Well that's exactly it... Sure there's been an increase in net growth, but it hasn't been at all positive, except for the few that play google to make some quick profit.
I've always been a strong believer in the strength of google but recently the last few times I've done some deep querying, all I'm presented with is garbage sites. When you look deep into google, all you see is a rising filth of exploitive money making webpages. Google has to get a handle on the situation soon or their relevance as the king of search will start to be questioned.
Apples and oranges. Google has the popular brand name and the slick implementations. Perhaps Downhill Battle has the 'moral superiority', but that doesn't make one iota of difference to the masses who know nothing about it. Because they're non-profit / idealistic, they're shunted aside as non-serious.
So Google versus Downhill battle.. I wish I could say the folks who brought us Grey Tuesday would win, however common sense tells me that the Googlemoth will overrun them...
I can't understand where all the rampant Google bashing is coming from. I bet you 90% of the slashdot readers use google on a daily basis, and how many of you have kickass gmail accounts? So Google is able to provide these wonderful services for free and still make a profit, and that's pre-ipo. Now they've got this influx of cash - what do you think they're going to do? I bet you anything they're going to ramp up their hiring and recruit some more of the best and brightest.
Secondly, can any of you please read between the lines of whatever investment magazine you all seem to be reading? Do you really think those investment magazines are happy at all with the way Google has done their IPO? Doubtful, and there's a very obvious reason for it: Money. So now the bigwigs who would normally be getting shares at $10 and turning them over at the end of the day for $60 aren't getting their massive returns on investment. By doing the IPO with the dutch auction style, they've cut out all the middle men who reap the rewards of the IPO and leave the company in the dust. Now they've got a stock that is more stable, less volatile and attractive to long term investors which is exactly what they want, because in the long term, Google stock owners win.
You see, the whole thing about the network computer which was hyped a couple years ago but never went anywhere, well that's the future. The OS won't matter anymore because when all of your files are online in the GoogleBase, accessible anywhere and triple backed up, will it matter what OS your computer is running? When you can rent out processing time on the GoogleOS to run hardcore programs? To store mass quantities of pictures, movies, everything with certainty?
Ultimately, Google will take over everything or it will become nothing. It's a gamble, but I always bet on Google.
However, the problem is that the only perception we get of each others culture is through a very controlled and some would say stifled medium. The internet is a new, pursuasive force but it certainly hasn't convinced a large majority of people of it's virtues. Perhaps if you would like both countries to get to know another, and therefore make sounder judgements of each other then you would encourage everyone you know to get on the Internet. Wire them up, show them how.;)
As a Canadian resident, I've always wondered if there's any performance problems for these types(hybrid and electric) in colder climates. As I live in a city (Winnipeg) where the thermometer regularily drops below -30 Celcius in the dead of winter I wouldn't want to be driving a car that couldn't run in those conditions. Does anybody have any information about this?
Yeah I imagine the cheating world is going to take a dark and ugly turn... Apparently the software is based on punkbuster but from what I understand punkbuster can barely keep up with all the cheats...
The situation gets worse when you throw in money - that's when people get hurt...
According to this article, the company You Play Games is offering an online wagering service where you gain or lose money depending on your playing skills. One of the games that will be supported is RTCW. Obviously they're trying out a new revenue model based on a percentage of the money flowing back and forth between wagers. A bit of a gamble, but it may pay off if the gambling service pays off.
Remember kids, companies never give anything away for free. There won't be spyware because you can't think of a better way to alienate your users. I figure with the gambling route everybody wins (except for the poor newbs who get pwn3d)!
I'd say the fools are the ones who read this slashdot article when it get's put off the front page and forget that this is an April's Fool day joke. I'd say that it's believable enough to be taken for truth if one forgets the context of todays' hoaxes.
I think that as time goes on, a companies ability to operate without the necessary business operations like patents will diminish. I guess what it comes down to is that if they want to stay at the top, then they have to have patents to protect their IP. Does it mean that some of google's shiny armour will be tarnished? Yes it does, especially in the eyes of all the geeks out there who see patents as the Great Evil. However, the company will remain in business for quite some time, allowing them to keep operating business as usual. So far, business as usual is good enough for me.
Other References President William J. Clinton, Vice President Albert Gore Jr., "A Framework For Global Electronic Commerce," Jul. 1997, at http://www.iitf.nist.gov/eleccomm/ecomm.htm, pp. 1-22.
Do you feel that you were wrongly imprisoned, that your crimes were not hurtful or detrimental to society? If not, do you feel guilty at all about the crimes you have been convicted and served time for? Would you do it all again?
I too would bet on anything a science fiction writer predicted over anything similar to what this person is spewing out. My belief is that much of the inovation we see in the world today is based on a glimmer of a brighter future which may have included technology X, found only in a good science fiction novel. Some lone person reads the book, makes the connection and proceeds to subtley change the world with their new contribution. The original inspiration, however, resides in the authors mind.
Its only a flight of fancy that lets you believe that the plebs of society will nicely eradicate themselves whilst the dreamers take over. Have no fear though, because in 2050 we won't need to live in big cities anymore, and the people who we would wish to disappear will congregate in vast numbers living off of each parasitically. No worries though, if you give them what they want then they'll be happy enough to breed themselves into oblivion.
That's the oldest argument in the book. The fact remains is that all it takes is one of those persons 'who would not have bought it anyways' to scan it, OCR it, and spread it around. If there's something for free, why would anyone pay for it? Especially something as non-substantial as a bit of electronic data? When it's spread about a p2p network, there is surely going to be some people who will take the pirated version rather than purchasing it, and that hurts sales for the author.
All I really want to do is to make it difficult enough that only someone with a lot of time and patience on their hands can circumvent it.
And what happens in higher education institutions around the globe with print media and a photo-copier?;)
This is true, however, the 'ease' in which someone copies a bulky textbook page by page, versus the 'ease' in setting up a program (ala the article) to do it automatically makes it a lot more tempting for people to do. Most software pirates are fairly lazy and if takes too long to work around the security, they'll either give up or buy the damn thing. I just want to make it hard enough that 90% of would be theives give up...
If the world were a free and happy place, then authors and artists would be not need to be paid for their intellectual property. In this utopian land, everyone would be equals and if you provided happiness and joy with your works then that would be your job, and you wouldn't need to get paid. Unfortunately, this society does not exist and as our current one does not seem to be heading in this direction, it becomes necessary to provide the means for independant artists and authors to sell their wares.
The problem with the e-book reader is one of the greatest hurdles to overcome in order to transition to a truely electronic society. How can you protect the rights of the author when anybody with a bit of patience or some programming skills can just print screen his / her blood, sweat and tears and give it away to free for anybody on a p2p network? Anybody who argues that all information should be free obviously isn't relying on a royalty check to provide food for their children.
I have a unique idea for the e-publishing world, but there's no point in executing it if the ability to easily circumvent any security precautions exists. So basically I'm asking any programmers out there if they've come across a way to disable the print screen function in a windows app? Or to return a black window when a screen request is being made for a print screen?
I absolutely agree. Unfortunately, we've done a really good job in fscking up our ecology over the last 3 centuries, and the solution to this problem is NOT going to be just let things go as they are, the problem will fix itself. We have to DO something to actually FIX the problem. The fix doesn't mean we have to go back to the way things were, despite whats in the minds of probably too many people. If we're going to get better, we have to take chances. If we have faith in science (for once), we may be able to have a positive effect on the economy of that country. If people didn't read the whole article, it goes on about Zimbabe put real effort into getting their fly problem under control, and their productivity was extremely boosted.
I hate to say it, but we're the dominate species on this planet. As much as the seals are cute and the whales sing such mournful songs, we have a responsibility to OURSELVES to do what's best for us. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you should go get your club and spear ready, but we have to think of ourselfs first or we're never going to get anywhere fixing this world we have carefully destroyed since becoming true thinkers.
I'm all for this experiment. Genetic tampering is a powerful technology that should be incouraged, not killed before it even has a chance to grow. The naysayers are always crying doom, but they never think of the benefits such technology can have on our lives.
I don't know, but I have the inherint faith in man that the person who's responsible for this right now is just as rational as you or I.
And now, the mad rush.. who can download first! Who can get in queue! It'd be interesting to see a traffic schematic to see if releases like this actually produce significant bandwidth bottlenecks... Or is the internet flexible enough that just those wanting to download the file are being hassled?
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I love it still. I've loved it from the moment that quicktime crashed and it didn't kill my browsing session.
Well that's exactly it... Sure there's been an increase in net growth, but it hasn't been at all positive, except for the few that play google to make some quick profit.
I've always been a strong believer in the strength of google but recently the last few times I've done some deep querying, all I'm presented with is garbage sites. When you look deep into google, all you see is a rising filth of exploitive money making webpages. Google has to get a handle on the situation soon or their relevance as the king of search will start to be questioned.
I'm going to laugh and cry the first time someone's home of 50 years is torn down to put up a McDonalds...
Apples and oranges. Google has the popular brand name and the slick implementations. Perhaps Downhill Battle has the 'moral superiority', but that doesn't make one iota of difference to the masses who know nothing about it. Because they're non-profit / idealistic, they're shunted aside as non-serious.
So Google versus Downhill battle.. I wish I could say the folks who brought us Grey Tuesday would win, however common sense tells me that the Googlemoth will overrun them...
Not that too many people crawl the site after it's dropped off the frontpage, but there's a video surfacing around the net of the actual arrest.
2 8_kinberg.mov
Now to see if this Coral P2P file distribution thing actually works....
http://kottke.org.nyud.net:8090/plus/video/200408
*Disclaimer ;)
Just what I figure they should do as a business plan..
I can't understand where all the rampant Google bashing is coming from. I bet you 90% of the slashdot readers use google on a daily basis, and how many of you have kickass gmail accounts? So Google is able to provide these wonderful services for free and still make a profit, and that's pre-ipo. Now they've got this influx of cash - what do you think they're going to do? I bet you anything they're going to ramp up their hiring and recruit some more of the best and brightest.
Secondly, can any of you please read between the lines of whatever investment magazine you all seem to be reading? Do you really think those investment magazines are happy at all with the way Google has done their IPO? Doubtful, and there's a very obvious reason for it: Money. So now the bigwigs who would normally be getting shares at $10 and turning them over at the end of the day for $60 aren't getting their massive returns on investment. By doing the IPO with the dutch auction style, they've cut out all the middle men who reap the rewards of the IPO and leave the company in the dust. Now they've got a stock that is more stable, less volatile and attractive to long term investors which is exactly what they want, because in the long term, Google stock owners win.
You see, the whole thing about the network computer which was hyped a couple years ago but never went anywhere, well that's the future. The OS won't matter anymore because when all of your files are online in the GoogleBase, accessible anywhere and triple backed up, will it matter what OS your computer is running? When you can rent out processing time on the GoogleOS to run hardcore programs? To store mass quantities of pictures, movies, everything with certainty?
Ultimately, Google will take over everything or it will become nothing. It's a gamble, but I always bet on Google.
However, the problem is that the only perception we get of each others culture is through a very controlled and some would say stifled medium. The internet is a new, pursuasive force but it certainly hasn't convinced a large majority of people of it's virtues. Perhaps if you would like both countries to get to know another, and therefore make sounder judgements of each other then you would encourage everyone you know to get on the Internet. Wire them up, show them how. ;)
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As a Canadian resident, I've always wondered if there's any performance problems for these types(hybrid and electric) in colder climates. As I live in a city (Winnipeg) where the thermometer regularily drops below -30 Celcius in the dead of winter I wouldn't want to be driving a car that couldn't run in those conditions. Does anybody have any information about this?
Yeah I imagine the cheating world is going to take a dark and ugly turn... Apparently the software is based on punkbuster but from what I understand punkbuster can barely keep up with all the cheats...
The situation gets worse when you throw in money - that's when people get hurt...
According to this article, the company You Play Games is offering an online wagering service where you gain or lose money depending on your playing skills. One of the games that will be supported is RTCW. Obviously they're trying out a new revenue model based on a percentage of the money flowing back and forth between wagers. A bit of a gamble, but it may pay off if the gambling service pays off.
Remember kids, companies never give anything away for free. There won't be spyware because you can't think of a better way to alienate your users. I figure with the gambling route everybody wins (except for the poor newbs who get pwn3d)!
I'd say the fools are the ones who read this slashdot article when it get's put off the front page and forget that this is an April's Fool day joke. I'd say that it's believable enough to be taken for truth if one forgets the context of todays' hoaxes.
I think that as time goes on, a companies ability to operate without the necessary business operations like patents will diminish. I guess what it comes down to is that if they want to stay at the top, then they have to have patents to protect their IP. Does it mean that some of google's shiny armour will be tarnished? Yes it does, especially in the eyes of all the geeks out there who see patents as the Great Evil. However, the company will remain in business for quite some time, allowing them to keep operating business as usual. So far, business as usual is good enough for me.
Other References
President William J. Clinton, Vice President Albert Gore Jr., "A Framework For Global Electronic Commerce," Jul. 1997, at http://www.iitf.nist.gov/eleccomm/ecomm.htm, pp. 1-22.
Do you feel that you were wrongly imprisoned, that your crimes were not hurtful or detrimental to society? If not, do you feel guilty at all about the crimes you have been convicted and served time for? Would you do it all again?
I too would bet on anything a science fiction writer predicted over anything similar to what this person is spewing out. My belief is that much of the inovation we see in the world today is based on a glimmer of a brighter future which may have included technology X, found only in a good science fiction novel. Some lone person reads the book, makes the connection and proceeds to subtley change the world with their new contribution. The original inspiration, however, resides in the authors mind.
Whoa. That was pretty angry.
Its only a flight of fancy that lets you believe that the plebs of society will nicely eradicate themselves whilst the dreamers take over. Have no fear though, because in 2050 we won't need to live in big cities anymore, and the people who we would wish to disappear will congregate in vast numbers living off of each parasitically. No worries though, if you give them what they want then they'll be happy enough to breed themselves into oblivion.
That's the oldest argument in the book. The fact remains is that all it takes is one of those persons 'who would not have bought it anyways' to scan it, OCR it, and spread it around. If there's something for free, why would anyone pay for it? Especially something as non-substantial as a bit of electronic data? When it's spread about a p2p network, there is surely going to be some people who will take the pirated version rather than purchasing it, and that hurts sales for the author.
All I really want to do is to make it difficult enough that only someone with a lot of time and patience on their hands can circumvent it.
And what happens in higher education institutions around the globe with print media and a photo-copier? ;)
This is true, however, the 'ease' in which someone copies a bulky textbook page by page, versus the 'ease' in setting up a program (ala the article) to do it automatically makes it a lot more tempting for people to do. Most software pirates are fairly lazy and if takes too long to work around the security, they'll either give up or buy the damn thing. I just want to make it hard enough that 90% of would be theives give up...
The problem with the e-book reader is one of the greatest hurdles to overcome in order to transition to a truely electronic society. How can you protect the rights of the author when anybody with a bit of patience or some programming skills can just print screen his / her blood, sweat and tears and give it away to free for anybody on a p2p network? Anybody who argues that all information should be free obviously isn't relying on a royalty check to provide food for their children.
I have a unique idea for the e-publishing world, but there's no point in executing it if the ability to easily circumvent any security precautions exists. So basically I'm asking any programmers out there if they've come across a way to disable the print screen function in a windows app? Or to return a black window when a screen request is being made for a print screen?
I hate to say it, but we're the dominate species on this planet. As much as the seals are cute and the whales sing such mournful songs, we have a responsibility to OURSELVES to do what's best for us. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you should go get your club and spear ready, but we have to think of ourselfs first or we're never going to get anywhere fixing this world we have carefully destroyed since becoming true thinkers.
I'm all for this experiment. Genetic tampering is a powerful technology that should be incouraged, not killed before it even has a chance to grow. The naysayers are always crying doom, but they never think of the benefits such technology can have on our lives.
I don't know, but I have the inherint faith in man that the person who's responsible for this right now is just as rational as you or I.
And now, the mad rush.. who can download first! Who can get in queue! It'd be interesting to see a traffic schematic to see if releases like this actually produce significant bandwidth bottlenecks... Or is the internet flexible enough that just those wanting to download the file are being hassled?