I always took Google's 'do no evil' motto as a jab at the 'big brother' concept. Taken at face value and in context, 'Get over it!' is a 'big brother' term.
We've seen Google gather information on user's search info and say, 'It's cool, your privacy is important to us.'
Then we seen Google link that search info to an email address, an online calendaring tool, an online office suite, and online address book, an online photo application, and online pocket book, and soon an online medical record storage application.
So now Google knows (if you use their entire toolbox and stay logged in): who you are, knows what you're searching for, knows who your friends are, knows what you're doing and when you're doing it, knows what you and your friends look like, knows how much money you have in your bank account, knows what you're buying... and soon will know what ails you.
Any company with that much info, and that much capacity for 'evil' needs to do better than 'Get over it!'.
I think Google has done well so far. They should tread carefully when telling us that privacy doesn't exist... maybe instead they should tell us what the current state of 'privacy' is.
Codeshark wrote: So Ballmer's threat is akin to a robber pulling a gun in a doughnut shop only to discover that he is surrounded by a room full of well-armed, motivated policeman who would like nothing more than to put his sorry a$$ back where it belongs.
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I agree with your analogy except for Linux users being 'well armed motivated policemen'...
More appropriate would be, 'well armed, motivated vigilantes and maybe a few role-playing enthusiasts dressed up in chain mail with authentic broadswords (+4 vs. corporate trolls)'...who would like nothing more than to put his sorry a$$ back where it belongs...
sounds dull on the surface, but imagine another wiki database interfacing with the barcode database where you can look up company information/product information to determine things like:
* what country your product was made in
* whether or not they use child labor/sweatshops
* what company/parent company the producer is owned by
* what political parties those companies give to
* what the environmental track record of the company is
it could allow people to become smarter consumers.
Since they entered/won/recieved compensation for their design, I wonder if the design contest winners or Microsoft now own the rights to their design?
I seriously doubt that this is going to happen...
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It seems like Apple is all about creating convenient devices with simple interfaces and engaging for factors that work all the time.
It would be a HUGE risk for Apple to create an iPod with cell phone functionality, because if the phone service that they subscribed to did not work in certain areas, Joe Consumer would more than likely get mad at the device instead of the service provider. Along those lines that's probably why Apple opted for an FM transmitter plug in for the iPod instead of integrating it into the device... if Joe Consumer has reception problems, they blame the device instead of the station/weather/location.
It seems like something Apple would be very hesitant to do.
great analogy... MS the empire, Linux the Rebel Alliance...
So does that make Apple the Ewoks? Mac users are generally attracted to shiny things, are fierce defenders of their territory, and offer a considerable threat against the Empire despite their overall size.
I'm basing this on the assumption that we're limiting the scope of this analogy to TOS. If we're talking the new series, then Apple is totally the folks from the Clone Planet Kamino.
How can MS put this much PowerPC processing power in such a small formfactor? Is MS banking on IBM being able to produce these chips at a smaller nanometer process by the release date (is the xBox360 vaporware?). Is seems like Apple is having problems putting out a machine three times the size with 2/3 the processing power without using a liquid cooling solution.
There has to be more to the story.
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I'm betting they're prolly just from the future.
I always took Google's 'do no evil' motto as a jab at the 'big brother' concept. Taken at face value and in context, 'Get over it!' is a 'big brother' term.
We've seen Google gather information on user's search info and say, 'It's cool, your privacy is important to us.'
Then we seen Google link that search info to an email address, an online calendaring tool, an online office suite, and online address book, an online photo application, and online pocket book, and soon an online medical record storage application.
So now Google knows (if you use their entire toolbox and stay logged in):
who you are,
knows what you're searching for,
knows who your friends are,
knows what you're doing and when you're doing it, knows what you and your friends look like,
knows how much money you have in your bank account,
knows what you're buying...
and soon will know what ails you.
Any company with that much info, and that much capacity for 'evil' needs to do better than 'Get over it!'.
I think Google has done well so far. They should tread carefully when telling us that privacy doesn't exist... maybe instead they should tell us what the current state of 'privacy' is.
"Google is arguing that in the modern world there can be no expectation of privacy."
Translation:
Google is arguing that in the modern world that 'evil' is a relative term.
How are we going to attach a monkey with robot a robot arm to our torsos?
In Halo 3 one shot from a fully charged Plasma Pistol will take out any vehicle's drive train mechanism.
How many clicks does it take you to find the red cross logo on the johnson and johnson website? (jnj.com).
I've clicked 35 times so far and haven't found it.
That's going to take a lot of cat5 cable. They might as well rig up that space elevator everyone keeps talking about to it.
Codeshark wrote:
...who would like nothing more than to put his sorry a$$ back where it belongs...
So Ballmer's threat is akin to a robber pulling a gun in a doughnut shop only to discover that he is surrounded by a room full of well-armed, motivated policeman who would like nothing more than to put his sorry a$$ back where it belongs.
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I agree with your analogy except for Linux users being 'well armed motivated policemen'...
More appropriate would be, 'well armed, motivated vigilantes and maybe a few role-playing enthusiasts dressed up in chain mail with authentic broadswords (+4 vs. corporate trolls)'
Sorry, didn't read TFA, but will Bram Cohen be taking time off of the Bit Torrent project to write another Dracula sequel?
sounds dull on the surface, but imagine another wiki database interfacing with the barcode database where you can look up company information/product information to determine things like: * what country your product was made in * whether or not they use child labor/sweatshops * what company/parent company the producer is owned by * what political parties those companies give to * what the environmental track record of the company is it could allow people to become smarter consumers.
Maybe they could screw some erector set parts on the sides, and weld a spoiler on top. Great price, but I question their choice in casing.
Since they entered/won/recieved compensation for their design, I wonder if the design contest winners or Microsoft now own the rights to their design?
It seems like Apple is all about creating convenient devices with simple interfaces and engaging for factors that work all the time. It would be a HUGE risk for Apple to create an iPod with cell phone functionality, because if the phone service that they subscribed to did not work in certain areas, Joe Consumer would more than likely get mad at the device instead of the service provider. Along those lines that's probably why Apple opted for an FM transmitter plug in for the iPod instead of integrating it into the device... if Joe Consumer has reception problems, they blame the device instead of the station/weather/location. It seems like something Apple would be very hesitant to do.
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great analogy... MS the empire, Linux the Rebel Alliance...
So does that make Apple the Ewoks? Mac users are generally attracted to shiny things, are fierce defenders of their territory, and offer a considerable threat against the Empire despite their overall size.
I'm basing this on the assumption that we're limiting the scope of this analogy to TOS. If we're talking the new series, then Apple is totally the folks from the Clone Planet Kamino.
How can MS put this much PowerPC processing power in such a small formfactor? Is MS banking on IBM being able to produce these chips at a smaller nanometer process by the release date (is the xBox360 vaporware?). Is seems like Apple is having problems putting out a machine three times the size with 2/3 the processing power without using a liquid cooling solution. There has to be more to the story.