We're gonna create our own Internet! With blackjack and hookers! In fact, forget the Internet and the blackjack!...And the hookers! we're a theocracy, dammit!
I could go further and say the Linux minority is Jewish: - We don't believe in salvation. Heaven is finding out your wi-fi works out of the box. - There's the Orthodox (Kosher FSF-approved distros), Conservative (Debian) and Reform (Linspire) - Mainstream, pragmatic Ubuntu is certainly like Chabad, which makes Mark Shuttleworth the Rebbe - We are very few, but really loud
C'mon guys, give them a break... it's not like other browsers have supported this for, I dunno, five years, because they put the user in charge instead of the content providers... Right?
1. Grab the phone from your drunk friend 2. Get a temporary password 3. Do nasty stuff with his account, including posting pictures of him in this particular moment
Wave failed for basic marketing reasons. Essentially, it was impossible to explain Google's vision of Wave in an elevator.
If, instead, they had marketed as "21st century email", it would have had a better chance (it still has).
Also, they built an impressive platform that allowed essentially anything... and forgot to put in the basics (for example, an integrated, easy to use version of a mailing list)
Marketing essentially to Google geeks only didn't help either. Did you see any promotion of Wave in Google sites? (like the one for Chrome in the hompage when using IE)
Also, account type proliferation is BAD. I already have enough trouble explaining to people that they don't need a _Gmail_ account to use Google services, just a _Google_ account.
Now we had these addresses that _looked like_ emails, but weren't. And you still required a google account to get one.
In a nutshell, Google should have done what it did with Gmail: do one thing and do it right. Solve a pain point.
Only AFTER that has taken off, reveal the whole amazing plataform that powers it.
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I wonder what other abominations they'll come up with next...
Non-alcoholic beer?
Sugar-free candy?
Fat-free milk?
Oh, wait...
How about saying NO?
What would you do if a potential employer wants to see you naked?
What if he wants the keys to your house?
Well, same principle.
Sure............ All companies giving notebooks to their employees get a modified BIOS just for spying on them.
Thanks for the advice, but I don't think my wife or my 2-year-old twins would really appreciate it :-)
Considering my current car costs about 14K, and the most expensive cars I'd consider buying are all below 35K, I'd say the latter.
...of using grass and cows to accomplish the transformation?
We're gonna create our own Internet! With blackjack and hookers! ...And the hookers! we're a theocracy, dammit!
In fact, forget the Internet and the blackjack!
...we'd already be on Linux 160.0
I like Umberto Eco's analogy.
I could go further and say the Linux minority is Jewish:
- We don't believe in salvation. Heaven is finding out your wi-fi works out of the box.
- There's the Orthodox (Kosher FSF-approved distros), Conservative (Debian) and Reform (Linspire)
- Mainstream, pragmatic Ubuntu is certainly like Chabad, which makes Mark Shuttleworth the Rebbe
- We are very few, but really loud
I could go on, but you get the point.
C'mon guys, give them a break... it's not like other browsers have supported this for, I dunno, five years, because they put the user in charge instead of the content providers... Right?
Buenos Aires: $40 for 3M/512K.
The fastest my ISP (one of the 3 "big ones") will go is 15M/1M... for $150 (!!!)
$20 will buy you 640K/256K.
Remember we're not talking about some rural town. This is the "Paris of the South", the 17th largest city in the world.
...It only took them 8 years longer than it took for everyone else.
I've lent several books to friends and relatives.
Most of them had the books for months or years, returned something that didn't look at all like the book I gave them, or didn't return them at all.
So, this new "feature" is not at all like lending books!
Sue!
1. Grab the phone from your drunk friend
2. Get a temporary password
3. Do nasty stuff with his account, including posting pictures of him in this particular moment
But nobody's gonna do that... right?
How long until spambots start sending you messages looking just like the one from Facebook directing you to a fake URL?
Because Skype works better than any of the alternatives.
While it's nice to have free/open/libre software and protocols, the first requirement of anyone that needs to get something done is that it WORKS.
A friend of mine did that, and got his account terminated under false accusations.
Good luck with getting a new provider during the following 3 months.
Delays are bad enough when they _don't_ have 1000000 people to absorb.
This is not an antimonopoly measure.
It's favoring one monopoly over another.
The one with corn, of course!
I'm alergic to peanuts!
You lost me, which one was wrong again?
The fact that I don't agree with 80% of what you wrote proves that Google failed miserably in defining what Wave is supposed to be :-)
Wave failed for basic marketing reasons. Essentially, it was impossible to explain Google's vision of Wave in an elevator. If, instead, they had marketed as "21st century email", it would have had a better chance (it still has). Also, they built an impressive platform that allowed essentially anything... and forgot to put in the basics (for example, an integrated, easy to use version of a mailing list) Marketing essentially to Google geeks only didn't help either. Did you see any promotion of Wave in Google sites? (like the one for Chrome in the hompage when using IE) Also, account type proliferation is BAD. I already have enough trouble explaining to people that they don't need a _Gmail_ account to use Google services, just a _Google_ account. Now we had these addresses that _looked like_ emails, but weren't. And you still required a google account to get one. In a nutshell, Google should have done what it did with Gmail: do one thing and do it right. Solve a pain point. Only AFTER that has taken off, reveal the whole amazing plataform that powers it.
I'd like to see them try to update my Nokia 1100... No, really. I'd like that.