Yes, if you're one of the businesses listed in Google Maps, then of course you prefer it to the Yellow Pages. You have less competition in Google Maps, because their DB is so sparse. Of course, your interest directly conflicts with consumers. And you are one of those consumers in every other business except your own.
Besides, I didn't say that the Yellow Pages are superior: they can't be searched, emailed, bookmarked, etc. But we're not talking about their UIs. We're talking about their DBs. And even with the Yellow Pages decline, their DB is still much deeper than Google Maps'.
Google's database of businesses is very sparse. I routinely search for various product retailers in NYC, and get results showing only a dozen or so stores, when I know there are hundreds of stores matching the search terms. Outside Manhattan it's even worse.
The map interface is very useful for browsing for brick & mortar stores in convenient locations. But their DB misses so many convenient locations that I don't care if they make one out of my way more convenient. They should spend some of their $billions on a real business database. Then they'd make it back on the ads when everyone uses them as "the new Yellow Pages".
I've got a Vaio VGP-XL1B 200-CD/DVD changer, which includes a 12x ripper drive. But it's FireWire, and the PS3 has no FireWire, only USB. Any idea where to get an adapter?
France and America: republican sibling rivalry. Remember that "re-public" is government by an elite representing the public. A monopoly government. Increasing their monopoly on representing the public, even in pictures, especially re-presenting it back to the public in mass media, increases their power. Towards the totalitarianisms we recognize by "official news" and other government monopoly media.
Meanwhile the US and everyone else is running in the other direction: P2P interactive broadcasts, with multiple layers of P2P commentary, irrespective of national boundaries.
I'm betting on the people. But not necessarily in the US or France.
While I'm figuring this all out for the great, but occasionally off-course nation of France, I'll define "violence": any uncontrolled or unexpected release (transduction, really) of energy. That ought to keep the cameras quiet, right?
No, this opinion is based on simple reason, the kind recognized universally in France and the US by reasonable people. The French just made up a seriously defective ruling in a new exercise of "jurisprudence" that defies sensibility. They've got the French constitutional credentials, but not the basis in legitimacy.
You might want to google for droit de regard, the long French controversy over rights to public photography. And if you speak French, you should explain it to these French lawmakers. But first you should probably read about the French Declaration of the Rights of Man on which the French based their revolution, inspired by ours. If their government is defining arbitrarily, not functionally, who is a journalist with privileges, they need to read it, too.
To be a journalist, you should have to publish what you record. What other business does the government have in defining a journalist, except the essential operation that defines them.
And if you don't publish, then how is it illegal to have a record of what your own senses experienced?
Why should media corporations that officials prefer have all the privileges? Already many amateur bloggers are better than practically all the pro journalists working today.
This isn't "just the potential end of the world". It's yet another sneaky way to fund Star Wars "missile defense" projects. Why not siphon that sleazy loser program's funding over to this asteroid hunt program? Then convert the whole BS Star Wars system over to asteroid defense.
Missile defense has so many ways to work, starting with investment, peace and diplomacy, and ending with Star Wars that doesn't work. While asteroid defense might not work either, but there's no alternative, and at least we're building an American space exploration industry.
Fucking Anonymous Coward wants me to give up talking about their favorite genociders. Thinks "human life" means ignoring the conspiracies, derangement, meanspiritedness and hatred they love.
Now you can go back to quibbling about some Intel email, and pretend you're not responsible for voting in the killers you're still defending against the humans. Fucking Anonymous dead Coward.
The court found that somehow the Serbian government was not in control of the Serbian army when it genocided the Bosnians. A Serbian government that publicly directed the genocide. That appointed all the army generals and ensured its officers were loyal to their "Greater Serbia at any cost" cause. That recruited its soldiers. That publicly dehumanized Bosnians, blaming them for any number of crimes against Serbia and demanding their destruction. Which the Serbian army then did, often and effectively, right in line with Serbia's policy and propaganda.
The ICJ verdict is a travesty of justice. Serbia was obviously responsible for the genocide that even the court admits. But the ICJ did just protect the US from liability for its many heinous crimes in Iraq and elsewhere.
You don't need to be a moralist to know that when your neighbors are getting genocided, you damn well are responsible for helping them if you can. We're not talking about watching a purse snatcher running past you in the street. We're talking about genocide. Once they're done with the first target, they'll get you next. Because they've already destroyed your humanity by getting you complicit in the genocide, as even the ICJ found the Serbian government.
Did you read that right? "Complicit in genocide" There's no turning a blind eye. And even when people do, as in, say, Darfur or any other African tribal extermination or elsewhere, that doesn't make it right. That makes it even more wrong.
I'm referring to a culture of unaccountability. That gets people killed, that gets peoples exterminated. In the relatively trivial case of Intel destroying evidence, just because Intel has a policy to destroy email after a very brief time, too brief to use it for their own purposes, doesn't mean they're not responsible for their destructive act. In fact, their early destruction with continuing value destroyed with them shows their interest in destroying value to protect themselves from evidence. So yeah, they're responsible. Even if it's their policy, they're responsible for the policy.
To show the consistency, even if Bush or Serbia isn't in control of their military continuing to perpetrate awful crimes on people, then Bush or Serbia are responsible for losing control.
No, I meant people should ask Bosnia about Serbia's genocide of Srebrenicans. While they're at it, they should ask the UN's ICJ whether accidental genocide is a model for Eurasia.
So? When you merely fail to meet your obligation to stop destruction, you're not liable. Just ask New Orleans about Bush/Brown/Chertoff/FEMA. Or Iraq about Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld. Or Bosnia about Serbian genocide.
Oh, and I am working with an engineer on consumer Cell apps whose brother is an EE working with a European defense contractor already holding a contract to deliver Cell apps into a national military system. And his old medical imaging company has asked him to port their app to a Cell system. And he doesn't even work for IBM, Toshiba or Sony.
Just because Diebold bought up a little eVoting vendor to manufacture votes to install Bush & Cheney doesn't make my post "Flamebait". Nor does your having voted for them atop the pile of stuffed ballots, trollMod. That just makes you a collaborator, just like when you just pushed your greasy little mod button.
Advances like these are the reason we need more privacy safeguards now, before they slowly boil our frog into stew (I know the frog jumps, but that TV gecko might not). Both tech, like universal P2P encryption of email, phone and Web, and legal, like a Privacy Amendment.
Humans have inalienable privacy rights, which we create governments and tools to protect. We invented clothing, and then later the 4th Amendment. But back then our skulls could protect us. Now that such security through obscurity won't work for much longer, we need thicker tech and government.
Of course nothing will completely protect privacy: knowledge is power, and power can know better. But better tech and government will slow it down. And keep us human longer.
We did "leave that alone", prior to Saddam invading Kuwait. He threatened to invade, Bush Sr said he wouldn't intervene, he invaded, Bush attacked, evicted him, and shut him down. Clinton's containment forced him to disarm while resistance could develop. Then Bush Jr invaded, throwing the country into chaos, a premature overthrow much like Bush Sr's failure to back the Kurds as they tried to kick Saddam out of Kurdistan.
That region was stable for hundreds of years until Britain carved it up and partnered with the US in a series of murderous puppets. The US interference in Iraq has done nothing but kill hundreds of thousands, millions of people on all sides for decades, including locking up Iraq's oil for decades while prices (and profits) have skyrocketed, along with global insecurity.
We stayed in many countries after WWII entirely because their united people and their truly democratically chosen governments asked us to. In the wake of a war against the Nazis, who nearly took over the world. We spent that time, and continue to spend that time, based there in a military partnership led by the locals against a monolithic Soviet military threat, now increasingly irrelevant now that the Soviets are long gone. WWII and our Iraq invasion/occupation have little in common. Just because they both go "boom" and your Republicans tell you they're the same, doesn't mean they have much in common.
So thanks for clarifying. Your "opinions" have been totally wrong for decades. You've gotten your way in every choice you've made. With the leaders you've chosen, the US is in more danger than ever since 1942, and in retrospect probably more. Squandered not only the 9/11/2001 solidarity, but much of the solidarity and respect (and even fear) we'd built since the WWII you so misunderstand. Sticking with your commitment is suicide.
So I'm dying (figuratively, and many others dying literally) to know who you like in 2008.
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Yes, if you're one of the businesses listed in Google Maps, then of course you prefer it to the Yellow Pages. You have less competition in Google Maps, because their DB is so sparse. Of course, your interest directly conflicts with consumers. And you are one of those consumers in every other business except your own.
Besides, I didn't say that the Yellow Pages are superior: they can't be searched, emailed, bookmarked, etc. But we're not talking about their UIs. We're talking about their DBs. And even with the Yellow Pages decline, their DB is still much deeper than Google Maps'.
Getting listed in the (original, paper, Bell/AT&T) Yellow Pages isn't free.
Google's database of businesses is very sparse. I routinely search for various product retailers in NYC, and get results showing only a dozen or so stores, when I know there are hundreds of stores matching the search terms. Outside Manhattan it's even worse.
The map interface is very useful for browsing for brick & mortar stores in convenient locations. But their DB misses so many convenient locations that I don't care if they make one out of my way more convenient. They should spend some of their $billions on a real business database. Then they'd make it back on the ads when everyone uses them as "the new Yellow Pages".
I've got a Vaio VGP-XL1B 200-CD/DVD changer, which includes a 12x ripper drive. But it's FireWire, and the PS3 has no FireWire, only USB. Any idea where to get an adapter?
The PS3 OS is designed to allow you to install Linux on it.
Now Linux games can blow away Windows and Mac games. If you write a good one, that is.
Or you can just use the PS3 supercomputer for mundane tasks like MP3 encoding.
France and America: republican sibling rivalry. Remember that "re-public" is government by an elite representing the public. A monopoly government. Increasing their monopoly on representing the public, even in pictures, especially re-presenting it back to the public in mass media, increases their power. Towards the totalitarianisms we recognize by "official news" and other government monopoly media.
Meanwhile the US and everyone else is running in the other direction: P2P interactive broadcasts, with multiple layers of P2P commentary, irrespective of national boundaries.
I'm betting on the people. But not necessarily in the US or France.
Thanks.
While I'm figuring this all out for the great, but occasionally off-course nation of France, I'll define "violence": any uncontrolled or unexpected release (transduction, really) of energy. That ought to keep the cameras quiet, right?
No, this opinion is based on simple reason, the kind recognized universally in France and the US by reasonable people. The French just made up a seriously defective ruling in a new exercise of "jurisprudence" that defies sensibility. They've got the French constitutional credentials, but not the basis in legitimacy.
You might want to google for droit de regard, the long French controversy over rights to public photography. And if you speak French, you should explain it to these French lawmakers. But first you should probably read about the French Declaration of the Rights of Man on which the French based their revolution, inspired by ours. If their government is defining arbitrarily, not functionally, who is a journalist with privileges, they need to read it, too.
Where's some documentation that N'O was supposed to expect 4 days on their own without FEMA?
To be a journalist, you should have to publish what you record. What other business does the government have in defining a journalist, except the essential operation that defines them.
And if you don't publish, then how is it illegal to have a record of what your own senses experienced?
Why should media corporations that officials prefer have all the privileges? Already many amateur bloggers are better than practically all the pro journalists working today.
This isn't "just the potential end of the world". It's yet another sneaky way to fund Star Wars "missile defense" projects. Why not siphon that sleazy loser program's funding over to this asteroid hunt program? Then convert the whole BS Star Wars system over to asteroid defense.
Missile defense has so many ways to work, starting with investment, peace and diplomacy, and ending with Star Wars that doesn't work. While asteroid defense might not work either, but there's no alternative, and at least we're building an American space exploration industry.
Fucking Anonymous Coward wants me to give up talking about their favorite genociders. Thinks "human life" means ignoring the conspiracies, derangement, meanspiritedness and hatred they love.
Now you can go back to quibbling about some Intel email, and pretend you're not responsible for voting in the killers you're still defending against the humans. Fucking Anonymous dead Coward.
The court found that somehow the Serbian government was not in control of the Serbian army when it genocided the Bosnians. A Serbian government that publicly directed the genocide. That appointed all the army generals and ensured its officers were loyal to their "Greater Serbia at any cost" cause. That recruited its soldiers. That publicly dehumanized Bosnians, blaming them for any number of crimes against Serbia and demanding their destruction. Which the Serbian army then did, often and effectively, right in line with Serbia's policy and propaganda.
The ICJ verdict is a travesty of justice. Serbia was obviously responsible for the genocide that even the court admits. But the ICJ did just protect the US from liability for its many heinous crimes in Iraq and elsewhere.
You don't need to be a moralist to know that when your neighbors are getting genocided, you damn well are responsible for helping them if you can. We're not talking about watching a purse snatcher running past you in the street. We're talking about genocide. Once they're done with the first target, they'll get you next. Because they've already destroyed your humanity by getting you complicit in the genocide, as even the ICJ found the Serbian government.
Did you read that right? "Complicit in genocide" There's no turning a blind eye. And even when people do, as in, say, Darfur or any other African tribal extermination or elsewhere, that doesn't make it right. That makes it even more wrong.
I'm referring to a culture of unaccountability. That gets people killed, that gets peoples exterminated. In the relatively trivial case of Intel destroying evidence, just because Intel has a policy to destroy email after a very brief time, too brief to use it for their own purposes, doesn't mean they're not responsible for their destructive act. In fact, their early destruction with continuing value destroyed with them shows their interest in destroying value to protect themselves from evidence. So yeah, they're responsible. Even if it's their policy, they're responsible for the policy.
To show the consistency, even if Bush or Serbia isn't in control of their military continuing to perpetrate awful crimes on people, then Bush or Serbia are responsible for losing control.
No, I meant people should ask Bosnia about Serbia's genocide of Srebrenicans. While they're at it, they should ask the UN's ICJ whether accidental genocide is a model for Eurasia.
So? When you merely fail to meet your obligation to stop destruction, you're not liable. Just ask New Orleans about Bush/Brown/Chertoff/FEMA. Or Iraq about Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld. Or Bosnia about Serbian genocide.
Fuck you.
Oh, and I am working with an engineer on consumer Cell apps whose brother is an EE working with a European defense contractor already holding a contract to deliver Cell apps into a national military system. And his old medical imaging company has asked him to port their app to a Cell system. And he doesn't even work for IBM, Toshiba or Sony.
Did I mention fuck you?
We'll have to wait for the Easter Eggs in the inevitable Lord of the Rings PS3 sim.
You have a citation for this counterintuitive claim?
In fact that is one of the primary design objectives for the US government, unironically.
I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you make it, and eventually thrive. Sounds like you've already gotten thru the worst. Good luck.
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100% Flamebait
Just because Diebold bought up a little eVoting vendor to manufacture votes to install Bush & Cheney doesn't make my post "Flamebait". Nor does your having voted for them atop the pile of stuffed ballots, trollMod. That just makes you a collaborator, just like when you just pushed your greasy little mod button.
Advances like these are the reason we need more privacy safeguards now, before they slowly boil our frog into stew (I know the frog jumps, but that TV gecko might not). Both tech, like universal P2P encryption of email, phone and Web, and legal, like a Privacy Amendment.
Humans have inalienable privacy rights, which we create governments and tools to protect. We invented clothing, and then later the 4th Amendment. But back then our skulls could protect us. Now that such security through obscurity won't work for much longer, we need thicker tech and government.
Of course nothing will completely protect privacy: knowledge is power, and power can know better. But better tech and government will slow it down. And keep us human longer.
Now that there's no more "elect George Bush and his Republican minions" industry, why would they stay in the business?
We did "leave that alone", prior to Saddam invading Kuwait. He threatened to invade, Bush Sr said he wouldn't intervene, he invaded, Bush attacked, evicted him, and shut him down. Clinton's containment forced him to disarm while resistance could develop. Then Bush Jr invaded, throwing the country into chaos, a premature overthrow much like Bush Sr's failure to back the Kurds as they tried to kick Saddam out of Kurdistan.
That region was stable for hundreds of years until Britain carved it up and partnered with the US in a series of murderous puppets. The US interference in Iraq has done nothing but kill hundreds of thousands, millions of people on all sides for decades, including locking up Iraq's oil for decades while prices (and profits) have skyrocketed, along with global insecurity.
We stayed in many countries after WWII entirely because their united people and their truly democratically chosen governments asked us to. In the wake of a war against the Nazis, who nearly took over the world. We spent that time, and continue to spend that time, based there in a military partnership led by the locals against a monolithic Soviet military threat, now increasingly irrelevant now that the Soviets are long gone. WWII and our Iraq invasion/occupation have little in common. Just because they both go "boom" and your Republicans tell you they're the same, doesn't mean they have much in common.
So thanks for clarifying. Your "opinions" have been totally wrong for decades. You've gotten your way in every choice you've made. With the leaders you've chosen, the US is in more danger than ever since 1942, and in retrospect probably more. Squandered not only the 9/11/2001 solidarity, but much of the solidarity and respect (and even fear) we'd built since the WWII you so misunderstand. Sticking with your commitment is suicide.
So I'm dying (figuratively, and many others dying literally) to know who you like in 2008.
Who did you vote for in 2004?