This Intel-written whitepaper introduces an determine their locations with the aid of freely accessible, nearby radio sources, such as fixed Bluetooth devices, 802.11 access points, and GSM cell towers. [/i] Whose locations?
The Intel written whitepaper's location. Whitepapers tend to get lost, like remote controls or keys. This whitepaper solves the problem of how to find itself.
Imagine a web-based office application that could be used from anywhere,
Yes, I did. I don't see what advantage it gives me over having the application installed on my laptop/PC/tablet - be it OpenOffice or MSOffice.
and also allowed you to download a platform-agnostic (likely Java) offline editor.
You mean like StarOffice or Star Office?
You could access your documents anywhere,
I can already do that - by putting it up on a FTP site or something.
take them with you,
I can already do that, but copying it on to my PC/Laptop/Tablet.
and edit them anywhere.
I can already do that.
Key to success would be a method of integrating the offline document when you bring it back online - integrated (but transparent and seamless) version control would be critical there.
Why would you need a merge or an integration if you are the only one who owns/edits/uses that document? If there are other people using it you need some sort of collabration software like Groove. Did google say that they are including a such a thing?
Your hypothetical scenario would benefit in only one case. If I don't carry a laptop but want to edit the doc from a cyber cafe or something. Even in that case, most cybercafes I have been to have Office installed usually.
By "Signing in" you're actually letting Google know more information then it requires... You're not only "Personalizing" their homepage, but you're actually creating a mapping between a "user" and a "search". In other words, Google would now have the ability to know (same account as GMail) which user looked for what - beyond GMail (where they know what each user read).
Have you just woken up or something?
This has been true of most search engines even 5-6 years back.
Yahoo has a sign in. Excite has it. MSN has it. Most big portals have a sign in feature.
From TFA "In a broader sense, Arnold believes Google is building a "patent fence around search" technology as the firm moves to codify its unique competitive advantage."
Going by the Firefox vs IE thread on/., I can predict the huge majority of "Insightful" & "Interesting" posts in this article
1) Koreans are biased against Linux 2) Koreans are Microsoft shills. 3) Every virus discovered on Linux proves the greatness of OSS - patches are going to be released much earlier in Linux 4) We all know that the Korea govt benefits as a whole if more people use Windows & hence they are spreading FUD against Linux 5) Linux devs are more honest - hence they admit to these viruses unlike dishonest Microsoft developers. 6) Micro$oft sucks 7) Windoze sucks
These are the excuses which have appeared in the first half hour of this article
1) More vulnerabilities are discovered in FF because FF is open source & peer review found these bugs. This is good. 2) But I never got infected by FF. 3) But Mozilla issues a press release against Symantec 4) Symantec is biased 5) Symantec is doing this to increase their business 6) IE has more vulnerabilities which aren't yet discovered 7) FF has more dedicated devs hence they are more likely to admit a vulnerability than IE 8) IE Sucks 9) Microsoft sucks
Many of these have also been modded Insightful or Interesting & these moderations will most likely be meta-moderated as fair.
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If you look at the history of that page, it was created yesterday.
I searched for Glauber & this is what I found.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glauber
If this guy is good enough to win the Nobel, how come
he isn't in Wikipedia?
This Intel-written whitepaper introduces an determine their locations with the aid of freely accessible, nearby radio sources, such as fixed Bluetooth devices, 802.11 access points, and GSM cell towers. [/i] Whose locations?
The Intel written whitepaper's location.
Whitepapers tend to get lost, like remote controls or keys.
This whitepaper solves the problem of how to find itself.
This is the Quine of whitepapers.
What a load of crap!
Imagine a web-based office application that could be used from anywhere,
Yes, I did. I don't see what advantage it gives me over having the application
installed on my laptop/PC/tablet - be it OpenOffice or MSOffice.
and also allowed you to download a platform-agnostic (likely Java) offline editor.
You mean like StarOffice or Star Office?
You could access your documents anywhere,
I can already do that - by putting it up on a FTP site or something.
take them with you,
I can already do that, but copying it on to my PC/Laptop/Tablet.
and edit them anywhere.
I can already do that.
Key to success would be a method of integrating the offline document when you bring it back online - integrated (but transparent and seamless) version control would be critical there.
Why would you need a merge or an integration if you are the only one who owns/edits/uses that
document?
If there are other people using it you need some sort of collabration software like Groove.
Did google say that they are including a such a thing?
Your hypothetical scenario would benefit in only one case.
If I don't carry a laptop but want to edit the doc from a cyber cafe or something.
Even in that case, most cybercafes I have been to have Office installed usually.
For real security, don't use C.
I am rewriting Linux in Visual Basic 6.0.
I am going to call the distro VBLinux.
I can't wait for Google Dog. I expect it to fetch the paper AND pick out the important stuff based on my personal tastes.
You got it wrong. Google Dog fetches your paper & reports back on your personal tastes.
Since the USA (and then the world) is going to become
one big Google company town, I guess it's best to start
early with the naming thing.
The binding with GMail and other services (even some future ones) is critical for the plot.
This is true for other portals also.
Yahoo can also mine information from Yahoo Mail.
It's obviously bad, but do you notice how Google gets a pass from the overwhelming majority of the Slashdot community?
Yes, I do. That was the point of my post, actually.
Google does 2 things for which any other company would get flamed to
death on
1) It's a building a phenomenal database of consumer profiles.
The clincher here is it's Web Proxy (good spin to call it Accelerator)
How does this product help google? Think about it?
What's the difference between Google & other companies with spyware
etc. Google gets a free pass, hence doesn't have to use stealth.
2) Patents.
By "Signing in" you're actually letting Google know more information then it requires...
You're not only "Personalizing" their homepage, but you're actually creating a mapping between a "user" and a "search".
In other words, Google would now have the ability to know (same account as GMail) which user looked for what - beyond GMail (where they know what each user read).
Have you just woken up or something?
This has been true of most search engines even 5-6 years back.
Yahoo has a sign in. Excite has it. MSN has it.
Most big portals have a sign in feature.
From TFA
"In a broader sense, Arnold believes Google is building a "patent fence around search" technology as the firm moves to codify its unique competitive advantage."
Is this good or bad?
I've already snapped two non-clamshell model cell phones in half by sitting on them
Seems to be a strange way to pass the time.
All those who donated money to help Bram Cohen support Bit Torrent,
will they get any part of the money coming in?
Slashdot editors - please correct the title.
Compare Lisa with this.
Old slashdot article
Maybe I should have Coral Cache'd it.
Here
& here
here & here.
The only half naked person in your link was the dude.
I preferred the full naked picture.
All my /. posts, including this one, are from my phone. Right now I'm at a RR crossing waiting.
I am the one in the car behind you. The train has gone & the gates have opened. You are
blocking traffic. I can't honk any louder.
A search for "internet browser" brings opera back at #1.
I don't understand.
Does this mean google rigged the ranking?
Is this the year of Firefox on the Desktop?
Considering this only affects one operating system (Linux)
The only cross-platform binary compatible virus, I have ever heard of was in the Movie 'Independence Day'.
Going by the Firefox vs IE thread on /., I can
predict the huge majority of "Insightful" & "Interesting" posts in this article
1) Koreans are biased against Linux
2) Koreans are Microsoft shills.
3) Every virus discovered on Linux proves the greatness of OSS - patches are going to be released much earlier in Linux
4) We all know that the Korea govt benefits as a
whole if more people use Windows & hence they are spreading FUD against Linux
5) Linux devs are more honest - hence they admit to these viruses unlike dishonest Microsoft developers.
6) Micro$oft sucks
7) Windoze sucks
Is Slashdot the most biased forum in the world?
These are the excuses which have appeared in the
first half hour of this article
1) More vulnerabilities are discovered in FF because FF is
open source & peer review found these bugs. This is good.
2) But I never got infected by FF.
3) But Mozilla issues a press release against Symantec
4) Symantec is biased
5) Symantec is doing this to increase their business
6) IE has more vulnerabilities which aren't yet discovered
7) FF has more dedicated devs hence they are more likely
to admit a vulnerability than IE
8) IE Sucks
9) Microsoft sucks
Many of these have also been modded Insightful or Interesting & these moderations will most likely be meta-moderated as fair.