Really? Google search is great, and Gmail's a adequate front end attached to a webmail system whose sole selling point is the massive amount of storage space.
But have you seen the monstrosity when that front end got belted onto the deja Usenet archive? Google Maps is usable, but it's hardly ground breaking.
And other than those things, exactly what hype have google delivered on?
Well, (oh dear, here comes the Flamebait mod again), I'd argue that Microsoft has more of all of those, with the possible exception of "respect in the industry." As does IBM, Dell, Cisco... and any number of other well established, Blue Chip IT companies.
Furthermore, Google's ideas are not new. People have doing things like this for years. But here on slashdot, a google press release about their latest software which doesn't even exist yet gets treated like the announcement of an earth shattering invention.
If anyone were capable of making a serious go of MT, that would have to be Google.
Erm... why is that? Is it because machine translation in some sense search technology? Because they've hired reknowned experts in natural language processing? Because they've got a lot of money slushing around and employ a lot of generally smart people?
Oh, no. It's because geeks like Google. Therefore, Google are capable of superhuman feats that mere scientists -- those with years of experience in relevant fields -- are incapable of doing.
Who wants to enter our sweepstake for when Debian 3.2 will be released? Pick a date, and if you're the nearest, you'll win... well, nothing.
I take July 4th, 2007.
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There's a difference between using sexual imagery to promote your product and shamelessly putting a badly-drawn, scantily clad woman on the cover of your computing magazine.
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Looking at the cover of their previous issue... is it any surprise that hackers have a reputation as being hairy palmed, sex-starved, sad sack porno hounds?
Big fucking deal. You don't need to be of high moral virtue (whatever that might mean) to deserve sufficient privacy to keep private information off the net.
this raises interesting questions about those counties that are members of the british commonwealth
There are already plenty of barriers to movement between members of the British Commonwealth. As a Brit, there are incredibly stringent criteria if I wanted to emigrate to Australia; similarly if I were an Indian or Pakistani wanting to move to Canada. Likewise, Commonwealth citizens from outside the UK don't get all the travel/work/visa perks within Europe that the UK's membership of the EU gives Brits.
Nonsense, that would suggest that Oceania's Ministry Of Truth was capable of adjusting history and presenting barefaced lies as fact, simply to fit their military ambitions.
Developers who take shortcuts on the Mac don't survive
Sure. What's the best selling Office suite for Mac?
You mean the stuff that actually complies to the standards and doesn't cut corners?
If you spend the same money for RAM, you get stuff that's equally reliable whether you're using a Mac or a PC. Similarly, cheap, unreliable RAM will make your computer unstable, regardless of which OS you're running. This is just simply a non-issue.
The shortcuts programs can take are less likley to affect system stablity.
Any evidence for that bold assertion?
Is it better for most users to allow them an option of using cheap parts if they buy on thier own instead of forcing it on them in disguise as "bargain" systems?
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Really? Google search is great, and Gmail's a adequate front end attached to a webmail system whose sole selling point is the massive amount of storage space.
But have you seen the monstrosity when that front end got belted onto the deja Usenet archive? Google Maps is usable, but it's hardly ground breaking.
And other than those things, exactly what hype have google delivered on?
Well, (oh dear, here comes the Flamebait mod again), I'd argue that Microsoft has more of all of those, with the possible exception of "respect in the industry." As does IBM, Dell, Cisco ... and any number of other well established, Blue Chip IT companies.
Furthermore, Google's ideas are not new. People have doing things like this for years. But here on slashdot, a google press release about their latest software which doesn't even exist yet gets treated like the announcement of an earth shattering invention.
Why does expressing preference for critical thinking over mindless cheerleading always get moderated as "Flamebait"?
I didn't even say bad things about Google, only that the submitter was making unsupported (which is not the same as untrue) assertions.
Oh, no. It's because geeks like Google. Therefore, Google are capable of superhuman feats that mere scientists -- those with years of experience in relevant fields -- are incapable of doing.
Yeah, I verbed asymptote. (Actually, it's really not an uncommon bit of jargon in the maths community. "Tends to..." is so formal.)
... but information about it is somewhat sketchy/
TeX really does have a release schedule like that. The last major release was v3. That was followed by release 3.1, then 3.14, then 3.141.
The most recent version is 3.14159, as the release numbers are slowly asymptoting toward pi.
Who wants to enter our sweepstake for when Debian 3.2 will be released? Pick a date, and if you're the nearest, you'll win ... well, nothing.
I take July 4th, 2007.
There's a difference between using sexual imagery to promote your product and shamelessly putting a badly-drawn, scantily clad woman on the cover of your computing magazine.
Looking at the cover of their previous issue... is it any surprise that hackers have a reputation as being hairy palmed, sex-starved, sad sack porno hounds?
Big fucking deal. You don't need to be of high moral virtue (whatever that might mean) to deserve sufficient privacy to keep private information off the net.
Actually it will go like this:
"It'll stop terrorists"
"The 9/11 hijackers had valid ID"
"Why do you hate America?"
Hey, I was talking about Alabama. I live in Staffordshire, and visit Brum and the Black Country quite often.
Nonsense, that would suggest that Oceania's Ministry Of Truth was capable of adjusting history and presenting barefaced lies as fact, simply to fit their military ambitions.
Inconceivable!
(The only similarity is, when Shrub writes 2+2=5, he doesn't realise that's wrong, either).
I've been to Birmingham, West Midlands and Birmingham, Alabama, and I know which one reminds me of a backwards, third world, culture.
You keep using that word, and I don't think it means what you think it does. This flower is self-evidently not extinct.
Clue : the phrase you're looking for is "Wildflower previously thought extinct".
Do you remember the days when all it took was to drop two incompatible Extensions into the System folder was all it took to make your Mac unbootable?