I don't like it myself. And everybody on Slashdot will slam me for caring about the treatment of an eel... right up until the day they figure out how to harvest energy from humans like in the Matrix and then you're the eel.
And who gets to decide that, the competition or a neutral party?
A few billion neutral third parties have said that they like Google's appraisal just fine. If their results weren't so in line with what people want and expect, users would have gone with a different search engine.
That's the way things used to work, but not anymore. In the past, you had to go out and find a search engine. I remember we'd type in hotbot.com or Lycos, or AltaVista, and whatever else we could find and just see which one gave us more of what we were looking for. And at some point, Google was good enough that it became popular like this. But now that they've become dominant, they want to make sure nobody else wins the same way Google did. We are past the time where people go out and find their search engine. We are at a time where Google pays to be included in your web browser, on your desktop, in your phone, and in your workplace. Nobody even asks how to find what they're looking for, or ever gets given a list of addresses for search engines. And no, a dropdown list that nobody is aware of does not count as being given a list of search engine addresses.
To summarize, we're not all using Google because we evaluated all of our options and found them to be the best. We're all using Google because it was shoved down our throats and we have no idea there are other options out there.
While we were at the UPS facility hoping to get employed, we watched one of the employees loading a truck. He was trying to fit a package on the shelf of the truck. He repeatedly threw the package toward the shelf and it repeatedly hit the shelf and bounced back until he finally got it to stay up there. So my observation matches the claims that they don't handle packages well. Also, I don't recall ever receiving a CD from Amazon.com without a cracked case. All of them are shipped via UPS.
Around here, Wal-Mart, Sprint, and I think Harley-Davidson all got tax breaks for locating a "brick-and-mortar" store in this area. Something about luring businesses to stimulate the economy or employment. So they're getting tax breaks online businesses don't get.
Probably because with that $20 thousand dollar connection, you actually get the speed. But with the home internet services, you get a burst of speed and then you get slowed down or cut off altogether. You're getting charged hundreds of dollars for a connection that flakes out.
What about the other 6.2 million people who are actually being hurt by their lack of corporate taxes? They might be helping the citizens overall by letting the corporations leave.
I'm certain part of their network security requirements would be that you have to be positively identified in order to use the internet. But it won't necessarily include any requirement for that identity to be kept away from corporations.
I really don't think they can make it much better than it is. So instead, they're going to take all of the minor bug fixes and optimizations that used to be in the free version, and only put them in the expensive version, leaving the free version to never see a real update again. It's not about making the expensive version better. It's about making the free version worse.
While I was playing Super Mario Brothers, the emulator in the first link was too slow in Firefox but worked fairly well in Opera. It's the first time in history that javascript performance actually mattered.
Apple, of course, offers you a limited number of times you can change the region of your DVD device, but VLC just ignores the region setting altogether. As far as I'm concerned, I've paid for legitimate media, the artists involved get their royalties, so Apple has no business standing in the way of my using said media.
I thought the region encoding was built into the dvd rom's firmware. I was thinking I'd have to install two dvd roms in order to play US and UK DVD's. Maybe I should change the drive region and see what happens.
What will be the difference between a pat down and a molest? Inevitably it'll take a lawsuit to find out.
Then if a child passenger gets on the plane, we get to see who wins between "national security" and "think of the children".
If "think of the children wins" then what's stopping anybody who wants to smuggle something on a plane from using a child to do it?
If "national security" wins then any true pedophile who isn't registered is going to have a new dream job.
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I'd trust one of these things for an audio or video file. I think the bigger problem is if the practice got popular, it would only be a matter of time before the RIAA and MPAA caught somebody leaving the USB drive there and got them charged $3000 for every file on the key.
You pay for the servers, the bandwidth, and the developers, not to mention the managerial and legal overhead, and make it public without making a profit, and nobody will complain.
For those of us living in the real world, Google's a pretty decent option.
I am one of the people who think the future is in peer-to-peer distributed search. If the search engine exists in pieces on everybody's computer, then by buying the computer you are paying for the server. Open sourcers will donate the development time. And we're all paying our ISP for bandwidth anyway.
Also, we won't all disagree on what should be kept and what should be deleted. The only way, to keep everything everyone considers valuable, would be to keep everything.
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I don't like it myself. And everybody on Slashdot will slam me for caring about the treatment of an eel... right up until the day they figure out how to harvest energy from humans like in the Matrix and then you're the eel.
And who gets to decide that, the competition or a neutral party?
A few billion neutral third parties have said that they like Google's appraisal just fine. If their results weren't so in line with what people want and expect, users would have gone with a different search engine.
That's the way things used to work, but not anymore. In the past, you had to go out and find a search engine. I remember we'd type in hotbot.com or Lycos, or AltaVista, and whatever else we could find and just see which one gave us more of what we were looking for. And at some point, Google was good enough that it became popular like this. But now that they've become dominant, they want to make sure nobody else wins the same way Google did. We are past the time where people go out and find their search engine. We are at a time where Google pays to be included in your web browser, on your desktop, in your phone, and in your workplace. Nobody even asks how to find what they're looking for, or ever gets given a list of addresses for search engines. And no, a dropdown list that nobody is aware of does not count as being given a list of search engine addresses.
To summarize, we're not all using Google because we evaluated all of our options and found them to be the best. We're all using Google because it was shoved down our throats and we have no idea there are other options out there.
While we were at the UPS facility hoping to get employed, we watched one of the employees loading a truck. He was trying to fit a package on the shelf of the truck. He repeatedly threw the package toward the shelf and it repeatedly hit the shelf and bounced back until he finally got it to stay up there. So my observation matches the claims that they don't handle packages well. Also, I don't recall ever receiving a CD from Amazon.com without a cracked case. All of them are shipped via UPS.
More companies should do the same, patent everything until the whole thing collapses into a gigantic innovation blackhole.
I think that's already happened. We already can't build anything in America without a lawsuit.
Around here, Wal-Mart, Sprint, and I think Harley-Davidson all got tax breaks for locating a "brick-and-mortar" store in this area. Something about luring businesses to stimulate the economy or employment. So they're getting tax breaks online businesses don't get.
Once again, it's worth noting that no Christians are attacking atheists here. There's just you attacking them.
Probably because with that $20 thousand dollar connection, you actually get the speed. But with the home internet services, you get a burst of speed and then you get slowed down or cut off altogether. You're getting charged hundreds of dollars for a connection that flakes out.
My guess is the app store itself will be labeled beta and there will be little quality control.
It works for the United States.
Louisiana
The people who work there?
What about the other 6.2 million people who are actually being hurt by their lack of corporate taxes? They might be helping the citizens overall by letting the corporations leave.
I'm certain part of their network security requirements would be that you have to be positively identified in order to use the internet. But it won't necessarily include any requirement for that identity to be kept away from corporations.
Well that just leaves one question: Was it the Jews or the Yanks?
Are you certain those are two separate groups?
So why don't the browser and plugins have separate updaters? I can update Firefox and the flash plugin separately on Windows and Linux.
So that means anyone can compile and install his or her own fixes? So this sounds like a non-issue to me.
I would have modded you insightful. You're just as screwed with open source as you are with closed source.
I really don't think they can make it much better than it is. So instead, they're going to take all of the minor bug fixes and optimizations that used to be in the free version, and only put them in the expensive version, leaving the free version to never see a real update again. It's not about making the expensive version better. It's about making the free version worse.
While I was playing Super Mario Brothers, the emulator in the first link was too slow in Firefox but worked fairly well in Opera. It's the first time in history that javascript performance actually mattered.
That would be the internet kill switch, and that scientist is actually Rupert Murdoch. But don't worry. It's just a dream. Go back to sleep.
Being able to print parts also does a lot for anybody who dreams of open source hardware.
Apple, of course, offers you a limited number of times you can change the region of your DVD device, but VLC just ignores the region setting altogether. As far as I'm concerned, I've paid for legitimate media, the artists involved get their royalties, so Apple has no business standing in the way of my using said media.
I thought the region encoding was built into the dvd rom's firmware. I was thinking I'd have to install two dvd roms in order to play US and UK DVD's. Maybe I should change the drive region and see what happens.
What will be the difference between a pat down and a molest? Inevitably it'll take a lawsuit to find out.
Then if a child passenger gets on the plane, we get to see who wins between "national security" and "think of the children".
If "think of the children wins" then what's stopping anybody who wants to smuggle something on a plane from using a child to do it?
If "national security" wins then any true pedophile who isn't registered is going to have a new dream job.
I'd trust one of these things for an audio or video file. I think the bigger problem is if the practice got popular, it would only be a matter of time before the RIAA and MPAA caught somebody leaving the USB drive there and got them charged $3000 for every file on the key.
You pay for the servers, the bandwidth, and the developers, not to mention the managerial and legal overhead, and make it public without making a profit, and nobody will complain.
For those of us living in the real world, Google's a pretty decent option.
I am one of the people who think the future is in peer-to-peer distributed search. If the search engine exists in pieces on everybody's computer, then by buying the computer you are paying for the server. Open sourcers will donate the development time. And we're all paying our ISP for bandwidth anyway.
If it's not a law or a treaty or an act, or whatever else, then can't we just ignore it?
Also, we won't all disagree on what should be kept and what should be deleted. The only way, to keep everything everyone considers valuable, would be to keep everything.
My point is having Google as the ISP isn't guaranteed to make things better than they are with the current ISP.