This may be unrelated to what Google is actually saving, but I will say this:
Google's spell checking is the best. It is far more reliable than the majority of spell checkers, it almost always knows people's correct names, cities and states and principalities and so on and so forth.
I am gonna go way, WAY out on a limb here and say "No".
No major company would willingly piss off this many people and customers without carefully considering how it would affect them (Not if it plans on remaining a major company).
They probably have estimates of how many lawsuits are likely, their probability of success, how many donuts they are gonna eat during the trials...
That said, SHOULD they change their mind? I think that forcing your customers into one path tends to piss them off, especially if your forcing them into a path that is extremely profitable for you (AKA MS Vendor lockin).
It might work in the short run, but it could damage Amazon's brand name.
"Still, my multiple monitors works flawlessly in Windows"
You mean, work flawlessly after you installed your video card driver and monitor driver.
Drivers that may or may not support linux.
Don't worry though, Ubuntu 8.04 will have "Bulletproof X" which will make things loads easier I believe. Better support for multiple monitors and video cards too I believe.
In the PS2 days: "This game is unplayable without the network attachment". My first introduction to Everquest (Gift from family).
And soon Xbox will probably have "This game requires X amount of hard drive space to play this game". Games are getting larger at a faster rate, and eventually people won't be happy with a crippled version.
I am a big, anti-MS fanboy.
I dislike/hate almost everything that they have forced me to use in my life.
However, with the changes of making IE8 much closer to standards (Won't accept this till it is out) I am in an interesting position.
If Windows 7 allows competitors the knowledge needed to integrate with the OS, and treats user programs the same as Window's supported programs (Like WMP and IE), I will renounce half the things I said about the company.
^_^ The funny part is that they are planning on releasing Crysis 1.5 on the PS3.
Not only will it be coming to the console, it will contain 50% more stuff.
If you can't define it, you lose your patent.
That would fix most of our issues, because people who have to define their patent in easy to understand terms will suddenly find that there is prior art, or that someone else already has it.
Yet here in the US, we pay more for less service. And there is a possibility that we could end up loosing even MORE of our service and still get charged the same. That is the issue my friend.
He didn't say without javascript, he said with NoScript.
NoScript allows us to decide on a case by case basis what site is trustworthy... and can enable the main one by default (Like google.com if your visiting google, for example).
This stops most third party ad scripts.
Sure.
Fair use allows small portions of copywritten works to be made into other products, as long as it doesn't take the form of the original product, and doesn't damage the value of the original product.
The original products in this case was an audio only song (Multiple versions I assume), music videos staring Prince (again, probably several), etc.
The new product can NOT be confused with the original (You don't see price, and honestly I can't even understand the words in the song the baby is listening to). Also, the video is very obviously focused on a baby, NOT the music.
This product is therefor a fair use of the copy written work.
At least, until our society makes it illegal to use any copy written item for anything, at which point public creativity will stop, or society will revolt.
(Think of how many songs were based off of tunes of other works, how many pictures look 'simular', how many movies have simular plots, etc)
"Are they out of "beta" now?"
We're releasing on time.
Think of all the things we learned
This was a triumph
for the people who are
still alive./outOforder/
CD's, DVD's, and even flash have a finite lifespan, and can contain unexpected defects. And NOTHING is worse than getting to disk 4 in a video game and seeing the "Disk Read Error".
This goes double for installation cd's/dvd's. I always back them up so I don't have to worry about a defect.
And as for the case thing, I have seen some cases scratch up a disc MORE than leaving it on a desk... although that is rare.
I do not want to loose a viable option just because some users never have a problem.
"Sure life sucks, that doesn't mean society can't help with "reasonable accommodation.""
That is just it, it is NOT reasonable.
We already have to rebuild our site to work with firefox, internet explorer 6 and 7, opera, etc. Ignoring this, and the fact that we are already expected to make the site look the same across BROKEN browsers, we are now expected to redo everything for people with bad vision...
This will get worse if this passes. Next we will need to create a version of the site that can print using a brail printer and get mailed to your house if you think about our site in english, spanish, french, etc.
People don't want reasonable accomodation, they want accomodation for them... most don't care about the other users. Since everyone WONT be happy, shouldn't we try to make the majority? Otherwise, we will never produce ANYTHING online, cause we will never finish it.
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Theists do better in society,
Again: evidence ?^_^ Mmmm, irony. "Evidence? THIS IS THEISTS!"
This may be unrelated to what Google is actually saving, but I will say this:
Google's spell checking is the best.
It is far more reliable than the majority of spell checkers, it almost always knows people's correct names, cities and states and principalities and so on and so forth.
^_^ They F*ed up, but I promise they did a cost analysis before starting.
They just got it wrong... in some cases VERY wrong.
I am gonna go way, WAY out on a limb here and say "No".
No major company would willingly piss off this many people and customers without carefully considering how it would affect them (Not if it plans on remaining a major company).
They probably have estimates of how many lawsuits are likely, their probability of success, how many donuts they are gonna eat during the trials...
That said, SHOULD they change their mind? I think that forcing your customers into one path tends to piss them off, especially if your forcing them into a path that is extremely profitable for you (AKA MS Vendor lockin).
It might work in the short run, but it could damage Amazon's brand name.
I believe it has been updated for Firefox 3 Beta 3 and Firefox 3 Beta 4. As a user of 3 Beta 5 however, not sure if it is yet.
Think that it is pretty clear at this point:
No Linux version as well.
"Still, my multiple monitors works flawlessly in Windows"
You mean, work flawlessly after you installed your video card driver and monitor driver.
Drivers that may or may not support linux.
Don't worry though, Ubuntu 8.04 will have "Bulletproof X" which will make things loads easier I believe. Better support for multiple monitors and video cards too I believe.
"I can't think of any games that require cards like these."
Crysis.
^_^ I foresee an issue with female clients.
"AHHHH! NO, My eyes are UP HERE!"
In the PS2 days: "This game is unplayable without the network attachment". My first introduction to Everquest (Gift from family). And soon Xbox will probably have "This game requires X amount of hard drive space to play this game". Games are getting larger at a faster rate, and eventually people won't be happy with a crippled version.
Does the average kid gamer have enough brain power to set off the sensor?
I mean, how many madden players are there who buy the same game 49 times?
I can do the same thing with cats.
"That could lead, they argue, to the unmasking of otherwise undetected suspects."
Translated: We want to be able to spy on you. We are not sure why yet.
I am a big, anti-MS fanboy.
I dislike/hate almost everything that they have forced me to use in my life.
However, with the changes of making IE8 much closer to standards (Won't accept this till it is out) I am in an interesting position.
If Windows 7 allows competitors the knowledge needed to integrate with the OS, and treats user programs the same as Window's supported programs (Like WMP and IE), I will renounce half the things I said about the company.
It will take a lot to make me a MS fan though.
^_^ The funny part is that they are planning on releasing Crysis 1.5 on the PS3.
Not only will it be coming to the console, it will contain 50% more stuff.
http://kotaku.com/gaming/cry-on/crytek-says-crysis-for-consoles-possible-284534.php
http://www.ps3fanboy.com/2008/03/03/rumor-crysis-for-ps3-looking-probable-will-be-an-almost-50-n/
If you can't define it, you lose your patent. That would fix most of our issues, because people who have to define their patent in easy to understand terms will suddenly find that there is prior art, or that someone else already has it.
Microsoft, I can honestly say that this is the first version of IE that I have ever looked forward to.
Here's hoping that we can forget the others ever happened!
Yet here in the US, we pay more for less service. And there is a possibility that we could end up loosing even MORE of our service and still get charged the same. That is the issue my friend.
I have had to "fix" vista for two family members and one friend so far.
It took me a while to convince them not to return it... trust me, it is that bad to semi-noobs.
O.O really?
Thats like a city without a McDonalds...
Inconceivable!
He didn't say without javascript, he said with NoScript. NoScript allows us to decide on a case by case basis what site is trustworthy... and can enable the main one by default (Like google.com if your visiting google, for example). This stops most third party ad scripts.
Sure. Fair use allows small portions of copywritten works to be made into other products, as long as it doesn't take the form of the original product, and doesn't damage the value of the original product. The original products in this case was an audio only song (Multiple versions I assume), music videos staring Prince (again, probably several), etc. The new product can NOT be confused with the original (You don't see price, and honestly I can't even understand the words in the song the baby is listening to). Also, the video is very obviously focused on a baby, NOT the music. This product is therefor a fair use of the copy written work. At least, until our society makes it illegal to use any copy written item for anything, at which point public creativity will stop, or society will revolt. (Think of how many songs were based off of tunes of other works, how many pictures look 'simular', how many movies have simular plots, etc)
"Are they out of "beta" now?" We're releasing on time. Think of all the things we learned This was a triumph for the people who are still alive. /outOforder/
CD's, DVD's, and even flash have a finite lifespan, and can contain unexpected defects.
And NOTHING is worse than getting to disk 4 in a video game and seeing the "Disk Read Error".
This goes double for installation cd's/dvd's. I always back them up so I don't have to worry about a defect.
And as for the case thing, I have seen some cases scratch up a disc MORE than leaving it on a desk... although that is rare.
I do not want to loose a viable option just because some users never have a problem.
"Sure life sucks, that doesn't mean society can't help with "reasonable accommodation."" That is just it, it is NOT reasonable. We already have to rebuild our site to work with firefox, internet explorer 6 and 7, opera, etc. Ignoring this, and the fact that we are already expected to make the site look the same across BROKEN browsers, we are now expected to redo everything for people with bad vision... This will get worse if this passes. Next we will need to create a version of the site that can print using a brail printer and get mailed to your house if you think about our site in english, spanish, french, etc. People don't want reasonable accomodation, they want accomodation for them... most don't care about the other users. Since everyone WONT be happy, shouldn't we try to make the majority? Otherwise, we will never produce ANYTHING online, cause we will never finish it.