I agree. I'd suspect this is a genuine product that they will be rolling out soon - but that the April 1st release is to make everyone THINK its the equivalent of the BMW undercarraige carwash "a bird shits on you on the highway - the auto carwash springs to action"
Assuming 90% of the users use just 10% of that Gb, and that the AdSense ads are as profitable within the Gmail as they are in Google itself this looks like an extremely profitable proposition.
Add the fact that the sheer number of emails about this would swamp google because its NOT an obvious 'fool' and I think it'd be a poor show if they dont have this on the way.
Technically Google can do it, economically they get what they need - more eyeballs.
A good percentage of Holland and a growing area in Scotland is under glass / plastic to extend the vegetable / fruit season.
It costs more, but the crops are more valuable. The difference being of course that they couldnt grow these crops outdoors.
With GM 'cancercorn' they can grow outdoors - so it is seen as a cost, not an investment, to grow under cover.
Yet again - if government banned outdoor growing but licenced controlled indoor growing the economics would shift - not stopping, but changing GM development.
One of my pet hates, which gets me angry more than all the terrorist activities and political corruption we have right now, is this kind of attitude towards the Book.
Books, we are led to believe are entirely a Good Thing, lacking any negative factors whatsoever. An evening to be spent reading a Book is somehow a Good Use of Time, an evening spent watching Newsnight a Very Bad Thing which will rot the mind. Playing Nintendo, surfing/., grating cheese for an anglacised Lasagne top all get filed under 'not as good as reading a Book'.
Reading makes you interesting. Reading a book a week, at least, is somehow essential to being a good lay.
Books, I can tell you, can be entertaining, enlightening, thought provoking, downright boring and dumb. So can TV. I can watch political debates on TV and read Books based on sexually liberated vampire sluts with an extra set of tits just above their ass. Generally speaking, the 'thinking media' would rather I read the book for its subversive play of sexual stereotypes and themes of feminine empowerment in this post 9/11 world. Personally, I'd rather find out what the fuck Mr Sharon is up to this week!
This fundamentalist acceptance of the Books are Good philosophy just pisses me off. It's no doubt irrational.
As a side note - the personification of this attitude is mariella frostrup the bitch!
This seems like an idea that the UK publishing industry is missing a trick with.
Publish a rather mediocre low cost of production Linux / OS / general computer magazine but put high quality recent Knoppix etc... on the cover disk to save people downloads / ordering a 3 CD (which you never get round to doing).
Get a reputation for bundling nice things and I'd subscribe for 30-40 a year with no troubles. GIve me a few well written articles, throw a few quid at some OSS dev teams from time to time and the fluffiness gets even better.
How many people continued to buy Computer Shopper and the like for the 3 or 4 pages which were actually an interesting read long after the rest of the magazine went to shit??
Emap - if you steal this idea I'll be quite pleased!
I enjoy making my big cross in a box - but I hate staying up all night to see who won while newsreaders talk shite endlessly. There is a bit of excitement as ministers that you hate get the boot - but overall Id prefer a quicker count.
Give me a simple 2-ply card - and an electronic punching / counting machine. I insert my card and pick the guy from the screen. The card gets punched through.
I place one of the ply in the box in front of the adjudicator, and I TAKE ONE AWAY.
Then at any point in the next few months I can go into any booth and insert my card to see if my vote matches the hole that was punched. You dont insert the punched whole - just the other end of the card.
I can check my vote was registered correctly directly myself. And those smug do-gooder vote counting bastards dont get to stay up all night counting my votes feeling all vital to the democratic system. Which is a good thing.
About 2 years ago Dell in the UK shipped a nice server to a company in our building. Four weeks later the company Visa still hadn't been charged - being an honest chap the boss phoned Dell to tell them to take the payment, as he didnt want a cash flow hit later in the year.
They did. And promptly shipped another identical 4000 server. Sweet.
As far as I know they never asked for it back. SO Dell being shit CAN have an upside!
When I buy a new VW Golf it needs to look good - the fact that I can go down to the trick shop and buy a shitload of wings, pipes, led strips etc... to mod the thing to my taste is beside the point - if the car looks shit to start with no one but the enthusiast will buy one.
OSX looks WAY better than XP in out of the box state. Thats the point. Sure I can change XP to look dramatically better - but my lass isnt going to bother - too busy thinking about shoes!
Linux does not need some fancy graphics on the desktop to make an impact.
It does need them to make some very specific 'impacts' however. Take your average user - give them something that works, is pretty, and is genuinely useful and they will jump for joy.
Even simple things like plugging a digital camera into my laptop (XP) and having it come up with the 'would you like to save these?' option - Yes - Then pick a slideshow from Explorer - it all worked so smoothly and quickly that my better half almoost pooped her pants with 'computers are getting good' excitement.
XP looks shit - but its easy to understand shit with landscape wallpaper and nice fonts. Linux looks shit and its kinda scary shit with penguins or nekkid chicks for wallpaper and white fonts on black... scary!
Cutting a Christmas tree will not allow the stump to produce a new tree - inless you cut the tree above the lowest branches (thereby reducing return on initial cutting as most trees are sold by height) in which case you will essentially get a coppice like series of growths from the the tree (actually very unusual in the species used for Christmas trees) which would require a vast number of man-hours per hectare to manage if they were to produce another crop of viable Christmas trees.
If you are growing deciduous trees for firewood then this is a fine technique - I may be about to plant a couple of acres of mixed hardwoods for a wood burning stove (and to get some squirrel shooting funtime).
Christmas trees are an attractive proposition because they crop relatively quickly, you get high(ish) returns, its cash, everyone turns a blind eye to anything evil like clearfell and pesticides 'because christmas wouldnt be christmas without a dying tree in the house'.
This is the stock arguement for why we all have to pay WAY more than is reasonably to buy replica sports kits.
In actual fact - it is simply a way to protect a revenue stream by limiting the freedom of your customer base to act as they see fit. Which in an OS context sucks.
Calvin and Hobbes cannot be bought on a Tshort because the artist thinks this would be selling out - he is pretty precious about his copyright - which is fair play to him. Its his copyright.
Should OS organisations be behaving in the same manner? I think not.
I wouldn't consider a buck a song unreasonable if I could pick the songs, as opposed to paying $15 for a CD with one or two good songs and filler.
I fucking HATE this arguement. I hardly EVER buy an album that I don't generally enjoy - sure, you get shit tracks, but if you rush out and buy the White Stripes without bothering to see if this single is the most commercial insipid piece of shit on the album then more fool you.
Name me a bad track on the Kings of Leon CD !! Name me a GOOD track on a Britney Spears CD!
I always thought MegaDrive was a pretty damn cool name for a console. Its not trying to be touchy feely like Genesis - and its got a cool 'japanese made up word' feel to it.
Who wouldn't buy a console with 'Mega' in the name!
Ah those were the days! - getting an extra few kay out of your disk seemed like an endeavour worth pursuing for its own sake.
'Look Ma - I just wrote 780 Kay to a NORMAL floppy and read it back - how cool is that'
Other than bits of random code, shit self written games, and animated rip offs of the MTV logos of the day I can't remember a damned thing I stored on the things.
I do things I want to hide. Sometimes my gran would be shocked that I was in the pub, or my GF that I'm STILL in the office instead of the supermarket.
Being tracked sucks. If you, me and the rest of us being tracked helps stop 'the bad man' from 'doing bad things' it might be worth it. But guess what - its 'the bad man' that will figure out how to not be tracked. He'll just sit in his little Belgian basement or something.
Orwellian scaredyness aside - these things are pretty cool
Desperate Dan from the Dandy comic threatens to retire, get an office job, die, go gay, or something radical every couple of years when sales of the comic start to wane.
I've seen Status Quo in their farewell tour 4 times, the first in 1986, the last was at Christmas 2003.
Anecdotal - but I know 4 people who have owned Volvos - one 80s model, three late 90s models. The 80s model is still running and karting mountain bikes around the country every weekend. It recently passes 350,000 miles.
All of the 90s models have been sold on as when they got out of the 3 year warranty things just kept going wrong.
My new Civic cost 12750 almost 3 years ago, hasnt cost me a panny in repairs, and just sold for a shade under 10000. Thats well under 1000/year in costs for motoring in a spanky new car. And I never so much as checked the oil levels. Bargain.
Yeah I could buy a 6 year old Ford for 2 grand and drive it into the scrap yard 3 years from now for less - but not much less - and it'd be a comparitively shit car.
I'd agree with this - but the point is that I KNOW what the costs will be with my Honda - I don't with a comparable Ford. Thats the bit I find attractive - I'd rather pay 10% more in total but not have the inconvenience of breakdowns and repair shops getting in my way.
I am in the market for a new car. I'll be buying a honda. They dont break. Sure - you'll find a couple of horror stories about some broken Hondas - but nothing like the number with other makes.
I'd LOVE to buy a sealed Honda. So long as the warranty states that the car is good to go for 3 years with no wierd service / repair costs for me to pay and I dont have to even TOUCH the engine / oil levels etc... Im happy as larry.
This won't cost more - it'll cost less. At least for those of us buying relatively new vehicles. For the rest of you saps buying 5-10 year old vehicles - EAT MY SEALED CARS DUST!!!
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I agree. I'd suspect this is a genuine product that they will be rolling out soon - but that the April 1st release is to make everyone THINK its the equivalent of the BMW undercarraige carwash "a bird shits on you on the highway - the auto carwash springs to action"
Assuming 90% of the users use just 10% of that Gb, and that the AdSense ads are as profitable within the Gmail as they are in Google itself this looks like an extremely profitable proposition.
Add the fact that the sheer number of emails about this would swamp google because its NOT an obvious 'fool' and I think it'd be a poor show if they dont have this on the way.
Technically Google can do it, economically they get what they need - more eyeballs.
A good percentage of Holland and a growing area in Scotland is under glass / plastic to extend the vegetable / fruit season.
It costs more, but the crops are more valuable. The difference being of course that they couldnt grow these crops outdoors.
With GM 'cancercorn' they can grow outdoors - so it is seen as a cost, not an investment, to grow under cover.
Yet again - if government banned outdoor growing but licenced controlled indoor growing the economics would shift - not stopping, but changing GM development.
One of my pet hates, which gets me angry more than all the terrorist activities and political corruption we have right now, is this kind of attitude towards the Book.
/., grating cheese for an anglacised Lasagne top all get filed under 'not as good as reading a Book'.
Books, we are led to believe are entirely a Good Thing, lacking any negative factors whatsoever. An evening to be spent reading a Book is somehow a Good Use of Time, an evening spent watching Newsnight a Very Bad Thing which will rot the mind. Playing Nintendo, surfing
Reading makes you interesting. Reading a book a week, at least, is somehow essential to being a good lay.
Books, I can tell you, can be entertaining, enlightening, thought provoking, downright boring and dumb. So can TV. I can watch political debates on TV and read Books based on sexually liberated vampire sluts with an extra set of tits just above their ass. Generally speaking, the 'thinking media' would rather I read the book for its subversive play of sexual stereotypes and themes of feminine empowerment in this post 9/11 world. Personally, I'd rather find out what the fuck Mr Sharon is up to this week!
This fundamentalist acceptance of the Books are Good philosophy just pisses me off. It's no doubt irrational.
As a side note - the personification of this attitude is mariella frostrup the bitch!
This seems like an idea that the UK publishing industry is missing a trick with.
Publish a rather mediocre low cost of production Linux / OS / general computer magazine but put high quality recent Knoppix etc... on the cover disk to save people downloads / ordering a 3 CD (which you never get round to doing).
Get a reputation for bundling nice things and I'd subscribe for 30-40 a year with no troubles. GIve me a few well written articles, throw a few quid at some OSS dev teams from time to time and the fluffiness gets even better.
How many people continued to buy Computer Shopper and the like for the 3 or 4 pages which were actually an interesting read long after the rest of the magazine went to shit??
Emap - if you steal this idea I'll be quite pleased!
There is one word that ruins the whole night for me - DIMBLEBY - you can't get away from the bastards!!
I swear that if Channel 4 could resurrect their dad he'd be heading their coverage as well.
In the coming election I'd like to see BBC1 fronted by the bird of BBC Breakfast - she's both funny AND pouty!
I enjoy making my big cross in a box - but I hate staying up all night to see who won while newsreaders talk shite endlessly. There is a bit of excitement as ministers that you hate get the boot - but overall Id prefer a quicker count.
Give me a simple 2-ply card - and an electronic punching / counting machine. I insert my card and pick the guy from the screen. The card gets punched through.
I place one of the ply in the box in front of the adjudicator, and I TAKE ONE AWAY.
Then at any point in the next few months I can go into any booth and insert my card to see if my vote matches the hole that was punched. You dont insert the punched whole - just the other end of the card.
I can check my vote was registered correctly directly myself. And those smug do-gooder vote counting bastards dont get to stay up all night counting my votes feeling all vital to the democratic system. Which is a good thing.
Apologies for clinging to economic reality in any given situation! (thats sounds sarcastic - its not).
Also - cool name!
About 2 years ago Dell in the UK shipped a nice server to a company in our building. Four weeks later the company Visa still hadn't been charged - being an honest chap the boss phoned Dell to tell them to take the payment, as he didnt want a cash flow hit later in the year.
They did. And promptly shipped another identical 4000 server. Sweet.
As far as I know they never asked for it back. SO Dell being shit CAN have an upside!
When I buy a new VW Golf it needs to look good - the fact that I can go down to the trick shop and buy a shitload of wings, pipes, led strips etc... to mod the thing to my taste is beside the point - if the car looks shit to start with no one but the enthusiast will buy one.
OSX looks WAY better than XP in out of the box state. Thats the point. Sure I can change XP to look dramatically better - but my lass isnt going to bother - too busy thinking about shoes!
Linux does not need some fancy graphics on the desktop to make an impact.
It does need them to make some very specific 'impacts' however. Take your average user - give them something that works, is pretty, and is genuinely useful and they will jump for joy.
Even simple things like plugging a digital camera into my laptop (XP) and having it come up with the 'would you like to save these?' option - Yes - Then pick a slideshow from Explorer - it all worked so smoothly and quickly that my better half almoost pooped her pants with 'computers are getting good' excitement.
XP looks shit - but its easy to understand shit with landscape wallpaper and nice fonts. Linux looks shit and its kinda scary shit with penguins or nekkid chicks for wallpaper and white fonts on black... scary!
Now that TiVo has should the masses what can be
Did you post that with some speech recog? Or are you a bizzarro speller?
Cutting a Christmas tree will not allow the stump to produce a new tree - inless you cut the tree above the lowest branches (thereby reducing return on initial cutting as most trees are sold by height) in which case you will essentially get a coppice like series of growths from the the tree (actually very unusual in the species used for Christmas trees) which would require a vast number of man-hours per hectare to manage if they were to produce another crop of viable Christmas trees.
If you are growing deciduous trees for firewood then this is a fine technique - I may be about to plant a couple of acres of mixed hardwoods for a wood burning stove (and to get some squirrel shooting funtime).
Christmas trees are an attractive proposition because they crop relatively quickly, you get high(ish) returns, its cash, everyone turns a blind eye to anything evil like clearfell and pesticides 'because christmas wouldnt be christmas without a dying tree in the house'.
This is the stock arguement for why we all have to pay WAY more than is reasonably to buy replica sports kits.
In actual fact - it is simply a way to protect a revenue stream by limiting the freedom of your customer base to act as they see fit. Which in an OS context sucks.
Calvin and Hobbes cannot be bought on a Tshort because the artist thinks this would be selling out - he is pretty precious about his copyright - which is fair play to him. Its his copyright.
Should OS organisations be behaving in the same manner? I think not.
I wouldn't consider a buck a song unreasonable if I could pick the songs, as opposed to paying $15 for a CD with one or two good songs and filler.
I fucking HATE this arguement. I hardly EVER buy an album that I don't generally enjoy - sure, you get shit tracks, but if you rush out and buy the White Stripes without bothering to see if this single is the most commercial insipid piece of shit on the album then more fool you.
Name me a bad track on the Kings of Leon CD !!
Name me a GOOD track on a Britney Spears CD!
Change your taste in music - not your format!
A mobile on your belt?? Thats SO 1990s!!
You want to have it rolling around in your bag so that your always missing calls and dialling emergency services by mistake.
At least thats what my GF does
I always thought MegaDrive was a pretty damn cool name for a console. Its not trying to be touchy feely like Genesis - and its got a cool 'japanese made up word' feel to it.
Who wouldn't buy a console with 'Mega' in the name!
Ah those were the days! - getting an extra few kay out of your disk seemed like an endeavour worth pursuing for its own sake.
'Look Ma - I just wrote 780 Kay to a NORMAL floppy and read it back - how cool is that'
Other than bits of random code, shit self written games, and animated rip offs of the MTV logos of the day I can't remember a damned thing I stored on the things.
Oh thats right - lecture notes!
I do things I want to hide. Sometimes my gran would be shocked that I was in the pub, or my GF that I'm STILL in the office instead of the supermarket.
Being tracked sucks. If you, me and the rest of us being tracked helps stop 'the bad man' from 'doing bad things' it might be worth it. But guess what - its 'the bad man' that will figure out how to not be tracked. He'll just sit in his little Belgian basement or something.
Orwellian scaredyness aside - these things are pretty cool
Desperate Dan from the Dandy comic threatens to retire, get an office job, die, go gay, or something radical every couple of years when sales of the comic start to wane.
I've seen Status Quo in their farewell tour 4 times, the first in 1986, the last was at Christmas 2003.
Godzilla can bite my ass if he is truly retiring
so far as I can recall thats my first ever flamebait post :-D and I didnt even mean it!!
Anecdotal - but I know 4 people who have owned Volvos - one 80s model, three late 90s models. The 80s model is still running and karting mountain bikes around the country every weekend. It recently passes 350,000 miles.
All of the 90s models have been sold on as when they got out of the 3 year warranty things just kept going wrong.
I know 8 people who drive Hondas. We all love em.
My new Civic cost 12750 almost 3 years ago, hasnt cost me a panny in repairs, and just sold for a shade under 10000. Thats well under 1000/year in costs for motoring in a spanky new car. And I never so much as checked the oil levels. Bargain.
Yeah I could buy a 6 year old Ford for 2 grand and drive it into the scrap yard 3 years from now for less - but not much less - and it'd be a comparitively shit car.
I'd agree with this - but the point is that I KNOW what the costs will be with my Honda - I don't with a comparable Ford. Thats the bit I find attractive - I'd rather pay 10% more in total but not have the inconvenience of breakdowns and repair shops getting in my way.
I am in the market for a new car. I'll be buying a honda. They dont break. Sure - you'll find a couple of horror stories about some broken Hondas - but nothing like the number with other makes.
I'd LOVE to buy a sealed Honda. So long as the warranty states that the car is good to go for 3 years with no wierd service / repair costs for me to pay and I dont have to even TOUCH the engine / oil levels etc... Im happy as larry.
This won't cost more - it'll cost less. At least for those of us buying relatively new vehicles. For the rest of you saps buying 5-10 year old vehicles - EAT MY SEALED CARS DUST!!!
you, sir, are clearly a poof for remaining anon while conveying your naziisms. Your an ass, I hope you're children all get asthma!