Of course it is a project to track and monetize gamers. Tracking and monetizing users is, at the very core, what Google does.
Although this could have comical results. Imagine all the 12-14 year old kids who spend the evenings and weekends playing FPS suddenly getting ads for Lipton, Tazo, Twinings, PG Tips, and others.
In a world where monthly data caps cause issues for streaming movies and TV shows, what could possibly go wrong with streaming video games? I'm sure Comcast and AT&T (among others) will love this. As soon as user's get their first overage bill they will realize what a bad idea this was.
If Google was smart, they would have used this to drum up demand for their own ISP service, Google Fiber. However that, like most other Google "hobbies" is all but dead now.
I don't know which is worse - the products that Google kills (i.e. Picasa), the products that Google keeps but doesn't know what exactly they should be (i.e. Voice, Keep), or the products that Google runs their own competitor for (+ vs Hangouts vs Orkut or Pay vs Wallet) .
* Picasa was an amazing application that Google purchased, destroyed, merged into other services, and then abandoned.
* Reader was probably one of the best RSS aggregators available.
* Grand Central, which they purchased, rebranded as Google Voice, discontinued, didn't discontinue and merged it with Hangouts... and then announced plans to discontinue hangouts.
* Notebook a nice, no frills app to take notes in. Google killed it and then many years later, decided to create a "new" app called Google Keep which is basically an updated version of Notebook.
While the PS4 is good (maybe even great) at those things, it lacks the simplicity that the Apple TV offers. My wife and kids (4 & 6) have no issues navigating the UI on the Apple TV, switching profiles, etc. Things get a bit more complicated with the PS4, and lord help them if I left a game running.
If it was just me, I would not have the need for the Apple TV.
I don't know about anyone else, but my feed is usually full of people complaining, arguing, or just pissed off. I always thought this was the norm for FB. IÃ(TM)d hate to think I know this many unhappy people.
I tried on the IE & Fx example pages using Opera 9.10 (86790) on Windows XP SP2.
On both pages, the 2nd box collapsed into a 1-2px line. With the IE page, the text was not displayed in the box, rather a "space" was added for each key press. I could not delete the text. On the Fx test page, the text was typed in, but nothing happened. No redirect, no display of my boot.ini, nada.
With World of Warcraft as hot as it is? Nah... holiday sells don't mean shit for them now. Heck, they could probably drop StarCraft and Diablo titles completely and focus on WoW for the next 5+ years and still be "in the black".
I call BS on the no cookie comment. I downloaded Browzar just to see what it looked like, sent it to my site only to find that I was logged in. So, I logged out of my site in Opera (my default browser) and refreshed the page in Browzar and found I was still logged in. So I opened up IE (which I use for testing) and see that I was logged in with it. Hit the log out button, refreshed Browzar and found that I had been logged out.
I decided to completely delete my cookies... Opera, IE, Firefox... opened up my site with Browzar and logged in (which I knew would try and set a cookie). What do you know... a cookie was created in C:\Documents and Settings\\Cookies. Closed Browzar and opened it back up and navigated to my site to find that I was still logged in.
Went to Google, and guess what. Another cookie was set. Surprise, surprise.
If by "Google launches PayPal Rival" you mean, "Google launches a service for merchants to process credit cards". Then yes, this is a PayPal rival. This service does not allow you to transfer money from person-to-person, nor does it allow you to pay by check, bank draft, etc.
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Of course it is a project to track and monetize gamers. Tracking and monetizing users is, at the very core, what Google does.
Although this could have comical results. Imagine all the 12-14 year old kids who spend the evenings and weekends playing FPS suddenly getting ads for Lipton, Tazo, Twinings, PG Tips, and others.
In a world where monthly data caps cause issues for streaming movies and TV shows, what could possibly go wrong with streaming video games? I'm sure Comcast and AT&T (among others) will love this. As soon as user's get their first overage bill they will realize what a bad idea this was.
If Google was smart, they would have used this to drum up demand for their own ISP service, Google Fiber. However that, like most other Google "hobbies" is all but dead now.
I don't know which is worse - the products that Google kills (i.e. Picasa), the products that Google keeps but doesn't know what exactly they should be (i.e. Voice, Keep), or the products that Google runs their own competitor for (+ vs Hangouts vs Orkut or Pay vs Wallet) .
* Picasa was an amazing application that Google purchased, destroyed, merged into other services, and then abandoned.
* Reader was probably one of the best RSS aggregators available.
* Grand Central, which they purchased, rebranded as Google Voice, discontinued, didn't discontinue and merged it with Hangouts... and then announced plans to discontinue hangouts.
* Notebook a nice, no frills app to take notes in. Google killed it and then many years later, decided to create a "new" app called Google Keep which is basically an updated version of Notebook.
So much for those wonderful STIGs that everyone else has to suffer through.
While the PS4 is good (maybe even great) at those things, it lacks the simplicity that the Apple TV offers. My wife and kids (4 & 6) have no issues navigating the UI on the Apple TV, switching profiles, etc. Things get a bit more complicated with the PS4, and lord help them if I left a game running. If it was just me, I would not have the need for the Apple TV.
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If I'm not mistaken, with iOS11 all location enabled apps should now have the "while using" as an option.
I don't know about battery, but with iOS11 Safari seems snappier.
Because Gizmodo has become overly political since the fall of Gawker.
I don't know about anyone else, but my feed is usually full of people complaining, arguing, or just pissed off. I always thought this was the norm for FB. IÃ(TM)d hate to think I know this many unhappy people.
Gawker has standards? Must only apply to Fleshbot.
I tried on the IE & Fx example pages using Opera 9.10 (86790) on Windows XP SP2.
On both pages, the 2nd box collapsed into a 1-2px line. With the IE page, the text was not displayed in the box, rather a "space" was added for each key press. I could not delete the text. On the Fx test page, the text was typed in, but nothing happened. No redirect, no display of my boot.ini, nada.
With World of Warcraft as hot as it is? Nah... holiday sells don't mean shit for them now. Heck, they could probably drop StarCraft and Diablo titles completely and focus on WoW for the next 5+ years and still be "in the black".
What? No phantom? It doesn't get much lamer than a system that never materializes.
My mistake on the above reply. It does delete the cookies after you close, provided that you don't have IE open...
Oh... and no it doesn't go in and delete the cookies when you close it. I opened Browzar back up to find myself still logged into my site.
I've tested this on various sites, without using any other browser. The cookies are indeed there.
"No browsing history, stored files, or cookies"
I call BS on the no cookie comment. I downloaded Browzar just to see what it looked like, sent it to my site only to find that I was logged in. So, I logged out of my site in Opera (my default browser) and refreshed the page in Browzar and found I was still logged in. So I opened up IE (which I use for testing) and see that I was logged in with it. Hit the log out button, refreshed Browzar and found that I had been logged out.
I decided to completely delete my cookies... Opera, IE, Firefox... opened up my site with Browzar and logged in (which I knew would try and set a cookie). What do you know... a cookie was created in C:\Documents and Settings\\Cookies. Closed Browzar and opened it back up and navigated to my site to find that I was still logged in.
Went to Google, and guess what. Another cookie was set. Surprise, surprise.
...or AMD could turn driver development over to the ATI employees, and just totally FUXOR the Linux crowd.
I don't suppose there is a chance for nVidia to make a counter offer is there? I know, wishful thinking on my part.
nVidia: "No! Don't buy them! We're better, and we'll sell to you cheaper!"
Good lord... I hope not.
*shudder*
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/ 24/1148238
Ok... someone check the temperature in hell.
Give it time... the world knows /. doesn't post news as it happens. We'll get the story tomorrow.
If by "Google launches PayPal Rival" you mean, "Google launches a service for merchants to process credit cards". Then yes, this is a PayPal rival. This service does not allow you to transfer money from person-to-person, nor does it allow you to pay by check, bank draft, etc.
No kidding... get rid of DKs on PvP/RP-PvP servers.