I think my point wasn't clear. When you start adding in CRM and the other stuff I mentioned that works seamlessly with online collaboration via GDocs, it becomes really powerful. Is it something that no one has seen before? No, but very few SMBs have that kind of integration in their apps. Most of them are stuck with a hodge podge of random apps and people trying to get them to work together by e-mailing stuff around.
You would have been better off writing the book with basic styles, then doing final polish off-line in a DTP app. Google Docs handles style-based writing (CTRL+1, 2, 3, or 4) really well. It doesn't deal with the MS Office mindset of manually formatting each line.
Docs has many limitations. It's best to work within those limitations instead of trying to make it something it's not.
If it's not "online" then it's not really any good at decentralization and collaboration. Google Docs is good about handling connectivity problems. It's the major complaint over the platform, and moving to HTML5 methods will help even further.
Bells and whistles get added at a remarkable rate, and improving speed is what half of this rewrite was about, so hold off on those thoughts.
No, I don't think that Docs will replace a local office suite for everyone. I do think that it's getting to the point that most average people could make the switch, and over half the people in any given company could easily be moved. If you start adding in:
Salesforce.com integration
HR applications,
Payroll,
CRM, and
Workflow integration
Then you start to get something really powerful that a company can use with few headaches and which covers most of its need.
Apparently, this whole rewrite is only possible due to ditching IE6. Google claims that many of the new features weren't possible with "older browsers," which I assume is just code for IE6. Watch the video. It's in there.
You can delete all cookies or history on exit automatically in Chrome, too. Firefox's anti-phishing, though, sends information to "Mozilla's partners" (a.k.a. Google). I don't really see the difference.
Most users want to use suggestions only for their searches, not URLs they enter.
Since huge numbers of average people use Google to search for facebook.com, then click on the link in the search results, I'm going to say that you're wrong about "most people." In fact, I bet they love suggestions for URLs.
I'm not blaming the girl for being depressed, but she took the wrong route. Saying one of those doesn't mean the other is true. I am saying that families can take this opportunity to say "let's talk about it" and encourage communication should the child become depressed. "There's nothing that could have been done" is not a realistic answer.
Killing yourself is not a solution. Being clinically depressed and thinking it's the answer doesn't make it true. Counselors don't say "Hey, go ahead." They try to treat the disease.
You're not the only one who was bullied. I've got hearing loss in both ears and had to have my nose drilled out due to having my head kicked in so many times. It's ugly. It's terrible. I never went to school on the last day (when all rules seemingly went out the window) because of it. The world sucks, and based on how whingy you are about your problems, I bet I know more about the suck in the world than you do. What I got in school pales in comparison to what I've seen since then. Having been bullied doesn't somehow make me special, though. At least I wasn't sold by my parents at nine to be chained to a bed and repeatedly raped for years. Or hung from ropes and beaten by my mother. All that shit that happens every day.
Yeah, sure, stick up for the weak. I do. I step out in traffic to get the kid stuck in the middle of the crosswalk that no cars will stop for. I stand up to adults that abuse kids. Whatever. That doesn't change the fact that saying "bullying caused her suicide" (or "violent video games caused the murder") is just BS (nor does standing up make me a great human being -- it's just mentioned to give you some perspective).
Who's at fault? Lots of people. There's a whole chain. Her choice is in there somewhere. Tell your kid that's a bad choice that fixes nothing.
The U.S. population was self-involved and non-interventionist until Pearl Harbor. FDR had wanted to go to war in Europe for some time, but he couldn't get popular support. Much like George W. Bush's Iraq move, FDR used anger Pearl Harbor to leverage support for going to war with Germany (made easier by the Tripartite Pact).
And this is why parents should be taking this opportunity to educate their children that suicide is not an appropriate response to being bullied. Or being raped. Or just about anything, really. I watched as a similar case unfolded in Korea that ended with mandatory online IDs and the end of anonymity, and as far as I can tell, no one ever stood up and said "that actress shouldn't have committed suicide. She should have dealt with the problem some other way."
"MySQL or PostgreSQL," for what it's worth. PostgreSQL is a pretty powerful database, and you should have to make a pretty good argument why leaving a well understood technology that powers a lot (an some of the largest parts) of the WWWeb needs to be trashed for something newer and less tested.
My Internet connection in Thailand has had hundreds of 404s for well known sites this week. Waiting a few minutes or forcing a refresh seems to work 70% of the time.
If you live in N. America, S. America, Europe, Russia, India, or Australia, the ROC and the PRC are considered to be two legitimate governments, the "One China" policy (mostly of the PRC at this point) not withstanding.
There are more genetic differences among members of any given ethnic group than there are between members of any two ethnic groups
I'm really quite surprised to hear this. I would never have guessed that ethnically pure members of the Mbundu or San tribes of Africa were less different from the S.E. Asian Lahu tribe (or even Koreans, being as homogenous as they are) than the members of these groups were amongst themselves. Do you have any prrof of this?
We have launched a new capability in AdSense allowing Google-certified ad networks compete directly within AdSense, which means that advertisers from these third-party networks will be able to compete with AdWords advertisers to show on the Google Content Network.
Hand your business off to Google Apps, Zoho, Freshbooks, Saleforce.com, and the like. Boot all computers with read-only media and very few applications. Netboot so that you only update the boot image in one place. Bingo. No botnets. OK, maybe not none, but you just power everything off for five minutes and restart with a clean network.
Yeah, I know it's not realistic for many companies. It's an option for some, though.
Yep, most people will say that - even though I had one of my machines broken into years ago - even though it was a linux machine... Even though it *should* have been secure, but I had been somewhat lax in keeping it updated, and hence might have left a potential door open for an attacker due to that, simply by believing linux would have been secure enough.
This, folks, is why the paperless office isn't here: complete ignorance of technology, and on a nerd site, to boot.
Dude! Wake up. You don't have to pass stuff around. You can both connect to the same file on a server and edit it simultaneously. One of your phones / tablets / computers can even act as the server so that you don't need a standalone one. Look at Abiword's collaboration features. Look at Google Docs'.
Adobe tried to blame Apple for the poor performance of Flash on OSX, but if you read their description of the situation, it basically comes down to, "We chose to stick with Carbon (an old framework which Apple has basically been trying to obsolete, but keeping around for compatibility's sake) instead of switching to Cocoa (the new framework), and Carbon doesn't have as direct access to the GPU."
This is really similar to Adobe's reason for the slow performance on Linux: "It's just too confusing and nothing is standard!" They're just ignoring that tons of other media players (including ones with source code the devs could look at for reference) have implemented simple checks to determine which of the $SMALLNUMBER of GPU acceleration methods are available before falling back to the CPU. Meh.
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I think my point wasn't clear. When you start adding in CRM and the other stuff I mentioned that works seamlessly with online collaboration via GDocs, it becomes really powerful. Is it something that no one has seen before? No, but very few SMBs have that kind of integration in their apps. Most of them are stuck with a hodge podge of random apps and people trying to get them to work together by e-mailing stuff around.
Not radical. Accessible.
Umm. File > See Revision History. It's been there for years.
Docs has heading styles, but you have to format them with CSS. There should definitely be a better way.
You would have been better off writing the book with basic styles, then doing final polish off-line in a DTP app. Google Docs handles style-based writing (CTRL+1, 2, 3, or 4) really well. It doesn't deal with the MS Office mindset of manually formatting each line.
Docs has many limitations. It's best to work within those limitations instead of trying to make it something it's not.
Obsolescence?. XHTML2 is no longer being developed.
If it's not "online" then it's not really any good at decentralization and collaboration. Google Docs is good about handling connectivity problems. It's the major complaint over the platform, and moving to HTML5 methods will help even further.
Bells and whistles get added at a remarkable rate, and improving speed is what half of this rewrite was about, so hold off on those thoughts.
No, I don't think that Docs will replace a local office suite for everyone. I do think that it's getting to the point that most average people could make the switch, and over half the people in any given company could easily be moved. If you start adding in:
Then you start to get something really powerful that a company can use with few headaches and which covers most of its need.
Apparently, this whole rewrite is only possible due to ditching IE6. Google claims that many of the new features weren't possible with "older browsers," which I assume is just code for IE6. Watch the video. It's in there.
You can delete all cookies or history on exit automatically in Chrome, too. Firefox's anti-phishing, though, sends information to "Mozilla's partners" (a.k.a. Google). I don't really see the difference.
Ahem ... it uses Google Safe Browsing Tool. O_o
Most users want to use suggestions only for their searches, not URLs they enter.
Since huge numbers of average people use Google to search for facebook.com, then click on the link in the search results, I'm going to say that you're wrong about "most people." In fact, I bet they love suggestions for URLs.
I'm not blaming the girl for being depressed, but she took the wrong route. Saying one of those doesn't mean the other is true. I am saying that families can take this opportunity to say "let's talk about it" and encourage communication should the child become depressed. "There's nothing that could have been done" is not a realistic answer.
Killing yourself is not a solution. Being clinically depressed and thinking it's the answer doesn't make it true. Counselors don't say "Hey, go ahead." They try to treat the disease.
You're not the only one who was bullied. I've got hearing loss in both ears and had to have my nose drilled out due to having my head kicked in so many times. It's ugly. It's terrible. I never went to school on the last day (when all rules seemingly went out the window) because of it. The world sucks, and based on how whingy you are about your problems, I bet I know more about the suck in the world than you do. What I got in school pales in comparison to what I've seen since then. Having been bullied doesn't somehow make me special, though. At least I wasn't sold by my parents at nine to be chained to a bed and repeatedly raped for years. Or hung from ropes and beaten by my mother. All that shit that happens every day.
Yeah, sure, stick up for the weak. I do. I step out in traffic to get the kid stuck in the middle of the crosswalk that no cars will stop for. I stand up to adults that abuse kids. Whatever. That doesn't change the fact that saying "bullying caused her suicide" (or "violent video games caused the murder") is just BS (nor does standing up make me a great human being -- it's just mentioned to give you some perspective).
Who's at fault? Lots of people. There's a whole chain. Her choice is in there somewhere. Tell your kid that's a bad choice that fixes nothing.
The U.S. population was self-involved and non-interventionist until Pearl Harbor. FDR had wanted to go to war in Europe for some time, but he couldn't get popular support. Much like George W. Bush's Iraq move, FDR used anger Pearl Harbor to leverage support for going to war with Germany (made easier by the Tripartite Pact).
And this is why parents should be taking this opportunity to educate their children that suicide is not an appropriate response to being bullied. Or being raped. Or just about anything, really. I watched as a similar case unfolded in Korea that ended with mandatory online IDs and the end of anonymity, and as far as I can tell, no one ever stood up and said "that actress shouldn't have committed suicide. She should have dealt with the problem some other way."
"MySQL or PostgreSQL," for what it's worth. PostgreSQL is a pretty powerful database, and you should have to make a pretty good argument why leaving a well understood technology that powers a lot (an some of the largest parts) of the WWWeb needs to be trashed for something newer and less tested.
It's the Chinese citizens who apparently don't have any rights. The government is doing whatever it wants.
From Thailand (also censored, though not as badly).
My Internet connection in Thailand has had hundreds of 404s for well known sites this week. Waiting a few minutes or forcing a refresh seems to work 70% of the time.
If you live in N. America, S. America, Europe, Russia, India, or Australia, the ROC and the PRC are considered to be two legitimate governments, the "One China" policy (mostly of the PRC at this point) not withstanding.
There are more genetic differences among members of any given ethnic group than there are between members of any two ethnic groups
I'm really quite surprised to hear this. I would never have guessed that ethnically pure members of the Mbundu or San tribes of Africa were less different from the S.E. Asian Lahu tribe (or even Koreans, being as homogenous as they are) than the members of these groups were amongst themselves. Do you have any prrof of this?
While you may not be able to choose, Google is opening its Adwords network to third parties.
We have launched a new capability in AdSense allowing Google-certified ad networks compete directly within AdSense, which means that advertisers from these third-party networks will be able to compete with AdWords advertisers to show on the Google Content Network.
Hand your business off to Google Apps, Zoho, Freshbooks, Saleforce.com, and the like. Boot all computers with read-only media and very few applications. Netboot so that you only update the boot image in one place. Bingo. No botnets. OK, maybe not none, but you just power everything off for five minutes and restart with a clean network.
Yeah, I know it's not realistic for many companies. It's an option for some, though.
Yep, most people will say that - even though I had one of my machines broken into years ago - even though it was a linux machine... Even though it *should* have been secure, but I had been somewhat lax in keeping it updated, and hence might have left a potential door open for an attacker due to that, simply by believing linux would have been secure enough.
Let me guess ... Red Hat 6?
This, folks, is why the paperless office isn't here: complete ignorance of technology, and on a nerd site, to boot.
Dude! Wake up. You don't have to pass stuff around. You can both connect to the same file on a server and edit it simultaneously. One of your phones / tablets / computers can even act as the server so that you don't need a standalone one. Look at Abiword's collaboration features. Look at Google Docs'.
Have you ever heard of Google Docs? Watch the video ("made easy").
Adobe tried to blame Apple for the poor performance of Flash on OSX, but if you read their description of the situation, it basically comes down to, "We chose to stick with Carbon (an old framework which Apple has basically been trying to obsolete, but keeping around for compatibility's sake) instead of switching to Cocoa (the new framework), and Carbon doesn't have as direct access to the GPU."
This is really similar to Adobe's reason for the slow performance on Linux: "It's just too confusing and nothing is standard!" They're just ignoring that tons of other media players (including ones with source code the devs could look at for reference) have implemented simple checks to determine which of the $SMALLNUMBER of GPU acceleration methods are available before falling back to the CPU. Meh.
So Chrome's ad blockers (which download but don't show content) only cheat the advertisers?