They have (now or over the course of release) 5+ million subscribers.
Maybe, just maybe, this is "good enough", and they have no reason to put more money in because they have 5 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS with the current implimentation.
Business is about maximizing profit. Maybe they _think_ that this is the _best_ way to run the business. Perhaps they did the math and found they are at the peak of investment vs. return. If they put more money in, they don't linearly (or exponentially) get more subscribers, so they are happy... VERY HAPPY.
Sucks for the gamer, but if you really hate it, show your vote by canceling your account.
Froogle: oh come on, this is REALLY BAD. Both Pricegrabber AND Pricewatch are better.
Gmail: Storage, yes, OKAY UI yes. The UI isn't that great, there are lots of bugs STILL, Sometimes I can't even access my mail, and others report the same problem. Yahoo Mail has always been there for me, just didnt' give me the massive free storage. It's easy to give out 2.5 gigabytes of free storage though when you DONT LET PEOPLE SIGN UP.
Google Video: I won't even give my own comments on this one, it's been raped by enough other people that its very ammiture I don't need to get into any detail.
Google Web Search: It is awsome, of course. Very fast, and very speedy, *but* it is technical heavy. Yahoo/MSN mix tech/non-tech. Ask Jeeves is way out in left field mainly returning non-technical results. I actually think Yahoo is the better all around web-results engine, but they bloat it down with heavy pages and its not as fast. This still is googles one and only bread and butter
Google Maps is great, but don't rely on them for directions AT ALL. I swear to god, I've gotten lost using their map directinos here in the bay area so many times. The last time ending up in the middle of no where surrounded by f*cking fields trying to get to a resturant for a lunch meeting, I switched back to reliable MAP QUEST (who btw have been updating their site to provide more "local" style searches and AJAX'ish interface enhancements). By the way, when Google got me completely lost, I was low on gas, my cell phone dead and not a house in sight. After driving around on fumes, so pissed off, I found a UPS truck and chased him down. When he pulled over for a delivery I jumped out and asked him for help. GO UPS! Heh.
Alot of Google's other products are low-profile and not used much relatively speaking, which brings me to the main point, I hope for the sake of the Google Share holders, that Google isn't going off on the deepend with the "throw a thousand darts and see what hits" approach. It's easy to get caught up in yourself, especially when your stock is soaring.
Then again, who knows, maybe Google will "get it right", and be the world power 5, 10, 20 years from now. Every department outside web-search @ google smells an awful like dot-com 2000/2001 to me.
We use FlexWiki at Ask Jeeves, corporate wide. Anyone can go to http://wiki/ (inside the company), and go through all the information/projects etc going on.
It's REALLY nice, I like it alot. Very easy to make a new page for a new projects and have peers add ideas to your page, etc.
I need something that has storage on it. It should be smaller than a house, but bigger than a head of a pin. I need like 40 gigs of storage on it so I can have some partitions.
I don't know if this technology exists because I haven't been outside in over 50 years and even though I've heard of these wierd things called "sto-res", I don't know if they REALLY exist.
You speak as though the stock price is not linked to Apple's performance... Like it is a seperate entity.
Maybe, just maybe, the stock price IS linked to Apple's performance.
Maybe, just maybe, the stock is lower because of performance, and hence people are "kicking the man" because of performance. Not we're kicking apple because the stock is low.
This is something a good router will take care of, but very few of them do, not even the customized Linksys routers, nor the linux routers like Smoothwall do BOTH of the required things.
All you need to do to get outstanding performance on an asymetric line is the following:
[ON THE ROUTER] 1. Prioritize TCP ACK Packets as #1 to always go upstream first to your connection 2. Restrict upload rate by 2% - 5% of the actual upload rate of the connection
Do these three things, and enjoy a fast connection in both directions.
The reason your downloads choke when you upload, is because the TCP ACK packets that need to go UP to the site you are downloading from (to get the next chunk of your download) can't get out because your saturating your upload connection. By prioritizing these ACK packets, they go out first, and your download runs full speed, while your uploads fly as well.
The reason for #2, is that most DSL and Cable modems have a large buffer in them... If you saturate this buffer, then your router can't guarentee the TCP ACK packets go out first since other packets are sitting in your DSL/Cable modems buffers... This is very important to do #2.
There are more things you to can do to help, but they get more sophistated. If you are interested in managing asynchronous TCP connections, check out this document, which covers everything including the kitchen sink:
You're missing the whole point. I said, it is FASTER to do it myself than to let a shop do it. In overall time lost. I'm not even counting the money.
Do I mow my own lawn? no, I don't even clean my own house. I have a gardner, and a maid that comes once a week... I don't have to do anything. They come, I leave money on the counter for them.
CD ROM in a computer, if your competent about it, you really do save personal time just stopping at the store on the way home, grabbing a $30 drive, go home, open case, pop it out pop it in, case back on, power button.
Really, it is faster.:-) I'm enjoying these replies though.:)
Yeah, dropping it off at the shop worked out REAL WELL for you. Good luck with your phantom plug and play card... or more realistically, hope you enjoyed bending over and taking it up the poop shoot.
Your description is too long. It's more like: Go to a store (or even the shop you go to probably SELLS CDROMS). Buy one (in and out of store in under 5 minutes I bet). Drive home, then in less than 2 minutes you can have the case open, the old one out and the new one in. I know you can do it in 2 minutes.
Then you avoid the whole driving to the shop again to pick up your PC.
I still think its faster, and you don't get phantom plug-n-play cards...
Then again, if you enjoy bending over and taking one up the pooper, then hey, have fun!:)
You must be one of the people you are talking about, because I can install a CD rom faster than you can pack up your PC and drive it to a tech-shop. Guarenteed, even if your tech shop is only 2 blocks away. I will still win.
Google to buy chocolate factory for $1.3b this comming May. The intial idea is that with so many Americans eating chocolate, it has to be a fantastic way of advertising to so many people. Instead of just advertising on the wrappers though, Google will surely have something up their sleeve, such as advertising on the chocolate bars themselves, full text ads with edible links!
Share holders of Google are told to pay no mind to what we do with your money, and stop looking at the man behind that curtain over there!
Not contributing to the solution of your problem, but my office doesn't get "regular" giltches like yours seems to, even though our power is "healthy" too.
I've owned laptops for years, know lots of people with laptops, work with lots of people with laptops... Don't know a single person who has used infrared on a laptop in my entire life.
Dunno if this has any statistical significants... Just wanted to say that.
The only thing you got WAY wrong is Duke Nukem Forever won't be comming out of Alpha, it will of just announced another 3D engine switch and that they are starting over again.
Just because Apple hardware can run Windows, doesn't mean Apple is now the same as Dell, HP or Gateway.
Apple doesn't ship Windows on its hardware. Dell doesn't ship OSX on its hardware.
Believe it or not, most (> 99%) of all computer users in the entire world, don't buy hardware, they buy the operating system software.
You buy a Dell, HP or Gateway _because_ it is Windows. You buy an Mac because its the Mac operating system.
Less than 1% of all computer users in the world will buy a Dell computer, then put OSX on it. Less than 1% of all the computer users in the world will buy a Mac and put Windows on it.
IMHO (again) this only affects Apple in terms of CPU speed, price and availablity. It affects Apple's end customers in the same way.
A computer isn't a computer because the hardware thats inside it. People buy the complete package. Apple is Apple, Dell is Dell. Who cares what CPU it's using.
I can do the EXACT same thing with LINUX. I can install it on some system and have all kinds of problems, simply because I don't know what I am doing.
The fact of the matter is, BOTH operating systems are way to technically difficult to install. You have to "know" your environment the second even ONE little thing goes wrong, or else all hell breaks loose. You know how long it took me to find the damn "lspci" command? Sheesh, I was looking for an hour. I didn't even KNOW if Linux had this ability, after I realized it MIGHT, then I had to find the thing. At least with windows you can graphically navigate to the most obvious place.. "Control Panel"... makes sense.. "System", yeah!, "hardware" Oh yeah!!, "Devices" RIGHT ON!. Linux =... Uhhh... pci[enter] no... fuck it. Google where are you.
I've installed Windows on at least two dozen machines, sure sometimes there is a problem, but nothing like this guy is talking about.
There are some basic ideas and steps you need to know to fix "drivers" and such, once you know them its a snap. The same goes for linux.
My point is Windows is NOT more difficult or screwed up than linux, and vice versa. They are both pretty horrible, but personally I give WINDOWS the hands down on being slightly less horrible as far as install-experience.
- Voxel
P.S. If the guy had been using the latest version of Windows XP (Service Pack 2 Disk), then his 200 gigabyte drive would of detected fine. When you use a linux distro, you do use the latest version don't you?
Quite simple really. The U.S. Gov views it as, "US vs The World". The U.S. Gov doesn't care to share any of our tax-dollars development with "The World". Even if we can get an advantage of more solid code if every missle we made had software on it that was reviewed by arbritrary peers. They don't want every other country in the world using the same software especially if we go to war with them.
Software + Knowledge = Technology = Power. U.S. Gov doesn't want to share the power.
If all a missle is, is software...
Apply this to everything and everything, from a simple router to the space shuttle.
I don't see how "open source" = Let the people inside the company see. Sounds pretty damn closed to me.
Have you worked in many companies? Most I have anyone has access to see any code from any project, even Microsoft.
I also disagree w/ your military argument. Alot of projects require security clearance e.g. @ Lockheed Martin. (Where I have also worked).
In a regular software company you can see other peoples stuff, but even then if you have nothing to do with a project as in, you are not even a software devleoper, of course they won't let you see. Its a security risk. The more people that have access to something the more it can just get passed around like your bong does.
Seriously, gov and military projects have security around them, and its tighter than the software development done at K-Mart for a REASON.
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They have (now or over the course of release) 5+ million subscribers.
Maybe, just maybe, this is "good enough", and they have no reason to put more money in because they have 5 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS with the current implimentation.
Business is about maximizing profit. Maybe they _think_ that this is the _best_ way to run the business. Perhaps they did the math and found they are at the peak of investment vs. return. If they put more money in, they don't linearly (or exponentially) get more subscribers, so they are happy... VERY HAPPY.
Sucks for the gamer, but if you really hate it, show your vote by canceling your account.
# Gnomeregan (no abbreviation)
# Uladaman (no abbreviation)
# Maraudon (no abbreviation)
# Scholo, Scholomance
Gnomeregan, Gnomer
Uladaman, UD
Maraudon, Mara
Scholo, SC
Google lives alot off their web-search.
:)
Froogle: oh come on, this is REALLY BAD. Both Pricegrabber AND Pricewatch are better.
Gmail: Storage, yes, OKAY UI yes. The UI isn't that great, there are lots of bugs STILL, Sometimes I can't even access my mail, and others report the same problem. Yahoo Mail has always been there for me, just didnt' give me the massive free storage. It's easy to give out 2.5 gigabytes of free storage though when you DONT LET PEOPLE SIGN UP.
Google Video: I won't even give my own comments on this one, it's been raped by enough other people that its very ammiture I don't need to get into any detail.
Google Web Search: It is awsome, of course. Very fast, and very speedy, *but* it is technical heavy. Yahoo/MSN mix tech/non-tech. Ask Jeeves is way out in left field mainly returning non-technical results. I actually think Yahoo is the better all around web-results engine, but they bloat it down with heavy pages and its not as fast. This still is googles one and only bread and butter
Google Maps is great, but don't rely on them for directions AT ALL. I swear to god, I've gotten lost using their map directinos here in the bay area so many times. The last time ending up in the middle of no where surrounded by f*cking fields trying to get to a resturant for a lunch meeting, I switched back to reliable MAP QUEST (who btw have been updating their site to provide more "local" style searches and AJAX'ish interface enhancements). By the way, when Google got me completely lost, I was low on gas, my cell phone dead and not a house in sight. After driving around on fumes, so pissed off, I found a UPS truck and chased him down. When he pulled over for a delivery I jumped out and asked him for help. GO UPS! Heh.
Alot of Google's other products are low-profile and not used much relatively speaking, which brings me to the main point, I hope for the sake of the Google Share holders, that Google isn't going off on the deepend with the "throw a thousand darts and see what hits" approach. It's easy to get caught up in yourself, especially when your stock is soaring.
Then again, who knows, maybe Google will "get it right", and be the world power 5, 10, 20 years from now. Every department outside web-search @ google smells an awful like dot-com 2000/2001 to me.
It'll be interesting though to watch!
We use FlexWiki at Ask Jeeves, corporate wide. Anyone can go to http://wiki/ (inside the company), and go through all the information/projects etc going on.
It's REALLY nice, I like it alot. Very easy to make a new page for a new projects and have peers add ideas to your page, etc.
I need something that has storage on it. It should be smaller than a house, but bigger than a head of a pin. I need like 40 gigs of storage on it so I can have some partitions.
I don't know if this technology exists because I haven't been outside in over 50 years and even though I've heard of these wierd things called "sto-res", I don't know if they REALLY exist.
Dear Slashdot, please help.
Sincerely,
Caveman Burns
I'm shocked you didn't flame me for writing such a demeaning posting.
Really really shocked, and impressed.
You speak as though the stock price is not linked to Apple's performance... Like it is a seperate entity.
Maybe, just maybe, the stock price IS linked to Apple's performance.
Maybe, just maybe, the stock is lower because of performance, and hence people are "kicking the man" because of performance. Not we're kicking apple because the stock is low.
This is something a good router will take care of, but very few of them do, not even the customized Linksys routers, nor the linux routers like Smoothwall do BOTH of the required things.
t h-Management-HOWTO.html
All you need to do to get outstanding performance on an asymetric line is the following:
[ON THE ROUTER]
1. Prioritize TCP ACK Packets as #1 to always go upstream first to your connection
2. Restrict upload rate by 2% - 5% of the actual upload rate of the connection
Do these three things, and enjoy a fast connection in both directions.
The reason your downloads choke when you upload, is because the TCP ACK packets that need to go UP to the site you are downloading from (to get the next chunk of your download) can't get out because your saturating your upload connection. By prioritizing these ACK packets, they go out first, and your download runs full speed, while your uploads fly as well.
The reason for #2, is that most DSL and Cable modems have a large buffer in them... If you saturate this buffer, then your router can't guarentee the TCP ACK packets go out first since other packets are sitting in your DSL/Cable modems buffers... This is very important to do #2.
There are more things you to can do to help, but they get more sophistated. If you are interested in managing asynchronous TCP connections, check out this document, which covers everything including the kitchen sink:
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/ADSL-Bandwid
- Voxel
You're missing the whole point. I said, it is FASTER to do it myself than to let a shop do it. In overall time lost. I'm not even counting the money.
:-) I'm enjoying these replies though. :)
Do I mow my own lawn? no, I don't even clean my own house. I have a gardner, and a maid that comes once a week... I don't have to do anything. They come, I leave money on the counter for them.
CD ROM in a computer, if your competent about it, you really do save personal time just stopping at the store on the way home, grabbing a $30 drive, go home, open case, pop it out pop it in, case back on, power button.
Really, it is faster.
Yeah, dropping it off at the shop worked out REAL WELL for you. Good luck with your phantom plug and play card... or more realistically, hope you enjoyed bending over and taking it up the poop shoot.
:)
Your description is too long. It's more like: Go to a store (or even the shop you go to probably SELLS CDROMS). Buy one (in and out of store in under 5 minutes I bet). Drive home, then in less than 2 minutes you can have the case open, the old one out and the new one in. I know you can do it in 2 minutes.
Then you avoid the whole driving to the shop again to pick up your PC.
I still think its faster, and you don't get phantom plug-n-play cards...
Then again, if you enjoy bending over and taking one up the pooper, then hey, have fun!
You must be one of the people you are talking about, because I can install a CD rom faster than you can pack up your PC and drive it to a tech-shop. Guarenteed, even if your tech shop is only 2 blocks away. I will still win.
Google to buy chocolate factory for $1.3b this comming May. The intial idea is that with so many Americans eating chocolate, it has to be a fantastic way of advertising to so many people. Instead of just advertising on the wrappers though, Google will surely have something up their sleeve, such as advertising on the chocolate bars themselves, full text ads with edible links!
Share holders of Google are told to pay no mind to what we do with your money, and stop looking at the man behind that curtain over there!
"Mystery Problem: When the power glitches"....
then you say:
"Our power is healthy, lightly loaded"...
Not contributing to the solution of your problem, but my office doesn't get "regular" giltches like yours seems to, even though our power is "healthy" too.
Sounds like you need to call your power company.
Funny, I just print via 802.11b... no carrying the laptop to the printer room... :P
The Polar Heart Monitor, I think you got yourself statistically a niche market there.
I hotsync my palm with a USB Cradle. Play games via 802.11b, and print via 802.11b...
Interesting.
I've owned laptops for years, know lots of people with laptops, work with lots of people with laptops... Don't know a single person who has used infrared on a laptop in my entire life.
Dunno if this has any statistical significants... Just wanted to say that.
1. Individual cell phones are now legal on planes...
2. Talking outloud is now out-lawed on planes.
Problem solved. Everyone who wants to have their cell phone on can, and at the same time shut-up.
Doomsday Sperm Bank...
I think its a good idea too.
Donaters: Ready... Set... Go!
"No mouse, keyboard or desk"...
That's like saying lets pretend the user is mentally challenged and only has one arm.
Designers: Ready... Set... Go!
The only thing you got WAY wrong is Duke Nukem Forever won't be comming out of Alpha, it will of just announced another 3D engine switch and that they are starting over again.
WTF Do you think it's called Duke Nukem FOREVER?
IMHO you are very wrong.
Just because Apple hardware can run Windows, doesn't mean Apple is now the same as Dell, HP or Gateway.
Apple doesn't ship Windows on its hardware. Dell doesn't ship OSX on its hardware.
Believe it or not, most (> 99%) of all computer users in the entire world, don't buy hardware, they buy the operating system software.
You buy a Dell, HP or Gateway _because_ it is Windows. You buy an Mac because its the Mac operating system.
Less than 1% of all computer users in the world will buy a Dell computer, then put OSX on it. Less than 1% of all the computer users in the world will buy a Mac and put Windows on it.
IMHO (again) this only affects Apple in terms of CPU speed, price and availablity. It affects Apple's end customers in the same way.
A computer isn't a computer because the hardware thats inside it. People buy the complete package. Apple is Apple, Dell is Dell. Who cares what CPU it's using.
This guy is full of it.
... Uhhh ... pci[enter] no... fuck it. Google where are you.
I can do the EXACT same thing with LINUX. I can install it on some system and have all kinds of problems, simply because I don't know what I am doing.
The fact of the matter is, BOTH operating systems are way to technically difficult to install. You have to "know" your environment the second even ONE little thing goes wrong, or else all hell breaks loose. You know how long it took me to find the damn "lspci" command? Sheesh, I was looking for an hour. I didn't even KNOW if Linux had this ability, after I realized it MIGHT, then I had to find the thing. At least with windows you can graphically navigate to the most obvious place.. "Control Panel"... makes sense.. "System", yeah!, "hardware" Oh yeah!!, "Devices" RIGHT ON!. Linux =
I've installed Windows on at least two dozen machines, sure sometimes there is a problem, but nothing like this guy is talking about.
There are some basic ideas and steps you need to know to fix "drivers" and such, once you know them its a snap. The same goes for linux.
My point is Windows is NOT more difficult or screwed up than linux, and vice versa. They are both pretty horrible, but personally I give WINDOWS the hands down on being slightly less horrible as far as install-experience.
- Voxel
P.S. If the guy had been using the latest version of Windows XP (Service Pack 2 Disk), then his 200 gigabyte drive would of detected fine. When you use a linux distro, you do use the latest version don't you?
Quite simple really. The U.S. Gov views it as, "US vs The World". The U.S. Gov doesn't care to share any of our tax-dollars development with "The World". Even if we can get an advantage of more solid code if every missle we made had software on it that was reviewed by arbritrary peers. They don't want every other country in the world using the same software especially if we go to war with them.
Software + Knowledge = Technology = Power. U.S. Gov doesn't want to share the power.
If all a missle is, is software...
Apply this to everything and everything, from a simple router to the space shuttle.
I don't see how "open source" = Let the people inside the company see. Sounds pretty damn closed to me.
Have you worked in many companies? Most I have anyone has access to see any code from any project, even Microsoft.
I also disagree w/ your military argument. Alot of projects require security clearance e.g. @ Lockheed Martin. (Where I have also worked).
In a regular software company you can see other peoples stuff, but even then if you have nothing to do with a project as in, you are not even a software devleoper, of course they won't let you see. Its a security risk. The more people that have access to something the more it can just get passed around like your bong does.
Seriously, gov and military projects have security around them, and its tighter than the software development done at K-Mart for a REASON.
My "opinion" about the whole issue stands.
Oh, even better argument... What if you open source your code and no one looks at it... because no one cares.
Then what?... Yes you do have to learn to write solid code without relying on the rest of the world, it's true.