Google did this with Google Answers, but it's retired.:-( I liked that idea far more than Yahoo! Answers (Google's quality obviously became waay higher) and wonder if there's a well used replacement?
I consider myself an answer guy and also noticed the Yahoo! Answers!! thing. Since I was an answer guy enjoying answering stuff (I think because I then usually learn a lot in the process), I signed up there and started answering. Then I saw Yahoo only used us basically as human bots to run their service and drive revenues from ad profits and building an active service on us without giving us anything back but some abstract idea of "points" that I had absolutely no economic use for whatsoever. Then I stopped using the site.:-p
Oh and their community often seemed pretty stupid too. Many gave the obviously wrong answers, to questions like "Why is the sky blue?". I mean, if you're going to answer, don't guess! But as you say, many *askers* were also pretty stupid. Things you can type into Google and pick the first result and see the answer for it. "What's the average penis length" or w/e. I mean, just Google "penis length". Pick the first result.:-p
Russia is trying to expand the size of its energy hammer. It's nice to see that Putin is trying to bring back the good old times of the Cold War, MAD and Europe as ground zero for Russia's battle for world supremacy.
Oh, come on... Any country that big and that close to the north pole would do the same. And yes, for economy reasons. Do you have a problem with that? Switch the country position with USA and GWB would do the same. Talk about being biased.:-p
Repeat every 6 years until the whole thing melts and/or people realise that country borders are arbitrary and their first responsibility should be to the human race.
Anyway, in either of these cases Russia would get the largest chunk.
And I think it'd only be fair. Especially the 1st method seems most fair to me, becuase it relies on and is proportional to the land size.
I can't really rely on a service to host a full 1 GB if it's 1. Still in beta 2. Of an unknown brand. Yes, it matters. A well known company has much much more PR to lose if they mess up. A startup company has very little.
Gmail is awkward though. Mostly because it's intended for mail, and comes with a 20 MB attachment limit. There are workarounds like GDrive and stuff, but if this service would come with actual merged files without cludges to solve the limitations, I'd much rather use that.
If they don't break, ensure they break in some way!;-)
Seriously though, that idea isn't useful only for entertainment and cool effects, it is useful to know the tipping point, what boundaries they're actually working with, and not just to see if it does or does not work. And as they so often tell there -- the only way to know for sure is to test it in the real world on a non-scale model!
As someone else who commented there said, it's hard to tell if the comments came from MS or Google fans/employees, because the article was so neutral anyway. I mean, he showed some pros and cons with both companies, and get that as response? Is it MS people thinking he was disrespectful of the internal status of the memo, or is it Googlers who think he's throwing dirt on Google?
The "pathetic character" seem to come from a huge Google fan to me anyway, and the first "shouldn't have published this" seem to come from a Microsoftie.
Flash's future development is controlled by Adobe... Did that change its adoption rate? Maybe... Maybe it could have been adopted even faster as OSS, but I think we should be realistic here and not take anything closed source as a nail in the coffin for any web technology.
One is missing a large part of the point if assuming it's about the technology, when it's in reality about the platform.
- Silverlight is gravy for VB and C# developers, and the.NET devs taken together are becoming a very large community. Silverlight integrates itself more closely with.NET than anything else on the market of its kind, which is only to be expected, with both platforms being products of Microsoft. - Microsoft will offer very appealing Silverlight hosting plans for the multimedia content -- what's more often than not quickly becoming the bottleneck at least for media heavy web sites. Free storage of up to 4 GB and delivery at 700 kbps in max 1 million minutes per month, alternatively unlimited streaming if you allow them to tack on some ads, alternatively unlimited streaming with a "nominal fee".
Well, I use to think of it like this... If Firefox wouldn't have got so common (really it is pretty common today -- seems like especially in Europe), Microsoft wouldn't have as much pressure on making an IE 7, and now that they did, they took the opportunity to update some of its worst CSS problems at least. MS has more or less announced there'll be an IE 8 in their blogs, so I think this competition is good for the web as a whole. It probably doesn't matter in the short perspective, but could in a longer one. Without Firefox, I fear the development of web standards could have stalled actually, so we have much to thank the success of that one. At least those of us who want a prettier and more interactive web without relying on closed standards.
But if you don't know what it means, you're probably not too affected by it anyway. I don't think that CSS3 compliance will matter for "average users" soon, because far from all browsers will support it at the time Opera 9.5 will. It's a step in the right direction for sure, but it'll only be of interest at first to geeks keeping up to date with the latest web browser developments. It may not matter in reality until a few years ahead, or whenever IE 8/9 or whatever gets this far.
Sweden has hate speech laws in common with some other parts in Europe, but it's not illegal to host.torrent files because that has part a precedence in law, and part it's a legal grey area anyway. Because a.torrent file is not copyrighted so it would be some sort of "contributory infrigement" which they're still under investigation for (note that TPB has still neither been ruled guilty or not).
Secunia reports 9 unpatched vulnerabilities in OpenBSD 4. Vista currently has 15 according to this report. Sure, OpenBSD "wins" in such as stupid comparison, but seriously... Is it a big deal...?
Exactly -- the first thing that popped into my head when seeing this was "but how SERIOUS are they then? are we talking of stuff requiring local systm access and a bootable Vista CD, remote attacks, or what exactly?"
Since the article didn't say outright in the summary, and it would have used the first opportunity to do so if they were serious (because this is Slashdot), I just assumed they were as little problematic in possible exploits as the currently unpatched minor security problems in multiple Linux kernels.
Besides the ipconfig thing, I share none of your problems.
1. It's not really slow here, or on a laptop my parents use. 2. It doesn't burn battery -- are you perhaps using Aero Glass? 3. I don't have any network status problem. 4. The copy doesn't stop if it requires elevation.
I can't tell how you managed to rack up so many problems though.
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Google did this with Google Answers, but it's retired. :-( I liked that idea far more than Yahoo! Answers (Google's quality obviously became waay higher) and wonder if there's a well used replacement?
I consider myself an answer guy and also noticed the Yahoo! Answers!! thing. Since I was an answer guy enjoying answering stuff (I think because I then usually learn a lot in the process), I signed up there and started answering. Then I saw Yahoo only used us basically as human bots to run their service and drive revenues from ad profits and building an active service on us without giving us anything back but some abstract idea of "points" that I had absolutely no economic use for whatsoever. Then I stopped using the site. :-p
:-p
Oh and their community often seemed pretty stupid too. Many gave the obviously wrong answers, to questions like "Why is the sky blue?". I mean, if you're going to answer, don't guess! But as you say, many *askers* were also pretty stupid. Things you can type into Google and pick the first result and see the answer for it. "What's the average penis length" or w/e. I mean, just Google "penis length". Pick the first result.
Russia is trying to expand the size of its energy hammer. It's nice to see that Putin is trying to bring back the good old times of the Cold War, MAD and Europe as ground zero for Russia's battle for world supremacy.
:-p
Oh, come on... Any country that big and that close to the north pole would do the same. And yes, for economy reasons. Do you have a problem with that? Switch the country position with USA and GWB would do the same. Talk about being biased.
Repeat every 6 years until the whole thing melts and/or people realise that country borders are arbitrary and their first responsibility should be to the human race.
Anyway, in either of these cases Russia would get the largest chunk.
And I think it'd only be fair. Especially the 1st method seems most fair to me, becuase it relies on and is proportional to the land size.
I'll never understand those who whine not when a release is not made, but when a release is made.
I'll make the popcorn!
Sure, but now just wait until it turns into a Googlebomb.
I can't really rely on a service to host a full 1 GB if it's
1. Still in beta
2. Of an unknown brand. Yes, it matters. A well known company has much much more PR to lose if they mess up. A startup company has very little.
Gmail is awkward though. Mostly because it's intended for mail, and comes with a 20 MB attachment limit. There are workarounds like GDrive and stuff, but if this service would come with actual merged files without cludges to solve the limitations, I'd much rather use that.
If they don't break, ensure they break in some way! ;-)
Seriously though, that idea isn't useful only for entertainment and cool effects, it is useful to know the tipping point, what boundaries they're actually working with, and not just to see if it does or does not work. And as they so often tell there -- the only way to know for sure is to test it in the real world on a non-scale model!
As someone else who commented there said, it's hard to tell if the comments came from MS or Google fans/employees, because the article was so neutral anyway. I mean, he showed some pros and cons with both companies, and get that as response? Is it MS people thinking he was disrespectful of the internal status of the memo, or is it Googlers who think he's throwing dirt on Google?
The "pathetic character" seem to come from a huge Google fan to me anyway, and the first "shouldn't have published this" seem to come from a Microsoftie.
Flash's future development is controlled by Adobe... Did that change its adoption rate? Maybe... Maybe it could have been adopted even faster as OSS, but I think we should be realistic here and not take anything closed source as a nail in the coffin for any web technology.
Yes, and implementing the Silverlight-specific API's. It's not a perfect subset of .NET Framework 3.0, but pretty close at least.
One is missing a large part of the point if assuming it's about the technology, when it's in reality about the platform.
.NET devs taken together are becoming a very large community. Silverlight integrates itself more closely with .NET than anything else on the market of its kind, which is only to be expected, with both platforms being products of Microsoft.
- Silverlight is gravy for VB and C# developers, and the
- Microsoft will offer very appealing Silverlight hosting plans for the multimedia content -- what's more often than not quickly becoming the bottleneck at least for media heavy web sites. Free storage of up to 4 GB and delivery at 700 kbps in max 1 million minutes per month, alternatively unlimited streaming if you allow them to tack on some ads, alternatively unlimited streaming with a "nominal fee".
Well, I use to think of it like this... If Firefox wouldn't have got so common (really it is pretty common today -- seems like especially in Europe), Microsoft wouldn't have as much pressure on making an IE 7, and now that they did, they took the opportunity to update some of its worst CSS problems at least. MS has more or less announced there'll be an IE 8 in their blogs, so I think this competition is good for the web as a whole. It probably doesn't matter in the short perspective, but could in a longer one. Without Firefox, I fear the development of web standards could have stalled actually, so we have much to thank the success of that one. At least those of us who want a prettier and more interactive web without relying on closed standards.
Cascading Style Sheets.
But if you don't know what it means, you're probably not too affected by it anyway. I don't think that CSS3 compliance will matter for "average users" soon, because far from all browsers will support it at the time Opera 9.5 will. It's a step in the right direction for sure, but it'll only be of interest at first to geeks keeping up to date with the latest web browser developments. It may not matter in reality until a few years ahead, or whenever IE 8/9 or whatever gets this far.
OK, so it's a troll then. (see the related user names)
I hope some mod will get it and mod accordingly.
It makes sense too -- I couldn't believe someone would have missed these news.
Keep in mind that on a cosmolical scale, that could be within 10,000 years or so, a few nuclear wars and greenhouse disasters later. ;-)
Sweden has hate speech laws in common with some other parts in Europe, but it's not illegal to host .torrent files because that has part a precedence in law, and part it's a legal grey area anyway. Because a .torrent file is not copyrighted so it would be some sort of "contributory infrigement" which they're still under investigation for (note that TPB has still neither been ruled guilty or not).
Yes, it all boils down to our "hate speech" laws.
You can't say "hateful" comments about groups of people, regardless if it's homosexuals, muslims, palestinians, or exactly what.
You can run all those operating systems virtualized from within Ubuntu, so I guess technically they're supported. ;-)
At least it got 11000 downloads -- not too shabby! :-)
Secunia reports 9 unpatched vulnerabilities in OpenBSD 4. Vista currently has 15 according to this report.
Sure, OpenBSD "wins" in such as stupid comparison, but seriously... Is it a big deal...?
Exactly -- the first thing that popped into my head when seeing this was "but how SERIOUS are they then? are we talking of stuff requiring local systm access and a bootable Vista CD, remote attacks, or what exactly?"
Since the article didn't say outright in the summary, and it would have used the first opportunity to do so if they were serious (because this is Slashdot), I just assumed they were as little problematic in possible exploits as the currently unpatched minor security problems in multiple Linux kernels.
Besides the ipconfig thing, I share none of your problems.
1. It's not really slow here, or on a laptop my parents use.
2. It doesn't burn battery -- are you perhaps using Aero Glass?
3. I don't have any network status problem.
4. The copy doesn't stop if it requires elevation.
I can't tell how you managed to rack up so many problems though.