I'm surprised no one has mentioned it yet. Google has provided a sound alternative to Office 2007. Yes it's in its infancy, whereas Office has had decades to grow. I wonder how docs will look like in 15 years.
It would be nice if we could get out of the airplane and visit people's virtual homes. I got tons of cool stuff to show my virtual guests, I don't know about you guys. Another interesting way to meet people and establish relationships, what can I say?
So, to straighten some of the anonymous cowards out a bit.
UCSB is labeled a party school mainly due to the insane town next door that is Isla Vista, of which the majority of the population are actually community college students in the city, but prefer to live by the beach, hence they live right next to the uni. This misrepresents the university and continues to degrade its reputation. Yes, I am an alumni, and yes, you've struck a small chord on the proverbial nerve, but it's ok.
The university has produced more nobel laureates than any university in the last 7 years. UCSB is what Berkeley was 30 years ago, but reputation takes a while to build, so in 20 years or so, you'll be hearing about UCSB the way you hear about Berkeley, UCLA, etc..
The University's materials science program, I believe is the best in the world; and its Particle Physics (Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics) is worldly renowned. Stephen Hawking makes regular visits, and I've had the honor and privilege to meet him here.
UCSB also harbors a nanofabrication cleanroom facility, at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience. Before I left the area more than a year ago, the research going on at the Kavli Institute as well as these cleanroom facilities was disturbingly fascinating, you can find out more info if you wish.
http://www.nanotech.ucsb.edu/
A lot of Googlers are also from UC Santa Barbara, including the Senior VP of Operations, Urs Hoelzle, who taught CS at the College of Engineering.
http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html#urs
I also work at Google.
I hope I was able to provide relevant/useful information for you all.
Meaning if you don't 'distribute' your software, you can keep the gpl code to yourself. I suppose I haven't fully wrapped my head around what 'distribution' exactly means. Let's say you're using Yahoo software, lives on their server, and say they're using GPL code in that software. Serving this software out to the web, would it be fair to say they are 'distributing' this software? Or are we talking about permanently distributing the binaries to users for keeps? Obviously Yahoo isn't interested in giving away trade secrets, so is Yahoo screwing over these people who write code for free (the RMS troupe), followed by Yahoo raking in all the money? Seems pretty evil to me if that's the case.
What worries me is you don't have to release your code unless you are planning to sell your software under the laws of the GPL. This is something that many open source advocates misconcieve.
Chuck don't get me wrong, I love watching Australia and they played really well. I was just trying to make the point that technology should not be something that we should rely on solely, after all it is a human game. Thanks for your insightful comments, I hope to see Australia play again. baris
Yeah, you can have all the tech gizmos you want, but if you can't play soccer well enough to beat your opponent, none of it really matters does it? Today Australia played Brazil and lost, which needless to say is a tough opponent, but I believe a team needs to concentrate more on traditional methods of how a team becomes a better soccer team and less on progressive tech methods...the time is too early for technology to make that much of an impact in a game where it's 100% humans tossing around a ball hoping to put it in a box-like structure.
I hate the fact that when some professor in Berkeley invents something, it's UC Berkeley or CAL Berkeley...they get credited...but when we're on the table, it's University of California. Excuse my french but fuck that.
I didn't put that word in there, quoted it right from Paul's essay. Point well taken. People throw around words, much like a stoned hippie throws the word 'love' around. And yes I would agree that talking about a police state without ever having lived in one is a bit foolish.
lots of bitter, negative opinions on this one.
To add to the discussion instead of criticizing (which is fine - in small doses), I believe government (or lack thereof) is key for innovation. If you have an oppressive regime luring over you, there will be minimal startups; people will have little incentive to innovate, or fear to innovate.
What he's trying to do in this article is to find commonalities within the 'American persona' to find out whether Silicon Valley is clonable. I believe That's the root of his thesis. He addresses personality traits such as Americans being free spirited risk takers, and it's a point well taken.
"Startups are the kind of thing people don't plan, so you're more likely to get them in a society where it's ok to make career decisions on the fly." - P. Graham
The fact that there are rumors going around about the Wii being 'slightly' better in hardware compared to the gamecube makes me SUPER EXCITED. This means that they are either trying to rip us off (not likely) or that they've spent their time and energy on sommething else, and being that that something else is unique, this is super super exciting.
I can't wait.
I have always been a fan of game playability/fun factor/games that make you use your imagination, similar to a book. IMHO complicated graphics, sound, and movies inside games seem like they tend to take away from the fun of the game. If I wanted to play a game that looks absolutely like real life, I guess I woulnd't use a game console and go play real tennis. The 256 colors and the 8-bit sound had a magic to it.
There used to be a game by Lucasfilms called Indiana Jones 3, Last crusade, on the PC, around 1990 or so, in the game you could go anywhere you wanted, and solve puzzles not necessarily in the order that they need to be solved. Graphics were VGA, 256 colors, but now that I think about it, the fact that I used my imagination more might have made the game a bit more fun; the fact that the boss didn't look picture perfect helped him out a bit, similar to reading a book and visualizing the characters.
It's hard to pin down what I'm really trying to say here, but I loved the sierra games in the 80s, but maybe it's beause I'm older, but today's games just don't do it for me anymore. The other day I played mario kart and super mario world (is that what it was called) on the super nintendo, and had tons of fun, despite how old it is. Seems like Wii is trying appeal to this kind of demand.
the 1100 looks very good. I do have GSM/GPRS at this time. I believe I can take my sim card out and install it on any other phone. Will pursue the 1100, thanks for the tip.
"Why should Cingular pay for someone else's mistakes? There's nothing in it for them,"
It would provide incentive to draw more customers, customers who want a backup of all their messages. If a phone company provided a feature where all my messages get sent to my email address in mp3 format, I would go for them. This way I would have an archive of all my messages, and wouldn't need my cell phone to check them.
So they would make money, that's what's in it for them.
The human race is not doomed. The features are fine, they just can't take away from the main functionality of a phone. Pull all the bells and whistles you want, just don't make the interface sluggish slow, etc..
thanks I'll definitely take a look at the phone. the message I missed by the way was from Google, but my recruiter was understanding of the fact, and things seem to be going well. I reached the final stage, the executive management group reviewed my packet on friday, and I got a thumbs up from my recruiter...I should know the results this tuesday, wish me luck!
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned it yet. Google has provided a sound alternative to Office 2007. Yes it's in its infancy, whereas Office has had decades to grow. I wonder how docs will look like in 15 years.
For lack of understanding global economics, for basing judgments on literature with no backing/evidence? Don't get me started.
It would be nice if we could get out of the airplane and visit people's virtual homes. I got tons of cool stuff to show my virtual guests, I don't know about you guys. Another interesting way to meet people and establish relationships, what can I say?
I'm just not too fond of the suggestive title of this post.
So, to straighten some of the anonymous cowards out a bit.
UCSB is labeled a party school mainly due to the insane town next door that is Isla Vista, of which the majority of the population are actually community college students in the city, but prefer to live by the beach, hence they live right next to the uni. This misrepresents the university and continues to degrade its reputation. Yes, I am an alumni, and yes, you've struck a small chord on the proverbial nerve, but it's ok.
The university has produced more nobel laureates than any university in the last 7 years. UCSB is what Berkeley was 30 years ago, but reputation takes a while to build, so in 20 years or so, you'll be hearing about UCSB the way you hear about Berkeley, UCLA, etc..
The University's materials science program, I believe is the best in the world; and its Particle Physics (Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics) is worldly renowned. Stephen Hawking makes regular visits, and I've had the honor and privilege to meet him here.
UCSB also harbors a nanofabrication cleanroom facility, at the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience. Before I left the area more than a year ago, the research going on at the Kavli Institute as well as these cleanroom facilities was disturbingly fascinating, you can find out more info if you wish.
http://www.nanotech.ucsb.edu/
A lot of Googlers are also from UC Santa Barbara, including the Senior VP of Operations, Urs Hoelzle, who taught CS at the College of Engineering.
http://www.google.com/corporate/execs.html#urs
I also work at Google.
I hope I was able to provide relevant/useful information for you all.
Cheers,
I like the quote at the end of your post. You should append 'Even God' at the end to make it even better :-D
Meaning if you don't 'distribute' your software, you can keep the gpl code to yourself. I suppose I haven't fully wrapped my head around what 'distribution' exactly means. Let's say you're using Yahoo software, lives on their server, and say they're using GPL code in that software. Serving this software out to the web, would it be fair to say they are 'distributing' this software? Or are we talking about permanently distributing the binaries to users for keeps? Obviously Yahoo isn't interested in giving away trade secrets, so is Yahoo screwing over these people who write code for free (the RMS troupe), followed by Yahoo raking in all the money? Seems pretty evil to me if that's the case.
What worries me is you don't have to release your code unless you are planning to sell your software under the laws of the GPL. This is something that many open source advocates misconcieve.
So my country can be free...you must grab it by the horns, then we'll have a big party...
Chuck don't get me wrong, I love watching Australia and they played really well. I was just trying to make the point that technology should not be something that we should rely on solely, after all it is a human game. Thanks for your insightful comments, I hope to see Australia play again. baris
Yeah, you can have all the tech gizmos you want, but if you can't play soccer well enough to beat your opponent, none of it really matters does it? Today Australia played Brazil and lost, which needless to say is a tough opponent, but I believe a team needs to concentrate more on traditional methods of how a team becomes a better soccer team and less on progressive tech methods...the time is too early for technology to make that much of an impact in a game where it's 100% humans tossing around a ball hoping to put it in a box-like structure.
THANK YOU.
I hate the fact that when some professor in Berkeley invents something, it's UC Berkeley or CAL Berkeley...they get credited...but when we're on the table, it's University of California. Excuse my french but fuck that.I didn't put that word in there, quoted it right from Paul's essay. Point well taken. People throw around words, much like a stoned hippie throws the word 'love' around. And yes I would agree that talking about a police state without ever having lived in one is a bit foolish.
lots of bitter, negative opinions on this one. To add to the discussion instead of criticizing (which is fine - in small doses), I believe government (or lack thereof) is key for innovation. If you have an oppressive regime luring over you, there will be minimal startups; people will have little incentive to innovate, or fear to innovate. What he's trying to do in this article is to find commonalities within the 'American persona' to find out whether Silicon Valley is clonable. I believe That's the root of his thesis. He addresses personality traits such as Americans being free spirited risk takers, and it's a point well taken. "Startups are the kind of thing people don't plan, so you're more likely to get them in a society where it's ok to make career decisions on the fly." - P. Graham
clap clap clap clap clap clap clap :-)
It's called capitalizing on worry. It's been done since the beginning of time.
Well said. Now I'm off to pursue the space/police/king's/hero's quest games and play them.
The fact that there are rumors going around about the Wii being 'slightly' better in hardware compared to the gamecube makes me SUPER EXCITED. This means that they are either trying to rip us off (not likely) or that they've spent their time and energy on sommething else, and being that that something else is unique, this is super super exciting. I can't wait.
I have always been a fan of game playability/fun factor/games that make you use your imagination, similar to a book. IMHO complicated graphics, sound, and movies inside games seem like they tend to take away from the fun of the game. If I wanted to play a game that looks absolutely like real life, I guess I woulnd't use a game console and go play real tennis. The 256 colors and the 8-bit sound had a magic to it.
There used to be a game by Lucasfilms called Indiana Jones 3, Last crusade, on the PC, around 1990 or so, in the game you could go anywhere you wanted, and solve puzzles not necessarily in the order that they need to be solved. Graphics were VGA, 256 colors, but now that I think about it, the fact that I used my imagination more might have made the game a bit more fun; the fact that the boss didn't look picture perfect helped him out a bit, similar to reading a book and visualizing the characters.
It's hard to pin down what I'm really trying to say here, but I loved the sierra games in the 80s, but maybe it's beause I'm older, but today's games just don't do it for me anymore. The other day I played mario kart and super mario world (is that what it was called) on the super nintendo, and had tons of fun, despite how old it is. Seems like Wii is trying appeal to this kind of demand.What carrier and cell phone do you use?
Sure, but they might have 40 million if anoher carrier drew that 10 million away from them. It's a constant ratrace.
the 1100 looks very good. I do have GSM/GPRS at this time. I believe I can take my sim card out and install it on any other phone. Will pursue the 1100, thanks for the tip.
"Why should Cingular pay for someone else's mistakes? There's nothing in it for them," It would provide incentive to draw more customers, customers who want a backup of all their messages. If a phone company provided a feature where all my messages get sent to my email address in mp3 format, I would go for them. This way I would have an archive of all my messages, and wouldn't need my cell phone to check them. So they would make money, that's what's in it for them.
The human race is not doomed. The features are fine, they just can't take away from the main functionality of a phone. Pull all the bells and whistles you want, just don't make the interface sluggish slow, etc..
thanks I'll definitely take a look at the phone. the message I missed by the way was from Google, but my recruiter was understanding of the fact, and things seem to be going well. I reached the final stage, the executive management group reviewed my packet on friday, and I got a thumbs up from my recruiter...I should know the results this tuesday, wish me luck!