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PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

Google share price will drop to $200 says report

https://kalkis-research.com/google-end-of-the-online-advertising-bubble

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maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID


man, i should get a wordpress site and crap out nonsense and get taken seriously too

maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

i mean i love hatin on apple but lol if you think they'll be under $500 anytime soon for anything short of re-releasing the centro line

fishmech
Jul 16, 2006

by VideoGames
Salad Prong

maniacdevnull posted:

i mean i love hatin on apple but lol if you think they'll be under $500 anytime soon for anything short of re-releasing the centro line

the new iphone performa 450 and ipad centris 353

Triglav
Jun 2, 2007

IT IS HARAAM TO SEND SMILEY FACES THROUGH THE INTERNET
i can see it happening.............. after a split

Endless Mike
Aug 13, 2003



here have a terrible phone to go with your terrible movie and mediocre mortal kombat reskin.

https://twitter.com/SamsungMobile/status/735983923147087872

exe cummings
Jan 22, 2005

Endless Mike posted:

here have a terrible phone to go with your terrible movie and mediocre mortal kombat reskin.

https://twitter.com/SamsungMobile/status/735983923147087872

ughhh

Progressive JPEG
Feb 19, 2003

does gmusic music locker work on ios

just checking

maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

fishmech posted:

the new iphone performa 450 and ipad centris 353

oh my god it just dawned on me that ios launcher is basically AtEase :aaaaa:

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

maniacdevnull posted:

i mean i love hatin on apple but lol if you think they'll be under $500 anytime soon for anything short of re-releasing the centro line

Facebook Inc. (FB) Wants To Take A Big Bite Out Of Googles Online Advertising Ecosystem
BY KERRY FLYNN @KERRYMFLYNN ON 05/27/16 AT 12:05 PM

http://www.ibtimes.com/facebook-inc-fb-wants-take-big-bite-out-googles-online-advertising-ecosystem-2375050

maniacdevnull posted:

man, i should get a wordpress site and crap out nonsense and get taken seriously too

they seem to be an actual research company of some kind

Triglav
Jun 2, 2007

IT IS HARAAM TO SEND SMILEY FACES THROUGH THE INTERNET
facebook is indeed an ad powerhouse but sell-side projections are always wrong and a $700 to $200 drop is insane unless it comes out that google is the next worldcom/enron

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum
my mom asked me to suggest a laptop for my grandma and i suggested a macbook or a chromebook and i think i got her to seriously consider a chromebook. she thinks a macbook will be too expensive

Roosevelt
Jul 18, 2009

Tony Pizzuto Says Hello

anthonypants posted:

my mom asked me to suggest a laptop for my grandma and i suggested a macbook or a chromebook and i think i got her to seriously consider a chromebook. she thinks a macbook will be too expensive

your mom is right

Juul-Whip
Mar 10, 2008

google has a separate iOS app for Streetview now wtf is the point :psyduck:

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

anthonypants posted:

my mom asked me to suggest a laptop for my grandma and i suggested a macbook or a chromebook and i think i got her to seriously consider a chromebook. she thinks a macbook will be too expensive

gently caress you you sadistic rear end in a top hat

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

getting any non-programmer tech nerd a laptop or desktop is bad. get them an iPad and never get a tech support call again.

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slgt skal flge slgters gang



can you install an adblocker on a chromebook

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

Snapchat A Titty posted:

can you install an adblocker on a chromebook

yes, you can install them on an iOS device too

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

PleasureKevin posted:

getting any non-programmer tech nerd a laptop or desktop is bad. get them an iPad and never get a tech support call again.
yes, kevin, i also suggested an ipad

Triglav
Jun 2, 2007

IT IS HARAAM TO SEND SMILEY FACES THROUGH THE INTERNET
granny wanted flash vids

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slgt skal flge slgters gang



PleasureKevin posted:

yes, you can install them on an iOS device too

google dont make ios devices you loving worthless piece of crap

Athletic Footjob
Sep 24, 2005
Grimey Drawer

Triglav posted:

granny wanted flash vids

tell granny that most porn sites use html5 now

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually
grandma

       why

big shtick energy
May 27, 2004


Progressive JPEG posted:

does gmusic music locker work on ios

just checking

yeah it works pretty good

google music even has a button that says "show downloaded music only" that turns off all the bullshit and just shows you music that's on your phone

ufarn
May 30, 2009
lol, after andy rubin left robotics, google tried to pigeonhole boston dynamics into products and wanted them to basically be nest - because that worked well the first time around

quote:

"Thats when we first started seeing Google...actually trying to have leadership structure over all those robotic groups," one former employee said. "Where theyre saying, 'Okay, what do you do? Are you mobility, are you vision?' .... and grouping them and directing them toward a commercial product space."

It's still unclear what exactly Google wanted in terms of a consumer product. One former employee said Google wanted an easy-to-use robot that could help with basic tasks around the house. One idea pitched was that it would roam around on wheels, which could arguably be seen as more consumer friendly than a complex, legged robot.

Boston Dynamics, given that it was born out of the MIT Leg Lab, was rubbed that wrong way by that concept.

(...)

Google is in talks with the Toyota Research Institute to sell its robotics division Boston Dynamics, a source familiar with the matter told Tech Insider.

http://www.techinsider.io/why-google-and-boston-dynamics-are-parting-ways-2016-5

google is like a spoilt kid with toys it doesn't know why it wants and gets tired of in a splitsecond

maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID


It's true, Kevin

Illusive Fuck Man
Jul 5, 2004
RIP John McCain feel better xoxo 💋 🙏
Taco Defender

agreed

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

tmi

duTrieux. fucked around with this message at 17:28 on May 29, 2016

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
google robotics has been a disaster since rubin left. he bought all these companies with no cohesive vision and then left the company, leaving them with no leadership that could justify what they're doing. all of the senior leaders in the robot companies could see the end of the tracks coming up so they all bailed out. after some months google realized these guys were burning money on research with no chance to ever get returns in it, so they decided to impose a product plan. unsurprisingly, a bunch of academics who just do research didn't take well to actually having to ship something, and with no competent leadership to direct them towards real products they just ignored Google and continued doing whatever they felt like.

basically Google bought a bunch of companies that are not doing anything except burning money and they don't know how to manage them. they are toxic assets now and Google will take a bath in selling them. meanwhile they nearly destroyed the American robotics industry doing this.

Necc0
Jun 30, 2005

by exmarx
Broken Cake
they pulled the same kind of garbage when they decided to get into mobile payments. there's a reason google has been making so many enemies over the past decade

Progressive JPEG
Feb 19, 2003

pay with ISIS, now at your verizon store

max4me
Jun 15, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

The Management posted:

google robotics has been a disaster since rubin left. he bought all these companies with no cohesive vision and then left the company, leaving them with no leadership that could justify what they're doing. all of the senior leaders in the robot companies could see the end of the tracks coming up so they all bailed out. after some months google realized these guys were burning money on research with no chance to ever get returns in it, so they decided to impose a product plan. unsurprisingly, a bunch of academics who just do research didn't take well to actually having to ship something, and with no competent leadership to direct them towards real products they just ignored Google and continued doing whatever they felt like.

basically Google bought a bunch of companies that are not doing anything except burning money and they don't know how to manage them. they are toxic assets now and Google will take a bath in selling them. meanwhile they nearly destroyed the American robotics industry doing this.

This really confuses the gently caress out of me.

The level that Boston dynamics works at is not loving consumer level at all. It was military and industrial. They should have been looking at those applications from the very beginning. Also any sources on the loving "road map" that rubin was suppose to leave them.

Also if they loving own the american robotics industry just create position and hire someone that knows how to manage them and just write off the dumpster fire of money or play the long game.

Here is a fun story about sonys trinitron tvs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinitron#Trinitron

Basically RCA owned a licensed a method for doing color tv but it was rather dim.

Sony in the 1960's went to a trade show saw an amerian lab that had something. The lab was underfunded and just spinning its wheels they bought the lab and patients improved it, came up with a novel solution to make a better product. The result was they got a good 20 year patient on the thing.
It just shocks me that google pulls this poo poo. Just loving write off the R&D and commint to a five, ten, 15 year plan and see what you get.

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

was fuzzy mammal reassigned when google decided to reproduce their messaging offerings for the 6th time? or is google hangouts still being "developed" while the current team looks for the exits?

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slgt skal flge slgters gang



cremnob posted:

was fuzzy mammal reassigned when google decided to reproduce their messaging offerings for the 6th time? or is google hangouts still being "developed" while the current team looks for the exits?

get out

atomicthumbs
Dec 26, 2010


We're in the business of extending man's senses.

The Management posted:

meanwhile they nearly destroyed the American robotics industry doing this.

I think you meant to type "disrupted" but your autocorrect hosed up. Common mistake.

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
the us military had a lot of programs that depended on the Boston dynamics mule robots and google basically cut them off and pissed off a lot of people.

anthonypants
May 6, 2007

by Nyc_Tattoo
Dinosaur Gum

The Management posted:

the us military had a lot of programs that depended on the Boston dynamics mule robots and google basically cut them off and pissed off a lot of people.
afaik up until they were bought by google they were practically funded by darpa

Triglav
Jun 2, 2007

IT IS HARAAM TO SEND SMILEY FACES THROUGH THE INTERNET
tbf infantry supposedly didnt like the bots as ammo mules cuz they were loud as gently caress

though i think they were making a smaller, quieter one that couldnt carry as much but wasnt as loud

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The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?

max4me posted:

This really confuses the gently caress out of me.

The level that Boston dynamics works at is not loving consumer level at all. It was military and industrial. They should have been looking at those applications from the very beginning. Also any sources on the loving "road map" that rubin was suppose to leave them.

it's unclear what rubin sold them as the plan, but all of these disparate companies were doing research without any obvious cohesion. and once he left they clearly didn't have any road map to follow.

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