The article summary was 'meh', but the summary summary was spot on... though it did break my sarcasm detector, so now I'll need another one of those. I wonder if Google Maps on my iPhone can guide to me a store that sells them?
Simply, more eyeballs to sell advertisements to. But in this and some other instances, it seems the cost/benefit to fighting apples system just isn't there.
"Turn left at Main Street"
"Did you know that Main Street Tires has Michelin XGV size 75R14 on sale? They're the same tires used on all the cars in Palo Vista Productions' comedy classic My Cousin Vinny, now available on Blu-Ray from Twentieth Century-Fox "
"Oh, you should have turned right back on Elm"
"Did you know..."
Without a 'front facing camera' Google will never be able to get the pic uploaded to formeriphoneusers.bye;-)
Reminds me of when Homer was faxing Chaka Khan for help as his car went off the pier when his windshield got foggy after deep frying tater tots in the front seat while driving.
Mr Burns: What do you think you're doing? Put those precious electrons back into the core where they belong! Lenny: But that's where they leaked out of, Mr Burns. Mr Burns: Put them back before someone trys to hock them on eBay. They aren't iPhone prototypes, you know! Mr Smithers: I'm on it, Mr Burns.
This doesn't look good on the surface... and reeks of Google's Buzz privacy blunders all over again.
Why can't Google (and everyone else for that matter) just stick to the personal data people are foolish enough to hand over to the web? This type of action puts them on the edge of WiFi hackers who are "just seeing if it could be done"... except for that they're doing it for tens of thousands of personal and business WiFi networks.
I think Mr 'Evangelist' Brown should accept the fact that cramming more and more pixels into displays will make them more and more expensive. Since LCD displays have become commodity items in the PC market people want them to be good quality and cheap, not super duper mega high quality & pixel count and very very expensive. The normal consumer doesn't have a need for a shit load of pixel so he needs to find an HDTV maker who will deliver on to his desk so he can stop whining about it.
BTW, if this is his biggest complaint about things then he's got it pretty easy and obviously doesn't have enough to worry about.
Oh, look, 15 mod points for me! Wooh!/peels banana.
Please don't mock our simian moderators... and if you didn't bring enough bananas for everyone please put yours away. Thanks for understanding.
Re:Buying ARM for a leg?
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Apple To Buy ARM?
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· Score: 5, Interesting
I doubt Apple would want to buy ARM and then kill the sales to ARM's other customers. If they're going to spend $8 billion just to piss it away by killing ARM's revenue they'd be better served by spending the money to subsidize iPhone sales by cutting the price.
Even as a Mac & iPhone user I don't want Apple to acquire ARM. It could set back the competition considerably while they move to new chips or architectures... and competition is what drives all the device makers to improve their products. Without someone to chase and/or breathing down their neck Apple won't be driven to make advances in their products at the pace they should.
Is Google branching out into too many areas? Phones, tablets, energy, fiber, etc... and now chips? Makes me wonder if they are going to turn into a 'Jack of all trades'.
It looks like MS is going to switch their Bing data centers over to power efficient netbooks using ARM processors and use SSD for storage. Wow... running the Internet on netbooks. Now that's thinking different!
Here at Network Solutions we have a great solution to clear up all that annoying web traffic you're seeing. It's called "Redirecting Attack Technology Service". Our RATS service will keep those pesky customers away without you having to do anything but sit back and watch...
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Except that's not what happened, this guy pretended to be a woman, made fake suicide pacts and actually pressured people to go through with them.
So what you're saying is that this is like The Crying Game but without the happy ending?
The article summary was 'meh', but the summary summary was spot on ... though it did break my sarcasm detector, so now I'll need another one of those. I wonder if Google Maps on my iPhone can guide to me a store that sells them?
Simply, more eyeballs to sell advertisements to. But in this and some other instances, it seems the cost/benefit to fighting apples system just isn't there.
"Turn left at Main Street" ..."
"Did you know that Main Street Tires has Michelin XGV size 75R14 on sale? They're the same tires used on all the cars in Palo Vista Productions' comedy classic My Cousin Vinny, now available on Blu-Ray from Twentieth Century-Fox "
"Oh, you should have turned right back on Elm"
"Did you know
Without a 'front facing camera' Google will never be able to get the pic uploaded to formeriphoneusers.bye ;-)
Reminds me of when Homer was faxing Chaka Khan for help as his car went off the pier when his windshield got foggy after deep frying tater tots in the front seat while driving.
Normal logic? You mean "shoot the messenger"?
Google doesn't have a "messenger", that's MS & Yahoo you're thinking of. You must mean "shoot the search engine" ;-)
Offtopic, I know, but do any of you know of any sites better than slashdot? Or does (mostly) intelligent discussion just not exist on the internet..
I'd have to say that intelligent discussion doesn't exist on the internet ... at least not anywhere I post. Hmm ...
Mr Stagnitto claims to have a Slashdot UID in the low 5 digits.
I think you meant to say "Mr Stagnitto seems to have an IQ in the low 2 digits."
Mr Burns: What do you think you're doing? Put those precious electrons back into the core where they belong!
Lenny: But that's where they leaked out of, Mr Burns.
Mr Burns: Put them back before someone trys to hock them on eBay. They aren't iPhone prototypes, you know!
Mr Smithers: I'm on it, Mr Burns.
Army officials had prohibited comment on the case, silencing him until he left the government laboratory.
I'm sure he told the Army & FBI about this. Sounds like anthrax killed a scapegoat named Bruce E. Ivins to me.
... that it has just been 'Googled'.
... and reeks of Google's Buzz privacy blunders all over again.
... except for that they're doing it for tens of thousands of personal and business WiFi networks.
This doesn't look good on the surface
Why can't Google (and everyone else for that matter) just stick to the personal data people are foolish enough to hand over to the web? This type of action puts them on the edge of WiFi hackers who are "just seeing if it could be done"
I think Mr 'Evangelist' Brown should accept the fact that cramming more and more pixels into displays will make them more and more expensive. Since LCD displays have become commodity items in the PC market people want them to be good quality and cheap, not super duper mega high quality & pixel count and very very expensive. The normal consumer doesn't have a need for a shit load of pixel so he needs to find an HDTV maker who will deliver on to his desk so he can stop whining about it.
BTW, if this is his biggest complaint about things then he's got it pretty easy and obviously doesn't have enough to worry about.
Too bad the Quattro didn't get to celebrate by "sorting and stacking" a few nerds ;-)
Oh, look, 15 mod points for me! Wooh! /peels banana.
Please don't mock our simian moderators ... and if you didn't bring enough bananas for everyone please put yours away. Thanks for understanding.
I doubt Apple would want to buy ARM and then kill the sales to ARM's other customers. If they're going to spend $8 billion just to piss it away by killing ARM's revenue they'd be better served by spending the money to subsidize iPhone sales by cutting the price.
... and competition is what drives all the device makers to improve their products. Without someone to chase and/or breathing down their neck Apple won't be driven to make advances in their products at the pace they should.
Even as a Mac & iPhone user I don't want Apple to acquire ARM. It could set back the competition considerably while they move to new chips or architectures
I did not know "architect" could be used as a verb.
Heck, it worked for "Googled" ;-)
Is Google branching out into too many areas? Phones, tablets, energy, fiber, etc ... and now chips? Makes me wonder if they are going to turn into a 'Jack of all trades'.
Ones "Natural evolution" is another's slippery slope.
A slippery slope into the claws of Skynet! This is how it starts people ...
It looks like MS is going to switch their Bing data centers over to power efficient netbooks using ARM processors and use SSD for storage. Wow ... running the Internet on netbooks. Now that's thinking different!
old pass: gMALE
new pass: Eyjafjallajökull
Doesn't "self regulation" usually result in services and pricing that always benefit the industry at the expense of the consumer?
Strange - didn't you guys say if I had nothing to hide, privacy didn't matter?
What they meant was your privacy didn't matter to them.
Here at Network Solutions we have a great solution to clear up all that annoying web traffic you're seeing. It's called "Redirecting Attack Technology Service". Our RATS service will keep those pesky customers away without you having to do anything but sit back and watch ...
When are these people going to face the music?
They claim they can't because someone pirated it.
Pirates have stolen 35 bajillion* songs, movies and games from us!!
* ± 14 bajillion %
No data == no meaningful guesses.
Unfortunately that won't stop the MPAA/RIAA from making up numbers and meaningless guesses.