Google Chrome FTL. I played with it last night, and I just don't like it... I've grown used to things FF does for me, I don't like how Chrome looks like a file folder taped to my monitor, it doesn't have some of the addons I frequently use, etc. I'll keep playing with it but I don't like it's look, it's lack of features, the whole part where with one click of a button all of your most visited sites can easily be displayed... etc.
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Originally Posted by trusite  im sorry that google has single handedly revolutionized near everything you use on the computer today. I think maybe you should thank them every once in a while since near all their products are free instead of criticizing them. Im sorry you dont think they are a great company but i think you seem to be more critical than thankful. |
Amen
Someone was moaning about how google has gone bad etc... were complaining how they wouldn't use Chrome, and wish google would stop archiving their gmail etc..
HELLO!!!!! It's a FREE service, if you don't like it don't use it!
"but google is the best search engine" "gmail is the best email" etc... Are you paying for it? No. Do you have a contract guaranteeing your privacy with them? No.
Easy solution DON'T use FREE stuff if you don't like it hahahha
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Originally Posted by W9ZEB Google has had far less influence on my computer use than you think Trusite. To me, they are strictly a search engine.
I don't use gmail, google apps, google earth. I still prefer mapquest to google maps.
The privacy concerns I have with Google ARE well founded. They have a photograph of my house, with my car in the driveway, including the license plate. What if I had a child in the front yard when that photo was taken?
Taking claim to anything I publish while using their browser is copyright infringement. Regardless of their EULA if you want my opinion.
Your comments about Google might be right. They HAVE changed a lot of things in the computer world. Microsoft has as well, I'm not going to sing their praises either. I recognize a company that's riding a thin line that is "Legal" but "Immoral" while claiming their company motto is "Don't Be Evil."
When the Linux Chrome Beta comes out I'll give it a fair shake. I doubt I'll use for for more than a couple days. Firefox 3 is a VERY good browser, and doesn't give anyone but me license to use any of my content but me. |
They were on public property when they took that photo... if Jim Bob took a photo of your house and slapped it on "HousesIThinkArePretty.com" you'd be powerless to get it down... all Google did was hire people to drive around with car mounts and take the street level photos... It is nothing someone can't see by driving down your road...
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Originally Posted by Pami Just out of curiosity... why does it make you laugh that people are concerned about retaining their intellectual property rights?
If you wrote a paper, submitted it to your instructor as homework, and your instructor claimed rights to portions or all of that paper (without necessarily giving you credit for it) in order to sell his or her services to someone else, that would be a funny situation to you? Because that's effectively what that portion of the EULA says, and some of us don't find that particularly entertaining. |
I wouldn't give a flying rat's behind... then again I don't buy into intellectual property... (and before you bash that note that I am published). I think hoarding knowledge is a pretty crappy thing, especially when some lady can write a few books and literally become a billionaire over night (Rowling) the guys at google feel the same... knowledge should be shared in all of it's forms without the need to give something of intrinsic value in exchange for it.