I believe they gave Acer shit and Acer weren't even calling their phone Android. But that said Android is already a confusing mess where buying a phone from a certain provider doesn't mean it will be the same as a phone from another. You can't say how many, if any, updates you get because it depends entirely on which one you buy.
If Ubuntu can tackle that then that's yet another bonus.
Since it sounds like it's basically a SEO service I made the assumption it's about publically available data. But you are right about data leak. I assume if you make it available to friends and their account is wide open then you're in trouble but I'm not sure you can do much about that without asking friends to change their settings.
I think there are some questions about that on both facebook and google plus which is why I don't use my real name and don't talk about personsal things.
It will be really open unlike Android. As you point out Google is trying to stamp out forking which is really hypocritcal given Android is basically a fork itself and it wasn't that long ago that the Linux community was complaining that Google take without giving back.
Agreed, I would hope Google catches onto this and stops it. People need to realise it's not only their name and people want to be able to find the other people with that name too.
I really hate how people think they're the only one who owns a name and therefore get exclusive rights to it. It biases search results and for those of us that want to look up the other Samantha, it screws us over. I hope google puts an end to this.
That doesn't help with publically accessible material that gets indexed by Google. Secondly, Facebook does have that sort of functionality and it had it before Google. The only thing google did was simplify things to give potential users the impression they care about your privacy, which, imo, is a bit of a joke.
It's only one website even if it's one of the biggest places to buy things online. It also doesn't show numbers. The Chromebook might have sold 10 units, the Mac 8.
There are 3 Macbooks on the list. One at the number 2 place another at 4. There are two Chromebooks, one at 1st place and one at 19th. It's a pretty safe assumption that more macs are sold than Chromebooks. It's also safe to say there are more windows laptops sold too.
If most people are replacing it with Ubuntu or returning it because they didn't realise it's a shitty OS that requires an internet connection then that doesn't say much for ChromeOS.
ChromeOS will die. No one wants it. That is why Google is resorting to dumping it on schools. Schools seem to be really stupid and will be any old POS.
I'd say you can't really comment on the theatre experience if you haven't been to one since 1998. For me, my experience doesn't reflect yours. The theatre is a great way to see movies.
True, a phone is close but it's not strapped to my head with a camera always showing what I'm looking at and more importantly it's not always on me.
Maybe I'm different but I don't feel the need to always have it on me. But I do primarily use it for the internet so I need it to occupy my time on my commute or while taking a dump at work but elsewhere it's not that necessary.
I'm not sure why someone would want to buy a product that will allow google to track your every move (and therefore the government) and you look like a complete penis.
It depends if it's cased as a computer or just a standard electronic device. There are plenty of phones, calculators, media players, etc that are build with the intention of them never being extended or having their software modified. We should try to keep computers open but I think it will be a huge struggle given that most devices don't have the same expectations and most people don't care about it.
Lawyers invent ways for people to need lawyers. That is why they're a cancer on society. Most people shouldn't need lawyers that often and they certainly shouldn't be as ingrained into our society as they are.
Google docs is good if you stay on the web but if you want to work with other big companies using Office then you're just better off with office. Google can't compete for now in what most managerial types want out of the office software.
It's all well and good to replace the bulk of work with robots but then you either have a massive angry poor population and will need to impose birth restrictions among other things.
Or all those jobless people become supported by the robots and people don't need to work. That poses problems because wealth becomes meaningless (the rich won't be happy about that) and you still need to impose restrictions. Not everyone can just have a new tv whenever they want or travel whenever. We don't have unlimited resources. A lot of people are pretty simple. With no work how will they fill up their day? They may breed more which also cause resource problems so we need to still restrict births and it limits the need for medical advances. Too many births and longer lives again put a strain on everything.
I think people in the west think we have more resources than we do because they live in the best parts of the world and get first dibs on everything. So unless we're ready to bring back Hitler's ideals we have too many problems to fix before robots can do everything. Even the west is looking at some big energy cost rises in the near future. This robot utopia may come eventually but I really doubt it'll happen in our life time even if you're a child unless we solve some much bigger problems first.
I agree. The worst smart phone I ever owned was a Windows mobile phone. Trying to recreate windows on a phone was a dumb idea. Making it buggier than anything else was just retarded. That said they do appear to be getting better at it and as someone who owned a G1, android was a bit shit in the beginning too. If Microsoft keeps copying the right things and make it work well enough they could get lucky. Maybe they won't but Microsoft is still a compeitotor on office software too and they're very slowly getting into social media (too late imo but they're doing it) so all around they're making attempts at things that Google does where as Facebook just has Facebook.
I'm still not sure that's the case. Google is in more trouble if Microsoft gets mobile devices right. The only thing outside of search/advertising that google have done well and can fall back on is mobile devices. Anyone who can take that away from them is a pretty big threat. They've just been lucky that Apple only cares about the high end of the market and Microsoft has largely been useless in portable computing.
Facebook does indeed do advertising but given how many complaints there have been to how useful it actually is, I just can't see it growing leaps and bounds outside of their own sites. If Facebook do a phone it'll probably be Android based making it easier for Google to cause them problems. I can't see FB making their own mobile OS or forking Android and maintaining their own seperate branch.
It's not like Google never has problems. They just had issues with Gmail and in terms of hosting given that the app engine doesn't have near the usage as AWS I'm not surprised that it would have less problems or at least fewer noticed problems.
Facebook is still small time imo. The fact they have to resort to pushing some pretty shit ads (gambling, betting, etc) just to get their money says they're not getting it because it appears they're just pushing any ad to anyone. There is no intelligence behind it otherwise they'd realise I'd never click on an ad for gambling. The only thing they have is a large audience and some claim they have a lock-in since people have put their lives into their system but the same thing could have been said about MySpace. Microsoft is losing some relevance but at least they still have products that people need and won't be as happy to replace.
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I believe they gave Acer shit and Acer weren't even calling their phone Android. But that said Android is already a confusing mess where buying a phone from a certain provider doesn't mean it will be the same as a phone from another. You can't say how many, if any, updates you get because it depends entirely on which one you buy.
If Ubuntu can tackle that then that's yet another bonus.
That was great how she got so upset over it. Typical though, they think everyone should follow different rules to them.
Since it sounds like it's basically a SEO service I made the assumption it's about publically available data. But you are right about data leak. I assume if you make it available to friends and their account is wide open then you're in trouble but I'm not sure you can do much about that without asking friends to change their settings.
I think there are some questions about that on both facebook and google plus which is why I don't use my real name and don't talk about personsal things.
It will be really open unlike Android. As you point out Google is trying to stamp out forking which is really hypocritcal given Android is basically a fork itself and it wasn't that long ago that the Linux community was complaining that Google take without giving back.
Which is why you don't have to do web apps. Pick which ever suits you best.
Agreed, I would hope Google catches onto this and stops it. People need to realise it's not only their name and people want to be able to find the other people with that name too.
Exactly.
I really hate how people think they're the only one who owns a name and therefore get exclusive rights to it. It biases search results and for those of us that want to look up the other Samantha, it screws us over. I hope google puts an end to this.
That doesn't help with publically accessible material that gets indexed by Google. Secondly, Facebook does have that sort of functionality and it had it before Google. The only thing google did was simplify things to give potential users the impression they care about your privacy, which, imo, is a bit of a joke.
It's only one website even if it's one of the biggest places to buy things online. It also doesn't show numbers. The Chromebook might have sold 10 units, the Mac 8.
There are 3 Macbooks on the list. One at the number 2 place another at 4. There are two Chromebooks, one at 1st place and one at 19th. It's a pretty safe assumption that more macs are sold than Chromebooks. It's also safe to say there are more windows laptops sold too.
If most people are replacing it with Ubuntu or returning it because they didn't realise it's a shitty OS that requires an internet connection then that doesn't say much for ChromeOS.
ChromeOS will die. No one wants it. That is why Google is resorting to dumping it on schools. Schools seem to be really stupid and will be any old POS.
I'd say you can't really comment on the theatre experience if you haven't been to one since 1998. For me, my experience doesn't reflect yours. The theatre is a great way to see movies.
True, a phone is close but it's not strapped to my head with a camera always showing what I'm looking at and more importantly it's not always on me.
Maybe I'm different but I don't feel the need to always have it on me. But I do primarily use it for the internet so I need it to occupy my time on my commute or while taking a dump at work but elsewhere it's not that necessary.
I'm not sure why someone would want to buy a product that will allow google to track your every move (and therefore the government) and you look like a complete penis.
It depends if it's cased as a computer or just a standard electronic device. There are plenty of phones, calculators, media players, etc that are build with the intention of them never being extended or having their software modified. We should try to keep computers open but I think it will be a huge struggle given that most devices don't have the same expectations and most people don't care about it.
You're right, you don't get to see it but you get to see the guy probably shit himself and he probably feels like the luckiest guy in Russia.
Lawyers invent ways for people to need lawyers. That is why they're a cancer on society. Most people shouldn't need lawyers that often and they certainly shouldn't be as ingrained into our society as they are.
Who gives FB their SS number? That seems kinda stupid.
They can ask if you're old enough but I don't believe you have to divulge your exact age.
Google docs is good if you stay on the web but if you want to work with other big companies using Office then you're just better off with office. Google can't compete for now in what most managerial types want out of the office software.
It's all well and good to replace the bulk of work with robots but then you either have a massive angry poor population and will need to impose birth restrictions among other things.
Or all those jobless people become supported by the robots and people don't need to work. That poses problems because wealth becomes meaningless (the rich won't be happy about that) and you still need to impose restrictions. Not everyone can just have a new tv whenever they want or travel whenever. We don't have unlimited resources. A lot of people are pretty simple. With no work how will they fill up their day? They may breed more which also cause resource problems so we need to still restrict births and it limits the need for medical advances. Too many births and longer lives again put a strain on everything.
I think people in the west think we have more resources than we do because they live in the best parts of the world and get first dibs on everything. So unless we're ready to bring back Hitler's ideals we have too many problems to fix before robots can do everything. Even the west is looking at some big energy cost rises in the near future. This robot utopia may come eventually but I really doubt it'll happen in our life time even if you're a child unless we solve some much bigger problems first.
That's what happens when you rely on the php community.
We are at a point where that's reasonable to download on 3G. It definitely isn't big.
I agree. The worst smart phone I ever owned was a Windows mobile phone. Trying to recreate windows on a phone was a dumb idea. Making it buggier than anything else was just retarded. That said they do appear to be getting better at it and as someone who owned a G1, android was a bit shit in the beginning too. If Microsoft keeps copying the right things and make it work well enough they could get lucky. Maybe they won't but Microsoft is still a compeitotor on office software too and they're very slowly getting into social media (too late imo but they're doing it) so all around they're making attempts at things that Google does where as Facebook just has Facebook.
I'm still not sure that's the case. Google is in more trouble if Microsoft gets mobile devices right. The only thing outside of search/advertising that google have done well and can fall back on is mobile devices. Anyone who can take that away from them is a pretty big threat. They've just been lucky that Apple only cares about the high end of the market and Microsoft has largely been useless in portable computing.
Facebook does indeed do advertising but given how many complaints there have been to how useful it actually is, I just can't see it growing leaps and bounds outside of their own sites. If Facebook do a phone it'll probably be Android based making it easier for Google to cause them problems. I can't see FB making their own mobile OS or forking Android and maintaining their own seperate branch.
It's not like Google never has problems. They just had issues with Gmail and in terms of hosting given that the app engine doesn't have near the usage as AWS I'm not surprised that it would have less problems or at least fewer noticed problems.
Facebook is still small time imo. The fact they have to resort to pushing some pretty shit ads (gambling, betting, etc) just to get their money says they're not getting it because it appears they're just pushing any ad to anyone. There is no intelligence behind it otherwise they'd realise I'd never click on an ad for gambling. The only thing they have is a large audience and some claim they have a lock-in since people have put their lives into their system but the same thing could have been said about MySpace. Microsoft is losing some relevance but at least they still have products that people need and won't be as happy to replace.