Quote from: AGA on Sun 21/06/2009 16:32:41Quote from: Nacho on Sat 20/06/2009 15:36:06
Now, your turn, Berian.
What happens at Mittens stays at Mittens.
Lets go have SEEEXXX SEEEXX RAWWWWWWR
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Show posts MenuQuote from: AGA on Sun 21/06/2009 16:32:41Quote from: Nacho on Sat 20/06/2009 15:36:06
Now, your turn, Berian.
What happens at Mittens stays at Mittens.
Quote from: Andail on Thu 04/06/2009 12:06:53
I'm getting gradually less intrigued by the brand new communication/networking systems. It's like everyone has this urge to be online everywhere, all the time, to read and share everything at once, to be in perpetual contact with everyone you know, and everyone they know, and get updated in real time about everyone's opinions and moods and states and emoticons or whatnot.
Is it really our ambition to develop a hive mind? Is that our destiny as humans?
Leave your laptop at home, turn off your mobile phone and go for a long solitary walk. It's bound to do you good.
Quote from: Akatosh on Thu 04/06/2009 12:33:51At the same time, more spam means more training material which means less spam slipping through. The thing with a filter like this is that although a bot could maybe slip through by making spam messages which are posts significantly different messages it soon I imagine it would soon become too much hassle to create, tweek and change the bots.
That's certainly true, but more people using their service and the additional data generated ALSO mean more incentive to spy and/or spam the hell out of said people. We'll see who comes out on top. And yeah, if spambots ever manage to get beyond "Gâ,¬T cHâ,¬@p vi4gr4 todey!!!!", it'll be the end of the human race.
Quote from: Akatosh on Thu 04/06/2009 12:33:51Hehe, I know I was just being facetious
Heh. Yeah, I should've probably clarified this... they're already collecting and using data about people, and running most of your communications over Google would drastically increase the ways they could collect data about you, which was my main qualm about this. This may or may not be related to my "get off my lawn / private data files" complex.
Quote from: Akatosh on Thu 04/06/2009 12:33:51
Seriously, though. What I was trying to point out was that I think people are being way too optimistic about Google, the quality of their products and their security measures / the exploitability of the collected data right now. Good track record nonwithstanding, they've got precisely zero experience with something like this. It's not a question about whether there will be bugs and security breaches in there - the question is how bad they'll be.
Quote from: Akatosh on Thu 04/06/2009 09:25:17Well, part of the point isn't that they're making some big website for everyone to use - they are making this an open protocol which developers can go and make their own wave-like systems (not just embedding from the "official" google wave system). Plus, most of google's systems (including translating, filtering etc) work by statistics, so a large number of people using their service means a large amount of data which means further refined systems. I think they might have a chance against spam - unless, heaven forbid, spam bots become coherent - then we're all screwed.
Wave would change that, were it to become common enough. Google has some good programmers, but I doubt they'll manage to stay ahead of the spammers for long.
Quote from: Akatosh on Thu 04/06/2009 09:25:17Yeah small text adverts annoy the crap out of me too.
Plus, don't forget that Google "spams" ads, too. That's how they earn their money.
Quote from: Akatosh on Thu 04/06/2009 09:25:17
As I said, maybe I'm just a grumpy old war veteran already (at age 18 no less)
Quote from: Akatosh on Thu 04/06/2009 09:25:17Hiring promising employees, going for a market share? Its almost like its a business!
/EDIT: Plus, I find it pretty funny how Google is starting to resemble early Microsoft. Pretty much total hegemony over an important market, to the point that the product is becoming synonymous with the product category? Check. Hiring young talent, especially programmers? Check. Privacy concerns don't even make the priority list? Check. Ambitions to revolutionise entire markets, even outside the "core"? Check. Attacking established companies with similar-but-slightly-changed products? Check. Seriously, outside of PR (and, well, products), they're hardly different.
Quote from: Stupot on Wed 15/04/2009 23:20:24
I think there is a lot of innovative stuff out there at the moment. Nintendo have got innovation coming out of their ears with first the DS and now the Wii and I think they've created an arena for some really interesting stuff that just wasn't possible before.
Quote from: Esseb on Tue 24/02/2009 19:49:20
Scammed and cheated by LucasArts, eh?
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I'm still waiting!
Quote from: Meowster on Tue 27/01/2009 00:00:36
Molyneux
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