Also, the workers at Baidu are not underpaid- if they where, they'd leave for better oppurtunities. The workers in question have obviously decided they're better off making stuff for google
Baidu is one of Google's competitors (it's the #1 search engine in China), not one of its suppliers.
On the other hand, it sounds like this might cripple Google's browser Chrome, since each tab gets its own process. No one would switch to Chrome when they find out it can only manage three open tabs at once.
On the contrary, push her into something because she's good at it. If high-aptitude women continue eschewing careers in math and science, we'll continue to have people bemoaning the obvious gender bias in those fields (because anything but gender parity implies discrimination, right?).
Google's done some bad shit, but it always annoys me when people list "filtering in China" as the worst. Google had a choice: filter in China, or don't serve any pages to China. Filtering is a prerequisite for doing business there.
And it's not like China would have caved in and reversed their laws in order to get Google. Google isn't the #1 search engine in China. The most popular is Baidu, which - unlike Google - doesn't even notify users that results have been filtered.
Google gives the Chinese a chance to know when their search results are being filtered, a chance they didn't have before. Is that really *so* evil?
Is anyone else disturbed that one has to buy access to the list, rather than it being published free? If ignorance of the law is not an excuse, knowledge of the law had darn well better be free. That's not the case here: there are some things it's illegal to do (calling certain numbers) and if you want to know what those things are, you have to pay for that privilege.
Slashdot Mirror
Also, the workers at Baidu are not underpaid- if they where, they'd leave for better oppurtunities. The workers in question have obviously decided they're better off making stuff for google
Baidu is one of Google's competitors (it's the #1 search engine in China), not one of its suppliers.
I thought anything could run on Android granted it compiled and you distributed it but I guess I was wrong, according to this.
Did you even read TFA? It said:
G1 users can download applications directly from developers, circumventing rules that may prohibit apps from the Market.
So yes, your original belief was correct.
Bobcat urine.
Seriously. You can buy it online.
Rodents smell it and decide that they'd rather be anywhere but there.
On the other hand, it sounds like this might cripple Google's browser Chrome, since each tab gets its own process. No one would switch to Chrome when they find out it can only manage three open tabs at once.
On the contrary, push her into something because she's good at it. If high-aptitude women continue eschewing careers in math and science, we'll continue to have people bemoaning the obvious gender bias in those fields (because anything but gender parity implies discrimination, right?).
And it's not like China would have caved in and reversed their laws in order to get Google. Google isn't the #1 search engine in China. The most popular is Baidu, which - unlike Google - doesn't even notify users that results have been filtered.
Google gives the Chinese a chance to know when their search results are being filtered, a chance they didn't have before. Is that really *so* evil?
Is anyone else disturbed that one has to buy access to the list, rather than it being published free? If ignorance of the law is not an excuse, knowledge of the law had darn well better be free. That's not the case here: there are some things it's illegal to do (calling certain numbers) and if you want to know what those things are, you have to pay for that privilege.