The article does not say what version and which circumstances.
But yes: if you would find an unopened PC box from 2001 somewhere, open it and connect it to the internet then it would melt.
This will be interesting to watch. What will they do?
Review all things again?
Turn It off?
video.google: one of these projects that became a problem I would guess. It is unsurprising: When I discussed things them they seemed to have not a real understanding about the world out there. I had some concerns about hosting contents. And they basically had no answers. Nor did they seem to understand the problem. Those were in my case no copyright related. I think that
google is just a bunch of engineers that can not look further than beyond the warm and fuzzy feeling that they made something work. Which they do. And often is amazing. I love them for that.
But it also does not surprise me that they release something as immature as video.google. Any new company would be dead from day one if they would behave like video.google has so far.
I would go back to “Independence the movie” when that Alien presses the unshaved scientiest against the glas. And answer along those lines “I want you to go out of business”.
Sorry, but Microsoft left this really bad trail in the history of technology while they could. I don’t see why we should tolerate their existence. Once the power game has flipped against them. Which has not happened yet. OK, Longhorn is the most unexiciting Operating System annonuncement. They needed to through something like RSS in. Which is pathetic:
RSS is one potential way of letting information flow. The point is that information wants to just do that: flow. Now we have the bandwidth, and there will be more tools. But putting RSS into the OS is like making a car that can perform really well when you drive around an New York intersection. RSS is ok right, I hope it will be replaced added on by the people quickly for whatever direction it needs to go. Nice for M$ to come up with the Version 2. Those Microsoft ‘standards’ are bad enough if it comes to web pages. I think they really caused enough harm for one company. Right now they should just merge with Sun and look inwards for synergy for ten yours or so, till they are both history.
BlogsNow got it’s first ‘special view’ today. I mentioned it before, but this is the first sign of it: I rewrote BlogsNow in Version 2 also to be able to whip up quick views that I feel might be interesting. Google Maps is an amazing web application. And, of course all the images being out there people will find interesting views and share them in their blogs. BlogsNow simply lists the most prominent ones. As usual millions of bloggers will collect some collective filter that is somewhat interesting. Since longitude and latitude coordinates do not mean much to most of us, I listed the closest airports instead.
this year it is a falling chick
disturbing use of flash technology if you ask me.
google video is out today. In order to see the clips you need a googlified VLC player. Only for windows. Of course. Like everything from google.
With the title: modifier, you should find clips from a specific show. So I tried this for title: daily show and found a very good segment. It’s nice, but there is only one clip form the daily show in google video?
Please.
So I tried to look for jon stewart crossfire. A little bit of secondary information, but the actual event is not in there.
Looking in the normal and text based google: no problem, just found what I was looking for.
Looking in Videos for daft punk I find a commercial from Apple, a clip from some some kids and two unrelated spot.
I does amaze me: Text google is so great since it handles the long tail so well. But video.google. is lightyears away of being able to send me to clips that I would care about. It is surprising that they release something as immature. I don’t think that video.google does understand the brave new world of broadband connections out there. Which is surprising, since it is all pretty much based on the text based google system.
Sometimes one cubicle does not know what the other one does.
Speaking of cubicles
this link would bring you to a recruting video of theirs. It’s pretty boring the whole thing, the end however is quiet revealing.
Would you want to work for this guy?
those are his shoes.
Steve Ballmer says that MSN will be at par with google in six months. I wonder if they will run linux by then as well …
KCRW one of the better things of living in LA.
I said so before: I am not sure if I still would live partially in LA, if there would not be any KCRW.