On 4/4/07, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
begin quoting Bob La Quey as of Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 04:25:50PM -0700:
> On 4/4/07, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Besides new economic models are there to take care of the
> parasitism. I don't see Google suffering. Do you?
Isn't google the parasite? Parasites don't suffer, hosts do.
You have it backwards. Gootgle is the host for many a Mashup.
For instance, all kinds of services are being built on top of Google
Maps.
What pays for them? Advertising.
> >> AJAX, Just use Google to learn more.
> >
> >Verdict is still out, IMO.
> >
> >AJAX is basically a premature optimization for a lack of local storage
> >and bandwidth. If we actually had 10-base-T connections and browsers
> >could use the hard drive, then Javascript+Browser is equivalent to
> >App+Computer and AJAX really doesn't buy us anything.
>
> Portability, access from any terminal. For example, gmail is turning
> out to be a big win for me. Beats the hell out of previous local mail
> client.s for me, especially when I travel.
What, do you use kiosks or something?
Any Internet cafe that has a browser. That is a pretty large
universe in this world. I can find that in surprisingly remote places.
If so, I suspect my trust boundaries are far different from yours.
Yeh right. Everybody cannot wait to steal your email, lol.
If that really sticks in your craw encrypt messages and send them as
attachments.
Cannot stand the thought that some one might know you are
sending email to somewhere ... use a little steganography.
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I want something the size of a PDA when not in use, and a laptop in use.
I want something as ubiquitous as the telephone ... oh not secure
the CIA is probably listening to your phone calls. Yep all 6 billion
of us.
I guess it is useful for BOFHs to be paranoid but you don't really
expect the rest of us to care do you? Its your job, take care of us.
Chuckle,
BobLQ
Stewart Stremler
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