Google 5.0, 'an innovation factory that produces a torrent of new Web-based services, including Gmail, Google Desktop, and Google Base
Can someone please care to explain how Google Desktop and Google Base (and *all* other services except Gmail) make mokey for Google? Is it innovative to use the old "underpants gnomes" logic?
Given that ACPI barely works on it and is very buggy, therefore most people usually avoid doing anything fancy such as configuring power saving functionalities...
Google has produced no really interesting things in the last year or so. Actually, most of their new products are quite bad, yet fanboys keep pushing for the google-is-cool mantra. There's no way they could make a desktop application as good as itunes, and a decent store in order to compete with Apple if they use the same mediocre approach they've used with google video or google desktop. Maybe it's just because we're yet to see what's all about them, but so far they have adopted a microsoft-like business model where everything *must* be bound to their core product (search) otherwise it's no good.
Modern Linux distributions are easy to install and easy to use. Unfortunately, we are constantly presented with messages telling us that it's too hard and that the average person couldn't possibly grasp the complexity. That's rubbish. People aren't stupid and people who use computers learn new things all the time
It's not that Linux it's too hard, the problem is that it doesn't work for the average user. GUIs are not consistent, there are problems with basic things such as drag-and-drop, copy-and-paste, there is a huge lack of specialized applications, and so on. Even with the niceties of modern distributions, things like installing a software that is not directly supported in your distribution or installing 3rd-party drivers is not for the faint of heart. It's sad to say that Linux is years behind things like MacOS or Windows, it really puts a tear in my eyes, but it's true folks, better to admit it and start working into a real foundation before it's too late.
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Google 5.0, 'an innovation factory that produces a torrent of new Web-based services, including Gmail, Google Desktop, and Google Base
Can someone please care to explain how Google Desktop and Google Base (and *all* other services except Gmail) make mokey for Google? Is it innovative to use the old "underpants gnomes" logic?
It's not a troll when it's true
I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots
From where you cab conclude who's actually an idiot.
Yes sure, especially because Slashdot is only read by americans...
With dogs?
That's not right, this is not a troll post! Whoever moderated this as a troll didn't understood the idea being pointed out.
is another flop, such as most of what google has produced in the last 18 months (it's sad when even the fanboys don't argue about it anymore..)
or there are other people who think that most dubbings in english are extremely annoying?
So that these nations stop developing.
Given that ACPI barely works on it and is very buggy, therefore most people usually avoid doing anything fancy such as configuring power saving functionalities...
Google has produced no really interesting things in the last year or so. Actually, most of their new products are quite bad, yet fanboys keep pushing for the google-is-cool mantra. There's no way they could make a desktop application as good as itunes, and a decent store in order to compete with Apple if they use the same mediocre approach they've used with google video or google desktop. Maybe it's just because we're yet to see what's all about them, but so far they have adopted a microsoft-like business model where everything *must* be bound to their core product (search) otherwise it's no good.
AMD fanboy's logic
Intel loses market share to AMD
Apple moves to Intel
Therefore, Apple loses market share to AMD
Gary's mod for Half-Life 2.
We don't run our main servers on Linux, because there are too many flaws in main Linux kernel.
Man, that may hurt Linus' ego...
One can only wonder how bad is the user interface for this thing going to be, given the Motorola track record of extremely unusable software.
I wonder if people outside the US care about HALO, being it the "[American] Football" of the videogames.
these scientists argue that the characteristics of animal shape and locomotion are predictable from physics
I wonder who could expected the outcome to be the other way around.
But who could expect a different outcome for a typical dumbed-down idea for a game based on a movie whose story and direction were already lousy?
I guess that MusikCube fits better in the description of an "open source iTunes" counterpart.
A seismic shift was under way
Sure, they began paying for people to have their hardware (as opposed to profit happily from software).
Is for the Mozilla foundation buying Opera
Google hires him
Campers, rejoice
RPGs = group sex, without the sex
Simply set -Xverify:none and you'll have no class verifier running in your vm. This is a known, old trick to speed up applications.
Modern Linux distributions are easy to install and easy to use. Unfortunately, we are constantly presented with messages telling us that it's too hard and that the average person couldn't possibly grasp the complexity. That's rubbish. People aren't stupid and people who use computers learn new things all the time
It's not that Linux it's too hard, the problem is that it doesn't work for the average user. GUIs are not consistent, there are problems with basic things such as drag-and-drop, copy-and-paste, there is a huge lack of specialized applications, and so on. Even with the niceties of modern distributions, things like installing a software that is not directly supported in your distribution or installing 3rd-party drivers is not for the faint of heart. It's sad to say that Linux is years behind things like MacOS or Windows, it really puts a tear in my eyes, but it's true folks, better to admit it and start working into a real foundation before it's too late.