I dont think this has got anything to do with Google. Mayor Newsom had talked about it last year. I think all google is trying to do is cash on on his idea. If you dont want to use it don't.
While the initial use of location-based services might be limited to more-focussed and targeted advertising, the potential of location-based services is immense, officials said.
Location based Ad? Do they monitor the connections to their network. What about privacy?
The problem is with google digitizing the entire book. I don't think author's guild is craping about showing snippets or even digitizing summary of the book. The way google is making this thing work is to scan entire book and store it in their database. Really, usually copyright holder is publisher and if publisher gives permission to google to store the book then what can Author's guild crap about?
Meanwhile, Anonymous Coward wrote to mention a Fox News article entitled 'Massachusetts Should Close Down OpenDocument', calling the attention of journalists to the 'huge mistake' that Massachusetts is making by switching to OpenDocument. From that article: "Officials in the state have proposed a new policy that mandates that every state technology system use only applications designed around OpenDocument file formats. Such a policy might seem like something that should concern only a small group of technology professionals, but in fact the implications are staggering and far-reaching. The policy promises to burden taxpayers with new costs and to disrupt how state agencies interact with citizens, businesses and organizations."
Does this Anonymous Coward has any studies done that show going towards Open document is a burden to tax payers? I can make a same clain without doing any studies. In the short term it may involve new costs but I think in the long term, it makes cheaper for not having to pay for commercial software licenses. This may be a benefit to the tax payers.
How's that?
Byron Rashed, senior marketing communications manager of SSH Communications Security, claimed that SSH's product is better suited for enterprise-scale business applications than a similar open-source product from OpenSSH.
They are selling a product and they will say that to sell their product. Come on what else would you expect. This is like MS saying Windows is more Secure than Linux even though everybody knows the truth.
I think this has got nothing to do with FOSS but everything to do with IBM. Hitting on Websphere will be hitting on IBM's one of the server product. If you look at Microsoft website, it always compares.Net with Websphere. By collaborating with open source product MS will kill two birds in one stone. MS open source supporter and other kill websphere as much as possible by promoting an open source product.
"Microsoft understands the back end and Palm understands the front end, and the two of them -- if they can work together -- they can do some incredible things," Enderle said.
Really, Microsoft crushed them. The above statement may not be the right reason. Now whats in it from business standpoint for Microsoft to team up with Palm.
Q: You showed Office 12 here for the first time today. How do you think users are going to react when they see such a different look?
Gates:
As Office has gotten richer,.....
He meant to say as Office gor Bloated and I got Richer...
By being the dominant force in the market, Windows stands as the ultimate target for those interested in causing digital mischief. Linux and Mac OS are virtually virus free primarily because the great behemoth, Windows, is there to take the incoming.
Windows as Firewall for Mac and Linux. Shhhhhh..
I am not familiar with Oracle's technical support, but it can't be worse than Siebel's, so I'm looking forward to this.
Why do you think the siebel support people will be let go?
People who are supporting today will be supporting tomorrow too. May be some get axed but not all.
Certifications have higher hirabilty factors. So if you are equal on all respects with an other person with certification for a job, usually that person with certification will be called on.
I dont have any certifications, my present employer dont care much about that either. But when hiring if he finds a person with cert and meets all his criteria he certainly will hire him than a person with no cert.
The people who look at resumes initially are non-technical and buzz word lookers. For these people certificates on your resume means you have done a great deal of work. So it helps you pass that initial sorting of resumes.
To do the real work, you need real experience.
So is Google about to offer free Net access to everyone?
At First yes. After they have required number of market share, charges will be applied to anything you do with it. They are a corporation, they have to think of shareholders and their profits.
We will be seeing an other company rise to monopoly.
So is Google about to offer free Net access to everyone?
May be at First. After they have consolidated required market share, charges will apply to anything you do. It is a corporation, you got to think of shareholders and their profits.
We are seeing another monopoly happening.
It looks like it'll be combining CPU, Intel hardware (TV tuner, remote, and easy setup wireless home networking, etc.) and Windows Media Center Edition.
Why just Windows media center? When they can use Myth TV on Linux. Lot of you already know, mythtv has better features than Media center. With a corporation behind it, it can become much better.
But those customers expecting Windows 95 to be a great technological leap forward may be disappointed. International Business Machines Corp. and Apple Computer Inc. already have operating systems on the market that sport the features - greater memory management, the ability to perform several tasks at once and enhanced user-friendliness - now being hailed in Windows 95.
This is same as today. Windows 95 came, all the features that were there were all available in Apple's OS. Today, Vista will be released soon, Vista's features are already available in Apple's OS. But who do you think will make the money?
No doubt educating people is the first step. When Not many businesses know about advantages of linux. These kind of books/articles should help them. I think to promote the use of linux, the commercial companies like RedHat, Novell, IBM should make these books/articles available for free. They should setup seminars for users to understand that there is an alternative OS and it is easy to use and gives more advantages than the MS Windows. This should give them more business in the long term.
Recently, a team of scientists devised a way to make single-celled algae bear loads over distances of several centimeters
With this kind of gas prices any help we get will be appreciated. Thanks Algae.
I have a request, Could you please carry me and my car to the work everyday?
We are having enough with Email spams. Now they want you get Cell phone Spams. Really, when this gets worse, people will stop using technology altogether.
At first I thought it was similar to sun controlling Java. it is not this is released under creative commons license.
But I would rather have open source community not to support DRM at all. By doing that, they may even topple the damn thing.
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I dont think this has got anything to do with Google. Mayor Newsom had talked about it last year. I think all google is trying to do is cash on on his idea. If you dont want to use it don't.
Location based Ad? Do they monitor the connections to their network. What about privacy?
The problem is with google digitizing the entire book. I don't think author's guild is craping about showing snippets or even digitizing summary of the book. The way google is making this thing work is to scan entire book and store it in their database. Really, usually copyright holder is publisher and if publisher gives permission to google to store the book then what can Author's guild crap about?
Does this Anonymous Coward has any studies done that show going towards Open document is a burden to tax payers? I can make a same clain without doing any studies. In the short term it may involve new costs but I think in the long term, it makes cheaper for not having to pay for commercial software licenses. This may be a benefit to the tax payers. How's that?
They are selling a product and they will say that to sell their product. Come on what else would you expect. This is like MS saying Windows is more Secure than Linux even though everybody knows the truth.
I think this has got nothing to do with FOSS but everything to do with IBM. Hitting on Websphere will be hitting on IBM's one of the server product. If you look at Microsoft website, it always compares .Net with Websphere. By collaborating with open source product MS will kill two birds in one stone. MS open source supporter and other kill websphere as much as possible by promoting an open source product.
Really, Microsoft crushed them. The above statement may not be the right reason. Now whats in it from business standpoint for Microsoft to team up with Palm.
IBM used to use Intel Chips in their Thinkpad laptops before they sold it to lenevo.
If you search using MSN Search. The #2 result is STOP IE. You know even MSN search knows stopping IE is required. :)
He meant to say as Office gor Bloated and I got Richer...
By being the dominant force in the market, Windows stands as the ultimate target for those interested in causing digital mischief. Linux and Mac OS are virtually virus free primarily because the great behemoth, Windows, is there to take the incoming.
Windows as Firewall for Mac and Linux. Shhhhhh..
WTF is non-game games?
I am not familiar with Oracle's technical support, but it can't be worse than Siebel's, so I'm looking forward to this.
Why do you think the siebel support people will be let go? People who are supporting today will be supporting tomorrow too. May be some get axed but not all.
We made decision making process easier for you. You either buy oracle or you buy oracle.
Certifications have higher hirabilty factors. So if you are equal on all respects with an other person with certification for a job, usually that person with certification will be called on. I dont have any certifications, my present employer dont care much about that either. But when hiring if he finds a person with cert and meets all his criteria he certainly will hire him than a person with no cert.
The people who look at resumes initially are non-technical and buzz word lookers. For these people certificates on your resume means you have done a great deal of work. So it helps you pass that initial sorting of resumes.
To do the real work, you need real experience.
At First yes. After they have required number of market share, charges will be applied to anything you do with it. They are a corporation, they have to think of shareholders and their profits. We will be seeing an other company rise to monopoly.
May be at First. After they have consolidated required market share, charges will apply to anything you do. It is a corporation, you got to think of shareholders and their profits.
We are seeing another monopoly happening.
Why just Windows media center? When they can use Myth TV on Linux. Lot of you already know, mythtv has better features than Media center. With a corporation behind it, it can become much better.
Until somebody comes onboard and provides the same kind of service, talk about monopoly.
This is same as today. Windows 95 came, all the features that were there were all available in Apple's OS. Today, Vista will be released soon, Vista's features are already available in Apple's OS. But who do you think will make the money?
No doubt educating people is the first step. When Not many businesses know about advantages of linux. These kind of books/articles should help them. I think to promote the use of linux, the commercial companies like RedHat, Novell, IBM should make these books/articles available for free. They should setup seminars for users to understand that there is an alternative OS and it is easy to use and gives more advantages than the MS Windows. This should give them more business in the long term.
Recently, a team of scientists devised a way to make single-celled algae bear loads over distances of several centimeters
With this kind of gas prices any help we get will be appreciated. Thanks Algae. I have a request, Could you please carry me and my car to the work everyday?
We are having enough with Email spams. Now they want you get Cell phone Spams. Really, when this gets worse, people will stop using technology altogether.
At first I thought it was similar to sun controlling Java. it is not this is released under creative commons license.
But I would rather have open source community not to support DRM at all. By doing that, they may even topple the damn thing.