Neither is IBM and they know a little about making operating systems to boot.
I haven't seen a single Bing-related ad whatsoever, since day one.
I don't watch TV (no cable, no satellite, no free airwaves either). I don't read newspapers. I don't listen to the radio.
So you are totally NOT Bing (or Microsoft's) target demographic. People like yourself are a very small minority in the total market landscape. Any company that wants to make the most of it's advertising dollars is going to target the largest demographic they can.
I can't count the number of companies that have made the same claims only to be crushed by the Microsoft Juggernaut by simply having better PR and marketing. In fact the Bing marketing blitz over the last month has been very visible and well put together. Google search is remarkable but some of its functionality is not at all intuitive for the lay-searcher. Microsoft is trying to take advantage of that and if there's one thing Microsoft IS good at it's marketing.
ESPN 360 blocks access to anyone visiting it's site from any ISP that didn't pay ESPN a subscription fee. I don't mind ESPN charging me for access to their content in fact I expect to pay for quality content but throwing up a page saying something to the effect of oops! looks like your current internet provider isn't one of our subscribers. You should switch to one of our "partners" below. isn't what I would call neutral. IMHO it's a direct attempt to turn the internet into just another cable provider. What do you think your internet connection will cost as more & more sites start charging the ISP a subscription fee?
Sounds a lot like the retail chains claiming copyright on information from their Black Friday fliers to keep the prices from being posted too early. Granted Wolfram Alpha is a little more complicated but if it is simply processing facts and laying them out in a certain way they might be able to patent the algorithm but the results are still facts.
Leaving it unlocked is not an inventation to tamper with it! Way to keep the blame the victim mentality going
I think perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the overall attitude pervasive in today's society (I can only speak for the USA but I suspect it is not so different in Australia) is to not take responsibility for ones own actions and people who are responsible are sick and tired of it. A few months ago my wife informs me that someone has "broken" into her vehicle in our driveway and stolen her iPod. At first I was furious. I asked her what all was taken and she said only the iPod. I then asked her how they got in and she told me she hadn't locked the doors the night before. I calmly informed her she was fortunate the iPod was all they took and dropped it. We live in a relatively good neighborhood but occasionally there is mischief and knowing that we are responsible for taking precautions as such. Just because you should be able to safely park your car unlocked on the street doesn't mean it is a good idea.
Then they should have invested in working technology!
What technology should they have chosen eight years ago when most of these projects were green lighted? IE6 was pushed hard by Microsoft and they also supplied the developer tools to aid in its adoption. Most competing technologies even if they were superior didn't have SDKs as easy (by non-developers) to use. Remember Visual Basic didn't become wildly popular because it was a robust language but because it was a damn simple to use one.
This will be great, because they will finally learn it the painful way.
It will hurt like it hurts you when a gnat flies headlong into you. They will identify the issue, determine the economical and business continuity impact and depending on those findings will budget for the upgrade or continue with business as usual.
If you always protect them, put a pillow here and there, and never let anything come to them, how exactly will they get any motivation to learn anything at all??
The only thing they want to know is "How will this make/save us money?" and rightly so. Just because you are passionate about technology it doesn't make it so for everyone else. Shareholders would get very angry if the company just spent money to upgrade every time a newer version of a particular software comes out and no business case for the expenditure.
If you let them still run IE6, they will run it for 100 years if they can. And essentially you will be responsible for it, because after all, you would still protect them from that ohh so harsh, bad, bad, reality. ^^
If it aint broke don't fix it! I know of hundreds of embedded systems that still run on DOS because there is no need to run them on anything else. They perform a single task so multitasking isn't needed and DOS is more than stable enough for these tasks. Sure you could easily switch to a Linux kernel and be even more stable but why spend the time/effort/money when what you have works fine just they way it is?
It's clear that the people who have responded "Just upgrade to IE8 already!" are not familiar with large corporate environments and the politics and bureaucracy involved in getting things accomplished. It is very likely there were some "greased palms" in getting some of the products we use today in the door. The landscape has changed and since those that were doing the greasing don't seem to be as intent on providing that type of incentive any longer the currently installed technology will do until the next palm greaser comes through the door.
Actually many corporations are beginning to embrace not only youtube but many "web 2.x" technologies. I just learned our company now has it's own Twitter account and they've been actively using youtube to distribute non-confidential company information for over a year.
I know quite a few LARGE corporate environments that won't be upgrading any time soon since IE7/8 "breaks" their intranet web apps and they aren't about to budget for updating apps that work on the existing browser.
Agreed, but what I find even more mind numbing is the places that require you to have a password that is between 6 to 10 characters in length (6 for a "strong" password and 10 because their system can't handle passwords any bigger) and must have at least two numbers in them as well as one upper case or some such. If the person/group trying to crack your system know about these requirements (which isn't hard to find out if you plaster it on the logon screen) it greatly reduces the number of permutations they even have to try. You have basically handed them a filter and said Don't bother looking for anything that doesn't contain the following.....
I was very much like you until I decided to Give Google Maps a try on my BB 8800. You know what I discovered? I didn't know squat about some very cool places in my own city (Houston, TX) I always stayed on the big highways and known paths unless someone I knew told me about a new restaurant, club, etc. I started using the Search function in Google Maps and going places in the city I had avoided for years for fear of getting lost in the maze of back streets. The GPS in my BB removes that obstacle and now I have discovered so much more to like about living here. Give one a try and you might even find there is life outside of the basement!
Power transmission is a bigger emergency than wind power.
And it would seem Texas and California would agree. Both have approved multi Billion dollar infrastructure upgrades. Which, even if a new wind farm started construction today likely would not be operational prior to the completion of the new lines several years from now.
Disclaimer: I work for the parent company of Lone Star Transmission.
I suspect there are more things involved but these are the two most likely reasons AFAICT:
1) The "Not in my back yard!" mentality. There are plenty of people fighting giving right of way for new transmissions lines.
2) The Texas state government has had it's own set of financial issues of late and may not have been able to follow through on an agreement they might have had worked out with T. Boone Picken's.
Disclaimer: I work for one of the largest wind energy providers in N.A. NextEra Energy Resources
It's a matter of taste. I prefer Pandora to Slacker. Especially since Pandora's new Blackberry app doesn't choke my BB 8310 like the Slacker app did. Looking at both sites they both have adds but the Slacker site "feels" like it is trying to sell me stuff. Kinda like I just stepped onto a used car lot. There are things I like/dislike on both but I just like Pandora more.
Yeah, it's too bad the blacksmiths and carriage makers of the early 20th century didn't have a government like we have today to protect them from the that evil Ford guy.
Well since nobody from Marc Andreessen's examples would have a clue what Logan's Run is you might have at least given them a link. Or did they already create the mind machine interface that would download the info directly to their brains and nobody told those of us over 30?
Now if they could just get the laser from that movie mounted to a shark's head.
Slashdot Mirror
Google isn't a tiny company
Neither is IBM and they know a little about making operating systems to boot.
I haven't seen a single Bing-related ad whatsoever, since day one.
I don't watch TV (no cable, no satellite, no free airwaves either). I don't read newspapers. I don't listen to the radio.
So you are totally NOT Bing (or Microsoft's) target demographic. People like yourself are a very small minority in the total market landscape. Any company that wants to make the most of it's advertising dollars is going to target the largest demographic they can.
I can't count the number of companies that have made the same claims only to be crushed by the Microsoft Juggernaut by simply having better PR and marketing. In fact the Bing marketing blitz over the last month has been very visible and well put together. Google search is remarkable but some of its functionality is not at all intuitive for the lay-searcher. Microsoft is trying to take advantage of that and if there's one thing Microsoft IS good at it's marketing.
There was weeping and gnashing of teeth - by tweens everywhere
And there was MUCH rejoicing - By everyone else
ESPN 360 blocks access to anyone visiting it's site from any ISP that didn't pay ESPN a subscription fee. I don't mind ESPN charging me for access to their content in fact I expect to pay for quality content but throwing up a page saying something to the effect of oops! looks like your current internet provider isn't one of our subscribers. You should switch to one of our "partners" below. isn't what I would call neutral. IMHO it's a direct attempt to turn the internet into just another cable provider. What do you think your internet connection will cost as more & more sites start charging the ISP a subscription fee?
competing with Best Buy is always a good idea, isn't that right Circuit City and CompUSA?
Actually Tandy/Radio Shack was one of the first casualties or doesn't anyone here remember Incredible Universe?
I'm kinda partial to iXplode.
Sounds a lot like the retail chains claiming copyright on information from their Black Friday fliers to keep the prices from being posted too early. Granted Wolfram Alpha is a little more complicated but if it is simply processing facts and laying them out in a certain way they might be able to patent the algorithm but the results are still facts.
Offtopic: Bing may be an acronym for Business Is Not Good. Or maybe not.
Close
http://bingisnotgoogle.com/
and subsequently delete them.
Leaving it unlocked is not an inventation to tamper with it! Way to keep the blame the victim mentality going
I think perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the overall attitude pervasive in today's society (I can only speak for the USA but I suspect it is not so different in Australia) is to not take responsibility for ones own actions and people who are responsible are sick and tired of it. A few months ago my wife informs me that someone has "broken" into her vehicle in our driveway and stolen her iPod. At first I was furious. I asked her what all was taken and she said only the iPod. I then asked her how they got in and she told me she hadn't locked the doors the night before. I calmly informed her she was fortunate the iPod was all they took and dropped it. We live in a relatively good neighborhood but occasionally there is mischief and knowing that we are responsible for taking precautions as such. Just because you should be able to safely park your car unlocked on the street doesn't mean it is a good idea.
BTW - what is an inventation?
We would be working with Zoidberg and be drinking Slurm.
Cry me a river. ^^
Then they should have invested in working technology!
What technology should they have chosen eight years ago when most of these projects were green lighted? IE6 was pushed hard by Microsoft and they also supplied the developer tools to aid in its adoption. Most competing technologies even if they were superior didn't have SDKs as easy (by non-developers) to use. Remember Visual Basic didn't become wildly popular because it was a robust language but because it was a damn simple to use one.
This will be great, because they will finally learn it the painful way.
It will hurt like it hurts you when a gnat flies headlong into you. They will identify the issue, determine the economical and business continuity impact and depending on those findings will budget for the upgrade or continue with business as usual.
If you always protect them, put a pillow here and there, and never let anything come to them, how exactly will they get any motivation to learn anything at all??
The only thing they want to know is "How will this make/save us money?" and rightly so. Just because you are passionate about technology it doesn't make it so for everyone else. Shareholders would get very angry if the company just spent money to upgrade every time a newer version of a particular software comes out and no business case for the expenditure.
If you let them still run IE6, they will run it for 100 years if they can. And essentially you will be responsible for it, because after all, you would still protect them from that ohh so harsh, bad, bad, reality. ^^
If it aint broke don't fix it! I know of hundreds of embedded systems that still run on DOS because there is no need to run them on anything else. They perform a single task so multitasking isn't needed and DOS is more than stable enough for these tasks. Sure you could easily switch to a Linux kernel and be even more stable but why spend the time/effort/money when what you have works fine just they way it is?
It's clear that the people who have responded "Just upgrade to IE8 already!" are not familiar with large corporate environments and the politics and bureaucracy involved in getting things accomplished. It is very likely there were some "greased palms" in getting some of the products we use today in the door. The landscape has changed and since those that were doing the greasing don't seem to be as intent on providing that type of incentive any longer the currently installed technology will do until the next palm greaser comes through the door.
Actually many corporations are beginning to embrace not only youtube but many "web 2.x" technologies. I just learned our company now has it's own Twitter account and they've been actively using youtube to distribute non-confidential company information for over a year.
I know quite a few LARGE corporate environments that won't be upgrading any time soon since IE7/8 "breaks" their intranet web apps and they aren't about to budget for updating apps that work on the existing browser.
Agreed, but what I find even more mind numbing is the places that require you to have a password that is between 6 to 10 characters in length (6 for a "strong" password and 10 because their system can't handle passwords any bigger) and must have at least two numbers in them as well as one upper case or some such. If the person/group trying to crack your system know about these requirements (which isn't hard to find out if you plaster it on the logon screen) it greatly reduces the number of permutations they even have to try. You have basically handed them a filter and said Don't bother looking for anything that doesn't contain the following.....
I agree, they should have kept using OS/2.
Microsoft BOB
What could possibly go wrong?
I was very much like you until I decided to Give Google Maps a try on my BB 8800. You know what I discovered? I didn't know squat about some very cool places in my own city (Houston, TX) I always stayed on the big highways and known paths unless someone I knew told me about a new restaurant, club, etc. I started using the Search function in Google Maps and going places in the city I had avoided for years for fear of getting lost in the maze of back streets. The GPS in my BB removes that obstacle and now I have discovered so much more to like about living here. Give one a try and you might even find there is life outside of the basement!
Power transmission is a bigger emergency than wind power.
And it would seem Texas and California would agree. Both have approved multi Billion dollar infrastructure upgrades. Which, even if a new wind farm started construction today likely would not be operational prior to the completion of the new lines several years from now.
Disclaimer: I work for the parent company of Lone Star Transmission.
I suspect there are more things involved but these are the two most likely reasons AFAICT:
1) The "Not in my back yard!" mentality. There are plenty of people fighting giving right of way for new transmissions lines.
2) The Texas state government has had it's own set of financial issues of late and may not have been able to follow through on an agreement they might have had worked out with T. Boone Picken's.
Disclaimer: I work for one of the largest wind energy providers in N.A. NextEra Energy Resources
It's a matter of taste. I prefer Pandora to Slacker. Especially since Pandora's new Blackberry app doesn't choke my BB 8310 like the Slacker app did. Looking at both sites they both have adds but the Slacker site "feels" like it is trying to sell me stuff. Kinda like I just stepped onto a used car lot. There are things I like/dislike on both but I just like Pandora more.
Once you install these on your roof you will only need to wear your tinfoil hat when you are outdoors.
Yeah, it's too bad the blacksmiths and carriage makers of the early 20th century didn't have a government like we have today to protect them from the that evil Ford guy.
Well since nobody from Marc Andreessen's examples would have a clue what Logan's Run is you might have at least given them a link. Or did they already create the mind machine interface that would download the info directly to their brains and nobody told those of us over 30?
Now if they could just get the laser from that movie mounted to a shark's head.