I think the author of that article, and many of the/. posters are missing the point. Advertising is a numbers game. Google doesn't need 50%+1 market share on their calendar app in order for it to be a success. What they need is page loads. Every time a user reads an e-mail, Google makes money. Every time a user gets driving directions from Google maps, Google makes money. Google doesn't need a killer anything app. They need tons and tons of traffic. The best way of doing that is to make as many good solid apps as they can now while their wallets are still fat from their IPO. Of COURSE their stock is over priced right now. It's going to go down. How much? Who knows. This is not a 'throw ideas at the wall and see what sticks' market strategy. This is a 'do every thing we can to increase page loads' strategy. It's working, and it's going to keep working.
while this lawsuit is obvious BS, at least these guys have a working functional model for their patent (unlike some others in the patent market). Ya gotta give them at least 2 points for that.
I think with the.NET platform becoming more and more multi-platform it won't be long until problems like this are solved. That VB Macro can be compiled into byte code and executed/interpreted appropriately. Of course, it's completely likely that I don't understand the scripting technologies inherent in spreadsheet macros and the previous text is all hot air from my nether regions. *shrug* who knows?
Google has a huge amount of processing power. I'm curious what is the mean level of load as a percentage of capacity on all of these machines. I wonder if they could farm out some of that processing power to major corporations for things like video rendering, weather simulations, financial reports (some firms run reports which can take days to churn through). Why buy that big mainframe when you could just lease power from Google when you needed it?
ThinkFree.com has a free online office suite (built with applets) that writes to the native MS file types fairly well. It's a bit slow to load (being an applet) but you get a free 1GB account which isn't indexed by Google. It's worth checking out for anyone interested in online storage of their docs.
Nope, don't work for them.:)
The folks at Azureus could partner with the folks at Apple/iTunes to create a really great combination torrent/itunes client. The Azureus team would be able to offer an incredible insight into the torrent distribution technologies and the expertise to have a truly OS transparent iTunes client.
I know, it'll never happen, but I can dream can't I?
Many posters are joking about India but I don't see them as a threat. Maybe it's just in my area but almost every business I have contacts with has an open development position. The only exceptions are the businesses going through rough times in general and are on hiring freezes throughout the entire company.
The real way to help these people is not to send them money, food, or even prescriptions. The real way to help these people is to help them attain the skillset required to be a valuable part of the modern economy. You can look at India as a prime example of what happens when a nation of hungry people learn a little bit about computer technology. They become a massive work force. That's what these businesses are about. They want to create cheap labor. This relationship will be mutually beneficial to our economies and theirs. We will get some cheap labor for things we don't particularly care to do. They will get income and technology necessary to complete their job tasks.
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I think the author of that article, and many of the /. posters are missing the point. Advertising is a numbers game. Google doesn't need 50%+1 market share on their calendar app in order for it to be a success. What they need is page loads. Every time a user reads an e-mail, Google makes money. Every time a user gets driving directions from Google maps, Google makes money. Google doesn't need a killer anything app. They need tons and tons of traffic. The best way of doing that is to make as many good solid apps as they can now while their wallets are still fat from their IPO. Of COURSE their stock is over priced right now. It's going to go down. How much? Who knows. This is not a 'throw ideas at the wall and see what sticks' market strategy. This is a 'do every thing we can to increase page loads' strategy. It's working, and it's going to keep working.
while this lawsuit is obvious BS, at least these guys have a working functional model for their patent (unlike some others in the patent market). Ya gotta give them at least 2 points for that.
I think with the .NET platform becoming more and more multi-platform it won't be long until problems like this are solved. That VB Macro can be compiled into byte code and executed/interpreted appropriately. Of course, it's completely likely that I don't understand the scripting technologies inherent in spreadsheet macros and the previous text is all hot air from my nether regions. *shrug* who knows?
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Google has a huge amount of processing power. I'm curious what is the mean level of load as a percentage of capacity on all of these machines. I wonder if they could farm out some of that processing power to major corporations for things like video rendering, weather simulations, financial reports (some firms run reports which can take days to churn through). Why buy that big mainframe when you could just lease power from Google when you needed it?
ThinkFree.com has a free online office suite (built with applets) that writes to the native MS file types fairly well. It's a bit slow to load (being an applet) but you get a free 1GB account which isn't indexed by Google. It's worth checking out for anyone interested in online storage of their docs. Nope, don't work for them. :)
The folks at Azureus could partner with the folks at Apple/iTunes to create a really great combination torrent/itunes client. The Azureus team would be able to offer an incredible insight into the torrent distribution technologies and the expertise to have a truly OS transparent iTunes client.
I know, it'll never happen, but I can dream can't I?
Many posters are joking about India but I don't see them as a threat. Maybe it's just in my area but almost every business I have contacts with has an open development position. The only exceptions are the businesses going through rough times in general and are on hiring freezes throughout the entire company.
The real way to help these people is not to send them money, food, or even prescriptions. The real way to help these people is to help them attain the skillset required to be a valuable part of the modern economy. You can look at India as a prime example of what happens when a nation of hungry people learn a little bit about computer technology. They become a massive work force. That's what these businesses are about. They want to create cheap labor. This relationship will be mutually beneficial to our economies and theirs. We will get some cheap labor for things we don't particularly care to do. They will get income and technology necessary to complete their job tasks.