Gotcha. Point taken, thanks for clarifying.

But can you have it both ways? Google was oh-so-great when it was the underdog and was able to wreak havoc on M$ (kind of). Now that they are big enough to do product tie-ins here and there, people are to complain of their unfair practices (ie monopolistic advantages)?

Can the argument be made that using Youtube monopoly is akin to M$ using Win monopoly to unseat Netscape with IE ? You are in no way forced to use Youtube. An entire ecosystem of (web) apps does not revolve around Youtube - embedded videos can be replaced easily enough and any smart website designer would have made the website malleable enough to do so with some simple scripts / db changes.

Yes, point taken, so s/Youtube/other google products . Do they really have a monopoly on web services? You are always free to go to other web services.

Are you kidding? Youtube is a drain on money, and is unlikely to replace real entertainment anytime soon (although we can see where they are trying to head).

Google depends and dies on search. They gave Mozilla $300 million just to be not replaced by Bing, although they'd rather everyone use Chrome. And Mozilla just partnered with Twitter and FB on that stupid lame whine video about search results.

I'm not biased towards any one company, although I would like to see the evil that is FB be replaced.

Alright, well who cares? If Google shoots itself in the butt by destroying / tying in social with its search, a new search contender will most likely step up and fill the 2nd place void. Maybe it'll be Bing.

Just let the market correct itself.

He probably saw minecraft's influence.. as much as he helped totally change gaming by evolving Mario, Link from 2d ORIGINALS with *true* gameplay that has lasted the test of time (SMB1,2,3 & Link to the Past), and then moving Mario, Link into 3D very successfully.. he probably saw that one dev DOES has the power to affect gaming and gameplay (please, not talking about angry birds and crap like that).


Mr. Miyamoto, please make some cool original stuff like Minecraft did. Blaze the trail !

A newb, but I have toyed a tiny bit with Django and it seems that the Django model layer is also the ORM (if you want it to be). You could of course add in the ORM layer-wrapper-class yourself, but newb-basic Django seems to have the model layer BE the ORM (as opposed to Zend, which recommends you to make a ORM and then a seperate model class).

Essentially its like digital signals propagating to latches. The delayed green is analogous to non overlapping clock phases to ensure that there are no short-path / race conditions that occur.

It's annoying and it breaks tools? When you have Firefox imaged as part of your basic image install, and then it is outdated immediately by 5 version numbers and auto-upgrades ?

Every release breaks some tools - don't even mention their own plugins and addons created by others.

For example, my Thinkpad Client Security password manager used to work well with Firefox 1/2 - for v3 I had to go to the trouble of patching some js files myself because Lenovo didn't support it fast enough. Now with this super-fast release cycle, I can't patch my software and don't even bother anymore.

It's frustrating. I would move to Chrome (being a loyal Firefox person I have not yet) - if not Chrome is more evil in other ways.

Give a bit more time and I will give up Firefox. Just plain fed up with their douchebaggery. It was us fans that installed it for our non-geek friends, and it will be us fans that uninstall them and recommend everyone something else.

I agree, been saying it for a while too.

I've also been saying for a while, that the thing that propelled FB was the "exclusive-ness" factor. We joined when we were only 1/8 schools in the entire FB network; we felt exclusive. Back then, it was like a top-tier university club. Then it opened up to all universities; ok great, still all about exclusivity using .edu right?

Nope, then it opened up more.. and more.. then you didn't even need networks to join. Eventually, when grandmas, the random dude at Walmart, started joining, you knew it was only a matter of time until the geeks (their core base from which they leaned on and leveraged to grow exponentially), would leave for a better alternative. That alternative, is G+.

What makes G+ "buzz"-ing right now IS the exclusivity factor; with an invite-only system, the geeks flock over because all of our contacts work in Si Valley, and we get invites asap from the Googler's (in fact I've noticed my G+ friend suggestions highly mimic my Gmail invite-patchs). From then out it expands out.

What makes G+ (or any NEW network) exciting is exclusivity; Facebook had it with .edu (then lost it in order to grow big); Gmail had it with invites (then lost it once it grew big enough), and same with G+. What makes GMail stick (and possible G+ stick) is that they actually have GOOD FEATURES taht people want, do not continually disrespect their userbase (ala Facebook) with many interface changes, random privacy settings, wall-gardening, etc.

Exclusitivity with coolness factor (ala Geek crowd, .edu crowd, etc) is the key for rapid BUZZ and growth.

I thought they made quite a bit through targeted ad's and selling data-mined demographics to large/small businesses ?

Of course, I read this on the internet (probably some TC such site, although I dropped TC after they went to Facebook's commenting system, how retarded of them).

Could just be FB propaganda thrown out there to increase their value and keep it all stable.