Why? What value do 12,000,000 clones of a Wikipedia article add? Does the world really need to know about every permutation of Google AdSense applied to GFDL data?
How do you know that 12 million of the Google results aren't just copy-and-paste clones of the first 1.6 million? Lately Google has been returning an awful lot of clone results: Wikipedia, "product review" sites, phony blogs, and so on. Makes me wonder how many useful pages they actually index.
Unfortunately, I have a 12" PowerBook G4. It barely even runs emulators without skipping a frame here or there. I blame its 4200 RPM hard drive. Out of respect for my coworkers I wear headphones when listening to my Quake sound effects.:)
Google just reinvented GeoCities too. Google in 2006 is aiming to re-create the features everyone wants in portals like Yahoo! and AOL to continue to attract users and to keep its brand fresh in everyone's mind.
If you work at a company casual enough to permit employees to wear Thinkgeek apparel and have various tchotchkes/toys/etc at their desks, a little alien head on your laptop doesn't seem so bad. Most of their "business" offerings have pretty muted styles compared with their gamer machines.
If I were a sales guy, whipping out an OMGGAMEZ0RD00D laptop might look a bit professional, especially when the Quake "humiliation" sound plays instead of the usual "ding" beep. For IT folks in an office it's no worse than lugging around a Dell 8000/9000 laptop.
Because when Gmail goes down or gets hacked, it'll be in beta so you'll have no reason to complain. When your corporate mail server goes down or gets hacked, it'll be the end of the world.
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Mind telling me what's so awful about that? It's not like it takes a long time to register a Yahoo! account. It's not like you have to provide any real information to create one.
If the idea of single sign-in worries you, then I don't know where you can go -- Google's on board, Microsoft has Passport, and other companies really enjoy the "stickiness" that such capabilities bring.
Outlook blocks incoming.bat files as they may just as easily contain:
cls echo HAHA OWNED format/y C:
So now you have to provide instructions to receive ten messages, save their attachments, save a renamed batch file, rename it to runme.bat, double-click it, ignore the Windows security dialog about running apps from the desktop, and end up with the file I wanted to send in the first place.
Or I could have encrypted* the file, uploaded it to YouSendIt, and sent you a link.
* Office XP and later actually do encrypt files when passwords are used to protect the entire file
Before you respond "just cut it up into 10 MB chunks," realize:
This is one file -- a really kickass PowerPoint slideshow which can't be shrunken, compressed, or compartmentalized
Joe User doesn't know how to reassemble a file from fragments. What easy-to-understand program can he install on his Windows ME computer to do this, and how do you propose I get it to him?
I want to send you a 100-megabyte file in less than 24 hours and I live across the country from you. However my Gmail account only lets me send attachments up to 10 MB in size and Gmail probably won't let you receive a message that big. How can I send you this file?
When Google is taken to task for flaws in Gmail, if Google says "Gmail is beta, it may have problems" then it's beta. I don't care how much you like it. If its creator doesn't consider it good enough for production use, then it's not good enough for production use.
Place the files on a secure server you control (or lease from a trusted source). Send encrypted access instructions to the recipient. Or establish access well in advance and just send the recipient a message "Please log in to MySecureServer to retrieve a new file."
There are already many companies around that establish secure file storage areas to avoid the inherent security and file-size problems associated with e-mail attachments.
Iraq's a beta country: occasional big glitches here and there, but some people seem to trust in it a lot more than others. It seems only natural that they'd rely on a beta e-mail service.:)
He found a flaw in a piece of beta software. Where's the controversy? It's not like people were running their business off a Gmail account or anything...
It seems like they're also rolling out a new sort of platform:
'At the core of the EdgeClick platform is an innovative service-oriented architecture (SOA) server called an "edge processor" that connects many types of end-point devices -- including mobile phones, PCs and others -- to robust digital network services for communications, collaboration, control, information access and transactional processing. Integrated with this technology are facilities for automated service branding, monetization and business federation. These facilities make seamless the development, marketing, provisioning and billing of high-value, high-impact digital services.'
The blurb spun this as "mass text messages to cell phones." Are there any positive uses for this, like informing schoolchildren about snow days and such?
I'm pretty sure it's Intel Extreme Graphics but it doesn't appear to take any of the system RAM away. StatBar claims I have 256 MB of RAM available to Windows, the total amount of RAM that came with the system.
I assume you're in Pittsburgh based on those place names; in that case I recommend a trek up Rialto Street (Pig Hill) on the North Side (a 25% grade) or Canton Street in Beechview (a 37% grade, among the steepest streets in the world). That's what I call "heavy mode."
I used to accuse companies of such trickery, but then I got the all-new Infinium Labs Lapboard. What makes the Infinium Labs Lapboardvery unique is that the keyboard can be angled upwards to create a surface for the mouse to operate on underneath. The Infinium Labs Lapboard is also wireless and can operate at a distance of up to 30 feet. That's more than nine metres of connectivity, which is great because I can play games like Battlefield Earth 1942 with my Infinium Labs Lapboard on my Microsoft Windows Media Centre Edition Personal Computer Powered by Gateway on my Gateway Enhanced Definition Plasma Television whilst sitting on my exquisite Ikea Spruengvar leather sofa. Check the Infinium Labs Lapboard out right away.
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Why? What value do 12,000,000 clones of a Wikipedia article add? Does the world really need to know about every permutation of Google AdSense applied to GFDL data?
There's also a Tony Hawk game, the upcoming Metroid FPS (remember that one that shipped as a demo with every DS?) and Tetris DS. Goooooo Tetris!
How do you know that 12 million of the Google results aren't just copy-and-paste clones of the first 1.6 million? Lately Google has been returning an awful lot of clone results: Wikipedia, "product review" sites, phony blogs, and so on. Makes me wonder how many useful pages they actually index.
TiVo already has web scheduling through its own web site or Yahoo! TV. No extra charge for either one.
Unfortunately, I have a 12" PowerBook G4. It barely even runs emulators without skipping a frame here or there. I blame its 4200 RPM hard drive. Out of respect for my coworkers I wear headphones when listening to my Quake sound effects. :)
Google just reinvented GeoCities too. Google in 2006 is aiming to re-create the features everyone wants in portals like Yahoo! and AOL to continue to attract users and to keep its brand fresh in everyone's mind.
If you work at a company casual enough to permit employees to wear Thinkgeek apparel and have various tchotchkes/toys/etc at their desks, a little alien head on your laptop doesn't seem so bad. Most of their "business" offerings have pretty muted styles compared with their gamer machines.
If I were a sales guy, whipping out an OMGGAMEZ0RD00D laptop might look a bit professional, especially when the Quake "humiliation" sound plays instead of the usual "ding" beep. For IT folks in an office it's no worse than lugging around a Dell 8000/9000 laptop.
Because when Gmail goes down or gets hacked, it'll be in beta so you'll have no reason to complain. When your corporate mail server goes down or gets hacked, it'll be the end of the world.
Mind telling me what's so awful about that? It's not like it takes a long time to register a Yahoo! account. It's not like you have to provide any real information to create one.
If the idea of single sign-in worries you, then I don't know where you can go -- Google's on board, Microsoft has Passport, and other companies really enjoy the "stickiness" that such capabilities bring.
Or I could have encrypted* the file, uploaded it to YouSendIt, and sent you a link.
* Office XP and later actually do encrypt files when passwords are used to protect the entire file
Before you respond "just cut it up into 10 MB chunks," realize:
I want to send you a 100-megabyte file in less than 24 hours and I live across the country from you. However my Gmail account only lets me send attachments up to 10 MB in size and Gmail probably won't let you receive a message that big. How can I send you this file?
When Google is taken to task for flaws in Gmail, if Google says "Gmail is beta, it may have problems" then it's beta. I don't care how much you like it. If its creator doesn't consider it good enough for production use, then it's not good enough for production use.
Place the files on a secure server you control (or lease from a trusted source). Send encrypted access instructions to the recipient. Or establish access well in advance and just send the recipient a message "Please log in to MySecureServer to retrieve a new file."
There are already many companies around that establish secure file storage areas to avoid the inherent security and file-size problems associated with e-mail attachments.
Iraq's a beta country: occasional big glitches here and there, but some people seem to trust in it a lot more than others. It seems only natural that they'd rely on a beta e-mail service. :)
He found a flaw in a piece of beta software. Where's the controversy? It's not like people were running their business off a Gmail account or anything...
Products and services, of course. :)
It seems like they're also rolling out a new sort of platform:
'At the core of the EdgeClick platform is an innovative service-oriented architecture (SOA) server called an "edge processor" that connects many types of end-point devices -- including mobile phones, PCs and others -- to robust digital network services for communications, collaboration, control, information access and transactional processing. Integrated with this technology are facilities for automated service branding, monetization and business federation. These facilities make seamless the development, marketing, provisioning and billing of high-value, high-impact digital services.'
The blurb spun this as "mass text messages to cell phones." Are there any positive uses for this, like informing schoolchildren about snow days and such?
Apple wants to sell you Leno's monologue or last week's "The Office" for $2. What makes you think they would let you record them yourself for free*?
* Well, you might have to pay the cable company or buy an off-air antenna, but Apple wouldn't make money from either of those
I'm pretty sure it's Intel Extreme Graphics but it doesn't appear to take any of the system RAM away. StatBar claims I have 256 MB of RAM available to Windows, the total amount of RAM that came with the system.
The Mac mini has shared video memory, so you really get 448 MB (512 - 64) of usable system memory.
Jeez, shared memory. Even my $300 Dell doesn't stoop that low.
I assume you're in Pittsburgh based on those place names; in that case I recommend a trek up Rialto Street (Pig Hill) on the North Side (a 25% grade) or Canton Street in Beechview (a 37% grade, among the steepest streets in the world). That's what I call "heavy mode."
I believe the game was called "Dance Aerobics" and used a color pallette that consisted largely of pink.
I used to accuse companies of such trickery, but then I got the all-new Infinium Labs Lapboard. What makes the Infinium Labs Lapboard very unique is that the keyboard can be angled upwards to create a surface for the mouse to operate on underneath. The Infinium Labs Lapboard is also wireless and can operate at a distance of up to 30 feet. That's more than nine metres of connectivity, which is great because I can play games like Battlefield Earth 1942 with my Infinium Labs Lapboard on my Microsoft Windows Media Centre Edition Personal Computer Powered by Gateway on my Gateway Enhanced Definition Plasma Television whilst sitting on my exquisite Ikea Spruengvar leather sofa. Check the Infinium Labs Lapboard out right away.
I put stickers and plastic doodads on my Nintendo DS to increase its speed and 802.11b range. It works on cars too!