I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the power of the collaboration features in Google Apps. I love OpenOffice and I use it for everything that only I need to maintain, but when it comes sharing spreadsheets with friends, teammates, etc. Google Apps is in a totally different league. Try having 3 or 4 people edit the same spreadsheet at the same time on any other platform. To me that is the main reason to consider Google Apps over OpenOffice.
Does anyone besides me think it's silly that a document format that most people intend to use for reading contains so many unneeded extras that it becomes an exploit vector?
What people really want is an easy way to share formatted documents. We need to re-examine the PDF format itself and what we have let it become.
is that whenever we need to defend the need of an expensive space agency, we always use the argument "well, look at all the great stuff that has been invented in the process of doing this". Unfortunately, it would seem that this argument might not be very convincing to others eager to cut our space and science budgets in the future if we start hording and privatizing these inventions and not giving them back to the public.
The problem wasn't the crawler, it's the people who thought the crawler was some kind of magic AI that could find relevant stories for them.
I agree. I think the company that stands the most to lose here is Bloomberg. The entire reason people use Bloomberg is to get the most important, relevant financial headlines. This filtering is Bloomberg's entire value-add to the news chain. If they just blindly copy a crawler and don't do any filtering, then why should anyone read their headlines?
I'm wondering why it is that Slashdot continues to post so many negative stories about Scientology. It seems to me that it is almost an outright witch hunt against them at times. Agree or disagree with them as you will (I choose the latter, personally), but let's avoid the slippery slope down into bigotry.
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I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned the power of the collaboration features in Google Apps. I love OpenOffice and I use it for everything that only I need to maintain, but when it comes sharing spreadsheets with friends, teammates, etc. Google Apps is in a totally different league. Try having 3 or 4 people edit the same spreadsheet at the same time on any other platform. To me that is the main reason to consider Google Apps over OpenOffice.
Does anyone besides me think it's silly that a document format that most people intend to use for reading contains so many unneeded extras that it becomes an exploit vector?
What people really want is an easy way to share formatted documents. We need to re-examine the PDF format itself and what we have let it become.
is that whenever we need to defend the need of an expensive space agency, we always use the argument "well, look at all the great stuff that has been invented in the process of doing this". Unfortunately, it would seem that this argument might not be very convincing to others eager to cut our space and science budgets in the future if we start hording and privatizing these inventions and not giving them back to the public.
The problem wasn't the crawler, it's the people who thought the crawler was some kind of magic AI that could find relevant stories for them.
I agree. I think the company that stands the most to lose here is Bloomberg. The entire reason people use Bloomberg is to get the most important, relevant financial headlines. This filtering is Bloomberg's entire value-add to the news chain. If they just blindly copy a crawler and don't do any filtering, then why should anyone read their headlines?
I'm wondering why it is that Slashdot continues to post so many negative stories about Scientology. It seems to me that it is almost an outright witch hunt against them at times. Agree or disagree with them as you will (I choose the latter, personally), but let's avoid the slippery slope down into bigotry.