You know, if you ever get divorced you can at least wipe your porn off of your computers in case that comes up as an issue. It isn't clear that you will be able to do so with such a service from Google. Also, every bit of communication you made with your extra-marital lover over gtalk will be available as well (I know, I know, you can opt out of this bit).
"If Harvard is such a great school and only admits the best students, I'd think they could trust the students to exercise their own judgement in regards to how they choose to learn in class." Ok, Harvard only admits the best students--they still make the curriculum challenging to those students. If this even helps them have a 2% lower rate of people failing out, it makes them look better.
Let's say it wasn't the case that end users could be sued. Say I own a private company and calculating my taxes takes 10 years (this is a hypothetical). Now assume that there is a publically known algorithm which is simple to implement that speeds up the slowest part of this process such that the calculation will only take half a year--the caveat is that this algorithm is patented. Now, I can just have my "friend" setup a little shell corporation that sells code which implements this algorithm, buy it from him, and hope no one notices.
If they do notice, my friend's tiny shell corporation goes bankrupt immediately after being sued (and after handily already paying a nice salary to my "friend"). My company doesn't get touched.
Now, in this example my company would probably be guilty of some sort of fraud or something, but can't you see how it would easily extend to let big patents be knowingly violated with little reprecussion?
"There are no Intel-only instructions anymore." Ah, but you see, the "CPUID" instruction works differently on intel than than it does on AMD. On AMD it actually reports that the user is using an AMD processor! Intel's chips therefore have a huge advantage--marketing.
Actually you don't know what you're talking about. You can, and people do. That is why companies like Microsoft offer indemnities for any patent infringements they pass along to you.
"What other internet software do you speak of that would be putting a companies internal documents out there for anyone to read?" You can't use outlook to mail a document to a mailing list? Wow, I'm baffled. And by the way, Google doesn't put this stuff into their web search results--I don't know what you mean by out there for anyone to read, but I hope to hell you didn't mean that.
What is your damn point? If they don't have any control over something like that, guess what: they don't have any control over the employees doing exactly that with another tool instead. What do you want Google to do?
PC is often shorthand for "PC Compatible." which in turn is shorthand for "IBM PC Compatible." Now granted IBM has a hand in PowerPC, "IBM PC Compatible" has a very specific meaning, and it doesn't encompass "Macintosh,"
Yes, because "pro-choice"ers are in favor of taking away the mother's right to choose. I agree with you on social security. Tax Cuts for the Rich: well they weren't tax cuts for the poor (I'm not saying I'm not in favor of tax cuts for the rich, I am). Public education: I don't see where you are going with this, democrats use the words "public education" to mean private education? We are talking about oxymorons here aren't we?
"If you were in the 'air' for more than a couple seconds, your guy would trip and the jump wouldn't count. Still, at least our arms got a good workout." Yeah, Nintendo sure was smarter. Do you have any idea how high a kid would have to jump to be in the 'air' for more than a couple seconds?
Right now the draft's webservices portion is effectively useless. You can wrap your GPLed webservice with another webservice which passes every function call except the one which requests the source. If they fix it by being even more strict, they could easily requiring exposure to DDoS attacks.
Google needs to enable users to have wiki like functionality, and an easy way to keep parts of the wiki private (makes for the ultimate PIM.. with full revision history). They also need to get the IM support they have within GMail into the personalized webpage. If they can do these things, they will finally bring what most hackers have had on their personal servers for the last 5 years to the masses (you do run a Jabber server and at least one client with a web front-end, don't you?).
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You go on a lot of dates to TGI Friday's or something?
That causes a lot of extra ductwork/sprinkler system work.
No, they failed if they didn't meet their projections. They didn't. At all.
What? The first type is biogradable. The problem is it isn' biodegradable.
Guess what: we all die.
Pickup a Toshiba Portege m200.
You know, if you ever get divorced you can at least wipe your porn off of your computers in case that comes up as an issue. It isn't clear that you will be able to do so with such a service from Google. Also, every bit of communication you made with your extra-marital lover over gtalk will be available as well (I know, I know, you can opt out of this bit).
"If Harvard is such a great school and only admits the best students, I'd think they could trust the students to exercise their own judgement in regards to how they choose to learn in class." Ok, Harvard only admits the best students--they still make the curriculum challenging to those students. If this even helps them have a 2% lower rate of people failing out, it makes them look better.
And yet parents enjoy playing peekaboo with their kids for some reason.
Let's say it wasn't the case that end users could be sued. Say I own a private company and calculating my taxes takes 10 years (this is a hypothetical). Now assume that there is a publically known algorithm which is simple to implement that speeds up the slowest part of this process such that the calculation will only take half a year--the caveat is that this algorithm is patented. Now, I can just have my "friend" setup a little shell corporation that sells code which implements this algorithm, buy it from him, and hope no one notices.
If they do notice, my friend's tiny shell corporation goes bankrupt immediately after being sued (and after handily already paying a nice salary to my "friend"). My company doesn't get touched.
Now, in this example my company would probably be guilty of some sort of fraud or something, but can't you see how it would easily extend to let big patents be knowingly violated with little reprecussion?
Last place--winner?
"There are no Intel-only instructions anymore." Ah, but you see, the "CPUID" instruction works differently on intel than than it does on AMD. On AMD it actually reports that the user is using an AMD processor! Intel's chips therefore have a huge advantage--marketing.
Surprizingly appropriate.
Actually you don't know what you're talking about. You can, and people do. That is why companies like Microsoft offer indemnities for any patent infringements they pass along to you.
"What other internet software do you speak of that would be putting a companies internal documents out there for anyone to read?" You can't use outlook to mail a document to a mailing list? Wow, I'm baffled. And by the way, Google doesn't put this stuff into their web search results--I don't know what you mean by out there for anyone to read, but I hope to hell you didn't mean that.
What is your damn point? If they don't have any control over something like that, guess what: they don't have any control over the employees doing exactly that with another tool instead. What do you want Google to do?
Are you telling me that if I am pro "freedom of choice of religion," you are going to construe that as "Muslim"?
PC is often shorthand for "PC Compatible." which in turn is shorthand for "IBM PC Compatible." Now granted IBM has a hand in PowerPC, "IBM PC Compatible" has a very specific meaning, and it doesn't encompass "Macintosh,"
Yes, because "pro-choice"ers are in favor of taking away the mother's right to choose. I agree with you on social security. Tax Cuts for the Rich: well they weren't tax cuts for the poor (I'm not saying I'm not in favor of tax cuts for the rich, I am). Public education: I don't see where you are going with this, democrats use the words "public education" to mean private education? We are talking about oxymorons here aren't we?
This is all great if you carry a purse. Otherwise I think your points are worthless.
"If you were in the 'air' for more than a couple seconds, your guy would trip and the jump wouldn't count. Still, at least our arms got a good workout." Yeah, Nintendo sure was smarter. Do you have any idea how high a kid would have to jump to be in the 'air' for more than a couple seconds?
Right now the draft's webservices portion is effectively useless. You can wrap your GPLed webservice with another webservice which passes every function call except the one which requests the source. If they fix it by being even more strict, they could easily requiring exposure to DDoS attacks.
Even if Google grew 68% for the next billion years analysts would be disappointed. That is how highly valued Google is at their current price
No no no.. this is just IM on your personal portal. Say you are a student at the library, you can have chats open from your homepage.
Google needs to enable users to have wiki like functionality, and an easy way to keep parts of the wiki private (makes for the ultimate PIM.. with full revision history). They also need to get the IM support they have within GMail into the personalized webpage. If they can do these things, they will finally bring what most hackers have had on their personal servers for the last 5 years to the masses (you do run a Jabber server and at least one client with a web front-end, don't you?).