I vote "meh". Seems self-evident that
a) Google (if it chose to) could mine a lot more data than it does - e.g. contents of gmail, results of using Google DNS, etc
b) There are ways that Google could make a lot of money out of mining more data from the contents of their servers
c) There is a point where customers would get pissed off/could be illegal if they over stepped the mark
d) That it's entirely reasonable for Google to debate and investigate what further data mining they could do without Being Evil.
I presume the document in TFA is a debate over where they draw the line. I'm glad they're debating it. I'll let you know what I think of them when they've decided where that line is.
what's the bandwidth of a large floating server farm? Sure, the latency'll be horrible but you could move a lot of data fairly quickly around the globe this way.
Let's face it, the idea behind this is to put lots of cycles within easy reach of major cities without paying a fortune for real estate. A few container ships moored in the SF bay, for example.
Aw, man, I'd forgotten all those hours trying to squeeze a bit more memory out of a boot disk, using himem.sys, disabling TSRs, sorting out IRQs for the soundcard etc. Big reason why I learned so much DOS, knew about hardware and drivers etc at a young age. Takes me back...
Huh? Flash Lite ships with Desire running 2.1, and the genuine Froyo HTC ROM with full flash is out now. Community ROMs from XDA have had Froyo for the Desire for a couple of months.
Huh? What's stopping you going down the high street, buying an android phone and using that? Or developing using the SDK?
Google have stopped selling the Nexus One because now the carriers have STARTED selling it. At least in the UK you couldn't throw a brick whilst out shopping without breaking the window of a shop selling the Nexus One, Desire, Wildfire, Legend, Galaxy S, Dell Streak etc etc.
D-link used to sell a product that was ADSL router, small till-roll printer and embedded software that managed printing out each user a unique access code, and a no-cat-auth style login web page for access. Cost was under 200 dollars as I recall.
I'd imagine as well as the points in the rest of this thread another reason for wifi decline is a) the economy means that any business cost that doesn't bring in a profit gets squeezed, and also the risk of an unidentified customer doing something naughty with the internet connection and the coffee shop being prosecuted for it.
Most people keep their car keys in the house when they're asleep. Mine are generally in the pocket of my jeans, for example. Breaking and entering and stealing keys (whether stealthily or, as is becoming more common, by threatening the homeowner) is pretty common now. Thieves drive around neighbourhood, look for tasty looking car and come back at night...
In the UK, the increase in car security has meant that a fair proportion of breakins are to get your car keys, and then steal your car. Any other opportunistic theft is a bonus to them. I know a couple of people who've woken up to find someone in the house looking for keys, and had a breakin myself last year where someoen went for the handbag my girlfriend had left in sight of the window (I know) assuming there'd be keys in there..
I remember Optiplex GX1's from about 2000-2002 using non-standard wiring on the PSU connectors. Fitting a "standard" PSU let the magic smoke out of the motherboard. Although the size and shape of these coprorate desktop's PSUs meant that you usually couldn't fit a standard PSU in the case anyway.
On the plus side, you could field strip the whole machine in no time at all so provided you had a source of spares from other dead Optiplexes (not usually a problem!) then you could get your user back up and running in no time. I kind of liked those old machines.
Protip: you don't have to unsolder the old cap! You can simply snip the legs of it so they stay soldered to the mainboard, standing upright, and then solder the new cap's legs to these. Much easier than messing with surface mount solder!
I'd agree in that I never stab anything either.
I have three knives I use in the kitchen - a 10" chef's knife, a 3 inch paring knife and a 14" one for carving. The chef's knife does most of the work. All are *very* sharp, I'm fastidious about this.
Dicing an onion uses a particular technique of taking half an onion, making horizontal cuts almost all the way through, then vertical cuts almost all the way through (for which you need a pointed knife as you need the cutting surface to stop suddenly rather than curve away) and then finally 90 degree vertical slices to give you diced onion. Can't imagine doing this with a sharp pallette knife.
Similarly whilst a curved rocking blade is great I use my chef's knife. Hold point down on block and use as pivot whilst rear of blade goes up and down to chop. Again, with a rounded end it's not going to pivot.
Making an incision in a chicken breast to stuff it with something would be similarly tricky with a rounded knife, I'd imagine.
I couldn't use a rounded-end knife in the kitchen. There's a reason chef's knives have a point.
Try dicing an onion using a rounded end. Try finely chopping herbs. Try just about anything, in fact. Rounded ends are fine on knives used for buttering bread or pallette knives for cakes, useless for everything else.
Huh? It's *too late* by then. Google's already indexed all your mail by the time you get to read it, so if you're worried about privacy then using Gmail seems obtuse.
Why not come out with an attempt at a kick-ass OS (Windows Phone 7 Series - no idea if it'll be good or not when released but presumably the idea is that it doesn't suck), a tightly-proscribed hardware reference definition for the manufacturers (chipset, number of physical buttons, minimum resolution etc) and then leave all the awkware engineering and production to companies that do it best such as HTC or Foxconn? They don't need to actually manufacture them themselves.
I remember working 2nd line support for a company with a load of RAMBUS Dells. Caused a bit of a commotion when the usual upgrade-by-slapping-in-more-RAM option was costed. I can remember it costing more than a new Optiplex at the time. Much hilarity with management.
Certainly not Google. Or me, for that matter. The Big G's business model is built on the premise that storage is cheap, and that value is provided by being able to never delete anything, but make it available through a powerful search engine. When did you last delete something out of Gmail, for example?
There are whole industries around SEO and it seems naive to think that people aren't going to create/alter content in order to get a higher ranking. Does it matter?
...and get those people to agree to a police background check. Imagine if you were an offshore developer in another country, and your line manager casually dropped into a conversation that the LAPD want to audit you. Now scale that up to the presumably hundreds/thousands of google personnel who potentially have access to that data.
same with Windows: they're not saying you can't use it in these conditions, they're saying you won't be able to sue them if you do and something goes wrong.
And yes, I have run safety-critical systems off isolated NT networks in the past.
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If I go and buy a Mifi and a 12v cigarette lighter to usb cable, I could wire it in behind the dash myself in 10 minutes.
New Minis all come with run-flats. Most BMWs do, too. They're horrible things that ruin the ride, but very common indeed in Europe.
I vote "meh". Seems self-evident that
a) Google (if it chose to) could mine a lot more data than it does - e.g. contents of gmail, results of using Google DNS, etc
b) There are ways that Google could make a lot of money out of mining more data from the contents of their servers
c) There is a point where customers would get pissed off/could be illegal if they over stepped the mark
d) That it's entirely reasonable for Google to debate and investigate what further data mining they could do without Being Evil.
I presume the document in TFA is a debate over where they draw the line. I'm glad they're debating it. I'll let you know what I think of them when they've decided where that line is.
what's the bandwidth of a large floating server farm? Sure, the latency'll be horrible but you could move a lot of data fairly quickly around the globe this way.
Let's face it, the idea behind this is to put lots of cycles within easy reach of major cities without paying a fortune for real estate. A few container ships moored in the SF bay, for example.
Nice work...!
Aw, man, I'd forgotten all those hours trying to squeeze a bit more memory out of a boot disk, using himem.sys, disabling TSRs, sorting out IRQs for the soundcard etc. Big reason why I learned so much DOS, knew about hardware and drivers etc at a young age. Takes me back...
Huh? Flash Lite ships with Desire running 2.1, and the genuine Froyo HTC ROM with full flash is out now. Community ROMs from XDA have had Froyo for the Desire for a couple of months.
Huh? What's stopping you going down the high street, buying an android phone and using that? Or developing using the SDK?
Google have stopped selling the Nexus One because now the carriers have STARTED selling it. At least in the UK you couldn't throw a brick whilst out shopping without breaking the window of a shop selling the Nexus One, Desire, Wildfire, Legend, Galaxy S, Dell Streak etc etc.
D-link used to sell a product that was ADSL router, small till-roll printer and embedded software that managed printing out each user a unique access code, and a no-cat-auth style login web page for access. Cost was under 200 dollars as I recall.
I'd imagine as well as the points in the rest of this thread another reason for wifi decline is a) the economy means that any business cost that doesn't bring in a profit gets squeezed, and also the risk of an unidentified customer doing something naughty with the internet connection and the coffee shop being prosecuted for it.
every motorwary service station has a video game room though. Plus most seaside towns have a few traditional arcades.
Most people keep their car keys in the house when they're asleep. Mine are generally in the pocket of my jeans, for example. Breaking and entering and stealing keys (whether stealthily or, as is becoming more common, by threatening the homeowner) is pretty common now. Thieves drive around neighbourhood, look for tasty looking car and come back at night...
In the UK, the increase in car security has meant that a fair proportion of breakins are to get your car keys, and then steal your car. Any other opportunistic theft is a bonus to them. I know a couple of people who've woken up to find someone in the house looking for keys, and had a breakin myself last year where someoen went for the handbag my girlfriend had left in sight of the window (I know) assuming there'd be keys in there..
Seriously? Is there any evidnece for this? If it's true then it's awesome in a creepy sort of way.
I remember Optiplex GX1's from about 2000-2002 using non-standard wiring on the PSU connectors. Fitting a "standard" PSU let the magic smoke out of the motherboard. Although the size and shape of these coprorate desktop's PSUs meant that you usually couldn't fit a standard PSU in the case anyway.
On the plus side, you could field strip the whole machine in no time at all so provided you had a source of spares from other dead Optiplexes (not usually a problem!) then you could get your user back up and running in no time. I kind of liked those old machines.
Protip: you don't have to unsolder the old cap! You can simply snip the legs of it so they stay soldered to the mainboard, standing upright, and then solder the new cap's legs to these. Much easier than messing with surface mount solder!
That's OK, there's always satellite internet to provide the internet conn...oh, wait
I'd agree in that I never stab anything either. I have three knives I use in the kitchen - a 10" chef's knife, a 3 inch paring knife and a 14" one for carving. The chef's knife does most of the work. All are *very* sharp, I'm fastidious about this.
Dicing an onion uses a particular technique of taking half an onion, making horizontal cuts almost all the way through, then vertical cuts almost all the way through (for which you need a pointed knife as you need the cutting surface to stop suddenly rather than curve away) and then finally 90 degree vertical slices to give you diced onion.
Can't imagine doing this with a sharp pallette knife.
Similarly whilst a curved rocking blade is great I use my chef's knife. Hold point down on block and use as pivot whilst rear of blade goes up and down to chop. Again, with a rounded end it's not going to pivot.
Making an incision in a chicken breast to stuff it with something would be similarly tricky with a rounded knife, I'd imagine.
You're right, but it's a slightly different argument. That's because MS owns copyright of the code within the BIOS, it's an IP argument.
I couldn't use a rounded-end knife in the kitchen. There's a reason chef's knives have a point.
Try dicing an onion using a rounded end. Try finely chopping herbs. Try just about anything, in fact. Rounded ends are fine on knives used for buttering bread or pallette knives for cakes, useless for everything else.
Huh? It's *too late* by then. Google's already indexed all your mail by the time you get to read it, so if you're worried about privacy then using Gmail seems obtuse.
Why not come out with an attempt at a kick-ass OS (Windows Phone 7 Series - no idea if it'll be good or not when released but presumably the idea is that it doesn't suck), a tightly-proscribed hardware reference definition for the manufacturers (chipset, number of physical buttons, minimum resolution etc) and then leave all the awkware engineering and production to companies that do it best such as HTC or Foxconn? They don't need to actually manufacture them themselves.
I remember working 2nd line support for a company with a load of RAMBUS Dells. Caused a bit of a commotion when the usual upgrade-by-slapping-in-more-RAM option was costed. I can remember it costing more than a new Optiplex at the time. Much hilarity with management.
Certainly not Google. Or me, for that matter. The Big G's business model is built on the premise that storage is cheap, and that value is provided by being able to never delete anything, but make it available through a powerful search engine. When did you last delete something out of Gmail, for example?
There are whole industries around SEO and it seems naive to think that people aren't going to create/alter content in order to get a higher ranking. Does it matter?
...and get those people to agree to a police background check. Imagine if you were an offshore developer in another country, and your line manager casually dropped into a conversation that the LAPD want to audit you. Now scale that up to the presumably hundreds/thousands of google personnel who potentially have access to that data.
same with Windows: they're not saying you can't use it in these conditions, they're saying you won't be able to sue them if you do and something goes wrong.
And yes, I have run safety-critical systems off isolated NT networks in the past.