"Hi, I have no life and nothing useful to say, so i'll nit pick at little stupid details, and post as an anonymous coward so i don't lose any precious kharma!".
When I say "Office" you obviously know what the fuck I'm talking about, the same way you know when i'm talking about if I say "I need to Xerox this" or "I need a Kleenex", despite the fact my copy machine is a Minolta and my Tissue paper is generic.
Another negative is that if Google is DOS'ed, slow, or the internet is down...your work is completely fucked. I noticed they rolled out the new Google maps and News versions into production MIDDAY yesterday...both sites were down for like an hour. At least with OpenOffice on the desktop i dont have to worry about not being able to use the program...
Everyone is hyping this out of control, if you look at the actual deal, the main thing going on is that Google gets to have it's spyware-like toolbar installed when you install Java. Because the Java install needed more bloat.
Google can no easier kill Microsoft then Sun could with the same product. Remember when OpenOffice came out it was thought that regular Office would go away. Besides a few high profile switches most businesses still use MS Office. Do you really see every company switching en-masse from a system everyone knows to one that is web based and sponsored by ads? Sun already proved that an Office system being compatible, having similar features and being free is not good enough to defeat MS. Google's will be no different except presumably offering more negatives such as advertising, requiring me to store documents on their server, and parsing of my data to target ads. Get back to working on freakin' search google, thats what made you your money.
Mapquest and Yahoo offered it sooner, but Google did it better.
Google does NOT do local search better. Their local search sucks frankly. I think they perform a web search or something to find their local places, say you take "Crofton, MD", and do a local search for "Chinese". There are at least 5 chinese places within a mile or two of me that they don't mention. They also still list the Dough Roller as being a business despite it being closed for 2 years. And it shows a few places within like 2 miles, and then it broadens its search to show me ones in DC and Baltimore rather then the next two or three towns near me? It is also terrible at geocoding places, it shows Ledo's Pizza as being accross from Johns Hopkins road, when it is in fact 3 miles in the opposite direction. I still have to resort to yp.yahoo.com for most local searches, Google maps is fast, but the local search is really useless, and don't even get me started on the directions it gives.
You realize that for the longest time MSN.com used Google as it's search, same with AOL.com, and Yahoo. As more and more companies offer the same search power as google (pagerank is no secret now) Google will need to make it's actual search better...which seems to be the ONLY thing they don't focus on these days. Just like Microsoft, they are happy to sit at the top of the heap and not innovate, meanwhile going down all sorts of other rabbit holes that have nothing to do with search... Microsoft still has an advantage in "telling" people where they should search by default. Google can be gone as quick as Netscape until they offer something truly unique.
It's even easier to remove IE. Go to Control Panels->Add/Remove Programs->Add Remove Windows Components. Uncheck IE. It was part of the DOJ settlement that you be able to remove it.
It doesn't matter how much more open Mozilla is, or how much more often they release patches, the problem Microsoft has always had is that people don't patch their software. Two of the biggest worms to affect Microsoft products a few year back, slammer and code red both exploited a vulnerability for which a patch was released months before the viruses. I've said it from the beginning, there is no program as complex as web browsers these days that are immune to viruses and worms. If you want to really "stay safe" just keep updated or use an obscure browser, like say, lynx hehe.
'cause laptop is inconvenient in a rush hour bus or train?
You are watching a movie during rush hour? I'd hate to see how long your commute is...
'cause laptop is a tad more expensive compared to PSP?
Assuming you purchase every UMD movie on DVD as well (to watch during non rush hour times?) this will end up costing you a lot more in the long run. And if you really got the PSP to watch movies during rush hour on the cheap instead of play games, a portable DVD player is comprable in price. Also one can get a DVD capable laptop for not much more then a PSP (a new laptop w/ dvd can be had for $500...go used and you can get even cheaper)
'cause laptop requires software/OS maintenance?
I've never seen a portable with as many OS upgrades as the PSP, but whatever... All your points are decent, but it would make a lot more sense to just copy a movie to a memory stick instead of owning a disc that can only be played on this one tiny screen, as opposed to a universal format.
True, though in this election unlike the 2000 election it would take a few THOUSANDS to actually make a difference. And assuming the machines can be tampered with it's just as likely machines were tampered to favor Kerry as Bush (maybe more likely since it seems most computer geeks are democrats?). So that's kind of a wash.
Those numbers may not be declining, but they are certainly flatlining, which could be forcasted as an eventual decline. Look at the growth... it was growing at least 10% a year until 2002, where it grew 0%, and then only 3% or so the next year. 3% or less growth is considered failing in the business world.
Anyone who has purchased one of these care to explain the reasoning? The PSP is cool, but I just dont understand why anyone would buy a movie that can only be watched on it, when DVD + laptop works perfectly well. The Spiderman 2 disc is neat to wow people with but i mean how many times can i watch the same movie on the same portable system? Especially since I got the system for gaming...
So true, amazingly he still manages to sucker people in every time. B&W2 will no doubt get awesome reviews on the first day...but will be about 40 hours short gameplay wise, and will have no one playing it after the second week. B&W 1 had that bug where you couldn't even beat the game for pete's sake??? And it only had 5 levels? All those years of development for a game that takes 10 hours to beat? Don't even get me started on fable.
I almost regret running the auto update to be honest with you 1.0.6 is the least stable of the release versions of firefox yet...I had almost no bugs with 1.0.1-1.0.4, but with 1.0.6 I continually have bizarre behavior in the windows version, for instance...the application disappearing from the task bar randomly, yet the thread is still running... download estimates that show negative million bytes and then count up... at least two bizarre crashes... The security holes this version fixed wasn't worth upgrading in my opinion.
Um trying googling something like "Ad space prices" or "advertising space prices" and be prepared for a) completely irrelevant information (space.com is number 2?) b) tons of spam wanting you to advertise c) maybe the random irrelevant link to advertising space in one random specific magazine? d) maybe 20 pages in what you are actually looking for.
That's because half the point of conventions is a chance for people to boondoggle and get a mini vacation somewhere. Let's just say a trip to Pittsburgh, Boston, or Richmond is not as much fun as Vegas or San Diego.
So really nothing has changed then. Google has always had stock and has always wanted to make money. The only difference is that you and I can buy it now.
What has changed is that now Google MAKES money relative to its stock price, which is influenced by market hype, yes you could argue their old stock made some money from venture capitialists, but not $4 bil in one day type money.
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"Hi, I have no life and nothing useful to say, so i'll nit pick at little stupid details, and post as an anonymous coward so i don't lose any precious kharma!".
When I say "Office" you obviously know what the fuck I'm talking about, the same way you know when i'm talking about if I say "I need to Xerox this" or "I need a Kleenex", despite the fact my copy machine is a Minolta and my Tissue paper is generic.
Mid-day east coast time (1pm-ish), which is 10am California time. Since Google is a US based company, that is mid-day anywhere in the USA.
Another negative is that if Google is DOS'ed, slow, or the internet is down...your work is completely fucked. I noticed they rolled out the new Google maps and News versions into production MIDDAY yesterday...both sites were down for like an hour. At least with OpenOffice on the desktop i dont have to worry about not being able to use the program...
Everyone is hyping this out of control, if you look at the actual deal, the main thing going on is that Google gets to have it's spyware-like toolbar installed when you install Java. Because the Java install needed more bloat.
Google can no easier kill Microsoft then Sun could with the same product. Remember when OpenOffice came out it was thought that regular Office would go away. Besides a few high profile switches most businesses still use MS Office. Do you really see every company switching en-masse from a system everyone knows to one that is web based and sponsored by ads? Sun already proved that an Office system being compatible, having similar features and being free is not good enough to defeat MS. Google's will be no different except presumably offering more negatives such as advertising, requiring me to store documents on their server, and parsing of my data to target ads. Get back to working on freakin' search google, thats what made you your money.
I'm suprised with all this AJAX hype no one has mentioned a web browser! Yeah an AJAX web browser, that supports AJAX. That would be tight.
Mapquest and Yahoo offered it sooner, but Google did it better.
Google does NOT do local search better. Their local search sucks frankly. I think they perform a web search or something to find their local places, say you take "Crofton, MD", and do a local search for "Chinese". There are at least 5 chinese places within a mile or two of me that they don't mention. They also still list the Dough Roller as being a business despite it being closed for 2 years. And it shows a few places within like 2 miles, and then it broadens its search to show me ones in DC and Baltimore rather then the next two or three towns near me? It is also terrible at geocoding places, it shows Ledo's Pizza as being accross from Johns Hopkins road, when it is in fact 3 miles in the opposite direction. I still have to resort to yp.yahoo.com for most local searches, Google maps is fast, but the local search is really useless, and don't even get me started on the directions it gives.
You realize that for the longest time MSN.com used Google as it's search, same with AOL.com, and Yahoo. As more and more companies offer the same search power as google (pagerank is no secret now) Google will need to make it's actual search better...which seems to be the ONLY thing they don't focus on these days. Just like Microsoft, they are happy to sit at the top of the heap and not innovate, meanwhile going down all sorts of other rabbit holes that have nothing to do with search... Microsoft still has an advantage in "telling" people where they should search by default. Google can be gone as quick as Netscape until they offer something truly unique.
It's even easier to remove IE. Go to Control Panels->Add/Remove Programs->Add Remove Windows Components. Uncheck IE. It was part of the DOJ settlement that you be able to remove it.
It doesn't matter how much more open Mozilla is, or how much more often they release patches, the problem Microsoft has always had is that people don't patch their software. Two of the biggest worms to affect Microsoft products a few year back, slammer and code red both exploited a vulnerability for which a patch was released months before the viruses. I've said it from the beginning, there is no program as complex as web browsers these days that are immune to viruses and worms. If you want to really "stay safe" just keep updated or use an obscure browser, like say, lynx hehe.
'cause laptop is inconvenient in a rush hour bus or train?
You are watching a movie during rush hour? I'd hate to see how long your commute is...
'cause laptop is a tad more expensive compared to PSP?
Assuming you purchase every UMD movie on DVD as well (to watch during non rush hour times?) this will end up costing you a lot more in the long run. And if you really got the PSP to watch movies during rush hour on the cheap instead of play games, a portable DVD player is comprable in price. Also one can get a DVD capable laptop for not much more then a PSP (a new laptop w/ dvd can be had for $500...go used and you can get even cheaper)
'cause laptop requires software/OS maintenance?
I've never seen a portable with as many OS upgrades as the PSP, but whatever... All your points are decent, but it would make a lot more sense to just copy a movie to a memory stick instead of owning a disc that can only be played on this one tiny screen, as opposed to a universal format.
True, though in this election unlike the 2000 election it would take a few THOUSANDS to actually make a difference. And assuming the machines can be tampered with it's just as likely machines were tampered to favor Kerry as Bush (maybe more likely since it seems most computer geeks are democrats?). So that's kind of a wash.
Those numbers may not be declining, but they are certainly flatlining, which could be forcasted as an eventual decline. Look at the growth... it was growing at least 10% a year until 2002, where it grew 0%, and then only 3% or so the next year. 3% or less growth is considered failing in the business world.
Anyone who has purchased one of these care to explain the reasoning? The PSP is cool, but I just dont understand why anyone would buy a movie that can only be watched on it, when DVD + laptop works perfectly well. The Spiderman 2 disc is neat to wow people with but i mean how many times can i watch the same movie on the same portable system? Especially since I got the system for gaming...
Anyone have a link to the Bill Gates/Napoleon Dynamite video? Looks like MS blanked that part of their web cast out...
Scott McNealy is officially insane.
So true, amazingly he still manages to sucker people in every time. B&W2 will no doubt get awesome reviews on the first day...but will be about 40 hours short gameplay wise, and will have no one playing it after the second week. B&W 1 had that bug where you couldn't even beat the game for pete's sake??? And it only had 5 levels? All those years of development for a game that takes 10 hours to beat? Don't even get me started on fable.
I almost regret running the auto update to be honest with you 1.0.6 is the least stable of the release versions of firefox yet...I had almost no bugs with 1.0.1-1.0.4, but with 1.0.6 I continually have bizarre behavior in the windows version, for instance...the application disappearing from the task bar randomly, yet the thread is still running... download estimates that show negative million bytes and then count up... at least two bizarre crashes... The security holes this version fixed wasn't worth upgrading in my opinion.
When was the last time you heard of someone selling off or splitting up a company?
Why just today Ford announced it was splitting off Hertz and selling it.
Um trying googling something like "Ad space prices" or "advertising space prices" and be prepared for a) completely irrelevant information (space.com is number 2?) b) tons of spam wanting you to advertise c) maybe the random irrelevant link to advertising space in one random specific magazine? d) maybe 20 pages in what you are actually looking for.
That's because half the point of conventions is a chance for people to boondoggle and get a mini vacation somewhere. Let's just say a trip to Pittsburgh, Boston, or Richmond is not as much fun as Vegas or San Diego.
...is LSD?
Your post is so much more hillarious if you pretend it really is about folding cooters though.
So really nothing has changed then. Google has always had stock and has always wanted to make money. The only difference is that you and I can buy it now.
What has changed is that now Google MAKES money relative to its stock price, which is influenced by market hype, yes you could argue their old stock made some money from venture capitialists, but not $4 bil in one day type money.
And Eeek the Cat is no where to be seen either!