I believe it means adding a page for a product to one of your circles. If your privacy settings are such that other people would see what's in your circles, then the same people would be able to see your identity in such an ad.
Wasn't that what Nokia said? They threw away two years waiting on WP, and then found out that they're *still* competing with Sony, Samsung, Amazon, Asus, Acer, HTC and all the rest.
I'm not sure about this third-party report, but Google actually reports separate numbers:
- People who have Google+ profiles - People who use Google+ features every month (including via other Google products) - People who use the Google+ stream every month
At the beginning of December, those numbers were 500 million, 235 million, and 135 million (source: http://googleblog.blogspot.ca/2012/12/google-communities-and-photos.html). Given that we're now almost two months on from then, this new number (343 million) could be about right for those actually engaging with Google+, though not necessarily through plus.google.com.
I agree with you completely. The Galaxy Nexus was royally screwed up here in Canada, too. It wasn't available in the Play Store here. Samsung sold it through the carriers, but modified the firmware so that they, not Google, would be responsible for pushing updates. They behaved exactly as you would expect, introducing months of delay, and skipping several of the minor updates completely.
Of course consumers were never warned that they were buying anything other than "Pure Google", and many were rightly pissed. Their only recourse was to flash the original Google firmware, but that's not a reasonable thing to expect of the average consumer.
Watching it all, I was appalled. This wasn't the Nexus experience that I've been enjoying with my Nexus S. I'm so glad to see that Google was equally unimpressed. Verizon is out, Canada is back in the Play Store, and all's right with the world. And the price! Just wow.
Unless there's some giant hardware screw-up lurking, I will be recommending this phone to everyone. Alas, I fear that people won't understand the difference between an unsubsidized price and one that comes with thousands of dollars of contract commitment. $350 is more than $200, right?
The petition was five years ago. We have had two elections since then. Even though the same party won, this is a minister in a different government, twice removed.
And the supposed "reply" doesn't even address the particular case that was the subject of the petition, that of Nicaraguan refugee Alvaro Orozco.
"The definition of Retina Display..." Hahahaha, good one!
The definition of Retina Display is "the display on whatever new device Apple is launching."
Apple chooses different resolutions and densities for whatever reason (e.g. we still don't have a framework for resolution-independent graphics, so we're just going to double each dimension), and then calls the result Retina Display.
And by the time Nokia finishes yet another smartphone operating system (assuming they ever do -- abandoning part-way seems to be their forte), 600MHz and 128MB will be beyond low end.
Others are already eating their lunch on the low end with Android offerings. They hope to turn that around by taking on the expense of creating their own OS?
Crap. My keyboard, which I love dearly, doesn't have a Windows key. Can this action be remapped easily or am I going to have to replace my keyboard to use Gnome 3?
If I was a Motorola customer or shareholder, I'd be calling for Jha's head. I'm neither, and there are plenty of other manufacturers putting out great Android wares to choose from, so I'm just pointing and laughing.
I dunno, but the Nexus One has received two major Android updates since its release just over a year ago. That's as many as any iPhone has ever received. And, they've both been at least as significant as any iOS update.
It's not clear to me why iOS's slower update cycle is anything to brag about.
The Nexus one barely got 1 years of updates then OFFICIAL compatibility was dropped but you could get updates by rooting. Apple has been providing updates for 3 years for each of the iPhones before they become End of life, then users are left with Jailbreaking to get more features.
1. Gingerbread just rolled out to Nexus Ones in the last couple of weeks. 2. That's the second major update the Nexus One has received in a little over a year since it was released. That's already as many as any iPhone has ever received. 3. No end to official Nexus One updates has been announced. 4. The iOS 4.3 update just released doe not support iPhone 3G (according to TFA), which is less than three years old.
Correction: competitors must perform voice recognition or OCR to process the clues. The clues are displayed and read, and the contestants are free to ignore either form, if they wish. Similarly, Watson could have had a camera trained on the monitor and performed OCR on the clue. But, given that OCR has been done brilliantly by computers for years now, would adding that into the mix have made much difference at all?
Regarding ringing in, the contestants also get a signal indicating when they can do it, but it's visual. It would have been easy enough to add another camera trained on the light, but why bother?
The engineers involved were trying to solve the interesting problems. Delivering input to each contestant in the most convenient form doesn't seem like much of a concession.
One interesting thing to note is that Watson was tied (on Monday) or behind (today) after the Jeopardy round and pulled ahead (way ahead yesterday) in the Double Jeopardy round, where the questions are harder. That's not what you'd expect if its competitors knew all the answers and it was winning on ring-in speed alone.
In any case, Watson was playing Jeopardy, and ringing in is a part of Jeopardy. Rutter and especially Jennings certainly benefited from that part of the game during their long winning runs. Watson also had unique disadvantages compared to his opponents (like being unable to hear their responses).
I didn't think that Final Jeopardy would have been especially easy for Watson. The majority of the clue was indirectly related to the correct response, and the connection hinged on a single word (inspired). I suspect Jennings' behavior was based more on simple arithmetic than on any assumptions about Watson's response.
"Google wants to do everything it can to blunt iOS and boost Android - and trying to break iOS's video experience may be a dirty trick but all's fair in OS wars."
Everything it can to blunt iOS? Then would you care to explain Google Maps for iPhone, Google Voice for iPhone, Google Latitude for iPhone, Google Goggles for iPhone...?
If Google wanted to try to kill HTML5 video, it would have been easier and more effective just to drop support for H.264, full stop. Instead, they spent $133 million to buy On2, then went to all the effort of continuing to improve the VP8 encoder, creating the WebM open source project, and building support for it (critically, among hardware developers). And the result of all that is that Apple and Microsoft can now foil Google's dastardly plans simply by including WebM in their products. HTML video would be saved and WebM would be the baseline. Hurrah!
Source please? As was pointed out above, Andy Rubin recently demoed Honeycomb on a tablet and said at that time that it would run on both tablets and phones. You really think he would have said that if Google's about-to-be-released Nexus S wouldn't run it?
You really want to take random-guy-from-some-Korean-manufacturer-you've-never-heard-of's word over Andy Rubin's?
And wasn't it an equally "reliable" source within an OEM that told us about minimum hardware requirements for Gingerbread? What ever happened with that again?
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G+ didn't have it at launch, but they added Events about a year in. It's awesome, with Google Calendar integration and even auto-backup photo sharing.
The problem, as always, is that most people don't use G+ and everyone uses Facebook.
I believe it means adding a page for a product to one of your circles. If your privacy settings are such that other people would see what's in your circles, then the same people would be able to see your identity in such an ad.
Wasn't that what Nokia said? They threw away two years waiting on WP, and then found out that they're *still* competing with Sony, Samsung, Amazon, Asus, Acer, HTC and all the rest.
I'm not sure about this third-party report, but Google actually reports separate numbers:
- People who have Google+ profiles
- People who use Google+ features every month (including via other Google products)
- People who use the Google+ stream every month
At the beginning of December, those numbers were 500 million, 235 million, and 135 million (source: http://googleblog.blogspot.ca/2012/12/google-communities-and-photos.html). Given that we're now almost two months on from then, this new number (343 million) could be about right for those actually engaging with Google+, though not necessarily through plus.google.com.
The back is glass.
I agree with you completely. The Galaxy Nexus was royally screwed up here in Canada, too. It wasn't available in the Play Store here. Samsung sold it through the carriers, but modified the firmware so that they, not Google, would be responsible for pushing updates. They behaved exactly as you would expect, introducing months of delay, and skipping several of the minor updates completely.
Of course consumers were never warned that they were buying anything other than "Pure Google", and many were rightly pissed. Their only recourse was to flash the original Google firmware, but that's not a reasonable thing to expect of the average consumer.
Watching it all, I was appalled. This wasn't the Nexus experience that I've been enjoying with my Nexus S. I'm so glad to see that Google was equally unimpressed. Verizon is out, Canada is back in the Play Store, and all's right with the world. And the price! Just wow.
Unless there's some giant hardware screw-up lurking, I will be recommending this phone to everyone. Alas, I fear that people won't understand the difference between an unsubsidized price and one that comes with thousands of dollars of contract commitment. $350 is more than $200, right?
Are you kidding?
The petition was five years ago. We have had two elections since then. Even though the same party won, this is a minister in a different government, twice removed.
And the supposed "reply" doesn't even address the particular case that was the subject of the petition, that of Nicaraguan refugee Alvaro Orozco.
A device that comes with thousands of dollars in carrier commitments does not cost $199.
"The definition of Retina Display..." Hahahaha, good one!
The definition of Retina Display is "the display on whatever new device Apple is launching."
Apple chooses different resolutions and densities for whatever reason (e.g. we still don't have a framework for resolution-independent graphics, so we're just going to double each dimension), and then calls the result Retina Display.
It's pure marketing BS.
Wait, are you concerned with the privacy implications of +1 or are you bothered by the lack of -1? Pick one.
In any case, Google users get to choose whether they want to opt in or out of the service:
https://profiles.google.com/+1/personalization/
And by the time Nokia finishes yet another smartphone operating system (assuming they ever do -- abandoning part-way seems to be their forte), 600MHz and 128MB will be beyond low end.
Others are already eating their lunch on the low end with Android offerings. They hope to turn that around by taking on the expense of creating their own OS?
Evidence? Didn't think so.
Time to stop using Google and their services altogether.
And Google is helping you get started by deleting your private profile.
The simple solution?
Heh, yeah. You get on that. Let us know how it goes.
Crap. My keyboard, which I love dearly, doesn't have a Windows key. Can this action be remapped easily or am I going to have to replace my keyboard to use Gnome 3?
This. A thousand times this.
If I was a Motorola customer or shareholder, I'd be calling for Jha's head. I'm neither, and there are plenty of other manufacturers putting out great Android wares to choose from, so I'm just pointing and laughing.
Goodbye Motorola, we hardly missed ye.
How does she do updates, for example, without a desktop or laptop running iTunes?
I dunno, but the Nexus One has received two major Android updates since its release just over a year ago. That's as many as any iPhone has ever received. And, they've both been at least as significant as any iOS update.
It's not clear to me why iOS's slower update cycle is anything to brag about.
1. Gingerbread just rolled out to Nexus Ones in the last couple of weeks.
2. That's the second major update the Nexus One has received in a little over a year since it was released. That's already as many as any iPhone has ever received.
3. No end to official Nexus One updates has been announced.
4. The iOS 4.3 update just released doe not support iPhone 3G (according to TFA), which is less than three years old.
Correction: competitors must perform voice recognition or OCR to process the clues. The clues are displayed and read, and the contestants are free to ignore either form, if they wish. Similarly, Watson could have had a camera trained on the monitor and performed OCR on the clue. But, given that OCR has been done brilliantly by computers for years now, would adding that into the mix have made much difference at all?
Regarding ringing in, the contestants also get a signal indicating when they can do it, but it's visual. It would have been easy enough to add another camera trained on the light, but why bother?
The engineers involved were trying to solve the interesting problems. Delivering input to each contestant in the most convenient form doesn't seem like much of a concession.
One interesting thing to note is that Watson was tied (on Monday) or behind (today) after the Jeopardy round and pulled ahead (way ahead yesterday) in the Double Jeopardy round, where the questions are harder. That's not what you'd expect if its competitors knew all the answers and it was winning on ring-in speed alone.
In any case, Watson was playing Jeopardy, and ringing in is a part of Jeopardy. Rutter and especially Jennings certainly benefited from that part of the game during their long winning runs. Watson also had unique disadvantages compared to his opponents (like being unable to hear their responses).
The IBM Research blog has had a few good articles about Watson over the past few days, including one about wagering:
http://ibmresearchnews.blogspot.com/2011/02/watsons-wagering-strategies.html
I didn't think that Final Jeopardy would have been especially easy for Watson. The majority of the clue was indirectly related to the correct response, and the connection hinged on a single word (inspired). I suspect Jennings' behavior was based more on simple arithmetic than on any assumptions about Watson's response.
"Google wants to do everything it can to blunt iOS and boost Android - and trying to break iOS's video experience may be a dirty trick but all's fair in OS wars."
Everything it can to blunt iOS? Then would you care to explain Google Maps for iPhone, Google Voice for iPhone, Google Latitude for iPhone, Google Goggles for iPhone...?
If Google wanted to try to kill HTML5 video, it would have been easier and more effective just to drop support for H.264, full stop. Instead, they spent $133 million to buy On2, then went to all the effort of continuing to improve the VP8 encoder, creating the WebM open source project, and building support for it (critically, among hardware developers). And the result of all that is that Apple and Microsoft can now foil Google's dastardly plans simply by including WebM in their products. HTML video would be saved and WebM would be the baseline. Hurrah!
Source please? As was pointed out above, Andy Rubin recently demoed Honeycomb on a tablet and said at that time that it would run on both tablets and phones. You really think he would have said that if Google's about-to-be-released Nexus S wouldn't run it?
You really want to take random-guy-from-some-Korean-manufacturer-you've-never-heard-of's word over Andy Rubin's?
And wasn't it an equally "reliable" source within an OEM that told us about minimum hardware requirements for Gingerbread? What ever happened with that again?
Oh yeah, it was total bull.