Gmail's interface is addictively clean and at the same time functional and powerful. Once you've tried Gmail, it's unlikely you'll go back to Hotmail or Yahoo Mail.
When I look at Hotmail I now feel like stabbing myself in the eyes. Sorry, but Gmail has spoiled me.
The comparison between the USA of now and the Roman Empire is even more apt than you imagine: before Rome conquered the cities in Italy, income disparity was much smaller and there was a thriving middle class. After the Roman conquests, the great majority of people were driven into poverty and a small and extremely rich elite formed.
Bullshit. If you're going to do the intentional-typo kind of post, you do it with multiple and obvious words, not 1. This was a legitimate crow-eating moment.
I can't make up my mind whether you're a comedic genius or extremely, utterly dumb.
I've never heard that Apple has invented the smartphone or the mp3 player, either.
Never? Now here's an interesting statistical anomaly: I've heard from dozens of Apple users statements to the effect that "Jobs has put the Internet in my pocket" or "Apple has invented the smartphone." or "We have apps on the phone thanks to Apple". I've heard this bullshit repeated so many times, that I am very hesitant to believe you when you say that you have never heard that Apple has invented the smartphone.
The rest of the industry has had years to come back with an IPad competitor. Yet even with Apple sourcing all its hardware from the same parties, these OEMs haven't been unable to compete.
Hilarious double-negative there - which makes your statement accurate! Yes, Android has proven competitive with tablets, too! About half the tables sold now are Android-based.
For those who don't want to read technical details it can be summarized like this: Time Warner patents yet another "Method to create disincentives to honest buyers and drive people into piracy"
I'm sure it will be a great sucess and useful as yet another argument why pirates kill their business.
Piracy is copying copyrighted content with the intent of making a profit. If one copies such content for their own pleasure but not profit, then it's just... copying. There is such a nice word for it, why not use it? Let me repeat: copying.
This is a bold move. I didn't think Microsoft, especially with Ballmer and the current echelon at the top (and the organization, ingrained modes of operation etc.), had it in them to make such a huge leap.
I will wait and see whether they'll really do this.
The problem with that translator is, it's always working. Many parts of the CPU will be idle at any time or the other, but the translator, as small as it is (not too small), it'll always consume some power. That is a very unambiguous disadvantage of CISC-outerly archs, while we might argue about the rest.
I was hoping I'd find a story about cougars attacking mountain bikers, behind that link. I used to do MTB/XC and wanted to share the story with a few friends.
Google+ certainly didn't fail. It's a social network with tens of millions of users - one of the largest, currently. Most of them share Limited or Extended Circles, so a two-bit analyst will jump to the conclusion that they aren't active, but you see, Google+ has this thing called "circles", and enables users to share only to the circles they want.
Google wave is an integral part of Google+
Knol was killed by Google, though it didn't really fail. The blame falls squarely on Google, no doubt, but it was a fairly successful venture otherwise.
All the other products and services you list don't amount to a hill of beans and aren't worth the electrons to talk about them.
Missing from your list are little things such as Android, Google Books and Google Scholar. I guess you never heard of Android, before...
There was a flurry of models with Linux installed (and there still are some being made/sold), and then the community created instructions for installing basically almost any other distro, on them. Best of all - small - lightweight - cheap
I installed xubuntu, mint, DSL and SLAX on mine.
Linux Netbook is a good resource, if you decide to go this route.
Efficiency normally comes with economies of scale. As a partner in an outsourced vertical software company, we have hundreds of clients running in our highly tuned hosting cluster, and are able to bring economies of scale to an otherwise ridiculously expensive software niche. Yes, that means that if we have an outage, all of our clients experience an outage as well.
In your post is implied that you have a single location. How do your customers feel about that - if they're even aware of it?
It would be, but these "baby eaters" are simply psychopaths with no conscience with excellent skills at social manipulation, lying and cheating and the average people, pathetic as they are, will readily succumb to their manipulation.
I know way more people that won't part with their laptops and netbooks, than people who use exclusively their tablets. A survey of my colleagues at the research institute where I work shows that tablet use is mostly sporadic or none at all. Even for casual browsing, the number of people using netbooks at least rivals, if not outnumbers, those using tablets.
And finally, at least a fifth if not more of my tablet-using friends hate it: they bought it on hype and are now disappointed by the lack of a keyboard and (meaningful) internal storage. The whole "app" paradigm seems to make them puke rather than rejoice.
When the government doesn't respect your right to peaceably assemble, how else are you supposed to protest?
The only protests worth participating in are the ones that could actually change something. Those are the protests that the government will fight with all of its power. That power includes arresting protesters for simply protesting. This is what we saw happen last fall from NY to Oakland.
Think of it this way, if Mubarak had tried to forcibly clear Tahrir square with the excuse of "health and safety", the international community wouldn't have bought that excuse for a second. Yet the US is allowed to get away with claiming "health and safety" as a reason to break up peaceable assembleys like Occupy. And nobody bats an eye.
If you could trust the government to follow the rule of law, you'd have a point. But we're far, far past that point.
This was by far the best post in the thread, and one of the best I've ever read on Slashdot.
Still, it was one of the best routers the company I worked for (100.000+ employees hi-tech company) ever installed. We had mostly Cisco gear, but the FreeBSD-based routers (they used some special motherboards) were a pleasure to admin and came with some service-level routing capabilities as added bonus. Performance was stellar for the time.
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Gmail's interface is addictively clean and at the same time functional and powerful. Once you've tried Gmail, it's unlikely you'll go back to Hotmail or Yahoo Mail.
When I look at Hotmail I now feel like stabbing myself in the eyes. Sorry, but Gmail has spoiled me.
The comparison between the USA of now and the Roman Empire is even more apt than you imagine: before Rome conquered the cities in Italy, income disparity was much smaller and there was a thriving middle class. After the Roman conquests, the great majority of people were driven into poverty and a small and extremely rich elite formed.
Of all the bullshit spewed out of Microsoft in the past years, this is certainly the most preposterous.
Bullshit. If you're going to do the intentional-typo kind of post, you do it with multiple and obvious words, not 1. This was a legitimate crow-eating moment.
I can't make up my mind whether you're a comedic genius or extremely, utterly dumb.
I've never heard that Apple has invented the smartphone or the mp3 player, either.
Never? Now here's an interesting statistical anomaly: I've heard from dozens of Apple users statements to the effect that "Jobs has put the Internet in my pocket" or "Apple has invented the smartphone." or "We have apps on the phone thanks to Apple". I've heard this bullshit repeated so many times, that I am very hesitant to believe you when you say that you have never heard that Apple has invented the smartphone.
Most awesome typo ever.
It wasn't a typo.
In other words: wooosh!
The rest of the industry has had years to come back with an IPad competitor. Yet even with Apple sourcing all its hardware from the same parties, these OEMs haven't been unable to compete.
Hilarious double-negative there - which makes your statement accurate! Yes, Android has proven competitive with tablets, too! About half the tables sold now are Android-based.
For those who don't want to read technical details it can be summarized like this: Time Warner patents yet another "Method to create disincentives to honest buyers and drive people into piracy"
I'm sure it will be a great sucess and useful as yet another argument why pirates kill their business.
Piracy is copying copyrighted content with the intent of making a profit. If one copies such content for their own pleasure but not profit, then it's just... copying. There is such a nice word for it, why not use it? Let me repeat: copying.
Or just Flash.
Or vagina.
This is a bold move. I didn't think Microsoft, especially with Ballmer and the current echelon at the top (and the organization, ingrained modes of operation etc.), had it in them to make such a huge leap.
I will wait and see whether they'll really do this.
The problem with that translator is, it's always working. Many parts of the CPU will be idle at any time or the other, but the translator, as small as it is (not too small), it'll always consume some power. That is a very unambiguous disadvantage of CISC-outerly archs, while we might argue about the rest.
Also, Google Maps is curiously missing from your list. Maps was developed almost entirely in-house and dominates its market.
Yeah, thanks.
I also think Sketch-Up is a fantastic product, albeit not very well known. They're making it fully commercial, but still developed.
Well played.
And yes, lots of good things came out of vagina. Certainly more so than Microsoft.
Interesting news nonetheless. Thank you.
I just now learned that Sequoia is based on POWER CPUs. And #2 I already knew is based on SPARC.
This doesn't mean much for RISC, perhaps, but at least some bragging rights.
I was hoping I'd find a story about cougars attacking mountain bikers, behind that link. I used to do MTB/XC and wanted to share the story with a few friends.
Google+ certainly didn't fail. It's a social network with tens of millions of users - one of the largest, currently. Most of them share Limited or Extended Circles, so a two-bit analyst will jump to the conclusion that they aren't active, but you see, Google+ has this thing called "circles", and enables users to share only to the circles they want.
Google wave is an integral part of Google+
Knol was killed by Google, though it didn't really fail. The blame falls squarely on Google, no doubt, but it was a fairly successful venture otherwise.
All the other products and services you list don't amount to a hill of beans and aren't worth the electrons to talk about them.
Missing from your list are little things such as Android, Google Books and Google Scholar.
I guess you never heard of Android, before...
Or vagina.
I like this new meme. It's one of the few good things to come out of Microsoft.
There was a flurry of models with Linux installed (and there still are some being made/sold), and then the community created instructions for installing basically almost any other distro, on them. Best of all
- small
- lightweight
- cheap
I installed xubuntu, mint, DSL and SLAX on mine.
Linux Netbook is a good resource, if you decide to go this route.
How about they focus on fixing their 28nm production problems before they set their eyes on lowering cost through bigger wafers.
A company such as TSMC can very easily do both: plan and build a 450 mm process and fab, and at the same time improve the 28 nm process.
Besides, foundries such as TSMC work on demand, and the cutting-edge 28 nm processing is not in high demand at the moment.
Efficiency normally comes with economies of scale. As a partner in an outsourced vertical software company, we have hundreds of clients running in our highly tuned hosting cluster, and are able to bring economies of scale to an otherwise ridiculously expensive software niche. Yes, that means that if we have an outage, all of our clients experience an outage as well.
In your post is implied that you have a single location. How do your customers feel about that - if they're even aware of it?
It would be, but these "baby eaters" are simply psychopaths with no conscience with excellent skills at social manipulation, lying and cheating and the average people, pathetic as they are, will readily succumb to their manipulation.
I know way more people that won't part with their laptops and netbooks, than people who use exclusively their tablets. A survey of my colleagues at the research institute where I work shows that tablet use is mostly sporadic or none at all. Even for casual browsing, the number of people using netbooks at least rivals, if not outnumbers, those using tablets.
And finally, at least a fifth if not more of my tablet-using friends hate it: they bought it on hype and are now disappointed by the lack of a keyboard and (meaningful) internal storage. The whole "app" paradigm seems to make them puke rather than rejoice.
When the government doesn't respect your right to peaceably assemble, how else are you supposed to protest?
The only protests worth participating in are the ones that could actually change something. Those are the protests that the government will fight with all of its power. That power includes arresting protesters for simply protesting. This is what we saw happen last fall from NY to Oakland.
Think of it this way, if Mubarak had tried to forcibly clear Tahrir square with the excuse of "health and safety", the international community wouldn't have bought that excuse for a second. Yet the US is allowed to get away with claiming "health and safety" as a reason to break up peaceable assembleys like Occupy. And nobody bats an eye.
If you could trust the government to follow the rule of law, you'd have a point. But we're far, far past that point.
This was by far the best post in the thread, and one of the best I've ever read on Slashdot.
Quoted for truth and emphasis.
However, the company used FreeBSD, not Linux.
Still, it was one of the best routers the company I worked for (100.000+ employees hi-tech company) ever installed. We had mostly Cisco gear, but the FreeBSD-based routers (they used some special motherboards) were a pleasure to admin and came with some service-level routing capabilities as added bonus. Performance was stellar for the time.