They've started already. And what did they mod it? "Overrated". In other words, "we just don't want anybody to think about what you're saying". Slashdot really would have a better site if they could work on those censorship issues.
You mean, the US, with its state of the art, best of breed health care is worse than covering everyone with crappy care that doesn't offer nearly the same care as available in the US?
100% coverage that is crappy isn't an improvement.
Are you sure your comment isn't just a "God Bless America" comment meant to blindly rant against another country because it's getting more and more difficult to say the USA is the greatest nation in the world?
The problem is Google has already indexed most of them without asking. Therefore, Google has the advantage of having content from various news sites already in place, and the un-indexed sites are at a disadvantage because there are other indexed sites. The option to be excluded from the index would only have worked had Google never orignially indexed any news site without explicit permission. I realize the purpose of a search engine is to index sites and direct people toward those sites. However, Google seems to have reached a point at which it has become a content provider, displaying content from these sites and never actually directing people toward those sites.
To some extent, they seem to be doing the same thing Gracenote did, indexing content from many sources and ultimately profiting from that content with little to return to those contributors.
Try not to miss the point, that Google seems to have gone from a search engine to a site that actually scours the internet for content for itself, rather than directing people to the sites the content came from. I am not saying no site ever gets additional views because of a link from Google. And note that every anti-Google comment gets modded away, regardless of the validity of the comment. You may or may not agree with the validity of the comments in this post. But every anti-Google comment gets modded away, not just this one.
I am in Kansas City and it is questionable whether I can get it. Because they only give it to people who have enough pre-subscribers in their area (they call the areas Fiberhoods) who also sign up for it. I am the only person in my Fiberhood who is a potential subscriber. My friend's neighborhood had 3 people sign up so far, far from the goal. My brother's neighborhood reached the goal and he can actually get it. In general, it looks like their strategy has, in a roundabout way, led to mostly middle and upper classes being eligible for the service and other neighborhoods being deprived. AT&T U-verse isn't available in my neighborhood either, although it's available in my aunt's neighborhood. I'm sure Time Warner is breathing a sigh of relief that their monopoly will still be intact for most of the city.
Getting Google fiber with TV has a price less than what I'm currently paying for Time Warner cable with Roadrunner broadband in Kansas City. By about $10 or so. The only channel I'd lose that I'd care about is Velocity TV.
And what happens if you reproduce with somebody who has these genes? Will they be able to sue you over your children, the way Monsanto sues people over corn?
For what it's worth, boyfriend and I have both been able to install Windows 7 on various laptops and at least one desktop with no need to install a single driver, all from the same disc.
What happens if the country, whose laws are oppressing you, has a way of compelling other countries to have the same laws, and destroying the ones who don't comply?
They also say "up to" with the knowledge that nobody will understands it means "hardly ever reaching". I wish we had laws against misleading advertising in the United States. Instead, they allow "puffery", which seems to me like the opposite of a law against misleading advertising. As a side note, Google Fiber also says "up to".
I think, at least for open source projects, making the code easy to follow would bring in a lot of help from people who are good at writing code but don't want to spend years trying to figure out how to pick up where somebody left off in a pile of obfuscated goo.
If they're saying they can freeze the company's assest because somebody involved with the company allegedly committed a crime, does that mean the next time somebody at Sony, Microsoft, Apple, or the RIAA commits a crime that makes money for the company, they'll freeze the entire company's assets?
That would scare the heck out of me and my daughters. But vacuuming arms built into the doors that activate when you press the door lock button on the keychain, maybe.I doubt it would be all that good though. Crumbs are difficult to get with a handheld vacuum.
If the patent covers receiving digital audio and converting it to analog, aren't there like a million audio receivers and amplifiers that did this before iPods existed? How old is this patent? My receiver from the 90's had a digital input. My brother's Pentium 3 computer had an external speaker system with a digital input and its own amp.
It was my understanding that the original meaning of "the cloud" was file storage using distributed computing. And the whole concept was bastardized when corporations caught on to the popularity of the word and started applying it to offsite storage in a single location. Seriously, the real cloud would be some modified version of bittorent, in which lots of people have encrypted pieces of your files and you can access the whole file as long as you are connected to enough of these people to get every piece. You'd still have to have a local copy, but you'd have your backup in the cloud if the local copy gets destroyed. You'd just have to hope the local copy and cloud don't go at the same time.
I think they're making it more Tablet-like because Tablets are selling big right now. And they'd like the Tablet crowd to turn to Windows computers. Because if everybody starts using tablets, then they won't be forced to buy a copy of Windows with their device.
Perhaps it's the "cloud service" providers who approached the government, and this is the government's response. Also, the government seems to love firing employees and replacing them with contractors. This would fit right in with their fetish for firing people.
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They've started already. And what did they mod it? "Overrated". In other words, "we just don't want anybody to think about what you're saying". Slashdot really would have a better site if they could work on those censorship issues.
I suspect more than half of the world doesn't have those things anyway. Maybe losing oil would be an equalizer.
You mean, the US, with its state of the art, best of breed health care is worse than covering everyone with crappy care that doesn't offer nearly the same care as available in the US?
100% coverage that is crappy isn't an improvement.
Are you sure your comment isn't just a "God Bless America" comment meant to blindly rant against another country because it's getting more and more difficult to say the USA is the greatest nation in the world?
The problem is Google has already indexed most of them without asking. Therefore, Google has the advantage of having content from various news sites already in place, and the un-indexed sites are at a disadvantage because there are other indexed sites. The option to be excluded from the index would only have worked had Google never orignially indexed any news site without explicit permission. I realize the purpose of a search engine is to index sites and direct people toward those sites. However, Google seems to have reached a point at which it has become a content provider, displaying content from these sites and never actually directing people toward those sites.
To some extent, they seem to be doing the same thing Gracenote did, indexing content from many sources and ultimately profiting from that content with little to return to those contributors.
Try not to miss the point, that Google seems to have gone from a search engine to a site that actually scours the internet for content for itself, rather than directing people to the sites the content came from. I am not saying no site ever gets additional views because of a link from Google. And note that every anti-Google comment gets modded away, regardless of the validity of the comment. You may or may not agree with the validity of the comments in this post. But every anti-Google comment gets modded away, not just this one.
We're not guaranteed to freeze or starve without oil.
I figured they're just filing bankruptcy and reopening under another name so they can erase any money owed and keep moving along.
Call me when the cordless version is available.
I am in Kansas City and it is questionable whether I can get it. Because they only give it to people who have enough pre-subscribers in their area (they call the areas Fiberhoods) who also sign up for it. I am the only person in my Fiberhood who is a potential subscriber. My friend's neighborhood had 3 people sign up so far, far from the goal. My brother's neighborhood reached the goal and he can actually get it. In general, it looks like their strategy has, in a roundabout way, led to mostly middle and upper classes being eligible for the service and other neighborhoods being deprived. AT&T U-verse isn't available in my neighborhood either, although it's available in my aunt's neighborhood. I'm sure Time Warner is breathing a sigh of relief that their monopoly will still be intact for most of the city.
Getting Google fiber with TV has a price less than what I'm currently paying for Time Warner cable with Roadrunner broadband in Kansas City. By about $10 or so. The only channel I'd lose that I'd care about is Velocity TV.
And what happens if you reproduce with somebody who has these genes? Will they be able to sue you over your children, the way Monsanto sues people over corn?
For what it's worth, boyfriend and I have both been able to install Windows 7 on various laptops and at least one desktop with no need to install a single driver, all from the same disc.
And this alone eliminates the regret I had for reading this thread at all.
What happens if the country, whose laws are oppressing you, has a way of compelling other countries to have the same laws, and destroying the ones who don't comply?
They also say "up to" with the knowledge that nobody will understands it means "hardly ever reaching". I wish we had laws against misleading advertising in the United States. Instead, they allow "puffery", which seems to me like the opposite of a law against misleading advertising. As a side note, Google Fiber also says "up to".
I think, at least for open source projects, making the code easy to follow would bring in a lot of help from people who are good at writing code but don't want to spend years trying to figure out how to pick up where somebody left off in a pile of obfuscated goo.
Honest question. How many of those banned users are fabricated by the facebook anti google pr machine?
Probably the same as the number of Google Trolls who mod down any anti-Google comment in this forum.
They can just replace it later, like changing a tire. It only has to last until John Connor is killed anyway.
For what it's worth, I don't think you're off-topic.
If they're saying they can freeze the company's assest because somebody involved with the company allegedly committed a crime, does that mean the next time somebody at Sony, Microsoft, Apple, or the RIAA commits a crime that makes money for the company, they'll freeze the entire company's assets?
That would scare the heck out of me and my daughters. But vacuuming arms built into the doors that activate when you press the door lock button on the keychain, maybe.I doubt it would be all that good though. Crumbs are difficult to get with a handheld vacuum.
If the patent covers receiving digital audio and converting it to analog, aren't there like a million audio receivers and amplifiers that did this before iPods existed? How old is this patent? My receiver from the 90's had a digital input. My brother's Pentium 3 computer had an external speaker system with a digital input and its own amp.
It was my understanding that the original meaning of "the cloud" was file storage using distributed computing. And the whole concept was bastardized when corporations caught on to the popularity of the word and started applying it to offsite storage in a single location. Seriously, the real cloud would be some modified version of bittorent, in which lots of people have encrypted pieces of your files and you can access the whole file as long as you are connected to enough of these people to get every piece. You'd still have to have a local copy, but you'd have your backup in the cloud if the local copy gets destroyed. You'd just have to hope the local copy and cloud don't go at the same time.
I think it's one of those cases in which the post was totally serious, but so strange that everybody thinks it must be a joke.
I think they're making it more Tablet-like because Tablets are selling big right now. And they'd like the Tablet crowd to turn to Windows computers. Because if everybody starts using tablets, then they won't be forced to buy a copy of Windows with their device.
Perhaps it's the "cloud service" providers who approached the government, and this is the government's response. Also, the government seems to love firing employees and replacing them with contractors. This would fit right in with their fetish for firing people.