Popularity or notability don't imply competence. Sometimes, people think they do, but I think in general people understand the difference, certainly as they get older.
Google Answers, which was closed seven years ago after four years of operation, is similar to this only with video.
Compared to Answers, Helpouts is far more expensive to the consumer, the providers are not certified for quality, and both consumer and provider need to be available for a live video chat. I give it four years.
Meanwhile, I'll use the much better advice I can get on YouTube for free, on my time, and in my underwear.
This story is only two hour old and has already exploded. Snowden has officially become a martyr. Brazil is sounding less and less like a fictional film and more like a scary prophecy.
So usage is declining. But who continues to use Google Reader? Everyone who leads the social web, as evident by this story exploding everywhere. Google retiring Reader got more press than any Google innovation got in years.
Maybe Google should use the statistics of attention and rage rather than usage for deciding this one.
Apple's PR is doing a great job. Way to spin something into a provocative flamebait. Google didn't say what the title says it did, but timothy just couldn't resist.
The last two stories timothy posted were assertions of facts based on meaningless statistics (Objective-C Overtakes C++ based on TIOBE Index) and now this. Is it naive incompetence or deliberate provocation of a circlejerk? I'm not sure which is worse.
Oh, please. It wasn't an evil secret plan. They were going to announce it on Monday. They were being polite to give their employees a heads-up before the rest of the world. There is no conspiracy or hypocrisy here.
On Monday Mitchell Baker will be posting on the future of Thunderbird.
We'd like you to be aware of it before it goes public. However, this
is *confidential* until the post is pushed live Monday afternoon PDT.
Please don't tweet, blog or discuss on public mailing lists before
then.
This is not an urgent scoop that can't wait for the official announcement in two days. The submitter was a dick for leaking it, and timothy was unprofessional for approving it.
They removed the old sharing functions from Reader and replaced them with Google+. It wasn't really an update. Some even consider it as stunting Reader because they had their social network in Reader and then they lost it. As far as I know, all the employees who worked on Reader were removed from working on it years ago, and there are no plans for doing any work on it in the future.
Now I'm fearing for Google Reader, which I use all the time. Google hasn't updated it for years, so it's just a matter of time before it is "spring cleaned".
So you don't know what the announcement is, but you're speculating anyway instead of waiting a couple of days. What is this, CNN? Enough with this. I want news for nerds and stuff that matters, not circlejerking 24/7!
The cashless future is already here. All of US dollars bills and coins account for less than 5% of dollars. The rest are digital. One professor of mine said it's as low as 2%.
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Popularity or notability don't imply competence. Sometimes, people think they do, but I think in general people understand the difference, certainly as they get older.
Google Answers, which was closed seven years ago after four years of operation, is similar to this only with video.
Compared to Answers, Helpouts is far more expensive to the consumer, the providers are not certified for quality, and both consumer and provider need to be available for a live video chat. I give it four years.
Meanwhile, I'll use the much better advice I can get on YouTube for free, on my time, and in my underwear.
The summary looks like a collection of vaguely-related sentences.
I thought Google had at least 10 more good years before the corporate culture take over completely.
This story is only two hour old and has already exploded. Snowden has officially become a martyr. Brazil is sounding less and less like a fictional film and more like a scary prophecy.
Chrome was made popular by being promoted on the most popular homepage in the world.
I've seen so many "Fuck you Google" said today I'm beginning to think Google has officially transitioned into being the new Microsoft.
Statistics as always ruin everything.
So usage is declining. But who continues to use Google Reader? Everyone who leads the social web, as evident by this story exploding everywhere. Google retiring Reader got more press than any Google innovation got in years.
Maybe Google should use the statistics of attention and rage rather than usage for deciding this one.
One of their reasons to retire GR is to focus their efforts. No effort has gone into GR for the last few years. Why not just keep it? The cost is nil.
The Arrow weapon system that Israel developed and deployed takes care of larger faster missiles. It's very similar to the Iron Dome, only bigger.
So why stop at the toilet? Push those worms up our butts and be done with it.
Wow. That sounds almost too good to be true, but I'll take your word for it, AC.
Apple's PR is doing a great job. Way to spin something into a provocative flamebait. Google didn't say what the title says it did, but timothy just couldn't resist.
Haha. I'm stealing that.
The last two stories timothy posted were assertions of facts based on meaningless statistics (Objective-C Overtakes C++ based on TIOBE Index) and now this. Is it naive incompetence or deliberate provocation of a circlejerk? I'm not sure which is worse.
You forgot the timothy factor.
Oh, please. It wasn't an evil secret plan. They were going to announce it on Monday. They were being polite to give their employees a heads-up before the rest of the world. There is no conspiracy or hypocrisy here.
This is not an urgent scoop that can't wait for the official announcement in two days. The submitter was a dick for leaking it, and timothy was unprofessional for approving it.
They removed the old sharing functions from Reader and replaced them with Google+. It wasn't really an update. Some even consider it as stunting Reader because they had their social network in Reader and then they lost it. As far as I know, all the employees who worked on Reader were removed from working on it years ago, and there are no plans for doing any work on it in the future.
Now I'm fearing for Google Reader, which I use all the time. Google hasn't updated it for years, so it's just a matter of time before it is "spring cleaned".
Ah. This statement can only come out of the young and naive...
So you don't know what the announcement is, but you're speculating anyway instead of waiting a couple of days. What is this, CNN? Enough with this. I want news for nerds and stuff that matters, not circlejerking 24/7!
According to Betteridge's Law of Headlines: No.
"Digital Archery" is very apt. It's a stupid name for a stupid idea made by a stupid organization.
The cashless future is already here. All of US dollars bills and coins account for less than 5% of dollars. The rest are digital. One professor of mine said it's as low as 2%.