Earthquake resistance The tower has state-of-the-art seismic proofing, including a central shaft made of reinforced concrete. The main internal pillar is attached to the outer tower structure 125 meters (410 ft) above ground. From there until 375 meters (1,230 ft) the pillar is attached to the tower frame with oil dampers, which act as cushions during an earthquake. According to the designers, the dampers can absorb 50 percent of the energy from an earthquake.
1- Because if you're worried you can clear your cache anytime? And you're even more worried, it is possible to disable caching. Also, see the part where I mention incognito mode or private browsing that makes, for example, firefox not use any temporary internet files, cookies or whatnot. Either way, I'm quite sure google analytics doesn't even use the ETags to track you. Lastly, if there is a caching server anywhere inbetween you and the webserver (common pretty much everywhere), the ETag method does not work. You're grasping at straws.
2- The anonymous part exists because they have no fking idea who you are. They just know that someone, somewhere goes to these websites. Now I'm quite sure you're trolling me. Please do tell how it would be possible to see where you've gone without attributing you a var name. And if you're that worried about analytics, google themselves released a blocking addon ( http://techie-buzz.com/tech-news/google-releases-analytics-blocking-add-on-for-browsers.html ). Stop crying already.
3- I'll stop mentioning MS after you stop mentioning IE. You said "google was bypassing IE's feature" which was false. IE was allowing invalid responses.
4- Anonymous - Adjective: Not identified by name; of unknown name- It's fking anonymous. They can't contact you in any way shape or form. They can know that someone somewhere, goes to A B or C. That is anonymous. If they are using a computer, they fking need a variable name at the very least. Stop nitpicking and/or acting like an idiot.
5- The web has google in it. If you want to search for something, you'll even use it as a verb. If you dislike google, don't use the internet. It'd be a better place without you in it, at least.
6- Ohhh. That's so much better, you did not pay to have more than 100MB of e-mail, you payed to have a machine serving your files and an internet connection powerful enough to send them. Thank god you said that, and here I was thinking that the simple commodity of the normal man being able to access their e-mails for free from anywhere without any kind of hassle whatsoever was good. If it wasn't for you my life would have no meaning.
1- You clearly have no idea of how ETags work, do you? They can track you when you're there, but then you leave and delete what might make it possible to recognize you again. Instead of spouting technical terms as if you know what you were talking about, you should read on the real use of ETags and why, for example, if there is a cache server inbetween you and the site there is no tracking possible. Just stop already, it's embarrassing.
And do you even know what anonymous identifiers are? Anonymous statistics. They even go as far as, if by any chance they go past some personal information, like device ID, they ignore it and generate a random anonymous identifier. As I said in your quote, anonymous statistics. That's it. From those links you gave me, it still is browser based. Just change your browser, computer, or simply don't go to google supported sites.
Do you own a cell phone? Do you know that every single cell phone operator gathers information about where you are, where and what path you took all the time and, in some countries, they even have so save that data for up to 6 months? And, again, google collects anonymous statistics. Focus on anonymous. Any shop does that and I'm sure you never bitched about it. Your ISP keeps logs of EVERYTHING you did for ever 3 months in most countries. I'd disconnect from the internet if I were you.
And again, don't want google analytics? Don't visit the fking site. You're free to do whatever the fk you want, just don't fking go to sites with any connection to google. If you use the Internet, you need to bow to its mechanics. Stop bitching.
2- I even said google were wrong to use a sentence a machine can't understand. Yes, google were wrong in that. But a browser trusting an invalid response as correct? Are you fking kidding me? Using your example, if you tried to get into my back account and actually managed to do it because the bank accepted your fake credentials... Yes, you'd be a thief, but the one I'd be taking to court was my bank for being incompetent.
3- No, what I said was, if you don't want to get into this new privacy policy, don't use their services. But if you're paranoid, just clear your cookies. And people as paranoid as you can afford and know how to do that already. I said that as an alternative for idiots that don't what to suffer from any tracking whatsoever, even anonymous. That's it.
4- Yes it is. Most of you bitching accepted it's terms. Google analytics collecting anonymous info is the same as a security guard at a store counting how many go in or out. It's commonplace everywhere and crying about it is ridiculous. Next time you leave wall-mart I'd throw a fit because most of those stores do it automatically.
5- No shill. Just someone that is able to think for himself and rise above the hypocrisy. The media cry about privacy and you cry (when the changes are actually minimal in terms of real privacy). I don't like everything google does. But using google and giving them the power is your fking choice. And I like choice. You might save "all your e-mails offline". That's soooo cool when you want that old e-mail on your mobile device or a public computer so you can print an important document. Clearly your home backup in that hard drive that never fails is soooo much better. 100MB should be enough for everyone, because since web 2.0 you don't send videos over by e-mail, or powerpoints or pdf's or any document that is actually large.
You can use "" around advantages all you want, but google docs, voice, android, calendar, maps, search and mail were gamechangers. They were (and are!) things every other tech company keeps trying to catch up to. And if sharing a layer of my life with google is the price of that, then be my guest, track me. It was my choice.
They do it for the money, but there is a reason some games that appear on the 3 platforms end up having the PS3 as the "worse" version. Most recently skyrim, but fallout 3, for example, ran and looked better on the xbox 360 and the pc.
1- You have one hour, 2, a day. The time you were watching porn and didn't want to be tracked. Sigh... You clear your cache so you don't get tracked! What's your point, really? You can also use an adblock and simply blacklist everything google.
There are two kinds of tracking at play here. The one they associate with your account (what I meant when I said you shouldn't use their services) and the sudo-anonymous data that they collect when you enter a certain website. They don't know who you are, where you live and very easily you can hide from it, it's just anonymous statistics. But you can also opt out of it... if you see a page with google ads, don't go there if you don't want to be tracked by google... But in todays internet, everyone tracks you and most are hundreds of times more creepy than google (at least with them you know exactly what your data is used for - they are quite upfront with it). To sum up, don't like google, don't use websites where they're present. If you're really that bothered you can even send an e-mail to the webmaster saying why you're not on their site right now. It's your choice all the way.
2- You mentioned IE. Google put a link to their privacy policy in the field that clearly stated what they did. IE didn't understand it but still thought it was a valid response. It's a bigger fail by MS than google.
3- See the part where I mentioned incognito mode and clearing your cookies. You want to play dumb, be my guest, but it's extremely easy to avoid cookies.
4- The whole google complaining is an hypocrisy. They always were clear where they got their money and if it wasn't for google you'd still be paying to have e-mail with more than 100MB of space or using the calendar on the wall. You owe google a whole lot, the least you could do is help them advertise better for you (That's all they want)
1- ETags are used for cache control. See the "delete last hour" bit, that'll clear your cache too. 2- The safari one was a bug and corrected, the IE one was microsoft not blocking when they got a wrong response, making the default value to accept if something was there. Google did wrong when using something a machine can't "see", but IE sucks by not making the default behaviour when it gets a wrong response to block it. 3- If you're not logged in and with no cookies from before, good luck to google tracking that. 4- The majority of the people complaining does. And facebook sells advertising data, they ADMITED it. Advertising on facebook is not the same as what google does that is EVERYWHERE.
Well, if he's worried about the cookies, he can use a feature present on most modern browsers to go incognito or private or whatever. That works if they track with cookies. Most modern browsers will also let you delete things selectively (as in, "last hour").
If they track by IP (Which I doubt) then, good luck since most of the world is behind dynamic IP's that change every 4 days or so.
If they're going by your addon signature or any shady tactic like that (which I doubt, since they seem to be under a whole lot of scrutiny lately), simply don't install all your stuff on a "porn browser, creating a bogus signature.
Even chrome is getting a "do not track" button, so there is also that.
Either way, the only thing they are doing now that they didn't do before is sharing the info throughout your account. If he doesn't have an account, what's his problem? Because every ad company will track you.
And furthermore, I highly doubt that everyone complaining doesn't have a social network account or something like that. Those are far worse because, since google uses the analytics themselves, they won't be sharing anything relevant with no one else in order to get a competitive edge. Facebook is not on the advertising business, so they DO share the info of their users with others (which, in my opinion, is way worse).
I'm not bothered by the change, but no one ever read the Terms and Conditions, so no one was confused at all with the fact they were different. Most likely no one ever noticed.
It's YOUR choice. Don't want google to track you while you watch porn, don't use their services. And I don't think they tell advertisers anything, they use your information to show you the adds themselves.
No one's forcing you to use their services. They offer you great value in and a lot of options and all they want is to track you in order to serve publicity tailored to you.
And the sad part is that you're typing this here and most likely have a facebook account (that is 1000x worse)
Just shill and cancel your account if you don't want to be tracked. Or stop using it. Anything works...
Or Systems like these are extremely easy to break?
Just overloading social networks with these words using dummy accounts (a small server farm should be enough) would render this approach useless, and at the same time act as misdirection before someone attacked?
I knew the USA government uses social networks to look for possible threats, but the system might turn against them.
This has happened in countries that tried to adopt other things as fuel. Brasil had a law passed that demanded alcohol be used and they had to cut it precisely because of this situation (for them it was the sugar prices, I believe).
It doesn't matter how much natural gas you have, supply and demand will fixate the prices. It won't take a year, or even two, but in 10 you'll be feeling it...
There is no real solution to this problem, but I strongly believe natural gas is not the way.
The big problem has nothing to do with that (no matter what kind of fossil fuel you use, there will always be a con for the environment)
The biggest problem, in my view, is that when cars start demanding lots and lots of natural gas to run, the prices will skyrocket - which in turn will make using Natural Gas for any other thing extremely hard.
I'd say that the new Samsung phone with the projector has 6GB of RAM, so I'd go for it. It's not a tablet, but since you can use it as a 50" screen it should be enough for your needs?
And you have to understand, you're the 0.01%. Most people with your requirements will get a computer (any i7 notebook should fill your needs and give you 10 times the power of any tablet).
What's your specific problem? Maybe something else is more suited.
Not sure what you meant "high load", but I guess that pushing a single thread very high won't cut it. It should be multi-threaded (or multi-process, but since it's java I don't really see it) high load.
Ok, then tell me how many of those were smartphones. Symbian sold in low end normal phones (where it actually fit), the symbian adaptation for touch is a fiasco that even Nokia has seen already (why on earth would they bow down to windows phone when they had, at least, 2 other OS choices).
I don't know if you're trolling me or actually being serious, but there is a reason Nokia (even though they sell that many phones) has been downsizing left and right.
No, that is the dumbest of them all. Symbian is dead for smartphones (anyone can see that), why on earth would they not add that to their windows mobile line? It's like saying "look, we have this 500bhp engine, lets fit it into a horse carriage".
The tegra 3 does that... But the prime never had that much battery problems, since it got up to 18 (or more like 15) hours of battery if you had the dock. On the other hand, since there are very few devices with 4 cores, almost no application make use them, turning them useless.
For 99.9% of the games, I'd say yes, if the Dual Core represents better better overall performance and compatibility with other things (like LTE) out of the box. The tablet is not made for that 0.1% that only wants to play that one game that makes use of the 4 cores... It's made for those that use those tablets for what they seem to be designed for (with a dock and everything...): Light work stations and media centers (that give it the 18 hour batteries.
I, for one, applaud this move. Core hype will get you nowhere in the long run.
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From wikipedia:
Earthquake resistance
The tower has state-of-the-art seismic proofing, including a central shaft made of reinforced concrete. The main internal pillar is attached to the outer tower structure 125 meters (410 ft) above ground. From there until 375 meters (1,230 ft) the pillar is attached to the tower frame with oil dampers, which act as cushions during an earthquake. According to the designers, the dampers can absorb 50 percent of the energy from an earthquake.
So no, it's not dated. Ugly, true, but not dated.
1- Because if you're worried you can clear your cache anytime? And you're even more worried, it is possible to disable caching. Also, see the part where I mention incognito mode or private browsing that makes, for example, firefox not use any temporary internet files, cookies or whatnot. Either way, I'm quite sure google analytics doesn't even use the ETags to track you. Lastly, if there is a caching server anywhere inbetween you and the webserver (common pretty much everywhere), the ETag method does not work. You're grasping at straws.
2- The anonymous part exists because they have no fking idea who you are. They just know that someone, somewhere goes to these websites. Now I'm quite sure you're trolling me. Please do tell how it would be possible to see where you've gone without attributing you a var name. And if you're that worried about analytics, google themselves released a blocking addon ( http://techie-buzz.com/tech-news/google-releases-analytics-blocking-add-on-for-browsers.html ). Stop crying already.
3- I'll stop mentioning MS after you stop mentioning IE. You said "google was bypassing IE's feature" which was false. IE was allowing invalid responses.
4- Anonymous - Adjective: Not identified by name; of unknown name- It's fking anonymous. They can't contact you in any way shape or form. They can know that someone somewhere, goes to A B or C. That is anonymous. If they are using a computer, they fking need a variable name at the very least. Stop nitpicking and/or acting like an idiot.
5- The web has google in it. If you want to search for something, you'll even use it as a verb. If you dislike google, don't use the internet. It'd be a better place without you in it, at least.
6- Ohhh. That's so much better, you did not pay to have more than 100MB of e-mail, you payed to have a machine serving your files and an internet connection powerful enough to send them. Thank god you said that, and here I was thinking that the simple commodity of the normal man being able to access their e-mails for free from anywhere without any kind of hassle whatsoever was good. If it wasn't for you my life would have no meaning.
1- You clearly have no idea of how ETags work, do you? They can track you when you're there, but then you leave and delete what might make it possible to recognize you again. Instead of spouting technical terms as if you know what you were talking about, you should read on the real use of ETags and why, for example, if there is a cache server inbetween you and the site there is no tracking possible. Just stop already, it's embarrassing.
And do you even know what anonymous identifiers are? Anonymous statistics. They even go as far as, if by any chance they go past some personal information, like device ID, they ignore it and generate a random anonymous identifier. As I said in your quote, anonymous statistics. That's it. From those links you gave me, it still is browser based. Just change your browser, computer, or simply don't go to google supported sites.
Do you own a cell phone? Do you know that every single cell phone operator gathers information about where you are, where and what path you took all the time and, in some countries, they even have so save that data for up to 6 months? And, again, google collects anonymous statistics. Focus on anonymous. Any shop does that and I'm sure you never bitched about it. Your ISP keeps logs of EVERYTHING you did for ever 3 months in most countries. I'd disconnect from the internet if I were you.
And again, don't want google analytics? Don't visit the fking site. You're free to do whatever the fk you want, just don't fking go to sites with any connection to google. If you use the Internet, you need to bow to its mechanics. Stop bitching.
2- I even said google were wrong to use a sentence a machine can't understand. Yes, google were wrong in that. But a browser trusting an invalid response as correct? Are you fking kidding me? Using your example, if you tried to get into my back account and actually managed to do it because the bank accepted your fake credentials... Yes, you'd be a thief, but the one I'd be taking to court was my bank for being incompetent.
3- No, what I said was, if you don't want to get into this new privacy policy, don't use their services. But if you're paranoid, just clear your cookies. And people as paranoid as you can afford and know how to do that already. I said that as an alternative for idiots that don't what to suffer from any tracking whatsoever, even anonymous. That's it.
4- Yes it is. Most of you bitching accepted it's terms. Google analytics collecting anonymous info is the same as a security guard at a store counting how many go in or out. It's commonplace everywhere and crying about it is ridiculous. Next time you leave wall-mart I'd throw a fit because most of those stores do it automatically.
5- No shill. Just someone that is able to think for himself and rise above the hypocrisy. The media cry about privacy and you cry (when the changes are actually minimal in terms of real privacy). I don't like everything google does. But using google and giving them the power is your fking choice. And I like choice. You might save "all your e-mails offline". That's soooo cool when you want that old e-mail on your mobile device or a public computer so you can print an important document. Clearly your home backup in that hard drive that never fails is soooo much better. 100MB should be enough for everyone, because since web 2.0 you don't send videos over by e-mail, or powerpoints or pdf's or any document that is actually large.
You can use "" around advantages all you want, but google docs, voice, android, calendar, maps, search and mail were gamechangers. They were (and are!) things every other tech company keeps trying to catch up to. And if sharing a layer of my life with google is the price of that, then be my guest, track me. It was my choice.
Microsoft has a nice story (in billion$) on how not complying with EU law works.
Thank you sir, I couldn't have said it better myself.
I was going to answer, but I guess others were faster. You should think before you type.
They do it for the money, but there is a reason some games that appear on the 3 platforms end up having the PS3 as the "worse" version. Most recently skyrim, but fallout 3, for example, ran and looked better on the xbox 360 and the pc.
Market research clearly supports your theory that removing linux had any effect whatsoever in how well it performed.
No, really, it did! It shows that all the 5 people that used that feature stopped buying sony! That'll show them!!!
1- You have one hour, 2, a day. The time you were watching porn and didn't want to be tracked. Sigh... You clear your cache so you don't get tracked! What's your point, really? You can also use an adblock and simply blacklist everything google.
There are two kinds of tracking at play here. The one they associate with your account (what I meant when I said you shouldn't use their services) and the sudo-anonymous data that they collect when you enter a certain website. They don't know who you are, where you live and very easily you can hide from it, it's just anonymous statistics. But you can also opt out of it... if you see a page with google ads, don't go there if you don't want to be tracked by google... But in todays internet, everyone tracks you and most are hundreds of times more creepy than google (at least with them you know exactly what your data is used for - they are quite upfront with it). To sum up, don't like google, don't use websites where they're present. If you're really that bothered you can even send an e-mail to the webmaster saying why you're not on their site right now. It's your choice all the way.
2- You mentioned IE. Google put a link to their privacy policy in the field that clearly stated what they did. IE didn't understand it but still thought it was a valid response. It's a bigger fail by MS than google.
3- See the part where I mentioned incognito mode and clearing your cookies. You want to play dumb, be my guest, but it's extremely easy to avoid cookies.
4- The whole google complaining is an hypocrisy. They always were clear where they got their money and if it wasn't for google you'd still be paying to have e-mail with more than 100MB of space or using the calendar on the wall. You owe google a whole lot, the least you could do is help them advertise better for you (That's all they want)
they comply with china, I highly doubt they won't comply with EU
1- ETags are used for cache control. See the "delete last hour" bit, that'll clear your cache too.
2- The safari one was a bug and corrected, the IE one was microsoft not blocking when they got a wrong response, making the default value to accept if something was there. Google did wrong when using something a machine can't "see", but IE sucks by not making the default behaviour when it gets a wrong response to block it.
3- If you're not logged in and with no cookies from before, good luck to google tracking that.
4- The majority of the people complaining does. And facebook sells advertising data, they ADMITED it. Advertising on facebook is not the same as what google does that is EVERYWHERE.
way to keep your eyes shut.
Well, if he's worried about the cookies, he can use a feature present on most modern browsers to go incognito or private or whatever. That works if they track with cookies. Most modern browsers will also let you delete things selectively (as in, "last hour").
If they track by IP (Which I doubt) then, good luck since most of the world is behind dynamic IP's that change every 4 days or so.
If they're going by your addon signature or any shady tactic like that (which I doubt, since they seem to be under a whole lot of scrutiny lately), simply don't install all your stuff on a "porn browser, creating a bogus signature.
Even chrome is getting a "do not track" button, so there is also that.
Either way, the only thing they are doing now that they didn't do before is sharing the info throughout your account. If he doesn't have an account, what's his problem? Because every ad company will track you.
And furthermore, I highly doubt that everyone complaining doesn't have a social network account or something like that. Those are far worse because, since google uses the analytics themselves, they won't be sharing anything relevant with no one else in order to get a competitive edge. Facebook is not on the advertising business, so they DO share the info of their users with others (which, in my opinion, is way worse).
I'm not bothered by the change, but no one ever read the Terms and Conditions, so no one was confused at all with the fact they were different. Most likely
no one ever noticed.
This was marketing speak, pure and simple.
It's YOUR choice. Don't want google to track you while you watch porn, don't use their services. And I don't think they tell advertisers anything, they use your information to show you the adds themselves.
No one's forcing you to use their services. They offer you great value in and a lot of options and all they want is to track you in order to serve publicity tailored to you.
And the sad part is that you're typing this here and most likely have a facebook account (that is 1000x worse)
Just shill and cancel your account if you don't want to be tracked. Or stop using it. Anything works...
Or Systems like these are extremely easy to break?
Just overloading social networks with these words using dummy accounts (a small server farm should be enough) would render this approach useless, and at the same time act as misdirection before someone attacked?
I knew the USA government uses social networks to look for possible threats, but the system might turn against them.
"not really a problem" based on what?
This has happened in countries that tried to adopt other things as fuel. Brasil had a law passed that demanded alcohol be used and they had to cut it precisely because of this situation (for them it was the sugar prices, I believe).
It doesn't matter how much natural gas you have, supply and demand will fixate the prices. It won't take a year, or even two, but in 10 you'll be feeling it...
There is no real solution to this problem, but I strongly believe natural gas is not the way.
The big problem has nothing to do with that (no matter what kind of fossil fuel you use, there will always be a con for the environment)
The biggest problem, in my view, is that when cars start demanding lots and lots of natural gas to run, the prices will skyrocket - which in turn will make using Natural Gas for any other thing extremely hard.
This is a bad, bad, bad idea.
I'd say that the new Samsung phone with the projector has 6GB of RAM, so I'd go for it. It's not a tablet, but since you can use it as a 50" screen it should be enough for your needs?
And you have to understand, you're the 0.01%. Most people with your requirements will get a computer (any i7 notebook should fill your needs and give you 10 times the power of any tablet).
What's your specific problem? Maybe something else is more suited.
Not sure what you meant "high load", but I guess that pushing a single thread very high won't cut it. It should be multi-threaded (or multi-process, but since it's java I don't really see it) high load.
Either that or the tool you're using has a bug.
Ok, then tell me how many of those were smartphones. Symbian sold in low end normal phones (where it actually fit), the symbian adaptation for touch is a fiasco that even Nokia has seen already (why on earth would they bow down to windows phone when they had, at least, 2 other OS choices).
I don't know if you're trolling me or actually being serious, but there is a reason Nokia (even though they sell that many phones) has been downsizing left and right.
No, that is the dumbest of them all. Symbian is dead for smartphones (anyone can see that), why on earth would they not add that to their windows mobile line? It's like saying "look, we have this 500bhp engine, lets fit it into a horse carriage".
In a website like this, yes, people care about that. You seem to be lost, the appstore is that way --->.
The tegra 3 does that... But the prime never had that much battery problems, since it got up to 18 (or more like 15) hours of battery if you had the dock. On the other hand, since there are very few devices with 4 cores, almost no application make use them, turning them useless.
For 99.9% of the games, I'd say yes, if the Dual Core represents better better overall performance and compatibility with other things (like LTE) out of the box. The tablet is not made for that 0.1% that only wants to play that one game that makes use of the 4 cores... It's made for those that use those tablets for what they seem to be designed for (with a dock and everything...): Light work stations and media centers (that give it the 18 hour batteries.
I, for one, applaud this move. Core hype will get you nowhere in the long run.