At best Google can change their algorithm thus forcing the "SEO scumbags" to start over, but they will start over and they will again succeed.
Then Google will become less and less relevant as people move to other search engines with different algorithms, until they are also polluted to death by 'SEO scumbags'.
A few years back I could actually find something useful by searching in Google, now I have to wade through so much crap that it's often easier to go to the closest Wikipedia page and follow some links from there.
Google's not dead yet, and as long as they continue to dominate search and a few other niches(Maps, email), they'll be alive.
The problem is that they're trying to dominate search by making it 'smarter', with the end result that it increasingly sucks. Most times I look for anything out of the ordinary using very clear search terms I end up with 90+% of the results being crap I don't want because it 'intelligently' decided that I wasn't looking for what I was asking it to search for.
So I'm definitely looking for a better alternative for searches which isn't trying so hard. Yeah, I know I can put magic characters in the search thing so it actually searches for the thing I asked it to search for, but I shouldn't have to do that.
It has 500 million users, which looks like a lot, but that puts it's worth at $100 per user. Do you think you are worth $100 to facebook?
If my experience is anything to go by, 400,000,000 of those will be spam users trying to scam you and 50,000,000 of the rest won't have logged on in six months.
is Alan Greenspan rising from the grave* to soberly chide the market about its irrational exuberance.
Greenspan ran artificially low interest rates for years, then whined when people took all that money and spent it on inflating asset prices. He's probably loving the sequential bubble economy.
Sandbox code is fully disclosed and fully agreed upon across the interstellar community
Which means anyone can hack up a modified sandbox which will steall all the agent's secrets. The agent, of course, can't 'self-destruct' since I made a copy before I put it in there.
This whole thing is just another form of DRM, and any alien species which relies on it will find its agents on Bittorrent within a few days.
How about networking multiple worlds? What about when we learn to colonize Mars, and other solar systems?
IPV6 has plenty enough IP addresses for a single galaxy. We might need to rethink it once we have colonised another galaxy, but the million-year ping times would be a bit annoying anyway.
As easy as real-time communication is nowadays to people around the globe, once the internet moves into space, the incredible latency of long-distance communications could return us to a series of groups and threads that one logs into periodically, downloads en masse, and reads locally.
Of course given the time delays between solar systems, you could start a flame war that your great-great-grandchildren would have to finish.
Except that Gartner used sound logic for their extrapolation, and you used retard logic for yours.
It's not my extrapolation, though I agree that the people who made it were not very smart. But there were plenty of people cheerleading for them at the time, just as there are for tablets today.
The people walking around with iPad's for the "Look at me" status would be very quickly silenced if you walked around with a tablet of silver the same size though
Obviously tablets are too expensive if you don't have a real need for one; my i5 laptop with a GPU that's capable of playing modern games and a 640GB hard drive cost less than some of the tablets in TFA.
OTOH if you really must have the tablet format, then they're no more expensive than a laptop.
Pundits like to state this, but I always wonder how Windows is an open system?
Compared to many of the alternatives it was: with Windows on a PC you didn't have to pay thousands of dollars for a development license to get API documentation and build applications as we did with some other hardware. The end result was cheap software on cheap hardware, at least when compared to paying $20,000 for a Sun workstation.
Today though, hardware is so cheap that paying $100 for Windows is starting to be a big problem on a $300 PC. Netbooks would be running Linux if Microsoft hadn't cut deals with OEMs to make Windows free or almost free.
That's like saying that the school nerd volunteers to hand over his lunch money to avoid being punched in the face by the school bully.
Many of the most important people in the history of the world never went to school or left well before eighteen; today they'd be considered juvenile criminals.
Watchmen was an overlong, overwrought, overly wordy, over hyped, over produced mess.
It was not, by any stretch of the imagination, good.
Mod parent up!
My girlfriend managed 20 minutes of Watchman before finding something better to do and I wish I'd done the same; I had a hard time finding any motivation to keep watching it past half-way.
Are they ever going to make the entire browser not lock up when one tab is doing something that requires starting Flash or gets stuck downloading data from a server?
I'd much rather they fix that than add 'apps' to the browser.
However, let's be real for a minute. The kill switch is a bad idea, but we all should know that the government would only use it in the case of massive attacks from a foreign entity
Which 'reality' do you live in where the government would never abuse its power for its own ends?
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At best Google can change their algorithm thus forcing the "SEO scumbags" to start over, but they will start over and they will again succeed.
Then Google will become less and less relevant as people move to other search engines with different algorithms, until they are also polluted to death by 'SEO scumbags'.
A few years back I could actually find something useful by searching in Google, now I have to wade through so much crap that it's often easier to go to the closest Wikipedia page and follow some links from there.
Google's not dead yet, and as long as they continue to dominate search and a few other niches(Maps, email), they'll be alive.
The problem is that they're trying to dominate search by making it 'smarter', with the end result that it increasingly sucks. Most times I look for anything out of the ordinary using very clear search terms I end up with 90+% of the results being crap I don't want because it 'intelligently' decided that I wasn't looking for what I was asking it to search for.
So I'm definitely looking for a better alternative for searches which isn't trying so hard. Yeah, I know I can put magic characters in the search thing so it actually searches for the thing I asked it to search for, but I shouldn't have to do that.
It has 500 million users, which looks like a lot, but that puts it's worth at $100 per user. Do you think you are worth $100 to facebook?
If my experience is anything to go by, 400,000,000 of those will be spam users trying to scam you and 50,000,000 of the rest won't have logged on in six months.
is Alan Greenspan rising from the grave* to soberly chide the market about its irrational exuberance.
Greenspan ran artificially low interest rates for years, then whined when people took all that money and spent it on inflating asset prices. He's probably loving the sequential bubble economy.
Sandbox code is fully disclosed and fully agreed upon across the interstellar community
Which means anyone can hack up a modified sandbox which will steall all the agent's secrets. The agent, of course, can't 'self-destruct' since I made a copy before I put it in there.
This whole thing is just another form of DRM, and any alien species which relies on it will find its agents on Bittorrent within a few days.
How about networking multiple worlds? What about when we learn to colonize Mars, and other solar systems?
IPV6 has plenty enough IP addresses for a single galaxy. We might need to rethink it once we have colonised another galaxy, but the million-year ping times would be a bit annoying anyway.
As easy as real-time communication is nowadays to people around the globe, once the internet moves into space, the incredible latency of long-distance communications could return us to a series of groups and threads that one logs into periodically, downloads en masse, and reads locally.
Of course given the time delays between solar systems, you could start a flame war that your great-great-grandchildren would have to finish.
Except that Gartner used sound logic for their extrapolation, and you used retard logic for yours.
It's not my extrapolation, though I agree that the people who made it were not very smart. But there were plenty of people cheerleading for them at the time, just as there are for tablets today.
The people walking around with iPad's for the "Look at me" status would be very quickly silenced if you walked around with a tablet of silver the same size though
Only if it had an Apple logo on the back.
Those cheap laptops everyone loves to compare with iPads so much rarely get 5 hours. 3 hours is fairly common.
My netbook runs for about 8 hours and you could buy at least two of them for the cost of an iPad.
Great call, the things are selling like hotcakes. Gartner says sales will quadruple in 2011.
And I gather that the Dow will hit 36,000 by 2010.
Extrapolation is always risky.
Obviously tablets are too expensive if you don't have a real need for one; my i5 laptop with a GPU that's capable of playing modern games and a 640GB hard drive cost less than some of the tablets in TFA.
OTOH if you really must have the tablet format, then they're no more expensive than a laptop.
I've seen GPL software for sale on Amazon, so why is it so hard for Microsoft and Apple?
Pundits like to state this, but I always wonder how Windows is an open system?
Compared to many of the alternatives it was: with Windows on a PC you didn't have to pay thousands of dollars for a development license to get API documentation and build applications as we did with some other hardware. The end result was cheap software on cheap hardware, at least when compared to paying $20,000 for a Sun workstation.
Today though, hardware is so cheap that paying $100 for Windows is starting to be a big problem on a $300 PC. Netbooks would be running Linux if Microsoft hadn't cut deals with OEMs to make Windows free or almost free.
From TFA:
"Excluded Licenses include, but are not limited to the GPLv3 Licenses"
That's like saying that the school nerd volunteers to hand over his lunch money to avoid being punched in the face by the school bully.
Many of the most important people in the history of the world never went to school or left well before eighteen; today they'd be considered juvenile criminals.
Couldn't you find ways around the problems? Encrypt the data and store it to a central DB
Why would you put it in a central database when you could just carry it around with you (and back up as required to wherever you chose)?
Why are people so worried about their medical information going public?
I think your comment about Steve Jobs would be enough to explain why people don't want everyone to have access to their medical records.
Watchmen was an overlong, overwrought, overly wordy, over hyped, over produced mess.
It was not, by any stretch of the imagination, good.
Mod parent up!
My girlfriend managed 20 minutes of Watchman before finding something better to do and I wish I'd done the same; I had a hard time finding any motivation to keep watching it past half-way.
You can take the internet down with a small botnet (yes 250k zombies is small). http://www.zdnet.com/blog/networking/how-to-crash-the-internet/680
You presumably missed the mass debunking of that claim a few days ago?
All they want is for Firefox to be the emacs of the browsing world!
Isn't Emacs the Emacs of the browsing world?
Ok. Admittedly that isn't plugin *sandboxing* just process isolation.
Once the plugin is in a separate process it can easily be sandboxed with Apparmor or SELinux.
Yep, already done. Try using a version of Firefox that is relevant.
Like what? I was using the latest version of 3.6 on Ubuntu last night and it still happens.
Are they ever going to make the entire browser not lock up when one tab is doing something that requires starting Flash or gets stuck downloading data from a server?
I'd much rather they fix that than add 'apps' to the browser.
However, let's be real for a minute. The kill switch is a bad idea, but we all should know that the government would only use it in the case of massive attacks from a foreign entity
Which 'reality' do you live in where the government would never abuse its power for its own ends?