Well, you better hope Google doesn't ban you for not using real time or if they even think you're not using your real name - Google+ ban isn't only to Google+, it's to all the other Google services like Gmail and YouTube too.
But probably not in the way they wanted it to be. It was a success in making Facebook to improve their service. Facebook has now taken all the good things Google+ offered - including improving their games platform streams and just last week they added circles (and it goes both ways, Google+ also completely ripped off Facebook's look and feel)
What's even more worrysome for Google, and not just for Google+ but their entire search engine usage and YouTube, is that this week Facebook will announce a huge upgrade with among others music and video services inside Facebook. This means less time spent on YouTube listening to music (yes, people actually do that, a lot) and more time spent on Facebook. When you're listening to music on Facebook, your friends also see what you listen to - a feature teens especially love. Google+ is missing these things entirely, among the other ones Facebook has had for ages.
Now that Google opens up the beta it means they've lost the PR effect of being somewhat mysterious social network. And frankly, it's quite dead there. I've said about this before too on slashdot, and then people suggested some random people who to follow (mostly IT geeks). The thing is, I don't want to follow those random people. It's not interesting. I want to follow my friends and relatives, and maybe some pages of my interest (like games, tv shows, bands etc). Which is yet again another aspect that Google+ is missing - pages. And event planning, and countless amount of other features.
They had a good PR idea of keeping it mysterious in the beginning, but I really wouldn't want to be the guy who decided it's a good idea to go compete against Facebook with an unfinished product. They killed all the potential Google+ had.
You can't secure everything. Not in the real world and not on the internet either. There's always way to go around security, both in the real world and internet. Laws exist so that people don't do something just because they can.
The funny thing is that the different Vmware products seriously kicks VirtualBox's ass. It's almost like comparing GIMP and Photoshop. VirtualBox might be enough for a home user, but no one uses it to do any serious virtualization in data centers or their corporate networks.
So all they did was give even larger incentive for rich people to start playing games with taxes. Remember that tax planning isn't illegal, nor is forming offshore companies. It's unlikely to change as well, because foreign companies are needed too. As long as you keep the money in the offshore company accounts and not your personal ones, you don't need to pay taxes from them. The people making over one million dollars a year have all the means to do this - normal working people don't.
It is actually around 50%, but many of those servers are internal (exchange, mail, processing, crunch jobs etc..). MS has around a third on publicly facing web servers, but all server types should be counted.
RIM's problem is basically same as Nokia's was - their platforms eco-system is practically dead. You cannot find any of the apps or games you want on them. I don't use my phone (old Windows Mobile 6.2) much so I haven't needed that many apps on it, but on those few times that I have had a need for something, it really sucks when the apps are only available for the big three - iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7. This is true for even such known programs as Skype (I actually did find some old WM6.2 Skype version, but the voice quality sucks with that version).
Where RIM is failing here again is just trying to get their own system out. There's just too many platforms. Hell, even on PC's most companies only make their products available for Windows and maybe OS X. They cannot compete with iOS at this point, and while a little bit better, Android has the same kind of fragmentation problems (though to a lesser degree). In my opinion RIM should go with Windows Phone 7. As RIM is mostly used by business people, they would even get Office and Exchange directly to it. Perfect for businesses.
Yeah, we already saw Google TV already. It was its own device too and didn't come with any agreements with content producers, it only displayed YouTube and tv channels own websites. It was quickly blocked and pretty much become completely unusable device.
So you don't remember all the email virus that spread years ago simply by opening them because they were exploiting flaws in system software?
Yep, it was years ago. On that note UNIX and Linux used to have lots of worms that spread remotely too, and there's still lots of bugs and sometimes even remote exploits. Firefox and Chrome patch hundreds of bugs per year.
If software vendors were being held responsible for every bug that might have slipped through, what you think would happen? Open source contributors would stop contributing software, because they would risk losing their personal money in the process. On the other hand, Microsoft has the money. You would only kill open source development.
What are they being responsible for? Just running piece of software isn't illegal. Even FBI or whoever it was that cleaned one of the botnets gave computer owners the possibility to opt-out of it, in case they wanted to keep it on their computer.
Do you honestly want to waste battery for virtualization and emulation? We're talking about tablets here, battery life is a big concern and emulation uses a lot more resources than if the developer just compiled a proper ARM version.
If battery life isn't that big of a concern to you, then get a x86 Windows tablet. That you get all the x86 programs running natively. I'm also quite sure many developers will compile ARM versions of their programs too.
No it didn't, it just means developers have to compile both x86 and ARM versions. Reading comprehension, use it. It would be waste of battery life to emulate another architecture just because the developer was lazy and didn't build ARM version too. Besides, if the apps are for tablets they probably need some work with the interface too.
And why exactly? It's pretty obvious you need different builds for x86 and ARM versions. You can still get them if you want to, but it would be just idiotic to emulate another architecture. Native executables is the only good way to go.
Speaking as someone who spends a lot of time living in Asia, it already is somewhat true. Unlike in US or Europe, people in developing countries, especially Asia, tend to visit webcafes instead of having their own computer. Some do, but it's much more common to go out. You can find these in almost every corner too, they're cheap to use and they have drinks and beer too. This also makes it a bit more social.
People go to webcafes to do everything that needs an actual computer, and otherwise stay connected to internet via smartphones, which are a lot cheaper to use too.
No, all of that data can't be scraped. Via API you get direct access to everything the user or his/her friends have posted on the wall, even items that are not for public viewing or are only for certain circle. You can't scrape that information.
And who the hell are those? I don't want to follow some random people, I want to follow people I know and my friends. They aren't there, or if some are, they aren't posting anything there but on Facebook. This makes Google+ ghost town and useless to me and many other people.
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Well, you better hope Google doesn't ban you for not using real time or if they even think you're not using your real name - Google+ ban isn't only to Google+, it's to all the other Google services like Gmail and YouTube too.
But probably not in the way they wanted it to be. It was a success in making Facebook to improve their service. Facebook has now taken all the good things Google+ offered - including improving their games platform streams and just last week they added circles (and it goes both ways, Google+ also completely ripped off Facebook's look and feel)
What's even more worrysome for Google, and not just for Google+ but their entire search engine usage and YouTube, is that this week Facebook will announce a huge upgrade with among others music and video services inside Facebook. This means less time spent on YouTube listening to music (yes, people actually do that, a lot) and more time spent on Facebook. When you're listening to music on Facebook, your friends also see what you listen to - a feature teens especially love. Google+ is missing these things entirely, among the other ones Facebook has had for ages.
Now that Google opens up the beta it means they've lost the PR effect of being somewhat mysterious social network. And frankly, it's quite dead there. I've said about this before too on slashdot, and then people suggested some random people who to follow (mostly IT geeks). The thing is, I don't want to follow those random people. It's not interesting. I want to follow my friends and relatives, and maybe some pages of my interest (like games, tv shows, bands etc). Which is yet again another aspect that Google+ is missing - pages. And event planning, and countless amount of other features.
They had a good PR idea of keeping it mysterious in the beginning, but I really wouldn't want to be the guy who decided it's a good idea to go compete against Facebook with an unfinished product. They killed all the potential Google+ had.
You can't secure everything. Not in the real world and not on the internet either. There's always way to go around security, both in the real world and internet. Laws exist so that people don't do something just because they can.
The funny thing is that the different Vmware products seriously kicks VirtualBox's ass. It's almost like comparing GIMP and Photoshop. VirtualBox might be enough for a home user, but no one uses it to do any serious virtualization in data centers or their corporate networks.
So all they did was give even larger incentive for rich people to start playing games with taxes. Remember that tax planning isn't illegal, nor is forming offshore companies. It's unlikely to change as well, because foreign companies are needed too. As long as you keep the money in the offshore company accounts and not your personal ones, you don't need to pay taxes from them. The people making over one million dollars a year have all the means to do this - normal working people don't.
You know what, maybe start looking if the huge companies pay taxes? For example Google does a insane amount ($60 BILLION) of tax dodging.
It's nice how this same story has discussions about how patents should be invalided and how Microsoft is stealing others ideas. Classic slashdot.
It is actually around 50%, but many of those servers are internal (exchange, mail, processing, crunch jobs etc..). MS has around a third on publicly facing web servers, but all server types should be counted.
RIM's problem is basically same as Nokia's was - their platforms eco-system is practically dead. You cannot find any of the apps or games you want on them. I don't use my phone (old Windows Mobile 6.2) much so I haven't needed that many apps on it, but on those few times that I have had a need for something, it really sucks when the apps are only available for the big three - iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7. This is true for even such known programs as Skype (I actually did find some old WM6.2 Skype version, but the voice quality sucks with that version).
Where RIM is failing here again is just trying to get their own system out. There's just too many platforms. Hell, even on PC's most companies only make their products available for Windows and maybe OS X. They cannot compete with iOS at this point, and while a little bit better, Android has the same kind of fragmentation problems (though to a lesser degree). In my opinion RIM should go with Windows Phone 7. As RIM is mostly used by business people, they would even get Office and Exchange directly to it. Perfect for businesses.
Yeah, we already saw Google TV already. It was its own device too and didn't come with any agreements with content producers, it only displayed YouTube and tv channels own websites. It was quickly blocked and pretty much become completely unusable device.
So you don't remember all the email virus that spread years ago simply by opening them because they were exploiting flaws in system software?
Yep, it was years ago. On that note UNIX and Linux used to have lots of worms that spread remotely too, and there's still lots of bugs and sometimes even remote exploits. Firefox and Chrome patch hundreds of bugs per year.
If software vendors were being held responsible for every bug that might have slipped through, what you think would happen? Open source contributors would stop contributing software, because they would risk losing their personal money in the process. On the other hand, Microsoft has the money. You would only kill open source development.
What are they being responsible for? Just running piece of software isn't illegal. Even FBI or whoever it was that cleaned one of the botnets gave computer owners the possibility to opt-out of it, in case they wanted to keep it on their computer.
You want to hold all the Linux contributors responsible too? Especially when the malware usually comes via user stupidity, not insecure software.
Why not have it on weekdays when most people don't have dates, wild parties or bar nights to check out the girls? What were they thinking?
it would be just idiotic to emulate another architecture.
Yet Apple did exactly that for the 68K to PowerPC transition and for the PowerPC to x86 transition.
No they didn't, they just bundled both binaries inside the same file.
Also, .NET and Java apps will still directly run on both.
Do you honestly want to waste battery for virtualization and emulation? We're talking about tablets here, battery life is a big concern and emulation uses a lot more resources than if the developer just compiled a proper ARM version.
If battery life isn't that big of a concern to you, then get a x86 Windows tablet. That you get all the x86 programs running natively. I'm also quite sure many developers will compile ARM versions of their programs too.
No it didn't, it just means developers have to compile both x86 and ARM versions. Reading comprehension, use it. It would be waste of battery life to emulate another architecture just because the developer was lazy and didn't build ARM version too. Besides, if the apps are for tablets they probably need some work with the interface too.
And why exactly? It's pretty obvious you need different builds for x86 and ARM versions. You can still get them if you want to, but it would be just idiotic to emulate another architecture. Native executables is the only good way to go.
Interestingly, they have sex with real girls instead of wanking to porn.
Speaking as someone who spends a lot of time living in Asia, it already is somewhat true. Unlike in US or Europe, people in developing countries, especially Asia, tend to visit webcafes instead of having their own computer. Some do, but it's much more common to go out. You can find these in almost every corner too, they're cheap to use and they have drinks and beer too. This also makes it a bit more social.
People go to webcafes to do everything that needs an actual computer, and otherwise stay connected to internet via smartphones, which are a lot cheaper to use too.
No, all of that data can't be scraped. Via API you get direct access to everything the user or his/her friends have posted on the wall, even items that are not for public viewing or are only for certain circle. You can't scrape that information.
And who the hell are those? I don't want to follow some random people, I want to follow people I know and my friends. They aren't there, or if some are, they aren't posting anything there but on Facebook. This makes Google+ ghost town and useless to me and many other people.
A guy who makes losses like that is a huge asset to any company. All you need to do is send him working to a competitor and watch as they burn down.
And this is why servers get exploited and botnets spread.