Yes, only you have 100% alignment with your interests. But are you competent to backup and guard your data properly? Same thing with my house. But I would rather outsource my security to my local municipality and hire some private security monitoring firm for additional security. At some point cost benefit analysis should be done. Gmail's reliability is much better than what you would expect for a free service.
This is horrible. Losing years of email because of some glitch in service provider is totally unacceptable. We demand an immediate refund of every cent we paid for our gmail service. And 100 times that as punitive damages. That will teach them to treat us with more dignity.
You forgot the improvements to the Blue Screen of Death. Now it is not simple plain blue. No siree bob. It is going to be an opalescent iridescent luminescent effervescent phosphorescent incandescent fluorescent electric coruscant Blue screen of death!
You know if you use these Linux and such OS, there is so much of cost retraining the employees in the new system. You stick to Microsoft, you can rest assured that all the training costs you have spent will be investments that pay dividend over a long time to come. That is why you should invest in microsoft and stay away from those platforms that keep changing their UI.
Throw grit in the upgrade treadmill: If Google gets a portion of the MS-Office customers using the new service, and if MS-Office upgrades break the functionality the users will complain. In the past Microsoft will ask them to go fly a kite and ramp up the speed of the upgrade treadmill a notch. Now Google has enough credibility and if it blames/accuses Microsoft of deliberately messing up the API, Microsoft could not shrug it off or giggle at it like it did to DR-DOS
Detailed usage profile: Google will have very detailed view of the docs being saved, features being used most often. It will help cherry pick the most important functionality to implement in Google Docs.
Portability Testing: Google would have a steady supply of documents it can experiment with in testing how well it ports to Google doc and back. Yeah, yeah, there are some confidentiality issues. But google could easily replace the text with random gibberish but keep all the formatting in its test suites. Or it could get some companies to volunteer to be guinea pigs. Or pay to volunteer. Or just be a little evil and use it anyway
Platform grab: Just grab the platform, interaction and the plumbing first. The actual application that is running on it can eventually fall into your lap. Same thing MS did in its fight with WordPerfect, Lotus123, dBaseIII etc. If google owns the platform, MS-Office is just another GUI app.
Last time when there was this big media circus about an earthquake that was about to hit Memphis TN, they did not bother with these fancy nancy early warning detection system! The stores sold many cans of a patented earthquake repellent spray. It worked. The earthquake never hit Memphis, TN.
Most obvious motive for doing this is to allow corporations that are stuck with old unmaintainable "applications" a way to get it running under Linux/ChromeOS/Android eventually. An escape hatch from the MS. Suddenly all those "apps" are ported to Linux, upgraded to run on the latest hardware, protected by the latest sandboxes. They can technically run IE6 under NaCl in ChromeOS. This does not have to make any money for Google.
Google seems to have fully realized that as long as the Windows/Office monopoly is pumping billions of dollars into the coffers of Microsoft, it can simply wait out any competitor. Unless holes are poked in that firehose Google is just one stumble away from being vaporized. So it does what it can to make sure Microsoft plays defense.
This is a storm that's been brewing for years now. On EQ2 servers they sold in-game money for real money, then once you were in the gave there was a goblin that was basically a slot machine...
Unless they let you cash in the game money for real money, it would not be the same as slot machine. If you could sell your jackpot of game money winnings to other players, but not to the house, would it be counted as "cashing in the winnings"? Anyway as long as the real money goes only one way, it could be dumb, it could be lame, but it is not gambling.
Why is the school district pushing it? If the parents don't care, throw the bums out of school, and protect the kids that want to study. Truancy is not the school district's responsibility.
When GM was struggling to hold the fort against the onslaught of econoboxes in the 1990s, the MBA suites came up with a metric that showed Cadillac had the best mileage of all the cars in the market. The metric was Miles Per Gallon Per cubic foot of space. Oh yeah, you could always find some metric that looks impressive but it does not mean much.
This is particularly true of intensive properties compared to extensive properties. The sewing needle creates more pressure than the sheet metal bending machines, the flame temperature of a candle can exceed the temperature of gases hitting the turbine blades in a jet engine, static can build several thousand volts of electricity. And that trade that executed in 10 milliseconds, giving you a profit of 25$, is actually 78.84 billion dollars per year.
Web sites would rather control what is presented to you totally so that they could pelt you with ads all the time.The content is the lure, you are the catch and smothering you with ads is the raison d'être for these web sites. With browsers under the control of visitors, who might install no script and ad block they are seen by the web sites as sneaky thieves who pilfer "content" without paying for it. Making it all an app, and delivering it in apps with lots of quirks prevents the users from developing the equivalents of adblock. That is why they love the apps.
For every redneck idiot out there, there is a white lab coat idiot out there. For every right-wing nutcase, there is a left-wing nutcase. Every rabid Republican has a counterpart rabid Democrat.
Definitely not true. There are white lab coat idiots, there are left-wing nut cases and even left wing terrorists. (Some of the activities of PETA and greenpeace and the hooligans at Davos and other anti-globalization groups are terroristic). But the numbers are not equal. Not one for one. The Democratic base breaks 50% to 50% on "my party come hell or high water" and "my party most of the time". The Republican base breaks 66% to 33% favoring "my party no matter what". This difference goes by various euphemism like "enthusiasm gap".
In general this difference in make up of the supporters account for the lame, long drawn, wishy washy responses from Democratic leaders who try to be very careful not to step on too many toes, because half the Dems are against the other Dems. The Republican responses are strong, no nonsense, clear cut, and made up of sound bites because they are courting to their base and are shooting for narrow victories on polarized electorate. So there is very clear evidence that the ratio of rabid Dem to rabid Rep is 1.0
Lowering the seal level as a cure all? Impossible! what were they thinking. Now if he said "lower the taxes" then he would be talking. At present in America almost every one agrees, the panacea for whatever ails America is to lower the taxes.
Cancer might resemble the kind of cells that eventually made the transition of prokaryotes to eukaryotes. But it is simplistic to say it is governed by just a few genes, so we should be able to handle it. Think about it, if these genes have escaped natural selection for 1 billion years, how hard it is going to be to fight them.
Basically natural selection will be able to filter out any gene that affects the reproductive ability. Given the length of time, even extraordinarily minute differences will make a difference and eventually deleterious genes will be filtered out. But if some gene trades improved fitness at the reproductive stage for some serious cost to life at a later stage, that gene will never be filtered out. The extreme example is the trout that had traded it so much that it dies immediately after spawning. Its entire metabolism is structured to improve fitness before spawning to very serious inability to live after spawning.
Even if these guys were right, and with modern science you are able to find that one gene whose loss of function causes cancer, and they are able to fix it, all it means is you will not die of cancer, but will die of other geriatric diseases. Some of them are painful, some of them are embarrassing. But the most heart wrenching ones are those that trap a dead brain in a functioning body or a functioning brain in a dying body.
I wish science would concentrate on improving the quality of life when alive and allow both the body and the brain to die together painlessly.
At some point VMWare would become the real host OS and it will fire up and wipe Win instances and assume total responsibility for making sure the Win see only trustworthy peers. And isolate these win instances from one another. At that point all the legacy unportable corporate applications that need IE6 will run in some kind of frozen in time universe. No need to upgrade windows or even update it. Such a scenario must strike deep fear in the Microsoft corp HQ.
This time it could be unintentional, but pretty soon Microsoft will realize the advantages of constantly breaking VMWare.
What part of "optional" you don't get? If it is not going work for you, don't use it. As time goes by Google and others will develop other means of delivering the second authentication token. If convenience is more important to you than security by all means use a less secure but more convenient authentication procedure.
I see myself creating a secure email that uses two factor, and a non secure one without it. And I will store more sensitive data/email on the secure account. BTW android phones are attached to gmail. Wonder how the two factor works on these devices??
It would have been very nice if we could conclude, "But the joke was on him because a passing Google streetview truck intercepted, downloaded, cached and indexed the hard disk's data, all dressed up and ready to be data mined by the investigators..." But alas, no such luck.
I long for the day of an all Cisco environment. Why? Because Cisco stuff just works.
Exactly the same mentality that allowed MS-Win and MS-Office to achieve
vendor lock,
the ability to charge a tiny shade less than the switching cost to the alternative,
keep raising the switching costs to increase their revenue
force their customers to run on the upgrade-treadmill at ever increasing speeds
When you come back whining in five or ten years about the excessive license fees, expensive hardware, and your own inability to switch to a lower cost alternative, don't expect any sympathy from anyone.
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Yes, only you have 100% alignment with your interests. But are you competent to backup and guard your data properly? Same thing with my house. But I would rather outsource my security to my local municipality and hire some private security monitoring firm for additional security. At some point cost benefit analysis should be done. Gmail's reliability is much better than what you would expect for a free service.
This is horrible. Losing years of email because of some glitch in service provider is totally unacceptable. We demand an immediate refund of every cent we paid for our gmail service. And 100 times that as punitive damages. That will teach them to treat us with more dignity.
ldhu nalla devalapment. romba appirishiyEte paNNaREn. bEsh! bEsh! bhalE! bhalE!
You forgot the improvements to the Blue Screen of Death. Now it is not simple plain blue. No siree bob. It is going to be an opalescent iridescent luminescent effervescent phosphorescent incandescent fluorescent electric coruscant Blue screen of death!
You know if you use these Linux and such OS, there is so much of cost retraining the employees in the new system. You stick to Microsoft, you can rest assured that all the training costs you have spent will be investments that pay dividend over a long time to come. That is why you should invest in microsoft and stay away from those platforms that keep changing their UI.
Why google is doing this: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2010812&cid=35302300
Last time when there was this big media circus about an earthquake that was about to hit Memphis TN, they did not bother with these fancy nancy early warning detection system! The stores sold many cans of a patented earthquake repellent spray. It worked. The earthquake never hit Memphis, TN.
Google seems to have fully realized that as long as the Windows/Office monopoly is pumping billions of dollars into the coffers of Microsoft, it can simply wait out any competitor. Unless holes are poked in that firehose Google is just one stumble away from being vaporized. So it does what it can to make sure Microsoft plays defense.
This is a storm that's been brewing for years now. On EQ2 servers they sold in-game money for real money, then once you were in the gave there was a goblin that was basically a slot machine...
Unless they let you cash in the game money for real money, it would not be the same as slot machine. If you could sell your jackpot of game money winnings to other players, but not to the house, would it be counted as "cashing in the winnings"? Anyway as long as the real money goes only one way, it could be dumb, it could be lame, but it is not gambling.
Why is the school district pushing it? If the parents don't care, throw the bums out of school, and protect the kids that want to study. Truancy is not the school district's responsibility.
This is particularly true of intensive properties compared to extensive properties. The sewing needle creates more pressure than the sheet metal bending machines, the flame temperature of a candle can exceed the temperature of gases hitting the turbine blades in a jet engine, static can build several thousand volts of electricity. And that trade that executed in 10 milliseconds, giving you a profit of 25$, is actually 78.84 billion dollars per year.
The next batch of smart phones are so smart they will beat Rutter and Jennings in Jeopardy too!
Web sites would rather control what is presented to you totally so that they could pelt you with ads all the time.The content is the lure, you are the catch and smothering you with ads is the raison d'être for these web sites. With browsers under the control of visitors, who might install no script and ad block they are seen by the web sites as sneaky thieves who pilfer "content" without paying for it. Making it all an app, and delivering it in apps with lots of quirks prevents the users from developing the equivalents of adblock. That is why they love the apps.
For every redneck idiot out there, there is a white lab coat idiot out there. For every right-wing nutcase, there is a left-wing nutcase. Every rabid Republican has a counterpart rabid Democrat.
Definitely not true. There are white lab coat idiots, there are left-wing nut cases and even left wing terrorists. (Some of the activities of PETA and greenpeace and the hooligans at Davos and other anti-globalization groups are terroristic). But the numbers are not equal. Not one for one. The Democratic base breaks 50% to 50% on "my party come hell or high water" and "my party most of the time". The Republican base breaks 66% to 33% favoring "my party no matter what". This difference goes by various euphemism like "enthusiasm gap".
In general this difference in make up of the supporters account for the lame, long drawn, wishy washy responses from Democratic leaders who try to be very careful not to step on too many toes, because half the Dems are against the other Dems. The Republican responses are strong, no nonsense, clear cut, and made up of sound bites because they are courting to their base and are shooting for narrow victories on polarized electorate. So there is very clear evidence that the ratio of rabid Dem to rabid Rep is 1.0
He said, "Im outta here". I say good riddance.
Stalin is just the Deputy Chief Minister of a state in India called Tamil Nadu. His dad is the current chief minister and Stalin will become the next chief minister. Really! No Kidding. See http://www.google.com/search?q=image+stalin+tamil+nadu&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
We also throw a nickel at the rookie Windows sys admins and tell them, "Here's a nickel. Get a real operating system, kid."
Lowering the seal level as a cure all? Impossible! what were they thinking. Now if he said "lower the taxes" then he would be talking. At present in America almost every one agrees, the panacea for whatever ails America is to lower the taxes.
Basically natural selection will be able to filter out any gene that affects the reproductive ability. Given the length of time, even extraordinarily minute differences will make a difference and eventually deleterious genes will be filtered out. But if some gene trades improved fitness at the reproductive stage for some serious cost to life at a later stage, that gene will never be filtered out. The extreme example is the trout that had traded it so much that it dies immediately after spawning. Its entire metabolism is structured to improve fitness before spawning to very serious inability to live after spawning.
Even if these guys were right, and with modern science you are able to find that one gene whose loss of function causes cancer, and they are able to fix it, all it means is you will not die of cancer, but will die of other geriatric diseases. Some of them are painful, some of them are embarrassing. But the most heart wrenching ones are those that trap a dead brain in a functioning body or a functioning brain in a dying body.
I wish science would concentrate on improving the quality of life when alive and allow both the body and the brain to die together painlessly.
Come on. You could have easily given the name as Bertram Wooster, Drones Club, London. Or Sherlock Holmes, 222-B, Baker Street, London.
At some point VMWare would become the real host OS and it will fire up and wipe Win instances and assume total responsibility for making sure the Win see only trustworthy peers. And isolate these win instances from one another. At that point all the legacy unportable corporate applications that need IE6 will run in some kind of frozen in time universe. No need to upgrade windows or even update it. Such a scenario must strike deep fear in the Microsoft corp HQ.
This time it could be unintentional, but pretty soon Microsoft will realize the advantages of constantly breaking VMWare.
I see myself creating a secure email that uses two factor, and a non secure one without it. And I will store more sensitive data/email on the secure account. BTW android phones are attached to gmail. Wonder how the two factor works on these devices??
It would have been very nice if we could conclude, "But the joke was on him because a passing Google streetview truck intercepted, downloaded, cached and indexed the hard disk's data, all dressed up and ready to be data mined by the investigators..." But alas, no such luck.
I long for the day of an all Cisco environment. Why? Because Cisco stuff just works.
Exactly the same mentality that allowed MS-Win and MS-Office to achieve
When you come back whining in five or ten years about the excessive license fees, expensive hardware, and your own inability to switch to a lower cost alternative, don't expect any sympathy from anyone.