This has got to be the best post I've read about Google. I am so friggin' sick of hearing BS about "Google's Gmail is EVIL!!!!!!!!111111!!!!x0rz! Just READ their terms!!" and the such. Woopdie doo, read Yahoo's. Speaking of which, no one seems to be bitching about Yahoo's 'evils.' Seems to me that if Google's actions are so borg...ish, then why have other search engines not been brought up? Google Maps comes out, all I hear is "another step towards monopolization." Yahoo Maps, no one seems to give a crap. Hypocritical if you ask me, especially considering the mail, news, stock, and so forth. Google's a company, and shall act as one, as others before it: be they Yahoo, Microsoft, Apple, etc. Especially in light of all of these fuckedgoogle.com-esque sites popping up all over the place, continuous digg (and even Slashdot) stories about Google, and flame wars started therein, I have to say it's all getting quite old.
On the other hand, far too many people are suporting Google as if it's the best thing since air. Yeah, I use and (platonically) love Gmail, even if for the interface, but to each his own. There are those who use Yahoo, Hotmail, their own ISP, etc., and still like it. Liking Gmail doesn't make it the best thing there is, only the best for you. The only thing I can agree with in certain cases - such as the new Gmail gigabyte or so forth - is the stimulation of competition. Google has been rather masterful at doing it thus far, at least to the point of causing those "vindictive Google" sites to spring to life. Which is another thing. The only thing that can be left for argument's sake in so many of these "Google is run by Satan" pages is stuff that happens that doesn't really mean anything. They shout things like "GOOGLE'S STOCK IS OVERPRICED, BUT SUFFERING IN THE MARKET" as if it actually proves something; yeah...stock...it rises, falls, and comes at various prices. So? What's so evil about the stock market? Would MSFT decreasing in value be susbtantial "dirt" on Microsoft? Or then there's the firing of the infmaous blogger who worked at Google; yay, he got fired for violating certain terms he agreed to. Guess we should consider dismantling that friggin' Constitution: it's only been a basis for punishing people when it is supposed to promote goodness! The truth is that it'd be difficult for any average employee of any major company to tell the world about his/her experiences, given the confidentiality of certain company info. Interesting to note, too, how Google-hating sites are listed in that naughty search engine in order to get their (in my humble opinion) meaningless word out.
I'm frankly sick of reading all the flamewars, though I suppose this is then hypocritical of me, for I have 1) contributed to such a discussion, 2) read it when I could've chosen not to, and 3) um, I dunno, but three is just one of those standard numbers to use...whatever. I guess I'm still interested in the workings of Google, though, since it seems like a nifty place to work - regardless if my view was shaped by all the subliminal hype Google is subjecting me to (I love Satan...I love him good). I'm just sick of the "miracles"/"totemic worship" occuring at Google; all I want is information on how they work, and I'll make my decision, which incidentally sits somewhere in a comfortable middle...er...actually leaning to the positive side, at least. The post to which I am replying coincides with the information I like to hear: truthful stuff concerning what goes on in the company, assuming of course that the poster is working at Google. That's my two cents, anyhow.
This is funny; my sister's boyfriend got to beta test Wish, but went home for the holidays and had no PC (only Macs) so my sister ended up playing it for him, so it wouldn't go to waste.
If I told my sister of this, she'd probably laugh or rejoice. The game seriously sucked, though I could be a little harsh, as I don't tend to like RPGs. Still, the ONE enemy she was supposed to fight (the Mord after meeting the man we came to refer to as "Losey McWhat's-his-face") never showed up, except for once when she was in the middle of talking to Losey McWhat's-his-face. Upon killing it, she was disappointed to find that all he effectively did was go "Okie dokie!" and that was the end of it. She was stuck in the introductory stages! Not to mention the character creation, controls, and graphics were all a bit lacking. I understand it was a beta test and all, but it would need to get ALOT better to have ever survived. For crying out loud, how important were the different types of trees?! My sister would have appreciated being able to find the Mord more than knowing that "the tree over there is oak!" Enough of my rant...
I suppose this is really only funny to me, since my sister and I were making jokes left and right about the game. "Spirit of Subtlety?! More like the Spirit of Letting-it-all-hang-out!" Then there were the characters she made...one mildly serious character to start with, then one she made to demonstrate the strange character creation (the name of that one came to be "ClayAiken"). Then a third she made as tall as possible because she was getting screenshots of the Spirit of Subtlety's nipples (long story short, friends were saying it was just shadowing and she wanted to prove them wrong). The name of that cyclops came to be "Pierre." Anyhow.
Not really a big loss all together, so far as I'm concerned. But that could just be me and my lack of experience in accepting the flaws in a beta test.
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Why does everyone keep telling me that? *cries in a corner* Hehe.
On the other hand, far too many people are suporting Google as if it's the best thing since air. Yeah, I use and (platonically) love Gmail, even if for the interface, but to each his own. There are those who use Yahoo, Hotmail, their own ISP, etc., and still like it. Liking Gmail doesn't make it the best thing there is, only the best for you. The only thing I can agree with in certain cases - such as the new Gmail gigabyte or so forth - is the stimulation of competition. Google has been rather masterful at doing it thus far, at least to the point of causing those "vindictive Google" sites to spring to life. Which is another thing. The only thing that can be left for argument's sake in so many of these "Google is run by Satan" pages is stuff that happens that doesn't really mean anything. They shout things like "GOOGLE'S STOCK IS OVERPRICED, BUT SUFFERING IN THE MARKET" as if it actually proves something; yeah...stock...it rises, falls, and comes at various prices. So? What's so evil about the stock market? Would MSFT decreasing in value be susbtantial "dirt" on Microsoft? Or then there's the firing of the infmaous blogger who worked at Google; yay, he got fired for violating certain terms he agreed to. Guess we should consider dismantling that friggin' Constitution: it's only been a basis for punishing people when it is supposed to promote goodness! The truth is that it'd be difficult for any average employee of any major company to tell the world about his/her experiences, given the confidentiality of certain company info. Interesting to note, too, how Google-hating sites are listed in that naughty search engine in order to get their (in my humble opinion) meaningless word out.
I'm frankly sick of reading all the flamewars, though I suppose this is then hypocritical of me, for I have 1) contributed to such a discussion, 2) read it when I could've chosen not to, and 3) um, I dunno, but three is just one of those standard numbers to use...whatever. I guess I'm still interested in the workings of Google, though, since it seems like a nifty place to work - regardless if my view was shaped by all the subliminal hype Google is subjecting me to (I love Satan...I love him good). I'm just sick of the "miracles"/"totemic worship" occuring at Google; all I want is information on how they work, and I'll make my decision, which incidentally sits somewhere in a comfortable middle...er...actually leaning to the positive side, at least. The post to which I am replying coincides with the information I like to hear: truthful stuff concerning what goes on in the company, assuming of course that the poster is working at Google. That's my two cents, anyhow.
If I told my sister of this, she'd probably laugh or rejoice. The game seriously sucked, though I could be a little harsh, as I don't tend to like RPGs. Still, the ONE enemy she was supposed to fight (the Mord after meeting the man we came to refer to as "Losey McWhat's-his-face") never showed up, except for once when she was in the middle of talking to Losey McWhat's-his-face. Upon killing it, she was disappointed to find that all he effectively did was go "Okie dokie!" and that was the end of it. She was stuck in the introductory stages! Not to mention the character creation, controls, and graphics were all a bit lacking. I understand it was a beta test and all, but it would need to get ALOT better to have ever survived. For crying out loud, how important were the different types of trees?! My sister would have appreciated being able to find the Mord more than knowing that "the tree over there is oak!" Enough of my rant...
I suppose this is really only funny to me, since my sister and I were making jokes left and right about the game. "Spirit of Subtlety?! More like the Spirit of Letting-it-all-hang-out!" Then there were the characters she made...one mildly serious character to start with, then one she made to demonstrate the strange character creation (the name of that one came to be "ClayAiken"). Then a third she made as tall as possible because she was getting screenshots of the Spirit of Subtlety's nipples (long story short, friends were saying it was just shadowing and she wanted to prove them wrong). The name of that cyclops came to be "Pierre." Anyhow.
Not really a big loss all together, so far as I'm concerned. But that could just be me and my lack of experience in accepting the flaws in a beta test.