Congress always adjourns at this time of year. Everyone gets a vacation, just like you do. Just like your boss pays you vacation days, we pay them vacation days.
The only reason the GOP is pulling this crap is that they are relying on gas prices as a wedge issue for the Presidential Campaign. So, how about you turn your ire at campaigning at them since all of the QQing they are doing right now is an attempt to elect John McCain.
It's really an amazingly insulting ploy. The people responsible for the horrific gas prices are just pointing the fingers at the Democrats and people believe them. Seriously, man, take a step back and look at this for real.
From my experience combined with a bit of gut instinct I'd say that if a Googler came up with a big advancement for search they'd get a merit bonus in the tens of thousands of dollars. However, if they quit, develop that big advancement and then sell the company back to the people they are already friends with.... they'd make millions.
You're wrong. User security is very important the people at Google. They take it very personally and craft the systems with their own security in mind. "Is this safe enough that even I would use it?" is a very common question at Google.
I doubt they really care about anything except their image.
Then it's clear that you have no idea what happens on the inside. The people at Google are geeks and web-users just like we are and they care about information security. They aren't trying to make those logs anonymous to avoid bad PR, they are doing it because they want to protect those users.
Just imagine how far we ahead we would be today if Google had put the same effort into creating tools the rest of the SQL-writing, open(2)-using world could use.
We wouldn't be ahead at all. We use different tools than they do because they are dealing with different volumes of traffic, data and demands. Let's take a moment and look at your specific complaints.
You say Google suffers from NIH syndrome. Having previously worked at Google, I think you are half right. The difference is that Google both benefits _and_ suffers from NIH syndrome. Sometimes the company spends too much time reinventing the wheel, but sometimes the tools out there aren't (and shouldn't be) useful to Google. Apache shouldn't be changed to support the kind of traffic that Google handles because then it wouldn't nearly as good for all of the rest of the world. General software is great because it solves so many problems. However, general software isn't the right solution for all problems, especially extreme ones. Just about all of Google's needs are extreme ones due to the volume of traffic.
You dislike the idea of BigTable. Why not use the right tool for the right job? BigTable is a ridiculously fast database system that works beautifully with petabyte sized databases. SQL isn't the right answer to all solutions. They DO use SQL... but when it is the appropriate solution. They have some really sexy internal tools for dealing with SQL and such and I'm hoping those are coming down the open source pipeline soon.:)
You claim the Protocol Buffers are clunky. I've used them and developed with them extensively. They aren't clunky at all, they are actually quite elegant and easy to use. They streamline development, are incredibly reliable, and are incredibly fast.
You obviously are confused by GFS as well. The system is transparent to the application by using standard i/o stream classes. It is inherently redundant to ensure data security. It is so fast in its response time that Google search is the fastest of any major player. The list goes on and on.
I don't really see how you can be upset at Google for making awesome software and then giving us access to it.
Obama's website talks about some of the details of the plan...
Obama on the War in Iraq
He mentions bringing out 1 to 2 combat brigades per month but keeping some troops there to react to any attempts from Al Qaeda to set up a permanent base, etc.
we invaded and occupied a country, have allowed the pubs that did this to remain in office, and it appears that the dems are going to do nothing about it.
This just isn't true. Obama has stated clearly that his plan is to pull the troops out in 16 months. The Democrats do have a plan to try to fix the problems.
Ever tried to put corporate mail into gmail? People have hundreds of folders, subfolders, etc. By customer, and sub folder with contact name, etc etc etc.
Hmm... I need to find that email from Joe Smith about Widgets, let me just navigate to the Acme Inc folder, then navigate to the Joe Smith folder and look through the folder to find the email I'm looking for about Widgets....
--or---
Search Joe Smith Widgets.... Oh look, there is the email. Done.
Seriously, have you tried to manage a gmail account with several hundred of labels? With a real hierarchical organization (read folder) it can be done
Why on earth do you need several hundred labels? The point of GMail is that the search is far more powerful than any other mail client ever. You don't need to organize everything into a hierarchy, because it can be searched for and found in 3 words or less almost every time.
GMail isn't trying to emulate folders with a "half-baked" label implementation. You are trying to trying to force GMail to behave like out-dated mail clients, so really... your hundreds of labels are the "half-baked" solution.
CD-Rs are not the same thing as stamped CDs. With CD-Rs you're lucky if they last 5 years.
This very week I pulled out some CDs I burned back in 1999 with old email on them. The CDs were in beautiful condition, all of the data was perfect.
If you want to be sure that data will still be there, burn it 3 times, put each one in a different Case Logic book. Keep two of them in different areas of your home and a third off-site.
Upload all your photos to Google's Picasa Web Albums as a 4th backup if you want. I'd be willing to bet that 10 years from now that Google will still be operating and will not have lost any of your data. The service may have changed, but old data will be brought along to the new service, etc.
The Aeron chair has lots of wonderful things about it, I used one for many years. However, the biggest problem it has is the plastic ridge that suspends the mesh that you sit on. That plastic strip is what your thighs will rest on and I found that it reduced blood circulation because it was such a sharp line moving from the soft, comfy mesh to the hard, plastic rim.
After my Aeron died, I picked up a Steelcase Think chair and I love it. Very comfy.
I play WoW every day (pretty much) and I'm an avid PvPer and I didn't hear about this. I read Google News and Slashdot more than I read wowinsider or WoW forums. It's good to know, I'm glad I saw it because I know not to spend my arena points this week.
Technically, he thinks that the government shouldn't be involved in "marriage" at all. His preferred, but admittedly difficult to attain situation, is that the govt is only involved in civil unions and that marriage is only religious and has no legal ramifications.
Also, I don't see how "ugly" is relevant - an office suite is a tool, designed to get a job done. If it's laid out logically and is easy on the eye, what's the problem? You even included "easy on the eye" in your very own description.
A house may shelter me from the elements, but if the living room is ugly I won't want to spend time in it.
I purchased a copy 3 months ago. I'm very happy with it. I decided to purchase it because I think OO.o is a piece of crap (ugly, slow and buggy) and I got tired of pirating software years ago.
I can help. Add up all the bandwidth sold to all the customers, and you have a prediction for the total peak bandwidth required!
I wonder if they will give me a job. Unlikely since you clearly don't understand how business works.
I believe having an empty highway would be faster than a congested one. No freeway stays empty. Every time they add a new lane onto one of the freeways in Los Angeles, traffic moves smoothly for about a month and then people see there is more space on the freeway and fill it up again.
... this is more a refusal to upgrade the infrastructure and blaming it on those who are serious users. Doing so would actually be competitive even and earn more business! Naw, they'd be putting out tons of cash just to handle traffic during a 2 hour period (# off the top of my head) and then have a ridiculously overpowered network for 22 hours of the day. Don't get me wrong, I think they need to fix it, but this is a very common business practice that helps them keep costs down because they can count on not everyone using it at the same time. More than likely the ratio has just changed over time and they need to adjust based on current usage trends.
If someone were to pick up a telephone at peak times and get an all circuits are busy message regularly during peak hours than there would be hell to pay. I live in California and after any significant earthquake this is exactly what happens. The telcos DO NOT have enough capacity for everyone to use the service at the same time. Granted, this happens less regularly than the traffic shaping at ISPs, but don't forget that your own example can suffer the same problem.
Actually, it's a fairly common business practice. Since customer's aren't using a resource 100% of the time or because customers will purchase service and not use it (i.e. plane tickets) many businesses will over-sell counting on that unused portion.
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Congress always adjourns at this time of year. Everyone gets a vacation, just like you do. Just like your boss pays you vacation days, we pay them vacation days.
The only reason the GOP is pulling this crap is that they are relying on gas prices as a wedge issue for the Presidential Campaign. So, how about you turn your ire at campaigning at them since all of the QQing they are doing right now is an attempt to elect John McCain.
It's really an amazingly insulting ploy. The people responsible for the horrific gas prices are just pointing the fingers at the Democrats and people believe them. Seriously, man, take a step back and look at this for real.
From my experience combined with a bit of gut instinct I'd say that if a Googler came up with a big advancement for search they'd get a merit bonus in the tens of thousands of dollars. However, if they quit, develop that big advancement and then sell the company back to the people they are already friends with.... they'd make millions.
I would mod you way the hell up if I had any points...
I doubt user welfare was on their mind...
You're wrong. User security is very important the people at Google. They take it very personally and craft the systems with their own security in mind. "Is this safe enough that even I would use it?" is a very common question at Google.
I doubt they really care about anything except their image.
Then it's clear that you have no idea what happens on the inside. The people at Google are geeks and web-users just like we are and they care about information security. They aren't trying to make those logs anonymous to avoid bad PR, they are doing it because they want to protect those users.
How about instead of pirating.. they "ninja'd" the games? Then we could bring this full circle as an internet debate.
Just imagine how far we ahead we would be today if Google had put the same effort into creating tools the rest of the SQL-writing, open(2)-using world could use.
We wouldn't be ahead at all. We use different tools than they do because they are dealing with different volumes of traffic, data and demands. Let's take a moment and look at your specific complaints. You say Google suffers from NIH syndrome. Having previously worked at Google, I think you are half right. The difference is that Google both benefits _and_ suffers from NIH syndrome. Sometimes the company spends too much time reinventing the wheel, but sometimes the tools out there aren't (and shouldn't be) useful to Google. Apache shouldn't be changed to support the kind of traffic that Google handles because then it wouldn't nearly as good for all of the rest of the world. General software is great because it solves so many problems. However, general software isn't the right solution for all problems, especially extreme ones. Just about all of Google's needs are extreme ones due to the volume of traffic. You dislike the idea of BigTable. Why not use the right tool for the right job? BigTable is a ridiculously fast database system that works beautifully with petabyte sized databases. SQL isn't the right answer to all solutions. They DO use SQL... but when it is the appropriate solution. They have some really sexy internal tools for dealing with SQL and such and I'm hoping those are coming down the open source pipeline soon. :)
You claim the Protocol Buffers are clunky. I've used them and developed with them extensively. They aren't clunky at all, they are actually quite elegant and easy to use. They streamline development, are incredibly reliable, and are incredibly fast.
You obviously are confused by GFS as well. The system is transparent to the application by using standard i/o stream classes. It is inherently redundant to ensure data security. It is so fast in its response time that Google search is the fastest of any major player. The list goes on and on.
I don't really see how you can be upset at Google for making awesome software and then giving us access to it.
Obama's website talks about some of the details of the plan... Obama on the War in Iraq He mentions bringing out 1 to 2 combat brigades per month but keeping some troops there to react to any attempts from Al Qaeda to set up a permanent base, etc.
we invaded and occupied a country, have allowed the pubs that did this to remain in office, and it appears that the dems are going to do nothing about it.
This just isn't true. Obama has stated clearly that his plan is to pull the troops out in 16 months. The Democrats do have a plan to try to fix the problems.
... and you can do that with the labeling/filtering system in Gmail. What's your point?
Ever tried to put corporate mail into gmail? People have hundreds of folders, subfolders, etc. By customer, and sub folder with contact name, etc etc etc.
Hmm... I need to find that email from Joe Smith about Widgets, let me just navigate to the Acme Inc folder, then navigate to the Joe Smith folder and look through the folder to find the email I'm looking for about Widgets.... --or--- Search Joe Smith Widgets.... Oh look, there is the email. Done.
Seriously, have you tried to manage a gmail account with several hundred of labels? With a real hierarchical organization (read folder) it can be done
Why on earth do you need several hundred labels? The point of GMail is that the search is far more powerful than any other mail client ever. You don't need to organize everything into a hierarchy, because it can be searched for and found in 3 words or less almost every time. GMail isn't trying to emulate folders with a "half-baked" label implementation. You are trying to trying to force GMail to behave like out-dated mail clients, so really... your hundreds of labels are the "half-baked" solution.
CD-Rs are not the same thing as stamped CDs. With CD-Rs you're lucky if they last 5 years.
This very week I pulled out some CDs I burned back in 1999 with old email on them. The CDs were in beautiful condition, all of the data was perfect. If you want to be sure that data will still be there, burn it 3 times, put each one in a different Case Logic book. Keep two of them in different areas of your home and a third off-site. Upload all your photos to Google's Picasa Web Albums as a 4th backup if you want. I'd be willing to bet that 10 years from now that Google will still be operating and will not have lost any of your data. The service may have changed, but old data will be brought along to the new service, etc.The Aeron chair has lots of wonderful things about it, I used one for many years. However, the biggest problem it has is the plastic ridge that suspends the mesh that you sit on. That plastic strip is what your thighs will rest on and I found that it reduced blood circulation because it was such a sharp line moving from the soft, comfy mesh to the hard, plastic rim. After my Aeron died, I picked up a Steelcase Think chair and I love it. Very comfy.
Unfortunately, our opinion is in the extreme minority outside of geek circles.
I play WoW every day (pretty much) and I'm an avid PvPer and I didn't hear about this. I read Google News and Slashdot more than I read wowinsider or WoW forums. It's good to know, I'm glad I saw it because I know not to spend my arena points this week.
Technically, he thinks that the government shouldn't be involved in "marriage" at all. His preferred, but admittedly difficult to attain situation, is that the govt is only involved in civil unions and that marriage is only religious and has no legal ramifications.
Utterly worth it. In every single way. Risk <<< Reward.
I purchased a copy 3 months ago. I'm very happy with it. I decided to purchase it because I think OO.o is a piece of crap (ugly, slow and buggy) and I got tired of pirating software years ago.
... this is more a refusal to upgrade the infrastructure and blaming it on those who are serious users. Doing so would actually be competitive even and earn more business! Naw, they'd be putting out tons of cash just to handle traffic during a 2 hour period (# off the top of my head) and then have a ridiculously overpowered network for 22 hours of the day. Don't get me wrong, I think they need to fix it, but this is a very common business practice that helps them keep costs down because they can count on not everyone using it at the same time. More than likely the ratio has just changed over time and they need to adjust based on current usage trends.Actually, it's a fairly common business practice. Since customer's aren't using a resource 100% of the time or because customers will purchase service and not use it (i.e. plane tickets) many businesses will over-sell counting on that unused portion.