When I log into gmail there is an ad saying g+ is going away, but your posts shall always remain. That shows they killed it without letting it mature.
I could be full of it but that, GoogleTV, and others show a history of quickly investing in things and releasing fast and then abandonding them. Maybe they only invest a small amount and see what sticks so the losses are not as big but you need a large budget to do large things sometimes.
If they are so concerned about that, they can do that exact thing already.
Not yet. Not in any realistic way. Very few have been able to break thru the roadblocks thrown up by the labels. This is changing before your very eyes.
Nobody is "TELLING" the artists what they should do except the labels.
If I were a shareholder I would be tempted to sell. It still has a high price not to mention all these ventures that quickly open and close cost money and show a company that is acting frantically desperate.
On the contrary, it shows a company that has a lot of skill at judging what will and what will not add to their bottom line. It shows a nimble management. G+ has not been declared a failure (except perhaps in your jaded opinion). Far from it.
Nothing will stick if they will not finish it before it's out in public.
You mean like Gmail, Maps, Search, Google Earth? Those all wore a Beta tag for years and years.
By any definition, I would say they have stuck.
I find it telling that you wanted them to allow your business on G+ from day one, and at the same time fault them for not testing and completing something before releasing it. Clue: They beta tested it with individuals to shake out the bugs and see if it works before unleashing it on businesses.
Then your get all huffy and stomp off because they didn't beta test on your business?!!???
Apparently they care more about the integrity of your business than you do!
When Apple, Amazon, and Google pry the distribution away from the labels, how much longer will those labels be able to control production?
When local bands start acquiring a following, will they be able to go "indi" via one or more of these outlets without signing anything but a retail agreement for distribution? Will they simply hire a recording studio to record and polish their tracks without all the contractual lock downs and indentured servitude the labels impose?
It is a company that throws a lot onto the wall and sees what sticks. You should have known that going in. Its what they do. It works for them.
They are good a shedding un-productive products, sidewiki, Buzz, App Inventor etc., instead of running themselves into the ground maintaining stuff that has no market draw and no hope of a revenue stream.
Google Music is New, Better, and More. Its also Different, easy to manage, and (soon) will have a revenue stream. I put my music in, its automatically on my devices, no cables. No asking Uncle Steve (rip) if its OK. It just works. One second after creating a playlist on line its on my phone. On my tablet.
I can buy or upload music from any source available to me, not just ONE. For free. How is this less?
Google Plus is showing every sign of being everybit as big as Gmail. Its a totally new concept. Its not facebook, its not myspace.
Its time for you to stop the hate. Use it or don't use it, but claiming their services are old, broken, or not perfect is just so misplaced and wrong. Go back and cable up your iphone to your macbook and sync your itunes.
Why would anyone want HDMI on their phones? Are the phones really powerful enough to output an HD signal to TVs that people would want to watch?
Powerful enough? Absolutely. Or to your computer monitor. It doesn't take a lot of power. Its just a digital signal down a wire.
The question of merit is your first one: WHY.
HDMI chips are incredibly cheap, usually built into the processor itself. They sort of fall out processor design as a freebe. Practical use is almost nil.
You might find an occasional opportunity to shoot the video on the phone of the kids birthday party and play it back on the TV. But storing feature length film (or streaming them) from your phone to your TV set is seldom done by anyone. (Especially not over cellular networks where data caps make this impractical).
In most households a laptop with a wifi connection is the easiest way to get a streaming movie from netflix (or what ever) to the big screen on the wall. The use case for doing this with a smart phone is simply nothing but a gimmick.
Has the Mafia disappeared? Law enforcement still considers the Mafia the largest organized crime group in the United States.
In fact the Mafia became more dangerous AFTER the end of prohibition. During prohibition they mostly fought among themselves. At no time did they ever rise to the level of the Mexican Cartels, openly leaving large numbers of murdered bodies lying in public places and wholesale attacks on anyone who speaks out against them.
After prohibition they moved into other areas, often taking over normal businesses by what ever means necessary.
The hardware only work on way. I don't see how any of this is Microsoft's fault. They just had bigger paid staff to look into every single board out there, or to tell the manufacturers look, do it this way and we will support your products. Who is going to say NO to 80% market share?
What's the controversy? The [defective] hardware only works one way. It's just doing it the only one way that it works. You can't fault someone for going down the only path available.
I suspect Microsoft will do exactly that: Fault them with Lawyers, especially since they pretty much admitted they copied what Microsoft did.
You make it look so simple. However, we are talking about violent sociopaths. If you cut off their main source of income, they will not just raise their hands and quit.
They will simply expand their other illicit businesses, like extortion and kidnapping.
If those activities were more profitable, they'd be doing them now..
They ARE doing those activities now.
Where the hell have you been for the last three years? Living in some cushy suburb buying your pot from your local friendly dealer?
Dream on. If its not pot, it will be other worse drugs. The cartels are not going to go quietly. Mexico is ruled by gun toting mobs shooting people in the streets. 34,612 people since December 2006.
The only thing that will take down the Mexican Cartels is a full scale military assault, not the luke warm effort of the Calderon government. Support for the government is waning and public backing is declining as the violence continues unabated. Given a vote, the Mexican people would in a few years simply vote to put the cartels in charge of the government just to stop the killings.
Mark my words, The Mexican Government will either have to undertake a full scale war against the Cartels everywhere, or the US will have to invade and do it for them.
We could legalize every bad-ass drug from central and south american, and it wouldn't make a dent in the Cartels. If they can't sell illegal drugs they will simply take the farmland and sell legal ones, and the wives and daughters of the land owners too.
But header use alone does not trigger a GPL requirement.
From the second link:
Torvalds responded to my inquiry on March 21 and had this to say:
"It seems totally bogus. We've always made it very clear that the kernel system call interfaces do not in any way result in a derived work as per the GPL, and the kernel details are exported through the kernel headers to all the normal glibc interfaces too.
Medical uses may be the exception. A print copy in the file that can be looked at without a computer may be very useful in dentistry or plastic surgery. Separate printers add complexity. Dropping the print in the doctors lap makes sense. I'm sure there are a few more corner cases.
Not only are some trying it, but Polaroid is not alone.
The linked site contains a link to Zero Ink, which shows other products on the market. Some of them, like the Tomy Xaio look a little more appealing than the Polaroid. http://www.zink.com/TOMY-xiao
I suspect there is a market for this, but probably not in digitally savvy countries where everyone has a smartphone and can email the picture and put it on facebook before the Polaroid can even print out a single copy.
Presumably these devices retain a digital image, so that capability may be added just in time for the whole idea to go bust again.
So because the car was used, you have no idea if there was a warrant or not, and I suspect you probably don't even know the real activities of the prior owner. You don't know if the device was placed there by police or by a suspicious spouse (his or someone elses).
You immediately leap to the conclusion the cops were spying on a choir boy.
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When I log into gmail there is an ad saying g+ is going away, but your posts shall always remain. That shows they killed it without letting it mature.
I could be full of it but that, GoogleTV, and others show a history of quickly investing in things and releasing fast and then abandonding them. Maybe they only invest a small amount and see what sticks so the losses are not as big but you need a large budget to do large things sometimes.
I can see I'm arguing with an idiot here.
Google Plus is not going away you moron.
https://plus.google.com/up/?continue=https://plus.google.com/&type=st
So you failed to read even to the second paragraph of the first link?
On Thursday a US judge ruled Twitter must release the details of her account and those of two other Twitter users linked to WikiLeaks.
But its just NOT done.
And the data caps won't allow you to do that any time soon.
All possible, yes. Maybe 10% of the buyers try it out once, but Nobody does it after that.
Its just not done.
If they are so concerned about that, they can do that exact thing already.
Not yet. Not in any realistic way.
Very few have been able to break thru the roadblocks thrown up by the labels.
This is changing before your very eyes.
Nobody is "TELLING" the artists what they should do except the labels.
If I were a shareholder I would be tempted to sell. It still has a high price not to mention all these ventures that quickly open and close cost money and show a company that is acting frantically desperate.
On the contrary, it shows a company that has a lot of skill at judging what will and what will not add to their bottom line. It shows a nimble management.
G+ has not been declared a failure (except perhaps in your jaded opinion). Far from it.
it's completely dead place
Famous last words
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Nothing will stick if they will not finish it before it's out in public.
You mean like Gmail, Maps, Search, Google Earth? Those all wore a Beta tag for years and years.
By any definition, I would say they have stuck.
I find it telling that you wanted them to allow your business on G+ from day one, and at the same time fault them for not testing and completing something before releasing it. Clue: They beta tested it with individuals to shake out the bugs and see if it works before unleashing it on businesses.
Then your get all huffy and stomp off because they didn't beta test on your business?!!???
Apparently they care more about the integrity of your business than you do!
Well said.
When Apple, Amazon, and Google pry the distribution away from the labels, how much longer will those labels be able to control production?
When local bands start acquiring a following, will they be able to go "indi" via one or more of these outlets without signing anything but a retail agreement for distribution? Will they simply hire a recording studio to record and polish their tracks without all the contractual lock downs and indentured servitude the labels impose?
Your entire takeaway is based on google hate.
It is a company that throws a lot onto the wall and sees what sticks. You should have known that going in. Its what they do. It works for them.
They are good a shedding un-productive products, sidewiki, Buzz, App Inventor etc., instead of running themselves into the ground maintaining stuff that has no market draw and no hope of a revenue stream.
Google Music is New, Better, and More. Its also Different, easy to manage, and (soon) will have a revenue stream. I put my music in, its automatically on my devices, no cables. No asking Uncle Steve (rip) if its OK. It just works. One second after creating a playlist on line its on my phone. On my tablet.
I can buy or upload music from any source available to me, not just ONE. For free. How is this less?
Google Plus is showing every sign of being everybit as big as Gmail. Its a totally new concept. Its not facebook, its not myspace.
Its time for you to stop the hate. Use it or don't use it, but claiming their services are old, broken, or not perfect is just so misplaced and wrong. Go back and cable up your iphone to your macbook and sync your itunes.
Why would anyone want HDMI on their phones? Are the phones really powerful enough to output an HD signal to TVs that people would want to watch?
Powerful enough?
Absolutely.
Or to your computer monitor.
It doesn't take a lot of power. Its just a digital signal down a wire.
The question of merit is your first one: WHY.
HDMI chips are incredibly cheap, usually built into the processor itself. They sort of fall out processor design as a freebe.
Practical use is almost nil.
You might find an occasional opportunity to shoot the video on the phone of the kids birthday party and play it back on the TV.
But storing feature length film (or streaming them) from your phone to your TV set is seldom done by anyone. (Especially not over cellular networks
where data caps make this impractical).
In most households a laptop with a wifi connection is the easiest way to get a streaming movie from netflix (or what ever) to the big screen on the wall.
The use case for doing this with a smart phone is simply nothing but a gimmick.
I wish a law clerk had written the last sentence of the summary.
It might have had a chance of being intelligible.
Has the Mafia disappeared? Law enforcement still considers the Mafia the largest organized crime group in the United States.
In fact the Mafia became more dangerous AFTER the end of prohibition. During prohibition they mostly fought among themselves.
At no time did they ever rise to the level of the Mexican Cartels, openly leaving large numbers of murdered bodies lying in public places
and wholesale attacks on anyone who speaks out against them.
After prohibition they moved into other areas, often taking over normal businesses by what ever means necessary.
That's like saying a potted plant won't die when you stop watering it. You don't know anything.
These plants aren't potted, and they have guns. You got water, you are a target.
Like I said son, grow the fuck up and realize you are not dealing with your average school yard bully here.
The hardware only work on way. I don't see how any of this is Microsoft's fault. They just had bigger paid staff to look into every single board out there, or to tell the manufacturers look, do it this way and we will support your products. Who is going to say NO to 80% market share?
What's the controversy? The [defective] hardware only works one way. It's just doing it the only one way that it works. You can't fault someone for going down the only path available.
I suspect Microsoft will do exactly that: Fault them with Lawyers, especially since they pretty much admitted they copied what Microsoft did.
Really, if they just ramped up their efforts and kidnapped or extorted more people, people would stop fucking going to Central and South America. .
You think they can't reach across the boarders?
Career criminals do not turn into respectable business men or farmers just because a certain crop became legal.
You think like a 6th grader.
You make it look so simple. However, we are talking about violent sociopaths. If you cut off their main source of income, they will not just raise their hands and quit.
They will simply expand their other illicit businesses, like extortion and kidnapping.
If those activities were more profitable, they'd be doing them now. .
They ARE doing those activities now.
Where the hell have you been for the last three years? Living in some cushy suburb buying your pot from your local friendly dealer?
No, legalization would not spell the end of them.
That's naivety of the greatest level.
Dream on. If its not pot, it will be other worse drugs. The cartels are not going to go quietly.
Mexico is ruled by gun toting mobs shooting people in the streets. 34,612 people since December 2006.
The only thing that will take down the Mexican Cartels is a full scale military assault, not the
luke warm effort of the Calderon government. Support for the government is waning and public
backing is declining as the violence continues unabated. Given a vote, the Mexican people would
in a few years simply vote to put the cartels in charge of the government just to stop the killings.
Mark my words, The Mexican Government will either have to undertake a full scale war against the
Cartels everywhere, or the US will have to invade and do it for them.
We could legalize every bad-ass drug from central and south american, and it wouldn't make
a dent in the Cartels. If they can't sell illegal drugs they will simply take the farmland and
sell legal ones, and the wives and daughters of the land owners too.
You think you can deal with these guys?
You are crazy.
But header use alone does not trigger a GPL requirement.
From the second link:
Torvalds responded to my inquiry on March 21 and had this to say:
"It seems totally bogus. We've always made it very clear that the kernel system call interfaces do not in any way result in a derived work as per the GPL, and the kernel details are exported through the kernel headers to all the normal glibc interfaces too.
Your mom may still prefer a print, but it ends there.
You will show your guests the phone, or print it wirelessly to the printer in the next room.
Your kids will push the live video from their phone direct to the bigscreen on the wall and directly to the guests phone.
In each case the older generation with be thought to be hopelessly out of touch.
Your mom at least will leave you the shoebox. Most of your photos will die with your phone.
Medical uses may be the exception. A print copy in the file that can be looked at without a computer may be very useful in dentistry or plastic surgery. Separate printers add complexity. Dropping the print in the doctors lap makes sense.
I'm sure there are a few more corner cases.
Not only are some trying it, but Polaroid is not alone.
The linked site contains a link to Zero Ink, which shows other products on the market.
Some of them, like the Tomy Xaio look a little more appealing than the Polaroid.
http://www.zink.com/TOMY-xiao
I suspect there is a market for this, but probably not in digitally savvy countries where
everyone has a smartphone and can email the picture and put it on facebook before the
Polaroid can even print out a single copy.
Presumably these devices retain a digital image, so that capability may be added
just in time for the whole idea to go bust again.
So he says.
You expected him to fess up to being one end of a drug pipeline or gang member in this story? Really?
So because the car was used, you have no idea if there was a warrant or not, and I suspect you probably don't even know the real activities of the prior owner. You don't know if the device was placed there by police or by a suspicious spouse (his or someone elses).
You immediately leap to the conclusion the cops were spying on a choir boy.
Brilliant!