I suspect the 'humour' doesn't cross the pond that well. They all struck me as either oft repeated lame jokes or just statements of the obvious. No real humour and nothing that raised the remotest of a wry grin. Sorry guys, these were just pants.
If they are trying to disconnect the word Google from searching in the public's mind, it can only be because searching isn't high on their future plans and they want people to think of Google in a different way.
The fact they want "Google searching" or "searching to with Google" to be explicitly stated really does sound like they want 'googling' to be something else entirely in five years.
Indeed. I recently read a report on world religions which noted (and this is going to be a tad contraversial) that it considered European Christianity to be fairly sensible but that US and African flavours of Christianity couldn't be considered true christianity.
>Good Times
Are you Alex Albrecht?;-)
>1. Strip naked
>2. Submit to invasive probing
>4. Be marched to the plane single-file, wearing handcuffs and leg irons
>5. Be chained into our seats in the plane.
There are people who would pay good money for the above as a 'service'. Methinks there's profit to be made here.
>Come the revolution, all (corrupt?) politicians will be executed.
>At the head of that queue will be the lawyers who are politicians.
Can I vote for you?
Things were so much easier when we just used ducking stools and pointy sticks to decide innocence or guilt.
One wonders if the law exists to keep lawyers rather than the other way around.
>Business people tended to view Apple computers and Commodore computers as toys.
I'm not convinced. Over here in the UK CBM Pets and Apple IIs were all over the business world. Heck, even huge multinational banks used Apple II's. I knew some poor guy who had to log credits in to an Apple II running a database by Stoneware.
Business magazines of that era were full of ads for Apple IIs and all the business software/hardware you could buy for them.
Early reviews of the PC were also very negative, most noting Apple had nothing to worry about.
We're spoiled. I remember a friend enthusing that his firm had just fitted Maths CoPros to their XTs (I think) and that they could now refresh big AutoCad drawings in mere minutes.
I left school at 16 with a fistfull of exams at not particularly stunning grades and started working in a bank. At 18 I got my first computer (atari 400:-) ) and learned to program and everything about what made it tick. By 25 it was clear I didn't get on with banking so I asked if I could move in to IT which I did although initially it was just logging tapes in and out. I'm now 42 and have used VMS, various Unix (including scripting, sed/awk etc), raw x-windows coding, Windows/DOS, C, VB/VBA, C#, asp, html and a whole bunch of odd stuff. I've done analysis, design, build, test, debugging, documentation, warranty, support, training, writing for various magazines, beta testing for games companies, building/fixing hardware and God knows what else.
IT is a constant learning process so age has its uses although I do feel my ability to work long hours has diminished, both physically and as a result of marriage/kids. Age does have a bearing on some aspects, if a company wants someone who can cut code fast and late at night, they want youngsters. When they want something a bit bigger/more complex that requires experience, they go for the older types.
Call me a luddite but I just don't like the idea of being surrounded by electronic gizmos all transmitting radio waves at me. They may well be safe individually but en-masse they're bathing me in swathes of radiation I'd rather not be bathing in.
It's bad enough having my laptop warming my knees as I commute but having it also transmit radio waves at my nuts mere inches away isn't something I relish.
Phillipe Khan back and some more copies of his CD of 'sax music' and we're really going places. Will they relaunch Sidekick too?
It will be interesting to see how this pans out though as on the face of it, this sounds like a seriously good move. Back in the day, many, many PC developers learnt their skills on Borland's cheap tools providing a ready market for the pricier 'pro' stuff. Obviously this time round they have MS's free dev tools to deal with so this will be an interesting battle for the hearts & minds of hobbyists and newbies.
>Youtube.com stays in business because you are wrong
Youtube's hosting costs are $1m a month and right now they are watching the pot of venture capital dollars trickle away and wondering how the heck they can moneterize (hate that phrase but YKWIM) the site enough to keep going with that burn rate. According to a story recently on Digg they have maybe 9 months left unless they sort something out.
There was a story in todays UK press about some poor guy who has the CSA (govt department that tries to make fathers pay for their kids - laudable enough if it weren't for them being idiots and about to be shut down) taking GBP300 out of his pay packet each month. Some woman he has never heard of gave them his name and DOB and now he's GBP1300 worse off pending a DNA test (with a six month lead time) to prove he's not the father. This is the governments quality data in action. Just to add insult to injury the CSA told his partner he'd refused to have the test. OK, the lady that supplied the original data may be a crook/grudge bearer but either way, this shows how hard and time consuming it is to prove the errors in something the government believe to be true. Once the Big Database is up and running, it's going to be a lot worse.
It wouldn't surprise me to see people being locked up because the system thinks they're escaped crims or terrorists because they have a similar name. OK, you get out again in a few months but try rebuilding yor life/career after that and keep smiling.
One of the underlying goals of the whole ID card fiasco isn't the card but the database it is intending to use that is designed to integrate all the other government owned databases in a way that allows a single view of a person. As things stand, if you want to search the driving licence data, address, voting info, criminal records etc you haven't to search different databases.
Nowhere have I seen anything that suggested this data will be available to 3rd parties such as shops but for sure, they want the data from shops.
Anyway, the UK government have a terrible record for producing big systems either to time, budget or function so we'll have nothing to worry about for ten years by which time it will have bankrupted us and will use kit no longer available and crash out with errors and timeouts all over the place. It will probably be a doddle to hack too so at least the crims will get something useful out of it.
>I just prefer to keep my privacy and not get shot.
Don't be silly, we only shoot people if they live in the same house as a terrorism suspect. Stay away from them and you'll be fine. Unless you carry a table leg in a brown bag of course.
Other way around, surely. Our beloved governments use the bogie man of terrorists on every street corner to cajole us in to throwing away our civil liberties and turning over every scrap of data to them. You can usually spot a scary or stupid government idea because they tack on 'and this will protect us from terrorists' on the end of the description.
>the guys who revolted against the British were terrorists
And keep that in mind when dealing with current day terrorists of various factions. As a rule, they are people with a grudge who have run out of options. Because they want something different to us, we demonize them to allow us to continue our mantra of 'we are right'.
That said, whilst I understand their reasons and motivations, anyone that hurts innocent civilians because of a grudge with a nation or govt requires locking up (After due process etc).
FX: Sits back awaiting a tirade of 'you love terrorists therefor you hate America, democracy, apple pie etc although I'm hoping the/. IQ is above that.
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The firewall here would have blocked my reply if I'd typed it in full.
That or it was a woosh moment for you?
I suspect the 'humour' doesn't cross the pond that well. They all struck me as either oft repeated lame jokes or just statements of the obvious. No real humour and nothing that raised the remotest of a wry grin. Sorry guys, these were just pants.
I guess that ruins things for www.justfu**inggoogleit.com?
If they are trying to disconnect the word Google from searching in the public's mind, it can only be because searching isn't high on their future plans and they want people to think of Google in a different way.
The fact they want "Google searching" or "searching to with Google" to be explicitly stated really does sound like they want 'googling' to be something else entirely in five years.
>Good Times Are you Alex Albrecht? ;-)
;-)
Really must remember to add the line breaks..
>Good Times
Are you Alex Albrecht?
Indeed. I recently read a report on world religions which noted (and this is going to be a tad contraversial) that it considered European Christianity to be fairly sensible but that US and African flavours of Christianity couldn't be considered true christianity. >Good Times Are you Alex Albrecht? ;-)
>1. Strip naked
>2. Submit to invasive probing
>4. Be marched to the plane single-file, wearing handcuffs and leg irons
>5. Be chained into our seats in the plane.
There are people who would pay good money for the above as a 'service'. Methinks there's profit to be made here.
>Come the revolution, all (corrupt?) politicians will be executed.
>At the head of that queue will be the lawyers who are politicians.
Can I vote for you?
Things were so much easier when we just used ducking stools and pointy sticks to decide innocence or guilt.
One wonders if the law exists to keep lawyers rather than the other way around.
>Business people tended to view Apple computers and Commodore computers as toys.
I'm not convinced. Over here in the UK CBM Pets and Apple IIs were all over the business world. Heck, even huge multinational banks used Apple II's. I knew some poor guy who had to log credits in to an Apple II running a database by Stoneware.
Business magazines of that era were full of ads for Apple IIs and all the business software/hardware you could buy for them.
Early reviews of the PC were also very negative, most noting Apple had nothing to worry about.
We're spoiled. I remember a friend enthusing that his firm had just fitted Maths CoPros to their XTs (I think) and that they could now refresh big AutoCad drawings in mere minutes.
I left school at 16 with a fistfull of exams at not particularly stunning grades and started working in a bank. At 18 I got my first computer (atari 400 :-) ) and learned to program and everything about what made it tick. By 25 it was clear I didn't get on with banking so I asked if I could move in to IT which I did although initially it was just logging tapes in and out. I'm now 42 and have used VMS, various Unix (including scripting, sed/awk etc), raw x-windows coding, Windows/DOS, C, VB/VBA, C#, asp, html and a whole bunch of odd stuff. I've done analysis, design, build, test, debugging, documentation, warranty, support, training, writing for various magazines, beta testing for games companies, building/fixing hardware and God knows what else.
IT is a constant learning process so age has its uses although I do feel my ability to work long hours has diminished, both physically and as a result of marriage/kids. Age does have a bearing on some aspects, if a company wants someone who can cut code fast and late at night, they want youngsters. When they want something a bit bigger/more complex that requires experience, they go for the older types.
Call me a luddite but I just don't like the idea of being surrounded by electronic gizmos all transmitting radio waves at me. They may well be safe individually but en-masse they're bathing me in swathes of radiation I'd rather not be bathing in.
It's bad enough having my laptop warming my knees as I commute but having it also transmit radio waves at my nuts mere inches away isn't something I relish.
>And what does "steak and cheese" suggest?
A bad diet?
Phillipe Khan back and some more copies of his CD of 'sax music' and we're really going places. Will they relaunch Sidekick too?
It will be interesting to see how this pans out though as on the face of it, this sounds like a seriously good move. Back in the day, many, many PC developers learnt their skills on Borland's cheap tools providing a ready market for the pricier 'pro' stuff. Obviously this time round they have MS's free dev tools to deal with so this will be an interesting battle for the hearts & minds of hobbyists and newbies.
>Youtube.com stays in business because you are wrong
Youtube's hosting costs are $1m a month and right now they are watching the pot of venture capital dollars trickle away and wondering how the heck they can moneterize (hate that phrase but YKWIM) the site enough to keep going with that burn rate. According to a story recently on Digg they have maybe 9 months left unless they sort something out.
There was a story in todays UK press about some poor guy who has the CSA (govt department that tries to make fathers pay for their kids - laudable enough if it weren't for them being idiots and about to be shut down) taking GBP300 out of his pay packet each month. Some woman he has never heard of gave them his name and DOB and now he's GBP1300 worse off pending a DNA test (with a six month lead time) to prove he's not the father. This is the governments quality data in action. Just to add insult to injury the CSA told his partner he'd refused to have the test. OK, the lady that supplied the original data may be a crook/grudge bearer but either way, this shows how hard and time consuming it is to prove the errors in something the government believe to be true. Once the Big Database is up and running, it's going to be a lot worse.
It wouldn't surprise me to see people being locked up because the system thinks they're escaped crims or terrorists because they have a similar name. OK, you get out again in a few months but try rebuilding yor life/career after that and keep smiling.
Ohh..... My..... God......
One of the underlying goals of the whole ID card fiasco isn't the card but the database it is intending to use that is designed to integrate all the other government owned databases in a way that allows a single view of a person. As things stand, if you want to search the driving licence data, address, voting info, criminal records etc you haven't to search different databases.
Nowhere have I seen anything that suggested this data will be available to 3rd parties such as shops but for sure, they want the data from shops.
Anyway, the UK government have a terrible record for producing big systems either to time, budget or function so we'll have nothing to worry about for ten years by which time it will have bankrupted us and will use kit no longer available and crash out with errors and timeouts all over the place. It will probably be a doddle to hack too so at least the crims will get something useful out of it.
>I just prefer to keep my privacy and not get shot.
Don't be silly, we only shoot people if they live in the same house as a terrorism suspect. Stay away from them and you'll be fine. Unless you carry a table leg in a brown bag of course.
Other way around, surely. Our beloved governments use the bogie man of terrorists on every street corner to cajole us in to throwing away our civil liberties and turning over every scrap of data to them. You can usually spot a scary or stupid government idea because they tack on 'and this will protect us from terrorists' on the end of the description.
Oh, OK, you're forgiven ;-) I had posted an explanation of that myself earlier but you're probably right.
Well duh! Yes, obviously. Do you shoot down all jokes that way or just some?
>the guys who revolted against the British were terrorists /. IQ is above that.
And keep that in mind when dealing with current day terrorists of various factions. As a rule, they are people with a grudge who have run out of options. Because they want something different to us, we demonize them to allow us to continue our mantra of 'we are right'.
That said, whilst I understand their reasons and motivations, anyone that hurts innocent civilians because of a grudge with a nation or govt requires locking up (After due process etc).
FX: Sits back awaiting a tirade of 'you love terrorists therefor you hate America, democracy, apple pie etc although I'm hoping the
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