"vested interests"... who do you think I am? A BIG business owner? A politico? I'm just an ordinary guy who is struggling against a tide that threatens to wash me away! Let's just take a look at the taxes me and my small business pay: Income Tax, Cess, Service Tax, Professional Tax, Water Tax, Sewage Tax, Excise, Value Added Tax, Central Sales Tax, Property Tax, Securities and Transaction Tax, Education Cess and a bunch of other levies.
Near as I can figure, a pizza costs me about 40% more than what it should. You can bet I will "guide" my employees to vote for a Government that is less wasteful and more business friendly.
Businesses contribute a lot more to the growth of the country, rather than a (vapid and clueless) Government; your attitude is one where people should thank the shopkeeper for giving them a sweet, rather than the person who is actually paying for the sweet.
You've very cleverly avoided a "pot calling the kettle black" argument about "vested interests" by staying Anon.
...but India will absolutely not be considered as an investment destination unless the current government changes.
The current "pro-poor" subsidies are all being misused, and the budgetary deficit is skyrocketing. The current governments anti-industry stance is a desperate attempt to finance their prodigalities.
The effect is trickling down to everyday life; 20% increase in service tax, desperate attempts to levy new taxes, increasing inflation, decline in GDP, policy paralysis, dwindling infrastructure, collapsing rupee, expensive imports...
Any positive movement is squelched with lightning speed; following a superbly thought out Railway Budget, one of the coalition partners lashed out, causing the Government to backdown and "fix" the Railway Budget, this ensuring that it remains broken for a longer time.
It's time the industry banded together and showed the government that it's survival does not depend on coalition partners alone; p*** off the industry, and they'll "guide" their employees votes.
Anyone else feel that it will be a b* to get to the other side? Where one would normally have to walk 2r, now they will have to walk 0.5*2*pi*r (Or approx 1.57 times more).
...Apple is not just building great devices; they are also building a (highly) profitable closed ecosystem.
Google may put android on 10 devices for every one Apple device, but Apple is also building a high content base for content consumption devices.
Android fragmentation is preventing this type of content buildup. Google may start purchasing and licensing content soon, but Apple is clearly the master of this game, and locks in consumers and vendors alike.
Apple's moves are always multi-fold; they squeeze profits from every level in the product strategy, including manufacturing, distributing, hardware profits, software profits, content profits, etc. They can easily (especially considering their current cash surplus) forgo one avenue of profit long enough to make it unviable for other entrants, then resume where they left off. The fact that they have not done so yet only shows that they consider their position very stable.
Cheap android devices are available, but any device that has near iPad capabilities is already pinched on price. Those that are cheap, don't have the performance (which is why Angry Birds is routinely patched to work on various sub-par Android devices). This also leads to IP theft, piracy and content oriented revenue loss.
Current content providers will clearly prefer the Apple platform, since DRM protections, while not foolproof, are clearly more than what Android offers.
For every one tech-oriented geeko who prefers an open platform, there are atleast a dozen non-techy types who don't even understand the term "walled garden".
The regular innovations of Apple ensures that they have a steady stream of new devices; the media promotes these devices; and the old devices do not die, but have a resale value. So, while the consumer may change the device, all that happens is that Apple gains a new consumer, for both old and new content (as far as capability allows).
Google's move may be a smart one, and may even generate enough revenue to subsidize it's purchase, but it is clearly far from being an Apple killer.
...acquisition of Qik by Skype, Microsoft finally has a way to attack Apple's FaceTime functionality. FaceTime is an astonishing development; and Microsoft has learnt the hard way not to ignore Apple's services.
Though overpaid, this acquisition will immediately allow MS to step up to the plate in mobile conferencing.
I just hope support for other operating systems (Eg, linux) is not pulled out.
The OS is the OS, and the browser the browser, and never should the twain mix. Even in Chrome OS, the browser is separated from the OS layer, and designed to run "applications" within the browser's ecosystem. Firefox doesn't try to "insinuate" itself into Windows Explorer.
Microsoft is trying too hard to mix the browser into it's OS, and that is a repeated mistake; maybe it's worried about it's browser's disappearing market share?
why not just post a permanent tagline, "We hate Google" and be done with it? Google suspects misuse, tests for misuse, finds misuse, reports misuse, complains about misuse, and all this article says is that it's OK for Google's results to be misused since Google copies stuff too.
Really? Someone rips you off, and you decide that the correct thing to do is to go and rip someone else off?
... is the canned statement from the "spokeswoman for Gatwick airport", which totally sidesteps the idiocy of the action and puts the context in the same category as actual offenses.
Too many do this ("canned statements") nowadays. Let's administration get away with anything. Dismiss everything, no need to explain or learn and improve.
Looking in the coat to see if any common sense is left...
... I believe that Yahoo is sinking and sinking fast. This only lends credence to my belief.
If Yahoo wants to survive, they better position someone with vision (preferably the person currently in charge of Flickr) before they close up every possible service (Eg, Geocities, Auctions, Briefcase, et al).
Whoever is in charge of Flickr is thinking out of the box and innovatively, and probably has the ability to pull yahoo out of it's current quagmire.
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Yahoo! is dying and started dying when they refused a very generous takeover offer from Microsoft. They've closed Yahoo! Auctions, Geocities, briefcase and a whole lot of other services, instead of attempting to monetize them; Yahoo! Auctions was a serious competitor to ebay.
With both Google and Microsoft offering free IMAP/POP access to Webmail accounts, yahoo mail is looking jaded and outdated. Google's googletalkplugin allows users to audio/video chat with other gmail users, even in linux and firefox. This means I stopped using Yahoo's IM a long time back (using Skype in the intermediate period before talk plugin became available).
They've even given up on their core search technology.
Yahoo! is going the way of AOL. Once a powerhouse, now reduced to a shell of it's former glory. You cannot cut services and expect business to expand, especially when all the world is out expanding options for users. Yahoo! has to intelligently monetize, which they seem incapable of doing, and hence are headed the way of the dodo.
Everything that Yahoo! is doing seems to be done better elsewhere. Personally, I believe that Yahoo! is simply living on dole. They cannot even think of ways to reward user loyalty (eg, Google's AdSense free credits) and so their user base is effectively being leached away, slowly but surely.
Their much-hyped "local search" efforts are just as surely going down the toilet, because they seem to be incapable of selecting suitable and/or capable partners, who can deliver solutions and advice and help expand business for local businesses.
In my opinion, using Yahoo!'s services are currently akin to floating along on an ocean on a rapidly melting ice-floe. It's gonna let you down, and you should be able to see it coming.
And for those who consider 20K INR to be cheap, you can pick up a full Core2Duo w/ 18.5" LCD monitor for that price here. Add it about 5K for Windows Ultimate (or, nothing in most cases, since piracy is rampant).
...in true WikiLeaks fashion, the reports are unbiased and (mostly) untampered. While everyone may cry foul, there are some reports that show the good that Americans are doing as well (Eg, some interventions of American soldiers to prevent torture of civilians in police custody). These are being overlooked in the mass hysteria of "bad" or negative reports.
War has it's good and bad sides; but often both these sides are ignored to show a third side: the sensational (mostly falsely sensational).
Sintek doesn't know about Apple rules. However, touchscreen iMacs are coming; it's a given. It's the next natural step, and of course, there's that damnable patent filing showing a new paradigm in desktop monitor handling.
Maybe Apple may be recreating the MacOS to make it more touch- suitable/friendly. They don't rest on their laurels.
I CANNOT SEND THE SCANNERS AS ONE PISE DUE TO EXPORT REGULATIONS FROM THE MINISTRY OF SENSITIVE ITEMS RE-EXPORT RESTRICTION RULES. SO WE HAVE DIS-ASSEMBLED THE ITEMS INTO VARIOUS COMPONENT BOXES AND HAVE KEPT IT READY FOR SHIPMENT. PLEASE SEE http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/12/01/article-1090853-02A74237000005DC-206_468x707.jpg FOR THE PICTURE OF DISASSEMBLED SCANNERS.
NOW MY FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD BARRISTER MR ROGER GLOSSY POLISH FROM NAJI REGION WILL CONTACT YOU BY EMAIL TO SEND YOU THE PAPER THAT YOU HAVE TO SIGN IN WHICH IT STATES THAT YOU ARE RECEIVING REFRIGERATOR SPARE PARTS AND NOT SENSITEVE CKD (COMPLETELY KNOCKED DOWN) ITEM OF SCANNING FOR FULLY BODY USE. YOU PLEASE DO EVERYTHING HE SAYS IS A VERY MEANING MAN AND NOBODY CAN DO BETTER THAN HIM TO SAY TO THE GOVERNMENT...
oh what the hell. Lost patience. And don't want to delete so much typed stuff. I laugh, you laugh and we all go and peek at 419eater.com. Time better spent.
... so that people will stop believing it's every action is "evil?" Reminds me of xkcd's "Password Reuse" strip.
So, it's done a bad thing by opensourcing this format? Here's something it COULD have done to generate revenue: Held the format closed source, or ensure an encoding license requirement or so, then used it's ubiquity to allow the format to display in browsers, then ensured that only it's ads are in the fast-loading format. Anyone else trying to use the "fast loading" format will have to pay Google a license to do so. What would you write in this case?
Spewing your vitriol at every Google development is neither fair nor reporting. Yes, it's trying to leverage it's revenues; at least it is open about it. You don't like it, use Bing. Do you think they do not collect your data? Or hey, here's a thought: Go Facebook. I'm SURE they are better than Google.
...especially the way gmail implemented it; now, I'm so used to it, and find it so useful, that I can't imagine turning it off. I guess it takes all kinds. At least we GET a choice.
I HAVE A CONFIRMED CONTRACT TO SUPPLY 40 (FORTY ONLY) FULL BODY SCANNERS TO NIGERIA AIRPORT, BUT SINCE REPORTS OF THEIR MISUSE, THE AIRPORT HAS SUSPENDED DELIVERY. I HAVE BEEN PAID AND THE ITEMS ARE NOW REPOSSESED AS PER CONFIRMED DELIVERY CONTACT TERMS.
NOW, I OFFER YOU THESE MACHINES ARE VERY DISCOUNT PRICE TO SELL FOR YOUR AIRPORT. MY CONTACT WILL PURCHASE THE MACHINES FROM YOU AT 30 TIMES (THIRTY ONLY) THE PRICE YOU BUY IT FOR FROM ME.
SINCE HE IS MY REGULAR CONTACT YOU NEED NOT WORRY FOR PROBLEMS AND AFTER SERVICE OF SALES.
PLEASE SEND BY WESTERN UNION USD 40,000 FOR 40 NOS OF FULL BODY SCANNER.
(For the clueless, this is a scam-format message. Do not send any money anywhere.)
... So there I was, sitting in my bachelor p**, enjoying a juicy, shiny red a****. While I was grooving to my latest t****, along came my health-nut girlfriend, saying I should really be eating peas freshly split from the p**s. Just then, I received a p**** call from the boss at my w***place, who wanted to know why the video d** that he had asked for a client was not ready yet. I logged on to the w** and fired up my c*** client, but since my contact was not online, I sent an e-m*** instead. I got a reply while watching a m**** starring Bruce Willis on my t*, but when I clicked on the attachment i***, all I could see was a still p****graph. I double checked that there was no problem with my O*, and then I even checked the b****** disks, but no go. I then tried to take control of my office computer using r***** d******, and sy** my folders, but inspite of having it finish in real q**** t***, as well as using a t*x* ed**or to manually check the list of folders, I was not able to retrieve my wo**. After checking my ***endar, I realized there was no way I could finish up unless I used a t*** m******. I told my boss, who was wild, and booked my on a one way s***** back to b**tc**p.
(This document edited to omit possible and/or probable references to the following Apple (TM) products: iPad, Apple, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, iWork, iDVD, iWeb, iChat, Apple Mail, iMovie, Apple TV, Icon Composer, iPhoto, iOS, Apple Backup, Apple Remote Desktop, iSync, QuickTime, TextEdit, iWork, iCal, TimeMachine, Safari and BootCamp. Other words and phrases may or may not belong to Apple Inc, now or in the future. Trademarks belong to original holders.).
... Google.Me - A new paradigm in search. Your pals will tell you what you should search for, and will run the search for you, and go through the results for you, and take the decisions for you: all the while, you are mesmerized by the shiny trinket.
...each of these outfits accounted for less than one per cent of Google's US revenues in June, and together, the top ten advertisers listed in the documents accounted for just 5 per cent of total revenues...
Not like Mozilla's 91% dependence on Google. Far too many companies are far too much dependent on their top-line customers, harming themselves as well as other customers.
... of contacts, calendar, mail and other items will easily be restored across an update.
The keyword here is a "firmware" upgrade. The world over, a firmware upgrade will delete all data on the device. Blaming Google is FAIL. Dell could have issued an advisory (and I strongly suspect they did) that all data will be lost following an upgrade.
... the new "notification system", Ubuntu Netbook Remix, etc. These show how you can use open source, but still build customised solutions. In has grown from being a debian branch out to developing an identity all it's own.
I envision a time where practically everyone will scrimp, scamp and save to buy atleast ONE Apple product; and then on, covet the rest of the items to complete a seamless "ecosystem" of Apple products.
And Apple will get cash from both sides; buyers as well as sellers desperate to capture a large dynamic.
All hail Apple; the new Google. (Microsoft has fallen way behind).
I am astonished at my admiration of Steve's strategy.
"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated..."
... I don't believe Google has killed off the Nexus One yet; I suspect they are just marking time.
The Nexus One is, in my eyes, everything a smartphone should be: Unlocked, open, and not subject to Provider (Vodafone) / Manufacturer (Samsung) whims.
A few years back, my dad told me "Nothing succeeds like success". Well Apple is the best proof of this: The devices are expensive, locked-down, have draconian conditions attached, and don't really show much regard for the customer (Except for MarketSpeak "We love our users"); and yet it has customers galore and more orders than it can fulfill.
Put it down to excellent engineering and well-thought innovation. That's what the other manufacturers need; not another *Pad.
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"vested interests"... who do you think I am? A BIG business owner? A politico? I'm just an ordinary guy who is struggling against a tide that threatens to wash me away! Let's just take a look at the taxes me and my small business pay: Income Tax, Cess, Service Tax, Professional Tax, Water Tax, Sewage Tax, Excise, Value Added Tax, Central Sales Tax, Property Tax, Securities and Transaction Tax, Education Cess and a bunch of other levies.
Near as I can figure, a pizza costs me about 40% more than what it should. You can bet I will "guide" my employees to vote for a Government that is less wasteful and more business friendly.
Businesses contribute a lot more to the growth of the country, rather than a (vapid and clueless) Government; your attitude is one where people should thank the shopkeeper for giving them a sweet, rather than the person who is actually paying for the sweet.
You've very cleverly avoided a "pot calling the kettle black" argument about "vested interests" by staying Anon.
De-evolving
This article makes me think that most people around me currently are either de-evolving or have had their genes copied correctly.
Hate to say it...
...but India will absolutely not be considered as an investment destination unless the current government changes.
The current "pro-poor" subsidies are all being misused, and the budgetary deficit is skyrocketing. The current governments anti-industry stance is a desperate attempt to finance their prodigalities.
The effect is trickling down to everyday life; 20% increase in service tax, desperate attempts to levy new taxes, increasing inflation, decline in GDP, policy paralysis, dwindling infrastructure, collapsing rupee, expensive imports...
Any positive movement is squelched with lightning speed; following a superbly thought out Railway Budget, one of the coalition partners lashed out, causing the Government to backdown and "fix" the Railway Budget, this ensuring that it remains broken for a longer time.
It's time the industry banded together and showed the government that it's survival does not depend on coalition partners alone; p*** off the industry, and they'll "guide" their employees votes.
Must read headline carefully...
I totally missed the word "for" in the headline... that seemed to me a drastic way to reduce broadband requirements.
Attn tinfoil hatters...
iertutil = Internet Explorer Random (or Remote) Termination UTILity?
Get to the other side?
Anyone else feel that it will be a b* to get to the other side? Where one would normally have to walk 2r, now they will have to walk 0.5*2*pi*r (Or approx 1.57 times more).
Anyone else interested in buying Stegway stock?
Way to miss the point...
...Apple is not just building great devices; they are also building a (highly) profitable closed ecosystem.
Google may put android on 10 devices for every one Apple device, but Apple is also building a high content base for content consumption devices.
Android fragmentation is preventing this type of content buildup. Google may start purchasing and licensing content soon, but Apple is clearly the master of this game, and locks in consumers and vendors alike.
Apple's moves are always multi-fold; they squeeze profits from every level in the product strategy, including manufacturing, distributing, hardware profits, software profits, content profits, etc. They can easily (especially considering their current cash surplus) forgo one avenue of profit long enough to make it unviable for other entrants, then resume where they left off. The fact that they have not done so yet only shows that they consider their position very stable.
Cheap android devices are available, but any device that has near iPad capabilities is already pinched on price. Those that are cheap, don't have the performance (which is why Angry Birds is routinely patched to work on various sub-par Android devices). This also leads to IP theft, piracy and content oriented revenue loss.
Current content providers will clearly prefer the Apple platform, since DRM protections, while not foolproof, are clearly more than what Android offers.
For every one tech-oriented geeko who prefers an open platform, there are atleast a dozen non-techy types who don't even understand the term "walled garden".
The regular innovations of Apple ensures that they have a steady stream of new devices; the media promotes these devices; and the old devices do not die, but have a resale value. So, while the consumer may change the device, all that happens is that Apple gains a new consumer, for both old and new content (as far as capability allows).
Google's move may be a smart one, and may even generate enough revenue to subsidize it's purchase, but it is clearly far from being an Apple killer.
Welcome...
... Mr Stephen Fry. That explanation deserves the title of "fry-ism".
If it does infact have a curved display...
... it will be a conCAVE display, and not a conVEX (eg, like the Nexus S)
Err, in that last-but-one paragraph...
"Standing orders, leaked this week, mean that Apple consumer rights people are told to neither confirm nor deny Mac infections."
Apple consumer rights people? Don't you mean "Apple consumer SUPPORT people"?
I don't think Apple consumers have rights anyway; they're all with Apple.
And ElReg has to be a lot more careful with errors like this; or your Appstore proggy can be pulled for "containing errors".
Principles count for something...
... and principles can be confused for ego only by someone who has no appreciation for principles.
With the recent...
...acquisition of Qik by Skype, Microsoft finally has a way to attack Apple's FaceTime functionality. FaceTime is an astonishing development; and Microsoft has learnt the hard way not to ignore Apple's services.
Though overpaid, this acquisition will immediately allow MS to step up to the plate in mobile conferencing.
I just hope support for other operating systems (Eg, linux) is not pulled out.
How about...
...a new BOINC project to brute-find the decryption key, using idle computing power the world over? Al-Qaeda decryption world wide effort.
Deeper integration with the OS...
... is a repeated, and terrible, mistake.
The OS is the OS, and the browser the browser, and never should the twain mix. Even in Chrome OS, the browser is separated from the OS layer, and designed to run "applications" within the browser's ecosystem. Firefox doesn't try to "insinuate" itself into Windows Explorer.
Microsoft is trying too hard to mix the browser into it's OS, and that is a repeated mistake; maybe it's worried about it's browser's disappearing market share?
Hey, here's an idea...
why not just post a permanent tagline, "We hate Google" and be done with it? Google suspects misuse, tests for misuse, finds misuse, reports misuse, complains about misuse, and all this article says is that it's OK for Google's results to be misused since Google copies stuff too.
Really? Someone rips you off, and you decide that the correct thing to do is to go and rip someone else off?
And by the way, it's "vetting" not "wetting".
Incredible...
detail and scale accuracy. Anyone would get confused. NOT.
What riles me the most...
... is the canned statement from the "spokeswoman for Gatwick airport", which totally sidesteps the idiocy of the action and puts the context in the same category as actual offenses.
Too many do this ("canned statements") nowadays. Let's administration get away with anything. Dismiss everything, no need to explain or learn and improve.
Looking in the coat to see if any common sense is left...
As mentioned earlier...
... I believe that Yahoo is sinking and sinking fast. This only lends credence to my belief.
If Yahoo wants to survive, they better position someone with vision (preferably the person currently in charge of Flickr) before they close up every possible service (Eg, Geocities, Auctions, Briefcase, et al).
Whoever is in charge of Flickr is thinking out of the box and innovatively, and probably has the ability to pull yahoo out of it's current quagmire.
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Yahoo! is dying and started dying when they refused a very generous takeover offer from Microsoft. They've closed Yahoo! Auctions, Geocities, briefcase and a whole lot of other services, instead of attempting to monetize them; Yahoo! Auctions was a serious competitor to ebay.
With both Google and Microsoft offering free IMAP/POP access to Webmail accounts, yahoo mail is looking jaded and outdated. Google's googletalkplugin allows users to audio/video chat with other gmail users, even in linux and firefox. This means I stopped using Yahoo's IM a long time back (using Skype in the intermediate period before talk plugin became available).
They've even given up on their core search technology.
Yahoo! is going the way of AOL. Once a powerhouse, now reduced to a shell of it's former glory. You cannot cut services and expect business to expand, especially when all the world is out expanding options for users. Yahoo! has to intelligently monetize, which they seem incapable of doing, and hence are headed the way of the dodo.
Everything that Yahoo! is doing seems to be done better elsewhere. Personally, I believe that Yahoo! is simply living on dole. They cannot even think of ways to reward user loyalty (eg, Google's AdSense free credits) and so their user base is effectively being leached away, slowly but surely.
Their much-hyped "local search" efforts are just as surely going down the toilet, because they seem to be incapable of selecting suitable and/or capable partners, who can deliver solutions and advice and help expand business for local businesses.
In my opinion, using Yahoo!'s services are currently akin to floating along on an ocean on a rapidly melting ice-floe. It's gonna let you down, and you should be able to see it coming.
I don't think it will be linux...
...it's more likely to be WebOS.
And for those who consider 20K INR to be cheap, you can pick up a full Core2Duo w/ 18.5" LCD monitor for that price here. Add it about 5K for Windows Ultimate (or, nothing in most cases, since piracy is rampant).
"S" is for...
... SuperMan (SuperPhone?)!
The wheel, sliced bread...
and duct tape. The best inventions, and look what they lead to. Cheers on excellent results.
PARIS spaceplane disappears...
Yup, it's gone on to introduce humanity to the rest of the universe... congratulations... for what? For the endeavor.
There's some good too...
...in true WikiLeaks fashion, the reports are unbiased and (mostly) untampered. While everyone may cry foul, there are some reports that show the good that Americans are doing as well (Eg, some interventions of American soldiers to prevent torture of civilians in police custody). These are being overlooked in the mass hysteria of "bad" or negative reports.
War has it's good and bad sides; but often both these sides are ignored to show a third side: the sensational (mostly falsely sensational).
My Samsung Spica...
... is an 800Mhz, 256MB, 480x320 desktop computer. What's all the fuss about?
Maybe...
Sintek doesn't know about Apple rules. However, touchscreen iMacs are coming; it's a given. It's the next natural step, and of course, there's that damnable patent filing showing a new paradigm in desktop monitor handling.
Maybe Apple may be recreating the MacOS to make it more touch- suitable/friendly. They don't rest on their laurels.
It's coming; if I could, I'd bet on it.
Guess..
..whose networth just shot up by $1Bln? Hint: Look under the "Accounts receivables" heading...
There's nil chance of collecting, but hey; an asset is an asset. Hooray for the black-n-white world of accounting.
Unfortunately...
I CANNOT SEND THE SCANNERS AS ONE PISE DUE TO EXPORT REGULATIONS FROM THE MINISTRY OF SENSITIVE ITEMS RE-EXPORT RESTRICTION RULES. SO WE HAVE DIS-ASSEMBLED THE ITEMS INTO VARIOUS COMPONENT BOXES AND HAVE KEPT IT READY FOR SHIPMENT. PLEASE SEE http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/12/01/article-1090853-02A74237000005DC-206_468x707.jpg FOR THE PICTURE OF DISASSEMBLED SCANNERS.
NOW MY FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD BARRISTER MR ROGER GLOSSY POLISH FROM NAJI REGION WILL CONTACT YOU BY EMAIL TO SEND YOU THE PAPER THAT YOU HAVE TO SIGN IN WHICH IT STATES THAT YOU ARE RECEIVING REFRIGERATOR SPARE PARTS AND NOT SENSITEVE CKD (COMPLETELY KNOCKED DOWN) ITEM OF SCANNING FOR FULLY BODY USE. YOU PLEASE DO EVERYTHING HE SAYS IS A VERY MEANING MAN AND NOBODY CAN DO BETTER THAN HIM TO SAY TO THE GOVERNMENT...
oh what the hell. Lost patience. And don't want to delete so much typed stuff. I laugh, you laugh and we all go and peek at 419eater.com. Time better spent.
Cheers.
What exactly does Google have to do...
... so that people will stop believing it's every action is "evil?" Reminds me of xkcd's "Password Reuse" strip.
So, it's done a bad thing by opensourcing this format? Here's something it COULD have done to generate revenue: Held the format closed source, or ensure an encoding license requirement or so, then used it's ubiquity to allow the format to display in browsers, then ensured that only it's ads are in the fast-loading format. Anyone else trying to use the "fast loading" format will have to pay Google a license to do so. What would you write in this case?
Spewing your vitriol at every Google development is neither fair nor reporting. Yes, it's trying to leverage it's revenues; at least it is open about it. You don't like it, use Bing. Do you think they do not collect your data? Or hey, here's a thought: Go Facebook. I'm SURE they are better than Google.
Oracle...
... "abstained from voting". ..."Declined to comment".
Sometimes you don't need to run the whole mile to know what's at the end of it.
I originally hated "threading"...
...especially the way gmail implemented it; now, I'm so used to it, and find it so useful, that I can't imagine turning it off. I guess it takes all kinds. At least we GET a choice.
HELLO I AM DR EDMOND DANTES...
MAY THE BLESSINGS OF THE GOOD GOD BE UPON YOU.
I HAVE A CONFIRMED CONTRACT TO SUPPLY 40 (FORTY ONLY) FULL BODY SCANNERS TO NIGERIA AIRPORT, BUT SINCE REPORTS OF THEIR MISUSE, THE AIRPORT HAS SUSPENDED DELIVERY. I HAVE BEEN PAID AND THE ITEMS ARE NOW REPOSSESED AS PER CONFIRMED DELIVERY CONTACT TERMS.
NOW, I OFFER YOU THESE MACHINES ARE VERY DISCOUNT PRICE TO SELL FOR YOUR AIRPORT. MY CONTACT WILL PURCHASE THE MACHINES FROM YOU AT 30 TIMES (THIRTY ONLY) THE PRICE YOU BUY IT FOR FROM ME.
SINCE HE IS MY REGULAR CONTACT YOU NEED NOT WORRY FOR PROBLEMS AND AFTER SERVICE OF SALES.
PLEASE SEND BY WESTERN UNION USD 40,000 FOR 40 NOS OF FULL BODY SCANNER.
(For the clueless, this is a scam-format message. Do not send any money anywhere.)
Budget handset?...
... the specs don't seem so.
A welcome move...
... but I can't see Oracle giving up control over this so easily.
Let's hope that everything goes smoothly... staying tuned.
Censored by Jobs...
... So there I was, sitting in my bachelor p**, enjoying a juicy, shiny red a****. While I was grooving to my latest t****, along came my health-nut girlfriend, saying I should really be eating peas freshly split from the p**s. Just then, I received a p**** call from the boss at my w***place, who wanted to know why the video d** that he had asked for a client was not ready yet. I logged on to the w** and fired up my c*** client, but since my contact was not online, I sent an e-m*** instead. I got a reply while watching a m**** starring Bruce Willis on my t*, but when I clicked on the attachment i***, all I could see was a still p****graph. I double checked that there was no problem with my O*, and then I even checked the b****** disks, but no go. I then tried to take control of my office computer using r***** d******, and sy** my folders, but inspite of having it finish in real q**** t***, as well as using a t*x* ed**or to manually check the list of folders, I was not able to retrieve my wo**. After checking my ***endar, I realized there was no way I could finish up unless I used a t*** m******. I told my boss, who was wild, and booked my on a one way s***** back to b**tc**p.
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Perhaps voters...
...are more concerned about "real" issues, such as the economy, jobs, administration, infrastructure etc.
Standing on a plank for a "fairer copyrights" system doesn't tell voters how the rest of the issues are going to be handled.
Maybe they should just aim for being part of a coalition government, with possible postings for departments related to copyright activities.
They should be looking in the nearest...
salad bar. Given this efit, though, he may choose to disguise himself as a meatball here onwards.
"throwing death stars"
... please separate fact (throwing stars) from fiction (death stars), or you will have people making him into Darth Vader.
Pull off his jeans...
...and underneath them are the black pajamas, held up with THE black belt, and to round it off, the black turtleneck.
Am I the only one...
... who felt a bit dizzy watching him walk away and back to the lectern, again and again? I couldn't get past the 32 second point.
Rather like watching a Wimbledon match at a mini-court...
It's the new...
... Google.Me - A new paradigm in search. Your pals will tell you what you should search for, and will run the search for you, and go through the results for you, and take the decisions for you: all the while, you are mesmerized by the shiny trinket.
Oh and by the way: It's also "social".
Nice revenue model
...each of these outfits accounted for less than one per cent of Google's US revenues in June, and together, the top ten advertisers listed in the documents accounted for just 5 per cent of total revenues...
Not like Mozilla's 91% dependence on Google. Far too many companies are far too much dependent on their top-line customers, harming themselves as well as other customers.
Throw lots of mud...
... and some of it will stick.
WikiLeaks is an amazing effort, and unfortunately, it has become synonymous with it's founder.
Whether the allegations are true or not, some form of decentralization has to be done to ensure WikiLeaks's survival.
Of course, all this attention on Assange only serves to further promote WikiLeaks.
[Previously published in http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2010/09/02/wikileaks_founder_charges/ (Reproduced with permission) ;) ]
Google's "cloud" backup...
... of contacts, calendar, mail and other items will easily be restored across an update.
The keyword here is a "firmware" upgrade. The world over, a firmware upgrade will delete all data on the device. Blaming Google is FAIL. Dell could have issued an advisory (and I strongly suspect they did) that all data will be lost following an upgrade.
Ubuntu has been constantly moving forward...
... the new "notification system", Ubuntu Netbook Remix, etc. These show how you can use open source, but still build customised solutions. In has grown from being a debian branch out to developing an identity all it's own.
Throw lots of mud...
... and some of it will stick.
WikiLeaks is an amazing effort, and unfortunately, it has become synonymous with it's founder.
Whether the allegations are true or not, some form of decentralization has to be done to ensure WikiLeaks's survival.
Of course, all this attention on Assange only serves to further promote WikiLeaks.
Jobs has built an ecosystem...
... that few can escape from.
I envision a time where practically everyone will scrimp, scamp and save to buy atleast ONE Apple product; and then on, covet the rest of the items to complete a seamless "ecosystem" of Apple products.
And Apple will get cash from both sides; buyers as well as sellers desperate to capture a large dynamic.
All hail Apple; the new Google. (Microsoft has fallen way behind).
I am astonished at my admiration of Steve's strategy.
"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated..."
... I don't believe Google has killed off the Nexus One yet; I suspect they are just marking time.
The Nexus One is, in my eyes, everything a smartphone should be: Unlocked, open, and not subject to Provider (Vodafone) / Manufacturer (Samsung) whims.
Where's the halo-ed schmidt logo?
Ho Hum...
Yet another "me-too!" device.
The only tablet more successful than Apples iPad is a small, triangular blue one.
(Vote up if you get the reference).
Saws...
A few years back, my dad told me "Nothing succeeds like success". Well Apple is the best proof of this: The devices are expensive, locked-down, have draconian conditions attached, and don't really show much regard for the customer (Except for MarketSpeak "We love our users"); and yet it has customers galore and more orders than it can fulfill.
Put it down to excellent engineering and well-thought innovation. That's what the other manufacturers need; not another *Pad.
btw, he also told me: "The rich get richer."
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