Actually the patent system STILL has an expiration, so you can not extend a patent. Now if you write software for your gigantic mass.....
Oh wait that Micro$oft's backup plan, sorry.
Well, with Google search history feature, there getting there, and the "advanced" tools in search allow you to use logical operators to include both Mac and Macintosh in your search. So it may take some extra searches. If you know how a search engine works, you can almost always find the content you want (if it exists) rather quickly.
For the general public, this advanced features of refining your search as you have mentioned might be nice, but has two problems. (1) It throws out other searches that we might want to do, such as apple valley, apple pie, apple orthodontics incorporated (went belly up in 1996 or so), etc. And (2) it just goes to make an already technology illiterate public even more illiterate. The easier it becomes, the less and less they will know about technology while it evolves around them, speeding up the gap between ubergeek and mindless keyboard surfer.
On an earlier Google article, I discussed what Google might be planning next. Full thread here, my reply here. And this adds fuel to that fire. Google and IBM is a more than worthy foe to compete with Micro$oft. Let me share my vision.
Google buys out Novell, and takes SuSE Linux. Although they have their own specialized search appliances, SuSE would allow business administrators to have some level of control over an IBM/Google supplied server. Why? An IBM/Google based computing system. Imagine, your business uses applications, such as Google office, Google bookkeeping, scheduling, and so on and so forth in one office, or with all of your traveling sales reps. Web based, your system no longer would require VPN access for users to work away from the office.
What's more is, workstations can be made to be nothing more than a glorified web surfing machine for the basic business user. No ability to install applications on a local machine, and therefore no issues with spyware. It would help to combat viruses too. Simplifying IT for the many companies. And lowering costs as compared to a windows based infrastructure.
Google likely would lease equipment and services to businesses. Small businesses would only need an internet connection really. Lease Google equipment and pay monthly, no assets to pay taxes on, and monthly revenue for Google, and they would start with the Novell/ SuSE market share under their belt.
Please remember it's still only speculation, but I'm confident enough to get some shares in Novell. Interestingly enough, while talking about this to the other geeks up here, someone mentioned this, a worthy watch. (I saw this after I came up with my theory)
Epic2014
I should sue every one of these big companies we've been talking about. RIM patenting a keyboard (what's so special about it that it deserves a patent), and Freedom Wireless patenting a system to have people pay money.
I hold the patent on patenting general ideas and then suing to get more money. So I get to sue all of them. Then I can turn around and sue everybody for slander.
I can't take credit for these questions, but people have been doing them for centuries, and I enjoy playing with them.
Prove that the square root of 2 is irrational.
If that was fun and you want some more, prove that the square root of 3 is irrational.
If you are still not satisfied, derive a proof for Fermat's last theorem.
Well, I wish I could confirm or deny, but that would have to be the stupidest thing that M$ could do from a marketing standpoint. M$ DRM is still not completely accepted, and there are a lot of commercially available sources already on the market (and will be on the market on or after the time of release) that do not include DRM. Plus, it would hurt product compatibility with hardware. If you have a digital camcorder or voice recorder, you would have to use one that supported Sony magic gate in order to enforce a DRM. Microsoft would be out of their mind to implement that so quickly.
these will likly have a larger audiance in the business world as opposed to the home sterio market. ficces can have cat5 for data and music, simplifying the costs of wiring the next cube farm you work in. who cares about latency on the elevator music they pump in anyway?
who else will pay 800 for a PSU jsut for a speaker system.
I agree, I think Google will maintain offering their services for free for the average user, but start offering business solutions. A managed web portal for your organization. Google office, Google bookkeeping,, a payroll service, all through a web portal you can use anywhere. Larger organizations may buy Google hardware. Dummy boxes that run a web browser, asking a locally Google-powered server. No more spy ware, and the ability to keep tabs on employees (for the employer, not necessarily for Google.). No IT staff, many of us geeks could be out of the job. It makes sense that the next move is to buy Novell, get SuSE and the IBM partnership. Google is the big winner here offering the service, instead of the software. Just like ho w IBM lost out to Microsoft, cause Microsoft sold software instead of hardware. Poetic justice, no??
Please keep in mind, I'm speculating, I really don't know, but it makes sense. We have all come to distrust companies, but if they are going to do what I think they will, then they can make oodles of money making devices that work side by side with windows boxes (end user) as well as kicking some Micor$oft @$$ in the server rooms. They can go a while before they have to cross morals to make money, or piss us off by getting greedy. Microsoft became the evil empire because the market is flooded with their product, and they started to hurt the people who made the world possible, often the people who knew the product well enough to install it, pirate it, and repair it when it goes blue screening.
Please read my above post (first reply to "and in other news"). There is some logic to the madness, even if it's not exactly what I'm talking about, there are planning to be about more than offering advertisement spots and your own Google search engine box for your enterprise. (http://www.google.com/enterprise/)
I'm curious, do you think Google is going to offer their own Linux, or buy another company. I think that Google sees a light at the end of the tunnel. And that would be: come into the business market by offering services to businesses. They would charge for these services, and they could even offer hardware solutions running Linux, optimized to work with web based applications that Google will host, or could be hosted locally via Google powered servers (not everyone has enough bandwidth for everyone in their organization to run web apps). I see a smart thing they could do like buying Novell (and SuSE). Anybody else see the trend? What implications does this have for IBM, presently offering Novell and SuSE options?
the fact of the matter is, identity theft in many cases (phishing emails) are teh result of inexpereicned users who get scammed. Financial institutions are responsible to a certain extent on all of these cases. Full responsability will upset teh economy system, because campanies cannot adapt as fast as crimals (as noted by other users).
Simon, I agree with you, what a lot of people don't realize is that hurricanes actually keep our weather system stable. By controlling hurricanes, it keeps this atmospheric energy in the tropics, which will cause more and more powerful hurricanes to spawn. And assuming we develop the system to controlling weather from a pipe dream to the real thing with this fact in mind, there will be a public outcry to wipe out every hurricane before it makes landfall.
Interesting fact, but weather control has been something that we have been playing with since world war two. I'm having difficulty finding trustworthy sources out there because of Katrina and the popularity of the topic. Britain tried using a chemical for a condensation agent on rain clouds in the 40's, and it ended up causing a deadly acid rain, killing scores of people and destroying communities. We now use substances that occur in nature to "seed" clouds over the plains to hopefully make rain, but nothing too crazy.
Finally, the scary part is hurricane control is possible. A scientist has invented an agent made of biodegradable materials. These agents are held together in fine crystals that could be used to sprinkle hurricanes and the path in front of it, when these crystals come into contact with liquid water, it forms a thick gelatin layer, which would significantly halt evaporation, therefore cutting of the energy supply of the hurricane, it will act as if it just made landfall.
Unfortunately, sources are hard to come by at the moment, but these facts were featured on the discovery channel or one of their other networks on a special within the past year. If anybody would like to try to find it and post it, that may help somebody out.
Interesting fact, but weather control has ben somthing that we have been playing with since world war two. i'm having difficulty finding trustworthy sources out there because of Katrina and the popularity of the topic. Britian tried using a chemical for a condensation agent on rain clouds in teh 40's, and it ended up cauing a deadly acid rain, killing scores of people and destroying communities. We now use substnaces that occur in nature to "seed" clouds over th plains to hopefully make rain, but nothing too crazy.
Finally, the scary part is hurricane control is possible. A scientist has invented an agent made of biodegradable materials. These agents are held together in fine crystals that could be used to sprinkle hurricanes and teh path in front of it, when these crystals come into contact with liquid water, it froms a thick gelatin layer, which would significantly halt evaporation, therfore cutting of the energy supply of teh hurricane, it will act as if it just made landfall.
Unfortunately, socurces are hard to come by at the moment, but htese facts were featured on the the discovery channel or one of theirother networks on a special within the past year. if anybody would like to try to find it and post it, that may help somebody out.
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Actually the patent system STILL has an expiration, so you can not extend a patent. Now if you write software for your gigantic mass..... Oh wait that Micro$oft's backup plan, sorry.
For the general public, this advanced features of refining your search as you have mentioned might be nice, but has two problems. (1) It throws out other searches that we might want to do, such as apple valley, apple pie, apple orthodontics incorporated (went belly up in 1996 or so), etc. And (2) it just goes to make an already technology illiterate public even more illiterate. The easier it becomes, the less and less they will know about technology while it evolves around them, speeding up the gap between ubergeek and mindless keyboard surfer.
Google buys out Novell, and takes SuSE Linux. Although they have their own specialized search appliances, SuSE would allow business administrators to have some level of control over an IBM/Google supplied server. Why? An IBM/Google based computing system. Imagine, your business uses applications, such as Google office, Google bookkeeping, scheduling, and so on and so forth in one office, or with all of your traveling sales reps. Web based, your system no longer would require VPN access for users to work away from the office.
What's more is, workstations can be made to be nothing more than a glorified web surfing machine for the basic business user. No ability to install applications on a local machine, and therefore no issues with spyware. It would help to combat viruses too. Simplifying IT for the many companies. And lowering costs as compared to a windows based infrastructure.
Google likely would lease equipment and services to businesses. Small businesses would only need an internet connection really. Lease Google equipment and pay monthly, no assets to pay taxes on, and monthly revenue for Google, and they would start with the Novell/ SuSE market share under their belt.
Please remember it's still only speculation, but I'm confident enough to get some shares in Novell. Interestingly enough, while talking about this to the other geeks up here, someone mentioned this, a worthy watch. (I saw this after I came up with my theory) Epic2014
I should sue every one of these big companies we've been talking about. RIM patenting a keyboard (what's so special about it that it deserves a patent), and Freedom Wireless patenting a system to have people pay money. I hold the patent on patenting general ideas and then suing to get more money. So I get to sue all of them. Then I can turn around and sue everybody for slander.
I can't take credit for these questions, but people have been doing them for centuries, and I enjoy playing with them. Prove that the square root of 2 is irrational. If that was fun and you want some more, prove that the square root of 3 is irrational. If you are still not satisfied, derive a proof for Fermat's last theorem.
Well, I wish I could confirm or deny, but that would have to be the stupidest thing that M$ could do from a marketing standpoint. M$ DRM is still not completely accepted, and there are a lot of commercially available sources already on the market (and will be on the market on or after the time of release) that do not include DRM. Plus, it would hurt product compatibility with hardware. If you have a digital camcorder or voice recorder, you would have to use one that supported Sony magic gate in order to enforce a DRM. Microsoft would be out of their mind to implement that so quickly.
these will likly have a larger audiance in the business world as opposed to the home sterio market. ficces can have cat5 for data and music, simplifying the costs of wiring the next cube farm you work in. who cares about latency on the elevator music they pump in anyway? who else will pay 800 for a PSU jsut for a speaker system.
When has Google trampled your rights?
I agree, I think Google will maintain offering their services for free for the average user, but start offering business solutions. A managed web portal for your organization. Google office, Google bookkeeping,, a payroll service, all through a web portal you can use anywhere. Larger organizations may buy Google hardware. Dummy boxes that run a web browser, asking a locally Google-powered server. No more spy ware, and the ability to keep tabs on employees (for the employer, not necessarily for Google.). No IT staff, many of us geeks could be out of the job. It makes sense that the next move is to buy Novell, get SuSE and the IBM partnership. Google is the big winner here offering the service, instead of the software. Just like ho w IBM lost out to Microsoft, cause Microsoft sold software instead of hardware. Poetic justice, no??
Please keep in mind, I'm speculating, I really don't know, but it makes sense.
We have all come to distrust companies, but if they are going to do what I think they will, then they can make oodles of money making devices that work side by side with windows boxes (end user) as well as kicking some Micor$oft @$$ in the server rooms. They can go a while before they have to cross morals to make money, or piss us off by getting greedy. Microsoft became the evil empire because the market is flooded with their product, and they started to hurt the people who made the world possible, often the people who knew the product well enough to install it, pirate it, and repair it when it goes blue screening.
Please read my above post (first reply to "and in other news"). There is some logic to the madness, even if it's not exactly what I'm talking about, there are planning to be about more than offering advertisement spots and your own Google search engine box for your enterprise. (http://www.google.com/enterprise/)
I'm curious, do you think Google is going to offer their own Linux, or buy another company. I think that Google sees a light at the end of the tunnel. And that would be: come into the business market by offering services to businesses. They would charge for these services, and they could even offer hardware solutions running Linux, optimized to work with web based applications that Google will host, or could be hosted locally via Google powered servers (not everyone has enough bandwidth for everyone in their organization to run web apps). I see a smart thing they could do like buying Novell (and SuSE). Anybody else see the trend? What implications does this have for IBM, presently offering Novell and SuSE options?
the fact of the matter is, identity theft in many cases (phishing emails) are teh result of inexpereicned users who get scammed. Financial institutions are responsible to a certain extent on all of these cases. Full responsability will upset teh economy system, because campanies cannot adapt as fast as crimals (as noted by other users).
Simon, I agree with you, what a lot of people don't realize is that hurricanes actually keep our weather system stable. By controlling hurricanes, it keeps this atmospheric energy in the tropics, which will cause more and more powerful hurricanes to spawn. And assuming we develop the system to controlling weather from a pipe dream to the real thing with this fact in mind, there will be a public outcry to wipe out every hurricane before it makes landfall.
Interesting fact, but weather control has been something that we have been playing with since world war two. I'm having difficulty finding trustworthy sources out there because of Katrina and the popularity of the topic. Britain tried using a chemical for a condensation agent on rain clouds in the 40's, and it ended up causing a deadly acid rain, killing scores of people and destroying communities. We now use substances that occur in nature to "seed" clouds over the plains to hopefully make rain, but nothing too crazy.
Finally, the scary part is hurricane control is possible. A scientist has invented an agent made of biodegradable materials. These agents are held together in fine crystals that could be used to sprinkle hurricanes and the path in front of it, when these crystals come into contact with liquid water, it forms a thick gelatin layer, which would significantly halt evaporation, therefore cutting of the energy supply of the hurricane, it will act as if it just made landfall.
Unfortunately, sources are hard to come by at the moment, but these facts were featured on the discovery channel or one of their other networks on a special within the past year. If anybody would like to try to find it and post it, that may help somebody out.
Interesting fact, but weather control has ben somthing that we have been playing with since world war two. i'm having difficulty finding trustworthy sources out there because of Katrina and the popularity of the topic. Britian tried using a chemical for a condensation agent on rain clouds in teh 40's, and it ended up cauing a deadly acid rain, killing scores of people and destroying communities. We now use substnaces that occur in nature to "seed" clouds over th plains to hopefully make rain, but nothing too crazy.
Finally, the scary part is hurricane control is possible. A scientist has invented an agent made of biodegradable materials. These agents are held together in fine crystals that could be used to sprinkle hurricanes and teh path in front of it, when these crystals come into contact with liquid water, it froms a thick gelatin layer, which would significantly halt evaporation, therfore cutting of the energy supply of teh hurricane, it will act as if it just made landfall.
Unfortunately, socurces are hard to come by at the moment, but htese facts were featured on the the discovery channel or one of theirother networks on a special within the past year. if anybody would like to try to find it and post it, that may help somebody out.