It seems like once a week there is a press release where google has bought some obscure company so they can do some random thing no one wanted but is kinda cool. Does anyone else think they may be overextending themselves, or just doing these random things to generate a press release and make their stock go up another 2 points? I have yet to see any of their new ideas that diversify thier income (98% advertising or whatever).
Uh way to get back at EA TakeTwo...corner the market on the least popular sports video game. If they wanted to have a good exclusive agreement they should go after the NBA, or NCAA. (I'm sure several companies are trying to do this as we speak....as competition is so out of style these days)
All this stem cell criticism is like the global warming articles....ok lets pretend the US government is the stone aged evil group some claim they are, and they dont want to fund Kyoto or Stem Cell Research. If the other 80% of the world is funding stem cell research, and private companies are funding it, there doesn't appear to be any real road block in terms of this miracle science coming true....its not as if when the US government contributes suddenly the science works....There are many stem cell companies out there right now that are privately funded, if the technology is so promising, someone, be it the EU or Pfizer is investing tons of cash, because if you develop the cure for cancer or diabetes it will more then pay you back.
Are you kidding? Its a great investment, they get free ideas with the pretense of it being some creative outlet. The Google Suggest for example was an idea created during one of these 20% time periods. They don't get to use the 20% to create a better search engine to compete with Google, they spend the 20% to come up with ideas for Google that are not explicitly assigned to them.
The main problem is that no one is willing to sacrifice politically to make the tough decisions that need to be made. When Social security was started, the average person did not live to age 65. Most people WOULD NEVER COLLECT. Now the average person lives over 80, but the Senior lobby refuses to let us raise the minimum age to collect. Further more, benefits have been raised to keep up with the cost of living instead of inflation, so people are taking more out then they ever put in, even if you adjust for inflation and a modest return.
Stark read five years' worth of computer magazines just to keep up with how to defend himself.
Even with two firewalls and antivirus and anti-spyware programs running, Stark stopped looking for new business deals online. He said he would buy only from places he had dealt with before, preferably in the physical world rather than the virtual one.
"I'm not letting my guard down again," Stark said. "Never."
He read five years of tech magazines to keep up? Thats his first problem, is that he is an idiot...i don't know what good reading 5-year old tech magazines will do, i'm sure thats a stretch of the truth. And second if he is "smart enough" to install two firewalls, an anti-virus and an anti-spyware, how is he not smart enough to know who is reputable to buy from online? I've NEVER gotten spyware or a virus from buying from an online vendor...even non big name ones. The only time i've gotten spyware was thanks to leaky IE, but even if your doing business in the physical world, in theory you can still get this doing personal things. Whatever, this article annoys me to no end.
Wow...i guess next we'll see these same people, sick of having their cars break down and seeing accidents selling their cars, and taking the bus. Or sick of their children bringing home chicken pox and bad grades, putting them up for adoption. I think articles like this are BS by some over dramatic people, anyone that thinks like this doesn't deserve to use the Internet anyways;P.
I always like the "artists rendering" pictures they show, where it's these great chasms and rocks and stuff...i wish they would really take some artistic liberties and show little aliens coming out to greet the probe
I've said this before and I'll say it again, Google's "Everything is beta" policy is rediculous. Take the Desktop Search for example, if you go to Google.com you will find links for suggesting you download the software...you dont even have to go to the Google labs section, it is certainly not beta "quality" software, and the release is not limited at all (like gmail, even though that seemingly found a loophole too, cuz who DOESNT have an account)...the only reason they keep it in beta is so they have less liability. Whenever anyone criticizes it or detects fatal security flaws they can just be like "hey, chill out, its just beta".
Agreed, and everyone who is invested in Google will see why on Valentines day when the next insider selling window opens and the market is flooded with more stock. The way google is trickling out its stock is part of the reason for the high share price.
Giving the stock would result in even larger losses for the company as this would either require the issuance of new stock (diluting the existing stock) or the company buying stock off the open market. The way options work is that I'm given an option to buy the stock from the company at a "locked in" price for a certain amount of time. This is nice because as an executive, I can wait to exercise my options only when i'm guaranteed a fat profit. If i'm forced to buy the stock outright i may incur losses.
The UPS is going. The Xboxes for the Forza Racing game sneak preview demos (which we had back stage due to space restrictions on stage) lost power.
Random note...this same thing happened when Microsoft was going to demo the Xbox on The Apprentice...the xbox must suck some serious juice, or these road show teams just don't understand how much power one circuit can handle!
Ok so people stop replying saying the same thing, I understand what your saying and that IS what i'm saying....what the ARTICLE said or implied was that the reason cops couldnt fight computer crime was cuz they couldn't afford computers. What I (and you) am saying is that you don't have to own something to understand it.
Isn't this like suing Honda for only selling Honda parts at their dealership? Even if your Honda Cd changer is made by Bose or something, doesn't mean you have the right to make that changer work in your lincoln.
"A lot of people on the Street are going to have a few sleepless nights, going through loads of e-mail to delete them when they hear about this case"
Although an employer sometimes can go through the emails on your harddrive, I think what the people in this article don't realize is that it sounds like emails are being intercepted at the server level. Who is stupid enough to use company email to conspire against the company? Setup a freakin gmail account and talk about it at home!
I'm not sure if you've used windows lately, but I rarely encounter any "bugs" in Windows or any Microsoft Products as of late. Sure there are MAJOR security holes and what not, but I havn't had a blue screen or even a "Send this error to Microsoft" type error in quite a long time....I havn't even had to restart my Windows box in 3 or 4 months.
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It seems like once a week there is a press release where google has bought some obscure company so they can do some random thing no one wanted but is kinda cool. Does anyone else think they may be overextending themselves, or just doing these random things to generate a press release and make their stock go up another 2 points? I have yet to see any of their new ideas that diversify thier income (98% advertising or whatever).
which makes it significantly more complicated then any FPS which are just:
1. Aim
2. Shoot (HIT BUTTON)
Uh way to get back at EA TakeTwo...corner the market on the least popular sports video game. If they wanted to have a good exclusive agreement they should go after the NBA, or NCAA. (I'm sure several companies are trying to do this as we speak....as competition is so out of style these days)
All this stem cell criticism is like the global warming articles....ok lets pretend the US government is the stone aged evil group some claim they are, and they dont want to fund Kyoto or Stem Cell Research. If the other 80% of the world is funding stem cell research, and private companies are funding it, there doesn't appear to be any real road block in terms of this miracle science coming true....its not as if when the US government contributes suddenly the science works....There are many stem cell companies out there right now that are privately funded, if the technology is so promising, someone, be it the EU or Pfizer is investing tons of cash, because if you develop the cure for cancer or diabetes it will more then pay you back.
Are you kidding? Its a great investment, they get free ideas with the pretense of it being some creative outlet. The Google Suggest for example was an idea created during one of these 20% time periods. They don't get to use the 20% to create a better search engine to compete with Google, they spend the 20% to come up with ideas for Google that are not explicitly assigned to them.
The main problem is that no one is willing to sacrifice politically to make the tough decisions that need to be made. When Social security was started, the average person did not live to age 65. Most people WOULD NEVER COLLECT. Now the average person lives over 80, but the Senior lobby refuses to let us raise the minimum age to collect. Further more, benefits have been raised to keep up with the cost of living instead of inflation, so people are taking more out then they ever put in, even if you adjust for inflation and a modest return.
Now we just need them to study why they are so bad at driving too! ;)
Stark read five years' worth of computer magazines just to keep up with how to defend himself.
Even with two firewalls and antivirus and anti-spyware programs running, Stark stopped looking for new business deals online. He said he would buy only from places he had dealt with before, preferably in the physical world rather than the virtual one.
"I'm not letting my guard down again," Stark said. "Never."
He read five years of tech magazines to keep up? Thats his first problem, is that he is an idiot...i don't know what good reading 5-year old tech magazines will do, i'm sure thats a stretch of the truth. And second if he is "smart enough" to install two firewalls, an anti-virus and an anti-spyware, how is he not smart enough to know who is reputable to buy from online? I've NEVER gotten spyware or a virus from buying from an online vendor...even non big name ones. The only time i've gotten spyware was thanks to leaky IE, but even if your doing business in the physical world, in theory you can still get this doing personal things. Whatever, this article annoys me to no end.
Wow...i guess next we'll see these same people, sick of having their cars break down and seeing accidents selling their cars, and taking the bus. Or sick of their children bringing home chicken pox and bad grades, putting them up for adoption. I think articles like this are BS by some over dramatic people, anyone that thinks like this doesn't deserve to use the Internet anyways ;P.
I always like the "artists rendering" pictures they show, where it's these great chasms and rocks and stuff...i wish they would really take some artistic liberties and show little aliens coming out to greet the probe
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Sounds like we may have a winner for Wired's 2005-2010 Vaporware awards.
I've said this before and I'll say it again, Google's "Everything is beta" policy is rediculous. Take the Desktop Search for example, if you go to Google.com you will find links for suggesting you download the software...you dont even have to go to the Google labs section, it is certainly not beta "quality" software, and the release is not limited at all (like gmail, even though that seemingly found a loophole too, cuz who DOESNT have an account)...the only reason they keep it in beta is so they have less liability. Whenever anyone criticizes it or detects fatal security flaws they can just be like "hey, chill out, its just beta".
I didn't RTFA, but I thought all those LED poisoning lawsuits would stop when they changed paint to Latex.
Agreed, and everyone who is invested in Google will see why on Valentines day when the next insider selling window opens and the market is flooded with more stock. The way google is trickling out its stock is part of the reason for the high share price.
Giving the stock would result in even larger losses for the company as this would either require the issuance of new stock (diluting the existing stock) or the company buying stock off the open market. The way options work is that I'm given an option to buy the stock from the company at a "locked in" price for a certain amount of time. This is nice because as an executive, I can wait to exercise my options only when i'm guaranteed a fat profit. If i'm forced to buy the stock outright i may incur losses.
It's obviously going to be WWW (they may even put the internet, they were wrong about airbags and email which are both older then 25 years).
But my vote is the console gaming system! I've certainly wasted my whole life playing everything from Atari to GabeCube.
Grandma and Grandpa will call and tell me they were checking WikiNews, and did I hear that Sollog is our new overlord?
The UPS is going. The Xboxes for the Forza Racing game sneak preview demos (which we had back stage due to space restrictions on stage) lost power.
Random note...this same thing happened when Microsoft was going to demo the Xbox on The Apprentice...the xbox must suck some serious juice, or these road show teams just don't understand how much power one circuit can handle!
Dont forget that you can also use TivoToGo on that system, so you can watch all the shows you Tivo'ed while playing Gran Turismo 4.
Ok so people stop replying saying the same thing, I understand what your saying and that IS what i'm saying....what the ARTICLE said or implied was that the reason cops couldnt fight computer crime was cuz they couldn't afford computers. What I (and you) am saying is that you don't have to own something to understand it.
Agreed, thats like saying "if a cop doesnt own kiddy porn or do drugs, how can he find and stop them?"
Isn't this like suing Honda for only selling Honda parts at their dealership? Even if your Honda Cd changer is made by Bose or something, doesn't mean you have the right to make that changer work in your lincoln.
"A lot of people on the Street are going to have a few sleepless nights, going through loads of e-mail to delete them when they hear about this case"
Although an employer sometimes can go through the emails on your harddrive, I think what the people in this article don't realize is that it sounds like emails are being intercepted at the server level. Who is stupid enough to use company email to conspire against the company? Setup a freakin gmail account and talk about it at home!
I'm not sure if you've used windows lately, but I rarely encounter any "bugs" in Windows or any Microsoft Products as of late. Sure there are MAJOR security holes and what not, but I havn't had a blue screen or even a "Send this error to Microsoft" type error in quite a long time....I havn't even had to restart my Windows box in 3 or 4 months.