On top of paying revenue share to competing browsers, they are also paying shareware authors and OEM's to bundle Chrome with their apps and PC's. A quite adwarey and shady tactic.
How is that shady, it's not hidden or hard to remove (al a Norton). In fact I bought a new Asus laptop, it came with Google Chrome pre-installed and I'm certain I'm not the only one who's glad I had a browser other then Internet Exploiter.
Also, how is Chrome adware? You're really grasping at straws here.
Their contributions to open source are minimal at best.
the NoSQL projects would be so far behind without Google LevelDB (derived from BigTable). The entire Android OS was open sourced, a contribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Linux. V8 Javascript engine, funding Firefox, even after the release of Chrome, this is just the stuff I can name off the top of my head. Google's business depends on open source and unlike other companies we could name, they give back more then they take out.
their contributions towards open source hurt open source and web standards.
You have that backwards, Google are the only one's not trying to shoehorn "standards" into a propratary solution. WebM is the perfect example of this, H.264 is restricted, if you wish to use H.264 to produce or publish content, you need to pay MPEG-LA for the rights to do so. Just because H.264 is free on Windows (meaning Microsoft paid for the license to use it) doesn't make it open source.
Put it other way, they will continue closing services that didn't turn into immediate profit.
Actually, they give services a good go. They keep what works, dump what doesn't. They're a business and this isn't evil, it's sensible, even adventurous for a business.
As a business, Google are trying desperately do diversify because, as you pointed out an inordinate percentage of their revenue is from one source.
advertising side arm is called DoubleClick, which certainly has a "funny" history.
History, you mean before Google purchased them. Got anything after?
Google, as you pointed out is an advertising company and it makes sense for them to expand by buying a competitor (once again, this is not the evil you seem to think it is). Google ad's are the least intrusive and bandwidth wasting (with the exception of adwords and I haven't seen a site with them for a while). Compared to other advertising companies, they're saints.
I'll be the first to admit that their transition from hosting AppInventor and open sourcing it was not smooth, but this is Google for you. But what other companies Open Source anything they dont have to. If Microsoft or Apple bought Android Inc. do you think they would have open sourced it at all? I think not.
Now that rant is over, I wish I could have AppInventor installed as an IDE on my own machine but props to MIT for hosting it, maybe one day I'll have it as an independent IDE.
What makes you laugh is the connotations associated with U.S. use of "conservative", which refers to less government control over economic issues but more government control over social issues.
The traditional definition of "conservative" is a government that wants to change as little as possible, ergo to "conserve" the status quo. Outside the US, this tends to be used correctly to describe politicians and/or parties opposed to significant change. The opposite to conservative was progressive.
The US seems to misuse terms like buggery, the word for what you have described above is insanity, or more accurately fascism (liberal economic policies, authoritarian social policies).
Are we talking about the *same* Washington Post that continually loses my ID so I have to re-register over and over again so I can post comments on their politics articles?
It could be possible that some-one just doesn't want to read your opinion.
I know of one news source in Australia that doesn't delete comments it doesn't like and that's the one that's funded by the government (the net result is you get both left and right wing nutcases butting heads instead of just left _or_ right wing nutcases). Just look at cached articles from news.com.au (News Limited), any comment that's favourable to the current government or critical of the opposition is deleted, businesses get negative comments removed all the time.
You are joking right? Gil didn't do shit to help Apple, and the only thing that saved Apple was them buying NeXT which also came with Steve.
So Gil's a would-be hero?
The man who almost stopped the worst tech company in history in it's resurrection. It's like Hitler's father, he beat young Adolf regularly, unfortunately not enough to kill him.
I hereby make a motion that everyone immediately and permanently stop work on all controller innovations that do not involve jacking our brains directly into the computer. Who's with me?
They have a hard enough time getting DRM to work with DVD drives without breaking the entire OS, why the hell would you let them interface with your brain. They'll likely overwrite your respiratory drivers without telling you and due to poor coding, the DRM will shut down one or both of your lungs when daylight savings kicks in.
Of these five things, can you name one profession, trade, organisation, discipline or area of thought other then science which can beyond reasonable doubt, demonstrate a better understanding of them beyond science?
Proving that science doesn't know everything, does not invalidate science.
I started reading the title of this thread and though "please don't be the US".
After all, we have
- global climate change deniers
- anti-vaccination groups
- paleo diet followers
- raw foodism
- a museum that claims dinosaurs and cavemen lived together on the newly created 5 thousand year old Earth.
What a relief to know that the US is not the only developed country with a problem of people making up their own reality.
As an Australian, I can say with the big exception of a museum claiming dinosaurs and cavemen lived together, all of these idiocies exist in Oz and are most unfortunately, increasing. Add to the general anti-science movement an unhealthy dose of racism and xenophobia and the intellect of Australia is dropping rapidly. The only thing you have over us ATM is partisan politics and we are rapidly catching up to you on that with the likes of Tony Abbott.
drunken-driver = watching the road.
phone-user = watching the phone.
Here's why reaction time doesn't matter, a person texting is oblivious to the world around them. They dont notice a change in conditions, a car cutting them of, drifting out of their lane. Being able to react faster doesn't matter as they have put themselves into a situation where they wont notice a danger until it's too late. A drunk driver is far more likely to notice danger, just not capable of reacting properly to it.
People barely notice other drivers when their full attention is on the road let alone when they're distracted.
Let's stop the influx of "get over it" comments from Europe by removing the taxes from the price discussion. Then we can all equally complain about the cost of refined petrol instead of how much our governments like to add to the fees.
Australia buys it's petrol from Singapore, which is based on the Singapore/Malaysian Tapis. This is about $0.20 more expensive then WTI or Brent Crude.
So is greater Europe - if a German salesman chose to cover Northern Norway through Southern Italy as his territory, he's be doing a lot of travelling too.
The difference is, if Klaus the salesman in Munich wants to get to Giorgio the client in Rome, he can easily find methods other then car or plane.
If John the salesman in LA wants to visit Frank the client in Las Vagas, he has to either drive or pay for a flight and taxi. Lets not even consider New York to Montreal.
Eurorail is a good way to get around the Europe it's a shame the US has nothing like it.
Mass transit isn't intended for places like Montana. It is intended for cities with large populations.
Having been to many developing nations in Asia, there is often a municipal bus that runs around town in circles all day and most of the night. People pay about $0.20 ish of the local currency for every turn the vehicle makes. The size of the city only influences how many of these vehicles are in operation. In Thailand for example, only the largest cities like Bangkok will operate a proper bus service, smaller cities will run Songthaews or Baht Busses. Although every municipality tends to have it's own little variant of the system.
There's no reason a municipal transit system cant be applied to larger towns in western nations.
The problem with your tax theory is that in Europe, fuel taxes pay for roads. It's a very fair system, you buy a small, fuel efficient car, you pay less as your car does less damage to the road. If you drive a big expensive mum tank SUV that uses fuel like Robert Downey Jr uses coke then you pay more because your heavier car does more damage to the road.
In the US, fuel taxes only pay for a small portion of roads, so either roads are in serious disrepair in the US or that money comes from somewhere else.
Roads dont pay for themselves.
So in the US, that money comes out of income taxes, so rather then the mum-tank driving monkey paying their fair share, they are subsidised by absolutely everyone, so in reality it costs just as much but the costs are obfuscated.
I always thought a.357 could accomplish this already...Just displaying it causes people to shut the F up.
Using a.357 to enforce silence in a library is kind of counter productive wouldn't you think.
It wont work in the long run, people who are big enough douchebags to shout in a library will just stare at you with their cap turned sideways and say "dont shoot me bro".
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On top of paying revenue share to competing browsers, they are also paying shareware authors and OEM's to bundle Chrome with their apps and PC's. A quite adwarey and shady tactic.
How is that shady, it's not hidden or hard to remove (al a Norton). In fact I bought a new Asus laptop, it came with Google Chrome pre-installed and I'm certain I'm not the only one who's glad I had a browser other then Internet Exploiter.
Also, how is Chrome adware? You're really grasping at straws here.
the NoSQL projects would be so far behind without Google LevelDB (derived from BigTable). The entire Android OS was open sourced, a contribution the likes of which we haven't seen since Linux. V8 Javascript engine, funding Firefox, even after the release of Chrome, this is just the stuff I can name off the top of my head. Google's business depends on open source and unlike other companies we could name, they give back more then they take out.
You have that backwards, Google are the only one's not trying to shoehorn "standards" into a propratary solution. WebM is the perfect example of this, H.264 is restricted, if you wish to use H.264 to produce or publish content, you need to pay MPEG-LA for the rights to do so. Just because H.264 is free on Windows (meaning Microsoft paid for the license to use it) doesn't make it open source.
Actually, they give services a good go. They keep what works, dump what doesn't. They're a business and this isn't evil, it's sensible, even adventurous for a business.
As a business, Google are trying desperately do diversify because, as you pointed out an inordinate percentage of their revenue is from one source.
History, you mean before Google purchased them. Got anything after?
Google, as you pointed out is an advertising company and it makes sense for them to expand by buying a competitor (once again, this is not the evil you seem to think it is). Google ad's are the least intrusive and bandwidth wasting (with the exception of adwords and I haven't seen a site with them for a while). Compared to other advertising companies, they're saints.
I'll be the first to admit that their transition from hosting AppInventor and open sourcing it was not smooth, but this is Google for you. But what other companies Open Source anything they dont have to. If Microsoft or Apple bought Android Inc. do you think they would have open sourced it at all? I think not.
Now that rant is over, I wish I could have AppInventor installed as an IDE on my own machine but props to MIT for hosting it, maybe one day I'll have it as an independent IDE.
With PONIES of course!
Mmmmm, pony taco.
The traditional definition of "conservative" is a government that wants to change as little as possible, ergo to "conserve" the status quo. Outside the US, this tends to be used correctly to describe politicians and/or parties opposed to significant change. The opposite to conservative was progressive.
The US seems to misuse terms like buggery, the word for what you have described above is insanity, or more accurately fascism (liberal economic policies, authoritarian social policies).
Are we talking about the *same* Washington Post that continually loses my ID so I have to re-register over and over again so I can post comments on their politics articles?
It could be possible that some-one just doesn't want to read your opinion.
I know of one news source in Australia that doesn't delete comments it doesn't like and that's the one that's funded by the government (the net result is you get both left and right wing nutcases butting heads instead of just left _or_ right wing nutcases). Just look at cached articles from news.com.au (News Limited), any comment that's favourable to the current government or critical of the opposition is deleted, businesses get negative comments removed all the time.
You are joking right? Gil didn't do shit to help Apple, and the only thing that saved Apple was them buying NeXT which also came with Steve.
So Gil's a would-be hero?
The man who almost stopped the worst tech company in history in it's resurrection. It's like Hitler's father, he beat young Adolf regularly, unfortunately not enough to kill him.
It pulls too hard and break your thumb? ouch!
Not sure why this was downvoted. That would be a cool feature for Grand Theft Auto when you don't fulfill your obligations to the mafia.
Or a great incentive for you to buy the latest DLC.
I hereby make a motion that everyone immediately and permanently stop work on all controller innovations that do not involve jacking our brains directly into the computer. Who's with me?
They have a hard enough time getting DRM to work with DVD drives without breaking the entire OS, why the hell would you let them interface with your brain. They'll likely overwrite your respiratory drivers without telling you and due to poor coding, the DRM will shut down one or both of your lungs when daylight savings kicks in.
No, you're gaming on an even lower resolution.
1600x1200 = 1,920,000 pixels
1920x1080 = 2,073,600 pixels
1920x1200 = 2,304,000 pixels. 24" IPS, dual monitors.
PC's aren't limited to 1080p. I could have 4,096,000 pixels each on two monitors but I have a stubborn refusal to pay over $300 for a monitor.
"I'm not like other people. Pain hurts me" - Daffy Duck
IIRC, wasn't Daffy a brunette.
There are things about the human body and mind that science does not understand yet.
Name five.
You might have to to give a bit more in the way of parameters for this but off the top of my head:
Of these five things, can you name one profession, trade, organisation, discipline or area of thought other then science which can beyond reasonable doubt, demonstrate a better understanding of them beyond science?
Proving that science doesn't know everything, does not invalidate science.
I started reading the title of this thread and though "please don't be the US".
After all, we have
- global climate change deniers
- anti-vaccination groups
- paleo diet followers
- raw foodism
- a museum that claims dinosaurs and cavemen lived together on the newly created 5 thousand year old Earth.
What a relief to know that the US is not the only developed country with a problem of people making up their own reality.
As an Australian, I can say with the big exception of a museum claiming dinosaurs and cavemen lived together, all of these idiocies exist in Oz and are most unfortunately, increasing. Add to the general anti-science movement an unhealthy dose of racism and xenophobia and the intellect of Australia is dropping rapidly. The only thing you have over us ATM is partisan politics and we are rapidly catching up to you on that with the likes of Tony Abbott.
I think it just says
reaction_time(smartphone-user) > reaction_time(drunken-driver)
drunken-driver = watching the road.
phone-user = watching the phone.
Here's why reaction time doesn't matter, a person texting is oblivious to the world around them. They dont notice a change in conditions, a car cutting them of, drifting out of their lane. Being able to react faster doesn't matter as they have put themselves into a situation where they wont notice a danger until it's too late. A drunk driver is far more likely to notice danger, just not capable of reacting properly to it.
People barely notice other drivers when their full attention is on the road let alone when they're distracted.
No need to apologise. I was being sarcastic :)
If I didn't want people copying the idea, I wouldn't have written it on a public site.
28.8Kbps wasnt released until the 90s... What was the speed in 83? like 900bps?
In my defence _everyone_ was doing lines in the 80's.
I didn't see it so I'm asking... was it a walled garden with adverts?
It was the 80's, everyone was too busy with hairspray, good music and doing coke to care about the internet.
Plus at 28.8K it was faster to go to the shop to get porn.
Um, maybe being able to use it inside the secured faciltiy? I worked at DIA for a while,
Date In Asia (.com)?
Why do you need a super secure smartphone in that job?
Wow sounds very secure, hopefully they did n't decide to go with ROT-13 twice.
Not just double encryption but double secret encryption.
My bet is on the password being 1-2-3-4-5
Let's stop the influx of "get over it" comments from Europe by removing the taxes from the price discussion. Then we can all equally complain about the cost of refined petrol instead of how much our governments like to add to the fees.
Australia buys it's petrol from Singapore, which is based on the Singapore/Malaysian Tapis. This is about $0.20 more expensive then WTI or Brent Crude.
There, I've had my bitch.
The United States is a big frikkin' place.
So is greater Europe - if a German salesman chose to cover Northern Norway through Southern Italy as his territory, he's be doing a lot of travelling too.
The difference is, if Klaus the salesman in Munich wants to get to Giorgio the client in Rome, he can easily find methods other then car or plane.
If John the salesman in LA wants to visit Frank the client in Las Vagas, he has to either drive or pay for a flight and taxi. Lets not even consider New York to Montreal.
Eurorail is a good way to get around the Europe it's a shame the US has nothing like it.
Having been to many developing nations in Asia, there is often a municipal bus that runs around town in circles all day and most of the night. People pay about $0.20 ish of the local currency for every turn the vehicle makes. The size of the city only influences how many of these vehicles are in operation. In Thailand for example, only the largest cities like Bangkok will operate a proper bus service, smaller cities will run Songthaews or Baht Busses. Although every municipality tends to have it's own little variant of the system.
There's no reason a municipal transit system cant be applied to larger towns in western nations.
The problem with your tax theory is that in Europe, fuel taxes pay for roads. It's a very fair system, you buy a small, fuel efficient car, you pay less as your car does less damage to the road. If you drive a big expensive mum tank SUV that uses fuel like Robert Downey Jr uses coke then you pay more because your heavier car does more damage to the road.
In the US, fuel taxes only pay for a small portion of roads, so either roads are in serious disrepair in the US or that money comes from somewhere else.
Roads dont pay for themselves.
So in the US, that money comes out of income taxes, so rather then the mum-tank driving monkey paying their fair share, they are subsidised by absolutely everyone, so in reality it costs just as much but the costs are obfuscated.
Never Apple because they are a high end system in a niche market. Yea, people willing to pay 1200+ for a computer is a high end niche market.
Yep, spending $1500 on a $750 laptop to run the same SOE x 1200 will most assuredly get you fired.
I always thought a .357 could accomplish this already...Just displaying it causes people to shut the F up.
Using a .357 to enforce silence in a library is kind of counter productive wouldn't you think.
It wont work in the long run, people who are big enough douchebags to shout in a library will just stare at you with their cap turned sideways and say "dont shoot me bro".
THIS IS GENIUS. Although I actually happen to enjoy chatting it up with my mother in law oddly enough...
I read that as "chatting up my mother in law" and thought perhaps /. is not the best place for this kind of revelation.