Oh, terribly sorry. What good are photo albums when I can instead dick around with RAID configurations or upload all my photographs and entrust them to a beta service owned by a non-Google and therefore potentially evil company?
It's supply and demand -- the same market factors that make A-Rod worth 400 times what you make. The CEO is often the most publicly-visible representative for your corporation, and his ability to make decisions about the operations of a company is just as important as his ability to go on CNBC and say something that makes people buy your stock. Someone needs an ideal mix of education, connections, public-relations acumen, and management experience to be a good CEO. After all, when you're the most public figure of a company, people from snarky bloggers to snarky software engineers all have better ideas than you do.
Even low-end inkjet paper will last longer than any hard drive ever will. Yes, you can juggle your data across as many backup hard drives as you want, but one misstep and 10,000 photos are gone.
Plus, believe it or not, "Open photo album and look at pictures" is more desirable than "Boot computer, choose kernel 2.4.19-fl-fs0-a-pz.d from bootloader, wait, wait, log in, launch Spatial Nautilus Gnome Finder, navigate to photos directory, select several pictures, open, wait, press v, press PGDN a lot" to me.
Google makes nearly all its revenue off ads, so I'd call them a "giant ad broker" if there ever were one. All their services are designed to get you, the user, to see and click on their ads. They compete with DoubleClick as well as Yahoo! -- ever notice how much is tied to that one never-expiring Google cookie? Google knows who your Brazilian friends are, what you want to buy, who you send mail to, and what kind of porn you like. Compared to all that, there's virtually no money to be made on a JavaScript office suite.
It's far easier for Time Warner (who owns the "Happy Birthday" rights through a subsidiary) to sue a big chain than it would be for them to sue every little restaurant where their songs get sung. As a result, the big chains get paranoid about copyright violations.
True story: I was at an Applebee's in Ann Arbor, MI, and there was some basketball game on the TVs at the bar with the sound muted. They actually put a clear sticker on the bottom part of the TV that said, "Due to copyright restrictions, the audio may not be played." (Emphasis mine.) As a graduate of Slashdot Law School, I am simply amazed at the amount of legal ignorance going on in today's casual dining establishments.
Google also caches every web site it finds and that's fine with most people here. Perhaps you missed Google's new motto, "All your web are belong to us."
GMail said "sorry, you need Internet Explorer or Firefox to access this site," before adding Safari support months later. The reason was because all the JavaScript they used (even if it was valid) didn't work with all browsers. Now, Google uses JavaScript to detect what JavaScript to send you.
How, exactly, can "conformance to Web standards" go along with something like JavaScript? I don't think it can, and I think there are far more people saying "OMG TEH NEW WEBMAIL IS SO L33T"* than "Hey, I can't use this with my screen reader."**
* Google l33t-speak beta reports 40,000 results for this phrase ** Google blog search reports 0 results for this phrase
What "web standards" do popular AJAX applications use? I don't recall ever running GMail or Google Maps through a JavaScript validator. They're all JavaScript hacks, and people love them.
Oh, come now. Are you saying that anyone smart enough to choose to run Mozilla Firefox needs a toolbar button to launch OpenOffice.org? Why, with that intelligence you could run
apt-get install openoffice.org-2 && oowriter &
Don't misunderestimate your own intelligence, proud Mozilla Firefox user.
Sorry, Google Toolbar With OpenOffice.org Support is only available for Internet Explorer at this time.
Please wait two years for Google to develop a Firefox equivalent. Alternatively, you can contribute to the development of the FreeGoogleOpenOfficeToolBarDotOrg Firefox extension project. Donate money.
Download, install OpenOffice.org if it's not installed
OpenOffice.org loads
When you lack network connectivity:
Load Internet Explorer
Click OpenOffice.org button on Google Toolbar
OpenOffice.org loads
There is no JavaScript Office reimplementation. Google's just cross-marketing a free product, in the same way that Adobe Reader 7's installer prompts you to install the Yahoo! Toolbar.
Google is including a button on its toolbar that will let you download OpenOffice.org or run it if it's installed. I think Microsoft is "capable of" linking to a 100MB installer. The only thing that's "online" about this is that you can download the software.
Once Google's Orkut comes out of beta, oh, man. It'll be like Friendster and Tribe and OKCupid and BDSMPartnerSearch.com.au all put together but with amazingly leet JavaScript.
Actually, I heard that Google has already ported the Linux kernel from C to JavaScript. As soon as the average user has enough CPU power to run it, we'll all be running Linux all the time!
"Our primary development effort is NeoOffice/J. NeoOffice/J uses a combination of Carbon and Java to make a truly native open source office suite."
No, it's not written in JavaScript (and I know that Java and JavaScript are totally separate) but NeoOffice/J is almost as foolish a replacement for Microsoft Office as JavaScriptOffice would be. NeoOffice is huge, sluggish, ugly, and is completely non-interoperable with any other Mac OS X application.
Chances are that if a major company like Google is doing this, they'll have a license agreement that says something like "OUR LIABILITY IF OUR SITE GOES DOWN WILL BE NO MORE THAN FIVE U.S. DOLLARS." I'd imagine this sort of web service would be more marketable to companies who would set it up on their intranets and support it in-house.
Slashdot Mirror
According to Slashdot, "Yahoo! Podcast users have the ability to rate shows."
Oh, terribly sorry. What good are photo albums when I can instead dick around with RAID configurations or upload all my photographs and entrust them to a beta service owned by a non-Google and therefore potentially evil company?
It's supply and demand -- the same market factors that make A-Rod worth 400 times what you make. The CEO is often the most publicly-visible representative for your corporation, and his ability to make decisions about the operations of a company is just as important as his ability to go on CNBC and say something that makes people buy your stock. Someone needs an ideal mix of education, connections, public-relations acumen, and management experience to be a good CEO. After all, when you're the most public figure of a company, people from snarky bloggers to snarky software engineers all have better ideas than you do.
Even low-end inkjet paper will last longer than any hard drive ever will. Yes, you can juggle your data across as many backup hard drives as you want, but one misstep and 10,000 photos are gone.
Plus, believe it or not, "Open photo album and look at pictures" is more desirable than "Boot computer, choose kernel 2.4.19-fl-fs0-a-pz.d from bootloader, wait, wait, log in, launch Spatial Nautilus Gnome Finder, navigate to photos directory, select several pictures, open, wait, press v, press PGDN a lot" to me.
Google makes nearly all its revenue off ads, so I'd call them a "giant ad broker" if there ever were one. All their services are designed to get you, the user, to see and click on their ads. They compete with DoubleClick as well as Yahoo! -- ever notice how much is tied to that one never-expiring Google cookie? Google knows who your Brazilian friends are, what you want to buy, who you send mail to, and what kind of porn you like. Compared to all that, there's virtually no money to be made on a JavaScript office suite.
That's good. I'm sick of pretentious web pages with tiny fonts, like oh so many blogs. What ass decided that low-contrast 7-point Verdana was good enough to write a whole web site in?
It's far easier for Time Warner (who owns the "Happy Birthday" rights through a subsidiary) to sue a big chain than it would be for them to sue every little restaurant where their songs get sung. As a result, the big chains get paranoid about copyright violations.
True story: I was at an Applebee's in Ann Arbor, MI, and there was some basketball game on the TVs at the bar with the sound muted. They actually put a clear sticker on the bottom part of the TV that said, "Due to copyright restrictions, the audio may not be played." (Emphasis mine.) As a graduate of Slashdot Law School, I am simply amazed at the amount of legal ignorance going on in today's casual dining establishments.
Couldn't the various agencies get Google Search Appliances and then enable searching across all their various networks?
(Google would be done faster than the government anyway, even after Google's mandatory 6-year beta period.)
Google also caches every web site it finds and that's fine with most people here. Perhaps you missed Google's new motto, "All your web are belong to us."
GMail said "sorry, you need Internet Explorer or Firefox to access this site," before adding Safari support months later. The reason was because all the JavaScript they used (even if it was valid) didn't work with all browsers. Now, Google uses JavaScript to detect what JavaScript to send you.
How, exactly, can "conformance to Web standards" go along with something like JavaScript? I don't think it can, and I think there are far more people saying "OMG TEH NEW WEBMAIL IS SO L33T"* than "Hey, I can't use this with my screen reader."**
* Google l33t-speak beta reports 40,000 results for this phrase
** Google blog search reports 0 results for this phrase
What "web standards" do popular AJAX applications use? I don't recall ever running GMail or Google Maps through a JavaScript validator. They're all JavaScript hacks, and people love them.
Sorry, Google Toolbar With OpenOffice.org Support is only available for Internet Explorer at this time.
Please wait two years for Google to develop a Firefox equivalent. Alternatively, you can contribute to the development of the FreeGoogleOpenOfficeToolBarDotOrg Firefox extension project. Donate money.
- Load Internet Explorer
- Click OpenOffice.org button on Google Toolbar
- Download, install OpenOffice.org if it's not installed
- OpenOffice.org loads
When you lack network connectivity:- Load Internet Explorer
- Click OpenOffice.org button on Google Toolbar
- OpenOffice.org loads
There is no JavaScript Office reimplementation. Google's just cross-marketing a free product, in the same way that Adobe Reader 7's installer prompts you to install the Yahoo! Toolbar.Google is including a button on its toolbar that will let you download OpenOffice.org or run it if it's installed. I think Microsoft is "capable of" linking to a 100MB installer. The only thing that's "online" about this is that you can download the software.
Once Google's Orkut comes out of beta, oh, man. It'll be like Friendster and Tribe and OKCupid and BDSMPartnerSearch.com.au all put together but with amazingly leet JavaScript.
But it won't be evil.
Wow. Remind me never to watch DVDs in Michigan.
I blog you too, man.
Blog, I totally TrackBacked. Don't be comment-spamming my moblogpost! Podcast?
Actually, I heard that Google has already ported the Linux kernel from C to JavaScript. As soon as the average user has enough CPU power to run it, we'll all be running Linux all the time!
I don't mean to blog, but I totally blogged this yesterblog. Take that, blogosphere!
http://www.neooffice.org/
"Our primary development effort is NeoOffice/J. NeoOffice/J uses a combination of Carbon and Java to make a truly native open source office suite."
No, it's not written in JavaScript (and I know that Java and JavaScript are totally separate) but NeoOffice/J is almost as foolish a replacement for Microsoft Office as JavaScriptOffice would be. NeoOffice is huge, sluggish, ugly, and is completely non-interoperable with any other Mac OS X application.
Chances are that if a major company like Google is doing this, they'll have a license agreement that says something like "OUR LIABILITY IF OUR SITE GOES DOWN WILL BE NO MORE THAN FIVE U.S. DOLLARS." I'd imagine this sort of web service would be more marketable to companies who would set it up on their intranets and support it in-house.
NeoOffice/J: about 60% the size of Microsoft Office for Mac, and almost 20% as fast! Isn't Java great?