I never considered them a good company for the last 2+ years, especially since they floated. I heard they are f$@%ers. It reminds me of Atari. They start off loved by all. Then they grow and get swallowed up by all the shitters that care nothing for IT,, they're just trying to turn google into a cha-ching $$$ band wagon.
I recently applied for a job with them but I will happily milk them for a few months and then fly off,
You don't really exist in the conventional sense. You are more an abstraction. So too is your operating system. Your imaginery friends call you all the time to arrange getting together to add on more features to your imaginery OS. You will always buy the fair trade bar of chocolate for $5 before the bag of smarties @ $0.50 but thats ok, because although the cost to your productivity by using HERD now runs into the tens of thousands, that is more than made up for by the imaginery dent you are doing to the Microsoft corrporation. You could be from anywhere but you might well be German and as you know very well, its dangerous to purchase proprietary software but it's ok to stone someone else to death for using it!
Yeah, I diddn't learn any more from part II than I did from part I. I think it's a very interesting architecture. I would like to see Linux/Unix ported to it as soon as possible after it's release and see how it does.
Or are you one of those people who assumes that all "developing countries" look exactly like the mud huts you see in those late-night infomercials asking you to sponsor a poor child?
No, I am one of those people that knows that 95 - 99.9999 % (roughly..) of people in developed countries live in unimagineable dire poverty in many 3rd world countries.
I assume that like me you think they might be missing the point. Where's the electrical power going to come from for these. Should THAT not be the priority?
It all seems a bit jackass to me ! Still though. their heart is in the right place. I hope it helps!
Before you read too far into this disussion, be forewarned that people are taking this way too seriously. It will never happen. Oh yeah, it may take a few thousand years. That's a pretty good weather forecast consider we can't even accurate forecast the weather on our own planet more that 7 day's out!! Come on!! Get real!! Besides, everyone knows that life exists on Mars, and that we just haven't built the proper technology to find it yet. Who is going to take responsibilty for fucking up the entire Martian ecosystem?
Where the fuck do you live? If we can accidentally do it to our own planet, we can sure as heck do it to Mars
I always thought it was a bit bizarre of the US telcos to give geographical numbers to mobile phones.
I was in Chicago in 2000 and though the train system ws good and you had more fast food options, mobile phone uses was way behind. Back in Ireland, my little sister (aged 13 at the time) had a mobile phone, while our relatively affluent American cousins had 1 mobile for the family ( a fairly arcane looking mobile too). Nokia (finland), Siemens (Germany), and Ericson (Sweden) - all big European mobile makers at the time - seemed to have much better market penetration. Ireland has always had "the gift of the gab" do I suppose it always seemed that awy. Maybe it was just Irish people blabbering on about nothing!! I f****** hate mobiles. I get on a bus to go to work and see muppets everywhere exchanging illogical trivialities in my face. It's like being pissed on.
Thats a very good point for another reason. We have shown in the past that we are likely to destroy ourselves. Every major empire on Earth has always collapsed in the end and slowed down technological development with it. But we can break out of that loop if we spread to other "rocks". Say we populate Mars and Venus.
With Venus, the atmosphere is a runaway greenhouse effect so we would have to stip allot of the atmostphere off by diverting huge asteroids into it's atmosphere's path. once we have spread to half the solar system we can undergo a prolonged campaign of removing technology and going back to nature and paganism.
Then we can start from scratch from our ignorance as we will not have been corrupted. Then some day Venusians s of the future will invest huge amounts of money on exploring "this Earth" because it supports life and they will discover that although there is evidence of an advanced civilisation there, it is only now populated by animals and they are in fact the decendants of Earth. Then they will send missions to Mars and find the Marsians are in fact decendants of Earth too but they have not developed technologically as well as the Venusians ( the low gravity has got to their head!!)
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I never considered them a good company for the last 2+ years, especially since they floated. I heard they are f$@%ers. It reminds me of Atari. They start off loved by all. Then they grow and get swallowed up by all the shitters that care nothing for IT,, they're just trying to turn google into a cha-ching $$$ band wagon.
I recently applied for a job with them but I will happily milk them for a few months and then fly off,
You don't really exist in the conventional sense. You are more an abstraction. So too is your operating system. Your imaginery friends call you all the time to arrange getting together to add on more features to your imaginery OS. You will always buy the fair trade bar of chocolate for $5 before the bag of smarties @ $0.50 but thats ok, because although the cost to your productivity by using HERD now runs into the tens of thousands, that is more than made up for by the imaginery dent you are doing to the Microsoft corrporation. You could be from anywhere but you might well be German and as you know very well, its dangerous to purchase proprietary software but it's ok to stone someone else to death for using it!
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No, I am one of those people that knows that 95 - 99.9999 % (roughly..) of people in developed countries live in unimagineable dire poverty in many 3rd world countries.
Holy..whens the last time you visited Africa?
I assume since they have abundant electrical power, they have factories pumping out cars by the million..
On that note might I add:
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I assume that like me you think they might be missing the point. Where's the electrical power going to come from for these. Should THAT not be the priority? It all seems a bit jackass to me ! Still though. their heart is in the right place. I hope it helps!
Why travel in space when you can crap into it?
I wonder did they simulate switching the damn communication channels on this time!
Yeah, maybe they will find a way to introduce Googlex - the competitor to MS Windows
Where the fuck do you live? If we can accidentally do it to our own planet, we can sure as heck do it to Mars
I was in Chicago in 2000 and though the train system ws good and you had more fast food options, mobile phone uses was way behind. Back in Ireland, my little sister (aged 13 at the time) had a mobile phone, while our relatively affluent American cousins had 1 mobile for the family ( a fairly arcane looking mobile too). Nokia (finland), Siemens (Germany), and Ericson (Sweden) - all big European mobile makers at the time - seemed to have much better market penetration. Ireland has always had "the gift of the gab" do I suppose it always seemed that awy. Maybe it was just Irish people blabbering on about nothing!! I f****** hate mobiles. I get on a bus to go to work and see muppets everywhere exchanging illogical trivialities in my face. It's like being pissed on.