Google all powerful? Lost in social media, lost in video, no big winner in email, so only really wins in search.
Not lost in video... just because they -- as you say -- admitted defeat by purchasing YouTube doesn't mean they lost. They now own YouTube, the largest video sharing site on the planet and only growing farther, so they win there. Yes a big winner in email... all the time I see people I know switching to Gmail from Yahoo, Hotmail, whatever, and I know that I wouldn't use any other email service. Yeah, kinda lost in social media to a degree -- at least in the US. Orkut is huge in South America, and YouTube and Google Talk could be considered social media, both of which are huge (Gtalk isn't as huge as AIM/WLM/Skype, but it's not unknown).
There's also the huge developments that Google has been making over the years that we're hearing about. Google Voice is amazing. Sure it's a result of an acquisition, but the new Voice is a major improvement upon the old GrandCentral that they purchased. Wave was also a major breakthrough. That software itself wasn't really useful for much, but the technologies behind it can be used in so many different applications that the time spent on that program was well worth it. Calendar is awesome, and online... any other good online calendar applications you know of? I don't. I assume that Windows Live has one, but I've never really heard anything about it.
Then there's Google Chrome, which is not being developed with the goal of gaining market share. Chrome's sole purpose is to push the limits of Javascript processing speed and be a competitor to the rest. Google's services all heavily rely on Javascript and Ajax, which means they all benefit from better Javascript engines. Current browsers at Chrome's release just weren't cutting it, so Google had to go give them some incentive to kick it up another notch. People want a faster browser, and Google wants people to have a faster browser. Whether that browser is Google's does not matter to Google, but people will go to Google's if the other browsers aren't as fast, and other browsers don't want to lose market share, so they speed up their browsers. All of it benefits Google and their services. Higher market share of Chrome is just another number that doesn't really matter but is still one more thing they can use to please shareholders.
So it's not about "winning". It's about being the best. "Admitting defeat" by making acquisitions still means they made the acquisitions and now own those that "defeated" them, which means they still win. It's simple business strategy, really. Just at a magnitude several billion dollars more than I could ever imagine having under my control.
These are the ones that are also commonly used as "pull out and wait to merge" lanes by the aforementioned stupid drivers.
That's actually a mandated use by California law. It's illegal to do so in some states, but it's a required part of the training curriculum and sometimes the test (depending on who's administering it) that you turn into the middle lane and then merge into traffic when turning left.
The diagnostic systems that you plug in are very, very expensive. I once had to do some work on an IBM Thinkpad with an ancient version of SCO OpenServer that was running reverse-engineered BMW/Mini diagnostic software. This unit cost $600. The official unit costs $20,000. That $85 charge seems fairly small in comparison.
But you can always pull error codes with a little $65 unit and look up the numbers online. Already you're saving $20 by buying something you can use forever.
It dramatically reduces the cost and time to check a car for problems and unusual behaviour when you have very small very simple computers monitoring all the essential systems on your car.
And yet repair shops still charge you $85 to plug a machine into the OBD port and tell you that you can pay them to fix it.... hmmmm.....
Im starting to think , there is professional trolling behind those posts.
Slashdot has always had many different oppinions and POV's...Yet as soon as the US goverment "officially" spoke against Wikileaks there has been an increasing number of obtuse and retarded "think of the troops" posts claiming assange is a jerk...
I know several boards who are regularly troled for commercial interests but... wtf this is slashdot.
Yeah! You're agreeing with the government?!?!? You stupid right-leaning republican twat, how dare you!!! This is Slashdot!!!!!
Basically the way PLEX works is that you buy a 60-day game time card for $35, and you can enter your code into the game to redeem it for two 30-day PLEXes which can be activated in-game to add time to your account. You can then sell those items on the market for usually between 250 and 300 million ISK apiece. That way, people who don't have much money in-game can spend irl money to get fake money, and people who have a lot of money in-game can spend fake money so they can avoid spending real money. Until recently, PLEXes were not allowed to be placed in a cargohold. They had to stay in the station they were created in, which means that you could not move them to a region where they were selling for more. The reasoning behind that mechanic was specifically to prevent these kinds of things from happening ($1200-worth of game items vanishing in half a second)... but CCP came to their senses and decided that if you're going to be stupid enough to let that happen, then they will let you.
The guy that lost everything had probably bought them all in Jita for fake money either to sell them elsewhere or transport them to corp facilities.
I really love Google Wave but it was simply too unstable to use very often.
I love Google Wave, too, and I've spent countless hours trying to come up with something that I can actually USE Wave for... unfortunately, I come up blank most of the time. It's really fun to play around with, but there's nothing that Wave is really great for except in very specific cases... and in those specific cases, Wave is probably the most useful thing in the world.
Your an idiot. Spending $180 a year for nothing. The day zune pass closes or you stop paying all your music is gone. You can never listen to it again. You signed up for unlimited nothing. Stop paying them and listen as your music stops.
At least with iTunes and amazon. If you cantafford to buy more music youcan listen to what you have already bought instead of losing it all.
You're an idiot for responding in a fit of rage without actually reading (or at least comprehending) what I wrote. I get 10 DRM-free MP3s every month included in the $15/mo subscription and can download and listen to as many DRM-laden songs as I want. I can also log in online on any computer and listen to music there (though it could be a little better-integrated with the client... I'd like to have my playlists online for instance).
If Zune Pass ever shuts down, I still keep every song I bought with money or with the song credits... and what I downloaded on the subscription I will probably just start pirating again since they obviously don't want my money.
Keep up, the old Zune is long gone. The brown thing no one buys has become a black glossy sleek beautiful responsive elegant thing that no one buys.
I bought one. I love it.
I was also using the Zune Pass long before I actually bought the Zune, and it left me wondering why people don't demand that kind of model from iTunes. You pay $15/mo and get unlimited (DRM-laden, but that's to be expected) downloads on nearly everything in their library. Some albums don't want to be downloaded for free, so they give you 10 song credits every month with which you can buy any song and receive it in DRM-free MP3. It really is a great deal. The software has absolutely no support for plugins and new visualizations like WMP does, but you can still listen to all your DRMed music with WMP if you must have support for that.
I hate sounding like I'm being paid to write this, but I think more people need to know about it so they can stop paying $1.29 for every song they want to listen to. In iTunes terms, I have about $3000 worth of music.
(Oh also, I was pirating all my music before I discovered the Zune Pass. Now it's so fucking easy to get new music and without the need for microtransactions that I pretty much stopped pirating cold-turkey.)
Bricking means the device is hosed and cannot be recovered without breaking in and modifying the hardware.
No, you seem to misunderstand the meaning of the word "brick". As defined by Wiktionary:
Noun brick (countable and uncountable; plural bricks)
1. (countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building. This wall is made of bricks.
A brick is something you build houses with. A device that is in a state of non-function is called a "brick" because that's about all you could do with it. A device that I don't know how to return to a functioning state to me is a brick. If you know how to fix it, then to you it is not a brick, and if you offer to help me fix it then it is no longer a brick to me either. That's what adolf is saying, and I agree. Take a second to let that sink in and maybe you will understand.
No, I do not. But still it is irrelevant. I'm not complaining about all the problems I'm having with my iPhone, because I don't have one. There is abundant proof that the iPhone 4 has an actual physical hardware problem with its antenna, and Haffner was commenting on how Apple refuses to own up to it and instead pretends that they're making such a nice move for their customers by giving them cases.
I don't think you need to own an iPhone in order to have a license to comment on Apple's stupid PR moves. This exact kind of thing may very well be the reason WHY some people (such as myself) choose not to own Apple products.
Where's all the rage about pushing and selling the Kin, and then killing it in six weeks? Are all those Kin purchasers getting free somethings-or-others? I don't know--they might be--but nobody seems to care, because it's not Apple.
Who would rage about that? I do feel a little sorry for the 6 people that bought one of those, but that's overshadowed by my laughing at their stupidity.
Doesn't matter. What if Microsoft had pulled a stunt like this? The entirety of this website would be flooded in a fit of rage, trolling, and Apple fanboys saying "That's why I have an iPhone!!!"
BP is a corporation. Corporations don't have empathy or remorse. They could give a rat's ass about the leak. They only wanted to stop the bad publicity and liability, and secondarily, to start producing oil. If they could somehow have all three on the cheap without stopping the leak, they would have.
Corporations aren't the uncaring robot beasts you seem to be convinced they are. Corporations are still run by people. And there's no way that the people running BP would have allowed themselves to continue pumping unthinkable amounts of oil into the ocean without putting up a real effort to stop it, bad press and huge fines or none.
If there were it wouldn't be open source. Anything that would prevent this would prevent you from modifying and distributing your modified version. That is the core of open source and without that ability a license isn't open source.
The term "open" means the source is open for you to view and perhaps compile for yourself. That's it. The problem with today's open source movement is that people now automatically assume that because something is open source, it must be free. There's more benefit to being open source than just being free. You can view the source and see exactly what's powering the program, run your own audits, find your own bugs, and make sure that what's running on your machine is exactly and only what you want running on your machine. Being free happens to be an extra perk for most open source software, but it is definitely not required.
They filter (and possibly misdirect) what you're searching for, and they try to track your every move.
They filter results for people in China. The only thing they filter in the US is links to child pornography. Nothing else. Yes, they track your every move. Every search engine and Internet advertising firm does that. They don't do it so they can do bad things to you, they just do it so they can make more money from advertising. I still don't understand what point you're trying to make.
Not really. Google isn't telling you what information they're distributing... only that they're distributing information. You know they're distributing information to China just like they're distributing information to every other country Google has operations in. Google knows that you know this, and Google knows that anybody with any sense in their head won't need the exact number to know that Google is doing this (and that's why they make the question mark red and noticeable... if they wanted to hide it, they'd probably use a fake number or something). Hiding the exact number of Chinese government requests is a fairly small price to pay for an incredibly large slice of the Chinese money pie.
And yes, Google is a corporation, and a corporation's primary objective is to make money. It would be incredibly foolish to do something that would make China kick Google out... especially if that thing is simply posting a little number that nobody actually cares about for the sake of making some nerds on Slashdot happy.
That's not less than 10 in all of Europe. That's less than 10 for every one of those European countries listed (and 59 for the UK, and 188 for Germany, and 57 for Italy, and 32 for Spain... totalling much more than 123 for the United States for a lot fewer citizens than the United States). How is this at all relevant, anyway?
It's supposed to be boring. This way no one will start nitpicking the text and will concentrate on layout/design.
Please, tell me more about how to design a website and present it to a client. I am very interested in your wealth of knowledge even though it's painfully obvious that I was making a joke (as unfunny as you may find it) and that the person who created the article's subject site doesn't care about standard convention and was more than likely looking for a way to entertain himself and/or his friends.
Seconding OpenGTS. I don't use it personally, but my uncle is a private investigator who chases trucks around California to find them for repo men, and he recently switched to OpenGTS (from some insanely expensive tracking system) for GPS tracking and loves it. It would be great for fleet tracking as well. I believe it uses SMS to transmit real-time location data, so you will need a texting plan for each device.
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Google all powerful? Lost in social media, lost in video, no big winner in email, so only really wins in search.
Not lost in video... just because they -- as you say -- admitted defeat by purchasing YouTube doesn't mean they lost. They now own YouTube, the largest video sharing site on the planet and only growing farther, so they win there. Yes a big winner in email... all the time I see people I know switching to Gmail from Yahoo, Hotmail, whatever, and I know that I wouldn't use any other email service. Yeah, kinda lost in social media to a degree -- at least in the US. Orkut is huge in South America, and YouTube and Google Talk could be considered social media, both of which are huge (Gtalk isn't as huge as AIM/WLM/Skype, but it's not unknown).
There's also the huge developments that Google has been making over the years that we're hearing about. Google Voice is amazing. Sure it's a result of an acquisition, but the new Voice is a major improvement upon the old GrandCentral that they purchased. Wave was also a major breakthrough. That software itself wasn't really useful for much, but the technologies behind it can be used in so many different applications that the time spent on that program was well worth it. Calendar is awesome, and online... any other good online calendar applications you know of? I don't. I assume that Windows Live has one, but I've never really heard anything about it.
Then there's Google Chrome, which is not being developed with the goal of gaining market share. Chrome's sole purpose is to push the limits of Javascript processing speed and be a competitor to the rest. Google's services all heavily rely on Javascript and Ajax, which means they all benefit from better Javascript engines. Current browsers at Chrome's release just weren't cutting it, so Google had to go give them some incentive to kick it up another notch. People want a faster browser, and Google wants people to have a faster browser. Whether that browser is Google's does not matter to Google, but people will go to Google's if the other browsers aren't as fast, and other browsers don't want to lose market share, so they speed up their browsers. All of it benefits Google and their services. Higher market share of Chrome is just another number that doesn't really matter but is still one more thing they can use to please shareholders.
So it's not about "winning". It's about being the best. "Admitting defeat" by making acquisitions still means they made the acquisitions and now own those that "defeated" them, which means they still win. It's simple business strategy, really. Just at a magnitude several billion dollars more than I could ever imagine having under my control.
These are the ones that are also commonly used as "pull out and wait to merge" lanes by the aforementioned stupid drivers.
That's actually a mandated use by California law. It's illegal to do so in some states, but it's a required part of the training curriculum and sometimes the test (depending on who's administering it) that you turn into the middle lane and then merge into traffic when turning left.
No. No it was not.
The diagnostic systems that you plug in are very, very expensive. I once had to do some work on an IBM Thinkpad with an ancient version of SCO OpenServer that was running reverse-engineered BMW/Mini diagnostic software. This unit cost $600. The official unit costs $20,000. That $85 charge seems fairly small in comparison.
But you can always pull error codes with a little $65 unit and look up the numbers online. Already you're saving $20 by buying something you can use forever.
It dramatically reduces the cost and time to check a car for problems and unusual behaviour when you have very small very simple computers monitoring all the essential systems on your car.
And yet repair shops still charge you $85 to plug a machine into the OBD port and tell you that you can pay them to fix it.... hmmmm.....
Im starting to think , there is professional trolling behind those posts.
Slashdot has always had many different oppinions and POV's...Yet as soon as the US goverment "officially" spoke against Wikileaks there has been an increasing number of obtuse and retarded "think of the troops" posts claiming assange is a jerk...
I know several boards who are regularly troled for commercial interests but... wtf this is slashdot.
Yeah! You're agreeing with the government?!?!? You stupid right-leaning republican twat, how dare you!!! This is Slashdot!!!!!
Basically the way PLEX works is that you buy a 60-day game time card for $35, and you can enter your code into the game to redeem it for two 30-day PLEXes which can be activated in-game to add time to your account. You can then sell those items on the market for usually between 250 and 300 million ISK apiece. That way, people who don't have much money in-game can spend irl money to get fake money, and people who have a lot of money in-game can spend fake money so they can avoid spending real money. Until recently, PLEXes were not allowed to be placed in a cargohold. They had to stay in the station they were created in, which means that you could not move them to a region where they were selling for more. The reasoning behind that mechanic was specifically to prevent these kinds of things from happening ($1200-worth of game items vanishing in half a second)... but CCP came to their senses and decided that if you're going to be stupid enough to let that happen, then they will let you.
The guy that lost everything had probably bought them all in Jita for fake money either to sell them elsewhere or transport them to corp facilities.
Second that.
I really love Google Wave but it was simply too unstable to use very often.
I love Google Wave, too, and I've spent countless hours trying to come up with something that I can actually USE Wave for... unfortunately, I come up blank most of the time. It's really fun to play around with, but there's nothing that Wave is really great for except in very specific cases... and in those specific cases, Wave is probably the most useful thing in the world.
There is nothing particularly interesting about a 5-digit ui.
But I was always told that the length of your penis was inversely proportional to the length of your uid.
Your an idiot. Spending $180 a year for nothing. The day zune pass closes or you stop paying all your music is gone. You can never listen to it again. You signed up for unlimited nothing. Stop paying them and listen as your music stops.
At least with iTunes and amazon. If you cantafford to buy more music youcan listen to what you have already bought instead of losing it all.
You're an idiot for responding in a fit of rage without actually reading (or at least comprehending) what I wrote. I get 10 DRM-free MP3s every month included in the $15/mo subscription and can download and listen to as many DRM-laden songs as I want. I can also log in online on any computer and listen to music there (though it could be a little better-integrated with the client... I'd like to have my playlists online for instance).
If Zune Pass ever shuts down, I still keep every song I bought with money or with the song credits... and what I downloaded on the subscription I will probably just start pirating again since they obviously don't want my money.
Keep up, the old Zune is long gone. The brown thing no one buys has become a black glossy sleek beautiful responsive elegant thing that no one buys.
I bought one. I love it.
I was also using the Zune Pass long before I actually bought the Zune, and it left me wondering why people don't demand that kind of model from iTunes. You pay $15/mo and get unlimited (DRM-laden, but that's to be expected) downloads on nearly everything in their library. Some albums don't want to be downloaded for free, so they give you 10 song credits every month with which you can buy any song and receive it in DRM-free MP3. It really is a great deal. The software has absolutely no support for plugins and new visualizations like WMP does, but you can still listen to all your DRMed music with WMP if you must have support for that.
I hate sounding like I'm being paid to write this, but I think more people need to know about it so they can stop paying $1.29 for every song they want to listen to. In iTunes terms, I have about $3000 worth of music.
(Oh also, I was pirating all my music before I discovered the Zune Pass. Now it's so fucking easy to get new music and without the need for microtransactions that I pretty much stopped pirating cold-turkey.)
Bricking means the device is hosed and cannot be recovered without breaking in and modifying the hardware.
No, you seem to misunderstand the meaning of the word "brick". As defined by Wiktionary:
Noun .
brick (countable and uncountable; plural bricks)
1. (countable) A hardened rectangular block of mud, clay etc., used for building.
This wall is made of bricks
A brick is something you build houses with. A device that is in a state of non-function is called a "brick" because that's about all you could do with it. A device that I don't know how to return to a functioning state to me is a brick. If you know how to fix it, then to you it is not a brick, and if you offer to help me fix it then it is no longer a brick to me either. That's what adolf is saying, and I agree. Take a second to let that sink in and maybe you will understand.
Do you own an iPhone?
No, I do not. But still it is irrelevant. I'm not complaining about all the problems I'm having with my iPhone, because I don't have one. There is abundant proof that the iPhone 4 has an actual physical hardware problem with its antenna, and Haffner was commenting on how Apple refuses to own up to it and instead pretends that they're making such a nice move for their customers by giving them cases.
I don't think you need to own an iPhone in order to have a license to comment on Apple's stupid PR moves. This exact kind of thing may very well be the reason WHY some people (such as myself) choose not to own Apple products.
Where's all the rage about pushing and selling the Kin, and then killing it in six weeks? Are all those Kin purchasers getting free somethings-or-others? I don't know--they might be--but nobody seems to care, because it's not Apple.
Who would rage about that? I do feel a little sorry for the 6 people that bought one of those, but that's overshadowed by my laughing at their stupidity.
Do you own an iPhone or is this just Apple-hate?
Doesn't matter. What if Microsoft had pulled a stunt like this? The entirety of this website would be flooded in a fit of rage, trolling, and Apple fanboys saying "That's why I have an iPhone!!!"
BP is a corporation. Corporations don't have empathy or remorse. They could give a rat's ass about the leak. They only wanted to stop the bad publicity and liability, and secondarily, to start producing oil. If they could somehow have all three on the cheap without stopping the leak, they would have.
Corporations aren't the uncaring robot beasts you seem to be convinced they are. Corporations are still run by people. And there's no way that the people running BP would have allowed themselves to continue pumping unthinkable amounts of oil into the ocean without putting up a real effort to stop it, bad press and huge fines or none.
If there were it wouldn't be open source. Anything that would prevent this would prevent you from modifying and distributing your modified version. That is the core of open source and without that ability a license isn't open source.
The term "open" means the source is open for you to view and perhaps compile for yourself. That's it. The problem with today's open source movement is that people now automatically assume that because something is open source, it must be free. There's more benefit to being open source than just being free. You can view the source and see exactly what's powering the program, run your own audits, find your own bugs, and make sure that what's running on your machine is exactly and only what you want running on your machine. Being free happens to be an extra perk for most open source software, but it is definitely not required.
They filter (and possibly misdirect) what you're searching for, and they try to track your every move.
They filter results for people in China. The only thing they filter in the US is links to child pornography. Nothing else. Yes, they track your every move. Every search engine and Internet advertising firm does that. They don't do it so they can do bad things to you, they just do it so they can make more money from advertising. I still don't understand what point you're trying to make.
Relevant now?
Not really. Google isn't telling you what information they're distributing... only that they're distributing information. You know they're distributing information to China just like they're distributing information to every other country Google has operations in. Google knows that you know this, and Google knows that anybody with any sense in their head won't need the exact number to know that Google is doing this (and that's why they make the question mark red and noticeable... if they wanted to hide it, they'd probably use a fake number or something). Hiding the exact number of Chinese government requests is a fairly small price to pay for an incredibly large slice of the Chinese money pie.
And yes, Google is a corporation, and a corporation's primary objective is to make money. It would be incredibly foolish to do something that would make China kick Google out... especially if that thing is simply posting a little number that nobody actually cares about for the sake of making some nerds on Slashdot happy.
That's not less than 10 in all of Europe. That's less than 10 for every one of those European countries listed (and 59 for the UK, and 188 for Germany, and 57 for Italy, and 32 for Spain... totalling much more than 123 for the United States for a lot fewer citizens than the United States). How is this at all relevant, anyway?
It's supposed to be boring. This way no one will start nitpicking the text and will concentrate on layout/design.
Please, tell me more about how to design a website and present it to a client. I am very interested in your wealth of knowledge even though it's painfully obvious that I was making a joke (as unfunny as you may find it) and that the person who created the article's subject site doesn't care about standard convention and was more than likely looking for a way to entertain himself and/or his friends.
But that's boring.
lol.
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Get over yourselves.
Yep. We have it pretty rough here in America. You should probably visit Mexico or Columbia instead. I hear the people of Cuba are nice too.
Seconding OpenGTS. I don't use it personally, but my uncle is a private investigator who chases trucks around California to find them for repo men, and he recently switched to OpenGTS (from some insanely expensive tracking system) for GPS tracking and loves it. It would be great for fleet tracking as well. I believe it uses SMS to transmit real-time location data, so you will need a texting plan for each device.
http://opengts.sourceforge.net/