I'm not sure your two links prove your point. As I age, I'm getting more critical of bad user interfaces.
If you are searching for Google, then you almost certainly want http://www.google.com./ Might as well show only that as sometimes less is more.
If that isn't what you wanted, click on the other results link just below and you can see lots of other stuff. But really, if you want anything other than the homepage, you are going to have to come up with a better query than "google".
Google got a lot of attention in the early days for its clean uncluttered interface. I applaud Bing for their clean uncluttered results page. At least for the example you pointed out.
It doesn't work quite like this. Microsoft has no more right to demand an audit of your systems than you do of their systems. They can only demand an audit if you've already agreed to do so in a licensing agreement you consented to. Generally, if you get a corporate site license or possibly other volume licensing from MS, you have agreed to on demand audits. If all the MS software you have came with the machines (like Windows and often Office) or you bought shrinkwrap versions, you don't have to agree to anything unless they have a court order.
You know, this is one of the things about organic fruit and vegetables that bugs me. My grocer tends to have the organic fruits and veggies pre-packaged rather than lose. I might only want 3 apples, but guess what, they only come in 6 packs. Want a few organic bananas, too bad. The organic ones have a sticky plastic strip around them so you can't just break off the amount you want.
I'm pretty selective about what I buy and I only want to buy what I need. And I definitely don't need a bunch of extra packaging. In the end, I often end up buying non-organic food just because I end up wasting less that way.
I'd also like to see where the fruit is from, possibly even identify the grower. There are three basic reasons:
1. I prefer to buy stuff grown close to where I live. My grocery store will generally include the country of origin in the signage, but I really don't trust that they get that right. 2. If there is some type of contamination problem, the CDC could more quickly track down the source and scope of the problem. 3. I might discover that some growers produce better or worse food than others. The information could help me spend my food dollars more effectively.
They put these in my home (in Texas) and I don't like them. Makes it way more difficult to insert the plug and it always feels like the little plastic shutters are going to break.
For Gmail, I'm sure they would rather have you use the web app. But don't assume POP/IMAP access is a loser for them. They are still mining your data stream.
Now we'd just need someone to reverse the decision that TPMs are all evil and should not be used.
What do you mean? Assuming you aren't using a company computer, you're allowed to make that decision all by yourself. There are quite a few machines out there with TPM on board.
I don't understand the monopoly argument. As far as I know, Google has a monopoly only because they are the only ones trying to do this. Is there anything that prevents others from doing the same thing?
I mostly agree with you with the exception of certain out of print books. Somebody in another part of the thread mentioned than an author may deliberately choose to have only a small print run. I hadn't thought of that before. The work may then be valuable because it is scarce or out of print.
I don't understand what Google is doing wrong. Can somebody please explain it what it is that so many people and corporations object to? I've read a bunch of articles but none have explained what the actual underlying problem is.
The closest thing I've heard that makes sense is that a book (unlike a web page) was never written with the understanding that it would be read and indexed by a machine. But really, I have a hard time seeing how this would hurt authors or publishers or anybody. The benefits seem great.
It seems to me that languages evolve for quick and accurate communication with others close in time and space. You say it is hard to read a 300 year old text and I agree. I would also say that it can be difficult to understand someone from 300 kilometers away, both ostensibly speaking the same language.
How do you know they wanted it for free? Perhaps this has been discussed somewhere, but I don't think the details of the discussion have been made public.
It seems to me that this is exactly what happened years ago before Qt was GPL'd. People were unhappy with the terms of the Qt license and so they made GTK. In the end, I think we are all better off and I have no reason to suspect differently this time. Competition is good.
I think complaints about the abuse of English has been around forever. I can remember reading about the publishing of an Ebonics bible (back in the '80s I think). For some reason, certain people were quite upset about that.
And whatever happened to talking jive. The jive talking scene in Airplane is one of my favorites.
Of course there is an increasing number of high school drop outs. The population is growing and those that were drop outs last year, are likely still drop outs this year. (If you return to school later in life and graduate, are you still considered a drop out?)
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IE also has a lot of add ons. Browse the web with it for a while and you will effortlessly collect lots of them.
I'm not sure your two links prove your point. As I age, I'm getting more critical of bad user interfaces.
If you are searching for Google, then you almost certainly want http://www.google.com./ Might as well show only that as sometimes less is more.
If that isn't what you wanted, click on the other results link just below and you can see lots of other stuff. But really, if you want anything other than the homepage, you are going to have to come up with a better query than "google".
Google got a lot of attention in the early days for its clean uncluttered interface. I applaud Bing for their clean uncluttered results page. At least for the example you pointed out.
It doesn't work quite like this. Microsoft has no more right to demand an audit of your systems than you do of their systems. They can only demand an audit if you've already agreed to do so in a licensing agreement you consented to. Generally, if you get a corporate site license or possibly other volume licensing from MS, you have agreed to on demand audits. If all the MS software you have came with the machines (like Windows and often Office) or you bought shrinkwrap versions, you don't have to agree to anything unless they have a court order.
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Is it non-organic, or inorganic?
You know, this is one of the things about organic fruit and vegetables that bugs me. My grocer tends to have the organic fruits and veggies pre-packaged rather than lose. I might only want 3 apples, but guess what, they only come in 6 packs. Want a few organic bananas, too bad. The organic ones have a sticky plastic strip around them so you can't just break off the amount you want.
I'm pretty selective about what I buy and I only want to buy what I need. And I definitely don't need a bunch of extra packaging. In the end, I often end up buying non-organic food just because I end up wasting less that way.
I'd also like to see where the fruit is from, possibly even identify the grower. There are three basic reasons:
1. I prefer to buy stuff grown close to where I live. My grocery store will generally include the country of origin in the signage, but I really don't trust that they get that right.
2. If there is some type of contamination problem, the CDC could more quickly track down the source and scope of the problem.
3. I might discover that some growers produce better or worse food than others. The information could help me spend my food dollars more effectively.
-ec
They put these in my home (in Texas) and I don't like them. Makes it way more difficult to insert the plug and it always feels like the little plastic shutters are going to break.
You know, it's not typical for there to be two sides to an issue. Rarely is anything that simple.
I'm just sayin'...
For Gmail, I'm sure they would rather have you use the web app. But don't assume POP/IMAP access is a loser for them. They are still mining your data stream.
Good idea. If you've set the password on the hard drive, moving it to a different machine won't help.
Now we'd just need someone to reverse the decision that TPMs are all evil and should not be used.
What do you mean? Assuming you aren't using a company computer, you're allowed to make that decision all by yourself. There are quite a few machines out there with TPM on board.
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But (if I RTFA correctly), Edwyn Collins does own the rights.
I don't understand the monopoly argument. As far as I know, Google has a monopoly only because they are the only ones trying to do this. Is there anything that prevents others from doing the same thing?
I mostly agree with you with the exception of certain out of print books. Somebody in another part of the thread mentioned than an author may deliberately choose to have only a small print run. I hadn't thought of that before. The work may then be valuable because it is scarce or out of print.
Oh. I didn't understand that they were going to republish anything more than just excerpts (which I believe would be fair use).
I thought Project Gutenberg was doing this only with public domain works. That would be the big difference, no?
I don't understand what Google is doing wrong. Can somebody please explain it what it is that so many people and corporations object to? I've read a bunch of articles but none have explained what the actual underlying problem is.
The closest thing I've heard that makes sense is that a book (unlike a web page) was never written with the understanding that it would be read and indexed by a machine. But really, I have a hard time seeing how this would hurt authors or publishers or anybody. The benefits seem great.
-ec
Are there any thriving languages that are static?
It seems to me that languages evolve for quick and accurate communication with others close in time and space. You say it is hard to read a 300 year old text and I agree. I would also say that it can be difficult to understand someone from 300 kilometers away, both ostensibly speaking the same language.
How do you know they wanted it for free? Perhaps this has been discussed somewhere, but I don't think the details of the discussion have been made public.
It seems to me that this is exactly what happened years ago before Qt was GPL'd. People were unhappy with the terms of the Qt license and so they made GTK. In the end, I think we are all better off and I have no reason to suspect differently this time. Competition is good.
Thanks. :)
I actually mostly agree with your comment.
I think complaints about the abuse of English has been around forever. I can remember reading about the publishing of an Ebonics bible (back in the '80s I think). For some reason, certain people were quite upset about that.
And whatever happened to talking jive. The jive talking scene in Airplane is one of my favorites.
Of course there is an increasing number of high school drop outs. The population is growing and those that were drop outs last year, are likely still drop outs this year. (If you return to school later in life and graduate, are you still considered a drop out?)
If, however, you look at the high school drop out rates you will see they have generally been in decline for the past 30 years.
http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org/indicators/1HighSchoolDropout.cfm
tards?
Wish I had mod points. Great response. :)
No they won't. At least not without a subpoena.
The warranty covered loss? Are you sure it wasn't insurance that covered the loss?