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[FlyingMongoose]

Walk in to database class and my professor is tapping away on a pair of e-glasses.
>"Is that a google glass?"
>"Yes it is.... it's pretty useless"
"I thought it was mostly voice control"
"It is. It's still pretty useless"

But, isn't it useful for... ummm...

oh... it can be used for...

OH OH YOU CAN...

Yeah I got nothing.

[matter11]

[quote author=matter11 link=topic=2632.msg282139#msg282139 date=1416515860]
Walk in to database class and my professor is tapping away on a pair of e-glasses.
>"Is that a google glass?"
>"Yes it is.... it's pretty useless"
"I thought it was mostly voice control"
"It is. It's still pretty useless"

But, isn't it useful for... ummm...

oh... it can be used for...

OH OH YOU CAN...

Yeah I got nothing.
[/quote]

A shitty go pro is all I can imagine. Maybe facial recognition for cops in the future.

[Elder]

[quote author=FlyingMongoose link=topic=2632.msg282150#msg282150 date=1416579864]
[quote author=matter11 link=topic=2632.msg282139#msg282139 date=1416515860]
Walk in to database class and my professor is tapping away on a pair of e-glasses.
>"Is that a google glass?"
>"Yes it is.... it's pretty useless"
"I thought it was mostly voice control"
"It is. It's still pretty useless"

But, isn't it useful for... ummm...

oh... it can be used for...

OH OH YOU CAN...

Yeah I got nothing.
[/quote]

A shitty go pro is all I can imagine. Maybe facial recognition for cops in the future.
[/quote]

apple will build their own and claim its the new messiah

[Surf314]

aaaaannnnddddd the EU wants to break up Google.

[CaffeinePowered]

[quote author=Surf314 link=topic=2632.msg282206#msg282206 date=1416836633]
aaaaannnnddddd the EU wants to break up Google.
[/quote

While they're at it, can they break up facebook, comcast, and verizon

[FlyingMongoose]

Definition of a monopoly in the EU seems to be different than here, apparently market share > 70% = monopoly in EU, whereas here monopoly means owning 100% of the market share.

[CaffeinePowered]

Definition of a monopoly in the EU seems to be different than here, apparently market share > 70% = monopoly in EU, whereas here monopoly means owning 100% of the market share.

>70% you can most definitely start exercising monopoly powers, not to the extent of like DeBeers having 95%+

It also depends on the space you are talking about, I would say for the mobile OS market, they don't have a monopoly, for web mail or search engines, I would say there's definitely an argument to be made. The only alternatives to google search I can think of are Yahoo, Bing, and Duck Duck Go. And I don't think they three of those together even make up 25% of the market in the US or EU.

[FlyingMongoose]

[quote author=FlyingMongoose link=topic=2632.msg282213#msg282213 date=1416840753]
Definition of a monopoly in the EU seems to be different than here, apparently market share > 70% = monopoly in EU, whereas here monopoly means owning 100% of the market share.

>70% you can most definitely start exercising monopoly powers, not to the extent of like DeBeers having 95%+

It also depends on the space you are talking about, I would say for the mobile OS market, they don't have a monopoly, for web mail or search engines, I would say there's definitely an argument to be made. The only alternatives to google search I can think of are Yahoo, Bing, and Duck Duck Go. And I don't think they three of those together even make up 25% of the market in the US or EU.
[/quote]

I was referring to the search engine market, there are also country-specific search engines out there too. But how do you split that up? Force Google to stop providing search results if it reaches "x" number of searches within a particular jurisdiction? Or force the search results to come from elsewhere?

Ultimately Google is where it's at because Google has done it the best.

[at0m]

Yeah, that kind of thing is something that I've heard debated on the BBC lately. Sometimes, a monopoly comes about because they're the ones doing it best, not because they're abusing the market to drive customers to them from other places. So what do you do when that happens? One of the potential solutions is change the laws in the EU regarding monopolies.

[Surf314]

Yeah, that kind of thing is something that I've heard debated on the BBC lately. Sometimes, a monopoly comes about because they're the ones doing it best, not because they're abusing the market to drive customers to them from other places. So what do you do when that happens? One of the potential solutions is change the laws in the EU regarding monopolies.

In the US this is explicitly legal.

[at0m]

[quote author=atm0m link=topic=2632.msg282219#msg282219 date=1416846830]
Yeah, that kind of thing is something that I've heard debated on the BBC lately. Sometimes, a monopoly comes about because they're the ones doing it best, not because they're abusing the market to drive customers to them from other places. So what do you do when that happens? One of the potential solutions is change the laws in the EU regarding monopolies.

In the US this is explicitly legal.
[/quote]But in the EU it's not, at least not without getting investigated pretty thoroughly. Hence the debate.

[Evil Cheese]

What they'd likely do if this all passes is call for Google to split up into smaller companies. From what I understand, I don't think the monopoly is concerning search engines, it's more to do with all the other services Google owns/offers and how they work together as well. As to whether or not that will be a reality remains to be seen. Even if Google's European services do split up, I don't see that carrying over in the US assuming they don't pull out of the EU entirely.

[Surf314]

What they'd likely do if this all passes is call for Google to split up into smaller companies. From what I understand, I don't think the monopoly is concerning search engines, it's more to do with all the other services Google owns/offers and how they work together as well. As to whether or not that will be a reality remains to be seen. Even if Google's European services do split up, I don't see that carrying over in the US assuming they don't pull out of the EU entirely.

The problem is whether some of these things are actually other products.  If I want to know the weather, I don't want to be shown a link to weather.com I just want to know the weather. If I want to know the definition of a word, I don't want to be taken to dictionary.com I just want to know what the word means.  For flights it might be a gray area. I mean most people know they can get better deals if they shop around. But sometimes I just want to know what flights are available.

[at0m]

Put in my two weeks notice today. New job starts Jan 5. Not sure how to feel about it.

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[rumbot]

Not sure how to feel about it.

I'll tell you how your cynical ass feels: Firm and supple.

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[Eschatos]

End of the Line [SFM]

[CaffeinePowered]

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[at0m]

Tomorrow is my last day.

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[Elder]

Got a couple Killing Floor videos lined up for upload over the next week.