Now we can all do like we do on the internet - view only what we already agree with.
Rednecks will only have FOX and the wrestling channels. Fundamentalist Christians (the red states) with have the god and bomb making channels and nothing else. Illegal immigrants (all ~11m of them) can save a ton of money by only paying for the Spanish channels.
And the intelligent with have Discovery, History, Animal Planet, etc until those channels die out from lack of revenue becasue this country doesnt have a whole lot of those people.
But this will save the cable companies money too. They don't even have to offer channels like BET in Utah for instance, but will need ALL the porn channels there.
The last gasps of the commercial software industry will not be nice, or any fun at all.
MS should just be training its employees in other fields, and moving into other markets like everyone else, because paying for software is so 20th century.
I still for the life of me can't understand why people click Google ads and make purchases. You're just not getting a good deal.
That's advertising for you. But the bottom line is, want to sell anything EVER again, you have to fork over all the money to Google first. It's a beautiful monopoly, a true wonder of man's ability to screw everyone.
And don't worry, you're already on Google's list and will be one of the first to go when they take over the world.
Having seen this stuff in action first hand, it's cool as heck. Also a tad scary. Miniblinds not closed 100% then you can see in, tree in the way no problem.
Basically what we see as solid with 2 eyes, may not be solid at all. So much like the IR/UV cameras, this new toy has a dark side.
Actually, they have only one product. YOU. They pimp you out to advertisers.
That's what advertising companies do.
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Everyone I know that actually deals with disease for a living, and has the knowledge to know what to worry about and not worry about is scared, and takes bird flu VERY seriously.
The public on the other hand is far more worried about gays getting married, or terrorists attacking them in rural Kansas.
I'd say the press is doing a very good job keeping people worried about whatever the politicians want them to worry about, distracting them from any real problems.
Anyone on/. should be able to tell the difference (ignore whatever the media wants you to pay attention to), and prepare appropriately.
People forget that Google is an advertising company, and needs people to turn into Soylent Green and sell to their clients. Microsoft on the other hand is a software company, and since AOL users are the people to poor and/or cheap to get high speed, they sure aren't gonna go spend $400 on a legal copy of Office or an Xbox.
In the end, Google wins with the uneducated poor people that are susceptible to advertising, or even notice ads. Microsoft has no use for them.
But really, we're all just better off without AOL.
Yup, all computer equipment now costs far more to operate then to buy. Electricity is not cheap.
I'm waiting for someone to make a serious (everything I've seen is a toy/junk) Mac mini-like AMD64 box. Apple is going to do that soon, and they are gonna sell a billion of those if they also run Linux and Windows, and there is no reasons they wouldn't.
I'm just fine with no special effects and 10 FPS. That my PC sounds like a small engine and puts out enough heat that even in the winter I have to open the window to cool the room is a problem. And I'm not even running the newest hottest (literally) hardware.
Last I checked most software developers make less then 6M/yr, with overhead, more like 250k. So you're talking about replacing 480K jobs, with 20K jobs. Sounds great to me, they just have to work 24 times as hard. And we can outsource them so we only have to pay them 10k/yr too!
Our local McDonalds REALLY needs someone working there that speaks English, so those 460k unemployed software folks will have jobs waiting for them.
This will of course be moderated as -1 Flamebait: disturbing Slashdot reality distortion field subclause 37 - everything should always be free, and subclause 17 - people that don't get paid love taking my support calls.
In this corner, the spammers, with thier root for zombies to spam you with...
In this corner, the DRM people, making sure you don't listen to any music you paid for.
And in this corner, the 1337 gamer d00ds, making sure you have to buy it on ebay instead of getting it yourself.
And there is the bell... wait, they don't appear to be fighting... why are they taking off their clothes... what is the Sony guy doing to the spammer... they appear to be... oh my, that's just not right... this fight is called on account of an orgy breaking out...
Meanwhile...
Enjoy the nice cozy comfort of your OSX and Linux boxes:)
NCsoft has a similar program for their games (Lineage 2, etc)... It runs when you run the game client, and can really hose up a Windows 2003 system good since it tries to be a service without any privs to do so. Of course, the cheaters don't run the official game client.
Net effect on players = really bad. Net effect in cheaters = zero, none, nada.
Just another example of all the game companies missing the point completely.
We are Google. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. You will disarm your weapons and escort us to your bank account. If you attempt to intervene, we will destroy you...
"It would be nice if the PhDs at Google could concentrate on getting good, reliable and consistent results out of their search engine"
They are VERY reliable.
One page of paid ads. One page of page-rank spam and fake links.
I almost always just skip to page 3 or 4 now. I know what I want will not be on the first page of results. The same thing happened to Altavista, and Yahoo, and all the ther search engines too. Right about now in the process, someone else usually comes along without the pages of ads, and kicks their ass. Repeat.
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Now we can all do like we do on the internet - view only what we already agree with.
Rednecks will only have FOX and the wrestling channels. Fundamentalist Christians (the red states) with have the god and bomb making channels and nothing else. Illegal immigrants (all ~11m of them) can save a ton of money by only paying for the Spanish channels.
And the intelligent with have Discovery, History, Animal Planet, etc until those channels die out from lack of revenue becasue this country doesnt have a whole lot of those people.
But this will save the cable companies money too. They don't even have to offer channels like BET in Utah for instance, but will need ALL the porn channels there.
I consider this the logical equivalent of the question, "Couldn't they be working on a cure for cancer instead?"
:)
Funny. Poeple are avoiding IT and going into biotech and other fields.
So I'd say, they are diong just that, going to work on cancer and other htings not quite so outsorceable
The last gasps of the commercial software industry will not be nice, or any fun at all.
MS should just be training its employees in other fields, and moving into other markets like everyone else, because paying for software is so 20th century.
I still for the life of me can't understand why people click Google ads and make purchases. You're just not getting a good deal.
That's advertising for you. But the bottom line is, want to sell anything EVER again, you have to fork over all the money to Google first. It's a beautiful monopoly, a true wonder of man's ability to screw everyone.
And don't worry, you're already on Google's list and will be one of the first to go when they take over the world.
We'd still prefer you run the official Fodling@home client, it's leaner and has more features.
Having seen this stuff in action first hand, it's cool as heck. Also a tad scary. Miniblinds not closed 100% then you can see in, tree in the way no problem.
Basically what we see as solid with 2 eyes, may not be solid at all. So much like the IR/UV cameras, this new toy has a dark side.
giant processing and storage grid
:( TV, Radio, Newspapaers, and now thanks to Google, the internet too.
You mistyped "advertising delivery machine"
Which does seem to be where the internet is heading
You want to buy, you want to buy, you want to buy... Who falls for this stuff???
Actually, they have only one product. YOU. They pimp you out to advertisers.
That's what advertising companies do.
Everyone I know that actually deals with disease for a living, and has the knowledge to know what to worry about and not worry about is scared, and takes bird flu VERY seriously.
/. should be able to tell the difference (ignore whatever the media wants you to pay attention to), and prepare appropriately.
The public on the other hand is far more worried about gays getting married, or terrorists attacking them in rural Kansas.
I'd say the press is doing a very good job keeping people worried about whatever the politicians want them to worry about, distracting them from any real problems.
Anyone on
Yea, here the site would be down and she would be dead already.
Don't mess with a US corporation, we even goto war for them.
People forget that Google is an advertising company, and needs people to turn into Soylent Green and sell to their clients. Microsoft on the other hand is a software company, and since AOL users are the people to poor and/or cheap to get high speed, they sure aren't gonna go spend $400 on a legal copy of Office or an Xbox.
In the end, Google wins with the uneducated poor people that are susceptible to advertising, or even notice ads. Microsoft has no use for them.
But really, we're all just better off without AOL.
Yup, all computer equipment now costs far more to operate then to buy. Electricity is not cheap.
I'm waiting for someone to make a serious (everything I've seen is a toy/junk) Mac mini-like AMD64 box. Apple is going to do that soon, and they are gonna sell a billion of those if they also run Linux and Windows, and there is no reasons they wouldn't.
I'm just fine with no special effects and 10 FPS. That my PC sounds like a small engine and puts out enough heat that even in the winter I have to open the window to cool the room is a problem. And I'm not even running the newest hottest (literally) hardware.
Nice troll AC, That's not true, the data is shared with other researchers.
120B/yr saved / 20k new jobs = 6M.
Last I checked most software developers make less then 6M/yr, with overhead, more like 250k. So you're talking about replacing 480K jobs, with 20K jobs. Sounds great to me, they just have to work 24 times as hard. And we can outsource them so we only have to pay them 10k/yr too!
Our local McDonalds REALLY needs someone working there that speaks English, so those 460k unemployed software folks will have jobs waiting for them.
This will of course be moderated as -1 Flamebait: disturbing Slashdot reality distortion field subclause 37 - everything should always be free, and subclause 17 - people that don't get paid love taking my support calls.
Cheap, no long term radiation, efficient direct to electricity, sounds like everything we've ever dreamed of...
And yet... not assasinated by the oil industry...
So it must not actually work. Q.E.D.
Um, no.
Either ppc or x86 machines can produce FAT^H^H^Huniversal binraries.
In this corner, the spammers, with thier root for zombies to spam you with...
:)
In this corner, the DRM people, making sure you don't listen to any music you paid for.
And in this corner, the 1337 gamer d00ds, making sure you have to buy it on ebay instead of getting it yourself.
And there is the bell... wait, they don't appear to be fighting... why are they taking off their clothes... what is the Sony guy doing to the spammer... they appear to be... oh my, that's just not right... this fight is called on account of an orgy breaking out...
Meanwhile...
Enjoy the nice cozy comfort of your OSX and Linux boxes
Shhhhhh! you're giving away the dirty little secret!
:)
These things don't work worth a [beep] in Minnesota, or Winnipeg, or anywhere else cold.
Fortunately with oil and natural gas prices, everyone living where there is snow will soon have to declare bankrupcy and move south. Problem solved
NCsoft has a similar program for their games (Lineage 2, etc)... It runs when you run the game client, and can really hose up a Windows 2003 system good since it tries to be a service without any privs to do so. Of course, the cheaters don't run the official game client.
Net effect on players = really bad.
Net effect in cheaters = zero, none, nada.
Just another example of all the game companies missing the point completely.
We are Google. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. You will disarm your weapons and escort us to your bank account. If you attempt to intervene, we will destroy you...
So now can we call Google evil?
George Bush.
We have the technology, just noone willing to use it in the USA.
Our new genetic overlords will not be Americans.
Nope, I have 8 bits now, and I'm not giving them up.
-1 blatant advert
:)
-1 lies on specs
-256 6bit color, that's crap.
Keeping my CRT thanks very much
"It would be nice if the PhDs at Google could concentrate on getting good, reliable and consistent results out of their search engine"
They are VERY reliable.
One page of paid ads.
One page of page-rank spam and fake links.
I almost always just skip to page 3 or 4 now. I know what I want will not be on the first page of results. The same thing happened to Altavista, and Yahoo, and all the ther search engines too. Right about now in the process, someone else usually comes along without the pages of ads, and kicks their ass. Repeat.
We're getting basically cost-of-living raises.
Welcome to the way the rest of the universe works. Be glad you even got that. Most poeple have to find new jobs to get a raise at all.
Don't worry, I'm sure another bubble will be along to get you a 100% raise every 6 months like the good ol days.