If your business plan depends on snippets of information that Google can show you quicker and easier, then you seriously deserve to fail.
The world doesn't owe you a living.
The snippets of information you serve up are not your exclusive property.
It's too bad that your small information site that you spent time building is instantly obsoleted by Google making more information accessible. But that is their very mission statement: "to organize all the world's information." Their motto is "Don't be evil". Once upon a time, Bill Gates said he had seen Google's mission statement and he disagreed with it. I think he meant "motto" instead.
But "don't be evil" no longer means what it once meant. Inflation.
Don't you think it a bit unfair to call our dear leader "impotent" or "ignorant"?
Being illiterate, unable to speak in complete sentences, and ignoring facts doesn't mean he is ignorant any more so than having tiny hands might mean he is impotent. Being orange doesn't make him a clown any more than it makes him an oompa loompa. it's because as everyone knows, oranges have thick skin. Oh, wait. He doesn't have very thick skin. Oh, well. At least the other crazy dear leader doesn't appear to use Twitter. Or we would be in real trouble.
What good? To have some idea of where it actually went down. Or at the very least, to know when and where it was last heard from. Then the pieces can be found. It may be possible to determine why it went down.
New and innovative? Okay, how about a super courageous move of introducing a square headphone jack -- with rounded corners. That way at least you have to fuss with it a little bit to get it plugged in.
Think of the money from everyone buying new headphones, ear buds, and accessories. Or at the very least buying a square to round headphone jack adapter or dongle.
Not approval. Just verification. If your change was not approved, then activate the Russian gun using robot. The unapproved changes then tend toward zero according to Darwin's laws.
Old people should believe in this more than ever. Everything old is new again. That means that using light for stored memory is already patented by IBM. I wonder if this technology achieves greater memory density per cubic foot than those old boxes of punch cards.
What do you want to bet that an Apple car will only be compatible with other Apple products? iPhones. iPads. Macbooks.
Once they find that powering their car with an electric drive train is a thicket of patents, Apple will have the courage to use an internal combustion engine.
> Will Apple become a completely different company?
Apple already has become a completely different company than what it was in the 80's and early 90's.
Just as Apple has neglected it's PC / laptop customers due to focus on the iPhone, I suspect the same will happen with the new distraction on self driving cars.
Dark Mode is something you see in more and more software that causes the software to behave in an evil manner. Microsoft users find this helps give the familiar feeling that it is genuine Microsoft software they are using rather than third party software.
Note that I did say "I would actually trust Google more. That says something." I have a certain amount of trust for Google. But only a certain amount. And it is gradually declining. If the downward trend is not reversed, I won't trust Google at all at some point. I understand that Google is a business and acts in its own self interest. They seem to forget that I also act in my own self interest.
The edge machine wasn't turned on until the final minutes of the test. Users of Edge were unaware of this and thought it was just the startup time for Edge. But it had great battery life.
Edge might be better. The problem is that I have so little trust for Microsoft that I would actually trust Google more. That says something. Microsoft spent three decades earning its bad reputation. They can't make it better overnight. Google spent more than a decade earning its great reputation. They can easily destroy it in a relatively short time. Trust is not easily earned, but is easily and permanently lost.
Can the government really mandate that radio and TV stations stay in business even as their business model implodes? I thought that TV stations were a business to make profit. They applied for an FCC license. In order to get it, they were mandated to have a certain amount of news and information. Doesn't their license expire periodically and need to be renewed? What if a TV station decided not to renew and shut down? I don't claim to deeply understand that industry. I would love to be corrected and add to my understanding.
The government doesn't mandate restaurants into existence.
Google should follow Trump's lead. For every service Google repeals, it should add two new services that replace it. With overlapping functionality, but with neither one having quite everything that you want.
Whether I want it or not, I believe that both cable and broadcast over antenna are not going to survive forever. They are simply obsolete. They won't disappear overnight.
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If your business plan depends on snippets of information that Google can show you quicker and easier, then you seriously deserve to fail.
The world doesn't owe you a living.
The snippets of information you serve up are not your exclusive property.
It's too bad that your small information site that you spent time building is instantly obsoleted by Google making more information accessible. But that is their very mission statement: "to organize all the world's information." Their motto is "Don't be evil". Once upon a time, Bill Gates said he had seen Google's mission statement and he disagreed with it. I think he meant "motto" instead.
But "don't be evil" no longer means what it once meant. Inflation.
Don't you think it a bit unfair to call our dear leader "impotent" or "ignorant"?
Being illiterate, unable to speak in complete sentences, and ignoring facts doesn't mean he is ignorant any more so than having tiny hands might mean he is impotent. Being orange doesn't make him a clown any more than it makes him an oompa loompa. it's because as everyone knows, oranges have thick skin. Oh, wait. He doesn't have very thick skin. Oh, well. At least the other crazy dear leader doesn't appear to use Twitter. Or we would be in real trouble.
What good? To have some idea of where it actually went down. Or at the very least, to know when and where it was last heard from. Then the pieces can be found. It may be possible to determine why it went down.
New and innovative? Okay, how about a super courageous move of introducing a square headphone jack -- with rounded corners. That way at least you have to fuss with it a little bit to get it plugged in.
Think of the money from everyone buying new headphones, ear buds, and accessories. Or at the very least buying a square to round headphone jack adapter or dongle.
> corporations all over America started hiring lawyers to find new loopholes in the law.
Were those lawyers H-1B's?
Not approval. Just verification. If your change was not approved, then activate the Russian gun using robot. The unapproved changes then tend toward zero according to Darwin's laws.
Old people should believe in this more than ever. Everything old is new again. That means that using light for stored memory is already patented by IBM. I wonder if this technology achieves greater memory density per cubic foot than those old boxes of punch cards.
What do you want to bet that an Apple car will only be compatible with other Apple products? iPhones. iPads. Macbooks.
Once they find that powering their car with an electric drive train is a thicket of patents, Apple will have the courage to use an internal combustion engine.
> Will Apple become a completely different company?
Apple already has become a completely different company than what it was in the 80's and early 90's.
Just as Apple has neglected it's PC / laptop customers due to focus on the iPhone, I suspect the same will happen with the new distraction on self driving cars.
Saying it is a secret is just a way to drive interest. Oh, it's a secret! I better check this out!
Next, marketers will make their products (seem like) a "secret" so that people want to buy them.
Maybe YouTube could introduce themes. This would prove useful to both gay and non gay people alike.
But then the next thing you know, all development environments will have themes.
But would any YouTube users actually like that?
Dark Mode is something you see in more and more software that causes the software to behave in an evil manner. Microsoft users find this helps give the familiar feeling that it is genuine Microsoft software they are using rather than third party software.
Note that I did say "I would actually trust Google more. That says something." I have a certain amount of trust for Google. But only a certain amount. And it is gradually declining. If the downward trend is not reversed, I won't trust Google at all at some point. I understand that Google is a business and acts in its own self interest. They seem to forget that I also act in my own self interest.
They're not laid off. They're re-accommodated.
It's not like Microsoft has ever rigged tests before. Remember old Linux vs Windows performance benchmark? (I can't think of the name of it, sorry.)
It's not like Microsoft would put its thumb on the scales. Remember "Total Cost of Ownership" argument of Windows cost vs Linux cost?
The edge machine wasn't turned on until the final minutes of the test. Users of Edge were unaware of this and thought it was just the startup time for Edge. But it had great battery life.
Edge might be better. The problem is that I have so little trust for Microsoft that I would actually trust Google more. That says something. Microsoft spent three decades earning its bad reputation. They can't make it better overnight. Google spent more than a decade earning its great reputation. They can easily destroy it in a relatively short time. Trust is not easily earned, but is easily and permanently lost.
Whether it is true is not important.
Microsoft cannot undo three decades of mistrust that it has earned. At least not anytime soon.
Can the government really mandate that radio and TV stations stay in business even as their business model implodes? I thought that TV stations were a business to make profit. They applied for an FCC license. In order to get it, they were mandated to have a certain amount of news and information. Doesn't their license expire periodically and need to be renewed? What if a TV station decided not to renew and shut down? I don't claim to deeply understand that industry. I would love to be corrected and add to my understanding.
The government doesn't mandate restaurants into existence.
Google should follow Trump's lead. For every service Google repeals, it should add two new services that replace it. With overlapping functionality, but with neither one having quite everything that you want.
Wait. So it's up to 2 people now who use Google Assistant?
I'd rather not even hear one side of it. Really.
:-)
But if some inconsiderate jerk is going to force me to listen to one side, then I should get to hear both sides.
Whether I want it or not, I believe that both cable and broadcast over antenna are not going to survive forever. They are simply obsolete. They won't disappear overnight.
Some people do not show up. But that is not the reason for over booking.
If a theater owner sold more tickets than there were seats, he would be in jail.
So why do airlines over book? Because they purchased a special law allowing them to overbook!