Trust me, if Google was the evil you think they are, they'd be doing a much better job of it. They're not nearly that incompetent. (No, seriously. If Google was trying to be evil you'd be way more screwed and not even realise it, but this applies to most large corporations.. There are only a few I'd class as truly evil, Google isn't even close to getting on that list. Naive, narrow sighted, culturally tone deaf, sure)
Does anyone do research before going off the deep end?
GSuite for Government is a separate product. There's no indication so far this is even enabled on that offering. The new interface (with the features) is current opt-in on standard GSuite, by the admins. Beyond that, governments using GSuite should have Vault enabled for compliance purposes. Vault doesn't allow users to delete emails before the end of the archive period.
Why is there a preemptive strike against Google when this is basically an administration issue on the governments end? It's not those not using Gmail couldn't selectively purge messages from their local systems.
Given I *know* people resigned over the Google Plus Real Names fiasco, I expect if they don't withdraw they'll start hemorrhaging employees, and it will be the more talented ones at that (that have more resources and can find other opportunities the easiest).
For all it's flaws, most people at Google actually are some brand of idealistic. Doesn't mean they're perfect, or right, or don't screw up, or understand life outside their little bubble, but I get sick of this meme of Google as some evil empire. If Google was trying to be evil, they'd be doing a much better job of it,
I believe in Google's case they will often actually buy capacity as part of funding new projects. So they'll buy 30MW say, of a 100MW project. This helps give certainty to projects, helps push some over into viability, and increases the pool of available renewable energy.
Google then does likely sell it, I believe they're a licenced utility in many jurisdictions. They may even see a profit on it, but it will be real ownership, as in part of the generation plant, not futures.
OpenSSL is far far from great (the API, my eyes, they burn! don't get me started on openssl error codes/messages), but it's not quite the steaming pile of something smelly GnuTLS is.
Although it has improved somewhat over the past few years, at least on the "other SSL clients will actually interoperate" side of things.
I would also be wary of taking some of these articles at face value.
You're a big company. You're obliged to comply with stupid asshat law that some ${CITIZENS} approved by proxy through their representative. In an effort to discourage such requests, you do your best to inflate "costs" which you are permitted to recover from the requesting organization....
Suddenly some reporters with slightly less than two brain cells to rub together equate this to "selling customer data".
Because the phone manufacturers who use standard usb connectors are having so much trouble...
Do micro-USB cables stream audio and video? (Remember, Lightning does essentially what HDMI does, also.) Can they be used to transmit device control instructions? (Remember, Lightning handles "dock" functionality, too.) Does the micro-USB spec provide for 2.1A (10W @ 5V) charging? (Remember, Lightning is the new standard mobile Apple connector, for 10" iPads as well as phones and iPods.) Etc.
You mean like a micro-USB MHL port that supports the USB charging spec? That my past three phones have had?
Though you'll only get 900mA@5V with data transfer or MHL active, unless you have MHL 3.0 (which is unikely at this point).
(Okay, not a microusb cable, but it can use the same physical port, provides charging and remote instructions, and adapters start at about $5)
As a bonus it will probably actually work directly with your TV if you dig the cable thing.
I think I spent more time copying out BASIC programs from the manual than playing games on it;-) (I was six or seven at the time).
My parents noticed my interest and convinced some local guy running a class to take me (normally he only took older kids). He had a room full of Plus4's (going for slightly esoteric Commodore models here...)
At the very least a base install will give you some billing software and hooks for other automation. It wouldn't hurt to drop them a line, at any rate.
disclaimer: I used to work for obsidian ~6 years ago. they're a small company, but full of bright people and they have a lot of experience in the area. if jet isn't for you i have no doubts they can at least give you some honest advice on what to look at instead that's within your budget, fits your needs.
But that's not the case. Google honours such requests.
They want to force Google to index them *and* pay them. (Comments from Eric Schmidt that Google might have to stop indexing the sites if such a law was passed, was decried as a "threat")
Drifting from the point of the article, but just for reference a 3 bedroom house in Sydney costs $600,000 easily, and in many suburbs well over a million. And at present the 1 Australian dollar is trading for $1.07 US dollars. They haven't had their property crash in Australia. Yet.
$600k for a 3br house? You're talking like 90+ minutes from the city, right?;-)
$400k+ for a decent 1br+study apartment in the inner suburbs.
Are you serious? More than $100? A visit to a non-bulk billing Doctor here in Aus will usually set you back $40-60. Typically you get ~$30 back from Medicare, but that's the rate for a 15-20m consult. Random person from street can rock up for that, no government subsidy involved.
The poster makes it sound like the sky is falling. OMG, if you download terrabytes of data/month on your residental account they might *gasp* charge you!
Australia has had metered plans pretty much since inception. Most are of the "XXgb then shape to 128kbps" variety. There have been companies offering unlimited, but they either go under, or oversell at a horrendous ratio.
If the cost of bandwidth, as a proportion of operating cost, goes up for the ISP, then something has to break. Either they introduce some type of allocation (metered plans) or the overall quality of service needs to go down (they oversell more). It's not some grand conspiracy, it's *possibly* money grubbing, but it's far more likely just trying to keep on top of a ballooning cost.
Really, unless you're streaming hdtv 24/7. it's *not* a huge issue. I have 60gb/month in total, and even when I'm leeching a bit I'll be lucky to go through half of that. Often I'll only use a couple of gigs. And I'm still considered a _heavy_ user ffs.
Still downloading the movie from TurboGears (tried streaming, but well.. That wasn't happening too well:)), but I have been playing with Django a bit the past few days.
It does look kind of cool, the admin interface is good for _simple_ objects, but seems to start to fall down when you want to construct interesting relationships between the objects, and I haven't started to look into doing custom (or using generic) create/update templates yet.
That being said I'm still suffering a bit of paradigm lag since i've mostly been dealing with Zope/Plone for the past couple of years, and while that platform isn't without it's problems, it does have a lot of nice features you begin to take for granted.
I also came across areas where Django would silently fail to do things in the admin interface with no sign of an error anywhere (it wasn't even attempting to insert the new object in the db, nor raising an exception anywhere). That kind of behaviour makes me a bit nervous:p
christ! and this is supposed to be the "replacement" for GWB!!!! What, does America generate these guys out of a factory? Where are the real people.... 135 foot my ass! what an arrogant pig!
It's all an evil conspiracy driven by the people behind the people with power... Breed the intelligence out of the nobles^H^H^H^H^H^Hprominent political dynasties so they're more easily manipulated...:p
>You can do a lot of stuff in MySQL by working around missing features. But WHY????
Because MySQL permissions are easier to deal with? Doing stuff like changing the owner of a database in postgres is.. annoying to say the least. How about out of the box replication? (I haven't had a good look at the replication options for postgres to be honest).
I'm sure there are things that postgres does that mysql doesn't, or things it does better. However the plain fact is a lot of people don't need those things, and MySQL is a lot easier to deal with in some other important regards. This is one big reason why more webhosts offer MySQL than Postgres databases to their customers (or charge more to deal with postgres)
Really? Are you sure it isn't the tamer fare found at places like Yahoo Games [yahoo.com] and MSN [msn.com]? Looks like there's hundreds of thousands of people playing those games on a daily basis. Does EverQuest get that many? (I don't know, does anyone else?)
Some time ago EverQuest went past the 350,000 active account mark... They're probably getting towards half a million now. Amazingly enough new sales/accounts continue to be higher than the drop off rate...
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Look at the dashboard.
ICS is 0.3% of current devices checking in. Gingerbread is 0.2%
Half a percentage point is a very very small number, and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of those were emulators, at that.
I wouldn't worry about Android 5+ just yet, as one poster was. Lamentably, 5.0 still has 3.5% of the market, 5.1 over 14%.
https://developer.android.com/...
These comments always amuse me.
Trust me, if Google was the evil you think they are, they'd be doing a much better job of it. They're not nearly that incompetent. (No, seriously. If Google was trying to be evil you'd be way more screwed and not even realise it, but this applies to most large corporations.. There are only a few I'd class as truly evil, Google isn't even close to getting on that list. Naive, narrow sighted, culturally tone deaf, sure)
Actually SRE's do.
Does anyone do research before going off the deep end?
GSuite for Government is a separate product. There's no indication so far this is even enabled on that offering. The new interface (with the features) is current opt-in on standard GSuite, by the admins. Beyond that, governments using GSuite should have Vault enabled for compliance purposes. Vault doesn't allow users to delete emails before the end of the archive period.
Why is there a preemptive strike against Google when this is basically an administration issue on the governments end? It's not those not using Gmail couldn't selectively purge messages from their local systems.
Given I *know* people resigned over the Google Plus Real Names fiasco, I expect if they don't withdraw they'll start hemorrhaging employees, and it will be the more talented ones at that (that have more resources and can find other opportunities the easiest).
For all it's flaws, most people at Google actually are some brand of idealistic. Doesn't mean they're perfect, or right, or don't screw up, or understand life outside their little bubble, but I get sick of this meme of Google as some evil empire. If Google was trying to be evil, they'd be doing a much better job of it,
I believe in Google's case they will often actually buy capacity as part of funding new projects. So they'll buy 30MW say, of a 100MW project. This helps give certainty to projects, helps push some over into viability, and increases the pool of available renewable energy.
Google then does likely sell it, I believe they're a licenced utility in many jurisdictions. They may even see a profit on it, but it will be real ownership, as in part of the generation plant, not futures.
Why on earth would the whole /8 revert to IANA? As per the *summary*, even, that whole block is delegated to APNIC.
A world beyond North America, bizarre I know.
Name a case where Google has been the aggressor in a patent lawsuit.
Google learned the hard way they need to play the game, which means patenting as much as they can so they don't get sued out the wazoo.
On the plus side I can't recall a case where they've been the ones to bring suit against a party (first).
OpenSSL is far far from great (the API, my eyes, they burn! don't get me started on openssl error codes/messages), but it's not quite the steaming pile of something smelly GnuTLS is.
Although it has improved somewhat over the past few years, at least on the "other SSL clients will actually interoperate" side of things.
Is anyone other than Debian zealous enough to use GnuTLS?
I rarely agree with Howard Chu of OpenLDAP fame, but... http://www.openldap.org/lists/...
I would also be wary of taking some of these articles at face value.
You're a big company. You're obliged to comply with stupid asshat law that some ${CITIZENS} approved by proxy through their representative. In an effort to discourage such requests, you do your best to inflate "costs" which you are permitted to recover from the requesting organization....
Suddenly some reporters with slightly less than two brain cells to rub together equate this to "selling customer data".
Because the phone manufacturers who use standard usb connectors are having so much trouble...
Do micro-USB cables stream audio and video? (Remember, Lightning does essentially what HDMI does, also.) Can they be used to transmit device control instructions? (Remember, Lightning handles "dock" functionality, too.) Does the micro-USB spec provide for 2.1A (10W @ 5V) charging? (Remember, Lightning is the new standard mobile Apple connector, for 10" iPads as well as phones and iPods.) Etc.
You mean like a micro-USB MHL port that supports the USB charging spec? That my past three phones have had?
Though you'll only get 900mA@5V with data transfer or MHL active, unless you have MHL 3.0 (which is unikely at this point).
(Okay, not a microusb cable, but it can use the same physical port, provides charging and remote instructions, and adapters start at about $5)
As a bonus it will probably actually work directly with your TV if you dig the cable thing.
I think I spent more time copying out BASIC programs from the manual than playing games on it ;-) (I was six or seven at the time).
My parents noticed my interest and convinced some local guy running a class to take me (normally he only took older kids). He had a room full of Plus4's (going for slightly esoteric Commodore models here...)
But you could look and see if Jet is within your budget.
http://www.obsidian.com.au/products/jet/jet-isp-telco
At the very least a base install will give you some billing software and hooks for other automation. It wouldn't hurt to drop them a line, at any rate.
disclaimer: I used to work for obsidian ~6 years ago. they're a small company, but full of bright people and they have a lot of experience in the area. if jet isn't for you i have no doubts they can at least give you some honest advice on what to look at instead that's within your budget, fits your needs.
Of course that would require a newspaper to make a profit... I don't think squeezing tech companies is a long term viable business strategy though.
But that's not the case. Google honours such requests.
They want to force Google to index them *and* pay them. (Comments from Eric Schmidt that Google might have to stop indexing the sites if such a law was passed, was decried as a "threat")
I only see a problem with this if you're *not* a rent seeking industry organization or an artist with an incredible sense of entitlement.
If you're not one of those, then your opinion doesn't really matter, does it?
Drifting from the point of the article, but just for reference a 3 bedroom house in Sydney costs $600,000 easily, and in many suburbs well over a million. And at present the 1 Australian dollar is trading for $1.07 US dollars. They haven't had their property crash in Australia. Yet.
$600k for a 3br house? You're talking like 90+ minutes from the city, right? ;-)
$400k+ for a decent 1br+study apartment in the inner suburbs.
Are you serious? More than $100? A visit to a non-bulk billing Doctor here in Aus will usually set you back $40-60. Typically you get ~$30 back from Medicare, but that's the rate for a 15-20m consult. Random person from street can rock up for that, no government subsidy involved.
The poster makes it sound like the sky is falling. OMG, if you download terrabytes of data/month on your residental account they might *gasp* charge you!
Australia has had metered plans pretty much since inception. Most are of the "XXgb then shape to 128kbps" variety. There have been companies offering unlimited, but they either go under, or oversell at a horrendous ratio.
If the cost of bandwidth, as a proportion of operating cost, goes up for the ISP, then something has to break. Either they introduce some type of allocation (metered plans) or the overall quality of service needs to go down (they oversell more). It's not some grand conspiracy, it's *possibly* money grubbing, but it's far more likely just trying to keep on top of a ballooning cost.
Really, unless you're streaming hdtv 24/7. it's *not* a huge issue. I have 60gb/month in total, and even when I'm leeching a bit I'll be lucky to go through half of that. Often I'll only use a couple of gigs. And I'm still considered a _heavy_ user ffs.
Isn't there an EU Directive regarding data retention that went through in response to "the terrorist threat"? How does that gel with this ruling?
Still downloading the movie from TurboGears (tried streaming, but well.. That wasn't happening too well :)), but I have been playing with Django a bit the past few days.
:p
It does look kind of cool, the admin interface is good for _simple_ objects, but seems to start to fall down when you want to construct interesting relationships between the objects, and I haven't started to look into doing custom (or using generic) create/update templates yet.
That being said I'm still suffering a bit of paradigm lag since i've mostly been dealing with Zope/Plone for the past couple of years, and while that platform isn't without it's problems, it does have a lot of nice features you begin to take for granted.
I also came across areas where Django would silently fail to do things in the admin interface with no sign of an error anywhere (it wasn't even attempting to insert the new object in the db, nor raising an exception anywhere). That kind of behaviour makes me a bit nervous
>You can do a lot of stuff in MySQL by working around missing features. But WHY????
.. annoying to say the least. How about out of the box replication? (I haven't had a good look at the replication options for postgres to be honest).
Because MySQL permissions are easier to deal with? Doing stuff like changing the owner of a database in postgres is
I'm sure there are things that postgres does that mysql doesn't, or things it does better. However the plain fact is a lot of people don't need those things, and MySQL is a lot easier to deal with in some other important regards. This is one big reason why more webhosts offer MySQL than Postgres databases to their customers (or charge more to deal with postgres)
Some time ago EverQuest went past the 350,000 active account mark... They're probably getting towards half a million now. Amazingly enough new sales/accounts continue to be higher than the drop off rate...