/p/duplicati/
And Deja Dup https://launchpad.net/deja-dup
Duplicati 2.0 will have a GUI that also works on Mac, currently it only works in the terminal.

Are you using Google Apps for Business? Or just a domain with email hosted by Google? One is free, the other is paid. http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/premier_terms.html. There's a link to the paid SLA. I use the free one, and I do have the odd issue (not rare, but not all the time - and generally not for an extended period of time) connecting to their servers.

This distinction should be kept in mind during this discussion - I get the impression everybody involved here isn't aware of it.

From my uni days...

#include <windows.h>
#include <system_errors.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

char make_prog_look_big[1600000];

main()
{
        if (detect_cache())
                disable_cache();

        if (fast_cpu())
                set_wait_states(lots);

        set_mouse(speed, very_slow);
        set_mouse(action, jumpy);
        set_mouse(reaction, sometimes);

        printf("Welcome to Windoze 3.999 (we might get it right or just call it Chicargo)\n");

        if (system_ok())
                crash(to_dos_prompt);
        else
                system_memory = open("a:\swp0001.swp", O_CREATE);

        while(1) {
                sleep(5);
                get_user_input();
                sleep(5);
                act_on_user_input();
                sleep(5);
                if (rand() < 0.9)
                        crash(complete_system);
        }
        return(unrecoverable_system);
}

You mean synchrotron, like SPring-8 here
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=678-1205+japan&hl=en&ll=34.944277,134.42811&spn=0.046717,0.066519&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=45.957536,68.115234&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=14
Cyclotrons are usually much, much smaller.

and yes, I thought synchrotron since I first saw it, but that's because I work at one...

you can purchase legit arcade ROM boards or chips at these sites:
have to sell body parts to afford
decent prices
on ebay <-- sometimes super deals! however, if super cheap and it's a chinese seller, it's pirated. (sad but true)

after purchasing them, you will either need to dump the chips or download them predumped from the net. it's not piracy if you own the chips. it's going to cost you a boat load of money, so you have been warned.

if you buy just the ROM (not on chips) from someone then it's guaranteed pirated.

but seriously, LRN2GOOGLE!

Cupertino is mostly suburban housing and strip malls. Apple's plan would be an improvement.

As isolated corporate campuses go, it's not very isolated. Just in Silicon Valley, there are far more isolated HQs. There's Oracle HQ, which is surrounded by water on three sides and has a huge lawn on the fourth. Like Larry Ellison, it's an in-your-face statement of arrogance.

Google HQ is somewhat isolated; they now have almost all of the Shoreline Industrial Park. Their architecture is standard industrial park, built for SGI before SGI tanked.

For over-the-top corporate HQ design, there's Excite@Home. Yes, they're long gone. But before that dot-com went bust, they built an awesome headquarters complex on a finger of land a full mile out in the middle of San Francisco Bay. It has spectacular architecture, isolation, impressive open spaces, baseball fields, a health club with Olympic size pool, and a marina. Excite@Home went bust before moving in. The buildings were vacant for years, as a real estate company tried to rent them out. It was strange to walk through the huge complex of beautifully maintained empty office buildings. EA, Dreamworks, and some pharma companies now rent space there. It's still underutilized.

IBM's Almaden Research Center is the purest expression of the isolated research center. It's on a mountaintop south of San Jose, surrounded by open land and parks. You enter through a modest gate, then drive half a mile through the hills, seeing nothing but open land and trees. Then you see IBM's glass and steel buildings. The view of the mountains from the cafeteria is spectacular. Much good work came out of there during IBM's glory years, including disk drive technology and several Nobel prizes. Today it's a shadow of what it once was.

Compared to all of those, Apple's planned HQ is nothing.

Cupertino is mostly suburban housing and strip malls. Apple's plan would be an improvement.

As isolated corporate campuses go, it's not very isolated. Just in Silicon Valley, there are far more isolated HQs. There's Oracle HQ, which is surrounded by water on three sides and has a huge lawn on the fourth. Like Larry Ellison, it's an in-your-face statement of arrogance.

Google HQ is somewhat isolated; they now have almost all of the Shoreline Industrial Park. Their architecture is standard industrial park, built for SGI before SGI tanked.

For over-the-top corporate HQ design, there's Excite@Home. Yes, they're long gone. But before that dot-com went bust, they built an awesome headquarters complex on a finger of land a full mile out in the middle of San Francisco Bay. It has spectacular architecture, isolation, impressive open spaces, baseball fields, a health club with Olympic size pool, and a marina. Excite@Home went bust before moving in. The buildings were vacant for years, as a real estate company tried to rent them out. It was strange to walk through the huge complex of beautifully maintained empty office buildings. EA, Dreamworks, and some pharma companies now rent space there. It's still underutilized.

IBM's Almaden Research Center is the purest expression of the isolated research center. It's on a mountaintop south of San Jose, surrounded by open land and parks. You enter through a modest gate, then drive half a mile through the hills, seeing nothing but open land and trees. Then you see IBM's glass and steel buildings. The view of the mountains from the cafeteria is spectacular. Much good work came out of there during IBM's glory years, including disk drive technology and several Nobel prizes. Today it's a shadow of what it once was.

Compared to all of those, Apple's planned HQ is nothing.

If Wolfe & Homestead is the middle of nowhere, then I am Marie of Romania. HP has been there since the '60s.. It'll be replacing one suburban office park with another, nicer-sounding one.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=s&ll=37.334678,-122.009611&spn=0.012096,0.014119&t=h&z=16&vpsrc=6

It seems if we accept that 9/11 occurs every day in Iraq, then we must also accept that 9/11 happens every day in Libya. So, fuck those terrorist countries too for causing civilian deaths in a war zone.

Let's see... fuck Denmark, fuck Italy, fuck Netherlands, fuck Norway, fuck Sweden, fuck Spain, fuck Turkey, fuck Jordan, fuck Qatar, fuck UAE. Fuck them all.

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