Your corpus is clean and balanced -- Google's is 1200 times bigger. Your front-end is powerful but complicated -- Google's is simple and usable by regular people. Your front-end can handle the load of a few academics -- Google's can handle getting slashdotted, in the mainstream press, etc.
I kind of see them as complementary. If you'd like, I could get you in contact with the folks who made the Google system; they'd probably be open to someone working to bring more structure to it, or just hosting fancier-but-smaller corpora such as COHA.
Don't look at it as a threat, consider it an opportunity.
Google is generally against software patents: http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Google That site lists no known offensive patent litigation, and a quote of over 50 patent lawsuits against Google.
In this particular case, it is really quite simple:
- If the patent is granted, it means the USPTO thinks it is patentable.
- If Google did not patent it, someone else would, and they'd be suing Google right now.
- Successfully defending a patent suit is more expensive than getting a patent, and losing a patent suit can cost massive amounts.
From the article you linked, but clearly didn't read: "...reduce its overseas tax rate to 2.4 percent..." "The U.S. corporate income-tax rate is 35 percent." "...Google’s overall effective tax rate to 22.2 percent..."
You'll note that 22.2% is a lot higher than 2.4%, which means Google must be paying a lot of US tax to make up the difference. In order to be paying less than 35% in the US, Google would have to make more than 60% of it's money in the US (2.4*0.40+35*0.60 = ~22). Even if Google made over 90% of its money the US (clearly an overestimate for a multi-national), that would mean a US tax rate of roughly 24%.
Headlines are intentionally sensationalist, usually written by the editor to catch views, and rarely written by the article author who presumably knows the most about the subject. If you're going to cite something, RTFA first.
You can download videos one at a time, and there's an issue you can vote up for bulk download. Of course, youtube videos are usually lower quality than the original you uploaded.
Comments cannot be exported, but I think that is a feature to aid in the preservation of human culture.
You can install whatever you want, but it's Google's choice as to what is available in their app store. The nice thing about Android is that you are not limited to apps from the official app store -- you can install stuff directly or use other app stores. On the iPhone, this is not (yet) the case.
If you buy a computer form Best Buy, they will not control what you can install and run on your computer, but they sure can decide what boxed software they sell in their store.
No college calls itself a "colleges". If you search in the plural, you get sites that list colleges (which seems perfectly reasonable). With the singular "college" you get a mix of college listing sites and a few schools.
If you want a list of only colleges in google, just search for "industrial design college site:edu" (or whatever extension for schools in your country of interest). Yes, not many folks know how to use "site:", but then most folks won't figure out slashtags either.
A networked multiplayer RTS with a central server has a very similar setup, as did my own robot GUIs. The video focuses on the UI, so that's what I talked about, rather than the fidelity of the simulation or where computation happens on the network.
The UI is neat, but I was hoping for a bit more from "robot swarm control" than nice RTS style controls on a half dozen robots.
This demo was a simulation, so there really isn't that much difference from a good RTS. Motion control and local path planning are well understood.
While the demo looks cool, it is not really much different than the robot GUI I wrote for my robocup team that could control 10+ robots (real or simulated). It used a mouse and any number of ps3-style controllers. And yes, I got my ideas from RTS games, and some other teams had even better GUIs.
Also, it would have been nice if they didn't speed up the video, so we could better understand how well it worked. One thing I often find in touch interfaces is that selection is slower than you'd expect since you block the item with your finger. A mouse pointer is much smaller, and works well for skilled operators.
There can't be any harm in requiring Google to adhere to some clear rules (like letting you browse all the data they have from you, giving you full control over deletions, offer complete export options with common data formats and so on).
Most of the data Google has on you that is indexed by your account is already available on the Google dashboard: https://www.google.com/dashboard/ Some products are not yet supported (listed at the bottom). The Google Data Liberation Front is working toward making it complete: http://www.dataliberation.org/ They are also working on safe methods of deletion (note that making this too easy allows account hijackers to hold data for ransom).
Note that there are also google ad preferences which allow you to see and edit what the Google ad system thinks about you: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/
You only see the failures to detect spam, not the successes. For every PhD Google has working on search ranking, there are probably 1000+ "dark side of SEO" people trying to subvert the system. Combining those two points, you are going to see spam sometimes.
In a related category, we still have spam email, even though there are entire companies devoted to filtering it.
If you didn't already, please report it. Now that Google uses its own data for the US, it can correct problems (when using NavTeq/TeleAtlas, there are contractual roadblocks to fixing anything). I used the "report a problem" link in the lower right for a illegal-by-sign turn in Pittsburgh PA, describing the problem and giving street view links as supporting evidence. I got an email week or two when they had confirmed the problem, and another email when the fix had been rolled out a month later. Sure, that is not instant, but it's a lot better than waiting a year or more for data to filter through from a maps provider.
The Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) has a report from 2005 titled "MTP2035 Road Maintenence" which states: "The typical local road maintenance and rehabilitation budget comes about 25% from gas taxes, 45% from sales tax-based revenues, 10% from other local sources including general funds, and 20% from state and federal funds for road rehabilitation, but it varies among jurisdictions."
And later: "The inadequacy of the state gasoline tax is widely misunderstood; it now covers only 20% of actual local road maintenance and rehabilitation costs, with nothing left over for road improvements."
So, according to some real local governments, you are quite wrong. I seriously doubt that a bicycle causes 75% of the wear on a road that a car causes, even in areas with winter weather, so bicycle riders who don't drive much are paying disproportionately more for what they use than car drivers.
So, that's the best reputable information I could find. What do you have to back up your statement?
Slashdot Mirror
s/hundreds/thousands/ [1]
We just need to wait for thousand-core smartphones :)
[1] "a typical query to Google can touch thousands of machines before returning the answer."
http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/profiles/whygoogle.html
I don't know how this was missed earlier, but:
http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=sharks,lasers&year_start=1770&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3
Your corpus is clean and balanced -- Google's is 1200 times bigger.
Your front-end is powerful but complicated -- Google's is simple and usable by regular people.
Your front-end can handle the load of a few academics -- Google's can handle getting slashdotted, in the mainstream press, etc.
I kind of see them as complementary. If you'd like, I could get you in contact with the folks who made the Google system; they'd probably be open to someone working to bring more structure to it, or just hosting fancier-but-smaller corpora such as COHA.
Don't look at it as a threat, consider it an opportunity.
Google is generally against software patents:
http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Google
That site lists no known offensive patent litigation, and a quote of over 50 patent lawsuits against Google.
In this particular case, it is really quite simple:
- If the patent is granted, it means the USPTO thinks it is patentable.
- If Google did not patent it, someone else would, and they'd be suing Google right now.
- Successfully defending a patent suit is more expensive than getting a patent, and losing a patent suit can cost massive amounts.
From the article you linked, but clearly didn't read:
"...reduce its overseas tax rate to 2.4 percent..."
"The U.S. corporate income-tax rate is 35 percent."
"...Google’s overall effective tax rate to 22.2 percent..."
You'll note that 22.2% is a lot higher than 2.4%, which means Google must be paying a lot of US tax to make up the difference. In order to be paying less than 35% in the US, Google would have to make more than 60% of it's money in the US (2.4*0.40+35*0.60 = ~22). Even if Google made over 90% of its money the US (clearly an overestimate for a multi-national), that would mean a US tax rate of roughly 24%.
Headlines are intentionally sensationalist, usually written by the editor to catch views, and rarely written by the article author who presumably knows the most about the subject. If you're going to cite something, RTFA first.
YouTube export: http://www.dataliberation.org/google/youtube-1
You can download videos one at a time, and there's an issue you can vote up for bulk download. Of course, youtube videos are usually lower quality than the original you uploaded.
Comments cannot be exported, but I think that is a feature to aid in the preservation of human culture.
You can install whatever you want, but it's Google's choice as to what is available in their app store. The nice thing about Android is that you are not limited to apps from the official app store -- you can install stuff directly or use other app stores. On the iPhone, this is not (yet) the case.
If you buy a computer form Best Buy, they will not control what you can install and run on your computer, but they sure can decide what boxed software they sell in their store.
No college calls itself a "colleges". If you search in the plural, you get sites that list colleges (which seems perfectly reasonable). With the singular "college" you get a mix of college listing sites and a few schools.
If you want a list of only colleges in google, just search for "industrial design college site:edu" (or whatever extension for schools in your country of interest). Yes, not many folks know how to use "site:", but then most folks won't figure out slashtags either.
Who exactly do you need to trust?
Ken Thompson? Reflections on trusting trust.
he had access to both voice, email and google talk.
That's called "gmail". Chat is built-in, and by default voice sends you a transcript as email.
Google has a lot of dice.
I don't see the problem with that.
Like top-posting.
A networked multiplayer RTS with a central server has a very similar setup, as did my own robot GUIs. The video focuses on the UI, so that's what I talked about, rather than the fidelity of the simulation or where computation happens on the network.
The UI is neat, but I was hoping for a bit more from "robot swarm control" than nice RTS style controls on a half dozen robots.
All you have to do is run:
emacs http://*
and then wait a really long time.
This demo was a simulation, so there really isn't that much difference from a good RTS. Motion control and local path planning are well understood.
While the demo looks cool, it is not really much different than the robot GUI I wrote for my robocup team that could control 10+ robots (real or simulated). It used a mouse and any number of ps3-style controllers. And yes, I got my ideas from RTS games, and some other teams had even better GUIs.
Also, it would have been nice if they didn't speed up the video, so we could better understand how well it worked. One thing I often find in touch interfaces is that selection is slower than you'd expect since you block the item with your finger. A mouse pointer is much smaller, and works well for skilled operators.
There can't be any harm in requiring Google to adhere to some clear rules (like letting you browse all the data they have from you, giving you full control over deletions, offer complete export options with common data formats and so on).
Most of the data Google has on you that is indexed by your account is already available on the Google dashboard:
https://www.google.com/dashboard/
Some products are not yet supported (listed at the bottom). The Google Data Liberation Front is working toward making it complete:
http://www.dataliberation.org/
They are also working on safe methods of deletion (note that making this too easy allows account hijackers to hold data for ransom).
Note that there are also google ad preferences which allow you to see and edit what the Google ad system thinks about you:
http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/
So you want to be taught by the UPS commercial guy?
You only see the failures to detect spam, not the successes. For every PhD Google has working on search ranking, there are probably 1000+ "dark side of SEO" people trying to subvert the system. Combining those two points, you are going to see spam sometimes.
In a related category, we still have spam email, even though there are entire companies devoted to filtering it.
Until there is a redundant comment which says exactly what yours does, I'm not going to trust your assertion.
Commit rights can often end up as political lightning rods such as with XFree86.
I'll take "pull from whoever you trust" over "cabal of the chosen few" any day.
If you didn't already, please report it. Now that Google uses its own data for the US, it can correct problems (when using NavTeq/TeleAtlas, there are contractual roadblocks to fixing anything). I used the "report a problem" link in the lower right for a illegal-by-sign turn in Pittsburgh PA, describing the problem and giving street view links as supporting evidence. I got an email week or two when they had confirmed the problem, and another email when the fix had been rolled out a month later. Sure, that is not instant, but it's a lot better than waiting a year or more for data to filter through from a maps provider.
Google is dropping the Nexus One.
Not true; from your own link: "instead partner with carriers to sell the N1 in-store"
You will not be able to buy an N1 directly from Google, but they will still be sold.
There is with this at all.
What the hell is that sentence supposed to mean?
The hell that is to mean.
Sorry there was a typo when I copyied from the PDF; "now covers only 20%" should have read "now covers only 25%". The conclusion remains the same.
The Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG) has a report from 2005 titled "MTP2035 Road Maintenence" which states:
"The typical local road maintenance and rehabilitation budget comes
about 25% from gas taxes, 45% from sales tax-based revenues, 10% from
other local sources including general funds, and 20% from state and
federal funds for road rehabilitation, but it varies among
jurisdictions."
And later:
"The inadequacy of the state gasoline tax is widely misunderstood; it
now covers only 20% of actual local road maintenance and
rehabilitation costs, with nothing left over for road improvements."
So, according to some real local governments, you are quite wrong. I seriously doubt that a bicycle causes 75% of the wear on a road that a car causes, even in areas with winter weather, so bicycle riders who don't drive much are paying disproportionately more for what they use than car drivers.
So, that's the best reputable information I could find. What do you have to back up your statement?