They're not incapable of it, but they rarely do it. Don't hang around with your soon-to-be spouse thinking any major personality flaws can be trained out during marriage -- it doesn't happen. Find someone that you actually get along with, instead.
Sure, people can go through tragedies and make major changes in their lives, but there's a reason psychologists have people in their offices for years trying to solve relatively minor personality problems.
Just remember "people don't change" and you'll rarely be disappointed. Corporations are legal entities (i.e. people).
Nice quote, but completely irrelevant. I'm not dismissing other people's problems as not my own. I'm not saying "they're locking everyone else in, but not me." I'm saying that they are working especially hard not to lock anyone into their services by using open standards, open source, federation, and easy data export.
It's almost as if you didn't even read my post....
Wow. You need some perspective. Google is attempting to follow the local laws in countries in which it does business. Google also censors in Germany in accordance with the local laws, and has been sued several times over slip-ups.
China is a totalitarian government. I'm very aware of that. While I was living in Beijing, I was dragged into a room and questioned over who I had conversations with. Educated people that I went to school with there were forced into jobs they didn't want and excluded from education they had the right to.
Don't conflate Google with the PRC. If you want to make Google evil over this, then Boeing, Apple, and virtually every other multi-national corporation is equally evil for doing business in the PRC and obeying the local laws there. While you're at it, you'll probably need to stop buying most of your computer parts and electronics gear.
The short version of this comment is: there is no embargo against the PRC, unless you are in the UNPO.
There have been maybe ten stories about Google becoming "the evil empire" in the last week or so. It seems to be a running theme right now.
Still, Google keeps introducing interesting new technologies based on open standards, open sourcing them, and making data export easy (just look at the new "dowload all" button on GDocs)[1]. Heck, Wave is open source and federated. This doesn't even begin to cover the help they give FOSS through GSoC.
Once Google stops being open and starts trying to lock me into their services, then I'll be worried (until then I just make regular back-ups). As it is, they recommend Firefox and IE8 alongside Chrome, rank Flickr above Picasaweb in search, and support Mac and Windows more than they do their own ChromeOS. Can we seriously compare that to IBM's deeds of the 70s or MS's in the 80s and 90s?
People keep screaming "evil," but I'm just not seeing it. They're being "nicer" than any other multi-billion corp I can name.
It's strange that you would say that... since pro basketball, soccer, hockey, and football all have salary caps for teams. While baseball doesn't have a cap, it has a luxury tax, which works to punish teams going over the budgeted amount. European football, however, doesn't seem to have any cap at all. Hmmm.
You're lucky you live in Quebec. I had to endure the torture of "What's your blood type?" from all my friends the whole five years I lived in Korea. I obnoxiously answered "I don't know" (even when I did) just to avoid being typed. Of course, I answer the same to Thais when they ask "What days of the week were you born on?" and to westerners' "What's your sign?" Unfortunately, I can't pretend I don't know my birth date. Western culture doesn't seem to take the matter too seriously, but Korean and Thai cultures do.
These practices all need to die. Do you want to understand me? Get to know me.
Him: Actually, that's one of the advantages of the Nook in my opinion: It uses an open, standard format (EPUB) as it's normal book format.
You: The Kindle most certainly uses non-proprietary book formats.
Him: mobi is a proprietary format (it is owned by a company, and they control the format), and... epub is a true open format: available to any without licensing fees and such.
You: First, the Kindle supports mobi. Regular, non-DRM mobi format. Your claim otherwise is factually, indisputably false.
Him: The only effective way you can make or read a.mobi is by licensing an app or library from the company that owns the format.
You: The point, if you missed it, is that very many books are available for the Kindle.
His point from the beginning was that the Nook uses an open format. You ignored (or missed) that point and argued something entirely different -- that the number of books available matters.
Speaking of health care (and to be more on-topic), my mother was a nurse (generally in a union), and she always received half pay for the hours she was on call, since she was an hourly worker. My father was a pilot (also in a union), and he received extra pay for the days he wanted to be on call if they were above his alloted time, or the days were counted against his allotted days (since he was salaried).
This was all several years ago, and I have never been an on call employee, but the lawyer's answer sounds a little fishy unless there's a service contract involved.
If I were Google, I would require that each user buy no more than one netbook, supply ID, and report his/her Google login ID (or issue on with the purchase). Suddenly all this ad data about an account is tied to a real person. Bam! Money in buckets.
My gal just bought a new cell phone two months ago. Not US$20, but well under US$30. A recent G-Net phone with MP3 player, e-book reader, 512MB SSD card (which we replaced with a 2GB one), and dual-SIMs. No contract. Got a pre-pay SIM thrown in for free from the vendor, which means that the store could have dropped the price further if it had wanted to. Everyone in the wholesale-retail chain makes a profit on it... so how cheap is it to manufacture? Maybe $12-15?
Mine was even cheaper, but doesn't have SSD, e-book, or MP3 capability.
Really? You've never seen a youngster do e-mail, games, chat, photo management and everything else through Facebook?!? We're not even talking about one application. It's just one site, and some people can spend days hooked to it.
This appears to be a specific implementation of sparklines in an Excel spreadsheet, not sparklines in general. This blog talks about this specific implementation (sparklines in Excel) in 2006. This comment on that blog says that there are three current commercial implementations.
Last February, and again in May, Firefox users complained when they found that Microsoft had pushed the.Net Framework Assistant add-on and the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) plug-in to their browsers as part of the.NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) update, which was delivered via Windows Update.
That's the first thing I thought of when I read the summary.
And in Korea, the most popular search engine is Naver.com. In fact, the number one search in 2008's Korean Google was "Naver" (Well, not really: I romanized it for you). That's right. People found a computer where Google was the default search, didn't know what to do with it, and searched for their favorite search engine.
I see you've never asked any Canadians how much they weigh or how tall they are. I've had to convert to imperial for several of them visiting Asia. "How much is that in pounds?" Really?
I don't think that a DMCA violation is applicable here or would present a problem because of the Compaq BIOS case precedent and because reverse engineering is explicitly allowed in the DMCA.
The only other thing holding this back is the "Apple labeled computer" clause, which wasn't ruled on this time (as far as I know) and which is likely very weak. The chance that Apple can get a ruling chaining together two difficult-to-prove assertions (the EULA clause has to be upheld in order for there to be any copyright infringement, then that infringement needs to be moved from the customer to the vendor) seems virtually impossible.
How can installed base be greater than market share when market share is growing over time? Shouldn't installed base lag behind market share in this instance? I don't get your math.
About the only way for an Apple clone maker to stay in business is to make actual clones (which run an unmodified OS X) and distribute a boxed copy of OS X uninstalled with the machine. I think that's the only bullet-proof business model.
At first, I was going to suggest creating a VM shim which would mimic an Apple machine, but I feel that this method would land the manufacturer in DVD Jon territory -- distributing an application used primarily for circumvention.
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They're not incapable of it, but they rarely do it. Don't hang around with your soon-to-be spouse thinking any major personality flaws can be trained out during marriage -- it doesn't happen. Find someone that you actually get along with, instead.
Sure, people can go through tragedies and make major changes in their lives, but there's a reason psychologists have people in their offices for years trying to solve relatively minor personality problems.
Just remember "people don't change" and you'll rarely be disappointed. Corporations are legal entities (i.e. people).
I'm prety sure the term is "driven." Drive. Drove. Driven. "The release of the code was driven by the product team."
Nice quote, but completely irrelevant. I'm not dismissing other people's problems as not my own. I'm not saying "they're locking everyone else in, but not me." I'm saying that they are working especially hard not to lock anyone into their services by using open standards, open source, federation, and easy data export.
It's almost as if you didn't even read my post ....
Wow. You need some perspective. Google is attempting to follow the local laws in countries in which it does business. Google also censors in Germany in accordance with the local laws, and has been sued several times over slip-ups.
China is a totalitarian government. I'm very aware of that. While I was living in Beijing, I was dragged into a room and questioned over who I had conversations with. Educated people that I went to school with there were forced into jobs they didn't want and excluded from education they had the right to.
Don't conflate Google with the PRC. If you want to make Google evil over this, then Boeing, Apple, and virtually every other multi-national corporation is equally evil for doing business in the PRC and obeying the local laws there. While you're at it, you'll probably need to stop buying most of your computer parts and electronics gear.
The short version of this comment is: there is no embargo against the PRC, unless you are in the UNPO.
There have been maybe ten stories about Google becoming "the evil empire" in the last week or so. It seems to be a running theme right now.
Still, Google keeps introducing interesting new technologies based on open standards, open sourcing them, and making data export easy (just look at the new "dowload all" button on GDocs)[1]. Heck, Wave is open source and federated. This doesn't even begin to cover the help they give FOSS through GSoC.
Once Google stops being open and starts trying to lock me into their services, then I'll be worried (until then I just make regular back-ups). As it is, they recommend Firefox and IE8 alongside Chrome, rank Flickr above Picasaweb in search, and support Mac and Windows more than they do their own ChromeOS. Can we seriously compare that to IBM's deeds of the 70s or MS's in the 80s and 90s?
People keep screaming "evil," but I'm just not seeing it. They're being "nicer" than any other multi-billion corp I can name.
It's strange that you would say that ... since pro basketball, soccer, hockey, and football all have salary caps for teams. While baseball doesn't have a cap, it has a luxury tax, which works to punish teams going over the budgeted amount. European football, however, doesn't seem to have any cap at all. Hmmm.
You're lucky you live in Quebec. I had to endure the torture of "What's your blood type?" from all my friends the whole five years I lived in Korea. I obnoxiously answered "I don't know" (even when I did) just to avoid being typed. Of course, I answer the same to Thais when they ask "What days of the week were you born on?" and to westerners' "What's your sign?" Unfortunately, I can't pretend I don't know my birth date. Western culture doesn't seem to take the matter too seriously, but Korean and Thai cultures do.
These practices all need to die. Do you want to understand me? Get to know me.
But the real question is ... "When he asks for a billion, does he mean a thousand million or a million million?" How many is a billion?
It looks like you missed the point.
Him: Actually, that's one of the advantages of the Nook in my opinion: It uses an open, standard format (EPUB) as it's normal book format.
You: The Kindle most certainly uses non-proprietary book formats.
Him: mobi is a proprietary format (it is owned by a company, and they control the format), and ... epub is a true open format: available to any without licensing fees and such.
You: First, the Kindle supports mobi. Regular, non-DRM mobi format. Your claim otherwise is factually, indisputably false.
Him: The only effective way you can make or read a .mobi is by licensing an app or library from the company that owns the format.
You: The point, if you missed it, is that very many books are available for the Kindle.
His point from the beginning was that the Nook uses an open format. You ignored (or missed) that point and argued something entirely different -- that the number of books available matters.
Had you not had your morning coffee yet?
Speaking of health care (and to be more on-topic), my mother was a nurse (generally in a union), and she always received half pay for the hours she was on call, since she was an hourly worker. My father was a pilot (also in a union), and he received extra pay for the days he wanted to be on call if they were above his alloted time, or the days were counted against his allotted days (since he was salaried).
This was all several years ago, and I have never been an on call employee, but the lawyer's answer sounds a little fishy unless there's a service contract involved.
If I were Google, I would require that each user buy no more than one netbook, supply ID, and report his/her Google login ID (or issue on with the purchase). Suddenly all this ad data about an account is tied to a real person. Bam! Money in buckets.
My gal just bought a new cell phone two months ago. Not US$20, but well under US$30. A recent G-Net phone with MP3 player, e-book reader, 512MB SSD card (which we replaced with a 2GB one), and dual-SIMs. No contract. Got a pre-pay SIM thrown in for free from the vendor, which means that the store could have dropped the price further if it had wanted to. Everyone in the wholesale-retail chain makes a profit on it ... so how cheap is it to manufacture? Maybe $12-15?
Mine was even cheaper, but doesn't have SSD, e-book, or MP3 capability.
Really? You've never seen a youngster do e-mail, games, chat, photo management and everything else through Facebook?!? We're not even talking about one application. It's just one site, and some people can spend days hooked to it.
Unsupported network card. Fix it
Change the virtual network card to one that's supported. How to Try Out ChromeOS in Virtualbox
This appears to be a specific implementation of sparklines in an Excel spreadsheet, not sparklines in general. This blog talks about this specific implementation (sparklines in Excel) in 2006. This comment on that blog says that there are three current commercial implementations.
There's even a Sourceforge project for Sparklines in Excel, but it appears to have first published in early 2009.
It's been in the default install for over three years. Try to keep up. ;)
Hint -- GTK stands for GIMP ToolKit. Guess which came first.
Last February, and again in May, Firefox users complained when they found that Microsoft had pushed the .Net Framework Assistant add-on and the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) plug-in to their browsers as part of the .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 (SP1) update, which was delivered via Windows Update.
That's the first thing I thought of when I read the summary.
And in Korea, the most popular search engine is Naver.com. In fact, the number one search in 2008's Korean Google was "Naver" (Well, not really: I romanized it for you). That's right. People found a computer where Google was the default search, didn't know what to do with it, and searched for their favorite search engine.
Naver and Daum. 95% of the market.
I see you've never asked any Canadians how much they weigh or how tall they are. I've had to convert to imperial for several of them visiting Asia. "How much is that in pounds?" Really?
I don't think that a DMCA violation is applicable here or would present a problem because of the Compaq BIOS case precedent and because reverse engineering is explicitly allowed in the DMCA.
The only other thing holding this back is the "Apple labeled computer" clause, which wasn't ruled on this time (as far as I know) and which is likely very weak. The chance that Apple can get a ruling chaining together two difficult-to-prove assertions (the EULA clause has to be upheld in order for there to be any copyright infringement, then that infringement needs to be moved from the customer to the vendor) seems virtually impossible.
How can installed base be greater than market share when market share is growing over time? Shouldn't installed base lag behind market share in this instance? I don't get your math.
About the only way for an Apple clone maker to stay in business is to make actual clones (which run an unmodified OS X) and distribute a boxed copy of OS X uninstalled with the machine. I think that's the only bullet-proof business model.
At first, I was going to suggest creating a VM shim which would mimic an Apple machine, but I feel that this method would land the manufacturer in DVD Jon territory -- distributing an application used primarily for circumvention.
Introducing the RadeonHD driver, a community-developed driver supporting the R500-R700s.