The people who get nailed in court for file-sharing seem very remote. It just doesn't seem like a file-sharing conviction will ever affect "normal" people who just use Limewire every so often when they need something. These people make up 99% of the file-sharing population.
I consider "didn't speak fluent English" to be a perfectly legitimite reason not to hire someone. If there are two candidates with fairly equal qualifications, and one speaks English better than the other, than I would pick the fluent English speaker every time.
If Google sucks, name something better. It's idiocy to say "Google sucks and only is popular because everything sucks more."
News flash: SEARCH IS DIFFICULT. Yes, it would be nice if someone made a search engine that could read our minds and deliver exactly what we want. But the fact that a problem has a perfect solution doesn't mean that it is possible to get to that solution. I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for a "good" search engine to come along - if you are, you obviously don't understand the complexities of the problem.
Except for the fact that all these "new" features they have mentioned have been tried by the most talented (read: American) developers out there. What makes them think that some government-sponsored conglomerate is going to do things that Google can't do?
Exactly. Is MLB somehow claiming that watching what happens and writing it down is some kind of novel concept that they can patent? On a related note, every web site in existence owes me royalties because I have patented hit counters...
Am I the only one who thinks this headline sounds like something some scientist completely pulled out of his ass?
"Yeah...so you know dark matter? All the planets are, like, floating on it. And I am TOTALLY stoned...."
*nix does not mean secure. It just isn't popular enough for spyware programmers to target, yet. Give it time, I think as it gains popularity, it will begin to be a target for the software companies that try to enter and dissect your life digitally.
I strongly disagree with the sentiment. One of the most useful tools available to a really annoying piece of spyware is the Windows Registry. *nix systems (Mac OSX included) do not include this "feature." The registry adds an extremely unecessary layer which adds some convenience, but relies on programs which make registry entries to give a way to uninstall and delete these entries. Guess what? Spyware loves to insert itself all over the registry, and doesn't give an easy mechanism for deletion. This leads to the "I deleted it, but it just comes back!" kind of spyware that drives people nuts. As far as I know, this kind of spyware wouldn't have anywhere near the same resilience on a *nix platform.
One very good example of the difference between spyware attempts on Windows and OSX is Sony's infamous "rootkit" DRM software which we all know did very bad things to Windows computers. Before a patch was made, there was some 18 step process that was necessary to get rid of the software, and any attempts to remove the software generally led to failures of the user's DVD drive. What was less reported was that the same company made DRM software for the Mac, but Mac users who found the program on their computer had a slightly easier fix - they just threw the program away. There are simply not the same kind of hooks in OSX which allow these kinds of programs to do nasty things to your computer.
I simply would not buy Google shares right now. Why? Stock prices are based on expectation, and the expectations made of Google right now are ridiculously high. Yes, it is possible for Google to perform better than expected, but there is much more room for the company to do worse and for the stock to take a hit. I would not buy Google until they make their first mistake and analysts stop expecting perfection of them. Note - I am not saying that GOOG is a bad stock, but all I'm saying is that they're downside is bigger than their upside right now.
Sounds good to me - with FM technology you can use your music player to listen to "playlists" chosen by a DJ with only minimal commercials! I don't know why Apple didn't decide to implement this awesome new technology in its iPod...
Apple is keeping fairly quiet about it (I assume to keep Microsoft as happy as possible), but the iWork apps have slowly become very useful tools. Keynote is a very useful program which puts together beautiful presentations - I would actually rather use Keynote than PP. Pages is a little behind MS Word at this point, but it it much better than OOo, especially in the ability to read the.doc format.
Perhaps I am mistaken, but didn't MS make Windows Media for Mac because an antitrust lawsuit in the EU forced it upon them? If so, how could they just stop making it?
Except that record companies don't allow any of their good albums to be put online in a non-protected format. I am guessing that Microsoft's strategy to take over the living room of every home in the country wouldn't exactly pan out if they only offered mp3's from artists that nobody has ever heard of.
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The people who get nailed in court for file-sharing seem very remote. It just doesn't seem like a file-sharing conviction will ever affect "normal" people who just use Limewire every so often when they need something. These people make up 99% of the file-sharing population.
I consider "didn't speak fluent English" to be a perfectly legitimite reason not to hire someone. If there are two candidates with fairly equal qualifications, and one speaks English better than the other, than I would pick the fluent English speaker every time.
If Google sucks, name something better. It's idiocy to say "Google sucks and only is popular because everything sucks more."
News flash: SEARCH IS DIFFICULT. Yes, it would be nice if someone made a search engine that could read our minds and deliver exactly what we want. But the fact that a problem has a perfect solution doesn't mean that it is possible to get to that solution. I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for a "good" search engine to come along - if you are, you obviously don't understand the complexities of the problem.
Except for the fact that all these "new" features they have mentioned have been tried by the most talented (read: American) developers out there. What makes them think that some government-sponsored conglomerate is going to do things that Google can't do?
Exactly. Is MLB somehow claiming that watching what happens and writing it down is some kind of novel concept that they can patent? On a related note, every web site in existence owes me royalties because I have patented hit counters...
Am I the only one who thinks this headline sounds like something some scientist completely pulled out of his ass? "Yeah...so you know dark matter? All the planets are, like, floating on it. And I am TOTALLY stoned...."
*nix does not mean secure. It just isn't popular enough for spyware programmers to target, yet. Give it time, I think as it gains popularity, it will begin to be a target for the software companies that try to enter and dissect your life digitally. I strongly disagree with the sentiment. One of the most useful tools available to a really annoying piece of spyware is the Windows Registry. *nix systems (Mac OSX included) do not include this "feature." The registry adds an extremely unecessary layer which adds some convenience, but relies on programs which make registry entries to give a way to uninstall and delete these entries. Guess what? Spyware loves to insert itself all over the registry, and doesn't give an easy mechanism for deletion. This leads to the "I deleted it, but it just comes back!" kind of spyware that drives people nuts. As far as I know, this kind of spyware wouldn't have anywhere near the same resilience on a *nix platform. One very good example of the difference between spyware attempts on Windows and OSX is Sony's infamous "rootkit" DRM software which we all know did very bad things to Windows computers. Before a patch was made, there was some 18 step process that was necessary to get rid of the software, and any attempts to remove the software generally led to failures of the user's DVD drive. What was less reported was that the same company made DRM software for the Mac, but Mac users who found the program on their computer had a slightly easier fix - they just threw the program away. There are simply not the same kind of hooks in OSX which allow these kinds of programs to do nasty things to your computer.
I simply would not buy Google shares right now. Why? Stock prices are based on expectation, and the expectations made of Google right now are ridiculously high. Yes, it is possible for Google to perform better than expected, but there is much more room for the company to do worse and for the stock to take a hit. I would not buy Google until they make their first mistake and analysts stop expecting perfection of them. Note - I am not saying that GOOG is a bad stock, but all I'm saying is that they're downside is bigger than their upside right now.
Sounds good to me - with FM technology you can use your music player to listen to "playlists" chosen by a DJ with only minimal commercials! I don't know why Apple didn't decide to implement this awesome new technology in its iPod...
I don't have the ability to meta-moderate yet, but I would hope that someone who does took care of this...
Apple is keeping fairly quiet about it (I assume to keep Microsoft as happy as possible), but the iWork apps have slowly become very useful tools. Keynote is a very useful program which puts together beautiful presentations - I would actually rather use Keynote than PP. Pages is a little behind MS Word at this point, but it it much better than OOo, especially in the ability to read the .doc format.
Perhaps I am mistaken, but didn't MS make Windows Media for Mac because an antitrust lawsuit in the EU forced it upon them? If so, how could they just stop making it?
Except that record companies don't allow any of their good albums to be put online in a non-protected format. I am guessing that Microsoft's strategy to take over the living room of every home in the country wouldn't exactly pan out if they only offered mp3's from artists that nobody has ever heard of.