No, the ideas aren't, but what you said is about as dumb as saying OS X doesn't contain any innovations because its just an Operating System. Gmail contains the conversation view, which I consider very innovative. I like the labels concept. Gmail was the first webmail service which I could stand to use (and now like better than traditional mail clients).
I'll give you chat, Gtalk is pathetic. Calendar I haven't seen yet, so I won't comment. Their mapping tools (Earth and Local) are pretty neat, and I have yet to find any competition with as many features (don't even get me started on Windows Live Local, what a POS, doesn't work outside the US).
Are you trying to say that you can't innovate in old markets, and move those markets forward? Cause that would be a pretty dumb thing to say IMHO. Does that mean Tivo wasn't innovative because TV had been around for years? What about eBay....auctions have been around for many years?
Ah, so letting the Chinese censor Google themselves, as well as degrading the performance of the service in the process, was a better solution? Looking at everything as black and white (or good and evil) without acknowledging the grey areas in-between is an indication of a simple minded person.
The shareholders have no say whatsoever with Google, as the shares are non-voting. The shares held by the insiders have 10 times the voting power of the public shares.
I'm a Shaw customer. Shaw is primarily a Cable TV company, who also has internet services and VOIP services. Telus is their main competition here in Calgary at least. Telus is primarily a telephone company. Telus also has cellular service, ADSL internet service, dial-up internet service and they are introducing a new Cable TV Service.
So, pretty much, with the new services, the two companies compete in all of their products. I never knew Shaw did this...but I use their VOIP service anyways, so it doesn't affect me.
SUSE Desktop 1.0 was renamed Novell Linux Desktop, now being renamed back to SUSE. It was not an incredibly popular product, which is probably why you don't remember it.
SUSE had a product they called SUSE Desktop 1.0, and it was for businesses. Novell released the next version and renamed it Novell Linux Desktop. Now the next name is SUSE once again.
Maybe it wouldn't be so damn slow if they linked to http://search.live.com/ instead of the live.com homepage which just happens to have a search bar on it.
Tried the search engine....I prefer the old MSN/Google/Yahoo approach to the layout (multiple pages). Scroll wheel is kind of jerky with this. Doesn't feel right...probably just me:-P
Ummm, you said you may have to quit using the software, and I said you could disable the feature. I wasn't talking about an enterprise, I thought you didn't realize you could disable the feature. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Lol! You have it ass-backwards. Google Enterprise doesn't have the feature, Google Personal does. I'm using Google Personal right now and the feature is available, but I don't use it. You may be using an older version of Google Desktop, which is why you don't see it. Google Desktop 1 and 2 didn't have this feature, Desktop 3 beta does.
Will you please shut up! You don't need to post this in every thread on the damn article. Not all companies are able to just rip up all their windows installations, plus their custom software built for Windows, and replace it overnight with another system. Christ, you're like one of those kids that run around saying the same thing over and over again in the hopes someone will pay attention to you.
Yeah, but spyware generally does this without your knowledge. Google Desktop must be a pretty shitty spy to explicitly tell you, both in their TOS and on the page where you enable the feature, what they are doing.
Plus, Spyware installs without your knowledge for the most part. With Google Desktop, you have to download the program, then dig through the settings and turn this feature on.
Try Google Desktop for Enterprise, the software doesn't even contain this feature and the software can be locked down and can have document retention policies (if your email retention policy is 30 days, Google Desktop can be set to remove emails from its index after 30 days). Much better solution for companies.
Or you could just simply not enable Search Across Computers, espescially considering it is disabled by default. And yes, I can verify that, I'm running Google Desktop 3 Beta right now.
The quality of some of the submitted stories on Digg is absolutely pathetic. And 99% of the comments are one liners written by complete morons. So yes, Slashdot has better stuff. When reading the news, I care about quality over quantity and speed.
Some examples from the front page of Digg.com:
--"Women will get sterile just looking at you", Star Wars fans uncool??
A man was so bold as to blog that being a hard core Star Wars fan is social suicide. He backed up his statement with some hilarious convention pics and captions.
--Hidden task killer in Windows XP!
Most people probably know that Windows XP comes with a darn useful task killer. Lets you kill anything automatically!
--Zombie MMO???
A buddy of mine just forwarded me this link. Turns out the name mean lifeless in Latin. Does anyone know anything about this? I'm a HUGE Zombie and HUGE MMO fan!!!
--EA's Exclusive Contract With The NFL May Be Voided!
If the dispute between the NFLPA and the NFL continues then anti-trust rules will apply. If this happens then EA's contract is null and void!
--LEGO brick USB drive
The perfect USB drive. Why doesn't LEGO sell these?
So what is Digg? A news site, or a place for geeks to dump their filth? Sorry, I don't go out of my way online to read garbage, and that includes teasers written by retards. And I'm not even going to bother replicating some of the comments here.
Well if you can think of any better reason why the Pentagon and the White House don't show up in normal searches, but one of the smallest malls in a Canadian City will, I'm all ears. Otherwise, don't bother commenting.:)
Satellite view has proved useful for me. Was going to take a look at a house on the other end of my city, which would have taken forever to bus, so I viewed it on Google Maps. Turns out a giant sound barrier was right in front of the house. Didn't bother wasting my time. Just because you don't find it useful, doesn't mean nobody does.
Oh, and when I went to go look at another house, I had someone drive me. Mapquest's directions led us to a dead-end and we ended up being 15 minutes late because of the stupid layout of roads in the area. Apparently they thought there was a road going right through 3 houses. Out of curiosity, I tried Google Maps when I got home, and it gave proper directions. So for me, Google Maps is more useful.
Google's overall coverage of the entire world is better than Microsoft's, although Microsoft's is nice when searching inside the US. For instance, I can't zoom in on Calgary, Canada, but I can see my house in Google Maps.
Could be a Security issue. The Pentagon isn't displayed either if you do a search. However, type in "House of Commons in Ottawa" and it comes up properly. I'm willing to bet that is what it is.
And this makes up for Microsoft's completely awful sattellite imagery for the entire rest of the world outside the US compared with Google's how exactly? Microsoft's service is a joke.
"Gee, New York's sattellite imagery is black and white and we don't even have imagery for outside of the US. Google has us beat hands down. Let's take some aerial photographs from a plane, inside the US! That'll make our service way better than theirs!!!!"
Pretty sad when Microsoft can't even see downtown in most Canadian cities, yet I can see my house on Google Maps/Earth. Plus, Google has a nice simple interface, as always. Microsoft's has little pop-ups all over the map which bug the hell out of me. Do I really need a scratch-pad taking up half the space? And why can't they set a cookie to keep it turned off when I go to local.live.com. Why, when I type in Berlin in Google Maps, does it take me to Berlin, Germany, whereas Microsoft's can't? Why do I always get "Server Busy" messages from Microsoft's whereas Google's always works? Why can I do local business searches in my home city in Canada, whereas I can't even see the city in Live Local? I wrote off Microsoft's mapping service long ago.
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We're talking about Patents here.
No, the ideas aren't, but what you said is about as dumb as saying OS X doesn't contain any innovations because its just an Operating System. Gmail contains the conversation view, which I consider very innovative. I like the labels concept. Gmail was the first webmail service which I could stand to use (and now like better than traditional mail clients).
I'll give you chat, Gtalk is pathetic. Calendar I haven't seen yet, so I won't comment. Their mapping tools (Earth and Local) are pretty neat, and I have yet to find any competition with as many features (don't even get me started on Windows Live Local, what a POS, doesn't work outside the US).
Are you trying to say that you can't innovate in old markets, and move those markets forward? Cause that would be a pretty dumb thing to say IMHO. Does that mean Tivo wasn't innovative because TV had been around for years? What about eBay....auctions have been around for many years?
Ah, so letting the Chinese censor Google themselves, as well as degrading the performance of the service in the process, was a better solution? Looking at everything as black and white (or good and evil) without acknowledging the grey areas in-between is an indication of a simple minded person.
The shareholders have no say whatsoever with Google, as the shares are non-voting. The shares held by the insiders have 10 times the voting power of the public shares.
I'm a Shaw customer. Shaw is primarily a Cable TV company, who also has internet services and VOIP services. Telus is their main competition here in Calgary at least. Telus is primarily a telephone company. Telus also has cellular service, ADSL internet service, dial-up internet service and they are introducing a new Cable TV Service. So, pretty much, with the new services, the two companies compete in all of their products. I never knew Shaw did this...but I use their VOIP service anyways, so it doesn't affect me.
SUSE Desktop 1.0 was renamed Novell Linux Desktop, now being renamed back to SUSE. It was not an incredibly popular product, which is probably why you don't remember it.
SUSE had a product they called SUSE Desktop 1.0, and it was for businesses. Novell released the next version and renamed it Novell Linux Desktop. Now the next name is SUSE once again.
Ummm, Altavista was the king of search. Yahoo! was born a portal. Yahoo! viewed search as a commodity, or loss leader.
Maybe it wouldn't be so damn slow if they linked to http://search.live.com/ instead of the live.com homepage which just happens to have a search bar on it.
:-P
Tried the search engine....I prefer the old MSN/Google/Yahoo approach to the layout (multiple pages). Scroll wheel is kind of jerky with this. Doesn't feel right...probably just me
I guess reading your posts properly would help. I somehow thought you meant using the program at home. Nevermind, I'll just shut up now.
Ummm, you said you may have to quit using the software, and I said you could disable the feature. I wasn't talking about an enterprise, I thought you didn't realize you could disable the feature. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
Lol! You have it ass-backwards. Google Enterprise doesn't have the feature, Google Personal does. I'm using Google Personal right now and the feature is available, but I don't use it. You may be using an older version of Google Desktop, which is why you don't see it. Google Desktop 1 and 2 didn't have this feature, Desktop 3 beta does.
Will you please shut up! You don't need to post this in every thread on the damn article. Not all companies are able to just rip up all their windows installations, plus their custom software built for Windows, and replace it overnight with another system. Christ, you're like one of those kids that run around saying the same thing over and over again in the hopes someone will pay attention to you.
Yeah, but spyware generally does this without your knowledge. Google Desktop must be a pretty shitty spy to explicitly tell you, both in their TOS and on the page where you enable the feature, what they are doing. Plus, Spyware installs without your knowledge for the most part. With Google Desktop, you have to download the program, then dig through the settings and turn this feature on.
Try Google Desktop for Enterprise, the software doesn't even contain this feature and the software can be locked down and can have document retention policies (if your email retention policy is 30 days, Google Desktop can be set to remove emails from its index after 30 days). Much better solution for companies.
Or you could just simply not enable Search Across Computers, espescially considering it is disabled by default. And yes, I can verify that, I'm running Google Desktop 3 Beta right now.
Except that this feature is contained in Google Desktop, not the Google Toolbar. A little Reading of TFA would be of great help here.
The quality of some of the submitted stories on Digg is absolutely pathetic. And 99% of the comments are one liners written by complete morons. So yes, Slashdot has better stuff. When reading the news, I care about quality over quantity and speed.
Some examples from the front page of Digg.com:
--"Women will get sterile just looking at you", Star Wars fans uncool??
A man was so bold as to blog that being a hard core Star Wars fan is social suicide. He backed up his statement with some hilarious convention pics and captions.
--Hidden task killer in Windows XP!
Most people probably know that Windows XP comes with a darn useful task killer. Lets you kill anything automatically!
--Zombie MMO???
A buddy of mine just forwarded me this link. Turns out the name mean lifeless in Latin. Does anyone know anything about this? I'm a HUGE Zombie and HUGE MMO fan!!!
--EA's Exclusive Contract With The NFL May Be Voided!
If the dispute between the NFLPA and the NFL continues then anti-trust rules will apply. If this happens then EA's contract is null and void!
--LEGO brick USB drive
The perfect USB drive. Why doesn't LEGO sell these?
So what is Digg? A news site, or a place for geeks to dump their filth? Sorry, I don't go out of my way online to read garbage, and that includes teasers written by retards. And I'm not even going to bother replicating some of the comments here.
Sweden != Switzerland
Possibly has something to do with the searches being done in China, on servers hosted in China.
Well if you can think of any better reason why the Pentagon and the White House don't show up in normal searches, but one of the smallest malls in a Canadian City will, I'm all ears. Otherwise, don't bother commenting. :)
Satellite view has proved useful for me. Was going to take a look at a house on the other end of my city, which would have taken forever to bus, so I viewed it on Google Maps. Turns out a giant sound barrier was right in front of the house. Didn't bother wasting my time. Just because you don't find it useful, doesn't mean nobody does.
Oh, and when I went to go look at another house, I had someone drive me. Mapquest's directions led us to a dead-end and we ended up being 15 minutes late because of the stupid layout of roads in the area. Apparently they thought there was a road going right through 3 houses. Out of curiosity, I tried Google Maps when I got home, and it gave proper directions. So for me, Google Maps is more useful.
Google's overall coverage of the entire world is better than Microsoft's, although Microsoft's is nice when searching inside the US. For instance, I can't zoom in on Calgary, Canada, but I can see my house in Google Maps.
Could be a Security issue. The Pentagon isn't displayed either if you do a search. However, type in "House of Commons in Ottawa" and it comes up properly. I'm willing to bet that is what it is.
And this makes up for Microsoft's completely awful sattellite imagery for the entire rest of the world outside the US compared with Google's how exactly? Microsoft's service is a joke.
"Gee, New York's sattellite imagery is black and white and we don't even have imagery for outside of the US. Google has us beat hands down. Let's take some aerial photographs from a plane, inside the US! That'll make our service way better than theirs!!!!"
Pretty sad when Microsoft can't even see downtown in most Canadian cities, yet I can see my house on Google Maps/Earth. Plus, Google has a nice simple interface, as always. Microsoft's has little pop-ups all over the map which bug the hell out of me. Do I really need a scratch-pad taking up half the space? And why can't they set a cookie to keep it turned off when I go to local.live.com. Why, when I type in Berlin in Google Maps, does it take me to Berlin, Germany, whereas Microsoft's can't? Why do I always get "Server Busy" messages from Microsoft's whereas Google's always works? Why can I do local business searches in my home city in Canada, whereas I can't even see the city in Live Local? I wrote off Microsoft's mapping service long ago.