Google doesn't sell your info to companies. Google delivers ads to target demographics.
This is a very important distinction that many people (apparently yourself included) don't understand, and one that Microsoft is basically outright lying about.
They parse your email for keywords to determine which ad to show you, just the same way your email is parsed by a computer for a spam filter. And Microsoft does the same thing. They have contextual ads on their free email service as well.
Given that Microsoft is outright lying, they need to be called out on it.
If corporations are using complex macros and any real "programming" inside of an Office document, then they're doing it wrong.
If they are using non-connected proprietary apps that will crash just because Microsoft Office is also running at the same time, they're doing it wrong.
Fire up a virtual machine every time someone emails you a document, and then move that document over to the virtual machine (after it books), open up your Office suite, and then move the document back.
Man, that is sure convenient.
It is almost like Microsoft is trying to encourage people to move over to the perpetual subscription method by making the traditional way of purchasing 2013 a pain in the ass.
Assange is charged with rape and his best friend wrote a tell-all book that is pretty damning. He was also ripped by Amnesty International for endangering innocent volunteers. People close to him said he was motivated purely by money.
Yep, Assange we can recognize as a man of high ideals just because he criticized people we don't like.
Why is it that no one is praising groups like Amnesty International who also expose government corruption? They literally champion for human rights, get involved, operate as a non-profit, and enact positive change in the world without breaking laws?
First off, they aren't reading email. They are parsing it.
Email is always parsed for spam, so in that context then email would still be parsed through a spam filter even on paid accounts. But paid accounts are not re-parsed for contextual ads.
As a company policy, they weren't. Anyone who did was fired. Microsoft is claiming that it is Google's official policy to have employees read your email.
Prying into? Do you mean seeing what web pages you were hitting and such? That's nothing short of bullshit.
They drove around and saw how many wireless networks there were and wrote down ESSIDs, the publicly broadcasted name of the network.
So they collected publicly broadcasted data at the same time they were rumored to be considering launching a wireless internet service to see how feasible it was.
They were asked if someone had an unsecured wireless network, and if they were typing passwords on an unsecured website at the same time that someone was network sniffing, would it be possible for someone to see that data and Google said yes. People didn't understand what that meant and misinterpreted it (or intentionally twisted it) to portray snooping, when responsible journalists should be educating people.
Secure your wifi, and never input sensitive data into a website that isn't using SSL.
You know why? Because they can use internal emails or just test data to tune their algorithms. Promising not to actual read your emails and then lying about it would literally threaten their entire business model. Why take such a risk that could destroy your company? That would be monumentally stupid.
Google employees weren't reading the email. The US government now has a stupid law that when a law enforcement agency requests email, companies are required to hand it over without a warrant. That didn't mean anyone from Google was reading it ahead of time.
Someone should contest this (along with warantless wiretapping, GPS tracking, etc) to the Supreme Court because this behavior should be unconstitutional. Blame the executive branch for massively overstepping their authority.
Microsoft suggests that Google employees are actively reading your mail, which is not true.
Software sifts through the mail to automate ads based upon context. No one at Google is actually looking at your private data.
Microsoft's Outlook.com has contextual ads as well. Telling people that Outlook is somehow better than Gmail in this regard is nothing short of a lie.
It should also be noted that Google has fought governments to protect private data from their users. But Microsoft handed over IP addresses tied to search terms to the government without a warrant. They have a patent on how to best sell your private data to third parties via auction. Microsoft's track record on privacy is pretty poor for them to start throwing stones.
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You may not be aware, but that is correct behavior.
A PPT file is meant to open in edit mode. A PPS file is meant to auto-play a presentation when opened.
If you don't want it to auto-play, then blame the person who saved the file as a PPS file.
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That started happening as soon as they forked.
Sun made it really hard to get some changes made upstream, and some developers were unwilling to hand over copyright on their code contributions. So OpenOffice stagnated for many years.
There was a cleaner, more feature-rich version called go-oo (which many Linux distros shipped, without really telling anyone they were getting the fork). That fork because the basis of LibreOffice. Once they weren't tied to staying close to the OpenOffice base, they started cleaning cruft like mad.
In case you didn't notice, they added a bunch of new features, while the size of the installer dropped from 200 MB to 183 MB in this latest release.
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Java is dead?
Last time I checked, enterprise shops are still hiring more Java developers than any other kind. There are a lot of reasons I don't care for Java, but I would never in a million years say Java is dead.
1. Amazon lists Chromebooks outselling Windows 8 PCs.As the largest online retailer, they reflect larger trends. 2. Acer outright says Chromebooks are outselling Windows 8 PCs. 3. HP said in response to these sales trends they're cutting back Windows 8 models and putting forth a Chromebook model suddenly.
Google doesn't need new hardware for Chrome OS. They just need more marketing, because they're already doing well.
Imagine for a moment that you're a small business, such as a plumbing company. You don't have a full-time IT staff. You have maybe 10-30 computers.
You're probably buying your PCs retail. Then you have to buy a Windows server, and pay someone to set it up. You buy CALs for users and computers. A second back-up server is probably out of your budget. Off-site data back-ups are probably out of the question.
Who administers your network to keep it safe and secure? How to do you prevent malware and viruses? Administer your email?
You pay a bunch upfront, and then never know when you need to bring in an IT company to fix things. Your IT budget is completely unknown.
Or, you get Chromebooks. Google used to offer packages to lease them for $25/$30 a month. Not sure if they still do, but you can get them for $250 if not. You don't have to have your own server, unless you need Citrix for proprietary Windows apps. Your data is in the cloud. You don't have to run a mail server. Anyone can sit at any PC and instantly have their work. You don't pay an IT staff. You can budget easily for IT costs.
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Google doesn't sell your info to companies. Google delivers ads to target demographics.
This is a very important distinction that many people (apparently yourself included) don't understand, and one that Microsoft is basically outright lying about.
They parse your email for keywords to determine which ad to show you, just the same way your email is parsed by a computer for a spam filter. And Microsoft does the same thing. They have contextual ads on their free email service as well.
Given that Microsoft is outright lying, they need to be called out on it.
If corporations are using complex macros and any real "programming" inside of an Office document, then they're doing it wrong.
If they are using non-connected proprietary apps that will crash just because Microsoft Office is also running at the same time, they're doing it wrong.
They'd love you over at http://reddit.com/r/Pyongyang
Fire up a virtual machine every time someone emails you a document, and then move that document over to the virtual machine (after it books), open up your Office suite, and then move the document back.
Man, that is sure convenient.
It is almost like Microsoft is trying to encourage people to move over to the perpetual subscription method by making the traditional way of purchasing 2013 a pain in the ass.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_Authority
Assange fled Sweden rather than defend himself against the charges.
http://www.facebook.com/uppermichiganssource
Assange is charged with rape and his best friend wrote a tell-all book that is pretty damning. He was also ripped by Amnesty International for endangering innocent volunteers. People close to him said he was motivated purely by money.
Yep, Assange we can recognize as a man of high ideals just because he criticized people we don't like.
Why is it that no one is praising groups like Amnesty International who also expose government corruption? They literally champion for human rights, get involved, operate as a non-profit, and enact positive change in the world without breaking laws?
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You do get to control how it behaves, by choosing the correct file format.
If you are ignorant of how the feature works and choose the wrong file format, that doesn't mean MS is to blame.
Google has fired at least two people for breaking this policy. So obviously they care about it and enforce it.
First off, they aren't reading email. They are parsing it.
Email is always parsed for spam, so in that context then email would still be parsed through a spam filter even on paid accounts. But paid accounts are not re-parsed for contextual ads.
As a company policy, they weren't. Anyone who did was fired. Microsoft is claiming that it is Google's official policy to have employees read your email.
I would hope you can understand the distinction.
The proof that Google is actively reading your email? Because that's a lie.
The truth that Microsoft doesn't do the same thing? Because that's also a lie. Outlook.com also scans email to serve up contextual ads.
Prying into? Do you mean seeing what web pages you were hitting and such? That's nothing short of bullshit.
They drove around and saw how many wireless networks there were and wrote down ESSIDs, the publicly broadcasted name of the network.
So they collected publicly broadcasted data at the same time they were rumored to be considering launching a wireless internet service to see how feasible it was.
They were asked if someone had an unsecured wireless network, and if they were typing passwords on an unsecured website at the same time that someone was network sniffing, would it be possible for someone to see that data and Google said yes. People didn't understand what that meant and misinterpreted it (or intentionally twisted it) to portray snooping, when responsible journalists should be educating people.
Secure your wifi, and never input sensitive data into a website that isn't using SSL.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWbq5GHXPhA
Bob Saget raped and killed a girl in 1990.
Yes, I believe it.
You know why? Because they can use internal emails or just test data to tune their algorithms. Promising not to actual read your emails and then lying about it would literally threaten their entire business model. Why take such a risk that could destroy your company? That would be monumentally stupid.
I don't think Google is that stupid.
Outlook.com has contextual ads just like Gmail, so Microsoft is being a hypocrite and a liar here.
However, paid services from both Microsoft and Google will allow you to have ad-free email that won't be scanned.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/enterprise/apps/business/
You can pay for paid Google services that don't include ads.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/enterprise/apps/business/
No.
Google employees weren't reading the email. The US government now has a stupid law that when a law enforcement agency requests email, companies are required to hand it over without a warrant. That didn't mean anyone from Google was reading it ahead of time.
Someone should contest this (along with warantless wiretapping, GPS tracking, etc) to the Supreme Court because this behavior should be unconstitutional. Blame the executive branch for massively overstepping their authority.
Microsoft suggests that Google employees are actively reading your mail, which is not true.
Software sifts through the mail to automate ads based upon context. No one at Google is actually looking at your private data.
Microsoft's Outlook.com has contextual ads as well. Telling people that Outlook is somehow better than Gmail in this regard is nothing short of a lie.
It should also be noted that Google has fought governments to protect private data from their users. But Microsoft handed over IP addresses tied to search terms to the government without a warrant. They have a patent on how to best sell your private data to third parties via auction. Microsoft's track record on privacy is pretty poor for them to start throwing stones.
You may not be aware, but that is correct behavior.
A PPT file is meant to open in edit mode. A PPS file is meant to auto-play a presentation when opened.
If you don't want it to auto-play, then blame the person who saved the file as a PPS file.
That started happening as soon as they forked.
Sun made it really hard to get some changes made upstream, and some developers were unwilling to hand over copyright on their code contributions. So OpenOffice stagnated for many years.
There was a cleaner, more feature-rich version called go-oo (which many Linux distros shipped, without really telling anyone they were getting the fork). That fork because the basis of LibreOffice. Once they weren't tied to staying close to the OpenOffice base, they started cleaning cruft like mad.
In case you didn't notice, they added a bunch of new features, while the size of the installer dropped from 200 MB to 183 MB in this latest release.
Java is dead?
Last time I checked, enterprise shops are still hiring more Java developers than any other kind. There are a lot of reasons I don't care for Java, but I would never in a million years say Java is dead.
A combination of three things.
1. Amazon lists Chromebooks outselling Windows 8 PCs.As the largest online retailer, they reflect larger trends.
2. Acer outright says Chromebooks are outselling Windows 8 PCs.
3. HP said in response to these sales trends they're cutting back Windows 8 models and putting forth a Chromebook model suddenly.
Google doesn't need new hardware for Chrome OS. They just need more marketing, because they're already doing well.
Imagine for a moment that you're a small business, such as a plumbing company. You don't have a full-time IT staff. You have maybe 10-30 computers.
You're probably buying your PCs retail. Then you have to buy a Windows server, and pay someone to set it up. You buy CALs for users and computers. A second back-up server is probably out of your budget. Off-site data back-ups are probably out of the question.
Who administers your network to keep it safe and secure? How to do you prevent malware and viruses? Administer your email?
You pay a bunch upfront, and then never know when you need to bring in an IT company to fix things. Your IT budget is completely unknown.
Or, you get Chromebooks. Google used to offer packages to lease them for $25/$30 a month. Not sure if they still do, but you can get them for $250 if not. You don't have to have your own server, unless you need Citrix for proprietary Windows apps. Your data is in the cloud. You don't have to run a mail server. Anyone can sit at any PC and instantly have their work. You don't pay an IT staff. You can budget easily for IT costs.
http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/business/devices/