I'm not a big fan of their comments either, but I do think that their opinions on privacy and their actions on them are two different things. In my view they haven't crossed into the evil camp, and still have a better record with peoples' privacy than most companies. As always, we should keep an eye on them...
Is is still true that you can't view PDF or other open format documents on the Kindle (without sending it through the company)? If the Kindle can't, anything that can is a Kindle killer in my mind. Amazingly, even the Sony seems to be way more open than the Kindle.
I agree that it should be opt in, but I'm for it. Ideally, when things get advanced enough I figure Google can save me a lot of work. Once they know enough about my searching and buying habits they'll be able to do both for me. Every once in a while a box will show up at my door: "You need this. We found it at an awesome price. You will be billed via Google Finance".
If I ran my country (and I really think I should) it would be illegal to sell a device at a loss in order to gouge on the consumables. In addition, they would be required to accept the return of any hardware they sell for environmentally acceptable disposal, meaning it would need to built into the price. I think some countries may already do this on some products.
It's *way* less shiny. Seriously, if Canonical hired some good graphic designers (it hurts a little to say that) and added some serious polish to the desktop, and some of the more common Gnome apps, it would go a long way towards Linux market share... well, that and a little advertising.
That happens frequently even with open NATing. They seem to have some problems with their networking and matchmaking. It used to happen occasionally in MW1, but it seems to very frequent now.
How about this test. Get 50 (and admittedly arbitrary, but probably affordable by the patent office) developers in the same field as the patent applicant and ask them how they'd solve the problem. If one of them comes up with the same solution, no patent for you. Beyond that, follow the normal approval process to cover the possibility that we have the wrong 50 developers, or that they're all having a 'stupid day'... not that that ever happens to me.
I'm not sure why they lock down their hardware. I had a 405, and it was awesome... but would have been way better if they unlocked it and let people write applications. As it was, they only sold a couple of codecs. If they make money of the hardware, and I assume they do, why cripple it? They had the best touch screen tablet on the market a few years ago, but threw it away by crippling it.
You can actually run Chrome in Linux now if you use the unstable repositories. I've been running both Chrome and Chromium for the past few weeks, and Chrome seems fine.
Perhaps, but they recently dropped support for the Linux version of Picasa as well. The Linux version was actually just a Wine install anyway, but the nicely wrapped installer was convenient. I'm disappointed that tay have so much infrastructure running on it and have been letting the (desktop, admittedly) community down a bit lately. I hope Chrome changes this, but it really sounds like it's not going to.
google has the funding to fight tooth and nail to ensure the cell carriers don't lock them out.
and in contrast to all the phone carriers, a large percentage of people like, or at least respect the company. I can pretty much only see some good coming out of this.
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I'm not a big fan of their comments either, but I do think that their opinions on privacy and their actions on them are two different things. In my view they haven't crossed into the evil camp, and still have a better record with peoples' privacy than most companies. As always, we should keep an eye on them ...
It's been quite stable and very fast for me as well (limited use, but abusing it under Google Wave).
Support for extensions is currently in development ...
Because Moxie Marlinspike is the coolest name ever, with the possible exception of Neal Anderthal.
there’s always Slashdot with more stories than I can read in a day (including *all* comments. ;)
Well that's fine for you, but what does someone do if they're not a masochist?
Is is still true that you can't view PDF or other open format documents on the Kindle (without sending it through the company)? If the Kindle can't, anything that can is a Kindle killer in my mind. Amazingly, even the Sony seems to be way more open than the Kindle.
Your new sense of humour will be arriving shortly. Based on SlashDot posts, your old one seems to be broken.
I agree that it should be opt in, but I'm for it. Ideally, when things get advanced enough I figure Google can save me a lot of work. Once they know enough about my searching and buying habits they'll be able to do both for me. Every once in a while a box will show up at my door: "You need this. We found it at an awesome price. You will be billed via Google Finance".
Wow. French people have a different word for everything.
If I ran my country (and I really think I should) it would be illegal to sell a device at a loss in order to gouge on the consumables. In addition, they would be required to accept the return of any hardware they sell for environmentally acceptable disposal, meaning it would need to built into the price. I think some countries may already do this on some products.
I beat the Internet a few months ago. The final boss is really tough.
It's *way* less shiny. Seriously, if Canonical hired some good graphic designers (it hurts a little to say that) and added some serious polish to the desktop, and some of the more common Gnome apps, it would go a long way towards Linux market share ... well, that and a little advertising.
That sounds disturbingly like "If you only knew the power of the Dark Side".
That happens frequently even with open NATing. They seem to have some problems with their networking and matchmaking. It used to happen occasionally in MW1, but it seems to very frequent now.
How about this test. Get 50 (and admittedly arbitrary, but probably affordable by the patent office) developers in the same field as the patent applicant and ask them how they'd solve the problem. If one of them comes up with the same solution, no patent for you. Beyond that, follow the normal approval process to cover the possibility that we have the wrong 50 developers, or that they're all having a 'stupid day' ... not that that ever happens to me.
Ah bacon ... the filet mignon of meats.
You're horrible. Meat is murder! Tasty, tasty murder.
Don't let Mr. Norris here you say that.
Many people are asshats. I'm quite surprised you haven't noticed.
I'm not sure why they lock down their hardware. I had a 405, and it was awesome ... but would have been way better if they unlocked it and let people write applications. As it was, they only sold a couple of codecs. If they make money of the hardware, and I assume they do, why cripple it? They had the best touch screen tablet on the market a few years ago, but threw it away by crippling it.
That's not the latest version. They've dropped Linux support as of 3.5 (which is the one with built in face recognition).
You can actually run Chrome in Linux now if you use the unstable repositories. I've been running both Chrome and Chromium for the past few weeks, and Chrome seems fine.
Perhaps, but they recently dropped support for the Linux version of Picasa as well. The Linux version was actually just a Wine install anyway, but the nicely wrapped installer was convenient. I'm disappointed that tay have so much infrastructure running on it and have been letting the (desktop, admittedly) community down a bit lately. I hope Chrome changes this, but it really sounds like it's not going to.
google has the funding to fight tooth and nail to ensure the cell carriers don't lock them out.
and in contrast to all the phone carriers, a large percentage of people like, or at least respect the company. I can pretty much only see some good coming out of this.
A car analogy! You've made my day ... so far I've had to limp by on pizza analogies.