"People other than Microsoft brought us home PCs, free internet browsers, human friendly operating systems etc; and then Microsoft hijacked these things, and made it impossible for anyone else to become powerful in those markets."
You have it wrong, my friend. People other than Microsoft invented those things. Microsoft brought it to us. Microsoft made it possible for the average person to have access to these things. If it was IBM and Apple, you'd either use computers in institutions, or have to be a rich snob to use them. Microsoft made home computers a commodity item. The fact that they have questionable business practices does not change this.
t sounds like with Windoze, any of their developers could just check in their code with little or no oversight.
On Linux, all code gets inspected by others before it is accepted.
First, your bias is apparent with the way you spelled Windows. Second, it's absurd to imagine that 'any developer could check in their code'. Sure, anyone can check in code, but it wouldn't be merged to the main branch without going through code reviews and unit tests. I fail to see how this is different from code that gets 'inspected by others before it is accepted'.
Exact addresses are not geocoded to lat-long. However one can tell which block the house is on from the address, so the easiest way is to assume an equal distribution of the addresses on the block. In reality however, all houses do not take up the same amount of space on the block, so it is easy to find that your house is pinpointed at a slightly different location. However, it will be on the same block.
What universe do you live in? In many parts of the world, $50 is a huge amount. Not every.net user lives in the United States or some equally rich country.
You also need to learn the fact that there is no language called 'Indian'. Sorry you pick on you, but one should know a little more about the rest of the world.. especially about a 1-billion strong part of the world.
(India has over 15 official languages including Hindi and English. Almost every state speaks a different language, but English is generally understood throughout India, while Hindi is generally understood throghout the Northern half of India.)
Maybe it is... we don't know yet... As someone else pointed out here, this system could be used for micropayments towards the subscription sites that are not usually accessible. Thus google makes more content available to you that you wouldn't want to sign up for normally.
From the article:
"It will also provide 170-degree viewing, an optional integrated fingerprint reader for unsurpassed security, the latest ThinkVantage Technologies for reliability and convenient wireless connectivity"
Well, it might be a summary, but it looks like they copy-pasted entire sentences from a press release!
It's the automatic power control used in mobile phones. The power used by your cellphone is controlled by the cellphone tower, so that if you are far away, you transmit at a higher power, and if you are near, you transmit at a lower power.
That's also the reason why your cellphone manufacturer tells you that your battery life is dependent on the service provider too.
I think Keyhole uses aerial imagery from AirphotoUSA in addition to the satellite imagery, so it might just be a matter of time before they are also incorporated into Google maps. (Sub-meter resolution satellite photos are not available for all urban areas, so the only other option is to go for aerial imagery)
I don't think they will take down the craigslist-googlemaps mashup since they themselves praised it as a featured project on Google Code.
There is a reason why this particular project got the takedown notice: 1. The satellite/air imagery is probably not owned by Google - they must have licensed it from AirphotoUSA or whoever else is the supplier. 2. The wallpaper site simply takes the images and stitches them together as a wallpaper - which means that are not simply incorporating a google product, but appropriating the images therein. Google's terms of use with their provider would necessisate the takedown.
haha, I can understand what happened. Your Indian colleague did not translate - he just repeated everything with an accent that's easy for the other colleague to understand (of course, he would have used his own words, but the main idea would've been to translate the accent, not the words).
Indians can find a foreign(say British) accent hard to understand too. My mom speaks perfect english, but she finds Hollywood movies hard to understand because of the American accent.
I'm sure you know this already, but I know that many companies while having international clients, do not hire the best developers. I don't know which company you have outsourced to, but if it is someone like Wipro of Infosys, you'd have fewer headaches, since they have very impressive quality controls.
well, it could be that the call center you have outsourced to is one of the bad ones. Getting a job is easy in India now, and the cheap call centers will get only employees who are not good enough to make it to the good call centers. There's plenty of bad english too in India.. so you get what you pay for:-)
I know that you are not flaming Indians, still let me say a few words as an explanation of 'Indian English'.
Most educated Indians speak very good english, i.e. perfect grammar. The pronunciation is a hard nut to crack, but you'd be hard pressed to show me a place in the world where English has been spoken for 200 years without a native accent being developed. The reason for the strange Indian accent is that Indian languages are strictly phonetic, so Indians tend to pronounce words exactly the way they are written, with equal emphasis on every syllable. (The closest I've seen is the Scottish accent)
People tend to equate accented English with bad English. Also note that there are plenty of phrases that are typically Indian (and are considered perfectly normal there), which may be hard to understand. Similarly many of the American phrases are not easily understood in other parts of the English speaking world.
In short, it's not really bad english, it's just a different accent and a slightly different form of English.
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"People other than Microsoft brought us home PCs, free internet browsers, human friendly operating systems etc; and then Microsoft hijacked these things, and made it impossible for anyone else to become powerful in those markets."
You have it wrong, my friend. People other than Microsoft invented those things. Microsoft brought it to us. Microsoft made it possible for the average person to have access to these things. If it was IBM and Apple, you'd either use computers in institutions, or have to be a rich snob to use them. Microsoft made home computers a commodity item. The fact that they have questionable business practices does not change this.
t sounds like with Windoze, any of their developers could just check in their code with little or no oversight.
On Linux, all code gets inspected by others before it is accepted. First, your bias is apparent with the way you spelled Windows. Second, it's absurd to imagine that 'any developer could check in their code'. Sure, anyone can check in code, but it wouldn't be merged to the main branch without going through code reviews and unit tests. I fail to see how this is different from code that gets 'inspected by others before it is accepted'.
or is something disabled here..
Where is the story about rumours that Google would buy Meetro... This looks like a way to get people to visit the meetro website.
Exact addresses are not geocoded to lat-long. However one can tell which block the house is on from the address, so the easiest way is to assume an equal distribution of the addresses on the block. In reality however, all houses do not take up the same amount of space on the block, so it is easy to find that your house is pinpointed at a slightly different location. However, it will be on the same block.
What universe do you live in? In many parts of the world, $50 is a huge amount. Not every .net user lives in the United States or some equally rich country.
"Now I need to learn Indian as well."
You also need to learn the fact that there is no language called 'Indian'. Sorry you pick on you, but one should know a little more about the rest of the world.. especially about a 1-billion strong part of the world.
(India has over 15 official languages including Hindi and English. Almost every state speaks a different language, but English is generally understood throughout India, while Hindi is generally understood throghout the Northern half of India.)
"I went down on each of the judges"
Gosh, I didn't know you had to do so much to get information about them..
Maybe it is... we don't know yet... As someone else pointed out here, this system could be used for micropayments towards the subscription sites that are not usually accessible. Thus google makes more content available to you that you wouldn't want to sign up for normally.
From the article: "It will also provide 170-degree viewing, an optional integrated fingerprint reader for unsurpassed security, the latest ThinkVantage Technologies for reliability and convenient wireless connectivity"
Well, it might be a summary, but it looks like they copy-pasted entire sentences from a press release!
So is this the equivalent of the PEAR library for PHP?
I wish I had mod points right now, but parent has the truth about Grub.
A brief history of Lena. The page is worksafe, but if you wish to click, there are links to non-worksafe images of Lena over there.
So where can I get hold of that list?
Campusfood has been doing this for over a year now. Again, the story is just an advertisement, and not news.
When that pot wears off, you might want to repeat this - "Linux and Windows 95 are not the same" (five times with a Hail Mary)
It's the automatic power control used in mobile phones. The power used by your cellphone is controlled by the cellphone tower, so that if you are far away, you transmit at a higher power, and if you are near, you transmit at a lower power.
That's also the reason why your cellphone manufacturer tells you that your battery life is dependent on the service provider too.
I think Keyhole uses aerial imagery from AirphotoUSA in addition to the satellite imagery, so it might just be a matter of time before they are also incorporated into Google maps. (Sub-meter resolution satellite photos are not available for all urban areas, so the only other option is to go for aerial imagery)
I don't think they will take down the craigslist-googlemaps mashup since they themselves praised it as a featured project on Google Code.
There is a reason why this particular project got the takedown notice:
1. The satellite/air imagery is probably not owned by Google - they must have licensed it from AirphotoUSA or whoever else is the supplier.
2. The wallpaper site simply takes the images and stitches them together as a wallpaper - which means that are not simply incorporating a google product, but appropriating the images therein. Google's terms of use with their provider would necessisate the takedown.
ugh! pardon my spelling a grammar in that last post
:-)
Sorry, had to be said
haha, I can understand what happened. Your Indian colleague did not translate - he just repeated everything with an accent that's easy for the other colleague to understand (of course, he would have used his own words, but the main idea would've been to translate the accent, not the words).
Indians can find a foreign(say British) accent hard to understand too. My mom speaks perfect english, but she finds Hollywood movies hard to understand because of the American accent.
I'm sure you know this already, but I know that many companies while having international clients, do not hire the best developers. I don't know which company you have outsourced to, but if it is someone like Wipro of Infosys, you'd have fewer headaches, since they have very impressive quality controls.
well, it could be that the call center you have outsourced to is one of the bad ones. Getting a job is easy in India now, and the cheap call centers will get only employees who are not good enough to make it to the good call centers. There's plenty of bad english too in India.. so you get what you pay for :-)
I know that you are not flaming Indians, still let me say a few words as an explanation of 'Indian English'.
Most educated Indians speak very good english, i.e. perfect grammar. The pronunciation is a hard nut to crack, but you'd be hard pressed to show me a place in the world where English has been spoken for 200 years without a native accent being developed. The reason for the strange Indian accent is that Indian languages are strictly phonetic, so Indians tend to pronounce words exactly the way they are written, with equal emphasis on every syllable. (The closest I've seen is the Scottish accent)
People tend to equate accented English with bad English. Also note that there are plenty of phrases that are typically Indian (and are considered perfectly normal there), which may be hard to understand. Similarly many of the American phrases are not easily understood in other parts of the English speaking world.
In short, it's not really bad english, it's just a different accent and a slightly different form of English.
But, they didn't mention the ability to drag tabs around (to change the order)
Does Firefox have this feature? or is it available in an extension?