The only difference is Google uses the data to profile you so they can show you targeted ads and slowly tell you how to make decisions based on their suggestions. The government uses the data to find people who they perceive as enemy's of the state.
Lets face it more and more people are becoming sheep by letting companies say dictate what they like by constantly bombarding them with "suggestions".
The way I see is if I have nothing to hide and my data the government collects is vanilla enough they are going to leave me alone, Google on the other hand will never leave me alone and will always be trying to tempt me to give up all my data and buy into every service so they can profile me even more and suggest more things I don't need in my life regardless if I want/need them. "If you liked this you will probably like that even more" sound familiar?
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That may be true but I must have never found a summary with a link in it interesting enough to click through.
the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who "shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.
Seems that all he has done is piss off the government and some of it's people for one nation.
Next thing I'll hear is how "Generation Y" thinks its uncool to own a home, and we'd rather spend our lives renting due to the "flexibility" it offers us
Actually I thought you would just keep living at home until your parents died and then you would have a home.
TechNet was never about developers it basically was full MS software (Servers/Business) with a non-production license (no trial limit). You used it for integration/upgrade testing or trying out new software. All for a few hundred bucks a year.
This plus a lot of places that offer temp jobs (daily workers) that have a set dollar/per hour for these temp jobs use them around here. The company just gets a batch of them in and issues those at the end of the day, the accounting is done all at once and it's easer to hand them out. Some companies also get half day worth of cards when the person is not working out, if they don't need the worker anymore or as a bonus for doing a better than normal job.
Could this be a way for Android and Google to develop a larger presence in corporate IT, or could Android ever really supplant the Windows foothold?"
Not really, the way I see it is they are installing Android to take care of the social / media / content or the fun side of the internet and installing Windows for the business / corporate side of the internet. These OEMs don't care who is leading they just want a bigger piece of the pie.
Google would have rather paid a fine and been able to keep the data me thinks. Maybe that is how we punish Google for being evil, make them delete the data...
Pretty arrogant of the poster to think that everybody uses Git.
But then of the small sample of developers that I have interacted with on the topic of source control and use Git the majority are Git-Nazis and they are waaaay worse than the TFS-Nazis.
Depends on what you call "mature". I am 44 and work on COBOL a few times a year doing contract work for a couple of healthcare gigs. Mostly maintaining (or porting the programs to SAS http://www.sas.com/) it is actually quite lucrative if you don't mind doing it.
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The only difference is Google uses the data to profile you so they can show you targeted ads and slowly tell you how to make decisions based on their suggestions. The government uses the data to find people who they perceive as enemy's of the state.
Lets face it more and more people are becoming sheep by letting companies say dictate what they like by constantly bombarding them with "suggestions".
The way I see is if I have nothing to hide and my data the government collects is vanilla enough they are going to leave me alone, Google on the other hand will never leave me alone and will always be trying to tempt me to give up all my data and buy into every service so they can profile me even more and suggest more things I don't need in my life regardless if I want/need them. "If you liked this you will probably like that even more" sound familiar?
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That may be true but I must have never found a summary with a link in it interesting enough to click through.
Cue the "well, my cellphone screen is bigger than your dick!" comments from scorned women.
the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who "shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.
Seems that all he has done is piss off the government and some of it's people for one nation.
Next thing I'll hear is how "Generation Y" thinks its uncool to own a home, and we'd rather spend our lives renting due to the "flexibility" it offers us
Actually I thought you would just keep living at home until your parents died and then you would have a home.
Employers want to make as much money as possible without having to pay people.
And employees would rather make money and not work for it so what's your point?
Just like your hyphen key keeps getting stuck.
Which is Google's core business (ads); so it makes it different how? Just because it's Microsoft?
Hows about you preview, then submit.
TechNet was never about developers it basically was full MS software (Servers/Business) with a non-production license (no trial limit). You used it for integration/upgrade testing or trying out new software. All for a few hundred bucks a year.
This plus a lot of places that offer temp jobs (daily workers) that have a set dollar/per hour for these temp jobs use them around here. The company just gets a batch of them in and issues those at the end of the day, the accounting is done all at once and it's easer to hand them out. Some companies also get half day worth of cards when the person is not working out, if they don't need the worker anymore or as a bonus for doing a better than normal job.
It just stopped moving one day.
Then my theory that we are just a form of entertainment like The Truman Show http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120382/ to another form of life.
Could this be a way for Android and Google to develop a larger presence in corporate IT, or could Android ever really supplant the Windows foothold?"
Not really, the way I see it is they are installing Android to take care of the social / media / content or the fun side of the internet and installing Windows for the business / corporate side of the internet. These OEMs don't care who is leading they just want a bigger piece of the pie.
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You would think so based on the comments....
To paraphrase "Search results are in the eyes of the beholder"
Google would have rather paid a fine and been able to keep the data me thinks. Maybe that is how we punish Google for being evil, make them delete the data...
sustained human presence
When they cannot even sustain people in their own country properly...
I hate to say it but it sounds like PHP is the new classic ASP with regards to exploits...
Not that I am saying classic ASP devs got any smarter they just moved from ASP to other forms of server scripting/languages.
Or just a new way for /. to advertise, randomly post spam themselves to avoid the ad-blockers. If one person clicks... profit!
Pretty arrogant of the poster to think that everybody uses Git.
But then of the small sample of developers that I have interacted with on the topic of source control and use Git the majority are Git-Nazis and they are waaaay worse than the TFS-Nazis.
The cost per MB maybe...
Depends on what you call "mature". I am 44 and work on COBOL a few times a year doing contract work for a couple of healthcare gigs. Mostly maintaining (or porting the programs to SAS http://www.sas.com/) it is actually quite lucrative if you don't mind doing it.
Yes, we could use a Christmas tree light timer hooked up to a switch or something like that but I want something more elegant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle
In looking for something elegant you are going to make it more complex and increase the probability that it will fail.
Linux can do everything for free and better
So will it install itself / configure itself / update itself / teach end users how to use it all without any interaction from a human?
I guess I can fire my IT staff and contact this Linux thingamajig and get started right away all for free no cost to my company...
That is the problem they have no new original ideas.