No the problem and I can understand Google's perspective is that they were sued for doing linking. Google said fine you sued us, but now we have to remove you because we might get in trouble again.
You may say its retaliation. I say its because of the software. Think about it. Google has this huge search engine that goes through the Internet. I am betting the news.google.com is a service that sits ontop of the search engine. So now Google has to remove the websites in question. They can do it one of two ways:
1) Create a "don't use this content link" in news.google.com, which means changing their software. 2) Add the websites in question to do not crawl thus removing them from everything.
Remember that Google has a ton of services that work off the Google search engine. Does Google want to wait and get sued again because now instead of news.google.com its some other service that is doing the offending? I would just say it, bugger it remove them from the search engine. And of course a side benefit is that they get to release some steam.
The problem here is that smart phones I think are killing the game vendors. Sure there are die hard gamers, but that market I would say is saturated. Those who became gamers became, and those who don't game don't. It's a binary thing. Though smart phones on the other hand are attracting a whole lot of people who might have played games and bought one or two games.
I am thinking of the Super Mario or sonic the hedge hog type gamers. Not the halo palyers here. With these restrictions all they will do is demolish their own businesses. It reminds me of the music, books, movie business when the realized that their business models changed. The first reaction and oh so predictable is to restrict! But like music, books, and movies restrictions does not get you very far. In fact it is just makes it that much harder...
Oh this is stupid fanboy stuff... Sure there have been the naysayers, but to say that Apple can't make mistakes is just plain lunacy!
Apple makes plenty of mistakes, but what they excel in is burying it quick. For example the iPhone 4 antenna problems. Or how about we talk about how they caved in on the 30% cut for inapp purchases? Nobody talks about that? Or how about how that Swiss newspapers are shifting away from iPad apps to HTML 5 apps... No that you don't hear about. But it does not mean that it did not happen. It is just that the fanboys keep yelling and screaming louder...
Dude I want to second your statement here. I studied in Canada and got a degree in Engineering. And yes I had to study "addon" stuff! I am SO GLAD I did! These days I shifted away from core mechanical engineering and I trade my own money. My addon stuff was macro-economics, Greek/Roman engineering, and Business. These things are completely invaluable for my trading because I learn to understand what makes the system tick. I know that throughout the ages money and manias have come and gone!
My point to those that think this addon stuff is crap, well learn something that interests you. Or take something that you now consider a hobby or have a side interest in. Maybe it is that side interest that becomes the way you make money. When I had to take those extra courses I used it as an opportunity, not as a problem...
Do me a favor and lookup Rust belt and why it was called the rust belt.
The reality is that when the steel industry in the rust belt collapse so did the economies in those areas. It took DECADES not years for many to recover. And some have not recovered to this day.
The problem we have these days is that our industries are too tightly integrated. It is the result of globalization. Thus when one falls, all fall. No and's, if's or but's...
Sorry, but Google and Facebook might be using the jabber protocol, but it still does not mean success. Gtalk or the facebook chat is nowhere near as sophisticated for near social networks communications. By near I mean near as in near friends not distance. There are many more things that I can do with SKYPE than either of those products. So yeah they are a failure because they are half-backed...
I am sorry I think it does... Bitcoin was supposed to be a secure/stable/next generation way of doing transactions with money. But instead we have amateur hour in the Arctic! I mean come on WTF was the bitcoin guy thinking? Did he think nobody would hack? Or try to fake? Or try to steal? You only need to look at Windows to see how versatile hackers are.
He was being cynical! The chief is being a bit of an idiot! They think that the windmills destroy the "special" grass, but hey if oil and gas companies want to dig and drill that's OK!
Ok me being cynical! No wonder they bleeding lost the wars! Wanna make a bet the windfarm will be more valuable in 50 years than some oil or gas...
No dude Fuck you! Canada generally well ordered? LOL... I have lived in Canada for 18 years, and now I live in Switzerland. Now that is a country with order and well behaved people. Canada has the impression of being well behaved, but it really ain't. Just google Canadian riots and wow here is a list: http://ca.askmen.com/top_10/entertainment/top-10-canadian-riots.html Or how about the following list: http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news?slug=capress-hkn_stanley_cup_riots_list-7164094 Topping the list are HOCKEY riots. You would have figured that MAYBE just MAYBE the police would have been prepared...
So next time do some soul searching before saying that Canada is so good and the rest are bad!
Your C# example is BS. What you are referring to is when you want the resource to be cleaned up. C# will clean up the resource, but the question is when. Using the using keyword means an explicit IDisposable interface is called when the object goes out of context. Otherwise it is called when the object is garbage collected.
Let's see if I charge a gazillion dollars for the hardware I can charge nothing for iCloud and little for Lion. But hey who did that before? Microsoft! You know the evil corporation, yet Apple is all goodness!
Well this is part of the problem. Let's say Office wants to create a new release. That means they need feedback from the consumer, the home user, and the professional. These three groups are not necessarily the same group and hence you get the symptom of slow to change. The problem is not slow to change, but the fact that they get so many cross currents.
When you are a Dropbox you only have one client in mind. If Microsoft had to create dropbox they would have to think of the developer, the enterprise, the home user, the mobile user, etc, etc, etc... It is a big huge problem for them.
The problem with Microsoft is not something one person can solve. The problem with Microsoft is that it competes with every freaken tech company on the planet! You can't run a company where the entire world is your enemy. It is nearly impossible to focus on any particular solution since doing so is the lowest common denominator and that means crap...
Microsoft needs to split itself apart and then start attacking its competitors....
You don't even need to do mental experiments. The fallout of Chernobyl still lingers today. I was researching Belarus (financial related) and learned that to this day 20% of its farmland is STILL unusable. We are not even talking about Chernobyl and surrounding areas. We are talking about being a neighbor.
"A Russian publication, Chernobyl, concludes that 985,000 excess deaths occurred between 1986 and 2004 as a result of radioactive contamination."
This is the core problem. Imagine in Central Europe a reactor going down, imagine if huge tracts of Europe became unusable like Belarus. That would be a disaster beyond proportions! It would be that at least 80 million people will become instantly homeless!
The problem is that nuclear has serious longterm issues like this. Sure there are less immediate deaths, but the longer term deaths related to nuclear are much higher. This is the fault of humanity that can't look beyond the next Apple announcement.
So tell me how do you plan on making all of the land usable again? Oh wait I forgot you are not near any of these disasters and as such could not shive a ghit. Until it happens in your backyard!
That is the point that myself included tend to forget. Look at Chernobyl. To this day we are not supposed to eat mushrooms on a regular basis from the Baltic states as the nuclear cloud went there. The dose is small, but not negligible...
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No the problem and I can understand Google's perspective is that they were sued for doing linking. Google said fine you sued us, but now we have to remove you because we might get in trouble again.
You may say its retaliation. I say its because of the software. Think about it. Google has this huge search engine that goes through the Internet. I am betting the news.google.com is a service that sits ontop of the search engine. So now Google has to remove the websites in question. They can do it one of two ways:
1) Create a "don't use this content link" in news.google.com, which means changing their software.
2) Add the websites in question to do not crawl thus removing them from everything.
Remember that Google has a ton of services that work off the Google search engine. Does Google want to wait and get sued again because now instead of news.google.com its some other service that is doing the offending? I would just say it, bugger it remove them from the search engine. And of course a side benefit is that they get to release some steam.
The problem here is that smart phones I think are killing the game vendors. Sure there are die hard gamers, but that market I would say is saturated. Those who became gamers became, and those who don't game don't. It's a binary thing. Though smart phones on the other hand are attracting a whole lot of people who might have played games and bought one or two games.
I am thinking of the Super Mario or sonic the hedge hog type gamers. Not the halo palyers here. With these restrictions all they will do is demolish their own businesses. It reminds me of the music, books, movie business when the realized that their business models changed. The first reaction and oh so predictable is to restrict! But like music, books, and movies restrictions does not get you very far. In fact it is just makes it that much harder...
Shhhhh Don't give them ideas!!!
Let's be fair here shall we... It is not just MSFT that is buggered, but Google, Apple, Amazon, etc, etc, etc...
Oh this is stupid fanboy stuff... Sure there have been the naysayers, but to say that Apple can't make mistakes is just plain lunacy!
Apple makes plenty of mistakes, but what they excel in is burying it quick. For example the iPhone 4 antenna problems. Or how about we talk about how they caved in on the 30% cut for inapp purchases? Nobody talks about that? Or how about how that Swiss newspapers are shifting away from iPad apps to HTML 5 apps... No that you don't hear about. But it does not mean that it did not happen. It is just that the fanboys keep yelling and screaming louder...
Dude I want to second your statement here. I studied in Canada and got a degree in Engineering. And yes I had to study "addon" stuff! I am SO GLAD I did! These days I shifted away from core mechanical engineering and I trade my own money. My addon stuff was macro-economics, Greek/Roman engineering, and Business. These things are completely invaluable for my trading because I learn to understand what makes the system tick. I know that throughout the ages money and manias have come and gone!
My point to those that think this addon stuff is crap, well learn something that interests you. Or take something that you now consider a hobby or have a side interest in. Maybe it is that side interest that becomes the way you make money. When I had to take those extra courses I used it as an opportunity, not as a problem...
Really? I call BS...
Do me a favor and lookup Rust belt and why it was called the rust belt.
The reality is that when the steel industry in the rust belt collapse so did the economies in those areas. It took DECADES not years for many to recover. And some have not recovered to this day.
The problem we have these days is that our industries are too tightly integrated. It is the result of globalization. Thus when one falls, all fall. No and's, if's or but's...
Thank you.... That explains something that I never wondered about, but did not realize the thinking. Really interesting actually
But will it blend?
Sorry, but somebody had to say it ;)
Sorry, but the Onion is to John Stewart as the Arctic to Antarctica. They are similar, but actually not the same thing at all, other than being cold.
The Onion IMO is stupid news. John Stewart is a cynical view of the hypocritical behavior of the politicians. They are not the same thing whatsoever!
Sorry, but Google and Facebook might be using the jabber protocol, but it still does not mean success. Gtalk or the facebook chat is nowhere near as sophisticated for near social networks communications. By near I mean near as in near friends not distance. There are many more things that I can do with SKYPE than either of those products. So yeah they are a failure because they are half-backed...
I am sorry I think it does... Bitcoin was supposed to be a secure/stable/next generation way of doing transactions with money. But instead we have amateur hour in the Arctic! I mean come on WTF was the bitcoin guy thinking? Did he think nobody would hack? Or try to fake? Or try to steal? You only need to look at Windows to see how versatile hackers are.
No bitcoin is toast!
He was being cynical! The chief is being a bit of an idiot! They think that the windmills destroy the "special" grass, but hey if oil and gas companies want to dig and drill that's OK!
Ok me being cynical! No wonder they bleeding lost the wars! Wanna make a bet the windfarm will be more valuable in 50 years than some oil or gas...
No dude Fuck you! Canada generally well ordered? LOL... I have lived in Canada for 18 years, and now I live in Switzerland. Now that is a country with order and well behaved people. Canada has the impression of being well behaved, but it really ain't. Just google Canadian riots and wow here is a list: http://ca.askmen.com/top_10/entertainment/top-10-canadian-riots.html Or how about the following list: http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news?slug=capress-hkn_stanley_cup_riots_list-7164094 Topping the list are HOCKEY riots. You would have figured that MAYBE just MAYBE the police would have been prepared...
So next time do some soul searching before saying that Canada is so good and the rest are bad!
Dumb Ass!
Oh wait... Dumb Ass Eh!
Your C# example is BS. What you are referring to is when you want the resource to be cleaned up. C# will clean up the resource, but the question is when. Using the using keyword means an explicit IDisposable interface is called when the object goes out of context. Otherwise it is called when the object is garbage collected.
THat is what I was thinking! I thought we were supposed to avoid driver distraction.
Ok here is my question, why on earth does a car have an RSS reader? I thought the idea was to avoid crashes and avoid driver distraction?
Let's see if I charge a gazillion dollars for the hardware I can charge nothing for iCloud and little for Lion. But hey who did that before? Microsoft! You know the evil corporation, yet Apple is all goodness!
I would agree there...
Well this is part of the problem. Let's say Office wants to create a new release. That means they need feedback from the consumer, the home user, and the professional. These three groups are not necessarily the same group and hence you get the symptom of slow to change. The problem is not slow to change, but the fact that they get so many cross currents.
When you are a Dropbox you only have one client in mind. If Microsoft had to create dropbox they would have to think of the developer, the enterprise, the home user, the mobile user, etc, etc, etc... It is a big huge problem for them.
I completely agree here...
The problem with Microsoft is not something one person can solve. The problem with Microsoft is that it competes with every freaken tech company on the planet! You can't run a company where the entire world is your enemy. It is nearly impossible to focus on any particular solution since doing so is the lowest common denominator and that means crap...
Microsoft needs to split itself apart and then start attacking its competitors....
You don't even need to do mental experiments. The fallout of Chernobyl still lingers today. I was researching Belarus (financial related) and learned that to this day 20% of its farmland is STILL unusable. We are not even talking about Chernobyl and surrounding areas. We are talking about being a neighbor.
"A Russian publication, Chernobyl, concludes that 985,000 excess deaths occurred between 1986 and 2004 as a result of radioactive contamination."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster
This is the core problem. Imagine in Central Europe a reactor going down, imagine if huge tracts of Europe became unusable like Belarus. That would be a disaster beyond proportions! It would be that at least 80 million people will become instantly homeless!
Nuclear in its current form is not a solution...
No debate with your points. But here are some other insights...
Did you know to this day 20% of Belarus's farmland is unusable?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belarus
The problem is that nuclear has serious longterm issues like this. Sure there are less immediate deaths, but the longer term deaths related to nuclear are much higher. This is the fault of humanity that can't look beyond the next Apple announcement.
So tell me how do you plan on making all of the land usable again? Oh wait I forgot you are not near any of these disasters and as such could not shive a ghit. Until it happens in your backyard!
Ok let me get this straight ok...
You have a quad core with 8GB of ram. And because FF starts up in several seconds in contrast to Chrome's one second, you use Chrome?
So keeping the browser open with that type of machine is not an option?
I hope you can feel my cynicism.... Because sometimes I think Techies focus on the wrong things!!!
That is the point that myself included tend to forget. Look at Chernobyl. To this day we are not supposed to eat mushrooms on a regular basis from the Baltic states as the nuclear cloud went there. The dose is small, but not negligible...