I guess if you are searching for political/sports information its fine, as that seems to be the only types of blogs in the database. If you search for 'camping' for instance, there's almost no content about camping, and almost everything but a few items in the map are of a political nature. Interesting idea, but only of minimal use to anyone interested in anything other than sports or politics... for the moment anyhow.
I agree. A lot of aid given to africa is never seen by africans that need to be aided. Who do you think in africa, who has good intentions for the general populace is going to be able to price an internet service, and provide that service to the impoverished status quo, without being turned financially inside out? As far as I understand the situation, the answer is no one. All it does is give those with enough resources and political power to flourish in africa (the bad guys, and foreign ex-patriots) more leverage over the under-foot majority.
Because it has a direct effect on the cost of service. News items like this are intentionally initiated by the company, its candy for the stock holders, makes the stock holders feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Yeah, the US Army plots signal coverage areas and plans retransmission of radio signals based on this type of topographical information. We have been doing it for like, decades. You know, when there were people taking grid samples for topographical data, back before imaging satellites put those guys out of business.
This is common knowledge in the RF world. I think WiFi providers have just been too smart in the wrong areas of expertise for their own good. Sampling works, but a good understanding of RF theory goes a long way in helping you determine where the gray areas are that you need to go to to do the sampling. Grid sampling (which I can guess the meaning of, but have never done) sounds ridiculously inefficient.
It might have been a great way to tread water in a company and stay employed though; "Where the hell is bob!?" "He is out plotting grid samples sir" "Oh, right. That bob guy is so indispensable".
But how the hell will they know who's selling cheap goats and Mefloquine without craigslist? George Jetson never caught malaria, and always had plenty of food pills. Case in point.
Maybe its an improvement, but its still total crap. It can only hope to benefit foreign nationals, and the bastards with their feet on everyone else's necks. Random micro-grants and Peace Corps funding cannot make this viable for the people in Africa who really need it anytime soon.
The United States Army uses 'PureEdge' which i guess was replaced by IBM with 'Lotus Forms' as there is no canonical link to the software anymore. Its an XML based form system. Its not really used in any standard way, other than electronically saving forms, and filling stuff in before printing the forms. It could though, because the Army, at least, does little to no documentation that isn't on some kind of standardized form. Now that the forms are machine parsable, I can definitely see the fed adoption some kind of organization and retrieval system.
The problem with that is, that the government doesn't want to organize its documentation that well. Obfuscation is still a large part of information security in certain circles, and the possibility of leak is much greater when information flows so fluidly. Unclassified does not mean its not of a sensitive nature, it just means that it doesn't fall under any of the standard security classifications. Thus the reason why we shred EVERYTHING.
It's not as complicated as you guys would have it be. You are thinking about software like people who write software think about it, not like users. To a non-technical user, beta means 'edgy and fun'. I think a lot of technical users think of it like that as well.
Google is going to support their users in whatever manner they support them (or not, i don't really know) reguardless of version. They have no reason to keep it in beta to 'save their own ass', its a designation that holds no real legal meaning. All they are doing is using a word that users understand vaguely, on the users' terms, not webster or wikipedia's terms.
Its like when manufacturer puts "NEW" on box of cereal or a pack of hot dogs. No one thinks "omg its new, i dont want to risk it!!". Frosted mini wheats aren't new by any stretch of the imagination, but if they can squeeze it onto the box somewhere, people buy more of it.
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I guess if you are searching for political/sports information its fine, as that seems to be the only types of blogs in the database. If you search for 'camping' for instance, there's almost no content about camping, and almost everything but a few items in the map are of a political nature. Interesting idea, but only of minimal use to anyone interested in anything other than sports or politics... for the moment anyhow.
I agree. A lot of aid given to africa is never seen by africans that need to be aided. Who do you think in africa, who has good intentions for the general populace is going to be able to price an internet service, and provide that service to the impoverished status quo, without being turned financially inside out? As far as I understand the situation, the answer is no one. All it does is give those with enough resources and political power to flourish in africa (the bad guys, and foreign ex-patriots) more leverage over the under-foot majority.
Yeah, happy birthday AIDS!!! What gift did we all get you? Hmm... well, heres AFRICA!!! WOOO!! Knew you would like it!
Because it has a direct effect on the cost of service. News items like this are intentionally initiated by the company, its candy for the stock holders, makes the stock holders feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Yeah, the US Army plots signal coverage areas and plans retransmission of radio signals based on this type of topographical information. We have been doing it for like, decades. You know, when there were people taking grid samples for topographical data, back before imaging satellites put those guys out of business.
This is common knowledge in the RF world. I think WiFi providers have just been too smart in the wrong areas of expertise for their own good. Sampling works, but a good understanding of RF theory goes a long way in helping you determine where the gray areas are that you need to go to to do the sampling. Grid sampling (which I can guess the meaning of, but have never done) sounds ridiculously inefficient.
It might have been a great way to tread water in a company and stay employed though; "Where the hell is bob!?" "He is out plotting grid samples sir" "Oh, right. That bob guy is so indispensable".
Bob, you are fired.
But how the hell will they know who's selling cheap goats and Mefloquine without craigslist? George Jetson never caught malaria, and always had plenty of food pills. Case in point.
Maybe its an improvement, but its still total crap. It can only hope to benefit foreign nationals, and the bastards with their feet on everyone else's necks. Random micro-grants and Peace Corps funding cannot make this viable for the people in Africa who really need it anytime soon.
The United States Army uses 'PureEdge' which i guess was replaced by IBM with 'Lotus Forms' as there is no canonical link to the software anymore. Its an XML based form system. Its not really used in any standard way, other than electronically saving forms, and filling stuff in before printing the forms. It could though, because the Army, at least, does little to no documentation that isn't on some kind of standardized form. Now that the forms are machine parsable, I can definitely see the fed adoption some kind of organization and retrieval system.
The problem with that is, that the government doesn't want to organize its documentation that well. Obfuscation is still a large part of information security in certain circles, and the possibility of leak is much greater when information flows so fluidly. Unclassified does not mean its not of a sensitive nature, it just means that it doesn't fall under any of the standard security classifications. Thus the reason why we shred EVERYTHING.
Its archaic, but not necessarily ineffective.
It's not as complicated as you guys would have it be. You are thinking about software like people who write software think about it, not like users. To a non-technical user, beta means 'edgy and fun'. I think a lot of technical users think of it like that as well. Google is going to support their users in whatever manner they support them (or not, i don't really know) reguardless of version. They have no reason to keep it in beta to 'save their own ass', its a designation that holds no real legal meaning. All they are doing is using a word that users understand vaguely, on the users' terms, not webster or wikipedia's terms. Its like when manufacturer puts "NEW" on box of cereal or a pack of hot dogs. No one thinks "omg its new, i dont want to risk it!!". Frosted mini wheats aren't new by any stretch of the imagination, but if they can squeeze it onto the box somewhere, people buy more of it.