If Google is really building datacenters and buying cables to control the internet bandwidth, because "in the future" we will all use 3GB daily, and this is Google's bet, then they suck.
10 years ago everyone had dial-up. It took only a decade for everyone to download/stream movies. And the technology to transport data will only get better. It won't stop at cable, at 1MB or 2MB per second. Maybe it'll even be wireless. I wouldn't strategize my business around the non-existance of a technology that WILL come, and it will NOT take long./me waits for a Google C*O to say: T1 is ought to be enough for anybody.
I knew someone was going to post the "think of the children" expression but what I didn't imagine it was going to be in such stupid form.
Anyway, the "think of the children" argument is usually applied when a law or similar stuff is done to PREVENT crime against children, for example, Myspace requiring minors to have parent's permission, or denying people adding then as friends. On this situation, you're trying to prevent something from happening, "thinking of the children", saying that a contact between them and a sexual predator is probable.
What happened in Orkut is that an ACTUAL crime was commited, and the prosecutors are trying to know who did. The specific IP on a specific timeframe.
I don't think you deserved that explanation since it seems there aren't enough neurons in your skull to understand what's happening outside your basement, but let it be written for others to see the whole picture.
You don't get it. This isn't against free speech. There are actual postings on Orkut's communites saying "let's beat the crap of that black boy after school on 01/29", and you know what? The black boy is now at the hospital.
Would you deny that there's a chance that whoever posted that on Orkut did the actual beating? What if it was your son that is hospitalized?
The Pirates have gone global this time. They can change their port with the tidal waves of mind crimes and its nefarious actions.
It's not time to save on resources. The criminals can move between countries in a matter of days.
We need the help of a new super-hero spotted in Canada previous week! Only him can track down the Pirates and sunk their ship of infringments around the Earth.
Support the fantasy! Don't let our dreams die!
Captain Copyright, our prays are with you. Save us from the Pirates!
Not interesting, in fact it they show how Nintendo went from 1st to 3rd.
Don't get me wrong, I am a Nintendo fanboy. But they don't sell as well as Sony or MS. That's a fact... the competition is there, but the same is true for the competition too.
PS2 sold 100 million consoles worldwide, and it had competitors. Why is it interesting the Cube sales? They aren't, and they sucked. Yeah, yeah, profit and all that, but you shouldn't talk about market share this way. Can't fool the numbers:)
I don't think it's a shortcut neither a cheating: The game mechanics allow these transaction to happen.
The possibility of gold exchange should be taken into account by the developers, and the game, balanced accordingly. It's something that the players want to do, you don't battle against your userbase. There are game designs, of course, but once you put l00t and currency, this *will* happen, no matter what the "terms of use" or anything like that says.
The developers should, then, design around this issue, and stay way from simple definitions like "cheating" or "shortcut". If you think it's a shortcut, then perhaps you have a flaw on the loot drops, and it's they that should be changed, not the player behaviour.
Some fights can't be won, and are not that bug deal, so just go along.
Definitively. I've seem some phones that can connect to MSN to send and receive messages, but you have to pay for each.
SMS + IM integration is a gold mine for telcos, and a rogue developer plus a small subscription based website/service can probably pull lower prices. Don't want that happening:)
A lot of bad messages can be hide under humor... I've never looked these dinousaur ads using this point of view, but I can see it happening. Thing is that MS advertises the business logic and the people that belong to the process as old, not the tools.
It does, but that has never been the point, really. The problem is exactly what you've mentioned: Hacks that become mission critical apps. I've seen law offices (the niche where I work) run their entire database on it! From my experience, Access can't handle more than 10K items, doesn't matter in what tables they are. After this number, data becomes corrupted, on the proportion: One row in, one random row out.
I bet someone can make a pretty good money if they come up with a Access -> LAMP conversion tool... Something that emulates 95% of an Access "application".
A private desktop allows more control over widgets and content. You don't need to break the existing OS UI guidelines, in fact, if done properly, every windows, button or menu will follow the style of the operating system.
What you may have seem is a feature supported by FF but not by Opera, but overall, the opposite is true.
Care to say what code fails on Opera 8.5, btw? I am not trying to discredit you, but Opera is my "normal" and "development" browser of choice, so I am just honestly curious...
This is entirely different from Google sticking with its motto. I do think China will be the largest economy in the world, if not on this century, the next. And India close... mostly because of the volume of workforce available.
Google can enter any market they want. They can even never report (or index pages, or serve on news.google.com) journalist assassinations around the world, torture on prisons, and all that stuff.
But at least come clean. Saying "we do no evil" while doing evil is marketing fluff. Once a company run by engineers, with cool products, Google had to make decisions based on profit, but they still market themselves as the good boys around the block.
Are they better, or less evil, or do more good than MSN and Yahoo? Yeah, probably, but on the long term, it's not a good strategy. People like the "don't be evil" thing.
Once we know that Google is capable of taking decisions based on money, bending its values and promoted motto to increase the stock value, it really puts a question mark on a lot of other actions.
Back to the topic, are we *sure* now that Google didn't deliver the information requested by DoJ because they want to protect its users' privacy? Can you find economical reasons for this? I can, and one of them is exactly privacy: As a search engine, Google has to earn trust from the users, and protecting their privacy is one step into this.
But did Google really protected your privacy or did they really protected their business? The original intention is crucial, not only because of the moral ramifications of the motto, but because, what happens next? What if an advertiser comes and says that they want Google's data about you?
And is an advertiser trying to hold information about you, looking for profit, worse than Google holding information about you, and also looking for profit? When you know that Google might do anything to get money, that's a scary thing.
Things are not that bad of course. Google is still the nicest player around. But they showed us that they will bend what's right and wrong when money is involved. And that's scary:(
I guess you're saying that it's ok if I select only certain parts of your post, so people get to know you better. Better to know something than nothing at all, right?
ranton said
the best way to liberate China from their oppressive regime is to isolate them even further.
Actually one button + spatial-awareness is equal to lots of input.
Hold "A" and move the controller to the left, certain action if performed. Move to the right, another. Move to front, then up, *another*. Back, left, up-down quickly, and your "Finish Him" move is performed. Or use the nunchaku for movement, and let the controller take care of other actions.
The controller knows where it is in space, what angle is facing, and what speed is moving. That's a *lot* of buttons:p
Maybe it won't be confortable, or it won't be fun, but that we will have to wait to see...
Just four letters is okay, but when you distract your visitor with useless links, you're driving them away. What's the problem with just linking the company name to a page where you can read the news, see the stock value, etc...? That's the whole point of hyperlink!:/
That's Google trying to control the plataform. They can contribute to Firefox, either hacking its source or creating extensions. Imagine Firefox with IE marketshare, ~85%, and Google releasing a new product tomorrow, integrated with their Toolbar, on all those desktops.
Plus, Javascript/DOM/XUL support made exactly the way they want.
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No, because you don't even achieve the serious candidate status unless you believe in God.
If Google is really building datacenters and buying cables to control the internet bandwidth, because "in the future" we will all use 3GB daily, and this is Google's bet, then they suck.
/me waits for a Google C*O to say: T1 is ought to be enough for anybody.
10 years ago everyone had dial-up. It took only a decade for everyone to download/stream movies. And the technology to transport data will only get better. It won't stop at cable, at 1MB or 2MB per second. Maybe it'll even be wireless. I wouldn't strategize my business around the non-existance of a technology that WILL come, and it will NOT take long.
I knew someone was going to post the "think of the children" expression but what I didn't imagine it was going to be in such stupid form.
Anyway, the "think of the children" argument is usually applied when a law or similar stuff is done to PREVENT crime against children, for example, Myspace requiring minors to have parent's permission, or denying people adding then as friends. On this situation, you're trying to prevent something from happening, "thinking of the children", saying that a contact between them and a sexual predator is probable.
What happened in Orkut is that an ACTUAL crime was commited, and the prosecutors are trying to know who did. The specific IP on a specific timeframe.
I don't think you deserved that explanation since it seems there aren't enough neurons in your skull to understand what's happening outside your basement, but let it be written for others to see the whole picture.
You don't get it. This isn't against free speech. There are actual postings on Orkut's communites saying "let's beat the crap of that black boy after school on 01/29", and you know what? The black boy is now at the hospital.
Would you deny that there's a chance that whoever posted that on Orkut did the actual beating? What if it was your son that is hospitalized?
Quickly, citizens!
The Pirates have gone global this time. They can change their port with the tidal waves of mind crimes and its nefarious actions.
It's not time to save on resources. The criminals can move between countries in a matter of days.
We need the help of a new super-hero spotted in Canada previous week! Only him can track down the Pirates and sunk their ship of infringments around the Earth.
Support the fantasy! Don't let our dreams die!
Captain Copyright, our prays are with you. Save us from the Pirates!
me too
Not interesting, in fact it they show how Nintendo went from 1st to 3rd.
:)
Don't get me wrong, I am a Nintendo fanboy. But they don't sell as well as Sony or MS. That's a fact... the competition is there, but the same is true for the competition too.
PS2 sold 100 million consoles worldwide, and it had competitors. Why is it interesting the Cube sales? They aren't, and they sucked. Yeah, yeah, profit and all that, but you shouldn't talk about market share this way. Can't fool the numbers
And if they don't offer you a 300k salary, hold the source as a hostage^H^H^H^H^H^H^H negotiation tool.
I don't think it's a shortcut neither a cheating: The game mechanics allow these transaction to happen.
The possibility of gold exchange should be taken into account by the developers, and the game, balanced accordingly. It's something that the players want to do, you don't battle against your userbase. There are game designs, of course, but once you put l00t and currency, this *will* happen, no matter what the "terms of use" or anything like that says.
The developers should, then, design around this issue, and stay way from simple definitions like "cheating" or "shortcut". If you think it's a shortcut, then perhaps you have a flaw on the loot drops, and it's they that should be changed, not the player behaviour.
Some fights can't be won, and are not that bug deal, so just go along.
Definitively. I've seem some phones that can connect to MSN to send and receive messages, but you have to pay for each.
:)
SMS + IM integration is a gold mine for telcos, and a rogue developer plus a small subscription based website/service can probably pull lower prices. Don't want that happening
A lot of bad messages can be hide under humor... I've never looked these dinousaur ads using this point of view, but I can see it happening. Thing is that MS advertises the business logic and the people that belong to the process as old, not the tools.
It does, but that has never been the point, really. The problem is exactly what you've mentioned: Hacks that become mission critical apps. I've seen law offices (the niche where I work) run their entire database on it! From my experience, Access can't handle more than 10K items, doesn't matter in what tables they are. After this number, data becomes corrupted, on the proportion: One row in, one random row out.
I bet someone can make a pretty good money if they come up with a Access -> LAMP conversion tool... Something that emulates 95% of an Access "application".
My dad used to steal my porn magazines :p
A private desktop allows more control over widgets and content. You don't need to break the existing OS UI guidelines, in fact, if done properly, every windows, button or menu will follow the style of the operating system.
Opera has far better CSS support than FF and IE.
What you may have seem is a feature supported by FF but not by Opera, but overall, the opposite is true.
Care to say what code fails on Opera 8.5, btw? I am not trying to discredit you, but Opera is my "normal" and "development" browser of choice, so I am just honestly curious...
private String k4_pacific = "Brillant";
This is entirely different from Google sticking with its motto. I do think China will be the largest economy in the world, if not on this century, the next. And India close... mostly because of the volume of workforce available.
:(
Google can enter any market they want. They can even never report (or index pages, or serve on news.google.com) journalist assassinations around the world, torture on prisons, and all that stuff.
But at least come clean. Saying "we do no evil" while doing evil is marketing fluff. Once a company run by engineers, with cool products, Google had to make decisions based on profit, but they still market themselves as the good boys around the block.
Are they better, or less evil, or do more good than MSN and Yahoo? Yeah, probably, but on the long term, it's not a good strategy. People like the "don't be evil" thing.
Once we know that Google is capable of taking decisions based on money, bending its values and promoted motto to increase the stock value, it really puts a question mark on a lot of other actions.
Back to the topic, are we *sure* now that Google didn't deliver the information requested by DoJ because they want to protect its users' privacy? Can you find economical reasons for this? I can, and one of them is exactly privacy: As a search engine, Google has to earn trust from the users, and protecting their privacy is one step into this.
But did Google really protected your privacy or did they really protected their business? The original intention is crucial, not only because of the moral ramifications of the motto, but because, what happens next? What if an advertiser comes and says that they want Google's data about you?
And is an advertiser trying to hold information about you, looking for profit, worse than Google holding information about you, and also looking for profit? When you know that Google might do anything to get money, that's a scary thing.
Things are not that bad of course. Google is still the nicest player around. But they showed us that they will bend what's right and wrong when money is involved. And that's scary
I guess you're saying that it's ok if I select only certain parts of your post, so people get to know you better. Better to know something than nothing at all, right?
ranton said
the best way to liberate China from their oppressive regime is to isolate them even further.
Actually one button + spatial-awareness is equal to lots of input.
:p
Hold "A" and move the controller to the left, certain action if performed. Move to the right, another. Move to front, then up, *another*. Back, left, up-down quickly, and your "Finish Him" move is performed. Or use the nunchaku for movement, and let the controller take care of other actions.
The controller knows where it is in space, what angle is facing, and what speed is moving. That's a *lot* of buttons
Maybe it won't be confortable, or it won't be fun, but that we will have to wait to see...
That's true, for a small example, feed enough religious texts (plenty of those around) and AskG will probably answer "Yes" to "Does God exist?".
And if you tweak the system to don't answer again whatever it produced at the first time, you're injecting bias on it. And we go back to step one...
I (Id/Ego/Superego, 25 years) remember reading news items on the past (this date, yesterday) where when a company was mentioned (gossip, rumors) and the quote (stock, market) would appear (insight, visible, shown) next to the name (identity). Now this trend (fashion, cool) about putting links (html) next (after) to names (identity) is getting out of control (dictatorship)!
:/
Just four letters is okay, but when you distract your visitor with useless links, you're driving them away. What's the problem with just linking the company name to a page where you can read the news, see the stock value, etc...? That's the whole point of hyperlink!
Er... no.
That's Google trying to control the plataform. They can contribute to Firefox, either hacking its source or creating extensions. Imagine Firefox with IE marketshare, ~85%, and Google releasing a new product tomorrow, integrated with their Toolbar, on all those desktops.
Plus, Javascript/DOM/XUL support made exactly the way they want.
www.rainbowhouse.gov ?
You can take any Harry Potter book and replace this sentence: Harry looks to Hermione with Harry fucks Hermione.
You can easily switch between web search engines while the same is not true for operating systems. Google is on a much weaker lead spot than MS.