While I agree with what you said, I disagree that the GP has a valid point. It would be exactly like saying that Nokia is not committed to Symbian, because all Nokia cares about is selling more phones.
But Nokia has been and still is very committed to Symbian.
The GP only said that Google's products are so good that they don't need marketing. You may disagree, but you may not corrupt the meaning of the post with poetic metaphors "Google products are you".
Google tries to reduce IE's marketshare - that's the reason they don't need to have a browser for Linux or Mac - on those platforms IE is nonexistent and irrelevant, respectively.
It is exactly because Google wants to reduce IEs marketshare that they are committed to Chrome's development. Chrome started from 0 and in no time captured as much browser share as Opera, and Chrome is definitely competitive with the other browsers already!
Your whole post is self-contradictory and it only makes sense with compromised logic.
I think it is ready. I use Chrome exclusively on my laptops. It started out of curiosity, but now I am used to it, and it renders all the pages and shows all the videos I need it to. And it's fast.
I look at it from the point of view of a Yahoo user (of various services) and I feel it was a great decision. Yahoo isn't going anywhere - they are a PROFITABLE company, even if they don't rake in billions per quarter. a few hundred million bucks is nothing to sneeze at.
No, you're not. I like Yahoo the way it is now. Just as I liked Hotmail the way it was before Microsoft fucked it all up. Sadly, many current Hotmail users have no clue that there was a time when Hotmail was streamlined, efficient and uncluttered. It ran on FreeBSD. It just worked without sucking.
Microsoft added the suckage to Hotmail, I am sure they'd manage to do the same with Yahoo.
I know it's in poor style to reply to one's self post, but this time I really had to; I must retract what I said earlier - NO I can not recover my costs quickly, at all! The Kindle versions of my textbooks are effing expenisve! So expensive in fact, that I feel 0 motivation to buy them. Compare the Kindle version of this textbook to the hardcover version of the same
That's only US$20 of difference in price. I'm not going to bother gettin e-books.
My textbooks are expensive. Some are a third of the price of the Kindle, so I guess I could recover the cost pretty quickly. That said, I really like my hardback textbooks. They just "click" with my brain somewhat better than if they were in electronic format.
On the other hand, I often wish I could have all my textbooks in electronic format so I can search for a certain thing quickly, and then read the relevant stuff from the book. That would be the best of both worlds.
I like it, a lot, especially the very fine equation editor - it's top-notch, although I am used to the style in Open/StarOffice.
However, what I don't like that much is: it does not allow for creating of.pdf files, and it asks me for registration every freaking time I start it. It was supposed to be free as in beer, I thought!? Also, and this is minor, but still: the default document format is proprietary. It does allow you to save in.odf, which I think every non-MS office suite SHOULD do. It just would be nicer if this was their default format. I don't like the idea of yet another proprietary office format around.
You are wrong, he wasn't a Stasi snitch, he worked fulltime for the Stasi! He recruited snitches (which usually meant, he forced them into submission by blackmailing them). He was the worst kind of slime an autocratic regime can produce.
I didn't know that. Now I do. And so do a few tens of thousand other people who would have not known, if he had not tried to have the German Wikipedia shut down.
In fact, I bet that most of the readers of the German Wikipedia didn't know that Lutz Heilmann was a Stasi, and now they do.
Who the fuck elected this crooked fully-employed ex-Stasi to the Bundestag, though?
Greed without altruism is just as useless as altruism without any greed.
Altruism is useful without greed, not useless! In fact, it's greed that makes altruism ineffective. How altruistic would you be, if greedy people take advantage of you all the time? Less altruistic, I bet.
It's a bit like apples and oranges, though. Both are fruits, but one is so far away that it may take 40 minutes between a command issued from earth, and a feedback, while the other works with a 2 second delay at most.
I agree with this and all the other posts in this thread you wrote. Sometimes people who were bullied are reluctant to talk about it. You are, I think, corageous to be so open about it - I know I still feel it's hard to talk about this kind of experience.
For more than two years, Spears sent tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Everyone she knew, including law enforcement officials, her family and bank officials, told her to stop, that it was all a scam. She persisted.
Get it? EVERYONE was telling her it's a scam, and she decided, again and again, not to listen to them. It wasn't a one-time decision, but a repeated one.
I was going to feel sorry for her, but it turns out she was way too in love with their own ignorance and stupidity. It's wrong that she basically destroyed the financial security of her husband as well.
Tech support is always hiring somewhere. The job sucks, but there are far worse, and it give you the opportunity to excel, learn business skills and move on to better things. IT Temp agencies are usually a good place to start and make a name for yourself too. I do not have a degree, but I manage those who do, using skills that I learned on the way up and training that I received on my employer's dime. Times are tough now though and a B.S. degree won't get you much advantage these days. Plenty of graduates with engineering degrees in the phone queue.
I agree, but did you miss when I wrote
THE ONLY field where this isn't the case is IT. Anyone can get a starting job in IT, from where they can branch out in various directions.
I disagree: even if you are very talented at X, if you don't have a piece of paper that says you have graduated major X, your chances of getting a first job are 0. And a career in X starts from a first job.
THE ONLY field where this isn't the case is IT. Anyone can get a starting job in IT, from where they can branch out in various directions.
Can we please cut it out with the everybody-interested-in-technology-is-a-fat-slob jokes? And the everybody-interested-in-technology-is-socially-inept-and-has-no-luck-with-the-opposite-gender jokes?
I think I know where these stereotypes come from: a lot of brainy people have Aspergers Syndrome - me included - and people affected by it have difficulty grasping social rules, including behaviour with the opposite sex. And also, people with AS tend to fall more often, have awkward body position and walking gait, so they are not the best atletes. That said, I don't think people with AS are more likely to be overweight, than normal (so-called "neurotypical") people.
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While I agree with what you said, I disagree that the GP has a valid point. It would be exactly like saying that Nokia is not committed to Symbian, because all Nokia cares about is selling more phones.
But Nokia has been and still is very committed to Symbian.
The GP only said that Google's products are so good that they don't need marketing. You may disagree, but you may not corrupt the meaning of the post with poetic metaphors "Google products are you".
Google tries to reduce IE's marketshare - that's the reason they don't need to have a browser for Linux or Mac - on those platforms IE is nonexistent and irrelevant, respectively.
BS.
It is exactly because Google wants to reduce IEs marketshare that they are committed to Chrome's development. Chrome started from 0 and in no time captured as much browser share as Opera, and Chrome is definitely competitive with the other browsers already!
Your whole post is self-contradictory and it only makes sense with compromised logic.
I don't have modern laptops, except for an Eee PC 701 - the other two are a ThinkPad A31 and a Dell D400.
Chrome isn't ready for prime time
I think it is ready. I use Chrome exclusively on my laptops. It started out of curiosity, but now I am used to it, and it renders all the pages and shows all the videos I need it to. And it's fast.
I look at it from the point of view of a Yahoo user (of various services) and I feel it was a great decision. Yahoo isn't going anywhere - they are a PROFITABLE company, even if they don't rake in billions per quarter. a few hundred million bucks is nothing to sneeze at.
Maybe we should send them some caravans to speed up the process :P
It's about time Civilization entered the world of internet memes. Thank you my friend.
...and I hope I'm not the only one.
No, you're not. I like Yahoo the way it is now. Just as I liked Hotmail the way it was before Microsoft fucked it all up. Sadly, many current Hotmail users have no clue that there was a time when Hotmail was streamlined, efficient and uncluttered. It ran on FreeBSD. It just worked without sucking.
Microsoft added the suckage to Hotmail, I am sure they'd manage to do the same with Yahoo.
Nokia also pays dividends. I know as I was on the receiving end for a few years.
I know it's in poor style to reply to one's self post, but this time I really had to; I must retract what I said earlier - NO I can not recover my costs quickly, at all! The Kindle versions of my textbooks are effing expenisve! So expensive in fact, that I feel 0 motivation to buy them. Compare the Kindle version of this textbook to the hardcover version of the same
That's only US$20 of difference in price. I'm not going to bother gettin e-books.
My textbooks are expensive. Some are a third of the price of the Kindle, so I guess I could recover the cost pretty quickly. That said, I really like my hardback textbooks. They just "click" with my brain somewhat better than if they were in electronic format.
On the other hand, I often wish I could have all my textbooks in electronic format so I can search for a certain thing quickly, and then read the relevant stuff from the book. That would be the best of both worlds.
I like it, a lot, especially the very fine equation editor - it's top-notch, although I am used to the style in Open/StarOffice.
However, what I don't like that much is: it does not allow for creating of .pdf files, and it asks me for registration every freaking time I start it. It was supposed to be free as in beer, I thought!? Also, and this is minor, but still: the default document format is proprietary. It does allow you to save in .odf, which I think every non-MS office suite SHOULD do. It just would be nicer if this was their default format. I don't like the idea of yet another proprietary office format around.
Change "Politician" to "STASI snitch".
You are wrong, he wasn't a Stasi snitch, he worked fulltime for the Stasi! He recruited snitches (which usually meant, he forced them into submission by blackmailing them). He was the worst kind of slime an autocratic regime can produce.
I didn't know that. Now I do. And so do a few tens of thousand other people who would have not known, if he had not tried to have the German Wikipedia shut down.
In fact, I bet that most of the readers of the German Wikipedia didn't know that Lutz Heilmann was a Stasi, and now they do.
Who the fuck elected this crooked fully-employed ex-Stasi to the Bundestag, though?
Greed without altruism is just as useless as altruism without any greed.
Altruism is useful without greed, not useless! In fact, it's greed that makes altruism ineffective.
How altruistic would you be, if greedy people take advantage of you all the time? Less altruistic, I bet.
It's a bit like apples and oranges, though. Both are fruits, but one is so far away that it may take 40 minutes between a command issued from earth, and a feedback, while the other works with a 2 second delay at most.
I agree with this and all the other posts in this thread you wrote. Sometimes people who were bullied are reluctant to talk about it. You are, I think, corageous to be so open about it - I know I still feel it's hard to talk about this kind of experience.
For more than two years, Spears sent tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Everyone she knew, including law enforcement officials, her family and bank officials, told her to stop, that it was all a scam. She persisted.
Get it? EVERYONE was telling her it's a scam, and she decided, again and again, not to listen to them. It wasn't a one-time decision, but a repeated one.
I was going to feel sorry for her, but it turns out she was way too in love with their own ignorance and stupidity. It's wrong that she basically destroyed the financial security of her husband as well.
Even if it does run out of power, couldn't it become operative again, once the dust is removed by a storm and enough sunlight reaches the solar cells?
Tech support is always hiring somewhere. The job sucks, but there are far worse, and it give you the opportunity to excel, learn business skills and move on to better things. IT Temp agencies are usually a good place to start and make a name for yourself too. I do not have a degree, but I manage those who do, using skills that I learned on the way up and training that I received on my employer's dime. Times are tough now though and a B.S. degree won't get you much advantage these days. Plenty of graduates with engineering degrees in the phone queue.
I agree, but did you miss when I wrote
THE ONLY field where this isn't the case is IT. Anyone can get a starting job in IT, from where they can branch out in various directions.
I disagree: even if you are very talented at X, if you don't have a piece of paper that says you have graduated major X, your chances of getting a first job are 0. And a career in X starts from a first job.
THE ONLY field where this isn't the case is IT. Anyone can get a starting job in IT, from where they can branch out in various directions.
Can we please cut it out with the everybody-interested-in-technology-is-a-fat-slob jokes? And the everybody-interested-in-technology-is-socially-inept-and-has-no-luck-with-the-opposite-gender jokes?
I think I know where these stereotypes come from: a lot of brainy people have Aspergers Syndrome - me included - and people affected by it have difficulty grasping social rules, including behaviour with the opposite sex. And also, people with AS tend to fall more often, have awkward body position and walking gait, so they are not the best atletes. That said, I don't think people with AS are more likely to be overweight, than normal (so-called "neurotypical") people.
You joke, but I'd love to have something akin to Kpackage, running on Windows.
But I know it's not so much a technological as it is a "political" problem.
Umm... OK, but the tests devised so far are, anyway, looking for active (non-fossilized) life. Though you do have a point.