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Google 'Solve For X' Website Goes Live
alphadogg writes "Google on Monday released a website and video regarding its Solve for X project, which the company says is 'a place where the curious can go to hear and discuss radical technology ideas for solving global problems.' It's got a TED-like think tank feel to it, but possibly with oodles of Google resources behind it. It appears related to Google's up-to-now largely secretive Google X research lab that the New York Times recently shed some light on."
Figure out what the hell is on top of Donald Trump's head.
What the fuck is up with the second link? It appears to be a NetworkWorld advertisement, er article, for a network virtualization company, and contains no references to Google or anything related to the rest of the summary.
Point of video is: "If you own Google stocks, sell".
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Sounds like a good idea! How long til they pull the plug?
Google is going in the wrong direction with the science-fictiony robots. The future is in increased communications, more efficient use of physical resources and ultimately understanding and hacking the human brain.
I predict it will be nothing but kiddie lulz, penile enlargement spam and Android ads...
The question everyone is probably asking themselves is "what countries is this censored in?".
The beauty of the old Bell Labs was that to a certain extent, basic research was OK and appreciated. I couldn't imagine any corporate lab today producing anything close to the quality and quantity of fantastic work that came out of Bell Labs. Google certainly has the resources to do it, but the big question is would the shareholders appreciate the long-term value of such an asset?
Google today announced the closure of the Solve for X website immediately. A Google spokesperson said the site had not obtained a "large enough marketshare to warrant its continued development" and that they "valued everyone's participation utp to this point." Google suggested Google+ as an alternative website where the discussion can be continued, and said that with their next projects they plan to announce the cancellations prior to launch to spare users any more inconvenience.
Solve for X
X = X;
Ship it!
No, seriously, this is C++, and the operator= function contains the solution's implementation, which reads results from a text file generated by parsing a google.com wget with Perl -- make sure you catch the IO exception...
A: Dismantle Google.
The previous comments are only true, if no-one says they're wrong.
My previous client Carrier Access used "Solve for X" in all of its marketing.
A Google search reveals its usage in many of their product manuals:
+"solve for x" +"carrier access"
They were purchased by a California-based company called Force 10. I wonder if they will allow Google to use their trademark. Every time I hear "Solve for X", I think of cell site backhaul. I haven't RTFA yet, so wondering if the Google concept is anything close. :)
Just wait till they hook it so that they can give you more ads.
"You liked Fettucini Alfredo, did you know we also do Spicy Southwest Macaroni and Cheese?"
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Find X
Looks like a solution in search of a problem.
I'm sorry Dave. I can't do that.
(Your supposed to be on a diet, remember?)
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
This is the sort of grandiose bullshit that is excreted out of the bowels of Microsoft.
And by that I mean tons of people, all who think they're smarter than all the others seeing who can piss the furthest up a rope.
I coped with the music-drenched video by tapping along with a little box of paper clips that was near to hand.
GoLoG Park: sounds like some kind of tense, lightly-fictionalized Russian tragedy. I want to believe, but first impressions are lasting impressions.
Googles wants to make cars that drive themselves a reality; driving is a major distraction from the advertising they would like to present you. Google wants to make your fridge know what you eat; knowledge of diet lets them show you ads related to shopping you must do. Google wants to develop advertising into all aspects of life. I think I just solved for X.
will this help me solve my problems with X Windows?
In the video they asked for the cure for cancer, and it turns out most cancer can be prevented with adequate vitamin D, eating lots of vegetables, and avoiding some lifestyle risks.
Global warming can be dealt with by renewables and probably LENR (cold fusion) and if all else fails, Thorium power (but it is not clear it is all from fossil fuels as much may have come from topsoil destruction by poor farming practices, or that global warming is entirely a bad thing compared to delaying a next ice age).
Massive unemployment can be dealt with through a "basic income", an expanded gift economy, improved subsistence technologies like 3D printing and home gardening robots, and/or by better participatory planning at all levels of government.
The biggest issue Google, like the rest of us, needs to wrestle with is the one in my sig below -- the irony of technologies of abundance being used to fight over perceived scarcity, or worse, to create artificial scarcity.
A 21st century issue: the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity.
You can't use technology to solve social problems.
A large number of the "big" problems (hunger, poverty, homelessness, addiction, oppressive dictators, bad laws, etc) are social in nature. Technology will not help solve them.
This post expresses my opinion, not that of my employer. And yes, IAAL.
Well, first... it seems this is a site to "promote" google+. I was interested in it until I saw that.
Next, scarcity is a way for salespeople to promote fear and need.
There is no irony, only sales.
or does google really seem to lack focus?
How is it possibly considered a good business model to keep shotguning the market with these half assed plagerized products.
FOCUS google! FOCUS! You were supposed to take down facebook!
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
No RSS feed. Really, Google?
But X is the independent variable. Wouldn't a better name be 'Solve for Y'?
Ok I get it Chrome vs IE blah blah blah. I will even agree Chrome outperforms IE in a lot of aspects. But come on. The site "doesn't work" in IE9. The reason i say put that in quotations is because if you change the user-agent string in IE to chrome, all of a sudden the site works like a charm. Ok Google, let's stop being petty.
Ask people how to have it and then subvert the ways.....
Cures for cancer already exist, so why ask?
solving pollution issues already have many solutions, so why ask?
etc...
Maybe the real solution is to publish all the solutions so everyone will know and get pissed off at those preventing a better world.
And who better to publish than a "do no evil" company? If it still genuinely exists.
Kinda Looks like this website called TED