I'm in the stop changing things camp. I'm tired of having to relearn software and OSs because MS decided to fancy things up. IMHO they should dump Vista and go back and polish off XP, make it secure, safe and fast. My sis got a new computer with Vista and has called no less than twice with questions which I can't answer because I know nothing about the thing.
I think Linux will eventually win because it is consistent and predictable. I know how long the release will be supported, I can test new releases, documents work across the various distros (sorry Vista and XP you hurt yourselves on that one). Ms is going to make a ton of money because companies will need to retrain employees on how to use Vista and office 2007.
Drivers are the big Linux problem but I think manufacturers will eventually realize they need to be open to Linux or they will be left behind.
The other day I noticed a few spam and splog results creeping into the Google Alerts I have set up. I figured someone had made a change now it sounds like a few other changes have been made.
I'm not for internet filtering and throttling (especially by ISPs) but I think we are on the verge of a fundamental change in the internet concept. I think we are going to see a good deal of people tired of having to buy a computer, virus software, spy-ware software, spam protectors, firewalls, and other protective software. I think they are going to start turning to their ISPs for protection. They will want the ISP to par down the internet to safe sites. Some ISPs already do the virus protection thing and cut you off if you have a virus.
Now before you freak out on me I don't like this idea but the average user could use someone to protect their internet usage. This consumer protection is normal. Grocery stores don't load the shelf with just any garbage they can find, the choose certain items, especially if you shop at a high end or natural food store, they protect you from trans fats. I think consumers are going to want this type of protection from the internet.
I also think this will be a problem for Google. They income is based on the idea that any business, person, scam artist, or thing with internet access can buy ads. I think consumers will start to want these ads to be censored and checked before they see them. I don't want to see an add for some fake camera store when I'm googling cameras.
It could be the usual suspect: politicians don't know much about technology so their decisions dealing with muni wi-fi aren't always sound.
TFA compares muni wi-fi to trash pick up in a few passing comments. In my fine city the trash is done two private companies who contract with the city. I've often found consumer end Internet connections to be the same way. In my neighborhood we have 1 trash choice (we can get our own or use the other but it will cost us more) we can choose from 2 internet companies, if we use one of those high speed internet look up tools we are told that Verizon serves our area, we can also get ATT. This setup is a remnant of old and crappy city contracts with these companies. I can use other companies but my price about doubles.
That being said internet is like trash but not neccesaraly like this guys trash. My taxes don't pay trash I get a trash bill in the mail (dumb I know) I also get an internet bill or internet blackmail as the case may be.
I'm not sure I get this one bit...
In my mind I'm taking this to mean that a big ball will be let down from a satellite hanging on a 18 mile long cord that eventually clips off and falls to earth.
Does this cord break up or give people the lashing of a lifetime?
Even better could we anchor it on the ground and hook an elevator up to it?
I was bullied in elementary school. By High school I was friends with the kid who bullied me, and yes we had fun with that one. We were talking about bullying in my humanities class, my friend (the ex-bully) raised his hand and said, "I used to bully people," the teacher asked how he thought that made the other kid feel. The bully said, "I dunno," he looked at me and asked, "how did you make it feel?" I said something about not remembering but that he owed me back for all the lunch money he took after he beat me up. The look on the teachers face was priceless.
In a real response, it's the schools job (since parents don't seem to know) to help build some character into students. The school should help students to learn what the Internet is and what the future consequences are of action on the net. The school shouldn't play big punisher and use it's hand to punish kids for mean statement written at home.
Maybe the school could help parents moniter online life if there are issues or warn parents of potential issues. They shoudl also let paretns know of problems that may be occuring. If a kid is being picked on at school he or she is probably seing the same issues online and hiding them all from parents.
This could be more of a tool for companies and others to organize their data on a map in a new way (Google has been doing more for companies on their maps lately).
What if you could drive or walk down the road to the local pizza shop and order your pizza or ask an question to the automated worker. Google has much of that information already they just need a way to pass things around (grandcentral, gmail). Flat text on a map isn't always the best. If you have a picture of the front of my shop why not put me in my virtual shop and let me help real life customers. They can virutally watch me cook a pizza and send my driver out and a few minutes later the real driver shows up at the door. It's all about organizing the worlds data in a way people will interact with it.
Face it we are being bought and sold like cattle. In this case MSFT is buying a place to plug in their future office live apps. A few updates down the road you will see the edit interface look like office live. This will mean that thousands of people are getting used to a MSFT product on Facebook and will use office live when they have to decide where to type their next document.
Let's say Google buys Slashdot and changes the Post Comment screen to a docs.Google style screen (with awesome presentation style comment ability) then when it comes time to choosing a Word Processor in 3 years I'm going to choose docs.Google since I've already been using it on Slashdot and you will make the same choice.
So this 5$ share is nothing more then MSFT buying future customers. They didn't buy the farm for the land they bought it for the cattle.
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Mooooo....
This comment is not for you smart tech folk or the gamer types.
The average computer user is tired of change. I think they are at a critical mass of sorts where the want what they have to work fast, safely and easily. They don't want shiny and new. XP works for most folks and they see no need to change, after helping a few people buy new Vista computers I noticed that they wanted a computer to work.
The example of how to do this well is what Firefox is apparently trying in their new release, to speed things up and to make things safer. This is not what Vista did it junked things up and made them hard to use. That's not what the average user wants the want to turn a computer on and have it run.
at best you are going to see packages (or more packages) now we have sports, news, shopping (yes you can get a shopping package). In the future you will see Education packages, college sports.
With true a La Carte the issue will be cost. ESPN will want to be expensive beucase it can be but Discovery wings will want to be expensive becuase it needs to be. So I'm sure Discovery will be a package with all the learning goodness of Discovery health. We just won't see 5 channels for $20 to many channels will die (I'm looking at you Jazz on BET). Maybe just maybe HSN would pay me to have their channel on my TV or the next step will be pay for what you watch. For 10 you get every channel but owe.$5 for each hour you watch a given channel.
I'm not sure Google would be tied to one carrier. That doesn't seem to hold an advantage for them. They want to expand their customer base not shrink it. Unless the deal gets me 2 phones with unlimited calling for $70 a month it's not financially smart for me to switch. If it does come in that price range I'll buy and let me friends suffer with the loss of cell to cell minutes. They'll need a network which can handle all sorts of traffic without crashing like the housing industries stock. From what I hear no carrier has this sort of capability so it would seem the gphone would need to spread their love.
p.s. i read this title and thought "thank goodness I was worried the gphone was now in the works at Microsoft, I'm glad Google kept it."
1) No politician should dare accuse anyone of rambling while pretending to ask a question. Least they forget what they've done to the Supreme Court nomination hearings.
2) My math teacher could have used a time limit on asking a question.
3)I'm going to have to side with the kid. If I'm asking a rambling question (or even a pithy question) and the cops come up and grab me I'm probably going to thrash around a bit.
3) I'll fight back even more if anyone forces me to the ground.
4) I'm most certainly going to yell out something about not being tased.
5) I'm deffinatlly going to sue when I get grabbed, forced to the ground and tased.
At some point the question needs asked as to when the cops ceased to be authority and turn into vehicles of harassment. If they forcefully remove someone after being told the person can stay is there the expectation of authority still. If Kerry did tell the cops to let him stay or anything to that effect at what point can / should the student be allowed to flail his arms at the officers who are still restraining him. I would guess this student felt harassed when the cops continued to attempt to remove him and he flailed his arms to get them off of him. This action no doubt escalated the cops restraints leading to the tasering. If this is the case the issue lies not with the tasering but with the underlying actions of the cops.
I like this. I'm going to use it more than PowerPoint and I will force most of my co-workers to do the same.
Why you ask? Because most of the PowerPoint slide-shows I'm forced to look at aren't live. I'm sent a training show and have to download it then watch it or try to get that plug in to work. With this I can simply open up IE and watch the show. No download, no extra plug in. No annoying I don't have the correct version of PP to watch the show just a simple show.
You my coworkers train by making and sending power-point presentations. We never know if we have the newest version or if it will work on every ones computers.
create software the stitches together photos for download then unstitches them when they are downloaded. Turn 10 photos into 1 so I can download 2,500,000 photos. Do the same for songs then sell the product to become rich and stick it to Comcast.
This is a bit more than GUI. It just launches a bunch of applications. Until it launches zoho in a special window (not just a firefox window) then I'll pay attention.
I've started to look for a replacements to Google services. I will not nay I cannot use sites that make noise. I thought everyone realized that sound was evil during the pre-blog personal homepage boom. If a site makes noise without me telling it to make noise (youtube, cnn.com, mp3 sites, et al) It shouldn't make a peep. The last thing I want is to have my NPR feed covered up or interrupted by some ad. Google can use video ads all they want but don't make them audio/video ads.
I remember when AIM put audio/video ads into the chat client. I'd be sitting there having a peaceful and silent conversation only to be scared when my computer started talking. The first few times this happened I fired up ad-aware, spybot and my AV software to check my computer for something wrong.
Further I would imagine this would make their wireless customers angry since they have a certain amount of bandwidth that a Google search will start to eat pretty quickly.
I remember watching 321 Contact, Mr. Wizard, Square One (both on PBS at the time) Square One is shown occasional on Noggin Network.
In later years it was Bill Nye, then Julius Sumner Miller.
Book wise I read Bet You Can't, a bunch of science type stuff you can't do
We also played a computer game called a Mission to Mars.
Fun stuff.
I'm a fan of the dual browser solution.
I liked opera back in the day (2002) but I didn't like the ad. It took up to much screen real-estate. So I gave up on opera, though it did have that fun part where you could create a 3d building or world.
I switched to firefox and have used it ever since. It can be a slow at times and hog memory but it's what I've gotten used to.
I'm currently switching to a two browser solution (the trend of the future!). I find my self using FF for certain activates and using Opera at the same time. So I'll leave Opera open with Gmail in it and use FF to surf the net. This way when I get board of the internet I don't accidentally close my email or close a document I was working on. I think the next advance in browsers will be the ability to lock down a instance of the browser so you don't accidentally close your email or the download. So many folks are used to letting outlook or thunderbird, Word, and Excel run the background I'm sure they will want to keep this as they move to more webbased apps.
Google you've done well. I can still watch your videos unlike ifilm where it takes 2 minutes to watch a 1 minute video. I can respect your choice to advertise since I can get rid of the add which means I can watch that kid fall off his skateboard and see him hit the ground. I'll be interested to see how this works in the long run.
if the school is recommending such an upgrade are they going to be liable when I get a bunch of spy ware on my computer because I had to install windows to run their software?
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I'm in the stop changing things camp. I'm tired of having to relearn software and OSs because MS decided to fancy things up. IMHO they should dump Vista and go back and polish off XP, make it secure, safe and fast. My sis got a new computer with Vista and has called no less than twice with questions which I can't answer because I know nothing about the thing. I think Linux will eventually win because it is consistent and predictable. I know how long the release will be supported, I can test new releases, documents work across the various distros (sorry Vista and XP you hurt yourselves on that one). Ms is going to make a ton of money because companies will need to retrain employees on how to use Vista and office 2007. Drivers are the big Linux problem but I think manufacturers will eventually realize they need to be open to Linux or they will be left behind.
I'm a fan of the deny and keep option open tactic maybe I'll start subscribing to ATT so I can support creative uses of contracts and the law.
The other day I noticed a few spam and splog results creeping into the Google Alerts I have set up. I figured someone had made a change now it sounds like a few other changes have been made. I'm not for internet filtering and throttling (especially by ISPs) but I think we are on the verge of a fundamental change in the internet concept. I think we are going to see a good deal of people tired of having to buy a computer, virus software, spy-ware software, spam protectors, firewalls, and other protective software. I think they are going to start turning to their ISPs for protection. They will want the ISP to par down the internet to safe sites. Some ISPs already do the virus protection thing and cut you off if you have a virus. Now before you freak out on me I don't like this idea but the average user could use someone to protect their internet usage. This consumer protection is normal. Grocery stores don't load the shelf with just any garbage they can find, the choose certain items, especially if you shop at a high end or natural food store, they protect you from trans fats. I think consumers are going to want this type of protection from the internet. I also think this will be a problem for Google. They income is based on the idea that any business, person, scam artist, or thing with internet access can buy ads. I think consumers will start to want these ads to be censored and checked before they see them. I don't want to see an add for some fake camera store when I'm googling cameras.
47% of all workers have slept during work. So this news is not news it's a snooze.
It could be the usual suspect: politicians don't know much about technology so their decisions dealing with muni wi-fi aren't always sound. TFA compares muni wi-fi to trash pick up in a few passing comments. In my fine city the trash is done two private companies who contract with the city. I've often found consumer end Internet connections to be the same way. In my neighborhood we have 1 trash choice (we can get our own or use the other but it will cost us more) we can choose from 2 internet companies, if we use one of those high speed internet look up tools we are told that Verizon serves our area, we can also get ATT. This setup is a remnant of old and crappy city contracts with these companies. I can use other companies but my price about doubles. That being said internet is like trash but not neccesaraly like this guys trash. My taxes don't pay trash I get a trash bill in the mail (dumb I know) I also get an internet bill or internet blackmail as the case may be.
I'm not sure I get this one bit... In my mind I'm taking this to mean that a big ball will be let down from a satellite hanging on a 18 mile long cord that eventually clips off and falls to earth. Does this cord break up or give people the lashing of a lifetime? Even better could we anchor it on the ground and hook an elevator up to it?
Is good journalism in general possible?
I was bullied in elementary school. By High school I was friends with the kid who bullied me, and yes we had fun with that one. We were talking about bullying in my humanities class, my friend (the ex-bully) raised his hand and said, "I used to bully people," the teacher asked how he thought that made the other kid feel. The bully said, "I dunno," he looked at me and asked, "how did you make it feel?" I said something about not remembering but that he owed me back for all the lunch money he took after he beat me up. The look on the teachers face was priceless. In a real response, it's the schools job (since parents don't seem to know) to help build some character into students. The school should help students to learn what the Internet is and what the future consequences are of action on the net. The school shouldn't play big punisher and use it's hand to punish kids for mean statement written at home. Maybe the school could help parents moniter online life if there are issues or warn parents of potential issues. They shoudl also let paretns know of problems that may be occuring. If a kid is being picked on at school he or she is probably seing the same issues online and hiding them all from parents.
This could be more of a tool for companies and others to organize their data on a map in a new way (Google has been doing more for companies on their maps lately). What if you could drive or walk down the road to the local pizza shop and order your pizza or ask an question to the automated worker. Google has much of that information already they just need a way to pass things around (grandcentral, gmail). Flat text on a map isn't always the best. If you have a picture of the front of my shop why not put me in my virtual shop and let me help real life customers. They can virutally watch me cook a pizza and send my driver out and a few minutes later the real driver shows up at the door. It's all about organizing the worlds data in a way people will interact with it.
Face it we are being bought and sold like cattle. In this case MSFT is buying a place to plug in their future office live apps. A few updates down the road you will see the edit interface look like office live. This will mean that thousands of people are getting used to a MSFT product on Facebook and will use office live when they have to decide where to type their next document. Let's say Google buys Slashdot and changes the Post Comment screen to a docs.Google style screen (with awesome presentation style comment ability) then when it comes time to choosing a Word Processor in 3 years I'm going to choose docs.Google since I've already been using it on Slashdot and you will make the same choice. So this 5$ share is nothing more then MSFT buying future customers. They didn't buy the farm for the land they bought it for the cattle. ---- Mooooo....
This comment is not for you smart tech folk or the gamer types. The average computer user is tired of change. I think they are at a critical mass of sorts where the want what they have to work fast, safely and easily. They don't want shiny and new. XP works for most folks and they see no need to change, after helping a few people buy new Vista computers I noticed that they wanted a computer to work. The example of how to do this well is what Firefox is apparently trying in their new release, to speed things up and to make things safer. This is not what Vista did it junked things up and made them hard to use. That's not what the average user wants the want to turn a computer on and have it run.
at best you are going to see packages (or more packages) now we have sports, news, shopping (yes you can get a shopping package). In the future you will see Education packages, college sports. With true a La Carte the issue will be cost. ESPN will want to be expensive beucase it can be but Discovery wings will want to be expensive becuase it needs to be. So I'm sure Discovery will be a package with all the learning goodness of Discovery health. We just won't see 5 channels for $20 to many channels will die (I'm looking at you Jazz on BET). Maybe just maybe HSN would pay me to have their channel on my TV or the next step will be pay for what you watch. For 10 you get every channel but owe .$5 for each hour you watch a given channel.
I'm not sure Google would be tied to one carrier. That doesn't seem to hold an advantage for them. They want to expand their customer base not shrink it. Unless the deal gets me 2 phones with unlimited calling for $70 a month it's not financially smart for me to switch. If it does come in that price range I'll buy and let me friends suffer with the loss of cell to cell minutes. They'll need a network which can handle all sorts of traffic without crashing like the housing industries stock. From what I hear no carrier has this sort of capability so it would seem the gphone would need to spread their love. p.s. i read this title and thought "thank goodness I was worried the gphone was now in the works at Microsoft, I'm glad Google kept it."
Isn't this similar to what many linux systems do with their packages and synaptic?
1) No politician should dare accuse anyone of rambling while pretending to ask a question. Least they forget what they've done to the Supreme Court nomination hearings. 2) My math teacher could have used a time limit on asking a question. 3)I'm going to have to side with the kid. If I'm asking a rambling question (or even a pithy question) and the cops come up and grab me I'm probably going to thrash around a bit. 3) I'll fight back even more if anyone forces me to the ground. 4) I'm most certainly going to yell out something about not being tased. 5) I'm deffinatlly going to sue when I get grabbed, forced to the ground and tased. At some point the question needs asked as to when the cops ceased to be authority and turn into vehicles of harassment. If they forcefully remove someone after being told the person can stay is there the expectation of authority still. If Kerry did tell the cops to let him stay or anything to that effect at what point can / should the student be allowed to flail his arms at the officers who are still restraining him. I would guess this student felt harassed when the cops continued to attempt to remove him and he flailed his arms to get them off of him. This action no doubt escalated the cops restraints leading to the tasering. If this is the case the issue lies not with the tasering but with the underlying actions of the cops.
I like this. I'm going to use it more than PowerPoint and I will force most of my co-workers to do the same. Why you ask? Because most of the PowerPoint slide-shows I'm forced to look at aren't live. I'm sent a training show and have to download it then watch it or try to get that plug in to work. With this I can simply open up IE and watch the show. No download, no extra plug in. No annoying I don't have the correct version of PP to watch the show just a simple show. You my coworkers train by making and sending power-point presentations. We never know if we have the newest version or if it will work on every ones computers.
create software the stitches together photos for download then unstitches them when they are downloaded. Turn 10 photos into 1 so I can download 2,500,000 photos. Do the same for songs then sell the product to become rich and stick it to Comcast.
This is a bit more than GUI. It just launches a bunch of applications. Until it launches zoho in a special window (not just a firefox window) then I'll pay attention.
I've started to look for a replacements to Google services. I will not nay I cannot use sites that make noise. I thought everyone realized that sound was evil during the pre-blog personal homepage boom. If a site makes noise without me telling it to make noise (youtube, cnn.com, mp3 sites, et al) It shouldn't make a peep. The last thing I want is to have my NPR feed covered up or interrupted by some ad. Google can use video ads all they want but don't make them audio/video ads. I remember when AIM put audio/video ads into the chat client. I'd be sitting there having a peaceful and silent conversation only to be scared when my computer started talking. The first few times this happened I fired up ad-aware, spybot and my AV software to check my computer for something wrong. Further I would imagine this would make their wireless customers angry since they have a certain amount of bandwidth that a Google search will start to eat pretty quickly.
I remember watching 321 Contact, Mr. Wizard, Square One (both on PBS at the time) Square One is shown occasional on Noggin Network. In later years it was Bill Nye, then Julius Sumner Miller. Book wise I read Bet You Can't, a bunch of science type stuff you can't do We also played a computer game called a Mission to Mars. Fun stuff.
I'm a fan of the dual browser solution. I liked opera back in the day (2002) but I didn't like the ad. It took up to much screen real-estate. So I gave up on opera, though it did have that fun part where you could create a 3d building or world. I switched to firefox and have used it ever since. It can be a slow at times and hog memory but it's what I've gotten used to. I'm currently switching to a two browser solution (the trend of the future!). I find my self using FF for certain activates and using Opera at the same time. So I'll leave Opera open with Gmail in it and use FF to surf the net. This way when I get board of the internet I don't accidentally close my email or close a document I was working on. I think the next advance in browsers will be the ability to lock down a instance of the browser so you don't accidentally close your email or the download. So many folks are used to letting outlook or thunderbird, Word, and Excel run the background I'm sure they will want to keep this as they move to more webbased apps.
I'm reading that I should buy one of these cars and duct tape a few of those old fashion reel-lawn-mowers to it then mow my lawn that way.
Google you've done well. I can still watch your videos unlike ifilm where it takes 2 minutes to watch a 1 minute video. I can respect your choice to advertise since I can get rid of the add which means I can watch that kid fall off his skateboard and see him hit the ground. I'll be interested to see how this works in the long run.
ATT is trying to be business friendly with this. They need to offer such bills so IT and AP can make sure money is being well spent.
if the school is recommending such an upgrade are they going to be liable when I get a bunch of spy ware on my computer because I had to install windows to run their software?