Really, so Google has a travel search? Intriguing. Also, the "copying" argument is completely fallacious. It doesn't matter WHEN something was developed as long as it's in the past. And honestly the quality is at least as good with Bing regarding the maps implementation, and often better or more detailed. Google implements features and then leaves them to rot for 5 years.
I love Google, I really do. They push the market forward and are definitely a good competitor, but they are no longer focused on specific things, and therefore cannot be as nimble and capable (sustainably) as other companies dedicated to it.
Ok, so replace Yahoo mail with Zimbra, Thunderbird, or any number of interfaces that are much better.
How is Gmail the best application when they can barely get it working or loading in browsers other than Firefox? For a Google app, it's extremely slow, doesn't format emails correctly, and is constantly suffering from hardware failure in the back end.
I'm not saying that other providers don't also have these issues, but Gmail is definitely not the best email I've used...I use it because it's convenient.
It's hard for me to say what it is outside of the Americas, since I'm sure MS is dedicating their resources to making it really good inside of and close to the US.
Bing lacks a street view, which is invaluable for many inner city dwellers with a bad sense of direction, but makes up for it with maps that have been updated within the last decade. I've found that it's faster performing too, especially in mashups.
What? Are you talking about Yahoo Answers, that game where somebody posts a fake question and people compete to see who can come up with the funniest fake answer? Could be useful if you want to find out "how is babby formed," I guess.
This is just silly, you could say the same for Slashdot, but it's certainly not difficult to find good answers to real questions on a day to day basis on either site.
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Not really...Google just offers you a unified experience.
Bing has better Travel and Maps search.
Yahoo has a generally better mail UI/client, as well as a huge database of Q&A.
Ask has better contextual search and a butler.
30 Boxes is a better calendar
Flickr is far better than Picasa, and has a better community
Zimbra is just plain better than pretty much anything that Google Docs has to offer (which isn't much)
Wordpress is more advanced, feature-rich, and easier to use than Blogger
Netvibes is a lot less buggy than Google Reader, and provides a better interface
(Please note, these are the general consumer products. Many of the business services and tools are far better than the competition)
But, most people are lazy and would rather just go to google.com.
Yeah, immediate history caching can take a lot of memory, but Opera does the same thing (better) for less memory usage, generally. My guess is that extensions and the beast that it takes to support that in FF is what sucks down most of the memory. It's interpreted, rather than compiled in, so of course it's going to use up both more processor time and memory.
I'm not a big fan of FF, but I'm glad (for its users' sakes) that they're working to fix these problems, rather than just saying "oh, it's not really a problem" like they used to.
Yeah, I do want to pay a monthly fee to listen to around 1500-2000 new songs per month. See, I don't want to own the music, I just want to listen to it. If I buy a traditional CD, only around 40-50% of the songs are worth listening to. If I buy a one-off, I'm still paying for something that I may or may not like down the road. With a subscription, I can listen to it until I'm sick of it, and if it's really something that I want to buy, then I'll go out and buy it.
I call it shotgun-style music listening...I listen to lots of music per month, and you can't really do that if you want to own all the music. If I listened to less than 1 new CD per month, maybe I would buy it, but otherwise it doesn't make any sense.
Sorry, but I don't want to sit there listening through 30 second samplers on Amazon when I could be listening to the whole thing. If I don't like it, then I delete it and move on to the next of my 2000 songs that I currently have in my "testing queue" on Rhapsody.
I may never buy the CDs for the music I've subscribed to...I'll probably want to listen to different music down the road if these subscription companies go down the tubes. The thing is, all my CDs I bought in the past are scratched, and any music that was on my hard drive is at such a low quality since it was burned so long ago, that I'd have to repurchase it anyway.
Whenever the Gamecube first came out, a lot of people were talking about internet readiness and online mode capabilities, which is one of the reasons that I really wanted SSBM, because I figured that it would be the first game anyone would make online-capable. So yeah, I was pretty sad the day I found out that it didn't have support for anonymous international whuppage.
I've been waiting for this feature since around 2000, so this totally just made my day. Hopefully they make it an easy connection process rather than a PITA to get it set up, etc. Thanks, "The Studio"!
The totally ridiculous part about this is that the speculators have no preference as to what they gobble up--not even a look at what the domain is. Case in point: I used to own squirreltweezers.com because it was a totally dumb name. No meaning. Nothing. However, the second it became available, some squatter snapped it up, like they're going to make some money off of it.
I think we should line these squatters up and slap them until they can't see straight any more.
Well, we're not planning on sheltering our kids from human contact because they're homeschooled. You're right that social development is important, but the act of being social only indirectly leads to success. Success is not built on being social--it comes as a byproduct of the self-confidence that is the result of accomplishment, which is rarely produced without education (formal or not).
Finding friends is important; everybody needs people that they can count on and enjoy spending time with. However, I don't think that the purpose of schooling, whether from public systems or at home, is finding friends. That should come naturally, and shouldn't be the only positive outcome of public education.
We'll definitely be homeschooling our kids. There's almost zero benefit to public schooling, other than the social aspect. Unfortunately, even though we will be homeschooling, we'll still have to pay taxes that go towards public "education". Education that essentially boils down to making sure everyone graduates, even though they can't read or do math without a calculator.
It'd be nice to get some government interaction that really works to benefit the public education process. Obviously, No Child Left Behind isn't working, and Bill Clinton's money is long gone and we still haven't seen anything. Any other ideas?
I can't entrust my child's future with an education system that teaches them nothing more than the importance of so-called self-esteem and tolerance, which are all that public schools seem to be teaching these days.
I thought the Separe extension was completely useless. If you really want to visually separate tabs, just open a new window and start fresh. That, or get glasses if you can't scan your tabs.
I suppose at some point FF extensions have to hit a wall for new and innovative things. Personally, I'm still waiting for the "don't use 300MB of memory" extension.
While writing a business plan is important, I suggest that you concentrate on developing a marketing plan and a strategy for just startup. Things like how to do accounting, business structure, long-term growth and other elements of your business will fall into place. Just don't get behind because your business is doing well.
Your business plan serves 3 main purposes: finding out if our business will actually work, getting you and others inside your business on the same track, and getting money from the SBA or a VC. As others have said, you should look to alternate sources of income other than VC's, as they will want a large share of the company for a small amount of effort on their part. Money's obviously important in starting a business, but you can probably get much further on much less money than you thought if you're willing to budget correctly and put things that aren't necessary on the back burner. Chances are good, since you're a technology company, that your main initial investment is going to be time. If that's the case, work, work, work, work until your business is in place. You won't really need a ton of money. Since you said everyone understands the company on the inside, you really only have one good reason to do it: finding out if your business will be profitable.
Answer these questions honesty: is there any competition? If not, is there any demand for my product? If not, how will I create it? If there is competition, will I differentiate because I'm faster, cheaper, or higher quality? As a side note: contrary to what you might think, price is usually not the #1 reason people buy things. It's trust. If you are trying to compete on price, you're going for the most fickle market: the people who will flip and go to a different product or service in a heartbeat as long as it's cheaper.
I suggest buying Guerrilla Marketing from Jay Conrad Levinson--it has a lot of excellent insight.
Well, they sure can't do it without the help of a) labs or b) heterosexual surrogates. While I'm sure same-sex couples can raise their children with upstanding morals, it also brings the question of "what if everybody did?" My stance, although not always popular, has continually been that if the whole world can't do it and benefit, then it's probably not a good thing. If everyone was a homosexual, the entire race of humanity would be wiped out in one generation, save for those born through scientific advance. Same goes for murder, treason, lying, etc. I don't have anything against gay people, but it's always seemed to be a destructive lifestyle to me.
I've never heard that proposed, but that does make sense. I guess the problem is when you have so many variants, like with the MyDoom virus--it's harder to associate a number than a name in memory. I guess that wouldn't be a problem if it's just so that AV companies have a standard naming convention for the viruses, but it could get harder for people to remember what they have to look out for.
The other big difference is IE's box model deciding to expand elements that have padding and width defined. People who code just for IE always complain that everyone else renders it wrong when they run into this.
Like any profession, it's easy to start out doing something the easy way because you don't know any better. Unfortunately, we can trace a lot of the reason that people don't do it the right way to their formal education. Like you said, pretty much everything the newbies are learning is old hat or deprecated.
My alma mater teaches how to "write HTML" using Dreamweaver, along with the concepts of "styles", which is really the lame.style1,.style2 font effect crap that DW pulls. Basically, nobody comes out of those classes knowing anything useful--it's pretty much just learning how to mock up a cheesy webpage that looks like someone took it dumpster diving.
I think professors should be required to keep up with the technology. It would be a good idea for universities to hire more adjunct professors that have a job in the real world, instead of the hacks that still use HTML 3.2 because they don't know any better and haven't kept up with professional techniques such as templating, CSS, etc.
I still don't understand the obsession with 216 web-safe colors. I can't think of the last time I even saw 216 colors in anyone's house, much less my server logs. It seems that the people writing those books just copied a whole bunch of articles they printed off the internet 5 years ago and tried to compile them into a book, rather than thinking for themselves that it doesn't make sense.
This book is probably a good book, judging from its description, and that it's a Head First book. The others I've read in the series were wonderful.
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Really, so Google has a travel search? Intriguing. Also, the "copying" argument is completely fallacious. It doesn't matter WHEN something was developed as long as it's in the past. And honestly the quality is at least as good with Bing regarding the maps implementation, and often better or more detailed. Google implements features and then leaves them to rot for 5 years.
I love Google, I really do. They push the market forward and are definitely a good competitor, but they are no longer focused on specific things, and therefore cannot be as nimble and capable (sustainably) as other companies dedicated to it.
Ok, so replace Yahoo mail with Zimbra, Thunderbird, or any number of interfaces that are much better.
How is Gmail the best application when they can barely get it working or loading in browsers other than Firefox? For a Google app, it's extremely slow, doesn't format emails correctly, and is constantly suffering from hardware failure in the back end.
I'm not saying that other providers don't also have these issues, but Gmail is definitely not the best email I've used...I use it because it's convenient.
It's hard for me to say what it is outside of the Americas, since I'm sure MS is dedicating their resources to making it really good inside of and close to the US.
Bing lacks a street view, which is invaluable for many inner city dwellers with a bad sense of direction, but makes up for it with maps that have been updated within the last decade. I've found that it's faster performing too, especially in mashups.
This is just silly, you could say the same for Slashdot, but it's certainly not difficult to find good answers to real questions on a day to day basis on either site.
Not really...Google just offers you a unified experience. Bing has better Travel and Maps search. Yahoo has a generally better mail UI/client, as well as a huge database of Q&A. Ask has better contextual search and a butler. 30 Boxes is a better calendar Flickr is far better than Picasa, and has a better community Zimbra is just plain better than pretty much anything that Google Docs has to offer (which isn't much) Wordpress is more advanced, feature-rich, and easier to use than Blogger Netvibes is a lot less buggy than Google Reader, and provides a better interface (Please note, these are the general consumer products. Many of the business services and tools are far better than the competition) But, most people are lazy and would rather just go to google.com.
It's not currently on there, but I've seen it before as well. They also heavily promote Chrome on YouTube.
Yeah, immediate history caching can take a lot of memory, but Opera does the same thing (better) for less memory usage, generally. My guess is that extensions and the beast that it takes to support that in FF is what sucks down most of the memory. It's interpreted, rather than compiled in, so of course it's going to use up both more processor time and memory.
I'm not a big fan of FF, but I'm glad (for its users' sakes) that they're working to fix these problems, rather than just saying "oh, it's not really a problem" like they used to.
Yeah, I do want to pay a monthly fee to listen to around 1500-2000 new songs per month. See, I don't want to own the music, I just want to listen to it. If I buy a traditional CD, only around 40-50% of the songs are worth listening to. If I buy a one-off, I'm still paying for something that I may or may not like down the road. With a subscription, I can listen to it until I'm sick of it, and if it's really something that I want to buy, then I'll go out and buy it.
I call it shotgun-style music listening...I listen to lots of music per month, and you can't really do that if you want to own all the music. If I listened to less than 1 new CD per month, maybe I would buy it, but otherwise it doesn't make any sense.
Sorry, but I don't want to sit there listening through 30 second samplers on Amazon when I could be listening to the whole thing. If I don't like it, then I delete it and move on to the next of my 2000 songs that I currently have in my "testing queue" on Rhapsody.
I may never buy the CDs for the music I've subscribed to...I'll probably want to listen to different music down the road if these subscription companies go down the tubes. The thing is, all my CDs I bought in the past are scratched, and any music that was on my hard drive is at such a low quality since it was burned so long ago, that I'd have to repurchase it anyway.
Whenever the Gamecube first came out, a lot of people were talking about internet readiness and online mode capabilities, which is one of the reasons that I really wanted SSBM, because I figured that it would be the first game anyone would make online-capable. So yeah, I was pretty sad the day I found out that it didn't have support for anonymous international whuppage.
I've been waiting for this feature since around 2000, so this totally just made my day. Hopefully they make it an easy connection process rather than a PITA to get it set up, etc. Thanks, "The Studio"!
The totally ridiculous part about this is that the speculators have no preference as to what they gobble up--not even a look at what the domain is. Case in point: I used to own squirreltweezers.com because it was a totally dumb name. No meaning. Nothing. However, the second it became available, some squatter snapped it up, like they're going to make some money off of it.
I think we should line these squatters up and slap them until they can't see straight any more.
Well, we're not planning on sheltering our kids from human contact because they're homeschooled. You're right that social development is important, but the act of being social only indirectly leads to success. Success is not built on being social--it comes as a byproduct of the self-confidence that is the result of accomplishment, which is rarely produced without education (formal or not).
Finding friends is important; everybody needs people that they can count on and enjoy spending time with. However, I don't think that the purpose of schooling, whether from public systems or at home, is finding friends. That should come naturally, and shouldn't be the only positive outcome of public education.
We'll definitely be homeschooling our kids. There's almost zero benefit to public schooling, other than the social aspect. Unfortunately, even though we will be homeschooling, we'll still have to pay taxes that go towards public "education". Education that essentially boils down to making sure everyone graduates, even though they can't read or do math without a calculator.
It'd be nice to get some government interaction that really works to benefit the public education process. Obviously, No Child Left Behind isn't working, and Bill Clinton's money is long gone and we still haven't seen anything. Any other ideas?
I can't entrust my child's future with an education system that teaches them nothing more than the importance of so-called self-esteem and tolerance, which are all that public schools seem to be teaching these days.
You don't happen to work for Comp USA, do you? I swear I heard similar (unsolicited) advice when I was looking at laptops a while back.
I thought the Separe extension was completely useless. If you really want to visually separate tabs, just open a new window and start fresh. That, or get glasses if you can't scan your tabs.
I suppose at some point FF extensions have to hit a wall for new and innovative things. Personally, I'm still waiting for the "don't use 300MB of memory" extension.
While writing a business plan is important, I suggest that you concentrate on developing a marketing plan and a strategy for just startup. Things like how to do accounting, business structure, long-term growth and other elements of your business will fall into place. Just don't get behind because your business is doing well.
Your business plan serves 3 main purposes: finding out if our business will actually work, getting you and others inside your business on the same track, and getting money from the SBA or a VC. As others have said, you should look to alternate sources of income other than VC's, as they will want a large share of the company for a small amount of effort on their part. Money's obviously important in starting a business, but you can probably get much further on much less money than you thought if you're willing to budget correctly and put things that aren't necessary on the back burner. Chances are good, since you're a technology company, that your main initial investment is going to be time. If that's the case, work, work, work, work until your business is in place. You won't really need a ton of money. Since you said everyone understands the company on the inside, you really only have one good reason to do it: finding out if your business will be profitable.
Answer these questions honesty: is there any competition? If not, is there any demand for my product? If not, how will I create it? If there is competition, will I differentiate because I'm faster, cheaper, or higher quality? As a side note: contrary to what you might think, price is usually not the #1 reason people buy things. It's trust. If you are trying to compete on price, you're going for the most fickle market: the people who will flip and go to a different product or service in a heartbeat as long as it's cheaper.
I suggest buying Guerrilla Marketing from Jay Conrad Levinson--it has a lot of excellent insight.
I was referring to morality--I should have clarified that.
Well, they sure can't do it without the help of a) labs or b) heterosexual surrogates. While I'm sure same-sex couples can raise their children with upstanding morals, it also brings the question of "what if everybody did?" My stance, although not always popular, has continually been that if the whole world can't do it and benefit, then it's probably not a good thing. If everyone was a homosexual, the entire race of humanity would be wiped out in one generation, save for those born through scientific advance. Same goes for murder, treason, lying, etc. I don't have anything against gay people, but it's always seemed to be a destructive lifestyle to me.
I've never heard that proposed, but that does make sense. I guess the problem is when you have so many variants, like with the MyDoom virus--it's harder to associate a number than a name in memory. I guess that wouldn't be a problem if it's just so that AV companies have a standard naming convention for the viruses, but it could get harder for people to remember what they have to look out for.
They should have just had everyone call it the Sex for Gymnasts virus.
Case in point: my copy of Super Smash Bros. Melee from 2001 that I still play and will never sell. Ever.
The other big difference is IE's box model deciding to expand elements that have padding and width defined. People who code just for IE always complain that everyone else renders it wrong when they run into this.
Especially on porn sites...
...queer, even.
Like any profession, it's easy to start out doing something the easy way because you don't know any better. Unfortunately, we can trace a lot of the reason that people don't do it the right way to their formal education. Like you said, pretty much everything the newbies are learning is old hat or deprecated.
My alma mater teaches how to "write HTML" using Dreamweaver, along with the concepts of "styles", which is really the lame .style1, .style2 font effect crap that DW pulls. Basically, nobody comes out of those classes knowing anything useful--it's pretty much just learning how to mock up a cheesy webpage that looks like someone took it dumpster diving.
I think professors should be required to keep up with the technology. It would be a good idea for universities to hire more adjunct professors that have a job in the real world, instead of the hacks that still use HTML 3.2 because they don't know any better and haven't kept up with professional techniques such as templating, CSS, etc.
I still don't understand the obsession with 216 web-safe colors. I can't think of the last time I even saw 216 colors in anyone's house, much less my server logs. It seems that the people writing those books just copied a whole bunch of articles they printed off the internet 5 years ago and tried to compile them into a book, rather than thinking for themselves that it doesn't make sense.
This book is probably a good book, judging from its description, and that it's a Head First book. The others I've read in the series were wonderful.
Ok, done with the rant.