I suspect what will matter is whether its clear that this is what the suggestions mean.
If there's possibility of confusion that Google is in fact claiming these things, there could be a problem perhaps, but clarity about what the suggestions are really should clear it all up on a legal level, or at least I'd hope it would.
To be fair, I have a 1080p projector at 10 feet from my seating position, and while there are rare occasions (mostly in video games) where I wish I had better resolutions, 1080p is still quite good enough at this distance. At 6-8' you'd definitely notice though.
Speaking of 1080i dramas, with the amount of compression artifacting I get from the limited bandwidth each show gets on satellite, I'd rather see compression improved (or higher bandwidth options) than higher resolutions for television.
While true in that "after the introduction of Serial ATA in 2003, the original ATA was renamed Parallel ATA, PATA for short" this leaves the term ATA ambiguous and non-specific.
Of course, surrounded by geeks as I am, many will claim that this means the term doesn't exist or can't mean anything or must have the meaning it lost to PATA.
I posit that it was renamed because ATA would become a confusing term without the 'parallel' specification added, and that its usage alone can obviously refer to either connection type. After all, SATA and PATA are linguistically both derived from ATA even if the standards have very little in common at a wire level.
lol yes, cause cross-platform Linux Gnome, KDE, OSX and Android is so easy...
Sure, the Windows API is horrifying, but that's for developers to give up on, not users. Users don't know their OS sucks if the apps seem to work for them.
The number of people who ask me what acronyms and even plain English words mean while in front of an Internet-connected PC or smart phone just astounds me. I keep saying "Google it" and they keep looking at me stupid.
So you type the word you're looking up into Google, hit enter, and voila, its probably the first result.
Being all things to all people is a fool's errand. Linux is very good at being nearly anything -- but being all of them at once is not going to work out.
Choice is the answer. We have it already.
If there's a specific situation that your distro doesn't do well and its users want, then bring it to their attention or help with it.
I don't see a problem. Why should everyone run Linux?
I'm happy with it, my cousin uses Windows, another is a Mac addict and after I put him onto it, a musician friend switched to Linux too.
Why should everyone do everything the way I do it? Leave them alone. All I do is tell people I use Linux cause I like it better. I also tell them they may not like it better.
Changing things for the sake of changing them is just idiotic though. If you have an *actual* problem that needs fixing and *actual* ideas about how to solve it, suggest them.
As for me, I think Eclipse is easily 90% of what I want in an IDE... the other 10% being integrated vim.
We have a huge very productive Toyota plant up here in Ontario Canada too, people seem to think that 'import' and 'domestic' is a clear line in the sand.
I use IMAP with TLS encryption on my Android devices, and full device encryption with pin code to access. I have remote wipe and locator functions through a third-party anti-virus app. I don't see any benefit of using a BB at this point.
So because you didn't like the specific ads you got, which sound to be mostly related to your actual interests (a phone and hosting, as opposed to diapers or cleaning products), you think targeting doesn't work.
You know its not that hard to do a private browsing session and check what ads you get online without the tracking data instead...
You're wrong on the back of the basic thought puzzle that is 'why do companies spend so much on marketing as it is now if nobody likes it?'
The fact of the matter is, it works, and it works because most people aren't that interested in facts. Some basic marketing history would teach you this -- there was an era when marketing targeted facts and it didn't work. Nobody cared to read why this soap worked better than that soap, they care that this soap claims to make you happy. You can think that's bunk all you want, but millions of dollars of research goes into this every year and keeps coming back with the same results.
Sure, a few people don't like it, but speaking for the vast majority without data to back it up is presumptuous.
To be fair, I don't think that's true. Advertising works for a reason -- people do actually want to know about new products, they do want to be told about options and offers and sales. The sick truth is people do actually appreciate advertising. cf. the old adcritic website.
You prefer random advertisements that have nothing to do with your interests?
I don't want to watch the commercials I see most of the time on television because they don't interest me. Every now and then I'm skipping forward on the PVR and see a commercial that interests me and rewind. I know lots of other people do it too.
So my other choice is the option to have less* advertising that's more targeted because it actually knows some stuff about me that's useful for filtering my probable interests. Wow, that sounds terrible.
*in all likelihood, it would be less, since targeted ads should obviously pay better than random advertising.
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To be fair, my screen is 103" diagonal -- the pixellation is visible at 6' at 1080p.
There are lots of entertaining options to game Google's suggest with ...
A couple favourites are "how do you", "why do women" and "why do men" ... the suggested questions are often quite funny.
I suspect what will matter is whether its clear that this is what the suggestions mean.
If there's possibility of confusion that Google is in fact claiming these things, there could be a problem perhaps, but clarity about what the suggestions are really should clear it all up on a legal level, or at least I'd hope it would.
Looks interesting, I'd have to test out whether it behaves enough like real VIM to be usable for me.
As it stands, I still often edit my sources in vim externally and refresh the project in Eclipse after the fact.
And just as they get their 100GbE put in, they'll be trying to upgrade equipment to handle 4k resolutions instead ...
To be fair, I have a 1080p projector at 10 feet from my seating position, and while there are rare occasions (mostly in video games) where I wish I had better resolutions, 1080p is still quite good enough at this distance. At 6-8' you'd definitely notice though.
Speaking of 1080i dramas, with the amount of compression artifacting I get from the limited bandwidth each show gets on satellite, I'd rather see compression improved (or higher bandwidth options) than higher resolutions for television.
While true in that "after the introduction of Serial ATA in 2003, the original ATA was renamed Parallel ATA, PATA for short" this leaves the term ATA ambiguous and non-specific.
Of course, surrounded by geeks as I am, many will claim that this means the term doesn't exist or can't mean anything or must have the meaning it lost to PATA.
I posit that it was renamed because ATA would become a confusing term without the 'parallel' specification added, and that its usage alone can obviously refer to either connection type. After all, SATA and PATA are linguistically both derived from ATA even if the standards have very little in common at a wire level.
lol yes, cause cross-platform Linux Gnome, KDE, OSX and Android is so easy ...
Sure, the Windows API is horrifying, but that's for developers to give up on, not users. Users don't know their OS sucks if the apps seem to work for them.
The number of people who ask me what acronyms and even plain English words mean while in front of an Internet-connected PC or smart phone just astounds me. I keep saying "Google it" and they keep looking at me stupid.
So you type the word you're looking up into Google, hit enter, and voila, its probably the first result.
An SATA drive is a subset of ATA drives. You're thinking of PATA or IDE drives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA
In other words, when someone says "ATA drives" they aren't exclusively talking about non-SATA drives.
If so, the article should link a proper study or basic attempt at surveying drives and how well they survive such behaviour instead of surmising.
Being all things to all people is a fool's errand. Linux is very good at being nearly anything -- but being all of them at once is not going to work out.
Choice is the answer. We have it already.
If there's a specific situation that your distro doesn't do well and its users want, then bring it to their attention or help with it.
I don't see a problem. Why should everyone run Linux?
I'm happy with it, my cousin uses Windows, another is a Mac addict and after I put him onto it, a musician friend switched to Linux too.
Why should everyone do everything the way I do it? Leave them alone. All I do is tell people I use Linux cause I like it better. I also tell them they may not like it better.
Changing things for the sake of changing them is just idiotic though. If you have an *actual* problem that needs fixing and *actual* ideas about how to solve it, suggest them.
As for me, I think Eclipse is easily 90% of what I want in an IDE ... the other 10% being integrated vim.
I seem to remember an episode of Top Gear making fun of the plastic-laden Corvette made in America in comparison to any hand-built Italian supercar.
We have a huge very productive Toyota plant up here in Ontario Canada too, people seem to think that 'import' and 'domestic' is a clear line in the sand.
I use IMAP with TLS encryption on my Android devices, and full device encryption with pin code to access. I have remote wipe and locator functions through a third-party anti-virus app. I don't see any benefit of using a BB at this point.
So because you didn't like the specific ads you got, which sound to be mostly related to your actual interests (a phone and hosting, as opposed to diapers or cleaning products), you think targeting doesn't work.
You know its not that hard to do a private browsing session and check what ads you get online without the tracking data instead ...
You're wrong on the back of the basic thought puzzle that is 'why do companies spend so much on marketing as it is now if nobody likes it?'
The fact of the matter is, it works, and it works because most people aren't that interested in facts. Some basic marketing history would teach you this -- there was an era when marketing targeted facts and it didn't work. Nobody cared to read why this soap worked better than that soap, they care that this soap claims to make you happy. You can think that's bunk all you want, but millions of dollars of research goes into this every year and keeps coming back with the same results.
Sure, a few people don't like it, but speaking for the vast majority without data to back it up is presumptuous.
Indeed, someone needs to look up the Sudbury riots from the 70's ... those were good.
As a Canadian who is shocked to learn there's a reserve of maple syrup at all, gotta say my day didn't change at all.
To be fair, I don't think that's true. Advertising works for a reason -- people do actually want to know about new products, they do want to be told about options and offers and sales. The sick truth is people do actually appreciate advertising. cf. the old adcritic website.
You prefer random advertisements that have nothing to do with your interests?
I don't want to watch the commercials I see most of the time on television because they don't interest me. Every now and then I'm skipping forward on the PVR and see a commercial that interests me and rewind. I know lots of other people do it too.
So my other choice is the option to have less* advertising that's more targeted because it actually knows some stuff about me that's useful for filtering my probable interests. Wow, that sounds terrible.
*in all likelihood, it would be less, since targeted ads should obviously pay better than random advertising.
That's why I get to say that Bethesda writes terrible code. Every time I play a Naughty Dog game, I'm more aware of how lazy other developers are.
If you want the really interesting one, go play their Jak 3 on the PS2 which only had 32MB of RAM.
cf. http://www.franz.com/success/customer_apps/animation/naughtydog.php3 ... these are the same people that wrote games in LISP on the Playstation.
You don't actually understand what you're talking about, do you?
The 360 has more RAM, by about 30MB than the PS3.
Only if you drastically lower your GPU RAM requirements on the 360 does it have more RAM than a PS3 to code in though.