Because I, and along with a lot of people on the internet, will refuse to click on a link that i don't know where it'll lead. Call it years of avoiding dodgy links that lead to nothing but spam and advertisements.
So say i Google a piece of news, and i find a link with a summery and a thumbnail, versus a plain link with no description of whats to come, I'm going to click on the one with the summery simple because i know i'm going to get what i want and as we know from Google's success, giving people what they want instead of dictating things to them is the winning formula.
This is the same as the Singaporean goverment mandating the that Far-East Economic Review set up an actual shop in Singapore the Goverment can sue if they want to continue circulating in SG. After all, you cannot sue someone in their own country over something if that something is legal where they are from.
From what i understand, it sould be zero sum. Because to get the feul we grow a plant. The carbon content in the plant comes mainly from the CO2 in the air.
But think of the potential! Instead of free storage on Googles servers, they could sell companies a network device that stores ALL the companies documents on the device. and everybody could work from there...
Then they could sell a smaller version to home users, you simply plug it into your router/switch at home and suddenly you can work on the same stuff anywhere on your network, and potentially anywhere in the world! Plus it uses the same storage system as Gmail, so no longer will you have documents scattered all over multiple machines with multiple revisions, they will now be in one place and searchable with the powerful search engine for which Google is famed.
If they'd make that i'll ditch office and buy it today.
Well, yes. The point being if you were served a Pepsi instead of being asked if it was ok to, you'd be outraged. Just like Google will be outraged if "to google" was used in refrence to say, MSN Search.
Before everyone starts with the "OMG, Google is Evil!" let me say this.
Companies have collective wet dreams about their product names replacing generic terms, like Panadol instead Paracetamol, or Coke instead of Cola. But this is always as a reenforcement of their brand, if the term "brand" is understood NOT as simply a logo and pakaging, but all the intrinsic values of the product combined. For instance, if you ask for Panadol, it's for the brandname drug that is fast acting and effective in a low dose.
So when we say "to google" we mean to use this very efficient search engine with a low signal to noise ratio to quickly come up with a useful fact. Googles beef with this is the use of "to google" to mean "Use any search engine to...", this is akin to you going to a restaurant and upon asking for a Coke, you are instead served a Pepsi or Dr. Pepper.
IMHO, the criteria for best spam filter is very simple. It is the filter that is able to consistantly maintain the highest spam to false positive ratio.
My bank does the same thing as the GP's, and in the even that i don't own a mobile, I can still get the Transaction Authorisation Code from the bank's phone banking facility or by getting a one time use code from the 24 hr ATM. After all, the reason this works when stopping phishing is because there is a hurdle not related to the internet that needs to be over come, so phone or walking to an ATM works just as well.
Anyway, what are the odds that you are of the demographic that uses phone banking, but doesn't own a mobile? Even if you are anti-mobile for whatever reason and internet banking is important to you, you can still subscribe for SMS over landlines.
It would be very interesting to see this merger go thru... could mean good things for gamers:-)
For this VERY reason, it's a bad idea. AMD already has the hearts and minds of gamers. But that market is small, and in the grand scheme of things, insignificant. What AMD needs is to prove itself as a computing powerhouse more capable then Intel. This means producing servers, corperate desktops, supercomputers etc.
ATi is a company that makes good gaming cards that make for shitty content development platforms. AMD's interest would only be furthered only if they graphics card maker they merged with was nVidia, which not only makes good development cards in the form of it's Quadro line, writes reliable and stable drivers and is invested in creating tools that mean business, like Gelato.
For the same reason it makes good marketing sense for Apple to not hype it's gaming capabilities, it would make bad sense for AMD to hype itself as a super gaming processor.
And if you were to include a picture, it'll instead of or it'll use instead of when you center a block of text and out the window goes w3c compliance.
A lot of hard work and sweat has been put in by blogging software and template developers to ensure their code adheres to w3c standards, why are you supporting a company thats hell bent on undoing it all?
Is Norton system works still useful? I used to use it from Win95 to Win98SE, but ever since I got WinXP combined with NTFS, it's been stable enough that i never needed the features of NSW...
"What we're saying is that in six months' time we'll be more relevant in the U.S. market place than Google,"
That statement alone, if true, shows the search engine is doomed. People want information, they want a search information that caters to _their_ needs. They don't want the trash that marketeers want to show them.
You don't see to get the point the parent was trying to make.
His point was to simply make OSX support a standardized set of hardware, publish the list, call it the 'Compatible Hardware List'. If you want OSX to work right, you use only the hardware on the list. Deviate from the list? Your problem.
Could this be a trend forming where sites run and therefor promoted by geeks, even though the content isn't actually geek related tends to have a higher number of visitors using firefox?
I checked after seeing your post, 61.30% of visitors to my blog (mainly my photography and such) use firefox, according to Google Analytics.
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Because I, and along with a lot of people on the internet, will refuse to click on a link that i don't know where it'll lead. Call it years of avoiding dodgy links that lead to nothing but spam and advertisements.
So say i Google a piece of news, and i find a link with a summery and a thumbnail, versus a plain link with no description of whats to come, I'm going to click on the one with the summery simple because i know i'm going to get what i want and as we know from Google's success, giving people what they want instead of dictating things to them is the winning formula.
As far as I know, FujiXerox and Oki make Lasers but not inkjets... The A4 Colour Lazer from Xerox I have at work prints at like $0.15 a page.
OOps.. sorry to misunderstand you.. I read 'Yellow Tint' to mean light at warmer temperature.
So this is in effect doing the reverse of what a CRT monitor does isn't it?
This is the same as the Singaporean goverment mandating the that Far-East Economic Review set up an actual shop in Singapore the Goverment can sue if they want to continue circulating in SG. After all, you cannot sue someone in their own country over something if that something is legal where they are from.
In Communist China, the software executes YOU!
Personally, any arguement that quotes Greenpeace as a refrence instantly loses all credibility with me.
From what i understand, it sould be zero sum. Because to get the feul we grow a plant. The carbon content in the plant comes mainly from the CO2 in the air.
But think of the potential! Instead of free storage on Googles servers, they could sell companies a network device that stores ALL the companies documents on the device. and everybody could work from there...
Then they could sell a smaller version to home users, you simply plug it into your router/switch at home and suddenly you can work on the same stuff anywhere on your network, and potentially anywhere in the world! Plus it uses the same storage system as Gmail, so no longer will you have documents scattered all over multiple machines with multiple revisions, they will now be in one place and searchable with the powerful search engine for which Google is famed.
If they'd make that i'll ditch office and buy it today.
Well, yes. The point being if you were served a Pepsi instead of being asked if it was ok to, you'd be outraged. Just like Google will be outraged if "to google" was used in refrence to say, MSN Search.
Before everyone starts with the "OMG, Google is Evil!" let me say this.
Companies have collective wet dreams about their product names replacing generic terms, like Panadol instead Paracetamol, or Coke instead of Cola. But this is always as a reenforcement of their brand, if the term "brand" is understood NOT as simply a logo and pakaging, but all the intrinsic values of the product combined. For instance, if you ask for Panadol, it's for the brandname drug that is fast acting and effective in a low dose.
So when we say "to google" we mean to use this very efficient search engine with a low signal to noise ratio to quickly come up with a useful fact. Googles beef with this is the use of "to google" to mean "Use any search engine to...", this is akin to you going to a restaurant and upon asking for a Coke, you are instead served a Pepsi or Dr. Pepper.
IMHO, the criteria for best spam filter is very simple. It is the filter that is able to consistantly maintain the highest spam to false positive ratio.
:D
Feel free to add to it.
Very out of form to reply to myself, but the "phone banking" in the 2nd last line ought to read "internet banking" ...
My bank does the same thing as the GP's, and in the even that i don't own a mobile, I can still get the Transaction Authorisation Code from the bank's phone banking facility or by getting a one time use code from the 24 hr ATM. After all, the reason this works when stopping phishing is because there is a hurdle not related to the internet that needs to be over come, so phone or walking to an ATM works just as well.
Anyway, what are the odds that you are of the demographic that uses phone banking, but doesn't own a mobile? Even if you are anti-mobile for whatever reason and internet banking is important to you, you can still subscribe for SMS over landlines.
It would be very interesting to see this merger go thru
For this VERY reason, it's a bad idea. AMD already has the hearts and minds of gamers. But that market is small, and in the grand scheme of things, insignificant. What AMD needs is to prove itself as a computing powerhouse more capable then Intel. This means producing servers, corperate desktops, supercomputers etc.
ATi is a company that makes good gaming cards that make for shitty content development platforms. AMD's interest would only be furthered only if they graphics card maker they merged with was nVidia, which not only makes good development cards in the form of it's Quadro line, writes reliable and stable drivers and is invested in creating tools that mean business, like Gelato.
For the same reason it makes good marketing sense for Apple to not hype it's gaming capabilities, it would make bad sense for AMD to hype itself as a super gaming processor.
And if you were to include a picture, it'll instead of or it'll use instead of when you center a block of text and out the window goes w3c compliance.
A lot of hard work and sweat has been put in by blogging software and template developers to ensure their code adheres to w3c standards, why are you supporting a company thats hell bent on undoing it all?
Is Norton system works still useful? I used to use it from Win95 to Win98SE, but ever since I got WinXP combined with NTFS, it's been stable enough that i never needed the features of NSW...
That makes no sense man. 1,000,000 hours is roughly 114 years...
1,000,000 hrs (/24) = 41,667 days (/365) = 114 years...
"What we're saying is that in six months' time we'll be more relevant in the U.S. market place than Google,"
That statement alone, if true, shows the search engine is doomed. People want information, they want a search information that caters to _their_ needs. They don't want the trash that marketeers want to show them.
Though I would think it'll be much harder for a thief to haul a ram or a tank of gas and torch around as opposed to a set of lockpicks.
As a person coming from a country struggling to control Muslim fundamentalists, you're spot on.
You don't see to get the point the parent was trying to make.
His point was to simply make OSX support a standardized set of hardware, publish the list, call it the 'Compatible Hardware List'. If you want OSX to work right, you use only the hardware on the list. Deviate from the list? Your problem.
If only you could be modded +6
Could this be a trend forming where sites run and therefor promoted by geeks, even though the content isn't actually geek related tends to have a higher number of visitors using firefox?
I checked after seeing your post, 61.30% of visitors to my blog (mainly my photography and such) use firefox, according to Google Analytics.