I don't like these arguments on a social philosophical level. Yes Google depends on other website for its existence if you build it they will Google would be a nice cliché motto to have. At the some time sites depend on Google, I'm old enough to remember going to the library to pick up the BBS directory, it was no Google (it was made of paper). The existence of these directories begged the question, if you aren't in the book are you on the net? By that I mean if people didn't know you existed or couldn't find you were you effectively part of the internet. In that way the catalog was necessary to the BBS as a way to find places to connect to. Without Google I wouldn't find the rest of the internet, I can't name a single one of Viacom's site so I can't watch their videos or see their advertisements. So yes, Google works because of their content but if I can't find their content why bother having it.
I also wonder how much Google makes from hosting this content. I thought I heard to YouTube (pre Google) was loosing money due to the expense of running it. Does this mean Google can sue Viacom for lost money because their content costs Google money?
This isn't just an IT job problem. It's the problem of bosses who don't want to risk getting fired if they let their underlings fail because they were allowed to be creative. The real issue can be solved with a shifting of workplace hierarchies. If the place is more of a level structure and not a power ladders (which is usually based on politics) creatively will grow.
If your creative idea fails not only do you loose your job but your boss losses his or her job. On the other hand if my creative idea succeeds then my boos takes the credit. So as a worker I have little reason to actually be creative, I either loose my job or get little credit. My boss benefits by not allowing creative ideas because he or she keeps her job and maintains the status quo (bosses don't like personal change or personal risk) keeping a job is easier then finding one. So what are the benefits of creative ideas? well business can grow and income increase but in that area the boss (manager) won't see a large increase in personal wealth through a creative idea even if the company does. so allowing creative ideas is more of a risk in the traditional office structure.
If my screw up only cost my job then my boos would be more willing to allow creative ideas. So what if we changed management? If each employee was part manager; a deadlines manager, a financial manager, an hr manager, an equipment manager, a programs manager, a negotiations manager and so on. If management tasks were shared the risk of my creative ideas harming others shrinks. If I do mess up an idea I get punished by loosing my management task (and some pay) and maybe the other management task are switched around. If my mess up shows you aren't a good deadlines manager then you get switched to what I was.
I want linux. I've tried to get it working thrice; once redhat I was young and failed. Twice Ubuntu once my hard drive was dying so it didn't want to install I bought a new drive got it installed but the printer (lexmark) wouldn't work. I'm an above average user but have simple needs Internet, Email (on the internet), Word processing, a few spreadsheets, some graphics and some Publisher style documents, type form, burn a few audio and data CD's, listen to streaming media and MP3s. That being said, windows doesn't do it all out of the box. When I buy a new computer I have to run updates, get firefox, get realplayer updated, get WMP updated on many of my dells I've needed to install a DVD driver and useful burning software. The success will come in making a true out of box experience. This would require a user interview of sorts. Companies should ask the Linux customer what the intend to use it for and not just recommend hardware but get that software pre-installed. I should click a few radio buttons then have a computer shipped with the software I need.
This is just another good example of companies who want to live in the old way the are used to doing business. Sure their profits are shrinking but they will shrink just as fast if Google doesn't use their news. I would guess (based on no facts) that this will hurt them, it will only cut the number of people that have the chance to get to their site which means less ad revenue for them. Google news is more like the yellow pages than anything. I look up what I need then call them or in this case go to there site to meet my specific needs.
Maybe this could be light PowerPoint one without all the annoying stuff so we can go back to the days of more static presentations. Where content was above 'style' (aka moving, flashing, noise makers). Yes, I would imagine it will have integration into youtube since many videos are little more than slideshows.
I would rather see Google publisher something to take away Microsoft's real monopoly with Publisher. Yes google project could be useful but there are a few of these already. I'd rather see something's get cleaned up first.
the article I heard on tv (local news) said nothing about wetting first. Of course it said nothign about trying it at home, when they soaked it in filth I new it would be wet. I've been doing this for years, ever since college, I paid for sponges not electricity so a few minutes in the microwave saved me a few cents and my sponge smelled a whole lot better. Of course my idiot house-mate tride this and put it in for 5 minutes to which my become extra crisp. It's best to heat a cup water first in the microwave (like you do with popcorn)then do the sponge.
I see a few benefits
This makes it easy to count change at the store. Imagine being able to dump a bottle of change down at the bank and get an instant receipt. Even better imagine being able to dump the coins out of your ash tray into the McDonald's drive through and have it count what it needs and return what it doesn't. This will no doubt speed up the counting of coins.
Your ash tray can now count your change for you and let you know that you still only have pennies to your name.
With an RFID reader you can know which coworker is hiding change in his or her desk so know who to ask for change to buy a soda.
You can search for loose change in your couch without lifting the cushions.
Where can an American (living in Indiana) buy a good Linux desktop?
My computer is currently dying and I would like to replace it with a not-windows computer. I want to write documents, check email, surf the internet and other normal usage tasks. I don't want half the software I have on my computer to be dedicated to protecting my computer like it is right now. I want a smooth running Linux system which doesn't cost $509 (sorry dell), where can I by such a computer? I don't have the skills to buy the parts or patience to build one.
Any advice?
To compensate for the light delay I show up 2 seconds late to work everyday day and exclaim, "darn lights didn't work I couldn't see anything." So far it's been 2 months and no one has noticed that I've skimped total of 1 minute and 20 seconds of work.
This is the problem. With the old bulbs I know what I am getting, now that I pay $10 for a pack of bulbs and don't know what I am getting returning them until I get what I want is annoying. I bought a 3 pack, the bulbs only fit in 3 of my lights. They don't fight in my overhead lamps, or my desk lamp or the lamp on my nightstand. Yes I could get the small ones but they are more expensive and according to my figures not worth the upfront cost. I have the GE bulbs, I don't find them to be bright enough, I could by brighter ones but there is a huge price gap between the 75 watt equivalents and the 150 watt equivalents. I am going to wait a bit before I recommend them to many people.
I hate Microsoft (products) because their product doesn't stand up to my fundamental computing desire. I desire products that do what is asked, when asked and as easily and quickly as possible. Since DOS Microsoft hasn't produced a product that fits my needs, their products either crash frequently (Windows ME) are slow as garbage (XP with many tasks, outlook, IE) or they just don't do what they should (why does ctrl backspace function differently across Windows). They don't deliver a well made and secure product. They think I want more than I do. I want to send emails, keep a calendar, sync my calendar across a few computers and devices, surf the web and play a few games. I don't need notepad and Wordpad. I don't want to run 3 different security programs (Firewall (which I run because theirs doesn't work), antivirus, Windows defender). I don't need office (but I have to have it) since I only use a few functions in word (tables, fonts, line spacing, spell-check) I don't use much of excel but I need it all on my machine. MS products use to much space given I don't use much of the functionality, they would be smart to par down the products and simplify things so their OS runs fast smooth and is good at what it does. Right now they are across the board mediocre with a whole group of products that when combined are poor.
It's going to be hard to compete with Google as a start up. Google has more than money, talent, brains, and consumers. They have a planet full of data (I'm willing to bet they are the ones who commissioned the building of that super computer in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy).
Bad jokes aside Google knows a whole lot about people they probably beet any company in social data, they know what people search for, what topics they email about, what topics their spreadsheets and docs cover, what people are buying for Christmas, how they got their email, what websites people write, what people debate in the groups the visit, what they look at on Amazon (I've bought a few books which I found using a Google search), they know how deep the web is and how people travel it. They have a top notch translation tool, and know how people misspell words. Their data alone is sufficient to eliminate competition. I'm sure there know where and how to launch a product for greatest hype and speed of sign ups. I can't imagine any start busting into the data portion of the Google business.
Better a game that I can play again than one I hate by the time I finish. I would rather have a 12 hour game I want to play again then a 24 hour game I play once. Show me a game that is different each time I go back to play it rather than a 25 hour long game. Remember how you could beat NES Zelda and go back and play it with different dungeons, that's what we need not long games.
It's the other things that are 'revolutionary'.
1. You can (or at least could at one point) rearrange the search results by dragging them up and down - Future application on influencing the ranking on sites.
2. Numbering of search results - not 'revolutionary' but useful i can tell you to search for nasa and see the 3rd result.
3. the options menu when you click on the green url. - I can imagine it will eventually include choices for mapping to address on site, site search (via coop) and so on.
4. start typing to search - fixes that issue with firefox where it tries to search and IE where sometimes goes up to the address bar and you end up searching using msn.com
I've tried Linux twice
Red-Hat years ago, I got it to install but it wouldn't mount the CD drive, and I couldn't find a video card that worked right.
Ubuntu a few weeks ago, it wouldn't load up, the community board said it was a hardware issue (CD, HD, Ram) I didn't know so I gave up. There were to many possibilities to begin to deal with it.
I want to install Linux but don't have the time to work with hardware issues I don't understand. I was excited about Ubuntu because it came with everything I needed on the computer. If I could get a computer with Linux already on it or have a trouble free instillation I would upgrade but I don't have the knowledge or the time to figure it out. If you want to come over and install let me know.
I have above slightly average computer skills and was thinking of ditching XP. Is Ubuntu easy to install? I remember trying to install red hat years ago and never really got it working (to many driver issues). Would I have better luck with Ubuntu or something else?
IE7 is to slow to be of use. I'm not on the best computer (not the worst either) but it's slow, takes forever to load a tab and to long to open up. FF is much faster on my machine, which is the biggest usability point. If I want to use a Web 2.0 ap say the ap formally known as writely I want it to open fast so I can take a note or check email quickly and move on with life. I don't want to wait for my computer to load things up.
Two clicks to get to my RSS is two clicks to many. RSS didn't make much sense. It didn't pull over new articles for me to read I had to click on the feed. Oh wait they are probably going to start dropping MSFT ads into the feeds they display so the more pages I visit the more ads I see.
Speed and simplicity are my bench marks. which makes the score IE 0 FF 2
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I don't like these arguments on a social philosophical level. Yes Google depends on other website for its existence if you build it they will Google would be a nice cliché motto to have. At the some time sites depend on Google, I'm old enough to remember going to the library to pick up the BBS directory, it was no Google (it was made of paper). The existence of these directories begged the question, if you aren't in the book are you on the net? By that I mean if people didn't know you existed or couldn't find you were you effectively part of the internet. In that way the catalog was necessary to the BBS as a way to find places to connect to. Without Google I wouldn't find the rest of the internet, I can't name a single one of Viacom's site so I can't watch their videos or see their advertisements. So yes, Google works because of their content but if I can't find their content why bother having it. I also wonder how much Google makes from hosting this content. I thought I heard to YouTube (pre Google) was loosing money due to the expense of running it. Does this mean Google can sue Viacom for lost money because their content costs Google money?
This isn't just an IT job problem. It's the problem of bosses who don't want to risk getting fired if they let their underlings fail because they were allowed to be creative. The real issue can be solved with a shifting of workplace hierarchies. If the place is more of a level structure and not a power ladders (which is usually based on politics) creatively will grow. If your creative idea fails not only do you loose your job but your boss losses his or her job. On the other hand if my creative idea succeeds then my boos takes the credit. So as a worker I have little reason to actually be creative, I either loose my job or get little credit. My boss benefits by not allowing creative ideas because he or she keeps her job and maintains the status quo (bosses don't like personal change or personal risk) keeping a job is easier then finding one. So what are the benefits of creative ideas? well business can grow and income increase but in that area the boss (manager) won't see a large increase in personal wealth through a creative idea even if the company does. so allowing creative ideas is more of a risk in the traditional office structure. If my screw up only cost my job then my boos would be more willing to allow creative ideas. So what if we changed management? If each employee was part manager; a deadlines manager, a financial manager, an hr manager, an equipment manager, a programs manager, a negotiations manager and so on. If management tasks were shared the risk of my creative ideas harming others shrinks. If I do mess up an idea I get punished by loosing my management task (and some pay) and maybe the other management task are switched around. If my mess up shows you aren't a good deadlines manager then you get switched to what I was.
I want linux. I've tried to get it working thrice; once redhat I was young and failed. Twice Ubuntu once my hard drive was dying so it didn't want to install I bought a new drive got it installed but the printer (lexmark) wouldn't work. I'm an above average user but have simple needs Internet, Email (on the internet), Word processing, a few spreadsheets, some graphics and some Publisher style documents, type form, burn a few audio and data CD's, listen to streaming media and MP3s. That being said, windows doesn't do it all out of the box. When I buy a new computer I have to run updates, get firefox, get realplayer updated, get WMP updated on many of my dells I've needed to install a DVD driver and useful burning software.
The success will come in making a true out of box experience. This would require a user interview of sorts. Companies should ask the Linux customer what the intend to use it for and not just recommend hardware but get that software pre-installed. I should click a few radio buttons then have a computer shipped with the software I need.
Yes... but what time is it in Indiana?
This makes sense since 27% of security threats come from volunteers.
This is just another good example of companies who want to live in the old way the are used to doing business. Sure their profits are shrinking but they will shrink just as fast if Google doesn't use their news. I would guess (based on no facts) that this will hurt them, it will only cut the number of people that have the chance to get to their site which means less ad revenue for them. Google news is more like the yellow pages than anything. I look up what I need then call them or in this case go to there site to meet my specific needs.
Maybe this could be light PowerPoint one without all the annoying stuff so we can go back to the days of more static presentations. Where content was above 'style' (aka moving, flashing, noise makers). Yes, I would imagine it will have integration into youtube since many videos are little more than slideshows. I would rather see Google publisher something to take away Microsoft's real monopoly with Publisher. Yes google project could be useful but there are a few of these already. I'd rather see something's get cleaned up first.
the article I heard on tv (local news) said nothing about wetting first. Of course it said nothign about trying it at home, when they soaked it in filth I new it would be wet. I've been doing this for years, ever since college, I paid for sponges not electricity so a few minutes in the microwave saved me a few cents and my sponge smelled a whole lot better. Of course my idiot house-mate tride this and put it in for 5 minutes to which my become extra crisp. It's best to heat a cup water first in the microwave (like you do with popcorn)then do the sponge.
I see a few benefits This makes it easy to count change at the store. Imagine being able to dump a bottle of change down at the bank and get an instant receipt. Even better imagine being able to dump the coins out of your ash tray into the McDonald's drive through and have it count what it needs and return what it doesn't. This will no doubt speed up the counting of coins. Your ash tray can now count your change for you and let you know that you still only have pennies to your name. With an RFID reader you can know which coworker is hiding change in his or her desk so know who to ask for change to buy a soda. You can search for loose change in your couch without lifting the cushions.
Where can an American (living in Indiana) buy a good Linux desktop? My computer is currently dying and I would like to replace it with a not-windows computer. I want to write documents, check email, surf the internet and other normal usage tasks. I don't want half the software I have on my computer to be dedicated to protecting my computer like it is right now. I want a smooth running Linux system which doesn't cost $509 (sorry dell), where can I by such a computer? I don't have the skills to buy the parts or patience to build one. Any advice?
To compensate for the light delay I show up 2 seconds late to work everyday day and exclaim, "darn lights didn't work I couldn't see anything." So far it's been 2 months and no one has noticed that I've skimped total of 1 minute and 20 seconds of work.
This is the problem. With the old bulbs I know what I am getting, now that I pay $10 for a pack of bulbs and don't know what I am getting returning them until I get what I want is annoying. I bought a 3 pack, the bulbs only fit in 3 of my lights. They don't fight in my overhead lamps, or my desk lamp or the lamp on my nightstand. Yes I could get the small ones but they are more expensive and according to my figures not worth the upfront cost. I have the GE bulbs, I don't find them to be bright enough, I could by brighter ones but there is a huge price gap between the 75 watt equivalents and the 150 watt equivalents. I am going to wait a bit before I recommend them to many people.
I have a delay in the morning of a 2 seconds... I've learned to pause at the top of my stairs and wait for the light to come on.
I hate Microsoft (products) because their product doesn't stand up to my fundamental computing desire. I desire products that do what is asked, when asked and as easily and quickly as possible. Since DOS Microsoft hasn't produced a product that fits my needs, their products either crash frequently (Windows ME) are slow as garbage (XP with many tasks, outlook, IE) or they just don't do what they should (why does ctrl backspace function differently across Windows). They don't deliver a well made and secure product. They think I want more than I do. I want to send emails, keep a calendar, sync my calendar across a few computers and devices, surf the web and play a few games. I don't need notepad and Wordpad. I don't want to run 3 different security programs (Firewall (which I run because theirs doesn't work), antivirus, Windows defender). I don't need office (but I have to have it) since I only use a few functions in word (tables, fonts, line spacing, spell-check) I don't use much of excel but I need it all on my machine. MS products use to much space given I don't use much of the functionality, they would be smart to par down the products and simplify things so their OS runs fast smooth and is good at what it does. Right now they are across the board mediocre with a whole group of products that when combined are poor.
It's going to be hard to compete with Google as a start up. Google has more than money, talent, brains, and consumers. They have a planet full of data (I'm willing to bet they are the ones who commissioned the building of that super computer in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy). Bad jokes aside Google knows a whole lot about people they probably beet any company in social data, they know what people search for, what topics they email about, what topics their spreadsheets and docs cover, what people are buying for Christmas, how they got their email, what websites people write, what people debate in the groups the visit, what they look at on Amazon (I've bought a few books which I found using a Google search), they know how deep the web is and how people travel it. They have a top notch translation tool, and know how people misspell words. Their data alone is sufficient to eliminate competition. I'm sure there know where and how to launch a product for greatest hype and speed of sign ups. I can't imagine any start busting into the data portion of the Google business.
Better a game that I can play again than one I hate by the time I finish. I would rather have a 12 hour game I want to play again then a 24 hour game I play once. Show me a game that is different each time I go back to play it rather than a 25 hour long game. Remember how you could beat NES Zelda and go back and play it with different dungeons, that's what we need not long games.
Heck with the justice system... there is nothing like guilt by them wanting money. Makes me glad I don't listen to much music.
There is a national inventors musuem in Akron, Ohio. Don't forget the hearing aid musuem at Kent State (also in Ohio).
It's the other things that are 'revolutionary'. 1. You can (or at least could at one point) rearrange the search results by dragging them up and down - Future application on influencing the ranking on sites. 2. Numbering of search results - not 'revolutionary' but useful i can tell you to search for nasa and see the 3rd result. 3. the options menu when you click on the green url. - I can imagine it will eventually include choices for mapping to address on site, site search (via coop) and so on. 4. start typing to search - fixes that issue with firefox where it tries to search and IE where sometimes goes up to the address bar and you end up searching using msn.com
I've tried Linux twice Red-Hat years ago, I got it to install but it wouldn't mount the CD drive, and I couldn't find a video card that worked right. Ubuntu a few weeks ago, it wouldn't load up, the community board said it was a hardware issue (CD, HD, Ram) I didn't know so I gave up. There were to many possibilities to begin to deal with it. I want to install Linux but don't have the time to work with hardware issues I don't understand. I was excited about Ubuntu because it came with everything I needed on the computer. If I could get a computer with Linux already on it or have a trouble free instillation I would upgrade but I don't have the knowledge or the time to figure it out. If you want to come over and install let me know.
What is the significant difference between the to Ubuntu(GNOME)or Kubuntu(KDE)?
I have above slightly average computer skills and was thinking of ditching XP. Is Ubuntu easy to install? I remember trying to install red hat years ago and never really got it working (to many driver issues). Would I have better luck with Ubuntu or something else?
I just saw this on an episode of House I was watching. Some guy lost his voice, house gave him botox and he could talk.
IE7 is to slow to be of use. I'm not on the best computer (not the worst either) but it's slow, takes forever to load a tab and to long to open up. FF is much faster on my machine, which is the biggest usability point. If I want to use a Web 2.0 ap say the ap formally known as writely I want it to open fast so I can take a note or check email quickly and move on with life. I don't want to wait for my computer to load things up. Two clicks to get to my RSS is two clicks to many. RSS didn't make much sense. It didn't pull over new articles for me to read I had to click on the feed. Oh wait they are probably going to start dropping MSFT ads into the feeds they display so the more pages I visit the more ads I see. Speed and simplicity are my bench marks. which makes the score IE 0 FF 2
IE works as well as the cake looks.