was excited to see this. went and installed the dev channel chrome to make sure i got it. started it up and got a nice notification saying it was turned on. neat. then nothing. no notifications. nothing at all.

typical behavior from google now. the idea is so simple, but it never seems to work right for me despite having it turned on since inception and allowing google full access to my location. just *some* off the oddities,

1. despite never, ever going to the gym at any other time then between 7-8.30 in the morning on weekday, google now insists on giving me directions at all times of the day including saturdays.

2. despite regularly clicking on news articles and google now notifications about my local sports team, it failed to alert tell me there was a home game the other day resulting in me being jammed in downtown traffic (thanks!)

3. the weather notification is sometimes there, sometimes now. no clue about when it decides to show itself.

4. after swiping away sporting results, it re-inserts them multiple times

why is everyone so surprised and outraged? this is business doing what business does: maximizing profits. if there's no law saying they can't, they will. they are actually doing what they are supposed to be doing. if they weren't doing this, their board of directors should be fired. if you want to be mad at something, be mad at your representatives for not passing a law.

are you implying he did something smart? dumb luck is not intelligence.

you know, there are benefits to this as well. i'm connected 99% of the time. not having access that 1% of the time is less of an inconvenience that having to otherwise sync the files between all my devices. i realize it's different for everyone, but in general, the world is becoming more and more connected.

so, never ever accept or use something that's free because someday it might not be free? what do you do if you car insurance goes up? you look around at the competition and see if there's a better deal. there you go.

so you are suggesting one day, google or someone will lock all your files and hold them ransom until you pay? you think that might hurt their business at all? the business that relies on users trusting them? you don't have to think google cares about you or "does no evil", you just have to understand that they want to make money.

sometimes it helps to limit a conversation to what's likely to happen, not what possibly could happen.

of course. if they rely on charity, they don't have a choice in how or where the benefit is "spent". companies can influence things in ways that directly or indirectly benefit them. need money for your art program? how about a bunch of chromebooks instead?

on the other hand, i suspect charity is more directly translated into student benefit than tax dollars. tax dollars, if they even make it to the school, are divvied up between unions, administration, etc. before anything gets to the kids.

you are really going to pick your build system on how pretty the script is?

yes, because the most important thing to me in a build system that my build scripts be as few characters as possible, right? the only thing that matters is stability and lots of good examples of how to do things you want to do.

ant was lightning fast compared to gradle. and yeah, i know because our company has fully cut over from eclipse + ant to android studio + gradle.

it takes nearly 30s to build just one of our android apps. upgrading from gradle 1.6 > 1.8 > 1.11, each upgrade has considerably worse performance, despite the docs claiming to have improved performance. gradle 1.11 is so much slower than 1.8 it's ridiculous. i can't even believe it was released. it does however give a progress indicator during the build now. great.

the decision to base everything on gradle baffles me a bit.

gradle itself, while apparently existing for a long time, has had some pretty bad bugs in it and it's plugins in the time i've been using it (last 6 months or so).

that, and i can't figure out why it's better. it is different however. there are fewer examples of how to do things then with maven or ant, and there's often multiple ways to accomplish the same thing, and they are both given as examples in the same doc with no explanation

not anymore. calling a man a b* is quite common, and most certainly pejorative.

nobody is saying that you can't dual boot your own hardware, they are just saying they aren't going to sell it like that out of the box, which is their prerogative.

please indulge me. you said you could run the same setup for 9x less than $120, over 5 years, right? so $120 / 9 = $13, over 5 years is $13 / 5 = $3 per year, right?

i'm no mathologist, but i'm pretty sure the $47 / year in power is already a lot greater than the $3 / year you quoted, right?

you all you did was factor in the cost of the drive itself, that's $50 for a 1TB drive ... that's still $10 / year over 5 years.

that's a ridiculous comparison. just some of the many, many things you forgot about,

1. a backup mechanism, that probably involves multiple other drives and a computer
2. networking hardware and a broadband connection (if you are talking about parity w/ drive)
3. electricity to power all this stuff 24x7. just the electricity to power the rig is going to be around $20 / month.
4. your time maintaining the whole setup

BS.

give me some references where someone have been prosecuted for child porn for uploading pictures of their own children to a non-shared, non-public account. no? well, i still hope you achieved your goal of scaring some luddites today.

the article you linked says that $1b rules only the most "mature" proposals, but there are other options. so what was your point? if they can't execute the most expensive option, they shouldn't bother trying anything?

people can wear skirts all they like, and choose how much or little they want to expose of themselves in public. if you re concerned about some out of focus dark weird angle shot of your panties, i'd suggest not wearing a skirt.

or, people could get over it. if it bothers you, cover it up. we don't need anymore laws.