I (Sean) have been hired by Google, moved to Seattle, and have been working on the Google Talk team for about a month and a half. The goal of Google Talk is to make real-time communication as open as possible, and in that regard, I've been working to offer all of Google Talk's features into other clients. Currently, I'm working on making it as easy as possible for other clients to use Google Talk's voice features. You can expect Gaim and other clients to be interoperable with Google Talk's voice features in the near future.
So it would make sense for Google to support libgaim development.
Right now, yes. But they could've contracted him to add support for voice. If they hired him, they have long term plans, which probably means they want him to work on Google Talk.
Consider this: Sean adds voice to Gaim, so that Gaim is better than Google Talk, since Talk only supports Jabber. So Gaim kills Google Talk. It would make more sense for Google to pay Sean to bring Gaim up to speed, then use libgaim themselves to power Google Talk.
Everyone's first thought is probably that this will be great for Gaim. But how much time will Sean have for Gaim if he's working on Google Talk? It's more likely that Google is interested in him because of libgaim, which runs on Windows and supports all the major protocols. Between AIM, MSN and Yahoo on Windows, that's a huge majority of the market. I doubt Gaim on Linux is why they want Sean.
My guess is that they want support for AIM, MSN, Yahoo, etc. on multiple platforms with minimal effort, which is libgaim. That would mean that they'd have to rewrite Google Talk on top of libgaim, for which Sean is a good choice.
Maybe it has nothing to do with favoring Red Team, and more to do with the fact that CMU has one of the top robotics and AI university programs in the world, teamed with defense contractors that should be expecting something like that, so they just happened to be more prepared...
Found it, on the Grand Challenge home page:
"Kurjanowicz also said that the course 'is tough, tougher than last year,' but added: 'The vehicles are better, smarter. That's why we held the NQE [National Qualification Event],' he said. 'We wanted to make sure they are capable of completing the course."
Did you read anything about this? The course is specifically designed to prevent teams from relying solely on GPS by making them go through tunnels where they will lose their signals. Many of the bots have cameras, lasers, radar, etc.
Maybe not the smartest idea, but can't you call Microsoft and have a machine deactivated? If they did that before you bought it, and you signed a contract saying they'd never reactivate it, it might be safe. Then again, if they did use it, the legal fees to fight them would be more than a new Dell anyway. I guess it could go either way, depending on how cheap you are and how much risk you want to take (hey, you are trying to run Windows...).
No, Google is paying Opera to be the default search engine in the toolbar search. It doesn't make any sense for Google to pay Opera to list Opera higher in Google's rankings...
Yes, but he didn't write the comment that he copied. And just because he had permission to see a security bug (which was confidential at the time) doesn't mean he's allowed to publicly share that information.
The description of the vulnerability is copied verbatim out of the bug report, yet Tom Ferris claims copyright at the bottom of the announcement. This is plagiarism, and public disclosure of confidential information, isn't it? Can Mozilla go after him? (IANAL)
"viri" is the dative or ablative plural form of "virus" in Latin, but "virus" in its current form is derived through Middle English, which pluralizes with "es" instead of "i."
Actually, "stadia" is plural, but in the wrong context. Stadia were a Roman unit of measurement equivalent to the length of a stadium, but "stadiums" are more than one stadium.
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Ours are named after tennis players... because they are good at serving.
Check out AFS.
So it would make sense for Google to support libgaim development.
Right now, yes. But they could've contracted him to add support for voice. If they hired him, they have long term plans, which probably means they want him to work on Google Talk.
Consider this: Sean adds voice to Gaim, so that Gaim is better than Google Talk, since Talk only supports Jabber. So Gaim kills Google Talk. It would make more sense for Google to pay Sean to bring Gaim up to speed, then use libgaim themselves to power Google Talk.
Everyone's first thought is probably that this will be great for Gaim. But how much time will Sean have for Gaim if he's working on Google Talk? It's more likely that Google is interested in him because of libgaim, which runs on Windows and supports all the major protocols. Between AIM, MSN and Yahoo on Windows, that's a huge majority of the market. I doubt Gaim on Linux is why they want Sean.
My guess is that they want support for AIM, MSN, Yahoo, etc. on multiple platforms with minimal effort, which is libgaim. That would mean that they'd have to rewrite Google Talk on top of libgaim, for which Sean is a good choice.
I don't think they're that dumb, but you didn't think to check for black leopards...
Here's the article: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05282/585369.stm
Yes, very strange.
Maybe it has nothing to do with favoring Red Team, and more to do with the fact that CMU has one of the top robotics and AI university programs in the world, teamed with defense contractors that should be expecting something like that, so they just happened to be more prepared...
There is a webcast on campus here (Carnegie Mellon):
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"A live Webcast of the Oct. 8 Grand Challenge through the Mojave Desert will be shown on campus in Breed Hall in Margaret Morrison Carnegie Hall.
"The Webcast will begin at 9 a.m. and end at 6:30 p.m. Breakfast will be served from 9 to 11 a.m. and lunch from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m."
http://www.cmu.edu/cmnews/extra/050927_redteam.ht
Found it, on the Grand Challenge home page: "Kurjanowicz also said that the course 'is tough, tougher than last year,' but added: 'The vehicles are better, smarter. That's why we held the NQE [National Qualification Event],' he said. 'We wanted to make sure they are capable of completing the course."
Did you read anything about this? The course is specifically designed to prevent teams from relying solely on GPS by making them go through tunnels where they will lose their signals. Many of the bots have cameras, lasers, radar, etc.
I read that the course is actually harder this year, but I'm not sure where I saw it.
Maybe not the smartest idea, but can't you call Microsoft and have a machine deactivated? If they did that before you bought it, and you signed a contract saying they'd never reactivate it, it might be safe. Then again, if they did use it, the legal fees to fight them would be more than a new Dell anyway. I guess it could go either way, depending on how cheap you are and how much risk you want to take (hey, you are trying to run Windows...).
97 km/h = 162,013.839 furlongs per fortnight
No, Google is paying Opera to be the default search engine in the toolbar search. It doesn't make any sense for Google to pay Opera to list Opera higher in Google's rankings...
Google is without a doubt expanding their operations beyond the search engine market which makes the possibility of GoogleTV realistic.
I guess Google Space Vacations are realistic too, seeing as how they're hiring for their moon base.
It's the same as Microsoft's "we have to package IE with Windows" argument.
This article has more details. Basically, customers only want to deal with one "suite," but Oracle and Siebel do slightly different stuff.
Yes, but he didn't write the comment that he copied. And just because he had permission to see a security bug (which was confidential at the time) doesn't mean he's allowed to publicly share that information.
The description of the vulnerability is copied verbatim out of the bug report, yet Tom Ferris claims copyright at the bottom of the announcement. This is plagiarism, and public disclosure of confidential information, isn't it? Can Mozilla go after him? (IANAL)
I don't think they could measure the length of the path travelled by light in an absolute vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second.
http://lysy2.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/WORDS.EXE?vir i
I guess that says something about mankind, huh?
"viri" is the dative or ablative plural form of "virus" in Latin, but "virus" in its current form is derived through Middle English, which pluralizes with "es" instead of "i."
Actually, "stadia" is plural, but in the wrong context. Stadia were a Roman unit of measurement equivalent to the length of a stadium, but "stadiums" are more than one stadium.