As the article states, Google faces intense competition in all the sectors that it is in and that it wishes to enter. Competition is good, and intense competition is even better. This competition will either keep Google at the top of its game, or it will fall behind. Either way, there will be innovation in the areas that Google moves into.
I set aside vacation time for Elder Scrolls after Daggerfall nearly made me fail college.... So, there are just a couple requests that I hope Skyrim delivers on:
No multiplayer. Every game doesn't HAVE to have a multiplayer mode. I don't want to talk to other people while I'm playing this game.
No online-always DRM. I want to buy the best GPU on the market the day the game comes out, put it in my 6 core AMD 1100T, backup linux, install windows, install skyrim, and drive to a cabin in the mountains with no internet and play the game for three weeks straight.
No micropayments. For the love of all things good, I would pay $100 for this game if they follow my rules. Facebook games started this micropayment cancer, and they deserve to burn in hell for it.
Shit, I could convince myself that $200 is ok, as long as there is not f-ing multiplayer, the thing works offline, and there's no nickle-and-diming me.
Perception is 90% of it. If you go to Ukraine you will understand just how strange the mentality is there and how hard it is for people to change. They have the perception that the USD is a great stable thing, so the country runs on 100 dollar bills. You also have to keep in mind that it is illegal to use anything other than the Hrivnya, so day to day payments are made in Hrivnya and large payments are made in USD. It is not uncommon to see expensive items such as a car or a bottle of old whiskey in a 5 star restaurant with the price listed in USD rather than Hryvnya.
The reason they don't just use the dollar is that they only trust 100 dollar bills. Many smaller bills, unless they are crisp new bills, will not be exchanged anywhere. Also, the country is corrupt to the point that they don't trust themselves printing their own money. The Hrivnya is printed in Canada and shipped to Ukraine.
EULA? It's enforced by connecting your account to a cell phone. You can buy a SIM card anywhere with no ID and no questions asked. Sometimes in Russia places like Evroset will ask for ID, but most places don't, and nowhere in Ukraine asks for anything at all except money.
Not to mention Ukraine, where the Hrivnya (local currency) is so unstable that your employer pays you in $100 bills. Yes, that's USD. Ukraine effectively runs on the USD, only Benjamins, BTW. So, when you get paid, you have to take your money to an exchange to get it turned into Hryvnya, and guess what? On Fridays there is no money in the exchange.
You're all really funny people! Obviously you have only worked in the US or in the west. Go to Russia or Ukraine or anywhere in the former soviet bloc. You won't find any employers who pay on time every time. You only option is to go to a different employer who will also be iffy on paying on time. The problem is that most of your salary is "chyorny" meaning black: not taxed and not reported in the company's clean books (every company in Russia has two sets of books, one for the government and the other with the true numbers in it). Often because of the nature of black salary it is handed to you in an envelope filled with cash. So, therefore there is not always enough cold hard cash to pay everyone on time. It is not uncommon for the accountant to go to the local Sberbank and even though her account has more than enough money, the bank does not have the cash for the withdrawal.
Americans are spoiled by being paid on time more times than not.
Evolution does not move that fast, nor does it work that way. The basic currency of evolution is offspring and mutation. I am willing to admit that it is possible that there have been one or more mutations in genes that are "for" multitasking in humans. However, do the individuals with those genes have more offspring than the ones who do not? Have there been enough generations since the advent of computers for those genes to increase in frequency in the gene pool to equate to "an incredible burst of human evolution?" No. No way, Jose.
If there was some sort of environmental pressure such as a predator that kills and eats people who can't multitask when they are children, then that would put selective pressure on humans and possibly drive evolution.
Essentially multitasking doesn't get you laid more than not being able to do it, so you're not going to tip the gene pool.
I can see how this feature can expose you to security problems. However, it can also provide a measure of performance increase. So, why not let users have their cake and eat it too. Allow users to enable/disable it on a per URL basis in the same way that Javascript, cookies, plug-ins, etc. are. As long as there is fine grained control over the feature, I see no problem.
I wouldn't mind enabling the pre-fetch feature on sites that I trust and use often, and have it disabled by default. I use chrome's settings to whitelist Javascript etc just this very way.
Wouldn't you expect to see a bathtub curve for each item in the graph. Failure right at the very beginning at year 0 there should be a higher than 0 failure rate that decreases before it begins increasing again. Or is that part of the chart obscured by manufacturer burn in that you do not get to see because year 0 is actually after burn in?
I'm not clear on what criteria Google is using to close people's accounts. It seems that they are against people using fake names. OK, fine, but how are they determining that the name is fake? Do they first request that you prove your identity to them? What if my name has been legally changed to Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster? Will Google zap me out of existence without even checking if that's the name on my driver's licence?
No, There is a nuance in what Edgewood_Dirk said that you have missed. It is not the need for improvisation at high speed that is lacking. Believe me, the US military is able to do that, but in areas that it already works, such as in the case of flying a helicopter across a battlefield. What he was saying is that within the military there is not a group of people with the title "hacker" or "cyber warrior" or whatever you want to call it. And there needs to be a MOS created for that so that they can recruit/train/deploy people in that role. Until that "job" is created that role will be filled by contractors.
This is why you need to scrub your email address from the spam and forward the scrubbed mail to the abuse@ address for the address that spammed you. I've gotten numerous accounts closed by ISPs this way. If you don't want to do it manually (which can be a endless tedium) you can use a free service such as spamcop.net which scrubs your identifying info from the spam, forwards it to abuse@, and proxies the replies back to the address you have registered with them.
Also, when you "report" spam in gmail you are _not_ doing the above. All you are doing is having google use the contents of that spam to modify your spam filter slightly and make the filter more effective. It is not reporting the spam to abuse@.
So much talk about MySQL and Ooo etc etc. Why don't I hear anything about VirtualBox? It seems to be one of the best pieces of open source VM software out there.
There is still quite a bit of content slipping past my filter bubble that I wish I could get rid of. Wouldn't it be nice if google were able to scrub, clean, and filter 100% of the content that you get from the internet? Why can't I just pay someone to spoon feed me what I want to hear?
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Those look like companies making their money on hardware to me.
The press coverage that a Supreme Court case can give it? You mean buried on the 5th page of the newspaper?
I wonder if they would be able to figure it out and block you if you use a VPN to tunnel all of your traffic through an encrypted tube?
As the article states, Google faces intense competition in all the sectors that it is in and that it wishes to enter. Competition is good, and intense competition is even better. This competition will either keep Google at the top of its game, or it will fall behind. Either way, there will be innovation in the areas that Google moves into.
I set aside vacation time for Elder Scrolls after Daggerfall nearly made me fail college.... So, there are just a couple requests that I hope Skyrim delivers on:
No multiplayer. Every game doesn't HAVE to have a multiplayer mode. I don't want to talk to other people while I'm playing this game.
No online-always DRM. I want to buy the best GPU on the market the day the game comes out, put it in my 6 core AMD 1100T, backup linux, install windows, install skyrim, and drive to a cabin in the mountains with no internet and play the game for three weeks straight.
No micropayments. For the love of all things good, I would pay $100 for this game if they follow my rules. Facebook games started this micropayment cancer, and they deserve to burn in hell for it.
Shit, I could convince myself that $200 is ok, as long as there is not f-ing multiplayer, the thing works offline, and there's no nickle-and-diming me.
Perception is 90% of it. If you go to Ukraine you will understand just how strange the mentality is there and how hard it is for people to change. They have the perception that the USD is a great stable thing, so the country runs on 100 dollar bills. You also have to keep in mind that it is illegal to use anything other than the Hrivnya, so day to day payments are made in Hrivnya and large payments are made in USD. It is not uncommon to see expensive items such as a car or a bottle of old whiskey in a 5 star restaurant with the price listed in USD rather than Hryvnya.
The reason they don't just use the dollar is that they only trust 100 dollar bills. Many smaller bills, unless they are crisp new bills, will not be exchanged anywhere. Also, the country is corrupt to the point that they don't trust themselves printing their own money. The Hrivnya is printed in Canada and shipped to Ukraine.
EULA? It's enforced by connecting your account to a cell phone. You can buy a SIM card anywhere with no ID and no questions asked. Sometimes in Russia places like Evroset will ask for ID, but most places don't, and nowhere in Ukraine asks for anything at all except money.
From my perspective (I will say up front that I am a KDE user), there are four legitimate contenders in the desktop environment department.
1) KDE
2) LXDE
3) XFCE
4) Enlightenment
Not to mention Ukraine, where the Hrivnya (local currency) is so unstable that your employer pays you in $100 bills. Yes, that's USD. Ukraine effectively runs on the USD, only Benjamins, BTW. So, when you get paid, you have to take your money to an exchange to get it turned into Hryvnya, and guess what? On Fridays there is no money in the exchange.
You're all really funny people! Obviously you have only worked in the US or in the west. Go to Russia or Ukraine or anywhere in the former soviet bloc. You won't find any employers who pay on time every time. You only option is to go to a different employer who will also be iffy on paying on time. The problem is that most of your salary is "chyorny" meaning black: not taxed and not reported in the company's clean books (every company in Russia has two sets of books, one for the government and the other with the true numbers in it). Often because of the nature of black salary it is handed to you in an envelope filled with cash. So, therefore there is not always enough cold hard cash to pay everyone on time. It is not uncommon for the accountant to go to the local Sberbank and even though her account has more than enough money, the bank does not have the cash for the withdrawal.
Americans are spoiled by being paid on time more times than not.
Evolution does not move that fast, nor does it work that way. The basic currency of evolution is offspring and mutation. I am willing to admit that it is possible that there have been one or more mutations in genes that are "for" multitasking in humans. However, do the individuals with those genes have more offspring than the ones who do not? Have there been enough generations since the advent of computers for those genes to increase in frequency in the gene pool to equate to "an incredible burst of human evolution?" No. No way, Jose.
If there was some sort of environmental pressure such as a predator that kills and eats people who can't multitask when they are children, then that would put selective pressure on humans and possibly drive evolution.
Essentially multitasking doesn't get you laid more than not being able to do it, so you're not going to tip the gene pool.
I can see how this feature can expose you to security problems. However, it can also provide a measure of performance increase. So, why not let users have their cake and eat it too. Allow users to enable/disable it on a per URL basis in the same way that Javascript, cookies, plug-ins, etc. are. As long as there is fine grained control over the feature, I see no problem.
I wouldn't mind enabling the pre-fetch feature on sites that I trust and use often, and have it disabled by default. I use chrome's settings to whitelist Javascript etc just this very way.
Could someone explain why the failure rate for HDDs is a curve and the failure rate (so far) is a line?
Wouldn't you expect to see a bathtub curve for each item in the graph. Failure right at the very beginning at year 0 there should be a higher than 0 failure rate that decreases before it begins increasing again. Or is that part of the chart obscured by manufacturer burn in that you do not get to see because year 0 is actually after burn in?
I'm not clear on what criteria Google is using to close people's accounts. It seems that they are against people using fake names. OK, fine, but how are they determining that the name is fake? Do they first request that you prove your identity to them? What if my name has been legally changed to Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster? Will Google zap me out of existence without even checking if that's the name on my driver's licence?
The article is poorly written and formatted. I can't get past the first few sentences.
No, There is a nuance in what Edgewood_Dirk said that you have missed. It is not the need for improvisation at high speed that is lacking. Believe me, the US military is able to do that, but in areas that it already works, such as in the case of flying a helicopter across a battlefield. What he was saying is that within the military there is not a group of people with the title "hacker" or "cyber warrior" or whatever you want to call it. And there needs to be a MOS created for that so that they can recruit/train/deploy people in that role. Until that "job" is created that role will be filled by contractors.
This is why you need to scrub your email address from the spam and forward the scrubbed mail to the abuse@ address for the address that spammed you. I've gotten numerous accounts closed by ISPs this way. If you don't want to do it manually (which can be a endless tedium) you can use a free service such as spamcop.net which scrubs your identifying info from the spam, forwards it to abuse@, and proxies the replies back to the address you have registered with them.
Also, when you "report" spam in gmail you are _not_ doing the above. All you are doing is having google use the contents of that spam to modify your spam filter slightly and make the filter more effective. It is not reporting the spam to abuse@.
If it didn't go to the moon, who cares that it even went to auction?
A beautiful city! It is home to the world's first three peacetime nuclear disasters. You can read up on the place in the Exile.
So much talk about MySQL and Ooo etc etc. Why don't I hear anything about VirtualBox? It seems to be one of the best pieces of open source VM software out there.
Hey developers! It's much more annoying when you have version numbers like 0.9.3 or 0.10.1. Why are you afraid of version 1.x.x?
There is still quite a bit of content slipping past my filter bubble that I wish I could get rid of. Wouldn't it be nice if google were able to scrub, clean, and filter 100% of the content that you get from the internet? Why can't I just pay someone to spoon feed me what I want to hear?
A good introduction to the siloviki is on the Exile: http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=13442&IBLOCK_ID=35