Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 24th Apr 2012 17:39 UTC
Well, this has been a very, very long time in the making. Google has finally unveiled its big Dropbox competitor: Google Drive. You start with 5GB for free, and you can go all the way to 1TB for $50 per month. This is a big deal for many (if you were to use rumouring as a gauge), but all I can think of is this: why on earth would you entrust your files to a company - any company - whose sole interest is extracting money from you, and who, to boot, is subject to crazy American laws?
Thread beginning with comment 515664
To view parent comment, click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To view parent comment, click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
RE[4]: Crazy American Laws?
by OMRebel on Wed 25th Apr 2012 16:54
in reply to "RE[3]: Crazy American Laws?"
Member since:2005-11-14
As an American, I just laugh off most insults hurled towards the US and don't let it get to me. Getting upset at someone's opinion really doesn't accomplish anything. Sure, the US has it's problems - corrupted politicians taking handouts from companies, which in turns produces some really stupid laws. But, every country out there has it's own share of problems (including laws that make no sense). Stupidity is not unique to one geographic location on this rock. There are dumb laws and regulations on everyone's books. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion to their views and beliefs - getting upset due to their's differing from your own doesn't accomplish anything.
RE[4]: Crazy American Laws?
by Soulbender on Thu 26th Apr 2012 03:39
in reply to "RE[3]: Crazy American Laws?"
Member since:2005-08-18
This occupation of the middle east and other countries who want to blow us to bits is NOT occupation
Just because you think you have a good reason doesn't make it not an occupation. But hey, thanks for saving us from the non-existant WMD's.
We're doing what we can. We know what OUR problems are,
Then fix those problems and mind your own business.
do you know what YOUR problems are in YOUR country?
Yep.
read up on Unions, they just love to have jobs without working and get paid for it, then infiltrate world gov'ts.
Uh, oh yeah. God help us if the underprivileged of the world gets an actual voice. Clearly we all need to trust big business to care for our well-being. Or not.
Union serve an important purpose as a counterweight to business interests.
Our constitution is the greatest in the world because we give gov't NO power.
If you guys are so anti-America, get off the internet that we developed, stop driving our cars, stop using our guns and our other inventions, and for heavens sake quit using free market and you'll be begging for our help!
I'm just tired of arguing with idiots on the situation.
Funny, I was just thinking the same thing.
RE[5]: Crazy American Laws?
by jal_ on Thu 26th Apr 2012 06:58
in reply to "RE[4]: Crazy American Laws?"
Member since:2006-11-02
News
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/25/13 0:45 UTC
"So in summary... Google has pulled the plug on support on a protocol they've helped popularize, after years of promising interoperability, for reasons that are dubious at best, and in a way that leaves people who don't jump to the new Hangouts app unable to talk to their contacts without any feedback that their IMs aren't getting through... And they've done that with no warning to anyone. I imagine there's a bunch of people out there wondering where some of their buddies have gone, or why their messages aren't getting responses, because this isn't documented anywhere." Google really messed this up. Such a dick move.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/24/13 23:59 UTC
The Tizen Greek Community has some screenshots of a very recent build of Tizen running on a Samsung GT-i8800. It looks wholly unremarkable.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/24/13 22:33 UTC
Joint statement to The Next Web from Microsoft and Google: "Microsoft and YouTube are working together to update the new YouTube for Windows Phone app to enable compliance with YouTube's API terms of service, including enabling ads, in the coming weeks. Microsoft will replace the existing YouTube app in Windows Phone Store with the previous version during this time." Good to know these children stopped acting like little pricks. Can we have full Google support in Windows 8 now, please?
Linked by Howard Fosdick on 05/24/13 21:41 UTC
Yahoo is acquiring Tumblr, the microblogging and social networking website, for $1.1 billion USD. Tumblr offers little revenue but lots of eyeballs if Yahoo can monetarize them. Now Yahoo is bidding for Hulu, the streaming video service. After years of ineffective responses while Google, Facebook, and others took large chunks of the online advertising market, Yahoo is fighting back. Can Yahoo reignite the momentum it had at the turn of the century? What do you think?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/24/13 14:44 UTC
"Sources have described iOS 7 as 'black, white, and flat all over'. This refers to the dropping of heavy textures and the addition of several new black and white user interface elements." I couldn't be happier.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 23:22 UTC
"Ilja van Sprundel, a security researcher with IOActive, has discovered a large number of issues in the way various X client libraries handle the responses they receive from servers, and has worked with X.Org's security team to analyze, confirm, and fix these issues."
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 22:04 UTC
"Google is facing a new antitrust probe by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission into whether the company is using its leadership in the online display-advertising market to illegally curb competition, people familiar with the matter said." Sucks to be Google today, apparently.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 22:01 UTC
"In the midst of the major press blitz surrounding its annual I/O Conference, Google dropped some unfortunate news about its instant messaging plans. In several places around the web, the company is replacing the existing 'Talk' platform with a new one called 'Hangouts' that sharply diminishes support for the open messaging protocol known as XMPP (or sometimes informally Jabber), and also removes the option to disable the archiving of all chat communications. These changes represent a switch from open protocols to proprietary ones, and a clear step backward for many users." That's why I always say: only suckers trust companies.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/23/13 17:52 UTC
"The wave of departures is a sign of internal struggle, but amidst all the bad news, there is a glimmer of hope. According to an anonymous HTC executive cited by WSJ, the crucial HTC One is selling 'pretty good so far'. The executive revealed that HTC sold about five million One units since launch, a performance that is deemed encouraging. However, sales have been limited by the persisting supply issues that still plague the production of the HTC One." Finally some good news for HTC. Five million units amidst supply constraints is very impressive.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/22/13 22:23 UTC
"Sony gave the PS4 50% more raw shader performance, plain and simple (768 SPs @ 800MHz vs. 1152 SPs & 800MHz). Unlike last generation, you don't need to be some sort of Jedi to extract the PS4's potential here. The Xbox One and PS4 architectures are quite similar, Sony just has more hardware under the hood. Weâll have to wait and see how this hardware delta gets exposed in games over time, but the gap is definitely there. The funny thing about game consoles is that itâs usually the lowest common denominator that determines the bulk of the experience across all platforms. On the plus side, the Xbox One should enjoy better power/thermal characteristics compared to the PlayStation 4. Even compared to the Xbox 360 we should see improvement in many use cases thanks to modern power management techniques." AnandTech does its usual in-depth thing.More News »
Sponsored Links
Member since:
2009-05-14
This is also hypocritical of the universal thought. We're to blame for everything, though we didn't do anything?
Playing empire? That's not what we are doing. We're trying to keep things sane. This occupation of the middle east and other countries who want to blow us to bits is NOT occupation. Rome going into Mediterranean lands so they can have their "roman lake" is occupation. This is saving you from being blown off the earth. And I'm the one who can't form logical thoughts? I'm just tired of arguing with idiots on the situation. Notice how each comment in regards to to what I said was met with insult. Yeah, good case you got there. If you aren't living here, don't judge us. We're doing what we can. We know what OUR problems are, do you know what YOUR problems are in YOUR country? People like me are fighting a fight here that is NOTHING what people in other countries think it is.
We know who's to blame for Europe falling, we know who's to blame for the fall of the USA. It's not the people, it's a specific group (read up on Unions, they just love to have jobs without working and get paid for it, then infiltrate world gov'ts.)
So don't come at me with "crazy American laws" because we set things straight. Our constitution is the greatest in the world because we give gov't NO power. "Negative liberties" Obama calls it. No no, POSITIVE for the people, negative for the jerks who want power.
If you guys are so anti-America, get off the internet that we developed, stop driving our cars, stop using our guns and our other inventions, and for heavens sake quit using free market and you'll be begging for our help!