So Google supposedly (via Twitter) issue a denial.
I remember a very recent denial Google issued - "No, we're not collecting WiFi data with Street View" "Wait, I mean, we're not storing the WiFi data we collect" "Erm, OK, but we can't do anything useful with it..."
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Absolutely! Wave offered absolutely nothing that we can't already do in many different (and more efficient) ways.
I got in right near the start, played around, found it pretty pointless and noted it offered nothing new. Nobody was able to come up with anything it could offer that doesn't already exist.
Er, I can't talk, given that the first computer I used was a ZX81 (i.e. UK version of the TS-1000)
Sorry to be pedantic, but the TS-1000 was the US version of the ZX81 - the ZX81 (invented by Sinclair) was the original, the Timex was the version branded for sale in the US subsequently.
Speaking as the former owner of a ZX80, ZX81 amd ZX Spectrum...:-)
Indeed, although just the final track "Echoes" which does work exceedingly well when started as "Beyond The infinite" starts when he goes to investigate the black monolith at Jupiter.
HOWEVER, did you know that although the film has the monolith at Jupiter (due to sfx limitations at the time), the original storyline and the novel both have the monolith at SATURN.
Of COURSE major companies are going to buy their domain name - they can't risk cybersquatters, rivals or people with a grudge buying instead, so they have no option.
However, I can tell you that as someone who lives in an EU country, I have never ever seen anyone publish their.eu domain - companies are registeriung the domains, but they are just using their normal internationally-known existing ones.
The.eu tld is just a money-raising exercise, nothing more.
BTW, I am willing to bet that a lot of the "good" names have already been snapped up by cybersquatters already. Which means the vast majority of domains are either squatters or companies keen to avoid being squatted. Which leaves VERY few "legitimate".eu addresses in use...
"And, as a company who "do[es] no evil," they have a responsibility to deliver quality product - that is, users who both trust the results and are interested in the products advertised - to their customers."
Only you CAN'T pick up where you left off, because your CPU(s) would not have a record of their state when the power went, and thus would not be able to continue from where they left off - they would need to be initialised. And thus there would be no way of recovering. And thus all your data, programs, viruses etc in memory would be irrelevant.
So you would have spent a fortune of a small amount of memory, and would not benefit in the slightest.
"There's nothing about 16 megs of graphics RAM on the page you're linking to (or anywhere else, for that matter)."
I offer you "Quartz Extreme functionality is supported by the following video GPUs: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX and later, or any AGP-based ATI RADEON GPU. A minimum of 16MB VRAM is required." from http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/quartzextreme /
It seemed only fair to include Q.E. functionality given what we are comparing against.
Well, in comparison, MacOS X 10.4 (which most definitely DOES use the GPU for a lot of the graphics work) required 256MB of system RAM - and a massive 16MB of graphics RAM!
Which does raise the question as to what the hell Microsoft are doing that means they require the same amount of graphics RAM as MacOS X needs for the system!
Apart from the fact that your "argument" is completely irrelevant (hint - it is not ILLEGAL to build a datacentre without adhering to an industry-recommended standard...), are you SERIOUSLY stating that nobody underage has ever or will ever succeed in buying alcohol? Because if you are, then boy is the real world going to be a shock for you! I guess you think that nobody has ever managed to buy "illegal" drugs either, right?
"The real irony is that a fake Nike T-shirt almost certainly was made out of better quality materials, and by better-treated workers, than a "real" one. "
Nope. The vast majority of fake clothes are made in teh same factory as the "genuine" ones, on the same line by the same people.
What happens is the factory churns out more than they are contracted to buy, claiming any excess material used (if it is even noticed) were rejects and destroyed. The surplus is boxed and shipped out the back door and sold on - and yes, this means that Nike pay for the "fakes" to be made as well, albeit without knowing they have so done (or without being able to prove it).
Same for a great many other fake clothes and many fake branded electrical goods.
"Hi, your datacenter isn't TIA-compliant. We won't sell you xyz hardware. We won't sell you xyz fire-suppression system."
Yeah, like that's going to happen! A company refusing to make money by selling you stuff? No chance. Some company will always be happy to sell it to you. Heck, if you can show me that all companies will act in that way, then you've just pointed me in the direction of my niche market where I can make shedloads of money!
" How exactly do you read a 500 page book in comfort?"
With considerable ease, actually.
*grabs book from shelf*
Ah yes, this 860+ page O'Reilly book "Programming Python". Not exactly difficult to read conmfortably, as an example.
"Trust me I know from experience, I have never been able to finish a 500 page book."
Really? It's easy. Trust me. I've read several books each with more than 1,000 pages, and each one I managed to finish. Maybe you just suffer from a very short attention span?
... just follow the lead of a well-known company and call your product "Limux" or, for the ultra-l33t, "L1nux". Problem solved (unless Torvalds then shows himself to be as evil as MS by suing...).
"The more Sun sells x86 solaris, the less they are selling sparc solaris"
Not quite. The more copies of Solaris x86 people buy, the fewer copies of Linux they buy. There are very few people who will buy Solx86 instead of SolSPARC. So by activly promoting Solx86, Sun should see a nett overall increase in market chare.
"Which would ultimately effect their hardware baseline. They can't win."
I think you mean affect, not effect. But either way you are wrong - take a look at Sun's line-up. Notice their range of Opteron-based servers and workstations?
Sun sell X86 and UltraSPARC-based hardware. So people buying Solx86 is not going to damage Sun's sales - quite the reverse, it means that those people who were looking at Linux on x86 will now be buying Sun software to run on Sun hardware.
Sun can still lose if they screw things up (remember how they stupidly dumped Solaris x86 in the past, opening up whole markets for Linux, for example), but Solx86 is cetainly not the losing move you seem to suggest. IMHO, naturally.
Actually, it DOES work as was shown in Scotland where a relaxation of the drinking laws saw a reduction in drink-related disorder for precisely the reason you dismiss - no need to cram those last 4 oints down your neck and then head into the street with hundreds of others when the pub remains open for hours more.
Actually, no, that ius not true at all Andrew. The license fee makes up less than 50% of the BBC's income. The majority of income is from sales of programmes abroad, sales of DVDs / CDs / Videos, and other such things.
It is NOT "almost entirely" funded by teh license fee, and the government does not hold any editorial sway over it (as can be seen by successive governments and oppositions of all persuasions ALL accusing the BBC of being biased against them - it can't be biased against everyone, so it does show it is doing something right).
No it isn't. As you would realise had you read the link you provided.
The BBC is independent of the government (sometimes to the government's annoyance). It is (partially) funded by the License Fee which is collected by government and passed on, but it is most definitely NOT run by the government.
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So Google supposedly (via Twitter) issue a denial.
I remember a very recent denial Google issued -
"No, we're not collecting WiFi data with Street View"
"Wait, I mean, we're not storing the WiFi data we collect"
"Erm, OK, but we can't do anything useful with it..."
Absolutely!
Wave offered absolutely nothing that we can't already do in many different (and more efficient) ways.
I got in right near the start, played around, found it pretty pointless and noted it offered nothing new.
Nobody was able to come up with anything it could offer that doesn't already exist.
No wonder it failed.
*pfft*
Laws are made to be broken, dude!
Er, I can't talk, given that the first computer I used was a ZX81 (i.e. UK version of the TS-1000)
Sorry to be pedantic, but the TS-1000 was the US version of the ZX81 - the ZX81 (invented by Sinclair) was the original, the Timex was the version branded for sale in the US subsequently.
Speaking as the former owner of a ZX80, ZX81 amd ZX Spectrum... :-)
"But where does reversing the polarity of the electron beam come in?"
It doesn't.
However, the 3rd Doctor was oft fond of "reversing the polarity of the neutron flow".
Sorry, but wtf?
How does something being obvious make it an oxymoron?
you do KNOW what an oxymoron is, right?
'cos the post to which you refer is not an oxymoron by any standards. Unless you can explain exactly how it is self-contradictory?
Indeed, although just the final track "Echoes" which does work exceedingly well when started as "Beyond The infinite" starts when he goes to investigate the black monolith at Jupiter.
HOWEVER, did you know that although the film has the monolith at Jupiter (due to sfx limitations at the time), the original storyline and the novel both have the monolith at SATURN.
See, it all falls into place now...
Yet Another (pointless) .tld is launched.
.eu domain - companies are registeriung the domains, but they are just using their normal internationally-known existing ones.
.eu tld is just a money-raising exercise, nothing more.
.eu addresses in use...
Of COURSE major companies are going to buy their domain name - they can't risk cybersquatters, rivals or people with a grudge buying instead, so they have no option.
However, I can tell you that as someone who lives in an EU country, I have never ever seen anyone publish their
The
BTW, I am willing to bet that a lot of the "good" names have already been snapped up by cybersquatters already. Which means the vast majority of domains are either squatters or companies keen to avoid being squatted. Which leaves VERY few "legitimate"
"The fact that there are hundreds of companies out there selling a product besides the monopoly does not mean it is not a monopoly. "
Actually, that is precisely what DOES make it NOT a monopoly!
"And, as a company who "do[es] no evil," they have a responsibility to deliver quality product - that is, users who both trust the results and are interested in the products advertised - to their customers."
Unless those users happen to be in China...
" FYI- the 2G Nano is actually $199"
FYI, the 1GB iPod Shuffle (to which the gp was referring) is $129. Which, as he said, is smaller and cheaper.
Oh, and you CAN use it as a drive without using iTunes.
I know - I do.
Only you CAN'T pick up where you left off, because your CPU(s) would not have a record of their state when the power went, and thus would not be able to continue from where they left off - they would need to be initialised. And thus there would be no way of recovering. And thus all your data, programs, viruses etc in memory would be irrelevant.
So you would have spent a fortune of a small amount of memory, and would not benefit in the slightest.
"There's nothing about 16 megs of graphics RAM on the page you're linking to (or anywhere else, for that matter)."
e /
I offer you "Quartz Extreme functionality is supported by the following video GPUs: NVIDIA GeForce2 MX and later, or any AGP-based ATI RADEON GPU. A minimum of 16MB VRAM is required." from http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/quartzextrem
It seemed only fair to include Q.E. functionality given what we are comparing against.
Well, in comparison, MacOS X 10.4 (which most definitely DOES use the GPU for a lot of the graphics work) required 256MB of system RAM - and a massive 16MB of graphics RAM!
h tml
http://www.apple.com/macosx/upgrade/requirements.
Which does raise the question as to what the hell Microsoft are doing that means they require the same amount of graphics RAM as MacOS X needs for the system!
Apart from the fact that your "argument" is completely irrelevant (hint - it is not ILLEGAL to build a datacentre without adhering to an industry-recommended standard...), are you SERIOUSLY stating that nobody underage has ever or will ever succeed in buying alcohol? Because if you are, then boy is the real world going to be a shock for you! I guess you think that nobody has ever managed to buy "illegal" drugs either, right?
"The real irony is that a fake Nike T-shirt almost certainly was made out of better quality materials, and by better-treated workers, than a "real" one. "
Nope. The vast majority of fake clothes are made in teh same factory as the "genuine" ones, on the same line by the same people.
What happens is the factory churns out more than they are contracted to buy, claiming any excess material used (if it is even noticed) were rejects and destroyed. The surplus is boxed and shipped out the back door and sold on - and yes, this means that Nike pay for the "fakes" to be made as well, albeit without knowing they have so done (or without being able to prove it).
Same for a great many other fake clothes and many fake branded electrical goods.
"Hi, your datacenter isn't TIA-compliant. We won't sell you xyz hardware. We won't sell you xyz fire-suppression system."
Yeah, like that's going to happen! A company refusing to make money by selling you stuff? No chance. Some company will always be happy to sell it to you. Heck, if you can show me that all companies will act in that way, then you've just pointed me in the direction of my niche market where I can make shedloads of money!
" How exactly do you read a 500 page book in comfort?"
With considerable ease, actually.
*grabs book from shelf*
Ah yes, this 860+ page O'Reilly book "Programming Python". Not exactly difficult to read conmfortably, as an example.
"Trust me I know from experience, I have never been able to finish a 500 page book."
Really? It's easy. Trust me. I've read several books each with more than 1,000 pages, and each one I managed to finish. Maybe you just suffer from a very short attention span?
... just follow the lead of a well-known company and call your product "Limux" or, for the ultra-l33t, "L1nux". Problem solved (unless Torvalds then shows himself to be as evil as MS by suing...).
"The more Sun sells x86 solaris, the less they are selling sparc solaris"
Not quite. The more copies of Solaris x86 people buy, the fewer copies of Linux they buy. There are very few people who will buy Solx86 instead of SolSPARC. So by activly promoting Solx86, Sun should see a nett overall increase in market chare.
"Which would ultimately effect their hardware baseline. They can't win."
I think you mean affect, not effect. But either way you are wrong - take a look at Sun's line-up. Notice their range of Opteron-based servers and workstations?
Sun sell X86 and UltraSPARC-based hardware. So people buying Solx86 is not going to damage Sun's sales - quite the reverse, it means that those people who were looking at Linux on x86 will now be buying Sun software to run on Sun hardware.
Sun can still lose if they screw things up (remember how they stupidly dumped Solaris x86 in the past, opening up whole markets for Linux, for example), but Solx86 is cetainly not the losing move you seem to suggest. IMHO, naturally.
Actually, it DOES work as was shown in Scotland where a relaxation of the drinking laws saw a reduction in drink-related disorder for precisely the reason you dismiss - no need to cram those last 4 oints down your neck and then head into the street with hundreds of others when the pub remains open for hours more.
Actually, no, that ius not true at all Andrew. The license fee makes up less than 50% of the BBC's income. The majority of income is from sales of programmes abroad, sales of DVDs / CDs / Videos, and other such things.
It is NOT "almost entirely" funded by teh license fee, and the government does not hold any editorial sway over it (as can be seen by successive governments and oppositions of all persuasions ALL accusing the BBC of being biased against them - it can't be biased against everyone, so it does show it is doing something right).
No it isn't. As you would realise had you read the link you provided.
The BBC is independent of the government (sometimes to the government's annoyance). It is (partially) funded by the License Fee which is collected by government and passed on, but it is most definitely NOT run by the government.
And you believe that it will always be this way forever and therefore there is no point in continuing to research and develop speech recognition?
As you wish.
Only problem is, your argument can be applied to everything, implying that we should never have moved beyond single-cell life...