They've no interest in giving users the browser that they, the users, want.
It's a fair point, but then again, they have already given users the browser they want.
When I switched to Chrome, I wasn't pestering Google Devs to gimme gimme gimme. They had an idea, manifested it, and now we have a more competitive browser market. They even poured some advertising money into it so that John and Jane Doe might actually realize how much of the internet they've been missing by using older versions of IE.
It's their browser, their agenda, their rules. If it wasn't for the developers of Chrome having this sense of ego, users would be dealing with simply another browser that mimicked what others do and further stagnating the progress of modern web standards like HTML5/CSS3.
Like waiting a year or more for iOS to implement useful and time-saving features that have already been available on Android and other platforms?
After all, without innovators determining which cool new features are actually useful, where would Apple get the new version of iOS feature improvements?
Why would an American get pissed about not being "allowed" to go somewhere that has perfectly acceptable alternatives?
Because they're no Americans there? That's like saying, "You know what sucks about not eating Mac and Cheese? The fact that if you don't eat it, you can't complain about how bad it tastes."
If all you wanted to do was vacation in places where there are no Americans, why not just go to certain neighborhoods in South Florida? Or Texas? Or California?
There are trillions of Lodgepole, Ponderosa, etc in the Western US that are already dead but still standing due to Mountain Pine Beetle. These trees will release massive amounts of CO2 back into the atmosphere when they burn or decompose.
Current efforts to harvest these trees to be used in construction of furniture, homes, etc is meeting opposition, of course, even though the benefits are quite clear. Reforestation, CO2 sequestering, water runoff and erosion control, economic stimulus, the list goes on...
That's what I was about to say. I use the win-key all the time. It's not so much the start menu I use (there are a handful of things I go there for, though, not often), but the search box. Heck, all the programs I generally use are already open anyway.
At a guess, he would have approved of antitrust laws.
But I'm not so sure he would agree that they should be modeled as they are currently.
It's silly to me that when corporations are found guilty of stuff like this that they simply receive a fine.
If this were a person, they would receive the fine as well as possible prison time.
Where is the corporate prison time? I'm not so sure large corporations would be as interested in breaking the law if they knew it was going to cost them 18 months of lost sales.
Well duh. They define the entire business model on the idea that each user in their database is worth $x. If they reach a certain amount of users, they will make x amount of money. That disconnection between IT and Management is a two way street.
Someone will figure out how to attract the generic consumer at some point. Compare average user awareness of Linux five years ago versus today. People have actually heard about it by now.
The general perception is probably something along the lines of, "I know it exists. I don't know why I would want it. It's over my head."
Give users a reason to switch and they will as long as they remain comfortable with an OS switch. Android seems to be doing well. LAMP seems to be doing well (not really a consumer product, but it does have a consumer facing aspect since it is an option when purchasing web hosting, which many average people are doing today).
All Linux needs is a good spokesman. Someone with a marketing degree and not an engineering/CS degree. Or, what seems to be the most likely, a wrapper around Linux that tells the user a lot in a simple snappy name. Android did that and it's worked quite well.
It was (at the time) their single highest traffic day and 5% of that traffic came from Google+. That's nearly 9000 visits in one day to a site that is one of the fastest growing e-commerce sites on the planet.
It's not facebook. It's not twitter. But it has certainly contributed enough to fab's bottom line that I have a difficult time believing they are ready to ditch the +1.
It's not about making everyone poor, it's about making everyone equal.
Right, because a neurologist should receive the same compensation as the guy scraping lard off the floor of a greasy spoon.
Maybe while we're at it, we can just put all the smart kids in the same classes as all the developmentally disabled kids. That should level the playing field a bit.
They have forgotten to ask if it is right. Does that make them evil, or just lazy?
Is it still evil if they ultimately use this information to create mesh wifi networks that support voip via Android handsets?
To be quite honest, I'm surprised Google hasn't already entered the wifi router market. All they need to do is re-brand a router, add in some QoS stuff for Android handsets, and package a SIP app in Android and you have just given the masses *free cell phone service.
I would be shitting my pants right now if I were a major telco executive. This is the meat and potatoes of the net-neutrality battle.
Nah, I recall that story from a year or so ago where BB was selling EEEPCs with the same model number I had just bought. I bought on newegg, and the BB model was actually a little cheaper. Come to find out, the BB model had a different (inferior) wifi adapter and no bluetooth, and I'm sure that wasn't all.
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They've no interest in giving users the browser that they, the users, want.
It's a fair point, but then again, they have already given users the browser they want.
When I switched to Chrome, I wasn't pestering Google Devs to gimme gimme gimme. They had an idea, manifested it, and now we have a more competitive browser market. They even poured some advertising money into it so that John and Jane Doe might actually realize how much of the internet they've been missing by using older versions of IE.
It's their browser, their agenda, their rules. If it wasn't for the developers of Chrome having this sense of ego, users would be dealing with simply another browser that mimicked what others do and further stagnating the progress of modern web standards like HTML5/CSS3.
or you can do something useful with your life.
Like waiting a year or more for iOS to implement useful and time-saving features that have already been available on Android and other platforms?
After all, without innovators determining which cool new features are actually useful, where would Apple get the new version of iOS feature improvements?
You're not following...
Why would an American get pissed about not being "allowed" to go somewhere that has perfectly acceptable alternatives?
Because they're no Americans there? That's like saying, "You know what sucks about not eating Mac and Cheese? The fact that if you don't eat it, you can't complain about how bad it tastes."
If all you wanted to do was vacation in places where there are no Americans, why not just go to certain neighborhoods in South Florida? Or Texas? Or California?
It pisses off Americans because they can't go there.
Why go to Cuba when you can go to The Dominican, Jamaica, or for that matter pretty much any other Caribbean island?
Except that in much of the world, there are more females than males, and the US Women's team is pretty damn solid.
So much for "everybody else" huh?
There are trillions of Lodgepole, Ponderosa, etc in the Western US that are already dead but still standing due to Mountain Pine Beetle. These trees will release massive amounts of CO2 back into the atmosphere when they burn or decompose.
Current efforts to harvest these trees to be used in construction of furniture, homes, etc is meeting opposition, of course, even though the benefits are quite clear. Reforestation, CO2 sequestering, water runoff and erosion control, economic stimulus, the list goes on...
especially seeing what an inconsistent job the umps do at it.
Baseball is a game of tradition. One of those traditions is each umpire having their own quirks, the calls of balls and strikes being one of them.
I suppose the next step is to standardize every field to precise dimensions.
Manager comes out to argue a bad call:
Manager: Would you throw me out of the game if I called you an asshole?
Umpire: I certainly would.
Manager: What if I just thought it?
Umpire: Well that's fine, you can think what you want.
Manager: Ok. Well I think you're an asshole!
No, Apple will not use a scroll wheel, they'll use some mysterious little nipple thing.
Maybe Michael Lewis needs to write a book about this.
Moneycode?
Imitating is fine and does in fact produce lots.
Imitating is fine and does in fact produce lots.
...Ahh look!!! A lot!!
All you gotta do is put a camera on something? I'd like to patent Video Pants.
That's what I was about to say. I use the win-key all the time. It's not so much the start menu I use (there are a handful of things I go there for, though, not often), but the search box. Heck, all the programs I generally use are already open anyway.
At a guess, he would have approved of antitrust laws.
But I'm not so sure he would agree that they should be modeled as they are currently.
It's silly to me that when corporations are found guilty of stuff like this that they simply receive a fine.
If this were a person, they would receive the fine as well as possible prison time.
Where is the corporate prison time? I'm not so sure large corporations would be as interested in breaking the law if they knew it was going to cost them 18 months of lost sales.
Well duh. They define the entire business model on the idea that each user in their database is worth $x. If they reach a certain amount of users, they will make x amount of money. That disconnection between IT and Management is a two way street.
...and still being ignored by 99% of consumers.
Someone will figure out how to attract the generic consumer at some point. Compare average user awareness of Linux five years ago versus today. People have actually heard about it by now.
The general perception is probably something along the lines of, "I know it exists. I don't know why I would want it. It's over my head."
Give users a reason to switch and they will as long as they remain comfortable with an OS switch. Android seems to be doing well. LAMP seems to be doing well (not really a consumer product, but it does have a consumer facing aspect since it is an option when purchasing web hosting, which many average people are doing today).
All Linux needs is a good spokesman. Someone with a marketing degree and not an engineering/CS degree. Or, what seems to be the most likely, a wrapper around Linux that tells the user a lot in a simple snappy name. Android did that and it's worked quite well.
Today I've learned that the human body contains about 4-5 grams of iron. Thanks.
The July 28th blog post on betashop.com tells a bit of a different story. ( link to Google cache, the regular site seems to be off atm. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Kro0IOBNR3IJ:betashop.com/page/2+site:betashop.com+betashop+google+plus&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us - It's toward the bottom below the "Make the logo smaller" t-shirt)
It was (at the time) their single highest traffic day and 5% of that traffic came from Google+. That's nearly 9000 visits in one day to a site that is one of the fastest growing e-commerce sites on the planet.
It's not facebook. It's not twitter. But it has certainly contributed enough to fab's bottom line that I have a difficult time believing they are ready to ditch the +1.
Are you saying we should base employment compensation on who has a greater capacity for extortion?
It's not about making everyone poor, it's about making everyone equal.
Right, because a neurologist should receive the same compensation as the guy scraping lard off the floor of a greasy spoon.
Maybe while we're at it, we can just put all the smart kids in the same classes as all the developmentally disabled kids. That should level the playing field a bit.
They have forgotten to ask if it is right. Does that make them evil, or just lazy?
Is it still evil if they ultimately use this information to create mesh wifi networks that support voip via Android handsets?
To be quite honest, I'm surprised Google hasn't already entered the wifi router market. All they need to do is re-brand a router, add in some QoS stuff for Android handsets, and package a SIP app in Android and you have just given the masses *free cell phone service.
I would be shitting my pants right now if I were a major telco executive. This is the meat and potatoes of the net-neutrality battle.
I dissected a cat in high school biology.
Circle of life, bro; deal with it.
But we already did and it is widely accepted: anti-virus software.
Ha. AV software is an old dog that should be taken for a walk.
Nah, I recall that story from a year or so ago where BB was selling EEEPCs with the same model number I had just bought. I bought on newegg, and the BB model was actually a little cheaper. Come to find out, the BB model had a different (inferior) wifi adapter and no bluetooth, and I'm sure that wasn't all.
You missed it. It went right past you.