[Google] going to reach a point where they stretch their resources too thin?
Google researchers are allotted 20% of their working time to do outside projects or to follow personal interests. Google News and Gmail were both results of work done during this "20%" time. So in short, no, I don't think Google has really stretched their resources any more so than before.
Wow, I didn't think too many people remembered that. When I was little I lived in an "IBM town" (there was a local plant that employed abut 25,000). After the first layoffs in the early 90's (?) where at this particular plant two-thirds of the jobs were cut (I think a lot of them were white-collar folks), the entire community changed. In my case, I would say roughly 3/4 of my neighborhood moved out within 3 years. It was interesting afterwards to say the least.
I think before if you got hired by IBM, it was pretty much assumed that you would work there until you retired. How times have changed indeed.
And NASA is really concerned about martian dust devils and it's impact on future human missions to Mars. They're suppose to be 100 times larger than the dust devils you find on Earth. I believe they have scientists out in Arizon studying the dust devils there and working around that.
Please do a trademark search next time. Like here. And notice that Mandrake and Mandrake the Magician are both registered. So yeah, at least Mandrake "went to the trouble of Trademarking the name before announcing and using it."
this should be a wake-up call to ANYONE... do your homework before settling on a name. (emphasis mine)
How about Gameworks? And there's one in Grapevine, TX (right outside Dallas; I would say about 3 hrs away from Austin). They usually have all the newest arcade games. It's always a fun place to hang out, though instead of popping in 2 quarters per play it usually is at least a dollar. But if you want selection, they def have that...plus pizza upstairs.
To those impatient to see when Linux will overthrow MS windows look back at history and ask how long it took MS to go from nobody to somebody. There was a time when owning a DOS machine was alternative and weird when everybody had an amiga on wich everything just worked. With PICTURES!!!!!
MS-DOS was release at around 1981, and 15 years later they had a monopoly with Windows 95. Linux is already about 10 years old. Should we expect great things from Linux in 5 years? I believe that is a reasonable expectation.
it is a fairly safe bet that any theatrically released Disney animated feature will be based on an existing story(out of copyright:)
The Lion King was an original film created by Disney (so say the director). In my personal opinion, it was last great Disney animation film from a long list of Disney animations.
Well, Jobs talks a little about that in his interview with Rolling Stone Magazine. One of the most interesting quotes I think from the article relates to how he convinced the labels to go along with his idea of a music store:
When we first went to talk to these record companies -- you know, it was a while ago. It took us 18 months. And at first we said: None of this technology that you're talking about's gonna work. We have Ph.D.'s here, that know the stuff cold, and we don't believe it's possible to protect digital content.
Of course, music theft is nothing new. Didn't you listen to bootleg Bob Dylan?
Of course. What's new is this amazingly efficient distribution system for stolen property called the Internet -- and no one's gonna shut down the Internet. And it only takes one stolen copy to be on the Internet. And the way we expressed it to them is: Pick one lock -- open every door. It only takes one person to pick a lock. Worst case: Somebody just takes the analog outputs of their CD player and rerecords it -- puts it on the Internet. You'll never stop that. So what you have to do is compete with it.
At first, they kicked us out. But we kept going back again and again. The first record company to really understand this stuff was Warner. They have some smart people there, and they said: We agree with you. And next was Universal. Then we started making headway. And the reason we did, I think, is because we made predictions.
We said: These [music subscription] services that are out there now are going to fail. Music Net's gonna fail, Press Play's gonna fail. Here's why: People don't want to buy their music as a subscription. They bought 45's; then they bought LP's; then they bought cassettes; then they bought 8-tracks; then they bought CD's. They're going to want to buy downloads. People want to own their music. You don't want to rent your music -- and then, one day, if you stop paying, all your music goes away.
And, you know, at 10 bucks a month, that's $120 a year. That's $1,200 a decade. That's a lot of money for me to listen to the songs I love. It's cheaper to buy, and that's what they're gonna want to do.
They didn't see it that way. There were people running around -- business-development people -- who kept pointing out AOL as the great model for this and saying: No, we want that -- we want a subscription business. We said: It ain't gonna work.
Slowly but surely, as these things didn't pan out, we started to gain some credibility with these folks. And they started to say: You know, you're right on these things -- tell us more.
'With the success of its iTunes Music Store, Apple is almost single-handedly dragging the music industry, kicking and screaming, toward a better future.'
Where the RIAA gets 80 cents off the dollar if i remember correctly.
I would say that's it's more of a glorified laptop than a glorified PDA. I think you might be mistaken on what a TabletPC is. It's exactly what the name says: a laptop and tablet in one. You could TabletPC as a regular laptop if you wanted and ignore the tablet functionality, though the extra money you spent for it would be wasted.
Bret Balonick, a tax accountant on loan from PricewaterhouseCoopers to teach the anti-piracy class, was arguing that some downloaders have been affected by malicious activity. Besides, he said, it's illegal to upload and download unauthorized content online.
"If it's illegal in America, host it in Uzbekistan," snapped the 14-year-old.
The quote you mentioned does make it look like brainwashing, but the quote I mentioned here makes the kid look bad. Almost like saying, "move your money to a swiss bank account."
Yep, they did. Used it once. I remember that version inserted a watermark into its renderings. Plus the file format for the "free" edition wasn't compatible with the commercial edition. Very good for evaluation, but worthless otherwise.
You're kidding, right? Do you even remember how searching was before Google came around? Google revolutionized Internet searching, and last time I checked they continue to lead the pack. They get a lot of publicity because a lot of people look to them for the next big thing (and rightly so IMHO).
1) Mandrake always displayed advertising during installation. The only difference now is that instead of Mandrake ads, it'll have other ads.
2) The screensaver use to show slides of Mandrake clipart. Now it'll show slides of ads.
3) They'll add one link to the advertiser's homepage (seen in browser's toolbar and bookmarks).
4) They'll include ads on the browser's default start page.
These changes appear minor and reasonable. If you don't like it: 1) go read a book when installing mandrake, 2) select your favorite screensaver, 3) delete any and all bookmarks to your heart's content, and 4) change the browser's start page.
I'm guessing a lot of users aren't going to go through the trouble of doing even that. It just doesn't seem that instrusive. And if this is adware, then what does that make Netscape? Netscape IMO is far, far more instrusive.
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Why not create a system where ANY 128bit number can decrypt the haiku.
:-)
Then it won't be called encryption. Duh
[Google] going to reach a point where they stretch their resources too thin?
Google researchers are allotted 20% of their working time to do outside projects or to follow personal interests. Google News and Gmail were both results of work done during this "20%" time. So in short, no, I don't think Google has really stretched their resources any more so than before.
Wow, I didn't think too many people remembered that. When I was little I lived in an "IBM town" (there was a local plant that employed abut 25,000). After the first layoffs in the early 90's (?) where at this particular plant two-thirds of the jobs were cut (I think a lot of them were white-collar folks), the entire community changed. In my case, I would say roughly 3/4 of my neighborhood moved out within 3 years. It was interesting afterwards to say the least.
I think before if you got hired by IBM, it was pretty much assumed that you would work there until you retired. How times have changed indeed.
And NASA is really concerned about martian dust devils and it's impact on future human missions to Mars. They're suppose to be 100 times larger than the dust devils you find on Earth. I believe they have scientists out in Arizon studying the dust devils there and working around that.
Please do a trademark search next time. Like here. And notice that Mandrake and Mandrake the Magician are both registered. So yeah, at least Mandrake "went to the trouble of Trademarking the name before announcing and using it."
... do your homework before settling on a name. (emphasis mine)
this should be a wake-up call to ANYONE
heh
How about Gameworks? And there's one in Grapevine, TX (right outside Dallas; I would say about 3 hrs away from Austin). They usually have all the newest arcade games. It's always a fun place to hang out, though instead of popping in 2 quarters per play it usually is at least a dollar. But if you want selection, they def have that...plus pizza upstairs.
To those impatient to see when Linux will overthrow MS windows look back at history and ask how long it took MS to go from nobody to somebody. There was a time when owning a DOS machine was alternative and weird when everybody had an amiga on wich everything just worked. With PICTURES!!!!!
MS-DOS was release at around 1981, and 15 years later they had a monopoly with Windows 95. Linux is already about 10 years old. Should we expect great things from Linux in 5 years? I believe that is a reasonable expectation.
it is a fairly safe bet that any theatrically released Disney animated feature will be based on an existing story(out of copyright :)
The Lion King was an original film created by Disney (so say the director). In my personal opinion, it was last great Disney animation film from a long list of Disney animations.
Is it just me or is SCO going out of their mind? This is getting insane.
:)
It's just you. No one else at slashdot thinks SCO is going out of their mind.
You know you're reading a slashdot comment when you see someone mentioning "Irak" :)
'With the success of its iTunes Music Store, Apple is almost single-handedly dragging the music industry, kicking and screaming, toward a better future.'
Where the RIAA gets 80 cents off the dollar if i remember correctly.
And, apparently, he only plans to eat lunch on the 7th, 8th, and 9th. Must be on a diet.
I claim prior art! Surely, anyone seeing that must immediately think of the security system in Jurassic Park? "Hey, it's a UNIX system! I know this!"
Ummm, that was UNIX. SGI's UNIX (Irix) to be exact. More info can be found here.
If they did team up, I doubt seriously that they would make any sort of effort to convert it to a windows platform or anything.
Are you sure? Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't they do something like this when they bought Hotmail?
I would say that's it's more of a glorified laptop than a glorified PDA. I think you might be mistaken on what a TabletPC is. It's exactly what the name says: a laptop and tablet in one. You could TabletPC as a regular laptop if you wanted and ignore the tablet functionality, though the extra money you spent for it would be wasted.
Hey Gator! Spyware, spyware, spyyyyyyyyyywaaaaare!
you are sooooooo clever!
Yep, they did. Used it once. I remember that version inserted a watermark into its renderings. Plus the file format for the "free" edition wasn't compatible with the commercial edition. Very good for evaluation, but worthless otherwise.
You're kidding, right? Do you even remember how searching was before Google came around? Google revolutionized Internet searching, and last time I checked they continue to lead the pack. They get a lot of publicity because a lot of people look to them for the next big thing (and rightly so IMHO).
Well, Darl whines like a 12-year old girl. Does that count for something?
If you were using XP and you didnt get infected by the RPC worm you were lucky. The only way you could defend against it is Zone Alarm.
Lucky? Zone Alarm?? Well, at least you were able to show that you really don't know much about Windows (or at least not as much as you think you do).
Why would I want to export a document to Flash?
One word. "Presentations." Especially if they get those text animations and transitions working in Flash.
1) Mandrake always displayed advertising during installation. The only difference now is that instead of Mandrake ads, it'll have other ads.
2) The screensaver use to show slides of Mandrake clipart. Now it'll show slides of ads.
3) They'll add one link to the advertiser's homepage (seen in browser's toolbar and bookmarks).
4) They'll include ads on the browser's default start page.
These changes appear minor and reasonable. If you don't like it: 1) go read a book when installing mandrake, 2) select your favorite screensaver, 3) delete any and all bookmarks to your heart's content, and 4) change the browser's start page.
I'm guessing a lot of users aren't going to go through the trouble of doing even that. It just doesn't seem that instrusive. And if this is adware, then what does that make Netscape? Netscape IMO is far, far more instrusive.
They call it a screenshot for a reason. If your screen can't show it, it ain't a screenshot.