Regarding Google I/O 2017, I am:
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Re: Wtf is I/O? (Score:3, Insightful)
I'm totally guessing but it sounds like one of those tail-wags-dog scenarios where people pay and queue to be told things that in a different world Google would need to expend resources to force the information in to the collective consciousness.
Re: Wtf is I/O? (Score:1)
*sigh*
Re: Wtf is IO? (Score:1)
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Instead of Google having for force it down people's throat, they instead get people to pay for it and stand in line for it. Then blog about how great it is.
A lesson learned from Apple.
Hope that helps. Did you find that to be a more concise, grammatically correctful explanation? Press 0 to talk to a stoopid robot. Press 1 to be routed to an underpaid unintelligible call center in a third world country.
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<Pauses for thought>
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Hello kind sir, I will do the needful for you!
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The American accent sure has changed!
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It was aimed at programmers, but the next year tons of freeloaders
. . . is it not possible to be both, at the same time, in the Schrödinger's Cat sense . . . ?
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Yet another stupid kid who don't know what Input/Output is ...
Gee, if only there was a place we could search the internet for it ...
https://events.google.com/io/ [google.com]
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CP/M from Xenix would hardly be an upgrade
Recruiting special external troops? (Score:4, Informative)
While I've been following it a bit in the news, my main experience was watching some of the videos. Some of them were remarkably good, but it is well known that the google is hiring some excellent people. Outreach is fundamentally good, but...
Overall does NOT affect my conclusion that the google is becoming a closed universe. From what I have seen so far, they are trying to push certain tedious work to the outside without paying for it, and the financial models remain obscure. The model attracts a certain kind of confident optimists who hope to win big. Unfortunately that also includes attracting some clever gamblers and scammers.
The main side of google has greatly mutated as the money poured in. The old motto of "Don't be evil" became irrelevant in the pursuit of eyeballs to sell, and the natural new motto became "All your attention belong to us" with the primary competitors for marketable attention being Facebook, Apple, and Amazon. Remarkably enough, it seems Microsoft is still trying to figure out what the game is.
One possible solution on the Android side would be to make the financial models more visible. Each app should have a "financial model" tab that allows people to assess the trustworthiness of the app in the context of following the money. In most cases, for most of the frequently used business models, the google would actually be positioned to add an assessment of the financial model described by the developers of the app.
Separate problem is the mission statement. The google discovered that there was a LOT of information out there and they couldn't make it all available, so they had to prioritize things. Surprise, surprise, surprise. Turned out the highest priority goes to the information the advertisers want pay to to shove in our faces. Solution is more difficult, but I think it would involve pull-driven ads instead of push-driven. My (and your) time is the crucial resource, but that's NOT how the advertisers want to see it. Can you imagine a controlled auction of the time you want to spend on ads for the goods and services you actually want to buy soon?
Now don't get me started on the GIGO problems of the new Google Maps reviews...
Recently got a lunch invite from the inside, but turned it down. Can't decide if I want to fraternize. More and more the google feels like the enemy.
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Try moving your lips when you read it, it seems to help my 4 year old.
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I certainly understand that you don't seem to be worth the effort of any explanation. Generally glad to answer any specific questions, but if you have nothing to say, then why don't you say nothing?
Just par for today's Slashdot. So is it even worth the effort to check again for "funny" posts that might actually be amusing? Can't recall the last time I found one, but it's also true that I've quit looking at most of the "discussions".
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So where did you lose the thread? From my possibly twisted perspective, the entire thing is a single piece, and it is really hard to select a perspective. I can start at any part and basically go to any other part almost directly.
The essential unifying theme of the first three paragraphs might be described as the profit-driven transformation of an idealistic startup into a pragmatic and essentially evil money-making machine. Or perhaps I should approach it from how a freedom-increasing aspiration became a f
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Thanks for clarifying. Google does seem to be less competent these days all around.
I would not go so far, though from the perspective of people with other priorities, it might well seem so.
Main comment is to note how hard this poll flopped. I would conclude that the main result is to show how little interest today's Slashdot members have in Google's proselytizing.
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pull-driven ads instead of push-driven.
That is exactly what their AdSense is. It's based on what you're searching for right then. I found those advertisements actually quite relevant, especially when looking to actually buy stuff (and when looking for information on a product rather than to buy it, go for the organic results instead). Click-through rates for those ads must be about a million times higher than that of more random ads, like the generally totally irrelevant and often seemingly random crap I see in apps on my phone.
Those ads are sti
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I understand the basis of your confusion because there is also a shift of the reference frame there. Let me try to clarify the distinction I'm making. When I say "push-driven" the primary focus is that the advertisers are pushing the ads into our faces and AdSense is just a way to improve the targeting and reduce the waste.
The power of the relationship is on the other side, and even if you were NOT planning to buy anything, that only becomes a problem for the google to solve. How can they detect the differe
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AdSense + ABP comes awfully close to that.
The moment you want to buy some product, you search for it & switch off ABP at the same time, allowing the ads to come through - effectively pulling them in.
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Even easier if you just ignore all ads and rely on directed product research. Two problems:
(1) A lot of effort required and you will still be pitting yourself against experienced experts who sell far more than you buy.
(2) I feel like gaming the ads is in a sense immoral if I am receiving content on the basis of the push-driven advertising model even if I think that model is intrinsically EVIL.
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"Don't be evil" was always meaningless. One person's evil is another person's rational business decision. Blanket statements like this are useful because they appear to cover all cases when in fact they cover none.
An actual set of policies covering positions on transparency, privacy, environmental responsibility, political activism and lobbying, etc. would be far more valuable, but then you have to actually make it clear what your position is. Easier to just continue to redefine "evil" as you go along.
(Yes,
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We need a poll about javascript frameworks. Are people with a fetish for javascript frameworks:
a) nincompoops who don't know how to write their own javascript
b) pragmatists who want a tool for a job
c) mice in an exercise wheel
or
d) weiners
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Lighten up Francis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OnpkDWbeJs/ [youtube.com]
Option b) was serious and actually covered your position on the issue. Option c) refers to the continuous cycle of new frameworks coming into and out of vogue. Option d) describes those who just get way, way too excited about anything that looks new or shiny.
If you care about your privacy (Score:2)
Who cares? (Score:2)
don't care (Score:2)
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Actually you should watch the whizz kid keynote that kicks the whole thing off. Very interesting seeing what one of the richest companies on earth has spent our money on. Personally I have no interest in a voice activated box spending my money on theater tickets, or in 95% of the other shiny crap that consumers will buy. I admire the technology and the novelty of these things but I enjoy a simple life and need very little of what marketing will persuade the young to buy. I was enjoying the thing until one p
I am a Bing user (Score:2)
you, insensitive clod!
How can you logically choose the last option? (Score:2)
The last option doesn't make sense, if you had no interest you wouldn't select any option. As I am not streaming or attending, that leaves news or social media as options. So is Slashdot news or social media for this poll? With a lack of any information about the event it seems news is out which leaves social media.
Currently no interest is the most selected option. But interested enough to select an option seems to be of interest so logically the last option must equate to deluded.
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No, the last option is for people like me who deliberately eschew all things Google.
I don't have an Android phone anymore, because they deliberately orphaned the Droid X
only a few months after I bought it, despite the infrastructure they subsumed from Linux.
They've been proven to snoop on users consistently.
I use DuckDuckGo as my search engine on Safari.
Yes, I have a leftover Gmail address that I was forced to get when I bought the Droid X,
but I don't use it for routine daily e-mail.
I would be very happy if
Waiting for the Cowboy (Score:2)
None of the above: waiting for the summery on /. written by Cowboy Neal.