Google Overlords - Uncensored

[#] Tue Feb 07 2012 16:07:15 EST from wizard of aahz

Someone give Spell a tranquilizer

[#] Tue Feb 07 2012 17:43:52 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

I was hoping they'd go with 1 Tbps FDDI.

[#] Tue Feb 14 2012 21:06:50 EST from zooer

training people to submit to authority in one more way.

Kinda like Google. (couldn't resist)

[#] Sat Feb 25 2012 11:52:41 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

Naah, teh Google is training people to have lives that are more organized, connected, and rich with useful information. Apple and Microsoft are trying to train people to be dumb sheep.

[#] Sat Feb 25 2012 11:53:18 EST from zooer

From the user list:

"(not logged in) Google Overlords crawl-66-249-71-118.goog"

They are watching, no wonder foobar is so defensive.

[#] Sat Feb 25 2012 12:00:06 EST from zooer

Google is trying to convince people to have Google store all their information so Google can go through it. They try to convince you it is for your
good and will make your life easier. Don't fear them, if you are not doing anything wrong you have nothing to worry about. The government likes to use
that also.
A government/business that has enough power to control or give you everything, also has the power to take it all away.

[#] Sat Feb 25 2012 12:10:42 EST from zooer

Algore is on the board of directors of Apple and a senior adviser to Google. That scares me.

[#] Sat Feb 25 2012 12:47:55 EST from fleeb

Algol, by contrast, is a star.

[#] Sat Feb 25 2012 23:41:05 EST from zooer

More google is evil...
http://work.failblog.org/2012/02/25/job-fails-google-is-watching-graffiti/

[#] Sun Feb 26 2012 16:03:00 EST from dothebart

I guess this puts the ball far into Apples teritory:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/24/apple_patent_motorola/

but I doubt they will learn from that about messing with patents..

[#] Wed Feb 29 2012 14:48:46 EST from LoanShark

http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=82YHAAAAEBAJ

Device for cooling infant's brain (they should cite Terry Pratchett here.)

[#] Sat Mar 03 2012 09:40:32 EST from IGnatius T Foobar

Clearly teh Google intends to use infant brains as part of their cloud computing infrastructure, and needs to implement "cpu" cooling!!

[#] Mon Apr 23 2012 18:07:49 EDT from LoanShark

http://www.businessinsider.com/android-is-suddenly-in-a-lot-of-trouble-2012-4

Android Is Suddenly In A Lot Of Trouble

Look sir, droids!

[#] Mon Apr 23 2012 21:27:03 EDT from kc5tja

These aren't the droids Oracle's
looki....what's that? Oh. Uhhuh. I see,
sir.

Apparantly, these ARE the droids they're
looking for.

[#] Mon Apr 23 2012 22:08:52 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

I would say that the Oracle lawsuit is pretty much the only thing Google needs to worry about right now; that's what I *thought* the BI article was going to be about. Alas, the word 'Oracle' does not appear anywhere on the page, not even in the comments.

Instead, I read a bunch of wishful thinking. Haters gonna hate, I guess.
Meanwhile the latest comScore data shows Android now capturing majority market share and growing faster than any other platform.

There's a certain group of people that simply want to hate whoever is on top. Right now that's Google. I would prefer to hate the company that is the most pathetic of smartphone OS suppliers: Microsoft. They still suck and they're still evil.

Apple ... meh. Decent platform but the closed ecosystem is a turnoff.

[#] Mon Apr 23 2012 23:49:57 EDT from kc5tja

Agreed on all accounts; however, my next
phone buy will almost certainly be an iphone
because I'm just sick of what appears to be
garbage collection delays in the UI. Not
only that, but it loves to run out of space
extremely quickly, even with large SD cards.

I had to correct 5 typos caused in large part
by UI unresponsiveness on this message (6
now) alone. (7 now)

[#] Tue Apr 24 2012 07:58:57 EDT from dothebart

yes, having an interpreter inbetween is just another source of errors.

but... you might be able to tune it better than native apps, which were the problem of windows phone up to their switch to their see-carpet interpreter with their latest release.

install wrong/badly coded app, battery declines faster than you can watch it.

the other alternative is the apple way; no background tasks.

[#] Tue Apr 24 2012 10:18:15 EDT from kc5tja

No interpreter exists, though. The Dalvic
"vm" is a native code compiling system, like
OS/400. It works great for batch operations,
but unlike OS/400, its threading model proves
utterly inappropriate for interactive
programs.

[#] Tue Apr 24 2012 10:46:50 EDT from dothebart

its a bytecode interpreter <fullstop>

it knows howto group or optimize several groups of unstructions at runtime, also known as jit.

however, it doesn't remember these optimizations and has to find them again on restart.

and no, dalvik bytecode isn't native. you need the dalvik interpreter to translate it into your system bytecode (strongarm for the most androids, but not all)

[#] Tue Apr 24 2012 10:48:23 EDT from fleeb

I have to remember that.

'Unstructions'

Those are commands issued to prevent you from performing a particular function, rather than to instruct you to perform a particular function. Or, at least, that's how I want to interpret the word.