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The store's still not back up, or is it?-phitsc (May 30, 2011, 03:17 PM)
AFAIK it's not up yet.-Deozaan (May 30, 2011, 05:41 PM)
)Dunno if someone else has already posted this, but
http://www.zdnet.com...ithout-consent/13015
Please read the comments though, cause despite the headline I doubt it has anything to do with MS.-Jibz (May 31, 2011, 12:38 AM)
lɐɔıʇılod-app103 (May 30, 2011, 07:01 AM)
How the smurf...?-Deozaan (May 30, 2011, 07:04 AM)
Okay, here's a geeky science song featuring Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking:-Deozaan (May 30, 2011, 06:01 AM)
)He was introduced one page back.-app103 (May 30, 2011, 05:19 AM)
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Mouser can smile with pride that he helped take down Google.-Deozaan (May 30, 2011, 12:29 AM)
As the web evolves and priorities change, we sometimes deprecate APIs – that is, remove them from active development – to free up resources and concentrate on moving forward. Today we're announcing a spring cleaning for some of our APIs.
Note that the vast majority of Google APIs are not affected by this announcement.
Following the standard deprecation period – often, as long as three years – some of the deprecated APIs will be shut down. The rest have no scheduled date for shutdown, but won’t get any new features. The policy for each deprecated API is specified in its documentation.
These APIs are now deprecated but have no scheduled shutdown date: Code Search API, Diacritize API, Feedburner APIs, Finance API, Power Meter API, Sidewiki API, Wave API
These APIs will be shut down as per their deprecation policies: Blog Search API, Books Data API and Books JavaScript API (not the new API), Image Search API, News Search API, Patent Search API, Safe Browsing API (v1 only), Translate API, Transliterate API, Video Search API, Virtual Keyboard API
The Google Translate API has been officially deprecated as of May 26, 2011. Due to the substantial economic burden caused by extensive abuse, the number of requests you may make per day will be limited and the API will be shut off completely on December 1, 2011.
We asked Google exactly what constituted 'extensive abuse,' but were told by a spokesperson that the company has 'no more detail to share' on the matter.
Add in government sponsored religious persecution; genocidal purges and ethnic 'cleansing;' the reintroduction of detention without trial or (in many cases) a shred of legal authority; the sanctioned use of torture as an acceptable part of 'criminal procedure'; and the gradual centralization of all real authority in the executive of many governments (i.e. the return of absolute kings and privy councils) - and you have some strong indications that the "bad old days" are making a big comeback.
Which means when the members of a society reach a breaking point (which they inevitably do) the fact they've been systematically disenfranchised and denied legal remedies will lead to the usual violent form of 'remediation' most human societal change comes out of.-40hz (May 29, 2011, 02:32 PM)
wraith, this is something I have been thinking about also. You mentioned giving MS Access a go, and I'm in that phase right now. What did you feel was disappointing about Access?-superboyac (May 28, 2011, 07:35 PM)
Is that fast enough for anyone here?I'm a bit scared of how to view all those DVD's in that short timespan, afraid that my head will explode-Renegade (May 27, 2011, 10:14 PM)-Ath (May 28, 2011, 05:17 AM)
That'll probably be the new RIAA penalty for the p2p crowd - Spontaneous Decapitation - It's not just from snorting dandelions anymore!-Stoic Joker (May 28, 2011, 08:06 AM)
Wouldn't you love to see all the devices on the table and be able to say:
I want THAT tablet,
with THIS OS,
without a cellphone contract,
with THESE apps.-superboyac (May 26, 2011, 05:21 PM)
If only I could say it with such brevity. Thanks! And as you say, we have to ability and for the most part, the [open] formats to make it so. But as you note, companies are after excessive profit, and to get that, they run a continuous series of lawsuits against everyone else under the guise of patent infringements. Patents were around for centuries before the US adopted its own Patent Act in 1790. In the following century a certified Steve Jobs-like jerk named Tom Edison patented everything he looked at, and then spent the rest of his life suing everyone on the planet (sound familiar to today tech landscape?). Until this line of thinking is changed by governments, then my Holodeck ain't never gonna come true.
Patents are not the sole evil of the modern world, but they are a big one. Capitalism has always been far too wasteful with resources:
-- Kill the environment, to hell with the future;
-- Distribute all the wealth to few at the top, creating a plutocracy;
-- Enact laws like DMCA, ACTA, et al., then sue everyone from former employees to competitors to even your own customers;
-- Find ways to charge people for every little move they make --Oy.
- Want to own and drive a car? Let me see how many ways I can tax it and fine you over it.
- Want to start a business? Let's see if you have the guts to withstand the crushing regulations and taxes you'll pay every three months.
- Want to listen to a song? Let me see how many ways I can make that act illegal.
- Want to read a book? Let me make sure you pay for every time you try to read it for the rest of your life.
- Want a college education? Let's saddle you with crushing debt that will last a lifetime and hinder your future with each decade that passes.
-zridling (May 28, 2011, 01:51 AM)
Researchers have set a new record for the rate of data transfer using a single laser: 26 terabits per second.
At those speeds, the contents of nearly 1,000 high-definition DVDs could be sent down an optical fibre in a second.
The trick is to use what is known as a "fast Fourier transform" to unpick more than 300 separate colours of light in a laser beam, each encoded with its own string of information.
Hmmm... Now I wonder if it would be profitable to supply something like an entire downtown area with free Wi-Fi...-Renegade (May 27, 2011, 06:47 AM)
Rather like the Chinese were offering for the London subway system during the upcoming Olympics? My, aren't they generous?
By the way, those candle-stick makers get on your wick!-cranioscopical (May 27, 2011, 11:20 AM)
