Google has a Wireless network for free...... and loads of dark fiber.
Whats to stop them connecting the two, and giving everyone free wireless via their OWN google web. Yes i fear the day when the web runs via one source (in this case google) but at least it will be a source whom generally gets things right and fair.
That or we will end up with "binded" lines where people upstream run programs to allow us to find the fastest route to said host.
Think of peer to peer style, with dns's run by each user. Self updating and authicating. Some people would run sites as gateways to other networks from say, Google net to msnWeb, and in return they would have some ad's on a page which appears "Please wait while you are transfered to xxx, if you wish click the ad as you wait, ad will be opened in a new window....".
Maybe im a crazy fool, but its them prosing a monolopy on the internet.
Hum, im wondering what fact we have discovered here?
I'm thinking someone brought one of these and is now pissed off because its got to go back. Sounds about right really as if you do buy something where the technology is so new and untested then yes, it WILL Have bugs.
My dad always used to wait awhile before buying a new vcr/hifi/dvd player, so that they could fix bugs.
Anyone want to think about all those gen1 ipods which expanded/blewup/died/lostbatterycharge/got robbed.... ?
People play games because they then become powerful....
Have you EVER, EVER played a game where the world DIDN'T revolve around you? Where you wern't the guy that had to pull the trigger.... Where you wen't the guy that if you didn't deliver this scroll to the dragon knight by the first full moon the entire world will die?
Even teh sim games (sim city, etc) do this, if you fail, the people blame you, not the rest of the goverment, or other gods whom they could worship.
1. google desktop search doing the "holding documents for 30 days" told me, as well as the rest of the world (including my mum) that this was comming anyway.
2. was it really leaked? I mean, how many times have google acidentlly realased anything?
Ten years ago, hum... I was 12 ~:o just starting to getting get into computers, a few people were getting AOL and (teh) internet.
If openoffice, and office97 came out 10years ago, at the same time, does anyone think that all teh noobies, who went out and brought office, because they knew of nothing better, would do the same if they could download this "OOo" thing?
Plus, they are doing an awesome job of catching up.
How long until this becomes like a pyrimid scheme where everyone is spamming their money earning links and no one earns anything as they are all bored of them.
infact im using gentoo linux and have been for at least a year now.
Booted into windows twice, once to stop it messing wiht my time when i booted into it, and the other to run rational rose as my university is so crap it doesn't work properly there.
1. 6months is a awful long time, infact its so long, that any project which is destined to be released in 6months almost surely wont be, or it will infact change its aims so that it becomes something other than what it was meant to be.
2. Who says google will be around in 6months? Again alot can happen.
3. They sound so sure of them selfs, that its almost like the product exists now, but they aren't releasing it for 6 months, so that means all the other developers have 6months to make theirs better.
4. Google constantly evolves and in 6months they might not care (nor need to care) about searching anymore. In 6months they may of realeased the google O/S with its almighty power.
5. 5 never existed, it was 6months out of date
6. Slashdot might not be here in 6months, so we may never get the news of this new release, and so we shall stop evolving...
Yes im a google fan boi, and a ms hater and i admit it, but that isn't why i've written this. Anyone whos studied infomation systems, or worked with any kind of technology can tell you how deadlines dont mean shit because if the product isn't ready, it wont be released.
Jim is in a burning car, with a working mobile, yet he never bothered to phone the 999 and get some help? Dumb noobs like him are the kind that troll on slashdot, let him burn!
Does it work in rural areas? This could be awesome for stuff like people lost in mountains etc
As for agreeing, have a clause where you agree that person X can override this right. Hell if i fell down a hole and couldn't speak, i wouldn't care if my mum agreed on my behalf to have me found via my mobile.
I know this is kind of offtopic but stick with me ok?
We are looking at how apple has come from computer wiz guys to mp3 playing world takeover via ipods. I personally hate apples computers, and doubt ill ever buy an ipod either (seen WAY too many 1st, 2nd, and 3rd gen ones go wonky). Eitherway i still dont see where this case is coming from and i hope it drops.
On the other hand, i thought of a company whom i respect and like : Google. Now they came along, and created a market in web search engines, alls fair so far. But if Microsoft, Yahoo, and everyone else running a search engine were to one day give up. It would leave google as the "top dog" of all search engines, infact, it would be the ONLY search engine.
Still with me?
Then suddenly, someone realises, google dont just have a search engine.... nope, they have a desktop search client, a email client, a chat client.... OMG its a huge monopoly, quick, bring the anti-trust laws against them, they have built this huge monopoly and no one else can get in. (When the fact is everyone else choose to drop out as it wasn't worth the hassle).
Creative have been creating mp3 players for a long time, yet apple created the "hit" one. If creative (and everyone else) were to stop creating mp3 players, would that be apples own created monopoly?
Maybe im plain confused about the law, being from the UK and all...
When i look for a DVD player i want it to play xvid, avi, jpegs and MP3s at least.... Yet when my mum looks she just wants it to play a DVD easily.
If sony can make it accessible to the customer, then the customer will buy it, if it also plays other formats, the customer will be more pleased when they randomly find this extra functionality. It will set the level of what consoles "should" supply as default and god help any which dont then fit this selection".
3 Games, very different in many ways, although all MMORPGS, but they all change, have eposodic content of a type...
Anything really new in this idea other than the idea of applying it to a different genre of game?
Star wars had the biggest change i think i've seen in any game, they completely overhauled part of the game, now if that isn't putting your money on the line then i dont know what is.
I used to run a lan gaming center, and the guys their REALLY cared if a girl was playing or not, infact i saw mob mentatility where they would delibertly kill the girl(even tk'ing), now the only reason i see for this was to hide the fact they might die to a girl... So yes, these guys really DID care.(Age range of 10 - 40+)
The funny point however is how she does funny shit like talk like a furby, which causes guys to either get mad and start missing, or just leave the server randomly. However we are talking about CS so i guess they were all 12 yr old immature kids:|
She plays for hours, She doesn't get rewards (unless a monkey looking like its being electrocuted is a reward) She plays it in bed (v.unmobile?) and theres no learning mode...
Go figure? On the other hand my bother fits all of the mentioned "attributes" in the articial....
How about gamers generally are just different? Some like somethings, some like others? Aiming games at girls isn't going to work. The girls play "lads" games because its taking the mickey out of lads (you can't do this? and im a girl!) plus they are the "norm". Give a guy a "gurls" game and he wont touch it, and if he sees his gf playing it, he will laugh at her for being a woosie.
I've seen this belkin wireless G usbkey (with weird stand when used with a desktop ) about 5 times recently, in all cases it wouldn't work with windows first time. Some found that reinstalling would fix this, but i've had one guy tell me now that its once again failed to work.
How can anyone be expected to get something working in linux when it doesn't even work properly in windows? This has gravely tarnished the amazement i had for belkins cheap, but stuff that works (were they formally Q-tec? or did Q-tec just go bust?)
The reason i saw 5 of these usb keys? I "help out" with the wireless in our student accomadiation, one of the 3 computer shops in our city center only stocks this as their 54G answer (however they do have others if you "order" but their prices are overhyped anyway).
Plus the general linux user has learn to check something works before attempting to use it in linux, im personally looking for a new motherboard, but waiting until im better before i commit my self.
I second this, i met the same resistance when in college (highschool to you kids in the u.s.). At the time we had a lecturer, who wasn't only cocky (which is bad enough) but so sure of him self in every field, although he knew nothing about computers. (It was a multimedia course).
To make matters worse, he didn't even buy the mac he used in college, he made them pay for that as part of his "materials". Eitherway, we had a room full of windows pcs, and a room of macs. Both were plagued by problems, but due to some nice *(supprisingly) network monitoring, vlans, etc by the college, most of the time the problems were contained.
To put a spin on things, i informed the lecturer that the windows pc's were going to suffer due to the fact they had high power gfx cards (which we would use for rendering) and only 300w psus. The guy decided from this point on that i was a know it all, and that anything i said would automagicly be wrong.
After all teh various fun with computers, we started getting the dreaded "hostname or ip exists on network" problems, where people had acidently, or deliberlty changed their IPs so that another machine ended up being kicked off the network when it rebooted. I was the lucky guy on the course, i got to have the printer connected to my machine! (Scarcasim!!!) One day i got the dreaded message, but knowing what caused it, i checked my hostname and found another pc on the network sharing it. So i changed the hostname and ip of my machine and hey presto, my internet access (*which i DID need for this kind of work) once again worked. After a little while people had to print out work and it failed over and over, due to the ip and hostname of hte printer server (my machine) being changed... the whole class was accused of "Passwording the printer" which is something im still not sure you can do i windows without creating new users etc.
However, this was the extent of the damage that was ever done on windows machines.... With the macs? well, they wuold blow up, lose work, mess us around, not have the same fuctions we used in windows (In the same programs... photoshop, illustrator, lightwave...)
fun for all the family, couple this with the fact we were using zip disks: /
Im the kind of guy that reads slashdot everyday and generally keeps up on my tech news, yet i have/had (After reading the articial) NO idea wtf they were talking about.... yet they call this some kind of evolving thing.... Its not even started yet.
Well, i've had the first one from a few weeks after it came out...
its been awesome, i've completed the missions, and still i go back for more, im not sure what it is but there something about hte game which makes me want to go back and randomly play, even with no set "aim"... The fact the world is SO large and i can still explore with over 500hrs play time is amazing really, there isn't many games which can claim this, and they gave me free LARGE updates!
I'll be buying the new chapter, if not to keep playing but to support something which i belive can go very far, plus... imagine if they added crafting:o
""No, not the people who lost their jobs, but the people who lost their investments. The people who payed for all the fun the jobs were and got nothing back out of it."
3 comments: 1. Risk and reward! 2. Due diligence! 3. A fool and his money are soon parted!...welcome to capitalism."
4 ??? 5 PROFIT!
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I know im very offtopic here, but the fact this is out for free download, yet he still manages to publish and see these books, prove that mp3 downloading doesn't really cut into music sales?
Hell i know that more mp3s are downloaded than books, but far less people will buy this book anyway.
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Hold on a second!!
Google has a Wireless network for free...... and loads of dark fiber.
Whats to stop them connecting the two, and giving everyone free wireless via their OWN google web. Yes i fear the day when the web runs via one source (in this case google) but at least it will be a source whom generally gets things right and fair.
That or we will end up with "binded" lines where people upstream run programs to allow us to find the fastest route to said host.
Think of peer to peer style, with dns's run by each user. Self updating and authicating. Some people would run sites as gateways to other networks from say, Google net to msnWeb, and in return they would have some ad's on a page which appears "Please wait while you are transfered to xxx, if you wish click the ad as you wait, ad will be opened in a new window....".
Maybe im a crazy fool, but its them prosing a monolopy on the internet.
Hum, im wondering what fact we have discovered here?
I'm thinking someone brought one of these and is now pissed off because its got to go back. Sounds about right really as if you do buy something where the technology is so new and untested then yes, it WILL Have bugs.
My dad always used to wait awhile before buying a new vcr/hifi/dvd player, so that they could fix bugs.
Anyone want to think about all those gen1 ipods which expanded/blewup/died/lostbatterycharge/got robbed.... ?
People play games because they then become powerful....
Have you EVER, EVER played a game where the world DIDN'T revolve around you? Where you wern't the guy that had to pull the trigger.... Where you wen't the guy that if you didn't deliver this scroll to the dragon knight by the first full moon the entire world will die?
Even teh sim games (sim city, etc) do this, if you fail, the people blame you, not the rest of the goverment, or other gods whom they could worship.
Games make us feel like we make a difference.
StartKeyLogger
another undocmented feature...
Looked thru a few comments.
1. google desktop search doing the "holding documents for 30 days" told me, as well as the rest of the world (including my mum) that this was comming anyway.
2. was it really leaked? I mean, how many times have google acidentlly realased anything?
3. Was the blogger anon? Hell, i bet its serjy!
Ten years ago, hum... I was 12 ~:o just starting to getting get into computers, a few people were getting AOL and (teh) internet.
If openoffice, and office97 came out 10years ago, at the same time, does anyone think that all teh noobies, who went out and brought office, because they knew of nothing better, would do the same if they could download this "OOo" thing?
Plus, they are doing an awesome job of catching up.
How long until this becomes like a pyrimid scheme where everyone is spamming their money earning links and no one earns anything as they are all bored of them.
I woudln't trust a usb drive iwth critial data full stop. Backups ffs
infact im using gentoo linux and have been for at least a year now.
Booted into windows twice, once to stop it messing wiht my time when i booted into it, and the other to run rational rose as my university is so crap it doesn't work properly there.
Righty
1. 6months is a awful long time, infact its so long, that any project which is destined to be released in 6months almost surely wont be, or it will infact change its aims so that it becomes something other than what it was meant to be.
2. Who says google will be around in 6months? Again alot can happen.
3. They sound so sure of them selfs, that its almost like the product exists now, but they aren't releasing it for 6 months, so that means all the other developers have 6months to make theirs better.
4. Google constantly evolves and in 6months they might not care (nor need to care) about searching anymore. In 6months they may of realeased the google O/S with its almighty power.
5. 5 never existed, it was 6months out of date
6. Slashdot might not be here in 6months, so we may never get the news of this new release, and so we shall stop evolving...
Yes im a google fan boi, and a ms hater and i admit it, but that isn't why i've written this. Anyone whos studied infomation systems, or worked with any kind of technology can tell you how deadlines dont mean shit because if the product isn't ready, it wont be released.
Hold on a sec,
Jim is in a burning car, with a working mobile, yet he never bothered to phone the 999 and get some help? Dumb noobs like him are the kind that troll on slashdot, let him burn!
Does it work in rural areas? This could be awesome for stuff like people lost in mountains etc
As for agreeing, have a clause where you agree that person X can override this right. Hell if i fell down a hole and couldn't speak, i wouldn't care if my mum agreed on my behalf to have me found via my mobile.
I know this is kind of offtopic but stick with me ok?
We are looking at how apple has come from computer wiz guys to mp3 playing world takeover via ipods. I personally hate apples computers, and doubt ill ever buy an ipod either (seen WAY too many 1st, 2nd, and 3rd gen ones go wonky). Eitherway i still dont see where this case is coming from and i hope it drops.
On the other hand, i thought of a company whom i respect and like : Google. Now they came along, and created a market in web search engines, alls fair so far. But if Microsoft, Yahoo, and everyone else running a search engine were to one day give up. It would leave google as the "top dog" of all search engines, infact, it would be the ONLY search engine.
Still with me?
Then suddenly, someone realises, google dont just have a search engine.... nope, they have a desktop search client, a email client, a chat client.... OMG its a huge monopoly, quick, bring the anti-trust laws against them, they have built this huge monopoly and no one else can get in. (When the fact is everyone else choose to drop out as it wasn't worth the hassle).
Creative have been creating mp3 players for a long time, yet apple created the "hit" one. If creative (and everyone else) were to stop creating mp3 players, would that be apples own created monopoly?
Maybe im plain confused about the law, being from the UK and all...
When i look for a DVD player i want it to play xvid, avi, jpegs and MP3s at least.... Yet when my mum looks she just wants it to play a DVD easily.
If sony can make it accessible to the customer, then the customer will buy it, if it also plays other formats, the customer will be more pleased when they randomly find this extra functionality. It will set the level of what consoles "should" supply as default and god help any which dont then fit this selection".
Phillips start charging record companys for using the Compact Disk and making money by selling this containing media of little cost....
Also Marconi's family wanting to charge television companys for using his product to create additonal funds...
Anyone else agree?
Time to bang out one of sonys magical "WoWhaX!!!111" cd's and see if it works on this, money to be won...
Everquest,
Guildwars,
Star Wars galaxies...
3 Games, very different in many ways, although all MMORPGS, but they all change, have eposodic content of a type...
Anything really new in this idea other than the idea of applying it to a different genre of game?
Star wars had the biggest change i think i've seen in any game, they completely overhauled part of the game, now if that isn't putting your money on the line then i dont know what is.
Real guys?
:|
I used to run a lan gaming center, and the guys their REALLY cared if a girl was playing or not, infact i saw mob mentatility where they would delibertly kill the girl(even tk'ing), now the only reason i see for this was to hide the fact they might die to a girl... So yes, these guys really DID care.(Age range of 10 - 40+)
The funny point however is how she does funny shit like talk like a furby, which causes guys to either get mad and start missing, or just leave the server randomly. However we are talking about CS so i guess they were all 12 yr old immature kids
My gf LOVES Zookeeper on the DS....
She plays for hours,
She doesn't get rewards (unless a monkey looking like its being electrocuted is a reward)
She plays it in bed (v.unmobile?)
and theres no learning mode...
Go figure?
On the other hand my bother fits all of the mentioned "attributes" in the articial....
How about gamers generally are just different? Some like somethings, some like others? Aiming games at girls isn't going to work. The girls play "lads" games because its taking the mickey out of lads (you can't do this? and im a girl!) plus they are the "norm". Give a guy a "gurls" game and he wont touch it, and if he sees his gf playing it, he will laugh at her for being a woosie.
I've seen this belkin wireless G usbkey (with weird stand when used with a desktop ) about 5 times recently, in all cases it wouldn't work with windows first time. Some found that reinstalling would fix this, but i've had one guy tell me now that its once again failed to work.
How can anyone be expected to get something working in linux when it doesn't even work properly in windows? This has gravely tarnished the amazement i had for belkins cheap, but stuff that works (were they formally Q-tec? or did Q-tec just go bust?)
The reason i saw 5 of these usb keys? I "help out" with the wireless in our student accomadiation, one of the 3 computer shops in our city center only stocks this as their 54G answer (however they do have others if you "order" but their prices are overhyped anyway).
Plus the general linux user has learn to check something works before attempting to use it in linux, im personally looking for a new motherboard, but waiting until im better before i commit my self.
I second this, i met the same resistance when in college (highschool to you kids in the u.s.). At the time we had a lecturer, who wasn't only cocky (which is bad enough) but so sure of him self in every field, although he knew nothing about computers. (It was a multimedia course).
To make matters worse, he didn't even buy the mac he used in college, he made them pay for that as part of his "materials". Eitherway, we had a room full of windows pcs, and a room of macs. Both were plagued by problems, but due to some nice *(supprisingly) network monitoring, vlans, etc by the college, most of the time the problems were contained.
To put a spin on things, i informed the lecturer that the windows pc's were going to suffer due to the fact they had high power gfx cards (which we would use for rendering) and only 300w psus. The guy decided from this point on that i was a know it all, and that anything i said would automagicly be wrong.
After all teh various fun with computers, we started getting the dreaded "hostname or ip exists on network" problems, where people had acidently, or deliberlty changed their IPs so that another machine ended up being kicked off the network when it rebooted.
I was the lucky guy on the course, i got to have the printer connected to my machine! (Scarcasim!!!) One day i got the dreaded message, but knowing what caused it, i checked my hostname and found another pc on the network sharing it. So i changed the hostname and ip of my machine and hey presto, my internet access (*which i DID need for this kind of work) once again worked.
After a little while people had to print out work and it failed over and over, due to the ip and hostname of hte printer server (my machine) being changed... the whole class was accused of "Passwording the printer" which is something im still not sure you can do i windows without creating new users etc.
However, this was the extent of the damage that was ever done on windows machines.... With the macs? well, they wuold blow up, lose work, mess us around, not have the same fuctions we used in windows (In the same programs... photoshop, illustrator, lightwave...)
fun for all the family, couple this with the fact we were using zip disks: /
No idea what this was all about...
Im the kind of guy that reads slashdot everyday and generally keeps up on my tech news, yet i have/had (After reading the articial) NO idea wtf they were talking about.... yet they call this some kind of evolving thing.... Its not even started yet.
Peh im trolling so ill stfu.
Well, i've had the first one from a few weeks after it came out...
:o
its been awesome, i've completed the missions, and still i go back for more, im not sure what it is but there something about hte game which makes me want to go back and randomly play, even with no set "aim"... The fact the world is SO large and i can still explore with over 500hrs play time is amazing really, there isn't many games which can claim this, and they gave me free LARGE updates!
I'll be buying the new chapter, if not to keep playing but to support something which i belive can go very far, plus... imagine if they added crafting
""No, not the people who lost their jobs, but the people who lost their investments. The people who payed for all the fun the jobs were and got nothing back out of it."
...welcome to capitalism."
3 comments:
1. Risk and reward!
2. Due diligence!
3. A fool and his money are soon parted!
4 ???
5 PROFIT!
I know im very offtopic here, but the fact this is out for free download, yet he still manages to publish and see these books, prove that mp3 downloading doesn't really cut into music sales?
Hell i know that more mp3s are downloaded than books, but far less people will buy this book anyway.
And how often do you have people demanding keys off you, and if you've done nothing wrong (my point in the first place) why would they?!