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Looks good at first glance, but there's something about the icons that compared to the real Windows ones doesn't seem quite right; I understand there's copyright issues with using the Windows icons exactly, but these icons have a very "Linux-ish" appearance to them, for lack of a better term.
> Google has around 90% market share for search in Europe

It's a complete monopoly and the barrier to entry is huge. Might be a good thing to break them up.
> I'm a weekend wannabe systems programmer (it's therapy after a long week of Web development)

I love the fact that systems programming is becoming attractive again!

> this is where Go users laugh that Rust attracted a Rubyist instead of a C++ user

The members of the Rust community have very diverse backgrounds, so don't feel bad. We have systems programmers, pure FP folks, game devs, folks from the dynamic/web crowd... this is an encouraging thing! You will not be alone in coming from a dynamic language - some of our best contributors are also experienced Python, Ruby or Racket developers.
Not that it'd ever happen, but I would very much enjoy watching what would unfold if Google ceased to provide services to these nations.

Can you imagine the backlash?
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I'd love other answers to the same question. Here are a few I've come across in the past:

http://www.rafekettler.com/magicmethods.html

http://sahandsaba.com/thirty-python-language-features-and-tr...

http://www.siafoo.net/article/52
Are there laws on monopolies in the EU?
If they actually knew what they were talking about, they would be voting to decentralize the internet, not break Google up. I don't think trying to break up Microsoft or fine them for bundling internet explorer achieved a whole lot.

They are looking at the problem the wrong way.
When debating pro-against EU, we should never forget how pre-EU Europe looked like. We've been incredibly good at killing each other. I'd pick a huge beauracracy over arms races any day of the week.
That's the real problem; they don't know what to do about it, but they'll rather do anything instead of nothing. Either it's gonna be a lot of hot air or turn out for the worse.

What's funny is that Google already operates as separate legal entities in different European countries (though some countries share one HQ and hence legal identity).

How they plan to further "break it up" I can't imagine.
I was blocked indefinitely from Adsense by Google's faulty algorithms (without explanation and with appeals rejected without explanation). I lost the revenue I'd earnt that month, and soon realised Google holds a monopoly in this space, and no one else offered a comparable service.

I'm all for Google's stronghold to be broken.
I was blocked indefinitely from Adsense by Google's faulty algorithms (without explanation and with appeals rejected without explanation). I lost the revenue I'd earnt that month, and soon realised Google holds a monopoly in this space, and no one else offered a comparable service.

I'm all for Google's stronghold to be broken.
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do they really use 'microservices'... or just services (SOA)? what are microservices anyway?
Depends on the app - sometimes the apps don't work well under Windows - as Raymond Chen found.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2011/08/03/10192...
Here is the link to the original press release:

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/news-room/content/2014...
Google is using its cash cow, search to fund lots of new innovative projects. If you break it up, you lose lots of innovation.

I do think that they should prevent Google from killing nice startups by copying their services (hardly ever happens but it does)
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This would be very difficult legally.
Not only was Europe more violent then, but it was also hugely bureaucratic, probably more than today. You couldn't sell a product in more than one country without dealing with the bureaucracy of each of them independently. Today a company registered in Denmark can sell products in Sweden and Germany without having to register corporations in three separate countries. And they don't have to wait hours at the border to go through a customs checkpoint anymore either.
Or export the VM as OVF archive.
Ugh, not this again. The only real monopolies are those which are protected by government regulation or control.

Google is out there on the freewheeling internet competing. It has a broad portfolio of products, but their main revenue stream - ads from search engine - has about the lowest switching costs of any product known to man.

Google is far from an angel, and the days of 'don't be evil' are a quaint memory. But these European Regulators should look in their own backyard, and perhaps spend some time dismantling their own regulatory mess. You never know, undoing some of that red tape might even get their economy to grow. Stranger things have happened.
They're probably stock Tango items. You've probably seen them before in Linux distributions and OSS software, ergo the association.
> I don't think trying to break up Microsoft or fine them for bundling internet explorer achieved a whole lot.

I don't know. Is Internet Explorer still the most used webbrowser?
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That's not the Web way. The Web is the lowest common denominator, all that talk of "correctness" goes over the head of most Web Developers.
From what i know, Xaramin only has the ui elements that both platform supports. You are writing one UIX for both platforms, and thus you can only use the common-denominater uix. Which limits your uix.
From an outsider's perspective, it kind of seems like fusion research is picking up recently, especially in terms of the diversity of approaches by relatively credible teams. Before it seemed like the credible effort was the tokamak and everything else was the domain of crackpots. If so, this seems like a good thing to me, even if most of these approaches might be doomed to failure. Should have been happening years ago.

I'm curious if that's just some kind of perception filter thing, though, or if not what's causing it.
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That would result in a backlash about Google going bankrupt rather than ceasing of services from EU.
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The important word in the article is "experiment": As of now, most of the cost estimates and even the viability of this new type of fusion reactor are based on calculations only. It's of course great that new types of reactors get researched, it's just a pity that the press always seems to overreact and sell these experiments as production-ready systems to the world. This is probably the main cause for the public skepticism towards fusion energy: Too often early prototypes have been sold as working reactors.

BTW, there have been numerous proposed improvements over the Tokamak reactor type over the years, such as the "Stellarator" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellarator), most of them have proven too complex to be of practical use though.
Ha, sadly no. Sable is the name of an internal Amazon product that the person posting the job must have forgotten was internal. Nothing secret afaik, just not something offered on AWS.
That's not what it's really about. It's going to end up being about the fine, which the article suggests could amount to five billion dollars. That buys a lot of limousine tires and office chairs.
Hey, I might be interested : I'm considering learning to play the piano in order to help me transcribe some songs (I currently doing it using my trumpet but it's pretty tiring). I'll take a look if I finally decide to buy a M-audio.
> Is Internet Explorer still the most used webbrowser?

Your point is moot.
I don't know how it works in Germany precisely, but in Poland there's a system where big energy users can publish "demand reduction offers" and network operator buys these offers as needed to balance the network.

The basic rule is - those, who unbalances the network pays those that balances it back for the troubles, so there's huge incentive to predict your power requirements and transfer requirements precisely. I guess Germany with their solar cells and wind turbines have a lot of problems with that.

There are a few whole markets set up with energy, transfer capacities, reduction (or increases) offers by both plants and users, and it works quite nicely.

I worked on a system for bulk energy trading and it was very intersting to see how it works behind the scenes.

BTW demand reduction is actually BETTER than storing and returning energy. Demand reduction of 100 MW frees more than 100 MW (heating loses), and lets other people use the wires in that time.
If someone thought your product was good enough to be worth their time to crack it, you must be doing something right. Remember that there are more honest people in the world than dishonest and you won't get the dishonest people to buy your product whatever you do. So concentrate on keeping your honest customers happy.

I think this is the best answer when dealing with such situations. A lot of people make it an ego issue and waste precious time filing DRM complaints, adding checks, etc which not only makes the software bloated but that precious time could be used to add features requested by the paying customers.
This has to be pre-processed somehow, if people don't like writing HTML by hand, consider writing that.
Don't they still subsidize their agricultural sector, and dump stuff on the international markets and hurt non-EU farmers? I consider that to be very uncompetitive.
Google's grip on search is absolutely enormous, especially in Europe.

They literally decide lives of thousands of people when they change their algorithms. With one update, they kill thousands of websites someone lives off and then they replace them with big brands or their own services.

This isn't healthy for anyone and I wish there was more competition. It would do a lot of good to everyone.
If a monopoly forms through natural means, is it not still a monopoly?
Of all the different EU institutions the EP is one of the most democratic. Unfortunately they don't have a lot of influence.
"Bwaah, we'll take our oddly-shaped football and go home" is a common knee-jerk response from Americans, but it makes as little sense as MEPs suggesting to break up Google.

The way to solve these issues is dialogue. Google tried long and hard to reason with the Chinese Communist Party, after all. Compared to the CCP, the European Parliament is a paragon of transparency and democracy.
I agree that its a monopoly, though I find it funny that serious time & consideration is being given to discuss breaking them up.

Google are a company who have a product (search, among many). Their product is successful (many people use search). Competitors obviously find it hard to break into the market, and want to make that easier. Is this not how business works? A company creates a product and tries to make it as popular and widely used as possible? Also, is Google not at liberty to decide how it ranks search results? Surely if they want to hide results from competitors they are allow to do that?

If my company made car tyres, and 90% of car owners in Europe used my tyres, I'd find it absolutely ludicrous if my competitors tried to break up my company because its "unfair" that I have the market share.

Google has the market share for search, whether its "unfair" or not. Competitors should work hard to push them off with their own products, not by trying to break up the organisation. Seems somewhat petty to me.

There are other arguments which are valid such as:

> How Google copies content from other websites - such as restaurant reviews - to include within its own services

Disclaimer: I don't use Google products.
> two in the last 15 years

That's the key, isn't it? Of all startups, how many were born and died within that 15 year span, without being affected by either event? How many were created after, not being affected either?

I think you're talking about learning to run when the part that has people worried here is learning to walk.
That's what I meant, not just the hard disk.
The only real monopolies are those which are protected by government regulation or control.

This is utter, objective nonsense. Look at Microsoft as a case in point, which had a near 100% market share of desktop operating systems. Nobody would claim that wasn't a monopoly.

Google is out there on the freewheeling internet competing. It has a broad portfolio of products, but their main revenue stream - ads from search engine - has about the lowest switching costs of any product known to man.

It does, but the question is whether Google—which has a 90% market share—is unfairly using the power that brings to promote their other services. That's a perfectly valid question, and is pretty much the entire reason for the existence of antitrust rules.

But these European Regulators should look in their own backyard, and perhaps spend some time dismantling their own regulatory mess. You never know, undoing some of that red tape might even get their economy to grow. Stranger things have happened.

Currently, in Europe, Google has a share of the market that apparently Europe-level government feels is doing harm to the industry through abuse of monopoly. Isn't this exactly the sort of area we want government to intervene in?
I know a lot of people kind of scoff at the idea of breaking up Google because they happen to offer the best product, but here are the 4 points mentioned

>The manner in which Google displays its own vertical search services compared with other, competing products

> How Google copies content from other websites - such as restaurant reviews - to include within its own services

> The exclusivity Google has to sell advertising around the search terms people use

> Restrictions on advertisers from moving their online ad campaigns to rival search engines

First point is kind of hard to fight in my opinion, since a company has the right to publish its own services.

I don't see how Google gets away with the second point for non-CC'd material. This definitely doesn't fall under fair-use (people don't land on the website of the copyright owner because it's copied by google => devalue the work)

Third point is... don't know what precedent there is for forcing a company to open up its network apart from ISPs/telecoms.

The fourth point seems like huge abuse of monopoly. I wasn't aware of these restrictions before, and definitely seems to go against "don't be evil".
"Our revenues are well in excess of that."

Doesn't burn rate cash flow indicate negative cash flow - so if your revenues are much higher that what you are spending then you don't really have a burn rate in the normal sense as you are cash flow positive?
The sad part is that the Tokamaks were being defunded in order to fund ITER, which wasn't even built yet. I'm not sure what wound up happening. I visited the one at MIT and got to see it fire live from inside the control room, but the postdocs were all sad that we were canning working primary research for what seemed like a complicated construction boondoggle. I hope they found another way to fund the research!
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Heh, i see now that my comment was not clear.

Yes, i would be the one do set up the VM, install Windows within it etc. But after that they still would need to fire up that VM each time they wanted to use that program.
Couldn't agree more. Take one random thing apart. It won't feel like learning, but that's what it's like. You will not wake one morning and be done, because there's always one more thing to learn.. and that's good!
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Are you implying it's not because it is (hopefully was) crappy?
Switching costs are low but the barriers to entry into the market are massive - Larry and Sergi starting out today wouldn't be able to build a competitive search engine.

The more interesting question (to me at least) is whether search will be as important going forward as it has been for the past 20 years. As more data and activity moves into apps, more stuff is being silo-ed off from Google. Sure apps might be a blip before stuff moves back to the web but if they're not then Google may remain dominant in search but search itself may become a smaller part of the whole.
> ‘Reverse engineering’ must be a joy all to itself.

I agree and I think it because you have a very clearly defined goal and can just focus on the technical challenges.
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same happend to a buddy of mine, they've lost around ~50k because of this. Without explanation Google blocked them from using AdSense and withheld the money.
1.0 isn't a total freeze, just a promise not to remove base syntax or features. If you write code for 1.0 now, it'll compile on a future 1.0 release. They are still planning on adding many more things, both in terms of libraries, and language features.

http://blog.rust-lang.org/2014/09/15/Rust-1.0.html

The things you've mentioned as torturous are mostly sugar on-top of the already implemented primitives, and are even being worked on ([n..m] slice notation, to name one).
Bought two domains yesterday: Facebook-image.com and Facebook-images.com
What should I do with them? :)

I thought of 2 ways currently:

1. download photos/albums from facebook
2. edit/change photo/cover on facebook

I feel that these domains should be popular enough and I could make good money from them but don't think that I have a good idea for them..

Sorry for dumb question.. just don't know whom to ask else.
Some years ago Germany "deregulated" its energy sector. The energy providers are buying and selling electricity on exchange markets where prices change with supply and demand.

Today, industrial clients are changing to dynamic pricing schemes instead of fixed price-per-kWh contracts with a supplier. That means they also schedule their consumption to profit from low prices when supply is high and demand low.

In the future, big industrial clients could take an even more active role on the energy markets and directly trade capacity without an energy supplier as intermediary. Germany invests a lot in the grid infrastructure to enable more flexibility and decentralized energy sources without risking black outs. They have to do so, as it was politically decided to phase out all nuclear power plants after Fukushima happened. But it's not easy since nuclear plants provide a very stable "supply base" whereas the rising renewables are more volatile.
> The only real monopolies are those which are protected by government regulation or control.

Not according to the law. Any one who basically controls the market is a monopoly. Microsoft faced antitrust charges before as well and they were not protected by government regulation or control either.

Monopoly itself is not a crime, though. Abusing the power of monopoly is, which is something the European Union has to prove.
I agree. This is also interesting:
Have a look at their logo:
http://www.linshof.com/
Now take a look at the logo of this real German company (established 1887):
http://linhof.de/index-e.html
(It's almost the same name except for the s)

Coincidence, huh?
I don't think HQ location has much to do with legal entities - don't you need a local legal entity in a country if you actually have any "operations" there (offices, staff etc.) as you need to comply with local statutory reporting etc.
It says it right there: break the search engine component from the rest of the company. This would mean that Gmail and Yahoo Mail would be on the same playing field if someone searches for "free webmail client".

I can't even begin to imagine the engineering nightmare that would be though, especially now that accounts are unified.
Yes, but arithmetics is a branch of maths, whereas typing is not a branch of programming.

Maybe they plan to extend the site to include trig, algebra, calculus, etc. problems?
You're misunderstanding the issue here – monopoly isn't a problem, but abuse of it is.

To use your example – your company makes car types, and has a monopoly. You then branch out, and start making cars as well. And you redesign your tyres such that they're only compatible with your car. Oh, and the roads everywhere only work with your tyres.

That's an abuse of monopoly, and that's what the target is. Look at that fact that Google products are starting to demand Chrome, or to push their other services through their monopoly search engine.

I don't think the problem is that bad yet, but we have to be super vigilant about that stuff or we end up with AT&T, Microsoft, or Standard Oil.
Likely, as Jolla is using systemd on their Sailfish powered phone.

Btw, that is likely both the source of the RTC alarm support. And also the source of the infamous bitcoin hitman hire quote. The latter came from the chat log of a community IRC channel related to Maemo/Meego/Mer/Sailfish.
You can make Windows inside the VM run the program on boot and then put a desktop shortcut on the host that launches the VM. That's what I do for Office.
You mean the unelected officials who decide these matters in non-smoke filled rooms in an organisation that hasn't been passed by its own auditors in more than 13 years (a business would have been taken to court by now) and has a current black hole of £34 billion which has willy-nilly to be filled from national coffers - no questions asked. All irrelevant to the subject under discussion? I don't think so.
> The primary argument against fusion power has been that despite decades of work, it still doesn’t exist.

I thought it did exist but wasn't efficient (i.e., energy in > energy out)?
> If my company made car tyres, and 90% of car owners in Europe used my tyres, I'd find it absolutely ludicrous if my competitors tried to break up my company because its "unfair" that I have the market share.

Let's assume you do both sell tires and BMW. And whether your clients would ask a quote for BWMs, details or services - you would always advise them to buy your tires.

And if they would explicitly ask, what else tires I could buy, you would hesitate to admit (e.g. 30 minute length discussion over the phone wire or 30 emails back and forth) what there are any you could recommend / satisfy specs / requirements. That would be quite the same: e.g. people have to redefine their search queries to get non google results, or scroll down, or go to second page results etc..

What gives?
The article goes on about the idea of collecting hydrogen from the atmosphere using a graphene filter. There is no appreciable amount of hydrogen in the atmosphere.
I suppose they will use real drones,the ones that are semiautonomous(even military have not 100% autonomous machines, as they have problems recognizing another objects in the air so they need pilots on land).

I bet they are working on a "follow me while doing crazy things" drone, like this:
http://online.wsj.com/articles/gopro-developing-line-of-cons...

About personal drones nos being as powerful as military, well, like computers it is about time. I have several drones with ARM processors on them that could do amazing things, bad things too.

Like a knife, you could use it for killing.
Quick (and perhaps stupid) question; how is Google a monopoly?

There are other alternatives to search available. If people really wanted to, they could use Bing. It's not like Google is using some horrendous anti-competitive practices to prevent other search engines from gaining market share.

Two characteristics of monopolies (as per wikipedia) are "High barriers" and "Single seller" both of which don't apply to Google in my opinion.

Google does have an absurd market share but that's mostly due to a good product. Why should they be punished for producing a quality product?

Some of the complaints listed in the article don't even make sense to me. Why is it a problem that Google has exclusivity to sell advertising on its own website? It's their website!
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