I've got an old printer that I intend to take apart and use the innards on a terrain project for a miniature game. It will be thrown away, but it won't be in a land fill.
In my case because I actually use it. I get plenty of mileage out of that feature. Some of it could just be timing. There are a lot more web apps that I even care about now.
I was especially amused when the video does the whole "press this key and scroll to zoom" bit. I don't know, but the two finger thing should be able to zoom without any keyboard input. The MS prototypes did the fingers moving apart to zoom in and moving together to zoom out. That seems pretty intuitive to me. Why introduce keystrokes into it if this is the next big thing? It is indeed the one button mouse thing all over again.
All the talk of going on the Google cold turkey regimen makes a lot of sense now. Well, it makes sense in that they were negotiating a deal to give up on Google while he was making doing all the talking about it. I can't see this as a positive for either party. Bing will still be an also-ran, and Fox website traffic will drop. Like has been said blogs will still let people know some stuff, and that will be on Google results. The information will still be out there for people to "steal", but they lose in every other way. I can see a consumer backlash over this.
My question is this: Will they go after news aggregators next? If not then they're doomed to fail in this. Still on blogs and aggregators, but traffic still goes down.
Great post. It shows the divide between marketing and implementation. Marketing at least implies that the iPhone is the best phone on the market. They follow up with the idea that whatever there is under the sun, there is an app for the iPhone that will make it better/easier/faster. If the tech is capable to handle the voice recognition app that was mentioned, it should be able to use it to its fullest. In reality with the voice recognition the "app for that" is crippled, not by hardware limitations, but by corporate limitations. Are we sure the iPhone isn't really on Verizon?
I had a job around 1990 using a digitizing pad. I used one of those four button mice that had the wire ring around cross-hairs that I would put over the point I wanted to capture. Very cool to see something like that again. Ah, the memories.
I was always amused by that portrayal of the Bush administration.
On the one hand they were evil and perpetrated some horrific things with amazing efficiency. They pulled off an intricate and vast conspiracy that any rational thinking human should immediately realize could never happen. To do so he would have to be a diabolical genius.
On the other hand he was portrayed as this completely incompetent idiot who shouldn't be trusted to do anything.
Kind of like the amusing portrayal of Florida voters in the Gore/Bush election. They were easily confused (read: stupid) because they obviously couldn't understand the butterfly ballot. They would have voted for Gore if they were not so hopelessly confused. Rather than ask for help in their state of confusion, they just punched the ballot. If they did realize they made a mistake, they didn't say anything about it to get a new ballot, they just cast their ballot. Taking the "they meant to vote for Gore" thought to its conclusion, they thought their constituents are idiots.
I would be willing to bet that they (Google) thought of the name Go and then did a trademark search. When there were no trademarked programming languages showing up, they thought, well, GO!
If by re-released you mean the process of photosynthesis (C02 + H2O = Carbohydrate + O2) produces food for animals and the animals then exhale CO2, then yes, most of the CO2 is re-released into the atmosphere.
I'm honestly rather surprised the blogger is upset by this; it's really just a different option, rather than "upgrade". It's like he's saying that a publisher should be out finding new books instead of making a large print version of an existing best seller.
I can see the point. Release the latest iteration. Wait a bit and release one that the only difference is a larger screen. If it is about more choice, they should have made them both available at the same time. Otherwise it is just a mostly cosmetic upgrade. I think the book analogy doesn't work because the book buyer already knows a larger print version will be available if it isn't already available, and/or they already have a solution in place with a magnifying glass or something.
With a title like "Obligatory", I was expecting something like "imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...". Not even a "In Soviet Russia", 4 steps to profit, or a Simpsons quote?
Personally I would have stopped at "Does it run solitaire?"
So my saying that a group, that some/most people don't like, can't propose a decent ballot proposition is absurd? Is it just my admittedly poorly chosen examples? How about this example? Greenpeace proposes a ballot measure that improves standards of produce sold at supermarkets. I see a problem with the existing standards, but I think Greenpeace are extremists. My name gets published on Sean Hannity's website as a member of Greenpeace. I don't like that. I might agree with the ballot proposal, but I don't want to be identified with the group pushing it.
"The only unintended consequence is that some activists are unhappy that they're being associated with the movement they support."
I fundamentally disagree with this statement. I can completely disagree with a movement, but agree with a piece of legislation that movement proposes. Signing the petition to get a proposal on the ballot in no way categorizes someone as a member of the group that is promoting that petition. If I look at the proposed ballot measure on the petition and agree with it and sign it, I am not endorsing them. Take any idea out there that you like and imagine a group that you don't like was trying to get signatures, would you sign? Let's say the KKK is getting signatures to put the fair tax on the ballot. I like the fair tax, but I don't like the KKK. If I sign and someone tags me as a racist because of it, I'm pissed.
I don't doubt that things are different in the international arena, but I wonder how much of it is Obama. I wonder if a big part of it is that he is the new guy from the other party. He hasn't been in long enough to genuinely change perception that much. It just seems like the Nobel Prize people are really saying that they really, really, really didn't like Bush.
I won't buy a Mac because I can't build my own system. Why bother buying some store bought computer when you can get the same thing for much less by building it yourself? In my case I saved more than 50% with my recent system build. Not even an option with a Mac.
Being a nation on the rise in the world's eyes is a much bigger factor. The passport thing might have played a small role, but I think that this is a lot more about Brazil than America. I don't have any opinion poll numbers available, but I would be willing to bet that Brazil has a higher percentage of the population in favor of the Olympics being in their back yard. Add to that the fact that there has never been a South American host city for the Olympics, paired with the Salt Lake, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Lake Placid games in the recent past, and we have the emotional story that always plays so well with these types of votes. There are a bunch of other factors that would come into play (weather, facilities, mass transit, hotels, non-Olympic tourist destinations, etc.) that would come into play in this decision. Passports wouldn't rank very high on that list IMHO.
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I've got an old printer that I intend to take apart and use the innards on a terrain project for a miniature game. It will be thrown away, but it won't be in a land fill.
In my case because I actually use it. I get plenty of mileage out of that feature. Some of it could just be timing. There are a lot more web apps that I even care about now.
You say that like it's a bad thing. I guess since Google is a for profit, Microsoft can actually try to compete in some way, even if it is dirty pool.
I was especially amused when the video does the whole "press this key and scroll to zoom" bit. I don't know, but the two finger thing should be able to zoom without any keyboard input. The MS prototypes did the fingers moving apart to zoom in and moving together to zoom out. That seems pretty intuitive to me. Why introduce keystrokes into it if this is the next big thing? It is indeed the one button mouse thing all over again.
All the talk of going on the Google cold turkey regimen makes a lot of sense now. Well, it makes sense in that they were negotiating a deal to give up on Google while he was making doing all the talking about it. I can't see this as a positive for either party. Bing will still be an also-ran, and Fox website traffic will drop. Like has been said blogs will still let people know some stuff, and that will be on Google results. The information will still be out there for people to "steal", but they lose in every other way. I can see a consumer backlash over this.
My question is this: Will they go after news aggregators next? If not then they're doomed to fail in this. Still on blogs and aggregators, but traffic still goes down.
That's funny! The dollar amounts are wrong!
Great post. It shows the divide between marketing and implementation. Marketing at least implies that the iPhone is the best phone on the market. They follow up with the idea that whatever there is under the sun, there is an app for the iPhone that will make it better/easier/faster. If the tech is capable to handle the voice recognition app that was mentioned, it should be able to use it to its fullest. In reality with the voice recognition the "app for that" is crippled, not by hardware limitations, but by corporate limitations. Are we sure the iPhone isn't really on Verizon?
I had a job around 1990 using a digitizing pad. I used one of those four button mice that had the wire ring around cross-hairs that I would put over the point I wanted to capture. Very cool to see something like that again. Ah, the memories.
I was always amused by that portrayal of the Bush administration.
On the one hand they were evil and perpetrated some horrific things with amazing efficiency. They pulled off an intricate and vast conspiracy that any rational thinking human should immediately realize could never happen. To do so he would have to be a diabolical genius.
On the other hand he was portrayed as this completely incompetent idiot who shouldn't be trusted to do anything.
Kind of like the amusing portrayal of Florida voters in the Gore/Bush election. They were easily confused (read: stupid) because they obviously couldn't understand the butterfly ballot. They would have voted for Gore if they were not so hopelessly confused. Rather than ask for help in their state of confusion, they just punched the ballot. If they did realize they made a mistake, they didn't say anything about it to get a new ballot, they just cast their ballot. Taking the "they meant to vote for Gore" thought to its conclusion, they thought their constituents are idiots.
The easy "out" would be that you weren't dead, and you owe them for unpaid premiums.
I would be willing to bet that they (Google) thought of the name Go and then did a trademark search. When there were no trademarked programming languages showing up, they thought, well, GO!
How long will it take Microsoft to try to patent complex computational searches?
What do you want to bet the IE users that visit ARS are doing it on their work computer?
If by re-released you mean the process of photosynthesis (C02 + H2O = Carbohydrate + O2) produces food for animals and the animals then exhale CO2, then yes, most of the CO2 is re-released into the atmosphere.
I'm honestly rather surprised the blogger is upset by this; it's really just a different option, rather than "upgrade". It's like he's saying that a publisher should be out finding new books instead of making a large print version of an existing best seller.
I can see the point. Release the latest iteration. Wait a bit and release one that the only difference is a larger screen. If it is about more choice, they should have made them both available at the same time. Otherwise it is just a mostly cosmetic upgrade. I think the book analogy doesn't work because the book buyer already knows a larger print version will be available if it isn't already available, and/or they already have a solution in place with a magnifying glass or something.
With a title like "Obligatory", I was expecting something like "imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...". Not even a "In Soviet Russia", 4 steps to profit, or a Simpsons quote?
Personally I would have stopped at "Does it run solitaire?"
But the Hummer is the good guy, remember? The Prius is worse for the environment.
So my saying that a group, that some/most people don't like, can't propose a decent ballot proposition is absurd? Is it just my admittedly poorly chosen examples? How about this example? Greenpeace proposes a ballot measure that improves standards of produce sold at supermarkets. I see a problem with the existing standards, but I think Greenpeace are extremists. My name gets published on Sean Hannity's website as a member of Greenpeace. I don't like that. I might agree with the ballot proposal, but I don't want to be identified with the group pushing it.
"The only unintended consequence is that some activists are unhappy that they're being associated with the movement they support."
I fundamentally disagree with this statement. I can completely disagree with a movement, but agree with a piece of legislation that movement proposes. Signing the petition to get a proposal on the ballot in no way categorizes someone as a member of the group that is promoting that petition. If I look at the proposed ballot measure on the petition and agree with it and sign it, I am not endorsing them. Take any idea out there that you like and imagine a group that you don't like was trying to get signatures, would you sign? Let's say the KKK is getting signatures to put the fair tax on the ballot. I like the fair tax, but I don't like the KKK. If I sign and someone tags me as a racist because of it, I'm pissed.
If the person went through the trouble of getting a restraining order, you'd think that they would take 5 seconds to "unfriend".
I don't doubt that things are different in the international arena, but I wonder how much of it is Obama. I wonder if a big part of it is that he is the new guy from the other party. He hasn't been in long enough to genuinely change perception that much. It just seems like the Nobel Prize people are really saying that they really, really, really didn't like Bush.
Then it would have a perfect name, considering the techno-babble in Star Trek.
I won't buy a Mac because I can't build my own system. Why bother buying some store bought computer when you can get the same thing for much less by building it yourself? In my case I saved more than 50% with my recent system build. Not even an option with a Mac.
Being a nation on the rise in the world's eyes is a much bigger factor. The passport thing might have played a small role, but I think that this is a lot more about Brazil than America. I don't have any opinion poll numbers available, but I would be willing to bet that Brazil has a higher percentage of the population in favor of the Olympics being in their back yard. Add to that the fact that there has never been a South American host city for the Olympics, paired with the Salt Lake, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Lake Placid games in the recent past, and we have the emotional story that always plays so well with these types of votes. There are a bunch of other factors that would come into play (weather, facilities, mass transit, hotels, non-Olympic tourist destinations, etc.) that would come into play in this decision. Passports wouldn't rank very high on that list IMHO.
I guess that explains the sheep.