I think WebTV might be faster and more stable than this concept.
An android computer the size of a USB stick running Windows? What could POSSIBLY go wrong? Not to mention when you're running an OS via 'the cloud' where are your files stored, and how secure is everything on 'your os'?
Seems like a novelty idea that will soon pass. Just use android and be done with it.
In the same way, none of these legal changes would stop another Sandy Hook shooting. They've made it hard for people who don't pass a background check to obtain weapons... great. Everyone in recent memory who has shot up a school would pass those background checks.
This is a retarded addition/amendment. The people who have already committed crimes are not the ones we need to worry about, it's the ones who are steeping in anger at being treated like shit because MTV told some bullies it was cool to pick on smart or different kids.
When did being the 'cool kid' start to mean acting like some douchebag from Jersey Shore?
The light would have to travel through the warped space to reach someone on the ship.
I would imagine there is some sort of optical interference that would arise from light traveling through warped space. As stated in the document the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation might be shifted into a layer of visible light around the ship, but I guess that depends on how you warp space in the first place.
Personally, I think it would be awesome if it looked like a giant psychedelic tie-dyed wash of light with all the different levels of radiation passing in and out of the visible spectrum.
I think the EU commissions severely underestimate the disturbance it would cause to just Nope all Google services, including Google Maps, Search, Mail, Docs, Calendar, and the rest. Just gone. No more for the EU.
I would really love to see what they did then...it would make a great movie.
I think you're confusing a search result for their product with an ad. Yes, they are promoting their email product: it happens to be the most popular free email service in the entire fucking world. Would you rather they put mail.com(ranked much lower in the world) first? How is that accurate and unbiased results? Let's also consider that the link you provided shows your browser type and encoding which gives even more information about you, that you're into FREE and OPEN SOURCE products, like Firefox. I would wager there is some part of the algorithm that takes that into account - otherwise why would it send that information? Try the search again on IE: does it bring up Hotmail first? Still google? Yahoo mail? What?
Let's consider Maps. Would you rather they put the 4th or 5th ranked sites like Mapquest or ads for mapping Apps for iPhones as the first result instead? They served you the world's most popular mapping service as the first two results. Seems correct to me.
If you want to criticize the internet, don't be a retard and learn how it works first. Of course if you go to Google, and search Maps, you will get... SHOCK Google Maps... Or if you go to Google... and search for Mail.... you will get SHOCK GMail(Google Mail)!
That's like saying "When I go to Mapquest and type an address, why doesn't Google Maps come up?"
You are going to a company's website. Why would you expect them to offer other companies' services through their own site? If not for actually hindering their own advertising/promotion/business model, it also brings up copyright issues, where if Google is just serving up Bing maps and results without any attribution(free advertising for competitors) they can get in trouble for plagiarism, fraud, and far worse things than this retarded EU commission seems to think they do.
Don't be a complete retard like these EU folks: If you want Mapquest, go to Mapquest. If you want Bing, go to Bing. If you want Google, go to Google. If you can't understand this, stay the fuck off the internet.
I, also, am curious when "Fair and Balanced" became a legal requirement for search engines. As far as I knew, all search engines can put whatever results they want in the list, and it's fine since it's THEIR COMPANY and THEIR ALGORITHM and THEIR SERVERS doing the ranking and listing.
The fact that Google has gained the #1 spot and enjoys excellent popularity should not exempt them from the freedom to run and manage their product as they see fit - it is a PRODUCT and a SERVICE not a democracy.
So instead they use MAC tracking, cookie tracking, toolbar tracking, Android profiles, gmail accounts accessed, etc. I would be lying if I said I hadn't seen some off ads based on the network I was connecting on, but it's pretty damned good at figuring out who you are in a matter of moments: especially if you have cookies enabled and log in to a service they own.
If I wanted to search Google Maps, I'd go to Google Maps, but for the generalised search function I want relevant results from *anywhere*.
Fine, but when you go to GOOGLE and search for MAPS...don't piss and moan when the first result that comes up is Google Maps. Not only are they the most popular mapping service by a mile, but it is owned and promoted by GOOGLE...the search engine you are using at the time. Of course Google is going to put a little map in your results and say "Hey, we've got this map service...".
Don't be surprised when you have to scroll a bit down to find Mapquest or other 4th- or 5th-ranked map providers: if you want a different, less-popular map provider, search by name. Better yet, stop using Google as your address bar like my grandmother, and type the address in the correct place at the top of the browser window.
I don't know about other languages and countries, but in the US we have this little "Sponsored Results" label. Barring some large shift in English vocabulary, "Sponsored" is quite equivalent to "Bought and Paid For".
It also hasn't been illegal to have paid-for results top your search: as a search engine their algorithm and results sorting, etc, are all proprietary. They can keep them as black-box as they like, and as long as the product functions as they want it to, they aren't doing anything wrong. It is THEIR BUSINESS, and is not up for some money-grubbing politicians to cry foul about ad revenue 10 years after the fact.
So sick of software patents, EU regulation nonsense, China vs Japan, Fiscal Cliffs, Republicans, China vs US, all this crap. Someone start a war against aliens or robots or something, so we can act like one large compassionate human population for a change. It works in the movies....aww, who am I kidding.
an intruder or "hacker" can only learn that the tag serial number is, for example, #69872331, but that does not provide any useful information
I don't think the author/courts understand how RFID works. That is, essentially, all it does: provide wirelessly an ID number for the badge it just scanned. If you can do this anywhere with the right type of scanner, it is no longer secure.
How hard is it to clone this RFID serial number so you can come and go in the school posing as the student? Almost trivial with the right(rather inexpensive) equipment. Get a programmable RFID fob on the right frequency, program it with that 'serial #' and bam, you are that student.
Let's also consider the amount of actual touch-interface we will be using. To launch a program, to click/drag an icon, to pull back the slingshot on angry birds...it's not like you have to keep your hands on the screen at all times. I don't think people understand this with the 'tired arms' argument. I also don't see how it's any more work than lifting my hand from the keyboard to use the mouse and click something.
This whole argument against touch technology seems like a rather giant fallacy. If I were to worry about something relating to touchscreens, I would worry about the absolute impossibility of creating muscle memory for repetitive actions - you have no sense of touch reference with a flat surface whose controls frequently change. You almost always have to look at what you're touching.
I think everyone would rather have their kids at home playing video games all night than out fucking that Jimmy kid in the back seat of his car in a park.
I'd like to think Steve has the balls to say "What the fuck, Ballmer? Give me my company back and let me fix it." before it gets to that point.
It seems like he appointed the wrong guy to run it, given the boneheaded mistakes ("oh, let's just copy Apple!") he has been making at every turn. The 'walled garden' approach is WRONG Steve. That is why Apple still holds such a minority share of the market, and has the reputation of "Easy for Grandma to use, but not good for _____" (fill in the blank with play games, program, crunch data, etc)
I would happily put up with that and more just for the credit of being one of the select few who get to work on the kernel. To have the ear of the man(or team) that gets to decide the direction it goes for the future.
I guarantee you I'd never make that same mistake again. I'm sure if he hadn't tried to blame the user Linus would have been a little nicer about it.
Moreover, "The Cloud" will never earn people's trust as much as a hard-copy software on their own computer. It's not reliable yet, in any way(whoops, Internet's down, can't write my thesis!). It doesn't have the proper support that established and well-known(and dare I say, purchased) software has behind it.
I am getting thoroughly sick of this "Everything is going to 'the cloud' " movement. I will never - repeat NEVER - trust all of my documents to a server somewhere far away under corporate control and government watch. Even if nothing I do is 'illegal' and all of my files are simply my own text creations, how do I know the government isn't going to subpoena everything on my drive and use it in conjunction with some unjust law they whipped up last night? How do I know the datacenter will never lose my documents due to incompetence, theft, or vandalism? How do I know my documents containing sensitive information won't just be ganked by some script kiddie from 4chan? I just can't trust it - It's just not safe.
The only cloud service I use at this point is GMail. I love it, it's great and solid - it rarely ever goes down. If GMail suddenly stopped working, I would not be significantly troubled. I have other email service hosted on a server I manage at an office I physically go to, which is no more on 'the cloud' than my router's management panel.
Aww, and GoPro was such a nice, successful company, too. Now I have no doubt they're going to have to outsource all R&D and production to Asia and everyone knows that with the lower expense of production, the quality will suffer too.
I won't be surprised in a year or less to see GoPro HD cams starting to fail for reasons they had never failed before. Yay, Capitalism!
I don't think logic plays a large role here. The Emperor could shoot friggin' lightning bolts from his hand, but couldn't save himself from falling down a shaft?
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Cry more Mr. Early Adopter. I'm curious what you needed so badly in 4.2 that you upgraded to break your other devices?
I think WebTV might be faster and more stable than this concept.
An android computer the size of a USB stick running Windows? What could POSSIBLY go wrong? Not to mention when you're running an OS via 'the cloud' where are your files stored, and how secure is everything on 'your os'?
Seems like a novelty idea that will soon pass. Just use android and be done with it.
In the same way, none of these legal changes would stop another Sandy Hook shooting. They've made it hard for people who don't pass a background check to obtain weapons ... great. Everyone in recent memory who has shot up a school would pass those background checks.
This is a retarded addition/amendment. The people who have already committed crimes are not the ones we need to worry about, it's the ones who are steeping in anger at being treated like shit because MTV told some bullies it was cool to pick on smart or different kids.
When did being the 'cool kid' start to mean acting like some douchebag from Jersey Shore?
The light would have to travel through the warped space to reach someone on the ship.
I would imagine there is some sort of optical interference that would arise from light traveling through warped space. As stated in the document the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation might be shifted into a layer of visible light around the ship, but I guess that depends on how you warp space in the first place.
Personally, I think it would be awesome if it looked like a giant psychedelic tie-dyed wash of light with all the different levels of radiation passing in and out of the visible spectrum.
I think the EU commissions severely underestimate the disturbance it would cause to just Nope all Google services, including Google Maps, Search, Mail, Docs, Calendar, and the rest. Just gone. No more for the EU.
I would really love to see what they did then...it would make a great movie.
definitively an ads for google email
I think you're confusing a search result for their product with an ad. Yes, they are promoting their email product: it happens to be the most popular free email service in the entire fucking world. Would you rather they put mail.com(ranked much lower in the world) first? How is that accurate and unbiased results? Let's also consider that the link you provided shows your browser type and encoding which gives even more information about you, that you're into FREE and OPEN SOURCE products, like Firefox. I would wager there is some part of the algorithm that takes that into account - otherwise why would it send that information? Try the search again on IE: does it bring up Hotmail first? Still google? Yahoo mail? What?
Let's consider Maps. Would you rather they put the 4th or 5th ranked sites like Mapquest or ads for mapping Apps for iPhones as the first result instead? They served you the world's most popular mapping service as the first two results. Seems correct to me.
If you want to criticize the internet, don't be a retard and learn how it works first. Of course if you go to Google, and search Maps, you will get... SHOCK Google Maps... Or if you go to Google... and search for Mail.... you will get SHOCK GMail(Google Mail)!
That's like saying "When I go to Mapquest and type an address, why doesn't Google Maps come up?"
You are going to a company's website. Why would you expect them to offer other companies' services through their own site? If not for actually hindering their own advertising/promotion/business model, it also brings up copyright issues, where if Google is just serving up Bing maps and results without any attribution(free advertising for competitors) they can get in trouble for plagiarism, fraud, and far worse things than this retarded EU commission seems to think they do.
Don't be a complete retard like these EU folks: If you want Mapquest, go to Mapquest. If you want Bing, go to Bing. If you want Google, go to Google. If you can't understand this, stay the fuck off the internet.
I, also, am curious when "Fair and Balanced" became a legal requirement for search engines. As far as I knew, all search engines can put whatever results they want in the list, and it's fine since it's THEIR COMPANY and THEIR ALGORITHM and THEIR SERVERS doing the ranking and listing.
The fact that Google has gained the #1 spot and enjoys excellent popularity should not exempt them from the freedom to run and manage their product as they see fit - it is a PRODUCT and a SERVICE not a democracy.
So instead they use MAC tracking, cookie tracking, toolbar tracking, Android profiles, gmail accounts accessed, etc. I would be lying if I said I hadn't seen some off ads based on the network I was connecting on, but it's pretty damned good at figuring out who you are in a matter of moments: especially if you have cookies enabled and log in to a service they own.
A company that uses its own advertising subsidiary to advertise? Oh my...how absurd!
If I wanted to search Google Maps, I'd go to Google Maps, but for the generalised search function I want relevant results from *anywhere*.
Fine, but when you go to GOOGLE and search for MAPS...don't piss and moan when the first result that comes up is Google Maps. Not only are they the most popular mapping service by a mile, but it is owned and promoted by GOOGLE...the search engine you are using at the time. Of course Google is going to put a little map in your results and say "Hey, we've got this map service...".
Don't be surprised when you have to scroll a bit down to find Mapquest or other 4th- or 5th-ranked map providers: if you want a different, less-popular map provider, search by name. Better yet, stop using Google as your address bar like my grandmother, and type the address in the correct place at the top of the browser window.
I don't know about other languages and countries, but in the US we have this little "Sponsored Results" label. Barring some large shift in English vocabulary, "Sponsored" is quite equivalent to "Bought and Paid For".
It also hasn't been illegal to have paid-for results top your search: as a search engine their algorithm and results sorting, etc, are all proprietary. They can keep them as black-box as they like, and as long as the product functions as they want it to, they aren't doing anything wrong. It is THEIR BUSINESS, and is not up for some money-grubbing politicians to cry foul about ad revenue 10 years after the fact.
So sick of software patents, EU regulation nonsense, China vs Japan, Fiscal Cliffs, Republicans, China vs US, all this crap. Someone start a war against aliens or robots or something, so we can act like one large compassionate human population for a change. It works in the movies....aww, who am I kidding.
Well, I suppose you could use Bing, but Bing just steals results from Google anyway.
http://www.webpronews.com/cutts-last-time-i-checked-bing-was-still-using-google-as-a-signal-2012-09
an intruder or "hacker" can only learn that the tag serial number is, for example, #69872331, but that does not provide any useful information
I don't think the author/courts understand how RFID works. That is, essentially, all it does: provide wirelessly an ID number for the badge it just scanned. If you can do this anywhere with the right type of scanner, it is no longer secure.
How hard is it to clone this RFID serial number so you can come and go in the school posing as the student? Almost trivial with the right(rather inexpensive) equipment. Get a programmable RFID fob on the right frequency, program it with that 'serial #' and bam, you are that student.
Let's also consider the amount of actual touch-interface we will be using. To launch a program, to click/drag an icon, to pull back the slingshot on angry birds...it's not like you have to keep your hands on the screen at all times. I don't think people understand this with the 'tired arms' argument. I also don't see how it's any more work than lifting my hand from the keyboard to use the mouse and click something.
This whole argument against touch technology seems like a rather giant fallacy. If I were to worry about something relating to touchscreens, I would worry about the absolute impossibility of creating muscle memory for repetitive actions - you have no sense of touch reference with a flat surface whose controls frequently change. You almost always have to look at what you're touching.
I think everyone would rather have their kids at home playing video games all night than out fucking that Jimmy kid in the back seat of his car in a park.
Now, if the cinema was playing older movies or classics along with the new releases, that might start to get interesting.
Does a remake, reboot, or sequel to a classic movie count? Because that's pretty much all they do these days.
Bill...I clearly meant
think Bill has the balls
Damn hangover.
Maybe Ballmer will preside over the "fall" phase
I'd like to think Steve has the balls to say "What the fuck, Ballmer? Give me my company back and let me fix it." before it gets to that point.
It seems like he appointed the wrong guy to run it, given the boneheaded mistakes ("oh, let's just copy Apple!") he has been making at every turn. The 'walled garden' approach is WRONG Steve. That is why Apple still holds such a minority share of the market, and has the reputation of "Easy for Grandma to use, but not good for _____" (fill in the blank with play games, program, crunch data, etc)
Sometimes shit happens. Sorry for that.
Cheers,
Mauro
Wrong. Answer.
I would happily put up with that and more just for the credit of being one of the select few who get to work on the kernel. To have the ear of the man(or team) that gets to decide the direction it goes for the future.
I guarantee you I'd never make that same mistake again. I'm sure if he hadn't tried to blame the user Linus would have been a little nicer about it.
Moreover, "The Cloud" will never earn people's trust as much as a hard-copy software on their own computer. It's not reliable yet, in any way(whoops, Internet's down, can't write my thesis!). It doesn't have the proper support that established and well-known(and dare I say, purchased) software has behind it.
I am getting thoroughly sick of this "Everything is going to 'the cloud' " movement. I will never - repeat NEVER - trust all of my documents to a server somewhere far away under corporate control and government watch. Even if nothing I do is 'illegal' and all of my files are simply my own text creations, how do I know the government isn't going to subpoena everything on my drive and use it in conjunction with some unjust law they whipped up last night? How do I know the datacenter will never lose my documents due to incompetence, theft, or vandalism? How do I know my documents containing sensitive information won't just be ganked by some script kiddie from 4chan? I just can't trust it - It's just not safe.
The only cloud service I use at this point is GMail. I love it, it's great and solid - it rarely ever goes down. If GMail suddenly stopped working, I would not be significantly troubled. I have other email service hosted on a server I manage at an office I physically go to, which is no more on 'the cloud' than my router's management panel.
Aww, and GoPro was such a nice, successful company, too. Now I have no doubt they're going to have to outsource all R&D and production to Asia and everyone knows that with the lower expense of production, the quality will suffer too.
I won't be surprised in a year or less to see GoPro HD cams starting to fail for reasons they had never failed before. Yay, Capitalism!
Having your hodge podgey around your Windows is what makes it all GUI.
I enjoy how you assumed the grammatical style of the summary.
I don't think logic plays a large role here. The Emperor could shoot friggin' lightning bolts from his hand, but couldn't save himself from falling down a shaft?
Come on...consistency.