Here, if you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw. There it is, that's a straw, you see? You watching?. And my straw reaches acroooooooss the room, and starts to drink your milkshake... I... drink... your... milkshake!
Google is simply experiencing some classic Daniel-Day Drainage!!
I honestly don't see any problem with this. Being apart of W3C is a major investment for these companies. They are also the companies that have most to risk/gain by changes to the standards. People too soon forget that the 'standards board' circa 2001 was Microsoft. The prevalence of IE6 at the time basically dictated the standard by which developers made applications. Notice how I did not mention the actual standard, but the standard by which developers made applications. They are two very separate things when it comes to IE6's history. At least now, there is a general consensus, and we are headed in the right direction simply by these large entities being in agreement.
Maybe the terms of service also states that Facebook reserves the right to store toxic waste in your basement; but that doesn't necessarily make it legal. IANAL.
I honestly thought those were pretty good examples of things that came out of MS R&D. Instead of just posting flamebait, look at the products they actually come out with..
CRM 2011, now a real competitor to Salesforce at 10% the cost
BI Tools. Tighter integration of SSRS and Excel, Powerpivot, all great products that continue to rule the practical business use case
XBox, which isn't the HTPC they originally were shooting for, but you can find one in almost every home and dorm room, and 5 years into the product cycle, still cranking out units
IE 9, while still needing a few issues to be addressed, one extremely groundbreaking product... compiled javascript execution, dual core utility, hardware graphics support -- they own the IP rights to the majority of these breakthroughs
Azure
What you fail to see is that a lot of these improvements go into their existing product line.. While I understand that's doesn't satisfy you, it certainly compels many businesses and consumers to buy their products year after year. Their software (and hardware) just plain works. This is why MS has such market dominance. The problem is that you're failing to see the improvements to existing products.
Lastly, from the smug nature of the post, combined with the subtle 'its only groundbreaking if its shiny' attitude, I've deduced that you own at least more than two (2) Apple iProducts
Net neutrality takes away the power of private cable companies to censor content, but it does not give the government authority to do so.
And further, this is an example of the government doing exactly what it's meant to - stopping private companies walking all over everyone in the pursuit of profit.
Regardless, VZ still throttles packets and timeouts certain requests per timeframe. I've run tests over my Android, connected straight to VZ, then tunneled over ssl to a vpn with a Time Warner T1, at some point I will post my findings. It really is interesting to see how poorly sites like TedTaks and Hulu (non-youtube) fair for streaming media. Keep in mind, this is the same connection, and even with the ssl overhead, it outperforms because of VZ's traffic games. This will only get worse now that they are adding iphone to the inventory. 150$/mo to VZ, and for that, I still have to circumvent their traffic shaping tools.
The fact that they currently shape traffic, and bringing lawsuits to the FCC for rules that they are in already operating in direct violation of, its like the cheater that complains when he doesn't win.
Yeah.. but governments get in at the provider level, not at the consumer level. That way they can still listen in on the Startac's still floating around out there.
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Here, if you have a milkshake, and I have a milkshake, and I have a straw. There it is, that's a straw, you see? You watching?. And my straw reaches acroooooooss the room, and starts to drink your milkshake... I... drink... your... milkshake!
Google is simply experiencing some classic Daniel-Day Drainage!!
...but before the 1940s, aerial ropeways were a common means of cargo transport, not only in mountainous regions but also on flat terrain.
Before the 1900s, horses were a common means of cargo transport. They're even more efficient than a ropeway. Just add food and water.
Where's the thought provoking article on horses?
Aboard the USS Enterprise, it requires at least two officers' codes to scuttle the ship.
Volumes of emails huh? 900 huh? Apparently Alaska doesn't have copy/paste functionality yet.
I mean, if it were any more, the whole Alaskan infrastructure would need to switch from punch cards to Microsoft Access.
In Soviet Russia, aliens message you!!!
I honestly don't see any problem with this. Being apart of W3C is a major investment for these companies. They are also the companies that have most to risk/gain by changes to the standards. People too soon forget that the 'standards board' circa 2001 was Microsoft. The prevalence of IE6 at the time basically dictated the standard by which developers made applications. Notice how I did not mention the actual standard, but the standard by which developers made applications. They are two very separate things when it comes to IE6's history. At least now, there is a general consensus, and we are headed in the right direction simply by these large entities being in agreement.
Parent watches way too much Fox News.
Give it a chance, something really good could come of this.
Fergie....
Autotune will now come with every new intel chip.
Unlimited or not, there are many people eager to switch simply for better service, especially in Metro areas.
Maybe the terms of service also states that Facebook reserves the right to store toxic waste in your basement; but that doesn't necessarily make it legal. IANAL.
Thats fine. You be apart of the social experiment.. I'm content with my non-facebook connected /. account
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It is all about geography.
For the Highlanders, there can be only one choice of service providers.
As it is, I have a 4Mb/s connection, and I don't feel left out of the internets at all.
That's the attitude that got us in this debacle to begin with. Is exorbitant prices for bare minimum service ok to you?
First! Er.. Damnit! - 2mb AT&T DSL Customer
He didn't offer a definition because Wikipedia is not a dictionary!
Microsoft Sam!
Kinect? Actually, no, they bought the idea for the dual camera from a college kid...
...they have been able to commercialize some other people's ideas and called it innovation....
Wow I didn't know it was so easy to build out a dual camera motion sensing system for a console!
There a big difference in this industry between having a good idea, and actually implementing it for the masses. Good ideas are a dime-a-dozen
I honestly thought those were pretty good examples of things that came out of MS R&D. Instead of just posting flamebait, look at the products they actually come out with..
CRM 2011, now a real competitor to Salesforce at 10% the cost
BI Tools. Tighter integration of SSRS and Excel, Powerpivot, all great products that continue to rule the practical business use case
XBox, which isn't the HTPC they originally were shooting for, but you can find one in almost every home and dorm room, and 5 years into the product cycle, still cranking out units
IE 9, while still needing a few issues to be addressed, one extremely groundbreaking product... compiled javascript execution, dual core utility, hardware graphics support -- they own the IP rights to the majority of these breakthroughs
Azure
What you fail to see is that a lot of these improvements go into their existing product line.. While I understand that's doesn't satisfy you, it certainly compels many businesses and consumers to buy their products year after year. Their software (and hardware) just plain works. This is why MS has such market dominance. The problem is that you're failing to see the improvements to existing products.
Lastly, from the smug nature of the post, combined with the subtle 'its only groundbreaking if its shiny' attitude, I've deduced that you own at least more than two (2) Apple iProducts
Do yourself a favour....
... and don't buy a Mac
Net neutrality takes away the power of private cable companies to censor content, but it does not give the government authority to do so.
And further, this is an example of the government doing exactly what it's meant to - stopping private companies walking all over everyone in the pursuit of profit.
Regardless, VZ still throttles packets and timeouts certain requests per timeframe. I've run tests over my Android, connected straight to VZ, then tunneled over ssl to a vpn with a Time Warner T1, at some point I will post my findings. It really is interesting to see how poorly sites like TedTaks and Hulu (non-youtube) fair for streaming media. Keep in mind, this is the same connection, and even with the ssl overhead, it outperforms because of VZ's traffic games. This will only get worse now that they are adding iphone to the inventory. 150$/mo to VZ, and for that, I still have to circumvent their traffic shaping tools.
The fact that they currently shape traffic, and bringing lawsuits to the FCC for rules that they are in already operating in direct violation of, its like the cheater that complains when he doesn't win.
Damn autocomplete.
True.. but the first person to own a fax machine was an idiot.
Ergo, only a idiot would have antivirus on a mac.
Ergo, only an idiot would buy a Mac
Yeah.. but governments get in at the provider level, not at the consumer level. That way they can still listen in on the Startac's still floating around out there.