You are going on and on about the spam filters. I have good spam filters at work. So what, just because it is GOOD doesn't make them brilliant and it doesn't mean everything the company does is brilliant. Like I said (and got modded down for), most things Google does is GOOD, not brilliant. And yet, they claim to have all of these brilliant people around doing all this brilliant stuff.
Most everything that everyone takes as brilliant from Google got invented by Larry and Sergey or their close circle right at the beginning. As far as I am concerned, the neo-brilliance has turned out very little considering the bazillions that they get paid...
My ASS. Gears? They just announced they are killing it, or at least it aint gonna be what it was cause it generally failed. AdSense? Acquired lock stock and barrel. Gmail? No better than Hot Mail, or Yahoo mail or anything else. "State of the art redundant realiable systems" as you call it is the distributed file system that was developed for the search engine.
Agreed. I haven't seen a single brilliant thing come out of Google, outside the search engine itself (which is, admittedly, a Whopper of brilliance). After that, what? Calendar? Picasso? Wave? Android? Chrome? Meh, good but not brilliance. Frankly, I don't know what all these supposed geniuses are doing...
What? Have you ever listened to the lyrics of "The Hook" by Blues Traveler? They would have a different opinion about it. The melody is the ONLY thing that matters.
Never gonna happen. Everything you see today is compressed in one way or another, whether it is delivered by cable, satillite or faux fiber (U-Verse, FIOS). More bandwidth just means more crappy content, and subsequently more advertising...
Let us not forget that the majority of these sites are owned by the credit reporting agencies themselves. They have set up a system of credit reporting that is so ridiculously flawed security wise that they can now sell the people "protection" from the very same system. Good business to be in...
Well, the problem is they were sending out statements. Those statements were theoretically based on input from the markets, after the amounts were made bigger by the black box which was Madoff's investment "strategy". Once the black box was determined to be a fraud, the programmers were done, because they implemented the black box. At that point,no amount of deleting was going to get them out of being implicated.
Fire and police protection are indeed socialized. Just because it is a service does not mean that it isn't controlling the "production". Sometimes private entities supplement the production with their own private police (ie, rent a cop), but I contend that this occurrence is rare because the government's socialized police system works very very well.
I'm about 10 feet from a datacenter that contains similar systems for another major metro area. Ours only upload new programs to the lights, and then the lights act on their own (but they stay synchronized...they know what each other are doing.) There is something more to this story, the database blew up or a programming error, something....
Ever drive a modern BMW? No dipstick. That's right, no checking the oil at all.
Besides, checking oil level only determines if there is enough oil in the sump, not if there is a major failure of the oil system. For that you need a gauge or an idiot light.
Not to mention that exerting *any* authority over anything besides voting in the senate, indirectly or directly, is a constitutional violation. This throws the country into a constitutional crisis, whether the country chose to identify it as such or not. As governmental leaders are sworn to uphold The Constitution, it isn't too far of a stretch to call Cheney a traitor.
Call me a liberal if you want, but I consider Cheney to be exactly what he is, a traitor.
If you actually read the case, there will be no appeals court, as he will be found not guilty. They dropped all charges but 1 and the only one that is left doesn't even have a leg to stand on. The guy did nothing illegal, and everyone including the prosecutors know it. They are trying to keep him in to save face, nothing more.
Comparing a laptop to a car is meaningless. Both the Prius and the Volt maintain electronic control of the charge levels to ensure much longer battery life. A Prius keeps its battery charged around 30 to 70 percent at all times. The Volt will probably give up a little durability for longer run times, like 20 to 80 percent, but the overall life expectancy still should be 4 to 6 times that of a laptop.
The government is in cahoots with them, very directly. You see, the cell phone companies pay for the the frequencies they have to resell to you as cell service. The last auction (for admittedly some very juicy 700mgz frequencies) ended up being 14 billion dollars, straight to the government. 14 billion is a lot of cabbage, even to the government. Now I ask you, what incentive does the government have to go after the people that are paying that kind of money for the use of those frequencies?
I used to implement systems that automated check imaging. The only thing on a check that is OCR'd is the MICR for the account/routing/check number, which was specifically developed to be machine readable. The handwriting for the check amount, even though it is semi-constrained, is not machine readable with any kind of accuracy. Those fields are split off and still entered manually by a human on the back end. The imaging software will do some wizz bang stuff like look for any lines or words written across the front (think "void") or for empty fields such as no signature. Any check that doesn't make it through with a very high certainty of the software getting it right will get rejected and put into an electronic bin for review.
I would guess that this service simply directs all of the electronic info (the check image and data entered by the customer) to a standard check clearing house. The only thing that changed here is who scanned it to begin with.
Its exactly the argument that AT&T came up with before they were broken up. This was so they could keep charging rental fees for their handsets in the 1970's.
"If anyone can connect anything to our network then the whole thing will come down. OH NOES! Think what the commies will be able to do! We're gonna get nuked!"
Similarly, can you imagine if the cell networks were opened up to any type of device made by anybody for anything? The possibilities for the advancements in communications are just remarkable.
If it did anything remotely annoying someone would immediately fork the code to make it quit doing that. Adblock as a product would then cease to exist and the forked code would take over. Ain't the internet and open source great?
What if I want to do exactly as you say and listen to my OggWankis files in my new BMW, using my Wanker Player 5.1. It is a free country after all. Welp, nope, my BMW is only compatible with an ipod jack and the very encrypted firmware we are discussing here. This jack is patented and licensed by Apple only, and Apple holds on to that one like a rabid dog. So I MUST use an ipod, and only an ipod. Apple uses the patent on the ipod jack to ensure it maintains a defacto monopoly on players, when those players are being used in new ways and in different markets. This is the very definition of 'evil company', in my opinion.
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You are going on and on about the spam filters. I have good spam filters at work. So what, just because it is GOOD doesn't make them brilliant and it doesn't mean everything the company does is brilliant. Like I said (and got modded down for), most things Google does is GOOD, not brilliant. And yet, they claim to have all of these brilliant people around doing all this brilliant stuff.
Most everything that everyone takes as brilliant from Google got invented by Larry and Sergey or their close circle right at the beginning. As far as I am concerned, the neo-brilliance has turned out very little considering the bazillions that they get paid...
My ASS. Gears? They just announced they are killing it, or at least it aint gonna be what it was cause it generally failed. AdSense? Acquired lock stock and barrel. Gmail? No better than Hot Mail, or Yahoo mail or anything else. "State of the art redundant realiable systems" as you call it is the distributed file system that was developed for the search engine.
Cool Aid's really got you dood....
Agreed. I haven't seen a single brilliant thing come out of Google, outside the search engine itself (which is, admittedly, a Whopper of brilliance). After that, what? Calendar? Picasso? Wave? Android? Chrome? Meh, good but not brilliance. Frankly, I don't know what all these supposed geniuses are doing...
What? Have you ever listened to the lyrics of "The Hook" by Blues Traveler? They would have a different opinion about it. The melody is the ONLY thing that matters.
I, for one, am quite wealthy. I still live in my mom's basement though....
Never gonna happen. Everything you see today is compressed in one way or another, whether it is delivered by cable, satillite or faux fiber (U-Verse, FIOS). More bandwidth just means more crappy content, and subsequently more advertising...
Let us not forget that the majority of these sites are owned by the credit reporting agencies themselves. They have set up a system of credit reporting that is so ridiculously flawed security wise that they can now sell the people "protection" from the very same system. Good business to be in...
Well, the problem is they were sending out statements. Those statements were theoretically based on input from the markets, after the amounts were made bigger by the black box which was Madoff's investment "strategy". Once the black box was determined to be a fraud, the programmers were done, because they implemented the black box. At that point ,no amount of deleting was going to get them out of being implicated.
Fire and police protection are indeed socialized. Just because it is a service does not mean that it isn't controlling the "production". Sometimes private entities supplement the production with their own private police (ie, rent a cop), but I contend that this occurrence is rare because the government's socialized police system works very very well.
I'm about 10 feet from a datacenter that contains similar systems for another major metro area. Ours only upload new programs to the lights, and then the lights act on their own (but they stay synchronized...they know what each other are doing.) There is something more to this story, the database blew up or a programming error, something....
In addition, a GPS has no such bias to show a higher reading, like a speedometer does. A GPS is more accurate, a speedometer more precise.
Ever drive a modern BMW? No dipstick. That's right, no checking the oil at all.
Besides, checking oil level only determines if there is enough oil in the sump, not if there is a major failure of the oil system. For that you need a gauge or an idiot light.
I for one will quit using "beg the question" incorrectly, thanks. I have a degree in philosophy and had completely forgotten...
Not to mention that exerting *any* authority over anything besides voting in the senate, indirectly or directly, is a constitutional violation. This throws the country into a constitutional crisis, whether the country chose to identify it as such or not. As governmental leaders are sworn to uphold The Constitution, it isn't too far of a stretch to call Cheney a traitor.
Call me a liberal if you want, but I consider Cheney to be exactly what he is, a traitor.
All your need are belong to us.
Not to be a pedant, but Southern Comfort isn't a whiskey, let alone a single malt.
And the black guy has to be white if you are in Poland. You can just photoshop him out....
If you actually read the case, there will be no appeals court, as he will be found not guilty. They dropped all charges but 1 and the only one that is left doesn't even have a leg to stand on. The guy did nothing illegal, and everyone including the prosecutors know it. They are trying to keep him in to save face, nothing more.
Comparing a laptop to a car is meaningless. Both the Prius and the Volt maintain electronic control of the charge levels to ensure much longer battery life. A Prius keeps its battery charged around 30 to 70 percent at all times. The Volt will probably give up a little durability for longer run times, like 20 to 80 percent, but the overall life expectancy still should be 4 to 6 times that of a laptop.
The government is in cahoots with them, very directly. You see, the cell phone companies pay for the the frequencies they have to resell to you as cell service. The last auction (for admittedly some very juicy 700mgz frequencies) ended up being 14 billion dollars, straight to the government. 14 billion is a lot of cabbage, even to the government. Now I ask you, what incentive does the government have to go after the people that are paying that kind of money for the use of those frequencies?
I used to implement systems that automated check imaging. The only thing on a check that is OCR'd is the MICR for the account/routing/check number, which was specifically developed to be machine readable. The handwriting for the check amount, even though it is semi-constrained, is not machine readable with any kind of accuracy. Those fields are split off and still entered manually by a human on the back end. The imaging software will do some wizz bang stuff like look for any lines or words written across the front (think "void") or for empty fields such as no signature. Any check that doesn't make it through with a very high certainty of the software getting it right will get rejected and put into an electronic bin for review.
I would guess that this service simply directs all of the electronic info (the check image and data entered by the customer) to a standard check clearing house. The only thing that changed here is who scanned it to begin with.
Its exactly the argument that AT&T came up with before they were broken up. This was so they could keep charging rental fees for their handsets in the 1970's.
"If anyone can connect anything to our network then the whole thing will come down. OH NOES! Think what the commies will be able to do! We're gonna get nuked!"
Similarly, can you imagine if the cell networks were opened up to any type of device made by anybody for anything? The possibilities for the advancements in communications are just remarkable.
Iranian 1: "DEATH TO AMERICA!"
Iranian 2: "Hey, they make the movies on Channel 2."
Iranian 1:"Oh, wait..."
If it did anything remotely annoying someone would immediately fork the code to make it quit doing that. Adblock as a product would then cease to exist and the forked code would take over. Ain't the internet and open source great?
What if I want to do exactly as you say and listen to my OggWankis files in my new BMW, using my Wanker Player 5.1. It is a free country after all. Welp, nope, my BMW is only compatible with an ipod jack and the very encrypted firmware we are discussing here. This jack is patented and licensed by Apple only, and Apple holds on to that one like a rabid dog. So I MUST use an ipod, and only an ipod. Apple uses the patent on the ipod jack to ensure it maintains a defacto monopoly on players, when those players are being used in new ways and in different markets. This is the very definition of 'evil company', in my opinion.
Keep drinking the freedom kool-aid there, Russ.