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In much the same way that I don't believe that folks will fall for Job's new mythical shiny Newton ^h^h iPud ^h iPad, I don't think folks are falling for the hype of cloud computing. Unless it's 'free'.
The problem right now is that there are more 'marketers' and 'technologists' in tech than Engineers who truly innovate on this side of the pond. And India and China don't innovate the way Silly Valley did pre-Offshore-Boom time.
And now all the bot ^h offshore herders have to fight over is the table scraps, tired ideas from 10 years ago that didn't work then and won't work now. Leading us to this:
[mindtaker.blogspot.com]
The USA is really heading into a lost decade. And there truly is 'no App for that."
10/01/09
10/01/09
I didn't know of Larry's circa-1996 position on Network Computers so I'm just thinking about this now...but isn't he kind of right? Doesn't much of the complexity of PCs go underutilized as a feature, and instead just contribute to user problems (resource conflicts, maybe virus infections)? Doesn't much of the code of any operating system or application just lie there dormant and unused...kind of like those endless lists of drivers that WordPerfect used to provide for printers that no one would ever own?
10/01/09
The person who wrote this article seems unable to differentiate a "forward looking" vision of what will be "big" vs. his critique of just a another relatively new computer term (of which he's heard countless ones like it before).
Find another reason to pick on Lawerence; there are plenty.
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10/01/09
PS What the heck is a "technologist?"
10/01/09
10/01/09
I concede that the use of the term technologist was some bullshit. Replace that with engineer. Also, even though Larry runs a huge business and doesn't get dirty in the grunt work, the guy is and will always be an engineer.
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09/15/09
09/15/09
One hacker will be all it takes to delete forever the words of Shakespeare from our digital library of congress. People, hold onto your books, records, and vhs tapes. I'll hold onto my tin foil hat.
09/15/09
09/15/09
/b/ is going to love this.
09/15/09
08/25/09
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08/25/09
The big elephant in the room here is that Yahoo as a company has issues with free speech and they should be open about it. The hypocrisy of claiming to support free discussion and closing down discussion at the same time is spectacularly silly.
Yahoo gave up a blogger to the Chinese government so all these issue ultimately tie back to issues of free speech, freedom and democracy so one can choose to be blase about it but please let not pretend its business as usual.
Yahoo, Google and Microsoft have all collaborated with the Chinese government to limit freedom, and this cannot be a good thing.
08/25/09
I think you have a great point about Yahoo's dealings in China, but to act like they're in any way connected to Flickr taking down some pictures and ending discussion threads kind of trivializes that in a way that's not too appealing.
About China: it would seem that that type of thing actually is "business as usual," if you want to tap into the Chinese market. I can assure you that Yahoo and Google, in particular, are not in that market otherwise. It's either play ball with the government and you're in, or resist the government and you're out. Breaching ethical boundaries in return for access to huge markets isn't exactly new territory for corporations.
I didn't know it was "blase" to not be absolutely shocked or make exaggerated claims about the broad significance of piddly things like Flickr removing a picture that, quite honestly, should have been removed anyway, or shutting down threads full of bitching about it. As usual, leave it to the bored-as-hell, reactionary internet masses to complain that their constitutional rights are under attack simply because Flickr won't let the put up any old picture they want.
08/25/09
If flickr wants to be a censoring overlord then why provide forum discussion or in that case photo services, let them tell their customers if we don't approve of your photos, according to not some well defined parameters but arbitrary judgement we will delete them. This sort of small mindedness and petty tyranny cannot suit any free system.
08/25/09